They can't start cutting hundreds of cables without someone noticing.
If you cut internet to Europe, especially while launching a nuclear first strike, someone will notice. It doesn't matter if you instantaneously cut 2 lines or 200. The blossoming fireballs over major cities and/or strategic military targets will give it away.
Or do you mean that the cable cuts will keep the US military from reading Putin's tweets? Sow confusion among Slashdot's international superpowered community?
Wait... so it won't have even the slightest effect in an actual war where no one actually relies on those cables for military communication? How about that.
I think the "crazy" part is more due to lazy journalists who can't be bothered to - or might not even be capable of - understanding the actions of someone they're hostile to. The "write off as crazy" approach is cheap and low effort.
School vouchers are a scam to keep the prisons full. If you hear someone talk about "school reform", run for the hills. They're famous flim-flammers.
It's hard to believe that there are enough idiots on Slashdot to find someone who can both read and agree with the above post. Why waste time and money supporting school vouchers when public schools do a fine job of filling the US's prisons?
The school "privatization" movement is one of the biggest scandals of the 21st century. Charter schools fail. They exist to funnel money upward, not to educate kids.
You can say the same of public schools (which incidentally, a lot of charter schools are).
Actual studies are mixed with some showing charter schools ahead of the traditional public schools and some behind - usually dependent on region (which implement the various schools in different, often better or worse ways). Maybe we could discuss what works and doesn't work rather than talk about irrelevant prison lobbies?
The cannibalistic urchin gangs and the monitor lizards in the cooling pond did it for me. This site has a lot of potential!
Crumbling concrete, vegetation encroachment, animals nesting, water incursion, and it goes on and on. Two windows were vandalized by bullet holes and someone painted a swastika on a rolling door.
Ask yourself what happened that a complete change was required.
Because way too many of those teachers and schools weren't doing their jobs. We need to recall that while this excessive testing approach isn't working very well, it is an attempt to fix huge existing problems. My view is a good portion of the complaints we see in this thread originally came from propaganda from the original problems: academic ideologues, teacher unions, public school bureaucracies, and the educational market oligopolies who sought, sometimes successfully to evade accountability.
Why is it suddenly necessary for standardized tests to be created by biased third-parties? Why is it so important that every single child advance at the same rate as every other?
Why were illiterate students graduating from high school?
Things have been getting worse in US education for a long time. Standardized tests which don't actually do anything to help are a relatively recent part of the problem. I think the core of the problem is that too many schools have evolved to be a means for appropriating and siphoning public funds rather than a place to educate or empower children.
This goes beyond complaints that public schools were meant to be places to churn out 19th Century era industrial age workers. You can fix and improve that. It's harder to fix and improve institutions that are merely designed to take your money.
This post says a lot more about you than Trepidity. He said something you wholly agree with, yet you still have to act out as an idiot. It's also one of the reasons I don't post as AC myself. Would you have posted such crap, if you knew a name, even a fake one, would be attached to it?
Out of curiosity what makes the EMTs in the ambulance "real" while the ones employed by Amazon "not real"? Does anyone have any actual evidence that Amazon's EMS team are trained to a lower standard than the ones employed by the city?
I gather the proof is that they're employed by a big, evil corporation. That's also why it's more important how much training you have rather than how soon you get to the victim.
Also, is it a relative thing ("other threats that are historically worse in the region"... what? the indians?)
Like tornadoes?
You know what, this is a terrible fallacy: I won't solve a secondary problem because there's a main one to solve first. Let's keep fracking until we need to get another main problem.
We have yet to get to a "main problem" in the first place.
Maybe that's what happened, but I see where this is going. You are accepting a good story as truth just because it's a good story. Reality doesn't work out that way.
Calling 911 first will get the ambulance moving sooner.
To where? Just because the ambulance is moving doesn't mean it's moving towards you. And here, getting that AED (automatic external defibulator) to the patient faster was more important.
if only there was some sort of list of personal identifying information they asked for.
If only that were good enough. Let us recall they were able to get 17 fake people enrolled in either insurance companies or Medicaid coverage. Better to catch these things now than when there are a few hundred thousand people siphoning health insurance subsidies for years at a time.
The thinking has NOT already all been done, that's his point. Everything should be determined on a per-case basis, and to assume that "The Company" has a one-solution-fits-all procedure is laughable.
The point here is that for calling in emergencies you need a one-solution-fits-all procedure. Flexible wastes time which is more important. We're just disagreeing over whether Amazon's procedure is good enough.
In most cases, employees are banned from calling 911 to reduce the chances of false alarms that would generate callouts. Find someone unconscious? Call security. If they are fine, there'll be no 911 call that could get charged to the company. So if you aren't an idiot, and can identify a real emergency from a fake one, you should always call 911 first, regardless of the company policy.
While I grant that some businesses are clueless and venal enough to try to save pennies by doing this, they'll lose it in the end in huge liability lawsuits and felony criminal negligence convictions. I don't buy that 911 first is always the right choice especially in a situation like Amazon's worksite.
Why are you against people thinking for themselves?
When all the thinking required has already been done and the procedures are already worked out, why kill someone by "thinking for yourself" rather than doing the approach that saves more lives? Thinking for yourself only works if you can think of a better approach.
CF is the quotient between rated power and actually delievered power. (or energy, does not matter)
At 140% alleged CF, rated power is way too low. It's clear here that you are comparing two unrelated things that happen to use the same label, because "rated power" is not the same as "potential power".
Your idea of 100% is wrong... do you know how 100% eye sight is defined?
More apples and oranges. It's worth noting here though that we can come up with a theoretical ideal for eye sight given eye spacing and iris width based on physics. So called "100% eyesight" isn't going to come near that.
There are plenty of people who have an eye sight of 400%. With two eyes only... amazing, isn't it?
The 20 MW plant was just under half the cost (and a ludicrous $33/W). I instead based my conclusion on the price of the 110 MW station which at $975 million was almost $9/W. If you're not seeing vastly cheaper costs at that size a plant, then it's probably because the business plan is to sink the construction costs in other businesses you own rather than build anything of value. Thus, there is no incentive to create much less exploit economies of scale since that just reduces the take.
How about "Call 911 AND Security", or is that too complicated?
That's too complicated since someone still has to direct emergency services to your location and you just wasted some time.
When they first described the system, it sounded weird, but companies like Amazon aren't inclined to hand out millions of dollars every time someone has a heart attack in an Amazon facility. If they're doing this, it is because it works.
Claims have to be submitted through a medical office, which checks your ID. Besides, if you want to submit false claims, you can do that as easily for a real person as a fictitious person. The only difference is that the real person will have much less difficulty cashing the checks. Banks also check IDs.
Unless they don't do that say because you bribed them.
Why should it be illegal? If you want to buy insurance for someone that doesn't exist, that is fine with me.
Consider this scenario:
1) Create a pile of fake people.
2) Conspirator at insurance company gets them insurance.
3) Siphon money out of the company as commission bonuses.
If instead, you control the insurance company, then you can rake in the subsidies. Fake low income people, subsidized by Uncle Sugar, who never need medical care would be great for the bottom line.
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They can't start cutting hundreds of cables without someone noticing.
If you cut internet to Europe, especially while launching a nuclear first strike, someone will notice. It doesn't matter if you instantaneously cut 2 lines or 200. The blossoming fireballs over major cities and/or strategic military targets will give it away.
Or do you mean that the cable cuts will keep the US military from reading Putin's tweets? Sow confusion among Slashdot's international superpowered community?
Wait... so it won't have even the slightest effect in an actual war where no one actually relies on those cables for military communication? How about that.
I think the "crazy" part is more due to lazy journalists who can't be bothered to - or might not even be capable of - understanding the actions of someone they're hostile to. The "write off as crazy" approach is cheap and low effort.
School vouchers are a scam to keep the prisons full. If you hear someone talk about "school reform", run for the hills. They're famous flim-flammers.
It's hard to believe that there are enough idiots on Slashdot to find someone who can both read and agree with the above post. Why waste time and money supporting school vouchers when public schools do a fine job of filling the US's prisons?
The school "privatization" movement is one of the biggest scandals of the 21st century. Charter schools fail. They exist to funnel money upward, not to educate kids.
You can say the same of public schools (which incidentally, a lot of charter schools are).
Actual studies are mixed with some showing charter schools ahead of the traditional public schools and some behind - usually dependent on region (which implement the various schools in different, often better or worse ways). Maybe we could discuss what works and doesn't work rather than talk about irrelevant prison lobbies?
So what? A coal plant burns *3000 tons* of fuel every day. THAT'S LIKE A MILLION TASR BOMBAS!
Please think of the stray dogs.
Crumbling concrete, vegetation encroachment, animals nesting, water incursion, and it goes on and on. Two windows were vandalized by bullet holes and someone painted a swastika on a rolling door.
If only there were a way to fix stuff.
Ask yourself what happened that a complete change was required.
Because way too many of those teachers and schools weren't doing their jobs. We need to recall that while this excessive testing approach isn't working very well, it is an attempt to fix huge existing problems. My view is a good portion of the complaints we see in this thread originally came from propaganda from the original problems: academic ideologues, teacher unions, public school bureaucracies, and the educational market oligopolies who sought, sometimes successfully to evade accountability.
Why is it suddenly necessary for standardized tests to be created by biased third-parties? Why is it so important that every single child advance at the same rate as every other?
Why were illiterate students graduating from high school?
Things have been getting worse in US education for a long time. Standardized tests which don't actually do anything to help are a relatively recent part of the problem. I think the core of the problem is that too many schools have evolved to be a means for appropriating and siphoning public funds rather than a place to educate or empower children.
This goes beyond complaints that public schools were meant to be places to churn out 19th Century era industrial age workers. You can fix and improve that. It's harder to fix and improve institutions that are merely designed to take your money.
This post says a lot more about you than Trepidity. He said something you wholly agree with, yet you still have to act out as an idiot. It's also one of the reasons I don't post as AC myself. Would you have posted such crap, if you knew a name, even a fake one, would be attached to it?
You're an idiot before we need to discuss anything.
Since I'm not an idiot, I guess we'll just have to end the discussion then.
It's as if the oil disasters across the US just magically never happened.
Tell us about these "oil disasters" and we'll see if you're an idiot or not.
Out of curiosity what makes the EMTs in the ambulance "real" while the ones employed by Amazon "not real"? Does anyone have any actual evidence that Amazon's EMS team are trained to a lower standard than the ones employed by the city?
I gather the proof is that they're employed by a big, evil corporation. That's also why it's more important how much training you have rather than how soon you get to the victim.
Like you did?
It worked didn't it?
Also, is it a relative thing ("other threats that are historically worse in the region"... what? the indians?)
Like tornadoes?
You know what, this is a terrible fallacy: I won't solve a secondary problem because there's a main one to solve first. Let's keep fracking until we need to get another main problem.
We have yet to get to a "main problem" in the first place.
I give this troll 4/10. If it had tied in climate change, maybe I'd bump it up to 5/10. Who knew a bunch of small earthquakes was so bad?
And we already know a real EMT wouldn't have arrived for at least ten minutes.
Maybe that's what happened, but I see where this is going. You are accepting a good story as truth just because it's a good story. Reality doesn't work out that way.
What if you received a National Security Letter instructing you to kill somebody . . . what would you do . . . ?
It'd be fake because they wouldn't put something like that in writing.
Calling 911 first will get the ambulance moving sooner.
To where? Just because the ambulance is moving doesn't mean it's moving towards you. And here, getting that AED (automatic external defibulator) to the patient faster was more important.
if only there was some sort of list of personal identifying information they asked for.
If only that were good enough. Let us recall they were able to get 17 fake people enrolled in either insurance companies or Medicaid coverage. Better to catch these things now than when there are a few hundred thousand people siphoning health insurance subsidies for years at a time.
The thinking has NOT already all been done, that's his point. Everything should be determined on a per-case basis, and to assume that "The Company" has a one-solution-fits-all procedure is laughable.
The point here is that for calling in emergencies you need a one-solution-fits-all procedure. Flexible wastes time which is more important. We're just disagreeing over whether Amazon's procedure is good enough.
In most cases, employees are banned from calling 911 to reduce the chances of false alarms that would generate callouts. Find someone unconscious? Call security. If they are fine, there'll be no 911 call that could get charged to the company. So if you aren't an idiot, and can identify a real emergency from a fake one, you should always call 911 first, regardless of the company policy.
While I grant that some businesses are clueless and venal enough to try to save pennies by doing this, they'll lose it in the end in huge liability lawsuits and felony criminal negligence convictions. I don't buy that 911 first is always the right choice especially in a situation like Amazon's worksite.
Why are you against people thinking for themselves?
When all the thinking required has already been done and the procedures are already worked out, why kill someone by "thinking for yourself" rather than doing the approach that saves more lives? Thinking for yourself only works if you can think of a better approach.
CF is the quotient between rated power and actually delievered power. (or energy, does not matter)
At 140% alleged CF, rated power is way too low. It's clear here that you are comparing two unrelated things that happen to use the same label, because "rated power" is not the same as "potential power".
Your idea of 100% is wrong ... do you know how 100% eye sight is defined?
More apples and oranges. It's worth noting here though that we can come up with a theoretical ideal for eye sight given eye spacing and iris width based on physics. So called "100% eyesight" isn't going to come near that.
There are plenty of people who have an eye sight of 400%. With two eyes only ... amazing, isn't it?
Which indicates the flawed nature of the metric.
The 20 MW plant was just under half the cost (and a ludicrous $33/W). I instead based my conclusion on the price of the 110 MW station which at $975 million was almost $9/W. If you're not seeing vastly cheaper costs at that size a plant, then it's probably because the business plan is to sink the construction costs in other businesses you own rather than build anything of value. Thus, there is no incentive to create much less exploit economies of scale since that just reduces the take.
How about "Call 911 AND Security", or is that too complicated?
That's too complicated since someone still has to direct emergency services to your location and you just wasted some time.
When they first described the system, it sounded weird, but companies like Amazon aren't inclined to hand out millions of dollars every time someone has a heart attack in an Amazon facility. If they're doing this, it is because it works.
Glancing at Wikipedia, it appears they picked up a $737 million loan guarantee from the DoE to fund a 110 MW plant. So no economies of scale apparent.
Claims have to be submitted through a medical office, which checks your ID. Besides, if you want to submit false claims, you can do that as easily for a real person as a fictitious person. The only difference is that the real person will have much less difficulty cashing the checks. Banks also check IDs.
Unless they don't do that say because you bribed them.
Why should it be illegal? If you want to buy insurance for someone that doesn't exist, that is fine with me.
Consider this scenario:
1) Create a pile of fake people.
2) Conspirator at insurance company gets them insurance.
3) Siphon money out of the company as commission bonuses.
If instead, you control the insurance company, then you can rake in the subsidies. Fake low income people, subsidized by Uncle Sugar, who never need medical care would be great for the bottom line.