Jetfire, Strafe, Stratos, Sky Lynx, Devcon, Blades, Springer, Sandstorm, Quickswitch, Cloudraker, Superion, and the Aerialbots would all like to have a word with you.
I think the best approach would be to act like adults and show it. Acknowledge that displaying the human body is not shameful or harmful at all and get used to it.
That would never happen because there are too many politicians that would use it as a talking point to get people worked up over.
ADHD does exist. It's a real condition that a small percentage of children have. But it's turned into an industry that makes money off of diagnosing as many kids with it as possible.
Justice is not about fairness. It's "did you break the law, and if so what's the stated punishment?"
No. That isn't justice. Justice IS about fairness. Justice comes first, and laws are supposed to support justice.
If all you have is a set of laws and the stated punishment for breaking them, all you have is the worst kind of bureaucracy. Assuming that laws are always right is one of the worst things you can do.
Typically, laws are not based of facts or rational arguments. They are based on which direction the politics of the day is blowing.
Laws are written by lawyers and lobbyists for benefit the few and powerful, enacted by legislators who do not read them before voting, and enforced by prosecutors who only care about their conviction ratio.
Every good nerd knows that justice can never be as simple as a rulebook.
All bills should be written on a wiki-like system that is publicly viewable, along with all previous versions of the bill and which member of Congress made which changes.
Actually, my last job was around 45k. I skipped the 50s altogether. Although I got this job through an agency (have been hired directly since then).
It's not just a matter of pay, though. Work environment here is great too. The place is real easygoing. No personality conflicts that I've seen. Bosses and supervisors are sociable and I've never seen them pull rank. Turnover is virtually subterranean. Only thing that would make it perfect is if they dropped the "business casual" rule, although we do have casual Fridays.
About 60% of my job consists of splitting off a copy of a mini-site template for a client and customizing it the way they want.
We work pretty much exclusively for the government and military, although we could do the same thing for the private sector if we wanted to. I've passed everything I need to get a security clearance, and am just waiting on their word. That might up my pay scale a bit.
I've been thinking about taking some freelance stuff on the side, just not sure how to get into it. Although the web designer at my last job emailed me and told me about a freelance job he knew. I told him to send my info to the guy.
Everything you said makes a lot of sense. Sometimes it just needs to be spelled out. You didn't come across as condescending at all.
How much academic experience do you have? Because I have, like, none. Or at least none that pertains to the stuff I actually do. I was taking some community college classes when one of my (VB 6) classmates helped me get a job where she worked. This was the height of the.com boom when it was obscenely easy to get a web dev job. That job was doing classic ASP, which I could easily figure out from what I learned in that VB6 class, and I just went through a few more jobs, picking up other skills like SQL, Javascript, CSS and eventually ASP.NET. (When I started teaching myself asp.net, I had decided that I had had enough of this VB-based crap and went C#. Lo and behold, when I got this job, the whole system was written in VB.net. Bleacch)
I don't even have a degree. Just a couple of computer certificates, neither of which has anything to do with web development.
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Personally, the only names there I know are Jetfire, Sky Lynx, Stratos, Superion and the Arialbots.
I pulled the whole list off Wikipedia. Just be glad I filtered out stuff like the Headmasters.
Jetfire, Strafe, Stratos, Sky Lynx, Devcon, Blades, Springer, Sandstorm, Quickswitch, Cloudraker, Superion, and the Aerialbots would all like to have a word with you.
I think the best approach would be to act like adults and show it. Acknowledge that displaying the human body is not shameful or harmful at all and get used to it.
That would never happen because there are too many politicians that would use it as a talking point to get people worked up over.
There is no country that is more simultaneously obsessed with and embarrassed by sex than the United States.
America seriously needs to grow the fuck up.
You expect parents to exert effort and initiative and use any kind of their own judgment in raising their children? That is unAmerican!
In this country, parenting means just being present until your children reach an arbitrary chronological age in a completely sterilized society.
That they are even attempting this only further cements my position that I will never, EVER buy anything from Apple.
Yeah, they should be watching reality TV like a normal person.
Frickin' normals
ADHD does exist. It's a real condition that a small percentage of children have. But it's turned into an industry that makes money off of diagnosing as many kids with it as possible.
Justice is not about fairness. It's "did you break the law, and if so what's the stated punishment?"
No. That isn't justice. Justice IS about fairness. Justice comes first, and laws are supposed to support justice.
If all you have is a set of laws and the stated punishment for breaking them, all you have is the worst kind of bureaucracy. Assuming that laws are always right is one of the worst things you can do.
Typically, laws are not based of facts or rational arguments. They are based on which direction the politics of the day is blowing.
Laws are written by lawyers and lobbyists for benefit the few and powerful, enacted by legislators who do not read them before voting, and enforced by prosecutors who only care about their conviction ratio.
Every good nerd knows that justice can never be as simple as a rulebook.
Or how about limiting them to a single subject.
Like waiting 5 days before signing any non-emergency legislation so the public could comment on it?
What happened is that a few weeks ago, conservatives saw the Onion video and thought it was real, and it spread like wildfire.
Or a large team of people splitting up the bill into manageable sections.
I think they were kidding about that.
All bills should be written on a wiki-like system that is publicly viewable, along with all previous versions of the bill and which member of Congress made which changes.
Reddit does the same thing and it doesn't have that problem.
Not everyone, just the guy claiming that he's a fame whore.
Stopped reading at the first sentence.
Copyrights are NOT property rights. Read what the Constitution says about the purpose of copyright.
They don't even do that, since most people who pirate something wouldn't buy it if the pirated version wasn't available.
And some of the rest, DO buy it if they decide that they like it.
You think Microsoft is any less evil?
Try going to Disneyland and doing whatever you want to do, rather than what the people in control of the park actually condone.
Actually, my last job was around 45k. I skipped the 50s altogether. Although I got this job through an agency (have been hired directly since then).
It's not just a matter of pay, though. Work environment here is great too. The place is real easygoing. No personality conflicts that I've seen. Bosses and supervisors are sociable and I've never seen them pull rank. Turnover is virtually subterranean. Only thing that would make it perfect is if they dropped the "business casual" rule, although we do have casual Fridays.
About 60% of my job consists of splitting off a copy of a mini-site template for a client and customizing it the way they want.
We work pretty much exclusively for the government and military, although we could do the same thing for the private sector if we wanted to. I've passed everything I need to get a security clearance, and am just waiting on their word. That might up my pay scale a bit.
I've been thinking about taking some freelance stuff on the side, just not sure how to get into it. Although the web designer at my last job emailed me and told me about a freelance job he knew. I told him to send my info to the guy.
Everything you said makes a lot of sense. Sometimes it just needs to be spelled out. You didn't come across as condescending at all.
How much academic experience do you have? Because I have, like, none. Or at least none that pertains to the stuff I actually do. I was taking some community college classes when one of my (VB 6) classmates helped me get a job where she worked. This was the height of the .com boom when it was obscenely easy to get a web dev job. That job was doing classic ASP, which I could easily figure out from what I learned in that VB6 class, and I just went through a few more jobs, picking up other skills like SQL, Javascript, CSS and eventually ASP.NET. (When I started teaching myself asp.net, I had decided that I had had enough of this VB-based crap and went C#. Lo and behold, when I got this job, the whole system was written in VB.net. Bleacch)
I don't even have a degree. Just a couple of computer certificates, neither of which has anything to do with web development.
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That says more about IE6 than it says about the page.