Many companies have a tiny number of people who manage things, and then a sea of consultants who do things. Often the management of the consultant groups are consultants themselves.And even the managers of the managers are often consultants. The result? Corporate Memento syndrome. No long term memories get formed because the people who do the remembering are gone. Stuff is rar'd or stuf'd or tar balled into a series of docs that sit on a server than is run by an bunch of consultants in IT who have no idea what is on the drive.
Then the drive either fails or is dumped into a bigger storage drive and labeled in a folder "management data 2009" or whatever, and there it rots because no one has any idea what's inside, and the people with access are consultants who don't/can't know.
and why? Because it's cheaper to hire a river of consultants for 6 months than it is to hire people and keep them around for years. The result? Permanent amnesia. All of it will be lost, and no one will care. the essence of 21st century culture - digital business - will be erased and forgotten. Forever. Some would say "Good riddance", but I'm enough of an armchair anthropologist to feel the loss.
are they fucking high? A student buys a textbook for a specific course. When the course is over, they ditch or sell the book, as they will likely never crack it open again. WHY would a student spend a nickel on something they don't need?
they merely need to be competent enough. behind them are other competent people looking for a job. They move on, they get replaced. by other competent people. And they don't have to be geniuses - they only have to be competent enough to answer your questions.
I want my electric to sound like a JET PLANE! That's it! Yes! sssssshhshsshshshshshshsrrrrrrrrrrrrrrroooooaoaorrrrrrrrrrrr!!!! That'd be fucking COOL! Just sit at a light, not burning a drop of gas, sitting there whisltling like I'm going 600 mph. That would fucking ROCK!!! zoom! ZOOOOOOOM! Yay! A Deafening ROAR!!! Something louder than those retards on Harleys. Sure - your Harley goes BLATTA BLATTA BLATTA! But I'm driving a JET!!!!
And I want a mic hooked up to the speakers so I can yell at people on the street or other cars-
HEY ASSWIPE! Get the fuck off the cellphone you dumb ass!
HEY LADY! Stop texting while you're driving, you fucking idiot!
And then the sounds of rockets being fired at them and the sounds of explosions as I blow them off the highway!!! All from my Chevy Volt! Yeah BABEEEE!
Tourettes syndrome FUCK YOU and similar FUCKETY fuck fuck problems. We all know FUCK that you know fuck face. Next thing they'll be saying the Internet causes FUCK problems with people's ability to interact in a FUCK face to FUCK face context. FUCKERS.
I mean, come on people - you could hire a fucking INTERN for $10 an hour to look and see if there's any prior art or previous use of the term BBX, and I'm pretty sure that even if the kid isn't that bright or skilled, after about a week, they would have been able to give some kind of a thumbs up/down on this. This is just GLARING incompetence and mind boggling arrogance on the part of RIM.
yeah. Nobody drove to work on federal highways. And nobody flew on company junkets using public airspace that needs traffic control or public airports, and nobody used computers made of precious metals mined in countries that are brutally repressed by corrupt dictators working at the behest of corporations behind the mask of the federal government, and nobody ate food in the cafeteria because there was no FDA to insure the quality of the slaughter of the animals, the processing or packaging of the food, and nobody had to worry about air quality from the unregulated automobile engines, and nobody... oh never mind - just take your Randian bullcrap and stick it.
Humans have no business being in space. Period. Robots are cheaper and easier and outside the circle of empathy - they are just machines.Did the robot miss something? Send another one with a different design. Robots are making massive strides in terms of movement and capabilities. Send robots to Mars. Send robots to the moon. Robots don't get grouchy. Robots don't have mental breakdowns half way to Jupiter (fiction not withstanding), robots don't need to eat or shit or breathe. They just need energy and a plan. They don't need to fuck or get pregnant. They don't have to worry about getting cancer from a solar flare. Robots don't have to sleep. Robots don't need recreation or entertainment.
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Very simply, humans have no business being in space. Get over it.
Agreed. However, circles of empathy are not binary - Me | EveryoneElse.
There are gradients, ranging from rocks and inanimate material to your family. One border is the "kill people" distinction. Kill People Trying To Kill You is normally permitted, regardless of who the person is. The issue here is "Government Killing People" and in this case, as the government is (theoretically) the will of the people, do the people have the right to kill people individually as they are a perceived harm or threat, and do they have the right to kill people who are also part, by birthright, of the polity that is doing the killing, i.e., may the polity kill its own without regard to trial and the rights of jurisprudence normally guaranteed to its citizens.
Your point, does the polity have the right to selectively murder people in foreign lands, is another issue altogether. Obviously, the answer is no - that is called Terrorism, in this case State (USA) Sponsored Terrorism. However, one life versus thousands is only a distinction of scale, not principle. The brutality visited upon the people of Iraq, for instance, can be seen as State Sponsored Terrorism scaled wildly. While the assassination of a specific person in a specific country (and the collateral murder of associates) is a root issue, it is operating at a more exterior circle of empathy than the question of whether or not a polity can murder its own without trial.
So, I am not disagreeing with you, I'm just pointing out the differences that make for these differing arguments.
not impossible, but not as straightforward as one might think. Timed tests are very problematic. If you can't get reliable metrics because of the testing inadequacies, then you're not going to do it.
Blackboard is a fucking nightmare - it has all the flexibility of a fireplace poker. Right now, tech and higher ed need to sit down and re-think how this is done. The profs need to know the students are learning what they set them to learn. The students need information and learning delivery systems they can use. Tech often gets in the way - it shouldn't. Old style profs (chalk and talk) need to on the tech wagon, and Blackboard needs to be abandoned wholesale. It isn't because WebCT induces seizures.
Nature has had a consistent carbon cycle for many millions of years. People came along and de-sequestered the carbon by drilling for oil, coal, and gas and then burning it. I wonder how much fossil fuel it will take to make this "organic material made up of gamma-cyclodextrin", esp. given how natgas is used in making fertiliser and oil is used in making pesticides.
Trees do the job well, and they are extremely useful.
I do not understand why you were rated offtopic - I think you're right on the nose.
when I say I don't care because to me Flash is DEAD. Ever since HTML 5 started congealing, I've seen no reason to bother with Flash outside of simple animations. Which is where it started. And should have stayed, but with MM Director dying a slow and deserved death in the mid 90s, they had to find new work for the engineers....
Well, I generally come in at least fifteen minutes late, ah, I use the side door - that way Lumbergh can't see me, heh heh - and, uh, after that I just sorta space out for about an hour. Yeah, I just stare at my desk; but it looks like I'm working. I do that for probably another hour after lunch, too. I'd say in a given week I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual, work.
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Between the patriot act and the value of the data itself for mining purposes, no. To argue otherwise is naive.
Fuck You Asshole.
Many companies have a tiny number of people who manage things, and then a sea of consultants who do things. Often the management of the consultant groups are consultants themselves.And even the managers of the managers are often consultants. The result? Corporate Memento syndrome. No long term memories get formed because the people who do the remembering are gone. Stuff is rar'd or stuf'd or tar balled into a series of docs that sit on a server than is run by an bunch of consultants in IT who have no idea what is on the drive.
Then the drive either fails or is dumped into a bigger storage drive and labeled in a folder "management data 2009" or whatever, and there it rots because no one has any idea what's inside, and the people with access are consultants who don't/can't know.
and why? Because it's cheaper to hire a river of consultants for 6 months than it is to hire people and keep them around for years. The result? Permanent amnesia. All of it will be lost, and no one will care. the essence of 21st century culture - digital business - will be erased and forgotten. Forever. Some would say "Good riddance", but I'm enough of an armchair anthropologist to feel the loss.
a lot of Canadian ancestors would beg to differ on that.
Oh, like THX1138?
pick the other wall.
are they fucking high? A student buys a textbook for a specific course. When the course is over, they ditch or sell the book, as they will likely never crack it open again. WHY would a student spend a nickel on something they don't need?
they merely need to be competent enough. behind them are other competent people looking for a job. They move on, they get replaced. by other competent people. And they don't have to be geniuses - they only have to be competent enough to answer your questions.
have a competent human answer the fucking phone.
And I want a mic hooked up to the speakers so I can yell at people on the street or other cars-
HEY ASSWIPE! Get the fuck off the cellphone you dumb ass!
HEY LADY! Stop texting while you're driving, you fucking idiot!
And then the sounds of rockets being fired at them and the sounds of explosions as I blow them off the highway!!! All from my Chevy Volt! Yeah BABEEEE!
Tourettes syndrome FUCK YOU and similar FUCKETY fuck fuck problems. We all know FUCK that you know fuck face. Next thing they'll be saying the Internet causes FUCK problems with people's ability to interact in a FUCK face to FUCK face context. FUCKERS.
I mean, come on people - you could hire a fucking INTERN for $10 an hour to look and see if there's any prior art or previous use of the term BBX, and I'm pretty sure that even if the kid isn't that bright or skilled, after about a week, they would have been able to give some kind of a thumbs up/down on this. This is just GLARING incompetence and mind boggling arrogance on the part of RIM.
yeah. Nobody drove to work on federal highways. And nobody flew on company junkets using public airspace that needs traffic control or public airports, and nobody used computers made of precious metals mined in countries that are brutally repressed by corrupt dictators working at the behest of corporations behind the mask of the federal government, and nobody ate food in the cafeteria because there was no FDA to insure the quality of the slaughter of the animals, the processing or packaging of the food, and nobody had to worry about air quality from the unregulated automobile engines, and nobody... oh never mind - just take your Randian bullcrap and stick it.
Humans have no business being in space. Period. Robots are cheaper and easier and outside the circle of empathy - they are just machines.Did the robot miss something? Send another one with a different design. Robots are making massive strides in terms of movement and capabilities. Send robots to Mars. Send robots to the moon. Robots don't get grouchy. Robots don't have mental breakdowns half way to Jupiter (fiction not withstanding), robots don't need to eat or shit or breathe. They just need energy and a plan. They don't need to fuck or get pregnant. They don't have to worry about getting cancer from a solar flare. Robots don't have to sleep. Robots don't need recreation or entertainment. . Very simply, humans have no business being in space. Get over it.
to the applications folder.
I already drive a '93 Saturn SL1, how much lower can I go?
'85 Geo Prizim?
'76 Gremlin
1959 Renault Dauphine?
and it says $850 in 1909 = $20,363 in 2010 dollars.
He was an american citizen, and therefore due all the rights a citizen deserves, which include being arrested, tried, and convicted for treason.
He was not a "troop" - he was a civilian.
You are wrong, and a typical example of how the terrorists WON on 9/11.
There are gradients, ranging from rocks and inanimate material to your family. One border is the "kill people" distinction. Kill People Trying To Kill You is normally permitted, regardless of who the person is. The issue here is "Government Killing People" and in this case, as the government is (theoretically) the will of the people, do the people have the right to kill people individually as they are a perceived harm or threat, and do they have the right to kill people who are also part, by birthright, of the polity that is doing the killing, i.e., may the polity kill its own without regard to trial and the rights of jurisprudence normally guaranteed to its citizens.
Your point, does the polity have the right to selectively murder people in foreign lands, is another issue altogether. Obviously, the answer is no - that is called Terrorism, in this case State (USA) Sponsored Terrorism. However, one life versus thousands is only a distinction of scale, not principle. The brutality visited upon the people of Iraq, for instance, can be seen as State Sponsored Terrorism scaled wildly. While the assassination of a specific person in a specific country (and the collateral murder of associates) is a root issue, it is operating at a more exterior circle of empathy than the question of whether or not a polity can murder its own without trial.
So, I am not disagreeing with you, I'm just pointing out the differences that make for these differing arguments.
We live in a degenerate world.
not impossible, but not as straightforward as one might think. Timed tests are very problematic. If you can't get reliable metrics because of the testing inadequacies, then you're not going to do it. Blackboard is a fucking nightmare - it has all the flexibility of a fireplace poker. Right now, tech and higher ed need to sit down and re-think how this is done. The profs need to know the students are learning what they set them to learn. The students need information and learning delivery systems they can use. Tech often gets in the way - it shouldn't. Old style profs (chalk and talk) need to on the tech wagon, and Blackboard needs to be abandoned wholesale. It isn't because WebCT induces seizures.
Trees do the job well, and they are extremely useful.
I do not understand why you were rated offtopic - I think you're right on the nose.
GMO's are harmless and good for you.
Fuck. You.
when I say I don't care because to me Flash is DEAD. Ever since HTML 5 started congealing, I've seen no reason to bother with Flash outside of simple animations. Which is where it started. And should have stayed, but with MM Director dying a slow and deserved death in the mid 90s, they had to find new work for the engineers....
Well, I generally come in at least fifteen minutes late, ah, I use the side door - that way Lumbergh can't see me, heh heh - and, uh, after that I just sorta space out for about an hour. Yeah, I just stare at my desk; but it looks like I'm working. I do that for probably another hour after lunch, too. I'd say in a given week I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual, work.