On everyone's part. I know that electronic voting is the way of the future, but a closed source, no-bid electronic voting system going to a large political contributor is just asking for trouble.
I hope some states get the balls to review the code or implement their own system.
Maybe instead of the only intelligent species, we should have been the first of many? But if we keep going like we are, we'll never know. Wouldn't that be terribly lonely?
Who says we're not the next in a long line of intelligent species that have occupied this planet? There are 65 million years between us and the dinosaurs, and they ruled for over a hundred million years. It seems likely that there could have been an intelligent species that developed amongst them as well as many between their extinction and our rise.
Think about the number of species that have died, are dying, or will die from pollution and global warming (which stems from pollution).
There is no way to know that those same species wouldn't have died out from an Ice Age, volcano eruptions, meteor strikes, or global warming if man wasn't around.
I know the feeling. I graduated at the same time, but I was hunting for jobs 6 months before I graduated. And while I tend to be a little shy as well, I made an effort in college to correct this. I joined a fraternity, where I held leadership positions. I joined the campus newspaper. I worked in the school IT department for two years, and I had a few other jobs (not all listed on my resume as it would balloon it to a 3rd page and aren't relevant to the IT world). And I started a photography company to provide images to my college for a year. I didn't have the best GPA either, but I made something out of my college experience.
But I still haven't found a more permanent position yet. One recruiter screwed me over. Another recruiter with a long term position led me to get fired from a temporary (one-month) job I had taken because of their interview schedule. I've done some consulting (which didn't work too well because the client wouldn't communicate the information I needed to do the job).
My resume starts with my education, and then I include my relevant work experience, specifically my IT jobs. I then have a technical skills "appendix" that lists my technical skills by how proficient I am with them. I have an extra-curricular activities section, and an accomplishments section that mentions when I was employee of the month in my jobs and that I have published a short story.
It's a private university. They can do what they want.
They think that, but often, its not true. There are a couple of roadblocks to that - parents (who write the checks that keep them in business), active student organizations (bad policies affect retention levels), and alumni groups (who either provide donations or grant access to portions of the alumni base).
That's how I ended up at my school. I wanted to go to Marquette, and I had been accepted, but I was forced to go to a different college because my parents wouldn't sign the financial aid paperwork (which isn't a reason to file as an independant student in the USA) if I didn't go to the school of their choice.
Oh, wait, you mean you want the university accomodation and internet access spoonfed to you on terms you get to dictate?
If the AskSlashdot question was referring to public universities, I would agree. But it's not. It refers to private colleges and universities, which is a whole different ball of wax.
Unlike taxpayer funded universities, private schools, except for a few that predate the existance of the country, need student tuition to survive. Yet, for some reason, administrators at these schools forget this. They forget that without the students paying to be there, they wouldn't be able to remain in business to provide that education.
If I was a paying customer and tenant of a college, I had better have the right to be able to say that I'm not happy with the conditions and want something better.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckenburg claimed that Google was going to buy his social networking site for the price of infinity billion dollars, but balked when users complained about a new feature that allowed them to see Zuckenberg's live webcam showing him rolling in money.
Well, yeah. I mean, they're standing atop the marketshare hill -- they have to be scared of everyone.
Which is ok if they were only scared of the people trying to climb up on their hills, like the *nixes and OpenOffice. But they're also scared of the people on the other hills that have no bearing on their core business.
I couldn't agree more. Joss's willingness to take risks with his characters makes the stories he is telling more realistic and engaging. It sucked when he killed a fan favorite, but in doing so, he hammered home the fact that the rest of the characters might not survive.
I agree about writing with your own characters. Its very difficult to take risks with them, and in my (mostly unfinished) stories, I had to create red shirts so my stars would make it out all right. As I'm learning now, that doesn't make it fun.
Like Jude said, I would take a look at the Dominion War arc of DS9. It was a side of the Federation that we haven't seen yet, and it had some of the better character development of the Trek Franchise.
I'd take a pass at Voyager. I watched it for a few seasons, but it really wasn't worth it. After the first season, it went downhill, and the writers and producers went from a ship on the verge of conflict to a happy-go-lucky Federation starship. Sure, there was Seska and that spy for the Kazon, but after that, the ship functioned normally.... And lets not forget the lack of character development.
I never really watched Akiraprise. I didn't like the premise and the mess it made of the established canon.
On one hand, I'd really like a series set after Voyager + DS9. On the other hand I accept you would either have to ignore much of what had gone on in DS9 in particular, or the storyline would be too complex for new viewers.
I think you confused Voyager for DS9. The aftermath of a war would make a good story, and if it is properly executed, you can entice new viewers to the series while tying it into past continuity. It can even be used to increase sales of DS9 on DVD.
Think about it. The setting is a Federation gearing down from a war footing and getting back to its mission of peaceful exploration. The shipyards are full of ships being repaired, completed, or prepared for a return to mothballs, and much of the Federation's resources are being poured into the rebuilding of Cardassia. Your officers and crew were forged in the crucible of war and don't have the polished diplomatic training of Picard. There is an interesting character development angle, especially with the use of metaplot. Watch as the Captain, against the advice of the first officer, creates a hostile relationship with a small power in unexplored territory.
Now Voyager, on the other hand, should be mostly forgotten. Keep the idea that the ship was lost in the Delta Quadrant, but forget most of that series.
On second though...I don't think that anyone at Paramount could properly execute a series set in the aftermath of DS9. Maybe we are better off forgetting it.
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On everyone's part. I know that electronic voting is the way of the future, but a closed source, no-bid electronic voting system going to a large political contributor is just asking for trouble.
I hope some states get the balls to review the code or implement their own system.
Maybe instead of the only intelligent species, we should have been the first of many? But if we keep going like we are, we'll never know. Wouldn't that be terribly lonely?
Who says we're not the next in a long line of intelligent species that have occupied this planet? There are 65 million years between us and the dinosaurs, and they ruled for over a hundred million years. It seems likely that there could have been an intelligent species that developed amongst them as well as many between their extinction and our rise.
It would be a 'feature' if you were talking about bisexuality. Homosexuality includes a lack of interest in the other gender period.
Hmm...1 man, 3.25 billion women. How is situational homosexuality not a feature in this case?
Think about the number of species that have died, are dying, or will die from pollution and global warming (which stems from pollution).
There is no way to know that those same species wouldn't have died out from an Ice Age, volcano eruptions, meteor strikes, or global warming if man wasn't around.
Why can't a person be interested in math and sports? Or math and literature? Or math and politics?
To be a well-rounded person, you need to have more than one interest.
Neither. I prefer a libertarian government.
Modern Europe is what would happen if the US embraced socialism. Thank god the Democrats are so disorganized now.
And just to be fair...
Saudi Arabia is what will happen if the US continues to embrace the Religious Right. Too bad there isn't a viable 3rd party.
They're bigger, stronger, and faster than even just two generations ago.
That's not evolution - that's steroids.
I know the feeling. I graduated at the same time, but I was hunting for jobs 6 months before I graduated. And while I tend to be a little shy as well, I made an effort in college to correct this. I joined a fraternity, where I held leadership positions. I joined the campus newspaper. I worked in the school IT department for two years, and I had a few other jobs (not all listed on my resume as it would balloon it to a 3rd page and aren't relevant to the IT world). And I started a photography company to provide images to my college for a year. I didn't have the best GPA either, but I made something out of my college experience.
But I still haven't found a more permanent position yet. One recruiter screwed me over. Another recruiter with a long term position led me to get fired from a temporary (one-month) job I had taken because of their interview schedule. I've done some consulting (which didn't work too well because the client wouldn't communicate the information I needed to do the job).
My resume starts with my education, and then I include my relevant work experience, specifically my IT jobs. I then have a technical skills "appendix" that lists my technical skills by how proficient I am with them. I have an extra-curricular activities section, and an accomplishments section that mentions when I was employee of the month in my jobs and that I have published a short story.
It's a private university. They can do what they want.
They think that, but often, its not true. There are a couple of roadblocks to that - parents (who write the checks that keep them in business), active student organizations (bad policies affect retention levels), and alumni groups (who either provide donations or grant access to portions of the alumni base).
In a lot of cases, you don't find out about those policies until after you've written a couple of non-refundable checks.
Or their parents chose.
That's how I ended up at my school. I wanted to go to Marquette, and I had been accepted, but I was forced to go to a different college because my parents wouldn't sign the financial aid paperwork (which isn't a reason to file as an independant student in the USA) if I didn't go to the school of their choice.
Oh, wait, you mean you want the university accomodation and internet access spoonfed to you on terms you get to dictate?
If the AskSlashdot question was referring to public universities, I would agree. But it's not. It refers to private colleges and universities, which is a whole different ball of wax.
Unlike taxpayer funded universities, private schools, except for a few that predate the existance of the country, need student tuition to survive. Yet, for some reason, administrators at these schools forget this. They forget that without the students paying to be there, they wouldn't be able to remain in business to provide that education.
If I was a paying customer and tenant of a college, I had better have the right to be able to say that I'm not happy with the conditions and want something better.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckenburg claimed that Google was going to buy his social networking site for the price of infinity billion dollars, but balked when users complained about a new feature that allowed them to see Zuckenberg's live webcam showing him rolling in money.
Well, yeah. I mean, they're standing atop the marketshare hill -- they have to be scared of everyone.
Which is ok if they were only scared of the people trying to climb up on their hills, like the *nixes and OpenOffice. But they're also scared of the people on the other hills that have no bearing on their core business.
That has nothing to do with certifications and everything to do with working with idiots.
pro tip: nobody gives a shit about brainbench.
Except placement firms like TekSystems.
I couldn't agree more. Joss's willingness to take risks with his characters makes the stories he is telling more realistic and engaging. It sucked when he killed a fan favorite, but in doing so, he hammered home the fact that the rest of the characters might not survive.
I agree about writing with your own characters. Its very difficult to take risks with them, and in my (mostly unfinished) stories, I had to create red shirts so my stars would make it out all right. As I'm learning now, that doesn't make it fun.
they fight a fog-like creature
Who happens to be 34 and still lives in his mother's basement.
There was plenty of good Trek after they killed Spock, even with many of the same people in the production crew.
Of course there was. The entire next movie was dedicated to bringing Spock back to life.
Yeah, Passion of the Christ only made about $600 million.
I don't think The Passion of Kahless would bring in the Christian movie-going crowd.
How about the aftermath of the Dominion War? Thats something that hasn't been explored, and it has unlimited stories that can be told.
Like Jude said, I would take a look at the Dominion War arc of DS9. It was a side of the Federation that we haven't seen yet, and it had some of the better character development of the Trek Franchise.
I'd take a pass at Voyager. I watched it for a few seasons, but it really wasn't worth it. After the first season, it went downhill, and the writers and producers went from a ship on the verge of conflict to a happy-go-lucky Federation starship. Sure, there was Seska and that spy for the Kazon, but after that, the ship functioned normally.... And lets not forget the lack of character development.
I never really watched Akiraprise. I didn't like the premise and the mess it made of the established canon.
On one hand, I'd really like a series set after Voyager + DS9. On the other hand I accept you would either have to ignore much of what had gone on in DS9 in particular, or the storyline would be too complex for new viewers.
I think you confused Voyager for DS9. The aftermath of a war would make a good story, and if it is properly executed, you can entice new viewers to the series while tying it into past continuity. It can even be used to increase sales of DS9 on DVD.
Think about it. The setting is a Federation gearing down from a war footing and getting back to its mission of peaceful exploration. The shipyards are full of ships being repaired, completed, or prepared for a return to mothballs, and much of the Federation's resources are being poured into the rebuilding of Cardassia. Your officers and crew were forged in the crucible of war and don't have the polished diplomatic training of Picard. There is an interesting character development angle, especially with the use of metaplot. Watch as the Captain, against the advice of the first officer, creates a hostile relationship with a small power in unexplored territory.
Now Voyager, on the other hand, should be mostly forgotten. Keep the idea that the ship was lost in the Delta Quadrant, but forget most of that series.
On second though...I don't think that anyone at Paramount could properly execute a series set in the aftermath of DS9. Maybe we are better off forgetting it.
Where is Triumph when you need him??