Newsflash: Women, men, and different races have very common genetic differences. Sure there are variances, but making a statement based on genetics or history is not completely wrong. I'm of the opinion that we should celebrate and embrace our differences.
Women, it seems, tend to be more emotional creatures. While men, it seems, tend to focus more logic based creatures.
In regard to "blacks liking KFC", I believe there is a historical cultural reason for that. I'd imagine the majority of the black population in the US is descendant from former slaves. I am also under the understanding that fried chicken was highly popular in the southern states. Given much of the population of the southern states was black slaves, it stands to reason that they ate fried chicken often; which would be passed down culturally through the generations.
One of the key aspects of sexism or racism is to discriminate, hate, or distinguish superiority or inferiority. Using historical and/or scientific observation to identify common traits is not sexism or racism in and of itself; so stop implying it is.
Sure there are a lot of folks out there who never actually learned anything. But I think those people for the most part get weeded out and into their appropriate job category, serving up freedom fries. If these uneducated folk are successfully operating at a company, or a company fires it's entire staff because of one of guys, I don't want to work at that company anyway.
As far as them being competition, they shouldn't be any serious competition; not for a job that you would want to have.
Do a good job, let your reputation work for you. Then you can get jobs from recommendations instead of just being another name in the stack.
Personally, I wouldn't mind if someone else "plagiarized" my work in High School. I think the "busy work" assigned to students is a load of bunk, along with the system in general.
I've noticed lately that analogies carried out to the third level start getting really out there and despite how well they might fit, sound totally off. I'd advise against it.
I'd disagree with you, to a point. Using your analogy: Do I need to know the very basics of an internal combustion engine to just drive the car to-and-from work? Not really, no. One can drive fine without knowing how a car works, in fact I suspect a significant number of drivers have no idea how their cars actually work.
I also suspect that the same is true for the vast majority of programmers and programs, all programs being considered.
The fact is, that computers today can run even the slowest of code fast enough.
For many applications, however, knowing the intimate details of how it all works is vitally important; device drivers and operating systems for example.
FWIW, I worked at Go Daddy for 4 years ending this last September; check my link for a resume if you wish.
They do quite a bit more than just manage DNS, MX records and parked web servers. The founder called Go Daddy "The Walmart of internet services", or something like that; Which is pretty accurate.
This article is specifically referring to the web hosting they do, and how the version PHP they're running does not seem to handle the new timezones properly. Hell if I know if that's true or not, but that's what he's complaining about. I don't actually think any of the things you mentioned would be impacted by the DST change.
Getting something like this up the food chain from customer service is bound to be difficult, hell it was difficult when there were only 200 people working there versus what's probably 1500 now. However, getting it posted on slashdot is a damn good way to get it fixed quick. Most the developers and sys admins read slashdot. Plus, at Go Daddy, bad publicity = fixed problems. I'm sure that's probably the same with a lot of companies though.
I hope that you'll log on and read this, as I've put thought into it, and I'm interested in talking about it with you more.
Wow. That sounds really great - I wish the place I live was like that.
I'll assume that's sarcasm, which doesn't translate well in text. I'm glad that you live somewhere where you don't have to worry about violent crime. The fact is, that while it's relatively low here, it does exist.
Out here in the rest of the world (New Zealand, to be precise, although I've lived in a big city in a 'developing nation' as well, and this comment applies equally there) I don't feel the need to carry any sort of weapon with me when I walk around on the streets. It's not unusual for me to walk around alone after midnight, and have never felt anything other than completely safe.
I'm glad that you haven't come to any serious harm from violent crime. That doesn't, however, change the fact that it does exist and it does happen. What are the chances I'm going to need to use my gun? Slim to none, I've heard anecdotal stories about how there are cops who never even need to fire their weapons in the line of duty. They are certainly much more likely to need to use theirs, than I will be; I have no illusions about that. Does that mean a police offer is going to feel comfortable going without a fire arm? I think not.
If anybody ever does attack me, something I've never really considered, the odds are very very good that they aren't carrying a gun. I'd take hand-to-hand combat over a gunfight any day, thank you. The former is much less likely to get me killed.
If you've never considered the possibility of someone attacking you, then I'm torn between happiness for you, and the sorrow I feel for when (hopefully never) your world is shattered by it. While the chances in NZ may be very very good that they aren't carrying a gun, the chances are also very very good that your attacker would not do so unless (s)he had some advantage. If I lived in a country which had strict gun control laws, I would either obtain one illegally or use some other weapon (knife, crowbar, etc) as well as accomplices.
Additionally, just because you haven't had to deal with it yet, doesn't make the scenario any less likely. I, for instance, have never had my house catch on fire, that doesn't make my smoke alarms any less necessary; so too, with my concealed firearm. A gun is the great equalizer, with it my 80 year old grandmother can fend off even the strongest thug, and stand a decent chances against his buddies.
I'd say fighting back in general is more likely to get you killed than just going along with whatever your attacker's demands are. But why should I just go along with it? If someone else is threatening me with serious injury or death, I believe I have the right to defend myself with appropriate force. A firearm is the most effective way for me to do so.
The way you talk about carrying a concealed weapon as if it is normal gives me the chills. I'm not trolling here (posting AC because I'm at the office and can't remember my account password), I just honestly can't believe you don't realise how insane your comment sounds outside of your own country.
Do you think those who study the martial arts are insane? Their studies are for the same purpose as my concealed firearm, self defense. They choose to use their bodies as concealed (you couldn't tell by looking at them) weapons instead of a firearm. They're different means to achieving the same end, to defend ourselves against those who would harm us. I believe it's only because your exposure to firearms (I'm assuming) is very, very little. Guns are tools, plain and simple. The same way a wooden club, crowbar, knife, and martial arts are. It's the people using those tools which are good or evil, their usage of those tools which accomplish good or evil ends.
I was once asked to list three countries I would love to visit, and three countries I would not want to visit. I had many ideas for the former
I wouldn't say I own it for attacking people, though I'm sure you're not implying any malice on my part.
For the most part I have them in the first place for the enjoyment of recreational shooting. Things that go bang and put holes in paper (and end up buried in a mound of dirt a few hundred yards further away) are fun:)
I also have an Arizona concealed carry weapons permit (CCW). Now I hope I never need to use it, but if I ever need to, believe-you-me I won't hesitate to do so. Arizona is probably one of the most firearm-friendly states in the USA, while no class is required to carry a firearm out in the open a permit (valid for 10 years) and accompanying class are required to carry it concealed.
Personally I do think it's every person's right to carry a firearm to defend themselves, their family, or others if need be. However I also think a class should be required to do so.
The class I took was 8 hours long, involved the workings and basic safety of common pistols. Also covered were situations in which you would be justified in using deadly force, basically any situation where a reasonable person would believe life or serious injury were imminent to either himself or someone else. The class also involved a marksmanship test to ensure you can hit a man-sized target at the most common distance firefights take place (15-30 feet, 4.5-9.1m, if I recall correctly). I think the requirement was 12/15 shots on the target, and a 100% correct responses on a multiple choice test (most of which was common sense).
$160 and three weeks later, I had an Arizona CCW permit.
Hope that was interesting and enlightening:) Either way, I don't walk around everywhere just hoping someone's going to make me use it. On the other side of the coin though, I won't hesitate to do so if I need to.
I've only ever heard them a few times in my life outside of hunting, last night was something like 18 rounds, 6 shots, 7 shots, 5 shots, each a few minutes apart. I have no doubt they were related. The other time that comes to mind was a friend's house who, arguably, lives in a worse part of town.
Nicaragua? I'll assume that you're not so naive to think that shootings only happen in 3rd world countries.
Someone attempting this "happy slapping" here is likely to get the perpetrator shot. I wouldn't say I live in a rough neighborhood, but I'm usually only outside at night, walking my dog. Suffice to say I think it's wise to carry my pistol when I'm out walking around 10:00pm.
Last night was the first time in the 5 months I've lived there that I've heard gunshots while out walking. Over the course of 15 minutes I heard 3 sets of *pop pop pop pop pop pop* around 10:30pm. Not that I'm terribly qualified, but I'd guess a.45 at about 2 miles away.
If two guys came running up to me at 10:00 at night I'd try to find somewhere defensible have my hand on or near my pistol. This would all be done, of course, as nonchalantly as possible; giving them the benefit of the doubt.
I wonder if this might be something the Firefox side of the house could use. Rake in additional cash for the Mozilla foundation and help users. Given the relationship they already seem to have with Google, I doubt this would prove too much of a problem.
Of course, an option should be available for users who do not wish to use the service.
I can speak only from the IT industry, but from what I've seen experience is vastly more important than education. Why are you going to college? Is it to learn and do interesting things there? If it's mostly for the resume candy then personally, I wouldn't bother.
I only went to a tech school and ended up with an Associate degree. While I did learn useful things there, I probably could've jumped right into the industry instead. Don't go to college just because it's the "next" thing you're suppose to do. I'm fairly positive that I taught myself vastly more than I ever learned in school.
I'm a software engineer who's well on his way to the top tiers of the IT pay scale. I honestly believe my education has relatively little to do with that. Either way, good luck to you.
Slashdot Mirror
Newsflash: Women, men, and different races have very common genetic differences. Sure there are variances, but making a statement based on genetics or history is not completely wrong. I'm of the opinion that we should celebrate and embrace our differences.
Women, it seems, tend to be more emotional creatures. While men, it seems, tend to focus more logic based creatures.
In regard to "blacks liking KFC", I believe there is a historical cultural reason for that. I'd imagine the majority of the black population in the US is descendant from former slaves. I am also under the understanding that fried chicken was highly popular in the southern states. Given much of the population of the southern states was black slaves, it stands to reason that they ate fried chicken often; which would be passed down culturally through the generations.
One of the key aspects of sexism or racism is to discriminate, hate, or distinguish superiority or inferiority. Using historical and/or scientific observation to identify common traits is not sexism or racism in and of itself; so stop implying it is.
I suppose that depends how annoying they are, I currently disallow google ads at work, and allow them at home.
So long as they're small unobtrusive ads, I don't mind it very much.
Doubleclick is still blocked in every way, shape, and form available on my browser.
Correction: Modern English is only 25 years old.
Meanwhile, pirates have probably ripped the disc and made it available online.
No good deed goes unpunished.
Sure there are a lot of folks out there who never actually learned anything. But I think those people for the most part get weeded out and into their appropriate job category, serving up freedom fries. If these uneducated folk are successfully operating at a company, or a company fires it's entire staff because of one of guys, I don't want to work at that company anyway.
As far as them being competition, they shouldn't be any serious competition; not for a job that you would want to have.
Do a good job, let your reputation work for you. Then you can get jobs from recommendations instead of just being another name in the stack.
Personally, I wouldn't mind if someone else "plagiarized" my work in High School. I think the "busy work" assigned to students is a load of bunk, along with the system in general.
*shrug*
I've noticed lately that analogies carried out to the third level start getting really out there and despite how well they might fit, sound totally off. I'd advise against it.
Interstate? I'm not sure, but in Arizona:
A. A person commits threatening or intimidating if the person threatens or intimidates by word or conduct:
1. To cause physical injury to another person or serious damage to the property of another; or...
The law continues. Anyway, if the proverbial "reasonable person" would feel threatened, then it's probably a threat in the eyes of the court.
CAPTCHA: hostage
I'd disagree with you, to a point. Using your analogy:
Do I need to know the very basics of an internal combustion engine to just drive the car to-and-from work? Not really, no. One can drive fine without knowing how a car works, in fact I suspect a significant number of drivers have no idea how their cars actually work.
I also suspect that the same is true for the vast majority of programmers and programs, all programs being considered.
The fact is, that computers today can run even the slowest of code fast enough.
For many applications, however, knowing the intimate details of how it all works is vitally important; device drivers and operating systems for example.
Common sense in regard to law? That's unpossible!
FWIW, I worked at Go Daddy for 4 years ending this last September; check my link for a resume if you wish.
They do quite a bit more than just manage DNS, MX records and parked web servers. The founder called Go Daddy "The Walmart of internet services", or something like that; Which is pretty accurate.
This article is specifically referring to the web hosting they do, and how the version PHP they're running does not seem to handle the new timezones properly. Hell if I know if that's true or not, but that's what he's complaining about. I don't actually think any of the things you mentioned would be impacted by the DST change.
Getting something like this up the food chain from customer service is bound to be difficult, hell it was difficult when there were only 200 people working there versus what's probably 1500 now. However, getting it posted on slashdot is a damn good way to get it fixed quick. Most the developers and sys admins read slashdot. Plus, at Go Daddy, bad publicity = fixed problems. I'm sure that's probably the same with a lot of companies though.
I hope that you'll log on and read this, as I've put thought into it, and I'm interested in talking about it with you more.
Wow. That sounds really great - I wish the place I live was like that.
I'll assume that's sarcasm, which doesn't translate well in text. I'm glad that you live somewhere where you don't have to worry about violent crime. The fact is, that while it's relatively low here, it does exist.
Out here in the rest of the world (New Zealand, to be precise, although I've lived in a big city in a 'developing nation' as well, and this comment applies equally there) I don't feel the need to carry any sort of weapon with me when I walk around on the streets. It's not unusual for me to walk around alone after midnight, and have never felt anything other than completely safe.
I'm glad that you haven't come to any serious harm from violent crime. That doesn't, however, change the fact that it does exist and it does happen. What are the chances I'm going to need to use my gun? Slim to none, I've heard anecdotal stories about how there are cops who never even need to fire their weapons in the line of duty. They are certainly much more likely to need to use theirs, than I will be; I have no illusions about that. Does that mean a police offer is going to feel comfortable going without a fire arm? I think not.
If anybody ever does attack me, something I've never really considered, the odds are very very good that they aren't carrying a gun. I'd take hand-to-hand combat over a gunfight any day, thank you. The former is much less likely to get me killed.
If you've never considered the possibility of someone attacking you, then I'm torn between happiness for you, and the sorrow I feel for when (hopefully never) your world is shattered by it. While the chances in NZ may be very very good that they aren't carrying a gun, the chances are also very very good that your attacker would not do so unless (s)he had some advantage. If I lived in a country which had strict gun control laws, I would either obtain one illegally or use some other weapon (knife, crowbar, etc) as well as accomplices.
Additionally, just because you haven't had to deal with it yet, doesn't make the scenario any less likely. I, for instance, have never had my house catch on fire, that doesn't make my smoke alarms any less necessary; so too, with my concealed firearm. A gun is the great equalizer, with it my 80 year old grandmother can fend off even the strongest thug, and stand a decent chances against his buddies.
I'd say fighting back in general is more likely to get you killed than just going along with whatever your attacker's demands are. But why should I just go along with it? If someone else is threatening me with serious injury or death, I believe I have the right to defend myself with appropriate force. A firearm is the most effective way for me to do so.
The way you talk about carrying a concealed weapon as if it is normal gives me the chills.
I'm not trolling here (posting AC because I'm at the office and can't remember my account password), I just honestly can't believe you don't realise how insane your comment sounds outside of your own country.
Do you think those who study the martial arts are insane? Their studies are for the same purpose as my concealed firearm, self defense. They choose to use their bodies as concealed (you couldn't tell by looking at them) weapons instead of a firearm. They're different means to achieving the same end, to defend ourselves against those who would harm us. I believe it's only because your exposure to firearms (I'm assuming) is very, very little. Guns are tools, plain and simple. The same way a wooden club, crowbar, knife, and martial arts are. It's the people using those tools which are good or evil, their usage of those tools which accomplish good or evil ends.
I was once asked to list three countries I would love to visit, and three countries I would not want to visit. I had many ideas for the former
I wouldn't say I own it for attacking people, though I'm sure you're not implying any malice on my part.
:)
:) Either way, I don't walk around everywhere just hoping someone's going to make me use it. On the other side of the coin though, I won't hesitate to do so if I need to.
For the most part I have them in the first place for the enjoyment of recreational shooting. Things that go bang and put holes in paper (and end up buried in a mound of dirt a few hundred yards further away) are fun
I also have an Arizona concealed carry weapons permit (CCW). Now I hope I never need to use it, but if I ever need to, believe-you-me I won't hesitate to do so. Arizona is probably one of the most firearm-friendly states in the USA, while no class is required to carry a firearm out in the open a permit (valid for 10 years) and accompanying class are required to carry it concealed.
Personally I do think it's every person's right to carry a firearm to defend themselves, their family, or others if need be. However I also think a class should be required to do so.
The class I took was 8 hours long, involved the workings and basic safety of common pistols. Also covered were situations in which you would be justified in using deadly force, basically any situation where a reasonable person would believe life or serious injury were imminent to either himself or someone else. The class also involved a marksmanship test to ensure you can hit a man-sized target at the most common distance firefights take place (15-30 feet, 4.5-9.1m, if I recall correctly). I think the requirement was 12/15 shots on the target, and a 100% correct responses on a multiple choice test (most of which was common sense).
$160 and three weeks later, I had an Arizona CCW permit.
Hope that was interesting and enlightening
Glendale, Arizona
I've only ever heard them a few times in my life outside of hunting, last night was something like 18 rounds, 6 shots, 7 shots, 5 shots, each a few minutes apart. I have no doubt they were related. The other time that comes to mind was a friend's house who, arguably, lives in a worse part of town.
Nicaragua? I'll assume that you're not so naive to think that shootings only happen in 3rd world countries.
Somewhat off topic, but meh...
.45 at about 2 miles away.
Someone attempting this "happy slapping" here is likely to get the perpetrator shot. I wouldn't say I live in a rough neighborhood, but I'm usually only outside at night, walking my dog. Suffice to say I think it's wise to carry my pistol when I'm out walking around 10:00pm.
Last night was the first time in the 5 months I've lived there that I've heard gunshots while out walking. Over the course of 15 minutes I heard 3 sets of *pop pop pop pop pop pop* around 10:30pm. Not that I'm terribly qualified, but I'd guess a
If two guys came running up to me at 10:00 at night I'd try to find somewhere defensible have my hand on or near my pistol. This would all be done, of course, as nonchalantly as possible; giving them the benefit of the doubt.
Or what percentage of the speed of light they were traveling.
If SiteFinder is "Quietly raking it in" then someone is actually clicking on those ads, and may likely find them "useful".
As such, I think that qualifies it, by definition, as a service.
I, as a user of Firefox, do not think I would mind if Firefox had this as long as it could be disabled.
Right you are, the ADEA only protects those 40+
Which is, IMHO, a load of bunk.
Funny, but illegal :P
Please, explain to me how it's stealing.
I wonder if this might be something the Firefox side of the house could use. Rake in additional cash for the Mozilla foundation and help users. Given the relationship they already seem to have with Google, I doubt this would prove too much of a problem.
Of course, an option should be available for users who do not wish to use the service.
Never say "never", grasshopper.
I can speak only from the IT industry, but from what I've seen experience is vastly more important than education. Why are you going to college? Is it to learn and do interesting things there? If it's mostly for the resume candy then personally, I wouldn't bother.
I only went to a tech school and ended up with an Associate degree. While I did learn useful things there, I probably could've jumped right into the industry instead. Don't go to college just because it's the "next" thing you're suppose to do. I'm fairly positive that I taught myself vastly more than I ever learned in school.
I'm a software engineer who's well on his way to the top tiers of the IT pay scale. I honestly believe my education has relatively little to do with that. Either way, good luck to you.
I'm with Hubbell here. Though I would have started a few fights too, and nipped verbal abuse in the bud.