Declare the the existing contracts void, there must be numerous BS loopholes in the law that allow them to do that. Even an executive order by the governor.
Cancel all future payments.
Ship all the existing machines back and marked postage due.
When the complain and threaten legal actions, take proactive legal action and appoint a grand jury with subpoena powers to investigate the company for attempted voter fraud and conspiracy.
I'm sorry, but I'm with the "no way this counts" camp. Theories have to be tested in the physical world to be proved. Theoretical physics included folks. That's why we have supercolliders and Z-machines, duh! Numerical analysis can help predict physical behavior but it is not law until it is proved in the real world. Sorry guys.
Newton's experimental evidence for adding of velocities was correct until Einstein. And is corpuscular theory of light was correct until Young's "double slit" experiment. So even when an experiment demonstrates a theory, it doesn't prove it, is only shows that its not incorrect.
Nobody likes a Nerd, or to be proved wrong. You put them in the position of being proved wrong by a nerd. Surprised they aren't happy?
(Written by a nerd who has come to learn that that a discussion on quantum randomness and free-will is not what everyone looks for on a first date!)
I'm glad they're not happy; sucks to be them for a change. I mean doesn't everybody like sticking it to "The Man"?
Space is cold and it does have a Temperature 2.725 K. Its called Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation and it exists whether or not you have matter present.
Space in fact is not nothing, it has a non-zero potential. That means space is full of virtual particles so we have the Casimir Effect and Hawking Radiation.
The existence and lifespan of these particles can easily be predicted using Heisenberg uncertainty principle.
And just how many Senators became President? I'm pretty sure it's a darned small number, and I only know of two sitting Senators who were elected (Kennedy and Harding). Interesting that 3 of the 4 front runners this time around are Senators currently in office. Okay, I just found a list of former Senators that became President -- it includes Nixon and John Quincy Adams, but it also has Truman and Monroe, so I'm still not convinced that "Senators rarely do well" is true.
McCain is now just as far on the Religous right as Huckabee is. He has the endorsement of Pat Robertson and been invited to speak at the Discovery Institute.
Unemployment is taxed in the US; the government just doesn't take the taxes out up front. Unemployment is only good for a certain number of weeks, it is not pertetual.
I know that it's become cliché to ask, but honestly, how are the Democrat candidates any better?
Even though they say "Faith is important" they don't say faith in what. The religious-right on the other hand are quite specific in the serve Jesus or serve Satan definition of faith. While Democrats have actually elected 2 Buddhists to Congress.
Try writing skills for documentation, and emails. Developers with good writing skills, like spelling, are in high demand. Suits also love to reward engineers who are good at Power Point with things like promotions and raises. Being able to deliver a good Power Point presentation to the Suits gives you a edge over the cheap guys in India.
You might also want to study up on marketing and sales. Remember you are the product, and you will probably never stop selling or renting yourself yourself through your entire career.
Many of the real problem-solving jobs will still be held by capable western problem solvers.
And after coding for awhile the coders will become problem solvers, and you're nice high-paying problem solving job goes over there too.
because the typing jobs will eventually all be done by eastern code monkeys, but the thinking jobs can be kept in the West.
Keep believing that, those people aren't stupid, they have the same capacity to develop problem solving skills that you do, and there's a population pool of more than 2 billion as opposed to 300 Million to pick from. So eventually they will find somebody as smart, if not smarter, with problem-solving skills, who is willing to work for half as much, and you get replaced just like the code monkeys.
Customers don't care how ugly the code is, so long as it works.
You've obviously never written a customer facing API.
And good programmers can deal with ugly code [msdn.com]
We "can" but I would rather not spend 8 hours grepping through trash, because some idiot used copy-paste coding rather than reusable functions and classes.
If your carrying something labeled "top secret" across the border it has better be properly package and have your courier card with you. If you don't they can do a lot more than just read it.
When are they going to learn that right after they grant immunity, they find out exactly how bad things really were they they regret doing it because they can't punish the people responsible.
They need to subpoena people, make them testify, and if they don't know or don't remember, make them responsible to find out and hold them accountable. Let them know that the Alzheimer's defense doesn't work any more, by holding them in "Contempt of Congress" or perjury. Memories will start getting better, and people will start showing up prepared to answer the questions, when the realize that failure to properly prepare could land them in prison.
But if the people do not change their mind and keep thinking that the mini-mall in a sleepy rural Oklahoman town is a "potential-terrorist-target", the terrorists have already won.
They aren't going to. Just talk with any shit kicker in Peachtree Mall in Columbus, GA.
These people live their lives in irrational fear. Many are still afraid that the Russians are going to come and take their bibles away.
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Naw, just point it back at the TV set, and put it on E! all the time.
Sorry dude, experimental evidence doesn't prove squat either.
Newton's experimental evidence for adding of velocities was correct until Einstein. And is corpuscular theory of light was correct until Young's "double slit" experiment. So even when an experiment demonstrates a theory, it doesn't prove it, is only shows that its not incorrect.
I'm glad they're not happy; sucks to be them for a change. I mean doesn't everybody like sticking it to "The Man"?
Space is cold and it does have a Temperature 2.725 K. Its called Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation and it exists whether or not you have matter present.
Space in fact is not nothing, it has a non-zero potential. That means space is full of virtual particles so we have the Casimir Effect and Hawking Radiation.
The existence and lifespan of these particles can easily be predicted using Heisenberg uncertainty principle.
OU != OSU
Perhaps the manufacture should just give a genuine itemized invoice rather than bundling and let the market decide.
Concorde was in commercial usage for 27 years, and it never happened.
Neither, the one who is currently in power.
I guess you completely forgot about LBJ.
McCain is now just as far on the Religous right as Huckabee is. He has the endorsement of Pat Robertson and been invited to speak at the Discovery Institute.
Unemployment is taxed in the US; the government just doesn't take the taxes out up front. Unemployment is only good for a certain number of weeks, it is not pertetual.
I recommend using an alternative method of interrogation, one that has already been approved for use by the administration, water-boarding.
That's because the best way to get a government job in the US is to have an advanced degree of some sort, and no real world experience.
Even though they say "Faith is important" they don't say faith in what. The religious-right on the other hand are quite specific in the serve Jesus or serve Satan definition of faith. While Democrats have actually elected 2 Buddhists to Congress.
I wouldn't class myself as a php hater; but sometimes it seems like most of the php apps out there are tied to MySQL, which I dislike.
Try writing skills for documentation, and emails. Developers with good writing skills, like spelling, are in high demand. Suits also love to reward engineers who are good at Power Point with things like promotions and raises. Being able to deliver a good Power Point presentation to the Suits gives you a edge over the cheap guys in India.
You might also want to study up on marketing and sales. Remember you are the product, and you will probably never stop selling or renting yourself yourself through your entire career.
This is very bad.
And after coding for awhile the coders will become problem solvers, and you're nice high-paying problem solving job goes over there too.
Keep believing that, those people aren't stupid, they have the same capacity to develop problem solving skills that you do, and there's a population pool of more than 2 billion as opposed to 300 Million to pick from. So eventually they will find somebody as smart, if not smarter, with problem-solving skills, who is willing to work for half as much, and you get replaced just like the code monkeys.
You've obviously never written a customer facing API.
We "can" but I would rather not spend 8 hours grepping through trash, because some idiot used copy-paste coding rather than reusable functions and classes.
If your carrying something labeled "top secret" across the border it has better be properly package and have your courier card with you. If you don't they can do a lot more than just read it.
According to Wikipedia:
That means they have 11,000 years of history, so who the fuck are upstarts like us to tell them how to run their civilization?
Readability? You do realize this is Perl we're talking about?
When are they going to learn that right after they grant immunity, they find out exactly how bad things really were they they regret doing it because they can't punish the people responsible.
They need to subpoena people, make them testify, and if they don't know or don't remember, make them responsible to find out and hold them accountable. Let them know that the Alzheimer's defense doesn't work any more, by holding them in "Contempt of Congress" or perjury. Memories will start getting better, and people will start showing up prepared to answer the questions, when the realize that failure to properly prepare could land them in prison.
They aren't going to. Just talk with any shit kicker in Peachtree Mall in Columbus, GA.
These people live their lives in irrational fear. Many are still afraid that the Russians are going to come and take their bibles away.
Star Wars, there should have only been 3.