Non-profit doesn't mean no money. A non-profit pharma company would price their drugs to cover their costs only (this includes paying researchers), and wouldn't waste millions of dollars on advertising and marketing.
Outside the USA many drugs are invented by university researchers and workers at various government research bodies. Not for profit work is entirely possible, is happening and often has better results for mankind than the for profit companies.
I think your description will have the opposite effect for the average person. Instead of highlighting how bad the test is, it will make them think the test is effective. "Wow, it cuts down the work that security has to do by a factor of 9! And the test rarely misses the terrorists!". Instead, the point of the article & summary was to point out that if you screen 1000 people, you're locking 90 innocents up as terrorists, and such a high failure rate is unacceptable for a society that believes everyone is "innocent until proven guilty".
It's not the taxes companies have to pay, or regulatory compliance. All the companies which offshore their labor still have to pay these if they have their HQ in the USA. The difference is they're paying workers $1/hour instead of somewhere in the $10 to $15/hour (assuming health care, etc included).
Wait, did you seriously argue that despite image upload being a complete dog to use, because it works at all it's acceptable? Wikipedia's image upload is aimed at non-technical users, who will give up if it's too hard. Looking at other comments in this thread they have done! If that doesn't suggest that the user experience is important, I don't know what does. Not only that but turning off users means that Wikipedia is failing in their goal of being collaborative, each time someone doesn't contribute because the UI doesn't make sense.
Software is incredibly malleable. Computer programmers can implement what ever UI they like, and more importantly should make an interface which allows the typical user to achieve their goals in the simplest fashion. It is no longer acceptable to say "You asked for dancing and look, it's a dancing bear!" when what the user wanted was a ballerina (tips hat to Alan Cooper's book The Inmates are running the Asylum).
In case you weren't joking, photography is a bit different to other art in regards to the original. Photographs are easy to copy and are even more so with digital photographs. Either you've got a negative as the original - which I guess you could sell, but it doesn't have much intrinsic artistic value. The value is in the prints made from it, of which you can make infinite identical copies (for all intents and purposes). With digital files, every copy is exactly the same as the original.
So no, photography couldn't work with your "make the original worth money" idea.
The economics section on the news showed a graph of the NASA budget over time, to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the moon landing. It had two big spikes in the 60s, and has been gradually declining ever since. That's why the space program has been stagnating.
So many people see school solely as a "means to an end," and many schools set themselves up to be precisely this. When one's goal is simply to graduate, there's "no time" to bother with learning the extra stuff; it's all about the grade in that paradigm.
Wait, what? I know for some subjects it's possible to game the system and score well for a minimum of learning. If tests and assignments are well designed, you need to learn a lot of extra stuff. At least that was true at my uni.
I don't want to make this longer than it already is, but what I think would be awesome is to let students "create a major" at the college level.
Depending where you study this is a possibility. My university had BEng and BSc degrees in Computing. The BEng ones had 90% of the subjects set for you like you describe. The Computer Science degree had maybe 20% of the courses set and these were mostly introductory 1st and 2nd year subjects in math and computing. The only other requirement was that a certain % of your electives had to be computing subjects. If I'd wanted to narrow down to a "major" I could have. Instead, I decided to go for a wide range of computing and arts subjects, everything from graphics to AI to databases on the computing side and German and philosophy for the arts electives.
The thing with medians is that they doesn't tell you what the distribution is like. It could be a nice bell curve or it could be that people on minimum wage are over-represented (I suspect this is more likely).
Parent post deserves to be at +5. Shame on people who have mod points today.
For those who didn't follow the link, Fairey has a history of copying other art works without giving credit. His works don't add any comment on the original art, aren't a critique of the art world or artistic methods, and don't apply the old propaganda he steals to modern situations which are similar. He does steals to make money.
The current Australian government officially opposes the death penalty. Their silence on opposing the death sentences for the Bali Bombers in the Indonesian courts was deafening. They only spoke about their party's opposition to capitol punishment after the bombers were executed.
Your argument that jurisdiction is only based on the location of the server is only part of the story. As an example, it's always been illegal to live in the USA and access child porn on a Russian server. The location of the person is also relevant when it comes to jurisdiction. In this case I think the UK court does have power to try the defendant because he was posting his hate speech from the UK.
If you're serious about losing weight you should not take dietary advice from some random slashdot poster and see a dietitian i.e. a qualified professional. Low carb, high fat & protein diets are a recent fad. There are other diets which work, and are better for you. A professional will be able to pick something appropriate to your situation.
Your use of cursing is also incorrect historically. Just saying a bad word is nothing like placing a curse on someone or something. Letting fly with a four letter word doesn't have a target like a curse, its just an exclamation.
Language moves on. What we call swearing or cursing today is nothing like the original meaning. And I'm happy for those words to mean saying a word that is normally taboo in polite company.
Original meanings: Cursing = calling down a misfortune on someone. e.g. "A pox on both your houses" Swearing = making an oath by something. e.g. "May the Lord deal with me severely if I don't "
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Non-profit doesn't mean no money. A non-profit pharma company would price their drugs to cover their costs only (this includes paying researchers), and wouldn't waste millions of dollars on advertising and marketing.
Outside the USA many drugs are invented by university researchers and workers at various government research bodies. Not for profit work is entirely possible, is happening and often has better results for mankind than the for profit companies.
I think your description will have the opposite effect for the average person. Instead of highlighting how bad the test is, it will make them think the test is effective. "Wow, it cuts down the work that security has to do by a factor of 9! And the test rarely misses the terrorists!". Instead, the point of the article & summary was to point out that if you screen 1000 people, you're locking 90 innocents up as terrorists, and such a high failure rate is unacceptable for a society that believes everyone is "innocent until proven guilty".
It's not the taxes companies have to pay, or regulatory compliance. All the companies which offshore their labor still have to pay these if they have their HQ in the USA. The difference is they're paying workers $1/hour instead of somewhere in the $10 to $15/hour (assuming health care, etc included).
Wait, did you seriously argue that despite image upload being a complete dog to use, because it works at all it's acceptable? Wikipedia's image upload is aimed at non-technical users, who will give up if it's too hard. Looking at other comments in this thread they have done! If that doesn't suggest that the user experience is important, I don't know what does. Not only that but turning off users means that Wikipedia is failing in their goal of being collaborative, each time someone doesn't contribute because the UI doesn't make sense.
Software is incredibly malleable. Computer programmers can implement what ever UI they like, and more importantly should make an interface which allows the typical user to achieve their goals in the simplest fashion. It is no longer acceptable to say "You asked for dancing and look, it's a dancing bear!" when what the user wanted was a ballerina (tips hat to Alan Cooper's book The Inmates are running the Asylum).
In case you weren't joking, photography is a bit different to other art in regards to the original. Photographs are easy to copy and are even more so with digital photographs. Either you've got a negative as the original - which I guess you could sell, but it doesn't have much intrinsic artistic value. The value is in the prints made from it, of which you can make infinite identical copies (for all intents and purposes). With digital files, every copy is exactly the same as the original.
So no, photography couldn't work with your "make the original worth money" idea.
The economics section on the news showed a graph of the NASA budget over time, to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the moon landing. It had two big spikes in the 60s, and has been gradually declining ever since. That's why the space program has been stagnating.
What a shame that the GP is +5 and you're only +1. If the mods were more rational the situation would be reversed (or both posts at +5).
Great post. Pity no one will see it because its from an AC. I wish I hadn't used all my mod points yesterday.
Off topic: I love your sig.
The intro sequence to the first movie. I think Smeagol finding the ring and drowning his brother might have also not been in the LotR books.
You would have made a good point, except he already lost the case and his client is already in jail.
Wait, what? I know for some subjects it's possible to game the system and score well for a minimum of learning. If tests and assignments are well designed, you need to learn a lot of extra stuff. At least that was true at my uni.
Depending where you study this is a possibility. My university had BEng and BSc degrees in Computing. The BEng ones had 90% of the subjects set for you like you describe. The Computer Science degree had maybe 20% of the courses set and these were mostly introductory 1st and 2nd year subjects in math and computing. The only other requirement was that a certain % of your electives had to be computing subjects. If I'd wanted to narrow down to a "major" I could have. Instead, I decided to go for a wide range of computing and arts subjects, everything from graphics to AI to databases on the computing side and German and philosophy for the arts electives.
Why don't you go any carry out your duty and see what happens to you?
Sensible move that. You've gotta be ready for when the shit hits the fan!
He's agnostic. Not exactly the best poster-boy for Christianity.
The thing with medians is that they doesn't tell you what the distribution is like. It could be a nice bell curve or it could be that people on minimum wage are over-represented (I suspect this is more likely).
It's not any different from the original. Buzz won't land first in this one. They're just re-releasing it in high definition.
Parent post deserves to be at +5. Shame on people who have mod points today.
For those who didn't follow the link, Fairey has a history of copying other art works without giving credit. His works don't add any comment on the original art, aren't a critique of the art world or artistic methods, and don't apply the old propaganda he steals to modern situations which are similar. He does steals to make money.
Exactly.
The current Australian government officially opposes the death penalty. Their silence on opposing the death sentences for the Bali Bombers in the Indonesian courts was deafening. They only spoke about their party's opposition to capitol punishment after the bombers were executed.
Then only the funny posts would get modded up. Everything else would be at -1.
Your argument that jurisdiction is only based on the location of the server is only part of the story. As an example, it's always been illegal to live in the USA and access child porn on a Russian server. The location of the person is also relevant when it comes to jurisdiction. In this case I think the UK court does have power to try the defendant because he was posting his hate speech from the UK.
If you're serious about losing weight you should not take dietary advice from some random slashdot poster and see a dietitian i.e. a qualified professional. Low carb, high fat & protein diets are a recent fad. There are other diets which work, and are better for you. A professional will be able to pick something appropriate to your situation.
Your use of cursing is also incorrect historically. Just saying a bad word is nothing like placing a curse on someone or something. Letting fly with a four letter word doesn't have a target like a curse, its just an exclamation.
Language moves on. What we call swearing or cursing today is nothing like the original meaning. And I'm happy for those words to mean saying a word that is normally taboo in polite company.
Original meanings:
Cursing = calling down a misfortune on someone. e.g. "A pox on both your houses"
Swearing = making an oath by something. e.g. "May the Lord deal with me severely if I don't "
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