"'Whether or not I agree with the guidelines, we have to follow the rules"
Which is code for, "I'm to stupid to be in charge of anything more complicated than pencil distribution."
These are the "educators" (and believe me I use that term loosely) that are supposed to be teaching our kids to think and reason for themselves. I sure don't trust them to do that when they make idiotic statements like the one above. Sure, nutrition is important, but it's the parents job to decide what is and isn't acceptable. It's time for schools to stop trying to brainwash kids into their way of thinking, and just educate them.
Alright. I'm going to make this easy for you. How many years have we been drilling off shore? Now how many accidents have we had? How many areas are completely uninhabitable because of it? Oh, I guess it's not the big boogey man we make it out to be now is it?
That has been my primary problem with this all along. Why all the secrecy? Addtionally, why are we blackballing scientists that don't agree or dissent from the status quo? Why are politicians suddenly so interested when for years they could have cared less? Why are we relying on computer generated data, when we have actual historical data that we could be using? Why when using said data to perform the same tredning analysis do we see a gradual and cyclical pattern as opposed to a hockey stick? This isn't science. It's nothing more than outright public deception for political and financial gain.
And how exactly would you go about determining that? If you lock up 9 people who are innocent, but 1 who's not is that justice?
I'm all for stamping out true child abuse (sexual abuse, torture, inhumane punishment, harm due to parental psychosis, etc), but the very term has had such a wide array of meanings attached to it. It's become practically useless in conversation without some form of further definition. Even those who work for children's services have different ideas of what constitutes child abuse, and these are the people who have the power to take your kids away. Do you really want leave that decision up to security personel based on what they think you might do???
"There is a scathing chapter on recruiters. While certain good qualities of recruiters are mentioned, it seems the authors generally believe that recruiters are uncaring commission-hounds that just want to place a candidate and don't care about individuals. The brutal honesty was refreshing, and I'd be curious whether a majority of Slashdot readers would agree or disagree with the authors."
In my experience I would call that quote a well deserved assessment. At the end of the day most recruiters don't care about their clients. They like to make money, and they are very similar to salesmen. They'll do and say anything to get you to take a job (sometimes well below your capabilities), keep you on the line urging you to stick it out, and then hang you out to dry as soon as the contract is up. Recruiters are a stepping stone. Use them, but understand that you are also being used, and make no bones about leaving an assignment early when another permanent position comes available. They don't make any guarantees, so don't give them any either.
Does everything have to come down to left vs. right? Love it, or leave it isn't an all or nothing proposition. And I sure hope it's not just a right wing phenomenon. There are certain things like not having to print all documentation in 12 different languages where I would say learn english, or get lost. It just makes sense. You can argue the fairness of this stance, but my position is that if you come to a country and you want to communicate you use their language. I don't go to Paris and expect everyone there to learn english just so they can communicate with me. Another example is those who don't agree with our laws and choose to disregard them. Work within the system to change the law. If you are in the minority then you can either live with it the way it is, or leave. Now. You don't get to infringe on other people's rights to do whatever you want whenever you want. However, allow a bunch of jack booted thugs to kick your door in and arrest you in the middle of the night based on a feeling might bring forth a slightly different response. More likely than not a response involving ammunition. The problem isn't so much not having the tools to keep the government in check as it is apathy and the lack of will to do so.
I sure don't want to give up my privacy to the government for the same reasons mentioned by the GP. Does that make me a left-winger? I'm thinking no. It makes me an American citizen with common sense./RANT
I don't know, there was this little incident where they overshot the airport by about a half hour. The word is that it was because they were busy screwing with new software on a laptop. I'd agree that autopilot is pretty secure, and there are alarms to alert if something is wrong, but still. If the pilot is being paid to fly the plane that should be their primary concern.
Perhaps the problem is that you're trying to fight for the indefensible. So rather than concede the truth, you'd like to see them keep their BS straight and consistent? Personally I'd rather have the truth. While being an environmentalist does not make you a commie, failing to accept reality isn't really an honest or worthy position to take. I'm all for protecting the environment in a way that is sensible, and based on factual benefit. Recycling, combine trips, don't travel unnecessarily, don't be wasteful; all good concepts with tangible benifit. However, when we start talking about forcing everyone driving a vehicle to get a smog check every year while allowing busses and rigs to spew forth 200x what all of the vehicles combined emit I'm going to go ahead and call bs. In a similar fashion when all of the politicians jump on board with this global warming schtick, and then it comes out that the dissenting scientists are being silenced, and data is being manipulated to paint the desired picture I'm also going to call bs.
Exactly. It's laughable to see these scientists in all their self importance pretend to have all the answers when in reality they are just guessing. I'll concede it's an educated guess, but how many times throughout history have the great educated minds proven to be wrong? Flat earth anyone? Yet we go around making statements about global warming as if it were proven fact. As if all of the varibles are known, and knowable. At the end of the day, we're all still human after all, we're not God, and we're just visiting here; we won't be staying.
I would vehemently argue that the bailouts were absolutely not required and will in fact make things worse in time. I seriously doubt we're done yet. Not trying to be scary, just real. There is no way to grow infinatly within a finite world. The economy always has been, and always will be cyclical. To me the bailouts are a sign that we are living on borrowed time and merely staving off the inevitable. What they should have done was let the market do it's thing (in this case crash), and we would have already been recovering by now.
Yes, greed played a part, deregulation contributed to it, and those who participated ought to be tortured slowly. But how do you suppose to prevent it from happening again? Oversight sounds real nice in theory, and it make folks more comfortable, but in practice it really just becomes one to five more entities to bribe before you can plunder the people. Somehow people have gotten it in their heads that it's the governments responsibility to guarantee success. You work hard, put your best foot forward, and sometimes you fail. You get up, and try again until you succeed. Think about it. It's how you learned to eat, walk, read, reason, etc. If your mommy just said "oh look he can't do it" the first time you failed you'd be awfully dependent upon her right about now. It's no different with governance. The more they help people the more helpless they become. Which may be the whole point.
You do make a good point about none of the parties providing a particularly good option, and none of them really having the average citizen's best interests at heart.
It is getting to the point where that might be necessary. Employers require you to sign things to protect themselves. I don't think it would be unreasonable to do the same. Especially when people sit in jail for two years and get dragged into court for essentially doing their job.
The GP has a valid point though. What if the admin got hit by a bus and died? The city would be in the exact same position. In my opinion that's just straight up bad management.
Wait... he's not? If Bush could cause Katrina, I'm pretty sure the insidious Obama administration is capable of causing a volcano to erupt. It's part of his plan for global domination dontcha know.
It would be fine to allow everyone in if we had unlimited real estate and resources. It wouldn't be just the H1-Bs coming in though. The problem is that even if you're illegal you qualify for government services. Once they are here they don't have to work. Pregnant? No problem, government subsidized care at your service. Female, can't speak english, have kids, and no income? No problem, the government will pay your rent, give you food stamps, pay for your education, and help you to obtain citizenship. I'm not saying we shouldn't help the poor, and downtrodden, but shouldn't they have some of the responsibility? Look at California. Anyone wonder why they're going broke? This is at least a large part of it. I know this is about H1-Bs, but the prospect of opening the borders would have devistating consequences to our economy.
When this country was founded and had open borders you could come here with nothing but the shirt on your back and a dream. The difference was if you didn't succeed there was no one there to bail you out. Now days it's laughable. There's no risk, and therefore no incentive to succeed. What this kindness has created is a whole culture of people who come here, have children, don't work, and game the system. I've seen plenty of it. The parents are apathetic, the children take everything for granted, and many wind up in jail. In general, they are rude, thoughtless, and lazy. Some would argue that this is because of some form of discrimination, but from what I've seen I think it has more to do with attitude. If you have no respect for the law, and your whole life you are taught that if you want something you just take it, it's not too hard to see the natural progression there.
I don't know if you've noticed or not, but even among American citizens there are different classes of workers. The only reason companies want H1-Bs is because they can pay them less, and milk them for more productivity. We hear how there aren't enough qualified technical people here, but really that's not the issue. There are plenty of highly educated technical people here, it's just that they actually want to get paid for what has taken years of hard work to aquire.
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I wonder if his teleprompter might be a distraction. We should take it away and see.
Better that one child should die of diabetic comma than for an entire school full of children to become addicted to jolly ranchers.
"'Whether or not I agree with the guidelines, we have to follow the rules"
Which is code for, "I'm to stupid to be in charge of anything more complicated than pencil distribution."
These are the "educators" (and believe me I use that term loosely) that are supposed to be teaching our kids to think and reason for themselves. I sure don't trust them to do that when they make idiotic statements like the one above. Sure, nutrition is important, but it's the parents job to decide what is and isn't acceptable. It's time for schools to stop trying to brainwash kids into their way of thinking, and just educate them.
No you wouldn't. You'd just have crazy people driving into oncoming traffic and killing even more innocent people.
I'd stick with the first one. Far more plausible.
It'd be nice if this time he did it the old fashioned way rather than just firing up the printing press.
Alright. I'm going to make this easy for you. How many years have we been drilling off shore? Now how many accidents have we had? How many areas are completely uninhabitable because of it? Oh, I guess it's not the big boogey man we make it out to be now is it?
That has been my primary problem with this all along. Why all the secrecy? Addtionally, why are we blackballing scientists that don't agree or dissent from the status quo? Why are politicians suddenly so interested when for years they could have cared less? Why are we relying on computer generated data, when we have actual historical data that we could be using? Why when using said data to perform the same tredning analysis do we see a gradual and cyclical pattern as opposed to a hockey stick? This isn't science. It's nothing more than outright public deception for political and financial gain.
"Lock up anyone who might become a child abuser?"
And how exactly would you go about determining that? If you lock up 9 people who are innocent, but 1 who's not is that justice?
I'm all for stamping out true child abuse (sexual abuse, torture, inhumane punishment, harm due to parental psychosis, etc), but the very term has had such a wide array of meanings attached to it. It's become practically useless in conversation without some form of further definition. Even those who work for children's services have different ideas of what constitutes child abuse, and these are the people who have the power to take your kids away. Do you really want leave that decision up to security personel based on what they think you might do???
Yeah, but why introduce truth and logic to a perfectly good irrational argument?
"There is a scathing chapter on recruiters. While certain good qualities of recruiters are mentioned, it seems the authors generally believe that recruiters are uncaring commission-hounds that just want to place a candidate and don't care about individuals. The brutal honesty was refreshing, and I'd be curious whether a majority of Slashdot readers would agree or disagree with the authors."
In my experience I would call that quote a well deserved assessment. At the end of the day most recruiters don't care about their clients. They like to make money, and they are very similar to salesmen. They'll do and say anything to get you to take a job (sometimes well below your capabilities), keep you on the line urging you to stick it out, and then hang you out to dry as soon as the contract is up. Recruiters are a stepping stone. Use them, but understand that you are also being used, and make no bones about leaving an assignment early when another permanent position comes available. They don't make any guarantees, so don't give them any either.
Does everything have to come down to left vs. right? Love it, or leave it isn't an all or nothing proposition. And I sure hope it's not just a right wing phenomenon. There are certain things like not having to print all documentation in 12 different languages where I would say learn english, or get lost. It just makes sense. You can argue the fairness of this stance, but my position is that if you come to a country and you want to communicate you use their language. I don't go to Paris and expect everyone there to learn english just so they can communicate with me. Another example is those who don't agree with our laws and choose to disregard them. Work within the system to change the law. If you are in the minority then you can either live with it the way it is, or leave. Now. You don't get to infringe on other people's rights to do whatever you want whenever you want. However, allow a bunch of jack booted thugs to kick your door in and arrest you in the middle of the night based on a feeling might bring forth a slightly different response. More likely than not a response involving ammunition. The problem isn't so much not having the tools to keep the government in check as it is apathy and the lack of will to do so.
/RANT
I sure don't want to give up my privacy to the government for the same reasons mentioned by the GP. Does that make me a left-winger? I'm thinking no. It makes me an American citizen with common sense.
What's the matter? Was the modem before your time???? Get off my lawn!!! You're lucky I don't come over there and bludg.....?#$ NO CARRIER
I don't know, there was this little incident where they overshot the airport by about a half hour. The word is that it was because they were busy screwing with new software on a laptop. I'd agree that autopilot is pretty secure, and there are alarms to alert if something is wrong, but still. If the pilot is being paid to fly the plane that should be their primary concern.
Perhaps the problem is that you're trying to fight for the indefensible. So rather than concede the truth, you'd like to see them keep their BS straight and consistent? Personally I'd rather have the truth. While being an environmentalist does not make you a commie, failing to accept reality isn't really an honest or worthy position to take. I'm all for protecting the environment in a way that is sensible, and based on factual benefit. Recycling, combine trips, don't travel unnecessarily, don't be wasteful; all good concepts with tangible benifit. However, when we start talking about forcing everyone driving a vehicle to get a smog check every year while allowing busses and rigs to spew forth 200x what all of the vehicles combined emit I'm going to go ahead and call bs. In a similar fashion when all of the politicians jump on board with this global warming schtick, and then it comes out that the dissenting scientists are being silenced, and data is being manipulated to paint the desired picture I'm also going to call bs.
Exactly. It's laughable to see these scientists in all their self importance pretend to have all the answers when in reality they are just guessing. I'll concede it's an educated guess, but how many times throughout history have the great educated minds proven to be wrong? Flat earth anyone? Yet we go around making statements about global warming as if it were proven fact. As if all of the varibles are known, and knowable. At the end of the day, we're all still human after all, we're not God, and we're just visiting here; we won't be staying.
If that one pin is for the evil bit. It would be about time.
Right. Because laws never get changed to stop terrorism, combat pirates, prevent identity theft, etc.
Yeah it started with a p and was the opposite of serial.
I would vehemently argue that the bailouts were absolutely not required and will in fact make things worse in time. I seriously doubt we're done yet. Not trying to be scary, just real. There is no way to grow infinatly within a finite world. The economy always has been, and always will be cyclical. To me the bailouts are a sign that we are living on borrowed time and merely staving off the inevitable. What they should have done was let the market do it's thing (in this case crash), and we would have already been recovering by now.
Yes, greed played a part, deregulation contributed to it, and those who participated ought to be tortured slowly. But how do you suppose to prevent it from happening again? Oversight sounds real nice in theory, and it make folks more comfortable, but in practice it really just becomes one to five more entities to bribe before you can plunder the people. Somehow people have gotten it in their heads that it's the governments responsibility to guarantee success. You work hard, put your best foot forward, and sometimes you fail. You get up, and try again until you succeed. Think about it. It's how you learned to eat, walk, read, reason, etc. If your mommy just said "oh look he can't do it" the first time you failed you'd be awfully dependent upon her right about now. It's no different with governance. The more they help people the more helpless they become. Which may be the whole point.
You do make a good point about none of the parties providing a particularly good option, and none of them really having the average citizen's best interests at heart.
When I was in college we used a live Whax CD (which is now Backtrack) saving our work to our own flash drive. It seemed to work pretty well.
It is getting to the point where that might be necessary. Employers require you to sign things to protect themselves. I don't think it would be unreasonable to do the same. Especially when people sit in jail for two years and get dragged into court for essentially doing their job.
The GP has a valid point though. What if the admin got hit by a bus and died? The city would be in the exact same position. In my opinion that's just straight up bad management.
Wait... he's not? If Bush could cause Katrina, I'm pretty sure the insidious Obama administration is capable of causing a volcano to erupt. It's part of his plan for global domination dontcha know.
It would be fine to allow everyone in if we had unlimited real estate and resources. It wouldn't be just the H1-Bs coming in though. The problem is that even if you're illegal you qualify for government services. Once they are here they don't have to work. Pregnant? No problem, government subsidized care at your service. Female, can't speak english, have kids, and no income? No problem, the government will pay your rent, give you food stamps, pay for your education, and help you to obtain citizenship. I'm not saying we shouldn't help the poor, and downtrodden, but shouldn't they have some of the responsibility? Look at California. Anyone wonder why they're going broke? This is at least a large part of it. I know this is about H1-Bs, but the prospect of opening the borders would have devistating consequences to our economy.
When this country was founded and had open borders you could come here with nothing but the shirt on your back and a dream. The difference was if you didn't succeed there was no one there to bail you out. Now days it's laughable. There's no risk, and therefore no incentive to succeed. What this kindness has created is a whole culture of people who come here, have children, don't work, and game the system. I've seen plenty of it. The parents are apathetic, the children take everything for granted, and many wind up in jail. In general, they are rude, thoughtless, and lazy. Some would argue that this is because of some form of discrimination, but from what I've seen I think it has more to do with attitude. If you have no respect for the law, and your whole life you are taught that if you want something you just take it, it's not too hard to see the natural progression there.
I don't know if you've noticed or not, but even among American citizens there are different classes of workers. The only reason companies want H1-Bs is because they can pay them less, and milk them for more productivity. We hear how there aren't enough qualified technical people here, but really that's not the issue. There are plenty of highly educated technical people here, it's just that they actually want to get paid for what has taken years of hard work to aquire.