Urbanites who live in apartment buildings and condominiums are used to having landlords and maintenance staff come into their homes while they're out. Guess who works for Amazon.
Would you let your kids out in the red light district by themselves on a Friday night? No? Well...WTF are you using the internet as a substitute for parenting then? Yes? WTF were you not sterilized by court order?
partisans reasons like not wanting to pay for NOAA to have a set of satellites and again for the Air Force to have the same set of satellites, only on top of federal procurement nonsense they also have the added cost of military procurement nonsense. Not everything is about zOMG global warming. Just like not everything is about how there are really 57 genders.
It's going on near a decade that they haven't flown a manned mission. In the mean time, the Russians have kept flying and we have one reusable capsule that has flown a dozen times and is about to get its manned rating from NASA and two more in development to the tune of billions of dollars already spent and metal having been cut. Chinese? Not so much.
When facts fail, bring the insults. Another propaganda tactic one finds in ample supply at the MSM. Usually it's more politely phrased than this to maintain the figleaf of civilized discourse, but it's there.
That said, I'm feeling gregarious today so I'll respond to your insults with civil conversation and present an example of the kind of propaganda the MSM engages in all the damn time. The following NYT article contains a "minor factual error" that's not at all germane to the topic of the story: it refers to Philando Castille as "an unarmed black cafeteria worker" despite all sorts of reporting to the contrary that he was armed, informed the cop that he was armed, and was high as a kite at the time he reached down fast and sudden to grab his license. That's the sort of deviation from "perfection" that matters in context.
Wonderful thing about the internet is that the barrier to entry costs next to nothing. I literally pay 10 dollars a year for my website, and if I so chose could have all sorts of journalism there for only the cost of paying the reporters. Gone are the days when freedom of the press required owning a printing press. Suck it up, snowflakes.
Yeah. Not like any "real" news outlets. No innuendo or parade of anonymous sources telling stories on the hairy edge of believability. No factual errors that can't be debunked with a quick look at a map or consultation with a calculator. No sir.
make an effort to make a splashy exit the last day at work.
If the Fastest Delete Key In The West here had been working for Microsoft or Amazon and deleted a bunch of high profile clients' cloud accounts on his last day, he'd want a lawyer just the same. The fact that he only did it to one user and didn't cost anyone any real productivity is probably the one good thing he's got going for him.
Lots of businesses borrow money. Only a select few get blank checks from the federal government to take the ouch out of bad decisionmaking and avoid negative consequences for their leadership. Carmakers and bankers. And only the really big ones at that.
This is certainly true, but the but comes from the Boston area where I live and not one, not two, but three mid-sized (~10 storey) wood-framed structures burned last summer while under construction without having all of the fire suppression systems installed yet and a major fire in a densely built neighborhood of woodframed two-storey structures about a year ago. Apples and oranges to some extent, but something about building big and dense with wood sets off alarm bells.
I don't think you quite understand how fire works. Anything hot enough to melt steel will cause the wood to outgas its volatiles and add more fuel. Neither situation has a happy ending for the building.
Things cost money. In Gov-speak, 14 million pays for about 30-40 people, from janitors and secretaries and IT up to engineers and instrument scientists, plus office/lab space and IT. Probably includes communications costs. Most definitely includes the overhead (~30% probably) of doing business the Government way. That's a slightly above average number for operating a satellite but you've got to remember that it's not a run-of-the-mill comm bird; it's a one-of-a-kind instrument. One-of-a-kind anything costs money because it requires one-of-a-kind people who know how to run it. Maybe you can trim a million or so, but if government's gonna run it, that's how much it'll cost.
Now if this thing were fully privatized and handed off to an organization without FAR strings attached to the way they have to do business, they might be able to keep the same people, pay them about as much, but save a good portion of that overhead.
OK. Ford. Toyota. VW. BMW. Mercedes. Honda. Subaru. Or any of the other half-dozen companies that manufacture 100k+ cars in the US and didn't get a giant check from Uncle Sam for the privilege.
Of course it will. Who do you think built out all the power plants and railroads in the US, and in Britain? That's right, private sector companies, which at the time of construction were on the forefront of technology. Learn some history. Preferably the kind not written by Communists.
Offtopic, but I'll play: You're advocating a fool's crusade. The reason they're in high crime neighborhoods now is because the sort of people who live there are the ones committing the crimes. Move the projects into a million dollar school district and watch the crime go up. It's happened before the projects were built in the first place. North Philadelphia was a nice low-crime family neighborhood. In came the low-income people, up went the crime rate from them and people they're susceptible to being preyed on by. Like clockwork. Build the projects elsewhere, the same problems will follow.
Paying scientists high salaries is a societal problem now? I suppose the sun that makes plants grow and the rain that waters them is an environmental catastrophe then.
Slashdot Mirror
Maybe it's not the red light district, but it is a far cry from the playground down the street.
Urbanites who live in apartment buildings and condominiums are used to having landlords and maintenance staff come into their homes while they're out. Guess who works for Amazon.
Would you let your kids out in the red light district by themselves on a Friday night? No? Well...WTF are you using the internet as a substitute for parenting then? Yes? WTF were you not sterilized by court order?
And somehow I knew that this was a msmash post. Must be coincidence.
partisans reasons like not wanting to pay for NOAA to have a set of satellites and again for the Air Force to have the same set of satellites, only on top of federal procurement nonsense they also have the added cost of military procurement nonsense. Not everything is about zOMG global warming. Just like not everything is about how there are really 57 genders.
It's going on near a decade that they haven't flown a manned mission. In the mean time, the Russians have kept flying and we have one reusable capsule that has flown a dozen times and is about to get its manned rating from NASA and two more in development to the tune of billions of dollars already spent and metal having been cut. Chinese? Not so much.
When facts fail, bring the insults. Another propaganda tactic one finds in ample supply at the MSM. Usually it's more politely phrased than this to maintain the figleaf of civilized discourse, but it's there.
That said, I'm feeling gregarious today so I'll respond to your insults with civil conversation and present an example of the kind of propaganda the MSM engages in all the damn time. The following NYT article contains a "minor factual error" that's not at all germane to the topic of the story: it refers to Philando Castille as "an unarmed black cafeteria worker" despite all sorts of reporting to the contrary that he was armed, informed the cop that he was armed, and was high as a kite at the time he reached down fast and sudden to grab his license. That's the sort of deviation from "perfection" that matters in context.
Wonderful thing about the internet is that the barrier to entry costs next to nothing. I literally pay 10 dollars a year for my website, and if I so chose could have all sorts of journalism there for only the cost of paying the reporters. Gone are the days when freedom of the press required owning a printing press. Suck it up, snowflakes.
Though I guess it's hard to imagine that a left-wing news organization would be biased in favor of other left-wing journalists.
Puh-lease!
Yeah. Not like any "real" news outlets. No innuendo or parade of anonymous sources telling stories on the hairy edge of believability. No factual errors that can't be debunked with a quick look at a map or consultation with a calculator. No sir.
Not mangles. Ignores as is right and proper.
I don't know, MightyMartian. The answer depends on whether or not you've stopped beating your wife yet.
make an effort to make a splashy exit the last day at work.
If the Fastest Delete Key In The West here had been working for Microsoft or Amazon and deleted a bunch of high profile clients' cloud accounts on his last day, he'd want a lawyer just the same. The fact that he only did it to one user and didn't cost anyone any real productivity is probably the one good thing he's got going for him.
Lots of businesses borrow money. Only a select few get blank checks from the federal government to take the ouch out of bad decisionmaking and avoid negative consequences for their leadership. Carmakers and bankers. And only the really big ones at that.
Oil is a global market. Subsidies and taxes do absolutely nothing if the fundamentals make it cost-effective to drill and refine or not.
I believe the preferred troll-spelling is 'AmeriKKKa,' or at least that's what I recall from BHO's favorite pastor.
This is certainly true, but the but comes from the Boston area where I live and not one, not two, but three mid-sized (~10 storey) wood-framed structures burned last summer while under construction without having all of the fire suppression systems installed yet and a major fire in a densely built neighborhood of woodframed two-storey structures about a year ago. Apples and oranges to some extent, but something about building big and dense with wood sets off alarm bells.
Sand and sandstone are literally the most abundant materials on the Earth's crust. No one's running out.
The kind that makes money spreading termites or the kind that makes money killing them? Best to hedge and go for both I suppose...
I don't think you quite understand how fire works. Anything hot enough to melt steel will cause the wood to outgas its volatiles and add more fuel. Neither situation has a happy ending for the building.
Things cost money. In Gov-speak, 14 million pays for about 30-40 people, from janitors and secretaries and IT up to engineers and instrument scientists, plus office/lab space and IT. Probably includes communications costs. Most definitely includes the overhead (~30% probably) of doing business the Government way. That's a slightly above average number for operating a satellite but you've got to remember that it's not a run-of-the-mill comm bird; it's a one-of-a-kind instrument. One-of-a-kind anything costs money because it requires one-of-a-kind people who know how to run it. Maybe you can trim a million or so, but if government's gonna run it, that's how much it'll cost.
Now if this thing were fully privatized and handed off to an organization without FAR strings attached to the way they have to do business, they might be able to keep the same people, pay them about as much, but save a good portion of that overhead.
OK. Ford. Toyota. VW. BMW. Mercedes. Honda. Subaru. Or any of the other half-dozen companies that manufacture 100k+ cars in the US and didn't get a giant check from Uncle Sam for the privilege.
Of course it will. Who do you think built out all the power plants and railroads in the US, and in Britain? That's right, private sector companies, which at the time of construction were on the forefront of technology. Learn some history. Preferably the kind not written by Communists.
Offtopic, but I'll play: You're advocating a fool's crusade. The reason they're in high crime neighborhoods now is because the sort of people who live there are the ones committing the crimes. Move the projects into a million dollar school district and watch the crime go up. It's happened before the projects were built in the first place. North Philadelphia was a nice low-crime family neighborhood. In came the low-income people, up went the crime rate from them and people they're susceptible to being preyed on by. Like clockwork. Build the projects elsewhere, the same problems will follow.
Paying scientists high salaries is a societal problem now? I suppose the sun that makes plants grow and the rain that waters them is an environmental catastrophe then.