In the past, it was possible to listen to the air traffic chatter (channel 4 in the seat audio, as I recall). I actually enjoyed that. It was just the cockpit comms on whatever frequency they were on, but it allowed me to know what was happening along the flight.
As I said, it is a feature that was removed to protect us from the terrorists (who didn't use it) and I would like it back.
I am currently reading "The Sum of Small Things." In the first chapter, the idea of different racial groups having different demand levels is shown through the data.
There are valid reasons for that difference in demand. However, to pretend it isn't there is to try to live in denial.
In the case, in the book, the increased demand by Blacks for conspicuous consumption goods, ceteris paribus, is based on the belief that many Blacks find it necessary, but often not the result of conscious decision making, to carry visible markers of the middle class because it is not assumed. Now, we can reject this conclusion. However, to reject the discussion because we reject the data gets us no closer to truth. instead, it moves us away from truth.
The Three T's and X were: Tibet, Tiananmen, Taiwan, and Xinjiang. It was made clear that we (the Westerners) had no knowledge or opinions on these topics. As such we have nothing to say about them.
One day a new assistant asked me about Tiananmen. I asked her what she knew. She told me that her history teacher told her that it was a beautiful park in Beijing where people fly kites. Her grandfather had told her something much more in line with what those of us who watched it life on TV saw.
I was not entirely sure about her at that point, so my answer to her was, "you should honour your grandfather."
She laughed and said, "that is so Chinese." However, she also understood my answer.
We are living in the golden age of the open internet. I doubt that the open internet will cease to exist. However, I expect a new sanitized internet to be a form of a walled garden that keeps users from the open internet.
China's model probably will not be the exact model as the Chinese model requires a very large staff of monitors. However, a similar model using AI to identify troublesome text and images can be done.
As in China, there will always be workarounds that allow access to the open internet; however, most will see those workarounds as being more trouble than they are worth. That will place the critical mass in the Walled Garden and people will start seeing the open internet as not being worth the time and effort to access.
That is why most of the Legos' I buy are knock-off brands, such as LOZ and Lepin. As a teacher, I can not really afford to buy Lego Brand for my students to play with, yet I can, and do afford the knock-offs'.
Recently the "when you are done with your work, you can build with the Legos'" project was the big Hogwarts Castle. Before that was the Arcos truck, that one took over a year of off and on student work. We then put an EV3 controller in the truck and we are currently working on getting it to drive well. That involved researching specifications and soldering connectors to make the lights and motor work with the EV3.
As far as the article, seeing as I teach Robotics using the EV3, I did look at the article. It looks like this new controller is a step down from the EV3 in student lesson complexity. What I would like to see is a step up, some form of more advanced EV3/Mindstorms type of controller. However, the EV3 seems to hit a sweet spot for my 7th and 8th-grade classes.
For a company to manufacture such screws in America, they will need to find a place where there is a workforce ready to do such work, setup machinery and get a customer base for their products. American Manufacturing is good at making Big Things, Small things Asia seems to be better equip for.
As we moved away from Industrial Economy to Technology. The demand for small item manufacturing came into play.
And for that to happen, these companies, the ones that make the boring parts, like screws, need to have faith that they will actually have customers. This means long term relationships that are built on trust. In the Baby Boom generation of managers, we haven't seen that. What we have seen is a short term version of the shareholder value principle. As a nation, we need to move past this narrow understanding of the role of the corporation and build lasting relationships.
The first thing to do is to ensure that the lines are properly staffed. It is not at all uncommon for a person on a "suicide hotline" call to be put on hold.
It has happened to me both ways. I gave the company two weeks notice and that afternoon I was fired. At which point I went out to the parking lot, got in my car, and drove home. It was a company car.... of course, I then arranged with a former co-worker to drive me home after I got my stuff out of the car and drove it back to the office.
The next place I worked, at essentially the same job, was very different. After I gave them notice I was asked to spend my time getting everything in order and taking my replacement to all of the major clients and introducing him with great praise. . . . all I can say is that it was a shame they didn't promote to management from within. If they did, I would have stayed.
Of course, they carried that weakness to other levels too. There was no way a line manager could promote there either, they also hired area managers from the outside too. It was a great place to work for people who didn't want to move. When people left they still treated them great. For years I continued to use their corporate rate at hotels and they just sent me a bill, that provided me with a steep discount. there were other perks that I continued to draw on. . . . As you can tell, I kind of miss that place, it was just the stupid, no upward movement, policy that chased people away.
All I can say is that places that are treated poorly by their employees need to remember, culture starts at the top.
I have an MBA and I cannot afford to pay for the house I grew up in. My father paid for it on a single wage and hadn't finished college. It is easy to see where the culprits are: a high reliance on imports for manufactured goods and a significantly large share of earnings being diverted away from labour and going to the highest earners.
First off, I am a Gen-X'er. I remember reading an article in the Wall Street Journal when I was in High School (but I haven't been able to find that article online). The article looked that the retirement plans for Boomers and put forth that most Gen-X'ers would not move into career level jobs until they were in their 40's. I definitely say that in my workplace arch, and those of my friends.
That runs X'ers into a couple of barriers. The first is that we are too old for most professional, entry level, jobs. The next is that because X'ers have been in, comparatively, low pay jobs, we will need to work well into our retirement age years. Then we have to look and ask, "really, who is going to hire a 70-year-old?"
The simple facts are that our bodies are starting to slow down, yet we are still in "youth" jobs.
I have returned from a decade of living in China. In the city where I lived, to fax my ballot would have required for me to do that from the main police station and a copy of my "political activity" would have been placed in my foreign resident file. Frankly, that was a lot of work.
The solution was easy. I visited the county clerk and signed a document that had three purposes, the first was to provide notice that I understood that the method offered no privacy. The second purpose was to have a copy of my signature on fine. The third was for me to tell them which email account my ballots would come from.
Then, I filled out my absentee ballot, that was mailed to me inChina. I then took pictures of it and emailed the jpg files to the county clerk.
The trouble is that this method was not terribly secure and it was labour intensive. What I find a bit funny is that this method was more secure than many of the absentee e-ballots being proposed.
But that same reasoning holds that we can afford massive tax cuts for the wealthiest of its citizen. These tax cuts are limiting our ability to deal with future crises.
Our education system is doing quite well, despite the nay-sayers. When we look at NAEP scores, which is one of the oldest measures that provided consistency in its content, we see that the schools are doing quite well. This is particularly true when we consider that we test all students. I have taught in other countries. Many other counties have a filtering approach that insures that the less promising students do not advance , and are not able to pull the average down. If a person compares top 20% US to other countries, the differences all but disappear.
The book "Reign of Error" by Diane Ravitch goes into this in much greater detail than I have here (. . . what, a 396 page book is more detailed than a single, short, paragraph ... who would have guesses that. . . ).
I sat in a training meeting, in a government agency, and a ranking member (yes, female) made the statement, "I majored in sociology and I know for a fact that all of the worlds problems are caused by white males." It was quite clear that the men in the room were not to object.
That was the place where I was marked down for not socializing. My supervisor even made the comment, during the review, "after work we all go to curves (a women only gym) you don't seem to even try to take part." As a comment, every day I went to the officers gym; however, the women in the department, including my supervisor, didn't use it, preferring to go to curves. I am not saying that there is anything wrong with curves, or other single gender facilities. I was bothered by being marked down for not using them.
You wrote all that without even once using the phrase "Market Failure." However, neither side in our dual party has any interest in imposing regulations or forcing competition (forcing competition is little more than creating market conditions that allow competitors to arise, thus promoting a free market; not being in opposition to it).
One side feels that the magic of the market is all that is needed. The other side sees these tickets as nothing more than a luxury item, in no need of being addressed. Applying the sacrificial lamb principal, someone will have to die before it is on the screen of anyone in a position to address it. Frankly, I don't see that happening soon, after all, they are just concert tickets.
The flaw I see in your reasoning is that, frequently, the users of the algorithms are people at the bottom of the chain, not those in power. Certainly a judge should be up to date on sentencing guidelines; but what about the clerk in his office who was told to print out the standard sentence for the case under discussion?
A better example would be the truck drive in a automated truck. That driver had no say in the the choice of the algorithm. To hold that driver responsible instead of the people who made the decision to use that particular algorithm.
Your suggestion can easily turn into another case of holding the least powerful person in the chain responsible while insulating those who make the decisions from the results of their decisions.
I spent several years fixing copiers and printers. I have also worked in the HVAC industry. When I see these car free articles my first though is, "what about maintenance and repair?"
I just felt like sharing a bit more. As I said, we both have the same name and enough other data markers are the same, or close enough to cause confusion. A few key bite of data are the same, or transposed from each other; it really is a weird coincidence.
Our email addresses are different by a single dot. To make it worse, I frequently forward his mail to him; but it bounces back to my account, I hope he is getting a copy because some of it is actually important.
This left me with an Idea, I have emailed him in the past, but it got bounced back to my account; so I don't know if he ever got the message. I will try posting hime a letter.
My real name is the same and my Gmail account name is very similar to another person's. To add to it, I have discovered that we were both born in the same hospital and lived in the same area as children. I no longer liver there; but he still does.
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In the past, it was possible to listen to the air traffic chatter (channel 4 in the seat audio, as I recall). I actually enjoyed that. It was just the cockpit comms on whatever frequency they were on, but it allowed me to know what was happening along the flight.
As I said, it is a feature that was removed to protect us from the terrorists (who didn't use it) and I would like it back.
I am currently reading "The Sum of Small Things." In the first chapter, the idea of different racial groups having different demand levels is shown through the data.
There are valid reasons for that difference in demand. However, to pretend it isn't there is to try to live in denial.
In the case, in the book, the increased demand by Blacks for conspicuous consumption goods, ceteris paribus, is based on the belief that many Blacks find it necessary, but often not the result of conscious decision making, to carry visible markers of the middle class because it is not assumed. Now, we can reject this conclusion. However, to reject the discussion because we reject the data gets us no closer to truth. instead, it moves us away from truth.
Just to add, the X was not there when I started living in China, it was just the three T's. The X got added later.
The Three T's and X were: Tibet, Tiananmen, Taiwan, and Xinjiang. It was made clear that we (the Westerners) had no knowledge or opinions on these topics. As such we have nothing to say about them.
One day a new assistant asked me about Tiananmen. I asked her what she knew. She told me that her history teacher told her that it was a beautiful park in Beijing where people fly kites. Her grandfather had told her something much more in line with what those of us who watched it life on TV saw.
I was not entirely sure about her at that point, so my answer to her was, "you should honour your grandfather."
She laughed and said, "that is so Chinese." However, she also understood my answer.
We are living in the golden age of the open internet. I doubt that the open internet will cease to exist. However, I expect a new sanitized internet to be a form of a walled garden that keeps users from the open internet.
China's model probably will not be the exact model as the Chinese model requires a very large staff of monitors. However, a similar model using AI to identify troublesome text and images can be done.
As in China, there will always be workarounds that allow access to the open internet; however, most will see those workarounds as being more trouble than they are worth. That will place the critical mass in the Walled Garden and people will start seeing the open internet as not being worth the time and effort to access.
That is why most of the Legos' I buy are knock-off brands, such as LOZ and Lepin. As a teacher, I can not really afford to buy Lego Brand for my students to play with, yet I can, and do afford the knock-offs'.
Recently the "when you are done with your work, you can build with the Legos'" project was the big Hogwarts Castle. Before that was the Arcos truck, that one took over a year of off and on student work. We then put an EV3 controller in the truck and we are currently working on getting it to drive well. That involved researching specifications and soldering connectors to make the lights and motor work with the EV3.
As far as the article, seeing as I teach Robotics using the EV3, I did look at the article. It looks like this new controller is a step down from the EV3 in student lesson complexity. What I would like to see is a step up, some form of more advanced EV3/Mindstorms type of controller. However, the EV3 seems to hit a sweet spot for my 7th and 8th-grade classes.
For a company to manufacture such screws in America, they will need to find a place where there is a workforce ready to do such work, setup machinery and get a customer base for their products. American Manufacturing is good at making Big Things, Small things Asia seems to be better equip for.
As we moved away from Industrial Economy to Technology. The demand for small item manufacturing came into play.
And for that to happen, these companies, the ones that make the boring parts, like screws, need to have faith that they will actually have customers. This means long term relationships that are built on trust. In the Baby Boom generation of managers, we haven't seen that. What we have seen is a short term version of the shareholder value principle. As a nation, we need to move past this narrow understanding of the role of the corporation and build lasting relationships.
I use them as examples to add to my Middle School Computer class. I started this one with "how many of you use voice assistants?"
Then I introduced the story. These case studies are great for making the stuff I teach seem relevant.
The first thing to do is to ensure that the lines are properly staffed. It is not at all uncommon for a person on a "suicide hotline" call to be put on hold.
It has happened to me both ways. I gave the company two weeks notice and that afternoon I was fired. At which point I went out to the parking lot, got in my car, and drove home. It was a company car. ... of course, I then arranged with a former co-worker to drive me home after I got my stuff out of the car and drove it back to the office.
The next place I worked, at essentially the same job, was very different. After I gave them notice I was asked to spend my time getting everything in order and taking my replacement to all of the major clients and introducing him with great praise. . . . all I can say is that it was a shame they didn't promote to management from within. If they did, I would have stayed.
Of course, they carried that weakness to other levels too. There was no way a line manager could promote there either, they also hired area managers from the outside too. It was a great place to work for people who didn't want to move. When people left they still treated them great. For years I continued to use their corporate rate at hotels and they just sent me a bill, that provided me with a steep discount. there were other perks that I continued to draw on. . . . As you can tell, I kind of miss that place, it was just the stupid, no upward movement, policy that chased people away.
All I can say is that places that are treated poorly by their employees need to remember, culture starts at the top.
Real wages have been down for decades, and no, the Trump tax cut didn't change that https://www.bls.gov/news.relea...
I have an MBA and I cannot afford to pay for the house I grew up in. My father paid for it on a single wage and hadn't finished college. It is easy to see where the culprits are: a high reliance on imports for manufactured goods and a significantly large share of earnings being diverted away from labour and going to the highest earners.
First off, I am a Gen-X'er. I remember reading an article in the Wall Street Journal when I was in High School (but I haven't been able to find that article online). The article looked that the retirement plans for Boomers and put forth that most Gen-X'ers would not move into career level jobs until they were in their 40's. I definitely say that in my workplace arch, and those of my friends.
That runs X'ers into a couple of barriers. The first is that we are too old for most professional, entry level, jobs. The next is that because X'ers have been in, comparatively, low pay jobs, we will need to work well into our retirement age years. Then we have to look and ask, "really, who is going to hire a 70-year-old?"
The simple facts are that our bodies are starting to slow down, yet we are still in "youth" jobs.
An example of a lot worse than that is mentioned in the article. The following is from it and illustrates the problem extremely well:
My favorite example of how informationally toxic YouTube's algorithm is this:
Imagine you're high school freshman and got a school assignment about the Federal Reserve.
The EV-3 is already running Linux, just observe the boot sequence. Yes, it is a very specialized Linux build, but it is still Linux.
I am a Robotics teacher at a Middle School where we use the EV-3s'. I also coach an FLL Robotics team , which also uses the EV-3 family.
I have returned from a decade of living in China. In the city where I lived, to fax my ballot would have required for me to do that from the main police station and a copy of my "political activity" would have been placed in my foreign resident file. Frankly, that was a lot of work.
The solution was easy. I visited the county clerk and signed a document that had three purposes, the first was to provide notice that I understood that the method offered no privacy. The second purpose was to have a copy of my signature on fine. The third was for me to tell them which email account my ballots would come from.
Then, I filled out my absentee ballot, that was mailed to me inChina. I then took pictures of it and emailed the jpg files to the county clerk.
The trouble is that this method was not terribly secure and it was labour intensive. What I find a bit funny is that this method was more secure than many of the absentee e-ballots being proposed.
But that same reasoning holds that we can afford massive tax cuts for the wealthiest of its citizen. These tax cuts are limiting our ability to deal with future crises.
Our education system is doing quite well, despite the nay-sayers. When we look at NAEP scores, which is one of the oldest measures that provided consistency in its content, we see that the schools are doing quite well. This is particularly true when we consider that we test all students. I have taught in other countries. Many other counties have a filtering approach that insures that the less promising students do not advance , and are not able to pull the average down. If a person compares top 20% US to other countries, the differences all but disappear.
The book "Reign of Error" by Diane Ravitch goes into this in much greater detail than I have here (. . . what, a 396 page book is more detailed than a single, short, paragraph . .. who would have guesses that. . . ).
I sat in a training meeting, in a government agency, and a ranking member (yes, female) made the statement, "I majored in sociology and I know for a fact that all of the worlds problems are caused by white males." It was quite clear that the men in the room were not to object.
That was the place where I was marked down for not socializing. My supervisor even made the comment, during the review, "after work we all go to curves (a women only gym) you don't seem to even try to take part." As a comment, every day I went to the officers gym; however, the women in the department, including my supervisor, didn't use it, preferring to go to curves. I am not saying that there is anything wrong with curves, or other single gender facilities. I was bothered by being marked down for not using them.
You wrote all that without even once using the phrase "Market Failure." However, neither side in our dual party has any interest in imposing regulations or forcing competition (forcing competition is little more than creating market conditions that allow competitors to arise, thus promoting a free market; not being in opposition to it).
One side feels that the magic of the market is all that is needed. The other side sees these tickets as nothing more than a luxury item, in no need of being addressed. Applying the sacrificial lamb principal, someone will have to die before it is on the screen of anyone in a position to address it. Frankly, I don't see that happening soon, after all, they are just concert tickets.
The flaw I see in your reasoning is that, frequently, the users of the algorithms are people at the bottom of the chain, not those in power. Certainly a judge should be up to date on sentencing guidelines; but what about the clerk in his office who was told to print out the standard sentence for the case under discussion?
A better example would be the truck drive in a automated truck. That driver had no say in the the choice of the algorithm. To hold that driver responsible instead of the people who made the decision to use that particular algorithm.
Your suggestion can easily turn into another case of holding the least powerful person in the chain responsible while insulating those who make the decisions from the results of their decisions.
I spent several years fixing copiers and printers. I have also worked in the HVAC industry. When I see these car free articles my first though is, "what about maintenance and repair?"
I get that; but my question is, is he also getting them?
Another one right here, I wrote about it in the thread "Constantly" before I saw this thread. I have a dot in my name, he doesn't.
I just felt like sharing a bit more. As I said, we both have the same name and enough other data markers are the same, or close enough to cause confusion. A few key bite of data are the same, or transposed from each other; it really is a weird coincidence.
Our email addresses are different by a single dot. To make it worse, I frequently forward his mail to him; but it bounces back to my account, I hope he is getting a copy because some of it is actually important.
This left me with an Idea, I have emailed him in the past, but it got bounced back to my account; so I don't know if he ever got the message. I will try posting hime a letter.
My real name is the same and my Gmail account name is very similar to another person's. To add to it, I have discovered that we were both born in the same hospital and lived in the same area as children. I no longer liver there; but he still does.
How do I know all this, because I get his email!