Ha. this is a joke. In between page 5 and the flood we have 9 foot tall giants. Care to provide evidence? I hate how theists always seem to hide behind the idea that there god is unfalsifiable (not that it is really something to brag about, since it pretty much means you have made a nonsense claim), while also making all sorts of empirically FALSIFIED claims, showing their disregard for empirical evidence.
I would say that his phd is certainly a waste of societies resources, if it is not even being used in any way. A theologian who holds a position without defending it is clearly not thinking critically. Also, thinking hard is not the same as thinking smart. You could spend your entire life studying your beliefs without ever seriously challenging them (aka "faith").
The Vatican also owns the largest collection of astronomy records in existence...whoop dee doo. Who cares if the guy was a priest; not a true rationalist.
Nope. John Paul II believed in evolution. They have not pushed creationism in any sense for a while now (circa Vatican II). They do not assert either position and pretty much keep a "leave science to science" attitude. I am personally an atheist, but I have found catholics to be fairly science-friendly, especially compared to the rest these days. If only they could also be women-friendly, gay-friendly, etc.
I could not agree more. I spent a year at tech school before transferring over to 4 year and saved thousands. I will also add that 100k worth of debt is ridiculous in most circumstances. Go to an in state school and you will not have anything remotely close to that. Sure, if you get into Harvard, then it might be justified, but most people with this kind of debt are simply not shopping around enough or taking advantage of in-state programs. In my state you could easily go to the best state school with 30k in debt, living pretty comfortably, without a secondary job. On top of that, there is no reason NOT to have a job in school. I worked my sophmore to senior years and got through without debt those years. With my first year at a tech school, I ended up with only 2k in debt. For all of the complaining I hear, I had no trouble at all getting an education without selling my soul to the banks.
Reality check here. The market for lawyers in the US is oversaturated, meaning that most of the ones who get employed out of school are doing work that used to be paralegal grunt work with paralegal pay. Contrast that with me or any software developer I know with any skills from this decade: 2-3 unsolicited job offers a week. In most US markets companies are fighting tooth and nail over every single Java or.Net developer they can (not to bash on any other platforms, these are just the most common). I have heard the stories about unemployed programmers, but I have yet to meet one, and I find it hard to believe they are all that common when my inbox is constantly flooded with emails from recruiters, and there is really nothing special about me.
Could not agree more. Agree with the direction or not, Google is trying to make the experience better (a social layer could have benefits), so that they can profit more. They are not interested in making the experience better if it will not lead to increased profits...why would they?! Most of us do not think G+ is implemented that well yet or that it is not worth the privacy tradeoffs, but they absolutely zero reason to try to use an open platform.
This is just part of the scientific process. Stuff usually does not stick. It is most often falsified. As more things are falsified, we end up with a better overall understanding of the processes we are trying to understand. Although it may be a bit disturbing if scientists are being dishonest, other researchers have a very strong incentive to go back and fact check.
You don't have to support every browser or email client. Tell your users that Outlook is the supported email client and ie is the supported browser. If they want something else, go for it, but they better know how to use it. If they run into a problem, you reserve the right to say "Here is how it works in X, would you like me to switch you back". I would be willing to bet that the people who go out of the way to install their favorite alternative, are unlikely to be the same people who "cant find the dang garn printin pdf buttin".
The corporate IT world often does not allow users to install whatever they want. At an old company I worked for, we realized that one of our clients was still running ie6. ie6 lacked a lot of functionality required to run our latest products. When we asked them to upgrade, their IT department simply refused. We had to simply walk away from the contract.
This is outside the norm for sure, but clearly the 9-5 world can lag a bit behind what people are using at home.
If he was really being brutally curb-stomped the way it has been described, it seems unlikely that his injuries would only be visible the night of in an enhanced video. In fact at this point, he would STILL probably look like hell.
I graduated from university 2.5 years ago, and believe I know a thing or two about the job market for young professionals. I have friends in finance, business, law, etc. One by one, here is what I have seen:
Finance - Typically when people talk about finance, they have in mind the Wall Street traders making 600,000 a year with a brownstone in NYC. This is a TINY fraction of the industry, reserved for the most elite in the field. These few are the outlier not the norm. The norm for finance is working for some small regional bank processing mutual fund paperwork pulling in 30 a year if you can find a job in the industry at all after school.
Business - A business degree might as well be any degree in the humanities these days. A member of my family has been working as a career advisor for an MBA program for a well known school for the past 10 years. Their top MBA student last year couldn't find a well paying job for a couple months after graduating before he settled for a position that probably barely required an undergrad paying just shy of 40k.
Law - I still have a lot of friends going into law school (mostly business and finance undergrads tired of waiting tables). At least in my area, the market for lawyers is 100% saturated. A lot of law graduates are stuck working as paralegals still. There is still money to be made in law if you specialize in something wacky, but good luck building up that expertise in the first place if you cannot get your foot in the door.
Engineering (non-software) - Mechanical seems to be doing well, but I would hate to be in civil engineering with this construction market the way it is. My chemical/electrical/mechanical friends have been doing well, while my civil friends have had it pretty rough.
Software Engineering - Me, and every software engineer friend I have, receive unsolicited job offers every week. I have been offered a position at every software company that I have heard of in my area (a medium sized city) without even trying. I make about twice what my best paid business friend makes, all with less stress, better benefits, and virtually no grunt work.
I am no Silicon Valley superstar and none of my friends are Wall Street superstars; we are just regular people in different industries in an average US city, which is what we really should be talking about here. Who cares if the CEO of BofA makes x million dollars in his sleep? That is not at all representative of your average "business person", and is akin to claiming that software engineers are all fat cats since the founders of Google have enough money to buy the moon. Sure, software engineering has pay caps, but c'mon, they are still in the 6 figures in most markets. Also, if you build something yourself and start a company off of it, salary caps disappear.
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I'm not too surprised. We have a long history of believing things just to be able to tell a neat story.
Ha. this is a joke. In between page 5 and the flood we have 9 foot tall giants. Care to provide evidence? I hate how theists always seem to hide behind the idea that there god is unfalsifiable (not that it is really something to brag about, since it pretty much means you have made a nonsense claim), while also making all sorts of empirically FALSIFIED claims, showing their disregard for empirical evidence.
Good try, but I think we all know which side would win a true tally of evil bastards. Regardless, these arguments are useless from either side.
I would say that his phd is certainly a waste of societies resources, if it is not even being used in any way. A theologian who holds a position without defending it is clearly not thinking critically. Also, thinking hard is not the same as thinking smart. You could spend your entire life studying your beliefs without ever seriously challenging them (aka "faith").
The Vatican also owns the largest collection of astronomy records in existence...whoop dee doo. Who cares if the guy was a priest; not a true rationalist.
Well.... Technically they do.
Nope. John Paul II believed in evolution. They have not pushed creationism in any sense for a while now (circa Vatican II). They do not assert either position and pretty much keep a "leave science to science" attitude. I am personally an atheist, but I have found catholics to be fairly science-friendly, especially compared to the rest these days. If only they could also be women-friendly, gay-friendly, etc.
I believe it should be "boob(s)"
Last I checked, that is a pretty good description. I will start looking for a divine being as soon as humans stop being the way they have always been.
I could not agree more. I spent a year at tech school before transferring over to 4 year and saved thousands. I will also add that 100k worth of debt is ridiculous in most circumstances. Go to an in state school and you will not have anything remotely close to that. Sure, if you get into Harvard, then it might be justified, but most people with this kind of debt are simply not shopping around enough or taking advantage of in-state programs. In my state you could easily go to the best state school with 30k in debt, living pretty comfortably, without a secondary job. On top of that, there is no reason NOT to have a job in school. I worked my sophmore to senior years and got through without debt those years. With my first year at a tech school, I ended up with only 2k in debt. For all of the complaining I hear, I had no trouble at all getting an education without selling my soul to the banks.
I am always amazed at how incapable of Googling the average user seems to be.
Reality check here. The market for lawyers in the US is oversaturated, meaning that most of the ones who get employed out of school are doing work that used to be paralegal grunt work with paralegal pay. Contrast that with me or any software developer I know with any skills from this decade: 2-3 unsolicited job offers a week. In most US markets companies are fighting tooth and nail over every single Java or .Net developer they can (not to bash on any other platforms, these are just the most common). I have heard the stories about unemployed programmers, but I have yet to meet one, and I find it hard to believe they are all that common when my inbox is constantly flooded with emails from recruiters, and there is really nothing special about me.
Could not agree more. Agree with the direction or not, Google is trying to make the experience better (a social layer could have benefits), so that they can profit more. They are not interested in making the experience better if it will not lead to increased profits...why would they?! Most of us do not think G+ is implemented that well yet or that it is not worth the privacy tradeoffs, but they absolutely zero reason to try to use an open platform.
This is just part of the scientific process. Stuff usually does not stick. It is most often falsified. As more things are falsified, we end up with a better overall understanding of the processes we are trying to understand. Although it may be a bit disturbing if scientists are being dishonest, other researchers have a very strong incentive to go back and fact check.
You don't have to support every browser or email client. Tell your users that Outlook is the supported email client and ie is the supported browser. If they want something else, go for it, but they better know how to use it. If they run into a problem, you reserve the right to say "Here is how it works in X, would you like me to switch you back". I would be willing to bet that the people who go out of the way to install their favorite alternative, are unlikely to be the same people who "cant find the dang garn printin pdf buttin".
The corporate IT world often does not allow users to install whatever they want. At an old company I worked for, we realized that one of our clients was still running ie6. ie6 lacked a lot of functionality required to run our latest products. When we asked them to upgrade, their IT department simply refused. We had to simply walk away from the contract.
This is outside the norm for sure, but clearly the 9-5 world can lag a bit behind what people are using at home.
If he was really being brutally curb-stomped the way it has been described, it seems unlikely that his injuries would only be visible the night of in an enhanced video. In fact at this point, he would STILL probably look like hell.
(I'm not joking; they've done it before.)
Reference please.
Wrong. The area was a gated community.
Actually, "in order to make jobs"
Lets get off 40 hours per week and go to 40 lines of code per week. This week...
.......
double mortgageRate = CalculateRate(principal, interest, currentDate);
mortgageRate = CalculateRate(principal, interest, currentDate);
mortgageRate = CalculateRate(principal, interest, currentDate);
mortgageRate = CalculateRate(principal, interest, currentDate);
mortgageRate = CalculateRate(principal, interest, currentDate);
mortgageRate = CalculateRate(principal, interest, currentDate);
mortgageRate = CalculateRate(principal, interest, currentDate);
mortgageRate = CalculateRate(principal, interest, currentDate);
mortgageRate = CalculateRate(principal, interest, currentDate);
mortgageRate = CalculateRate(principal, interest, currentDate);
mortgageRate = CalculateRate(principal, interest, currentDate);
return mortgageRate;
If the old people are all burnt out, then IME the new people train the old people.
I love to mess around with wacky new programming languages in my spare time, but when it comes to business there are only two things that matter:
1) Documentation
2) IDE quality
I graduated from university 2.5 years ago, and believe I know a thing or two about the job market for young professionals. I have friends in finance, business, law, etc. One by one, here is what I have seen: Finance - Typically when people talk about finance, they have in mind the Wall Street traders making 600,000 a year with a brownstone in NYC. This is a TINY fraction of the industry, reserved for the most elite in the field. These few are the outlier not the norm. The norm for finance is working for some small regional bank processing mutual fund paperwork pulling in 30 a year if you can find a job in the industry at all after school. Business - A business degree might as well be any degree in the humanities these days. A member of my family has been working as a career advisor for an MBA program for a well known school for the past 10 years. Their top MBA student last year couldn't find a well paying job for a couple months after graduating before he settled for a position that probably barely required an undergrad paying just shy of 40k. Law - I still have a lot of friends going into law school (mostly business and finance undergrads tired of waiting tables). At least in my area, the market for lawyers is 100% saturated. A lot of law graduates are stuck working as paralegals still. There is still money to be made in law if you specialize in something wacky, but good luck building up that expertise in the first place if you cannot get your foot in the door. Engineering (non-software) - Mechanical seems to be doing well, but I would hate to be in civil engineering with this construction market the way it is. My chemical/electrical/mechanical friends have been doing well, while my civil friends have had it pretty rough. Software Engineering - Me, and every software engineer friend I have, receive unsolicited job offers every week. I have been offered a position at every software company that I have heard of in my area (a medium sized city) without even trying. I make about twice what my best paid business friend makes, all with less stress, better benefits, and virtually no grunt work. I am no Silicon Valley superstar and none of my friends are Wall Street superstars; we are just regular people in different industries in an average US city, which is what we really should be talking about here. Who cares if the CEO of BofA makes x million dollars in his sleep? That is not at all representative of your average "business person", and is akin to claiming that software engineers are all fat cats since the founders of Google have enough money to buy the moon. Sure, software engineering has pay caps, but c'mon, they are still in the 6 figures in most markets. Also, if you build something yourself and start a company off of it, salary caps disappear.