I understand perfectly well what the guidelines are for the awards. Unless you are sitting in with the committee as they make their selections, then their motivations are unknown to you.
When Columbus pulled into harbor that day in 1492, he had to wait for a berth as the docks were crowded with Vikings, Chinese, Egyptians, Phoenicians, Micronesians, and extraterrestrials.
Good for you. You recognized a potential dysfunction and prevented it from becoming a problem. But look at the larger picture from a female perspective. You hired a male who was going to mistreat your female peers in a negative way. 1. What percentage of the pool of potential male employees fits that profile? 2. What percentage of potential female employees are liable to come in and disrupt your company by mistreating their male peers?
Ballmer always struck me as a Gump-like character who accumulated wealth and thus influence through no talent of his own. He stumbled into Microsoft with no more to offer the world than a guy off the street who pulls a slot machine arm and wins a billion dollar jackpot. At least Forrest was likable.
"The vast, vast majority of tech engineers that I talked to who are from the United States are very supportive of bringing in people from other countries because they want to work with the very best."
Replace tech engineers with chemists or biochemists and that is absolutely not true.
...and then we publicized the hell out of it to make sure that the Chinese government would see it and crack down even harder on net access. But I got to write this paper and put it on my CV.
FFS, is this going to be another breathless article about how corporate email is going out to be replaced by Yammer or some other platform de jour? Because that shit is just a waste of time. When my corporation jumped on the Yammer train (no doubt after a fiery sales pitch by some consultant), I started to see - in my email inbox, ironically - the hourly Yammer feed. It was 95% comprised of threads started by upper management which had zero to do with my day's work and which accreted into long long long posts as middle and junior managers jumped in with witless 'great idea!!!!' comments. You could smell the fecal matter on their noses. The other 5% was actual information passing between business units I had no contact with or interest in. But I am sure that in the next year or so some bright MBA will be sold on the idea of abandoning email and transitioning over to whatever the kids are using that week so that instead of getting actual targeted communications in my inbox I will be deluged with useless bullshit.
Slashdot Mirror
a HIGH damage should they leak.
That's an interesting way to define millions of dollars in free publicity.
I know. The first time I went to school I could only afford to go to a small tech school in Cambridge. I hope to move up in the future.
I understand perfectly well what the guidelines are for the awards. Unless you are sitting in with the committee as they make their selections, then their motivations are unknown to you.
>undereducated followers
Wait. I have to go out and get another goddamn PhD before I can follow Randi?
The Nobel Prize is an arbitrary award given by a committee with motivations unknown to the public. It is taken way too seriously by everyone.
Another Chemistry Nobel award goes to physics researchers. May the besotted and cigarette-smoke wreathed shade of RB Woodward haunt the Committee.
When Columbus pulled into harbor that day in 1492, he had to wait for a berth as the docks were crowded with Vikings, Chinese, Egyptians, Phoenicians, Micronesians, and extraterrestrials.
Good for you. You recognized a potential dysfunction and prevented it from becoming a problem. But look at the larger picture from a female perspective. You hired a male who was going to mistreat your female peers in a negative way. 1. What percentage of the pool of potential male employees fits that profile? 2. What percentage of potential female employees are liable to come in and disrupt your company by mistreating their male peers?
Where did I specify that they were not related?
We are heading toward that good old English system of tipstaffs and sponging houses.
The major problems are going to be:
1. Too many people
2. Not enough fresh water
3. Not enough food
3 is a distant third.
How are things on Margo?
Government has no authority to prevent private individuals or business owners from coming to mutual agreements of any kind, including this.
Mr. Rockefeller, there is a Ted Roosevelt on line one.
the news media is ecstatic about this IPO despite widespread reporting on both bubbles having burst already.
How much money is going under the lunch table to reporters to generate this excitement?
Ballmer always struck me as a Gump-like character who accumulated wealth and thus influence through no talent of his own. He stumbled into Microsoft with no more to offer the world than a guy off the street who pulls a slot machine arm and wins a billion dollar jackpot. At least Forrest was likable.
The "walked it" down one of the roads from the stone quarries.
Did "Higher and Higher" work on solid stone as well as it did with hollow copper?
If you read the details of the story, it becomes quite a bit less sensational.
"The world will pay me one gazillion dollars or I will unleash a rapid unscheduled disassembly upon the moon!!!!"
"The vast, vast majority of tech engineers that I talked to who are from the United States are very supportive of bringing in people from other countries because they want to work with the very best." Replace tech engineers with chemists or biochemists and that is absolutely not true.
...and then we publicized the hell out of it to make sure that the Chinese government would see it and crack down even harder on net access. But I got to write this paper and put it on my CV.
I see John Cleese as Tim saying, "Look! I'm warning you!".
Does anyone have a script a customer can stick to when dealing with Comcast?
Actually, You Go would be a pretty decent browser name.
Microsoft Edsel
FFS, is this going to be another breathless article about how corporate email is going out to be replaced by Yammer or some other platform de jour? Because that shit is just a waste of time. When my corporation jumped on the Yammer train (no doubt after a fiery sales pitch by some consultant), I started to see - in my email inbox, ironically - the hourly Yammer feed. It was 95% comprised of threads started by upper management which had zero to do with my day's work and which accreted into long long long posts as middle and junior managers jumped in with witless 'great idea!!!!' comments. You could smell the fecal matter on their noses. The other 5% was actual information passing between business units I had no contact with or interest in. But I am sure that in the next year or so some bright MBA will be sold on the idea of abandoning email and transitioning over to whatever the kids are using that week so that instead of getting actual targeted communications in my inbox I will be deluged with useless bullshit.