Ah yes, just assert what I am saying is false instead of coming up with actual arguments. And asserting that somehow religious societies are moral, much less better than secular ones.
As for the basis of the United States Constitution and the beliefs of the founding fathers... you may want to read up on a thing called The Enlightenment.
Note that you are the one bringing up Westboro and propaganda.
Where did he say morals would spontaneously spring up in the absence of religion?
I think the past has proven quite conclusively that morals can succeed or fail with or without religion.
Please point to us a religious society that became utopian. Hell, I would settle for one that at least moral. In the United States the secular parts of the constitution protects us from people like you.
Yeah, this reminds of the "idea people" that I thought were weeded out of existence years ago.
"I have this great idea for an app but I know nothing about programming or the software industry. I want you to write the whole thing do all the engineering and testing and I will only pay you if we make money. But don't worry, I will make tons of money. Err, I mean WE will make tons of money. I totally don't plan on cutting you lose as soon as the cash starts rolling in. Also my idea is totally not illegal/trivial/already been done. Trust me, kid, we are gonna go far!"
That line makes me thing he is an idiot or trolling or has never actually done anything bigger than a shell script or thinks html is a programming language.
Reminds me of the "Why should I pay you money to develop the application? My nephew Vinny has a Tandy and can bang this out in a weekend!" mentality that was prevalent in the 90s. Managers generally thought programmers were worthless because "anybody can sit at a desk and bang on a keybaord all day."
Also as far as "anybody can learn to program" goes.... No. Clearly not anyone can do the job, otherwise we wouldn't have so much shitty code out there.:)
As someone that has been doing the job for over 20 years... maybe. When I joined in the late 90s people were so desperate for programmers that the vast majority had no degree or a degree in nuclear or chemical engineering or some other scientific field. (Nuclear was popular since so many people went into that in the 80's and TMI basically fucked everyone that graduated in the 80s and 90s with a Nuclear engineering degree.)
Today, not so much. If you are 20 years old with absolutely no experience or formal education whatsoever you wont even get a look from a corporation (but a person like this really doesn't want to work for a corporation, they suck). From a small company like mine, you better have one hell of a portfolio project to show off. And I can say that in all of my years, the only people that had impressive portfolio projects also had good degrees and/or lots of experience.
Now, I am not saying it is impossible to be successful this way, but this is not 1999 anymore. Getting a perfect programming job with no qualifications would be like saying "I won the lottery, so that should be your plan for success too!"
Now for people a bit older looking for better employment by learning to program... well... unless you are at a company willing to train it is going to be a tough battle. Companies don't want 30+ year old programmers with zero experience... unless they are willing to work for the salary that a 20 year old would accept.
Basically, only go into programming if you really enjoy it. I have had people in interviews answer the question "So, why did you go into this career / this type of programming." with the answer "For the money." I hired exactly 0 of those people.Though none of them were terribly impressive anyhow.
Felt bad for the one guy 10 years older than me that was trying to switch from COBOL to Java but clearly had no idea how to deal with an object oriented language. I have no advice to help this situation.
I always hear "this star is made of diamond" or "some such astronomical thing is diamonds" Having a metric crapton of carbon in one spot is not necessarily a diamond, is it? If you took a scoop of the "diamond rain" from Neptune and put it at earth room temperature/pressure, would it stay as a crystal or would it become a gas?
Also my new favorite measurement qualifier is "Earth Room". To differentiate it from a "Neptune Room" or a "Mars Room".
I thought the article was going to be a call to end all anonymity on the internet... or maybe advocate a "great firewall" of Canada.. or at the very least a call to ban all Russian sites.
Nope, just standard pointless winging. I suppose it does fall into Vice's "all white men are evil" narrative.
"Hmm, I am having problems with this puzzle, I will check youtube for a playthrough on how to solve it." *finds playthrough, clicks on video* "WHATS UP GUYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYS!!!!" *close tab*
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Tho I suppose with a name like Khan, yeah, the character should not be white.
I thought this was more of the "accent of evil" effect. Both incarnations (inkhanations?) of Khan have a British accent.
They picked a famous actor with a British accent. Most of them are white.
I was going to speak in support of the GP post, but then there are assholes like you.
You do realize you hurt your own movement, right?
Ah yes, just assert what I am saying is false instead of coming up with actual arguments. And asserting that somehow religious societies are moral, much less better than secular ones.
As for the basis of the United States Constitution and the beliefs of the founding fathers... you may want to read up on a thing called The Enlightenment.
Note that you are the one bringing up Westboro and propaganda.
Because Bitcoin can't go to zero and nobody has a vested interest in making it crash.
Where did he say morals would spontaneously spring up in the absence of religion?
I think the past has proven quite conclusively that morals can succeed or fail with or without religion.
Please point to us a religious society that became utopian. Hell, I would settle for one that at least moral. In the United States the secular parts of the constitution protects us from people like you.
Oh yeah, ARCore and ARKit, everyone knows this. Very good info... yes...
WHAT THE FUCK DOES AR STAND FOR?
Yeah, this reminds of the "idea people" that I thought were weeded out of existence years ago.
"I have this great idea for an app but I know nothing about programming or the software industry. I want you to write the whole thing do all the engineering and testing and I will only pay you if we make money. But don't worry, I will make tons of money. Err, I mean WE will make tons of money. I totally don't plan on cutting you lose as soon as the cash starts rolling in. Also my idea is totally not illegal/trivial/already been done. Trust me, kid, we are gonna go far!"
That line makes me thing he is an idiot or trolling or has never actually done anything bigger than a shell script or thinks html is a programming language.
Reminds me of the "Why should I pay you money to develop the application? My nephew Vinny has a Tandy and can bang this out in a weekend!" mentality that was prevalent in the 90s. Managers generally thought programmers were worthless because "anybody can sit at a desk and bang on a keybaord all day."
Also as far as "anybody can learn to program" goes.... No. Clearly not anyone can do the job, otherwise we wouldn't have so much shitty code out there. :)
As someone that has been doing the job for over 20 years... maybe. When I joined in the late 90s people were so desperate for programmers that the vast majority had no degree or a degree in nuclear or chemical engineering or some other scientific field. (Nuclear was popular since so many people went into that in the 80's and TMI basically fucked everyone that graduated in the 80s and 90s with a Nuclear engineering degree.)
Today, not so much. If you are 20 years old with absolutely no experience or formal education whatsoever you wont even get a look from a corporation (but a person like this really doesn't want to work for a corporation, they suck). From a small company like mine, you better have one hell of a portfolio project to show off. And I can say that in all of my years, the only people that had impressive portfolio projects also had good degrees and/or lots of experience.
Now, I am not saying it is impossible to be successful this way, but this is not 1999 anymore. Getting a perfect programming job with no qualifications would be like saying "I won the lottery, so that should be your plan for success too!"
Now for people a bit older looking for better employment by learning to program... well... unless you are at a company willing to train it is going to be a tough battle. Companies don't want 30+ year old programmers with zero experience... unless they are willing to work for the salary that a 20 year old would accept.
Basically, only go into programming if you really enjoy it. I have had people in interviews answer the question "So, why did you go into this career / this type of programming." with the answer "For the money." I hired exactly 0 of those people.Though none of them were terribly impressive anyhow.
Felt bad for the one guy 10 years older than me that was trying to switch from COBOL to Java but clearly had no idea how to deal with an object oriented language. I have no advice to help this situation.
I always hear "this star is made of diamond" or "some such astronomical thing is diamonds" Having a metric crapton of carbon in one spot is not necessarily a diamond, is it? If you took a scoop of the "diamond rain" from Neptune and put it at earth room temperature/pressure, would it stay as a crystal or would it become a gas?
Also my new favorite measurement qualifier is "Earth Room". To differentiate it from a "Neptune Room" or a "Mars Room".
One guy bartered does not make "common". While I'm sure it happens in places in the US I doubt it's common.
http://cdn.historycommons.org/...
When government outlaws regexes, only outlaws will have regexes.
Try using that defense at a school crossing and you get life in prison.
Try not being a Nazi.
NP does not mean "non polynomial". NP means "nondeterministic polynomial".
Except for the government, of course.
The article says there will be 44 trillion cameras, not that they will be "watching us".
I thought the article was going to be a call to end all anonymity on the internet... or maybe advocate a "great firewall" of Canada.. or at the very least a call to ban all Russian sites.
Nope, just standard pointless winging. I suppose it does fall into Vice's "all white men are evil" narrative.
To have outrage over the outrage.
Outrage generates clicks.
Soon there will be trillions of cameras all around us.
https://xkcd.com/605/
"Hmm, I am having problems with this puzzle, I will check youtube for a playthrough on how to solve it."
*finds playthrough, clicks on video*
"WHATS UP GUYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYS!!!!"
*close tab*
You need a telescope, not a drone.