In the case of corruption related to medicare disability fraud, the "fraud" part is the healthy person wanting to be on disability; the "corruption" part is the doctor and/or government agency helping him to do so.
On a related note, please stop calling every damn job title an "architect" or an "engineer." Engineers are people who have PE (or EIT) licenses.
"Sales engineers" are not engineers, they're salespeople. "Software engineers" are not engineers, they're programmers (or maybe "software developers," although that probably pisses off people looking for jobs in real estate). "Support Engineers" are not engineers, they're tech support clerks. "Test Engineers" are not engineers, they're QA.
I was looking at a job listing email for "Engineering/Architecture" and 22 out of the 24 listings were programming jobs (and one was for sales). This is fucking goddamn ridiculous!
I'm always looking for passionate developers. Here's why: Where I work, there are no grunts. There are no people who mindlessly grind out code. We're not building yet another website: We're solving hard problems...
But that's what they all say, including the companies just building yet another website.
Not to mention, there are 10 "yet another website" companies for every 1 "solving hard problems" company, and even programmers who start out passionate lose that passion if they end up at one of the former.
The real problem is "what is a platform?" If a platform is sufficiently different from the other platforms then it ought to have programs rewritten for it (because they'll be different and therefore not repeated); if it is not sufficiently different from other platforms than it doesn't need to exist (in fact, the platform developers themselves violated the DRY principle).
If the mayor had canceled school for the Atlanta metro area -- with a single 30-second phone call -- much of this chaos would have been averted.
The mayor can't cancel school -- that's the job of the superintendent, as far as I know -- and even if he could, the City of Atlanta contains only 10% of the population of metro Atlanta (and probably less than 10% of the students).
Exactly. And that's exactly what they have. There are 40 snowplows in Atlanta (up from 8 during the 2011 Snowpocalypse), and they were loaded and in position to move when the snow started.
Yes, and the key there is "when the snow started." What the fuck were they doing the entire morning before, when they should have been out pre-treating?
But there wasn't a 50% chance of snow. Even Monday evening we already knew that there was an 80% chance of snow for southeast Atlanta; the only question was whether it would miss the northwest suburbs or hit the whole city.
Since traffic was blocking the roads, the limited number of trucks couldn't lay down salt or sand. Thus, every road, including the highways, were coated in ice and unable to be treated because the trucks themselves were stuck in the traffic jams.
This is not an excuse. First of all, the trucks should have been out there salting/sanding before the traffic jams started. Second, they could have gotten help from the state patrol to keep people out of the way of the trucks. Third, the only reason everybody panicked and caused the traffic jam in the first place is because GDOT's reputation is so bad that everybody assumed they'd fuck it up!
That's not true either. At least on the most popular radio news (WSB), they were predicting at least an inch. That was more than enough for me, as a native Atlantan, to know to stay home.
If you want something that does what Waze does -- or anything that shares data between users -- what you want is a protocol, not a program.
In my opinion, the single biggest problem with the Internet today is that things like Facebook and Twitter were implemented as programs and not protocols.
I think he's trying to make the argument that if corporate espionage counts as "national security" then so does any NSA interference in "commerce," which due to the absurdly broad interpretation of the Commerce Clause means that the NSA can do literally anything at all.
I took 5 years of Spanish, it did not cover where Europe was. That was covered in geography, and various history classes. The foreign language requirement's purpose is not to cover basic geography.
I took Latin, which covered a surprisingly large amount of Roman history and geography. (Unfortunately, it did not cover learning how to actually speak the language conversationally.)
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It may not seem that way politically, but Italy nevertheless is a first-world country.
In the case of corruption related to medicare disability fraud, the "fraud" part is the healthy person wanting to be on disability; the "corruption" part is the doctor and/or government agency helping him to do so.
The real question you should be asking is "why did they get rid of the confirm button?"
Get over it?
On a related note, please stop calling every damn job title an "architect" or an "engineer." Engineers are people who have PE (or EIT) licenses.
"Sales engineers" are not engineers, they're salespeople. "Software engineers" are not engineers, they're programmers (or maybe "software developers," although that probably pisses off people looking for jobs in real estate). "Support Engineers" are not engineers, they're tech support clerks. "Test Engineers" are not engineers, they're QA.
I was looking at a job listing email for "Engineering/Architecture" and 22 out of the 24 listings were programming jobs (and one was for sales). This is fucking goddamn ridiculous!
Otherwise known as "your lunch break" if you don't want to actually spend extra time doing it at home.
But that's what they all say, including the companies just building yet another website.
Not to mention, there are 10 "yet another website" companies for every 1 "solving hard problems" company, and even programmers who start out passionate lose that passion if they end up at one of the former.
The real problem is "what is a platform?" If a platform is sufficiently different from the other platforms then it ought to have programs rewritten for it (because they'll be different and therefore not repeated); if it is not sufficiently different from other platforms than it doesn't need to exist (in fact, the platform developers themselves violated the DRY principle).
It happened in Atlanta 3 years ago. It'll happen again within a decade.
The mayor can't cancel school -- that's the job of the superintendent, as far as I know -- and even if he could, the City of Atlanta contains only 10% of the population of metro Atlanta (and probably less than 10% of the students).
Yes, and the key there is "when the snow started." What the fuck were they doing the entire morning before, when they should have been out pre-treating?
But there wasn't a 50% chance of snow. Even Monday evening we already knew that there was an 80% chance of snow for southeast Atlanta; the only question was whether it would miss the northwest suburbs or hit the whole city.
Really? WSB radio reports on the weather every 10 minutes or so, all morning. There's really no excuse.
Hell, I looked at noaa.gov and made the call to work from home Tuesday before I even left work Monday afternoon!
This is not an excuse. First of all, the trucks should have been out there salting/sanding before the traffic jams started. Second, they could have gotten help from the state patrol to keep people out of the way of the trucks. Third, the only reason everybody panicked and caused the traffic jam in the first place is because GDOT's reputation is so bad that everybody assumed they'd fuck it up!
You don't have to deal with hills.
That's not true either. At least on the most popular radio news (WSB), they were predicting at least an inch. That was more than enough for me, as a native Atlantan, to know to stay home.
If you want something that does what Waze does -- or anything that shares data between users -- what you want is a protocol, not a program.
In my opinion, the single biggest problem with the Internet today is that things like Facebook and Twitter were implemented as programs and not protocols.
Except that doesn't help, because you can't run your own domain name registration.
Why? Just spin it up to speed using the electric motor you've got strapped to it anyway!
Could you list some of those features?
I think he's trying to make the argument that if corporate espionage counts as "national security" then so does any NSA interference in "commerce," which due to the absurdly broad interpretation of the Commerce Clause means that the NSA can do literally anything at all.
It's not actually that big a leap, I think.
The most important thing (IMO) missing from history would indeed be the civil rights movement.
Science, however, would be missing several (again, IMO) important things: plate tectonics and DNA's role in heredity.
And yet, Latin was offered as a foreign language at my high school...
(You are right that it was sort of "cheating" the requirement, though!)
Latin is taught in a way much more similar to that which you describe.
I took Latin, which covered a surprisingly large amount of Roman history and geography. (Unfortunately, it did not cover learning how to actually speak the language conversationally.)