GWB is/was a Progressive, because of the policies he pursued.
If you consider Dubya to be Progressive, you are woefully misguided. He is a poster-child for the neocon movement. I'd hate to think what you consider right-wing to be.
...write the software, you aren't really in a position to demand any compensation, whether you wrote it on your time using your own equipment or not. Look at it this way: if you offer them the software gratis and they adopt it and expect you to maintain it on company time in addition to your other duties, then that is the time to negotiate a slight increase in pay or some non-monetary perqs.
It would be a complete waste to shelve the software if you know it would be a net benefit to your team (after taking into account the fact that it's one more thing to support and maintain). Hoarders and opportunists are never looked upon favourably, especially in this economy when there are 100 un(der)employed people eager to take over your job for less money and longer hours.
I would rather see a Brave New World than my country devolve into ancient Rome
What Huxley depicted in Brave New World was a post-modern version of pre-fall Rome. The people in BNW were fed a stupefying drug known as soma and 'encouraged' to have promiscuous sex and engage in mindless amusement. Isn't that a form of bread and circuses?
Many members of Congress (especially the WASPy old men) wilfully flaunt their ignorance about all things tech as some atavistic badge of honour. Remember, we're dealing with boring old farts who still use their female aides to fetch their coffee and dry-cleaning. They're of a generation who views it as unmanly to type one's own memos, schedule one's own lunches, and so forth. So they sit on their thrones and let their underlings dirty their hands on those doodads and thingamawhatzits.
This means every 250,000 voters in Oregon get their own senator, where as every 20,000,000 voters in California get their own.
Your figures for Oregon are way off. As of 2010, Oregon had approximately 3.8 million residents. You were close on California: roughly 37.3 million (2010). Wyoming has ~569K people -- maybe you meant that state and not Oregon?
I'm an R-tard. I misread it as 'why are you not doing' instead of 'why are you not going'. Feel free to throw rotten, smelly tomatoes at me. *retreats into a corner and sucks his thumb*
... from a corporate whore, bought and paid for? Look up her LinkedIn profile. Furthermore, her daddy is a prominent, Big Business-friendly judge. 'Nuff said.
OK, so you keep a token amount of money in a national bank so that you can deal with emergencies, and do your 'real' banking at a locally-based institution. Problem solved.
In the absence of Glass-Steagall, it's all about giving the Wall St gamblers as little of our money to play with as possible.
Spoken like someone who has never eaten at a university cafeteria, at least in the American Midwest.
At my school (Virginia Commonwealth University), the food was easily as good as what you could get at most chain casual-dining restaurants -- and that was over ten years ago. (After an injection of alumni money, the dining experience for current students is even better.)
I was engaging in hyperbole, but only up to a point. Many public schools (especially top-tier ones) maintain relatively posh accommodations that our parents thirty years ago would've considered needlessly luxuriant, especially for that age group. Having been inside the athletic dorms at places like UVA and Virginia Tech, I had to keep reminding myself that I wasn't in a Marriott or Hilton.
doctors need only keep up with advancements in medicine or new discoveries about extant biological systems:
There's no 'only' about it -- in the whole scheme of things, we know almost nothing about the human body from a holistic and systemic point of view. All of the really exciting discoveries are in the future.
Too many people go for a 4-year degree, and far too many companies require such a degree for jobs that, in truth, only require a AA/AS degree.
But a true reform requires support for vocational school at the HS and post-HS level (as done in the German and Japanese models of education), providing for true and diversified alternatives (at the county community college level) other than a 4-year degree. Cutting federal student loans simply does not resolve the root cause, and will cause people to pursue any form of education, independently of whether they are qualified or not.
Agreed x 10^6.
A large factor behind degree inflation in the US is compensation for our abysmal, piss-poor primary and secondary education systems. Tertiary education is, for most people, remedial in nature -- it teaches them what they should've learned in HS or earlier.
Maybe there is some other way we could go about doing this.
I think one avenue would be massively expanding the delivery of education through community colleges. One of the reasons universities are so expensive is the amenities offered to attract out-of-staters and athletes (particularly at NCAA Division I institutions). Athletic gyms with gold-plated faucets and jacuzzis? Dining-hall food worthy of five stars? Why do college students need this stuff? They should be there to learn, not live the life of a spoiled libertine. For the first two years, most students should attend CC's, where they receive good instruction in the introductory/core courses, and can transfer to a four-year institution for their major courses. A lot of people say a CC doesn't provide the 'college experience' -- who cares? They can get that in their final two years.
If you were a partner/cofounder, it would be one thing. But since you're 'merely' an employee, your ultimate loyalty is to yourself. Put in your two weeks' notice and expedite the training of the junior developers. It sounds like you have already been a conscientious and diligent worker -- you don't owe your employer anything else, except the courtesy of a formal notice of resignation. Many may call it harsh, but do you really think they'd give a second thought to making you redundant if business went south?
There are ways of instilling discipline, cohesiveness and grace under fire that don't involve eviscerating and humiliating others. Thinking otherwise is simply atavistic and barbaric. And the only reason DS's haze recruits is because they had to go through it and they want to pass it on -- hardly virtuous or noble.
But many people are too busy with taking care of the kids and keeping a job to really understand what is going on and how to respond.
Most of us have a modicum of leisure time. Instead of swilling cheap beer and watching athletes slap each other on the arse and throw a ball around, more people should become engaged citizens instead of mere consumers. Those who don't vote or make even a half-way attempt to keep up with current events have no room to complain.
There's the problem right there. I currently have VZN and am about to drop them. Aside from being the most expensive of the carriers, they're usually dead last with OS updates (iOS/Android/WebOS) and the last to offer various phone models (if they even do).
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Almost everyone elected to office is already rich. They don't want more money. They want Power.
They want more of both. In their minds, one can never have too much of either.
GWB is/was a Progressive, because of the policies he pursued.
If you consider Dubya to be Progressive, you are woefully misguided. He is a poster-child for the neocon movement. I'd hate to think what you consider right-wing to be.
...write the software, you aren't really in a position to demand any compensation, whether you wrote it on your time using your own equipment or not. Look at it this way: if you offer them the software gratis and they adopt it and expect you to maintain it on company time in addition to your other duties, then that is the time to negotiate a slight increase in pay or some non-monetary perqs.
It would be a complete waste to shelve the software if you know it would be a net benefit to your team (after taking into account the fact that it's one more thing to support and maintain). Hoarders and opportunists are never looked upon favourably, especially in this economy when there are 100 un(der)employed people eager to take over your job for less money and longer hours.
...an HDMI cable deserves to be ripped off.
I would rather see a Brave New World than my country devolve into ancient Rome
What Huxley depicted in Brave New World was a post-modern version of pre-fall Rome. The people in BNW were fed a stupefying drug known as soma and 'encouraged' to have promiscuous sex and engage in mindless amusement. Isn't that a form of bread and circuses?
Many members of Congress (especially the WASPy old men) wilfully flaunt their ignorance about all things tech as some atavistic badge of honour. Remember, we're dealing with boring old farts who still use their female aides to fetch their coffee and dry-cleaning. They're of a generation who views it as unmanly to type one's own memos, schedule one's own lunches, and so forth. So they sit on their thrones and let their underlings dirty their hands on those doodads and thingamawhatzits.
This means every 250,000 voters in Oregon get their own senator, where as every 20,000,000 voters in California get their own.
Your figures for Oregon are way off. As of 2010, Oregon had approximately 3.8 million residents. You were close on California: roughly 37.3 million (2010). Wyoming has ~569K people -- maybe you meant that state and not Oregon?
I'm an R-tard. I misread it as 'why are you not doing' instead of 'why are you not going'. Feel free to throw rotten, smelly tomatoes at me. *retreats into a corner and sucks his thumb*
Why you are not going to see such treatments in your country?? Phages are not patentable, so no way to earn hard cash here.
You just answered your own question.
... from a corporate whore, bought and paid for? Look up her LinkedIn profile. Furthermore, her daddy is a prominent, Big Business-friendly judge. 'Nuff said.
OK, so you keep a token amount of money in a national bank so that you can deal with emergencies, and do your 'real' banking at a locally-based institution. Problem solved.
In the absence of Glass-Steagall, it's all about giving the Wall St gamblers as little of our money to play with as possible.
Dining-hall food worthy of five stars?
Spoken like someone who has never eaten at a university cafeteria, at least in the American Midwest.
At my school (Virginia Commonwealth University), the food was easily as good as what you could get at most chain casual-dining restaurants -- and that was over ten years ago. (After an injection of alumni money, the dining experience for current students is even better.)
I was engaging in hyperbole, but only up to a point. Many public schools (especially top-tier ones) maintain relatively posh accommodations that our parents thirty years ago would've considered needlessly luxuriant, especially for that age group. Having been inside the athletic dorms at places like UVA and Virginia Tech, I had to keep reminding myself that I wasn't in a Marriott or Hilton.
Yay. Another Ayn Rand groupie. *rolleyes*
doctors need only keep up with advancements in medicine or new discoveries about extant biological systems:
There's no 'only' about it -- in the whole scheme of things, we know almost nothing about the human body from a holistic and systemic point of view. All of the really exciting discoveries are in the future.
Too many people go for a 4-year degree, and far too many companies require such a degree for jobs that, in truth, only require a AA/AS degree. But a true reform requires support for vocational school at the HS and post-HS level (as done in the German and Japanese models of education), providing for true and diversified alternatives (at the county community college level) other than a 4-year degree. Cutting federal student loans simply does not resolve the root cause, and will cause people to pursue any form of education, independently of whether they are qualified or not.
Agreed x 10^6.
A large factor behind degree inflation in the US is compensation for our abysmal, piss-poor primary and secondary education systems. Tertiary education is, for most people, remedial in nature -- it teaches them what they should've learned in HS or earlier.
Maybe there is some other way we could go about doing this.
I think one avenue would be massively expanding the delivery of education through community colleges. One of the reasons universities are so expensive is the amenities offered to attract out-of-staters and athletes (particularly at NCAA Division I institutions). Athletic gyms with gold-plated faucets and jacuzzis? Dining-hall food worthy of five stars? Why do college students need this stuff? They should be there to learn, not live the life of a spoiled libertine. For the first two years, most students should attend CC's, where they receive good instruction in the introductory/core courses, and can transfer to a four-year institution for their major courses. A lot of people say a CC doesn't provide the 'college experience' -- who cares? They can get that in their final two years.
I would hope that undergrads would want to learn from accomplished researchers, even if the material is dry.
How about the accomplished researchers conducting colloquia and seminars? Seems a good compromise to me....
If you were a partner/cofounder, it would be one thing. But since you're 'merely' an employee, your ultimate loyalty is to yourself. Put in your two weeks' notice and expedite the training of the junior developers. It sounds like you have already been a conscientious and diligent worker -- you don't owe your employer anything else, except the courtesy of a formal notice of resignation. Many may call it harsh, but do you really think they'd give a second thought to making you redundant if business went south?
There are ways of instilling discipline, cohesiveness and grace under fire that don't involve eviscerating and humiliating others. Thinking otherwise is simply atavistic and barbaric. And the only reason DS's haze recruits is because they had to go through it and they want to pass it on -- hardly virtuous or noble.
Take your copy of Atlas Shrugged and shove it up your anus.
(Kind of like 'Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?')
Considering how often she berated and emotionally abused poor Abraham, Mrs Lincoln was probably secretly relieved by her husband's death. ;)
The vast majority of DOD spending is off-budget, you moron.
But many people are too busy with taking care of the kids and keeping a job to really understand what is going on and how to respond.
Most of us have a modicum of leisure time. Instead of swilling cheap beer and watching athletes slap each other on the arse and throw a ball around, more people should become engaged citizens instead of mere consumers. Those who don't vote or make even a half-way attempt to keep up with current events have no room to complain.
the 8330 was CDMA aka Verizon
There's the problem right there. I currently have VZN and am about to drop them. Aside from being the most expensive of the carriers, they're usually dead last with OS updates (iOS/Android/WebOS) and the last to offer various phone models (if they even do).
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