I can tell you that they don't pay 7 cents a KWH. Their price is probably about 3 or 4 cents, considering the amount of electricity they buy.
Not that that's a figure to sneeze at, by your calculations that's still $7M, but companies don't pay residential rates.
Of course, maybe that's the price for companies out wherever their based. Here, Rockford, IL., or thereabouts, it's 3 or 4 cents per KWH for a substantial user of power.
He wasn't just an archetect. He was also a philosopher, writer, teacher at Southern Illinois University, etc. His philosophy was very much informed by quantum mechanics.
I'd recommend "Manual For Spaceship Earth," if the examples weren't so dated and obviously from the era he wrote in.
And, IMO, his philosophies are much better than his architecture. Can't stand those domes.
Any reader of Robert Anton Wilson, or critic thereof, should at least look a little into Prof. Fuller. It will be, at least a little, enlightening.
Cost: The question of cost is really one of how much value we place on knowledge and the possiblities that it could give us. That's, of course, if you go with the assumption that we'll get something valuable out of the whole scenario.
Effectivness: Uhh, I might be able to plan a decent Mars mission, might being if I were trained and so forth, but to react to something unusual or to notice something "over there" and just go investigate, there's not a robot yet that can do these tasks.
Danger: The only life you risk is your own. I have no problem with people risking their lives (in this or in any other arena) as long as they are aware of the dangers and the distinct possiblity of unforseen dangers. If they would let me go, I'm reasonably certain I would, even knowing I'll may not make it back to Earth alive, or even dead, for that matter. I know I can't be the only one with this frame of mind. Hell, we found men who had "the right stuff" to go to the moon with these traits, knowing the possiblities, knowing that some of their comrades had died in persuit of what they were doing. Not to mention their exploring predecessors.
Mars is not the moon. The moon is a chunk of rock that may be useful, but Mars is a far bigger chunk of rock that may be useful. We just have to mean it.
The argument that we shouldn't colonate the solar system is based usually on the premise that we're doing something totally horrible and unworthy. Which is possible. But, really, what does it matter? We have a solar system, and a bit more of the galaxy right around us that seems, to me, to be mostly empty. Let's go!
It's inevitable that this will not matter, that humanity will be extinct, that we all will die, all we have is the hope that we can do something that will extend this life, this existence just a little longer.
Fuck all the rest.
All the money in the world ain't gonna bring you back to life, yet. We're here, and everything you do should be done to make the most of your time here.
Unless you believe that this physical universe isn't all there is, that is. Then I can't help you with this line of reasoning/ranting.
"And yes, I have read the Principia (English translation), several times."
Hmm, I thought it was written in English, Mr. Russell being a British guy, taught at the university of New York, another English-language institution.
Then again, I guess he was kind of bright, maybe he picked another language to doodle in. I heard that it's easier to discuss quantum mechanics in Hopi than English. Maybe Mr. Russell was ahead of his time.
Unless your talking of another Principia . . . written by some other, less famous guy. Invented caculus, perhaps. No, couldn't be anyone else.
Maybe I'm wrong.
But I did read Everything and More. I can tell you Wallace was planning on writing a math book for a very long time (before he left Illinois State for PoMo, even), and still ended up making some mistakes. Quick google will reveal them. No-one's perfect. Like most of Wallace's stuff, another complaint I run into is the near unstated requirement of repeat reading, which has been brought up here.
Yeah, but if you got a degree in liberal arts, at least you could have made it interesting.
But forget about me, I'm just bitter it took me about 3 years to get a job with my B.A., and I even know some calculus (enough to know what you were talking about).
Stupid Heinlen missed the correlary: specialization is for insects, and people who want jobs.
This does not pay for shit, even in a po-dunk town like Rockford, IL. I'm just glad I don't live in a suburb or Chicago itself.
Unemployment in my area is about 10%, due to it's heavy reliance on industry, I am currently underemployed as a line person at a food manufacturing plant. Years of IT experience, and a degree.
I want to see the underemployment statistics. Of course, I could be at my level, for all I know. All I know is that when I started college, I was pretty sure I wouldn't end up back in my home town working at a frozen food joint.
What class was that? I often was penalized for taking up too much space. Conciseness was adored in my English dept. and all my writing classes. This is something I've cultivated. Of all things, this became a problem in my sociology class. A lot of people from other departments in English classes (basic writing classes, even a creative writing course) would be totally confused that they kept asking how long the papers would need to be. "As long as they need to be," was a common answer, which confused the hell out out of nearly all of them.
Maybe that's why I have to keep waiting for the posting-time-limit to expire here on Slashdot.
For the record, I was nearly held back several times in elementary school for bad cursive handwriting. The answer became obvious, I print everything. Though I do admire a nice bit of handwriting when I do see it. (A lot of the old mechanics I work with have really cool looking cursive writing, but only on their own notes and other things. Blueprints are always printed with exactness.) And I write a lot, pretty quickly, too. Being one of those author types, I write entire novels in my nasty quick-print that nearly cost me a year of school.
I'd say a decent salary would be about 30,000. This is heavily dependant on where you live, of course.
I live in the Rockford, IL, area. The industrial based economy around here is notoriously sensitive to economic issues around the country. I've had machinist friends laid off, I've been laid off, teachers have been laid off, graphic designers have been laid off, etc. etc. My skill base is wide and relatively in depth, but still, places can name their price, and demand excessive qualifications for miniscule salaries. Examples? See FuckthatJob.com for a few in preferred line of work (web/graphic design). I have a degree, etc. etc., and a decent amount of experience for someone who recently graduated (actually about 2 years ago now).
I am currently underemployed as a line operator for a nationally known food maker/distributer. (Trust me, you've probably eaten their products before.) I make a little under 20,000 a year, without overtime. I've worked up to 20 hours extra (making about 60 a week) just to make ends meet. Now, because of the fiscal year's imminent demise, earnings at my plant, as all other places it seems, are being inflated by line shut-downs, lay-offs, etc. etc. Not only has my overtime been discontinued, but my line has been closed as well.
I've been without income for a couple weeks. Luckily, these weeks are the ones without the bills coming in. I think. I've applied for unemployment, but I honestly don't think I qualify. I still send out resumes and applications and so on, and I've gotten two interviews in six months since I've started at my current employer, and those are for internal positions at my plant. I have looked near Chicago and Madison,(WI) and even thought about heading back to school, but my grades the first time around were . . . explainably inconsistant.:-) I had an epiphany, where I suddenly found out that it was important to have a good time with the papers I had to write, and my grades improved, too. Law school was the thought, until I couldn't even afford to take the LSAT.
I'm glad I have a job, considering, but I haven't been able to pay rent regularly in months, it's been as much as I can for a while. This month doesn't look good either.
A decent salary is heavily dependant on where you live. There are jobs, yes, but some of them are appalling (telemarketing) or the employers are wanting way overqualified applicants for low-paying jobs because those applicants are desparate. Even after 60 hours a week, I was thinking of getting a second job. My wife won't work because because she wants to stay home with our first child. Obviously, this decision is something I'm against, but I can't force her to get a job.
In any case, the economy sucks. Tax Cuts might help for now, but who knows in a few years . . . fundimental changes are needed, and the longer I go underemployed, the more radical my politics become about the economy and large corporations. I know I'm not the only one that this is happening to. Being treated like a resource instead of a human is disheartening.
Well, of course, all the marines I've ever met have given me this attitude, it's interesting, really. Army folk don't have this; Air Force, nope; and Navy, the folks who sign your checks, last I heard, sure as hell don't. Even officers for the other branches don't even come close.
"But they're not Marines!"
Navy Seals don't act that way, seriously.
Take your four letters as you will, you are free. If I disagree, threaten to stomp my guts out, go ahead and kill me; it won't make you any more right.
Not that I agree with the fellow you're replying to, either, I really just want to pick on the fucker who's been taking all the jobs from me.
I don't think so, and besides, he didn't free them, just reduced the sentence. There is a difference, but I'll continue to bite.
My step-dad made the same argument, except he just kept yelling "Yeah you would!" louder and louder. Argument Ad volumous, I guess. I hope you have something better.
The only way to actually have faith in the judicial system as any sort of justice is to admit it's probably right. So, if someone gets released for a crime, then their rights have been violated or they didn't do it and so on. The person they may or may not have killed, I hope, would realize that there are more important things than their own life, like rights we all enjoy, even if a couple people fuck them up.
Do murder victims whose "murderers" are released deserve justice, a fancy name for revenge? No, they deserve our respect for what they have gave us in life, and the rights they died, unwillingly, to protect, even of the person that ended their life. Like a soldier everyone's willing to support.
Yeah, they're dead, but so are millions more for those rights. If they're not there for the worst of us, when are they going to be there for the best of us?
Kind of backwards, I admit, but I'm thinking on the fly and tend to do that badly, especially when I'm up before I want to be.
If you mean the constitution itself as a set of principles being more important than the gov't, you got it right. I don't see much of God in there otherwise.
Anyway, the other day one man at work was extolling the virtues of drunk driving, I wish I had this page and these pictures for him then. If it only killed the drinker, then it'd be fine, IMO, but it more often than not kills "innocents." It makes me feel better for driving a friend home a couple days ago . . . but even he gave me his keys (I don't drink at all.)
Death penalty questions are hard, of course, but I think what the fmr. Illinois governer did was right, commuting all the sentances from death to life w/o parole. Maybe a little too far, a stay until the DNA testing could be done and so on, I could see that move.
But until the death penalty is prompt, fairly given, and never has the potential to be inflicted on an innocent person, no-one should be executed. Don't give me any shit about those who confess, those who confess are extremely rarely given death as a punishment anyway.
I did major in English, no education (can't teach it in this state without a certificate), but I did notice a severe difference between "pure" English majors and those who wanted to go on and teach.
Honestly, they're going to be teachers, the most thankless job in the world, you wouldn't want them to be discouraged from it, would you?
When you have better teachers, the students they teach will learn better, but you have to pay more to attract those teachers, but, in the U.S., we really need billions more for the war on terrorism, and drugs, and homlessness, and poverty, and no child left behind, after all.
I did substitute for a while, and 90% of the people said they hated their job, while the other 10% were in administration.
The United States education system is so fucked up it's really beyond description.
You obviously haven't learned anything from the Beastmaster movie. You should have one of those innate sense of connection things installed so you can steal keys and so forth and sneak into the evil priest's fortress.
Not that an elephant wouldn't be cool, but that's a more front-end assault kind of thing.
Yeah, it works fine for you, but it shouldn't be the only way, should it?
I like the concept of themes, really, I do, but most people who do them have no concept of user-interface-design. If you're distributing a product, you should endevor to create a professional appearance once the work's been done behind the scenes.
A lot of folks seem to think that if it works for them, it works for everyone. Look at the plethora of shitty themes on themes.org or winamp skins at winamp.com or whatever it is that mac users do . . . my mac doesn't work right now. (iBook's yo-yo power supply is busted.) Anyhow, they're mostly just bad, cluttered, and really not that cohesive. I'm sure there are a couple, but I end up just getting the background pictures mostly.
For chrissakes, if you spend your whole life on a project, is 8 hours to make a theme unadorned with pictures of Heidi Klum wearing a Tux baby-T too much to ask?
"Gentlemen, BEHOLD! This thing!"
You should be able to use command lines, if you want, but it shouldn't be required.
My friend read it after me and told me to fuck off, that the book was a giant joke, a really well-told joke, but I don't see it.
He's said in interviews that he wanted to write something that's really sad, and it kind of is.
That's what I get when I majored in the English department he taught at Illinois State University. There was a lot of idol worship about him, and though I never had a class with him, the feeling that he was around was palpable in the near sense of awe people had for him.
1) fat guys do get some 2) Christians can be bad guys 3) Programmers save the world every day!:-)
I liked it.
Other cool stuff: I just finished Mary Doria Russell's "The Sparrow" and it's sequal "Children Of God." Jesuit's initiate first contact. Even though I'm an atheist, the exploration of faith involved is quite intense and interesting, if a little condesending.
Just started Neil Gaiman's "Neverwhere," it's really good even though I'm 60 pgs into it, "American Gods" was excellent.
Verging on Sci-Fi, one of my favorite authors is David Foster Wallace, "Infinite Jest" is the work I'm talking about here; it's not sci-fi in even a liberal sense of the terms, but it involves some ideas explored first in sci-fi, but a little different. Not to mention it's simply wonderfully written. It's a massive book, but the language propels you through it.
Also, I know it's a sci-fi question, but I finished "On The Road," the classic novel by Kerouac (I know I misspelled that), it's highly excellent. As well as "Unbareable Lightness of Being" by Kundera. Non-fiction? "Ain't Nobody's Buisiness if you Do" by Peter McWilliams (available for free on-line) and "Fast Food Nation" by Eric Schlossinger (spelling on that one, too). "The Future of Ideas" by Lessig is an interesting read, as well.
No no no no. If you are asked to sign away your copyright, beware your publisher.
What you should get is first exclusive rights, meaning the publisher gets all rights to publish it the first time. You can sell your works, yes, outright and lose your claim on the work, but only a stupid or desprate writer would do this.
Seller Beware.
I don't know how Hollywood works, though, but I do know some writers just sell the rights to the screenplay knowing that the movie won't get made just for the extra money. (David Foster Wallace did this with Infinite Jest, and for a little while, it looked like Gus Van Sant might do something with it, but that fell through. How do I know this? He said it during a talk where he taught. I can't imagine that book as a movie, anyway.) In any case, they keep rights to their work.
This isn't the 19th century any more, where a writer would be forced to sell their rights, even to the point of not being able to have the originals, (read some of Rilke's letters, he mentions it.)
Perhaps he's trying to turn his life around and teach people lessons that can help thwart people like he used to be. He's out of prison, served his time, give him a chance to turn around and give him the benefit of doubt. He knows what he knows, and the information he can provide can help security.
Of course, don't answer any of his questions about your network, either.
There are plenty of ex-criminals that went on to give plenty of good to society or to hold positions of power. Have you seen 'catch me if you can'? Based on a true story/book, the guy who went on to work for the check fraud division of the FBI. Is that another ex-criminal who should be working at some grocery store bagging groceries instead of lending their talents later to banks to help prevent fraud?
That attitude (once a con, always a con) is part of the problem of recivitism (sp); if convicts could make a decent living like most people, they wouldn't have to go back to crime.
I thought the "Free Kevin" stuff was kind of silly once he was charged with a crime. I don't know much about this particular case, anyway, so.
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I can tell you that they don't pay 7 cents a KWH. Their price is probably about 3 or 4 cents, considering the amount of electricity they buy.
Not that that's a figure to sneeze at, by your calculations that's still $7M, but companies don't pay residential rates.
Of course, maybe that's the price for companies out wherever their based. Here, Rockford, IL., or thereabouts, it's 3 or 4 cents per KWH for a substantial user of power.
Hell, even in this city of 100,000 (Rockford, IL), 20,000 a year ain't rich.
Ain't even close.
R. Buckminster Fuller.
He wasn't just an archetect. He was also a philosopher, writer, teacher at Southern Illinois University, etc. His philosophy was very much informed by quantum mechanics.
I'd recommend "Manual For Spaceship Earth," if the examples weren't so dated and obviously from the era he wrote in.
And, IMO, his philosophies are much better than his architecture. Can't stand those domes.
Any reader of Robert Anton Wilson, or critic thereof, should at least look a little into Prof. Fuller. It will be, at least a little, enlightening.
Cost: The question of cost is really one of how much value we place on knowledge and the possiblities that it could give us. That's, of course, if you go with the assumption that we'll get something valuable out of the whole scenario.
Effectivness: Uhh, I might be able to plan a decent Mars mission, might being if I were trained and so forth, but to react to something unusual or to notice something "over there" and just go investigate, there's not a robot yet that can do these tasks.
Danger: The only life you risk is your own. I have no problem with people risking their lives (in this or in any other arena) as long as they are aware of the dangers and the distinct possiblity of unforseen dangers. If they would let me go, I'm reasonably certain I would, even knowing I'll may not make it back to Earth alive, or even dead, for that matter. I know I can't be the only one with this frame of mind. Hell, we found men who had "the right stuff" to go to the moon with these traits, knowing the possiblities, knowing that some of their comrades had died in persuit of what they were doing. Not to mention their exploring predecessors.
Mars is not the moon. The moon is a chunk of rock that may be useful, but Mars is a far bigger chunk of rock that may be useful. We just have to mean it.
The argument that we shouldn't colonate the solar system is based usually on the premise that we're doing something totally horrible and unworthy. Which is possible. But, really, what does it matter? We have a solar system, and a bit more of the galaxy right around us that seems, to me, to be mostly empty. Let's go!
It's inevitable that this will not matter, that humanity will be extinct, that we all will die, all we have is the hope that we can do something that will extend this life, this existence just a little longer.
Fuck all the rest.
All the money in the world ain't gonna bring you back to life, yet. We're here, and everything you do should be done to make the most of your time here.
Unless you believe that this physical universe isn't all there is, that is. Then I can't help you with this line of reasoning/ranting.
"And yes, I have read the Principia (English translation), several times."
Hmm, I thought it was written in English, Mr. Russell being a British guy, taught at the university of New York, another English-language institution.
Then again, I guess he was kind of bright, maybe he picked another language to doodle in. I heard that it's easier to discuss quantum mechanics in Hopi than English. Maybe Mr. Russell was ahead of his time.
Unless your talking of another Principia . . . written by some other, less famous guy. Invented caculus, perhaps. No, couldn't be anyone else.
Maybe I'm wrong.
But I did read Everything and More. I can tell you Wallace was planning on writing a math book for a very long time (before he left Illinois State for PoMo, even), and still ended up making some mistakes. Quick google will reveal them. No-one's perfect. Like most of Wallace's stuff, another complaint I run into is the near unstated requirement of repeat reading, which has been brought up here.
Stove bolts.
8 boxes of them.
But, furthermore, these were not new, but obviously from some ancient person's estate sale.
And I got these from . . . my parents.
The gifts my mom and step-dad got me and my wife made me feel like they hadn't spent years of our lives together.
Yeah, but if you got a degree in liberal arts, at least you could have made it interesting.
But forget about me, I'm just bitter it took me about 3 years to get a job with my B.A., and I even know some calculus (enough to know what you were talking about).
Stupid Heinlen missed the correlary: specialization is for insects, and people who want jobs.
Illinois is around 330 a week.
This does not pay for shit, even in a po-dunk town like Rockford, IL. I'm just glad I don't live in a suburb or Chicago itself.
Unemployment in my area is about 10%, due to it's heavy reliance on industry, I am currently underemployed as a line person at a food manufacturing plant. Years of IT experience, and a degree.
I want to see the underemployment statistics. Of course, I could be at my level, for all I know. All I know is that when I started college, I was pretty sure I wouldn't end up back in my home town working at a frozen food joint.
What class was that? I often was penalized for taking up too much space. Conciseness was adored in my English dept. and all my writing classes. This is something I've cultivated. Of all things, this became a problem in my sociology class. A lot of people from other departments in English classes (basic writing classes, even a creative writing course) would be totally confused that they kept asking how long the papers would need to be. "As long as they need to be," was a common answer, which confused the hell out out of nearly all of them.
Maybe that's why I have to keep waiting for the posting-time-limit to expire here on Slashdot.
For the record, I was nearly held back several times in elementary school for bad cursive handwriting. The answer became obvious, I print everything. Though I do admire a nice bit of handwriting when I do see it. (A lot of the old mechanics I work with have really cool looking cursive writing, but only on their own notes and other things. Blueprints are always printed with exactness.) And I write a lot, pretty quickly, too. Being one of those author types, I write entire novels in my nasty quick-print that nearly cost me a year of school.
Of course, I am a hack, so . . .
I'd say a decent salary would be about 30,000. This is heavily dependant on where you live, of course.
:-) I had an epiphany, where I suddenly found out that it was important to have a good time with the papers I had to write, and my grades improved, too. Law school was the thought, until I couldn't even afford to take the LSAT.
I live in the Rockford, IL, area. The industrial based economy around here is notoriously sensitive to economic issues around the country. I've had machinist friends laid off, I've been laid off, teachers have been laid off, graphic designers have been laid off, etc. etc. My skill base is wide and relatively in depth, but still, places can name their price, and demand excessive qualifications for miniscule salaries. Examples? See FuckthatJob.com for a few in preferred line of work (web/graphic design). I have a degree, etc. etc., and a decent amount of experience for someone who recently graduated (actually about 2 years ago now).
I am currently underemployed as a line operator for a nationally known food maker/distributer. (Trust me, you've probably eaten their products before.) I make a little under 20,000 a year, without overtime. I've worked up to 20 hours extra (making about 60 a week) just to make ends meet. Now, because of the fiscal year's imminent demise, earnings at my plant, as all other places it seems, are being inflated by line shut-downs, lay-offs, etc. etc. Not only has my overtime been discontinued, but my line has been closed as well.
I've been without income for a couple weeks. Luckily, these weeks are the ones without the bills coming in. I think. I've applied for unemployment, but I honestly don't think I qualify. I still send out resumes and applications and so on, and I've gotten two interviews in six months since I've started at my current employer, and those are for internal positions at my plant. I have looked near Chicago and Madison,(WI) and even thought about heading back to school, but my grades the first time around were . . . explainably inconsistant.
I'm glad I have a job, considering, but I haven't been able to pay rent regularly in months, it's been as much as I can for a while. This month doesn't look good either.
A decent salary is heavily dependant on where you live. There are jobs, yes, but some of them are appalling (telemarketing) or the employers are wanting way overqualified applicants for low-paying jobs because those applicants are desparate. Even after 60 hours a week, I was thinking of getting a second job. My wife won't work because because she wants to stay home with our first child. Obviously, this decision is something I'm against, but I can't force her to get a job.
In any case, the economy sucks. Tax Cuts might help for now, but who knows in a few years . . . fundimental changes are needed, and the longer I go underemployed, the more radical my politics become about the economy and large corporations. I know I'm not the only one that this is happening to. Being treated like a resource instead of a human is disheartening.
Here's one for a triangle. No need for the sig thing, eh. Just doin' my job as a citizen of the world.
That being said, there are dozens of good reasons why manholes are round. The best one being their resemblance to donuts.
Well, of course, all the marines I've ever met have given me this attitude, it's interesting, really. Army folk don't have this; Air Force, nope; and Navy, the folks who sign your checks, last I heard, sure as hell don't. Even officers for the other branches don't even come close.
"But they're not Marines!"
Navy Seals don't act that way, seriously.
Take your four letters as you will, you are free. If I disagree, threaten to stomp my guts out, go ahead and kill me; it won't make you any more right.
Not that I agree with the fellow you're replying to, either, I really just want to pick on the fucker who's been taking all the jobs from me.
Ass.
I don't think so, and besides, he didn't free them, just reduced the sentence. There is a difference, but I'll continue to bite.
My step-dad made the same argument, except he just kept yelling "Yeah you would!" louder and louder. Argument Ad volumous, I guess. I hope you have something better.
The only way to actually have faith in the judicial system as any sort of justice is to admit it's probably right. So, if someone gets released for a crime, then their rights have been violated or they didn't do it and so on. The person they may or may not have killed, I hope, would realize that there are more important things than their own life, like rights we all enjoy, even if a couple people fuck them up.
Do murder victims whose "murderers" are released deserve justice, a fancy name for revenge? No, they deserve our respect for what they have gave us in life, and the rights they died, unwillingly, to protect, even of the person that ended their life. Like a soldier everyone's willing to support.
Yeah, they're dead, but so are millions more for those rights. If they're not there for the worst of us, when are they going to be there for the best of us?
Kind of backwards, I admit, but I'm thinking on the fly and tend to do that badly, especially when I'm up before I want to be.
If you mean the constitution itself as a set of principles being more important than the gov't, you got it right. I don't see much of God in there otherwise.
Anyway, the other day one man at work was extolling the virtues of drunk driving, I wish I had this page and these pictures for him then. If it only killed the drinker, then it'd be fine, IMO, but it more often than not kills "innocents." It makes me feel better for driving a friend home a couple days ago . . . but even he gave me his keys (I don't drink at all.)
Death penalty questions are hard, of course, but I think what the fmr. Illinois governer did was right, commuting all the sentances from death to life w/o parole. Maybe a little too far, a stay until the DNA testing could be done and so on, I could see that move.
But until the death penalty is prompt, fairly given, and never has the potential to be inflicted on an innocent person, no-one should be executed. Don't give me any shit about those who confess, those who confess are extremely rarely given death as a punishment anyway.
The left eye right eye dominance issue has nothing to do with your hands. My wife's right handed, left eye dominant, I'm right handed, right eye.
I really don't know what causes dominance, but it has nothing to do with your hands.
Or maybe the nuns had it right.
It's a Weapon of Minute Destruction.
"Not wearing a uniform? You're headed to Cuba, boy."
I did major in English, no education (can't teach it in this state without a certificate), but I did notice a severe difference between "pure" English majors and those who wanted to go on and teach.
Honestly, they're going to be teachers, the most thankless job in the world, you wouldn't want them to be discouraged from it, would you?
When you have better teachers, the students they teach will learn better, but you have to pay more to attract those teachers, but, in the U.S., we really need billions more for the war on terrorism, and drugs, and homlessness, and poverty, and no child left behind, after all.
I did substitute for a while, and 90% of the people said they hated their job, while the other 10% were in administration.
The United States education system is so fucked up it's really beyond description.
All I have is a ferret.
You obviously haven't learned anything from the Beastmaster movie. You should have one of those innate sense of connection things installed so you can steal keys and so forth and sneak into the evil priest's fortress.
Not that an elephant wouldn't be cool, but that's a more front-end assault kind of thing.
Yeah, it works fine for you, but it shouldn't be the only way, should it?
I like the concept of themes, really, I do, but most people who do them have no concept of user-interface-design. If you're distributing a product, you should endevor to create a professional appearance once the work's been done behind the scenes.
A lot of folks seem to think that if it works for them, it works for everyone. Look at the plethora of shitty themes on themes.org or winamp skins at winamp.com or whatever it is that mac users do . . . my mac doesn't work right now. (iBook's yo-yo power supply is busted.) Anyhow, they're mostly just bad, cluttered, and really not that cohesive. I'm sure there are a couple, but I end up just getting the background pictures mostly.
For chrissakes, if you spend your whole life on a project, is 8 hours to make a theme unadorned with pictures of Heidi Klum wearing a Tux baby-T too much to ask?
"Gentlemen, BEHOLD! This thing!"
You should be able to use command lines, if you want, but it shouldn't be required.
My friend read it after me and told me to fuck off, that the book was a giant joke, a really well-told joke, but I don't see it.
He's said in interviews that he wanted to write something that's really sad, and it kind of is.
That's what I get when I majored in the English department he taught at Illinois State University. There was a lot of idol worship about him, and though I never had a class with him, the feeling that he was around was palpable in the near sense of awe people had for him.
How's that for an essay and/or argument, Dave?
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1) fat guys do get some
2) Christians can be bad guys
3) Programmers save the world every day!
I liked it.
Other cool stuff: I just finished Mary Doria Russell's "The Sparrow" and it's sequal "Children Of God." Jesuit's initiate first contact. Even though I'm an atheist, the exploration of faith involved is quite intense and interesting, if a little condesending.
Just started Neil Gaiman's "Neverwhere," it's really good even though I'm 60 pgs into it, "American Gods" was excellent.
Verging on Sci-Fi, one of my favorite authors is David Foster Wallace, "Infinite Jest" is the work I'm talking about here; it's not sci-fi in even a liberal sense of the terms, but it involves some ideas explored first in sci-fi, but a little different. Not to mention it's simply wonderfully written. It's a massive book, but the language propels you through it.
Also, I know it's a sci-fi question, but I finished "On The Road," the classic novel by Kerouac (I know I misspelled that), it's highly excellent. As well as "Unbareable Lightness of Being" by Kundera. Non-fiction? "Ain't Nobody's Buisiness if you Do" by Peter McWilliams (available for free on-line) and "Fast Food Nation" by Eric Schlossinger (spelling on that one, too). "The Future of Ideas" by Lessig is an interesting read, as well.
No no no no. If you are asked to sign away your copyright, beware your publisher.
What you should get is first exclusive rights, meaning the publisher gets all rights to publish it the first time. You can sell your works, yes, outright and lose your claim on the work, but only a stupid or desprate writer would do this.
Seller Beware.
I don't know how Hollywood works, though, but I do know some writers just sell the rights to the screenplay knowing that the movie won't get made just for the extra money. (David Foster Wallace did this with Infinite Jest, and for a little while, it looked like Gus Van Sant might do something with it, but that fell through. How do I know this? He said it during a talk where he taught. I can't imagine that book as a movie, anyway.) In any case, they keep rights to their work.
This isn't the 19th century any more, where a writer would be forced to sell their rights, even to the point of not being able to have the originals, (read some of Rilke's letters, he mentions it.)
Perhaps he's trying to turn his life around and teach people lessons that can help thwart people like he used to be. He's out of prison, served his time, give him a chance to turn around and give him the benefit of doubt. He knows what he knows, and the information he can provide can help security.
Of course, don't answer any of his questions about your network, either.
There are plenty of ex-criminals that went on to give plenty of good to society or to hold positions of power. Have you seen 'catch me if you can'? Based on a true story/book, the guy who went on to work for the check fraud division of the FBI. Is that another ex-criminal who should be working at some grocery store bagging groceries instead of lending their talents later to banks to help prevent fraud?
That attitude (once a con, always a con) is part of the problem of recivitism (sp); if convicts could make a decent living like most people, they wouldn't have to go back to crime.
I thought the "Free Kevin" stuff was kind of silly once he was charged with a crime. I don't know much about this particular case, anyway, so.
Are you sure that McAffee etc. haven't been threatened to some DMCA violation because of this post-emptive copyright protection?
Yes, this probably isn't real, but don't be so quick to trust another company. Are there any open source virus scanners?
I do have a wife and newborn daughter. It's not compassion that I'm lacking here, it's obviously another fault of mine.
I mentioned that I don't think there should be a concept as an illegal alien, I thought you responded to that, my mistake.
I don't know much of anything about h1-b visas, so have really no opinion.