Quite ironic since the above poster was referring to Osama Bin Laden - his family has very close connections with the Bush family, among many others in the oil and several other industries. The "wipe out the family" is clearly an utterly stupid idea with the biggest name in terrorism so why would it work elsewhere? When two degrees of separation is the President of the United States how do you go about wiping out his business associates that were not involved with the terrorist act at all apart from being related to the terrorist? Why does the barbaric stupidity need to be pointed out at all?
Thank you for the English lesson, but I was trying to dumb things down a bit for a wider audience. Now substitute your word - what does it actually change and in what way does it suggest my statement is incorrect in any way at all? How does that make your second paragraph relevant at all?
a single drop on the floor would burn its way through to the basement (we were on the 5th floor)
Yes it's dangerous but I suggest a bit of reality instead of Hollywood shit designed to scare students into treating it with respect. Reality is bad enough without pretending it's movie Nitro. A spill on your skin can mean the bone underneath with start dissolving very soon with no way to stop it until the reaction is complete - isn't that scary enough without Hollywood physics?
Obviously the one I quoted, but since the rest is a house of cards piled on that insulting idiocy they are obviously just as incorrect. Get out in the sunshine and see there is more to life than some left/right cold war fantasy and a whole lot of stuff has nothing to do with politics.
Don't you get by now that I think you are a total fucking idiot at best for posting something so insultingly stupid and show such complete and utter contempt for the readers here? Do I need to be even blunter to get the message across?
Unless they read the side of the bottle or get the MSDS off the net (where it's been for so long that I used gopher FFS to get an MSDS on picric acid before that http thing was devised). HF is incredibly scary stuff because if it touches you the burns are very severe, but if it does not touch you it does not burn you. There is no fuming issue so just having an open bottle of it isn't going to get it into your lungs. I've used it a bit on glass and on some aluminium alloys with a great deal of care.
Splashed on the floor some way from you and some time ago is like having an open bottle of the stuff and is not going to be "breathed in as gas". Where it is a vapour problem has been in oil refinery accidents where a cloud of the stuff has been blown out under pressure - a white cloud means run like hell.
Hence the dissolving bathtub scene. Probably the French can't get their hands on hydrofluoric acid.
It's very nasty stuff and not available in bulk from your local hardware. Apparently burns are very bad because it soaks through tissue to quickly attack bone (could be bullshit to scare students but it's oft repeated). I've used it a bit to etch glass and some aluminium alloys, but for the later hot concentrated caustic soda is far less to worry about instead. There have been a few oil refinery accidents with clouds of HF vapour - white cloud coming out of the gear that uses it means run like hell and let people wrapped in plastic deal with it later.
Isn't it funny how "material support" applies here but not for Senator King who helped out with funding when a terrorist group needed some money to explode some bombs in England.
This has everything to do with socialism/communism.
Ah, some sort of politically fixated person has decided to insult my intelligence in an offensive way as if I was born yesterday - and the "correction" is spectacularly wrong. How is it possible to get things so badly wrong? This is how, if all you have is a hammer everything looks like a nail. There is no point being polite to such folk, if you disagree you are an enemy, and if you politely disagree you are a weak enemy. Above poster, I suggest you get a bit more perspective on life instead of spouting ridiculously naive bullshit all over the place, unless of course it's deliberate sarcasm designed to look incredibly idiotic. Another alternative is some sort of political wonk paid as a "social media worker" to twist the minds of the kiddies to a political view, your UID looks a bit low for such scum but the comment really fits the "narrative" of such manipulative pricks. So above poster - WTF are you and why are you pretending this is all cold war bullshit that you should have either grown out of decades ago or never knew in the first place?
The topic is very obviously an implementation problem in an organisation and no "ism" of any sort applies since even countries with "socialism/communism" have different pay grades at different ranks (using an army example for simplicity).
This is as fucking stupid as the people who called the millionaire filmmaker Charlie Chaplain a communist - just about the biggest capitalist at the time and that label was put on him.
Can we have our tech site back instead of warring political shills or utter losers of clueless fanboys who do it for free?
Atlas Shrugged was about a path to her fantasy about what Tsarist Russia was like when she was too young to read. The bit about all the great men going "on strike" of self imposed exile and the nation collapsing was very much what she wanted to happen to the USSR, total collapse and the nobility moving back, and she was not only naive enough to think such a thing was going to happen by magic even 40 years later but so naive that she thought Tsarist Russia was a better place to be than 1950's USA! It's hard to get to be more anti-American than Rand with her great men who should be in charge and serfs that should never be allowed to vote. Confusing elements of the USA with very different elements of the USSR was the part of the work that renders it worse than worthless. I wonder if the loud "Randians" really understand that they are calling for the overthrow of what George Washington delivered to be replaced by what King George had in place?
Enough venting on my part - If you want an entertaining and easy to read fictionalized account of what it was like in late Tsarist Russia from an unbiased contemporary source then Joseph Conrad's "Under Western Eyes" is very good. It's as fresh a spy novel as anything by Tom Clancy despite being a bit over a century old.
If you're having that much trouble paying your mortgage, then why did you buy such an expensive house?
Bubble, bubble toil and trouble:) Many housing markets are insane. When there is more profit in enormous places sometimes that's all that gets built as new housing.
Hence a transparent fantasy about bringing back the Tsar and the Russian nobility instead of recognising that where Rand was standing was paradise compared with that as well. Rand just did not get the west. I've got no idea how she wrote her anti-republic screeds without seeing what was going on around her.
Of course it didn't, because it was a pre-determined strawman in a novel as a snarky complaint about Rand not being paid what she thought she deserved by Twentieth Century Fox in her entry level job. Rand was so fucked up that she was comparing Hollywood employment to Soviet Russia! Read a bit about Rand's life and you'll understand where she is coming from and that she knew almost nothing about the the west and did not wish to know much about the west. She hated Stalin, but if Stalin had wanted to plant the seeds of political discord in the USA with a political movement he couldn't have done better than Rand no matter who he paid to do it.
Her fantasies are Twilight for people in a democracy that wish they could be Royalty instead, and they fuck up anyone that takes them at more than face value. The message that you could be special if it wasn't for all of those Serfs having a say in how the country is run is utterly fucked. You should have to earn the right to rule instead of being born to it like Digby.
as it was the first time I actually saw some of the values I held dear championed in print
As in bring back the Tsar and the nobility? Rand demonstrates with the book that she has no idea about how a democratic Republic with an economy run via capitalism works. According to her we should just bow down and listen to born to rule jailbait instead of voting for leaders. The entire idea of all the "great men" going on strike and society crumbling is just a fantasy about Russia going back to the "good old days" when serfs knew their place. She was in paradise compared with that and was far too self-obsessed to notice - if she wasn't already screwed up the Hollywood environment of the time did it to her.
Would that be a degree in women's studies by any chance?
The use of a non-technical degree to employers is that it demonstrates that the graduate can RTFM, think about it's contents and write something to prove that they have done so. It's as good a choice in an office environment as most others and probably better than most in a HR or managerial role.
Remember that while you are laughing at the women's studies graduates that there are engineers, lawyers and doctors that are laughing at you and maybe took some CS subjects as the "soft" option when they needed to get credit outside the focus of their degree.
This has nothing to do with socialism. This is not a farmers co-op or whatever that "hasn't been working" for 100+ years, this is a company that has fucked up the concept of pay scales despite it being what every large company used to do and what a lot of governments do for their workers today. It's not rocket science. After so many years you go from a band 1 whatever to a band 2. If you are shit-hot and clearly work above your grade you either get a promotion in pay grade, a temporary promotion, or a bonus. Just because HR weenies can't be bothered to stop playing Facebook games and can't learn from the past doesn't mean that it's difficult.
Disclaimer (since so many people here like shooting messengers), I work in a small place with a complete lack of HR weenies and have a negotiated salary but I have worked for a multinational (extremes of both reason and insanity), a government owned corporation and a university in the past - all of which had known salary scales and did not fuck that part of things up. I'm not advocating it (for all those messenger shooters out there) just pointing out that there is a very long list of places that do not fuck it up.
That's the theory with perfect capitalism. Then it hits crony capitalism and the people in the cash collection side and their relatives in sinecures scoop up the money before the people on the product design/supply/construction/delivery/etc side of the org get to see it.
That's what was wished for by the Japanese military, and indeed by Mussolini in Italy although not to as great an extent. In hindsight historians don't have a lot to go on to tell the reality from the Japanese propaganda and desires of the rulers, so how how you be so certain?
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Quite ironic since the above poster was referring to Osama Bin Laden - his family has very close connections with the Bush family, among many others in the oil and several other industries. The "wipe out the family" is clearly an utterly stupid idea with the biggest name in terrorism so why would it work elsewhere? When two degrees of separation is the President of the United States how do you go about wiping out his business associates that were not involved with the terrorist act at all apart from being related to the terrorist?
Why does the barbaric stupidity need to be pointed out at all?
Thank you for the English lesson, but I was trying to dumb things down a bit for a wider audience. Now substitute your word - what does it actually change and in what way does it suggest my statement is incorrect in any way at all? How does that make your second paragraph relevant at all?
Yes it's dangerous but I suggest a bit of reality instead of Hollywood shit designed to scare students into treating it with respect. Reality is bad enough without pretending it's movie Nitro.
A spill on your skin can mean the bone underneath with start dissolving very soon with no way to stop it until the reaction is complete - isn't that scary enough without Hollywood physics?
Obviously the one I quoted, but since the rest is a house of cards piled on that insulting idiocy they are obviously just as incorrect. Get out in the sunshine and see there is more to life than some left/right cold war fantasy and a whole lot of stuff has nothing to do with politics.
Yes, me and fucking Charlie Chaplain.
Don't you get by now that I think you are a total fucking idiot at best for posting something so insultingly stupid and show such complete and utter contempt for the readers here? Do I need to be even blunter to get the message across?
Unless they read the side of the bottle or get the MSDS off the net (where it's been for so long that I used gopher FFS to get an MSDS on picric acid before that http thing was devised). HF is incredibly scary stuff because if it touches you the burns are very severe, but if it does not touch you it does not burn you. There is no fuming issue so just having an open bottle of it isn't going to get it into your lungs. I've used it a bit on glass and on some aluminium alloys with a great deal of care.
Splashed on the floor some way from you and some time ago is like having an open bottle of the stuff and is not going to be "breathed in as gas". Where it is a vapour problem has been in oil refinery accidents where a cloud of the stuff has been blown out under pressure - a white cloud means run like hell.
That was my thought too. When I hear "dissolving bodies in acid" I immediately thought of the Snowtown murders, not Breaking Bad.
Come to South Australia - it's barrels of fun!
Too soon?
Hence the dissolving bathtub scene. Probably the French can't get their hands on hydrofluoric acid.
It's very nasty stuff and not available in bulk from your local hardware. Apparently burns are very bad because it soaks through tissue to quickly attack bone (could be bullshit to scare students but it's oft repeated). I've used it a bit to etch glass and some aluminium alloys, but for the later hot concentrated caustic soda is far less to worry about instead. There have been a few oil refinery accidents with clouds of HF vapour - white cloud coming out of the gear that uses it means run like hell and let people wrapped in plastic deal with it later.
Isn't it funny how "material support" applies here but not for Senator King who helped out with funding when a terrorist group needed some money to explode some bombs in England.
Ah, some sort of politically fixated person has decided to insult my intelligence in an offensive way as if I was born yesterday - and the "correction" is spectacularly wrong.
How is it possible to get things so badly wrong?
This is how, if all you have is a hammer everything looks like a nail.
There is no point being polite to such folk, if you disagree you are an enemy, and if you politely disagree you are a weak enemy.
Above poster, I suggest you get a bit more perspective on life instead of spouting ridiculously naive bullshit all over the place, unless of course it's deliberate sarcasm designed to look incredibly idiotic. Another alternative is some sort of political wonk paid as a "social media worker" to twist the minds of the kiddies to a political view, your UID looks a bit low for such scum but the comment really fits the "narrative" of such manipulative pricks. So above poster - WTF are you and why are you pretending this is all cold war bullshit that you should have either grown out of decades ago or never knew in the first place?
The topic is very obviously an implementation problem in an organisation and no "ism" of any sort applies since even countries with "socialism/communism" have different pay grades at different ranks (using an army example for simplicity).
This is as fucking stupid as the people who called the millionaire filmmaker Charlie Chaplain a communist - just about the biggest capitalist at the time and that label was put on him.
Can we have our tech site back instead of warring political shills or utter losers of clueless fanboys who do it for free?
Atlas Shrugged was about a path to her fantasy about what Tsarist Russia was like when she was too young to read. The bit about all the great men going "on strike" of self imposed exile and the nation collapsing was very much what she wanted to happen to the USSR, total collapse and the nobility moving back, and she was not only naive enough to think such a thing was going to happen by magic even 40 years later but so naive that she thought Tsarist Russia was a better place to be than 1950's USA! It's hard to get to be more anti-American than Rand with her great men who should be in charge and serfs that should never be allowed to vote.
Confusing elements of the USA with very different elements of the USSR was the part of the work that renders it worse than worthless. I wonder if the loud "Randians" really understand that they are calling for the overthrow of what George Washington delivered to be replaced by what King George had in place?
Enough venting on my part - If you want an entertaining and easy to read fictionalized account of what it was like in late Tsarist Russia from an unbiased contemporary source then Joseph Conrad's "Under Western Eyes" is very good. It's as fresh a spy novel as anything by Tom Clancy despite being a bit over a century old.
Obviously there are two forces at work. One is to drive the price of skilled jobs down and another is to make unskilled jobs an alternative to crime.
Bubble, bubble toil and trouble :)
Many housing markets are insane. When there is more profit in enormous places sometimes that's all that gets built as new housing.
There's a lot of it going on driving the "middle class" to the bottom.
That's a very major warning sign right there. Family companies use methods other than competence to choose area of responsibility.
Hence a transparent fantasy about bringing back the Tsar and the Russian nobility instead of recognising that where Rand was standing was paradise compared with that as well. Rand just did not get the west. I've got no idea how she wrote her anti-republic screeds without seeing what was going on around her.
Of course it didn't, because it was a pre-determined strawman in a novel as a snarky complaint about Rand not being paid what she thought she deserved by Twentieth Century Fox in her entry level job.
Rand was so fucked up that she was comparing Hollywood employment to Soviet Russia! Read a bit about Rand's life and you'll understand where she is coming from and that she knew almost nothing about the the west and did not wish to know much about the west. She hated Stalin, but if Stalin had wanted to plant the seeds of political discord in the USA with a political movement he couldn't have done better than Rand no matter who he paid to do it.
Her fantasies are Twilight for people in a democracy that wish they could be Royalty instead, and they fuck up anyone that takes them at more than face value. The message that you could be special if it wasn't for all of those Serfs having a say in how the country is run is utterly fucked. You should have to earn the right to rule instead of being born to it like Digby.
As in bring back the Tsar and the nobility? Rand demonstrates with the book that she has no idea about how a democratic Republic with an economy run via capitalism works. According to her we should just bow down and listen to born to rule jailbait instead of voting for leaders.
The entire idea of all the "great men" going on strike and society crumbling is just a fantasy about Russia going back to the "good old days" when serfs knew their place. She was in paradise compared with that and was far too self-obsessed to notice - if she wasn't already screwed up the Hollywood environment of the time did it to her.
IMHO - either it was set up to fail to make some silly political point, it was not planned well or cocaine use was involved.
A lot of stuff in the military effectively IS a four year school. Training is most of what they do.
The World owes me a living.
I graduated with a degree.
I did my part.
Would that be a degree in women's studies by any chance?
The use of a non-technical degree to employers is that it demonstrates that the graduate can RTFM, think about it's contents and write something to prove that they have done so. It's as good a choice in an office environment as most others and probably better than most in a HR or managerial role.
Remember that while you are laughing at the women's studies graduates that there are engineers, lawyers and doctors that are laughing at you and maybe took some CS subjects as the "soft" option when they needed to get credit outside the focus of their degree.
This has nothing to do with socialism. This is not a farmers co-op or whatever that "hasn't been working" for 100+ years, this is a company that has fucked up the concept of pay scales despite it being what every large company used to do and what a lot of governments do for their workers today.
It's not rocket science. After so many years you go from a band 1 whatever to a band 2. If you are shit-hot and clearly work above your grade you either get a promotion in pay grade, a temporary promotion, or a bonus. Just because HR weenies can't be bothered to stop playing Facebook games and can't learn from the past doesn't mean that it's difficult.
Disclaimer (since so many people here like shooting messengers), I work in a small place with a complete lack of HR weenies and have a negotiated salary but I have worked for a multinational (extremes of both reason and insanity), a government owned corporation and a university in the past - all of which had known salary scales and did not fuck that part of things up. I'm not advocating it (for all those messenger shooters out there) just pointing out that there is a very long list of places that do not fuck it up.
That's the theory with perfect capitalism. Then it hits crony capitalism and the people in the cash collection side and their relatives in sinecures scoop up the money before the people on the product design/supply/construction/delivery/etc side of the org get to see it.
That's what was wished for by the Japanese military, and indeed by Mussolini in Italy although not to as great an extent. In hindsight historians don't have a lot to go on to tell the reality from the Japanese propaganda and desires of the rulers, so how how you be so certain?