Ok, so is the same businessperson who is allowed to discriminate without government intervention also willing to give up all of the protection that the government affords the business -- limited liability, trademark/copyright protection, business tax breaks, etc.?
Adultery -- is a personal matter between the involved families, yes it hurts children but it is still no one else's concern outside of the family.
Child abuse - physically harms another person and is illegal.
Opposing adoption -- no scientific basis that harms children and by leaving a child in an orphanage instead of letting them be adopted is harming the child.
Why is there no religious objection to serving divorce people? What about catering a party for an unmarried people living together? What about serving a couple who are on their 2nd marriage?
What about refusing to serve people who don't give 10% to the church?
Forcing a pastor to marry someone they convictionally believe is ineligible to marry is about as pure an example of violating religious beliefs as you can find. You are in essence forcing them to create a legal contract between God and them that they think is invalid and sinful to create.
Since a church is not "for profit", the law doesn't apply to them.
Not only that-- would it truly be bigotry if I found out my neighbor was in an adulterous relationship, or abused his children, or was opposed to adoption services for orphans, and because of those flaws I refused to serve him in my business out of principle?
Why should I care as a businessman if two adults were in an adulterous relationship? So now you're saying there is a moral equivalence between adultery and child abuse?
This whole Indiana thing has been noting but bullying on the left's part. "Gay marriage" is nothing more than a ploy to force acceptance on people who have serious religious object to homosexual acts and supporting such acts. If this were not the case why is it that people who believed that a "we don't need a piece of paper to prove we're married." All of a sudden, that piece of paper is so important because homosexuals are the ones with traditional views of marriage.
And those same arguments were made about interracial marriages in the pass...
[T]he Indiana statute has two features the federal RFRA -- and most state RFRAs -- do not. First, the Indiana law explicitly allows any for-profit business to assert a right to "the free exercise of religion." The federal RFRA doesn't contain such language, and neither does any of the state RFRAs except South Carolina's; in fact, Louisiana and Pennsylvania, explicitly exclude for-profit businesses from the protection of their RFRAs.
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What these words mean is, first, that the Indiana statute explicitly recognizes that a for-profit corporation has "free exercise" rights matching those of individuals or churches. A lot of legal thinkers thought that idea was outlandish until last year's decision in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, in which the Court's five conservatives interpreted the federal RFRA to give some corporate employers a religious veto over their employees' statutory right to contraceptive coverage.
Second, the Indiana statute explicitly makes a business's "free exercise" right a defense against a private lawsuit by another person, rather than simply against actions brought by government. Why does this matter? Well, there's a lot of evidence that the new wave of "religious freedom" legislation was impelled, at least in part, by a panic over a New Mexico state-court decision, Elane Photography v. Willock. In that case, a same-sex couple sued a professional photography studio that refused to photograph the couple's wedding. New Mexico law bars discrimination in "public accommodations" on the basis of sexual orientation. The studio said that New Mexico's RFRA nonetheless barred the suit; but the state's Supreme Court held that the RFRA did not apply "because the government is not a party." [The Atlantic, 3/30/15]
Mark Hamil has had a renowned career as a voice actor. Among other roles, his work as the voice of the Joker in the DCAU in the 90's has received universal praise over the years.
Now it's a finance agreement, which is totally not the same thing as a contract!
No it's not the same as the traditional cell phone contract. With the traditional cell phone contract, whether I buy an $800 iPhone or a $100 cheap Android phone, I would still owe the same termination fee. With t-mobile, I pay the cost of the phone and I'm done. Or I can buy any GSM phone that supports the bands that T-mobile uses and have no commitment.
Because on an iPhone, I can disable apps on a one by one basis from using cellular data, from using data in the background and don't have to worry about dozens of popular apps loading ads on my home screen.
There are plenty if drag&drop solutions for web programming. WebObjects comes to mind... The parent just don't know about them ^_^
Sure, but every time that I've seen a "solution" built using something like VB, or ASP.Net Web Forms by a beginning developer, it's always been non-scalable, non-testable, crap.
If you are ever in a position to hire people, you will find it is the hardest business skill to acquire. HR people don't understand the types of skills technical jobs require, and hiring managers don't understand how to evaluate applicants on anything except technical skills.
The result is hiring on trivial but easily tested skills. I was just turned down for a job because, after 20 years of delivering successful projects, which I had documented, they wanted me to take a basic coding test, and I refused.
A good hiring manager will ask a technical person to do the technical interview. If you passed every single one of my technical questions and you refused to take a skills test and that was part of the process. I would tell the hiring manager not to hire you.
I have been a professional developer for almost 20 years and I have never been a manager by choice, but I conduct lots of interviews where I get to make the "no go" decision on applicants. In other words, I am never the final say whether you do get hired but if I tell a manager, I don't think you should get hired, you won't.
I would never hire you for a senior developer position.
1. Your communication skills suck. A good developer should be able to describe the problem and the solution in an easily understandable manner. You use way too many acronyms.
2. You admit that your knowledge of CS is "unstructured". If you think you have picked up the "craft" in a short period of time, you are not self-aware enough to know what you don't know. When I interview a "web developer". I want someone who knows front-end, web services or the server side framework in question, how to properly layer the stack, unit testing, databases, etc. Do you know that?
3. Why would I hire you if you don't know the language you are being hired for? Java is not a new flash in the pan language. It's been around and popular for 20 years.
4. " Rarely a developer gets exposed to a single technology for a substantial period to learn it inside-out. " This very statement shows an extreme lack of technical maturity. I know plenty of developers that know their chosen stack inside and out. If you have been jumping around from technology to technology every six months it shows a lack of focus.
4. Of course I am going to "grill you on CS theory". If you understand CS theory well, I would have more confidence that you could pick up a language/technology fast. Theory doesn't change that often. If I can ask you about MVC and you know the theory behind it in Java well, I would expect you to pick up Angular fast.
5. " So, what matter's today? Knowledge on a particular technology or re-usable engineering skills ?" Both. I want you to be able to demonstrate that you have used the latest technologies either in your job or side projects and that you have spent time studying language agnostic concepts like project management, design patterns, etc. I want to make sure that I am working with someone that is an aggressive learner.
On a 3g connection in a grocery store on a hand-held, you're not going to get great response
Then don't do that. I spent years working with just those type of devices (back then they were Windows CE devices). You make the device intelligent enough to work off line and sync back to the server when you have a connection.
Android hasn't "paid off". Google makes very little from Android and still makes most of its mobile advertising profit from iOS devices.
Besides that, most of Android's growth is coming from countries and manufacturers that don't use Google's Android - they use AOSP without Google services.
"You get re-directed to harmful threats on fake pages, like dubious app stores and apps that attempt to send premium SMS behind your back or to apps that simply collect too much of your data for comfort while offering you no additional value," wrote Avast's malware analyst Filip Chytry."
They're doubled by the fact that only Apple-Blessed Mobile Safari gets to do JIT JavaScript compilation, so any "alternative" browser not only will just be Mobile Safari in another skin, it will also be a slow Mobile Safari!
"As of iOS 8, however, it seems that decision has been reversed. All apps will now be able to use the same improved JavaScript engine that powers Safari. That means Googleâ(TM)s Chrome browser on iOS will now be just as quick as Safari, as will the pop-up browsers embedded in apps like Twitter and Facebook."
That's nice and all, but it doesn't solve his performance problems. In fact, since WebKit in non-Apple apps doesn't get to use JIT, it will just make his performance issues worse.
"Android users are being warned that several popular apps that were on the official Google Play store appear to have contained hidden code that made malicious ads pop up.
Security firm Avast said that one of the apps involved - a free version of the card game Durak - had been downloaded up to 10 million times, according to Google Play's own counter."
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Ok, so is the same businessperson who is allowed to discriminate without government intervention also willing to give up all of the protection that the government affords the business -- limited liability, trademark/copyright protection, business tax breaks, etc.?
Adultery -- is a personal matter between the involved families, yes it hurts children but it is still no one else's concern outside of the family.
Child abuse - physically harms another person and is illegal.
Opposing adoption -- no scientific basis that harms children and by leaving a child in an orphanage instead of letting them be adopted is harming the child.
Why is there no religious objection to serving divorce people? What about catering a party for an unmarried people living together? What about serving a couple who are on their 2nd marriage?
What about refusing to serve people who don't give 10% to the church?
Since a church is not "for profit", the law doesn't apply to them.
Why should I care as a businessman if two adults were in an adulterous relationship? So now you're saying there is a moral equivalence between adultery and child abuse?
And those same arguments were made about interracial marriages in the pass...
And that's what they want you to believe.
http://mediamatters.org/resear...
Mark Hamil has had a renowned career as a voice actor. Among other roles, his work as the voice of the Joker in the DCAU in the 90's has received universal praise over the years.
So does half of all US smart phone consumers belong to a cult?
Samsung spends far more on marketing than Apple.
Apple "permitted" Swype and other third parties keyboards as soon as they built a framework for extensible keyboards.
Do you have the same complaint about Android not giving users the freedom to selectively disable permissions after an app is installed?
The XBox + XBox 360 combined sales still didn't turn any real profit. Especially after the $1 billion+ charge because of the Red Ring Of Death.
What setting? I have an Nexus 7 running stock Android.
No it's not the same as the traditional cell phone contract. With the traditional cell phone contract, whether I buy an $800 iPhone or a $100 cheap Android phone, I would still owe the same termination fee. With t-mobile, I pay the cost of the phone and I'm done. Or I can buy any GSM phone that supports the bands that T-mobile uses and have no commitment.
Because on an iPhone, I can disable apps on a one by one basis from using cellular data, from using data in the background and don't have to worry about dozens of popular apps loading ads on my home screen.
Sure, but every time that I've seen a "solution" built using something like VB, or ASP.Net Web Forms by a beginning developer, it's always been non-scalable, non-testable, crap.
A good hiring manager will ask a technical person to do the technical interview. If you passed every single one of my technical questions and you refused to take a skills test and that was part of the process. I would tell the hiring manager not to hire you.
I have been a professional developer for almost 20 years and I have never been a manager by choice, but I conduct lots of interviews where I get to make the "no go" decision on applicants. In other words, I am never the final say whether you do get hired but if I tell a manager, I don't think you should get hired, you won't.
I would never hire you for a senior developer position.
1. Your communication skills suck. A good developer should be able to describe the problem and the solution in an easily understandable manner. You use way too many acronyms.
2. You admit that your knowledge of CS is "unstructured". If you think you have picked up the "craft" in a short period of time, you are not self-aware enough to know what you don't know. When I interview a "web developer". I want someone who knows front-end, web services or the server side framework in question, how to properly layer the stack, unit testing, databases, etc. Do you know that?
3. Why would I hire you if you don't know the language you are being hired for? Java is not a new flash in the pan language. It's been around and popular for 20 years.
4. " Rarely a developer gets exposed to a single technology for a substantial period to learn it inside-out. " This very statement shows an extreme lack of technical maturity. I know plenty of developers that know their chosen stack inside and out. If you have been jumping around from technology to technology every six months it shows a lack of focus.
4. Of course I am going to "grill you on CS theory". If you understand CS theory well, I would have more confidence that you could pick up a language/technology fast. Theory doesn't change that often. If I can ask you about MVC and you know the theory behind it in Java well, I would expect you to pick up Angular fast.
5. " So, what matter's today? Knowledge on a particular technology or re-usable engineering skills ?" Both. I want you to be able to demonstrate that you have used the latest technologies either in your job or side projects and that you have spent time studying language agnostic concepts like project management, design patterns, etc. I want to make sure that I am working with someone that is an aggressive learner.
Then don't do that. I spent years working with just those type of devices (back then they were Windows CE devices). You make the device intelligent enough to work off line and sync back to the server when you have a connection.
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Apple: Continuing losing our allure since 1999.....
Android hasn't "paid off". Google makes very little from Android and still makes most of its mobile advertising profit from iOS devices.
Besides that, most of Android's growth is coming from countries and manufacturers that don't use Google's Android - they use AOSP without Google services.
From the article....
"You get re-directed to harmful threats on fake pages, like dubious app stores and apps that attempt to send premium SMS behind your back or to apps that simply collect too much of your data for comfort while offering you no additional value," wrote Avast's malware analyst Filip Chytry."
You don't consider that to be malware?
http://9to5mac.com/2014/06/03/...
"As of iOS 8, however, it seems that decision has been reversed. All apps will now be able to use the same improved JavaScript engine that powers Safari. That means Googleâ(TM)s Chrome browser on iOS will now be just as quick as Safari, as will the pop-up browsers embedded in apps like Twitter and Facebook."
http://9to5mac.com/2014/06/03/...
And unlike Android, if you have any iOS device released since June 2011, you can update to iOS 8.
So this is FUD?
http://www.bbc.com/news/techno...
"Android users are being warned that several popular apps that were on the official Google Play store appear to have contained hidden code that made malicious ads pop up.
Security firm Avast said that one of the apps involved - a free version of the card game Durak - had been downloaded up to 10 million times, according to Google Play's own counter."