"The Army's $10 million grant proposal calls for the bat to be six inches in length, weigh four ounces and use just one watt of power. The bat is supposed to be powered by a lithium-ion battery, charged by solar and wind energy, as well as simple vibrations."
....it's a sex toy!
And they're worried about it being too big! Sound like some of the spam I've been getting....
As a biomedical scientist, I can tell you that now, the ethical restrictions that the scientific community has imposed upon itself, are far stricter than ever before in history. If you don't realize, perhaps you should consider that B.F. Skinner experimented on his daughter.
I also realize that companies today are benefiting from experiments and research done by the Nazi's in WWII. Makes you stop and think the next time you see a Bayer commercial for insecticide. Yes, they discovered aspirin, but they also discovered heroin and mustard gas.
What I see today is global lawmakers seeming to have to set limits on how far they're willing to let their scientists go while the scientist are complaining the government is too restrictive. Yes, lots of political grandstanding to be sure. Yet still a concern at simply letting a group police itself. As we have seen in the past it takes only a few less ethical or perhaps simply tempted...if I just stray over the line just *this* much. And what if they're successful? While their method might be condemned, their results would certainly be used.
We have indeed put down certain large lines that are not to be crossed, such as not experimenting on prisoners. (Although some would argue that our own soldiers have been affected by government experiments with regards to Gulf War Syndrome.) I also think it's pretty obvious that some contries, such as China, don't share our level of ethics when it comes to human experimentation.
But it's the gray areas that are of most concern. Most religions see life as beginning at conception. So to grow a blastocyst to harvest stem cells is no different than aborting a 6-month embryo and doing so--it not only smacks of playing God, but of another queasy ability to easily kill some humans to benefit others. And then the "what-if" someone discovers that a slightly older embryo produces the cure for Parkinson's? Or Alzheimer's? What if the Chinese start using their forced abortions as the subject of experimentation? It's easy to start justifying the aborting of fetuses is helping a conscious, breathing person. Perhaps the scientist would be condemned when found out, but companies would be rushing to patent the magical pill.
I do have a great respect for science and scientific discoveries. I have several relatives that are or were in scientific and medical fields. But I always grow concerned at a body that wants to simply oversee their own and of a public that isn't educated (or cares) enough to keep watch.
You know, science used to be a prestigious profession, and used to be respected. Now, the only persistent emotions I see towards science and technology is spite.
Unfortunately, I think that's in part because science has jumped into the political realm, sometimes unintentionally, sometimes intentionally. Global warming, stem cell research, cloning, take your pick. Science is becoming a tool of the governments. And it no longer places ethical boundaries on itself. Environmentalism for some has become the new, secular religion. Tell the children mommy and daddy are hurting the cute penguins so we need to herd the people into urban areas and force mass transit.
It all sounds nice and reasonable and the frog is enjoying his warm bath. Unfortunately, the news doesn't report much about history either.
Most of the highly technical and well paid jobs (system admins and the like) seem to be already taken by well established old folk, and nobody is really interested in training anybody for when they retire.
Trust me, after 40 you start seeing all the good jobs being taken by some still wet-behind-the-ears college grad while you're forced out so they can hire someone from overseas or another fresh-out, cheap. When you realize your boss is young enough to be your son or daughter THEN you can come to me and gripe!
I'm willing to bet that the vast majority of "unauthorized software" are things like chat clients, media players, RSS/Weather update notifiers, games and software for personal devices (iTunes etc).
I'll bet I'm not the only one that carries a flash drive filled with very useful, PORTABLE APPS (and bless the people that create them!) I can run them without any permission because they don't need to install. How about things like Gimp and KompoZer so I can get my job done better and faster? The only "legitimate" graphics editor I can have installed is a very old version of Photoshop which costs $$$ and FrontPage is the only "official" HTML editor.
That's part of the problem when they really tighten things down. Sometimes it's about what software is allowed even if you pay for it. The smaller companies can have the advantage over the larger ones as they are usually more flexible--so you can get the tools you need, as long as you have the budget. The large ones tend to get a set of standard software (i.e., MS Office) and getting anything else (including MS Access) is like pulling teeth. They forget not everyone does the "stadand" type work of spreadsheets and memos.
Also none of the companies I've contracted for have gone to Firefox as an alternative (or IE7 for that matter). Even when they have a web site that's undoubtably being viewed by others using something besides IE6 (and I'm part of the team responsible for the web site.) So it's nice when I can use my browser to view pages...if the network allows.
My favorite HR screwup was when we'd specifically recruited someone. They were highly skilled, able to hit the ground running, someone who would fill a position we desperately needed filled. Two weeks went by without seeing their application. My boss called them to ask why they hadn't applied, and was told "I did! I dropped it off right after we talked!" A quick phone call to HR found it was there - they'd "filed it" because the person "wasn't qualified for the position." Some really nasty things got said, and after that, all applications for our department came directly to us!"
I'm sure that happens more often than we know--in fact I know someone who that happened to. It makes you wonder how many time your resume gets tossed--especially now that email makes that even easier. Also some of the places were govenment agencies and they get really weird. You had to fill out EVERY application by hand--if you fill in the redundant parts and xerox copies, they'll toss them.
My theory is HR is where cheeleaders go after they graduate high school.;-)
I can sum it down into language even managers understand, "IT make money go bye-bye." While other departments are seen as money generators for the company, IT is thought of as a cost.
They often don't see the cost/benefit ratio or how IT HELPS them make money, they see it as an expense and a drain on the bottom line. And especially they don't understand that you will have to upgrade the technology from time to time. And when it is upgraded, it becomes a major expense and overhaul because it's been such a long time since the last one.
I would love to see a "day without IT." Turn off all the computer systems, phones, anything related to the IT department and let them see how much business gets done.
Microsoft has stated they will cease selling Windows XP as of June 30, 2008. When you can't buy new copies anymore, it's essentially dead, even if those of us who have it still use it for a while yet.
Well, it's IMPOSSIBLE to find everyone who is illegally trading music. It's IMPOSSIBLE to stop every speeder. But they DO manage bringing charges against SOME who do. Never blow off a proposed law just because it's difficult to enforce. Because as stupid as the law is, it WILL net some poor saps who will either have to just up and pay the fines or have the funds to take it to the supreme court.
Laws like this need to be nipped in the bud. BEFORE they get passed so we don't have to spend the $$ to fight them back out of existence. This law is draconian and clearly unconstitutional--obviously this guy or one of his big donors has their panties in a wad over something said anonymously about them and it just frosts them that they can't find out who it is.
And lawmakers like this one need to be nipped in the bud and tossed out of office.
How about someone who's been around for a while but does want to learn, who likes to learn new things, who wants to get their hands dirty and likes to solve problems? Would you hire someone like that?
Ditto. I have been working contract for over 5 years now (some of these contracts lasted 9 months to a year so I haven't been looking consistently during those periods.) My previous contract job was supposed to go perm. My supervisor loved me--we even had tickets to travel to the home office in the UK the next month. It was my dream job. But then, her boss nixed the deal making the excuse that he wanted someone with supervisory experience (there was no one to supervise). After offering the job to two others, who turned it down flat because it didn't pay enough, he then re-arranged the job and dropped the salary by 10-12K and hired a fresh-out. Personally I never thought it had to do with managerial or supervisor experience (that was never requested)--he probably decided he didn't want to pay a fee to the employment agency that I had been sent through. He just wanted something cheaper.
After that I tried for the full six months (and even prior to leaving the previous job) to get a full-time job. I did get several interviews and even some second interviews. I'm now working another contract job. The people love me. I would love to get on steady, but the problem is (as usual) I don't work for the guy that could make it happen. He lives in another state although he travels here frequently. It will depend on how much clout the people working for him have.
I had NEVER previously had this much trouble finding full-time work. I dress appropriately, am well-spoken and my salary requests are certainly in-line. My only take on all this is age discrimination is rampant. Which is why the IT shortage is a myth. There are plenty of skilled workers, but they don't WANT the good, but experienced ones. They rather have the young and CHEAP ones.
Most of the time you can forget looking at Monster or other job boards. HR who doesn't understand a bit from a byte, writes up these things like you're ordering a pizza. And if you don't have the matching skills, you're resume is going no where. Which means you'd have to lie to get through HR and find what qualities they REALLY need (risky) or you better know someone on the inside that has the ability to request your resume be sent through. The other problem is when you interview with people who are probably 15-20 years your junior. You can see the look on their face when you walk in.
I'm going to get radical and suggest that this may be the fault of bad teaching practices. If the students were simply uploading homework or test answers, as there have been cases of, that would be one thing. But I'm suspecting that this teacher is taking umbrage because it's showing how many of his students are not learning in his class and having to go for outside help. And possibly that the outside help is doing a better job than he is.
Too many college professors are not actually *teaching*. They may stand up for five minutes and then hand the class over to a graduate student while they go work on their next book. And while the professor may certainly know their field, they may not be all that good at showing others how they got there. The problem is most of the professors that are doing this have tenure. There is not guarantee of a job in the real world--there should be no guarantee of one at the University either.
Unfortunately the youthful student often gets intimidated when it should be the other way around. Students: You (or your parents) are PAYING these professors to TEACH you. You shouldn't feel like you have to kiss their ass just to be there. You have to do your part: You have to bring ability and the drive to work at it, including coming to class and paying attention. But they also have a part in this contract--they're supposed to be TEACHING you, not throwing a book at you, saying, "Read this and do problems 1-10."
Until the students AND the parents stand up and demand a better system, they are going to be a piss-poor education and ridiculous charges like this. That diploma isn't going to be worth the parchment costs if you can't perform the actual work once you get out. And if you have to get together so you can teach each other, why are you having to pay $$$ to get hassled over it?
"However the team have warned about potential privacy issues in the future when scanning techniques improve. 'It is possible that decoding brain activity could have serious ethical and privacy implications downstream in, say, the 30 to 50-year time frame,' said Prof Gallant. '[We] believe strongly that no one should be subjected to any form of brain-reading process involuntarily, covertly, or without complete informed consent.'"
And yet they invented it anyway. I guess you could use it to study how the brain processes images, but for the life of me I can't think of a truly beneficial, non-evil application.
It never ceases to amuse me how McCain supporters will paint Clinton & Obama as hardcore Democrats and call McCain a moderate conservative while Clinton & Obama supporters paint McCain as a hardcore Republican and argue their candidate being a moderate liberal. Because they know the moderate will garner the most votes. I guess one thing they're split on should be the war though if McCain's smart, he'll promise to remain strong in our fight yet distance himself from Bush's attitude towards it (somehow).
Exactly, it's shaping up to be an election between dumb and dumber (you choose which is which). McCain trying to pull off the conservative act would be laughable if he wasn't the nominee. He's been a RINO (Republican in name only) for years. Which begs the question...if being conservative or moderate is important for support, why don't they RUN an acutal conservative (Republican) vs. an actual moderate (Democrat). Basically it's going to be: Do you want an Democrat president that will pull our troops out of the war or do you want one who won't?
And I remember seeing Ernst Haeckel's faked drawings of embryonic development and hearing how we looked no different from any other animal in early development.
Not to mention that chart those of us from the 1960's and previous remember of ancient man to modern going from something chimp-like looking less and less ape-like as we "progressed." When in fact, with modern techniques, it's been shown there was little difference.
I hear some chuckles about people having a extended problem with DST changes. However, I really do have a problem when we "fall back" in the winter. It takes me weeks to get used to it. I tend to wake up around the same time every morning (before the alarm goes off) so I wonder if some of us are just more in tune with an internal time clock. I'm also naturally a "night owl" (although I can't usally keep those hours unless I'm taking time off.) So I've wondered if that had anything to do with it....
It's also a pain if you're dealing overseas--unfortunately other countries have been infected with changing clocks...but now we changed our dates so everyone's changing them on different days.
You're making the flawed assumption that for anything agreed to in a contract, any circumstancial evidence or means of verifying it is implicitly ok. Just because the contract with my landlord says I can't do certain things doesn't mean he can set up video surveilance in the apartment or lock himself in and search it any time he wants to. Some random guy on the street can't get me evicted just by making an accusation. The ISPs don't know, don't want to know, shouldn't know and what you're seeing is nothing other than trying to force the landlord into being the moral police. If you can't see the difference between "If you get caught smoking pot in the apartment I'll evict you" and "I get to rummage through your belongings looking for any hidden pot stash at any time" or think one implies the other, I hope you never get to enforce any such mandate. Or at least I want to slap you with a fat lawsuit if you do.
Yes but the internet is a lot less solid as a far as laws go because cases are only now being tested in the courts. How many people are going to sue for getting kicked off one ISP? Chances are they'll just find another ISP. It becomes a matter of picking your battles. OTOH if you found the landlord had installed video surveillance inside your apartment, you would not only sue the apartment owners and the landlord, but the landlord would get arrested.
Of course, just keep in mind (in the US) if they someone rummages through your trash you put in the dumpster or left out for pickup, and finds some leftover pot stash, you'd have no grounds to sue or expectation of privacy. They can even legally get your DNA from a tossed cigarette butt or cup. (IANAL--I just watch a lot of CourtTV.)
I wonder if it wasn't just substituted. Back in the day I took my Commodore 64 in for repairs. The just took mine and gave me another refurbished system. That's probably what happened here, unless he can see it's the same serial You can't tell anything from the photos to verify that's the same case which has just been scrubbed. Personally, I don't know why he would ship this off--if you've got something that's valuable (at least to you) you don't ship it off to Norman Numbnuts at the repair shop. In fact, why would you even use that machine for playing? Buy another and put this one on a shelf.
Usually such things are only valued as the price of the machine, so if he got a working machine back, that's likely all they'll be liable for.
I suspect we just disagree about at what age a child is ready to be independent from his/her parents.
I suspect our disagreement comes from actual cultural differences. Children in your country may mature faster--in some countries they have to. Back during WWII and if you look throughout our history children used to mature faster, marry earlier, etc. They were expected to take on more responsibility. You didn't have a lot of leisure time to spend getting into trouble. And there was no special treatment of juveniles in the justice system until the 20th century. Now, in the US, kids have more leisure time and very little real responsibility.
And yes, there are some children that are very responsible, but there are a LOT who are not, even after they turn adults. (Just check out any beach during spring break.) Most of these kids act like they've never had to deal with any consequences from home, so now law enforcement, or their employer has to be the one that interjects how the real world works and btw it doesn't revolve around them any more. Parents who think they've finally finished their duties find the kids found it way too cozy in their parents' nice, big house and when they find out how much a tiny apartment costs, they run back home. They go into debt and have no determination, drive or patience to realize you can't have it all right now.
I am amazed that anyone is falling for the internet as a criminal nest nonsense.
The problem is the guy's in law enforcement. All law enforcement people have a very us vs. them mentality and so everyone is a potential criminal. I guess you have to be that way to make sure you come home every day, but it's definitely warps your view of the public. Especially in this day and age where they ride in an air conditioned cruiser and so only deal with (mostly) the criminal element rather than walking a beat and getting to know the public in general.
....tie a string around it, throw it round the corner and wait. Have a large net handy as they spook easily.
First of all it would have been helpful if you defined what language(s) your "superstar" needs to know and where your company was located. You might just find that person here. But you're probably going to have to get your hands dirty and network. Start by talking to some of the people you have in your company now that you respect--they're you're best source for new employees.
Monster and Dice are not really the way to go--I can assert this from a job seeking position. Usually the listings look like an pizza order than a serious quest for a real person. That's likely because it's done by HR and/or managers and they just throw everything, but the kitchen sink as a requirement which turns off the ones who are truly gifted, but are good because they specialize in knowing a few languages well instead of a little bit of everything. Plus if they are really all that good, they can quickly pick up on any oddball need your company happens to have. Unfortunately, those are the ones who'll probably get filtered out by HR because they're just scanning for key words.
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"The Army's $10 million grant proposal calls for the bat to be six inches in length, weigh four ounces and use just one watt of power. The bat is supposed to be powered by a lithium-ion battery, charged by solar and wind energy, as well as simple vibrations."
....it's a sex toy!
And they're worried about it being too big! Sound like some of the spam I've been getting....
Darn it, if we had a few more candidates, we could have hell of a drinking game!
If you are elected, which committees would you like to serve on and why?
Where do you stand on having a Flat Tax? What about the Fair (or Consumption) Tax? And why.
As a biomedical scientist, I can tell you that now, the ethical restrictions that the scientific community has imposed upon itself, are far stricter than ever before in history. If you don't realize, perhaps you should consider that B.F. Skinner experimented on his daughter.
I also realize that companies today are benefiting from experiments and research done by the Nazi's in WWII. Makes you stop and think the next time you see a Bayer commercial for insecticide. Yes, they discovered aspirin, but they also discovered heroin and mustard gas.
What I see today is global lawmakers seeming to have to set limits on how far they're willing to let their scientists go while the scientist are complaining the government is too restrictive. Yes, lots of political grandstanding to be sure. Yet still a concern at simply letting a group police itself. As we have seen in the past it takes only a few less ethical or perhaps simply tempted...if I just stray over the line just *this* much. And what if they're successful? While their method might be condemned, their results would certainly be used.
We have indeed put down certain large lines that are not to be crossed, such as not experimenting on prisoners. (Although some would argue that our own soldiers have been affected by government experiments with regards to Gulf War Syndrome.) I also think it's pretty obvious that some contries, such as China, don't share our level of ethics when it comes to human experimentation.
But it's the gray areas that are of most concern. Most religions see life as beginning at conception. So to grow a blastocyst to harvest stem cells is no different than aborting a 6-month embryo and doing so--it not only smacks of playing God, but of another queasy ability to easily kill some humans to benefit others. And then the "what-if" someone discovers that a slightly older embryo produces the cure for Parkinson's? Or Alzheimer's? What if the Chinese start using their forced abortions as the subject of experimentation? It's easy to start justifying the aborting of fetuses is helping a conscious, breathing person. Perhaps the scientist would be condemned when found out, but companies would be rushing to patent the magical pill.
I do have a great respect for science and scientific discoveries. I have several relatives that are or were in scientific and medical fields. But I always grow concerned at a body that wants to simply oversee their own and of a public that isn't educated (or cares) enough to keep watch.
You know, science used to be a prestigious profession, and used to be respected. Now, the only persistent emotions I see towards science and technology is spite.
Unfortunately, I think that's in part because science has jumped into the political realm, sometimes unintentionally, sometimes intentionally. Global warming, stem cell research, cloning, take your pick. Science is becoming a tool of the governments. And it no longer places ethical boundaries on itself. Environmentalism for some has become the new, secular religion. Tell the children mommy and daddy are hurting the cute penguins so we need to herd the people into urban areas and force mass transit.
It all sounds nice and reasonable and the frog is enjoying his warm bath. Unfortunately, the news doesn't report much about history either.
(2) being completely ineffective because I have to listen to my hyper coworker who has no inside voice screaming all day.
Sounds like she has several imaginary ones though!
Most of the highly technical and well paid jobs (system admins and the like) seem to be already taken by well established old folk, and nobody is really interested in training anybody for when they retire.
Trust me, after 40 you start seeing all the good jobs being taken by some still wet-behind-the-ears college grad while you're forced out so they can hire someone from overseas or another fresh-out, cheap. When you realize your boss is young enough to be your son or daughter THEN you can come to me and gripe!
I'm willing to bet that the vast majority of "unauthorized software" are things like chat clients, media players, RSS/Weather update notifiers, games and software for personal devices (iTunes etc).
I'll bet I'm not the only one that carries a flash drive filled with very useful, PORTABLE APPS (and bless the people that create them!) I can run them without any permission because they don't need to install. How about things like Gimp and KompoZer so I can get my job done better and faster? The only "legitimate" graphics editor I can have installed is a very old version of Photoshop which costs $$$ and FrontPage is the only "official" HTML editor.
That's part of the problem when they really tighten things down. Sometimes it's about what software is allowed even if you pay for it. The smaller companies can have the advantage over the larger ones as they are usually more flexible--so you can get the tools you need, as long as you have the budget. The large ones tend to get a set of standard software (i.e., MS Office) and getting anything else (including MS Access) is like pulling teeth. They forget not everyone does the "stadand" type work of spreadsheets and memos.
Also none of the companies I've contracted for have gone to Firefox as an alternative (or IE7 for that matter). Even when they have a web site that's undoubtably being viewed by others using something besides IE6 (and I'm part of the team responsible for the web site.) So it's nice when I can use my browser to view pages...if the network allows.
My favorite HR screwup was when we'd specifically recruited someone. They were highly skilled, able to hit the ground running, someone who would fill a position we desperately needed filled. Two weeks went by without seeing their application. My boss called them to ask why they hadn't applied, and was told "I did! I dropped it off right after we talked!" A quick phone call to HR found it was there - they'd "filed it" because the person "wasn't qualified for the position." Some really nasty things got said, and after that, all applications for our department came directly to us!"
;-)
I'm sure that happens more often than we know--in fact I know someone who that happened to. It makes you wonder how many time your resume gets tossed--especially now that email makes that even easier. Also some of the places were govenment agencies and they get really weird. You had to fill out EVERY application by hand--if you fill in the redundant parts and xerox copies, they'll toss them.
My theory is HR is where cheeleaders go after they graduate high school.
What's really sad is, I don't think that many users are even wanting to pirate Vista! Pretty bad when you can't even give it away.
Funny that this comes after yesterday's IT Labor Shortage is Just a Myth.
I can sum it down into language even managers understand, "IT make money go bye-bye." While other departments are seen as money generators for the company, IT is thought of as a cost.
They often don't see the cost/benefit ratio or how IT HELPS them make money, they see it as an expense and a drain on the bottom line. And especially they don't understand that you will have to upgrade the technology from time to time. And when it is upgraded, it becomes a major expense and overhaul because it's been such a long time since the last one.
I would love to see a "day without IT." Turn off all the computer systems, phones, anything related to the IT department and let them see how much business gets done.
Microsoft has stated they will cease selling Windows XP as of June 30, 2008. When you can't buy new copies anymore, it's essentially dead, even if those of us who have it still use it for a while yet.
Oohhh...so you BOUGHT your copy.
Well, it's IMPOSSIBLE to find everyone who is illegally trading music. It's IMPOSSIBLE to stop every speeder. But they DO manage bringing charges against SOME who do. Never blow off a proposed law just because it's difficult to enforce. Because as stupid as the law is, it WILL net some poor saps who will either have to just up and pay the fines or have the funds to take it to the supreme court.
Laws like this need to be nipped in the bud. BEFORE they get passed so we don't have to spend the $$ to fight them back out of existence. This law is draconian and clearly unconstitutional--obviously this guy or one of his big donors has their panties in a wad over something said anonymously about them and it just frosts them that they can't find out who it is.
And lawmakers like this one need to be nipped in the bud and tossed out of office.
How about someone who's been around for a while but does want to learn, who likes to learn new things, who wants to get their hands dirty and likes to solve problems? Would you hire someone like that?
Ditto. I have been working contract for over 5 years now (some of these contracts lasted 9 months to a year so I haven't been looking consistently during those periods.) My previous contract job was supposed to go perm. My supervisor loved me--we even had tickets to travel to the home office in the UK the next month. It was my dream job. But then, her boss nixed the deal making the excuse that he wanted someone with supervisory experience (there was no one to supervise). After offering the job to two others, who turned it down flat because it didn't pay enough, he then re-arranged the job and dropped the salary by 10-12K and hired a fresh-out. Personally I never thought it had to do with managerial or supervisor experience (that was never requested)--he probably decided he didn't want to pay a fee to the employment agency that I had been sent through. He just wanted something cheaper.
After that I tried for the full six months (and even prior to leaving the previous job) to get a full-time job. I did get several interviews and even some second interviews. I'm now working another contract job. The people love me. I would love to get on steady, but the problem is (as usual) I don't work for the guy that could make it happen. He lives in another state although he travels here frequently. It will depend on how much clout the people working for him have.
I had NEVER previously had this much trouble finding full-time work. I dress appropriately, am well-spoken and my salary requests are certainly in-line. My only take on all this is age discrimination is rampant. Which is why the IT shortage is a myth. There are plenty of skilled workers, but they don't WANT the good, but experienced ones. They rather have the young and CHEAP ones.
Most of the time you can forget looking at Monster or other job boards. HR who doesn't understand a bit from a byte, writes up these things like you're ordering a pizza. And if you don't have the matching skills, you're resume is going no where. Which means you'd have to lie to get through HR and find what qualities they REALLY need (risky) or you better know someone on the inside that has the ability to request your resume be sent through. The other problem is when you interview with people who are probably 15-20 years your junior. You can see the look on their face when you walk in.
I'm going to get radical and suggest that this may be the fault of bad teaching practices. If the students were simply uploading homework or test answers, as there have been cases of, that would be one thing. But I'm suspecting that this teacher is taking umbrage because it's showing how many of his students are not learning in his class and having to go for outside help. And possibly that the outside help is doing a better job than he is.
Too many college professors are not actually *teaching*. They may stand up for five minutes and then hand the class over to a graduate student while they go work on their next book. And while the professor may certainly know their field, they may not be all that good at showing others how they got there. The problem is most of the professors that are doing this have tenure. There is not guarantee of a job in the real world--there should be no guarantee of one at the University either.
Unfortunately the youthful student often gets intimidated when it should be the other way around. Students: You (or your parents) are PAYING these professors to TEACH you. You shouldn't feel like you have to kiss their ass just to be there. You have to do your part: You have to bring ability and the drive to work at it, including coming to class and paying attention. But they also have a part in this contract--they're supposed to be TEACHING you, not throwing a book at you, saying, "Read this and do problems 1-10."
Until the students AND the parents stand up and demand a better system, they are going to be a piss-poor education and ridiculous charges like this. That diploma isn't going to be worth the parchment costs if you can't perform the actual work once you get out. And if you have to get together so you can teach each other, why are you having to pay $$$ to get hassled over it?
"However the team have warned about potential privacy issues in the future when scanning techniques improve. 'It is possible that decoding brain activity could have serious ethical and privacy implications downstream in, say, the 30 to 50-year time frame,' said Prof Gallant. '[We] believe strongly that no one should be subjected to any form of brain-reading process involuntarily, covertly, or without complete informed consent.'"
And yet they invented it anyway. I guess you could use it to study how the brain processes images, but for the life of me I can't think of a truly beneficial, non-evil application.
It never ceases to amuse me how McCain supporters will paint Clinton & Obama as hardcore Democrats and call McCain a moderate conservative while Clinton & Obama supporters paint McCain as a hardcore Republican and argue their candidate being a moderate liberal. Because they know the moderate will garner the most votes. I guess one thing they're split on should be the war though if McCain's smart, he'll promise to remain strong in our fight yet distance himself from Bush's attitude towards it (somehow).
Exactly, it's shaping up to be an election between dumb and dumber (you choose which is which). McCain trying to pull off the conservative act would be laughable if he wasn't the nominee. He's been a RINO (Republican in name only) for years. Which begs the question...if being conservative or moderate is important for support, why don't they RUN an acutal conservative (Republican) vs. an actual moderate (Democrat). Basically it's going to be: Do you want an Democrat president that will pull our troops out of the war or do you want one who won't?
And I remember seeing Ernst Haeckel's faked drawings of embryonic development and hearing how we looked no different from any other animal in early development.
Not to mention that chart those of us from the 1960's and previous remember of ancient man to modern going from something chimp-like looking less and less ape-like as we "progressed." When in fact, with modern techniques, it's been shown there was little difference.
I hear some chuckles about people having a extended problem with DST changes. However, I really do have a problem when we "fall back" in the winter. It takes me weeks to get used to it. I tend to wake up around the same time every morning (before the alarm goes off) so I wonder if some of us are just more in tune with an internal time clock. I'm also naturally a "night owl" (although I can't usally keep those hours unless I'm taking time off.) So I've wondered if that had anything to do with it....
It's also a pain if you're dealing overseas--unfortunately other countries have been infected with changing clocks...but now we changed our dates so everyone's changing them on different days.
You're making the flawed assumption that for anything agreed to in a contract, any circumstancial evidence or means of verifying it is implicitly ok. Just because the contract with my landlord says I can't do certain things doesn't mean he can set up video surveilance in the apartment or lock himself in and search it any time he wants to. Some random guy on the street can't get me evicted just by making an accusation. The ISPs don't know, don't want to know, shouldn't know and what you're seeing is nothing other than trying to force the landlord into being the moral police. If you can't see the difference between "If you get caught smoking pot in the apartment I'll evict you" and "I get to rummage through your belongings looking for any hidden pot stash at any time" or think one implies the other, I hope you never get to enforce any such mandate. Or at least I want to slap you with a fat lawsuit if you do.
Yes but the internet is a lot less solid as a far as laws go because cases are only now being tested in the courts. How many people are going to sue for getting kicked off one ISP? Chances are they'll just find another ISP. It becomes a matter of picking your battles. OTOH if you found the landlord had installed video surveillance inside your apartment, you would not only sue the apartment owners and the landlord, but the landlord would get arrested.
Of course, just keep in mind (in the US) if they someone rummages through your trash you put in the dumpster or left out for pickup, and finds some leftover pot stash, you'd have no grounds to sue or expectation of privacy. They can even legally get your DNA from a tossed cigarette butt or cup. (IANAL--I just watch a lot of CourtTV.)
I wonder if it wasn't just substituted. Back in the day I took my Commodore 64 in for repairs. The just took mine and gave me another refurbished system. That's probably what happened here, unless he can see it's the same serial You can't tell anything from the photos to verify that's the same case which has just been scrubbed. Personally, I don't know why he would ship this off--if you've got something that's valuable (at least to you) you don't ship it off to Norman Numbnuts at the repair shop. In fact, why would you even use that machine for playing? Buy another and put this one on a shelf.
Usually such things are only valued as the price of the machine, so if he got a working machine back, that's likely all they'll be liable for.
I suspect we just disagree about at what age a child is ready to be independent from his/her parents.
I suspect our disagreement comes from actual cultural differences. Children in your country may mature faster--in some countries they have to. Back during WWII and if you look throughout our history children used to mature faster, marry earlier, etc. They were expected to take on more responsibility. You didn't have a lot of leisure time to spend getting into trouble. And there was no special treatment of juveniles in the justice system until the 20th century. Now, in the US, kids have more leisure time and very little real responsibility.
And yes, there are some children that are very responsible, but there are a LOT who are not, even after they turn adults. (Just check out any beach during spring break.) Most of these kids act like they've never had to deal with any consequences from home, so now law enforcement, or their employer has to be the one that interjects how the real world works and btw it doesn't revolve around them any more. Parents who think they've finally finished their duties find the kids found it way too cozy in their parents' nice, big house and when they find out how much a tiny apartment costs, they run back home. They go into debt and have no determination, drive or patience to realize you can't have it all right now.
I am amazed that anyone is falling for the internet as a criminal nest nonsense.
The problem is the guy's in law enforcement. All law enforcement people have a very us vs. them mentality and so everyone is a potential criminal. I guess you have to be that way to make sure you come home every day, but it's definitely warps your view of the public. Especially in this day and age where they ride in an air conditioned cruiser and so only deal with (mostly) the criminal element rather than walking a beat and getting to know the public in general.
....tie a string around it, throw it round the corner and wait. Have a large net handy as they spook easily.
First of all it would have been helpful if you defined what language(s) your "superstar" needs to know and where your company was located. You might just find that person here. But you're probably going to have to get your hands dirty and network. Start by talking to some of the people you have in your company now that you respect--they're you're best source for new employees.
Monster and Dice are not really the way to go--I can assert this from a job seeking position. Usually the listings look like an pizza order than a serious quest for a real person. That's likely because it's done by HR and/or managers and they just throw everything, but the kitchen sink as a requirement which turns off the ones who are truly gifted, but are good because they specialize in knowing a few languages well instead of a little bit of everything. Plus if they are really all that good, they can quickly pick up on any oddball need your company happens to have. Unfortunately, those are the ones who'll probably get filtered out by HR because they're just scanning for key words.