Would you expect executives to understand their telecom systems or how the plumbing works?
That depends on the corporation. At a telecom company there better darn well be someone on the board that understands telecom. If computers are integral to your business, which they aren't for all businesses, then it would be prudent to have someone who knows something.
For example, at a manufacturing company computers are just appliances despite their widespread use so not much advantage to having a tech savvy board member. At a distance education company however computers are business critical and a big capex item, having some expertise on the board would be a significant advantage.
Mining Mars is worthless given current orbital lift costs, you wouldn't be able to use the materials anywhere except on Mars. For mining purposes the asteroids would make a lot more sense.
Feel free to post evidence of locales where banning firearms has not resulted in an increase in non-lethal crimes. Pre and Post numbers from that area would be best, though I'd probably accept comparison of current numbers vs. a reference city, say Dallas, TX for example.
The amount being suggested wouldn't convince many people to stop working as most of us want more than a bare bones existence. The people who would stop working frankly probably have marginal or negative employment value already so from a total society perspective it's a net win.
It's interesting how Americans can discount evidence from other places in the world. Gun control
Gun control evidence is actually very poor, in all areas where gun control has been implemented there is a significant rise in non-lethal crimes like rape, assault and theft.
This, this, this, THIS, THIS, THIS! Times infinity!
Money does not grow on trees! Just like the ACA, the money has to come from somewhere! This is socialism at it's absolute worst!
Money does indeed grow on trees, well flax plants anyways since we make our bills out of linen. Wealth on the other hand, which is probably what you meant is not quite so easy to come by. Still, that said we have sufficient wealth in our economy to support a basic income at least equal to the living wage. Combined with eliminating the minimum wage and variety of social programs it actually wouldn't be as expensive as you might think. I would describe this as socialism at it's best since it doesn't involve lots of regulation or bureaucracy, in fact it would probably reduce the involvement of government. As a Libertarian I'd vote for it, after all can you be truly free if your only choice is to sell your labor or starve? Without a frontier it's the only way to ensure that capital doesn't unfairly dominate labor.
How is something we have no control over in the first place be considered abandoned?
The law was written back when POP (post office protocol) was the standard. Basically it downloaded your messages from the server and then deleted the server copy. If the messages were still there after six months it basically meant you weren't using your email and it was probably a legitimate assumption that they were abandoned. Obviously things have changed.
No, I'm suggesting that those like uber drivers, task rabbit workers, etc. are more attached than contractors but not really as attached as full employees. They should get a set of benefits and protections somewhere between the two. The same could be said for teenagers, they're not really children, but they're not really adults either and the law should reflect that.
In most cases it's just used as a signaling function for intelligence and work ethic. It's credential inflation. When more people have degrees they don't mean as much.
Corporations don't like developers who understand the past, they're too likely to ask uncomfortable questions about the current project and processes. No job for you.
And if you think liberal arts majors aren't trained to think logically, I don't know what to tell you. A decent liberal arts program most certainly covers that
Not based on the curriculum I've seen and the individuals I've met. Thinking, perhaps, thinking logically, not so much.
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How the hell can Fukishima increase nuclear related deaths when nobody died from it???
Cancer takes a while. Nuclear will still be orders of magnitude safer than most of the other options.
I'd settle for something that would let you carry the current gear load with less fatigue. That alone would be giant improvement.
Unless its directors don't fancy living in a tiny habitube on an airless rock somewhere...
Don't be silly, directors get the big habitube.
Which is why we should change building codes to require whole building UPS for all new construction.
Would you expect executives to understand their telecom systems or how the plumbing works?
That depends on the corporation. At a telecom company there better darn well be someone on the board that understands telecom. If computers are integral to your business, which they aren't for all businesses, then it would be prudent to have someone who knows something.
For example, at a manufacturing company computers are just appliances despite their widespread use so not much advantage to having a tech savvy board member. At a distance education company however computers are business critical and a big capex item, having some expertise on the board would be a significant advantage.
I look forward to our new, even less reasonable speaker.
He might have been Republican in name but seemed to vote more like a democrat.
Hardly. He did tend to vote moderate though, which extremists tend to find uncomfortable.
Mining Mars is worthless given current orbital lift costs, you wouldn't be able to use the materials anywhere except on Mars. For mining purposes the asteroids would make a lot more sense.
I'm a space fan but there is no economic or military payoff for going to Mars and the science part can be handled by robots.
For losing or gaining weight yes, for losing or gaining fat or lean body mass no.
Feel free to post evidence of locales where banning firearms has not resulted in an increase in non-lethal crimes. Pre and Post numbers from that area would be best, though I'd probably accept comparison of current numbers vs. a reference city, say Dallas, TX for example.
The amount being suggested wouldn't convince many people to stop working as most of us want more than a bare bones existence. The people who would stop working frankly probably have marginal or negative employment value already so from a total society perspective it's a net win.
It's interesting how Americans can discount evidence from other places in the world. Gun control
Gun control evidence is actually very poor, in all areas where gun control has been implemented there is a significant rise in non-lethal crimes like rape, assault and theft.
Does this money just magically appear?
This, this, this, THIS, THIS, THIS! Times infinity! Money does not grow on trees! Just like the ACA, the money has to come from somewhere! This is socialism at it's absolute worst!
Money does indeed grow on trees, well flax plants anyways since we make our bills out of linen. Wealth on the other hand, which is probably what you meant is not quite so easy to come by. Still, that said we have sufficient wealth in our economy to support a basic income at least equal to the living wage. Combined with eliminating the minimum wage and variety of social programs it actually wouldn't be as expensive as you might think. I would describe this as socialism at it's best since it doesn't involve lots of regulation or bureaucracy, in fact it would probably reduce the involvement of government. As a Libertarian I'd vote for it, after all can you be truly free if your only choice is to sell your labor or starve? Without a frontier it's the only way to ensure that capital doesn't unfairly dominate labor.
That would actually probably work pretty well, but a VAT tax is more likely to get passed.
Adding technology without changing your process doesn't change anything except your overhead.
How is something we have no control over in the first place be considered abandoned?
The law was written back when POP (post office protocol) was the standard. Basically it downloaded your messages from the server and then deleted the server copy. If the messages were still there after six months it basically meant you weren't using your email and it was probably a legitimate assumption that they were abandoned. Obviously things have changed.
Compared to the dangers of the Soviet Union the Al Qaeda terrorists are pikers.
He's saying Iraq was a shithole with mass killings and on the verge of civil war before we went in.
True, but we invented whole new levels in stupidity with our Iraq policy.
More of a plutocracy than an oligarchy, but otherwise correct.
No, I'm suggesting that those like uber drivers, task rabbit workers, etc. are more attached than contractors but not really as attached as full employees. They should get a set of benefits and protections somewhere between the two. The same could be said for teenagers, they're not really children, but they're not really adults either and the law should reflect that.
In most cases it's just used as a signaling function for intelligence and work ethic. It's credential inflation. When more people have degrees they don't mean as much.
Corporations don't like developers who understand the past, they're too likely to ask uncomfortable questions about the current project and processes. No job for you.
And if you think liberal arts majors aren't trained to think logically, I don't know what to tell you. A decent liberal arts program most certainly covers that
Not based on the curriculum I've seen and the individuals I've met. Thinking, perhaps, thinking logically, not so much.
Yeah, why is that engineering majors need art history to be well rounded but art history majors don't need vector calculus for the same reason?