In the last 28 years we've had mostly Republicans in office who have downplayed it if not treated it with plain derision. When the most important member of an organization does this, it diminishes its effectiveness.
It's an expensive social club but it does put pressure on countries to behave in certain ways. It's effectively the eyeballs of the world, and many people do care how the world views them.
It may have prevented some wars. It authorized the US to take part in the Korean War. It supports and monitors refugees. It wastes a lot.
I can't say for certain if its worth the cost, but it would be wrong to say it has no real effect.
Unfortunately it is not always a positive experience. You'll have to know what points to push and which ones not to push. You'll have to learn how to deal with prima donnas, slackers, pets of the CEO, control freaks, those who need lots of encouragment, etc.
It can be rewarding with the right mix of people. As always though : do more than is expected of you.
To succeed, you need a competency in far more than just a language. I'm sorry, its not that easy.
Get at least a basic level of understanding in the following :
* how to talk to and effectively use databases * how to talk to hardware * networking * sys admin work * presentation work * regular expressions * grep/find * create a simple web page * run a basic web server * file permissions and ACLs * build system * shell * source control systems * the relationship of assembly to C * that memory and processing power are limited resources
Pick a scripting language to know at a reasonable level. It will come in use when you want to quickly transform data or even write some of your program that's in your favorite language. That is the equivalent of your swiss army knife and duct tape kit.
As for a language, strongly know the basics for any OOP language, procedural language and functional language.
Don't expect to be spoon fed details of what you have the program. Learn why this program is being written. If you are programming a spectral analysis program, learn about that subject enough to know how your program is going to be used.
Learn to understand why the program is written, and what the audience will use it for. Learn to communicate clearly. Learn to ask questions when you are not sure.
So, does math even exist without a mind? If there is no 'natural' distinction between things, its impossible to naturally count them. I suppose that hinges on whether or not the universe is discrete or continuous.
Then maybe we should rethink how we've structured our economy.
We have a few very large points of failure that can bring down anything rather than a diverse ecosystem of smaller businesses.
You could call this capitalism or lassis-faire, but no, we have large corporations because of the laws that limit the liability of the officers and shareholders of the corporations. We have large corporations because of laws that give them tax breaks and dispensations and subsidies and other forms of largess. This isn't pure capitalism at all.
I think purity is stupid, but there is no getting around that the laws the government makes and more importantly, the subset of the laws that it decides to enforce shape the ecosystem of industries. As long as that is the case, we should write the laws so that small businesses are encouraged more than large ones are.
Hint: Bush did not give them the money, Congress did.
That's a bit disingenuous. Congress allocated the money, but Bernanke distributed it.
Congress was absolutely foolish to trust that the money would be distributed properly. They deserve the blame and scorn for writing a blank check to an untrustworthy administration.
And it would be horribly immoral for us to take them away from said recipients.
Horribly immoral is an overstatement. Sometimes you don't get what is promised due to unanticipated events.
Horribly immoral is continuing to write these contracts to incompetents despite knowing just how bad things are going to get very soon. It smacks of the buddy system, not a serious business decision.
Horribly immoral but legal would be laying off people in order to pay these 'bonuses'.
BeOs is probably what you wanted then. Its files could be tagged and accessed through a relational database. That means the files could be sorted and displayed based on any criteria you wanted.
People are used to having it, and having it 'taken away' feels unfair to them, even though the only thing they did to earn the privilege of watching TV is buying the thing.
But frankly, our society has become so busy and thus so very lonely. TV helps people alleviate the loneliness. Many people need the stimulus of seeing a human face. There is social pressure to not have generations of a family live together in the same house. This is the American dream, and costs a lot and is much emptier.
My grandfather spent his waning years just watching TV all day long, every day. That's what he wanted. Maybe that's why I hate TV so much. A lot of people, a lot of elderly, just want TV 'to work', and I'm not sure moving a timetable around will help them.
javascript is closer to lisp/scheme than to C in many ways. It supports closures, macros (functions that build functions), and evals. Rather than list oriented, it's dom oriented.
Of course, it is convoluted. It's just far more subtle than it appears (or is often used).
In that case, the correct course of action would have been to mark the message as spam if that's what it was. Maybe set up a filter for messages like that?
Politics aside, Bush was a lazy President. He fucked around and of course things went to pot. He took more vacation days than any other President.
It's that lack of work more than ideology that got us in such a mess. These mistakes had little if anything to do with liberal vs conservative. (disclaimer - I am quite liberal)
The war and occupation would have appeared a whole lot less stupid if they had actually been thoroughly planned.
Deregulation may have weakened the safeguards of the financial system, but it didn't eliminate them; they just were ignored. That was negligence more than lazzis faire.
The handling of Katrina was a tragedy and the treatment of the victims afterwords was a crime. Any other conservative with the power of the government at their disposal would have used that power to save lives.
Say what you want, but the memo entitled 'Bin Laden determined to strike targets in the US' was ignored. Even if the attack could not have been prevented, the military and intelligence services could have been on high alert and emergency services on a higher alert. Lazy! Lazy! Fucking life threatening laziness.
Then to completely throw the feeling of empathy the world had for the US into the trash. Was it policy, or was it just easier to act unilaterally? What a waste!
It's refreshing to see a team that actually wants to work and get things done.
"And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet."
The book indicates that women are meant to be used. The writing style indicates that it is written to a male audience. The passage below would seem to prohibit being effeminate. If that applies to women, its a much stranger culture than I'd realized.
1 corinthians 6:9-6:10 "Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,"
what's with this slapping zen on everything? What would the koan be : What is the spec before the meeting?
The real zen would be :
write simple, small things until the form is the function.
test in reality and in imagination, until both are one.
the SOA is the illusion. There is no SOA.
Two comments. First - the New Testament part of the Bible also condemns homosexuality.
That would cause people to be against same sex marriage. It also condemns eating shellfish, but there isn't a law against that. Sexuality of course is a more charged issue, so I can see why it would win out. It says to me, though, that people already didn't like the idea of homosexuality, and looked for anything that would support that existing feeling. They don't care about shellfish, so they don't go looking for (or particularly care about) reasons to not eat it.
The Constitution is for the United States citizens. He took an oath to protect United States Constitution and through that document the US citizens. Other countries are not protected by the Constitution and hence the US Constitution does not apply to them.
The spirit of the constitution is that 'all men are created equal'. Your statement sounds like a Clintonian excuse of piddling with what 'is' is.
When visiting another country you must follow the rules of that land. Only in your country's embassy do the laws of your land apply.
Bush's actions were bad. But he was approved by congress. He thought he was protecting US citizens by "taking the war to them". So if you want to convict Bush, you may as well convict all those in congress (both houses) during the last 8 years as well.
Oh, how I'd love to.
To the average US citizen which looks worse: a war in Iraq or a war on US soil against people who want to see the US destroyed?
Ah, but its just about appearances though. The war in Iraq was a non-sequitor war. It was a war looking for a cause. I have no idea of the real rationale. I won't even ding Bush for being circumspect about the reasons, but even now, I have no idea.
To spread democracy : if this were the case, the war planners would have had a real strategy to rebuild Iraq and develop it politically.
To make enemies fear: This is (sickeningly enough) the best rationale I can think of. Quoth Sun Tsu : 'To scare the dog, throttle the chicken'. Iraq becomes an example. "If you look at us funny even, we'll pound the crap out of you". The problem is, this really drained our resources in an obvious way and we appear weaker after the war.
WMD : Unlikely. The war planning was underway before this became an issue. It was used as a justification for something that was looking for a justification.
"They shot at my daddy" : Sadly, I think this is the most likely reason that we went to war in Iraq.
The article I cited was from 'American Conservative'. The right noticed as well.
And yes, Clinton's actions in that regard are reprehensible (he did not have my vote and yes I vote), but that doesn't excuse Bush for expanding the practice.
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In the last 28 years we've had mostly Republicans in office who have downplayed it if not treated it with plain derision. When the most important member of an organization does this, it diminishes its effectiveness.
It's an expensive social club but it does put pressure on countries to behave in certain ways. It's effectively the eyeballs of the world, and many people do care how the world views them.
It may have prevented some wars.
It authorized the US to take part in the Korean War.
It supports and monitors refugees.
It wastes a lot.
I can't say for certain if its worth the cost, but it would be wrong to say it has no real effect.
What, we are stuck between choosing Stalin [the left] or Hitler [the right]? Maybe toss anarchists in there (or possibly they don't count).
Gah, we're doomed.
Absolutely.
Working effectively within a team is crucial.
Unfortunately it is not always a positive experience. You'll have to know what points to push and which ones not to push. You'll have to learn how to deal with prima donnas, slackers, pets of the CEO, control freaks, those who need lots of encouragment, etc.
It can be rewarding with the right mix of people. As always though : do more than is expected of you.
To succeed, you need a competency in far more than just a language. I'm sorry, its not that easy.
Get at least a basic level of understanding in the following :
* how to talk to and effectively use databases
* how to talk to hardware
* networking
* sys admin work
* presentation work
* regular expressions
* grep/find
* create a simple web page
* run a basic web server
* file permissions and ACLs
* build system
* shell
* source control systems
* the relationship of assembly to C
* that memory and processing power are limited resources
Pick a scripting language to know at a reasonable level. It will come in use when you want to quickly transform data or even write some of your program that's in your favorite language. That is the equivalent of your swiss army knife and duct tape kit.
As for a language, strongly know the basics for any OOP language, procedural language and functional language.
Don't expect to be spoon fed details of what you have the program. Learn why this program is being written. If you are programming a spectral analysis program, learn about that subject enough to know how your program is going to be used.
Learn to understand why the program is written, and what the audience will use it for.
Learn to communicate clearly.
Learn to ask questions when you are not sure.
So, does math even exist without a mind? If there is no 'natural' distinction between things, its impossible to naturally count them.
I suppose that hinges on whether or not the universe is discrete or continuous.
Then maybe we should rethink how we've structured our economy.
We have a few very large points of failure that can bring down anything rather than a diverse ecosystem of smaller businesses.
You could call this capitalism or lassis-faire, but no, we have large corporations because of the laws that limit the liability of the officers and shareholders of the corporations. We have large corporations because of laws that give them tax breaks and dispensations and subsidies and other forms of largess. This isn't pure capitalism at all.
I think purity is stupid, but there is no getting around that the laws the government makes and more importantly, the subset of the laws that it decides to enforce shape the ecosystem of industries. As long as that is the case, we should write the laws so that small businesses are encouraged more than large ones are.
Hint: Bush did not give them the money, Congress did.
That's a bit disingenuous. Congress allocated the money, but Bernanke distributed it.
Congress was absolutely foolish to trust that the money would be distributed properly. They deserve the blame and scorn for writing a blank check to an untrustworthy administration.
And it would be horribly immoral for us to take them away from said recipients.
Horribly immoral is an overstatement. Sometimes you don't get what is promised due to unanticipated events.
Horribly immoral is continuing to write these contracts to incompetents despite knowing just how bad things are going to get very soon. It smacks of the buddy system, not a serious business decision.
Horribly immoral but legal would be laying off people in order to pay these 'bonuses'.
BeOs is probably what you wanted then. Its files could be tagged and accessed through a relational database. That means the files could be sorted and displayed based on any criteria you wanted.
Why was he moderated "FlameBait?"
My bet is a guilty web designer modded him that out.
I'm not making a value judgement here, just observing.
You are absolutely right, my friend.
TV is a more 'respectable' addiction than booze.
People are used to having it, and having it 'taken away' feels unfair to them, even though the only thing they did to earn the privilege of watching TV is buying the thing.
But frankly, our society has become so busy and thus so very lonely. TV helps people alleviate the loneliness. Many people need the stimulus of seeing a human face. There is social pressure to not have generations of a family live together in the same house. This is the American dream, and costs a lot and is much emptier.
My grandfather spent his waning years just watching TV all day long, every day. That's what he wanted. Maybe that's why I hate TV so much.
A lot of people, a lot of elderly, just want TV 'to work', and I'm not sure moving a timetable around will help them.
These issues came about after the 8 years of Republican control.
On the dot, like clockwork, and had absolutely nothing to do with Republican control.
Nope, not a thing.
javascript is closer to lisp/scheme than to C in many ways. It supports closures, macros (functions that build functions), and evals. Rather than list oriented, it's dom oriented.
Of course, it is convoluted. It's just far more subtle than it appears (or is often used).
In that case, the correct course of action would have been to mark the message as spam if that's what it was. Maybe set up a filter for messages like that?
Politics aside, Bush was a lazy President.
He fucked around and of course things went to pot. He took more vacation days than any other President.
It's that lack of work more than ideology that got us in such a mess. These mistakes had little if anything to do with liberal vs conservative. (disclaimer - I am quite liberal)
The war and occupation would have appeared a whole lot less stupid if they had actually been thoroughly planned.
Deregulation may have weakened the safeguards of the financial system, but it didn't eliminate them; they just were ignored. That was negligence more than lazzis faire.
The handling of Katrina was a tragedy and the treatment of the victims afterwords was a crime. Any other conservative with the power of the government at their disposal would have used that power to save lives.
Say what you want, but the memo entitled 'Bin Laden determined to strike targets in the US' was ignored. Even if the attack could not have been prevented, the military and intelligence services could have been on high alert and emergency services on a higher alert. Lazy! Lazy! Fucking life threatening laziness.
Then to completely throw the feeling of empathy the world had for the US into the trash. Was it policy, or was it just easier to act unilaterally? What a waste!
It's refreshing to see a team that actually wants to work and get things done.
romans 1:26-1:27
"And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet."
The book indicates that women are meant to be used. The writing style indicates that it is written to a male audience. The passage below would seem to prohibit being effeminate. If that applies to women, its a much stranger culture than I'd realized.
1 corinthians 6:9-6:10
"Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,"
what's with this slapping zen on everything? What would the koan be : What is the spec before the meeting?
The real zen would be :
write simple, small things until the form is the function.
test in reality and in imagination, until both are one.
the SOA is the illusion. There is no SOA.
Two comments. First - the New Testament part of the Bible also condemns homosexuality.
That would cause people to be against same sex marriage. It also condemns eating shellfish, but there isn't a law against that. Sexuality of course is a more charged issue, so I can see why it would win out. It says to me, though, that people already didn't like the idea of homosexuality, and looked for anything that would support that existing feeling. They don't care about shellfish, so they don't go looking for (or particularly care about) reasons to not eat it.
The Constitution is for the United States citizens. He took an oath to protect United States Constitution and through that document the US citizens. Other countries are not protected by the Constitution and hence the US Constitution does not apply to them.
The spirit of the constitution is that 'all men are created equal'. Your statement sounds like a Clintonian excuse of piddling with what 'is' is.
When visiting another country you must follow the rules of that land. Only in your country's embassy do the laws of your land apply.
You shouldn't expect this to happen to you on a stopover. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maher_Arar
What was done to Maher is inexcusable.
Bush's actions were bad. But he was approved by congress. He thought he was protecting US citizens by "taking the war to them". So if you want to convict Bush, you may as well convict all those in congress (both houses) during the last 8 years as well.
Oh, how I'd love to.
To the average US citizen which looks worse: a war in Iraq or a war on US soil against people who want to see the US destroyed?
Ah, but its just about appearances though. The war in Iraq was a non-sequitor war. It was a war looking for a cause. I have no idea of the real rationale. I won't even ding Bush for being circumspect about the reasons, but even now, I have no idea.
To spread democracy : if this were the case, the war planners would have had a real strategy to rebuild Iraq and develop it politically.
To make enemies fear: This is (sickeningly enough) the best rationale I can think of. Quoth Sun Tsu : 'To scare the dog, throttle the chicken'. Iraq becomes an example. "If you look at us funny even, we'll pound the crap out of you". The problem is, this really drained our resources in an obvious way and we appear weaker after the war.
WMD : Unlikely. The war planning was underway before this became an issue. It was used as a justification for something that was looking for a justification.
"They shot at my daddy" : Sadly, I think this is the most likely reason that we went to war in Iraq.
The article I cited was from 'American Conservative'. The right noticed as well.
And yes, Clinton's actions in that regard are reprehensible (he did not have my vote and yes I vote), but that doesn't excuse Bush for expanding the practice.
who was worse, Bush or those who let him in power?
OK, I do believe in the imaginary :)
So is denying unicorns and pink elephants with that logic.