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Comment ..and thats why there are few job opportunities. (Score 2) 187

I once thought about learning python. Then i combed craigslist across the US looking for job opportunities doing python programming. Relatively few out there by comparison to ASP.NET and Java. Sure its less buggy.....but whats to motivate anyone to learn something they can't easily find work in?

Comment like crafty brilliant hobgoblins of goodness (Score 1) 459

....or maybe more like great uncles. These are people who have managed to stay valuable for many years and have decades of wisdom and experience behind them. They are not stupid, and can see things as they are about to happen before they actually do happen and the patterns of business repeat themselves. Don't just pay attention to what they say. Pay attention to what they DO because to just be dismissive of their ramblings will likely yield to be, well, foolish.

Comment Lets use dat Hadron Collider thingamabob (Score 1) 211

If only we could somehow create a temporary miniature black hole at the site of the incident and suck the entire plant site and all its radioactively contaminants into a ball of matter no bigger than a pea, and then create a parallel dimensional portal and then send the pea through it and close the portal and just make this whole problem go away.

Comment this could increase auto vandalism (Score 2) 192

They better have it on them at all times and not leave it in the car. The college industrial complex is overloading its classrooms, thus resulting in overcrowded parking lots. When I was a broke college student, I used to just leave my car doors unlocked intentionally because the assumption was always that if you have something in your car that thieves want badly enough, they're going to get it; even if it means breaking windows. I figured I might as well leave the doors unlocked because otherwise I'd have my stuff stolen AND broken windows to deal with. I didn't care because I had nothing of any real value anyhow, but now the parking lots will have more lure for would-be thieves ans seen as a treasure trove with the possibility of a $475 pawnable/ebayable item in every Nth parked car.

Comment I wanna know WHY I have to clean my plastic (Score 1) 427

I don't recall having ever seen any sort of video or tv presentation or read an article or seen anything that clearly explains why its important to CLEAN your plastic recyclables. Now of course you can't leave food in it; thats common sense. But suppose I get done eating a rotisserie chicken in a plastic bag that has leftover chicken-juice clinging to the inside of the bag, I wanna know why I gotta go to the trouble of cleaning all that stuff out of there because its a bother and common sense tells me that its just gonna be burned off and vaporized in a melting process somewhere alone the line. And I can't think that the leftover remains of burnt chicken juice is going to make the entire recycling plant fall apart. So please explain WHY you're rejecting my somewhat-dirty plastic please.

Comment maybe technology replaced need for humans again (Score 1) 251

Perhaps the reason they are laying off 90% of them is because they simply don't need them anymore because XKeyScore now does manually what used to take a lot of manual system administrator work to accomplish. They say they've been collecting data since 2008 but its plausible they've been at it for a lot longer than that.

Comment More Productivity & Exercise is what I got. (Score 1) 114

I'm more productive when working from home. Much less distraction from coworkers, and much happier working while being able to listen to the radio station of my choosing. And one of the biggest benefits for me has been the exercise. When I was in corporate America, I had to drive an hour through rush hour twice a day (to work and back) and never had time to exercise. When I switched to working from home, I used the time I got back to exercise and started routinely riding my bike at least 15 miles each morning. And since I don't have to worry about staying workplace-presentable and sweat-free, sometimes during my lunch break I even skip the meal and just do an aerobic routine right in front of my computer while watching one of the many available for free on YouTube. I've lost 25 lbs since the day I started working from home.

Comment What about the College Online-Testing Scandall? (Score 1) 827

I already figured out the "college industrial complex" long before the term was even coined. The overcrowded classrooms, lack of sufficient parking, ridiculously overpriced textbooks, and all other factors made it blatantly obvious. But what really made me lose my temper was the university's refusal to acknowledge and do anything about its broken online testing system. I was taking classes that required students to complete quizzes, tests, and final exams all via the college website. Almost everything was true/false and multiple-choice. We were permitted to see our quiz results when they were finished and which questions we got right and wrong, and also view our submitted answers. As the semester went by, I realized that their testing system was literally changing the answers that I had selected to wrong answers! Whats more, it was also counting correct answers as incorrect! Nearly every quiz I had taken had been brought down from a A to a B, a B to a C, and in one case an A to a D. Clearly their testing system didn't work correctly, and keep in mind this is the same system that we took our tests and final exams on, which usually counted towards 60% of our final average. For the tests and final exams, we were NOT permitted to see our submitted answers and NOT permitted to see which questions were counted as correct and incorrect. So I complained to all the respective departments and faculty, the dean, and they all just gave me the run around! Nobody wanted to make any attempt to fix the problem or even acknowledge that their system was broken. They were just going to keep on using it. I was furious. And then it occurred to me that by lowering everyone's test scores, they fail more students, who in turn will have spend more money re-taking the classes making second attempts to move closer to their goal of graduating. It even screwed people who could have otherwise made the deans list. When I think of all the thousands of students who poured their time and money into attending that university only to get ripped off systematically I was almost ready to file a lawsuit. But I was a poor broke powerless college student who really couldn't do much of anything to put a stop to it. I eventually graduated, but I've never gone back. Lived and learned.

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