The degreeless people I know basically can't get work during the recession. They could in better times, sure, although they were disqualified from a lot even then.
If it's fair for you to assume that the only way to get a college education is to take on more debt than is wise, it's fair for me to assume that people with no college education can only ever work as cashiers at McDonalds.
People do actually graduate college debt-free or close to it, believe it or not, though that does require some different choices than most make.
In practice, a lot of companies will not talk to you without a degree. A person who knows anything technical will never see your resume -- HR will look for a degree, not see one, and delete/shred it a long time before that.
If you're the kind of person with an entreprenurial bent/talent to start your own company, that probably won't matter. If you're most people, it definitely will. This is much more true in any kind of economic downturn or recession.
I mostly assume you're kidding, but there actually are a few (not very well regarded, I imagine) biblical scholars which have postulated this in all seriousness.
However, that doesn't make homosexuality okay. It perverts the entire point of there being a difference between man and woman in the first place (plus sticking a reproductive organ into a digestive tract is just disgusting for so many reasons).
It sounds to me like you're saying that your god wasn't powerful or smart enough to make sticking a reproductive organ into a digestive tract not feel good.
Alternately, he's trying to fuck with you and/or put temptation out there for you. A god who does that isn't worthy of worship or even respect.
I just don't see any version of this conundrum which makes the god in question seem more mature than the average six year old child.
If the entire population became homosexual, civilization as we knew it would end within a few generations, since there would be no new births.
I take it you don't actually know real gay people, then. Some of the ones I do have biological children of their own. I suspect it's not all that rare.
Like it or not, science and human reason took us out of the normal flow of evolution a long, long time ago.
Consider that if you're having to try to split those hairs and argue that point here, IsoHunt's chances of successfully arguing it to an almost certainly non-technical judge are not good.
I give that argument a roughly 0% chance of success in court.
Seriously, at some point you (well, IsoHunt) have to be pragmatic and deal with the world / legal system as it actually is, not as they'd like it to be.
That might be a possibility, but one should not fool themselves into thinking that one can write software applications of any complexity without knowing math.
Sure you can. At least, without math beyond what everyone has to learn up through high school, anyway.
In my career I've created a huge variety of software applications for many different clients. Each one of those projects was complex in some way; in only a very few cases would I say that what was complex was something you could legitimately call requiring non-basic math knowledge.
The Ser Cauthrien encounter took me two tries to get (mage PC, normal difficulty). Storm of the Century pretty much sweeps the room clear of archers in a flash. A fight you're clearly meant to lose just shouldn't be that easy.
There's really not any conclusion I can draw but that some of the spells / spell combinations weren't really tested out very well, or that they wanted the game to be dramatically easier if you were a mage who picked the right spells. I just can't believe that it's intentional, for example, that Mana Clash drains all the mana from most enemy mages and does enough damage to kill them three times over.
... you don't think it's clear that, at that point in writing the series, Goodkind read him some Ayn Rand and thought it was the most genius shit ever?
I mean, Jagang is instantly transformed from being a badass conquerer who wants to break your spirit and take everything from you just because he's such a badass and can to... a guy who wants to bring communism to the world. That completely pisses on the characterization of the major antagonist of the series. Faith of the Fallen isn't just a bad, unoriginal book, it's in that "Highlander 2" special echelon of being a sequel so bad, it actually ruins the good entries in the series before it.
I'm half shocked Goodkind didn't get sued for essentially taking a copy of Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead, crossing out its title and author and writing his own.
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This might be a regional thing.
The degreeless people I know basically can't get work during the recession. They could in better times, sure, although they were disqualified from a lot even then.
If it's fair for you to assume that the only way to get a college education is to take on more debt than is wise, it's fair for me to assume that people with no college education can only ever work as cashiers at McDonalds.
People do actually graduate college debt-free or close to it, believe it or not, though that does require some different choices than most make.
In theory, sure.
In practice, a lot of companies will not talk to you without a degree. A person who knows anything technical will never see your resume -- HR will look for a degree, not see one, and delete/shred it a long time before that.
If you're the kind of person with an entreprenurial bent/talent to start your own company, that probably won't matter. If you're most people, it definitely will. This is much more true in any kind of economic downturn or recession.
You're making an argument from a completely wrong set of premises.
Catch up on 35 or so years of science:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_vitro_fertilization
I think they probably would, actually, just based on business reputation.
I'm not saying I think that's fair; I just think that's probably the way it is.
Nature would like to call your attention to worker bees. By your logic, they're abominations.
Maybe humans need someone to win Project Runway (or, to slashdot this up, to be Alan Turing) just as queen bees need someone to make the honey.
I mostly assume you're kidding, but there actually are a few (not very well regarded, I imagine) biblical scholars which have postulated this in all seriousness.
However, that doesn't make homosexuality okay. It perverts the entire point of there being a difference between man and woman in the first place (plus sticking a reproductive organ into a digestive tract is just disgusting for so many reasons).
It sounds to me like you're saying that your god wasn't powerful or smart enough to make sticking a reproductive organ into a digestive tract not feel good.
Alternately, he's trying to fuck with you and/or put temptation out there for you. A god who does that isn't worthy of worship or even respect.
I just don't see any version of this conundrum which makes the god in question seem more mature than the average six year old child.
If teh gay affects their life and they want to change it, who the hell are you to tell them they can't?
I also don't have the authority to tell a sea turtle it can't want to soar with the eagles, but reality still says it can't.
If the entire population became homosexual, civilization as we knew it would end within a few generations, since there would be no new births.
I take it you don't actually know real gay people, then. Some of the ones I do have biological children of their own. I suspect it's not all that rare.
Like it or not, science and human reason took us out of the normal flow of evolution a long, long time ago.
Not with my taxes, please. Dishonourable shits.
Considering you spell dishonorable with a 'u', I assume it actually isn't with your taxes.
Consider that if you're having to try to split those hairs and argue that point here, IsoHunt's chances of successfully arguing it to an almost certainly non-technical judge are not good.
I give that argument a roughly 0% chance of success in court.
Seriously, at some point you (well, IsoHunt) have to be pragmatic and deal with the world / legal system as it actually is, not as they'd like it to be.
Google isn't solely made and used for distributing copyrighted content illegally. IsoHunt, as well as The Pirate Bay, is.
Wrong.
Now convince any court of that. I don't think IsoHunt can.
What matters legally isn't what's technically true; what matters is what you can prove (or, more accurately, sell/persuade.)
That might be a possibility, but one should not fool themselves into thinking that one can write software applications of any complexity without knowing math.
Sure you can. At least, without math beyond what everyone has to learn up through high school, anyway.
In my career I've created a huge variety of software applications for many different clients. Each one of those projects was complex in some way; in only a very few cases would I say that what was complex was something you could legitimately call requiring non-basic math knowledge.
Of course you get to complain.
Otherwise Google would just leave everything in Beta for 10 versions so you could never complain. Oh, wait...
If it's done enough to release to the world and to try to gain market share for, it's done enough to bitch about.
You can do the quests in the game in pretty much any order you want.
The start is linear, the end is linear. What's in between is, mostly, up to you.
I'm not sure what more you can really ask of a computer RPG -- you can only be so sandboxy without ending up with a shitty story.
The Ser Cauthrien encounter took me two tries to get (mage PC, normal difficulty). Storm of the Century pretty much sweeps the room clear of archers in a flash. A fight you're clearly meant to lose just shouldn't be that easy.
There's really not any conclusion I can draw but that some of the spells / spell combinations weren't really tested out very well, or that they wanted the game to be dramatically easier if you were a mage who picked the right spells. I just can't believe that it's intentional, for example, that Mana Clash drains all the mana from most enemy mages and does enough damage to kill them three times over.
Nope. Mana Clash killed 95%+ of enemy mages in the game in one shot, every time. As a non-friendly-fire AoO.
Basically if their name wasn't in red, they were going to die from it.
That's a lot of words to say you don't like the genre.
I don't like things, too. Mostly I just don't buy them.
Of course, for every person who doesn't need formal training, there are ten who think they don't need formal training. Those people are dangerous.
... you don't think it's clear that, at that point in writing the series, Goodkind read him some Ayn Rand and thought it was the most genius shit ever?
I mean, Jagang is instantly transformed from being a badass conquerer who wants to break your spirit and take everything from you just because he's such a badass and can to... a guy who wants to bring communism to the world. That completely pisses on the characterization of the major antagonist of the series. Faith of the Fallen isn't just a bad, unoriginal book, it's in that "Highlander 2" special echelon of being a sequel so bad, it actually ruins the good entries in the series before it.
Faith of the Fallen? Ugh.
I'm half shocked Goodkind didn't get sued for essentially taking a copy of Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead, crossing out its title and author and writing his own.
Eh.
Malazan reads like it's the author novelizing his D&D game. That's not really a complement, even though I'm a longtime pen and paper gamer.
(In actuality, apparently it's his GURPS game -- but I figure more people will know what D&D is.)
Come 2050 you'll be sitting in a retirement home humming old songs from the 1990s or whatever.
The real tragedy is that I'll be too arthritic to make the "2 Legit 2 Quit" sign with my hand while I do it.