The thing that really bothers me is that these whistleblower engineers have Wikipedia pages about them, they're listed by name in discussions or articles (including Wikipedia) about the disaster, etc.
But where is the list of names of the managers who were *directly responsible for the deaths of the Challenger crew*? These people are guilty of **murder**. Yet we never see their names anywhere, they're just referred to as anonymous "managers".
Why is this? These murderers should be publicly listed and shamed for the scum that they are.
Well I just figured out how to prevent more suicide bombings at airports and other such public places: Robotically controlled rifles.
Set up robotically controlled rifles, hidden from plain view in the ceiling or something, armed with microphones and able to move and target a person and shoot them in less than 1 second. The microphone listens for anyone shouting "Allahu Akbar!" and then the system immediately shoots them dead before they can detonate their vest.
With modern voice recognition technology, the computer should be able to recognize that phrase positively within milliseconds, and from there it's just a matter of triangulating the location of the shouter and identifying him and then training the best-positioned rifle on his head and shooting.
There's a big difference. Those shootings in your area probably involved very small numbers of people, and were targeted. Usually, in the US, shootings occur between criminals (such as turf wars or drug deals gone bad), or because of some kind of relationship conflict (domestic violence). Occasionally, we get a "mass shooting" like Columbine where some nuts try to kill a bunch of people, and that is directly comparable to terrorism, but the others just aren't. If you avoid criminal gangs and violent spouses, you generally won't have a problem.
Over in Europe, it's probably better than here, except for the Muslim terrorists, since they don't have such easy access to firearms. You never heard about Columbine-style shootings over there, and domestic violence generally doesn't involve guns, and they don't seem to have the drug trafficking problems we have. So if they got rid of Muslim terrorists, they'd probably have the most peaceful society on Earth.
Oh please. The world is a lot smaller now thanks to faster and cheaper travel and far better communications, not to mention trade. Even well before the EU, there were various trade agreements and such between European nations. Abandoning the EU isn't suddenly going to make Germany want to go to war with France again (in fact, if the EU were abandoned, it'd probably be replaced with something resembling it in many ways and still including the major western economies in some kind of trade agreement). The problems in Europe today are caused by people, both inside and outside Europe, who are culturally not European and hate western culture.
He didn't notice. I have a Mazda too, and if you leave the engine running as you leave the car (with the key in your pocket), it beeps loudly and annoyingly, just like your Toyota and Subaru (though not "constantly", it beeps for several seconds as you walk away). You'd have to be deaf to miss it.
I have a 2015 Mazda3, and it's the same. It works by having multiple transceivers mounted around the vehicle: one on each front door, one on the hatch door, and one (maybe two) inside the passenger compartment. It can tell where the key is that way.
I thought Europeans were more interested in fuel economy, since fuel taxes are so high there. Automatics get better fuel economy than manuals in all new cars now.
No, you could go *entirely* back to pre-9/11 levels of security, including unlocked, unreinforced cockpit doors, and there would be no measurable increase in terrorism risk. The 9/11 attacks will never work again; if anyone tried it, they would be physically torn limb-from-limb by the passengers. This was proven when the 4th plane went down, and also on subsequent attempted attacks where passengers physically attacked the terrorists.
Nothing actually has to change to prevent another 9/11-style attack. Passengers have taken care of that themselves. It's just like the other poster here said: it was a classic Trojan-horse style attack. It'll never work again, because no one is dumb enough to fall for it again.
Other types of attacks are still possible, so we do still need screenings for those, and locked, reinforced cockpit doors just make good sense (someone could still get in there and do a lot of damage before the passengers rip them to shreds), but the metal detectors and luggage xraying we did before is really sufficient.
This is why engineers need to build some offworld colonies so we can start a new society where reason is more valued than narcissism and we don't have to deal with emotional idiots electing sociopathic politicians.
Are you Asian by birth, or by heritage? There's a big difference, and it's absolutely correct for me to make generalizations about the culture of your birth and upbringing. If you were born and raised in America, then my comments about Asian women may not apply to you (esp. if you're 3rd generation or something), and you're really not "Asian", any more than I'm "Irish" or "German" (I've never been there but my ancestors came from there a long time ago).
American culture is not like Asian cultures (which of course do differ from each other, but on average are much more different from American culture than each other). Asian cultures value different things than American culture, and correspondingly, women from those cultures will have different values when looking at men to date than American women.
Also, I don't think it's a coincidence that female software engineers have a far higher incidence of Indian or east Asian ancestry than the general American public.
And finally, no, I'm not suggesting slavery, I'm suggesting increasing the dating pool. There's no shortage of women from southeast Asia and Russia who are interested in dating Western men. Maybe someone should bring more of them over and set them up with decent jobs in areas where there's a surplus of single men (most west coast cities), since apparently the surplus single women in DC and NYC aren't interested in moving west (and there's not too many applicable tech jobs in those cities for all those single men like there are in Silicon Valley).
That sounds a lot like me when I was younger. I had friends, but they were just like me, and we talked incessantly about common interests (video games, computers, etc.).
The problem came after I grew up and got into the "real world"; it's not so easy to find compatible friends after you've moved away from where you went to school, and it's really hard finding women who have any interest, even if you are tall and handsome. Women aren't as interested in men's looks as they are in outgoing, confident personalities, and there's a big stigma in our society against men who are introverted with "nerdy" interests. Your son may not be too interested in girls now, but if he's hetero that's going to change at some point (probably in college, that's when I got a lot more serious about girls) and he's likely to have a lot of trouble with that. However, I'm not trying to be negative, but if he's gay, he'll probably do great in life. It's probably too soon to tell now.
b. USB to micro USB: the need was super slim smart phones, try finding a 0.4" thick smartphone nowadays.
I disagree. You might have forgotten, but before microUSB, phones used to have miniUSB jacks instead. MiniUSB wasn't that much taller than microUSB, but was FAR more robust as a connector. We should just go back to that one, and tell Apple to shove it with their stupid super-slim phones. I'd rather have a thicker phone with a better USB jack and a beefier battery.
He misspoke (miswrote): his condo is not 22 stories tall, it's on the 22nd story of a high-rise condo building. That really should be obvious.
And I disagree about the condo and Ferrari. You may be right, but you may not, there's no way to tell unless he responds here to fill in the gaps. While I don't have a swanky condo or a Ferrari, I do think I have a decent setup to offer the right woman, but I also don't come out and show anything off right in my profile, I leave that for them to find out if they invest enough time and interest into learning more about me. I could just be projecting with this Ferrari guy, but I see no reason to assume he's showing off his Ferrari right in his profile. I just think it's much more likely he has a hard time finding a single woman because there is, by objective standards, a serious lack of single women in Seattle.
Is it really that bad an idea? And for all the times you've seen it, was it between actual coworkers?
At a small company, yeah, I can see this advice making a lot of sense. Everyone knows everyone, you probably work at least somewhat closely with the potential dating partner, so if it goes bad (which it likely will, most relationships fail before getting to marriage, and then half of those fail too), it's really going to affect your work environment.
But Amazon is a **HUGE** company (or to be trendy, maybe I should say "YYUUGE"). I believe there's at least several hundred thousand employees. So yeah, dating within your little workgroup of a dozen or so people is probably a bad idea, but what about dating some girl who works in accounting in a different building on the other side of the campus, who you only met because of an Amazon-specific dating app, or maybe you ran into her at the company cafeteria? I don't see how that could be all that dangerous. I guess if she turns out to be a psycho and accuses you of sexual harassment when you dump her, but really, the changes of that are probably pretty low.
Somehow, this reminds me a lot about the Dilbert cartoon years ago where the PHB tells Dilbert that their company only hires the very best engineers, but then pays market rate.
As a divorcee living near a city full of a glut of these "upwardly mobile career women", this is basically my experience. It would be really nice to date a marry a woman with a good career so we can both enjoy sharing our high incomes, but the problem seems to be that these women, even when they're around 40 years old and never married, have ridiculous expectations. They seem to want a guy that looks and dresses like a GQ model, has never been married, is over 6 feet tall, has a high-income job, has a strong and outgoing personality, lives across the street from her downtown condo, and probably a bunch of other traits I'm missing. So being a 6-foot tall good-looking but introverted software engineer (and worse, one who's divorced) who doesn't live in a swanky downtown condo means you're not interesting to them.
From what I've seen, the countries which would be really nice to live in (western Europe) aren't very easy for Americans to move to. The countries which are easy to move to are 3rd-world and not places where you're going to get a high-paying job programming.
After I went out to talk with them for a day, I came away with the impression that there are a large number of really arrogant and pushy people working there. Undoubtedly, my personal experience isn't statistical representation of the whole company, but I wasn't very impressed with them as people. They seemed stressed, hurried, egotistical, and self-centered.
I have to call BS on this. What you're describing is typical American culture. American women, being part of that same culture, should be happy to date American men like that.
If nobody at Amazon can land a date, what does that tell you? A lack of girls in Seattle?
Actually, yes: many demographic studies have shown a severe lack of single women in Seattle, just as bad as Silicon Valley.
MicroUSB does indeed suck for the reasons you list. I wish they had just stuck with MiniUSB instead; it's a far superior standard, and was completely sidelined by microUSB. MiniUSB connectors are barely any larger (they're taller, so of course stupid Apple didn't like that with their idiotic drive towards thinness), but they have a strong metal shield around them that makes it impossible to insert them the wrong way, and they have much more positive feedback on proper seating. If I could, I'd replace all my microUSB sockets with them.
A lot of the older standards were generally superior to modern standards as far as robustness. Just look at how long we've been using DB15 VGA connectors for instance. But some newer connectors are decent to very good: USB type B (not A) is a favorite of mine, for instance: it's not too huge (unlike an old DB9 or worse DB25 serial port), but it's obvious which way is "up", it's not so small that it's delicate, and has decent positive feedback. Type A is OK; it's not terribly delicate but it is stupid that it has no really easy way to tell which way is up without looking at logos. DisplayPort isn't too bad; it's shaped so it's pretty obvious which way to orient it and has good feedback. HDMI isn't too bad either.
This is Seattle: many studies have shown that it has a severe lack of single women. His problem is likely not so much him, but the lack of a dating pool. You're assuming that he actually touts his Ferrari and condo in his personals ads; that may or may not be true, but I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt and assume he doesn't, and he's smartly waiting until he picks up a date before she sees he's driving an older Ferrari. I haven't been all that successful with dating either, but even I know enough to not post pictures of my car or talk about my car in my profiles (though I don't have a Ferrari or anything terribly flashy either, just a very sensible but still quick Mazda3 with a bike rack). If you want a quality woman, you have to show pictures of yourself that show what you really look like, and show you doing fun things or going fun places she might enjoy (but don't overdo it with cliché crap like Machu Pichu), not photos showing off your possessions or your washboard abs.
As for 22 flights of stairs, have you never heard of an elevator????
These are all correct, and this is why engineers should look for women from Asia to date, rather than dating American-born (and especially Caucasian) women. Women from Asia have a totally different outlook on engineers, and see them as good, stable partners with very good income potential. Asian women also tend not to care too much about "alpha males" or men who try to emulate Hollywood stereotypes and want men who are loyal and good providers for their families.
So the answer is simple: Amazon should just import a whole bunch of women from southeast Asia to provide a large dating pool for their male employees.
This assertion that corporations should allow their employees to have lives outside of their companies is completely antithetical to American values and should be banned as hate speech. I hope you get locked up and waterboarded in Guantanamo for saying such a thing. Absolutely disgusting.
Can they? Every woman's profile I see on Tinder says she hates "shirtless selfie" pictures and dick pics. They also all say "no hookups".
Of course, with so many men having shirtless selfies and asking for hookups, I have to wonder if they aren't getting a good amount of success that way anyway, despite what all the women claim in their profiles.
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The thing that really bothers me is that these whistleblower engineers have Wikipedia pages about them, they're listed by name in discussions or articles (including Wikipedia) about the disaster, etc.
But where is the list of names of the managers who were *directly responsible for the deaths of the Challenger crew*? These people are guilty of **murder**. Yet we never see their names anywhere, they're just referred to as anonymous "managers".
Why is this? These murderers should be publicly listed and shamed for the scum that they are.
Well I just figured out how to prevent more suicide bombings at airports and other such public places: Robotically controlled rifles.
Set up robotically controlled rifles, hidden from plain view in the ceiling or something, armed with microphones and able to move and target a person and shoot them in less than 1 second. The microphone listens for anyone shouting "Allahu Akbar!" and then the system immediately shoots them dead before they can detonate their vest.
With modern voice recognition technology, the computer should be able to recognize that phrase positively within milliseconds, and from there it's just a matter of triangulating the location of the shouter and identifying him and then training the best-positioned rifle on his head and shooting.
There's a big difference. Those shootings in your area probably involved very small numbers of people, and were targeted. Usually, in the US, shootings occur between criminals (such as turf wars or drug deals gone bad), or because of some kind of relationship conflict (domestic violence). Occasionally, we get a "mass shooting" like Columbine where some nuts try to kill a bunch of people, and that is directly comparable to terrorism, but the others just aren't. If you avoid criminal gangs and violent spouses, you generally won't have a problem.
Over in Europe, it's probably better than here, except for the Muslim terrorists, since they don't have such easy access to firearms. You never heard about Columbine-style shootings over there, and domestic violence generally doesn't involve guns, and they don't seem to have the drug trafficking problems we have. So if they got rid of Muslim terrorists, they'd probably have the most peaceful society on Earth.
Oh please. The world is a lot smaller now thanks to faster and cheaper travel and far better communications, not to mention trade. Even well before the EU, there were various trade agreements and such between European nations. Abandoning the EU isn't suddenly going to make Germany want to go to war with France again (in fact, if the EU were abandoned, it'd probably be replaced with something resembling it in many ways and still including the major western economies in some kind of trade agreement). The problems in Europe today are caused by people, both inside and outside Europe, who are culturally not European and hate western culture.
Germany was terrorized by the Royal Air Force, UK by individual retirement accounts, and the Netherlands by Richard M Stallman?
Too many TLAs.
He didn't notice. I have a Mazda too, and if you leave the engine running as you leave the car (with the key in your pocket), it beeps loudly and annoyingly, just like your Toyota and Subaru (though not "constantly", it beeps for several seconds as you walk away). You'd have to be deaf to miss it.
I have a 2015 Mazda3, and it's the same. It works by having multiple transceivers mounted around the vehicle: one on each front door, one on the hatch door, and one (maybe two) inside the passenger compartment. It can tell where the key is that way.
Most cars in Europe are stick shift...
I thought Europeans were more interested in fuel economy, since fuel taxes are so high there. Automatics get better fuel economy than manuals in all new cars now.
No, you could go *entirely* back to pre-9/11 levels of security, including unlocked, unreinforced cockpit doors, and there would be no measurable increase in terrorism risk. The 9/11 attacks will never work again; if anyone tried it, they would be physically torn limb-from-limb by the passengers. This was proven when the 4th plane went down, and also on subsequent attempted attacks where passengers physically attacked the terrorists.
Nothing actually has to change to prevent another 9/11-style attack. Passengers have taken care of that themselves. It's just like the other poster here said: it was a classic Trojan-horse style attack. It'll never work again, because no one is dumb enough to fall for it again.
Other types of attacks are still possible, so we do still need screenings for those, and locked, reinforced cockpit doors just make good sense (someone could still get in there and do a lot of damage before the passengers rip them to shreds), but the metal detectors and luggage xraying we did before is really sufficient.
This is why engineers need to build some offworld colonies so we can start a new society where reason is more valued than narcissism and we don't have to deal with emotional idiots electing sociopathic politicians.
Are you Asian by birth, or by heritage? There's a big difference, and it's absolutely correct for me to make generalizations about the culture of your birth and upbringing. If you were born and raised in America, then my comments about Asian women may not apply to you (esp. if you're 3rd generation or something), and you're really not "Asian", any more than I'm "Irish" or "German" (I've never been there but my ancestors came from there a long time ago).
American culture is not like Asian cultures (which of course do differ from each other, but on average are much more different from American culture than each other). Asian cultures value different things than American culture, and correspondingly, women from those cultures will have different values when looking at men to date than American women.
Also, I don't think it's a coincidence that female software engineers have a far higher incidence of Indian or east Asian ancestry than the general American public.
And finally, no, I'm not suggesting slavery, I'm suggesting increasing the dating pool. There's no shortage of women from southeast Asia and Russia who are interested in dating Western men. Maybe someone should bring more of them over and set them up with decent jobs in areas where there's a surplus of single men (most west coast cities), since apparently the surplus single women in DC and NYC aren't interested in moving west (and there's not too many applicable tech jobs in those cities for all those single men like there are in Silicon Valley).
That sounds a lot like me when I was younger. I had friends, but they were just like me, and we talked incessantly about common interests (video games, computers, etc.).
The problem came after I grew up and got into the "real world"; it's not so easy to find compatible friends after you've moved away from where you went to school, and it's really hard finding women who have any interest, even if you are tall and handsome. Women aren't as interested in men's looks as they are in outgoing, confident personalities, and there's a big stigma in our society against men who are introverted with "nerdy" interests. Your son may not be too interested in girls now, but if he's hetero that's going to change at some point (probably in college, that's when I got a lot more serious about girls) and he's likely to have a lot of trouble with that. However, I'm not trying to be negative, but if he's gay, he'll probably do great in life. It's probably too soon to tell now.
b. USB to micro USB: the need was super slim smart phones, try finding a 0.4" thick smartphone nowadays.
I disagree. You might have forgotten, but before microUSB, phones used to have miniUSB jacks instead. MiniUSB wasn't that much taller than microUSB, but was FAR more robust as a connector. We should just go back to that one, and tell Apple to shove it with their stupid super-slim phones. I'd rather have a thicker phone with a better USB jack and a beefier battery.
He misspoke (miswrote): his condo is not 22 stories tall, it's on the 22nd story of a high-rise condo building. That really should be obvious.
And I disagree about the condo and Ferrari. You may be right, but you may not, there's no way to tell unless he responds here to fill in the gaps. While I don't have a swanky condo or a Ferrari, I do think I have a decent setup to offer the right woman, but I also don't come out and show anything off right in my profile, I leave that for them to find out if they invest enough time and interest into learning more about me. I could just be projecting with this Ferrari guy, but I see no reason to assume he's showing off his Ferrari right in his profile. I just think it's much more likely he has a hard time finding a single woman because there is, by objective standards, a serious lack of single women in Seattle.
Is it really that bad an idea? And for all the times you've seen it, was it between actual coworkers?
At a small company, yeah, I can see this advice making a lot of sense. Everyone knows everyone, you probably work at least somewhat closely with the potential dating partner, so if it goes bad (which it likely will, most relationships fail before getting to marriage, and then half of those fail too), it's really going to affect your work environment.
But Amazon is a **HUGE** company (or to be trendy, maybe I should say "YYUUGE"). I believe there's at least several hundred thousand employees. So yeah, dating within your little workgroup of a dozen or so people is probably a bad idea, but what about dating some girl who works in accounting in a different building on the other side of the campus, who you only met because of an Amazon-specific dating app, or maybe you ran into her at the company cafeteria? I don't see how that could be all that dangerous. I guess if she turns out to be a psycho and accuses you of sexual harassment when you dump her, but really, the changes of that are probably pretty low.
Somehow, this reminds me a lot about the Dilbert cartoon years ago where the PHB tells Dilbert that their company only hires the very best engineers, but then pays market rate.
As a divorcee living near a city full of a glut of these "upwardly mobile career women", this is basically my experience. It would be really nice to date a marry a woman with a good career so we can both enjoy sharing our high incomes, but the problem seems to be that these women, even when they're around 40 years old and never married, have ridiculous expectations. They seem to want a guy that looks and dresses like a GQ model, has never been married, is over 6 feet tall, has a high-income job, has a strong and outgoing personality, lives across the street from her downtown condo, and probably a bunch of other traits I'm missing. So being a 6-foot tall good-looking but introverted software engineer (and worse, one who's divorced) who doesn't live in a swanky downtown condo means you're not interesting to them.
Where to? Where'd you go?
From what I've seen, the countries which would be really nice to live in (western Europe) aren't very easy for Americans to move to. The countries which are easy to move to are 3rd-world and not places where you're going to get a high-paying job programming.
After I went out to talk with them for a day, I came away with the impression that there are a large number of really arrogant and pushy people working there. Undoubtedly, my personal experience isn't statistical representation of the whole company, but I wasn't very impressed with them as people. They seemed stressed, hurried, egotistical, and self-centered.
I have to call BS on this. What you're describing is typical American culture. American women, being part of that same culture, should be happy to date American men like that.
If nobody at Amazon can land a date, what does that tell you? A lack of girls in Seattle?
Actually, yes: many demographic studies have shown a severe lack of single women in Seattle, just as bad as Silicon Valley.
MicroUSB does indeed suck for the reasons you list. I wish they had just stuck with MiniUSB instead; it's a far superior standard, and was completely sidelined by microUSB. MiniUSB connectors are barely any larger (they're taller, so of course stupid Apple didn't like that with their idiotic drive towards thinness), but they have a strong metal shield around them that makes it impossible to insert them the wrong way, and they have much more positive feedback on proper seating. If I could, I'd replace all my microUSB sockets with them.
A lot of the older standards were generally superior to modern standards as far as robustness. Just look at how long we've been using DB15 VGA connectors for instance. But some newer connectors are decent to very good: USB type B (not A) is a favorite of mine, for instance: it's not too huge (unlike an old DB9 or worse DB25 serial port), but it's obvious which way is "up", it's not so small that it's delicate, and has decent positive feedback. Type A is OK; it's not terribly delicate but it is stupid that it has no really easy way to tell which way is up without looking at logos. DisplayPort isn't too bad; it's shaped so it's pretty obvious which way to orient it and has good feedback. HDMI isn't too bad either.
But yeah, microUSB is the pits.
This is Seattle: many studies have shown that it has a severe lack of single women. His problem is likely not so much him, but the lack of a dating pool. You're assuming that he actually touts his Ferrari and condo in his personals ads; that may or may not be true, but I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt and assume he doesn't, and he's smartly waiting until he picks up a date before she sees he's driving an older Ferrari. I haven't been all that successful with dating either, but even I know enough to not post pictures of my car or talk about my car in my profiles (though I don't have a Ferrari or anything terribly flashy either, just a very sensible but still quick Mazda3 with a bike rack). If you want a quality woman, you have to show pictures of yourself that show what you really look like, and show you doing fun things or going fun places she might enjoy (but don't overdo it with cliché crap like Machu Pichu), not photos showing off your possessions or your washboard abs.
As for 22 flights of stairs, have you never heard of an elevator????
These are all correct, and this is why engineers should look for women from Asia to date, rather than dating American-born (and especially Caucasian) women. Women from Asia have a totally different outlook on engineers, and see them as good, stable partners with very good income potential. Asian women also tend not to care too much about "alpha males" or men who try to emulate Hollywood stereotypes and want men who are loyal and good providers for their families.
So the answer is simple: Amazon should just import a whole bunch of women from southeast Asia to provide a large dating pool for their male employees.
This assertion that corporations should allow their employees to have lives outside of their companies is completely antithetical to American values and should be banned as hate speech. I hope you get locked up and waterboarded in Guantanamo for saying such a thing. Absolutely disgusting.
Can they? Every woman's profile I see on Tinder says she hates "shirtless selfie" pictures and dick pics. They also all say "no hookups".
Of course, with so many men having shirtless selfies and asking for hookups, I have to wonder if they aren't getting a good amount of success that way anyway, despite what all the women claim in their profiles.
Fuck off, asswipe.