In real life, this girl was being an absolute tool, and needed to be taught a lesson. In real life, a cop can arrest you and hold you for 24 hours for no reason whatsoever, and it is perfectly legal. If you really think people in positions of power will not exercise their authority within the boundaries of the law in order to accomplish what they want, you need a serious reality check. And personally, I hope they made her day as unpleasant as possible.
Great post. I find that I spend more time reading comments on MyDD than on Kos; the level of dialogue is just better. I think you summed up the situation perfectly. Reminds me why I read Slashdot.:)
Funny, I read Kos. I seem to remember a thread where a user or two raised that accusation, and was promptly smacked down by several people downthread - just like I am doing to you. I guess Slashdot is in the tank for McCain.
You know, I've heard McCain eats babies, and Palin routinely participates in Satanic orgies. You going to lay those at the feet of the Obama campaign as well?
I seem to recall McCain and his campaign being called out multiple times for lies that were coming directly from the candidate's mouths. I don't seem to recall Obama or Biden saying anything about typing or incest.
If you want to broaden your standard to attribute actions of supporters to the candidate, I'm fine with that. McCain has some of the most venal, stupid, and malicious supporters in the world. Just yesterday they were chanting "Kill him!" in reference to Obama. The Chair of the Buchanan County Republican party wrote an editorial with some of the most racist things I have ever seen ("Obama will give free drugs to all his gangster friends, and paint the Whitehouse black"). And don't even get me started on their spelling (half-breed muslin? wtf?).
The Democratic challenger to Steven's seat has actually been out-polling him in the last couple of weeks. The timing of this indictment means it is far more likely that Stevens will lose the primary next month, and Mark Begich will be facing a Republican without all of the baggage.
I'm in performance testing. While there is some programming involved, it is usually throw away code (use for one test and chuck it). However, the position is extremely technical. You have to know how systems work millisecond to millisecond, and be able to look at a network trace and understand what is going on. Also pays as well a programmer.
Requires extremely detailed and disciplined documentation skills, and is also politically very difficult (on your best day, you are an expensive and difficult waste of time - on your worst, you are telling people they are incompetent). Not for the faint of heart.
Correction: Obama has received more money from individuals that work for the movie industry, not the industry itself. McCain has taken more money from lobbyists for the industry. Also, to put those numbers in perspective, this industry counts for 0.017768234
of McCain's funds, and 0.039736288 of Obama's.
This is utter horsehit. The oil in Montana and North Dakota is in oil shale, not in liquid form. You would essentially have to strip mine the entire area. Look here for more info. The environmental impact would be huge, and this technique is only economically viable when oil is incredibly expensive.
The real reason gas is so expensive, that no one is talking about, is that Bush borrowed so much money to fund his tax cuts and the war in Iraq that the dollar has been plummeting against the Euro and Yuan.
Nice republican talking points there, but sorry, this isn't Fox. We actually check our facts.
There is a small contingent of "deadenders" that rally at Hillaryis44. Most of the hard-core Hillary supporters who will not vote Obama have been chased off of Kos and MyDD.
I've been lurking on Mydd and DailyKos since April or so. It fasciantes me how much influence they are having over the MSM (main stream media).
Blogs may be manipulated easily in the short term, but BS does not survive there long - well, on the left blogs anyway. The right blogs seem to be nothing but BS machines.
can you please explain what the actual difference is?
I will do my best. Modern American politics all leads back to the Civil Rights bill in the 1960's. Once that was signed (by a democrat - he was quoted afterwards as saying that the Dems had lost the South for a generation, and they did), if you were against segregation, you were a Democrat. If you weren't, you were a Republican.
Ten years later, the feminist movement was in full swing, and Roe v. Wade (legalizing abortion) was decided. People who supported Civil Rights for blacks were also more likely to support feminist causes, and abortion is a feminist cause. Pro-choice activists naturally gravitated to the Democrats, further deepening the division between the two parties.
At the same time, the Vietnam war is coming to a close. Liberal anti-war activists gravitate Democrat, commie hating hawks gravitate towards the Republicans. This further reinforces the notion started by Eisenhower that Republicans are the party of the military. Republicans are more likely to go to war than Democrats, so they become the party of Big Business (remember that whole military industrial complex thing?).
At this point many people like to point out Hollywood's connection to the Dems. All I have to say at this point is that if Hollywood was in Texas instead of the liberal bastion of California you can bet that they would be associated with the Republicans.
Anyway, so what do we have today? Republicans consistently have a more refined and focused message, because the majority of their constituency is voting against something: against integration, against abortion rights, against communists, against appeasement. You'll notice that when Republicans need to get out their base, they will find something else to energize them against (see gay marriage in 2004, precipitous withdrawal in 2008). Big Business remains a part of this party because in order to take a stand against what they hate, this bloc will consistently vote against their own economic self-interest.
(There are a group of people who claim to vote Republican because they are "fiscal conservatives". I humbly submit that this bloc either does not know what this term means, or has not been paying attention for the last 30 years, and will leave it at that).
Who does that leave the Democrats with? Basically, everybody else - which is why their message is so unfocused and largely ineffective.
So, both sides boil it down to a choice between good and evil. Democrats are n****r-lovin' baby killers. Republicans are racist, sexist war mongers. Republicans are far more likely to pass laws and policies that cater to big business at the expense of the individual. Dems are far more likely to pass "wasteful" social programs that benefit their base.
It is probably too late for anyone to actually see this, but I'll post it anyway.
Since the 1980's the definition of a hostile workplace has been greatly expanded. Speaking to someone like the VP in TFA did to the author definitely qualifies under the modern definition. Here is what he should have done:
1. Crack out the resume. You'll be looking for a new job after this is all over.
2. Approach the CEO, in writing, and copy HR. The CEO declines to do anything about it.
3. At this point, a hostile work environment has been documented, and the company has declined to remedy the situation. Call a lawyer.
At one point in time, you could have responded to being called an idiot, "That may be the case, but talk to me like that again and you'll be picking up your teeth." The law will not let you make threats like that, but you can win a hell of a judgment.
If you are using an encyclopedia for anything other than getting you started on your serious research, or satisfying a non-important curiosity, then you don't know what an encyclopedia is for. Apparently someone needs to tell this egghead.
I was a liberal arts (actual General Studies) major who now works in application performance. I can tell you from experience that the 300 level course in Object Oriented Analysis and Design was a cakewalk compared to my 300 level course in Philosophy of Neuroscience. Same holds true for the 300 level course on Freud, and the 300 on Plato's Republic (both taught by the same Yale educated professor, one from the original German, the other from the original Greek). When you are in CS, or Engineering, you can devise a solution to a problem and prove conclusively that it works. In Philosophy courses, you have to use argument to convince someone just as smart as you that they are wrong, and you are right. I'd rather do all of my CS homework again rather than the one 30 page paper at the end of Republic - once you have arrived at this level, you are being prepared to write these papers for a living, and all kidding around has ceased.
My daughter is 26 and I noticed that she and her friends value friendships more than careers. Much more than my generation did. They also value the quality of life more. Meaning, life doesn't revolve around career or the job.
So they don't have houses, they don't have kids, and have never experienced an economic downturn when it was hard to find a job. They'll learn the hard way, just like the rest of us.
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In real life, this girl was being an absolute tool, and needed to be taught a lesson. In real life, a cop can arrest you and hold you for 24 hours for no reason whatsoever, and it is perfectly legal. If you really think people in positions of power will not exercise their authority within the boundaries of the law in order to accomplish what they want, you need a serious reality check. And personally, I hope they made her day as unpleasant as possible.
A South Carolina Democrat serving in the state senate. There are Democrats in South Carolina that make Ohio Republicans look liberal.
And yet you can pay $50 for Fallout 3, play for hundreds of hours, and spend far less than on an MMO.
Great post. I find that I spend more time reading comments on MyDD than on Kos; the level of dialogue is just better. I think you summed up the situation perfectly. Reminds me why I read Slashdot. :)
Funny, I read Kos. I seem to remember a thread where a user or two raised that accusation, and was promptly smacked down by several people downthread - just like I am doing to you. I guess Slashdot is in the tank for McCain.
My only role in the Obama campaign is donor.
You know, I've heard McCain eats babies, and Palin routinely participates in Satanic orgies. You going to lay those at the feet of the Obama campaign as well?
I seem to recall McCain and his campaign being called out multiple times for lies that were coming directly from the candidate's mouths. I don't seem to recall Obama or Biden saying anything about typing or incest. If you want to broaden your standard to attribute actions of supporters to the candidate, I'm fine with that. McCain has some of the most venal, stupid, and malicious supporters in the world. Just yesterday they were chanting "Kill him!" in reference to Obama. The Chair of the Buchanan County Republican party wrote an editorial with some of the most racist things I have ever seen ("Obama will give free drugs to all his gangster friends, and paint the Whitehouse black"). And don't even get me started on their spelling (half-breed muslin? wtf?).
You mean like Reagan?
The Democratic challenger to Steven's seat has actually been out-polling him in the last couple of weeks. The timing of this indictment means it is far more likely that Stevens will lose the primary next month, and Mark Begich will be facing a Republican without all of the baggage.
n/t
I'm in performance testing. While there is some programming involved, it is usually throw away code (use for one test and chuck it). However, the position is extremely technical. You have to know how systems work millisecond to millisecond, and be able to look at a network trace and understand what is going on. Also pays as well a programmer. Requires extremely detailed and disciplined documentation skills, and is also politically very difficult (on your best day, you are an expensive and difficult waste of time - on your worst, you are telling people they are incompetent). Not for the faint of heart.
Correction: Obama has received more money from individuals that work for the movie industry, not the industry itself. McCain has taken more money from lobbyists for the industry. Also, to put those numbers in perspective, this industry counts for 0.017768234 of McCain's funds, and 0.039736288 of Obama's.
The real reason gas is so expensive, that no one is talking about, is that Bush borrowed so much money to fund his tax cuts and the war in Iraq that the dollar has been plummeting against the Euro and Yuan. Nice republican talking points there, but sorry, this isn't Fox. We actually check our facts.
The NASA budget - Obama is correct. We are 9 trillion in the hole thanks to the Shrub. We can't afford to go to Mars. Obama is just being a grown-up.
The real difference:
John McCain Opposes Net Neutrality
Obama is for Net Neutrality
Obama is for Net Neutrality
There is a small contingent of "deadenders" that rally at Hillaryis44. Most of the hard-core Hillary supporters who will not vote Obama have been chased off of Kos and MyDD.
I've been lurking on Mydd and DailyKos since April or so. It fasciantes me how much influence they are having over the MSM (main stream media). Blogs may be manipulated easily in the short term, but BS does not survive there long - well, on the left blogs anyway. The right blogs seem to be nothing but BS machines.
Perl syntax as well. :)
Thanks for that. I'll be cleaning coffee off of my monitor and out of my keyboard for the rest of the morning.
I will do my best. Modern American politics all leads back to the Civil Rights bill in the 1960's. Once that was signed (by a democrat - he was quoted afterwards as saying that the Dems had lost the South for a generation, and they did), if you were against segregation, you were a Democrat. If you weren't, you were a Republican.
Ten years later, the feminist movement was in full swing, and Roe v. Wade (legalizing abortion) was decided. People who supported Civil Rights for blacks were also more likely to support feminist causes, and abortion is a feminist cause. Pro-choice activists naturally gravitated to the Democrats, further deepening the division between the two parties.
At the same time, the Vietnam war is coming to a close. Liberal anti-war activists gravitate Democrat, commie hating hawks gravitate towards the Republicans. This further reinforces the notion started by Eisenhower that Republicans are the party of the military. Republicans are more likely to go to war than Democrats, so they become the party of Big Business (remember that whole military industrial complex thing?).
At this point many people like to point out Hollywood's connection to the Dems. All I have to say at this point is that if Hollywood was in Texas instead of the liberal bastion of California you can bet that they would be associated with the Republicans.
Anyway, so what do we have today? Republicans consistently have a more refined and focused message, because the majority of their constituency is voting against something: against integration, against abortion rights, against communists, against appeasement. You'll notice that when Republicans need to get out their base, they will find something else to energize them against (see gay marriage in 2004, precipitous withdrawal in 2008). Big Business remains a part of this party because in order to take a stand against what they hate, this bloc will consistently vote against their own economic self-interest.
(There are a group of people who claim to vote Republican because they are "fiscal conservatives". I humbly submit that this bloc either does not know what this term means, or has not been paying attention for the last 30 years, and will leave it at that).
Who does that leave the Democrats with? Basically, everybody else - which is why their message is so unfocused and largely ineffective.
So, both sides boil it down to a choice between good and evil. Democrats are n****r-lovin' baby killers. Republicans are racist, sexist war mongers. Republicans are far more likely to pass laws and policies that cater to big business at the expense of the individual. Dems are far more likely to pass "wasteful" social programs that benefit their base.
Since the 1980's the definition of a hostile workplace has been greatly expanded. Speaking to someone like the VP in TFA did to the author definitely qualifies under the modern definition. Here is what he should have done:
1. Crack out the resume. You'll be looking for a new job after this is all over.
2. Approach the CEO, in writing, and copy HR. The CEO declines to do anything about it.
3. At this point, a hostile work environment has been documented, and the company has declined to remedy the situation. Call a lawyer.
At one point in time, you could have responded to being called an idiot, "That may be the case, but talk to me like that again and you'll be picking up your teeth." The law will not let you make threats like that, but you can win a hell of a judgment.
If you are using an encyclopedia for anything other than getting you started on your serious research, or satisfying a non-important curiosity, then you don't know what an encyclopedia is for. Apparently someone needs to tell this egghead.
I was a liberal arts (actual General Studies) major who now works in application performance. I can tell you from experience that the 300 level course in Object Oriented Analysis and Design was a cakewalk compared to my 300 level course in Philosophy of Neuroscience. Same holds true for the 300 level course on Freud, and the 300 on Plato's Republic (both taught by the same Yale educated professor, one from the original German, the other from the original Greek). When you are in CS, or Engineering, you can devise a solution to a problem and prove conclusively that it works. In Philosophy courses, you have to use argument to convince someone just as smart as you that they are wrong, and you are right. I'd rather do all of my CS homework again rather than the one 30 page paper at the end of Republic - once you have arrived at this level, you are being prepared to write these papers for a living, and all kidding around has ceased.
So they don't have houses, they don't have kids, and have never experienced an economic downturn when it was hard to find a job. They'll learn the hard way, just like the rest of us.