Please describe the machinery required to traverse four light years of space, with absolutely no resources available from Earth once it's on its way, and is 100% fail safe and will get there either within a useful human lifespan, or describe a way to (on top of the machine from step 1) slow down life processes reversibly and safely.
Warp drives. DUH. If that doesn't work then just reverse the polarity, or invert the modulation to the phase coils. Make sure you realign the sensor array first so you don't cause a cascade overload in the resonance dampers.
Well, not unless you pay the right lawmakers and regulators to ensure you get the right permits and make the required "donations" to the appropriate parties.
...the state of computer "engineering" is complete and utter shit if a fucking pacemaker can be hacked and compromised? What the mother fuck? Are you fucking kidding me? Shouldn't those be among the best designed, safest, most reliable and secure of devices? God help us all. Just wait until they drag us into this war with Iran here soon, and China and Russia decide to team up to end our bullshit and we end up descending into WW3.
Can you imagine the utter chaos in the U.S. when all our magic electronic boxes suddenly stop working, or worse, work silently behind our backs to sabotage and/or kill us? According to another/. article, it's 300+ days on average (sometimes years) between the finding of a typical "zero day" exploit and when it was actually found (kept hidden, and potentially exploited) by attackers. Who wants to bet money China and Russia both have teams of hackers dedicated to finding exploits for all common software and systems in the U.S., extensively documenting and writing code against them, nicely sorting and tabulating it all out and filing it away in an archive, then keeping this info close at hand at all times for when the right opportunity presents itself?
Right now we are more vulnerable than ever. Hands up: who here is looking forward to jumping into a world war with both feet, then being surprised by how much we don't know about our own security vulnerabilities, learning the hard way from powerful foreign countries that just might kick our asses, or at the very least cause massive damage (bombing, etc) to the mainland U.S.? We're learning now that pacemakers have huge gaping security holes. Holy fucking Christ. What else is out there waiting to be compromised and exploited?
But the fact that you decided to fly off the handle into a profanity-laden tirade wipes out a good chuck of whatever credibility you may have had. Initiating personal attacks on the poster because you disagree with them eliminates the rest.
If coding is your hobby, why not make it your profession? If already employed as a programmer, what possible satisfaction could one derive from working on somebody else's project during the day, relegating one's own projects ("hobbies") to second place and second priority? If you truly are a hot shit coder, then start your own company and make your own products. Put your money where your mouth is and truly make it your life. Otherwise yeah, I'd say the guy who also works as a wage slave but at least spends his off-hours doings other things (i.e. boating) is living a slightly better life.
For $130k more I couldn't buy the time I spend doing what I love each and every day.
LOLOL. Actually....yes, yes you could. You could invest that money wisely and multiply it, multiply it some more, and create your own research company where you.......*drumroll*......do nothing but what you want to do, all day long, and get paid whatever you want to pay yourself.
It is a good example of good intentions having unintended negative consequences.
LOL. Actually your whole post was an example of that. I thought you health "professionals" were supposed to the brightest and best among us? I thought you were supposed to be the smartest and most educated? How in the fucking world can you advocate working those kinds of hours? If you want to destroy your body then go right ahead.....dumb ass.
Wow. Words can't describe how appalled I am to know that not one corner of our country is safe from this disease which is overworking. I love how back in the 1800s, the problem was those damn robbers barons!!! who "forced" people to work long and hard hours. Nowadays nobody has to be forced, they'll do it willingly because they're fucking morons! Like lemmings marching dutifully off the cliff. God help America.
My employer expects those hours and I am happy to do it. I know I will not do it forever, but to be a good middle school math teacher I need to learn more than just algebra. In return I get a life I want. Notice I did not get paid that much. But in reality if I do not do it they will find someone else who will. My other option is to go sell crap at BestBuy. Is that what I want? Hell no.
You are blinded by the blinders society has put on you. Those are far from your only options.
My example above is for training I did for Exchange recently. You have any idea how much an Exchange consultant makes? 6 figures easily!
So if you were "forced" to learn those skills, which are so lucrative....why aren't you now using them to make money? Why not start consultancy work with other schools, and get on as a contractor with this school, making 10x as much for 1/4 the work and none of the bullshit?
Respect is earned and you are correct. I am not respected yet. I didn't do the time to earn it yet. My goal is to work my ass off and be the best damn teacher and get a recommendation so in 2 years I can go live in Alaska and go kayaking, camping, hiking, in the summers off and make a more decent wage during the winter. This is what is required of me to get there now in the crappy state I am in.
*insert wanking avatar here* B-O-R-I-N-G. What a miserable existence. Why the fuck don't do you just move to Alaska now, and start your own school? Then you can run things exactly how you want instead of doing things the shitty old way.
Yes being ok is not good enough anymore. A demanding customer and boss wants the best and people should also be willing to better themselves. Maybe I may go for a masters in science (my dream job) after a few years of teaching and then just move into the college environment.
Sounds great, if you don't mind living a life of slavery. My prediction: you will aimlessly drift through life for decades, then having a midlife crisis when you realize you've wasted half your time with pointless drudgery when you should have been making an actual difference. I hope you change course and prove me wrong.
As for the Mexican Drug Lords, why does nobody point out how they had plenty of Guns before the Obama administration, and that the tiny amount of guns that came through the program to TRACK that whole process is miniscule in comparison to the arsenal they had already built up?
Because that would idiotic. Our agent and others weren't killed by "one of the guns they already had"; he was killed by the ones the government shipped ILLEGALLY.
The US assisted a NATO mission in Lybia under the authority of the UNSC
And what does the U.S. Constitution have to say about this? Where in the Constitution does it give this "UNSC" an authority over anything to do with our land or naval forces?
And "the media" is going to report - shock horror - on the things people are actually interested in. I know it's a "chicken and the egg" scenario, and some things that deserve to be popular aren't... but especially in the Internet age, well, let me put it this way: if "Gangnam Style" can gather tens of millions of hits, if your idea is good enough and well presented on the Internet, there's no excuse for saying "I'm not popular because nobody knows about me!"
You have to have a license to be a *HAIRSTYLIST* in this country. What makes you think cable companies operate with no regulations, no paperwork, and no red tape?
Yeah, I got vaccinated for that. So explain to me how I can get hepatitis from a hairstylist? And how does forcing a tattoo artist to sit and watch hours and hours of films just to get a stupid ass certificate actually do anything to prevent hepatitis infections, vs simply lining someone's pockets?
An adult citizen who is eating themselves to death is about as demeaned as you can get. In this case it takes a rationale mind (the parent) to make the child stop (the obese person)
No, you fucking piece of shit, no. Get the fuck out of this country.
As for certifications and mandatory courses, well, I certainly don't want an unlicensed doctor operating on me, I don't want unlicensed truckers hauling stuff on roads I drive, and I want those damned giant trucks and busses [usatoday.com] inspected. I want people building and repairing stuff to actually know WTF they're doing.
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Actually it's been delayed until after the Microsoft(R) Marketing Shill(tm) v2.73 rollout.
I don't follow.
I wonder how long until NYC gets its own Mohammed Bouazizi?
Well it's a dry heat.
Please describe the machinery required to traverse four light years of space, with absolutely no resources available from Earth once it's on its way, and is 100% fail safe and will get there either within a useful human lifespan, or describe a way to (on top of the machine from step 1) slow down life processes reversibly and safely.
Warp drives. DUH. If that doesn't work then just reverse the polarity, or invert the modulation to the phase coils. Make sure you realign the sensor array first so you don't cause a cascade overload in the resonance dampers.
Can't have any ocean manipulation, ever!
Well, not unless you pay the right lawmakers and regulators to ensure you get the right permits and make the required "donations" to the appropriate parties.
...the state of computer "engineering" is complete and utter shit if a fucking pacemaker can be hacked and compromised? What the mother fuck? Are you fucking kidding me? Shouldn't those be among the best designed, safest, most reliable and secure of devices? God help us all. Just wait until they drag us into this war with Iran here soon, and China and Russia decide to team up to end our bullshit and we end up descending into WW3.
Can you imagine the utter chaos in the U.S. when all our magic electronic boxes suddenly stop working, or worse, work silently behind our backs to sabotage and/or kill us? According to another /. article, it's 300+ days on average (sometimes years) between the finding of a typical "zero day" exploit and when it was actually found (kept hidden, and potentially exploited) by attackers. Who wants to bet money China and Russia both have teams of hackers dedicated to finding exploits for all common software and systems in the U.S., extensively documenting and writing code against them, nicely sorting and tabulating it all out and filing it away in an archive, then keeping this info close at hand at all times for when the right opportunity presents itself?
Right now we are more vulnerable than ever. Hands up: who here is looking forward to jumping into a world war with both feet, then being surprised by how much we don't know about our own security vulnerabilities, learning the hard way from powerful foreign countries that just might kick our asses, or at the very least cause massive damage (bombing, etc) to the mainland U.S.? We're learning now that pacemakers have huge gaping security holes. Holy fucking Christ. What else is out there waiting to be compromised and exploited?
Ok I have no clue how that happened.
What if what he's doing sets off a cycle that prevents Global Warming and triggers an Ice Age instead?
Then we need to shovel money into the space program and get the fuck off this planet.
But the fact that you decided to fly off the handle into a profanity-laden tirade wipes out a good chuck of whatever credibility you may have had. Initiating personal attacks on the poster because you disagree with them eliminates the rest.
Only a moron would say something like this.
If coding is your hobby, why not make it your profession? If already employed as a programmer, what possible satisfaction could one derive from working on somebody else's project during the day, relegating one's own projects ("hobbies") to second place and second priority? If you truly are a hot shit coder, then start your own company and make your own products. Put your money where your mouth is and truly make it your life. Otherwise yeah, I'd say the guy who also works as a wage slave but at least spends his off-hours doings other things (i.e. boating) is living a slightly better life.
For $130k more I couldn't buy the time I spend doing what I love each and every day.
LOLOL. Actually....yes, yes you could. You could invest that money wisely and multiply it, multiply it some more, and create your own research company where you.......*drumroll*......do nothing but what you want to do, all day long, and get paid whatever you want to pay yourself.
It is a good example of good intentions having unintended negative consequences.
LOL. Actually your whole post was an example of that. I thought you health "professionals" were supposed to the brightest and best among us? I thought you were supposed to be the smartest and most educated? How in the fucking world can you advocate working those kinds of hours? If you want to destroy your body then go right ahead.....dumb ass.
Wow. Words can't describe how appalled I am to know that not one corner of our country is safe from this disease which is overworking. I love how back in the 1800s, the problem was those damn robbers barons!!! who "forced" people to work long and hard hours. Nowadays nobody has to be forced, they'll do it willingly because they're fucking morons! Like lemmings marching dutifully off the cliff. God help America.
My employer expects those hours and I am happy to do it. I know I will not do it forever, but to be a good middle school math teacher I need to learn more than just algebra. In return I get a life I want. Notice I did not get paid that much. But in reality if I do not do it they will find someone else who will. My other option is to go sell crap at BestBuy. Is that what I want? Hell no.
You are blinded by the blinders society has put on you. Those are far from your only options.
My example above is for training I did for Exchange recently. You have any idea how much an Exchange consultant makes? 6 figures easily!
So if you were "forced" to learn those skills, which are so lucrative....why aren't you now using them to make money? Why not start consultancy work with other schools, and get on as a contractor with this school, making 10x as much for 1/4 the work and none of the bullshit?
Respect is earned and you are correct. I am not respected yet. I didn't do the time to earn it yet. My goal is to work my ass off and be the best damn teacher and get a recommendation so in 2 years I can go live in Alaska and go kayaking, camping, hiking, in the summers off and make a more decent wage during the winter. This is what is required of me to get there now in the crappy state I am in.
*insert wanking avatar here* B-O-R-I-N-G. What a miserable existence. Why the fuck don't do you just move to Alaska now, and start your own school? Then you can run things exactly how you want instead of doing things the shitty old way.
Yes being ok is not good enough anymore. A demanding customer and boss wants the best and people should also be willing to better themselves. Maybe I may go for a masters in science (my dream job) after a few years of teaching and then just move into the college environment.
Sounds great, if you don't mind living a life of slavery. My prediction: you will aimlessly drift through life for decades, then having a midlife crisis when you realize you've wasted half your time with pointless drudgery when you should have been making an actual difference. I hope you change course and prove me wrong.
Wow, that card is getting really played out by now.
As for the Mexican Drug Lords, why does nobody point out how they had plenty of Guns before the Obama administration, and that the tiny amount of guns that came through the program to TRACK that whole process is miniscule in comparison to the arsenal they had already built up?
Because that would idiotic. Our agent and others weren't killed by "one of the guns they already had"; he was killed by the ones the government shipped ILLEGALLY.
The US assisted a NATO mission in Lybia under the authority of the UNSC
And what does the U.S. Constitution have to say about this? Where in the Constitution does it give this "UNSC" an authority over anything to do with our land or naval forces?
And "the media" is going to report - shock horror - on the things people are actually interested in. I know it's a "chicken and the egg" scenario, and some things that deserve to be popular aren't ... but especially in the Internet age, well, let me put it this way: if "Gangnam Style" can gather tens of millions of hits, if your idea is good enough and well presented on the Internet, there's no excuse for saying "I'm not popular because nobody knows about me!"
Tell that to Ron Paul.
What in the world are you even talking about? If you've got some kind of point to make, feel free anytime.
You have to have a license to be a *HAIRSTYLIST* in this country. What makes you think cable companies operate with no regulations, no paperwork, and no red tape?
Yeah, I got vaccinated for that. So explain to me how I can get hepatitis from a hairstylist? And how does forcing a tattoo artist to sit and watch hours and hours of films just to get a stupid ass certificate actually do anything to prevent hepatitis infections, vs simply lining someone's pockets?
wat?
An adult citizen who is eating themselves to death is about as demeaned as you can get. In this case it takes a rationale mind (the parent) to make the child stop (the obese person)
No, you fucking piece of shit, no. Get the fuck out of this country.
Basically, you're a moron
As for certifications and mandatory courses, well, I certainly don't want an unlicensed doctor operating on me, I don't want unlicensed truckers hauling stuff on roads I drive, and I want those damned giant trucks and busses [usatoday.com] inspected. I want people building and repairing stuff to actually know WTF they're doing.
So how does licensing accomplish that?