My boss doesn't pay me anywhere near enough to just 'do what he tells me to do'. He pays me enough to do what is right and to solve the problems that the users need solved. I'm an expert at what I do. I am paid to be an expert at what I do.
My only problem with the movies is that he changed who the main character is. It went from the hobbits' story to Aragorn's story. Which meant he had to cut out the scouring of the shire which is my favorite chapter in the whole series. I think in a lot of ways, making it the story about the king instead of the story of the little people does kinda lose the spirit of the books.
The only actual people I've gotten jobs from are family (did some babysitting when I was younger). Since then I've only been employed by corporations, which are not people. Those corporations also employ founders/CEOs/other executives that get paid way more money that me for some nebulous job that I have never had satisfactorily explained to me. Hell several of my friends are employed by corporations, that they are the only employee of, that contract their work to other corporations.
The people that get paid the most in the corporation that I work for did not hire me, do not know my name and do not understand what I do. My hiring involved at least five separate people (most or all I get paid more than).
I think his point is that he loves the United States and he would like to be able to live in it. Not in what it is being turned into because of fear of a statistically tiny threat.
Depends on how you define value. The funniest posts tend to be ACs. Ignoring anonymous posts also means you miss the ones that do have value.
I'm not sure that the ratio is massively different anyway, after all 90% of everything is crap (so we are only at a 10% difference at best anyway). I do agree that the worst posts are almost invariably anonymous, but I'm not sure that losing those makes up for losing the valuable anonymous posts.
This has gotten me thinking about when I click the anonymous checkbox. Usually when I want to tell an off-color joke. And I'm tremendously tempted to do it now just for the effect, but I won't.
But I'm guessing the camera only works because it is rare and so provokes thought. Once they become ubiquitous, they lose their impact.
Actually, same thing with trolls. Once they reached a critical mass I started just looking through them, they become an attention tax on reading a site.
I wonder if it would work to have teachers evaluated based on student feedback (since they are effectively the consumers). Probably weighted by overall performance of the student in question, maybe with both extremes getting increased weighting (since really both ends need more work from teachers if they are going to be taught 'properly').
I know that I know which teachers were the most effective at teaching me. Though I'm not sure I would have voted for Mrs. Zeitlow until well after I was in her class (she was evil, and probably the most effective teacher I had).
School priorities are still screwed up. To put this in perspective: At my school, I was a member of the Quiz Bowl and Deabte teams both. And in terms of the attention we got from the school newspaper, announcements, and so forth, it was, quite literally, about 10% of the coverage that our sports teams got.
Wait, so you actually GOT coverage of those things? I only knew that those things existed because I had either family or friends that were involved in them (and I was involved in both).
When I went house shopping recently, I ended up limiting my search to only homes built before 1940. My wife has the same basic opinion on housing that you do. Old houses also have better airflow, since they weren't designed to be shut up when it gets hot (since there was no AC).
It would likely take $400+ to fly (per person) and about 6 hours, which would make the break even point about $30/hour for a single person (national average is $20). How does this support your argument?
In order for the universe exist at all, it would be a miracle in itself, but it doesn't just exist. It exists in a way that allows for matter to exist, stars to form and not collapse in on themselves or explode immediately after forming. The odds of it the universe existing as it does are beyond astronomical. For everything to to exist as we understand it requires a design.
And this is the flaw in the argument. Just because something is incredibly unlikely doesn't mean that it requires a design. Everything is incredibly unlikely because if you go to enough detail, there are so many variables that the odds of any given thing happening is almost zero. The odds of you winning the lottery are massively better than the odds of the last two drawings coming out with the numbers they did in the order they did, but that doesn't mean it wasn't random.
For that matter, claiming ignorance is not exactly what science is all about.... For that matter, it is science that claims ignorance. Not religion.
Science claims ignorance because it doesn't know. Religion claims certainty because it doesn't know. Claiming ignorance and trying to figure it out IS what science is all about.
My core problem with religion is that it is arrogant. The thought that an all-powerful all-knowing being that created the entire cosmos cares what you do seems the height of hubris to me. Not to mention that an all-knowing all-powerful being that created the universe is to blame for everything that goes wrong, since if they were all-knowing they knew it was going to happen and if they were all-powerful they could make the universe so it didn't have to.
My aunt in law is a cop. She's told a story about a newbie on a drug raid who walked up to the door and knocked, saying "Police". The raidee was so non-plussed that they assumed it was a joke and opened the door, getting busted.
I'm reminded of taking an AI class in college. The first class the instructor described AI as the A version of whatever I is. Still the best description I've heard...
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My boss doesn't pay me anywhere near enough to just 'do what he tells me to do'. He pays me enough to do what is right and to solve the problems that the users need solved. I'm an expert at what I do. I am paid to be an expert at what I do.
In the real world, that counts as hot. She also gets the benefit of attitude.
My only problem with the movies is that he changed who the main character is. It went from the hobbits' story to Aragorn's story. Which meant he had to cut out the scouring of the shire which is my favorite chapter in the whole series. I think in a lot of ways, making it the story about the king instead of the story of the little people does kinda lose the spirit of the books.
The only actual people I've gotten jobs from are family (did some babysitting when I was younger). Since then I've only been employed by corporations, which are not people. Those corporations also employ founders/CEOs/other executives that get paid way more money that me for some nebulous job that I have never had satisfactorily explained to me. Hell several of my friends are employed by corporations, that they are the only employee of, that contract their work to other corporations.
The people that get paid the most in the corporation that I work for did not hire me, do not know my name and do not understand what I do. My hiring involved at least five separate people (most or all I get paid more than).
I think we should line up everyone that suggests we should line up people against a wall and shoot them against a wall and shoot them!
I think his point is that he loves the United States and he would like to be able to live in it. Not in what it is being turned into because of fear of a statistically tiny threat.
Actually, the US has never been at war with Korea. We haven't been at war with anyone since WWII. The UN is at war with Korea.
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Depends on how you define value. The funniest posts tend to be ACs. Ignoring anonymous posts also means you miss the ones that do have value.
I'm not sure that the ratio is massively different anyway, after all 90% of everything is crap (so we are only at a 10% difference at best anyway). I do agree that the worst posts are almost invariably anonymous, but I'm not sure that losing those makes up for losing the valuable anonymous posts.
This has gotten me thinking about when I click the anonymous checkbox. Usually when I want to tell an off-color joke. And I'm tremendously tempted to do it now just for the effect, but I won't.
But I'm guessing the camera only works because it is rare and so provokes thought. Once they become ubiquitous, they lose their impact.
Actually, same thing with trolls. Once they reached a critical mass I started just looking through them, they become an attention tax on reading a site.
I wonder if it would work to have teachers evaluated based on student feedback (since they are effectively the consumers). Probably weighted by overall performance of the student in question, maybe with both extremes getting increased weighting (since really both ends need more work from teachers if they are going to be taught 'properly').
I know that I know which teachers were the most effective at teaching me. Though I'm not sure I would have voted for Mrs. Zeitlow until well after I was in her class (she was evil, and probably the most effective teacher I had).
School priorities are still screwed up. To put this in perspective: At my school, I was a member of the Quiz Bowl and Deabte teams both. And in terms of the attention we got from the school newspaper, announcements, and so forth, it was, quite literally, about 10% of the coverage that our sports teams got.
Wait, so you actually GOT coverage of those things? I only knew that those things existed because I had either family or friends that were involved in them (and I was involved in both).
I vote both.
Nah, that would include non-existent places, like Kansas.
When I went house shopping recently, I ended up limiting my search to only homes built before 1940. My wife has the same basic opinion on housing that you do. Old houses also have better airflow, since they weren't designed to be shut up when it gets hot (since there was no AC).
Actually, bank robber is yet another profession and they are getting less dangerous. Irrelevant, but true
It would likely take $400+ to fly (per person) and about 6 hours, which would make the break even point about $30/hour for a single person (national average is $20). How does this support your argument?
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The primary defense against hijacking is a plane filled with people that aren't willing to be hijacked. 9/11 already did that.
Actually the difference is that coal plants kill people when they are working as they are supposed to.
I think it just changes the stupid jokes to "Why does his router have a hinge? Don't they know that 'gateway' is more of a abstract thing?"
In order for the universe exist at all, it would be a miracle in itself, but it doesn't just exist. It exists in a way that allows for matter to exist, stars to form and not collapse in on themselves or explode immediately after forming. The odds of it the universe existing as it does are beyond astronomical. For everything to to exist as we understand it requires a design.
And this is the flaw in the argument. Just because something is incredibly unlikely doesn't mean that it requires a design. Everything is incredibly unlikely because if you go to enough detail, there are so many variables that the odds of any given thing happening is almost zero. The odds of you winning the lottery are massively better than the odds of the last two drawings coming out with the numbers they did in the order they did, but that doesn't mean it wasn't random.
For that matter, claiming ignorance is not exactly what science is all about. ... For that matter, it is science that claims ignorance. Not religion.
Science claims ignorance because it doesn't know. Religion claims certainty because it doesn't know. Claiming ignorance and trying to figure it out IS what science is all about.
My core problem with religion is that it is arrogant. The thought that an all-powerful all-knowing being that created the entire cosmos cares what you do seems the height of hubris to me. Not to mention that an all-knowing all-powerful being that created the universe is to blame for everything that goes wrong, since if they were all-knowing they knew it was going to happen and if they were all-powerful they could make the universe so it didn't have to.
My aunt in law is a cop. She's told a story about a newbie on a drug raid who walked up to the door and knocked, saying "Police". The raidee was so non-plussed that they assumed it was a joke and opened the door, getting busted.
I'm reminded of taking an AI class in college. The first class the instructor described AI as the A version of whatever I is. Still the best description I've heard...
Ad hominem is ad hominem, even when it is true. Me being a mass murderer, does not mean that you are not a jaywalker.
Or just tax tires.