The "environmental" questions that I recall were really about weighing energy against environment - more domestic drilling v. renewable sources and nuclear energy. I think there were one or two more strictly environmental but I don't recall.
They seem to be solely after the president, so the local stuff doesn't really matter.
In a lot of places in the US, there aren't Republicans and Democrats running in the most local races anyhow - it's the "North Haverbrook First" and the "North Haverbrook United" parties.
They probably charge for the presidency because it's a big target but it's just one target. One race, one candidate. A lot easier to manage than enough to take Congress. And if they take the presidency it gives them the legitimacy they need to win other campaigns two years later. In fact, just having a presidential candidate who is taken seriously is a help with that.
I took their full positions survey - dozens of multiple choice questions. After each question they give the answers thus far (percentage who selected for each multiple choice answer.)
If I recall correctly (there doesn't seem to be a way to go back and review it) the people who have done the positions survey definitely want government-run health care, are very concerned about the environment, and think abortion should be legal. They don't necessarily want to make every illegal immigrant a citizen, don't like school vouchers, and do like teacher tenure.
So yes, basically typical American liberal.
But if you want to express your views, go take the survey too. I don't think I'd give them any money at this point, but the survey seems harmless. And if enough people who are more conservative take the survey, if they're honest they'll act accordingly.
It isn't "just paperwork" or the ballots would look like encyclopedias.
It takes something different from state to state, but typically it's a large number of signatures, or, in those states where political party is tracked for registered voters, possibly a number of real members.
In California, for example, you need 1% of the people who voted in the last gubernatorial election as members, or 10% as signatures.
It's an intriguing idea, but their web site leaves out the very important facts of who is behind it, and other online sources seem to indicate it may be shady.
I would recommend everyone go and take their full positions quiz, though - it made me stop and think about my position on various issues. My only problem with it is that there are very few answer of "it's OK now."
Based on the "country's" answers, the "country" is on average a good bit more liberal than I am.
That is a calculation we all make all the time, conscious or not.
Would I rather have a newer car or give money to Goodwill? Would I rather drive to work or take the bus and have more money to save starving children? Would I rather go to the movies or contribute to Ronald McDonald House? Would I rather buy porn or fight breast cancer? New laptop or AIDS? etc, etc, etc.
Buying a custom creepy doll head is no different.
I spend a ton of money on things that make my life nicer, but I don't actually need. We almost all do, even if it's "have chicken instead of beans" instead of "creepy doll head."
This isn't Verizon Wireless, this is Verizon the local phone company.
It was for local phone calls. The customer in question had a plan where very local calls were included, but everything else was billed by the minute. They call this "included" area "band 1" and there were "band 2" through "band 5" that were per minute.
She usually used her cell phone for anything outside "band 1" so she wanted to know what call was costing her, presumably so she could 1) make sure she'd called it, and 2) cut it out.
I've exchanged and returned equipment at the local Comcast office multiple times. There's usually a short line (2 - 6 people ahead of me) but it's always been painless.
Of course, I've always phoned or IM'd with a Comcast CSR at that point, so the computer knows I'm coming.
There was some confusion about a modem - one part of Comcast believed they owned it, and were demanding its return, while another part believed we owned it and refused to accept its return.
Ultimately I got a CSR to put a note in the file that it was in fact our modem, cursed out one or two more people who called asking me to return the modem, and it was all OK.
I think an engineer, left to his own devices, is going to build a car that meets a set of design goals that may not include "maximize profitability." But design goals can include affordability and low TCO.
With the MBAs (and others with a sole goal of maximizing profits) in charge, that becomes the one, top, overriding design goal.
You want people who know the business running the business. Not people who know about business in general. That's not just tech businesses, that's any business.
Have a look at the executive biographies at McDonald's, one of the few companies that have done well through the recent financial troubles. I glanced through about 15 of them, and found many with no mention of college - and quite likely no college to mention - along with a BS-EE (President & COO Don Thompson) and a variety of others. I found one "BS and MS in management" and one MBA, but the MBA is the chief human resources officer, so that's probably appropriate.
You could say "of course they've done well, they're cheap food" but have a look at Burger King and Wendy's performance. Pretty bleak.
I work IT for a large company 's US division. We have around 14,000 US location.
So if I come up with a solution that costs $100 per, someone has to come up with $1,400,000. There's no such thing as "cheap" in that sort of environment.
When will the American populace finally tire of the country being for the corporations, of the corporations, and by the corporations and take it for the people instead?
I think I'm going to go try to find a non crazy group that's working on this. Are there any?
Or should i just join the ACLU and hope for the best?
The average US McDonald's restaurant is a business with over $2 million in annual sales. Since it's an average, there are some doing a lot more. Probably places like Times Square, Smithsonian, Las Vegas and Disney.
They usually pay people running a business of that size (the restaurant manager) pretty well.
Most restaurant managers started as crew.
Most McDonald's corporate leadership started in the restaurants, too. I imagine Jan Fields gets paid pretty well.
And there's pretty much zero chance of getting off-shored.
So working for a clown might not be the worst plan ever.
That might be the purpose of a degree in information technology or MIS or something like that. And perfectly respectable four year public universities have those.
This is computer science. It isn't supposed to be as tightly coupled to a real world job. It's about learning the theory and mathematics of computers. Do you learn some programming skills along the way? Sure. But it isn't supposed to be the focus.
Agreed. I live in one suburb and live in another. I could take a bus, if I walked a couple miles then sat on two busses for two hours.
Or I can just hop in the car and be at work in about 10 minutes.
Some of my coworkers do bus in from one suburb to the one I work in; they happen to live roughly due west, and a lot of the bus lines basical run toward and away from Chicago.
I can't imagine why i would keep most of that at all, but thie method for such things that works for me is a 12-month accordion file. Just keep reusing it. When you come to a month that has papers already, throw most of it away, shredding the sensitive stuff. If there's something you feel you need to keep either start a file folder for it elsewhere or leave it in the accordion pocket ntil next year to reevaluate.
When I was in high school in Illinois my father insisted i take typing as he believed his ability to do so at a decent rate was one of the things that kept him at a desk instead of in a jungle during the Vietnam war.
Personally I think it was more his father, the retired officer, but who knows.
I for one almost never rewatch a movie after I've seen it once. I think that's true of most people and most movies. That's why video rental is such a big business.
For that group, a download does equal never purchase.
I would prefer you not watch my movie, but despite it being my movie and my work effort you have decided on your own that choice is not acceptable and taken it against the lawful owner's will and desire.
If you want to watch my movie I suggest you collect up "n" and let me know you're ready. Then I'll decide if I like you attitude enough to let you see it.
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Nobody from a small-town or a friendly neighborhood would ask this....
That's fine if you're an hourly employee, maybe.
Most of us are salaried, and the company views any time spent working on their stuff as time spent working for them.
The "environmental" questions that I recall were really about weighing energy against environment - more domestic drilling v. renewable sources and nuclear energy. I think there were one or two more strictly environmental but I don't recall.
Not that wasn't in idle. Which is where this belongs.
They seem to be solely after the president, so the local stuff doesn't really matter.
In a lot of places in the US, there aren't Republicans and Democrats running in the most local races anyhow - it's the "North Haverbrook First" and the "North Haverbrook United" parties.
They probably charge for the presidency because it's a big target but it's just one target. One race, one candidate. A lot easier to manage than enough to take Congress. And if they take the presidency it gives them the legitimacy they need to win other campaigns two years later. In fact, just having a presidential candidate who is taken seriously is a help with that.
I took their full positions survey - dozens of multiple choice questions. After each question they give the answers thus far (percentage who selected for each multiple choice answer.)
If I recall correctly (there doesn't seem to be a way to go back and review it) the people who have done the positions survey definitely want government-run health care, are very concerned about the environment, and think abortion should be legal. They don't necessarily want to make every illegal immigrant a citizen, don't like school vouchers, and do like teacher tenure.
So yes, basically typical American liberal.
But if you want to express your views, go take the survey too. I don't think I'd give them any money at this point, but the survey seems harmless. And if enough people who are more conservative take the survey, if they're honest they'll act accordingly.
It isn't "just paperwork" or the ballots would look like encyclopedias.
It takes something different from state to state, but typically it's a large number of signatures, or, in those states where political party is tracked for registered voters, possibly a number of real members.
In California, for example, you need 1% of the people who voted in the last gubernatorial election as members, or 10% as signatures.
It's an intriguing idea, but their web site leaves out the very important facts of who is behind it, and other online sources seem to indicate it may be shady.
I would recommend everyone go and take their full positions quiz, though - it made me stop and think about my position on various issues. My only problem with it is that there are very few answer of "it's OK now."
Based on the "country's" answers, the "country" is on average a good bit more liberal than I am.
Summary says you get to pick a body as part of your purchase, but I don't think that is true.
The caption on one of the photos in TFA is something like "my production assistant attached my head to a storm trooper body."
That is a calculation we all make all the time, conscious or not.
Would I rather have a newer car or give money to Goodwill? Would I rather drive to work or take the bus and have more money to save starving children? Would I rather go to the movies or contribute to Ronald McDonald House? Would I rather buy porn or fight breast cancer? New laptop or AIDS? etc, etc, etc.
Buying a custom creepy doll head is no different.
I spend a ton of money on things that make my life nicer, but I don't actually need. We almost all do, even if it's "have chicken instead of beans" instead of "creepy doll head."
This isn't Verizon Wireless, this is Verizon the local phone company.
It was for local phone calls. The customer in question had a plan where very local calls were included, but everything else was billed by the minute. They call this "included" area "band 1" and there were "band 2" through "band 5" that were per minute.
She usually used her cell phone for anything outside "band 1" so she wanted to know what call was costing her, presumably so she could 1) make sure she'd called it, and 2) cut it out.
I've exchanged and returned equipment at the local Comcast office multiple times. There's usually a short line (2 - 6 people ahead of me) but it's always been painless.
Of course, I've always phoned or IM'd with a Comcast CSR at that point, so the computer knows I'm coming.
There was some confusion about a modem - one part of Comcast believed they owned it, and were demanding its return, while another part believed we owned it and refused to accept its return.
Ultimately I got a CSR to put a note in the file that it was in fact our modem, cursed out one or two more people who called asking me to return the modem, and it was all OK.
I don't know if I agree.
I think an engineer, left to his own devices, is going to build a car that meets a set of design goals that may not include "maximize profitability." But design goals can include affordability and low TCO.
With the MBAs (and others with a sole goal of maximizing profits) in charge, that becomes the one, top, overriding design goal.
You want people who know the business running the business. Not people who know about business in general. That's not just tech businesses, that's any business.
Have a look at the executive biographies at McDonald's, one of the few companies that have done well through the recent financial troubles. I glanced through about 15 of them, and found many with no mention of college - and quite likely no college to mention - along with a BS-EE (President & COO Don Thompson) and a variety of others. I found one "BS and MS in management" and one MBA, but the MBA is the chief human resources officer, so that's probably appropriate.
You could say "of course they've done well, they're cheap food" but have a look at Burger King and Wendy's performance. Pretty bleak.
It's the same at big corporation.
I work IT for a large company 's US division. We have around 14,000 US location.
So if I come up with a solution that costs $100 per, someone has to come up with $1,400,000. There's no such thing as "cheap" in that sort of environment.
When will the American populace finally tire of the country being for the corporations, of the corporations, and by the corporations and take it for the people instead?
I think I'm going to go try to find a non crazy group that's working on this. Are there any?
Or should i just join the ACLU and hope for the best?
The average US McDonald's restaurant is a business with over $2 million in annual sales. Since it's an average, there are some doing a lot more. Probably places like Times Square, Smithsonian, Las Vegas and Disney.
They usually pay people running a business of that size (the restaurant manager) pretty well.
Most restaurant managers started as crew.
Most McDonald's corporate leadership started in the restaurants, too. I imagine Jan Fields gets paid pretty well.
And there's pretty much zero chance of getting off-shored.
So working for a clown might not be the worst plan ever.
No.
That might be the purpose of a degree in information technology or MIS or something like that. And perfectly respectable four year public universities have those.
This is computer science. It isn't supposed to be as tightly coupled to a real world job. It's about learning the theory and mathematics of computers. Do you learn some programming skills along the way? Sure. But it isn't supposed to be the focus.
Agreed. I live in one suburb and live in another. I could take a bus, if I walked a couple miles then sat on two busses for two hours.
Or I can just hop in the car and be at work in about 10 minutes.
Some of my coworkers do bus in from one suburb to the one I work in; they happen to live roughly due west, and a lot of the bus lines basical run toward and away from Chicago.
I can't imagine why i would keep most of that at all, but thie method for such things that works for me is a 12-month accordion file. Just keep reusing it. When you come to a month that has papers already, throw most of it away, shredding the sensitive stuff. If there's something you feel you need to keep either start a file folder for it elsewhere or leave it in the accordion pocket ntil next year to reevaluate.
When I was in high school in Illinois my father insisted i take typing as he believed his ability to do so at a decent rate was one of the things that kept him at a desk instead of in a jungle during the Vietnam war.
Personally I think it was more his father, the retired officer, but who knows.
I for one almost never rewatch a movie after I've seen it once. I think that's true of most people and most movies. That's why video rental is such a big business.
For that group, a download does equal never purchase.
I would prefer you not watch my movie, but despite it being my movie and my work effort you have decided on your own that choice is not acceptable and taken it against the lawful owner's will and desire.
If you want to watch my movie I suggest you collect up "n" and let me know you're ready. Then I'll decide if I like you attitude enough to let you see it.
Well, yes, you do need a license.
Fortunately, you got it when you bought the music in the first place.
In the case of the SAT, the point is to find out what you know and how you think.
In the point of the jury, the point (in theory at least) is to arrive at a fair and correct verdict as to the matter before the court.
At that point it becomes less clear to me whether the jury should have access to unfettered information or not.
On our systems the users have to type YES just to reboot.