I can see how my last two sentences could come off as offensive; they were not very sensitive. However, I'm not saying if you know what you are doing you will immediately get a job. I do believe that persistence will pay off.
I also don't understand why you aren't counted as unemployed and why you don't collect unemployment.
The answers to these might be because you are not an American citizen. I'm not sure if that is true or not, but from my experience it is definitely harder to get a job in the United States when you are not an American citizen.
For example after graduating college with a CompSci degree I got a job with a government defense contractor quite easily and it paid very well. This job and others of its type aren't open to non-citizens since it requires security clearance for national security reasons.
Now if you are an American citizen, I don't know why you are having such problems. I've since left the computer science field to pursue other opportunties (less than a year ago). I had no problems getting a job and the people I graduated with have been able to get jobs. Now those with lower gpas might have been unemployed for some months but they eventually got a job.
One thing that I do think holds many back from getting well paid jobs is their inability to communicate effectively with clients. Computer Science isn't just programming; in my experience it was just as much if not more interaction with clients and other employees. If you can't do this and don't get along with co-workers, well then getting a job and keeping it will be difficult.
Also, I don't like to be an elitist with education institutions, but if you pick a university with a lower reputation than others, it will be more difficult to get a job. I personally didn't go to an ivy league or private school. My state school though provided an excellent education, has very good connections with the industry and a high placement percentage for its graduates.
Hopefully, you've just had bad luck and with a master's degree you will become more marketable and be successful in your job search.
Yes, and those unemployment numbers make sense.
You count people who want to work but can't get a job as unemployed.
Why would you count someone as unemployed who does not want to work? Do you want to count retired people as unemployed also? How about children? If you don't want to work and aren't looking for a job, you are not unemployed. You are a lazy bum who could get a job but aren't trying.
By the way, no matter what the market is like, it is never hard to get a job if you are good at what you are doing. If you are a hard worker and know your stuff, you will get a job. If you aren't and are stupid, well then it might be difficult to keep one.
UK is a parliamentary system.
U.S. is a constitutional system.
First off, if the Senate passed such an act, it would mean nothing, since the House would have to pass the same bill (which I doubt they would), and the President would have to sign.
Furthermore, even if the House passed and the President signed, the bill would not be able to become effective, because it would be an unconstitutional act and the Supreme Court would strike it down. Note, the Supreme Court has the final authority in interpreting the Constitution, which is the Supreme Law of the land. Marbury v. Madison.
For this to happen and have effect, a constitutional amendment would need to be passed, which is extremely difficult. For that you need 2/3 vote of both houses (or convention called by 2/3 or state legislatures which has never been done, I believe) and ratification by 3/4 of the states.
Also, bypassing the House of Representatives would be nothing like bypassing the House of Lords. First of all, the House of Representatives is the closest body to the people (which is why they are the only body that has authority to bring spending bills).
So a slightly better allusion would be bypassing the Senate. This still would not be a good comparison though, because both our houses are elected.
The House of Lords is not elected.
I think that covers it.
Ice hockey is Canadian. It is also popular in the United States (more NHL teams here since we have a lot more people). However, ice hokey is very unpopular on American television. It gets horrible ratings and is aired on some obscure sports channel (outdoor sports network I think) not even ESPN or Fox Sports (at least last time I checked). Not too popular and then after the strike, it became really not popular.
Also, our sport of baseball has caught on in much of the world (latin america and japan), and hopefully this will continue.
They can't just come in and take it out though.
If they own it, it is probably because you didn't pay full price for it. If you don't want them to own it, you could always provide all the cable wiring yourself.
Killing in self-defense for the most part is legal (i.e. it's not just mitigated to manslaughter, you get completely off).
In America, you can almost always stand your ground and fight back against an attacker. However, you can only kill in self-defense if the attacker threatens serious bodily harm or death. In your home, you will most likely get off even if he is threatening serious bodily harm.
I believe in a few states though and England, you are required to flee from the attacker if able to so safely. Therefore, in those places your ability kill in self-defense is very limited. America has for the most part rejected such a doctrine. Many American judges throughout history have even gone so far as to call those who flee "cowards" and have stated that it is the right of every human being to "stand his ground."
I'd have to research this, but you might not actually own the coaxial cable in your house.
First off the cable would probably be a fixture and become part of the house. This is if the contract is quiet on the matter. You would have to look at the contract. Under your contract, Comcast (or whatever) might say it continues to own the coaxial cable. In that case the cable company could remove the wire if they wanted to most likely (couldn't damage house in doing so of course).
Not at all; that was merely a dictionary definition of a progressive definition.
Your problem is that you are assuming the word "progress" only has the definition "to develop a higher, better, or more advanced stage."
It can also mean "to move forward." The word as a noun can mean "gradual betterment", which does denote the moral sense, but can also simply mean "a forward or onward move."
In this sense of the word a "progressive tax" is a tax characterized by a "progression" or a "a sequence of numbers in which each term is related to its predecessor by a uniform law". In a progressive tax system the higher the income the higher the tax. It can be a linear relation or such other as created.
Thus calling this system a "progressive tax" is correct and does not have to denote a moral sense of betterment. To use the progressive tax in that sense is actually putting spin on the word.
The fact that Americans don't speak multiple languages also stems from the geopolitical reality of the nation. I can drive thousands of miles in any direction, and the language never changes. You cannot say the same thing about Europe. It is necessary to learn multiple languages in Europe. In America it is just not so.
Now, this will hopefully change in the future. Spanish is becoming quite prevalent. Also, with the fact that travel across the globe is so easy, hopefully Americans will become more and more bilingual. Hopefully, American schools will start to teach a second language at an early age, as this will largely wipe out the discrepancy.
I'm confused. One tenth of the Parliament can vote on something? Don't you need a quorum to conduct business? It seems ridiculous to allow such a small part of Parliament to conduct business. Then again, I guess you don't have to worry about long and boring quorum calls.
Wow, that is a rip off. The most expensive XBox 360 games in the US according to Bestbuy.com are $60. The Euro is worth more than the US Dollar. A 70 Euro game is $83.55. They are ripping you Europeans off. Of course, I guess everything in Europe is more expensive.
I also, I admit, have just about no understanding of how currency exchances and such work. Since everything is more expensive in Europe, do Europeans make more money at their jobs? If so, a Brittish person should work his ass off for a few years living like a bum, and then move to America.
I doubt America would be paying taxes to England without France's help in the revolutionary war. Is Canada still paying taxes to England? How about India? Australia? I think you get my point.
But, yes, France was instrumental in America gaining its freedom. It didn't do it out of the bottom of its heart though. It intervened for its own reasons; just as America intervened in WWII for its own safety and not to just free France from Nazi oppression.
These threads are just ridiculous, with absurd anti-American claims, and claims in the opposite direction. I'd say most people that come to Slashdot should stick to debates on technology and science, and stay out of other areas, as they just embarrass themselves.
Same here, except one of the reasons they do it, is so other classmates can't IM you answers when you are being called on. Law schools use the socratic method, not lectures.
Actually, it is up to the professor if you are allowed on the internet or not during class.
From my experience, St. Louis schools don't cancel too much b/c of snow. I am 21 so I'm not too far out. Now I'm in Nashville, and they cancelled school b/c they thought it might flood, and then it barely even rained.
My high school rarely cancelled until one day two buses got in accidents. Then I think they were a little more scared because of potential law suits. You see a lot of closings for the more rural areas, because it takes forever for their roads to be cleared. The street I lived on would be cleared within hours. St. Louis is also a very spread out city, which means a lot of roads to clear, but really they do quite a good job with that.
St. Louis traffic sucks really only during rush hour and when there is construction, with lanes closed. That seems to be quite often though, because MODOT is completely incompetent. I watched a worker sit on the curb on my street for 4 straight hours without doing a single thing but eat his lunch.
My only complaint with St. Louis drivers are that they don't seem to know that the left lane is for passing. At least they know that a red light means stop. In Nashville, TN, the first 3 seconds mean you can keep going.
Say a common poster here makes $50,000 and he donates a $.10 to charity. If Bill Gates donating $258 million to charity and that is the equivalent of my dime, than his annual salary would have to be $129 trillion. So, your comment is way off base. $258 million is quite a large donation.
What's the deal with this nipple business that keeps coming up? I guess America just has different morals than Europe. Nudity isn't accepted as much here (as a guy, I agree with Europeans). We don't block out nudity, porn, etc in the proper channels though.
We are seeing a lot more of what is going on with the soldiers in Iraq than we ever have in any other war. Bad stuff happens in war, sorry but that is the fact.
Really bad stuff happened in World War II - a war that is highly glamorized. If you think no criminal actions took place on either side, than you are sadly mistaken.
Doing business with them is a much better way of bringing them around to capitalism, and then democracy and freedom, than the alternative.
Plus, I like cheap stuff.
I'll admit it, America is better than the rest of the world. Obviously, we can't trust people in other countries, since they don't even have the sense to emigrate here. There is nothing wrong with having a little nationalistic feeling - as long as you don't go overboard.
Calm down with the Anti-American rhetoric - it's getting old.
Hell yeah, we invented the damn thing. Stop trying to steal it. We've been nice enough to let you use it; you should say thank you, and stop bitching. For the most part the only good sites anyway are American, English, and Australian. Maybe we'll give them some say, but screw the rest of you. If you speak fluent english and I don't even know you are foreign, then you are ok too. I'm not serious by the way.
What has gone on with the internet that is unfair to other nations? It seems like the only countries clammoring are countries like China, and freedom of speech on the net is essential.
Who else would control it, the U.N.? The internet would probably disintegrate. Might as well give control of it to a kindergarten class. I don't care if control stays completely within American control, but it cannot go to a political organization - that would be horrible.
Until there is a need, keep it how it is. If change is needed, make sure it is an independent, non-political (as much as possible, obviously), and technical organization.
I imagine the information itself is not copyrighted. The numbers in a phonebook itself are not copyrighted. This is information freely available. How it is arranged, and the design, that is copyrighted. So if you are just taking name of episode, tv cast, etc that is not copyrighted by CNET, since that is information freely available, at places such as the shows actual website. Miscellaneous commentary might be copyrighted though. This is probably a question best left for an intellectual property attorney.
I just graduated with a CompSci degree. If I was working where I did as a summer intern I would be making a little over $50,000 a year, with an extra 12% of that automatically put in my 401K on top, plus 2-3% in stock.
Instead I am making $-30,000 a year to go to law school, and will eventually work in intellectual property. If I was graduating right now I would be making $90,000 a year.
Note salary if I stayed at my summer job is for Hunstville, AL so very low cost of living. Lawyer job is for St. Louis which also has a very low cost of living.
I'm not sure where you are from, but living in the suburbs is definitely a lot safer than living in the city in America. It is also a lot nicer looking, with much better public schooling. Now, they are not usually sleeper towns, because not all people actually work in the city, I'm not sure if even most people make that commute. Take St. Louis, MO for example. It is a very spread out city, with lots of different municipalities. Nobody wants to go to school in St. Louis City, as they are very bad schools. Everyone obviously has to drive to work and waste much gas, be it to another municipality or the city. There is no real public transportation. Note, St. Louis is very odd, because the city and county are different governmental units.
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I believe that restrictions on the back of a ticket usually aren't enforceable.
I can see how my last two sentences could come off as offensive; they were not very sensitive. However, I'm not saying if you know what you are doing you will immediately get a job. I do believe that persistence will pay off. I also don't understand why you aren't counted as unemployed and why you don't collect unemployment. The answers to these might be because you are not an American citizen. I'm not sure if that is true or not, but from my experience it is definitely harder to get a job in the United States when you are not an American citizen. For example after graduating college with a CompSci degree I got a job with a government defense contractor quite easily and it paid very well. This job and others of its type aren't open to non-citizens since it requires security clearance for national security reasons. Now if you are an American citizen, I don't know why you are having such problems. I've since left the computer science field to pursue other opportunties (less than a year ago). I had no problems getting a job and the people I graduated with have been able to get jobs. Now those with lower gpas might have been unemployed for some months but they eventually got a job. One thing that I do think holds many back from getting well paid jobs is their inability to communicate effectively with clients. Computer Science isn't just programming; in my experience it was just as much if not more interaction with clients and other employees. If you can't do this and don't get along with co-workers, well then getting a job and keeping it will be difficult. Also, I don't like to be an elitist with education institutions, but if you pick a university with a lower reputation than others, it will be more difficult to get a job. I personally didn't go to an ivy league or private school. My state school though provided an excellent education, has very good connections with the industry and a high placement percentage for its graduates. Hopefully, you've just had bad luck and with a master's degree you will become more marketable and be successful in your job search.
Yes, and those unemployment numbers make sense. You count people who want to work but can't get a job as unemployed. Why would you count someone as unemployed who does not want to work? Do you want to count retired people as unemployed also? How about children? If you don't want to work and aren't looking for a job, you are not unemployed. You are a lazy bum who could get a job but aren't trying. By the way, no matter what the market is like, it is never hard to get a job if you are good at what you are doing. If you are a hard worker and know your stuff, you will get a job. If you aren't and are stupid, well then it might be difficult to keep one.
UK is a parliamentary system. U.S. is a constitutional system. First off, if the Senate passed such an act, it would mean nothing, since the House would have to pass the same bill (which I doubt they would), and the President would have to sign. Furthermore, even if the House passed and the President signed, the bill would not be able to become effective, because it would be an unconstitutional act and the Supreme Court would strike it down. Note, the Supreme Court has the final authority in interpreting the Constitution, which is the Supreme Law of the land. Marbury v. Madison. For this to happen and have effect, a constitutional amendment would need to be passed, which is extremely difficult. For that you need 2/3 vote of both houses (or convention called by 2/3 or state legislatures which has never been done, I believe) and ratification by 3/4 of the states. Also, bypassing the House of Representatives would be nothing like bypassing the House of Lords. First of all, the House of Representatives is the closest body to the people (which is why they are the only body that has authority to bring spending bills). So a slightly better allusion would be bypassing the Senate. This still would not be a good comparison though, because both our houses are elected. The House of Lords is not elected. I think that covers it.
Ice hockey is Canadian. It is also popular in the United States (more NHL teams here since we have a lot more people). However, ice hokey is very unpopular on American television. It gets horrible ratings and is aired on some obscure sports channel (outdoor sports network I think) not even ESPN or Fox Sports (at least last time I checked). Not too popular and then after the strike, it became really not popular. Also, our sport of baseball has caught on in much of the world (latin america and japan), and hopefully this will continue.
They can't just come in and take it out though. If they own it, it is probably because you didn't pay full price for it. If you don't want them to own it, you could always provide all the cable wiring yourself.
Killing in self-defense for the most part is legal (i.e. it's not just mitigated to manslaughter, you get completely off).
In America, you can almost always stand your ground and fight back against an attacker. However, you can only kill in self-defense if the attacker threatens serious bodily harm or death. In your home, you will most likely get off even if he is threatening serious bodily harm.
I believe in a few states though and England, you are required to flee from the attacker if able to so safely. Therefore, in those places your ability kill in self-defense is very limited. America has for the most part rejected such a doctrine. Many American judges throughout history have even gone so far as to call those who flee "cowards" and have stated that it is the right of every human being to "stand his ground."
I'd have to research this, but you might not actually own the coaxial cable in your house. First off the cable would probably be a fixture and become part of the house. This is if the contract is quiet on the matter. You would have to look at the contract. Under your contract, Comcast (or whatever) might say it continues to own the coaxial cable. In that case the cable company could remove the wire if they wanted to most likely (couldn't damage house in doing so of course).
Not at all; that was merely a dictionary definition of a progressive definition. Your problem is that you are assuming the word "progress" only has the definition "to develop a higher, better, or more advanced stage." It can also mean "to move forward." The word as a noun can mean "gradual betterment", which does denote the moral sense, but can also simply mean "a forward or onward move." In this sense of the word a "progressive tax" is a tax characterized by a "progression" or a "a sequence of numbers in which each term is related to its predecessor by a uniform law". In a progressive tax system the higher the income the higher the tax. It can be a linear relation or such other as created. Thus calling this system a "progressive tax" is correct and does not have to denote a moral sense of betterment. To use the progressive tax in that sense is actually putting spin on the word.
The fact that Americans don't speak multiple languages also stems from the geopolitical reality of the nation. I can drive thousands of miles in any direction, and the language never changes. You cannot say the same thing about Europe. It is necessary to learn multiple languages in Europe. In America it is just not so. Now, this will hopefully change in the future. Spanish is becoming quite prevalent. Also, with the fact that travel across the globe is so easy, hopefully Americans will become more and more bilingual. Hopefully, American schools will start to teach a second language at an early age, as this will largely wipe out the discrepancy.
If she didn't buy a CD under the price fixing scheme she would have no injury, and thus, no standing to sue in court.
I'm confused. One tenth of the Parliament can vote on something? Don't you need a quorum to conduct business? It seems ridiculous to allow such a small part of Parliament to conduct business. Then again, I guess you don't have to worry about long and boring quorum calls.
Wow, that is a rip off. The most expensive XBox 360 games in the US according to Bestbuy.com are $60. The Euro is worth more than the US Dollar. A 70 Euro game is $83.55. They are ripping you Europeans off. Of course, I guess everything in Europe is more expensive. I also, I admit, have just about no understanding of how currency exchances and such work. Since everything is more expensive in Europe, do Europeans make more money at their jobs? If so, a Brittish person should work his ass off for a few years living like a bum, and then move to America.
I doubt America would be paying taxes to England without France's help in the revolutionary war. Is Canada still paying taxes to England? How about India? Australia? I think you get my point. But, yes, France was instrumental in America gaining its freedom. It didn't do it out of the bottom of its heart though. It intervened for its own reasons; just as America intervened in WWII for its own safety and not to just free France from Nazi oppression. These threads are just ridiculous, with absurd anti-American claims, and claims in the opposite direction. I'd say most people that come to Slashdot should stick to debates on technology and science, and stay out of other areas, as they just embarrass themselves.
Same here, except one of the reasons they do it, is so other classmates can't IM you answers when you are being called on. Law schools use the socratic method, not lectures. Actually, it is up to the professor if you are allowed on the internet or not during class.
But not as pathetic as intelligent design.
From my experience, St. Louis schools don't cancel too much b/c of snow. I am 21 so I'm not too far out. Now I'm in Nashville, and they cancelled school b/c they thought it might flood, and then it barely even rained. My high school rarely cancelled until one day two buses got in accidents. Then I think they were a little more scared because of potential law suits. You see a lot of closings for the more rural areas, because it takes forever for their roads to be cleared. The street I lived on would be cleared within hours. St. Louis is also a very spread out city, which means a lot of roads to clear, but really they do quite a good job with that. St. Louis traffic sucks really only during rush hour and when there is construction, with lanes closed. That seems to be quite often though, because MODOT is completely incompetent. I watched a worker sit on the curb on my street for 4 straight hours without doing a single thing but eat his lunch. My only complaint with St. Louis drivers are that they don't seem to know that the left lane is for passing. At least they know that a red light means stop. In Nashville, TN, the first 3 seconds mean you can keep going.
Say a common poster here makes $50,000 and he donates a $.10 to charity. If Bill Gates donating $258 million to charity and that is the equivalent of my dime, than his annual salary would have to be $129 trillion. So, your comment is way off base. $258 million is quite a large donation.
What's the deal with this nipple business that keeps coming up? I guess America just has different morals than Europe. Nudity isn't accepted as much here (as a guy, I agree with Europeans). We don't block out nudity, porn, etc in the proper channels though. We are seeing a lot more of what is going on with the soldiers in Iraq than we ever have in any other war. Bad stuff happens in war, sorry but that is the fact. Really bad stuff happened in World War II - a war that is highly glamorized. If you think no criminal actions took place on either side, than you are sadly mistaken.
Doing business with them is a much better way of bringing them around to capitalism, and then democracy and freedom, than the alternative. Plus, I like cheap stuff.
I'll admit it, America is better than the rest of the world. Obviously, we can't trust people in other countries, since they don't even have the sense to emigrate here. There is nothing wrong with having a little nationalistic feeling - as long as you don't go overboard. Calm down with the Anti-American rhetoric - it's getting old.
Hell yeah, we invented the damn thing. Stop trying to steal it. We've been nice enough to let you use it; you should say thank you, and stop bitching. For the most part the only good sites anyway are American, English, and Australian. Maybe we'll give them some say, but screw the rest of you. If you speak fluent english and I don't even know you are foreign, then you are ok too. I'm not serious by the way. What has gone on with the internet that is unfair to other nations? It seems like the only countries clammoring are countries like China, and freedom of speech on the net is essential. Who else would control it, the U.N.? The internet would probably disintegrate. Might as well give control of it to a kindergarten class. I don't care if control stays completely within American control, but it cannot go to a political organization - that would be horrible. Until there is a need, keep it how it is. If change is needed, make sure it is an independent, non-political (as much as possible, obviously), and technical organization.
I imagine the information itself is not copyrighted. The numbers in a phonebook itself are not copyrighted. This is information freely available. How it is arranged, and the design, that is copyrighted. So if you are just taking name of episode, tv cast, etc that is not copyrighted by CNET, since that is information freely available, at places such as the shows actual website. Miscellaneous commentary might be copyrighted though. This is probably a question best left for an intellectual property attorney.
I just graduated with a CompSci degree. If I was working where I did as a summer intern I would be making a little over $50,000 a year, with an extra 12% of that automatically put in my 401K on top, plus 2-3% in stock. Instead I am making $-30,000 a year to go to law school, and will eventually work in intellectual property. If I was graduating right now I would be making $90,000 a year. Note salary if I stayed at my summer job is for Hunstville, AL so very low cost of living. Lawyer job is for St. Louis which also has a very low cost of living.
I'm not sure where you are from, but living in the suburbs is definitely a lot safer than living in the city in America. It is also a lot nicer looking, with much better public schooling. Now, they are not usually sleeper towns, because not all people actually work in the city, I'm not sure if even most people make that commute. Take St. Louis, MO for example. It is a very spread out city, with lots of different municipalities. Nobody wants to go to school in St. Louis City, as they are very bad schools. Everyone obviously has to drive to work and waste much gas, be it to another municipality or the city. There is no real public transportation. Note, St. Louis is very odd, because the city and county are different governmental units.