How the hell do you "identify" as disabled. You either are able-bodied or you aren't.
There can be literally hundreds of objective measures of physical performance that can screen for physical infirmity. Some of them are even codified into laws and regulations, like what criteria you have to meet to get a handicap placard for your car or whether you're capable of operating a motor vehicle at all.
This phrasing is retarded. And while I'm at it...what the hell is 'queer' exactly?
Belatedly. The allegations in Damore's lawsuit and some of the reporting that happened around the time of the memo indicated there was some pretty crazy stuff being tolerated at Google offices that the infamous memo was commenting on. In a fairly dry and civil way, mind you. You're assuming there's a good guy to be found in there somewhere. I've come to the conclusion (informed only by outside observation, granted), that the whole place is a funny farm.
Gotta have adult supervision. A culture that eschews adult supervision isn't going to work out in the end. Whether it's petty incivility and unprofessional behavior in the workplace or millions of investor dollars wasted on juice squeezers and raw water...it'll correct itself eventually.
True, but you gotta dig a little deeper. If corporate culture is that it's OK for some people to needle and agitate others to the point of losing their composure, that does not bode well for the 'no drama' smell test of corporate governance. If HR is part of the problem with tampons in the men's room and the like, then that also invites conflict and confrontation.
One might think the unwanted attention from outsider interlopers has forced Google's hand and they're quietly trying to clean house. Then again, one George Wallace and one Bull Connor and for two generations most of America has been assuming automatically all white Southerners are racist to the bone. So maybe Google doesn't get out from under this one for a good long while either.
It's not a report. It's an article. A "reporter" may write the article, but unless it's a specially commissioned document and not one of many articles in a periodical publication, it isn't a "report."
BeauHD and msmash have been hitting the copy-paste just about every story and calling TFA a "report" for the past week or so.
I am too. Except that I've gotten so used to being able to do what I need on a command line, I can't get past the amount of point-and-click garbage I have to perform to do even the most basic work on a Mac or Windows.
Mostly electronics and IC design. You can do almost all of that, if not fully all of that, without touching Windows. Mechanical design options for Linux are non-existent.
In many of these places, the ISP that's fast enough to watch this on a big screen also provides TV, and at a marginal cost of less than $40 if you buy the bundle.
I'm sure that super-duper-safe battery compartment has enough shielding to survive atmospheric entry. After all, it would be bad PR for Tesla if a little thing like aerodynamic forces in the hypersonic regime could puncture the battery and start a fire.
Orbits of solar system objects aren't predictable to anywhere near the accuracy required to make that statement meaningfully. Especially not relatively light-weight and complex-shaped things like cars. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
To be more exact, you can run a zillion simulations to come up with a probability, but all of the hit/miss scenarios are meaningless if they're too far in the future.
Most people in their late 40s and 50s, which is how old you need to be to bubble up to the top in just about any large organization, came of age in the late 80s and early 90s when China was a backwater, Russia was a third-world country, and all the cutting-edge good stuff was being manufactured by companies like IBM in places like Lexington, Kentucky.
For much of the late 90s and 2000s, and even into today, that continued to be true for most (if not all) military electronics. A lot of laws and regulations that defense contractors and government labs follow are still written like that's the reality for all of tech. To an extent, that sustains a small advanced electronics echosystem here.
Problem is, that stopped being true for consumer electronics a long time ago, and more advanced and backend equipment is following in those footsteps, because guess what: twenty years of growth in making cheap shit over there pumps money and builds up expertise and a manufacturing echosystem over there. At the expense of the one here, I might add. The guys sounding the alarm in TFA are just realizing the scope of the problem because it's coming to get them where they live: government IT security by way of trusted suppliers.
It's not hypocrisy. It's just government stupidity by way of institutional inertia and obliviousness to the market environment.
Going to work one a regular schedule is one thing. Going elsewhere on an irregular schedule is quite another. Plus, I bet that for every one of you, there's someone else not too far from you for whom the time savings doesn't exist. Even in more dense and transit-friendly places.
I'll use my own extended family for an example. We all live in the Northeast: DC, Philadelphia, and Boston. All are places with (by American standards) well-developed commuter trains and subways. Off the six of us (we, wife, both sets of parents still working), only one takes public transit to work every day because he's only one of two who lives in a commuter suburb and works regular hours in the city. It's a 5-10 minute drive to the train station and a 10 minute walk from the train to his office. The other one who lives in a suburb and works in a city drives because the hours are irregular and the distance from transit to workplace is farther. The other four work outside of city centers and/or work irregular hours.
We're supposed to sympathize with people who look us in the eye and tell us with a straight face that searching for aliens in cosmic noise is a worthwhile use of time and money? These guys are bad for science because they waste finite resources on pie-in-the-sky-not-gonna-happen nonsense and because they suck up finite good will for science with their pie-in-the-sky-not-gonna-happen nonsense. Every time someone wants to defund or put down legitimate research, they can point to these whackjobs as a reason for why things labelled "science" don't get automatic credibility.
Death by hobo and death by car crash are both very very very low probability events. If one is ten or a hundred times more likely than the other, they're both still inconsequential. Inconvenience of wasted time in public transit relative to car, on the other hand, is a near certainty outside of dense city centers with dense transit networks that are well-run.
Here in the US, there are maybe a half-dozen places where having a car is less convenient than driving, all dense city centers where a distinct minority of the population resides. Everywhere else, even in those same metro areas, all the subways and buses and commuter trains could be free, and they can run twice as frequently, but that'll make almost no dent in driving rates. Maybe Germany is dense enough for free transit to be of some real benefit to people, but my guess is that anyone who can take transit already does.
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How the hell do you "identify" as disabled. You either are able-bodied or you aren't.
There can be literally hundreds of objective measures of physical performance that can screen for physical infirmity. Some of them are even codified into laws and regulations, like what criteria you have to meet to get a handicap placard for your car or whether you're capable of operating a motor vehicle at all.
This phrasing is retarded. And while I'm at it...what the hell is 'queer' exactly?
Belatedly. The allegations in Damore's lawsuit and some of the reporting that happened around the time of the memo indicated there was some pretty crazy stuff being tolerated at Google offices that the infamous memo was commenting on. In a fairly dry and civil way, mind you. You're assuming there's a good guy to be found in there somewhere. I've come to the conclusion (informed only by outside observation, granted), that the whole place is a funny farm.
Gotta have adult supervision. A culture that eschews adult supervision isn't going to work out in the end. Whether it's petty incivility and unprofessional behavior in the workplace or millions of investor dollars wasted on juice squeezers and raw water...it'll correct itself eventually.
True, but you gotta dig a little deeper. If corporate culture is that it's OK for some people to needle and agitate others to the point of losing their composure, that does not bode well for the 'no drama' smell test of corporate governance. If HR is part of the problem with tampons in the men's room and the like, then that also invites conflict and confrontation.
One might think the unwanted attention from outsider interlopers has forced Google's hand and they're quietly trying to clean house. Then again, one George Wallace and one Bull Connor and for two generations most of America has been assuming automatically all white Southerners are racist to the bone. So maybe Google doesn't get out from under this one for a good long while either.
Try harder.
Also, do you actually believe people think that way?
It's not a report. It's an article. A "reporter" may write the article, but unless it's a specially commissioned document and not one of many articles in a periodical publication, it isn't a "report."
BeauHD and msmash have been hitting the copy-paste just about every story and calling TFA a "report" for the past week or so.
Maybe they invented twelve new proprietary genders.
That's like asking the medieval Catholic Church "why does everything have to be about religion?"
The liberals found themselves a new cudgel now that threatening to shout 'racist!' doesn't work as well as it used to.
This too shall pass.
I am too. Except that I've gotten so used to being able to do what I need on a command line, I can't get past the amount of point-and-click garbage I have to perform to do even the most basic work on a Mac or Windows.
Mostly electronics and IC design. You can do almost all of that, if not fully all of that, without touching Windows. Mechanical design options for Linux are non-existent.
Computers have games? Back in my day, computers were for work. Trolling is a form of work, it isn't a game.
If it's not encoded in ASCII, I won't bother reading it.
Is it like sending 35mm negatives through the mail?
Users don't want to check the box? Tough shit. No one owes a vendor anything other than the list price of the product.
In many of these places, the ISP that's fast enough to watch this on a big screen also provides TV, and at a marginal cost of less than $40 if you buy the bundle.
I'm sure that super-duper-safe battery compartment has enough shielding to survive atmospheric entry. After all, it would be bad PR for Tesla if a little thing like aerodynamic forces in the hypersonic regime could puncture the battery and start a fire.
Well, I was going to say shit-hole, but...
Orbits of solar system objects aren't predictable to anywhere near the accuracy required to make that statement meaningfully. Especially not relatively light-weight and complex-shaped things like cars. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
To be more exact, you can run a zillion simulations to come up with a probability, but all of the hit/miss scenarios are meaningless if they're too far in the future.
Most people in their late 40s and 50s, which is how old you need to be to bubble up to the top in just about any large organization, came of age in the late 80s and early 90s when China was a backwater, Russia was a third-world country, and all the cutting-edge good stuff was being manufactured by companies like IBM in places like Lexington, Kentucky.
For much of the late 90s and 2000s, and even into today, that continued to be true for most (if not all) military electronics. A lot of laws and regulations that defense contractors and government labs follow are still written like that's the reality for all of tech. To an extent, that sustains a small advanced electronics echosystem here.
Problem is, that stopped being true for consumer electronics a long time ago, and more advanced and backend equipment is following in those footsteps, because guess what: twenty years of growth in making cheap shit over there pumps money and builds up expertise and a manufacturing echosystem over there. At the expense of the one here, I might add. The guys sounding the alarm in TFA are just realizing the scope of the problem because it's coming to get them where they live: government IT security by way of trusted suppliers.
It's not hypocrisy. It's just government stupidity by way of institutional inertia and obliviousness to the market environment.
Going to work one a regular schedule is one thing. Going elsewhere on an irregular schedule is quite another. Plus, I bet that for every one of you, there's someone else not too far from you for whom the time savings doesn't exist. Even in more dense and transit-friendly places.
I'll use my own extended family for an example. We all live in the Northeast: DC, Philadelphia, and Boston. All are places with (by American standards) well-developed commuter trains and subways. Off the six of us (we, wife, both sets of parents still working), only one takes public transit to work every day because he's only one of two who lives in a commuter suburb and works regular hours in the city. It's a 5-10 minute drive to the train station and a 10 minute walk from the train to his office. The other one who lives in a suburb and works in a city drives because the hours are irregular and the distance from transit to workplace is farther. The other four work outside of city centers and/or work irregular hours.
We're supposed to sympathize with people who look us in the eye and tell us with a straight face that searching for aliens in cosmic noise is a worthwhile use of time and money? These guys are bad for science because they waste finite resources on pie-in-the-sky-not-gonna-happen nonsense and because they suck up finite good will for science with their pie-in-the-sky-not-gonna-happen nonsense. Every time someone wants to defund or put down legitimate research, they can point to these whackjobs as a reason for why things labelled "science" don't get automatic credibility.
Migrants. Over there they have migrants.
Death by hobo and death by car crash are both very very very low probability events. If one is ten or a hundred times more likely than the other, they're both still inconsequential. Inconvenience of wasted time in public transit relative to car, on the other hand, is a near certainty outside of dense city centers with dense transit networks that are well-run.
Here in the US, there are maybe a half-dozen places where having a car is less convenient than driving, all dense city centers where a distinct minority of the population resides. Everywhere else, even in those same metro areas, all the subways and buses and commuter trains could be free, and they can run twice as frequently, but that'll make almost no dent in driving rates. Maybe Germany is dense enough for free transit to be of some real benefit to people, but my guess is that anyone who can take transit already does.