Hey, not a bad idea careerwise. Cybersecurity is the wave of the future, and if the guvmint decides to farm national security concerns out to India and China, we are all in very deep shit.
I'm a little confused here. If there seem to be plenty of scholarships for which you actually have to do a little work, why aren't you applying for them? Surely you can't believe that you're entitled to free money, no strings attached. Your writing skills certainly seem up to par.
There are a few things you could consider doing:
1. Apply to a good state university with a strong engineering program, like the University of Illinois or Penn State. State university tuition tends to be considerably lower than that of private schools, and the one I attended had a good honors program which offered scholarships to students who had achieved a certain grade point average and SAT scores in high school. Contrary to popular belief, your career won't be prematurely wrecked if you don't go to Harvard or whatever school is hot right now.
2. I don't know what your major is, but consider emphasizing the science, rather than the tech side of things. More money seems to be available to science majors, especially government funding.
3. Apply for a work-study technical support position. Yeah, you'll probably end up on the computer lab helpdesk resetting passwords for flaky sorority chicks, but it's still honest work. Some professors may also have funding available for undergraduate research assistants.
Good luck. There's no free lunch.
Answer *my* question, please. Though you probably can't, which is the reason for the red herring.
Though if there was ever an opportunity to get something useful done, this would be it. Dean should make a deal with Bush: you show us yours, I'll show you mine. Nothing in Dean's records over the past decades could be nearly as damaging as what's likely to be in Bush's in the past three years.
Dean said that the *theory* was out there, not the *evidence.*
Why won't the Bush administration release those particular documents to the whole 9-11 commission? And don't tell me it's because of security concerns. Bob Kerrey, no matter how partisan you might find him, is not a security leak.
As I said above, the documents the administration doesn't want us to see probably demonstrate incompetence, rather than complicity.
Yes, ol' Robert Novak knows about spreading the truth far and wide, all right.
I find it really interesting that when anyone raises what current evidence suggests is a perfectly valid question (which the administration refuses to shed light on by releasing the documents that would demonstrate whether Bush's prior knowledge of the attacks was indeed an urban legend), the corporate media howls and shrieks treason and tries to discredit the questioner, rather than actually explaining *why* he/she is full of shit.
It's unthinkable, sure, but the unthinkable has happened before. And it's not just the conspiracists who want to know, but many of the families of the September 11 victims.
At this point I doubt it's the case that Bush knew about the 9-11 attacks in advance. The administration is hiding those documents because they demonstrate ineptitude. Not criminal, exactly, but not likely to be helpful in a presidential election year.
This guy is talking through his hat. If anything would cause Chinese immigrant laborers to organize and demand overtime, it would be continuous bombardment with deadly high-energy cosmic rays. Just wouldn't be cost-effective.
Wow, this guy can actually write complete sentences, and they have style.
From the political spam I used to get about him years ago, I thought he communicated primarily through grunting.
I'm impressed.
That's kind of sad, actually. Sure, it will work in the short term, for a night or so or even for a couple of weeks. But can you refrain from talking computers for the rest of your life with a woman like that?
I am not a programmer (yet) but my father was a software engineer. I married a computer scientist. I can't imagine being with a man who couldn't program.
There has to be a middle way. No, I don't want to hear the gritty details of my husband's sixteen-hour debugging session (after I learn Fortran I might feel differently). But you could explain why you do what you do, what you get out of it, how what you do relates to the tech issues she might be familiar with from mainstream news sources. You could explain how things work, like wireless networking or parallel computing, or what the difference is between open-source and proprietary software.
It takes practice and patience and discipline. You have to try to explain things in lay terms, but you also have to do so in a way that isn't patronizing. I kind of resent the way the author of this essay implies that programmers and nonprogrammers are inherently different. That's balderdash. We learn quickly, especially if you have faith in us.
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I don't see anything that states that this is clearly the case. I don't want to cause trouble for other people.
Hey, not a bad idea careerwise. Cybersecurity is the wave of the future, and if the guvmint decides to farm national security concerns out to India and China, we are all in very deep shit.
I'm a little confused here. If there seem to be plenty of scholarships for which you actually have to do a little work, why aren't you applying for them? Surely you can't believe that you're entitled to free money, no strings attached. Your writing skills certainly seem up to par. There are a few things you could consider doing: 1. Apply to a good state university with a strong engineering program, like the University of Illinois or Penn State. State university tuition tends to be considerably lower than that of private schools, and the one I attended had a good honors program which offered scholarships to students who had achieved a certain grade point average and SAT scores in high school. Contrary to popular belief, your career won't be prematurely wrecked if you don't go to Harvard or whatever school is hot right now. 2. I don't know what your major is, but consider emphasizing the science, rather than the tech side of things. More money seems to be available to science majors, especially government funding. 3. Apply for a work-study technical support position. Yeah, you'll probably end up on the computer lab helpdesk resetting passwords for flaky sorority chicks, but it's still honest work. Some professors may also have funding available for undergraduate research assistants. Good luck. There's no free lunch.
Though if there was ever an opportunity to get something useful done, this would be it. Dean should make a deal with Bush: you show us yours, I'll show you mine. Nothing in Dean's records over the past decades could be nearly as damaging as what's likely to be in Bush's in the past three years.
Why won't the Bush administration release those particular documents to the whole 9-11 commission? And don't tell me it's because of security concerns. Bob Kerrey, no matter how partisan you might find him, is not a security leak.
As I said above, the documents the administration doesn't want us to see probably demonstrate incompetence, rather than complicity.
Yes, ol' Robert Novak knows about spreading the truth far and wide, all right. I find it really interesting that when anyone raises what current evidence suggests is a perfectly valid question (which the administration refuses to shed light on by releasing the documents that would demonstrate whether Bush's prior knowledge of the attacks was indeed an urban legend), the corporate media howls and shrieks treason and tries to discredit the questioner, rather than actually explaining *why* he/she is full of shit. It's unthinkable, sure, but the unthinkable has happened before. And it's not just the conspiracists who want to know, but many of the families of the September 11 victims. At this point I doubt it's the case that Bush knew about the 9-11 attacks in advance. The administration is hiding those documents because they demonstrate ineptitude. Not criminal, exactly, but not likely to be helpful in a presidential election year.
This is a discussion about Dean, not Kerry!
What about dorks and dweebs?
I always thought the difference between a "geek" and a "nerd" was that geeks bathed regularly.
This guy is talking through his hat. If anything would cause Chinese immigrant laborers to organize and demand overtime, it would be continuous bombardment with deadly high-energy cosmic rays. Just wouldn't be cost-effective.
Wow, this guy can actually write complete sentences, and they have style. From the political spam I used to get about him years ago, I thought he communicated primarily through grunting. I'm impressed.
It's the Hatten ar Din guys!
Maybe it was a caveman snuff film.
And your point would be...
Can you imagine what they might have spawned together? Thank God for birth control.
Now, where did I put that depilatory?
That's kind of sad, actually. Sure, it will work in the short term, for a night or so or even for a couple of weeks. But can you refrain from talking computers for the rest of your life with a woman like that? I am not a programmer (yet) but my father was a software engineer. I married a computer scientist. I can't imagine being with a man who couldn't program. There has to be a middle way. No, I don't want to hear the gritty details of my husband's sixteen-hour debugging session (after I learn Fortran I might feel differently). But you could explain why you do what you do, what you get out of it, how what you do relates to the tech issues she might be familiar with from mainstream news sources. You could explain how things work, like wireless networking or parallel computing, or what the difference is between open-source and proprietary software. It takes practice and patience and discipline. You have to try to explain things in lay terms, but you also have to do so in a way that isn't patronizing. I kind of resent the way the author of this essay implies that programmers and nonprogrammers are inherently different. That's balderdash. We learn quickly, especially if you have faith in us.
You mean...SPUD missiles?