I second that idea. Local officials that are competent and actually WANT to serve the people will do a lot more good than hoping the feds decide to do more. Besides, it wasn't Bush's job to create an evacuation plan for New Orleans, it was ultimately the mayor's job and he failed miserably. Of course, getting new officials may require a temporary willingness to vote Republican until the local Democratic party gets cleaned up.
It's not about self esteem, prestige, or anything like that. These bottom feeders are below all of that. They only care about making as much money as they can, even if it is only through underhanded methods like patent trolling. It's good that at least someone is challenging them.
No country is perfect. You could point to any country and criticise the worst part of their legal system, social system, healthcare, or any other aspect and use it as a model for failure. Obviously most Americans believe there are problems with their country, but not too many think the entire place is rotten or there would have been another revolution. Any country has it's advantages and disadvantages, and none are perfect.
Umm, what? I don't know many people who are still coding the same way they did 20 years ago. Most IT jobs today deal with things that were either not invented or not commonly used 20 years ago. That time frame would be so long as to make the licensing useless. People would memorize answers to obsolete questions just to pass the test, and this would not reflect on their abilities to work with current technology.
Licensing for programmers would have to be done differently than it is for other professions, because the nature of the job changes much faster. If licensing were administered by a state board, they would probably still be asking exam questions about the proper way to compile punch card programs. The computer industry has a defacto licensing scheme already, with vendor certifications. I think this is about as close as we will ever get to having licensing, since there is no other way for a licensing program to realistically keep up with new technology. Liability for programming errors will always fall on a company anyway, since they have a lot more to sue for.
I never thought DHTML was a very descriptive term either. Web pages can be made dynamic in several different ways. It seems like DHTML is usually used to describe JavaScript combined with CSS, but some people used it to describe server side stuff too. The problem with technical jargon is that it gets bastardized by marketing-speak.
Some people just don't like to deal with pulling shit out of pipes or crawling around on the garage floor. Just like most people eat in restaurants at least sometimes even though hardly anyone is incapable of preparing some sort of food on their own. It's largely about convenience. I could easily change my own oil but have better things to do with my time, like trolling Slashdot.
Newspapers have been fat and happy for a long time. Most towns have 1 or 2 main papers which have never had a shortage of business. The money rolled in as long as they kept cranking out a paper each day; it didn't much matter what they put in it. Now that people have more options, they expect more. Not everybody needs a daily paper subscription to be informed about the news. In fact, as other posters have mentioned, printed news is stale by the time you read it.
Any paper who wants to survive in the future needs to invest heavily in online content and NOT just make their website exactly like the printed paper. If news is presented online in a convenient format, they will have no shortage of page views and ad revenue. Otherwise they will shrivel up and die. I suspect most papers will survive but those that are stubbornly resistant to progress will die in the next 10 years or so.
They won't have to switch. They'll just keep doing what they're doing right now, which is running pirated copies of Windows. Considering how rampant piracy is in South Korea, Microsoft isn't exactly going to lose any money by suspending official sales. They'll probably come out ahead by avoiding legal expenses.
When demand increases, price will increase regardless of supply cost. Commodity trading isn't a sham, it's just the way the economy works. If oil and coal were mandated to be sold at a constant price regardless of demand, the supply would run out quickly as people would have no incentive to conserve or to explore for new sources.
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Dude, take off the tinfoil hat and grow up. It was an accident, nothing more than that. Did the cop even say the word "murder"? I doubt it.
It seems to me like Sony quality and support have really fallen off in recent years. I remember when Sony was more expensive, but worth it due to the superior quality and features. Now, it seems like the company has rented its formerly good name out to whatever bottom-of-the-barrel manufacturer wants to pay for it. They churn out garbage with Sony stamped on it and then the company refuses to support it when there are problems. The last Sony Trinitron I bought failed after 3 months and the support was non-existant. After reading about similar problems other customers had, I decided no more Sony products for me. This company is running on fumes and will be bankrupt before the end of the decade.
It's a people problem. People like to feel and look important, and one big way to do that is to hold meetings. Many aspiring managers hold pointless meetings where they get to hear themselves talk for an hour for the sole purpose of justifying their existance. They will use whatever medium is available to them, be it an in person meeting, conference call, online meeting, whatever. Until this cultural problem is somehow solved, pointless meetings will be a regular way of life in most companies.
If this is a public school, you've probably got grounds for a successful lawsuit. The only way this could be legal is if the school decided the off-campus part of their rules applies only to students in extra-curricular activities, and the only possible punishment is suspension from the activity. In any case, it sounds like your school administrators have way too much time on their hands. Don't they have something better to do, like catch the kids huffing paint in the closet behind the art room?
Although the constitution doesn't specifically state this, kids under 18 have no real rights. The only "rights" they have are the privileges their parents let them have. It would pretty much cause chaos if it were determined that parents couldn't interfere with their kids constitutional rights. For example, a minor cannot be locked up for criticizing a government official, but that doesn't mean they can sue their parents for not allowing them to go to an anti-war rally.
A lot of health insurance plans will not cover pre-existing conditions until you've paid 12 months worth of fees.
I believe this is only if you have had a lapse in coverage of more than 3 months. If you transfer from one insurance plan directly to another, they should cover everything. I could be wrong, but this is the way the plans have been at every place I've worked. The idea is to prevent people from not signing up for insurance until after they come down with a major condition.
When did a Democrat ever favor ANY tax break. If you ask them, ALL tax breaks are for the rich. Sure, the rich will benefit more in real dollars, because they pay a lot more in real dollars (and percentage of income). How did Hollywood actor liberals get their money? By knowing someone in a high place. This is the only way any actor makes it big. Graduating top of your class in acting school doesn't cut it without the connections. Here's a hint for any liberals who want more middle class jobs: businesses create jobs, not government.
Limousine liberals are those who have inherited a lot of money, don't know what it's like to work for it, and feel guilty about it. To try to relieve their guilt, they favor massive government programs to help the poor. With all their money, they could just set up some charities, like some of them do. But most importantly, they want to force others to "donate" their money via taxation. The taxes they propose are on the upper-earning working class, not the elite who already have their money. In other words, now that I've got mine, I don't want anyone else getting theirs. John Kerry and Hillary Clinton are perfect examples of this.
There's also a very brisk business of suing the officers of any company whose stock falls
Now that's just begging for more stock fraud. When the penalties for falling stock prices are too great, naturally there will be more fraud to prop them up. But hey, I guess the lawyers benefit from fraud too. I think I chose the wrong profession:)
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I second that idea. Local officials that are competent and actually WANT to serve the people will do a lot more good than hoping the feds decide to do more. Besides, it wasn't Bush's job to create an evacuation plan for New Orleans, it was ultimately the mayor's job and he failed miserably. Of course, getting new officials may require a temporary willingness to vote Republican until the local Democratic party gets cleaned up.
It's not about self esteem, prestige, or anything like that. These bottom feeders are below all of that. They only care about making as much money as they can, even if it is only through underhanded methods like patent trolling. It's good that at least someone is challenging them.
No country is perfect. You could point to any country and criticise the worst part of their legal system, social system, healthcare, or any other aspect and use it as a model for failure. Obviously most Americans believe there are problems with their country, but not too many think the entire place is rotten or there would have been another revolution. Any country has it's advantages and disadvantages, and none are perfect.
20 years per paradigm is reasonable
Umm, what? I don't know many people who are still coding the same way they did 20 years ago. Most IT jobs today deal with things that were either not invented or not commonly used 20 years ago. That time frame would be so long as to make the licensing useless. People would memorize answers to obsolete questions just to pass the test, and this would not reflect on their abilities to work with current technology.
Licensing for programmers would have to be done differently than it is for other professions, because the nature of the job changes much faster. If licensing were administered by a state board, they would probably still be asking exam questions about the proper way to compile punch card programs. The computer industry has a defacto licensing scheme already, with vendor certifications. I think this is about as close as we will ever get to having licensing, since there is no other way for a licensing program to realistically keep up with new technology. Liability for programming errors will always fall on a company anyway, since they have a lot more to sue for.
I never thought DHTML was a very descriptive term either. Web pages can be made dynamic in several different ways. It seems like DHTML is usually used to describe JavaScript combined with CSS, but some people used it to describe server side stuff too. The problem with technical jargon is that it gets bastardized by marketing-speak.
It sounds to me like a test, just to see how much they can get away with.
Some people just don't like to deal with pulling shit out of pipes or crawling around on the garage floor. Just like most people eat in restaurants at least sometimes even though hardly anyone is incapable of preparing some sort of food on their own. It's largely about convenience. I could easily change my own oil but have better things to do with my time, like trolling Slashdot.
Newspapers have been fat and happy for a long time. Most towns have 1 or 2 main papers which have never had a shortage of business. The money rolled in as long as they kept cranking out a paper each day; it didn't much matter what they put in it. Now that people have more options, they expect more. Not everybody needs a daily paper subscription to be informed about the news. In fact, as other posters have mentioned, printed news is stale by the time you read it.
Any paper who wants to survive in the future needs to invest heavily in online content and NOT just make their website exactly like the printed paper. If news is presented online in a convenient format, they will have no shortage of page views and ad revenue. Otherwise they will shrivel up and die. I suspect most papers will survive but those that are stubbornly resistant to progress will die in the next 10 years or so.
It's happening already. Check out this forum on a Purdue student messageboard. This idiot is plugging some sort of notetaking software.
They won't have to switch. They'll just keep doing what they're doing right now, which is running pirated copies of Windows. Considering how rampant piracy is in South Korea, Microsoft isn't exactly going to lose any money by suspending official sales. They'll probably come out ahead by avoiding legal expenses.
When demand increases, price will increase regardless of supply cost. Commodity trading isn't a sham, it's just the way the economy works. If oil and coal were mandated to be sold at a constant price regardless of demand, the supply would run out quickly as people would have no incentive to conserve or to explore for new sources.
Dude, take off the tinfoil hat and grow up. It was an accident, nothing more than that. Did the cop even say the word "murder"? I doubt it.
It seems to me like Sony quality and support have really fallen off in recent years. I remember when Sony was more expensive, but worth it due to the superior quality and features. Now, it seems like the company has rented its formerly good name out to whatever bottom-of-the-barrel manufacturer wants to pay for it. They churn out garbage with Sony stamped on it and then the company refuses to support it when there are problems. The last Sony Trinitron I bought failed after 3 months and the support was non-existant. After reading about similar problems other customers had, I decided no more Sony products for me. This company is running on fumes and will be bankrupt before the end of the decade.
It's a people problem. People like to feel and look important, and one big way to do that is to hold meetings. Many aspiring managers hold pointless meetings where they get to hear themselves talk for an hour for the sole purpose of justifying their existance. They will use whatever medium is available to them, be it an in person meeting, conference call, online meeting, whatever. Until this cultural problem is somehow solved, pointless meetings will be a regular way of life in most companies.
How is it unconstitutional?
Here are some examples to get you started. For more, Google "university campus speech codes".
If this is a public school, you've probably got grounds for a successful lawsuit. The only way this could be legal is if the school decided the off-campus part of their rules applies only to students in extra-curricular activities, and the only possible punishment is suspension from the activity. In any case, it sounds like your school administrators have way too much time on their hands. Don't they have something better to do, like catch the kids huffing paint in the closet behind the art room?
Although the constitution doesn't specifically state this, kids under 18 have no real rights. The only "rights" they have are the privileges their parents let them have. It would pretty much cause chaos if it were determined that parents couldn't interfere with their kids constitutional rights. For example, a minor cannot be locked up for criticizing a government official, but that doesn't mean they can sue their parents for not allowing them to go to an anti-war rally.
A lot of health insurance plans will not cover pre-existing conditions until you've paid 12 months worth of fees.
I believe this is only if you have had a lapse in coverage of more than 3 months. If you transfer from one insurance plan directly to another, they should cover everything. I could be wrong, but this is the way the plans have been at every place I've worked. The idea is to prevent people from not signing up for insurance until after they come down with a major condition.
When did a Democrat ever favor ANY tax break. If you ask them, ALL tax breaks are for the rich. Sure, the rich will benefit more in real dollars, because they pay a lot more in real dollars (and percentage of income). How did Hollywood actor liberals get their money? By knowing someone in a high place. This is the only way any actor makes it big. Graduating top of your class in acting school doesn't cut it without the connections. Here's a hint for any liberals who want more middle class jobs: businesses create jobs, not government.
Limousine liberals are those who have inherited a lot of money, don't know what it's like to work for it, and feel guilty about it. To try to relieve their guilt, they favor massive government programs to help the poor. With all their money, they could just set up some charities, like some of them do. But most importantly, they want to force others to "donate" their money via taxation. The taxes they propose are on the upper-earning working class, not the elite who already have their money. In other words, now that I've got mine, I don't want anyone else getting theirs. John Kerry and Hillary Clinton are perfect examples of this.
There's also a very brisk business of suing the officers of any company whose stock falls
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Now that's just begging for more stock fraud. When the penalties for falling stock prices are too great, naturally there will be more fraud to prop them up. But hey, I guess the lawyers benefit from fraud too. I think I chose the wrong profession
Ask the union employees of Northwest Airlines how much things are rocking right now. It will make you less envious, to say the least.
Go to an NFL game: pay a lot for tickets, see the same commercials on the big screen as the TV viewers see. How's that for paying to receive ads?