In the US they're unconstitutional, or some such (banned by an appellate court for some reason at least, I forget what). Jobs that used to hire by IQ have replaced those with college degrees.
The IQ cap for cops thing isn't an actual IQ test, but they give applicants an assessment exam, and many (probably not all) departments will at least discourage applicants who score too highly on the reasoning that they will be dissatisfied with their job and unlikely to tow the line.
I was 23 out of ~800. On a non-weighted scale I mgiht have been 50th, without my non-weighted classes I might have been 19th.
Either way, none of these things meant half as much over the course of the six years since I graduated high school as everyone seemed to think they would.
he union wouldn't allow Escalante's successor to jam more than 35 students into his classes. Which I think is a good thing.
YEAH! Screw those kids who actually want to get an education, and would have benefited much more from being included than being excluded. FUCK THEM! We need smaller class sizes even though we have no idea why! We don't actually care about kids learning, give us our made up numbers!
This is why colleges do not use the GPA's as stated by high schools, but calculate them separately in the admissions process. My school instituted a system meant to fix the problem of non-weighted classes lowering your GPA (mostly only a problem for us band-members) resulted in a situation where by taking six classes weighed 5.0 you actually got a 5.25 GPA. I forget what equation they used that did this, but it was retarded.
Of course there's a limit, which is why as goods productivity rises more workers move into services. There are problems with this, but most of them could be at least partially solved by 1) treating capital gains as regular income (because rising goods productivity tends to favor capital gains income over wage income) and 2) adjustments over time in the wage structure of the service sectors.
The point of the LiveCD is that there it is rather difficult for hackers to compromise (owing to the physical, unalterable nature of the disk image). It has nothing to do with obscurity--the point is that each time they boot a verified, trusted disk image and then go straight to the bank's website--without a keylogger in the motherboard there aren't really any useful attack vectors.
Multiply the Chinese economy by a factor of 5 to 10 to give you the real value of Chinese manufacturing. The USA is far, far behind.
No economist with half a brain would endorse this. Even on a PPP basis (the actual adjustment an economist would use, which gives a factor of less than two), the US is not behind.
For the year 2008, the Federal Reserve estimates that the value of U.S. manufacturing output was about $3.7 trillion (in 2008 dollars). If the U.S. manufacturing sector were a separate economy, with its own GDP, it would be tied with Germany as the world's fourth-richest economy. The GDPs are: U.S. ($14.2 trillion), Japan ($4.9 trillion), China ($4.3 trillion), U.S. manufacturing ($3.7 trillion), Germany ($3.7 trillion), France ($2.9 trillion) and the United Kingdom ($2.7 trillion).
More data from the same Federal Reserve report from last November:
Manufacturing has seen the same changes over the last forty years that agriculture saw over the previous two hundred: Productivity per worker rose so much that fewer and fewer workers were needed to produce just as much stuff. This freed those workers to do other things, increasing the wealth of society. So manufacturing jobs have fallen--but we produce more than we ever have, and more than anyone else, including China. This is a GOOD thing, because it frees those workers to do other things, producing more goods and services for society as a whole.
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Tell them to stop watching CSI. You'd think THEY would know that stuff isn't real.
In the US they're unconstitutional, or some such (banned by an appellate court for some reason at least, I forget what). Jobs that used to hire by IQ have replaced those with college degrees.
The IQ cap for cops thing isn't an actual IQ test, but they give applicants an assessment exam, and many (probably not all) departments will at least discourage applicants who score too highly on the reasoning that they will be dissatisfied with their job and unlikely to tow the line.
I was 23 out of ~800. On a non-weighted scale I mgiht have been 50th, without my non-weighted classes I might have been 19th.
Either way, none of these things meant half as much over the course of the six years since I graduated high school as everyone seemed to think they would.
Right, cause all those University of Southern California graduates are starving because their school wasn't named OJ Simpson's Murder-rama University.
he union wouldn't allow Escalante's successor to jam more than 35 students into his classes. Which I think is a good thing.
YEAH! Screw those kids who actually want to get an education, and would have benefited much more from being included than being excluded. FUCK THEM! We need smaller class sizes even though we have no idea why! We don't actually care about kids learning, give us our made up numbers!
Not news. This was even in the movie. They all retook a new, different, and harder test, and the all STILL passed it.
This is why colleges do not use the GPA's as stated by high schools, but calculate them separately in the admissions process. My school instituted a system meant to fix the problem of non-weighted classes lowering your GPA (mostly only a problem for us band-members) resulted in a situation where by taking six classes weighed 5.0 you actually got a 5.25 GPA. I forget what equation they used that did this, but it was retarded.
Abstinence...abstinence...Abstinence...
You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means.
Which is a good idea if you've just spilled something hazardous on yourself--like that dirty hoebag.
Good luck finding a house in southern california.
I'm hardly a free market fundie.
Of course there's a limit, which is why as goods productivity rises more workers move into services. There are problems with this, but most of them could be at least partially solved by 1) treating capital gains as regular income (because rising goods productivity tends to favor capital gains income over wage income) and 2) adjustments over time in the wage structure of the service sectors.
None of which matters if the CD directs straight to the bank page (and especially if it whitelists only that url).
People already do this with their cellphones, though the security of those is somewhat easier to compromise.
The point of the LiveCD is that there it is rather difficult for hackers to compromise (owing to the physical, unalterable nature of the disk image). It has nothing to do with obscurity--the point is that each time they boot a verified, trusted disk image and then go straight to the bank's website--without a keylogger in the motherboard there aren't really any useful attack vectors.
USB drive then?
No, it really wasn't. Don't why the above was AC, but it was me, the guy who posted the original.
You can block numbers from reaching your cell with GV. My number is xxx-xxx-[first name]. Freaking awesome.
Awesome. Got any invites?
Multiply the Chinese economy by a factor of 5 to 10 to give you the real value of Chinese manufacturing. The USA is far, far behind.
No economist with half a brain would endorse this. Even on a PPP basis (the actual adjustment an economist would use, which gives a factor of less than two), the US is not behind.
No, they haven't. Data from a Federal Reserve report from six months ago says the same thing:
http://blog.american.com/?p=8593
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=121034 Cites a Federal Reserve Report for last November.
For the year 2008, the Federal Reserve estimates that the value of U.S. manufacturing output was about $3.7 trillion (in 2008 dollars). If the U.S. manufacturing sector were a separate economy, with its own GDP, it would be tied with Germany as the world's fourth-richest economy. The GDPs are: U.S. ($14.2 trillion), Japan ($4.9 trillion), China ($4.3 trillion), U.S. manufacturing ($3.7 trillion), Germany ($3.7 trillion), France ($2.9 trillion) and the United Kingdom ($2.7 trillion).
More data from the same Federal Reserve report from last November:
http://blog.american.com/?p=8593
Manufacturing has seen the same changes over the last forty years that agriculture saw over the previous two hundred: Productivity per worker rose so much that fewer and fewer workers were needed to produce just as much stuff. This freed those workers to do other things, increasing the wealth of society. So manufacturing jobs have fallen--but we produce more than we ever have, and more than anyone else, including China. This is a GOOD thing, because it frees those workers to do other things, producing more goods and services for society as a whole.
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Parent post filled with misinformed bullshit.
The US remains the leading manufacturer in the world by value: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Economy#Manufacturing
DO. NOT. TOP. POST.
Thank you.
edit: /. whines about too many caps. Fuck you /., I have a goddamn point to make.
Been there, done that.
Not according to the Great Wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scoville_scale#List_of_Scoville_ratings
To summ up your post:
It's not pepper spray, it's sprayed pepper.
Really?