Sad. But too often true. All one needs to do is read the book of Job (the one in the Bible, not Apple CEO), to see this.
As a congregational leader, it is tempting to sit in judgment when bad things happen to good people. It is also easy to marvel when good things happen to bad people.
However, I teach that these things are as much a test of character as anything. I'm not one who can judge another, because simply it is not my job description.
As tempting as it may seem, we should instead focus on what we can do with what we have, to build up and bless(Order, Peace, Joy) this world we live in; leaving it better than when we found it.
But hey, what do I know? I'm a wacko religious nutcase.;)
1) If you say so. It provides a piece of paper saying the person went through a prescribed set of course work. It doesn't man it is a reference of anything useful.
2) A university degree is no guarantee of anything. I've seen plenty of people with a University degree that didn't know squat. See #1
3) Social Networking? You mean cliques and clubs and Greek Houses. Another word for this is "good old boy network", and "It isn't what you know, it is who you blow".
4) Okay, I'll agree with this one. However in a "service" economy, the chances are, there is no "equipment" needed, outside of Engineering and Sciences.
5) BINGO!!! We have a winner. A University says "this person will follow directions". And then, you end up with willingly ignorant (ie Stupid on Purpose) people who are "just following directions".
Rarely is true innovations found within the corporate/education complex. It takes people outside the box to think outside the box. People inside the box talk about thinking outside the box, but it has been so long since they've seen the outside of the box, they wouldn't recognize it if they did.
And from experience, over 1/2 the people I know who have a college degree, are working in a field other than what their degree(s) are in. My degree is in Business/Finance, and I'm in Technology, never having work a day in any financial industry.
Clearly their degree is of no benefit for 1, 2, 3, 4 directly. The only thing that WOULD apply is 5.
But while corp is 10 times as strong as gov (like it is now)
Citation Needed.
Seriously, if you think that, you're just as much a part of the problem. The Corps and Gov are in Cahoots. And it doesn't matter which party is in control. The Gov / Corp / Media complex is just as bad (if not worse) under Obama and the DEMS as it was under Bush and the REPS.
Ignoring the problems because you agree with the party in power is just stupid.
I love to use Hanlon's razor here at work, but I'm afraid that if I ask a simple question... Are you evil or just an idiot... I'd get into trouble. The problem is, I need to know what I'm dealing with so I can route around it properly.
The problem is, that if you try to route around idiocy as if it is malice, you end up looking like a class 1 Asshole. While conversely if you try to route around malice as if it were idiocy, you end up looking like a moron.
The problem is, either way, certain people are failing at their jobs, either by malice or by idiocy, and there is nothing one can do. So, I just do my job, the best I can and go home at night and don't give a shit about life at work when I'm not there.
Yes, I'm aware people think the same thing of me. I just don't give a shit, which also masks itself as either malice or stupidity most of the time, which is something Hanlon's razor doesn't really account for.
I call it Archangel's corollary to Hanlon's Razor.
If it wasn't security, then why dress up in cammo outfits and ghillie suits
The whole point of camouflage is to hide in plain sight, to be seen without being seen; to appear not as what you are, but as something else. It is the ultimate in "security through obscurity".
And that is why people never see Sasquatch, he isn't black fur, he is moss covered green, and you can look right at him and never see him./humor
I live in the USA and have noticed that people get all outraged over the latest scandal and are all up in arms (sometimes literally) over it.
That is, until an even greater scandal arises in which the first scandal is dropped/forgotten and all outrage and disgust is focused on the NEW scandal of the week. This repeats itself over and over, until someone comes along and promises to make things better.
At that point, people are happy the scandals have stopped, that they have long forgotten the previous scandals, which stay ignored/forgotten.
Then the process starts all over again. Nothing ever gets better, it just stops getting worse for a while, and that makes it seem like it is getting better.
Assholes ruin everything for everyone else. They go searching for ways to be just annoying enough to be an "asshole" but take great care and diligence to make sure that they don't run afoul of any rules/laws that might be in place.
It doesn't matter where you draw the rules/laws, they are assholes, and will always exploit the current version to perfection.
Then, somebody comes along and says "There ought to be a law" because of some asshole somewhere. There is no cure for assholes, because they will always exist. And passing ridiculous rules/laws to prevent them from being assholes is stupid as it is pointless.
I know one asshole, when confronted about being an asshole ("you're ruining it for everyone else"), said "I don't care, I'm just playing by the rules". And when the rules changed because of the asshole, it diminishes us all. They don't care about "everyone else" which is why they are assholes.
If the health care system UTTERLY DESTROYS the economy in a way impossible to fix, then what happens?
Um, you don't know. I don't know. I don't want to find out either. What makes you think that that particular failure won't result in the same kind of "war" that you are trying to avoid elsewhere?
Yeah, I'm a pessimist with regard to Government Controlled Economies, and the Human Rights that are violated by them.
And last time I checked, we pretty much wiped Germany and Japan during the last world war. The German and Japanese people still exist. Only time people are exterminated are by totalitarian regimes.
War sucks, but war by totalitarian assholes is worse. But what do I know?
I'm sorry, one sided nuclear disarmament while radical militant islamists hell bent on wiping Israel off the face of the map are getting nuclear weaponry is clearly myopic at best.
Of course it is great that everyone else is getting rid of nuclear arms, like Russia, Pakistan, China, North Korea.....
Oh wait, they aren't. But we have "Hope" and "Change we can Believe in" and "Yes we can" sloganeering, which is good enough for a Peace Prize 11 days after taking office.
I have an idea, how about making sure that the ORIGINAL unedited version is available upon request, with a link in the advertisement to the source of the original.
If you switch DBMS you're gonna have other problems. Extracting all the info out of one, and inserting it into another is an exercise in hair pulling. If you've ever been part of a DBMS conversion project, getting tables lined up and managed properly is the biggest part of the problem. Getting the system to function after that is usually a piece of cake in comparison.
I tend to save things in LCD format, txt or RTF for Documents, tab delimited for tables, JPG or GIF for images (or PNG), MP3 for music etc.
The point being, if you save data in a format that is limited (.doc,.xls,.raw, etc) you're going to have difficulty moving it around.
And stuff that has to be saved in a proprietary format gets a simpler version, that may be missing things (formulas, charts), so that I can move them to a new system should the need arise. I used to use Dataviz to convert stuff, but found it was just easier to re-create the things I need rather than trying to clean up the splash of translation.
It is also makes it easier to learn a "new" setup if you have to use it to set the things up you need, rather than letting something automate it.
The point is, you don't need to worry about data portability if you plan for it.
The reason to DIY is because you need a config that DELL doesn't offer. Oh, like building a MythTV box with SATA Raid and hot swap cage for the HDs. Or even the proverbial "Gaming Rig".
However, if what you want is a computer for your house, then DELL (or HP or...) is a completely viable choice.
The problem isn't DIY being "cheaper" it is that you can get a customized rig built the way you want for the purposes you need.
And when the vast majority of customers tolerate things that really should piss them off
Yeah, because people should be pissed off at ______Corp because you said so.
The problem is when being pissed off doesn't matter to the people who are running things. Take for example all the recent TownHall, and 9/12 march and such, being passed over by the Elitists because it doesn't fit their model of what people SHOULD be pissed off at. They are going to RAM health care "reform" (complete overhaul) in our faces because they know better.
This quickly turns into apathy, and people just stop caring, because all that anger doesn't do any good if you cannot change things.
Can you find "Microsoft" anywhere in the title or synopsis? A shiny gold dubloon the the first person who can do that.
Actually, it is DEFINITELY implied. Windows 7 is a Microsoft product, and probably a registered (TM) of Microsoft Corporation or one of its subsidiaries.
It isn't Pella Windows 7, it is Microsoft Windows 7 (TM).
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, you'd think that ... but I don't :-P
Sad. But too often true. All one needs to do is read the book of Job (the one in the Bible, not Apple CEO), to see this.
As a congregational leader, it is tempting to sit in judgment when bad things happen to good people. It is also easy to marvel when good things happen to bad people.
However, I teach that these things are as much a test of character as anything. I'm not one who can judge another, because simply it is not my job description.
As tempting as it may seem, we should instead focus on what we can do with what we have, to build up and bless(Order, Peace, Joy) this world we live in; leaving it better than when we found it.
But hey, what do I know? I'm a wacko religious nutcase. ;)
I don't know about that. I kinda lean towards the Former Iraqi Information Minister, Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf (AKA Baghdad Bob)
1) If you say so. It provides a piece of paper saying the person went through a prescribed set of course work. It doesn't man it is a reference of anything useful.
2) A university degree is no guarantee of anything. I've seen plenty of people with a University degree that didn't know squat. See #1
3) Social Networking? You mean cliques and clubs and Greek Houses. Another word for this is "good old boy network", and "It isn't what you know, it is who you blow".
4) Okay, I'll agree with this one. However in a "service" economy, the chances are, there is no "equipment" needed, outside of Engineering and Sciences.
5) BINGO!!! We have a winner. A University says "this person will follow directions". And then, you end up with willingly ignorant (ie Stupid on Purpose) people who are "just following directions".
Rarely is true innovations found within the corporate/education complex. It takes people outside the box to think outside the box. People inside the box talk about thinking outside the box, but it has been so long since they've seen the outside of the box, they wouldn't recognize it if they did.
And from experience, over 1/2 the people I know who have a college degree, are working in a field other than what their degree(s) are in. My degree is in Business/Finance, and I'm in Technology, never having work a day in any financial industry.
Clearly their degree is of no benefit for 1, 2, 3, 4 directly. The only thing that WOULD apply is 5.
Citation Needed.
Seriously, if you think that, you're just as much a part of the problem. The Corps and Gov are in Cahoots. And it doesn't matter which party is in control. The Gov / Corp / Media complex is just as bad (if not worse) under Obama and the DEMS as it was under Bush and the REPS.
Ignoring the problems because you agree with the party in power is just stupid.
I pick my nose before I get my finger prints done, in front of the fingerprint tech. This new development is going to cramp my style.
I love to use Hanlon's razor here at work, but I'm afraid that if I ask a simple question ... Are you evil or just an idiot ... I'd get into trouble. The problem is, I need to know what I'm dealing with so I can route around it properly.
The problem is, that if you try to route around idiocy as if it is malice, you end up looking like a class 1 Asshole. While conversely if you try to route around malice as if it were idiocy, you end up looking like a moron.
The problem is, either way, certain people are failing at their jobs, either by malice or by idiocy, and there is nothing one can do. So, I just do my job, the best I can and go home at night and don't give a shit about life at work when I'm not there.
Yes, I'm aware people think the same thing of me. I just don't give a shit, which also masks itself as either malice or stupidity most of the time, which is something Hanlon's razor doesn't really account for.
I call it Archangel's corollary to Hanlon's Razor.
Security through obscurity = Camouflage
If it wasn't security, then why dress up in cammo outfits and ghillie suits
The whole point of camouflage is to hide in plain sight, to be seen without being seen; to appear not as what you are, but as something else. It is the ultimate in "security through obscurity".
And that is why people never see Sasquatch, he isn't black fur, he is moss covered green, and you can look right at him and never see him. /humor
Dear Portuguese friend,
I live in the USA and have noticed that people get all outraged over the latest scandal and are all up in arms (sometimes literally) over it.
That is, until an even greater scandal arises in which the first scandal is dropped/forgotten and all outrage and disgust is focused on the NEW scandal of the week. This repeats itself over and over, until someone comes along and promises to make things better.
At that point, people are happy the scandals have stopped, that they have long forgotten the previous scandals, which stay ignored/forgotten.
Then the process starts all over again. Nothing ever gets better, it just stops getting worse for a while, and that makes it seem like it is getting better.
Murphy was an optimist.
Meet the old boss, same as the new boss.
And if you think Government is the solution, then you're part of the problem.
Now take Health Care Reform, is it about health care or is it about control of the "citizens/serfs/customers" ???
You willing to give up freedom for security? I'm not.
What??
You're not suggesting I use more than one hand at a time are you? Is that any way to watch po^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H surf the internet?
I call this the law of Assholes.
Assholes ruin everything for everyone else. They go searching for ways to be just annoying enough to be an "asshole" but take great care and diligence to make sure that they don't run afoul of any rules/laws that might be in place.
It doesn't matter where you draw the rules/laws, they are assholes, and will always exploit the current version to perfection.
Then, somebody comes along and says "There ought to be a law" because of some asshole somewhere. There is no cure for assholes, because they will always exist. And passing ridiculous rules/laws to prevent them from being assholes is stupid as it is pointless.
I know one asshole, when confronted about being an asshole ("you're ruining it for everyone else"), said "I don't care, I'm just playing by the rules". And when the rules changed because of the asshole, it diminishes us all. They don't care about "everyone else" which is why they are assholes.
They just need to have their asses kicked.
Um, you don't know. I don't know. I don't want to find out either. What makes you think that that particular failure won't result in the same kind of "war" that you are trying to avoid elsewhere?
Yeah, I'm a pessimist with regard to Government Controlled Economies, and the Human Rights that are violated by them.
And last time I checked, we pretty much wiped Germany and Japan during the last world war. The German and Japanese people still exist. Only time people are exterminated are by totalitarian regimes.
War sucks, but war by totalitarian assholes is worse. But what do I know?
More likely, Vastly Higher Bill, Vastly Higher Taxes, and probably, just probably NO CHOICE whatsoever.
If you don't look at both possibilities, you'll never make an informed choice.
Let me ask you, why is Nevada being exempted from parts of the current health care bill if it is so great?
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
You mean his push to let Iran get nuclear arms?
I'm sorry, one sided nuclear disarmament while radical militant islamists hell bent on wiping Israel off the face of the map are getting nuclear weaponry is clearly myopic at best.
Of course it is great that everyone else is getting rid of nuclear arms, like Russia, Pakistan, China, North Korea .....
Oh wait, they aren't. But we have "Hope" and "Change we can Believe in" and "Yes we can" sloganeering, which is good enough for a Peace Prize 11 days after taking office.
I have an idea, how about making sure that the ORIGINAL unedited version is available upon request, with a link in the advertisement to the source of the original.
Kind of like, Open Source for Photography?
Either that, or they get elected to office, and plunder the public directly. But hey, we keep electing these crooks, so we kind of deserve it.
Hey look, FREE HEALTH CARE!
Nooo, not at all. We just have a "community organizer", not stupid at all, nooooo /sarcasm
She's eight, you insensitive clod!
If you switch DBMS you're gonna have other problems. Extracting all the info out of one, and inserting it into another is an exercise in hair pulling. If you've ever been part of a DBMS conversion project, getting tables lined up and managed properly is the biggest part of the problem. Getting the system to function after that is usually a piece of cake in comparison.
I tend to save things in LCD format, txt or RTF for Documents, tab delimited for tables, JPG or GIF for images (or PNG), MP3 for music etc.
The point being, if you save data in a format that is limited (.doc, .xls, .raw, etc) you're going to have difficulty moving it around.
And stuff that has to be saved in a proprietary format gets a simpler version, that may be missing things (formulas, charts), so that I can move them to a new system should the need arise. I used to use Dataviz to convert stuff, but found it was just easier to re-create the things I need rather than trying to clean up the splash of translation.
It is also makes it easier to learn a "new" setup if you have to use it to set the things up you need, rather than letting something automate it.
The point is, you don't need to worry about data portability if you plan for it.
Bing = Bing Is Not Google!!!
DIY = CUSTOM build
The reason to DIY is because you need a config that DELL doesn't offer. Oh, like building a MythTV box with SATA Raid and hot swap cage for the HDs. Or even the proverbial "Gaming Rig".
However, if what you want is a computer for your house, then DELL (or HP or ...) is a completely viable choice.
The problem isn't DIY being "cheaper" it is that you can get a customized rig built the way you want for the purposes you need.
Yeah, because people should be pissed off at ______Corp because you said so.
The problem is when being pissed off doesn't matter to the people who are running things. Take for example all the recent TownHall, and 9/12 march and such, being passed over by the Elitists because it doesn't fit their model of what people SHOULD be pissed off at. They are going to RAM health care "reform" (complete overhaul) in our faces because they know better.
This quickly turns into apathy, and people just stop caring, because all that anger doesn't do any good if you cannot change things.
Serenity Prayer and all that..
Actually, it is DEFINITELY implied. Windows 7 is a Microsoft product, and probably a registered (TM) of Microsoft Corporation or one of its subsidiaries.
It isn't Pella Windows 7, it is Microsoft Windows 7 (TM).