It seems that the SJW crowd has jumped the proverbial shark one time too many, and has done grave damage to their own side. Their outrage machine has started to settle bar fights with grenades, and they are catching most of the resultant shrapnel.
This situation will be changing over the next decade or so, simply because men are fleeing the university system in droves nowadays. Current enrollment is up to 2/3 female, and women don't tend to gravitate toward the IT field. Those flat-out requiring degrees will have an ever-shrinking talent pool to draw on.
This is generally sound advice, although some IT shops prefer to manage the process to ensure that either (a) a particular update doesn't break some proprietary code, or (b) because of regulatory reasons particular machines may not be permitted to have the software changed without some sort of documentation being generated.
The "election" didn't get hacked, and it is well established that no voting machines were attacked in any way. Now, the emails of John Podesta and the DNC were hacked and released to the world, due to really bad security practices. These headlines are just how narratives get bent, twisted, spindled, and mangled into something that doesn't resemble reality.
Actually, there was little risk in his gamble, with all up-side. If Clinton had won, they would have just immediately confirmed Garland, so the court would shift marginally to the left. By waiting, they kept the same mix as before Scalia's death.
The key factor in immigration flows is to assimilate the newcomers such that they don't end up clustering and forming what are, effectively, colonies of foreign nations on our soil. The US has generally succeeded in that, whereas it appears that Canada and the Europeans have failed miserably.
Applying the order to those already in possession of visas and green cards sure looks like the DHS bureaucracy doing a mini-rebellion by applying the EO to its most extreme levels, rather than using good legal reasoning based on due process. It's clear from the text of the EO that they were to implement it "to the extent allowed by law" which does not permit abuse of discretion. Sometimes people in agencies will cynically implement an order in a way as to inconvenience those it isn't intended to cover to generate outrage.
I'm coming around to the thought that Trump's persona is about the only thing that could break the logjam. Every other Republican has eventually been beaten down by a hostile media, and an opposition party that acts as if it is in charge even when it isn't. His strategy has been pretty easy to understand - drive the opposition so crazy that they make stupid errors, while tossing really substantial moves into the mix that go unnoticed in all the noise. Trump acts like the lightning rod while his staff actually does the real behind-the-scenes political work appears to be the way it's working out.
Note that many of his moves are actually aimed at driving wedges between various components of the opposition's coalition, while beating down corrupt players in the GOP. He seems to be building a new center-right coalition, and it appears to be working.
TFA seems to be stressing the impact on the India-based body shop firms, who are indeed the primary target of this action. They are the ones who have gamed the system for years, and set up a wink-nod artifice to replace American IT staff with Indian H1B workers by claiming that it is simple outsourcing. It sure looks like a criminal conspiracy to me.
The Democrats have cobbled together a coalition of identity groups that actually have diverging interests, and don't really like each other all that much. As both parties are in a constant state of evolution, we've now reached a state where the Democrats have run their margins up hugely in some areas, while losing vast swaths of the country. That is a recipe for political disaster due to the structure of the US and State governments. Our system is designed to force everyone toward some sort of consensus and compromise, or to just shut down when that isn't possible.
Meanwhile, the Republicans are working hard at peeling off at least parts of each of the Democrats' constituent groups.
Thinking that parts of the country are irrelevant is beyond foolish. That has resulted in a vast shrinkage of the "purple" in electoral maps over about a decade, while "blue" areas have gotten brigher and brighter blue, and bluish areas first turned purple, and are now bright red.
The bigger problem coming is fiscal. There is flat-out no possible way to cover upcoming pensions and social spending, and that will hit the urban areas first, and hardest. All of these programs were predicated on the idea of a growing population paying in to cover those collecting benefits, and the ratio has shrunken dramatically due to longer lifespans and low reproduction rates, combined with automation reducing the number of workers needed in many industries.
The key factor isn't regulations vs. free-for-all, but making sure that the regulations are as simple to comply with as possible without compromising the stated goal, and making the bureaucracy move faster and with less BS paperwork that serves no purpose other than checking off a box. Additionally, it is really important to understand that we currently have a condition where multiple agencies at both Federal and State levels promulgate regulations that are not coordinated over the same subject, and do make the rules such that it is not possible to comply with all of them at the same time - comply with Rule X and violate Rule Z, for example. That ends up having to be resolved in court after millions of dollars in litigation and often criminal liability, and makes the environment such that only those players with deep enough pockets can enter the market, and all others are locked out.
Indeed. In PA, for example, the law specifies a 10 MPH over the limit buffer, so the lowest ticketable speed is 11 over (5 over when the posted limit is 65 or higher). So, in this state, a 35 zone is actually a 45, and a 70 is actually a 75.
There is nothing wrong with more H1B visas being given to those who are truly rock-star level performers. That doesn't mean more have to go to normal IT-Dept slugs, either.
The only tweak that I would make would be to allocate electors on a per-district basis, with the two that represent the number of Senators being allocated to the winner state-wide. That would help to get candidates that are acceptable to the widest range of constituencies and reduce the chances of a split between popular vote and electoral college count.
They still follow roughly the same logic, though now the last pair of digits are a "performance category" that is only nominally related to the actual displacement. Thus we have the 2.0 l turbo-4 in the 320i (180 HP), the (much better tuned) 2.0 l turbo-4 in the 328i (240 HP), and the 3.0 liter turbo-6 in the 340i (340 HP). In the previous generation, the 328i put out 230 HP from a naturally-aspirated 6, and the 335i did 300 HP from a turbo-6. With the slight bump in power, they bumped the nomenclature to match.
Of course, it's all marketing spin and BS, but at least it's still internally consistent.
I'd say the proper standard for minimum altitude should be "shotgun range" - ie where birdshot can have a reasonable chance of shooting down the drone. After all, birdshot is pretty ineffectual beyond an absolute maximum of ~60-70 yards or so.
An unbound neutron is unstable, and decays to an electron and proton (ie - a hydrogen atom) with a half-life of about 15 minutes. Unbound protons, on the other hand, are stable, and are just a hydrogen ion. When they hit the atmosphere at relativistic speeds, they unleash a chain of ionization events among air molecules, which then radiate hard gamma rays, which cause more, but less energetic ionization events, which eventually results in X-rays reaching the surface.
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My first command when doing admin stuff is usually "sudo -i" to get me a root user shell. Repeatedly typing "sudo" is a waste of 5 keystrokes.
It seems that the SJW crowd has jumped the proverbial shark one time too many, and has done grave damage to their own side. Their outrage machine has started to settle bar fights with grenades, and they are catching most of the resultant shrapnel.
This situation will be changing over the next decade or so, simply because men are fleeing the university system in droves nowadays. Current enrollment is up to 2/3 female, and women don't tend to gravitate toward the IT field. Those flat-out requiring degrees will have an ever-shrinking talent pool to draw on.
This is generally sound advice, although some IT shops prefer to manage the process to ensure that either (a) a particular update doesn't break some proprietary code, or (b) because of regulatory reasons particular machines may not be permitted to have the software changed without some sort of documentation being generated.
...and finally hit the bottom. It never achieved any mass market, but did carve out a niche that wasn't sustainable.
The "election" didn't get hacked, and it is well established that no voting machines were attacked in any way. Now, the emails of John Podesta and the DNC were hacked and released to the world, due to really bad security practices. These headlines are just how narratives get bent, twisted, spindled, and mangled into something that doesn't resemble reality.
Actually, there was little risk in his gamble, with all up-side. If Clinton had won, they would have just immediately confirmed Garland, so the court would shift marginally to the left. By waiting, they kept the same mix as before Scalia's death.
The key factor in immigration flows is to assimilate the newcomers such that they don't end up clustering and forming what are, effectively, colonies of foreign nations on our soil. The US has generally succeeded in that, whereas it appears that Canada and the Europeans have failed miserably.
...can help a lot, but let's keep in mind that there is ALWAYS a better idiot out there.
Applying the order to those already in possession of visas and green cards sure looks like the DHS bureaucracy doing a mini-rebellion by applying the EO to its most extreme levels, rather than using good legal reasoning based on due process. It's clear from the text of the EO that they were to implement it "to the extent allowed by law" which does not permit abuse of discretion. Sometimes people in agencies will cynically implement an order in a way as to inconvenience those it isn't intended to cover to generate outrage.
He seems to be achieving everything that he ran on. You have to separate the "noise" from the "actions" with this guy.
I'm coming around to the thought that Trump's persona is about the only thing that could break the logjam. Every other Republican has eventually been beaten down by a hostile media, and an opposition party that acts as if it is in charge even when it isn't. His strategy has been pretty easy to understand - drive the opposition so crazy that they make stupid errors, while tossing really substantial moves into the mix that go unnoticed in all the noise. Trump acts like the lightning rod while his staff actually does the real behind-the-scenes political work appears to be the way it's working out.
Note that many of his moves are actually aimed at driving wedges between various components of the opposition's coalition, while beating down corrupt players in the GOP. He seems to be building a new center-right coalition, and it appears to be working.
TFA seems to be stressing the impact on the India-based body shop firms, who are indeed the primary target of this action. They are the ones who have gamed the system for years, and set up a wink-nod artifice to replace American IT staff with Indian H1B workers by claiming that it is simple outsourcing. It sure looks like a criminal conspiracy to me.
The Democrats have cobbled together a coalition of identity groups that actually have diverging interests, and don't really like each other all that much. As both parties are in a constant state of evolution, we've now reached a state where the Democrats have run their margins up hugely in some areas, while losing vast swaths of the country. That is a recipe for political disaster due to the structure of the US and State governments. Our system is designed to force everyone toward some sort of consensus and compromise, or to just shut down when that isn't possible.
Meanwhile, the Republicans are working hard at peeling off at least parts of each of the Democrats' constituent groups.
Thinking that parts of the country are irrelevant is beyond foolish. That has resulted in a vast shrinkage of the "purple" in electoral maps over about a decade, while "blue" areas have gotten brigher and brighter blue, and bluish areas first turned purple, and are now bright red.
The bigger problem coming is fiscal. There is flat-out no possible way to cover upcoming pensions and social spending, and that will hit the urban areas first, and hardest. All of these programs were predicated on the idea of a growing population paying in to cover those collecting benefits, and the ratio has shrunken dramatically due to longer lifespans and low reproduction rates, combined with automation reducing the number of workers needed in many industries.
The key factor isn't regulations vs. free-for-all, but making sure that the regulations are as simple to comply with as possible without compromising the stated goal, and making the bureaucracy move faster and with less BS paperwork that serves no purpose other than checking off a box. Additionally, it is really important to understand that we currently have a condition where multiple agencies at both Federal and State levels promulgate regulations that are not coordinated over the same subject, and do make the rules such that it is not possible to comply with all of them at the same time - comply with Rule X and violate Rule Z, for example. That ends up having to be resolved in court after millions of dollars in litigation and often criminal liability, and makes the environment such that only those players with deep enough pockets can enter the market, and all others are locked out.
Indeed. In PA, for example, the law specifies a 10 MPH over the limit buffer, so the lowest ticketable speed is 11 over (5 over when the posted limit is 65 or higher). So, in this state, a 35 zone is actually a 45, and a 70 is actually a 75.
The arrangement looks like a conspiracy to violate the relevant laws. The outsourcing firm and Disney are both equally on the hook here.
There is nothing wrong with more H1B visas being given to those who are truly rock-star level performers. That doesn't mean more have to go to normal IT-Dept slugs, either.
The only tweak that I would make would be to allocate electors on a per-district basis, with the two that represent the number of Senators being allocated to the winner state-wide. That would help to get candidates that are acceptable to the widest range of constituencies and reduce the chances of a split between popular vote and electoral college count.
Firearms are not at all complex mechanical devices - they are actually quite simple.
So, they figured out how to tape a grenade to a quadracopter?
They still follow roughly the same logic, though now the last pair of digits are a "performance category" that is only nominally related to the actual displacement. Thus we have the 2.0 l turbo-4 in the 320i (180 HP), the (much better tuned) 2.0 l turbo-4 in the 328i (240 HP), and the 3.0 liter turbo-6 in the 340i (340 HP). In the previous generation, the 328i put out 230 HP from a naturally-aspirated 6, and the 335i did 300 HP from a turbo-6. With the slight bump in power, they bumped the nomenclature to match.
Of course, it's all marketing spin and BS, but at least it's still internally consistent.
I'd say the proper standard for minimum altitude should be "shotgun range" - ie where birdshot can have a reasonable chance of shooting down the drone. After all, birdshot is pretty ineffectual beyond an absolute maximum of ~60-70 yards or so.
A .20 gauge (with the decimal) would need a bore diameter around 70mm. That would be a cannon or mortar.
An unbound neutron is unstable, and decays to an electron and proton (ie - a hydrogen atom) with a half-life of about 15 minutes. Unbound protons, on the other hand, are stable, and are just a hydrogen ion. When they hit the atmosphere at relativistic speeds, they unleash a chain of ionization events among air molecules, which then radiate hard gamma rays, which cause more, but less energetic ionization events, which eventually results in X-rays reaching the surface.