Yes, you are being cynical. While it is important to know if the applicant is an alumni relation (big points!) or employee dependent (extra point!), if daddy made a big contribution to the school admissions would already know about it one way or another. So called development cases, or "dean specials" (read: Dean of Basket Weaving's golf buddy's son needs a second chance after getting expelled from a better school), always get flagged for special consideration.
It's ridiculous to print out an electronic application! There are document management database systems out there that have access controls and workflow that help keep the processing and admissions departments from drowning in a sea of folders and paper. Try OnBase, for one: today's document management system with a GUI from 1992.
Limits are there for a reason. Not just because conciseness is important, but because the admissions office has to read 30K apps in a reasonable amount of time.
The limits that Common App doesn't enforce are staggeringly stupid. Could someone tell them that 1990 called and wants their free-form date field back? I'm tired of finding and fixing the one idiot in a batch of 3,000 apps who was born on 9/31, or who entered this year as their DOB. No sanity checks at all!
At least the iPad isn't ready for real business purposes or even college student uses at my university. Our CMS and helpdesk system uses Silverlight (not available on the iPad) so that's the entire IT department out. Our LMS uses Java and Flash (not available on the iPad) for content delivery, so that's the Instructors, Staff and Students out. Same for the HRIS and SIS which uses some hairy Javascript code. I suppose if we were to flush millions down the toilet, we could use the iPad's straight-jacketed functionality. Not. Gonna. Happen.
Unless the only "local stations" are run by Clear Channel. Then I wish you good luck in getting them to actually do anything other than pre-recorded content. An entire region loses power for a day? Nothing's going on if it's Clear Channel, just the top 100 pop crap countdown... Did a train carrying toxic chemicals derail, causing 1 death and over 100 injuries? Clear Channel doesn't air any warnings. The hits just keep coming...
A degree in IT? Or a degree in Computer Science? One is a potential door opener in the working world, the other is just a stop on the way to the unemployment line or 5 years to a PhD (and underpaid post-doc positions, no chance of tenure, until you give up and become manager of a Tire shop). I leave you to guess...
I would welcome having a nuclear plant in my neighborhood or, if my property were a few dozen acres bigger to accomodate it, even in my back yard.
Radiation is essentially zero, safety is as great, and potential fringe benefits (could easily provide municipal steam/heat to a moderate community) make it an easy choice.
Let's compare the people killed *per year* by... say lightning... to the number of deaths related to radiation at nuclear plants *EVER*. According to here (http://www-das.uwyo.edu/~geerts/cwx/notes/chap03/nat_hazard.html) an average of 2000 people die per year due to lightning. Cherynobl? 57.
And it only cost 300,000+ people being permanently resettled elsewhere with millions more living in slightly elevated radiation zones. Food and livestock in areas of the UK, Germany, Austria, Italy, Sweden, Finland, Lithuania and (don't forget!) Poland have restrictions because of contamination. This is 20 years after the disaster! Lets put one in your backyard!
...if he managed to pull down the Florida Supreme Court before he got disbarred? Yeah, he's bat-shit crazy, but you gotta admire the rabid determination to always be right. He's damn-near presidential material (vice presidential at the very least!).
I object, strenuously, as I have in the past on the record, to the very notion that this proceeding can even occur, on various grounds any single one of which is fatal to its legitimacy, including but not limited to the following grounds: You, the referee, are not even a judge. The law in Florida on that is clear, and it is found in Florida's Loyalty Oath Statute 876.05, et sequitur, held constitutional and binding by the United States Supreme Court in Connell v. Higginbotham.
We know now from a recently concluded State Attorney's investigation and Report that your first state loyalty oath was forged. We also know that your next two oaths, which you signed, did not conform to that statute in that the language deviated from what is required and they were not even notarized. A number of formal opinions by Florida's Attorney General state that such flaws are fatal regardless of intent.
The statute itself states that if any state official, including a judge, fails to comply strictly with the loyalty oath statute, then that judge is without legal authority to serve and must immediately be removed from office. I will accomplish your removal from office in the days and weeks ahead, as the litigation that will achieve that has already been filed by me in Miami-Dade Circuit Court. The Supreme Court of Florida, which you, the referee think is your ally in what you are doing here has ruled that your loyalty oath screw-up is fatal....
Secondly, we know now that six of the seven Florida Supreme Court Justices never executed valid state loyalty oaths. I have proven that, as has Florida and Washington, D.C. lawyer Montgomery Blair Sibley, whose own Bar referee, Judge Prescott, had his oath forged by the same person, Sayed A. Shah, who forged yours. What a coincidence.
It is the aspartame in diet soda that induces an insulin response. Insulin is used to store fat. Drink diet soda and you're training your body to store fat (just like eating too much). Google on aspartame insulin response.
Sadly, he's not even right on the numbers. A pound of muscle takes about 35 calories to maintain (that's only 87.5 calories/day for 2.5 lbs of muscle). Building that muscle takes a lot more calories, so resistance training IS important.
The diet stuff leaves you hungry, leads to more snacking. Supposedly, when you eat food (with real live calories) your body thinks it's been in starvation mode (thank you 0 calorie soda!) and stores as many calories as it can as fat. HFCS does other nasty things to you, not to mention all the trans-fatty acids in the American diet.
Wanna lose weight? Eat less, exercise more. Do resistance training and stop sucking down the soda, diet or otherwise.
This is standard corporate culture. Credit flows up the org chart, blame flows down. Just remember: you are a commodity. Those programmers in India don't ask for credit, just $10/hr.
This is a very weird story! I would have never expected that PETA, even crusading for less suffering for animals, would suggest making meat in vitro, but that's exactly what they've done! This could produce some tasty stuff.
Why do you say that? As a card-carrying member of PETA (People for the Eating of Tasty Animals), I am excited about this new opportunity. Just consider the possibilities. Along with growing delicious flesh, its DNA could be altered so that every bite of that chicken were spicy, that every bite of that rib were BBQ-flavored. No longer must closet cannibals hide their shame with the new flavor of "I can't believe it's not people!"
Yep, they were actually excellent musicians. The score, as it was applied to the movie, was horrific. It still didn't stand a chance against the heavy handed acting...
Baleful Grin (at will)-- No saving throw, all non-evil targets within sight take 3d10 damage
Spiteful Shout (1 per interview question)-- all non-evil targets within hearing range of the shout, "So!", take 3d6 damage and must make a saving throw or be paralyzed with outrage for 1d4 turns.
Buckshot Blast (hunting/foraging skill)-- fires a cone-shaped blast of buckshot (2d6 damage per target) at his own party. If any party member makes a reflex saving throw vs. damage, a small bird, it's wings clipped and weighted down with rocks, falls from the sky.
Resistance:
Cognitive Dissonance-- Cannot be harmed by pointing out facts that that are inconvenient. Able to extend this ability to other members of his party with no reduction in strength (100% effective).
Natural Death-- In an evil pact with some dark god known only to the adept of the RNC, once a year he is bathed in the blood of newborn babies, bestowing upon him the ability to stave off natural death for one full year.
Speaking of rationality, it is no more irrational to belive there is a god than it is to belive there isn't, neither stance can be disproven. Specific beliefs that can be tested (such as a 4ky old Earth, predictive power of the stars, etc) can be disproven, these things are called dogma and are not essential for a belief in god.
Of course it is irrational to believe in god. Pick your religion of choice, read its "teachings". Do they give you the sense that they were created in simpler/backward times? Why did god's faithful followers think it was great x thousand years ago to own slaves and now it's immoral? Sell your own daughters for a few shekels? Murder apostates or unbelievers? Sack an enemy's city, killing all but the young women and keeping the spoils?
If god is all-knowing and all-powerful, would not his word be written clearly and perfectly ethical? Wouldn't that word continue, undiluted throughout the centuries if it is truly god's will? Is it god's will that millions of people suffer daily? Bring out the chestnut that it's our fault for having free will (we stole it from god?!). If god created us, it was his will that we have free will and it is his will that we suffer and die and murder and starve to death at the hands of others or ourselves. If that is your god, I don't want any of it.
God is simply the label given to something that eases fear, or a label appropriated by a populist trying to attain power (or the "followers" of a madman who want to use his popularity for their own power).
I've got a "real" CS degree and I can design/code/test in C and SPARC assembler, nobody will touch me outside of defense contracting (if only I didn't have these ethical problems...) I apply for IT, but they won't touch me without certs and 3+ years experience (for a #&*$ing entry-level job!) Job I do have is boring as all hell (basically import and clean up data into PS). I got yelled at for producing a program during my lunch time that preprocesses data that I (and a team) would otherwise spend time cleaning up manually. Never thought saving 1-2 man/years time per year would get me in so much trouble.
It takes "us" months to hire a candidate for any position because nine times out of ten when we tell a qualified candidate what the salary is, they laugh in our face and walk. So then we hire a cheaper, unqualified candidate.
Gee, we had one of those just recently. It was mishandled from the word "go." Guy is overworked (working 25+ hours from home per week), tells his boss he needs help. Boss tells him to hang on, big boss will move him up and get a new body. 6 months later, no change, big boss reneges on the promotion, and guy finds new job. Gives boss 2 months' notice. 3 months later, they still haven't posted the job. At 4 months it gets posted. I apply (it's a bit of a stretch for me, but I know the tech side). Get blown off. They "hire" some other guy. New guy never materializes, he laughed in their face at the payscale (it is pathetic, but it's still a lot more than I'm making in a non-tech job). 8 months later, job is still unfilled, the remaining guys are pulling out their hair and some are grumbling about leaving.
that this is just a clever move to find people that disagree with them and put them on the no-fly list.
(Anonymous for obvious reasons, I like flying)
This is the message I got after posting:
"Your IP has been logged and entered into a secret prize giveaway. You are a WINNER! A black helicopter and secret prize officials will be with you shortly to conduct you to our Caribbean resort in Guantanamo to receive your prize. Be sure to ask about the waterboarding ride while you're there."
Shut up about martial arts. Martial arts is for pro bodyguards and nerds with inferiority complexes. Are you a pro bodyguard?
Zed Shaw is tough. There is no chin beneath Zed Shaw's goatee, there is only Chuck Norris. If you can see Zed Shaw, he can see you. If you can't see Zed Shaw you may be only seconds away from death.
Performance Bike has lower cost shipping and a 10% discount if you're a paid member, you can even sign up online. I can think of a half-dozen other sites I've seen that do the same.
The Death Tax is to make certain the middleclass doesn't get ideas
Whoo, I'm glad the message got out there! I was afraid that after all those many months of talking up how bad the death tax is for regular middle class folks, who often have to work two jobs just to put little Timmy through community college, the point may have been lost on you all. Thank Gawd that "the right kind of people" are out there protecting regular middle class folks with more than 2 million dollars (that's per person if you're a god-fearing heterosexual married person) are able to give every penny of that money to their poor, struggling kids who need to get their Hummer gassed up on the way to their weekend estate in the Hamptons. The government should only be able to tax actual income, from the people who get their hands dirty with labor... like my gardener, Miguel. Taxes should come out of the pockets of the working class, the middle class, and those filthy poor people who live tax free in the gutters of society.
IMO working two jobs simply dissipates one's ability to concentrate on one's work. The main reason so many people are working multiple jobs is because of the burdens imposed on employers when they try to work people full-time or on overtime. While I can understand sympathy for workers who are forced to work MORE hours than they'd prefer, the current regulations also hold back those who would prefer to keep at it for more than 36 hours a week.
What are those burdens, specifically? Actually paying the headcount for overtime pay? Wasting pure profit by giving your workers health insurance? Being forced to allow the wage slaves to get up from their assembly line every few hours so that they can urinate? Having to let them trundle off to the cafeteria or McDonalds for half an hour each day? Lets not forget all those damned OSHA laws that prevent those noble companies from literally working their serfs to death, thus slowing down the rate of profit.
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Yes, you are being cynical. While it is important to know if the applicant is an alumni relation (big points!) or employee dependent (extra point!), if daddy made a big contribution to the school admissions would already know about it one way or another. So called development cases, or "dean specials" (read: Dean of Basket Weaving's golf buddy's son needs a second chance after getting expelled from a better school), always get flagged for special consideration.
It's ridiculous to print out an electronic application! There are document management database systems out there that have access controls and workflow that help keep the processing and admissions departments from drowning in a sea of folders and paper. Try OnBase, for one: today's document management system with a GUI from 1992.
Limits are there for a reason. Not just because conciseness is important, but because the admissions office has to read 30K apps in a reasonable amount of time.
The limits that Common App doesn't enforce are staggeringly stupid. Could someone tell them that 1990 called and wants their free-form date field back? I'm tired of finding and fixing the one idiot in a batch of 3,000 apps who was born on 9/31, or who entered this year as their DOB. No sanity checks at all!
At least the iPad isn't ready for real business purposes or even college student uses at my university. Our CMS and helpdesk system uses Silverlight (not available on the iPad) so that's the entire IT department out. Our LMS uses Java and Flash (not available on the iPad) for content delivery, so that's the Instructors, Staff and Students out. Same for the HRIS and SIS which uses some hairy Javascript code. I suppose if we were to flush millions down the toilet, we could use the iPad's straight-jacketed functionality. Not. Gonna. Happen.
Unless the only "local stations" are run by Clear Channel. Then I wish you good luck in getting them to actually do anything other than pre-recorded content. An entire region loses power for a day? Nothing's going on if it's Clear Channel, just the top 100 pop crap countdown... Did a train carrying toxic chemicals derail, causing 1 death and over 100 injuries? Clear Channel doesn't air any warnings. The hits just keep coming...
A degree in IT? Or a degree in Computer Science? One is a potential door opener in the working world, the other is just a stop on the way to the unemployment line or 5 years to a PhD (and underpaid post-doc positions, no chance of tenure, until you give up and become manager of a Tire shop). I leave you to guess...
I would welcome having a nuclear plant in my neighborhood or, if my property were a few dozen acres bigger to accomodate it, even in my back yard.
... say lightning ... to the number of deaths related to radiation at nuclear plants *EVER*. According to here (http://www-das.uwyo.edu/~geerts/cwx/notes/chap03/nat_hazard.html) an average of 2000 people die per year due to lightning. Cherynobl? 57.
Radiation is essentially zero, safety is as great, and potential fringe benefits (could easily provide municipal steam/heat to a moderate community) make it an easy choice.
Let's compare the people killed *per year* by
And it only cost 300,000+ people being permanently resettled elsewhere with millions more living in slightly elevated radiation zones. Food and livestock in areas of the UK, Germany, Austria, Italy, Sweden, Finland, Lithuania and (don't forget!) Poland have restrictions because of contamination. This is 20 years after the disaster! Lets put one in your backyard!
...if he managed to pull down the Florida Supreme Court before he got disbarred? Yeah, he's bat-shit crazy, but you gotta admire the rabid determination to always be right. He's damn-near presidential material (vice presidential at the very least!).
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I object, strenuously, as I have in the past on the record, to the very notion that this proceeding can even occur, on various grounds any single one of which is fatal to its legitimacy, including but not limited to the following grounds:
You, the referee, are not even a judge. The law in Florida on that is clear, and it is found in Florida's Loyalty Oath Statute 876.05, et sequitur, held constitutional and binding by the United States Supreme Court in Connell v. Higginbotham.
We know now from a recently concluded State Attorney's investigation and Report that your first state loyalty oath was forged. We also know that your next two oaths, which you signed, did not conform to that statute in that the language deviated from what is required and they were not even notarized. A number of formal opinions by Florida's Attorney General state that such flaws are fatal regardless of intent.
The statute itself states that if any state official, including a judge, fails to comply strictly with the loyalty oath statute, then that judge is without legal authority to serve and must immediately be removed from office. I will accomplish your removal from office in the days and weeks ahead, as the litigation that will achieve that has already been filed by me in Miami-Dade Circuit Court. The Supreme Court of Florida, which you, the referee think is your ally in what you are doing here has ruled that your loyalty oath screw-up is fatal.
Secondly, we know now that six of the seven Florida Supreme Court Justices never executed valid state loyalty oaths. I have proven that, as has Florida and Washington, D.C. lawyer Montgomery Blair Sibley, whose own Bar referee, Judge Prescott, had his oath forged by the same person, Sayed A. Shah, who forged yours. What a coincidence.
It is the aspartame in diet soda that induces an insulin response. Insulin is used to store fat. Drink diet soda and you're training your body to store fat (just like eating too much). Google on aspartame insulin response.
Sadly, he's not even right on the numbers. A pound of muscle takes about 35 calories to maintain (that's only 87.5 calories/day for 2.5 lbs of muscle). Building that muscle takes a lot more calories, so resistance training IS important.
The diet stuff leaves you hungry, leads to more snacking. Supposedly, when you eat food (with real live calories) your body thinks it's been in starvation mode (thank you 0 calorie soda!) and stores as many calories as it can as fat. HFCS does other nasty things to you, not to mention all the trans-fatty acids in the American diet.
Wanna lose weight? Eat less, exercise more. Do resistance training and stop sucking down the soda, diet or otherwise.
This is standard corporate culture. Credit flows up the org chart, blame flows down. Just remember: you are a commodity. Those programmers in India don't ask for credit, just $10/hr.
This is a very weird story! I would have never expected that PETA, even crusading for less suffering for animals, would suggest making meat in vitro, but that's exactly what they've done! This could produce some tasty stuff.
Why do you say that? As a card-carrying member of PETA (People for the Eating of Tasty Animals), I am excited about this new opportunity. Just consider the possibilities. Along with growing delicious flesh, its DNA could be altered so that every bite of that chicken were spicy, that every bite of that rib were BBQ-flavored. No longer must closet cannibals hide their shame with the new flavor of "I can't believe it's not people!"
He lured critcs out to a charity fight [wired.com] and then beat the snot out of them, sending one to the hospital
So, they pretty much felt just like I do after watching one of his movies?
Lawful Evil - Or David Addington and John Yoo wouldn't have had jobs.
Choosing to subvert and pervert lawful authority does not make you lawful...
Yep, they were actually excellent musicians. The score, as it was applied to the movie, was horrific. It still didn't stand a chance against the heavy handed acting...
Unholy Outsider --Race unknown
Chaotic Evil
Str: 8
Int: 15
Wis: 10
Dex: 11
Cha: 6
I mean, I like Dune, but how many remakes is enough?
I don't know, but I hope they find a group of musicians on par with Toto!
Speaking of rationality, it is no more irrational to belive there is a god than it is to belive there isn't, neither stance can be disproven. Specific beliefs that can be tested (such as a 4ky old Earth, predictive power of the stars, etc) can be disproven, these things are called dogma and are not essential for a belief in god.
Of course it is irrational to believe in god. Pick your religion of choice, read its "teachings". Do they give you the sense that they were created in simpler/backward times? Why did god's faithful followers think it was great x thousand years ago to own slaves and now it's immoral? Sell your own daughters for a few shekels? Murder apostates or unbelievers? Sack an enemy's city, killing all but the young women and keeping the spoils?
If god is all-knowing and all-powerful, would not his word be written clearly and perfectly ethical? Wouldn't that word continue, undiluted throughout the centuries if it is truly god's will? Is it god's will that millions of people suffer daily? Bring out the chestnut that it's our fault for having free will (we stole it from god?!). If god created us, it was his will that we have free will and it is his will that we suffer and die and murder and starve to death at the hands of others or ourselves. If that is your god, I don't want any of it.
God is simply the label given to something that eases fear, or a label appropriated by a populist trying to attain power (or the "followers" of a madman who want to use his popularity for their own power).
I do not fear the darkness.
I've got a "real" CS degree and I can design/code/test in C and SPARC assembler, nobody will touch me outside of defense contracting (if only I didn't have these ethical problems...) I apply for IT, but they won't touch me without certs and 3+ years experience (for a #&*$ing entry-level job!) Job I do have is boring as all hell (basically import and clean up data into PS). I got yelled at for producing a program during my lunch time that preprocesses data that I (and a team) would otherwise spend time cleaning up manually. Never thought saving 1-2 man/years time per year would get me in so much trouble.
It takes "us" months to hire a candidate for any position because nine times out of ten when we tell a qualified candidate what the salary is, they laugh in our face and walk. So then we hire a cheaper, unqualified candidate.
Gee, we had one of those just recently. It was mishandled from the word "go." Guy is overworked (working 25+ hours from home per week), tells his boss he needs help. Boss tells him to hang on, big boss will move him up and get a new body. 6 months later, no change, big boss reneges on the promotion, and guy finds new job. Gives boss 2 months' notice. 3 months later, they still haven't posted the job. At 4 months it gets posted. I apply (it's a bit of a stretch for me, but I know the tech side). Get blown off. They "hire" some other guy. New guy never materializes, he laughed in their face at the payscale (it is pathetic, but it's still a lot more than I'm making in a non-tech job). 8 months later, job is still unfilled, the remaining guys are pulling out their hair and some are grumbling about leaving.
He wanted to spend more time suing his family for theft of his genetic source code.
that this is just a clever move to find people that disagree with them and put them on the no-fly list.
(Anonymous for obvious reasons, I like flying)
This is the message I got after posting:
"Your IP has been logged and entered into a secret prize giveaway. You are a WINNER! A black helicopter and secret prize officials will be with you shortly to conduct you to our Caribbean resort in Guantanamo to receive your prize. Be sure to ask about the waterboarding ride while you're there."
Oops, someone's at the door...
Shut up about martial arts. Martial arts is for pro bodyguards and nerds with inferiority complexes. Are you a pro bodyguard?
Zed Shaw is tough. There is no chin beneath Zed Shaw's goatee, there is only Chuck Norris. If you can see Zed Shaw, he can see you. If you can't see Zed Shaw you may be only seconds away from death.
Performance Bike has lower cost shipping and a 10% discount if you're a paid member, you can even sign up online. I can think of a half-dozen other sites I've seen that do the same.
The Death Tax is to make certain the middleclass doesn't get ideas
Whoo, I'm glad the message got out there! I was afraid that after all those many months of talking up how bad the death tax is for regular middle class folks, who often have to work two jobs just to put little Timmy through community college, the point may have been lost on you all. Thank Gawd that "the right kind of people" are out there protecting regular middle class folks with more than 2 million dollars (that's per person if you're a god-fearing heterosexual married person) are able to give every penny of that money to their poor, struggling kids who need to get their Hummer gassed up on the way to their weekend estate in the Hamptons. The government should only be able to tax actual income, from the people who get their hands dirty with labor... like my gardener, Miguel. Taxes should come out of the pockets of the working class, the middle class, and those filthy poor people who live tax free in the gutters of society.
IMO working two jobs simply dissipates one's ability to concentrate on one's work. The main reason so many people are working multiple jobs is because of the burdens imposed on employers when they try to work people full-time or on overtime. While I can understand sympathy for workers who are forced to work MORE hours than they'd prefer, the current regulations also hold back those who would prefer to keep at it for more than 36 hours a week.
What are those burdens, specifically? Actually paying the headcount for overtime pay? Wasting pure profit by giving your workers health insurance? Being forced to allow the wage slaves to get up from their assembly line every few hours so that they can urinate? Having to let them trundle off to the cafeteria or McDonalds for half an hour each day? Lets not forget all those damned OSHA laws that prevent those noble companies from literally working their serfs to death, thus slowing down the rate of profit.
You say albedo, I say libido...