Well, the argument seems to be that it sounds "wrong" because apparently "nobody" talks that way.
It's like when people say "anyways", despite it not being a word, and argue that it's part of the language because apparently everyone says it. Well, if we were to go with the tyranny of the majority, we'd all be confusing you're and your, use rediculous instead of ridiculous, and pretty much butcher the English language.
It's one thing for the occasional (and hopefully unintentional) mistake or two, but knowing that something is wrong and yet insisting on it is pitiable at best.
...but because it shows they are willing to stick it out and get the degree besides having to take a bunch of pre-requisite classes that bore them to tears, but they are hard working and ambitious enough to finish the job.
I'm curious to hear this. Because every subject that I've studied, I've always approached it as something worth learning. Then again, I've always pursued education in those subjects I found interesting.
But the point remains that I'm yet to find a class that "bored me to tears", and I've taken my fair share of classes in everything from arts, humanities, and social sciences to engineering and the sciences.
I fundamentally believe that if you go to school, it should be because you enjoy learning, and want to make the best you can of your education. Otherwise, you're going through the motions, and you're not going to learn anything worthwhile. Worse yet, your critical thinking abilities remain unchanged, defeating the very purpose of higher education.
Yes, because all management consultants from all the good universities do nothing useful.
Never mind the fact that the vast majority do things like business process optimization, operations research, market analysis, and technology strategy, with tangible benefits and real-world applicability.
Once again, we've someone with a poor grasp of basic and fundamental statistics making comments without reading the published paper. Well done. You are an idiot.
Eh. India's current Prime Minister is an economist, and used to teach at Oxford. And ironically enough, his son is an attorney for the ACLU (oops). However, the former President used to be a rocket scientist.
I've not consumed any soda for at least the past decade. However, I do drink a decent amount of coffee. The thing is, most "serious" coffee drinkers I know prefer espresso or variants thereof. Regular coffee, for the most part, tastes like swill in the US. Typically, I take a shot of espresso in the morning, and one in the afternoon. If I had a long night with little sleep, maybe a doppio in the morning. And if I had six shots of espresso, I'd probably have a heart attack.
And btw, the healthy eating practice is good. You'll notice an amazing change in how you feel, especially if you threw in a few workout sessions a week.
I fly several times a week, and except for those times I've opted out, I can remember two distinct times when the agent said I could go through the metal detector instead of the body scanner. It's funny, I see caucasian men being let through, and they notice me, and they make a couple of the men ahead of me go through the scanner as well, and then me, and the ones after me are all back to being happy campers.
Of course, in some places, they subject everyone from a 4 year old to an 90 year old to the scanner, but that's only the crazies.
Am I really? How exactly was I condescending to mainstream literature? I did say that people who were into "literature" as opposed to "reading books" tend to be elitist snobs, but that isn't slandering mainstream literature, or even the realm of literary criticism. I was merely pointing out that, if you characterize yourself as enjoying "literature" as opposed to "reading" you may be an elitist snob. Just say it to yourself: "I like reading books." Now say "I enjoy literature." Which sounded snobbier to you?
Neither sounds particularly snobbier -- one is a generic statement, and the other is more particular.
He said iPad 2, not iPad. This is 2011. People aren't comparing the PlayBook against a product they'd have to own a time machine to buy... compared to the competition today, the PlayBook appears to be a bad device. It's arguable about whether one would want to buy an iPad 1 (if they still made them) or a PlayBook due to the PlayBook's incomplete software, but that's not relevant to the market today.
Well, even so, the email and calendaring features of my iPad 1 beat the socks off the what RIM has to offer. Say what you will, Apple got the basics right in iPad 1 -- they treated it as a giant iPhone, and made sure that the same features were available without any strings attached.
Management consultant here. I usually help companies define their market strategy, find new ways of increasing revenue, new market research, customer segmentation and all that fun stuff.
One of the biggest advantages as a management consultant is that you've a direct channel to client executives and senior leadership. As a result, once you're done with the travel, it makes a lot of sense for you to settle down and take up a job in a leadership position at a client.
Plus, management consultants are aggressive Type A people and notorious workaholics, which works out great for both the company and the guy switching. Better yet, you can always use your consulting network to help solve problems you may encounter.
I've always wondered -- how would this work for future politicians from our generation?
All your comments, history etc are probably available in a multitude of places, and anyone with enough motivation can go around digging and find some pretty serious material. Combined with the fact that most people know (or care) little to nothing about privacy, you will have an entire generation of users with a good chunk of their private lives and opinions shared out on the Internet for everyone to see.
And knowing how we all have skeletons in our closets, and how we've all been immature at some point in time or the other in our lives, how many future politicians candidates can claim to be "squeaky clean"?
I mean, I see this primarily as a problem for the right more than the left, given how their voter base expects them to have "conservative values" or some such nonsense.
Your two statements are not mutually exclusive. One could be honest, yet greedy. A famous example would be Warren Buffett, who is perhaps the anti-thesis of the "evil, rich men" stereotype. However, he has quite honestly admitted that he is greedy, not because he covets wealth but because to him, money is a scorecard. And even so, he has shown himself to be a man of integrity - for instance, he has openly stated his disagreement with the concept of inheritance, and keeping in line with his beliefs, he has slated for most of his wealth (~90%) to be given away to various charitable organizations.
And unlike Zuckerberg, he is completely self-made, and is worth just as much (and has much more tangible holdings to his name, too).
Indeed. And if you'd read Tolkien's other writings, you'd know that he had always intended for Gandalf to return, since he is one of the Maiar. And Tolkien has referred to Gandalf as an angelic being, which would convey the implication of immortality.
Furthermore, Gandalf was supposedly modeled after Odin, who was, after all, a Norse god.
Plus, the analogy doesn't particularly hold true since Tolkien had originally intended to publish LoTR and The Silmarillion in a two-volume set, and it was the publishers who broke down LoTR into 3 parts. Anyone reading The Silmarillion would have easily known that Gandalf was, to put it plainly, quite immortal and an "angel" favorite of Manwe.
And given Tolkien's Christian inclinations, and him stating that Manwe will not return until the battle at the end of all time, Gandalf is pretty much backed by the most powerful of the good-guys.
This seems like an apt point in the conversation to pop in Heinlein's famous quote:
"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly." -- Robert A. Heinlein
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Dude, last we checked, Canada was part of North America. Get your geography basics right.
Well, the argument seems to be that it sounds "wrong" because apparently "nobody" talks that way.
It's like when people say "anyways", despite it not being a word, and argue that it's part of the language because apparently everyone says it. Well, if we were to go with the tyranny of the majority, we'd all be confusing you're and your, use rediculous instead of ridiculous, and pretty much butcher the English language.
It's one thing for the occasional (and hopefully unintentional) mistake or two, but knowing that something is wrong and yet insisting on it is pitiable at best.
Screw you, cupcake!
I don't agree with your post, but I do like your sig! Very nice. :-)
I'm curious to hear this. Because every subject that I've studied, I've always approached it as something worth learning. Then again, I've always pursued education in those subjects I found interesting.
But the point remains that I'm yet to find a class that "bored me to tears", and I've taken my fair share of classes in everything from arts, humanities, and social sciences to engineering and the sciences.
I fundamentally believe that if you go to school, it should be because you enjoy learning, and want to make the best you can of your education. Otherwise, you're going through the motions, and you're not going to learn anything worthwhile. Worse yet, your critical thinking abilities remain unchanged, defeating the very purpose of higher education.
Yes, because all management consultants from all the good universities do nothing useful.
Never mind the fact that the vast majority do things like business process optimization, operations research, market analysis, and technology strategy, with tangible benefits and real-world applicability.
I don't need a Duke Nukem thread to act like an asshole.
Ahh, yes. "I'm crazy and believe in a voice in the sky, but I'm just not as crazy as him!"
Arguably, craziness is probably an interval variable, but that would mean that you too are crazy, just to a lesser degree than him.
Once again, we've someone with a poor grasp of basic and fundamental statistics making comments without reading the published paper. Well done. You are an idiot.
Eh. India's current Prime Minister is an economist, and used to teach at Oxford. And ironically enough, his son is an attorney for the ACLU (oops). However, the former President used to be a rocket scientist.
I've not consumed any soda for at least the past decade. However, I do drink a decent amount of coffee. The thing is, most "serious" coffee drinkers I know prefer espresso or variants thereof. Regular coffee, for the most part, tastes like swill in the US. Typically, I take a shot of espresso in the morning, and one in the afternoon. If I had a long night with little sleep, maybe a doppio in the morning. And if I had six shots of espresso, I'd probably have a heart attack.
And btw, the healthy eating practice is good. You'll notice an amazing change in how you feel, especially if you threw in a few workout sessions a week.
You think it's not racist now?
I fly several times a week, and except for those times I've opted out, I can remember two distinct times when the agent said I could go through the metal detector instead of the body scanner. It's funny, I see caucasian men being let through, and they notice me, and they make a couple of the men ahead of me go through the scanner as well, and then me, and the ones after me are all back to being happy campers.
Of course, in some places, they subject everyone from a 4 year old to an 90 year old to the scanner, but that's only the crazies.
I wish I had the amount of free time you do. I'm not necessarily in IT, but I am lucky if I have a 60 hour work week.
Of course, reading posts such as yours makes me wish I had more free time that I could dedicate to personal projects and activities.
Bad idea. People will try to get the government to release him through hostages and other terrorist situations.
Thanks for derailing this thread with a perfectly sensible comment. You suck.
Clearly, the solution is to have the PhDs blow shit up. Military industrial complex FTW!
Neither sounds particularly snobbier -- one is a generic statement, and the other is more particular.
Well, even so, the email and calendaring features of my iPad 1 beat the socks off the what RIM has to offer. Say what you will, Apple got the basics right in iPad 1 -- they treated it as a giant iPhone, and made sure that the same features were available without any strings attached.
You'd think that RIM would have learnt by now...
Management consultant here. I usually help companies define their market strategy, find new ways of increasing revenue, new market research, customer segmentation and all that fun stuff.
One of the biggest advantages as a management consultant is that you've a direct channel to client executives and senior leadership. As a result, once you're done with the travel, it makes a lot of sense for you to settle down and take up a job in a leadership position at a client.
Plus, management consultants are aggressive Type A people and notorious workaholics, which works out great for both the company and the guy switching. Better yet, you can always use your consulting network to help solve problems you may encounter.
I've always wondered -- how would this work for future politicians from our generation?
All your comments, history etc are probably available in a multitude of places, and anyone with enough motivation can go around digging and find some pretty serious material. Combined with the fact that most people know (or care) little to nothing about privacy, you will have an entire generation of users with a good chunk of their private lives and opinions shared out on the Internet for everyone to see.
And knowing how we all have skeletons in our closets, and how we've all been immature at some point in time or the other in our lives, how many future politicians candidates can claim to be "squeaky clean"?
I mean, I see this primarily as a problem for the right more than the left, given how their voter base expects them to have "conservative values" or some such nonsense.
Your two statements are not mutually exclusive. One could be honest, yet greedy. A famous example would be Warren Buffett, who is perhaps the anti-thesis of the "evil, rich men" stereotype. However, he has quite honestly admitted that he is greedy, not because he covets wealth but because to him, money is a scorecard. And even so, he has shown himself to be a man of integrity - for instance, he has openly stated his disagreement with the concept of inheritance, and keeping in line with his beliefs, he has slated for most of his wealth (~90%) to be given away to various charitable organizations.
And unlike Zuckerberg, he is completely self-made, and is worth just as much (and has much more tangible holdings to his name, too).
Indeed. And if you'd read Tolkien's other writings, you'd know that he had always intended for Gandalf to return, since he is one of the Maiar. And Tolkien has referred to Gandalf as an angelic being, which would convey the implication of immortality.
Furthermore, Gandalf was supposedly modeled after Odin, who was, after all, a Norse god.
Plus, the analogy doesn't particularly hold true since Tolkien had originally intended to publish LoTR and The Silmarillion in a two-volume set, and it was the publishers who broke down LoTR into 3 parts. Anyone reading The Silmarillion would have easily known that Gandalf was, to put it plainly, quite immortal and an "angel" favorite of Manwe.
And given Tolkien's Christian inclinations, and him stating that Manwe will not return until the battle at the end of all time, Gandalf is pretty much backed by the most powerful of the good-guys.
You know, you win crazy points for just quoting Cryptonomicon. :-)
How quaint!
This seems like an apt point in the conversation to pop in Heinlein's famous quote: