You're right, there is no reason why it should be that easy to get away with fudging a degree. Services like the National Student Clearinghouse (http://www.studentclearinghouse.org/ exist to make verification extremely easy and quick. Or a simple phone call to the registrar's office?
At that age, college experience is pretty much all you've got, so it's even more relevant. It makes you wonder if those that hired him even *cared* whether or not he finished his degree.
An HR recruiter once confided that in her experience, most African-American applicants filled out and returned the information (which is optional, by the way) in the hopes that it might give them some advantage, whereas most "white" applicants did not, fearing that it would count against them. That data is collected separately from the application process, so it had no bearing on who was ultimately hired, but it's interesting how people's expectations vary. I wonder if this phenomonon skews the EEOC data significantly?
I had those, too, and they lasted more than 15 years. They aren't completely gone yet, but they've worn away in most spots. My dentist said they don't apply sealants as often as they used to, because they're afraid they'll seal in decay that they'd missed. But I can't help but wonder if, in fact, the sealants worked a little too well.
Not that I disagree with the gist of your post, but the Bill of Rights limits the powers of the government, not anyone else. If my kid starts mouthing off to me, the First Amendment does not guarantee his right to do so without being sent to his room, for example. I question your assumption that because the gov't licenses a corporation, corporate suppression of free speech = gov't suppression of free speech.
And just how old must the child be before the parent can trust them enough to let them go off-leash? 12? Kids will never learn how to take care of themselves if you keep them in a bubble. They are fast, sneaky, and always testing the limits. 99% of the time it's no big deal, but it's that 1% of panic-time is what we tend to remember the most. If a kidnapper was actively trying to take advantage of that 1% of the time, it probably wouldn't be that hard, hence the need for law enforcement, as a back-up plan, even for the "good" parents.
On a side-note, my youngest son earned a reputation as "Houdini" after he figured out how to unlock a neighbor's screen door (from the inside, mind you) when they were babysitting him, and he could unlatch our fence gates when he was barely 2 years old. I had to get extra spring-loaded latches for the fence latches to keep him in. Of course he figured those out, too, but by then he was old enough to know better than to run into the street.
"The keyboard is in production. The first lot is set to arrive on May 15. Retail price of Optimus mini three is $100 (subject to change after April 2).
The keyboard will be available for pre-order this week."
Anakin himself added most of those quirky mods to R2-D2. After he was out of the picture, R2-D2 and C-3P0 were assigned to Captain Antilles on the Tantive IV, where there was probably little use for some of those oddball (and probably high-maintenence) additions.
That's interesting - I never knew that about Russian. Sounds a bit like Latin. The endings of the words are critical to understanding the meaning of the sentence. Some writers, like Caesar, wrote fairly straightforward prose, generally in SVO order. But when we moved on to epic poetry, like Vergil's Aeneid, the sentence structure went completely out the window. That was an agonizing semester for me!:-)
We happen to use Goodlink's software & service, which even runs on RIM hardware. From what I've heard, Goodlink paid NTP's ransom -er, I mean License, so their service will continue without interruption.
As others have mentioned, this is a WinXP issue, not just IE or Outlook. But even if it were limited to IE, Eudora may not be as safe as you'd like to think, since Eudora uses IE code to render HTML-formatted emails. See http://email.about.com/cs/eudoratips/qt/et122001.h tm
for more info.
A week ago, I would have agreed with you wholeheartedly. My win2k box is behind a NAT box, I use Firefox exclusively, I keep Windows up to date, and don't visit suspect sites. I rarely ran anti-spyware, because it simply didn't seem to be a problem. But then my wife mentioned that she got redirected to some oddball website when she reloaded an unrelated site, and the alarms went off in my head. A couple of spyware sweeps later, I cleaned up a dozen spyware/adware programs that had been lurking (for how long?).
It seems that these programs are getting better at lurking in the background without calling any attention to themselves. I'm still not paranoid enough to enable the constantly-running antispyware features, but I'll definitely run a manual sweep more than once per year from now on.
I have to agree with you on this. Apple's failure to accurately forecast demand was a big part of their problems in the mid-90's, when they consistently underestimated demand for their insanely-expensive high-end (and high profit margin) workstations, but ended up with boatloads of crappy Performas that nobody wanted.
Well, technically you're right - he defeated Mondale. But only after the incumbent Sen. Wellstone was killed in a plane crash just a few weeks before the election.
IMHO, Coleman has a decent record, but his combination of grandstanding and coattail-riding means he's got a lot of work to do before I could tolerate him as President. (Not to mention how difficult it is for anyone with Senate experience to win a presidential election nowadays.)
Absolutely. Buzzilla uses MySQL on the server for its database. If you're using a Windows machine to access the data (you did mention Excel, so I guess that answers that), you'll need to install the MySQL ODBC driver, which is free. You can download that from http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/odbc/3.51 .html. Once that's installed, create a new ODBC data source that points to the Bugzilla server.
I did this in order to point Access to the bugs database, in order to create some decent looking bug reports. We're still in the experimental phase of using Bugzilla at my company, but if I suggested that we rely on Bugzilla's built-in "reports," the project would've been shot down ages ago.
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The sun emits a heckuva lot more radiation than we see with our eyes, and skin cancer is caused by UV radiation, not visible light.
You're right, there is no reason why it should be that easy to get away with fudging a degree. Services like the National Student Clearinghouse (http://www.studentclearinghouse.org/ exist to make verification extremely easy and quick. Or a simple phone call to the registrar's office?
At that age, college experience is pretty much all you've got, so it's even more relevant. It makes you wonder if those that hired him even *cared* whether or not he finished his degree.
Legitimate spam? And how is that better than fake spam?
An HR recruiter once confided that in her experience, most African-American applicants filled out and returned the information (which is optional, by the way) in the hopes that it might give them some advantage, whereas most "white" applicants did not, fearing that it would count against them. That data is collected separately from the application process, so it had no bearing on who was ultimately hired, but it's interesting how people's expectations vary. I wonder if this phenomonon skews the EEOC data significantly?
A truly benevolent creator would have made the moon out of cheese.
I had those, too, and they lasted more than 15 years. They aren't completely gone yet, but they've worn away in most spots. My dentist said they don't apply sealants as often as they used to, because they're afraid they'll seal in decay that they'd missed. But I can't help but wonder if, in fact, the sealants worked a little too well.
Depends. If his teeth are still good, he may really be onto something!
Not that I disagree with the gist of your post, but the Bill of Rights limits the powers of the government, not anyone else. If my kid starts mouthing off to me, the First Amendment does not guarantee his right to do so without being sent to his room, for example. I question your assumption that because the gov't licenses a corporation, corporate suppression of free speech = gov't suppression of free speech.
And just how old must the child be before the parent can trust them enough to let them go off-leash? 12? Kids will never learn how to take care of themselves if you keep them in a bubble. They are fast, sneaky, and always testing the limits. 99% of the time it's no big deal, but it's that 1% of panic-time is what we tend to remember the most. If a kidnapper was actively trying to take advantage of that 1% of the time, it probably wouldn't be that hard, hence the need for law enforcement, as a back-up plan, even for the "good" parents.
On a side-note, my youngest son earned a reputation as "Houdini" after he figured out how to unlock a neighbor's screen door (from the inside, mind you) when they were babysitting him, and he could unlatch our fence gates when he was barely 2 years old. I had to get extra spring-loaded latches for the fence latches to keep him in. Of course he figured those out, too, but by then he was old enough to know better than to run into the street.
"The keyboard is in production. The first lot is set to arrive on May 15. Retail price of Optimus mini three is $100 (subject to change after April 2).
The keyboard will be available for pre-order this week."
Anakin himself added most of those quirky mods to R2-D2. After he was out of the picture, R2-D2 and C-3P0 were assigned to Captain Antilles on the Tantive IV, where there was probably little use for some of those oddball (and probably high-maintenence) additions.
That's interesting - I never knew that about Russian. Sounds a bit like Latin. The endings of the words are critical to understanding the meaning of the sentence. Some writers, like Caesar, wrote fairly straightforward prose, generally in SVO order. But when we moved on to epic poetry, like Vergil's Aeneid, the sentence structure went completely out the window. That was an agonizing semester for me! :-)
Is this "World of Warcraft", or "Walk on Eggshells"?
We happen to use Goodlink's software & service, which even runs on RIM hardware. From what I've heard, Goodlink paid NTP's ransom -er, I mean License, so their service will continue without interruption.
As others have mentioned, this is a WinXP issue, not just IE or Outlook. But even if it were limited to IE, Eudora may not be as safe as you'd like to think, since Eudora uses IE code to render HTML-formatted emails. See http://email.about.com/cs/eudoratips/qt/et122001.h tm
for more info.
I'm not familiar with download quotas, but could you start downloading around 11:30pm, so the entire download spans two days?
.01 upgrade.
But I do agree with the gist of your post - 100MB is a lot for a
Turning would mean that the outside wheels would cover more distance, which would throw off the synchronized movement of the 4 wheels.
A week ago, I would have agreed with you wholeheartedly. My win2k box is behind a NAT box, I use Firefox exclusively, I keep Windows up to date, and don't visit suspect sites. I rarely ran anti-spyware, because it simply didn't seem to be a problem. But then my wife mentioned that she got redirected to some oddball website when she reloaded an unrelated site, and the alarms went off in my head. A couple of spyware sweeps later, I cleaned up a dozen spyware/adware programs that had been lurking (for how long?).
It seems that these programs are getting better at lurking in the background without calling any attention to themselves. I'm still not paranoid enough to enable the constantly-running antispyware features, but I'll definitely run a manual sweep more than once per year from now on.
I have to agree with you on this. Apple's failure to accurately forecast demand was a big part of their problems in the mid-90's, when they consistently underestimated demand for their insanely-expensive high-end (and high profit margin) workstations, but ended up with boatloads of crappy Performas that nobody wanted.
Now *that's* what I call a raised floor!
IMHO, Coleman has a decent record, but his combination of grandstanding and coattail-riding means he's got a lot of work to do before I could tolerate him as President. (Not to mention how difficult it is for anyone with Senate experience to win a presidential election nowadays.)
"In Norway, you have the same laws (as in the United States) now," he says, "so it makes no difference if I'm doing my work here or there."
In other news, Netcraft confirms that the Borg are dead.
(sorry - couldn't resist. I promise I won't do it again.)
Aren't clay sculptures preserved by firing them, as in a kiln? Sounds like some characters were making an attempt at self-preservation!
Absolutely. Buzzilla uses MySQL on the server for its database. If you're using a Windows machine to access the data (you did mention Excel, so I guess that answers that), you'll need to install the MySQL ODBC driver, which is free. You can download that from http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/odbc/3.51 .html. Once that's installed, create a new ODBC data source that points to the Bugzilla server.
I did this in order to point Access to the bugs database, in order to create some decent looking bug reports. We're still in the experimental phase of using Bugzilla at my company, but if I suggested that we rely on Bugzilla's built-in "reports," the project would've been shot down ages ago.