Well, yes, when police are looking for a specific ethnic group to target with laws, they will use racial profiling in deciding who to harass, and who to let go about their business. This is a subject that has been studied extensively, and proven to happen.
"E. A LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER, WITHOUT A WARRANT, MAY ARREST A PERSON 38 IF THE OFFICER HAS PROBABLE CAUSE TO BELIEVE THAT THE PERSON HAS COMMITTED 39 ANY PUBLIC OFFENSE THAT MAKES THE PERSON REMOVABLE FROM THE UNITED STATES."
Is generally subject to the fear that "Probable cause" == Brown Skin.
According to the CCIE on the Jury, Terry Childs was attempting to show how indispensable he was to the city, and implicitly blackmail them into giving him his job back. He was smart enough to never explicitly say anything like that, since it would have landed him an even bigger sentence, but the charge of holding a city for ransom is nevertheless accurate.
Some engineers are competent writers, but many engineers are not.
Additionally, it might be a better use of company assets to have the $100,000/year Engineers engineering things full time, and letting the $45,000/year technical writers do the technical writing.
I'm actually in my Junior year of an Electrical Engineering degree right now, interning for the summer doing, well, CAD work. It's interesting, but more than a few months of this sort of thing would get awfully repetitive.
On the other hand, Trade school is fine until 5, 10, or 20 years down the line when the entire trade might disappear, and you're out of a job. History has shown us that any task that can be automated or outsourced more cheaply than it would take to pay people to do the job WILL be automated or outsourced. There are a few trade school jobs that don't fit into that category, but I wouldn't be willing to bet my future on that.
There are well-paying stable jobs in pretty much every profession, you just need:
A.) Connections, An Engineer or Scientist for a parent, especially if they've got the networking ability to match, can get you trained up by a company without ever formally attending college. I've seen this happen once, but can't imagine it's very common, and it's not a realistic option.
C.) Get an Entry-level tech job at a company, and be really smart. Sometimes the higher-ups will notice, and insist that your potential is being wasted. I've seen this happen slightly more often than option A, but it's still not something I'd bet on.
B.) Phenomenally intelligent people can still be self-taught, on their own, through free stuff like khanacademy, or just buying and reading textbooks on their own. I'm not that smart, or dedicated, but I see it as an option.
Develop a technical bent and become a technical writer?
Develop a journalistic bent and become a journalist?
Become a secretary, writing out reports on behalf of, and to be read by, people with other skills?
There's an astonishingly large number of very bad writers out there and the one thing a BA in English MIGHT be able to convince people of is that you're able to string sentences together.
It's a really good idea to spread out the Engineering curriculum over 5-6 years. I only got an AA my first time through college before realizing I had no idea what I wanted to do in life, and joined the Air Force. Four years of grunt work later taught me the value of getting a worthwhile degree, and since all my general education requirements were out of the way (did all that English and Social Science crap the first time) - I was able to focus entirely on working my way up through the math and science classes.
There were a LOT of smart kids I met along the way who could have made it through a 5-6 year program and been great Engineers, they just burnt out on the heavy courseload and decided it wasn't worth the headache when people majoring in business were binge drinking every night and acing their classes just by showing up.
By the same logic a restaurant could justify using canned cat food in their tuna melt, because "it is tuna, it's just not GOOD tuna; you paid for a sandwich that had tuna at all, good or bad". That argument doesn't work. There's a basic expectation; if it isn't met, they failed to keep their end of the deal.
the Germ theory of Disease was validated in the late 19th century (according to some quick googling) - and the cited timespan for infection is, according to this thread, 48 hours on a blanket. Additionally, Smallpox is NOT a subtle disease, has no known asymptomatic carrier state, and is pretty debilitating (even the vaccine I got back while I was in the military had me feeling pretty shitty for about a week) - it's not the sort of disease you decide to hike out into the woods on a missionary trip while you're contagious.
All of these factors make the story of early Americans intentionally infecting the natives with small pox plausible enough that I won't contradict an expert in the field of history on the subject.
And yes, when enough PhD's agree on something within their field of expertise, I will usually accept that as fact without question. I haven't the time or inclination to verify if the tides are really caused by the orbit of the moon in relation to the earth, or if Henry VIII really had all his wives killed, or which languages share a common root, and how far back they go. I'm willing to accept the word of educated professionals in the fields of astronomy, history, and linguistics, and you are too.
I was siding with Terry Childs on the issue until I read that article, and it completely changed my mind.
- Since there's no definition of an "Authorized User" to give the password to, and Terry Childs had sent an E-mail with a different password to the person he said wasn't authorized a week earlier, that part of Childs defense falls flat.
- The implicit accusation with the trial is that Childs was attempting to use the effective lockout from the system to strongarm the city into giving him his job back. This makes his criminal trial and conviction a LOT more reasonable.
- The $1.5 million fine, on the other hand, is an effective "Lifetime poverty" sentence. This is totally out of line with the crime committed.
Brilliant, I don't know why I expected the numbers on the front page of the budget sheet to have any relationship with reality at all. The ~$80 billion figure appears to solely be the discretionary budget, which really goes up to nearly $90 billion based on page 8.
Medicare/Medicaid is going ~$900 Billion, Social Security is ~$800 Billion, and Department of Labor, which covers Unemployment, is ~$150 Billion, adding up to $1.85 Trillion, out of ~2.3 Trillion in revenue. Not sure what else you count as entitlements, but you've certainly got a decent point.
Somehow though, I still doubt GP's point very much. If we stopped having wasteful and unnecessary wars, we'd be able to reduce a good chunk of the DOD's ~$730 billion dollar budget, and wouldn't be missing much in the way of economic activity, as every bomb, bullet, etc. spent on warfare tends to be an excellent example of broken window economics.
Cutting Medicare/Medicaid however, means tens of millions of people throughout the US get horribly upset as Grandma and Grandpa can't afford to live anymore.
Social Security is the odd sort of program where it's a mandatory pyramid scheme supported by legions of US taxpayers. End it and you're going to have millions of upset people. Not the "poor, weak, and stupid" as GP accuses, working class people who depend on that to survive because they've been promised it their whole life, and expected the government to keep that promise, otherwise they'd have never paid into it in the first place.
On the other hand, since it IS a pyramid scheme, it's inevitably going to run out of money, or otherwise grow to the point where it's unsustainable. It needs to end, but how are we going to do that without sparking riots?
Assuming a 90% accuracy rate for this method of seeking subpoenas, approving all ~1000 of the subpoenas would damage at least 100 perfectly innocent people, forcing them to spend time and money on an unjustified legal defense. This would be a gross miscarriage of justice, and the judge ruled that it's necessary to have more than just an IP address and an accusation to issue a subpoena.
Most of the time when a cop is punching you, you're also arrested. I honestly can't think of many situations where a cop would punch you, but not arrest you.
It's very difficult for a cop to justify using physical force on someone without also arresting them.
I've seen an awful lot of people who were athletic early in life go on to become overweight or obese. Near as I can tell it's because they got used to eating huge portions to allow for muscle growth, and didn't adjust their eating habits when they became more sedentary later on. It's a hell of a lot easier to stop exercising than it is to stop eating so much.
Eh, it's difficult to pigeonhole/.ers into any one specific group. Bring up an article on regulation of some kind, and you'll have a handful of libertarians fighting against a huge number of people who think the libertarian position on such issues is ridiculous.
The only constant I've seen is that haters are gonna hate.
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Well, yes, when police are looking for a specific ethnic group to target with laws, they will use racial profiling in deciding who to harass, and who to let go about their business. This is a subject that has been studied extensively, and proven to happen.
"E. A LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER, WITHOUT A WARRANT, MAY ARREST A PERSON
38 IF THE OFFICER HAS PROBABLE CAUSE TO BELIEVE THAT THE PERSON HAS COMMITTED
39 ANY PUBLIC OFFENSE THAT MAKES THE PERSON REMOVABLE FROM THE UNITED STATES."
Is generally subject to the fear that "Probable cause" == Brown Skin.
According to the CCIE on the Jury, Terry Childs was attempting to show how indispensable he was to the city, and implicitly blackmail them into giving him his job back. He was smart enough to never explicitly say anything like that, since it would have landed him an even bigger sentence, but the charge of holding a city for ransom is nevertheless accurate.
Now fuck off, asshole.
Some engineers are competent writers, but many engineers are not.
Additionally, it might be a better use of company assets to have the $100,000/year Engineers engineering things full time, and letting the $45,000/year technical writers do the technical writing.
+1
I'm actually in my Junior year of an Electrical Engineering degree right now, interning for the summer doing, well, CAD work. It's interesting, but more than a few months of this sort of thing would get awfully repetitive.
On the other hand, Trade school is fine until 5, 10, or 20 years down the line when the entire trade might disappear, and you're out of a job. History has shown us that any task that can be automated or outsourced more cheaply than it would take to pay people to do the job WILL be automated or outsourced. There are a few trade school jobs that don't fit into that category, but I wouldn't be willing to bet my future on that.
There are well-paying stable jobs in pretty much every profession, you just need:
A.) Connections, An Engineer or Scientist for a parent, especially if they've got the networking ability to match, can get you trained up by a company without ever formally attending college. I've seen this happen once, but can't imagine it's very common, and it's not a realistic option.
C.) Get an Entry-level tech job at a company, and be really smart. Sometimes the higher-ups will notice, and insist that your potential is being wasted. I've seen this happen slightly more often than option A, but it's still not something I'd bet on.
B.) Phenomenally intelligent people can still be self-taught, on their own, through free stuff like khanacademy, or just buying and reading textbooks on their own. I'm not that smart, or dedicated, but I see it as an option.
At least I'd have gotten some kind of job satisfaction out of being a TAC-P or PJ.
Grunt work in the sense of, "I could have trained a monkey to do my job."
Develop a technical bent and become a technical writer?
Develop a journalistic bent and become a journalist?
Become a secretary, writing out reports on behalf of, and to be read by, people with other skills?
There's an astonishingly large number of very bad writers out there and the one thing a BA in English MIGHT be able to convince people of is that you're able to string sentences together.
It's a really good idea to spread out the Engineering curriculum over 5-6 years. I only got an AA my first time through college before realizing I had no idea what I wanted to do in life, and joined the Air Force. Four years of grunt work later taught me the value of getting a worthwhile degree, and since all my general education requirements were out of the way (did all that English and Social Science crap the first time) - I was able to focus entirely on working my way up through the math and science classes.
There were a LOT of smart kids I met along the way who could have made it through a 5-6 year program and been great Engineers, they just burnt out on the heavy courseload and decided it wasn't worth the headache when people majoring in business were binge drinking every night and acing their classes just by showing up.
How you you be fully aware of all of those things and not see that it proves exactly the opposite point you're trying to make.
You are complicit in the suicide of Foxconn workers, enslavement of Indian factory workers, and enslavement of illegal immigrants for your produce.
By the same logic a restaurant could justify using canned cat food in their tuna melt, because "it is tuna, it's just not GOOD tuna; you paid for a sandwich that had tuna at all, good or bad". That argument doesn't work. There's a basic expectation; if it isn't met, they failed to keep their end of the deal.
It worked for Taco Bell.
the Germ theory of Disease was validated in the late 19th century (according to some quick googling) - and the cited timespan for infection is, according to this thread, 48 hours on a blanket. Additionally, Smallpox is NOT a subtle disease, has no known asymptomatic carrier state, and is pretty debilitating (even the vaccine I got back while I was in the military had me feeling pretty shitty for about a week) - it's not the sort of disease you decide to hike out into the woods on a missionary trip while you're contagious.
All of these factors make the story of early Americans intentionally infecting the natives with small pox plausible enough that I won't contradict an expert in the field of history on the subject.
And yes, when enough PhD's agree on something within their field of expertise, I will usually accept that as fact without question. I haven't the time or inclination to verify if the tides are really caused by the orbit of the moon in relation to the earth, or if Henry VIII really had all his wives killed, or which languages share a common root, and how far back they go. I'm willing to accept the word of educated professionals in the fields of astronomy, history, and linguistics, and you are too.
Cultural Revolution what?
I was siding with Terry Childs on the issue until I read that article, and it completely changed my mind.
- Since there's no definition of an "Authorized User" to give the password to, and Terry Childs had sent an E-mail with a different password to the person he said wasn't authorized a week earlier, that part of Childs defense falls flat.
- The implicit accusation with the trial is that Childs was attempting to use the effective lockout from the system to strongarm the city into giving him his job back. This makes his criminal trial and conviction a LOT more reasonable.
- The $1.5 million fine, on the other hand, is an effective "Lifetime poverty" sentence. This is totally out of line with the crime committed.
are you quoting the bottom of the page, or did some /. admin read your post, and put your quote on the bottom?
'cuz that'd be awesome.
Brilliant, I don't know why I expected the numbers on the front page of the budget sheet to have any relationship with reality at all. The ~$80 billion figure appears to solely be the discretionary budget, which really goes up to nearly $90 billion based on page 8.
Medicare/Medicaid is going ~$900 Billion, Social Security is ~$800 Billion, and Department of Labor, which covers Unemployment, is ~$150 Billion, adding up to $1.85 Trillion, out of ~2.3 Trillion in revenue. Not sure what else you count as entitlements, but you've certainly got a decent point.
Somehow though, I still doubt GP's point very much. If we stopped having wasteful and unnecessary wars, we'd be able to reduce a good chunk of the DOD's ~$730 billion dollar budget, and wouldn't be missing much in the way of economic activity, as every bomb, bullet, etc. spent on warfare tends to be an excellent example of broken window economics.
Cutting Medicare/Medicaid however, means tens of millions of people throughout the US get horribly upset as Grandma and Grandpa can't afford to live anymore.
Social Security is the odd sort of program where it's a mandatory pyramid scheme supported by legions of US taxpayers. End it and you're going to have millions of upset people. Not the "poor, weak, and stupid" as GP accuses, working class people who depend on that to survive because they've been promised it their whole life, and expected the government to keep that promise, otherwise they'd have never paid into it in the first place.
On the other hand, since it IS a pyramid scheme, it's inevitably going to run out of money, or otherwise grow to the point where it's unsustainable. It needs to end, but how are we going to do that without sparking riots?
What the fuck are you talking about?
DoD budget this year is $553 Billion. http://www.gpoaccess.gov/usbudget/fy12/pdf/BUDGET-2012-BUD-7.pdf
The Department of Health and Human Services, which funds both Medicare and Health and Human Services has a budget of approximately $80 Billion. http://www.gpoaccess.gov/usbudget/fy12/pdf/BUDGET-2012-BUD-11.pdf
When I studied it in some social science class in college
This is never, ever, a good introductory sentence.
Assuming a 90% accuracy rate for this method of seeking subpoenas, approving all ~1000 of the subpoenas would damage at least 100 perfectly innocent people, forcing them to spend time and money on an unjustified legal defense. This would be a gross miscarriage of justice, and the judge ruled that it's necessary to have more than just an IP address and an accusation to issue a subpoena.
Well yes, it's entirely possible to be a soulless engineer, but it's also possible to not be soulless.
The accusation is it's damn near impossible to be in Sales/Stocks/Marketing without selling your soul first.
Is there truth in this? Maybe, I don't know enough sales guys to make the call.
5.5 hours by car is... Irregular working conditions.
Biking to school/work is manageable for a significant portion of the populace, and is actually faster than driving in some cities.
Also Enlightened Self-interest of getting precious exercise.
Most of the time when a cop is punching you, you're also arrested. I honestly can't think of many situations where a cop would punch you, but not arrest you.
It's very difficult for a cop to justify using physical force on someone without also arresting them.
I've seen an awful lot of people who were athletic early in life go on to become overweight or obese. Near as I can tell it's because they got used to eating huge portions to allow for muscle growth, and didn't adjust their eating habits when they became more sedentary later on. It's a hell of a lot easier to stop exercising than it is to stop eating so much.
Eh, it's difficult to pigeonhole /.ers into any one specific group. Bring up an article on regulation of some kind, and you'll have a handful of libertarians fighting against a huge number of people who think the libertarian position on such issues is ridiculous.
The only constant I've seen is that haters are gonna hate.
I can't tell if you're being serious, or imitating someone who seriously thinks like that for the purposes of a joke.