Have you ever seen a multi-year budget survive, intact, the five-year you period are postulating?
What sort of company you work for? Any company I have worked for, in the last 35 years, will NOT let you bank $100 thou yearly towards some future whatchamacallit... At least you will be reprimended for over-budgeting. At worst, you'll be fired for cooking the books
If the auditors don't get you, then a couple of years into your fantasy, a downturn will occur and, wham!, your budget is cut so that your precious $100 k will be gone and if you did indeed happened to bank away any money, it will be used to cover running expenses.
I just spent a fucking week putting together a Pentium III computer so that a fricking old system could run again. Imagine, get a P-III refurbished with a 20 GB IDE HD, with 256 MB RAM running Win-2K... But the upgrade was only $145 k, no dice in this economy, get it working or else...
Please provide the name of your employer, I do need a job like yours
A few years ago I quit a good job because I was tired of the same thing, day in, day out.
Decided to try my hand at different things, collapsed economically, got depressed, felt I was useless and then...
I got me a job (lower paying) as IT Manager again. Guess what, I'm happy because I know what I'm doing, I feel good because I know the ins and outs of the job and it is, frankly, a piece of cake.
So take a vacation, cool off and get back to the good job you have.
If someone out to mug you sees that you are armed, then he shoots first and robs you after;
Where I live, you will get 7 years imprisonment for carrying a gun, however criminal bands not only have guns, but assault rifles (AR-15 A2 is the most popular here) and even grenade-launchers (Federal Labs)
Now suppose that instead of pulling my wallet, I pull a gun: a) I might get killed or b) the thug may run away. Without a gun, I'm likely to only get killed.
Unlike you, I do work for the Police Department and I can tell you, most people will risk a sentence than go around unarmed.
Sorry pal, you get no bear but I might buy you a beer...:-)
And you're entirely right, on my limited knowledge, high-IQ people are unhappier than average folks. Would I trade places? No, going through life "thinking" that the prophecies are true and the world ends next year or some such silly shit holds no appeal to me.
In case you need reinforcement, what you say is actually true, at least in my case.
For a couple of decades I have hired people not on their grades or C.V., but on their willingness to work.
I rather hire someone with little or no formal knowledge on a certain area (say Java programming) but whom are willing to work hard to become proficient in it than hire someone who knows it, but isn't willing to work hard.
I tell friends and colleagues, I can teach those who want to learn but I can't make workers out of lazy bums, no matter how well educated they are.
You're not getting much sympathy on this thread but I guess by now you are used to it.
Change a few names and places and we could have been twin brothers separated at birth... I spent all of my time in school bored out of my skull; from grammar school onwards, I could read and write by the time I started school, so you can imagine how it was.
If you are ever near Cancun, Mexico, drop me a line and I'll buy you a bear, at least we might have some intelligent conversation for a change...
I'm working 10-12 hours a day and still manage to cook, given the time limitations, I go for simple foods that can be done in 20-25 minutes.
For example, I just ate a platter of rice with vegetables and broiled chicken breast, total preparation time: 30 minutes.
Half the breast I'm keeping to eat with a fresh salad tomorrow, total preparation time for tomorrow's lunch: 10 minutes.
It's just a matter of organizing one's time and being disciplined about it. Of course, once in a while something happens and I must eat a burger somewhere... but most of the time is nice, healthy food.
Sorry, my use of Assyrian and Mayan names demonstrate that Latin is NOT fundamental to find trademark-able and available names. Perhaps Latin-derived names are more difficult as many people are aware of Latin or Greek roots through higher education; but other languages remain obscure and thus, less exploited.
No offense taken and no offense meant, simply, languages other than English would give you the same answer, which proves the claim
Latin is very important today, especially with respect to the web.
I managed to reach 5th grade without knowing how to "properly" divide, when by the school's standards at the time I attended elementary school, I should have been able master it by 4th grade. I managed by sequential subtraction to arrive at the right answer. But again, I never had to take group theory or elementary statistics in 12th grade like my children did.
TFA is bunk. Are multiple-choice exams killing intellectual progress? Is it better to know how to find something in the Internet than knowing what Virgil wrote about? Should I had been sent back to 4th grade because I could arrive at the answer only thru the long around when dividing one number by another? Or should I have been allowed to continue to 6th grade and take remedial lessons? (Actually that is what happened, and today, some 40 years later, I'm a successful IT manager, dealing day-to-day with technical issues beyond the comprehension of my employers? )
There is no way to actually measure and compare today's entrance exams to those 140 years ago, so again, there is no point. The brilliant student of 140 years ago, time-machine moved to today, would seem stupid because of his ignorance of everyday stuff. Would he do better then than today, given a few years of education? Who can tell? Maybe his best skill was buying slaves at good prices, which today would be useless.
Well, I did have a company named Musarkisus (Musarkisus S.A. de C.V.) which is today unfortunately defunct but in its day it was a supplier of many different things, and the name is neither Greek nor Latin. (it is left as an exercise to the reader to figure out the origin of the name.)
Today I own a company that is called Yaax Maya S.A. de C.V. (meaning "green language" in Mayan) which sells natural products and the name is neither Latin nor Greek.
Other than a self-serving advertisement for your product, what was your point?
Serious question: how come Google used your photos in news?
Don't think that I'm belittling your case or mocking you, the system is broken.
Were they part of a news article that got indexed by Google? If so, did you not get paid by the news source itself?
If you take a picture from the Calton Hill or of Edinburgh Castle, say, you can claim a copyright on it; but how is it different from any of the thousand pictures taken by amateurs every day?
I'm not saying it is your case, because you did not mention what sort of photos Google used, but do you think is fair that, let's call them "standard photos" in the two previous cases, can be copyrighted?
The system is broken and we need to come to a rational agreement, regardless of where we live, to what an artist can claim as intellectual property and what can be fairly used by anyone, including behemoths as Google.
I live in México and to publish commercially a picture, say of Chichen Itza, you need the government's permission because they claim that the site is property of the Mexican nation and any commercial representation is a violation of the Mexican rights over the site.
They pretend to show the Earth is round and lookit the Moon, round is too!
Nah, they just want to discredit God-fearing Americans who know the Earth is flat(*) because the Good Book says it so!
(*) I don't know that the Bible says the Earth is flat or not, but having been used to prove just about anything, I might as well postulate that it says it is flat.
Thanks for your reply and comments. As someone else pointed in a previous post, the documentation is not entirely clear, so perhaps indeed I'm doing something wrong.
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Obvious, an ORGAnic SIMulation, you anonymous moron!
What? A typo?
Sorry about that...
Spoken like a true novice!. Well done partner!
Have you ever seen a multi-year budget survive, intact, the five-year you period are postulating?
What sort of company you work for? Any company I have worked for, in the last 35 years, will NOT let you bank $100 thou yearly towards some future whatchamacallit... At least you will be reprimended for over-budgeting. At worst, you'll be fired for cooking the books
If the auditors don't get you, then a couple of years into your fantasy, a downturn will occur and, wham!, your budget is cut so that your precious $100 k will be gone and if you did indeed happened to bank away any money, it will be used to cover running expenses.
I just spent a fucking week putting together a Pentium III computer so that a fricking old system could run again. Imagine, get a P-III refurbished with a 20 GB IDE HD, with 256 MB RAM running Win-2K... But the upgrade was only $145 k, no dice in this economy, get it working or else...
Please provide the name of your employer, I do need a job like yours
Unless, of course, you folks keep doing it today.
Been there, done that.
A few years ago I quit a good job because I was tired of the same thing, day in, day out.
Decided to try my hand at different things, collapsed economically, got depressed, felt I was useless and then...
I got me a job (lower paying) as IT Manager again. Guess what, I'm happy because I know what I'm doing, I feel good because I know the ins and outs of the job and it is, frankly, a piece of cake.
So take a vacation, cool off and get back to the good job you have.
Excellent suggestion. Here is a PDF of the book.
Probably the guy is Argentinian...
They used to call Maradona "one the ten greatest soccer players in the world and one of Argentina's best players."
You might want to read on Gandhi.
He didn't have a billion dollar advertising fund but he accomplished quite a bit.
Sorry pal, you got it wrong on several counts:
Now suppose that instead of pulling my wallet, I pull a gun: a) I might get killed or b) the thug may run away. Without a gun, I'm likely to only get killed.
Unlike you, I do work for the Police Department and I can tell you, most people will risk a sentence than go around unarmed.
One doesn't have to be intelligent or even have a multi-celullar body to change the atmosphere entirely... One only needs time and large numbers.
According to your files all of the people who expressed a desire to bear your children are male, care to comment on that?
Sorry, you asked for it. ;->
Sorry pal, you get no bear but I might buy you a beer... :-)
And you're entirely right, on my limited knowledge, high-IQ people are unhappier than average folks. Would I trade places? No, going through life "thinking" that the prophecies are true and the world ends next year or some such silly shit holds no appeal to me.
In case you need reinforcement, what you say is actually true, at least in my case.
For a couple of decades I have hired people not on their grades or C.V., but on their willingness to work.
I rather hire someone with little or no formal knowledge on a certain area (say Java programming) but whom are willing to work hard to become proficient in it than hire someone who knows it, but isn't willing to work hard.
I tell friends and colleagues, I can teach those who want to learn but I can't make workers out of lazy bums, no matter how well educated they are.
You're not getting much sympathy on this thread but I guess by now you are used to it.
Change a few names and places and we could have been twin brothers separated at birth... I spent all of my time in school bored out of my skull; from grammar school onwards, I could read and write by the time I started school, so you can imagine how it was.
If you are ever near Cancun, Mexico, drop me a line and I'll buy you a bear, at least we might have some intelligent conversation for a change...
Cheers
I agree with you completely.
I'm working 10-12 hours a day and still manage to cook, given the time limitations, I go for simple foods that can be done in 20-25 minutes.
For example, I just ate a platter of rice with vegetables and broiled chicken breast, total preparation time: 30 minutes.
Half the breast I'm keeping to eat with a fresh salad tomorrow, total preparation time for tomorrow's lunch: 10 minutes.
It's just a matter of organizing one's time and being disciplined about it. Of course, once in a while something happens and I must eat a burger somewhere... but most of the time is nice, healthy food.
What do you mean taking this too seriously?.
I had invested my life's saving in pianola publishers and then you had to come up with vinyl records... My hungry children will curse you!
Thanks for the comment, but no, I'm not taking TFA seriously, I think it is bull.
There is no way to quantitatively compare the two eras, so what is the point?
Sorry, my use of Assyrian and Mayan names demonstrate that Latin is NOT fundamental to find trademark-able and available names. Perhaps Latin-derived names are more difficult as many people are aware of Latin or Greek roots through higher education; but other languages remain obscure and thus, less exploited.
No offense taken and no offense meant, simply, languages other than English would give you the same answer, which proves the claim
is invalid.
When did you stop beating your wife?
What is the proper answer?
I managed to reach 5th grade without knowing how to "properly" divide, when by the school's standards at the time I attended elementary school, I should have been able master it by 4th grade. I managed by sequential subtraction to arrive at the right answer. But again, I never had to take group theory or elementary statistics in 12th grade like my children did.
TFA is bunk. Are multiple-choice exams killing intellectual progress? Is it better to know how to find something in the Internet than knowing what Virgil wrote about? Should I had been sent back to 4th grade because I could arrive at the answer only thru the long around when dividing one number by another? Or should I have been allowed to continue to 6th grade and take remedial lessons? (Actually that is what happened, and today, some 40 years later, I'm a successful IT manager, dealing day-to-day with technical issues beyond the comprehension of my employers? )
There is no way to actually measure and compare today's entrance exams to those 140 years ago, so again, there is no point. The brilliant student of 140 years ago, time-machine moved to today, would seem stupid because of his ignorance of everyday stuff. Would he do better then than today, given a few years of education? Who can tell? Maybe his best skill was buying slaves at good prices, which today would be useless.
Well, I did have a company named Musarkisus (Musarkisus S.A. de C.V.) which is today unfortunately defunct but in its day it was a supplier of many different things, and the name is neither Greek nor Latin. (it is left as an exercise to the reader to figure out the origin of the name.)
Today I own a company that is called Yaax Maya S.A. de C.V. (meaning "green language" in Mayan) which sells natural products and the name is neither Latin nor Greek.
Other than a self-serving advertisement for your product, what was your point?
I quite like the tack you've taken on the problem.
Indeed, critical thinking and the capacity to analyze data are sorely lacking, but that is a constant.
I don't remember who said the intelligence is constant while the population is increasing...
Of course, as in any test, there would be a reasonable time limit, say one hour.
But the point is, TFA is bull, the curricula is irrelevant, we are not smarter or stupider today than 142 years ago.
I would if instead of Greek and Latin the languages were English and Spanish...
I must note that English is not my maternal tongue...
Maybe English and Mandarin? Different times, different places, different requirements...
What use is Latin and Greek today?
Could a Harvard graduate from the era be able to send an email from a laptop? Would he know how to even turn-on the laptop?
What is this? Slow-news Sunday?
Serious question: how come Google used your photos in news?
Don't think that I'm belittling your case or mocking you, the system is broken.
Were they part of a news article that got indexed by Google? If so, did you not get paid by the news source itself?
If you take a picture from the Calton Hill or of Edinburgh Castle, say, you can claim a copyright on it; but how is it different from any of the thousand pictures taken by amateurs every day?
I'm not saying it is your case, because you did not mention what sort of photos Google used, but do you think is fair that, let's call them "standard photos" in the two previous cases, can be copyrighted?
The system is broken and we need to come to a rational agreement, regardless of where we live, to what an artist can claim as intellectual property and what can be fairly used by anyone, including behemoths as Google.
I live in México and to publish commercially a picture, say of Chichen Itza, you need the government's permission because they claim that the site is property of the Mexican nation and any commercial representation is a violation of the Mexican rights over the site.
Where is fairness?
WTF?
What is the proper use of beer and wine, other than drinking it?
You must be some kind of pervert.
(Crosses himself)
:-]
Newspapers are still useful and computers will never replace them entirely.
With newspapers you can:
And most important of all, you can wrap a cold beer so the cops can't tell what you're drinking!
I rest my case.
Of course there is blame!
They pretend to show the Earth is round and lookit the Moon, round is too!
Nah, they just want to discredit God-fearing Americans who know the Earth is flat(*) because the Good Book says it so!
(*) I don't know that the Bible says the Earth is flat or not, but having been used to prove just about anything, I might as well postulate that it says it is flat.
Thanks for your reply and comments. As someone else pointed in a previous post, the documentation is not entirely clear, so perhaps indeed I'm doing something wrong.