I have a 42U telco rack in my garage. I terminated all my cable leads and data/voice leads (I ran Cat5E for all of those; it was several years ago before Cat6 was a prevalent or I'd have gone that way) into standard punch panels as well. It's proven very useful. I have a couple of rack mount power strips as well as a 1U switch. The only thing I'd have changed is perhaps going to a 4 post rack to better allow installation of servers. I have a couple of rack mount servers and no easy way to mount them in the telco rack (I'm aware of the kits, but they are both bulky and somewhat expensive).
This in turn would help business down the road. Doing things like this gains loyalty and sells your products for years. Those guys come back, get nicer and nicer jobs and remember the industry that helped them. They buy movies, and visit theaters, and defend their honor when people talk bad about the MPAA on/..
The problem is this is no longer how business functions in the US from either side. The people simply buy what is cheapest with little to no brand loyalty and the brands simply buy each other, abuse their customers or resell their competitors products as their own (or a combination thereof).
In fairness to the people, I think the latter caused the former.
Hah, I like the "no offense" before an insult. That's like saying "NO OFFENSE HERE but your mother is a cum guzzling dumpster whore".
My experience with members of the military is that they follow a pretty similar gamut to the average population intelligence wise. Admittedly I have a relatively small sample size and know quite a few medical people in the military, so they may be brighter than average, but that's true of medical people vs. average population at large also, so.
The aggressive behavior of the TSA really is pretty ridiculous. I used to fly pretty regularly (12-15 times a year) and 90% of that was on normal airlines. I was pretty well versed on the whole TSA "procedure" and knew to have my shoes off, travel as light as possible, no coins, nothing pointy, no liquids, etc. Nonetheless at the airport in Atlanta I had a TSA moron shrieking at me to "HOLD MY WALLET LEVEL" after I took it out of my pocket. Apparently holding a wallet 10* off level is a sign of aggression.
Certainly made me all the more appreciative of times that I was able to use the company's private plane and avoid the whole TSA theater altogether (although I did find out that they still get REALLY pissed if you drive a car out onto the tarmac at the airport. That's somewhat more understandable vs. the whole leveling of the wallet bit, though).
That still does not change the fact that you cannot conclusively prove that government regulation and unions are the only thing stopping us from "working 7 days a week, breathing foul air and drinking filthy water".
Perhaps you are unaware of the definition of "proof". The poster I replied to BELIEVES that without those things that would be true. He cannot prove it anymore than you can. I concur that some level of regulation from either the government or the people directly (unions) can benefit. I'm not sold that without strictly organized control that conditions would not have still improved dramatically. Perhaps not to the level things are now, but it's difficult to say, there has never been an advanced society to comparatively look at under those circumstances. Not having unions and over regulation also has some pretty big upsides, particularly in industries where the power of unions has far outstripped it's reasonable limits.
If it wasn't for government regulation and unions, you'd be working 7 days a week, breathing foul air, drinking very filthy water and God even knows what else.
No, that is a silly argument also. That's why I didn't make it.
You wouldn't be able to. Your examples don't even make sense since even a child doesn't have to listen to you. However, if someone is living in your house, and they don't do what you say, you can always remove benefits/kick them out. That's one way to "punish" an adult. You must have some degree of authority over them to begin with (or else they probably won't listen to you).
I was noting the flaw in your original analogy. You've come off the rails a bit here it seems.
Spanking, whether it is effective or not for getting a child to stop a particular act, is bad for all children. It leads to aggression, lower test scores, etc.
There is a lot of danger to speaking in absolutes like this. I was spanked as a child (with a belt no less). Now, it's worth noting, that I was spanked 2-3 times, total, over the entire course of my childhood. I was not spanked in a way which caused injury or even left a mark for more than a few seconds. The concept is about application of power, not real physical violence.
Every standardized test I've taken I've scored in the 99th percentile, and I am neither particularly aggressive nor violent.
I disagree with the way MANY people approach physical punishment with children and I firmly believe many never need spanked; in fact my sister never was and she turned out very similar to me. That said, I do not wholly disagree with it as a concept.
This is a silly argument. What would happen if you forced another adult you disagreed with to maintain a specific location under duress (sent them to their room)? What would happen if you confined them to their domicile without any ability to leave without your permission for a significant amount of time (grounded them)?
Your analogy is somewhat less than sound, unless you intend that any and all punishment of children should be either illegal, or handled by the state.
Interestingly I am similar. I started out (somewhat) far right in high school, by college I was mid-right and now I'm a "moderate".
My views on things haven't really changed at all. My extreme hatred for the government's behavior, as well as utter lack of faith in the American people has somewhat increased though.
This problem is not specific to robo-graders. I made a solid rule of finding topics that I found interesting -and- were highly unlikely to be areas of specialty for the teacher/professor/TA grading the paper. It took slightly more effort to find the "right" topics, but it more than paid off in the long run, since the likelihood of the average test grader spending days researching every 10+ page paper they are grading is pretty low.
Obviously as your volume of large papers and required topics narrows this becomes less effective, but it's quite a good system in high school through most of undergrad studies. I guess I assumed most people did this. FWIW, I did write pretty good papers, they weren't full of B.S. (well, just average volumes of B.S.) but by getting the topic as far "out" as possible, it helped minimize criticism outside of the basic structure, citation, etc.
The electric vehicles you're talking about have nothing in common with a modern high output sports car. They are dedicated drag cars that are in no way streetable.
I have a car with ~900 RWHP that I can get in and drive to California tomorrow, with heat and a stereo. The electric cars that are currently at that level of performance (and the White Zombie is over a half second slower in the 1/4 mile than my car) are not something you can get in and drive daily in the summer comfortably, let alone take on a 100+ mile trip to a track without a trailer. You're comparing apples and oranges, and aside from being a total asshole, I'm lost as to what possible point you're trying to make. Keep trying though, you're totally showing me what's up.
I'm well aware of the way the conversions work. My family currently holds the world record for quickest pass on an ICE powered motorcycle and an electric motorcycle.
There is a long way to go before electric catches up with ICE on anything near a max effort performance car. They just cannot yet reliably move the power, not to mention the fact if both drain in 90 miles of fun, it's an awful lot longer wait to reload the electric (or huge expense and effort to swap batteries).
500 miles on one charge would solve the vast majority of issues. It's slightly beyond the maximum distance I travel at once (I visit family out of state regularly, about a 420 mile drive, which is generally about as far as a single driver is likely to go in a single "sitting" without a substantial break).
If they can A) get cost reasonable and B) get a decent amount of infrastructure for 3-4 hour charging of the pack, it's a pretty valid contender for viable replacement of the ICE for the average driver.
Of course, I'd miss my high powered sports car, but it runs on alcohol anyway, so I can always distill my own fuel for that out of biowaste if I really want to.
I've never been to South Africa, but I've known quite a few guys from that area; some that no longer live there and a few that traveled back and forth. I have not had any hugely in depth discussions of the country as a whole, but all of them seemed to have a fondness for it, and all of them were also very nice, friendly people. I'd like to visit it just to check out some of the kit car manufacturing facilities that exist there. They build some cool stuff.
Perhaps I'm missing something. Aside from major pandemics, human population has held steady or gained for as far back as we can reliably determine. When did population as a whole decrease consistently for any appreciable period of time?
There really is an "art" to buying cars. I generally decide how much money I am going to put down, my monthly payment goal, and then pick out a car that is about 6-8% higher than I can "afford" by my numbers. I tell them I want this car, I'll do these terms and they can choose to meet those or not. It worked for my previous 3 car purchases (though, in fairness 2 of those were 2 year old models, one was brand new).
It does generally require an appreciable time commitment, as you have to sit there while they go to "the manager" and BS for 10 minutes to make you think they're really reviewing the numbers and going to bat for you.
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I have a 42U telco rack in my garage. I terminated all my cable leads and data/voice leads (I ran Cat5E for all of those; it was several years ago before Cat6 was a prevalent or I'd have gone that way) into standard punch panels as well. It's proven very useful. I have a couple of rack mount power strips as well as a 1U switch. The only thing I'd have changed is perhaps going to a 4 post rack to better allow installation of servers. I have a couple of rack mount servers and no easy way to mount them in the telco rack (I'm aware of the kits, but they are both bulky and somewhat expensive).
That would indeed be a trick worthy of boasting about.
This in turn would help business down the road. Doing things like this gains loyalty and sells your products for years. Those guys come back, get nicer and nicer jobs and remember the industry that helped them. They buy movies, and visit theaters, and defend their honor when people talk bad about the MPAA on /..
The problem is this is no longer how business functions in the US from either side. The people simply buy what is cheapest with little to no brand loyalty and the brands simply buy each other, abuse their customers or resell their competitors products as their own (or a combination thereof).
In fairness to the people, I think the latter caused the former.
I would vote for Milla any day, she'd be a lot nicer to watch in speeches.
Hah, I like the "no offense" before an insult. That's like saying "NO OFFENSE HERE but your mother is a cum guzzling dumpster whore".
My experience with members of the military is that they follow a pretty similar gamut to the average population intelligence wise. Admittedly I have a relatively small sample size and know quite a few medical people in the military, so they may be brighter than average, but that's true of medical people vs. average population at large also, so.
The aggressive behavior of the TSA really is pretty ridiculous. I used to fly pretty regularly (12-15 times a year) and 90% of that was on normal airlines. I was pretty well versed on the whole TSA "procedure" and knew to have my shoes off, travel as light as possible, no coins, nothing pointy, no liquids, etc. Nonetheless at the airport in Atlanta I had a TSA moron shrieking at me to "HOLD MY WALLET LEVEL" after I took it out of my pocket. Apparently holding a wallet 10* off level is a sign of aggression.
Certainly made me all the more appreciative of times that I was able to use the company's private plane and avoid the whole TSA theater altogether (although I did find out that they still get REALLY pissed if you drive a car out onto the tarmac at the airport. That's somewhat more understandable vs. the whole leveling of the wallet bit, though).
That still does not change the fact that you cannot conclusively prove that government regulation and unions are the only thing stopping us from "working 7 days a week, breathing foul air and drinking filthy water".
Perhaps you are unaware of the definition of "proof". The poster I replied to BELIEVES that without those things that would be true. He cannot prove it anymore than you can. I concur that some level of regulation from either the government or the people directly (unions) can benefit. I'm not sold that without strictly organized control that conditions would not have still improved dramatically. Perhaps not to the level things are now, but it's difficult to say, there has never been an advanced society to comparatively look at under those circumstances. Not having unions and over regulation also has some pretty big upsides, particularly in industries where the power of unions has far outstripped it's reasonable limits.
But what do I know, I'm just an ignorant fool.
If it wasn't for government regulation and unions, you'd be working 7 days a week, breathing foul air, drinking very filthy water and God even knows what else.
Prove it.
And "They're children!" isn't a silly argument?
No, that is a silly argument also. That's why I didn't make it.
You wouldn't be able to. Your examples don't even make sense since even a child doesn't have to listen to you. However, if someone is living in your house, and they don't do what you say, you can always remove benefits/kick them out. That's one way to "punish" an adult. You must have some degree of authority over them to begin with (or else they probably won't listen to you).
I was noting the flaw in your original analogy. You've come off the rails a bit here it seems.
Spanking, whether it is effective or not for getting a child to stop a particular act, is bad for all children. It leads to aggression, lower test scores, etc.
There is a lot of danger to speaking in absolutes like this. I was spanked as a child (with a belt no less). Now, it's worth noting, that I was spanked 2-3 times, total, over the entire course of my childhood. I was not spanked in a way which caused injury or even left a mark for more than a few seconds. The concept is about application of power, not real physical violence.
Every standardized test I've taken I've scored in the 99th percentile, and I am neither particularly aggressive nor violent.
I disagree with the way MANY people approach physical punishment with children and I firmly believe many never need spanked; in fact my sister never was and she turned out very similar to me. That said, I do not wholly disagree with it as a concept.
This is a silly argument. What would happen if you forced another adult you disagreed with to maintain a specific location under duress (sent them to their room)? What would happen if you confined them to their domicile without any ability to leave without your permission for a significant amount of time (grounded them)?
Your analogy is somewhat less than sound, unless you intend that any and all punishment of children should be either illegal, or handled by the state.
Interestingly I am similar. I started out (somewhat) far right in high school, by college I was mid-right and now I'm a "moderate".
My views on things haven't really changed at all. My extreme hatred for the government's behavior, as well as utter lack of faith in the American people has somewhat increased though.
This problem is not specific to robo-graders. I made a solid rule of finding topics that I found interesting -and- were highly unlikely to be areas of specialty for the teacher/professor/TA grading the paper. It took slightly more effort to find the "right" topics, but it more than paid off in the long run, since the likelihood of the average test grader spending days researching every 10+ page paper they are grading is pretty low.
Obviously as your volume of large papers and required topics narrows this becomes less effective, but it's quite a good system in high school through most of undergrad studies. I guess I assumed most people did this. FWIW, I did write pretty good papers, they weren't full of B.S. (well, just average volumes of B.S.) but by getting the topic as far "out" as possible, it helped minimize criticism outside of the basic structure, citation, etc.
The electric vehicles you're talking about have nothing in common with a modern high output sports car. They are dedicated drag cars that are in no way streetable.
I have a car with ~900 RWHP that I can get in and drive to California tomorrow, with heat and a stereo. The electric cars that are currently at that level of performance (and the White Zombie is over a half second slower in the 1/4 mile than my car) are not something you can get in and drive daily in the summer comfortably, let alone take on a 100+ mile trip to a track without a trailer. You're comparing apples and oranges, and aside from being a total asshole, I'm lost as to what possible point you're trying to make. Keep trying though, you're totally showing me what's up.
I'm well aware of the way the conversions work. My family currently holds the world record for quickest pass on an ICE powered motorcycle and an electric motorcycle.
There is a long way to go before electric catches up with ICE on anything near a max effort performance car. They just cannot yet reliably move the power, not to mention the fact if both drain in 90 miles of fun, it's an awful lot longer wait to reload the electric (or huge expense and effort to swap batteries).
Show me an electric car that can make 900 horsepower and weigh in at less than 3000 US lbs and I'll be thrilled about it.
500 miles on one charge would solve the vast majority of issues. It's slightly beyond the maximum distance I travel at once (I visit family out of state regularly, about a 420 mile drive, which is generally about as far as a single driver is likely to go in a single "sitting" without a substantial break).
If they can A) get cost reasonable and B) get a decent amount of infrastructure for 3-4 hour charging of the pack, it's a pretty valid contender for viable replacement of the ICE for the average driver.
Of course, I'd miss my high powered sports car, but it runs on alcohol anyway, so I can always distill my own fuel for that out of biowaste if I really want to.
Why you have all the liberty that the government decides to give you, of course.
You will take that liberty and be glad of it, or else they'll take it away again.
I'm not a coward, I've just never been tested...
Wish I had some mod points for you today.
I've never been to South Africa, but I've known quite a few guys from that area; some that no longer live there and a few that traveled back and forth. I have not had any hugely in depth discussions of the country as a whole, but all of them seemed to have a fondness for it, and all of them were also very nice, friendly people. I'd like to visit it just to check out some of the kit car manufacturing facilities that exist there. They build some cool stuff.
Perhaps I'm missing something. Aside from major pandemics, human population has held steady or gained for as far back as we can reliably determine. When did population as a whole decrease consistently for any appreciable period of time?
We're in the middle of a major economic disaster, the storm just hasn't blown the roof off, yet.
My 2007 Infiniti G35 gets about 21 mpg (US) combined. It's not a huge car by any means, though it does have a fairly high output engine.
On the other end of the spectrum, my Subaru gets around 30 mpg combined and 35-37 mpg highway.
There really is an "art" to buying cars. I generally decide how much money I am going to put down, my monthly payment goal, and then pick out a car that is about 6-8% higher than I can "afford" by my numbers. I tell them I want this car, I'll do these terms and they can choose to meet those or not. It worked for my previous 3 car purchases (though, in fairness 2 of those were 2 year old models, one was brand new).
It does generally require an appreciable time commitment, as you have to sit there while they go to "the manager" and BS for 10 minutes to make you think they're really reviewing the numbers and going to bat for you.
That sounds like a great idea until griefers upload all pictures of penises instead of the skyline.