Stop listening to news soundbites. Of the many crops grown in CA, almonds don't really grow anywhere else in the US and they're a high-value crop, which really makes them the most bang for your buck (and water). And almonds are also the state’s most lucrative exported agricultural product, with California producing 80 percent of the world’s supply.
As opposed to, say, hay. Alfalfa hay requires even more water, about 15 percent of the state’s supply. About 70 percent of alfalfa grown in California is used in dairies, and a good portion of the rest is exported to land-poor Asian countries like Japan.
And more than 30 percent of California’s agricultural water use either directly or indirectly supports growing animals for food.
What CA needs to do is grow what they grow best and leave hay and cows to the states better equipped to grow them.
Ironically, most of the people in the states that advocate teaching kids about guns are terribly afraid to teach little Johnny and little Billy Jean that condoms even exist, much less how to use them.
Which is too bad, since that might go pretty far in cutting soaring teen pregnancy rates in those red "abstinence-only" states.
Nah, fuck that. Avoidance and ignorance is the answer I'm sure.
Oh please. You know as well as I do that a typical "tactical assault rifle" and a classic "hunting rifle" are two different things, and are designed as such.
A typical "tactical assault rifle" is designed to be extremely rugged yet lightweight, is shorter since it's often used in close quarter situations, is designed for rapid firing and minimum recoil, and trades off accuracy in the process. It probably has multiple attachment points for scopes, sights, bayonets, slings, tripods, and even grenade launchers (M-16/M-209).
A classic hunting rifle, say, 30-06 or 308, has a heavy, long barrel, has heavy wood stocks, has no recoil buffer, a single scope mount, no flash suppression, and typically has a bolt-action mechanism. The size, weight, design, and mechanics are intentional, as it's primary function is to deliver fewer rounds accurately over a longer distance.
(This disregards, of course, the "modern sporting rifle" attempt at rebranding the former to mean the later, all while letting the owner look like the local SWAT team might call him up for action at any moment.)
Didn't say that it did. Was simply replying to, "Why would anyone who has anything indecent in mind put himself into gear that impacts his ability to move and see negatively?"
"What is the difference between a tactical assault riffle and hunting riffle? Nothing except the ornamental bits."
Ah. You mean the equipment mounting rails, carrying handle, recoil buffer, flash suppressor, tripod mounts, and high-impact plastic barrel shrouds and butts are just ornamental and serve no other purpose? Wow. Who knew?
Too bad it's manufactured, assembled, and shipped by robots... only to sit in automated Amazon warehouses. Why? Because no else has a job and as such no one else has the income to purchase the silly things.
Do enough of it, and the module construction itself can be automated and robotized. Or seen modern shipbuilding these days? Prefab modules assembled and welded by robots.
And so what if there's still "a lot" (weasel words) of labor around that. There's still less of it, and every decrease cascades into additional hits on labor. See the following piece on the potential impact of robot trucks on the long-haul trucking industry.
"So lawyers and Doctors are safer then anyone else."
Tell that to RocketLawyer. Or to the Robot Anesthesiologist, or to the guy who's inventing an easily implantable lens that could completely take out the eyeglass and contact lens industries. Expert radiologists are routinely outperformed by pattern-recognition software, diagnosticians by simple computer questionnaires. In 2012, Silicon Valley investor Vinod Khosla predicted that algorithms and machines would replace 80% of doctors within a generation.
Agreed. Too many companies use the Agile "be flexible" rule as a carte blanche, get-out-of-jail free card.
They pick and choose what parts they're going to do, which parts they're going to ignore, and which parts to which they're just going to pay lip service, and call the end result "agile". They don't understand how each part reinforces the other, and as such pick and choose among practices and ceremonies, and tell one another that they're being "flexible".
Failure is usually with implementation, not with Agile.
" I don't want to spend my time babysitting chat logs just to find out what other people are doing."
So up a dedicated team slack channel where everyone posts their status each morning at 10:00. (Or 9, or whenever.) It's lighter weight than a meeting, faster to parse, records status for management, and you don't need to "babysit" a chat log.
If you have 50 devs in meetings then your teams are too large. Learn how to properly breakup your project into epics, features, and stories that can be properly handed off to smaller teams.
And when you begin a large software development effort with 50 other developers???
If you're doing simple single-person projects you can afford to be process-agnostic. But when your long-term project has designers, management, DBA's, iOS and Android and MobileWeb developers, QA teams, and more, you need some form of planning and process.
Letting large teams run around with each developer doing their own thing pretty much is a recipe for disaster, as any number of failed project postmortems would show...
Hasn't it ever struck you as funny that every single one of the politico's who've been telling people to forgo higher education and who continually warn us against the dangers of "liberal" colleges all have their own advanced degrees?
Marco Rubio graduated from the University of Florida and University of Miami Law School. Jeb Bush? University of Texas. Rand Paul? Baylor and Duke. Tom Cotton attended Harvard and Harvard Law, and Ted Cruz hails from Princeton and Harvard.
But you and me? Nah. Can't have us common folk gettin' edumacated. Might start getting funny ideas. Nah, best leave the thinkin' to our betters...
"Somehow, people around 45 years old (and females especially) REALLY lose their ability to problem solve or learn concepts."
I've been writing software for over four decades now. And since I'm currently building iOS apps using Objective-C and Swift on top of a noSQ backend, I'm a bit disappointed by someone who says us old folk people can't learn new concepts. In fact, it's pretty much a massive overgeneralization, on the order of someone my age saying that young people lack decent work ethics, perspective, initiative and that they spend way, way too much time chatting on Kik.
(Okay, the later is probably true.)
At any rate, about a little less overgeneralization, and perhaps spending a little more time judging individuals as individuals, based on their respective strengths and weaknesses?
And then benefit is to the residence/owner is what, exactly? They have a solar installation on their roof, and you're still charging them the same rate?
We how to make a few disposable types that work fairly reliably, but only after millions of hours of time and effort have been put into them. We then light the fuse, send 'em off... and start building another one.
Right. Tell that to people who travel to Africa and the MidEast. Tell that to people who travel to places where they can deep dive and skydive and base jump and ski glaciers and participate in other extreme, high-risk sports.
BTW, I'm ignoring the 5-10% number you pulled out of thin air in an attempt to provide at least some substance to you argument. There's no baseline for risk assessment at this point in time.
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Stop listening to news soundbites. Of the many crops grown in CA, almonds don't really grow anywhere else in the US and they're a high-value crop, which really makes them the most bang for your buck (and water). And almonds are also the state’s most lucrative exported agricultural product, with California producing 80 percent of the world’s supply.
As opposed to, say, hay. Alfalfa hay requires even more water, about 15 percent of the state’s supply. About 70 percent of alfalfa grown in California is used in dairies, and a good portion of the rest is exported to land-poor Asian countries like Japan.
And more than 30 percent of California’s agricultural water use either directly or indirectly supports growing animals for food.
What CA needs to do is grow what they grow best and leave hay and cows to the states better equipped to grow them.
"Ironically we'll teach kids about condoms..."
Ironically, most of the people in the states that advocate teaching kids about guns are terribly afraid to teach little Johnny and little Billy Jean that condoms even exist, much less how to use them.
Which is too bad, since that might go pretty far in cutting soaring teen pregnancy rates in those red "abstinence-only" states.
Nah, fuck that. Avoidance and ignorance is the answer I'm sure.
Oh please. You know as well as I do that a typical "tactical assault rifle" and a classic "hunting rifle" are two different things, and are designed as such.
A typical "tactical assault rifle" is designed to be extremely rugged yet lightweight, is shorter since it's often used in close quarter situations, is designed for rapid firing and minimum recoil, and trades off accuracy in the process. It probably has multiple attachment points for scopes, sights, bayonets, slings, tripods, and even grenade launchers (M-16/M-209).
A classic hunting rifle, say, 30-06 or 308, has a heavy, long barrel, has heavy wood stocks, has no recoil buffer, a single scope mount, no flash suppression, and typically has a bolt-action mechanism. The size, weight, design, and mechanics are intentional, as it's primary function is to deliver fewer rounds accurately over a longer distance.
(This disregards, of course, the "modern sporting rifle" attempt at rebranding the former to mean the later, all while letting the owner look like the local SWAT team might call him up for action at any moment.)
Didn't say that it did. Was simply replying to, "Why would anyone who has anything indecent in mind put himself into gear that impacts his ability to move and see negatively?"
Or any member of a SWAT team, for that matter.
"What is the difference between a tactical assault riffle and hunting riffle? Nothing except the ornamental bits."
Ah. You mean the equipment mounting rails, carrying handle, recoil buffer, flash suppressor, tripod mounts, and high-impact plastic barrel shrouds and butts are just ornamental and serve no other purpose? Wow. Who knew?
"Why would anyone who has anything indecent in mind put himself into gear that impacts his ability to move and see negatively?"
You mean, like a helmet and body armor? I don't know, why not ask James Holmes?
Too bad it's manufactured, assembled, and shipped by robots... only to sit in automated Amazon warehouses. Why? Because no else has a job and as such no one else has the income to purchase the silly things.
Construction work? Try this...
http://www.wired.com/2012/09/b...
Do enough of it, and the module construction itself can be automated and robotized. Or seen modern shipbuilding these days? Prefab modules assembled and welded by robots.
And so what if there's still "a lot" (weasel words) of labor around that. There's still less of it, and every decrease cascades into additional hits on labor. See the following piece on the potential impact of robot trucks on the long-haul trucking industry.
https://medium.com/basic-incom...
"So lawyers and Doctors are safer then anyone else."
Tell that to RocketLawyer. Or to the Robot Anesthesiologist, or to the guy who's inventing an easily implantable lens that could completely take out the eyeglass and contact lens industries. Expert radiologists are routinely outperformed by pattern-recognition software, diagnosticians by simple computer questionnaires. In 2012, Silicon Valley investor Vinod Khosla predicted that algorithms and machines would replace 80% of doctors within a generation.
Actually, between 1 mile and 1.159 miles (.159 is the radius of a circle 1 mile in circumference).
Agreed. Too many companies use the Agile "be flexible" rule as a carte blanche, get-out-of-jail free card.
They pick and choose what parts they're going to do, which parts they're going to ignore, and which parts to which they're just going to pay lip service, and call the end result "agile". They don't understand how each part reinforces the other, and as such pick and choose among practices and ceremonies, and tell one another that they're being "flexible".
Failure is usually with implementation, not with Agile.
" I don't want to spend my time babysitting chat logs just to find out what other people are doing."
So up a dedicated team slack channel where everyone posts their status each morning at 10:00. (Or 9, or whenever.) It's lighter weight than a meeting, faster to parse, records status for management, and you don't need to "babysit" a chat log.
If you have 50 devs in meetings then your teams are too large. Learn how to properly breakup your project into epics, features, and stories that can be properly handed off to smaller teams.
And when you begin a large software development effort with 50 other developers???
If you're doing simple single-person projects you can afford to be process-agnostic. But when your long-term project has designers, management, DBA's, iOS and Android and MobileWeb developers, QA teams, and more, you need some form of planning and process.
Letting large teams run around with each developer doing their own thing pretty much is a recipe for disaster, as any number of failed project postmortems would show...
Hasn't it ever struck you as funny that every single one of the politico's who've been telling people to forgo higher education and who continually warn us against the dangers of "liberal" colleges all have their own advanced degrees?
Marco Rubio graduated from the University of Florida and University of Miami Law School. Jeb Bush? University of Texas. Rand Paul? Baylor and Duke. Tom Cotton attended Harvard and Harvard Law, and Ted Cruz hails from Princeton and Harvard.
But you and me? Nah. Can't have us common folk gettin' edumacated. Might start getting funny ideas. Nah, best leave the thinkin' to our betters...
I don't think that word means what you think it means.
It was and communism and totalitarianism, not socialism, that lead to Stalin's purges.
25? Sorry, too old. We only hire 20-yro summer interns who pay us to for the experience...
"Somehow, people around 45 years old (and females especially) REALLY lose their ability to problem solve or learn concepts."
I've been writing software for over four decades now. And since I'm currently building iOS apps using Objective-C and Swift on top of a noSQ backend, I'm a bit disappointed by someone who says us old folk people can't learn new concepts. In fact, it's pretty much a massive overgeneralization, on the order of someone my age saying that young people lack decent work ethics, perspective, initiative and that they spend way, way too much time chatting on Kik.
(Okay, the later is probably true.)
At any rate, about a little less overgeneralization, and perhaps spending a little more time judging individuals as individuals, based on their respective strengths and weaknesses?
Uh huh. Try opening a folder with 30,000 or so files in it and see how "responsive" it becomes.
Axanar had a good premise, but the effects were as choppy as the acting.
And then benefit is to the residence/owner is what, exactly? They have a solar installation on their roof, and you're still charging them the same rate?
"We have spacecraft. We know how to make them."
We how to make a few disposable types that work fairly reliably, but only after millions of hours of time and effort have been put into them. We then light the fuse, send 'em off... and start building another one.
"The term Tourism implies something innocuous."
Right. Tell that to people who travel to Africa and the MidEast. Tell that to people who travel to places where they can deep dive and skydive and base jump and ski glaciers and participate in other extreme, high-risk sports.
BTW, I'm ignoring the 5-10% number you pulled out of thin air in an attempt to provide at least some substance to you argument. There's no baseline for risk assessment at this point in time.
Eventually, it will be.