There is no job in existence today that we won't have the technology to either eliminate or turn into skill-less labour within the next 20 years. That doesn't mean technology will overcome all jobs, but which ones will stick around will be almost impossible to predict.
Wrong, less than half of our power comes from coal and it falls every year. As of November 2013. 5,690 MW out of 14,003 MW generated in Alberta came from coal.
People love to rag on power deregulation, but it resulted in a lot of new power plants being built, and they have all been greener than what came before.
Your right, You cant go around questioning settled science. it would be wrong.
Its certainly not impossible that AGW will someday be proven wrong, but if it is that proof won't come from the sort of person who is loudly denying it today, it will come from climatologist.
If you aren't a climatologist you aren't qualified to deny AGW any more than the pot heads who for decades claimed that marijuana could cure anything were qualified to make those claims.
That people who are ignorant of science and scientists sometimes end up on the same side of an issue does not lend any credibility to being ignorant.
When I worked in IT I used to laugh at anyone who had spent more time or money schooling than I did but still ended up in the same lousy positions. That was until, after some years in the industry, I came to realize that their education gave them a much better chance at advancement.
A lot of the people I used to laugh at are doing well in IT 10 or more years later, while I left for greener pastures back in 2009.
Walmart does what's best for Walmart. When that means screwing employees or customers, they don't hesitate.
But there are times when they find themselves on the side of morality simply because that's what's in their best interest, and they can be a good ally to have because they have a lot of might.
I wonder if we start trying to police science too closely if the great theories of tomorrow that we don't yet have enough evidence to support might get tossed.
If you really wanted to kill coal power generation using government intervention, then the more logical thing to do would be to put in place a tax that will only impact coal power stations, and use the money brought in from that tax to subsidize green power stations built to replace the coal ones.
If the tax starts low but increases every year, then the transition could be gradual, but coal might still be eliminated on a reasonable time scale.
I am not a workaholic, and would consider myself an average Joe, but since my wife came down with medical problems that have kept her from working I have pretty much been forced into working 60 hour weeks.
Pretty much the problem with your assumption is that you are putting artificial limits in place like 10 hour days and only 6 days of work per week.
I work two jobs; one is a pretty typical Monday to Friday 8 to 5 job and the other is part time in the evenings (usually 4 shifts of 5 hours each per week). On the days the two overlap I will typically be gone from home from 7:30am to 11:00pm, working between 12 and 13 of those hours. I might get one or two days a month where I am off from both jobs.
So do people lie about their hours? Yeah, I'm sure some do. But don't assume that just because you can't imagine working that much that no one could.
Ken Jennings would always ignore the first two questions of every category in double jeopardy until the daily doubles were gone. When things were going well for him his would mean he would do the bottom three questions in one category and then another and so on. However, if he found he wasn't liking a category he wasn't afraid to switch to another, so there were occasions that what Ken was doing looked not dissimilar to what this guy is doing.
I think the comment from the story is telling:
"'Protofeathers aren't known from any modern, existing groups of birds and therefore the most obvious interpretation is that they belong to dinosaurs,' said University of Alberta professor, Alexander P. Wolfe."
Considering the age of most fossil finds in Alberta, that isn't as crazy as you think.
Sure its possible to get your money's worth out of a warranty; its also possible to get your money's worth out of lottery tickets.
But both lottery tickets and extended warranties are only sold because the seller makes money on them, and this is only possible because collectively consumers lose money on them.
Car and house insurance make sense because most people can't afford to replace those if they are lost. Most people can afford to replace a computer, meaning that the extended warranty isn't so much insurance as it is paying in advance for a service you might never use.
I'm pretty sure most schools have rules prohibiting students from being taught by their own relatives for most core classes to avoid favortism. When I was in school, kids of teachers were always in someone else's class for the grade their parent taught.
When I was in grade 7 my class was taught English by my mother and math by the father of one of my classmates.
I must admit I feel very lonely watching all my friends get scores of birthday wishes every year, and I get one (from my wife, who I then scold because she knows I purposefully hide my birthday on FB)
Not only do I get very jealous, but seeing as about half my friends are either in IT or engineering and none of them seem to think twice about having their birthday be public, makes me wonder if my fears of a public birthday are misplaced.
They are refusing to sell American's stock because they will violate US regulations by concealing the financial documents. Do you know why they want to conceal the financials? Because they are very very scary and indicate how little money the company actually makes.
Or maybe they make lots of money and don't want it made public just how they are doing that. I bet 500 million users' personal info could be worth a lot of money to a lot of companys.
I'm in Canada too. I don't know about the other banks, but TD's infinity account has no transaction fees. I've have one for so long it blows me away when someone complains about transaction fees.
I can understand Americans who are paranoid of the influence of Big Pharma because of just how much pull that industry has in your country. However, said industry does not have such a pull in most other countries.
How is it you can write something off as just being Big Pharma manipulating the system, when every other country is also vaccinating?
You mean "how many infant boys have their genitals mutilated to prevent them from ever having pleasurable sex?"
No, American boys have their genitals mutilated because of a myth that cutting off the foreskin somehow prevents infections, when the purpose of the foreskin is to prevent infections. That cutting off the foreskin reduces the pleasure gained from sex is just a side effect.
http://www.homiegfunk.com/RIC2.htm
Seriously, do you think is new? Did you hunt? Help a cow deliver a calf? Helping build the house? Make bread? Fix your own car and fully understand it, not clip in a new chip? Build your own radio?
The difference is that our parents didn't purposefully not teach these things; we just didn't learn them because we didn't have too.
Yes, but a lot of them first heard about the iPad from someone who was a Apple fan, or got caught in the hype that surrounds any new Apple release (largely driven by Apple fans). I bet very few of them just happened to stumble into a Best Buy, never having heard of Apple, and gravitated immediately to the iPad--with no one pitching it to them.
This has been my experience. Most of the people I know who own iPads have them because an Apple loyalist talked them into one.
A perfect example would be my mom's boyfriend. He wanted a way to read books electronically (so he could adjust the font). His son, an Apple loyalist, told him to get a iPad. I pointed out that since he didn't want it for anything other than reading he should just get as e-reader.
He went to Best Buy for an e-reader and walked out with an iPad. So he paid more than double for the hardware, plus is paying monthly for mobile data connection he doesn't use, but is happy as a clam because he can read books.
I think this practice is pretty despicable unless they make it obvious which profiles were autogenerated. If they don't do that then it could spoil the trust in a lot of relationships if someone finds out their partner is on a dating site (best friend: hey I googled your gf's name for uh.. research.. never mind, and I saw she's totally got a live account on a dating site!).
I think you have stumbled on what the entire point of this service would be - denyability.
If say half the profiles on the site are auto generated and half are people cheating on their spouses, then the cheaters don't have to worry nearly so much about getting caught; they can always claim that they never used the site, their profile was just auto generated.
Sure it would make it a little hard to hook up with a real person, but for some this would probably be worth it.
I have heard many times, for many different nerdy professions stories or surveys that show countless nerds were inspired to their professions by some work of fiction. Yet, I rarely hear that about non-nerdy professions.
I have never heard a police officer point to a cop movie as a source of inspiration, nor a fireman, nor a teacher, nor an athelete, nor a soldier...
OK, I can think of one exception to this, I have heard some pilots point to movies, but other than that it always seems to be nerds. What gives?
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There is no job in existence today that we won't have the technology to either eliminate or turn into skill-less labour within the next 20 years. That doesn't mean technology will overcome all jobs, but which ones will stick around will be almost impossible to predict.
Where else but on the Chicago Lakefront will be it easy to recreate the ice planet of Hoth?
Its so cute when Americans from the lower 48 talk about how cold some place gets; sort of like when Canadians talk about heat waves.
Wrong, less than half of our power comes from coal and it falls every year. As of November 2013. 5,690 MW out of 14,003 MW generated in Alberta came from coal.
People love to rag on power deregulation, but it resulted in a lot of new power plants being built, and they have all been greener than what came before.
Your right, You cant go around questioning settled science. it would be wrong.
Its certainly not impossible that AGW will someday be proven wrong, but if it is that proof won't come from the sort of person who is loudly denying it today, it will come from climatologist.
If you aren't a climatologist you aren't qualified to deny AGW any more than the pot heads who for decades claimed that marijuana could cure anything were qualified to make those claims.
That people who are ignorant of science and scientists sometimes end up on the same side of an issue does not lend any credibility to being ignorant.
When I worked in IT I used to laugh at anyone who had spent more time or money schooling than I did but still ended up in the same lousy positions. That was until, after some years in the industry, I came to realize that their education gave them a much better chance at advancement. A lot of the people I used to laugh at are doing well in IT 10 or more years later, while I left for greener pastures back in 2009.
Walmart does what's best for Walmart. When that means screwing employees or customers, they don't hesitate. But there are times when they find themselves on the side of morality simply because that's what's in their best interest, and they can be a good ally to have because they have a lot of might.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-case-against-copernicus/ has an interesting article on how the scientific evidence available at the time actually disproved Copernicus. It wasn't until much later that the heliocentric solar system was proven true.
I wonder if we start trying to police science too closely if the great theories of tomorrow that we don't yet have enough evidence to support might get tossed.
If you really wanted to kill coal power generation using government intervention, then the more logical thing to do would be to put in place a tax that will only impact coal power stations, and use the money brought in from that tax to subsidize green power stations built to replace the coal ones. If the tax starts low but increases every year, then the transition could be gradual, but coal might still be eliminated on a reasonable time scale.
I am not a workaholic, and would consider myself an average Joe, but since my wife came down with medical problems that have kept her from working I have pretty much been forced into working 60 hour weeks.
Pretty much the problem with your assumption is that you are putting artificial limits in place like 10 hour days and only 6 days of work per week.
I work two jobs; one is a pretty typical Monday to Friday 8 to 5 job and the other is part time in the evenings (usually 4 shifts of 5 hours each per week). On the days the two overlap I will typically be gone from home from 7:30am to 11:00pm, working between 12 and 13 of those hours. I might get one or two days a month where I am off from both jobs.
So do people lie about their hours? Yeah, I'm sure some do. But don't assume that just because you can't imagine working that much that no one could.
Ken Jennings would always ignore the first two questions of every category in double jeopardy until the daily doubles were gone. When things were going well for him his would mean he would do the bottom three questions in one category and then another and so on. However, if he found he wasn't liking a category he wasn't afraid to switch to another, so there were occasions that what Ken was doing looked not dissimilar to what this guy is doing.
Ironically, your example was off by an order of magnitude. Alpha Centauri is 4 light years or 4e15m away.
Smart money knows that no company in the world should be valued at $86 billion when its profits are just $1.8 billion.
I think the comment from the story is telling: "'Protofeathers aren't known from any modern, existing groups of birds and therefore the most obvious interpretation is that they belong to dinosaurs,' said University of Alberta professor, Alexander P. Wolfe."
Considering the age of most fossil finds in Alberta, that isn't as crazy as you think.
Sure its possible to get your money's worth out of a warranty; its also possible to get your money's worth out of lottery tickets. But both lottery tickets and extended warranties are only sold because the seller makes money on them, and this is only possible because collectively consumers lose money on them. Car and house insurance make sense because most people can't afford to replace those if they are lost. Most people can afford to replace a computer, meaning that the extended warranty isn't so much insurance as it is paying in advance for a service you might never use.
I'm pretty sure most schools have rules prohibiting students from being taught by their own relatives for most core classes to avoid favortism. When I was in school, kids of teachers were always in someone else's class for the grade their parent taught.
When I was in grade 7 my class was taught English by my mother and math by the father of one of my classmates.
I must admit I feel very lonely watching all my friends get scores of birthday wishes every year, and I get one (from my wife, who I then scold because she knows I purposefully hide my birthday on FB) Not only do I get very jealous, but seeing as about half my friends are either in IT or engineering and none of them seem to think twice about having their birthday be public, makes me wonder if my fears of a public birthday are misplaced.
They are refusing to sell American's stock because they will violate US regulations by concealing the financial documents. Do you know why they want to conceal the financials? Because they are very very scary and indicate how little money the company actually makes.
Or maybe they make lots of money and don't want it made public just how they are doing that. I bet 500 million users' personal info could be worth a lot of money to a lot of companys.
I'm in Canada too. I don't know about the other banks, but TD's infinity account has no transaction fees. I've have one for so long it blows me away when someone complains about transaction fees.
I can understand Americans who are paranoid of the influence of Big Pharma because of just how much pull that industry has in your country. However, said industry does not have such a pull in most other countries.
How is it you can write something off as just being Big Pharma manipulating the system, when every other country is also vaccinating?
You mean "how many infant boys have their genitals mutilated to prevent them from ever having pleasurable sex?"
No, American boys have their genitals mutilated because of a myth that cutting off the foreskin somehow prevents infections, when the purpose of the foreskin is to prevent infections. That cutting off the foreskin reduces the pleasure gained from sex is just a side effect. http://www.homiegfunk.com/RIC2.htm
Seriously, do you think is new? Did you hunt? Help a cow deliver a calf? Helping build the house? Make bread? Fix your own car and fully understand it, not clip in a new chip? Build your own radio?
The difference is that our parents didn't purposefully not teach these things; we just didn't learn them because we didn't have too.
Even if Mars was found to be one big ball of gold it wouldn't affect gold prices in your lifetime.
Yes, but a lot of them first heard about the iPad from someone who was a Apple fan, or got caught in the hype that surrounds any new Apple release (largely driven by Apple fans). I bet very few of them just happened to stumble into a Best Buy, never having heard of Apple, and gravitated immediately to the iPad--with no one pitching it to them.
This has been my experience. Most of the people I know who own iPads have them because an Apple loyalist talked them into one. A perfect example would be my mom's boyfriend. He wanted a way to read books electronically (so he could adjust the font). His son, an Apple loyalist, told him to get a iPad. I pointed out that since he didn't want it for anything other than reading he should just get as e-reader. He went to Best Buy for an e-reader and walked out with an iPad. So he paid more than double for the hardware, plus is paying monthly for mobile data connection he doesn't use, but is happy as a clam because he can read books.
I think this practice is pretty despicable unless they make it obvious which profiles were autogenerated. If they don't do that then it could spoil the trust in a lot of relationships if someone finds out their partner is on a dating site (best friend: hey I googled your gf's name for uh.. research.. never mind, and I saw she's totally got a live account on a dating site!).
I think you have stumbled on what the entire point of this service would be - denyability. If say half the profiles on the site are auto generated and half are people cheating on their spouses, then the cheaters don't have to worry nearly so much about getting caught; they can always claim that they never used the site, their profile was just auto generated. Sure it would make it a little hard to hook up with a real person, but for some this would probably be worth it.
I have heard many times, for many different nerdy professions stories or surveys that show countless nerds were inspired to their professions by some work of fiction. Yet, I rarely hear that about non-nerdy professions. I have never heard a police officer point to a cop movie as a source of inspiration, nor a fireman, nor a teacher, nor an athelete, nor a soldier... OK, I can think of one exception to this, I have heard some pilots point to movies, but other than that it always seems to be nerds. What gives?