Why should I care if someone can't get tenure? If you aren't useful either as a teacher,a researcher, or are an embarrassment to the school, welcome to the private sector. Why should a business be prevented from letting less valuable expenditures go?
Isn't this an example of how math problems were reworked in the olden days for rooms full of kilogals (thousands of girls, a computing power measurement) to calculate equations? The problems were broken up in simple addition and maybe some multiplication because "subtraction and division are just too hard for them there women folks, and leads to more calculation errors, so we just give them the easy stuff".
So, they want to teach my daughter how to do "girly" math.
This is why we need school choice, so I can ensure my kid isn't fucked over by politicians hundreds of miles away quite as much.
I have no problem with the NSA spying on the rest of the planet. That's what they are paid to do. I'm even fine with them intercepting my inbound stuff with a warrant or FISA order if I was connected via phone or other means to known enemies overseas.
Outright spying on me in my day to day life tho, that is right out.
I certainly would. A grad from MIT, I expect a lot out of. More than an entry level position. In fact, I would be worried about over engineering projects. Said MIT grad would also be looking for a higher pay rate than an entry level position warrants, based on their education. I don't care how fancy one's degree is, if I have budget for entry level with entry level pay, that's all that is going to get hired.
Then you have the standard arguments about exp getting projects done with what is best tools for the job that are available, under time crunches, blah blah. True and valid. When I'm paying someone to work, I want the experience to know when and what is most efficient and secure to meet my needs, using as few resources as possible, who can also work with a team. I'm not hiring a diploma for PR, i'm hiring a producer of results on an allocated budget. If the interviewee can convince me they can do the job, I don't care where they came from.
Crazy... like a fox! I personally don't care what irrational hoplophobic pansies who are afraid of guns think as like as they don't try to take away my ability to defend what I care about. Hoplophobes are the crazy ones for entrusting their personal safety and that of their families and property to a limited pool of people that take time to respond against those that aren't afraid to bring force upon them for nefarious purposes.
I keep small fire extinguishers around my house in case of fire. I keep guns securely in case of anything else. Just another part of being prepared.
Not just protect against guns. Knives, sharp sticks, sonic electronic ball breakers, call of duty dogs, crowbars, baseball bats, fists, hands wrapped in cloth covered in glue and glass, intruders without search warrants, various assorted thugs (of a wide variety of melanin levels; with or without hooded sweatshirts and fruity chews).
Perhaps you're more likely to accidentally discharge a firearm, my family is safety trained, if not all marksman trained, and respects them as the tool they are, not toys.
This is excellent news! I know I wouldn't use some questionable hunk of plastic. I'd much rather have metal arms and high capacity magazines for ensuring the cessation of threats to myself, my family, and my property.
I know i'm in the vast minority here defending ColdFusion, but likely you haven't done anything with coldfusion in the last couple years (if at all) and only recall the old days when CF was just a tag based language.
It's come along way, no longer needing the old tag based language. Like many languages, any idiot can use it quickly, but an experienced programmer can make it shine. It happens to suffer from bad image from graphic design luddites and non-programmers using the quickest route to access databases with no thought of query security, application security, session or even authentication security. They just want the quick access and CF makes that possible. Of course, java,.net and php also makes this possible, with a little bit more language in the middle, but that still doesn't stop idiots with no security concerns from quickly throwing up crappy php tables with huge sql injection holes because they didn't bother to learn the less of little bobby tables.
Take into account the huge swath of poorly written php pages that don't break up logic into some sort of MVC strategy, same for jsp and asp.net (tho i will grant that those languages have a higher entry bar and thus a little higher level of developer behind it.
While I can't speak for other CF devs (and yes, i also work heavily with the rest of the alphabet soup in the web dev world), imo, only the noobs use CF's UI based features (with notable exceptions, specific tags are fast as hell, being heavily optimized), which is the same as those using random company's.net controls or downloading a fancy jquery snippet, not knowing what's going on under the hood. My code is based on solid framework design, object oriented, pure cfscript (ecmascript like language), and is modeled similar to java beans. Hell, I can easily convert my code to native java beans with very little logic changes, just a bunch more language cruft.
Could I do the same stuff in native java or.net being more memory and cpu efficient? sure, but I also trace my code and optimize for cpu and memory efficiency as I go, as a real developer should. Also, using.net controls sucks. Would it take significantly longer? you betcha. More securely? not particularly.
It could be worse, I could be a Ruby developer. Now those guys are delusional like the history channel guy proclaiming "Aliens!"
Really, it's no different than the delusions that one is Napoleon. Fierce denial of reality, construction their own delusions, self mutilation... these people need serious mental treatment, not coddling.
I suffer from being an egotistical prick. Do you know how hard it is, every single day, walking around knowing that you are smarter than 99% of the people you know, having to be surrounded by dumbasses and pretend to give their asinine opinions merit?
Waking up every morning, dreading driving to work because one is surrounded by idiots that can't drive in the rain, signal, or put on wigs and lipstick while driving? Having to go to lunch and watch as your coworkers can't figure out a tip without a calculator? Slide the decimal one digit left and add half the result!
More people should think of MY feelings, after all, the universe does in fact revolve around me./sarcasm
It depends on the type of work you do. Let's say it's an office job. You give your two weeks, employer has option of granting or walking you out. If you are walked out, that news spreads to the other employees and kills office morale if they think the person was nice, a productive worker, and makes the company they work for seem scummy and that it might be a good time to reevaluate themselves. If the person is a jerk, ppl are likely to think "finally, can't believe she was here that long to begin with" and think little else of it.
If the company goes with the two weeks, maybe throw in a small pizza party or some cake during a good bye party, it boosts morale of those still remaining. Those employees don't feel the urge to bolt and leave unfinished tasks undone, and everyone benefits.
Of course, this is all predicated on the business's financial status. Do they continue to pay while looking for a replacement. Do they have a track record of reduced production of employees on the way out? It may make better financial sense to just let that person go on the spot. Paying any kind of severance helps to keep up morale of the other workers, but if the business can't afford it, they can't afford it.
What isn't needed is some asinine regulation requiring severance or something else to make getting rid of bad employees anymore difficult. That leads to not hiring untested entry level positions that are a pain to get rid of later, and leads to large youth unemployment, like france.
If you hoped your employer would fire you, or reduce you to being a part time employee, or if already part time, limited to 29.5 hours weekly to avoid the added costs of obamacare, then you might may be disappointed for a while.
On the other hand, you may be rejoicing this small reprieve from this disaster
The reason free checking disappeared and made things like this pay-card an option is big government trying to impose bad legislation to banks: the Dodd-Frank thing that all but killed free checking by cutting off the revenue stream that subsidized it.
Now banks are looking for creative alternatives and one gets junk like this pay-card nonsense.
Creative alternatives... like bundling bad mortgages together that banks were forced to accept in the first place by the community re-investment act and playing hot-potato with them until the market fell out. Adjustable Rate Mortgages? A creative alternative to be able to handle these forced loans to ppl who would not qualify for a normal loan. That turned out well.
Why should anyone be "forced" to pay "actual market wages"?
Employment is a contract. An employer has a job that needs done and is willing to pay someone x amount to do it. An employee accepts that amount as a agreeable exchange of their time, energy, knowledge and skillsets for that moment in time. The point at which either party no longer agree to that exchange, they renegotiate or have already agreed upon a pay raise structure based on metrics, time, whatever as part of employment. If this is no longer acceptable to both parties, either may terminate the contract. The employer must then fill that position (if it still exists) and the former employee may find a better match of exchange for their time/energy/knowledge/skillsets.
If a group wishes to band together in some sort of voluntary collective bargaining agreement, good for them. I personally would never join one, but hey, it's their thing. Just don't expect or force a company to agree to work with a collective bargaining agreement. A company needs to have the right to say no. At the same time, things like blackballing and such are imo, naturally wrong and rightfully illegal, but employees have no claim to a given job, factory, other means of production unless otherwise otherwise given to them via shared ownership or something. Nor should they have the right to refuse other employees from taking up the abandoned jobs during a strike. You walk off the job for a strike, as an employer, i should be able to fire your ass and replace you with someone else. If there is no one willing to do the job at the employer's valuation of that job, the employer must then revaluate that position or not fill it.
As a white-ish american male, I'm told I have to accept constant assaults on my religion, that a jar of urine with a crucifix in it is indeed art, that I have to treat lifestyles I do not agree with as acceptable by society, that I should accept every view no matter how absurd has some form of merit and thus tolerate it, that sexuality is both something one is born with and a also a choice depending on the person, regardless of the genitalia they were born with.
Yet let a person stand for their principals, that openly speak out of their beliefs, fiscal or social, that go against the wave of "social justices", and they shall be shouted down, ridiculed, and driven from any endeavor by a foaming mob.
Card is a renowned story teller. To have his story killed off because of his personal beliefs is a testament to what is wrong with any society.
It's the same as labeling a heretic of Galileo or Copernicus and dismissing their works simply because their points of view differ from the pervading mob consciousness.
It's the use of political correctness to enforce censorship of unpleasant view points by permanent "victim classes".
Radar to Rarget, Radar Rreturn, Video Capture, Process, Transmit to Ground Operator, Human Processing and Decision, Transmission of Commands, Actuating of Commands.
Increase for transmission times for distance and relays such as satellites.
Talk about intolerable lag. For a fighter, impossible. For a Ground Strike where the craft is considered highly expendable, sure, maybe, but we already have that. Then you factor in jamming and such... Humans still better.
As I recall, the only time anyone listened is when a bunch of awesome-sauce physicists warned that the nazis were working on atomic weapons research. Obviously, we couldn't let a mineshaft gap of that size exist, so we had to beat them to it.
Much more instances of ignoring, like agent orange for example.
Unless you're telling about a really neat new way to stick it to the enemy, or an asteroid will kill us allin 6 months unless we send Bruce Willis and Ben Afleck to nuke it (because blowing shit up is effing awesome), you're just not that interesting.
More like a nagging wife:
Blah blah good of humanity blah blah anti-matter reactor blah blah free energy blah blah big bada boom blah blah... wait, did you say big effing explosions? Annihilation of matter, particularly ENEMY matter? You have my attention sirs, please proceed...
Apparently some liberals can't spell. I presume you meant "Wholly overrated".
You also presume that communities aren't willing to foot the bill for armed school guards. It's up to that community to decide how to spend it's budget. If a community it decides an armed baby sitter is more important than adding another unionized non-armed baby sitter that spews indoctrination, it's their' choice.
Neither does making a plastic box with a spring in it.
It takes the actions of a person: 1) Fill box w/ spring with rounds 2) Insert box into firearm 3) Charge/Ready firearm 4) Disengage Safety 5) Point firearm at target 6) Depress trigger of firearm
The firearm nor the magazine fired themselves. It takes a person to do it.
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Why should I care if someone can't get tenure?
If you aren't useful either as a teacher,a researcher, or are an embarrassment to the school, welcome to the private sector. Why should a business be prevented from letting less valuable expenditures go?
Isn't this an example of how math problems were reworked in the olden days for rooms full of kilogals (thousands of girls, a computing power measurement) to calculate equations? The problems were broken up in simple addition and maybe some multiplication because "subtraction and division are just too hard for them there women folks, and leads to more calculation errors, so we just give them the easy stuff".
So, they want to teach my daughter how to do "girly" math.
This is why we need school choice, so I can ensure my kid isn't fucked over by politicians hundreds of miles away quite as much.
I have no problem with the NSA spying on the rest of the planet.
That's what they are paid to do.
I'm even fine with them intercepting my inbound stuff with a warrant or FISA order if I was connected via phone or other means to known enemies overseas.
Outright spying on me in my day to day life tho, that is right out.
I certainly would. A grad from MIT, I expect a lot out of. More than an entry level position. In fact, I would be worried about over engineering projects. Said MIT grad would also be looking for a higher pay rate than an entry level position warrants, based on their education. I don't care how fancy one's degree is, if I have budget for entry level with entry level pay, that's all that is going to get hired.
Then you have the standard arguments about exp getting projects done with what is best tools for the job that are available, under time crunches, blah blah. True and valid. When I'm paying someone to work, I want the experience to know when and what is most efficient and secure to meet my needs, using as few resources as possible, who can also work with a team. I'm not hiring a diploma for PR, i'm hiring a producer of results on an allocated budget. If the interviewee can convince me they can do the job, I don't care where they came from.
Just like wearing glasses:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=szuP0oBZX4g#t=200
Crazy... like a fox!
I personally don't care what irrational hoplophobic pansies who are afraid of guns think as like as they don't try to take away my ability to defend what I care about. Hoplophobes are the crazy ones for entrusting their personal safety and that of their families and property to a limited pool of people that take time to respond against those that aren't afraid to bring force upon them for nefarious purposes.
I keep small fire extinguishers around my house in case of fire. I keep guns securely in case of anything else. Just another part of being prepared.
Not just protect against guns.
Knives, sharp sticks, sonic electronic ball breakers, call of duty dogs, crowbars, baseball bats, fists, hands wrapped in cloth covered in glue and glass, intruders without search warrants, various assorted thugs (of a wide variety of melanin levels; with or without hooded sweatshirts and fruity chews).
Perhaps you're more likely to accidentally discharge a firearm, my family is safety trained, if not all marksman trained, and respects them as the tool they are, not toys.
Need to make sure threats stay ended ;)
If it moves, shoot it; if it doesn't move, shoot it anyway to make sure it continues not moving
This is excellent news! I know I wouldn't use some questionable hunk of plastic. I'd much rather have metal arms and high capacity magazines for ensuring the cessation of threats to myself, my family, and my property.
I know i'm in the vast minority here defending ColdFusion, but likely you haven't done anything with coldfusion in the last couple years (if at all) and only recall the old days when CF was just a tag based language.
It's come along way, no longer needing the old tag based language. Like many languages, any idiot can use it quickly, but an experienced programmer can make it shine. It happens to suffer from bad image from graphic design luddites and non-programmers using the quickest route to access databases with no thought of query security, application security, session or even authentication security. They just want the quick access and CF makes that possible. Of course, java, .net and php also makes this possible, with a little bit more language in the middle, but that still doesn't stop idiots with no security concerns from quickly throwing up crappy php tables with huge sql injection holes because they didn't bother to learn the less of little bobby tables.
Take into account the huge swath of poorly written php pages that don't break up logic into some sort of MVC strategy, same for jsp and asp.net (tho i will grant that those languages have a higher entry bar and thus a little higher level of developer behind it.
While I can't speak for other CF devs (and yes, i also work heavily with the rest of the alphabet soup in the web dev world), imo, only the noobs use CF's UI based features (with notable exceptions, specific tags are fast as hell, being heavily optimized), which is the same as those using random company's .net controls or downloading a fancy jquery snippet, not knowing what's going on under the hood. My code is based on solid framework design, object oriented, pure cfscript (ecmascript like language), and is modeled similar to java beans. Hell, I can easily convert my code to native java beans with very little logic changes, just a bunch more language cruft.
Could I do the same stuff in native java or .net being more memory and cpu efficient? sure, but I also trace my code and optimize for cpu and memory efficiency as I go, as a real developer should. Also, using .net controls sucks. Would it take significantly longer? you betcha. More securely? not particularly.
It could be worse, I could be a Ruby developer. Now those guys are delusional like the history channel guy proclaiming "Aliens!"
A classic video if there ever was one
The only winning move is not to play ...er, buy.
Good old WOPR, shame you got stuck in a crappy sequel.
Ah yes, the warning sticker, made famous by LJN games during the NES era. If it said LJN, you knew it sucked.
The actual term is "Sane".
Really, it's no different than the delusions that one is Napoleon.
Fierce denial of reality, construction their own delusions, self mutilation... these people need serious mental treatment, not coddling.
I suffer from being an egotistical prick.
Do you know how hard it is, every single day, walking around knowing that you are smarter than 99% of the people you know, having to be surrounded by dumbasses and pretend to give their asinine opinions merit?
Waking up every morning, dreading driving to work because one is surrounded by idiots that can't drive in the rain, signal, or put on wigs and lipstick while driving?
Having to go to lunch and watch as your coworkers can't figure out a tip without a calculator? Slide the decimal one digit left and add half the result!
More people should think of MY feelings, after all, the universe does in fact revolve around me. /sarcasm
It depends on the type of work you do. Let's say it's an office job. You give your two weeks, employer has option of granting or walking you out. If you are walked out, that news spreads to the other employees and kills office morale if they think the person was nice, a productive worker, and makes the company they work for seem scummy and that it might be a good time to reevaluate themselves. If the person is a jerk, ppl are likely to think "finally, can't believe she was here that long to begin with" and think little else of it.
If the company goes with the two weeks, maybe throw in a small pizza party or some cake during a good bye party, it boosts morale of those still remaining. Those employees don't feel the urge to bolt and leave unfinished tasks undone, and everyone benefits.
Of course, this is all predicated on the business's financial status. Do they continue to pay while looking for a replacement. Do they have a track record of reduced production of employees on the way out? It may make better financial sense to just let that person go on the spot. Paying any kind of severance helps to keep up morale of the other workers, but if the business can't afford it, they can't afford it.
What isn't needed is some asinine regulation requiring severance or something else to make getting rid of bad employees anymore difficult. That leads to not hiring untested entry level positions that are a pain to get rid of later, and leads to large youth unemployment, like france.
If you hoped your employer would fire you, or reduce you to being a part time employee, or if already part time, limited to 29.5 hours weekly to avoid the added costs of obamacare, then you might may be disappointed for a while.
On the other hand, you may be rejoicing this small reprieve from this disaster
The reason free checking disappeared and made things like this pay-card an option is big government trying to impose bad legislation to banks: the Dodd-Frank thing that all but killed free checking by cutting off the revenue stream that subsidized it.
Now banks are looking for creative alternatives and one gets junk like this pay-card nonsense.
Creative alternatives... like bundling bad mortgages together that banks were forced to accept in the first place by the community re-investment act and playing hot-potato with them until the market fell out. Adjustable Rate Mortgages? A creative alternative to be able to handle these forced loans to ppl who would not qualify for a normal loan. That turned out well.
But hey, evil corporations and banks, amiright?
Why should anyone be "forced" to pay "actual market wages"?
Employment is a contract.
An employer has a job that needs done and is willing to pay someone x amount to do it.
An employee accepts that amount as a agreeable exchange of their time, energy, knowledge and skillsets for that moment in time.
The point at which either party no longer agree to that exchange, they renegotiate or have already agreed upon a pay raise structure based on metrics, time, whatever as part of employment. If this is no longer acceptable to both parties, either may terminate the contract. The employer must then fill that position (if it still exists) and the former employee may find a better match of exchange for their time/energy/knowledge/skillsets.
If a group wishes to band together in some sort of voluntary collective bargaining agreement, good for them. I personally would never join one, but hey, it's their thing. Just don't expect or force a company to agree to work with a collective bargaining agreement. A company needs to have the right to say no. At the same time, things like blackballing and such are imo, naturally wrong and rightfully illegal, but employees have no claim to a given job, factory, other means of production unless otherwise otherwise given to them via shared ownership or something. Nor should they have the right to refuse other employees from taking up the abandoned jobs during a strike. You walk off the job for a strike, as an employer, i should be able to fire your ass and replace you with someone else. If there is no one willing to do the job at the employer's valuation of that job, the employer must then revaluate that position or not fill it.
Build youreself a "guest" VM with browser of choice and script protection.
As a white-ish american male, I'm told I have to accept constant assaults on my religion, that a jar of urine with a crucifix in it is indeed art, that I have to treat lifestyles I do not agree with as acceptable by society, that I should accept every view no matter how absurd has some form of merit and thus tolerate it, that sexuality is both something one is born with and a also a choice depending on the person, regardless of the genitalia they were born with.
Yet let a person stand for their principals, that openly speak out of their beliefs, fiscal or social, that go against the wave of "social justices", and they shall be shouted down, ridiculed, and driven from any endeavor by a foaming mob.
Card is a renowned story teller. To have his story killed off because of his personal beliefs is a testament to what is wrong with any society.
It's the same as labeling a heretic of Galileo or Copernicus and dismissing their works simply because their points of view differ from the pervading mob consciousness.
It's the use of political correctness to enforce censorship of unpleasant view points by permanent "victim classes".
A sad thing indeed.
Radar to Rarget, Radar Rreturn, Video Capture, Process, Transmit to Ground Operator, Human Processing and Decision, Transmission of Commands, Actuating of Commands.
Increase for transmission times for distance and relays such as satellites.
Talk about intolerable lag. For a fighter, impossible. For a Ground Strike where the craft is considered highly expendable, sure, maybe, but we already have that.
Then you factor in jamming and such...
Humans still better.
As I recall, the only time anyone listened is when a bunch of awesome-sauce physicists warned that the nazis were working on atomic weapons research. Obviously, we couldn't let a mineshaft gap of that size exist, so we had to beat them to it.
Much more instances of ignoring, like agent orange for example.
Unless you're telling about a really neat new way to stick it to the enemy, or an asteroid will kill us allin 6 months unless we send Bruce Willis and Ben Afleck to nuke it (because blowing shit up is effing awesome), you're just not that interesting.
More like a nagging wife:
Blah blah good of humanity blah blah anti-matter reactor blah blah free energy blah blah big bada boom blah blah... wait, did you say big effing explosions? Annihilation of matter, particularly ENEMY matter? You have my attention sirs, please proceed...
Apparently some liberals can't spell.
I presume you meant "Wholly overrated".
You also presume that communities aren't willing to foot the bill for armed school guards.
It's up to that community to decide how to spend it's budget.
If a community it decides an armed baby sitter is more important than adding another unionized non-armed baby sitter that spews indoctrination, it's their' choice.
Neither does making a plastic box with a spring in it.
It takes the actions of a person:
1) Fill box w/ spring with rounds
2) Insert box into firearm
3) Charge/Ready firearm
4) Disengage Safety
5) Point firearm at target
6) Depress trigger of firearm
The firearm nor the magazine fired themselves. It takes a person to do it.