I believe this has been a problem since the beginning of time. When managers see this "symptom" they need to "hire an additional employee". Some people might even say that managing employees workloads is the job of management.
The big difference is that there are very few unions left, and a huge number of corporations sitting on enormous cash reserves. Which will lead to fewer unions. Let's assume that the eventual abolishment of all unions has already happened (since with the amount of money corporations can pour into races it will). How do you feel about this law? Comfortable with it?
The future is the University of Phoenix? The one that has one of the highest default rates on student loans because it's graduates can't get jobs?
Sure. That's the future.
If we were really talking about the Wiki-ization of Universities I would image we would have boards of experts to decide who the professors were. It might resemble a university bureaucracy.
I find it's pretty useful on multi word searches. I get instant feedback on whether it's looking like my search will return the sort of results I'm looking for. I find it's mostly helpful with tech support type searches where one word doesn't return good results, but a synonym does.
It's interesting that one of their complains was that when they encountered a problem they had to use the command line. This is probably a place where Ubuntu users could do better in supporting other Ubuntu users. It's very easy to send them to the command line, but it re-enforces the idea that you HAVE to go to the command line to solve problems.
Most problems can be fixed using the control panels, gconf-editor, or nautilus, but it's easier to provide 2 lines of text to a user. I just wonder if that's perhaps shooting ourselves in the foot.
Any social network that doesn't have ALL the users is not going to be a threat to Facebook. If Ping doesn't run on non-Apple mobile devices, Linux machines, or older hardware then I don't see the threat.
Yeah that would be awesome, governments would get a one-time fee. Then they would have to bail out the industries when it became clear that the reason they were public in the first place was that they couldn't make a profit, or that they still had to provide only the unprofitable part of the service. It would be a win-win for taxpayers who bought privatized government entities!
I like the fact that you're making this into a partisan issue, rather than pointing out that he's completely out of touch with who pays taxes in his state. According to this website (http://www.taxfoundation.org/research/topic/47.html) while corporations may pay a lot in North Carolina, individuals are taxed at some of the highest rates in the US.
I run and I generally hear cars by the noise they make displacing air and from their tires. Sure I can hear engine noise from compensatory vehicles like F-250s and Harley Davidsons, but most modern vehicles don't have engines that are particularly loud when idling. I live in Austin so I encounter a lot of Priuses and other vehicles and they sound about the same approaching a stop sign.
I dunno, my Single-Stream Processor is Greenstar and they're supposedly using technology to do the material sorting. From their website:
Before the new single stream equipment was in place, Greenstar was hand sorting the materials at a rate of 2-3 tons per hour. With the new $4 million mega-sorter, Greenstar can process 15 tons of recyclables per hour and has hired 21 new employees at its expanded facility.
Obviously there are people involved, but they're using tech as well.
I understand where you're coming from and it's the sort of thing that used to work when towns were smaller and corporations were local. But how do we get Coke to stop putting rings on plastic water bottles unless a city like New York stands up to them? The weight that must be thrown around to affect change now is huge.
People have been able to sort by hand forever. Any good libertarian should be able to see that has failed in the market. So better to have cities do large scale recycling where they can lobby for better packaging so they can make more money off of the recycling. Something that makes $.20 more for my recycling is not going to motivate the vast majority of consumers. But it will motivate a city government.
This sounds great, and I'm sure Penn and Teller are very smart, but if it costing Cleveland less to recycle than it is for them to dispose of the trash, then isn't that the market working perfectly? So what if 90% of the stuff that gets put in a single-stream recycling bin still ends up in a landfill? That's still 10% less than was going in before, and the city could make money off of it. Libertarians and conservatives love to carp about government waste, but then you have a clear example like this where the government has a plan in place to reduce waste and suddenly it's Orwellian.
Lookup single-stream recycling. We have it in my city. Recyclables in one trash can, trash in another. It's quite simple and not particularly inconvenient.
I know it's a major PITA. I spent the last 4 months adding ipv6 support to a networking device.
I'm hoping that you're right and it's not just smaller ISPs migrating. It's the AT&T, Comcasts, and Time Warners I'm worried about. When I say "force" I mean through legislation.
Let's see, under the current regime my ISP can keep me from accessing all of my devices from anywhere in the world. With ipv6 all of my devices get their own address and the isp can't make money off of selling ip addresses.
So tell me why they'll ever want to give me ipv6? We need to force them.
I want ipv6 addresses on everything in my house. I want remotes that work over wifi. Or from my remote office. I want the innovation that ipv6 will give me.
ipv6 is the next game changer and will allow massive new innovation. Sure we don't *need* it. But we didn't *need* the world wide web either.
Well that's one way to look at it. But if every youth has these past documented indiscretions than it's going to be hard for employers to find employees without them, and thus there will be no value to even checking for them. Society changes. It always has.
There are a lot of "ifs" in your scenario. And you're still not taking into account pollution.
My point wasn't that the article was wrong. My point was that if we're simply comparing mpg to mpg we might not be getting the entire cost of a vehicle. Heck the hybrids could be even worse due to pollution costs of manufacturing their batteries. My point was just that there are more costs that simply gasoline. And just because they're hard to compute doesn't meant they aren't real.
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Yes. I call that firing bad managers. That's the other side of the token. And also doesn't get done often enough.
I believe this has been a problem since the beginning of time. When managers see this "symptom" they need to "hire an additional employee". Some people might even say that managing employees workloads is the job of management.
The big difference is that there are very few unions left, and a huge number of corporations sitting on enormous cash reserves. Which will lead to fewer unions.
Let's assume that the eventual abolishment of all unions has already happened (since with the amount of money corporations can pour into races it will). How do you feel about this law? Comfortable with it?
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I'd imagine you still wouldn't know the difference between a misspelling and a typographical error.
The future is the University of Phoenix? The one that has one of the highest default rates on student loans because it's graduates can't get jobs?
Sure. That's the future.
If we were really talking about the Wiki-ization of Universities I would image we would have boards of experts to decide who the professors were. It might resemble a university bureaucracy.
That's true. I believe the majority of the country didn't believe he was fairly elected. Which is different from legally.
The electoral college is unfair, but it is legal.
I find it's pretty useful on multi word searches. I get instant feedback on whether it's looking like my search will return the sort of results I'm looking for. I find it's mostly helpful with tech support type searches where one word doesn't return good results, but a synonym does.
It's interesting that one of their complains was that when they encountered a problem they had to use the command line. This is probably a place where Ubuntu users could do better in supporting other Ubuntu users. It's very easy to send them to the command line, but it re-enforces the idea that you HAVE to go to the command line to solve problems.
Most problems can be fixed using the control panels, gconf-editor, or nautilus, but it's easier to provide 2 lines of text to a user. I just wonder if that's perhaps shooting ourselves in the foot.
Wonder Boy 3 on both Turbo Grafix - 16 and SMS was brilliant and almost as good as Super Mario Bros 3.
Any social network that doesn't have ALL the users is not going to be a threat to Facebook. If Ping doesn't run on non-Apple mobile devices, Linux machines, or older hardware then I don't see the threat.
Yeah that would be awesome, governments would get a one-time fee. Then they would have to bail out the industries when it became clear that the reason they were public in the first place was that they couldn't make a profit, or that they still had to provide only the unprofitable part of the service. It would be a win-win for taxpayers who bought privatized government entities!
Of course, lose-lose for everyone else.
I like the fact that you're making this into a partisan issue, rather than pointing out that he's completely out of touch with who pays taxes in his state. According to this website (http://www.taxfoundation.org/research/topic/47.html) while corporations may pay a lot in North Carolina, individuals are taxed at some of the highest rates in the US.
I run and I generally hear cars by the noise they make displacing air and from their tires. Sure I can hear engine noise from compensatory vehicles like F-250s and Harley Davidsons, but most modern vehicles don't have engines that are particularly loud when idling. I live in Austin so I encounter a lot of Priuses and other vehicles and they sound about the same approaching a stop sign.
I dunno, my Single-Stream Processor is Greenstar and they're supposedly using technology to do the material sorting. From their website:
Before the new single stream equipment was in place, Greenstar was hand sorting the materials at a rate of 2-3 tons per hour. With the new $4 million mega-sorter, Greenstar can process 15 tons of recyclables per hour and has hired 21 new employees at its expanded facility.
Obviously there are people involved, but they're using tech as well.
I understand where you're coming from and it's the sort of thing that used to work when towns were smaller and corporations were local. But how do we get Coke to stop putting rings on plastic water bottles unless a city like New York stands up to them? The weight that must be thrown around to affect change now is huge.
People have been able to sort by hand forever. Any good libertarian should be able to see that has failed in the market. So better to have cities do large scale recycling where they can lobby for better packaging so they can make more money off of the recycling. Something that makes $.20 more for my recycling is not going to motivate the vast majority of consumers. But it will motivate a city government.
No, I completely understand that your armchair analysis based on a blurb on a tech site is going to trump the city's analysis in all cases.
omg! 16 years! That's completely within our lifetimes. It's almost as though the city is being responsible and thinking longterm!
This sounds great, and I'm sure Penn and Teller are very smart, but if it costing Cleveland less to recycle than it is for them to dispose of the trash, then isn't that the market working perfectly? So what if 90% of the stuff that gets put in a single-stream recycling bin still ends up in a landfill? That's still 10% less than was going in before, and the city could make money off of it.
Libertarians and conservatives love to carp about government waste, but then you have a clear example like this where the government has a plan in place to reduce waste and suddenly it's Orwellian.
Lookup single-stream recycling. We have it in my city. Recyclables in one trash can, trash in another. It's quite simple and not particularly inconvenient.
I know it's a major PITA. I spent the last 4 months adding ipv6 support to a networking device.
I'm hoping that you're right and it's not just smaller ISPs migrating. It's the AT&T, Comcasts, and Time Warners I'm worried about. When I say "force" I mean through legislation.
Let's see, under the current regime my ISP can keep me from accessing all of my devices from anywhere in the world. With ipv6 all of my devices get their own address and the isp can't make money off of selling ip addresses.
So tell me why they'll ever want to give me ipv6? We need to force them.
I want ipv6 addresses on everything in my house. I want remotes that work over wifi. Or from my remote office. I want the innovation that ipv6 will give me.
ipv6 is the next game changer and will allow massive new innovation. Sure we don't *need* it. But we didn't *need* the world wide web either.
Well that's one way to look at it. But if every youth has these past documented indiscretions than it's going to be hard for employers to find employees without them, and thus there will be no value to even checking for them. Society changes. It always has.
The American public has gotten really jaded about losing their job.
There are a lot of "ifs" in your scenario. And you're still not taking into account pollution.
My point wasn't that the article was wrong. My point was that if we're simply comparing mpg to mpg we might not be getting the entire cost of a vehicle. Heck the hybrids could be even worse due to pollution costs of manufacturing their batteries. My point was just that there are more costs that simply gasoline. And just because they're hard to compute doesn't meant they aren't real.