speak English, very often better than USians or even British people (gramatically speaking, the accent is a completely different matter,
I really don't care if the grammar is better or worse. What I care about is being able to understand my coworkers. Super-thick accents and cultural blocks get in the way of that.
I think it is an eye opener for us to see that, no you dont need 90K to survive and have a great life.
Yes you do. If you live in San Francisco or Silly Valley, then 90k is the going rate. You need that to pay rent and groceries.
We think just because we are American that that entitles us to higher pay than the rest of the world.
We have a higher cost of living so, yes, we need more money to maintain our lifestyle. I see no reason to live like someone in the 3rd world just to assuage your guilt.
Has anyone considered the cost to aquire and hold H1-B1 papers for a overseas worker? What about when the contract is up? The company is responsible to return the worker, who pays for that?
Who cares? H1-Bs are supposed to be paid the prevailing wage, not used as cheap labor. That's part of why getting foreign workers is a pain - we have a bias towards hiring locally, as we should.
My point is, you may have a 3.2 from Stanford, but HR's resume in-boxes are filled with Stanford(or CMU, or MIT, or fill_in_your_good_school) grads *with practical experience*.
I guess I wasn't clear - I have a 3.34 from RPI and several years experience. I'm not hurting by any stretch.
A B-average became a bad thing right after they fired everyone with C-averages in 2002.
Depends on the school. I pulled a 3.8 at GMU with minimal effort while doing a 25hr/week job. I then went to RPI, worked like a dog and had no job. I got a 3.34 there; a 3.2 at stanford or CMU beats a 3.8 most other places.
Unfortunately the world's governments have colluded to issue money backed not by gold, silver, or something else humans across the world hold to be valuable, but rather by nothing more than a government promise.
I've got news for you: Gold has no intrinsic value. Money is simply a way to facilitate barter, nothing more.
How is that? There's offer, (possible) acceptance, and consideration. Since there's no meeting of the minds, it may be viewed as a blanket offer that anybody is entitled to accept, but it sure looks like a contract to me.
developers were liable for their bugs, cells that were emptied because of the glitch wouldn't stay empty very long.
I'll take responsibility for my errors so long as I am paid enough to buy E&O insurance. You Also need to prove that it was my errors, not a failure in requirements, as it was this time.
It often does though, and is discovered by someone who reports it to the police / social workers etc, because it caused a problem, either for someones child, themselves or because they were being a general nuisance.
Or someone reported their neighbor's kid for smoking a J in the back yard because they didn't like them. If drug laws weren't so batshit insane, I might believe you.
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In all the "we are playing god" arguments that I've heard, I ask "where in the Bible/Talmud/Torah/Qur'an does it say 'Ye shall not create life'?".
Dunno about specific verses, but Judeo Christian dogma seems pretty adamant that trying to put yourself on a level with God is a serious sin, basically what Lucifer did. Creating life may be viewed as an example of that; personally, I don't care. I want to see how we do.
Are you sure you are not one of these policically correct fools busily picking up "white man's burden"?
I'm confused - we aren't operating any colonies in Africa anymore, right? White man's burden refers to colonists trying to help the native people they rule - no matter what you do for them, they hate you for ruling them.
Condoms cause AIDS. Most of the links I found talk about the Catholic church refusing to consider using condoms in the face of AIDS, but this one quotes a bishop saying the fateful line.
Can you tow a camper, boat or trailer with your little 1.6L engine? How about hauling 2,000 lbs worth of gear? Can you fit 8 people comfortably in your VW? Believe it or not some of us actually use a full size SUV for something other than commuting in on a regular basis.
And the point is that most people don't do any of that, or else do it rarely. How often do you drag 8 people around? Maybe that's in your weekly routine, but most people aren't like that. A lot of them are happy to drive 2 cars once a week instead of driving a huge SUV every day.
They'll insist, insist mind you, that the harmful effects due to the waste are exaggerated. "It's all Hype!" they'll say. "Oil and Coal are worse" they'll say.
Well, the waste is fairly contained, can be partially reprocessed, and contained. The worst isotopes in nuclear waste burn out in a number of decades, so the 10,000 year storage problem is more a matter of storing stuff with a half life of 100yr+. A nuke plant will also emit less radiation than an equivalent coal plant, and all that radiation is centralized, instead of spread throughout the atmosphere.
They mightn't be the most neutral organisation in the world, but it'll be interesting to see which they think is worse.
Why, because they're a big name? If they've lost their objectivity, then there's no point in listening.
As damaging as the Chernobyl desaster was, the cost of human life was relatively low. Radiation isn't the boogyman people make it out to be.
That must be why you're not allowed off the roads near the plant and you need a pass to even get within several miles of it. The cost of human life at the chernobyl disaster was rather high - you're probably looking at 10s of thousands of lives cut short by cancer. The good news is that's about the absolute worst design in current operation, and even that one required the safety measures to be circumvented.
With what? A truck? You can fly a plane into the cooling tower of a reactor and all you'll do is leave a stain. The terrorist threat is vastly overstated.
With five civilizations, this is already greater than the initial possibilities in chess. It grows far more rapidly from this, as you have choices of what to research, what to build, where to place cities, how much to research, etc. and there are also random events.
What I'd like to see is an AI that can formulate strategies and then use those strategies to prune their search space. Basically, say "I'm going to expand for awhile, how can this piece contribute?".
This simply isn't true, as far as i know. For SMAC atleast, on the first two difficulty levels the computer actually put the AI at the disadvantage and gave the human a lead. Then theres a middle difficulty where it's completely even. Then, only on the last two difficulty settings did the computer actually get the upper hand (the same upper hand that the person gets on the easy difficulty setting).
I don't know specifics for AC, but in Civ2, 3 there's a lot more collaboration between computer civs. This shows up a lot when it comes to technology - if all the civs trade tech whenever they can, you'll be left behind unless you do the same.
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speak English, very often better than USians or even British people (gramatically speaking, the accent is a completely different matter,
I really don't care if the grammar is better or worse. What I care about is being able to understand my coworkers. Super-thick accents and cultural blocks get in the way of that.
Good luck- in the current job market that is no longer possible. EVERYBODY is replaceable according to HR.
More to the point, HR is willing to dispense with you even if you're indispensible, even if it endangers the company's survival.
I think it is an eye opener for us to see that, no you dont need 90K to survive and have a great life.
Yes you do. If you live in San Francisco or Silly Valley, then 90k is the going rate. You need that to pay rent and groceries.
We think just because we are American that that entitles us to higher pay than the rest of the world.
We have a higher cost of living so, yes, we need more money to maintain our lifestyle. I see no reason to live like someone in the 3rd world just to assuage your guilt.
Has anyone considered the cost to aquire and hold H1-B1 papers for a overseas worker? What about when the contract is up? The company is responsible to return the worker, who pays for that?
Who cares? H1-Bs are supposed to be paid the prevailing wage, not used as cheap labor. That's part of why getting foreign workers is a pain - we have a bias towards hiring locally, as we should.
My point is, you may have a 3.2 from Stanford, but HR's resume in-boxes are filled with Stanford(or CMU, or MIT, or fill_in_your_good_school) grads *with practical experience*.
I guess I wasn't clear - I have a 3.34 from RPI and several years experience. I'm not hurting by any stretch.
Last time I checked, the metal gold had many uses, as well as being realively scarce.
Thus, it is only valuable because it is useful. The Gold currency brigade forget this.
A B-average became a bad thing right after they fired everyone with C-averages in 2002.
Depends on the school. I pulled a 3.8 at GMU with minimal effort while doing a 25hr/week job. I then went to RPI, worked like a dog and had no job. I got a 3.34 there; a 3.2 at stanford or CMU beats a 3.8 most other places.
Unfortunately the world's governments have colluded to issue money backed not by gold, silver, or something else humans across the world hold to be valuable, but rather by nothing more than a government promise.
I've got news for you: Gold has no intrinsic value. Money is simply a way to facilitate barter, nothing more.
It's a contract in an abstract meaning of the word, like you might say "social contract", but in (US) legal terminology, the difference is important.
I was using what I thought of as the commonly accepted definition of a contract. Again, how is the GPL not a contract?
the GPL is not a contract
How is that? There's offer, (possible) acceptance, and consideration. Since there's no meeting of the minds, it may be viewed as a blanket offer that anybody is entitled to accept, but it sure looks like a contract to me.
developers were liable for their bugs, cells that were emptied because of the glitch wouldn't stay empty very long.
I'll take responsibility for my errors so long as I am paid enough to buy E&O insurance. You Also need to prove that it was my errors, not a failure in requirements, as it was this time.
It often does though, and is discovered by someone who reports it to the police / social workers etc, because it caused a problem, either for someones child, themselves or because they were being a general nuisance.
Or someone reported their neighbor's kid for smoking a J in the back yard because they didn't like them. If drug laws weren't so batshit insane, I might believe you.
In all the "we are playing god" arguments that I've heard, I ask "where in the Bible/Talmud/Torah/Qur'an does it say 'Ye shall not create life'?".
Dunno about specific verses, but Judeo Christian dogma seems pretty adamant that trying to put yourself on a level with God is a serious sin, basically what Lucifer did. Creating life may be viewed as an example of that; personally, I don't care. I want to see how we do.
Or generates hydrogen from sun and water.
Um, yeah. Water + Heat = H2 + O2.
it takes light from even the nearest star years to reach us
Umm, 8 minutes, actually.
Hm, "White Man's Burden" is different things depending on who you ask.
I ask Rudyard Kipling. After all, he coined the term.
Are you sure you are not one of these policically correct fools busily picking up "white man's burden"?
I'm confused - we aren't operating any colonies in Africa anymore, right? White man's burden refers to colonists trying to help the native people they rule - no matter what you do for them, they hate you for ruling them.
Condoms cause AIDS. Most of the links I found talk about the Catholic church refusing to consider using condoms in the face of AIDS, but this one quotes a bishop saying the fateful line.
Actually, drugs for HIV are so expensive that most people in the poor countries can't afford them, and there's an AIDS epidemy in Africa!
Like there's only one reason...
So really, I wish AIDS was the worst thing they had to deal with.
Can you tow a camper, boat or trailer with your little 1.6L engine? How about hauling 2,000 lbs worth of gear? Can you fit 8 people comfortably in your VW? Believe it or not some of us actually use a full size SUV for something other than commuting in on a regular basis.
And the point is that most people don't do any of that, or else do it rarely. How often do you drag 8 people around? Maybe that's in your weekly routine, but most people aren't like that. A lot of them are happy to drive 2 cars once a week instead of driving a huge SUV every day.
They'll insist, insist mind you, that the harmful effects due to the waste are exaggerated. "It's all Hype!" they'll say. "Oil and Coal are worse" they'll say.
Well, the waste is fairly contained, can be partially reprocessed, and contained. The worst isotopes in nuclear waste burn out in a number of decades, so the 10,000 year storage problem is more a matter of storing stuff with a half life of 100yr+. A nuke plant will also emit less radiation than an equivalent coal plant, and all that radiation is centralized, instead of spread throughout the atmosphere.
They mightn't be the most neutral organisation in the world, but it'll be interesting to see which they think is worse.
Why, because they're a big name? If they've lost their objectivity, then there's no point in listening.
As damaging as the Chernobyl desaster was, the cost of human life was relatively low. Radiation isn't the boogyman people make it out to be.
That must be why you're not allowed off the roads near the plant and you need a pass to even get within several miles of it. The cost of human life at the chernobyl disaster was rather high - you're probably looking at 10s of thousands of lives cut short by cancer. The good news is that's about the absolute worst design in current operation, and even that one required the safety measures to be circumvented.What if a terrorist bombs the reactor?
With what? A truck? You can fly a plane into the cooling tower of a reactor and all you'll do is leave a stain. The terrorist threat is vastly overstated.
With five civilizations, this is already greater than the initial possibilities in chess. It grows far more rapidly from this, as you have choices of what to research, what to build, where to place cities, how much to research, etc. and there are also random events.
What I'd like to see is an AI that can formulate strategies and then use those strategies to prune their search space. Basically, say "I'm going to expand for awhile, how can this piece contribute?".
This simply isn't true, as far as i know. For SMAC atleast, on the first two difficulty levels the computer actually put the AI at the disadvantage and gave the human a lead. Then theres a middle difficulty where it's completely even. Then, only on the last two difficulty settings did the computer actually get the upper hand (the same upper hand that the person gets on the easy difficulty setting).
I don't know specifics for AC, but in Civ2, 3 there's a lot more collaboration between computer civs. This shows up a lot when it comes to technology - if all the civs trade tech whenever they can, you'll be left behind unless you do the same.