If you haven't taken advantage of early or absentee voting, get yourself out to the polls today in order to secure your right to take credit for (or complain about) things during the next four years. :) "My vote doesn't matter" is a self-fulfilling prophecy that "they" would love for you to believe. Here are a few articles for your consideration as you h
We've got to be careful with scientific evidence, particularly since there is so little actual evidence for evolution. Even Darwin's famous finches are a weak example. Yes, their beaks change with the conditions on the islands, but did you know that they also change right back when the conditions change again? There are a lot of example of micro-evolution, but no really compelling evidence for macro-evolution that I can think of off the top of my head.
One thing specific to MMOGs that can make a huge difference is to provide an in-game interface. I don't know what the COC is for SWG, and if third party apps are banned then that might not work, but the in-game interface offers a lot of value. Points and ratings are a biggie also. A significant majority of MMOG players are achievement driven. If you can make the ratings more meaningful than just post counts then that's even better. I really like how joeuser has trolling/insightful rati
JillUser, I mostly agree with you, but I've got to disagree on the vacation comment. When someone takes a vacation at work, the most critical tasks are usually delegated to someone else who can either handle them or has contact information for the vacationing person. The same thing should apply to home-makers. When the home-maker needs a break, the other family members should take care of the most critical business. Home-making is indeed just like any other job, and that means that the homemaker
There's a pretty huge difference here between Judge Moore and Mayor Newsom. Moore behaved in a manner that defied the edict of a federal judge. Newsom behaved in a manner that defies the edict of the people of California. I'm not saying that Moore shouldn't have to suffer the consequences of his actions (even though I personally support them), but in my mind a sin against the edict of an appointed judge is less significant than a sin against the edict of the people (assuming that the edict of th
Gotta agree strongly here! I got my first job because I was volunteering in the organization and did good work. None of that good work would have done me any good at all, however, if the manager hadn't been able to convince the hospital's executive team to hire me at a ridiculously low wage (I was under age and had no prior employment experience). My move from customer support to R&D was similar. If the R&D VP was forced to pay me a certain rate because "that's what the position pays" then he wo
I wanted to get married on leap year day, but my wife was unthrilled with the idea. I think it would be neat! Not as neat as a birthday on leap year, but almost.... :)
I'm a partner in a software products and services company, and we've encountered similar challenges. We put together a screensavers website as a way of generating some short-term revenue for ourselves and some nonprofits we care about while we work on our "real" products, and we have been absolutely amazed at some of our competitors. It's bad enough that they sell public-domain images without being honest about the image source, but in many cases they also take commercial images, trim
I suppose the first comment that has to be made is that the title of this commentary is not “My Dream Job”; it is “My Dream Company”. I know that there are some fortunate people out there who don’t really care much where they work as long as their job or their team “doesn’t suck”. There are even some truly blessed individuals who have clearly separated their work life and their real life and can be content even if their job does “suck”. I’m not one of those people. My role is important to me, an
I can post to the forums or edit an existing article, but I can't create a new article. I... Click on Create New Article Select the Category (tried business and philosophy) Type in a headline Paste in my ascii text (also tried just typing it in) hit submit It blinks and returns me to my blog homepage with no article created I also... Click on My Account Click on Manage Custom Links Enter a title with no text Click Add Link The title is cre
Whew... I thought maybe I had gotten stupid in my old age or something. Thanks Muggaz.
erngh. I can post to forums or edit an existing article... any ideas?
I can't seem to post new articles. Is there a forced delay between posts? I posted a test hello world to welcome, then came back and tried to create a new post that actually says something, but it won't take the new post. (Lets me select forum and category, enter title and text, select just me or everyone, etc, but when I click submit nothing is saved). Am I missing something obvious here?
There's nothing interesting here yet, I'm just making sure that I understand how this thing works BEFORE I post something and wish I hadn't. Hm.. can't seem to delete the custom link section I created, create a new custom links section, or post a new article. Either JoeUser is badly broken right now :( or I'm doing something foolish.
"Governmentium has a normal half-life of 1 to 6 years; it does not decay, but instead undergoes a reorganization in which a portion of the assistant neutrons and deputy neutrons exchange places. In fact, governmentium's mass will actually in crease over time, since reorganization causes some morons to become neutrons, forming isodopes." You realize, of course, that this means that at some point the mass of Governmentium will be sufficiently large that it will either collapse under its o
3: Number of times I had to stop myself from writing a rant about someone in the UK thinking that they have any right to talk about my president or my government. Oops...4 now...
One of the things that hurts the homosexual agenda and that I think strengthens prejudice against you is the very phrase homophobia. By treating perceived ignorance as fear and disease, supporters of that agenda present the appearance of arrogance, assuming that they are superior, putting those who disagree on the defensive. I must also state that I think "traditional" societies, particularly those composed primarily of "Christians", make exactly the same mistake. Supporters of the "Christian" a
I think that the reason we focus so much on sincerity is that we recognize how easy it is to read the polls and tell us exactly what we want to hear in order to gain power. That approach is frighteningly effective both in getting one elected and in staying in office. In some ways that's an excellent way to ensure that right wingnuts and left wingnuts don't stay in power long. By governing according to polls in order to remain in power, the power-hungry manipulators manage to stay in power and ye
Interesting take on our prehistory. I know I wanted to know more about what's going on as I read it, and that's one of the signs of an interesting setting. Put a character in there, I think you have the foundation of an interesting short story.
The origins of life does seem to be a reasonable place to start when discussing whether or not there is intelligent life out there, but I find it fascinating that most of us seem willing to accept a highly improbable series of extraordinary coincidences as explanation for the origins of life without giving any consideration to the possibility of intelligent design. I find it particularly fascinating given that we constantly observe intelligent (human) design, but I am aware of no occasion in whi
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