I second the importance of the portfolio. Resume-talk is just that: talk. I wasn't able to really get a foot in the door in development until I took a month to fill out my portfolio with job-related projects. Since then, I've been able to raise much more interest from the beginning of every time I contact someone about a job.
Well, it's not like evolution makes the most badass things ever, you just have to be good enough to survive long enough to further your species through whatever means you have, and you've won.
Thanks! Generally I agree with you, I just would rather people made a list whenever they say secrecy is necessary, so they could perhaps see how much their government is overstepping their own list.
People who make predictions for the sake of making predictions are only doing so because they lack the required attributes to make their ideas reality, but want the smug satisfaction of thinking they're at least equal to or better than the person that does have those attributes because they thought of it first. If you want to be impressive, predict it and then make it happen (which, by the way, is a good way to be right about your predictions.)
I think it's even further off than that. It's unlikely to happen until everyone who comes across it already has one, and isn't just a prick. (There are lots of those...)
It's more akin to leaving a bookshelf of all your books, and room for new books to be added as well, complete with a dolly for easy carrying by one person -- much more valuable than just one tattered eared paperback.
Yeah!
Furthermore, what makes people think that we could get extra-terrestrial ethics right when we can't even get terrestrial ethics right amongst each other?
If they were really interested in theft recovery why didn't they use a system specifically designed for that purpose. Lojack costs $30/year per machine and I'm sure they would have gotten a volume discount.
That's exactly what I was thinking. It almost certainly costs less than paying someone to set up the spycurity software, maintain it, watch kids, and that's not even getting into the lawyer fees and the possible damages.
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I second the importance of the portfolio. Resume-talk is just that: talk. I wasn't able to really get a foot in the door in development until I took a month to fill out my portfolio with job-related projects. Since then, I've been able to raise much more interest from the beginning of every time I contact someone about a job.
This is the excuse I used on my Computer Science professor for why I didn't have my assignment. It didn't work.
I suppose it's a good thing that none of us participate in some kind of news aggregation site, because that would render your ranting null.
.. Oh wait...
Whoosh.
This is why we can't have nice things.
If anyone needs me, I'll be in the happy dome.
... that I've been modded down so little I can count the negative point comments on one hand.
Ah, but how many fingers are on that hand, eh?
I'm on to you, mister.
Somebody should suggest it as an experiment to perform on these knockout mice.
"Last one to the bar has to pump the all of the mice penises!"
Well, it's not like evolution makes the most badass things ever, you just have to be good enough to survive long enough to further your species through whatever means you have, and you've won.
Did anyone else think "Wow, if he wore earplugs and glasses to cover his eyes, he'd be just like the converts in Tommy, the rock opera."?
Thanks! Generally I agree with you, I just would rather people made a list whenever they say secrecy is necessary, so they could perhaps see how much their government is overstepping their own list.
... but there are definitely reasons that the government SHOULD have some secrets.
I can't help but notice that you didn't list any, or are those secret too?
Ugh, it's an insurance company, of course they have money.
Shhhh, no one disturb this post...
It came from the past.
I'm going to eat some candy, and I'm not going to share with you.
I bet that makes you -so- mad.
Dirty deals, done dirt cheap?
People who make predictions for the sake of making predictions are only doing so because they lack the required attributes to make their ideas reality, but want the smug satisfaction of thinking they're at least equal to or better than the person that does have those attributes because they thought of it first. If you want to be impressive, predict it and then make it happen (which, by the way, is a good way to be right about your predictions.)
Plus, the doctors are all quacks anyway.
I think it's even further off than that. It's unlikely to happen until everyone who comes across it already has one, and isn't just a prick. (There are lots of those...)
It's more akin to leaving a bookshelf of all your books, and room for new books to be added as well, complete with a dolly for easy carrying by one person -- much more valuable than just one tattered eared paperback.
Sounds like you're suffering from stuttering semantics -- Either that or you're an egregiously emotional eccentric.
I see a red dwarf and I want it painted black...
...or me kicking you out of my house if you bust in raving about TimeCube.
Be glad I don't know which corner four corners four cubed corners time cube world is a cube with four corners which corner of the world you live in!
I think you forgot the paleontologist with a Ph.D, tenure, Unagi, and a monkey. I don't blame you, though.
The Elmers killed ham radio, not the internet.
Luckily, video killed those radio stars.
Yeah! Furthermore, what makes people think that we could get extra-terrestrial ethics right when we can't even get terrestrial ethics right amongst each other?
If they were really interested in theft recovery why didn't they use a system specifically designed for that purpose. Lojack costs $30/year per machine and I'm sure they would have gotten a volume discount.
That's exactly what I was thinking. It almost certainly costs less than paying someone to set up the spycurity software, maintain it, watch kids, and that's not even getting into the lawyer fees and the possible damages.