If hiring for all of these different departments is too difficult for HR, then perhaps HR should be gotten rid of and the managers of the departments can do the hiring. They would probably prefer to not have all of their good candidates weeded out in favor of the ones whose synonyms for industry experience happened to line up with HRs buzzword list.
The mass crush of resumes that come in for any job opening
Ha! We posted for a mid-level java developer, and we have received 8 resumes over a two month period, all of them either entry level developers in another language a year or so out of school or who are currently in school hoping to become a java (or probably any other language) developer.
What is dice.com?
It is a site that lures job seekers in under the false pretense of having jobs available, then aggregates the information and sells it to advertisers who are apparently too dumb to realize that unemployed people are not a great market.
What happens if your CPU or Motherboard dies, and you cant get that socket type CPU/Motherboard now... Or your HDD dies even
Well, in my mind that is still the same machine, as you just replaced some broken parts. I have no idea how MS sees it. But frankly, if they are going to tie it to the hardware, then they need to price it as a product that you are going to have to renew every 2 to 3 years. So make it $25, and I'll be happy to buy a new one when I get a new PC.
Has the guy posted rave reviews about every car except this one, or has he in the past found other cars that he didn't care for? I am going to guess the latter. The purpose of a review is to express your opinion about the car. It didn't live up to his expectations. Maybe his expectations were on the high side, but that doesn't matter. He was supposed to review it and write his opinion, and he did. Tesla didn't like it. Too bad. They didn't like it when Top Gear reviewed it either. Too bad. If you don't like that people find fault with the car, then fix the faults. You don't get an automatic break from poor reviews just because you made a "green" car.
when you buy an electric car with limited range, you drive within the limits (with a comfortable cushion).
Well, surely the electric car would go ahead and show you the range on the conservative side, in case of detours, traffic snarls, cold weather, rain, etc?
So they tell you where to find stuff. They don't even host the stuff themselves. What did they book them on? Aiding and abetting? Why isn't the Google CEO in jail?
A server may have an 800W power supply, but that doesn't mean it draws 800 watts. High draw is more likely to come from high end GPUs than from server based CPUs. Most CPUs don't even draw more than a hundred watts under full load. A home user is more likely to draw high wattage running graphics heavy games, but that is fairly intermittent, not 24X7. Even a Bitcoin mining PC with a high end dual video card, is likely only going to pull down 500-600 watts.
Not to mention the backup power and connectivity provided by a operations center that is not economically feasible at home. Maybe that it not necessary for their needs, but if not, then comparing the costs to home versus virtual is no longer a direct comparison.
Corn is just fairly crap all around when it comes to ethanol production.
Corn is crap, period. Humans can hardly abstract any nutritional value from it. Livestock can process it, but the resulting meat is far inferior to grass-fed stock. There really is not much point to corn at all. Unfortunately, it is the number one crop in the U.S. (tied with soybeans, believe it or not).
I have more anecdotal evidence as well. When I drive down to Texas, I have to buy E10 because they don't have real gas there. After I returned from Texas, my generator in my RV stopped working properly. The only way I could get it to work was to hold the choke open manually. I replaced plugs, air filter, broke down the carburetor, cleaned it out with sea foam, all to no avail. Even running the generator on real gas, it would run for maybe half an hour, surging and slowing down the whole time, and then give up. After about 6 hours of this, the real gas finally cleaned out the crap left behind by the ethanol and it finally started to run smoothly. Unfortunately, my main fuel tank also feeds the generator, so I either have to do some costly modifications to feed it separately, or avoid Texas and any other state where they only sell inferior quality fuels.
Opt-in won't save money unless everybody opts in or out. If you opt out of mail delivery, but our neighbor doesn't, then the mail still has to run, so they might as well do yours, too. Look at garbage collection. If you don't pay your wast collection bill (often tied to water service), but you put trash out, chances are they will take it. They don't have some computer in the truck telling them to skip this house or that house. It is far cheaper just to pick up everybody that put out garbage than to try to skip the ones who don't have service.
USPS on the other hand delivers my package to the rear of my apartment building. UPS gives up and puts a note on the door.
This depends on your delivery person. My USPS guy will not get out of his truck, so if he has a package for you, he will just drop a "sorry we missed you" note. It pisses me off that UPS and Fedex will come to your door, while the USPS guy, even when I am home, just leaves a note telling me to go pick it up at the post office. Even worse, it is not at my LOCAL post office, but at some sorting facility 5 miles away. In fact, I would bet that the driver doesn't even HAVE the package and probably prefills the "sorry we missed you" note.
Imagine that: charging 46 cents to send a letter cross-country does make lose you money after all.
Maybe they should lower the cost. They seemed to do okay back when it was a quarter.
Part of the problem is that the 1st class mail is being used to subsidize bulk mail and as a result as 1st class mail gets sent less and less the subsidy has become insufficient to cover the cost.
Ooops, you got that backwards. Bulk Mail prices subsidize first class delivery. But other than that, yes I agree that the prices on bulk mail should go up.
The second part of your subject line doesn't necessarily follow from the first part, but if it did, then the rest of your post would be a valid question.
The real test of whether something is science is the idea of falsifiability. God is not falsifiable.
You've stumbled on the proper usage of "begging the question". Starting with the assumption that Science is right, you want people to prove God exists using your method. The exact same thing that people laugh and make fun of when a Bible believer uses the Bible to back up his beliefs. "Show me something outside of the Bible that proves this." Well, show me something outside of Science that proves God doesn't exist. Meet on neutral territory. If Bible believers can't use their tool to prove God exists, then scientists shouldn't be able to use their tool either.
Are you able to go back to your church and say "this book was an allegory written to explain things back when the world was simpler"? And won't that statement require the next logical question, which is, "who's to say which parts of the book are right and which parts are wrong?"
It was exactly this line of reasoning that led to the Bible being declared a 100% literal book. Apparently, people can't comprehend that a book of a mere couple of thousand pages could somehow contain both allegory and actual events, so in order for people to try to convince people, the early Church decided to start marketing the Bible as 100% literal. This obviously backfired as now the creation story would have to make the Earth only 6,000 years old, which obviously is not the case. The fact remains that the Bible does have allegorical stories and actual events. Hopefully today's bright people are able to understand that two such things can exist in a single book.
I have insurance provided by my company because they pay my portion for me and if I declined the insurance, I would receive nothing in return. Like you, I think that is asinine. I used to work for Sybase, and they gave you X in credits for insurance. If you chose a package that cost more than X, then they took some out of your paycheck. If you chose a package that cost less than X (which I did), then they put money INTO your paycheck. This is as it should be.
If I were to insure my family through my company, it would cost me an additional $900 per month. This is insane. Instead, I have a catastrophic insurance policy, which pays when things go horribly wrong, and on the day to day,I pay, but I get the insurance company rate. This costs me about $270 a month. That is also insanely expensive, but much cheaper than the "insurance" plan offered by the company. I worked it out and if I paid my entire deductible in a year (which I never have) plus the premiums, it would be cheaper than just the premiums on the company plan, and that is not including all the copays, deductibles, coinsurance and outright denials that I would have to pay on the company plan.
Everything claiming to be "insurance" that is not catastrophic insurance needs to be made illegal. Instead, it sounds like Obama plans to make insurance illegal, and make the expensive BS medical plans mandatory. Thanks, Obama.
If a bank or any organization runs your credit without your permission they can get in pretty big trouble.
They can't run a detailed report without your permission, but there is some limited information they are able to get without your permission. These queries don't show up on the free reports you can get, but I believe you can pay to find out who ran the non-detailed reports on you.
Also if you have a decent Football system the cost of the system is actually less than zero.
As these types of programs normally bring in more money than they use.
So that extra money is spent on real education. Great sports programs benefit education.
If that were true, and it apparently isn't, then they could still make even MORE money if they paid the coach about the same as you would pay, well, a coach.
This one. This right here. All of our income is from our salary, but what they report is not their income. The ones who run the game don't play by the same rules as us.
"Ah, I see you are the CEO of a fortune 500 company. Let's see here. It says your salary is $1. Sorry sir, I'm afraid we can't grant you a loan. Or do you have some other sources of income you would like to report?"
If I boycotted every company that has wronged, I'd probably be living in a cave dressed in animal skins right now.
If lots of people boycotted ever company that has wronged them, then the companies would have to improve or be replaced by companies that do not wrong their customers.
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If hiring for all of these different departments is too difficult for HR, then perhaps HR should be gotten rid of and the managers of the departments can do the hiring. They would probably prefer to not have all of their good candidates weeded out in favor of the ones whose synonyms for industry experience happened to line up with HRs buzzword list.
The mass crush of resumes that come in for any job opening
Ha! We posted for a mid-level java developer, and we have received 8 resumes over a two month period, all of them either entry level developers in another language a year or so out of school or who are currently in school hoping to become a java (or probably any other language) developer.
What is dice.com?
It is a site that lures job seekers in under the false pretense of having jobs available, then aggregates the information and sells it to advertisers who are apparently too dumb to realize that unemployed people are not a great market.
What happens if your CPU or Motherboard dies, and you cant get that socket type CPU/Motherboard now... Or your HDD dies even
Well, in my mind that is still the same machine, as you just replaced some broken parts. I have no idea how MS sees it. But frankly, if they are going to tie it to the hardware, then they need to price it as a product that you are going to have to renew every 2 to 3 years. So make it $25, and I'll be happy to buy a new one when I get a new PC.
Has the guy posted rave reviews about every car except this one, or has he in the past found other cars that he didn't care for? I am going to guess the latter. The purpose of a review is to express your opinion about the car. It didn't live up to his expectations. Maybe his expectations were on the high side, but that doesn't matter. He was supposed to review it and write his opinion, and he did. Tesla didn't like it. Too bad. They didn't like it when Top Gear reviewed it either. Too bad. If you don't like that people find fault with the car, then fix the faults. You don't get an automatic break from poor reviews just because you made a "green" car.
when you buy an electric car with limited range, you drive within the limits (with a comfortable cushion).
Well, surely the electric car would go ahead and show you the range on the conservative side, in case of detours, traffic snarls, cold weather, rain, etc?
So they tell you where to find stuff. They don't even host the stuff themselves. What did they book them on? Aiding and abetting? Why isn't the Google CEO in jail?
A server may have an 800W power supply, but that doesn't mean it draws 800 watts. High draw is more likely to come from high end GPUs than from server based CPUs. Most CPUs don't even draw more than a hundred watts under full load. A home user is more likely to draw high wattage running graphics heavy games, but that is fairly intermittent, not 24X7. Even a Bitcoin mining PC with a high end dual video card, is likely only going to pull down 500-600 watts.
Not to mention the backup power and connectivity provided by a operations center that is not economically feasible at home. Maybe that it not necessary for their needs, but if not, then comparing the costs to home versus virtual is no longer a direct comparison.
Corn is just fairly crap all around when it comes to ethanol production.
Corn is crap, period. Humans can hardly abstract any nutritional value from it. Livestock can process it, but the resulting meat is far inferior to grass-fed stock. There really is not much point to corn at all. Unfortunately, it is the number one crop in the U.S. (tied with soybeans, believe it or not).
I have more anecdotal evidence as well. When I drive down to Texas, I have to buy E10 because they don't have real gas there. After I returned from Texas, my generator in my RV stopped working properly. The only way I could get it to work was to hold the choke open manually. I replaced plugs, air filter, broke down the carburetor, cleaned it out with sea foam, all to no avail. Even running the generator on real gas, it would run for maybe half an hour, surging and slowing down the whole time, and then give up. After about 6 hours of this, the real gas finally cleaned out the crap left behind by the ethanol and it finally started to run smoothly. Unfortunately, my main fuel tank also feeds the generator, so I either have to do some costly modifications to feed it separately, or avoid Texas and any other state where they only sell inferior quality fuels.
Welcome to socialized mail. Out of all the things to socialize, mail seems to be one of the better candidates. Also roads, military.
Opt-in won't save money unless everybody opts in or out. If you opt out of mail delivery, but our neighbor doesn't, then the mail still has to run, so they might as well do yours, too. Look at garbage collection. If you don't pay your wast collection bill (often tied to water service), but you put trash out, chances are they will take it. They don't have some computer in the truck telling them to skip this house or that house. It is far cheaper just to pick up everybody that put out garbage than to try to skip the ones who don't have service.
USPS on the other hand delivers my package to the rear of my apartment building. UPS gives up and puts a note on the door.
This depends on your delivery person. My USPS guy will not get out of his truck, so if he has a package for you, he will just drop a "sorry we missed you" note. It pisses me off that UPS and Fedex will come to your door, while the USPS guy, even when I am home, just leaves a note telling me to go pick it up at the post office. Even worse, it is not at my LOCAL post office, but at some sorting facility 5 miles away. In fact, I would bet that the driver doesn't even HAVE the package and probably prefills the "sorry we missed you" note.
Imagine that: charging 46 cents to send a letter cross-country does make lose you money after all.
Maybe they should lower the cost. They seemed to do okay back when it was a quarter.
Part of the problem is that the 1st class mail is being used to subsidize bulk mail and as a result as 1st class mail gets sent less and less the subsidy has become insufficient to cover the cost.
Ooops, you got that backwards. Bulk Mail prices subsidize first class delivery. But other than that, yes I agree that the prices on bulk mail should go up.
The second part of your subject line doesn't necessarily follow from the first part, but if it did, then the rest of your post would be a valid question.
The real test of whether something is science is the idea of falsifiability. God is not falsifiable.
You've stumbled on the proper usage of "begging the question". Starting with the assumption that Science is right, you want people to prove God exists using your method. The exact same thing that people laugh and make fun of when a Bible believer uses the Bible to back up his beliefs. "Show me something outside of the Bible that proves this." Well, show me something outside of Science that proves God doesn't exist. Meet on neutral territory. If Bible believers can't use their tool to prove God exists, then scientists shouldn't be able to use their tool either.
Are you able to go back to your church and say "this book was an allegory written to explain things back when the world was simpler"? And won't that statement require the next logical question, which is, "who's to say which parts of the book are right and which parts are wrong?"
It was exactly this line of reasoning that led to the Bible being declared a 100% literal book. Apparently, people can't comprehend that a book of a mere couple of thousand pages could somehow contain both allegory and actual events, so in order for people to try to convince people, the early Church decided to start marketing the Bible as 100% literal. This obviously backfired as now the creation story would have to make the Earth only 6,000 years old, which obviously is not the case.
The fact remains that the Bible does have allegorical stories and actual events. Hopefully today's bright people are able to understand that two such things can exist in a single book.
I have insurance provided by my company because they pay my portion for me and if I declined the insurance, I would receive nothing in return. Like you, I think that is asinine. I used to work for Sybase, and they gave you X in credits for insurance. If you chose a package that cost more than X, then they took some out of your paycheck. If you chose a package that cost less than X (which I did), then they put money INTO your paycheck. This is as it should be.
If I were to insure my family through my company, it would cost me an additional $900 per month. This is insane. Instead, I have a catastrophic insurance policy, which pays when things go horribly wrong, and on the day to day,I pay, but I get the insurance company rate. This costs me about $270 a month. That is also insanely expensive, but much cheaper than the "insurance" plan offered by the company. I worked it out and if I paid my entire deductible in a year (which I never have) plus the premiums, it would be cheaper than just the premiums on the company plan, and that is not including all the copays, deductibles, coinsurance and outright denials that I would have to pay on the company plan.
Everything claiming to be "insurance" that is not catastrophic insurance needs to be made illegal. Instead, it sounds like Obama plans to make insurance illegal, and make the expensive BS medical plans mandatory. Thanks, Obama.
If a bank or any organization runs your credit without your permission they can get in pretty big trouble.
They can't run a detailed report without your permission, but there is some limited information they are able to get without your permission. These queries don't show up on the free reports you can get, but I believe you can pay to find out who ran the non-detailed reports on you.
They are also required to do that in the U.S. Once per year. Don't get taken in by freecreditreport.com.
Also if you have a decent Football system the cost of the system is actually less than zero. As these types of programs normally bring in more money than they use. So that extra money is spent on real education. Great sports programs benefit education.
If that were true, and it apparently isn't, then they could still make even MORE money if they paid the coach about the same as you would pay, well, a coach.
This one. This right here. All of our income is from our salary, but what they report is not their income. The ones who run the game don't play by the same rules as us.
"Ah, I see you are the CEO of a fortune 500 company. Let's see here. It says your salary is $1. Sorry sir, I'm afraid we can't grant you a loan. Or do you have some other sources of income you would like to report?"
If I boycotted every company that has wronged, I'd probably be living in a cave dressed in animal skins right now.
If lots of people boycotted ever company that has wronged them, then the companies would have to improve or be replaced by companies that do not wrong their customers.