Re:funny comparing to "high speed rail" elsewhere
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The problems are that a) Congress has consistantly underfunded Amtrak for decades, leading to slower maintenance, and b) in just about all of the rest of the country, Amtrack goes over leased trackage from other railroads... who do no, or almost no, passenger, and all freight... and so they maintain the trackage to *freight* standards (trains hitting 80mph are *very* rare - 55 or 60 is full speed, and slower for long, heavy trains.
OR, you **COULD** note that Passenger Rail was effectively killed by the Interstate Highway System in the 1950s, and Congress funds AMTRAK primarily to keep the only viable lines going: the Northeast Corridor, and to a lesser extent, the San Francisco-San Diego corridor. Highways and airlines have effectively obsoleted railroads for most passenger applications in the vast majority of the US. . .
Don't remind me, I just had a headhunter pitch a job to me, with her going on and on about their "diversity, respect, and social responsibility", and how the employer "strives to help you become the best person you can possibly be. . . ".
I guess excellence and profit motivation aren't attractive anymore. . .
A single image proves nothing more than that the originator can use a graphics program. I prefer to look at the underlying data, thank you, and look at planetary processes in terms of centuries and millenia, not years. . .
. . ..What a breakthrough! NOW, you don't need to hack VOIP to SWAT somebody, the most you need to do is spoof your IP address. . ..assuming the system is smart enough to log and geo-locate IPs in the first place. . .
Really ?? Haven't seen any whales at the local fishin' hole. And cows with an RPG ? Depends if you want steak. . ..or hamburger (evil grin). Of course, RPGs aren't terribly easy to come by in North America, so that's a bit of a straw man, too.
But back to the Smart Rifle. The OBVIOUS uses for such a weapon are for military and police sniper units. And the occaisional rich jerk who wants to brag that he or she can never miss. Those of us who have developed and maintained our skill at marksmanship are unlikely to want one: it would be like putting training wheels on the 1966 Shelby AC Cobra you painstakingly restored. . . .
That was my experience. And papers were checked for plagiarism via TurnItIn.com. (Note: not going to go into the Intellectual Property problems of TurnItIn and similar services, just that they were used to prevent/reduce fraud. ..)
That might get you TO an interview, but I very much doubt that your example of offshoring your own coursework will get you past the first technical interview. You simply cannot BS your way past demonstrating technical depth.
CAVEAT: I got MY Masters in MIS entirely online. I also put 20+ hours a week into it for over two years to do so, on top of a full-time job. As always, reward is commensurate with effort expended.
Au contraire !!! The OP has a credential saying that he or she can follow pointless directions for long periods of time. That's invaluable in today's Corporate environment. . .
Well, back at my old school, we had three tracks for Calc: "HMSS", aimed at the Arts-n-crafts and Business majors (literally, Humanities, Management, and Social Science): 4 semesters, nothing more that double integrals. The "Standard" track, for Engineering and Science students: 3 semesters, through triple integrals and polar coordinates, and the Braniac Track, the Standard Track in a 2-semester course.
The problem, as **I** see it, is the societal urge to send everyone to college. That, at least in my opinion, is a mistake. We have a serious lack of people in the skilled trades and technician roles, and this need will grow as more mundane manufacturing and even office tasks are automated out of existence.
For example: Sysadmins and Network Engineers would likely be better served by a mostly-hands on curriculum, but with other crucial skills like programming and breaking tasks down into individual actions. I speak as a guy with a Bachelor's, Masters, and about half of my Ph.D done: degrees for all too many skills are really just HR differentiators and proof you can accomplish long and complex tasks, with some direction. . .
Well, considering the pass rate through Freshman Calc in the Engineering/Science track was only ~60% when **I** was an undergrad in the early 1980s. . .
Academic or not, they're Redshirts EITHER way. . . .
Except nobody MAKES a 7-round magazine, and certainly won't for every variety of firearm out there. It **MIGHT** be worthwhile tooling up for a 7-round mag for a 1911-series pistol, AR rifles, and AK rifles. But the gun owners would crucify, via a boycott, any company who produced them. There is already talk of boycotting gun companies that remain in NY and Connectitcut: Magpul and others are ALREADY abandoning Colorado (after accellerating production and shipping to Colorado customers to get mags into people's hands before the new law took effect: A Grandfathering provision protects anything sold before the effective date of the law. . . ) .
Which is an amusing thought: the shop tools required to build, for example, an AK rifle from a de-milled parts kit and a 20-dollar flat are cheaper than buying a 3-D printer. And printer filament isn't cheap either: I would wager that you could purchase everything you need to build an AK-format rifle, **including tooling**, for less than many 3D printers. And that's buying NEW tools. . .
Bad ammo causes weapon damage as well. And plenty of people build their own guns: you can build an AK-format rifle cheaper than buying one, although it DOES take some fairly common shop tools. . ..So the "public health" issue is a straw-man argument. If you really wanted to, you could build a simple single-shot pistol or shotgun with hand tools and perhaps $10-20 of common parts available in any store that sells plumbing supplies. . .
Honestly, if it got to that point, I'd expect the gun grabs to end after the first week or so. Because after the first innocent dies in a raid, I expect that "grab raids" getting ambushed, and retribution against politcians and members of grab teams(and their families) will likely start. And if it goes beyond that. ..well, there's always the Bracken Scenario. . .
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He didn't get no edumacation.
He don't needed no foursed corntroll.
No ferced sercusm, im de clessrem. . . .
The problems are that a) Congress has consistantly underfunded Amtrak for decades, leading to slower maintenance, and b) in just about all of the rest of the country, Amtrack goes over leased trackage from other railroads... who do no, or almost no, passenger, and all freight... and so they maintain the trackage to *freight* standards (trains hitting 80mph are *very* rare - 55 or 60 is full speed, and slower for long, heavy trains.
OR, you **COULD** note that Passenger Rail was effectively killed by the Interstate Highway System in the 1950s, and Congress funds AMTRAK primarily to keep the only viable lines going: the Northeast Corridor, and to a lesser extent, the San Francisco-San Diego corridor. Highways and airlines have effectively obsoleted railroads for most passenger applications in the vast majority of the US. . .
Don't remind me, I just had a headhunter pitch a job to me, with her going on and on about their "diversity, respect, and social responsibility", and how the employer "strives to help you become the best person you can possibly be. . . ". I guess excellence and profit motivation aren't attractive anymore. . .
Hey, it beat the older semaphore interface all hollow. . . .
A single image proves nothing more than that the originator can use a graphics program. I prefer to look at the underlying data, thank you, and look at planetary processes in terms of centuries and millenia, not years. . .
WHAT warming trend ?? The world temp has stabilized and DROPPED. And it appears we MAY be going into a Maunder-type Solar Minima. . .
. . . .What a breakthrough! NOW, you don't need to hack VOIP to SWAT somebody, the most you need to do is spoof your IP address. . . .assuming the system is smart enough to log and geo-locate IPs in the first place. . .
Somebody obviously knows NOTHING about how the 'net works.. . This is, after all. . . . serious business..
But back to the Smart Rifle. The OBVIOUS uses for such a weapon are for military and police sniper units. And the occaisional rich jerk who wants to brag that he or she can never miss. Those of us who have developed and maintained our skill at marksmanship are unlikely to want one: it would be like putting training wheels on the 1966 Shelby AC Cobra you painstakingly restored. . . .
That was my experience. And papers were checked for plagiarism via TurnItIn.com. (Note: not going to go into the Intellectual Property problems of TurnItIn and similar services, just that they were used to prevent/reduce fraud. . .)
CAVEAT: I got MY Masters in MIS entirely online. I also put 20+ hours a week into it for over two years to do so, on top of a full-time job. As always, reward is commensurate with effort expended.
. . .and the lousy hunters. . . . (evil grin)
Au contraire !!! The OP has a credential saying that he or she can follow pointless directions for long periods of time. That's invaluable in today's Corporate environment. . .
(please ignore the comments from cops who look like Charlton Heston. . .)
Nevermind. THOSE are gone now, too. Pity the State Department doesn't realize NOTHING goes away on the net. . .
So. . .
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Well, back at my old school, we had three tracks for Calc: "HMSS", aimed at the Arts-n-crafts and Business majors (literally, Humanities, Management, and Social Science): 4 semesters, nothing more that double integrals. The "Standard" track, for Engineering and Science students: 3 semesters, through triple integrals and polar coordinates, and the Braniac Track, the Standard Track in a 2-semester course. The problem, as **I** see it, is the societal urge to send everyone to college. That, at least in my opinion, is a mistake. We have a serious lack of people in the skilled trades and technician roles, and this need will grow as more mundane manufacturing and even office tasks are automated out of existence. For example: Sysadmins and Network Engineers would likely be better served by a mostly-hands on curriculum, but with other crucial skills like programming and breaking tasks down into individual actions. I speak as a guy with a Bachelor's, Masters, and about half of my Ph.D done: degrees for all too many skills are really just HR differentiators and proof you can accomplish long and complex tasks, with some direction. . .
Well, considering the pass rate through Freshman Calc in the Engineering/Science track was only ~60% when **I** was an undergrad in the early 1980s. . . Academic or not, they're Redshirts EITHER way. . . .
PassWORDs ??? Stopped using those years ago, PassPHRASES are the way to go. . .
Except nobody MAKES a 7-round magazine, and certainly won't for every variety of firearm out there. It **MIGHT** be worthwhile tooling up for a 7-round mag for a 1911-series pistol, AR rifles, and AK rifles. But the gun owners would crucify, via a boycott, any company who produced them. There is already talk of boycotting gun companies that remain in NY and Connectitcut: Magpul and others are ALREADY abandoning Colorado (after accellerating production and shipping to Colorado customers to get mags into people's hands before the new law took effect: A Grandfathering provision protects anything sold before the effective date of the law. . . ) .
I'll be in my bunk. . . . ;-)
Which is an amusing thought: the shop tools required to build, for example, an AK rifle from a de-milled parts kit and a 20-dollar flat are cheaper than buying a 3-D printer. And printer filament isn't cheap either: I would wager that you could purchase everything you need to build an AK-format rifle, **including tooling**, for less than many 3D printers. And that's buying NEW tools. . .
I'd say FAR earlier than that. Production-line firearms preceded powered shops by quite a bit. . .
Bad ammo causes weapon damage as well. And plenty of people build their own guns: you can build an AK-format rifle cheaper than buying one, although it DOES take some fairly common shop tools. . . .So the "public health" issue is a straw-man argument. If you really wanted to, you could build a simple single-shot pistol or shotgun with hand tools and perhaps $10-20 of common parts available in any store that sells plumbing supplies. . .
Honestly, if it got to that point, I'd expect the gun grabs to end after the first week or so. Because after the first innocent dies in a raid, I expect that "grab raids" getting ambushed, and retribution against politcians and members of grab teams(and their families) will likely start. And if it goes beyond that. . .well, there's always the Bracken Scenario. . .
In many ways, owning and USING a gun is the ultimate vote. After all, the Second Amendment speaks of maintaining a free state, not hunting. . .