There are two sides of such an argument. 1. Just because it works in Europe it doesn't mean it will work in the USA. 2. Just because it works in Europe it doesn't mean it will not work in the USA.
We were able in the past make a trans-continental railroad, an Interstate system, That connects every state together. Nearly every home has access to Clean Water, Electricity, Telephone... These improvements while cost a lot, helped build the United States into an Economic Power house. Because the 325Million people have access to a wider infrastructure and be part of society, while having the property and space to utilize their own means.
This was all fine and good until the stupid Abortion Debates, where peoples view on the topic, painted the other side as morally deficient. Calling the Other side Misogynists or Baby Killers. Which after a few generations of this, has created a polarized society where working with the other side is considered bad. Even if it for all best interests.
It does. Proper Environmentalism, isn't being a crazy hippy, but looking at the risks and rewards of all available options. And going back and reevaluating to see if any factors have changed.
Back in the early 1900's the Gasoline Automobile was an environmental benefit. Because of the health risk of keeping horses in a City Environment. The Toxic (much more Toxic then today) exhaust was known back then to be harmful, however being that it was in the open air, it was considered much better then the Environmental Risks of a lot of horses.
A century later, The automobile is widely used, and the Carbon from its exhaust is causing harm to the environment compared to modern alternatives where its harm can be more easily managed. This isn't to say in 100 years we say these electric cars are safe and clean anymore, but there may be a new technology. Or perhaps we have cleaned the air to a point where a 100 year newer Gasoline motor or engine, may be considered a better solution.
Right now I think the biggest problem is lack of energy diversity. We are relying on fossil fuels for too much, and not on others. However to say that Fossil fuel has no part of modern life, is just closing your mind to the complexity of the world.
If you are re-watching a show and learning something new from it, then that is great. B5 was a budget Show. And a lot of things didn't age well. That said, you are willing to suspend belief, and focus on the story vs. just the details. You can find a lot of relevant things, that were showing an inkling of. Having watch B5 in the past, a lot of the stuff seemed like Hyperbole, however 20 years later, it feels alarmingly close to home.
Which company if disappeared would have change the world? The future isn't set. However if Apple never existed then we would be in a different world. Maybe somethings better, and something worse.
I expect it is more environmental then biological.
However when I was a kid I had the same problems, and still I hold my pencil with the death grip that everyone tells me is wrong, yet no-one has showed me the correct way where the pencil doesn't just fall out of my hand. So prolonged writing tires my hand out. And you can see that in my writing where the first few paragraphs are done with easy to read hand writing (Cursive or in print) then it degrades down to unreadable near the end.
When I learned to write, I didn't have ready access to keyboard for typing (While I had a TI99/4a at home, it didn't have a printer), and touch screens were fancy tech that you only saw on Star Trek. The classrooms had 1 computer used for the reward for students who finished their classwork early. While I was struggling because it took me forever to write because it needed to be legible. In general throughout school, teachers labeled me as the stupid kid, and said I would never make it academically (I have a Masters Degree Now).
The point of this rambling it isn't the new technology that is the problem, but the general lack of effort into teaching the students the skills needed to perform actions. When I was a kid, I was just labeled stupid, so I wasn't worth the time, for a little bit of extra one on one to fix some of the skills deficits. Today's kids may need less teaching on how to use computers and more on how to write, just because they already have such skills in that area and need to focus on a different area. It isn't useful to blame, technology as the cause, where the real cause is lack of training of the children of skills.
The Tortoise and the Hare explains why going fastest or full effort will not always allow you to win the race, Especially as the risk of crashing. If a commodity price is too volatile and its price goes very high too fast, it is prepped for a big correction where people are due to loose a Lot of Money. Governments which are responsible, and are tying to protect its interests and the interests of its citizens, will try to slow down such economies, So they don't get a glut of people investing into this rapid investment only to loose their shirt from it, because these bubbles pop.
A lot of these regulations do slow down the Economy, but it does that to lessen the downwards slope so if something does crash, people have time to get out and reinvest before they loose everything.
Normally when businesses use a cloud service (especially large ones) they normally have their legal teams evaluate the license and contract, and if they don't like it they will go back to the company and negotiate an other one.
For consumer use, we normally just want the service for free or near free, and are not willing to take months of time negotiating a new license for yourself.
Also, for particular tasks cloud computing is cheaper, and Apple for such services, my not be able to run it as affordable off of their own data centers. While their data centers probable do other tasks cheaper then via google cloud.
Should I be Shocked that Rivals in the Phone Market are being partners in an other area?
Actually compared to Google and Amazon, Apple tends to play nice in areas they are not competing in, and fiercely in areas which they are. We See this with Apple and Google, Apple and Samsung...
While Apple being one of the worlds largest companies, it could go on its own, and play games with its rivals and mess up other areas. But they tend to play relatively nice.
The problem is the volatility, and lack of control. Investment as opposed to Gambling. When you Invest the Odds are tilted in your favor, and the money you put into the investment for the most part are used towards increasing your odds that it will succeed. While such an investment can be volatile and risky, however your money in such a venture will generally lower its risk.
The problem right now with Cryptocurrencies, is that putting money into it doesn't help its chances of being more successful. It isn't like a 1 million dollar investment will help the cryptocurrency produce more currency. You just have a bunch of cryptocurrency which its price is only based on supply and demand. If you take the Million USD and put it into a Government back currency, Then that government will that money invest it into project that for the most part will strengthen its economy and you get your Bond back worth more then you put in. If you put in more money, then the chances of success are higher, so your odds of getting your Bond back is greater.
However the real question with Self driving cars is if their travel itinerary will be more optimized. With the current ride/sharing/taxi in terms of congestion, is the fact there are people driving around, awaiting a customer. So these cars are just driving around with no place to go, causing the congestion. However with a Autonomous fleet, they can be parked outside of the City, and moved into production, based on more data. Because a car is patient, while a driver isn't.
True... however wasn't the Unix as most of us know it. By the time Linux was being developed, Minicomputers were on their way out, and Unix was popular in more of the Mainframe type of system.
I am getting tired of all the Nostalgic revivals. I don't mean trying to look back and see what was good about the old technology that may have been lost (as I type this on a mechanical keyboard) and bring this technology back, and bring it align with the feature of the new technology. Often a technology will become obsolete because factors involved means its trade offs are worse then the other products trade offs. As time goes on new technology advances making such trade offs lessen and should be brought back, so you get regain some advantage that had been lost.
Lets look at Linux as an example: Linux was for the most part a clone of the Unix system. Built for high end mainframes. Unix was around for a long time, however it ran on big iron systems. 32bit processors dozens of Megs of memory. When the PC came out priced to the public. They had 8 or 16bit processors and kilobytes of memory. (enough for most software to run for 1 person, hence a personal computer) All the features in Unix systems were overkill of these systems, took two much power away from these devices for features that were not to be used. So DOS which was fast and lightweight and with the features that a desktop needed. Which made using such desktops useful. At the trade off of such features such as multi-tasking, networking, multi-user security... This is all fine and good, because if you locked you keyboard on a PC then no one can access your computer. Then by the mid-late 1990's PC were roughly as powerful as the old Mainframes. 32bit 386/486 processors, 16+megs of RAM. So this allowed us to revisit the Unix system again, this time on the PC. However some things have changed, the growth the Graphical User interface, means there was a rush to make Linux user friendly enough (with KDE and GNOME) compared to the old mwm. Also TCP/IP and the World Wide Web came out and became popular so a better networking stack needed to be made, as increased browser features. By the year 2000 Linux was its own system and not a nostalgic copy of the Unix system of old.
However today, we have taken the action to revalue past ideas as a response thinking what we have today is bad and we need to go back to the good old days. The good old days normally equates to the time frame when you were 15-25 years of age. Where this stuff was absolutely new and exciting, and not a incremental improvement of older technology. Plus you were living in an optimistic world full of opportunities and potential. Where the weight of the world didn't drag you down, and having to make choices of what you want to do vs what you really need to do. This time of your life is where most people have their peak freedom/responsibility ratio. So when they look back when they are older, those old tech re-spark the feeling you once had. And normally forgetting the emotional turmoil that was happening at that age.
A little bit of Nostalgia is fine, Listening to the music from you childhood, Watching a few episodes of an old TV Show. However trying to bring back your glory days by remaking outdated technology of old, just isn't healthy. Because you are trying to live in a world that doesn't exist anymore to make it worse, you are living in an idealized version of that world, not realizing that we had solved a lot of the problems from that period.
Were you still telling dirty jokes after the Harassment training? Probably so. You were just more careful not to get caught.
These programs normally don't stop the problem, but make sure people who do it know they are in the wrong. Damore just went on a rant going against the values that google want. While there is still a problem, where when kept quite it is much more difficult to handle.
Normally because such things are rather random. It isn't like they will have a calendar event Sexual Harassment room 204 between 10:00-11:00. Also while something is happening these are short bursts on inappropriateness and by the time you get the recording started anything you catch will be out of context.
No one should be expected to record their lives because someone feels like they should be a jerk.
Damore was public about his views. The other employees keep it quite. There are rumors at my work place that go on, X person is having an affair, Mr. Y will tend to be misogynistic. However if I haven't seen it or have a concrete example I am not able to go to HR and let them know. At best I just warn other people about the people. For most of these people if there is a smoking gun, then HR can do something about it. However systemic problem are harder to just fire people.
Being that most of these posts here are on Slashdot seem to be against the idea that she was harassed, it doesn't really make too much sense for a woman to just accuse people of this stuff willy-nilly because as seen even with this sample of people that standing up and reporting harassment has a lot of blow back.
There is a degree of harassment in technology. Being a case where there isn't too many women in the field, they are already in the minority, and many employees just don't know how to treat the other sex as an equal.
Here is the thing. If you or your coworker doesn't want to be hit by darts. Then that is harassment. If you or someone asks them to please stop then they should stop. Because you are at work, not play.
1) Airports are two different worlds (as any frequent flier knows) one one side of the TSA is where you get your tickets and check your baggage. This is the stressful part, because you don't know how long it will take to get to the other world. So waiting in Line, while logically will be moot, it means less time in the other area where you can run to your terminal, or if you get there earlier have restaurants and bars to entertain yourself, and in general be more relaxed.
2) For me the flights when arrived are often late at night and past my bedtime. I just want to be in a Taxi or Rental car and to the Hotel ASAP.
3) While the risk is down, it is still there. Getting compensated for a bag isn't as nice as getting it. What often happens is if your traveling with a group of people, chances are higher that one of them would have lost luggage.
While flying my stress level is a 3/10. If I have checked luggage it is 5/10 just because flying I am already not in control of my destiny, having additional things that I don't have control over, just makes it worse.
The jobs didn't go to Automation so quickly. When there is a downturn in the economy, companies learn to tighten their belts and get rid of a lot of extra weight. As they move from a growth strategy to a survival strategy. This caused the companies to become very efficient, and as the economy rebounded these efficiencies are still in place. So they are hiring again back to a growth strategy, they are not hiring the same people anymore, as the dynamics have changed.
I agree that vocational training is a key part that American society has lost. Part of it is the Teachers (As education enthusiasts) fault. They live their lives around education They grew up going to school, then went to college, to work in the school. Their lives are based around the school, for them the year starts in September. When going to school I got the impression that the kids taking vocational classes, were doing so because they were stupid. The teachers never directly stated that, but it was implied and we caught onto that. Warning to students if they want to be ditch diggers if they don't do better on the test, etc.... Vocational training really should be expanded for a lot of jobs even into more white collar "Smart People" jobs like Coding. Giving them the skills to do the jobs at hand, saving colleges and their resources to educate people for the real standout jobs, where getting a college education meant something, and colleges can up their requirements, and not just be a diploma mill. Because today people needs a Masters degree for the jobs that use to require a college degree in the past.
There are other problems, the biggest thing is companies are not taking their most talented individuals and putting them under their wings to make them more successful, causing the best employees to be the ones highest flight risk.
However for a lot of these displaced workers, they just decided not to go back into the workforce. They may have gotten married and are managing the household. Have gotten sick and in need of support. Or just retired early.
With the anger about minorities taking our jobs, we failed to remember that the baby boomers put a lot of people to grow the economy, with the birth rate of WASPs down we are finding ways to keep the minorities out the workforce. Thus slowly hindering our economy, Because it isn't they are taking the jobs away from people, but they are taking jobs they can get.
I wasn't dissing Apple. Being that the phone is considered good enough for a production movie, is actually rather amazing. They were good 6 years ago, but good for TV, not for the movies.
As much as I as a consumer would prefer to not pay extra for a Baggage check, I don't think it is as much the cost that is hindering people from checking their baggage but the hassle of doing such.
Hassle 1: Waiting in line to get it checked, as now your boarding pass can often be printed from home or from a kiosk at the airport, you don't need to wait in line to check your baggage. Hassle 2: Waiting for it to get out of the plane. After a long flight, you just want to get to your destination. Having to wait 20-40 minutes more for your bag to show up. Hassle 3: Lost baggage. It sucks when your bags get lost, get more airline miles then you do. In this case it is a tripple whammy, because you have already gone thru many hassles before, to only get your bags lost, having to report it... Pick it up if it is found....
In short other then the cost, there is a lot of hassle for your belongings that are important to you, but just an other bag to everyone else.
The main advantage isn't the Camera, but the fact that you have a device that you use for a bunch of other stuff with a Camera good enough for quality video work if needed.
Often with technology the generic consumer device gets to a point where getting a specialized device just isn't worth it, because the difference is much more minute. While the convenience of a general purpose is quite handy.
I am sure this could had been done nearly as well with some sort of Android phone too. There is no Magic Apple feature, but it may be the fact it was the phone he had.
How is trying to fix the problem help the politicians from distracting us from the core issues that we are suffering from. A lot of the problems we are facing is part of a large complex social economic problems. Not any single issue, that can be quickly fixed.
For Gun shooting, we are in a condition where Guns = Power for a lot of people who in general feel left out in society having a gun will give them some empowerment. For most people, they will just feel safe knowing they will have some means to protect themselves, However for some, they crave having power over others and will shoot people for the rush to feel like somehow they matter and they did something to get noticed. The crave for Power manifest itself in many different ways, Abusing other groups of people, just because you know they cannot fight back. As we can see with Sexual Abuse, in people in leadership positions, Police abuse towards minorities... The problem isn't any one thing, however the general feeling that we are not noticed and do not have the power to be heard anymore. Which is much more difficult to fix.
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There are two sides of such an argument.
1. Just because it works in Europe it doesn't mean it will work in the USA.
2. Just because it works in Europe it doesn't mean it will not work in the USA.
We were able in the past make a trans-continental railroad, an Interstate system, That connects every state together. Nearly every home has access to Clean Water, Electricity, Telephone... These improvements while cost a lot, helped build the United States into an Economic Power house. Because the 325Million people have access to a wider infrastructure and be part of society, while having the property and space to utilize their own means.
This was all fine and good until the stupid Abortion Debates, where peoples view on the topic, painted the other side as morally deficient. Calling the Other side Misogynists or Baby Killers. Which after a few generations of this, has created a polarized society where working with the other side is considered bad. Even if it for all best interests.
It does. Proper Environmentalism, isn't being a crazy hippy, but looking at the risks and rewards of all available options. And going back and reevaluating to see if any factors have changed.
Back in the early 1900's the Gasoline Automobile was an environmental benefit. Because of the health risk of keeping horses in a City Environment. The Toxic (much more Toxic then today) exhaust was known back then to be harmful, however being that it was in the open air, it was considered much better then the Environmental Risks of a lot of horses.
A century later, The automobile is widely used, and the Carbon from its exhaust is causing harm to the environment compared to modern alternatives where its harm can be more easily managed. This isn't to say in 100 years we say these electric cars are safe and clean anymore, but there may be a new technology. Or perhaps we have cleaned the air to a point where a 100 year newer Gasoline motor or engine, may be considered a better solution.
Right now I think the biggest problem is lack of energy diversity. We are relying on fossil fuels for too much, and not on others. However to say that Fossil fuel has no part of modern life, is just closing your mind to the complexity of the world.
If you are re-watching a show and learning something new from it, then that is great.
B5 was a budget Show. And a lot of things didn't age well. That said, you are willing to suspend belief, and focus on the story vs. just the details. You can find a lot of relevant things, that were showing an inkling of.
Having watch B5 in the past, a lot of the stuff seemed like Hyperbole, however 20 years later, it feels alarmingly close to home.
Which company if disappeared would have change the world? The future isn't set. However if Apple never existed then we would be in a different world. Maybe somethings better, and something worse.
I expect it is more environmental then biological.
However when I was a kid I had the same problems, and still I hold my pencil with the death grip that everyone tells me is wrong, yet no-one has showed me the correct way where the pencil doesn't just fall out of my hand.
So prolonged writing tires my hand out. And you can see that in my writing where the first few paragraphs are done with easy to read hand writing (Cursive or in print) then it degrades down to unreadable near the end.
When I learned to write, I didn't have ready access to keyboard for typing (While I had a TI99/4a at home, it didn't have a printer), and touch screens were fancy tech that you only saw on Star Trek. The classrooms had 1 computer used for the reward for students who finished their classwork early. While I was struggling because it took me forever to write because it needed to be legible. In general throughout school, teachers labeled me as the stupid kid, and said I would never make it academically (I have a Masters Degree Now).
The point of this rambling it isn't the new technology that is the problem, but the general lack of effort into teaching the students the skills needed to perform actions. When I was a kid, I was just labeled stupid, so I wasn't worth the time, for a little bit of extra one on one to fix some of the skills deficits. Today's kids may need less teaching on how to use computers and more on how to write, just because they already have such skills in that area and need to focus on a different area. It isn't useful to blame, technology as the cause, where the real cause is lack of training of the children of skills.
The Tortoise and the Hare explains why going fastest or full effort will not always allow you to win the race, Especially as the risk of crashing.
If a commodity price is too volatile and its price goes very high too fast, it is prepped for a big correction where people are due to loose a Lot of Money. Governments which are responsible, and are tying to protect its interests and the interests of its citizens, will try to slow down such economies, So they don't get a glut of people investing into this rapid investment only to loose their shirt from it, because these bubbles pop.
A lot of these regulations do slow down the Economy, but it does that to lessen the downwards slope so if something does crash, people have time to get out and reinvest before they loose everything.
Normally when businesses use a cloud service (especially large ones) they normally have their legal teams evaluate the license and contract, and if they don't like it they will go back to the company and negotiate an other one.
For consumer use, we normally just want the service for free or near free, and are not willing to take months of time negotiating a new license for yourself.
Also, for particular tasks cloud computing is cheaper, and Apple for such services, my not be able to run it as affordable off of their own data centers. While their data centers probable do other tasks cheaper then via google cloud.
Should I be Shocked that Rivals in the Phone Market are being partners in an other area?
Actually compared to Google and Amazon, Apple tends to play nice in areas they are not competing in, and fiercely in areas which they are.
We See this with Apple and Google, Apple and Samsung...
While Apple being one of the worlds largest companies, it could go on its own, and play games with its rivals and mess up other areas. But they tend to play relatively nice.
The problem is the volatility, and lack of control.
Investment as opposed to Gambling. When you Invest the Odds are tilted in your favor, and the money you put into the investment for the most part are used towards increasing your odds that it will succeed. While such an investment can be volatile and risky, however your money in such a venture will generally lower its risk.
The problem right now with Cryptocurrencies, is that putting money into it doesn't help its chances of being more successful. It isn't like a 1 million dollar investment will help the cryptocurrency produce more currency. You just have a bunch of cryptocurrency which its price is only based on supply and demand. If you take the Million USD and put it into a Government back currency, Then that government will that money invest it into project that for the most part will strengthen its economy and you get your Bond back worth more then you put in. If you put in more money, then the chances of success are higher, so your odds of getting your Bond back is greater.
However the real question with Self driving cars is if their travel itinerary will be more optimized. With the current ride/sharing/taxi in terms of congestion, is the fact there are people driving around, awaiting a customer. So these cars are just driving around with no place to go, causing the congestion. However with a Autonomous fleet, they can be parked outside of the City, and moved into production, based on more data. Because a car is patient, while a driver isn't.
True... however wasn't the Unix as most of us know it. By the time Linux was being developed, Minicomputers were on their way out, and Unix was popular in more of the Mainframe type of system.
I am getting tired of all the Nostalgic revivals. I don't mean trying to look back and see what was good about the old technology that may have been lost (as I type this on a mechanical keyboard) and bring this technology back, and bring it align with the feature of the new technology. Often a technology will become obsolete because factors involved means its trade offs are worse then the other products trade offs.
As time goes on new technology advances making such trade offs lessen and should be brought back, so you get regain some advantage that had been lost.
Lets look at Linux as an example:
Linux was for the most part a clone of the Unix system. Built for high end mainframes.
Unix was around for a long time, however it ran on big iron systems. 32bit processors dozens of Megs of memory.
When the PC came out priced to the public. They had 8 or 16bit processors and kilobytes of memory. (enough for most software to run for 1 person, hence a personal computer) All the features in Unix systems were overkill of these systems, took two much power away from these devices for features that were not to be used. So DOS which was fast and lightweight and with the features that a desktop needed. Which made using such desktops useful. At the trade off of such features such as multi-tasking, networking, multi-user security... This is all fine and good, because if you locked you keyboard on a PC then no one can access your computer.
Then by the mid-late 1990's PC were roughly as powerful as the old Mainframes. 32bit 386/486 processors, 16+megs of RAM. So this allowed us to revisit the Unix system again, this time on the PC. However some things have changed, the growth the Graphical User interface, means there was a rush to make Linux user friendly enough (with KDE and GNOME) compared to the old mwm. Also TCP/IP and the World Wide Web came out and became popular so a better networking stack needed to be made, as increased browser features. By the year 2000 Linux was its own system and not a nostalgic copy of the Unix system of old.
However today, we have taken the action to revalue past ideas as a response thinking what we have today is bad and we need to go back to the good old days.
The good old days normally equates to the time frame when you were 15-25 years of age. Where this stuff was absolutely new and exciting, and not a incremental improvement of older technology. Plus you were living in an optimistic world full of opportunities and potential. Where the weight of the world didn't drag you down, and having to make choices of what you want to do vs what you really need to do. This time of your life is where most people have their peak freedom/responsibility ratio. So when they look back when they are older, those old tech re-spark the feeling you once had. And normally forgetting the emotional turmoil that was happening at that age.
A little bit of Nostalgia is fine, Listening to the music from you childhood, Watching a few episodes of an old TV Show. However trying to bring back your glory days by remaking outdated technology of old, just isn't healthy. Because you are trying to live in a world that doesn't exist anymore to make it worse, you are living in an idealized version of that world, not realizing that we had solved a lot of the problems from that period.
Were you still telling dirty jokes after the Harassment training? Probably so. You were just more careful not to get caught.
These programs normally don't stop the problem, but make sure people who do it know they are in the wrong. Damore just went on a rant going against the values that google want. While there is still a problem, where when kept quite it is much more difficult to handle.
Normally because such things are rather random. It isn't like they will have a calendar event Sexual Harassment room 204 between 10:00-11:00. Also while something is happening these are short bursts on inappropriateness and by the time you get the recording started anything you catch will be out of context.
No one should be expected to record their lives because someone feels like they should be a jerk.
Damore was public about his views. The other employees keep it quite. There are rumors at my work place that go on, X person is having an affair, Mr. Y will tend to be misogynistic. However if I haven't seen it or have a concrete example I am not able to go to HR and let them know. At best I just warn other people about the people. For most of these people if there is a smoking gun, then HR can do something about it. However systemic problem are harder to just fire people.
Being that most of these posts here are on Slashdot seem to be against the idea that she was harassed, it doesn't really make too much sense for a woman to just accuse people of this stuff willy-nilly because as seen even with this sample of people that standing up and reporting harassment has a lot of blow back.
There is a degree of harassment in technology. Being a case where there isn't too many women in the field, they are already in the minority, and many employees just don't know how to treat the other sex as an equal.
Here is the thing. If you or your coworker doesn't want to be hit by darts. Then that is harassment. If you or someone asks them to please stop then they should stop. Because you are at work, not play.
1) Airports are two different worlds (as any frequent flier knows) one one side of the TSA is where you get your tickets and check your baggage. This is the stressful part, because you don't know how long it will take to get to the other world. So waiting in Line, while logically will be moot, it means less time in the other area where you can run to your terminal, or if you get there earlier have restaurants and bars to entertain yourself, and in general be more relaxed.
2) For me the flights when arrived are often late at night and past my bedtime. I just want to be in a Taxi or Rental car and to the Hotel ASAP.
3) While the risk is down, it is still there. Getting compensated for a bag isn't as nice as getting it. What often happens is if your traveling with a group of people, chances are higher that one of them would have lost luggage.
While flying my stress level is a 3/10. If I have checked luggage it is 5/10 just because flying I am already not in control of my destiny, having additional things that I don't have control over, just makes it worse.
The Welfare system unfortunately has so many crazy rules to prevent abuse, that it also creates a system which is difficult to get out.
The jobs didn't go to Automation so quickly. When there is a downturn in the economy, companies learn to tighten their belts and get rid of a lot of extra weight. As they move from a growth strategy to a survival strategy. This caused the companies to become very efficient, and as the economy rebounded these efficiencies are still in place. So they are hiring again back to a growth strategy, they are not hiring the same people anymore, as the dynamics have changed.
I agree that vocational training is a key part that American society has lost. Part of it is the Teachers (As education enthusiasts) fault. They live their lives around education They grew up going to school, then went to college, to work in the school. Their lives are based around the school, for them the year starts in September.
When going to school I got the impression that the kids taking vocational classes, were doing so because they were stupid. The teachers never directly stated that, but it was implied and we caught onto that. Warning to students if they want to be ditch diggers if they don't do better on the test, etc....
Vocational training really should be expanded for a lot of jobs even into more white collar "Smart People" jobs like Coding. Giving them the skills to do the jobs at hand, saving colleges and their resources to educate people for the real standout jobs, where getting a college education meant something, and colleges can up their requirements, and not just be a diploma mill. Because today people needs a Masters degree for the jobs that use to require a college degree in the past.
There are other problems, the biggest thing is companies are not taking their most talented individuals and putting them under their wings to make them more successful, causing the best employees to be the ones highest flight risk.
However for a lot of these displaced workers, they just decided not to go back into the workforce. They may have gotten married and are managing the household. Have gotten sick and in need of support. Or just retired early.
With the anger about minorities taking our jobs, we failed to remember that the baby boomers put a lot of people to grow the economy, with the birth rate of WASPs down we are finding ways to keep the minorities out the workforce. Thus slowly hindering our economy, Because it isn't they are taking the jobs away from people, but they are taking jobs they can get.
I wasn't dissing Apple. Being that the phone is considered good enough for a production movie, is actually rather amazing. They were good 6 years ago, but good for TV, not for the movies.
As much as I as a consumer would prefer to not pay extra for a Baggage check, I don't think it is as much the cost that is hindering people from checking their baggage but the hassle of doing such.
Hassle 1: Waiting in line to get it checked, as now your boarding pass can often be printed from home or from a kiosk at the airport, you don't need to wait in line to check your baggage.
Hassle 2: Waiting for it to get out of the plane. After a long flight, you just want to get to your destination. Having to wait 20-40 minutes more for your bag to show up.
Hassle 3: Lost baggage. It sucks when your bags get lost, get more airline miles then you do. In this case it is a tripple whammy, because you have already gone thru many hassles before, to only get your bags lost, having to report it... Pick it up if it is found....
In short other then the cost, there is a lot of hassle for your belongings that are important to you, but just an other bag to everyone else.
You have it backwards.
It is Amazing that it is now possible for an iPhone to do this kind of thing.
The main advantage isn't the Camera, but the fact that you have a device that you use for a bunch of other stuff with a Camera good enough for quality video work if needed.
Often with technology the generic consumer device gets to a point where getting a specialized device just isn't worth it, because the difference is much more minute. While the convenience of a general purpose is quite handy.
I am sure this could had been done nearly as well with some sort of Android phone too. There is no Magic Apple feature, but it may be the fact it was the phone he had.
How is trying to fix the problem help the politicians from distracting us from the core issues that we are suffering from.
A lot of the problems we are facing is part of a large complex social economic problems. Not any single issue, that can be quickly fixed.
For Gun shooting, we are in a condition where Guns = Power for a lot of people who in general feel left out in society having a gun will give them some empowerment. For most people, they will just feel safe knowing they will have some means to protect themselves, However for some, they crave having power over others and will shoot people for the rush to feel like somehow they matter and they did something to get noticed. The crave for Power manifest itself in many different ways, Abusing other groups of people, just because you know they cannot fight back. As we can see with Sexual Abuse, in people in leadership positions, Police abuse towards minorities... The problem isn't any one thing, however the general feeling that we are not noticed and do not have the power to be heard anymore. Which is much more difficult to fix.