That's shortsighted. Science can't do much if you don't use it to guide policy, which, drum rolls, is politics. You can't divorce the two without severely hampering science's ability to improve our daily lives and without making politics an even bigger shithole than it already is.
Hell, politics would be an awful lot better if politicians were driven by scientific results instead of baseless ideologies.
CurrentC is fighting against another thing though: the existing plastic credit cards. Scanning a QR code is far more awkward than just pulling out the bloody card from your wallet and waving it above the RFID sensor.
I think most Europeans think they have cold winters, but they don't really know what "winter" means. Hint: if your entire country gets paralyzed by less than 30cm of snow, you don't get bad winters. If you rarely dip below zero Celsius during daytime, you don't get bad winters.
It always amuses me to see French exchange students arrive here. The ones with a modicum of sense will have talked with people here so they'd get good winter gear ASAP, but a few think that they're used to the cold. Then they get their first -25C in January.
We're talking about children here, not post-docs. We should all hope that children get a slightly better understanding of the core sciences, it'd be a significant help in dismantling once and for all a lot of the bullshit that gets thrown around (hello intelligent design!). This in no way means that they should all be applying for a physics undergrad degree, but they should certainly have enough of an education in the subject prior to university to be able to make an informed choice as to whether they want to go there or not.
If the diversity of resumes is significantly different from the makeup of the community, then the company has obligations under Affirmative Action to actively seek resumes of underrepresented minorities.
I think that should be the first thing to investigate: is the diversity of resumes diferent from the makeup of the community? As a student in comp sci, I can tell you that thus far I've seen an overwhelming majority of white males. Women are rare, blacks are rare, hispanics are rare, even asians are rare. I don't claim this to be representative, but I think we should start at the source instead of blaming a company for it. If the job seekers of that particular ethnicity/gender just aren't there, what are they going to do?
Are you this thick as not to realize that WE, humans, would win? Do you not see that pollution is harmful to all species, us included? Sure, right now most of climate change doesn't affect you. It probably won't affect you in the next decades either. Heck, you might even die before it does anything serious to you personally.
But if nothing is done, millions will be affected. How many will die is hard to say. What is sure is that selfish and mind-numbingly blind people like you are harming our world's future. I don't know about you, but I'd rather not leave as legacy a contaminated wasteland.
The reason that the UN focuses on the US and Europe is that we are the developed nations. We are the West. We should be leading by example, otherwise why the fuck would the newcomers on the scene bother? They've not had the chance to enjoy careless pollution for decades like the US has, and you want to tell them that the US can keep fucking things over because it's not the biggest polluter? Seriously?
If the US were doing their part, it'd put more pressure on the rest of the world. It'd make them able to help other countries build clean infrastructure. Instead, they act as the black sheep, the dissenting opinion which developing countries can point at to justify them not doing anything. And despite all of this, China is in fact doing things. Pollution has become a serious issue and they're working towards solving it with billions of dollars a year. In twenty years, if all else remains equal, I expect China to be significantly more advanced in green tech than the US. Perfect? No. But no one's asking for perfection, just willingness to put the world's fate before your own petty politics.
The reason it matters is that if we are at cause, then we also are able to fix the problem. If this is all part of a natural cycle and we only have a negligible impact, then cutting our emissions would be insufficient and we would have to scramble to find another solution.
In many ways, confirmation that man is the major causal factor in global warming should be seen as good news. It means we have the power to fix it.
This. School often ends at 3 in the afternoon anyway, so why not shift everything one hour off? As it is the students are ending up stuck at school after classes doing homework or whatever because the parents aren't home.
This comes from an "anti-systemd" source, but tries to cut through a lot of the controversy and hostility shown on both sides. Bear in mind, you only see the anti-systemd view on Slashdot, but you get just as much idiocy on the other side as well. For example, the Poettering "death threats" were actually a "joke" made by a bunch of people in an IRC channel. Here, read the log (ctrl-F "hitman"):
http://logs.nslu2-linux.org/li...
FTFY. Sorry, there are some things which just are not funny, and if we're gonna condemn idiots like Sam Biddle who tweet "bring back bullying" and other such nonsense (hint: the backlash was rather large), we should also condemn people "jokingly" saying they're gonna put a hitman on anyone.
I have it on good authority that all houses have, usually very early in their history, crashed to the ground. Apparently most of them can't even be dislodged!
And last but by no means least: the trend is set well enough that you don't want to be trailing behind. You want to be the one others depend on for their new tech, not the reverse.
I was downvoted in the last comments section about this, but I'll say it again: this is exactly the sort of thing Harper was looking for. It's exactly the sort of incident which plays into his agenda and it'll give him leverage to instigate further draconian security measures, when the actual solution would be to invest in better mental health coverage.
A lot of people don't want to see this. You can see the assumption everywhere here: those displaced workers will just find another job! Well no, at some point they won't. Automation is well on its way to eliminate certain types of jobs entirely and not all of those people will be able to find new jobs elsewhere. Even if they were to educate themselves, they'd come into a job pool which is already too small for the number of applicants, so at best they'd cause wages to go down and conditions to worsen (since corporations can pick and choose). That's assuming they can, which, especially in the US, usually involves thousands and thousands of dollars on something with no guarantee of a return on investment.
We're headed straight into a wall where we'll have people without any skills we need and who are unable, financially or otherwise, to gain desirable skills, as well as higher unemployment across the board. We can't wish them away and they deserve decency as much as the next person.
I rarely go to McD's but a fairly recent improvement I saw was the addition of screens to show your current order in the drivethrough. Significantly reduces the probability of a bad order and most definitely didn't exist in the '50s.
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That's shortsighted. Science can't do much if you don't use it to guide policy, which, drum rolls, is politics. You can't divorce the two without severely hampering science's ability to improve our daily lives and without making politics an even bigger shithole than it already is.
Hell, politics would be an awful lot better if politicians were driven by scientific results instead of baseless ideologies.
CurrentC is fighting against another thing though: the existing plastic credit cards. Scanning a QR code is far more awkward than just pulling out the bloody card from your wallet and waving it above the RFID sensor.
I think most Europeans think they have cold winters, but they don't really know what "winter" means. Hint: if your entire country gets paralyzed by less than 30cm of snow, you don't get bad winters. If you rarely dip below zero Celsius during daytime, you don't get bad winters.
It always amuses me to see French exchange students arrive here. The ones with a modicum of sense will have talked with people here so they'd get good winter gear ASAP, but a few think that they're used to the cold. Then they get their first -25C in January.
Whoosh.
We're talking about children here, not post-docs. We should all hope that children get a slightly better understanding of the core sciences, it'd be a significant help in dismantling once and for all a lot of the bullshit that gets thrown around (hello intelligent design!). This in no way means that they should all be applying for a physics undergrad degree, but they should certainly have enough of an education in the subject prior to university to be able to make an informed choice as to whether they want to go there or not.
If the diversity of resumes is significantly different from the makeup of the community, then the company has obligations under Affirmative Action to actively seek resumes of underrepresented minorities.
I think that should be the first thing to investigate: is the diversity of resumes diferent from the makeup of the community? As a student in comp sci, I can tell you that thus far I've seen an overwhelming majority of white males. Women are rare, blacks are rare, hispanics are rare, even asians are rare. I don't claim this to be representative, but I think we should start at the source instead of blaming a company for it. If the job seekers of that particular ethnicity/gender just aren't there, what are they going to do?
Are you this thick as not to realize that WE, humans, would win? Do you not see that pollution is harmful to all species, us included? Sure, right now most of climate change doesn't affect you. It probably won't affect you in the next decades either. Heck, you might even die before it does anything serious to you personally.
But if nothing is done, millions will be affected. How many will die is hard to say. What is sure is that selfish and mind-numbingly blind people like you are harming our world's future. I don't know about you, but I'd rather not leave as legacy a contaminated wasteland.
The reason that the UN focuses on the US and Europe is that we are the developed nations. We are the West. We should be leading by example, otherwise why the fuck would the newcomers on the scene bother? They've not had the chance to enjoy careless pollution for decades like the US has, and you want to tell them that the US can keep fucking things over because it's not the biggest polluter? Seriously?
If the US were doing their part, it'd put more pressure on the rest of the world. It'd make them able to help other countries build clean infrastructure. Instead, they act as the black sheep, the dissenting opinion which developing countries can point at to justify them not doing anything. And despite all of this, China is in fact doing things. Pollution has become a serious issue and they're working towards solving it with billions of dollars a year. In twenty years, if all else remains equal, I expect China to be significantly more advanced in green tech than the US. Perfect? No. But no one's asking for perfection, just willingness to put the world's fate before your own petty politics.
The reason it matters is that if we are at cause, then we also are able to fix the problem. If this is all part of a natural cycle and we only have a negligible impact, then cutting our emissions would be insufficient and we would have to scramble to find another solution.
In many ways, confirmation that man is the major causal factor in global warming should be seen as good news. It means we have the power to fix it.
And yet another perfect solution fallacy, ladies and gentlemen.
This. School often ends at 3 in the afternoon anyway, so why not shift everything one hour off? As it is the students are ending up stuck at school after classes doing homework or whatever because the parents aren't home.
http://uselessd.darknedgy.net/ProSystemdAntiSystemd/
This comes from an "anti-systemd" source, but tries to cut through a lot of the controversy and hostility shown on both sides. Bear in mind, you only see the anti-systemd view on Slashdot, but you get just as much idiocy on the other side as well. For example, the Poettering "death threats" were actually a "joke" made by a bunch of people in an IRC channel. Here, read the log (ctrl-F "hitman"): http://logs.nslu2-linux.org/li...
FTFY. Sorry, there are some things which just are not funny, and if we're gonna condemn idiots like Sam Biddle who tweet "bring back bullying" and other such nonsense (hint: the backlash was rather large), we should also condemn people "jokingly" saying they're gonna put a hitman on anyone.
Wait, so you're telling me that Jesus flew down to Earth in the Heart of Gold?
Or alternatively, the old adage, Hanlon's razor: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
It's even worse when you notice that their tagline is "Innovation You Can Count On."
Well over half the Steam hardware survey's machines have 4GB or more. A 32-bit OS means you can't actually leverage that amount.
If your biggest concern is running 16-bit applications, then stick with XP. Don't drag everyone else down because you're stuck on antiquated software.
I have it on good authority that all houses have, usually very early in their history, crashed to the ground. Apparently most of them can't even be dislodged!
Sure, but only if I can get a tax credit for 50% the price of my next house. I mean, if the house was not sold, there wouldn't be any tax revenue.
America's response to that is: can I make money off it next quarter? No? Not interested.
And last but by no means least: the trend is set well enough that you don't want to be trailing behind. You want to be the one others depend on for their new tech, not the reverse.
As a general rule, I consider that if you're being criticized by all sides, you're pretty much spot on.
I was downvoted in the last comments section about this, but I'll say it again: this is exactly the sort of thing Harper was looking for. It's exactly the sort of incident which plays into his agenda and it'll give him leverage to instigate further draconian security measures, when the actual solution would be to invest in better mental health coverage.
A lot of people don't want to see this. You can see the assumption everywhere here: those displaced workers will just find another job! Well no, at some point they won't. Automation is well on its way to eliminate certain types of jobs entirely and not all of those people will be able to find new jobs elsewhere. Even if they were to educate themselves, they'd come into a job pool which is already too small for the number of applicants, so at best they'd cause wages to go down and conditions to worsen (since corporations can pick and choose). That's assuming they can, which, especially in the US, usually involves thousands and thousands of dollars on something with no guarantee of a return on investment.
We're headed straight into a wall where we'll have people without any skills we need and who are unable, financially or otherwise, to gain desirable skills, as well as higher unemployment across the board. We can't wish them away and they deserve decency as much as the next person.
I rarely go to McD's but a fairly recent improvement I saw was the addition of screens to show your current order in the drivethrough. Significantly reduces the probability of a bad order and most definitely didn't exist in the '50s.