That's a good point. I've been wondering when Tiger was going to come out, and this could have been one of the reasons they're waiting....of course, there are about a billion other reasons it could have taken this long, but of those, I like this reason the best. Heck, I'd buy one at $500. Might even buy two and give one for the kids.
This "gain" is voter fraud, pure and simple. If the Republicans had "found" votes the way the Democrats did, Democrats would be having heart attacks and screaming at the "injustice" of it all.
The Democrats are AGAIN making a mockery of elections, just as they used to in Daly's Chicago.
This is just like Florida, only this time the Democrats actually might get away with it....
Count, count and recount until they get the results they want, and then declare victory.
It basically comes down to the fact that the Democrats can't with anything anymore without cheating.
The only reason there's any difference in anyone's mind is that you can make copies of the things these people are distributing. Somehow this magically translates into being an OK thing to do.
If people could somehow replicate a car with it costing them anything to do it, they'd be using the same arguments all the software and media pirates do.
First, don't scattershoot your resume everywhere. If you've been rejected from jobs in 50 states, it sounds like that's what you've done, and that almost never works. You have to have a personal touch with these things, and filling out form letters (or worse, submitting online) nearly never works (see point 2).
Posting a resume on Monster.com and places like that can get your resume picked up by recruiters, but if it gets submitted by multiple agencies to one place you might be out of luck. I've seen companies reject a candidate just because the don't want to fight with recruiters about who submitted a resume first (not all resumes get dated with who submitted, unfortunately, or this would be less of a problem).
Second, if people you know work at some of the companies, talk to them about getting hired. I know you're saying that they're "hiring foreigners straight out of school"... if they're doing that, they're hiring other people too.
You have a lot of friends from school and other places right? Talk to them. They might not have openings at their companies, but they might have friends that do. This is one of the best ways to find out about jobs.
Third, do a practice interview with someone you trust and let them be completely honest with you about your interviewing style. Listen to what they have to say. Coming off too quiet, too cocky, or a bazillion other things might be screwing up your interviews.
Sorry bub, but I do understand how the job market works. I've switched jobs locally, done national searches to land new jobs and moved when things when necessary.
I didn't say it was easy to do those moves, it's just that some people with the ability to do such CHOOSE not to. They just sit around and bitch that other people don't know what they're talking about.
The Right doesn't hate groups of people any more than the Left does. That's not to say that SOME people on BOTH sides hate people. That's true.
But making a blanket statement like "doesn't hate policies so much as groups of people (the poor, minorities, foreigners, etc).", is just feeding into the stereotype of what one side wants people to believe about their opponents. Furthering that sort of idea is hate speech in and of itself.
To turn around what you've said here, one could say that the Left hates Christianity, uses minorities during elections and then forgets about them, hates freedom of speech [and opposing viewpoints to such and extent they want to cut off people's right to give those viewpoints.. just look at Fox News, and the Left's complete hatred of that].
Now, SOME on the left do think all that (heck, some on the Right do).... just as some on the left hate groups of people (the poor, minorities, foreigners, etc). Some of the most racist people I've ever seen have been hard Left people. One guy I used to work with was way way left, and he was the most sexist, racist SOB I ever knew. Vengeful too. He tried to get a woman that was having a difficult pregancy and 8 months along to go on a flight, and then screamed himself red in the face when she declined. He also gave one of the Chinese students that had been working for him for 3 years a bad job recommendation when he found out she was graduating and getting a higher paying job then he had....Good enough to work there for three years with no bad performance reviews, but not good enough when she wanted to leave. (A lot of other stories like this for that guy, but I digress...)
I don't think (or at least would hope) that people represent the Left as a whole, any more than what you stated about the Right.
The left peddles hate just as much (if not more) on the internet. Just check out DemocraticUnderground for some vivid examples of how left coasters look down their noses at the rest of the country. That's hate right there.
Don't kid yourself... There are a lot of lunatics to go around, on both sides.
Everytime the subject of jobs comes up, and people whine and complain about not being able to find a job, they leave out the fact that they can't find a job where they currently live. Then they get all defensive about wanting to keep living where they currently are, and go on moaning about the supposed "bad job market" in the US.
While it may be true that there aren't jobs in their area, there ARE jobs other places in the US, if they're really serious about jobs. And I'm not saying to move out to the middle of no-where to some one-horse town with no other tech in sight.... I'm saying look around there are a lot more jobs out there than people think.
No no...you don't get what I'm saying. These jokers DON'T have similar gear.
You're assuming the stuff the people are buying are things you can earn at your level. When people buy things, they usually buy things that you can't yet earn in the game because you're not high enough level. Go against a guy like that in-game, and bang, you're dead.
At least, that's how it was in EQ for a long time. In EQ2, a low level character can't use things that are way beyond their level, since gear is rated. Not sure about WoW.
Personally, I think people that buy things they can earn in-game are complete idiots. It's like power leveling. If they do it wrong, they end up with a character with a ton of levels, but none of the skill stats (eg 1hb, 30 out of 200).
I'm guessing that most people are against this because of PvP play. A person that is equipped with purchased items could slaughter players that earned everything in game.
What you're ignoring is that the exit polls here in the US were skewed badly, with something like 58% of those polled being women, instead of the actual percentage of those that voted. If you'd listened to the news that night, they had figured that out by about 4:30 pm. The original "news" came out at 2pm.
Plus you're ignoring that: 1) Not everyone that voted takes an exit poll, 2) Some people actually seek out exit pollers, and 3) Those people were extremely partisan.
I know you'd dearly love to be the person that "proved" that the exit polls were really the truth, instead of the actual vote. That's not what happened, no matter how much you wish it did. You see, here in reality land, we use the actual vote, not exit polls.
If the situation were reversed, and Bush had been ahead in those polls, you wouldn't be arguing about exit polls.
Teaching in Ivy League Schools? UPenn Professor? Sorry, but you're going to have to come up with better sources than that, because they DEFINE tin-foil hatters. Most Professors at universities are so far to the left they can't see straight.
No diversity of THOUGHT in those universities, or there would be a balance between conservatists and lefists. But there's not. It's swung so far to the left, they actively keep out anyone that disagrees with them. So much for open-mindedness and diversity.
Again, you switch the subject from the original election to the Ukraine. Stick on the subject.
The original Eolas browser their work was done in, and distributed with was done in Mosaic. They should lose just on those grounds, since they never licensed Mosaic... and they should have because it was only free for non-commercial use.
No, I'm saying YOU are a tin-hat conspiracy theorist. You're the one pushing the theory that exit polls here in the states are what to watch. Then, when you're back into a corner, you trot out some fellow conspiracy theorists' paper about the election. NOW you're trying to link the Ukraine and the states. That's why you're WRONG.
Exit polls in Ukraine were WILDLY off. Even THEY admit that.
Everyone reported that the reason the polls HERE were off was because of a skewing of data, and that news came between 4 and 6 pm..... Actually, now that I think about it, by all means, keep this up. It's exactly this sort of thing that drove most Americans to the Republicans this time, and away from the Democrats. The more of this you do, the better it is for us.
Sorry, but that doesn't prove anything, other than tin-foil hat conspiracy theories.
You go by the false assumptions that 1) People actually tell exit pollers the truth and 2) that the people being interviewed are unbiased.
Hell, there were stories after the election about how people actually sought out exit pollers to be interviewed!
The election was won fair and square, and despite the efforts of Democrats in Florida 2000 to steal the election from Bush, it wasn't close enough to try it again in 2004.
No offense, but you don't know squat about exit polling. Exit polls are incredibly INACCURATE predictors of final results. They've been twisted from their original intent in a way to try and "divine" the how an election can turn out, just so some news orginization can run with a story.
The "results" exit polls from the last national election were skewed because they overrepresented women in the polling.
Bottom line, exit polling is unreliable, and anyone who banks on it is just kidding themselves.
"Last I heard".... Yeah, right....complete FUD on most of this, and what your citing is completely wrong. Every time someone compares the US to a dictatorship I just want to laugh, because they have no freaking idea what a real dictatorship is. If this WERE a dictatorship, you'd already be in jail, or more likely DEAD.
The primary and secondary education is already cratered, and has been for years. Despite that, the current educators resist ANY change at all, because it would actually make them accountable for performing.
Which leads to the professor problem... You can NOT get rid of a tenured professor under just about any circumstances. Again, once they're in, they're not held accountable.
You obviously don't work in an academic setting, because people are STILL breaking down all the doors to get here, and do everything they can to stay.
What we need is some accountability in the education system, not less.
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That's a good point. I've been wondering when Tiger was going to come out, and this could have been one of the reasons they're waiting. ...of course, there are about a billion other reasons it could have taken this long, but of those, I like this reason the best. Heck, I'd buy one at $500. Might even buy two and give one for the kids.
As far as I'm concerned, if the Democrats did this sort of thing, the Republicans should be able to do it too.
After all, it was fair for Democrats to do, why shouldn't it be fair for Republicans too?
This "gain" is voter fraud, pure and simple. If the Republicans had "found" votes the way the Democrats did, Democrats would be having heart attacks and screaming at the "injustice" of it all.
The Democrats are AGAIN making a mockery of elections, just as they used to in Daly's Chicago.
This is just like Florida, only this time the Democrats actually might get away with it....
Count, count and recount until they get the results they want, and then declare victory.
It basically comes down to the fact that the Democrats can't with anything anymore without cheating.
Period.
The only reason there's any difference in anyone's mind is that you can make copies of the things these people are distributing. Somehow this magically translates into being an OK thing to do.
If people could somehow replicate a car with it costing them anything to do it, they'd be using the same arguments all the software and media pirates do.
Or a governorship in Washington state.
First, don't scattershoot your resume everywhere. If you've been rejected from jobs in 50 states, it sounds like that's what you've done, and that almost never works. You have to have a personal touch with these things, and filling out form letters (or worse, submitting online) nearly never works (see point 2).
Posting a resume on Monster.com and places like that can get your resume picked up by recruiters, but if it gets submitted by multiple agencies to one place you might be out of luck. I've seen companies reject a candidate just because the don't want to fight with recruiters about who submitted a resume first (not all resumes get dated with who submitted, unfortunately, or this would be less of a problem).
Second, if people you know work at some of the companies, talk to them about getting hired. I know you're saying that they're "hiring foreigners straight out of school"... if they're doing that, they're hiring other people too.
You have a lot of friends from school and other places right? Talk to them. They might not have openings at their companies, but they might have friends that do. This is one of the best ways to find out about jobs.
Third, do a practice interview with someone you trust and let them be completely honest with you about your interviewing style. Listen to what they have to say. Coming off too quiet, too cocky, or a bazillion other things might be screwing up your interviews.
Good luck.
Sorry bub, but I do understand how the job market works. I've switched jobs locally, done national searches to land new jobs and moved when things when necessary.
I didn't say it was easy to do those moves, it's just that some people with the ability to do such CHOOSE not to. They just sit around and bitch that other people don't know what they're talking about.
The Right doesn't hate groups of people any more than the Left does. That's not to say that SOME people on BOTH sides hate people. That's true.
... just as some on the left hate groups of people (the poor, minorities, foreigners, etc). Some of the most racist people I've ever seen have been hard Left people. One guy I used to work with was way way left, and he was the most sexist, racist SOB I ever knew. Vengeful too. He tried to get a woman that was having a difficult pregancy and 8 months along to go on a flight, and then screamed himself red in the face when she declined. He also gave one of the Chinese students that had been working for him for 3 years a bad job recommendation when he found out she was graduating and getting a higher paying job then he had. ...Good enough to work there for three years with no bad performance reviews, but not good enough when she wanted to leave. (A lot of other stories like this for that guy, but I digress...)
But making a blanket statement like "doesn't hate policies so much as groups of people (the poor, minorities, foreigners, etc).", is just feeding into the stereotype of what one side wants people to believe about their opponents. Furthering that sort of idea is hate speech in and of itself.
To turn around what you've said here, one could say that the Left hates Christianity, uses minorities during elections and then forgets about them, hates freedom of speech [and opposing viewpoints to such and extent they want to cut off people's right to give those viewpoints.. just look at Fox News, and the Left's complete hatred of that].
Now, SOME on the left do think all that (heck, some on the Right do).
I don't think (or at least would hope) that people represent the Left as a whole, any more than what you stated about the Right.
The left peddles hate just as much (if not more) on the internet. Just check out DemocraticUnderground for some vivid examples of how left coasters look down their noses at the rest of the country. That's hate right there.
Don't kid yourself... There are a lot of lunatics to go around, on both sides.
Ah, no offense, but apparently you haven't read this guy at all. He's one of the liberals you're complaining about.
Everytime the subject of jobs comes up, and people whine and complain about not being able to find a job, they leave out the fact that they can't find a job where they currently live. Then they get all defensive about wanting to keep living where they currently are, and go on moaning about the supposed "bad job market" in the US.
While it may be true that there aren't jobs in their area, there ARE jobs other places in the US, if they're really serious about jobs. And I'm not saying to move out to the middle of no-where to some one-horse town with no other tech in sight.... I'm saying look around there are a lot more jobs out there than people think.
No no...you don't get what I'm saying. These jokers DON'T have similar gear.
You're assuming the stuff the people are buying are things you can earn at your level. When people buy things, they usually buy things that you can't yet earn in the game because you're not high enough level. Go against a guy like that in-game, and bang, you're dead.
At least, that's how it was in EQ for a long time.
In EQ2, a low level character can't use things that are way beyond their level, since gear is rated. Not sure about WoW.
Personally, I think people that buy things they can earn in-game are complete idiots. It's like power leveling. If they do it wrong, they end up with a character with a ton of levels, but none of the skill stats (eg 1hb, 30 out of 200).
Disclaimer: I don't play WoW.
I'm guessing that most people are against this because of PvP play. A person that is equipped with purchased items could slaughter players that earned everything in game.
What you're ignoring is that the exit polls here in the US were skewed badly, with something like 58% of those polled being women, instead of the actual percentage of those that voted. If you'd listened to the news that night, they had figured that out by about 4:30 pm. The original "news" came out at 2pm.
Plus you're ignoring that: 1) Not everyone that voted takes an exit poll, 2) Some people actually seek out exit pollers, and 3) Those people were extremely partisan.
I know you'd dearly love to be the person that "proved" that the exit polls were really the truth, instead of the actual vote. That's not what happened, no matter how much you wish it did. You see, here in reality land, we use the actual vote, not exit polls.
If the situation were reversed, and Bush had been ahead in those polls, you wouldn't be arguing about exit polls.
If you thought Air Rage was bad before, letting people turn on cell phones will make it 10 times worse.
Teaching in Ivy League Schools? UPenn Professor?
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Sorry, but you're going to have to come up with better sources than that, because they DEFINE tin-foil hatters. Most Professors at universities are so far to the left they can't see straight.
No diversity of THOUGHT in those universities, or there would be a balance between conservatists and lefists. But there's not. It's swung so far to the left, they actively keep out anyone that disagrees with them. So much for open-mindedness and diversity.
Again, you switch the subject from the original election to the Ukraine. Stick on the subject.
Btw, you should read this:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6408569/site/newswe
Bottom line: You're wrong, stick on the original subject and use unbiased sources. Bush won. Deal.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6408569/site/newsweek/
The original Eolas browser their work was done in, and distributed with was done in Mosaic. They should lose just on those grounds, since they never licensed Mosaic... and they should have because it was only free for non-commercial use.
Uh, we're talking about the US here, not the Ukraine. Nice try changing the subject. Typical tactic when you're proven WRONG.
Even the guy in the Ukraine they're going to replace says there should be another election because of the massive voter fraud that went on over there.
Trying to equate the Ukraine and the US should the lack of your intellectual honesty on all this.
Bush won. Deal.
No, I'm saying YOU are a tin-hat conspiracy theorist. You're the one pushing the theory that exit polls here in the states are what to watch. Then, when you're back into a corner, you trot out some fellow conspiracy theorists' paper about the election. NOW you're trying to link the Ukraine and the states. That's why you're WRONG.
.... Actually, now that I think about it, by all means, keep this up. It's exactly this sort of thing that drove most Americans to the Republicans this time, and away from the Democrats. The more of this you do, the better it is for us.
Exit polls in Ukraine were WILDLY off. Even THEY admit that.
Everyone reported that the reason the polls HERE were off was because of a skewing of data, and that news came between 4 and 6 pm.
Sorry, but that doesn't prove anything, other than tin-foil hat conspiracy theories.
You go by the false assumptions that 1) People actually tell exit pollers the truth and 2) that the people being interviewed are unbiased.
Hell, there were stories after the election about how people actually sought out exit pollers to be interviewed!
The election was won fair and square, and despite the efforts of Democrats in Florida 2000 to steal the election from Bush, it wasn't close enough to try it again in 2004.
Deal.
Where did you get that FUD?
No offense, but you don't know squat about exit polling. Exit polls are incredibly INACCURATE predictors of final results. They've been twisted from their original intent in a way to try and "divine" the how an election can turn out, just so some news orginization can run with a story.
The "results" exit polls from the last national election were skewed because they overrepresented women in the polling.
Bottom line, exit polling is unreliable, and anyone who banks on it is just kidding themselves.
In other news, driving a car quickly makes the passengers go faster! This and other AMAZING stories from AP.
This will just encourage more voter fraud. Next thing they'll be saying is that people won't have to show ID to vote. Oh, wait...
Comes down to this. Lose elections, figure out a way to make sure you can win.
Whether it's redistricting in Texas, or recounts until you get the result you want in Washington, stuff like this shouldn't happen.
"Last I heard".... Yeah, right....complete FUD on most of this, and what your citing is completely wrong. Every time someone compares the US to a dictatorship I just want to laugh, because they have no freaking idea what a real dictatorship is. If this WERE a dictatorship, you'd already be in jail, or more likely DEAD.
The primary and secondary education is already cratered, and has been for years. Despite that, the current educators resist ANY change at all, because it would actually make them accountable for performing.
Which leads to the professor problem... You can NOT get rid of a tenured professor under just about any circumstances. Again, once they're in, they're not held accountable.
You obviously don't work in an academic setting, because people are STILL breaking down all the doors to get here, and do everything they can to stay.
What we need is some accountability in the education system, not less.