'We exist to help donors promote liberty which we understand to be limited government, personal responsibility, and free enterprise,' says Whitney Ball, chief executive of the Donors Trust.
And don't forget the disinformation. We can't have all that freedom with an informed public.
Totally agree. What you want is a sales guy or company on contract. They get a specific percentage of sales (say 50%) for a specific period (say 2 years). Don't sign any agreement that gives them the right to anything from future products not named. Such products can be added one by one as you develop them if you still have a good and profitable working relationship. If your sales should grow beyond that they can support, you can hire another company or hire your own sales staff as long as they don't have you locked into a long-term arrangement.
Now try convincing a jury that you can rule out the possibility that the other twin did it. Hell, maybe BOTH twins are doing it.
Here are some other ideas:
Go back to the crime scenes and look for fingerprints.
Rule out one twin or the other based on their whereabouts during specific attacks.
My understanding is that identical twins -- arising from the same zygote -- are genetically identical. Not just "pretty much identical" as the article states.
Then your understanding is wrong, see this article:
Geneticist Carl Bruder of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and his colleagues closely compared the genomes of 19 sets of adult identical twins. In some cases, one twin's DNA differed from the other's at various points on their genomes.
Show us the evidence that such variations don't occur within the body of a single person.
After hacking the controls of the DE-STAR a Supervillain demands a ransom of $1 trillion or he will turn the lasers on Earth. Only an International Man of Mystery or a Double Naught Spy can save us from the photonic clutches of, who? Dr. Evil or SPECTRE?"
Coming to a theater near you.
So you have to build laser systems on Earth first, capable of destroying the orbiting station. And of course, many nations must control these stations so that no country could take control of the space weapon and use it against all others. I'm excited to be part of this program! Also, these systems would be useful for attacking other countries' satellites in case of a war (or as the opening move in one).
There was at least one case of a farmer who bought his seed from a grain elevator and simply planted it. He was not replanting crop he had bought from Monsanto. He was buying whatever seed happened to be in that elevator and planting it, exactly like farmers have done for thousands of years.
tech schools / apprenticeships to fix skill gaps and cut down the school loans by cutting down class time from 4-5+ years to some kind of a mixed 1-3 years class room apprenticeship for big parts of the IT field.
Won't help. The jobs have to be there and they're not.
You make it sound like Chinese people are incapable for doing automation. Nonsense. The reason you see Chinese workers doing jobs that would be done by automation in America is that the cost point at which automation achieves lower total cost is much lower there due to the low wage scales. You will not beat a low wage country that way. You will only make it so that a larger proportion of your population is unemployed and dependent on increased taxes that have to be paid by the few who still have jobs.
Nobody has lost a job in the US because someone else could do the job in another country for less.
Bullshit. I trained my Chinese replacement on my last job, knowing full well that my employer was offshoring my job specifically to save money.
Why, then, did Dell and others outsource? Flexibility. It's about being able to send a new PCB layout to a factory and receive the first batch of 100,000 circuit boards inside of a week rather than months.
More bullshit. At a major US manufacturer, (not Dell) we used to turn around a board revision from US manufacturers in as little as 5 days -- 3 days if we were willing to pay the premium. The thing that slowed us down more than anything was double checking and triple checking the design and making pilot runs to tweak the process and measure manufacturing yield. Once the design was proven we could send orders to as many of our production board fabs to get all the boards we needed. There's nothing magic about doing it in China. They do exactly the same thing.
Nothing eats up profit faster than building product you can't sell.
Without minimum wage and even with it, you have a job market where many of the jobs that exist do not pay a living wage. By that I mean that while working full time at these jobs, people do not make enough to get by, covering their family expenses plus a reserve for emergencies. In that situation, whenever the people who have these jobs hit a small snag, they can't deal with it financially. For instance, if they get sick and can't work for a month or so, they can't pay their medical expenses, can't make their rent, can't buy food, etc. So either we as a society let them die or we somehow cover for them. The way we cover for them is principally in providing welfare and unemployment benefits, subsidized medical care, etc. When you average it out, these jobs pay less than the labor really costs. The public programs put there to ensure our fellow citizens don't suffer unnecessarily become a subsidy that allows employers to pay wages that are unrealistically low compared to the cost of living. A minimum wage defines a minimum contribution that the employer must make to covering the employees' expenses. The higher wage results in lower demands on public services because the employees don't need as much public support.
The "baby boomers retiring" business is nonsense on two levels:
Any competent programmer can learn to read, write and maintain COBOL or translate it to whatever language is preferred, so there's nothing to fear from the people who are familiar with COBOL retiring. The language is plenty well documented.
COBOL was never the province of baby boomers. It was introduced in 1959, when the youngest boomers were still kids and standardized in '68, when most boomers were still kids and had no access to computers.
The only true part is that the only people still working as programmers who cut their teeth on COBOL are baby boomers and will be retiring sometime in the next two decades.
Do you remember what happened when he actually tried to close it? Congress refused to let it happen. The only way he's going to get the detention camp closed is if he orders the release of all the prisoners.
What else do you expect? It's a speech, not a bill. I suppose he could get up there and read proposed legislation but about the middle of paragraph 2, everybody would tune out, including Congress. THEY don't even read bills on the House floor.
It works the other way around. Bring back US manufacturing jobs and there will be more demand for US engineers.
Our jobs didn't get outsourced for lack of US skills. They got outsourced due to wage scales. How are you going to compete when some guy in China can do your job for less than the US poverty level?
Very much on point. Part job as a student is to make the professor's job easy. See, there's a whole bunch of you (maybe hundreds in some intro classes) and only one of him. This is excellent training for when you are employed. Your job is to give your managers what they asked of you in a form they can most easily use.
It's true that the professor is technically working for you but you're not the one dealing with 30 papers from 30 students or 300 papers from 300 students all of whom think they're God's Gift. Anything that makes the professor's work 1% harder is not worth it, especially if they have to do it 300 times.
And they shouldn't have to deal with the security issues of putting your dubious-provenance thumb drive in their computer or opening your malware-infested email or God forbid receiving your home-made and/or child porn on their email account.
Just have your goverment ban discriminatory regional pricing and regional copyright restrictions. Then buy it online at American or Great Britain or Hong Kong prices.
To obtain a patent, you need to be able to reduce it to a practicable description, meaning that you do have to show exactly how the patented device works with enough particularity to make it functional right now. Future patents aren't granted. The idea behind it is that if you figure out how to do it but don't actually do it, you've told other people how to do it by posting the patent, and therefore you deserve royalties from that (which means that implementation isn't stymied, it's just expensive). In practice, what we've done is encourage the development of patent trolls given the free transfer of patent rights like property. This could either be fixed by limiting transfers of patent rights or by requiring a modicum percentage of active use and implementation. To require that you actually practice a patent is unfair, though, because I could not reasonably practice implementation of a novel and revolutionary ion space drive or nuclear reactor even if I could design and perfectly describe it on paper.
It used to work the way you describe, but not any more. Now reduction to practice is not required by the USPTO.
Margins on these things tend to be pretty thin (and sometimes negative at product introduction), so the last thing you want is to have a bunch of inventory that's not moving. So at product introduction, you make fewer than your low-side estimate of your first month's sales. Then, once you see how it's received in the market, you either ramp up production or you don't.
Still, software development is the making of useful or desired things from known principles. So it's technology. Calling all software engineering is perhaps overly generous use of that term.
I can't think of an example where it's science, or even like science.
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What we need is somebody to follow the money all the way from the donors to the douchebag "scientists" who make results to order.
'We exist to help donors promote liberty which we understand to be limited government, personal responsibility, and free enterprise,' says Whitney Ball, chief executive of the Donors Trust.
And don't forget the disinformation. We can't have all that freedom with an informed public.
If you can fire 54 people from your blog and still have enough to operate, then you really do have too many employees.
Bingo! Which is why you fire the empire-building GM and CIO who made it happen.
Totally agree. What you want is a sales guy or company on contract. They get a specific percentage of sales (say 50%) for a specific period (say 2 years). Don't sign any agreement that gives them the right to anything from future products not named. Such products can be added one by one as you develop them if you still have a good and profitable working relationship. If your sales should grow beyond that they can support, you can hire another company or hire your own sales staff as long as they don't have you locked into a long-term arrangement.
Then your understanding is wrong, see this article:
Geneticist Carl Bruder of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and his colleagues closely compared the genomes of 19 sets of adult identical twins. In some cases, one twin's DNA differed from the other's at various points on their genomes.
Show us the evidence that such variations don't occur within the body of a single person.
Try this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manicouagan_crater
After hacking the controls of the DE-STAR a Supervillain demands a ransom of $1 trillion or he will turn the lasers on Earth. Only an International Man of Mystery or a Double Naught Spy can save us from the photonic clutches of, who? Dr. Evil or SPECTRE?" Coming to a theater near you.
So you have to build laser systems on Earth first, capable of destroying the orbiting station. And of course, many nations must control these stations so that no country could take control of the space weapon and use it against all others. I'm excited to be part of this program! Also, these systems would be useful for attacking other countries' satellites in case of a war (or as the opening move in one).
Put the PRNDL on N.
There was at least one case of a farmer who bought his seed from a grain elevator and simply planted it. He was not replanting crop he had bought from Monsanto. He was buying whatever seed happened to be in that elevator and planting it, exactly like farmers have done for thousands of years.
tech schools / apprenticeships to fix skill gaps and cut down the school loans by cutting down class time from 4-5+ years to some kind of a mixed 1-3 years class room apprenticeship for big parts of the IT field.
Won't help. The jobs have to be there and they're not.
You make it sound like Chinese people are incapable for doing automation. Nonsense. The reason you see Chinese workers doing jobs that would be done by automation in America is that the cost point at which automation achieves lower total cost is much lower there due to the low wage scales. You will not beat a low wage country that way. You will only make it so that a larger proportion of your population is unemployed and dependent on increased taxes that have to be paid by the few who still have jobs.
Nobody has lost a job in the US because someone else could do the job in another country for less.
Bullshit. I trained my Chinese replacement on my last job, knowing full well that my employer was offshoring my job specifically to save money.
Why, then, did Dell and others outsource? Flexibility. It's about being able to send a new PCB layout to a factory and receive the first batch of 100,000 circuit boards inside of a week rather than months.
More bullshit. At a major US manufacturer, (not Dell) we used to turn around a board revision from US manufacturers in as little as 5 days -- 3 days if we were willing to pay the premium. The thing that slowed us down more than anything was double checking and triple checking the design and making pilot runs to tweak the process and measure manufacturing yield. Once the design was proven we could send orders to as many of our production board fabs to get all the boards we needed. There's nothing magic about doing it in China. They do exactly the same thing.
Nothing eats up profit faster than building product you can't sell.
Without minimum wage and even with it, you have a job market where many of the jobs that exist do not pay a living wage. By that I mean that while working full time at these jobs, people do not make enough to get by, covering their family expenses plus a reserve for emergencies. In that situation, whenever the people who have these jobs hit a small snag, they can't deal with it financially. For instance, if they get sick and can't work for a month or so, they can't pay their medical expenses, can't make their rent, can't buy food, etc. So either we as a society let them die or we somehow cover for them. The way we cover for them is principally in providing welfare and unemployment benefits, subsidized medical care, etc. When you average it out, these jobs pay less than the labor really costs. The public programs put there to ensure our fellow citizens don't suffer unnecessarily become a subsidy that allows employers to pay wages that are unrealistically low compared to the cost of living. A minimum wage defines a minimum contribution that the employer must make to covering the employees' expenses. The higher wage results in lower demands on public services because the employees don't need as much public support.
The only true part is that the only people still working as programmers who cut their teeth on COBOL are baby boomers and will be retiring sometime in the next two decades.
So what?
It strikes me that if you just let this man run the country for the remainder of his term without obstruction America ...
That's not how government works in America. Never has.
Do you remember what happened when he actually tried to close it? Congress refused to let it happen. The only way he's going to get the detention camp closed is if he orders the release of all the prisoners.
What else do you expect? It's a speech, not a bill. I suppose he could get up there and read proposed legislation but about the middle of paragraph 2, everybody would tune out, including Congress. THEY don't even read bills on the House floor.
That and internalizing a formerly externalized cost.
It works the other way around. Bring back US manufacturing jobs and there will be more demand for US engineers. Our jobs didn't get outsourced for lack of US skills. They got outsourced due to wage scales. How are you going to compete when some guy in China can do your job for less than the US poverty level?
Very much on point. Part job as a student is to make the professor's job easy. See, there's a whole bunch of you (maybe hundreds in some intro classes) and only one of him. This is excellent training for when you are employed. Your job is to give your managers what they asked of you in a form they can most easily use.
It's true that the professor is technically working for you but you're not the one dealing with 30 papers from 30 students or 300 papers from 300 students all of whom think they're God's Gift. Anything that makes the professor's work 1% harder is not worth it, especially if they have to do it 300 times.
And they shouldn't have to deal with the security issues of putting your dubious-provenance thumb drive in their computer or opening your malware-infested email or God forbid receiving your home-made and/or child porn on their email account.
No thank you very much.
Just have your goverment ban discriminatory regional pricing and regional copyright restrictions. Then buy it online at American or Great Britain or Hong Kong prices.
To obtain a patent, you need to be able to reduce it to a practicable description, meaning that you do have to show exactly how the patented device works with enough particularity to make it functional right now. Future patents aren't granted. The idea behind it is that if you figure out how to do it but don't actually do it, you've told other people how to do it by posting the patent, and therefore you deserve royalties from that (which means that implementation isn't stymied, it's just expensive). In practice, what we've done is encourage the development of patent trolls given the free transfer of patent rights like property. This could either be fixed by limiting transfers of patent rights or by requiring a modicum percentage of active use and implementation. To require that you actually practice a patent is unfair, though, because I could not reasonably practice implementation of a novel and revolutionary ion space drive or nuclear reactor even if I could design and perfectly describe it on paper.
It used to work the way you describe, but not any more. Now reduction to practice is not required by the USPTO.
Margins on these things tend to be pretty thin (and sometimes negative at product introduction), so the last thing you want is to have a bunch of inventory that's not moving. So at product introduction, you make fewer than your low-side estimate of your first month's sales. Then, once you see how it's received in the market, you either ramp up production or you don't.
Still, software development is the making of useful or desired things from known principles. So it's technology. Calling all software engineering is perhaps overly generous use of that term. I can't think of an example where it's science, or even like science.