I recall that the US Congress members also enjoy the same privilege. Most anything they say in an official capacity, especially from the floor of their house is all protected, whether slanderous, negligent, or indecent.
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You are correct, doctors do this all the time, so they can share case history so that others may benefit from your treatment. However, I believe the concern is with devices that your doctor is not equipped to handle in-house. I believe there are devices that send data automatically to a central location. The data is stored and forwarded to your doctor for review. The question is who owns that stored on the central server? I don't mind the company using that data to monitor the health of my implant, or to improve the device, but should they forward that data to R&D to create new devices? Sounds good, but how about marketing? Now I am a little concerned.
A college education is an investment in becoming an educated human being trained in disciplined critical thinking and broadly knowledgeable about the world. It is not job training. While being an educated human being should help your job prospects, if that is all you focus on you have missed the point.
But it may be that, in turning our economy over to the aristocrats, the "1%", we have created a situation where educated human beings are no longer in demand in the job market.
Through cheap government backed loans we have made education "affordable" to a great many people. Unfortunately students are not asking how will this education benefit them in the long run.
I am astounded at the reasons people give for choosing a college. In my experience, most students make their decision based on quality of college life, rather than future life. They are often wowed by gourmet cafeterias and great athletic facilities, but they rarely evaluate what kind of a job they will get after graduation. When they do, they have not looked much past the college's total placement rate, rather than one specific to their program.
The original poster makes the same mistake as many other people when comparing the earning of people with college degrees. I suspect the reason he is earning more money is because he is working in a technical (computer) field, not "art history". I believe you are crazy if you choose a school without doing a cost benefit analysis comparing the program of study to the available jobs in that field.
FTA:... and the researchers believe they would be blasted outward in a cone directly in front of the ship. Anyone or anything waiting for you at the other end of your trip would be destroyed.... The researchers are beginning a new round of number crunching to see how bad the problem is. It’s possible the deadly particle beam could be projected in all directions, making Alcubierre drives unworkable.
If I read the article right, they don't know if it is directional or not, or how bad the discharge could get.
I agree with your sentiment. Where do companies, like Apple, go to raise cash to build the next big thing? There are many people on Wall Street who go to work everyday and just do their job. They buy and sell stocks for our IRA's, and balance the books for the bank so our pay checks will post to our accounts. Yes, there are some who game the system, but is that any different from a spammer who uses his knowledge to rip people off?
When do you decide that you are throwing good money after bad? I believe the DoE's role should be to help fund and develop new ideas. They should stick with the research until they can show the potential (or lack there of). 20 years is a long time, and the conclusions seem to show that there is no value. If some private organization wants to pick it up, so be it, but the public money could be put to better use developing other alternative energy sources.
I think this should have been included in the summary. The study does not rule out this technology. I concludes stating that more R&D is necessary if it has a chance to become a viable technology. However TFA also notes that the DOE invested in this for 20 years, concluding that "... algal biofuels were unlikely to be cost-competitive with petroleum...". I am not sure I would be excited about putting more public money behind this.
Will it have a query language? SELECT * FROM.xxx WHERE fetish IN ('foot', 'hair') AND race IN ('asian', 'latino') AND age 25 AND milf == 'true' ORDER BY video_length ASC;
Some companies are getting wise to this. Yes, this will take you to a real person, but that person is often nothing more than a switchboard operator. Many times they have routed me back to the same prompt queue I just escaped from.
You are correct, the QR code can be copied, but this becomes one more thing for the forger to be concerned with. The individual security features on a bill don't make it hard to reproduce. It is the combination of dozens of them that (hopefully) makes it too costly for them to reproduce. Some of the features are there to make it easy for the public to spot a fake, such as the water mark, or color shifting ink. There are other secret features that are put there by the government to help them identify, or fingerprint a specific forger. I suspect that the QR code would be more useful to law enforcement that the public.
As other posters have pointed out, what if the QR code contained a hash of the serial number and a few other identifying marks visible on the bill? Now you can use the infrared QR and OCR to validate a given bill. In general I think the mints have given up on creating a forge-proof bills. They just keep updating the design with forge resistant features to stay one step ahead. The only problem I have with this is that there are so many different designs in circulation that a lay person cannot easily spot a fake, and may be more likely to accept one.
I agree with the cautions on trusting an instructor, yet at the same time a student is not a good judge either. If I am learning something for the first time, how am I to know that what I've been taught is good until I have a chance to put it to use?
This is why most universities have an accrediting body. That body audits the school to be sure they are offering a sensible curriculum, and that the faculty are qualified to teach the material. I think it is safe to assume that some of these online schools will eventually submit for some form of accreditation (if they haven't already). That process will flesh out the kinds of problems identified in this particular online class.
When I first read the headline, I thought they were encoding an obituary of some kind, rather than just a web link. As other posters have pointed out, real data would likely stand the test of time, rather than a link to a server that may not exist in 5 years, let alone 500. This all got me thinking though, a QR code is nice, but I have seen many headstones with faded/eroded text, and some were only a 150 years old. For how long is the engraved granite or etched metal going to be readable? Should this info also be buried with the body, or just under the headstone?
I know this is not the same a court of law, but I regard this issue in the same way as a person pleading the Fifth at trial. Silence, from either candidate could mean anything. Something as simple as embarrassment over poor performance on a final exam, to outright fraud on a tax return. It is easy to let your imagination run wild. In the absence of some other information you have to just accept what you have been given, then choose to believe (or not) what you have been told. If you feel the candidate has not given you enough information about them to make a choice, then vote for the other person. To run around for months or years demanding the same info, while making wild speculation about what it contains, just seems silly to me.
I use this setup in my lab/server room. The KVM consoles are racked at standing height, but we have tall, rolling task chairs for the times you have to park for an extended period of time. I have observed that shorter people have a harder time getting on the chair though.
I think you are making his point. Why is it ok to demand Romney's tax records, but Obama's college records and transcript are off limits? You say it wouldn't influence anyone, but imagine the fall out if it was revealed that Obama received a D in economics 101, or a paper in which he argues that a monarchy is a better form of government (with or without context of the assignment).
That is a problem the legislature can fix (I assume). Perhaps not easy politically, but can be done with a vote. Most of the ballot measures cannot be repealed, except through another ballot measure.
Isn't that what California does now? Prop 123 to pay for X and Prop 456 to pay for Y. Some outrageous percentage of their budget is tied up in these "feel good" mandates. The legislature wants to increase funding for teachers, but they first have to pay out to the "orphan kitten" fund. When someone attempts to repeal the mandate, they are villainized in TV ads, saying they want to feed the kittens, and the elderly, to alligators.
So I figured out I need a real work environment, and I can't work from home.
FWIW, I have a friend who started working from home, and expressed the same concerns as you. To compensate, he did a few things. First he has a general daily schedule that he follows as strictly as he can. This schedule includes two hours in the middle of his work morning, part of which he uses to cook breakfast for his family before they leave for the day. He logs off email, and lets work calls go to voice mail outside these times. He also has a home office. He only uses the office when he is working. Personal time spent using the computer is done outside of his office. Finally, he hangs his company ID around his neck, just like when he is in a company office. It is a visual indicator to let his family know when he is is working. The point of all of this was to create mental and visual barriers between home and work.
For a long time this was significant factor/excuse for not changing the school calendar. While the schools I attended have been retrofitted for A/C since I have left, how many other schools across the nation still need upgrades? For small communities that can be a significant cost. You also have additional costs to run the A/C during the Summer, run your bus fleet longer, pay current teachers more money, and hire additional staff.
I acknowledge that many studies say this is a good thing, but paying for it is a big hurtle. I don't see it happening anytime soon.
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I recall that the US Congress members also enjoy the same privilege. Most anything they say in an official capacity, especially from the floor of their house is all protected, whether slanderous, negligent, or indecent.
You are correct, doctors do this all the time, so they can share case history so that others may benefit from your treatment. However, I believe the concern is with devices that your doctor is not equipped to handle in-house. I believe there are devices that send data automatically to a central location. The data is stored and forwarded to your doctor for review. The question is who owns that stored on the central server? I don't mind the company using that data to monitor the health of my implant, or to improve the device, but should they forward that data to R&D to create new devices? Sounds good, but how about marketing? Now I am a little concerned.
A college education is an investment in becoming an educated human being trained in disciplined critical thinking and broadly knowledgeable about the world. It is not job training. While being an educated human being should help your job prospects, if that is all you focus on you have missed the point.
But it may be that, in turning our economy over to the aristocrats, the "1%", we have created a situation where educated human beings are no longer in demand in the job market.
Through cheap government backed loans we have made education "affordable" to a great many people. Unfortunately students are not asking how will this education benefit them in the long run.
I am astounded at the reasons people give for choosing a college. In my experience, most students make their decision based on quality of college life, rather than future life. They are often wowed by gourmet cafeterias and great athletic facilities, but they rarely evaluate what kind of a job they will get after graduation. When they do, they have not looked much past the college's total placement rate, rather than one specific to their program.
The original poster makes the same mistake as many other people when comparing the earning of people with college degrees. I suspect the reason he is earning more money is because he is working in a technical (computer) field, not "art history". I believe you are crazy if you choose a school without doing a cost benefit analysis comparing the program of study to the available jobs in that field.
I cut power to the A/C units in our server room before I left work today. It should be just warm enough to cook the turkey over night.
FTA: ... and the researchers believe they would be blasted outward in a cone directly in front of the ship. Anyone or anything waiting for you at the other end of your trip would be destroyed. ... The researchers are beginning a new round of number crunching to see how bad the problem is. It’s possible the deadly particle beam could be projected in all directions, making Alcubierre drives unworkable.
If I read the article right, they don't know if it is directional or not, or how bad the discharge could get.
If I am permitted one request, please keep Michael Bay VERY far away from this project.
I agree with your sentiment. Where do companies, like Apple, go to raise cash to build the next big thing? There are many people on Wall Street who go to work everyday and just do their job. They buy and sell stocks for our IRA's, and balance the books for the bank so our pay checks will post to our accounts. Yes, there are some who game the system, but is that any different from a spammer who uses his knowledge to rip people off?
When do you decide that you are throwing good money after bad? I believe the DoE's role should be to help fund and develop new ideas. They should stick with the research until they can show the potential (or lack there of). 20 years is a long time, and the conclusions seem to show that there is no value. If some private organization wants to pick it up, so be it, but the public money could be put to better use developing other alternative energy sources.
I think this should have been included in the summary. The study does not rule out this technology. I concludes stating that more R&D is necessary if it has a chance to become a viable technology. However TFA also notes that the DOE invested in this for 20 years, concluding that "... algal biofuels were unlikely to be cost-competitive with petroleum...". I am not sure I would be excited about putting more public money behind this.
Depends on the brand of beer. I am not sure I would bid anything over Pabst Blue Ribbon.
Will it have a query language? SELECT * FROM .xxx WHERE fetish IN ('foot', 'hair') AND race IN ('asian', 'latino') AND age 25 AND milf == 'true' ORDER BY video_length ASC;
Some companies are getting wise to this. Yes, this will take you to a real person, but that person is often nothing more than a switchboard operator. Many times they have routed me back to the same prompt queue I just escaped from.
You are correct, the QR code can be copied, but this becomes one more thing for the forger to be concerned with. The individual security features on a bill don't make it hard to reproduce. It is the combination of dozens of them that (hopefully) makes it too costly for them to reproduce. Some of the features are there to make it easy for the public to spot a fake, such as the water mark, or color shifting ink. There are other secret features that are put there by the government to help them identify, or fingerprint a specific forger. I suspect that the QR code would be more useful to law enforcement that the public.
As other posters have pointed out, what if the QR code contained a hash of the serial number and a few other identifying marks visible on the bill? Now you can use the infrared QR and OCR to validate a given bill. In general I think the mints have given up on creating a forge-proof bills. They just keep updating the design with forge resistant features to stay one step ahead. The only problem I have with this is that there are so many different designs in circulation that a lay person cannot easily spot a fake, and may be more likely to accept one.
Academic records have been a hot button issue for the last few presidential cycles? Kerry, Bush had similar grades at Yale, Comparing the academic record of Al Gore, John Kerry and George W. Bush, John McCain's academic record, Gore's Dubious School Record. I personally am not asking, I really don't care to be honest. But it is a fair comparison. Neither candidate is required to provide any such documentation, precedent or not. If you feel you have not been given enough info about a candidate, then vote for the other guy.
I agree with the cautions on trusting an instructor, yet at the same time a student is not a good judge either. If I am learning something for the first time, how am I to know that what I've been taught is good until I have a chance to put it to use?
This is why most universities have an accrediting body. That body audits the school to be sure they are offering a sensible curriculum, and that the faculty are qualified to teach the material. I think it is safe to assume that some of these online schools will eventually submit for some form of accreditation (if they haven't already). That process will flesh out the kinds of problems identified in this particular online class.
When I first read the headline, I thought they were encoding an obituary of some kind, rather than just a web link. As other posters have pointed out, real data would likely stand the test of time, rather than a link to a server that may not exist in 5 years, let alone 500. This all got me thinking though, a QR code is nice, but I have seen many headstones with faded/eroded text, and some were only a 150 years old. For how long is the engraved granite or etched metal going to be readable? Should this info also be buried with the body, or just under the headstone?
I know this is not the same a court of law, but I regard this issue in the same way as a person pleading the Fifth at trial. Silence, from either candidate could mean anything. Something as simple as embarrassment over poor performance on a final exam, to outright fraud on a tax return. It is easy to let your imagination run wild. In the absence of some other information you have to just accept what you have been given, then choose to believe (or not) what you have been told. If you feel the candidate has not given you enough information about them to make a choice, then vote for the other person. To run around for months or years demanding the same info, while making wild speculation about what it contains, just seems silly to me.
I use this setup in my lab/server room. The KVM consoles are racked at standing height, but we have tall, rolling task chairs for the times you have to park for an extended period of time. I have observed that shorter people have a harder time getting on the chair though.
I think you are making his point. Why is it ok to demand Romney's tax records, but Obama's college records and transcript are off limits? You say it wouldn't influence anyone, but imagine the fall out if it was revealed that Obama received a D in economics 101, or a paper in which he argues that a monarchy is a better form of government (with or without context of the assignment).
That is a problem the legislature can fix (I assume). Perhaps not easy politically, but can be done with a vote. Most of the ballot measures cannot be repealed, except through another ballot measure.
Isn't that what California does now? Prop 123 to pay for X and Prop 456 to pay for Y. Some outrageous percentage of their budget is tied up in these "feel good" mandates. The legislature wants to increase funding for teachers, but they first have to pay out to the "orphan kitten" fund. When someone attempts to repeal the mandate, they are villainized in TV ads, saying they want to feed the kittens, and the elderly, to alligators.
So I figured out I need a real work environment, and I can't work from home.
FWIW, I have a friend who started working from home, and expressed the same concerns as you. To compensate, he did a few things. First he has a general daily schedule that he follows as strictly as he can. This schedule includes two hours in the middle of his work morning, part of which he uses to cook breakfast for his family before they leave for the day. He logs off email, and lets work calls go to voice mail outside these times. He also has a home office. He only uses the office when he is working. Personal time spent using the computer is done outside of his office. Finally, he hangs his company ID around his neck, just like when he is in a company office. It is a visual indicator to let his family know when he is is working. The point of all of this was to create mental and visual barriers between home and work.
For a long time this was significant factor/excuse for not changing the school calendar. While the schools I attended have been retrofitted for A/C since I have left, how many other schools across the nation still need upgrades? For small communities that can be a significant cost. You also have additional costs to run the A/C during the Summer, run your bus fleet longer, pay current teachers more money, and hire additional staff.
I acknowledge that many studies say this is a good thing, but paying for it is a big hurtle. I don't see it happening anytime soon.
Imagine the devastation. Won't someone please think of the children!