I love how at this point in the conversion you have already started playing the odds in who might actually be more realistic to be caught having sex...
After I read the bit about "jack-booted airport security gauntlet" I figured I was dealing with a 14-year-old boy.
And the actions of his mother did not? And the actions of all the other people whom we don't even know but who certainly exist, in a world populated with homophobes to a certain degree? Yet none of these are being prosecuted. Why?
Maybe because all those other people didn't commit crimes against him so egregious as to push him over the edge?
Besides, he should do time for the whole witness tampering thing alone.
Invading his privacy? And what if the caught husband commits suicide? That's basically what this decision amounts to - if you videocam a co-resident in your own bedroom, the government could charge you with invasion of privacy.
Well, if you videotape your cheating wife and invite your friends over twitter to come what them have sex, then yeah, I would consider it invading the guy's privacy. You wouldn't? If you have housemates do you think it would be appropriate for them to film and display to others anything you do in there?
Are you being serious? Even if you don't buy the "Bias Intimidation" stuff he most certainly did criminal acts.
1. Invasion of Privacy. You honest don't think filming someone having sex and displaying it to other people shouldn't be a crime? How would you like someone filming your parents together and displaying it?
2. Witness tampering. He tried to get witnesses to lie to the police. In what parallel universe do you live in where that is just "being an asshole". Are you in the mob?
If you steal a stop sign and someone who was also speeding crashes, you are probably guilty of manslaughter.
This poor kid was obviously very troubled, but if you look at the totality of his communications, he was obviously pushed over the edge by this Ravi asshole. If Ravi hadn't have been such a colossal jerk, the kid would still be alive. He only started thinking of suicide AFTER he started getting harassed.
The theory of "Hate Crime" was introduced to combat people with a shared belief system looking the other way. It was very hard to fight the KKK during the 20s because so much of the local police forces were members. The feds needed new tools to take them down.
Certain segments of society have special protections over other segments of society because, historically, certain segments of society have special animosity coupled with power over other segments of society.
True, he didn't do anything worse than what you would see on the American Pie movies.
But, the fact remains he is guilty of the crimes. It's like those kids you steal stop signs and street signs. Lot's of kids in my area used to do that. But only once that I know of did someone die because they didn't stop. Now the kids have involuntary manslaughter convictions and that is appropriate, even though probably dozens of kids did the same thing without being caught.
My point is his actions certainly contributed strongly to the suicide. He did the crime. True, there are a lot of jerks in dorms all over the country, but they are lucky enough to not have people kill themselves over their actions.
Lastly, even if you consider spying on someone having sex and displaying for others on a computer to be equivalent to assault, keep in mind he was also convicted of witness tampering and felony intimidation.
I think you may have misunderstood me. I wasn't implying that the module was monolithic. Flip-clip alignment masks are cut using optical techniques (as you surely know since it seems you work in IC layout), ergo lithography.
As for the fiber termination, you could be right, I have no idea. My guess is there is a tapered connector, but since this is a research project it is entirely possible someone did it with a microscope. In that case, that guy (or gal) certainly does deserve a medal.
At my last job, both the layout guys drank ass-loads of Mt. Dew. The layout gal drank coffee. My current group is too small to support a layout engineer, so I have the honor of doing that myself. I mostly drink Diet Pepsi.
I hope you're being sarcastic. The lasers, diodes and through-silicon vias are aligned using lithography. That heroic individual is a guy sitting in front of a workstation drinking Mountain Dew.
I don't know if the jokes are that dumb. I work in a similar organization and the characters of that show certainly inhabit familiar archetypes. Where it goes off the rails, in my opinion, is in conflating science geekery with comic books, video games and the like.
I don't know of anyone I work with who is into comics or video games.
I actually used that as my main browser for part of graduate school (on HP-UX). It was actually better than our version of Netscape. I used Netscape on my computer at home and I think the Windows version was far, far, superior to the Unix version.
The term Gigawatt used to be pronounced "Jigawatt" in the United States. In the 1950s this was common practice. I know this because I am an electrical engineer and have worked on RF projects. Almost everyone today says "Gigaherz" and "Gigawatt" but a few old timers nearing retirement still say "Jigaherz" and "Jigawatt".
According to one of these guys arguing the correct pronunciation of Gigawatt was a holy war in the 60s, similar to vi vs emacs or mac vs pc.
I think the end of "physics is American" was at least 20 years ago. Most American physicists working on foreign-led collaborations do so from American institutions... as far as I know very few Americans are working in foreign countries.
I do understand the sentiment, though. Over the last 10 years federal funding of high-energy physics has been essential flat... meaning it has been declining in real terms. A shame.
No, we're not replacing it. We have made the decision as a society not to compete in accelerators for high-energy physics after we canceled the superconducting supercollider.
We still have good accelerator facilities for light sources, and there is work to build an accelerator at Fermilab with a high-intensity beam. There is also a proposal for a very powerful light source working it's way through the DOE.
Plenty of American physicists do work with facilities overseas. Physics has become very international. Maybe a bit sad, but it's not the end of the world.
They can't have it both ways. One one hand, they send me bullshit, cutesy emails from "Your Friends at Netflix" and on the other hand they act like a rapacious, amoral corporation.
They want you to think they have your best interests at heart while they reach around to your wallet.
They have every right to be abusive to their customers and charge what the market will bear. I just wish they would spare me the hypocrisy and the lies.
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I love how at this point in the conversion you have already started playing the odds in who might actually be more realistic to be caught having sex...
After I read the bit about "jack-booted airport security gauntlet" I figured I was dealing with a 14-year-old boy.
And the actions of his mother did not? And the actions of all the other people whom we don't even know but who certainly exist, in a world populated with homophobes to a certain degree? Yet none of these are being prosecuted. Why?
Maybe because all those other people didn't commit crimes against him so egregious as to push him over the edge?
Besides, he should do time for the whole witness tampering thing alone.
Invading his privacy? And what if the caught husband commits suicide? That's basically what this decision amounts to - if you videocam a co-resident in your own bedroom, the government could charge you with invasion of privacy.
Well, if you videotape your cheating wife and invite your friends over twitter to come what them have sex, then yeah, I would consider it invading the guy's privacy. You wouldn't? If you have housemates do you think it would be appropriate for them to film and display to others anything you do in there?
Are you being serious? Even if you don't buy the "Bias Intimidation" stuff he most certainly did criminal acts.
1. Invasion of Privacy. You honest don't think filming someone having sex and displaying it to other people shouldn't be a crime? How would you like someone filming your parents together and displaying it?
2. Witness tampering. He tried to get witnesses to lie to the police. In what parallel universe do you live in where that is just "being an asshole". Are you in the mob?
If you steal a stop sign and someone who was also speeding crashes, you are probably guilty of manslaughter.
This poor kid was obviously very troubled, but if you look at the totality of his communications, he was obviously pushed over the edge by this Ravi asshole. If Ravi hadn't have been such a colossal jerk, the kid would still be alive. He only started thinking of suicide AFTER he started getting harassed.
The theory of "Hate Crime" was introduced to combat people with a shared belief system looking the other way. It was very hard to fight the KKK during the 20s because so much of the local police forces were members. The feds needed new tools to take them down.
Certain segments of society have special protections over other segments of society because, historically, certain segments of society have special animosity coupled with power over other segments of society.
What basis do you have for making this claim? The texts, chats, and tweets he made regarding the situation dispute your assertion.
He explicitly tried to get his friends to watch because it was so "crazy" to see "two dudes".
True, he didn't do anything worse than what you would see on the American Pie movies.
But, the fact remains he is guilty of the crimes. It's like those kids you steal stop signs and street signs. Lot's of kids in my area used to do that. But only once that I know of did someone die because they didn't stop. Now the kids have involuntary manslaughter convictions and that is appropriate, even though probably dozens of kids did the same thing without being caught.
My point is his actions certainly contributed strongly to the suicide. He did the crime. True, there are a lot of jerks in dorms all over the country, but they are lucky enough to not have people kill themselves over their actions.
Lastly, even if you consider spying on someone having sex and displaying for others on a computer to be equivalent to assault, keep in mind he was also convicted of witness tampering and felony intimidation.
Those articles must have been really old. The neutrino was first observed in 1959.
The issue isn't that companies have some sort of moral obligation to train their employees. They are free to train, outsource, hire, whatever.
The point is that it usually ends up more expensive to not invest in your workforce. It's one of those save a penny today. lose a pound tomorrow.
I think you may have misunderstood me. I wasn't implying that the module was monolithic. Flip-clip alignment masks are cut using optical techniques (as you surely know since it seems you work in IC layout), ergo lithography.
As for the fiber termination, you could be right, I have no idea. My guess is there is a tapered connector, but since this is a research project it is entirely possible someone did it with a microscope. In that case, that guy (or gal) certainly does deserve a medal.
At my last job, both the layout guys drank ass-loads of Mt. Dew. The layout gal drank coffee. My current group is too small to support a layout engineer, so I have the honor of doing that myself. I mostly drink Diet Pepsi.
The communication channel in the article is very, very different from the single mode fiber 400 Gbps link you give. You can't multiply them together.
The chip in the article is very, very short range and doesn't use heavy-duty signal processing.
The long-distance links are incredibly power-hungry and use a lot of expensive and challenging signal processing.
And which chip had the older, clunkier technology? They use very different technology.
The linked article sucks. Here it is straight from the horse's mouth.
http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/37095.wss
I hope you're being sarcastic. The lasers, diodes and through-silicon vias are aligned using lithography. That heroic individual is a guy sitting in front of a workstation drinking Mountain Dew.
I lost my job in the recession, too. I make 86% of what I was making in 2009.
I suck. Although, I will hazard a guess that you're the exception and I'm the rule.
Funny, I've known PhDs who are incredibly competent and capable, and dropouts who couldn't reason themselves out of a paper bag.
Just goes to show you that people are individuals.
I don't know if the jokes are that dumb. I work in a similar organization and the characters of that show certainly inhabit familiar archetypes. Where it goes off the rails, in my opinion, is in conflating science geekery with comic books, video games and the like.
I don't know of anyone I work with who is into comics or video games.
That was really funny.
I actually used that as my main browser for part of graduate school (on HP-UX). It was actually better than our version of Netscape. I used Netscape on my computer at home and I think the Windows version was far, far, superior to the Unix version.
The term Gigawatt used to be pronounced "Jigawatt" in the United States. In the 1950s this was common practice. I know this because I am an electrical engineer and have worked on RF projects. Almost everyone today says "Gigaherz" and "Gigawatt" but a few old timers nearing retirement still say "Jigaherz" and "Jigawatt".
According to one of these guys arguing the correct pronunciation of Gigawatt was a holy war in the 60s, similar to vi vs emacs or mac vs pc.
"Gigawatt" won. Because it is superior. Like vi.
I think the end of "physics is American" was at least 20 years ago. Most American physicists working on foreign-led collaborations do so from American institutions... as far as I know very few Americans are working in foreign countries.
I do understand the sentiment, though. Over the last 10 years federal funding of high-energy physics has been essential flat... meaning it has been declining in real terms. A shame.
The US has been in second place (or worse) for a long time now. Even before the Tevatron shut down.
No, we're not replacing it. We have made the decision as a society not to compete in accelerators for high-energy physics after we canceled the superconducting supercollider.
We still have good accelerator facilities for light sources, and there is work to build an accelerator at Fermilab with a high-intensity beam. There is also a proposal for a very powerful light source working it's way through the DOE.
Plenty of American physicists do work with facilities overseas. Physics has become very international. Maybe a bit sad, but it's not the end of the world.
They can't have it both ways. One one hand, they send me bullshit, cutesy emails from "Your Friends at Netflix" and on the other hand they act like a rapacious, amoral corporation.
They want you to think they have your best interests at heart while they reach around to your wallet.
They have every right to be abusive to their customers and charge what the market will bear. I just wish they would spare me the hypocrisy and the lies.
I canceled my subscription.
Actually, antimatter should look and act exactly like matter, except for the whole explosion thing when it interacts with matter.