...and if it's serious enough to impact your long-term health, you should get those "hormonal/glandular issues" looked at. If the doctor says, "there's nothing we can do about it", fine...
I think the "glandular excuse" is more common than you think. My wife has this problem:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pcos
Luckily, she's managed to dodge a lot of the weight gain and the man-izing effects. But it's still been a fight she's been fighting her entire life. Many woman with this problem are 400lbs and mustachioed. The doctors have been "looking at" her problem for 30 years and are only just now starting to understand this problem. People here go on and on about how losing weight is just a thermodynamics problem and if they just stop eating, they'd lose weight. Women with this problem have starved to death while still fat. There is a chemical reaction going on when fat is burned in the body. If you're missing a vital component for that process, no fat loss. Gaining fat is no problem at all though. And when you add to this the fact that diet drinks cause an insulin response in many people, it can be a losing battle. If you read the wikipedia article, you'll see that 10% of women have this problem. 10%! How many minority ethnic groups are smaller than this in the US? My wife is now doomed to a life of grueling exercise routines and rigid diets. The price of failure for her is death at 50. The 30 minutes three times a week exercise thing works just fine for me. If I'm fat, I deserve it. But for her, I've watched her eat 800 calories a day and gain weight, and this is a very active woman with three 2-year-olds.
If you or a woman you know carries their extra weight on top like a man instead of gaining it on her hips, has mysterious skin spots that are affected by sunlight, can't lose wight no matter what, or can put on 30lbs in a month, is growing body hair like a man while losing hair on her head, and is infertile, please see a fertility doctor even if you don't want to get pregnant. Stop drinking diet drinks and get on metformin. Then read this book, her life depends on it: http://www.amazon.com/Savvy-Womans-Guide-PCOS-Epidemic/dp/1933213019
In short, lighten up everyone. Not everyone is at fault for being fat. If you don't like looking at fat people or sitting next to one on an airplane, try being one.
Right now, the most expensive foods in terms of cost per calorie, are the most healthy foods.
This is absolutely right. I'm a fan of low carb diets. I lost 70lbs this way. If you eat that way, you'll notice that your food will cost more in spite of actually eating less. Also, you'll notice that all of your grocery shopping will be done at the edges of the store. If you venture out into the isles, it turns into frozen food and boxed carbohydrate hell. Want to know why poor people are fat? It's because it's expensive to eat healthy.
Every religion has good ideas and bad ideas. A stress on vocabulary building just happens to be one of Scientology's good ideas.
Disclaimer: I am not a scientologist, but used to work in an office full of them, including the president of the company.
In my experience, if scientology stresses vocabulary building, they definitely want it to be their vocabulary. Scientology literally redefines the meanings of a lot of words. I believe this to be a brainwashing technique. For example, if someone is being "reasonable", it means that they're making excuses.
In general, I agree with your view. Nearly all religions have good and not so good ideas. But please stop including scientology in that group. Scientology (and their associated business "tech") is not a religion, it's a scam.
You won't find those on Amazon. Then why the protectionist law? If they really had something to offer that amazon did not, it wouldn't matter if amazon gave the books away for free.
I've been writing software professionally for seventeen years. I've been a consultant for the last ten. I've had to condense my resume to get it down to ten pages. Anything more than ten years old gets a quick sentence or two on the resume. The more recent work has far more detail. The first page of my resume only lists buzzwords so that I get pulled out of search engines. I can't even count the number of times a stupid recruiter called me saying things like, "Your resume says AIX, HP-UX, and Solaris... but do you know UNIX?" So now my resume lists the word "UNIX" in addition to all of the individual flavors. I also have a statement at the top of that page that says "This page is here to satisfy search engines." The truth these days is that usually, the employer will not be reading your resume first, the recruiter will be. They're simply buzzword parsers. And they're likely to rearrange or otherwise mangle your resume before passing it on to the hiring manager anyway.
If you remove skills, buzzwords, experience, or other details from your resume just to fit it into one page, you're hurting yourself, severely. You can rest assured that no one is printing out your resume and reading it all the way though. Most likely, they're using key word searches in microsoft word to find the bits about the skills they're looking for, then only reading those parts. Key word searches don't care if they find a match on page one or twenty.
These guys feel no obligation to follow their own guidelines. Why would they follow someone else's?
I had a near miss with identity theft about six years ago. The mortgage broker that sold us our house (we knew it was him, just could find him or prove it) stole our file along with a bunch of files from other people. We would check out mail to find credit card bills that were torn open, rearranged, then haphazardly stuffed back into the envelopes. We finally figured out what was happening when we got a rejection letter for a small business loan for $18,000 that was declined for a technical reason. He put my birthday down as something like 1905 for some reason. All the other info was dead on. When I called the bank, they apologized for turning me down and asked me to come in and fix the problem to get the loan.
He must have been a novice because he made a number of other failed attempts. We ended up putting this fraud alert on our credit credit reports. Our experience has been hit or miss. For example, my wife walked into a target and spent several hundred dollars. The offered a 10% discount for applying for a credit card. She told them it would automatically deny us because if the fraud alert, but they told her she would get the discount anyway. The result: $10,000 limit on the spot with a little note that would allow her to max the card there in the store that day. Home depot gave me a little trouble though. The person behind the counter abruptly handed me the phone. The person on the phone said, "Do you know why I'm talking to you?" I told her about the fraud alert. Result: $5000 limit on the spot. At least it wasn't as bad as target. We bought a car no questions asked. Getting a cell phone contract from sprint was hell however. They kept canceling the order. The third attempt worked and they did as they should have.
The other day, a coworker of mine mentioned that she actually liked Vista.
I responded: Are you sure? Are you really sure? Because if you're not sure you can change your mind. Are you sure you don't like some other operating system instead? Are you sure?
And the thing is, they're right. 8-4 is just the time they are required to be AT SCHOOL, in the room. Any teacher worth their salt spends plenty of extra time making sure that their lessons are prepared for the next day (or week) and that they are generally ready for anything the class can throw at them. Teaching doesn't just "happen"; it requires a tremendous amount of prep and organizational work.
I would argue that this is true the first year. It's not rocket science to keep material year on year to reuse the next time around. And if you're not already prepared for anything the class can throw at you, why are you teaching the subject? Furthermore, why can't you say "I don't know" and come back with an answer tomorrow?
Also, the vacation is lengthy, but fairly inflexible. Hope you don't want to take any time off OTHER than what the district says, or you've got some problems. Want to take a month off in March instead? Too bad! It's definitely a trade off.
Cry me a river. I haven't had a vacation in five years.
Let me turn it around, and see if I can point out just a little bit of hubris on your part. Why should an experienced software developer get more money than a new one? They're doing the same job? Why should an experienced ANYONE get more money?
The problem is that teaching has the unionesque feature of paying people merely for seniority rather than skill that should come from experience. If you suck in the business world, you won't get raises and will probably be the first one outsourced.
Let me give you some examples of the quality of our teachers. My 9th grade science teacher didn't know the answer when I asked why ice expands as it freezes. At least he admitted that he didn't have a good answer. He looked it up, found me the next day, and explained it to me. But in my opinion, he should have known that off the top of his head. I'm a computer programmer, and I know this off the top of my head.
My 7th grade english teacher was a Japanese woman with a severe accent. She was nearly impossible to understand.
My 11 year old daughter recently asked her social studies teacher where the atomic bombs were dropped at the end of world war two. She could remember Hiroshima, but not the other one. Her teacher's answer: Iwo Jima. My daughter knew this was wrong, but dropped it anyway, then came home and asked me. I knew the answer off the top of my head. This same teacher also referred to Arlington National Cemetary as "that famous cemetary in DC". My daugher quietly laughed at her, then came home to tell me the story. This teacher also frequently mispronounces the names of historical people and places.
Teaching positions should be prized, highly paid and respected positions that are difficult to attain and keep. We should have the best teaching our children. Instead, we get what we paid for.
Yeah, they re-invented it to be the BOSE of vacuum cleaners.
I have nine children. We all live together in a 4000sqft house. One of the children, the four year old, is especially destructive. There are certain appliances that cry for mercy once they enter our house. Washers and dryers for example, we do 10 loads a day. We also have three refridgerators and a standup freezer. We go through dishwashers like candy. They typically last us 12 to 18 months. But by far, the appliance we abuse the most is the vacuum cleaner. We have four. Two up stairs and two downstairs. A wet carpet vac for each floor, and a dyson for each floor. My wife says the one with the giant ball is so-so. So we have the models right below that. They're the greatest vacuum cleaner ever invented. The money we save on vacuum cleaner bags alone justifies the high cost. When they get clogged, which is almost daily, they're easily disassembled to clear the obstruction. They also manage to pull up things our other vacuums in the past couldn't. My wife likes to hug her dysons. They may not be for the single guy with a dog, but for us, they're ideal.
I want to strangle both the inventor or daylight savings time and the genius who decided to move this dates this year. Thanks to these jackasses, I get up in the dark now. And my favorite clock which autosets its time when the power goes out is now broken. I had to lie to it and change my timezone to get the time to display correctly. This is completely retarded. I didn't see a single correct clock in the way in to work today.
I still have fond memories of this game. A friend and I played through all three on the C64. Then I did it again when I finally got an Amiga. For me, no game has ever made as much of an impression, although Shadow of the Colossus really impressed me. I still remember some of the 4 digit spell codes from BT. I was really hoping the recent bard's tale would capture the same feeling for me. But sadly, it was a joke.
don't be surprised if you end up having to seriously pay your dues to change your image if you decide you want to work somewhere more committed to YOU in the future.
No one, and I mean no one is comitted to you. They're comitted to profits. And they'll drop you the instant you don't support that. If they say they're comitted, or you feel they're comitted, it's all part of an illusion constructed by the corporation to give them control.
disclaimer: I'm a contractor - it's a whole other way of making a living.
So am I. I was thinking that he would make a perfect whore. Make double. Less politics. More interesting projects. More respect. More freedom. I'll never be a wage slave again.
Sorry but we are still a long ways away but snake oil this is not..
I still think they're making this shit up. "There's a computer in the room back there, but don't look directly at it. Else it will quit working." There's a sign in my local Hooters restaurant that says "This sign is in spanish when you're not looking at it." Is that a quantum sign? I think I'll try that next time one of my applications crashes. "Just stop looking at it and it will work!"
Slashdot Mirror
I certainly am. A DDOS attack would look like a bad horror movie.
I think the "glandular excuse" is more common than you think. My wife has this problem:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pcos
Luckily, she's managed to dodge a lot of the weight gain and the man-izing effects. But it's still been a fight she's been fighting her entire life. Many woman with this problem are 400lbs and mustachioed. The doctors have been "looking at" her problem for 30 years and are only just now starting to understand this problem. People here go on and on about how losing weight is just a thermodynamics problem and if they just stop eating, they'd lose weight. Women with this problem have starved to death while still fat. There is a chemical reaction going on when fat is burned in the body. If you're missing a vital component for that process, no fat loss. Gaining fat is no problem at all though. And when you add to this the fact that diet drinks cause an insulin response in many people, it can be a losing battle.
If you read the wikipedia article, you'll see that 10% of women have this problem. 10%! How many minority ethnic groups are smaller than this in the US? My wife is now doomed to a life of grueling exercise routines and rigid diets. The price of failure for her is death at 50. The 30 minutes three times a week exercise thing works just fine for me. If I'm fat, I deserve it. But for her, I've watched her eat 800 calories a day and gain weight, and this is a very active woman with three 2-year-olds.
If you or a woman you know carries their extra weight on top like a man instead of gaining it on her hips, has mysterious skin spots that are affected by sunlight, can't lose wight no matter what, or can put on 30lbs in a month, is growing body hair like a man while losing hair on her head, and is infertile, please see a fertility doctor even if you don't want to get pregnant. Stop drinking diet drinks and get on metformin. Then read this book, her life depends on it: http://www.amazon.com/Savvy-Womans-Guide-PCOS-Epidemic/dp/1933213019
In short, lighten up everyone. Not everyone is at fault for being fat. If you don't like looking at fat people or sitting next to one on an airplane, try being one.
Right now, the most expensive foods in terms of cost per calorie, are the most healthy foods.
This is absolutely right. I'm a fan of low carb diets. I lost 70lbs this way. If you eat that way, you'll notice that your food will cost more in spite of actually eating less. Also, you'll notice that all of your grocery shopping will be done at the edges of the store. If you venture out into the isles, it turns into frozen food and boxed carbohydrate hell. Want to know why poor people are fat? It's because it's expensive to eat healthy.
Every religion has good ideas and bad ideas. A stress on vocabulary building just happens to be one of Scientology's good ideas.
Disclaimer: I am not a scientologist, but used to work in an office full of them, including the president of the company.
In my experience, if scientology stresses vocabulary building, they definitely want it to be their vocabulary. Scientology literally redefines the meanings of a lot of words. I believe this to be a brainwashing technique. For example, if someone is being "reasonable", it means that they're making excuses.
In general, I agree with your view. Nearly all religions have good and not so good ideas. But please stop including scientology in that group. Scientology (and their associated business "tech") is not a religion, it's a scam.
You won't find those on Amazon.
Then why the protectionist law? If they really had something to offer that amazon did not, it wouldn't matter if amazon gave the books away for free.
4 qubits? How much is that in furlongs?
I don't know. But all this talk about those guys is australia is really pointless. Noah did this 4000 years ago already.
How many qubits was the ark anyway?
"The days of the one page resume are long gone."
ummmm No.
I've been writing software professionally for seventeen years. I've been a consultant for the last ten. I've had to condense my resume to get it down to ten pages. Anything more than ten years old gets a quick sentence or two on the resume. The more recent work has far more detail. The first page of my resume only lists buzzwords so that I get pulled out of search engines. I can't even count the number of times a stupid recruiter called me saying things like, "Your resume says AIX, HP-UX, and Solaris... but do you know UNIX?" So now my resume lists the word "UNIX" in addition to all of the individual flavors. I also have a statement at the top of that page that says "This page is here to satisfy search engines." The truth these days is that usually, the employer will not be reading your resume first, the recruiter will be. They're simply buzzword parsers. And they're likely to rearrange or otherwise mangle your resume before passing it on to the hiring manager anyway.
If you remove skills, buzzwords, experience, or other details from your resume just to fit it into one page, you're hurting yourself, severely. You can rest assured that no one is printing out your resume and reading it all the way though. Most likely, they're using key word searches in microsoft word to find the bits about the skills they're looking for, then only reading those parts. Key word searches don't care if they find a match on page one or twenty.
I don't know, but that satellite must be some fast shit.
I'm mayed to hear that
I'm imbiggened by your cromulent words.
These guys feel no obligation to follow their own guidelines. Why would they follow someone else's?
I had a near miss with identity theft about six years ago. The mortgage broker that sold us our house (we knew it was him, just could find him or prove it) stole our file along with a bunch of files from other people. We would check out mail to find credit card bills that were torn open, rearranged, then haphazardly stuffed back into the envelopes. We finally figured out what was happening when we got a rejection letter for a small business loan for $18,000 that was declined for a technical reason. He put my birthday down as something like 1905 for some reason. All the other info was dead on. When I called the bank, they apologized for turning me down and asked me to come in and fix the problem to get the loan.
He must have been a novice because he made a number of other failed attempts. We ended up putting this fraud alert on our credit credit reports. Our experience has been hit or miss. For example, my wife walked into a target and spent several hundred dollars. The offered a 10% discount for applying for a credit card. She told them it would automatically deny us because if the fraud alert, but they told her she would get the discount anyway. The result: $10,000 limit on the spot with a little note that would allow her to max the card there in the store that day. Home depot gave me a little trouble though. The person behind the counter abruptly handed me the phone. The person on the phone said, "Do you know why I'm talking to you?" I told her about the fraud alert. Result: $5000 limit on the spot. At least it wasn't as bad as target. We bought a car no questions asked. Getting a cell phone contract from sprint was hell however. They kept canceling the order. The third attempt worked and they did as they should have.
You can't ... sell yourself into slavery.
Sure you can. Just carry a credit card balance.
The other day, a coworker of mine mentioned that she actually liked Vista.
I responded: Are you sure? Are you really sure? Because if you're not sure you can change your mind. Are you sure you don't like some other operating system instead? Are you sure?
And the thing is, they're right. 8-4 is just the time they are required to be AT SCHOOL, in the room. Any teacher worth their salt spends plenty of extra time making sure that their lessons are prepared for the next day (or week) and that they are generally ready for anything the class can throw at them. Teaching doesn't just "happen"; it requires a tremendous amount of prep and organizational work.
I would argue that this is true the first year. It's not rocket science to keep material year on year to reuse the next time around. And if you're not already prepared for anything the class can throw at you, why are you teaching the subject? Furthermore, why can't you say "I don't know" and come back with an answer tomorrow?
Also, the vacation is lengthy, but fairly inflexible. Hope you don't want to take any time off OTHER than what the district says, or you've got some problems. Want to take a month off in March instead? Too bad! It's definitely a trade off.
Cry me a river. I haven't had a vacation in five years.
Let me turn it around, and see if I can point out just a little bit of hubris on your part. Why should an experienced software developer get more money than a new one? They're doing the same job? Why should an experienced ANYONE get more money?
The problem is that teaching has the unionesque feature of paying people merely for seniority rather than skill that should come from experience. If you suck in the business world, you won't get raises and will probably be the first one outsourced.
Let me give you some examples of the quality of our teachers. My 9th grade science teacher didn't know the answer when I asked why ice expands as it freezes. At least he admitted that he didn't have a good answer. He looked it up, found me the next day, and explained it to me. But in my opinion, he should have known that off the top of his head. I'm a computer programmer, and I know this off the top of my head.
My 7th grade english teacher was a Japanese woman with a severe accent. She was nearly impossible to understand.
My 11 year old daughter recently asked her social studies teacher where the atomic bombs were dropped at the end of world war two. She could remember Hiroshima, but not the other one. Her teacher's answer: Iwo Jima. My daughter knew this was wrong, but dropped it anyway, then came home and asked me. I knew the answer off the top of my head. This same teacher also referred to Arlington National Cemetary as "that famous cemetary in DC". My daugher quietly laughed at her, then came home to tell me the story. This teacher also frequently mispronounces the names of historical people and places.
Teaching positions should be prized, highly paid and respected positions that are difficult to attain and keep. We should have the best teaching our children. Instead, we get what we paid for.
The first interspace wardriving attempt thus ended in failure. The Gliesians must be hardwired.
Nah, they're just using appletalk just like Jeff Goldblume said. (hachoo)
Sounds like a great idea. I only hope we can continue to move in that direction even faster.
According to Christians, you won't have to wait much longer.
The Library of Congress? They need to figure out how many times they can copy themselves to one disk.
And for that matter, the VW Club of America will need one to see how many VW Beetles they can cram into the drive.
Nah. I bet it's all just a ST:TNG holodeck simulation.
Agent Orange Wins.
Flawless Victory.
We've got a couple of tunnels and a couple of bridges for trucks, though our ports have been reduced to a token amount of transfer.
You know why New Yorkers are always in a bad mood?
Because the light at the end of the tunnel is New Jersey.
Yeah, they re-invented it to be the BOSE of vacuum cleaners.
I have nine children. We all live together in a 4000sqft house. One of the children, the four year old, is especially destructive. There are certain appliances that cry for mercy once they enter our house. Washers and dryers for example, we do 10 loads a day. We also have three refridgerators and a standup freezer. We go through dishwashers like candy. They typically last us 12 to 18 months. But by far, the appliance we abuse the most is the vacuum cleaner. We have four. Two up stairs and two downstairs. A wet carpet vac for each floor, and a dyson for each floor. My wife says the one with the giant ball is so-so. So we have the models right below that. They're the greatest vacuum cleaner ever invented. The money we save on vacuum cleaner bags alone justifies the high cost. When they get clogged, which is almost daily, they're easily disassembled to clear the obstruction. They also manage to pull up things our other vacuums in the past couldn't. My wife likes to hug her dysons. They may not be for the single guy with a dog, but for us, they're ideal.
By the way, we have a roomba. It's complete junk.
I want to strangle both the inventor or daylight savings time and the genius who decided to move this dates this year. Thanks to these jackasses, I get up in the dark now. And my favorite clock which autosets its time when the power goes out is now broken. I had to lie to it and change my timezone to get the time to display correctly. This is completely retarded. I didn't see a single correct clock in the way in to work today.
I still have fond memories of this game. A friend and I played through all three on the C64. Then I did it again when I finally got an Amiga. For me, no game has ever made as much of an impression, although Shadow of the Colossus really impressed me. I still remember some of the 4 digit spell codes from BT. I was really hoping the recent bard's tale would capture the same feeling for me. But sadly, it was a joke.
don't be surprised if you end up having to seriously pay your dues to change your image if you decide you want to work somewhere more committed to YOU in the future.
No one, and I mean no one is comitted to you. They're comitted to profits. And they'll drop you the instant you don't support that. If they say they're comitted, or you feel they're comitted, it's all part of an illusion constructed by the corporation to give them control.
Disclaimer: I'm a jaded consultant.
disclaimer: I'm a contractor - it's a whole other way of making a living.
So am I. I was thinking that he would make a perfect whore. Make double. Less politics. More interesting projects. More respect. More freedom. I'll never be a wage slave again.
Sorry but we are still a long ways away but snake oil this is not..
I still think they're making this shit up. "There's a computer in the room back there, but don't look directly at it. Else it will quit working." There's a sign in my local Hooters restaurant that says "This sign is in spanish when you're not looking at it." Is that a quantum sign? I think I'll try that next time one of my applications crashes. "Just stop looking at it and it will work!"