There's not many vets Google would have jobs for though, maybe security?
You really don't have a clue of what type of people come out of our military these days, do you?
I'll use a friend of mine as an example. He has two degrees. He was an officer in the army (SpecOps). He is a network engineer, is comfortable in Linux and Windows (prefers Linux) and has a very high government security clearance and the skills to do security audits at _any_ tech company in the country (that's a huge deal). Google didn't hire him.
I recently finished a one year contract at Google. Since leaving, I have said on numerous occasions that google's downfall will be their arrogance. You nailed it perfectly. The mono-culture you mention isn't just in their technical leanings. It's also very much evident in the political leaning of the workforce. Politics is dominated by the extreme left. You aren't supposed to hire based on politics (it's the law), but people are rejected because they "don't fit with the google culture." Google is also failing miserably in hiring military vets. That's a big no-no. I expect them to get in serious trouble for that.
I personally don't believe that more anti-freedom laws are popping up these days. The internet is just making us more aware of them when they do pop up.
That's real damn close to where I live. I've been up in that area on numerous occasions. In fact, I took some riding lessons at a ranch up there. My guess, the rancher has had some problems with teenagers harassing his herd. Teenagers do stupid things, like chase the steer around for the fun of it. There has also been the rare occasion of steer and horse thefts. Just a little information. A rancher with a shotgun is as common as a rancher with a nose on his face. Nothing to get excited about.
And of course there was nothing suspicious at all when Saddam had his troops repeatedly block the UN inspectors for a couple of hours while trucks went in and out of the place they wanted to inspect. I'm sure it was all perfectly normal. They were probably transporting baby food to the needy.
Despite the howls from the far left, Bush didn't actually "lie and people died". Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.), chairman of the Select Committee on Intelligence, own report proves that. For example,
On Iraq's nuclear weapons program? The president's statements "were generally substantiated by intelligence community estimates."
On biological weapons, production capability and those infamous mobile laboratories? The president's statements "were substantiated by intelligence information."
On chemical weapons, then? "Substantiated by intelligence information."
On weapons of mass destruction overall? "Generally substantiated by intelligence information."
The list goes on, and Rockfeller's committee could only say, over and over, "Generally substantiated by intelligence information," though there was some exaggeration (which isn't the same as a lie).
HOWEVER! Spying on citizens, arresting and holding without probable cause or a trial, wiretapping -- basically using our Constitution to wipe his ass -- now that's a good enough reason to impeach him and the majority of assholes sitting on their fat asses in Washington DC (both Democrats and Republicans).
Making it a government agency would streamline the process...
ROFLMAO. We're talking about the government here. Do you really believe that? The only government agency that is anywhere close to efficient is the post office (an opinion I did not have until I spent some time in Europe and dealt with their shitty postal service).
Sounds fine, except why does it need to be a government agency? I trust the government less than I would a business that has a vested interest in doing a good job providing a service. It's extremely rare for a government bureaucrat to get fired for incompetence. In business, if someone screws up enough they get shown the door.
What ISPs are doing is not traffic shaping. They are doing traffic elimination. I don't have a problem with traffic shaping. It's often necessary to get different things to play nice with each other.
Let's see, coalition soldiers go out and kill terrorists, doing everything possible to avoid harming civilians in the process. On the other hand, terrorists go out of their way to target civilians, including children. Yep, they are exactly the same! OMG, how did I not see this!
It's sickening that our soldiers are held to a standard higher than any other military in the history of the human race, while the terrorist enemy is held to no standard.
When I was growing up we ate dinner almost every night as a family unit. When I became the typical disgruntled teen and tried to avoid family dinner, I went hungry. No getting meals in my room. No grazing out of the fridge afterwards. Upon reflection, I think I am better for it.
While my own family was certainly far different from the one I grew up in, one night a week as a family was not an unreasonable expectation. I wasn't trying to enforce "fun". I was trying to build some family unity and the once a week dinner's purpose was a first attempt at that.
I've heard rumors that W takes commands directly from God.
What does that have to do with my post? I did not quote or reference Bush in any way. I'm guessing you are unable to come up with a valid retort so you are attempting to distract from the content
I'm sure somebody more familiar with the Christian bible could prove you wrong.
Again, you are attempting to distract for lack of any valid points. There is nothing in the new testament saying to kill your enemies, rape their wives, and enslave their children. This is very clearly stated in a non-Westernized version of the koran (one that hasn't been "cleansed" as an attempt to deceive). The bible does say to forgive and to love your enemies.
What did you ever have to do to earn the right to come and go as you please, or to vote? What makes you better than me?
You want to come and go as you please and to vote without having become a citizen? Are you stupid? Is there a single country in the world that grants those rights to anyone who simply wishes them?
If you hate it here so much, here's a suggestion: GO THE FUCK BACK TO YOUR SHITTY LITTLE COUNTRY.
I don't consider Islam to be any more dangerous than Christianity.
Perhaps you simply aren't paying attention to world events. In the past ten years how many terrorist attacks have been instigated by religions other than islam? I can't think of any, but I wouldn't be surprised if there was one or two. In the past ten years how many times have there been islamic terrorist attacks? More than 10,000.
Here's another quiz for you. When someone sticks a crusifix in a glass of piss and calls it art, what happens? Denouncements by christian religious leaders and some peaceful protests. When the equivalent is done to islam (e.g. cartoons), what happens? Weeks of riots with much property destruction and many deaths.
Yet another quiz. A deranged christian man attacks someone and is killed by police, what happens? Religious leaders express their regret of the incident and wish something could have been done to prevent it. When a deranged islamic man attacks a police officer with a knife and is shot dead, what happens? Weeks of riots with much property destruction and several deaths.
How about the recent rescue of a kidnapped (for forced conversion to islam and marriage) teenage christian girl in Somalia? Weeks of rioting by the islamics with much property destruction and several deaths.
Are you starting to see a pattern?
The religious texts are very similar (in fact, a lot of the religious texts are the same) and the standard teachings of peace and love are also identical.
No, they aren't similar. I don't remember the christian bible telling you to kill non-believers, rape their wives, and enslave their children, but this is in the koran. There is no room for "peace and love" for people of other faiths in islam.
I know how you feel. A couple of years ago (when I was still married), I tried to get one evening meal a week as family time. The three of us were to sit down to dinner at the table all at the same time. The t.v. would be off. No answering the phone, making calls, or running to the computer to check for messages. It was a simple request. My ex-wife wasn't helpful with this. My former step-daughter simply refused to sit at the table (teenagers are generally assholes) and my ex-wife enabled her by allowing her to eat in her room. That's when I stopped buying groceries (no, that's not why I'm now divorced).
These days I eat dinner quite often with some friends. Most of the time it's very casual and we have the t.v. turned on (usually one of the sci fi shows). On occasion, however, it's a little more formal and we sit at the dinning room table with the t.v. off. Cell phones tend to remain on, though, because half of us are system administrators.
- that mortgage applicants actually have the income needed to support paying back the mortgage! DUHHH!
A friend of mine is a mortgage broker and explained the problem. The Feds demanded the mortgage industry provide more loans to minorities. All too often, minorities applying for loans did not have sufficient income to qualify. If they turned them down, AS THEY SHOULD HAVE, they would have been accused of discrimination. This whole mortgage crises was created by the Feds forcing the industry to give loans to people who had no chance of paying them back.
A secondary problem was idiots rolling over interest-only loans, hoping the market would keep going up. Interest-only loans aren't much different from gambling.
No way! I'm certain we have more wind in the form of hot air coming out of Washington, DC than all of the UK - though your parliament makes a pretty good showing.
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You really don't have a clue of what type of people come out of our military these days, do you?
I'll use a friend of mine as an example. He has two degrees. He was an officer in the army (SpecOps). He is a network engineer, is comfortable in Linux and Windows (prefers Linux) and has a very high government security clearance and the skills to do security audits at _any_ tech company in the country (that's a huge deal). Google didn't hire him.
I recently finished a one year contract at Google. Since leaving, I have said on numerous occasions that google's downfall will be their arrogance. You nailed it perfectly. The mono-culture you mention isn't just in their technical leanings. It's also very much evident in the political leaning of the workforce. Politics is dominated by the extreme left. You aren't supposed to hire based on politics (it's the law), but people are rejected because they "don't fit with the google culture." Google is also failing miserably in hiring military vets. That's a big no-no. I expect them to get in serious trouble for that.
That could start a war! Canada does have an army, though I think he's in Iraq at the moment.
I personally don't believe that more anti-freedom laws are popping up these days. The internet is just making us more aware of them when they do pop up.
That's real damn close to where I live. I've been up in that area on numerous occasions. In fact, I took some riding lessons at a ranch up there. My guess, the rancher has had some problems with teenagers harassing his herd. Teenagers do stupid things, like chase the steer around for the fun of it. There has also been the rare occasion of steer and horse thefts. Just a little information. A rancher with a shotgun is as common as a rancher with a nose on his face. Nothing to get excited about.
And of course there was nothing suspicious at all when Saddam had his troops repeatedly block the UN inspectors for a couple of hours while trucks went in and out of the place they wanted to inspect. I'm sure it was all perfectly normal. They were probably transporting baby food to the needy.
We know Saddam possessed WMDs because he had used them on his own people (he gassed the Kurds).
Despite the howls from the far left, Bush didn't actually "lie and people died". Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.), chairman of the Select Committee on Intelligence, own report proves that. For example,
The list goes on, and Rockfeller's committee could only say, over and over, "Generally substantiated by intelligence information," though there was some exaggeration (which isn't the same as a lie).
HOWEVER! Spying on citizens, arresting and holding without probable cause or a trial, wiretapping -- basically using our Constitution to wipe his ass -- now that's a good enough reason to impeach him and the majority of assholes sitting on their fat asses in Washington DC (both Democrats and Republicans).
ROFLMAO. We're talking about the government here. Do you really believe that? The only government agency that is anywhere close to efficient is the post office (an opinion I did not have until I spent some time in Europe and dealt with their shitty postal service).
Sounds fine, except why does it need to be a government agency? I trust the government less than I would a business that has a vested interest in doing a good job providing a service. It's extremely rare for a government bureaucrat to get fired for incompetence. In business, if someone screws up enough they get shown the door.
In the odd little world of the Mafi*AA, _any_ competition == unfair competition.
Fixed that for you.
I know I'm going to catch hell for that.
What ISPs are doing is not traffic shaping. They are doing traffic elimination. I don't have a problem with traffic shaping. It's often necessary to get different things to play nice with each other.
Oops, typo. PKD
Let's not forget to hope the screenplay writer pretty much ignores the book and goes off on his own like they did with Blade Runner.
I never did understand why anyone liked PHD. He had some cool ideas, but I think his writing is shite.
Let's see, coalition soldiers go out and kill terrorists, doing everything possible to avoid harming civilians in the process. On the other hand, terrorists go out of their way to target civilians, including children. Yep, they are exactly the same! OMG, how did I not see this!
It's sickening that our soldiers are held to a standard higher than any other military in the history of the human race, while the terrorist enemy is held to no standard.
When I was growing up we ate dinner almost every night as a family unit. When I became the typical disgruntled teen and tried to avoid family dinner, I went hungry. No getting meals in my room. No grazing out of the fridge afterwards. Upon reflection, I think I am better for it.
While my own family was certainly far different from the one I grew up in, one night a week as a family was not an unreasonable expectation. I wasn't trying to enforce "fun". I was trying to build some family unity and the once a week dinner's purpose was a first attempt at that.
What does that have to do with my post? I did not quote or reference Bush in any way. I'm guessing you are unable to come up with a valid retort so you are attempting to distract from the content
Again, you are attempting to distract for lack of any valid points. There is nothing in the new testament saying to kill your enemies, rape their wives, and enslave their children. This is very clearly stated in a non-Westernized version of the koran (one that hasn't been "cleansed" as an attempt to deceive). The bible does say to forgive and to love your enemies.
FYI, I am not a christian.
You want to come and go as you please and to vote without having become a citizen? Are you stupid? Is there a single country in the world that grants those rights to anyone who simply wishes them?
If you hate it here so much, here's a suggestion: GO THE FUCK BACK TO YOUR SHITTY LITTLE COUNTRY.
Perhaps you simply aren't paying attention to world events. In the past ten years how many terrorist attacks have been instigated by religions other than islam? I can't think of any, but I wouldn't be surprised if there was one or two. In the past ten years how many times have there been islamic terrorist attacks? More than 10,000.
Here's another quiz for you. When someone sticks a crusifix in a glass of piss and calls it art, what happens? Denouncements by christian religious leaders and some peaceful protests. When the equivalent is done to islam (e.g. cartoons), what happens? Weeks of riots with much property destruction and many deaths.
Yet another quiz. A deranged christian man attacks someone and is killed by police, what happens? Religious leaders express their regret of the incident and wish something could have been done to prevent it. When a deranged islamic man attacks a police officer with a knife and is shot dead, what happens? Weeks of riots with much property destruction and several deaths.
How about the recent rescue of a kidnapped (for forced conversion to islam and marriage) teenage christian girl in Somalia? Weeks of rioting by the islamics with much property destruction and several deaths.
Are you starting to see a pattern?
No, they aren't similar. I don't remember the christian bible telling you to kill non-believers, rape their wives, and enslave their children, but this is in the koran. There is no room for "peace and love" for people of other faiths in islam.
I know how you feel. A couple of years ago (when I was still married), I tried to get one evening meal a week as family time. The three of us were to sit down to dinner at the table all at the same time. The t.v. would be off. No answering the phone, making calls, or running to the computer to check for messages. It was a simple request. My ex-wife wasn't helpful with this. My former step-daughter simply refused to sit at the table (teenagers are generally assholes) and my ex-wife enabled her by allowing her to eat in her room. That's when I stopped buying groceries (no, that's not why I'm now divorced).
These days I eat dinner quite often with some friends. Most of the time it's very casual and we have the t.v. turned on (usually one of the sci fi shows). On occasion, however, it's a little more formal and we sit at the dinning room table with the t.v. off. Cell phones tend to remain on, though, because half of us are system administrators.
A friend of mine is a mortgage broker and explained the problem. The Feds demanded the mortgage industry provide more loans to minorities. All too often, minorities applying for loans did not have sufficient income to qualify. If they turned them down, AS THEY SHOULD HAVE, they would have been accused of discrimination. This whole mortgage crises was created by the Feds forcing the industry to give loans to people who had no chance of paying them back.
A secondary problem was idiots rolling over interest-only loans, hoping the market would keep going up. Interest-only loans aren't much different from gambling.
No way! I'm certain we have more wind in the form of hot air coming out of Washington, DC than all of the UK - though your parliament makes a pretty good showing.
Not really. Generating energy from wind in a cost effective manner is damn hard.
Wind in sufficient force to be used for generating energy is not everywhere. In fact, it's rather rare, discounting seasonal weather.
No it isn't. Wind has been used as an energy source for hundreds of years, typically to grind wheat into flour or pump water
I must assume Keanu Reeves will play that robot since that's his acting style, anyway.