A lot of these Chinese students have been taught all their lives that Americans are barbarians, decadent, corrupt, etc,etc... From their point of view, they have been sent into a hostile environment to get an education, and then return to the PRC to use their knowledge to help their country get ahead of the US. Some of the Indians are that way too when they first get to the US. It's part culture shock and part xenophobia. They are the ones with the problem, not you.
A lot of them get over it once they've been exposed to our culture and people for a while, and they realize what they were told before coming to the US is just one side of the story.
I think you are inferring too much from the dog's behavior. Another possible explanation is that the dog was distracted from the sandwich by a noise at the front door, and then returned to the kitchen to continue begging for the sandwich, only to find it was unguarded -- a happy coincidence from his point of view. Your story doesn't prove the dog predicted the woman's behavior at all.
Actually they are called Bumiputera. About half the population is ethnic Chinese (concentrated in the cities), with a small percentage of ethnic Indians.
I don't think the GP poster was advocating the removal of human emotions, just our tendency to be ruled by them in the face of evidence to the contrary.
Have all the passion you want, but don't deny a fact or refuse to evaluate information because it makes you feel bad. Those of us who are closest to that ideal are hardly passionless robots.
In fact, those of us who are furthest from that ideal are often the more robotic, easily led and influenced by those who can 'push their buttons' with platitudes and comforting disinformation.
I called, and as soon as I said "I was referred by Mr. Tyrone King", the guy broke down and lost it... and accused me of "wasting everyone's time". Heh
Well, check out the front page of TurboTax.com. They make it seem like Schedule C is only for Home and Business. But you are right, I don't have any firsthand knowledge. Good for you if you got it cheaper.
Free Edition > Deluxe > Premier > Home and Business
To do a Schedule C you need the Home and Business version, which costs $99.95 without State Farm's referral. I remember the Premier and Home and Business versions were not free, but sharply discounted. I chose the Deluxe version since it was free, and my return was relatively simple.
If you have a State Farm insurance policy or bank account, and sign up to view your accounts online, they will pay your TurboTax fees. You just log into State Farm's website and click the link that says "Free TurboTax", and when you get to the end of filing your taxes, the cost is $0. I have done it for the past 2 years.
Usually the bullying and micromanaging only comes out when the boss is under stress. They know such behavior is counterproductive, so most of the time they keep it under control. If they did it all the time, people would jump ship. People who show aggression and other social pathologies don't make it as managers, unless there is some other factor like nepotism, or he/she is socially connected to much more powerful people in the organization.
If the manager doesn't like you or respect your work, you often won't know it until you're blindsided by a negative formal performance review.
With all due respect, making baseless claims about what "you know of" doesn't have the power to compel. You should back up your claims of fuelless electricity-generating devices and electric motor designs with enough evidence that someone could look at it and decide for themselves whether or not to agree with you.
How it works at a lot of companies is the higher up you are in the organization, the more vacation time you get, but the less you can actually use because you can't get away from your responsibilities -- or the less you actually want to use, because you got where you are by being a workaholic. I would assume anyone in charge of making hiring/firing decisions would be higher up in the organization and facing those issues.
The "companion" APress book to Professional C# 2005 is "Visual C# 2005 Recipes". It's just a couple hundred of examples of how to accomplish commonly encountered programming tasks using C# and.NET.
I got my company to buy me a copy, but it's worth the 60 bucks, if you're new to C#, and you find yourself in a situation where the boss is breathing down your neck and you just need to "get it done". (Or maybe you exaggerated your C# skills on your resume to get a job.) It's a timesaver to reach for this book rather than scour Google for hours and find examples that may or may not work, and are sometimes not explained or only partially so.
Suppose AI technology eventually gets good enough, the person's personality, aptitudes, skills, etc, might be reconstructed from having a record of everything they ever said, saw, heard, or did. Even if that person was no longer physically alive. It could be a "resurrection" of sorts.
See the Cronenberg movie "Videodrome" for an interesting take on this idea (and this film was made at least 20 years ago).
The only Commandments that are universally accepted by modern societies are 7 (stealing), 8 (perjury), and possibly 5 depending on the interpretation (kill or murder).
"there is a certain amount of respect to be paid to moral laws that are 8-10K years old. "
I couldn't disagree more. The moral laws you speak of are the product of a superstitious, ignorant barbarian culture that was sharply divided into a ruling class and a slave class which was ruled by enforced ignorance and brutal authoritarianism. They are historical curiosities, nothing you'd want to live your life by. If you'd actually read your Bible, you would know this. A person who followed Biblical laws to the letter (i.e. kill your disobedient children, kill homosexuals, kill nonbelievers, etc) would be headed straight for prison in a modern, secular society.
How many of the Ten Commandments are actually laws in any modern society? Two, maybe three? God is only 25% correct?
Morality is a natural phenomenon; it arises from the need of humans to live together to survive. For that matter, religion is a natural phenomenon as well (fills in the gaps of our ignorance, and allows people to face the consequences of consciousness -- knowledge of their own mortality).
People take it to self-medicate for emotional pain, which can be every bit as agonizing as physical pain. I would even say it's basically impossible to take morphine when one "doesn't need it". It's a painkiller, and people take it for many types of pain.
A drug addict doesn't take drugs to get high, he takes them because he can't tolerate being sober. A person who's problem is only a broken arm or whatever has no problem being sober; he just doesn't want his arm to hurt. When the arm stops hurting, his need for the drug goes away.
For most people, work is the only part of their life that gives them money. Therefore, money is the most important thing about work. You can get self-fulfillment from your hobbies, family, friends, etc. However, that doesn't mean you shouldn't do your research about a prospective employer. Unless you hear any horror stories about shop offering you the higher-paying job, take it.
I often copy 1GB files across disk drives (from a single HD to a RAID) under Windows XP, and I haven't noticed much of a slowdown in the shell. I can continue doing things while the copying is progressing in the background.
For laughs when listening to a politician speak, try mentally replacing the word "God" with some other deity people have made up.
"I don't believe atheists should be considered patriots, nor should they be considered citizens. This is one nation under Zeus" - George Bush Sr.
"I believe that Poseidon has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom." - George Bush Jr.
"Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that Mithra is not neutral between them." - George Bush Jr.
"Neither death nor life nor angels nor principalities, nor powers nor things present nor things to come nor height nor depth can separate us from Odin's love." - George Bush Jr.
The "no leadership, no goals" reputation of Google is just a combination of PR hype, dot-com crash post-traumatic stress, and lack of investor and media knowledge about what Google's long term goals really are. You don't make a $6 billion dollar/yr. corporation that's lasted for almost a decade without being able to plan for the future. All investors and the media really know is that Google keeps getting results. This is a company that focuses on the long-term and the big picture, plays their cards close to their chest, and lets the smaller details resolve themselves. They aren't clueless morons like so many dot-coms in the late 90's who had some good fortune.
I don't buy this argument at all. Having my music collection in my pocket improves my life immeasurably. It's almost a spiritual thing to have instant access to decades of the greatest music ever recorded at my fingertips.
I don't buy a new iPod every time Steve Jobs pimps one, but so what if someone wants the newest iPod every year? The old iPod doesn't get thrown in the trash, it gets re-sold or given away to someone else who gets the same enjoyment out of it.
So take your faux-hippie sensibility and cram it, my friend.
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Women wear thongs because they don't want people to see the lines of their underwear through their clothes.
A lot of these Chinese students have been taught all their lives that Americans are barbarians, decadent, corrupt, etc,etc... From their point of view, they have been sent into a hostile environment to get an education, and then return to the PRC to use their knowledge to help their country get ahead of the US. Some of the Indians are that way too when they first get to the US. It's part culture shock and part xenophobia. They are the ones with the problem, not you.
A lot of them get over it once they've been exposed to our culture and people for a while, and they realize what they were told before coming to the US is just one side of the story.
I think you are inferring too much from the dog's behavior. Another possible explanation is that the dog was distracted from the sandwich by a noise at the front door, and then returned to the kitchen to continue begging for the sandwich, only to find it was unguarded -- a happy coincidence from his point of view. Your story doesn't prove the dog predicted the woman's behavior at all.
Actually they are called Bumiputera. About half the population is ethnic Chinese (concentrated in the cities), with a small percentage of ethnic Indians.
It can stream MP3's from another computer on my network? Can it stream video -- DivX/XviD AVI's? If it can't, that's a dealbreaker for me.
I don't think the GP poster was advocating the removal of human emotions, just our tendency to be ruled by them in the face of evidence to the contrary.
Have all the passion you want, but don't deny a fact or refuse to evaluate information because it makes you feel bad. Those of us who are closest to that ideal are hardly passionless robots.
In fact, those of us who are furthest from that ideal are often the more robotic, easily led and influenced by those who can 'push their buttons' with platitudes and comforting disinformation.
I called, and as soon as I said "I was referred by Mr. Tyrone King", the guy broke down and lost it... and accused me of "wasting everyone's time". Heh
Well, check out the front page of TurboTax.com. They make it seem like Schedule C is only for Home and Business. But you are right, I don't have any firsthand knowledge. Good for you if you got it cheaper.
There are four 'tiers' of the TurboTax service:
Free Edition > Deluxe > Premier > Home and Business
To do a Schedule C you need the Home and Business version, which costs $99.95 without State Farm's referral. I remember the Premier and Home and Business versions were not free, but sharply discounted. I chose the Deluxe version since it was free, and my return was relatively simple.
If you have a State Farm insurance policy or bank account, and sign up to view your accounts online, they will pay your TurboTax fees. You just log into State Farm's website and click the link that says "Free TurboTax", and when you get to the end of filing your taxes, the cost is $0. I have done it for the past 2 years.
Usually the bullying and micromanaging only comes out when the boss is under stress. They know such behavior is counterproductive, so most of the time they keep it under control. If they did it all the time, people would jump ship. People who show aggression and other social pathologies don't make it as managers, unless there is some other factor like nepotism, or he/she is socially connected to much more powerful people in the organization.
If the manager doesn't like you or respect your work, you often won't know it until you're blindsided by a negative formal performance review.
With all due respect, making baseless claims about what "you know of" doesn't have the power to compel. You should back up your claims of fuelless electricity-generating devices and electric motor designs with enough evidence that someone could look at it and decide for themselves whether or not to agree with you.
How it works at a lot of companies is the higher up you are in the organization, the more vacation time you get, but the less you can actually use because you can't get away from your responsibilities -- or the less you actually want to use, because you got where you are by being a workaholic. I would assume anyone in charge of making hiring/firing decisions would be higher up in the organization and facing those issues.
The "companion" APress book to Professional C# 2005 is "Visual C# 2005 Recipes". It's just a couple hundred of examples of how to accomplish commonly encountered programming tasks using C# and .NET.
I got my company to buy me a copy, but it's worth the 60 bucks, if you're new to C#, and you find yourself in a situation where the boss is breathing down your neck and you just need to "get it done". (Or maybe you exaggerated your C# skills on your resume to get a job.) It's a timesaver to reach for this book rather than scour Google for hours and find examples that may or may not work, and are sometimes not explained or only partially so.
Suppose AI technology eventually gets good enough, the person's personality, aptitudes, skills, etc, might be reconstructed from having a record of everything they ever said, saw, heard, or did. Even if that person was no longer physically alive. It could be a "resurrection" of sorts.
See the Cronenberg movie "Videodrome" for an interesting take on this idea (and this film was made at least 20 years ago).
The only Commandments that are universally accepted by modern societies are 7 (stealing), 8 (perjury), and possibly 5 depending on the interpretation (kill or murder).
"there is a certain amount of respect to be paid to moral laws that are 8-10K years old. "
I couldn't disagree more. The moral laws you speak of are the product of a superstitious, ignorant barbarian culture that was sharply divided into a ruling class and a slave class which was ruled by enforced ignorance and brutal authoritarianism. They are historical curiosities, nothing you'd want to live your life by. If you'd actually read your Bible, you would know this. A person who followed Biblical laws to the letter (i.e. kill your disobedient children, kill homosexuals, kill nonbelievers, etc) would be headed straight for prison in a modern, secular society.
How many of the Ten Commandments are actually laws in any modern society? Two, maybe three? God is only 25% correct?
Morality is a natural phenomenon; it arises from the need of humans to live together to survive. For that matter, religion is a natural phenomenon as well (fills in the gaps of our ignorance, and allows people to face the consequences of consciousness -- knowledge of their own mortality).
You're confusing addiction (a psychological phenomenon) and dependance (a physical phenomenon).
People take it to self-medicate for emotional pain, which can be every bit as agonizing as physical pain. I would even say it's basically impossible to take morphine when one "doesn't need it". It's a painkiller, and people take it for many types of pain.
A drug addict doesn't take drugs to get high, he takes them because he can't tolerate being sober. A person who's problem is only a broken arm or whatever has no problem being sober; he just doesn't want his arm to hurt. When the arm stops hurting, his need for the drug goes away.
For most people, work is the only part of their life that gives them money. Therefore, money is the most important thing about work. You can get self-fulfillment from your hobbies, family, friends, etc. However, that doesn't mean you shouldn't do your research about a prospective employer. Unless you hear any horror stories about shop offering you the higher-paying job, take it.
I often copy 1GB files across disk drives (from a single HD to a RAID) under Windows XP, and I haven't noticed much of a slowdown in the shell. I can continue doing things while the copying is progressing in the background.
Perhaps you have something misconfigured.
For laughs when listening to a politician speak, try mentally replacing the word "God" with some other deity people have made up.
"I don't believe atheists should be considered patriots, nor should they be considered citizens. This is one nation under Zeus" - George Bush Sr.
"I believe that Poseidon has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom." - George Bush Jr.
"Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that Mithra is not neutral between them." - George Bush Jr.
"Neither death nor life nor angels nor principalities, nor powers nor things present nor things to come nor height nor depth can separate us from Odin's love." - George Bush Jr.
What is your source for this information?
The "no leadership, no goals" reputation of Google is just a combination of PR hype, dot-com crash post-traumatic stress, and lack of investor and media knowledge about what Google's long term goals really are. You don't make a $6 billion dollar/yr. corporation that's lasted for almost a decade without being able to plan for the future. All investors and the media really know is that Google keeps getting results. This is a company that focuses on the long-term and the big picture, plays their cards close to their chest, and lets the smaller details resolve themselves. They aren't clueless morons like so many dot-coms in the late 90's who had some good fortune.
I don't buy this argument at all. Having my music collection in my pocket improves my life immeasurably. It's almost a spiritual thing to have instant access to decades of the greatest music ever recorded at my fingertips.
I don't buy a new iPod every time Steve Jobs pimps one, but so what if someone wants the newest iPod every year? The old iPod doesn't get thrown in the trash, it gets re-sold or given away to someone else who gets the same enjoyment out of it.
So take your faux-hippie sensibility and cram it, my friend.