Um, I took Algebra II in high school, and it was required.
In 1971.
When did the nimrods decide to ditch that? And in favor of what other requirements?
A few years after they ditched classic literature, which resulted in people using "nimrod" as a general purpose insult (it originally meant "mighty hunter", after the Biblical Nimrod; Bugs Bunny's use of the name for Elmer Fudd was sarcastic)
Anyway, when I went to HS in the late 1980's, you could get through with 2 "Basic Math" or "General Math" (a.k.a arithmetic) courses and that was it. But for Cowpie High, that was likely always the case.
Is this catchphrase a restatement of the "Necessary vs Sufficient" principles? So Algebra might be Necessary (on a percentage scale) but it is not Sufficient.
Algebra II could be neither necessary nor sufficient, but still correlated with success. For instance, it could be that kids who are able and/or motivated to take Algebra II are likely to be successful.
Wrath? What is this "wrath" you're talking about? Pirates don't scare anyone. Until someone gets killed, or an office gets firebombed, this "wrath" you're talking about will only elicit an amused chuckle.
I'm thinking more old school. As in, these guys might want to stay off the high seas for a while.
Patents expire all the time, as they still have relatively sane durations.
Too bad that whenever a computer changes form factor, you can get a new patent based on doing everything you did on the old form factor with the new form factor. So by the time the patent on game emulation "on a mobile device", we'll all be using some other sort of device. For the sake of argument say it's direct retinal projection; then Nintendo will just get a new patent on game emulation "on a device with a direct retinal projection display".
The Client from Hell is right; he didn't steal the website. He just committed breach of contract, and apparently by his own admission, fraud (by entering into the contract with no intention of actually paying).
Alright, I propose a better solution, how about we invent some imaginary matter with exotic properties permeating the space, but that can't be seen, which incidentally has exactly the right properties to fit the measured data?
That seems improbable. The Palestinians have all of 20k, access to the necessary materials, and the will to set off such a bomb, so why haven't they?
1: They're idiots. 2: They probably don't have access to the plutonium. 3: They probably don't have access to the engineering talent. Sure, Slashdot likes to troll us about how engineers are terrorists, but that doesn't mean good engineers are terrorists. 4: If they did nuke Israel, not only would they get fallout all over land they wanted, but whatever was left of the Israeli military would wipe them off the face of the map. Though they're crazy enough this might not stop them.
There was always one thing you could do with a real newspaper that you couldn't do with an iPad or a laptop, and that's train a puppy with it. With these rolled-up laptops, that limitation is gone.
The ones you need to worry about are the ones which are decaying rapidly, i.e. the ones with short half-lives.
The ones with very short half-lives are not so bad either, since they only need to be contained for a relatively short amount of time until they aren't dangerous anymore.
The worst are the ones with half-lives short enough that they're pretty energetic, long enough that they'll stick around, and which can bioaccumulate. Cesium-137 and Strontium-90, for instance. Or several plutonium isotopes.
But a MS teaches you some things you usually won't learn on your own or at least shows an employer you know more.
Can you be a little more concrete about what those things are? Because I've noticed an increasing demand for MS degrees in job ads, and as far as I can tell it's just a weed-out tactic. It's ridiculous for someone to spend to have to spend another two years of their life (after getting the BS, or worse, after having been working for years) getting an MS if there aren't concrete benefits that aren't just due to inappropriate weed-out tactics.
Yes and we should force all the doctors to work on actual cures and stop the surge into all this cosmetic plastic surgery nonsense. Plan the economy properly and we won't have any problems at all, ever.
A doctor who figures out a cure for AIDS is going to be expected to give it away at cost (or less) for the betterment of humanity, or be called a murderer or worse. A doctor who figures out a better way to do a nose job can charge whatever the market will bear.
That is not measly at all for a bachelors degree where you only stay in engineering and never move to management. That is actually the high end. You need a masters to deserve more than that.
Why would what you "deserve" depend on how many diplomas you've piled up? Anyway, I would guess the AC in question is living in the NYC area, where 75k really does suck.
The author is displaying his bias pretty heavily. He's a professional academic.
He's worse than that. He's a major advocate of bringing in foreign engineers on H-1B visas, thus depressing the salaries of engineers (which is an intended consequence of those visas -- as Alan Greenspan said, "Greatly expanding our quotas for the highly skilled would lower wage premiums over lesser skilled") and resulting in more of them engineers going into finance because that's where the money is.
I've never had someone convince me to sign my name to a lie. Did Countrywide use a gun, or did they just threaten to disappear his family unless he complied?
If you believe the article, they actually forged his signature. The prosecutor managed to obtain an inconsistent verdict (he was found guilty of mortgage fraud, but not of lying to the bank)
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Cobras can't feed cobras. Kittens can.
Maybe. But I'll bet there have been a few mysterious disappearances of the CRF-blockers. How many mouse doses does it take to treat a full professor?
IMO, we should get that done in K-8 education, as we used to. Or less.
A few years after they ditched classic literature, which resulted in people using "nimrod" as a general purpose insult (it originally meant "mighty hunter", after the Biblical Nimrod; Bugs Bunny's use of the name for Elmer Fudd was sarcastic)
Anyway, when I went to HS in the late 1980's, you could get through with 2 "Basic Math" or "General Math" (a.k.a arithmetic) courses and that was it. But for Cowpie High, that was likely always the case.
Algebra II could be neither necessary nor sufficient, but still correlated with success. For instance, it could be that kids who are able and/or motivated to take Algebra II are likely to be successful.
Sorry, that's why it has been so long in the making. The new model isn't called the "Kathy Bates" without a reason.
I'm thinking more old school. As in, these guys might want to stay off the high seas for a while.
Too bad that whenever a computer changes form factor, you can get a new patent based on doing everything you did on the old form factor with the new form factor. So by the time the patent on game emulation "on a mobile device", we'll all be using some other sort of device. For the sake of argument say it's direct retinal projection; then Nintendo will just get a new patent on game emulation "on a device with a direct retinal projection display".
The Client from Hell is right; he didn't steal the website. He just committed breach of contract, and apparently by his own admission, fraud (by entering into the contract with no intention of actually paying).
So it's a contemporary of the Lisa (introduced January 1983, so finished development in 1982 also), which didn't require a Unix host.
You have a Ph.D in Astrophysics, don't you?
1: They're idiots.
2: They probably don't have access to the plutonium.
3: They probably don't have access to the engineering talent. Sure, Slashdot likes to troll us about how engineers are terrorists, but that doesn't mean good engineers are terrorists.
4: If they did nuke Israel, not only would they get fallout all over land they wanted, but whatever was left of the Israeli military would wipe them off the face of the map. Though they're crazy enough this might not stop them.
You think that claim you posted is any better? The claim covers converting a single click into a double click when clicking on an icon.
More than an eighth. They've USEd the Skull of Mondain (losing an eighth in every category).
...a machine for turning ramen into "scientific output".
Yes. He wrote out the byte code to do it.
There was always one thing you could do with a real newspaper that you couldn't do with an iPad or a laptop, and that's train a puppy with it. With these rolled-up laptops, that limitation is gone.
The ones with very short half-lives are not so bad either, since they only need to be contained for a relatively short amount of time until they aren't dangerous anymore.
The worst are the ones with half-lives short enough that they're pretty energetic, long enough that they'll stick around, and which can bioaccumulate. Cesium-137 and Strontium-90, for instance. Or several plutonium isotopes.
A1: Because Alanis Morissette screwed it up forever.
A2: Because there are several types of irony, which are only loosely related to each other.
Can you be a little more concrete about what those things are? Because I've noticed an increasing demand for MS degrees in job ads, and as far as I can tell it's just a weed-out tactic. It's ridiculous for someone to spend to have to spend another two years of their life (after getting the BS, or worse, after having been working for years) getting an MS if there aren't concrete benefits that aren't just due to inappropriate weed-out tactics.
A doctor who figures out a cure for AIDS is going to be expected to give it away at cost (or less) for the betterment of humanity, or be called a murderer or worse. A doctor who figures out a better way to do a nose job can charge whatever the market will bear.
Why would what you "deserve" depend on how many diplomas you've piled up? Anyway, I would guess the AC in question is living in the NYC area, where 75k really does suck.
He's worse than that. He's a major advocate of bringing in foreign engineers on H-1B visas, thus depressing the salaries of engineers (which is an intended consequence of those visas -- as Alan Greenspan said, "Greatly expanding our quotas for the highly skilled would lower wage premiums over lesser skilled") and resulting in more of them engineers going into finance because that's where the money is.
For them, the picture will be of a coffin or an urn.
If you believe the article, they actually forged his signature. The prosecutor managed to obtain an inconsistent verdict (he was found guilty of mortgage fraud, but not of lying to the bank)