Western countries are pouring capital into China, and transferring IP there because they think there is a buck to be made there...
To a large extent, western countries want good ROI for very little actual work done by them. The paper tiger (aside from military force) now rules.
Doing actual, productive work is tedious, time-consuming and boring for the class of people that think they are entitled. If you have ever worked in any office environment, you have likely seen this paper-pushing, political game being played. If you're good at what you do, you have likely experienced the pressure to be average and not "make waves".
CAD basically killed the concept of an independant "draftsman/designer", everyone is now a CAD operator (paid typist).
The software used quite often dictates what a designer can do and individuality is gone, resulting in a much more structured format of creativity. Since every manager and his twin can now review drawings before they are finished, we have a "design by consensus" situation.
That's good for people that are afraid of what they're doing, but bad for innovation.
Heh, the automotive engineers are complete idiots and hadn't thought of this already.
Without spilling the beans on anything, I can tell you that the major car manufacturers are in serious discussions with the makers of industrial gases. This sort of thing takes time and many details have to be worked-out.
Try to get a new cable channel on now. Even with a hundred or more slots, there isn't room for anything new. Or, if a channel does somehow get on, it is relegated to such bad 'real estate' that no one sees it.
This seems to be a good idea but consider that "over-the-air" rebroadcasts of classic TV shows will be severely restricted in order to not conflict with anticipated sales of DVDs. It appears to be happening already.
As a Canadian subscriber to a few "different" themed digital channels, I'm seeing a lot of recycling of shows/movies between channels. Is this because a single overarching company is shuffling content or is it because of the release cycle of the studios?
My guess is that China is fully aware of reality and if the Brit consultant throws them a curve ball (so to speak) they'll go ahead and do it anyway, fuck the consultant.
Never, ever underestimate the Chinese. They have the manpower to brute force projects.
No, it's not the appropriate use of the word, in my opinion. You should never "talk down" to people or use words that insinuate that you are "talking from on high".
A good engineer can explain in clear terms a very complicated concept. Sure, many important details are necessarily left out, but getting a non-technical person to go "Ah-ha!" is the goal.
I've rambled on, I hope you get what I'm trying to say.
The slashdot "editors" are geeks with no real engineering background aside from what is erroneously called software "engineering". They also prefer stories that are provocative because that generates more page views.
10 to 1 says that there is not a real engineering degree amongst them and there is no one over the age of 35 in control. Then again, if you want lots of discussion, appeal to the teeny know-it-all crowd. They always know nothing and are not afraid to demonstrate it. Again, page views.
And we wonder why "intelligent design" is popular in some circles. NASA "enhances" photos and they make great posters. After explanation, we are told that we are seeing artificially colourized versions of photos that reflect something that occurred X million light years ago. Yeah, like that's relevant to Joe Consumer.
The fact is that science is boring, despite all the agitated, pocket protector-wearing geeks seen on Discovery Channel.
Non-technical people look at it and go, meh, another sensationalist story - let me know when we have a guy on Mars. In true mass media manipulative fashion, we'll have 8 months of boredom for a crap denouement (unless someone dies - that's always great TV), or "Stay tuned to see if Roger Rocket implodes or gets to play with Bambi's floating big boobies".
Your're right in the sense that the Americans tended to stand back until they were ready to overwhelm the Nazis.
They didn't want to play until it suited them.
When they finally did commit, it was with overwhelming force but with substandard tools. I can't help but think that the Nazi leadership was expecting this. Hitler may have been insane with his policies, but there would be no way that he could have disregard what the eventuality would be.
Once North America fully committed itself, it was all over, just a matter of time.
Muhammad Ali -No
Carol Burnett -No
Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn -Yes
Robert Conquest -Yes
Aretha Franklin -No
Alan Greenspan -Maybe
Andy Griffith -No
Paul Harvey - No
Sonny Montgomery -Yes
Richard Myers -Maybe
Jack Nicklaus -No.
Frank Robinson -No
Paul Rusesabagina -Probably
This is a PR event. American heroes are now TV personalities that the masses can relate to because they have already seen them on MTV. And emote.
People that die in terrorist attacks are given hero status. Anybody that dies in the line of duty is assigned hero
status.
Popular culture tells us that firefighters and policemen "put their lives on the line every day", so they are necessarily heroes. That is nonsense. They do what they do, and they do not consider themselves as heroes, we pay them to do what they do.
What they do is admirable, noble and worthy of great respect, but until a fireman or cop puts his/her life in danger to save someone else they are not heroes.
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Western countries are pouring capital into China, and transferring IP there because they think there is a buck to be made there...
To a large extent, western countries want good ROI for very little actual work done by them. The paper tiger (aside from military force) now rules.
Doing actual, productive work is tedious, time-consuming and boring for the class of people that think they are entitled. If you have ever worked in any office environment, you have likely seen this paper-pushing, political game being played. If you're good at what you do, you have likely experienced the pressure to be average and not "make waves".
CAD basically killed the concept of an independant "draftsman/designer", everyone is now a CAD operator (paid typist).
The software used quite often dictates what a designer can do and individuality is gone, resulting in a much more structured format of creativity. Since every manager and his twin can now review drawings before they are finished, we have a "design by consensus" situation.
That's good for people that are afraid of what they're doing, but bad for innovation.
Cleese is a comedic genius and deserves everything he gets.
A very clever system...
Heh, the automotive engineers are complete idiots and hadn't thought of this already.
Without spilling the beans on anything, I can tell you that the major car manufacturers are in serious discussions with the makers of industrial gases. This sort of thing takes time and many details have to be worked-out.
sometimes it's as simple as walking your kid to school 3 times a week
It amuses me that most of the replies to this were "don't blame me, I ride a bike!"-type responses.
Take the time out and talk to your kids and explain things. Even if you're wrong in the long run they'll respect you for being honest with them.
Try to get a new cable channel on now. Even with a hundred or more slots, there isn't room for anything new. Or, if a channel does somehow get on, it is relegated to such bad 'real estate' that no one sees it.
This seems to be a good idea but consider that "over-the-air" rebroadcasts of classic TV shows will be severely restricted in order to not conflict with anticipated sales of DVDs. It appears to be happening already.
As a Canadian subscriber to a few "different" themed digital channels, I'm seeing a lot of recycling of shows/movies between channels. Is this because a single overarching company is shuffling content or is it because of the release cycle of the studios?
The Chinese have a few thousand years of history behind them. Stalin was a cult phenomenon- there's a difference, maybe you missed it.
Oh wait, I get it. Plan for/create the next boogyman.
You can "fake" the "Ah-ha" moment by glossing over "many important details" but they don't really understand what's going on.
Perhaps this topic is too esoteric for basic honesty, but here we go back to non-fantasy world.
I suggest a book called, "Normal Accidents" by Charles Perrow. In it, he covers the concepts of close-coupling and a bunch of other stuff.
My guess is that China is fully aware of reality and if the Brit consultant throws them a curve ball (so to speak) they'll go ahead and do it anyway, fuck the consultant.
Never, ever underestimate the Chinese. They have the manpower to brute force projects.
No, it's not the appropriate use of the word, in my opinion. You should never "talk down" to people or use words that insinuate that you are "talking from on high".
A good engineer can explain in clear terms a very complicated concept. Sure, many important details are necessarily left out, but getting a non-technical person to go "Ah-ha!" is the goal.
I've rambled on, I hope you get what I'm trying to say.
With a low UID like that, I can't believe that you hadn't seen it before. I stole it so I could appear to be clever. Thanks, though.
I used to toke many years ago (I don't now) but the laws are out-of-sync with reality.
Interesting use of the word, "intimidate". I'll assume that your grasp of the English language is, shall we say, "imprecise".
All those pretty posters surely have some teensy-tiny credit to an imaging company that "enhanced" the images.
At what point would Joe Average start to think he has been scammed and start believing in an alien conspiracy?
The slashdot "editors" are geeks with no real engineering background aside from what is erroneously called software "engineering". They also prefer stories that are provocative because that generates more page views.
10 to 1 says that there is not a real engineering degree amongst them and there is no one over the age of 35 in control. Then again, if you want lots of discussion, appeal to the teeny know-it-all crowd. They always know nothing and are not afraid to demonstrate it. Again, page views.
And we wonder why "intelligent design" is popular in some circles. NASA "enhances" photos and they make great posters. After explanation, we are told that we are seeing artificially colourized versions of photos that reflect something that occurred X million light years ago. Yeah, like that's relevant to Joe Consumer.
The fact is that science is boring, despite all the agitated, pocket protector-wearing geeks seen on Discovery Channel.
Non-technical people look at it and go, meh, another sensationalist story - let me know when we have a guy on Mars. In true mass media manipulative fashion, we'll have 8 months of boredom for a crap denouement (unless someone dies - that's always great TV), or "Stay tuned to see if Roger Rocket implodes or gets to play with Bambi's floating big boobies".
Behavior modification starts with eradicating that which is most offensive, obvious and easily targetted. We'll deal with the other degenerates later.
Does this sound familiar to a student of history?
But only for 1 week per month. Hmmm, maybe this has something to do with the directive...
Actually, I hate the smell of smoke even when I'm walking around outside.
More problematic are the ex-smokers that seem to be true believers and want to tramp on the rights of others.
Good ventilation is a good idea for so many reasons other than to accomodate smokers.
I hope your "no prisoners taken" approach serves you well in real life, all your chosen friends will likely think as you do.
I like how "projectile vomiting" is used by the clueless as an analogy for second-hand smoke.
Generally, these people have never actually seen real "projectile vomit" but think they have after watching The Exorcist.
Until you've had babies puke and shit on you (during diaper changes), STFU.
Yes, it's worth it, but I don't expect many here to understand.
Holy crap! I just spit tobacco juice all over my keyboard!
That was really funny.
Hitler was a rabid anti-smoker. It's kind of like farts: anything other than your own smell is distasteful.
The anti-smoking efforts have become extreme, but "they're doing it for our own good".
Yeah, right, it's really all about control.
Your're right in the sense that the Americans tended to stand back until they were ready to overwhelm the Nazis. They didn't want to play until it suited them.
When they finally did commit, it was with overwhelming force but with substandard tools. I can't help but think that the Nazi leadership was expecting this. Hitler may have been insane with his policies, but there would be no way that he could have disregard what the eventuality would be.
Once North America fully committed itself, it was all over, just a matter of time.
Did Adolph know this beforehand?
Muhammad Ali -No
Carol Burnett -No
Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn -Yes
Robert Conquest -Yes
Aretha Franklin -No
Alan Greenspan -Maybe
Andy Griffith -No
Paul Harvey - No
Sonny Montgomery -Yes
Richard Myers -Maybe
Jack Nicklaus -No.
Frank Robinson -No
Paul Rusesabagina -Probably
This is a PR event. American heroes are now TV personalities that the masses can relate to because they have already seen them on MTV. And emote.
People that die in terrorist attacks are given hero status. Anybody that dies in the line of duty is assigned hero status.
Popular culture tells us that firefighters and policemen "put their lives on the line every day", so they are necessarily heroes. That is nonsense. They do what they do, and they do not consider themselves as heroes, we pay them to do what they do.
What they do is admirable, noble and worthy of great respect, but until a fireman or cop puts his/her life in danger to save someone else they are not heroes.
The bikers love the immediate accelleration available, so there's really no replacement for that rush of stuff between your legs for them.
I prefer a nice roll cage, but maybe I'm a wimp.
Hmmm. Extreme gravity. I'm thinking that if this can be created on earth, why can't we go in the opposite direction?
Wouldn't that be EXTREME and RADICAL?