I for one welcome this monument. Tolerance and acceptance of those with whom we might disagree has been a principle in our country for many years. I hope that the courage shown in the original decision continues to be the guiding light by which all future decisions are based against.
The problem with your logic is it's too good to ever see the light of day.
Math is easy, especially at undergrad/Masters level:
I wouldn't call it *easy*, at least not the curriculum and homework I took. It is definitely egalitarian and the best lectures I've sat for were by mathematicians. It's a great field and I love it, despite the hurdles;)
This pretty much solves that whole iOS v. Android question that many have. If someone ever tells me that Climate Change exists with their Android device in hand, now I can call them a hypocrite.
No you can't. It's a phone, not a carte blanche agreement with whatever google does.
For that matter, it sucks how most manufacturing companies don't hire much US labor. 100 employees here and there just doesn't instill confidence.
Posting AC after mod. I would have upmodded, because the value of his first two sentences far outweighed the flame bait index of the last two. Gotta pan the gravel for the gold.
That's not how I mod. If you direct a personal attack at someone anywhere in the message, your message isn't worthy of being promoted.
Not trolling. I've worked in "controversial" workplaces before and I empathize. I've gone door to door and been yelled at, called an idiot before. Another job we just had to "hide" where we worked for fear of political wingnuts attacking us simply for working there. (Mind you, all I did was create content for a website as an intern...definitely not hurting anyone and definitely the lowest employee there.)
Lobbying just means to communicate your views with them. Yes, companies invest billions in getting their opinions heard, but average everyday people can pick up the phone, email, or send letters in just the same. It's a separate point about how ineffective that is, and doesn't make it appropriate to go around abusing people.
As a potential employee, when being recruited, I damn well ask more questions then the recruiter. MY time IS that valuable and I DO want to know whoEXACTLY I'm working for.
Don't you?
That's valid, to an extent. But it's still the NSA.You need to accept there's certain things they can't divulge and it's pretty dumb to try to get that information out of them when you have no need to know.
I don't think it's in anyone's best interests to expose all governmental employees to public scrutiny.
No one said that. But it is in the best interests of The People to know what is being done in their name.
Not always, nor immediately. Had the President had to announce the secret mission to storm Osama Bin Laden's base the mission never would have been accomplished.
I don't think it's in anyone's best interests to expose all governmental employees to public scrutiny. That's what elected officials are for. Anyone else is fulfilling a task.
We are a nation of laws, not men. If you don't agree with the actions of a governmental organization then you need to lobby your governmental representatives with your views.
You also need to accept that your views might not be the majority and that, to some extent, we're a country of majority rule.
In this crap economy, organizations recruiting college younglings with no real-world experience are a very rare sight.
Yet, these dumb rich spoiled kids blew any employment opportunity they potentially had by hating the NSA, since it's the latest cool and hip thing to do.
Agreed! You shouldn't be marked a troll because your opinion is well formed and not (overly) offensive. (You didn't have to call them spoiled rich kids but whatever.)
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I for one welcome this monument. Tolerance and acceptance of those with whom we might disagree has been a principle in our country for many years. I hope that the courage shown in the original decision continues to be the guiding light by which all future decisions are based against.
The problem with your logic is it's too good to ever see the light of day.
While that's bad, you know there are worse things they could be group-obsessed over.
I mean, sure, if you want to learn all about porn, cats, and abusing people then yes, the internet is for you.
Exactly. It just seems like, by now, the installers shouldn't feel completely bare bones or completely "well, who knows what we'll get out of this".
Was this FreeBSD or one of the others?
I tell you what grinds me...the installers. The best one for "just get it done" is PC-BSD - but even it can be flaky.
If you own(ed) part of Dell in the past, how's this impact you?
Math is easy, especially at undergrad/Masters level:
I wouldn't call it *easy*, at least not the curriculum and homework I took. It is definitely egalitarian and the best lectures I've sat for were by mathematicians. It's a great field and I love it, despite the hurdles ;)
Further proving UrT is the craphole of internet drama that I gladly left a bit ago.
yes although I don't think they sold so easily for that price
That's not the definition of a Loss Leader.
If you're volunteering for work, then you get to shop around and find what you want to participate in developing.
I'm sure one of the BSDs would love another developer. Or KDE, GNOME, and the list goes on from there...they can't all be ran by Linus-types.
This pretty much solves that whole iOS v. Android question that many have. If someone ever tells me that Climate Change exists with their Android device in hand, now I can call them a hypocrite.
No you can't. It's a phone, not a carte blanche agreement with whatever google does.
For that matter, it sucks how most manufacturing companies don't hire much US labor. 100 employees here and there just doesn't instill confidence.
Does this sound like boasting to anyone else? It's like a more modern version of having the press watch an explosion of their latest bomb.
Posting AC after mod. I would have upmodded, because the value of his first two sentences far outweighed the flame bait index of the last two. Gotta pan the gravel for the gold.
That's not how I mod. If you direct a personal attack at someone anywhere in the message, your message isn't worthy of being promoted.
Not trolling. I've worked in "controversial" workplaces before and I empathize. I've gone door to door and been yelled at, called an idiot before. Another job we just had to "hide" where we worked for fear of political wingnuts attacking us simply for working there. (Mind you, all I did was create content for a website as an intern...definitely not hurting anyone and definitely the lowest employee there.)
Lobbying just means to communicate your views with them. Yes, companies invest billions in getting their opinions heard, but average everyday people can pick up the phone, email, or send letters in just the same. It's a separate point about how ineffective that is, and doesn't make it appropriate to go around abusing people.
As a potential employee, when being recruited, I damn well ask more questions then the recruiter. MY time IS that valuable and I DO want to know whoEXACTLY I'm working for.
Don't you?
That's valid, to an extent. But it's still the NSA.You need to accept there's certain things they can't divulge and it's pretty dumb to try to get that information out of them when you have no need to know.
If you want to keep sucking off your jackbooted masters, you'll need a new sound bite to try to excuse it. That one stopped working decades ago.
Why is this upvoted? That's seriously offensive.
I don't think it's in anyone's best interests to expose all governmental employees to public scrutiny.
No one said that. But it is in the best interests of The People to know what is being done in their name.
Not always, nor immediately. Had the President had to announce the secret mission to storm Osama Bin Laden's base the mission never would have been accomplished.
Nazi's : invaded neighboring countries, isolated and killed 6 million Jews
NSA : never actually done anything ever (that we know of).
The resemblance is uncanny.
Come on mods, that doesn't deserve to be downvoted so hard.
I don't think it's in anyone's best interests to expose all governmental employees to public scrutiny. That's what elected officials are for. Anyone else is fulfilling a task.
You mean they're "just following orders"? Ah, I guess it's okay then.
They're not soldiers, genocide is no where insight, your vague analogy is invalid.
We are a nation of laws, not men. If you don't agree with the actions of a governmental organization then you need to lobby your governmental representatives with your views.
You also need to accept that your views might not be the majority and that, to some extent, we're a country of majority rule.
In this crap economy, organizations recruiting college younglings with no real-world experience are a very rare sight.
Yet, these dumb rich spoiled kids blew any employment opportunity they potentially had by hating the NSA, since it's the latest cool and hip thing to do.
Agreed! You shouldn't be marked a troll because your opinion is well formed and not (overly) offensive. (You didn't have to call them spoiled rich kids but whatever.)
These are people doing a job. You might not like it, but don't start attacking them. That's like targeting cops just because they're cops.