I wonder how much news coverage that landslide got in Asia or Africa? If it happens somewhere else it's bad, if it happens in your backyard it's a catastrophe.
Another way to say that is that Americans tend to only care what happens in the US, for the most part, thus increasing the relative importance of what happens in the US versus what happens elsewhere in the world.
To summarize the summary: "The most striking finding is that...it was not extraordinary."
Not to belittle the loss of those involved but it's always a bit much that 43 dead in the US = catastrophe. If this had happened in Asia or Africa it wouldn't make the news unless hundreds or thousands had been killed.
Who cares what it's called? No one I know of is trying to compare this to the horrific losses in Japan after the tsunami, or other major disasters around the world. It was a big deal to us here in WA state (and I heard the terms "disaster" and "tragedy" used more often anyhow). An entire square mile of mud 10 to 40 feet thick wiped entire families and/or all their property from the face of the earth in an instance. Whatever you want to call it, it was pretty awful for everyone involved - including the rescuers.
If my next-door neighbor gets robbed or had their house burned down, that would be a big deal to our local little neighborhood. Someone in the next town over might sympathize, if they heard about it at all. It wouldn't get reported on the other side of the country. That's just the reality of life, and it's nothing to wring our hands over.
I'm in France and I'm reading about it on slashdot so it has actually made the news more or less globally.
It has nothing to do with sympathizing. I sympathize with the family of those involved.
The point that I was trying to make is that if the same thing happened outside the US then it almost certainly wouldn't make the news in the US at all, never mind being called a catastrophe.
And yes, the word matters because of the scope that it implies.
To summarize the summary: "The most striking finding is that...it was not extraordinary."
Not to belittle the loss of those involved but it's always a bit much that 43 dead in the US = catastrophe. If this had happened in Asia or Africa it wouldn't make the news unless hundreds or thousands had been killed.
You are assuming that the Oso slide made the Asian and African news outlets.
No I am not and I don't see how you arrived at your conclusion -
To summarize the summary: "The most striking finding is that...it was not extraordinary."
Not to belittle the loss of those involved but it's always a bit much that 43 dead in the US = catastrophe. If this had happened in Asia or Africa it wouldn't make the news unless hundreds or thousands had been killed.
The plane was 10km up. It wasn't shot down by something bought for $50,000 from Bob's Quality Used Implements of Death and Destruction and delivered to you by a courier van. The suspected weapon system requires at minimum one tank sized tracked launcher vehicle, and for full capability it requires three such vehicles. This is way out of Bob the arms dealer's league. Although I'm pretty much guessing here, the missile alone I expect would cost over a million dollars to manufacture.
Having said that, the possibility exists that rebels with military experience seized such a weapon system from an overrun Ukrainian military base.
You might have noted the subtext of the video "The Ukrainian Interior Ministry said footage of a Buk launcher with one of its four missiles apparently missing was captured by a police surveillance squad at dawn Friday, but there was no way to independently verify that claim."
The video unfortunately doesn't prove anything at all.
What makes you think any of that 3 billion would be spent in the US regardless?
Well, the IBM press release specifically states the money will go to Yorktown and Albany, New York, Almaden, California, and Europe. (Most likely this means IBM-Zurich, where the Scanning-Tunelling Microscope or STM was invented).
I couldn't find that, so thank you -
On the other hand, last time I checked Europe wasn't in the US:-)
It would be interesting to know how much of the money is going where -
Probably the future of wearables is the personal hub.
The problem with wearables is that a radio capable of sustaining a connection to the outside world - be it 4g or wifi - needs a fair bit of power and consequently quite a lot of battery. So devices have to be fairly chunky, or else have to be recharged more often than you'd like. But your bluetooth mouse probably goes months on one charge - mine certainly does. So the solutions is to have a device mounted discreetly on your belt or in your handbag, or carried in a pocket, which just acts as a personal hub/firewall, doing backhaul for your wearables. It doesn't need a screen. It doesn't need apps. But once it's paired with your wearables, you can use a device which has no backhaul capability to make phone calls or to access any service on the Internet.
This is an extension of how Google Glass or your Pebble watch already uses your smartphone. The smartphone acts as a personal hub. But if the display you actually use is the one on your Glass or the one on your Pebble, you don't need the big, fragile, power-hungry screen on your smartphone any more; so the personal hub can be cheaper and much more durable than any smartphone.
Once you've got that concept, there are other services that a personal hub can supply to your wearables, for example storage.
I suggest we use a switch instead of a hub and we call it a 'fabric'...
For the1H-B workers, the irony is that as soon as they get their green card, or even eventual citizenship. they face the same job discrimination faced by US residents. As soon as you have a stake in the US, they don't want you as a skilled worker.
American capitalism hates American workers. They put greed above all, even the sustainability of the US economy. Why the hell are we putting up with this?
Assuming the pimping company lets them stay in the US (or west) long enough to qualify for said green card or citizenship.
We are putting up with this because we've been brought up on the capitalism is wonderful bandwagon and are afraid to get off.
Unionize.
And yes, I know how many people are choking on that word.
Want to make really good money? Learn how to manage an AS400 completely. There are incredibly few that can and there are a LARGE number of companies still using them. So you can demand $65.00 an hour.
Hell my company pays a guy $160 an hour to come in for 10 hours a week to work on our systems. HE WORKS 10 HOURS A WEEK and takes home $1600.
Those of you going into CS are morons, Supporting old tech that companies will not upgrade is where the real money is at.
Until they do.
At some point the cost of supporting the old will outweigh the cost of bringing in the new.
Lately I've been getting plenty of calls from Indians 'trying' to fill roles all right - but when I give my normal rate they say "Oooo you are very expensive" after which the try and get me to take half of that and when I say no they thank me and hang up.
I have no doubt that such calls are being noted as "American was contacted but wasn't interested in job" to justify the 'lack of resource'.
This is in Europe, by the way. Indian call centers coming through via a +44 UK code.
Ah, so this explains why Silicon Valley is located in France.
Seriously, if someone wants to work crazy hours, why not let them?
I had that phase in my career, and it paid off. I'm in a different phase now. I just choose not to work after hours. If my employer didn't like that, I'd have found a better job by now. Same thing for travel - I used to travel a ton. Now I don't want to, and so I found a place to work with no travel. I'm a grownup, I can take care of myself, thank-you-very-much.
The reason that that you have that choice not to work more hours is because of regulation protecting you.
If you don't believe that then go somewhere in the world where no such regulation exists and see how many jobs there are that let you work 'normal' hours.
Read the message from Strange Quark Star. He sums it up pretty nice! If you knew people from Crimea you wouldn't argue the results. The people from Crimea have felt oppressed by the Ukrainian system for many years and no hope in sight.
As for the election, there are no impartial observers in this election. The EU, US doesn't want to see Russia expand their land and Russia wants nothing more than an extra port to do business and conduct war from.
I'm not saying the Crimeans don't want to be Russian. I'm saying that the vote cannot be claimed to have been valid.
If you can't find impartial observers, then you can have both sides' observers with plenty of cameras showing real-time video of the goings-on.
The reality, of course, is that the country with the biggest balls is going to come out of this ahead and given that Putin has balls and Obama doesn't...
Guess we'll see what happens if Putin goes after Ukraine itself.
Maybe the news I'm seeing isn't accurate but it appears the majority of people currently "invaded" wants to join Russia. Hope is all those people want and joining a large world force/economy is something that can provide people with a better life. Especially considering that a large percentage of this population is of Russian background.
And how do you prove this?
The voting was not observed by impartial international witnesses and as such, must be called invalid.
USA invaded Iraq and scared and killed thousands of people. Then it controlled its territory while people of Iraq went to polls to vote. The vote was considered democratic and the results were recognized.
Russia invaded Crimea in a peaceful way and didn't kill anybody. Then it controlled its territory while people of Crimea went to polls to vote. Despite numerous international observers and absence of any concerns from them, US doesn't want to recognize this vote.
Looks like hypocrisy and double-standards.
Russia chose the international observers that were allowed to attend.
"International observers from the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) were prevented last week from entering Crimea. Pro-Russian forces fired warning shots in the air as the OSCE convoy approached a checkpoint leading from mainland Ukraine into the peninsula." http://www.bbc.com/news/world-...
Those allowed by Russia to 'observe' are Anti-American far right nazis: "Concerns have been raised about the objectivity of the international observers and the fact that the Eurasian Observatory for Democracy & Elections (EODE), the election monitoring organization, is a partisan institution, with ties to far-right and neo-nazi groups.[133][134] The mission leader Mateusz Piskorski is a well-known antisemite and admirer of Adolf Hitler,[135] and the EODE leader Luc Michel is an antisemite and neo-Nazi as well." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...
Russia's actions in Crimea are just as wrong as America's actions in Iraq.
This. NASA is not a political body and should not act like one.
If an anti-science President gets elected in 2016, will the world refuse to stop working with the USA? If they did, wouldn't we be upset?
Russia didn't refuse to work with the USA when America invaded Iraq, did they?
So scientists who didn't agree with, for example, Hitler's Nazi Germany should have continued to collaborate with German scientists just for the sake of science?
Anyone who doesn't agree should speak up and act out in whatever way they judge best.
For videogames, what you need is X-ray vision. The ability to see the electric signals in the LCD gril before they hit the actual pixels will give you an advantage of several milliseconds compared to your opponents. The same principle applies to Monster cables' gold-plated, titanium-coated, oxygen-free optical cables which give you pure digital audio, free of data which are not zeros or ones.
Awesome - can I get x-ray hearing too to get that pure sound before it's deformed by the speakers and all the crap in my room?
So much for free market economics and competition. I hate it when government goes to lengths like these as competition is good all around.
As long as the new services operate under the same constraints as taxi companies, I see no reason why they should't be allowed to operate since, as you say, that's a free market at work. But they shouldn't get to skip over all of the costs of business that taxi companies absorb -- things like driver background checks, driver training (in some cities), insurance requirements, car maintenance requirements, etc.
Why not?
At the end it's for the customer to decide if they want to take a risk on a rideshare (based on previous feedback perhaps).
No doubt the people making the rules are getting a kickback in some form or another from the existing businesses. Fuck 'em. Vote 'em out.
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I wonder how much news coverage that landslide got in Asia or Africa? If it happens somewhere else it's bad, if it happens in your backyard it's a catastrophe.
Another way to say that is that Americans tend to only care what happens in the US, for the most part, thus increasing the relative importance of what happens in the US versus what happens elsewhere in the world.
Ignore my previous post - I see you were answering someone else
To summarize the summary: "The most striking finding is that...it was not extraordinary."
Not to belittle the loss of those involved but it's always a bit much that 43 dead in the US = catastrophe. If this had happened in Asia or Africa it wouldn't make the news unless hundreds or thousands had been killed.
Who cares what it's called? No one I know of is trying to compare this to the horrific losses in Japan after the tsunami, or other major disasters around the world. It was a big deal to us here in WA state (and I heard the terms "disaster" and "tragedy" used more often anyhow). An entire square mile of mud 10 to 40 feet thick wiped entire families and/or all their property from the face of the earth in an instance. Whatever you want to call it, it was pretty awful for everyone involved - including the rescuers.
If my next-door neighbor gets robbed or had their house burned down, that would be a big deal to our local little neighborhood. Someone in the next town over might sympathize, if they heard about it at all. It wouldn't get reported on the other side of the country. That's just the reality of life, and it's nothing to wring our hands over.
I'm in France and I'm reading about it on slashdot so it has actually made the news more or less globally.
It has nothing to do with sympathizing. I sympathize with the family of those involved.
The point that I was trying to make is that if the same thing happened outside the US then it almost certainly wouldn't make the news in the US at all, never mind being called a catastrophe.
And yes, the word matters because of the scope that it implies.
To summarize the summary: "The most striking finding is that...it was not extraordinary."
Not to belittle the loss of those involved but it's always a bit much that 43 dead in the US = catastrophe. If this had happened in Asia or Africa it wouldn't make the news unless hundreds or thousands had been killed.
You are assuming that the Oso slide made the Asian and African news outlets.
No I am not and I don't see how you arrived at your conclusion -
To summarize the summary: "The most striking finding is that...it was not extraordinary."
Not to belittle the loss of those involved but it's always a bit much that 43 dead in the US = catastrophe. If this had happened in Asia or Africa it wouldn't make the news unless hundreds or thousands had been killed.
Putin is a murderous goon. He and his cronies will get what's coming to them.
The rest of Ukraine?
The plane was 10km up. It wasn't shot down by something bought for $50,000 from Bob's Quality Used Implements of Death and Destruction and delivered to you by a courier van. The suspected weapon system requires at minimum one tank sized tracked launcher vehicle, and for full capability it requires three such vehicles. This is way out of Bob the arms dealer's league. Although I'm pretty much guessing here, the missile alone I expect would cost over a million dollars to manufacture.
Having said that, the possibility exists that rebels with military experience seized such a weapon system from an overrun Ukrainian military base.
There's video of the launcher being driven back into Russia short 1 missile.
http://news.nationalpost.com/2...
It is, almost undoubtedly a Russian system.
You might have noted the subtext of the video "The Ukrainian Interior Ministry said footage of a Buk launcher with one of its four missiles apparently missing was captured by a police surveillance squad at dawn Friday, but there was no way to independently verify that claim."
The video unfortunately doesn't prove anything at all.
Mobile devices are PCs.
What makes you think any of that 3 billion would be spent in the US regardless?
Well, the IBM press release specifically states the money will go to Yorktown and Albany, New York, Almaden, California, and Europe. (Most likely this means IBM-Zurich, where the Scanning-Tunelling Microscope or STM was invented).
I couldn't find that, so thank you -
On the other hand, last time I checked Europe wasn't in the US :-)
It would be interesting to know how much of the money is going where -
sounds like a republican capitalist paradise. we should import a couple of the Dubai leaders to put the US poor to work. finally.
Right ... because it's Republicans who want to concentrate people in cities. Got it.
No...it must be because the poor in Dubai get paid well and have good lives compared to the poor Americans. /ironyoff
http://www.theguardian.com/wor...
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/2480...
Probably the future of wearables is the personal hub.
The problem with wearables is that a radio capable of sustaining a connection to the outside world - be it 4g or wifi - needs a fair bit of power and consequently quite a lot of battery. So devices have to be fairly chunky, or else have to be recharged more often than you'd like. But your bluetooth mouse probably goes months on one charge - mine certainly does. So the solutions is to have a device mounted discreetly on your belt or in your handbag, or carried in a pocket, which just acts as a personal hub/firewall, doing backhaul for your wearables. It doesn't need a screen. It doesn't need apps. But once it's paired with your wearables, you can use a device which has no backhaul capability to make phone calls or to access any service on the Internet.
This is an extension of how Google Glass or your Pebble watch already uses your smartphone. The smartphone acts as a personal hub. But if the display you actually use is the one on your Glass or the one on your Pebble, you don't need the big, fragile, power-hungry screen on your smartphone any more; so the personal hub can be cheaper and much more durable than any smartphone.
Once you've got that concept, there are other services that a personal hub can supply to your wearables, for example storage.
I suggest we use a switch instead of a hub and we call it a 'fabric'...
I can't imagine how fast you must type to have entered that whole rant and still got the first post :-)
When was the last time the average person created something original?
Every minute of every day, somewhere around the world. Just go into a kindergarten classroom and look at the art from the kids.
"IBM petitions Congress for increased H1B quota to support semiconductor research."
What makes you think any of that 3 billion would be spent in the US regardless?
As likely, the entire R&D unit has already been outsourced to India (or wherever).
For the1H-B workers, the irony is that as soon as they get their green card, or even eventual citizenship. they face the same job discrimination faced by US residents. As soon as you have a stake in the US, they don't want you as a skilled worker.
American capitalism hates American workers. They put greed above all, even the sustainability of the US economy. Why the hell are we putting up with this?
Assuming the pimping company lets them stay in the US (or west) long enough to qualify for said green card or citizenship.
We are putting up with this because we've been brought up on the capitalism is wonderful bandwagon and are afraid to get off.
Unionize.
And yes, I know how many people are choking on that word.
Dear silly grad. your skills in C# are worthless.
Want to make really good money? Learn how to manage an AS400 completely. There are incredibly few that can and there are a LARGE number of companies still using them. So you can demand $65.00 an hour.
Hell my company pays a guy $160 an hour to come in for 10 hours a week to work on our systems. HE WORKS 10 HOURS A WEEK and takes home $1600.
Those of you going into CS are morons, Supporting old tech that companies will not upgrade is where the real money is at.
Until they do.
At some point the cost of supporting the old will outweigh the cost of bringing in the new.
Lately I've been getting plenty of calls from Indians 'trying' to fill roles all right - but when I give my normal rate they say "Oooo you are very expensive" after which the try and get me to take half of that and when I say no they thank me and hang up.
I have no doubt that such calls are being noted as "American was contacted but wasn't interested in job" to justify the 'lack of resource'.
This is in Europe, by the way. Indian call centers coming through via a +44 UK code.
Ah, so this explains why Silicon Valley is located in France.
Seriously, if someone wants to work crazy hours, why not let them?
I had that phase in my career, and it paid off. I'm in a different phase now. I just choose not to work after hours. If my employer didn't like that, I'd have found a better job by now. Same thing for travel - I used to travel a ton. Now I don't want to, and so I found a place to work with no travel. I'm a grownup, I can take care of myself, thank-you-very-much.
The reason that that you have that choice not to work more hours is because of regulation protecting you.
If you don't believe that then go somewhere in the world where no such regulation exists and see how many jobs there are that let you work 'normal' hours.
Read the message from Strange Quark Star. He sums it up pretty nice! If you knew people from Crimea you wouldn't argue the results. The people from Crimea have felt oppressed by the Ukrainian system for many years and no hope in sight.
As for the election, there are no impartial observers in this election. The EU, US doesn't want to see Russia expand their land and Russia wants nothing more than an extra port to do business and conduct war from.
I'm not saying the Crimeans don't want to be Russian. I'm saying that the vote cannot be claimed to have been valid.
If you can't find impartial observers, then you can have both sides' observers with plenty of cameras showing real-time video of the goings-on.
The reality, of course, is that the country with the biggest balls is going to come out of this ahead and given that Putin has balls and Obama doesn't...
Guess we'll see what happens if Putin goes after Ukraine itself.
Is it really more objectionable?
Maybe the news I'm seeing isn't accurate but it appears the majority of people currently "invaded" wants to join Russia. Hope is all those people want and joining a large world force/economy is something that can provide people with a better life. Especially considering that a large percentage of this population is of Russian background.
And how do you prove this?
The voting was not observed by impartial international witnesses and as such, must be called invalid.
I'm all for a real vote - but with impartial observers, not Russia chosen America hating nazis.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...
USA invaded Iraq and scared and killed thousands of people. Then it controlled its territory while people of Iraq went to polls to vote. The vote was considered democratic and the results were recognized.
Russia invaded Crimea in a peaceful way and didn't kill anybody. Then it controlled its territory while people of Crimea went to polls to vote. Despite numerous international observers and absence of any concerns from them, US doesn't want to recognize this vote.
Looks like hypocrisy and double-standards.
Russia chose the international observers that were allowed to attend.
"International observers from the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) were prevented last week from entering Crimea. Pro-Russian forces fired warning shots in the air as the OSCE convoy approached a checkpoint leading from mainland Ukraine into the peninsula."
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-...
Those allowed by Russia to 'observe' are Anti-American far right nazis:
"Concerns have been raised about the objectivity of the international observers and the fact that the Eurasian Observatory for Democracy & Elections (EODE), the election monitoring organization, is a partisan institution, with ties to far-right and neo-nazi groups.[133][134] The mission leader Mateusz Piskorski is a well-known antisemite and admirer of Adolf Hitler,[135] and the EODE leader Luc Michel is an antisemite and neo-Nazi as well."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...
Russia's actions in Crimea are just as wrong as America's actions in Iraq.
This. NASA is not a political body and should not act like one.
If an anti-science President gets elected in 2016, will the world refuse to stop working with the USA? If they did, wouldn't we be upset?
Russia didn't refuse to work with the USA when America invaded Iraq, did they?
So scientists who didn't agree with, for example, Hitler's Nazi Germany should have continued to collaborate with German scientists just for the sake of science?
Anyone who doesn't agree should speak up and act out in whatever way they judge best.
For videogames, what you need is X-ray vision. The ability to see the electric signals in the LCD gril before they hit the actual pixels will give you an advantage of several milliseconds compared to your opponents. The same principle applies to Monster cables' gold-plated, titanium-coated, oxygen-free optical cables which give you pure digital audio, free of data which are not zeros or ones.
Awesome - can I get x-ray hearing too to get that pure sound before it's deformed by the speakers and all the crap in my room?
So much for free market economics and competition. I hate it when government goes to lengths like these as competition is good all around.
As long as the new services operate under the same constraints as taxi companies, I see no reason why they should't be allowed to operate since, as you say, that's a free market at work. But they shouldn't get to skip over all of the costs of business that taxi companies absorb -- things like driver background checks, driver training (in some cities), insurance requirements, car maintenance requirements, etc.
Why not?
At the end it's for the customer to decide if they want to take a risk on a rideshare (based on previous feedback perhaps).
No doubt the people making the rules are getting a kickback in some form or another from the existing businesses. Fuck 'em. Vote 'em out.
Is this non-news really worth posting on /. ?