Education is not a piece of paper from a University. Education is learning a topic. True educated people NEVER stop learning. I'd love to hire more people like you, because... well... you're a lot like me.
And, I think you'll find that the age of the University is ending, and the age of Education is beginning. In the days of old, it meant a lot that you had "Harvard" or "University of Southern California" on your parchment, but those days are going the way of the Dodo.
When I interview people, I ask them about their Education, and when the recite their degrees, they get no score. ZIP. Any monkey can jump through that hoop. What I want to hear is what they LEARN, what is their passion, what is it that they do to better themselves. That leads to people who are passionate about (usually) a great number to topics, from Science and Nature, to Philosophy to Maths, to Games to Cooking (applied Chemistry!). I don't want a coder, I want a coder who can cook a gourmet meal, because a person who is passionate about a number of topics that aren't related is going to be better for applying concepts out of the box in new and creative ways. Not that always works, but then again, that is how we learn.
I do love a spectacular failure once in a while, otherwise you aren't trying.
People who fall for scams do so voluntarily, YES!! They do so, by setting aside common sense for greed, and other emotional pleas. "help, I'm stuck in Spain without money or a passport, send me money please!". Yes, they are solicited, but nobody is forcing them to participate, so the do so voluntarily.
I get dozens of these each year, I have yet to fall for one of them.
Part of this, which often escapes/. users is that the law isn't justified by just actual losses, but also also includes punitive recourse as well.
I'm of the opinion that Punitive damages should be awarded, but those should go to the state, not to the victim. I'm all for actual damages, and perhaps 10% (or Treble damages or some other number) of the Punitive damages going to the victim, but most of the punitive damages should be going to the state, into a victims compensation or something like that. This would prevent the idea of "get rich quick, just sue" mentality that is clogging up the courts now. Courts have become Greed Machines.
Aggregate the data as quickly as possible to anonymize it.
Collect "Mary did X, Y but not Z", but aggregate it to Three people did X, Two Y and TWELVE Z and drop Mary from the data. You don't need to know Mary did anything.
You can verify the lp.com cert by going to https://lp.org/ though it is only valid for www.lp.org The website does a redirect from https to http for www.lp.org. They don't have a redirect for https://lp.org/ but do for http://lp.org/
Yeah, I checked the links. Pretty scary that the only one that has a correct SSL cert, doesn't actually use it. And yet, we are supposed to trust the leadership of these parties with even more technical issues, like running a government.
Regulations don't just even out the knowledge. It causes onerous rules that do nothing except for feel good liberals.
Take for example, regulations for ADA, used to get wheelchair access to all public places. Well that causes problems for historical buildings and being retrofitted for ADA compliance. It has ruined many a local landmark business as well, like the Train Hobbiest who opened up his collection in his basement. Along comes ADA police and tells him to build $100,000 retro fit on his house. Now, nobody can enjoy his trains, because there is no way he could afford $100,000 for a train hobby exhibit. Regulation kills these kinds of enterprises, so that NOBODY can enjoy them.
The problem with regulation isn't with regulation, it is with OVER regulation. And people like you don't think there is such a thing as over regulation, because you haven't met a regulation you didn't like. But that is the way of Tyranny, you build it one regulation at a time.
But if we ever happen to say that regulations have limits, why then we are all CRAZY BAT SHIT INSANE LIBERTARIAN NUT JOBS WHO WANT TO KILL PUPPIES AND RAPE THE ENVIRONMENT!!!!
Nice Conspiracy Theory. Except, that there is this thing called County Elections Commissions, which do all the local electioneering. The districts that had the most problems were all "Democratic", and run by Democrat cronies. The people of those districts couldn't figure out a ballot because they were stupid, or worse, the "hanging chad" was caused by ballot stuffing, which is about the only way to not have a ballot of this time function properly. But you won't read anything like that on Daily Kos or HuffPo.
I'm no fan of GWB being Libertarian, so don't count me as an "R" stooge.
That person didn't "just make $2M" as you said. It was spread over thirty years. Capitol Gain Taxes at 15%are evil according to Libtards, and yes, he would have to pay 15% on $2M which is exactly where the Libtards are complaining, WANTING to tax that $2M at 70%, 80% or whatever.
THAT is the point. For one year, this guy is "the 1%" libtards are whining about.
The way you make it sound, they were holding a gun to the original owners head to make them sell. Or people were forced to hand over cash to finance these operations. Or that...
The point is, this shit was all voluntary by all parties. The only people I actually feel sorry for at the "human resources" that worked there. And anyplace that has a "human resources" department should be suspect.
As I've mentioned above, I'm not a Christian. And your assumptions are the real lies, but they are lies you tell yourself to make yourself feel so smug. So you just make excuses for the abuses of humans because they are religious and your hatred of religion? Exactly my point.
To you, and all your buddies below, I didn't mention Christianity at all. If that is the best retort you have to a legitimate concern then we are screwed. I made no mention of "Christian" anything. I mentioned two religions that are suffering persecution by the "atheist state" that weren't even Christian. How your hatred of Christians has twisted your thoughts should start becoming clear right about now, because you're seeing things that aren't there.
BTW, I am not a "Christian". And the people putting their own version of "sharia" law are the nutbag liberals who want to ban happy meal toys and make everyone drive Prius'
Sometimes I wish Mexico started at the Mason-Dixon line and Missouri could just be turned into a reservation for what I refer to as the "American Civil Religion"
This is exactly the kind of thinking that leads to the persecution of Jews in Germany and Russia (Soviet Union) and Falun Gong in China and.....
My question is, why do Atheists care about proselytizing their Atheism to others? Why do they care what "religion" says at all? Why are atheists so quick to dehumanize others?
Here is the scenario that most Libtards don't get.
Plumber goes into business, invests every extra penny into his business. Works hard, over the years, and slowly builds his business, hires new plumbers and so on. He barely makes a living over the years, and lives a sparse life in a modest neighborhood. Pays his taxes at 30%, plus all the employer/owner taxes on his business.
Forty years later, he decides to retire, and sell his business for 2 million dollars. Obama and the Dems call that "1%" because for that one year, his income was in the 1%. But not really. That 2 million over fourty years is really only worth 50K a year. But the Dems don't care, he is the "1%" they hate. He is evil, exploiter of the worker, and greedy.
You see the problem yet? Grand Proclamations of over generalized statements makes for great sloganeering. But, like most rose tinted views of the left, isn't really based on reality for everyone the toss in that generalization.
The B52s of today are NOT the same as those flown 60 years ago. Engines, Airframes, Electronics. I think even the bolts that hold it together are not the same. It resembles the plane from 60 years ago, that is about all.
Yes, we put a man on the moon. A couple times. For a few days. A long time ago.
There is a huge Difference between that, and going to Mars, or Interstellar. Let me know when we land on the moon, build a station there, and have permanent residents. Or when we start mining Asteroids, or similarly useful to 7 Billion people back on 3rd Rock.
Using 1 G acceleration, it would take about 90 days to reach 25% of C, which is a whole lot of energy..5 G acceleration would require 180 days to reach that speed. And at.25 G, it would take a year. And that basically adds between 1 and two years to the journey (you have to turn around and slow down).
Basically, we are not going out of our solar system anytime soon.
Current models indicates that the universe defies terminology like "across", being more of a big "loop" much like the globe is "big loop", that if you traveled in a straight line, you'd eventually end up right where you started. Time/Space is bendy, and any hope of interstellar travel will require our ability to "fold" it.
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Education is not a piece of paper from a University. Education is learning a topic. True educated people NEVER stop learning. I'd love to hire more people like you, because ... well ... you're a lot like me.
And, I think you'll find that the age of the University is ending, and the age of Education is beginning. In the days of old, it meant a lot that you had "Harvard" or "University of Southern California" on your parchment, but those days are going the way of the Dodo.
When I interview people, I ask them about their Education, and when the recite their degrees, they get no score. ZIP. Any monkey can jump through that hoop. What I want to hear is what they LEARN, what is their passion, what is it that they do to better themselves. That leads to people who are passionate about (usually) a great number to topics, from Science and Nature, to Philosophy to Maths, to Games to Cooking (applied Chemistry!). I don't want a coder, I want a coder who can cook a gourmet meal, because a person who is passionate about a number of topics that aren't related is going to be better for applying concepts out of the box in new and creative ways. Not that always works, but then again, that is how we learn.
I do love a spectacular failure once in a while, otherwise you aren't trying.
People who fall for scams do so voluntarily, YES!! They do so, by setting aside common sense for greed, and other emotional pleas. "help, I'm stuck in Spain without money or a passport, send me money please!". Yes, they are solicited, but nobody is forcing them to participate, so the do so voluntarily.
I get dozens of these each year, I have yet to fall for one of them.
Never mind, the video is broken. :-/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLFDT_I2Up4
Click the top right column's image. It is a video.
You can make electronics extremely water resistant. See this for example http://golden-shellback.com/
Pretty much ends the "water proof, coffee proof" naysayers core argument. See the video for a nice Demo. YMMV
Part of this, which often escapes /. users is that the law isn't justified by just actual losses, but also also includes punitive recourse as well.
I'm of the opinion that Punitive damages should be awarded, but those should go to the state, not to the victim. I'm all for actual damages, and perhaps 10% (or Treble damages or some other number) of the Punitive damages going to the victim, but most of the punitive damages should be going to the state, into a victims compensation or something like that. This would prevent the idea of "get rich quick, just sue" mentality that is clogging up the courts now. Courts have become Greed Machines.
Aggregate the data as quickly as possible to anonymize it.
Collect "Mary did X, Y but not Z", but aggregate it to Three people did X, Two Y and TWELVE Z and drop Mary from the data. You don't need to know Mary did anything.
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You can verify the lp.com cert by going to https://lp.org/ though it is only valid for www.lp.org The website does a redirect from https to http for www.lp.org. They don't have a redirect for https://lp.org/ but do for http://lp.org/
Yeah, I checked the links. Pretty scary that the only one that has a correct SSL cert, doesn't actually use it. And yet, we are supposed to trust the leadership of these parties with even more technical issues, like running a government.
Regulations don't just even out the knowledge. It causes onerous rules that do nothing except for feel good liberals.
Take for example, regulations for ADA, used to get wheelchair access to all public places. Well that causes problems for historical buildings and being retrofitted for ADA compliance. It has ruined many a local landmark business as well, like the Train Hobbiest who opened up his collection in his basement. Along comes ADA police and tells him to build $100,000 retro fit on his house. Now, nobody can enjoy his trains, because there is no way he could afford $100,000 for a train hobby exhibit. Regulation kills these kinds of enterprises, so that NOBODY can enjoy them.
The problem with regulation isn't with regulation, it is with OVER regulation. And people like you don't think there is such a thing as over regulation, because you haven't met a regulation you didn't like. But that is the way of Tyranny, you build it one regulation at a time.
But if we ever happen to say that regulations have limits, why then we are all CRAZY BAT SHIT INSANE LIBERTARIAN NUT JOBS WHO WANT TO KILL PUPPIES AND RAPE THE ENVIRONMENT!!!!
Nice Conspiracy Theory. Except, that there is this thing called County Elections Commissions, which do all the local electioneering. The districts that had the most problems were all "Democratic", and run by Democrat cronies. The people of those districts couldn't figure out a ballot because they were stupid, or worse, the "hanging chad" was caused by ballot stuffing, which is about the only way to not have a ballot of this time function properly. But you won't read anything like that on Daily Kos or HuffPo.
I'm no fan of GWB being Libertarian, so don't count me as an "R" stooge.
That person didn't "just make $2M" as you said. It was spread over thirty years. Capitol Gain Taxes at 15%are evil according to Libtards, and yes, he would have to pay 15% on $2M which is exactly where the Libtards are complaining, WANTING to tax that $2M at 70%, 80% or whatever.
THAT is the point. For one year, this guy is "the 1%" libtards are whining about.
Missed. The. Point. Completely. Typical libtard.
The way you make it sound, they were holding a gun to the original owners head to make them sell. Or people were forced to hand over cash to finance these operations. Or that ...
The point is, this shit was all voluntary by all parties. The only people I actually feel sorry for at the "human resources" that worked there. And anyplace that has a "human resources" department should be suspect.
As I've mentioned above, I'm not a Christian. And your assumptions are the real lies, but they are lies you tell yourself to make yourself feel so smug. So you just make excuses for the abuses of humans because they are religious and your hatred of religion? Exactly my point.
To you, and all your buddies below, I didn't mention Christianity at all. If that is the best retort you have to a legitimate concern then we are screwed. I made no mention of "Christian" anything. I mentioned two religions that are suffering persecution by the "atheist state" that weren't even Christian. How your hatred of Christians has twisted your thoughts should start becoming clear right about now, because you're seeing things that aren't there.
BTW, I am not a "Christian". And the people putting their own version of "sharia" law are the nutbag liberals who want to ban happy meal toys and make everyone drive Prius'
So, you dehumanize others because you feel superior? Godwin for the win?
Sometimes I wish Mexico started at the Mason-Dixon line and Missouri could just be turned into a reservation for what I refer to as the "American Civil Religion"
This is exactly the kind of thinking that leads to the persecution of Jews in Germany and Russia (Soviet Union) and Falun Gong in China and .....
My question is, why do Atheists care about proselytizing their Atheism to others? Why do they care what "religion" says at all? Why are atheists so quick to dehumanize others?
Hey, it was fair warning :-D Muahahahaha
Oh Geez. Harry Reid is a fine example on economic issues. They don't call him Dirty Harry for no reason.
Here is the scenario that most Libtards don't get.
Plumber goes into business, invests every extra penny into his business. Works hard, over the years, and slowly builds his business, hires new plumbers and so on. He barely makes a living over the years, and lives a sparse life in a modest neighborhood. Pays his taxes at 30%, plus all the employer/owner taxes on his business.
Forty years later, he decides to retire, and sell his business for 2 million dollars. Obama and the Dems call that "1%" because for that one year, his income was in the 1%. But not really. That 2 million over fourty years is really only worth 50K a year. But the Dems don't care, he is the "1%" they hate. He is evil, exploiter of the worker, and greedy.
You see the problem yet? Grand Proclamations of over generalized statements makes for great sloganeering. But, like most rose tinted views of the left, isn't really based on reality for everyone the toss in that generalization.
It's like having government-funded exorcisms or voodoo rituals to cleanse the bad mojo out of a person. Sounds crazy, right?
Sounds like modern Psychology.
The B52s of today are NOT the same as those flown 60 years ago. Engines, Airframes, Electronics. I think even the bolts that hold it together are not the same. It resembles the plane from 60 years ago, that is about all.
Yes, we put a man on the moon. A couple times. For a few days. A long time ago.
There is a huge Difference between that, and going to Mars, or Interstellar. Let me know when we land on the moon, build a station there, and have permanent residents. Or when we start mining Asteroids, or similarly useful to 7 Billion people back on 3rd Rock.
Using 1 G acceleration, it would take about 90 days to reach 25% of C, which is a whole lot of energy. .5 G acceleration would require 180 days to reach that speed. And at .25 G, it would take a year. And that basically adds between 1 and two years to the journey (you have to turn around and slow down).
Basically, we are not going out of our solar system anytime soon.
Current models indicates that the universe defies terminology like "across", being more of a big "loop" much like the globe is "big loop", that if you traveled in a straight line, you'd eventually end up right where you started. Time/Space is bendy, and any hope of interstellar travel will require our ability to "fold" it.