Not that you can't do sophisticated stuff with excel, access, etc. (maybe you are), but if you're not, the kind of safety-scissors, connect-the-dots programming that usually gets done with these tools is a prime candidate for offshoring. Unless you're desperate for the cash (babies to feed, mortgage, etc.), do something that'll challenge you, and don't rest on your laurels.
The statistics used in "Bowling For Columbine" compare apples to oranges. The fact that the US has about 10x the population of Canada probably has some effect on the difference in the number of gun murders that occurred in each country.
Additionally, other violent crime statistics were ignored by the film. How do assault statistics compare? Rape? Murder committed by means other than guns?
"Faith" means acccepting something which defies logic...
As far as I know, no one has found the existence of a god to be intrinsically impossible(a contradiction.) "Faith" may fly in the face of a person's sense experience, but not in the face of abstract logic. Don't confuse the knowledge you can gain from rational reflection with the (admittedly tentative) knowledge you gain from sense experience. (You don't know with absolute certitude that the sun will come up tomorrow, but you do know that the logical conjunction of a true statment with a false one is in fact a false statement.)
...the parameters of every definition are endlessly malleable.
I take issue with this. Try reading the works of St. Thomas Aquinas, or St. Augustine, and, whether you agree with their conclusions or not, see if you can appreciate their logical clarity and intellectual rigor.
This is silly! Microsoft only makes money insofar as it makes a product that millions of people are willing to pay for! When somebody else does a better job, Microsoft won't be around for you to bitch about. Also, Learn to "zpell" (i.e. "Capitalizm")
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Not that you can't do sophisticated stuff with excel, access, etc. (maybe you are), but if you're not, the kind of safety-scissors, connect-the-dots programming that usually gets done with these tools is a prime candidate for offshoring. Unless you're desperate for the cash (babies to feed, mortgage, etc.), do something that'll challenge you, and don't rest on your laurels.
"SAVE US" from what, Lord of the Skinheads?
I've seen plenty of poorly written responses from the other side here. And I'm no fundamentalist.
The statistics used in "Bowling For Columbine" compare apples to oranges. The fact that the US has about 10x the population of Canada probably has some effect on the difference in the number of gun murders that occurred in each country.
Additionally, other violent crime statistics were ignored by the film. How do assault statistics compare? Rape? Murder committed by means other than guns?
A well made film, but pure propaganda.
Higher lifeform? It's a friggin' mouse!
"Faith" means acccepting something which defies logic...
As far as I know, no one has found the existence of a god to be intrinsically impossible(a contradiction.) "Faith" may fly in the face of a person's sense experience, but not in the face of abstract logic. Don't confuse the knowledge you can gain from rational reflection with the (admittedly tentative) knowledge you gain from sense experience. (You don't know with absolute certitude that the sun will come up tomorrow, but you do know that the logical conjunction of a true statment with a false one is in fact a false statement.)
... the parameters of every definition are endlessly malleable.
I take issue with this. Try reading the works of St. Thomas Aquinas, or St. Augustine, and, whether you agree with their conclusions or not, see if you can appreciate their logical clarity and intellectual rigor.
Correct me if I'm wrong.PS : Here, elections are paid by the taxpayer. The amount of money involved is many orders of magnitude lower than in America.
Welfare for politicians! Always a great idea!
This is silly! Microsoft only makes money insofar as it makes a product that millions of people are willing to pay for! When somebody else does a better job, Microsoft won't be around for you to bitch about. Also, Learn to "zpell" (i.e. "Capitalizm")