Technically she is elected. Just not by the people, but by the political aristocracy in EU. And not individually, but as a group of all commissioners, in a take it or leave it vote.
There are so many degrees of separation from democratic plebiscite in this selection process, it pretty much meets the criteria for "unelected".
This is factually false. It's well documented psychological fact that people are much more hateful to people they only communicate to through text online than they are in a face to face situation. There are very strong unconscious triggers that adjust behaviour when in face to face situation, without any conscious input, and often even awareness of behavioural change having occurred.
Not to even mention servers. I've never seen this sort of stuff on IRC in significant numbers, largely because mods in major channels I frequented usually had direct talking line to server admins, who really weren't interested in tolerating pointless trolling. You didn't just get banned from the channel, you got thrown off the server.
When nickservs became a norm, this became even easier to enforce. Want to go into those good channels with interesting stuff? Register with nickserv and be registered for a certain minimum amount of time. That killed something like 99% or so of trolls, because trolling is rarely something you are willing to create an account and then come back to it in a week just to troll. The rage has long cooled off by that time.
Now artful trolling, that was generally appreciated. But that's nothing like the description given.
That was my reaction too. They're on record tracking everything and anything they can get their hands on, regardless of user concent through their analytics platforms and such.
"Rules for thee but not for me" is a standard litmus test of a tyrant.
Pretty sure grey goo isn't going to be "plastic", considering what "plastic" actually means. The entire point of destructive nanomachinery is to fit an actual machine into nanometre-sized assembly.
These plastics are by definition, thousands of times too big and considering what "plastic" actually means, it's going to be rather counterproductive to try to build a nanomachine out of a really long chain of hydrocarbons. Since that would unnecessarily increase the size into, you guessed it, micrometres.
"May be", "possibly" and "can do" are beloved words of people who intentionally conflate things. They give a premise that inspires fear, uncertainty and doubt, without actually making the claim they imply they are.
For example, it's pretty obvious that bacteria inside one's body will be recognised and targeted by white cells and other elements of human immune system regardless of particulates that are smaller than said bacteria in size that maybe end up inside the bacteria or be attached to it.
This sort of conflation is usually coupled with utter ignorance of the subject matter, down to in this case, ignorance of relevant sizes. These particulates are smaller than bacteria, and in some edge cases, about as big as medium and small sized bacteria.
This is continuation of media cycle, where they need something scary to sell the views/papers.
Microplastics (referenced correctly by name in this one) are harmless. They are biologically inert and mechanically harmless. They're so small, they're able to travel through the cell walls, and as a result, have no meaningful mechanical impact as far as we know.
Main source of these plastics is washing and drying clothes.
The desperate conflation is with plastic garbage problem in the oceans, which does in fact kill birds and other wildlife, as is hinted by last paragraph in the OP. Those are completely different issue, as they exist in much larger size and their source is plastic garbage being ground to fairly small (but nowhere near microplastics level) of size.
Why do you think that you have such a large problem understanding distinct difference between simple concepts of "safety" and "career advancement" and conflate them as if they're the same thing?
We're talking career advancement here, not basic work safety.
Latter is obviously far more urgent, and is administered through things that are much harder to miss even for the people with significant progression on the autism spectrum, such as fire alarms.
I do understand that you think this, because you clearly do not understand what "high power career" even means in the first place. Because if your talking points are to be taken seriously, there's literally a chasm of nothingness between "average career" and "billionaires".
I keep forgetting that slashdot is an outlier in terms of people who are on autism spectrum. Social interactions such as checking work email on regular basis even while working is a normal and expected part of social interaction that is part of modern workplace.
If you have your laser focus on single task that makes you forget things like necessary social interactions, you may have a great career as a single issue specialist, provided your manager is good enough to be able to direct you well. But it's not going to be an easy road to travel, as you'll miss a lot of social cues, and that will hinder your advancement in many ways.
I know more than one person like that. When they get a great manager, they are some of the best people in their narrow field of expertise. But their manager basically needs to do the "social interaction" part of work for them.
If your boss is worth anything, he'll find a way give you more responsibility/harder task. Wasting almost a half of 8 hour work day is just bad time management.
And with this, you underscore that you have no idea of requirements of a "high end career". I was talking about a normal one. High end careers are a completely different beast.
High end career is a career that at least a hundred other people want to have. That's the career where you work all out 24/7. Doesn't matter if the kid is sick. Doesn't matter if it's 3 in the morning. That client in Tokyo wants an workable answer to his complex problem *now*, and if you don't provide him with one, there is a guy in New York, another one in London, and another five in Shanghai and probably another fifty in Shenzhen that will be happy to do so.
Fail to do what is required, and your "high end career" is over, because those people will do it instead, and no one will call you again. Not even during the day.
If you don't know this, you have never been allowed anywhere near people with one. Because if you ever worked with one, you know that these are people who are not just the smartest people alive, they also absolutely excel at time management. These are the people who will get an expensive coffee machine because it gets their coffee ready ten seconds faster. Because those seconds matter to them.
I can understand your view completely. Hence the way I ended the post you're answering to. The problem remains that globalisation has already progressed well beyond "factory workers", and there are now a lot of well educated engineers in places like China, who would love to do the work you would rather not do because you want to spend time with your family.
And while they're at it, they would also love to do the rest of your work. For less money than you are getting.
However at the same time working people would still be tilling the fields if there wasn't a hyper productive minority among the same rich that elevated our entire species.
And the problem is, it's impossible to separate the two.
Good on you. Hope you're not planning on getting any raises or promotions, and don't mind being the first to be made redundant when next depression occurs unless you're in the tiny minority of the people who have a clear negotiating advantage over their employees.
It has very little to do with "personal requirements", unless you're talking the tiny portion of elite workers that actually have negotiating leverage with their employer.
It has to do mostly with competition which has been hyperdriven by globalisation. You're not longer just in competition with your neighbourhood workers, or even the workers in your city, or even your country. You're now in competition even with workers who work on a different continent.
And so, if there's a person somewhere in the world who can do your job more flexibly and for less than you, you either man up and adjust or you lose your job.
"Average" is meaningless in this context, because explosion of part time low paid work in Germany is dragging the number down without actually having relevance on jobs I'm talking about.
How long of a list of reasons do you want? Because I can go on for quite a while, starting with "career advancement" to "taking your work responsibility seriously" to "wanting to keep your job in globalized environment".
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Technically she is elected. Just not by the people, but by the political aristocracy in EU. And not individually, but as a group of all commissioners, in a take it or leave it vote.
There are so many degrees of separation from democratic plebiscite in this selection process, it pretty much meets the criteria for "unelected".
This is factually false. It's well documented psychological fact that people are much more hateful to people they only communicate to through text online than they are in a face to face situation. There are very strong unconscious triggers that adjust behaviour when in face to face situation, without any conscious input, and often even awareness of behavioural change having occurred.
Do you understand the basics of human management policies practised by your state?
This is a place for nerds, so we generally have in depth understanding of nerd related issues. Most of us have no clue on same in humanities fields.
Same applies to every non-nerd in the world and every field in the world. And they're in a huge majority.
Not to even mention servers. I've never seen this sort of stuff on IRC in significant numbers, largely because mods in major channels I frequented usually had direct talking line to server admins, who really weren't interested in tolerating pointless trolling. You didn't just get banned from the channel, you got thrown off the server.
When nickservs became a norm, this became even easier to enforce. Want to go into those good channels with interesting stuff? Register with nickserv and be registered for a certain minimum amount of time. That killed something like 99% or so of trolls, because trolling is rarely something you are willing to create an account and then come back to it in a week just to troll. The rage has long cooled off by that time.
Now artful trolling, that was generally appreciated. But that's nothing like the description given.
That was my reaction too. They're on record tracking everything and anything they can get their hands on, regardless of user concent through their analytics platforms and such.
"Rules for thee but not for me" is a standard litmus test of a tyrant.
Did I fuck you and not call the day after?
Pretty sure grey goo isn't going to be "plastic", considering what "plastic" actually means. The entire point of destructive nanomachinery is to fit an actual machine into nanometre-sized assembly.
These plastics are by definition, thousands of times too big and considering what "plastic" actually means, it's going to be rather counterproductive to try to build a nanomachine out of a really long chain of hydrocarbons. Since that would unnecessarily increase the size into, you guessed it, micrometres.
"May be", "possibly" and "can do" are beloved words of people who intentionally conflate things. They give a premise that inspires fear, uncertainty and doubt, without actually making the claim they imply they are.
For example, it's pretty obvious that bacteria inside one's body will be recognised and targeted by white cells and other elements of human immune system regardless of particulates that are smaller than said bacteria in size that maybe end up inside the bacteria or be attached to it.
This sort of conflation is usually coupled with utter ignorance of the subject matter, down to in this case, ignorance of relevant sizes. These particulates are smaller than bacteria, and in some edge cases, about as big as medium and small sized bacteria.
That desperation when you're trying really hard to pretend that op didn't cite chapter 11, making reply obviously refer to US majors.
This is continuation of media cycle, where they need something scary to sell the views/papers.
Microplastics (referenced correctly by name in this one) are harmless. They are biologically inert and mechanically harmless. They're so small, they're able to travel through the cell walls, and as a result, have no meaningful mechanical impact as far as we know.
Main source of these plastics is washing and drying clothes.
The desperate conflation is with plastic garbage problem in the oceans, which does in fact kill birds and other wildlife, as is hinted by last paragraph in the OP. Those are completely different issue, as they exist in much larger size and their source is plastic garbage being ground to fairly small (but nowhere near microplastics level) of size.
Rather obvious considering parent claim was "chapter eleven".
Why do you think that you have such a large problem understanding distinct difference between simple concepts of "safety" and "career advancement" and conflate them as if they're the same thing?
The lies are getting rather desperate considering that the only two automotive majors that haven't gone bankrupt are Ford and Tesla. All others have.
You have to at least try to make it look like you're not just lying through your teeth you know.
We're talking career advancement here, not basic work safety.
Latter is obviously far more urgent, and is administered through things that are much harder to miss even for the people with significant progression on the autism spectrum, such as fire alarms.
I do understand that you think this, because you clearly do not understand what "high power career" even means in the first place. Because if your talking points are to be taken seriously, there's literally a chasm of nothingness between "average career" and "billionaires".
I keep forgetting that slashdot is an outlier in terms of people who are on autism spectrum. Social interactions such as checking work email on regular basis even while working is a normal and expected part of social interaction that is part of modern workplace.
If you have your laser focus on single task that makes you forget things like necessary social interactions, you may have a great career as a single issue specialist, provided your manager is good enough to be able to direct you well. But it's not going to be an easy road to travel, as you'll miss a lot of social cues, and that will hinder your advancement in many ways.
I know more than one person like that. When they get a great manager, they are some of the best people in their narrow field of expertise. But their manager basically needs to do the "social interaction" part of work for them.
If your boss is worth anything, he'll find a way give you more responsibility/harder task. Wasting almost a half of 8 hour work day is just bad time management.
And with this, you underscore that you have no idea of requirements of a "high end career". I was talking about a normal one. High end careers are a completely different beast.
High end career is a career that at least a hundred other people want to have. That's the career where you work all out 24/7. Doesn't matter if the kid is sick. Doesn't matter if it's 3 in the morning. That client in Tokyo wants an workable answer to his complex problem *now*, and if you don't provide him with one, there is a guy in New York, another one in London, and another five in Shanghai and probably another fifty in Shenzhen that will be happy to do so.
Fail to do what is required, and your "high end career" is over, because those people will do it instead, and no one will call you again. Not even during the day.
If you don't know this, you have never been allowed anywhere near people with one. Because if you ever worked with one, you know that these are people who are not just the smartest people alive, they also absolutely excel at time management. These are the people who will get an expensive coffee machine because it gets their coffee ready ten seconds faster. Because those seconds matter to them.
I can understand your view completely. Hence the way I ended the post you're answering to. The problem remains that globalisation has already progressed well beyond "factory workers", and there are now a lot of well educated engineers in places like China, who would love to do the work you would rather not do because you want to spend time with your family.
And while they're at it, they would also love to do the rest of your work. For less money than you are getting.
Do you see the problem?
I'm going to guess that you're both?
However at the same time working people would still be tilling the fields if there wasn't a hyper productive minority among the same rich that elevated our entire species.
And the problem is, it's impossible to separate the two.
Good on you. Hope you're not planning on getting any raises or promotions, and don't mind being the first to be made redundant when next depression occurs unless you're in the tiny minority of the people who have a clear negotiating advantage over their employees.
It has very little to do with "personal requirements", unless you're talking the tiny portion of elite workers that actually have negotiating leverage with their employer.
It has to do mostly with competition which has been hyperdriven by globalisation. You're not longer just in competition with your neighbourhood workers, or even the workers in your city, or even your country. You're now in competition even with workers who work on a different continent.
And so, if there's a person somewhere in the world who can do your job more flexibly and for less than you, you either man up and adjust or you lose your job.
"Average" is meaningless in this context, because explosion of part time low paid work in Germany is dragging the number down without actually having relevance on jobs I'm talking about.
How long of a list of reasons do you want? Because I can go on for quite a while, starting with "career advancement" to "taking your work responsibility seriously" to "wanting to keep your job in globalized environment".