Seriously? How could you miss the "I'm an uneducated Jamaican" accent -- it was so overt I was absolutely amazed I was seeing it on the screen.
Anecdotal, but opposite to you, EVERYONE I know who saw it immediately thought is was a bad, cheesy Jamaican accent.
And as we all know, there are not white people in Jamaica, so a green and brown alien creature with a Jamaican accent must be some kind of racial stereotype.
They also make no mention of whether crime in general has gone up. I expect that it probably has, if they are cramming that many new people into a city. So if crimes are going up, then crimes against homosexuals also goes up. I find it odd that they even have such a statistic. What difference does it make if a crime is done to a homosexual or any other citizen? Why are the police asking? Are punishments for crimes against homosexuals different than crimes against anyone else? They shouldn't be. How would a criminal even know whether someone is a homosexual or not?
Algebra: largely unimportant for most people. Nerds are the exception. Some adults entering college have trouble with fractions. Arithmetic is useful for nearly everyone though.
My kids are trying to halve a cookie recipe right now and are having to ask me questions like "what is half of 1 1/4?" Seems like fractions are pretty important for people like, oh, stay at home mom's.
Algebra is extremely useful. How else do you you determine whether 24 oz of one brand is cheaper than 20 oz of another (some stores are kind enough to list the price per ounce). Seems like Algebra would be extremely useful for people who go shopping for groceries.
I was at a store the other day when a young girl tried to talk her mom into the big box of cheerios because it was cheaper per ounce. The mother shot her down saying "they just make the box bigger, they don't put any more in it". Hopefully, HOPEFULLY that girl learned no lesson that day other than that her mother is a dumbass and she needs a better role model.
I'm not so sure education is the problem in America. The kids seem to be bright enough. The kids I graduated high school with knew basic biology, chemistry, physics, algebra, English and so forth. It's the adults that seem to be lacking in this knowledge. Have you seen Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader? The kids in America are pretty smart. It's the adults that seem to go out of their way not to know anything and try to forget anything that they DID know.
Well, except that every solar cycle since I can remember, I've heard somebody predicting that the next solar cycle is about the start a new Maunder minimum, and it will mean mini ice age. Every one.
This one is a prediction based on fitting a model only to the last three cycles. i'm not impressed.
For reference, here's the MSFC page on solar cycle modelling: http://solarscience.msfc.nasa....
Maybe instead of studying the sun, we should study people who study the sun and see what the relative period is of these people claiming mini ice ages and see if there is any convergence with the periods within which other scientists claim global warming.
Looking at the picture I don't see any elimination of space between rows. There is still space there. Not enough for a human being to put there legs there, but there is space. I don't see how a flip up seat saves any space. The only thing I see that adds space is that they have gone with an extremely thin and painful looking backboard. The seat itself also looks thin and painful and that doesn't even save any space by being thin and painful. The rearward facing seat does not save any space at all. It might as well face forward. It appears that all the space savings is due to the elimination of seat back cushion and armrests, and they probably crammed the rows closer together.
The supposed "hexagon" arrangement is really more of a triangle. It assumes a human is widest at the hips and gets narrower as you go forward. This is the opposite of how most male humans are shaped when sitting. Women tend to sit with their ankles crossed which meets the shape that this seating arrangement desires. But men either sit with their knees spread or with one leg on the other knee and both of these arrangements result in the area of the knee requiring more space than the hips.
For this to work correctly, the men's seating section would have to have a different staggering of seats than the women's section.For the women, the widest area needs to be for the hips. For the men, the widest area needs to be for the knees.
Also, there is no need to face anybody backwards to do this staggering arrangement. It can be done with everybody facing forward, but the middle seat being offset.
So the Fifth Element was a prophecy? I always wondered why we didn't do that more. As you say, let us skip the pretense of comfort and cram as many people aboard. Most people would prefer to skip the flight experience I imagine.
It is hard for sedated or even recently sedated people to deplane in an emergency.
According to your reference, my statement is correct. Read the "six criteria". Unpaid internships are illegal, if the intern does any actual work. Twenty years ago, this was not strictly enforced. Today it is. You can legally provide pure education to a student, with no actual work whatsoever, but that is not what an "internship" means to anyone.
So do all the media companies have to redefine what "actual work" means? They seem to be the most offensive industry as far as sheer volume of unpaid internships.
Universities are just not teaching comp sci students how to program.
Universities are not there to teach students how to program. They are there to teach students the theory of programming. If a university student already knows a programming language upon graduation it is because a course required they learn some of it to teach a concept (such as OO) or they learned it on their own. They probably should know the difference in concept between a map and a list (should have been taught in Data Structures and Algorithms), but not necessarily how to code them.
Trade school graduates should know languages coming out, so it all depends on what you are looking for. A code monkey that can start right now, or a long term software engineer.
In today's society, of course, the answer is clear. Better a bird in the hand than 1,000 in bush. Better a 2% growth this quarter than 1000% over the next 3 years. Live for today and screw tomorrow.
I hire a lot of developers for my company, and recent grads are slotted in our "junior" role (unless they somehow had a lot of experience during university) and the starting salary is between $55-70k depending on many factors that are personal to them. I have never hired anyone out of university for $100k, and I think that is nuts. Companies should pay for quality, not ambition.
At the company I was at before, they mocked the salary expectations of graduates who came in armed with average starting salaries. The people were coming in with numbers in the $50k area. But my company was only willing to pay about $30k for a recent graduate AND they expected them to be able to hit the ground running. Most of the developers there were not getting $50k even with 7 or 8 years of experience. I was getting more like $85k, but I was one of the founders and I had 27 years of experience. Then they decided they were paying too much for me and let me go as well. I heard they are trying unsuccessfully to find new developers and are not finding anybody in their price range. So they say "there are no developers out there", when all they would have to do is add another $20k to their salary and they would be getting all kinds of resumes.
Our survey found that only 45.4% of the class of 2014 is currently enrolled in a full-time job meaning 54.6% of grads from last year are unemployed or underemployed (this is excluding students enrolled in graduate education).
This seems to be more noteworthy.
Ah, so in fact, the average starting salary was only $50k when you factor in the salaries of the unemployed.
Wow, That's only 50K less than what I make--and I've been in the s/w field since 1995.
And it's only 100k more than I make and I have been in the s/w field since 1989. Aren't statistics wonderful?
Of course, I started out at $36k and have made as much as $180k and recently made about $85k(with 27 years of experience) but was let go because the company thought my salary was too high.
I always thought unpaid internships were relegated to liberal arts students..?
Unpaid internships are illegal in the United States. They are a blatant violation of minimum wages laws. In the past, a few companies got away with it, by claiming the internships were purely education, and didn't involve any work. But that loophole was effectively closed more than a decade ago. If you worked an unpaid internship, you likely have the right to demand full retroactive back pay, if you even so much as fetched your boss a cup of coffee.
According to the Department of Labor, your statement is wrong. I agree that unpaid internships SHOULD be illegal, but there are circumstances in which they are allowed.
Without buying extra insurance, you're limited to what the carrier is willing to pay out as specified in the contract agreed to at the time of purchase. In the US, both UPS and FedEx cap their payout at $100 unless additional insurance is purchased.
I'm sure that every launch has its own contract that probably takes as much time to hammer out as preparing the rocket for launch does. I'm sure NASA could get SpaceX to insure delivery for X or just make a good faith effort of delivery for X-Y.
I figure he is trying to make a Mercury Thermostat since you can't hardly find them anymore and they tend to be so much more reliable than thermostats which do not contain mercury. Kind of like how lead paint is so much more durable than paint which doesn't contain lead. FYI, the government, which outlawed most consumer use of lead paint, still regularly uses lead paint for roadway markings, because non lead based paints fade too fast from the sun and the elements.
But, who wants to bet that the kid was white keep in mind they did not pressed charges. If the kid had been black....
Gotta make everything about race, don't we? Surely if we bring up race on every article, then people will forget about race and treat everyone equally.
In fact, the guy (not a kid) probably is white, since his father is white. And the guy WAS charged with trespassing and theft.
All the mercury switches your little terrorist hands can handle for $1.89 ea plus $1.99 shipping. Thank golly none of the terrorists know about that site
Yes, but those will have a very easy to search record. Hell, Frys is probably required to report they were purchased. It would actually take more than a search of a database to track down scavenged switches. Not that it would be difficult to purchase them anonymously, but the authorities hate having to do extra work. In the post 9/11 world, that's practically a crime.
I'm quite certain that someone has bought that quantity or more of mercury switches from Frys in the past and I would bet money that no SWAT team showed up at their door.
I can't say I RTFA, but when the police shut down the street and show up at your front door with the bomb squad, most people don't realize they have the right to ask for a warrant.
You have the right to ask for a warrant, but woe upon you if you do. This is one of those situations where you are screwed no matter what. If you ask for a warrant after the bomb squad took the effort to get out there, they WILL make it worth their while. You may find yourself forcibly detained while they call up a judge to get a warrant. Note that it is also illegal to detain someone for the time it takes to get a warrant, but that won't stop them from doing it.
In this case, the safest thing for them to do was to give up their right to request a warrant. Not that I think that is right. But that is now the world we live in.
I also have some on my resume, from various vendors. Other than the Oracle Certified Professional, they were all paid for by employers. It may help get me in the door in some places. As a hiring manager, I wouldn't put much faith in them as anybody could basically get a certification just by studying, having never actually done the work. In some cases, doing the work is a detriment to getting the certification. I know that I have gotten some certifications just to get them, having never worked in the position (PMP, for example). So since anybody can put a small amount of effort in and get a certification, I don't put a lot of faith in them.
I think he's talking about the fact that you can claim your spouse as a dependent.
That being said... if you earn enough, you run into the marriage penalty. That is, someone making a little over 400k by themselves will pay the same tax rate as two people making a little over 400k together rather than 800k as one would expect.
Exactly my point. If anything, there is a marriage penalty and not a single penalty.
Email is not a valid method of legal notification. If they send something to your house or start calling, then get worried. Most likely somebody is too dumb to realize that if their name is John Doe, then johndoe@gmail.com is not automatically their email address, or, unable to opt out of receiving emails as they should be able to do, they fed the company a false email address so they don't have to get spammed.
I get email on my yahoo account for someone with the same first initial and last name as me. They apparently made the same assumption that they own that yahoo address. They subscribe to extremely liberal newsletters (which they never receive, and I don't care to receive, and do not use a proper opt-in confirmation). They get coupons for stores I don't go to (they live in Minnesota guessing by some of the stuff they get). I'm not worried about identity theft from them, though. Maybe character assassination if anybody ever tries to use my yahoo account contents as an establishment of character.
The state of Washington should just seize all of Microsoft's assets to recover back taxes and penalties, just as it would to any individual or small business that ran-up such a huge bill via willful tax evasion.
You misunderstand, Microsoft does not owe any back taxes. The writer of the article is trying to make it look like they did, but they did not. What Microsoft is doing is like if you went to a "no sales tax day" sale and then later you volunteered to pay the sales tax for items you purchased on that day but only if it is used for programs of your choosing.
I'm not. I'm attacking them for paying less than they are ethically obligated to.
Apparently you and Microsoft differ on ethics. If you go into a pizza place and want to buy 50 pizzas, and they offer you 10% do you pay full price anyway? Deals go on all the time between companies and cities or states eager to host them. My city gave Wal-mart a break on sales taxes to entice them to my city over a neighboring city. Wal-mart brings in millions in sales tax revenue to the city. If the city had insisted on the full normal sales tax rate, then Wal-mart would have been bringing in millions in sales taxes for our neighboring city instead and my city would be getting nothing.
How so? If two single people make $50k each, they pay $8293.75 in taxes each for a total of $16587.50. If they are married, they pay $16587.50 jointly.
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Seriously? How could you miss the "I'm an uneducated Jamaican" accent -- it was so overt I was absolutely amazed I was seeing it on the screen.
Anecdotal, but opposite to you, EVERYONE I know who saw it immediately thought is was a bad, cheesy Jamaican accent.
And as we all know, there are not white people in Jamaica, so a green and brown alien creature with a Jamaican accent must be some kind of racial stereotype.
They also make no mention of whether crime in general has gone up. I expect that it probably has, if they are cramming that many new people into a city. So if crimes are going up, then crimes against homosexuals also goes up. I find it odd that they even have such a statistic. What difference does it make if a crime is done to a homosexual or any other citizen? Why are the police asking? Are punishments for crimes against homosexuals different than crimes against anyone else? They shouldn't be. How would a criminal even know whether someone is a homosexual or not?
Algebra: largely unimportant for most people. Nerds are the exception. Some adults entering college have trouble with fractions. Arithmetic is useful for nearly everyone though.
My kids are trying to halve a cookie recipe right now and are having to ask me questions like "what is half of 1 1/4?" Seems like fractions are pretty important for people like, oh, stay at home mom's.
Algebra is extremely useful. How else do you you determine whether 24 oz of one brand is cheaper than 20 oz of another (some stores are kind enough to list the price per ounce). Seems like Algebra would be extremely useful for people who go shopping for groceries.
I was at a store the other day when a young girl tried to talk her mom into the big box of cheerios because it was cheaper per ounce. The mother shot her down saying "they just make the box bigger, they don't put any more in it". Hopefully, HOPEFULLY that girl learned no lesson that day other than that her mother is a dumbass and she needs a better role model.
I'm not so sure education is the problem in America. The kids seem to be bright enough. The kids I graduated high school with knew basic biology, chemistry, physics, algebra, English and so forth. It's the adults that seem to be lacking in this knowledge. Have you seen Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader? The kids in America are pretty smart. It's the adults that seem to go out of their way not to know anything and try to forget anything that they DID know.
Well, except that every solar cycle since I can remember, I've heard somebody predicting that the next solar cycle is about the start a new Maunder minimum, and it will mean mini ice age. Every one. This one is a prediction based on fitting a model only to the last three cycles. i'm not impressed. For reference, here's the MSFC page on solar cycle modelling: http://solarscience.msfc.nasa....
Maybe instead of studying the sun, we should study people who study the sun and see what the relative period is of these people claiming mini ice ages and see if there is any convergence with the periods within which other scientists claim global warming.
refuse to do anything about global climate change. They know it disproportionally affects the poor so they keep pushing for more of it.
Just curious, are you the same guy who takes every single article and twists it into a political argument and blames it on the republicans?
Looking at the picture I don't see any elimination of space between rows. There is still space there. Not enough for a human being to put there legs there, but there is space. I don't see how a flip up seat saves any space. The only thing I see that adds space is that they have gone with an extremely thin and painful looking backboard. The seat itself also looks thin and painful and that doesn't even save any space by being thin and painful. The rearward facing seat does not save any space at all. It might as well face forward. It appears that all the space savings is due to the elimination of seat back cushion and armrests, and they probably crammed the rows closer together.
The supposed "hexagon" arrangement is really more of a triangle. It assumes a human is widest at the hips and gets narrower as you go forward. This is the opposite of how most male humans are shaped when sitting. Women tend to sit with their ankles crossed which meets the shape that this seating arrangement desires. But men either sit with their knees spread or with one leg on the other knee and both of these arrangements result in the area of the knee requiring more space than the hips.
For this to work correctly, the men's seating section would have to have a different staggering of seats than the women's section.For the women, the widest area needs to be for the hips. For the men, the widest area needs to be for the knees.
Also, there is no need to face anybody backwards to do this staggering arrangement. It can be done with everybody facing forward, but the middle seat being offset.
So the Fifth Element was a prophecy? I always wondered why we didn't do that more. As you say, let us skip the pretense of comfort and cram as many people aboard. Most people would prefer to skip the flight experience I imagine.
It is hard for sedated or even recently sedated people to deplane in an emergency.
According to the Department of Labor, your statement is wrong.
According to your reference, my statement is correct. Read the "six criteria". Unpaid internships are illegal, if the intern does any actual work. Twenty years ago, this was not strictly enforced. Today it is. You can legally provide pure education to a student, with no actual work whatsoever, but that is not what an "internship" means to anyone.
So do all the media companies have to redefine what "actual work" means? They seem to be the most offensive industry as far as sheer volume of unpaid internships.
Universities are just not teaching comp sci students how to program.
Universities are not there to teach students how to program. They are there to teach students the theory of programming. If a university student already knows a programming language upon graduation it is because a course required they learn some of it to teach a concept (such as OO) or they learned it on their own. They probably should know the difference in concept between a map and a list (should have been taught in Data Structures and Algorithms), but not necessarily how to code them.
Trade school graduates should know languages coming out, so it all depends on what you are looking for. A code monkey that can start right now, or a long term software engineer.
In today's society, of course, the answer is clear. Better a bird in the hand than 1,000 in bush. Better a 2% growth this quarter than 1000% over the next 3 years. Live for today and screw tomorrow.
I hire a lot of developers for my company, and recent grads are slotted in our "junior" role (unless they somehow had a lot of experience during university) and the starting salary is between $55-70k depending on many factors that are personal to them. I have never hired anyone out of university for $100k, and I think that is nuts. Companies should pay for quality, not ambition.
At the company I was at before, they mocked the salary expectations of graduates who came in armed with average starting salaries. The people were coming in with numbers in the $50k area. But my company was only willing to pay about $30k for a recent graduate AND they expected them to be able to hit the ground running. Most of the developers there were not getting $50k even with 7 or 8 years of experience. I was getting more like $85k, but I was one of the founders and I had 27 years of experience. Then they decided they were paying too much for me and let me go as well. I heard they are trying unsuccessfully to find new developers and are not finding anybody in their price range. So they say "there are no developers out there", when all they would have to do is add another $20k to their salary and they would be getting all kinds of resumes.
Our survey found that only 45.4% of the class of 2014 is currently enrolled in a full-time job meaning 54.6% of grads from last year are unemployed or underemployed (this is excluding students enrolled in graduate education).
This seems to be more noteworthy.
Ah, so in fact, the average starting salary was only $50k when you factor in the salaries of the unemployed.
Wow, That's only 50K less than what I make--and I've been in the s/w field since 1995.
And it's only 100k more than I make and I have been in the s/w field since 1989. Aren't statistics wonderful?
Of course, I started out at $36k and have made as much as $180k and recently made about $85k(with 27 years of experience) but was let go because the company thought my salary was too high.
I always thought unpaid internships were relegated to liberal arts students ..?
Unpaid internships are illegal in the United States. They are a blatant violation of minimum wages laws. In the past, a few companies got away with it, by claiming the internships were purely education, and didn't involve any work. But that loophole was effectively closed more than a decade ago. If you worked an unpaid internship, you likely have the right to demand full retroactive back pay, if you even so much as fetched your boss a cup of coffee.
According to the Department of Labor, your statement is wrong. I agree that unpaid internships SHOULD be illegal, but there are circumstances in which they are allowed.
Without buying extra insurance, you're limited to what the carrier is willing to pay out as specified in the contract agreed to at the time of purchase. In the US, both UPS and FedEx cap their payout at $100 unless additional insurance is purchased.
I'm sure that every launch has its own contract that probably takes as much time to hammer out as preparing the rocket for launch does. I'm sure NASA could get SpaceX to insure delivery for X or just make a good faith effort of delivery for X-Y.
I figure he is trying to make a Mercury Thermostat since you can't hardly find them anymore and they tend to be so much more reliable than thermostats which do not contain mercury. Kind of like how lead paint is so much more durable than paint which doesn't contain lead. FYI, the government, which outlawed most consumer use of lead paint, still regularly uses lead paint for roadway markings, because non lead based paints fade too fast from the sun and the elements.
But, who wants to bet that the kid was white keep in mind they did not pressed charges. If the kid had been black....
Gotta make everything about race, don't we? Surely if we bring up race on every article, then people will forget about race and treat everyone equally.
In fact, the guy (not a kid) probably is white, since his father is white. And the guy WAS charged with trespassing and theft.
All the mercury switches your little terrorist hands can handle for $1.89 ea plus $1.99 shipping. Thank golly none of the terrorists know about that site
Yes, but those will have a very easy to search record. Hell, Frys is probably required to report they were purchased. It would actually take more than a search of a database to track down scavenged switches. Not that it would be difficult to purchase them anonymously, but the authorities hate having to do extra work. In the post 9/11 world, that's practically a crime.
I'm quite certain that someone has bought that quantity or more of mercury switches from Frys in the past and I would bet money that no SWAT team showed up at their door.
I can't say I RTFA, but when the police shut down the street and show up at your front door with the bomb squad, most people don't realize they have the right to ask for a warrant.
You have the right to ask for a warrant, but woe upon you if you do. This is one of those situations where you are screwed no matter what. If you ask for a warrant after the bomb squad took the effort to get out there, they WILL make it worth their while. You may find yourself forcibly detained while they call up a judge to get a warrant. Note that it is also illegal to detain someone for the time it takes to get a warrant, but that won't stop them from doing it.
In this case, the safest thing for them to do was to give up their right to request a warrant. Not that I think that is right. But that is now the world we live in.
I also have some on my resume, from various vendors. Other than the Oracle Certified Professional, they were all paid for by employers. It may help get me in the door in some places. As a hiring manager, I wouldn't put much faith in them as anybody could basically get a certification just by studying, having never actually done the work. In some cases, doing the work is a detriment to getting the certification. I know that I have gotten some certifications just to get them, having never worked in the position (PMP, for example). So since anybody can put a small amount of effort in and get a certification, I don't put a lot of faith in them.
I think he's talking about the fact that you can claim your spouse as a dependent.
That being said... if you earn enough, you run into the marriage penalty. That is, someone making a little over 400k by themselves will pay the same tax rate as two people making a little over 400k together rather than 800k as one would expect.
Exactly my point. If anything, there is a marriage penalty and not a single penalty.
Email is not a valid method of legal notification. If they send something to your house or start calling, then get worried. Most likely somebody is too dumb to realize that if their name is John Doe, then johndoe@gmail.com is not automatically their email address, or, unable to opt out of receiving emails as they should be able to do, they fed the company a false email address so they don't have to get spammed.
I get email on my yahoo account for someone with the same first initial and last name as me. They apparently made the same assumption that they own that yahoo address. They subscribe to extremely liberal newsletters (which they never receive, and I don't care to receive, and do not use a proper opt-in confirmation). They get coupons for stores I don't go to (they live in Minnesota guessing by some of the stuff they get). I'm not worried about identity theft from them, though. Maybe character assassination if anybody ever tries to use my yahoo account contents as an establishment of character.
The state of Washington should just seize all of Microsoft's assets to recover back taxes and penalties, just as it would to any individual or small business that ran-up such a huge bill via willful tax evasion.
You misunderstand, Microsoft does not owe any back taxes. The writer of the article is trying to make it look like they did, but they did not. What Microsoft is doing is like if you went to a "no sales tax day" sale and then later you volunteered to pay the sales tax for items you purchased on that day but only if it is used for programs of your choosing.
I'm not. I'm attacking them for paying less than they are ethically obligated to.
Apparently you and Microsoft differ on ethics. If you go into a pizza place and want to buy 50 pizzas, and they offer you 10% do you pay full price anyway? Deals go on all the time between companies and cities or states eager to host them. My city gave Wal-mart a break on sales taxes to entice them to my city over a neighboring city. Wal-mart brings in millions in sales tax revenue to the city. If the city had insisted on the full normal sales tax rate, then Wal-mart would have been bringing in millions in sales taxes for our neighboring city instead and my city would be getting nothing.
that single people must pay
How so? If two single people make $50k each, they pay $8293.75 in taxes each for a total of $16587.50. If they are married, they pay $16587.50 jointly.
You know this is in Austin, right?
It's more likely that they'll soon have the car running entirely on vegan fuel, maybe with a purple hair dye job.
Yes, people hear Texas and think guns and pickup trucks. But Austin is basically what it would be like if California was in Texas.