Vocational schools are still very much alive and kicking in today's world, despite what you may have been led to believe.
No User Serviceable Parts Inside was the motto of the last half of the 20th Century. Now it's more like Ending is better than Mending.
OK, so maybe your laptop doesn't have any "user serviceable parts," a contention with which I still beg to differ, but you know what does? Your vehicles, buildings, HVAC systems, plumbing, electrical generation, transmission, and distribution, factory robots (like the one that made your laptop), et. al.
Believe me, so long as technology exists, there will be a need for people who know how to fix it.
The old time TV/Radio repair shops are virtually extinct. Last one I saw did primarily replacements on projector bulbs.
A guy in my town opened an LCD/LED/Plasma repair joint last year, and has to continually hire new people to keep up with demand. Kinda seems like the industry is evolving more than "going extinct."
There is a unwritiable "brain stem" part of the BIOS, which knows only one thing: if the main BIOS mass fails to boot, read first file from floppy disk and overwrite BIOS with it.
I'd like some thing tangible to back it up, since I think it's bullshit.
Give 'em a week to whip something semi-convincing up in the lab.
It's their job to protect us from all types of stuff the general public has never heard of.
That is what it tough about the position they are in. They can't tell you about the stuff they protected you from because it would be classified. Maybe the incidents are few and far between, or maybe they happen every week, but they're not going to be allowed to talk about it. They have a big PR issue right now and there is not a lot they can do to directly address it. Unless you want to argue that nothing should be classified, the best they can say is "trust us" and you need to make sure there is appropriate oversight to what they do.
A hosed machine has to be replaced... and the replacements are made in China... and the replacements can have other flaws built in. So this would be a total win for China as long as they can do it anonymously and not get the blame for it.
OK, so then...
Chinese hackers somehow hid a BIOS-bricking malware in an undisclosed number of machines from an undisclosed number of manufacturers for an undisclosed number of years, and their nefarious plan is to activate said malware just to make people have to buy new computers with new malware on them?
Goddamn; that's such a ridiculously circuitous plot, I don't think even the Robot Devil could wrap his head around it...
The more likely possibility is that the NSA is lying.
Is a CEO really worth the same as 10000 (or more) "workers"? No, of course not.
Yeah actually they are. Every decision a CEO makes is a decision with potentially billions on the line. A hundred workers could do their best to destroy the company and they won't be able to do as much damage as one decision by a CEO. CEOs are paid a lot because there is a high demand for people who won't make billion dollar fuck ups.
And, as we learned in 2008, even when those people make their billion dollar fuckups, they get fucking rewarded, not fired.
What's that? Your piss-poor management decisions cost us seventeen billion? Well, I guess we'll have to fire you (you know, for show), but don't feel too bad - we've got this nice golden parachute and lovely severance package for you. You know, just a couple hundred million to live on while you search for another company to tank.
That said, since CEO pay is obviously not tied to performance, I'll restate OP's contention: is the CEO worth more than 10,000 workers? No, because A) he's probably a fucking imbecile, and B) you can run a company without executive staff, but you can't run a company without workers.
Now, I'd have phrased it with the last word being "Amazon"... and that's my biggest problem with unions.
Unions are ridiculously powerful in the US, and even more so in Europe.
My biggest problem with people who claim to have a problem with "unions" is that they assume every union is identical to those criminals in the AFL-CIO and UAW.
It's almost as if the anti-union people know precisely fuck-all about what unions are or how they work.
Full disclosure: I was a member of the GMP union for years, and thus know from experience that most unions are nothing like what dumbfucks and the media make them out to be.
"But AC!" you cry, "Bettering myself and my position is hard! I'd have to like, study, and not have time to sit around mindlessly consuming mah cable TV while I've got a giant dildo up my asshole!"
Baaaaaw.
Sigh.
Yes, rest of the world, we really do have people so stupid they literally believe this kind of crap. Not only that, those same wastes of flesh piss and moan endlessly about "class warfare" anytime someone tries to make a change that would better the lives of our nation's poorest citizens.
On behalf of all thinking, reasonable Americans, I would like to apologize for this douche-muncher and his ilk. Let's all pray he's too busy staring in a mirror and wanking to ever go out and vote.
It turns out that we've been trying to figure out binary math for hundreds of years longer than previously believed, which means we humans are worse at math than we thought!
Only 5 percent of people properly washed their hands long enough to kill infection-causing germs and bacteria. Maybe if the general population washed their hands properly there would be time for the antibacterial agents to go to work. Instead we instantly scrub our hands clean and follow up with a solid sniff to make sure they smell good, because if it smells clean then it is clean method works every time.
And this paragraph of purely speculative nonsense has what to do with hand-wash manufacturers making dubious product claims?
So my question is: what roughly is the maximum theoretical distance an unpowered flying object can be thrown by a top athlete? Assuming no wind, level ground and the usual stuff for a record.
That seems more appropriate to ask of xkcd's "What if" section.
I enjoy digging through the "$5 DVD" bin that pretty much every store has sitting in the aisle. Often there're some real gems in there, if you dig deep enough.
Ooh, Johnny Mnemonic / Point Break double feature? For a fiver? I'm in!
IMO, depends on how it was represented; if Amazon made it abundantly clear that you are renting a license to view the content, and not actually purchasing it, then there's probably little to no legal recourse.
Actually, even if they buried that fact deep within the EULA, there's still probably no legal recourse, which is the part I find fucked up.
Is not your library if the vendor can take it from you. You didn't buy, just got a limited permission to play it while the real owner is in good mood, and in their own terms.
This.
Let it stand as a lesson to all: You don't buy digital media from the likes of Amazon, you rent it.
After reading the article about the Aerobie setting a world record as the farthest flying thrown object in human history (uber-neat, BTW), I wondered: Do you think there's any way that such a design would work as a small drone platform? Perhaps something that can be thrown from the hand, then perpetuate flight at least semi-autonomously?
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GMP is part of AFL-CIO. So is UAW. Indirectly, your GMP membership was supporting those "criminals".
I never saw, talked to, or dealt with the AFL guys, and from the way my chapter leaders talked, they'd have preferred not to themselves.
While this is what is the core of the conservative mindset it by no means is limited to the US so there's no need to apologize.
Oh yea, I know, but that doesn't keep me from feeling a compulsion to.
Very funny. You think it's still 1950.
Vocational schools are still very much alive and kicking in today's world, despite what you may have been led to believe.
No User Serviceable Parts Inside was the motto of the last half of the 20th Century. Now it's more like Ending is better than Mending.
OK, so maybe your laptop doesn't have any "user serviceable parts," a contention with which I still beg to differ, but you know what does? Your vehicles, buildings, HVAC systems, plumbing, electrical generation, transmission, and distribution, factory robots (like the one that made your laptop), et. al.
Believe me, so long as technology exists, there will be a need for people who know how to fix it.
The old time TV/Radio repair shops are virtually extinct. Last one I saw did primarily replacements on projector bulbs.
A guy in my town opened an LCD/LED/Plasma repair joint last year, and has to continually hire new people to keep up with demand. Kinda seems like the industry is evolving more than "going extinct."
Nice copout, but rational humans capable of cogent thought are able to distinguish help from harm on a per-instance basis.
They're the TMZ of the business reporting world.
Except TMZ actually makes me laugh non-ironically from time to time.
There is a unwritiable "brain stem" part of the BIOS, which knows only one thing: if the main BIOS mass fails to boot, read first file from floppy disk and overwrite BIOS with it.
I'd like some thing tangible to back it up, since I think it's bullshit.
Give 'em a week to whip something semi-convincing up in the lab.
Sigh... I only wish I was joking...
The media has become the Ministry of Truth.
FTFY.
In other news, scientists discovered that two plus two actually equals five!
It's their job to protect us from all types of stuff the general public has never heard of.
That is what it tough about the position they are in. They can't tell you about the stuff they protected you from because it would be classified. Maybe the incidents are few and far between, or maybe they happen every week, but they're not going to be allowed to talk about it. They have a big PR issue right now and there is not a lot they can do to directly address it. Unless you want to argue that nothing should be classified, the best they can say is "trust us" and you need to make sure there is appropriate oversight to what they do.
Kinda like the mafia, huh?
A hosed machine has to be replaced... and the replacements are made in China... and the replacements can have other flaws built in. So this would be a total win for China as long as they can do it anonymously and not get the blame for it.
OK, so then...
Chinese hackers somehow hid a BIOS-bricking malware in an undisclosed number of machines from an undisclosed number of manufacturers for an undisclosed number of years, and their nefarious plan is to activate said malware just to make people have to buy new computers with new malware on them?
Goddamn; that's such a ridiculously circuitous plot, I don't think even the Robot Devil could wrap his head around it...
The more likely possibility is that the NSA is lying.
Is a CEO really worth the same as 10000 (or more) "workers"? No, of course not.
Yeah actually they are. Every decision a CEO makes is a decision with potentially billions on the line. A hundred workers could do their best to destroy the company and they won't be able to do as much damage as one decision by a CEO. CEOs are paid a lot because there is a high demand for people who won't make billion dollar fuck ups.
And, as we learned in 2008, even when those people make their billion dollar fuckups, they get fucking rewarded, not fired.
What's that? Your piss-poor management decisions cost us seventeen billion? Well, I guess we'll have to fire you (you know, for show), but don't feel too bad - we've got this nice golden parachute and lovely severance package for you. You know, just a couple hundred million to live on while you search for another company to tank.
That said, since CEO pay is obviously not tied to performance, I'll restate OP's contention: is the CEO worth more than 10,000 workers? No, because A) he's probably a fucking imbecile, and B) you can run a company without executive staff, but you can't run a company without workers.
Now, I'd have phrased it with the last word being "Amazon"... and that's my biggest problem with unions.
Unions are ridiculously powerful in the US, and even more so in Europe.
My biggest problem with people who claim to have a problem with "unions" is that they assume every union is identical to those criminals in the AFL-CIO and UAW.
It's almost as if the anti-union people know precisely fuck-all about what unions are or how they work.
Full disclosure: I was a member of the GMP union for years, and thus know from experience that most unions are nothing like what dumbfucks and the media make them out to be.
The minimum wage is/was *supposed* to be for kids in or just out of high school, college students, etc.
Citation? Because I was always told it was considered the lowest wage a single person living alone could survive on.
That's all well and good, if you have a society of engineers. But what happens to those that can't graduate university?
They get to go to vocational school and learn how to repair and maintain all those cool toys the engineers build.
"But AC!" you cry, "Bettering myself and my position is hard! I'd have to like, study, and not have time to sit around mindlessly consuming mah cable TV while I've got a giant dildo up my asshole!"
Baaaaaw.
Sigh.
Yes, rest of the world, we really do have people so stupid they literally believe this kind of crap. Not only that, those same wastes of flesh piss and moan endlessly about "class warfare" anytime someone tries to make a change that would better the lives of our nation's poorest citizens.
On behalf of all thinking, reasonable Americans, I would like to apologize for this douche-muncher and his ilk. Let's all pray he's too busy staring in a mirror and wanking to ever go out and vote.
Bad News, Everyone!
It turns out that we've been trying to figure out binary math for hundreds of years longer than previously believed, which means we humans are worse at math than we thought!
Maxim 37: There is no 'overkill.'
There is only 'open fire' and 'I need to reload.'
OK, so mirrors are obviously not a serious counter-measure.
What about some sort of prismatic lens?
Well said.
This is not surprising at all. Online access to education is mostly good as a supplement to skills, not as a means to get a qualification or a job.
I have a similar attitude towards traditional education as well.
Don't get me wrong, learning theory in a classroom is important. But it's not a substitute for good ol' fashioned practical experience.
Only 5 percent of people properly washed their hands long enough to kill infection-causing germs and bacteria. Maybe if the general population washed their hands properly there would be time for the antibacterial agents to go to work. Instead we instantly scrub our hands clean and follow up with a solid sniff to make sure they smell good, because if it smells clean then it is clean method works every time.
And this paragraph of purely speculative nonsense has what to do with hand-wash manufacturers making dubious product claims?
I think a boomerang was thrown further.
While this article from 2007 begs to differ, the folks at Guinness are on your side, it seems.
So my question is: what roughly is the maximum theoretical distance an unpowered flying object can be thrown by a top athlete? Assuming no wind, level ground and the usual stuff for a record.
That seems more appropriate to ask of xkcd's "What if" section.
I enjoy digging through the "$5 DVD" bin that pretty much every store has sitting in the aisle. Often there're some real gems in there, if you dig deep enough.
Ooh, Johnny Mnemonic / Point Break double feature? For a fiver? I'm in!
IMO, depends on how it was represented; if Amazon made it abundantly clear that you are renting a license to view the content, and not actually purchasing it, then there's probably little to no legal recourse.
Actually, even if they buried that fact deep within the EULA, there's still probably no legal recourse, which is the part I find fucked up.
Is not your library if the vendor can take it from you. You didn't buy, just got a limited permission to play it while the real owner is in good mood, and in their own terms.
This.
Let it stand as a lesson to all: You don't buy digital media from the likes of Amazon, you rent it.
After reading the article about the Aerobie setting a world record as the farthest flying thrown object in human history (uber-neat, BTW), I wondered: Do you think there's any way that such a design would work as a small drone platform? Perhaps something that can be thrown from the hand, then perpetuate flight at least semi-autonomously?