But is the true measure of productivity of a cruise ship actually passengers per mile?
Those ships seem to spend a non-trivial amount of time docked, anchored or otherwise acting as floating hotels.
At anchor or temporary moorings they probably run generators for power, so while probably huge in terms of consumption, it's a lot less than moving a vessel of that size through the water.
I'd guess the whole ship is a diesel-electric setup with electric pod drives; auxiliary power is likely used for low-speed maneuvering and at-anchor house power, the main engines used for house and cruising power.
Nobody owns land, they rent it from a unit of government that charges taxes for it. Fail to pay the taxes and your ownership is nullified.
You might get away with a subsistence living if you figured out how to meet your needs on a plot of land deemed worthless for some deficiency, such as its lack of water or arable soil. But now you're talking a more significant capital investment and you still haven't solved the tax problem, only minimized it.
Unlike organically generated domestic wealth which is both more dilute and has external incentives to stay within a geographic boundary, the collated wealth of a single foreign company is a poor base for domestic lending and bank capitalization.
For one, its held in cash and short-term, highly liquid securities, which means it has a high mobility risk. For another, a company like Apple doesn't hold its wealth in Ireland because of some significant tie to Ireland, they're there for their tax policy.
A domestic corporation in Ireland would have greater incentive to keep at least some of that wealth in Ireland.
If you were a bank with a single, large, high-cash foreign depositor it would be a substantial liquidity risk to start using their deposits as capital for longer term lending and investment. Apple may decide to spend it elsewhere or move it elsewhere which could trigger a liquidity crisis if they were to demand their deposits in a short time period and those deposits have been lent out. They have to come up with ways to match the invested funds with liquid assets to meet potential withdrawal scenarios.
Banks in the US have been charging negative interest on short-term deposits of US companies precisely for that reason -- holding billions in cash isn't really beneficial for bank capitalization.
If Apple stands to lose 20% or something to the US government for moving it home, what exactly is to stop Irish banks or the Irish government from charging 1-2% just to allow it to stay in Ireland? "International law" and the clubby bank operating agreements really aren't all that compelling as reasons. It may be that Apple already has agreements in place that they can't or won't withdraw more than N% of it from Irish banks in a short time period, which is pretty much the same thing as agreeing to pay points because it allows the Irish banks to use some of the capital without a liquidity risk.
At some point these overseas tax havens will start charging serious points for keeping the money out of the US tax man. It's obviously in their best interest to make keeping it in their country cheaper than paying taxes but there's always some risk of losing a significant chunk for political reasons where the US taxes are unpleasant but better than being bled out overseas.
You jest (I think), but you just know there are cynical politicians willing to take payoffs from cheap-labor demanding businesses while claiming we need to accept all these climate change refugees because it's the humane thing to do.
The e-cig world is no different than any other niche interest area.
There are always people with a knack for tinkering who want something better than the other guy, vendors willing to take their money, and people with more money than knowledge wanting to appear to be elite, and an entire online community to foment such a mindset.
I've seen it over and over. Computers. Gaming. Boats. Guns. Woodworking. Cars.
IMHO, the reality is there are dozens of simple, safe basic vaporizing setups that use cheap disposable parts that will work just fine for vaping. All the ones I've ever seen have batteries with auto shutoff that will cut out the power if the button is pressed too long.
But they don't produce the largest clouds of exhaled vapor nor do they look like a light saber in your hand, so they lack the status factor.
There are fairly uncommon stories of batteries catching fire and melting, but it doesn't strike me as having a frequency greater than cheap USB chargers and other cheap lithium powered devices. They all use the same cheap Chinese electronics supply chain and fail for the same reasons.
Wasn't that kind of the idea with AAA anyway? Timed fuses designed to saturate an air corridor with flak, and even some value in biasing to higher elevations as the flak would fall and at least represent some kind of hazard to aviation at lower altitudes?
I've always wondered to what extent bandwidth measurement sites worked to defeat ISPs gaming their sites.
When I would do this the old fashioned way with FTP, I would always use a test file built from garbage from/dev/random, run through DES a couple of times, and then run through gzip, trimmed to the size file I was willing work with. I wanted to make sure there was no possible redundancy in the data anywhere.
Do measurement sites even do this with their measurement data?
You would think they would want to download data that can be cryptographically verified n the client end to prevent ISPs from delivering dummy packets or forging the session to improve throughput and hide bottlenecks.
Ideally Netflix would be just using their own infrastructure in place to fetch a random chunk of video from their servers via the netflix.com domain name, so that from a network perspective it looked as much like a movie stream as possible. Maybe interleave non-video data with it from a separate source to validate that it isn't being affected by netflix-specific shaping.
They could go further down the rabbit hole and spin up short-lived AWS instances with AWS dynamically assigned IPs to provide the server end of testing to further thwart throttling or gaming of traffic.
I think PCM will have to cut costs to become price competitive with 3D NAND as primary storage in order to survive. I don't think it's cost or value proposition as some kind of buffer technology or DRAM augmentation will get it very far.
For better or for worse, the entire technology field is stuck in a DRAM/disk paradigm and no emerging storage technology (as in likely to be mass produced for consumption in 5 years) will be able to unify CPU and disk storage. If 3DXpoint lives to 100% of its hype, it might be useful for slow low power devices, but mostly you're talking about marginal gains at the extremes of low power consumption to cut out DRAM completely or reduce it.
And even if one unifying storage tech turned up that could, it would take years for operating systems, applications and users to restructure how they thought about and used a unified storage paradigm.
I read the "Rat Camp" experiment wikipedia page just yesterday and it seemed marginal as science, apparently the results weren't really reproducible or were attributed to genetic variations in rats susceptibility to drugs.
The science aside, the idea seems to have merit. People who are engaged in fulfilling social lives and have engaging work do seem less susceptible drug abuse. For one, they're less likely to be looking for an escape, since the majority of their time is spent in activities that provide positive emotional benefits. And the other is that they are more likely to shun drug experiences whose side effects detract from the social and emotional benefits of fulfilling social lives and meaningful work.
Since no life is perfect, they may be willing to engage in minimal drug use to the extent it either enhances their positive social and work life or ameliorates some negatives (ie, a small dose of a tranquilizing or pain reducing drug after a long day working at even a fulfilling job or a small dose of a drug that enhances their social relations, like alcohol or marijuana).
I think the reality is that as a rationalized, capitalistic society matures, life simply becomes less emotionally fulfilling on the whole. Social isolation, economic pressure, non-fulfilling work and so on all create a kind of misery that makes people more susceptible to drug abuse.
The rationale for drug screening never had much to do with impairment as most drugs are detectable for a day or two at most, except marijuana. And coworkers and managers have been spotting on the job impairment via behavioral changes as long as we've had organized jobs and alcohol and people drinking on/before work, although even there society had a high tolerance for work-related alcohol consumption in many white collar jobs.
Drug screening has almost always been at its root a political tool to economically marginalize left-wing radicals and other undesirable population groups associated with marijuana use by making it more difficult for them to obtain employment. Keep them marginalized economically and you inhibit their social and political power.
You might make some arguments about its benefits in a few critical transportation related fields, but at least once a year you read about *airline pilots* showing up to fly still drunk from the bender they were on the previous night. And those are the ones that got caught. I once orbited a social circle of airline pilots and many were hard-core drinkers who drank heavily. Although most respected the minimum time between a drink and flying, some didn't, and all drank at levels where it seemed unlikely the minimum time would be adequate to detoxify -- they just had the tolerance to drink until 1 AM and fly the next morning.
About the biggest benefit might be in the lowest range of employment, where employers hire for simple grunt labor in bulk from the bottom of the social barrel at rock-bottom wages and are trying to keep their employee base free of the worst of the worst without needing off-duty cops on the payroll to maintain order.
The thing is USB3 and 3.1 really aren't sub-optimal interfaces. USB 2 was, but 3 eliminated the interrupt problem and took it to 5 Gbps and 3.1 to 10 Gbps.
With this kind of bandwidth, I would kind of hope manufacturers would look to expand market penetration on some "enterprise" devices and realize that between the inexpensive, high speed connectors and operating system device virtualization that more devices could be effectively connected via USB3 without SCSI as a dependency.
I get the impression that this and IntelMicron's 3DXpoint are really meant to be replacements for current uses of SSD and most uses of disk.
I have the vague feeling that maximal price extraction will see 3DXpoint used in some cases as a caching layer between CPU and flash disk initially until manufacturing capacity ramps up and the production cost gets low enough to drive SSD flash out of the market, which it ought to based on performance alone.
Hopefully it will drop in price enough to kill off hard disk completely, SSD seems like its on the way there now for most use cases.
It would be nice to see an archival media oriented at home users -- something like LTO-6 levels of density and form factor, but with a friendlier interface like USB3(.1). Honestly, I have a hard time seeing why you couldn't run an LTO-6 drive off USB3 now. But the tapes and drives are awful expensive for non-enterprise use.
It's the cold weather. I mean, every spring I find myself slightly less able to recover from another winter. I think it makes you crazy. I know it makes you drink, the people I know from North Dakota drink in amounts that would make the drunks I know in Minneapolis blush, and the North Dakotans think its just the normal amount you drink.
I wonder if part of this is because Microsoft is so goddamn big that half of their products are made by teams who aren't in the same city, report through different hierarchies and the whole mess is so ungovernable they can't even set guidelines for user interface coherency across the whole mess.
It's the same way with Skype for Business, which we use at work. I never get any notifications unless I've had the app opened very recently, which really suck as its now our phone system interface, too.
Basics products are pretty good, especially USB cables and dog poop bags.
But what I'm getting tired of are the 47 sellers selling the same Chinese knock-off products to the point where it's hard to tell the products apart. And so many are flooded with bogus reviews, and I'd swear there are a handful of fake negative reviews to make it seem believable.
I recently bought a set of knockoff Anderson Powerpole high current connectors for a battery project and they sucked. Positive pins didn't lock up and while I was using it with #4 welding cable it was obvious the terminals wouldn't accept #2 wire as advertised. I ended up returning them, but of course not before crimping in all my custom length #4 cable.
Fortunately Amazon makes returns trivial and I ended up tracking down a non-Amazon site that sells the actual Anderson PowerPole connectors, ironically for the same money before shipping, but because what I bought was low quality Chinese knock-offs, I've lost a week and a half on this project due to parts.
Don't get me wrong, I think the pranks pulled on her, especially the dummy one were pretty awful and I had nothing to do with them.
This teacher, though, shouldn't have been in a classroom. Like I said, there was something *wrong* with her from a mental health perspective from day 1. She was really uptight and her weird rigidity wasn't just targeted at the outright disruptive kids, everybody got a taste of it.
It should have been obvious to the principal who hired her. It's been 30 years, so I'm not sure if this is a real memory or not but I seem to recall her ending up at our school because she had been institutionalized or hospitalized for nervous problem previously.
And it was the worst teacher I had in high school and the most disruptive classroom, even though the student body mix was no worse than most other required classes.
We had a World History teacher in 11th grade who I think had psychological problems. I don't know what her problem is other than saying she was wound about 5 turns too tight and one of those people who pretty much has "victim" tattooed on their forehead -- even I saw it, and I was an obey-the-rules type.
Anyway, her personality basically invited the bad kids to torment her, and they did, mercilessly. The fucking assistant principal, who looked like Rosie Grier and was really intimidating, was in our classroom about twice a week, which sucked, because he was an asshole to everyone, including people like me who never got in trouble.
Finally somebody disobeyed her and she got mad and this kid walked out of the classroom. Put their shirt on a dummy and threw it out of the classroom window one floor up. Lots of yelling out the window and then the dummy thrown out the window.
Of course she and everyone in class saw it fall past the window. She looked out and then left the classroom. Permanently. The story was she had a nervous breakdown and got some kind of indefinite medical leave.
I think you're on the right path and I really want to comment but I'm too darned afraid of being dragged out of bed in the middle of the night or put on some kind of a watch list.
I think at a certain point you have to accept some of the blame for the people or contractors you hire to do a job. It's too convenient to say "they were contractors".
IMO, you're right -- but at the same time, I think there's something reasonable about it because Musk and Tesla are so often lauded as geniuses and the stars of the new, beard-and-flannel friendly economy yet are still ultimately contributing to the visa abuse game.
If Musk is going to bask in the glow of inventing the electric car, then he has to accept the blame for participating in visa abuse, too.
I don't think it's an operating system anymore, it's generation 1 of the customer engagement interface.
I don't know how they'll deal with this at the business level. Really small businesses that buy PCs with Windows preinstalled probably will be told to just stuff it up their asses, most won't switch to Linux or MacOS due to software dependencies and other issues. Which is part of MS plan, obviously, to be able to provide advertising "reach" to the business demographic and not just the hapless home users.
Larger businesses will be told they can buy enterprise licenses where these features are off by default and/or see the 10 page technet document on 47 changes that can be made at each workstation to disable these features. Microsoft will end up using added features as a way to extract more money from customers who don't want those features.
More businesses that wouldn't ordinarily want enterprise will end up buying it at greater cost and probably more than a few double-buying Windows by buying enterprise volume licenses to image over the Pro version it shipped with.
Maybe I'm just too naive to understand the MBA financial model behind all of this, but it strikes me that had Microsoft consolidated their desktop operating system into a single edition around the time of XP or 7 and stopped trying to use it as a marketing platform they would have a lot more end user good will. Why they're choosing to lose even more good will by force-feeding their marketing platform when alternatives are more prevalent than ever (linux, mac os, saas, cloud, mobile, etc etc etc) is mystifying to me.
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But is the true measure of productivity of a cruise ship actually passengers per mile?
Those ships seem to spend a non-trivial amount of time docked, anchored or otherwise acting as floating hotels.
At anchor or temporary moorings they probably run generators for power, so while probably huge in terms of consumption, it's a lot less than moving a vessel of that size through the water.
I'd guess the whole ship is a diesel-electric setup with electric pod drives; auxiliary power is likely used for low-speed maneuvering and at-anchor house power, the main engines used for house and cruising power.
Nobody owns land, they rent it from a unit of government that charges taxes for it. Fail to pay the taxes and your ownership is nullified.
You might get away with a subsistence living if you figured out how to meet your needs on a plot of land deemed worthless for some deficiency, such as its lack of water or arable soil. But now you're talking a more significant capital investment and you still haven't solved the tax problem, only minimized it.
Unlike organically generated domestic wealth which is both more dilute and has external incentives to stay within a geographic boundary, the collated wealth of a single foreign company is a poor base for domestic lending and bank capitalization.
For one, its held in cash and short-term, highly liquid securities, which means it has a high mobility risk. For another, a company like Apple doesn't hold its wealth in Ireland because of some significant tie to Ireland, they're there for their tax policy.
A domestic corporation in Ireland would have greater incentive to keep at least some of that wealth in Ireland.
If you were a bank with a single, large, high-cash foreign depositor it would be a substantial liquidity risk to start using their deposits as capital for longer term lending and investment. Apple may decide to spend it elsewhere or move it elsewhere which could trigger a liquidity crisis if they were to demand their deposits in a short time period and those deposits have been lent out. They have to come up with ways to match the invested funds with liquid assets to meet potential withdrawal scenarios.
Banks in the US have been charging negative interest on short-term deposits of US companies precisely for that reason -- holding billions in cash isn't really beneficial for bank capitalization.
If Apple stands to lose 20% or something to the US government for moving it home, what exactly is to stop Irish banks or the Irish government from charging 1-2% just to allow it to stay in Ireland? "International law" and the clubby bank operating agreements really aren't all that compelling as reasons. It may be that Apple already has agreements in place that they can't or won't withdraw more than N% of it from Irish banks in a short time period, which is pretty much the same thing as agreeing to pay points because it allows the Irish banks to use some of the capital without a liquidity risk.
At some point these overseas tax havens will start charging serious points for keeping the money out of the US tax man. It's obviously in their best interest to make keeping it in their country cheaper than paying taxes but there's always some risk of losing a significant chunk for political reasons where the US taxes are unpleasant but better than being bled out overseas.
You jest (I think), but you just know there are cynical politicians willing to take payoffs from cheap-labor demanding businesses while claiming we need to accept all these climate change refugees because it's the humane thing to do.
The e-cig world is no different than any other niche interest area.
There are always people with a knack for tinkering who want something better than the other guy, vendors willing to take their money, and people with more money than knowledge wanting to appear to be elite, and an entire online community to foment such a mindset.
I've seen it over and over. Computers. Gaming. Boats. Guns. Woodworking. Cars.
IMHO, the reality is there are dozens of simple, safe basic vaporizing setups that use cheap disposable parts that will work just fine for vaping. All the ones I've ever seen have batteries with auto shutoff that will cut out the power if the button is pressed too long.
But they don't produce the largest clouds of exhaled vapor nor do they look like a light saber in your hand, so they lack the status factor.
There are fairly uncommon stories of batteries catching fire and melting, but it doesn't strike me as having a frequency greater than cheap USB chargers and other cheap lithium powered devices. They all use the same cheap Chinese electronics supply chain and fail for the same reasons.
Wasn't that kind of the idea with AAA anyway? Timed fuses designed to saturate an air corridor with flak, and even some value in biasing to higher elevations as the flak would fall and at least represent some kind of hazard to aviation at lower altitudes?
I could have guessed #2 would be the case, but do you have any idea what (or how to calculate) what the actual electrical output improvement would be?
And I mean solar geeks in the nicest way.
For a given panel of 1 sq m, how does the actual electricity output of this cell compare to:
1) The best mass produced, commercially available panel?
2) A run of the mill generic panel?
It sounds groovy but is the likely increased cost worth the electric output increase for any but the most niche application?
I've always wondered to what extent bandwidth measurement sites worked to defeat ISPs gaming their sites.
When I would do this the old fashioned way with FTP, I would always use a test file built from garbage from /dev/random, run through DES a couple of times, and then run through gzip, trimmed to the size file I was willing work with. I wanted to make sure there was no possible redundancy in the data anywhere.
Do measurement sites even do this with their measurement data?
You would think they would want to download data that can be cryptographically verified n the client end to prevent ISPs from delivering dummy packets or forging the session to improve throughput and hide bottlenecks.
Ideally Netflix would be just using their own infrastructure in place to fetch a random chunk of video from their servers via the netflix.com domain name, so that from a network perspective it looked as much like a movie stream as possible. Maybe interleave non-video data with it from a separate source to validate that it isn't being affected by netflix-specific shaping.
They could go further down the rabbit hole and spin up short-lived AWS instances with AWS dynamically assigned IPs to provide the server end of testing to further thwart throttling or gaming of traffic.
I think PCM will have to cut costs to become price competitive with 3D NAND as primary storage in order to survive. I don't think it's cost or value proposition as some kind of buffer technology or DRAM augmentation will get it very far.
For better or for worse, the entire technology field is stuck in a DRAM/disk paradigm and no emerging storage technology (as in likely to be mass produced for consumption in 5 years) will be able to unify CPU and disk storage. If 3DXpoint lives to 100% of its hype, it might be useful for slow low power devices, but mostly you're talking about marginal gains at the extremes of low power consumption to cut out DRAM completely or reduce it.
And even if one unifying storage tech turned up that could, it would take years for operating systems, applications and users to restructure how they thought about and used a unified storage paradigm.
I read the "Rat Camp" experiment wikipedia page just yesterday and it seemed marginal as science, apparently the results weren't really reproducible or were attributed to genetic variations in rats susceptibility to drugs.
The science aside, the idea seems to have merit. People who are engaged in fulfilling social lives and have engaging work do seem less susceptible drug abuse. For one, they're less likely to be looking for an escape, since the majority of their time is spent in activities that provide positive emotional benefits. And the other is that they are more likely to shun drug experiences whose side effects detract from the social and emotional benefits of fulfilling social lives and meaningful work.
Since no life is perfect, they may be willing to engage in minimal drug use to the extent it either enhances their positive social and work life or ameliorates some negatives (ie, a small dose of a tranquilizing or pain reducing drug after a long day working at even a fulfilling job or a small dose of a drug that enhances their social relations, like alcohol or marijuana).
I think the reality is that as a rationalized, capitalistic society matures, life simply becomes less emotionally fulfilling on the whole. Social isolation, economic pressure, non-fulfilling work and so on all create a kind of misery that makes people more susceptible to drug abuse.
The rationale for drug screening never had much to do with impairment as most drugs are detectable for a day or two at most, except marijuana. And coworkers and managers have been spotting on the job impairment via behavioral changes as long as we've had organized jobs and alcohol and people drinking on/before work, although even there society had a high tolerance for work-related alcohol consumption in many white collar jobs.
Drug screening has almost always been at its root a political tool to economically marginalize left-wing radicals and other undesirable population groups associated with marijuana use by making it more difficult for them to obtain employment. Keep them marginalized economically and you inhibit their social and political power.
You might make some arguments about its benefits in a few critical transportation related fields, but at least once a year you read about *airline pilots* showing up to fly still drunk from the bender they were on the previous night. And those are the ones that got caught. I once orbited a social circle of airline pilots and many were hard-core drinkers who drank heavily. Although most respected the minimum time between a drink and flying, some didn't, and all drank at levels where it seemed unlikely the minimum time would be adequate to detoxify -- they just had the tolerance to drink until 1 AM and fly the next morning.
About the biggest benefit might be in the lowest range of employment, where employers hire for simple grunt labor in bulk from the bottom of the social barrel at rock-bottom wages and are trying to keep their employee base free of the worst of the worst without needing off-duty cops on the payroll to maintain order.
The thing is USB3 and 3.1 really aren't sub-optimal interfaces. USB 2 was, but 3 eliminated the interrupt problem and took it to 5 Gbps and 3.1 to 10 Gbps.
With this kind of bandwidth, I would kind of hope manufacturers would look to expand market penetration on some "enterprise" devices and realize that between the inexpensive, high speed connectors and operating system device virtualization that more devices could be effectively connected via USB3 without SCSI as a dependency.
I get the impression that this and IntelMicron's 3DXpoint are really meant to be replacements for current uses of SSD and most uses of disk.
I have the vague feeling that maximal price extraction will see 3DXpoint used in some cases as a caching layer between CPU and flash disk initially until manufacturing capacity ramps up and the production cost gets low enough to drive SSD flash out of the market, which it ought to based on performance alone.
Hopefully it will drop in price enough to kill off hard disk completely, SSD seems like its on the way there now for most use cases.
It would be nice to see an archival media oriented at home users -- something like LTO-6 levels of density and form factor, but with a friendlier interface like USB3(.1). Honestly, I have a hard time seeing why you couldn't run an LTO-6 drive off USB3 now. But the tapes and drives are awful expensive for non-enterprise use.
It's the cold weather. I mean, every spring I find myself slightly less able to recover from another winter. I think it makes you crazy. I know it makes you drink, the people I know from North Dakota drink in amounts that would make the drunks I know in Minneapolis blush, and the North Dakotans think its just the normal amount you drink.
I wonder if part of this is because Microsoft is so goddamn big that half of their products are made by teams who aren't in the same city, report through different hierarchies and the whole mess is so ungovernable they can't even set guidelines for user interface coherency across the whole mess.
It's the same way with Skype for Business, which we use at work. I never get any notifications unless I've had the app opened very recently, which really suck as its now our phone system interface, too.
Basics products are pretty good, especially USB cables and dog poop bags.
But what I'm getting tired of are the 47 sellers selling the same Chinese knock-off products to the point where it's hard to tell the products apart. And so many are flooded with bogus reviews, and I'd swear there are a handful of fake negative reviews to make it seem believable.
I recently bought a set of knockoff Anderson Powerpole high current connectors for a battery project and they sucked. Positive pins didn't lock up and while I was using it with #4 welding cable it was obvious the terminals wouldn't accept #2 wire as advertised. I ended up returning them, but of course not before crimping in all my custom length #4 cable.
Fortunately Amazon makes returns trivial and I ended up tracking down a non-Amazon site that sells the actual Anderson PowerPole connectors, ironically for the same money before shipping, but because what I bought was low quality Chinese knock-offs, I've lost a week and a half on this project due to parts.
Don't get me wrong, I think the pranks pulled on her, especially the dummy one were pretty awful and I had nothing to do with them.
This teacher, though, shouldn't have been in a classroom. Like I said, there was something *wrong* with her from a mental health perspective from day 1. She was really uptight and her weird rigidity wasn't just targeted at the outright disruptive kids, everybody got a taste of it.
It should have been obvious to the principal who hired her. It's been 30 years, so I'm not sure if this is a real memory or not but I seem to recall her ending up at our school because she had been institutionalized or hospitalized for nervous problem previously.
And it was the worst teacher I had in high school and the most disruptive classroom, even though the student body mix was no worse than most other required classes.
We had a World History teacher in 11th grade who I think had psychological problems. I don't know what her problem is other than saying she was wound about 5 turns too tight and one of those people who pretty much has "victim" tattooed on their forehead -- even I saw it, and I was an obey-the-rules type.
Anyway, her personality basically invited the bad kids to torment her, and they did, mercilessly. The fucking assistant principal, who looked like Rosie Grier and was really intimidating, was in our classroom about twice a week, which sucked, because he was an asshole to everyone, including people like me who never got in trouble.
Finally somebody disobeyed her and she got mad and this kid walked out of the classroom. Put their shirt on a dummy and threw it out of the classroom window one floor up. Lots of yelling out the window and then the dummy thrown out the window.
Of course she and everyone in class saw it fall past the window. She looked out and then left the classroom. Permanently. The story was she had a nervous breakdown and got some kind of indefinite medical leave.
I think you're on the right path and I really want to comment but I'm too darned afraid of being dragged out of bed in the middle of the night or put on some kind of a watch list.
I think at a certain point you have to accept some of the blame for the people or contractors you hire to do a job. It's too convenient to say "they were contractors".
IMO, you're right -- but at the same time, I think there's something reasonable about it because Musk and Tesla are so often lauded as geniuses and the stars of the new, beard-and-flannel friendly economy yet are still ultimately contributing to the visa abuse game.
If Musk is going to bask in the glow of inventing the electric car, then he has to accept the blame for participating in visa abuse, too.
I don't think it's an operating system anymore, it's generation 1 of the customer engagement interface.
I don't know how they'll deal with this at the business level. Really small businesses that buy PCs with Windows preinstalled probably will be told to just stuff it up their asses, most won't switch to Linux or MacOS due to software dependencies and other issues. Which is part of MS plan, obviously, to be able to provide advertising "reach" to the business demographic and not just the hapless home users.
Larger businesses will be told they can buy enterprise licenses where these features are off by default and/or see the 10 page technet document on 47 changes that can be made at each workstation to disable these features. Microsoft will end up using added features as a way to extract more money from customers who don't want those features.
More businesses that wouldn't ordinarily want enterprise will end up buying it at greater cost and probably more than a few double-buying Windows by buying enterprise volume licenses to image over the Pro version it shipped with.
Maybe I'm just too naive to understand the MBA financial model behind all of this, but it strikes me that had Microsoft consolidated their desktop operating system into a single edition around the time of XP or 7 and stopped trying to use it as a marketing platform they would have a lot more end user good will. Why they're choosing to lose even more good will by force-feeding their marketing platform when alternatives are more prevalent than ever (linux, mac os, saas, cloud, mobile, etc etc etc) is mystifying to me.