Who just increased their numbers in the House and took over the Senate? Except for executive action, the Democrats have nothing for the next two years.
Mitch McConnell is already talking like he was elected President. The Republican right is already talking abut impeachment.
Your whining about "liburuls" controlling the US is a blend of propaganda and paranoid delusion. Turn off the Fox News, leave your parents basement and visit the real world.
Ohh, scary scary. Some evil Swedish "librurls" want to take control of your dick. And they have an entire $36,672 in funding. I can see why you are taking it so seriously.
It's a real credible threat. They hate us for our freedom. Maybe we should fake some intelligence about weapons of mass destruction and invade their ass.
The market capitalization of Activision/Blizzard is $14 Billion. Take Two is $2 billion. Meanwhile someone is spending under $40K in Europe to do a study. How much impact can that possibly have?
Sweden is the Berkeley of Europe. They could ban all video games and it would make no discernible difference outside of Sweden. Just like Berkeley can pass laws on drugs or political asylum and it may or may not have any impact even inside the city limits. It's mostly posturing.
So why the freakout? It's clearly disproportionate. It gives the impression that there is a vast amount of insecurity, or maybe some unacknowledged internal guilt. It sure doesn't look like adult behavior under any circumstance,
The whole code.org thing always smelled fishy to me. When the "join the high paid software field with only six days/weeks/months of training" crap showed up I was even more befuddled. Nothing seemed to add up.
Now it all makes sense. These are cheap flashy diversions intended as distraction from the real agenda. They can claim they are supporting the future of STEM education in the US, and training those post K-12 to become employable in software. See, they are patriotic businessmen who love the US!!!
Meanwhile the real plan is to flood the market with unlimited foreign trained employees and drive technical salaries into the dirt. They won't be satisfied until technical talent is in the same range as minimum wage.
Before anyone screams that I'm crazy, that is exactly what happened in the visual effects industry. A combination of moving jobs offshore, lots of 1H-B visas, and a glut of under-trained people moved salaries for many into the under $25/hour range. No health insurance, and since everyone is a show hire, no job security. You don't like the unpaid 40% overtime? Go work at Starbucks.
By the way, that is not a theoretical circumstance. I know someone who used to do pretty well doing visual effects. Eventually he had to declare bankruptcy, and take jobs at both Starbucks and Target. When he finally got back into do effects he was making a third his previous salary. Since he is officially a "professional", he works at least 16 hours a week unpaid overtime. The job is six months, and at the first of the year he'll be pounding the pavement looking for something else. It's kind of like free lance indentured servitude.
If your think that your precious technical ass is immune to this, you deserve to end up sleeping in your car. The plan to screw you is in motion and all systems are go. The only question is what are you going to do about it.
Sorry to interfere with your right wing fantasy, but how can you accept this as factual information? I read the post and found it completely unbelievable. As far as I know there is no post-secondary education institution that would do that even if they wanted to. Any school that gets money from the government in any form can't discriminate. And that includes things like 4H, Boy/Girl Scouts, and military service. Since government backed student loans are at a vast majority schools, they can't discriminate by law. They would get in huge trouble.
So in the real world the most likely discrimination in the US would be by schools with religious affiliations.
Say Bob Jones University, which engaged in racial discrimination. BJU admitted Asians since it's founding, but only let in black students in right around the time the Supreme Court said that private schools could not discriminate on the basis of race. Even then, they only admitted married black students.
In May 1975, as it prepared to allow unmarried blacks to enroll, BJU adopted more detailed rules prohibiting interracial dating and marriage—threatening expulsion for any student who dated or married interracially, who advocated interracial marriage, who was "affiliated with any group or organization which holds as one of its goals or advocates interracial marriage," or "who espouse, promote, or encourage others to violate the university's dating rules and regulations." In 1982 BJU's then-president Bob Jones III, during interviews in which he defended the school's tax-exempt status, cited nine passages from the Bible - drawn both from the Old and New Testaments - which he claimed demonstrated that God intended races to be segregated: "The Bible clearly teaches, starting in the 10th chapter of Genesis and going all the way through, that God has put differences among people on the earth to keep the earth divided", he said, adding that inter-racial marriage was "playing into the hands of the antichrist and the one-world system."
BJU fought the IRS in the courts.
There was a lot of political drama, including then President Regan asking the IRS to back off, but it finally went all the way to the Supreme Court and they lost their tax exempt status.
In November 2008, the university declared itself "profoundly sorry" for having allowed "institutional policies to remain in place that were racially hurtful."
However, they never re-applied for tax exempt status.
When the right wing screams that they are victims of discrimination, it's a combination of hypocrisy, deliberate misinformation (a.k.a. lying), and paranoid delusions. I have a suggestion: leave your parent's basement, listen to something other then Fox News, and visit the real world for a change. Who knows, you might even learn something.
Would this get so much attention on Slashdot if the subject wasn't strippers?
Suppose it was another state licensed field, like barbers. Many state require barbers to have a license. Do you think that story would get posted in the first place, or get so many comments? I wonder.
Well, they can be trained in one day, but it takes over a week to get a CEO class tailored suit, so it will take at least that long to get them behind their executive desk in the corner office.
Then there are weeks of training to learn all the executive perks. It's not just the key to the exec washroom any more. There's the gym, and limo, and checking out the exec jet (which requires many hours of flight time).
Then there is all the time needed to meet all the important people both in and out of the company. Of course a good CEO will multi-task, and combine that with $1000 lunches and $20,000+ dinners (including guests). A really sharp CEO will combine this with testing the jet, and possibly quick weekend getaway jaunts to the Bahamas, or somewhere similarly up scale.
To do the job right it might takes months, or over a year before the hard work of rubber stamping begins.
If it's funded by a special interest group then don't even bother to look at it. Whoever pays the bills gets the result they want. This is true for academia as much as anyone else.
- August 4, 2003: Chung Mong-hun, Chung Mong-koo's younger brother and then chairman of Hyundai Asan, jumps to his death while facing trial over an alleged $500 million secret "cash for summit" payment to Pyongyang before the landmark June 2000 North/South summit. He was also accused of doctoring company books and embezzling 15 billion won.
- June 18, 2004: Hyundai Motor Group vice chairman Kim Dong-jin and Korean Air Chief Executive Cho Yang-ho are given suspended two-year and one-year jail terms respectively, for raising a slush fund to support politicians in the 2002 presidential race. Both get to keep their jobs.
- March 26, 2006: South Korea prosecutors raid Hyundai group units such as Hyundai Motor and Kia Motors Corp. over a probe into suspected illegal political lobbying.
- Apr. 19, 2006: Hyundai Motor says the Chung family will donate $1 billion in shares of the group's auto shipping affiliate Glovis Co. Ltd. to atone for the bribery scandal.
- Apr. 28, 2006: Chung is arrested on charges of misusing company funds.
- May. 16, 2006: South Korea indicts Chung, who is officially charged with breach of trust and embezzling 103.4 billion won in company funds, some for personal use, and for incurring losses at group companies by forcing them to support weaker affiliates.
- Jun. 28, 2006: Chung is released on $1 million bail.
- January 16, 2007: Prosecutors demand a six-year jail term for Chung.
- February 5, 2007: Chung is found guilty of breach of trust and embezzling company funds and sentenced to three years in jail.
- February 12, 2007: Prosecutors and Chung appeal the three-year jail sentence.
- Jun. 19, 2007: Prosecutors seek to double the jail sentence for Chung to 6 years.
- September 6, 2007: South Korea's appeals court upholds the lower court conviction and hands Chung a 3-year jail term suspended for 5 years.
A proper utilization of these phenomena and
effects leads to the new technology of relativistic engineering, in which light-matter interactions in the
relativistic regime drives the development of laser-driven accelerator science.
The bulk of the paper is way beyond me, but it was still an interesting read.
Do you hang up you Klan robs in the closet where they won't get wrinkled bu someone might see them or do you keep them folded in a draw where they get creases but they're out of sight?
No nukes, no mobile labs for biologic agents. I specifically left out chemical weapons because of the media hype about the previously known chemical weapons that were left over from the Iran-Iraq war. I didn't want to make any claims that could be exploited by an idiot like you.
U.N. inspectors had identified many United States manufactured items that had been exported from the United States to Iraq under licenses issued by the Department of Commerce, and [established] that these items were used to further Iraq's chemical and nuclear weapons development and its missile delivery system development programs.... The executive branch of our government approved 771 different export licenses for sale of dual-use technology to Iraq. I think that is a devastating record.
The recent reports about chemical weapons in the hands of ISIS are the direct result of actions taken by the US government during the Regan/H.W.Bush administrations. All the claims about weapons of mass destruction after that were deliberate propaganda made up during the G.W. Bush run up to the invasion of Iraq. Those are the facts. Deal with it.
There is only one "fucking moron" in this exchange, and it's not me. You are delusional. I live in the real world. You should visit it sometime.
Are you whining just to whine, or is your brain actually the size of a walnut?
The sponsor is the US military. They have standardized on JP-8
Apart from powering aircraft, JP-8 is used as a fuel for heaters, stoves, tanks, by the U.S. military and its NATO allies as a replacement for diesel fuel in the engines of nearly all tactical ground vehicles and electrical generators, and as a coolant in engines and some other aircraft components. The use of a single fuel greatly simplifies logistics.
By the way, the original post was wrong when it said JP-7. That's a specialty fuel used by the SR-71 and hypersonic X-51 Waverider. The research was done using JP-8.
From a logistics point of view, having a fuel cell that uses the same stuff you use in aircraft, tanks, and trucks is a big win. A fuel cell that is a drop in replacement for existing generators that use JP-8 would be a big deal. That;s why the military is interested.
Isn't this what the Republicans are screaming about with the missing IRS emails? Missing fish in a coverup smells awfully similar to me.
Now if we could just find those records that would show if former President G. W. Bush was really AWOL from TANG (Texas Air National Guard) or how the so called "intelligence" about mobile bio-weapons and hidden nuclear facilities in Iran came about.
All coverups are illegal, but some are more illegal then others. Unless your last name is Bush, in which case the cover up never happened.
Saying everyone should be exposed to code is like saying everyone needs to be exposed to wiring a house/apartment/garage. Just because we generally live in houses doesn't mean that we should all know how to build one. The same goes for software.
This is weirdly narcissistic. It's slightly less odd for a corporation like Google or Red Hat, although it falls into the category of corporate communications as shameless self-promotion. For Zuckerberg and Gates, it's very much an exercise in egomania. Firstly, they are not primarily known as actual code savants. They made their mark and fortune as managers/businessmen, not because of their raw technical savvy. Other people did the heavy technical lifting. So having them get up and wave the "code is the key" flag is factually misleading.
Secondly, having these people encourage a coding career is flat out hypocrisy. They have both been active advocates of unlimited 1H-B visa programs and have personally been responsible for shipping jobs out of the US. Zuckerberg in particular is outspoken about his anti-US worker sentiment. So now he want to train even more people to be out of a job in the US. I guess money can buy a cover up of anything.
Cray Inc. is an American supercomputer manufacturer headquartered in Seattle, Washington. The company's predecessor, Cray Research, Inc. (CRI), was founded in 1972 by computer designer Seymour Cray. Seymour Cray went on to form the spin-off Cray Computer Corporation (CCC), in 1989, which went bankrupt in 1995, while Cray Research was bought by SGI the next year. Cray Inc. formed in 2000 when Tera Computer Company purchased the Cray Research Inc. business from SGI and adopted the name of its acquisition.
There's a big problem with raw materials. All the resources that are easy to get are gone. No more near surface iron, copper, zinc, tin, lead, etc. No forests of tall hardwoods to cut down. No coal that isn't deep under mountains.
Then there is land fertility and changing climate. And where do you get seeds that are not adapted to modern agriculture practice? What farm animal breeds will be available? Also, there is a lot less game to hunt, so there goes that source of protein.
Even if you bootstrap to 1900 or so, the mineral problem is not going to get any easier.
You can only scavenge for so long. What then?
So the whole project has a whiff of impractical thinking. The libertarian/Randian showing that all it takes is individual initiative without that pesky government screwing everything up.
This is in "Black Helicopter" territory. It's the ebil gumment left wing conspiracy to suppress the uber-patriot only real American right wing truthers.
One of the features of this mindset is that they assume that they are the only targets of bad government behavior. Spy on the left wing/Muslims/black people/Occupy Wall Street/anti-war/etc is great. By their lights, we are not doing enough of this, and it is always justified no matter what.
Of course the so called intelligence community is spying on everyone, but they don't care about that. That keeps us safe. Yet somehow they are the only persecuted group in the whole country. Paranoid much?
We're subsidizing billionaires who are making huge profits. For the most part we're not talking job that are middle class, but part time low wage jobs.
Given a finite amount of subsidies, is that a cost effective way to invest public resources? I highly doubt it.
Tax credit = reduced government resources. Let's play pretend. Assume that there were no billionaire giveaways for sports, and that the money went to the educational system. Fewer high school drop outs, more college graduates. Finishing school leads to lifetime income. Graduates will be paying taxes for their entire lives and generally being productive. People who finish school are less likely to end up in jail. Also more teachers, and jobs are middle class jobs, not part time minimum wage jobs. This increases the tax base.
So which would be a better investment?
Stop thinking like a toady, start thinking like a citizen. Citizens take responsibility for the well-being of society, and they want everyone to be equally responsible. That includes billionaires, who don't deserve a free ride.
NBA, NFL, MLB, it makes no difference. They are all state supported monopolies that make obscene profits by stealing from the general public.
They have lots of ways to steal, and they are really good at it. First, of course is their monopoly status. It's what every giant corporations dreams of. All the benefits of pretend capitalism, none of that pesky competition.
Then there's the stadium scam. Get a city to build you a stadium, along with getting a bunch of tax breaks. Pretend that you are bringing in "jobs". In fact most of the jobs are low level minimum wage jobs for running the physical plant and selling food. Not much in the way of real economic benefit.
The media contracts are where they real big time theft happens. If you have cable or any high speed media link, you are automatically paying for sports. Then if you want to watch something not in your area, you have to pay extra for the privilege. It's like the MicroSoft Tax, only worse. The only way to opt out is to stick to terrestrial HD broadcast.
No wonder Ballmer joined the owners club. He finally achieved 100% monopolist status, which he was never quite able to get at Microsoft.
Personally, I hope he chokes to death on some greasy stadium food.
Go and live in the 3rd world on $115 a month yourself, asshole.
Your attitude is the root cause of the ever increasing divide between the rich and the rest in the US.
I can't figure it out. Do you want to be a member of the lower strata of society with no upward mobility and no ability to change your status? Do you want to be a surf in the 21st century?
Either say something useful and back it up, or go back and hide in your mother's basement and leave the adults alone.
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Mitch McConnell is already talking like he was elected President. The Republican right is already talking abut impeachment.
Your whining about "liburuls" controlling the US is a blend of propaganda and paranoid delusion. Turn off the Fox News, leave your parents basement and visit the real world.
When will the 5 year old be replaced by a 1H-B because it's cheaper?
It's a real credible threat. They hate us for our freedom. Maybe we should fake some intelligence about weapons of mass destruction and invade their ass.
The market capitalization of Activision/Blizzard is $14 Billion. Take Two is $2 billion. Meanwhile someone is spending under $40K in Europe to do a study. How much impact can that possibly have?
Sweden is the Berkeley of Europe. They could ban all video games and it would make no discernible difference outside of Sweden. Just like Berkeley can pass laws on drugs or political asylum and it may or may not have any impact even inside the city limits. It's mostly posturing.
So why the freakout? It's clearly disproportionate. It gives the impression that there is a vast amount of insecurity, or maybe some unacknowledged internal guilt. It sure doesn't look like adult behavior under any circumstance,
Now it all makes sense. These are cheap flashy diversions intended as distraction from the real agenda. They can claim they are supporting the future of STEM education in the US, and training those post K-12 to become employable in software. See, they are patriotic businessmen who love the US!!!
Meanwhile the real plan is to flood the market with unlimited foreign trained employees and drive technical salaries into the dirt. They won't be satisfied until technical talent is in the same range as minimum wage.
Before anyone screams that I'm crazy, that is exactly what happened in the visual effects industry. A combination of moving jobs offshore, lots of 1H-B visas, and a glut of under-trained people moved salaries for many into the under $25/hour range. No health insurance, and since everyone is a show hire, no job security. You don't like the unpaid 40% overtime? Go work at Starbucks.
By the way, that is not a theoretical circumstance. I know someone who used to do pretty well doing visual effects. Eventually he had to declare bankruptcy, and take jobs at both Starbucks and Target. When he finally got back into do effects he was making a third his previous salary. Since he is officially a "professional", he works at least 16 hours a week unpaid overtime. The job is six months, and at the first of the year he'll be pounding the pavement looking for something else. It's kind of like free lance indentured servitude.
If your think that your precious technical ass is immune to this, you deserve to end up sleeping in your car. The plan to screw you is in motion and all systems are go. The only question is what are you going to do about it.
So in the real world the most likely discrimination in the US would be by schools with religious affiliations. Say Bob Jones University, which engaged in racial discrimination. BJU admitted Asians since it's founding, but only let in black students in right around the time the Supreme Court said that private schools could not discriminate on the basis of race. Even then, they only admitted married black students.
BJU fought the IRS in the courts. There was a lot of political drama, including then President Regan asking the IRS to back off, but it finally went all the way to the Supreme Court and they lost their tax exempt status.
In 2008, the University appoligized.
However, they never re-applied for tax exempt status.
When the right wing screams that they are victims of discrimination, it's a combination of hypocrisy, deliberate misinformation (a.k.a. lying), and paranoid delusions. I have a suggestion: leave your parent's basement, listen to something other then Fox News, and visit the real world for a change. Who knows, you might even learn something.
Suppose it was another state licensed field, like barbers. Many state require barbers to have a license. Do you think that story would get posted in the first place, or get so many comments? I wonder.
Then there are weeks of training to learn all the executive perks. It's not just the key to the exec washroom any more. There's the gym, and limo, and checking out the exec jet (which requires many hours of flight time).
Then there is all the time needed to meet all the important people both in and out of the company. Of course a good CEO will multi-task, and combine that with $1000 lunches and $20,000+ dinners (including guests). A really sharp CEO will combine this with testing the jet, and possibly quick weekend getaway jaunts to the Bahamas, or somewhere similarly up scale.
To do the job right it might takes months, or over a year before the hard work of rubber stamping begins.
If it's funded by a special interest group then don't even bother to look at it. Whoever pays the bills gets the result they want. This is true for academia as much as anyone else.
Using same scaling factor as Codecademy, I figure about 3 weeks to train a replacement.
Think of all the money that could be saved!
The bulk of the paper is way beyond me, but it was still an interesting read.
is that the Discovery Channel is directly competing with Maury Povich for sleaze.
Do you hang up you Klan robs in the closet where they won't get wrinkled bu someone might see them or do you keep them folded in a draw where they get creases but they're out of sight?
During the Iran-Iraq war the US government supported Iraq's development of chemical, biological and nuclear weapons.
The recent reports about chemical weapons in the hands of ISIS are the direct result of actions taken by the US government during the Regan/H.W.Bush administrations. All the claims about weapons of mass destruction after that were deliberate propaganda made up during the G.W. Bush run up to the invasion of Iraq. Those are the facts. Deal with it.
There is only one "fucking moron" in this exchange, and it's not me. You are delusional. I live in the real world. You should visit it sometime.
The sponsor is the US military. They have standardized on JP-8
By the way, the original post was wrong when it said JP-7. That's a specialty fuel used by the SR-71 and hypersonic X-51 Waverider. The research was done using JP-8.
From a logistics point of view, having a fuel cell that uses the same stuff you use in aircraft, tanks, and trucks is a big win. A fuel cell that is a drop in replacement for existing generators that use JP-8 would be a big deal. That;s why the military is interested.
Now if we could just find those records that would show if former President G. W. Bush was really AWOL from TANG (Texas Air National Guard) or how the so called "intelligence" about mobile bio-weapons and hidden nuclear facilities in Iran came about.
All coverups are illegal, but some are more illegal then others. Unless your last name is Bush, in which case the cover up never happened.
This is weirdly narcissistic. It's slightly less odd for a corporation like Google or Red Hat, although it falls into the category of corporate communications as shameless self-promotion. For Zuckerberg and Gates, it's very much an exercise in egomania. Firstly, they are not primarily known as actual code savants. They made their mark and fortune as managers/businessmen, not because of their raw technical savvy. Other people did the heavy technical lifting. So having them get up and wave the "code is the key" flag is factually misleading.
Secondly, having these people encourage a coding career is flat out hypocrisy. They have both been active advocates of unlimited 1H-B visa programs and have personally been responsible for shipping jobs out of the US. Zuckerberg in particular is outspoken about his anti-US worker sentiment. So now he want to train even more people to be out of a job in the US. I guess money can buy a cover up of anything.
The Department of Defense Pork
The Department of Homeland Pork
The Department of Corporate Lawlessness
The Department of Corporate Welfare
Connection Machine 1. Best blinky lights ever.
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Then there is land fertility and changing climate. And where do you get seeds that are not adapted to modern agriculture practice? What farm animal breeds will be available? Also, there is a lot less game to hunt, so there goes that source of protein.
Even if you bootstrap to 1900 or so, the mineral problem is not going to get any easier.
You can only scavenge for so long. What then?
So the whole project has a whiff of impractical thinking. The libertarian/Randian showing that all it takes is individual initiative without that pesky government screwing everything up.
No Junior Woodchucks Guidebook is going to save civilization.
One of the features of this mindset is that they assume that they are the only targets of bad government behavior. Spy on the left wing/Muslims/black people/Occupy Wall Street/anti-war/etc is great. By their lights, we are not doing enough of this, and it is always justified no matter what.
Of course the so called intelligence community is spying on everyone, but they don't care about that. That keeps us safe. Yet somehow they are the only persecuted group in the whole country. Paranoid much?
Given a finite amount of subsidies, is that a cost effective way to invest public resources? I highly doubt it.
Tax credit = reduced government resources. Let's play pretend. Assume that there were no billionaire giveaways for sports, and that the money went to the educational system. Fewer high school drop outs, more college graduates. Finishing school leads to lifetime income. Graduates will be paying taxes for their entire lives and generally being productive. People who finish school are less likely to end up in jail. Also more teachers, and jobs are middle class jobs, not part time minimum wage jobs. This increases the tax base.
So which would be a better investment?
Stop thinking like a toady, start thinking like a citizen. Citizens take responsibility for the well-being of society, and they want everyone to be equally responsible. That includes billionaires, who don't deserve a free ride.
They have lots of ways to steal, and they are really good at it. First, of course is their monopoly status. It's what every giant corporations dreams of. All the benefits of pretend capitalism, none of that pesky competition.
Then there's the stadium scam. Get a city to build you a stadium, along with getting a bunch of tax breaks. Pretend that you are bringing in "jobs". In fact most of the jobs are low level minimum wage jobs for running the physical plant and selling food. Not much in the way of real economic benefit.
The media contracts are where they real big time theft happens. If you have cable or any high speed media link, you are automatically paying for sports. Then if you want to watch something not in your area, you have to pay extra for the privilege. It's like the MicroSoft Tax, only worse. The only way to opt out is to stick to terrestrial HD broadcast.
No wonder Ballmer joined the owners club. He finally achieved 100% monopolist status, which he was never quite able to get at Microsoft.
Personally, I hope he chokes to death on some greasy stadium food.
Your attitude is the root cause of the ever increasing divide between the rich and the rest in the US.
I can't figure it out. Do you want to be a member of the lower strata of society with no upward mobility and no ability to change your status? Do you want to be a surf in the 21st century?
Either say something useful and back it up, or go back and hide in your mother's basement and leave the adults alone.