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  • I gotta tell you, I loved my old Creative Labs Zen Nano Plus. That thing was awesome. Now I use my cellphone.
  • edited October 2013
    It would be nice to upgrade from the 3rd gen ipad but I don't really care to upgrade that much. If I didn't have retina then I'd be more inclined to upgrade but the bump in processor power isn't that big of a deal to me.
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  • I gotta tell you, I loved my old Creative Labs Zen Nano Plus. That thing was awesome. Now I use my cellphone.
    I used my PDA as my mp3 player and then moved on to using a smartphone but the Creative MP3 players were really popular at my brother's high school at the time.
  • I got a Samsung MP3 player after my two iPods died in the same way in less than a year. The Samsung's over five years old now and still works fine; I just don't use it because my phone is more convenient now.
  • edited October 2013
    New York State has six proposals on the ballot for the general election. Here is how to vote on them.

    1) Do you want to allow casinos in NY State? yes/no

    I'm mostly indifferent. The ones in Connecticut haven't really been a problem, but allowing them will just make rich people more rich. Leaning no. Even though the casinos will theoretically be taxed to pay for schools and such, the money comes from poor people who go to casinos, not rich people who own them. Regressive tax bad. Maybe without the casinos they will be forced to just tax the rich straight up.

    2) Do you want it to be easier for disabled veterans to get civil service jobs? yes/no

    Indifferent. Yeah, they probably deserve an easier path to finding a job, but they are just taking it away from someone else who may actually be more qualified since they did not get the bonus points. Seems both answers are equal.

    3) Allow cities to take on more debt if it is used for construction or reconstruction of sewage facilities? yes/no

    YES. Upgrade all the infrastructure. Get the shit out of my house (literally).

    4) Let the state give away public land, which is currently banned by the constitution? yes/no

    NO. Do not let some private party take ownership of public forest land.

    5) Let them frack on the land from question 4? yes/no

    NO. Go ruin North Dakota some more.

    6) Let judges keep judging when they are way old instead of forcing them to retire at 70? yes/no

    NO. Old people get out. Let's get some young judges who are statistically more likely to judge with a modern worldview.
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  • edited October 2013
    2) Do you want it to be easier for disabled veterans to get civil service jobs? yes/no

    Indifferent. Yeah, they probably deserve an easier path to finding a job, but they are just taking it away from someone else who may actually be more qualified since they did not get the bonus points. Seems both answers are equal.
    I have mixed opinions about this. I feel they already get a lot of preference. It's the hiring system, especially for federal jobs that is beyond messed up and needs fixing, but there laws in OPM are just too bureaucratic. The application process is also confusing for almost anyone unless you've already been through it, however it's also a good test to see if you can comprehend words as a first initial screening process.

    I do believe in hiring veterans. I've worked with so many, howevever I will say that some should have never been hired and are lucky they have their veteran's preference to get them to land certain jobs.
    Post edited by Rochelle on
  • Well, this is for state jobs, not federal, but yeah. I think I'm going to leave it unvoted and go with no/X/yes/no/no/no
  • Well it's a 50/50 crapshoot when it comes to the good hires vs bad hires. The question is do you want those chances for state jobs? If it's an improvement, then yes.

    I bet it will pass just because it's for the veterans.
  • Good to know, thanks Scott.
  • With regards to veterans, the government should train them so that they don't need preferential hiring.
  • With regards to veterans, the government should train them so that they don't need preferential hiring.
    It's a perk not a handout.
  • With regards to veterans, the government should train them so that they don't need preferential hiring.
    The problem I've heard the most about is actually that they are getting trained, but private entities don't recognize it -- like, a field medic won't have the right certification to work at a hospital.
  • That doesn't sound right but I don't know for sure. I know some good friends who served in the Airforce and their training was relevant to the private sector.
  • It might depend on the field. A friend of mine's a combat medic in the army, and he told me the same thing.
  • It depends on the level of training. A Field medic probably won't be able to work in a hospital as a doctor(maybe a nurse? I don't know what the US qualifications for nurses are like) because they're not a doctor, they're frontline first aid and trauma care. They may be able to become a paramedic(I think, again, qualifications make that unsure) or an ambo. However, a Military Surgeon would be able to take a job as a surgeon in a civilian hospital once he or she gets out.

    It all depends on what specific qualifications and role you had, I'm pretty sure.
  • It depends on the level of training. A Field medic probably won't be able to work in a hospital as a doctor(maybe a nurse? I don't know what the US qualifications for nurses are like) because they're not a doctor, they're frontline first aid and trauma care. They may be able to become a paramedic(I think, again, qualifications make that unsure) or an ambo. However, a Military Surgeon would be able to take a job as a surgeon in a civilian hospital once he or she gets out.

    It all depends on what specific qualifications and role you had, I'm pretty sure.
    I would think a Field Medic would be fine as a paramedic with a refresher course (written) and practical. (Not sure about US paramedic education requirements and whether you would be fine to go into nursing without prior registration).

    Military Surgeon - they would need board accreditation from the state and it would vary from state by state, if it is anything like other Health Sciences.

    Could be anything from sitting the board exam again, to starting off as a junior surgeon / registrar.
  • edited October 2013
    Military Surgeon - they would need board accreditation from the state and it would vary from state by state, if it is anything like other Health Sciences.

    Could be anything from sitting the board exam again, to starting off as a junior surgeon / registrar.
    Oh yeah, but that would be expected. I'm pretty sure that there's more than one case where a doctor of whatever specialty can't practice in another state without undergoing the correct certification. Then again, maybe it's state by state? Fuck, I don't know. It's enough of a pain dealing with eight states and territories, 50 is just unreasonable.

    Also, I'm making sangria. My kitchen smells like a tanker full of red wine exploded in an orchard.
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  • edited October 2013
    I thought he was talking about how veterans get a certain number of points when applying for government jobs. Such that if two equal candidates apply the veteran points give the veteran a point advantage on the application.

    I see no problem with this because just about anyone can become a veteran. It is not the same as giving (or taking) points for something that can not be changed such as race or gender.

    http://m.military.com/benefits/veteran-benefits/veterans-employment-preference-points.html
    Post edited by HMTKSteve on
  • Back to the dish mines today.

    Oh well, it's funding the PAXing so...
  • edited October 2013
    Right, that's five litres of Sangria starter done, so that means there's only one thing left to do - the age old tradition of a cheap tin cup of cheap plonk with a bit of fruit floating in it and then bed.
    Post edited by Churba on
  • Field medic friend was specifically talking about EMT jobs when he said that qualifications didn't transfer. From what he said, army qualifications and civilian qualifications are not good friends.
  • I want to make a QR code pointing to a Google image search for QR code the top search result for QR code.
  • I think that might break one of the 7 seals.
  • This is what a dubstep guitar sounds like.

  • That is one wicked guitar.
  • OMG that Starfox, haven't heard it in forever.

    That dude has white Sanwa arcade buttons on his guitar = higher level of awesome.

    On another note, does anybody else like the Capcom fighting games music?
    Like Street Fighter III Third Strike, Street Fighter 4 etc. Or is it just my own bias?
  • Starfox... 64?!

    Posers.
  • edited October 2013
    That is one wicked guitar.

    That dude has white Sanwa arcade buttons on his guitar = higher level of awesome.
    I found said guitar, and apparently it has a controller to do things like adjust lighting and other stuff.
    The guitar has a midi usb that can be routed in any way possible. I use it with either logic when recording or mainstage 3 in a live setting. Anything that will take midi inputs can be routed into the guitar, including lights!

    Post edited by Coldguy on
  • Ronald Reagan, whose foreign policy was aggressive against Soviet powers to put it mildly and whose anti-communist record went back to his time with HUAC in the 50s said in 1984 "America's future rests in a thousand dreams inside your hearts; it rests in the message of hope in songs of a man so many young Americans admire: New Jersey's own Bruce Springsteen." However, in 1988 that same Bruce Springsteen asked the GDR permission to play a concert in East Berlin (his largest concert to date). Peter Aimes Carlin, Bruce's biographer, says "The officials loved the idea, particularly given Bruce's proletarian, seemingly anti-capitalist reputation."

    Conclusion: foreign policy and international diplomacy can always be solved through the tremendous power of Bruce Springsteen.
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