You dont. 1 professor killed once in a while is an acceptable cost for not putting regulations on free speech and gun rights. As you might have heard an armed society is a polite and fair society because if you are really really rude and unfair (even if you did stick to the letter of the law) you are liable to be shot. Its kind of a safety valve to prevent the really assholish behaviour in society. Once in a while society needs a reminder. Of course we do need to deal with the crazies with guns. The solution is pretty much to have guns for everyone. The crazies will only go crazy once and then their crazy genes will be removed from the genepool permanently. A few generations of this and you will get a very polite,fair and sane society
On the positive side this would be a wakeup call to advisors all around the US that the people in their research groups are people not auxiliary brains who you use to do what you want faster and cheaper.
Given that he got a BS at IIT, an MS at Stanford and worked in Industry before he went for the PHD at UCLA I doubt that this was his first time coding. Google was a piece of code written by 2 PhD students and both of them are billionaires right now. This guy might have believed he was cheated out of being the next Brin or Page.
Simple solution. Get rid of Social Security. When people know if they mess up their kids they are going to starve on the streets in their old age they wont mess up their kids. A lot of sickness in society would go away if you make the family the basic unit instead of trying to raise children at a society level. This means no extra welfare payments for having kids but does mean extra salary if you are married and have dependents to take care off. No equal pay for equal work bullshit. Instead pay singles less and pay breadwinners of families more and watch the divorce rate plummet. Also get rid of Child Support and Alimony. If someone doesnt support their children they will starve in their old age. If the children do become wards of the state make sure the parents have to undergo mandatory vasectomies/hysterectomies. If you cant take care of your kids you no longer have the right to have more kids. Make extra marital/pre marital unprotected sex a crime (basically reckless people who are risking a pregnancy they are not ready for). Put such people on a sex offenders registry. And reduce the hormones in the meat which are making kids go into puberty at lower ages. Instead put in Chemicals to delay puberty so kids have time to focus on school without getting distracted by their hormones.
I have been in Research groups which are full of Indians and Chinese on visas and a few locals and the professor gives the toughest thankless tasks to the Indians and Chinese and the visible conference visits to the locals. What are they gonna do? Go back home after spending thousands of dollars and giving up years of earning potential (note all of these folks are college graduates who could get 6 figure salaries but are working for less than minimum wage as grad students). Its not racial- I have seen professors of Indian and Chinese origin do it to Indian and Chinese students and not do it to Indian Origin students who happen to be US born and hence have the right to work off campus. The F1 system which prevent folks from working off campus needs to be reformed as it basically traps people into an apprentice system (something the unions fought long and hard against) Professors dont treat locals like shit as locals have a choice they can just take up waitressing or taxi driving for the period of time it takes them to find a new advisor(and yes driving taxis pays more than grad research assistantships) and still carry on with their classes whereas a F1 student who loses his/her funding may have to drop out of the program and go back home
I like your Boxes comment except that Academia is not a liberal Democracy. its pretty much an oligarchy with those who came earlier controlling the journals (soapbox), appointments based on seniority and connections (no ballot box elections), College review committee staffed by peers of the professors you are complaining about (so much for an impartial Jury). That does leave only the Ammo box. Of course most dont go that route. Instead they decide to go the CSA way and seced. They breakaway from Academia and go create companies or work for companies. Fortunately academics are not as hardass as the USA about secession.
OK if I am the govt and I needed to disappear a few researchers for a top secret project (and one of them insists on taking his girlfriend along) how would I do it? Well telling that one shot the other and killed himself would be a good way. Has anyone even seen the bodies? Putting a campus on lockdown is a good way to make sure noone sees the gvot leaving with the guys. And then of course you create a soical media back history to paint it as a crazy. But there the govt slipped up by putting up Sarcar's profile as a Muslim. Sarcar is a bengali Surname and probably the intern at the *ia tasked to create the profile just went with Muslim as most Bangladeshis are Muslim but Sarcar is a Hindu surname.
OK guys how do you like this conspiracy theory. Please find holes in it
California needs to install border fences/ build a wall with search and seize checkposts to keep out all the crazies from states with no gun control. Gun control in one state which has open borders with no gun control states just wont work. If needed we should send commandoes and undercover agents into Minnesota and Texas to get rid of the guns.
Sounds stupid? Well we do it for drugs when we send commandoes into Columbia
Engineering seems to be the one high status profession that the oppressed are able to get into (If you are a Palestinian refugee in a camp you are not going to become a doctor or a lawyer or even if you become one you are not going to be able to practice in the US as these professions are very protectionist). Yasser Arafat was a civil Engineer. Also the people who gravitate towards engineering and programming (similar but not identical professions) are people who can concentrate for long periods of time without needing human interaction. This means anti-social folks who hate human interaction and humans in general can be very good engineering students.
So I am not surprised an Engineer took out another Engineer especially when he believe that the other Engineer had committed the cardinal sin of Academia - stealing credit. (Funnily enough VCs do this all the time. Some startup will come and give a demo. They wont fund them but take the code and give it to another startup which they do fund because their gut tells them the other startup has a better chance of executing to success)
Finally a govt has called out what everyone has known. Apple's products are not technologically cutting edge hence not eligible for the waiver.
Much more advanced Android phones are manufactured in India so their is nothing preventing Apple from manufacturing in India.
Apple is anyway known for taking technology invented by others and repackaging it in beauitful formats.
Its the same technologically as a marketing firm (you can know a company' core capabilities by seeing who has status - at Google its the Engineers. At Apple it is the Marketers).
This may work as after all people who buy Apple products are those who value form over function and a cool incense burning Hippie culture fits in with the Mac culture.
Under British Colonialism the local Excise tax on goods produced in country was higher than the customs tax on goods produced in Britain. This drove Indian industries out of business. India had already started on the Industrial revolution when the English came. In some technologies like rockets it was actually ahead of Europe. It was by selling luxury baubles(the 16th century equivalent of iPhones) to Kings that the English got the Kings to allow them preferential access so as to destroy the local industry. Industry only got restarted when the Indians became so poor that the savings in labor cost savings outweighed the customs savings. By that time the British had direct control and decided to start earning via income taxes rather than mercentalism. Incidentally before the English came the per capita income in India was at par with that in Europe and far higher than in the American colonies. Colonialism drove it down to way lower levels. I am glad that the current govt is not falling for shiny baubles and selling out on the real economy.
The US govt does this all the time. When Airbus wanted to sell tankers they had to build a factory in the US and give 70% of the value to US subcontractors including their direct competitor Boeing
Given that Trump used to donate to HIllary he could have been setup as a dummy candidate to make the Republicans go so far to the right during the primaries that they couldnt walk it back towards the center during the general. I guess even Hillary's campaign wouldnt have thought that the Republican base would actually nominate Trump. Trump being Trump sees a great deal. Even if he started as a fake candidate if he is getting the nomination he is going to go for it.
Any system which needs you to install additional hardware sucks. We can very well use the system planes used before GPS was deployed. INS using compasses and gyroscopes. You just need everyone to have a compass and gyroscope in their pockets. Wait everyone with an iPhone4 or a NexusS already does. Wifi based GPS enhancements are the buggy whip manufacturers of our day. Even the best and most accurate will be going out of business.
Flip side is they do this to fresh graduate students all the time. Hire them and they get started on OPT and then when they start in June Oh sorry we missed the deadline for H1B and we will try to do something about it. The guy works like crazy for a year but at the end of the year he just goes back to his country as he is out of status as his OPT training period is over.
Its not just filling prisons. A lot of corporations use prison labor for manufacturing toys, license plates etc. Even some call centers are run from prisons. What makes this profitable is that prisoners dont have to be paid minimum wage so they are even competitive with Chinese labor costs. Next time someone tells you why not buy American when American goods are only a little more expensive than the Chinese goods be aware that the goods were probably manufactured by prisoners pushed into prison on such flimsy charges. So if you really like freedom buy Chinese.
Delhi and other places in the northern Indian plains regularly hit 45 in the shade so if you are out in a construction site it definitely hits 50. If you dont believe right now its March and its already 39 C. People function by wearing loose long sleeved clothes, hats and wrapping handkerchiefs soaked in water around the back of their necks but water would not be a good solution for a laptop.
Brown's an ass. What kind of guy says that Turing is most famous for breaking Enigma codes. Turing is famous for his contribution to AI and most importantly the Turing test and the Turing award (Computer Science's Nobel prize equivalent) If Gordon Brown was paying tribute to Alfred Nobel he would probably forget to mention the Nobel prize and talk about how Nobel made his money selling dynamite to the Czar. As I said what an ass. Pity the brits that they have idiots for leaders (its not new started with Thatcher)
Well yes a war would be needed. Of course such a war will never happen unless the entire world gets disgusted with the US. Thats when they will all agree together so in order to prevent the rest of the world from coming to such a consensus some lip service to the environment is needed hence Kyoto.
NO I am assuming that if we are fighting wars over oil , oil by definition is more valuable than human life so why would we waste oil on machines when we can just use human wave attacks. After all politicians in the US dont care about the little people making up the army. So the machines will be parked in their sheds to conserve oil and fighting will be on foot on both sides. And elephants are a damn lot intimidating than cavalry. Of course both can be scared off by loud noises so it comes down to hand to hand fighting and believe me anyone who has riden a public bus in India is much better at hand to hand fighting than any pussy SEAL or DELTA
NoNoNo The purpose of Kyoto and all other environmental treaties is to get a good image before the world wakes up to the fact of who has done most of the pollution and decides to impose a Morgenthau Plan on the US. For those who dont know about Morgenthau he was the US Secretary of treasury during WW2 who proposed Germany be punished for the holocaust by being changed into a agriculture only nation by dismantling and destroying all German industry. Fortunately the Truman administration realized if they did that given Germany's high population density millions would starve to death (Germany cant grow enough food to feed its people and needs to export industrial goods to import food)However America does grow enough food to feed its people and has already polluted more than all other nations combined. The nations of the world may get fed up and decide to impose a Morgenthau Plan on America. As long as America keeps paying lip service to the Environment the other nations keep quite.
Nah if it came down to a fight for oil who do you think can field a larger army a nation of 1 billion or a nation of 300 million. And in a world where wars are being fought over oil forget using machines to even the advantage- Infantry rules!!!
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You dont. 1 professor killed once in a while is an acceptable cost for not putting regulations on free speech and gun rights. As you might have heard an armed society is a polite and fair society because if you are really really rude and unfair (even if you did stick to the letter of the law) you are liable to be shot. Its kind of a safety valve to prevent the really assholish behaviour in society. Once in a while society needs a reminder. Of course we do need to deal with the crazies with guns. The solution is pretty much to have guns for everyone. The crazies will only go crazy once and then their crazy genes will be removed from the genepool permanently. A few generations of this and you will get a very polite,fair and sane society
On the positive side this would be a wakeup call to advisors all around the US that the people in their research groups are people not auxiliary brains who you use to do what you want faster and cheaper.
Given that he got a BS at IIT, an MS at Stanford and worked in Industry before he went for the PHD at UCLA I doubt that this was his first time coding. Google was a piece of code written by 2 PhD students and both of them are billionaires right now. This guy might have believed he was cheated out of being the next Brin or Page.
Simple solution. Get rid of Social Security. When people know if they mess up their kids they are going to starve on the streets in their old age they wont mess up their kids.
A lot of sickness in society would go away if you make the family the basic unit instead of trying to raise children at a society level. This means no extra welfare payments for having kids but does mean extra salary if you are married and have dependents to take care off. No equal pay for equal work bullshit. Instead pay singles less and pay breadwinners of families more and watch the divorce rate plummet.
Also get rid of Child Support and Alimony. If someone doesnt support their children they will starve in their old age. If the children do become wards of the state make sure the parents have to undergo mandatory vasectomies/hysterectomies. If you cant take care of your kids you no longer have the right to have more kids.
Make extra marital/pre marital unprotected sex a crime (basically reckless people who are risking a pregnancy they are not ready for).
Put such people on a sex offenders registry.
And reduce the hormones in the meat which are making kids go into puberty at lower ages.
Instead put in Chemicals to delay puberty so kids have time to focus on school without getting distracted by their hormones.
I have been in Research groups which are full of Indians and Chinese on visas and a few locals and the professor gives the toughest thankless tasks to the Indians and Chinese and the visible conference visits to the locals. What are they gonna do? Go back home after spending thousands of dollars and giving up years of earning potential (note all of these folks are college graduates who could get 6 figure salaries but are working for less than minimum wage as grad students).
Its not racial- I have seen professors of Indian and Chinese origin do it to Indian and Chinese students and not do it to Indian Origin students who happen to be US born and hence have the right to work off campus.
The F1 system which prevent folks from working off campus needs to be reformed as it basically traps people into an apprentice system (something the unions fought long and hard against)
Professors dont treat locals like shit as locals have a choice they can just take up waitressing or taxi driving for the period of time it takes them to find a new advisor(and yes driving taxis pays more than grad research assistantships) and still carry on with their classes whereas a F1 student who loses his/her funding may have to drop out of the program and go back home
I like your Boxes comment except that Academia is not a liberal Democracy. its pretty much an oligarchy with those who came earlier controlling the journals (soapbox), appointments based on seniority and connections (no ballot box elections), College review committee staffed by peers of the professors you are complaining about (so much for an impartial Jury). That does leave only the Ammo box. Of course most dont go that route. Instead they decide to go the CSA way and seced. They breakaway from Academia and go create companies or work for companies. Fortunately academics are not as hardass as the USA about secession.
OK if I am the govt and I needed to disappear a few researchers for a top secret project (and one of them insists on taking his girlfriend along) how would I do it?
Well telling that one shot the other and killed himself would be a good way. Has anyone even seen the bodies? Putting a campus on lockdown is a good way to make sure noone sees the gvot leaving with the guys.
And then of course you create a soical media back history to paint it as a crazy. But there the govt slipped up by putting up Sarcar's profile as a Muslim. Sarcar is a bengali Surname and probably the intern at the *ia tasked to create the profile just went with Muslim as most Bangladeshis are Muslim but Sarcar is a Hindu surname.
OK guys how do you like this conspiracy theory. Please find holes in it
California needs to install border fences/ build a wall with search and seize checkposts to keep out all the crazies from states with no gun control. Gun control in one state which has open borders with no gun control states just wont work. If needed we should send commandoes and undercover agents into Minnesota and Texas to get rid of the guns.
Sounds stupid? Well we do it for drugs when we send commandoes into Columbia
Engineering seems to be the one high status profession that the oppressed are able to get into (If you are a Palestinian refugee in a camp you are not going to become a doctor or a lawyer or even if you become one you are not going to be able to practice in the US as these professions are very protectionist). Yasser Arafat was a civil Engineer.
Also the people who gravitate towards engineering and programming (similar but not identical professions) are people who can concentrate for long periods of time without needing human interaction. This means anti-social folks who hate human interaction and humans in general can be very good engineering students.
So I am not surprised an Engineer took out another Engineer especially when he believe that the other Engineer had committed the cardinal sin of Academia - stealing credit. (Funnily enough VCs do this all the time. Some startup will come and give a demo. They wont fund them but take the code and give it to another startup which they do fund because their gut tells them the other startup has a better chance of executing to success)
Bullshit. Sarcar is a Hindu Surname
Finally a govt has called out what everyone has known. Apple's products are not technologically cutting edge hence not eligible for the waiver.
Much more advanced Android phones are manufactured in India so their is nothing preventing Apple from manufacturing in India.
Apple is anyway known for taking technology invented by others and repackaging it in beauitful formats.
Its the same technologically as a marketing firm (you can know a company' core capabilities by seeing who has status - at Google its the Engineers. At Apple it is the Marketers).
This may work as after all people who buy Apple products are those who value form over function and a cool incense burning Hippie culture fits in with the Mac culture.
Under British Colonialism the local Excise tax on goods produced in country was higher than the customs tax on goods produced in Britain. This drove Indian industries out of business. India had already started on the Industrial revolution when the English came. In some technologies like rockets it was actually ahead of Europe. It was by selling luxury baubles(the 16th century equivalent of iPhones) to Kings that the English got the Kings to allow them preferential access so as to destroy the local industry. Industry only got restarted when the Indians became so poor that the savings in labor cost savings outweighed the customs savings. By that time the British had direct control and decided to start earning via income taxes rather than mercentalism. Incidentally before the English came the per capita income in India was at par with that in Europe and far higher than in the American colonies. Colonialism drove it down to way lower levels. I am glad that the current govt is not falling for shiny baubles and selling out on the real economy.
The US govt does this all the time. When Airbus wanted to sell tankers they had to build a factory in the US and give 70% of the value to US subcontractors including their direct competitor Boeing
Given that Trump used to donate to HIllary he could have been setup as a dummy candidate to make the Republicans go so far to the right during the primaries that they couldnt walk it back towards the center during the general. I guess even Hillary's campaign wouldnt have thought that the Republican base would actually nominate Trump. Trump being Trump sees a great deal. Even if he started as a fake candidate if he is getting the nomination he is going to go for it.
Any system which needs you to install additional hardware sucks. We can very well use the system planes used before GPS was deployed. INS using compasses and gyroscopes. You just need everyone to have a compass and gyroscope in their pockets. Wait everyone with an iPhone4 or a NexusS already does. Wifi based GPS enhancements are the buggy whip manufacturers of our day. Even the best and most accurate will be going out of business.
Flip side is they do this to fresh graduate students all the time. Hire them and they get started on OPT and then when they start in June Oh sorry we missed the deadline for H1B and we will try to do something about it. The guy works like crazy for a year but at the end of the year he just goes back to his country as he is out of status as his OPT training period is over.
Its not just filling prisons. A lot of corporations use prison labor for manufacturing toys, license plates etc. Even some call centers are run from prisons. What makes this profitable is that prisoners dont have to be paid minimum wage so they are even competitive with Chinese labor costs. Next time someone tells you why not buy American when American goods are only a little more expensive than the Chinese goods be aware that the goods were probably manufactured by prisoners pushed into prison on such flimsy charges. So if you really like freedom buy Chinese.
Delhi and other places in the northern Indian plains regularly hit 45 in the shade so if you are out in a construction site it definitely hits 50. If you dont believe right now its March and its already 39 C. People function by wearing loose long sleeved clothes, hats and wrapping handkerchiefs soaked in water around the back of their necks but water would not be a good solution for a laptop.
Heat Sunks wont be very effective in a desert nvironment where the ambient air temp is hitting 50 C. Even an atom would need a fan in the desert
Brown's an ass. What kind of guy says that Turing is most famous for breaking Enigma codes. Turing is famous for his contribution to AI and most importantly the Turing test and the Turing award (Computer Science's Nobel prize equivalent) If Gordon Brown was paying tribute to Alfred Nobel he would probably forget to mention the Nobel prize and talk about how Nobel made his money selling dynamite to the Czar. As I said what an ass. Pity the brits that they have idiots for leaders (its not new started with Thatcher)
Well yes a war would be needed. Of course such a war will never happen unless the entire world gets disgusted with the US. Thats when they will all agree together so in order to prevent the rest of the world from coming to such a consensus some lip service to the environment is needed hence Kyoto.
NO I am assuming that if we are fighting wars over oil , oil by definition is more valuable than human life so why would we waste oil on machines when we can just use human wave attacks. After all politicians in the US dont care about the little people making up the army. So the machines will be parked in their sheds to conserve oil and fighting will be on foot on both sides. And elephants are a damn lot intimidating than cavalry. Of course both can be scared off by loud noises so it comes down to hand to hand fighting and believe me anyone who has riden a public bus in India is much better at hand to hand fighting than any pussy SEAL or DELTA
NoNoNo The purpose of Kyoto and all other environmental treaties is to get a good image before the world wakes up to the fact of who has done most of the pollution and decides to impose a Morgenthau Plan on the US. For those who dont know about Morgenthau he was the US Secretary of treasury during WW2 who proposed Germany be punished for the holocaust by being changed into a agriculture only nation by dismantling and destroying all German industry. Fortunately the Truman administration realized if they did that given Germany's high population density millions would starve to death (Germany cant grow enough food to feed its people and needs to export industrial goods to import food)However America does grow enough food to feed its people and has already polluted more than all other nations combined. The nations of the world may get fed up and decide to impose a Morgenthau Plan on America. As long as America keeps paying lip service to the Environment the other nations keep quite.
Nah if it came down to a fight for oil who do you think can field a larger army a nation of 1 billion or a nation of 300 million. And in a world where wars are being fought over oil forget using machines to even the advantage- Infantry rules!!!