Trust me as a Mormon and at Utahn I very must distrust the government, and have been dismayed and angered that this monster has found a home in my state.
"The aim was to recreate, in true-to-life detail, what happens when a volcanic eruption punches through Earth's crust." Hugh, it seems to me the aim an excuse to play with explosives.
I work from home, and when I'm sick (unless I'm really sick) I work, not because I feel like I have to, but because I could be sitting on the couch feeling sorry for myself and wiping my nose, or sit in front of my computer with something to concentrate on and distract myself from my own discomfort.
One possible unintended consequence to taxing pollution is that the government will become dependent on the tax revenue. Which may well cause the government to encourage pollution blocking manufacturer's efforts to reduce pollution.
and in related news. Changes to the IP protocol now include the evil bit. Any packet with evil intent has it's evil bit set to 1 and everything else is set to 0. So to filter out bad communications just drop all packets with the evil bit set to 1.
In my opinion it's time to execute your exit plan. This company is down the tubes and they know it. They are only trying desperate measures that aren't likely to work. It will only get worse, soon they'll have a meeting where they will say we can only pay you half salary, but when things get better we'll promise to make up the difference.... That's what happened to me. And I jumped shipped to the company I'm at now. Who by the way are looking for employees. http://vpi-corp.com/
They are great to work for, have good benefits, only rarely ask you to work overtime, and that's usually because your own code is broken and you need to fix it. Once it's fixed then your off.
Good luck on your exit strategy.
Not only were the stories likely oral, but it's important to note that the Bible wasn't written in English in the original, or any modern language, including modern Hebrew.
I'd wager that connotations of words have changed. We read the literal "first day", but perhaps word day had other meaning that made perfect sense when it was written, such as a connotation of "period of time".
Read that way the Bible's view of the world creation does make more sense for a world being prepared for life.
Light, Water, Dividing the Land and Water and adding plant life, sun, stars and moon (I take this as clearing the sky so you could see the sun, stars, and moon.), animal life, and human life.
It's not a bad theory for origination thousands of years ago. Not sure that it matches perfectly the accepted geological chronology but in a general way it's not horrific.
Finally I don't think God intended the Book of Genesis as a detailed set of instructions for how to create a world. So why would it include all of the detail or interplay. Perhaps he was saying for human life to be possible this is what needed to be done, and here are the general epochs in which it was achieved.
For me at least the message of the creation story isn't a practical lesson in geology, but that God took care of what was needed for humans to survive. It has meaning in an allegorical way on how to build a good life by first building your proper foundation.
Brian
Though in general I agree with you that full-time politicians should by paid, so that poor but intelligent, and moral people could serve as a public servant. However, I wouldn't say that no-one could serve. Our first president, George Washington, refused any payment for his 8 years of service.
I think a middle ground would be better. The pay should be low though, like maybe the average pay for an American. Then they might want to make conditions that raise the average American
Somewhere I've seen a study that correlated corruption in a state government to the amount it's representatives, so the higher the pay, the higher the corruption. Of course I have no idea how they quantified the corruption in the given state's governments.
Without shoes you do not land on your heal. Take off your shoes and run. You'll be amazed how difficult it is to land on you heal. You'll also discover how painful it can be.
Instead while barefoot you tend to touch the forefoot first and then bear weight on the full surface of your foot.
I've run barefoot for 5 years. I started because of various chronic injuries. I felt like I was getting old at 27. Within 6 months of switching to barefoot running those issues were gone, and haven't run with shoes since. I'm not the only one that has benefited either, checkout barefootrunning.org
My longest run has been 14 miles without shoes. I've even run 50 miles in a single week barefooted. I've run on just about everything from rocky mountain forest roads, rocky mountain trails, grass, sidewalks, paved roads, chip sealed roads, tracks, just about everything. I've run in temperatures ranging from 17F to 98F. Personally logged over 3000 miles barefoot, and feel young and vibrant.
Glass isn't an issue, neither are nails. Natural thorns are more of an issue than anything. And small unseen gravel on sidewalks, ouch! But these problems are rare and small compared to the enjoyment of injury free running I've experienced over the last 5 years.
Article I, Section 10 Paragraph 3 states in part
"No state shall, without the consent of Congress,... enter into any agreement or compact with another state..."
The best way to encourage programming is be excited about it yourself. I'll warn you against trying to push your children into it though. They will resist and hate it.
Instead, I assume your already excited about programming. Share your excitement with them. Look for cool stuff to program/*little self promotion -- http://bee-eee.com/ */ Tell them about your successes. Show them the stuff your think is cool.
When they show interest I'd set them up with C# Express as I think it's the quickest way for them to do something beyond printing "Hello World" on the screen.
Have fun, and don't require them but inspire them. Trust me if your excited about it they will in time show interest.
Actually we don't do safty inspection for your cars in California. We do have manditory smog testing but if your car checks okay one year chances are you don't have to get it smogged the next year. So it wouldn't work.
This idea of the GPS sounds expensive. I don't know where they would stick it to keep it safe. Even *if* people don't purposly destroy it people in general are advanced enought idiots that I'd be surprised if half the units make it through a whole year before they're destroyed. Then on top of that you have the malicious folk. The ones that will hack into them, jam the signal, hack the GPS unit to run linux, writting viruses that can ignite the pumps, or dispense free beer instead of fuel.
The biggest paradim shift that needs to occur in public education is to realize that if the student doesn't want to learn he/she won't. It won't matter how much money you dump into every other aspect of education, or how good your teacher is.
On the other hand if the student really wants to learn he'll seek out the opportunity and learn inspite of no money, poor teachers, etc..
There is far too much emphasis placed on the environment of the student and not nearly enough placed on the student's responsibility to learn.
A sphere may be simpler but it would still need to have some sencing capability and motorization. Otherwise say you were running at top speed. That sphere is going to have a lot of angular momentum so when you try to stop quickly you'll fall flat on your face and be flipped around several times while the ball slows down.
This software patent problem with Linux shows one strength of closed source over open source software.
Because open source software is open, any lawyer or firm can scan every open source project out there in search of violations without any complaint or restriction or even knowledge of the developers. The scan is likely to find some infrigments on software patents. While to search and scan through close source software would be much more difficult, likely requiring a court order with some peliminary evidence of violation before any scanning can occur.
My point is there are probably tons of patent violations in MS code, and other closed source programs, but that can't or won't be searched.
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Perhaps you should put all the politics into it first then fire it to get them out.
Trust me as a Mormon and at Utahn I very must distrust the government, and have been dismayed and angered that this monster has found a home in my state.
that Bill Gates wouldn't approve of emacs either.
just the latest NSA robot used for spying....
"The aim was to recreate, in true-to-life detail, what happens when a volcanic eruption punches through Earth's crust."
Hugh, it seems to me the aim an excuse to play with explosives.
It's not crime in the neighborhoods that increasing. It's the crime in the fancy buildings in Washington DC that's increasing.
I work from home, and when I'm sick (unless I'm really sick) I work, not because I feel like I have to, but because I could be sitting on the couch feeling sorry for myself and wiping my nose, or sit in front of my computer with something to concentrate on and distract myself from my own discomfort.
One possible unintended consequence to taxing pollution is that the government will become dependent on the tax revenue. Which may well cause the government to encourage pollution blocking manufacturer's efforts to reduce pollution.
and in related news. Changes to the IP protocol now include the evil bit. Any packet with evil intent has it's evil bit set to 1 and everything else is set to 0. So to filter out bad communications just drop all packets with the evil bit set to 1.
In my opinion it's time to execute your exit plan. This company is down the tubes and they know it. They are only trying desperate measures that aren't likely to work. It will only get worse, soon they'll have a meeting where they will say we can only pay you half salary, but when things get better we'll promise to make up the difference.... That's what happened to me. And I jumped shipped to the company I'm at now. Who by the way are looking for employees. http://vpi-corp.com/ They are great to work for, have good benefits, only rarely ask you to work overtime, and that's usually because your own code is broken and you need to fix it. Once it's fixed then your off. Good luck on your exit strategy.
Not only were the stories likely oral, but it's important to note that the Bible wasn't written in English in the original, or any modern language, including modern Hebrew.
I'd wager that connotations of words have changed. We read the literal "first day", but perhaps word day had other meaning that made perfect sense when it was written, such as a connotation of "period of time".
Read that way the Bible's view of the world creation does make more sense for a world being prepared for life.
Light, Water, Dividing the Land and Water and adding plant life, sun, stars and moon (I take this as clearing the sky so you could see the sun, stars, and moon.), animal life, and human life.
It's not a bad theory for origination thousands of years ago. Not sure that it matches perfectly the accepted geological chronology but in a general way it's not horrific.
Finally I don't think God intended the Book of Genesis as a detailed set of instructions for how to create a world. So why would it include all of the detail or interplay. Perhaps he was saying for human life to be possible this is what needed to be done, and here are the general epochs in which it was achieved.
For me at least the message of the creation story isn't a practical lesson in geology, but that God took care of what was needed for humans to survive. It has meaning in an allegorical way on how to build a good life by first building your proper foundation. Brian
I think a middle ground would be better. The pay should be low though, like maybe the average pay for an American. Then they might want to make conditions that raise the average American
Somewhere I've seen a study that correlated corruption in a state government to the amount it's representatives, so the higher the pay, the higher the corruption. Of course I have no idea how they quantified the corruption in the given state's governments.
And for those adventurous Alzheimer patients who want a 'critical wandering incident' Achme is now offering tinfoil shoe coverings.
--Achme Sales Rep.
Without shoes you do not land on your heal. Take off your shoes and run. You'll be amazed how difficult it is to land on you heal. You'll also discover how painful it can be.
Instead while barefoot you tend to touch the forefoot first and then bear weight on the full surface of your foot.
I've run barefoot for 5 years. I started because of various chronic injuries. I felt like I was getting old at 27. Within 6 months of switching to barefoot running those issues were gone, and haven't run with shoes since. I'm not the only one that has benefited either, checkout barefootrunning.org
My longest run has been 14 miles without shoes. I've even run 50 miles in a single week barefooted. I've run on just about everything from rocky mountain forest roads, rocky mountain trails, grass, sidewalks, paved roads, chip sealed roads, tracks, just about everything. I've run in temperatures ranging from 17F to 98F. Personally logged over 3000 miles barefoot, and feel young and vibrant.
Glass isn't an issue, neither are nails. Natural thorns are more of an issue than anything. And small unseen gravel on sidewalks, ouch! But these problems are rare and small compared to the enjoyment of injury free running I've experienced over the last 5 years.
Barefoot Brian
Yes! Another vector for distributing viruses and worms!!! Whoo hoo!
Article I, Section 10 Paragraph 3 states in part "No state shall, without the consent of Congress, ... enter into any agreement or compact with another state..."
Looks like I'll be getting a matching tin foil wallet to go with the hat.
The best way to encourage programming is be excited about it yourself. I'll warn you against trying to push your children into it though. They will resist and hate it. Instead, I assume your already excited about programming. Share your excitement with them. Look for cool stuff to program /*little self promotion -- http://bee-eee.com/ */ Tell them about your successes. Show them the stuff your think is cool.
When they show interest I'd set them up with C# Express as I think it's the quickest way for them to do something beyond printing "Hello World" on the screen.
Have fun, and don't require them but inspire them. Trust me if your excited about it they will in time show interest.
Actually we don't do safty inspection for your cars in California. We do have manditory smog testing but if your car checks okay one year chances are you don't have to get it smogged the next year. So it wouldn't work. This idea of the GPS sounds expensive. I don't know where they would stick it to keep it safe. Even *if* people don't purposly destroy it people in general are advanced enought idiots that I'd be surprised if half the units make it through a whole year before they're destroyed. Then on top of that you have the malicious folk. The ones that will hack into them, jam the signal, hack the GPS unit to run linux, writting viruses that can ignite the pumps, or dispense free beer instead of fuel.
Simple they vote.
The biggest paradim shift that needs to occur in public education is to realize that if the student doesn't want to learn he/she won't. It won't matter how much money you dump into every other aspect of education, or how good your teacher is.
On the other hand if the student really wants to learn he'll seek out the opportunity and learn inspite of no money, poor teachers, etc..
There is far too much emphasis placed on the environment of the student and not nearly enough placed on the student's responsibility to learn.
But all were doing is following the example of corporate leader.
A sphere may be simpler but it would still need to have some sencing capability and motorization. Otherwise say you were running at top speed. That sphere is going to have a lot of angular momentum so when you try to stop quickly you'll fall flat on your face and be flipped around several times while the ball slows down.
This software patent problem with Linux shows one strength of closed source over open source software.
Because open source software is open, any lawyer or firm can scan every open source project out there in search of violations without any complaint or restriction or even knowledge of the developers. The scan is likely to find some infrigments on software patents. While to search and scan through close source software would be much more difficult, likely requiring a court order with some peliminary evidence of violation before any scanning can occur.
My point is there are probably tons of patent violations in MS code, and other closed source programs, but that can't or won't be searched.
Try mups found at www.arkkra.com. It's a very nice musical typesetting program.