I was amused how Tim Cook said with a straight face Apple pays all taxes due. His comment of tax code was written for Industrial Age, not Digital Age, which implied "we are happy to pay more taxes but it's not our fault the tax code written that way." I was thinking when Steve Jobs testified to congress importance of STEM in schools.
Cook also commented reason they ship manufacturing to China is they have more skilled labor. He explained further US removed many vocational training in schools. I was thinking back in the days when high schools had lots of vocational training and there were several groups that advocated this was to fast track the poor kids into these low pay and hard labor, while privileged kids were able to attend college. So it seemed they restructured so everyone goes to college. Meanwhile we see many have the college degrees and a mountain of debt.
Maybe vocational and trade skills are not so bad after all. Someone who really knows how to diagnose a problem in a car, or locate a fault in a building's HVAC system going haywire is a very valuable person that can demand a good wage.
So if all these Apple products manufactured in China and 2/3 sold to countries other than US, and ship carrying containers filled with Apple products (ship flagged to some country most don't know about). Let's suppose ship is hijacked at high seas or being threatened by some other country's navy. And if they call for help from the world's greatest naval power the US Navy (funded by tax dollars which much doesn't come from Apple), should the Navy respond or say "sorry, out of our jurisdiction" or they will respond anyway as iPhones are considered essential strategic resource that lack of can cripple the world's economy. And Navy will have to respond because US is the "world's policemen?"
Amateur instead of professionals, i.e. people that are really into sport but they have a non-sport day job. However, they are so good that others are willing to pay their room and board so these competitors can spend more time training. Each country selects the best amateur competitors to represent the best of the country's common people. (if you are already a professional sports player, sorry, you already have world cup and series competitions)
Numerous posters, with zero stated understanding of any kind of real estate practice, seem to think that subletting is "illegal" if it's disallowed in their lease. Someone is not going to go to jail, or have to deal with the cops,
Yeah but maybe they like to imagine numerous police in battle gear busting down doors with tear gas and flashbang grenades, all makes action footage for the evening news. In the real world, lease disagreements and mitigations are PITA and to outside observer it's really boring (unless it's elevated to The Judge Judy Show). I have no idea what this airbnd site is about, I guess I need to research it so I can make sensible arguments on the forums.
Ironic that Patton commanded all sorts of major battles but to eventually die from result of automobile accident after the war was over. A line from the movie, I wonder if a German officer really said (paraphrasing here), "lack of war will kill him."
"got in trouble for saying politically inconvenient things in public" as portrayed in the movie when Patton mentioned a New World Order, his assistant said, "don't forget the Russians."
"he would have been a total disaster in Eisenhower's role" Ike spent much of his time balancing the egos of various generals from the allied nations.
Army Chief of Staff Marshall: There was an article about George goes to work early in morning. He fights [politically] the British, the French, the Soviets, the Dutch, the Belgiums, etc. Gets home late at night and his wife reminds him that he needs to fight the Germans!
Patton, of course, would have sent what he had into Paris, without regard to the politics.
and probably wanted to be the first of the Allies entering Paris with the siren on the hood of his jeep blaring away. Maybe it was Eisenhower's or Marshall's plan to sideline Patton so not cause that embarrassment to the French, and have DeGaulle lead the way to the city instead. Another curious thing, how Paris was spared airstrikes and artillery bombardments?
I think it is based on frequency of letters used. You can surf the internet for origin of qwerty keyboard and why it is arranged like that, but may cut into your data usage.
you remember that the "intelligence" had to be mocked up
that too! I was thinking of military conflicts through the centuries how much was driven and diverted from solid intelligence, rumors, lies, and everything in between. Getting back to rubber tanks, same kind of mischief continues on but very good photoshopping and CGI, insert this stuff through intelligence channels.
Someone commented on the previous/. article the town's people are right for the wrong reasons. Cutting down a huge swath of forests to erect solar panels is probably not such a good idea. Though I don't know if they cut down trees (like everyone else I didn't RTFA) but I have to agree that replacing a natural area with solar panels is not exactly "green."
The German spooks heard of this, but discarded it quickly. Why would an Army sideline a brilliant General, just because he slapped a simple enlisted man?
Hey, fooled you, most awesomely!
I wondered the same myself. I think Patton slapping a GI is small stuff, probably did much more to piss off his superiors. Maybe they used that to create a red herring for German spies. Back when History Channel had history, one panelist commented if Patton was active on Normandy landings, they would have been more successful (not sure how to define success, airborne troops scattered about was a disaster but it really confused the Germans to exact beachheads). Speaking of ghost armies, I read that Saddam Hussein really believed he had formable WMDs and other weapon systems because his staff pumped up the numbers out of fear if they really told him he had no capable WMDs, they would be fired (literally). Apparently the American spooks fell for this as well.
The business model is dumb for the drivers because of the hundreds of hidden costs
Reminds me of a/. person posted, which I saved his writings in my "diatribes and knowledge" folder:
---begin quote---
I'll define 'crazy Uber people' not as 'danger to customers', but 'people who are bringing more value in terms of vehicle, skill and desire to please, than they are getting back in pay and benefits'. So the crazy Uber person is the one who keeps buying a new Lexus or whatever, vacuums their car three times a day and busts their ass to outperform all the other Uber drivers, so they can continue to win out over anybody else seeking to be a driver.
The key factor is that they are giving more than they get back, in the belief that they're cornering some kind of market or buying in to something important. If you make a business that relies on people like this, you can demolish anybody else because you've worked out how to get voluntary unpaid labor, like the Amazon exec who was said to use her own money to hire subcontractors to do more. As long as there are people who are willing to do that, the market breaks and Amazon/Uber get to do what Wal-Mart did in small towns, break the back of other market participants so they can't break even or continue.
Another way to be a crazy Uber person is to put more depreciation and wear and tear on your car than you can afford to repair (or replace). It's easy to be crazy in these ways. It's externalities which are easy to overlook. These Amazon/Uber business models are designed to leverage that kind of crazy as hard as possible, and kick out everybody who's not willing to lose (one way or another) on the deal. Psychology is useful in getting people to buy into this stuff.
target of military value in the nowhere middle of the Atlantic Ocean and that is how the Titanic was found? Where do people come up with this
Well documented that Ballard was part of a team to track down a submarine that disappeared in the Atlantic. Not the Threser (early 60s that led to the Sub Safe program of engineering) but another. I don't remember the story but appeared it was sunk by its own torpedo or some other mishap that sunk the boat. Navy put this a high value to find out what happened as the vessel never arrived in port. So they funded a team to meticulously search the vessel using latest technology. They found the vessel. But there was some funding and interest so why not use it to find Titantic. Locating that famous ship answered a decades long question did it break in half? Many experts said it could not even though some survivors recalled seeing it break in two (the experts said they don't understand maritime structural elements and simply imagined it).
The Soviet sub sunk and which Glomar Explorer got only a portion of it. Supposably when they were raising it (according to a documentary) and when the sub began to break apart when one of G.E. lifting arm broke, one of the missiles slid out of its tube. The documentary had an animation of the missile leaving the sub and then vanishing into the blackness of the depths. It left me the impression the Glomar Explorer crew were thinking, "if we are still here in a few moments, then it didn't explode." (actually there are many steps and procedures to make the bomb go boom, much more than dropping it). OK getting back on topic, can this be used to examine what was left over? Many examine other submarines (or maybe Navy already did but that's all hush hush)?
Relatives of mine live in a rural area where local township has their own ISP. Pretty slick as this connects them to the internet independent of Comcast and ATT. My aunt cut the cable TV cord as they kept increasing rates, she has dish TV. But for internet (I don't think they do Netflix) they subscribe to this local ISP. I have read other municipalities try to do this but state regulations (promoted by Comcast and ATT) prevent implementation as grounds that local govt is competing with private businesses.
I read about all this with Seattle, wow home of MS and so many dialups. One thing certain high speed internet is very important for local businesses along with good roads and water. Crappy infrastructure makes it tough to do business.
Primary objective was to beat the Reds to the stars, back then it was them or us. When Apollo program started, USSR scored a number of firsts in the Space Race that demonstrated the superiority of Communism (not really but there's extensive discussions on all that). Whatever, Hugh Dryden suggested putting a man on the moon and there was already the Saturn rocket and F1 engine in development. Kennedy used his great oral skills, Johnson used his huge political power, James Webb used his knowledge on how to work the system to maintain budgets over a multi-year period.
Once we achieved a manned landing the race was over. What's even interesting is Bob Gilruth suggested no more Apollo flights as each one had so many opportunities for things to go wrong and lose a crew (and almost did with 13). Apollo 18, 19, 20 were cancelled to save money (wouldn't have saved much as hardware ready to go, crews pretty much fully trained).
There is the "What If" Gargarin never made the first space flight? Would we have worked on economic development of space like we are trying to do now? Dennis Wingo has some articles including past studies from those years after Sputnik but before Gargarin's flight. https://denniswingo.wordpress....
If it looks like some sort of ugly beast from the 90s, you've definitely arrived.
I found a couple of those, also makes it nice to print or save in case the site disappears (in that case, archive.org to the rescue). Your suggestion of ignoring "news" or "press" sites sounds good (hmmm, do a search with the term followed with "-news"?)
Space View Park in Titusville has line-of-sight to Pad 39, I was there for the last Shuttle launch. I don't know specific of other pads at the cape. There is the Space Walk of Fame, small but very interesting museum, http://www.spacewalkoffame.com... Though view will be miles away, and probably may not have 500,000 people including those that stop right in the middle of the freeways, maybe these SpaceX launches are like carnivals of enthusiasts like for Shuttle launches, https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
SpaceX is it's lack of comprehensive communications
As others have mentioned it's a private company and like pretty much all have no intention of communicating anything except glowing press releases. There is NASA though they perform a wide range of activities though much of their communications gets bogged down in guvmint bureaucracy.
Speaking of communications, I sometimes scour the internet for techie stuff on communication systems used by spacecraft but I don't find anything of value. Of course govt and companies are not going to post entire documentation (wiring diagrams, specific components, boards, source code). What I find are either cutesy PPT diagrams or very esoteric stuff. Unlike back in 20th century where QST magazine had article on Apollo communication system showing S-band and VHF comm links (freq and modes) between earth, spacecraft, and astronauts on EVA. It seems all there is online is glowing press releases and fluffy PPT slides. Whenever there is detail, it is usually political/business analysis and arguments. I have found lots of interesting stuff on Apollo and some early Shuttle stuff, I know there is some interesting ISS techie stuff out there, I only find political analysis and arguments. Of course there are technical stuff online but you need to know where to look, and if you already know then you don't need to search for it. Maybe that's the trend these days. Take a look at other subjects, many companies have less technical documents on their webpages and more "investment opportunities" pages.
Just got this, hope I don't die before this January's presentation:
Sleep and Performance
Sleep is an integral part of life that is often bartered in exchange for spending more time on all other aspects of life. However, studies have shown that inadequate sleep actually has a negative impact on both health and performance. Understanding the physiologic drive for sleep, the effects of fatigue, and how to optimize sleep will provide the participants with strategies to boost performance and reduce fatigue-related accidents.
Learning Objectives:
Learn why sleep is important and how it impacts health and performance
Understand the underlying components of fatigue
Recognize techniques to prioritize sleep and mitigate risks
Agenda:
Welcome
Sleep and Performance
Why Sleep is Important
Health Benefits of Adequate Sleep
Performance Benefits of Adequate Sleep
Productivity
Fatigue
Sleep Tips
Summary
Seminar Length: 1 Hour
I hope you can take advantage of this opportunity.
Fascinating "documentary." The bosses should have chained those accountants to their seats to prevent uprising. As far as those in the call center, "Call well and live."
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I was amused how Tim Cook said with a straight face Apple pays all taxes due. His comment of tax code was written for Industrial Age, not Digital Age, which implied "we are happy to pay more taxes but it's not our fault the tax code written that way." I was thinking when Steve Jobs testified to congress importance of STEM in schools.
Cook also commented reason they ship manufacturing to China is they have more skilled labor. He explained further US removed many vocational training in schools. I was thinking back in the days when high schools had lots of vocational training and there were several groups that advocated this was to fast track the poor kids into these low pay and hard labor, while privileged kids were able to attend college. So it seemed they restructured so everyone goes to college. Meanwhile we see many have the college degrees and a mountain of debt.
Maybe vocational and trade skills are not so bad after all. Someone who really knows how to diagnose a problem in a car, or locate a fault in a building's HVAC system going haywire is a very valuable person that can demand a good wage.
So if all these Apple products manufactured in China and 2/3 sold to countries other than US, and ship carrying containers filled with Apple products (ship flagged to some country most don't know about). Let's suppose ship is hijacked at high seas or being threatened by some other country's navy. And if they call for help from the world's greatest naval power the US Navy (funded by tax dollars which much doesn't come from Apple), should the Navy respond or say "sorry, out of our jurisdiction" or they will respond anyway as iPhones are considered essential strategic resource that lack of can cripple the world's economy. And Navy will have to respond because US is the "world's policemen?"
Just asking.
Amateur instead of professionals, i.e. people that are really into sport but they have a non-sport day job. However, they are so good that others are willing to pay their room and board so these competitors can spend more time training. Each country selects the best amateur competitors to represent the best of the country's common people. (if you are already a professional sports player, sorry, you already have world cup and series competitions)
Numerous posters, with zero stated understanding of any kind of real estate practice, seem to think that subletting is "illegal" if it's disallowed in their lease. Someone is not going to go to jail, or have to deal with the cops,
Yeah but maybe they like to imagine numerous police in battle gear busting down doors with tear gas and flashbang grenades, all makes action footage for the evening news. In the real world, lease disagreements and mitigations are PITA and to outside observer it's really boring (unless it's elevated to The Judge Judy Show). I have no idea what this airbnd site is about, I guess I need to research it so I can make sensible arguments on the forums.
It looks to me like completely accidental.
Ironic that Patton commanded all sorts of major battles but to eventually die from result of automobile accident after the war was over. A line from the movie, I wonder if a German officer really said (paraphrasing here), "lack of war will kill him."
"got in trouble for saying politically inconvenient things in public" as portrayed in the movie when Patton mentioned a New World Order, his assistant said, "don't forget the Russians."
"he would have been a total disaster in Eisenhower's role" Ike spent much of his time balancing the egos of various generals from the allied nations.
Army Chief of Staff Marshall: There was an article about George goes to work early in morning. He fights [politically] the British, the French, the Soviets, the Dutch, the Belgiums, etc. Gets home late at night and his wife reminds him that he needs to fight the Germans!
Patton, of course, would have sent what he had into Paris, without regard to the politics.
and probably wanted to be the first of the Allies entering Paris with the siren on the hood of his jeep blaring away. Maybe it was Eisenhower's or Marshall's plan to sideline Patton so not cause that embarrassment to the French, and have DeGaulle lead the way to the city instead. Another curious thing, how Paris was spared airstrikes and artillery bombardments?
I think it is based on frequency of letters used. You can surf the internet for origin of qwerty keyboard and why it is arranged like that, but may cut into your data usage.
you remember that the "intelligence" had to be mocked up
that too! I was thinking of military conflicts through the centuries how much was driven and diverted from solid intelligence, rumors, lies, and everything in between. Getting back to rubber tanks, same kind of mischief continues on but very good photoshopping and CGI, insert this stuff through intelligence channels.
Kind of like when wine sales are down, a scientific report is released about health benefits of occasional glass of wine.
Someone commented on the previous /. article the town's people are right for the wrong reasons. Cutting down a huge swath of forests to erect solar panels is probably not such a good idea. Though I don't know if they cut down trees (like everyone else I didn't RTFA) but I have to agree that replacing a natural area with solar panels is not exactly "green."
The German spooks heard of this, but discarded it quickly. Why would an Army sideline a brilliant General, just because he slapped a simple enlisted man?
Hey, fooled you, most awesomely!
I wondered the same myself. I think Patton slapping a GI is small stuff, probably did much more to piss off his superiors. Maybe they used that to create a red herring for German spies. Back when History Channel had history, one panelist commented if Patton was active on Normandy landings, they would have been more successful (not sure how to define success, airborne troops scattered about was a disaster but it really confused the Germans to exact beachheads). Speaking of ghost armies, I read that Saddam Hussein really believed he had formable WMDs and other weapon systems because his staff pumped up the numbers out of fear if they really told him he had no capable WMDs, they would be fired (literally). Apparently the American spooks fell for this as well.
represents the people? You mean like China where many govt agencies have notable title of "The People's ..."
if people want to be scared of something it should cars not terrorists
media can't generate enough "scare" to keep people panicked rest of the day. In ways, this might actually be true! http://www.theonion.com/articl...
The business model is dumb for the drivers because of the hundreds of hidden costs
Reminds me of a /. person posted, which I saved his writings in my "diatribes and knowledge" folder:
---begin quote---
I'll define 'crazy Uber people' not as 'danger to customers', but 'people who are bringing more value in terms of vehicle, skill and desire to please, than they are getting back in pay and benefits'. So the crazy Uber person is the one who keeps buying a new Lexus or whatever, vacuums their car three times a day and busts their ass to outperform all the other Uber drivers, so they can continue to win out over anybody else seeking to be a driver.
The key factor is that they are giving more than they get back, in the belief that they're cornering some kind of market or buying in to something important. If you make a business that relies on people like this, you can demolish anybody else because you've worked out how to get voluntary unpaid labor, like the Amazon exec who was said to use her own money to hire subcontractors to do more. As long as there are people who are willing to do that, the market breaks and Amazon/Uber get to do what Wal-Mart did in small towns, break the back of other market participants so they can't break even or continue.
Another way to be a crazy Uber person is to put more depreciation and wear and tear on your car than you can afford to repair (or replace). It's easy to be crazy in these ways. It's externalities which are easy to overlook. These Amazon/Uber business models are designed to leverage that kind of crazy as hard as possible, and kick out everybody who's not willing to lose (one way or another) on the deal. Psychology is useful in getting people to buy into this stuff.
As they say, a cult.
----end quote---
target of military value in the nowhere middle of the Atlantic Ocean and that is how the Titanic was found? Where do people come up with this
Well documented that Ballard was part of a team to track down a submarine that disappeared in the Atlantic. Not the Threser (early 60s that led to the Sub Safe program of engineering) but another. I don't remember the story but appeared it was sunk by its own torpedo or some other mishap that sunk the boat. Navy put this a high value to find out what happened as the vessel never arrived in port. So they funded a team to meticulously search the vessel using latest technology. They found the vessel. But there was some funding and interest so why not use it to find Titantic. Locating that famous ship answered a decades long question did it break in half? Many experts said it could not even though some survivors recalled seeing it break in two (the experts said they don't understand maritime structural elements and simply imagined it).
The Soviet sub sunk and which Glomar Explorer got only a portion of it. Supposably when they were raising it (according to a documentary) and when the sub began to break apart when one of G.E. lifting arm broke, one of the missiles slid out of its tube. The documentary had an animation of the missile leaving the sub and then vanishing into the blackness of the depths. It left me the impression the Glomar Explorer crew were thinking, "if we are still here in a few moments, then it didn't explode." (actually there are many steps and procedures to make the bomb go boom, much more than dropping it). OK getting back on topic, can this be used to examine what was left over? Many examine other submarines (or maybe Navy already did but that's all hush hush)?
Relatives of mine live in a rural area where local township has their own ISP. Pretty slick as this connects them to the internet independent of Comcast and ATT. My aunt cut the cable TV cord as they kept increasing rates, she has dish TV. But for internet (I don't think they do Netflix) they subscribe to this local ISP. I have read other municipalities try to do this but state regulations (promoted by Comcast and ATT) prevent implementation as grounds that local govt is competing with private businesses.
I read about all this with Seattle, wow home of MS and so many dialups. One thing certain high speed internet is very important for local businesses along with good roads and water. Crappy infrastructure makes it tough to do business.
Primary objective was to beat the Reds to the stars, back then it was them or us. When Apollo program started, USSR scored a number of firsts in the Space Race that demonstrated the superiority of Communism (not really but there's extensive discussions on all that). Whatever, Hugh Dryden suggested putting a man on the moon and there was already the Saturn rocket and F1 engine in development. Kennedy used his great oral skills, Johnson used his huge political power, James Webb used his knowledge on how to work the system to maintain budgets over a multi-year period.
Once we achieved a manned landing the race was over. What's even interesting is Bob Gilruth suggested no more Apollo flights as each one had so many opportunities for things to go wrong and lose a crew (and almost did with 13). Apollo 18, 19, 20 were cancelled to save money (wouldn't have saved much as hardware ready to go, crews pretty much fully trained).
There is the "What If" Gargarin never made the first space flight? Would we have worked on economic development of space like we are trying to do now? Dennis Wingo has some articles including past studies from those years after Sputnik but before Gargarin's flight. https://denniswingo.wordpress....
If it looks like some sort of ugly beast from the 90s
I found one! Looks very 1990s Geocities but has diagrams, charts, etc. http://spaceshuttleguide.com/s...
If it looks like some sort of ugly beast from the 90s, you've definitely arrived.
I found a couple of those, also makes it nice to print or save in case the site disappears (in that case, archive.org to the rescue). Your suggestion of ignoring "news" or "press" sites sounds good (hmmm, do a search with the term followed with "-news"?)
Space View Park in Titusville has line-of-sight to Pad 39, I was there for the last Shuttle launch. I don't know specific of other pads at the cape. There is the Space Walk of Fame, small but very interesting museum, http://www.spacewalkoffame.com... Though view will be miles away, and probably may not have 500,000 people including those that stop right in the middle of the freeways, maybe these SpaceX launches are like carnivals of enthusiasts like for Shuttle launches, https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
SpaceX is it's lack of comprehensive communications
As others have mentioned it's a private company and like pretty much all have no intention of communicating anything except glowing press releases. There is NASA though they perform a wide range of activities though much of their communications gets bogged down in guvmint bureaucracy.
Speaking of communications, I sometimes scour the internet for techie stuff on communication systems used by spacecraft but I don't find anything of value. Of course govt and companies are not going to post entire documentation (wiring diagrams, specific components, boards, source code). What I find are either cutesy PPT diagrams or very esoteric stuff. Unlike back in 20th century where QST magazine had article on Apollo communication system showing S-band and VHF comm links (freq and modes) between earth, spacecraft, and astronauts on EVA. It seems all there is online is glowing press releases and fluffy PPT slides. Whenever there is detail, it is usually political/business analysis and arguments. I have found lots of interesting stuff on Apollo and some early Shuttle stuff, I know there is some interesting ISS techie stuff out there, I only find political analysis and arguments. Of course there are technical stuff online but you need to know where to look, and if you already know then you don't need to search for it. Maybe that's the trend these days. Take a look at other subjects, many companies have less technical documents on their webpages and more "investment opportunities" pages.
Just got this, hope I don't die before this January's presentation:
Sleep and Performance Sleep is an integral part of life that is often bartered in exchange for spending more time on all other aspects of life. However, studies have shown that inadequate sleep actually has a negative impact on both health and performance. Understanding the physiologic drive for sleep, the effects of fatigue, and how to optimize sleep will provide the participants with strategies to boost performance and reduce fatigue-related accidents.
Learning Objectives:
Learn why sleep is important and how it impacts health and performance
Understand the underlying components of fatigue
Recognize techniques to prioritize sleep and mitigate risks
Agenda:
Welcome
Sleep and Performance
Why Sleep is Important
Health Benefits of Adequate Sleep
Performance Benefits of Adequate Sleep
Productivity
Fatigue
Sleep Tips
Summary
Seminar Length: 1 Hour
I hope you can take advantage of this opportunity.
Fascinating "documentary." The bosses should have chained those accountants to their seats to prevent uprising. As far as those in the call center, "Call well and live."