it reminded me that after 15 years, it pays to brush up on the basics. It was also sort of perversely fun to come down off the design and architecture mountain and back into the weeds of basic troubleshooting for an hour or so. I proved not only that I knew what I knew and that I could do the job I was being interviewed for (Level III engineer) but for the next level higher and I was provided an offer with higher salary and responsibility as a Level IV engineer.
Testing is a way to weed out the BS. Frankly I hate filling out a job app WAY more than taking a test.
This is the same greedy company that killed the entire D&D franchise, so to see them do this as well should be no surprise.Everything they touch turns to S#17.
I keep reading how Clinton 'improved the economy' but that's BS. Most economic policies have 4-8 years before we feel their true effect.
Truth be told, Clinton rode the last wave of the Reagan Revolution and we are on the last wave of Clinton now. Sadly, the Bush wave is going to be worse and it will most likely sink the next president because they will be blamed for it.
What part of textbook mcarthism did you get this from?
UNderestimating an enemy is stupid. Underestimating the eldest civilization on earth, borders on the insane. +3 and QFT
Didn't Marx say something to that effect about Capitalism?
We have ignored our own infrastructure and manufacturing capacity for so long that we're tied to the iceberg that is sinking us.
I'm homeschooling our kids and teaching them Mandarin as a survival mechanism for working with our Chinese overlords in the next 50 years or so.
That has a bit to do with it, but mainly its at $136 a barrel because the dollar isn't worth as much as it used to be. I'd have to agree that without a *real* strong dollar, we're going to get hurt even more. We need to get back to saving rather than spending and find a way to get back on a more solid currency standard. 'full faith and credit' is a scam that we need to rescue ourselves from.
If I wanted to play WoW - I'd play WoW.
If I wanted to play D20 WoW - I'd buy the books for it.
4e is WoTC's swan song. TSR gave me 30 good years and like most things after 30 years, one of us had to die of old age.
If it would help bring closure to your family, then please don't wait and start cracking right away.
The downside is that you might find out about a person *none* of you knew.
Tread carefully but diligently.
...and here's where we watch WoTC jump the shark -straight into the enclosure. It's gonna be a bloody mess.
It's been a fun ride for 30 years of gaming but all things come to an end./cry
Oddly, back in the 1980's when I was in school, I was always told that there was a scientific difference between a proof and a theory and that a theory was, in essence, a guess based upon a series of supposed inferences based on data. A proof was data that could be experimentally verified. Evolution is a guess; admittedly a complicated one but a guess nonetheless. I am an advocate that if you're teaching an opinion then *all* opinions are valid. If you can show me an actual scientific proof, then I would happily go for the sole teaching of something that can be proven.
My other point is that Athiests and Secular Humanists have used evolution as a religion substitute ("Conscience light and guilt free!") because the inference of an Intelligent Design or Creationism - and, IMNSHO, there are light years of differences between the two - wrecks and ruins a world-view where the only morality is a self-imposed one based on nothing other than the whims and the moment-to-moment of the desires of the self. In turn, that creates bigger questions come that come into play; at the base of all of our cultures is the view that we are created, that we are not an 'accident' or a 'mistake' and that we have a purpose for our existence and our lives and for the lives of our children and loved ones. Darwinism would have us give all of that up for a moral black hole since there would be no commonly accepted frame of reference for right and wrong and a deepest sense of purposelessness because there is nothing to look forward to in a life that is short, brutish, and pointless.
As far as proof of Suppression Science goes: Check out http://www.expelledthemovie.com/
It is still not proof and the truth is that evolution cannot be *proven*. Teaching a theory as fact is dishonest.:/
Now all all of that assumed that science hasn't committed some significant chicanery on the way to developing the mutliple theories of evolution. Over and over again evidence is given where profs are pushed to margins when they question the blind orthodoxy of the established scientific mind-creche.
The more I read about Darwinism, I see another religion - one that is equally intolerance, blind dogma, and persecution of the 'herectical'.
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I wonder if that is what *really* happened to Gordon Freeman's experiment?
it reminded me that after 15 years, it pays to brush up on the basics. It was also sort of perversely fun to come down off the design and architecture mountain and back into the weeds of basic troubleshooting for an hour or so. I proved not only that I knew what I knew and that I could do the job I was being interviewed for (Level III engineer) but for the next level higher and I was provided an offer with higher salary and responsibility as a Level IV engineer. Testing is a way to weed out the BS. Frankly I hate filling out a job app WAY more than taking a test.
Screaming when his face is paused? It's said that children can see the *real* faces of demons... ;)
I'm thinking of getting a Haligan Bar for those pesky Head Crabs!
This is the same greedy company that killed the entire D&D franchise, so to see them do this as well should be no surprise.Everything they touch turns to S#17.
I keep reading how Clinton 'improved the economy' but that's BS. Most economic policies have 4-8 years before we feel their true effect. Truth be told, Clinton rode the last wave of the Reagan Revolution and we are on the last wave of Clinton now. Sadly, the Bush wave is going to be worse and it will most likely sink the next president because they will be blamed for it.
Please cite references for this assumption of a foundational right for non-citizens.
Tat's *almost* a form of co-optation. (Read Mosca)
Well, it seem Aurora is officially out of the box then.
which is about everyone who's not a /. reader - and a few of us as well. :/
Run your own MMORPG private server?
Didn't Marx say something to that effect about Capitalism? We have ignored our own infrastructure and manufacturing capacity for so long that we're tied to the iceberg that is sinking us. I'm homeschooling our kids and teaching them Mandarin as a survival mechanism for working with our Chinese overlords in the next 50 years or so.
If I wanted to play WoW - I'd play WoW. If I wanted to play D20 WoW - I'd buy the books for it. 4e is WoTC's swan song. TSR gave me 30 good years and like most things after 30 years, one of us had to die of old age.
If it would help bring closure to your family, then please don't wait and start cracking right away. The downside is that you might find out about a person *none* of you knew. Tread carefully but diligently.
Bow to your Lizard Masters!!!
Aren't they the working titles of all of the 'Splinter Cell' games??
That would make the infamous NIPR hack understandable....(but that was just a rumor, right?)
...and here's where we watch WoTC jump the shark -straight into the enclosure. It's gonna be a bloody mess. It's been a fun ride for 30 years of gaming but all things come to an end. /cry
-2 for sheer bullshit
It's Eugenics, abortion, and genocide. Have the Brits forgot Hitler so soon??
As a Gibson fan, that was great! :)
Oddly, back in the 1980's when I was in school, I was always told that there was a scientific difference between a proof and a theory and that a theory was, in essence, a guess based upon a series of supposed inferences based on data. A proof was data that could be experimentally verified. Evolution is a guess; admittedly a complicated one but a guess nonetheless. I am an advocate that if you're teaching an opinion then *all* opinions are valid. If you can show me an actual scientific proof, then I would happily go for the sole teaching of something that can be proven. My other point is that Athiests and Secular Humanists have used evolution as a religion substitute ("Conscience light and guilt free!") because the inference of an Intelligent Design or Creationism - and, IMNSHO, there are light years of differences between the two - wrecks and ruins a world-view where the only morality is a self-imposed one based on nothing other than the whims and the moment-to-moment of the desires of the self. In turn, that creates bigger questions come that come into play; at the base of all of our cultures is the view that we are created, that we are not an 'accident' or a 'mistake' and that we have a purpose for our existence and our lives and for the lives of our children and loved ones. Darwinism would have us give all of that up for a moral black hole since there would be no commonly accepted frame of reference for right and wrong and a deepest sense of purposelessness because there is nothing to look forward to in a life that is short, brutish, and pointless. As far as proof of Suppression Science goes: Check out http://www.expelledthemovie.com/
It is still not proof and the truth is that evolution cannot be *proven*. Teaching a theory as fact is dishonest.:/ Now all all of that assumed that science hasn't committed some significant chicanery on the way to developing the mutliple theories of evolution. Over and over again evidence is given where profs are pushed to margins when they question the blind orthodoxy of the established scientific mind-creche. The more I read about Darwinism, I see another religion - one that is equally intolerance, blind dogma, and persecution of the 'herectical'.