Quite a few actually though that depends on how you define "young". Blaming age in this case is misleading though, basically akin to asking how many Christian CEOs there are and then blaming that. It's not 'what you are' that is the problem with CEOs, it's the 'how you got that job' that tends to be the issue.
High School students don't have the need for most tech skills as part of a general education. There are three skills that would help them no matter what career they have in mind though:
1) Logic - Being able to think clearly is useful for anyone
2) Basic troubleshooting - If you have a broken anything, printer, lawnmower, work process, coffee maker or piece of software the basic idea of how to troubleshoot remains pretty much the same
3) How to find things out when you don't know the answer - Sometimes this also involves figuring out how to decide what your question is
I would argue that one cannot simultaneously be a social liberal and a fiscal conservative. Social liberals uniformly support the massive welfare state that threatens our very existence as a nation.
You're confusing socially liberal with socialist, not the same thing at all. I am socially liberal in that I don't think the government should tell me what to do in my private life with regards to items like abortion, marriage, drugs, gambling, prostitution, drinking, guns, sex, religion or lack thereof, etc.
This has all happened before, and it will all happen again.
When the resource sector automated everyone moved to manufacturing, when manufacturing automated everyone moved to service, now that service is automating where exactly do you expect them to go?
That's an argument for increased internal security spending. Of course, given the size of the upcoming problem I don't think the traditional answer is going to scale well.
I'm pro-vaccines, after all they've done a huge amount of good over the years. They're not an unqualified good, some people do experience negative outcomes but the chances of that are extremely rare so for society as a whole they're a net positive when used approrpriately. I am concerned however with trends I've seen for dogs and horses where the vaccines schedules and number of booster shots keep getting increased. For the most part it looks like greed rather than science and with a public mandate I'm worried that behavior may move to human vaccinations.
Our current voting system was designed for a voting public that was mostly self employed farmers. Taking some time off to into town and vote wasn't that big a deal. Now the voting public is mostly wage based corporate employees and making the time to go to the polling place is much more complicated. Vote by mail seems to be the best compromise at the moment and is working fine in Oregon.
"Considerable trouble"? Basically you open a new account (Gmail or whatever) and then have that account check your old AOL account (via POP or IMAP) for a while.
Actually the email portion has little to do with the inconvenience. The problem is that thousands of lazy developers decided that your email address should be your unique login ID for their site. Thus changing your email address could make all kinds of services you've registered for much less useful, and if you've been online for over 20 years like I have that is literally thousands of sites. Sure, I have gmail address as well, which I use for resumes since some people use stupid non-job related filters, but so far the switching cost has been too high to make it worth fully migrating.
Actually no. Venus current condition was caused by natural processes which may or may not add credibility to the current theory. That however is not proof that the models are useful for making predictions. What you would need to do is design a change for the atmosphere of Venus, model it, make a prediction, then test it. If the results match your prediction, then yes that's good evidence, do it a few more times and we've got something serious to talk about. If the results don't match then you need to do some more work on your models before we start getting all excited.
To be fair, the UN is actually better than most of the governments that compose it. And it *does* appear to have reduced wars.
Correlation rather than causation. They're roughly as helpful as the league of nations which didn't help much. It's nuclear weapon that have reduced large scale warfare. It's harder to decide to kick over your neighbors ant hill when they might vaporize your children.
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Quite a few actually though that depends on how you define "young". Blaming age in this case is misleading though, basically akin to asking how many Christian CEOs there are and then blaming that. It's not 'what you are' that is the problem with CEOs, it's the 'how you got that job' that tends to be the issue.
High School students don't have the need for most tech skills as part of a general education. There are three skills that would help them no matter what career they have in mind though:
1) Logic - Being able to think clearly is useful for anyone
2) Basic troubleshooting - If you have a broken anything, printer, lawnmower, work process, coffee maker or piece of software the basic idea of how to troubleshoot remains pretty much the same
3) How to find things out when you don't know the answer - Sometimes this also involves figuring out how to decide what your question is
I don't think a mind meld with computers will even be the desired input method ever.
Ever? That's a long time. Frankly I think we'll see cranial implants that allow computer access without a keyboard during this century.
No, that would be 'massive inter-class theft' which is a similar but distinct phenomenon.
I would argue that one cannot simultaneously be a social liberal and a fiscal conservative. Social liberals uniformly support the massive welfare state that threatens our very existence as a nation.
You're confusing socially liberal with socialist, not the same thing at all. I am socially liberal in that I don't think the government should tell me what to do in my private life with regards to items like abortion, marriage, drugs, gambling, prostitution, drinking, guns, sex, religion or lack thereof, etc.
I'm glad you think that the abortion issue hasn't changed in the last 40 years.
The issue hasn't changed, just the tactics.
I like Ike! Can we have him back?
As long as we continue to use first past the post voting we'll always end up with just two major parties.
They're seen as being less competent. The Nazis were scary because they were both evil and effective.
Oh and knocking down sufficient trees to provide clear lines of fire around important facilities.
No, but paying $100 a month to subscribe to a car service that provides automated cars on demand is.
This has all happened before, and it will all happen again.
When the resource sector automated everyone moved to manufacturing, when manufacturing automated everyone moved to service, now that service is automating where exactly do you expect them to go?
That's an argument for increased internal security spending. Of course, given the size of the upcoming problem I don't think the traditional answer is going to scale well.
I'm pro-vaccines, after all they've done a huge amount of good over the years. They're not an unqualified good, some people do experience negative outcomes but the chances of that are extremely rare so for society as a whole they're a net positive when used approrpriately. I am concerned however with trends I've seen for dogs and horses where the vaccines schedules and number of booster shots keep getting increased. For the most part it looks like greed rather than science and with a public mandate I'm worried that behavior may move to human vaccinations.
Our current voting system was designed for a voting public that was mostly self employed farmers. Taking some time off to into town and vote wasn't that big a deal. Now the voting public is mostly wage based corporate employees and making the time to go to the polling place is much more complicated. Vote by mail seems to be the best compromise at the moment and is working fine in Oregon.
or reset if you need to.
The password reset process for most sites usually involves sending an email to your account address so closing the account would make that unworkable.
If you remember owning a black and white television...
Which I used to play pong.
If you remember when there were only two kinds of coffee...
Well, I remember when burnt coffee was still considered a bad thing.
If you know what a pencil has to do with a cassette tape....
Then you probably remember loading programs from tape.
If you have an AOL email address.....
That I got before most people had even heard of email.
"Considerable trouble"? Basically you open a new account (Gmail or whatever) and then have that account check your old AOL account (via POP or IMAP) for a while.
Actually the email portion has little to do with the inconvenience. The problem is that thousands of lazy developers decided that your email address should be your unique login ID for their site. Thus changing your email address could make all kinds of services you've registered for much less useful, and if you've been online for over 20 years like I have that is literally thousands of sites. Sure, I have gmail address as well, which I use for resumes since some people use stupid non-job related filters, but so far the switching cost has been too high to make it worth fully migrating.
Actually I switched to AOL because it was cheaper and easier than Prodigy.
Actually no. Venus current condition was caused by natural processes which may or may not add credibility to the current theory. That however is not proof that the models are useful for making predictions. What you would need to do is design a change for the atmosphere of Venus, model it, make a prediction, then test it. If the results match your prediction, then yes that's good evidence, do it a few more times and we've got something serious to talk about. If the results don't match then you need to do some more work on your models before we start getting all excited.
Frankly I have yet to see a good analysis on that particular issue.
...even if it was all wrong. What's the side-effect of reducing pollute? We're all less likely to die of cancer?
Poverty, growing inequality, societal fracture, possibly civil war.
Dick Cheney is the embodiment of Satan
- everyone needs more education
Well, on those two points at least I can agree.
To be fair, the UN is actually better than most of the governments that compose it. And it *does* appear to have reduced wars.
Correlation rather than causation. They're roughly as helpful as the league of nations which didn't help much. It's nuclear weapon that have reduced large scale warfare. It's harder to decide to kick over your neighbors ant hill when they might vaporize your children.
It's called Venus, you may begin testing at will.