The military uses a system very close to this. The most common evals give are EP (Early Promote, the best), MP (Must Promote, the one nearly everyone gets) and P (Promotable). But as we're locked in contracts and it's quite hard to get fired, the number one thing commanding officers are graded upon is retention. So what happens when you've got a very high performer who makes it known he won't be reenlisting? He'll be given that MP or dreaded P. What happens to that fuckup who swears he loves the Navy and will reenlist? He gets that EP no matter what.
Rather than being a system which rewards the most able, it only entrenches more anger and dissatisfaction with this false meritocracy.
Funny how the story leaves out his party. If he was a republican, it'd be written in Iraqi blood on the title.
They told me if I voted for McCain, I'd see former senators running the MPAA and pressuring other nations into the interests of media companies... and they were right!
Why would you want to get a degree from a communist dictatorship with horrible human rights abuses? And why don't you have the moral fiber to see that it is wrong?
The ABM Treaty was signed between with the USSR - not Russia. The USSR no longer exists. We're free to do as we please. But feel free to continue to ignore history as it suits your anti-American narrative. I'm sure it has nothing to do with Russia trying to keep it's old sphere of influence.
This is like your crazy, felonious neighbor saying it's unfair for you to lock your doors so they'll just break into your window.
ITT: self-hating libtards blame America for everything
You're not "progressive." Your "progress" is discriminatory and painfully ignorant. Again, no one answered my original question about the quality of the code.
Way to be ignorant liberals. Again, I don't care who wrote it so long as it's the best.
I'm sure you liberal idiots would be marching with pitchforks if some company did a male only programmers retreat. I'm sure you also defended Augusta for their male only policy right?
I enlisted under what the navy calls Advanced Electronics Computer Field. I expected to actually, ya know, work on advanced electronics or computers. Was I in for a shock. Instead, I wasted my early and mid 20's working on 1970's era comm gear. The computer I spent the most time on was the UYK-20 which actually had a PAPER TAPE as the primary method of input. I actually envisioned working on modern equipment. The newest piece of gear I got to work on was the R-2368 receiver.
God I wish I could sue the navy for false advertising. Fuck them.
Japanese naval academy requires cadets to plan an attack on Pearl Harbor. I'm sure those capitalistic, conservative Americans watching Fox News will think this means the peaceful Japanese Empire intends to wage war on us someday.
To add the superfluousness of the nobel, the irony of the 2009 recipient hosting a dinner for the man who is imprisoning the 2010 winner was lost on the populace.
They told me if I voted for McCain these things would happen.
Another excellent piece of objective journalism by/. "Hey penguinistas, the most powerful nation in the world's existance is backwater!" Only an idiot would believe that. Its time/. is held accountable for its unethical reporting. Issuing retractions when they jump the gun or are flatout wrong (as/. often is) and a halt to infantile name-calling on the front page maybe?
Just a bunch of overpriviliged white college students with a guilty conscience who know jack shit about the world outside of uppity cafes.
Right on. But this huge cultural change you speak of will not happen unless 95% of teachers and 89% of reporters stop being card carrying democrats (or worse). That means eradicate the NAACP, NEA, etc. There will be no progress until then.
I could be wrong, who knows. Maybe with a little critical thinking they'll see their racist policies as they really are.
Affirmative Action = Racism. It discriminates against middle and lower income Euro-Americans.
"Sorry Jimmy, you worked your ass off but Raynisha gets the free University ride because she is black and your grandparents might have done something to her ancestors even though none of your family was here until 1920. Nevermind her GPA is nearly a whole point below yours and she never took part in any extra-curricular activities. Oh yeah, we are also have less money than her but you're white so you're fscked. Nevermind that her parents are neuro-surgeons." Great policy.
So you're a BSD fan yet know so little about recent history? To be accurate, BSDI merged with Walnut Creek, changed its name to BSDi and donated the prototype BSDi BSD/OS 5.0 kernel code to the FreeBSD Project.
Completely wrong. It was more than a year ago when WindRiver took over BSDi. And BSD/OS was a pretty bigtime product many, many years ago. Microsoft used it extensively before it ate its own dogfood with NT. Initially, BSDI's product was called BSD/386; not to be confused with 386/BSD. I have no idea why this was moderated-up. Oh wait, its simple-minded, infantile, liberal Linux zealots with no concern for accuracy.
I guess that 52% of sports fans are female also? So if the males in attendance bring their girlfriends to the Stanley Cup Finals that makes the female a sports fan? Just more lefties blinded by equality instead of facts. Sigh.... such ignorant children.
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The military uses a system very close to this. The most common evals give are EP (Early Promote, the best), MP (Must Promote, the one nearly everyone gets) and P (Promotable). But as we're locked in contracts and it's quite hard to get fired, the number one thing commanding officers are graded upon is retention. So what happens when you've got a very high performer who makes it known he won't be reenlisting? He'll be given that MP or dreaded P. What happens to that fuckup who swears he loves the Navy and will reenlist? He gets that EP no matter what.
Rather than being a system which rewards the most able, it only entrenches more anger and dissatisfaction with this false meritocracy.
Funny how the story leaves out his party. If he was a republican, it'd be written in Iraqi blood on the title.
They told me if I voted for McCain, I'd see former senators running the MPAA and pressuring other nations into the interests of media companies... and they were right!
Why would you want to get a degree from a communist dictatorship with horrible human rights abuses? And why don't you have the moral fiber to see that it is wrong?
Russia is a legal successor to the USSR - recognized as such by UN -
It makes SO much sense to grant a multi-national conglomerate sovereignty over the Constitution. Your ignorance just made me laugh.
The ABM Treaty was signed between with the USSR - not Russia. The USSR no longer exists. We're free to do as we please. But feel free to continue to ignore history as it suits your anti-American narrative. I'm sure it has nothing to do with Russia trying to keep it's old sphere of influence.
This is like your crazy, felonious neighbor saying it's unfair for you to lock your doors so they'll just break into your window.
ITT: self-hating libtards blame America for everything
They told me if I voted for McCain, we'd see an administration increasingly beholden to Big Media interestests... and they were right!
They told me if I voted for John McCain, we'd see even more invasions of privacy than under George W. Bush, and they were right!
You're not "progressive." Your "progress" is discriminatory and painfully ignorant. Again, no one answered my original question about the quality of the code.
Way to be ignorant liberals. Again, I don't care who wrote it so long as it's the best.
I'm sure you liberal idiots would be marching with pitchforks if some company did a male only programmers retreat. I'm sure you also defended Augusta for their male only policy right?
Inb4 conservative
Who cares what sex the code comes from? I want the best possible, not because it's from a woman.
But such is the way of "progressives"
The centrifuges were designed to act that way.
I enlisted under what the navy calls Advanced Electronics Computer Field. I expected to actually, ya know, work on advanced electronics or computers. Was I in for a shock. Instead, I wasted my early and mid 20's working on 1970's era comm gear. The computer I spent the most time on was the UYK-20 which actually had a PAPER TAPE as the primary method of input. I actually envisioned working on modern equipment. The newest piece of gear I got to work on was the R-2368 receiver.
God I wish I could sue the navy for false advertising. Fuck them.
They told me if I voted for McCain, we'd bomb a muslim nation who never attacked America... and they were right!
TL;DR parent needs to take off his tinfoil hat.
They identify them as Soviets or Nazis in American made games. The point is exterminate the ideology, not the people.
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Japanese naval academy requires cadets to plan an attack on Pearl Harbor. I'm sure those capitalistic, conservative Americans watching Fox News will think this means the peaceful Japanese Empire intends to wage war on us someday.
To add the superfluousness of the nobel, the irony of the 2009 recipient hosting a dinner for the man who is imprisoning the 2010 winner was lost on the populace.
They told me if I voted for McCain these things would happen.
It was made in the EUSSR.
Hey, let's use our garbage grade DSL or cable modem for voice service! The quality is abysmal but who cares! It's only $49.95 a month.
Go to your telco and actually pay for at least a PRI people.
Another excellent piece of objective journalism by /. "Hey penguinistas, the most powerful nation in the world's existance is backwater!" Only an idiot would believe that. Its time /. is held accountable for its unethical reporting. Issuing retractions when they jump the gun or are flatout wrong (as /. often is) and a halt to infantile name-calling on the front page maybe?
Just a bunch of overpriviliged white college students with a guilty conscience who know jack shit about the world outside of uppity cafes.
Right on. But this huge cultural change you speak of will not happen unless 95% of teachers and 89% of reporters stop being card carrying democrats (or worse). That means eradicate the NAACP, NEA, etc. There will be no progress until then.
I could be wrong, who knows. Maybe with a little critical thinking they'll see their racist policies as they really are.
This is exactly what happened to me. It gets moderated down by liberal pie-in-the-sky communist censors. Thank you thought-police.
Affirmative Action = Racism. It discriminates against middle and lower income Euro-Americans.
"Sorry Jimmy, you worked your ass off but Raynisha gets the free University ride because she is black and your grandparents might have done something to her ancestors even though none of your family was here until 1920. Nevermind her GPA is nearly a whole point below yours and she never took part in any extra-curricular activities. Oh yeah, we are also have less money than her but you're white so you're fscked. Nevermind that her parents are neuro-surgeons." Great policy.
Maybe you are the one with the superiority complex? Go look at his handle son.
So you're a BSD fan yet know so little about recent history? To be accurate, BSDI merged with Walnut Creek, changed its name to BSDi and donated the prototype BSDi BSD/OS 5.0 kernel code to the FreeBSD Project.
Completely wrong. It was more than a year ago when WindRiver took over BSDi. And BSD/OS was a pretty bigtime product many, many years ago. Microsoft used it extensively before it ate its own dogfood with NT. Initially, BSDI's product was called BSD/386; not to be confused with 386/BSD. I have no idea why this was moderated-up. Oh wait, its simple-minded, infantile, liberal Linux zealots with no concern for accuracy.
I guess that 52% of sports fans are female also? So if the males in attendance bring their girlfriends to the Stanley Cup Finals that makes the female a sports fan? Just more lefties blinded by equality instead of facts. Sigh.... such ignorant children.