I would say be careful about letting female engineers interview other potential candidates unless they are known to be genuinely fair-minded. You very well may find that it's actually the women, not the men, who are discriminating.
I would be careful about generalizing here. Some women probably discriminate against other women. Some men probably do the same thing. When you paint with too broad a brush you run the risk of fueling "sisterhood versus the patriarchy" arguments.
How silly! You're making the mistake of assuming than any Democratic administration, much less our current Chicago machine one, is against patent trolls. Look at how much money lawyers give to the Democratic party. Or check and you'll find that the East Texas judge that just ruled in favor of Lodsys was a Obama appointee.
Empirical observation - Patent trolls have done quite well no matter which party has been in party.... It is almost like neither party cares to stop them....
Robot Turtles is a board game for kids ages 3-8. It takes seconds to learn, minutes to play, and will keep them learning for hours. Kids won't know it but while they're playing, they're learning the fundamentals of programming.
Yep, politics as usual... Glad to know that the richest nation on Earth could care less when 70,000 innocent people die as long as their skin is brown and/or they live in the desert.
Many, many more might die if we get involved. Millions might die. How can you be sure that the US escaling violence by bombing will result in fewer deaths long-term? Also, what if the facts being spouted on the news are incorrect? This whole thing sounds worse than invading Iraq for weapons of mass-destruction and we all know how well that ended.
Fermat's last theorem is easy to prove if one takes this conjecture as true. I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this, which this comment box is too small to contain.
Except in this case it is actually relevant. According to the Department of Education students that are ethnic minorities are 3.5 times as likely to be expelled than a white student who does the exact same thing.... Think about that and then claim that race doesn't matter.
Asking for a refund would be totally relevant if he was their customer. He isn't... He is the product and when your users are your product getting your users mad really can have consequences.
Without it any large scale redevelopment project would be impossible. Any old lady that wants to die in the house she has lived in all her life can essentially bring the whole thing to a halt.
And what is wrong with that? It is her house. She has lived there her whole life. Why should she need to give it up because someone else wants to make a few bucks? I think the old lady who owns the land should have more rights to it than some developer that really, really wishes it owned the land.
Property rights are the foundation of all rights in a free society unless the property we're talking about are domain names that you feel are yours, right Senator Paul?
I personally feel that he'd be much better off just ignoring the domain and creating his own website (possibly with the domain, http://domains-do-not-really-matter-anymore.com/ but I do understand where he is coming from a little bit. People will assume that whatever is being published at www.ronpaul.com will be things that Ron Paul agrees with. Think of it as a giant newletter with Ron Paul's logo on it. Of course, he could just ignore it and let them publish whatever they feel like, but if he does that and they publish something he really disagrees with it could cause some damage to his "brand." Perhaps he figures the only way to prevent a repeat of the 1980's racist newletters incident is to make sure he controls his own brand.....
Of course, once again my own opinion is that he'd be much better just getting a different domain with great content and making sure his domain *clearly* states that he has no editorial control over http://www.ronpaul.com./
since if you avoid TSRs you have full control over the hardware.
I once implemented a digital PID controller (with a few extra bits) using Turbo C on a 486 with an A/D card. The drivers for the card sucked, so I had to rewrite them but the result was a read/calculate/write cycle that was 4x faster than the stock driver.
Just because it is possible to use DOS as a real-time OS doesn't mean that DOS *is* a real-time OS. It is similar to how people *can* program C in an object-oriented manner, but that doesn't make C an object-oriented language.
But I'm debating whether we want to let them develop first strike capability.
Yeah, I was just thinking, "Wouldn't another war be nice?" And this whole pre-emptive strike thing has been working out so well!
You are afraid that letting them develop longer will lead to them being more dangerous. Isn't it possible that letting them develop might lead to them being less dangerous? Maybe there will be a popular uprising? Maybe with increased wealth and education will come preasure from the populace to increase freedoms? Why should popular opinion in the US be the decider and enforcer of what North Korea does? Why not let North Korea's neighbors (South Korea, China, Japan, Russia along with many, many others that are much closer) take the lead? Have we learned nothing from the mistakes in Iraq? Why are you so eager for our country to squander what wealth we have by blowing up people half a world away?
As a programmer just the inefficiencies of war (spending billions of dollars buildings things to blow up people and infrastructure) makes me weap let alone the cost in human life. I also strong suspect that all of these wars are going to make things much more dangerous for America down the road.
I drive a pretty wimpy car around a really busy city (Austin, TX) and I've never had a problem getting up to a safe merging speed. In fact, the bigger risk around here is people going 60 mph on the on ramp for a highway when traffic on the highway is only going 20 mph. Perhaps there are other reasons besides safety that you feel you need to drive a car with a lot of get up and go?
Of course, as everything I mentioned is anecdotal your mileage may vary....
As a Linux zealot^Wuser, I was going to contribute over 5x the average, but seeing here that some of the ports are Wine and Mono, I decided to only contribute about 2x the average. But, I know there is no way for that action to signal the reason for my displeasure back to the developers so they can behave better next time; hmm... I suppose the best course is to still make a generous contribution so next time they treat Linux with more respect.
You want to send a message? How about donating generously, but changing how the funds are allocated so that the developers who are offering nice Linux support recieve more of your money than the lazy ones that you feel aren't doing enough. You can specify exactly who gets money and how much they get.
News Item: COLD WAR IS OVER. No one cares about the 'gap' between Russia and the US. No one care about anything except money.
Go back to the eighties. Regan is calling.
I'm pretty sure (though I wasn't around then so it is hard to be sure) that the attitude in the 80's was more, we-are-going-build-huge-weapons-and-stuff-so-we-are-number-one! The attitude I was trying to advocate was yea-they-are-doing-cool-stuff-maybe-we-should-try-doing-more-cool-stuff-too! The differences are pretty large, though I can see how you'd get confused.....
.... and to be honest *I* care about things besides money so your statement about "no one cares about anything except money" is false.
At one time, US used to be the lead in grand endeavors, but laziness, political infighting, and lack of true leadership has paralyzed the American will.
I hope to live long enough to see America return
As an American I wish the Russians luck and hope they actually do this and succeed. I hope that if they successfully do this it may motivate the powers-that-be over here to emphasize science a little more than they have been. And even if America doesn't take the hint and start emphasizing science again it would be a freaking moon base!:) That is neat no matter who is doing it.
Are you saying that being a pot smoker is genetic?
Or that people are gay by choice?
Drug laws aren't enforced fairly. Someone who doesn't have white skin and uses drugs is more likely to end up being prosecuted than someone who is white and uses drugs.
Ah, you assumed that because I used a collective noun, that my statement refered to every member of that group and not just a general tendency. That's a bad assumption.
I assumed you meant what you wrote. Maybe that was a bad assumption.
Also, you might want to be careful about trying to come up with general tendencies of groups of people. Feeling that certain groups have certain tendencies has been the root cause of a lot of bad.
A silent, black-and-white, anti-Mormon Danish movie made in 1911...that's the best counterexample you've got? I suppose it means Mormons can't say that they've never tried to silence their critics, but if you have to go back to 1911 to find a counter, I'd say the modern Mormon Church must not be very litigious.
Additionally, that film isn't really critical of Mormons. Closer to ridiculous fiction with Mormons as the antigonists.
How did you infer either of those from what I said? Neither follow.
You said,
Mormons voted, based on their religion, to ban homosexual marriage. This ban applies to people who do not follow that religion. Do I need to draw you a diagram?
Because you said, "Mormons voted, based on their religion, to ban homosexual marriage" I wanted to point out that many Mormons opposed prop8. Also, you said, "This ban applies to people who do not follow that religion" so I wanted to point out that the ban also applies to some people who do follow the religion.
Also, I am a little curious why you feel the Mormons are so responsible for proposition 8. I heard somewhere that Mormons make up about 2% of California. I've also heard around 4%-10% of California is homosexual. How is it possible in your opinion that 2% of the state is able to exercise so much control? My personal opinion is that you have a *greatly* exeragated opinion of the impact the Mormons made with prop8.
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I would say be careful about letting female engineers interview other potential candidates unless they are known to be genuinely fair-minded. You very well may find that it's actually the women, not the men, who are discriminating.
I would be careful about generalizing here. Some women probably discriminate against other women. Some men probably do the same thing. When you paint with too broad a brush you run the risk of fueling "sisterhood versus the patriarchy" arguments.
How silly! You're making the mistake of assuming than any Democratic administration, much less our current Chicago machine one, is against patent trolls. Look at how much money lawyers give to the Democratic party. Or check and you'll find that the East Texas judge that just ruled in favor of Lodsys was a Obama appointee.
Empirical observation - Patent trolls have done quite well no matter which party has been in party.... It is almost like neither party cares to stop them....
Robot Turtles is a board game for kids ages 3-8. It takes seconds to learn, minutes to play, and will keep them learning for hours. Kids won't know it but while they're playing, they're learning the fundamentals of programming.
"It's the 99 percent of people who give the rest a bad name."
Fixed that for you.
Yep, politics as usual... Glad to know that the richest nation on Earth could care less when 70,000 innocent people die as long as their skin is brown and/or they live in the desert.
Many, many more might die if we get involved. Millions might die. How can you be sure that the US escaling violence by bombing will result in fewer deaths long-term? Also, what if the facts being spouted on the news are incorrect? This whole thing sounds worse than invading Iraq for weapons of mass-destruction and we all know how well that ended.
Fermat's last theorem is easy to prove if one takes this conjecture as true. I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this, which this comment box is too small to contain.
Fixed that for you.
There we go, playing the race card. Sigh. What does a kid with a BB gun have to do with this? Nothing, but it "creates the narrative". We all know what the narrative is, race race race. It's always first on the list and it always gets shoehorned in even if it doesn't belong. Everyone sees it but due to the mainstream media's gatekeeper role nobody can talk back. This is why Americans distrust the media, with 60% saying they have little or no trust in the mass media to report the news fully, accurately, and fairly.
Except in this case it is actually relevant. According to the Department of Education students that are ethnic minorities are 3.5 times as likely to be expelled than a white student who does the exact same thing.... Think about that and then claim that race doesn't matter.
I didn't hear them complaining when their name started becoming a verb.
You are incorrect. This is them complaining about their name becoming a verb....
Make sure you ask for a refund.
Asking for a refund would be totally relevant if he was their customer. He isn't... He is the product and when your users are your product getting your users mad really can have consequences.
Without it any large scale redevelopment project would be impossible. Any old lady that wants to die in the house she has lived in all her life can essentially bring the whole thing to a halt.
And what is wrong with that? It is her house. She has lived there her whole life. Why should she need to give it up because someone else wants to make a few bucks? I think the old lady who owns the land should have more rights to it than some developer that really, really wishes it owned the land.
Perhaps you'd prefer Star Wars IIIIIII?
Property rights are the foundation of all rights in a free society unless the property we're talking about are domain names that you feel are yours, right Senator Paul?
I personally feel that he'd be much better off just ignoring the domain and creating his own website (possibly with the domain, http://domains-do-not-really-matter-anymore.com/ but I do understand where he is coming from a little bit. People will assume that whatever is being published at www.ronpaul.com will be things that Ron Paul agrees with. Think of it as a giant newletter with Ron Paul's logo on it. Of course, he could just ignore it and let them publish whatever they feel like, but if he does that and they publish something he really disagrees with it could cause some damage to his "brand." Perhaps he figures the only way to prevent a repeat of the 1980's racist newletters incident is to make sure he controls his own brand.....
Of course, once again my own opinion is that he'd be much better just getting a different domain with great content and making sure his domain *clearly* states that he has no editorial control over http://www.ronpaul.com./
since if you avoid TSRs you have full control over the hardware.
I once implemented a digital PID controller (with a few extra bits) using Turbo C on a 486 with an A/D card. The drivers for the card sucked, so I had to rewrite them but the result was a read/calculate/write cycle that was 4x faster than the stock driver.
Just because it is possible to use DOS as a real-time OS doesn't mean that DOS *is* a real-time OS. It is similar to how people *can* program C in an object-oriented manner, but that doesn't make C an object-oriented language.
But I'm debating whether we want to let them develop first strike capability.
Yeah, I was just thinking, "Wouldn't another war be nice?" And this whole pre-emptive strike thing has been working out so well!
You are afraid that letting them develop longer will lead to them being more dangerous. Isn't it possible that letting them develop might lead to them being less dangerous? Maybe there will be a popular uprising? Maybe with increased wealth and education will come preasure from the populace to increase freedoms? Why should popular opinion in the US be the decider and enforcer of what North Korea does? Why not let North Korea's neighbors (South Korea, China, Japan, Russia along with many, many others that are much closer) take the lead? Have we learned nothing from the mistakes in Iraq? Why are you so eager for our country to squander what wealth we have by blowing up people half a world away?
As a programmer just the inefficiencies of war (spending billions of dollars buildings things to blow up people and infrastructure) makes me weap let alone the cost in human life. I also strong suspect that all of these wars are going to make things much more dangerous for America down the road.
Mod parent up and grandparent down. Stupid troll is not informative....
I drive a pretty wimpy car around a really busy city (Austin, TX) and I've never had a problem getting up to a safe merging speed. In fact, the bigger risk around here is people going 60 mph on the on ramp for a highway when traffic on the highway is only going 20 mph. Perhaps there are other reasons besides safety that you feel you need to drive a car with a lot of get up and go? Of course, as everything I mentioned is anecdotal your mileage may vary....
As a Linux zealot^Wuser, I was going to contribute over 5x the average, but seeing here that some of the ports are Wine and Mono, I decided to only contribute about 2x the average. But, I know there is no way for that action to signal the reason for my displeasure back to the developers so they can behave better next time; hmm... I suppose the best course is to still make a generous contribution so next time they treat Linux with more respect.
You want to send a message? How about donating generously, but changing how the funds are allocated so that the developers who are offering nice Linux support recieve more of your money than the lazy ones that you feel aren't doing enough. You can specify exactly who gets money and how much they get.
News Item: COLD WAR IS OVER. No one cares about the 'gap' between Russia and the US. No one care about anything except money. Go back to the eighties. Regan is calling.
I'm pretty sure (though I wasn't around then so it is hard to be sure) that the attitude in the 80's was more, we-are-going-build-huge-weapons-and-stuff-so-we-are-number-one! The attitude I was trying to advocate was yea-they-are-doing-cool-stuff-maybe-we-should-try-doing-more-cool-stuff-too! The differences are pretty large, though I can see how you'd get confused.....
At one time, US used to be the lead in grand endeavors, but laziness, political infighting, and lack of true leadership has paralyzed the American will.
I hope to live long enough to see America return
As an American I wish the Russians luck and hope they actually do this and succeed. I hope that if they successfully do this it may motivate the powers-that-be over here to emphasize science a little more than they have been. And even if America doesn't take the hint and start emphasizing science again it would be a freaking moon base! :) That is neat no matter who is doing it.
I've bought and planted poppy seeds.... Not illegal....
Are you saying that being a pot smoker is genetic? Or that people are gay by choice?
Drug laws aren't enforced fairly. Someone who doesn't have white skin and uses drugs is more likely to end up being prosecuted than someone who is white and uses drugs.
It kind of sounds like the judge is *knowingly helping the terrorists*. Doesn't it? Don't we have a law to deal with people who do that?
Ah, you assumed that because I used a collective noun, that my statement refered to every member of that group and not just a general tendency. That's a bad assumption.
I assumed you meant what you wrote. Maybe that was a bad assumption.
Also, you might want to be careful about trying to come up with general tendencies of groups of people. Feeling that certain groups have certain tendencies has been the root cause of a lot of bad.
A silent, black-and-white, anti-Mormon Danish movie made in 1911...that's the best counterexample you've got? I suppose it means Mormons can't say that they've never tried to silence their critics, but if you have to go back to 1911 to find a counter, I'd say the modern Mormon Church must not be very litigious.
Additionally, that film isn't really critical of Mormons. Closer to ridiculous fiction with Mormons as the antigonists.
How did you infer either of those from what I said? Neither follow.
You said,
Mormons voted, based on their religion, to ban homosexual marriage. This ban applies to people who do not follow that religion. Do I need to draw you a diagram?
Because you said, "Mormons voted, based on their religion, to ban homosexual marriage" I wanted to point out that many Mormons opposed prop8. Also, you said, "This ban applies to people who do not follow that religion" so I wanted to point out that the ban also applies to some people who do follow the religion.
Also, I am a little curious why you feel the Mormons are so responsible for proposition 8. I heard somewhere that Mormons make up about 2% of California. I've also heard around 4%-10% of California is homosexual. How is it possible in your opinion that 2% of the state is able to exercise so much control? My personal opinion is that you have a *greatly* exeragated opinion of the impact the Mormons made with prop8.