No. A trades job is great for anyone who has the interest and aptitude for the work. You may as well say any job is great for just about anyone. If you have no interest in a field, working in it is torture. If you have no aptitude for it, you won't succeed.

Speaking as someone who has a Class A CDL and has driven everything from a motorcycle to a semi, including cargo vans and step vans, if a van has a blind spot that "is anything but in front of them" then you haven't adjusted the mirrors correctly.

No, the NSSF is the gun makers' lobby. The NRA is the gun buyers' lobby.

LK

a sudden outbreak of common sense.

There will soon be bipartisan proposals to counter it.

LK

Quantum computing, motherfucker. Look it up.

A) That is why people keep money in banks, B) Yes, you can, sort of. In the U.S. you gather up the burned remnants of your cash and send it to the U.S. Mint where they have an entire department consisting of people whose job is to go through such remnants and determine how much money they can actually identify and then that amount will be returned. Now, what happens if someone figures out a way to break the encryption? What happens if someone steals and makes public many of the decryption keys? What happens if someone makes an affordable quantum computer that can produce the keys in trivial amounts of time? The problem with using math as a currency is that a math trick can destroy the value of the currency.

No, he is telling the NONTECHNICAL people filling NONTECHNICAL jobs in his pseudo-technical company they are useless to him if they can't do something technical that isn't their job. He is saying this to accountants, HR people, administrative assistants. To make this clear to you, imagine the CEO of a medical laboratory company telling college grad he considers them unemployable unless they can claim familiarity with at least two medical diagnostic tests. How about if the CEO of an electronics supply company telling college grad he considers them unemployable unless they can claim familiarity designing amplifier circuits? Or, the CEO of a financial company telling college grad he considers them unemployable unless they can claim familiarity with at least two methods of analyzing stock performance. Or, the CEO of a musical instrument company telling college grad he considers them unemployable unless they can play two methods different musical instruments. To put it bluntly, McDonald is an idiot.

And that's the crux of the matter. Fear is not rational.

LK

Of course I'm right. I deal in facts, not fabrications and slander. Too bad you can't say the same. Well, I suppose you *could* say it, but that would be a fabrication.

You're wrong again. Bristol Palin gave birth in December 2008. She got pregnant in the spring of 2008, Sarah wasn't a part of the campaign until August 2008. To spell it out for you, she didn't get pregnant during the campaign. Just to save myself the trouble of correcting you later, the election took place in November 2008, so she didn't have her baby out of wedlock during the campaign either.

But don't let facts get in the way of your hate and vitriol.

LK

I can assemble a firearm from parts available in a local hardware store. Maybe we should outlaw hardware stores. The fun part is I can assemble a number of even more dangerous devices from the same hardware store, so the hardware store is actually much more dangerous than a 3D printer.

You are not even getting the basic facts right. Bristol Palin was never married to Levi. They had an on again/off again engagement but never married.

I would bet that you're one of those Palin haters who can't identify which quotes were hers and which were Tina Fey's.

LK

I really like Penn.

If more atheists were like him, there'd be more atheists.

Many atheists, unfortunately for them they are some of the most visible atheists, like Dawkins and Hitchens come across as assholes. Assholery turns people off. Condescension turns people off.

Penn practices a principled non-belief that even many believers can come to understand and respect. In my humble opinion, he would have the best shot at becoming a successful atheist missionary(so to speak) but because he's not a pushy asshole, he wouldn't want the job.

LK

Karl Rove was the master of it. The big difference is that he didn't have several broadcast networks prepared to publicly question the sanity of anyone who complained about his dirty tricks.

LK

I'm not concealing anything. I am a conservative. However, I am an ideologue and not a partisan. I make just as much noise about Republicans who are wrong too.

LK

You suspect? No, you hope because it would feed into your world view that FLOSS is as good, if not better, than proprietary software. But, without how and which projects were selected, this is just a bunch of propaganda. The thing that really sticks out to me is that the projects listed in the article all have paid contributors. That would be people being paid to work on the code. Something that you won't see in the vast majority of FLOSS projects because they don't have corporate patrons and they don't earn any money.