Gary Larson disagrees.

It still matters, if the data being manipulated is about customers. And it almost always is.

There's nothing wrong with working in the fields, and lots of people (of all colors) who work farms do enjoy it. Forcing someone to work against their will and without pay, that's not right. But there's nothing at all wrong with farming.

Do I look all rancid and clotted? You look at me, Jack. Eh? Look, eh? And I drink a lot of water, you know. I'm what you might call a water man, Jack - that's what I am. And I can swear to you, my boy, swear to you, that there's nothing wrong with my bodily fluids. Not a thing, Jackie.

Wrong.

Look into Federal Reserve system. It is not Federal. It does not maintain a reserve. It is a consortium of privately owned and undisclosed banks.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=how%20the%20federal%20reserve%20creates%20money

In modern, neo-Liberal economic societies Government borrows money from private, central banks. This money is called into creation as debt. The creation of the money is an act of the bank - an accounting phantom - entering new assets as black ink on their ledgers.

Government no more "creates money" under this scenario, that you do, by using a credit card.

If "governments" backed the money, they wouldn't declare "austerity" programs on their own constituency - but instead issue jubilee forgiveness, with full restoration of productive capacity, etc. Instead, the EU and US BOTH "bail out" creditor institutions, ceding all right to their own resources and productive capacity to ownership by the bank.

Which is not a problem, if the legislators, governor and regulators are working for the public. The public needs a grid and base generation capability, and the utility is guaranteed a safe and reasonable profit if it provides these things.

I don't know about Oklahoma, but my bill is split into two parts: a fixed per-day customer charge, plus a separate charge per kWh. Presumably, the charge per day covers the lines and administrative overhead. (The per-kWh charge is further divided into separate fuel and generation charges, and the fuel rate changes frequently.)

If Oklahoma uses this system, then the utility is being fairly compensated for the power lines no matter how little electricity the customer actually buys.

Bostonian here.

My work has taken me to cities all over the country, and I have to say that I've found New Yorkers to be the most considerate and helpful big city denizens in the US. The picture of the typical New Yorker as an obnoxious ogre is a phony movie and television trope.

People mistake adaptations to the pace and concentration of urban life as unfriendliness. Yes, people don't smile and nod at everyone they meet as they stroll the length of 5th Avenue, because after three or four blocks they'd need a chiropractor. But approach one of those people on 5th Avenue for directions, and most of the time he'll be pleasant and eager to be helpful.

Of course, you take your chances approaching strangers in any big city, but I also think that a lot of the treatment you receive is determined by the attitude you bring with you. I've heard wildly different reports on the infamous rudeness of Parisians, but the reports are usually a reflection of the kind of person making the report. Courteous people tend to be met with courtesy wherever they go, and obnoxious people get a rude reception.

Wow, that's cheap. Of course, east coast skiing sucks, so I suppose it's reasonable, but still... that's cheap.

Powering the potato gun.

They have a combustion chamber at the rear. You open it up, spray hairspray into it, close it, then twist (or whatever) the sparker to ignite it. The potato chunk which was inserted into the muzzle flies a great distance. Laugh. Repeat.

FWIW, Google doesn't really pay attention to what you've done. They pay attention to what you do during the interview.

No, he's saying that there were lots of competing companies doing about the same thing. You say one of them (who I'd never even heard of) walked away. Fine. Several others didn't walk away, and instead got trounced. Perhaps FAST could have competed and perhaps not. Apparently they didn't think they could.

Not yet. Non-ad revenue has been climbing steadily, growing significantly faster than ad revenue, with the result that advertising's share of Google's revenues -- while still dominant -- is decreasing every year. It's still 90%, but that's down from 94% just two years ago. I expect it to drop to 80% within a couple of years and to be less than 50% in a decade or so, perhaps less. Nearly all of the company's big growth initiatives are in non-advertising businesses. Not that Google doesn't keep pushing the ad revenue numbers upward, and not that they aren't mind-boggling.

I know a couple of Google employees without bachelor's degrees. One has an associate's degree and the other didn't even complete high school. Both are brilliant people and outstanding engineers. Google doesn't really pay attention to credentials in the interview and hiring process. Bock's point wasn't that the CS graduate was more likely to get hired because of what would be written on the diploma, but because the more challenging coursework would be a better preparation.

This presumes, of course, that the CS degree program really is more challenging and requires more critical thinking ability than the English program. I'd generally expect that to be true, but there are counterexamples. My university, for example, had such a weak CS program that the English degree probably was harder.

I should point out, though, that most Google engineers do have BS or MS degrees, along with a substantial leavening of PhDs, and most of them are in CS, math or other engineering fields, but far from all.

AUMF that allow's it. It is overly broad. I congress person voted against it and was labeled a traitor by most American at the time.

Listen to Radiolabs : 60 words.

http://www.radiolab.org/

IT's awesome. You cut the neck and it causes the head to spin really fast until it hits the ground.
HOWEVER, it is only practical for level 5 or above.