i saw the leaked-in page and my paranoid response went through the roof. Why the hell would I just type my password into that page? I went to a page that could provide a hash of my password in a different browser, made sure I wasnt logged in to anything ( hoping no cookies would link stuff around ) , and then tried the hash in leaked-in. I wasnt on the list. I still made sure that linked-in does not have a password for me that is on anything else.
this is the point where i hate the internet, and would love to have a live sit down conversation with you. There are other religions that dont serve a personal god, and that dont require evangelism. Even these two can be safely practiced in private, without care towards how other people are living their lives. There are many people here in the south ( where this conversation started ) that are more interested in appearing to live up to scripture by enforcing rules on others then they are of actually following the scriptures themselves. Often the rules that they are trying to impose are not even part of the scripture, but simply part of some belief system that has developed over time within their community. There are some people that are really bad people during the week, and think that showing up to church for 2 hours on sunday in a nice suit makes them instantly good again. Then they decide to ride their own guilt into being the loudest voice against a perceived vice that really doesnt need to be fought against. To tie this back to the initial article, why should religion disallow the teaching of a way of thought that offers no harm , while also offering a perspective into a real life use of methods and theories and applying thoughts to observations? I dont think that my kids should not be allowed to learn about science just because someone feels that they can look like a stronger believer in $DEITY by screaming loudly against a strawman.
If we can go back to the time where Islam was rapidly and agressively expanding, with a very focused purpose of collecting all knowledge from the people that it conquered, then maybe I would take you up on the offer. While it may be fun for you to poke hate at someone different, you should remember that a freaking ton of knowledge was maintained and curated by Muslim nations during the "dark ages" of europe.
For now, however, I dont see the advantage of trading forced relgious behavior for forced religious behavior. In fact, I can finally buy a beer on sunday now, as long as I wait for church to get out.
My point is covered throughout this discussion at this point, and even within this thread. Evolution is a description of speciation, not origin. Evolution does not propose that humans evolved from monkeys, who evolved from dogs, who evolved from pigs, who evolved from fish , etc. The argument from creationists often sets up this scheme, and asks for proof of macro-evolution. Evolution is not creation, and is easily observable once you eliminate that definition.
well, the question of "how could we come from monkeys?" skips the idea of a common ancestor by suggesting that evolution is proposing a graduation from one species to the next. There isnt a linear progression through the ranks of current animals. The entire concept of beneficial mutation is just ignored, along with the idea that scarcity forces a fight for survival and advantages through genetics will propagate onward. Nope, we dont discuss those parts of evolution, we just say people were never monkeys.
There is a giant disconnect from the creationists. Even if we skip the entire initial creation story, which neither side can answer with absolute fact (although the science side can get REALLY damn close) , the creationists have created a definition for evolution that is not what the true concept is, and then fought against their straw man to have the real science removed from education. THIS ACTION IS AS WRONG AS ANYTHING COULD EVER BE!.
As I currently live in Georgia (USA) , my first thought was " oh fuck, I can move to the other side of the planet and I still cant escape these assholes!"
The corporate overlords realy dont want you purchasing something that can be used for 5 - 20 years, when they can enforce a new version of licensed content every year. The big win is that they dont have to go through full publishing costs, but the student access must be fully renewed every year.
I always felt the same way. I had an algebra 2 course that offered extra credit for work in the final two chapters, which we werent going to go over in class. This was supposed to be done throughout the semester, and turned in during the last week just in case you needed a few points. I turned in the entire section by the end of week 2, but the teacher never let me do anything interesting even after I showed initiative. I sat there while she literally read the book to us, and then got bad grades on homework quizzes, which consisted of copying the work from 4 random questions from our notebooks to prove that we had completed all of the work. It didnt matter if we understood the lessons or could apply the concepts, the requirement was to have written out all of the hundreds of problems, and use a sampling of 4 of them to deteremine if we were doing our work.
I think this class sucked away the last bit of enjoying learning through school that I had left, and it took years for me to care about classes and grades again. This has taken quite a toll on my life and career.
it would also be interesting to see if the number of murders remains the same regardless of the % of those murders being commited by guns. This would still be interesting if nongun attempted murders are included. People are violent and having an efficient tool may not be the only reason to try to kill someone, but it is rare to have a large scale opportunity to measure the outcome.
You could just choose specific or general and stick with it, as about 1 yard is about 3 feet, or 1.1 yards is 3.3 feet. It just seems pretty damn obvious that 1 yard is exactly 3 feet, so I decided to make a little smart comment. Or just assume that everyone reading here knows how long a meter is and skip the comparison.
while we are picking at details, my parents dont have a basement, half of them are dead, and I obviously can read. Maybe you think that I should work on reading comprehension?
when entering the capsule, you must declare "you have offended my family, and you have offended the shaolin temple" . It would be really great if the inside of the caspsule was lined in prisms and mirrors
thank you. forcing people to switch to something that is the same amount of non-healthy while giving the appearance that they are doing something is going to just create a sense of failure. I am always shocked that these actions allow for a switch to a different form of the same problem.
there was a great discovery with fast food hamburgers that the next to largest size burger sells the most. The giant burger was removed for lack of demand, and the sales of the previous best selling second to biggest dropped, and the newly appointed second to biggest became the best seller. The big burger was placed back on the menu, and the original hierarchy was restored. So, the largest isnt always in place because it sells, it is often in place because of the psychology of people who dont want to appear to be gluttons by ordering the biggest thing allows for higher sales overall.
well, here in the glorious south, we are still fighting the baptist conservatives to be allowed to buy beer on Sundays. They wont even allow a vote to occur in the local areas, which was fought for at the state level for a long time. That is right, we had years of battles to be allowed to have local areas even discuss the idea of buying a beer on a sunday. And now that the state allows the votes to occur, many local areas refuse to allow the vote. Conservatives can use that same broad brush of not allowing anyone to do things.
there is another huge problem with what parts of this subject we choose to educate about. Apparently diet sodas are given an exemption here. The amount of healthy that you receive from a diet soda is pretty much nil. Every time I have seen a mention of these types of laws, they always say the full sugared versions are the problem that need to be taxed or banned, but then allowing diet will just have everyone switch to a giant diet soda, and there will be very little gained. If you want to increase health, drink water, not any form of soda.
actually, there is a known range for this. As the price increases by a certain amount, then there is an expected and consistent amount of people who will quit. This obviously has bounds, but when I smoked and paid attention and cared about this, I was aware of the number of people that were expected to quit with the taxes. It was very relevant in the beginning of Clinton's presidency, when Hillary was tryign to push her health care package, and pay for it on the back of smokers. A very detailed model was needed to find out how many smokers would be there to pay for the system after the price doubled.
true. If you could only meet 80% of the example skillset requirement that I posted, you still wouldnt want that call back. so there are really two issues there, meeting all the requirements, and the fact that no one can actually cover all those things as well as expected. There are too many industry specific tech terms that HR will not know or understand, so every resume submission will require using the words from the ad to have a chance at getting through the filters. I recently had a recruiter argue with me because of the ownership history of weblogic when speaking about versions... they didnt understand the oracle/BEA history, and I told them to never call me or submit my name, as they would damage my reputation. And this is someone who is trying to recruit tech only positions.
mobility is tough, and exposure is tough, but it is out there. I work in places constantly that a single help desk covers many technologies. NOT CALL CENTER, help desk. One skill can get you started, then start learning other pieces. Ask the engineers that arent on the help desk for tips and within 2 years you can have the skills to get into a good admin type job. Dont apply to my fake one though, please... those really exist.
I havent had problems in a long time finding work as soon as I decide to start looking for it. I am told by the recruiters how hard it is to find the skills needed. The first thing that I have to do is tailor the resume to the versions of acronyms in use by the firm. This helps a ton. I do get a kick out of places looking for 5-7 years of oracle, weblogic, websphere, linux, vmware, solaris, AIX, apache, cisco, firewalls, SAN and NAS storage... with specific, current, and full control of all of these. Seems like they overworked one person, who suddenly found their value ( or caved under the stress). Then this team of one is expected to work for $60k. sorry, but no...
The market rate is a very difficult thing to determine, as every company that I have worked for creates a new title and definition for the work that I do. Then they get an outside report that certifies that they are paying market rates for their positions... no surprise there, no one else in the world has these titles, so they are paying exactly what the entire world pays these titles. This doesnt ever seem to be a problem when explaining either previous titles or pay, as everyone is in on the game.
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i saw the leaked-in page and my paranoid response went through the roof. Why the hell would I just type my password into that page? I went to a page that could provide a hash of my password in a different browser, made sure I wasnt logged in to anything ( hoping no cookies would link stuff around ) , and then tried the hash in leaked-in. I wasnt on the list. I still made sure that linked-in does not have a password for me that is on anything else.
this is the point where i hate the internet, and would love to have a live sit down conversation with you. There are other religions that dont serve a personal god, and that dont require evangelism. Even these two can be safely practiced in private, without care towards how other people are living their lives. There are many people here in the south ( where this conversation started ) that are more interested in appearing to live up to scripture by enforcing rules on others then they are of actually following the scriptures themselves. Often the rules that they are trying to impose are not even part of the scripture, but simply part of some belief system that has developed over time within their community. There are some people that are really bad people during the week, and think that showing up to church for 2 hours on sunday in a nice suit makes them instantly good again. Then they decide to ride their own guilt into being the loudest voice against a perceived vice that really doesnt need to be fought against. To tie this back to the initial article, why should religion disallow the teaching of a way of thought that offers no harm , while also offering a perspective into a real life use of methods and theories and applying thoughts to observations? I dont think that my kids should not be allowed to learn about science just because someone feels that they can look like a stronger believer in $DEITY by screaming loudly against a strawman.
:) you can TRY , but I am not so sure that moving in isnt outlawed also
If we can go back to the time where Islam was rapidly and agressively expanding, with a very focused purpose of collecting all knowledge from the people that it conquered, then maybe I would take you up on the offer. While it may be fun for you to poke hate at someone different, you should remember that a freaking ton of knowledge was maintained and curated by Muslim nations during the "dark ages" of europe.
For now, however, I dont see the advantage of trading forced relgious behavior for forced religious behavior. In fact, I can finally buy a beer on sunday now, as long as I wait for church to get out.
My point is covered throughout this discussion at this point, and even within this thread. Evolution is a description of speciation, not origin. Evolution does not propose that humans evolved from monkeys, who evolved from dogs, who evolved from pigs, who evolved from fish , etc. The argument from creationists often sets up this scheme, and asks for proof of macro-evolution. Evolution is not creation, and is easily observable once you eliminate that definition.
there was only one of those, ever.
well, the question of "how could we come from monkeys?" skips the idea of a common ancestor by suggesting that evolution is proposing a graduation from one species to the next. There isnt a linear progression through the ranks of current animals. The entire concept of beneficial mutation is just ignored, along with the idea that scarcity forces a fight for survival and advantages through genetics will propagate onward. Nope, we dont discuss those parts of evolution, we just say people were never monkeys.
There is a giant disconnect from the creationists. Even if we skip the entire initial creation story, which neither side can answer with absolute fact (although the science side can get REALLY damn close) , the creationists have created a definition for evolution that is not what the true concept is, and then fought against their straw man to have the real science removed from education. THIS ACTION IS AS WRONG AS ANYTHING COULD EVER BE!.
As I currently live in Georgia (USA) , my first thought was " oh fuck, I can move to the other side of the planet and I still cant escape these assholes!"
The corporate overlords realy dont want you purchasing something that can be used for 5 - 20 years, when they can enforce a new version of licensed content every year. The big win is that they dont have to go through full publishing costs, but the student access must be fully renewed every year.
I always felt the same way. I had an algebra 2 course that offered extra credit for work in the final two chapters, which we werent going to go over in class. This was supposed to be done throughout the semester, and turned in during the last week just in case you needed a few points. I turned in the entire section by the end of week 2, but the teacher never let me do anything interesting even after I showed initiative. I sat there while she literally read the book to us, and then got bad grades on homework quizzes, which consisted of copying the work from 4 random questions from our notebooks to prove that we had completed all of the work. It didnt matter if we understood the lessons or could apply the concepts, the requirement was to have written out all of the hundreds of problems, and use a sampling of 4 of them to deteremine if we were doing our work.
I think this class sucked away the last bit of enjoying learning through school that I had left, and it took years for me to care about classes and grades again. This has taken quite a toll on my life and career.
even if you chop everyone off at the shoulders, they could still give a deadly head-butt or kick
it would also be interesting to see if the number of murders remains the same regardless of the % of those murders being commited by guns. This would still be interesting if nongun attempted murders are included. People are violent and having an efficient tool may not be the only reason to try to kill someone, but it is rare to have a large scale opportunity to measure the outcome.
testy today?
You could just choose specific or general and stick with it, as about 1 yard is about 3 feet, or 1.1 yards is 3.3 feet. It just seems pretty damn obvious that 1 yard is exactly 3 feet, so I decided to make a little smart comment. Or just assume that everyone reading here knows how long a meter is and skip the comparison.
while we are picking at details, my parents dont have a basement, half of them are dead, and I obviously can read. Maybe you think that I should work on reading comprehension?
they were most likely just confused by the metric system. Especially when it forced 1 yard to equal 3.3 feet.
I would gladly vote for something that forced me to live on the beach !
well, insurance on the coast in Florida generally costs as much as the house. There is a very good reason for this.
when entering the capsule, you must declare "you have offended my family, and you have offended the shaolin temple" . It would be really great if the inside of the caspsule was lined in prisms and mirrors
thank you. forcing people to switch to something that is the same amount of non-healthy while giving the appearance that they are doing something is going to just create a sense of failure. I am always shocked that these actions allow for a switch to a different form of the same problem.
there was a great discovery with fast food hamburgers that the next to largest size burger sells the most. The giant burger was removed for lack of demand, and the sales of the previous best selling second to biggest dropped, and the newly appointed second to biggest became the best seller. The big burger was placed back on the menu, and the original hierarchy was restored. So, the largest isnt always in place because it sells, it is often in place because of the psychology of people who dont want to appear to be gluttons by ordering the biggest thing allows for higher sales overall.
well, here in the glorious south, we are still fighting the baptist conservatives to be allowed to buy beer on Sundays. They wont even allow a vote to occur in the local areas, which was fought for at the state level for a long time. That is right, we had years of battles to be allowed to have local areas even discuss the idea of buying a beer on a sunday. And now that the state allows the votes to occur, many local areas refuse to allow the vote. Conservatives can use that same broad brush of not allowing anyone to do things.
there is another huge problem with what parts of this subject we choose to educate about. Apparently diet sodas are given an exemption here. The amount of healthy that you receive from a diet soda is pretty much nil. Every time I have seen a mention of these types of laws, they always say the full sugared versions are the problem that need to be taxed or banned, but then allowing diet will just have everyone switch to a giant diet soda, and there will be very little gained. If you want to increase health, drink water, not any form of soda.
actually, there is a known range for this. As the price increases by a certain amount, then there is an expected and consistent amount of people who will quit. This obviously has bounds, but when I smoked and paid attention and cared about this, I was aware of the number of people that were expected to quit with the taxes. It was very relevant in the beginning of Clinton's presidency, when Hillary was tryign to push her health care package, and pay for it on the back of smokers. A very detailed model was needed to find out how many smokers would be there to pay for the system after the price doubled.
true.
If you could only meet 80% of the example skillset requirement that I posted, you still wouldnt want that call back. so there are really two issues there, meeting all the requirements, and the fact that no one can actually cover all those things as well as expected. There are too many industry specific tech terms that HR will not know or understand, so every resume submission will require using the words from the ad to have a chance at getting through the filters. I recently had a recruiter argue with me because of the ownership history of weblogic when speaking about versions... they didnt understand the oracle/BEA history, and I told them to never call me or submit my name, as they would damage my reputation. And this is someone who is trying to recruit tech only positions.
mobility is tough, and exposure is tough, but it is out there. I work in places constantly that a single help desk covers many technologies. NOT CALL CENTER, help desk. One skill can get you started, then start learning other pieces. Ask the engineers that arent on the help desk for tips and within 2 years you can have the skills to get into a good admin type job. Dont apply to my fake one though, please... those really exist.
I havent had problems in a long time finding work as soon as I decide to start looking for it. I am told by the recruiters how hard it is to find the skills needed. The first thing that I have to do is tailor the resume to the versions of acronyms in use by the firm. This helps a ton. I do get a kick out of places looking for 5-7 years of oracle, weblogic, websphere, linux, vmware, solaris, AIX, apache, cisco, firewalls, SAN and NAS storage... with specific, current, and full control of all of these. Seems like they overworked one person, who suddenly found their value ( or caved under the stress). Then this team of one is expected to work for $60k. sorry, but no...
The market rate is a very difficult thing to determine, as every company that I have worked for creates a new title and definition for the work that I do. Then they get an outside report that certifies that they are paying market rates for their positions... no surprise there, no one else in the world has these titles, so they are paying exactly what the entire world pays these titles. This doesnt ever seem to be a problem when explaining either previous titles or pay, as everyone is in on the game.