I'm not a constitutional law scholar but I read it as a tautological imperative that the first interpretation - "anything in {the constitution or laws of} any state" - must be the only valid one.
My reasoning is, otherwise it would state essentially, "This Constitution... shall be the supreme law of the land... anything in [this] Constitution notwithstanding." I don't think it's intended to be this self-referential...?
The first interpretation on the other hand simply affirms the constitution's primacy over state law.
Also note the qualification, "...all treaties made... under the authority of the United States..." (read: as a country, rather than treaties made by individual states) - again emphasizing the relationship between federal and state government.
On the other hand yours is a good point and I don't think I've refuted it after all. Just thinking about it.
Also, question: Isn't there some other place in the constitution that states that no US treaty can violate the provisions of the constitution? This is where the heart of the matter lies.
gives a fair and thorough analysis of the "invented the internet" meme.
It was not an "unsubstantiated claim" the previous poster made, and "get a clue" brings the discussion down to gradeschool level. Plato says to attack an idea's proponent rather than the idea itself is a sign of intellectual incompetence. I agree.
I read your bio.
At least now you can say someone replied to one of your comments without making fun of your grammar =)
I think you're spot-on about loyalty still existing at smaller companies. That's what kept me around as long as I did - personal connection to the people in charge. Though the engineering team at my new job is only about 20 people so hopefully there can still be a feeling of community and competence and so forth...
Anyway I rate your comment "+1 insightful"
=)
BEGINNING
I'm 26. I returned from Europe (teaching English in Prague) 2.5 years ago. I found an entry level web dev job - I was a TOTAL newbie, had never written a line of code, and was not even a "power user"... I'd tutored logic and have a decent IQ but my undergrad major was psychology and I had NO experience.
SINCE THEN
Over the last 2+ years I've taught myself html, dhtml, css, javascript, coldfusion, some java (ok I took a grad-level course in java last spring, my only formal cs education) and have become proficient with photoshop, imageready and dreamweaver... and picked up some perl for cgi and can do some basic sysadmin and server admin type things... and last month installed linux on my home machine. my salary when I started was $32k, and is currently $50k. No big deal, simply doing fine - living in Boston, 50k is enough to pay the bills and have some fun.
NOW
3 weeks ago I decided to put my resume up on monster.com. It went up at 11pm. 8:15 the next morning the phone started ringing and the emails started coming in. 40 calls and 50 emails later (by the end of the week) I had scheduled 5 interviews with good companies. After bombing the first interview I went on to turn the other 4 into offers. The highest $ was base of 80 with incentives to 100 plus decent stock options and 3 weeks. The lowest was 70k with 4 weeks vacation and 8 hour days. I ended up taking a position for 80k with a great company I'm excited about and have very valuable options... and will be learning JSP/EJB/J2EE on the job.
MY POINT
My point is, if a psych major with just over 2 years of any computer-related experience and no real formal training can do this, there must be a shortage of some kind. Not to sell myself short - I learn fast and have acquired some real skills - but I had no idea I'd be turning down the chance to make 100k this fast. And I wouldn't be if there were enough people out there who could do what I can do.
SEPARATE THOUGHTS ON AGE DISCRIMINATION
I know it happens when you just send out your resume blindly to 100 companies. But this is not how to get a job! If you've been in the industry for 20 years and you don't by now know a TON of people who have moved on to management and who want you to join their team, then age is not the problem.
My father is a perl guru in his mid 50's and he just accepted an offer to became the highest-paid engineer (making more than the founders or any but a couple of other people) in a company of about 100 employees. If you have skill and have impressed anyone over the course of a longish career then you can move at will to any number of companies who really seem to need senior engineers.
Anyway that's my unscientific, anecdotal take on the whole bit. Sorry if I've offended anyone having a hard time finding work. Good luck.
What drives many workers to be more productive, Ciulla argues, isn't loyalty, a fierce work ethos or new tools of the booming hi-tech economy, but fear. They know they are vulnerable.
Um, unemployment is at an all-time low, at least here in Massachusetts. Mobility - especially in the tech sector - is a given.
I don't think fear per se is a factor at all.There are just too many unfilled posts - it is entirely a worker's market.
Example: Me.
2 1/2 years ago I'd never written a line of code - I was an occasional, casual windows user. Skip forward to last week, when I gave notice at my job where I've been a web developer for 2+ years, having acquired in-depth knowledge of HTML, DHTML, JavaScript, ColdFusion, SQL, PhotoShop, etc etc etc. Other than a single graduate-level programming course (Java) I am completely self-taught. (Installing Linux at home was a good step too) ANyway I scheduled 5 interviews within a week of posting my resume online, and these generated 4 offers. My new salary is nearly triple what I made 2 years ago as a total newbie, and approaches 6 figures.
My point is, there is so much opportunity out there that working yourself to death for fear of losing your job is simply unreasonable. I was a psych major and am not off the charts IQ-wise, so if I can have these experiences, so can other people.
Complete agreement on what a browser should be: faster, lighter, smaller, etc. But as far as your.sig, form validation on the client side alone justifies JavaScript. Seriously, there are many instances in which it would be ridiculous to keep hitting the server, and client-side JavaSCript/ECMAScript is the only good answer. Just my $.02
Cheers.
While we're talking about life-on-earth-ending scenarios:
One screwup (or madman's success) and nanotech bots could turn *everything* into a gooey grey glob. There would be nothing left and earth would become one giant boobytrap for whatever unfortunate alien visitors come... ever.
I think this is a real possibility. And it could happen this century, maybe even this decade.
Or we'll be careful and invent good safeguards and this dire prediction will be seen as alarmist malarkey.
I still haven't decided. Have you?
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There is a rather significant difference between being able to read media and being able to create it. Yes, DVD drives are ubiquitous.
But what percentage of users own a DVD burner?
CD-RW/burners are cheap.
DVD burners are not.
great deals for first-time buyers, then once they have a steady customer who's come to depend on them they start the gouging. I think this is a model likely to be followed by Amazon.
thuggery NOT thuggary
precedent NOT precident
etymology NOT eyntomology
equivalent NOT equivelent
irrelevant NOT irrelevent...
This is not a personal attack on anyone,
but reporters and other non-geeks who visit will be likely to take opinions more seriously if they are couched in more reasonable language....
I have MAME and was playing Zaxxon the other day (classic game) when I started thinking about other even older games and this led me to reminiscing about Larn.
My dad builds Perl tools for other developers and about 20 years ago had a modem and terminal at home - I was 6 or 7 - and he showed me how to play. I was hooked. Seriously, Larn is one of the greatest games ever. My question is, does anyone still play Larn? Or even know what it is?
This weekend NPR had a bit on Sealand's so-called military being detained (all 8 people IIRC) for attempting to broker an arms deal with Russia -- they tried to buy a MiG fighter jet and had made an appointment with a tailor to create military uniforms... when arrested they tried to claim "diplomatic immunity" which the NPR hosts were laughing out loud about.
Sealand really is a joke by all accounts. Someone enlighten me if there are any reasons they should be taken even a little bit seriously....thanks.
Our office dealt with the links.vbs trojan nearly three months ago.
This is NOT a "next-gen" trojan, it's old hat.
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I take serious issue with your ignorant assumption that someone who is overweight is necessarily obsessive-compulsive.
Making assumptions about someone's psyche based solely on their weight is among the most damaging and unfair judgements you can make. Discoveries concerning pre-diabetic chemical imbalances and other related advances in psychobiology and nutritional science show that inhibited reuptake of certain neurotransmitters and variations in the amount of sugar that is absorbed by different people is the *primary* factor in hunger-control mechanisms. These variations on brain chemistry -- NOT a lack of self-control or more serious neuroses -- are responsible for the eating habits of many, many overweight people. Their concomitant depression is, in my opinion, due in large part to the vitriolic treatment they receive from society as a whole and its members in particular.
Don't get me wrong -- I have a number of hours logged in a Cessna 172, and also fully understand the discomfort obese people can on occasion cause their neighbors. But direct your anger at the airline for failing to take late (and potentially large) passengers into account, not at the poor individual who has to live his life apologizing for a chemical imbalance he inherited through no fault of his own.
I am a web developer, and am in the office about 45 hours per week. When it gets to be around 7, I leave. And I don't come in on the weekends.
I play indoor soccer once a week. I play in a drum circle once a week. I play my guitar almost every day. I read books not published by O'Reilly almost every day. I spend time with my fiancee. I go away to the mountains many weekends.
If you don't *make* this time, you won't have this time. A friend of mine works 70+ hours, including weekends, every week. He has no time for any of these things. And he is miserable. He gets paid more than I do, (but less per hour if we're being realistic) but has no time to enjoy it.
Employers will take every ounce of energy from you that you allow them. Decide what matters to you, draw a line, and don't cross it. I can't imagine looking back on my life 50 or 60 years from now and thinking "If only I'd put in a few more hours on that project."
Roger Penrose (Nobel Prize-winning Physicist; worked on black hole research with Hawking) wrote The Emperor's New Mind, which attempts to use Godel's theorem, quantum mechanics and quantum physics to argue that consciousness is not algorithmic in nature. Very relevant to this topic.
Psycholinguist Steven Pinker provides an accessible (and perhaps more plausible) refutation of Penrose by way of the computational theory of mind in How the Mind Works.
Both are interesting reads, for those interested in learning more about the current debate on mind vs. body, the cognitive process and our understanding of consciousness.
before mandrake beta7.0, mandrake WAS a clone of Red Hat... (the GPL license allows you to do this) PLUS some additional tools like Partition Magic, Boot Magic, etc. and, packaged in the store with tech support included, it cost $35 instead of RH's $70.
A few years ago I wrote a paper on - and participated in political opposition against - HUGO (the Human Genome Organization)'s illicit and unethical gathering of gene samples from indigenous populations in Papua New Guinea and other poorly-developed areas of the world. HUGO's ostensible purpose was to preserve and document these people's unique genetic heritage before their dwindling numbers became wholly assimilated and their genetic purity lost. In reality HUGO's researchers took blood samples from these people (under the guise of health concerns) and without asking or even informing the population of their purpose, flew the samples back to the US where they began research to derive highly profitable cell lines from the New Guineans' genes. Patents were filed, and in some cases awarded, on genetic processes, discoveries and products whose origins were the unique heritage of an ancient but impoverished and fragile community. All without a single benefit being passed to their source. In essence, HUGO stole the most fundamental and valuable resource they had and used it for their own gain. The tacit assumption that the population is doomed (at least as far as its unique genetic - and cultural - identity is concerned) is the basis for HUGO's justification of its behavior. Even this is weak, as resources should be devoted to preserving their identity rather than just exploiting what little they can claim as their own.
The outcry worked -- leaders in Papua New Guinea were eventually awarded some kind of settlement -- but in many cases this kind of genetic exploitation goes unfettered. It's bad enough the way the western world takes economic advantage of small, relatively defenseless populations; but to patent and profit from their sole inalienable possession -- their bloodline -- is unconscionable.
I haven't kept up with HUGO's track record very closely since then -- I had heard that they made some improvements in their policies -- but I wonder if other/. readers have knowledge or semi-informed opinions on the matter?
Note: I don't oppose the collection of various genetic samples for research purposes, or even the idea behind HUGO -- it's a matter of the benefit being primarily to the culture that provided the genes and to the advancement of science in general, rather than the economic benefit of a few unethical corporations.
Even setting aside Gore's "I invented the internet" and "Alt-Control-Delete Button" gaffes, he still has no clue. Bradley is the superior candidate on virtually every level.
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My reasoning is, otherwise it would state essentially, "This Constitution... shall be the supreme law of the land... anything in [this] Constitution notwithstanding." I don't think it's intended to be this self-referential...?
The first interpretation on the other hand simply affirms the constitution's primacy over state law.
Also note the qualification, "...all treaties made... under the authority of the United States..." (read: as a country, rather than treaties made by individual states) - again emphasizing the relationship between federal and state government.
On the other hand yours is a good point and I don't think I've refuted it after all. Just thinking about it.
Also, question: Isn't there some other place in the constitution that states that no US treaty can violate the provisions of the constitution? This is where the heart of the matter lies.
Thoughts, anyone?
vote libertarian!
...didn't work too well under Reagan
I am not sure but isn't reading from CD-ROM or DVD slower than reading from a HDD? I thought putting stuff on disk was a performance thing.
Someone with a clue educate us please. =)
gives a fair and thorough analysis of the "invented the internet" meme.
It was not an "unsubstantiated claim" the previous poster made, and "get a clue" brings the discussion down to gradeschool level. Plato says to attack an idea's proponent rather than the idea itself is a sign of intellectual incompetence. I agree.
At least now you can say someone replied to one of your comments without making fun of your grammar =)
I think you're spot-on about loyalty still existing at smaller companies. That's what kept me around as long as I did - personal connection to the people in charge. Though the engineering team at my new job is only about 20 people so hopefully there can still be a feeling of community and competence and so forth...
Anyway I rate your comment "+1 insightful" =)
I'm 26. I returned from Europe (teaching English in Prague) 2.5 years ago. I found an entry level web dev job - I was a TOTAL newbie, had never written a line of code, and was not even a "power user"... I'd tutored logic and have a decent IQ but my undergrad major was psychology and I had NO experience.
SINCE THEN
Over the last 2+ years I've taught myself html, dhtml, css, javascript, coldfusion, some java (ok I took a grad-level course in java last spring, my only formal cs education) and have become proficient with photoshop, imageready and dreamweaver... and picked up some perl for cgi and can do some basic sysadmin and server admin type things... and last month installed linux on my home machine. my salary when I started was $32k, and is currently $50k. No big deal, simply doing fine - living in Boston, 50k is enough to pay the bills and have some fun.
NOW
3 weeks ago I decided to put my resume up on monster.com. It went up at 11pm. 8:15 the next morning the phone started ringing and the emails started coming in. 40 calls and 50 emails later (by the end of the week) I had scheduled 5 interviews with good companies. After bombing the first interview I went on to turn the other 4 into offers. The highest $ was base of 80 with incentives to 100 plus decent stock options and 3 weeks. The lowest was 70k with 4 weeks vacation and 8 hour days. I ended up taking a position for 80k with a great company I'm excited about and have very valuable options... and will be learning JSP/EJB/J2EE on the job.
MY POINT
My point is, if a psych major with just over 2 years of any computer-related experience and no real formal training can do this, there must be a shortage of some kind. Not to sell myself short - I learn fast and have acquired some real skills - but I had no idea I'd be turning down the chance to make 100k this fast. And I wouldn't be if there were enough people out there who could do what I can do.
SEPARATE THOUGHTS ON AGE DISCRIMINATION
I know it happens when you just send out your resume blindly to 100 companies. But this is not how to get a job! If you've been in the industry for 20 years and you don't by now know a TON of people who have moved on to management and who want you to join their team, then age is not the problem.
My father is a perl guru in his mid 50's and he just accepted an offer to became the highest-paid engineer (making more than the founders or any but a couple of other people) in a company of about 100 employees. If you have skill and have impressed anyone over the course of a longish career then you can move at will to any number of companies who really seem to need senior engineers.
Anyway that's my unscientific, anecdotal take on the whole bit. Sorry if I've offended anyone having a hard time finding work. Good luck.
Um, unemployment is at an all-time low, at least here in Massachusetts. Mobility - especially in the tech sector - is a given. I don't think fear per se is a factor at all.There are just too many unfilled posts - it is entirely a worker's market. Example: Me.
2 1/2 years ago I'd never written a line of code - I was an occasional, casual windows user. Skip forward to last week, when I gave notice at my job where I've been a web developer for 2+ years, having acquired in-depth knowledge of HTML, DHTML, JavaScript, ColdFusion, SQL, PhotoShop, etc etc etc. Other than a single graduate-level programming course (Java) I am completely self-taught. (Installing Linux at home was a good step too) ANyway I scheduled 5 interviews within a week of posting my resume online, and these generated 4 offers. My new salary is nearly triple what I made 2 years ago as a total newbie, and approaches 6 figures.
My point is, there is so much opportunity out there that working yourself to death for fear of losing your job is simply unreasonable. I was a psych major and am not off the charts IQ-wise, so if I can have these experiences, so can other people.
LOSE YOUR FEAR AND GO DO WHAT INTERESTS YOU.
Complete agreement on what a browser should be: faster, lighter, smaller, etc. But as far as your .sig, form validation on the client side alone justifies JavaScript. Seriously, there are many instances in which it would be ridiculous to keep hitting the server, and client-side JavaSCript/ECMAScript is the only good answer. Just my $.02
Cheers.
While we're talking about life-on-earth-ending scenarios:
One screwup (or madman's success) and nanotech bots could turn *everything* into a gooey grey glob. There would be nothing left and earth would become one giant boobytrap for whatever unfortunate alien visitors come... ever.
I think this is a real possibility. And it could happen this century, maybe even this decade.
Or we'll be careful and invent good safeguards and this dire prediction will be seen as alarmist malarkey.
I still haven't decided. Have you?
There is a rather significant difference between being able to read media and being able to create it. Yes, DVD drives are ubiquitous. But what percentage of users own a DVD burner? CD-RW/burners are cheap. DVD burners are not.
and it's spelled propaganda not propoganda
thuggery NOT thuggary
precedent NOT precident
etymology NOT eyntomology
equivalent NOT equivelent
irrelevant NOT irrelevent...
This is not a personal attack on anyone,
but reporters and other non-geeks who visit will be likely to take opinions more seriously if they are couched in more reasonable language....
Just $.02
My dad builds Perl tools for other developers and about 20 years ago had a modem and terminal at home - I was 6 or 7 - and he showed me how to play. I was hooked. Seriously, Larn is one of the greatest games ever. My question is, does anyone still play Larn? Or even know what it is?
Sealand really is a joke by all accounts. Someone enlighten me if there are any reasons they should be taken even a little bit seriously....thanks.
This is NOT a "next-gen" trojan, it's old hat.
Making assumptions about someone's psyche based solely on their weight is among the most damaging and unfair judgements you can make. Discoveries concerning pre-diabetic chemical imbalances and other related advances in psychobiology and nutritional science show that inhibited reuptake of certain neurotransmitters and variations in the amount of sugar that is absorbed by different people is the *primary* factor in hunger-control mechanisms. These variations on brain chemistry -- NOT a lack of self-control or more serious neuroses -- are responsible for the eating habits of many, many overweight people. Their concomitant depression is, in my opinion, due in large part to the vitriolic treatment they receive from society as a whole and its members in particular.
Don't get me wrong -- I have a number of hours logged in a Cessna 172, and also fully understand the discomfort obese people can on occasion cause their neighbors. But direct your anger at the airline for failing to take late (and potentially large) passengers into account, not at the poor individual who has to live his life apologizing for a chemical imbalance he inherited through no fault of his own.
I am a web developer, and am in the office about 45 hours per week. When it gets to be around 7, I leave. And I don't come in on the weekends.
I play indoor soccer once a week.
I play in a drum circle once a week.
I play my guitar almost every day.
I read books not published by O'Reilly almost every day.
I spend time with my fiancee.
I go away to the mountains many weekends.
If you don't *make* this time, you won't have this time. A friend of mine works 70+ hours, including weekends, every week. He has no time for any of these things. And he is miserable. He gets paid more than I do, (but less per hour if we're being realistic) but has no time to enjoy it.
Employers will take every ounce of energy from you that you allow them. Decide what matters to you, draw a line, and don't cross it. I can't imagine looking back on my life 50 or 60 years from now and thinking "If only I'd put in a few more hours on that project."
Spend your youth and health wisely.
- A Happy Developer
Roger Penrose (Nobel Prize-winning Physicist; worked on black hole research with Hawking) wrote The Emperor's New Mind , which attempts to use Godel's theorem, quantum mechanics and quantum physics to argue that consciousness is not algorithmic in nature. Very relevant to this topic.
Psycholinguist Steven Pinker provides an accessible (and perhaps more plausible) refutation of Penrose by way of the computational theory of mind in How the Mind Works .
Both are interesting reads, for those interested in learning more about the current debate on mind vs. body, the cognitive process and our understanding of consciousness.
before mandrake beta7.0, mandrake WAS a clone of Red Hat... (the GPL license allows you to do this) PLUS some additional tools like Partition Magic, Boot Magic, etc. and, packaged in the store with tech support included, it cost $35 instead of RH's $70.
The outcry worked -- leaders in Papua New Guinea were eventually awarded some kind of settlement -- but in many cases this kind of genetic exploitation goes unfettered. It's bad enough the way the western world takes economic advantage of small, relatively defenseless populations; but to patent and profit from their sole inalienable possession -- their bloodline -- is unconscionable.
I haven't kept up with HUGO's track record very closely since then -- I had heard that they made some improvements in their policies -- but I wonder if other /. readers have knowledge or semi-informed opinions on the matter?
Note: I don't oppose the collection of various genetic samples for research purposes, or even the idea behind HUGO -- it's a matter of the benefit being primarily to the culture that provided the genes and to the advancement of science in general, rather than the economic benefit of a few unethical corporations.
Even setting aside Gore's "I invented the internet" and "Alt-Control-Delete Button" gaffes, he still has no clue. Bradley is the superior candidate on virtually every level.