After extensive psychological screening, accept the super balanced and respectful individuals who are comfortable with a couple-swapping scenario, a collective zero G free love kinda thing. Open minded individuals are way more relaxed than uptight ones, so that would be a plus when you're in a capsule for months if not years. But you probably couldn't tell the US public about it.
Try talking to some swingers. You'll quickly come to the conclusion that there are two types:
1) A lesbian married to a man willing to go along.
2) A man who has been able to convince his wife that "it's just fun."
The jealousies that plague the rest of humanity equally encumber the 'swingers'. Sorry, you can't throw off a few million years of evolution that quickly.
Many people have gone without sex for years for religious and other reasons (will power, etc) it's not as hard as people make it out to be.
Most of those who've accomplished such feats tend to move off and keep to themselves. They don't tend to lock themselves in a closet with someone of the opposite sex first.
To make it perfectly clear and not beat around the bush, all members of a long-voyage space team need to be aware and fully supportive of the need for regular sexual activity among the crew, just as they are about physical exercise, and in most cases this implies participation for the sake of team health. If their earth-side taboos are so strong that they are not entirely comfortable with this, then they are the wrong material for extended missions.
If you take the viewpoint that "sex" is about nothing more than the meeting of a penis and a vagina, then you might be correct; however, sex is about quite a bit more than that. To ignore that sexual relationships imply ownership is the height of folly. To further imply that emotional relationships developed in close quarters will not compromise command decisions will court disaster in emergency situations.
You can turn-on-a-dime when you're a bull in a china shop. When you have Federal indictments for monopoly maintenance, you're in a bullpen all of a sudden. You can't just steal software using the underhanded tactics that Microsoft used against Spyglass.
They haven't proven agile at anything. Nothing they've ever shipped was worth looking at until the third version. They've simply been big enough to use monopoly power to buy out or block competition long enough to get their own mediocre solutions entrenched.
When comparing IBM and Microsoft, keep in mind that IBM is primarily a hardware company that has kept an ace-in-the-hole with their mainframe sales. They have a product that very few companies can supply. Microsoft has that.... but only as long as they can keep company data locked into their proprietary file formats.
And all the American corporations scrambling to cut their own throats to get into China? What do you think their reaction will be to the Chinese government proclaiming, "Use and open format if you want to talk to us". We don't care to be owned by Microsoft"? That's right. The chief execs will all surrender their left nuts to switch to ODF documents (and that includes Carly Fiorna).
So you're saying that someone studied and explained the behavior of day traders and formalized a theory about how they behaved. Now that there is an explanation the behavior has been modified? The traders are no longer acting like trained monkeys?
Wouldn't it make more sense to explain the monkeys' behaviour with the same theories as used for the day traders?
We use data models for all sorts of shit, for example, 'proving' that the design of the aircraft you're flying in won't crash and burn on takeoff
Nice try, but no. You are utterly and completely wrong.
The data model is used to 'prove' that a model is worth creating. The model test data is used to 'prove' that the plane won't crash and burn. I may use a computer code to simulate a new design that I'm thinking about building, but anything I could ever consider building in my garage will be very close to models that are already flying. NASA would do several scale models in extensive wind tunnel testing if they were pushing the edge of the envelope. I'm building a very unusual configuration, and it was 'proved' by a half scale model mounted on top of a station wagon with a gimbal and remote controlled with a cable.
There is not wind tunnel or small scale model for global warming. All the data models are just guesses and always will be until we have a planet that we can manipulate at will. That's not to say that the guesses from the data modelers aren't better than the ones I would come up with. It's just to say that their models aren't 'proof' of any kind.
Join in on their conversation. Ask them what the person on the other end is saying. Offer advice. Be genuinely helpful. They'll shut the hell up real quick.
The decline began when the US government won the monopoly trial. Regardless of how they screwed up the sentencing, it was at that point that everyone could sue them for screwing up the market, and VCs could actually invest in a competitor with some hope of actually recovering their investment.
The company has to want you really bad to burn up an application, without a guarantee of success, that only happens once a year, and if I remember right, have proof that an American applicant couldn't have filled the position. For the applicant it's all those things plus convincing the company you're worth it and probably having to fly there to see said company in person.
I'd like to respectfully disagree. I'm currently contracting with a globally known networking company, and I've been trying to get on full-time with the group I've been contracting for. I've been doing the job for a year, and the manager has no problem giving me extensions to continue my contract. There have been requisitions available, and I've interviewed for a full-time position. The results of the interview was a determination that I'm not qualified because I don't have a CCNA. I'm in a study group with 5 full-timers who don't have a CCNA. I don't have the skills necessary to maintain the routers, yet it is my job to maintain them on a daily basis, which I'm doing well enough to keep getting contracting extensions. I'm not upset, though. Obviously, this group is not doing work in RTP area of North Carolina that Americans are capable of doing. Over 60% of the engineers are from India.
I have noticed that the foreign workers seem happy to work many more hours than the locals. That seems to be something that escapes the H1-B visa safeguards.
Except that when you make money the motivating factor for why you do things, the things that SHOULD motivate you as a human being in a human culture - cease to function.
Dude, you talk like you think greed is something new. Grow up. It was greed that has driven the US to be the greatest nation in the world. It will one day drive this world to be the greatest in the universe.
Capitalism is the only system that deals with humans as they truly are. Greedy peons who worry for little more than themselves and those closest to them. I don't deny for a second what I am. The ideal of capitalism is that individual greed can be channelled into societal greed.
"Your labor is a commodity," someone very smart told me 20yrs ago (damn, I'm getting old), "you need to go out and sell it to the highest bidder."
These Circuit City employees would quit immediately if they got an offer for a better job, and none of us would blame them. Why shouldn't CC send them packing if they can find someone to do the same job for less money? If a guy bags groceries for 20 yrs, is he worth more as a grocery bagger than the guy that's been doing it for 6 months? If these employees are so good, it shouldn't be to hard for them to sell themselves to someone needing like services.
How much does it cost a manufacturer to add information to a label?
IMHO, forcing information onto labels is one of the few really useful things that any government can do. They're not forcing me to buy one product over another, but I *MAY* choose to act on the information and move my dollars elsewhere. I usually ignore "Cali thinks this will give you cancer" notices, as if I'm playing with a chemical I usually investigate it first (those internets make it so easy to do). I do wish the government would get out of the business of having restaurants set aside 'no smoking' sections, and just force them to put a cigarette icon on their sign if they allow it (so I could keep driving). Informative labels are the most efficient way for a government to level the playing field in any market.
I can't remember which magazine it was that had an article on this in the last issue, but the author ran the number on what it would take to put an electric plane in the air. From his numbers, using current technology, it would be possible, but you'd basically turn a 2-place airplane into a single place, or give up all cargo capacity.
One of the biggest advantages of the ICE is that a large portion of the combustion inputs is not carried by the airplane. The necessary oxygen surrounds the craft, and is pulled in as needed. The battery has to carry all of it's energy inputs all the time.
You obviously don't understand the limitations of narrowcast satellite communication. You want to view/. Your neighbor has a hankering to see some porn, while the kid down the street is illegally sharing MP3s. All I want to do is read my email and talk long distance with Skype.
I'm OK with the ridiculous latency for email but the phone is nerve wracking, as the packets travel all the way to space and back. Your neighbor and the kid down the street are upset that the available bandwidth is split, not between everyone on the block, not between everyone in the city, not even between everyone in the state, but between everyone in the southeast sector of the United States.
Satellite communications has it's place. Typical internet usage is not it.
It's useless for scholarly work as you have no idea if the material is plagerized
Scholarly work? Why are you using any sort of encyclopedia for "scholarly work". Maybe we're running up against a language barrier, but "scholarly work" would only be done with original text, and maybe authoritative analysis of original text. The best any encyclopedia could ever do would be to point you to where to look for original text. Wikipedia is not unique in this respect.
And what has the possibility of plagiarism got to do with anything? If the text is posted there without the original authors permission, how does the text become any more true or false?
In my opinion, all NASA needs to do is present congress with a scientific statistic... I'm guessing they could place something like a 1% chance of a decent sized asteroid hitting us within a couple thousand years.
A couple thousand years!?
Dude, do you realize how LONG that is past the next election? No politician that has been elected since the TV became popular give a damn about anything past the next buzzword.
I worked for a major equipment provider doing fiber to the home. No name, but the company's initials are Alcatel. The regulations around who could provide what and at what rate are ridiculous. The telcos have their territory marked, and the cable companies have theirs. The telcos fight to provided video, while the cablers fight to provide voice. Neither wanted to buy anything until the regulation landscape was/is clear to charge for the services that the equipment offered. Regulation is a major wet blanket.
Then there's the hardware. PSTN is required by law to be battery backed (in case the lights go out, the phones should still work). The company I was working for was investigating the ridiculous idea of pushing 200V through the current corroded spaghetti mash we call an infrastructure, in order to have enough electrons to run a box on the side of the house. Broadband access is limited by the desire to rely on 0-cost legacy wire that's already installed.
0-cost installation and 0-intelligence legacy regulations. That's why we're not first.
Has the luster of true heros, who will run into a burning building to save a stranger or volunteer to be the mother/father/brother/sister of someone in need, been tarnished because millionair ball player lay claim to the title?
We don't know what is wrong with us. We don't know what we need. We shouldn't be going in and requesting specific drugs.
See. There's where you get off track. Actually, I usually do know what's wrong with me and what I need. The last thing I want to do is visit a doctor's office without knowledge of what's wrong with me and what to do about it. That's like taking your car to the garage without knowing what's wrong with it. Most Americans do both all the time. Most Americans are stupid. Might as well walk in the door with your wallet open and tell them to take whatever they need.
The bad thing is that doctors are only getting so much money to see us because of the HMO system, so they get us in and out as fast as possible.
So shitcan the HMO and pay him yourself. Or do you think the HMO has more money to pay the doctor AFTER you pay the HMO and they get their cut? Typical clueless consumer zombie. The ONLY way to bring healthcare cost down is for people to start paying for it themselves. Nothing will change until the doctor has to look a single mom straight in the eye...one who is giving him the you-must-be-fucking-nuts look... when he asks her to pays a ridiculous sum for the him to say, "I don't know what's wrong with you."
Having the insurance companies or Federal government (same shit, different day) just provides a shield for crappy service.
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After extensive psychological screening, accept the super balanced and respectful individuals who are comfortable with a couple-swapping scenario, a collective zero G free love kinda thing. Open minded individuals are way more relaxed than uptight ones, so that would be a plus when you're in a capsule for months if not years. But you probably couldn't tell the US public about it.
Try talking to some swingers. You'll quickly come to the conclusion that there are two types:
1) A lesbian married to a man willing to go along.
2) A man who has been able to convince his wife that "it's just fun."
The jealousies that plague the rest of humanity equally encumber the 'swingers'. Sorry, you can't throw off a few million years of evolution that quickly.
Many people have gone without sex for years for religious and other reasons (will power, etc) it's not as hard as people make it out to be.
Most of those who've accomplished such feats tend to move off and keep to themselves. They don't tend to lock themselves in a closet with someone of the opposite sex first.
To make it perfectly clear and not beat around the bush, all members of a long-voyage space team need to be aware and fully supportive of the need for regular sexual activity among the crew, just as they are about physical exercise, and in most cases this implies participation for the sake of team health. If their earth-side taboos are so strong that they are not entirely comfortable with this, then they are the wrong material for extended missions.
If you take the viewpoint that "sex" is about nothing more than the meeting of a penis and a vagina, then you might be correct; however, sex is about quite a bit more than that. To ignore that sexual relationships imply ownership is the height of folly. To further imply that emotional relationships developed in close quarters will not compromise command decisions will court disaster in emergency situations.
You can turn-on-a-dime when you're a bull in a china shop. When you have Federal indictments for monopoly maintenance, you're in a bullpen all of a sudden. You can't just steal software using the underhanded tactics that Microsoft used against Spyglass.
.... but only as long as they can keep company data locked into their proprietary file formats.
They haven't proven agile at anything. Nothing they've ever shipped was worth looking at until the third version. They've simply been big enough to use monopoly power to buy out or block competition long enough to get their own mediocre solutions entrenched.
When comparing IBM and Microsoft, keep in mind that IBM is primarily a hardware company that has kept an ace-in-the-hole with their mainframe sales. They have a product that very few companies can supply. Microsoft has that
Remember how the lake in Africa with tonnes of vegetation rotting in the bottom will periodically bubble up and kill everything in the vicinity.
What happens when a pocket of CO2 stored at 100atm finds a hole to the surface?
Are you looking for Java programmers? Where do I apply?
And all the American corporations scrambling to cut their own throats to get into China? What do you think their reaction will be to the Chinese government proclaiming, "Use and open format if you want to talk to us". We don't care to be owned by Microsoft"? That's right. The chief execs will all surrender their left nuts to switch to ODF documents (and that includes Carly Fiorna).
So you're saying that someone studied and explained the behavior of day traders and formalized a theory about how they behaved. Now that there is an explanation the behavior has been modified? The traders are no longer acting like trained monkeys?
Wouldn't it make more sense to explain the monkeys' behaviour with the same theories as used for the day traders?
Everyone know Microsoft can't get anything right until the third attempt. This is only the second.
We use data models for all sorts of shit, for example, 'proving' that the design of the aircraft you're flying in won't crash and burn on takeoff
Nice try, but no. You are utterly and completely wrong.
The data model is used to 'prove' that a model is worth creating. The model test data is used to 'prove' that the plane won't crash and burn. I may use a computer code to simulate a new design that I'm thinking about building, but anything I could ever consider building in my garage will be very close to models that are already flying. NASA would do several scale models in extensive wind tunnel testing if they were pushing the edge of the envelope. I'm building a very unusual configuration, and it was 'proved' by a half scale model mounted on top of a station wagon with a gimbal and remote controlled with a cable.
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There is not wind tunnel or small scale model for global warming. All the data models are just guesses and always will be until we have a planet that we can manipulate at will. That's not to say that the guesses from the data modelers aren't better than the ones I would come up with. It's just to say that their models aren't 'proof' of any kind.
Join in on their conversation. Ask them what the person on the other end is saying. Offer advice. Be genuinely helpful. They'll shut the hell up real quick.
The decline began when the US government won the monopoly trial. Regardless of how they screwed up the sentencing, it was at that point that everyone could sue them for screwing up the market, and VCs could actually invest in a competitor with some hope of actually recovering their investment.
The company has to want you really bad to burn up an application, without a guarantee of success, that only happens once a year, and if I remember right, have proof that an American applicant couldn't have filled the position. For the applicant it's all those things plus convincing the company you're worth it and probably having to fly there to see said company in person.
I'd like to respectfully disagree. I'm currently contracting with a globally known networking company, and I've been trying to get on full-time with the group I've been contracting for. I've been doing the job for a year, and the manager has no problem giving me extensions to continue my contract. There have been requisitions available, and I've interviewed for a full-time position. The results of the interview was a determination that I'm not qualified because I don't have a CCNA. I'm in a study group with 5 full-timers who don't have a CCNA. I don't have the skills necessary to maintain the routers, yet it is my job to maintain them on a daily basis, which I'm doing well enough to keep getting contracting extensions. I'm not upset, though. Obviously, this group is not doing work in RTP area of North Carolina that Americans are capable of doing. Over 60% of the engineers are from India.
I have noticed that the foreign workers seem happy to work many more hours than the locals. That seems to be something that escapes the H1-B visa safeguards.
Except that when you make money the motivating factor for why you do things, the things that SHOULD motivate you as a human being in a human culture - cease to function.
Dude, you talk like you think greed is something new. Grow up. It was greed that has driven the US to be the greatest nation in the world. It will one day drive this world to be the greatest in the universe.
Capitalism is the only system that deals with humans as they truly are. Greedy peons who worry for little more than themselves and those closest to them. I don't deny for a second what I am. The ideal of capitalism is that individual greed can be channelled into societal greed.
"Your labor is a commodity," someone very smart told me 20yrs ago (damn, I'm getting old), "you need to go out and sell it to the highest bidder."
These Circuit City employees would quit immediately if they got an offer for a better job, and none of us would blame them. Why shouldn't CC send them packing if they can find someone to do the same job for less money? If a guy bags groceries for 20 yrs, is he worth more as a grocery bagger than the guy that's been doing it for 6 months? If these employees are so good, it shouldn't be to hard for them to sell themselves to someone needing like services.
How much does it cost a manufacturer to add information to a label?
IMHO, forcing information onto labels is one of the few really useful things that any government can do. They're not forcing me to buy one product over another, but I *MAY* choose to act on the information and move my dollars elsewhere. I usually ignore "Cali thinks this will give you cancer" notices, as if I'm playing with a chemical I usually investigate it first (those internets make it so easy to do). I do wish the government would get out of the business of having restaurants set aside 'no smoking' sections, and just force them to put a cigarette icon on their sign if they allow it (so I could keep driving). Informative labels are the most efficient way for a government to level the playing field in any market.
I can't remember which magazine it was that had an article on this in the last issue, but the author ran the number on what it would take to put an electric plane in the air. From his numbers, using current technology, it would be possible, but you'd basically turn a 2-place airplane into a single place, or give up all cargo capacity.
One of the biggest advantages of the ICE is that a large portion of the combustion inputs is not carried by the airplane. The necessary oxygen surrounds the craft, and is pulled in as needed. The battery has to carry all of it's energy inputs all the time.
You obviously don't understand the limitations of narrowcast satellite communication. /. Your neighbor has a hankering to see some porn, while the kid down the street is illegally sharing MP3s. All I want to do is read my email and talk long distance with Skype.
You want to view
I'm OK with the ridiculous latency for email but the phone is nerve wracking, as the packets travel all the way to space and back. Your neighbor and the kid down the street are upset that the available bandwidth is split, not between everyone on the block, not between everyone in the city, not even between everyone in the state, but between everyone in the southeast sector of the United States.
Satellite communications has it's place. Typical internet usage is not it.
It's useless for scholarly work as you have no idea if the material is plagerized
Scholarly work? Why are you using any sort of encyclopedia for "scholarly work". Maybe we're running up against a language barrier, but "scholarly work" would only be done with original text, and maybe authoritative analysis of original text. The best any encyclopedia could ever do would be to point you to where to look for original text. Wikipedia is not unique in this respect.
And what has the possibility of plagiarism got to do with anything? If the text is posted there without the original authors permission, how does the text become any more true or false?
In my opinion, all NASA needs to do is present congress with a scientific statistic ... I'm guessing they could place something like a 1% chance of a decent sized asteroid hitting us within a couple thousand years.
A couple thousand years!?
Dude, do you realize how LONG that is past the next election? No politician that has been elected since the TV became popular give a damn about anything past the next buzzword.
The most often broken law in Hollywood:
Stupid people don't die.
Way to go, Petersko. My middle school principal told me that luck is just where preparation meets opportunity.
I worked for a major equipment provider doing fiber to the home. No name, but the company's initials are Alcatel. The regulations around who could provide what and at what rate are ridiculous. The telcos have their territory marked, and the cable companies have theirs. The telcos fight to provided video, while the cablers fight to provide voice. Neither wanted to buy anything until the regulation landscape was/is clear to charge for the services that the equipment offered. Regulation is a major wet blanket.
Then there's the hardware. PSTN is required by law to be battery backed (in case the lights go out, the phones should still work). The company I was working for was investigating the ridiculous idea of pushing 200V through the current corroded spaghetti mash we call an infrastructure, in order to have enough electrons to run a box on the side of the house. Broadband access is limited by the desire to rely on 0-cost legacy wire that's already installed.
0-cost installation and 0-intelligence legacy regulations. That's why we're not first.
Has the luster of true heros, who will run into a burning building to save a stranger or volunteer to be the mother/father/brother/sister of someone in need, been tarnished because millionair ball player lay claim to the title?
Analog is the reason ... why broadcast TV looks crappy.
No. That would be due to the lack of talent at the major networks.
We're not doctors.
No. I'm not.
We don't know what is wrong with us. We don't know what we need. We shouldn't be going in and requesting specific drugs.
See. There's where you get off track. Actually, I usually do know what's wrong with me and what I need. The last thing I want to do is visit a doctor's office without knowledge of what's wrong with me and what to do about it. That's like taking your car to the garage without knowing what's wrong with it. Most Americans do both all the time. Most Americans are stupid. Might as well walk in the door with your wallet open and tell them to take whatever they need.
The bad thing is that doctors are only getting so much money to see us because of the HMO system, so they get us in and out as fast as possible.
So shitcan the HMO and pay him yourself. Or do you think the HMO has more money to pay the doctor AFTER you pay the HMO and they get their cut? Typical clueless consumer zombie. The ONLY way to bring healthcare cost down is for people to start paying for it themselves. Nothing will change until the doctor has to look a single mom straight in the eye...one who is giving him the you-must-be-fucking-nuts look... when he asks her to pays a ridiculous sum for the him to say, "I don't know what's wrong with you."
Having the insurance companies or Federal government (same shit, different day) just provides a shield for crappy service.