If you can't raise the salary...Your corporate management is a bunch of money grubbing assbandits who are out for nothing but lining their own pockets...
And how is that different from "Your business model is broken."
According to the description, our present rate of increase in temperature is unsustainable. I suppose that means that no matter how hard we try, we are not going to be able to continue raising the temperature at the current rate.
I think this is more like the waiter charging the customer $7 for a bowl of soup, then charging the kitchen $1 for providing the soup.
Shoot, if anything I could see content providers charging Bell South because the content providers make Bell South's service more attractive. But this is exactly backwards of that.
Hey, if you're looking for shaved, you're probably safe anyway. Except of course that some places want it to be illegal to have pictures of women PRETENDING to be younger than legal age.
I always thought that was as crazy as being arrested for soliciting a police officer for prostitution. I mean, if they're a police officer and not a prostitute, then you're not actually doing anything illegal, right? Good thing I'm too cheap to pay for sex.
I've had my share of bad meetings in my life, to be sure. But where I work now, I have been really lucky.
My boss is extremely hands off, recognizing that I know what I need to do and that I get it done. When we have meetings, he usually takes us to lunch and discusses things over lunch. Usually less than half the time is devoted to work topics.
I have not yet had to go to a meeting that I felt was a time waster. The closest one so far was a meeting to discuss how we were going to prepare a response to a Request For Information.
Many of the meetings I go to are actually presentations to customers. Sometimes I am even presenting. In these meetings, I get to meet and converse with new people, and there is usually food, which is always good with me.
I guess the reason I don't have a problem with the meetings I end up going to is that they are not a distraction that takes me away from my work. When I go to a meeting it is because it IS my work.
Perhaps companies ought to give you a 1 hour project slippage allowance for every one hour meeting that they require you to go to.
All you need to do is produce ONE Roman or Jewish record--both cultures were assiduous record-keepers, though of course the temple was destroyed. The only records that exist are faith-based documents written decades (I think 5 at the earliest?) after Jesus' alleged crucifixion. It seems unlikely that at least ONE record that is not driven by an agenda would not persist.
Well, it would certainly help my cause if the temple had not been destroyed and the books burned, wouldn't it. Or perhaps the Christians burned the temple so no one would ever know that nothing corroborated their story?
Anyway, the earliest parchments are from little over a hundred years after the death of Jesus. The sheer number of parchments, quite literally thousands of them , should be evidence enough that Jesus existed. Are you suggesting that Jesus' teachings are exactly the same as the Old Testament teachings?
Jesus was the fulfillment of the Old testaments teachings. He was the colmination of hundreds of teachings. He said himself that he did not come to abolish the law, but to fulfill it. Please note that the law given by God was not the same as the thousands of rules and regulations in Jewish Law. So yes, the new testament and the old testament essentially teach the same thing. I simply don't see how the pursuit of wealth is reconcilable with Christianity, particularly when it comes at someone else's expense.
Well, the pursuit of wealth is not the same as wealth, is it. Jesus said to seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, not to seek the worldly things. But he also said that if you do seek after righteousness that your needs would be taken care of. If God chooses to reward you for being a good Christian, that is because he knows you will be a good steward of the money. You should never try to earn money off the backs of others, but you should never be ashamed to be legitimately wealthy either.
I think I remember seeing that one as well. Funny thing is, that some of those same creatures have also appeared in specials on evolution and supposedly existed in the past.
With regard to the hurricanes: The lowest pressure reading is impressive, but most of the rest is all relative. Damage from hurricanes will always go up as inflation goes up and as the human population and land improvements go up. This is true of any disaster. It doesn't mean that the disasters are getting worse. It just means there are more buildings and people for the same sized disaster to pound on.
Hurricanes have only been named since 1951, so the number of hurricanes in a season has only been tested about 55 times. Also, that list applies to all tropical storms, not just hurricane strength ones.
We had an entire city, under sea level, on a coast, with inadequate levees, in a place called Hurricane Alley. Why? Because a strong Hurricane had never hit it. If you had presented these observations to someone prior to last season, there would have been any number of justifications for doing nothing.
Actually, I saw a Discovery Channel special on New Orleans about a year before Katrina. Experts were well aware that a direct hit would pretty much spell the end. As you say, of course, no one did anything about it, probably because there was nothing much that could be done other than try to convince people not to live there. But that never works. Even people who live by rivers that overflow every couple of years and destroy everything they own almost always rebuild.
Yeah. A lot of places don't seem to have any interest in respecting that uppity King guy.
No, I shouldn't put down to racism what could be easily explained by wanting to make more money off of salaried employees.
Also, before you call other people "bonkers," consider your faith in a god/man who allegedly, two thousand years ago, according to no official texts, and only to the writings of his followers (don't cite me the fabricated Josephus passage please), brought back dead people, healed the blind and leprous, and walked on water, then resurrected from the dead, each of which are unprecedented events in all of proven, reliable human history.
It's easy to say "no official texts" when you categorize anything that backs it up as "unofficial". Furthermore, if you read the "unofficial" texts, you will find that almost all of Christ's miracles were reproductions of earlier miracles done by Moses and the Prophets. This was done on purpose to let people know that he was the promised one. Jesus was strictly ascetic, and it's supposedly the Christian credo to try to be as much like Christ as possible. That means that "you cannot serve God and wealth" and therefore should give away all your worldly possessions. Christians attempt all sorts of distortions and intellectual wild goose chases to get around this, but wealth and Christianity, and therefore Capitalism, are not just incompatible, but diametrically opposed explicitly by the Gospel's teachings.
Christ certainly was not ascetic, not were his followers, but having wealth is not the same as living a hedonistic lifestyle. Christ himself had no place he could call home, nor many more possesions than he carried on his person, but any ministry has to have money in order to survive, and Christ's was no exception. How could Judas have stolen from the till if there was no money in it?
Many people in the world give Christians a hard time for having wealth, when Christ was clearly unwealthy. Yet some of the most important, positive characters in the Bible were extraordinaily wealthy. Abraham, King David and Solomon for example. But most non-christians like to quote the verse "it is hard for a rich man to go to heaven than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle", while forgetting to continue to read the following verse "but with God all things are possible." Further, when you point out the verse that says "No one can serve two masters", later in that same chapter it speaks of people worrying about food, water and clothing. Jesus tells them to "seek first the kingdom of heaven", which everyone always quotes, but also says "and all these things shall be added to you as well." The world has come to believe that any Christian with money is not a true Christian, and religion encourages this belief by leaving these verses out in sermons. Perhaps this is to cause more people to put their money in the collection plate, but it has the detrimental affect of making people believe that God is only for the poor, the weak, the stupid. This is contradictary to the teaching of the Bible.
I agree and further argue that they should never have left the old x86 branding.
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I don't have much problem with relevant ads on a free site. However, when I start to see ads on a site which I have to pay to see, like a support site, or a site for software which I have purchased, then I figure that they are double dipping and can go fsck themselves. I mean that';s sort of like having to pay for cable and then still having to watch commercials. Oh, wait...
Indeed. Biblically, wisdom is to be desired above all else.
"And God said to Solomon, Because this was in thine heart, and thou hast not asked riches, wealth, or honor, nor the life of thine enemies, neither yet hast asked long life; but hast asked wisdom and knowledge for thyself, that thou mayest judge my people, over whom I have made thee king: Wisdom and knowledge is granted unto thee; and I will give thee riches, and wealth, and honor, such as none of the kings have had that have been before thee, neither shall there any after thee have the like." 2 Chronicles 1:12.
Of course, the book of Proverbs continuously exhorts the importance of wisdom and knowledge. Religion obviously would discourage knowledge, because without knowledge the religious leaders could more easily control the people. But the Bible itself gladly tells you to seek wisdom and understanding. God had nothing to fear from us studying His creation. The only peril is that some people are not studying science but are just studying how to dissuade people from believing in God, and calling their study science. Science is NOT about disproving the existence of God. Those that use Science to do that blaspheme against God AND Science.
I figure that the universe IS a closed system, and that all of the entropy that existed at the beginning of time was manifested in the big bang, prior to which point, science asserts that all of the energy and matter (but they are both the same, no?) existed at a single point. I figure, when the entropy of the universe runs out, bye-bye universe. Meanwhile, local increases in entropy are certainly possible.
There is only an infinite amount of knowledge if we live in an infinite universe.
If the entire universe fit within a drop of water, the set of all possible integers in that universe would still be infinite. Knowing all of the positive integers alone would give you an infinite amount of knowledge. And yet you would still not necessarily be omniscient unless you knew the negative integers as well, and every other infinite series.
Thanks to Asimov for that realization.
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Well, we all here seem to think it is immoral, but apparently the Chinese see it differently.
It is amazing that here on slashdot, where people complain about religious types trying to force their morals upon them, that we are more than happy to try to force our morals on a culture 1 billion strong.
Well, most SUVs are not really rated to pull any larger of a trailer than a large sedan. Also, it is kind of dangerous to pull a trailer with a SUV, as the center of gravity is too high. Obviously, the better vehicle for pulling trailers or boats is a pickup. The exceptions to this would be the Suburban, which has a decent Center of Gravity and a long wheelbase, and a strong engine. Ironically, it offers the most Utility of the SUVs, but is definitely one of the least cool factor. It is about the only SUV I would consider owning.
As for the rest of the comment, well an SUV is not sporty. It's acceleration is not all that great. They don't handle very well. And they are not a utility vehicle, as their interior storage space is not any greater than a station wagon, and far less than a pickup or a minivan. So an SUV is not S or U, but is only V.
Absolutely. After 9/11, when the contract I was working was ended early, I was out of work for a year. I had to use my credit cards to pay for the mortgage and food after I sold all but one car and sold my house. Then, when I no longer had money even to pay the minumum balances, I stopped paying those. After about 6 months, I got them to cancel the debt. The next year, I had to pay about $6000 extra in taxes because supposedly the amount the creditors forgave was income to me (even though most of it was interest on money that I never got to use). It was a bad move on my part. I should have declared bankruptcy. However, that is no longer going to be an option as the laws have changed so that now you have to pay back your debts even if you declare bankruptcy, don't have a job, don't have any income, have become permanently disabled and are dead.
Big deal, so they have 6 times as many people Tivoing through the commercials. I'd bet the people that watch Futurama have 6 times as much disposable income as the guys watching Football anyway.
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If you can't raise the salary...Your corporate management is a bunch of money grubbing assbandits who are out for nothing but lining their own pockets...
And how is that different from "Your business model is broken."
According to the description, our present rate of increase in temperature is unsustainable. I suppose that means that no matter how hard we try, we are not going to be able to continue raising the temperature at the current rate.
It's almost as bad as that non-sensical word: irregardless.
Oh come on now. For all intensive purposes it means the same as regardless.
Ugh. now I feel dirty.
I think this is more like the waiter charging the customer $7 for a bowl of soup, then charging the kitchen $1 for providing the soup.
Shoot, if anything I could see content providers charging Bell South because the content providers make Bell South's service more attractive. But this is exactly backwards of that.
Hey, if you're looking for shaved, you're probably safe anyway. Except of course that some places want it to be illegal to have pictures of women PRETENDING to be younger than legal age.
I always thought that was as crazy as being arrested for soliciting a police officer for prostitution. I mean, if they're a police officer and not a prostitute, then you're not actually doing anything illegal, right? Good thing I'm too cheap to pay for sex.
I've had my share of bad meetings in my life, to be sure. But where I work now, I have been really lucky.
My boss is extremely hands off, recognizing that I know what I need to do and that I get it done. When we have meetings, he usually takes us to lunch and discusses things over lunch. Usually less than half the time is devoted to work topics.
I have not yet had to go to a meeting that I felt was a time waster. The closest one so far was a meeting to discuss how we were going to prepare a response to a Request For Information.
Many of the meetings I go to are actually presentations to customers. Sometimes I am even presenting. In these meetings, I get to meet and converse with new people, and there is usually food, which is always good with me.
I guess the reason I don't have a problem with the meetings I end up going to is that they are not a distraction that takes me away from my work. When I go to a meeting it is because it IS my work.
Perhaps companies ought to give you a 1 hour project slippage allowance for every one hour meeting that they require you to go to.
All you need to do is produce ONE Roman or Jewish record--both cultures were assiduous record-keepers, though of course the temple was destroyed. The only records that exist are faith-based documents written decades (I think 5 at the earliest?) after Jesus' alleged crucifixion. It seems unlikely that at least ONE record that is not driven by an agenda would not persist.
Well, it would certainly help my cause if the temple had not been destroyed and the books burned, wouldn't it. Or perhaps the Christians burned the temple so no one would ever know that nothing corroborated their story?
Anyway, the earliest parchments are from little over a hundred years after the death of Jesus. The sheer number of parchments, quite literally thousands of them , should be evidence enough that Jesus existed.
Are you suggesting that Jesus' teachings are exactly the same as the Old Testament teachings?
Jesus was the fulfillment of the Old testaments teachings. He was the colmination of hundreds of teachings. He said himself that he did not come to abolish the law, but to fulfill it. Please note that the law given by God was not the same as the thousands of rules and regulations in Jewish Law. So yes, the new testament and the old testament essentially teach the same thing.
I simply don't see how the pursuit of wealth is reconcilable with Christianity, particularly when it comes at someone else's expense.
Well, the pursuit of wealth is not the same as wealth, is it. Jesus said to seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, not to seek the worldly things. But he also said that if you do seek after righteousness that your needs would be taken care of. If God chooses to reward you for being a good Christian, that is because he knows you will be a good steward of the money. You should never try to earn money off the backs of others, but you should never be ashamed to be legitimately wealthy either.
I think I remember seeing that one as well. Funny thing is, that some of those same creatures have also appeared in specials on evolution and supposedly existed in the past.
Look, the pirate thing is all wrong. For one thing, there are still plenty of pirates.
The problem is clearly due to the decline of spirograph.
With regard to the hurricanes: The lowest pressure reading is impressive, but most of the rest is all relative. Damage from hurricanes will always go up as inflation goes up and as the human population and land improvements go up. This is true of any disaster. It doesn't mean that the disasters are getting worse. It just means there are more buildings and people for the same sized disaster to pound on.
Hurricanes have only been named since 1951, so the number of hurricanes in a season has only been tested about 55 times. Also, that list applies to all tropical storms, not just hurricane strength ones.
We had an entire city, under sea level, on a coast, with inadequate levees, in a place called Hurricane Alley. Why? Because a strong Hurricane had never hit it. If you had presented these observations to someone prior to last season, there would have been any number of justifications for doing nothing.
Actually, I saw a Discovery Channel special on New Orleans about a year before Katrina. Experts were well aware that a direct hit would pretty much spell the end. As you say, of course, no one did anything about it, probably because there was nothing much that could be done other than try to convince people not to live there. But that never works. Even people who live by rivers that overflow every couple of years and destroy everything they own almost always rebuild.
...conversion of the planet's biomass into HUMAN mass
Oh my. Does this mean we may some day exceed the biomass of the ant?
Yeah. A lot of places don't seem to have any interest in respecting that uppity King guy.
No, I shouldn't put down to racism what could be easily explained by wanting to make more money off of salaried employees.
Also, before you call other people "bonkers," consider your faith in a god/man who allegedly, two thousand years ago, according to no official texts, and only to the writings of his followers (don't cite me the fabricated Josephus passage please), brought back dead people, healed the blind and leprous, and walked on water, then resurrected from the dead, each of which are unprecedented events in all of proven, reliable human history.
It's easy to say "no official texts" when you categorize anything that backs it up as "unofficial". Furthermore, if you read the "unofficial" texts, you will find that almost all of Christ's miracles were reproductions of earlier miracles done by Moses and the Prophets. This was done on purpose to let people know that he was the promised one.
Jesus was strictly ascetic, and it's supposedly the Christian credo to try to be as much like Christ as possible. That means that "you cannot serve God and wealth" and therefore should give away all your worldly possessions. Christians attempt all sorts of distortions and intellectual wild goose chases to get around this, but wealth and Christianity, and therefore Capitalism, are not just incompatible, but diametrically opposed explicitly by the Gospel's teachings.
Christ certainly was not ascetic, not were his followers, but having wealth is not the same as living a hedonistic lifestyle. Christ himself had no place he could call home, nor many more possesions than he carried on his person, but any ministry has to have money in order to survive, and Christ's was no exception. How could Judas have stolen from the till if there was no money in it?
Many people in the world give Christians a hard time for having wealth, when Christ was clearly unwealthy. Yet some of the most important, positive characters in the Bible were extraordinaily wealthy. Abraham, King David and Solomon for example. But most non-christians like to quote the verse "it is hard for a rich man to go to heaven than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle", while forgetting to continue to read the following verse "but with God all things are possible." Further, when you point out the verse that says "No one can serve two masters", later in that same chapter it speaks of people worrying about food, water and clothing. Jesus tells them to "seek first the kingdom of heaven", which everyone always quotes, but also says "and all these things shall be added to you as well." The world has come to believe that any Christian with money is not a true Christian, and religion encourages this belief by leaving these verses out in sermons. Perhaps this is to cause more people to put their money in the collection plate, but it has the detrimental affect of making people believe that God is only for the poor, the weak, the stupid. This is contradictary to the teaching of the Bible.
I agree and further argue that they should never have left the old x86 branding.
I don't have much problem with relevant ads on a free site. However, when I start to see ads on a site which I have to pay to see, like a support site, or a site for software which I have purchased, then I figure that they are double dipping and can go fsck themselves. I mean that';s sort of like having to pay for cable and then still having to watch commercials. Oh, wait...
If they are trying to disprove ID, then that means that ID is a scientific theory after all. Bad Move on their part.
I think this article is great. It certainly showed me that one strawman can conclusively beat another strawman.
Indeed. Biblically, wisdom is to be desired above all else.
"And God said to Solomon, Because this was in thine heart, and thou hast not asked riches, wealth, or honor, nor the life of thine enemies, neither yet hast asked long life; but hast asked wisdom and knowledge for thyself, that thou mayest judge my people, over whom I have made thee king: Wisdom and knowledge is granted unto thee; and I will give thee riches, and wealth, and honor, such as none of the kings have had that have been before thee, neither shall there any after thee have the like." 2 Chronicles 1:12.
Of course, the book of Proverbs continuously exhorts the importance of wisdom and knowledge. Religion obviously would discourage knowledge, because without knowledge the religious leaders could more easily control the people. But the Bible itself gladly tells you to seek wisdom and understanding. God had nothing to fear from us studying His creation. The only peril is that some people are not studying science but are just studying how to dissuade people from believing in God, and calling their study science. Science is NOT about disproving the existence of God. Those that use Science to do that blaspheme against God AND Science.
I figure that the universe IS a closed system, and that all of the entropy that existed at the beginning of time was manifested in the big bang, prior to which point, science asserts that all of the energy and matter (but they are both the same, no?) existed at a single point. I figure, when the entropy of the universe runs out, bye-bye universe. Meanwhile, local increases in entropy are certainly possible.
There is only an infinite amount of knowledge if we live in an infinite universe.
If the entire universe fit within a drop of water, the set of all possible integers in that universe would still be infinite. Knowing all of the positive integers alone would give you an infinite amount of knowledge. And yet you would still not necessarily be omniscient unless you knew the negative integers as well, and every other infinite series.
Thanks to Asimov for that realization.
When the law is immoral, it is the duty of any moral individual to ignore the law.
Well, we all here seem to think it is immoral, but apparently the Chinese see it differently.
It is amazing that here on slashdot, where people complain about religious types trying to force their morals upon them, that we are more than happy to try to force our morals on a culture 1 billion strong.
Well, most SUVs are not really rated to pull any larger of a trailer than a large sedan. Also, it is kind of dangerous to pull a trailer with a SUV, as the center of gravity is too high. Obviously, the better vehicle for pulling trailers or boats is a pickup. The exceptions to this would be the Suburban, which has a decent Center of Gravity and a long wheelbase, and a strong engine. Ironically, it offers the most Utility of the SUVs, but is definitely one of the least cool factor. It is about the only SUV I would consider owning.
As for the rest of the comment, well an SUV is not sporty. It's acceleration is not all that great. They don't handle very well. And they are not a utility vehicle, as their interior storage space is not any greater than a station wagon, and far less than a pickup or a minivan. So an SUV is not S or U, but is only V.
Absolutely. After 9/11, when the contract I was working was ended early, I was out of work for a year. I had to use my credit cards to pay for the mortgage and food after I sold all but one car and sold my house. Then, when I no longer had money even to pay the minumum balances, I stopped paying those. After about 6 months, I got them to cancel the debt. The next year, I had to pay about $6000 extra in taxes because supposedly the amount the creditors forgave was income to me (even though most of it was interest on money that I never got to use).
It was a bad move on my part. I should have declared bankruptcy. However, that is no longer going to be an option as the laws have changed so that now you have to pay back your debts even if you declare bankruptcy, don't have a job, don't have any income, have become permanently disabled and are dead.
Big deal, so they have 6 times as many people Tivoing through the commercials. I'd bet the people that watch Futurama have 6 times as much disposable income as the guys watching Football anyway.