There isn't a 50 mpg SUV yet. While 50 mpg uses less gasoline, drivers won't be replacing their SUVs with a Prius. They'll just buy another SUV. The percent of improvement is more important and will cut down on total fuel usage in a bigger way. It's far easier and quicker to target the low hanging fruit first.
Add a wizard for common scenarios... anything but documentation that no one will read.
I prefer documentation over some stupid, poorly designed wizard that doesn't allow me to do the complex things I need. Stop designing everything for the lowest common denominator. Youtube already exists. Someone will always be too stupid, or find a way to be stupid and there's nothing you can do to fix that.
But having to carry an ID? Not a big deal -- you should be doing it already.
Apparently the trucker had ID, but he needed other documentation such as birth certificates as well. The only ID you need with you ever is a driver's license when driving. If you're walking down the street, you should never ever need one as a citizen. There are some big cities such as NY & SF where you don't even need a car, so why would you need to carry ID. So, yes, it is a big deal.
The court also remove people who attempt to inform other jurors of jury nullification. http://www.fija.org/
Juries are supposed to be the failsafe against unjust laws. But the courts and lawyers frequently subvert that system and scam you into believing that you must vote as the law dictates.
... We see here where academia isn't keeping up with industry....
The problem here is that people keep thinking that Colleges are trade schools. They are not. Academia never was about training you for industry. That's what trade schools are for.
It used to be that you got a job after high school, because high schools used to prepare you for some trades. There used to be high school classes that taught autoshop, welding, woodshop, electronics, etc.. and you would be prepared to enter the workforce as soon as you graduated high school. That curriculum has been eroded by budget cuts and now you can't get many job skills from high school any more. You're now expected to get a college degree, but all these students really just need a trade school degree, because they're out chasing money, not knowledge.
Companies really just want trade school graduates, not college degreed academics. They use the degree requirement as an excuse to bar or limit the candidate pool. The students need to go to trade schools, because all they want to do is ply a trade, not become professors and do research and gain knowledge. They really need to go to community college or junior college or ITT Tech or DeVry or University of Phoenix and get their trade school education and diplomas. The problem is that there has been a misconception about the entire college experience. Nearly half the students in college shouldn't really be in college because they aren't trying expand their knowledge. They aren't going to do research. They could care less about physics or calculus or chemistry or English, which are required of college students. Those subjects don't help most people with their trade.
And I'd argue that academia promotes the prima donna.
I suggest that your company stops hiring the geniouses for the regular mundane production coding. He should have been hired to do research, for which he is probably better suited. Code monkeys can be 3.0 or even lowly 2.x students.
If someone asked me to (in Java say) print the numbers from 1 to 10, I would probably do something like
for (int i=1;i=10;i++) {
System.out.println(i); }
So would most other people. Would this flag me as a cheater?
Simple answer: Yes.
Longer answer: By your statement, you've only just proved that you have never graded assignments. There is usually enough variation that it becomes quite easy to flag a potential cheater. Not everyone would write out the exact same code you've produced. Some people would actually use the variable name "count" instead of "i", or just use something else. Parenthesis can be placed differently. Some people would add formatting to the output. Some people use tabs instead of spaces. In a class of 30, there can be 30 unique pieces of code to produce what you describe. The obviously lazy will just copy code, sometimes even forgetting to change the required name in the comments.
One assignment is not enough to truly prove that they are cheating, but if the same person is caught duplicating work on more than one assignment, it's definitely not a coincidence. They are indeed cheating. Other than a very first assignment, most code assignments will be a bit more complex than your assignment description and the amount of variations each individual produces can become quite staggering, making it ever so easy to spot cheaters.
That's not why the credit card inquiry gets more attention. It gets more attention because the law forces them to pay attention. The credit card company doesn't care because, it's not their money. It's the retailer's money. If the credit card company cared at all, they'd have better fraud prevention measures in place. The onus is on the retailers to prevent fraud, because they are the ones that lose money when you dispute the purchases.
The banks keep trying to force debit cards on you. I had to call them many years in a row to send me a regular ATM card not a Visa debit card before they finally agreed to permanently keep my card as an ATM only card. Originally, it was semi-permanent, because they sent me a debit card one more time a few years after the first calls. It took a final 3rd call and me asking for it to be permanant. It took them a while on that call because at that time they didn't have a way to flag it, just put notes. I haven't had to complain to them in the last 5 or 6 years, but they really, really want you to use a debit card. Whenever I called, they'd try to upsell me and I'd had to point out the weakness in their logic by pointing out the lack of laws protecting debit cards.
I already have a credit card, so why do I need a debit card? Credit cards are protected by law. Debit cards not as much. Why would I use a card with worse consumer protections? Debit cards might help some people with poor credit with some convenience, but I have great credit.
Actually, drunks survive because the alcohol causes them to be limp and non-responsive during a crash. That won't be the case for the cell phone users. They'll tense up at the moment of impact and get injured.
Well, there are 50 requests a month for his birth certificate from the State of Hawaii. That's private information that shouldn't be released to every Tom, Dick, Harry that asks for it. I wonder what else people ask for from the government that aren't legitimately acceptible requests.
Google already ran the fiber for other purposes. So that cost was already planned for, well before they acquired YouTube. So, yes, it cost them nothing extra.
If you're a long time customer and have sufficient funds, BofA kisses your ass and frequently waives your fees. It's been decades since they've ever tried charging me for anything. BofA has alway screwed the little guy with. That happened to me when I was in college and I knew several other people who kept getting screwed. Their motto in my mind has always been "Banking on the Backs of Americans" whenever I heard their old commercials claimming to be "Banking on America". It was why Wells Fargo succeeded in the 80s, they were nicer with fees to the college students back then.
All the major banks treat you like dirt if you have very little in the accounts. They charge fees on everything. Once you reach a certain threshhold of money in your accounts, they try to go out of their way to keep you happy and waive fees. When I was just starting out in college, I kept bouncing up and down from that threshhold, so they frequently attempted to charge me fees until I point out the other accounts in other BofA branches that are out of state. Because of antitrust laws, BofA in each state is officially a separate entity. In retarded California, the NorCal and SoCal branches of BofA are also separate entities. They have to pull up a separate database to access the accounts in the other BofA entities to find all of your accounts, before they realize you have more money than just in their branches in that state.
It was a constant hassle back then to keep asking for the fees to be waived because my other accounts were not in the same state, but in the same BofA. It's the same BofA owned by the same corporate masters, but they are different entities. I had to retrain each of their new hires, because the goddamn banks had such high turnover. As long as you have sufficient money in the bank you don't get charged. Below that threshhold, they'll find numerous ways to nickel & dime you to death. I can only imagine the perks that multimillionairs get at their banks.
Planet Earth and Life are visually stunning, but they are mainly fluff pieces that lack full depth after 5 years in the making with mainly visuals and no deep scientific stories. I guess it's great for the modern world of short attention spans.
They've made record profits off the taxpayer by not expanding while getting kickbacks from the government. If you feel that the cable companies and telcos don't need to expand, then I want my tax money back. We have already paid them to expand their broadband services and they cheated us.
The tax structure is complex enough to allow the very rich to pay less of their gross in taxes. Donations are just a small factor. Overall, the super rich pay end up paying about 15% tax versus the 28% to 39% that many middle class people pay. The income of the rich come mostly from capital gains, which are taxed differently and at a much lower rate than that of personal wage income. Warren Buffet has even stated that he pays around 15% of his income in taxes versus the 30% that his wage earning secretary pays.
Although the rich pay a smaller percentange of their gross income, because of the sheer size of their incomes, they still contribute a higher percentage to the total taxes collected by the IRS. Part of that is due to the 40 million incomes that are far too low for the government to collect money on. That's about 30% of the tax paying population that don't pay any federal income taxes and that percentage is increasing each year.
Why would a charismatic individual work as a teacher if her salary was too low? You will still need to properly compensate a teacher for her work.
If you had read the article, charisma was not the factor. The good teachers know how to give proper directions and have children follow instructions, which allows them to impart information to the class. Unruly classrooms are run by teachers who don't know how to manage small crowds properly.
I think the people who modded the parent funny stopped reading at the first line break.
Some of what you just said actually happens at very large corporations too. When the workforce is large enough, a few will just slack off, blend into the background and ride on the coattails of the others. However, corporations have an easier time removing those slackers. I've worked in both and have seen the difference.
If a criminal is in prison, they are effectively prevented from committing further crimes, except maybe against their fellow convincts. Keeping habitual offenders away from the civilian population is a pretty good deterrant.
You seem to be describing punishment, not deterrence.
They did attempt just that with DIVX (Digital Video Express) through Circuit City and it failed disasterously.
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Well, if you want all that flash, then don't install flashblock. On the other hand, I rather not have all those flash elements slowing down my browsing, especially when I like to keep multiple tabs open at the same time, some of which contain numerous flash elements.
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There isn't a 50 mpg SUV yet. While 50 mpg uses less gasoline, drivers won't be replacing their SUVs with a Prius. They'll just buy another SUV. The percent of improvement is more important and will cut down on total fuel usage in a bigger way. It's far easier and quicker to target the low hanging fruit first.
I prefer documentation over some stupid, poorly designed wizard that doesn't allow me to do the complex things I need. Stop designing everything for the lowest common denominator. Youtube already exists. Someone will always be too stupid, or find a way to be stupid and there's nothing you can do to fix that.
Don't choke on that cherry pit and hope that someone will save you.
Race to the bottom; here we come.
Apparently the trucker had ID, but he needed other documentation such as birth certificates as well. The only ID you need with you ever is a driver's license when driving. If you're walking down the street, you should never ever need one as a citizen. There are some big cities such as NY & SF where you don't even need a car, so why would you need to carry ID. So, yes, it is a big deal.
The court also remove people who attempt to inform other jurors of jury nullification. http://www.fija.org/ Juries are supposed to be the failsafe against unjust laws. But the courts and lawyers frequently subvert that system and scam you into believing that you must vote as the law dictates.
The problem here is that people keep thinking that Colleges are trade schools. They are not. Academia never was about training you for industry. That's what trade schools are for.
It used to be that you got a job after high school, because high schools used to prepare you for some trades. There used to be high school classes that taught autoshop, welding, woodshop, electronics, etc.. and you would be prepared to enter the workforce as soon as you graduated high school. That curriculum has been eroded by budget cuts and now you can't get many job skills from high school any more. You're now expected to get a college degree, but all these students really just need a trade school degree, because they're out chasing money, not knowledge.
Companies really just want trade school graduates, not college degreed academics. They use the degree requirement as an excuse to bar or limit the candidate pool. The students need to go to trade schools, because all they want to do is ply a trade, not become professors and do research and gain knowledge. They really need to go to community college or junior college or ITT Tech or DeVry or University of Phoenix and get their trade school education and diplomas. The problem is that there has been a misconception about the entire college experience. Nearly half the students in college shouldn't really be in college because they aren't trying expand their knowledge. They aren't going to do research. They could care less about physics or calculus or chemistry or English, which are required of college students. Those subjects don't help most people with their trade.
I suggest that your company stops hiring the geniouses for the regular mundane production coding. He should have been hired to do research, for which he is probably better suited. Code monkeys can be 3.0 or even lowly 2.x students.
Simple answer: Yes.
Longer answer:
By your statement, you've only just proved that you have never graded assignments. There is usually enough variation that it becomes quite easy to flag a potential cheater. Not everyone would write out the exact same code you've produced. Some people would actually use the variable name "count" instead of "i", or just use something else. Parenthesis can be placed differently. Some people would add formatting to the output. Some people use tabs instead of spaces. In a class of 30, there can be 30 unique pieces of code to produce what you describe. The obviously lazy will just copy code, sometimes even forgetting to change the required name in the comments.
One assignment is not enough to truly prove that they are cheating, but if the same person is caught duplicating work on more than one assignment, it's definitely not a coincidence. They are indeed cheating. Other than a very first assignment, most code assignments will be a bit more complex than your assignment description and the amount of variations each individual produces can become quite staggering, making it ever so easy to spot cheaters.
That's not why the credit card inquiry gets more attention. It gets more attention because the law forces them to pay attention. The credit card company doesn't care because, it's not their money. It's the retailer's money. If the credit card company cared at all, they'd have better fraud prevention measures in place. The onus is on the retailers to prevent fraud, because they are the ones that lose money when you dispute the purchases.
The banks keep trying to force debit cards on you. I had to call them many years in a row to send me a regular ATM card not a Visa debit card before they finally agreed to permanently keep my card as an ATM only card. Originally, it was semi-permanent, because they sent me a debit card one more time a few years after the first calls. It took a final 3rd call and me asking for it to be permanant. It took them a while on that call because at that time they didn't have a way to flag it, just put notes. I haven't had to complain to them in the last 5 or 6 years, but they really, really want you to use a debit card. Whenever I called, they'd try to upsell me and I'd had to point out the weakness in their logic by pointing out the lack of laws protecting debit cards.
I already have a credit card, so why do I need a debit card? Credit cards are protected by law. Debit cards not as much. Why would I use a card with worse consumer protections? Debit cards might help some people with poor credit with some convenience, but I have great credit.
Actually, drunks survive because the alcohol causes them to be limp and non-responsive during a crash. That won't be the case for the cell phone users. They'll tense up at the moment of impact and get injured.
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Well, there are 50 requests a month for his birth certificate from the State of Hawaii. That's private information that shouldn't be released to every Tom, Dick, Harry that asks for it. I wonder what else people ask for from the government that aren't legitimately acceptible requests.
http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/20100219/NEWS01/2190362/Hawaii-gets-persistent-requests-for-Obama-birth-certificate
Google already ran the fiber for other purposes. So that cost was already planned for, well before they acquired YouTube. So, yes, it cost them nothing extra.
Lizards are reptiles.
Nothing without a flux capacitor.
If you're a long time customer and have sufficient funds, BofA kisses your ass and frequently waives your fees. It's been decades since they've ever tried charging me for anything. BofA has alway screwed the little guy with. That happened to me when I was in college and I knew several other people who kept getting screwed. Their motto in my mind has always been "Banking on the Backs of Americans" whenever I heard their old commercials claimming to be "Banking on America". It was why Wells Fargo succeeded in the 80s, they were nicer with fees to the college students back then.
All the major banks treat you like dirt if you have very little in the accounts. They charge fees on everything. Once you reach a certain threshhold of money in your accounts, they try to go out of their way to keep you happy and waive fees. When I was just starting out in college, I kept bouncing up and down from that threshhold, so they frequently attempted to charge me fees until I point out the other accounts in other BofA branches that are out of state. Because of antitrust laws, BofA in each state is officially a separate entity. In retarded California, the NorCal and SoCal branches of BofA are also separate entities. They have to pull up a separate database to access the accounts in the other BofA entities to find all of your accounts, before they realize you have more money than just in their branches in that state.
It was a constant hassle back then to keep asking for the fees to be waived because my other accounts were not in the same state, but in the same BofA. It's the same BofA owned by the same corporate masters, but they are different entities. I had to retrain each of their new hires, because the goddamn banks had such high turnover. As long as you have sufficient money in the bank you don't get charged. Below that threshhold, they'll find numerous ways to nickel & dime you to death. I can only imagine the perks that multimillionairs get at their banks.
Planet Earth and Life are visually stunning, but they are mainly fluff pieces that lack full depth after 5 years in the making with mainly visuals and no deep scientific stories. I guess it's great for the modern world of short attention spans.
They've made record profits off the taxpayer by not expanding while getting kickbacks from the government. If you feel that the cable companies and telcos don't need to expand, then I want my tax money back. We have already paid them to expand their broadband services and they cheated us.
The tax structure is complex enough to allow the very rich to pay less of their gross in taxes. Donations are just a small factor. Overall, the super rich pay end up paying about 15% tax versus the 28% to 39% that many middle class people pay. The income of the rich come mostly from capital gains, which are taxed differently and at a much lower rate than that of personal wage income. Warren Buffet has even stated that he pays around 15% of his income in taxes versus the 30% that his wage earning secretary pays.
Although the rich pay a smaller percentange of their gross income, because of the sheer size of their incomes, they still contribute a higher percentage to the total taxes collected by the IRS. Part of that is due to the 40 million incomes that are far too low for the government to collect money on. That's about 30% of the tax paying population that don't pay any federal income taxes and that percentage is increasing each year.
Might be caused by all the moose.
Why would a charismatic individual work as a teacher if her salary was too low? You will still need to properly compensate a teacher for her work.
If you had read the article, charisma was not the factor. The good teachers know how to give proper directions and have children follow instructions, which allows them to impart information to the class. Unruly classrooms are run by teachers who don't know how to manage small crowds properly.
I think the people who modded the parent funny stopped reading at the first line break.
Some of what you just said actually happens at very large corporations too. When the workforce is large enough, a few will just slack off, blend into the background and ride on the coattails of the others. However, corporations have an easier time removing those slackers. I've worked in both and have seen the difference.
If a criminal is in prison, they are effectively prevented from committing further crimes, except maybe against their fellow convincts. Keeping habitual offenders away from the civilian population is a pretty good deterrant.
You seem to be describing punishment, not deterrence.
They did attempt just that with DIVX (Digital Video Express) through Circuit City and it failed disasterously.
Well, if you want all that flash, then don't install flashblock. On the other hand, I rather not have all those flash elements slowing down my browsing, especially when I like to keep multiple tabs open at the same time, some of which contain numerous flash elements.