Comparing teacher salaries to private sector salaries is misleading. Often teachers have benefits that cannot be matched in the private sector including generous defined benefit pensions, retirement health care and time off. Total teacher compensation is heavily back-end loaded.
Well the possibility is that at some level the weather will exhibit chaotic behavior and no matter how big your model gets it won't matter - the coin flip will be just as good.
Have you followed McCain's comments in the news at all? I seriously believe that we would be at war in 7 countries now if he had been elected.
And then there is his VP candidate. The fact that he selected that batshit crazy ex-governor-dumbass for VP is prima facia evidence of senile dementia. Much as his miserable debate performance showed.
While Obama has done a shitty job in a lot of ways, putting forth McCain as a viable alternative is flat out insane.
You were born too late. You missed out on sweet shit like the Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Laboratory which included:
Geiger-Müller counter Electroscope Spinthariscope Wilson cloud chamber Low-level radiation sources:
Alpha particles (Pb-210 and Po-210)
Beta particles (Ru-106)
Gamma particles (possibly Zn-65) Four Uranium-bearing ore samples Nuclear spheres for making a molecular model of an alpha particle. Prospecting for Uranium â" a book Gilbert Atomic Energy Manual "Learn How Dagwood Split the Atom" comic book
Seriously don't these people know any history? The main problem with the stamp tax is that it is imposed on newspapermen and lawyers, who are the last folks you want to get riled up against you.
This is simply another imposition on the primary means of communication in the world today. And predictably news channels are already getting their panties in a twist over it.
They should immediately recognize the improved value to the customer that an open bug database provides, and present this as a strong reason for the customer to prefer your product over a closed product offered by your competitors.
It's been a while since I used bugzilla but from what I remember the UI is crap. Maybe that's part of the reason you are getting blowback from your sales and marketing team - they see the crude UI that's being exposed and view it is something they want to hide. Perhaps a slicker bug database could be more acceptable to sales.
Really it's a matter of who you know not what you know. I lost my job as a PhD chemist when I turned 50. Since I liked programming I spent a couple of weeks learning SQL and HTML and started looking for jobs. Any kind of software dev job. I found something at a crummy little web shop for poor pay. I was there for a couple of years. Worked like a dog learning wed related technologies. When the shop folded up I had a number of good contacts and people were calling looking to hire me for much better positions. In a couple of more years I was a lead with several folks working for me.
Employers LOVE hiring someone that somebody in their shop can vouch for. It makes sense too. You can[t tell squat from a resume.
That's not the point here. It's a fact that governments always do their best to cover up their mistakes and self-aggrandize.
Holding up whatever public administration is in place at the current time in scorn for doing that is political gamesmanship at best, and demagoguery at worst.
> BTW, this is emblematic of the Obama administration
It's emblematic of EVERY administration going back thousands of years. Right wing present that this is something new but their world view seems to be completely uninfluenced by an appreciation of human nature or history.
For example:
Augustus was a shrewd and effective manager of his own public image. Itâ(TM)s now easy to take for granted that images of political leaders decorate our currency â" Augustus was among the first rulers to widely disseminate images of his own face on coins.
Itâ(TM)s hard to imagine even the most ardent Democrats supporting the literal deification of Barack Obama or erecting small shrines in his honor throughout Washington DC. By contrast, after Julius Caesar was posthumously declared a god, Augustus, as his adopted son, became known as the son of god. Along with the other gods, he received dedications at small crossroads shrines throughout Rome.
> Some critics do say that Alibaba's share price will plummet from its current value of $93.60 in the same way that Facebook's and Twitter's plummeted
The vast majority of IPOs are lower in price 6 months after the issue date. Usually what happens is that company owners have some restrictions on when they can start selling stock - and those are typically 6 months or so. So on the day of initial sale supply is very constrained. Later a lot more shares flood onto the market.
For example Facebook went from $38 to $19.
Purchasing IPOs on day of issuance is a sucker move.
For my always-on machines I have a couple of Atom 525's with perhaps 30 TB of data storage. The OS for those is Scientific Linus 5.x (someday to be Centos 6.x).
These are plenty powerful enough for the services I use them for - files storage, light duty web serving, personal IMAP, DNS caching etc. and sip at the electrical supply.
They are good enough for light duty web browsing as well.
For more challenging applications (like games, photo editing etc) I have a couple of machines running 4 and 6 core I7s with 24GB of RAM. These only get turned on when I need them.
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I'm going with Phoenicians at about 350 BC as the first westerners in the Americas.
Comparing teacher salaries to private sector salaries is misleading. Often teachers have benefits that cannot be matched in the private sector including generous defined benefit pensions, retirement health care and time off. Total teacher compensation is heavily back-end loaded.
http://www.ed.gov/oii-news/tea...
He must be using a Microsoft spell checker.
Isn't there a more specific property that doesn't rely on location specific strings?
I mean the whole friggen world isn't English.
A science denier would just make an ad hominem attack, like you did.
I don't know about you, but the cards I've been getting recently include a chip in order to support two factor authentication via chip and signature.
The problem is the retailers haven't implemented terminals to support it yet.
Well the possibility is that at some level the weather will exhibit chaotic behavior and no matter how big your model gets it won't matter - the coin flip will be just as good.
The thing about this that pisses me off is the question WHY HAVEN'T THEY ALREADY DONE IT.
Crikey football legislation gets fast tracked and important crap like tax entitlement and immigration reform - nothing.
Throw the bums out is basically the only reasonable thing at this point.
Have you followed McCain's comments in the news at all? I seriously believe that we would be at war in 7 countries now if he had been elected.
And then there is his VP candidate. The fact that he selected that batshit crazy ex-governor-dumbass for VP is prima facia evidence of senile dementia. Much as his miserable debate performance showed.
While Obama has done a shitty job in a lot of ways, putting forth McCain as a viable alternative is flat out insane.
The Chevy Sportvan is a homage to the Family Truckster, right down to the 8 headlights.
http://www.cardomain.com/ride/...
You were born too late. You missed out on sweet shit like the Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Laboratory which included:
Geiger-Müller counter
Electroscope
Spinthariscope
Wilson cloud chamber
Low-level radiation sources:
Alpha particles (Pb-210 and Po-210)
Beta particles (Ru-106)
Gamma particles (possibly Zn-65)
Four Uranium-bearing ore samples
Nuclear spheres for making a molecular model of an alpha particle.
Prospecting for Uranium â" a book
Gilbert Atomic Energy Manual
"Learn How Dagwood Split the Atom" comic book
After Windows 8 a camel would be a huge improvement.
You left out porn.
Seriously don't these people know any history? The main problem with the stamp tax is that it is imposed on newspapermen and lawyers, who are the last folks you want to get riled up against you.
This is simply another imposition on the primary means of communication in the world today. And predictably news channels are already getting their panties in a twist over it.
They should immediately recognize the improved value to the customer that an open bug database provides, and present this as a strong reason for the customer to prefer your product over a closed product offered by your competitors.
It's been a while since I used bugzilla but from what I remember the UI is crap. Maybe that's part of the reason you are getting blowback from your sales and marketing team - they see the crude UI that's being exposed and view it is something they want to hide. Perhaps a slicker bug database could be more acceptable to sales.
Per cubic story.
FTFYFTFYFTFY
Really it's a matter of who you know not what you know. I lost my job as a PhD chemist when I turned 50. Since I liked programming I spent a couple of weeks learning SQL and HTML and started looking for jobs. Any kind of software dev job. I found something at a crummy little web shop for poor pay. I was there for a couple of years. Worked like a dog learning wed related technologies. When the shop folded up I had a number of good contacts and people were calling looking to hire me for much better positions. In a couple of more years I was a lead with several folks working for me.
Employers LOVE hiring someone that somebody in their shop can vouch for. It makes sense too. You can[t tell squat from a resume.
Are we secure from the Putins though? He seems to have fun with the idea his nukes let him do whatever he wants.
It seems to me the use of strategies like this assume that the people involved are relatively rational.
In our current world this doesn't seem to be that good an assumption.
And it doesn't help places like the Ukraine at all. Russia just says we has nukes so neener neener.
It wouldn't cost much. All you would have to do is kill yourself.
Ronald Reagan would not be the first President to be deified.
Look at the monuments in Washington DC to various Presidents. Washington (Obelisk), Jefferson (Pantheon), Lincoln (Parthenon).
All of these are designs used by previous cultures in the worship of their Gods.
We just don't call it that because most of our citizens are nominally monotheistic.
Governments can accomplish a lot.
That's not the point here. It's a fact that governments always do their best to cover up their mistakes and self-aggrandize.
Holding up whatever public administration is in place at the current time in scorn for doing that is political gamesmanship at best, and demagoguery at worst.
It's inherent in the system (cf Monty Python).
> BTW, this is emblematic of the Obama administration
It's emblematic of EVERY administration going back thousands of years. Right wing present that this is something new but their world view seems to be completely uninfluenced by an appreciation of human nature or history.
For example:
Augustus was a shrewd and effective manager of his own public image. Itâ(TM)s now easy to take for granted that images of political leaders decorate our currency â" Augustus was among the first rulers to widely disseminate images of his own face on coins.
Itâ(TM)s hard to imagine even the most ardent Democrats supporting the literal deification of Barack Obama or erecting small shrines in his honor throughout Washington DC. By contrast, after Julius Caesar was posthumously declared a god, Augustus, as his adopted son, became known as the son of god. Along with the other gods, he received dedications at small crossroads shrines throughout Rome.
http://www.csmonitor.com/Books...
> Some critics do say that Alibaba's share price will plummet from its current value of $93.60 in the same way that Facebook's and Twitter's plummeted
The vast majority of IPOs are lower in price 6 months after the issue date. Usually what happens is that company owners have some restrictions on when they can start selling stock - and those are typically 6 months or so. So on the day of initial sale supply is very constrained. Later a lot more shares flood onto the market.
For example Facebook went from $38 to $19.
Purchasing IPOs on day of issuance is a sucker move.
For my always-on machines I have a couple of Atom 525's with perhaps 30 TB of data storage. The OS for those is Scientific Linus 5.x (someday to be Centos 6.x).
These are plenty powerful enough for the services I use them for - files storage, light duty web serving, personal IMAP, DNS caching etc. and sip at the electrical supply.
They are good enough for light duty web browsing as well.
For more challenging applications (like games, photo editing etc) I have a couple of machines running 4 and 6 core I7s with 24GB of RAM. These only get turned on when I need them.