This is more FYI than trying to niggle with you, but most gun deaths are suicides, not crime or accidents. So it is pretty related to whether there is a gun in the house. We could have a discussion about whether you're more likely to succeed in a suicide attempt in a house with a gun, but that's for another day.
Are you telling me that I shouldn't believe anonymous postings on the internet that haven't been confirmed by either Reddit staff or a real, live lawyer?
There's truth to this, but it is extremely difficult to communicate this in a state-wide curriculum to elementary school children. It really takes a lifetime of study to truly understand and wrap your head around the nuances of the "theory of science."
If you're trying to teach these concepts to every kid out there, including the ones in the bottom 20% in performance, you can't really get into too many shades of gray before you've completely lost them. Children are pretty much programmed to learn Black and White concepts, and that is why this law is so dangerous.
Cloud means outsourcing and not much else. Departments don't choose to outsource themselves, so it's not terribly surprising that this isn't happening quickly.
Thank you for your sanity. Both the EPA and the design engineer know exactly how much PM is coming out the pipe for every model. Every company doing engines of any sort has spent billions or tens of billions on meeting emissions requirements.
By the way, I've read some interesting speculation that limiting soot emissions actually speeds up global warming. Nobody is saying we should pollute more, just that clean air doesn't obscure sunlight as much and therefore retards global warming. This was speculated because global warming didn't seem to kick in as fast as it should have in the 19th century. Anyways, I don't remember the full story, so take it with a grain of salt.
I've worked in Worldwide Operations Strategy for a major unionized manufacturing company. I've done colossal projects looking at whether to shift capacity to Germany, the Northern USA, the Southern USA, India, Mexico, etc. There's a reason why Germans get the wages they do and Southern Americans get the wages they do.
German line workers generally have years of technical training on and outside the job before they get those wages. To make a comparison, German Technician to German Engineer is a bit like Nurse to Physician. They know their stuff. You can hand them 1 page of tech specs and they can figure out how to assemble it and make dramatic improvements to line efficiency. We did an experiment handing the assembly documents to American workers and it took a TON of engineering time to get them up to speed.
I do no exaggerate when I say that the hardest thing we have in the US South is hiring enough functionally literate employees. 75% of applicants recently were functionally illiterate. The ones we do hire want to spend about half their workday chatting. This is in multiple locations (Tennessee, NC, Mississippi). This BS about Americans being great workers is no true. Some are, some are not. Guys in Wisconsin and MI typically know their stuff but have terrible attitudes. Guys in the South know next to nothing and have bad attitudes.
I have tremendous respect for union employees. They do great things, and I'm more than happy to pay for productivity. This is NOT what union leaders want. They value solidarity above all else. They feel that as soon as management can divide and conquer employees by separating the good ones from the bad ones, the union leaders will no longer be necessary and they'll be out of a job.
The teachers union will fight tooth and nail to prevent evaluations of teachers, regardless of effectiveness. Despite the fact that Math is Math and kids are kids (for the most part), the teachers union management LOVES the system that locks teachers into a lifetime at one school system. They fear the concept that good teachers could bounce around seeking their own better wages through an efficienct market system because it completely short circuits their x% of the wages.
I think a pretty reasonable hypothesis would be that the early adopters are much more likely to be heavy users than the folks using 2-3-4 year old phones. IE it's not the phone (or features) it's the individual.
Everything I've read indicates that the console & pc gaming industry works under the 80/20 rule. So, yes there are lots of people who do not buy a $60 game each month. And, yes, most people make a lot of posts complaining that $15 a month is expensive.
However, publishers make a lot of money catering to the heavy buyers (like me) who spend more than $500 a year on games.
Less than 10% of mosquito species carry plasmodium. It's about 100% certain that killing off the species that do will result in the other non-lethal mosquito species filling their niche.
The key quote FTA: But in 1988 his conviction was overturned by the California Supreme Court, which cited precedent establishing that "for [an act] to constitute 'prostitution,' the genitals, buttocks, or female breast, of either the prostitute or the customer must come in contact with some part of the body of the other for the purpose of sexual arousal or gratification of the customer or of the prostitute" [emphasis added]. The court found that the "payment of acting fees was the only payment involved in the instant case. . . . There is no evidence that [Freeman] paid the acting fees for the purpose of sexual arousal or gratification, his own or the actors'." Thus, no prostitution.
I know this is Slashdot, but the French contributing to the success of the American Revolution was 100% done out of self-interest. The Bourbons loved democracy in the same way Americans loved radical Islam when we gave Afghanistan freedom fighters Stingers to shoot down Russian helicopters. And it came back and bit them in the tail in a much more dramatic and bloody way.
That's a really interesting story and probably not uncommon. I'm sure everyone has their horror stories about the startup that was born in an academic institution. It's such a problem and the university technology licensing / outreach administrators who are tasked with fixing it are complete dimwits.
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This is more FYI than trying to niggle with you, but most gun deaths are suicides, not crime or accidents. So it is pretty related to whether there is a gun in the house. We could have a discussion about whether you're more likely to succeed in a suicide attempt in a house with a gun, but that's for another day.
Are you telling me that I shouldn't believe anonymous postings on the internet that haven't been confirmed by either Reddit staff or a real, live lawyer?
Those shows aren't actual courtrooms. They are binding arbitrations.
Haha. Error. Right.
There's truth to this, but it is extremely difficult to communicate this in a state-wide curriculum to elementary school children. It really takes a lifetime of study to truly understand and wrap your head around the nuances of the "theory of science."
If you're trying to teach these concepts to every kid out there, including the ones in the bottom 20% in performance, you can't really get into too many shades of gray before you've completely lost them. Children are pretty much programmed to learn Black and White concepts, and that is why this law is so dangerous.
I think you have the chops to become a government consultant. Lucky for you, IBM is recruiting!
Have Jimmy write a letter to the editor of the NYT rebutting the claims that you were misinformed. They'll publish it.
Cloud means outsourcing and not much else. Departments don't choose to outsource themselves, so it's not terribly surprising that this isn't happening quickly.
Thank you for your sanity. Both the EPA and the design engineer know exactly how much PM is coming out the pipe for every model. Every company doing engines of any sort has spent billions or tens of billions on meeting emissions requirements.
By the way, I've read some interesting speculation that limiting soot emissions actually speeds up global warming. Nobody is saying we should pollute more, just that clean air doesn't obscure sunlight as much and therefore retards global warming. This was speculated because global warming didn't seem to kick in as fast as it should have in the 19th century. Anyways, I don't remember the full story, so take it with a grain of salt.
I've worked in Worldwide Operations Strategy for a major unionized manufacturing company. I've done colossal projects looking at whether to shift capacity to Germany, the Northern USA, the Southern USA, India, Mexico, etc. There's a reason why Germans get the wages they do and Southern Americans get the wages they do.
German line workers generally have years of technical training on and outside the job before they get those wages. To make a comparison, German Technician to German Engineer is a bit like Nurse to Physician. They know their stuff. You can hand them 1 page of tech specs and they can figure out how to assemble it and make dramatic improvements to line efficiency. We did an experiment handing the assembly documents to American workers and it took a TON of engineering time to get them up to speed.
I do no exaggerate when I say that the hardest thing we have in the US South is hiring enough functionally literate employees. 75% of applicants recently were functionally illiterate. The ones we do hire want to spend about half their workday chatting. This is in multiple locations (Tennessee, NC, Mississippi). This BS about Americans being great workers is no true. Some are, some are not. Guys in Wisconsin and MI typically know their stuff but have terrible attitudes. Guys in the South know next to nothing and have bad attitudes.
I have tremendous respect for union employees. They do great things, and I'm more than happy to pay for productivity. This is NOT what union leaders want. They value solidarity above all else. They feel that as soon as management can divide and conquer employees by separating the good ones from the bad ones, the union leaders will no longer be necessary and they'll be out of a job.
The teachers union will fight tooth and nail to prevent evaluations of teachers, regardless of effectiveness. Despite the fact that Math is Math and kids are kids (for the most part), the teachers union management LOVES the system that locks teachers into a lifetime at one school system. They fear the concept that good teachers could bounce around seeking their own better wages through an efficienct market system because it completely short circuits their x% of the wages.
If this was a bill requiring strong IT practices for storing consumer personal data, Slashdot would be falling over itself to drool on the sponsors.
As much fun as everyone makes of politicians for pandering to the stupids, even smart people turn off their brains for "us vs. them" issues.
Brigadier General Stewart "Bareback" Goodwin
I think a pretty reasonable hypothesis would be that the early adopters are much more likely to be heavy users than the folks using 2-3-4 year old phones. IE it's not the phone (or features) it's the individual.
The tower comes up to his waist.
Everything I've read indicates that the console & pc gaming industry works under the 80/20 rule. So, yes there are lots of people who do not buy a $60 game each month. And, yes, most people make a lot of posts complaining that $15 a month is expensive.
However, publishers make a lot of money catering to the heavy buyers (like me) who spend more than $500 a year on games.
I hear NASCAR fans enjoy a good Heisenberg joke.
One automobile requires 4 radials. 720 degrees requires 4 Pi radians.
I'm sure the DoJ would have a field day with that one- Extorting the cell phone companies by leveraging their monopoly in search.
Nonetheless, giant fires do happen.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrollton,_Kentucky_bus_collision#NTSB_Summary
Less than 10% of mosquito species carry plasmodium. It's about 100% certain that killing off the species that do will result in the other non-lethal mosquito species filling their niche.
They must not read comic books.
Haha! They fooled you too. The dirty little secret is that Siri is actually a nice old lady in Delhi.
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2845/why-arent-porn-actors-charged-with-prostitution
The key quote FTA:
But in 1988 his conviction was overturned by the California Supreme Court, which cited precedent establishing that "for [an act] to constitute 'prostitution,' the genitals, buttocks, or female breast, of either the prostitute or the customer must come in contact with some part of the body of the other for the purpose of sexual arousal or gratification of the customer or of the prostitute" [emphasis added]. The court found that the "payment of acting fees was the only payment involved in the instant case. . . . There is no evidence that [Freeman] paid the acting fees for the purpose of sexual arousal or gratification, his own or the actors'." Thus, no prostitution.
I know this is Slashdot, but the French contributing to the success of the American Revolution was 100% done out of self-interest. The Bourbons loved democracy in the same way Americans loved radical Islam when we gave Afghanistan freedom fighters Stingers to shoot down Russian helicopters. And it came back and bit them in the tail in a much more dramatic and bloody way.
That's a really interesting story and probably not uncommon. I'm sure everyone has their horror stories about the startup that was born in an academic institution. It's such a problem and the university technology licensing / outreach administrators who are tasked with fixing it are complete dimwits.