Most careers don't use Macs in the workplace so what exactly are they preparing them for? I guess they're just teaching them conformity. That's all schools seem to do these days.
More precisely, the claim is that it was never fulled ratified and therefore not an amendment. And that even if it was, income was defined as having to do with financial investments and therefore the law can make no claim against wages (i.e. the money exchanged for your labor). It's become inverted over time with wages now being taxed at a higher percentage than the gambling income on Wall Street.
...it's people. There are too many middle men out there with their own agendas for me to know what's true or not. And I've seen too many theories come and go to give any group the benefit of the doubt. Ironically enough, much of the skepticism we see nowadays is a vindication of the scientific method itself.
Wow, that's the hottest thing I've ever read on slashdot. She wants it, but she thinks it's bad, but she wants it? That's the plot of half the porn flicks out there. That's the kind of issue you cultivate, not fix.
Who's we paleface? Isn't the cause of all our problems blundering around, not knowing what we're doing? Why would you think that's also the solution to all our problems?
If you're on the right you're for less government, if you're on the left you're for more government. People get confused because every politician is on the left so they start coming up with new artificial distinctions (like war and social issues) to define the two sides. Bush was one of the biggest socialists/fascists this country has every seen until Obama came along, but he called himself conservative, so now everyone blames the problems of big government on the right.
The truth is that there is no substantive difference between Bush and Obama, so people throw these terms around to express their hatred for the other side, but they're really just reflecting the self-loathing they have for their own side's hypocrisy. The Republican / Democratic split doesn't represent the true divide in this country. The true divide is between (small l) libertarians and statists.
Sure, if you take extra precautions with the buffer-overflow languages, your software can be just a secure. But in the real world, that's almost never the case. Projects are always rushed and mistakes happen. Every team has one or more weak links. And what coder prefers burdensome process to development anyway? Anyone who promotes C/C++ over Java for a back-end enterprise application is not a professional IMO. They come across as stubborn basement hackers who can't keep their resumes up to date. C/C++ was never much more than a macro assembly language, and like assembly, not appropriate for most (non-single-person-genius) projects.
The meetings are what justify their existence. That's all management does. They meet with their subordinates to find out what's going on and then meet with their superiors to pass that information along. Occasionally, they'll make decisions that get in everyone's way and make the job take longer. But most of the day to day decisions are made by the workers. For what managers really do, you can have low paid interns take care of it.
Managers are little more than glorified welfare queens. And most jobs these days seem to have a one to one manager to worker ratio (throwing in PMs and tech leads). Actually, the job I'm at now has it at 2 to 1 presently. And of course this leads to the need for all sorts of metrics and monitoring tools that completely sap the productivity of the workers. Just about every project I've ever been on takes about 20 times longer than it should take because of the influence of management. I'm not saying that management can be done away with entirely, but you can safely trim out 90% of it, invest in tools (like computers less than 10 years old) and see tremendous productivity gains. Of course, it's not about productivity or the bottom line, it's all just a form of privatized welfare.
Wow, the government supports something that means more revenue for itself and more derivative trading schemes for their banker buddies? I would have expected the investigation to go the other way.
I feel sorry for true AGW believers. If they're right, western governments and the IPCC sure seem to be doing their best to fuck it up lately. AGW may in fact be true, but it just looks like such a con job at this point that I can never be for upturning the economy over it. And of course, I'll take global warming over an (overdue) ice age any day, so I wouldn't recognize the urgency, even if it were true.
Why not go back to fighting good old fashioned pollution? That's something everyone can get on board with. What about the disappearing honey bee and genetically modified foods? There are all sorts of environmental problems out there that have been ignored in favor of this (seemingly) manufactured issue.
Ahh, but doing nothing is not an option. At least, you can't turn on the news without hearing that. Every time I hear someone say it, I finish their sentence with, "said Hitler to the Jews." If I recall, he had a "solution" too that didn't work out so well for many people.
Geoengineering is such a spectacularly bad idea as to warrant armed revolt in order to prevent it.
That was my reaction as well. I'm so tired of people trying to fix problems with solutions that are worse than the problems themselves. There's a reason you don't use air stones in saltwater fish tanks. The fish can get air bloat, it mucks with the PH and you can kill off corals. Not to mention, it would have a giant skimmer effect which would likely pollute our beaches. To do this on a massive scale is like trying to combat global warming by inducing a nuclear winter. They can't even begin to anticipate the blowback of this. Enough already!
For that matter, stop trying to fix the credit crisis by borrowing 10s of trillions of dollars. Stop trying to fixing rising health care costs, by jacking up everybody's rates. Stop trying to fix terrorism, by bombing innocent people. Stop trying to end gang violence, by cracking down on drugs. Stop trying to save a little energy, by forcing me to buy toxic light bulbs. Stop trying to end piracy, by forcing DRM on people.
Basically, every big "inspired" solution to our problems introduces a whole new set of problems, that then demand a new solutions. I've never once, seen anything major get fixed in my 36 years on this planet. Not once. I just want everyone in power to pull their dicks out of our asses for a year or two, so that we can have a chance to recover from all their fucking "solutions."
That's one of the main reasons I never moved back to NY. Even in my early 20s it wasn't worth it because of their community rating. I would have had to pay five times what I was paying in Colorado (almost as much as my rent). Now we're going to get that hell across the entire nation and for the first time in my life, I'll likely cancel my health insurance.
If conservatives had a say, you'd be able to buy from a cheaper provider across state lines. What you are in fact complaining about, is a lack of a free market.
Well, that didn't take long. I knew the supporters of this bill would blame the Republicans when it blows up in their faces, but I was kind of waiting for the blow up first. It's not like ANY Republicans voted for this version either, so why don't the Democrats just pass what they'd like and then take credit for its "greatness?"
The thing about RTSes is that even though the older games often offer better gameplay, I can never go back to the old control systems. I somehow missed out on the whole starcraft thing and tried to play it a few years after, but couldn't handle it, due to an inability to group more than something like 8 units at a time. Supreme Commander may have gone overboard on the graphics, but I simple won't bother with an RTS anymore that doesn't have strategic zoom and the ability to infinitely queue your actions. Sins did this too, but it actually had a functional AI as well (although not the innovative supreme commander style economy). So while I agree with you about the need to stop focusing so much on the graphics, I don't think that's stopped the genre (RTS anyway) from substantially improving on other fronts.
No, that's my point. Inadvertent dick moves are to be expected, and I never have a problem with them outside of Colorado Springs. I had no issues with drivers when I lived in NY or Seattle. But after 15 years here, I've learned they are deliberate. It's not confusion when they (almost ALWAYS pick up truck drivers) speed up to get in front of you, slam on their brakes and laugh in the mirror (a daily occurrence). It's mind-boggling. I've mentioned this to people living here and several have even fessed up that they do that on purpose all the time. I even once heard a couple of radio show callers admit to that being their "style."
They claim they just want to get people to slow down. But nine times out of ten, when this happens to me, I'm usually going 5 to 10 under the speed limit to begin with. In fact, it's a good day when I can even hit the speed limit here, what with all the games people play (despite few cars and massive three lane roads everywhere). I had one guy tell me that he just doesn't like little Japanese cars and that's why he does it. But it is definitely deliberate. They go out of their way to screw over people they don't even know and shouldn't care about. And of course, no matter what they do to me, I never try to pay them back. Cause it's just a car ride and I only want to get from point A to point B, and I'm not a total dick like most of the people in this town. I'd say that about 4 out of 5 people I've met here have moved out (of the Springs) within five years over similar complaints over the people here just being "wrong," so it's not just me.
Yeah, I grew up in NY and moved out to Colorado after college. At first, I was put off by all of the "politeness." I just didn't trust it. I just assumed that when the store workers came up and asked if they could help me, that they were really just making sure I wasn't shoplifting anything. Over the years, I got used to it and NY now seems a little strange to me by comparison.
But recently, I've come to realize that people aren't really more polite out here, they're just going through the motions. At least in Colorado Springs, there is this strong passive-aggressive vibe that underlies everything. It's most noticeable while driving, but I see it everywhere now. People here will fuck you over with a smile (for no advantage) and no one wants anything to do with anyone else. NY is far more sociable and people don't let their rage get all pent up like they do in "laid back" Colorado. After spending 15 years out here and 21 in NY (plus the yearly visit), I'd say that NY definitely has the more likable people. Get rid of the crazy politics and cost of living (the former leading to the latter) and I'd move back in a heart beat.
"Market Forces" you mean let the ISPs charge whatever they want for poor service and very poor speed and uptime? Market forces only work when there is competition, in my area I got once choice.
So, I'm confused. Are market forces good or are they bad?
I dunno. He's got so much on his plate, I'm wondering if he's starting to lose his marbles. I mean, seriously, Monopoly the Movie???? I've never known an aging director to improve over time. See Lucas, Spielberg, Cameron, Stone, etc.
However, if he's still got the stuff, I'd much rather Ridley follow through on his plans to shoot "The Forever War". That's an easy to film, hard sci-fi book that would still appeal to the masses (and even the chicks among them). Won a Hugo and Nebula award too. Of all the sci-fi books I've read, I can't think of another that's more filmable or summer blockbuster worthy. Foundation, on the other hand, is so beyond Emmerich (or even Ridley) that we're simply not going to see it get made.
Although I'm dreading the "simplification" of the economy, I'm much more looking forward to Supreme Commander 2. The AI might have sucked in the first one, but the strategic zoom and infinite queuing of tasks has added more to the genre IMO, than anything the original starcraft ever did. Not to mention the scope.
Still, as an RTS junkie, I'll be interested in seeing what the new Starcraft will offer. Hopefully they don't continue the unfortunate RTS trend of focusing more on offense, to the exclusive of defense and the intricacies of building up an economy.
Oh who am I kidding? I hope they both suck. I need them to suck. RTSes are as bad as any drug out there. Maybe worse. At least you can do other things while high on drugs. You can't do anything else while wasting your time on an RTS. Except perhaps, drugs....hmmm.
One of the reasons I like gentoo is that watching the compiler messages scroll up the screen makes it feel like a movie computer. They always have a window with messages scrolling quickly by. The true fancy computer interfaces reduce clutter and can look rather boring on (movie) screen.
I've been waiting for this forever because I always assumed I was right up against the limit and it really kept me from downloading as much as I would have liked for years. But I recently added a Tomato flashed router and I now realize I can download 3 or even 4 times what I've been grabbing. So my downloads have gone up a bit since then, but only by a little. The real limiting factor for me now is drive space. That includes the primary and two or more backups. I'm swimming in ram, haven't needed to update my video card in years, I'm getting by with an old CPU, but disk space is the one system component that can't keep up to my needs these days. The sizes aren't growing fast enough, the quality has been plummeting and the average video bitrates have more than doubled from a few years ago. I don't even have the (full) tower space in my server to be able to rip all my DVDs.
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Most careers don't use Macs in the workplace so what exactly are they preparing them for? I guess they're just teaching them conformity. That's all schools seem to do these days.
More precisely, the claim is that it was never fulled ratified and therefore not an amendment. And that even if it was, income was defined as having to do with financial investments and therefore the law can make no claim against wages (i.e. the money exchanged for your labor). It's become inverted over time with wages now being taxed at a higher percentage than the gambling income on Wall Street.
Jeez, it's like these dudes have never watched Star Trek.
...it's people. There are too many middle men out there with their own agendas for me to know what's true or not. And I've seen too many theories come and go to give any group the benefit of the doubt. Ironically enough, much of the skepticism we see nowadays is a vindication of the scientific method itself.
Wow, that's the hottest thing I've ever read on slashdot. She wants it, but she thinks it's bad, but she wants it? That's the plot of half the porn flicks out there. That's the kind of issue you cultivate, not fix.
Who's we paleface? Isn't the cause of all our problems blundering around, not knowing what we're doing? Why would you think that's also the solution to all our problems?
If you're on the right you're for less government, if you're on the left you're for more government. People get confused because every politician is on the left so they start coming up with new artificial distinctions (like war and social issues) to define the two sides. Bush was one of the biggest socialists/fascists this country has every seen until Obama came along, but he called himself conservative, so now everyone blames the problems of big government on the right.
The truth is that there is no substantive difference between Bush and Obama, so people throw these terms around to express their hatred for the other side, but they're really just reflecting the self-loathing they have for their own side's hypocrisy. The Republican / Democratic split doesn't represent the true divide in this country. The true divide is between (small l) libertarians and statists.
Sure, if you take extra precautions with the buffer-overflow languages, your software can be just a secure. But in the real world, that's almost never the case. Projects are always rushed and mistakes happen. Every team has one or more weak links. And what coder prefers burdensome process to development anyway? Anyone who promotes C/C++ over Java for a back-end enterprise application is not a professional IMO. They come across as stubborn basement hackers who can't keep their resumes up to date. C/C++ was never much more than a macro assembly language, and like assembly, not appropriate for most (non-single-person-genius) projects.
The meetings are what justify their existence. That's all management does. They meet with their subordinates to find out what's going on and then meet with their superiors to pass that information along. Occasionally, they'll make decisions that get in everyone's way and make the job take longer. But most of the day to day decisions are made by the workers. For what managers really do, you can have low paid interns take care of it.
Managers are little more than glorified welfare queens. And most jobs these days seem to have a one to one manager to worker ratio (throwing in PMs and tech leads). Actually, the job I'm at now has it at 2 to 1 presently. And of course this leads to the need for all sorts of metrics and monitoring tools that completely sap the productivity of the workers. Just about every project I've ever been on takes about 20 times longer than it should take because of the influence of management. I'm not saying that management can be done away with entirely, but you can safely trim out 90% of it, invest in tools (like computers less than 10 years old) and see tremendous productivity gains. Of course, it's not about productivity or the bottom line, it's all just a form of privatized welfare.
Wow, the government supports something that means more revenue for itself and more derivative trading schemes for their banker buddies? I would have expected the investigation to go the other way.
I feel sorry for true AGW believers. If they're right, western governments and the IPCC sure seem to be doing their best to fuck it up lately. AGW may in fact be true, but it just looks like such a con job at this point that I can never be for upturning the economy over it. And of course, I'll take global warming over an (overdue) ice age any day, so I wouldn't recognize the urgency, even if it were true.
Why not go back to fighting good old fashioned pollution? That's something everyone can get on board with. What about the disappearing honey bee and genetically modified foods? There are all sorts of environmental problems out there that have been ignored in favor of this (seemingly) manufactured issue.
Ahh, but doing nothing is not an option. At least, you can't turn on the news without hearing that. Every time I hear someone say it, I finish their sentence with, "said Hitler to the Jews." If I recall, he had a "solution" too that didn't work out so well for many people.
Geoengineering is such a spectacularly bad idea as to warrant armed revolt in order to prevent it.
That was my reaction as well. I'm so tired of people trying to fix problems with solutions that are worse than the problems themselves. There's a reason you don't use air stones in saltwater fish tanks. The fish can get air bloat, it mucks with the PH and you can kill off corals. Not to mention, it would have a giant skimmer effect which would likely pollute our beaches. To do this on a massive scale is like trying to combat global warming by inducing a nuclear winter. They can't even begin to anticipate the blowback of this. Enough already!
For that matter, stop trying to fix the credit crisis by borrowing 10s of trillions of dollars. Stop trying to fixing rising health care costs, by jacking up everybody's rates. Stop trying to fix terrorism, by bombing innocent people. Stop trying to end gang violence, by cracking down on drugs. Stop trying to save a little energy, by forcing me to buy toxic light bulbs. Stop trying to end piracy, by forcing DRM on people.
Basically, every big "inspired" solution to our problems introduces a whole new set of problems, that then demand a new solutions. I've never once, seen anything major get fixed in my 36 years on this planet. Not once. I just want everyone in power to pull their dicks out of our asses for a year or two, so that we can have a chance to recover from all their fucking "solutions."
Probably has a more complicated activation process than a real reactor too.
That's one of the main reasons I never moved back to NY. Even in my early 20s it wasn't worth it because of their community rating. I would have had to pay five times what I was paying in Colorado (almost as much as my rent). Now we're going to get that hell across the entire nation and for the first time in my life, I'll likely cancel my health insurance.
If conservatives had a say, you'd be able to buy from a cheaper provider across state lines. What you are in fact complaining about, is a lack of a free market.
Well, that didn't take long. I knew the supporters of this bill would blame the Republicans when it blows up in their faces, but I was kind of waiting for the blow up first. It's not like ANY Republicans voted for this version either, so why don't the Democrats just pass what they'd like and then take credit for its "greatness?"
The thing about RTSes is that even though the older games often offer better gameplay, I can never go back to the old control systems. I somehow missed out on the whole starcraft thing and tried to play it a few years after, but couldn't handle it, due to an inability to group more than something like 8 units at a time. Supreme Commander may have gone overboard on the graphics, but I simple won't bother with an RTS anymore that doesn't have strategic zoom and the ability to infinitely queue your actions. Sins did this too, but it actually had a functional AI as well (although not the innovative supreme commander style economy). So while I agree with you about the need to stop focusing so much on the graphics, I don't think that's stopped the genre (RTS anyway) from substantially improving on other fronts.
Which educated and healthy society were you referring to? I'd like to move there.
No, that's my point. Inadvertent dick moves are to be expected, and I never have a problem with them outside of Colorado Springs. I had no issues with drivers when I lived in NY or Seattle. But after 15 years here, I've learned they are deliberate. It's not confusion when they (almost ALWAYS pick up truck drivers) speed up to get in front of you, slam on their brakes and laugh in the mirror (a daily occurrence). It's mind-boggling. I've mentioned this to people living here and several have even fessed up that they do that on purpose all the time. I even once heard a couple of radio show callers admit to that being their "style."
They claim they just want to get people to slow down. But nine times out of ten, when this happens to me, I'm usually going 5 to 10 under the speed limit to begin with. In fact, it's a good day when I can even hit the speed limit here, what with all the games people play (despite few cars and massive three lane roads everywhere). I had one guy tell me that he just doesn't like little Japanese cars and that's why he does it. But it is definitely deliberate. They go out of their way to screw over people they don't even know and shouldn't care about. And of course, no matter what they do to me, I never try to pay them back. Cause it's just a car ride and I only want to get from point A to point B, and I'm not a total dick like most of the people in this town. I'd say that about 4 out of 5 people I've met here have moved out (of the Springs) within five years over similar complaints over the people here just being "wrong," so it's not just me.
Yeah, I grew up in NY and moved out to Colorado after college. At first, I was put off by all of the "politeness." I just didn't trust it. I just assumed that when the store workers came up and asked if they could help me, that they were really just making sure I wasn't shoplifting anything. Over the years, I got used to it and NY now seems a little strange to me by comparison.
But recently, I've come to realize that people aren't really more polite out here, they're just going through the motions. At least in Colorado Springs, there is this strong passive-aggressive vibe that underlies everything. It's most noticeable while driving, but I see it everywhere now. People here will fuck you over with a smile (for no advantage) and no one wants anything to do with anyone else. NY is far more sociable and people don't let their rage get all pent up like they do in "laid back" Colorado. After spending 15 years out here and 21 in NY (plus the yearly visit), I'd say that NY definitely has the more likable people. Get rid of the crazy politics and cost of living (the former leading to the latter) and I'd move back in a heart beat.
"Market Forces" you mean let the ISPs charge whatever they want for poor service and very poor speed and uptime? Market forces only work when there is competition, in my area I got once choice.
So, I'm confused. Are market forces good or are they bad?
I dunno. He's got so much on his plate, I'm wondering if he's starting to lose his marbles. I mean, seriously, Monopoly the Movie???? I've never known an aging director to improve over time. See Lucas, Spielberg, Cameron, Stone, etc.
However, if he's still got the stuff, I'd much rather Ridley follow through on his plans to shoot "The Forever War". That's an easy to film, hard sci-fi book that would still appeal to the masses (and even the chicks among them). Won a Hugo and Nebula award too. Of all the sci-fi books I've read, I can't think of another that's more filmable or summer blockbuster worthy. Foundation, on the other hand, is so beyond Emmerich (or even Ridley) that we're simply not going to see it get made.
Although I'm dreading the "simplification" of the economy, I'm much more looking forward to Supreme Commander 2. The AI might have sucked in the first one, but the strategic zoom and infinite queuing of tasks has added more to the genre IMO, than anything the original starcraft ever did. Not to mention the scope.
Still, as an RTS junkie, I'll be interested in seeing what the new Starcraft will offer. Hopefully they don't continue the unfortunate RTS trend of focusing more on offense, to the exclusive of defense and the intricacies of building up an economy.
Oh who am I kidding? I hope they both suck. I need them to suck. RTSes are as bad as any drug out there. Maybe worse. At least you can do other things while high on drugs. You can't do anything else while wasting your time on an RTS. Except perhaps, drugs....hmmm.
One of the reasons I like gentoo is that watching the compiler messages scroll up the screen makes it feel like a movie computer. They always have a window with messages scrolling quickly by. The true fancy computer interfaces reduce clutter and can look rather boring on (movie) screen.
How is an asteroid collision more exciting than some kind of funky, very rare asteroid/comet hybrid?
I've been waiting for this forever because I always assumed I was right up against the limit and it really kept me from downloading as much as I would have liked for years. But I recently added a Tomato flashed router and I now realize I can download 3 or even 4 times what I've been grabbing. So my downloads have gone up a bit since then, but only by a little. The real limiting factor for me now is drive space. That includes the primary and two or more backups. I'm swimming in ram, haven't needed to update my video card in years, I'm getting by with an old CPU, but disk space is the one system component that can't keep up to my needs these days. The sizes aren't growing fast enough, the quality has been plummeting and the average video bitrates have more than doubled from a few years ago. I don't even have the (full) tower space in my server to be able to rip all my DVDs.