Comment Re: Wouldn't someone think of the children? (Score 1) 294
You're talking to a ham radio op
You're talking to a ham radio op
Exactly! Glad you got what I was getting at.
Conspiracy junkies? Paranoia is rampant, and often foolish.... although once in a while it's rewarded.
I can't wait for my electricity prices to come down from nuclea....
Oh, wait.
Mercury in vaccines causes autism.
WiFi boils the brain and causes cancer.
Obama is the Anti-Christ.
You will never stop stupid people because stupid can't be fixed. Once that one realizes that correlation != causation, you have a chance. Until then, you can only introduce the facts and hope for the best. It's tough to stanch meme propagation when the propagators are teary-eyed mothers with dead children. But it has to be done.
Amen to that.
Link: The discovery of microwave heating
Guess what Percy Spencer died from? Natural causes.
Hurry, conspiracy junkies! Define Microwave radiation as a "natural cause"!
I remember when cellphones base-stations were being maligned as being totally cancerific (that's a mother-of-schoolchildren science term), the response to a "there's no connection, all published results say so" claim by the big companies was "therefore they're not publishing the stuff that proves our claims - it's a coverup" from the anti-sciencoids (that's a worked-for-a-basestation-manufacturer mild insult).
These mothers were unable to explain why the local Nokia R&D site had a massive base-station *right in the middle of it*, and how that would fit in with their consipiracy coverup theorem.
You can't argue with idiots whose minds are already made up using *any* language.
No kidding. Case in point:
My grandfather stood (with many other soldiers) in front of microwave radio transmitter directed cones (dishes) to warm themselves up in subzero temperatures. They didn't really wonder how or why it worked at the time.
Guess how many died from cancer as a result? Out of a group of 30-something guys, 10% died from *A FORM* of cancer.
<snark>Omg that's so much higher a percentage than the number of people that have not undergone that bodily microwave heating</snark>
What he really needs to to is to grow a pair and tell them not to be so fucking stupid (or words to that effect).
I think that's what politics was originally designed for. Then came bribes...
Anything with potassium in it is radioactive.
"Naturally occurring potassium is composed of three isotopes, one of which, 40K, is radioactive. Traces (0.012%) of this isotope is found in all potassium making it the most common radioactive element in the human body and in many biological materials, as well as in common building materials such as concrete."
(Wikipedia)
Gee, I hope the "parents" never find out. This is real radioactivity, not the wussy WiFi sort.
OTOH a banana panic would lower the price of one of my favorite fruits, so
Must.... find... something... to.... blame.... must... get.. money... and attention......
You think that's bad? I just ate a banana...
I have a lawyer reference for ya...
Windows 8.1, codenamed "Blue," is introducing a number of changes designed to make the new operating system more palatable to current Windows users. Windows 8.1 is adding a Start Button, a boot-straight-to-desktop option; the ability to unpin all Metro apps; built-in tutorials; an improved Windows Store and a host of other consumer- and business-focused features. Microsoft launched its one and only Windows 8.1 consumer preview test build in late June.
Microsoft may have opted against announcing Windows 8.1's RTM on Friday so that the news wouldn't be overshadowed by the announcement that CEO Steve Ballmer is retiring some time within the next 12 months. As I blogged previously, my sources said Microsoft was targeting Monday August 26 as the day it would RTM Windows 8.1.
Of course, it needs to look like a big secret so I won't say any more.
My apologies for not remembering the show, but there was the show that featured somebody that actually worked in India as something (working in a call center, methinks).
I saw that.
I'm not talking show - I'm talking real life scenario.
Sugar coating ruins expressive thought. Rant on!
Many on this site feel entitled not to be filtered out but that is a fact of life. Hiring is highly risky.
What is illegal is not hiring someone based on sex, gender, religion, disability, race, being gay (1/3 of the states have this), or any other reason based on a civil rights violation. Dressing and looking unprofessional does not go under any of these critera.
What is and is not unprofessional is subjective. You're trying to rationalize your illogical discrimination; in reality, you're just a shallow person.
You must work in HR. You're supposed to move people around and fire them, not tell them what's on your mind. Asshat.
"Master's degree in information systems and 17 years of experience" does not tell us that she was more qualified than the Bangladeshi hired. I have interviewed too many people who look good on paper only.
True. The other end of the stick is "you have too much experience so you must be set in your ways and not malleable enough for our workforce."
Obviously, you get what you pay for
In which case wouldn't that mean the natural order of things would cause this to either come around and bite them in the ass with low rate and low quality or work out just fine and show that the lower rate provided a perfectly acceptable level of quality?
Well, fuck. I guess that process wasn't taught in college.
Anyone can make an omelet with eggs. The trick is to make one with none.