The lack of sympathy for over eaters is due to the fact that those who have experienced a temptation and not fallen do tend to be "holier-than-thou". Everyone eats, so everyone has been tempted, so everyone who did not get fat is, there for, literally, holier-than-thou.
Bah! Well first, thank you for a real response backed up by knowledge in the field, but still, bah! This is exactly the type of thing we don't like! Isn't it obvious that "assholes" are poison to a workforce?
Yes, it is, but WHO those people are is hard to pin down.. you ask someone on a survey "are you a shit-head" they tend to say "No"... even if you ask "are most of your friends shit-heads" well, they see right through it.
Was all this studying really necessary for that conclusion? If not, then the relevant portion of the study is how to "detect" assholes. So what's the answer from management types (I'm not trying to offend, just give a perspective) - paperwork! We'll make everybody take the same impersonal test asking dumb, subjective questions for which most people will just throw out whatever answer they think management is looking for. And this is astounding? Color me unconvinced.
I agree, the subjective BS questions need to be eliminated and replaced with questions that work to detect what we're actually looking for. No one likes taking those BS psych profiles so making them less BS is what I'm going for
Everybody knows who the assholes are...or is the goal of these new-fangled psychological techniques to remove the necessity of a manager to actually interact with their employees and know who they are?
The problem is that the way that people determine who the bad-folk are, how we judge another person's character intuitively, is exactly how the worst of the worst get into power. They know the subtle tricks and cues necessary to gain trust and confidence and exactly when and how to exploit that.
If, on the other hand, we have empirical studies that give us another perspective on the situation it can help the manager make a decision that he would have otherwise ignored.
This sort of research does work. It used to be that companies had a marketing department, a finance department an engineering department.. and they would war with each-other, passing things up the smoke-stacks and then fighting when the product came out the top.
Through empirical based management studies we've found that project teams, where marketing, finance and engineering all work together helps everyone understand one-another's perspective and create a product in a much shorter time.
PHBs and marketing guys swooping down to call the project 'unmarketable' are a thing of the past for companies built on good, recent, research... such as Toyota. On the other hand GM was a dinosaur unwilling to change and THAT is why it went under.
Many of the "skills, techniques, and tools" that managers try to stay up on are merely bullshit. I'm curious (seriously) what things you think managers need to keep up with that don't fall into that category.
I am a management researcher. The scientific tools that are available for operations, organizational behavior and human resources are astounding.
An example is a paper i just submitted looking at ethics as it relates to trust. I found that those who are what a layman would call "assholes" do not see integrity or openness as an important aspect of trusting someone. Those who are not "assholes" see integrity and responsiveness as important aspects of trust.
Operationally: we can pick out the assholes and get rid of them (as they tend to be the ones that screw you) by asking them to rank the importance of openness vs responsiveness when it comes to trusting someone.
This is a small part of a large picture of ongoing, highly applicable and functional, research that goes on in the business world. It is amazing the kinds of things you can find out about people when you bring psychology, sociology and economics together in an attempt to find out how to best lead, manage and control people.
The true American value is the gospel of wealth, God blesses you with wealth to help others and not to waste on frivolities without function particularly when that money could be used to help those in need.
If research institutions counted an free text book towards the publishing necessary for tenure then you would have an almost limitless supply of people willing to write about every esoteric subject imaginable. They do this now in the form of journal articles, where many authors pay fees to the publisher simply for the honor of being published.
That's also about the usable life of a vehicle and, in comparison to the price of the gas, a savings of 14k a year. even if they are super-high-quality and hit the 200k mark the car still costs 21k relative to a 25mi per gallon car.. so being as how you can get a car with better millage with the same capacity for a taxicab at about 14k paying 50% more doesn't seem to make a lot of sense.
add to that that your relative, if he works only 250 days a year (standard 50 work weeks a year with 2 weeks off) then he drives an average of 400mi a day.. which is a full 1/3rd more than the car has capacity.
If it was just a little better, would run 400mi a day city driving, say the batteries cost only 4k to replace every 100k miles and the rest of the hardware kept going 500k then the gas savings would pay for the full price of the car and revolutionize not just the taxy-cab biz but how we all drive and utilize our vehicles.
If people that the gimped "only 400mi a charge" car I had would pay for itself completely over the course of its lifetime they would all get this as a commuter car, without question... but that day is another two or three generations off.
The answer only tells you if you've had a child yet. No parent, without a serious psychological problem, can look at his or her child and think that there is any higher calling on Gods earth, nor believe for a moment that anything would be worth trading that child's existence for.
"but not 1 lb for every 3500 missing calories."
YES IT DOES!
But your BMI is lower so you end up with less than 3500 missing. This is a bad sign, compensate with exorcise as essential that is what you are giving up with a lower bmi.
most people hover around 1500-1800 as a minimum before their lack of food intake hurts metabolism.
Your ignorance of the depth and breath of the state-based idiosyncrasies regarding accounting and tax codes is stunning.
You might as well have said "Don't have the 'programing mussel' to make an OS that never needs drivers, BS, they have enough computer to run a video game, why not make it just run some hardware?"
Professionals in any field almost always sound like idiots when they talk about another field.
The quote in the summery is wrong, i just checked: there are 3 commercials 15-30 seconds each. This comes out to between 45 seconds and 1:30 of advertising; there are 8:30 in commercials for the regular broadcast.
On a recent episode of the Simpsons local adds took up about five of the adds. This means that in order to break even, supposing the internet draws away customers on a one-for-two basis(more tv can be watched), the studio must charge two times as much.
This is exactly why the world hates us, the corrupt governments of the world point to our corrupt government and says "It's not MY fault I'm this way!"
Corporate greed is mitigated by consumer demands. As can be seen from protests against war, if the government has something it feels is for "the greater good" It does not matter for many years what the moral course of action is.
Most companies play within the rules of the game, if you change the rules you can change the outcome. You do not need to start a new game where no one wins.
The government is not a moral actor, it is a utilitarian actor. If it where moral we would have no war. If it where moral then I could trust it not to come to Orwellian conclusions after it controls medicine.
He makes a good point, serendipity and useful knowledge may come easily to you. But think of all of the people who would have otherwise had useful productive lives if they had not been distracted by World of Warcraft.
If you buy one card at present value and then find that you're just shy of playing your next game, a few years later, at 1080p, it may make sense to buy a second video card to fill the difference. The second one being much less expensive at that time because it is a few years old.
U of W is well known for having one of the best computer information systems departments in the US. The problem is not that they can not get the problem solved with drop-in software, the problem is that a university is a pile of idiosyncratic rules and exceptions that do not work rationally in real life.
They are trying to get a computer to act rationally after giving it an irrational input. User error is not the culprit, user created data flows are.
This is a study that looks at other study's major findings, they are:
Illegal burning of DVDs and downloading make up 5.2% of movie
viewing; unpaid consumption reduces paid consumption by 3.5%.
For every pirated CD, sales fall by 0.42 units. Estimated effect is
not robust to including year fixed effects and estimating separate
displacement effects for high- and low-income countries.
Students with faster internet connections are more likely to
sample music; sampling increases the propensity to buy.
Free broadcasts of movies on TV increase DVD sales on Amazon by
118% during the first week after the broadcast. Piracy does not affect
this increase in demand.
God loves us enough not to end our existence despite the evils that we perpetrate or fall into. It may feel, some times, like everything would be better where we not to exist. But God's love is so great that he allows us to exist despite the pain of life.
If you ever do honestly question the existence of God just pray with an open mind to know whether God is real and the spirit of God will make itself evident to you.
Personal hurt is easily solved by the personal love God has for each person.
being the strong, macroscopic person that you are, you get a hold of this, and you stretch it and stretch it and stretch it, and before it breaks you can stretch it to 20 or 30 percent longer than it was to begin with. The tensile strength is very high.
The indication is that when it finally does break, it doesn't break brittly but pulls out a little chain of carbon atoms the break is a plastic failure, not a brittle failure. One thing that we do know from actual tubes that have been made and distorted, is that you can take this tube and you can bend it. You can bend it so much that it buckles like a soda straw and then when you let go, it just snaps right back it does not break.
So, any tube, like the soda straw, as you begin to bend it, the material of the soda straw at the top of the bend has to stretch and underneath, on the inside of the bend, so that the bending stiffness of it depends on just how hard it is to stretch that material and this is the hardest material in the universe to stretch, so the stiffness of this little nanotube will be higher than any other object you can build out of the tinker toy set, forever and anon.
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The lack of sympathy for over eaters is due to the fact that those who have experienced a temptation and not fallen do tend to be "holier-than-thou". Everyone eats, so everyone has been tempted, so everyone who did not get fat is, there for, literally, holier-than-thou.
Bah! Well first, thank you for a real response backed up by knowledge in the field, but still, bah! This is exactly the type of thing we don't like! Isn't it obvious that "assholes" are poison to a workforce?
Yes, it is, but WHO those people are is hard to pin down.. you ask someone on a survey "are you a shit-head" they tend to say "No"... even if you ask "are most of your friends shit-heads" well, they see right through it.
Was all this studying really necessary for that conclusion? If not, then the relevant portion of the study is how to "detect" assholes. So what's the answer from management types (I'm not trying to offend, just give a perspective) - paperwork! We'll make everybody take the same impersonal test asking dumb, subjective questions for which most people will just throw out whatever answer they think management is looking for. And this is astounding? Color me unconvinced.
I agree, the subjective BS questions need to be eliminated and replaced with questions that work to detect what we're actually looking for. No one likes taking those BS psych profiles so making them less BS is what I'm going for
Everybody knows who the assholes are...or is the goal of these new-fangled psychological techniques to remove the necessity of a manager to actually interact with their employees and know who they are?
The problem is that the way that people determine who the bad-folk are, how we judge another person's character intuitively, is exactly how the worst of the worst get into power. They know the subtle tricks and cues necessary to gain trust and confidence and exactly when and how to exploit that.
If, on the other hand, we have empirical studies that give us another perspective on the situation it can help the manager make a decision that he would have otherwise ignored.
This sort of research does work. It used to be that companies had a marketing department, a finance department an engineering department.. and they would war with each-other, passing things up the smoke-stacks and then fighting when the product came out the top.
Through empirical based management studies we've found that project teams, where marketing, finance and engineering all work together helps everyone understand one-another's perspective and create a product in a much shorter time.
PHBs and marketing guys swooping down to call the project 'unmarketable' are a thing of the past for companies built on good, recent, research... such as Toyota. On the other hand GM was a dinosaur unwilling to change and THAT is why it went under.
Folks... the title I used is a TROLL
Saying "i think MS doesn't need to worry about linux compatibility" is NOT A TROLL.
Get your heads out of your asses and stop censoring dissenting opinions.
Nah, just joking, no doubt that the community thrives when we repress the demonic idea that the year of Liniux on the Desktop will never come.
Many of the "skills, techniques, and tools" that managers try to stay up on are merely bullshit. I'm curious (seriously) what things you think managers need to keep up with that don't fall into that category.
I am a management researcher. The scientific tools that are available for operations, organizational behavior and human resources are astounding.
An example is a paper i just submitted looking at ethics as it relates to trust. I found that those who are what a layman would call "assholes" do not see integrity or openness as an important aspect of trusting someone.
Those who are not "assholes" see integrity and responsiveness as important aspects of trust.
Operationally: we can pick out the assholes and get rid of them (as they tend to be the ones that screw you) by asking them to rank the importance of openness vs responsiveness when it comes to trusting someone.
This is a small part of a large picture of ongoing, highly applicable and functional, research that goes on in the business world. It is amazing the kinds of things you can find out about people when you bring psychology, sociology and economics together in an attempt to find out how to best lead, manage and control people.
The true American value is the gospel of wealth, God blesses you with wealth to help others and not to waste on frivolities without function particularly when that money could be used to help those in need.
If research institutions counted an free text book towards the publishing necessary for tenure then you would have an almost limitless supply of people willing to write about every esoteric subject imaginable. They do this now in the form of journal articles, where many authors pay fees to the publisher simply for the honor of being published.
That's also about the usable life of a vehicle and, in comparison to the price of the gas, a savings of 14k a year. even if they are super-high-quality and hit the 200k mark the car still costs 21k relative to a 25mi per gallon car.. so being as how you can get a car with better millage with the same capacity for a taxicab at about 14k paying 50% more doesn't seem to make a lot of sense.
add to that that your relative, if he works only 250 days a year (standard 50 work weeks a year with 2 weeks off) then he drives an average of 400mi a day.. which is a full 1/3rd more than the car has capacity.
If it was just a little better, would run 400mi a day city driving, say the batteries cost only 4k to replace every 100k miles and the rest of the hardware kept going 500k then the gas savings would pay for the full price of the car and revolutionize not just the taxy-cab biz but how we all drive and utilize our vehicles.
If people that the gimped "only 400mi a charge" car I had would pay for itself completely over the course of its lifetime they would all get this as a commuter car, without question... but that day is another two or three generations off.
The answer only tells you if you've had a child yet. No parent, without a serious psychological problem, can look at his or her child and think that there is any higher calling on Gods earth, nor believe for a moment that anything would be worth trading that child's existence for.
"but not 1 lb for every 3500 missing calories." YES IT DOES!
But your BMI is lower so you end up with less than 3500 missing. This is a bad sign, compensate with exorcise as essential that is what you are giving up with a lower bmi.
most people hover around 1500-1800 as a minimum before their lack of food intake hurts metabolism.
Your ignorance of the depth and breath of the state-based idiosyncrasies regarding accounting and tax codes is stunning.
You might as well have said "Don't have the 'programing mussel' to make an OS that never needs drivers, BS, they have enough computer to run a video game, why not make it just run some hardware?"
Professionals in any field almost always sound like idiots when they talk about another field.
At $60 vs $30 the studio breaks even.
The quote in the summery is wrong, i just checked: there are 3 commercials 15-30 seconds each. This comes out to between 45 seconds and 1:30 of advertising; there are 8:30 in commercials for the regular broadcast.
On a recent episode of the Simpsons local adds took up about five of the adds. This means that in order to break even, supposing the internet draws away customers on a one-for-two basis(more tv can be watched), the studio must charge two times as much.
So, just paste an Of-Age woman's face on a child's body and BAM no more is it illegal.
This is exactly why the world hates us, the corrupt governments of the world point to our corrupt government and says "It's not MY fault I'm this way!"
Science is the opiate of the masses.
Corporate greed is mitigated by consumer demands. As can be seen from protests against war, if the government has something it feels is for "the greater good" It does not matter for many years what the moral course of action is.
Most companies play within the rules of the game, if you change the rules you can change the outcome. You do not need to start a new game where no one wins.
The beloved health care in GB is great.. as long as you don't get seriously ill. What bean counter is going to say "you sr are not worth a kidney transplant" and "no, we do not need to buy our Alzheimer's sufferers medication that will improve the quality of their lives". source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1581576/Author-Terry-Pratchett-attacks-the-NHS-over-Alzheimers-policy.html
The government is not a moral actor, it is a utilitarian actor. If it where moral we would have no war. If it where moral then I could trust it not to come to Orwellian conclusions after it controls medicine.
He makes a good point, serendipity and useful knowledge may come easily to you. But think of all of the people who would have otherwise had useful productive lives if they had not been distracted by World of Warcraft.
If you buy one card at present value and then find that you're just shy of playing your next game, a few years later, at 1080p, it may make sense to buy a second video card to fill the difference. The second one being much less expensive at that time because it is a few years old.
U of W is well known for having one of the best computer information systems departments in the US. The problem is not that they can not get the problem solved with drop-in software, the problem is that a university is a pile of idiosyncratic rules and exceptions that do not work rationally in real life.
They are trying to get a computer to act rationally after giving it an irrational input. User error is not the culprit, user created data flows are.
This is a study that looks at other study's major findings, they are:
Illegal burning of DVDs and downloading make up 5.2% of movie viewing; unpaid consumption reduces paid consumption by 3.5%.
For every pirated CD, sales fall by 0.42 units. Estimated effect is not robust to including year fixed effects and estimating separate displacement effects for high- and low-income countries.
Students with faster internet connections are more likely to sample music; sampling increases the propensity to buy.
Free broadcasts of movies on TV increase DVD sales on Amazon by 118% during the first week after the broadcast. Piracy does not affect this increase in demand.
God loves us enough not to end our existence despite the evils that we perpetrate or fall into. It may feel, some times, like everything would be better where we not to exist. But God's love is so great that he allows us to exist despite the pain of life.
Love and faith go hand in hand.
I, personally, do not think I could look at my wife and child without seeing how much the creator of all existence loves me.
I do not believe God sends people to hell, simply that we spend our eternity exactly the distance form God that we chose to be in life.
Distance from God being a function poorly influenced by church attendance and strongly influenced by your loving relationship with God.
Myst, the Sims 3 and super monkey ball all come to mind as $10 games that compare well with anything you may have to offer on a portable system.
If you ever do honestly question the existence of God just pray with an open mind to know whether God is real and the spirit of God will make itself evident to you.
Personal hurt is easily solved by the personal love God has for each person.
From: (PDF warning) http://www.davis-floyd.com/USERIMAGES/File/Bucky%20balls%20Fullereness%20and%20the%20future.pdf
being the strong, macroscopic person that you are, you get a hold of this, and you stretch it and stretch it and stretch it, and before it breaks you can stretch it to 20 or 30 percent longer than it was to begin with. The tensile strength is very high.
The indication is that when it finally does break, it doesn't break brittly but pulls out a little chain of carbon atoms the break is a plastic failure, not a brittle failure. One thing that we do know from actual tubes that have been made and distorted, is that you can take this tube and you can bend it. You can bend it so much that it buckles like a soda straw and then when you let go, it just snaps right back it does not break.
So, any tube, like the soda straw, as you begin to bend it, the material of the soda straw at the top of the bend has to stretch and underneath, on the inside of the bend, so that the bending stiffness of it depends on just how hard it is to stretch that material and this is the hardest material in the universe to stretch, so the stiffness of this little nanotube will be higher than any other object you can build out of the tinker toy set, forever and anon.