I wonder how much they're getting in tax breaks for this installation. Note that they're doing this in California, not in Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, and other states in which they presumably receive at least as much sunlight.
There's no such thing as "proving something to be safe." It's not possible. If the bulk of accumulated evidence doesn't indicate sufficient safety, what would?
Stop being a whiny little pussy and get on the plane.
Remember when Sony used rootkits surreptitiously distributed on things that appeared to be standard Redbook audio CDs and then used those rootkits to install secret CD drivers on users' computers, which contained no uninstaller and would render the drive inoperable if the user attempted a manual uninstallation, and which also left the users' computers open to invasion by other malware from other parties?
Remember all the people who swore they'd never give Sony money again? They ran out and bought PS3s.
Let's see what they use as examples of excessive hours and draconian rules.
â- Excessive overtime is routine, despite a legal limit of 36 hours a month. One payslip, seen by the Observer, indicated that the worker had performed 98 hours of overtime in a month.
98 hours of overtime. In a month. I'll grant that's a lot of overtime. If he's working a 48-hour week, call it 192 hours straight time a month, and then 98 on top of that? If he's not working weekends, yeesh, that's a month of 14.5-hour workdays. That's hard, is really is, most people won't work days like that for a sustained period of time unless they're medical residents. Even if he *is* working on weekends, which if you're working that much OT you are, then it would take working 12-hour shifts on the weekdays and then coming in for 10-hour days on the weekends. *That* I've done, and plenty of other people have too without it being "inhumane."
And that's the article's outlier. Look at that legal limit. 36 hours a month? Jesus, the unions in this country would strike long and hard if an employer instituted a flat cap of 1.2 hours/day OT. Raise your hand if you've never worked more 36 hours a month OT. Now get off the computer and go get a job.
â- Workers attempting to meet the huge demand for the first iPad were sometimes pressured to take only one day off in 13.
Wow. Really? There's a rush of demand and you're so busy you have to work through the weekend? That happens so often in every business that it's a standard joke. And note even the wording: they're not required to, they're *pressured* to, and that only *sometimes*. Again, raise your hand if you've never worked two weeks off without a break.
â- In some factories badly performing workers are required to be publicly humiliated in front of colleagues.
Okay, this has never happened to me, it's not really a Western culture thing, outside of British public schools. American schools used to stick poor performers in the corner with a dunce cap, if Gasoline Alley and other such comics haven't lied to me, but I guess that's gone out of style.
â- Crowded workers' dormitories can sleep up to 24 and are subject to strict rules. One worker told the NGO investigators that he was forced to sign a "confession letter" after illicitly using a hairdryer. In the letter he wrote: "It is my fault. I will never blow my hair inside my room. I have done something wrong. I will never do it again."
Crowding? And strict rules? In China? Getthefuckouttahere.
â- In the wake of a spate of suicides at Foxconn factories last summer, workers were asked to sign a statement promising not to kill themselves and pledging to "treasure their lives".
Ah. The suicides. First, if Foxconn has a suicide problem, this isn't a dumb policy. The "I shalt not kill myself note" is actually a fairly standard bit of psychiatric treatment for would-be suicides, sort of like the suicide hotline phones on some bridges. Maybe it'll help, maybe it won't, but the fact that they're doing it doesn't demonstrate that they're inhumane and don't care about their workers, it demonstrates just the opposite.
And does Foxconn have a suicide problem? I doubt it. Foxconn's huge. They've got a million workers, 17 of which killed themselves over a five-year period. So that's a rate of.34/100k/year. China's overall suicide rate it 6.6/100k/year, so employees at Foxconn are killing themselves at a rate of about 1/20th that of the general population. In *China*. They're killing themselves at a rate of about 1/30th of the US population. So maybe this policy doesn't really demonstrate concern for their workers. Maybe it's just a pointy-haired-boss response to a stupid media panic fed by a general innumeracy amongst the population, I don't know. But one thing it's not is inhumane.
It doesn't mean 'virgin birth.' Immaculate Conception is the Catholic doctrine that Mary, the mother of Jesus, was herself conceived free of Original Sin. It's got nothing to do with the other Catholic doctrine of the virgin birth, which is that Mary was impregnated with Jesus without any sexual intercourse occurring.
Dogfish and McGovern also collaborated on: Jiahu, based on chemanalysis of 9000-year-old pottery fragments from China; Sah'tea, based on 9th-century Finnish sahti; and Pangaea, which is more gimmicky than most of Dogfish head's gimmicks, and includes an ingredient from every continent.
Unfortunately for the free-market personal choice crowd, you can't simply reduce salt in your diet by avoiding the salt shaker.
Most salt comes from processed food and restaurant food, and not just potato chips.
Um...that's a non sequitur. So most salt comes from processed food and restaurant food, how does that indicate you can't simply reduce salt in your diet?
*Eat less processed food*. Eat out less. It's not difficult, nor is it expensive. Problem averted. The free-market personal-choice crowd wins again.
No, it doesn't. USC 17 is the law. It was passed by Congress and signed into law by the President. Two parties can enter into a contract if they want to, it doesn't change the law for those not party to that contract.
Under the terms of the current settlement - she has lost her legal right to sue over copyright infringemen
What settlement? She's not party to any settlement. You can I can't enter into a settlement that remove's the RIAA's right to sue over copyright infringement, Google and a group of authors can't enter into a settlement that removes the right of other authors to sue for copyright infringement.
She just doesn't want to be screwed over by Google in a land grab deal negotiated by an 'Authors Guild' that doesn't represent her.
What good is a petition, then? An agreement between Google and this 'Author's Guild' doesn't change the black-letter copyright law of this country. If she's not represented by the Guild, then when Google reproduces her work withour her permission, then she can sue them for copyright infringement.
They'll be allowed to run and play, but if they do it during school, they'll wear a heart monitor.
Yes. First, there's the financial cost; it's hard enough for schools to afford, you know, *gym equipment* in the first place, and now you want them to buy heart monitors for every kid as well? Kids can learn about heart rates and pulses quite adequately without that expenditure, and as far as target heart rate and exercise goes, two fingers on the wrist and a frigging watch with a second hand work fine.
Second, there's the social cost. You're either teaching them that "This routine physical activity we're requiring you to engage in is so dangerous it could *kill you* and you need to wear one of these to be safe," or "Our society is so ridiculously litigious and cowardly that this is what it's come to." That generation's going to be even more fucked up than the one that thought the TSA sounded like a good idea.
Oh, how fitting. The captcha I've been given to post this is 'bogeymen.'
f it uses mirrors of some type to aim the laser "beam", won't missile designers just make the missile housing out of the same reflective material?
Well, no. First, high-energy mirrors are fragile things. The reflective surface is very thin, and is kept very clean. Get some crud on it, that crud absorbs in the incident energy, the mirror fails. How are you going to coat a missile body, which needs must be exposed to the environment, with this fragile coating and still expect it to be a high-energy mirror?
Second, the energy *density* is smaller at the mirror than at the target. Being able to withstand the energy density of the lasing cavity isn't the same thing as being able to withstand the energy density of that laser, at the target, where it's as close to being a point as the focusing system can manage.
That's not correct. If blackbody(-ish) radiation covered the entire range of EM radiation, then the radiated power would be infinite. That's why there's this whole "Planck's constant" thing, because people realized that it doesn't work that way.
It's a bit of a side-issue, but take a look at that photo that accompanies the article. The one captioned: "At 60 miles an hour on a Missouri highway, a 16-year-old driver texts with a friend as a 17-year-old takes the wheel."
There is *no way* that photo isn't staged. The Times runs staged photos on a semi-regular basis, even though it's really a violation of journalistic ethics, but it's rarely quite so blatant.
A tiny bit of concentrated matter is still only a tiny bit of matter, no matter how much you consentrate it!
You clearly have no idea what you're talking about.
r=2Gm/c^2. If you cram an amount of mass m into a radius r, you have a black hole. Even a tiny bit of matter gets you a black hole, if you sufficiently concentrate it.
A combustion event, aka 'explosion' occurs at the beginning of every power stroke in a reciprocating internal combustion engine. When an engine 'knocks' there is a combustion event as well. What makes it a 'knock' instead of a normal part of the power cycle is that it occurs at the wrong time
This is incorrect. When things are functioning normally, the fuel burns by deflagration, the reaction front is propagated subsonically by conductive heating of adjacent material. If you have knocking, what's going on is detonation, where the reaction front is propagated supersonically by compressive heating of adjacent material. Both deflagration and detonation are combustion reactions, but the latter is more powerful, less efficient, and far more destructive to your pistons. It's not just the same reaction occurring too early.
The randomness comes, of course, from the fact that the number of cards which fall from each stack into each "leaf" is effectively non-deterministic and unobservable.
Sure it's observable. Record it and play back the film. They don't let you do that in a casino, so it's "random enough" for their purposes, but you can't turn a truly random process into a predictable one by observing it on a finer timescale.
[As a small semantic point, note that I could put up a screen and block your observer's view of my hand; by your definition, I have now made the die a "truly random" number generator even though I haven't really changed anything.
I'd disagree. It's a random system if knowing the state of the system at t0 doesn't allow you to predict the state of the system at t0+. The toss of a die might be "random in real time," because you can't predict it that way, but I'd dispute that it's random in the same way that, say, radioactive decay. Randomness is objective, not dependent on the observer, and there are theoretical observers who could predict the outcome of a die roll; there are no such observers for radioactive decay, or the emission of Hawking radiation, or of shot noise.
I've seen this assertion, and never quite understood it. I mean, if you're doing a perfect interleave shuffle, dividing the cards into two piles A and B and then weaving them together ABABABAB and so on, in what sense is that random? No matter how many times you iterate, it's still a purely deterministic process and you can easily predict the order of cards in the deck post-shuffle. So how do you get a random non-predictable card order out of this?
I can understand that in real life, you're not going to shuffle perfectly, there'll be a few more cards in one pile than the other, your interleave will occasionally do something like ABBBAABA instead of being perfect, and so forth, but in that case I don't see how you can say "Oh, it'll be random after 7 shuffles," because it'll depend on the amount of imperfection. And even then, this still doesn't strike me as actual random behavior; it's still deterministic, it just doesn't matter because a human observer isn't capable of observing the information he'd need to predict card order. But that information's still *there*, and a theoretical perfect observer will still be able to know what the card order is. With a truly random sequence, there is *no* way to determine the order, even given a perfect observer.
I'm very curious as to how far this sort of photometrics can be developed. If you can measure a key well enough to manufacture a duplicate just by viewing a picture with the key in it (not even necessarily a picture *of* they key, just with it in a picture lying there on the table) the capabilities for making precise measurements of complex arrangements of parts aren't that far off. Add the time dimension in, and things get more interesting; instead of having to mount a potentiometer or LVDT or accelerometer to measure the displacement or motion of a part, just film it. That could make a lot of jobs much easier.
Actually the Geneva Convention has nothing about weapon types. Geneva Convention covers the treatment of POW's and civilians. It's the Hague Convention of 1907 that covered weapon types.
It's not legal to shoot a human target with a 50 caliber sniper rifle.
You get something right, and then proceed to get something dead wrong. There is nothing illegal under any law of war about engaging enemy troops with a.50 weapon. The Hague Convention of 1899 outlaws the use of expanding bullets, and the 1907 convention outlaws any weapon "calculated to cause unnecessary suffering." Specific calibers are not even mentioned, and ball.50 ammunition isn't going to cause "unnecessary suffering" when it hits you, it's going to kill you.
What's the word for failing to draw a distinction between a representation of something and the thing being representing?
'I would like to see other internet service providers follow suit to reinforce our message that violence will not be tolerated either on the internet or in the real world,
Because whatever that word is, this is it:
If I make this doll that looks like you, and use a piece of your hair, I can jab it with pins and you'll be injured. If we remove pictures of knifes from the internet, knife crime will fall. If we allow depictions of knives on the internet, knife crime will rise.
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I wonder how much they're getting in tax breaks for this installation. Note that they're doing this in California, not in Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, and other states in which they presumably receive at least as much sunlight.
There's no such thing as "proving something to be safe." It's not possible. If the bulk of accumulated evidence doesn't indicate sufficient safety, what would?
Stop being a whiny little pussy and get on the plane.
We could also, if we wished, eradicate widespread vaccination and the refrigeration of food.
Lowest bidder and profit: Capitalists win, Everyone else lose. Dangerous things should not let in the hands of capitalists.
The Tennessee Valley Authority is owned by the Federal government and was created by Congress in the 1930s, but don't let that stop you.
Yes, this.
Remember when Sony used rootkits surreptitiously distributed on things that appeared to be standard Redbook audio CDs and then used those rootkits to install secret CD drivers on users' computers, which contained no uninstaller and would render the drive inoperable if the user attempted a manual uninstallation, and which also left the users' computers open to invasion by other malware from other parties?
Remember all the people who swore they'd never give Sony money again? They ran out and bought PS3s.
Let's see what they use as examples of excessive hours and draconian rules.
â- Excessive overtime is routine, despite a legal limit of 36 hours a month. One payslip, seen by the Observer, indicated that the worker had performed 98 hours of overtime in a month.
98 hours of overtime. In a month. I'll grant that's a lot of overtime. If he's working a 48-hour week, call it 192 hours straight time a month, and then 98 on top of that? If he's not working weekends, yeesh, that's a month of 14.5-hour workdays. That's hard, is really is, most people won't work days like that for a sustained period of time unless they're medical residents. Even if he *is* working on weekends, which if you're working that much OT you are, then it would take working 12-hour shifts on the weekdays and then coming in for 10-hour days on the weekends. *That* I've done, and plenty of other people have too without it being "inhumane."
And that's the article's outlier. Look at that legal limit. 36 hours a month? Jesus, the unions in this country would strike long and hard if an employer instituted a flat cap of 1.2 hours/day OT. Raise your hand if you've never worked more 36 hours a month OT. Now get off the computer and go get a job.
â- Workers attempting to meet the huge demand for the first iPad were sometimes pressured to take only one day off in 13.
Wow. Really? There's a rush of demand and you're so busy you have to work through the weekend? That happens so often in every business that it's a standard joke. And note even the wording: they're not required to, they're *pressured* to, and that only *sometimes*. Again, raise your hand if you've never worked two weeks off without a break.
â- In some factories badly performing workers are required to be publicly humiliated in front of colleagues.
Okay, this has never happened to me, it's not really a Western culture thing, outside of British public schools. American schools used to stick poor performers in the corner with a dunce cap, if Gasoline Alley and other such comics haven't lied to me, but I guess that's gone out of style.
â- Crowded workers' dormitories can sleep up to 24 and are subject to strict rules. One worker told the NGO investigators that he was forced to sign a "confession letter" after illicitly using a hairdryer. In the letter he wrote: "It is my fault. I will never blow my hair inside my room. I have done something wrong. I will never do it again."
Crowding? And strict rules? In China? Getthefuckouttahere.
â- In the wake of a spate of suicides at Foxconn factories last summer, workers were asked to sign a statement promising not to kill themselves and pledging to "treasure their lives".
Ah. The suicides. First, if Foxconn has a suicide problem, this isn't a dumb policy. The "I shalt not kill myself note" is actually a fairly standard bit of psychiatric treatment for would-be suicides, sort of like the suicide hotline phones on some bridges. Maybe it'll help, maybe it won't, but the fact that they're doing it doesn't demonstrate that they're inhumane and don't care about their workers, it demonstrates just the opposite.
And does Foxconn have a suicide problem? I doubt it. Foxconn's huge. They've got a million workers, 17 of which killed themselves over a five-year period. So that's a rate of .34/100k/year. China's overall suicide rate it 6.6/100k/year, so employees at Foxconn are killing themselves at a rate of about 1/20th that of the general population. In *China*. They're killing themselves at a rate of about 1/30th of the US population. So maybe this policy doesn't really demonstrate concern for their workers. Maybe it's just a pointy-haired-boss response to a stupid media panic fed by a general innumeracy amongst the population, I don't know. But one thing it's not is inhumane.
And then there's this bit:
It doesn't mean 'virgin birth.' Immaculate Conception is the Catholic doctrine that Mary, the mother of Jesus, was herself conceived free of Original Sin. It's got nothing to do with the other Catholic doctrine of the virgin birth, which is that Mary was impregnated with Jesus without any sexual intercourse occurring.
Hope this helps.
Dogfish and McGovern also collaborated on: Jiahu, based on chemanalysis of 9000-year-old pottery fragments from China; Sah'tea, based on 9th-century Finnish sahti; and Pangaea, which is more gimmicky than most of Dogfish head's gimmicks, and includes an ingredient from every continent.
Unfortunately for the free-market personal choice crowd, you can't simply reduce salt in your diet by avoiding the salt shaker.
Most salt comes from processed food and restaurant food, and not just potato chips.
Um...that's a non sequitur. So most salt comes from processed food and restaurant food, how does that indicate you can't simply reduce salt in your diet?
*Eat less processed food*. Eat out less. It's not difficult, nor is it expensive. Problem averted. The free-market personal-choice crowd wins again.
Yes, it does.
No, it doesn't. USC 17 is the law. It was passed by Congress and signed into law by the President. Two parties can enter into a contract if they want to, it doesn't change the law for those not party to that contract.
Under the terms of the current settlement - she has lost her legal right to sue over copyright infringemen
What settlement? She's not party to any settlement. You can I can't enter into a settlement that remove's the RIAA's right to sue over copyright infringement, Google and a group of authors can't enter into a settlement that removes the right of other authors to sue for copyright infringement.
She just doesn't want to be screwed over by Google in a land grab deal negotiated by an 'Authors Guild' that doesn't represent her.
What good is a petition, then? An agreement between Google and this 'Author's Guild' doesn't change the black-letter copyright law of this country. If she's not represented by the Guild, then when Google reproduces her work withour her permission, then she can sue them for copyright infringement.
Enough exercise for what?
They'll be allowed to run and play, but if they do it during school, they'll wear a heart monitor.
Yes. First, there's the financial cost; it's hard enough for schools to afford, you know, *gym equipment* in the first place, and now you want them to buy heart monitors for every kid as well? Kids can learn about heart rates and pulses quite adequately without that expenditure, and as far as target heart rate and exercise goes, two fingers on the wrist and a frigging watch with a second hand work fine.
Second, there's the social cost. You're either teaching them that "This routine physical activity we're requiring you to engage in is so dangerous it could *kill you* and you need to wear one of these to be safe," or "Our society is so ridiculously litigious and cowardly that this is what it's come to." That generation's going to be even more fucked up than the one that thought the TSA sounded like a good idea.
Oh, how fitting. The captcha I've been given to post this is 'bogeymen.'
f it uses mirrors of some type to aim the laser "beam", won't missile designers just make the missile housing out of the same reflective material?
Well, no. First, high-energy mirrors are fragile things. The reflective surface is very thin, and is kept very clean. Get some crud on it, that crud absorbs in the incident energy, the mirror fails. How are you going to coat a missile body, which needs must be exposed to the environment, with this fragile coating and still expect it to be a high-energy mirror?
Second, the energy *density* is smaller at the mirror than at the target. Being able to withstand the energy density of the lasing cavity isn't the same thing as being able to withstand the energy density of that laser, at the target, where it's as close to being a point as the focusing system can manage.
That's not correct. If blackbody(-ish) radiation covered the entire range of EM radiation, then the radiated power would be infinite. That's why there's this whole "Planck's constant" thing, because people realized that it doesn't work that way.
It's a bit of a side-issue, but take a look at that photo that accompanies the article. The one captioned: "At 60 miles an hour on a Missouri highway, a 16-year-old driver texts with a friend as a 17-year-old takes the wheel."
There is *no way* that photo isn't staged. The Times runs staged photos on a semi-regular basis, even though it's really a violation of journalistic ethics, but it's rarely quite so blatant.
A tiny bit of concentrated matter is still only a tiny bit of matter, no matter how much you consentrate it!
You clearly have no idea what you're talking about.
r=2Gm/c^2. If you cram an amount of mass m into a radius r, you have a black hole. Even a tiny bit of matter gets you a black hole, if you sufficiently concentrate it.
A combustion event, aka 'explosion' occurs at the beginning of every power stroke in a reciprocating internal combustion engine. When an engine 'knocks' there is a combustion event as well. What makes it a 'knock' instead of a normal part of the power cycle is that it occurs at the wrong time
This is incorrect. When things are functioning normally, the fuel burns by deflagration, the reaction front is propagated subsonically by conductive heating of adjacent material. If you have knocking, what's going on is detonation, where the reaction front is propagated supersonically by compressive heating of adjacent material. Both deflagration and detonation are combustion reactions, but the latter is more powerful, less efficient, and far more destructive to your pistons. It's not just the same reaction occurring too early.
The randomness comes, of course, from the fact that the number of cards which fall from each stack into each "leaf" is effectively non-deterministic and unobservable.
Sure it's observable. Record it and play back the film. They don't let you do that in a casino, so it's "random enough" for their purposes, but you can't turn a truly random process into a predictable one by observing it on a finer timescale.
[As a small semantic point, note that I could put up a screen and block your observer's view of my hand; by your definition, I have now made the die a "truly random" number generator even though I haven't really changed anything.
I'd disagree. It's a random system if knowing the state of the system at t0 doesn't allow you to predict the state of the system at t0+. The toss of a die might be "random in real time," because you can't predict it that way, but I'd dispute that it's random in the same way that, say, radioactive decay. Randomness is objective, not dependent on the observer, and there are theoretical observers who could predict the outcome of a die roll; there are no such observers for radioactive decay, or the emission of Hawking radiation, or of shot noise.
I've seen this assertion, and never quite understood it. I mean, if you're doing a perfect interleave shuffle, dividing the cards into two piles A and B and then weaving them together ABABABAB and so on, in what sense is that random? No matter how many times you iterate, it's still a purely deterministic process and you can easily predict the order of cards in the deck post-shuffle. So how do you get a random non-predictable card order out of this?
I can understand that in real life, you're not going to shuffle perfectly, there'll be a few more cards in one pile than the other, your interleave will occasionally do something like ABBBAABA instead of being perfect, and so forth, but in that case I don't see how you can say "Oh, it'll be random after 7 shuffles," because it'll depend on the amount of imperfection. And even then, this still doesn't strike me as actual random behavior; it's still deterministic, it just doesn't matter because a human observer isn't capable of observing the information he'd need to predict card order. But that information's still *there*, and a theoretical perfect observer will still be able to know what the card order is. With a truly random sequence, there is *no* way to determine the order, even given a perfect observer.
When it goes on sale in two weeks, it will give parents a completely portable backseat-of-the-minivan movie theater for the kids.
Sure, provided you're driving at night, or with all the windows painted over.
I'm very curious as to how far this sort of photometrics can be developed. If you can measure a key well enough to manufacture a duplicate just by viewing a picture with the key in it (not even necessarily a picture *of* they key, just with it in a picture lying there on the table) the capabilities for making precise measurements of complex arrangements of parts aren't that far off. Add the time dimension in, and things get more interesting; instead of having to mount a potentiometer or LVDT or accelerometer to measure the displacement or motion of a part, just film it. That could make a lot of jobs much easier.
Actually the Geneva Convention has nothing about weapon types. Geneva Convention covers the treatment of POW's and civilians. It's the Hague Convention of 1907 that covered weapon types.
It's not legal to shoot a human target with a 50 caliber sniper rifle.
You get something right, and then proceed to get something dead wrong. There is nothing illegal under any law of war about engaging enemy troops with a .50 weapon. The Hague Convention of 1899 outlaws the use of expanding bullets, and the 1907 convention outlaws any weapon "calculated to cause unnecessary suffering." Specific calibers are not even mentioned, and ball .50 ammunition isn't going to cause "unnecessary suffering" when it hits you, it's going to kill you.
Not to belittle your point here, but have you seen the wounds that todays weapons cause?
Not to belittle your point here, but have you seen the wounds weapons of 3000 years ago cause?
What's the word for failing to draw a distinction between a representation of something and the thing being representing?
'I would like to see other internet service providers follow suit to reinforce our message that violence will not be tolerated either on the internet or in the real world,
Because whatever that word is, this is it:
If I make this doll that looks like you, and use a piece of your hair, I can jab it with pins and you'll be injured. If we remove pictures of knifes from the internet, knife crime will fall. If we allow depictions of knives on the internet, knife crime will rise.
Perfectly insane.