I'm guessing the last places for employment for those who don't want to act like salesmen are going to be in scientific research...unfortunately that's a field that many IT or dev people wouldn't be able to deal with.
Sadly, I think that scientific research is more sales than science already. If you can't schmooze, politic and author grants at a world-class level, your research will never get funded in the first place.
Agreed for a technician-, basic coder or clerical-level position, but at the developer, engineer or similar professional-level position it is a reasonable expectation for the employee to work on tasks that can't be clearly defined in advanced, that don't have checklists (creating one may be a deliverable of the professional), and surprise or firefighting type situations that the techs and clericals can't resolve with the pre-existing check lists. Granted it is possible to reduce surprises with basic workplace stuff like meeting agendas and advance notice of policies, but one the flip side dealing with urgent, unplanned issues is an important part of most jobs.
It's a difficult road to navigate. I'll add a suggestion from the other side, as someone who has managed people with this style of accommodations due to ASD-type conditions. Be as open and willing to collaborate with your supervisor as possible; help educate them. If you only work through an HR person to specify your ADA or other workplace accommodations, there is an extremely limited amount of information they can legally share with your supervisor. Of course it is your legal right to keep these things private if you choose, but it makes it much harder for your supervisor to meet your needs and to foster a productive work environment for you. It does require some trust, but the outcome can be much better. I've had it go both ways.
The question of whether acupuncture (in any of its hundred or thousands of forms) is more effective than control (a.k.a. "placebo effect") has been answered conclusively -- it is not. Acupuncture is indistinguishable from sham acupuncture in numerous, well controlled studies. It is the theatre, not the treatment that has any effect; and those effects are only measurable in the short-term against subjective outcomes. In other words, it's risky (infection, organ/vessel piercing), has no more benefit than just talking to someone or sitting quietly for a half hour, and does not improve health in any known objective measure.
The placebo effect "works" for a very narrow definition of "works", which is far less than what practitioners of these worthless treatments claim.
Not really, because unlike real medicine, chiropractic has no standard of care from which one can expect or anticipate a particular outcome nor judge the performance of the practitioner. Anything that goes right or wrong in the course of "treatment" can be handwaved away with nonsense explanations about misalignments, energies, chi or whatever other subjective crap absolves the chiropractor of any responsibility to reality, while simultaneously allowing him to sell snake oil vitamins and smoothie mixes and to schedule "tune up" and "adjustment" appointments for as long as the patient still has money in his wallet and faith in the charlatanism.
Firefighters already have the ability to damage private property when it is necessary to contain an emergency situation. I can't imagine this law adds additional powers, but perhaps clarifies that existing standards still apply to a new technology that didn't exist at the time. Perhaps also a reasonable public awareness / scare campaign to remind people to keep their drones away from disaster areas where they are interfering with life safety.
The OP is referring to an Arc Fault Circuit Interrupter (AFCI), which are now widely mandated in residential buildings by electrical codes in the US. The breaker has an embedded signal processing circuit which analyzes the power waveform and cuts power when patterns that look like excessive arcing caused by a faulty device, damaged cable or frayed cord are observed.
This is clearly a case for application of anti-SLAPP laws. My understanding is that California already has pretty good options in this area, but many other states and the federal system do not. A good anti-SLAPP law allow the defendants in these cases to request dismissal of the case prior to the very expensive discovery phase AND allow for recovery of legal fees.
He's a 40 year old man(child) walking around a neighborhood in the middle of a work day wearing a movie costume. He obviously doesn't have a job, or at least doesn't have one worth keeping.
Why does it matter? The garage probably has a dozen different tools and garden or sports implements hanging on the wall that would make opening the door a trivial exercise whether locked or not. A person willing to break into the house once would certainly have no problem doing it twice.
Yeah, then we could point the laser at a glass tube to keep the rain out. Then we could make that tube flexible so it can go around the curve of the earth and we don't need to build a tower. Hey what do you know, we just made fiber.
It's an interesting question, but I think you mean he was born 4 months ago. But since he was frozen as an embryo how old is he really? A couple years?
No, people do realize what a "pompous asshat" Jeremy Clarkson is, and they either don't care given how good he is at what he does, or they admire those traits. Large segments of society are not on board with the PC, wimpy, constantly-whining-about-bullying-and-____ism that is pervasive in media, especially an institution like BBC. Clarkson is a figure who pushes back at that trend, and many see him as a hero (now perhaps a martyr) for it.
Utility companies can raise their prices if they wish.
No they can't. They can propose rate increases and pitch capital expenditures or R&D, but they cannot do it on their own. Utilities operate in regulated markets and virtually all rate increases, fee levies and capital expenditures have to be approved by state and/or local public utility commissions (sometimes called public service commissions). Often then, there is a mostly-fixed profit margin imposed on the utility companies leading to rather inflexible pricing and investment options for the company. Like any quasi-government body, the PUCs are susceptible to lobbying interests, single-issue candidates, busy-bodies, histrionics, endless red tape and the various other plagues of politics which essentially tie the hands of the utility companies when it comes to business decisions.
Any connection to individual or community health is tenuous at best. The whole issue with PV panels is that they are not net energy positive for their anticipated service life when installed anywhere but the sunniest areas. Fossil fuels are being burned in places like China to manufacture panels that, over the next 30 years, will not produce a greater amount of energy than went into the creation of the panel (and inverters, etc). I agree that burning coal, and to a lesser extent, natural gas isn't a great solution for generating electricity; however PV solar does not improve the situation, and in many cases, probably makes it worse. See also: corn ethanol.
Agreed entirely. It's not only theft from the utility companies but theft from the rest of us who recognize PV solar power as the obvious scam that it is in all but the sunniest areas of the world. My rates inevitably will go up because the utility is forced to pay retail or higher for solar in net metering schemes when they should be buying bulk power from the lowest cost providers.
I would suggest that security should be the top priority ahead of everything else.
I would rather they have patient care as their number one priority. Their focus should be the health and welfare of patients, because if they don't, people literally die. If it comes down to doctors spending their time treating patients and nurses double-checking medicine doses versus keying in lengthy crypto sequences on their tablet and meeting with IT vendors -- I would much rather they choose the former.
To be fair to Zuckerberg and Facebook, the company must obey the law of any country in which it operates.
No it doesn't. Big companies don't obey laws unless it's cheaper to do so than not. Slashdot in particular can't stop fellating Uber over what is probably a largely illegal operation. Comcast, Verizon, Microsoft, and basically all of the rest routinely violate laws as they see fit, pay a fine and move on.
How would you know what number an incoming emergency call would come from whether you knew you were the emergency contact or not? If your wife is hurt at work will a call come from her cell phone, her supervisor's cell phone, desk phone, main business number, the HR office, one of hundreds of hospital numbers, etc?
On a very large scale (like an entire city) the random distribution does take over and level itself. However on a smaller scale, like a subdivision or a neighborhood the spiky effects are quite evident -- approximately one-third higher than in a similar area with controlled demand. Why does this matter? One reason is that it allows the utility to spend less on hardware like transformers and wires, which keeps the billing rate low. It also reduces the chance of peak load failure of transformers and breakers during the peak air conditioning days, which have major expense of unplanned outages and emergency repair costs. It is so much cheaper for a utility to be able to set back AC units in an area of town where the transformer is dangerously overloaded than it is to do rolling blackouts or risk a catastrophic failure.
It's not about turning it off when it's needed, it's about flattening the peak of the load curve by synchronizing run cycles. For example if your furnace needs to run 30 minutes out of every hour to maintain the set temperature (and so do all your neighbors), then the smart grid can synchronize the furnaces to run every other house for 15 minutes, then run the other houses, etc. This will smooth the load the power company has to deal with without anyone having a decrease in service. It removes some of the spiky demand associated with the random effect of appliances cycling on-and-off at will. Excess capacity can be scheduled to improve service for everyone and reduce the peak design requirements.
Not concerned at all, he helped them to develop and use a tool they didn't understand how to use and didn't have access to previously. It's how progress is really made. Experts from two different fields find a way to work together to solve problems that neither could solve independently.
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I'm guessing the last places for employment for those who don't want to act like salesmen are going to be in scientific research...unfortunately that's a field that many IT or dev people wouldn't be able to deal with.
Sadly, I think that scientific research is more sales than science already. If you can't schmooze, politic and author grants at a world-class level, your research will never get funded in the first place.
Agreed for a technician-, basic coder or clerical-level position, but at the developer, engineer or similar professional-level position it is a reasonable expectation for the employee to work on tasks that can't be clearly defined in advanced, that don't have checklists (creating one may be a deliverable of the professional), and surprise or firefighting type situations that the techs and clericals can't resolve with the pre-existing check lists. Granted it is possible to reduce surprises with basic workplace stuff like meeting agendas and advance notice of policies, but one the flip side dealing with urgent, unplanned issues is an important part of most jobs.
It's a difficult road to navigate. I'll add a suggestion from the other side, as someone who has managed people with this style of accommodations due to ASD-type conditions. Be as open and willing to collaborate with your supervisor as possible; help educate them. If you only work through an HR person to specify your ADA or other workplace accommodations, there is an extremely limited amount of information they can legally share with your supervisor. Of course it is your legal right to keep these things private if you choose, but it makes it much harder for your supervisor to meet your needs and to foster a productive work environment for you. It does require some trust, but the outcome can be much better. I've had it go both ways.
The question of whether acupuncture (in any of its hundred or thousands of forms) is more effective than control (a.k.a. "placebo effect") has been answered conclusively -- it is not. Acupuncture is indistinguishable from sham acupuncture in numerous, well controlled studies. It is the theatre, not the treatment that has any effect; and those effects are only measurable in the short-term against subjective outcomes. In other words, it's risky (infection, organ/vessel piercing), has no more benefit than just talking to someone or sitting quietly for a half hour, and does not improve health in any known objective measure.
The placebo effect "works" for a very narrow definition of "works", which is far less than what practitioners of these worthless treatments claim.
Not really, because unlike real medicine, chiropractic has no standard of care from which one can expect or anticipate a particular outcome nor judge the performance of the practitioner. Anything that goes right or wrong in the course of "treatment" can be handwaved away with nonsense explanations about misalignments, energies, chi or whatever other subjective crap absolves the chiropractor of any responsibility to reality, while simultaneously allowing him to sell snake oil vitamins and smoothie mixes and to schedule "tune up" and "adjustment" appointments for as long as the patient still has money in his wallet and faith in the charlatanism.
Firefighters already have the ability to damage private property when it is necessary to contain an emergency situation. I can't imagine this law adds additional powers, but perhaps clarifies that existing standards still apply to a new technology that didn't exist at the time. Perhaps also a reasonable public awareness / scare campaign to remind people to keep their drones away from disaster areas where they are interfering with life safety.
The OP is referring to an Arc Fault Circuit Interrupter (AFCI), which are now widely mandated in residential buildings by electrical codes in the US. The breaker has an embedded signal processing circuit which analyzes the power waveform and cuts power when patterns that look like excessive arcing caused by a faulty device, damaged cable or frayed cord are observed.
Yes, but most people wouldn't be satisfied with the range.
This is clearly a case for application of anti-SLAPP laws. My understanding is that California already has pretty good options in this area, but many other states and the federal system do not. A good anti-SLAPP law allow the defendants in these cases to request dismissal of the case prior to the very expensive discovery phase AND allow for recovery of legal fees.
He's a 40 year old man(child) walking around a neighborhood in the middle of a work day wearing a movie costume. He obviously doesn't have a job, or at least doesn't have one worth keeping.
Why does it matter? The garage probably has a dozen different tools and garden or sports implements hanging on the wall that would make opening the door a trivial exercise whether locked or not. A person willing to break into the house once would certainly have no problem doing it twice.
Yeah, then we could point the laser at a glass tube to keep the rain out. Then we could make that tube flexible so it can go around the curve of the earth and we don't need to build a tower. Hey what do you know, we just made fiber.
Would they prefer Detroit? Because that's changed a lot too.
It's an interesting question, but I think you mean he was born 4 months ago. But since he was frozen as an embryo how old is he really? A couple years?
No, people do realize what a "pompous asshat" Jeremy Clarkson is, and they either don't care given how good he is at what he does, or they admire those traits. Large segments of society are not on board with the PC, wimpy, constantly-whining-about-bullying-and-____ism that is pervasive in media, especially an institution like BBC. Clarkson is a figure who pushes back at that trend, and many see him as a hero (now perhaps a martyr) for it.
Utility companies can raise their prices if they wish.
No they can't. They can propose rate increases and pitch capital expenditures or R&D, but they cannot do it on their own. Utilities operate in regulated markets and virtually all rate increases, fee levies and capital expenditures have to be approved by state and/or local public utility commissions (sometimes called public service commissions). Often then, there is a mostly-fixed profit margin imposed on the utility companies leading to rather inflexible pricing and investment options for the company. Like any quasi-government body, the PUCs are susceptible to lobbying interests, single-issue candidates, busy-bodies, histrionics, endless red tape and the various other plagues of politics which essentially tie the hands of the utility companies when it comes to business decisions.
Any connection to individual or community health is tenuous at best. The whole issue with PV panels is that they are not net energy positive for their anticipated service life when installed anywhere but the sunniest areas. Fossil fuels are being burned in places like China to manufacture panels that, over the next 30 years, will not produce a greater amount of energy than went into the creation of the panel (and inverters, etc). I agree that burning coal, and to a lesser extent, natural gas isn't a great solution for generating electricity; however PV solar does not improve the situation, and in many cases, probably makes it worse. See also: corn ethanol.
Agreed entirely. It's not only theft from the utility companies but theft from the rest of us who recognize PV solar power as the obvious scam that it is in all but the sunniest areas of the world. My rates inevitably will go up because the utility is forced to pay retail or higher for solar in net metering schemes when they should be buying bulk power from the lowest cost providers.
I would suggest that security should be the top priority ahead of everything else.
I would rather they have patient care as their number one priority. Their focus should be the health and welfare of patients, because if they don't, people literally die. If it comes down to doctors spending their time treating patients and nurses double-checking medicine doses versus keying in lengthy crypto sequences on their tablet and meeting with IT vendors -- I would much rather they choose the former.
To be fair to Zuckerberg and Facebook, the company must obey the law of any country in which it operates.
No it doesn't. Big companies don't obey laws unless it's cheaper to do so than not. Slashdot in particular can't stop fellating Uber over what is probably a largely illegal operation. Comcast, Verizon, Microsoft, and basically all of the rest routinely violate laws as they see fit, pay a fine and move on.
3: Why didn't they clear with you first?
How would you know what number an incoming emergency call would come from whether you knew you were the emergency contact or not? If your wife is hurt at work will a call come from her cell phone, her supervisor's cell phone, desk phone, main business number, the HR office, one of hundreds of hospital numbers, etc?
On a very large scale (like an entire city) the random distribution does take over and level itself. However on a smaller scale, like a subdivision or a neighborhood the spiky effects are quite evident -- approximately one-third higher than in a similar area with controlled demand. Why does this matter? One reason is that it allows the utility to spend less on hardware like transformers and wires, which keeps the billing rate low. It also reduces the chance of peak load failure of transformers and breakers during the peak air conditioning days, which have major expense of unplanned outages and emergency repair costs. It is so much cheaper for a utility to be able to set back AC units in an area of town where the transformer is dangerously overloaded than it is to do rolling blackouts or risk a catastrophic failure.
It's not about turning it off when it's needed, it's about flattening the peak of the load curve by synchronizing run cycles. For example if your furnace needs to run 30 minutes out of every hour to maintain the set temperature (and so do all your neighbors), then the smart grid can synchronize the furnaces to run every other house for 15 minutes, then run the other houses, etc. This will smooth the load the power company has to deal with without anyone having a decrease in service. It removes some of the spiky demand associated with the random effect of appliances cycling on-and-off at will. Excess capacity can be scheduled to improve service for everyone and reduce the peak design requirements.
Not concerned at all, he helped them to develop and use a tool they didn't understand how to use and didn't have access to previously. It's how progress is really made. Experts from two different fields find a way to work together to solve problems that neither could solve independently.
I've been going to an acupuncturist for over ten years, and I can tell you without any hesitation it has helped me tremendously.
Wow, and it's only taken 10 years of treatment?
By orders of magnitude, when we find new vulnerabilities, we share them
Number is irrelevant compared to severity, and you can be damn sure they keep the severe ones to themselves.