NPR gets a significant chunk of its money from radio stations.
And where do you think the local stations get all that money? Hint: not from donations - those go straight to NPR.
The local stations get their money from the federal government, then they hand it over to NPR. That's why NPR claims they only get 2% of their money from the government, but scream bloody murder if Congress tries to cut funding. Something over 50% of their revenue starts out as tax dollars or deductions before it gets laundered through the local stations.
The sample data was taken from a job posting site, so the data are guaranteed to be biased. They do some hand waving by displaying their numbers next to US Census data, but it's clear that their pay gaps are significantly different.
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Teach kids how to do algebra, teach them history, how to write poetry, how to play a musical instrument, how to code, how to speak in front of a group of people. They'll self-select into something they enjoy and/or are good at.
He understood how innovation and market saturation work together. Come out with something new, it sells great for a while. Then you need to come out with something else new, not make incremental changes to a product that's fighting a saturated market. If the new product makes the older product obsolete (e.g. iPhone vs iPod) so much the better.
Tim Cook either doesn't understand this, or he doesn't have the vision to develop something new
IBM seems to think cloud services are going to be one of its major lines of business. Yet (at least in this article) they aren't even mentioned as an also ran. Too late to the party, maybe they think they can keep existing customer locked-in.
"A parcel of the land, perhaps on the developed southeastern side of the base, could become a 'Woods Hole of the Caribbean,' housing research and educational facilities dedicated to addressing climate change, ocean conservation, and biodiversity loss. With genetics laboratories, geographic information systems laboratories, videoconference rooms — even art, music, and design studios — scientists, scholars, and artists from Cuba, the United States, and around the world could gather and study. The new facilities could strive to be carbon neutral, with four 80-meter wind turbines having been installed on the base in 2005, and designed to minimize ecological damage to the surrounding marine and terrestrial ecosystems"
It would be nirvana, heaven on Earth: diverse, socially and environmentally conscious. All it needs is some magic pixie dust to make it a reality.[/sarcasm]
I have Karma to burn, so I'll ask a question that has been on my mind for a while - is gender balance (in any industry) a goal? Or is it a means to a goal.
That's a very reasonable question, but the answer is "neither". The goal is equal opportunity; quotas don't solve that problem. A doctor would point out that they are treating one symptom while the patient is dying of the disease.
The jobs they compare aren't even comparable. Women never dominated computer programming, they dominated key punching. That disappeared when the programmers started using terminals and data was captured electronically. I'll bet if he looked more closely at the other jobs he would see something similar. When the high paying part of a job appears or disappears the men follow the money.
Nonsense. Spraying the ground before planting a non-glyphosate resistant crop is common practice to kill weeds and/or a cover crop. Read up on "no-till" agriculture.
It's also common with some crops to spray at the end of the season to make harvesting easier; for example, potatoes are often sprayed a couple of weeks before being dug to kill the tops.
where IP law is being used to bully the small guy into paying the big multi-national or go out of business
The problem is political corruption, but not IP law.
If you really want to help farmers in Third World countries you would help them break the monopolies that the commodity buyers have in their markets, where a farmer must sell at a price set buy the buyer who has the political connections. That is what drives farmers to suicide.
If the technology works, Loth wants to avoid putting the big-blade facilities on land. Instead they would be put offshore — some 20 to 25 miles from the coast....
Even if the titanic turbines pass the subscale modeling tests in 2019, Loth said it would take "probably 10, 15 years" before the first facility would be up and running.
It's at least 15 years away and they know they'll never get approval to build them on land. But still a reasonable approach where the conditions are right. It's almost like they're trying to find a workable and cost effective solution, unlike other alternatives that depend on subsidies.
They must have a bit flipped somewhere, because every kid riding down the road in his ricer has the stereo full blast and the windows wide open. The worse the "music" the louder it's played. Now get off my lawn.
So now that the optimum situation is to have no employees, we need a plan of what to do with the number one enemy of the corporate state, the human taker.
Ultimately there are only three choices
1) Keep spreading the limited resources thinner and thinner across a growing population,
2) Limit population growth
3) Increase productivity
Humans have been mostly depending on #1 and 3 until the resources run out, at which point genocide, famine, and war drop them into #2.
At some point a controlled application of #2 will be required, maybe better than China's attempt.
Not really all that clever. The Republicans boxed Obama into a corner - everyone knew a very liberal justice like Sotomayor or Kagan.to be dismissed immediately. The best he could hope for was to name a centrist.
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Then offer something technical rather than asking the same empty question multiple times in the same article as an Anonymous Coward.
Please quit spamming
Not at all.
There's more to banking than ATM and POS transactions.
The coding involved is limited to typing in sets of commands
That's not "coding". That's typing a set of commands to run something that someone else "coded".
NPR gets a significant chunk of its money from radio stations.
And where do you think the local stations get all that money? Hint: not from donations - those go straight to NPR.
The local stations get their money from the federal government, then they hand it over to NPR. That's why NPR claims they only get 2% of their money from the government, but scream bloody murder if Congress tries to cut funding. Something over 50% of their revenue starts out as tax dollars or deductions before it gets laundered through the local stations.
When employees encounter Glassdoor, they are given a limited preview of the site’s full content. To gain complete access, users are encouraged to contribute to the Glassdoor community by submitting an anonymous salary, company review, interview review, benefits review or company photo. In this way, users “give” content to the online community to “get” access to job information provided by others.
Teach kids how to do algebra, teach them history, how to write poetry, how to play a musical instrument, how to code, how to speak in front of a group of people. They'll self-select into something they enjoy and/or are good at.
He understood how innovation and market saturation work together. Come out with something new, it sells great for a while. Then you need to come out with something else new, not make incremental changes to a product that's fighting a saturated market. If the new product makes the older product obsolete (e.g. iPhone vs iPod) so much the better.
Tim Cook either doesn't understand this, or he doesn't have the vision to develop something new
IBM seems to think cloud services are going to be one of its major lines of business. Yet (at least in this article) they aren't even mentioned as an also ran. Too late to the party, maybe they think they can keep existing customer locked-in.
Tell that to the 224 people who died when Metrojet Flight 9268 was bombed by someone who did get past security.
Various headlines I saw this morning:
Explosions at Airport and Subway Leave 'Numerous' Dead in Brussels
New York Times
At least 28 killed in terror attacks at Brussels airport, Metro station
Fox News
Brussels Airport and Metro Explosions Kill at Least 16: Officials
NBCNews.com
Brussels explosions: Many dead in airport and metro terror attacks
BBC News
Left wing media just can't let themselves use the "T" word.
"A parcel of the land, perhaps on the developed southeastern side of the base, could become a 'Woods Hole of the Caribbean,' housing research and educational facilities dedicated to addressing climate change, ocean conservation, and biodiversity loss. With genetics laboratories, geographic information systems laboratories, videoconference rooms — even art, music, and design studios — scientists, scholars, and artists from Cuba, the United States, and around the world could gather and study. The new facilities could strive to be carbon neutral, with four 80-meter wind turbines having been installed on the base in 2005, and designed to minimize ecological damage to the surrounding marine and terrestrial ecosystems"
It would be nirvana, heaven on Earth: diverse, socially and environmentally conscious. All it needs is some magic pixie dust to make it a reality.[/sarcasm]
Maybe they should hire more Medieval History majors. That worked out so well for HP.
I have Karma to burn, so I'll ask a question that has been on my mind for a while - is gender balance (in any industry) a goal? Or is it a means to a goal.
That's a very reasonable question, but the answer is "neither". The goal is equal opportunity; quotas don't solve that problem. A doctor would point out that they are treating one symptom while the patient is dying of the disease.
Teachers complain about their gross pay, but they forget to mention it's for five hours a day, 9 months of the year.
The jobs they compare aren't even comparable. Women never dominated computer programming, they dominated key punching. That disappeared when the programmers started using terminals and data was captured electronically. I'll bet if he looked more closely at the other jobs he would see something similar. When the high paying part of a job appears or disappears the men follow the money.
because that isn't applied to non-GMO crops
Nonsense. Spraying the ground before planting a non-glyphosate resistant crop is common practice to kill weeds and/or a cover crop. Read up on "no-till" agriculture.
It's also common with some crops to spray at the end of the season to make harvesting easier; for example, potatoes are often sprayed a couple of weeks before being dug to kill the tops.
where IP law is being used to bully the small guy into paying the big multi-national or go out of business
The problem is political corruption, but not IP law.
If you really want to help farmers in Third World countries you would help them break the monopolies that the commodity buyers have in their markets, where a farmer must sell at a price set buy the buyer who has the political connections. That is what drives farmers to suicide.
If the technology works, Loth wants to avoid putting the big-blade facilities on land. Instead they would be put offshore — some 20 to 25 miles from the coast....
Even if the titanic turbines pass the subscale modeling tests in 2019, Loth said it would take "probably 10, 15 years" before the first facility would be up and running.
It's at least 15 years away and they know they'll never get approval to build them on land. But still a reasonable approach where the conditions are right. It's almost like they're trying to find a workable and cost effective solution, unlike other alternatives that depend on subsidies.
Turn the stereo on and the windows close
They must have a bit flipped somewhere, because every kid riding down the road in his ricer has the stereo full blast and the windows wide open. The worse the "music" the louder it's played. Now get off my lawn.
Maybe because the people writing the code are employed by the companies and research institutions?
So now that the optimum situation is to have no employees, we need a plan of what to do with the number one enemy of the corporate state, the human taker.
Ultimately there are only three choices
1) Keep spreading the limited resources thinner and thinner across a growing population,
2) Limit population growth
3) Increase productivity
Humans have been mostly depending on #1 and 3 until the resources run out, at which point genocide, famine, and war drop them into #2.
At some point a controlled application of #2 will be required, maybe better than China's attempt.
If you raise a puppy as a public service you might get your neighbors to pay at least some of the costs.
One could argue that developing something useful as open source is also a public service, although I don't think this bill is the answer.
Not really all that clever. The Republicans boxed Obama into a corner - everyone knew a very liberal justice like Sotomayor or Kagan.to be dismissed immediately. The best he could hope for was to name a centrist.