Did untold damage. Operating overheads went through the roof, and it is now virtually impossible to do small well focused work (at least in many divisions). CSIRO has seen it' 80th birthday, but unless things change I won't be holding my breath for a centenary.
It's nice to know that some country other than the US is screwing up one of its premier research institutions. On second thought, no it's not.
I think your translation is a bit off. What he is saying is that...
That there is so much room for debate says much about the clarity of the writing. In practice it means whatever somebody wants it to mean, which means that it means nothing.
. . . means 9 hours of no light pollution. Awesome, for watching the amazing aurora borealis! No TV? No Internet? Get outside, and look at a sky that you will never see again!
Thank you for listing the ways in which self-regulation doesn't work. If it worked, then all those penalties should have been more than enough for them not to be so careless with the ship. The idea of regulation is to prevent problems, not to factor into some after the fact "they'll pay their dues" calculus.
The theory about self-regulation works just fine. It just doesn't stand up so well, when governments step in and bail out the industries and or insurance companies.
Then I guess it worked real well in the 19th century, when governments didn't step in and bail out the industries and or insurance companies. Except it didn't.
Oh, I know, I know! It works in the Platonic ideal of a libertarian paradise! To the extent that it doesn't work in our reality, it cannot not mean that there is anything wrong with the theory. Rather it must mean that we've deviated from that ideal world in some way, and must pay for our sins.
Libertarianism: being based on axioms, how can it be wrong?!
Then it's a hell of a coincidence that I know all of them. Antenna design is no more cookbook that any other part of engineering, and possibly less. Sure there aren't many guys named Yagi coming up with completely new approaches, but there aren't many guys named Bob Widlar coming up with completely new analog ckt concepts either.
If anything antenna design has become more difficult because everybody wants to squish antennas into funny packages like cell phones. When was the last time you saw a rubber duckie? Tuning and optimizing such things is an amazing amount of work. I always sorta knew that, but didn't realize how involved it was until my current job, where I have the pleasure of working with some excellent antenna engineers. There's also an explosion of previously exotic (mostly mil) techniques into commercial work, like phased arrays.
Finally an honest statement. Why didn't you just say that in the first place and skip all the apologist drivel?
knows how much american management cares about patriotism
Say it ain't so! I feel so naive now having believed that they were really beneficent job creators.
I expect scum to be scum. The things that bothers me is that this is enabled by an utterly corrupt government that does nothing to represent the interests of the vast majority of its citizens.
What i'm trying to say is really simple, the person that will take your job, will do it anyway regardless of where in the world he or she is, it's not like that person will no longer exist if H1Bs disappear.... But if you can manage to lure the talented individuals to your country... they'll flock to your country and your industry and your jobs will be benefitted in the long term, because you will get less cheaper competition outside, allowing you to keep your high income.
That's one of the oldest and most ridiculous rationalizations for the H-1B that there is. Any job that can be outsourced will be, and likely already has been, outsourced, because no matter how much H-1B's drive down American salaries, it's still cheaper to employ someone in a 3rd world country. Outsourcing and H-1B's are not substitutes for each other.
"Will get less cheaper competition outside, allowing you to keep your high income" is completely nonsensical. What you're saying is that Americans can keep their (comparatively) high incomes by giving up their (comparatively) high paying jobs. It reminds me of the classic line from the Vietnam war: we had to destroy the village in order to save it.
Furthermore you failed to address my point about Economics 101: if a country is uncompetitive, that can and should be rectified by a lower exchange rate.
keep with the xenophobia, no one in America believed that Asians could do electronics, or the Japanese cars
WTF? Do you even know the meaning of the word xenophobia? It means fear of strangers, as in the people themselves. What the hell does that have to do with a concern with getting screwed by US government policies? That's a domestic outfit you know. I don't know whether you don't understand the meaning of that word, or have just been taught to use it reflexively as a smear. The latter is helpful if you have no real arguments.
As for "no one in America believed that Asians could do electronics, or the Japanese cars", I have no idea where you get this idiocy. Maybe that was true of some people in America in the 1940's, but that was a while ago. Do try and keep up with the times.
I'd prefer a battery fire than exploding engines a la A380.
Only the Rolls-Royce engines do that. The Engine Alliance (GE/Pratt-Whitney consortium) engines work just fine. Nice to know we still make something that works.
In a perfect world I would say that we should consider any kind of campaign contributions from anyone to be evil, but what's the alternative? Force people to donate to all campaigns (i.e. public funding)?
Yes, and it's not a radical approach either. It's pretty close to what the People's Republic of Arizona had before the Supreme Court decided that bribery = speech. It's also used in many other countries. Representative government is supposed to depend on the votes of its citizens, 1 person = 1 vote, not $1M = 1 vote. The fact that the best system in the country was adopted by one of the reddest states shows that this is not a left vs. right issue, but a question of whether you believe in representative government or in plutocracy.
Thanks Boeing, for helping to kill yet another once great American company and put another stake in the heart of American industry. Don't forget to give yourselves a big executive bonus.
I only knew a couple of EE guys, but they were in similar situations (that is, they didn't have problems finding employment).
Was that in the San Diego area? I'm curious, because there are family reasons why I might want to move there in the future. Wonder what the market is for experienced EE's?
Any increase in unemployment in engineering, yes. There are still plenty of engineering jobs.
Even if you had 20% unemployment there would still be 80% employed, which means "plenty of engineering jobs". What's your point?
If you're claiming you can't find one, the first step would be to get off Slashdot, you won't find any jobs here.
Already got one thanks (and I should get back to it now). In the last 30 years I've never been unemployed long. Yes, I'm good at what I do, but I know other folks just as good who had much worse luck than me. Don't act cocky just because you got your first job - I got my first job before I even graduated. Go around the block a few times and then let me know how your perspective has changed.
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How about a an LBO?
Did untold damage. Operating overheads went through the roof, and it is now virtually impossible to do small well focused work (at least in many divisions). CSIRO has seen it' 80th birthday, but unless things change I won't be holding my breath for a centenary.
It's nice to know that some country other than the US is screwing up one of its premier research institutions. On second thought, no it's not.
I think your translation is a bit off. What he is saying is that ...
That there is so much room for debate says much about the clarity of the writing. In practice it means whatever somebody wants it to mean, which means that it means nothing.
we will be more coherent
They're going to work on lasers!
at least Gates had an occasional original idea
Such as? Serious question.
9 hours no electricity?
. . . means 9 hours of no light pollution. Awesome, for watching the amazing aurora borealis! No TV? No Internet? Get outside, and look at a sky that you will never see again!
What if it's cloudy?
It's interesting how many terrorists are trained as engineers.
Thank you for listing the ways in which self-regulation doesn't work. If it worked, then all those penalties should have been more than enough for them not to be so careless with the ship. The idea of regulation is to prevent problems, not to factor into some after the fact "they'll pay their dues" calculus.
Score 1: Troll (rated down by 1)
Slashdot is missing a down mod category: "blasphemed against the cult of libertarianism".
The theory about self-regulation works just fine. It just doesn't stand up so well, when governments step in and bail out the industries and or insurance companies.
Then I guess it worked real well in the 19th century, when governments didn't step in and bail out the industries and or insurance companies. Except it didn't.
Oh, I know, I know! It works in the Platonic ideal of a libertarian paradise! To the extent that it doesn't work in our reality, it cannot not mean that there is anything wrong with the theory. Rather it must mean that we've deviated from that ideal world in some way, and must pay for our sins.
Libertarianism: being based on axioms, how can it be wrong?!
There are about 3 antenna designers in the world.
Then it's a hell of a coincidence that I know all of them. Antenna design is no more cookbook that any other part of engineering, and possibly less. Sure there aren't many guys named Yagi coming up with completely new approaches, but there aren't many guys named Bob Widlar coming up with completely new analog ckt concepts either.
If anything antenna design has become more difficult because everybody wants to squish antennas into funny packages like cell phones. When was the last time you saw a rubber duckie? Tuning and optimizing such things is an amazing amount of work. I always sorta knew that, but didn't realize how involved it was until my current job, where I have the pleasure of working with some excellent antenna engineers. There's also an explosion of previously exotic (mostly mil) techniques into commercial work, like phased arrays.
you are screwed anyway
Finally an honest statement. Why didn't you just say that in the first place and skip all the apologist drivel?
knows how much american management cares about patriotism
Say it ain't so! I feel so naive now having believed that they were really beneficent job creators.
I expect scum to be scum. The things that bothers me is that this is enabled by an utterly corrupt government that does nothing to represent the interests of the vast majority of its citizens.
What i'm trying to say is really simple, the person that will take your job, will do it anyway regardless of where in the world he or she is, it's not like that person will no longer exist if H1Bs disappear. ... But if you can manage to lure the talented individuals to your country ... they'll flock to your country and your industry and your jobs will be benefitted in the long term, because you will get less cheaper competition outside, allowing you to keep your high income.
That's one of the oldest and most ridiculous rationalizations for the H-1B that there is. Any job that can be outsourced will be, and likely already has been, outsourced, because no matter how much H-1B's drive down American salaries, it's still cheaper to employ someone in a 3rd world country. Outsourcing and H-1B's are not substitutes for each other.
"Will get less cheaper competition outside, allowing you to keep your high income" is completely nonsensical. What you're saying is that Americans can keep their (comparatively) high incomes by giving up their (comparatively) high paying jobs. It reminds me of the classic line from the Vietnam war: we had to destroy the village in order to save it.
Furthermore you failed to address my point about Economics 101: if a country is uncompetitive, that can and should be rectified by a lower exchange rate.
keep with the xenophobia, no one in America believed that Asians could do electronics, or the Japanese cars
WTF? Do you even know the meaning of the word xenophobia? It means fear of strangers, as in the people themselves. What the hell does that have to do with a concern with getting screwed by US government policies? That's a domestic outfit you know. I don't know whether you don't understand the meaning of that word, or have just been taught to use it reflexively as a smear. The latter is helpful if you have no real arguments.
As for "no one in America believed that Asians could do electronics, or the Japanese cars", I have no idea where you get this idiocy. Maybe that was true of some people in America in the 1940's, but that was a while ago. Do try and keep up with the times.
I'd prefer a battery fire than exploding engines a la A380.
Only the Rolls-Royce engines do that. The Engine Alliance (GE/Pratt-Whitney consortium) engines work just fine. Nice to know we still make something that works.
News for nerds?
Nautical nerds. Don't you watch SpongeBob?
Yes... because the shipping company doesn't worry at all about overloaded containers or ships at all.
We'll just ignore the massive costs should go something go wrong that they are oblivious to in your world.
Love your theory about self-regulation, but it's a shame that many a good theory doesn't survive contact with reality.
In a perfect world I would say that we should consider any kind of campaign contributions from anyone to be evil, but what's the alternative? Force people to donate to all campaigns (i.e. public funding)?
Yes, and it's not a radical approach either. It's pretty close to what the People's Republic of Arizona had before the Supreme Court decided that bribery = speech. It's also used in many other countries. Representative government is supposed to depend on the votes of its citizens, 1 person = 1 vote, not $1M = 1 vote. The fact that the best system in the country was adopted by one of the reddest states shows that this is not a left vs. right issue, but a question of whether you believe in representative government or in plutocracy.
How can people's memories be so short?
Not short, just selective.
On the topic of Climate Change, this guy is Stupid and Misguided, but I don't see an evil intent, they may be one.
The real evil here is that blatant bribery is legal in the US. Corrupting a representative system of government is evil.
quasi-religious
Don't confuse a cult with religion,
"Ye cannot serve God and mammon." - Matthew 6:19-21,24 (KJV)
P.S. Cue the evangelical atheists.
Thanks Boeing, for helping to kill yet another once great American company and put another stake in the heart of American industry. Don't forget to give yourselves a big executive bonus.
How unpatriotic. Borrow an American term from WWII, when Sherman tanks were called Ronsons: lights first time, every time.
This mistake should be the standard way of working for all governments.
I only knew a couple of EE guys, but they were in similar situations (that is, they didn't have problems finding employment).
Was that in the San Diego area? I'm curious, because there are family reasons why I might want to move there in the future. Wonder what the market is for experienced EE's?
Any increase in unemployment in engineering, yes. There are still plenty of engineering jobs.
Even if you had 20% unemployment there would still be 80% employed, which means "plenty of engineering jobs". What's your point?
If you're claiming you can't find one, the first step would be to get off Slashdot, you won't find any jobs here.
Already got one thanks (and I should get back to it now). In the last 30 years I've never been unemployed long. Yes, I'm good at what I do, but I know other folks just as good who had much worse luck than me. Don't act cocky just because you got your first job - I got my first job before I even graduated. Go around the block a few times and then let me know how your perspective has changed.
I'll believe it when I see it. The company I work for has an office down there, and all the folks make no secret that the area is pork heaven.