This really is too bad. Not that the Earth is going to die, but that humanity does not possess the necessary skills in cooperation and teamwork to move our collective asses somewhere else before it happens.
This guy ought to be ashamed of himself. IMHO he does not represent the character, integrity, or mission of Georgia Tech, it's students, alumni, faculty, staff, or administration.
There are right ways and wrong ways to do things, and this most certainly was the wrong way.
No CEO should get cash compensation. They should be paid exclusively in stock options. Why? Because they will only make any money if they make the company a success and the stock price goes up. If the stock price goes down, their options are worthless unless and until the price recovers.
Paying CEOs only in stock options would guarantee that they didn't make a dime if the company performed poorly. A 1 year holding period after exercise would prevent them pumping up a quarter artificially just to dump it and quit.
Too much liability exposure having people come to the house, and even more in giving away food. God forbid little Johnny's mom is convinced he has a gluten or peanut allergy and decides to sue me to satisfy her Munchhausen's Proxy Syndrome when he gets nauseated after eating a mini Mr. Goodbar (not that eating 5lbs of candy in one night had anything to do with it).
Sandy did not change my view of disasters. I still remain prepared for disaster, and when stuff looks like it is going to happen, I use my brain instead of burying my head in the sand and thinking things like "oh it won't happen to me" or "oh well Government will be there to save me," which is exactly what happened in New York.
The entire city lived in a state of denial leading up to Sandy, and continued to live in that state for a week afterward, even having the nerve to attempt to hold the NYC marathon despite there being people in need of the resources that were being used for it. Marathon organizers had generators, clean water, gasoline, and everything they wanted, while thousands of people all over the city had no power, no water, and no means of transportation out of the city.
Subject says it all. Our government does not currently possess the capability of putting a man in space, let alone putting a man on the moon.
Private industry is close to making space travel routine, but government just can't do it, because it is too focused on other things, and tends to pollute science missions with political bias.
"Let's put a man on the moon! No wait, should it be a man, or a woman? Should it be someone who is best suited for it, or someone who is politically connected? What color should their skin be? Should the vehicle be built by the best capable company, or should we focus more on the diversity makeup of the company's employees, and whether the company is owned by a minority person?" etc etc...
Government is paralyzed by the Political Correctness movement.
Last I checked I could buy things online from thousands and thousands of different online retailers.
That sounds an awful lot like competition to me (and there are browser addons that automatically search competitive online retailers for items you're looking at).
Electric cars result in plenty of emissions, from the production of the electricity that powers them, to the energy expended manufacturing them, to the diesel used in the locomotives that transport them.
Government will be involved, as Google and other Autonomous Car manufacturer will lobby government to may autonomous cars mandatory, "for the children," of course...
I've ridden an average of about 5k miles/year for the past 15 years, including 45 miles/day in almost daily commuting in busy traffic times.
I've had precisely zero accidents and zero injuries during that time, probably because I don't run stop signs or red lights, and try to be a courteous rider on the road. I see a lot of the same cars every single day, and they've seen me. When you don't ride around like a "critical mass" dickhead, chances are you're not going to get yourself into any trouble with traffic.
First, loser-pays only incentivize businesses and people who are not rich to settle out of court and admit defeat without a trial. That is not justice.
Second, small-time inventors don't always productize their inventions, either because they don't have the money, don't have the time, or for other reason. This shouldn't stand in the way of them profiting from their hard work and inventiveness.
This is just another pro-corporate bill churned out of our for-profit, insider-trading Congress.
I can attest to this. I got sick and tired of inkjets waking themselves up in the middle of the night to dump ink into the little sponge inside that let it evaporate. They call it "cleaning," but in reality it's just wasting ink so you have to buy more.
Inkjets are crack cocaine. We just have to break the cycle of addiction.
I bought an OKI B-4200 LED printer back in about 2005 and it is still working flawlessly today. I think I'm on my third toner cartridge in 8 years (we don't print that much).
We're thinking about replacing it with a Brother color laser, so it's good to know they have good driver support because I'm 100% Linux at home.
If these scientists are correct, then it is also possible to divide by zero, because bogodynamic quantum entanglement coefficients become both observable and reversible in the magnetoreluctant quasistatic interface between the non-observed static universe and the observed temporal-dynamic universe. Crossing this entanglement boundary requires continuous and differentiable traversal of an asymptotic gravitational cotangent function in the real plane by a moving observer.
... put a tablet-like device in the dashboard running Android and write apps that perform the infotainment functions. They need to stop wasting time on these proprietary implementations and just start doing what most consumers are doing already - pairing bluetooth stereo and using their tablets/phones as their primary source of media and entertainment in the car.
I am the last person anyone should be calling in an emergency. I am not a firefighter, paramedic, doctor, or anything else that would be helpful in an emergency. There is no emergency out there that anyone should be calling me about.
Then again, as a society, we seem to have changed the definition of "emergency" to "anything that is the slightest bit inconvenient."
As another poster said, the human race survived thousands of years without being constantly connected to each other.
Mod parent up. Cyanogenmod comes conveniently stripped of Google Apps and can be used as a "generic" operating system. I use CM on my devices without Google Apps and it's very pleasant. Battery life is amazing too as long as you don't have apps running that track you constantly (Facebook and other spyware) in the background.
I have a Gen1 N7 that I use basically just for playing music in the car, and Torque Pro for gauges. Vanilla CM is perfect for it.
My wife and I set aside several hours every day as "zero-technology" times. We use this time to read, play with our dogs, have meals together, work on hobbies, and hang out with friends and neighbors.
Everything gets powered down - no phones ringing, no "notification" sounds, no nothing. It's pretty amazing how it feels to be disconnected - like the old days before constant connection invaded and took over society.
The most annoying part are the phone calls about "OMG where have you been!?!?!?" that inevitably come after things get turned back on.
Where they have always been hiding - in the hardware itself. It's pretty safe to say that there will never be open-source silicon, and there will probably never be DIY silicon fabbing at home.
You're thinking of Type 2 diabetes, which is acquired voluntarily through poor dietary and health choices.
Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease, or at least now maybe it's a viral disease, but in any case, it's not acquired by behavioral choice, and it can happen to just about anyone.
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This really is too bad. Not that the Earth is going to die, but that humanity does not possess the necessary skills in cooperation and teamwork to move our collective asses somewhere else before it happens.
This guy ought to be ashamed of himself. IMHO he does not represent the character, integrity, or mission of Georgia Tech, it's students, alumni, faculty, staff, or administration.
There are right ways and wrong ways to do things, and this most certainly was the wrong way.
No CEO should get cash compensation. They should be paid exclusively in stock options. Why? Because they will only make any money if they make the company a success and the stock price goes up. If the stock price goes down, their options are worthless unless and until the price recovers.
Paying CEOs only in stock options would guarantee that they didn't make a dime if the company performed poorly. A 1 year holding period after exercise would prevent them pumping up a quarter artificially just to dump it and quit.
Too much liability exposure having people come to the house, and even more in giving away food. God forbid little Johnny's mom is convinced he has a gluten or peanut allergy and decides to sue me to satisfy her Munchhausen's Proxy Syndrome when he gets nauseated after eating a mini Mr. Goodbar (not that eating 5lbs of candy in one night had anything to do with it).
Sandy did not change my view of disasters. I still remain prepared for disaster, and when stuff looks like it is going to happen, I use my brain instead of burying my head in the sand and thinking things like "oh it won't happen to me" or "oh well Government will be there to save me," which is exactly what happened in New York.
The entire city lived in a state of denial leading up to Sandy, and continued to live in that state for a week afterward, even having the nerve to attempt to hold the NYC marathon despite there being people in need of the resources that were being used for it. Marathon organizers had generators, clean water, gasoline, and everything they wanted, while thousands of people all over the city had no power, no water, and no means of transportation out of the city.
Mayor Bloomberg is a disgrace.
You'll never stop the anti-Semitic Ron Paul dick-sucking brigades from blaming everything on Israel.
Subject says it all. Our government does not currently possess the capability of putting a man in space, let alone putting a man on the moon.
Private industry is close to making space travel routine, but government just can't do it, because it is too focused on other things, and tends to pollute science missions with political bias.
"Let's put a man on the moon! No wait, should it be a man, or a woman? Should it be someone who is best suited for it, or someone who is politically connected? What color should their skin be? Should the vehicle be built by the best capable company, or should we focus more on the diversity makeup of the company's employees, and whether the company is owned by a minority person?" etc etc...
Government is paralyzed by the Political Correctness movement.
Last I checked I could buy things online from thousands and thousands of different online retailers.
That sounds an awful lot like competition to me (and there are browser addons that automatically search competitive online retailers for items you're looking at).
Electric cars result in plenty of emissions, from the production of the electricity that powers them, to the energy expended manufacturing them, to the diesel used in the locomotives that transport them.
All cars result in emissions.
Metal-halide vapor lights are not incandescent.
In a word: Money.
Government will be involved, as Google and other Autonomous Car manufacturer will lobby government to may autonomous cars mandatory, "for the children," of course...
I've ridden an average of about 5k miles/year for the past 15 years, including 45 miles/day in almost daily commuting in busy traffic times.
I've had precisely zero accidents and zero injuries during that time, probably because I don't run stop signs or red lights, and try to be a courteous rider on the road. I see a lot of the same cars every single day, and they've seen me. When you don't ride around like a "critical mass" dickhead, chances are you're not going to get yourself into any trouble with traffic.
First, loser-pays only incentivize businesses and people who are not rich to settle out of court and admit defeat without a trial. That is not justice.
Second, small-time inventors don't always productize their inventions, either because they don't have the money, don't have the time, or for other reason. This shouldn't stand in the way of them profiting from their hard work and inventiveness.
This is just another pro-corporate bill churned out of our for-profit, insider-trading Congress.
I can attest to this. I got sick and tired of inkjets waking themselves up in the middle of the night to dump ink into the little sponge inside that let it evaporate. They call it "cleaning," but in reality it's just wasting ink so you have to buy more.
Inkjets are crack cocaine. We just have to break the cycle of addiction.
I bought an OKI B-4200 LED printer back in about 2005 and it is still working flawlessly today. I think I'm on my third toner cartridge in 8 years (we don't print that much).
We're thinking about replacing it with a Brother color laser, so it's good to know they have good driver support because I'm 100% Linux at home.
If these scientists are correct, then it is also possible to divide by zero, because bogodynamic quantum entanglement coefficients become both observable and reversible in the magnetoreluctant quasistatic interface between the non-observed static universe and the observed temporal-dynamic universe. Crossing this entanglement boundary requires continuous and differentiable traversal of an asymptotic gravitational cotangent function in the real plane by a moving observer.
Clearly this results in a !div0 error.
It both sounds like bullshit and not like bullshit, until you listen to it. Then, it'll sound like one or the other.
... put a tablet-like device in the dashboard running Android and write apps that perform the infotainment functions. They need to stop wasting time on these proprietary implementations and just start doing what most consumers are doing already - pairing bluetooth stereo and using their tablets/phones as their primary source of media and entertainment in the car.
I am the last person anyone should be calling in an emergency. I am not a firefighter, paramedic, doctor, or anything else that would be helpful in an emergency. There is no emergency out there that anyone should be calling me about.
Then again, as a society, we seem to have changed the definition of "emergency" to "anything that is the slightest bit inconvenient."
As another poster said, the human race survived thousands of years without being constantly connected to each other.
They really are out to get you.
Wasn't Saturn a direct-sales manufacturer before the failure and GM buyout? How did they sell cars in Texas, or did they?
Mod parent up. Cyanogenmod comes conveniently stripped of Google Apps and can be used as a "generic" operating system. I use CM on my devices without Google Apps and it's very pleasant. Battery life is amazing too as long as you don't have apps running that track you constantly (Facebook and other spyware) in the background.
I have a Gen1 N7 that I use basically just for playing music in the car, and Torque Pro for gauges. Vanilla CM is perfect for it.
My wife and I set aside several hours every day as "zero-technology" times. We use this time to read, play with our dogs, have meals together, work on hobbies, and hang out with friends and neighbors.
Everything gets powered down - no phones ringing, no "notification" sounds, no nothing. It's pretty amazing how it feels to be disconnected - like the old days before constant connection invaded and took over society.
The most annoying part are the phone calls about "OMG where have you been!?!?!?" that inevitably come after things get turned back on.
Where they have always been hiding - in the hardware itself. It's pretty safe to say that there will never be open-source silicon, and there will probably never be DIY silicon fabbing at home.
You're thinking of Type 2 diabetes, which is acquired voluntarily through poor dietary and health choices.
Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease, or at least now maybe it's a viral disease, but in any case, it's not acquired by behavioral choice, and it can happen to just about anyone.
I know lots of skinny people who have it.