Not necessarily, at least not in ancient Greece. Hundreds of years after Homer was written down, children would still memorize it in school, orators would still spout of line upon line on request, etc.
No, I dislike Microsoft for two major reasons: one is that they promote and maintain a monoculture, and actively try to make that monoculture incompatible with anything else.
Monoculture? What about Apple? Microsoft ain't the only 'monoculture' in town.
Wow... I didn't think such morons existed. Perhaps you should try reading his books without your foggy right wing glasses on. He is widely regarded as one of the finest Post-WWII American authors.
You degree is worth the directly career relevent knowledge you gained while in school; not the effort or dedication you put into earning it. If you are being hired by someone objective they will only be interested in things relevent to the position.
Spoken like a university dropout, maybe? This is a bad way to look at things. If anything, being able to work your way through 4 (or more) years of a bachelor's degree, not to mention however many years of graduate school, means that (A) you show commitment to a task, (B) you can finish what you started, (C) you know how to focus, (D) you've learned a ton of analytical, critical thinking, and other related skills. While the stuff you learn in school may not be absolutely, positively, 100 percent applicable to every job you get (and if you think it should be that way, you've got the wrong attitude about academics), it nonetheless teaches a whole load of general working, thinking, analyzing, etc. skills that any employer would find useful.
In short, it is about the effort or dedication you put into earning it. Employers WANT employees who have dedication, and who are willing to exert effort for extending periods of time.
A free society must tolerate some lawlessness or it is no longer free.
Uhh... actually, a free society should not tolerate lawlessness, since the law outlines actions that are prohibited - actions not to be tolerated.
Nope, it isn't right to litter or burgle or murder or rape. But it also isn't right to keep adding powers and new surveillance technology to police forces until they are as omniscient as God.
Talk about a straw man: this technology makes nothing as 'omniscient as God', and it's a bad 'slippery slope' line of thought to think that it's going to lead to that.
Lawlessness should never be tolerated. Or will you let someone kill one of your family members, since (as you say) "a free society must tolerate some lawnessness or it is no longer free"? Come on: sacrifice a loved one for the good of the nation, I dare you.
While 'normal' people may view them as objective, news agencies (Reuters, Dan Rather, and the like) are hardly authoritative sources of information in the academic world.
Now, if only their in-store employees would do the same thing, then we'd get some REAL deals merchandise. What's that? Nobody at the cash register? Oh well, I'll just pay later...
Sorry, but you're just as greedy as anyone else, you just want to force ME to live your way. I want YOU to live how you want to live, and me to live how I want to live. Who's the tyrant here?
Erm... I don't believe I tried to force you to do anything. Read my post again, let me know if you still have comprehension problems, and I'll try to clarify it for you.
Have you considered the possibility that maybe the bottom line -- money, the economy -- should NOT be the deciding factor in every single thing you do?
I'd rather make $50,000 a year and live a good, healthy life eating good food (organic as much as possible at least!) and CARING about what goes into my mouth, than making $150,000 a year, being a penny pincher (which, from your posts, I can see you are), eating low quality junk, and dying when I'm 60.
But hey, you've got money, right?
Whoop de-do.
I'm very happy I don't live in the US, away from money-obsessed nuisances like you. I'll take my quality of living over a few extra bucks any day.
What's it like being ignorant? That's a very nice straw man argument you've constructed: pick a few bad examples of failed human specimens, and then represent them as being all the evidence we have for human evolution. Maybe you shouldn't bring a knife to a gun fight.
This Wikipedia page has links to dozens of specimens of various stages of human evolution. Some even with pictures! I know, I know, you might actually learn something that contradicts your small-mindedness, but it might be worth it.
This page on the Smithsonian Museum's website (I know, I know, it's a 'devil's facility', but bear with me) also has a lot of stuff on evolution, including specimens. But, again, you might actually learn something, and then your straw man would fall apart.
Follow these links with caution, Christian warrior!
Star Wars is a childhood thing for me too, and I still love it today. BUT...
You're bang on... mostly. The plot may be unimaginative, but it works wonders! I do agree about the bad acting and general lameness at times.
What gets is these days is when people complain about the acting and dialogue in the new trilogy. Let's face it, the dialogue in the original trilogy was just plain CHEESY! Not any better than the new stuff. It's just nostalgia (which I admit to fully buying into!).
And, really, there's not much bad acting in the new trilogy, not any more than any other movie. Hayden Christensen is a little wooden at times but that's OK. And I still thought it was uber cool when Vader finally appeared at the end of episode three...
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Anecdotal evidence does not make a rule.
Are you kidding me?
Not necessarily, at least not in ancient Greece. Hundreds of years after Homer was written down, children would still memorize it in school, orators would still spout of line upon line on request, etc.
Get over yourself.
No, I dislike Microsoft for two major reasons: one is that they promote and maintain a monoculture, and actively try to make that monoculture incompatible with anything else.
Monoculture? What about Apple? Microsoft ain't the only 'monoculture' in town.
Maybe if you felt so strongly about it you wouldn't post as an anonymous coward. By the way, what does "hunh" mean?
10) Waste time posting comments on a computer bulletin board?
In other words, it's a game with too much hype.
Wow... I didn't think such morons existed. Perhaps you should try reading his books without your foggy right wing glasses on. He is widely regarded as one of the finest Post-WWII American authors.
Agreed - when I develop apps I use Visual Studio in Parallels.
But on the other hand, TextMate's not supposed to be an IDE.
Spoken like a university dropout, maybe? This is a bad way to look at things. If anything, being able to work your way through 4 (or more) years of a bachelor's degree, not to mention however many years of graduate school, means that (A) you show commitment to a task, (B) you can finish what you started, (C) you know how to focus, (D) you've learned a ton of analytical, critical thinking, and other related skills. While the stuff you learn in school may not be absolutely, positively, 100 percent applicable to every job you get (and if you think it should be that way, you've got the wrong attitude about academics), it nonetheless teaches a whole load of general working, thinking, analyzing, etc. skills that any employer would find useful.
In short, it is about the effort or dedication you put into earning it. Employers WANT employees who have dedication, and who are willing to exert effort for extending periods of time.
Some people take everything seriously.
A free society must tolerate some lawlessness or it is no longer free.
Uhh... actually, a free society should not tolerate lawlessness, since the law outlines actions that are prohibited - actions not to be tolerated.
Nope, it isn't right to litter or burgle or murder or rape. But it also isn't right to keep adding powers and new surveillance technology to police forces until they are as omniscient as God.
Talk about a straw man: this technology makes nothing as 'omniscient as God', and it's a bad 'slippery slope' line of thought to think that it's going to lead to that.
Lawlessness should never be tolerated. Or will you let someone kill one of your family members, since (as you say) "a free society must tolerate some lawnessness or it is no longer free"? Come on: sacrifice a loved one for the good of the nation, I dare you.
While 'normal' people may view them as objective, news agencies (Reuters, Dan Rather, and the like) are hardly authoritative sources of information in the academic world.
Now, if only their in-store employees would do the same thing, then we'd get some REAL deals merchandise. What's that? Nobody at the cash register? Oh well, I'll just pay later...
Erm... I don't believe I tried to force you to do anything. Read my post again, let me know if you still have comprehension problems, and I'll try to clarify it for you.
Have you considered the possibility that maybe the bottom line -- money, the economy -- should NOT be the deciding factor in every single thing you do? I'd rather make $50,000 a year and live a good, healthy life eating good food (organic as much as possible at least!) and CARING about what goes into my mouth, than making $150,000 a year, being a penny pincher (which, from your posts, I can see you are), eating low quality junk, and dying when I'm 60. But hey, you've got money, right? Whoop de-do. I'm very happy I don't live in the US, away from money-obsessed nuisances like you. I'll take my quality of living over a few extra bucks any day.
Since when do we take orders from anonymous cowards?
This Wikipedia page has links to dozens of specimens of various stages of human evolution. Some even with pictures! I know, I know, you might actually learn something that contradicts your small-mindedness, but it might be worth it.
This page on the Smithsonian Museum's website (I know, I know, it's a 'devil's facility', but bear with me) also has a lot of stuff on evolution, including specimens. But, again, you might actually learn something, and then your straw man would fall apart.
Follow these links with caution, Christian warrior!
It's when we thank our lucky stars that we're not American, and thus don't act like YOU.
You really should work on your comprehension skills.
So that other people can be increasing the numbers in the database of your game?
A little from column 'A', a little from column 'B'...
Blowjobs for a year for only $500? I've gotta go to your hooker.
You're bang on... mostly. The plot may be unimaginative, but it works wonders! I do agree about the bad acting and general lameness at times.
What gets is these days is when people complain about the acting and dialogue in the new trilogy. Let's face it, the dialogue in the original trilogy was just plain CHEESY! Not any better than the new stuff. It's just nostalgia (which I admit to fully buying into!).
And, really, there's not much bad acting in the new trilogy, not any more than any other movie. Hayden Christensen is a little wooden at times but that's OK. And I still thought it was uber cool when Vader finally appeared at the end of episode three...