The teachers might not know about 'Talk Pages', 'Revisions', and 'What Links Here':
things that make wikipedia much more advanced than traditional encyclopedias.
No, teachers know that lazy students will just blindly copy and paste stuff from wikipedia.
I regularly evaluate program proposals and would like to let you know that 40% is a LOSS of ~10%. You have a computer, work in a building with utilities, attend training, have health insurance, etc. Those cost a MINIMUM of 50% (and probably closer to 100%). Your idea that the company should spend money on housing and feeding someone who contributed little value is misaligned.
The rule of thumb with charging out professionals is that 1/3 of their charge out rate is salary/benefits, 1/3 is overheads and 1/3 is profit.
I would guess that the OP's 40% is the profit on top of his salary and associated overheads.
Barriers to firearm access(which isn't the same as ownership) would curtail these kinds of shootings.
It would turn them into stabbings instead. And once the perpetrators read up a bit on how to stab people properly (so they have no chance of survival), death counts will be indistinguishable from your average school shooting.
And I suppose a high calibre machine gun is no more dangerous than a fucking letter opener or cocktail stick?
There may or may not be valid arguments for allowing universal access to firearms, but pretending they're no different from wielding a set of plastic cutlery is ridiculous.
Yes, I know you can kill people with a rolled up newspaper, half a brick or even your bare hands. There's a reason we give soldiers rifles instead.
And kids totally won't abuse the system to get out of taking their finals. Why pull the fire alarm when you can make a really great prank!
I'm not American, so maybe you do things differently, but here in the UK, if there's some disastrous event that means you have to evacuate a school/college during exam time, then we just reschedule the exams for another day.
You make it sound like they've got some anti-shooter robot prowling the corridors like in Robocop who will machine gun you to death for making a vaguely gunny noise.
But no doubt someone here will say that this is an infringement on children's right to bear arms/go hunting during break times/indulge in harmless firearm-based fun in the canteen.
It's good to know Slashdot's irrational hatred is still firmly entrenched in the '90s.
Irrational? In what way?
Presumably because Bill Gates is no longer the CEO, so saying "yah boo sucks to Bill Gates" is about as meaningful as saying "Microsoft limits filenames to a ridiculous 8.3 format"
How the bleep does the mailman get to telecommute???
Marissa Mayer is the devil incarnate - but even I'll agree, delivering the mail kinda sorta has to be done in person.
Yes, because everyone working for the Postal Service is a mailman/woman.
They are a unique organisation in that they require no HR, planning, IT, marketing, finance, management, sales, payroll, admin or training support staff whatsoever.
Everyone knows that Scandinavia is in the Arctic Circle, and therefore has six months of day followed by six months of night. And Denmark's a state of Scandinavia. Probably.
So there is no such thing as crime, and all the law enforcement is just a vast job creation exercise?
Or do you just mean that the particular crimes we're talking about (selling drugs and child abuse images, predominantly) are ones you don't think should be illegal?
Why do people rate Cryptonomicon as worthy of being filmed? I've read it on two occasions and both times I've felt it to be preachy, naive and rambling - there are much better books out there begging to be made into films or tv series.
Why would you re-read a book you didn't like? Life's too short.
As with most of Stephenson's work, I found Cryptonomicon a good read, but not worth a re-read. He does go on a bit.
Snow Crash is the exception, I have read that several times. but there is no way I am ploughing through the Baroque quartet again.
The bottom line is, if someone criticizes you, it does not mean he hates your race, sex, religion, or anything else. Instead of routing all negatives to/dev/oppressed, have the fortitude to listen to the criticism and see where it might apply. If there's truth to it, modify your perspective. If not, discard it.
Since so many people here are downplaying the seriousness of this, I would reiterate that saying you're going round someone's house to rape and murder them is not "criticism".
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The teachers might not know about 'Talk Pages', 'Revisions', and 'What Links Here':
things that make wikipedia much more advanced than traditional encyclopedias.
No, teachers know that lazy students will just blindly copy and paste stuff from wikipedia.
And this week "robustful" comes straight in at Number One in the Most Pointless Neologisms chart.
I regularly evaluate program proposals and would like to let you know that 40% is a LOSS of ~10%. You have a computer, work in a building with utilities, attend training, have health insurance, etc. Those cost a MINIMUM of 50% (and probably closer to 100%). Your idea that the company should spend money on housing and feeding someone who contributed little value is misaligned.
The rule of thumb with charging out professionals is that 1/3 of their charge out rate is salary/benefits, 1/3 is overheads and 1/3 is profit.
I would guess that the OP's 40% is the profit on top of his salary and associated overheads.
Barriers to firearm access(which isn't the same as ownership) would curtail these kinds of shootings.
It would turn them into stabbings instead. And once the perpetrators read up a bit on how to stab people properly (so they have no chance of survival), death counts will be indistinguishable from your average school shooting.
And I suppose a high calibre machine gun is no more dangerous than a fucking letter opener or cocktail stick?
There may or may not be valid arguments for allowing universal access to firearms, but pretending they're no different from wielding a set of plastic cutlery is ridiculous.
Yes, I know you can kill people with a rolled up newspaper, half a brick or even your bare hands. There's a reason we give soldiers rifles instead.
And kids totally won't abuse the system to get out of taking their finals. Why pull the fire alarm when you can make a really great prank!
I'm not American, so maybe you do things differently, but here in the UK, if there's some disastrous event that means you have to evacuate a school/college during exam time, then we just reschedule the exams for another day.
I expect it's socialism.
You make it sound like they've got some anti-shooter robot prowling the corridors like in Robocop who will machine gun you to death for making a vaguely gunny noise.
But no doubt someone here will say that this is an infringement on children's right to bear arms/go hunting during break times/indulge in harmless firearm-based fun in the canteen.
It's good to know Slashdot's irrational hatred is still firmly entrenched in the '90s.
Irrational? In what way?
Presumably because Bill Gates is no longer the CEO, so saying "yah boo sucks to Bill Gates" is about as meaningful as saying "Microsoft limits filenames to a ridiculous 8.3 format"
What if it's Nickleback?
something something cruel and unusual punishment
How the bleep does the mailman get to telecommute???
Marissa Mayer is the devil incarnate - but even I'll agree, delivering the mail kinda sorta has to be done in person.
Yes, because everyone working for the Postal Service is a mailman/woman.
They are a unique organisation in that they require no HR, planning, IT, marketing, finance, management, sales, payroll, admin or training support staff whatsoever.
Your user name could only be more appropriate if it was something like CuntyMcPointless.
Wales is like Scandinavia without the attractive women.
Everyone knows that Scandinavia is in the Arctic Circle, and therefore has six months of day followed by six months of night. And Denmark's a state of Scandinavia. Probably.
Why did you stop your calculation half way?
The page wasn't long enough to contain his marvellous proof.
At some point - probably soon - they'll shut down the last one of these and then there won't be any more. That's how the war on drugs was won!
If you want to truly win the war on drugs, then you need to go after the biggest drug dealers on the planet.
In case you were wondering, that would be the ones we allow to legally peddle their fucking addictions.
Yes, we should criminalise tobacco and alcohol, and hand out free crystal meth to schoolkids at break times.
That would solve everything.
The biggest competitor to Evolution is named Agora which is a pretty great name.
Why don't they just call it "Ayn Rand" or "The Eagle's Lair", that'd show the fucking Untermenschen who's the cool kid on the block.
Or do you just mean that the particular crimes we're talking about (selling drugs and child abuse images, predominantly) are ones you don't think should be illegal?
Whatever bad things have happened at least the existential threats facing us now are long term ones.
Why do people rate Cryptonomicon as worthy of being filmed? I've read it on two occasions and both times I've felt it to be preachy, naive and rambling - there are much better books out there begging to be made into films or tv series.
Why would you re-read a book you didn't like? Life's too short.
As with most of Stephenson's work, I found Cryptonomicon a good read, but not worth a re-read. He does go on a bit.
Snow Crash is the exception, I have read that several times. but there is no way I am ploughing through the Baroque quartet again.
That means that only people that would be willing to finance it are sociopaths.
And the only people that would be willing to go on the one way death trip would be psychotic.
That 50% stat takes casual players into account.
Yeah, and the only thing worse than a girl gamer is a casual gamer.
The bottom line is, if someone criticizes you, it does not mean he hates your race, sex, religion, or anything else. Instead of routing all negatives to /dev/oppressed, have the fortitude to listen to the criticism and see where it might apply. If there's truth to it, modify your perspective. If not, discard it.
Since so many people here are downplaying the seriousness of this, I would reiterate that saying you're going round someone's house to rape and murder them is not "criticism".
Some of the funniest office 'banter' I've heard has been based on race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, or religion.
I doubt that in your office banter someone ever (seriously) said "I know where you live and I'm going to come round some time and rape and kill you".
Maybe I've just led a sheltered life.
Many are born into their religion and feel cultural or family obligation to remain in it.
Then they're weak, rather than stupid. Fair enough. They are to be pitied rather than criticised.
And even if it wasn't, you deserve no sympathy if the police decide to treat it as though it was, and can prove it in a court.