There has been a traditional bias away from hiring older workers that I've never really questioned. I have no evidence beyond my 25 years of observations, but it seems to me that the submitter of the article is right.
But, looking back, it seems explainable that older workers are less likely to be hired. They usually have experience, but this usually requires that you pay more. If younger workers can do the job well enough, why not go cheap? Also, older workers have higher costs for medical and sick leave and are more often injured on the job. Finally, who wants to hire somebody they know won't be working more than a few more years?
So, where I see a lack of STEM employees coming up though the ranks, it doesn't seem to me that this bias will go away.
I have to agree with you there, it does look like a fluke.
But SparkFun wants to claim it WAS a fluke...... As in not being their intent to "copy" somebody's trademark look and feel... Or was it that they wanted to claim it WAS a Fluke, as in claim a fake was real.... I'm confused...
Especially Commercial aircraft flying a regularly scheduled routes on international flight plans between commercial airports and carrying paying passengers.
Now if a 777 pops up out of nowhere or leaves a military installation heading for the US main land, that MIGHT be interesting enough to look at. And if it is heading towards US airspace without a verified flight plan, it will be investigated if not intercepted and identified before it gets too close.
In fact this happens from time to time when the Russians test our air defenses. They will fly threatening flight paths with their bombers and observe what we do about it. We usually scramble fighters and go out and ID them visually, perhaps tail them awhile. It doesn't happen every day, but it does happen regularly.
why would the US want to track a commercial aircraft, literally half a world away?
For the same reason they would want to track a nuclear-armed ICBM aimed at Washington, DC from anywhere in the world. I'm kinda incredulous they can't do this. If it turns iout they really can't then I'm a bit despondent, too.
Seriously? You do realize that we cannot track even Russia's ICBM's very well right? Best we can (and do) hope for is to detect a launch by it's IR signature during the boost phase. Ever wonder why submarines are used as missile launch platforms? It's because they are hard to track. Other platforms are ground or ship based which due to their limited numbers so we can follow them by brute force if nothing else. There are just too many commercial aircraft to track this way.
This is not to say we couldn't track a handful of suspicious aircraft if necessary. But a scheduled commercial flight, half a world away, 4 citizens aboard, and with zero chance of reaching the USA proper before running out of fuel is NOT a direct threat. No way we would expend the resources necessary to track this fight. There is little national security interest in the area and I'm betting few assets capable of tracking aircraft stationed near enough to matter. No, we don't have anything more than the Malaysian government has.
Are we really supposed to believe that 13 years after 9/11 that the US doesn't know the location of every airborne plane in the world?
Yep, physics is what physics is. Radar doesn't work though ground or water. If the aircraft isn't above the horizon for the radar, you won't see it. There are literally hundreds of thousands of aircraft aloft at any one time in the world. Many of these are over large expanses of water, where radar stations simply don't exist and never will.
Now, I'm not saying we cannot track a target aircraft if we wanted too, but why would the US want to track a commercial aircraft, literally half a world away? Total waste of time and money. If it was inside the radar coverage of the US mainland, we'd know where it was, but over the Indian ocean, it could crash, scatter in to a million pieces and we'd never find a piece of it until they started washing up on shore someplace.
My theory is that they had a fire and turned back towards Lapangan Terbang Sultan Ismail Petra outside of Kota Bharu Malaysia. Then, for some reason, they lost control of the aircraft, likely due to the fire progressing though the electrical systems. Once control was lost, everything stayed pretty much where they where and because commercial aircraft are generally stable they continued to fly in the same general direction until they ran out of fuel. This puts them almost due west of Perth which matches the ACARS "ping" distance fairly well. Debris field should be small as the aircraft will have hit the water at very high speed and be all in one small area. We will be lucky to find this one.
Which politician ISN'T after the soundbite? With the media today, it's ALL about the soundbite, because they refuse to actually spend 5 min explaining what the real positions are. It takes too much time and doesn't sell advertisements.
But I have a few sound bites for you to classify... "If you like your plan, you can keep your plan. Period." "If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor." "not even a smidgen of corruption" "What difference does it make" or to include the original article, "the most transparent administration in history."
Palin wasn't exactly the sharpest knife in the drawer, but we would have been worlds better off with that administration over what we got and the headlong rush into partisan bickering that ensued.
You really think Obama is going to act like other former presidents and leave DC for Chicago or Hawaii? His ego would never allow for it. He will stay in DC and be a thorn in the side of whoever the next president is (Dem or Rep).
Perhaps, but if he looses the Senate, he's going to take two brutal years of signing the veto line over and over or he will have to "play ball" and compromise. I'm hoping his narcissistic mind set won't let him stick around a group of people not singing his praises and doing his bidding and he will run off with his tail between his legs after 24 months of getting hit by the rolled up newspaper over and over.
Of course, he could try to sick around and try and rescue his legacy. I just figure it's less likely to happen after 24 months of beatings and if his party has abandoned him.
Unless someone is planning to pull a Kennedy on him, he's got 34 months to go...
Oh please NO! I don't want to get Biden as president with all the sympathy of having to take over under those circumstances. Not on your life.
I'll keep the guy I know over dementia prone Biden who would be wheels off nuts. Obama will be totally emasculated by the end of this year when his party looses the Senate. Let him spend his last two years in office planning for his presidential library. If we are ever going to fix this, he has to stay in office and be marginalized as much as possible.
Hey, I'm not begrudging them their fist pumps. Yea, they out flanked the USA in this one so have fun celebrating the tactical win. What are we going to do? Expel a couple of low level diplomats? Maybe. Get the UN to slap sanctions on them? Not. About all that *might* happen is we might talk some of Europe into financial sanctions. But I give that effort about a snowball's chance
I won't go into the reasons why this is happening.... Frustrates me too much.
It might be half a world away, but it WILL find you. Not to mention that there would likely be retaliation in kind.
This is just Putin Fist Pumping national pride. Putin is poking the US in the eye with the Ukraine thing and they are upping the rhetoric while they can, just in case the US actually manages to do something with teeth. If they can isolate Russia some, it might cause a public relations problem for Putin so he just getting as far ahead as he can.
To answer a question from a past movie... Let's play Tic Tac Toe and skip that Thermo-Nuclear war thing...
Not to worry, even though I had written the work "ruining" and knew what it was supposed to say, I had to re-read it a few times to make sure it didn't say "running" which is really similar looking. It's an interesting insight into how our minds actually do this reading task. Many times we see what our minds are expecting to see even though something else is really there.
You should see the moderation history of my post. I expected some disagreement but general agreement, but nothing like what happened. It's apparent that you where not the only one who skimmed though the post and likely saw a different word than what was there. It was dueling "Flame bait -1" and "Insightful +1" for as far as the eye could see. That post drew about 15 - 20 mod points but got nowhere in the end. Where I'm not surprised in the outcome, I was very surprised about how many people chose to use their points on this post and I'm guessing it was because many misread it.
Tesla's drive system is not quite up there yet. But I wouldn't be surprised if the next one was a hybrid, just to show hybridness off.
Perhaps, but if it goes much past just having the Hybrid insignia glued to the side, I'd be surprised. The presidential Limo is about two things. First, to protect the president from all manor of threats while going down the road (Which means armor, speed and agility). Second, maintain the illusion of being "normal" in appearance. Gas mileage or being "green" would have to be an illusion at best and unless the hybrid configuration added to the armor, speed or agility you can forget it.
I've noticed that too. My theory is that when the shipment comes from multiple warehouses their software (or their packers) pull a box for the whole order, even though they are only shipping part of the order. I'm guessing that they will work out this fine detail eventually, but because they pay their shippers by weight and not volume it's not high on the priority list.
So are we no griping about Amazon Prime costs? Not me.
It's still a GREAT deal if you use their streaming video service. Netflix streaming only is about the same cost (a few bucks more for DVD's by mail) and they have a lot less stuff than Amazon, at least stuff I want to watch. The free shipping thing is of dubious value, at least for me, because most items are more expensive if they have prime shipping available. Some other Prime benefits help make my kindles more usable (Free books, downloadable video streams for off line viewing). But all these extras are over and above the video streaming.
Where $79 would be preferable $99 is still cheap so I'm not complaining. We are still under $10/month here.
Seems as if this is a great "real world" example of what happens when you try and run a "free market" without any sort of regulating body.
Um, not a good example. Everybody knows (or should know) that BitCoin exchanges/Banks are unregulated. If you thought your money was safe on deposit with Mt Gox, you where woefully misinformed and STUPID. However, what happened is still subject to law, civil law. Mt Gox can be sued (for what it's worth anyway) as can the principles who ran it. There may have even been criminal fraud involved which would subject the people who committed fraud to criminal charges. So this is NOT totally a free market, real world example of anything.
But your implied argument is also invalid. "Free Market" does not mean "no rules" it means that you advocate for the minimum regulation possible while keeping opportunity equal for all involved. (Note that I'm saying equal opportunity, and not equal outcome.) Fraud needs to be illegal in a "free market".
Only when you have ENOUGH and you use it at the right times and locations. Otherwise, it's destructive in a big way. Just ask the owner of the engine who snapped off a head bolt...
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There has been a traditional bias away from hiring older workers that I've never really questioned. I have no evidence beyond my 25 years of observations, but it seems to me that the submitter of the article is right.
But, looking back, it seems explainable that older workers are less likely to be hired. They usually have experience, but this usually requires that you pay more. If younger workers can do the job well enough, why not go cheap? Also, older workers have higher costs for medical and sick leave and are more often injured on the job. Finally, who wants to hire somebody they know won't be working more than a few more years?
So, where I see a lack of STEM employees coming up though the ranks, it doesn't seem to me that this bias will go away.
I think it's a fluke they got caught myself..
No.. It was designed to look like a Fluke and they are claiming that was a fluke..
No.. it' was just a fluke that they ordered something that looks almost exactly like a Fluke..
That is what they want you to believe...
Or a fluke from SparkFun should they get some imported..
I have to agree with you there, it does look like a fluke.
But SparkFun wants to claim it WAS a fluke...... As in not being their intent to "copy" somebody's trademark look and feel... Or was it that they wanted to claim it WAS a Fluke, as in claim a fake was real.... I'm confused...
Sure, hold my BitCoins for me..
Especially Commercial aircraft flying a regularly scheduled routes on international flight plans between commercial airports and carrying paying passengers.
Now if a 777 pops up out of nowhere or leaves a military installation heading for the US main land, that MIGHT be interesting enough to look at. And if it is heading towards US airspace without a verified flight plan, it will be investigated if not intercepted and identified before it gets too close.
In fact this happens from time to time when the Russians test our air defenses. They will fly threatening flight paths with their bombers and observe what we do about it. We usually scramble fighters and go out and ID them visually, perhaps tail them awhile. It doesn't happen every day, but it does happen regularly.
why would the US want to track a commercial aircraft, literally half a world away?
For the same reason they would want to track a nuclear-armed ICBM aimed at Washington, DC from anywhere in the world. I'm kinda incredulous they can't do this. If it turns iout they really can't then I'm a bit despondent, too.
Seriously? You do realize that we cannot track even Russia's ICBM's very well right? Best we can (and do) hope for is to detect a launch by it's IR signature during the boost phase. Ever wonder why submarines are used as missile launch platforms? It's because they are hard to track. Other platforms are ground or ship based which due to their limited numbers so we can follow them by brute force if nothing else. There are just too many commercial aircraft to track this way.
This is not to say we couldn't track a handful of suspicious aircraft if necessary. But a scheduled commercial flight, half a world away, 4 citizens aboard, and with zero chance of reaching the USA proper before running out of fuel is NOT a direct threat. No way we would expend the resources necessary to track this fight. There is little national security interest in the area and I'm betting few assets capable of tracking aircraft stationed near enough to matter. No, we don't have anything more than the Malaysian government has.
Are we really supposed to believe that 13 years after 9/11 that the US doesn't know the location of every airborne plane in the world?
Yep, physics is what physics is. Radar doesn't work though ground or water. If the aircraft isn't above the horizon for the radar, you won't see it. There are literally hundreds of thousands of aircraft aloft at any one time in the world. Many of these are over large expanses of water, where radar stations simply don't exist and never will.
Now, I'm not saying we cannot track a target aircraft if we wanted too, but why would the US want to track a commercial aircraft, literally half a world away? Total waste of time and money. If it was inside the radar coverage of the US mainland, we'd know where it was, but over the Indian ocean, it could crash, scatter in to a million pieces and we'd never find a piece of it until they started washing up on shore someplace.
My theory is that they had a fire and turned back towards Lapangan Terbang Sultan Ismail Petra outside of Kota Bharu Malaysia. Then, for some reason, they lost control of the aircraft, likely due to the fire progressing though the electrical systems. Once control was lost, everything stayed pretty much where they where and because commercial aircraft are generally stable they continued to fly in the same general direction until they ran out of fuel. This puts them almost due west of Perth which matches the ACARS "ping" distance fairly well. Debris field should be small as the aircraft will have hit the water at very high speed and be all in one small area. We will be lucky to find this one.
I didn't do it,
Nobody saw me do it,
you can't prove I did it,
it was like that when I got here...
Because Palin was a soundbite politician.
Which politician ISN'T after the soundbite? With the media today, it's ALL about the soundbite, because they refuse to actually spend 5 min explaining what the real positions are. It takes too much time and doesn't sell advertisements.
But I have a few sound bites for you to classify... "If you like your plan, you can keep your plan. Period." "If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor." "not even a smidgen of corruption" "What difference does it make" or to include the original article, "the most transparent administration in history."
Palin wasn't exactly the sharpest knife in the drawer, but we would have been worlds better off with that administration over what we got and the headlong rush into partisan bickering that ensued.
Really? A self inflicted shot to the head is a bad rap? I don't think it was bad enough myself....
Yea, that has ALWAYS worked in the past... NOT!
You really think Obama is going to act like other former presidents and leave DC for Chicago or Hawaii? His ego would never allow for it. He will stay in DC and be a thorn in the side of whoever the next president is (Dem or Rep).
Perhaps, but if he looses the Senate, he's going to take two brutal years of signing the veto line over and over or he will have to "play ball" and compromise. I'm hoping his narcissistic mind set won't let him stick around a group of people not singing his praises and doing his bidding and he will run off with his tail between his legs after 24 months of getting hit by the rolled up newspaper over and over.
Of course, he could try to sick around and try and rescue his legacy. I just figure it's less likely to happen after 24 months of beatings and if his party has abandoned him.
Unless someone is planning to pull a Kennedy on him, he's got 34 months to go...
Oh please NO! I don't want to get Biden as president with all the sympathy of having to take over under those circumstances. Not on your life.
I'll keep the guy I know over dementia prone Biden who would be wheels off nuts. Obama will be totally emasculated by the end of this year when his party looses the Senate. Let him spend his last two years in office planning for his presidential library. If we are ever going to fix this, he has to stay in office and be marginalized as much as possible.
Hey, I'm not begrudging them their fist pumps. Yea, they out flanked the USA in this one so have fun celebrating the tactical win. What are we going to do? Expel a couple of low level diplomats? Maybe. Get the UN to slap sanctions on them? Not. About all that *might* happen is we might talk some of Europe into financial sanctions. But I give that effort about a snowball's chance
I won't go into the reasons why this is happening.... Frustrates me too much.
In mother Russia, radioactivity finds you.
It might be half a world away, but it WILL find you. Not to mention that there would likely be retaliation in kind.
This is just Putin Fist Pumping national pride. Putin is poking the US in the eye with the Ukraine thing and they are upping the rhetoric while they can, just in case the US actually manages to do something with teeth. If they can isolate Russia some, it might cause a public relations problem for Putin so he just getting as far ahead as he can.
To answer a question from a past movie... Let's play Tic Tac Toe and skip that Thermo-Nuclear war thing...
Not to worry, even though I had written the work "ruining" and knew what it was supposed to say, I had to re-read it a few times to make sure it didn't say "running" which is really similar looking. It's an interesting insight into how our minds actually do this reading task. Many times we see what our minds are expecting to see even though something else is really there.
You should see the moderation history of my post. I expected some disagreement but general agreement, but nothing like what happened. It's apparent that you where not the only one who skimmed though the post and likely saw a different word than what was there. It was dueling "Flame bait -1" and "Insightful +1" for as far as the eye could see. That post drew about 15 - 20 mod points but got nowhere in the end. Where I'm not surprised in the outcome, I was very surprised about how many people chose to use their points on this post and I'm guessing it was because many misread it.
Tesla's drive system is not quite up there yet. But I wouldn't be surprised if the next one was a hybrid, just to show hybridness off.
Perhaps, but if it goes much past just having the Hybrid insignia glued to the side, I'd be surprised. The presidential Limo is about two things. First, to protect the president from all manor of threats while going down the road (Which means armor, speed and agility). Second, maintain the illusion of being "normal" in appearance. Gas mileage or being "green" would have to be an illusion at best and unless the hybrid configuration added to the armor, speed or agility you can forget it.
And money to keep their political clout.
I've noticed that too. My theory is that when the shipment comes from multiple warehouses their software (or their packers) pull a box for the whole order, even though they are only shipping part of the order. I'm guessing that they will work out this fine detail eventually, but because they pay their shippers by weight and not volume it's not high on the priority list.
So are we no griping about Amazon Prime costs? Not me.
It's still a GREAT deal if you use their streaming video service. Netflix streaming only is about the same cost (a few bucks more for DVD's by mail) and they have a lot less stuff than Amazon, at least stuff I want to watch. The free shipping thing is of dubious value, at least for me, because most items are more expensive if they have prime shipping available. Some other Prime benefits help make my kindles more usable (Free books, downloadable video streams for off line viewing). But all these extras are over and above the video streaming.
Where $79 would be preferable $99 is still cheap so I'm not complaining. We are still under $10/month here.
Seems as if this is a great "real world" example of what happens when you try and run a "free market" without any sort of regulating body.
Um, not a good example. Everybody knows (or should know) that BitCoin exchanges/Banks are unregulated. If you thought your money was safe on deposit with Mt Gox, you where woefully misinformed and STUPID. However, what happened is still subject to law, civil law. Mt Gox can be sued (for what it's worth anyway) as can the principles who ran it. There may have even been criminal fraud involved which would subject the people who committed fraud to criminal charges. So this is NOT totally a free market, real world example of anything.
But your implied argument is also invalid. "Free Market" does not mean "no rules" it means that you advocate for the minimum regulation possible while keeping opportunity equal for all involved. (Note that I'm saying equal opportunity, and not equal outcome.) Fraud needs to be illegal in a "free market".
Ahh. Leverage. Good stuff, leverage.
Only when you have ENOUGH and you use it at the right times and locations. Otherwise, it's destructive in a big way. Just ask the owner of the engine who snapped off a head bolt...