Except that 'everyone' goes to college, now
About 2/3 actually. And thats of people who graduated high school. As a software company, we don't hire based on education. We hire based on skill and experience.
As a software company, we hire codemonkeys based on skill and experience. If they have some college or even graduated, so much the better.
Now if we want a software engineer, or team lead, then the person pretty much has to have a degree. We have found that most people who have done nose to the grindstone all of their life don't learn the skills needed to progress beyond being a programmer.
When certain aspects of a personality don't come over, like in text chat, it doesn't matter.
My question is, does the 11 year old text chat like an adult, or do adults text chat like an 11 year old. In my experience, text chat lowers everyone to the spelling and grammar equivalent of an 11 year old, if that.
Not me. I don't buy content. I've already bought the game. If they come out with a deluxe version with all the content included for an extra $20, I'd probably buy it, but I won't shell out $100 two dollars at a time for extra content.
Obviously, I'd never make it as a WoW player.
I've never really cared for any general production cars prior to about to the mid 80's. I like some of the Ferraris and other exotics of previous eras. But even the Corvettes and muscle cars didn't impress me much.
Not that there is much to choose from these days. I'm not really salivating over any production cars these days. Nothing is exciting to me. The last production car I liked was the Lexus SC400. The SC430 is just ugly in comparison, and the Lexus Sedans headlights are a total turnoff.
I liked the Toyota Supra and had both a 1990 and a 1998 model. But they don't make those anymore. I had an RX-7 convertible, but the new RX-8 doesn't look as sharp. I have an 1988 Lotus Esprit, and they have stopped making them as well, and the Exige and Elise don't really do it for me. They actually handle better, and are peppier, but they don't have the same sexy shape.
I looked at new model BMWs, and the amenities are nice, but the inside looks like they are taking cues from Detroit. Gauges and GPS sunk deep into the dash, under an overhang where a tall person would never be able to see them or manipulate the controls. Some hideous looking fin, which I assume houses the GPS antenna. Of course GPS antennas are so small that the only purpose of that fin must be so that people know you have a GPS. I'm almost thinking my next car might be an Audi because at least they still have some European charm.
You can just drive the Smart into an on-street parking space nose in, and the back end won't extend past the SUVs you're parked next to.
Yes, you can do that. You'll probably get a ticket, too.
As an aside, I wonder what bumper rash looks like on the side of a Smart. You know people can't parallel park without bumping bot the car in front and behind. This is why I WILL NOT parallel park my vehicle.
Besides, you can park perpendicularly in a street that only allows parallel parking.
Does Mercedes offer an address to send all your parking tickets to?
I'm a Creationist. I believe it was some kind of giant flightless bird. I don't see any reason to deny the past existence of giant flightless birds given the current existence of giant flightless birds.
I would have just given them the contents of the car if they really needed it that badly.
That's just the thing. What could possibly be in your car that they could NEED that badly? A turkey dinner? I don't think so. It's all about want. You have something. They want it. They don't want to work for it, so they steal it. For the $5 worth of change in your change holder, they will cause you $100 damage to the window. They just don't care about anyone but themselves. I know many people think they can be rehabilitated. But for gosh sakes, would you please do it BEFORE they break into my car, rather than after? I don't know if I agree whether they can be rehabilitated or not, but I sure don't want them living in my society if they see no problem with causing me a $105 loss so they can have a $5 gain.
Zero sum game, my eye. If someone steals my two year old TV, they should have to buy me a brand new one, plus pay for my new security system and the monitoring fees for the rest his life. I'm sick and tired of this system where the criminals steal your stuff and you either a) don't get it back and the criminal gets to enjoy your property or 2) you get your property back, but now have to live in fear that the criminal or his cronies are going to retaliate against you for getting them thrown in jail for a couple of weeks.
I am not a thief either, and if I were desperately short of money, I would get a job. I would never steal money or possessions of another person. I just couldn't do it. If I really just couldn't afford to even buy food for my family, which I have come very close to before, I don't know if I might actually steal food. Probably not. I would probably beg on the corner first. Last time I got in a situation where I didn't think I could feed my family, I sold my house and lived off of the proceeds until I was able to get a job.
I know everyone plays the line drawing game, but I believe very strongly that no one should every steal anything. Even food. Yes, it is wrong to steal even food. I think the punishment for stealing food should be much less severe than for stealing property, which should be very severe. But let's face it, in the good old USA (and it may be different where you live), there is no valid reason to steal another person's property.
I honestly don't know what I would do in that situation, as we slept right through the last time we were burgled. They were pretty quiet. Fortunately for us, they didn't kill us. But I have to think that if you catch them in the act and the run away, that they will think one of two things:
1. Whoa! That was close. I'm never going to do that again.
or
2. Hey! I got away with it. I'm going to bust into that house again.!
Curiously, when he was hit with the same weapon again the only thing that ran through his mind was "Oh no! Not again!". The bowl of petunias had no comment.
I am also skeptical about whale ages until proven otherwise. I think it is very possible that this weapon which was manufactured back in the 1890s may have been laying around unused for a long period of time, and then was used on the whale much later than we think it was.
Well, do you have a job? If so, I would think they would GIVE you a laptop. My last four jobs have. If my job didn't give me one, I wouldn't have one, because I don't need one. I have a computer already. As for PDAs, I don't have one, don't want one. I don't have or want an MP3 player, either. If my company didn't pay for my cell phone, I'd have gotten rid of it, too.
As a parent of a kid who (shock!) is not always willing to listen to the wisdom that I try to impart to him, I agree with you that the blame for an individual's actions ultimately rests squarely on the individual. Everybody had crappy parents, some were worse than others. Some made the choice to get over it, and others made the choice to act out violently and rest on the fact that society will blame the parents.
As for your barb against Christianity, that is out of place. It is society that allows people to blame others for their own actions. The Bible clearly states that every person is to be held accountable for their own actions.
I worked when I was a teenager. I started as a busboy in fifth grade and moved up to dishwasher. I had to quit when I was 14 when the schools decided I wasn't old enough to work. Then I went back to work when I was 15, when I was old enough to work according to the schools again.
I still didn't have enough money to eat out all the time or buy lots of records. I mostly shopped at the secondhand record store.
Now, as a parent, I am having a horrific time explaining to my stepson why I won't just hand him $10 a day so he can go eat out every single day with all his friends, some of whom have jobs, and others of whom have parents that hand them $10 a day.
His friends have Xbox, cell phones, computers, you name it, all bought by the parents. He thinks we hate him because we won't buy him every little thing his heart desires. He thinks my wife and I are the bad parents, not the ones who buy everything for their kid, when their kid will just get their eyes set on the next thing before they have even spent an hour with their last toy.
How exactly is the parent going to know in advance that someone might let loose a filthy word on live TV? That IS what this debate was about, after all. Sure you can avoid Wednesday Night Raw, but what about watching a live news feed, and some guy they are interviewing shows off his inability to articulate without resorting to profanity?
The Wright Brothers had a whole host of things that needed a breakthrough. Your examples to start with, also, lightweight materials, propeller design (air is different than water), control mechanisms and so forth. So technically, it should not have been a successful venture. And indeed it wasn't, as they never formed a successful company. (Eventually teamed up with Curtiss, who did form a successful company).
So Bell was correct after all.
The president of Liftport obviously never took an Economics class where you would have learned at least that the whole stock system is very complicated and very regulated.
Well, the economics classes that I took had less to do with security regulation, and more to do with economics, but be that as it may...
I have been involved several times in putting together a prospectus, and it is a wonder that any public company ever gets funded. For one thing, you are required to tell them, at least once, and usually anywhere where you might be considered to be making a forward looking statement, that they could lose some or all of there money. And second, you are forbidden to make any statement that the investment might make money. All you can do to try to lure people in is show financials of your past performance, which if you are a startup, there aren't any, and you can also talk about the performance of other similar ventures you have been in, again as long as you say that they might lose all their money.
Frankly, the government should just hand out a prospectus and tell you to sign your company's name at the bottom, since you aren't really able to tell the people anything useful about your hoped for performance.
it's nice to be back in a position where job offers are coming to look for me rather than the other way around.
Yeah, but 99.9% of these job offers are low paying gigs where they are targetting H1bs. They all offer less than standard industry wage, and when you follow up, they send you a questionaire where only half the questions are about your experience and the other half of the questions are in regard to your visa status and whether you are able/interested in transferring your visa.
It's nice to get job offers, but it would be better if only the legitimate ones came through and not the crap ones for which you are not eligible because you are a citizen.
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No. The purpose of the exhaust tip on a tuner car is too make it louder, because louder= faster (in direct confliction with conservation of energy).
Except that 'everyone' goes to college, now
About 2/3 actually. And thats of people who graduated high school.
As a software company, we don't hire based on education. We hire based on skill and experience.
As a software company, we hire codemonkeys based on skill and experience. If they have some college or even graduated, so much the better. Now if we want a software engineer, or team lead, then the person pretty much has to have a degree. We have found that most people who have done nose to the grindstone all of their life don't learn the skills needed to progress beyond being a programmer.
When certain aspects of a personality don't come over, like in text chat, it doesn't matter.
My question is, does the 11 year old text chat like an adult, or do adults text chat like an 11 year old. In my experience, text chat lowers everyone to the spelling and grammar equivalent of an 11 year old, if that.
Not me. I don't buy content. I've already bought the game. If they come out with a deluxe version with all the content included for an extra $20, I'd probably buy it, but I won't shell out $100 two dollars at a time for extra content.
Obviously, I'd never make it as a WoW player.
I've never really cared for any general production cars prior to about to the mid 80's. I like some of the Ferraris and other exotics of previous eras. But even the Corvettes and muscle cars didn't impress me much.
Not that there is much to choose from these days. I'm not really salivating over any production cars these days. Nothing is exciting to me. The last production car I liked was the Lexus SC400. The SC430 is just ugly in comparison, and the Lexus Sedans headlights are a total turnoff.
I liked the Toyota Supra and had both a 1990 and a 1998 model. But they don't make those anymore. I had an RX-7 convertible, but the new RX-8 doesn't look as sharp.
I have an 1988 Lotus Esprit, and they have stopped making them as well, and the Exige and Elise don't really do it for me. They actually handle better, and are peppier, but they don't have the same sexy shape.
I looked at new model BMWs, and the amenities are nice, but the inside looks like they are taking cues from Detroit. Gauges and GPS sunk deep into the dash, under an overhang where a tall person would never be able to see them or manipulate the controls. Some hideous looking fin, which I assume houses the GPS antenna. Of course GPS antennas are so small that the only purpose of that fin must be so that people know you have a GPS. I'm almost thinking my next car might be an Audi because at least they still have some European charm.
You can just drive the Smart into an on-street parking space nose in, and the back end won't extend past the SUVs you're parked next to.
Yes, you can do that. You'll probably get a ticket, too.
As an aside, I wonder what bumper rash looks like on the side of a Smart. You know people can't parallel park without bumping bot the car in front and behind. This is why I WILL NOT parallel park my vehicle.
Besides, you can park perpendicularly in a street that only allows parallel parking.
Does Mercedes offer an address to send all your parking tickets to?
Why would a fruit want to defend itself against birds. I thought that birds were one of the primary distribution methods for seeds?
I'm a Creationist. I believe it was some kind of giant flightless bird. I don't see any reason to deny the past existence of giant flightless birds given the current existence of giant flightless birds.
I would have just given them the contents of the car if they really needed it that badly.
That's just the thing. What could possibly be in your car that they could NEED that badly? A turkey dinner? I don't think so. It's all about want. You have something. They want it. They don't want to work for it, so they steal it. For the $5 worth of change in your change holder, they will cause you $100 damage to the window. They just don't care about anyone but themselves. I know many people think they can be rehabilitated. But for gosh sakes, would you please do it BEFORE they break into my car, rather than after? I don't know if I agree whether they can be rehabilitated or not, but I sure don't want them living in my society if they see no problem with causing me a $105 loss so they can have a $5 gain.
Zero sum game, my eye. If someone steals my two year old TV, they should have to buy me a brand new one, plus pay for my new security system and the monitoring fees for the rest his life. I'm sick and tired of this system where the criminals steal your stuff and you either a) don't get it back and the criminal gets to enjoy your property or 2) you get your property back, but now have to live in fear that the criminal or his cronies are going to retaliate against you for getting them thrown in jail for a couple of weeks.
I am not a thief either, and if I were desperately short of money, I would get a job. I would never steal money or possessions of another person. I just couldn't do it. If I really just couldn't afford to even buy food for my family, which I have come very close to before, I don't know if I might actually steal food. Probably not. I would probably beg on the corner first. Last time I got in a situation where I didn't think I could feed my family, I sold my house and lived off of the proceeds until I was able to get a job.
I know everyone plays the line drawing game, but I believe very strongly that no one should every steal anything. Even food. Yes, it is wrong to steal even food. I think the punishment for stealing food should be much less severe than for stealing property, which should be very severe. But let's face it, in the good old USA (and it may be different where you live), there is no valid reason to steal another person's property.
I honestly don't know what I would do in that situation, as we slept right through the last time we were burgled. They were pretty quiet. Fortunately for us, they didn't kill us. But I have to think that if you catch them in the act and the run away, that they will think one of two things:
1. Whoa! That was close. I'm never going to do that again.
or
2. Hey! I got away with it. I'm going to bust into that house again.!
Curiously, when he was hit with the same weapon again the only thing that ran through his mind was "Oh no! Not again!". The bowl of petunias had no comment.
I am also skeptical about whale ages until proven otherwise. I think it is very possible that this weapon which was manufactured back in the 1890s may have been laying around unused for a long period of time, and then was used on the whale much later than we think it was.
Well, do you have a job? If so, I would think they would GIVE you a laptop. My last four jobs have. If my job didn't give me one, I wouldn't have one, because I don't need one. I have a computer already. As for PDAs, I don't have one, don't want one. I don't have or want an MP3 player, either. If my company didn't pay for my cell phone, I'd have gotten rid of it, too.
As a parent of a kid who (shock!) is not always willing to listen to the wisdom that I try to impart to him, I agree with you that the blame for an individual's actions ultimately rests squarely on the individual. Everybody had crappy parents, some were worse than others. Some made the choice to get over it, and others made the choice to act out violently and rest on the fact that society will blame the parents.
As for your barb against Christianity, that is out of place. It is society that allows people to blame others for their own actions. The Bible clearly states that every person is to be held accountable for their own actions.
How does that help me? My only choice for Dialup IS AT&T.
I worked when I was a teenager. I started as a busboy in fifth grade and moved up to dishwasher. I had to quit when I was 14 when the schools decided I wasn't old enough to work. Then I went back to work when I was 15, when I was old enough to work according to the schools again.
I still didn't have enough money to eat out all the time or buy lots of records. I mostly shopped at the secondhand record store.
Now, as a parent, I am having a horrific time explaining to my stepson why I won't just hand him $10 a day so he can go eat out every single day with all his friends, some of whom have jobs, and others of whom have parents that hand them $10 a day.
His friends have Xbox, cell phones, computers, you name it, all bought by the parents. He thinks we hate him because we won't buy him every little thing his heart desires. He thinks my wife and I are the bad parents, not the ones who buy everything for their kid, when their kid will just get their eyes set on the next thing before they have even spent an hour with their last toy.
How exactly is the parent going to know in advance that someone might let loose a filthy word on live TV? That IS what this debate was about, after all. Sure you can avoid Wednesday Night Raw, but what about watching a live news feed, and some guy they are interviewing shows off his inability to articulate without resorting to profanity?
They are going to introduce legislation to prevent people with perfect pitch from listening to music.
The Wright Brothers had a whole host of things that needed a breakthrough. Your examples to start with, also, lightweight materials, propeller design (air is different than water), control mechanisms and so forth. So technically, it should not have been a successful venture. And indeed it wasn't, as they never formed a successful company. (Eventually teamed up with Curtiss, who did form a successful company).
So Bell was correct after all.
You have to be moving fast in order to burn up on re-entry, otherwise the space elevator itself would burn up every time it came down.
The president of Liftport obviously never took an Economics class where you would have learned at least that the whole stock system is very complicated and very regulated.
Well, the economics classes that I took had less to do with security regulation, and more to do with economics, but be that as it may...
I have been involved several times in putting together a prospectus, and it is a wonder that any public company ever gets funded. For one thing, you are required to tell them, at least once, and usually anywhere where you might be considered to be making a forward looking statement, that they could lose some or all of there money. And second, you are forbidden to make any statement that the investment might make money. All you can do to try to lure people in is show financials of your past performance, which if you are a startup, there aren't any, and you can also talk about the performance of other similar ventures you have been in, again as long as you say that they might lose all their money.
Frankly, the government should just hand out a prospectus and tell you to sign your company's name at the bottom, since you aren't really able to tell the people anything useful about your hoped for performance.
it's nice to be back in a position where job offers are coming to look for me rather than the other way around.
Yeah, but 99.9% of these job offers are low paying gigs where they are targetting H1bs. They all offer less than standard industry wage, and when you follow up, they send you a questionaire where only half the questions are about your experience and the other half of the questions are in regard to your visa status and whether you are able/interested in transferring your visa.
It's nice to get job offers, but it would be better if only the legitimate ones came through and not the crap ones for which you are not eligible because you are a citizen. Paul