From what I understand, when a person or group tries to get a theology/religion class going, they try to have it lean toward a particular point of view. Instead of education, it becomes indoctrination. This obviously creates a situation where the government is tacitly endorsing religion.
If someone were to suggest a class that looked at many different religions objectively, or a class that looks at faith in general, there would be no problems with endorsment. But, when one does that, one ends up treating christianity as an equal to other religions and many christians find this so offensive that they can not allow it.
The zeal that leads to the desire for the class often leads to it's destruction.
Remember, just because something does not or is not known to exsist, does not mean it can't exsist.
"Except theology courses are not allowed in modern public schools"
Actually, this is a false statement. Or at least partially false. If one is going to teach a class on religion or theology, it must be comparative and must not endorse one over the other. The reason there are no theology classes is that those that wish to have said classes want the classes to be biased in favor of their religion.
Footlose may be a movie, but members of my family recently moved to a small town in Alabama. It is a dry town in a dry county. In the heavily southern baptist area, they have outlawed the sale of alcohol because drinking is a sin.
Actually, the NSA does not do this sort of thing. They mostly do monitoring and crypto, i.e. defensive and intelligence. They don't do offense work. It would raise their profile if they did, making their job that much harder.
I wrote out a nice letter saying that while I enjoyed working there, I had been offered a better position that I could not refuse and that I would be resigning in two weeks. I kept all my access, and I had physical access to the equipment and back up tapes. I parted on good terms and could go back to my job at any time.
Without knowing your relationship with you company and what your letter said, I can only suggest your boss is a jerk.
Posit 1: Someone goes to the Wikipedia entry for abortion. They change every instance of fetus and embryo to baby. They change every instance of abortion and death to murder. They change every instance of doctor and/or physician to murder. Is Is it fair, unbiased, factual, and correct?
Posit 2: Someone goest to the entry for evolution and adds " as directed by God." to the first sentence. Is it the same article? Is it fair, unbiased, factual, and correct?
Posit 3: Someone goes to the entry for "The Holocaust" and changes "The Holocaust is the name applied to the " to "The Holocaust is the name given to the attempt by Jews to destroy the future of the Aryan race by claiming ". Is it the same article? Is it fair, unbiased, factual, and correct?
I believe this is what the parent poster is referrign to.
If the state law requires that all programmers who are responsible for creating the code be listed, then there is a need. And, that is required per the/. write up.
This is about the law says. Also, this law was not enacted specifically for Diebold, but has been on the books.
One might think that, but the letter of the law says something else. And, because of that, someone *cough*MS*cough* could say "If we have to provide source code AND a list of all programmers responsible for creating the code, then *insert linux distro here* has to do so as well."
We are a nation of laws, not men, and certainly not what may or may not be a good idea.
If someone were to push the issue hard enough, it could come down to having to "change the law or no electronics voting in NC".
I worked for Nokia as well, and you forgot so much. Things like the beta OS worked better than the release OS. Or the fact you had to remove to take the phone apart to change games. And the sad part is, my coworkers and I told them this would happen after playing with the development version.
I also forgot the companies that consistantly advertise the same jobs for months, and never hire anyone. I know of at least one in my area of Tampa FL. See if you can figure out who it is.
the private sector does not hire IT workers without experience and pay them 80K.
From what I have seen, the private sector is not hiring without experience. Many times the ask for ridiculous experience. The definition of a Junior Programmer is not "8 years experience with C, C++, and Java." And, competitive pay is not $35K for a Multi-platform net admin or a programmer with 8 years experience.
My last job is a good example. I was because I have Unix and Win admin experience and networking skills and I have 15 years IT experience. I worked at night and made about $44k/yr. My job was network monitoring and mostly it was spent looping circuits and filling out spreadsheets. It was the perfect job entry level job for a college grad, who would have done it for less. But, the managers require years of networking and admin experience.
I am lucky. I just stated a Unix Application Development support position that pays well. It is with a company that is made up mostly of Indians. Most of my co-workers are Indians. I am making decent pay. But, it is a 2 year contract. I am going to work hard and maybe, if I am lucky, I will get picked up permanent.
But, I am hedging my bets. I am starting at least one company.
It is a new laptop dualbooting SuSE 10 and WinXP. WinXP doesn't have the problem, but SuSE does. It is a random datetime. Today it was 19Nov2005 12:14. Yesterday it was 04Nov2005 19:00. The year is alway right but the time, usually the day and sometimes the month change. It is weird. I have been looking for a cause and have been unable to find one.
Like I said, it is a personal opinion. I could be wrong. And, you may be right about people abandoning tasks if they are to hard. But, I believe it is more like "people should not own cars if they don't know how to drive".
With all technology, there is a minimum safe knowledge level. It is different for computers than cars, but it still exsists. It maybe a higher level for computers, but it may be the difference between having your identity and life savings stolen or not.
But, it is a case of the genie being out of the bottle anyway.
However I definitely needed a lot of outside help in accomplishing that task, and overall though I was able to get it installed and running fine, a total newbie would have gotten nowhere
Maybe yes, maybe no. Most "total newbie" users will not go for Slackware. It has a low profile. Chances are they will start with SuSE (available at CompUSA) or RedHat. And, if they get bit by the bug, maybe they will learn to actually use the command line, then decide to try something different.
I have been unhappy with my latest distro. When I boot it, it sets the time to a random time in the past. I may just wipe it out and go back to Slackware. It was what I started on.
Personally, I don't think forcing people to actually learn about their O/S is a bad thing. The biggest problem with computing and the Internet these days is that people don't know anything about their computers. It's like the old saying "Make something even a fool can use, and only fools will use it"
They provided him with a special purpose security badge so he could attend the conference. He didn't have to attend the conference, but he did. If he didn't want the badge with the RFID tag in it, all he had to do was not attend.
Why is it you think his not following the rules of attending the conference was appropriate?
Seeing as I am getting about a 15% return on my investments, I would say yes I know about investing.
What part of public domain don't you understand? Or don't you believe in such things? That is why "we investing in the gov't for anyway". YOU can start a company making routers and switches. Anyone can because the protocols are PUBLIC DOMAIN.
Taxpayer money, collected by the government, spent by the government to put the technology in the public domain.
The infrastructure was developed by major companies and that goverment you keep referring to.
We shouldn't be paying for it? Equipment, electricity and people to install and maintain the equipment all cost money. Who would you have doing that work? Should the money come from the taxpayers? Should the Internet be a utility? If so, who will run it? A company like the electric, or a should the government run it?
Paying "us" licensing fees? What critical technology or protocol did YOU develop?
The fact that "usually" is wrong adds credence to my original post.
In a community where the prevalence of HIV in pregnant women is extremely high (20 percent) and 20 percent of infants are infected before or during delivery, about 4 percent of all infants in the community would be infected before or during delivery (20 percent of population x 20 percent of infant infection before or during delivery = 4 percent transmission rate).
The scope of the problem? 4% is not, IMHO, massive. It is regretable and sad. But, How big is that actually. Compare it to say Malaria. With infection rates of upto 70% in some African countries and a mortality rate between 20% and 30%, Malaria causes more child deaths than there are HIV infections. Yet there is more concern about HIV than malaria.
HIV is a "celebrity disease", garnering media attention that is greater than it's actual due. Part is that it has a transmission vector that is "outrageous". Part is that one can not tell who may be infectious. Part is that it is "always fatal". But, it is responsible for only about 5% of all deaths world wide per year. Lower Respiratory Infections are responsible for almost 7%.
If you haven't guessed, to me HIV is just another disease and not as bad as some others.
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Yes, I am sure they were not offered.
From what I understand, when a person or group tries to get a theology/religion class going, they try to have it lean toward a particular point of view. Instead of education, it becomes indoctrination. This obviously creates a situation where the government is tacitly endorsing religion.
If someone were to suggest a class that looked at many different religions objectively, or a class that looks at faith in general, there would be no problems with endorsment. But, when one does that, one ends up treating christianity as an equal to other religions and many christians find this so offensive that they can not allow it.
The zeal that leads to the desire for the class often leads to it's destruction.
Remember, just because something does not or is not known to exsist, does not mean it can't exsist.
RUAL?
Actually, this is a false statement. Or at least partially false. If one is going to teach a class on religion or theology, it must be comparative and must not endorse one over the other. The reason there are no theology classes is that those that wish to have said classes want the classes to be biased in favor of their religion.
Footlose may be a movie, but members of my family recently moved to a small town in Alabama. It is a dry town in a dry county. In the heavily southern baptist area, they have outlawed the sale of alcohol because drinking is a sin.
Actually, the NSA does not do this sort of thing. They mostly do monitoring and crypto, i.e. defensive and intelligence. They don't do offense work. It would raise their profile if they did, making their job that much harder.
You are in the military in Iraq/Afaganistan? Is that how you know what is going on over there and how are forces are being used?
If you aren't I would love to know where you get your information.
I wrote out a nice letter saying that while I enjoyed working there, I had been offered a better position that I could not refuse and that I would be resigning in two weeks. I kept all my access, and I had physical access to the equipment and back up tapes. I parted on good terms and could go back to my job at any time.
Without knowing your relationship with you company and what your letter said, I can only suggest your boss is a jerk.
Posit 1: Someone goes to the Wikipedia entry for abortion. They change every instance of fetus and embryo to baby. They change every instance of abortion and death to murder. They change every instance of doctor and/or physician to murder. Is Is it fair, unbiased, factual, and correct?
Posit 2: Someone goest to the entry for evolution and adds " as directed by God." to the first sentence. Is it the same article? Is it fair, unbiased, factual, and correct?
Posit 3: Someone goes to the entry for "The Holocaust" and changes "The Holocaust is the name applied to the " to "The Holocaust is the name given to the attempt by Jews to destroy the future of the Aryan race by claiming ". Is it the same article? Is it fair, unbiased, factual, and correct?
I believe this is what the parent poster is referrign to.
If the state law requires that all programmers who are responsible for creating the code be listed, then there is a need. And, that is required per the /. write up.
This is about the law says. Also, this law was not enacted specifically for Diebold, but has been on the books.
Due to the wording of the law, this may not be sufficient. Remember, it is the letter of the law and not the intent that causes problems.
One might think that, but the letter of the law says something else. And, because of that, someone *cough*MS*cough* could say "If we have to provide source code AND a list of all programmers responsible for creating the code, then *insert linux distro here* has to do so as well."
We are a nation of laws, not men, and certainly not what may or may not be a good idea.
If someone were to push the issue hard enough, it could come down to having to "change the law or no electronics voting in NC".
Please list all the people who have ever contributed code to the GNU/Linux operating system, if you can.
I worked for Nokia as well, and you forgot so much. Things like the beta OS worked better than the release OS. Or the fact you had to remove to take the phone apart to change games. And the sad part is, my coworkers and I told them this would happen after playing with the development version.
I also forgot the companies that consistantly advertise the same jobs for months, and never hire anyone. I know of at least one in my area of Tampa FL. See if you can figure out who it is.
From what I have seen, the private sector is not hiring without experience. Many times the ask for ridiculous experience. The definition of a Junior Programmer is not "8 years experience with C, C++, and Java." And, competitive pay is not $35K for a Multi-platform net admin or a programmer with 8 years experience.
My last job is a good example. I was because I have Unix and Win admin experience and networking skills and I have 15 years IT experience. I worked at night and made about $44k/yr. My job was network monitoring and mostly it was spent looping circuits and filling out spreadsheets. It was the perfect job entry level job for a college grad, who would have done it for less. But, the managers require years of networking and admin experience.
I am lucky. I just stated a Unix Application Development support position that pays well. It is with a company that is made up mostly of Indians. Most of my co-workers are Indians. I am making decent pay. But, it is a 2 year contract. I am going to work hard and maybe, if I am lucky, I will get picked up permanent.
But, I am hedging my bets. I am starting at least one company.
It is a new laptop dualbooting SuSE 10 and WinXP. WinXP doesn't have the problem, but SuSE does. It is a random datetime. Today it was 19Nov2005 12:14. Yesterday it was 04Nov2005 19:00. The year is alway right but the time, usually the day and sometimes the month change. It is weird. I have been looking for a cause and have been unable to find one.
Like I said, it is a personal opinion. I could be wrong. And, you may be right about people abandoning tasks if they are to hard. But, I believe it is more like "people should not own cars if they don't know how to drive".
With all technology, there is a minimum safe knowledge level. It is different for computers than cars, but it still exsists. It maybe a higher level for computers, but it may be the difference between having your identity and life savings stolen or not.
But, it is a case of the genie being out of the bottle anyway.
Maybe yes, maybe no. Most "total newbie" users will not go for Slackware. It has a low profile. Chances are they will start with SuSE (available at CompUSA) or RedHat. And, if they get bit by the bug, maybe they will learn to actually use the command line, then decide to try something different.
I have been unhappy with my latest distro. When I boot it, it sets the time to a random time in the past. I may just wipe it out and go back to Slackware. It was what I started on.
Personally, I don't think forcing people to actually learn about their O/S is a bad thing. The biggest problem with computing and the Internet these days is that people don't know anything about their computers. It's like the old saying "Make something even a fool can use, and only fools will use it"
They are lawyers, not techies. They probably had no clue what a rootkit was.
Exactly what question did he put to them?
They provided him with a special purpose security badge so he could attend the conference. He didn't have to attend the conference, but he did. If he didn't want the badge with the RFID tag in it, all he had to do was not attend.
Why is it you think his not following the rules of attending the conference was appropriate?
Personally, I think he is an asinine fool.
Seeing as I am getting about a 15% return on my investments, I would say yes I know about investing.
What part of public domain don't you understand? Or don't you believe in such things? That is why "we investing in the gov't for anyway". YOU can start a company making routers and switches. Anyone can because the protocols are PUBLIC DOMAIN.
Taxpayer money, collected by the government, spent by the government to put the technology in the public domain.
The infrastructure was developed by major companies and that goverment you keep referring to.
We shouldn't be paying for it? Equipment, electricity and people to install and maintain the equipment all cost money. Who would you have doing that work? Should the money come from the taxpayers? Should the Internet be a utility? If so, who will run it? A company like the electric, or a should the government run it?
Paying "us" licensing fees? What critical technology or protocol did YOU develop?
Perhaps you should have used speeders and speed limit laws, instead.
Better numbers and all that.
Where do you think this "wonderful tool" came from?
The scope of the problem? 4% is not, IMHO, massive. It is regretable and sad. But, How big is that actually. Compare it to say Malaria. With infection rates of upto 70% in some African countries and a mortality rate between 20% and 30%, Malaria causes more child deaths than there are HIV infections. Yet there is more concern about HIV than malaria.
HIV is a "celebrity disease", garnering media attention that is greater than it's actual due. Part is that it has a transmission vector that is "outrageous". Part is that one can not tell who may be infectious. Part is that it is "always fatal". But, it is responsible for only about 5% of all deaths world wide per year. Lower Respiratory Infections are responsible for almost 7%.
If you haven't guessed, to me HIV is just another disease and not as bad as some others.