Yes they do, but the father's amongst them stop laughing and join them when they loose their children to state sponsored sexual discrimination in family court. The common default custody arrangement in US family law is for the man to get 1 day per week custody and the woman to get 6 days per week, the man then has the privilege of paying the expenses for the extra time that is AUTOMATICALLY awarded to the woman. A recent bill in Florida that tried to change the mandated default to 50/50 custody was vetoed by the governor. Ironically every mainstream feminist organisation in the US continues to lobby in support of the only current example of systemic state sponsored sexual discrimination anyone can point to in the US.
My sons will have, in their pocket, full access to the breadth of the internet by the age of 10
I have 3 grandkids and another 2 on the way, the only thing resembling a mobile phone in my childhood was Captain Kirk's communicator. I think the fact a 10yo can have a communicator in his pocket is fucking awesome, the fact that it can also access mankind's knowledge base is doubly awesome
Disclaimer - I haven't had a mobile phone for over a decade now.
Can anyone explain how this research impacts anyone in any substantial way
We explore because that's what humans do, those instincts have served us well and helped us climb to the top of the food chain. Also I think you mean "practical" rather than "substantial" because finding ET will have substantial philosophical impacts on billions of people, but probably won't have any immediate practical use..
Another Aussie dev here with 25yrs experience, worked for IBM/EDS and currently work for a Japanese multinational. Never seen anyone in IT hit with a drug test, however when I applied for a taxi driver's license in the 80's I had to pee in a bottle.
Testing positive and being off your face are two different things. I think drug tests are reasonable for safety reasons in that we don't want people drunk or stoned operating heavy machinery. However if I have a joint or a scotch the night before and it turns up as a blip on a drug test the day after, then its relevance to the job is zero. As for surgeons, I'm sure that more than a few of them enjoy a good stiff scotch when not on call.
There are literally tens of millions of people in the US who never got past HS but still show up every day for far less than $20/hr. Requiring a crash test dummy to hold a degree is fucking ridiculous, if they want real world testing conditions then hire a bunch of frat boys, don't pay them, just put a keg in the back seat. If the autopilot can cope with that, then it can cope with picking up drunks in the early hours of Sunday morning. For extreme testing conditions use a mothers club and a couple of casks of red wine.
Eradicated smallpox. Not as sexy as landing on the moon but certainly as difficult, more practical, and probably more dangerous.
Trivia: I will never forget the moon landing, mum let me have the day off school to watch it at home, I was so enthralled by the broadcast that I accidently sat on a plate of spaghetti.
Ever met a Christian who sold up all their stuff, gave the money away to the poor, and hit the road to spread the good news?
Yes, in outback Queensland, he was lugging a full sized a cross down the highway in 45C heat, miles from anywhere. Strange guy, wouldn't recommend the lifestyle.
there would a recovery from the recent recession anyway, even if Obama had done nothing
Nonsense, I don't like Bush but I do admire the way he worked with Obama and treasury in his final days of his term to stop the toppling dominoes with a massive wall of cash. I think the history books will say both sides of politics realised the gravity of the situation and actually came together with an (ultimately successful) plan to prevent another great depression.
Politicians often spend during the good times instead of save up,
Yep, it looks like we Aussies are at the end of a 30yr long mining boom driven by the expansion of China's infrastructure, it is the longest continuous growth streak for any economy in modern times and we have very little to show from it. Successive conservative (hah) governments pissed it away on tax breaks to miners and cuts to the top tax income tax rate. We are now wondering who's going to pay for lunch tomorrow?
Norway is a counterexample to that very common boom/bust scenario. They taxed the hell out of oil companies during the North Sea oil boom (knowing the boom would end one day), they reinvested the taxes in health and education. The boom is long gone but they were left with a world class health/education system, an educated workforce, and are still regularly at the top of standard of living charts.
when you have government doing things it shouldn't be doing, like running a national TV network
Americans may find this difficult to comprehend but there is a huge difference between "state funded" and "state run". This is why the USPO has fallen to bits, republicans tied the hands of USPTO managers by dictating prices of everything they sold, ie: they made and enforced all the financial decisions at the local post office, it was a deliberate (and successful) effort of the part of FED-ex and others lobbying to kill the "unfair" competition. It won't be so easy to pull down the BBC, it's has way more respect from the public than Murdoch and his pet government(s).
This was never a problem when I drove cabs 30yrs ago, first you make contact with the customer in person, then start the meter, then wait for them to get in, simple and fair for both parties. Yes it may mean you have to get off your arse and knock on the door to make contact. No contact after 5-10min trying, leave empty handed and put their name/address on the dispatcher's shit list.
This is why these surveys are pointless, most people (and more so young people) group whatever they don't like under an "isim" without any real idea of what it means. Since at least WW2 the US public has worked on the simple minded dogma that "capitalism = good, socialism = bad", neither classification is true or false, but that's what you get when you treat politics as a team sport.
If you're still running Python 2 code, you should into the mirror see where the problem lies. Python 3 is working just fine these days.
The "fuck up" the GP is referring too is that py3 broke backward compatibility, when it costs real money to manually port your code to a new version - it's a broken upgrade. For example - I have created an automated build system at work with py2, since py2 still works just fine why would I even try to justify spending time and money porting it to py3?
The speed of light in a vacuum is a consequence of Maxwell's equations, the fact that it is a constant value also follows from Maxwell's equations. Einstein's insight that spacetime is variable came directly from the confirmation of Maxwell's predictions.
EM radiation is nothing like a billiard ball, it is an electric and a magnetic field "falling over" each other. It's "mass" is proportional to it's wavelength. If a photon actually came to rest it wouldn't have a wavelength and therefore no mass, it would cease to exists - which is exactly what happens when it is absorbed by (say) an electron. The photon's energy doesn't disappear it is transferred to the electron.
The fact that estrogen can be a problem for fish" does not lead to the conclusion that this chemical is a problem, nor does the the fact it is a low dose does mean it is harmless. Sure it "might" cause problems in fish/humans but where is the evidence that it does?
Oh please, if the FBI had found anything even remotely useful they would be publicly beating Apple and lawmakers over the head with it. This whole saga is nothing more than a political wedge to extend their powers of search and seizure.
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Thank god people at least laugh at MRAs
Yes they do, but the father's amongst them stop laughing and join them when they loose their children to state sponsored sexual discrimination in family court. The common default custody arrangement in US family law is for the man to get 1 day per week custody and the woman to get 6 days per week, the man then has the privilege of paying the expenses for the extra time that is AUTOMATICALLY awarded to the woman. A recent bill in Florida that tried to change the mandated default to 50/50 custody was vetoed by the governor. Ironically every mainstream feminist organisation in the US continues to lobby in support of the only current example of systemic state sponsored sexual discrimination anyone can point to in the US.
I can't think of any good examples of misandry used in casual insults among men
"Soft cock".
The lawyers commissioned the study, ie: they paid for it.
"Users don't do that!"
I've heard that phrase from sales executives and non-technical managers, but never from a developer.
Disclaimer : 25yrs experience as a software-dev of various rankings, spent a lot of that time working with formalised test teams.
My sons will have, in their pocket, full access to the breadth of the internet by the age of 10
I have 3 grandkids and another 2 on the way, the only thing resembling a mobile phone in my childhood was Captain Kirk's communicator. I think the fact a 10yo can have a communicator in his pocket is fucking awesome, the fact that it can also access mankind's knowledge base is doubly awesome
Disclaimer - I haven't had a mobile phone for over a decade now.
Can anyone explain how this research impacts anyone in any substantial way
We explore because that's what humans do, those instincts have served us well and helped us climb to the top of the food chain. Also I think you mean "practical" rather than "substantial" because finding ET will have substantial philosophical impacts on billions of people, but probably won't have any immediate practical use..
Another Aussie dev here with 25yrs experience, worked for IBM/EDS and currently work for a Japanese multinational. Never seen anyone in IT hit with a drug test, however when I applied for a taxi driver's license in the 80's I had to pee in a bottle.
Not sure that's something to brag about, it implies nobody trusts you.
Testing positive and being off your face are two different things. I think drug tests are reasonable for safety reasons in that we don't want people drunk or stoned operating heavy machinery. However if I have a joint or a scotch the night before and it turns up as a blip on a drug test the day after, then its relevance to the job is zero. As for surgeons, I'm sure that more than a few of them enjoy a good stiff scotch when not on call.
Gutsy would imply an act of bravery, what we have is an act of stupidity.
I played 500 death match games with my son on a Sunday afternoon back in the 90's, final score was 250 / 250.
Electing judges is about as effective as electing doctors.
There are literally tens of millions of people in the US who never got past HS but still show up every day for far less than $20/hr. Requiring a crash test dummy to hold a degree is fucking ridiculous, if they want real world testing conditions then hire a bunch of frat boys, don't pay them, just put a keg in the back seat. If the autopilot can cope with that, then it can cope with picking up drunks in the early hours of Sunday morning. For extreme testing conditions use a mothers club and a couple of casks of red wine.
Disclaimer: Ex taxi driver.
what have we done since then?
Eradicated smallpox. Not as sexy as landing on the moon but certainly as difficult, more practical, and probably more dangerous.
Trivia: I will never forget the moon landing, mum let me have the day off school to watch it at home, I was so enthralled by the broadcast that I accidently sat on a plate of spaghetti.
Ever met a Christian who sold up all their stuff, gave the money away to the poor, and hit the road to spread the good news?
Yes, in outback Queensland, he was lugging a full sized a cross down the highway in 45C heat, miles from anywhere. Strange guy, wouldn't recommend the lifestyle.
there would a recovery from the recent recession anyway, even if Obama had done nothing
Nonsense, I don't like Bush but I do admire the way he worked with Obama and treasury in his final days of his term to stop the toppling dominoes with a massive wall of cash. I think the history books will say both sides of politics realised the gravity of the situation and actually came together with an (ultimately successful) plan to prevent another great depression.
Politicians often spend during the good times instead of save up,
Yep, it looks like we Aussies are at the end of a 30yr long mining boom driven by the expansion of China's infrastructure, it is the longest continuous growth streak for any economy in modern times and we have very little to show from it. Successive conservative (hah) governments pissed it away on tax breaks to miners and cuts to the top tax income tax rate. We are now wondering who's going to pay for lunch tomorrow?
Norway is a counterexample to that very common boom/bust scenario. They taxed the hell out of oil companies during the North Sea oil boom (knowing the boom would end one day), they reinvested the taxes in health and education. The boom is long gone but they were left with a world class health/education system, an educated workforce, and are still regularly at the top of standard of living charts.
when you have government doing things it shouldn't be doing, like running a national TV network
Americans may find this difficult to comprehend but there is a huge difference between "state funded" and "state run". This is why the USPO has fallen to bits, republicans tied the hands of USPTO managers by dictating prices of everything they sold, ie: they made and enforced all the financial decisions at the local post office, it was a deliberate (and successful) effort of the part of FED-ex and others lobbying to kill the "unfair" competition. It won't be so easy to pull down the BBC, it's has way more respect from the public than Murdoch and his pet government(s).
This was never a problem when I drove cabs 30yrs ago, first you make contact with the customer in person, then start the meter, then wait for them to get in, simple and fair for both parties. Yes it may mean you have to get off your arse and knock on the door to make contact. No contact after 5-10min trying, leave empty handed and put their name/address on the dispatcher's shit list.
This is why these surveys are pointless, most people (and more so young people) group whatever they don't like under an "isim" without any real idea of what it means. Since at least WW2 the US public has worked on the simple minded dogma that "capitalism = good, socialism = bad", neither classification is true or false, but that's what you get when you treat politics as a team sport.
If you're still running Python 2 code, you should into the mirror see where the problem lies. Python 3 is working just fine these days.
The "fuck up" the GP is referring too is that py3 broke backward compatibility, when it costs real money to manually port your code to a new version - it's a broken upgrade. For example - I have created an automated build system at work with py2, since py2 still works just fine why would I even try to justify spending time and money porting it to py3?
Stephen King is 68.
The speed of light in a vacuum is a consequence of Maxwell's equations, the fact that it is a constant value also follows from Maxwell's equations. Einstein's insight that spacetime is variable came directly from the confirmation of Maxwell's predictions.
EM radiation is nothing like a billiard ball, it is an electric and a magnetic field "falling over" each other. It's "mass" is proportional to it's wavelength. If a photon actually came to rest it wouldn't have a wavelength and therefore no mass, it would cease to exists - which is exactly what happens when it is absorbed by (say) an electron. The photon's energy doesn't disappear it is transferred to the electron.
The fact that estrogen can be a problem for fish" does not lead to the conclusion that this chemical is a problem, nor does the the fact it is a low dose does mean it is harmless. Sure it "might" cause problems in fish/humans but where is the evidence that it does?
Oh please, if the FBI had found anything even remotely useful they would be publicly beating Apple and lawmakers over the head with it. This whole saga is nothing more than a political wedge to extend their powers of search and seizure.