Nerds and Geeks should be very careful about recommending Natural Selection.
Why is that? Nerds and geeks are more likely to make a stable living when they grow up. Sure all the girls want the jocks in high school, but at some point those girls grow up and realize that they want somebody with a job. Besides, as nerds and geeks grow older, they get more distinguished, while the jocks just turn into mush.
I agree with you. We don't need the government making up a new rule to tell us how to live. After all, everyone with more than 1/4 of a brain already KNOWS that texting while driving is stupid, so why do we need to make a law about it?
Unless of course the email delays cost you $200+ in business.
E-mail is not guaranteed delivery. I wouldn't make important business decisions for my company dependent upon timely delivery of something that has no guarantee of being delivered at all, and especially not e-mail delivery to my phone, which may be off, have a low battery, or be out of service area.
Honestly, when are we going to get pas the stupidity of religion and embrace the fact that you can have sex without making babies?
What has religion to do with population? Most major religions allow birth control. If you want to target a group that is making up the largest percentage of unprotected sex, you need look no farther than the subset of people who don't have the resources to raise a child.
I'm aware that child porn does not equate to child molestation. But it is a prime indicator.
Well, that is an easy enough correlation to figure out. Go find a group of people in jail for molestation and ask them if they had child porn on their computers. Then go ask some people in jail for child porn if they have ever molested a child. Fortunately for the surveyor, people with child porn on their computers are more numerous and have longer sentences than people who actually molested a child, mostly because they seem to sentence by the megabyte, kind of like a cell phone company.
I suspect the correlation is low enough to be in the noise.
Hear! Hear! This is not normal porn, where the actors are paid to make a video. The "producer" doesn't care about getting paid. He/she cares about having sex with children, and they like to do it on home video, and share it with others. If people didn't download, these people would still have sex with children and I bet they would still even record it.
In fact, I would go so far as to say that the fact that this crap is no longer available for free has created a market where there wasn't one before, which has the potential and may already have increased the amount of abuse.
In some states, such as the one I live in, the law is two faced. If a girl is 16 and looks older than 18 and represents herself as older than 18, you go to jail; If the girl really is in fact older than 18, but looks like she is younger than 18 or represents that she is under 18, you go to jail. If the girl is an "Internet Porn Teen" (ie, real age somewhere between 35 and 45 years old), but is wearing pigtails or a schoolgirl outfit, you go to jail. If the girl is nothing but a cartoon of an age that at least one person can be found to think is under 18, you go to jail.
Frankly, its probably safer to just sexually abuse some kid.
And did you know that in Muslim countries where they cover up head to toe the incidence of rape is higher than in western countries where they go around in provocative clothing?
One could say that a person found with a child porn collection is one that is NOT insisting on new material to be made, since they have it stored up on their hard drives. The problem is people who just want to view it once and then move on to the next image or video. We should arrest everybody who DOESN'T have child porn on their computer, because they might be a pedophile that is trying to get the industry to provide new content.
I would think that somebody that has pornographic pictures of children nude or engaged in sexual acts is a reasonable indicator that they are sexually aroused by such images and situations, and at some point, will attempt to bring their own fantasies to life.
That's a good argument. I suppose the same argument goes for violent video games as well? I guess we should arrest anyone who plays violent video games before they commit some heinous crime.
Interestingly, getting a PhD has never been the income path. I think it was 15 years ago I saw a study that found that people with PhD averaged significantly less income than those with an MS. This is because the one with the PhD was likely to become a teacher or researcher - it's all about the knowledge, where the one with the MS tended to be in the business environment - it's about having the knowledge to get ahead.
Well, also there seems to be a problem with PhDs not knowing how to actually DO work. I have known a couple of them that actually are able to perform work (my Dad for one), but most of the other one's I have run across in the work environment seemed to be only capably of taking notes and thinking about stuff and not able to actually DO anything.
Why does every Uni I've heard of have mandatory remedial English courses for incoming freshmen?
Probably for the same reason that NO Uni I have ever heard of has mandatory remedial English courses for incoming freshmen.
Watch it with the Hitler references, or you, too, will have your song removed from the Monday Night Football opening credits chicagotribue.com [chicagotribune.com]
Hank wasn't comparing anybody to Hitler at all. He was just making a statement that two people who hate each others policies very much going golfing is like Hitler going golfing with Netanyahu.
Anybody who thinks he was comparing Obama to Hitler is just an idiot looking for an excuse to be offended by something. I hope Hank sues for wrongful termination and wins millions.
As a protest to this, and also because football is extremely boring to watch, I will continue to not watch Monday night Football.
Yes given that your statement would be correct. However, estimates of the percentage of people who have ever lived vary wildly. I have seen numbers as low as 2% and as high as 12%. Other than your post, I have never seen any justification for 50%.
And your attitude is the prevalent one, which is why so many companies have no problem treating their employees like interchangeable cog wheels.
Oops, you seem to have gotten your statement backwards.Here let me help you: And your attitude is the prevalent one, because so many companies have no problem treating their employees like interchangeable cog wheels.
All better.
Remember, hundreds of millions of loyal employees were left hanging out to dry when their promised pensions and retirement benefits were cut or removed altogether. They had accepted lower pay all along in exchange for a healthy retirement, but it turns out all along they should have taken a higher paying job with no retirement benefits and invested the money themselves. The same is true with Social Security. Between you and your employer, you probably sock away $500 a month to the government, and in return, in 40 years, they will give you back $300 a month, which will be worth about $30 a month in Present Value terms.
If you invested it yourself, you should be able to pull out close to ten thousand a month, even when present value is figured.
I don't think companies have loyalty at all. As far as I have seen, it has always been self-interest dressed up as loyalty. In my company, there was a period in which some of the executives went without pay for three months so that the line level employees could continue to get paid. One might think this was loyalty, but in fact it was more like people on an island who don't know how to fish foregoing a couple of meals so that the fishermen could be well fed.
In fact, at one point, they just stopped paying everybody, and expected everybody to keep working. They promised to pay us in two weeks, but if they hadn't, and just kept stringing us along, I'm not sure how long it would have lasted.
what if the outsourcing was done with the intention of helping the developers by reducing their workload
Then it would have backfired, because you can't train up a bunch of people who know nothing about the project and make them useful faster than just doing it yourself.
It sounds like you work for an amazing company if normal operating procedure is to give raises more than once per year. The company I work for has given me one raise in five years, and I am still at about $5,000 less than what they promised to pay me when I was hired on.
Also, please note that a cost of living adjustment is not a raise, as that merely maintains your current salary adjusted for inflation. If you do not even get a COLA, then your company is reducing your salary every year.
How long does it take your system to read 8GB of data from your HDD?
Well, I have a SSD. I don't use hibernate,but if I did, in theory it should take about 20 seconds.
I also have Sata-3 drives, so 8 GB saved on those should be about 90 seconds. But I have to wonder. Surely they are clever enough to only store that part of memory which is actually in use? I've got 4 GB on my laptop, but I rarely use more than 2 GB. Most people would not be using anywhere close to their max memory when they are at a point where they are thinking about hibernating the computer.
The French like to redefine things so that they are the first. Like for instance saying that the wright brothers were not the first airplane because an airplane is defined not just a craft that can fly under it's own power, but also has to perform at least one 90 degree turn.
I hold a patent on the process of buying patents from other companies and then suing people who it might be argued are using something vaguely related to my patents and who are wealthy enough to pay me off but not wealthy enough to defend themselves legally.
These bastards owe me money!
Hey, the rules say one question at a time. They are put there for a reason. And that reason is so that we can also have a chance to quip one of the Family Guy quotes.
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Nerds and Geeks should be very careful about recommending Natural Selection. Why is that? Nerds and geeks are more likely to make a stable living when they grow up. Sure all the girls want the jocks in high school, but at some point those girls grow up and realize that they want somebody with a job. Besides, as nerds and geeks grow older, they get more distinguished, while the jocks just turn into mush.
I agree with you. We don't need the government making up a new rule to tell us how to live. After all, everyone with more than 1/4 of a brain already KNOWS that texting while driving is stupid, so why do we need to make a law about it?
Unless of course the email delays cost you $200+ in business.
E-mail is not guaranteed delivery. I wouldn't make important business decisions for my company dependent upon timely delivery of something that has no guarantee of being delivered at all, and especially not e-mail delivery to my phone, which may be off, have a low battery, or be out of service area.
Hmm, no thanks. How about they just send me $100?
Honestly, when are we going to get pas the stupidity of religion and embrace the fact that you can have sex without making babies?
What has religion to do with population? Most major religions allow birth control. If you want to target a group that is making up the largest percentage of unprotected sex, you need look no farther than the subset of people who don't have the resources to raise a child.
I'm aware that child porn does not equate to child molestation. But it is a prime indicator.
Well, that is an easy enough correlation to figure out. Go find a group of people in jail for molestation and ask them if they had child porn on their computers. Then go ask some people in jail for child porn if they have ever molested a child. Fortunately for the surveyor, people with child porn on their computers are more numerous and have longer sentences than people who actually molested a child, mostly because they seem to sentence by the megabyte, kind of like a cell phone company.
I suspect the correlation is low enough to be in the noise.
Hear! Hear! This is not normal porn, where the actors are paid to make a video. The "producer" doesn't care about getting paid. He/she cares about having sex with children, and they like to do it on home video, and share it with others. If people didn't download, these people would still have sex with children and I bet they would still even record it.
In fact, I would go so far as to say that the fact that this crap is no longer available for free has created a market where there wasn't one before, which has the potential and may already have increased the amount of abuse.
In some states, such as the one I live in, the law is two faced. If a girl is 16 and looks older than 18 and represents herself as older than 18, you go to jail; If the girl really is in fact older than 18, but looks like she is younger than 18 or represents that she is under 18, you go to jail. If the girl is an "Internet Porn Teen" (ie, real age somewhere between 35 and 45 years old), but is wearing pigtails or a schoolgirl outfit, you go to jail. If the girl is nothing but a cartoon of an age that at least one person can be found to think is under 18, you go to jail.
Frankly, its probably safer to just sexually abuse some kid.
And did you know that in Muslim countries where they cover up head to toe the incidence of rape is higher than in western countries where they go around in provocative clothing?
One could say that a person found with a child porn collection is one that is NOT insisting on new material to be made, since they have it stored up on their hard drives. The problem is people who just want to view it once and then move on to the next image or video. We should arrest everybody who DOESN'T have child porn on their computer, because they might be a pedophile that is trying to get the industry to provide new content.
I would think that somebody that has pornographic pictures of children nude or engaged in sexual acts is a reasonable indicator that they are sexually aroused by such images and situations, and at some point, will attempt to bring their own fantasies to life.
That's a good argument. I suppose the same argument goes for violent video games as well? I guess we should arrest anyone who plays violent video games before they commit some heinous crime.
Interestingly, getting a PhD has never been the income path. I think it was 15 years ago I saw a study that found that people with PhD averaged significantly less income than those with an MS. This is because the one with the PhD was likely to become a teacher or researcher - it's all about the knowledge, where the one with the MS tended to be in the business environment - it's about having the knowledge to get ahead.
Well, also there seems to be a problem with PhDs not knowing how to actually DO work. I have known a couple of them that actually are able to perform work (my Dad for one), but most of the other one's I have run across in the work environment seemed to be only capably of taking notes and thinking about stuff and not able to actually DO anything.
Why does every Uni I've heard of have mandatory remedial English courses for incoming freshmen?
Probably for the same reason that NO Uni I have ever heard of has mandatory remedial English courses for incoming freshmen.
Great, now you will have to turn off your cell phones, laptops and mp3 players whenever you start to get too close to a cyclist.
Watch it with the Hitler references, or you, too, will have your song removed from the Monday Night Football opening credits chicagotribue.com [chicagotribune.com]
Hank wasn't comparing anybody to Hitler at all. He was just making a statement that two people who hate each others policies very much going golfing is like Hitler going golfing with Netanyahu.
Anybody who thinks he was comparing Obama to Hitler is just an idiot looking for an excuse to be offended by something. I hope Hank sues for wrongful termination and wins millions.
As a protest to this, and also because football is extremely boring to watch, I will continue to not watch Monday night Football.
Yes given that your statement would be correct. However, estimates of the percentage of people who have ever lived vary wildly. I have seen numbers as low as 2% and as high as 12%. Other than your post, I have never seen any justification for 50%.
And your attitude is the prevalent one, which is why so many companies have no problem treating their employees like interchangeable cog wheels.
Oops, you seem to have gotten your statement backwards.Here let me help you:
And your attitude is the prevalent one, because so many companies have no problem treating their employees like interchangeable cog wheels.
All better.
Remember, hundreds of millions of loyal employees were left hanging out to dry when their promised pensions and retirement benefits were cut or removed altogether. They had accepted lower pay all along in exchange for a healthy retirement, but it turns out all along they should have taken a higher paying job with no retirement benefits and invested the money themselves. The same is true with Social Security. Between you and your employer, you probably sock away $500 a month to the government, and in return, in 40 years, they will give you back $300 a month, which will be worth about $30 a month in Present Value terms.
If you invested it yourself, you should be able to pull out close to ten thousand a month, even when present value is figured.
I don't think companies have loyalty at all. As far as I have seen, it has always been self-interest dressed up as loyalty. In my company, there was a period in which some of the executives went without pay for three months so that the line level employees could continue to get paid. One might think this was loyalty, but in fact it was more like people on an island who don't know how to fish foregoing a couple of meals so that the fishermen could be well fed.
In fact, at one point, they just stopped paying everybody, and expected everybody to keep working. They promised to pay us in two weeks, but if they hadn't, and just kept stringing us along, I'm not sure how long it would have lasted.
what if the outsourcing was done with the intention of helping the developers by reducing their workload
Then it would have backfired, because you can't train up a bunch of people who know nothing about the project and make them useful faster than just doing it yourself.
It sounds like you work for an amazing company if normal operating procedure is to give raises more than once per year. The company I work for has given me one raise in five years, and I am still at about $5,000 less than what they promised to pay me when I was hired on.
Also, please note that a cost of living adjustment is not a raise, as that merely maintains your current salary adjusted for inflation. If you do not even get a COLA, then your company is reducing your salary every year.
How long does it take your system to read 8GB of data from your HDD?
Well, I have a SSD. I don't use hibernate,but if I did, in theory it should take about 20 seconds.
I also have Sata-3 drives, so 8 GB saved on those should be about 90 seconds. But I have to wonder. Surely they are clever enough to only store that part of memory which is actually in use? I've got 4 GB on my laptop, but I rarely use more than 2 GB. Most people would not be using anywhere close to their max memory when they are at a point where they are thinking about hibernating the computer.
The French like to redefine things so that they are the first. Like for instance saying that the wright brothers were not the first airplane because an airplane is defined not just a craft that can fly under it's own power, but also has to perform at least one 90 degree turn.
home users will be less likely to fight them than an ISP would.
Well, I can't afford to fight them in court, but I CAN afford bullets.
I hold a patent on the process of buying patents from other companies and then suing people who it might be argued are using something vaguely related to my patents and who are wealthy enough to pay me off but not wealthy enough to defend themselves legally.
These bastards owe me money!
Hey, the rules say one question at a time. They are put there for a reason. And that reason is so that we can also have a chance to quip one of the Family Guy quotes.