I know you are just trying to be funny. Kudos. But it depends on what you are being saved from. Dying, damn straight anyone including Jesus would put a net down there. However, IF you observe pascal's wager, or believe in anything beyond this existence, then death from the lack of your net is the least of your worries.
What impresses me is people's complete disregard for even considering an afterlife or some kind of transcendence. Considering the length of eternity, you would think people would actually give it some thought.
However, it is more difficult than just googling. It requires critical thinking as secular humanism isn't a defined group that has a central purpose. You can read things like the humanist manifesto to get an understanding. You will find it looks oddly familliar. It actually is a great read.
However, that is besides the point. Read the Communist Manifesto for some real insight into our college profs. The parent was the one who thought that there was some kind of correlation between young earth theology, rapture, and work ethic...fantastic critical thinking there.
I've been studying and teaching regarding the prevalence of Marxism in the US economy. It is a really interesting subject. People don't use the term Marxism anymore because of it's negative stigma. As an objectivity I have a strong distaste for it, but people will believe what they want. I just wish people would stop thinking it is some kind of new enlightened thing or better than being a theist.
You are probably at the point now where you have enough experience to stand alone. However the CS degree will give you a significant edge over other people that have similar experience.
That being said.
Dont think of your CS degree like a badge. Consider it a refinement of your skills. Now that you have plenty of experience, the CS degree you have should have helped you recognize the skills you need to do your job. Help devise what is important vs what is a passing fad. CS degrees in my opinion (BSCS here) are more of a degree that teaches you critical thinking, the ability to work with the right set of tools to get a job done, and should still be guiding you in your thinking to make you more efficient. I am on my 9th year out of my BSCS program and while I cannot remember details of my program anymore, I remember the overarching principles that to this day set me apart from others in my field. They were abilities I already had before I graduated, just honed, kind of a refiner's fire. I am a Sysadmin and my BSCS does wonderful things for me. So don't feel irritated that you dont have a Software job or something, CS is pretty universal and you do have the upper hand, if you went to a proper CS program, in pretty much any job you will take. It will show in your salary and quality of work. Not that non CS people don't do good work but I will take a graduate of a real CS program over a non CS grad pretty much any day of the week.
I agree with your profs though. Right now that C# seems great. But in a CS program C# is a waste of time. C or C++ or some of the base languages are much better to learn. C# is a crutch for most individuals as it is very simple (again we can discuss the shortcomings in another thread). But perhaps they werent the ones who couldnt see through the trees. They were trying to make you a better CS student, not teach you how to be a programmer with a singular set of skills.
Considering the prevalence of Marxism in colleges, most (I want to say the percentage being somewhere in the 60s) that college students leave their parent's religion in pursuit of the secular humanist agenda that has been pushed on them by profs who claim it is the only "intelligent" way to think. Your religion now entails of some mysterious Gov't entity that will make your problems go away through promises of safety nets, re-distribution of wealth, and a general distaste for anyone with Ambition. How is this different than what your Right wing parents believe? Good job on switching brands of Koolaid there, you must be so proud to be enlightened now.
Which is where the summary is kinda bad, they say 10 out of 10 leading websites, but the article is pointing to LUXURY websites. Even then I used an ipad for about 2 weeks and never even thought about the lack of flash. My wife uses an ipod to surf the web nightly and didnt even know what I was talking about when I used the term "crippled due to lack of flash"
As to flash, I don't have it installed on most of my browsers, so it's not like you're missing anything. I can't view flash on my current machine because I've chosen to do without it -- it' hardly mandatory. In fact, it's a bloody nuisance.
It never ceases to amaze me the bitchfest people have about no flash support. I am a sysadmin who uses the internet very heavily, Often it will be a month or so before a user or myself notices that the flash plugin was not installed on the image that was used...and you know how we notice it? Some damn advert wants to use it.
In most cases I would agree with you. However, there are situations in which a steward of the network needs to be cautious. There are numerous networks that, if they go down, has a large impact on life. Imagine the damage done if the DMV network goes down for 1 day, or if law enforcement information is unavailable for a week. Or a hospital's system goes down...
Its not that Powerpoint makes us stupid so much as it is a Friggin crutch. Powerpoint presentations CAN be done well. The problem is, mostly idiots make the presentations, read directly from the slides, and use whiz bang animations to make up for content...
I would make note of several other crutches that should be great but are created by idiots.
Most site index engines, for an example try to find something useful on Symantec's website using their built in KB search.
Photoshop, you got to love all the "professional photographers" who simply apply the latest filter from their torrented CS.
WYSIWYG, pick any, you know what I am talking about here folks, if you don't...well you probably are part of the problem.
Social Media sites, the abuse never ends...I'm looking at you farmtown girl and political right/leftwing nutjob friends.
Any of these items should work and be great tools but there are just too many idiots in the world who dont want to put effort into anything. These people will exist whether the crutches are there or not, but they sure as heck will waste a lot less time.
I think we are missing here. But driving a similar point.
Each animal has a different "idea" of what is fun. Some of the more intelligent animals need a lot of stimulus to be happy. We have tools to measure the "attitudes" of animals, but I am not a zoologist so I don't know if they do it by measuring hormones, weight, activity or what. But there are quantitative measuring tools to discover what makes a given animal content. We need to measure that rather than applying our own emotions to the battle. Obviously I will defend my pets a lot stronger than you would as I have an emotional attachment to them. I could not eat them because of this attachment. But as a food lover I would eat dog, or goldfish to see if I liked it. But there are many meats I just do not enjoy. I enjoy vegetables and fruit much more than meat. As a Christian we believe that we were originally created vegetarians. However, I do love a good steak or cheeseburger:)
To sum up, a fish can swim in a tiny bowl its whole life and be measurably happy, it could be that a cow would be just as happy walking on a treadmill. But assuming they arent because we wouldn't be happy doing it, or another animal wouldn't be happy is a bad way of measuring things. I just dont like it when people judge me giving my dog Science Diet because "Would YOU eat that crap?" No but my dog seems to LOVE it.
Treated equally huh, I used to have pet hamsters, they ate meat and liked to chew on wood...should I do the same for cows or my dog? What about my goldfish? Should I put it outside in a dog kennel and teach it to fetch? I mean I don't want to treat things with inequality...
Yes I fully admit, I treat animals differently than each other. Guess what I do the same with people. Because there is no such thing as equality as you are putting it. Animals are different, thus they get treated differently. Yes I also believe I am an animal lover and I know people would disagree with that because it is a subjective statement. I treat my pets well by the standards I hold true. Other people would say I am cruel. But of course some people say it is cruel to have pets at all. But my definition is not subject to your opinion unless you can find a qualitative value as to what an "Animal lover is". If my dog enjoyed being on a treadmill for 8 hours (which if she was not scared to death of them I think she would do for at least 3 hours a day and smile the whole time) I would think that would be great. However, this is a natural thing for cows, as was pointed out in the article. Most all the cows where I grew up (in a hilly valley) keep moving all day without a though in the world.
True CS curriculum require a massive amount of critical thinking and other analytical skills. Something the recent graduates of HS are not prepared for. Match that up with the sense of entitlement and you get expected results. Back when I was in CS the dropout rate was around 90%. There were no rent-a-coders and using the web for a resource was a very new thought. So it was write your own damn code or head over to liberal arts...
I would like to see how guy would like to be locked onto a treadmill 8hrs a day, walking uphill the entire time.
Let me guess, you are also one of those people who gives your dog purified water, human food, a spring mattress to sleep on, and keeps them inside all day so they are more comfortable. I am an animal lover, have a feisty fat tabby and a Yellow Lab. Both very happy and healthy, why? Because I treat them like the animals they are. My dog gets dog food, I leave her outside all day, she rolls in mud puddles, chews on dead things, and occationally steals a treat from the kitty litter box when we aren't looking..
My point? These are COWS I have worked with cattle, I grew up in a farming community and worked on farms for most of my childhood. Cows are happy pretty much anywhere they don't have to swat flies. Treating a cow like a human is sheer stupidity because it would make them miserable.
I agree with you...my definition of negative effects is different from yours. A bullet to the head has a very short lived side effect, so is alcohol poisoning. Overdosing on nicotine does as well. Death in all three cases. Do I care if someone has a nicotine addiction? hell no as long as they aren't blowing smoke in my face. Why don't I care? Because the chances that my friend is going to die from that nicotine is slim. Now if they had a meth or an alcohol addiction I would step in. Being married to a pharmacist has opened my eyes, every drug has a list of side effects and negative health effects.
However, I will concede that there are many drugs we don't know the long term health effects to right now. Those we should keep an eye on at the most but saying it is a bad addiction without proof is stupidity.
i think you may be assuming that I am Demonizing THC or something. Far from it, I am giving you ammunition if anything. ALL drugs have consequence, and you are correct, addiction isnt a good reason to ban something. Better insight into what the drugs negative effects actually are is what needs to be reviewed.
You are changing your terms. you said "no negative health effects" and "completely harmless" the ONLY point I am trying to make is there is no such thing.
Morphine: outside of the dizziness, headaches, and death from overdose...not much, it is actually a pretty safe drug, hard to overdose on and is usually very well controlled.
Nicotine..oh where do we start, here is an abstract:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9864303 for one small negative health effect...not to mention possible death from overdose.
Oxycodone...death is a factor, especially when someone is addicted, same as Morphine.
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What impresses me is people's complete disregard for even considering an afterlife or some kind of transcendence. Considering the length of eternity, you would think people would actually give it some thought.
However, it is more difficult than just googling. It requires critical thinking as secular humanism isn't a defined group that has a central purpose. You can read things like the humanist manifesto to get an understanding. You will find it looks oddly familliar. It actually is a great read.
However, that is besides the point. Read the Communist Manifesto for some real insight into our college profs. The parent was the one who thought that there was some kind of correlation between young earth theology, rapture, and work ethic...fantastic critical thinking there.
Not referring to the students but the college faculty themselves.
I've been studying and teaching regarding the prevalence of Marxism in the US economy. It is a really interesting subject. People don't use the term Marxism anymore because of it's negative stigma. As an objectivity I have a strong distaste for it, but people will believe what they want. I just wish people would stop thinking it is some kind of new enlightened thing or better than being a theist.
That being said.
Dont think of your CS degree like a badge. Consider it a refinement of your skills. Now that you have plenty of experience, the CS degree you have should have helped you recognize the skills you need to do your job. Help devise what is important vs what is a passing fad. CS degrees in my opinion (BSCS here) are more of a degree that teaches you critical thinking, the ability to work with the right set of tools to get a job done, and should still be guiding you in your thinking to make you more efficient. I am on my 9th year out of my BSCS program and while I cannot remember details of my program anymore, I remember the overarching principles that to this day set me apart from others in my field. They were abilities I already had before I graduated, just honed, kind of a refiner's fire. I am a Sysadmin and my BSCS does wonderful things for me. So don't feel irritated that you dont have a Software job or something, CS is pretty universal and you do have the upper hand, if you went to a proper CS program, in pretty much any job you will take. It will show in your salary and quality of work. Not that non CS people don't do good work but I will take a graduate of a real CS program over a non CS grad pretty much any day of the week.
I agree with your profs though. Right now that C# seems great. But in a CS program C# is a waste of time. C or C++ or some of the base languages are much better to learn. C# is a crutch for most individuals as it is very simple (again we can discuss the shortcomings in another thread). But perhaps they werent the ones who couldnt see through the trees. They were trying to make you a better CS student, not teach you how to be a programmer with a singular set of skills.
Considering the prevalence of Marxism in colleges, most (I want to say the percentage being somewhere in the 60s) that college students leave their parent's religion in pursuit of the secular humanist agenda that has been pushed on them by profs who claim it is the only "intelligent" way to think. Your religion now entails of some mysterious Gov't entity that will make your problems go away through promises of safety nets, re-distribution of wealth, and a general distaste for anyone with Ambition. How is this different than what your Right wing parents believe? Good job on switching brands of Koolaid there, you must be so proud to be enlightened now.
Where is the damn, ooo shiny tag in slashdot when you need it?
Which is where the summary is kinda bad, they say 10 out of 10 leading websites, but the article is pointing to LUXURY websites. Even then I used an ipad for about 2 weeks and never even thought about the lack of flash. My wife uses an ipod to surf the web nightly and didnt even know what I was talking about when I used the term "crippled due to lack of flash"
It never ceases to amaze me the bitchfest people have about no flash support. I am a sysadmin who uses the internet very heavily, Often it will be a month or so before a user or myself notices that the flash plugin was not installed on the image that was used...and you know how we notice it? Some damn advert wants to use it.
-And if it sells and people want it I will start feedingmyself more fibre and keep producing said guaranteed Shit.
Marketing isnt about the best product, marketing is all about making the buyer want what you have, no matter what it is.
In most cases I would agree with you. However, there are situations in which a steward of the network needs to be cautious. There are numerous networks that, if they go down, has a large impact on life. Imagine the damage done if the DMV network goes down for 1 day, or if law enforcement information is unavailable for a week. Or a hospital's system goes down...
I would make note of several other crutches that should be great but are created by idiots.
Most site index engines, for an example try to find something useful on Symantec's website using their built in KB search.
Photoshop, you got to love all the "professional photographers" who simply apply the latest filter from their torrented CS.
WYSIWYG, pick any, you know what I am talking about here folks, if you don't...well you probably are part of the problem.
Social Media sites, the abuse never ends...I'm looking at you farmtown girl and political right/leftwing nutjob friends.
Any of these items should work and be great tools but there are just too many idiots in the world who dont want to put effort into anything. These people will exist whether the crutches are there or not, but they sure as heck will waste a lot less time.
Each animal has a different "idea" of what is fun. Some of the more intelligent animals need a lot of stimulus to be happy. We have tools to measure the "attitudes" of animals, but I am not a zoologist so I don't know if they do it by measuring hormones, weight, activity or what. But there are quantitative measuring tools to discover what makes a given animal content. We need to measure that rather than applying our own emotions to the battle. Obviously I will defend my pets a lot stronger than you would as I have an emotional attachment to them. I could not eat them because of this attachment. But as a food lover I would eat dog, or goldfish to see if I liked it. But there are many meats I just do not enjoy. I enjoy vegetables and fruit much more than meat. As a Christian we believe that we were originally created vegetarians. However, I do love a good steak or cheeseburger :)
To sum up, a fish can swim in a tiny bowl its whole life and be measurably happy, it could be that a cow would be just as happy walking on a treadmill. But assuming they arent because we wouldn't be happy doing it, or another animal wouldn't be happy is a bad way of measuring things. I just dont like it when people judge me giving my dog Science Diet because "Would YOU eat that crap?" No but my dog seems to LOVE it.
Treated equally huh, I used to have pet hamsters, they ate meat and liked to chew on wood...should I do the same for cows or my dog? What about my goldfish? Should I put it outside in a dog kennel and teach it to fetch? I mean I don't want to treat things with inequality...
Yes I fully admit, I treat animals differently than each other. Guess what I do the same with people. Because there is no such thing as equality as you are putting it. Animals are different, thus they get treated differently. Yes I also believe I am an animal lover and I know people would disagree with that because it is a subjective statement. I treat my pets well by the standards I hold true. Other people would say I am cruel. But of course some people say it is cruel to have pets at all. But my definition is not subject to your opinion unless you can find a qualitative value as to what an "Animal lover is". If my dog enjoyed being on a treadmill for 8 hours (which if she was not scared to death of them I think she would do for at least 3 hours a day and smile the whole time) I would think that would be great. However, this is a natural thing for cows, as was pointed out in the article. Most all the cows where I grew up (in a hilly valley) keep moving all day without a though in the world.
yep I have gone swimming with them and stingrays in the wild .
thx.
You are assuming most of us read the summary...noob.
True CS curriculum require a massive amount of critical thinking and other analytical skills. Something the recent graduates of HS are not prepared for. Match that up with the sense of entitlement and you get expected results. Back when I was in CS the dropout rate was around 90%. There were no rent-a-coders and using the web for a resource was a very new thought. So it was write your own damn code or head over to liberal arts...
Let me guess, you are also one of those people who gives your dog purified water, human food, a spring mattress to sleep on, and keeps them inside all day so they are more comfortable. I am an animal lover, have a feisty fat tabby and a Yellow Lab. Both very happy and healthy, why? Because I treat them like the animals they are. My dog gets dog food, I leave her outside all day, she rolls in mud puddles, chews on dead things, and occationally steals a treat from the kitty litter box when we aren't looking..
My point? These are COWS I have worked with cattle, I grew up in a farming community and worked on farms for most of my childhood. Cows are happy pretty much anywhere they don't have to swat flies. Treating a cow like a human is sheer stupidity because it would make them miserable.
However, I will concede that there are many drugs we don't know the long term health effects to right now. Those we should keep an eye on at the most but saying it is a bad addiction without proof is stupidity.
i think you may be assuming that I am Demonizing THC or something. Far from it, I am giving you ammunition if anything. ALL drugs have consequence, and you are correct, addiction isnt a good reason to ban something. Better insight into what the drugs negative effects actually are is what needs to be reviewed.
You are changing your terms. you said "no negative health effects" and "completely harmless" the ONLY point I am trying to make is there is no such thing.
It isnt an assumption it is a fact. I am not denying that THC is not that bad for you. I am simply contending that all drugs have negative effects.
Nicotine..oh where do we start, here is an abstract:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9864303 for one small negative health effect...not to mention possible death from overdose.
Oxycodone...death is a factor, especially when someone is addicted, same as Morphine.