Why are any of those (extremely crappy, in my view) shows mentioned in the same sentence as Science Fiction. Oh, sure, they're fictional, but I don't see any fucking science.
I can't be bothered with them, despite the cute chicks. (Disclaimer: I'm not a chick.)
> my father in law's firm pays first year associates between $70-80k
I would have been _very_ happy to make that kind of money right after I graduated, even with the extremely long hours they'd be working. I'm only making about $A75k with ~15 years IT experience and a very good degree.
Additionally, even if they actually paid for all the research and testing themselves, they'd still spend a lot more on marketing - it's actually the marketing costs that the drug companies want to recoup, not the research costs.
Quite a lot of the private christian ones do. Fortunately it's not (at least officially) being given any time in the state schools, but the time may come when the fundamentalists have enough clout with govt to blackmail them in much the same way as Sen Harradine did over the sale of the first tranche of Telstra shares.
The major problem with most of our politicians is that almost all of them are either lawyers or accountants by trade, and very few of them have ever had a real job.
It'd be nice to have a few engineers, scientists, mathematicians, and other well-educated people with experience of the real world instead of the bunch of drongos we keep electing. (Well, not me personally, I voted Green, even though most of their ideas are asinine. It's kind of a protest vote.)
Nelson has absolutely no intellectual integrity. After all, to get his doctor degree, he must have studied some science, including biology, and yet he's comfortable with creationism being given equal time with science as an alternative explanation for life as we know it.
The fact that you think Moore (yep, definately a bit of a lefty), Soros (a money-market manipulator - left wing? I doubt it, although he seems to be politically what Americans so quaintly call a liberal) and Kerry (somewhat to the right of Soros) are all of the far left indicates that you are an ignorant fool, and not worth discussing anything with. Why did I bother, you may ask? Well, a bit of gratuitous abuse of far-right fuckwits helps get my day off to a good start.
For fuck's sake. Intelligent Design is, to quote an Australian scientist (whose name eludes me for the moment) nothing but "Creationism in a cheap tuxedo." It is not a serious attempt (excellent or otherwise) to reconcile christian beliefs with scientific eveidence, it's just a way for fundamentalists to sneak creationism in through the back door, hoping that noone is paying attention.
We're having the "Let's teach ID as an alternative theory" debate in Australia at the moment, and it's just another American ideological import we don't need.
It's a funny old world, isn't it? Apparently it was perfectly acceptable to murder Jews, Gypsies, communists, homosexuals and the mentally-retarded back in 1940, but gay marriage and abortion are quite beyond the pale a mere 65 years later.
To be fair to the pope at that time (his name eludes me and I don't care enough to look it up), he was probably concerned that the priests and nuns would end up in the gas chambers as well, if he made too much noise. On the other hand he seemed to have approved of Mussolini and Franco, who were only less bad than Hitler because they didn't control as much territory.
You really are a fool, and my life is neither stale nor stupid. When the system is sitting behind a bunch of firewalls, proxies, VPNs, etc, etc, that I'm comfortable in assuming are being managed by people who know what they're doing, I see _absolutely_ _no_ _fucking_ _point_ in changing my password every 6 weeks (or whatever) just because some dopey auditor read in a Gartner "paper" that proper security requires frequent password changing.
You wouldn't happen to be one of those people, would you? I thought so.
I've worked in a lot of places that enforce this asinine rule. I've finally caved, and my password is now $name_of_favourite_child01, $name_of_favourite_child02,... - fortunately the password-checker isn't smart enough to spot this.
I figure if this causes any security problems, it's totally the fault of the accountants who think they know more about system security than an IT professional. If a secure system was actually really important to them, they'd just let me invent a good password and only change it when I though it was necessary.
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I'm not quite sure why you think evolutionary theories lack rigour, especially when compared to _anything_ the economists say.
Formally proving the correctness of _any_ non-trivial algorithmm is close to impossible.
And before you violently disagree, I've produced proofs of the correctness of binary search, etc. That isn't what I'm talking about.
I always thought that an outer
/* operating system code goes here */ }
while (TRUE) {
loop was exactly what you wanted for an operating system. After all, you only want it to halt under truly exceptional circumstances.
Damn keyboard (and red wine). That's McAverty.
Kirk's fist officer? Oh dear, oh dear.
...
I don't think I'll ever be able to watch Star Trek again
That's really disturbing ... I think I'm scarred for life.
Nah, it's Ben Doover and Phil McAcerty.
I used to work with a bloke called McCracken, and I can assure you he wasn't a poofter.
Why are any of those (extremely crappy, in my view) shows mentioned in the same sentence as Science Fiction. Oh, sure, they're fictional, but I don't see any fucking science.
I can't be bothered with them, despite the cute chicks. (Disclaimer: I'm not a chick.)
> my father in law's firm pays first year associates between $70-80k
I would have been _very_ happy to make that kind of money right after I graduated, even with the extremely long hours they'd be working. I'm only making about $A75k with ~15 years IT experience and a very good degree.
I'm not sure I quite understand your point.
Additionally, even if they actually paid for all the research and testing themselves, they'd still spend a lot more on marketing - it's actually the marketing costs that the drug companies want to recoup, not the research costs.
They generally have considerably more _useful_ real-world experience than your average solicitor or economist.
Quite a lot of the private christian ones do. Fortunately it's not (at least officially) being given any time in the state schools, but the time may come when the fundamentalists have enough clout with govt to blackmail them in much the same way as Sen Harradine did over the sale of the first tranche of Telstra shares.
The major problem with most of our politicians is that almost all of them are either lawyers or accountants by trade, and very few of them have ever had a real job.
It'd be nice to have a few engineers, scientists, mathematicians, and other well-educated people with experience of the real world instead of the bunch of drongos we keep electing. (Well, not me personally, I voted Green, even though most of their ideas are asinine. It's kind of a protest vote.)
Nelson has absolutely no intellectual integrity. After all, to get his doctor degree, he must have studied some science, including biology, and yet he's comfortable with creationism being given equal time with science as an alternative explanation for life as we know it.
It almost makes me ashamed to be Australian.
Rush? Is that you?
The fact that you think Moore (yep, definately a bit of a lefty), Soros (a money-market manipulator - left wing? I doubt it, although he seems to be politically what Americans so quaintly call a liberal) and Kerry (somewhat to the right of Soros) are all of the far left indicates that you are an ignorant fool, and not worth discussing anything with. Why did I bother, you may ask? Well, a bit of gratuitous abuse of far-right fuckwits helps get my day off to a good start.
For fuck's sake. Intelligent Design is, to quote an Australian scientist (whose name eludes me for the moment) nothing but "Creationism in a cheap tuxedo." It is not a serious attempt (excellent or otherwise) to reconcile christian beliefs with scientific eveidence, it's just a way for fundamentalists to sneak creationism in through the back door, hoping that noone is paying attention.
We're having the "Let's teach ID as an alternative theory" debate in Australia at the moment, and it's just another American ideological import we don't need.
I'm pretty sure Thomas Paine was English, and got chased out of the country because of his dangerous ideas (The Rights of Man, etc).
It's a funny old world, isn't it? Apparently it was perfectly acceptable to murder Jews, Gypsies, communists, homosexuals and the mentally-retarded back in 1940, but gay marriage and abortion are quite beyond the pale a mere 65 years later.
To be fair to the pope at that time (his name eludes me and I don't care enough to look it up), he was probably concerned that the priests and nuns would end up in the gas chambers as well, if he made too much noise. On the other hand he seemed to have approved of Mussolini and Franco, who were only less bad than Hitler because they didn't control as much territory.
Hitler was a Roman Catholic. Interestingly, the Pope of the day refused to excommunicate him.
You really are a fool, and my life is neither stale nor stupid. When the system is sitting behind a bunch of firewalls, proxies, VPNs, etc, etc, that I'm comfortable in assuming are being managed by people who know what they're doing, I see _absolutely_ _no_ _fucking_ _point_ in changing my password every 6 weeks (or whatever) just because some dopey auditor read in a Gartner "paper" that proper security requires frequent password changing.
You wouldn't happen to be one of those people, would you? I thought so.
> You can't lose your finger NEARLY as easily as you can lose your physical token or forget your password.
Oh, I don't know - I'd be a bit nervous that my finger would be forcibly removed to access my bank account. All they'd need is a meat cleaver.
I've worked in a lot of places that enforce this asinine rule. I've finally caved, and my password is now $name_of_favourite_child01, $name_of_favourite_child02, ... - fortunately the password-checker isn't smart enough to spot this.
I figure if this causes any security problems, it's totally the fault of the accountants who think they know more about system security than an IT professional. If a secure system was actually really important to them, they'd just let me invent a good password and only change it when I though it was necessary.
Depends on the chick.
Outstanding!