Some of the Pennsylvania public schools are in really deep doot at the moment, to the point that the per-student cost of public school in some cities (which is, of course, paid through tax levies) is TWICE that of any private school, and the kids still have abysmal skills. And despite the huge spending, some principals have been reduced to asking parents to donate toilet paper, as they don't have money left in the budget.
I suppose the city administrator could always claim that of course he's a moron, he went to PA public schools....
I, too, was a bit disappointed by the second Amber series, but let's cut Roger a little slack. If I recall correctly, it was supposed to be only three books. I think he ran against two problems that caused the work to suffer: 1) it was obvious that Merlin's story wasn't going to fit into three books, and 2) Zelazny knew he was dying and hadn't a lot of time to finish.
Yeah, not as good as the first series, but not a bad read overall. (Of course, he's in my Top Three Authors of the 20th Century, so I'm biased.)
Tripping the Rift...hooo, boy, that's going to be interesting.
Enjoyable things are addictive! Like sports...taking walks...shopping...sex!
Hoooo, boy, I can't wait until the attorneys start on that last one. What would happen? Well, all men would have to get a warning label tattooed on their penes. Women would need shrink-wrapped abdomens with a tag saying "Do Not Use If Seal Is Broken." We'd have to clearly label all vibrating machinery (including the clothes washer) so that people will be warned that they shouldn't abuse them. Those who are socially inept, shy, or mentally unstable (Everquest players, if you believe this man's mother) would be required to wear boxing gloves to discourage illicit joy.
We dare not go a-hunting for fear of little lawyers....
Actually, she didn't resign rather than change the grades. The school board overturned her grades rather than make her do it.
She resigned shortly after she went into the class and the 28 students basically taunted her, saying that they didn't have to do anything she said. So I guess they learned something after all. (I have the article hanging in my cubicle, but I'm at home right now.)
And these same people are no doubt baffled by how Enron could ever have happened.
Hey, my wife's been pinging me all day about the chores, and I still haven't answered. But then, I'm exactly nine years older than the satellite, so I'm entitled.
As an officer of the court aren't the lawyers supposed to try to tell the truth?
I don't think the lawyers are officers of the court. The court is part of the judicial system. The prosecuting attorneys (those not part of DoJ, anyway) would be in the executive branch. The defense attorneys aren't part of anything but their paychecks.
At any rate, lawyers in a case do not testify. As such, they're not under oath and thus cannot, by definition, commit perjury.
I'm sure the MS guy knows these guys are on a tight budget. It may be that he's asking in the hopes that MS will be able to provide the necessary software (and possibly hardware) gratis...in exchange, of course, for the bragging rights, and possibly use of anything neat they discover or invent.
It may be less of a sales job than an investment in publicity and tax deductions.
"I always thought that the scientific view would be to let the results of solid research speak for themselves."
Me too. Then Kansas decided that all the results of solid research were a liberal plot and said that solid science doesn't have to be taught in a public school if the locals think it's bullshit.
That's bound to make anyone a bit touchy, doncha think?
"On the other hand, according to a friend that went to Rice University in Houston, "open container" laws are a completely alien concept in Texas, where a bunch of college students can sit in the back of a moving pickup (illegal in the Northeast in and of itself) and drink to their heart's content."
In that case, the open container is the pickup itself.
Each of the fifty states has its own rules for licensing of drivers and vehicles, although the federal government forces states to honor licenses from other states. (Same for marriages. And it's easier to get married than to get licensed to drive where I live.:)
Each state also has its own legislation for maximum speeds, school zones, rules-o-da-road, and drunk driving definitions. Most states (possibly all, I'm not sure) have a limit on blood alcohol content (BAC) of no more than 0.1. My state uses 0.08, and a few are even lower, or trying to get lower, which would put them on par with the British limits. There are no federal regulations on this, but if the feds decide they want something done, they make it "voluntary" but withhold funding for other projects from non-compliant states unless a certain percentage of all states comply. (This has caused a lot of arguments on states' rights.)
The penalties are not as severe as the British penalties in any state with which I'm familiar. There's also some variance among localities as to how diligently the police enforce such things.
"To some people meat tastes bad in the same way some people don't like vegetables."
I'm one of them. But in any case, I'd have to say it's better than placenta stew. Recipes available on web (really). It's acceptable because no harm is deliberately done to the animal. The recipe I read suggested using only your own placenta, though.
Not long ago, I was interviewed for the "Ask the Headhunter" column in EETimes. (Yep, there goes the cowardly anonymity....) The interview pertained mainly to finding and keeping a good job.
One of the questions asked why looking for jobs on the web doesn't seem to work. My answer was because it doesn't work for employers. Sifting through all those resumes takes a lot of time and money, usually for very little return.
Resume spamming is one of the reasons why. Poorly conceived resumes are another. My experience has been that anyone who thinks spamming is a good idea almost inevitably has a badly done resume. And absolutely nobody is going to go to the expense of an interview if you can't write a good one.
All employers want to know is what you can do for them. If they have an opening, they have a problem they need solved. Can you solve it? You have about a half a page to convince them that you can. Face it, hiring managers spend less than a minute reading any given resume. Most don't get to the bottom half UNLESS the top half gets their attention (in a good way). This is required for ANY resume, not just e-mailed versions.
Spammers don't seem to understand that sending form letters to the planet shows exactly the opposite. It says that they're too lazy to do any real work. If they can't be bothered to learn about my company, why should I hire them? Even on contract? No company will do that. No, instead they take the "mass market" approach. Snail-mail marketing is considered a wild success if there's a 1% response. E-mail spam won't get you that much.
Alas, the same cerebral flaw that causes people to think spamming is a good idea will also prevent them from learning anything from this message, this board, or even the copious mail they get from their targets.
In a lot of ways, this is like a gambling addiction. "I only have to win once. Just one more try...."
gm (sorry for the bandwidth, but I used to be a hiring manager. THOUSANDS of those cheesy resumes crossed my desk)
"For instance they give you an email address that can _only_ be accessed by using microsoft software."
I'm not convinced that even MS software will work. My father-in-law was on Qwest, and they switched him to MSN. (He didn't think it was that critical. He really should have asked me first....) He uses Netscape mainly, but has Outlook loaded in the system. Qwest/MSN sent him info so he could set up his system for MSN.
Of course, it didn't work with Netscape. Oddly, it didn't work with Outlook, either! Ayup, MSN apparently doesn't know how get MS software to connect to MSN. He called the so-called help line 8 times, and 6 times the guy on the other end said he wasn't aware of any switchover.
"Well, sweetie, when I was a kid, we like to listen to music, just like you do. We had these little vinyl disks with a big groove scratched on it. We'd put it on a special machine with a sharp needle, and then we'd spin the disk around at low speed and great music would come out."
"Riiiiiiiiiight, Daddy, pull the other one. I'm gonna go download some N'Britney to my skateboard....."
You know, they didn't seem worried about copy protection when I was a kid.
gm
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How do we get to all that powdered caffeine??!??
OOooooooh, yeah......
anyone who goes to that much trouble almost deserves to get away with it. :)
Almost. But anyone stupid enough to believe something so obstensibly bogus certainly deserves to be taken.
Some of the Pennsylvania public schools are in really deep doot at the moment, to the point that the per-student cost of public school in some cities (which is, of course, paid through tax levies) is TWICE that of any private school, and the kids still have abysmal skills. And despite the huge spending, some principals have been reduced to asking parents to donate toilet paper, as they don't have money left in the budget.
I suppose the city administrator could always claim that of course he's a moron, he went to PA public schools....
They need to be shot into the moon with lawyers.
Clarify something for me. Does this mean that we're sending bureaucrats and lawyers to the moon? Or will we be using the lawyers as the rocket fuel?
Mind you, either one works for me....
I, too, was a bit disappointed by the second Amber series, but let's cut Roger a little slack. If I recall correctly, it was supposed to be only three books. I think he ran against two problems that caused the work to suffer: 1) it was obvious that Merlin's story wasn't going to fit into three books, and 2) Zelazny knew he was dying and hadn't a lot of time to finish.
Yeah, not as good as the first series, but not a bad read overall. (Of course, he's in my Top Three Authors of the 20th Century, so I'm biased.)
Tripping the Rift...hooo, boy, that's going to be interesting.
gm
Enjoyable things are addictive! Like sports...taking walks...shopping...sex!
Hoooo, boy, I can't wait until the attorneys start on that last one. What would happen? Well, all men would have to get a warning label tattooed on their penes. Women would need shrink-wrapped abdomens with a tag saying "Do Not Use If Seal Is Broken." We'd have to clearly label all vibrating machinery (including the clothes washer) so that people will be warned that they shouldn't abuse them. Those who are socially inept, shy, or mentally unstable (Everquest players, if you believe this man's mother) would be required to wear boxing gloves to discourage illicit joy.
We dare not go a-hunting for fear of little lawyers....
Try wiping your butt with a PDA. You'll experience new-found admiration for PAPER!
Walk into Rufus McHooter's.
Yell "Harleys suck ass and I'm doing your woman!"
Less money, much more realistic effect.
Actually, she didn't resign rather than change the grades. The school board overturned her grades rather than make her do it.
She resigned shortly after she went into the class and the 28 students basically taunted her, saying that they didn't have to do anything she said. So I guess they learned something after all. (I have the article hanging in my cubicle, but I'm at home right now.)
And these same people are no doubt baffled by how Enron could ever have happened.
gm
Perhaps they should hire a Karma Whore and try to get their ratings up.
Hey, my wife's been pinging me all day about the chores, and I still haven't answered. But then, I'm exactly nine years older than the satellite, so I'm entitled.
gm (won't look so good with so many miles on me)
Thanks.
As an officer of the court aren't the lawyers supposed to try to tell the truth?
I don't think the lawyers are officers of the court. The court is part of the judicial system. The prosecuting attorneys (those not part of DoJ, anyway) would be in the executive branch. The defense attorneys aren't part of anything but their paychecks.
At any rate, lawyers in a case do not testify. As such, they're not under oath and thus cannot, by definition, commit perjury.
gm
...you gotta watch.
:)
Hmmm...but then, maybe we have him to blame for all the tittilation about which an earlier post complained.
gm
I'm sure the MS guy knows these guys are on a tight budget. It may be that he's asking in the hopes that MS will be able to provide the necessary software (and possibly hardware) gratis...in exchange, of course, for the bragging rights, and possibly use of anything neat they discover or invent.
It may be less of a sales job than an investment in publicity and tax deductions.
gm
"I always thought that the scientific view would be to let the results of solid research speak for themselves."
Me too. Then Kansas decided that all the results of solid research were a liberal plot and said that solid science doesn't have to be taught in a public school if the locals think it's bullshit.
That's bound to make anyone a bit touchy, doncha think?
"On the other hand, according to a friend that went to Rice University in Houston, "open container" laws are a completely alien concept in Texas, where a bunch of college students can sit in the back of a moving pickup (illegal in the Northeast in and of itself) and drink to their heart's content."
In that case, the open container is the pickup itself.
Each of the fifty states has its own rules for licensing of drivers and vehicles, although the federal government forces states to honor licenses from other states. (Same for marriages. And it's easier to get married than to get licensed to drive where I live. :)
Each state also has its own legislation for maximum speeds, school zones, rules-o-da-road, and drunk driving definitions. Most states (possibly all, I'm not sure) have a limit on blood alcohol content (BAC) of no more than 0.1. My state uses 0.08, and a few are even lower, or trying to get lower, which would put them on par with the British limits. There are no federal regulations on this, but if the feds decide they want something done, they make it "voluntary" but withhold funding for other projects from non-compliant states unless a certain percentage of all states comply. (This has caused a lot of arguments on states' rights.)
The penalties are not as severe as the British penalties in any state with which I'm familiar. There's also some variance among localities as to how diligently the police enforce such things.
Oh, as if the Internet doesn't already look like it's populated exclusively by websurfing monkeys. :)
"To some people meat tastes bad in the same way some people don't like vegetables."
I'm one of them. But in any case, I'd have to say it's better than placenta stew. Recipes available on web (really). It's acceptable because no harm is deliberately done to the animal. The recipe I read suggested using only your own placenta, though.
gm
Not long ago, I was interviewed for the "Ask the Headhunter" column in EETimes. (Yep, there goes the cowardly anonymity....) The interview pertained mainly to finding and keeping a good job.
One of the questions asked why looking for jobs on the web doesn't seem to work. My answer was because it doesn't work for employers. Sifting through all those resumes takes a lot of time and money, usually for very little return.
Resume spamming is one of the reasons why. Poorly conceived resumes are another. My experience has been that anyone who thinks spamming is a good idea almost inevitably has a badly done resume. And absolutely nobody is going to go to the expense of an interview if you can't write a good one.
All employers want to know is what you can do for them. If they have an opening, they have a problem they need solved. Can you solve it? You have about a half a page to convince them that you can. Face it, hiring managers spend less than a minute reading any given resume. Most don't get to the bottom half UNLESS the top half gets their attention (in a good way). This is required for ANY resume, not just e-mailed versions.
Spammers don't seem to understand that sending form letters to the planet shows exactly the opposite. It says that they're too lazy to do any real work. If they can't be bothered to learn about my company, why should I hire them? Even on contract? No company will do that. No, instead they take the "mass market" approach. Snail-mail marketing is considered a wild success if there's a 1% response. E-mail spam won't get you that much.
Alas, the same cerebral flaw that causes people to think spamming is a good idea will also prevent them from learning anything from this message, this board, or even the copious mail they get from their targets.
In a lot of ways, this is like a gambling addiction. "I only have to win once. Just one more try...."
gm (sorry for the bandwidth, but I used to be a hiring manager. THOUSANDS of those cheesy resumes crossed my desk)
"Try putting them through an experiment in an environment secure & devoid of radio activity (say, a bunker somewhere with a guassian cage around it)"
1 Place electrically sensitive subjects in a gaussian cage bunker.
2 Lock it.
3 Leave.
If you're a stickler for proper scientific method, feel free to check on them when you're sure they are too old to further pollute the gene pool.
"For instance they give you an email address that can _only_ be accessed by using microsoft software."
I'm not convinced that even MS software will work. My father-in-law was on Qwest, and they switched him to MSN. (He didn't think it was that critical. He really should have asked me first....) He uses Netscape mainly, but has Outlook loaded in the system. Qwest/MSN sent him info so he could set up his system for MSN.
Of course, it didn't work with Netscape. Oddly, it didn't work with Outlook, either! Ayup, MSN apparently doesn't know how get MS software to connect to MSN. He called the so-called help line 8 times, and 6 times the guy on the other end said he wasn't aware of any switchover.
FIL's on Hotmail now.
gm
(it's like a broken record - no pun intended)
"Daddy, what's a record?"
"Well, sweetie, when I was a kid, we like to listen to music, just like you do. We had these little vinyl disks with a big groove scratched on it. We'd put it on a special machine with a sharp needle, and then we'd spin the disk around at low speed and great music would come out."
"Riiiiiiiiiight, Daddy, pull the other one. I'm gonna go download some N'Britney to my skateboard....."
You know, they didn't seem worried about copy protection when I was a kid. gm
Pints weigh more than remotes, you know.