God either wants to eliminate bad things and cannot, or can but does not want to, or neither wishes to nor can, or both wants to and can. If he wants to and cannot, then he is weak - and this does not apply to god. If he can but does not want to, then he is spiteful - which is equally foreign to god's nature. If he neither wants to nor can, he is both weak and spiteful, and so not a god. If he wants to and can, which is the only thing fitting for a god, where then do bad things come from? Or why does he not eliminate them?
The article is extremely flimsy on the details - the only thing I can imagine worth discussing for the Red Cross, of all organizations, is: the red cross is an internationally protected and recognized symbol of protection and according to the convention's rules, medical personnel and vehicles with that sign may not be attacked and/or destroyed. In turn, the symbol may only be associated with medical care; under no circumstances are personnel or vehicles baring that symbol allowed to transport weapons or engage in active combat!
With video games and gamers surely not caring too much about that, maybe the Red Cross just wants to make sure the symbol isn't being abused anywhere, video games included?
Well, the first pop product (after prostitution) that was engineered and marketed to appeal to the masses and offer something for everybody: christianity!
Why would a billionaire stand in line all night long to get a cellphone that his company sells?
Because he frakking CAN, that's why. There are certain privileges to enjoy when you are a billionaire and most of your current customers (or actually most people in the country) have no idea who you are... this has got to be one of them.
A lot of the comments here focus on the professional side of what you should do. I think the social side of work is just as important. Go to lunch with your team, go have a smoke or a coffee break with people, just talk to them and find out what their interests are or discuss some problems you are currently working on. Having to describe your problem to somebody can itself give you new ideas how to solve it or their suggestions could be helpful too. Get to know the people who are working there, their professional and their personal side. Also, if the guys there are doing any activities outside of work together then you might want to join in. Or join them when some of them go grab a beer in the evenings!
Don't be afraid to put your foot down if you ever have to but just generally be yourself, be authentic and be a likable, sociable person without sucking up of course. Plus do your job. Then you should be just fine.
This is a similiar flaw to believing that ISO certification means that a company will always create great products.
It is a common misconception that an ISO certification certifies the actual product quality in any way.
Those standards and a certification received from ISO does not in any way certify the actual, highly subjective product quality perceived by the customer. Rather, it consists of rules and guidelines which your business processes and business process descriptions have to adhere to - e.g. you need to have a process description at all, to begin with, and it has to be accurate, people should "live it" and there should be means of continual improvement, you need to keep track of defects etc.
Generally speaking, you could produce highly defective foobar and still be ISO certified - of course the ultimate goal of all that process yadda yadda has to be to finally improve your products and/or make more profit but in itself ISO 900x certifies the quality of your red tape - you know, those documents nobody would usually touch with a 10ft. pole if it wasn't for making it through the much-loved re-certification.
CONCORD reports heavy inbound jumpgate congestion caused by gangs of Hulks, Skiffs and haulers on their way to get some sweet, sweet ore out of those roids.
But, ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, I have one final thing I want you to consider. Ladies and gentlemen, this is Chewbacca. Chewbacca is a Wookiee from the planet Kashyyyk. But Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor. Now think about it; that does not make sense! Why would a Wookiee, an eight-foot tall Wookiee, want to live on Endor, with a bunch of two-foot tall Ewoks? That does not make sense! But more important, you have to ask yourself: What does this have to do with this case? Nothing. Ladies and gentlemen, it has nothing to do with this case! It does not make sense! Look at me. I'm a lawyer defending a major motion picture company, and I'm talkin' about Chewbacca! Does that make sense? Ladies and gentlemen, I am not making any sense! None of this makes sense!
But the point is not if you are able or unable to do something else, the point is that you want to get paid by the insurance if you are suddenly disabled and cannot do what you want to do. (programming, being an actor/actress etc.)
Any actor could still go and work for Pizza Hut or Burger King with or without a leg and this would defenitely increase the profit of the fastfood company he or she is working for. So for them, would be no problem to get an other job either.
It is just a question of what you pay for the insurance.
The real problem I see is, that the insurance would make you pay a real lot of bucks for insuring your hands or eyesight. Famous actor could rather afford this than geeks with good salary.
As for my point of view, which might be a bit "misanthropic", I do not fear the problem of overpopulation so much because up to a certain maximum, men see to be highly able to live in very small places, close to each other. And if this maximum is reached, there will be new places for living. Just think of the wast area you got at the seaground and the area still covered with rainforest. Sad but true, one day we might be breathing fresh air produced by machines...
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Came for this, leaving satisfied!! This thread will go to plaid soon.
"Score:5, Insightful" - really??? Did I get forwarded to reddit somehow?
God either wants to eliminate bad things and cannot, or can but does not want to, or neither wishes to nor can, or both wants to and can. If he wants to and cannot, then he is weak - and this does not apply to god. If he can but does not want to, then he is spiteful - which is equally foreign to god's nature. If he neither wants to nor can, he is both weak and spiteful, and so not a god. If he wants to and can, which is the only thing fitting for a god, where then do bad things come from? Or why does he not eliminate them?
> how the companies who install pre-loaded crapware will like this.
Yea, my new PC came with Win7 and can you imagine, it had the frakking Bing bar preinstalled!
The article is extremely flimsy on the details - the only thing I can imagine worth discussing for the Red Cross, of all organizations, is: the red cross is an internationally protected and recognized symbol of protection and according to the convention's rules, medical personnel and vehicles with that sign may not be attacked and/or destroyed. In turn, the symbol may only be associated with medical care; under no circumstances are personnel or vehicles baring that symbol allowed to transport weapons or engage in active combat!
With video games and gamers surely not caring too much about that, maybe the Red Cross just wants to make sure the symbol isn't being abused anywhere, video games included?
Hello from OS X Lion - I like it and I consider myself a power user.
Well, the first pop product (after prostitution) that was engineered and marketed to appeal to the masses and offer something for everybody: christianity!
Nothing will ever come of this. One crackpot idea from an idiot who knows nothing about technology does not constitute a reasonable proposal
Well, hold on there just a second... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zugangserschwerungsgesetz
Why would a billionaire stand in line all night long to get a cellphone that his company sells?
Because he frakking CAN, that's why. There are certain privileges to enjoy when you are a billionaire and most of your current customers (or actually most people in the country) have no idea who you are... this has got to be one of them.
A lot of the comments here focus on the professional side of what you should do. I think the social side of work is just as important. Go to lunch with your team, go have a smoke or a coffee break with people, just talk to them and find out what their interests are or discuss some problems you are currently working on. Having to describe your problem to somebody can itself give you new ideas how to solve it or their suggestions could be helpful too.
Get to know the people who are working there, their professional and their personal side.
Also, if the guys there are doing any activities outside of work together then you might want to join in. Or join them when some of them go grab a beer in the evenings!
Don't be afraid to put your foot down if you ever have to but just generally be yourself, be authentic and be a likable, sociable person without sucking up of course. Plus do your job. Then you should be just fine.
This is a similiar flaw to believing that ISO certification means that a company will always create great products.
It is a common misconception that an ISO certification certifies the actual product quality in any way.
Those standards and a certification received from ISO does not in any way certify the actual, highly subjective product quality perceived by the customer. Rather, it consists of rules and guidelines which your business processes and business process descriptions have to adhere to - e.g. you need to have a process description at all, to begin with, and it has to be accurate, people should "live it" and there should be means of continual improvement, you need to keep track of defects etc.
Generally speaking, you could produce highly defective foobar and still be ISO certified - of course the ultimate goal of all that process yadda yadda has to be to finally improve your products and/or make more profit but in itself ISO 900x certifies the quality of your red tape - you know, those documents nobody would usually touch with a 10ft. pole if it wasn't for making it through the much-loved re-certification.
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(I am assuming, of course, you were refering to the iso 9000 family of standards)
CONCORD reports heavy inbound jumpgate congestion caused by gangs of Hulks, Skiffs and haulers on their way to get some sweet, sweet ore out of those roids.
Yea, I can totally picture this...
But, ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, I have one final thing I want you to consider. Ladies and gentlemen, this is Chewbacca. Chewbacca is a Wookiee from the planet Kashyyyk. But Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor. Now think about it; that does not make sense! Why would a Wookiee, an eight-foot tall Wookiee, want to live on Endor, with a bunch of two-foot tall Ewoks? That does not make sense! But more important, you have to ask yourself: What does this have to do with this case? Nothing. Ladies and gentlemen, it has nothing to do with this case! It does not make sense! Look at me. I'm a lawyer defending a major motion picture company, and I'm talkin' about Chewbacca! Does that make sense? Ladies and gentlemen, I am not making any sense! None of this makes sense!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chewbacca_Defense
Any actor could still go and work for Pizza Hut or Burger King with or without a leg and this would defenitely increase the profit of the fastfood company he or she is working for. So for them, would be no problem to get an other job either. It is just a question of what you pay for the insurance.
The real problem I see is, that the insurance would make you pay a real lot of bucks for insuring your hands or eyesight. Famous actor could rather afford this than geeks with good salary.
Men have the incredible ability to find a way out even in the worst situations.