The last contract I had I walked into the "star" programmer using hidden text files to store data on client machines.

It took over two weeks to prove to him that SQL could store the data without errors.

People who are tossed into a learning environment for a month or two can't program their way out of a wet paper sack, let alone analyze and create tested solutions for a business.

But businesses will get what they pay for. If they want someone who can do a web page without a real back end (that's secure and actually usable) will end up paying the price.

It's good business for me. I can charge 4 years salary (of the bootcamp idiot) for six months worth of work to fix boot camp idiots work.

The thing that bugs me about all these claims of planets and star wobble and theories on how to predict life and all are all based on the latest iteration of conjecture.

The light being examined is really, REALLY ancient. There's no (as far as I can tell) any leeway given to what may be between the star and us - like dust, or any other thing like dark matter (which is a theory) between us and the exoplanet - Honestly?

To me all this planet discovery is about as verifiable as the canals of mars were when I was a kid.

A star "wobbles" after 15 million years of the light traveling to where we can observe it - and It's as definable as the canals of mars were 40 years ago?

Really? I can't say that the people declaring plants and life are wrong - but then again, science about the near planets is woefully lacking.

How can we definitively say that life exists light years away when we're fucking clueless about what is going on under the surface of Europa?

When I'm out riding on my touring bike - Monty Python Is mixed into my cruise music.

This might be their last "Visit before the chorus Invisible" But their classic and awesome humor will live on far past their "bring out yer dead" bell clanging.

Thank you from the bottom of my humor warped heart, Monty Python is and was one of the greatest entertainment shows on the planet.

And if anyone disagrees, It's fishes on the wharf at dawn.

p.s. the current win 8 experience has both testicles being torn from your body, or so my father said when he received a win 8 machine as an x-mas gift..

BTW

Seriously?

dumb bosses made me use a win 7 machine.

Saying "Vista was ok" is like saying "Ok, one of my testicles was torn from my body, but otherwise it was a good experience"...

If you're a linux prophet, how do you know about windows and upgrading?

I ask this because pert damn near everyone I've worked with over the past 15 years knows that when you move to a new Microsoft release, it's a wipe and reinstall.

And just like Star Trek Movies, every second windows release sucks. XP was great, Vista sucked balls, win 7was ok, win 8 ran for goatse .

(p.s. - never upgrade until the second service pack for the release)

If the person paying the penalty has not been audited over the issue, how can the debt be arbitrarily assigned?

Sounds like the ACLU can suck up a crapload of public funds over this fiasco.

I can actually preserve food by canning, smoking, pickling and curing as well as hunt. I also have mason jars stockpiled.

So I'll raise the farming by one and have the shotgun ready for defense against soldier boy.

P.S. Be sure you want to be tough and steal, cause if there's a jar or two not prepped well, you'll just die from botulism when you run across it. It's called "insurance". :)

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The link above is why I really hope that parents continue to augment their children with implants or anything else needed to give their child the best advantages in life.

what is the average age of those that lived in the stone age?

Seatbelts. another pet peeve.

You live in texas.

I live in Illinois.

In illinois, I can hop on my touring bike or street bike with a set of glasses on and no helmet.

Am I safer riding like that or am I safer in My Jeep Wrangler without a seatbelt on?

If I am safer in my Jeep Wrangler without a seatbelt on, why the hell is there a law making me put a seatbelt on on but not blocking me from riding a motorcycle?

Are you going to support removing motorcycles from the streets since they are less safe than a car?

If this post makes you think, why can't you support personal choice when it comes to the way they live their lives?

I illustrated your absurdity by being absurd, and it paid off.

You favor a damaging cost to society by not embracing the idea of extreme safety. You are willing to let people die so that you are not in a state of discomfort.

Yet, you ignore my desire to make my own choices in life.

Game/set/match. Let me know when there is a Jewish Pope.

You are as close to the middle as a pope is jewish.

It's self evident in your "society cost" argument and avoidance to discuss "society cost" when it comes to abortion.

No, they don't.

These "safety rules" are nothing more than special interest groups (to increase their profits) pushing an agenda that is popular with the mindless sheep that are happy to graze at a particular voting place, as long as they get their shiny toys paid for by the rest of the populace.

You are a substandard driver and expect everyone around you to have the same skills, and to avoid having to pay up for actual cost of the technology that is required to keep you as a safe driver, you need others to pay for it.

Again, It should be the purchasers choice to up their safety.

Otherwise, screw all choices - everyone's car should be speed limited to 15 mph, with solid steel frames and roll cages, crash bumpers that are engineered to 100 mph crash standards, and require a nerf suit and DOT helmet to operate.

Otherwise, how dare you speak against it - think of the people that could be saved.