WOW...I can't believe it. This could not have happened!
Tthe king would not allow the IRS to perpetrate fraud!
Nor would he permit the IRS to target anyone whose political leanings where presumed to be "offensive" to his beliefs.
This story is a non-starter... Did anyone check Snopes to see if it was true?
Yeah...but it took, what, 8 years to convict the guy?
As much as I hate the way the Chinese government works against its people, they seem to have done a few things right: In China, if your caught intentionally contaminating the food supply...you are executed in front of a firing squad.
Sounds like the right thing to do!
"ethics violations challenge our trust of the engineering"
Ethics violations are now and have been occuring for longer than I can remember. Make no mistake about it
Anyone who has been paying attention to the last 20-30 years should know by now that "trust" in Engineering, Medicine, etc. (pick anything) has been corrupted by the all mighty dollar.
They were a great keyboard! At work I'm still using an IBM compatible 5250 style keyboard that has great tactile feedback. I even bought one for my home PC -- it's 6-7 years old and still going strong
ATT...they're cheap!
Try Frontier...lucky to get 3MB for a measly $45.00 per month + taxes. A local monolpoly at work...
Let's be clear: the work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right, which means that he or she has results that are verifiable by reference to the real world. In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results.
As a STEM major, I am somewhat bias towards "strong" evidence side of the argument. However, the more I read literature from other somewhat related fields i.e. psychology, economics and climate science; the more I felt that they have little opportunity in repeating experiments, similar to counterparts in traditional hard science fields. Their accepted theories are based on limited historical occurrences and consensus among the scholars. Given the situation, should we consider "consensus" as accepted scientific facts ?
Exactly. As for myself, I will continue to file by paper/snail mail. Lets face it, even if everyone filed electronically is there anyone naive enough to believe that the tax rates would be reduced because of the savings?
in high school, but I would rather see kids learn the basics of reading, writing and mathematics. When you see a large number of seniors graduating high school and they have difficulty making change for a dollar...there's something seriously wrong with the education system.
You hit the nail on the head. Another thing that most of the younger folks in IT do not understand is that its very likely their bank and insurance companies are running COBOL on the back end systems producing statements, calculating rate adjustments, etc.
For these two industries COBOL does all of the heavy lifting and its not likely to be replaced anytime soon...
Even today I'm still coding in COBOL on a medium sized manufacturing system and to replace it with C or Java would be a fools errand...
This either shows invalid data being provided by the industry OR their mapping software is junk. I live further than 18,000ft from the switching office yet for my area it lists the local telco (Frontier) as 3-6Mbps. However, the local engineer has already told me that my speed would be between 384K and 1Mbps...if I was lucky. I have worked on PC's in the outlying area and if you can keep the cheap, chinese-made modems working, yes you can make the 384K. IMO, for the $50 per month charge...they can keep their DSL.
"The lesser of two evils -- is evil." -- Seymour (Sy) Leon
