Archive could simply argue that this "contract" of hers is not a valid contract: I don't think a court would agree that it's possible to enter into a contract without having the opportunity to read it.
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What you do while you're in college matters more than which college you do it at. Let's say person A goes to Harvard and spends their time smoking up, drinking, and barely passing their classes, while person B goes to West Podunk State, where they graduate with high honors and had a leadership role among students. Which person would you expect to be accepted to a graduate program? Which person would you hire?
Secondly, the stats you quoted are just fine for getting into a good school. Don't listen to your parents on this one: They're view of what's average is probably developed by what they hear from their friends about their kids, which is typically exaggerated. Usually a combination of mostly A range high school grades, good SATs or ACTs, some extracurricular involvement, and a compelling essay (that shows them your personality, this is crucial) are all you really need.
Also, make sure you really like what you see about the schools in question. Spend some time at MIT or CalTech and don't go there unless you actually enjoy the environment. Yeah, it may look good on your resume, but it's probably not worth the 4 or 5 years of misery to get it.
This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls. If you're using these numbers to do anything important, you're insane.
The legal version of the "it fails the straight face test" is that the judge must be able to read your argument without laughing at its stupidity. In other words, it's another way of saying that your case must have a leg to stand on. And even if it's sexually explicit chat rooms rather than porn, IBM still can simply argue that he wasn't doing his job.
"Your Honor, IBM fired me because they failed to give me the right to watch porn rather than working while on the job." Seriously, no sane judge is going to allow that to get by the inevitable dismissal motion by IBM.
When you think about it though, the telephone sanitizers should really have gone in the "C" Ark, since they perform actual work. The other problem is that if we travel that far into space we need people who are capable of handling themselves in potentially dangerous situations, and directors of marketing just aren't a good choice.
Don't worry, Wal-mart has historically been able to effectively combine the quality of Microsoft's products with the prices almost as low as those of Linux.
There are elements of the Bush administration that truly believe in the "unitary executive" theory of American government, which by all appearances goes something like this: 1. President does something shady (the reasons aren't relevant to this discussion). 2. Congress makes a law to make it illegal to do what the President is doing. 2. President signs a law (sometimes with a 'signing statement'), and ignores it. 3. When someone catches him at it, appear to stop doing whatever he wasn't supposed to do so any court case will be considered moot. 4. Start up a new program that does exactly what the old one did after the courts have thrown out the case in question. 5. Goto 2.
Bush's treatment of 'detainees' (i.e. prisoners) including US citizens, the warrentless wiretaps, and his administration's handling of government contracts all demonstrate this pattern.
This time around, it looks to me like the threat of oversight by Congress and the courts is causing step 3 of this process to happen.
Some inside info about this incident from a professor emeritas at Harvard (who happens to be a relative of mine): It wasn't really Mr Summers' speech that caused him to get fired. The faculty, board, and deans were all pretty unhappy with him, they were basically hunting around for an excuse to send him packing. The speech of his was just the trigger.
(And yes, for those Latin types, you'll note that the relative who told me this is female. She was one of the first female profs at Harvard, but didn't get terribly involved in the Summers issue.)
Nudity and sex are Evil, but blowing someone up because they live near someone we think is bad is Good.
All research on the subject says quite clearly that seeing sex and nudity isn't harmful to kids. Until very very recently, most children were conceived while their siblings were in the same room. The vast majority of children in the world see their first female breast within about 5 minutes of birth. Kids don't make a big deal about it, it's adults for whom its a big deal. Laws against showing porn to minors are really to protect adults from the idea that their kids might understand sex, not to protect kids.
The problem is that lots of people who understand these things, but no one has the balls to stand up and say in a political campaign that they're fine with children seeing adults and other children naked.
I spent a while in the programming job market near a fairly large city. There were hundreds of ads out there for IT people. The pattern I noticed is that fewer than 10% of all ads wanted someone with less than 5 years of experience, they were all looking for "Senior" level people, whatever that means.
This seemed to me to be driven by the myth that if you have one of your top staff that knows XYZ leave, you need to hire a top person who knows XYZ to replace them, and that new guy will be able to exactly fill the role that the previous guy had. Of course, you'd probably do at least as well promoting someone within the ranks who knows your company's business well and can learn XYZ, and bringing an a new guy at a junior level, but many IT managers don't seem to think that way. The apparent exception to this rule is large firms like banks and insurance companies, but even then there are usually many more openings for senior people than junior people.
Another major factor is thanks to the threat of offshoring the wages of highly trained and experienced people is not significantly higher than those of newbies. This gives companies very little motivation to hire entry-level employees: Why pick up a clueless college grad when you can get the guru for only 5% more?
If you read about 4'33", the whole point of the piece is that there is sound, even if it's not being produced by the performer. So it isn't inaudible music at all, it's more audible non-music.
Unfortunately, most Democrats with balls are immediately dismissed as left-wing nuts, no matter what they're saying. Some examples:
- Howard Dean, for campaigning on the issue of getting the US out of Iraq, and proposing closer-to-universal health care. - Dennis Kucinich (Congressman from Ohio), for advocating impeachment of the president, publicly funded health care, getting the US out of Iraq. - John Edwards, for advocating raising the minimum wage and supporting protection of unions. - Hillary Clinton, back when she was working on the health care problem in Bill's administration.
I have to hand it to the conservative media: They have made 'liberal' a derogatory term. The real kicker is that when you poll people on the issues mentioned above, a strong majority agree with the 'left-wing nuts'.
3) Know your platforms' hardware and software. Install a
from-source Linux distro like Gentoo.
Might I suggest that you actually try a Linux-From-Scratch system for this purpose? By the time you're done with it, you'll know the./configure && make && make install sequence intimately, what sort of variations are common, what the heck all those flags for gcc mean, and what tools are available under Linux systems.
It's really too bad online retailers have had to mark up their goods 5-10% or more to pay for the ads and search engine manipulation needed to get any customers at all to their sites.
I take it no other consumer-oriented businesses have advertising / marketing costs? There's a ad cost built in whenever you buy something from (for instance) Target, Home Depot, Borders, Walmart, McDonald's, just about any local auto dealership, Starbucks, Dell, Verizon, etc. A fairer comparison would be to compare stores' (item + ad markup + taxes + store expense markup) and for online (item + markup + taxes + shipping).
Can you give me some products for which Amazon has been consistantly more expensive than Target? Or maybe compare prices in a couple of small mom-and-pop shops vs similar online retailers (based in roughly the same location)?
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Archive could simply argue that this "contract" of hers is not a valid contract: I don't think a court would agree that it's possible to enter into a contract without having the opportunity to read it.
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By reading this post you have agreed to pay me $200/month for the rest of your life.
What you do while you're in college matters more than which college you do it at. Let's say person A goes to Harvard and spends their time smoking up, drinking, and barely passing their classes, while person B goes to West Podunk State, where they graduate with high honors and had a leadership role among students. Which person would you expect to be accepted to a graduate program? Which person would you hire?
Secondly, the stats you quoted are just fine for getting into a good school. Don't listen to your parents on this one: They're view of what's average is probably developed by what they hear from their friends about their kids, which is typically exaggerated. Usually a combination of mostly A range high school grades, good SATs or ACTs, some extracurricular involvement, and a compelling essay (that shows them your personality, this is crucial) are all you really need.
Also, make sure you really like what you see about the schools in question. Spend some time at MIT or CalTech and don't go there unless you actually enjoy the environment. Yeah, it may look good on your resume, but it's probably not worth the 4 or 5 years of misery to get it.
Or to put it another way:
This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls. If you're using these numbers to do anything important, you're insane.
A similarly related look at the problem is The Darfsteller, a Hugo Awarded short story by Walter Miller, Jr.
The legal version of the "it fails the straight face test" is that the judge must be able to read your argument without laughing at its stupidity. In other words, it's another way of saying that your case must have a leg to stand on. And even if it's sexually explicit chat rooms rather than porn, IBM still can simply argue that he wasn't doing his job.
"Your Honor, IBM fired me because they failed to give me the right to watch porn rather than working while on the job." Seriously, no sane judge is going to allow that to get by the inevitable dismissal motion by IBM.
When you think about it though, the telephone sanitizers should really have gone in the "C" Ark, since they perform actual work. The other problem is that if we travel that far into space we need people who are capable of handling themselves in potentially dangerous situations, and directors of marketing just aren't a good choice.
#34785? Damn, I had #-34740, stupid 16-bit integers.
Don't worry, Wal-mart has historically been able to effectively combine the quality of Microsoft's products with the prices almost as low as those of Linux.
There are elements of the Bush administration that truly believe in the "unitary executive" theory of American government, which by all appearances goes something like this:
1. President does something shady (the reasons aren't relevant to this discussion).
2. Congress makes a law to make it illegal to do what the President is doing.
2. President signs a law (sometimes with a 'signing statement'), and ignores it.
3. When someone catches him at it, appear to stop doing whatever he wasn't supposed to do so any court case will be considered moot.
4. Start up a new program that does exactly what the old one did after the courts have thrown out the case in question.
5. Goto 2.
Bush's treatment of 'detainees' (i.e. prisoners) including US citizens, the warrentless wiretaps, and his administration's handling of government contracts all demonstrate this pattern.
This time around, it looks to me like the threat of oversight by Congress and the courts is causing step 3 of this process to happen.
Some inside info about this incident from a professor emeritas at Harvard (who happens to be a relative of mine): It wasn't really Mr Summers' speech that caused him to get fired. The faculty, board, and deans were all pretty unhappy with him, they were basically hunting around for an excuse to send him packing. The speech of his was just the trigger.
(And yes, for those Latin types, you'll note that the relative who told me this is female. She was one of the first female profs at Harvard, but didn't get terribly involved in the Summers issue.)
Nudity and sex are Evil, but blowing someone up because they live near someone we think is bad is Good.
All research on the subject says quite clearly that seeing sex and nudity isn't harmful to kids. Until very very recently, most children were conceived while their siblings were in the same room. The vast majority of children in the world see their first female breast within about 5 minutes of birth. Kids don't make a big deal about it, it's adults for whom its a big deal. Laws against showing porn to minors are really to protect adults from the idea that their kids might understand sex, not to protect kids.
The problem is that lots of people who understand these things, but no one has the balls to stand up and say in a political campaign that they're fine with children seeing adults and other children naked.
Here here!
I spent a while in the programming job market near a fairly large city. There were hundreds of ads out there for IT people. The pattern I noticed is that fewer than 10% of all ads wanted someone with less than 5 years of experience, they were all looking for "Senior" level people, whatever that means.
This seemed to me to be driven by the myth that if you have one of your top staff that knows XYZ leave, you need to hire a top person who knows XYZ to replace them, and that new guy will be able to exactly fill the role that the previous guy had. Of course, you'd probably do at least as well promoting someone within the ranks who knows your company's business well and can learn XYZ, and bringing an a new guy at a junior level, but many IT managers don't seem to think that way. The apparent exception to this rule is large firms like banks and insurance companies, but even then there are usually many more openings for senior people than junior people.
Another major factor is thanks to the threat of offshoring the wages of highly trained and experienced people is not significantly higher than those of newbies. This gives companies very little motivation to hire entry-level employees: Why pick up a clueless college grad when you can get the guru for only 5% more?
As opposed to:
In Soviet Russia, music pirates you!!
I don't know what time it is where you are, but in a lot of places when the article was posted a lot of people are busy doing one of 3 things:
1. Drinking
2. Sleeping
3. Recovering from a hangover.
12. Fnord
That's your answer on what happened to it.
As long as we're on the obligatory quotes, we might as well throw in Airplane!:
Steve McCroskey: [to Mrs. Oveur] Now your husband and the others are alive, but unconscious.
Johnny: Just like Gerald Ford.
Doesn't solve the problem, unless they're going to outlaw rocks as well.
If you read about 4'33", the whole point of the piece is that there is sound, even if it's not being produced by the performer. So it isn't inaudible music at all, it's more audible non-music.
Like "A New Hope", "The Empire Strikes Back", and "The Phantom Menace"?
The Asimo also qualifies under the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation's definition of a robot: You're plastic pal who's fun to be with.
Unfortunately, most Democrats with balls are immediately dismissed as left-wing nuts, no matter what they're saying. Some examples:
- Howard Dean, for campaigning on the issue of getting the US out of Iraq, and proposing closer-to-universal health care.
- Dennis Kucinich (Congressman from Ohio), for advocating impeachment of the president, publicly funded health care, getting the US out of Iraq.
- John Edwards, for advocating raising the minimum wage and supporting protection of unions.
- Hillary Clinton, back when she was working on the health care problem in Bill's administration.
I have to hand it to the conservative media: They have made 'liberal' a derogatory term. The real kicker is that when you poll people on the issues mentioned above, a strong majority agree with the 'left-wing nuts'.
3) Know your platforms' hardware and software. Install a
from-source Linux distro like Gentoo.
Might I suggest that you actually try a Linux-From-Scratch system for this purpose? By the time you're done with it, you'll know the
Hmm, I wonder if Microsoft had anything to do with that decision?
It's really too bad online retailers have had to mark up their goods 5-10% or more to pay for the ads and search engine manipulation needed to get any customers at all to their sites.
I take it no other consumer-oriented businesses have advertising / marketing costs? There's a ad cost built in whenever you buy something from (for instance) Target, Home Depot, Borders, Walmart, McDonald's, just about any local auto dealership, Starbucks, Dell, Verizon, etc. A fairer comparison would be to compare stores' (item + ad markup + taxes + store expense markup) and for online (item + markup + taxes + shipping).
Can you give me some products for which Amazon has been consistantly more expensive than Target? Or maybe compare prices in a couple of small mom-and-pop shops vs similar online retailers (based in roughly the same location)?