Firing a special prosecutor (Archibold Cox) is very different than firing a bureaucrat who's just a mouthpiece, not an investigator.
Please explain how there is no relation between a special prosecutor and a man who is heading up the classified investigation of you.
then why not tell us why we shouldn't find anything at all worrisome or interesting abouf firing a man who can issue the orders to have you arrested. Not drug in front of congress for impeachment, but hauled out of th eoffice in handcuffs.
I mean, I can find that difference, but it doesn't argue for anything but More power, more fishiness on the FBI Director's part.
Funny how this pops up and most of the comments are immediately pointing out obvious problems that everyone would have thought about.
I wonder how many of the naysayers have thought about the strategic issues? I've found the number approaches 0. I do know I would like an adversarial nation to implement this system. I suppose it's from my background, but the first thing I do when presented with a solution is imagine what would defeat it, the consequences of defeating it, and who might want to defeat it.
It's a proof of concept, and as a concept this is a seriously good one.
It is an obvious concept as well. It goes along the lines of autonomous car pooling with people being required to enter where they are going, what time they want to be there, and a computer works out a traveling salesman problem to tell them when to stand where and get picked up. Which by the way, would save more fuel, and be more strategically robust.
Yes there's issues with pedestrians, and with cars not enrolled, but there's ways to manage and work around those.
And those are? A single sentence is nice, but perhaps more is needed than that.
Intersections like these are the way of the future, as are autonomous vehicles. Driving a car is going to go the same way as riding a horse - a hobby activity not an every-day thing.
Aside from the whole how do pedestrians and other vehicles with either non-functioning or missing telemetry modules, how will this be kept secure and without the possibility of jamming or spoofing the signals?
As an experiment, this is interesting. As something practical, it doesn't work at all. We can eliminate traffic signals by making it illegal to have any vehicle that doesn't have the required hardware/software. Are people going to have autonomous refit kits for their classic cars. What happens when there is a problem with GPS? There could be a prank/civil disobedience movement that could snarl traffic all over - jamming GPS is ridiculously simple. Not to mention, imagine a nation set up this way. If a war broke out, one of the first things an enemy nation would do is bring their society to a screeching halt by jamming gps. Or even better, sending bad information.
I'll stop now, because I don't want to get too far into tl;dr territory, the whole thing boils down to spending a hellava lot of money to implement a terribly fragile solution to a problem.
It's the bosses' time. If he wants to waste it with interrupting me all day long he can, but he shouldn't act too surprised if I leave for a more pleasant environment.
I guess it depends on your definition of unpleasant. I got along well with my boss(es). A visit from them was pleasant - most of the time. There's always some shit in a career, but even then if they had to give me an annoyance, it usually came down to someone above them annoying them. For my immediate supervisor and co workers, they knew the times I needed left alone, and were even protective.
We'll be moving to open plan in a month. Not looking forward to it, but apparently that only shows I'm being negative so who knows.
Ugh. I cannot imagine working in open floor plan. Just seems so counterproductive for any sort of work that requires creativity or intense thought. Years ago, I worked in open flooring - my job wasn't particularly taxing, but people walking by or talking was a big distraction. And the ladies especially. Hey, I was just a young single guy! Hopefully it won't be too bad for you, good luck!
That's a nice theory, but the problem is that many managers will ding you on reviews for poor time management. I've known people who got fired for it, being told that part of what was expected out of them was the ability to judge conflicting workloads and prioritize them yourself.
Exactly. And people who cannot be interrupted are not as valuable as those who can time manage.
The dirty little secret of the monotaskers is that their insistence on one task, and one task only is as likely to be based on screwing off as it is on concentration.
But these days, asking what your number 1 priority is almost always results in "they all are number 1" and nobody cares to fix this.
I have shown people the workload, with everyone insisting that their job was "top priority", and saying that I had to figure out somewhere to start working first, so perhaps alphabetically would work for them? Especially if their name was "asshole"
Yeah, I did skip the asshole part. I actually told them if everything was the most important, I'd do the work by rank of the person handing out the work.
Kill internal voicemail. Voicemail is evil. It puts all the processing load on the recipient.
IM is OK, but email is better.
Physical visits should be scheduled in most cases.
Hah - I had a new guy once tell me that he doesn't answer the phone, do voicemail or do email, but only texts. If I needed to interface with him I'd have to text him.
I informed him that our communications were way too complicated to be handled via text, always had time pressure, and that if he were to insist on not answering his phone, that I would show up at his cubicle, rather pissed that I had to interrupt my day by a half hour so he can avoid a 1 minute phone conversation, and that I may or may not bring the person I was working for along. That would be the guy running the place.
He reluctantly saw the wisdom of answering the phone.
He also ended up washing out after a few months. His self esteem training came into direct conflict with reality, and lost badly.
Geez, just check when the compiler is running. If it is, I have a few minutes for you. See? This really isn't so hard, is it?
For coders, or anyone in particular, ya gotta remember that your particular job isn't the only, or the most important job at the place.
Because that interruption might be from the guy who signs your paychecks.
For me, it isn't coding, but 3-D work. It's like an alternate universe, and while reducing everything to numbers and juggling it all in my head, I do lose track of reality. And it takes time to come back, then get into the 3-D Universe again.
While my people would "protect" me from interruptions when I was doing that intense work, there were some people who they had to let through. So it was just part of the day.
If any of y'all have a position where you can thell the director or CEO to slag off - you better keep it.
You sure do get mean when you are backed into a corner.
I'm always mean. I'll say this to you real nicely.
I'm center right, what used to be called conservative.
But I don't march inlock step. Some of my views are quite "liberal" and some are quite "conservative" But for the most part, Center right.
But that doesn't mean I am a social Justice Warrior or a Klansman or NeoNazi or a third wave feminist.
You on the other hand have a track record of assigning the far left to anyone who doesn't fit your litmus tests. I was merely playing your game back to you.
Hopefully you didn't have to go to your safe space while reading this post. I tried to be nice. It's hard some times.
WHY did Colbert go straight to the slang reference to a generally recognized as gay activity when he needed a way to label Trump as particularly repulsive?
Yup, Colbert was not trying to name something that would offend Colbert. Colbert was trying to name something that would offend and insult Trump and Trump's supporters. The Republican party has made it very clear that they have a special kind of hatred for them there homersextuals, and nothing insults the Republican like calling their uncontested leader, the man they take their marching orders from, and is teh ultimate culmination of Republican ideology, a lowdown homersextual.
Amazing that it took this far down in the comments for a couple folks to make note of that.
Exactly. To say this implies subservience would also be implying that women are the subservient ones in heterosexual relationships. The liberals are parsing themselves into a corner.
Yeah yeah, we get it, just as all Conservatives are members of the KKK and family values people tho are actually closeted gays.
You want to use a black and white color scheme that takes the kooks and applies their insanity to everyone get's you painted the same way.
Meanwhile, have you stopped burning crosses on those chocolate people's lawns yet?
Normally that hunk of ice would be frozen in place in Antarctica, but thanks to the miracle of global warming those thirsty rich Arabs will have plenty of water.
If it is frozen in place, it isn't an iceberg. Thanks O'Bama!
They will run out of oil and no longer be able to sustain their lifestyle built entirely on the excessive consumption and sale of energy.
That's pretty much it. Because unless some diety is going to create mote oil, it is over time simply going to become more difficult to get until there just isn't enough to support the uses it is put to now. Oil, coal production - unless physics is wrong, they are one time events. The UAE is definitely unsustainable as it is now.
That's why a 130lb person like me can hand pull a 21 ton canal narrow boat and why a one horse power horse can move a pair of loaded narrow boats with an all up weight of 70+ tons,the early industrial revolution in the UK depended on that capability before usable steam engines,which also took up lots of valuable load space/capability..
"These values include reverence of logic, an unshakeable belief in the power of collaboration, and a celebration of the psychic and tangible rewards of being a maker."
"No make things-only consume."
What the unholy hot taint of Beelzabub is wrong with these people?
I don't understand your point. The landline network also needs electricity, to run the switches and all the connected phones.
Or are cellphone towers in your country not connected to the electricity net?
Anyhow, despite it's dinosaur like qualities, land line telephones have a lot of sophisticated switching going on that makes them bit more resistant to electrical outage. Usually things can be switched around to provide service. Now this doesn't mean that when the pole outside your house comes grashing down and breaks the lines that you will still have service. But I have had several incidences of the cell phone tower's electricity being cut off. At that point it switches to batteries, and if there are a lot of calls placed on it, congestion happens, and then the batteries die. https://www.bloomberg.com/news.... The congestion happens even if the power stays on.
This is not to say that People should ditch cells for landlines, merely an admonition that thinking that cells are an effective emergency communication system is going to find you in trouble. We always get stories about how somoene was saved by a cell phone. That's pretty awesome. But people start thinking that it is a panacea. It is not.
I used to have a land line, but I'm thinking of restoring service. I would simply turn off the ringer on all attached devices to avoid the scams and political calls. I don't want it so people can call me, but so I can call others.
Yes, killing the ringer is a sound practice. The main reason I have my landline is that I have a triple play bundle
I'd also want it for fax service and for dial-up internet when my cable service fails (which seems to happen often). I don't send faxes often but there were times when it came in real handy, usually when dealing with some government agency. Faxes are secure while e-mails are not.....
I always said I have never picked up a virus via fax. And yes, your post reminded me that it is another use for my landline. The folks I do my investments and finances with like faxes, and while some folks think fax is dead, it definitely is not if you have legal and money issues to deal with.
Even if all these new jobs did, who cares? It's still a net economic gain for the area, as even H1Bs need to eat, a place to sleep and miscellaneous material items, such as clothes.
I'll bet you can make an argument about how 2 people can sit in a locked closet and make money while selling their hats to each other.
Wherever the labor comes from, the goal here is to replace as many of the expensive human workers with less expensive automated construction. At every step of the way. So from another country, or from America, the goal is not met unless there are less people employed.
I wonder how many dozens of American manufacturing workers are required to operate a $1 billion automated factory.
More than if that factory was in another country.
Sure, no doubt, and the absolute truth.
But just like fracking Gas field jobs, that is not how this is sold to the public. It will be sold to the public as jerbs, Jerbs, JERBS!
Some of these automated plants won't employ the whole Duggar Family. Certainly the gasfield jobs don't.
So yes, the 1 billion dollar plant comes in, provides some short term jobs during the construction phase - noting that many of those jobs are now gone as well - and then employs a few people.
But it is in no way going to put even a remote dent in the number of people displaced by the automation in the first place. If a thousand jobs are replaced by 10, it isn't actually a success as far as creating jobs go.
Slashdot Mirror
Firing a special prosecutor (Archibold Cox) is very different than firing a bureaucrat who's just a mouthpiece, not an investigator.
Please explain how there is no relation between a special prosecutor and a man who is heading up the classified investigation of you.
then why not tell us why we shouldn't find anything at all worrisome or interesting abouf firing a man who can issue the orders to have you arrested. Not drug in front of congress for impeachment, but hauled out of th eoffice in handcuffs.
I mean, I can find that difference, but it doesn't argue for anything but More power, more fishiness on the FBI Director's part.
So, how many in the White House were under indictment for Treason, then?
Well, when you appoint a Leninist to the Security council you kind of make your intentions pretty clear.
The game is almost over.
19% reduction in fuel costs?
Big Gasoline "LOBBY LOBBY LOBBY LOBBY LOBBY!"
I get around 30 miles per gallon. According to this guy, I will get almost 6 miles per gallon more. I'll believe that when I see it.
Funny how this pops up and most of the comments are immediately pointing out obvious problems that everyone would have thought about.
I wonder how many of the naysayers have thought about the strategic issues? I've found the number approaches 0. I do know I would like an adversarial nation to implement this system. I suppose it's from my background, but the first thing I do when presented with a solution is imagine what would defeat it, the consequences of defeating it, and who might want to defeat it.
It's a proof of concept, and as a concept this is a seriously good one.
It is an obvious concept as well. It goes along the lines of autonomous car pooling with people being required to enter where they are going, what time they want to be there, and a computer works out a traveling salesman problem to tell them when to stand where and get picked up. Which by the way, would save more fuel, and be more strategically robust.
Yes there's issues with pedestrians, and with cars not enrolled, but there's ways to manage and work around those.
And those are? A single sentence is nice, but perhaps more is needed than that.
Intersections like these are the way of the future, as are autonomous vehicles. Driving a car is going to go the same way as riding a horse - a hobby activity not an every-day thing.
We shall see.
Aside from the whole how do pedestrians and other vehicles with either non-functioning or missing telemetry modules, how will this be kept secure and without the possibility of jamming or spoofing the signals?
As an experiment, this is interesting. As something practical, it doesn't work at all. We can eliminate traffic signals by making it illegal to have any vehicle that doesn't have the required hardware/software. Are people going to have autonomous refit kits for their classic cars. What happens when there is a problem with GPS? There could be a prank/civil disobedience movement that could snarl traffic all over - jamming GPS is ridiculously simple. Not to mention, imagine a nation set up this way. If a war broke out, one of the first things an enemy nation would do is bring their society to a screeching halt by jamming gps. Or even better, sending bad information.
I'll stop now, because I don't want to get too far into tl;dr territory, the whole thing boils down to spending a hellava lot of money to implement a terribly fragile solution to a problem.
It's the bosses' time. If he wants to waste it with interrupting me all day long he can, but he shouldn't act too surprised if I leave for a more pleasant environment.
I guess it depends on your definition of unpleasant. I got along well with my boss(es). A visit from them was pleasant - most of the time. There's always some shit in a career, but even then if they had to give me an annoyance, it usually came down to someone above them annoying them. For my immediate supervisor and co workers, they knew the times I needed left alone, and were even protective.
We'll be moving to open plan in a month. Not looking forward to it, but apparently that only shows I'm being negative so who knows.
Ugh. I cannot imagine working in open floor plan. Just seems so counterproductive for any sort of work that requires creativity or intense thought. Years ago, I worked in open flooring - my job wasn't particularly taxing, but people walking by or talking was a big distraction. And the ladies especially. Hey, I was just a young single guy! Hopefully it won't be too bad for you, good luck!
That's a nice theory, but the problem is that many managers will ding you on reviews for poor time management. I've known people who got fired for it, being told that part of what was expected out of them was the ability to judge conflicting workloads and prioritize them yourself.
Exactly. And people who cannot be interrupted are not as valuable as those who can time manage.
The dirty little secret of the monotaskers is that their insistence on one task, and one task only is as likely to be based on screwing off as it is on concentration.
But these days, asking what your number 1 priority is almost always results in "they all are number 1" and nobody cares to fix this.
I have shown people the workload, with everyone insisting that their job was "top priority", and saying that I had to figure out somewhere to start working first, so perhaps alphabetically would work for them? Especially if their name was "asshole"
Yeah, I did skip the asshole part. I actually told them if everything was the most important, I'd do the work by rank of the person handing out the work.
Kill internal voicemail. Voicemail is evil. It puts all the processing load on the recipient.
IM is OK, but email is better.
Physical visits should be scheduled in most cases.
Hah - I had a new guy once tell me that he doesn't answer the phone, do voicemail or do email, but only texts. If I needed to interface with him I'd have to text him.
I informed him that our communications were way too complicated to be handled via text, always had time pressure, and that if he were to insist on not answering his phone, that I would show up at his cubicle, rather pissed that I had to interrupt my day by a half hour so he can avoid a 1 minute phone conversation, and that I may or may not bring the person I was working for along. That would be the guy running the place.
He reluctantly saw the wisdom of answering the phone.
He also ended up washing out after a few months. His self esteem training came into direct conflict with reality, and lost badly.
Geez, just check when the compiler is running. If it is, I have a few minutes for you. See? This really isn't so hard, is it?
For coders, or anyone in particular, ya gotta remember that your particular job isn't the only, or the most important job at the place.
Because that interruption might be from the guy who signs your paychecks.
For me, it isn't coding, but 3-D work. It's like an alternate universe, and while reducing everything to numbers and juggling it all in my head, I do lose track of reality. And it takes time to come back, then get into the 3-D Universe again.
While my people would "protect" me from interruptions when I was doing that intense work, there were some people who they had to let through. So it was just part of the day.
If any of y'all have a position where you can thell the director or CEO to slag off - you better keep it.
You sure do get mean when you are backed into a corner.
I'm always mean. I'll say this to you real nicely.
I'm center right, what used to be called conservative.
But I don't march inlock step. Some of my views are quite "liberal" and some are quite "conservative" But for the most part, Center right.
But that doesn't mean I am a social Justice Warrior or a Klansman or NeoNazi or a third wave feminist.
You on the other hand have a track record of assigning the far left to anyone who doesn't fit your litmus tests. I was merely playing your game back to you.
Hopefully you didn't have to go to your safe space while reading this post. I tried to be nice. It's hard some times.
You can bet it would be deemed 'misogynist' if it would have been about Hillary Clinton.
Except Putin doesn't like her, so she probably isn't going to get the chance to give him oral.
But yeah, to your point, it would have been abled - probably sexist more than misogynist, but that's tough.
People without a sense of humor have always been outraged by people with a sense of humor. That's true whether they are left or right wing.
WHY did Colbert go straight to the slang reference to a generally recognized as gay activity when he needed a way to label Trump as particularly repulsive?
Yup, Colbert was not trying to name something that would offend Colbert. Colbert was trying to name something that would offend and insult Trump and Trump's supporters. The Republican party has made it very clear that they have a special kind of hatred for them there homersextuals, and nothing insults the Republican like calling their uncontested leader, the man they take their marching orders from, and is teh ultimate culmination of Republican ideology, a lowdown homersextual.
Amazing that it took this far down in the comments for a couple folks to make note of that.
Damnit Dad, they're gonna take away your internet priveliges at the public library - again!
Exactly. To say this implies subservience would also be implying that women are the subservient ones in heterosexual relationships. The liberals are parsing themselves into a corner.
Yeah yeah, we get it, just as all Conservatives are members of the KKK and family values people tho are actually closeted gays.
You want to use a black and white color scheme that takes the kooks and applies their insanity to everyone get's you painted the same way.
Meanwhile, have you stopped burning crosses on those chocolate people's lawns yet?
Normally that hunk of ice would be frozen in place in Antarctica, but thanks to the miracle of global warming those thirsty rich Arabs will have plenty of water.
If it is frozen in place, it isn't an iceberg. Thanks O'Bama!
They will run out of oil and no longer be able to sustain their lifestyle built entirely on the excessive consumption and sale of energy.
That's pretty much it. Because unless some diety is going to create mote oil, it is over time simply going to become more difficult to get until there just isn't enough to support the uses it is put to now. Oil, coal production - unless physics is wrong, they are one time events. The UAE is definitely unsustainable as it is now.
I wonder why the water shortage is expected to last 25 years? What is going to happen in 25 years to ameliorate this problem?
The Rapture.
That's why a 130lb person like me can hand pull a 21 ton canal narrow boat and why a one horse power horse can move a pair of loaded narrow boats with an all up weight of 70+ tons,the early industrial revolution in the UK depended on that capability before usable steam engines,which also took up lots of valuable load space/capability..
Now do it in Sea State 8 or 9.
"No make things-only consume."
What the unholy hot taint of Beelzabub is wrong with these people?
Popcorn for all!
I don't understand your point. The landline network also needs electricity, to run the switches and all the connected phones. Or are cellphone towers in your country not connected to the electricity net?
I'll provide a link here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Anyhow, despite it's dinosaur like qualities, land line telephones have a lot of sophisticated switching going on that makes them bit more resistant to electrical outage. Usually things can be switched around to provide service. Now this doesn't mean that when the pole outside your house comes grashing down and breaks the lines that you will still have service. But I have had several incidences of the cell phone tower's electricity being cut off. At that point it switches to batteries, and if there are a lot of calls placed on it, congestion happens, and then the batteries die. https://www.bloomberg.com/news.... The congestion happens even if the power stays on.
This is not to say that People should ditch cells for landlines, merely an admonition that thinking that cells are an effective emergency communication system is going to find you in trouble. We always get stories about how somoene was saved by a cell phone. That's pretty awesome. But people start thinking that it is a panacea. It is not.
I used to have a land line, but I'm thinking of restoring service. I would simply turn off the ringer on all attached devices to avoid the scams and political calls. I don't want it so people can call me, but so I can call others.
Yes, killing the ringer is a sound practice. The main reason I have my landline is that I have a triple play bundle
I'd also want it for fax service and for dial-up internet when my cable service fails (which seems to happen often). I don't send faxes often but there were times when it came in real handy, usually when dealing with some government agency. Faxes are secure while e-mails are not.....
I always said I have never picked up a virus via fax. And yes, your post reminded me that it is another use for my landline. The folks I do my investments and finances with like faxes, and while some folks think fax is dead, it definitely is not if you have legal and money issues to deal with.
Insightful post.
Even if all these new jobs did, who cares? It's still a net economic gain for the area, as even H1Bs need to eat, a place to sleep and miscellaneous material items, such as clothes.
I'll bet you can make an argument about how 2 people can sit in a locked closet and make money while selling their hats to each other.
Wherever the labor comes from, the goal here is to replace as many of the expensive human workers with less expensive automated construction. At every step of the way. So from another country, or from America, the goal is not met unless there are less people employed.
I wonder how many dozens of American manufacturing workers are required to operate a $1 billion automated factory.
More than if that factory was in another country.
Sure, no doubt, and the absolute truth.
But just like fracking Gas field jobs, that is not how this is sold to the public. It will be sold to the public as jerbs, Jerbs, JERBS!
Some of these automated plants won't employ the whole Duggar Family. Certainly the gasfield jobs don't.
So yes, the 1 billion dollar plant comes in, provides some short term jobs during the construction phase - noting that many of those jobs are now gone as well - and then employs a few people.
But it is in no way going to put even a remote dent in the number of people displaced by the automation in the first place. If a thousand jobs are replaced by 10, it isn't actually a success as far as creating jobs go.