If you make education purely a state-level system then there will be a race to the bottom. Employers will flee states that have generous education programs in favor of minimalist states that have lower taxes.
Except... that didn't happen back before the Feds co-opted education.
You don't seem to realize that Federal control of the educational system is a fairly recent thing - mid/late 1960's.
Once the pilots flip switches on and off in confused state lose their consciousness completely, the plane would fly on autopilot following the way points that happened to be programmed.
Yes - dazed and confused pilots just happened to enter the coordinates for a (reasonably as such things do) direct track at ninety degrees to the planned one and then just happened to enable the autopilot to fly that track. Casino's rake in billions per year because of folks like you.
If there is foul play involved, it would be worthwhile exercise to make sure every flight plan that was file in that duration and every flight directed by the control towers in that time is legit and locate those planes. The pilot(s) could easily turn off the transponder, drop out of radar, pop back in and start using a different call sign. Without a transponder, air traffic control completely trusts the pilot to self identify the plane correctly. If the malefactors had filed a fake flight plan, the plane could change its identity mid flight without attracting attention.
The problem isn't avoiding having anyone notice your change in identity mid flight - it's avoiding having them notice that you aren't what you claim to be when you arrive somewhere. As well as covering up the disappearance of the flight you replaced. (Or are you suggesting that somehow they created an entirely synthetic flight that never even took off... yet appeared in all the control systems?)
A natural obsession with learning or problem solving can't be taught.
Indeed. When I was in the Navy, we all had the exact some training... but once you got to the fleet, some guys turned out to be great console jockeys, but little else, some guys couldn't handle the hot seat at all. (Though to be honest, being fast and accurate managing the team and the system from the console was no mean feat.) Some guys were intuitive troubleshooters, others methodical, yet others never really got the hang of it though they could stick to the procedures and get by so long as the going didn't get too weird. Etc... etc...
In theory, we were all interchangeable widgets shaped and honed in training. In reality, personality, aptitude, and inclination played a huge part.
You don't need a degree, you just need to be smart.
And lucky. And willing to put up with quite a bit (like moving frequently). And no doubt the veteran's preferment points helped you land that government job.
If you think it was just because you're "smart", you actually aren't.
College does not, and should not, equal vocational training.
Why not? That's exactly what was for centuries, and it worked well enough. Folks don't seem to realize this, or that the "college is for broadening the mind" meme is a fairly recent one.
And China and Japan for centuries, and the modern West is practically an anarchy in many ways compared to what it was like the Middle Ages. (Etc... etc...)
Seriously? How much "diversity" and "innovation" do you need in terms of a charger?
It's not about the charger, it's about what the charger plugs into. Now, under this new regulation, all devices must accept the same input charge - regardless of whether or not a different charging system would be beneficial to the design. It's kind like specifying that all motor vehicles (from scooters up to eighteen wheelers) must use the same air filter. It'll be too big for some devices, too small for others, and lock designs ten years down the road to a standard written today.
Or, to put it another way, yes - charger designs evolve just the same as the equipment they're attached to. (Though chargers get far less attention because they aren't very sexy.)
It will also provide a wider window for cheap Chinese knock offs - and if you recall the debacle over counterfeit Apple chargers last year, you'll see why this can be a bad thing.
Because the water is in a closed loop system, very little of it is lost
But, being a closed loop system, any contaminants (such as nitrites, which is toxic to plants) produced are retained and tend to build up in the system. And ask anyone who keeps fish tanks how much work it is to keep a fish tank clean and balanced, even if you have a well established bacteria and plant system.
Done rightly, this system can shake up food supply as surely as 3D printers are going to shake up industry.
That's the claim, but there's been a lot of claims (running back to the 60's) out of the alternative farming community of things like this that would "surely shake up the food supply". They've pretty much all turned out to be unsustainable, or expensive, or fail to scale beyond the homestead/DIY level, or some combination of the three. The jury is still out on aquaponics.
If I have a TB of data to move, a bittorrent client doesn't reduce the amount of data I have to send upstream. What forced for seeded warez doesn't work for unseeded personal files.
Sure. But on the other hand, without extra effort that 1TB external is subject to the same hazards that the PC it's sitting next to is. Plus *I* have to monitor and replace that 1TB on a regular basis.
There's more to backup strategy that just "copy it to an external drive and hope".
And it accomplishes virtually nothing to boot! Seriously, there's a hell of a lot more to running the rover than just steering and driving.
right...i know what you mean. this would be more in the "PR" realm, but educational "PR"...they learn the stuff you're saying they need to know! Realistically speaking it's highly unlikely that a workable idea for use would get "kicked up the ladder" from the community would be anything that wouldn't have been pre-planned anyway.
Generally, it's considered bad form to learn how to operate multi-hundreds of millions of dollars worth of equipment on the very equipment you'll be operating - not without strict supervision by trained and experienced individuals. The very trained and experienced personnel you've already fired because they're too expensive. The same goes for stuff "kicked up the ladder", not only is there not anyone pre-planning anymore (they've all been fired, remember) there isn't anyone up the ladder to evaluate the idea (they've been fired too).
And I haven't even mentioned the problems of volunteer burnout, turnover, and empire building.
but don't discount "PR"...it's not just "PR" it's a **next level of involvement** in space exploration for anyone with an internet connection and that is absolutely priceless...seriously how many millions upon millions has NASA and the US gov't as a whole spent to get "kids interested in science"
*Sigh* there's not one single shred of evidence, and we've got a half a centuries worth, that PR for space activities has any concrete result. Zip. Zero. Nada.
This should be happening now...it would cost virtually nothing (on NASA $ scales)
And it accomplishes virtually nothing to boot! Seriously, there's a hell of a lot more to running the rover than just steering and driving. There's also a whole hell of a lot of engineering support. Then there's the whole science team, who also are on the NASA payroll...
The point being to highlight that the coal industry accounts for 'only' 50 billion dollars worth of assets, which is a smaller portion of our economy and total assets than the hysteria of 'anything you do to attempt to phase out coal will destroy America' would suggest.
It's only smaller than you might think only if you're stupid enough to not grasp the concept of "leverage". The two bridges that connect the two halves of the town I live in can be replaced for 'only' 100 odd million, but the disruption if they were both shut down would be enormous. The town's main retail area (for example) would suddenly be on a dead end street. Nearly two thirds of it's commuters would face a trip almost five times as long to reach the ferry. (And the road they'd all be forced onto barely suffices for existing traffic.) Etc... etc...
Having a three-tiered system of government employability effectively bars countless Americans from serving in government and *ensures* it is nonrepresentative.
Non representative how? I've known people with high clearances of all ages, sexes, creeds, physical ability, etc... etc... Never knew anyone *openly* gay with a high clearance, but that was a product of the era in which I held my clearance as anything else - being openly gay was extraordinarily rare, in government service or out.
In effect, you have cleared employees, non-cleared employees, and ex-cons, in decreasing order of government employability.
Hiring a cleared employee isn't really any different than hiring an individual with fifteen years experience in 'x' over an individual with just five years experience, or none.
There's pretty much nothing about Bitcoin that requires it's inventor to be an economic expert. In fact, given the beliefs of the general Bitcoin community, being an expert would be something of a handicap.
Pretty much this. Plus, Mozillla can set whatever policies they want about the use of their trademark - but so long as the activity and usage is legal their policy is irrelevant.
RadioShack can branch out all it wants, as long as its stores continue to offer the core services (hacker parts, electronics, and knowledgeable staff) front and center.
You haven't a clue to what you're talking about. The only reason Radio Shack still exists is because it branched out in 1939. Parts have been a sideline (a small sideline) since the 1960's.
Radio Shack is dying because they've been shoved out of their niche (selling cheap crap at a high markup) by WalMart.
Blame the MBAs. Every time they take over a niche business, they want to turn it into the business model of the largest generic vendor out there. Radio Shack is no longer electronics bits and pieces, but wants to be every other electronics vendor.
I hate to break it to you, but the Radio Shack you pine for hasn't existed for over seventy years. (Yes, you read that right seventy.) Radio Shack has been "every other electronics dealers" since it started selling audio gear in 1939, while still under the original ownership and decades before being bought out by Tandy in 1962. Electronic bits and pieces have been a sideline since at least the 1950's.
Seriously, practically everyone being modded +5 in this discussion is completely and utterly clueless about the history of Radio Shack and what has paid the bills for most of half a century - A/V accessories and cheap imports sold at a high markup. (Best Buy is killing them on the former, and WalMart on the latter.)
When speciation is happening in adjacent subway tunnels in the London Underground over as short a span as 100 years, I think it's pretty certain that deep-sea trenches separated by hundreds if not thousands of miles will evolve rather dramatically differently?
"Thinking" that something is "pretty certain" is different from knowing for certain - the former is nothing, the latter is science.
Possibly, but I don't think it likely. The St Francis had numerous cracks and symptoms of problems over an extended period of time. (And if you had read TFA, you'll find they are drawing down the reservoir behind the dam, to relieve the pressure.)
William Mulholland didn't take action when the St. Francis Dam performed similarly, and after his inspection, killed up to 600 people twelve hours after his inspection.
The situation is just a *bit* more complex than your soundbite would indicate - and any repairs made on the cracks he inspected on the 12th of March would almost certainly have been just re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. It's almost certain that the foundation on the west end of the dam had already been fatally compromised and the cracks were a symptom of the impending failure rather than the cause.
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Except... that didn't happen back before the Feds co-opted education.
You don't seem to realize that Federal control of the educational system is a fairly recent thing - mid/late 1960's.
Yes - dazed and confused pilots just happened to enter the coordinates for a (reasonably as such things do) direct track at ninety degrees to the planned one and then just happened to enable the autopilot to fly that track. Casino's rake in billions per year because of folks like you.
The problem isn't avoiding having anyone notice your change in identity mid flight - it's avoiding having them notice that you aren't what you claim to be when you arrive somewhere. As well as covering up the disappearance of the flight you replaced. (Or are you suggesting that somehow they created an entirely synthetic flight that never even took off... yet appeared in all the control systems?)
Don't visit a casino with the rent money.
Indeed. When I was in the Navy, we all had the exact some training... but once you got to the fleet, some guys turned out to be great console jockeys, but little else, some guys couldn't handle the hot seat at all. (Though to be honest, being fast and accurate managing the team and the system from the console was no mean feat.) Some guys were intuitive troubleshooters, others methodical, yet others never really got the hang of it though they could stick to the procedures and get by so long as the going didn't get too weird. Etc... etc...
In theory, we were all interchangeable widgets shaped and honed in training. In reality, personality, aptitude, and inclination played a huge part.
And lucky. And willing to put up with quite a bit (like moving frequently). And no doubt the veteran's preferment points helped you land that government job.
If you think it was just because you're "smart", you actually aren't.
Why not? That's exactly what was for centuries, and it worked well enough. Folks don't seem to realize this, or that the "college is for broadening the mind" meme is a fairly recent one.
And China and Japan for centuries, and the modern West is practically an anarchy in many ways compared to what it was like the Middle Ages. (Etc... etc...)
The grandparent is a nutjob.
It's not about the charger, it's about what the charger plugs into. Now, under this new regulation, all devices must accept the same input charge - regardless of whether or not a different charging system would be beneficial to the design. It's kind like specifying that all motor vehicles (from scooters up to eighteen wheelers) must use the same air filter. It'll be too big for some devices, too small for others, and lock designs ten years down the road to a standard written today.
Or, to put it another way, yes - charger designs evolve just the same as the equipment they're attached to. (Though chargers get far less attention because they aren't very sexy.)
It will also provide a wider window for cheap Chinese knock offs - and if you recall the debacle over counterfeit Apple chargers last year, you'll see why this can be a bad thing.
But, being a closed loop system, any contaminants (such as nitrites, which is toxic to plants) produced are retained and tend to build up in the system. And ask anyone who keeps fish tanks how much work it is to keep a fish tank clean and balanced, even if you have a well established bacteria and plant system.
That's the claim, but there's been a lot of claims (running back to the 60's) out of the alternative farming community of things like this that would "surely shake up the food supply". They've pretty much all turned out to be unsustainable, or expensive, or fail to scale beyond the homestead/DIY level, or some combination of the three. The jury is still out on aquaponics.
If you think DC can't kill, LOL - you're not any kind of engineer at all. You're an ignorant fool.
If I have a TB of data to move, a bittorrent client doesn't reduce the amount of data I have to send upstream. What forced for seeded warez doesn't work for unseeded personal files.
Sure. But on the other hand, without extra effort that 1TB external is subject to the same hazards that the PC it's sitting next to is. Plus *I* have to monitor and replace that 1TB on a regular basis.
There's more to backup strategy that just "copy it to an external drive and hope".
Generally, it's considered bad form to learn how to operate multi-hundreds of millions of dollars worth of equipment on the very equipment you'll be operating - not without strict supervision by trained and experienced individuals. The very trained and experienced personnel you've already fired because they're too expensive. The same goes for stuff "kicked up the ladder", not only is there not anyone pre-planning anymore (they've all been fired, remember) there isn't anyone up the ladder to evaluate the idea (they've been fired too).
And I haven't even mentioned the problems of volunteer burnout, turnover, and empire building.
*Sigh* there's not one single shred of evidence, and we've got a half a centuries worth, that PR for space activities has any concrete result. Zip. Zero. Nada.
And it accomplishes virtually nothing to boot! Seriously, there's a hell of a lot more to running the rover than just steering and driving. There's also a whole hell of a lot of engineering support. Then there's the whole science team, who also are on the NASA payroll...
It's only smaller than you might think only if you're stupid enough to not grasp the concept of "leverage". The two bridges that connect the two halves of the town I live in can be replaced for 'only' 100 odd million, but the disruption if they were both shut down would be enormous. The town's main retail area (for example) would suddenly be on a dead end street. Nearly two thirds of it's commuters would face a trip almost five times as long to reach the ferry. (And the road they'd all be forced onto barely suffices for existing traffic.) Etc... etc...
"Size/value" != "Importance".
Non representative how? I've known people with high clearances of all ages, sexes, creeds, physical ability, etc... etc... Never knew anyone *openly* gay with a high clearance, but that was a product of the era in which I held my clearance as anything else - being openly gay was extraordinarily rare, in government service or out.
Hiring a cleared employee isn't really any different than hiring an individual with fifteen years experience in 'x' over an individual with just five years experience, or none.
There's pretty much nothing about Bitcoin that requires it's inventor to be an economic expert. In fact, given the beliefs of the general Bitcoin community, being an expert would be something of a handicap.
Having actually been an "off the record"source on multiple occasions, I can firmly say you're full of it.
Pretty much this. Plus, Mozillla can set whatever policies they want about the use of their trademark - but so long as the activity and usage is legal their policy is irrelevant.
You haven't a clue to what you're talking about. The only reason Radio Shack still exists is because it branched out in 1939. Parts have been a sideline (a small sideline) since the 1960's.
Radio Shack is dying because they've been shoved out of their niche (selling cheap crap at a high markup) by WalMart.
Radio Shack hasn't been an electronic hobbyist store since late 1930's/early 1940's.
I hate to break it to you, but the Radio Shack you pine for hasn't existed for over seventy years. (Yes, you read that right seventy.) Radio Shack has been "every other electronics dealers" since it started selling audio gear in 1939, while still under the original ownership and decades before being bought out by Tandy in 1962. Electronic bits and pieces have been a sideline since at least the 1950's.
Seriously, practically everyone being modded +5 in this discussion is completely and utterly clueless about the history of Radio Shack and what has paid the bills for most of half a century - A/V accessories and cheap imports sold at a high markup. (Best Buy is killing them on the former, and WalMart on the latter.)
"Thinking" that something is "pretty certain" is different from knowing for certain - the former is nothing, the latter is science.
The title says it all.
Possibly, but I don't think it likely. The St Francis had numerous cracks and symptoms of problems over an extended period of time. (And if you had read TFA, you'll find they are drawing down the reservoir behind the dam, to relieve the pressure.)
The situation is just a *bit* more complex than your soundbite would indicate - and any repairs made on the cracks he inspected on the 12th of March would almost certainly have been just re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. It's almost certain that the foundation on the west end of the dam had already been fatally compromised and the cracks were a symptom of the impending failure rather than the cause.