And horses have their own advantages.
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My point still stands. For the most part, bows are obsolete and not used nearly as much as before the spread of firearms over 400 years ago (which btw, can be silenced with a little bit of effort).

Hey now! My aunt rode dressage in 2 olympics. One of my earliest memories was seeing her in the opening ceremonies in 1984.

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She was holding the red balloon. :)

Dressage is defined as "the highest expression of horse training." My aunt dedicated her life to understanding and working with horses. Going to the olympics was an added bonus, awarded to her because she is very good at what she does.

Horses were largely replaced by the internal combustion engine about 100 years ago. Bows were replaced by firearms nearly 400 years ago. Both are archeaic and underappreciated. Honestly, I was surprised someone who enjoys longbow archery has no respect for dressage. Then I read NoNONAlphaCharsHere's reply and see that pretty much everything in your post is bullshit. So now I'm no longer surprised.

Back in 2005-ish a friend of mine worked for a MPIAA contractor. His job was to seed bad torrents. THat is torrents that would go to 99% complete but never finish (I forget the trick for that, I think it was to control.remove all the 100% seeds after a couple days or something). Another was to simply mis-label torrents, give people a PBS show or something instead. The thing is, all the torrent sites are self-moderated, which roots out the shady torrents pretty quickly.

Well I haven't reviewed the evidence from Eric Garner's case, but what was presented in the indictment for Chris Brown showed that the witnesses who were brought out by the media before any evidence was presented were lying. There was substantial physical evidence showing the Brown assualted the officer after committing robbery/assault at the lquor store. Fighing cops is a good way to get yourself killed. I thought the most interesting part of the Ferguson incident was that the officer wasn't carrying a taser. If he had been, Chris Brown would probably still be alive.

I watched it. From what I can see, the police are detaining a man. Nothing else. The woman who is recording is stopped in the middle of the street (she is creating traffic, not stopped "in traffic") and when the officer initially tells her to move, she doesn't. Then, when she realizes that maybe what she is doing is a bad idea and she should leave, it's too late as the cops are swarming her car by the time she tries to pull forward. Now she has potentially assaulted an officer with her vehicle (can't tell from the video), which is a felony. This is why the one cop says "Your a dumb bitch."

I'm not saying the cops didn't do anything wrong (clearly he should not have called her that), but all the accusation about deleting the video are not supported by anyhting other than her lawyer saying she alledges that is what happened. The only hard evidence we have is the video, and all it shows is her breaking traffic laws and an officer calling her a "dumb bitch."

Before we all get our panties in a bunch, why don't we just let the lawyers and the court figure this out. All we have heard so far are statements from her lawyer and I suspect that he is overstating her case because that is his job.

There is strong correlation between which states are going after online ridesharing and their level of corruption. As a lifelone CA resident, it surprised me that it took this long for the state to take action.

I know of which you speak, as far as ageism. After interviewing an overqualified Engineer in his early 50s at my last job, my manager literally replied to my recommendation to hire with: "Meh. He's just too old to fit in." I was pretty shocked, especially since part of my argument to hire him was that our team had too many young inexperienced people and could use some balance. I'm 34.

Leaving your field is an option. But there are other viable options out there. Moving to a different job market, expanding your search to the rest of CA or even out of state is another one. I'm praying some company makes me a manager in the next 5 years so I don't end up fighting for individual contributer jobs against people half my age.

My friend is a software developer that was being discriminated against. After acknowledging, then ignoring him, the HR department screwed up pretty bad. He had no choice but to threaten a lawsuit (he had a lot of solid evidence) and they offered him a pretty sweet retention package (nearly a year's pay) that came with a promise not to sue. He took it and quit. He is white, his VP, manager, and most of his coworkers were Indian. The company was Verisign. He has had several good paying jobs since and hasn't been "blacklisted" whatever that means.

The high rate of employee turnover, politics, and finger pointing that goes on in the China office I work with (aprox 300 engineers in Beijing) is shocking. I don't know how a company can expect to be sucessful at doing real engineering and development work over there.

This doesn't apply in software development. The work isn't "just throw another body at it." It requires thoughtful insight and a nuanced approach to do correctly, and efficiently. An effective software engineer should rarely, if ever, have to work more than 40 hours a week.

Agreed. All of the talented and seasoned Engineers I have worked with share this approach. And it works wonders for your stress levels and family life.

I have been working as a Software Engineer in Southern California for ~10 years and other than my first job when I was paid hourly, I have never averaged more than 40 hours a week. Sure, once and a while there is a production push and I have to work a 16 hour day, but I take a day off (wihtout using vacation) if that is the case. In general, I work less than 40 hours a week. Over the last year, I'd estimate I average 34 hours/week of actual work and that is split between home and in my cubical. And I'm effective, my maanger is ahppy with my performance and I get good reviews. I am also able to be responsive to my email and even VPN in at times during off hours. I also get to spend a lot of time with my family because I am empowered enough to create my own work schedule. Some of the people I work with spend 50+ hours a week in the office and will respond to emails in the middle of the night. Yet they are less effective than I am. Many of the people I work with ahve siomlar schedules to me, and they are most the upper echelon as far as talent goes. In general, I think engineers who work long hours are inept and are trying to make up for their lack of ability.

Do I think the inept people I work with should get paid more for being at their desks more? No, not really.

Dice is engaged to a femminist. That is why we are recieving these posts 2x a day. You see, LinkedIn also married a feminist recently, and Dice was jealous so Dice got engaged. Because slashdot is owned by Dice, and Dice is now owned by a feminist, this is the stupid shit that we can now expect to be posted to /.

I hope that my message is clear to everyone. :)


PS LINKEDIN RULLLLZ! I just got a new job hat pays $130k thanks to that website.

I read that LinkedIn is a job website that will get you more than $100,000 per year. Meanwhile, LinkedIN was the one programming language to appear on LinkedIn's recent list of the fastest-growing tech skills, which is assembled from mentions in LinkedIn job postings.

Fuuuuuck Yoooooouuuuuuuu Dice!

"I bet you can correlate that with the improved living standards in Northern Ireland."

So you are betting that the difference in living standards for Catholics and Protestants in Ireland 100 years ago was the same as or larger than the difference between people in Sub-Saharan Africa and those in Europe/USA right now. I'd call that a pretty risky gamble. Interesting that you have formed a strong opinion, that was upvoted, based on this assumption that has no support other than your intuition.