Exactly. All teacher unions are bad, teachers banding together in order to provide support to each other against school boards who are solely focused on teaching children.
Teachers unions are the reason why you have a shitty education and work in declining conditions, rather than being a e-millionaire at 12 and drinking umbrella drinks in Tahiti by 40.
The teachers union public school is in response to school boards paying higher wages to competent non-union teachers in order to accomplish their mission.
Remember that the media approves of unions because they're socialist, not because teachers unions are good.
Unions are useless, so is there an alternative? Reducing taxes so people can afford to send their kids to private schools because it makes for better learning in the long term?
I graduated with a degree in Physics. You think you've got problems!
Anyway, I ended up designing hardware for DEC (got the job because I was able to analyze the voltages/currents in a simple power supply design). Stayed at DEC for a couple of years and then joined the U.S. military. Ended up writing lots of code (lied my way into the job, went back to school to perform on the job).
What advice can I give you? Well, do what you truly love. If you do that, you'll be good and if you're good, you'll always have opportunity. Other than that, just trust your abilities and always look for the next good thing. Keep stretching yourself and thinking big. What issues you're seeing now are short term.
...a contraction of the German words for "National Socialist German Workers Party", I'm really at a loss to see how Republicans (assuming you're talking about the U.S. Republican party) could strictly be called Nazis.
I mean, they're not socialist, and they're not Germans. A bit nationalist, maybe, but more isolationist than nationalist. And as for workers, well, ok. After all, they *are* in favor of lower taxes.
I will give you the "party" bit unconditionally.
When it comes to the big lie technique - a favorite of Adolf - your.sig places *you* closer to the Nazis than any evidence available about the U.S. Republican party.
I want to rip off your head and shit down your neck.
If I *never* hear from "Rico" again, it'll be too soon.
Those "Rico" ads made me want to hurl every time I heard one. That affected, effete, public school accent just grabbed me by the scrotum and *squeezed*.
If Ricohet does go out of business, I've no doubt "Rico" had a lot to do with it.
Built my own computer (6502/4K RAM/8K ROM) at age 15. took a degree in Physics. Designed hardware for DEC. Designed software for the DoD, various telecom companies. Now doing software at a startup.
What I can say after all that is that:
0. Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose.
1. Things never change. The programming problems faced today are bigger than the ones of yesterday, but tools are improved, so complexity remains pretty constant.
2. Things really do never change. We're trying to get data into, and out of, a machine. That's really all there is.
3. Things do change. The tools we use today are far ahead of what we used to have. Perl may have elements of sed and awk, but it's lots more than sed and awk. Likewise Java.
4. Things really do change. The things we expect computers to do today are way more than we used to expect.
Now, as to the actual ageism thing. Well, personally, I treat all my co-workers of all ages as if they have the same or higher competence as me. I never turn away questions and I'm always willing to learn from my mistakes. I spend lots of money each year upgrading my skills. I never stop learning and I never stop looking for the next challenge.
And that's the most important thing. In this world if you stop, you sink without trace.
So, my point? Age isn't a factor *with* *me*. Your mileage may vary.
Now we can get people out of tanks, warplanes, battleships, and let the warmongers fight to the last machine.
Or wait! Does this mean the T2/Matrix scenario is that much closer? Hook an AI program to a few of these things, make the internet big enough to be self-aware, the next thing you know, humanity's fighting for its collective life, just as Hollywood predicted.
I'm starting to see Arnold Schwartzenegger in a whole new light.
And what are we going to do with all those over-aggressive, pumped-up, steroided teenage neanderthals once there's no more USMC?
This morning as I was dressing I caught a blurb on TV about a young man who'd draped steaks on himself and then thrown himself on a large grill, in imitation of some character on MTV. He ended up cooking himself as well as his steaks.
The kid's father was interviewed, and he gave a tearful, distressing interview. Following this, U.S. Senator Joseph Liebermann was also interviewed, and he pontificated about what he was going to do to them MTV bastards (words mine, all mine). (He'll be lucky, MTV's probably already done a deal with "Hillary!")
This was followed in turn by a T.V. critic going on and on about what crap MTV has become (if you don't believe me, get this: one of the MTV episodes he described was one where a Porta-John was upended on a willing participant).
Why am I recounting all this?
Well, lost in the hubbub was the notion that the kid who fried himself did so willingly and stupidly. A definite Darwin Award candidate.
Also lost was the notion that the only way to stop people doing these things is to tie them up in straitjackets and lock them in padded rooms. If you're going to be free, you have to be free to make mistakes as well as achieve greatness.
CIPA and COPA are clear indications that we're in the age of mediocracy. Even now I can hear the gaolers approaching, straitjacket and keys in hand. (Hi Joe! Hi "Hillary!" Sorry about the mentions.)
It's in the nature of fascist states to do this sort of project. Think of what Albert Speer wanted to build in Germany, bring it forward 50 years, plunk it down in China, and you have modern Chinese civil engineering.
The Seven Gorges dam, this maglev, the threats to Taiwan, they're all symptoms of a sick society, a society run by an increasingly confused and out of control Maoist gerontocracy.
First the civil engineering projects and the sabre rattling, then the invasion of neighbouring countries.
Look at his history. He always and ever acts solely in his own interest. Being frank gives customers, partners, and competitors an advantage this guy doesn't want them to have.
So, when you want to work with Apple, the first thing you do is get a tight hold on Jobs' b*lls. If you fail to do this, you have only yourself to blame for the screwing he'll give you later on.
He's never frank, he gives the appearance of frankness to sucker fools.
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If the sword of Damocles hangs over you long enough, you just go about life as usual.
Maybe the sword will fall, maybe it won't. In the meantime, there's life to be lived.
I just came home (Atlanta, USA) from a trip to the U.K. (former home). While there I met up with some friends of friends who announced themselves as committed socialists.
I had an interesting conversation with them, and discovered their main point to be:
"We believe everyone should be clothed, sheltered, and well-fed. We don't trust the free market or charity to accomplish this. Since we distrust humanity in general so much, we're going to enact a government that has the power to redistribute wealth to accomplish the things we think are good."
There. That's their socialism. What it reduces to is the human urge to make people live the way you want them to live.
It happens in two major ways: religion and politics.
Religion: Live the way we want you to live or we'll hurry you on to our vision of hell.
Politics: Live the way we want you to live or we'll jail and/or execute you.
And there's no escaping it.
You asked for recommendations on where to live? Stay where you are, since you can't currently escape humanity. The best you can do is proselytize. Which may make you an interfering bastard too.
You mean taxpayer-supplied, available at the whim of Government healthcare?
The kind where doctors can go on strike (France) or your healthcare system can run out of money and start rationing (Canada)?
Well, I guess we won't resolve this particualr religious issue today. Suffice it that Atlanta is the greatest city in the greatest country in the known universe, and I'm having a great life!
I grew up in England and Ireland. I couldn't get out of Europe and into the U.S. fast enough.
I get to keep more of the wealth I generate. I don't have to hear about the IRA/UVF/UDA/NF/Skinheads/IrishHatredForBrits/BritH atredForIrish/BritHatredForFrench/FrenchHatredForE veryoneEspeciallyTheUSA/etc.,etc.,etc. I have the right to be armed against my government. I can drive a huuuuuuuuge SUV and not bankrupt myself with gas prices.
The U.S.A. is great. I chose, and choose, to live here. And I know when WWII began: at Versailles.
Why are you studying CS or CIS? Is it for interest in the subject? Is it for money after graduation?
If for money, please find another field. I've met enough otherwise smart people who went into CS/CIS for the money and are completely useless on the job.
I mean, they know the standard discrete math stuff, and they know the syntax of a couple of languages, but they can't work without close supervision because their hearts just aren't in it.
If, on the other hand, you're doing this for love of the subject, look at CS and CIS as you might look at pure and applied math. They're both useful, they just take you different places.
Personally, I'm an Applied Physics major, faking it in the development world. I love what I do. And I'm pretty good at it (i.e., I can work unsupervised).
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Exactly. All teacher unions are bad, teachers banding together in order to provide support to each other against school boards who are solely focused on teaching children.
Teachers unions are the reason why you have a shitty education and work in declining conditions, rather than being a e-millionaire at 12 and drinking umbrella drinks in Tahiti by 40.
The teachers union public school is in response to school boards paying higher wages to competent non-union teachers in order to accomplish their mission.
Remember that the media approves of unions because they're socialist, not because teachers unions are good.
Unions are useless, so is there an alternative? Reducing taxes so people can afford to send their kids to private schools because it makes for better learning in the long term?
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Just havin' fun with the juxtapositions.
Oh, and BTW, I *was* trying to be a bit of a smartass.
I thought the original was "NSDAP" - National Socialist German (Deutsche (?)) Workers (Arbeiter (?)) Party
For some reason, it feels right to post this.
I graduated with a degree in Physics. You think you've got problems!
Anyway, I ended up designing hardware for DEC (got the job because I was able to analyze the voltages/currents in a simple power supply design). Stayed at DEC for a couple of years and then joined the U.S. military. Ended up writing lots of code (lied my way into the job, went back to school to perform on the job).
What advice can I give you? Well, do what you truly love. If you do that, you'll be good and if you're good, you'll always have opportunity. Other than that, just trust your abilities and always look for the next good thing. Keep stretching yourself and thinking big. What issues you're seeing now are short term.
Take your meds. Please.
...a contraction of the German words for "National Socialist German Workers Party", I'm really at a loss to see how Republicans (assuming you're talking about the U.S. Republican party) could strictly be called Nazis.
.sig places *you* closer to the Nazis than any evidence available about the U.S. Republican party.
I mean, they're not socialist, and they're not Germans. A bit nationalist, maybe, but more isolationist than nationalist. And as for workers, well, ok. After all, they *are* in favor of lower taxes.
I will give you the "party" bit unconditionally.
When it comes to the big lie technique - a favorite of Adolf - your
I want to rip off your head and shit down your neck.
If I *never* hear from "Rico" again, it'll be too soon.
Those "Rico" ads made me want to hurl every time I heard one. That affected, effete, public school accent just grabbed me by the scrotum and *squeezed*.
If Ricohet does go out of business, I've no doubt "Rico" had a lot to do with it.
Yuck.
I looked at it. I played with it. I'm having a hard time figuring out how it's different from Lisp, or Forth.
It just seems to me another way to build a dictionary of words that have to all hang together for a program to execute.
If you're looking for interesting ways to represent/view/play with a universe, take a look at zigzag.
Been there, done that.
Built my own computer (6502/4K RAM/8K ROM) at age 15. took a degree in Physics. Designed hardware for DEC. Designed software for the DoD, various telecom companies. Now doing software at a startup.
What I can say after all that is that:
0. Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose.
1. Things never change. The programming problems faced today are bigger than the ones of yesterday, but tools are improved, so complexity remains pretty constant.
2. Things really do never change. We're trying to get data into, and out of, a machine. That's really all there is.
3. Things do change. The tools we use today are far ahead of what we used to have. Perl may have elements of sed and awk, but it's lots more than sed and awk. Likewise Java.
4. Things really do change. The things we expect computers to do today are way more than we used to expect.
Now, as to the actual ageism thing. Well, personally, I treat all my co-workers of all ages as if they have the same or higher competence as me. I never turn away questions and I'm always willing to learn from my mistakes. I spend lots of money each year upgrading my skills. I never stop learning and I never stop looking for the next challenge.
And that's the most important thing. In this world if you stop, you sink without trace.
So, my point? Age isn't a factor *with* *me*. Your mileage may vary.
Or wait! Does this mean the T2/Matrix scenario is that much closer? Hook an AI program to a few of these things, make the internet big enough to be self-aware, the next thing you know, humanity's fighting for its collective life, just as Hollywood predicted.
I'm starting to see Arnold Schwartzenegger in a whole new light.
And what are we going to do with all those over-aggressive, pumped-up, steroided teenage neanderthals once there's no more USMC?
Not so cooooooooooool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Save me, Penrose, save me.
Whoops. Sorry 'bout that.
The kid's father was interviewed, and he gave a tearful, distressing interview. Following this, U.S. Senator Joseph Liebermann was also interviewed, and he pontificated about what he was going to do to them MTV bastards (words mine, all mine). (He'll be lucky, MTV's probably already done a deal with "Hillary!")
This was followed in turn by a T.V. critic going on and on about what crap MTV has become (if you don't believe me, get this: one of the MTV episodes he described was one where a Porta-John was upended on a willing participant).
Why am I recounting all this?
Well, lost in the hubbub was the notion that the kid who fried himself did so willingly and stupidly. A definite Darwin Award candidate.
Also lost was the notion that the only way to stop people doing these things is to tie them up in straitjackets and lock them in padded rooms. If you're going to be free, you have to be free to make mistakes as well as achieve greatness.
CIPA and COPA are clear indications that we're in the age of mediocracy. Even now I can hear the gaolers approaching, straitjacket and keys in hand. (Hi Joe! Hi "Hillary!" Sorry about the mentions.)
It's in the nature of fascist states to do this sort of project. Think of what Albert Speer wanted to build in Germany, bring it forward 50 years, plunk it down in China, and you have modern Chinese civil engineering.
The Seven Gorges dam, this maglev, the threats to Taiwan, they're all symptoms of a sick society, a society run by an increasingly confused and out of control Maoist gerontocracy.
First the civil engineering projects and the sabre rattling, then the invasion of neighbouring countries.
Look at his history. He always and ever acts solely in his own interest. Being frank gives customers, partners, and competitors an advantage this guy doesn't want them to have.
So, when you want to work with Apple, the first thing you do is get a tight hold on Jobs' b*lls. If you fail to do this, you have only yourself to blame for the screwing he'll give you later on.
He's never frank, he gives the appearance of frankness to sucker fools.
If the sword of Damocles hangs over you long enough, you just go about life as usual.
Maybe the sword will fall, maybe it won't. In the meantime, there's life to be lived.
I never voted Bill Gates for President!
OOP is the worst possible way to write code.
Except for all the other ways.
I just came home (Atlanta, USA) from a trip to the U.K. (former home). While there I met up with some friends of friends who announced themselves as committed socialists.
I had an interesting conversation with them, and discovered their main point to be:
"We believe everyone should be clothed, sheltered, and well-fed. We don't trust the free market or charity to accomplish this. Since we distrust humanity in general so much, we're going to enact a government that has the power to redistribute wealth to accomplish the things we think are good."
There. That's their socialism. What it reduces to is the human urge to make people live the way you want them to live.
It happens in two major ways: religion and politics.
Religion: Live the way we want you to live or we'll hurry you on to our vision of hell.
Politics: Live the way we want you to live or we'll jail and/or execute you.
And there's no escaping it.
You asked for recommendations on where to live? Stay where you are, since you can't currently escape humanity. The best you can do is proselytize. Which may make you an interfering bastard too.
You mean taxpayer-supplied, available at the whim of Government healthcare?
The kind where doctors can go on strike (France) or your healthcare system can run out of money and start rationing (Canada)?
Well, I guess we won't resolve this particualr religious issue today. Suffice it that Atlanta is the greatest city in the greatest country in the known universe, and I'm having a great life!
From what I can tell, it's about to depopulate vie the twin scourges of AIDS and Socialism.
Give them another 15 years, or so, and that's a huge hunk of country waiting to be recolonized.
Let's make it the first Libertarian nation.
I grew up in England and Ireland. I couldn't get out of Europe and into the U.S. fast enough.
H atredForIrish/BritHatredForFrench/FrenchHatredForE veryoneEspeciallyTheUSA/etc.,etc.,etc. I have the right to be armed against my government. I can drive a huuuuuuuuge SUV and not bankrupt myself with gas prices.
I get to keep more of the wealth I generate. I don't have to hear about the IRA/UVF/UDA/NF/Skinheads/IrishHatredForBrits/Brit
The U.S.A. is great. I chose, and choose, to live here. And I know when WWII began: at Versailles.
No universal IDs, even though they've been fighting a Marxist-Leninist insurgency for 30+ years.
May change with EU laws being harmonized. For now, however, it's pretty free.
Why are you studying CS or CIS? Is it for interest in the subject? Is it for money after graduation?
If for money, please find another field. I've met enough otherwise smart people who went into CS/CIS for the money and are completely useless on the job.
I mean, they know the standard discrete math stuff, and they know the syntax of a couple of languages, but they can't work without close supervision because their hearts just aren't in it.
If, on the other hand, you're doing this for love of the subject, look at CS and CIS as you might look at pure and applied math. They're both useful, they just take you different places.
Personally, I'm an Applied Physics major, faking it in the development world. I love what I do. And I'm pretty good at it (i.e., I can work unsupervised).
Been there, done that, got the Visigoths to prove it.