This is nothing new. There was a museum dedicated to Noah's Flood in Tulsa, Oklahoma over a decade ago (sorry no link). Thankfully it went away. The building is now a daycare center. Most recently Tulsa almost had a creation exhibit at it's zoo. Darwin be praised and rationality prevailed. At least temporarily.
Screw him and the ITAA horse he rode in on! He's nothing but a corporate shill who wants to destroy yet even more American livelihoods. He just wants to allow cheap high-tech coolies into this country. There are plenty of skilled workers available. They are older (strike 1). They won't work long hours for low pay (strike 2). They are mobile (strike 3). The IT job market wasn't what it was prior to the dot-com collapse and probably won't recover for a long time. But it is telling that this fucktard says we need more H1-B's. So that means there are jobs out there. Now the trick is to find them.
but if you stay on top of things (READ READ READ CODE CODE CODE) you'll be better at 50 than you were at 25.
Yes, that is also true. Unfortunately, the job market has nothing to do with skill. Most companies want to hire programmers as a commodity hence all the high-tech coolies from Asia or outsourcing there to. American business is addicted to cheap labor.
Every so often I see a story on slashdot about what degree to go after. Usually they are asking for some trick or some inside knowledge to give them a leg up. Like what programming language to choose (Roll your own make a hybrid between Ruby and Java that'll run on Amigas. It'll be the next killer machine/app). If you really want to know the value of a masters or doctorate you should study very carefully Philip Greenspuns Career Guide for Engineers and Computer Scientists. Unless you are very good the average lifespan of a programmer is about 10 years and age discrimination starts very young like around 36.
I think you would be better off learning the following phrases "Clean up on aisle seven" or "Would you like fries with that?" or "Don't let the door hit your ass on the way out."
You must come over to the.dark.side..Become.a.NET.developer. or you could become a Ruby zealot. I've heard it involves becoming an acolyte but you must first sacrifice an old Amiga (or is it a goat?) on the alter of zealotry. Perl is cool and all, but I recently converted from Perl to Python and it is wicked cool. Once I got past that weird whitespace thing it's really nice to not to have to put a ; after each line. I think Python hits the language sweetspot. It's an object oriented scripting language robust enough that you don't have to learn Java. You get the added bonus of being more productive for things like web development.
It was never about a shortage of IT workers. It was always about a shortage of cheap and stable source of labor. I'm shedding big crocidile tears right now over this so-called shortage. It's not like like I'm a disgrunted IT worker that took four years—3 of which were stuck in a call center hell—to find an IT job making half what I was during the dot-com boom. No that couldn't possibly be it.
"I'm a scientist. I like Al Gore. I donate to the Sierra club, I bicycle everywhere and I eat granola.
ManBearPig will not tolerate your attempts at deception that global warming is not real. The Scientific Concensus has spoken. The ManBearPig will crack open your skull and eat your brains like granola. The Scientific Concensus agrees this is yet another misuse of the question mark in the media.
There was a sunset provision in the Patriot Act which required it to be reauthorized through a vote in both houses.
I know, I know, the first one to invoke the Nazi comparison loses, but I just read an interesting historical tidbit that Hitler's Enabling Act also required it to be reauthorized after four years.
Just so you know, city boy, cattle stand in their feces and piss in their drinking pond on the ranch too.
Dude, I am not a vegan/vegetarian/lacto-ovo-vegetarian and never will be. I do eat meat, but I want to know where my meat comes from. A ranch is a much different operation than a CAFO. Dude, my grandfather raised cattle and I did spend a little time around them. He used to give them antibiotics. Dude, he used to raise a steer for us every year and we'd take it a local slaughterhouse and then we'd eat beef for a year.
Not all grasses are cereal crops. By your logic we could eat grass and bamboo and get as much nutrition from them. If the cattle just ate the stalks and leaves and not the grain that'd be OK. Cows did not evolve to eat modern maize kernels. It has way too much starch. It's the cellulose their stomachs break down.
Most of the problems associated with CAFO's would be alleviated by allowing the steers to be fed grass for the last two weeks.
Dude, quit makin' assumptions about people you don't know. Go back and stump breakin your cows.
God, I hope this was some kind of long sarcastic ironic rant. Because you could interpret everything in it as it's exact opposite and it would make sense.
Soon we'll all be eating cloned beef from cattle raised in high density feedlots who stand around in their own feces and urine pumped full of growth hormones and antibiotics. Then the meat will have to be irradiated to kill the resistant strains of E. coli created in the cattle's stomachs because were forced to eat corn that they didn't evolve to eat.
Since consumers will expect their irradatiated meat to glow in the dark, they'll create glowing cattle just like the glowing pigs.
Read Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma if you want to or watch Joel Salatin of Polyface Farms talk about the real future of raising meat (long) and how to turn vegetarians back into meat eaters and why it's important to have promiscuous healthy earthworms.
The French are calling us fat, lazy, and now stupid. Great, well at least we aren't a bunch cheese eating surrender monkeys. Time to eat some more pork rinds and watch American Idol. I hope I don't have to get out of my chair to find my remote. Found it. It was under a fold of fat. I also found my car keys.
If they are going to design biomechanical clothing, they might as well design a pair of shorts to massage your lower torso. They would be very popular with slashdotters who still live with their parents:
Bobby: Calls through closed bathroom door "I need to get another pair of massage shorts this pair is almost worn out."
Mother: "Why Bobby, that's your third pair of massage shorts this month you've worn out."
Son: *silence*
Mother: "Bobby, what are you doing in there." knocks on door "Open this door this instance."
Bobby: "Go away. I'm brushing my teeth. Yeah, that's it, brushing my teeth."
It's kinda like the Internets. It's a series of tubes. The VC's could throw their money down my virtual toilet and when they are done they can wipe their asses with my vaporware paper. From VC to VT to VP = Profit!
I'm curious how this will help nail down some of the parameters for the famous Drake EquationN = R* * Fp * Ne * Fl * Fi * Fc * L.This new guestimate will help narrow down f sub p, the fraction of stars that have planets, and go some distance to narrowing down n sub e, the number of planets that can support life per star. As our resolution power increases the better able we will be able to come up with better guestimates.
The answer might be zero anyway. After proposing the equation Fermi pointed out if intelligent life is so common, where are they? A space faring civilization travelling at 1% the speed of light would cross the galaxy in ten million years. Relative to the age of the Milky Way Galaxy, ten million years is a very short period of time. This is called the Fermi Paradox. Where are they?
I think we just don't know enough yet and we haven't been looking for very long. I think our technology will help us give a more accurate answer to the Drake equation within the next 100 years. We may even find evidence of life on other worlds when we can detect free oxygen on worlds in habitable zones light years away. And that could happen within the next decade or two.
For those people who say the aliens are already here, I would ask would an intelligent space faring civilization travel hundreds of light years just to kidnap some redneck farmer and give him an anal probe and then make crop circles in his fields? I suppose if it was some alien fratboy hazing ritual they would.
Before taking everything in the article as fact, take a glance at the rest of the stories on the site. You will definitely see a pattern. And NO..I'm not going to suggest what that pattern is.
Clearly this so-called article is a work of the vast right wing conspiracy to keep them uppity commu.. er uhliberals, yeah liberals in their place. The middle class ins't shrinking. We are winning the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. And soon there will be victory in Iran. Heil Halliburton and their Offshoring Allies.
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Great! Now I'll have to add a geiger counter to my mailbox. I'll have to figure out a way to make my anthrax detector smaller.
This is nothing new. There was a museum dedicated to Noah's Flood in Tulsa, Oklahoma over a decade ago (sorry no link). Thankfully it went away. The building is now a daycare center. Most recently Tulsa almost had a creation exhibit at it's zoo. Darwin be praised and rationality prevailed. At least temporarily.
At least Tulsa is important enough for even The Onion to make fun of: Creationist Museum Acquires 5,000-Year-Old T. Rex Skeleton.
Screw him and the ITAA horse he rode in on! He's nothing but a corporate shill who wants to destroy yet even more American livelihoods. He just wants to allow cheap high-tech coolies into this country. There are plenty of skilled workers available. They are older (strike 1). They won't work long hours for low pay (strike 2). They are mobile (strike 3). The IT job market wasn't what it was prior to the dot-com collapse and probably won't recover for a long time. But it is telling that this fucktard says we need more H1-B's. So that means there are jobs out there. Now the trick is to find them.
Every so often I see a story on slashdot about what degree to go after. Usually they are asking for some trick or some inside knowledge to give them a leg up. Like what programming language to choose (Roll your own make a hybrid between Ruby and Java that'll run on Amigas. It'll be the next killer machine/app). If you really want to know the value of a masters or doctorate you should study very carefully Philip Greenspuns Career Guide for Engineers and Computer Scientists. Unless you are very good the average lifespan of a programmer is about 10 years and age discrimination starts very young like around 36.
I think you would be better off learning the following phrases "Clean up on aisle seven" or "Would you like fries with that?" or "Don't let the door hit your ass on the way out."
What? You don't believe me? Watch this.
You must come over to the .dark .side. .Become .a .NET .developer. or you could become a Ruby zealot. I've heard it involves becoming an acolyte but you must first sacrifice an old Amiga (or is it a goat?) on the alter of zealotry. Perl is cool and all, but I recently converted from Perl to Python and it is wicked cool. Once I got past that weird whitespace thing it's really nice to not to have to put a ; after each line. I think Python hits the language sweetspot. It's an object oriented scripting language robust enough that you don't have to learn Java. You get the added bonus of being more productive for things like web development.
It was never about a shortage of IT workers. It was always about a shortage of cheap and stable source of labor. I'm shedding big crocidile tears right now over this so-called shortage. It's not like like I'm a disgrunted IT worker that took four years—3 of which were stuck in a call center hell—to find an IT job making half what I was during the dot-com boom. No that couldn't possibly be it.
There was a sunset provision in the Patriot Act which required it to be reauthorized through a vote in both houses.
I know, I know, the first one to invoke the Nazi comparison loses, but I just read an interesting historical tidbit that Hitler's Enabling Act also required it to be reauthorized after four years.
Just so you know, city boy, cattle stand in their feces and piss in their drinking pond on the ranch too.
Dude, I am not a vegan/vegetarian/lacto-ovo-vegetarian and never will be. I do eat meat, but I want to know where my meat comes from. A ranch is a much different operation than a CAFO. Dude, my grandfather raised cattle and I did spend a little time around them. He used to give them antibiotics. Dude, he used to raise a steer for us every year and we'd take it a local slaughterhouse and then we'd eat beef for a year.
Not all grasses are cereal crops. By your logic we could eat grass and bamboo and get as much nutrition from them. If the cattle just ate the stalks and leaves and not the grain that'd be OK. Cows did not evolve to eat modern maize kernels. It has way too much starch. It's the cellulose their stomachs break down. Most of the problems associated with CAFO's would be alleviated by allowing the steers to be fed grass for the last two weeks.
Dude, quit makin' assumptions about people you don't know. Go back and stump breakin your cows.
God, I hope this was some kind of long sarcastic ironic rant. Because you could interpret everything in it as it's exact opposite and it would make sense.
Soon we'll all be eating cloned beef from cattle raised in high density feedlots who stand around in their own feces and urine pumped full of growth hormones and antibiotics. Then the meat will have to be irradiated to kill the resistant strains of E. coli created in the cattle's stomachs because were forced to eat corn that they didn't evolve to eat.
Since consumers will expect their irradatiated meat to glow in the dark, they'll create glowing cattle just like the glowing pigs.
Read Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma if you want to or watch Joel Salatin of Polyface Farms talk about the real future of raising meat (long) and how to turn vegetarians back into meat eaters and why it's important to have promiscuous healthy earthworms.
Except the French had "Nouvelle Star" before we had "American Idol."
Don't forget. They think Jerry Lewis is a comic genius. Which means they probably think Ben Stiller doesn't suck ass.
The French are calling us fat, lazy, and now stupid. Great, well at least we aren't a bunch cheese eating surrender monkeys. Time to eat some more pork rinds and watch American Idol. I hope I don't have to get out of my chair to find my remote. Found it. It was under a fold of fat. I also found my car keys.
If they are going to design biomechanical clothing, they might as well design a pair of shorts to massage your lower torso. They would be very popular with slashdotters who still live with their parents:
Bobby: Calls through closed bathroom door "I need to get another pair of massage shorts this pair is almost worn out."
Mother: "Why Bobby, that's your third pair of massage shorts this month you've worn out."
Son: *silence*
Mother: "Bobby, what are you doing in there." knocks on door "Open this door this instance."
Bobby: "Go away. I'm brushing my teeth. Yeah, that's it, brushing my teeth."
Flamebait? Interesting.
What's wrong with venture capitalists flushing their money down a virtual toilet? Most of the ventures they fund will crap out anyway.
It's kinda like the Internets. It's a series of tubes. The VC's could throw their money down my virtual toilet and when they are done they can wipe their asses with my vaporware paper. From VC to VT to VP = Profit!
I'm curious how this will help nail down some of the parameters for the famous Drake Equation N = R* * Fp * Ne * Fl * Fi * Fc * L.This new guestimate will help narrow down f sub p, the fraction of stars that have planets, and go some distance to narrowing down n sub e, the number of planets that can support life per star. As our resolution power increases the better able we will be able to come up with better guestimates.
The answer might be zero anyway. After proposing the equation Fermi pointed out if intelligent life is so common, where are they? A space faring civilization travelling at 1% the speed of light would cross the galaxy in ten million years. Relative to the age of the Milky Way Galaxy, ten million years is a very short period of time. This is called the Fermi Paradox. Where are they?
I think we just don't know enough yet and we haven't been looking for very long. I think our technology will help us give a more accurate answer to the Drake equation within the next 100 years. We may even find evidence of life on other worlds when we can detect free oxygen on worlds in habitable zones light years away. And that could happen within the next decade or two.
For those people who say the aliens are already here, I would ask would an intelligent space faring civilization travel hundreds of light years just to kidnap some redneck farmer and give him an anal probe and then make crop circles in his fields? I suppose if it was some alien fratboy hazing ritual they would.
*da* *bump* *bump*. Thank you very much. I'll be here all week.
Before taking everything in the article as fact, take a glance at the rest of the stories on the site. You will definitely see a pattern. And NO..I'm not going to suggest what that pattern is.
Clearly this so-called article is a work of the vast right wing conspiracy to keep them uppity commu.. er uhliberals, yeah liberals in their place. The middle class ins't shrinking. We are winning the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. And soon there will be victory in Iran. Heil Halliburton and their Offshoring Allies.
Pshaw, that's nothing. Read Stephen Hawking Builds Robotic Exoskeleton and be envious!
I know what Apple can use, asscast = Apple Simple Syndication cast.
Thank God the future will be like a sci-fi movie because the present is already like a bad Jerry Bruckheimer movie.