Ours too. What's the point of a no hat policy anyway? I can understand a "no tall hat" policy, but a ball cap pulled tightly against the scalp or turned backwards does not interfere with viewing the chalkboard anymore than a basketball player sitting in the front row (as if... but you get the idea).
Workaround: "Hey Sandy, if you carry my tag to English today, I'll carry yours on Thursday."
Thus: false sense of security.:)
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You have no chance to survive make your time!
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Take Back Your Time!
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In A.D. 2101 War was beginning. Captain: What happen ? Mechanic: Somebody set up us the bomb. Operator: We get signal. Captain: What ! Operator: Main screen turn on. Captain: It's You !! Cats: How are you gentlemen !! Cats: All your base are belong to us. Cats: You are on the way to destruction. Captain: What you say !! Cats: You have no chance to survive make your time. Cats: HA HA HA HA.... Captain: Take off every 'zig' !! Captain: You know what you doing. Captain: Move 'zig'. Captain: For great justice.
[about the inventor of rockets being the American, Robert Goddard]
>> Well, I don't know much about that so I won't confirm nor deny,
>> but it sounds fishy to me. As far as I know, America hadn't even
>> tested a rocket motor during the time that Van Brown (spelling?)
>> was rolling V2's out onto the pad to launch at England.
and then Steve replied:
>> Goddard succesfully flew the first liquid fueled rocket in 1926.
Steve is correct. History records Goddard as inventing the rocket, and that Wernher Von Braun copied these designs, infringing upon Goddard patents. In fact, if we hadn't been at war, and if Goddard hadn't died during the war, Goddard may have prosecuted these patents. But one thing is for sure - Von Braun admits to basing his work after Goddard's.
Excerpted from Aiming for the Stars by Tom D. Crouch. Copyright \
(Robert) Goddard left Roswell in 1941 to work with U.S. Navy and Curtiss-Wright engineers on the development of jet-assisted-takeoff and variable-thrust, liquid-propellant rockets. By the spring of 1944 he was receiving detailed reports on a new German long-range rocket, the V-2. "The weapon is reported to be almost identical with the rocket we were working on in New Mexico at the time we changed over to war work," he wrote to Harry Guggenheim, "except that it is larger."
Goddard provided the editor of the National Geographic News Bulletin with a list of his own patents for almost every aspect of V-2 design. "So closely do the mechanical features of the V-2 parallel the American projectile [Goddard's rocket]," the News Bulletin announced in January 1945, "that some physicists think the Germans may have actually copied most of the design."
That, certainly, was the opinion of Robert Hutchings Goddard. On August 14, 1945, he died of throat cancer, convinced that his work had played a key role in the Germans' success. It simply was not true. The Germans had followed the same path as Goddard, quite unaware that he had been there before them. Under the inspired leadership of Wernher von Braun, they had surged past him without a backward glance, achieving Goddard's goal of sending a rocket to the edge of space.
I'm just saying the history's a little muddied as to whether von Braun actually copied the patents or if their designs were similar based on reading the same literature, doing similar experiments, etc. (c.f., Newton and Leibniz).
Yeah, kernel 2.6.... I just meant, you might wait till a version of Mandrake comes out that has the 2.6 kernel.
I should add, it's only a matter of time before the Studios bitch at Adobe, 3DS, etc. to port over to Linux. You're right that the largest piece of the pie is on Windows right now. I just think that when enough of those big customers complain, you'll finally see artists' everyday tools on Linux.
Ah well. That's why God invented Appellate Courts I suppose.
Hahaha made me think of a cartoon... Background: God seated at the throne of judgement. Foreground, a man talking to his lawyer. Bubble says, "Can I appeal?"
Once 2.6 comes out with the new sound architecture as default (called ALSA), sound configuration should be a zillion times easier. If you decide to tinker again, I'd get the first version of Mandrake with 2.6 included. (I myself use Debian, but it's not ready for newbies yet).
Setting up an NVidia card can be a hassle, if the RPMs from NVidia don't work (they should). Hopefully, Mandrake et al. will secure a redistribution deal so it "just works" out of the box.
I've never used Xinerama (dual-head, single desktop) or normal dual-head X (dual-head, dual desktops) so I can't help you there. If you have an Nvidia card, I suspect it was a kernel driver X issue.
Can you give me an example of a hard-coded path that wasn't specifically put in place to defeat LD_LIBRARY_PATH, an oh-so-fun vulnerability? Shared libs require certain agreements among code: you can't just expect to move everything around and assume it'll work. Besides, if you do need that capability, you have sufficient need to compile a static binary and use that. Problem solved.
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p.s., a staticly compiled init is probably a good idea anyway...
But when the president is looked at as the head of the political party, commanding a senate and house of represenatives that are fully in the majority of that party, there isn't generally too much to argue for from that president.
Indeed, this is the problem Mexico had for 70 years. The PRI dominated the government partly through presidentialism: making him official head of the party and giving him enormous governmental and non-governmental powers. There were many other reasons for the PRI's dominance, but presidentialism was definitely a key part.
Anyway, if you get bored some time, read up on the PRI in Mexico. It's really fascinating.
Now, you can attack my 160% "gamble" (which has gone up 50% this year) and argue that the economy would improve if I spent that in leisure, but I argue that the economy is just as good if not better by having that money invested. Frankly, if you want to look at it that way, I'll have more leisure money for my early retirement.
No, I firmly believe in saving. I'm a single full-time parent and it is vitally important for me to be able to pay the bills in case I get layed off (again) and I don't want all of my retirement to fall on my son's shoulders. The point was that your dollars are going into the economy either way. It doesn't hurt the economy whether you're investing or spending on vacation. So long as you're not putting it under a pillow, the economy will get something out of it.
Keep in mind that guaranteeing a minimum of 4 weeks available vacation doesn't mean you necessarily have to take it. Perhaps over two weeks, you could trade it in for the equivalent in pay or roll it over to next year when you want to spend the summer in Japan. The point is to guarantee that *option*, which in the current market, is non-existent outside of a relative few white collar jobs.
You argue that greater vacation times would mean greater employment, but I don't believe that's true. This will definately hurt small businesses the most, which actually make up the bulk of employment in the U.S. I could just as easily argue they will have to let people go as opposed to paying them for not working.
I worked 4 years in a small business where people were regularly gone for a month. As far as I'm concerned, having one person in such a vitally important position that if they're gone the whole business collapses is a single point of failure. C.f., the hit by a bus problem with Linus Torvalds. Making people plan for possible gaps in the year helps spread out responsibility and eliminate risk. Lastly, no one in a startup is going to demand 4 weeks of vacation. They're too invested in getting it off the ground. Hell, most of those people forfeit their two weeks! So, I don't see how it must hurt small businesses.
Also, unlike you, I do believe in individuality.
I'm actually quite an individualist. But individualism is a product of a free society guaranteed by the state. The free market demands a coglike existence in most jobs because the market is driven by money, not individual rights and liberties.
I don't want the company to look at me as one of the herd. I don't see how everybody being treated the same is better - different people have different needs. I simply don't believe the government has the right, or responsibility, to regulate business even more than it does now.
Actually, the flexible system I'm proposing would be a modification of existing regulations, not an expansion of power. I think the expansion of Executive power in this country since WWII is a far more disturbing trend than Congress ensuring people have the liberty to choose more time with their families (or not).
nobody forces anybody else to take a job they don't want... there is no reason you cannot continue to look for a job with more favorable terms
For you and me, skilled white collar workers, yes. For all non-skilled or blue collar jobs, this is not the case. You're pretty much stuck with roughly the same options and pay no matter where you go. Furthermore, you're low man on the totem pole: first to get layed off, least available benefits, least pay. Worse, as college degrees become more prevalent, their worth becomes devalued in the market allowing more skilled positions (e.g., Java programmers) to be treated like unskilled jobs with the same problems I mentioned above. I present my proposal as future-proofing rational minimum *options* for families.
the constitution (we are talking about the U.S.) does not guarentee the right to paid for not working.
Not explicitly, but Congress thought it necessary and proper to enact legislation ensuring certain minimum levels of playtime to enable the free exercise of the pursuit of happiness.
The more the government forces it's weight onto eployers "rights", the more the employees will suffer in other ways. For example, if the government forced my company, which offers 160% matching into my 401k (up to the first four percent), to add an additional week of vacation, I might lose that match. I'm perfectly happy right now, thanks, I don't need the government to screw up my retirement.
Conversely, your 160% gambling bonus disenables you from spending during vacation time, playtime that is fundamental to economic prosperity and helps keep other people employed through use of their goods and services. Furthermore, greater vacation minimums mean more jobs for people to fill those gaps.
Instead, your company can now use you as an example of why Bill, who wants more vacation with his family and less retirement, doesn't deserve it -- I mean, obviously Bill doesn't work hard enough. No, your post neglects an important part of business today: Standardization. Since it's more efficient, theoretically anyway, to treat employees the same, asking for individualization of terms throws a wrench in the system and oh my god we can't have some whacko individualist making accounting/HR slightly harder. It's not like you're not replaceable with. Most people are. (If you're not you're both lucky and skilled, neither of which the majority are).
Or how about my company not pay as much for my health plan? Or any one of the other benefits I get. It's really plain and simple - I like the freedom to negotiate with my employer.
The vast majority of people do not have that freedom. They get: "Take it or leave it. You're a cog. We can find someone else instantaneously." Conversely, a single-payer health care system would greatly increase everyone's overall liberty by ensuring everyone got the necessary health care to live their lives to the fullest. It's in your economic and personal best interest not to have unhealthy people running around driving up health care costs and taking unnecessary sick leave that could have been prevented through simple preventative care they couldn't afford.
Let's face facts - more often than not, the people that really get ahead in this world are the people who work hard - a lot harder than 9-5, 5 days a week with four weeks vacation.
Problem 1: That's true for exactly one value of "get ahead", namely "making lots of money". It's not true for definitions like "spending time with family" or "being involved in the community".
Problem 2: It's only partly true for "making lots of money." Working smarter is far more effective than working harder. You can work 80/hrs a week on a bad idea and it's still a bad idea. Geeks are skilled workers who get paid more than factory workers because they do what other people can't, whether through ignorance or stupidity. We work smarter. But you can't tell me that typing on the computer or installing Linux is harder work than construction or running cable or farming. It's just smarter.
I think it is unfair and a denial of my necessary personal freedom to kowtow to the market's demand for workaholicism. I've done my best to balance it, but I'm a geek. I've got options. Most people don't.
In short, I'm saying that when the market demands what is unacceptable, you have to change the rules of the market. If the market demands slave labor, you have to illegalize it. If the market demands a fast consumer culture of workaholics, you have to change the rules to allow more freedom.
After all, what's the point of living if the market demands that you not enjoy it?
Do you have an article for [II.]? I can't seem to find one.
I am aware that the neocons have wanted a war in Iraq for a decade now... what I haven't read is that US oil companies were involved at the Presidential level in lobbying for the war (esp., pre-9/11). This would yet again make us hypocrites with regard to France et al. since one of the Republican talking points was France et al.'s deals to get oil from Iraq just as soon as UN sanctions were lifted. That would make the US out to be a hypocrite, successfully doing an end-run around the free market.
[3] does not get you not-self, unfortunately. At best, the cogito buys you solipsism. Any "facts" observed, even about the self, fall under the aegis of the Deceiver.
In short, all the cogito buys you is "I am" and nothing more. Any factual observations you make are based on faith in empiricism, not rational deduction. The main claim of empiricism is that the things you observe are what they appear to be unless given reason to believe otherwise. I.e., the Deceiver is a straw man until you find him.
Or do you mind a little empiricism in your rationalism?:) I don't mind at all.
I was gonna sign up for individual health through BCBS when I got unemployed and thought I could save a $100/mo till I got a job. Guess what? Their agreement requires you to disavow all claims of privacy under federal law and allows them to give your info to any third party! Needless to say, I decided not to sign up after all. I don't mind them getting info from my doctor or whatever, but I steadfastly refuse to allow them to give it to anyone else without my express consent.
I don't have my Child Developmental Psychology textbook with me and I can only seem to dig up breastfeeding links, but I remember reading that mothers' bodies change in a number of positive ways during pregnancy. This would indicate that the mother/child relationship during pregnancy was symbiotic, even ignoring the species component of the definition of "parasite".
IIRC, two of these benefits were a reinforced immune system and generally better mood (brain chemical benefit).
This is why I got the Liberal Arts degree (Philosophy/Latin). hehehe! I also learned a very marketable skill: explaining how my degree is relevant to each job. Sure, it's kept me from applying at huge software houses that won't look at you unless you've a CS degree, but I wouldn't want to work there anyway. No respect, no community, little flexibility, etc.
If this programming job doesn't work out, I'll probably go into teaching.
Of course the wealthy get more benefits from the government, though not always in the form of direct services. Welfare is shit compared to laws protecting Golden Parachutes, lobbying and political contributions, corporate consolidation, lucrative government contracts, getting a slap on the wrist for white collar crimes, low capital gains and other investment taxes, $100,000 tax credits for "work use" SUVs weighing 2 tons or more, pilfering dollars from Social Security to fund huge government projects, allowing patents to shield drug companies so they can overcharge for life-saving drugs, etc.
Although this is in the context of a discussion on the estate/inheritance taxes, I think it's relevant to this discussion as well. This is Bill Moyers interviewing Bill Gates, Sr. (You know who's Father).
MOYERS: Why shouldn't you be able to direct your money to where you want it to go in your will or however you want to do it? I mean, you earned it.
GATES: "You earned it" is really a matter of "you earned it with the indispensable help of your government."
You earned it in this wonderful place. If you'd been born in West Africa, you would not have earned it. It would not have occurred. Your wealth is a function of being an American.
GATES: The huge disparity in wealth that's happening, is something that is, I think, really dangerous.
MOYERS: Why?
GATES: Wealth is power, Bill. And it just is not a good situation. And the examples of the aristocracies of Europe are so clear. We don't want to have a country like that. Who was it that said, it was Louis Brandeis who said...
MOYERS: Justice of the Supreme Court...
GATES: Yes, indeed. And he said, you know, we can either have a situation where we have a small number of people with a huge amount of wealth or we can have a democracy. But we can't have both. That's clear wisdom.
Anyway, hope you don't think I'm attacking you. Just how I see the situation! 8)
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Christian music stores have had this feature like forever. "Band X sounds like Nirvana" or "Band Y sounds like Erasure". Helpful for sorting through all the dross since they publish so much crap. (There are some real gems though).
Slashdot Mirror
Overrated is stupid. "Not funny", perhaps, but overrated -- no. The whole point of the post was a joke on "make your time".
sheesh, just because it's AYB doesn't mean it lacks wisdom or humor.
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Ours too. What's the point of a no hat policy anyway? I can understand a "no tall hat" policy, but a ball cap pulled tightly against the scalp or turned backwards does not interfere with viewing the chalkboard anymore than a basketball player sitting in the front row (as if... but you get the idea).
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Workaround: "Hey Sandy, if you carry my tag to English today, I'll carry yours on Thursday."
:)
Thus: false sense of security.
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In A.D. 2101 ....
War was beginning.
Captain: What happen ?
Mechanic: Somebody set up us the bomb.
Operator: We get signal.
Captain: What !
Operator: Main screen turn on.
Captain: It's You !!
Cats: How are you gentlemen !!
Cats: All your base are belong to us.
Cats: You are on the way to destruction.
Captain: What you say !!
Cats: You have no chance to survive make your time.
Cats: HA HA HA HA
Captain: Take off every 'zig' !!
Captain: You know what you doing.
Captain: Move 'zig'.
Captain: For great justice.
versus
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/tg/stores/deta il/reviews/-/books/1560983868/202-9638315-4933460
versus
http://history.msfc.nasa.gov/goddard/history.html
versus
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6303 26140X?v=glance
And so on...
I'm just saying the history's a little muddied as to whether von Braun actually copied the patents or if their designs were similar based on reading the same literature, doing similar experiments, etc. (c.f., Newton and Leibniz).
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Not to mention Apple having a decent sized office in town...
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Yeah, kernel 2.6.... I just meant, you might wait till a version of Mandrake comes out that has the 2.6 kernel.
I should add, it's only a matter of time before the Studios bitch at Adobe, 3DS, etc. to port over to Linux. You're right that the largest piece of the pie is on Windows right now. I just think that when enough of those big customers complain, you'll finally see artists' everyday tools on Linux.
Cheers,
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Hahaha made me think of a cartoon... Background: God seated at the throne of judgement. Foreground, a man talking to his lawyer. Bubble says, "Can I appeal?"
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Once 2.6 comes out with the new sound architecture as default (called ALSA), sound configuration should be a zillion times easier. If you decide to tinker again, I'd get the first version of Mandrake with 2.6 included. (I myself use Debian, but it's not ready for newbies yet).
Setting up an NVidia card can be a hassle, if the RPMs from NVidia don't work (they should). Hopefully, Mandrake et al. will secure a redistribution deal so it "just works" out of the box.
I've never used Xinerama (dual-head, single desktop) or normal dual-head X (dual-head, dual desktops) so I can't help you there. If you have an Nvidia card, I suspect it was a kernel driver X issue.
Good luck,
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p.s., a staticly compiled init is probably a good idea anyway...
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligature
Indeed, this is the problem Mexico had for 70 years. The PRI dominated the government partly through presidentialism: making him official head of the party and giving him enormous governmental and non-governmental powers. There were many other reasons for the PRI's dominance, but presidentialism was definitely a key part.
Anyway, if you get bored some time, read up on the PRI in Mexico. It's really fascinating.
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No, I firmly believe in saving. I'm a single full-time parent and it is vitally important for me to be able to pay the bills in case I get layed off (again) and I don't want all of my retirement to fall on my son's shoulders. The point was that your dollars are going into the economy either way. It doesn't hurt the economy whether you're investing or spending on vacation. So long as you're not putting it under a pillow, the economy will get something out of it.
Keep in mind that guaranteeing a minimum of 4 weeks available vacation doesn't mean you necessarily have to take it. Perhaps over two weeks, you could trade it in for the equivalent in pay or roll it over to next year when you want to spend the summer in Japan. The point is to guarantee that *option*, which in the current market, is non-existent outside of a relative few white collar jobs.
I worked 4 years in a small business where people were regularly gone for a month. As far as I'm concerned, having one person in such a vitally important position that if they're gone the whole business collapses is a single point of failure. C.f., the hit by a bus problem with Linus Torvalds. Making people plan for possible gaps in the year helps spread out responsibility and eliminate risk. Lastly, no one in a startup is going to demand 4 weeks of vacation. They're too invested in getting it off the ground. Hell, most of those people forfeit their two weeks! So, I don't see how it must hurt small businesses.
I'm actually quite an individualist. But individualism is a product of a free society guaranteed by the state. The free market demands a coglike existence in most jobs because the market is driven by money, not individual rights and liberties.
Actually, the flexible system I'm proposing would be a modification of existing regulations, not an expansion of power. I think the expansion of Executive power in this country since WWII is a far more disturbing trend than Congress ensuring people have the liberty to choose more time with their families (or not).
For you and me, skilled white collar workers, yes. For all non-skilled or blue collar jobs, this is not the case. You're pretty much stuck with roughly the same options and pay no matter where you go. Furthermore, you're low man on the totem pole: first to get layed off, least available benefits, least pay. Worse, as college degrees become more prevalent, their worth becomes devalued in the market allowing more skilled positions (e.g., Java programmers) to be treated like unskilled jobs with the same problems I mentioned above. I present my proposal as future-proofing rational minimum *options* for families.
Not explicitly, but Congress thought it necessary and proper to enact legislation ensuring certain minimum levels of playtime to enable the free exercise of the pursuit of happiness.
Conversely, your 160% gambling bonus disenables you from spending during vacation time, playtime that is fundamental to economic prosperity and helps keep other people employed through use of their goods and services. Furthermore, greater vacation minimums mean more jobs for people to fill those gaps.
Instead, your company can now use you as an example of why Bill, who wants more vacation with his family and less retirement, doesn't deserve it -- I mean, obviously Bill doesn't work hard enough. No, your post neglects an important part of business today: Standardization. Since it's more efficient, theoretically anyway, to treat employees the same, asking for individualization of terms throws a wrench in the system and oh my god we can't have some whacko individualist making accounting/HR slightly harder. It's not like you're not replaceable with. Most people are. (If you're not you're both lucky and skilled, neither of which the majority are).
The vast majority of people do not have that freedom. They get: "Take it or leave it. You're a cog. We can find someone else instantaneously." Conversely, a single-payer health care system would greatly increase everyone's overall liberty by ensuring everyone got the necessary health care to live their lives to the fullest. It's in your economic and personal best interest not to have unhealthy people running around driving up health care costs and taking unnecessary sick leave that could have been prevented through simple preventative care they couldn't afford.
Problem 1: That's true for exactly one value of "get ahead", namely "making lots of money". It's not true for definitions like "spending time with family" or "being involved in the community".
Problem 2: It's only partly true for "making lots of money." Working smarter is far more effective than working harder. You can work 80/hrs a week on a bad idea and it's still a bad idea. Geeks are skilled workers who get paid more than factory workers because they do what other people can't, whether through ignorance or stupidity. We work smarter. But you can't tell me that typing on the computer or installing Linux is harder work than construction or running cable or farming. It's just smarter.
I think it is unfair and a denial of my necessary personal freedom to kowtow to the market's demand for workaholicism. I've done my best to balance it, but I'm a geek. I've got options. Most people don't.
In short, I'm saying that when the market demands what is unacceptable, you have to change the rules of the market. If the market demands slave labor, you have to illegalize it. If the market demands a fast consumer culture of workaholics, you have to change the rules to allow more freedom.
After all, what's the point of living if the market demands that you not enjoy it?
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Do you have an article for [II.]? I can't seem to find one.
I am aware that the neocons have wanted a war in Iraq for a decade now... what I haven't read is that US oil companies were involved at the Presidential level in lobbying for the war (esp., pre-9/11). This would yet again make us hypocrites with regard to France et al. since one of the Republican talking points was France et al.'s deals to get oil from Iraq just as soon as UN sanctions were lifted. That would make the US out to be a hypocrite, successfully doing an end-run around the free market.
Thanks,
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[3] does not get you not-self, unfortunately. At best, the cogito buys you solipsism. Any "facts" observed, even about the self, fall under the aegis of the Deceiver.
:) I don't mind at all.
In short, all the cogito buys you is "I am" and nothing more. Any factual observations you make are based on faith in empiricism, not rational deduction. The main claim of empiricism is that the things you observe are what they appear to be unless given reason to believe otherwise. I.e., the Deceiver is a straw man until you find him.
Or do you mind a little empiricism in your rationalism?
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The sun will swell to become a red giant until it engulfs Earth.
Actually, it's been recently shown (1, 2) that Earth could survive Sol's expansion, though it would be really frickin' hot!
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[Off-topic]
I was gonna sign up for individual health through BCBS when I got unemployed and thought I could save a $100/mo till I got a job. Guess what? Their agreement requires you to disavow all claims of privacy under federal law and allows them to give your info to any third party! Needless to say, I decided not to sign up after all. I don't mind them getting info from my doctor or whatever, but I steadfastly refuse to allow them to give it to anyone else without my express consent.
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bah, stupid check box. it's me, dammit, ME!
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I don't have my Child Developmental Psychology textbook with me and I can only seem to dig up breastfeeding links, but I remember reading that mothers' bodies change in a number of positive ways during pregnancy. This would indicate that the mother/child relationship during pregnancy was symbiotic, even ignoring the species component of the definition of "parasite".
IIRC, two of these benefits were a reinforced immune system and generally better mood (brain chemical benefit).
Anyone know?
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hehehehe
:)
Nah, I meant I have a variety of career paths that the degree is relevant to other than C++/Java. That's all.
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This is why I got the Liberal Arts degree (Philosophy/Latin). hehehe! I also learned a very marketable skill: explaining how my degree is relevant to each job. Sure, it's kept me from applying at huge software houses that won't look at you unless you've a CS degree, but I wouldn't want to work there anyway. No respect, no community, little flexibility, etc.
If this programming job doesn't work out, I'll probably go into teaching.
Degree Relevance #1: Philosophy -> Logic, Argument, & Critical Thinking -> Programming.
Degree Relevance #2: Philosophy -> Logic, Argument, Critical Thinking, Policy Analysis, etc. -> Social Studies.
Degree Relevance #3: Latin -> Latin
randomness,
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Although this is in the context of a discussion on the estate/inheritance taxes, I think it's relevant to this discussion as well. This is Bill Moyers interviewing Bill Gates, Sr. (You know who's Father).
Entire transcript here: http://www.pbs.org/now/transcript/transcript_inher itance.html
Anyway, hope you don't think I'm attacking you. Just how I see the situation! 8)
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Christian music stores have had this feature like forever. "Band X sounds like Nirvana" or "Band Y sounds like Erasure". Helpful for sorting through all the dross since they publish so much crap. (There are some real gems though).
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