"If anybody approaches you in open water, he's not your friend."
Either that, or he needs help, or he's approaching to warn you of some hazard, or offer you some fish, or just to be friendly. Yeah, you go ahead and pull your gun. Or better still, just stay home.
There are ways to indicate all of those situations without actually approaching another boat. And you need to be able to deny their approach. It's not friendly to approach another boat in the middle of the ocean without a discussion first. It's important to know the actual customs and not just make assumptions based on unrelated knowledge.
You do realize that most major tech companies on the planet are involved in some way with foxconn right? If we went that route we could just kiss any sort of technology goodbye. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn
Good. Maybe that would make manufacturing in the west look attractive again.
I will give you Dragon Age II, but Mass Effect 3 was literally 99.6% awesome. It was just unfortunate that the.4% of suck was the last 10 minutes of the game.
Agreed. To be honest, that suck wasn't even EA's fault. Looking back on it, ME3 got off easy from EA in general. Weird.
Overall, though, outsourcing was a success story. By the time a company starts outsourcing, the original owners are gone or don't care about their company anymore. Outsourcing, along with all of the methods of turning brand recognition into cash (cutting quality, QC, etc), are about sacrificing the company's future for immediate profit. I don't think any of the executives who benefitted from outsourcing thought that the company could survive after it. It was about cashing out. The ones who followed, though, and inherited the company may have had some delusions about the company still being healthy.
I think it'd be cool if we could actually start doing that regularly. In my experience, police only really pull people over for speeding. Tailgating, cutting people off, changing lanes without signaling, all of the above simultaneously... the cops don't bat an eye, or they're the ones doing it. But speeding, they're all over that.
That's not a whoosh. The sarcasm was about the fact that passing an amendment means sexism was done away with. Here, save it for a time when it's actually funny.
You want to talk about truly evil. Advertisements (especially the modern psychological warfare style stuff) aimed at children. I mean, how much more evil can you get than psychological manipulation of large populations of children for your personal profit?
Not that your example was one of these ads, but I'm sure you've seen them on TV or before kids' movies or elsewhere. The kind where your kid is staring transfixed at the screen and you know you're going to hear them asking for it, even though it's not that neat of a toy. I'm becoming convinced that TV aimed at children is more than a little destructive to their personalities (without the vaccination mentioned further upthread).
Too bad we can't put an actual functional amateur satellite up with that launch fee. It's weird that he even made it look like a real satellite. Why not actually put a real satellite up or at least some crazy fantasy design (that's no ping pong ball!).
I always thought that was kind of odd. In the US, law enforcement having more than a pistol on them is unusual and disconcerting, even though we have very permissive gun laws in general. In much of Europe and the UK, it seems much more common for police to have rifles or SMGs, even though citizens are not allowed much in the way of gun ownership.
Looking at source code is even more useless in this case than examining the black boxes that are actually being deployed. It's difficult to prove that the source they're looking at is what is on the actual sold devices. And looking at the source gives no information about backdoors implemented in hardware.
The apple tree may have been older or more expensive than the goat.
Anyway, what's the better way of handling this? The goat's owner was negligent and let the goat roam free to destroy other people's property (and goats are masters at destruction of property, I mean, who else just goes and eats an apple tree? wtf?). Talking to a deliberately negligent person about their negligence is likely to get nowhere (and this may have been attempted already). Some legal action may take care of goat wanderings in the future, but are too slow to save the tree. That's if you can get the attention of the police or pay for a civil court case (that can be prohibitively expensive, a.22 round is cheap).
Killing the goat both saves the tree and sends a lasting message to the goat owner. He won't be letting his goats destroy other people's property again.
The USRP is really cool, but stupidly expensive. Some really cool stuff is happening with the RTL2832 based TV dongles, though. These are $20 devices that can be used to receive from ~64-1700 MHz (or DC-30ish with a little tweaking). So far, much of the info is here
The USRP would be cool if current PCB layouts and schematics were available or if the development effort went to a system that wasn't just making Ettus a profit. A truly open development platform would really benefit the SDR community.
I agree about the misleading nature of the "average highs". It's an average of the daily high temperatures in a month (over several years?), but a series of high temperature days averaged with a series of low temperature days make it seem as though a string of very hot days is not typical.
Anyway, you're spot on about the humidity. It's 35C here (in Denver) right now, but it doesn't feel that bad because of the 30% humidity. Sweat actually works here! That's a delight after living in St Louis, where sweating only makes you wet in addition to hot.
I haven't been to Germany since I was a kid. Maybe I'll take you up on that offer!
The town I live in, Karlsruhe, germany, has similar summer climate, nevertheless there are not many air conditioned houses. And I for my part prefer to have none, at my job we keep it switched off most of the time.
What?! The average high in the summer is 25C (78F) and 60% humidity! Most places in the US with ubiquitous air conditioning have average highs of at least 30C (90F) and in excess of 75% humidity. I live in Denver now (with average highs still higher than Karlsruhe) and we don't use air conditioning as much as the midwest and eastern US. It's been over 35C here every day for weeks.
Stare into a gigahertz waveguide for a few seconds and we'll see how harmless "low" frequency signals are (these are obviously even lower than terahertz and you will go blind).
If we reconstitute your post with the bits that would lead it to make some sort of sense, I assume you're talking about microwave heating. In that case, this was already addressed: "...it will warm you up if left on for too long..." The eyes in particular are bad at removing heat because of the lack of blood in much of them. Anyway, it'd take a lot of microwaves to cause any damage. Taping your wifi router to your eye will hurt you, but only because taping stuff to your eye hurts.
If they can't be bothered to start out the process correctly, will they just continue breaking laws the entire time they're here?
Possibly, although in many cases it would behoove them to obey the law carefully to avoid attracting unwanted attention.
But then again, that brings me back to the point you omitted from my original comment: The layers of annoyance lead to people choosing to break the rules until they get caught (and this applies to many facets of life/business/gov't, not just immigration). If folks believe there is benefit to breaking the rules now and facing the consequences later, they'll go ahead and break them.
Certainly the kind of people we should fill our country with.
It's absolutely a legitimate function of a government to control the influx of immigrants. It doesn't matter if the immigrants denied citizenship think it's fair or not. No country's government is under any obligation at all to allow non-citizens to come over and do whatever they want. I don't see why there's such a fuss to coddle people whose first act in this country is a crime.
If only "just signing the guestbook" was as simple as it sounds. Go look up the actual process and you'll find out really quick why some people avoid the legal route: It's loaded with bureaucratic red tape & bullshit and, in the cases of some key foreign nations that supply many of our legals and illegals, chocked full of corruption right down to the bottom level of officials.
Being a legal citizen isn't a walk in the park either. There's tons of bureaucracy surrounding every aspect of life, from paying taxes to driving a car. If they can't be bothered to start out the process correctly, will they just continue breaking laws the entire time they're here?
Untrue, you must carry your passport with you at all times. If you get robbed then you need to report the theft to the police so they have the record of the theft, then your consulate and get another one issued ASAP. Pretty much what you should have done in any recent history.
You're right, but just to clarify: If you are in a foreign country and your passport is stolen, get your ass to your embassy or consulate pronto and then report the theft to local police and so on. In fact, just get to your consulate and let them tell you what to do with regards to the locals.
I think the main difference is likely to be that sociological students are more used to questioning fundamental assumptions. I suppose this it because hard logic is a lot less useful when a large proportion of your reasoning is based intuition. So be prepared to explain just about anything you consider "obvious", and to having your pedagogical skills tested to the limit.
I'll second this. I've taught a chemistry class for non-science majors and it is quite challenging. It can also be extremely rewarding, though. All of my students were very intelligent and capable, but they were largely unfamiliar with the methods and motivations surrounding the natural sciences. The questions I got were often totally unexpected and incredibly insightful. There's no way to really prepare for the questions you'll get. At the same time, it's a great opportunity to see your field from the point of view of an intelligent outsider. Some of their questions have helped me better understand my own approach to my work.
My biggest recommendation is not to treat them as if they're stupid because they're not familiar with the subject. They probably didn't choose their field of study because they couldn't hack it in yours. They're just predominantly interested in something else. If you talk down to them, they'll never engage in your class and it'll be a failure for everyone. They want to learn your material; that's why they signed up for your class. Taking a class outside your major is almost always hard, so they're not expecting it to be easy. Tailor the material to what they're familiar with, but don't dumb it down for them.
...you don't really get to elect a vice-president...
That's not entirely true because the VP runs on the same ballot as the president. A good example of this was the 2008 election, where Palin's mere presence as the VP choice made McCain a non-choice for many.
The tv show seaquest had them as well. if you were caught speeding instead of paying a fine it was deducted from your social security.
I know you're just talking about a tv show, but that's one of the most horrible solutions I can think of. Just like student loans, a fine against your future self wouldn't feel like a punishment at all (to many people). Without social security, the elderly would turn to violent street crime and we'd have roving gangs of geriatric thugs.
As it is, with SS running out before our generation retires, the future is looking more like Mad Max, refilmed now with the original cast.
You need to provide a citation for that one. From all I have read, Obama signed the NDAA under protest because of those two lines, and did not want them in there. Why would he have previously "asked" for them?
I filed a complaint with the BBB when I had problems with my cabel company arbitrarily deciding I needed an HD package. Oddly the cabel company called me the day after I filed the complaint to appologize and assure me they would be sending a training package to the local agencies and credit my account. I have found that if you want to get someone's attention, a BBB complaint works pretty well.
I've had good results going through the BBB in the past, too. On the customer side, they can be very helpful. I guess it's because they keep a permanent record of complaints (although, if you search them they're vaguely worded and the whole process is anything other than transparent). Anyway, I've had companies bend over backward to satisfy my (valid) complaints after getting the BBB involved, whereas before they clearly didn't give a shit.
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"If anybody approaches you in open water, he's not your friend."
Either that, or he needs help, or he's approaching to warn you of some hazard, or offer you some fish, or just to be friendly. Yeah, you go ahead and pull your gun. Or better still, just stay home.
There are ways to indicate all of those situations without actually approaching another boat. And you need to be able to deny their approach. It's not friendly to approach another boat in the middle of the ocean without a discussion first. It's important to know the actual customs and not just make assumptions based on unrelated knowledge.
You do realize that most major tech companies on the planet are involved in some way with foxconn right? If we went that route we could just kiss any sort of technology goodbye. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn
Good. Maybe that would make manufacturing in the west look attractive again.
I will give you Dragon Age II, but Mass Effect 3 was literally 99.6% awesome. It was just unfortunate that the .4% of suck was the last 10 minutes of the game.
Agreed. To be honest, that suck wasn't even EA's fault. Looking back on it, ME3 got off easy from EA in general. Weird.
Overall, though, outsourcing was a success story. By the time a company starts outsourcing, the original owners are gone or don't care about their company anymore. Outsourcing, along with all of the methods of turning brand recognition into cash (cutting quality, QC, etc), are about sacrificing the company's future for immediate profit. I don't think any of the executives who benefitted from outsourcing thought that the company could survive after it. It was about cashing out. The ones who followed, though, and inherited the company may have had some delusions about the company still being healthy.
punish them if they are driving recklessly
I think it'd be cool if we could actually start doing that regularly. In my experience, police only really pull people over for speeding. Tailgating, cutting people off, changing lanes without signaling, all of the above simultaneously... the cops don't bat an eye, or they're the ones doing it. But speeding, they're all over that.
That's not a whoosh. The sarcasm was about the fact that passing an amendment means sexism was done away with. Here, save it for a time when it's actually funny.
Actually, we never did pass that amendment. I would assume that's part of the progress that the US needs to make.
You want to talk about truly evil. Advertisements (especially the modern psychological warfare style stuff) aimed at children. I mean, how much more evil can you get than psychological manipulation of large populations of children for your personal profit?
Not that your example was one of these ads, but I'm sure you've seen them on TV or before kids' movies or elsewhere. The kind where your kid is staring transfixed at the screen and you know you're going to hear them asking for it, even though it's not that neat of a toy. I'm becoming convinced that TV aimed at children is more than a little destructive to their personalities (without the vaccination mentioned further upthread).
Too bad we can't put an actual functional amateur satellite up with that launch fee. It's weird that he even made it look like a real satellite. Why not actually put a real satellite up or at least some crazy fantasy design (that's no ping pong ball!).
I always thought that was kind of odd. In the US, law enforcement having more than a pistol on them is unusual and disconcerting, even though we have very permissive gun laws in general. In much of Europe and the UK, it seems much more common for police to have rifles or SMGs, even though citizens are not allowed much in the way of gun ownership.
The problem is a nation of cowards who are afraid of the word "nuclear".
A nation? It's the whole stinking planet. The US is actually one of the few nations that isn't actively trying to scrap the entire industry.
Looking at source code is even more useless in this case than examining the black boxes that are actually being deployed. It's difficult to prove that the source they're looking at is what is on the actual sold devices. And looking at the source gives no information about backdoors implemented in hardware.
The apple tree may have been older or more expensive than the goat.
Anyway, what's the better way of handling this? The goat's owner was negligent and let the goat roam free to destroy other people's property (and goats are masters at destruction of property, I mean, who else just goes and eats an apple tree? wtf?). Talking to a deliberately negligent person about their negligence is likely to get nowhere (and this may have been attempted already). Some legal action may take care of goat wanderings in the future, but are too slow to save the tree. That's if you can get the attention of the police or pay for a civil court case (that can be prohibitively expensive, a .22 round is cheap).
Killing the goat both saves the tree and sends a lasting message to the goat owner. He won't be letting his goats destroy other people's property again.
The USRP is really cool, but stupidly expensive. Some really cool stuff is happening with the RTL2832 based TV dongles, though. These are $20 devices that can be used to receive from ~64-1700 MHz (or DC-30ish with a little tweaking). So far, much of the info is here
The USRP would be cool if current PCB layouts and schematics were available or if the development effort went to a system that wasn't just making Ettus a profit. A truly open development platform would really benefit the SDR community.
I agree about the misleading nature of the "average highs". It's an average of the daily high temperatures in a month (over several years?), but a series of high temperature days averaged with a series of low temperature days make it seem as though a string of very hot days is not typical.
Anyway, you're spot on about the humidity. It's 35C here (in Denver) right now, but it doesn't feel that bad because of the 30% humidity. Sweat actually works here! That's a delight after living in St Louis, where sweating only makes you wet in addition to hot.
I haven't been to Germany since I was a kid. Maybe I'll take you up on that offer!
The town I live in, Karlsruhe, germany, has similar summer climate, nevertheless there are not many air conditioned houses. And I for my part prefer to have none, at my job we keep it switched off most of the time.
What?! The average high in the summer is 25C (78F) and 60% humidity! Most places in the US with ubiquitous air conditioning have average highs of at least 30C (90F) and in excess of 75% humidity. I live in Denver now (with average highs still higher than Karlsruhe) and we don't use air conditioning as much as the midwest and eastern US. It's been over 35C here every day for weeks.
Stare into a gigahertz waveguide for a few seconds and we'll see how harmless "low" frequency signals are (these are obviously even lower than terahertz and you will go blind).
If we reconstitute your post with the bits that would lead it to make some sort of sense, I assume you're talking about microwave heating. In that case, this was already addressed: "...it will warm you up if left on for too long..." The eyes in particular are bad at removing heat because of the lack of blood in much of them. Anyway, it'd take a lot of microwaves to cause any damage. Taping your wifi router to your eye will hurt you, but only because taping stuff to your eye hurts.
If they can't be bothered to start out the process correctly, will they just continue breaking laws the entire time they're here?
Possibly, although in many cases it would behoove them to obey the law carefully to avoid attracting unwanted attention.
But then again, that brings me back to the point you omitted from my original comment: The layers of annoyance lead to people choosing to break the rules until they get caught (and this applies to many facets of life/business/gov't, not just immigration). If folks believe there is benefit to breaking the rules now and facing the consequences later, they'll go ahead and break them.
Certainly the kind of people we should fill our country with.
It's absolutely a legitimate function of a government to control the influx of immigrants. It doesn't matter if the immigrants denied citizenship think it's fair or not. No country's government is under any obligation at all to allow non-citizens to come over and do whatever they want. I don't see why there's such a fuss to coddle people whose first act in this country is a crime.
If only "just signing the guestbook" was as simple as it sounds. Go look up the actual process and you'll find out really quick why some people avoid the legal route: It's loaded with bureaucratic red tape & bullshit and, in the cases of some key foreign nations that supply many of our legals and illegals, chocked full of corruption right down to the bottom level of officials.
Being a legal citizen isn't a walk in the park either. There's tons of bureaucracy surrounding every aspect of life, from paying taxes to driving a car. If they can't be bothered to start out the process correctly, will they just continue breaking laws the entire time they're here?
Untrue, you must carry your passport with you at all times. If you get robbed then you need to report the theft to the police so they have the record of the theft, then your consulate and get another one issued ASAP. Pretty much what you should have done in any recent history.
You're right, but just to clarify: If you are in a foreign country and your passport is stolen, get your ass to your embassy or consulate pronto and then report the theft to local police and so on. In fact, just get to your consulate and let them tell you what to do with regards to the locals.
I think the main difference is likely to be that sociological students are more used to questioning fundamental assumptions. I suppose this it because hard logic is a lot less useful when a large proportion of your reasoning is based
intuition. So be prepared to explain just about anything you consider "obvious", and to having your pedagogical skills tested to the limit.
I'll second this. I've taught a chemistry class for non-science majors and it is quite challenging. It can also be extremely rewarding, though. All of my students were very intelligent and capable, but they were largely unfamiliar with the methods and motivations surrounding the natural sciences. The questions I got were often totally unexpected and incredibly insightful. There's no way to really prepare for the questions you'll get. At the same time, it's a great opportunity to see your field from the point of view of an intelligent outsider. Some of their questions have helped me better understand my own approach to my work.
My biggest recommendation is not to treat them as if they're stupid because they're not familiar with the subject. They probably didn't choose their field of study because they couldn't hack it in yours. They're just predominantly interested in something else. If you talk down to them, they'll never engage in your class and it'll be a failure for everyone. They want to learn your material; that's why they signed up for your class. Taking a class outside your major is almost always hard, so they're not expecting it to be easy. Tailor the material to what they're familiar with, but don't dumb it down for them.
...you don't really get to elect a vice-president...
That's not entirely true because the VP runs on the same ballot as the president. A good example of this was the 2008 election, where Palin's mere presence as the VP choice made McCain a non-choice for many.
The tv show seaquest had them as well. if you were caught speeding instead of paying a fine it was deducted from your social security.
I know you're just talking about a tv show, but that's one of the most horrible solutions I can think of. Just like student loans, a fine against your future self wouldn't feel like a punishment at all (to many people). Without social security, the elderly would turn to violent street crime and we'd have roving gangs of geriatric thugs.
As it is, with SS running out before our generation retires, the future is looking more like Mad Max, refilmed now with the original cast.
You need to provide a citation for that one. From all I have read, Obama signed the NDAA under protest because of those two lines, and did not want them in there. Why would he have previously "asked" for them?
Here's a C-SPAN feed discussing this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuFu-XyC1iw
I filed a complaint with the BBB when I had problems with my cabel company arbitrarily deciding I needed an HD package. Oddly the cabel company called me the day after I filed the complaint to appologize and assure me they would be sending a training package to the local agencies and credit my account. I have found that if you want to get someone's attention, a BBB complaint works pretty well.
I've had good results going through the BBB in the past, too. On the customer side, they can be very helpful. I guess it's because they keep a permanent record of complaints (although, if you search them they're vaguely worded and the whole process is anything other than transparent). Anyway, I've had companies bend over backward to satisfy my (valid) complaints after getting the BBB involved, whereas before they clearly didn't give a shit.