So just quitting the job might be great if you live in a large urban center where jobs are aplenty (even there it's tough to get work), but in anything short of that finding a job that remunerates at a level that you can continue your mortgage payments and kids' needs is damn hard.
Not to mention, of course, that even if you can keep finding new jobs, eventually you will be perceived as "job-hopping" or "churning," and are therefore not a safe employment risk, even if you had legitimate reasons for leaving each company. *wry grin* Then again, stay for over a decade with a company and you're liable to get labelled as "stagnated" or the like.
My second co-op job with Marathon-Ashland Petroleum, we didn't have a union. In fact, we were the people who were designated to camp out in the refinery and keep skeleton operations going in the case of a union strike. My current job is with the government and we're automatically covered by the governmental employee union, AFGE. Our Union works in a very nice way. For the most part, just the presence of a union keeps the worse policies at bay. Technically, we're all members, but we're free to go on and off active membership at any time, so basically we pay our dues only when we have a union issue.
In general, my experience has been that programmers tend to be in the elite group anyhow. They already have high salaries and they're protected from being arbitrarily replaced because they keep the arcane secrets of the company's application in their skulls. Admittedly, this is bound to change, offshoring and programming becoming more accesible and less black magic.
Actually, the longevity is much a matter of good cuts in the film and multiple takes as it is actual stamina. Still, do you really want sex to be just a job? While I normally avoid citing fiction in regards to reality, take a look at "Post Production" in Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk.
I think that he's more likely talking about prosecuting "intent to commit a crime," something which has always seemed really shakey to me. Sure, he's got floorplans of the bank. Yes, he rented Bonnie and Clyde from Blockbuster 13 times in a row. Still, unless he's actually stated that he's robbing a bank, or has made an attempt at it, you shouldn't be able to bring charges against him. Suspicion of intent is a valid reason to bring someone in or to do an impromptu search of a person or property, but only under certain rules and the officer is required to justify themselves if asked.
While it's the fascist states that wind up committing the atrocities, the power is often laid in place beforehand. I don't believe that the Patriot Act is truly trying to usher in a fascist state, but I can see where a later administration could really abuse it. I don't think Google is being evil but goshdarnit, they have the infrastructure for it and what happens if they get bought out or the board of directors suffer a sudden simultaneous accidental death due to contaminated potato salad at the company picnic?
While big government does not equal a police state, it does provide the dark and dank corners for the fungus to grow unchecked and unnoticed.
We have airplanes. Why climb Everest?
You, sir, don't know much about flying, I suspect. Mountains provide a great deal of challenges for pilots, let alone the other hostile conditions of Everest.
More important from a competition standpoint, the course will therefore become a lot more random for competing robotic vehicles. When it was just desert, most of the landscape was fairly static and the robots faced the same course. Now, unless they automate the other cars, there will likely be a huge variability between what one car faces and what the other has to deal with. Then again, you could just automate them all... although if one AI goes haywire, I don't know if the rest would be ready to deal with a car deciding to suddenly swerve into you, or drive the wrong direction. Heh, then again, maybe that's a good test...
Ok, there's this good ole boy driving down the highway when he gets a call from his wife, "Honey, be careful. The radio said that some maniac is driving down the highway in the wrong direction." He replies, "One? Hell, all of them are!"
Part of the problem is that most computer teachers aren't computer science majors or even primarily computer science teachers. Rather, they're math teachers or librarians who got roped into teaching computer science because the administrators figure it's all about the same. Think about it... who's going to get a computer science degree and then spend years studying for a teaching degree for a job that barely makes $45k a year and requires extensive amounts of overtime work ouytside of the office? Quite frankly, I think teachers should be one of our more highly paid jobs. It's certainly important enough.
^_^ Then, of course, there are digital clocks. There was a Star Trek book that made fun of that. "Even a broken chronometer is right twice a day, Data." "Really? I would think that a broken chronometer would not display and therefore it would never be right." "It's an old Earth saying, Data. I... don't know why they would say that, really."
You're absolutely right. I wrote that while distracted by half a dozen other things and realized I'd mixed up Google and Firefox in my references after submitting. *shrug* And you're the first person to realize. Congratulations.
I'd like to be able to pull a statistic out of my ass regarding use of search boxes, but I'm loathe to make one up on the spot and I don't know what the actual statistics would be. Anyhow, my suspicion is that, given a search box, most people will use that rather than type in their favorite search engine's address and type in a query. It's just easier. Most people intially downloaded the toolbar to block popups. But after that was not so much an issue, I think that having a search box was the reason most people downloaded it. The convenience is very nice. Will they keep downloading Google toolbar now that there's pop-up blocking and a search box? I know I haven't downloaded the Google toolbar for FireFox.
Except that, well, MSN is getting ad revenue from those search box queries that normally Google would be getting. Given the amount of IE users, that could be a substantial chunk of Google's revenues, possibly enough to start sinking them as a company.
I agree that Google is being a bit hypcritical here. It makes business sense that they don't want MSN to be the default, especially since Microsoft is also muscling into the search engine wars, but I think their case would have been stronger if they'd included MSN search in their search options on installation. Then again, part of me is wondering if that might not have caused legal problems in and of itself. "Appropriation of competiting technology and repackaging under a different brand name" or somesuch.
People die without AC, because they don't drink enough and dehydrate.
Where I live, the temperature in summer hits mid 40's every day, all week, and nobody dies.
I read about european "heatwaves" of mid 30's and people end up in hospital.
I don't know where you live, but it could also be a matter of humidities. In a very arid environment, the human body does a fairly efficient job of cooling by sweating because the sweat can evaporate into the air immediately. If your body is truly being efficient, the sweat evaporates practically upon air contact. In a more humid system, more sweat has to be generated because the air won't absorb as much water from evaporation. More sweat means more dehydration and often, the sweat isn't even serving to cool you much.
That said, I suspect that surviving high temperature conditions over a long period of time will help train your body as to when sweating is a good idea and when it's not, and in what amounts. *wry grin* And common sense will hopefully develop for people knowing when to get into the shade or to rehydrate.
Down here in the oven(New Orleans) our power bills skyrocket during the summer because of added cooling costs from the AC and fridge.
Huh. I'd heard recently that New Orleans had switched to water-cooling, creating lakes in the city to absorb the heat.
So, what are the advantages of a two-party system enforced by our lame voting system? I'd like to suspect that, at the very least, a different voting system would encourage a larger voter turnout.
Are you kidding? Voters today can't even keep track of the issues of candidates in the two-party system. Those who vote on issues generally a) are extremely intelligent and well-informed, and research both candidates for each position or b) vote on straight party lines assuming that all Democrats hold this political position and all Republicans another. In actuality, there are liberal Republicans, conservative Democrats, people who are all for gun control but don't like welfare. Politicians are people too, albeit perhaps a lower class thereof...
Anyhow, my point is that I don't think that the average voter could cope with more choices. We'd just wind up with either people voting straight party lines because that's what their daddy/religion/regional group/racial group always votes, leading to the two main parties getting the lion's share much as today, or people would vote piecemeal, voting in Doctor X because "he's tough on crime" without paying attention to his other stated goals of conquering the world and creating a dictatorship.
There was a bill a few years ago to have the Kentucky legislature meet more often. I don't remember the actual scheduling, but it was along the lines of that the legislature currently met 10 times a year to which my mother quipped, "I'd rather they met once every ten years instead of ten times in one year."
If I had mod points, I'd help reverse the idiot who marked you troll, but if wishes were fishes...
One of things I find interesting is that, 99 people out of 100, they'd say it was an apple and would even remember the Bible saying it was an apple, but it's simply stated as "the fruit" and the word used might not even mean fruit as we know it. The earliest manuscripts actually show a mushroom. ^_^ Eat a mushroom for cosmic knowledge? Sounds plausible enough... It's one of those cases of Biblical fanon like there being three wise men (who were kings!) or Mary riding into Bethlehem on a donkey, things which "everybody knows," but isn't actually in there.
This reminds me of a movie where a few students started sending tape-recorders to class instead of themselves. Gradually the scene had the professor lecturing to a room full of tape recorders. The last step in this scenario was a tape of the lecture being played to a room full of machines taping it.
Apparently, it's Real Genius. I have vague memories of that movie... I'm going to have to watch it again one of these days.
See there you are, knowing nothing of the actual nature of things (Ie: cult of 'wizards' - you couldn't be more wrong) you leap to conclusions. Thank you for proving my point that people have stupid prejudices that they will act upon without due research.
Dude, calm yourself. Your father was concerned before because he'd received bad information regarding D&D. And you still feel the need to lash out at random people years later because he found you had an athame and were involved in an activity that, again, he had bad information on? Admittedly, it sounded like your dad reacted a bit drastically in terms of what he said, but you need to let go of your hostility there.
As odd as it may sound, not everyone's parents smoked up when they were teenagers. Heck, my dad skipped out on an invitation to head off to Woodstock because the law school was holding an interesting seminar that week. Personally, I still have trouble telling the smell of low quality pot from the smells of burning plastic or dead skunk. *shrug* Different olfactory sensitivities, I guess.
What makes it worse is that there's some good stuff in the bill too. 5136 allows libraries to legally make copies of "orphan works" that are unclaimed but technically copyrighted so as to preserve them. 2391 apparently adds some protections for people who wish to collaberate on scientific projects but are worried that they might forfeit their patent. Admittedly, I don't know how either of those are phrased, so they could range from useless to actively harmful, but I could see the proponents of the bill playing up those parts and even getting some computer geeks rallying behind them.
Scarier, an FOAF (yes, that's as far as it goes. A friend of mine has a friend who had it happen to them. Not an urban legend disclaimer) was running an informal service for people who play music so that they could check whether songs they planned to play were in the public domain. After a few decades of playing, she had a fairly good idea of what was in the public domain, what wasn't, and which songs were copied virtually note for note from a public domain song. After a few years of running the service, she was visited by a handful of RIAA agents who first threatened legal action if she didn't advise people, then, when they failed to convince her that way, hinted that unpleasant things could happen to a woman who lived alone. Scary stuff, although I'm not sure how much of this was filtered through my friend when he told the story to me.
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"She has the heart of a little child... I think she keeps it in a jar in her closet."
I think they restrict sales of live animals on EBay. Now if you sold stuffed pussy...
Not to mention, of course, that even if you can keep finding new jobs, eventually you will be perceived as "job-hopping" or "churning," and are therefore not a safe employment risk, even if you had legitimate reasons for leaving each company. *wry grin* Then again, stay for over a decade with a company and you're liable to get labelled as "stagnated" or the like.
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In general, my experience has been that programmers tend to be in the elite group anyhow. They already have high salaries and they're protected from being arbitrarily replaced because they keep the arcane secrets of the company's application in their skulls. Admittedly, this is bound to change, offshoring and programming becoming more accesible and less black magic.
Actually, the longevity is much a matter of good cuts in the film and multiple takes as it is actual stamina. Still, do you really want sex to be just a job? While I normally avoid citing fiction in regards to reality, take a look at "Post Production" in Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk.
I think that he's more likely talking about prosecuting "intent to commit a crime," something which has always seemed really shakey to me. Sure, he's got floorplans of the bank. Yes, he rented Bonnie and Clyde from Blockbuster 13 times in a row. Still, unless he's actually stated that he's robbing a bank, or has made an attempt at it, you shouldn't be able to bring charges against him. Suspicion of intent is a valid reason to bring someone in or to do an impromptu search of a person or property, but only under certain rules and the officer is required to justify themselves if asked.
While big government does not equal a police state, it does provide the dark and dank corners for the fungus to grow unchecked and unnoticed.
We have airplanes. Why climb Everest?
You, sir, don't know much about flying, I suspect. Mountains provide a great deal of challenges for pilots, let alone the other hostile conditions of Everest.
Ok, there's this good ole boy driving down the highway when he gets a call from his wife, "Honey, be careful. The radio said that some maniac is driving down the highway in the wrong direction." He replies, "One? Hell, all of them are!"
Part of the problem is that most computer teachers aren't computer science majors or even primarily computer science teachers. Rather, they're math teachers or librarians who got roped into teaching computer science because the administrators figure it's all about the same. Think about it... who's going to get a computer science degree and then spend years studying for a teaching degree for a job that barely makes $45k a year and requires extensive amounts of overtime work ouytside of the office? Quite frankly, I think teachers should be one of our more highly paid jobs. It's certainly important enough.
^_^ Then, of course, there are digital clocks. There was a Star Trek book that made fun of that. "Even a broken chronometer is right twice a day, Data." "Really? I would think that a broken chronometer would not display and therefore it would never be right." "It's an old Earth saying, Data. I... don't know why they would say that, really."
You're absolutely right. I wrote that while distracted by half a dozen other things and realized I'd mixed up Google and Firefox in my references after submitting. *shrug* And you're the first person to realize. Congratulations.
I'd like to be able to pull a statistic out of my ass regarding use of search boxes, but I'm loathe to make one up on the spot and I don't know what the actual statistics would be. Anyhow, my suspicion is that, given a search box, most people will use that rather than type in their favorite search engine's address and type in a query. It's just easier. Most people intially downloaded the toolbar to block popups. But after that was not so much an issue, I think that having a search box was the reason most people downloaded it. The convenience is very nice. Will they keep downloading Google toolbar now that there's pop-up blocking and a search box? I know I haven't downloaded the Google toolbar for FireFox.
Except that, well, MSN is getting ad revenue from those search box queries that normally Google would be getting. Given the amount of IE users, that could be a substantial chunk of Google's revenues, possibly enough to start sinking them as a company.
I agree that Google is being a bit hypcritical here. It makes business sense that they don't want MSN to be the default, especially since Microsoft is also muscling into the search engine wars, but I think their case would have been stronger if they'd included MSN search in their search options on installation. Then again, part of me is wondering if that might not have caused legal problems in and of itself. "Appropriation of competiting technology and repackaging under a different brand name" or somesuch.
Where I live, the temperature in summer hits mid 40's every day, all week, and nobody dies.
I read about european "heatwaves" of mid 30's and people end up in hospital.
I don't know where you live, but it could also be a matter of humidities. In a very arid environment, the human body does a fairly efficient job of cooling by sweating because the sweat can evaporate into the air immediately. If your body is truly being efficient, the sweat evaporates practically upon air contact. In a more humid system, more sweat has to be generated because the air won't absorb as much water from evaporation. More sweat means more dehydration and often, the sweat isn't even serving to cool you much.
That said, I suspect that surviving high temperature conditions over a long period of time will help train your body as to when sweating is a good idea and when it's not, and in what amounts. *wry grin* And common sense will hopefully develop for people knowing when to get into the shade or to rehydrate.
Down here in the oven(New Orleans) our power bills skyrocket during the summer because of added cooling costs from the AC and fridge.
Huh. I'd heard recently that New Orleans had switched to water-cooling, creating lakes in the city to absorb the heat.
Are you kidding? Voters today can't even keep track of the issues of candidates in the two-party system. Those who vote on issues generally a) are extremely intelligent and well-informed, and research both candidates for each position or b) vote on straight party lines assuming that all Democrats hold this political position and all Republicans another. In actuality, there are liberal Republicans, conservative Democrats, people who are all for gun control but don't like welfare. Politicians are people too, albeit perhaps a lower class thereof...
Anyhow, my point is that I don't think that the average voter could cope with more choices. We'd just wind up with either people voting straight party lines because that's what their daddy/religion/regional group/racial group always votes, leading to the two main parties getting the lion's share much as today, or people would vote piecemeal, voting in Doctor X because "he's tough on crime" without paying attention to his other stated goals of conquering the world and creating a dictatorship.
Jaded? Yeah, I guess I am.
"Hi. I'm from the government and I want to help."
If I had mod points, I'd help reverse the idiot who marked you troll, but if wishes were fishes...
One of things I find interesting is that, 99 people out of 100, they'd say it was an apple and would even remember the Bible saying it was an apple, but it's simply stated as "the fruit" and the word used might not even mean fruit as we know it. The earliest manuscripts actually show a mushroom. ^_^ Eat a mushroom for cosmic knowledge? Sounds plausible enough... It's one of those cases of Biblical fanon like there being three wise men (who were kings!) or Mary riding into Bethlehem on a donkey, things which "everybody knows," but isn't actually in there.
This reminds me of a movie where a few students started sending tape-recorders to class instead of themselves. Gradually the scene had the professor lecturing to a room full of tape recorders. The last step in this scenario was a tape of the lecture being played to a room full of machines taping it.
Apparently, it's Real Genius. I have vague memories of that movie... I'm going to have to watch it again one of these days.
See there you are, knowing nothing of the actual nature of things (Ie: cult of 'wizards' - you couldn't be more wrong) you leap to conclusions. Thank you for proving my point that people have stupid prejudices that they will act upon without due research.
Dude, calm yourself. Your father was concerned before because he'd received bad information regarding D&D. And you still feel the need to lash out at random people years later because he found you had an athame and were involved in an activity that, again, he had bad information on? Admittedly, it sounded like your dad reacted a bit drastically in terms of what he said, but you need to let go of your hostility there.
As odd as it may sound, not everyone's parents smoked up when they were teenagers. Heck, my dad skipped out on an invitation to head off to Woodstock because the law school was holding an interesting seminar that week. Personally, I still have trouble telling the smell of low quality pot from the smells of burning plastic or dead skunk. *shrug* Different olfactory sensitivities, I guess.
What makes it worse is that there's some good stuff in the bill too. 5136 allows libraries to legally make copies of "orphan works" that are unclaimed but technically copyrighted so as to preserve them. 2391 apparently adds some protections for people who wish to collaberate on scientific projects but are worried that they might forfeit their patent. Admittedly, I don't know how either of those are phrased, so they could range from useless to actively harmful, but I could see the proponents of the bill playing up those parts and even getting some computer geeks rallying behind them.
Scarier, an FOAF (yes, that's as far as it goes. A friend of mine has a friend who had it happen to them. Not an urban legend disclaimer) was running an informal service for people who play music so that they could check whether songs they planned to play were in the public domain. After a few decades of playing, she had a fairly good idea of what was in the public domain, what wasn't, and which songs were copied virtually note for note from a public domain song. After a few years of running the service, she was visited by a handful of RIAA agents who first threatened legal action if she didn't advise people, then, when they failed to convince her that way, hinted that unpleasant things could happen to a woman who lived alone. Scary stuff, although I'm not sure how much of this was filtered through my friend when he told the story to me.