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I avoid it because I've done it as a job, and I didn't like it.At my work I do both while web designing. Universities have a surprisingly large amount of data relating to employees to sort through...
I like programming, just not web stuff. Would rather be digging through data or something. hehe.
I played the starting zone yesterday at blizzcon, it was bleh.did you see blizzard's dota clone? Is it a standalone game, or is it a map for starcraft 2?
If I were in the class, I'd much prefer that he gets his questions answered afterwards. If they're questions and not an attempt to show off to his peers and teachers how much he knows, this shouldn't matter to him.+100
I suppose what the professor did can be viewed as mean, but I don't think it'd be mean to tell a handicapped student that they can't be on the track team. It's a practical matter; it's not like it's personal or anything.
In fact, I'd prefer that a professor shut up any student that likes to talk a lot during a lecture-format class. Fuck that noise.
Honestly, I'm not buying it.This may be splitting hairs, but I don't think of deferring to someone's expertise as respect. Respect must be earned. When a person has power over you (in this case: medical knowledge and a DEA #), they don't automatically deserve your respect -- merely polite acknowledgement. Respect comes after examining their interactions with you and the efficacy of their treatment.
You walk into a physicians office, not a homeopath's etc. If there's an emergency you call an ambulance and see a doctor in ER, not a mystic healer. The title DOES mean something to you, and I think you have to concede that. Sure, lots of doctors are incompetent, and many have probably bullshitted their ways into positions of power. But that does NOT mean the title counts for nothing. On average, without meeting the physician even, (if you are sane) your prior has to be that the physician is more likely to help you for a medical problem than a random person. And yes, because of their title.
Assuming a 50k starting salary with no raises? That's an unrealistic assumption. Most specialists make more than a million a year. I know lots of doctors and none of them are making 50k/year, and they can often pay their debt off in a year or two.50k/yr working a nonmedical job. IE: The income that would be lost if one did not go to medical school and instead worked. And no, most specialists do not make anywhere near a million dollars a year. http://www.medscape.com/features/slideshow/compensation/2011 see slide 2. slightly older, but a different source: http://www.gthealthsearch.com/attachments/AMGA_Compensation_Survey.pdf . The highest average salaries (cardiothoracic surgery and neurosurgery) were still below 600,000. If you know some doctors making a million dollars or more not running a Beverly Hills derm boutique, I'd love to meet them. They're far and wide the exception.
You seem to have some kind of personal involvement in this argument or to have thought a lot about medicine as career. Is that true?I started out college considering medicine, yes. Many of my best friends are either in or going into the field, so I keep abreast of current info.
$150k debt is nothing if you go to a decent medical school.As I alluded, it's not just the 150k in loans. It's 150k + 7 (or more) years of lost wages. The total economic costs are easily north of half a million dollars, assuming a low-paying 50k/year starting salary with no raises.
I would not say everyone in medicine could 'easily' make a comparable amount of money in another field. What attracts a lot of people to medicine is the formulaic nature of obtaining money and prestige.Why not? What skills are required to be successful? How do you think medical students [or those that now pursue it] lack those skills? You're asserting a lot without any basis on this.
You take these courses, you volunteer at these places, you get into this school, and so on, and your future becomes assured, and if you want, very predictable.There are roughly 18,000 spots at US allopathic (ie: MD, not DO) schools. Of these, many at public institutions are restricted to state residents only, thereby increasing the applicant pool at other schools. There were 43,000 applicants. It's not quite as easy as you suggest.
There is no other profession which is more 'safe' and 'guaranteed'; e.g. 99% of graduates ending up with very highly paid jobs. And that's got to attract a lot of people. Also, the skills required to make money in other professions is quite different.I don't dispute this once students enter, but it's not the primary reason for the traditional (ie: recently out of college, hasn't worked apart from student jobs) students.
I would guess about 75% of people go into medicine primarily for money, prestige, and the guaranteed nature of the job. It's a way of making money without taking a risk.Again: evidence?
It's the type of job that controlling/protective parents will push their children towards at a very young age.This is irrelevant.
Many people go into medicine because they want money and prestige -- they don't really care about people at all.Only the really stupid. Cutting medical reimbursements all across the board, rise in midlevel providers vying for greater billing rights, EMTALA and mandatory uninsured care, and an uncertainty of the full impact of the Affordable Care Act are all putting the squeeze on doctors. Add to that a financial loss of 4 years of medical school, 3 years at the absolute minimum (7 to get trained as a general surgeon) of residency, and debt of ~$150-200k for med school grads... Anybody going into medicine has easily proven him- or her-self to be hardworking, and could easily make money in another field.
You sorta contradict yourself there, sweety. I agree, but with different wording. Like I said, and I'm sure you'd agree, blaming the victim is dumb; however, people should take responsibility for themselves.You can think someone's actions are ill-intentioned without blaming them. For example, if you left a loaded gun in easy access that was used to shot someone, I would certainly think that was stupid of you, but I wouldn't blame you for the gun having been used shoot someone.
/see what I did there? I blamed victims without explicitly blaming them.
Anyhow, the walk was...interesting. I say "interesting" because it wasn't all about not-blaming-victims. There was a lot of man-hating going on - many of the signs/chants were directed toward men not raping women, which is understandable given the world, but it's very gender-considerate, which is a big deal to me because all the super-involved people claim to be "progressive" and "gender neutral." Also, one of the signs said "hate the system, not the victim" - what? What system? Society? The criminal justice system?Slutwalks are just ways for women to be mad at men. Women never rape men, nor exert any kind of reproachable sexual control over men, obviously. I'm betting you saw a lot of uggos there, am I right?
...I thought the sign meant society up 'til I heard the sign-carrier speak. She said that victims sometimes get life sentences whereas attackers hardly ever see time in jail. Maybe she was mixing contexts, but I'm fairly sure I've never heard of an assault victim ever being sent to jail for being a victim. However, if said alleged victim lied about the attack, I agree with sending that "victim" to jail (I know a guy that did time for "raping" a girl - she recanted her consent and had him arrested).
Why will you be polite, then? That's likely some level of respect you're just dismissing.Fear of retribution. If the first time you meet me I say, "You look like a fuckwad dweeb." that is not going to ingratiate you toward me. If I instead am polite (aka have social skills) I may even find that I like you.
In reality, women should be willing to hit men in the eyes/balls/whatever to protect themselves.Easy for you to say- women love gay guys!! Way to throw the rest of us under the bridge!
I'm intoixcated right now. But I love sluts.Don't you live in a town of like 5 people and hate it?
It would be nice if windows could be shaded (i.e. pulled up like a lamp shade) or iconified. Iconfication is a much more general concept than a task bar and allows you to place your iconified windows anywhere on the desktop.I take it you haven't used Win7? Everything, whether you use a classic skin or Aero, is iconified. Firefox doesn't have anything beyond the globe on it, etc etc.
The windows standard exit is top right. If you make a windows app, it should follow this, unless you have a really good reason not to. The new firefox dev tools window thing has the close on the top left and it drives me mad.Firefox is a clusterfuck well beyond where they put the close button. I'm seriously contemplating shifting to Opera (since I don't want Chrome).
