Just as we saw France exporting Nuclear generated electricity to Germany as it switched to renewables, you could possibly see the US export cheaply generated electricity to Canada or Mexico.
Hell - exporting cheap electricity to Mexico may be one way to pay for that wall/fence/barrier thing he wants to build.
The FBI already said that Hillary mismanaged the handling of confidential documents via her illegal private server.
We already KNOW this to be fact. The FBI admitted such.
The fact is that none of it matters. The power that be decided they would not prosecute because of lack of "intent". Destroying evidence apparently is not "intent".
Hillary has been bought by Wall Street and numerous foreign entities via her foundation. Anyone that has the means to buy political influence has bought their piece of Hillary.
Hillary's supporters simply do not care about any of this. They aren't electing Hillary - they are electing an ideology. More global interventionist policies, larger and more intrusive government, and a supreme court that will rubber stamp all of it.
This is what Hillary's supporters are electing. The candidate and the associated crimes committed by that candidate are irrelevant.
Your question could be better asked this way: If China and India are so cheap, and talent readily available, why haven't all IT jobs simply been outsourced to China and India?
That does not appear to be happening - frankly the reverse is happening. The US appears to be drawing much talent from those areas with programs like the H1B visa.
Why would a top-tier IT worker want to pack their bags and head to the US? Simply put, the US is a more attractive place. Thinks like excellent schools, good roads bridges, decent electrical grid, police, fire, and the worlds biggest military for protection make the US a decent place to live and raise a family.
Companies and workers WANT to operate here in the US. If they didn't - the H1B visa wouldn't exist.
The reasons they want to operate here cost money - and that means corporations and individuals alike must pay the tax bill to fund those things.
TL;DR: The US is nice and costs money to keep nice - therefore salaries must be higher to pay for that.
If you are a 24/7 shop then you should have adequate staffing for 2nd and 3rd shifts.
If your business requires 24/7 attention and you have not staffed for that - your business will probably not survive. Emergencies can happen at any time. It is not reasonable to expect that your key staff never take a day off or a sick day. Why would you expect that they be available at all times?
Which I admit are significant. I love the idea of renewable energy. I have a Tesla Model 3 reserved, and I love the idea of generating my own electricity in a carbon free manner.
Politically, generating your own electricity without pushing external costs on others squares nicely with my Libertarian views.
Unfortunately, the finances matter. In the 3rd world, they matter even more.
Right now the external costs of carbon based generation are being borne by pretty much everyone. It's unfair, but that's the way it is. I don't have faith that government can equitably fix the external cost problem - so renewables have yet another hill to climb.
I'm an optimist here though - I think the engineers will get the cost of renewables down and fix the storage problem - I do not have the same optimism that governments can fix the carbon external cost problem - so it's up to the engineers to make renewables so cost efficient that the external costs of carbon become almost irrelevant. If renewables are productive enough, cheap enough, and reliable enough - they will win.
How many carbon based power plants were taken off-line and replaced by renewable generation capacity last year?
After much research, I haven't found a single instance of that happening - ever.
Have renewables caused a moratorium on all new carbon based power plants? I don't think so. Asia (as of last year) was opening more than one coal power plant PER DAY:
Renewables have two mathematically inescapable problems:
1. Renewable's land requirements per kWh are far too high. 2. Renewable's storage requirements to meet base load demand simply do not exist - presumably because storage costs are also very high.
I ran the numbers on a very small 2kW self-installed system - it would take me over 10 years in a best case scenario to recoup the costs at current utility rates.
Until renewables become far cheaper, generate more kWh per square-foot, and solve the storage problem - they will never reduce or replace carbon based generation.
I've switched back and forth from Android and iOS for years. I'm fortunate that my job provides that flexibility. I've used Hangouts stand alone - with Google Voice - and with Google Fi.
I like the way Hangouts synchronizes conversations between devices - delete a conversation on one - and all devices pick up the change.
Unfortunately that is the only thing Hangouts does better than Apple Messages. In every other way, Messages is a better user experience.
It took me years to get all the Apple users around me to install Hangouts - and then teach them how to properly use it. Video and voice calling via Hangouts is harder than it needs to be.
I had high hopes that Google would refine the user experience and make Hangouts the default "all in one" messaging app for Android - a true Messages/Facetime competitor.
The last straw that pushed me back to Apple was the Allo/Duo fiasco. Everyone important in my life uses an iPhone - it was simply easier to go back to Apple.
Google really screwed this up. The executives that created the Messages/Allo/Duo/Hangouts clusterfuck should lose their jobs.
Keeping the IT lights on is a thankless job. When everything works well, few people care about IT. When SHTF, everyone blames the "useless" IT department.
Couple this with the influx of H1B workers and wage stagnation, why on earth would anyone want to do this job?
Women close to me in demanding jobs like teaching or nursing say they find those careers challenging and fulfilling. When I ask them about technology work, they make a face and say - no thanks.
Maybe it's OK that men and women are actually different and they have differing tastes in work. Maybe the SJW's of the world simply need to be OK with that.
If medical and financial systems are built in an insecure manner, then that is the fault of the regulators.
I've worked in both medical and financial IT fields - both jobs had annual independent and government auditors looking at the systems. If the regulators are doing their jobs - those systems would be changed or replaced.
If the business isn't a government regulated industry such as Medical or Financial, private companies can do whatever they want (within lawful bounds) with their private networks. As far as I know, Trump's 500 or so businesses are owned solely by him - so he has no obligations to shareholders or the SEC.
Trump and only Trump bears the entire risk for his poor IT choices. The entire American people bear the risk of Hillary's poor IT choices.
Under Title 8, Section 1182 of the U.S. Code, the president has authority to use a proclamation to suspend the entry of “any aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States [who] would be detrimental to the interests of the United States,” for however long he deems necessary. This provision was included in the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952.
(5) Labor certification and qualifications for certain immigrants (A) Labor certification (i) In generalAny alien who seeks to enter the United States for the purpose of performing skilled or unskilled labor is inadmissible, unless the Secretary of Labor has determined and certified to the Secretary of State and the Attorney General that— (I) there are not sufficient workers who are able, willing, qualified (or equally qualified in the case of an alien described in clause (ii)) and available at the time of application for a visa and admission to the United States and at the place where the alien is to perform such skilled or unskilled labor, and (II) the employment of such alien will not adversely affect the wages and working conditions of workers in the United States similarly employed.
Microsoft is a business software company. They've utterly failed in consumer and mobile markets (with the exception of game consoles). Most businesses don't care how open or restricted software is. Businesses only care that the software helps them get business done and that the costs are worth the benefits.
There is no shame in taking billions of business dollars to the bank every quarter.
Even if Nadella's claim of open-ness was true, Apple/Linux/Android/iOS customers simply wouldn't care.
My mobile device does lots of things. But as I stated in my post - I don't USE it for anything DURING a concert. Did I say I ONLY use it for safety and security? No - I said that was the PRIMARY reason for carrying the device.
You apparently have difficulty with reading comprehension maybe you should try reading stuff a few times before posting replies.
I've never used my phone during a movie or concert, but I'll be damned if the performer I'm paying to see will force me to part with my property for their convenience.
The primary reason I carry a mobile device is for safety and security. I'm not giving that up because others can't control themselves.
I guess if the performer doesn't trust me with my mobile device, then they really don't want my money that badly.
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Let's see how much career changing bravado you have after taking on a mortgage and a couple of kids.
Getting career advice from a bean-bag sitting, overpriced latte-sipping millennial is like getting sex advice from the Vatican.
Electricity, however, may be.
Just as we saw France exporting Nuclear generated electricity to Germany as it switched to renewables, you could possibly see the US export cheaply generated electricity to Canada or Mexico.
Hell - exporting cheap electricity to Mexico may be one way to pay for that wall/fence/barrier thing he wants to build.
The new iPhone 7 - even more courageous and secure.....
Ideas, kept locked in your brain and taken to your grave are worthless.
Ideas that are shared with others go through a Darwinian evolution where others can scrutinize the idea before committing any resources to that idea.
Simply put - sharing your idea with others could save you from trying to develop a bad one - and encourage the development of good ones.
Maybe the NYT should run its opinions by a few people on social media before deciding to post really stupid ones like the article above.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
We've been going extinct for a long time.....yet here we are.
Not saying it's impossible, but our species seems to find a way.
Silicon Valley wants to break away from the union?
How is replacing one facist government with another going to improve anything?
Are terrible people to design mass market products.
There is a reason why most cars are not brown, diesel, station wagons with manual transmissions.
I'm no Facebook fan - but their users willingly put their information on the site.
I don't willingly give information to my Bank/Telco/Doctor/Mechanic/LawnGuy to do with as they please.
All private information sharing should be Opt-In BY LAW.
The FBI already said that Hillary mismanaged the handling of confidential documents via her illegal private server.
We already KNOW this to be fact. The FBI admitted such.
The fact is that none of it matters. The power that be decided they would not prosecute because of lack of "intent". Destroying evidence apparently is not "intent".
Hillary has been bought by Wall Street and numerous foreign entities via her foundation. Anyone that has the means to buy political influence has bought their piece of Hillary.
Hillary's supporters simply do not care about any of this. They aren't electing Hillary - they are electing an ideology. More global interventionist policies, larger and more intrusive government, and a supreme court that will rubber stamp all of it.
This is what Hillary's supporters are electing. The candidate and the associated crimes committed by that candidate are irrelevant.
Your question could be better asked this way: If China and India are so cheap, and talent readily available, why haven't all IT jobs simply been outsourced to China and India?
That does not appear to be happening - frankly the reverse is happening. The US appears to be drawing much talent from those areas with programs like the H1B visa.
Why would a top-tier IT worker want to pack their bags and head to the US? Simply put, the US is a more attractive place. Thinks like excellent schools, good roads bridges, decent electrical grid, police, fire, and the worlds biggest military for protection make the US a decent place to live and raise a family.
Companies and workers WANT to operate here in the US. If they didn't - the H1B visa wouldn't exist.
The reasons they want to operate here cost money - and that means corporations and individuals alike must pay the tax bill to fund those things.
TL;DR: The US is nice and costs money to keep nice - therefore salaries must be higher to pay for that.
I predict a day or two before the election the FBI will say everything is just peachy.
That might just push some fence sitters over to Hillary.
It sucks, but saddle up for 8 years of Hillary - it's going to be bad.
If you are a 24/7 shop then you should have adequate staffing for 2nd and 3rd shifts.
If your business requires 24/7 attention and you have not staffed for that - your business will probably not survive. Emergencies can happen at any time. It is not reasonable to expect that your key staff never take a day off or a sick day. Why would you expect that they be available at all times?
Which I admit are significant. I love the idea of renewable energy. I have a Tesla Model 3 reserved, and I love the idea of generating my own electricity in a carbon free manner.
Politically, generating your own electricity without pushing external costs on others squares nicely with my Libertarian views.
Unfortunately, the finances matter. In the 3rd world, they matter even more.
Right now the external costs of carbon based generation are being borne by pretty much everyone. It's unfair, but that's the way it is. I don't have faith that government can equitably fix the external cost problem - so renewables have yet another hill to climb.
I'm an optimist here though - I think the engineers will get the cost of renewables down and fix the storage problem - I do not have the same optimism that governments can fix the carbon external cost problem - so it's up to the engineers to make renewables so cost efficient that the external costs of carbon become almost irrelevant. If renewables are productive enough, cheap enough, and reliable enough - they will win.
I'm hoping my kids see that in their lifetimes.
How many carbon based power plants were taken off-line and replaced by renewable generation capacity last year?
After much research, I haven't found a single instance of that happening - ever.
Have renewables caused a moratorium on all new carbon based power plants? I don't think so. Asia (as of last year) was opening more than one coal power plant PER DAY:
http://climatechangedispatch.c...
Renewables have two mathematically inescapable problems:
1. Renewable's land requirements per kWh are far too high.
2. Renewable's storage requirements to meet base load demand simply do not exist - presumably because storage costs are also very high.
I ran the numbers on a very small 2kW self-installed system - it would take me over 10 years in a best case scenario to recoup the costs at current utility rates.
Until renewables become far cheaper, generate more kWh per square-foot, and solve the storage problem - they will never reduce or replace carbon based generation.
I've switched back and forth from Android and iOS for years. I'm fortunate that my job provides that flexibility. I've used Hangouts stand alone - with Google Voice - and with Google Fi.
I like the way Hangouts synchronizes conversations between devices - delete a conversation on one - and all devices pick up the change.
Unfortunately that is the only thing Hangouts does better than Apple Messages. In every other way, Messages is a better user experience.
It took me years to get all the Apple users around me to install Hangouts - and then teach them how to properly use it. Video and voice calling via Hangouts is harder than it needs to be.
I had high hopes that Google would refine the user experience and make Hangouts the default "all in one" messaging app for Android - a true Messages/Facetime competitor.
The last straw that pushed me back to Apple was the Allo/Duo fiasco. Everyone important in my life uses an iPhone - it was simply easier to go back to Apple.
Google really screwed this up. The executives that created the Messages/Allo/Duo/Hangouts clusterfuck should lose their jobs.
Keeping the IT lights on is a thankless job. When everything works well, few people care about IT. When SHTF, everyone blames the "useless" IT department.
Couple this with the influx of H1B workers and wage stagnation, why on earth would anyone want to do this job?
Women close to me in demanding jobs like teaching or nursing say they find those careers challenging and fulfilling. When I ask them about technology work, they make a face and say - no thanks.
Maybe it's OK that men and women are actually different and they have differing tastes in work. Maybe the SJW's of the world simply need to be OK with that.
If medical and financial systems are built in an insecure manner, then that is the fault of the regulators.
I've worked in both medical and financial IT fields - both jobs had annual independent and government auditors looking at the systems. If the regulators are doing their jobs - those systems would be changed or replaced.
If the business isn't a government regulated industry such as Medical or Financial, private companies can do whatever they want (within lawful bounds) with their private networks. As far as I know, Trump's 500 or so businesses are owned solely by him - so he has no obligations to shareholders or the SEC.
Trump and only Trump bears the entire risk for his poor IT choices. The entire American people bear the risk of Hillary's poor IT choices.
There is a big difference between the two.
Under Title 8, Section 1182 of the U.S. Code, the president has authority to use a proclamation to suspend the entry of “any aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States [who] would be detrimental to the interests of the United States,” for however long he deems necessary. This provision was included in the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/us...
(5) Labor certification and qualifications for certain immigrants
(A) Labor certification
(i) In generalAny alien who seeks to enter the United States for the purpose of performing skilled or unskilled labor is inadmissible, unless the Secretary of Labor has determined and certified to the Secretary of State and the Attorney General that—
(I) there are not sufficient workers who are able, willing, qualified (or equally qualified in the case of an alien described in clause (ii)) and available at the time of application for a visa and admission to the United States and at the place where the alien is to perform such skilled or unskilled labor, and
(II) the employment of such alien will not adversely affect the wages and working conditions of workers in the United States similarly employed.
Microsoft is a business software company. They've utterly failed in consumer and mobile markets (with the exception of game consoles). Most businesses don't care how open or restricted software is. Businesses only care that the software helps them get business done and that the costs are worth the benefits.
There is no shame in taking billions of business dollars to the bank every quarter.
Even if Nadella's claim of open-ness was true, Apple/Linux/Android/iOS customers simply wouldn't care.
So if my kids are trouble and they need to contact me, your suggestion is that they call me at the concert or venue.
Have you even put two braincells into your reply?
IF my kids could figure out what number to call - there is no guarantee that anyone there would take the call.
Then there is the problem of the helpful "staff" as you call them finding me in a sea of other people.
You aren't the brightest bulb on the tree now are you?
Did you even read my post?
My mobile device does lots of things. But as I stated in my post - I don't USE it for anything DURING a concert. Did I say I ONLY use it for safety and security? No - I said that was the PRIMARY reason for carrying the device.
You apparently have difficulty with reading comprehension maybe you should try reading stuff a few times before posting replies.
What if an emergency arises and now my mobile device is locked in a pouch? I have given up my ability to use the device.
Yes I still possess the device, but that is cold comfort if someone starts shooting up the place and I have to call 911....and can't.
I've never used my phone during a movie or concert, but I'll be damned if the performer I'm paying to see will force me to part with my property for their convenience.
The primary reason I carry a mobile device is for safety and security. I'm not giving that up because others can't control themselves.
I guess if the performer doesn't trust me with my mobile device, then they really don't want my money that badly.
is the closest thing to innovation that I've seen in a movie theater in over 20 years.
Unfortunately, it's expensive and far away - so we stream movies at home most of the time.