Airlines didn't develop any of the planes, that was Boeing, Airbus and a whole host of smaller competitors. As a matter of fact many of the developments (GPS or fly-by-wire) were developed and paid for with government dollars, then adapted to the civilian world. You don't think the corporations would have developed GPS without government money, do you?
Idiot conservative, tea party types that never give the government credit for anything. Don't get me wrong the government can screw up plenty of things but it does sometimes spur development of things that the civilian world would never touch because of the lack of immediate payback.
Your right I am thinking of traffic metering. The traffic engineer that put the stop sign there probably should be shot, though it sounds like Honolulu which doesn't seem to have any acceleration lanes on the H-1 downtown. I guess the land to build them was just too expensive.
A specific Air Force agency paid my company to develop a SharePoint application to manage the staffing of Electronic Documents. The agency owns the product (aka code) when we are done. NO annual license fee and can share with whomever they want.
Another AF agency has the exact same requirement, even follows the same regulations, can they use the application. No the license something called TMT, pay to have it customized and have to pay annual licensing in the tens of millions to continue to use the produce. All because of procurement rules designed to protect the private company.
Yes I know that SharePoint is a Microsoft product (BAD) that is licensed but the point is no additional costs for the staffing product they already own.
Nice theory and it works until the congresscritters get involved.
The real problem with COTS is the military requirements, usually legit by the way, are just enough different to mean the COTS package doesn't really meet the requirement so you pay some contractor additional dollars to modify the software and now you are locked into the original version or else have to pay for modifications each time a new version is released.
COTS is great for the desktop environment. Not so much when you get to the mission side.
I think the software that controls the humongous radar at Cavalier AFS does a pretty good job. Also the software that we use to correlate all those radar readings and track the space junk does a pretty good job.
I could continue but I think you get the idea. What is the tag line? Oh yeah "never go full retard". I know an AC but sometimes it just gets to me the way so many commenters are convinced the government can't do anything right.
Most places with the stop signs/red lights at the bottom of the ramp have enough space to accelerate into traffic. I have been behind move than a few drivers that stop again at the end of the acceleration lane because they didn't identify the gap and accelerate to match speeds GRRR.
Bullllshitt, you don't start down the mergw lane until you see the gap you will match speed with and merge into. Idiots like ypu that stop at the end of a merge lane should be shot. merge lane AKA acceleration lane. Of course the rules are different when traffic is slow, you need a lot less length to match speed with slow traffic.
You need to go to a Grade A dairy sometime. Dairies thar produce drinking milk aka Grade A are cleaner than the glass you drink from. A Grade B dairy aka for cheese can be considerably dirtier. Oh, that neighbor you buy your organic milk from is probably totally unregulated with no testing of his cows for hidden disease.
I love raw milk, we kept a jersey just for the family milk, just don,t be deceived by the FUD the organic idiots put out about farmers. No farmer, including the corporate guy will want a sick cow producing milk on his farm. Razor thin margins won't allow themto keep a sick milker.
Saying the way someone dresses justifiably gets them stopped for stop and frisk is akin to saying that a girl deserves to be raped for the way she dresses, a difference in degree yes but not as much as you might think.
If the cops did the same in a suburban neighborhood you can bet a ton of lawsuits would result and the courts might just come up with different rulings.
Too many people try to go to the Best Buy to touch and feel and then go on-line to order. That is part of what killed Circuit City and is killing Best Buy.
FYI it wasn't Circuit City that was trying to sell the stock at almost full price. One of several liquidation companies bought the stock and then sold it from the remaining stores as if it was Circuit City. They mark it up to full MSRP when they start the sale then slowly reduce it. If you waited long enough you might have gotten a good. I got a Logitech BoomBox, basically a standalone IP radio for $99 (still $250 on-line if you can find it).
Here I was all prepared to have an unfriendly discussion with you about Charter and you ruined it being all reasonable and everything. What is shashdot coming to.
Sure and the basketball player that works his ass off and can't score is better than the BB player that screws around and makes 10 for 10 from the 3 point line and double digit rebounds every game but loafs in practice.
How come we want show offs in sports but if you show your intelligence in the classroom you are considered a jack ass?
Why not close the 50 state DOE and move the power even closer to the people at the local level? I'll tell you why not, because then you get what happened in the South during the sixties, all the fairly well to do white folks started private schools and then refused to vote in local taxes for the local public schools because they didn't want to pay for them kind of people to go to school.
That is why a federal DOE and state DOE make sense. Set the standards and ensure a decently level playing field when it comes to funding public schools.
My son has a measured IQ north of 140 but is also autistic. He gets extra help to cope with his difficulty in communicating verbally and is well on his way to university and will be able to handle it without an aide. It is people like you who would have thrown him into an institution in the 40s and 50s.
1) Yes sometimes a child should be left behind, repeating a grade is not always bad. 2) Accountable, yes. Use an arbitrary test to do the measuring, no. 3) Many ways to measure success. We seemed to do pretty well in the 50s/60s/70s without that a standardized test to evaluate student abilities. 4) Problem is the option is too often a private school that is more interested in turning a profit than educating our schools or a religious school that is indoctrinating the students in the school masters cult. My tax dollars should not to any religious education outfit.
I graduated in the 70s from a decent public school in Wisconsin and I visit my kids school regularly and I believe that they are getting a pretty decent education from the public school they attend.
IMO a public should be providing a well rounded education, science/math/english/physical, not trying to prepare students for specific jobs. That kind of education should be provided by colleges, tech schools and most importantly employers. Problem is employers never want to give training any more, they just want to hire already trained employees.
That "old version" was the current version less than 2 months ago. I shelled out the money for my daughter to have a full legal copy of PS5 and now the only way to get the bug fix is to shell out more money for the latest version. My kids just got taught a great lesson by Adobe on why people pirate their products. I say BULLSHIT on this policy by Adobe.
Problem is the market forces types are the ones that said put a profit incentive into reducing reducing carbon emissions and then let the market take care of it. Me I would just rather have the EPA make rules about carbon emissions and then you meet them or go out of business. CAFE is the government mandating vechicle mileage and seems to have worked.
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Airlines didn't develop any of the planes, that was Boeing, Airbus and a whole host of smaller competitors. As a matter of fact many of the developments (GPS or fly-by-wire) were developed and paid for with government dollars, then adapted to the civilian world. You don't think the corporations would have developed GPS without government money, do you?
Idiot conservative, tea party types that never give the government credit for anything. Don't get me wrong the government can screw up plenty of things but it does sometimes spur development of things that the civilian world would never touch because of the lack of immediate payback.
Your right I am thinking of traffic metering. The traffic engineer that put the stop sign there probably should be shot, though it sounds like Honolulu which doesn't seem to have any acceleration lanes on the H-1 downtown. I guess the land to build them was just too expensive.
A specific Air Force agency paid my company to develop a SharePoint application to manage the staffing of Electronic Documents. The agency owns the product (aka code) when we are done. NO annual license fee and can share with whomever they want.
Another AF agency has the exact same requirement, even follows the same regulations, can they use the application. No the license something called TMT, pay to have it customized and have to pay annual licensing in the tens of millions to continue to use the produce. All because of procurement rules designed to protect the private company.
Yes I know that SharePoint is a Microsoft product (BAD) that is licensed but the point is no additional costs for the staffing product they already own.
Nice theory and it works until the congresscritters get involved.
The real problem with COTS is the military requirements, usually legit by the way, are just enough different to mean the COTS package doesn't really meet the requirement so you pay some contractor additional dollars to modify the software and now you are locked into the original version or else have to pay for modifications each time a new version is released.
COTS is great for the desktop environment. Not so much when you get to the mission side.
I think the software that controls the humongous radar at Cavalier AFS does a pretty good job. Also the software that we use to correlate all those radar readings and track the space junk does a pretty good job.
I could continue but I think you get the idea. What is the tag line? Oh yeah "never go full retard". I know an AC but sometimes it just gets to me the way so many commenters are convinced the government can't do anything right.
And we have a winner.
Much too insightful for an AC.
Most places with the stop signs/red lights at the bottom of the ramp have enough space to accelerate into traffic. I have been behind move than a few drivers that stop again at the end of the acceleration lane because they didn't identify the gap and accelerate to match speeds GRRR.
Bullllshitt, you don't start down the mergw lane until you see the gap you will match speed with and merge into. Idiots like ypu that stop at the end of a merge lane should be shot. merge lane AKA acceleration lane. Of course the rules are different when traffic is slow, you need a lot less length to match speed with slow traffic.
Chicago ?
Does Mott work fo the Air Force now? Sounds like their nem improved help desk system.
The only way to win is to not play!
You need to go to a Grade A dairy sometime. Dairies thar produce drinking milk aka Grade A are cleaner than the glass you drink from. A Grade B dairy aka for cheese can be considerably dirtier. Oh, that neighbor you buy your organic milk from is probably totally unregulated with no testing of his cows for hidden disease.
I love raw milk, we kept a jersey just for the family milk, just don,t be deceived by the FUD the organic idiots put out about farmers. No farmer, including the corporate guy will want a sick cow producing milk on his farm. Razor thin margins won't allow themto keep a sick milker.
Maybe, maybe not. But two points:
Saying the way someone dresses justifiably gets them stopped for stop and frisk is akin to saying that a girl deserves to be raped for the way she dresses, a difference in degree yes but not as much as you might think.
If the cops did the same in a suburban neighborhood you can bet a ton of lawsuits would result and the courts might just come up with different rulings.
Too many people try to go to the Best Buy to touch and feel and then go on-line to order. That is part of what killed Circuit City and is killing Best Buy.
FYI it wasn't Circuit City that was trying to sell the stock at almost full price. One of several liquidation companies bought the stock and then sold it from the remaining stores as if it was Circuit City. They mark it up to full MSRP when they start the sale then slowly reduce it. If you waited long enough you might have gotten a good. I got a Logitech BoomBox, basically a standalone IP radio for $99 (still $250 on-line if you can find it).
Here I was all prepared to have an unfriendly discussion with you about Charter and you ruined it being all reasonable and everything. What is shashdot coming to.
Sure and the basketball player that works his ass off and can't score is better than the BB player that screws around and makes 10 for 10 from the 3 point line and double digit rebounds every game but loafs in practice.
How come we want show offs in sports but if you show your intelligence in the classroom you are considered a jack ass?
Why not close the 50 state DOE and move the power even closer to the people at the local level? I'll tell you why not, because then you get what happened in the South during the sixties, all the fairly well to do white folks started private schools and then refused to vote in local taxes for the local public schools because they didn't want to pay for them kind of people to go to school.
That is why a federal DOE and state DOE make sense. Set the standards and ensure a decently level playing field when it comes to funding public schools.
Does your charter school have the ability to select the students or is it required to accept all applicants like the non-charter school? Just saying.
Truly stupid and moron my ass;
My son has a measured IQ north of 140 but is also autistic. He gets extra help to cope with his difficulty in communicating verbally and is well on his way to university and will be able to handle it without an aide. It is people like you who would have thrown him into an institution in the 40s and 50s.
What is wrong with NCLB:
1) Yes sometimes a child should be left behind, repeating a grade is not always bad.
2) Accountable, yes. Use an arbitrary test to do the measuring, no.
3) Many ways to measure success. We seemed to do pretty well in the 50s/60s/70s without that a standardized test to evaluate student abilities.
4) Problem is the option is too often a private school that is more interested in turning a profit than educating our schools or a religious school that is indoctrinating the students in the school masters cult. My tax dollars should not to any religious education outfit.
I graduated in the 70s from a decent public school in Wisconsin and I visit my kids school regularly and I believe that they are getting a pretty decent education from the public school they attend.
IMO a public should be providing a well rounded education, science/math/english/physical, not trying to prepare students for specific jobs. That kind of education should be provided by colleges, tech schools and most importantly employers. Problem is employers never want to give training any more, they just want to hire already trained employees.
Isn't it possible the deployment of self-driving cars AKA Google cars would reduce the chaos and allow the dense traffic to actually move?
That "old version" was the current version less than 2 months ago. I shelled out the money for my daughter to have a full legal copy of PS5 and now the only way to get the bug fix is to shell out more money for the latest version. My kids just got taught a great lesson by Adobe on why people pirate their products. I say BULLSHIT on this policy by Adobe.
In my world TEA party and normal people just does not belong in the same sentence. But thanks for the giggle
Problem is the market forces types are the ones that said put a profit incentive into reducing reducing carbon emissions and then let the market take care of it. Me I would just rather have the EPA make rules about carbon emissions and then you meet them or go out of business. CAFE is the government mandating vechicle mileage and seems to have worked.