Most likely the established medical community's only diagnosis problem for these customers was how long they would last, nothing like an actual treatment. And as someone who lost a family member to cancer, false miracle cures do a lot more good to boost morale than cartons of ice cream. My dad would have spent all his savings on quacks if not for leaving us destitute after his death.
Bah, stupid tags. Let's try this again:
Greece != Iceland
Greeks != Icelanders
Generalizing in economics is what screws up models. Iceland had a banking problem. Greece has labor, welfare, and corruption problems. These are not similar problems.
Greece Iceland
Greeks Icelanders
Generalizing in economics is what screws up models. Iceland had a banking problem. Greece has labor, welfare, and corruption problems. These are not similar problems.
The "small" city-states of Ancient Greece may be small by our standards, but they were certainly large enough that mob rule is what happened. Any society that sentences Socrates to death is not functional. The Ancient Greeks had some of humanities greatest thinkers, but do not extrapolate that to mean that Ancient Greece was filled with intelligent thinkers. Quite the contrary from my readings.
Your math is based on wrong assumptions. Making rich people less rich does not prevent them from paying salaries. Making their company less rich does that. Hence why no one supports raising corporate taxes, even if some of us are against lowering it. Raising income taxes on those making $1 million (not their company, the person/family) does not take away from a company paying people money. Said rich person only needs to balance hiring someone new or paying themselves more. These are separate pools of money and are taxed differently. The decision is the same before or after any tax changes the House (as it is always in their corner) makes. And at the margins, this could create some jobs as rich people decide to pay themselves less to avoid hitting a new tax bracket.
You and my sibling post seem to be exceptions in the self-taught programming land. My current and previous bosses are both self-taught and although they are good programmers they are both terrible software engineers. Certainly they can get the job done. But if you want something extensible and maintainable, these are the wrong guys. They never learned to code in proper OOP and certainly have no understanding of design patterns. When presented with a simple solution, they take it, even if it means a full redesign 6 months down the road. My former boss thinks this is the core of agile programming. I believe I'm the only college graduate that has worked for him. Now he's caught in a trap lefted by a former co-worker who cowboy coded a swiss cheese sandwich. Our buyers are discarding all software from that team, putting him out of a job. I feel very strongly that the same would happen to my current boss were this new company bought-out. Thankfully I'm moving to a real agile development team next week!
insightful++
The newbies learn the new languages. Let them. I want to grow old and have my Y2K. I want to be pulled out of retirement so that I can flex my archaic Java EE 6 skills and fix basic problems for many times the standard hourly rate. Of course the COBOL guys will probably be making even more at that point...
Two of my closest friends have enrolled in the University of Phoenix. I'm very curious about it. Has it been the education you needed and helped you obtain work? An ex went to a similar school years ago. I attended some of her classes (she was on campus then) and they were pitiful. Not just the student body, but the teachers. The technical classes seemed competent even if uninspiring. She dropped out after learning that her friends couldn't find jobs after graduating. This is partially a stigma against for-profit schooling, but I have to say I couldn't accept those students as equivalent to state school graduates. That was almost a decade ago and I wonder if things have improved? Has it been a success for you?
Successful economy of the 70s? I wasn't around, but I was quite sure that was our first decade of rampant stagnation since the 30s. Of course, this also seems to be the start of government propping up failing economies until we break.
You misheard or read the much quoted "jobs" numbers without any context. Most Job seekers outnumber the jobs they are qualified to do. Some jobs available outnumber those who are qualified. The barrier to entry is education (various, not just college degree). Training is outsourced to schooling funded by banks backed by the government. Our jobs problem is really a bureaucratic nightmare with a well oiled pass-the-buck machine.
I think i-Pads|Phones|Pods are part of the computer industry. We can pretend that the home PC is something other than a consumer electronic, but I don't think that gets us far or messes with reality.
I certainly hope your friends at your old company will understand purely for this. No one should be commuting away so much of their day. That's either personal time or company time. Either one is trouble. Once you have some time with your new job and more than an hour opens up each day, you'll not think twice about your old job. Your friends perhaps, but let them continue being friends! I'd rather drive 45 minutes to a BBQ than a job!
The most important lesson I learned during the 2 theology course I took at the University of Notre Dame, is that even most Catholic priests have no idea what Catholic doctrine actually teaches. The laity are just as tied to the preacher's voice as any baptist community. The difference being that Catholics have a bit better vetting process for the crazies, even if the conditions of priesthood drive them to poor choices.
No it doesn't. Fully believing the theology of any religion is irrational, but being a religious follower for the community and spiritual insight is incredibly rational. I envy the Mormon church, not for their horrible history or laughable theology, but for the community and real ethical teachings. No atheist is part of a community so focused on being a good person and striving for the good life.
This has been well studied and if you think you and yours don't do the same thing you're probably missing something. Some people cross the line of illogical finger pointing. The rest of us just twist our perspective to one logical conclusion instead of another when the real answer is to blame no one.
Good job on injecting a purely technical Linux distro discussion with a hyperbolic rephrasing of one distro developer's political believes. You have certainly trolled hard today! Maybe a nice lemonade by daddy's pool is what you need. Thanks for being here!
Best not to mix petty politics in with actual insight. I know plenty of lefties who have no love of science and conservatives that can only think of the children. If there must be division, let it be one of understanding and knowledge versus ignorance and superstition.
I wish it were reversed. I want our kids to be held to the highest of standards. Make schools the paragon of meritocracy. Let the real world bring them back to reasonable expectations from this extreme, not the other.
The dotcom world is a service sector based on solid technology. It is not a manufacturing sector and the hardware necessary is not manufactured here, let alone requires anything like a big R&D project. The Internet/WWW are another conclusion of refining technologies developed in the 40s and 50s. Very big and important in a social context, but it is not itself a moon landing or a smallpox vaccine. Cowen's belief is the Internet will enable us to create a new big thing. The new big thing must be real innovation, something novel, not just an improvement of communications systems.
You can back up that statement how? Your dogma is showing. Might be best to understand why it's uninspiring and certainly doesn't add anything to this conversation.
No 6th grader is going to grok the scientific method. They need to learn it in 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th grade as well. Hopefully by then they will have absorbed it's utility. The entire point of the scientific method is that the human mind is not designed to work that way. It takes years of training to think that way. A better world would require kids to fully appreciate the scientific method BEFORE college. It's a shame we still have to train such thinking in college.
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Most likely the established medical community's only diagnosis problem for these customers was how long they would last, nothing like an actual treatment. And as someone who lost a family member to cancer, false miracle cures do a lot more good to boost morale than cartons of ice cream. My dad would have spent all his savings on quacks if not for leaving us destitute after his death.
Bah, stupid tags. Let's try this again:
Greece != Iceland
Greeks != Icelanders
Generalizing in economics is what screws up models. Iceland had a banking problem. Greece has labor, welfare, and corruption problems. These are not similar problems.
Greece Iceland Greeks Icelanders Generalizing in economics is what screws up models. Iceland had a banking problem. Greece has labor, welfare, and corruption problems. These are not similar problems.
The "small" city-states of Ancient Greece may be small by our standards, but they were certainly large enough that mob rule is what happened. Any society that sentences Socrates to death is not functional. The Ancient Greeks had some of humanities greatest thinkers, but do not extrapolate that to mean that Ancient Greece was filled with intelligent thinkers. Quite the contrary from my readings.
Sometimes 2nd Amendment activists scare me. Luckily a few of them are also my friends.
Your math is based on wrong assumptions. Making rich people less rich does not prevent them from paying salaries. Making their company less rich does that. Hence why no one supports raising corporate taxes, even if some of us are against lowering it. Raising income taxes on those making $1 million (not their company, the person/family) does not take away from a company paying people money. Said rich person only needs to balance hiring someone new or paying themselves more. These are separate pools of money and are taxed differently. The decision is the same before or after any tax changes the House (as it is always in their corner) makes. And at the margins, this could create some jobs as rich people decide to pay themselves less to avoid hitting a new tax bracket.
You and my sibling post seem to be exceptions in the self-taught programming land. My current and previous bosses are both self-taught and although they are good programmers they are both terrible software engineers. Certainly they can get the job done. But if you want something extensible and maintainable, these are the wrong guys. They never learned to code in proper OOP and certainly have no understanding of design patterns. When presented with a simple solution, they take it, even if it means a full redesign 6 months down the road. My former boss thinks this is the core of agile programming. I believe I'm the only college graduate that has worked for him. Now he's caught in a trap lefted by a former co-worker who cowboy coded a swiss cheese sandwich. Our buyers are discarding all software from that team, putting him out of a job. I feel very strongly that the same would happen to my current boss were this new company bought-out. Thankfully I'm moving to a real agile development team next week!
insightful++ The newbies learn the new languages. Let them. I want to grow old and have my Y2K. I want to be pulled out of retirement so that I can flex my archaic Java EE 6 skills and fix basic problems for many times the standard hourly rate. Of course the COBOL guys will probably be making even more at that point...
Two of my closest friends have enrolled in the University of Phoenix. I'm very curious about it. Has it been the education you needed and helped you obtain work? An ex went to a similar school years ago. I attended some of her classes (she was on campus then) and they were pitiful. Not just the student body, but the teachers. The technical classes seemed competent even if uninspiring. She dropped out after learning that her friends couldn't find jobs after graduating. This is partially a stigma against for-profit schooling, but I have to say I couldn't accept those students as equivalent to state school graduates. That was almost a decade ago and I wonder if things have improved? Has it been a success for you?
Successful economy of the 70s? I wasn't around, but I was quite sure that was our first decade of rampant stagnation since the 30s. Of course, this also seems to be the start of government propping up failing economies until we break.
Oooo, good post. "The increasing cost of education is the ruling class' way of combating what little social mobility is left." Excellent statement.
You misheard or read the much quoted "jobs" numbers without any context. Most Job seekers outnumber the jobs they are qualified to do. Some jobs available outnumber those who are qualified. The barrier to entry is education (various, not just college degree). Training is outsourced to schooling funded by banks backed by the government. Our jobs problem is really a bureaucratic nightmare with a well oiled pass-the-buck machine.
I think i-Pads|Phones|Pods are part of the computer industry. We can pretend that the home PC is something other than a consumer electronic, but I don't think that gets us far or messes with reality.
I certainly hope your friends at your old company will understand purely for this. No one should be commuting away so much of their day. That's either personal time or company time. Either one is trouble. Once you have some time with your new job and more than an hour opens up each day, you'll not think twice about your old job. Your friends perhaps, but let them continue being friends! I'd rather drive 45 minutes to a BBQ than a job!
The most important lesson I learned during the 2 theology course I took at the University of Notre Dame, is that even most Catholic priests have no idea what Catholic doctrine actually teaches. The laity are just as tied to the preacher's voice as any baptist community. The difference being that Catholics have a bit better vetting process for the crazies, even if the conditions of priesthood drive them to poor choices.
No it doesn't. Fully believing the theology of any religion is irrational, but being a religious follower for the community and spiritual insight is incredibly rational. I envy the Mormon church, not for their horrible history or laughable theology, but for the community and real ethical teachings. No atheist is part of a community so focused on being a good person and striving for the good life.
This has been well studied and if you think you and yours don't do the same thing you're probably missing something. Some people cross the line of illogical finger pointing. The rest of us just twist our perspective to one logical conclusion instead of another when the real answer is to blame no one.
Good job on injecting a purely technical Linux distro discussion with a hyperbolic rephrasing of one distro developer's political believes. You have certainly trolled hard today! Maybe a nice lemonade by daddy's pool is what you need. Thanks for being here!
Best not to mix petty politics in with actual insight. I know plenty of lefties who have no love of science and conservatives that can only think of the children. If there must be division, let it be one of understanding and knowledge versus ignorance and superstition.
I wish it were reversed. I want our kids to be held to the highest of standards. Make schools the paragon of meritocracy. Let the real world bring them back to reasonable expectations from this extreme, not the other.
I hope this means you won't be trolling his blog. The trolls seem to be increasing in numbers, especially when Slashdot links to it.
The dotcom world is a service sector based on solid technology. It is not a manufacturing sector and the hardware necessary is not manufactured here, let alone requires anything like a big R&D project. The Internet/WWW are another conclusion of refining technologies developed in the 40s and 50s. Very big and important in a social context, but it is not itself a moon landing or a smallpox vaccine. Cowen's belief is the Internet will enable us to create a new big thing. The new big thing must be real innovation, something novel, not just an improvement of communications systems.
You can back up that statement how? Your dogma is showing. Might be best to understand why it's uninspiring and certainly doesn't add anything to this conversation.
And the "they" do. Leaving us with a whole host of journalist that will never understand that their work massively influences people.
No 6th grader is going to grok the scientific method. They need to learn it in 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th grade as well. Hopefully by then they will have absorbed it's utility. The entire point of the scientific method is that the human mind is not designed to work that way. It takes years of training to think that way. A better world would require kids to fully appreciate the scientific method BEFORE college. It's a shame we still have to train such thinking in college.