Mr InsaneProcessor, you're living up to your name.
1. The roundness of the Earth was known by scientific minds no later than 270 B.C. By the time of Christopher Columbus and the like it was well-accepted fact that the Earth was spherical.
2. Evolution isn't considered the origin of life. It's considered the process by which the first few living cells produced all life as we know it.
3. There is experimental evidence that it was possible at least for life on Earth to originate without any divine intervention. For instance, the Miller Experiment.
4. Where's your proof that evolution isn't the origin of life? I'm really interested to know.
Thankfully, the NH House is a good place to try to stop stuff like that. If you're a NH resident, you can probably get hold of your State Representative and influence them without too much difficulty, because each rep has only about 3000 constituents.
Really, they aren't hard to find. I knew about 5 myself, and that was without even trying.
You should sic the BSA on them after you leave. If there is a CYA letter from management, send that to the BSA guys as well. Enjoy the results. If management tries to finger you, point out that: (a) you raised the concern to management and was told to stuff it, and (b) you were the informant to the BSA.
And for those who think that WW II spending wasn't Keynesianism, you misunderstand Keynesianism. Keynes never argued that the government shouldn't buy guns instead of butter, he just argued that the government had to buy something, anything, in order to get the economy moving. WW II spending was much more massive than New Deal spending, with greater government oversight (wages controlled by government regulators, that sort of thing).
Actually, many international Organizations wanted to monitor the US-american elections.
My favorite story from the 2000 presidential election was that Fidel Castro offered to send observers to Florida. Proof that the old man still had a sense of humor, I guess.
My mistake: I've been around for a while, and had an email conversation with CmdrTaco about this hole in M2 back when Over/Underrated was immune from M2.
I can say with certainty that I sincerely doubt I was damaged in any way by getting the birds & bees understanding at the tender age of 3. In fact, I suspect that I ended up with significantly healthier attitudes, because when my classmates were going gaga over boobs I was more wondering what the big deal was.
"The innocence of childhood" is a concept used to protect parents from the thought that their kids are going to grow up and have sex. It has nothing to do with protecting kids, and everything to do with making adults think they're protecting kids.
Why the heck does anyone buy electronics from brick and mortar stores any more?
If the reason your buying electronics is to fix the computer you normally use to browse the web, then not having to browse the web in order to buy what you need is a definite plus.
However, it should also be noted that it makes it impossible for you to get promoted out of your coding role. So if you're a good programmer, not documenting well is to stunt your own career growth. If you're a bad programmer, not documenting is a method of self-preservation.
But one of the many benefits is that it's free (in both the "speech" and "beer" sense). And if you're looking to convince business management to do something, the argument they will be most likely to listen to is "save money".
All over the US there are private roads and people voluntarily pay tolls to travel them because, brace yourself again, they provide a much more pleasant commute. They deal with traffic congestion immediately, they undertake repairs and maintenance quickly and effectively, without bloated government bureaucracy making repairs and improvements take years and cost tax payers millions of dollars and they do it with their own money.
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Mr InsaneProcessor, you're living up to your name.
1. The roundness of the Earth was known by scientific minds no later than 270 B.C. By the time of Christopher Columbus and the like it was well-accepted fact that the Earth was spherical.
2. Evolution isn't considered the origin of life. It's considered the process by which the first few living cells produced all life as we know it.
3. There is experimental evidence that it was possible at least for life on Earth to originate without any divine intervention. For instance, the Miller Experiment.
4. Where's your proof that evolution isn't the origin of life? I'm really interested to know.
Thankfully, the NH House is a good place to try to stop stuff like that. If you're a NH resident, you can probably get hold of your State Representative and influence them without too much difficulty, because each rep has only about 3000 constituents.
Really, they aren't hard to find. I knew about 5 myself, and that was without even trying.
If mgmt doesn't want to pay for licenses. Leave.
You should sic the BSA on them after you leave. If there is a CYA letter from management, send that to the BSA guys as well. Enjoy the results. If management tries to finger you, point out that: (a) you raised the concern to management and was told to stuff it, and (b) you were the informant to the BSA.
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
It'th no funnier than the theven theditious thcribeth from Theasarea.
Yes, we'll put all the middle managers and telephone sanitizers into a big B Ark ship. To save them from the giant mutant space goat.
he and the rest of the cabinet are trying to prop up a bunch of retards determined to decimate themselves by any means possible.
They aren't trying to decimate themselves: they're trying to enrich themselves at whatever the cost, which currently is decimating everyone else.
Keynesianism has never worked in practice.
... except between 1930 and 1945.
And for those who think that WW II spending wasn't Keynesianism, you misunderstand Keynesianism. Keynes never argued that the government shouldn't buy guns instead of butter, he just argued that the government had to buy something, anything, in order to get the economy moving. WW II spending was much more massive than New Deal spending, with greater government oversight (wages controlled by government regulators, that sort of thing).
Actually, many international Organizations wanted to monitor the US-american elections.
My favorite story from the 2000 presidential election was that Fidel Castro offered to send observers to Florida. Proof that the old man still had a sense of humor, I guess.
No, obviously this guy.
They can't have been that smart: they completely forgot to pay off the new US Attorney.
Eeww, even dead I wouldn't want to mount those guys.
When we all know the real announcement ought to have been "Brawk! Ready to sail"
We all know that if they had put it to a vote it would have been named "Colbert".
I'd expect it to bounce twice then: once as a live cat, and once as a dead cat.
Of course, better would be to bounce it in a sealed container, so no one would ever know whether it was alive or dead.
My mistake: I've been around for a while, and had an email conversation with CmdrTaco about this hole in M2 back when Over/Underrated was immune from M2.
I can say with certainty that I sincerely doubt I was damaged in any way by getting the birds & bees understanding at the tender age of 3. In fact, I suspect that I ended up with significantly healthier attitudes, because when my classmates were going gaga over boobs I was more wondering what the big deal was.
"The innocence of childhood" is a concept used to protect parents from the thought that their kids are going to grow up and have sex. It has nothing to do with protecting kids, and everything to do with making adults think they're protecting kids.
Oh, come on. That's an implementation detail, we're talking about high-level architecture here.
Why the heck does anyone buy electronics from brick and mortar stores any more?
If the reason your buying electronics is to fix the computer you normally use to browse the web, then not having to browse the web in order to buy what you need is a definite plus.
Even better are those that mark down your post "overrated", which they do to avoid meta-moderation.
And believe me, I've been modded down for posting things that (for example) dared to disagree with libertarianism.
The last thing you want is for your business to be dependent on one single person.
Tell that to Apple.
However, it should also be noted that it makes it impossible for you to get promoted out of your coding role. So if you're a good programmer, not documenting well is to stunt your own career growth. If you're a bad programmer, not documenting is a method of self-preservation.
IT: "Red Hat gives it away for free and sells support contracts for $x, but we are not required to purchase support in order to use it."
... and if we need support and don't like Red Hat's contracts, we can go to several competing vendors.
But one of the many benefits is that it's free (in both the "speech" and "beer" sense). And if you're looking to convince business management to do something, the argument they will be most likely to listen to is "save money".
All over the US there are private roads and people voluntarily pay tolls to travel them because, brace yourself again, they provide a much more pleasant commute. They deal with traffic congestion immediately, they undertake repairs and maintenance quickly and effectively, without bloated government bureaucracy making repairs and improvements take years and cost tax payers millions of dollars and they do it with their own money.
You have obviously never driven in Chicago.