Resumes with "black" sounding names didn't get called back for an interview.
Those names say much more than race. They indicate lower-class parents - less educated and intelligent. Smart middle-class parents, black or white, generally do not give their kids made-up or deliberately mis-spelled names.
It may not be fair to visit the sins of the fathers on the job applicant, but neither is it evidence of racism.
OP is asking about Central Europe during winter. Solar is not an option - certainly not for backup. Wind turbines are not economical on a small scale, and not reliable enough as a backup.
Backup power and heating is a common problem with well-know solutions: generator, oil or LPG heater with stored fuel, improved insulation. Heat needs may be reduced temporarily by covering windows, closing off unused rooms, taping gaps, lowering thermostat.
The government really should be building nuclear plants, and gas ones that can switch to pulverised coal or oil if needed, with large stockpiles near the site.
Diversity of ideas and personalities is good, but not diversity when it is used as a euphemism for racial and gender quotas. The United States has arguably benefited greatly in some areas from cultural diversity, (business, entertainment, arts,...) but I do not see any evidence for that in engineering. Places like Finland, Korea and Japan seem to have done just fine in technology without diversity. Better than most countries.
Worldwide, engineers are overwhelmingly male, despite all sorts of affirmative action policies, so excluding women, while unfair, would only lose you a small portion of the talent pool in that area. (Unlike other professions.)
Hasn't racial segregation just been replaced by postcode segregation?
Its getting more that way in Australia, with large variation in average scores of different schools. Smart people in poor suburbs tend to send the kids to private schools (often Catholic), or get them into specialist programmes in non-local schools.
It is not even novel. TFA says the purpose is to bypass check-in. Some hotels have been using credit cards for many years now to do this. Eg small hotels after hours. It can even be made more secure by a PIN in your booking confirmation.
Once you are checked in, nfc makes more sense. Can't they just use any existing nfc chip in your phone or credit cards for ID? Why all the trouble of getting your phone out?
Smart guy, but not a great engineer. Unlike Archimedes water screw, his device does not work. All DaVince did was see an ancient water-screw and suggest using it in the air. He was wrong. Not that he ever even tested the idea so far as we know.
My 4-year-old can draw a flying robot, but I do not count that as an invention.
Barely. The wheel only rotates twice a second, and they are keeping the weight close to the hub. The rotational energy will be small, and recovered by regenerative braking or coasting anyway. It really does not matter. Unsprung mass is not much of an issue on a road bike either. Total mass is what counts, and this wheel _will_ make the bike more difficult to carry, e.g up stairs.
Also the topping out at 20 MPH is a little low.
Really? That is faster than the average speed of cars in major cities. (Or minor cities at commuting hours.) And most cyclists would need a _very_ good tail-wind to maintain that speed on the flat on a regular bike.
There are good reasons to limit the speed: (aside from local regulations) - safety (bike and rider's clothing are not designed for high-speed spills), - battery life - power is proportional to the cube of velocity - motor efficiency - designing a motor for higher speed will make it less efficient when it is really needed - hills and headwinds. Remember the motor has only one gear.
but it would be nice if the top speed could be upped just a little, maybe to 25 mph.
You are talking about an electric motorbike or moped, not a power-assisted bike. They do exist.
Thanks, I stand corrected. I see cardiac arrest means the blood flow stops, but hopefully the heart still has some movement. (The point stands though, 8% survival for cardiac arrest, higher for other heart attacks. )
Don't be offended. Lots of religions start out as jokes or satire, before inexplicably being taken seriously. If you ever read the Book of Mormon, or Dianetics, you will see what I mean.
It could be time to re-label those E-Meters as midichlorian meters, and make a fortune.
Showing anxiety over the word "God" or "Creator" and claiming that the words alone are indoctrinating or theological
Context please! There is no controversy over the declaration, written by Deists in a predominantly Christian country. Nor would anyone pay much attention to the pledge, if it were not for countless schoolchildren being forced or encouraged to repeat it every day. It is the mindless repetition that is the problem. I understand this is a very big issue in the US, and some states have banned the pledge from schools entirely!
The word "God" would not have bothered the founding fathers, it's a generic term that in no way claims any particular Religion is right or wrong.
Yes indeed. But you could certainly not say the same for those who modified the pledge in 1954.
The declaration was written by Jefferson, whose religious views deserve their own wikipedia page and are hard to summarise. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...
While Jefferson uses the word God, it is far from the same sense used by the conservative Christians of 1954. Politically, they were the antithesis of Jefferson. Interestingly, the original pledge was written by a Christian socialist, but made no mention of religion. And I really cannot see Jefferson putting God into any pledge.
I've seen some ridiculous comments on/. before, but this really takes the cake.
You may well disagree, but to ridicule the notion is evidence of indoctrination. Lincoln did many admirable things, but is also chose to pursue a war that makes Vietnam look like a schoolyard fight. The South was far from innocent, but Lincoln, in the position of strength, could easily have ended hostilities and dictated terms for independence. He chose to "preserve the union" at any cost, and was ruthless with anyone who opposed the war:
George William Brown, the Mayor of Baltimore, the entire city council, all the police commissioners, a sitting U.S. Congresman and other Maryland politicians were arrested and imprisoned, without warrants, charges, or trials, as Lincoln unilaterally suspended the writ of habeas corpus.[149]
What would you say if Gorbachov had acted similarly with the breakaway republics in the 80s and 90's? A hero for preserving the Soviet Union if it destroyed the infrastructure and decimated their population of the breakaway states?
Anyway, my point is not about Lincoln, but that any criticism of him is still regarded as heresy by mainstream Americans. this is indoctrination.
The God bit was only added in 1954, and probably would have horrified the founding fathers.
""indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
Thats the scary bit, which sounds a lot like China. A legacy of the civil war. US is the Hotel California - you can never leave. Last time some states disagreed and tried to leave, millions died. Fortunately the Russians did not treat their former republics that way! So long as the Americans treat Lincoln as a hero, instead of a mass killer in the company of Stalin and Mao, we know the indoctrination is strong.
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Resumes with "black" sounding names didn't get called back for an interview.
Those names say much more than race. They indicate lower-class parents - less educated and intelligent.
Smart middle-class parents, black or white, generally do not give their kids made-up or deliberately mis-spelled names.
It may not be fair to visit the sins of the fathers on the job applicant, but neither is it evidence of racism.
Its a shame that the Chaos Theory has completely destroyed the basic premise of the foundation series.
Psychohistory looks a bit silly now.
That Al-Quaida gets its name from these books?
Yes. As a Russian American Jew, Asimov represented everything that Bin Laden loved.
PV and air-con is fine for reducing your carbon emissions, but it ain't a reliable backup system.
As far as solar goes,
OP is asking about Central Europe during winter. Solar is not an option - certainly not for backup.
Wind turbines are not economical on a small scale, and not reliable enough as a backup.
Backup power and heating is a common problem with well-know solutions:
generator, oil or LPG heater with stored fuel, improved insulation.
Heat needs may be reduced temporarily by covering windows, closing off unused rooms, taping gaps, lowering thermostat.
The government really should be building nuclear plants, and gas ones that can switch to pulverised coal or oil if needed, with large stockpiles near the site.
I'll have you know that in Oz,... I'm a bit pissed, ... the Brits ... some war or something that they had with a former colony
I'm going to call you out as a fake Aussie. "Pissed" means drunk here (we say "pissed off"), and we never call the British "Brits".
Selling sand to an Arab!! Hah, now I've heard it all.
What's next? Selling snow to an Eskimo?
No. But Australia exports camels to the Arabs for racing stock.
https://www.google.com.au/#q=a...
Diversity of ideas and personalities is good, but not diversity when it is used as a euphemism for racial and gender quotas. ...) but I do not see any evidence for that in engineering.
The United States has arguably benefited greatly in some areas from cultural diversity, (business, entertainment, arts,
Places like Finland, Korea and Japan seem to have done just fine in technology without diversity. Better than most countries.
Worldwide, engineers are overwhelmingly male, despite all sorts of affirmative action policies, so excluding women, while unfair, would only lose you a small portion of the talent pool in that area. (Unlike other professions.)
Very funny. Except that Einstein emigrated to the US in 1933. In 1905 he lived in Switzerland.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...
Personally I find a fair proportion of jazz a turgid cacophony.
He did say fine music and jazz, clearly implying a distinction.
Hasn't racial segregation just been replaced by postcode segregation?
Its getting more that way in Australia, with large variation in average scores of different schools.
Smart people in poor suburbs tend to send the kids to private schools (often Catholic), or get them into specialist programmes in non-local schools.
It is not even novel. TFA says the purpose is to bypass check-in. Some hotels have been using credit cards for many years now to do this. Eg small hotels after hours. It can even be made more secure by a PIN in your booking confirmation.
Once you are checked in, nfc makes more sense. Can't they just use any existing nfc chip in your phone or credit cards for ID? Why all the trouble of getting your phone out?
Millions of uranium centrifuge parts sold openly:
http://www.alibaba.com/country...
Somebody call Colin Powell!
Smart guy, but not a great engineer. Unlike Archimedes water screw, his device does not work.
All DaVince did was see an ancient water-screw and suggest using it in the air. He was wrong.
Not that he ever even tested the idea so far as we know.
My 4-year-old can draw a flying robot, but I do not count that as an invention.
TFA says the wheel weighs 13 lbs, which is a ton,
Did you work on the Mars Climate Orbiter?
and it's rotating mass.
Barely. The wheel only rotates twice a second, and they are keeping the weight close to the hub. The rotational energy will be small, and recovered by regenerative braking or coasting anyway. It really does not matter.
Unsprung mass is not much of an issue on a road bike either. Total mass is what counts, and this wheel _will_ make the bike more difficult to carry, e.g up stairs.
Also the topping out at 20 MPH is a little low.
Really? That is faster than the average speed of cars in major cities. (Or minor cities at commuting hours.) And most cyclists would need a _very_ good tail-wind to maintain that speed on the flat on a regular bike.
There are good reasons to limit the speed: (aside from local regulations)
- safety (bike and rider's clothing are not designed for high-speed spills),
- battery life - power is proportional to the cube of velocity
- motor efficiency - designing a motor for higher speed will make it less efficient when it is really needed - hills and headwinds. Remember the motor has only one gear.
but it would be nice if the top speed could be upped just a little, maybe to 25 mph.
You are talking about an electric motorbike or moped, not a power-assisted bike. They do exist.
Thanks, I stand corrected. I see cardiac arrest means the blood flow stops, but hopefully the heart still has some movement.
(The point stands though, 8% survival for cardiac arrest, higher for other heart attacks. )
Sure hope that's a typo, or heart attacks are really fatal over there.
No, you just misread a badly written article.
The 8% is for cardiac arrest, i.e. the heart stops, without a defibrillator.
Heart attacks generally (myocardial infarction) are not quite so bad.
The problem is, most of the biblical literalists don't consider Catholicism to be a valid branch of Christianity.
Branch? Not so much a branch, as the trunk, I would have said.
Don't be offended. Lots of religions start out as jokes or satire, before inexplicably being taken seriously.
If you ever read the Book of Mormon, or Dianetics, you will see what I mean.
It could be time to re-label those E-Meters as midichlorian meters, and make a fortune.
Showing anxiety over the word "God" or "Creator" and claiming that the words alone are indoctrinating or theological
Context please! There is no controversy over the declaration, written by Deists in a predominantly Christian country. Nor would anyone pay much attention to the pledge, if it were not for countless schoolchildren being forced or encouraged to repeat it every day. It is the mindless repetition that is the problem. I understand this is a very big issue in the US, and some states have banned the pledge from schools entirely!
The word "God" would not have bothered the founding fathers, it's a generic term that in no way claims any particular Religion is right or wrong.
Yes indeed. But you could certainly not say the same for those who modified the pledge in 1954.
The declaration was written by Jefferson, whose religious views deserve their own wikipedia page and are hard to summarise.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...
While Jefferson uses the word God, it is far from the same sense used by the conservative Christians of 1954.
Politically, they were the antithesis of Jefferson. Interestingly, the original pledge was written by a Christian socialist, but made no mention of religion.
And I really cannot see Jefferson putting God into any pledge.
I've seen some ridiculous comments on /. before, but this really takes the cake.
You may well disagree, but to ridicule the notion is evidence of indoctrination.
Lincoln did many admirable things, but is also chose to pursue a war that makes Vietnam look like a schoolyard fight.
The South was far from innocent, but Lincoln, in the position of strength, could easily have ended hostilities and dictated terms for independence.
He chose to "preserve the union" at any cost, and was ruthless with anyone who opposed the war:
George William Brown, the Mayor of Baltimore, the entire city council, all the police commissioners, a sitting U.S. Congresman and other Maryland politicians were arrested and imprisoned, without warrants, charges, or trials, as Lincoln unilaterally suspended the writ of habeas corpus.[149]
What would you say if Gorbachov had acted similarly with the breakaway republics in the 80s and 90's? A hero for preserving the Soviet Union if it destroyed the infrastructure and decimated their population of the breakaway states?
Anyway, my point is not about Lincoln, but that any criticism of him is still regarded as heresy by mainstream Americans. this is indoctrination.
No shit shirlock.
Hard to take seriously someone who has never heard of Sherlock Holmes. What are you, eight years old?
"one Nation under God"
The God bit was only added in 1954, and probably would have horrified the founding fathers.
""indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
Thats the scary bit, which sounds a lot like China. A legacy of the civil war. US is the Hotel California - you can never leave. Last time some states disagreed and tried to leave, millions died.
Fortunately the Russians did not treat their former republics that way!
So long as the Americans treat Lincoln as a hero, instead of a mass killer in the company of Stalin and Mao, we know the indoctrination is strong.