And how long did it take for the Dominion War plot to get going? I don't know about you, but I watch a limited amount of TV and prefer to not spend that time watching the shitty shows. I gave it half a season before deciding it was too freaking lame to continue. It may have *eventually* gotten better, but how long would I have had to suffer? No, I spent the intervening time watching good shows (or doing something useful away from the TV).
And why do you place more value on the creative works of an author (or any other content creator) over what everyone else goes through? Most of us (in the US) work 2000 hours in a year and sometimes (a lot) more. We don't get residual income from our labors. What's so special about an author's works that they should?
My stance could easily be seen to be of the "we don't, so why should they" variety and that's not the case. What I want to know is what is it that makes a creative work so much better or more valuable than the labors of everyone else. Why do content creators have this sense of entitlement?
Absolutely not. The Statute of Anne (Britain, 1710) set the term for copyright at 14 years. Copyright is about controlling distribution so that the author would have sufficient time to reap rewards for their labors. Distribution gets easier and easier as time marches on, technology improves and the general education of the masses increases. The ease with which information can be disseminated today should, in my opinion, mean that copyright terms should be decreased, not increased. 14 years, max, and referably less than 10.
Who cares if it's raging hypocrisy? If they have talented, smart, hard-working people in competitive fields that want to come work in the U.S., then let's let them come here and stay for as long as they like.
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Nice. You left out the story of the woman who named her daughter shithead (sic, desired pronunciation was shaw-teed). And another who named her kids lemonjello and orangejello (le-mon-ze-low and o-ron-ze-low).
While I understand what you're saying, I think the idea is a little on the stupid side. Decimate means to reduce by 1/10, plain and simple (hell, the word starts with "deci." If you want a word to describe something of much larger impact then use "Devastate."
Clearly none of you have been to Las Vegas. If you had, you'd realize that every place you can list has chosen to send its best drivers to my fair city to put on driving clinic in your own special way. Bastards. Then again, you leave most of your money with us, so I suppose it all works out.
Concerning your claim regarding hookers & blo...
Citation? Pictures? Video? Audio recordings? Corroborating evidence? Anything whatsoever to back up your claim?
You see it that way because you've never bothered to read the Geneva Convention. They're not in uniform and they don't fight for a recognized, let alone legitimate, government. My stance is backed up by SCOTUS decisions. Yours is backed up by red herrings and ad hominem attacks.
I understand the point that you're making by citing numbers, but it would be more effective if you didn't pull numbers out of your ass. I'm not going to go into specifics for the F-22 because they're readily available, but it's resultant cost is due to NRE/sunk costs and the original plan of 750 airframes being reduced to 183. While the total program cost decreased by a small amount due to the reduction of airframes ordered, the end result was to cause the cost of each individual airframe to skyrocket.
I'm currently working 12-hour shifts (plus lunch, so allegedly 13 hours total), 3 days one week and 4 days the next. Anything over 8 is time-and-a-half. I love it. And on the off-chance that I'm asked to work an additional day, well, I'm wage, not salary. I work in semiconductors.
Really? From their website they say one just needs a Sport Plane cert, which can be had in as few as 20 hours. No one serious about aviation gets a Sport Plane cert (very limiting what one can do with it).
From the website, one needs a Sport Plane certificate, which can be had in 20 hours. That's what scares me. I'm not sure on the timeframe for my fixed wing cousins, but must helicopter pilots solo, for the first time, at right around 20 hours. I've yet to meet someone that I'd be comfortable signing off to go on their own at 20 hours.
Yes, I realize that the Sport Plane cert is pretty limiting. That's really not the point. No one looks at flying, and it's requirements, and says, "I'm going to hit those 20 or 40 hours and never fly again." They still want to continue on. And if that's the case, they may as well do it right and get at least their Private Pilot cert, and preferably continue on and get their Commercial cert. More knowledge and skill is a good thing.
I wonder if you'd have any recourse for the bad advice? Probably not, since, in the end, it was your decision.
OTOH, Uncle Sam ordered me to have mine removed, against my wishes, while in boot camp. Think I have a claim?
I followed the "How much fuel...?" link and I'm left scratching my head. I don't see why he breaks the cost down to per foot of travel, and I think his math is wrong, as well. Frex, his answer states 120 gal burned for 1 mile (5280ft), which is 1 gal buned for 44ft of travel. OK. Assuming a cost of $2.71 per gal, should that not be $0.62 per 10', not $6 that he claims?
And I still don't see why that's required info, given the other information provided.
The example tanker burns 120 gal per mile and has to make a 6000 mile trip. A 720,000 gal trip at $2.71 per gal should yield $1.951 million per trip, not the $8.5 million he claims. I'm not that good at math, so maybe I'm missing something.
"Just charge up _all_ the copper to at least 50KV. Copper theft will become self-punishing. However, taking a shower will get quite risky."
I'm guessing most/.ers wouldn't be at risk...
What about Vietnam? Once diplomacy has failed and TPTB decide on a military solution, let the military do it's job. Vietnam failed because the politicians handicapped the military, allowing a large anti-war movement to gain traction, ultimately undermining anything the military did.
"The issue seems to be how you define "doing the work". "
Well, would there be anything that I listed that you wouldn't consider to be "doing the work?" Scheduling, fueling and washing are tasks that would normally go to dedicated (and paid) positions in any other field, frex. Failure to do a pre-flight (and usually a post-) is grounds for automatic termination anywhere, not mention getting a bad rep for being an unsafe pilot (I don't care if my student is about to go for his Instrument check ride, I'm *still* checking the aircraft myself).
On the flip side of all this, I'm back at a job someone here was kind enough to point out that a monkey can do. I get paid ~3x what I made as a CFI for what amounts to glorified onsite tech support. My company makes equipment used to make microprocessors. We make very good equipment. But our customers want onsite support just in case. In a give 12-hour shift, I'm likely to spend 9-10 hours of it sitting on my butt in my cubicle, surfing the net (via high speed connection our customer was nice enough to provide). And I'm not alone here. Of course, when a robot craps itself...
Nice in theory, but it doesn't always work that way in practice. I worked as a (helicopter) flight instructor for a time. We were paid one rate for ground instruction and another rate for flight instruction. Note that this is for time spent actually doing the "work." Aircraft have a meter that logs the time in 6 minute increments, ostensibly for maintenance purposes. You log the aircraft in and out based on this meter. Management uses that meter for determining what you get paid for. So where's the issue?
What about time spent towing aircraft? If it's the first flight of the day, you have to pull it from its parking spot to the ramp. The opposite happens if it's the last flight of the day. What about fueling the aircraft? What about washing the aircraft? What about time spent getting from the office to where the aircraft is parked on the ramp? (we had to take a 5 minute golf-cart ride, each direction. That's 5 hours per 6-day week right there). What about the "They're not mandatory but you're fired if you don't go" weekly meetings? What about when a student doesn't show up? (it happens more than you'd think) What about the time I have to spend scheduling my students? That's another issue with a lot more time spent doing it than you'd think. What about pre- and post-flight inspections? No, those are not covered by ground or flight instruction.
These are all issues that pretty obviously entail me doing work/performing the duties of an instructor, specifically for the job, yet all of them are unpaid activities. And I guarantee you'll hear a similar tale from other flight instructors.
To be clear, I'm not grousing, just saying how it is in general aviation.
I work at a facility where cell phones don't work. We use Skytel pagers. We ditched them in favor of Nextel/Sprint walkies. We're ditching those and going back to Skytel pagers.
But it's a duplicate add from a few months back for the same company pimping their crappy service.
Why do I say crappy? I've done a few prints (30+, actually) on the Objet Eden, the same manufacturer this SERVICE BUREAU is using. My bureau uses a high end machine set to high resolution. These guys use the low end machine set to high speed.
And they've decided to write some proprietary translator to take my perfectly functional files and mangle them so they can't be used (and these guys have major self-induced scaling issues).
In short, they're a bureau, nothing more.
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And how long did it take for the Dominion War plot to get going? I don't know about you, but I watch a limited amount of TV and prefer to not spend that time watching the shitty shows. I gave it half a season before deciding it was too freaking lame to continue. It may have *eventually* gotten better, but how long would I have had to suffer? No, I spent the intervening time watching good shows (or doing something useful away from the TV).
And why do you place more value on the creative works of an author (or any other content creator) over what everyone else goes through? Most of us (in the US) work 2000 hours in a year and sometimes (a lot) more. We don't get residual income from our labors. What's so special about an author's works that they should? My stance could easily be seen to be of the "we don't, so why should they" variety and that's not the case. What I want to know is what is it that makes a creative work so much better or more valuable than the labors of everyone else. Why do content creators have this sense of entitlement?
Absolutely not. The Statute of Anne (Britain, 1710) set the term for copyright at 14 years. Copyright is about controlling distribution so that the author would have sufficient time to reap rewards for their labors. Distribution gets easier and easier as time marches on, technology improves and the general education of the masses increases. The ease with which information can be disseminated today should, in my opinion, mean that copyright terms should be decreased, not increased. 14 years, max, and referably less than 10.
Who cares if it's raging hypocrisy? If they have talented, smart, hard-working people in competitive fields that want to come work in the U.S., then let's let them come here and stay for as long as they like.
Nice. You left out the story of the woman who named her daughter shithead (sic, desired pronunciation was shaw-teed). And another who named her kids lemonjello and orangejello (le-mon-ze-low and o-ron-ze-low).
Think maybe they could design one without the attitude?
While I understand what you're saying, I think the idea is a little on the stupid side. Decimate means to reduce by 1/10, plain and simple (hell, the word starts with "deci." If you want a word to describe something of much larger impact then use "Devastate."
Clearly none of you have been to Las Vegas. If you had, you'd realize that every place you can list has chosen to send its best drivers to my fair city to put on driving clinic in your own special way. Bastards. Then again, you leave most of your money with us, so I suppose it all works out.
WTF? Does Intel sell more CPUs than NVIDIA sells GPUs?
Depends on the what meaning of the word is is.
Concerning your claim regarding hookers & blo... Citation? Pictures? Video? Audio recordings? Corroborating evidence? Anything whatsoever to back up your claim?
You see it that way because you've never bothered to read the Geneva Convention. They're not in uniform and they don't fight for a recognized, let alone legitimate, government. My stance is backed up by SCOTUS decisions. Yours is backed up by red herrings and ad hominem attacks.
I understand the point that you're making by citing numbers, but it would be more effective if you didn't pull numbers out of your ass. I'm not going to go into specifics for the F-22 because they're readily available, but it's resultant cost is due to NRE/sunk costs and the original plan of 750 airframes being reduced to 183. While the total program cost decreased by a small amount due to the reduction of airframes ordered, the end result was to cause the cost of each individual airframe to skyrocket.
I'm currently working 12-hour shifts (plus lunch, so allegedly 13 hours total), 3 days one week and 4 days the next. Anything over 8 is time-and-a-half. I love it. And on the off-chance that I'm asked to work an additional day, well, I'm wage, not salary. I work in semiconductors.
Really? From their website they say one just needs a Sport Plane cert, which can be had in as few as 20 hours. No one serious about aviation gets a Sport Plane cert (very limiting what one can do with it).
From the website, one needs a Sport Plane certificate, which can be had in 20 hours. That's what scares me. I'm not sure on the timeframe for my fixed wing cousins, but must helicopter pilots solo, for the first time, at right around 20 hours. I've yet to meet someone that I'd be comfortable signing off to go on their own at 20 hours. Yes, I realize that the Sport Plane cert is pretty limiting. That's really not the point. No one looks at flying, and it's requirements, and says, "I'm going to hit those 20 or 40 hours and never fly again." They still want to continue on. And if that's the case, they may as well do it right and get at least their Private Pilot cert, and preferably continue on and get their Commercial cert. More knowledge and skill is a good thing.
I wonder if you'd have any recourse for the bad advice? Probably not, since, in the end, it was your decision. OTOH, Uncle Sam ordered me to have mine removed, against my wishes, while in boot camp. Think I have a claim?
I followed the "How much fuel...?" link and I'm left scratching my head. I don't see why he breaks the cost down to per foot of travel, and I think his math is wrong, as well. Frex, his answer states 120 gal burned for 1 mile (5280ft), which is 1 gal buned for 44ft of travel. OK. Assuming a cost of $2.71 per gal, should that not be $0.62 per 10', not $6 that he claims?
And I still don't see why that's required info, given the other information provided.
The example tanker burns 120 gal per mile and has to make a 6000 mile trip. A 720,000 gal trip at $2.71 per gal should yield $1.951 million per trip, not the $8.5 million he claims. I'm not that good at math, so maybe I'm missing something.
It's a lot of money, regardless.
"Just charge up _all_ the copper to at least 50KV. Copper theft will become self-punishing. However, taking a shower will get quite risky." I'm guessing most /.ers wouldn't be at risk...
What about Vietnam? Once diplomacy has failed and TPTB decide on a military solution, let the military do it's job. Vietnam failed because the politicians handicapped the military, allowing a large anti-war movement to gain traction, ultimately undermining anything the military did.
"The issue seems to be how you define "doing the work". " Well, would there be anything that I listed that you wouldn't consider to be "doing the work?" Scheduling, fueling and washing are tasks that would normally go to dedicated (and paid) positions in any other field, frex. Failure to do a pre-flight (and usually a post-) is grounds for automatic termination anywhere, not mention getting a bad rep for being an unsafe pilot (I don't care if my student is about to go for his Instrument check ride, I'm *still* checking the aircraft myself). On the flip side of all this, I'm back at a job someone here was kind enough to point out that a monkey can do. I get paid ~3x what I made as a CFI for what amounts to glorified onsite tech support. My company makes equipment used to make microprocessors. We make very good equipment. But our customers want onsite support just in case. In a give 12-hour shift, I'm likely to spend 9-10 hours of it sitting on my butt in my cubicle, surfing the net (via high speed connection our customer was nice enough to provide). And I'm not alone here. Of course, when a robot craps itself...
Nice in theory, but it doesn't always work that way in practice. I worked as a (helicopter) flight instructor for a time. We were paid one rate for ground instruction and another rate for flight instruction. Note that this is for time spent actually doing the "work." Aircraft have a meter that logs the time in 6 minute increments, ostensibly for maintenance purposes. You log the aircraft in and out based on this meter. Management uses that meter for determining what you get paid for. So where's the issue? What about time spent towing aircraft? If it's the first flight of the day, you have to pull it from its parking spot to the ramp. The opposite happens if it's the last flight of the day. What about fueling the aircraft? What about washing the aircraft? What about time spent getting from the office to where the aircraft is parked on the ramp? (we had to take a 5 minute golf-cart ride, each direction. That's 5 hours per 6-day week right there). What about the "They're not mandatory but you're fired if you don't go" weekly meetings? What about when a student doesn't show up? (it happens more than you'd think) What about the time I have to spend scheduling my students? That's another issue with a lot more time spent doing it than you'd think. What about pre- and post-flight inspections? No, those are not covered by ground or flight instruction. These are all issues that pretty obviously entail me doing work/performing the duties of an instructor, specifically for the job, yet all of them are unpaid activities. And I guarantee you'll hear a similar tale from other flight instructors. To be clear, I'm not grousing, just saying how it is in general aviation.
You may not have noticed this, but "One of the few" means more than one, not the only one.
I work at a facility where cell phones don't work. We use Skytel pagers. We ditched them in favor of Nextel/Sprint walkies. We're ditching those and going back to Skytel pagers.
But it's a duplicate add from a few months back for the same company pimping their crappy service. Why do I say crappy? I've done a few prints (30+, actually) on the Objet Eden, the same manufacturer this SERVICE BUREAU is using. My bureau uses a high end machine set to high resolution. These guys use the low end machine set to high speed. And they've decided to write some proprietary translator to take my perfectly functional files and mangle them so they can't be used (and these guys have major self-induced scaling issues). In short, they're a bureau, nothing more.