Comment How are we calculating analog storage media? (Score 1) 364
I mean - if you want to go down to the quantum level, my 45rpm Jessie's Girl by Rick Springfield record single has a metric bigabyte of data on it.....
I mean - if you want to go down to the quantum level, my 45rpm Jessie's Girl by Rick Springfield record single has a metric bigabyte of data on it.....
I find it funny that the so-called "rational, intelligent people", atheists, have to resort to straw man fallacies and hurtful words.
If you re-read my post you'll see that I say creationism SHOULD NOT be taught in school. That Evolution should be taught in school. And furthermore, if I want to teach my children something else, I'll do so in the privacy of my own home.
Because I identified myself as a Christian, you, and most everyone else that replied, had to do so in a hurtful and antagonistic tone.
And here I thought it was the Christians that did the persecuting and witch-hunting, and that the rational, intelligent atheists would make for a "live and let live" kind of world.
As far as government contractors are concerned EVERYTHING you do EVER is private. Never worked at one of these places, have you? These people are paranoid - constantly. The policy is: Keep your mouth shut, your nose clean, and the curtains drawn, no video, no pictures and never ever write anything down.
In other words, don't do shit that would ever cast a shadow of doubt on you, EVER. They are betting literally Billions of dollars on you, along with the livelihood of all your cow-orkers, and are not about to take any chances of you screwing it up while drunk at a party, dancing with a lampshade on your head.
Wanna drink? Get loaded at your own home all you want, just don't be late for work, and make sure you can pass a piss test in the morning.
There are plenty of people out there like this, and if you don't fit the bill, someone else will. As long as you're not after that job, it won't matter to you, though.
This is a very bad idea - and that's coming from a self-described Christian. I don't want some goof-ball teacher going over something like this with my kid. They can barely get math right. You focus on math/science/history/reading, I'll handle teaching my kid religion and philosophy at home.
And as always, evolution and creation are not at odds. Evolution answers "How?" and creation answers"Why?"
I don't expect my views to be accepted by devout atheists, OR devout Catholics, so let's leave the creationism at home and not have a big fucking fight for no reason.
A company would seriously be fooling itself if it thinks it preserved some kind of integrity by not hiring someone who occasionally unwinds with friends at a party. They already have employees who do that, they just ignore the fact that they don't actively know about it. The fact that they can't distinguish between the two is a problem.
Consider a company that does top secret contracts for the government. If you can't keep your private life private, why should they trust you with their top secret data? One set of loose lips could possibly cost them BILLIONS. So, anything that even looks a little fishy, they want to (and for arguably good reasons) drop it like it's hot.
Even more worrying is the possibility of people deliberately destroying another's reputation. There's no shortage of people in this world with a grudge against someone else. It's quite easy to imagine an example where someone fails to get a job because of something someone has posted about them. It needn't even be true; a prospective employer isn't going to take time to give you the benefit of the doubt when there's plenty of other candidates.
This is 4chan^H^H^H^HEbaum's World's bread and butter my friend. Watch any Good Morning America lately?
We are each entitled to our own opinion, but no one is entitled to his own facts. -- Patrick Moynihan
