I am not really religious but I remember almost all of those versus from when I was a child and none of them are commanding present day Christians to follow those actions. Those were directions that god gave to the Israelites. Every one of those quotes was taken out of context, I can't speak for the Qur'an but I would not be surprised if it was the same situation.
The weather is great, I was smart enough to leave the Berlin (banking industry) in 2004, specifically because I did not agree with the programs that were being offered. Had you read my post you would have seen that as well.
You either have the reading comprehension level of a 6 year old or you did not read my entire post. We were given a spec and implemented it, we did not create the bullshit loan programs. The software only matches people with programs they qualify for, nothing more. If the loan program is garbage that is all business side and has nothing to do with engineering. The banks wanted garbage customers so the software gave them garbage customers.
The article you link to is about the steering of minorities to subprime loans when they qualified for prime loans with better terms. That is done at the discretion of the loan officer and has nothing to do with the actual qualification process. Qualification for loans has nothing to do with race, it is all numbers.
I call bullshit, I worked for two banks for over 6 years from 1998-2004. Banks are NOT forced to give any percentage of any race a loan, that is a load of crap and you should really check your facts before you start spreading rumors of things you know nothing about.
How do I know this for a fact that you are wrong? I wrote loan qualification software and that is not one of the criteria our software used or ANY other of the major loan qualification systems used to determine loan qualification. The loan qualification software we wrote and maintained determined loan qualification based on criteria such as debt to income ratio, credit ratings at the big three bureaus, loan to value, down payment, cash reserves, employment information etc. and matched the person to available loan programs based on that info. I have personally written two loan qualification systems and seen the inner workings of three others, not one of them used race as a determining factor.
Banks only take information on ethnicity (which is completely voluntary) as a means of showing that they are not discriminating against any particular group, it has absolutely no bearing on if a person is qualified for a loan or not. The problem was that loans were too easy to get, the entire reason I quit the banking industry in 2004 was because the criteria for receiving loans was so lax that I knew it would blowup eventually.
Just as an example of how easy it was to get a mortgage, in 2002 we were asked by execs are our bank to adjust our software for a new product the bank was offering. It was a stated income, stated assets, no doc loan, with up to 106% financing, with a 680 FICO. In laymans terms it meant that if you had a 680 middle credit score you could walk into a bank tell them you make 300K a year as the VP of Technology at ABC Software Engineering Corp., ask for a 700K mortgage on a house that is only worth 660K and get it, all without proving that anything you said was true. The best part is that the only human validation that most banks performed was when the underwriter checked salary.com to make sure that the individuals stated salary was appropriate for the position they stated having.
No more loans for ppl with bad credit no matter what their
skin color is.
You sort of made your entire argument worthless when you got to that point. Care to explain what skin color has to do with loan qualifications?
My sister is an attorney with her LLM in real estate law, she works for one of the companies that is getting taken over by the government, her entire department is being retained. This is why I am starting law school next year with the goal of becoming an IP attorney, you almost never hear about lawyers being laid off who are above associate level and sure as hell never hear about lawyers jobs being outsourced either.
I'm sure google has plenty of extra resources to throw at this but it is a huge waste. With google it seems as if you can tell if something is going to be a success right away by the immediate response it gets. Most people haven't even heard of Knol and while I have read multiple articles about Knol nothing compelled me to actually go take a look at it. Why do we need another source of "might be true" information?
Call someone a mick or a wetback, and no one bats an eyelash. Spick, chink, kike, pretty much the same, but generally not good to drop in polite company. But use any of the assorted names for black people, and watch the brains of everyone in the room reboot as they look around in a panic to see if any of "them" heard you.
Where is it that you live that people don't cringe in panic at any of those words? Calling someone any of those terms in NYC will likely result in you getting your ass kicked.
Secure and "Passive RFID" should never be used in the same sentence. Let us completely ignore the fact that the rfid tag is going to have a a finite number of challenge respone pairs which makes this scheme a total joke. You will never see a secure passive rfid system because there isn't enough energy transferred to power a circuit with a scheme complicated enough to pull this off. Active RFID could be secured to the point where it would be effectively uncloneable, but it would still be pretty difficult.
The KGB is a pirate become a pirate today.
Aldrich Ames and the the CIA are now friends
Robert Hanssen and The FBI are now friends
Aldrich Ames and The KGB are now friends they found each other through the soviet consulate in Washington D.C.
Robert Hanssen and The KGB are now friends they found each other through The GRU
Robert Hanssen is sharing The FBI's secrets with The Espionage Application
The FBI is wondering why his business is all in the streets.
Aldrich Ames is going to Moscow!!!
Aldrich Ames just got busted (Aspace Mobile)
Robert Hanssen LOL @ Aldrich Ames, amateur
Aldrich Ames has joined Allenwood Federal Correctional Complex
Robert Hanssen is wondering what took the FBI so long (Aspace Mobile)
Black people really didn't want to consider that one of them, an example, had done something like this. Small difference, geeks right now are accepting Reiser is guilty, I don't see black people admit that OJ was guilty as hell.
Really?? you are either ignorant or a troll.
1.) I think OJ was guilty and it was a shame he got off simply because I believe in justice. Yes I would be perceived as black to you even though that is not all I am.
2.) You must not know any black people if you don't know one that will admit that OJ was guilty behind closed doors. OJ being innocent is one of the biggest jokes amongst many black people that is said with the most extreme sarcasm, only amongst other black people or white people who they really trust. Back in the 90s when OJ got off most black people didn't believe he was really innocent they just wanted to see a rich black guy beat a murder charge the same way they saw hundreds of rich white people do it. In a sick twisted way it let them know that the world was becoming more equal in that at the end of the day money was all that mattered not your skin color.
The GP's assumption as well as your assumption that "black people" (whatever that term means) had some racial affinity towards OJ is beyond retarded.
When I was a teenager (late 90s) there were a few people selling a device about the size of two bricks that could fool ez-pass by using another person's id. This is why when you sign up for ez-pass you have to give them the make and model of your car as well as your license plate number. They have two cameras on either side of your car pointing at you and numerous overhead cameras when you pass through so I believe any sort of fraud would be pretty difficult to pull off. I'm sure California has a similar setup and if they don't then they better get working on it.
And it is odd that we make special note of achievement when a 'minority' does something. For some reason we care that [person] is the first [label] to do something. If a white guy does something, so what? If it is novel that someone of x group did something, like say, a child composing a concerto, then sure... mention away. Otherwise i think by now we as a culture should be over it. Never underestimate the power of guilt.
Tell that to:
Justin Timberlake (R&B)
Jeremy Wariner (400m Sprinter)
Eminem (Rap)
All of those are white men who are doing things that would be considered ordinary for a black man but is considered amazing due to the fact that they are white.
People in general are fascinated by things that appear to be out of the ordinary even when they are not.
Have you looked at most new mid to upper level math books recently? There are an embarrassingly high number of mistakes in most math books. When I took Calc 1-3 then Differential Equations in college the books were filled with everything from simple mathematical errors to the answers in the back of the book being all wrong.
My Diff EQ. prof actually apologized mid-way through the semester because a new book that was written by a colleague of his (who was supposedly a "top mind" in applied mathematics) had so many errors that the book was pretty much useless because it created more confusion than clarification. The Prof. ended up just using the book as an outline creating his own problem sets, and offering more office hours which ended up being better than any book I had ever read. If I still had the book in question I would post the authors name because he deserves the embarrassment.
Is it American chauvinism that makes so many here discount RIM & Nokia?
How do people like this get modded insightful??
I can't speak about RIM but I have owned a dozen Nokia phones over the past 10 or so years and they sucked or were decent but nothing great. About six months ago I purchased an HTC tytn and it is leaps and bounds better than anything Nokia ever put out. I think the iphone is ridiculously overrated but I used one and it was still better than anything Nokia has put out yet. This has nothing to do with "American chauvanism" and it has everything to do with Nokia having a very long track record of putting out half ass products.
You are either from Europe, Japan or don't own a cell phone in the US. I've had a plan with every single major carrier in the US and you have no choice but to yell into your cellphone the reception is just that bad. With that in mind I avoid having drawn out conversations in public places on my cell but there are idiots who don't. I've lost count of how many times I've been on the train on my way to work and heard something like this:
WHAT WAS THAT?!?
No, I said
X
Y
Z
No can you hear me?
No I said XYZ
Yeah yeah thats what I said.
What was that?
I said WHAT WAS THAT?!?
Hold on I'm having trouble hearing you now I think we're hitting a dead spot.
I said, I THINK WE ARE HITTING A DEAD SPOT.
I've seen people continuing conversations at the top of their voices like this for an hour and a half train ride.
1.) Streetview shows people as well as places and things.
2.) What you call a black and white world, I call drawing a hard line when it comes to my personal privacy. I don't want street view cameras going through my neighborhood taking pictures of my house much less going on my personal property. At some point people have to stand up and say no to things like this.
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The difference being that these people experienced change gradually. Someone woken from suspended animation would not have it so easy.
Funny your girlfriend looked at my crotch and proclaimed she already had a pet wooly mammoth.
I kid, I kid
I am not really religious but I remember almost all of those versus from when I was a child and none of them are commanding present day Christians to follow those actions. Those were directions that god gave to the Israelites. Every one of those quotes was taken out of context, I can't speak for the Qur'an but I would not be surprised if it was the same situation.
The weather is great, I was smart enough to leave the Berlin (banking industry) in 2004, specifically because I did not agree with the programs that were being offered. Had you read my post you would have seen that as well.
You either have the reading comprehension level of a 6 year old or you did not read my entire post. We were given a spec and implemented it, we did not create the bullshit loan programs. The software only matches people with programs they qualify for, nothing more. If the loan program is garbage that is all business side and has nothing to do with engineering. The banks wanted garbage customers so the software gave them garbage customers.
The article you link to is about the steering of minorities to subprime loans when they qualified for prime loans with better terms. That is done at the discretion of the loan officer and has nothing to do with the actual qualification process. Qualification for loans has nothing to do with race, it is all numbers.
I call bullshit, I worked for two banks for over 6 years from 1998-2004. Banks are NOT forced to give any percentage of any race a loan, that is a load of crap and you should really check your facts before you start spreading rumors of things you know nothing about.
How do I know this for a fact that you are wrong? I wrote loan qualification software and that is not one of the criteria our software used or ANY other of the major loan qualification systems used to determine loan qualification. The loan qualification software we wrote and maintained determined loan qualification based on criteria such as debt to income ratio, credit ratings at the big three bureaus, loan to value, down payment, cash reserves, employment information etc. and matched the person to available loan programs based on that info. I have personally written two loan qualification systems and seen the inner workings of three others, not one of them used race as a determining factor.
Banks only take information on ethnicity (which is completely voluntary) as a means of showing that they are not discriminating against any particular group, it has absolutely no bearing on if a person is qualified for a loan or not. The problem was that loans were too easy to get, the entire reason I quit the banking industry in 2004 was because the criteria for receiving loans was so lax that I knew it would blowup eventually.
Just as an example of how easy it was to get a mortgage, in 2002 we were asked by execs are our bank to adjust our software for a new product the bank was offering. It was a stated income, stated assets, no doc loan, with up to 106% financing, with a 680 FICO. In laymans terms it meant that if you had a 680 middle credit score you could walk into a bank tell them you make 300K a year as the VP of Technology at ABC Software Engineering Corp., ask for a 700K mortgage on a house that is only worth 660K and get it, all without proving that anything you said was true. The best part is that the only human validation that most banks performed was when the underwriter checked salary.com to make sure that the individuals stated salary was appropriate for the position they stated having.
No more loans for ppl with bad credit no matter what their skin color is.
You sort of made your entire argument worthless when you got to that point. Care to explain what skin color has to do with loan qualifications?
My sister is an attorney with her LLM in real estate law, she works for one of the companies that is getting taken over by the government, her entire department is being retained. This is why I am starting law school next year with the goal of becoming an IP attorney, you almost never hear about lawyers being laid off who are above associate level and sure as hell never hear about lawyers jobs being outsourced either.
I'm sure google has plenty of extra resources to throw at this but it is a huge waste. With google it seems as if you can tell if something is going to be a success right away by the immediate response it gets. Most people haven't even heard of Knol and while I have read multiple articles about Knol nothing compelled me to actually go take a look at it. Why do we need another source of "might be true" information?
Call someone a mick or a wetback, and no one bats an eyelash. Spick, chink, kike, pretty much the same, but generally not good to drop in polite company. But use any of the assorted names for black people, and watch the brains of everyone in the room reboot as they look around in a panic to see if any of "them" heard you.
Where is it that you live that people don't cringe in panic at any of those words? Calling someone any of those terms in NYC will likely result in you getting your ass kicked.
Yeah that's great, except for those of us who work in high population density areas where multi-story buildings are the norm.
Secure and "Passive RFID" should never be used in the same sentence. Let us completely ignore the fact that the rfid tag is going to have a a finite number of challenge respone pairs which makes this scheme a total joke. You will never see a secure passive rfid system because there isn't enough energy transferred to power a circuit with a scheme complicated enough to pull this off. Active RFID could be secured to the point where it would be effectively uncloneable, but it would still be pretty difficult.
monkeys DO have opposable thumbs.
The KGB is a pirate become a pirate today.
Aldrich Ames and the the CIA are now friends
Robert Hanssen and The FBI are now friends
Aldrich Ames and The KGB are now friends they found each other through the soviet consulate in Washington D.C.
Robert Hanssen and The KGB are now friends they found each other through The GRU
Robert Hanssen is sharing The FBI's secrets with The Espionage Application
The FBI is wondering why his business is all in the streets.
Aldrich Ames is going to Moscow!!!
Aldrich Ames just got busted (Aspace Mobile)
Robert Hanssen LOL @ Aldrich Ames, amateur
Aldrich Ames has joined Allenwood Federal Correctional Complex
Robert Hanssen is wondering what took the FBI so long (Aspace Mobile)
It could cost anywhere from 2K to 6K per pound. So on the high end you are looking at 26 million.
A drop in the bucket for a company worth 150+ billion.
The world is a globe, which doesn't have a center.
I'm lost.
Black people really didn't want to consider that one of them, an example, had done something like this. Small difference, geeks right now are accepting Reiser is guilty, I don't see black people admit that OJ was guilty as hell.
Really?? you are either ignorant or a troll.
1.) I think OJ was guilty and it was a shame he got off simply because I believe in justice. Yes I would be perceived as black to you even though that is not all I am. 2.) You must not know any black people if you don't know one that will admit that OJ was guilty behind closed doors. OJ being innocent is one of the biggest jokes amongst many black people that is said with the most extreme sarcasm, only amongst other black people or white people who they really trust. Back in the 90s when OJ got off most black people didn't believe he was really innocent they just wanted to see a rich black guy beat a murder charge the same way they saw hundreds of rich white people do it. In a sick twisted way it let them know that the world was becoming more equal in that at the end of the day money was all that mattered not your skin color.
The GP's assumption as well as your assumption that "black people" (whatever that term means) had some racial affinity towards OJ is beyond retarded.
If they're not more careful, we might find someday intelligent artificial life out there... and kill it.
Yes, because intelligent artificial lifeforms will definitely be running windows Vista on an x86 architecture.
When I was a teenager (late 90s) there were a few people selling a device about the size of two bricks that could fool ez-pass by using another person's id. This is why when you sign up for ez-pass you have to give them the make and model of your car as well as your license plate number. They have two cameras on either side of your car pointing at you and numerous overhead cameras when you pass through so I believe any sort of fraud would be pretty difficult to pull off. I'm sure California has a similar setup and if they don't then they better get working on it.
And it is odd that we make special note of achievement when a 'minority' does something. For some reason we care that [person] is the first [label] to do something. If a white guy does something, so what? If it is novel that someone of x group did something, like say, a child composing a concerto, then sure... mention away. Otherwise i think by now we as a culture should be over it. Never underestimate the power of guilt. Tell that to:
Justin Timberlake (R&B)
Jeremy Wariner (400m Sprinter)
Eminem (Rap)
All of those are white men who are doing things that would be considered ordinary for a black man but is considered amazing due to the fact that they are white.
People in general are fascinated by things that appear to be out of the ordinary even when they are not.
Have you looked at most new mid to upper level math books recently? There are an embarrassingly high number of mistakes in most math books. When I took Calc 1-3 then Differential Equations in college the books were filled with everything from simple mathematical errors to the answers in the back of the book being all wrong.
My Diff EQ. prof actually apologized mid-way through the semester because a new book that was written by a colleague of his (who was supposedly a "top mind" in applied mathematics) had so many errors that the book was pretty much useless because it created more confusion than clarification. The Prof. ended up just using the book as an outline creating his own problem sets, and offering more office hours which ended up being better than any book I had ever read. If I still had the book in question I would post the authors name because he deserves the embarrassment.
Is it American chauvinism that makes so many here discount RIM & Nokia?
How do people like this get modded insightful??
I can't speak about RIM but I have owned a dozen Nokia phones over the past 10 or so years and they sucked or were decent but nothing great. About six months ago I purchased an HTC tytn and it is leaps and bounds better than anything Nokia ever put out. I think the iphone is ridiculously overrated but I used one and it was still better than anything Nokia has put out yet. This has nothing to do with "American chauvanism" and it has everything to do with Nokia having a very long track record of putting out half ass products.
You are either from Europe, Japan or don't own a cell phone in the US. I've had a plan with every single major carrier in the US and you have no choice but to yell into your cellphone the reception is just that bad. With that in mind I avoid having drawn out conversations in public places on my cell but there are idiots who don't. I've lost count of how many times I've been on the train on my way to work and heard something like this:
WHAT WAS THAT?!?
No, I said X
Y
Z
No can you hear me?
No I said XYZ
Yeah yeah thats what I said.
What was that?
I said WHAT WAS THAT?!?
Hold on I'm having trouble hearing you now I think we're hitting a dead spot.
I said, I THINK WE ARE HITTING A DEAD SPOT.
I've seen people continuing conversations at the top of their voices like this for an hour and a half train ride.
1.) Streetview shows people as well as places and things.
2.) What you call a black and white world, I call drawing a hard line when it comes to my personal privacy. I don't want street view cameras going through my neighborhood taking pictures of my house much less going on my personal property. At some point people have to stand up and say no to things like this.