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Ya know, it's almost scary how my real life conversations end up on this part of the intertubes. Yesterday I was talking with some folks at a former place of employment and our conversation veered towards me being elected president even though I was single.
The point was made that because I was single, I could then find someone because as president, I would have the power and such so women would naturally gravitate towards me.
I made the comment that it's true what they say about power and women. Look at Henry Kissinger. It's a known fact he's had relations with various women over the years and no one would consider him an attractive man. It's all about power and money. You have either of those and you're set. (Generally money comes with power and vice versa)
You do realize that there are two types of IT work done in the US: project and maintenance.
As if to emphasize the project part: Where the jobs are. Third full paragraph indicates that the tech industry is looking for management types in the South and Souteast.
This article is about management level jobs but where there's management needed, there are probably jobs there as well as they have to manage someone.
Actually, I would love to be fired down the CERN tubes. Ripping around those kilometers at high speed like you were on a bobsled run, only without the bobsled and no true turns (just one big one). Now if only there was a way to:
1) suspend me between the magnets 2) not turn my body into an organic puddle from the acceleration and later, the centripetal forces
I find that very odd that the union says vote yes or no. Shouldn't the workers decide that for themselves?
Yes, you would think that but guess what, there is a bill called "The Employee Free Choice Act" which ostensibly aims to allow people to unionize more easily at work places. However, and here's the kicker, the union gets to see how you vote.
So, if you're like me and recognize the sham that modern unions are, and want to vote No, do you think Mr. Union next to me will be very happy with my "free choice"? Of course not? And what will Mr. Union do? The very thing the unions are accusing employers of doing: threaten me or even retaliate.
Yeah, unions are wonderful so long as you work in the union itself sucking off the wages of others.
I'm done with people making excuses for why they do things like this. There comes a time when you just have to do what is necessary and remove the cruft from society.
This wasn't a case of doing something silly (writing on your drunk friends face with magic marker), or being mistaken (going down the wrong way on a one way street), this was a deliberate, conscious act undertaken with full knowledge of what would happen when this was done.
We can't keep wasting tax dollars on court cases for stupidity, which is exactly where this case will go. Just shoot him and be done with it.
If all they're trying to do is move the orbit of the asteroid by a fraction or a millimeter per second, wouldn't it be easier to just, you know, harpoon the asteroid and use ion engines to gently pull on it rather than trying to keep a second spacecraft hovering over the non-smoking crater of the first spacecraft? Or, if harpooning isn't viable (cue 'Whalers on the Moon'), just have the spacecraft rest on the asteroid's surface and, using ion engines again, push on the thing.
Can someone more well versed in orbital mechanics and the motion of bodies in space please provide some information as to why these are not viable options.
It's not just when they go bad. What happens if they get run over by a bus or a stampede of wildebeests? If they are the only person to know the admin passwords, commands, etc, they are the single point of failure, regardless if they go bad or not.
Just as we harp on backing up our files (um, yeah), we also need to harp on a backup for the admin. There should always be someone else, even if it's the mayor, who also has the list of admin passwords.
No. Iran is trying to enrich uranium so it can be used in a nuclear reactor. It is not reprocessing SPENT uranium for nuclear weapons.
That said, uranium must be enriched to certain levels to be usable as fuel. This link provides a good synopsis of the processes involved in enriching uranium to be used as fuel. Note that the level of enrichment is only 3% - 5%.
By comparison, weapons-grade uranium is enriched to have at least 85% 235U, though if you're interested in a "dirty bomb", 50% will do nicely. The Wiki on the enriching process complete with the various levels of enrichment.
Count me among that group. Hate is a very appropriate description. Yes, I am fully aware I can go get an extension to remove this "feature" but really, was it too difficult to have a checkbox to turn it off?
I have no idea why every shareholder of every company out there isn't forcing the companies to put in performance clawbacks.
Because it is the Boards of these companies that set pay policies, not shareholders. Further, it is all but impossible to get a measure on the proxy vote to force the Boards to change pay policy. The best one can hope for is to make a 'recommendation' to the Board to change pay policy.
Unless is it is specifically stated somewhere in the corporate bylaws, the final decision as to executive compensation rests with the Board, not the shareholders.
To use the Answers.com definition of a rocket, which is pretty much what I think of when I hear the word rocket:
A reaction engine that contains all the substances necessary for its operation and is not dependent on substances such as atmospheric oxygen, drawn from the surrounding medium, and thus is capable of operating in outer space. Also called rocket motor.
If the engines of these vehicles are drawing in air from their surroundings, they're not using rockets, they're using jet engines.
Every complex system arising within the span of recorded history has been created by an intelligent designer.
I challenge you to name one that hasn't.
You're again considering there is an intelligent designer to begin with. Therefore, there is no challenge.
Further, you use the term recorded history. Am I to take it that what happened before man was able to write down his thoughts doesn't count as history?
And no, that would be the evolutionists, who seem to think that schoolchildren should be taught that their religion is false and their parents are morons. Or do you have a better reason to teach them what supposedly happened a hundred billion years ago
Well, considering religion is a man-made precept which wants people to believe that there are mystical beings who watch our every move, control the weather, make the sun rise and fall, and a whole host of other natural phenomenon, then yes, their religion is false and their parents are morons.
As far as what happened a hundred billion years ago, considering the Earth is only ~4.5 billion years old and the age of the universe is roughly 13.7 billion years, your guess is as good as anyone's what happened during that time, especially since there would be no time as we know it at that point.
Considering premise 1 is false to begin with, that means everything that follows is false. So no, it's not a strong proof. In fact, it's not proof at all since no one, not even those pushing ID, have ever shown any evidence to support their idea that a supreme being exists. They simply start out, like you have, that such a being exists and go on from there.
And yes, ID=Christianity because it is only those of the Christian faith who are trying to shove their religious views down everyone else's throats.
Did anyone from the area you live in protest this law while it was being considered? Did anyone from any of the Catholic schools raise objections?
My point is, I realize it is only a vocal minority which is trying to turn back the clock on science no matter how many times they're told they can't do what they want to do, however, just like when the political Right screams about the moderate muslim community not raising a stink about attacks, I raise a stink when those of a more moderate religious viewpoint don't raise a stink about their militant brethren.
People like this need to outed as the shams they are by everyone who values the separation of church and state. There was a very good reason the Founding Fathers did not want the U.S. to have one nation-wide religion and we are seeing that reason.
Bully for your Catholic schools who have the common sense to understand that separation. There should be more like them.
All this law does is provide legal protection for teachers to tech "alternate views" to the Theory of Evolution.
And pray tell, what scientific alternative to Evolution is there? Name one scientific hypothesis or theory which can be used as a substitute for Evolution.
Contrary to your sniping at militant atheists*, this DOES allow the teaching of ID and other religious, not scientific, based precepts in a science curriculum.
This could, logically, also include FSM theory
Um, yeah. I dare you to find one teacher in Louisiana who, even as a joke, would teach anything about the FSM. I guarantee you that should any teacher be so bold to do so, calls for their head on a pike would immediately go out regardless of what you claim this law says.
Here's a question: why is it that one, and ONLY one, religious group wants their viewpoint shoved down everyone elses throat yet, when the mention of allowing children being exposed to other religious or cultural viewpoints these same people have apoplectic seizures because somehow that could "contaminate" the children. If it's acceptable to shove your views down my kids throat, why can't I do the same to yours? After all, if you're just trying to provide equal opportunity to show different points of views, then you shouldn't have a problem with other people having their say.
*I laugh every time this phrase is used because a large portion of the people who don't want ID to be taught in school come identify themselves as one of the four major religious groups.
Another name for urban heat island is 'city'. Why do you think the temperatures in New York, LA, Dallas, etc are always several degrees higher than in their rural surroundings?
When people talk about saving energy by applying the dense pack scenario, they never take into account the added cost of heating and cooling those people in one central location or the side effects of the urban heat island.
I'm too lazy to Google the whys and wherefores, so can someone explain to me why, when talking about fonts, the word 'foundry' is used? I'm presuming it has something to do with the original way of making fonts which involved pouring metal to make each letter.
I don't think the passengers had time to watch the news, call their families, and say goodbye.
Right. Because the recorded phone messages of flight attendants and some of the passengers are completely fabricated. The families made them up after the plane went down to gain sympathy.
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Considering what it looks like right now after making last night's supper, it's pretty darn close.
Ya know, it's almost scary how my real life conversations end up on this part of the intertubes. Yesterday I was talking with some folks at a former place of employment and our conversation veered towards me being elected president even though I was single.
The point was made that because I was single, I could then find someone because as president, I would have the power and such so women would naturally gravitate towards me.
I made the comment that it's true what they say about power and women. Look at Henry Kissinger. It's a known fact he's had relations with various women over the years and no one would consider him an attractive man. It's all about power and money. You have either of those and you're set. (Generally money comes with power and vice versa)
modern alchemy, adj.
1) See Billy Bass and Beanie Babies
As if to emphasize the project part: Where the jobs are. Third full paragraph indicates that the tech industry is looking for management types in the South and Souteast.
This article is about management level jobs but where there's management needed, there are probably jobs there as well as they have to manage someone.
Actually, I would love to be fired down the CERN tubes. Ripping around those kilometers at high speed like you were on a bobsled run, only without the bobsled and no true turns (just one big one). Now if only there was a way to:
1) suspend me between the magnets
2) not turn my body into an organic puddle from the acceleration and later, the centripetal forces
Yes, you would think that but guess what, there is a bill called "The Employee Free Choice Act" which ostensibly aims to allow people to unionize more easily at work places. However, and here's the kicker, the union gets to see how you vote.
So, if you're like me and recognize the sham that modern unions are, and want to vote No, do you think Mr. Union next to me will be very happy with my "free choice"? Of course not? And what will Mr. Union do? The very thing the unions are accusing employers of doing: threaten me or even retaliate.
Yeah, unions are wonderful so long as you work in the union itself sucking off the wages of others.
I'm done with people making excuses for why they do things like this. There comes a time when you just have to do what is necessary and remove the cruft from society.
This wasn't a case of doing something silly (writing on your drunk friends face with magic marker), or being mistaken (going down the wrong way on a one way street), this was a deliberate, conscious act undertaken with full knowledge of what would happen when this was done.
We can't keep wasting tax dollars on court cases for stupidity, which is exactly where this case will go. Just shoot him and be done with it.
Here ya go:
Necessary? It's not necessary that I drink my own urine, but it's sterile and I like how it tastes.
If all they're trying to do is move the orbit of the asteroid by a fraction or a millimeter per second, wouldn't it be easier to just, you know, harpoon the asteroid and use ion engines to gently pull on it rather than trying to keep a second spacecraft hovering over the non-smoking crater of the first spacecraft? Or, if harpooning isn't viable (cue 'Whalers on the Moon'), just have the spacecraft rest on the asteroid's surface and, using ion engines again, push on the thing.
Can someone more well versed in orbital mechanics and the motion of bodies in space please provide some information as to why these are not viable options.
Based on the usual description of the male population of ./, I'd prefer you didn't.
It's not just when they go bad. What happens if they get run over by a bus or a stampede of wildebeests? If they are the only person to know the admin passwords, commands, etc, they are the single point of failure, regardless if they go bad or not.
Just as we harp on backing up our files (um, yeah), we also need to harp on a backup for the admin. There should always be someone else, even if it's the mayor, who also has the list of admin passwords.
No. Iran is trying to enrich uranium so it can be used in a nuclear reactor. It is not reprocessing SPENT uranium for nuclear weapons.
That said, uranium must be enriched to certain levels to be usable as fuel. This link provides a good synopsis of the processes involved in enriching uranium to be used as fuel. Note that the level of enrichment is only 3% - 5%.
By comparison, weapons-grade uranium is enriched to have at least 85% 235U, though if you're interested in a "dirty bomb", 50% will do nicely. The Wiki on the enriching process complete with the various levels of enrichment.
Count me among that group. Hate is a very appropriate description. Yes, I am fully aware I can go get an extension to remove this "feature" but really, was it too difficult to have a checkbox to turn it off?
Because it is the Boards of these companies that set pay policies, not shareholders. Further, it is all but impossible to get a measure on the proxy vote to force the Boards to change pay policy. The best one can hope for is to make a 'recommendation' to the Board to change pay policy.
Unless is it is specifically stated somewhere in the corporate bylaws, the final decision as to executive compensation rests with the Board, not the shareholders.
I stand corrected. Thank you.
To use the Answers.com definition of a rocket, which is pretty much what I think of when I hear the word rocket:
A reaction engine that contains all the substances necessary for its operation and is not dependent on substances such as atmospheric oxygen, drawn from the surrounding medium, and thus is capable of operating in outer space. Also called rocket motor.
If the engines of these vehicles are drawing in air from their surroundings, they're not using rockets, they're using jet engines.
a video I can watch because it's not Flash.
That said, these don't look like rockets but are simply jets. Still interesting but not true rocket racing.
If they really wanted to make it interesting, they should have the competitors fly through the canyon they show in the video.
You're again considering there is an intelligent designer to begin with. Therefore, there is no challenge.
Further, you use the term recorded history. Am I to take it that what happened before man was able to write down his thoughts doesn't count as history?
Well, considering religion is a man-made precept which wants people to believe that there are mystical beings who watch our every move, control the weather, make the sun rise and fall, and a whole host of other natural phenomenon, then yes, their religion is false and their parents are morons.
As far as what happened a hundred billion years ago, considering the Earth is only ~4.5 billion years old and the age of the universe is roughly 13.7 billion years, your guess is as good as anyone's what happened during that time, especially since there would be no time as we know it at that point.
Considering premise 1 is false to begin with, that means everything that follows is false. So no, it's not a strong proof. In fact, it's not proof at all since no one, not even those pushing ID, have ever shown any evidence to support their idea that a supreme being exists. They simply start out, like you have, that such a being exists and go on from there.
And yes, ID=Christianity because it is only those of the Christian faith who are trying to shove their religious views down everyone else's throats.
Did anyone from the area you live in protest this law while it was being considered? Did anyone from any of the Catholic schools raise objections?
My point is, I realize it is only a vocal minority which is trying to turn back the clock on science no matter how many times they're told they can't do what they want to do, however, just like when the political Right screams about the moderate muslim community not raising a stink about attacks, I raise a stink when those of a more moderate religious viewpoint don't raise a stink about their militant brethren.
People like this need to outed as the shams they are by everyone who values the separation of church and state. There was a very good reason the Founding Fathers did not want the U.S. to have one nation-wide religion and we are seeing that reason.
Bully for your Catholic schools who have the common sense to understand that separation. There should be more like them.
And pray tell, what scientific alternative to Evolution is there? Name one scientific hypothesis or theory which can be used as a substitute for Evolution.
Contrary to your sniping at militant atheists*, this DOES allow the teaching of ID and other religious, not scientific, based precepts in a science curriculum.
Um, yeah. I dare you to find one teacher in Louisiana who, even as a joke, would teach anything about the FSM. I guarantee you that should any teacher be so bold to do so, calls for their head on a pike would immediately go out regardless of what you claim this law says.
Here's a question: why is it that one, and ONLY one, religious group wants their viewpoint shoved down everyone elses throat yet, when the mention of allowing children being exposed to other religious or cultural viewpoints these same people have apoplectic seizures because somehow that could "contaminate" the children. If it's acceptable to shove your views down my kids throat, why can't I do the same to yours? After all, if you're just trying to provide equal opportunity to show different points of views, then you shouldn't have a problem with other people having their say.
*I laugh every time this phrase is used because a large portion of the people who don't want ID to be taught in school come identify themselves as one of the four major religious groups.
they are almost always at the bottom of the list when it comes education in this country or are the butt of jokes about being backwoods hicks.
If they like being laughingstocks, that's no skin off my nose. They have no one to blame but themselves.
Another name for urban heat island is 'city'. Why do you think the temperatures in New York, LA, Dallas, etc are always several degrees higher than in their rural surroundings?
When people talk about saving energy by applying the dense pack scenario, they never take into account the added cost of heating and cooling those people in one central location or the side effects of the urban heat island.
I'm too lazy to Google the whys and wherefores, so can someone explain to me why, when talking about fonts, the word 'foundry' is used? I'm presuming it has something to do with the original way of making fonts which involved pouring metal to make each letter.
That's right, keep the conspiracy flying.
I don't think the passengers had time to watch the news, call their families, and say goodbye.
Right. Because the recorded phone messages of flight attendants and some of the passengers are completely fabricated. The families made them up after the plane went down to gain sympathy.