Uh...so he should crucify every native he sees until he no longer has a dust problem? Sir, your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
I'll note: this has nothing to do with dark matter. As it happens, 90% of the matter in the Universe is in a form that emits no light, but affects other matter through gravity. We know it exists, and you can find out why here. We know it exists locally, in nearby galaxies and clusters of galaxies, too. This new result doesn't affect that, since the now un-hidden galaxies are very far away, like many billions of light years away. They can't possibly affect nearby galaxies, so they don't account for dark matter.
So what of the theory that the Universe is composed of 90% dark matter that we can't see? Since we just found another 90% of the Universe, does that toss it all right out the window?
Yeah, you have to backdoor the system. "It isn't what you know, it is who you know." The Bachelors gets you past the know-nothing HR screening person. You need to find another way to do that. Join a couple industry trade groups, like AITP and network your ass off.
Me == AA degree, 20 years XP, currently working my ass of on 2 $100K+ jobs, 1st and 3rd shift.
They aren't interested in where you were born, but where your ethnic heritage is from. European is white, of which the census give Hispanic a special category. Negroid is Africa. Native American is pre-Columbian racial groups in the Western Hemisphere. Asian and Pacific Islander...well, those are self-explanatory.
As far as your ancestors coming from Africa -- only during recorded history of civilization counts, not the "out of Africa" migrations of 500,000, 1 & 2 million years ago. Nor do the across-the-Bering-Sea migrations.
And there lies the biggest problem. The majority of people have been so brainwashed to think college and university education is the answer, they don't know where else to look much less how to learn. It is not just you, it is also some of the idiots doing the hiring.
I'll let you in on a little secret. In the IT world and especially security, experience counts for much, much more than any degree. Degrees get you past HR bots and substitute for experience only in kids coming right out of college who ONLY went to college.
Screw the college courses. Take some SANS courses, get your CISSP and possibly GIAC certifications. Pick a specialty and LEARN it. I don't mean regurgitate answers to the CISSP exam, actually GROK a subject. If you're interested in NETWORK security, know TCP/IP inside out, understand BGP, grasp the basics of Cisco IOS, speak Nessus, Wireshark and Snort like second languages.
When interviewing people for jobs like these, I'm interested in what you KNOW not what classes you took.
There ain't no such critter. All "blacks" -- technically "Negroid" in ethnology -- entered the Western Hemisphere from Africa (eventually), either brought as slaves early on (1400s - 1800s) or as immigrants later. African-American and Native-American doesn't refer to just U.S. people. The "American" part refers to all of North, Central and South America.
"Native American" covers all ethnicities that were native to the pre-Columbian Western Hemisphere. Everything from Inuits up north down to the Mapuche of Chile and everywhere in between.
Note that the form says to mark ONE OR MORE boxes. If you're a mix, feel free to mark it up. There's even an "other", write-in box.
But that isn't the U.S. *PUSHING* culture, that is the cheap French broadcasters grabbing filler -- PULLING it in, and pulling from the U.S. We have the same thing in the U.S. with cable T.V. We'll get 100+ channels and most of it is the most mindless, poorly produced drivel you've ever seen. God help your braincells if you happen to watch after 2:00 a.m. or so.
Why can't they run English-language stuff from India, Canada or Britain? Or maybe French-language stuff from Quebec? I think the answer is the common Joe (Jacques?) wants the mindless, low brow crap even if they won't admit it. If not, you've just identified a market demand for inexpensive, French-language television programs. Why doesn't someone set up a cheap production studio and get to it?
Yeah, there is a whole category of people who have to be SEEN to be rich, or they aren't happy. Being rich isn't good enough. People have to see you spend absurd amounts of money on non-necessities and blow it off like it was no big deal. These people have a tendency to mention prices a lot, name drop and not-so-subtly brag.
For regular folks, the equivalent is an iPod. iPods aren't for people who like listening to music. They're for people who like to be SEEN listening to music. You see them constantly futzing around with play lists and songs in public. Hell, I've always just set the playlists on my PC, picked what I want to listen to and drop it in my pocket! But that defeats the purpose. I could have just some common MP3 player, and not be cool like the iPod crowd.
Supporting evidence -- the large aftermarket for white Apple or Apple-like earbuds. It makes people THINK you have an iPod in your jacket, so you must be cool.
Ditto Gucci purses, Manolo Blanik shoes, and...wait...did I just describe the entire fashion industry?
The guarantees of free speech in the 1st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution apply only to government censorship. Private entities, such as employers or homeowners, can stifle free speech all they want -- in their domain. That is, an employer can regulate your speech on the job or at the workplace. Homeowners can do the same in their home. The simple solution is to LEAVE and exercise your "free speech" in either a public forum or your own domain, such as your own house.
Honestly, you don't have the right to go off on some racist or any other rant I find offensive in MY home. Ditto for on the job. Feel free to do it in your own home.
Putting it bluntly, tough shit. Obviously the people running YOUR country don't feel the same way, or there wouldn't BE a McDonalds and Starbucks on every corner. Where do you get off forcing YOUR views on all of YOUR other countrymen?
We do it here in the U.S. There are several small towns that just refuse to issue building permits to Walmart, McDonalds and the like. They want to preserve the "small town feel".
Hell, screw small towns. It is 2010 and Walmart is STILL trying to get permission to build a store in CHICAGO -- the 3rd largest city in the U.S.! Suburbs, yes. City, not yet.
I'm willing to bet your gov't isn't subsidizing McDonalds and American movies, etc. So the simple answer is DON'T SHOP THERE. Capitalism, in its basest form, works wonderfully. If you DON'T SHOP THERE then those stores will LOSE MONEY AND CLOSE. These mega corps close "under-performing" stores all the time.
"Imposed", ha! Help me out. Which country is it that sends in the secret police to put the gun to your head to watch American TV, American movies, buy American brands and eat at American fast-food stores? I'd like to see the tourist brochure.
Actually, that is something a grandparent would say.
It has been a couple years since my kids watched TV. They watch everything on their PC. What little I watch I do on my phone or PC. The only person who uses the TV in our house is my wife, and even she is migrating to the PC because Hulu has the last two weeks of episodes of the shows she watches. You have to be REAL lazy (or have a real life) to miss an episode then!
My grandparents, however, are still all "well MASH comes on at 7 o'clock..." and "the news is on, don't you want to watch the 10 o'clock news?" No grandma, I already saw it all on my PC.
Feel free to ask that question in any city that has "smog" problems for a quick answer. Power plants can be located outside city limits and easier to apply scrubbers to than a few million, small, mobile pollutant sources.
All true, but only a related tangent to what I was talking about. Do both, since they aren't mutually exclusive and developing alternative sources is definitely in our (and their) best interests. But while working on alternatives, comparative advantage rules the day.
Please look up the definition of "fungible". The summary being, my neighbor has plenty of market for apples. If I don't buy them, there is a line of other people waiting to. My not buying them does nothing to deprive his crazy brother from tossing explosives my way. It may make you feel morally superior, but does nothing to address the issue.
Because the common man (not you -- the general "drill baby drill" public) doesn't seem to grasp a few concepts. Minerals, including oil and rare earths, are of finite supply. Eventually, they will run low or out totally. When that happens, do we -- the U.S. -- want to be on the SUPPLY or DEMAND side of the equation?
This is why the entire concept of "stop using foreign oil" is wrong. Who do we want pumped dry first? The Middle East, or the U.S.? Ditto with other critical resources. Which is why as long as the rest of the world is selling, we should happily be buying and sitting on our own resources.
His main argument against storing DNA of only convicted criminals is that there aren't enough white criminals, so the idea is racist. This entire premise makes me want to puke.
Except this is an ongoing police investigation. There is a difference. And a panel discussion isn't necessarily the best way to network with peers on issues like this. He made a mistake and paid for it. It was a bit harsh, but not totally out of line.
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IIRC, Wm. Shakespeare already did. http://www.spectacle.org/797/finkel.html
Uhhh...Passion of the Christ was released in 2004. Battlefield Earth was released in 2000.
Repeat after me, John Travolta is not God and cannot travel thru time.
Actually, just saying it once is enough. You shouldn't take a lot of convincing with that. Laughing, maybe. Convincing, no.
Uh...so he should crucify every native he sees until he no longer has a dust problem? Sir, your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
And AFTER reading the article...
I'll note: this has nothing to do with dark matter. As it happens, 90% of the matter in the Universe is in a form that emits no light, but affects other matter through gravity. We know it exists, and you can find out why here. We know it exists locally, in nearby galaxies and clusters of galaxies, too. This new result doesn't affect that, since the now un-hidden galaxies are very far away, like many billions of light years away. They can't possibly affect nearby galaxies, so they don't account for dark matter.
So what of the theory that the Universe is composed of 90% dark matter that we can't see? Since we just found another 90% of the Universe, does that toss it all right out the window?
Yeah, you have to backdoor the system. "It isn't what you know, it is who you know." The Bachelors gets you past the know-nothing HR screening person. You need to find another way to do that. Join a couple industry trade groups, like AITP and network your ass off.
Me == AA degree, 20 years XP, currently working my ass of on 2 $100K+ jobs, 1st and 3rd shift.
They aren't interested in where you were born, but where your ethnic heritage is from. European is white, of which the census give Hispanic a special category. Negroid is Africa. Native American is pre-Columbian racial groups in the Western Hemisphere. Asian and Pacific Islander...well, those are self-explanatory.
As far as your ancestors coming from Africa -- only during recorded history of civilization counts, not the "out of Africa" migrations of 500,000, 1 & 2 million years ago. Nor do the across-the-Bering-Sea migrations.
And there lies the biggest problem. The majority of people have been so brainwashed to think college and university education is the answer, they don't know where else to look much less how to learn. It is not just you, it is also some of the idiots doing the hiring.
I'll let you in on a little secret. In the IT world and especially security, experience counts for much, much more than any degree. Degrees get you past HR bots and substitute for experience only in kids coming right out of college who ONLY went to college.
Screw the college courses. Take some SANS courses, get your CISSP and possibly GIAC certifications. Pick a specialty and LEARN it. I don't mean regurgitate answers to the CISSP exam, actually GROK a subject. If you're interested in NETWORK security, know TCP/IP inside out, understand BGP, grasp the basics of Cisco IOS, speak Nessus, Wireshark and Snort like second languages.
When interviewing people for jobs like these, I'm interested in what you KNOW not what classes you took.
Compare apples to apples. Here is an oldie, but a goodie:
Michael Jordan having 'retired,' with $40 million in
endorsements, makes $178,100 a day, working or not.
If he sleeps 7 hours a night, he makes $52,000 every
night while visions of sugarplums dance in his head.
If he goes to see a movie, it'll cost him $7.00, but
he'll make $18,550 while he's there.
If he decides to have a 5-minute egg, he'll make
$618 while boiling it.
He makes $7,415/hour more than minimum wage.
If he wanted to save up for a new Acura NSX
($90,000) it would take him a whole 12 hours.
If someone were to hand him his salary and
endorsement money, they would have to do it
at the rate of $2.00 every second.
He'll probably pay around $200 for a nice round
of golf, but will be reimbursed $33,390 for
that round.
He'll make about $19.60 while watching the 100- meter dash in the
Olympics, and about $15,600 during the Boston Marathon .
This year, he'll make more than twice as much
as all U.S. past Presidents for all of their
terms combined.
Amazing isn't it?
However...
If Jordan saves 100% of his income for the next
500 years, he'll still have less than Bill Gates has
at this very moment.
Game over. Nerd wins .....
* * *
Now compare your average mid-level technical employee vs the jock who majored in sports and see what is what.
CISSP, CISM, CISA certifications help. But right now, a lot of them are focusing on EXPERIENCE, not college degrees.
There ain't no such critter. All "blacks" -- technically "Negroid" in ethnology -- entered the Western Hemisphere from Africa (eventually), either brought as slaves early on (1400s - 1800s) or as immigrants later. African-American and Native-American doesn't refer to just U.S. people. The "American" part refers to all of North, Central and South America.
"Native American" covers all ethnicities that were native to the pre-Columbian Western Hemisphere. Everything from Inuits up north down to the Mapuche of Chile and everywhere in between.
Note that the form says to mark ONE OR MORE boxes. If you're a mix, feel free to mark it up. There's even an "other", write-in box.
But that isn't the U.S. *PUSHING* culture, that is the cheap French broadcasters grabbing filler -- PULLING it in, and pulling from the U.S. We have the same thing in the U.S. with cable T.V. We'll get 100+ channels and most of it is the most mindless, poorly produced drivel you've ever seen. God help your braincells if you happen to watch after 2:00 a.m. or so.
Why can't they run English-language stuff from India, Canada or Britain? Or maybe French-language stuff from Quebec? I think the answer is the common Joe (Jacques?) wants the mindless, low brow crap even if they won't admit it. If not, you've just identified a market demand for inexpensive, French-language television programs. Why doesn't someone set up a cheap production studio and get to it?
Didn't you know? Hillary swings both ways.
Yeah, there is a whole category of people who have to be SEEN to be rich, or they aren't happy. Being rich isn't good enough. People have to see you spend absurd amounts of money on non-necessities and blow it off like it was no big deal. These people have a tendency to mention prices a lot, name drop and not-so-subtly brag.
For regular folks, the equivalent is an iPod. iPods aren't for people who like listening to music. They're for people who like to be SEEN listening to music. You see them constantly futzing around with play lists and songs in public. Hell, I've always just set the playlists on my PC, picked what I want to listen to and drop it in my pocket! But that defeats the purpose. I could have just some common MP3 player, and not be cool like the iPod crowd.
Supporting evidence -- the large aftermarket for white Apple or Apple-like earbuds. It makes people THINK you have an iPod in your jacket, so you must be cool.
Ditto Gucci purses, Manolo Blanik shoes, and...wait...did I just describe the entire fashion industry?
The guarantees of free speech in the 1st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution apply only to government censorship. Private entities, such as employers or homeowners, can stifle free speech all they want -- in their domain. That is, an employer can regulate your speech on the job or at the workplace. Homeowners can do the same in their home. The simple solution is to LEAVE and exercise your "free speech" in either a public forum or your own domain, such as your own house.
Honestly, you don't have the right to go off on some racist or any other rant I find offensive in MY home. Ditto for on the job. Feel free to do it in your own home.
Putting it bluntly, tough shit. Obviously the people running YOUR country don't feel the same way, or there wouldn't BE a McDonalds and Starbucks on every corner. Where do you get off forcing YOUR views on all of YOUR other countrymen?
We do it here in the U.S. There are several small towns that just refuse to issue building permits to Walmart, McDonalds and the like. They want to preserve the "small town feel".
Hell, screw small towns. It is 2010 and Walmart is STILL trying to get permission to build a store in CHICAGO -- the 3rd largest city in the U.S.! Suburbs, yes. City, not yet.
I'm willing to bet your gov't isn't subsidizing McDonalds and American movies, etc. So the simple answer is DON'T SHOP THERE. Capitalism, in its basest form, works wonderfully. If you DON'T SHOP THERE then those stores will LOSE MONEY AND CLOSE. These mega corps close "under-performing" stores all the time.
"Imposed", ha! Help me out. Which country is it that sends in the secret police to put the gun to your head to watch American TV, American movies, buy American brands and eat at American fast-food stores? I'd like to see the tourist brochure.
Actually, that is something a grandparent would say.
It has been a couple years since my kids watched TV. They watch everything on their PC. What little I watch I do on my phone or PC. The only person who uses the TV in our house is my wife, and even she is migrating to the PC because Hulu has the last two weeks of episodes of the shows she watches. You have to be REAL lazy (or have a real life) to miss an episode then!
My grandparents, however, are still all "well MASH comes on at 7 o'clock..." and "the news is on, don't you want to watch the 10 o'clock news?" No grandma, I already saw it all on my PC.
This is so sad it doesn't even deserve a "whoosh". Just go out and rent 2010. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086837/
Feel free to ask that question in any city that has "smog" problems for a quick answer. Power plants can be located outside city limits and easier to apply scrubbers to than a few million, small, mobile pollutant sources.
All true, but only a related tangent to what I was talking about. Do both, since they aren't mutually exclusive and developing alternative sources is definitely in our (and their) best interests. But while working on alternatives, comparative advantage rules the day.
Please look up the definition of "fungible". The summary being, my neighbor has plenty of market for apples. If I don't buy them, there is a line of other people waiting to. My not buying them does nothing to deprive his crazy brother from tossing explosives my way. It may make you feel morally superior, but does nothing to address the issue.
Because the common man (not you -- the general "drill baby drill" public) doesn't seem to grasp a few concepts. Minerals, including oil and rare earths, are of finite supply. Eventually, they will run low or out totally. When that happens, do we -- the U.S. -- want to be on the SUPPLY or DEMAND side of the equation?
This is why the entire concept of "stop using foreign oil" is wrong. Who do we want pumped dry first? The Middle East, or the U.S.? Ditto with other critical resources. Which is why as long as the rest of the world is selling, we should happily be buying and sitting on our own resources.
His main argument against storing DNA of only convicted criminals is that there aren't enough white criminals, so the idea is racist. This entire premise makes me want to puke.
The nose plays.
Except this is an ongoing police investigation. There is a difference. And a panel discussion isn't necessarily the best way to network with peers on issues like this. He made a mistake and paid for it. It was a bit harsh, but not totally out of line.