Only if your family didn't put in the work. I can brew 20 gallons of beer with minimal work using only fire, a kettle, and a bucket. Hell 5 gallons is the exact same amount of work as 20 gallons.
I'm not ok with DRM on products I'm purchasing (I buy a music/movie file from amazon or a dvd from walmart). I am ok with DRM used to protect a service based month to month system like netflix.
I know going in that netflix is about giving me access to view movies/tv only while I continue to pay, and that when I stop I lose access. If I wanted to own a copy of the movie, I wouldn't be using netflix. This is a case where DRM is not harming me and I'm ok with it.
I personally just moved myself off windows. Then I would tell them "I don't know anything about windows, sorry". Then they would ask me to help and I would "try to help" and just make things worse. Eventually they got the hint and now they don't ask me for help.
I'm forced to pay for recycling in my area, so they get whatever I decide to put in the thing. Typically that's trash that is too large to fit in my trash can.
College is great and you should be encouraged to get an education, but not everyone should need to go to college. We need a revival of trade schools and apprenticeships. The problem with poor students who need hand holding comes from the fact they should have never been pushed to college in the first place. Every parent, every teacher, every news article is telling kids today that without college they are nothing. That is what we need to change, you shouldn't need a 4 year degree for a $10 an hour job.
Hell, most of IT shouldn't require a college degree, hands on learning in a trade school and solid hands on apprenticeships could handle most of the mid-level IT jobs. College should be for the thinkers, inventors, and discoverers of each generation. It's sad that it's now for the fry cooks, delivery boys, and answering service people.
And when I'm spending time replicating jquery? Sure I can do it by hand, but tools like jquery can in many 'simple' cases make my development faster. The framework is probably going to be there anyways (designer might want it for part of his theme, etc). And unlike my scripts, by leveraging google to provide jquery, it is probably already cached on their browser.
There is also 3rd party warranty. We use them for our older hardware that we can't yet afford to replace. They buy our old hardware from us to use to support their other clients. Turns out great when you have a 10 year old sun server you need hardware support for and don't want to be raped by oracle.
They are not amazing ethical considerations, but I knowingly agreed to apple's terms of service (even if I didn't read it) and also the law of the country I live in. While I'm not going to have any consequences for violating my agreements, I still have to violate the law and violate a contract to jailbreak. I find this unacceptable when there are products on the market that do not require me to make such choices.
Honestly, I was torn on my latest phone upgrade. I like my iphone. I own a iphone 4 and it is 'good enough'. I love the size and weight of the device, it has good battery life, the screen is nice, and the device is stable and solid.
But I'm starting to take acception to how mobile devices are sold, updated, and the walled gardens that I'm forced into. I refuse to jailbreak my device (for security reasons and ethical ones) and there are things I want my phone to do that apple does not. It was a tough call to leave my iphone even with those complaints, because it has been a rock solid phone. What finally drove me over the edge was mostly the carriers.
I won't buy another carry locked phone, I won't spend $500.00+ on a phone (My freaking computer was only slightly more) and I'm sick of being tied to a carrier. I wanted unlocked and I wanted the freedom to do what I wanted to do with my phone. The nexus 4 fits what I want. It was exceptionally cheap, sufficiently powerful, and provides a unlocked, rooted experience that lets me do basically anything I could want to do. This will let me break free of AT&T and allow me to give voice to my beliefs that apple is 'too closed'.
There are downsides, battery life appears to be less, the phone is too big imho (although all phones made after the iphone 4 are too big to me) and I do lose my app investment (fortunately this is minimal). I still feel it was time to put my money where my mouth is and leave a company that I feel is hurting innovation. My next step is seeking out a suitable laptop to replace my aging mac mini.
When did I ever say that we should be carefree in allowing suicide? I see nothing wrong with having mental health professionals helping people who truly need help and saving lives.
I simply do not see suicide as a bad thing. Suicide like anything else is a tool that can be used for good or for bad. I kill my pets when they are in pain and I can no longer help them. Why can't the same be done for me? It's the most ethical option.
You assume pain is temporary. I for one hope and pray that in the next 10 years it will be legal to kill yourself. I don't want to be suffering though terminal, incurable, cancer for years hoping the pain killers keep me just unconscious enough to not notice i'm suffering. I might also get alzheimer's, and I hope that if that happens I will have a single lucid moment where I might be able to make the choice to end my life on my terms. I don't want a life of pissing myself and living in a home. While in this case, his pain was probably temporary (mental anguish from possible jail time), for many suicide should be seen as a valid freedom we should all be so lucky to have.
I have taken programming tests for jobs. I tend to do really well and have gotten quite a few jobs and job offers from my tests. I excel at tests that give me a few days to complete some minor 'real world' type project. These jobs typically had more knowledgable staff and they used my 'test answer' application as a launching point for a discussion on my ability. They did this by challenging my design decisions, asking questions about areas in the code to get my insight, and asking me how I would improve the program given more time, or improve the test.
I have also bombed tests that were timed asking programming questions. Many of these tests asked for simple things (print out a multiplication table to look exactly like this example) and I simply brain farted because I don't typically write applications that need console formatted output. I end up looking like a idiot to the test givers. I found no value in these tests asking me to write a function that factors, or write a loop that prints out hello 10 times. Interviews after these tests tended (when they happened at all) to be lower quality and the employees seemed less knowledgable. There was much less meaningful discussion about my abilities, even when I 'aced' the test.
When I do my job in real life, I have time to plan, research, and I can keep open documentation for reference. I don't need to memorize every obscure function in the language my job requires, instead I can pull up documentation on how to use that object, function, or method. Many tests I have taken do not allow for this and it has cost me a few job interviews. While you have stated you encourage googling, most tests I have taken have explicitly denied the ability to search. I'd much rather have a week to build a working application then 45 minutes to prove I know how to write boilerplate code and memorized a whole bunch of console formatting functions.
There is a very important step in making beer, it's called boiling your wort. That is what the fryer is for. It's a nice setup of a 7+ gallon kettle and a propane burner.
It also assumes that just because you have a permit, you have a pistol. I have a few friends who have lifetime carry permits, but no pistols. They had to sell them during tough times.
I contend the primary purpose of an object is what you bought it for, not what it was made for.
I bought most of my firearms for target shooting. If used properly no one should ever die. I bought a turkey frier for the sole purpose of making beer. If used properly no turkeys should ever be cooked.
I'll tell ya what, I'll gladly give up my revolver if the US government can rid my entire state of illegal drugs. Hell, lets go smaller, just the few counties around me of all illegal drugs. I'll even give up the bullets if they can just stop the meth trade in my county.
Show me one instance where outlawing something didn't make it more popular and easier to acquire.
If I know you are going to be at work for 8 hours, no form of civilian 'safe' is going to keep me out. There are at least a few thousand videos on the internet on how to defeat most of them. Very few require more than a fire axe or a chisel and hammer.
The first amendment now means all government records should be public? I don't think anyone is denying the right of the people to publish any information they can legally obtain. Instead the argument is that the information should not be public. That in no way violates the first amendment. Unless you think the CIA should just be a web forum where we can all pitch in.
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Only if your family didn't put in the work. I can brew 20 gallons of beer with minimal work using only fire, a kettle, and a bucket. Hell 5 gallons is the exact same amount of work as 20 gallons.
And yet I'm so damn thirsty after a night of drinking.
Why is it all or nothing.
I'm not ok with DRM on products I'm purchasing (I buy a music/movie file from amazon or a dvd from walmart). I am ok with DRM used to protect a service based month to month system like netflix.
I know going in that netflix is about giving me access to view movies/tv only while I continue to pay, and that when I stop I lose access. If I wanted to own a copy of the movie, I wouldn't be using netflix. This is a case where DRM is not harming me and I'm ok with it.
I've already grown two sets of teeth in my mouth! Seems plausible...
So they take tissue out of your mouth, put it in a mouse, then grow the tooth. Why not just grow the tooth in your own mouth?
I personally just moved myself off windows. Then I would tell them "I don't know anything about windows, sorry". Then they would ask me to help and I would "try to help" and just make things worse. Eventually they got the hint and now they don't ask me for help.
I'm forced to pay for recycling in my area, so they get whatever I decide to put in the thing. Typically that's trash that is too large to fit in my trash can.
Seriously, we need to fix the focus on college.
College is great and you should be encouraged to get an education, but not everyone should need to go to college. We need a revival of trade schools and apprenticeships. The problem with poor students who need hand holding comes from the fact they should have never been pushed to college in the first place. Every parent, every teacher, every news article is telling kids today that without college they are nothing. That is what we need to change, you shouldn't need a 4 year degree for a $10 an hour job.
Hell, most of IT shouldn't require a college degree, hands on learning in a trade school and solid hands on apprenticeships could handle most of the mid-level IT jobs. College should be for the thinkers, inventors, and discoverers of each generation. It's sad that it's now for the fry cooks, delivery boys, and answering service people.
And when I'm spending time replicating jquery? Sure I can do it by hand, but tools like jquery can in many 'simple' cases make my development faster. The framework is probably going to be there anyways (designer might want it for part of his theme, etc). And unlike my scripts, by leveraging google to provide jquery, it is probably already cached on their browser.
Do American meat and dairy cows even exist in the wild? I'd expect if we were a 100% vegetarian country that those species would become extinct.
There is also 3rd party warranty. We use them for our older hardware that we can't yet afford to replace. They buy our old hardware from us to use to support their other clients. Turns out great when you have a 10 year old sun server you need hardware support for and don't want to be raped by oracle.
They are not amazing ethical considerations, but I knowingly agreed to apple's terms of service (even if I didn't read it) and also the law of the country I live in. While I'm not going to have any consequences for violating my agreements, I still have to violate the law and violate a contract to jailbreak. I find this unacceptable when there are products on the market that do not require me to make such choices.
Honestly, I was torn on my latest phone upgrade. I like my iphone. I own a iphone 4 and it is 'good enough'. I love the size and weight of the device, it has good battery life, the screen is nice, and the device is stable and solid.
But I'm starting to take acception to how mobile devices are sold, updated, and the walled gardens that I'm forced into. I refuse to jailbreak my device (for security reasons and ethical ones) and there are things I want my phone to do that apple does not. It was a tough call to leave my iphone even with those complaints, because it has been a rock solid phone. What finally drove me over the edge was mostly the carriers.
I won't buy another carry locked phone, I won't spend $500.00+ on a phone (My freaking computer was only slightly more) and I'm sick of being tied to a carrier. I wanted unlocked and I wanted the freedom to do what I wanted to do with my phone. The nexus 4 fits what I want. It was exceptionally cheap, sufficiently powerful, and provides a unlocked, rooted experience that lets me do basically anything I could want to do. This will let me break free of AT&T and allow me to give voice to my beliefs that apple is 'too closed'.
There are downsides, battery life appears to be less, the phone is too big imho (although all phones made after the iphone 4 are too big to me) and I do lose my app investment (fortunately this is minimal). I still feel it was time to put my money where my mouth is and leave a company that I feel is hurting innovation. My next step is seeking out a suitable laptop to replace my aging mac mini.
When did I ever say that we should be carefree in allowing suicide? I see nothing wrong with having mental health professionals helping people who truly need help and saving lives.
I simply do not see suicide as a bad thing. Suicide like anything else is a tool that can be used for good or for bad. I kill my pets when they are in pain and I can no longer help them. Why can't the same be done for me? It's the most ethical option.
Obviously it is only temporary. I use permanent as a term to describe lasting your lifetime.
I think my examples were obvious, your just being an ass. Unless you have good reason why someone should live in the examples I posted.
To quote this guy http://www.lexxzone.com/kai.jpg
"The dead to not have regrets."
You assume pain is temporary. I for one hope and pray that in the next 10 years it will be legal to kill yourself. I don't want to be suffering though terminal, incurable, cancer for years hoping the pain killers keep me just unconscious enough to not notice i'm suffering. I might also get alzheimer's, and I hope that if that happens I will have a single lucid moment where I might be able to make the choice to end my life on my terms. I don't want a life of pissing myself and living in a home. While in this case, his pain was probably temporary (mental anguish from possible jail time), for many suicide should be seen as a valid freedom we should all be so lucky to have.
Yes and no.
I have taken programming tests for jobs. I tend to do really well and have gotten quite a few jobs and job offers from my tests. I excel at tests that give me a few days to complete some minor 'real world' type project. These jobs typically had more knowledgable staff and they used my 'test answer' application as a launching point for a discussion on my ability. They did this by challenging my design decisions, asking questions about areas in the code to get my insight, and asking me how I would improve the program given more time, or improve the test.
I have also bombed tests that were timed asking programming questions. Many of these tests asked for simple things (print out a multiplication table to look exactly like this example) and I simply brain farted because I don't typically write applications that need console formatted output. I end up looking like a idiot to the test givers. I found no value in these tests asking me to write a function that factors, or write a loop that prints out hello 10 times. Interviews after these tests tended (when they happened at all) to be lower quality and the employees seemed less knowledgable. There was much less meaningful discussion about my abilities, even when I 'aced' the test.
When I do my job in real life, I have time to plan, research, and I can keep open documentation for reference. I don't need to memorize every obscure function in the language my job requires, instead I can pull up documentation on how to use that object, function, or method. Many tests I have taken do not allow for this and it has cost me a few job interviews. While you have stated you encourage googling, most tests I have taken have explicitly denied the ability to search. I'd much rather have a week to build a working application then 45 minutes to prove I know how to write boilerplate code and memorized a whole bunch of console formatting functions.
There is a very important step in making beer, it's called boiling your wort. That is what the fryer is for. It's a nice setup of a 7+ gallon kettle and a propane burner.
It also assumes that just because you have a permit, you have a pistol. I have a few friends who have lifetime carry permits, but no pistols. They had to sell them during tough times.
I contend the primary purpose of an object is what you bought it for, not what it was made for.
I bought most of my firearms for target shooting. If used properly no one should ever die. I bought a turkey frier for the sole purpose of making beer. If used properly no turkeys should ever be cooked.
Some of us have enough land that our home is our range..
I'll tell ya what, I'll gladly give up my revolver if the US government can rid my entire state of illegal drugs. Hell, lets go smaller, just the few counties around me of all illegal drugs. I'll even give up the bullets if they can just stop the meth trade in my county.
Show me one instance where outlawing something didn't make it more popular and easier to acquire.
If I know you are going to be at work for 8 hours, no form of civilian 'safe' is going to keep me out. There are at least a few thousand videos on the internet on how to defeat most of them. Very few require more than a fire axe or a chisel and hammer.
The first amendment now means all government records should be public? I don't think anyone is denying the right of the people to publish any information they can legally obtain. Instead the argument is that the information should not be public. That in no way violates the first amendment. Unless you think the CIA should just be a web forum where we can all pitch in.