"It was then that NK became uncooperative?" Good God, man, they never even tried to abide by the terms of the no-nuke treaty that Clinton agreed to. What Bush failed to understand was that the local powers are too afraid of NK to go along with him, just like the European powers failed to go along in Iraq.
Contrary to those with a vested hatred of Bush, the problems of the world didn't start in January 2001, nor were they exacerbated solely by Bush speechwriters.
But, it *feels* so much better to hate Bush, rather than having to think about or read anything that doesn't support someone's prejudice.
Just because North Korea launched missles during the Bush admin doesn't mean they developed them whole cloth then. They've been working on them during every administration since the Truman years, and it's only in the past 20 or so years that some dipthongs sold them enough to make a difference now.
The "bubble" resulted in far too many people being credited "job experience" based on no real achievements, and now it's impossible to distinguish between genuinely good people and bad ones (I now face this dilemma in the position of an employer; it's very difficult to hire genuinely good people).
Oh, the bubble had little to do with that. I graduated in '84 with a guy who had no clue (don't know how he passed the courses) but had a line of patter so smooth he got hired to a quality research firm. This guy could sell Accidental Death and Dismemberment insurance to monks, but he was let go when the company found out he was useless.
Around '91 I was interviewing people for a C++ Unix position, and talked to this one guy who said he had 2 years of C++. Turns out he had compiled a "Hello, world" program in C using Visual C++, and kind of "inflated" that "experience." That one was easy, but he'd gotten through two levels of checking by HR and by the project leader before I talked to him.
I've often thought about setting up a service to "pre-interview" candidates for companies, to weed out the technical chaff, but unless you have HR experience, no one is interested. Too bad for them, I suppose.
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Why the hell do people work overtime if they're not getting paid for it? Is this some strange ass-ramming only USians get? What a terrible system! ---
You do it because often times its required to accomplish your job, and if you do not accomplish your job, you do not keep your job. Long work hours (a typical work week is fifty hours) have always been part of the IT/Technology world. I did not mind it when I was twenty five but as time wears on I personally think it sucks. Given the crappy market I do not think things are likely to change though, so I am considering alternative career paths. Something where I do not have to sit in a cube, wear a tie, attend endless droning meetings with total morons, and slave away fifty plus hours a week on a consistent basis.
So far I have not come up with much, but I remain hopeful:-)
After 20 years in the IT field as a software developer, I found that consulting is the best way. I get paid by the hour for my expertise, and since I can get done in 10 hours what it might take a junior salaried worker 20-50 hours, it costs them less than hiring that junior worker full-time. They don't have to pay me any benefits, and I cover all my taxes/insurance/etc, and still come out ahead, since my hourly rate is easily $15/hour higher than my salaried rate would be.
On those (extremely) rare times that a task takes extra work during a week, I get paid for each hour I bill. The best thing about my current contract, the projects are usually in the red, and they don't *want* me working long hours! I average 30-35 hours per week, and believe me, compared to my early years this is bliss!
Sorry, back then it was obvious and overdone, as well.
The biggest difference I can see between then and the intervening ST shows is that back then they had actual science fiction writers writing screenplays. Nowadays, not so much, the occasional Peter David notwithstanding.
No. We went to war to remove Saddam. Period. WMDs or no WMDs, Saddam was not going to be in power and not going to be a continuing threat to anyone. You can attempt to paint it any other way you want, but the fact remains, we went in to remove him, against the wishes of our "betters" in Europe who were quite happy to buy his oil and sell him weapons.
In the "Blood for Oil" exchange, Europe better look to see how clean their hands are of the blood of Iraqi civilians.
We went to war to remove Saddam Hussein from power. Pure and simple. He was a threat that we were able to remove, but the "leading" nations of Europe wanted him to remain in power. The "anti-war" movement is being used by these governments for their own purposes. There was no "anti-war" protest against NATO and US involvement in the Yugoslavia mess, and it was perfectly all right for US soldiers to bomb Serbian civilians, and for our soldiers to die.
The double standard is sickening, and many of us don't care for it anymore. If the US sees a need to act in our self-interest, we're going to do so, especially if it involves threats to the safety and lives of our citizens.
If you want to resent us for being selfish, then enjoy your hypocrisy.
Let just not forget the US destroyed a mad man they supported (and helped build up), knowing full well of the evils he perpetrated against other nations as well as his own people.
And now we're being condemned for destroying that madman.
There are pro-abortion Republicans speaking at the Republican convention. How many anti-abortion Democrats were allowed to speak at the Democrat convention?
e most intellectually honest thing any person can say is "I might be wrong". I've yet to meet a fundamentalist who's willing to make that declaration about their interpretation of the Bible.
Well, I'm a fundamentalist of sorts, "born again" Christian, and guess what, "I might be wrong," the one guy who might be "right" is living in a grass hut in New Guinea.
When Iraq invade Kuwait, Bush built a global coalition to stop that. The group promised to not invade Iraq. They kept to their word.
Um, you do know where they signed the cease-fire in the Gulf War? Here's a hint: it wasn't in Kuwait. Here's another hint: they weren't surrounded by Iraqi soldiers.
You've obviously never driven on 95 in Maryland. You could set off a tactical nuke in the median and it wouldn't even make the Marylanders swerve, much less slow down.
Which is really ironic considering what the one Starfleet officer who defected to the Maquis told Sisko: That the Federation is just like the Borg, or even worse, since once you join you can't ever leave, and to join you have to be conformant or "assimiliated" into the Federation way of life.
Through the whole conversation the character had with Sisko, you could see that Sisko just didn't get it.
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I completely agree with your point, but flip it around - what would your reaction be if your project manager tried telling you how to organize your source code and how your development environment should be arranged?
I have had PMs try to do that...
Somehow they felt that their training as management enabled them to manage anything...
Actually, that's EXACTLY what Atlantis was: a VERY old, VERY advanced civilization. They supposedly weren't as advanced as we are today, but they were FAR more advanced than the rest of the world was back in the day... and they existed 9000 years before Plato's time.
You are rather gullible, my friend.
Not necessarily. Some tribe that figured out how to work copper would be "very advanced" over the others that were still using stone and antler tools. IANAA, but I can see the discovery of using copper wasn't a single point, where one fellow watched metal come from these rocks next to the fire, and published a story about it in the "Prehistoric Times.":-)
It was most likely a continuum, where people took quite some time to figure out cause and effect, and which rocks worked and which didn't, and how to consistently get the same results, etc. etc. Not to mention convincing the doubters, persuading the shamans not to kill the discoverers, not getting accidently killed by disasters or fights with other tribes before figuring out good weapons to make.
So, yeah, a "very advanced civilization" could have existed in many locations during the time that copper technology was being developed.
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"It was then that NK became uncooperative?" Good God, man, they never even tried to abide by the terms of the no-nuke treaty that Clinton agreed to. What Bush failed to understand was that the local powers are too afraid of NK to go along with him, just like the European powers failed to go along in Iraq.
Contrary to those with a vested hatred of Bush, the problems of the world didn't start in January 2001, nor were they exacerbated solely by Bush speechwriters.
But, it *feels* so much better to hate Bush, rather than having to think about or read anything that doesn't support someone's prejudice.
Who moderated this "Informative?"
Just because North Korea launched missles during the Bush admin doesn't mean they developed them whole cloth then. They've been working on them during every administration since the Truman years, and it's only in the past 20 or so years that some dipthongs sold them enough to make a difference now.
Gee, guess that was Bush's fault, too. Sheesh.
Oh, the bubble had little to do with that. I graduated in '84 with a guy who had no clue (don't know how he passed the courses) but had a line of patter so smooth he got hired to a quality research firm. This guy could sell Accidental Death and Dismemberment insurance to monks, but he was let go when the company found out he was useless.
Around '91 I was interviewing people for a C++ Unix position, and talked to this one guy who said he had 2 years of C++. Turns out he had compiled a "Hello, world" program in C using Visual C++, and kind of "inflated" that "experience." That one was easy, but he'd gotten through two levels of checking by HR and by the project leader before I talked to him.
I've often thought about setting up a service to "pre-interview" candidates for companies, to weed out the technical chaff, but unless you have HR experience, no one is interested. Too bad for them, I suppose.
After 20 years in the IT field as a software developer, I found that consulting is the best way. I get paid by the hour for my expertise, and since I can get done in 10 hours what it might take a junior salaried worker 20-50 hours, it costs them less than hiring that junior worker full-time. They don't have to pay me any benefits, and I cover all my taxes/insurance/etc, and still come out ahead, since my hourly rate is easily $15/hour higher than my salaried rate would be.
On those (extremely) rare times that a task takes extra work during a week, I get paid for each hour I bill. The best thing about my current contract, the projects are usually in the red, and they don't *want* me working long hours! I average 30-35 hours per week, and believe me, compared to my early years this is bliss!
Sorry, back then it was obvious and overdone, as well.
The biggest difference I can see between then and the intervening ST shows is that back then they had actual science fiction writers writing screenplays. Nowadays, not so much, the occasional Peter David notwithstanding.
No. We went to war to remove Saddam. Period. WMDs or no WMDs, Saddam was not going to be in power and not going to be a continuing threat to anyone. You can attempt to paint it any other way you want, but the fact remains, we went in to remove him, against the wishes of our "betters" in Europe who were quite happy to buy his oil and sell him weapons.
In the "Blood for Oil" exchange, Europe better look to see how clean their hands are of the blood of Iraqi civilians.
We went to war to remove Saddam Hussein from power. Pure and simple. He was a threat that we were able to remove, but the "leading" nations of Europe wanted him to remain in power. The "anti-war" movement is being used by these governments for their own purposes. There was no "anti-war" protest against NATO and US involvement in the Yugoslavia mess, and it was perfectly all right for US soldiers to bomb Serbian civilians, and for our soldiers to die.
The double standard is sickening, and many of us don't care for it anymore. If the US sees a need to act in our self-interest, we're going to do so, especially if it involves threats to the safety and lives of our citizens.
If you want to resent us for being selfish, then enjoy your hypocrisy.
And now we're being condemned for destroying that madman.
There are pro-abortion Republicans speaking at the Republican convention. How many anti-abortion Democrats were allowed to speak at the Democrat convention?
Thanks, this is the best laugh I've had all month!
I wish I could moderate "Hilarious."
"Squeeler" sounds less cute than "Snitchy", but just as apt...
You can't really prove a negative like that.
Cap.
Well, it's obvious that your faith is strong!
Cap.
Well, I'm a fundamentalist of sorts, "born again" Christian, and guess what, "I might be wrong," the one guy who might be "right" is living in a grass hut in New Guinea.
Pleasedtameetcha.
BTW, is it possible that you may be wrong?
Cap.
"Perfect" is unattainable. It would be nice if graduates could actually read and write grammatical English, and could construct logical sentences.
I sure hope "shebang" isn't going to be the sound effect for their attempt.
Just don't drop a wrench or crowbar or ACME anvil from one...
Um, you do know where they signed the cease-fire in the Gulf War? Here's a hint: it wasn't in Kuwait. Here's another hint: they weren't surrounded by Iraqi soldiers.
I hear Mama's got a squeezebox, and Daddy never sleeps at night...
You've obviously never driven on 95 in Maryland. You could set off a tactical nuke in the median and it wouldn't even make the Marylanders swerve, much less slow down.
I live in NoVa, and Marylanders scare me...
Which is really ironic considering what the one Starfleet officer who defected to the Maquis told Sisko: That the Federation is just like the Borg, or even worse, since once you join you can't ever leave, and to join you have to be conformant or "assimiliated" into the Federation way of life.
Through the whole conversation the character had with Sisko, you could see that Sisko just didn't get it.
There is. Unfortunately, it's the US Patent and Trademark Office.
I have had PMs try to do that...
Somehow they felt that their training as management enabled them to manage anything...
Geeze, that sounds like a really cheezy fantasy story...
Oh, wait...
(BTW it's Geraldo...)
Not necessarily. Some tribe that figured out how to work copper would be "very advanced" over the others that were still using stone and antler tools. IANAA, but I can see the discovery of using copper wasn't a single point, where one fellow watched metal come from these rocks next to the fire, and published a story about it in the "Prehistoric Times."
It was most likely a continuum, where people took quite some time to figure out cause and effect, and which rocks worked and which didn't, and how to consistently get the same results, etc. etc. Not to mention convincing the doubters, persuading the shamans not to kill the discoverers, not getting accidently killed by disasters or fights with other tribes before figuring out good weapons to make.
So, yeah, a "very advanced civilization" could have existed in many locations during the time that copper technology was being developed.