Old idea. My financial records are all on paper. In an unheated storage space. When the IRS wants to audit me, they are welcome to sit in there and go through whatever they want.
That pic looks wrong. If you put a lift kit on a vehicle, you are supposed to put the really small wheels on it. The large diameter wheels (particularly with the low sidewall tire look) requires that the vehicle be lowered.
Either way, the goal is to create an even more useless vehicle for actual off-road or rough road use. Although, seeing any SUV with low sidewalls have to creep over a pothole to keep from bending rims makes my sides hurt from laughing.
I think it may have to do with getting a well rounded education. Students who are receptive to (not just suffer through curriculum requirements) a wide range of subject matter are probably better at critical thinking, empathy, social interaction, etc. And later in life, they are more adaptable to changes in their careers. I've seen people graduate from college with something odd like a degree in geography go to work as a software developer and actually surpass CS grads. Particularly the kind of STEM graduate that thinks all they need is the curriculum specific to their field. (I pick on STEM because this attitude seems to be rampant in these fields.)
I find it interesting that an art museum is conducting an experiment to see if art makes a person smart. I wonder if a statistics museum would conclude that courses in math and statistics make for better research study designs.
I wouldn't be surprised if the makers of plastic garbage bags were behind a lot of the bans on plastic grocery bags. When I shop where the plastic bags are still available, I've never had to buy the ones for garbage. I just recycle.
It would be interesting to calculate the profit margins on grocery vs garbage bags. I'm guessing that the industry makes a lot more money off the garbage variety.
I fear we now have a lifetime supply of paint smocks, emergency rain coats, vapour barrier material, etc....
They are still good for burying bodies. Just saying.
The NSA already knows what is in these documents. The documents are theirs. Who would Snowden be hiding them from and why the sophistication?
Hide them just out of plain sight, so to speak. And when some accident should befall Snowden, the cron job times out and an e-mail with location and simple decryption instructions goes out to the world. Or the simple key is split between a large group of people in such a way that a small subset of them is all that's needed to open the vault, so to speak.
Snowden isn't hiding anything from the NSA that they don't already know. All he needs to do is to keep one of his aids from 'turning the nuclear key' on his own.
Why women aren't in STEM jobs has been studied to death. Bottom line: enough men don't want them, and women are smart enough to know where they're not wanted.
But are all other STEM ratios as bad as that for software specifically? Are we hearing the software crisis here because the Slashdot demographic leans toward software? Is the problem just as bad in other science and engineering fields?
3) Demand that all applicants have recent (in the past two years) experience.
This might be the key. Other engineering disciplines don't chase the fads as rapidly as software. So an absence of a couple of years will really bugger a s/w resume. I have known some quite capable female software engineers. But many of them work with languages like COBOL. Where the job environment is more stable and a couple of years off isn't that big a deal.
... can the Ohio legislators fit into that empty compartment between their ears?
Seriously: "With the 'intent'?" Does Ohio have a concealed carry law? Just stuff a gun or a spare clip in there. Your 'intent' was to keep your weapon safe. Think of the children.
It's the MBA mindset of setting a goal and striving for it, no matter what. Once we set our sights on something, we can't be stopped. Not by the realities of the marketplace, the laws of physics or the US Federal Code. There is no surrender, retreat or regrouping.
I think a lot of these people watched too many John Wayne marine corps movies. Where the squad charges the machine gun nest and keeps going until the hero lobs in the grenade. Except that the military doesn't really do things this way. But all the 4-F draft candidates and people who got shit college degrees for the deferral think that's the way things work.
This assumes a CEO that knows anything about his/her industry. And that these walkabouts don't generate a shitstorm of morale problems in the middle management ranks. Bypassing the chain of command and all.
It is not a partisan statement to say that the world's only superpower shouldn't be run/led by some dumbass community organizer with no management experience.
That might be true in an authoritarian regime, where orders from the top are expected to be carried out by subordinates (cue 'In Soviet Russia' jokes). But managing a political process in a democracy differs from corporate central planning. Where, if you don't maintain a consensus, the electorate can rise up and undo your best laid plans.
Could be that drinking (beer or whatever) is an example of a shared group experience that enhances interpersonal bonding. So, is it the booze or the underlying culture that explains the altruism? Can one identify cultures that emphasize other shared experiences which also enhance such effects?
I don't have anything against drinking, per se. But if I can make a conscious decision to join a group that is characterized by some shared activity, I might want to select one that has fewer negative consequences and more positive than hanging around bars.
If ambition and psychopathy are independent factors...
The ambitious psychopath will work for you and then stab you in the back to get ahead. The ambitious, well adjusted person will compete for your job on their merits and push you aside. Or they'll quit and go to work for themselves, figuring that energy expended working one's way up through an organization is wasted.
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Old idea. My financial records are all on paper. In an unheated storage space. When the IRS wants to audit me, they are welcome to sit in there and go through whatever they want.
I'll bet the answer will be, "No." And RT customers will be stuck with orphaned hardware and an OS that developers won't touch.
An expensive lesson. But one Microsoft has bet on in the past that their fan base will not learn from.
Flying cars excepted, of course.
Illegal window tint. Problem solved.
We already do. Its called speed enforcement.
That pic looks wrong. If you put a lift kit on a vehicle, you are supposed to put the really small wheels on it. The large diameter wheels (particularly with the low sidewall tire look) requires that the vehicle be lowered.
Either way, the goal is to create an even more useless vehicle for actual off-road or rough road use. Although, seeing any SUV with low sidewalls have to creep over a pothole to keep from bending rims makes my sides hurt from laughing.
I think it may have to do with getting a well rounded education. Students who are receptive to (not just suffer through curriculum requirements) a wide range of subject matter are probably better at critical thinking, empathy, social interaction, etc. And later in life, they are more adaptable to changes in their careers. I've seen people graduate from college with something odd like a degree in geography go to work as a software developer and actually surpass CS grads. Particularly the kind of STEM graduate that thinks all they need is the curriculum specific to their field. (I pick on STEM because this attitude seems to be rampant in these fields.)
I find it interesting that an art museum is conducting an experiment to see if art makes a person smart. I wonder if a statistics museum would conclude that courses in math and statistics make for better research study designs.
I wouldn't be surprised if the makers of plastic garbage bags were behind a lot of the bans on plastic grocery bags. When I shop where the plastic bags are still available, I've never had to buy the ones for garbage. I just recycle.
It would be interesting to calculate the profit margins on grocery vs garbage bags. I'm guessing that the industry makes a lot more money off the garbage variety.
I fear we now have a lifetime supply of paint smocks, emergency rain coats, vapour barrier material, etc....
They are still good for burying bodies. Just saying.
Perhaps it would be possible to grow a brew of landfill-friendly bacteria and spray it on the pile once in a while.
Oh yeah. That would cause problems for the people who make a living digging through landfills for a living.
Why?
The NSA already knows what is in these documents. The documents are theirs. Who would Snowden be hiding them from and why the sophistication?
Hide them just out of plain sight, so to speak. And when some accident should befall Snowden, the cron job times out and an e-mail with location and simple decryption instructions goes out to the world. Or the simple key is split between a large group of people in such a way that a small subset of them is all that's needed to open the vault, so to speak.
Snowden isn't hiding anything from the NSA that they don't already know. All he needs to do is to keep one of his aids from 'turning the nuclear key' on his own.
However, most of these 11 were brilliant and yes, they were all very beautiful.
Russian spies, no doubt. And all servicing Edward Snowden now.
Why women aren't in STEM jobs has been studied to death. Bottom line: enough men don't want them, and women are smart enough to know where they're not wanted.
But are all other STEM ratios as bad as that for software specifically? Are we hearing the software crisis here because the Slashdot demographic leans toward software? Is the problem just as bad in other science and engineering fields?
3) Demand that all applicants have recent (in the past two years) experience.
This might be the key. Other engineering disciplines don't chase the fads as rapidly as software. So an absence of a couple of years will really bugger a s/w resume. I have known some quite capable female software engineers. But many of them work with languages like COBOL. Where the job environment is more stable and a couple of years off isn't that big a deal.
I guess I'll have to stick with a 78 mpg hybrid.
In Europe, we have common sense for that.
Even there, it varies by country.
Is this a function that the user can disable? I mean, really. Who needs to 'check in' with their car when it is parked?
Put it on a lift and look at the battery pack with a thermal imaging camera. A bad cell will stand out as a warm spot.
Clearly Marissa Mayer needs to study /b/ memes some more.
Seriously: "With the 'intent'?" Does Ohio have a concealed carry law? Just stuff a gun or a spare clip in there. Your 'intent' was to keep your weapon safe. Think of the children.
Never mix your metaphors before they've hatched.
It's the MBA mindset of setting a goal and striving for it, no matter what. Once we set our sights on something, we can't be stopped. Not by the realities of the marketplace, the laws of physics or the US Federal Code. There is no surrender, retreat or regrouping.
I think a lot of these people watched too many John Wayne marine corps movies. Where the squad charges the machine gun nest and keeps going until the hero lobs in the grenade. Except that the military doesn't really do things this way. But all the 4-F draft candidates and people who got shit college degrees for the deferral think that's the way things work.
This assumes a CEO that knows anything about his/her industry. And that these walkabouts don't generate a shitstorm of morale problems in the middle management ranks. Bypassing the chain of command and all.
It is not a partisan statement to say that the world's only superpower shouldn't be run/led by some dumbass community organizer with no management experience.
That might be true in an authoritarian regime, where orders from the top are expected to be carried out by subordinates (cue 'In Soviet Russia' jokes). But managing a political process in a democracy differs from corporate central planning. Where, if you don't maintain a consensus, the electorate can rise up and undo your best laid plans.
Could be that drinking (beer or whatever) is an example of a shared group experience that enhances interpersonal bonding. So, is it the booze or the underlying culture that explains the altruism? Can one identify cultures that emphasize other shared experiences which also enhance such effects?
I don't have anything against drinking, per se. But if I can make a conscious decision to join a group that is characterized by some shared activity, I might want to select one that has fewer negative consequences and more positive than hanging around bars.
If ambition and psychopathy are independent factors ...
The ambitious psychopath will work for you and then stab you in the back to get ahead. The ambitious, well adjusted person will compete for your job on their merits and push you aside. Or they'll quit and go to work for themselves, figuring that energy expended working one's way up through an organization is wasted.