Gasoline is not inherently safe, it is safe because of how we build the system. Things like auto-deactivate gaspumps.
Similarly, if we build an electrical infrastructure, we would make it safe.
Not that hard to do. Drive into an enclosed area, with multiple ben franklin rods, close the door, plug the car in. and let it power up. Disconnect, open the doors, drive out.
It specifically warned the industry that their passwords were getting out and to tell the banks to CHANGE them.
Frankly, I have zero sympathy for the bank that lost cash.
And not much respect for the idiots that did not report it. What, did they think the banks would never find out what happened? That when they did find out, they would not 'correct' the accounts?
Either report it, or get yourself an untraceable card and return.
Have you seen Little Miss Sunshine?
Funny, innovative, not derivative, well worth it, if only for using the gay porn to distract someone from the fact that they have a dead heroin addict in the trunk of their vehicle.
Most people consider the broadway play The Producers to be a very succesfull play.
While it is a re-work of a movie, they changed quite a bit of it and put in lots of new jokes.
Joto, you are making assumptions about what the word Solution, and what the real PROBLEM is.
Specifically, you are thinking the problem is "the owner is annoyed". If that is the real problem, then putting a bullet in their brain will also solve it. Your answer demonstrates practicality, not intelligence.
Stop thinking about it as a real life thing annoying you and pretend this is a question on a test given to you by your teacher at a car mechanic school/computer mechanic school.
We both know you would FAIL if you wrote down "buy a new one" as the 'solution'.
Why? Because you are solving the social problem, not the technical problem you were asked about.
Your answer is moronic to people that care about the technical issue, which you don't care about. Accept the fact that some people care about the technological issue, not just "how does this annoy me?" and suddenly you will understand why some people do not respect what you wrote.
Habits are easy to change. Addictions are harder to change. Saying we do something because it is a habit is not helpfull.
Europe uses more diesel then the US because US regulations unfairly penaltize diesel - they are based on older model diesel engines that polluted a lot more.
1) It is hard to fake being capable of solving the puzzle (unless you cheat by getting the answers before hand).
2) It rewards people that have the brains but not the degree/experience/other checklist sillyness that recruiters/companies ask for.
3) If the test giver is smart, they will accept, or even LOOK for non-traditional answers instead of insisting on 'classic right ones' (THE BAROMETER FABLE - yes you can use the air pressure reading to get the height of the building, but you could also trade it to the building manager for the information, use a sun's shadow measurements, drop it and time the fall, etc. etc. etc.)
And generally I myself LIKE solving puzzles, and am pretty good at it. So I like this method of hiring a lot.
Their are and continue to be a LOT of people that start off dablling, get a job and become full time programmers without EVER getting a formal education in computer science. You can easily get a 60k job doing that. While someone with a good formal education can get paid a lot more, these people are still programmers.
You mean like the billions of dollars each year paid for by oil companies?
Well for one thing, Sodium borohydride the fuel we are discussing has a HIGHER energy capacity then hydrogen-carbon compounds and has a HIGHER stability - less likely to burn).
It is in most cases a far better fuel than hydrogen-carbon compounds like gasoline.
The only reason we use gasoline is that oil is, despite new issues, still very plentiful. As we use it up, that will change.
While that is true, this makes GM foods MORE likely to be the solution, rather than less. We simply need to modify food to grow in more places, say under hotter temperatures and/or less water, instead of modifying it to be immune to pesticides.
Golden Rice is a prime example of how we can use GM foods to solve world hunger.
1) Yes GMO have the fair possibility of exacerbating world Hunger.
2) But you are wrong about GMO not being capable of SOLVING world Hunger.
How can that be you say, if the world has enough food? Go to this web site:
http://www.goldenrice.org/ and learn about the GOOD things that american genetic engineers have done to use GMO to help solve world hunger.
Basically the problem with wikipedia is that anyone can edit it. But that is ALSO one of the best things about it.
To combine the advantages of a 'fact checked' encylopedia and a wikipedia, all you need do is:
1) Have a bunch of 'super users' generally accepted as 'fair'. To become a 'super-user', you must have posted a certain number of things, and had your content been found worthy by an administrator.
2) Have super user posts look different (different color for example) and only be editable/removable by other super-users.
3) Allow normal people to flag 'super user' content as untrue. Super users must examine at least one unexamined flagged content from another user before they can add any other content.
4) Super-users that have their content changed by other super-users too often will acquire the notice of an administrator that may choose to revoke super-user status.
While I generally agree with your idea that a karma system will not work for wikipedia, your add on comments are blatantly wrong. You CAN solve social problems through technological means. That has been proven time and time again, despite your bald faced assertion to the negative.
The internet itself is a prime example of that. Before it, many more people were socially isolated. The ability to communicate with others like you, despite physical limitations of distance and mobility has brought people together into a community. Any gay man will tell you that the reason sections of San Francicso and sections of NYC became popular was that 50 years ago if you were gay in a small town, there was NO ONE to talk to, let alone date. So they moved to big towns. Now adays, gay dating services will connect you up other people, either to talk or to meet. This allows gays to live in small towns if they want to, and still have a social life.
Similar benefits were given to the blind (Yes, blind people DO use the internet), and those with impaired movement.
Unfortunately, the same benefits were given to prejudiced people, creating NEW social problems.
But it is quite clear that technology can and DOES solve social problems all the time. Sometimes it creates new ones to replace the old ones, but it definitely solves the social problems.
The USSR was cobbled together by russians attempting to conquer the world. The majority of the people in many of the USSR 'states' never really developped a 'national identity' as citizens of a united country. Most of the 'states' never wanted to join and only 'stayed' in so long out of fear.
The USA was a group of states with a single national identity that willingly joined up and agreed to not split up.
You think the same governement that could not rescue thousands of it's own citizens from a hurricane they knew about days in advance (Katrina) is not capable of hitting the wrong building?
Keep in mind that real insurrections are NOT stupid. They intentionally place their installations near 'morally objectionable targets', such as day care centers, hospitals, medical factories and yes, newsmen.
The US military is not perfect. They make mistakes. To convince me that it was not a mistake you need to show a pattern of at least 3 episodes. You have one.
You made a typical error there. There is a HUGE difference between arresting someone and firing them. The major one is that if you get fired, you can start your own business.
If you are really reporting accurate information and the government is trying to block you, then your new business will probably do QUITE well providing true and accurate information.
Do I like the firings? No. As an American, I am appalled at the direction the United Kingdom and to a lesser extent (in my opinion), the US is moving in. The constant camera based surveilance is not something a free society allows. But I am smart enough to realize that both the UK and the USA are a LOT more free than China is.
He did NOT offer a service to people in the US. He offered a service to people on the internet. He never set foot in the US, he never advertised in a US only venue. When the US complained, he instituted a program to reduce US participation, which dropped his US participation from 85% to 77%.
I am an american citizen. This guy did not break US law. His customers did. He attempted to stop his customers from breaking US laws, with limited success. He should not be arrested for the crimes THEY committed.
I have to say it was pretty impressive as an advertisement. Graphics on par with hollywood cartoons, music well selected.
If they included captions, explaining what they were portraying, I would pay $10 to see the full length version.
I would prefer captions to a voice over, as it would be less intrusive, allow the music to capture my artistic side, and would probably result in shorter descriptions.
Confusion around poorly worded (and technically 'illegal' because they violated state law, even though the democrats 'accepted' them.) paper ballots almost certianly caused voting irregularities in Bush's first election.
Majority Democrat districts, that polled as being won by the democrats were 'won' by Bush.
This was one of the original reasons why electronic machines were pushed.
Of course, there are smart ways to do it and "diebold" ways to do it.
A lot of Republicans pushed to have machines made by a company that strongly supported the Republicans(by support I mean cash and lots of it.)
So we get republican voting machines that any smart, untrained person can manipulate instead of machines that actually do what they are supposed to.
Yes, I do. I just hope they never realize that the same psychotic that strangled the girl after viewing strangulation photos used a car to get to the crime scene and a rope to do the strangulation.
Next thing you know, they will outlaw cars and possesion of rope.
You are at least missing one thing. The West does not sell food at 'below cost'. They sell it at below the easter farmer cost, but well above the Western farmer cost to make. There is a huge difference. The West, American in particular is incredibally efficient at producing food. American farmers use a lot of expensive equiptment and fertilizer. While the cost is large, it is still very profitable. So they produce more food than the eastern areas, sell their surplus at a profit, but because the eastern areas of the world are not as efficient, they can't compete.
There is huge difference between selling below your own cost and selling below your COMPETITION'S cost.
It is not just "theoretically possible."
There is at least one known cases a company has sued to grab an employee's prior inventions. This was after he quit the job.
The people saying "It is OK to outlaw the internet" have missed a very serious point.
Not all jobs at a company (unless it so small that this question does not come up) are the same.
Which means the REAL statement is:
I am going to outlaw the internet for 'everyone'. But when I say 'everyone' I really mean everyone except high level management. Also, I don't realize it but the lower level IT people whose job it is to control the access have the ability and usually use that ability to give themselves unlimited access.
This statement demonstrates stupidity and poor business practice.
Why? Because different people have different jobs. A Receptionist that sits at her desk 9-5 simply waiting for people to either show up or call might very well have long slow periods where she is doing nothing. Reading myspace is fine for her. But she should never be viewing unitized pages such as YouTube where it takes up a set amount of time. Only a fool tells her she has to use the same rules as a C+ Programmer that routinely works 14 hour days but gets 20 minute sanity breaks every 3 hours, in addition to lunch.
My problem is not with saying this particular person should never be on the internet, that is the bosses' priveldge.
But work for a shmuch that thinks EVERYONE in his company should possible have the same job restrictions?
I would quit that job in an instant. The people are right to refuse the work.
Also, some people have said that "Right now it is an Employer's market" where employers can pick and choose. That is foolishness in my mind. First, each job market is different, especially for each person. As we are talking about people refusing a job, that pretty much proves that for the sub section of the job market we are discuusing it is a job SEEKER's market. Otherwise they would not be doing it. That may mean that only highly qualified people are refusing jobs, or that only people willing to take low paying jobs are refusing them, but for the job market section we are disccuing, it is clearly a job seeker's market, not the other way around.
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Similarly, if we build an electrical infrastructure, we would make it safe.
Not that hard to do. Drive into an enclosed area, with multiple ben franklin rods, close the door, plug the car in. and let it power up. Disconnect, open the doors, drive out.
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It specifically warned the industry that their passwords were getting out and to tell the banks to CHANGE them.
Frankly, I have zero sympathy for the bank that lost cash.
And not much respect for the idiots that did not report it. What, did they think the banks would never find out what happened? That when they did find out, they would not 'correct' the accounts?
Either report it, or get yourself an untraceable card and return.
Have you seen Little Miss Sunshine? Funny, innovative, not derivative, well worth it, if only for using the gay porn to distract someone from the fact that they have a dead heroin addict in the trunk of their vehicle.
Most people consider the broadway play The Producers to be a very succesfull play. While it is a re-work of a movie, they changed quite a bit of it and put in lots of new jokes.
Specifically, you are thinking the problem is "the owner is annoyed". If that is the real problem, then putting a bullet in their brain will also solve it. Your answer demonstrates practicality, not intelligence.
Stop thinking about it as a real life thing annoying you and pretend this is a question on a test given to you by your teacher at a car mechanic school/computer mechanic school.
We both know you would FAIL if you wrote down "buy a new one" as the 'solution'.
Why? Because you are solving the social problem, not the technical problem you were asked about.
Your answer is moronic to people that care about the technical issue, which you don't care about. Accept the fact that some people care about the technological issue, not just "how does this annoy me?" and suddenly you will understand why some people do not respect what you wrote.
Europe uses more diesel then the US because US regulations unfairly penaltize diesel - they are based on older model diesel engines that polluted a lot more.
Or maybe English is not my first language?
2) It rewards people that have the brains but not the degree/experience/other checklist sillyness that recruiters/companies ask for.
3) If the test giver is smart, they will accept, or even LOOK for non-traditional answers instead of insisting on 'classic right ones' (THE BAROMETER FABLE - yes you can use the air pressure reading to get the height of the building, but you could also trade it to the building manager for the information, use a sun's shadow measurements, drop it and time the fall, etc. etc. etc.)
And generally I myself LIKE solving puzzles, and am pretty good at it. So I like this method of hiring a lot.
Their are and continue to be a LOT of people that start off dablling, get a job and become full time programmers without EVER getting a formal education in computer science. You can easily get a 60k job doing that. While someone with a good formal education can get paid a lot more, these people are still programmers.
Well for one thing, Sodium borohydride the fuel we are discussing has a HIGHER energy capacity then hydrogen-carbon compounds and has a HIGHER stability - less likely to burn).
It is in most cases a far better fuel than hydrogen-carbon compounds like gasoline.
The only reason we use gasoline is that oil is, despite new issues, still very plentiful. As we use it up, that will change.
Golden Rice is a prime example of how we can use GM foods to solve world hunger.
2) But you are wrong about GMO not being capable of SOLVING world Hunger. How can that be you say, if the world has enough food? Go to this web site: http://www.goldenrice.org/ and learn about the GOOD things that american genetic engineers have done to use GMO to help solve world hunger.
To combine the advantages of a 'fact checked' encylopedia and a wikipedia, all you need do is:
1) Have a bunch of 'super users' generally accepted as 'fair'. To become a 'super-user', you must have posted a certain number of things, and had your content been found worthy by an administrator.
2) Have super user posts look different (different color for example) and only be editable/removable by other super-users.
3) Allow normal people to flag 'super user' content as untrue. Super users must examine at least one unexamined flagged content from another user before they can add any other content.
4) Super-users that have their content changed by other super-users too often will acquire the notice of an administrator that may choose to revoke super-user status.
The internet itself is a prime example of that. Before it, many more people were socially isolated. The ability to communicate with others like you, despite physical limitations of distance and mobility has brought people together into a community. Any gay man will tell you that the reason sections of San Francicso and sections of NYC became popular was that 50 years ago if you were gay in a small town, there was NO ONE to talk to, let alone date. So they moved to big towns. Now adays, gay dating services will connect you up other people, either to talk or to meet. This allows gays to live in small towns if they want to, and still have a social life.
Similar benefits were given to the blind (Yes, blind people DO use the internet), and those with impaired movement.
Unfortunately, the same benefits were given to prejudiced people, creating NEW social problems.
But it is quite clear that technology can and DOES solve social problems all the time. Sometimes it creates new ones to replace the old ones, but it definitely solves the social problems.
The USA was a group of states with a single national identity that willingly joined up and agreed to not split up.
Keep in mind that real insurrections are NOT stupid. They intentionally place their installations near 'morally objectionable targets', such as day care centers, hospitals, medical factories and yes, newsmen.
The US military is not perfect. They make mistakes. To convince me that it was not a mistake you need to show a pattern of at least 3 episodes. You have one.
If you are really reporting accurate information and the government is trying to block you, then your new business will probably do QUITE well providing true and accurate information.
Do I like the firings? No. As an American, I am appalled at the direction the United Kingdom and to a lesser extent (in my opinion), the US is moving in. The constant camera based surveilance is not something a free society allows. But I am smart enough to realize that both the UK and the USA are a LOT more free than China is.
I am an american citizen. This guy did not break US law. His customers did. He attempted to stop his customers from breaking US laws, with limited success. He should not be arrested for the crimes THEY committed.
If they included captions, explaining what they were portraying, I would pay $10 to see the full length version. I would prefer captions to a voice over, as it would be less intrusive, allow the music to capture my artistic side, and would probably result in shorter descriptions.
The republicans have already refused to do anything like that. They hate the idea of a discrepancy more than they hate the idea of cheating.
Confusion around poorly worded (and technically 'illegal' because they violated state law, even though the democrats 'accepted' them.) paper ballots almost certianly caused voting irregularities in Bush's first election.
Majority Democrat districts, that polled as being won by the democrats were 'won' by Bush.
This was one of the original reasons why electronic machines were pushed.
Of course, there are smart ways to do it and "diebold" ways to do it.
A lot of Republicans pushed to have machines made by a company that strongly supported the Republicans(by support I mean cash and lots of it.)
So we get republican voting machines that any smart, untrained person can manipulate instead of machines that actually do what they are supposed to.
Next thing you know, they will outlaw cars and possesion of rope.
You are at least missing one thing. The West does not sell food at 'below cost'. They sell it at below the easter farmer cost, but well above the Western farmer cost to make. There is a huge difference. The West, American in particular is incredibally efficient at producing food. American farmers use a lot of expensive equiptment and fertilizer. While the cost is large, it is still very profitable. So they produce more food than the eastern areas, sell their surplus at a profit, but because the eastern areas of the world are not as efficient, they can't compete. There is huge difference between selling below your own cost and selling below your COMPETITION'S cost.
It is not just "theoretically possible." There is at least one known cases a company has sued to grab an employee's prior inventions. This was after he quit the job.
Not all jobs at a company (unless it so small that this question does not come up) are the same.
Which means the REAL statement is:
I am going to outlaw the internet for 'everyone'. But when I say 'everyone' I really mean everyone except high level management. Also, I don't realize it but the lower level IT people whose job it is to control the access have the ability and usually use that ability to give themselves unlimited access.
This statement demonstrates stupidity and poor business practice.
Why? Because different people have different jobs. A Receptionist that sits at her desk 9-5 simply waiting for people to either show up or call might very well have long slow periods where she is doing nothing. Reading myspace is fine for her. But she should never be viewing unitized pages such as YouTube where it takes up a set amount of time. Only a fool tells her she has to use the same rules as a C+ Programmer that routinely works 14 hour days but gets 20 minute sanity breaks every 3 hours, in addition to lunch.
My problem is not with saying this particular person should never be on the internet, that is the bosses' priveldge.
But work for a shmuch that thinks EVERYONE in his company should possible have the same job restrictions?
I would quit that job in an instant. The people are right to refuse the work.
Also, some people have said that "Right now it is an Employer's market" where employers can pick and choose. That is foolishness in my mind. First, each job market is different, especially for each person. As we are talking about people refusing a job, that pretty much proves that for the sub section of the job market we are discuusing it is a job SEEKER's market. Otherwise they would not be doing it. That may mean that only highly qualified people are refusing jobs, or that only people willing to take low paying jobs are refusing them, but for the job market section we are disccuing, it is clearly a job seeker's market, not the other way around.