If the rock observes that the cat is dead while I observe that the cat is alive then I would be impressed. But if the is not possible then the phenomena that you describe is utterly uninteresting.
I don't believe that is true. Defending a petty laws that have a religious basis is a major political strategy for the Republican party. We have god on our money and in the pledge which were added during the 1950s Red Baiting and McCarthyism. This is a violation of the establishment clause of the First Amendment.
Even though people believe that religious influence is on the rise, America seems to have gotten more atheistic. A 1997 ABC poll put the number of Americans that did not believe in a god at 4% and a Newsweek poll a few weeks ago put the number at 6%. Although this is not a change within the margin of error the number has most likely increased. There are many signs of a welling if atheistic ideas catching hold on Internet forums, on Youtube, and in bestselling books. I think people will be surprised by a steady but slow increase in non-theism.
Also the birth rate of religious and nonreligious people is not the only determinant of future demographics. After all a person raised in a religious family can become nonreligious and visa-versa. This is a characteristic determined an individual and not necessary their genes alone. In fact nearly all of the vocal atheists that I respect were raised in a religious family.
Why would you need flying skills to get into a program that teaches you to fly. Likewise, why would you need programming skills to get into a degree program the teaches you to program?
CS is not a "liberal arts degree." It is a science, specifically a natural science. It deals with what is possible though computation which is exploration of the fundamentals of nature. Because of its complex nature there are discoveries that don't easily fall directly from pure mathematics. CS has an offshoot called software engineering and that is like what mechanical engineering is to physics. I'm sure there will be more specialization in software engineering in the future as CS is a relatively young science.
I'm here to read the news and exchange ideas with others. If you are really that young then I encourage you to keep up your studies and ask advise of older people you trust but come to your own conclusions. Also have fun.
First of all learn proper grammar and maybe people would take you seriously.
How old are you? Don't you understand the basics of the law? Get a college education and read newspapers and books and then get back to me. Stop wasting my time with silly arguments.
Again you missed my point in a earlier post. Different jobs and different employers have different rules. It's not up to you or me to make the rules of someone else's business. Freedom of speech is a legal question. Until you have a legal argument about why Imus CAN'T be fired from his job because of his behavior, stop bringing up freedom of speech. I don't want to ridicule anyone. It just pisses me off when people who are careless about logical arguments get rated +5 by the Slashdot mob. You weren't rated that high but your post was the last straw for me.
Some corporations profited but that doesn't mean the the entire nation profited as a whole. The problem is that certain interest groups have more leverage on US policy than the majority.
You don't have a right to a job. You have a right to seek a job. You have a right to be judged on merit and not your race, color, or creed. You don't have a right to make someone hire you. Again, CBS and NBC has the right to set the rules for behavior on the job. A person of any color would have been fired for saying the the bigoted things that Imus said. Go back and study your civics class and logic 101.
We entered WWII because be were attacked. There is a huge difference between that and Iraq. Iraq didn't attack us. Osama Bin Ladin attacked us.
In my opinion some of us learned the wrong lesson after WWII: that we should bring about more wars because we would profit from them. We clearly haven't profited from the Vietnam or Iraq wars.
Every single time the United States has entered military conflict is because we already lost our attempt at an acceptable non-military solution.
Except Iraq, Vietnam, and the Spanish-American War to name a few. We did not have the right to impose ourselves on the self-determination of the Vietnam. The Spanish-American was was just a land grab based on a false accusation. Saddam was not an imminent threat. Most of his country was a no-fly zone. When the inspectors got back in they were not allowed to finish their job because Bush decided to pull the plug to invade Iraq.
We are not talking about freedom, fucktard. Imus has the freedom to say what ever he wants. We are taking about the rules you need to follow to keep your job. Different jobs have different rules. A talk show host is a different job from a rap artist. And you know what, a business has a right to set its policy of employee behavior on the job. Imus violated that policy. If you want to take about liberty, CBS and NBC have every right to axe that fuck for making idiotic remarks on their networks. Imus still has his freedom but CBS and NBC don't have to support his speech by bringing it to 5 million people every day.
Rappers aren't radio/tv hosts on NBC and CBS. It's a different audience and a different job. Imus has to attract a broad spectrum of guests, listeners, and advertisers for NBC and CBS. Music labels tend to give musicians more freedom because they are artists not broadcasters and they can be profitable even when attracting a much smaller spectrum. Fifty million people hear Imus but Ludacris only sells 5 million CDs and only clean versions of his songs are on radio. Those cleans versions would not have the words "nappy headed hos" in them. So your argument is careless and stupid.
Evidence that Rove used his private accounts for official White House duties can easily be gathered. Look at messages from government accounts to Rove's private account or from Roves private account to government accounts. Either sent or received email would be safely stored if the sender or receiver was a government account. The question about whether Rove and others used their private email accounts for official government business does not even seem to be at issue according to the article because the White House is using this as an excuse of why they cannot comply to congressional information requests. So the problem may be that the sender and receiver in some cases both used non-government accounts but discussed government business. The article is not specific enough for us to tell if this is the problem.
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Good laying of the smack down!
How about no more knee-jerk sloganeering?
He broke an agreement and thus the school will take a "pound of flesh" from the lad. I guess that's the moral of the story.
I have Qwest as a ISP and it is not all that reliable. It's good enough for home use but I wouldn't want to run a business on it.
If the rock observes that the cat is dead while I observe that the cat is alive then I would be impressed. But if the is not possible then the phenomena that you describe is utterly uninteresting.
I don't believe that is true. Defending a petty laws that have a religious basis is a major political strategy for the Republican party. We have god on our money and in the pledge which were added during the 1950s Red Baiting and McCarthyism. This is a violation of the establishment clause of the First Amendment.
School let's out after 3:00. As far as I know that's still during business hours. The mofiosos made the deposition at 9:00 am.
You mean it would be a hassle to change it in the face of the religion nuts in Texas?
- People near CMU are rich therefore the candidates that apply there should know how to program.
- You have to know what career you want to be in before applying to college let alone getting into college.
- Java sucks!
Yep, I would hire you as an admissions officer.Even though people believe that religious influence is on the rise, America seems to have gotten more atheistic. A 1997 ABC poll put the number of Americans that did not believe in a god at 4% and a Newsweek poll a few weeks ago put the number at 6%. Although this is not a change within the margin of error the number has most likely increased. There are many signs of a welling if atheistic ideas catching hold on Internet forums, on Youtube, and in bestselling books. I think people will be surprised by a steady but slow increase in non-theism.
Also the birth rate of religious and nonreligious people is not the only determinant of future demographics. After all a person raised in a religious family can become nonreligious and visa-versa. This is a characteristic determined an individual and not necessary their genes alone. In fact nearly all of the vocal atheists that I respect were raised in a religious family.
Why would you need flying skills to get into a program that teaches you to fly. Likewise, why would you need programming skills to get into a degree program the teaches you to program?
CS is not a "liberal arts degree." It is a science, specifically a natural science. It deals with what is possible though computation which is exploration of the fundamentals of nature. Because of its complex nature there are discoveries that don't easily fall directly from pure mathematics. CS has an offshoot called software engineering and that is like what mechanical engineering is to physics. I'm sure there will be more specialization in software engineering in the future as CS is a relatively young science.
Get off my lawn you pesky critter.
I'm here to read the news and exchange ideas with others. If you are really that young then I encourage you to keep up your studies and ask advise of older people you trust but come to your own conclusions. Also have fun.
First of all learn proper grammar and maybe people would take you seriously.
How old are you? Don't you understand the basics of the law? Get a college education and read newspapers and books and then get back to me. Stop wasting my time with silly arguments.
Again you missed my point in a earlier post. Different jobs and different employers have different rules. It's not up to you or me to make the rules of someone else's business. Freedom of speech is a legal question. Until you have a legal argument about why Imus CAN'T be fired from his job because of his behavior, stop bringing up freedom of speech. I don't want to ridicule anyone. It just pisses me off when people who are careless about logical arguments get rated +5 by the Slashdot mob. You weren't rated that high but your post was the last straw for me.
Some corporations profited but that doesn't mean the the entire nation profited as a whole. The problem is that certain interest groups have more leverage on US policy than the majority.
You don't have a right to a job. You have a right to seek a job. You have a right to be judged on merit and not your race, color, or creed. You don't have a right to make someone hire you. Again, CBS and NBC has the right to set the rules for behavior on the job. A person of any color would have been fired for saying the the bigoted things that Imus said. Go back and study your civics class and logic 101.
We entered WWII because be were attacked. There is a huge difference between that and Iraq. Iraq didn't attack us. Osama Bin Ladin attacked us.
In my opinion some of us learned the wrong lesson after WWII: that we should bring about more wars because we would profit from them. We clearly haven't profited from the Vietnam or Iraq wars.
If he didn't have a ribbon and bow then he could get one at Walgreens. This is seriously one of dumbest threads on Slashdot yet.
We are not talking about freedom, fucktard. Imus has the freedom to say what ever he wants. We are taking about the rules you need to follow to keep your job. Different jobs have different rules. A talk show host is a different job from a rap artist. And you know what, a business has a right to set its policy of employee behavior on the job. Imus violated that policy. If you want to take about liberty, CBS and NBC have every right to axe that fuck for making idiotic remarks on their networks. Imus still has his freedom but CBS and NBC don't have to support his speech by bringing it to 5 million people every day.
Rappers aren't radio/tv hosts on NBC and CBS. It's a different audience and a different job. Imus has to attract a broad spectrum of guests, listeners, and advertisers for NBC and CBS. Music labels tend to give musicians more freedom because they are artists not broadcasters and they can be profitable even when attracting a much smaller spectrum. Fifty million people hear Imus but Ludacris only sells 5 million CDs and only clean versions of his songs are on radio. Those cleans versions would not have the words "nappy headed hos" in them. So your argument is careless and stupid.
Do you have a link to a credible news source?
Evidence that Rove used his private accounts for official White House duties can easily be gathered. Look at messages from government accounts to Rove's private account or from Roves private account to government accounts. Either sent or received email would be safely stored if the sender or receiver was a government account. The question about whether Rove and others used their private email accounts for official government business does not even seem to be at issue according to the article because the White House is using this as an excuse of why they cannot comply to congressional information requests. So the problem may be that the sender and receiver in some cases both used non-government accounts but discussed government business. The article is not specific enough for us to tell if this is the problem.