If someone wrote a book about another person, and put that persons name in the "by line", then that's wrong (assuming the true author was not also named Ron Paul). It's not an autobiography.
If this was "peopleforronpaul.com" then I'd say he should take a hike. But they're using HIS NAME. The fact that they are supporters and not detractors has nothing to do with it, they shouldn't be doing it.
and the professors don't want to teach and have the big lectures that at times are just out of the textbook and are sleep though.
Let me provide some contrast here. The fact that professors feel the NEED to teach out of the textbook is a problem: students aren't reading it and are expecting the professor to shove it in to their head. Students learn, early on, to the learn the wrong way. The desire to learn starts from ones self, is pursued through ones own actions, and is augmented at school. Of course we get this way because many of us have no interest in some subjects at school, and are force fed in our youth (which is necessary to a degree).
If you really want to learn something, you read the textbook first, listen to the professor second, and interrupt and ask questions third. If YOU want to learn the material you should be doing everything you can to learn it, and using the professor as the expert resource he is intended to be. He's telling you who writes a good textbook, he means for you to take his advice. Of course reading those things is not always easy and some concepts aren't easy to grasp, so it's good to have a professor to ask questions of and provide context.
It took me a long time to figure this out, but once I did school worked a lot better (and I could skip the classes where the prof was just going to do the audio-disc of the textbook).
In theory no, a judge interprets the law as it is written. Society determines what is destructive and compels its government to pass laws.
I have a hunch no such laws exist today in Australia, as they do not in the US. Such a law would have to be carefully crafted. I DO agree that this is a problem that needs solving. Market based pricing is absolutely destructive to the 1st world in terms of competitiveness.
This is a reality we live with in the US too. If I had a dollar for every time some offshore company offered "design services" for a fraction of what we could do internally, both because labor is cheaper and they get their software licenses for MUCH cheaper (where a software license for some high end software costs almost as much as a headcount), I'd be a rich man.
I do not agree with the practice. My point is that it's not illegal, you're better off making it illegal first (somehow, and this is something you have to be careful with as I see a lot of unintended consequences), THEN picking on them.
Nobody is saying this is right, particularly for goods protected by government monopoly. But it's not against the law, and when it comes to corporations, that's all that matters. You tell a CEO that what he's doing is morally wrong, his lawyer will tell him it's legally OK, and he'll ask what the problem is.
I'm not a Ron Paul supporter, and I think the hypocrisy comment regarding the UN is noted and as enjoyable as political irony can be. But, taking the high(er) road: this is a website that uses his name, is entirely about his career, and affects him materially. I think there can be only 2 fair outcomes: a C&D asking them to close shop and dissolve, or to hand the domain over to him.
Domain name squatters are at least a magnitude of filth higher than politicians, and the whole "internet real estate" business was a scam 20 years ago and is still a scam today.
While I have no love for those companies, I wonder if the answer to your questions isn't going to be obvious (and annoying). It's "known" here in the US, that Europeans are willing to pay more for the same goods, and thus we charge them more for the same goods. Americans are known for choosing to buy cheap crap that will break in a week because it's cheaper, therefore more reliable vendors have to go lower to make the sale. Going to the farthest extreme, the Chinese are known for stealing software, movies, etc. and thus to make a sale there the price has to be very low.
They call this "market based pricing", and I agree that it is actually quite a destructive practice, but I don't think it's illegal.
I assume that schools in San Fran get their funding by Average Daily Attendance (ADA) mechanisms. Also given the heavy asian population there, it stands to reason that a lot of children are kept home. This means that opening school on that day isn't very profitable. So it makes sense to keep them closed in favor of a day in which kids will likely attend and get the school money.
I think that's "demographic reality" in the sense that politicians understand it.
Python requires its interpreter to be installed. That's not the case on windows, and not necessarily the case in some other places.
Also, I have never felt that Python solves an issue for me. It seems as fiddly as C, as heavy as Java, and as syntactically bizarre as Javascript. It always seems like I end up with Perl, C and Javascript as the suite that provides good support to all my problems.
You could argue C gives you all the rope you need as well.
I keep asking myself "what language should I learn that's accepted everywhere, doesn't have to be compiled for a particular processor, and has a truly cross platform UI". Javascript is it, with C coming in a heavily qualified second, Java most 3rd except for that fruit company (and I know Java, but hate it passionately).
beer-in-the-workplace culture, how about that? It is a distinct culture from the usual "drinking at work is unprofessional" crowd, of which there is also a large following, particularly in megacorps.
I work in a place where people drink beer (and other things, but don't advertise), and I haven't noticed a great amount of crazed free-form coding. In fact reading their software list these guys are complete nazi's about code, in style, format and architecture. I have begun to think the beer is the way for them to chill out enough not to throttle each other because they placed a { in the wrong place.
Previously, we had no Wall Street executive representation, just company founders who wanted the product to work properly and build out. But to secure funding, we had to let in a Wall Street bot, and he's busy managing things to pieces. No doubt he feels the beer culture is behind people's schedule issues and general non-compliance with his ridiculous goals. But the fact is he's destroying their product with management, trying to force them to write bad code based on schedules not design.
I'd also like to point out that "bro-culture" and "beer culture" are not necessarily related. One can drink beer and not be a "bro". We have a "bro" or a "browannabe", and he's actually quite a competant coder, but generally speaking the rest of the beer culture are not bro's at all.
Living in Texas, and having watched a raid down the street, I tend to disagree. The difference is that the police treat even domestic disputes as Waco-style raids, with the police themselves whipping out their AR-15s just because the same two people were fighting again and the neighbors called in again.
This is what we'd have to look forward to until the courts decided that IP addresses are junk. Which is, of course, exactly the reason we should keep our wifi open.
I suspect that your average republican leaning citizen and your average democrat leaning citizen agree on this particular issue. If both sides make a full court press, it will get done. Everyone unlocks their god damn phones, not being able to tether wifi on my verizon phone even after they lost the damn court case, is asinine, and I don't put up with it, nor would anyone else.
Wrap it up with military spending or social reform though, and it's a lost cause.
I'm sorry, but I see no reason why programmers shouldn't make triple the median income. If anyone could do it, that right there is a huge incentive TO do it. I define a shortage as "there are more jobs than applicants". I've never worked anywhere that we didn't reject 50% of the people who interviewed for various arbitrary reasons (i.e. didn't have niche skill in X, would require ramp up, couldn't drop-in), and that was after HR rejected countless resumes.
The only "shortage" of jobs owes from our snobbery and cliquishness, because we CAN be, there are so many applicants we can shop until we get bored with it. If we just had to hire anyone who walked in the door, THEN I'd believe we have a shortage.
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If someone wrote a book about another person, and put that persons name in the "by line", then that's wrong (assuming the true author was not also named Ron Paul). It's not an autobiography.
If this was "peopleforronpaul.com" then I'd say he should take a hike. But they're using HIS NAME. The fact that they are supporters and not detractors has nothing to do with it, they shouldn't be doing it.
and the professors don't want to teach and have the big lectures that at times are just out of the textbook and are sleep though.
Let me provide some contrast here. The fact that professors feel the NEED to teach out of the textbook is a problem: students aren't reading it and are expecting the professor to shove it in to their head. Students learn, early on, to the learn the wrong way. The desire to learn starts from ones self, is pursued through ones own actions, and is augmented at school. Of course we get this way because many of us have no interest in some subjects at school, and are force fed in our youth (which is necessary to a degree).
If you really want to learn something, you read the textbook first, listen to the professor second, and interrupt and ask questions third. If YOU want to learn the material you should be doing everything you can to learn it, and using the professor as the expert resource he is intended to be. He's telling you who writes a good textbook, he means for you to take his advice. Of course reading those things is not always easy and some concepts aren't easy to grasp, so it's good to have a professor to ask questions of and provide context.
It took me a long time to figure this out, but once I did school worked a lot better (and I could skip the classes where the prof was just going to do the audio-disc of the textbook).
In theory no, a judge interprets the law as it is written. Society determines what is destructive and compels its government to pass laws.
I have a hunch no such laws exist today in Australia, as they do not in the US. Such a law would have to be carefully crafted. I DO agree that this is a problem that needs solving. Market based pricing is absolutely destructive to the 1st world in terms of competitiveness.
This is a reality we live with in the US too. If I had a dollar for every time some offshore company offered "design services" for a fraction of what we could do internally, both because labor is cheaper and they get their software licenses for MUCH cheaper (where a software license for some high end software costs almost as much as a headcount), I'd be a rich man.
I do not agree with the practice. My point is that it's not illegal, you're better off making it illegal first (somehow, and this is something you have to be careful with as I see a lot of unintended consequences), THEN picking on them.
Nobody is saying this is right, particularly for goods protected by government monopoly. But it's not against the law, and when it comes to corporations, that's all that matters. You tell a CEO that what he's doing is morally wrong, his lawyer will tell him it's legally OK, and he'll ask what the problem is.
I'm not a Ron Paul supporter, and I think the hypocrisy comment regarding the UN is noted and as enjoyable as political irony can be. But, taking the high(er) road: this is a website that uses his name, is entirely about his career, and affects him materially. I think there can be only 2 fair outcomes: a C&D asking them to close shop and dissolve, or to hand the domain over to him.
Domain name squatters are at least a magnitude of filth higher than politicians, and the whole "internet real estate" business was a scam 20 years ago and is still a scam today.
While I have no love for those companies, I wonder if the answer to your questions isn't going to be obvious (and annoying). It's "known" here in the US, that Europeans are willing to pay more for the same goods, and thus we charge them more for the same goods. Americans are known for choosing to buy cheap crap that will break in a week because it's cheaper, therefore more reliable vendors have to go lower to make the sale. Going to the farthest extreme, the Chinese are known for stealing software, movies, etc. and thus to make a sale there the price has to be very low.
They call this "market based pricing", and I agree that it is actually quite a destructive practice, but I don't think it's illegal.
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I assume that schools in San Fran get their funding by Average Daily Attendance (ADA) mechanisms. Also given the heavy asian population there, it stands to reason that a lot of children are kept home. This means that opening school on that day isn't very profitable. So it makes sense to keep them closed in favor of a day in which kids will likely attend and get the school money.
I think that's "demographic reality" in the sense that politicians understand it.
The purpose of airbnb from the summary is far less mystifying than what an "illegal hotel" is, or why that's a serious issue in Amsterdam.
Python requires its interpreter to be installed. That's not the case on windows, and not necessarily the case in some other places.
Also, I have never felt that Python solves an issue for me. It seems as fiddly as C, as heavy as Java, and as syntactically bizarre as Javascript. It always seems like I end up with Perl, C and Javascript as the suite that provides good support to all my problems.
which is why it made my #2 over Java.
This. This kind of tax law says grow, just don't do it in my country.
You could argue C gives you all the rope you need as well.
I keep asking myself "what language should I learn that's accepted everywhere, doesn't have to be compiled for a particular processor, and has a truly cross platform UI". Javascript is it, with C coming in a heavily qualified second, Java most 3rd except for that fruit company (and I know Java, but hate it passionately).
Finding a way to sue Microsoft into bankruptcy is never irrelevant.
I just don't think they'll find anything, MS can do this w/o leaving a trail.
beer-in-the-workplace culture, how about that? It is a distinct culture from the usual "drinking at work is unprofessional" crowd, of which there is also a large following, particularly in megacorps.
This. Only this, nothing but this.
I work in a place where people drink beer (and other things, but don't advertise), and I haven't noticed a great amount of crazed free-form coding. In fact reading their software list these guys are complete nazi's about code, in style, format and architecture. I have begun to think the beer is the way for them to chill out enough not to throttle each other because they placed a { in the wrong place.
Previously, we had no Wall Street executive representation, just company founders who wanted the product to work properly and build out. But to secure funding, we had to let in a Wall Street bot, and he's busy managing things to pieces. No doubt he feels the beer culture is behind people's schedule issues and general non-compliance with his ridiculous goals. But the fact is he's destroying their product with management, trying to force them to write bad code based on schedules not design.
I'd also like to point out that "bro-culture" and "beer culture" are not necessarily related. One can drink beer and not be a "bro". We have a "bro" or a "browannabe", and he's actually quite a competant coder, but generally speaking the rest of the beer culture are not bro's at all.
Living in Texas, and having watched a raid down the street, I tend to disagree. The difference is that the police treat even domestic disputes as Waco-style raids, with the police themselves whipping out their AR-15s just because the same two people were fighting again and the neighbors called in again.
This is what we'd have to look forward to until the courts decided that IP addresses are junk. Which is, of course, exactly the reason we should keep our wifi open.
At some point an IP address would stop becoming sufficient justification to raid someone's house.
I suspect that your average republican leaning citizen and your average democrat leaning citizen agree on this particular issue. If both sides make a full court press, it will get done. Everyone unlocks their god damn phones, not being able to tether wifi on my verizon phone even after they lost the damn court case, is asinine, and I don't put up with it, nor would anyone else.
Wrap it up with military spending or social reform though, and it's a lost cause.
In the US where texts cost money, but IMs are free.
Yes, no one in the US would use an IED to attack government targets. That would be illegal!
Anyone who communicates with me via text is not my friend. Friends use IM or email.
I'm sorry, but I see no reason why programmers shouldn't make triple the median income. If anyone could do it, that right there is a huge incentive TO do it. I define a shortage as "there are more jobs than applicants". I've never worked anywhere that we didn't reject 50% of the people who interviewed for various arbitrary reasons (i.e. didn't have niche skill in X, would require ramp up, couldn't drop-in), and that was after HR rejected countless resumes.
The only "shortage" of jobs owes from our snobbery and cliquishness, because we CAN be, there are so many applicants we can shop until we get bored with it. If we just had to hire anyone who walked in the door, THEN I'd believe we have a shortage.
H1Bs aren't the only way to do that. We have green cards for immigration. If those green cards aren't going to the right places, fix that problem.
But the corporate world doesn't like green cards, green card means "can compete on wages".