I heard these EVs are incredibly silent. This will cost lives unless loudspeakers are installed. Great opportunity for creativity. You could have a lion roaring or something like that. Or just an engine sound.
"I rather believe democracy is the equality in rights."
That's perhaps how it ought to be, but these days having a majority based on equal votes is how things are actually decided. Doesn't matter who is right or wrong, just who has most votes. A bit of a problem, because the minute you decide to let people who understand the issues decide them, you will be charged with weakening democracy.
Speaking of this, I was on Facebook the other day, and a friend was telling me about Facebook censoring links about Facebook. This particular link was an article about someone trying to put a gay kiss photo on Facebook and them getting all uptight about it (removing it). The weird thing was whenever the guy tried to post the link, it would disappear.
So there seems to be something about it. Makes me a bit uneasy that FB would do something like that. The link to Diaspora worked, however. Not sure what exactly is different about it, and why it couldn't happen there.
It's big and getting bigger, so you can see why I'm hopeful. Plus they seem to like the international spotlight (olympic games were huge for them), so perhaps they'll keep spending on space.
With the US, you just get the feeling people are tired of science. You don't the sense of wonderment about the world. Science seems to be a declining form of entertainment. All simply a vibe I'm getting, of course, nothing I can document.
The Chinese seem willing to spend the money on space tech. Someones gotta carry the flag. Unbelievable how long it's been since people were walking the moon.
Well, still hoping to find signs of life outside of Earth during my lifetime then. In fact, lots of interesting instruments seem to be going up, so I'm definitely hopeful.
If it weren't, I'm guessing nobody would do it. But I used to get robocalls at my old business, and it was always very obvious, so I always hung up inside of 2 seconds. So someone must not mind being called, and in fact buy the stuff that's being marketed?
Can't say I know terribly much about the details, but unplugging a few wires in NY4 will properly wreak havoc on quite a few financial markets. I suppose there's a less physical way in as well. Not sure how well protected that is from an IT security point of view.
It was the G7 protests in the spring of 09, and I saw it from my office across from the Bank of England.
Having seen it, I can understand your scepticism. IMO most of the day was peaceful, with people doing interpretive dance and singing folk music, but there were definitely people there who weren't just peaceful protesters. People started throwing stuff at the cops, and they provided an appropriate response. There were people essentially taunting the cops by knocking down the portable barricades. Why did they have to do that? That's got nothing to do with protesting. To be fair though, most of the people weren't there to cause damage or provoke the police. I think the few that were were quite a lot louder than the masses though.
I noted a HUGE proportion of journalists. Ever wonder how those dramatic pictures of lines of cops appear after each protest? The answer, it seems, is that half the people in the front line of protesters are holding cameras! What the media showed was a complete distortion of reality. On TV, you'd see a clip of protesters running towards the line of cops, stopping, and being pushed back by the cops. They've clearly cherry-picked, because what I saw was waves of cameramen running up to get a closeup. And then retreating to get the intense shot of a charging cop.
But to get back to your point about the police, the ones in London did a great job. They allowed the legitimate protesters to protest, and then made sure the rump of troublemakers weren't allowed to go on a rampage as everyone else went home. There was a greatly exaggerated story about a man who died that day, which from looking at it IMO was an unfortunate coincidence. But the fact is the police have to be careful of accusations of brutality, as they are after all the representatives of state force.
Interestingly, someone was talking about the start of the "nitpicking" in connection with this experiment. I can't remember the article, or I'd link it, but they mentioned things like adjusting for the oblation of the Earth, tidal pull of the Moon, GPS location of the labs, and such things. Stuff that makes a pretty small difference to the measured distance in % terms, but I guess this needs to be super-accurate.
Hasn't the value of c been verified to within a very tight tolerance, many times, by a great many people, and with much rigor? If we now found c to be different, you'd have to explain a mountain of evidence, ie how did everyone come up with the same number every single time, even though they were doing it in slightly different ways, in different places, and importantly in different frames of reference? Surely the systematic error would have shown up somewhere?
Various considerations such as the fact that empty space isn't empty must have been addressed by someone (would be nice to know exactly what the reason for that one is though).
This is a good point too. Particularly in Europe, where education tends to be either free or much cheaper than in the US, there's a lot of people doing degrees that are interesting to them, but where the value to society is a bit unobvious.
The flipside of funding is control. You pays your money, you makes your choice. Well, society is paying. But you decide? This is a huge disconnect.
My dad grew up in a communist country, and they actually were actually consistent and implemented this. He wanted to study physics, they needed economists. So that's what he studied.
I think it's great having educated people around too, but that doesn't mean the person receiving it doesn't get more out of it than other people. A system where people get their degrees for free is one where the people who don't get one end up paying in order to raise the salaries of people who do. That doesn't sound right, that the garbage collector ends up paying my bill so that I can go off and get a nice programming job.
Also, you shouldn't need a college degree to understand how society works. General education such as knowing how parliament works should be taught in secondary schools. And understanding the issues, people can do that just by reading the papers.
Wow, that's unbelievable! How the heck is it the role of government to decide what is or isn't relevant for a job?
And how is this ruling applied across industries? Did you know the NFL combine uses a pseudo-IQ test to see how quick thinking the players are? I mean it's a pretty important business skill for them, and fair enough to check.
Also, can't you figure out roughly how smart someone is by interviewing them? That has the benefit that you don't even need to reveal the true reasons for not hiring them. Interviews may not be perfect, but then neither are diplomas and IQ scores.
Well, quite simply when you get a degree the extra salary you can command lands in your hands. The extra benefit to society is divided among a large number of people. Sure, there are network effects, but I doubt you could tell whether one more guy somewhere out there gets a degree. So if you were to come up with an amount you as a member of society ought to pay for that guy's tuition, I'm guessing it would be much lower than what the guy thought it would be worth contributing to his own education.
Also, everyone is happy to call education an investment. Me too. Now, who should pay the costs if that investment turns out not to pay off? Because that's possible with investments. Should we socialize the losses? Or should the guy who took the gamble eat the loss? Bit of both, for the same reasons.
Still, it's not the fact that people are foreign that makes them incompetent. It's their incompetence. Surely the managers should be sanctioned for hiring incompetents?
Those schools are still reputable, whether or not you like how they obtained that status. And they do seem to produce a lot of research, though that isn't necessarily indicative of a being a good place to be educated.
Also, I suppose we're talking about undergrad education. Having gone to a well-known place in Britain, I've concluded that education is more or less the same, regardless of where you go. Any Engineering course for example will still have more or less the same content. It's really only the kids that are different.
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I heard these EVs are incredibly silent. This will cost lives unless loudspeakers are installed. Great opportunity for creativity. You could have a lion roaring or something like that. Or just an engine sound.
Dude, you're hardcore
"I rather believe democracy is the equality in rights."
That's perhaps how it ought to be, but these days having a majority based on equal votes is how things are actually decided. Doesn't matter who is right or wrong, just who has most votes. A bit of a problem, because the minute you decide to let people who understand the issues decide them, you will be charged with weakening democracy.
Speaking of this, I was on Facebook the other day, and a friend was telling me about Facebook censoring links about Facebook. This particular link was an article about someone trying to put a gay kiss photo on Facebook and them getting all uptight about it (removing it). The weird thing was whenever the guy tried to post the link, it would disappear.
So there seems to be something about it. Makes me a bit uneasy that FB would do something like that. The link to Diaspora worked, however. Not sure what exactly is different about it, and why it couldn't happen there.
"Also engineering achievements, at least solely with respect to being an engineering achievement, never win a prize."
Surely true in general, but wasn't there a guy with the fiber optics who won it not long ago?
It's big and getting bigger, so you can see why I'm hopeful. Plus they seem to like the international spotlight (olympic games were huge for them), so perhaps they'll keep spending on space.
With the US, you just get the feeling people are tired of science. You don't the sense of wonderment about the world. Science seems to be a declining form of entertainment. All simply a vibe I'm getting, of course, nothing I can document.
always made me think people have a few taste buds in their anus. I mean how else can it feel hot right?
Turns out it's just the irritant effect. My wife reminds me of this each time now.
I suppose that makes sense. Pioneering journeys can be expensive.
Nothing to stop you sending it to two or more online sites.
What's the problem with just zipping the files, and email your gmail and your yahoo?
Mate, if you spend money on goods and services from China, that money isn't yours anymore. It may have come from you, but you swapped it for iPhones.
Anyway, I'm not a taxpayer in either state. I just want to see someone carrying human technology forward.
The Chinese seem willing to spend the money on space tech. Someones gotta carry the flag. Unbelievable how long it's been since people were walking the moon.
And that's just in the Milky Way!
Well, still hoping to find signs of life outside of Earth during my lifetime then. In fact, lots of interesting instruments seem to be going up, so I'm definitely hopeful.
And how many stars are there?
Someone do my math for me, I'm busy working.
If it weren't, I'm guessing nobody would do it. But I used to get robocalls at my old business, and it was always very obvious, so I always hung up inside of 2 seconds. So someone must not mind being called, and in fact buy the stuff that's being marketed?
Can't say I know terribly much about the details, but unplugging a few wires in NY4 will properly wreak havoc on quite a few financial markets. I suppose there's a less physical way in as well. Not sure how well protected that is from an IT security point of view.
It was the G7 protests in the spring of 09, and I saw it from my office across from the Bank of England.
Having seen it, I can understand your scepticism. IMO most of the day was peaceful, with people doing interpretive dance and singing folk music, but there were definitely people there who weren't just peaceful protesters. People started throwing stuff at the cops, and they provided an appropriate response. There were people essentially taunting the cops by knocking down the portable barricades. Why did they have to do that? That's got nothing to do with protesting. To be fair though, most of the people weren't there to cause damage or provoke the police. I think the few that were were quite a lot louder than the masses though.
I noted a HUGE proportion of journalists. Ever wonder how those dramatic pictures of lines of cops appear after each protest? The answer, it seems, is that half the people in the front line of protesters are holding cameras! What the media showed was a complete distortion of reality. On TV, you'd see a clip of protesters running towards the line of cops, stopping, and being pushed back by the cops. They've clearly cherry-picked, because what I saw was waves of cameramen running up to get a closeup. And then retreating to get the intense shot of a charging cop.
But to get back to your point about the police, the ones in London did a great job. They allowed the legitimate protesters to protest, and then made sure the rump of troublemakers weren't allowed to go on a rampage as everyone else went home. There was a greatly exaggerated story about a man who died that day, which from looking at it IMO was an unfortunate coincidence. But the fact is the police have to be careful of accusations of brutality, as they are after all the representatives of state force.
because to do that they'd have to be in Secaucus, NJ.
Interestingly, someone was talking about the start of the "nitpicking" in connection with this experiment. I can't remember the article, or I'd link it, but they mentioned things like adjusting for the oblation of the Earth, tidal pull of the Moon, GPS location of the labs, and such things. Stuff that makes a pretty small difference to the measured distance in % terms, but I guess this needs to be super-accurate.
Hasn't the value of c been verified to within a very tight tolerance, many times, by a great many people, and with much rigor? If we now found c to be different, you'd have to explain a mountain of evidence, ie how did everyone come up with the same number every single time, even though they were doing it in slightly different ways, in different places, and importantly in different frames of reference? Surely the systematic error would have shown up somewhere?
Various considerations such as the fact that empty space isn't empty must have been addressed by someone (would be nice to know exactly what the reason for that one is though).
This is a good point too. Particularly in Europe, where education tends to be either free or much cheaper than in the US, there's a lot of people doing degrees that are interesting to them, but where the value to society is a bit unobvious.
The flipside of funding is control. You pays your money, you makes your choice. Well, society is paying. But you decide? This is a huge disconnect.
My dad grew up in a communist country, and they actually were actually consistent and implemented this. He wanted to study physics, they needed economists. So that's what he studied.
I think it's great having educated people around too, but that doesn't mean the person receiving it doesn't get more out of it than other people. A system where people get their degrees for free is one where the people who don't get one end up paying in order to raise the salaries of people who do. That doesn't sound right, that the garbage collector ends up paying my bill so that I can go off and get a nice programming job.
Also, you shouldn't need a college degree to understand how society works. General education such as knowing how parliament works should be taught in secondary schools. And understanding the issues, people can do that just by reading the papers.
Wow, that's unbelievable! How the heck is it the role of government to decide what is or isn't relevant for a job?
And how is this ruling applied across industries? Did you know the NFL combine uses a pseudo-IQ test to see how quick thinking the players are? I mean it's a pretty important business skill for them, and fair enough to check.
Also, can't you figure out roughly how smart someone is by interviewing them? That has the benefit that you don't even need to reveal the true reasons for not hiring them. Interviews may not be perfect, but then neither are diplomas and IQ scores.
Well, quite simply when you get a degree the extra salary you can command lands in your hands. The extra benefit to society is divided among a large number of people. Sure, there are network effects, but I doubt you could tell whether one more guy somewhere out there gets a degree. So if you were to come up with an amount you as a member of society ought to pay for that guy's tuition, I'm guessing it would be much lower than what the guy thought it would be worth contributing to his own education.
Also, everyone is happy to call education an investment. Me too. Now, who should pay the costs if that investment turns out not to pay off? Because that's possible with investments. Should we socialize the losses? Or should the guy who took the gamble eat the loss? Bit of both, for the same reasons.
Still, it's not the fact that people are foreign that makes them incompetent. It's their incompetence. Surely the managers should be sanctioned for hiring incompetents?
A couple of things to say about this...
Those schools are still reputable, whether or not you like how they obtained that status. And they do seem to produce a lot of research, though that isn't necessarily indicative of a being a good place to be educated.
Also, I suppose we're talking about undergrad education. Having gone to a well-known place in Britain, I've concluded that education is more or less the same, regardless of where you go. Any Engineering course for example will still have more or less the same content. It's really only the kids that are different.