Not to mention that people are constantly setting things on fire for no good reason.
For example, how many people are going to burn their house down this Thanksgiving while attempting to throw a frozen turkey into a vat of boiling oil? Hell, the other day my neighbor was burning a pile of leaves next to his house. Apparently he had the choice between moving the pile away from the building before setting it on fire or setting it on fire where it was and standing there with a hose... Clearly the hose was the better solution.
This happens every time there is a major video game release. The login/download servers can't handle everyone all logging on day 1 and so it takes you 8 hours to download the game and create your account...
And right now, in the US, if the average person wants health insurance, they have to get it through their employer.
My employer theoretically pays several thousand dollars annually for my insurance plan. If I elect to not get the plan through them, I do not get that money as a raise. I do not even get a portion of that money as a raise. Nor can the average person go out and buy their own plans for prices comparable to the employee portion of the premiums.
If an employer said "we will provide company run housing for the low rent of $100 a month" and rent for housing not provided by the employer was $10,000 a month, technically you still have a choice.
By your logic we should never do anything because it is not safe.
The world is moving on and us kids will happily get off your lawn and take our new mobile shinies with us. We are moving into a world where the data gets shot through the air and my device fits in my pocket. You can bitch about it or you can help us make it work. The IV pump you mention CAN accept its inputs from mobile apps. But between the app and the IV pump should be something that is going to validate the inputs coming from the app. And the IV pump is going to perform the same validations that it currently performs against the nurse fiddling with the knobs/buttons/whatever manually.
Yes it's not safe because it gets shot through the air, but smart software engineers will build in fail saves and checks and security. Oh noes! We will have to test and validate our code! The horror!
Alternately, Gore should have had a better platform so people didn't go and vote third party...
Your argument is that we are voting incorrectly. My argument is that the candidates suck and I want new candidates that don't suck. Which lesson would you prefer the major parties learn?
So if they won't win, you don't have to worry about them getting elected:) and you still get to send a FUCK YOU to the main parties... If enough people start voting for the crazies, then maybe the main parties will change their ways to woo you back.
I welcome a world where we can all be artists while machines do the hard things. A world where people make long, successful careers out of creating elaborate fantasy worlds purely for my amusement... We often measure the success of a culture by its ability to produce art, even though art by itself is completely pointless.
Isn't that what they said about the industrialization of agriculture last century? Isn't it a good thing that we no longer need to perform manual labor? I hate picking up heavy things or performing mindless repetitive tasks. Hell, I have a robot to vacuum my floors...
The economy is changing. Some fields are rapidly expanding and others are rapidly shrinking. As a result the people who are willing to accept the changes and adapt and move into the new positions will be successful and those who sit around go "woe is me! A robot took my job and I can't find another job turning this wrench a half turn every minute!" will be SOL and there will be no place for them.
You can not stagnate the world just because you are comfortable in it. As an engineer it is my job to eliminate my job. I don't bitch about how if I automate this one step then I will have less to do. I automate it and say "thank god I don't have to do that anymore!" then move on to the next step. There are plenty of things that an industrious person can do to make a living. They simply involve stepping outside of the factory and doing something that actually requires thought and effort.
Emergency prep teams use zombie and alien drills all the time. Zombie == unknown pandemic and aliens == unknown invasion force. If you run the drill using a real world example, people will tailor to that example and then be unprepared for the unknown incident. With zombies and aliens you get to make up the rules and if someone complains about "there is no way that x would ever be able to do y" you can say "Zombies! Now shut up and accept the scenario."
For the same reason that it is OK to fire a cruise missile at a target, but not OK to use an unmanned drone to kill the same target...
Most people are pissy about the idea of the government constantly watching them. They find the idea of any aircraft flying overhead at low altitudes taking pictures of them sun bathing nude in their backyard creepy (though if more people did that I bet the program would stop cause have you been to Wal-Mart?). It's just that no one worries about the government using manned aircraft for the task because it is too expensive. Drones made it cheap so now people feel the need to make sure people know they don't want to be watched in their backyards.
The problem with American public schools is that America is a very large and diverse country. Comparing American public schools to say Germany is not really fair. You would need to compare America to Europe as a whole to get a valid comparison and you will find that some parts of Europe are great and some suck, same as in America.
The problem with our public schools is that we put their fate in the hands of tax payers and then ask tax payers to fund them. Where I live we vote the entire school board out every single election because they are bloody retarded and keep trying to raise our taxes. They currently want 3 million dollars to build a new high school and they haven't even finished paying off the current high school. Meanwhile, in the past 10 years the church down the road has somehow managed to raise over 10 million dollars in private donations to build a student faith center... If the Catholics can acquire 10 million dollars in a largely protestant region to build a faith center, how is it that the school that serves a much large demographic can't manage to raise 3 million? The answer is simple: the church asks nicely and the school board keeps trying to take the money. If the high school wants money, they need to do fund raising. Serious fund raising, not bake sales, but actual pledge drives and corporate sponsors. Unfortunately, that would require them to actually have a decent explanation of WHY they want money.
Ah yes... the ever wonderful "well yeah that linux sucks, but MY linux is awesome!"
Actually that particular bug is in gnome and thus manifests on multiple linux flavors. We are running centos (red hat derivative) and it has the same gnome screensaver bug and no, I don't have a choice of my linux. We run whatever our security folk could be bothered to get customer approval to run.
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Not to mention that people are constantly setting things on fire for no good reason.
For example, how many people are going to burn their house down this Thanksgiving while attempting to throw a frozen turkey into a vat of boiling oil? Hell, the other day my neighbor was burning a pile of leaves next to his house. Apparently he had the choice between moving the pile away from the building before setting it on fire or setting it on fire where it was and standing there with a hose... Clearly the hose was the better solution.
Bees. Hornets can keep stinging you until they get bored.
This happens every time there is a major video game release. The login/download servers can't handle everyone all logging on day 1 and so it takes you 8 hours to download the game and create your account...
By that logic the entire year is the holiday season. Especially if you are a government worker.
And right now, in the US, if the average person wants health insurance, they have to get it through their employer.
My employer theoretically pays several thousand dollars annually for my insurance plan. If I elect to not get the plan through them, I do not get that money as a raise. I do not even get a portion of that money as a raise. Nor can the average person go out and buy their own plans for prices comparable to the employee portion of the premiums.
If an employer said "we will provide company run housing for the low rent of $100 a month" and rent for housing not provided by the employer was $10,000 a month, technically you still have a choice.
Why should our health care be tied to our employer?
My employer can't tell me what grocery store to shop at, why do they get to dictate my doctor?
run-up to the holiday season.
I'ts October 1st. We have almost a quarter of a year until Christmas. Stop trying to make the entire year about Christmas.
Politicians?
Where are mod points when you need them?
By your logic we should never do anything because it is not safe.
The world is moving on and us kids will happily get off your lawn and take our new mobile shinies with us. We are moving into a world where the data gets shot through the air and my device fits in my pocket. You can bitch about it or you can help us make it work. The IV pump you mention CAN accept its inputs from mobile apps. But between the app and the IV pump should be something that is going to validate the inputs coming from the app. And the IV pump is going to perform the same validations that it currently performs against the nurse fiddling with the knobs/buttons/whatever manually.
Yes it's not safe because it gets shot through the air, but smart software engineers will build in fail saves and checks and security. Oh noes! We will have to test and validate our code! The horror!
Don't ALL OS TOS say that? I'm pretty sure windows says that and they do use it in nuke plants...
When my Dell was having problems I would just tell them that it wouldn't boot and cut to the part where they sent the tech out with new hardware :P
Alternately, Gore should have had a better platform so people didn't go and vote third party...
Your argument is that we are voting incorrectly. My argument is that the candidates suck and I want new candidates that don't suck. Which lesson would you prefer the major parties learn?
So if they won't win, you don't have to worry about them getting elected :) and you still get to send a FUCK YOU to the main parties... If enough people start voting for the crazies, then maybe the main parties will change their ways to woo you back.
I welcome a world where we can all be artists while machines do the hard things. A world where people make long, successful careers out of creating elaborate fantasy worlds purely for my amusement... We often measure the success of a culture by its ability to produce art, even though art by itself is completely pointless.
Isn't that what they said about the industrialization of agriculture last century? Isn't it a good thing that we no longer need to perform manual labor? I hate picking up heavy things or performing mindless repetitive tasks. Hell, I have a robot to vacuum my floors...
The economy is changing. Some fields are rapidly expanding and others are rapidly shrinking. As a result the people who are willing to accept the changes and adapt and move into the new positions will be successful and those who sit around go "woe is me! A robot took my job and I can't find another job turning this wrench a half turn every minute!" will be SOL and there will be no place for them.
You can not stagnate the world just because you are comfortable in it. As an engineer it is my job to eliminate my job. I don't bitch about how if I automate this one step then I will have less to do. I automate it and say "thank god I don't have to do that anymore!" then move on to the next step. There are plenty of things that an industrious person can do to make a living. They simply involve stepping outside of the factory and doing something that actually requires thought and effort.
Emergency prep teams use zombie and alien drills all the time. Zombie == unknown pandemic and aliens == unknown invasion force. If you run the drill using a real world example, people will tailor to that example and then be unprepared for the unknown incident. With zombies and aliens you get to make up the rules and if someone complains about "there is no way that x would ever be able to do y" you can say "Zombies! Now shut up and accept the scenario."
Isn't the question if he matches his calm, collected, normal self, not some random truck driver?
We also don't ban people from getting into cars...
Safe for the humans operating them, not the aircraft. If it crashes, we are guaranteed that the pilot lives. And 200M is cheaper than a pilot.
Except the police aren't supposed to "shoot the bad guy." They are supposed to arrest them and have them stand trial...
For the same reason that it is OK to fire a cruise missile at a target, but not OK to use an unmanned drone to kill the same target...
Most people are pissy about the idea of the government constantly watching them. They find the idea of any aircraft flying overhead at low altitudes taking pictures of them sun bathing nude in their backyard creepy (though if more people did that I bet the program would stop cause have you been to Wal-Mart?). It's just that no one worries about the government using manned aircraft for the task because it is too expensive. Drones made it cheap so now people feel the need to make sure people know they don't want to be watched in their backyards.
Coworker of mine had a similar with his fish tank sitting between a window and a pine bookcase...
The problem with American public schools is that America is a very large and diverse country. Comparing American public schools to say Germany is not really fair. You would need to compare America to Europe as a whole to get a valid comparison and you will find that some parts of Europe are great and some suck, same as in America.
The problem with our public schools is that we put their fate in the hands of tax payers and then ask tax payers to fund them. Where I live we vote the entire school board out every single election because they are bloody retarded and keep trying to raise our taxes. They currently want 3 million dollars to build a new high school and they haven't even finished paying off the current high school. Meanwhile, in the past 10 years the church down the road has somehow managed to raise over 10 million dollars in private donations to build a student faith center... If the Catholics can acquire 10 million dollars in a largely protestant region to build a faith center, how is it that the school that serves a much large demographic can't manage to raise 3 million? The answer is simple: the church asks nicely and the school board keeps trying to take the money. If the high school wants money, they need to do fund raising. Serious fund raising, not bake sales, but actual pledge drives and corporate sponsors. Unfortunately, that would require them to actually have a decent explanation of WHY they want money.
Ah yes... the ever wonderful "well yeah that linux sucks, but MY linux is awesome!"
Actually that particular bug is in gnome and thus manifests on multiple linux flavors. We are running centos (red hat derivative) and it has the same gnome screensaver bug and no, I don't have a choice of my linux. We run whatever our security folk could be bothered to get customer approval to run.