The requirement to provide the materials in an electronic format gets rid of the "send crates of printed pages" response to a FOIA request for government software, but I did not see a requirement or standard method to indicate where material had been redacted from the middle of information presented in electronic format.
When I do a quick search for passive cooling design, I see plenty of ideas, primarily aimed a people building solar powered houses. But, that's the thing, the house you get when you build the design you want is vastly different from the house you get when you buy something designed to look good enough and maximize profit for a real estate developer.
I have worked primarily as chief engineer or electrician on commercial fishing vessels, mostly in the Bering Sea. Generally it's 12 hour shifts, and the boat is in continuous 24 hour operation. Typically, systems that require simultaneous engineer attention include fishing hydraulics, power generation, processing equipment, propulsion, & refrigeration. When I first come to a new boat, I have these issues when I'm switching between these things. As time goes on, I develop a mental model of the specifics of the entire vessel, and instead of switching between different things, I'm paying attention to one, more complex thing. When that happens I lose this penalty somewhat. The problem comes when returning from vacation, because I want to enjoy the loss of penalty, but the model may no longer be complete or may be intermixed with models of other vessels.
What about computers that are smarter than robots but have been unnaturally deprived of locomotive and manipulative appendages? Don't they get to pay taxes and apply for prosthetic limbs? Prostheses for electronic persons ought to be easy, and when these people can punch the idiots who want them to work without pay, that ought to improve their quality of life.
And, it looks like alternatives might be SofortÃoeberweisung or Giropay, but they apparently don't interact with Deutsche Bank, which seems the only German bank allowing retail USA customers. However, Deutsche Postbank owns BHF (USA) Holdings Inc. since 2001. Perhaps they could use this to provide some retail customers access to these payment services. It's a sure bet that Paypal could use some competition.
So, when they found out that their superiors had been lying to Congress, what did they do about that? I'm guessing that they acted in a manner that would ensure self-preservation in a situation where their superiors are always 100% sure what the subordinate employees are doing. If they call their bosses on nefarious bullshit, they will get told that they, themselves, are a threat to national security, and that's how they will be treated if the behavior persists. The individuals can be really conscientious, but the structure of their organization can prevent that from making any difference.
Do you have any idea how much firing them will push up the cost of the bribes? If you do this sort of thing too much, the bureaucrats will cost as much as the attorneys.
If you want people to prove they're hardware free in order to get in, a valuable tool is to change the architecture of the building. At the entrance, have little rooms like airlocks with a hardware detection apparatus in the middle. A person enters the first half of the room from the unregulated zone. One proves oneself hardware free to get to the second half of the room in an authorized manner. Then, the door unlocks allowing passage from the second half of the room into the secure area. If the person attempts to get to the second half of the room in an unauthorized manner, the interior door stays locked, and the exterior door locks also. Of course, one needs to make the walls and doors out of strong, bullet resistant material. It would work, but if entering the venue was that much hassle, would people attend your events? Also, it wouldn't necessarily stop the person who has some Hantavirus infected tissue in a sealed bag up their ass.
I think jail goes too far as a first response. Fired from the FBI with a "not permitted to work in federal law enforcement" flag would be a nice first step. They don't have to prosecute a crime to fire someone, and the people losing their employability in combination with the agency losing people in whom they had invested training might curtail that sort of behavior. I think it's worth a try before putting people in jail. Also, this is the sort of thing that Congress could achieve, as they could hold the FBI's funding hostage until a report was submitted detailing who the most senior offending individuals were and confirming their expulsion from the organization.
Something else Congress might ought to consider is an automatic $20 million/year budget cut for every instance of a member of the organization found to have been lying to Congress, which cut auto-renews if that person is still employed by the organization the next year. An individual may have a belief in an idea that will cause action ostensibly against self interest, but organizations are a lower form of life. They can be easily conditioned by manipulating their food supply.
Reading that two close relatives committed suicide makes it sound genetic. I have to wonder, though, how much of the time you spend living your life has to be pre-scheduled in order to maintain the situation where you get the high income? I find I do better working 12 hours, 7 days a week for three months or so, followed by three months or so off. The notion of my activities having to follow the same schedule for the rest of my life might make me think about suicide. Do you have enough savings where you could try something else? Could two guys like you trade off on the same job, so the employer always has someone, but you don't always have to be there?
And if people actually learn how to be in control of super-intelligent machines, how long until they use those super-intelligent slave minds devise methods to use for being in control of other humans?
I think you're making up these percentages, but even assuming you're not, a human couldn't use verbal communication to communicate any of knowledge that "cannot be described with human language." You probably would rather use 7% * 40% for your assertion. However, your math is assuming that when humans communicate with a computer, they fail to consider that the computer has different communication needs than when they communicate with one another. Humans frequently "magically" adapt the way they communicate to the circumstances under which the communication occurs. I think you started with a good sentence, but the rest of your paragraph is a lot of burden for that first sentence to carry.
What percentage of all tweets are misogynistic? What percentage of all people who tweet regularly send misogynistic ones? What percentage of all women are the targets of these tweets? What percentage of people who like to express misogynistic opinions have signed up with Twitter? What if all the misogynistic tweets were directed solely at women who send misogynistic tweets? You really don't have sufficient information for your extrapolation to have meaning.
For people interested in personal energy independence, hydrogen is good for storing surplus solar, if the solar system regularly produces more surplus than will charge an affordable battery. Metal hydride storage is cheaper than battery storage when the power storage quantities are large, and the weight doesn't matter if the storage is for a residence rather than a vehicle. If I drive my vehicle to work, I can't charge it up from my home solar during the daytime, because the vehicle isn't at home. So, if I want to store solar energy at home while I'm away at work, I either need enough battery capacity to supply my home and recharge my vehicle through the night, or I want to use some other storage method. So long as home solar owners are tied to the grid and happy with the deal they get from selling power during the day and buying it back at night, batteries may well work better. For independent home solar owners, hydrogen fuel cells may be a better solution.
Considering that France is the country that legislated overtime to start after 35 hours and requires no overtime allowed for about a third of its workforce, email legislation to keep employers from getting after hours benefit from existing employees rather than hiring more certainly seems to fit.
I don't think the problem is the passenger, but rather the aircraft personnel. Airlines would not be permitted to discriminate against idiots if they tried, and they don't want to try because the idiots are more likely to be the ones paying the highest airfares for the least desirable seats. However, that doesn't mean that the aircraft needs to turn around because an idiot got scared of another passenger. If aircraft personnel can't be trained to discriminate between suspicious and other sorts of activity, they should at least be able to make a short surreptitious video of what looks to them like suspicious activity and send it to someone smart enough to know.
I believe part of the objection was that they are not permitted to perform these checks. The city government wants to perform the checks themselves. If people have to go to the government to get permission to work for Uber & Lyft, then the government is able to regulate not only who, but also how many people have access to these jobs. I imagine that if Uber & Lyft had drafted a simple "We're competent to operate fingerprint scanning terminals. You can have fingerprint checks. We want lack of direct bureaucracy involvement." proposition and been polite about the advertising, they might have won. Privacy concerns are kind of moot since the state requires an index fingerprint to issue a driver's license.
The number of patients we each have to see has dramatically increased,
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reimbursement for private physicians has dramatically dropped.
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This makes me wonder if per patient reimbursement for hospital employed physicians and for private physicians are about the same. Do you know any private physicians who would compare notes with you on numbers? It sounds like you, your nurse practitioner and his supervising physician have the start of a nice network there.
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The requirement to provide the materials in an electronic format gets rid of the "send crates of printed pages" response to a FOIA request for government software, but I did not see a requirement or standard method to indicate where material had been redacted from the middle of information presented in electronic format.
When I do a quick search for passive cooling design, I see plenty of ideas, primarily aimed a people building solar powered houses. But, that's the thing, the house you get when you build the design you want is vastly different from the house you get when you buy something designed to look good enough and maximize profit for a real estate developer.
I have worked primarily as chief engineer or electrician on commercial fishing vessels, mostly in the Bering Sea. Generally it's 12 hour shifts, and the boat is in continuous 24 hour operation. Typically, systems that require simultaneous engineer attention include fishing hydraulics, power generation, processing equipment, propulsion, & refrigeration. When I first come to a new boat, I have these issues when I'm switching between these things. As time goes on, I develop a mental model of the specifics of the entire vessel, and instead of switching between different things, I'm paying attention to one, more complex thing. When that happens I lose this penalty somewhat. The problem comes when returning from vacation, because I want to enjoy the loss of penalty, but the model may no longer be complete or may be intermixed with models of other vessels.
It will be nice to be able to time-shift the videos from when the downloading actually works to when I actually want to watch them.
What about computers that are smarter than robots but have been unnaturally deprived of locomotive and manipulative appendages? Don't they get to pay taxes and apply for prosthetic limbs? Prostheses for electronic persons ought to be easy, and when these people can punch the idiots who want them to work without pay, that ought to improve their quality of life.
And, it looks like alternatives might be SofortÃoeberweisung or Giropay, but they apparently don't interact with Deutsche Bank, which seems the only German bank allowing retail USA customers. However, Deutsche Postbank owns BHF (USA) Holdings Inc. since 2001. Perhaps they could use this to provide some retail customers access to these payment services. It's a sure bet that Paypal could use some competition.
So, when they found out that their superiors had been lying to Congress, what did they do about that? I'm guessing that they acted in a manner that would ensure self-preservation in a situation where their superiors are always 100% sure what the subordinate employees are doing. If they call their bosses on nefarious bullshit, they will get told that they, themselves, are a threat to national security, and that's how they will be treated if the behavior persists. The individuals can be really conscientious, but the structure of their organization can prevent that from making any difference.
Do you have any idea how much firing them will push up the cost of the bribes? If you do this sort of thing too much, the bureaucrats will cost as much as the attorneys.
Along with every other idea anyone has.
Violent (and other) crime correlates more strongly with poverty than with race.
If you want people to prove they're hardware free in order to get in, a valuable tool is to change the architecture of the building. At the entrance, have little rooms like airlocks with a hardware detection apparatus in the middle. A person enters the first half of the room from the unregulated zone. One proves oneself hardware free to get to the second half of the room in an authorized manner. Then, the door unlocks allowing passage from the second half of the room into the secure area. If the person attempts to get to the second half of the room in an unauthorized manner, the interior door stays locked, and the exterior door locks also. Of course, one needs to make the walls and doors out of strong, bullet resistant material. It would work, but if entering the venue was that much hassle, would people attend your events? Also, it wouldn't necessarily stop the person who has some Hantavirus infected tissue in a sealed bag up their ass.
I think jail goes too far as a first response. Fired from the FBI with a "not permitted to work in federal law enforcement" flag would be a nice first step. They don't have to prosecute a crime to fire someone, and the people losing their employability in combination with the agency losing people in whom they had invested training might curtail that sort of behavior. I think it's worth a try before putting people in jail. Also, this is the sort of thing that Congress could achieve, as they could hold the FBI's funding hostage until a report was submitted detailing who the most senior offending individuals were and confirming their expulsion from the organization.
Something else Congress might ought to consider is an automatic $20 million/year budget cut for every instance of a member of the organization found to have been lying to Congress, which cut auto-renews if that person is still employed by the organization the next year. An individual may have a belief in an idea that will cause action ostensibly against self interest, but organizations are a lower form of life. They can be easily conditioned by manipulating their food supply.
You want to be an overlord on weekends?
Reading that two close relatives committed suicide makes it sound genetic. I have to wonder, though, how much of the time you spend living your life has to be pre-scheduled in order to maintain the situation where you get the high income? I find I do better working 12 hours, 7 days a week for three months or so, followed by three months or so off. The notion of my activities having to follow the same schedule for the rest of my life might make me think about suicide. Do you have enough savings where you could try something else? Could two guys like you trade off on the same job, so the employer always has someone, but you don't always have to be there?
And if people actually learn how to be in control of super-intelligent machines, how long until they use those super-intelligent slave minds devise methods to use for being in control of other humans?
I think you're making up these percentages, but even assuming you're not, a human couldn't use verbal communication to communicate any of knowledge that "cannot be described with human language." You probably would rather use 7% * 40% for your assertion. However, your math is assuming that when humans communicate with a computer, they fail to consider that the computer has different communication needs than when they communicate with one another. Humans frequently "magically" adapt the way they communicate to the circumstances under which the communication occurs. I think you started with a good sentence, but the rest of your paragraph is a lot of burden for that first sentence to carry.
They just have to sue in Texas.
Have you learned nothing from this technology? Centers are obsolete. It'll be a network.
What percentage of all tweets are misogynistic? What percentage of all people who tweet regularly send misogynistic ones? What percentage of all women are the targets of these tweets? What percentage of people who like to express misogynistic opinions have signed up with Twitter? What if all the misogynistic tweets were directed solely at women who send misogynistic tweets? You really don't have sufficient information for your extrapolation to have meaning.
For people interested in personal energy independence, hydrogen is good for storing surplus solar, if the solar system regularly produces more surplus than will charge an affordable battery. Metal hydride storage is cheaper than battery storage when the power storage quantities are large, and the weight doesn't matter if the storage is for a residence rather than a vehicle. If I drive my vehicle to work, I can't charge it up from my home solar during the daytime, because the vehicle isn't at home. So, if I want to store solar energy at home while I'm away at work, I either need enough battery capacity to supply my home and recharge my vehicle through the night, or I want to use some other storage method. So long as home solar owners are tied to the grid and happy with the deal they get from selling power during the day and buying it back at night, batteries may well work better. For independent home solar owners, hydrogen fuel cells may be a better solution.
Considering that France is the country that legislated overtime to start after 35 hours and requires no overtime allowed for about a third of its workforce, email legislation to keep employers from getting after hours benefit from existing employees rather than hiring more certainly seems to fit.
When I was thinking about who could pass on this sort of useful information without exposing the source to prosecution, Wikileaks came to mind.
I don't think the problem is the passenger, but rather the aircraft personnel. Airlines would not be permitted to discriminate against idiots if they tried, and they don't want to try because the idiots are more likely to be the ones paying the highest airfares for the least desirable seats. However, that doesn't mean that the aircraft needs to turn around because an idiot got scared of another passenger. If aircraft personnel can't be trained to discriminate between suspicious and other sorts of activity, they should at least be able to make a short surreptitious video of what looks to them like suspicious activity and send it to someone smart enough to know.
I believe part of the objection was that they are not permitted to perform these checks. The city government wants to perform the checks themselves. If people have to go to the government to get permission to work for Uber & Lyft, then the government is able to regulate not only who, but also how many people have access to these jobs. I imagine that if Uber & Lyft had drafted a simple "We're competent to operate fingerprint scanning terminals. You can have fingerprint checks. We want lack of direct bureaucracy involvement." proposition and been polite about the advertising, they might have won. Privacy concerns are kind of moot since the state requires an index fingerprint to issue a driver's license.
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The number of patients we each have to see has dramatically increased,
[...]
reimbursement for private physicians has dramatically dropped.
[...]
This makes me wonder if per patient reimbursement for hospital employed physicians and for private physicians are about the same. Do you know any private physicians who would compare notes with you on numbers? It sounds like you, your nurse practitioner and his supervising physician have the start of a nice network there.