It drives me crazy when otherwise intelligent persons use the phrase "good paying". As though they're sucking up to constituents who are too poorly educated to differentiate between adverbs ("well") and adjectives ("good").
I realize this makes me sound like a petty grammar Nazi.
Christian parents freak out when their kids don't want to go to church, because a key Christian belief is that there will be a day when we are all judged by God. According to Christian theology, everyone has sinned, and so only those who accepted Jesus as their king and savior will be granted eternal life in paradise. Those who do not, at best have oblivion and at worst eternal punishment, depending on which version of Christian theology you ask.
So given those assumptions, perhaps you can see why parents would be deeply concerned as to whether or not their children are showing signs of following Jesus.
I agree. But Zuckerberg was saying that those programmers simply don't exist. There's good evidence that in reality, they only don't exist at the price range he has in mind.
To make my point with a more extreme example: Suppose he offered $10 million/year to any highly skilled programmer. How many would suddenly "pop into existence" from his perspective?
Mark Zuckerberg says, 'Our policy at Facebook is literally to hire as many talented engineers as we can find.
I'm calling bullshit. I work with plenty of very good developers, and none of them has been contacted by Facebook. If he really wanted to meet them, all he'd need to do is offer a yearly salary of $200k. He's apparently unwilling to do that.
I think you are glossing over the fact that, while offensive, holding up a sign saying "God hates fags" isn't quite the same thing as killing somebody. I'm not a fan of religion at all. But of the significant world religions Islam is alone in constantly calling for death and destruction. Simply look at any country that has a significant population of Muslims intermixed with another group. How many of those places have no tensions? None. Zero. Zip. Of course the Muslims always seem to have a reason for declaring a Fatwah and calling for death.
The only Christian analog I can think of is people who attack abortion centers / doctors.
But even that isn't a good parallel, because the people doing that have a goal of saving innocent humans. There's just a disagreement, which largely falls along religious lines, about what constitute a human in that case.
Terrorism is a tactic. If the people performing terrorism had control of civil courts and law enforcement, large standing armies with M1 tanks, F18's, and drones, I suspect they wouldn't be doing things that get them labeled "terrorists".
My barely informed theory: Muslims who want to kill Christians and others are being faithful to a straight-forward reading of the Quran, and Muslims who just want us all to get along are using twisted interpretations of the Quran to accomodate their view.
But I'm certainly not an expert. Any who is want to comment?
Seriously, Obama talks a great game about a transparent government by the people, for the people.
But from what I can tell, the petition website is, at best, a case of him failing to follow through on his aspirations. At worst, it's meant to give the American public a false sense of being listened to.
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BTW, I really am sorry for the victims, fwiw.
I just felt a tremor in the force, like the Bill of Rights being stripped from hundreds of millions of Americans...
Your German is perfect! Both in your grammar, and the quality of your joke.
It isn't a well paying job. It's a good job. And it's a paying job.
Seems to me it's either a "well-paying job", or a "good, paying job" (using your interpretation).
But since it's hardly worth mentioning that a job is a paying job, so I doubt your interpretation is what the speaker meant.
It drives me crazy when otherwise intelligent persons use the phrase "good paying". As though they're sucking up to constituents who are too poorly educated to differentiate between adverbs ("well") and adjectives ("good").
I realize this makes me sound like a petty grammar Nazi.
When there's an incoming asteroid, use a rocket to place a USB stick on it loaded with copyrighted material.
Within 2 hours, it's trajectory will be altered by the mass of the layers and federal agents swarming it.
Wow! I assume they're redeemable at ThinkGeek?
You spent all day mucking with config.sys? Why didn't you just Google the issue???
Tying up emergency services in order to extort money is one of the few crimes that may be worthy of death by torture.
Christian parents freak out when their kids don't want to go to church, because a key Christian belief is that there will be a day when we are all judged by God. According to Christian theology, everyone has sinned, and so only those who accepted Jesus as their king and savior will be granted eternal life in paradise. Those who do not, at best have oblivion and at worst eternal punishment, depending on which version of Christian theology you ask.
So given those assumptions, perhaps you can see why parents would be deeply concerned as to whether or not their children are showing signs of following Jesus.
Thanks!
Anyone know when RedHat is going to make a version of devtoolset which offers GCC 4.8?
He's making the FOIA lawsuit a complete slam dunk for the EFF, ACLU, or whoever files it.
How is this not all over the front of every news site's homepage?
I agree. But Zuckerberg was saying that those programmers simply don't exist. There's good evidence that in reality, they only don't exist at the price range he has in mind.
To make my point with a more extreme example: Suppose he offered $10 million/year to any highly skilled programmer. How many would suddenly "pop into existence" from his perspective?
I'm calling bullshit. I work with plenty of very good developers, and none of them has been contacted by Facebook. If he really wanted to meet them, all he'd need to do is offer a yearly salary of $200k. He's apparently unwilling to do that.
My first thought from the headline was, "Why would they have a problem with Continuous Active Sonar?".
I think you are glossing over the fact that, while offensive, holding up a sign saying "God hates fags" isn't quite the same thing as killing somebody. I'm not a fan of religion at all. But of the significant world religions Islam is alone in constantly calling for death and destruction. Simply look at any country that has a significant population of Muslims intermixed with another group. How many of those places have no tensions? None. Zero. Zip. Of course the Muslims always seem to have a reason for declaring a Fatwah and calling for death.
The only Christian analog I can think of is people who attack abortion centers / doctors.
But even that isn't a good parallel, because the people doing that have a goal of saving innocent humans. There's just a disagreement, which largely falls along religious lines, about what constitute a human in that case.
Not all Muslims are Terrorists.
But most Terrorists are Muslims.
You need to differentiate tactics and goals.
Terrorism is a tactic. If the people performing terrorism had control of civil courts and law enforcement, large standing armies with M1 tanks, F18's, and drones, I suspect they wouldn't be doing things that get them labeled "terrorists".
My barely informed theory: Muslims who want to kill Christians and others are being faithful to a straight-forward reading of the Quran, and Muslims who just want us all to get along are using twisted interpretations of the Quran to accomodate their view.
But I'm certainly not an expert. Any who is want to comment?
Is it at all possible that you're the one who was cracked, and that's how the email address got into the wild?
Seriously, Obama talks a great game about a transparent government by the people, for the people.
But from what I can tell, the petition website is, at best, a case of him failing to follow through on his aspirations. At worst, it's meant to give the American public a false sense of being listened to.
Given Facebook's MO, users should assume that anything Facebook, Inc. had access to is already in the hands of people you can't trust.
Them being hacked is pretty irrelevant.
I don't believe IE ever deserved to be called venerable.
Fortrunately, English has a word that nicely covers both of those variants: deceipt.
A newspaper has no business engaging in any form of deceipt. It's the opposite of informing the reader.
I think you mean deceit.
Yes. My shame is great.