To add to this: interviewers asking lazy questions (What is your greatest weakness?) should expect lazy, canned answers (I work too hard). If you want to gauge someone's critical thinking skills, ask a creative question requiring original thought to answer. Not some question that can be found on a list of 50 top interview questions.
Most of them do. It's a place to go right out of college and get some experience. Once you have 2-3 years experience and that Accenture name on the resume, its time to go somewhere else for better work, fewer hours and lots more pay. This is the very typical pattern of Accenture employees.
There's a difference between the way things SHOULD be and the way they are in the real world. Nobody in a position of power cares what the constitution says, therefore it is ignored. And its pretty much been this way since the country was founded.
The Chicago area has this problem worse than anywhere. Roads here are always "work zones" yet the quality of the road never actually gets any better, and there's rarely any actual work being done.
I can only assume the politically connected road contractors use the cheapest possible materials so they can do the same work again just a couple of years later.
Are you fucking serious? Lethal injection is your idea of cruel and unusual? How about drawing and quartering?
OK look, there is NOTHING in the constitution that says that punishments must be completely free of pain or discomfort. Nothing. Cruel and unusual would mean that the government is going out of its way to punish someone in an especially barbaric method, which in no way shape or form happened with this execution. If the inmate happened to suffer a bit, so what? The state was attempting to carry out the punishment in the most humane and effective way available to them at the time. They never did anything for the sole purpose of causing additional suffering.
If you're going to say that the constitution requires all punishment to be completely painless and free of unplesantries, that would mean eliminating the penal system altogether. Cruel and unusual != any amount of suffering.
College tuition only goes up. And has gone up about 10% annually for the past 15 years. By 2020 top schools will likely be charging $100,000 per year, although nobody will actually pay full price.
Right, because other countries don't search you at the border.
You have NO privacy rights at customs. Anything you have with you can be searched. This is the way it works in any country in the entire world. The only way to avoid it is to not travel across borders.
Ever since late 2001, anything that falls under the Homeland Security umbrella (a LOT of stuff) might as well have an unlimited budget. Even now its hard for an expense to be denied under the guise of "national security". In 2004 you could get as much money as you wanted if you were a government contractor doing something that might fight "evildoers".
As recent revelations have shown, the NSA ban on domestic spying exists only on paper. The NSA does regularly and knowingly spy on Americans with impunity. It's only a problem if they get caught.
Sure. License them all. Want to write Hello World? That will be $1 million to cover all patent license fees plus attorney fees. Anything more complicated will be many millions more for all the relevant patents. Bye bye future innovation.
The main purpose of modern Slashdot is to air paranoid stories about "rights online" that border on conspiracy theory alarmism, or sometimes cross the line completely.
POTS service in the last 5 years is NOT what it was 15 years ago. Reliability, resilience and call quality have taken a hit in favor of cost cutting. Customers don't care enough to complain anymore since they are all using cell phones or Voip anyway. POTS is already on life support and not coming back - might as well go ahead and pull the plug.
Given the same scenario today, I doubt your POTS line would be working, not to mention you wouldn't be able to call any neighbors since they wouldn't have POTS lines anymore.
While your post is factually correct, it is logically inconsistent. If the standard for safe driving is complete and total sobriety and 100% motor control, there are many people who are on the road today, completely sober, who need to lose their license permanently. I have better reflexes and reaction time after a couple of beers than many people do when completely sober.
Either its safe for me to drive or they need to be off the road. Which one is it? In this politically correct country of ours we refuse to make this important distinction.
YOU try developing software without infringing anyone's patent. Can't be done. In fact we are all no doubt violating numerous patents right now just by posting a message on a public forum.
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To add to this: interviewers asking lazy questions (What is your greatest weakness?) should expect lazy, canned answers (I work too hard). If you want to gauge someone's critical thinking skills, ask a creative question requiring original thought to answer. Not some question that can be found on a list of 50 top interview questions.
Wow. Nothing I would hate more than to work in a place chock-full of supergeeks. The constant pedantry would get annoying, to say the least.
Most of them do. It's a place to go right out of college and get some experience. Once you have 2-3 years experience and that Accenture name on the resume, its time to go somewhere else for better work, fewer hours and lots more pay. This is the very typical pattern of Accenture employees.
That's because CNN does not criticize their Messiah In Chief.
In other words, its all Republican's fault?
There's a difference between the way things SHOULD be and the way they are in the real world. Nobody in a position of power cares what the constitution says, therefore it is ignored. And its pretty much been this way since the country was founded.
The Chicago area has this problem worse than anywhere. Roads here are always "work zones" yet the quality of the road never actually gets any better, and there's rarely any actual work being done.
I can only assume the politically connected road contractors use the cheapest possible materials so they can do the same work again just a couple of years later.
Revenge would be eye-for-an-eye killing him in the same way he killed his victim. Executions are WAY more humane than that.
I think you are still suffering from PTSD and would benefit enormously from seeking help.
Are you fucking serious? Lethal injection is your idea of cruel and unusual? How about drawing and quartering?
OK look, there is NOTHING in the constitution that says that punishments must be completely free of pain or discomfort. Nothing. Cruel and unusual would mean that the government is going out of its way to punish someone in an especially barbaric method, which in no way shape or form happened with this execution. If the inmate happened to suffer a bit, so what? The state was attempting to carry out the punishment in the most humane and effective way available to them at the time. They never did anything for the sole purpose of causing additional suffering.
If you're going to say that the constitution requires all punishment to be completely painless and free of unplesantries, that would mean eliminating the penal system altogether. Cruel and unusual != any amount of suffering.
College tuition only goes up. And has gone up about 10% annually for the past 15 years. By 2020 top schools will likely be charging $100,000 per year, although nobody will actually pay full price.
I'd much rather have someone "wasting" square footage than to have some dictator telling me how big of a house I can have.
"It's a really tough time to be a patent owner"
And the world's smallest violin plays Katharine a little tune.
Right, because other countries don't search you at the border.
You have NO privacy rights at customs. Anything you have with you can be searched. This is the way it works in any country in the entire world. The only way to avoid it is to not travel across borders.
Ever since late 2001, anything that falls under the Homeland Security umbrella (a LOT of stuff) might as well have an unlimited budget. Even now its hard for an expense to be denied under the guise of "national security". In 2004 you could get as much money as you wanted if you were a government contractor doing something that might fight "evildoers".
The last paragraph of your bullshit post drastically contradicts the first. You do not strike me as a compassionate person at all.
As recent revelations have shown, the NSA ban on domestic spying exists only on paper. The NSA does regularly and knowingly spy on Americans with impunity. It's only a problem if they get caught.
Learn to deal with it indeed. It won't be changing anytime soon. It's part of the price you pay for a sweet government gig.
Aww, too bad so sad. Did they think the days of virtually unlimited budgets could go on forever?
Sure. License them all. Want to write Hello World? That will be $1 million to cover all patent license fees plus attorney fees. Anything more complicated will be many millions more for all the relevant patents. Bye bye future innovation.
The main purpose of modern Slashdot is to air paranoid stories about "rights online" that border on conspiracy theory alarmism, or sometimes cross the line completely.
POTS service in the last 5 years is NOT what it was 15 years ago. Reliability, resilience and call quality have taken a hit in favor of cost cutting. Customers don't care enough to complain anymore since they are all using cell phones or Voip anyway. POTS is already on life support and not coming back - might as well go ahead and pull the plug.
Given the same scenario today, I doubt your POTS line would be working, not to mention you wouldn't be able to call any neighbors since they wouldn't have POTS lines anymore.
While your post is factually correct, it is logically inconsistent. If the standard for safe driving is complete and total sobriety and 100% motor control, there are many people who are on the road today, completely sober, who need to lose their license permanently. I have better reflexes and reaction time after a couple of beers than many people do when completely sober.
Either its safe for me to drive or they need to be off the road. Which one is it? In this politically correct country of ours we refuse to make this important distinction.
Great idea, make it free. Then it would be even more of a rolling homeless shelter / psych ward than it already is!
YOU try developing software without infringing anyone's patent. Can't be done. In fact we are all no doubt violating numerous patents right now just by posting a message on a public forum.