The issue with the EasyJet pilot training program is that the candidate pays for the training - it's not paid for by the airline. This is actually pretty standard in the airline business, where pilots typically pay for their own training.
And again, making the father take time off as well as the mother doesn't resolve the issue with single men and men who don't have children or men that don't bother taking the time off. The *need* for the mothers time off is very much physiological and mental recovery, but the man just needs the time to bond with the child and take over childcare duties, but they don't have to.
Congratulations, you have ensured parents of both sexes compete fairly against one another.
That doesn't account for single men, or men that refuse to take the time off however. And this is the main issue - men don't go through the rigours of childbirth, and thus don't need recovery time - they are also less likely to be the primary care giver for any child, again tipping the scales in their favour as they stay at work and miss fewer opportunities.
I reiterate my question - are you going to force men to take time off just to level the field?
Destroying one rocket one time can still cripple a competitor business (many satellites aren't insured), or can set back a military project (spy satellites etc).
There are multiple issues which are regularly conflated in these discussions, and often some of those issues are almost deliberately hidden in order to push the discussion in one particular direct (that direction being that any disparity is bad).
The UK just forced the top 500 companies to release this sort of information, and at a glance some of them are really bad - EasyJet (a budget airline) has a gap of over 50%, or in other words the average difference between wages paid to women is 50% that of wages paid to men. Except that men tend to be employed in the company as pilots, and women as cabin crew, which have massive differences - and it remains to be proven if that is a company culture issue or not (my guess is, not, as many airline pilots are ex-military pilots, and we are only just seeing an improvement in female military pilots, so perhaps this will resolve itself in due course).
Then you have the issue of the career gap, where women take time off to have children and return to work a year behind their male counterparts in experience, exposure etc. A very difficult one to solve - do you gift those women a year, do you hold back men for a year, what?
And yes, there are the outright legitimate arguments about women simply being paid less because they are women, and there are also the kinda legitimate arguments about different negotiating styles between sexes being an issue (but then that all depends on the job - my wife is a doctor, and a quick straw poll of her friends suggests she can demand a higher day rate as a locum precisely because she is female - more women want a female doctor for female issues, which is a good negotiating area for the locum).
Solving the legitimate issues doesn't however solve all the issues, but no one has worked out how to solve those ones without penalising companies and male workers (but some wouldn't see an issue with that at all).
Just publishing the wage gap is meaningless flame bait without a lot more information around that gap.
You only really need to spoof it long enough for the rocket to make a correction which endangers the mission, or long enough for the rocket to think its seriously off course and triggers the destruct. You don't need to spoof the entire path.
Not really - no US airline has ever operated an A380, and the Forbes article talks about Airbus closing the production line.
However, that closing isn't going to happen before 2025, as Airbus still have enough of a backlog to keep the line open that long with the planned reductions in rates. And that's without the much talked about Emirates follow on order, for which to not happen would require a miracle right now.
The 747 production line won't see the 2020s, its dead in the water right now.
Today, the government line is that Brexit is good.
Tomorrow, who knows which side will be in power.
It's already got to the point online that you can't have a positive opinion of Brexit without people tearing into you with insults and abuse - the "anti-Brexit" side is very vocal and strong on social media and are out to destroy any "pro-Brexit" commenters by any means possible.
Ren was severely wounded during both of those battles, and Fin is a trained soldier who will have received hand to hand combat training - he was still having his arse kicked by Ren. Not that much of a leap, really.
The Force, Jedi and Sith are three very different and distinct things - you don't need to be a Jedi or a Sith to be good in the force.
When are people going to accept that? Anakin was an exceptional pod racer because he was a powerful force user, but he wasn't a Jedi until later on.
Luke had fuck all training and yet it is accepted as a strong Jedi. He didn't go through an apprenticeship, had at most a few weeks of training with Yoda and yet apparently he's kick ass enough that being beaten by a girl who has a proven track record of using melee weapons is an impossibility.
If the United States were more like the rest of the world, a McDonald's Quarter Pounder might be known as the McDonald's 113-Grammer
Uh, not all that much - in the UK, where the metric system is a required thing by law, the McDonalds Quarter Pounder is *still* called the Quarter Pounder, because thats its product name. Its pre-cooked weight may be given in metric, but that doesn't alter the product name. In France its the Royal for the same reason, thats its product name.
In the UK, you can still buy a 64Oz Club Hammer or a 16Oz Rubber Mallet, and a 800-pound gorilla is still a 800-pound gorilla - again, the requirement for metric doesn't change these things.
The speech from Pulp Fiction is cool and all, its just not so much based in reality.
Trump is still in power and waging a war against several mainstream news outlets.
Still feel confident?
Also, I'm sure no one thought that the best record of several dead languages would turn out to be a stone establishing a religious cult and granting tax exemption status to its priests (some things never change). I'm sure the creator of the decree on that stone would have thought his religion would have lasted longer than the stone itself, and yet here we are...
People shit themselves when the Dow Jones index drops a hundred points. Bitcoin just essentially did the equivalent of dropping ten thousand points, and people are laughing it off.
Laws and movements are often wildly misconstrued from their original meanings, because those meanings are not properly explained and laid out to start off with.
Look at how much legal effort has gone into interpreting the US Constitution, with significant legal arguments hinging on commas etc. And that document is written in a language which is still spoken.
I take it you've heard the story about how Nero played his fiddle as Rome burned? Yup, that's just one of the versions of how it went down - but it's the popular version, as Nero was an unpopular figure. Reliable contemporary accounts put him in another city altogether, returning to fight the devastation and famine that followed. Which of these accounts are true? And this is only 2000 years ago.
Look around at what has survived the ages so far, and tell me that there isn't a decent chance that quite possibly the twitter archive might be the only thing on certain topics which survives the next few ages - it might not even survive intact.
Why take the chance? Archive everything, or nothing. Archiving the tweets of someone known to be toxic while relying on other external sources to debunk that toxicity shouldn't be a strategy to rely on.
Do you really want Trump to be seen as the voice of reason by default in 5000 years?
All this means is that, in 5000 years, historians will get a dangerously stilted view of what was posted on twitter - if Trumps tweets are archived, but not the tweets that debunks his claims, then his claims will stand unopposed for future historians to debate about.
What desperation? I'm pro-SpaceX, there's no desperation on my part to make SpaceX look bad.
The fact remains that if the 2016 halt to flights wasn't enacted, they would have hit 2017 running, and the increase in cadence we saw toward the to end of 2017 would have happened much sooner, resulting in more flights and a better success tally.
The 2016 explosion didn't just harm SpaceX flights in 2016, it also harmed them in 2017 - you just didn't see it as obvious due to the fact that they were back flying from mid-January.
Mark Hamill seems to forget that, in the Star Wars universe, the light sabre lost to the politicians scheming... Palpatines manoeuvres in the senate got him far further than wielding a light sabre ever did.
Nice of you to make all sorts of claims when you have no idea what the setup was (beyond the basics I have described), or the condition of the company on the green screen system.
I think the idiot here is you - are you a consultant by any chance? You seem to like making massive unsubstantiated claims with zero knowledge of the specific systems at hand, so you must be a consultant...
A month or so after I was "promoted" from lowly developer to "Systems Infrastructure Manager" during a whole-scale move from an old green screen AIX based system to a brand new in house custom rewrite in modern tech, we had some of the new replacement hardware onsite and being built up (although the replacement applications werent ready to go, but thats not important to this story).
One friday, the UPS support contractor came in to do his servicing of the UPS - that went well, he finished up and switched it back from "bypass" to "protected". That triggered a surge on the electrical supply to both server rooms, which took the AIX box off line. Due to the nature of the green screen application, there was no way for it to be high availability - the data couldnt be replicated in real time, it didnt even talk to anything other than its own binary database files...
A few hours later, the corrupted AIX box was restored and ready to go - by this time, the company (a busy call centre) had been on manual processes for the entire afternoon. On the advice of the UPS contractor, who said the surge was probably the result of too much load on the UPS at the time, we decided to do a full shut down of the entire system, switch the UPS back over into "protected" and bring everything back up - so we waited until 6pm and did just that...
At 6pm, I threw the switch - and promptly looked over my shoulder at the comms racks behind me in the server room. The comms racks were billowing smoke. The comms equipment was burning. Before I could react, I heard loads of loud pops and bangs - both inside the server room and outside it.
Another surge. This one did real damage - a dozen network switches dead, over 40 PSUs in the servers dead, one server dead outright, and loads of call centre desktops went (loudly) pop.
Panic time. UPS contractor called back in - they gave the UPS a clean bill of health and promptly left, disavowing any responsibility.
The board of directors shat themselves - at that point we didnt know the ultimate damage count, but suffice to say the company was dead in the water to any observer.
Cue a desperate night of testing servers, pulling dead PSUs and swapping redundant PSUs between servers so that each server had at least one good PSU. Comms equipment was harder to solve, having to get some expensive switches from our local shop to tide us over. Desktops were bought from the local consumer PC store to give us enough desktops to run the company.
Ultimately, we were back up and running for 8am Saturday - it wasn't pretty, but it was up and running. 3 of us in the IT tech team worked through the night scraping the bare minimum together.
My predecessors DR plan was fleshed out to the point of "we have a DR site" (a commercial site a town over that we had a contract to use - no equipment there, no plans for how to fail over to it etc etc).
So, on to the management failure....
It just so happens that one of my things "to do" on the following Monday was to submit my DR plan for the "new world infrastructure" to the board, who were having their quarterly board meeting the following week (10 days after the company almost died). It was a modest one, but required some equipment outlay to make any DR event as smooth as possible - kept the same contract with the off site unit etc etc.
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The issue with the EasyJet pilot training program is that the candidate pays for the training - it's not paid for by the airline. This is actually pretty standard in the airline business, where pilots typically pay for their own training.
And again, making the father take time off as well as the mother doesn't resolve the issue with single men and men who don't have children or men that don't bother taking the time off. The *need* for the mothers time off is very much physiological and mental recovery, but the man just needs the time to bond with the child and take over childcare duties, but they don't have to.
Congratulations, you have ensured parents of both sexes compete fairly against one another.
That doesn't account for single men, or men that refuse to take the time off however. And this is the main issue - men don't go through the rigours of childbirth, and thus don't need recovery time - they are also less likely to be the primary care giver for any child, again tipping the scales in their favour as they stay at work and miss fewer opportunities.
I reiterate my question - are you going to force men to take time off just to level the field?
Destroying one rocket one time can still cripple a competitor business (many satellites aren't insured), or can set back a military project (spy satellites etc).
There are multiple issues which are regularly conflated in these discussions, and often some of those issues are almost deliberately hidden in order to push the discussion in one particular direct (that direction being that any disparity is bad).
The UK just forced the top 500 companies to release this sort of information, and at a glance some of them are really bad - EasyJet (a budget airline) has a gap of over 50%, or in other words the average difference between wages paid to women is 50% that of wages paid to men. Except that men tend to be employed in the company as pilots, and women as cabin crew, which have massive differences - and it remains to be proven if that is a company culture issue or not (my guess is, not, as many airline pilots are ex-military pilots, and we are only just seeing an improvement in female military pilots, so perhaps this will resolve itself in due course).
Then you have the issue of the career gap, where women take time off to have children and return to work a year behind their male counterparts in experience, exposure etc. A very difficult one to solve - do you gift those women a year, do you hold back men for a year, what?
And yes, there are the outright legitimate arguments about women simply being paid less because they are women, and there are also the kinda legitimate arguments about different negotiating styles between sexes being an issue (but then that all depends on the job - my wife is a doctor, and a quick straw poll of her friends suggests she can demand a higher day rate as a locum precisely because she is female - more women want a female doctor for female issues, which is a good negotiating area for the locum).
Solving the legitimate issues doesn't however solve all the issues, but no one has worked out how to solve those ones without penalising companies and male workers (but some wouldn't see an issue with that at all).
Just publishing the wage gap is meaningless flame bait without a lot more information around that gap.
You only really need to spoof it long enough for the rocket to make a correction which endangers the mission, or long enough for the rocket to think its seriously off course and triggers the destruct. You don't need to spoof the entire path.
Except there isn't less traffic between hubs today, and most 787s thus far delivered are on those hub routes rather than point to point...
Not really - no US airline has ever operated an A380, and the Forbes article talks about Airbus closing the production line.
However, that closing isn't going to happen before 2025, as Airbus still have enough of a backlog to keep the line open that long with the planned reductions in rates. And that's without the much talked about Emirates follow on order, for which to not happen would require a miracle right now.
The 747 production line won't see the 2020s, its dead in the water right now.
Today, the government line is that Brexit is good.
Tomorrow, who knows which side will be in power.
It's already got to the point online that you can't have a positive opinion of Brexit without people tearing into you with insults and abuse - the "anti-Brexit" side is very vocal and strong on social media and are out to destroy any "pro-Brexit" commenters by any means possible.
Ren was severely wounded during both of those battles, and Fin is a trained soldier who will have received hand to hand combat training - he was still having his arse kicked by Ren. Not that much of a leap, really.
The Force, Jedi and Sith are three very different and distinct things - you don't need to be a Jedi or a Sith to be good in the force.
When are people going to accept that? Anakin was an exceptional pod racer because he was a powerful force user, but he wasn't a Jedi until later on.
Luke had fuck all training and yet it is accepted as a strong Jedi. He didn't go through an apprenticeship, had at most a few weeks of training with Yoda and yet apparently he's kick ass enough that being beaten by a girl who has a proven track record of using melee weapons is an impossibility.
In the UK, you can still buy a 64Oz Club Hammer or a 16Oz Rubber Mallet, and a 800-pound gorilla is still a 800-pound gorilla
Not sure I've seen hammers sold by the Oz here.
Here you go, B&Q - http://www.diy.com/departments...
And Wickes as well - http://www.wickes.co.uk/Produc...
And the 800lb gorilla is an adopted American phrase: when we condescend to do imperial, we don't half-arse it so we measure body weight in stone.
Its still the same, regardless of the reason.
Uh, not all that much - in the UK, where the metric system is a required thing by law, the McDonalds Quarter Pounder is *still* called the Quarter Pounder, because thats its product name. Its pre-cooked weight may be given in metric, but that doesn't alter the product name. In France its the Royal for the same reason, thats its product name.
In the UK, you can still buy a 64Oz Club Hammer or a 16Oz Rubber Mallet, and a 800-pound gorilla is still a 800-pound gorilla - again, the requirement for metric doesn't change these things.
The speech from Pulp Fiction is cool and all, its just not so much based in reality.
There was economic value in buying and selling of Beanie Babies and storage of Beanie Babies.
There isn't any more.
Looks like the Trump cock suckers are out in force, downvoting things they don't like :D
Trump is still in power and waging a war against several mainstream news outlets.
Still feel confident?
Also, I'm sure no one thought that the best record of several dead languages would turn out to be a stone establishing a religious cult and granting tax exemption status to its priests (some things never change). I'm sure the creator of the decree on that stone would have thought his religion would have lasted longer than the stone itself, and yet here we are...
People shit themselves when the Dow Jones index drops a hundred points. Bitcoin just essentially did the equivalent of dropping ten thousand points, and people are laughing it off.
Laws and movements are often wildly misconstrued from their original meanings, because those meanings are not properly explained and laid out to start off with.
Look at how much legal effort has gone into interpreting the US Constitution, with significant legal arguments hinging on commas etc. And that document is written in a language which is still spoken.
I take it you've heard the story about how Nero played his fiddle as Rome burned? Yup, that's just one of the versions of how it went down - but it's the popular version, as Nero was an unpopular figure. Reliable contemporary accounts put him in another city altogether, returning to fight the devastation and famine that followed. Which of these accounts are true? And this is only 2000 years ago.
Look around at what has survived the ages so far, and tell me that there isn't a decent chance that quite possibly the twitter archive might be the only thing on certain topics which survives the next few ages - it might not even survive intact.
Why take the chance? Archive everything, or nothing. Archiving the tweets of someone known to be toxic while relying on other external sources to debunk that toxicity shouldn't be a strategy to rely on.
Do you really want Trump to be seen as the voice of reason by default in 5000 years?
All this means is that, in 5000 years, historians will get a dangerously stilted view of what was posted on twitter - if Trumps tweets are archived, but not the tweets that debunks his claims, then his claims will stand unopposed for future historians to debate about.
What desperation? I'm pro-SpaceX, there's no desperation on my part to make SpaceX look bad.
The fact remains that if the 2016 halt to flights wasn't enacted, they would have hit 2017 running, and the increase in cadence we saw toward the to end of 2017 would have happened much sooner, resulting in more flights and a better success tally.
The 2016 explosion didn't just harm SpaceX flights in 2016, it also harmed them in 2017 - you just didn't see it as obvious due to the fact that they were back flying from mid-January.
They do when they screw up the launch cadence...
2017 may have seen even more Falcon 9 launches had flights not been stopped in September 2016. It takes time to get back into the swing of things.
Polar. They launched to the south, out over the Pacific.
Mark Hamill seems to forget that, in the Star Wars universe, the light sabre lost to the politicians scheming... Palpatines manoeuvres in the senate got him far further than wielding a light sabre ever did.
Nice of you to make all sorts of claims when you have no idea what the setup was (beyond the basics I have described), or the condition of the company on the green screen system.
I think the idiot here is you - are you a consultant by any chance? You seem to like making massive unsubstantiated claims with zero knowledge of the specific systems at hand, so you must be a consultant...
A month or so after I was "promoted" from lowly developer to "Systems Infrastructure Manager" during a whole-scale move from an old green screen AIX based system to a brand new in house custom rewrite in modern tech, we had some of the new replacement hardware onsite and being built up (although the replacement applications werent ready to go, but thats not important to this story).
One friday, the UPS support contractor came in to do his servicing of the UPS - that went well, he finished up and switched it back from "bypass" to "protected". That triggered a surge on the electrical supply to both server rooms, which took the AIX box off line. Due to the nature of the green screen application, there was no way for it to be high availability - the data couldnt be replicated in real time, it didnt even talk to anything other than its own binary database files...
A few hours later, the corrupted AIX box was restored and ready to go - by this time, the company (a busy call centre) had been on manual processes for the entire afternoon. On the advice of the UPS contractor, who said the surge was probably the result of too much load on the UPS at the time, we decided to do a full shut down of the entire system, switch the UPS back over into "protected" and bring everything back up - so we waited until 6pm and did just that...
At 6pm, I threw the switch - and promptly looked over my shoulder at the comms racks behind me in the server room. The comms racks were billowing smoke. The comms equipment was burning. Before I could react, I heard loads of loud pops and bangs - both inside the server room and outside it.
Another surge. This one did real damage - a dozen network switches dead, over 40 PSUs in the servers dead, one server dead outright, and loads of call centre desktops went (loudly) pop.
Panic time. UPS contractor called back in - they gave the UPS a clean bill of health and promptly left, disavowing any responsibility.
The board of directors shat themselves - at that point we didnt know the ultimate damage count, but suffice to say the company was dead in the water to any observer.
Cue a desperate night of testing servers, pulling dead PSUs and swapping redundant PSUs between servers so that each server had at least one good PSU. Comms equipment was harder to solve, having to get some expensive switches from our local shop to tide us over. Desktops were bought from the local consumer PC store to give us enough desktops to run the company.
Ultimately, we were back up and running for 8am Saturday - it wasn't pretty, but it was up and running. 3 of us in the IT tech team worked through the night scraping the bare minimum together.
My predecessors DR plan was fleshed out to the point of "we have a DR site" (a commercial site a town over that we had a contract to use - no equipment there, no plans for how to fail over to it etc etc).
So, on to the management failure....
It just so happens that one of my things "to do" on the following Monday was to submit my DR plan for the "new world infrastructure" to the board, who were having their quarterly board meeting the following week (10 days after the company almost died). It was a modest one, but required some equipment outlay to make any DR event as smooth as possible - kept the same contract with the off site unit etc etc.
They turned it down, said it wasn't needed.
I quit the following week.