I sure hope Ron Paul is nothing like Andrew Jackson... Jackson believed in an extremely powerful Executive Office (at the expense of powers held by Congress).
Sacrifice a lawyer and pay U: place a +1/+1 RIAA Kraken token in play.
Tap a lawyer and pay UU: RIAA Kraken gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
Tap five lawyers and pay UUBBB: RIAA Beast gets +5/+5, protection from white, and trample until end of turn. Sacrifice RIAA Kraken: all Pirates gain phasing(1).
Color text: Arrr, we was sailin' to Pirate Bay when out of the Sea rose a toothsome creature of many arms -- I feared 'twas Cthulhu, but we weren't that lucky -- we had run across the RIAA Kraken.
I'm sorry, I know the government is just trying to protect our kids from those drug-dealing maffia-involved sexual predator terrorists.
FTS:
about the use of Phorm's behavioural advertising system, which uses... [DPI] technology, by internet service providers.
I'm sorry, I just have a problem with a company called Phorm using DPI. Phorm is obviously short for chloroform, which is used by the sexual predators to abduct our childrens.
DPI probably involves two predators, if the "DP" part of that is what I think it is. It sure as hell doesn't mean dots-per-inch.
Based upon this irrefutable logic, we should consider Phorm to be predators, and thus make any of their technology illegal -- in the UK, in Europe, and in the US.
In my experience, people in urban areas simply don't have the time to be respectful... they interface with far too many people. If people were as nice in NYC as in the midwest, no work would ever get done.
As for tolerance... I think traditionally that was the case, but there has been a nasty wave of intolerance sweeping the US over the past 20+ years, driven by some of the hard-right evangelists. I think it's easing up now (I hope so), but I feel that general attitudes changed a lot since the early eighties.
If I need to crank out 400 HTML pages, I'll hire an HTML jockey.
If I need to crank out 400 ppt presentations, I'll hire a temp ppt jockey.
There is no reason to hire & pay for skills that won't be used. If I don't have enough HTML/ppt work to keep the respective employee occupied, then I think about either hiring someone part-time, or then I think about complimentary skills.
If I can get extra skills at the same price, then of course I'll do so (unless I think that makes the prospective hire a flight risk). The point is to avoid overpaying for simple work.
Dude... this is slashdot. Having a three-digit Facebook userID is like having 666 tattooed on your forehead, except less cool among the Satanist and counterculturalists.
I'm no real oldtimer (chips & dips was before my time), but sheesh... don't brag about a three-digit Facebook ID on slashdot lest ye wake the low UID slashdot dragons.
Not to be a troll, but the vast majority of people who do HTML plus a little CSS and maybe some JS aren't very bright and aren't very valuable. I mean, if you can handle JS you have no excuse for not learning PHP.
But why should an employer pay for PHP when all he needs is the basic skills? The point of the question is that they need to hire some people with basic skills, but they don't know what to call the skillset.
Yes, yes, I'm aware that Ohio State has a lot to offer, sorry if I stepped on your precious buckeye-loving toes.
But, it IS a huge state university with an abundance of liberal arts majors who take fluff courses[1], same as at any big state university (as a graduate of Rutgers, I know the drill). OSU has some very good graduate programs, and some very good undergraduate programs.
[1] Not to say that there aren't liberal arts majors who take hard courses, and get a good education there... but plenty of OSU graduates might as well have gone to a diploma mill.
Maybe it's a semantics thing... if the courses are too easy, they result in inflated grades. That's what grade inflation is.
In my experience, any 100 or 200 level class was easy, unless it was picked to be a "weeder" class (like organic chem). Then it was still easy, but required some effort.
I found that soc 101 & 102 were a joke, but maybe it's because writing is easy for me. Maybe those classes just played to my strengths.
Once I hit the 300s and 400s, classes were a bit harder (especially classes with instructors to whom English was brand new [pharmacokinetics especially])... but on a lark, I took some English lit 300-level classes, and they were jokes too.
some programs really are easier than others, and result in grade inflation.
Iowa and Kansas are traditionally at the forefront of popular political movements in the US. From the union movement to civil rights to "family values"... whodathunkit?
The cost of fuel will only rise from this point, peak oil is here, so the economics we need for sail should be here now.
The unreliability of sail is an issue, though. I think we'll see "hybrid" shipping becoming more common -- kite sailing when the wind is favorable (or perhaps kite-assisted), fossil fuels when it is not. This will reduce costs & environmental impact, a nice combo.
Here's a discussion we had previously on kite-assisted shipping.
I sense your sarcasm, but economy _is_ a zero-sum game. It is so big that you cannot see all the parts, but if you add them all up they do add up to zero.
False. Even the Austrian school knows that economics is not a zero-sum game.
That's were a "sin tax" comes in: Society wants to encourage people to not drink / drink less while at the same time keeping all their individual freedom. The wallet is the perfect way to do that.
I completely disagree. What sin taxes do is ensure that the wealthy get to exercise their individual freedom, while the poor do not.
If you really believe that everyone should have the personal freedom to drink alcohol, or to play violent video games, why would you make exercise of that right dependent on money?
Seems to me we might as well go back to only landowners having suffrage if you believe that. After all, there's nothing wrong with the exercise of rights and freedoms being tied to money, is there?
Please check the style handbooks; use of "and" without a comma is generally preferred when enumerating a list of only two items.
Use of "and" with a comma is preferable for the last item of a list whose elements are separated by commas.
And speaking of precision grammar, how about the use of "sortof"?
But, in the end it doesn't matter, this is the internet, for Christ's sake. No one misunderstood my post, or yours, because of grammatical errors or inconsistencies.
Who cares where the tax revenues go. It all goes into the general treasury anyway. People who believe in earmarked revenues let themselves be misled. Ever wonder why earmarked revenues rarely result in higher spending on the earmarks' targets? Spending from the general treasury is reduced to make up for the earmarked spending.
My biggest problem with this has nothing to do with where the money is spent. It's with the concept that violence is OK, as long as you're willing to pay extra for it. So next time I pick up a hooker, it'll be OK if I beat her on top of screwing her, as long as I give her an extra $40 or so? Or If I send an extra $40 to the government as a "sin tax"?
If you take the ideas of these brain-dead lawmakers and their brain-dead constituents, this is the logical conclusion.
Also, while we're at it, let's tax movie tickets on a sliding scale based on their rating. G? Pay the sales tax. PG? Pay 2 x sales tax. PG-13? 3 x sales tax. Etc.
"Despite the productivity promises of Apple's forthcoming 3.0 firmware update, jailbreaking should continue to push the iPhone's productivity envelope, as users increasingly demand the Holy Grail of smartphone power use: applications that run in the background, InfoWorld reports.
Seriously? The two items that comprise the Holy Grail of smartphone power use are background apps and Infoworld reports?
Just look at the source of the TFA -- it's Infoworld themselves! Methinks they have a slightly overdeveloped sense of self-worth.
Also, I'm not sure why I would need to jailbreak my iPhone to access Infoworld, they must have some serious issues in their web design department.
It's always been my biggest issue with outsourcing: I don't want to work with people who can't communicate well with others on my team. Nothing against the developers, but they're going to have to change if they want to continue to compete.
You get what you pay for. If you're looking for cut-rate development, you're going to get developers missing at least one part of the puzzle (communication, knowledge, experience).
There are plenty of Indian developers who have the whole skill-set... but they cost a lot more than your basic Indian developer. Often you're looking at $60 an hour (gross) for these developers, which kind of defeats the point of going offshore.
while I walked 15 miles uphill in the snow while naked
Meh. I had to debug some code on the set of a porn shoot. Before the viagra era. You want to talk about pressure to perform? God forbid you can't fix the code and recompile within about ten minutes... then your set time is wasted ($$$) & you need to bring everyone back in a few hours once the "actor" can perform again. That's when I learned you really need a stable of male performers ready to go.
the real problems with the economy can be attributed to the creation of the Federal Reserve (putting banks in charge of the economy in the first place)
Horseshit.
Creation of the Federal Reserve banks has done more to prevent terrible economic situations than anything else that has been tried. The situation prior to creation of the Federal Reserve was atrocious, with unameliorated boom-and-bust cycles that periodically crippled the US economy.
and the dissolution of the gold standard (allowing the Fed to create as much money as it wants, without creating actual wealth to accompany it).
More horseshit. The Fed doesn't print currency, which is the place where the gold standard would come into play (other than a host of other affects, such as artificially increasing the price of gold, among other things). It's lending that the Fed oversees and affects, which is a larger source of money in the money supply than currency. Unless you propose forcing banks to hold gold in reserve for loans made (which would kill lending), then a gold-backed currency would have very little impact on the money supply. Furthermore, are you actually calling gold "actual wealth"??? That's a fundamental misunderstanding of what a commodity-backed currency is. Gold is not wealth. Wealth is the ability to purchase goods or labor, and it can take the form of gold, of oil, of paper currency, of numbers in a database, or of intangibles.
Government involvement has done nothing but harm the economy since at least the 1920's, when anti-competitive legislation first began rearing up. It's only grown since then - we really do need less legislation: the people and the states will pull themselves out of this mess much more easily without the federal government mucking things up.
Oh God. You really believe that, don't you? Have you bothered to study the economics of the 19th century? What the hell do you think the Glass-Steagall Act (of 1933!) was, if not anti-competitive legislation?
Please, stop spreading untruths, there is already a shortage of understanding of economics among people in general. It's one thing to understand the economics and disagree, it's another thing entirely to talk out of your ass. Please stop reading anarchist/goldbug claptrap and instead study some real economics before discussing economic issues.
Slashdot Mirror
I sure hope Ron Paul is nothing like Andrew Jackson... Jackson believed in an extremely powerful Executive Office (at the expense of powers held by Congress).
Meet me at the courthouse the week after the bar exam.
I'd prefer Betelgeuse VII, but I'll pretty much take any star if it's gold.
Injustice Department
Enchantment
Cost: 2UUBB
Sacrifice a lawyer and pay U: place a +1/+1 RIAA Kraken token in play.
Tap a lawyer and pay UU: RIAA Kraken gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
Tap five lawyers and pay UUBBB: RIAA Beast gets +5/+5, protection from white, and trample until end of turn.
Sacrifice RIAA Kraken: all Pirates gain phasing(1).
Color text: Arrr, we was sailin' to Pirate Bay when out of the Sea rose a toothsome creature of many arms -- I feared 'twas Cthulhu, but we weren't that lucky -- we had run across the RIAA Kraken.
FTS:
I'm sorry, I just have a problem with a company called Phorm using DPI. Phorm is obviously short for chloroform, which is used by the sexual predators to abduct our childrens.
DPI probably involves two predators, if the "DP" part of that is what I think it is. It sure as hell doesn't mean dots-per-inch.
Based upon this irrefutable logic, we should consider Phorm to be predators, and thus make any of their technology illegal -- in the UK, in Europe, and in the US.
In my experience, people in urban areas simply don't have the time to be respectful... they interface with far too many people. If people were as nice in NYC as in the midwest, no work would ever get done.
As for tolerance... I think traditionally that was the case, but there has been a nasty wave of intolerance sweeping the US over the past 20+ years, driven by some of the hard-right evangelists. I think it's easing up now (I hope so), but I feel that general attitudes changed a lot since the early eighties.
If I need to crank out 400 HTML pages, I'll hire an HTML jockey.
If I need to crank out 400 ppt presentations, I'll hire a temp ppt jockey.
There is no reason to hire & pay for skills that won't be used. If I don't have enough HTML/ppt work to keep the respective employee occupied, then I think about either hiring someone part-time, or then I think about complimentary skills.
If I can get extra skills at the same price, then of course I'll do so (unless I think that makes the prospective hire a flight risk). The point is to avoid overpaying for simple work.
Dude... this is slashdot. Having a three-digit Facebook userID is like having 666 tattooed on your forehead, except less cool among the Satanist and counterculturalists.
I'm no real oldtimer (chips & dips was before my time), but sheesh... don't brag about a three-digit Facebook ID on slashdot lest ye wake the low UID slashdot dragons.
But why should an employer pay for PHP when all he needs is the basic skills? The point of the question is that they need to hire some people with basic skills, but they don't know what to call the skillset.
BTW, I vote for "web layout artist".
Yes, yes, I'm aware that Ohio State has a lot to offer, sorry if I stepped on your precious buckeye-loving toes.
But, it IS a huge state university with an abundance of liberal arts majors who take fluff courses[1], same as at any big state university (as a graduate of Rutgers, I know the drill). OSU has some very good graduate programs, and some very good undergraduate programs.
[1] Not to say that there aren't liberal arts majors who take hard courses, and get a good education there... but plenty of OSU graduates might as well have gone to a diploma mill.
Because I for one do not welcome our nuclear-fuel-spilling private corporate overlords?
Maybe it's a semantics thing... if the courses are too easy, they result in inflated grades. That's what grade inflation is.
In my experience, any 100 or 200 level class was easy, unless it was picked to be a "weeder" class (like organic chem). Then it was still easy, but required some effort.
I found that soc 101 & 102 were a joke, but maybe it's because writing is easy for me. Maybe those classes just played to my strengths.
Once I hit the 300s and 400s, classes were a bit harder (especially classes with instructors to whom English was brand new [pharmacokinetics especially])... but on a lark, I took some English lit 300-level classes, and they were jokes too.
some programs really are easier than others, and result in grade inflation.
Iowa and Kansas are traditionally at the forefront of popular political movements in the US. From the union movement to civil rights to "family values"... whodathunkit?
The unreliability of sail is an issue, though. I think we'll see "hybrid" shipping becoming more common -- kite sailing when the wind is favorable (or perhaps kite-assisted), fossil fuels when it is not. This will reduce costs & environmental impact, a nice combo.
Here's a discussion we had previously on kite-assisted shipping.
Well, first off, it's Ohio State.
:).
Second, this sounds like the kind of "study" done for a sociology class. Plenty of inflated grades among people who take Soc 101.
Third, it was a survey. It'd be interesting to see if there's a correlation between not using Facebook and lying about your GPA
False. Even the Austrian school knows that economics is not a zero-sum game.
I completely disagree. What sin taxes do is ensure that the wealthy get to exercise their individual freedom, while the poor do not.
If you really believe that everyone should have the personal freedom to drink alcohol, or to play violent video games, why would you make exercise of that right dependent on money?
Seems to me we might as well go back to only landowners having suffrage if you believe that. After all, there's nothing wrong with the exercise of rights and freedoms being tied to money, is there?
No shit, sherlock.
Sometimes I get to make the funny posts, sometimes I get to make the set up for others to make the funny posts. It's a share-alike comedy strategy.
Please check the style handbooks; use of "and" without a comma is generally preferred when enumerating a list of only two items.
Use of "and" with a comma is preferable for the last item of a list whose elements are separated by commas.
And speaking of precision grammar, how about the use of "sortof"?
But, in the end it doesn't matter, this is the internet, for Christ's sake. No one misunderstood my post, or yours, because of grammatical errors or inconsistencies.
Who cares where the tax revenues go. It all goes into the general treasury anyway. People who believe in earmarked revenues let themselves be misled. Ever wonder why earmarked revenues rarely result in higher spending on the earmarks' targets? Spending from the general treasury is reduced to make up for the earmarked spending.
My biggest problem with this has nothing to do with where the money is spent. It's with the concept that violence is OK, as long as you're willing to pay extra for it. So next time I pick up a hooker, it'll be OK if I beat her on top of screwing her, as long as I give her an extra $40 or so? Or If I send an extra $40 to the government as a "sin tax"?
If you take the ideas of these brain-dead lawmakers and their brain-dead constituents, this is the logical conclusion.
Also, while we're at it, let's tax movie tickets on a sliding scale based on their rating. G? Pay the sales tax. PG? Pay 2 x sales tax. PG-13? 3 x sales tax. Etc.
Uh-oh, March is gonna be screwed come tax time.
Seriously? The two items that comprise the Holy Grail of smartphone power use are background apps and Infoworld reports?
Just look at the source of the TFA -- it's Infoworld themselves! Methinks they have a slightly overdeveloped sense of self-worth.
Also, I'm not sure why I would need to jailbreak my iPhone to access Infoworld, they must have some serious issues in their web design department.
No problem, as long as they have web access at the site, they can visit 4chan.
/rimshot
You get what you pay for. If you're looking for cut-rate development, you're going to get developers missing at least one part of the puzzle (communication, knowledge, experience).
There are plenty of Indian developers who have the whole skill-set... but they cost a lot more than your basic Indian developer. Often you're looking at $60 an hour (gross) for these developers, which kind of defeats the point of going offshore.
Meh. I had to debug some code on the set of a porn shoot. Before the viagra era. You want to talk about pressure to perform? God forbid you can't fix the code and recompile within about ten minutes... then your set time is wasted ($$$) & you need to bring everyone back in a few hours once the "actor" can perform again. That's when I learned you really need a stable of male performers ready to go.
Horseshit.
Creation of the Federal Reserve banks has done more to prevent terrible economic situations than anything else that has been tried. The situation prior to creation of the Federal Reserve was atrocious, with unameliorated boom-and-bust cycles that periodically crippled the US economy.
More horseshit. The Fed doesn't print currency, which is the place where the gold standard would come into play (other than a host of other affects, such as artificially increasing the price of gold, among other things). It's lending that the Fed oversees and affects, which is a larger source of money in the money supply than currency. Unless you propose forcing banks to hold gold in reserve for loans made (which would kill lending), then a gold-backed currency would have very little impact on the money supply. Furthermore, are you actually calling gold "actual wealth"??? That's a fundamental misunderstanding of what a commodity-backed currency is. Gold is not wealth. Wealth is the ability to purchase goods or labor, and it can take the form of gold, of oil, of paper currency, of numbers in a database, or of intangibles.
Oh God. You really believe that, don't you? Have you bothered to study the economics of the 19th century? What the hell do you think the Glass-Steagall Act (of 1933!) was, if not anti-competitive legislation?
Please, stop spreading untruths, there is already a shortage of understanding of economics among people in general. It's one thing to understand the economics and disagree, it's another thing entirely to talk out of your ass. Please stop reading anarchist/goldbug claptrap and instead study some real economics before discussing economic issues.