Yeah I used to work there too. 2 summers during college about 20 years ago. We used to get told these horror stories about regional managers coming into a store, seeing one thing out of place and firing the whole store. Before I got hired, they made me take a polygraph. It's always been kind of an odd company. So this latest development really doesn't surprise me. It was just this year that their president had to resign because he'd put a fake degree on his resumé.
Moral of the story: companies that go from leathercrafts to electronics rarely do it well.
I can do better than that. I once interviewed for a job at an art school teaching web design. I estimated that I would make about 20 bucks per lecture after taxes, and they wouldn't pay for lecture prep time or paper grading.
I looked into the U of Phoenix and discovered that what I would get paid to teach a 5 week class, I can make in a day and a half as a freelance developer. The remaining 90% or more of the tuition goes to the company.
I tested it out on the US Google, and "cyanide is good" trounces "cyanide is bad." This is true for poison in general. But to be fair, some of the hits may be about the band.
Other earth shattering revalations: Food is good. God is good, not great. People loved Brokeback Mountain. And sex is in fact a weapon.
Notice I said "Christ's teachings" not "Christianity." Also, I made no claim to exclusivity. Just that it was a good idea.
The point is that you don't have to believe that you're consuming the literal body and blood of a resurrected demigod who performed parlor tricks in order to bless the peacemakers.
I don't even know where to begin. If it's so easy to do, why are there no acceptable solutions yet?
My dictionary (which is by no means complete) has 14585 10 letter words. Assuming that the first letters of the words are, on average fairly evenly distributed across the alphabet, you would have 14585 * 560^9 or about 7.89 * 10^28 candidate acrostics to go through. Assuming you can evaluate a million per second, it would still take 2.5 quadrillion years to go through all of them.
Obviously, you can optimize things so that most partial solutions are thrown out fairly early on. But it's still non-trivial.
And no, getting a faster computer won't help much. Unless you make it trillions of times faster, or get one cheap and small enough that you can buy millions more.
You don't have to believe in Christ's divinity for most of his teachings to still be a good idea. The executive summary of Christ's teachings is: If we all stopped treating each other like crap, we'd probably all be happier as a result. Oh, and go easy on the material possessions.
Seems like pretty firm ground to me.
Amazon wish lists are a great way for me to make a note of something with one click, so I don't forget about it later. My parents also insist on it, so they can have something for me under the tree at Christmas.
I use it pretty sparingly, because I already have more stuff than I can read/listen to. Also, I have a password protected "roll your own" online database where I log most stuff I don't want to forget.
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I watch TV on my cheapy HDTV in VGA mode hooked up to my mid line MacBook. If you swapped in a Mac Mini, you could do it for way cheaper than that.
Battery powered? I've got one that's got a hand crank and a detachable solar cell.
It's the right report. It's also up at http://www.freepress.net/docs/fcclocalnews.pdf
http://www.hearusnow.org/fileadmin/sitecontent/mis sing_localism_report.pdf
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Yeah I used to work there too. 2 summers during college about 20 years ago. We used to get told these horror stories about regional managers coming into a store, seeing one thing out of place and firing the whole store. Before I got hired, they made me take a polygraph. It's always been kind of an odd company. So this latest development really doesn't surprise me. It was just this year that their president had to resign because he'd put a fake degree on his resumé. Moral of the story: companies that go from leathercrafts to electronics rarely do it well.
I can do better than that. I once interviewed for a job at an art school teaching web design. I estimated that I would make about 20 bucks per lecture after taxes, and they wouldn't pay for lecture prep time or paper grading. I looked into the U of Phoenix and discovered that what I would get paid to teach a 5 week class, I can make in a day and a half as a freelance developer. The remaining 90% or more of the tuition goes to the company.
I tested it out on the US Google, and "cyanide is good" trounces "cyanide is bad." This is true for poison in general. But to be fair, some of the hits may be about the band. Other earth shattering revalations: Food is good. God is good, not great. People loved Brokeback Mountain. And sex is in fact a weapon.
Notice I said "Christ's teachings" not "Christianity." Also, I made no claim to exclusivity. Just that it was a good idea. The point is that you don't have to believe that you're consuming the literal body and blood of a resurrected demigod who performed parlor tricks in order to bless the peacemakers.
I don't even know where to begin. If it's so easy to do, why are there no acceptable solutions yet? My dictionary (which is by no means complete) has 14585 10 letter words. Assuming that the first letters of the words are, on average fairly evenly distributed across the alphabet, you would have 14585 * 560^9 or about 7.89 * 10^28 candidate acrostics to go through. Assuming you can evaluate a million per second, it would still take 2.5 quadrillion years to go through all of them. Obviously, you can optimize things so that most partial solutions are thrown out fairly early on. But it's still non-trivial. And no, getting a faster computer won't help much. Unless you make it trillions of times faster, or get one cheap and small enough that you can buy millions more.
You don't have to believe in Christ's divinity for most of his teachings to still be a good idea. The executive summary of Christ's teachings is: If we all stopped treating each other like crap, we'd probably all be happier as a result. Oh, and go easy on the material possessions. Seems like pretty firm ground to me.
You'd better hope your Malthusian Devices aren't still in beta.
Amazon wish lists are a great way for me to make a note of something with one click, so I don't forget about it later. My parents also insist on it, so they can have something for me under the tree at Christmas. I use it pretty sparingly, because I already have more stuff than I can read/listen to. Also, I have a password protected "roll your own" online database where I log most stuff I don't want to forget.