This totally amazes some people, especially those not familiar with math, statistics, or science. You do a recount and you will get a different number every time. In the case of Bush v Gore, it was a tie and any sane system would have had a runoff election. But many people seem to think that if only they could count the votes accurately that there would be a "true" result. There is no "true" result though, it's statistically meaningless. But people believe that there must be the truth out there, there must be one and only one correct answer without any fuzzy logic.
Voting machines are not generally purchased by the federal government. The states are in charge of elections, and they usually leave it up to the counties and parishes to spend the money, without actually providing enough money to provide for high quality elections. This is the foundation of democracy and so the government grants it the importance of a rancid turnip.
There's not much point for online voting anyway. If someone is too lazy to get ouf of mom's basement and go vote, we don't really want their vote to count anyway. If they really can't go to a polling place then get an absentee ballot and fill it out at home.
Because no one is able to do it securely. Sure, in other countries maybe. But in the US we have this thing called politics. It means that the most incompetent or corrupt people are put in charge. Since voting is such an incredibly important thing, politicians will demand the cheapest soluttion to it and hire the company giving the lowest bid and/or highest bribe.
Election boards are stupid. They really have no competence in handling elections. Their high priorities are to avoid scandals and complains, not spending any money, and never having to do a recount. Accuracy and fairness not even appearing in their top ten. That's why they love the electronic voting machines; they look simple to use, they appear to be new and modern, and recounts are non existent (they think). You do not want this group to handle online voting.
Yes, but "UltraHD" is purely a luxury, not a minimum standard. The title and article is about what speed will make most people satisfied with broadband, and I think most people don't care about UltraHD. They want the web browsing to be reasonable without annoying waits, they want to watch youtube without it rebuffering every 5 seconds, etc. That may not be the standard for over entitled slashdot readers though, but when most of the country doesn't even have broadband it's silly to mention UltraHD.
The problem is that extremist/terrorist varies depending upon what side you were on. Palestine before the Zionist movement was mostly occupied by Arabs but also with a mix of Jews and Christians and some other smaller sects. Then during some east European pograms there was a wave of Jewish immigration to Palestine, as well as a growing Zionist movement because of general anti semetism in Europe. There were troubles of course with two groups colliding with each other. The Brits had the Palestine Mandate from the league of nations after WWI, and they decided to create a Jewish homeland. This created riots due to the rising increase in immigration, and against Britain for taking over as well. Both sides created extremist paramilitary groups. Things never really cooled all the way down after that. See articles about the King David Hotel bombing, by Jewish extremists after WWII. This does not in any way excuse Arab extremists, both sides have plenty of guilt and blood on their hands.
There's practicality to it also. Even if someone utterly disagrees with it, you can't deny that it's important to learn evolution if you want to understand biology and maybe someday get a job working with biology (say as a doctor). Denying evolution is seriously going to put a student at a competitive disadvantage. So play some games and treat it like Newtonian physics; we know it's not fully correct but we learn it because we've got to in order to deal with the world and get through the classes, and you need to know it to learn relativistic and quantum physics, and it's a great approximation.
And also don't forget that both Republican and Democratic parties are conglomerates of strange bedfellows. There is the Republican wing that is all about economics and is pro-business, and the wing that is pro-American exceptionalism, and so forth. Those wings, especially in Alabama, are probably tired of being typecast as uneducated people who can't compete in the world. (don't forget the big push for science during the cold war, so we could stay ahead of the godless commies)
But which god? Someone say "oh god, not again", then Odin pops in and say "stop blaming me!"
A lot of these arguments end up assuming one very particular variant of the idea of god. They're not talking about a non-Christian god, but the specific one as described by their local church. The whole bit about "intelligent design" was a misdirection, it sounds like it's about a vague nebulous concept (maybe little green men?) but all of their arguments for it are specific to a particular world view of a subset of Christianity. A school in the US teaching intelligent design never mentions Brahma of course.
Attending classes and watcing talks is not the same as learning. A company would be idiotic to hire someone based only on a list of minor self learning activities; instead the company should make sure the person actually knows something and is able to apply that to the job. That's why there are interviews. Everyone knows most resumes are inflated collections of tiny lies anyway.
So ya, it's pretty dumb to try to quantify "lifelong learning". If someone says they learned Spanish online, then just start conversing with the person in Spanish to see how well they did rather than counting the number of courses they took or Spanish novels that they read. Eventually you'll find someone who won't understand you and offer up an excuse ("sorry, that's a typo, I meant to say that I learned about spinach online, ask me about high iron vegetables instead").
That's not the speed though. I have 12mbps and I stream just fine. So with 50mbps it should survive web browsing just fine if the only factor was bandwidth. There are other factors though. Some streaming services are adaptive, they'll expand to fill the pipe if they can. You may also end up having some IP stream prioritized over another one, since the internet isn't trying very hard to interleave all your packets in a manner that fits your preferences. If you've got a cable company as ISP your line is often shared with the neighborhood anyway.
Which means that the US is not a developed area. But 100Mbps is too high I think, that's standard ethernet speed and if you need more than that at home then you're probably running a pr0n server.
At some point these start to be bragging numbers, where people claim they want more just to have larger numbers. Similar to audiophiles ("I can hear the difference") and high end gamers ("better gibbing experience"). Especially true for people who take that fat pipe and then shove it all onto basic wi-fi.
Slightly true. I do think we got backwards on the job requirements a bit. As in someone is thinking "must have RF experience, nice to have C experience" when it should be the other way around. But it's completely broken I think when someone says in desperation "let's just get this EE guy who can't program, hire him as a programmer who won't ever do any EE work, then have him take an online class to learn how to program and hope he can pick it up."
But the bigger problem is still there. The resumes read like a dream. Except the resumes lie. There's no way that someone who claims to have written device drivers in C can not know how to clear a bit from a word and not be able to figure it out. There is always some training to do of course; learn how to use the tools, learn the procedures, learn the code base, read the schematics, figure out the politics, etc. But for the day to day job of writing code, I want the person to already know how to do some basic coding. That's not too much to ask, especially when it's not an entry level grunt job. When did engineering become a "no experience or skills necessary" job?
If corporations are supposed to train everything, when what are universities for? Partying? Sure, there are some people who can learn on their own, but usually they do this before applying for a senior level job in the field unless they're really really good at bullshitting.
Google screws up its hiring too. It hires people who can solve their set of puzzles (they are interviewed by random people who do not know the particular job they will be doing), which is not the same thing as hiring someone who's smart, or someone who's adaptable, or someone who does not think the same way as everyone else at Google. Seriously, from internal sources it's screwed up in some places.
Who is "they". Are you saying ALL muslims will behead you if you're not a muslim? That's completely wrong. You are mistaking the actions of a few people for their religion as a whole. You may as well say that because of Irish Protestant and Irish Catholic terrorists that all Christians are therefore terrorists.
To be honest, I've never seen the hoodie used anywhere I work. There aren't uniforms anymore, even unofficial ones, people just dress how they like and not all alike. Though usually dressed up; only one person wears sweats, a few will have shorts, but most will have clean jeans or khakis, tees or polo or button up shirts. And no one at all ever thinks "cool" or free-spirited, hipsters are in the minority (it being a job and all).
Muslims denounce atrocities by muslims. Sure, FOX won't report on this but it is reported and is common. People talk about a few muslims dancing in the street after 9/11, but just about every single muslim nation denounced it. Why did some Palestineans dance in the streets? Not because they were muslims but because the US is the one and only ally to their enemy Israel who refuses to give them civil rights in their own land.
So if Christians go to war, it's just a war. But if Muslims go to war, it's supposed to be a religious thing?
Then there are the less seldom used skills. Or you have bad recruiters and HR. Where I work it's seeming to be very difficult to find good embedded C programmers. We get a lot of EE people but often they have little programming skills or programming as part of a team. CS people tend to know nothing whatsoever about C or C++ anymore, even if they put it on their resume, and can't even get a simple function written in any language.
There are far too many lies on resumes too. They all want to make it look like they were the major force behind some project but when you ask questions about it they only maintained a small part of it under direct supervision. Seriously people if you're looking for a job here's some advice: if you put something on your resume, YOU WILL BE ASKED ABOUT IT! At the very least, cram the day before the interview.
And of course, some of the most extremist segments of Israeli society are excused from military service. If their own children were asked to serve alongside the despised secular Israelis, they might have a different outlook on the conflict.
But then, there's a part of me that sort of wants a draft back in the US, so that the rich and powerful including politicians will also know what it's like to lose children a war.
The US is also backed into a political corner because of support for Israel from some powerful groups. Not just jews that is. Evangelical Christians are supporting Israel, with the belief that this is ordained in prophecy and that the creation of Israel is necessary precondition to bring about the end times (armageddon). If a politician wants support from that very large political bloc then he or she needs to pay the proper respect to Israel and its leaders even when it goes against US interests.
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This totally amazes some people, especially those not familiar with math, statistics, or science. You do a recount and you will get a different number every time. In the case of Bush v Gore, it was a tie and any sane system would have had a runoff election. But many people seem to think that if only they could count the votes accurately that there would be a "true" result. There is no "true" result though, it's statistically meaningless. But people believe that there must be the truth out there, there must be one and only one correct answer without any fuzzy logic.
Voting machines are not generally purchased by the federal government. The states are in charge of elections, and they usually leave it up to the counties and parishes to spend the money, without actually providing enough money to provide for high quality elections. This is the foundation of democracy and so the government grants it the importance of a rancid turnip.
Voting is not anonymous, but the votes are anonymous.
There's not much point for online voting anyway. If someone is too lazy to get ouf of mom's basement and go vote, we don't really want their vote to count anyway. If they really can't go to a polling place then get an absentee ballot and fill it out at home.
Because no one is able to do it securely. Sure, in other countries maybe. But in the US we have this thing called politics. It means that the most incompetent or corrupt people are put in charge. Since voting is such an incredibly important thing, politicians will demand the cheapest soluttion to it and hire the company giving the lowest bid and/or highest bribe.
Election boards are stupid. They really have no competence in handling elections. Their high priorities are to avoid scandals and complains, not spending any money, and never having to do a recount. Accuracy and fairness not even appearing in their top ten. That's why they love the electronic voting machines; they look simple to use, they appear to be new and modern, and recounts are non existent (they think). You do not want this group to handle online voting.
Yes, but "UltraHD" is purely a luxury, not a minimum standard. The title and article is about what speed will make most people satisfied with broadband, and I think most people don't care about UltraHD. They want the web browsing to be reasonable without annoying waits, they want to watch youtube without it rebuffering every 5 seconds, etc. That may not be the standard for over entitled slashdot readers though, but when most of the country doesn't even have broadband it's silly to mention UltraHD.
Right. Modern families don't watch the same shows anymore, probably don't even eat meals together.
The problem is that extremist/terrorist varies depending upon what side you were on. Palestine before the Zionist movement was mostly occupied by Arabs but also with a mix of Jews and Christians and some other smaller sects. Then during some east European pograms there was a wave of Jewish immigration to Palestine, as well as a growing Zionist movement because of general anti semetism in Europe. There were troubles of course with two groups colliding with each other. The Brits had the Palestine Mandate from the league of nations after WWI, and they decided to create a Jewish homeland. This created riots due to the rising increase in immigration, and against Britain for taking over as well. Both sides created extremist paramilitary groups. Things never really cooled all the way down after that. See articles about the King David Hotel bombing, by Jewish extremists after WWII. This does not in any way excuse Arab extremists, both sides have plenty of guilt and blood on their hands.
There's practicality to it also. Even if someone utterly disagrees with it, you can't deny that it's important to learn evolution if you want to understand biology and maybe someday get a job working with biology (say as a doctor). Denying evolution is seriously going to put a student at a competitive disadvantage. So play some games and treat it like Newtonian physics; we know it's not fully correct but we learn it because we've got to in order to deal with the world and get through the classes, and you need to know it to learn relativistic and quantum physics, and it's a great approximation.
And also don't forget that both Republican and Democratic parties are conglomerates of strange bedfellows. There is the Republican wing that is all about economics and is pro-business, and the wing that is pro-American exceptionalism, and so forth. Those wings, especially in Alabama, are probably tired of being typecast as uneducated people who can't compete in the world. (don't forget the big push for science during the cold war, so we could stay ahead of the godless commies)
But which god? Someone say "oh god, not again", then Odin pops in and say "stop blaming me!"
A lot of these arguments end up assuming one very particular variant of the idea of god. They're not talking about a non-Christian god, but the specific one as described by their local church. The whole bit about "intelligent design" was a misdirection, it sounds like it's about a vague nebulous concept (maybe little green men?) but all of their arguments for it are specific to a particular world view of a subset of Christianity. A school in the US teaching intelligent design never mentions Brahma of course.
The comma really was there but it was camouflaged. Comma chameleon.
I have no idea what any of that is, but I suddenly feel the need to invest in it.
I had to take introduction to algebra 3 times, that makes me 3 times better at it than my classmates!
Attending classes and watcing talks is not the same as learning. A company would be idiotic to hire someone based only on a list of minor self learning activities; instead the company should make sure the person actually knows something and is able to apply that to the job. That's why there are interviews. Everyone knows most resumes are inflated collections of tiny lies anyway.
So ya, it's pretty dumb to try to quantify "lifelong learning". If someone says they learned Spanish online, then just start conversing with the person in Spanish to see how well they did rather than counting the number of courses they took or Spanish novels that they read. Eventually you'll find someone who won't understand you and offer up an excuse ("sorry, that's a typo, I meant to say that I learned about spinach online, ask me about high iron vegetables instead").
That's not the speed though. I have 12mbps and I stream just fine. So with 50mbps it should survive web browsing just fine if the only factor was bandwidth. There are other factors though. Some streaming services are adaptive, they'll expand to fill the pipe if they can. You may also end up having some IP stream prioritized over another one, since the internet isn't trying very hard to interleave all your packets in a manner that fits your preferences. If you've got a cable company as ISP your line is often shared with the neighborhood anyway.
Which means that the US is not a developed area. But 100Mbps is too high I think, that's standard ethernet speed and if you need more than that at home then you're probably running a pr0n server.
At some point these start to be bragging numbers, where people claim they want more just to have larger numbers. Similar to audiophiles ("I can hear the difference") and high end gamers ("better gibbing experience"). Especially true for people who take that fat pipe and then shove it all onto basic wi-fi.
Slightly true. I do think we got backwards on the job requirements a bit. As in someone is thinking "must have RF experience, nice to have C experience" when it should be the other way around. But it's completely broken I think when someone says in desperation "let's just get this EE guy who can't program, hire him as a programmer who won't ever do any EE work, then have him take an online class to learn how to program and hope he can pick it up."
But the bigger problem is still there. The resumes read like a dream. Except the resumes lie. There's no way that someone who claims to have written device drivers in C can not know how to clear a bit from a word and not be able to figure it out. There is always some training to do of course; learn how to use the tools, learn the procedures, learn the code base, read the schematics, figure out the politics, etc. But for the day to day job of writing code, I want the person to already know how to do some basic coding. That's not too much to ask, especially when it's not an entry level grunt job. When did engineering become a "no experience or skills necessary" job?
If corporations are supposed to train everything, when what are universities for? Partying? Sure, there are some people who can learn on their own, but usually they do this before applying for a senior level job in the field unless they're really really good at bullshitting.
Google screws up its hiring too. It hires people who can solve their set of puzzles (they are interviewed by random people who do not know the particular job they will be doing), which is not the same thing as hiring someone who's smart, or someone who's adaptable, or someone who does not think the same way as everyone else at Google. Seriously, from internal sources it's screwed up in some places.
Who is "they". Are you saying ALL muslims will behead you if you're not a muslim? That's completely wrong. You are mistaking the actions of a few people for their religion as a whole. You may as well say that because of Irish Protestant and Irish Catholic terrorists that all Christians are therefore terrorists.
To be honest, I've never seen the hoodie used anywhere I work. There aren't uniforms anymore, even unofficial ones, people just dress how they like and not all alike. Though usually dressed up; only one person wears sweats, a few will have shorts, but most will have clean jeans or khakis, tees or polo or button up shirts. And no one at all ever thinks "cool" or free-spirited, hipsters are in the minority (it being a job and all).
Muslims denounce atrocities by muslims. Sure, FOX won't report on this but it is reported and is common. People talk about a few muslims dancing in the street after 9/11, but just about every single muslim nation denounced it. Why did some Palestineans dance in the streets? Not because they were muslims but because the US is the one and only ally to their enemy Israel who refuses to give them civil rights in their own land.
So if Christians go to war, it's just a war. But if Muslims go to war, it's supposed to be a religious thing?
Then there are the less seldom used skills. Or you have bad recruiters and HR. Where I work it's seeming to be very difficult to find good embedded C programmers. We get a lot of EE people but often they have little programming skills or programming as part of a team. CS people tend to know nothing whatsoever about C or C++ anymore, even if they put it on their resume, and can't even get a simple function written in any language.
There are far too many lies on resumes too. They all want to make it look like they were the major force behind some project but when you ask questions about it they only maintained a small part of it under direct supervision. Seriously people if you're looking for a job here's some advice: if you put something on your resume, YOU WILL BE ASKED ABOUT IT! At the very least, cram the day before the interview.
But were all the followers atheists? If only atheists were fascists then Italy would never have had enough political support to rise to power.
And of course, some of the most extremist segments of Israeli society are excused from military service. If their own children were asked to serve alongside the despised secular Israelis, they might have a different outlook on the conflict.
But then, there's a part of me that sort of wants a draft back in the US, so that the rich and powerful including politicians will also know what it's like to lose children a war.
The US is also backed into a political corner because of support for Israel from some powerful groups. Not just jews that is. Evangelical Christians are supporting Israel, with the belief that this is ordained in prophecy and that the creation of Israel is necessary precondition to bring about the end times (armageddon). If a politician wants support from that very large political bloc then he or she needs to pay the proper respect to Israel and its leaders even when it goes against US interests.
Anyone left, anywhere.