Genuinely interested, but what about per academic? I suspect it would be high too since much of the Chinese population won't ever get anywhere near a university.
Nothing. No one has an active extradition request for him anymore. They do however want to arrest him for breaching UK law. Like for being a fugitive, ignoring the courts, etc. There's a UK warrant for his arrest regardless of what the rest of the world thinks.
Bull shit. Those companies are paying their salaries, so they clearly support their actions
Depending on the size of a company there's a lot of people getting salaries without anyone ever knowing what their actions were, and this is especially true of departments so completely isolated from operational matters (about the only thing a company ever focuses on) as HR.
People go to HR with problems. People don't go to HR to review HR.
When you do something for money for someone, you represent them.
True, but only as far as your own area of competence. If a legal employee asked that question then you can start questioning the company. If some HR drone who's never talked to legal does it then that's very different.
Neither people "just following orders" nor corporations "unaware of the actions of their employees" deserve a free pass, period.
I take it you're self-employed?
Here is a suggestion for cleaning up corporate malfeasance: hold managers legally responsible for the actions of their employees, and limit their salary based on the salaries of their employees. (Multiplier up for debate. Suggest 1.) The person to whom that HR droid reports should also be held accountable for an illegal request for copywritten and confidential data of that nature.
You have just described a top-down solution lacking any people actually capable of fixing the problem. I noticed you mentioned the word illegal but didn't once talk about legal advisers or training for the people involved. Nope you just vilified a whole department for not knowing something they don't know. Classic elitism.
The hiring process is designed to separate managers from responsibility, but if they aren't responsible for anything, what good are they?
It does nothing of the sort. It only separates managers from having to personally review every single part of the process. That's kind of why the department exists in the first place.
let's see, each human is about one square meter (2 x 0.5) of target area so 7.5E9 square meters of humans divided by 5.1E14 square meters of surface area = 0.0015% chance of someone getting hit which actually sounds rather high to me.
That's because you made assumptions that don't make sense. Firstly humans are not 1sqm of hitable area even if that meteor comes at us from the side, which it won't. It'll come at us at around about 45deg. So already you're off by a factor of 4.
Then you're forgetting about stackable humans. In apartment complexes humans overlap further reducing their surface area compared to the earth's surface, that's to say nothing of purposeful overlapping such as having sex.
Then you have all the humans who aren't actually hittable. I.e. no risk to me. I'm in the bottom floor of my apartment, and while I'm at work I'm actually in a bomb proof building.
You have waaay oversimplified and over estimated the chance of being hit.
But but but, then the Jesus channel won't be able to get funding, or the 25 shopping channels. And then no one will pay for ESPN27 which shows only fierljeppen 24 hours a day.
No you missed my point. Union WORKERS don't decide jack shit, much less what is in their mutual interest. Kind of like *you* don't decide at all if you're going to war with North Korea. Unions are highly political. "vote him out"? Good luck. Better still, who to replace him with, typically that ends up being some other old person with great people skills, good at promises and mistruths.
You the worker controls the union as much as you the citizen controls the country, which is pretty much equal to how much you the employee controls the company.
Anecdote + confirmation bias, how original in an anti-union story
Well I've got one from every union place I worked at. To me they are turning into "data". The best one ended in jail time after the union rep dropped a construction scaffold on a government inspector. He was joined by several of his union thugs when they looked back at a history of "coincidences" involving people who questioned or investigated the union.
Then you're missing the point that odds of enforcement are low. Police have better things to do, and the studies that show the scale of punishment doesn't make it a deterrent. All you're doing is eventually feeding the prison industrial complex with people who make poor financial choices and littering rather than with criminals. The often insane disconnect between crime and punishment is precisely how the USA got to where it is.
If the video comes from a layperson, then give them 10% of the fine.
This is a dumb idea: a) you waste police time with analysing video authenticity b) you waste time with proof of identity c) coveillance leads to a crumbling of society where rather than rely on your neighbour and your friend you treat them with incredible suspicion at all times. d) the inclusion of a profit motive really just shows you didn't think this through. I mean if it wasn't a bad idea before it would definitely be now.
Pretty soon you'll have lookouts on every street and alleyway.
Yep great outcome. But that's a lot of people dedicating their time to the love of cleanliness. We would need a department to oversee this. We could even give it a catchy name like Ministry of Love. While you're at it you can give the entire program a catchy name like the "War on Butts". I'm sure it will work just as well as the war on drugs.
You can't change culture and history by enforcement of laws that people will consider unfair. Also remember you're applying a solution that seems logical in your mind to people who are literally trading money for reduced lifespans with zero benefit. Good luck with that.
After people get a large fine, or two, for littering they will change their ways.
Sure. We only need to catch 1 billion people a couple of times and the problem will be solved. Except for those who don't see fines as a deterrent. And those who do the math and realise that the police can't catch everyone and the odds of getting a fine are minuscule. Oh I think the police have better things to do.
Speaking of littering, on the front page is an article that says NASA got fined $400 for dropping a space station on some town. Incidentally the cost of a packet of cigarettes from a service station in Perth is $25. So the fine for littering isn't really much compared to the habit itself.
Kind of reminds me about my last red-light fine. That was 100EUR. Given I spend 280EUR per month in petrol I didn't even even take notice of it. It sure as hell wasn't a deterrent (not that I intended to run a red light).
From TFS: "Crows are some of the smartest animals in the world".
And remember we are comparing them to evolved monkeys who work 8+ hour days for most of their lives, in exchange for money, which they spend on small sticks made of a cocktail of nasty toxic substances, all so they can inhale those substances all the while knowing fully well that in the end their only achievement was to exchange their earned money for an even shorter life expectancy.
2. Does Tesla use stack ranking? If so, you probably don't want to work there.
Working for a company or not working for a company does not depend on a single factor. I hate the idea of stack ranking, but I can be bought. If working for some up and coming company with other great benefits means I need to put up with it, so be it. It's a job. There will be others. If the company faceplants due to its own toxic setup the only question is how much redundancy I end up with before I move on to something else.
Union workers are entirely dependent on the welfare of the company for their jobs and retirement
Union workers are hardly the people who decide mutual best interest. Unions are typically driven by key people with an axe to grind, are old and have nice fat pensions to fall back on. Hell when the last plant I worked at shut and made everyone redundant the union rep opened a $10k bar tab at the local pub and everyone drank for free. He was on a fucking windfall so big that made me wonder if he had been trying to drive the company into ground before his retirement.
Here, lets go to the TRIVIAL lies of yours. The Chinese gov, the CHinese oil companies, AND their academia say that they have pretty much hit peak oil and expect it to drop QUICKLY. [cleantechnica.com]
LOL. Good work. Trying to counter the actual proven reserves figure that came straight from the industry's annual global review with hit piece on clean technical, and then claiming that I'm a trivial liar.
Sorry kid, I work in the industry. Get your head out of your arse, it smells in there.
As to your personal hatred of America, whatever. Go live in China, Russia, North Korea, etc. Please, go have a good time.
I would move somewhere else, but *YOU* and your fellow countrymen are fucking up the globe for everyone. The hatred isn't personal, I think you'll find most of the world hates you.
And for the last decade, America has dropped the most CO2 emission of all nations.
Ooooh man. Can I get tickets to your show? With material like that I assume you are touring internationally. But if you're not: https://www.comedyfestival.com... Man you'll blow them away.
Except for those people who are taking 1080p/60 videos on their mobile phones, cool kids in the street videoing themselves doing cool shit on their bmx bikes in 2160p with their knock-off GoPros, people who buy either the cheapest DSLR to snap photos of their babies at 30MB per button press or like a more expensive SLR which can weigh in at closer to 100MB, or maybe just someone who has more than a couple of games installed (Doom weighs in at 80GB minus DLC, as does Deus Ex, hell my Steam folder alone is just shy of 1TB and I don't really play games too often).
That's before we start talking of DVRs, home media servers, and the proliferation of 4K porn (according to a friend).
1TB sounds perfectly reasonable for a computer... that has everything on a NAS or external HDD somewhere.
However, Google's original attitude towards pricing of the dongle really just underscores how overpriced the phone is in the first place.
How so? Extra plastic, and extra circuitry. Not just a wire, but a whole powered DAC in a connector. Add in USB licensing fees, and the cost recovery from a separate product what do you expect? I suppose you could buy a cheap knockoff that doesn't work for $10 from Amazon. But really the price of a separate product has zero to do with the price of another completely different product.
Something which wouldn't affect their current quarterly profit since it didn't happen last quarter.
Their leader is imprisoned, and they post record profits? How is this freakin possible?
Their leader was imprisoned for corruption. That would be one way to answer your question.
Another would be to realise that quarterly profits are highly dependent on the current market situation. With a shortage of memory chips caused by some quite major product releases recently prices are high, and all of that is 100% margin increase for the worlds largest producer of memory. Combine that with the very recent release of the phone that replaced the recalled one which many people were going nuts over, they would need to be seriously incompetent to not post record quarterly profits. I mean you could replace all of management by monkeys and the outcome would be the same. Like the oil industry this profit is driven by externalities combined with the cyclical nature of profit from product launches.
Except most of the time here we aren't talking about Nikon vs Sigma. We're talking Nikon vs Nikon grey market. Most Apple parts a genuine and come from single sources (genuine here defined as the final product, not what the manufacturer's will have you believe by stamping an invalid serial number).
- China's primary energy split shows coal at a tad over 60% and a year on year trend going down. - China's primary energy consumption went up by 3% last year while their coal consumption went down by that figure too. The rest made up with mostly renewables and a small bit of nuclear. - China's coal construction is primarily replacement plants, some of which are quite literally falling over. This is why despite building new coal, their coal consumption actually has been dopping between 1.5% and 4% every year for quite a few years running. - Your story about scrubbers is about 5 years old, and was fixed in the Chinese way. Lots of people fired and shamed, executives replaced. Compliance with particulate scrubbing is nearly 100% where it's installed. You must be thinking of CCS plants which you're right, aren't running. Mind you they've failed everywhere in the world including the USA and Europe. - Peak oil? China's proven reserves have increased 15% in the past 3 years, and the reserves to production ratio for them has never been higher.
As for WW3. If anything is going to cause WW3 it'll be the USA invading China for their oil (given that it's the USA's R/P ratio which is nose diving thanks a lot to the oil companies overstating their proven reserves, several technologies proving to be unviable, and no longer hording it. Or maybe it will be China invading the USA because the world is sick of your shit. When you pull your finger out and stop being the largest polluters in the world per capita, come back and criticise. In the mean time just remember everyone hates you (even before you elected a coal fired pumpkin as a figurehead).
Primary industry numbers from the producers and fossil fuels industry themselves. Nothing is more reliable than numbers from an industry which stands to gain something by having them go in the opposite direction.
Incidentally if they were wrong then I'm sure the biggest exporters of Coal to China would be celebrating. But they aren't, they like the countries which don't export the stuff are seeing their industry go out of business.
Remember the saying in the economic world, "When the USA sneezes the world catches a cold? It's that way in China with primary industries. Except in some parts of world it's not a cold but rather malignant melanoma.
I agree, China is feral. The south coast is supposed to be one of the cleaner populated areas and the only place I have spent any considerable amount of time. Lots of industry down there so I'm sure the smog is toxic in ways that cars just aren't.
Just don't go to the UK. The only thing you'll inhale there is diagnosed clinical depression.
On top of that, China has been through 4 straight year on year reductions in the amount of coal consumed while their energy generation has increased year on year. Even if they are still playing with coal, they are most definitely trending correctly.
Don't the charts in the article really say that the U.S. has nearly double the deployment of electric vehicles and solar on a per-capita basis?
Per capita is quite a useless measurement when looking at technological conversion rate. You need to start with the existing pool of what it is you are changing rather than the number of people. A large portion of the Chinese population are either rural or in a position not to need to own a car. They may have 4 times the population of the USA, but they have only just over 2/3rds of the number of cars ~190million vs ~270million in the USA.
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Genuinely interested, but what about per academic? I suspect it would be high too since much of the Chinese population won't ever get anywhere near a university.
Nothing. No one has an active extradition request for him anymore. They do however want to arrest him for breaching UK law. Like for being a fugitive, ignoring the courts, etc. There's a UK warrant for his arrest regardless of what the rest of the world thinks.
Bull shit. Those companies are paying their salaries, so they clearly support their actions
Depending on the size of a company there's a lot of people getting salaries without anyone ever knowing what their actions were, and this is especially true of departments so completely isolated from operational matters (about the only thing a company ever focuses on) as HR.
People go to HR with problems. People don't go to HR to review HR.
When you do something for money for someone, you represent them.
True, but only as far as your own area of competence. If a legal employee asked that question then you can start questioning the company. If some HR drone who's never talked to legal does it then that's very different.
Neither people "just following orders" nor corporations "unaware of the actions of their employees" deserve a free pass, period.
I take it you're self-employed?
Here is a suggestion for cleaning up corporate malfeasance: hold managers legally responsible for the actions of their employees, and limit their salary based on the salaries of their employees. (Multiplier up for debate. Suggest 1.) The person to whom that HR droid reports should also be held accountable for an illegal request for copywritten and confidential data of that nature.
You have just described a top-down solution lacking any people actually capable of fixing the problem. I noticed you mentioned the word illegal but didn't once talk about legal advisers or training for the people involved. Nope you just vilified a whole department for not knowing something they don't know. Classic elitism.
The hiring process is designed to separate managers from responsibility, but if they aren't responsible for anything, what good are they?
It does nothing of the sort. It only separates managers from having to personally review every single part of the process. That's kind of why the department exists in the first place.
let's see, each human is about one square meter (2 x 0.5) of target area so 7.5E9 square meters of humans divided by 5.1E14 square meters of surface area = 0.0015% chance of someone getting hit which actually sounds rather high to me.
That's because you made assumptions that don't make sense. Firstly humans are not 1sqm of hitable area even if that meteor comes at us from the side, which it won't. It'll come at us at around about 45deg. So already you're off by a factor of 4.
Then you're forgetting about stackable humans. In apartment complexes humans overlap further reducing their surface area compared to the earth's surface, that's to say nothing of purposeful overlapping such as having sex.
Then you have all the humans who aren't actually hittable. I.e. no risk to me. I'm in the bottom floor of my apartment, and while I'm at work I'm actually in a bomb proof building.
You have waaay oversimplified and over estimated the chance of being hit.
Start offering services a la carte
But but but, then the Jesus channel won't be able to get funding, or the 25 shopping channels. And then no one will pay for ESPN27 which shows only fierljeppen 24 hours a day.
Won't someone think of the CONTENT!
No you missed my point. Union WORKERS don't decide jack shit, much less what is in their mutual interest. Kind of like *you* don't decide at all if you're going to war with North Korea. Unions are highly political. "vote him out"? Good luck. Better still, who to replace him with, typically that ends up being some other old person with great people skills, good at promises and mistruths.
You the worker controls the union as much as you the citizen controls the country, which is pretty much equal to how much you the employee controls the company.
Anecdote + confirmation bias, how original in an anti-union story
Well I've got one from every union place I worked at. To me they are turning into "data". The best one ended in jail time after the union rep dropped a construction scaffold on a government inspector. He was joined by several of his union thugs when they looked back at a history of "coincidences" involving people who questioned or investigated the union.
Then you're missing the point that odds of enforcement are low. Police have better things to do, and the studies that show the scale of punishment doesn't make it a deterrent. All you're doing is eventually feeding the prison industrial complex with people who make poor financial choices and littering rather than with criminals. The often insane disconnect between crime and punishment is precisely how the USA got to where it is.
If the video comes from a layperson, then give them 10% of the fine.
This is a dumb idea:
a) you waste police time with analysing video authenticity
b) you waste time with proof of identity
c) coveillance leads to a crumbling of society where rather than rely on your neighbour and your friend you treat them with incredible suspicion at all times.
d) the inclusion of a profit motive really just shows you didn't think this through. I mean if it wasn't a bad idea before it would definitely be now.
Pretty soon you'll have lookouts on every street and alleyway.
Yep great outcome. But that's a lot of people dedicating their time to the love of cleanliness. We would need a department to oversee this. We could even give it a catchy name like Ministry of Love. While you're at it you can give the entire program a catchy name like the "War on Butts". I'm sure it will work just as well as the war on drugs.
You can't change culture and history by enforcement of laws that people will consider unfair. Also remember you're applying a solution that seems logical in your mind to people who are literally trading money for reduced lifespans with zero benefit. Good luck with that.
Actually, the only correct response is to hang up the phone
Not quite. These kinds of stupid questions are often asked by HR drones and often don't in any way reflect the operation of the company itself.
After people get a large fine, or two, for littering they will change their ways.
Sure. We only need to catch 1 billion people a couple of times and the problem will be solved. Except for those who don't see fines as a deterrent. And those who do the math and realise that the police can't catch everyone and the odds of getting a fine are minuscule. Oh I think the police have better things to do.
Speaking of littering, on the front page is an article that says NASA got fined $400 for dropping a space station on some town. Incidentally the cost of a packet of cigarettes from a service station in Perth is $25. So the fine for littering isn't really much compared to the habit itself.
Kind of reminds me about my last red-light fine. That was 100EUR. Given I spend 280EUR per month in petrol I didn't even even take notice of it. It sure as hell wasn't a deterrent (not that I intended to run a red light).
From TFS: "Crows are some of the smartest animals in the world".
And remember we are comparing them to evolved monkeys who work 8+ hour days for most of their lives, in exchange for money, which they spend on small sticks made of a cocktail of nasty toxic substances, all so they can inhale those substances all the while knowing fully well that in the end their only achievement was to exchange their earned money for an even shorter life expectancy.
2. Does Tesla use stack ranking? If so, you probably don't want to work there.
Working for a company or not working for a company does not depend on a single factor. I hate the idea of stack ranking, but I can be bought. If working for some up and coming company with other great benefits means I need to put up with it, so be it. It's a job. There will be others. If the company faceplants due to its own toxic setup the only question is how much redundancy I end up with before I move on to something else.
Union workers are entirely dependent on the welfare of the company for their jobs and retirement
Union workers are hardly the people who decide mutual best interest. Unions are typically driven by key people with an axe to grind, are old and have nice fat pensions to fall back on. Hell when the last plant I worked at shut and made everyone redundant the union rep opened a $10k bar tab at the local pub and everyone drank for free. He was on a fucking windfall so big that made me wonder if he had been trying to drive the company into ground before his retirement.
Don't assume only management can be arseholes.
Here, lets go to the TRIVIAL lies of yours. The Chinese gov, the CHinese oil companies, AND their academia say that they have pretty much hit peak oil and expect it to drop QUICKLY. [cleantechnica.com]
LOL. Good work. Trying to counter the actual proven reserves figure that came straight from the industry's annual global review with hit piece on clean technical, and then claiming that I'm a trivial liar.
Sorry kid, I work in the industry. Get your head out of your arse, it smells in there.
As to your personal hatred of America, whatever. Go live in China, Russia, North Korea, etc. Please, go have a good time.
I would move somewhere else, but *YOU* and your fellow countrymen are fucking up the globe for everyone. The hatred isn't personal, I think you'll find most of the world hates you.
And for the last decade, America has dropped the most CO2 emission of all nations.
Ooooh man. Can I get tickets to your show? With material like that I assume you are touring internationally. But if you're not: https://www.comedyfestival.com... Man you'll blow them away.
What do you mean "will be"? Human smokers are already trained to drop their butts where they stand.
Yeah sure. No one needs 1TB.
Except for those people who are taking 1080p/60 videos on their mobile phones, cool kids in the street videoing themselves doing cool shit on their bmx bikes in 2160p with their knock-off GoPros, people who buy either the cheapest DSLR to snap photos of their babies at 30MB per button press or like a more expensive SLR which can weigh in at closer to 100MB, or maybe just someone who has more than a couple of games installed (Doom weighs in at 80GB minus DLC, as does Deus Ex, hell my Steam folder alone is just shy of 1TB and I don't really play games too often).
That's before we start talking of DVRs, home media servers, and the proliferation of 4K porn (according to a friend).
1TB sounds perfectly reasonable for a computer ... that has everything on a NAS or external HDD somewhere.
However, Google's original attitude towards pricing of the dongle really just underscores how overpriced the phone is in the first place.
How so? Extra plastic, and extra circuitry. Not just a wire, but a whole powered DAC in a connector. Add in USB licensing fees, and the cost recovery from a separate product what do you expect? I suppose you could buy a cheap knockoff that doesn't work for $10 from Amazon. But really the price of a separate product has zero to do with the price of another completely different product.
Some of us are happy paying $300.
Mind you if I paid for $300 I would expect something that sounds a shitload better than the Airpods or the nausea inducing Beats Pro
They recall their phones TWICE
Something which wouldn't affect their current quarterly profit since it didn't happen last quarter.
Their leader is imprisoned, and they post record profits? How is this freakin possible?
Their leader was imprisoned for corruption. That would be one way to answer your question.
Another would be to realise that quarterly profits are highly dependent on the current market situation. With a shortage of memory chips caused by some quite major product releases recently prices are high, and all of that is 100% margin increase for the worlds largest producer of memory. Combine that with the very recent release of the phone that replaced the recalled one which many people were going nuts over, they would need to be seriously incompetent to not post record quarterly profits. I mean you could replace all of management by monkeys and the outcome would be the same. Like the oil industry this profit is driven by externalities combined with the cyclical nature of profit from product launches.
Except most of the time here we aren't talking about Nikon vs Sigma. We're talking Nikon vs Nikon grey market. Most Apple parts a genuine and come from single sources (genuine here defined as the final product, not what the manufacturer's will have you believe by stamping an invalid serial number).
Give them a break. Every so often everyone accidentally a whole word.
Wow were to begin.
- China's primary energy split shows coal at a tad over 60% and a year on year trend going down.
- China's primary energy consumption went up by 3% last year while their coal consumption went down by that figure too. The rest made up with mostly renewables and a small bit of nuclear.
- China's coal construction is primarily replacement plants, some of which are quite literally falling over. This is why despite building new coal, their coal consumption actually has been dopping between 1.5% and 4% every year for quite a few years running.
- Your story about scrubbers is about 5 years old, and was fixed in the Chinese way. Lots of people fired and shamed, executives replaced. Compliance with particulate scrubbing is nearly 100% where it's installed. You must be thinking of CCS plants which you're right, aren't running. Mind you they've failed everywhere in the world including the USA and Europe.
- Peak oil? China's proven reserves have increased 15% in the past 3 years, and the reserves to production ratio for them has never been higher.
As for WW3. If anything is going to cause WW3 it'll be the USA invading China for their oil (given that it's the USA's R/P ratio which is nose diving thanks a lot to the oil companies overstating their proven reserves, several technologies proving to be unviable, and no longer hording it.
Or maybe it will be China invading the USA because the world is sick of your shit. When you pull your finger out and stop being the largest polluters in the world per capita, come back and criticise. In the mean time just remember everyone hates you (even before you elected a coal fired pumpkin as a figurehead).
Primary industry numbers from the producers and fossil fuels industry themselves. Nothing is more reliable than numbers from an industry which stands to gain something by having them go in the opposite direction.
Incidentally if they were wrong then I'm sure the biggest exporters of Coal to China would be celebrating. But they aren't, they like the countries which don't export the stuff are seeing their industry go out of business.
Remember the saying in the economic world, "When the USA sneezes the world catches a cold? It's that way in China with primary industries. Except in some parts of world it's not a cold but rather malignant melanoma.
I agree, China is feral. The south coast is supposed to be one of the cleaner populated areas and the only place I have spent any considerable amount of time. Lots of industry down there so I'm sure the smog is toxic in ways that cars just aren't.
Just don't go to the UK. The only thing you'll inhale there is diagnosed clinical depression.
On top of that, China has been through 4 straight year on year reductions in the amount of coal consumed while their energy generation has increased year on year. Even if they are still playing with coal, they are most definitely trending correctly.
Don't the charts in the article really say that the U.S. has nearly double the deployment of electric vehicles and solar on a per-capita basis?
Per capita is quite a useless measurement when looking at technological conversion rate. You need to start with the existing pool of what it is you are changing rather than the number of people. A large portion of the Chinese population are either rural or in a position not to need to own a car. They may have 4 times the population of the USA, but they have only just over 2/3rds of the number of cars ~190million vs ~270million in the USA.