No, I, like most here wouldn't have a problem with bringing in truly top notch people. However, it seems that this has been abused to bring in people LESS qualified than the local talent. While at the same time reducing the local workforce in favor of an immigrant force just to enhance their bottom line.
Great people enhance the environment for all, diversity of ideas and points of view can have a major positive impact.
Too many though, are using this to take advantage of people who are willing to work for far less just to avoid paying a good salary. When the program is used as intended that is entirely different. Sometimes that rare talent is something you may need to scour the world for. But it seems for the most part this is just abused.
I should of been more clear about my opinion, but the way it was stated in the summery just sounded, well, vaguely insulting and kind of dismissive of local talent.
"The vast, vast majority of tech engineers that I talked to who are from the United States are very supportive of bringing in people from other countries because they want to work with the very best."
Show me ONE.
Just fucking ONE.
He or she must have a pulse, be conscience, have an IQ over 30, full citizenship, NOT A POLITICIAN, NOT A CEO, NOW SHOW ME ONE.
The loudest skeptics are usually the least qualified to have an opinion. And the more qualified really don't seem too skeptical to me.
And even if the science ultimately proves false (which I personally doubt) why should it take a crisis to want to protect the environment? Or are the majority now just too young to remember L.A. in the sixties and seventies? Because regulation cleaned up a lot of those problems. Just as China is currently learning.
Admittedly, many claims were overstated, and OBVIOUSLY any model of the climate of the entire planet will be incomplete. But really, how much of that was political posturing and pressuring the scientists to make it more 'important' to get something done? A bad choice perhaps, but on the other hand some things have been improved that probably would not of been addressed otherwise.
Then again, I heard theories about the ocean being a possible reason several years ago. It just seems that they have refined the cause down. IIRC, the earlier study could not pinpoint the mechanism that would account for how the apparent effect worked.
And it's not like it stopped, merely slowed, I just fail to understand societies preference for waiting until it's too late to act before acting. If there is any possibility of man influencing the climate at all, we should be doing all we can to mitigate it rather than wait and see. That is just fucking suicidal. And if you lived in L.A. in the sixties you don't need a scientist to tell you man has an effect on the environment.
I would rather an EPA that perhaps was a bit too over zealous than one that did nothing. I like clean air, water and my dirt uncontaminated.
A +2 Hell yeah! to you sir! Best retort to Grammer/spelling Nazi I have seen yet.
It always amuses me how the pendants seem to exemplify the very things they wish to bitch about. The worst being the ones who like to use antiquated meanings or rules that have long since fallen out of conventional usage.
And the moment you resorted to mudslinging with the childish "Obummercare" you lost ALL credibility. The poster you responded too asked for a definition of socialism and how the ACA was socialist.
Your stretch with making the ACA fit the definition of socialism shows a remarkably complete failure of understanding.
Now run off to bed before mommy finds out you've been using her computer again.
Yes, and what better time to propose it. Just out of WWII, and Ike just back from experiencing the German Autobahn. After participating in the pre-war three month mudslog crossing the US with tanks trucks and jeeps the multi-lane Autobahn must of been truly inspiring. And what better way to counter potential complaints of socialism than to make it a militarily advantageous. It would never make it through congress today, even framing it as a military necessity. Long term thinking has rather evaporated in a world that seems to change overnight.
Thanks for pointing that out, as I overlooked that aspect completely.
Been doing this since Hughsnet and Century Link came to town several years ago. I hate to say this, but Comcast is much better in my area. Hughsnet reminds me of dialup. Century Link is more like DSL. In this area their customer service has vastly improved too, amazing what even inferior competition can do for a market. I used both trying to cut Comcast. I came back to Comcast and now use the competition to wrangle better prices out of them. I hope they never call my bluff.
In the 1930's the right cried 'socialism' to the building of the Grand Coulee dam. It was supposed to boost farming in the middle of Washington State. It was way more electricity and water than would be needed (and we really didn't need that much extra food production at the time). A few years later WWII happened, and it went from 'socialist' to 'forward thinking' when it allowed the mass production of aluminum for the war effort. (oddly the biggest socialist program in the country, the freeway system, met little opposition as it meant pork for every state, so like you said, they liked it, so it wasn't socialism)
Fortunately for us living here, it currently means very inexpensive electricity (8.8 cents per kwh per my last bill).
Obviously using it to get a heart (kidney, corneal, etc) transplant is ridiculous as the waiting period is far too long to maintain the charade. Maybe useful to defraud a pharmacy for some oxycotin (and the good drugs are so tightly watched that this is unlikely, my wife is on morphine, and she is monitored closely by both the doctor and pharmacy)
Plus a poor uninsured can get medical treatment just by walking into a hospital, they won't get transplants, but just about anything short of that. Hospitals are legally required to treat regardless of ability to pay. So why bother with a faked record. Although the headline "Man defrauds healthcare system for heart transplant dies due to having B positive blood when his records stated he had A negative...." would generate a lot of clicks.
So their is little use for these records outside of a defrauding the insurance companies for money.
"On the other hand, I suppose someone's glaucoma could get me medicinal marijuana..."
There are doctors who specialize in the medical cards. All you have to 'prove' is that you have any chronic pain (or basically, any condition) at all. All you do is take in a copy of your medical records and a 'C' note and you're in. Here in Spokane they open their doors once a month for renewals and new issues. There are few doctors in the issuing system, and they generally work a few days in each town.
And medical weed is much less expensive than legal recreational weed. Not to mention the medical dispensaries don't run out of weed every week. (recreational and medical are grown and managed separately)
Obamacare is hardly a socialist program. In fact, calling Obama socialist or liberal is a stretch. Obama, one of the better republican presidents we have had.
Hopefully we get a real liberal next time instead of a poser.
(just a link to a search of voodoo spells involving goats. NOT a goat.cx link! I value your eyes, but not your sanity, therefor, a Bing link.....muhahahahaha)
The linked report is rather dull, lacking all of the OMG DEAD COMPUTERS EVERYWHERE, aspect. It does confirm the problem, and states downloads were removed, followed by what appears to be (only glanced at and did not actually read) detailed instructions for 7/8 to remove the updates if you were negatively affected.
This is why I always wait one week and do my updates manually on the advice of a wizened old computer guru I knew years ago.
I just find the hypetrain amusing. And before they announced specifications, I truly hoped they would be a bit better than this. I mistakenly thought (I am not in the industry so this will show that ignorance) that the mass purchasing power of a new system would of generated a more capable machine in that price neighborhood.
I never expected them to compete with a full on gaming PC, Just more capable than they turned out to be.
On the plus side, I shouldn't have to upgrade for quite a while,
Yea, I fanboid (is that even a word?) KSP a bit, hard not to admire what they have accomplished. (It also was 64 bit on Linux long before there was a stable Windows release)
And Unity 5 is supposed to support multi-threaded physics as well. That should translate into a huge performance boost.
KSP, a game created by people who have never made a game before, that pushes both Unity and the best processors to their max. A game actually written to take advantage of a premium system instead of being written to a console level and ported.
I find it amusing that an Xbox One and PS4 would rank as low end computers for this game.
How difficult and expensive would it be to put rudimentary heating in your garage for just those (hopefully not too many) days per year that this would be a problem?
Here in eastern Washington the temperature rarely gets that low (maybe once per decade) but I do a lot of work in my garage, fortunately as it is attached I just ran a four inch branch off the central heating and opened it about an hour before I wanted to work. It wasn't toasty, but it was bearable and added almost nothing to my heating bill.
Actually lime does the opposite, it can preserve bodies. As in the natural Korean mummies. I understand it could reduce the smell however.
"The novel burial system in tombs with a lime-soil mixture barrier was thereafter adopted increasingly by the ruling elite, and has even influenced the funeral customs of modern Korea (Chung, 1994).
The medieval mummies in Korea, the subject of the present study, were found exclusively in tombs with a lime-soil mixture barrier."
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Yes, I realized that, however it wasn't until after WWII that it really had any chance of being accepted.
No, I, like most here wouldn't have a problem with bringing in truly top notch people. However, it seems that this has been abused to bring in people LESS qualified than the local talent. While at the same time reducing the local workforce in favor of an immigrant force just to enhance their bottom line.
Great people enhance the environment for all, diversity of ideas and points of view can have a major positive impact.
Too many though, are using this to take advantage of people who are willing to work for far less just to avoid paying a good salary. When the program is used as intended that is entirely different. Sometimes that rare talent is something you may need to scour the world for. But it seems for the most part this is just abused.
I should of been more clear about my opinion, but the way it was stated in the summery just sounded, well, vaguely insulting and kind of dismissive of local talent.
"The vast, vast majority of tech engineers that I talked to who are from the United States are very supportive of bringing in people from other countries because they want to work with the very best."
Show me ONE.
Just fucking ONE.
He or she must have a pulse,
be conscience,
have an IQ over 30,
full citizenship,
NOT A POLITICIAN,
NOT A CEO,
NOW SHOW ME ONE.
The loudest skeptics are usually the least qualified to have an opinion. And the more qualified really don't seem too skeptical to me.
And even if the science ultimately proves false (which I personally doubt) why should it take a crisis to want to protect the environment? Or are the majority now just too young to remember L.A. in the sixties and seventies?
Because regulation cleaned up a lot of those problems. Just as China is currently learning.
Admittedly, many claims were overstated, and OBVIOUSLY any model of the climate of the entire planet will be incomplete. But really, how much of that was political posturing and pressuring the scientists to make it more 'important' to get something done? A bad choice perhaps, but on the other hand some things have been improved that probably would not of been addressed otherwise.
Then again, I heard theories about the ocean being a possible reason several years ago. It just seems that they have refined the cause down. IIRC, the earlier study could not pinpoint the mechanism that would account for how the apparent effect worked.
And it's not like it stopped, merely slowed, I just fail to understand societies preference for waiting until it's too late to act before acting. If there is any possibility of man influencing the climate at all, we should be doing all we can to mitigate it rather than wait and see. That is just fucking suicidal. And if you lived in L.A. in the sixties you don't need a scientist to tell you man has an effect on the environment.
I would rather an EPA that perhaps was a bit too over zealous than one that did nothing. I like clean air, water and my dirt uncontaminated.
A +2 Hell yeah! to you sir!
Best retort to Grammer/spelling Nazi I have seen yet.
It always amuses me how the pendants seem to exemplify the very things they wish to bitch about.
The worst being the ones who like to use antiquated meanings or rules that have long since fallen out of conventional usage.
The world owes you much for this post. (^;
Now Mr. Wiggam, asking someone to cite the impossible is really not fair. Along with destroying his fantasy life, it is just cruel....
(If you only realized how difficult it was to type that while laughing my ass off.......)
And the moment you resorted to mudslinging with the childish "Obummercare" you lost ALL credibility. The poster you responded too asked for a definition of socialism and how the ACA was socialist.
Your stretch with making the ACA fit the definition of socialism shows a remarkably complete failure of understanding.
Now run off to bed before mommy finds out you've been using her computer again.
Yes, and what better time to propose it. Just out of WWII, and Ike just back from experiencing the German Autobahn.
After participating in the pre-war three month mudslog crossing the US with tanks trucks and jeeps the multi-lane Autobahn must of been truly inspiring. And what better way to counter potential complaints of socialism than to make it a militarily advantageous.
It would never make it through congress today, even framing it as a military necessity. Long term thinking has rather evaporated in a world that seems to change overnight.
Thanks for pointing that out, as I overlooked that aspect completely.
"Household cats and their escaped feral counterparts kill like a 1 billion birds and small animals in the US every year...
"Fuck them." -- my cat"
"GO TEAM PUSSY!!" --my cat
I have some oceanfront property in Arizona to sell you. I can maybe get you a good deal on a bridge in Brooklyn as well.
Please disconnect my services.
Why?
I am going with Century Link.
6 more months of new user discounts.
Been doing this since Hughsnet and Century Link came to town several years ago.
I hate to say this, but Comcast is much better in my area. Hughsnet reminds me of dialup. Century Link is more like DSL. In this area their customer service has vastly improved too, amazing what even inferior competition can do for a market. I used both trying to cut Comcast. I came back to Comcast and now use the competition to wrangle better prices out of them. I hope they never call my bluff.
Budsinabongandchristisadentist....that wasn't too hard...
And this has been true throughout our history.
In the 1930's the right cried 'socialism' to the building of the Grand Coulee dam. It was supposed to boost farming in the middle of Washington State. It was way more electricity and water than would be needed (and we really didn't need that much extra food production at the time).
A few years later WWII happened, and it went from 'socialist' to 'forward thinking' when it allowed the mass production of aluminum for the war effort. (oddly the biggest socialist program in the country, the freeway system, met little opposition as it meant pork for every state, so like you said, they liked it, so it wasn't socialism)
Fortunately for us living here, it currently means very inexpensive electricity (8.8 cents per kwh per my last bill).
The first sensible comment I have seen.
Obviously using it to get a heart (kidney, corneal, etc) transplant is ridiculous as the waiting period is far too long to maintain the charade. Maybe useful to defraud a pharmacy for some oxycotin (and the good drugs are so tightly watched that this is unlikely, my wife is on morphine, and she is monitored closely by both the doctor and pharmacy)
Plus a poor uninsured can get medical treatment just by walking into a hospital, they won't get transplants, but just about anything short of that. Hospitals are legally required to treat regardless of ability to pay. So why bother with a faked record.
Although the headline "Man defrauds healthcare system for heart transplant dies due to having B positive blood when his records stated he had A negative...." would generate a lot of clicks.
So their is little use for these records outside of a defrauding the insurance companies for money.
"On the other hand, I suppose someone's glaucoma could get me medicinal marijuana..."
There are doctors who specialize in the medical cards. All you have to 'prove' is that you have any chronic pain (or basically, any condition) at all. All you do is take in a copy of your medical records and a 'C' note and you're in. Here in Spokane they open their doors once a month for renewals and new issues. There are few doctors in the issuing system, and they generally work a few days in each town.
And medical weed is much less expensive than legal recreational weed. Not to mention the medical dispensaries don't run out of weed every week. (recreational and medical are grown and managed separately)
Obamacare is hardly a socialist program. In fact, calling Obama socialist or liberal is a stretch.
Obama, one of the better republican presidents we have had.
Hopefully we get a real liberal next time instead of a poser.
No, no, no.
You've got to use Goats!
http://www.bing.com/search?q=voodoo%20sacrifice%20with%20goats%20and%20chickens&pc=cosp&ptag=A75DB878ECBE148E7B6F&form=CONBNT&conlogo=CT3210127
(just a link to a search of voodoo spells involving goats. NOT a goat.cx link! I value your eyes, but not your sanity, therefor, a Bing link.....muhahahahaha)
Thank you for that link. Great band.
I am a huge fan of bands like Nightwish, Epica, Within Temptation and the like.
I now have a new one.
Thanks.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2982791
Reference Known issue number 3.
The linked report is rather dull, lacking all of the OMG DEAD COMPUTERS EVERYWHERE, aspect.
It does confirm the problem, and states downloads were removed, followed by what appears to be (only glanced at and did not actually read) detailed instructions for 7/8 to remove the updates if you were negatively affected.
This is why I always wait one week and do my updates manually on the advice of a wizened old computer guru I knew years ago.
I just find the hypetrain amusing. And before they announced specifications, I truly hoped they would be a bit better than this. I mistakenly thought (I am not in the industry so this will show that ignorance) that the mass purchasing power of a new system would of generated a more capable machine in that price neighborhood.
I never expected them to compete with a full on gaming PC, Just more capable than they turned out to be.
On the plus side, I shouldn't have to upgrade for quite a while,
Yea, I fanboid (is that even a word?) KSP a bit, hard not to admire what they have accomplished. (It also was 64 bit on Linux long before there was a stable Windows release)
And Unity 5 is supposed to support multi-threaded physics as well. That should translate into a huge performance boost.
KSP, a game created by people who have never made a game before, that pushes both Unity and the best processors to their max. A game actually written to take advantage of a premium system instead of being written to a console level and ported.
I find it amusing that an Xbox One and PS4 would rank as low end computers for this game.
So much for Next-Gen.
How difficult and expensive would it be to put rudimentary heating in your garage for just those (hopefully not too many) days per year that this would be a problem?
Here in eastern Washington the temperature rarely gets that low (maybe once per decade) but I do a lot of work in my garage, fortunately as it is attached I just ran a four inch branch off the central heating and opened it about an hour before I wanted to work. It wasn't toasty, but it was bearable and added almost nothing to my heating bill.
Is it immersive?
(another word that desperately needs to die.)
Beautiful. It sounds like how the Elves would describe broadband coming to Rivendell!
Actually lime does the opposite, it can preserve bodies. As in the natural Korean mummies. I understand it could reduce the smell however.
"The novel burial system in tombs with a lime-soil mixture barrier was thereafter adopted increasingly by the ruling elite, and has even influenced the funeral customs of modern Korea (Chung, 1994).
The medieval mummies in Korea, the subject of the present study, were found exclusively in tombs with a lime-soil mixture barrier."
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2100341/
They have also been found in limestone caves in Peru.
http://www.mummytombs.com/mummylocator/group/chachapoya.htm
Perhaps you were thinking of Lye?