You are correct. It would appear the AC only thinks sexism occurs with regards to women. As for the moderators, I would have been fine with a -1 off-topic, but -1 overrated is just someone who uses mod points to disagree.
Ah, the hypocrisy of society. Women are allowed to make sexist comments with impunity. Just like how minorities are allowed to form racially specific groups without retribution. Could you imagine the uproar if we were to make a white's only awards show? Or a magazine called "Ivory"?
Unless you need healthcare, then you can forget that route.
Contractors get no health coverage and many people can't get it without group policies.
I am a fulltime employee. My company pays for me to have a healthplan.If I want my family on it, it would cost me about $900 a month. So instead, I got my own individual plan. It was about $200 a month.
Of course, I got Insurance, and not a Health Plan. But that is what one really wants anyway.
Of course they are scams, whether required by U.S. law or not. They make you spend tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars in personnel time documenting processes and implementing security procedures, many of which are counter-productive to increasing security. Then they make all the employees take asinine tests, many of which have questions like "So and so's passphrase is 'I like blue cars', which of the following is probably her password?" It is a colossal waste of time for any business and a huge money maker for the certification agencies. No customer looking at a business should think more highly of a business because it has passed one of these certifications.
I Agree. At home, I have a Desktop PC. 3700k i7 Processor, 30" IPS monitor, SSD boot drive. I have no desire to use a laptop and especially not a tablet at home. At work, I have to use a laptop because they want us to take it home every day so they can get 24 hours of work out of us. At work I never use the laptop just as it is. I have it hooked up to an external monitor, external keyboard, external mouse. I do most of my viewing on the external screen. The laptop is essentially just a CPU, memory and disk drive holder.
At home, I hate using the laptop because I have to use it without all of the external devices which make it actually usable. It is extremely limiting to have to type on the included keyboard, use the touchpad, and try to view everything I need to see on the puny 17" display (which is still bigger than most other laptops).
It takes me 2 to 3 times as long to do something on the laptop itself as compared to the laptop with the external devices. From what I have seen of tablets, it would probably be about 10 times as long to get something done as compared to a desktop setup.
Oh, sure I could buy one on credit. No doubt that even though I have essentially zero disposable income, they would still be more than happy to finance a $30,000 car for me. But that would be just plain foolish of me to do.
If you can't afford to buy the car outright, then you should not buy it. If you can afford to buy it outright, then by all means buy it, on credit, and put the cash you would have spent into a mutual fund or something.
fyi, upper-middle class in the US is more in the range of $200,000 - $400,000 per year...
Oh, well then I am not upper middle class at all, then. Since I make less than half of that I guess I am lower middle class. No wonder I can't afford a $30,000 car.
You also forgot to mention (though you likely know) that getting a STC (Supplemental Type Certificate) for an Unleaded Gasoline engine in the hundreds of models that are still using 100LL is going to take many millions of dollars and years of testing and paperwork to push through the certifying authority, which also happens to be the authority trying to force the issue.
New Jersey is a handsfree only state and yet they still have that many accidents caused by talking on the cell phone? Maybe even handsfree shouldn't be allowed.
Helmet laws seem very inconsistant. Why are you not required to wear one in a convertible? To be consistant it should be based on what sort of protection the vehicle provides for your head.
I'm probably missing a few counterexamples, but it seems to me that any vehicle where seatbelts are not required ought to have helmets required. Obviously this doesn't include back seats, older cars that had no seatbelts, etc. Basically if you are expected to be disconnected from the vehicle in an accident, then you need your own protection.
Well, I am technically upper middle class, and there is no way I could afford a $30,000 car, so I would assume I would have to be rich to afford one. However, a lot of the entry level people in my company who make 1/4 of what I make have $30,000 cars, so maybe you have to be rich or below poverty level to have a $30,000 car.
I am familiar with the Peter Principle but have never seen it in action. In all of the places I have worked, if you are competent at your current job then that will forever be your job. However, if you don't know how to do your job, then they will promote you to managing someone who does know how to do that job.
Under VFR (Visual Flight Rules) pilots should look for other traffic and ATC tells them where they should see it.
Clarification: Under VFR, ATC will only provider traffic advisories if you request it and are in contact with ATC, which in many circumstance is not even necessary.
Under IFR (Instrument Flight Rules), ATC will provide traffic advisories, but visual separation is still required unless the aircraft is operating in actual IMC (Instrument Meteorological Conditions). IFR flights are still responsible to see and avoid, provided that they can actually see.
If it was a military operation, then the commercial airliner would not have been in the area. When they are flying in civilian airspace they need to have the transponder on.
The volume of air from the surface to about 27,000 feet is 4.2 billion kilometers. So, if we estimate that there are about 2 billion households in the world, then everybody would have 2 cubic kilometers to call their own. The rules are a little tricky regarding horizontal and vertical separation, because horizontal separation is required only when vertical is not met. If we place everyone at the 300m vertical separation limit (and round slightly), then everyone can have a plane of about 8 square kilometers to themselves. Now, most of Earth is uninhabited, relatively speaking, and people aren't going to be driving short range vehicles far from their home, so you basically have 1% of the Earth where people will be using these. So instead of 8 square kilometers of space, it is actually more like.08 square kilometers which is a square of less than 300 meters on a side. Figure on cutting down probably another 1/4 of that space for landing areas and descending and ascending areas, and you are looking at tight quarters indeed.
No military aircraft operate under civilian traffic control.
Substitute "No" with "Almost all" and you will be correct. Except in emergencies, war and in Military Operation Areas, military aircraft cooperate with local Air Traffic Control. Even in designated Military Operation Areas, military will often convey their intentions to ATC, as civilian aircraft may still use the airspace, sometimes even when it is active. Often there are altitudes or particular areas where the operations will be occurring and ATC will be made aware.
So it's not like the drone is a robot that decides where and when to fly on its own, this is not hugely different from just 2 normal large passengers jets being directed at each other by ground control.
Of course it is different. Pilots of an aircraft being directed by flight control still have a responsibility to "see and avoid" and may turn down an ATC command if necessary to protect the safety of the flight. Pilots in a plane also have at least 180 degrees of visual available to them with a quick turn of the neck. There are also two pilots available to be scanning for traffic. Further, the view to the pilot is instantaneous and analog allowing for much finer detail and easier detection of traffic.
Does IBM not care about trending? If a certain area over the last five to minutes has started getting warmer, it is time to direct air over there. Unfortunately, a roomba can't make it around the whole data center to collect this kind of data every minute or every 30 seconds, so you can't collect trending data.
People who strongly believe in gun rights, who believe it is fair for citizens to take up arms against the government when the government overreaches its powers, would agree with the SCOTUS and say it is quite fair to take DNA sample at the time of arrest.
Even though it is pretty clear by now that your supposition is entirely false, I will also go ahead and add my voice, and that of all the dozens of other gun owners that I know, that there is no way a gun owner would be in favor of DNA sampling.
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You are correct. It would appear the AC only thinks sexism occurs with regards to women. As for the moderators, I would have been fine with a -1 off-topic, but -1 overrated is just someone who uses mod points to disagree.
Ah, the hypocrisy of society. Women are allowed to make sexist comments with impunity. Just like how minorities are allowed to form racially specific groups without retribution. Could you imagine the uproar if we were to make a white's only awards show? Or a magazine called "Ivory"?
"Why are you ignoring my PMs?"
You just made my day. I have no idea what a PM is in relation to facebook, and that makes me happy.
Why not kill the robber?
Cook Meth :)
Oddly, whenever they show meth houses on the news, they always seem to be run down shacks. So where do these people put all their money?
Unless you need healthcare, then you can forget that route.
Contractors get no health coverage and many people can't get it without group policies.
I am a fulltime employee. My company pays for me to have a healthplan.If I want my family on it, it would cost me about $900 a month. So instead, I got my own individual plan. It was about $200 a month.
Of course, I got Insurance, and not a Health Plan. But that is what one really wants anyway.
Of course they are scams, whether required by U.S. law or not. They make you spend tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars in personnel time documenting processes and implementing security procedures, many of which are counter-productive to increasing security. Then they make all the employees take asinine tests, many of which have questions like "So and so's passphrase is 'I like blue cars', which of the following is probably her password?" It is a colossal waste of time for any business and a huge money maker for the certification agencies. No customer looking at a business should think more highly of a business because it has passed one of these certifications.
I Agree. At home, I have a Desktop PC. 3700k i7 Processor, 30" IPS monitor, SSD boot drive. I have no desire to use a laptop and especially not a tablet at home. At work, I have to use a laptop because they want us to take it home every day so they can get 24 hours of work out of us. At work I never use the laptop just as it is. I have it hooked up to an external monitor, external keyboard, external mouse. I do most of my viewing on the external screen. The laptop is essentially just a CPU, memory and disk drive holder.
At home, I hate using the laptop because I have to use it without all of the external devices which make it actually usable. It is extremely limiting to have to type on the included keyboard, use the touchpad, and try to view everything I need to see on the puny 17" display (which is still bigger than most other laptops).
It takes me 2 to 3 times as long to do something on the laptop itself as compared to the laptop with the external devices. From what I have seen of tablets, it would probably be about 10 times as long to get something done as compared to a desktop setup.
Which is more important to your business? Being able to produce, or being compliant with the latest industry certification scam?
Its called credit.
Oh, sure I could buy one on credit. No doubt that even though I have essentially zero disposable income, they would still be more than happy to finance a $30,000 car for me. But that would be just plain foolish of me to do.
If you can't afford to buy the car outright, then you should not buy it. If you can afford to buy it outright, then by all means buy it, on credit, and put the cash you would have spent into a mutual fund or something.
fyi, upper-middle class in the US is more in the range of $200,000 - $400,000 per year...
Oh, well then I am not upper middle class at all, then. Since I make less than half of that I guess I am lower middle class. No wonder I can't afford a $30,000 car.
You also forgot to mention (though you likely know) that getting a STC (Supplemental Type Certificate) for an Unleaded Gasoline engine in the hundreds of models that are still using 100LL is going to take many millions of dollars and years of testing and paperwork to push through the certifying authority, which also happens to be the authority trying to force the issue.
New Jersey is a handsfree only state and yet they still have that many accidents caused by talking on the cell phone? Maybe even handsfree shouldn't be allowed.
I have never understood this.
Helmet laws seem very inconsistant. Why are you not required to wear one in a convertible? To be consistant it should be based on what sort of protection the vehicle provides for your head.
I'm probably missing a few counterexamples, but it seems to me that any vehicle where seatbelts are not required ought to have helmets required. Obviously this doesn't include back seats, older cars that had no seatbelts, etc. Basically if you are expected to be disconnected from the vehicle in an accident, then you need your own protection.
So you have to be rich to buy a $30,000 car?
Since when?
Well, I am technically upper middle class, and there is no way I could afford a $30,000 car, so I would assume I would have to be rich to afford one. However, a lot of the entry level people in my company who make 1/4 of what I make have $30,000 cars, so maybe you have to be rich or below poverty level to have a $30,000 car.
I am familiar with the Peter Principle but have never seen it in action. In all of the places I have worked, if you are competent at your current job then that will forever be your job. However, if you don't know how to do your job, then they will promote you to managing someone who does know how to do that job.
The second place winner gets two laptops with Windows 8 on it.
Under VFR (Visual Flight Rules) pilots should look for other traffic and ATC tells them where they should see it.
Clarification: Under VFR, ATC will only provider traffic advisories if you request it and are in contact with ATC, which in many circumstance is not even necessary.
Under IFR (Instrument Flight Rules), ATC will provide traffic advisories, but visual separation is still required unless the aircraft is operating in actual IMC (Instrument Meteorological Conditions). IFR flights are still responsible to see and avoid, provided that they can actually see.
If it was a military operation, then the commercial airliner would not have been in the area. When they are flying in civilian airspace they need to have the transponder on.
The volume of air from the surface to about 27,000 feet is 4.2 billion kilometers. So, if we estimate that there are about 2 billion households in the world, then everybody would have 2 cubic kilometers to call their own. The rules are a little tricky regarding horizontal and vertical separation, because horizontal separation is required only when vertical is not met. If we place everyone at the 300m vertical separation limit (and round slightly), then everyone can have a plane of about 8 square kilometers to themselves. Now, most of Earth is uninhabited, relatively speaking, and people aren't going to be driving short range vehicles far from their home, so you basically have 1% of the Earth where people will be using these. So instead of 8 square kilometers of space, it is actually more like .08 square kilometers which is a square of less than 300 meters on a side. Figure on cutting down probably another 1/4 of that space for landing areas and descending and ascending areas, and you are looking at tight quarters indeed.
No military aircraft operate under civilian traffic control.
Substitute "No" with "Almost all" and you will be correct. Except in emergencies, war and in Military Operation Areas, military aircraft cooperate with local Air Traffic Control. Even in designated Military Operation Areas, military will often convey their intentions to ATC, as civilian aircraft may still use the airspace, sometimes even when it is active. Often there are altitudes or particular areas where the operations will be occurring and ATC will be made aware.
So it's not like the drone is a robot that decides where and when to fly on its own, this is not hugely different from just 2 normal large passengers jets being directed at each other by ground control.
Of course it is different. Pilots of an aircraft being directed by flight control still have a responsibility to "see and avoid" and may turn down an ATC command if necessary to protect the safety of the flight. Pilots in a plane also have at least 180 degrees of visual available to them with a quick turn of the neck. There are also two pilots available to be scanning for traffic. Further, the view to the pilot is instantaneous and analog allowing for much finer detail and easier detection of traffic.
If it was a military operation, they could just turn the transponder off.
Does IBM not care about trending? If a certain area over the last five to minutes has started getting warmer, it is time to direct air over there. Unfortunately, a roomba can't make it around the whole data center to collect this kind of data every minute or every 30 seconds, so you can't collect trending data.
I wonder how big a data center has to be before this is cheaper than just putting in a lot of temperature probes.
I would estimate for any data center larger than zero square feet it would be two orders of magnitude cheaper to put in temperature probes.
People who strongly believe in gun rights, who believe it is fair for citizens to take up arms against the government when the government overreaches its powers, would agree with the SCOTUS and say it is quite fair to take DNA sample at the time of arrest.
Even though it is pretty clear by now that your supposition is entirely false, I will also go ahead and add my voice, and that of all the dozens of other gun owners that I know, that there is no way a gun owner would be in favor of DNA sampling.