We hire people all the time who have talent/skills but no degree, CS or otherwise. We like to teach people how to do it our way. And no degree means they might think for themself, which can give us an advantage over the competition. We look for actual project experience, on project work like what we're hiring to do.
This is a perfect use of time to work on an open source project. Get something real done, and tell us about it. You might use the project at the job where you're hired. If you're known in the community, their responses to our questions will be specific, meaningful,and come with URLs and downloadable evidence.
Actually, the jock is the underpaid geek's overpaid worthless boss. And the homecoming queen is the boss' wife whose ass the geek has to kiss at holiday parties.
For most people, especially stereotypes like the class geek, football star and homecoming queen, highschool roles define their life roles forever.
Boxers are equally exploited for hiring out their gender-oriented displays and risktaking. They get a lot more harm than do women in their equivalent jobs across the gender divide. Football players too, worse than cheerleaders. Bodyguards, harder than sex "escorts". Cops and soldiers more than strippers and hookers.
I think that letting women into all these jobs previously exclusively male, and seeing more men do purely "sexy" jobs like modeling, stripping and hooking, will get more people to accept feminine jobs that hire out their bodies for show, risk and damage.
Exploiting women for their sexiness is often complained of being bad.
But what about the equivalent exploitation of men? Many men have jobs solely for their physical appearance: looking tough. Security guards and cops have to wear uncomfortable uniforms, including bulletproof vests in the direct Summer sun, carrying other heavy equipment. And they're taking a risk of physical harm that far more often materializes in actual harm than the frequency with which booth girls have to deal with a grabby conventioneer. Cops, rentacops, bouncers take punches and worse a lot more than booth girls get groped. But their jobs are considered relatively prestigious, even cause for heroism when they do take a hit.
Further along the scale are strippers and hookers, whose jobs are more often condemned as sexist, and who face more physical costs because they're hired for physically exercising their sexiness. But male soldiers and special forces who are further along the masculine scale, exploited for the effects of testosterone making their suggestion and exercise of violence convincing even though it's merely for hire, don't have sympathy and crusaders for how they're exploited as sexist.
No, I'm not being sarcastic. No, I don't think we should prevent either gender from renting out their physical charms. We should ensure people have choices of work so they are in these jobs by choice, and ensure they have workplace safety that still accepts some harm when that's necessary to the job. Hookers and boxers should both have a modicum of respect for their gender-specific (or gender oriented - there are opposite gender practitioners of each gender's traditional jobs) behavior. But we should stop the sexist double standard that says hired screwing exploits women in a way that hired fighting doesn't exploit men. It does. And most work is exploitation. And though that's not perfectly OK, it's equally not OK for either gender. And that's a choice anyone can freely make; we shouldn't have to also fend off the people trying to protect us from ourselves.
The only point of experiencing booth babes is to look at their sexiness. Their actual lives, their problems, what they care about - that's the extra baggage that is the opposite of why you're interested in them.
They're strippers who don't strip. Who themselves are hookers who don't screw. Why would you care what they think? Not caring what they think is the whole upside; it attracts people whose thinking isn't worth caring about unless you absolutely have to.
So since the vast majority of women can't get this job that sucks, the ones who have it but think it sucks should like it? The difficulty of getting a job == the desirablilty of the job? What?
This case proves that economic value determined by supply and demand (scarcity = value) is not always real value.
Navigating that narrow passage is a well known problem, both generally and in this voyage. I personally have navigated it since I was a kid, though in a small craft that has no problem fitting between the structures. 35kts is not unique to that day. Since it's directly opposite Jamaica Bay from the JFK airport, the wind patterns are completely well documented.
If they were going to fly the shuttle into JFK instead of into Newark (which I believe has a clear passage, even for a wide load like a shuttle), they should have taken at least the slightest precaution against such a gust. Like armoring/padding the wingtips, and/or padding the cargo's wind profile for aerodynamics. Or hitching cables to the bridge from the windward to the barge as it passed the canal (rotating around the obstruction) ensuring the barge could not reach the side it hit.
There's probable even more mitigation measures they could have taken. This is NYC and a priceless cargo load, which happens every day here, including at sea, as it has for centuries. Instead Weeks Marine did nothing but hope for the best, and then spin down the damage as "cosmetic" when it was not (further revealing their ignorance and cavalier attitude). It's really inexcusable.
11 feet on either side is a lot, even in 35kt gusts. The shuttle and barge are very heavy. They should have sailed further into the wind, leaving under 10 feet on the windward side, and more than a dozen feet in the lee to work with. They should have covered the shuttle in a frame and cover that would have made it less of a sail through that narrow passage. They should have armored the wingtips with a few feet of protection. Hell, they could have flown it into Newark and out the Raritan Bay.
This collision is inexcusable. Weeks Marine should buy NYC a new shuttle, since they broke the brand new one we got.
Fortunately, the damage seems to be cosmetic, limited to the foam that covered the wingtip. No structure or mechanisms appear to have been damaged [...] We will [on Monday be able to] better assess the wingtip damage (it was late by the time we docked, with almost no light available)
These clowns should never have been allowed to touch the Shuttle. That "cosmetic foam" was one of the most important structures/mechanisms on the shuttle: its heat shield that protected it from reentry. That reentry is what makes it a shuttle and not just a launcher. The heat shield foam was one of the most famous innovations brought by the shuttle programme. They didn't know that? Why didn't they cover the wingtips with something stronger than foam? They knew it was narrow clearance, in a usually windy passage.
But then, they evidently don't have artificial lighting to inspect their cargo after dark, either. Or schedules, so they'd know they'd need lights to inspect the shuttle for damage once they arrived, even if they hadn't obviously smashed it.
This was a brand-new Space Shuttle. They just broke it. Weeks Marine should have to buy NYC a new one.
No, I suggested correlation, not causation, between intelligence and radio waves. Much fewer people were thinking about new inventions partly as a consequence of the species as a whole being less intelligent. Fewer peaks in individuals than now, and far lower troughs among the majority. There are more people today smarter than all but the smartest of the 1890s, partly because we have so many more people but also because we have so many smarter and more smart.
Education and technological tools for amplifying the intellect have indeed changed the species to a more intelligent one. As has culture, partly from the economic pressure to survive using tools that both enhance intelligence and demand more of it.
If we were to discover aliens that had a lot of potential to be intelligent, but just swam around photosynthesizing in the daylight all day, we wouldn't be impressed. We're looking for fellows to learn from, not just about like another animal. It's the information that intelligent aliens would have that's attractive. Most 1700s humans on Earth were pretty dumb.
The average American house consumes about 1.5KW electricity average across the days (and nights) through the weeks of a year. But they not infrequently peak demand in spikes over 2KW. A hairdryer or space heater draws about 1.5KW. A dishwasher (especially with extra washing or drying heat boost) will draw 1.5KW. An electric stove/oven can draw 4KW or even 7KW as it heats up. A vacuum cleaner can draw up to 1.5KW, especially if it's a strong one that gets jammed.
And all of those could happen at once. A couple happening at once is pretty likely at least once a year. Plus the rest of the 1KW regular demand, which is closer to 2KW max, averaged against quiet times closer to 0.1KW.
A home power supply should be close to half the 100A 120VAC panel, which is 6KW. A 5KW max supply is probably just fine. A 2KW fuelcell would need a battery that can output 5KW for at least a few minutes, perhaps while an alarm goes off warning the battery will drain down shortly and circuit breakers will snap.
Really all the residential fuelcells I've seen talked about are 5KW. A 2KW fuelcell seems like a good device for a yacht.
Yes there are. But bath salts aren't "a new form of valium", either. I didn't say people don't take valium recreationally. The point is that the cops and media aren't saying these synthetics are "scary valium scary". They're not even whining about the actual new forms of valium that some people are taking recreationally.
The operators of this extortion system should be on the "Public Enemy #1" list. Not only are they an organized syndicate extorting from Americans, on a very large and nationwide scale. They are impersonating Federal officers to do it. Protecting the ability of Americans to respect someone who claims to be a cop, especially a Federal one, is among the highest priorities of the Justice Department. Or at least it should be.
The failure of the FBI and the other cop agencies we give $BILLIONS to every year, who have vast and even un-Constitutional powers to do whatever they want in the name of protecting us, to do what's necessary to stop these giant phishing operations is baffling mystery. Why banks are allowed to let their trademarked brands get diluted by phishers robbing in their name, resulting in large and widespread losses contrary to the very essence of trademark and copyright, is a mystery. But the failure of the cops to protect themselves is even more bizarre.
How about you just leave us alone with whatever we want to do with our protein receptors?
Criminalize actual acts that actually harm someone else, regardless of the cause. If you want to make an aggravated crime out of doing harm as a result of doing something else that's known to be risky, especially on a second or further conviction, that's got some merit.
But criminalizing people self-stimulating (or inhibiting) their own bodies is tyranny. It has failed over and again, every time, creating far more damage than the drug consumption ever has. While failing to stop the consumption. And destroying both justice itself and the people's ability to trust it, atop the rubble of everything else the prohibition touches.
These synthetic drugs aren't mimicking the effects of marijuana, or of LSD. They just change your perceptions or ideas. They aren't mimicking the effects of valium, either, but nobody ays that they are. Because "mimicking valium" isn't scary scary scary. Because the corporate mass media isn't trying to scare people about valium. Because valium is actualy Valium, a brand name drug sold by giant pharmacos that advertise on TV. Marijuana and LSD are sold by independent operators who don't pay TV corps $billions a year to make them sound friendly. That's why they're illegal. Even though they're not anywhere near as scary as valium, which is actually addictive.
But that doesn't stop Slashdot from saying these drugs "mimic marijuana", or the Miami cops telling the corporate mass media that bath salts are "a new form of LSD" when some idiot turns themself into a flesh eating zombie possibly by smoking some. Because there's no corporate PR pushback to protect the brand, any kind of inane lie will fly around the media if it appeals to fear of drugs.
The fact that in 2012 the mass media is quoting cops saying bath salts are "the new form of LSD", and Slashdot is pimping the idea that some arbitrary drug "mimics marijuana" shows that the only victory in the Drug War is the first casualty of any war: the truth.
The jobs are created by the people coming to the park creating demand for services outside the park, because there is no development in the park but visitors consume goods and services. If there's a specious argument here, it's that there are no jobs currently supported by the park inside the park.
So carpenters don't create wealth, since they just move wood around.
The only wealth created by a store is by its shipping the product from the factory to the store. Not by helping the customer select and buy the product.
Wait, I thought that your own backyard was sacred to you "Libertarians". Why shouldn't they be as concerned as they want to be about their local environment?
Once the point to launch has been kicked far enough from the "ideal" point to where the locals don't care, that's the place it should be launched from. Unless you "Libertarians" are suddenly commies who insist that somebody else's backyard be the launch pad for your personal jollies.
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We hire people all the time who have talent/skills but no degree, CS or otherwise. We like to teach people how to do it our way. And no degree means they might think for themself, which can give us an advantage over the competition. We look for actual project experience, on project work like what we're hiring to do.
This is a perfect use of time to work on an open source project. Get something real done, and tell us about it. You might use the project at the job where you're hired. If you're known in the community, their responses to our questions will be specific, meaningful ,and come with URLs and downloadable evidence.
Actually, the jock is the underpaid geek's overpaid worthless boss. And the homecoming queen is the boss' wife whose ass the geek has to kiss at holiday parties.
For most people, especially stereotypes like the class geek, football star and homecoming queen, highschool roles define their life roles forever.
Boxers are equally exploited for hiring out their gender-oriented displays and risktaking. They get a lot more harm than do women in their equivalent jobs across the gender divide. Football players too, worse than cheerleaders. Bodyguards, harder than sex "escorts". Cops and soldiers more than strippers and hookers.
I think that letting women into all these jobs previously exclusively male, and seeing more men do purely "sexy" jobs like modeling, stripping and hooking, will get more people to accept feminine jobs that hire out their bodies for show, risk and damage.
Exploiting women for their sexiness is often complained of being bad.
But what about the equivalent exploitation of men? Many men have jobs solely for their physical appearance: looking tough. Security guards and cops have to wear uncomfortable uniforms, including bulletproof vests in the direct Summer sun, carrying other heavy equipment. And they're taking a risk of physical harm that far more often materializes in actual harm than the frequency with which booth girls have to deal with a grabby conventioneer. Cops, rentacops, bouncers take punches and worse a lot more than booth girls get groped. But their jobs are considered relatively prestigious, even cause for heroism when they do take a hit.
Further along the scale are strippers and hookers, whose jobs are more often condemned as sexist, and who face more physical costs because they're hired for physically exercising their sexiness. But male soldiers and special forces who are further along the masculine scale, exploited for the effects of testosterone making their suggestion and exercise of violence convincing even though it's merely for hire, don't have sympathy and crusaders for how they're exploited as sexist.
No, I'm not being sarcastic. No, I don't think we should prevent either gender from renting out their physical charms. We should ensure people have choices of work so they are in these jobs by choice, and ensure they have workplace safety that still accepts some harm when that's necessary to the job. Hookers and boxers should both have a modicum of respect for their gender-specific (or gender oriented - there are opposite gender practitioners of each gender's traditional jobs) behavior. But we should stop the sexist double standard that says hired screwing exploits women in a way that hired fighting doesn't exploit men. It does. And most work is exploitation. And though that's not perfectly OK, it's equally not OK for either gender. And that's a choice anyone can freely make; we shouldn't have to also fend off the people trying to protect us from ourselves.
The only point of experiencing booth babes is to look at their sexiness. Their actual lives, their problems, what they care about - that's the extra baggage that is the opposite of why you're interested in them.
They're strippers who don't strip. Who themselves are hookers who don't screw. Why would you care what they think? Not caring what they think is the whole upside; it attracts people whose thinking isn't worth caring about unless you absolutely have to.
So since the vast majority of women can't get this job that sucks, the ones who have it but think it sucks should like it? The difficulty of getting a job == the desirablilty of the job? What?
This case proves that economic value determined by supply and demand (scarcity = value) is not always real value.
So: run an unpopular OS on a monopoly business network? Depend on the monopoly to run an OS it hates, on top of an OS it loves that sucks?
That sounds like a terrible deal, the worst of both worlds.
Navigating that narrow passage is a well known problem, both generally and in this voyage. I personally have navigated it since I was a kid, though in a small craft that has no problem fitting between the structures. 35kts is not unique to that day. Since it's directly opposite Jamaica Bay from the JFK airport, the wind patterns are completely well documented.
If they were going to fly the shuttle into JFK instead of into Newark (which I believe has a clear passage, even for a wide load like a shuttle), they should have taken at least the slightest precaution against such a gust. Like armoring/padding the wingtips, and/or padding the cargo's wind profile for aerodynamics. Or hitching cables to the bridge from the windward to the barge as it passed the canal (rotating around the obstruction) ensuring the barge could not reach the side it hit.
There's probable even more mitigation measures they could have taken. This is NYC and a priceless cargo load, which happens every day here, including at sea, as it has for centuries. Instead Weeks Marine did nothing but hope for the best, and then spin down the damage as "cosmetic" when it was not (further revealing their ignorance and cavalier attitude). It's really inexcusable.
More people will visit the Enterprise at the Intrepid museum than would visit it anywhere else.
The middle of the country doesn't deserve to have the Moon in the sky, let alone a shuttle. What are you, some kind of communist?
11 feet on either side is a lot, even in 35kt gusts. The shuttle and barge are very heavy. They should have sailed further into the wind, leaving under 10 feet on the windward side, and more than a dozen feet in the lee to work with. They should have covered the shuttle in a frame and cover that would have made it less of a sail through that narrow passage. They should have armored the wingtips with a few feet of protection. Hell, they could have flown it into Newark and out the Raritan Bay.
This collision is inexcusable. Weeks Marine should buy NYC a new shuttle, since they broke the brand new one we got.
Saudi, you idiot.
These clowns should never have been allowed to touch the Shuttle. That "cosmetic foam" was one of the most important structures/mechanisms on the shuttle: its heat shield that protected it from reentry. That reentry is what makes it a shuttle and not just a launcher. The heat shield foam was one of the most famous innovations brought by the shuttle programme. They didn't know that? Why didn't they cover the wingtips with something stronger than foam? They knew it was narrow clearance, in a usually windy passage.
But then, they evidently don't have artificial lighting to inspect their cargo after dark, either. Or schedules, so they'd know they'd need lights to inspect the shuttle for damage once they arrived, even if they hadn't obviously smashed it.
This was a brand-new Space Shuttle. They just broke it. Weeks Marine should have to buy NYC a new one.
No, I suggested correlation, not causation, between intelligence and radio waves. Much fewer people were thinking about new inventions partly as a consequence of the species as a whole being less intelligent. Fewer peaks in individuals than now, and far lower troughs among the majority. There are more people today smarter than all but the smartest of the 1890s, partly because we have so many more people but also because we have so many smarter and more smart.
Education and technological tools for amplifying the intellect have indeed changed the species to a more intelligent one. As has culture, partly from the economic pressure to survive using tools that both enhance intelligence and demand more of it.
If we were to discover aliens that had a lot of potential to be intelligent, but just swam around photosynthesizing in the daylight all day, we wouldn't be impressed. We're looking for fellows to learn from, not just about like another animal. It's the information that intelligent aliens would have that's attractive. Most 1700s humans on Earth were pretty dumb.
The average American house consumes about 1.5KW electricity average across the days (and nights) through the weeks of a year. But they not infrequently peak demand in spikes over 2KW. A hairdryer or space heater draws about 1.5KW. A dishwasher (especially with extra washing or drying heat boost) will draw 1.5KW. An electric stove/oven can draw 4KW or even 7KW as it heats up. A vacuum cleaner can draw up to 1.5KW, especially if it's a strong one that gets jammed.
And all of those could happen at once. A couple happening at once is pretty likely at least once a year. Plus the rest of the 1KW regular demand, which is closer to 2KW max, averaged against quiet times closer to 0.1KW.
A home power supply should be close to half the 100A 120VAC panel, which is 6KW. A 5KW max supply is probably just fine. A 2KW fuelcell would need a battery that can output 5KW for at least a few minutes, perhaps while an alarm goes off warning the battery will drain down shortly and circuit breakers will snap.
Really all the residential fuelcells I've seen talked about are 5KW. A 2KW fuelcell seems like a good device for a yacht.
Yes there are. But bath salts aren't "a new form of valium", either. I didn't say people don't take valium recreationally. The point is that the cops and media aren't saying these synthetics are "scary valium scary". They're not even whining about the actual new forms of valium that some people are taking recreationally.
The operators of this extortion system should be on the "Public Enemy #1" list. Not only are they an organized syndicate extorting from Americans, on a very large and nationwide scale. They are impersonating Federal officers to do it. Protecting the ability of Americans to respect someone who claims to be a cop, especially a Federal one, is among the highest priorities of the Justice Department. Or at least it should be.
The failure of the FBI and the other cop agencies we give $BILLIONS to every year, who have vast and even un-Constitutional powers to do whatever they want in the name of protecting us, to do what's necessary to stop these giant phishing operations is baffling mystery. Why banks are allowed to let their trademarked brands get diluted by phishers robbing in their name, resulting in large and widespread losses contrary to the very essence of trademark and copyright, is a mystery. But the failure of the cops to protect themselves is even more bizarre.
How about you just leave us alone with whatever we want to do with our protein receptors?
Criminalize actual acts that actually harm someone else, regardless of the cause. If you want to make an aggravated crime out of doing harm as a result of doing something else that's known to be risky, especially on a second or further conviction, that's got some merit.
But criminalizing people self-stimulating (or inhibiting) their own bodies is tyranny. It has failed over and again, every time, creating far more damage than the drug consumption ever has. While failing to stop the consumption. And destroying both justice itself and the people's ability to trust it, atop the rubble of everything else the prohibition touches.
These synthetic drugs aren't mimicking the effects of marijuana, or of LSD. They just change your perceptions or ideas. They aren't mimicking the effects of valium, either, but nobody ays that they are. Because "mimicking valium" isn't scary scary scary. Because the corporate mass media isn't trying to scare people about valium. Because valium is actualy Valium, a brand name drug sold by giant pharmacos that advertise on TV. Marijuana and LSD are sold by independent operators who don't pay TV corps $billions a year to make them sound friendly. That's why they're illegal. Even though they're not anywhere near as scary as valium, which is actually addictive.
But that doesn't stop Slashdot from saying these drugs "mimic marijuana", or the Miami cops telling the corporate mass media that bath salts are "a new form of LSD" when some idiot turns themself into a flesh eating zombie possibly by smoking some. Because there's no corporate PR pushback to protect the brand, any kind of inane lie will fly around the media if it appeals to fear of drugs.
The fact that in 2012 the mass media is quoting cops saying bath salts are "the new form of LSD", and Slashdot is pimping the idea that some arbitrary drug "mimics marijuana" shows that the only victory in the Drug War is the first casualty of any war: the truth.
There aren't any hippies fighting for freedom from war with violence or threat of it, which is terrorism. Put down the weed crack pipe.
The jobs are created by the people coming to the park creating demand for services outside the park, because there is no development in the park but visitors consume goods and services. If there's a specious argument here, it's that there are no jobs currently supported by the park inside the park.
How does abundance of valuable material possessions or resources have nothing to do with valuation?
So carpenters don't create wealth, since they just move wood around.
The only wealth created by a store is by its shipping the product from the factory to the store. Not by helping the customer select and buy the product.
Service jobs don't just move money around without doing anything useful.
You seem to agree that wealth counts time spent birdwatching in a beautiful location.
The jobs making that happen are creating that wealth.
Practically all wealth requires lots of service jobs for it to be created, and more for it to be consumed.
Wait, I thought that your own backyard was sacred to you "Libertarians". Why shouldn't they be as concerned as they want to be about their local environment?
Once the point to launch has been kicked far enough from the "ideal" point to where the locals don't care, that's the place it should be launched from. Unless you "Libertarians" are suddenly commies who insist that somebody else's backyard be the launch pad for your personal jollies.
Except you're lying.