Comment Re:Echo chamber (Score 1) 353
She can't hear reality over the roar of the hundred million dollars she was paid for halving the shareholder value of HP.
I hope she runs.
A Fool and Her Money Are Soon Parted....
She can't hear reality over the roar of the hundred million dollars she was paid for halving the shareholder value of HP.
I hope she runs.
A Fool and Her Money Are Soon Parted....
As I see it, the serious candidates in the Republican party are (in no particular order): 1 Marco Rubio (experience: over ten years in congress, can win elections).
You're wrong about Rubio's having "over ten years in congress". Rubio did serve several terms in the Florida State House of Representatives, but he has never been a US Representative and is still a first term senator, having been elected in 2010. He's about as qualified as Obama was when Obama won the Presidency. He's probably unelectable thanks to some stupid moves he's made -- he voted against the Violence Against Women Act.
2 Scott Walker (experience: Governor, smashing unions and winning hard political fights)
George W. Bush used to say "I'm a uniter, not a divider." Scott Walker is his opposite, which leads me to think that he is not electable. Walker is still in his first term and he dropped out of college, which is a big negative (in my view). He was only one semester short of a degree, but he's never bothered to finish? Something's not quite right there.
3 Chris Christy (experience: Governor, reaches across the aisle, achieves Republican goals in a Democratic state).
Christy is a corrupt New Jersey politician. The question is whether or not that corruption will catch up to him before the election. I think it will.
IMHO, Republican primary voters appear incapable of recognizing competency. There are several good Republican Governors out there, but they're not on anybody's radar screen. The Governor of New Mexico is one -- she's in her second term, has apparently done a good job because she has very high public opinion poll ratings, and she happens to be a hispanic woman.... but few people outside of NM (and its neighboring states) have ever heard of her.
Here's an example: In Georgia, fired Dekalb County School System Superintendent Cheryl Atkinson did all her business via text messages:
WSB-TV: Lawsuit raises concerns about DeKalb Schools corruption (Dec. 4, 2012)/
According to the article, the school district was willing to give 12 people their jobs back if the attorney withdrew an open records request for a copy of Superintendent Cheryl Atkinson's text messages.
Scientists and engineers are by definition not supposed to be ethical.
Professional Engineers (PEs) disagree:
Ethics - National Society of Professional Engineers
and
National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE) Code of Ethics for Engineers
Recently I went through a couple of job interviews in MNCs, SMEs and start-ups alike. All of them grilled my CS theory or Java knowledge. Almost no interviewer asked me about my other skills (or past experiences) that could be helpful in the developer position
nerdyalien,
The secret of job interviewing is telling the interviewer about your skills and past experiences -- and explaining how relevant those are to the position you are interviewing for --without sounding like a self-centered jerk.
Thing 1: Didn't anyone think to take a picture of the device and ask if anyone knew what it was?
The bomb squad did better than than -- one of their members was put in a fire truck's basket and lifted up to be right next to the device/pinhole camera.
How about "STEEM" (with an extra E for English)?
You should learn about the STEAM (with an 'A') movement. The idea is to add Art + Design to the equation, so that STEM is transformed into STEAM.
The idea makes sense to me, but I also see that there is an advantage of leaving the 'A' out of STEM -- having 'art' in the acronym would make it more obvious that the plutocrafts' real goal with STEM is to turn all the workers into starving artists.
I'm in N Central Florida and I've regularly seen traceroutes leaving local residential/commericial access, go up to a NSA-enabled router in Atlanta, and back down to a local college.
Fixed that for you.
Hey, McGruber! The Cumbres & Toltec is waiting for you. Ball's in your court...
Is that you jaybawb?
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