I too participated in the mechanical turk exercise. Having grown up around and hiked around the area and having watched this with much interest I wondered this too. Fortunately (or unfortunately depending on how you look at it ) the areas that the turk exercise seemed to focus on was from about Mono Lake north. Mammoth is about 30 miles to the south of Mono Lake and wasn't really a prime area of interest during the search.
I hope they find some remains although it's pretty unlikely at this point, especially given the severity of the impact. A storm is predicted within the next few days as well so it may very well be that we don't get closure on this until the spring.
Coming from a Fortune 500 company, I can say that this is more often the norm than the exception, at least here.
While I believe strongly in "giving the devil his due", my experience has been that you do what it takes to get the job done. If that means using a "pirated" version office, so be it. As developer's we're at the mercy of management, and management see's the world from a much different perspective, or at least they do here.
I'm sure there are other companys that deal with this in a different manner but it certainly isn't the practice here.
Sad but true.
Umm, the last time I checked a cave was underground. How is it that there are caves on the surface? Wow, Mars has some very interesting physical properties.
And in other news, during his confirmation hearings, CIA Director Michael Hayden said that if confirmed, he would reaffirm the CIA's culture of risk-taking and excellence through an intense focus on language skills and what he termed "nontraditional operational platforms," ( including, but not limited to the invasion of Belguim ).
A very minor point here is that Menno Simons was actually Dutch not German. He was also not the founder of the Dutch annabaptist ( re-baptizer ) movement but he was the organizer.
At the end of the day it really doesn't matter where he came from I suppose, but, being Mennonite, I felt compelled to point it out.
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I too participated in the mechanical turk exercise. Having grown up around and hiked around the area and having watched this with much interest I wondered this too. Fortunately (or unfortunately depending on how you look at it ) the areas that the turk exercise seemed to focus on was from about Mono Lake north. Mammoth is about 30 miles to the south of Mono Lake and wasn't really a prime area of interest during the search. I hope they find some remains although it's pretty unlikely at this point, especially given the severity of the impact. A storm is predicted within the next few days as well so it may very well be that we don't get closure on this until the spring.
Coming from a Fortune 500 company, I can say that this is more often the norm than the exception, at least here. While I believe strongly in "giving the devil his due", my experience has been that you do what it takes to get the job done. If that means using a "pirated" version office, so be it. As developer's we're at the mercy of management, and management see's the world from a much different perspective, or at least they do here. I'm sure there are other companys that deal with this in a different manner but it certainly isn't the practice here. Sad but true.
Umm, the last time I checked a cave was underground. How is it that there are caves on the surface? Wow, Mars has some very interesting physical properties.
And in other news, during his confirmation hearings, CIA Director Michael Hayden said that if confirmed, he would reaffirm the CIA's culture of risk-taking and excellence through an intense focus on language skills and what he termed "nontraditional operational platforms," ( including, but not limited to the invasion of Belguim ).
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A very minor point here is that Menno Simons was actually Dutch not German. He was also not the founder of the Dutch annabaptist ( re-baptizer ) movement but he was the organizer. At the end of the day it really doesn't matter where he came from I suppose, but, being Mennonite, I felt compelled to point it out.