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We also are in a time when 'Japanese' corporations like Toyota and honda open manufacturing plants in the US, employing nearly 100,000 Americans.
You don't mention that they did that because our government forced them by threat of tarriff to do so. Now that the plants are here, it's cheaper to produce the cars here than to transport them. But the plants would not have been here had it not been for government intervention.
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So the next generation of hungry, smart kids in the U.S. is going to stay in the trailer park.
Actually, if they're smart and motivated, they're more likely to be leading revolutionary assaults on society. In the past, we've offered business as a way to do that. If we put education and business entry out of reach, we're likely to get less benign methods of people attempting to change the world. That's why making sure that people can get education and jobs that pay them enough not to starve is a good idea.
Of course the Libertarians will tell me that as long as 0.00001% of the population can claw itself up from the bottom with good hard work, that's good enough. But eventually, the economic cards become so badly stacked against the individual that he *will* find a different outlet.
...the right to secede was reserved to the States by the tenth amendment.
And some of us folks up North would wish you Johnny Reb bastards would try it again. Most of us would be fine with letting you whining, tax-sucking red states go this time. Please! Exercise your rights again. Really...
Get back to me when mainstream American christians applaud murder in their god's name.
Randall Terry seemed to be pretty mainstream, all dressed up in the news when he became the spokesperson for Terry Schiavo. I didn't notice a lot of mainstream fundamentalists commenting on his history when his mug was plastered all over the TV. Those who stand by and let people like him gain publicity without giving warning are allowing their own little American Taliban to be born.
don't you think it's a bit hypocritical to condem one group of people as being closed minded for putting forth an idea just because you disagree with it?
No. Not when they are. This is simply a ploy to advance their political agenda which will eventually lead to people not being allowed to teach evolution in schools. Even if we grant the supposition that these people are scientists, they are willfully ignoring the truckloads of evidence that support evolution in favor of the few crumbs that might (and the word here is might) not. That does seem to be rather closed minded. As stating an observation is not hypocritical, I would say that the OP is not being hypocritical.
This is especially bad, since I am the TA!No bad; no good - only doing. Being TA causes suffering. Release yourself from TA. But is no self. Just do. Not be TA. Do TA. Then no suffering. Hope this helps.
Many of us are horribly embarrassed by this fiasco. Please don't hold this against all Kansans.
Ultimately, in our system, the people are the government. Who else is there to hold it against? I take my share of responsibility for the fact that my country seems to have lost its collective mind in the past few years. I also work to try to help it regain its collective sanity. Don't duck the responsibility - let it energize you to foment change.
There's absolutely nothing wrong with teaching both sides of a controversy.
That's the point - there is no controversy. At least not with respect to the actual scientists out there. At most there are a few fringe kooks who are using this tactic to politicize science and make their extraordinarily minority view seem more accepted than it actually is. If I used to same tactic to promote a geocentric cosmology I would expect to be chastised, too. Not that I wouldn't try to hide behind a trumped up controversy that does not exist except for some theocratician's desire to energize the booboisie for his own political ends.
A brand name who gets a cut of every Symantec product with his name on it. A very wealthy brand name. A brand name who is very big in the modern arts community. A brand name who liked his city (Santa Monica) so much that he put a clause in his contract selling The Peter Norton Group to Symantec that required them to maintain a Santa Monica office. A very smart brand name.
I'm pretty sure the corporation system is not designed to let you create or purchase a shell corporation, commit illegal acts and rack up debts, and then just toss the shell corporation into bankruptcy and say "whoops all forgiven".
Oh you naive fool...
Look at things like the Johns-Manville asbestos bankruptcy or the Dow-Corning breast implant bankruptcy for our "oh so responsible" corporate citizens walking away from their bills. And illegality? Do we start at Enron's subsidiaries? How about Arthur Andersen? How about the amazing set of ITT companies back in the early '70's. The American corporation has always been an amazing refuge for behavior that would get most of us run out of town on a rail. And it pays well, too - at least for the CEOs.
For folks who often work with parallel systems (e.g., simulations, bioinformatics, soft computing researchers) this is a great thing. I can see a huge number of research projects including these machines in their grant proposals.
Mainly because the folks who were working on them in the sixties and seventies wanted to change the world. You cannot separate that desire from the political and spiritual (and I do not use that word lightly) melieu that was the counterculture of that era. The reason why almost nothing radically new (on the order of the idea of a personal computer, the ethernet, the laser printer, etc.) has been invented in computing in the past fourty years is because most of the people who work with this stuff today don't really care about transforming the world. Most are bound into an environment that encourages exploitative behavior and uses of technology that enable more efficient exploitation. In addition, the corporate environments in which we work force us into narrow mental compartments that allow us no freedom for exploration of broader concerns. If the energy wasted in this corporate-driven insanity could be harnessed toward explorative rather than exploitive behavior, we'd have a better world and an outflowing of ideas and creativity that would make the past fourty years look like the desert it was. It's one of the reasons that the free software movement is working - it encourages exploratory and cooperative rather than exploitive behavior.
Eve told the serpent, which Satan was using as a puppet: "Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat, but as for eating of the fruit of the tree that is in the middle of the gardem, God has said, 'You must not eat from it, no you must not touch it, that you do not die.'"...The point is that Adam and Eve *knew* what was right and wrong.
Actually, all your quote says is that Eve knew that God told her something. God told consequences of eating the fruit but, according to Eve, she had no concept other than that. The whole point of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil was that once you ate of it, you had "Knowledge of Good and Evil". Before that A&E were floating in a nebulous space of no good, no evil neutrality.
if you want to store a character string in a strange format, you could conceivably store two digits in one byte, because four bits are enough to describe all ten digits, leaving plenty of room for things like a decimal point or a negative sign...
Wow! What an unusual format. Lets think of a name for it. Hmmm... it's in binary, but it's encoded in a decimal form... I know, lets call it Binary Coded Decimal! It even has a catchy acronym (BCD) that fairly rolls off the tongue. Wow! Maybe we could get some hardware manufacturers to provide support for this crazy, new data format. This bold, innovative idea just points out the intellectual might that is unleashed by the power of the interwebs!
So lemme get this straight - a bunch of engineers who probably cream themselves when some story about an HP-48 lookalike comes out because it talks postfix are gonna bitch about prefix notation?
Nah. Most folks find me a pleasure to work with. What can I say? It was late at night and I was getting cranky after reading a bunch of posts from people whining about "Wah, wah, wah, I can't find anyone."
I hire people, too. The main problem I see right now is that there are a lot of suits not letting development managers pay enough to hire *good* (read experienced) people. These wages are often arbitrary or driven by salary surveys that have far broader skill-spans (which drive down the median cost shown) than reality dictates. For every lack of supply, there's usually a budget line that could more easily be moved.
I did my first project in FORTH in 1983 also, BTW.
FORTH is a threaded-interpreted language. Note the "ed". Check out Chuck Moore's web site if you don't believe me. I guess the questions really were impossible - especially since you were talking gibberish that even you obviously don't understand. And you're interviewing people. Sheesh.
1. For an IT services organization to ask me to fill out documents longhand is ass-backwards.
For legal reasons you need to have the information written, typed, or somehow physically placed on the form you sign to attest that the information given is true. A "See Resume" is not enough. That you couldn't fill out an e-form, print it out and sign it is a bit odd, though.
2. I've been in the industry for 10 years and have a Master's degree. Does it really matter where I went to high school?
One Form to rule them all, One Form to find them, One Form to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. I would assume that either the organization had positions it needed to fill where high-school is the highest needed education level (e.g., receptionist, facilities, etc.) or that they were small enough to simply use a boilerplate form that you can pick up anywhere. Remember that, in HR, conformity accross positions is not a fetish but, in many cases, a legal requirement.
3. If it does matter where I went to high school, why do I need to fill it out THREE TIMES?
it doesn't seem to occur to any of them that this move will come back to bite them in the ass just as soon as there is a non-Republican majority...
Now that they control all three branches of government and have the press cowed, why do you think they're ever going to let a non-Republican majority arise again? One "terrorist" attack on DC and you can have a perpetual nation-wide "state of emergency" with niceties such as elections postponed indefinitely. All they have to do is keep this up for ~50 years and no one left will remember there ever was another party. Did I say 50? With our American attention spans, more like 20.
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You don't mention that they did that because our government forced them by threat of tarriff to do so. Now that the plants are here, it's cheaper to produce the cars here than to transport them. But the plants would not have been here had it not been for government intervention.
Actually, if they're smart and motivated, they're more likely to be leading revolutionary assaults on society. In the past, we've offered business as a way to do that. If we put education and business entry out of reach, we're likely to get less benign methods of people attempting to change the world. That's why making sure that people can get education and jobs that pay them enough not to starve is a good idea.
Of course the Libertarians will tell me that as long as 0.00001% of the population can claw itself up from the bottom with good hard work, that's good enough. But eventually, the economic cards become so badly stacked against the individual that he *will* find a different outlet.
And some of us folks up North would wish you Johnny Reb bastards would try it again. Most of us would be fine with letting you whining, tax-sucking red states go this time. Please! Exercise your rights again. Really...
... and on Slashdot, they're often the same ones!
I can overflow buffers quite well on my own without any help.
When getting rid of a weed, 'tis best to focus on the roots...
Randall Terry seemed to be pretty mainstream, all dressed up in the news when he became the spokesperson for Terry Schiavo. I didn't notice a lot of mainstream fundamentalists commenting on his history when his mug was plastered all over the TV. Those who stand by and let people like him gain publicity without giving warning are allowing their own little American Taliban to be born.
No. Not when they are. This is simply a ploy to advance their political agenda which will eventually lead to people not being allowed to teach evolution in schools. Even if we grant the supposition that these people are scientists, they are willfully ignoring the truckloads of evidence that support evolution in favor of the few crumbs that might (and the word here is might) not. That does seem to be rather closed minded. As stating an observation is not hypocritical, I would say that the OP is not being hypocritical.
This is especially bad, since I am the TA!No bad; no good - only doing. Being TA causes suffering. Release yourself from TA. But is no self. Just do. Not be TA. Do TA. Then no suffering. Hope this helps.
Ultimately, in our system, the people are the government. Who else is there to hold it against? I take my share of responsibility for the fact that my country seems to have lost its collective mind in the past few years. I also work to try to help it regain its collective sanity. Don't duck the responsibility - let it energize you to foment change.
That's the point - there is no controversy . At least not with respect to the actual scientists out there. At most there are a few fringe kooks who are using this tactic to politicize science and make their extraordinarily minority view seem more accepted than it actually is. If I used to same tactic to promote a geocentric cosmology I would expect to be chastised, too. Not that I wouldn't try to hide behind a trumped up controversy that does not exist except for some theocratician's desire to energize the booboisie for his own political ends.
A brand name who gets a cut of every Symantec product with his name on it. A very wealthy brand name. A brand name who is very big in the modern arts community. A brand name who liked his city (Santa Monica) so much that he put a clause in his contract selling The Peter Norton Group to Symantec that required them to maintain a Santa Monica office. A very smart brand name.
Oh you naive fool...
Look at things like the Johns-Manville asbestos bankruptcy or the Dow-Corning breast implant bankruptcy for our "oh so responsible" corporate citizens walking away from their bills. And illegality? Do we start at Enron's subsidiaries? How about Arthur Andersen? How about the amazing set of ITT companies back in the early '70's. The American corporation has always been an amazing refuge for behavior that would get most of us run out of town on a rail. And it pays well, too - at least for the CEOs.
For folks who often work with parallel systems (e.g., simulations, bioinformatics, soft computing researchers) this is a great thing. I can see a huge number of research projects including these machines in their grant proposals.
[It's "crack tEam," damn it!]
Wouldn't that be "crack team"? Glass houses and all...
Mainly because the folks who were working on them in the sixties and seventies wanted to change the world. You cannot separate that desire from the political and spiritual (and I do not use that word lightly) melieu that was the counterculture of that era. The reason why almost nothing radically new (on the order of the idea of a personal computer, the ethernet, the laser printer, etc.) has been invented in computing in the past fourty years is because most of the people who work with this stuff today don't really care about transforming the world. Most are bound into an environment that encourages exploitative behavior and uses of technology that enable more efficient exploitation. In addition, the corporate environments in which we work force us into narrow mental compartments that allow us no freedom for exploration of broader concerns. If the energy wasted in this corporate-driven insanity could be harnessed toward explorative rather than exploitive behavior, we'd have a better world and an outflowing of ideas and creativity that would make the past fourty years look like the desert it was. It's one of the reasons that the free software movement is working - it encourages exploratory and cooperative rather than exploitive behavior.
Actually, all your quote says is that Eve knew that God told her something. God told consequences of eating the fruit but, according to Eve, she had no concept other than that. The whole point of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil was that once you ate of it, you had "Knowledge of Good and Evil". Before that A&E were floating in a nebulous space of no good, no evil neutrality.
Wow! What an unusual format. Lets think of a name for it. Hmmm... it's in binary, but it's encoded in a decimal form... I know, lets call it Binary Coded Decimal! It even has a catchy acronym (BCD) that fairly rolls off the tongue. Wow! Maybe we could get some hardware manufacturers to provide support for this crazy, new data format. This bold, innovative idea just points out the intellectual might that is unleashed by the power of the interwebs!
So lemme get this straight - a bunch of engineers who probably cream themselves when some story about an HP-48 lookalike comes out because it talks postfix are gonna bitch about prefix notation?
Wow! And just yesterday they were... Oh, never mind.
I hire people, too. The main problem I see right now is that there are a lot of suits not letting development managers pay enough to hire *good* (read experienced) people. These wages are often arbitrary or driven by salary surveys that have far broader skill-spans (which drive down the median cost shown) than reality dictates. For every lack of supply, there's usually a budget line that could more easily be moved.
I did my first project in FORTH in 1983 also, BTW.
FORTH is a threaded-interpreted language. Note the "ed". Check out Chuck Moore's web site if you don't believe me. I guess the questions really were impossible - especially since you were talking gibberish that even you obviously don't understand. And you're interviewing people. Sheesh.
For legal reasons you need to have the information written, typed, or somehow physically placed on the form you sign to attest that the information given is true. A "See Resume" is not enough. That you couldn't fill out an e-form, print it out and sign it is a bit odd, though.
2. I've been in the industry for 10 years and have a Master's degree. Does it really matter where I went to high school?
One Form to rule them all, One Form to find them, One Form to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. I would assume that either the organization had positions it needed to fill where high-school is the highest needed education level (e.g., receptionist, facilities, etc.) or that they were small enough to simply use a boilerplate form that you can pick up anywhere. Remember that, in HR, conformity accross positions is not a fetish but, in many cases, a legal requirement.
3. If it does matter where I went to high school, why do I need to fill it out THREE TIMES?
OK, you're right. It's because they're stupid.
Now that they control all three branches of government and have the press cowed, why do you think they're ever going to let a non-Republican majority arise again? One "terrorist" attack on DC and you can have a perpetual nation-wide "state of emergency" with niceties such as elections postponed indefinitely. All they have to do is keep this up for ~50 years and no one left will remember there ever was another party. Did I say 50? With our American attention spans, more like 20.
Yes. And thank you for demonstrating what smarmy self-rightousness can do for an individual, too!