Furthermore...if I wanted to sell 'fro pics or some other stereotypically black-oriented product, why would I want to waste my advertising dollars on bald middle-aged white men? If I wanted to sell skis or roller skates, why would I waste my advertising dollars on wheelchair users? And I'm pretty sure I'm not going to get any bites trying to sell crucifixes to Jews and Muslims, or Star of David necklaces or menorah candles to Catholics and Muslims.
Housing discrimination is bad, I suppose, but affirmative action in advertising is stupid and evil.
Done it more times than I care to count. A couple of times as a kid along for the ride when my parents did it, a couple of times as an adult paying my own way. Ditto for the wife. Your point?
No, it is that simple. It's in fact simpler for someone renting than for someone tied down with a mortgage. Point by point:
o Do the math and don't break your lease unless eating the rest of the rent costs less than your new job would. Ask nicely if you can get out early. Ask nicely if you can sublet. The answer is yes far more often than you might assume.
o See above. You are, in fact, expected to plan ahead.
o In the context of this discussion, that would imply you've chosen to move to a high-cost city while working a low-wage job. That isn't necessary. There's plenty of work between the coasts and there's plenty of housing if you don't insist of living in the center of it all. Even in places like Boston, for every 3k/mo one bedroom walkup there's a 1300/mo two bedroom in an elevatored building in a good school district if you're willing to spend an extra half hour commuting. Plan ahead.
o That would be called a truck or a van (rented or borrowed from a friend), and in the worst case, a yard sale, a trip to the flea market or Craigslist.
o Again: do the math. Either your work pays enough for you to stay put or it doesn't, in which case you need to cut your losses.
In case you haven't noticed: the theme here is Plan Ahead And Stop Making Excuses.
And what's this miraculous set of handcuffs that keeps them from seeking employment elsewhere but still allows them to drive around town where they live now? Is there some forcefield that zaps them back when they try to cross city limits so they can't relocate and look for work elsewhere? Come on guys...if there's no work where you live, that's the invisible hand telling you to move where the work is. People have done it since time immemorial. Whole boat loads and plane loads of people do it now. All the way to the other side of the planet in some cases. We issue hundreds of thousands of work visas every year to Indians and Chinese and Austrailians and Europeans, and hundreds of thousands more immigrant visas. People who want work will find it. What makes you so special that you think the work ought to come to you instead of the other way around?
Possible. Unlikely though. Very few people have any sense of perspective beyond their own narrow area of expertise. Many people don't even have the sense to realize this of others, let alone of themselves.
Studies of the past frequency of Atlantic hurricanes and inferences of temperature from ocean sediments also suggest there's a ~400-500 year cycle that we're just cresting the top of right now.
And yet they went to a *barbecue.* Either they're oblivious, hypocrites, or more like they just don't like having the source of their livelihood called into question. That's understandable. No one does. Even people who drill for oil or mine coal for a living, people who make petrochemicals for a living, people who drive automobiles for a living (or at least to get to work), etc, etc.
I was under the impression that only people could be castigated. But if we're now able to meaningfully issue reprimands to abstract concepts like plans, I'd like to be the first to demand a redress of grievances from:
1. Newton's laws of motion
2. The concept of "purple"
3. The Chinese remainder theorem
and last, but not least,
5. The number four.
"Hater" is pretty meaningless but "PC," "Leftist," and "SJW" connote a very clear set of behaviors and beliefs. You may not think there's anything there to condemn, but maybe that's because you're a PC leftist SJW who sees haters everywhere.
SJW is at this point a descriptive shorthand as much as it is an insult. Accusing the management of not having employee's back because of race-tainted PR means exactly the same thing, is just as insulting (that's the intent), but takes way too many words.
It won't, because it's not aimed at the workers. If the UAW is behind it, the goal would be a show of force. As in, "don't fight the unionization effort or bad things will happen for your PR." Top-down SJW directives make accusations of racism more of a kiss of death for individual managers and executives because they can't be sure the company will have their backs. Thus, it's leverage against the footsoldiers of the opposing side.
I'm all for fracking. And if coal goes the way of the dinosoar for purely economic reasons, so be it. What I have a problem with was Obama's decision to kill coal because Green. He put his thumb on the scales pretty hard to do it. If Trump is doing too much of the opposite...well that's the pendulum swinging too far the other way, which is what you get if you give in to some fool notion to start it swinging in the first place. Beyond that minor point of agreement, the treehuggers can go screw themselves.
Leadership requires honesty. The brutal sort that doesn't give you the warm-and-fuzzies when it tells you that no, we won't be driving electric cars on the moon by decade's end but will in fact be drilling oil and mining coal and driving gas-guzzlers for decades to come because whatever man-made global warming there might actually be is the price of having the lights go on when you flip the switch and being able to exercise your right to freedom of movement.
No amount of feel-good nonsense, no amount of promises from Silicon Valley snakeoil salesmen and Wall Street middlemen looking to make a quick buck off your guilt, and no amount of knowitall career academics and government bureaucrats who can afford to drive Teslas and install hundred-thousand-dollar solar farms on top of their million-dollar houses will change the fact that people not only have a right to movement and shelter and prosperity through economic freedom, but are generally smart enough to notice when you shut off their lights and their heat at jack up their fuel prices in the middle of a brutal winter because "global warming."
Honest leadership recognizes these facts, which are grounded both in hard, immutable, physics and hard, immutable, western morality, and doesn't try to lie around them. Obama did not have that honesty, Hillary did not have it, and the entire Paris crowd and its cheerleaders, Frau Merkel chief among them, were all a party to the big lie. Trump does have that honesty and called bullshit on the bullshit. How about that for a shocker. The serial liar and the most naked of emperors we've put in the White House in a long time is the more honest one.
Flexible structures are tricky. Long structures are flexible. There is no free lunch. And if I understand nuclear reactors correctly, a lot of that mass is necessary for the thing to work, not for shielding.
The point of the "nuclear" is you heat up the exhaust hotter than you can get by just burning fuel and oxidizer. Exhaust velocity (the Isp part of the rocket equation) goes like the square root of energy released per unit of fuel burned. That sets a point of diminishing returns on chemical rockets. You can get go faster if inject more energy into the exhaust, but not if that energy comes from more fuel you have to carry with you and burn. Nuclear gets you orders of magnitude more energy density that you can dump into the exhaust with effectively no penalty other than the weight of the reactor, which grows much more slowly than an equivalent weight of chemical fuel would. That said, ain't no one building anything to go into space for under 30 million. This is more like research. I'd be surprised if any metal gets cut for anything other than individual component bench testing. TRL 1 type stuff.
Right up there with an antenna that short-circuited when held wrong (remember that?).
I remember when the extra 50% plus you paid for an Apple device over anyone else bought you quality of construction and good design. That was over a decade ago. These days? Keyboards on laptops with missing keys, phone screens that break or just plain don't work. But the fanboys will keep on fanboying, that I'm sure of.
Yes, but with a more realistic number of slots. No, there aren't thousands of Einsteins floating around out there, but there are, for example, thousands of foreign graduates from top US schools every year. Many are garbage, but many aren't and what good is it to piss them away with artificially low caps? Millions a year is too many. Hundreds a year is too few.
In the most optimistic reading, what'll be delivered is a working prototype. 26 million maybe pays for ten or twenty people. After four years, that could, in principle, be enough to field a working prototype. Maybe.
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Furthermore...if I wanted to sell 'fro pics or some other stereotypically black-oriented product, why would I want to waste my advertising dollars on bald middle-aged white men? If I wanted to sell skis or roller skates, why would I waste my advertising dollars on wheelchair users? And I'm pretty sure I'm not going to get any bites trying to sell crucifixes to Jews and Muslims, or Star of David necklaces or menorah candles to Catholics and Muslims.
Housing discrimination is bad, I suppose, but affirmative action in advertising is stupid and evil.
Done it more times than I care to count. A couple of times as a kid along for the ride when my parents did it, a couple of times as an adult paying my own way. Ditto for the wife. Your point?
No, it is that simple. It's in fact simpler for someone renting than for someone tied down with a mortgage. Point by point:
o Do the math and don't break your lease unless eating the rest of the rent costs less than your new job would. Ask nicely if you can get out early. Ask nicely if you can sublet. The answer is yes far more often than you might assume.
o See above. You are, in fact, expected to plan ahead.
o In the context of this discussion, that would imply you've chosen to move to a high-cost city while working a low-wage job. That isn't necessary. There's plenty of work between the coasts and there's plenty of housing if you don't insist of living in the center of it all. Even in places like Boston, for every 3k/mo one bedroom walkup there's a 1300/mo two bedroom in an elevatored building in a good school district if you're willing to spend an extra half hour commuting. Plan ahead.
o That would be called a truck or a van (rented or borrowed from a friend), and in the worst case, a yard sale, a trip to the flea market or Craigslist.
o Again: do the math. Either your work pays enough for you to stay put or it doesn't, in which case you need to cut your losses.
In case you haven't noticed: the theme here is Plan Ahead And Stop Making Excuses.
And if they're smart they'll be looking for other work while "striking"
And what's this miraculous set of handcuffs that keeps them from seeking employment elsewhere but still allows them to drive around town where they live now? Is there some forcefield that zaps them back when they try to cross city limits so they can't relocate and look for work elsewhere? Come on guys...if there's no work where you live, that's the invisible hand telling you to move where the work is. People have done it since time immemorial. Whole boat loads and plane loads of people do it now. All the way to the other side of the planet in some cases. We issue hundreds of thousands of work visas every year to Indians and Chinese and Austrailians and Europeans, and hundreds of thousands more immigrant visas. People who want work will find it. What makes you so special that you think the work ought to come to you instead of the other way around?
Possible. Unlikely though. Very few people have any sense of perspective beyond their own narrow area of expertise. Many people don't even have the sense to realize this of others, let alone of themselves.
That would take effort on my part ;-) I saw it on a recent episode of NOVA, "Killer Hurricanes" or something like that.
Studies of the past frequency of Atlantic hurricanes and inferences of temperature from ocean sediments also suggest there's a ~400-500 year cycle that we're just cresting the top of right now.
Yeah. Just like nuclear fusion...always a few decades away.
I'm all for having you blue-state urbanites talking yourself into extinction. That'll just leave the adults in charge.
And yet they went to a *barbecue.* Either they're oblivious, hypocrites, or more like they just don't like having the source of their livelihood called into question. That's understandable. No one does. Even people who drill for oil or mine coal for a living, people who make petrochemicals for a living, people who drive automobiles for a living (or at least to get to work), etc, etc.
I was under the impression that only people could be castigated. But if we're now able to meaningfully issue reprimands to abstract concepts like plans, I'd like to be the first to demand a redress of grievances from:
1. Newton's laws of motion
2. The concept of "purple"
3. The Chinese remainder theorem
and last, but not least,
5. The number four.
There are two types of countries: those that use the metric system in everyday life and those that landed men on the moon.
Only when measuring fries.
"American" units, thank you very much.
"Hater" is pretty meaningless but "PC," "Leftist," and "SJW" connote a very clear set of behaviors and beliefs. You may not think there's anything there to condemn, but maybe that's because you're a PC leftist SJW who sees haters everywhere.
SJW is at this point a descriptive shorthand as much as it is an insult. Accusing the management of not having employee's back because of race-tainted PR means exactly the same thing, is just as insulting (that's the intent), but takes way too many words.
It won't, because it's not aimed at the workers. If the UAW is behind it, the goal would be a show of force. As in, "don't fight the unionization effort or bad things will happen for your PR." Top-down SJW directives make accusations of racism more of a kiss of death for individual managers and executives because they can't be sure the company will have their backs. Thus, it's leverage against the footsoldiers of the opposing side.
Conspiracy theory? Oh yeah. Plausible? Sure.
I'm all for fracking. And if coal goes the way of the dinosoar for purely economic reasons, so be it. What I have a problem with was Obama's decision to kill coal because Green. He put his thumb on the scales pretty hard to do it. If Trump is doing too much of the opposite...well that's the pendulum swinging too far the other way, which is what you get if you give in to some fool notion to start it swinging in the first place. Beyond that minor point of agreement, the treehuggers can go screw themselves.
Leadership requires honesty. The brutal sort that doesn't give you the warm-and-fuzzies when it tells you that no, we won't be driving electric cars on the moon by decade's end but will in fact be drilling oil and mining coal and driving gas-guzzlers for decades to come because whatever man-made global warming there might actually be is the price of having the lights go on when you flip the switch and being able to exercise your right to freedom of movement.
No amount of feel-good nonsense, no amount of promises from Silicon Valley snakeoil salesmen and Wall Street middlemen looking to make a quick buck off your guilt, and no amount of knowitall career academics and government bureaucrats who can afford to drive Teslas and install hundred-thousand-dollar solar farms on top of their million-dollar houses will change the fact that people not only have a right to movement and shelter and prosperity through economic freedom, but are generally smart enough to notice when you shut off their lights and their heat at jack up their fuel prices in the middle of a brutal winter because "global warming."
Honest leadership recognizes these facts, which are grounded both in hard, immutable, physics and hard, immutable, western morality, and doesn't try to lie around them. Obama did not have that honesty, Hillary did not have it, and the entire Paris crowd and its cheerleaders, Frau Merkel chief among them, were all a party to the big lie. Trump does have that honesty and called bullshit on the bullshit. How about that for a shocker. The serial liar and the most naked of emperors we've put in the White House in a long time is the more honest one.
Flexible structures are tricky. Long structures are flexible. There is no free lunch.
And if I understand nuclear reactors correctly, a lot of that mass is necessary for the thing to work, not for shielding.
The point of the "nuclear" is you heat up the exhaust hotter than you can get by just burning fuel and oxidizer. Exhaust velocity (the Isp part of the rocket equation) goes like the square root of energy released per unit of fuel burned. That sets a point of diminishing returns on chemical rockets. You can get go faster if inject more energy into the exhaust, but not if that energy comes from more fuel you have to carry with you and burn. Nuclear gets you orders of magnitude more energy density that you can dump into the exhaust with effectively no penalty other than the weight of the reactor, which grows much more slowly than an equivalent weight of chemical fuel would. That said, ain't no one building anything to go into space for under 30 million. This is more like research. I'd be surprised if any metal gets cut for anything other than individual component bench testing. TRL 1 type stuff.
Right up there with an antenna that short-circuited when held wrong (remember that?).
I remember when the extra 50% plus you paid for an Apple device over anyone else bought you quality of construction and good design. That was over a decade ago. These days? Keyboards on laptops with missing keys, phone screens that break or just plain don't work. But the fanboys will keep on fanboying, that I'm sure of.
Yes, but with a more realistic number of slots. No, there aren't thousands of Einsteins floating around out there, but there are, for example, thousands of foreign graduates from top US schools every year. Many are garbage, but many aren't and what good is it to piss them away with artificially low caps? Millions a year is too many. Hundreds a year is too few.
In the most optimistic reading, what'll be delivered is a working prototype. 26 million maybe pays for ten or twenty people. After four years, that could, in principle, be enough to field a working prototype. Maybe.