Someone had interviewed some people that were supposed to be proctoring exams, and basically it came down to a combination of carrot and stick. The carrot in the form of bribes, and the stick in the form of violent retribution for those that would attempt to stop the cheating. Basically the proctors had no incentive to stop the cheating and every incentive to let it continue.
Until there's an outside influence that causes it to stop, like employers engaging in their own independent tests where the testee is surprised and must perform without having an opportunity to set up the framework to cheat, or where other countries stop engaging Indian firms because of it, it will simply continue.
First, it was already 'desecrated' when I got there. Second, when it was donated to the school by a parent it had a blown engine, body damage, a destroyed interior, and most of its trim was missing. It was on its way to the crusher when it detoured to here as a tax-writeoff for the owner instead.
Besides, a Porsche 914 is not exactly the pinnacle of Porsche technology or appreciation. Hell, that one-off front-engine model is better liked than the 914.
I'm curious if this can work as an incentive to keep kids in school, or to get kids to enroll in higher-level math in order to continue to meet the prerequisites to take the computer science classes. As in, if they really like the entry-level class, but have to take math to keep going up, if they actually will continue to take math.
I was on my high school's electric car team. We had a '73 Porsche 914 converted to use 24 deep-cycle lead-acid batteries located in the trunk and in the engine bay. The DC motor was a starter for an aircraft small jet engine if memory serves. There were six of us, seven if you count the auto shop teacher that was the sponsor.
So I guess we could have counted as one of Branson's teams, strictly speaking, had he sponsored us.
That one probably is easy to fix as it's small. The ones on the Moon that people are talking about are supposed to be stadium-sized though, which means reinforcing a void that large is significantly more complicated. We could truck rebar up to the mouth of the cave in Arizona and run hoses to pump in concrete there, but on the Moon there is no cement factory and attempting to send that much rebar up would be cost prohibitive, and that's before even looking at the actual construction labor aspect of reinforcing it.
We do not know the effects of meteoric bombardment. Lava tubes that appear stable hundreds of kilometers from an impact might collapse even if the surface in that region would be otherwise unaffected.
The entire point of using a lava tube is that it is its own support structure. The trouble is that lava tube ceilings, at least on Earth, do have a habit of shedding material. There's a lava tube in the Coconino National Forest in northern Arizona that has had its share of ceiling collapses and other cave-ins (which is actually how it was discovered in the first place) so there's a certain degree of greater risk when going in. For short visits the odds of being injured from a collapse is small, but I'm sure that living there would be quite risky.
I guess it'll come down to finding out if any lava tubes actually do exist on the Moon, and if so, does the surrounding geology mean they're truly stable. Given the moon's history of bombardment I wonder how many would have been destroyed in the intervening millenia.
By definition that's not mass-transit. That's just transit.
The real advantage that I see to self-driving vehicles for commutes is their ability to park off-site or to self-valet after dropping off their occupant(s) at the destination. Free parking is the norm in suburban areas, but in urban areas where one cannot necessarily park close to one's destination anyway, being able to subscribe to one's garage or parking lot and simply let the car go park itself after getting out would be a real time-saver. Depending on the cost of parking versus the cost of driving, it might even make sense to send the car home again and have it return later to collect the person. Plus if the navigation and area perception sensors are really good, cars might be able to park too close to open doors, meaning more cars could park in a given area than if passengers have to get in and out while they're parked.
I forgot to add, for those that feel strongly about not voting, require a form of contentious objector status against voting, requiring renewal every so often (like once per decade) to qualify to not vote. Mainly would apply to religious groups like the Amish. Don't make it overly burdensome but don't make it automatic like it is now either.
I expect that mandatory voting would be phased-in over the course of several election cycles. First this would allow the oldest generations that are most likely to lack ID to simply pass away from natural causes before it's an issue. Second, it would create time for states to determine how they're going to implement free ID (remember, can't make anyone pay for anything in order to vote as that is a poll tax) and how to distribute it. Third, it would give time for all of the inevitable lawsuits surrounding a federal ID statute that already are ongoing over the Real ID act.
I already have a driver's license and a passport. I'm considering getting one of those passport cards for Canadian/Mexican border entry when my passport itself is up for renewal in a couple of years. I could see some kind of national ID that could also have an optional border-entry endorsement on it, that could be used as ID when there's no need to prove that one can drive (ie, all those places that want your driver's license info for no good reason, like the bank). Make the ID part free, make the extra federal endorsements (border entry, TSA Pre, Global Entry, etc) fit whatever fee structure is considered necessary to administer those programs. Require that this form of ID be fully legal anywhere within the US.
Humans are already willing to make the economically inferior choice in that we don't use mass-transit in many cases even when it would arguably be easier or less stressful than driving ourselves. Part of that is the feeling of control that we want over the situation. While the occupants might technically exercise ultimate control over a self-driving vehicle in the form of ownership, the lack of immediate control might not be accepted.
There are still people that own and ride horses, even in suburban and urban areas, even after the automobile has supplanted the horse as the primary means of transportation, and despite the drawbacks that caring for another living thing over an inanimate object creates. I very much doubt that eliminating the ability to drive on unimproved 'roads' in national forests and other undeveloped lands will ever pass, as too many people enjoy doing it and too many other people would like the option even if they don't do it regularly.
I'll happily use a self-driving car for my morning commute and for other mundane driving, but I will not voluntarily give up the right to drive myself when I want to. If it comes down to the choice between only autonomous vehicles or only human-driven vehicles, I would cast my support for the latter.
Pretty much. I can see cases for autonomous vehicles, but I can also see cases where one want or even needs to operate the vehicle. I don't doubt that drivers will want to cede driving to the car for their boring commutes or even for relatively boring cross-country drives on interstate highways, but there are on-road and off-road drives that are a lot of fun for the enthusiast and many such as I won't want to give up the option for that.
This might be one area where looking at the current behavior of the wealthy could indicate how people will behave when self-driving cars become mainstream. Many very wealthy people will employ a driver for mundane driving but will drive themselves for leisure driving or sport. I could see the family sedan or van or SUV being primarily self-driving, but in a household with more than one car a second vehicle might be sportier and more commonly human-driven, either on-road or off-road. I also expect that self-driving vehicles will still be capable of being human-driven so that people can drive on unpaved roads or can place vehicles in garages or service bays where the computer probably would struggle to figure out the logic of the area.
Given that Chernobyl blew up in 1986 and again raised our fear of what was going to happen with nuclear power, I don't think it's as obscure to children of the Eighties as you're assuming.
...if you have the financial resources to afford to crash and burn. For most of us there's a significant incubation period that might even require profitability before we can afford to push past the point of safety or reliability and dial it back.
Even more importantly, the FDIC works to merge banks when they're overleveraged, so qualifying insured accounts even over the guaranteed $250,000 haven't been impacted. The customer finds that they're now working with a different bank, the bank that absorbed their failing bank.
No, banks were allowed to engage in business other than loaning money based on deposits. Once banks turned into investment banks with excessive leverage and a desire to profit from the market itself then they became a danger. On the other hand, good old fashioned insured deposit accounts (ie, FDIC/NCUA territory) were completely untouched by the crisis in the United States.
I expect that he's angry because of being hit with overdraft fees, had loans go into default, been denied loans at application, or been mired in credit card debt from a card he got through his bank.
Most of those would be his problem, not the bank's. The bank is not obligated to let the account holder spend more money than they have. I disagree with how the banks will debit against the account largest transaction to smallest so that multiple small transactions each incur their own overdraft fee, but my solution is to not go overdraft.
Otherwise, I also haven't heard of banks' customers' money being lost when the FDIC gets involved. They will force mergers if that's what it takes to keep balance sheets solvent. The banks really don't like it when the FDIC realizes that they're overleveraged and steps in to remedy it.
It's no longer funny, it's hilarious. It's hilarious that people still trust an untraceable, pseudoanonymous bit of data that's worth real money to organizations that have no bigger entity breathing down their necks.
I have no love for big banks, but at least in the United States, the FDIC and NCUA do a good job of regulating the banks and credit unions such that the bank cannot simply steal your money wholesale and get away with it.
Yes, but there are a relative few number of fossil-fuel-burning power plants compared to fossil-fuel-burning automobiles, and once the electric car is built, it can be charged from electricity produced from any power plant, not simply a fossil-fuel plant. That means that the fossil-fuel plants can be replaced over time as they reach end-of-life or when they no longer meet emissions standards.
Microsoft has tried for damned near 7 years to shoehorn Bing into every single product and service it provides, and it doesnt work.
It's great if you want pictures of naked people. It will even suggest which bits of anatomy to include in your search, or which acts of intercourse may be suggested or found, and who else to look for in such states.
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Someone had interviewed some people that were supposed to be proctoring exams, and basically it came down to a combination of carrot and stick. The carrot in the form of bribes, and the stick in the form of violent retribution for those that would attempt to stop the cheating. Basically the proctors had no incentive to stop the cheating and every incentive to let it continue.
Until there's an outside influence that causes it to stop, like employers engaging in their own independent tests where the testee is surprised and must perform without having an opportunity to set up the framework to cheat, or where other countries stop engaging Indian firms because of it, it will simply continue.
First, it was already 'desecrated' when I got there. Second, when it was donated to the school by a parent it had a blown engine, body damage, a destroyed interior, and most of its trim was missing. It was on its way to the crusher when it detoured to here as a tax-writeoff for the owner instead.
Besides, a Porsche 914 is not exactly the pinnacle of Porsche technology or appreciation. Hell, that one-off front-engine model is better liked than the 914.
I'm curious if this can work as an incentive to keep kids in school, or to get kids to enroll in higher-level math in order to continue to meet the prerequisites to take the computer science classes. As in, if they really like the entry-level class, but have to take math to keep going up, if they actually will continue to take math.
And Elon Musk is more like Victor von Doom...
I was on my high school's electric car team. We had a '73 Porsche 914 converted to use 24 deep-cycle lead-acid batteries located in the trunk and in the engine bay. The DC motor was a starter for an aircraft small jet engine if memory serves. There were six of us, seven if you count the auto shop teacher that was the sponsor.
So I guess we could have counted as one of Branson's teams, strictly speaking, had he sponsored us.
Yeah, because if you're looking for modest and agreeable, Richard Branson is your man...
That one probably is easy to fix as it's small. The ones on the Moon that people are talking about are supposed to be stadium-sized though, which means reinforcing a void that large is significantly more complicated. We could truck rebar up to the mouth of the cave in Arizona and run hoses to pump in concrete there, but on the Moon there is no cement factory and attempting to send that much rebar up would be cost prohibitive, and that's before even looking at the actual construction labor aspect of reinforcing it.
We do not know the effects of meteoric bombardment. Lava tubes that appear stable hundreds of kilometers from an impact might collapse even if the surface in that region would be otherwise unaffected.
The entire point of using a lava tube is that it is its own support structure. The trouble is that lava tube ceilings, at least on Earth, do have a habit of shedding material. There's a lava tube in the Coconino National Forest in northern Arizona that has had its share of ceiling collapses and other cave-ins (which is actually how it was discovered in the first place) so there's a certain degree of greater risk when going in. For short visits the odds of being injured from a collapse is small, but I'm sure that living there would be quite risky.
I guess it'll come down to finding out if any lava tubes actually do exist on the Moon, and if so, does the surrounding geology mean they're truly stable. Given the moon's history of bombardment I wonder how many would have been destroyed in the intervening millenia.
By definition that's not mass-transit. That's just transit.
The real advantage that I see to self-driving vehicles for commutes is their ability to park off-site or to self-valet after dropping off their occupant(s) at the destination. Free parking is the norm in suburban areas, but in urban areas where one cannot necessarily park close to one's destination anyway, being able to subscribe to one's garage or parking lot and simply let the car go park itself after getting out would be a real time-saver. Depending on the cost of parking versus the cost of driving, it might even make sense to send the car home again and have it return later to collect the person. Plus if the navigation and area perception sensors are really good, cars might be able to park too close to open doors, meaning more cars could park in a given area than if passengers have to get in and out while they're parked.
I forgot to add, for those that feel strongly about not voting, require a form of contentious objector status against voting, requiring renewal every so often (like once per decade) to qualify to not vote. Mainly would apply to religious groups like the Amish. Don't make it overly burdensome but don't make it automatic like it is now either.
I expect that mandatory voting would be phased-in over the course of several election cycles. First this would allow the oldest generations that are most likely to lack ID to simply pass away from natural causes before it's an issue. Second, it would create time for states to determine how they're going to implement free ID (remember, can't make anyone pay for anything in order to vote as that is a poll tax) and how to distribute it. Third, it would give time for all of the inevitable lawsuits surrounding a federal ID statute that already are ongoing over the Real ID act.
I already have a driver's license and a passport. I'm considering getting one of those passport cards for Canadian/Mexican border entry when my passport itself is up for renewal in a couple of years. I could see some kind of national ID that could also have an optional border-entry endorsement on it, that could be used as ID when there's no need to prove that one can drive (ie, all those places that want your driver's license info for no good reason, like the bank). Make the ID part free, make the extra federal endorsements (border entry, TSA Pre, Global Entry, etc) fit whatever fee structure is considered necessary to administer those programs. Require that this form of ID be fully legal anywhere within the US.
...with my Spaceball Avenger?
Humans are already willing to make the economically inferior choice in that we don't use mass-transit in many cases even when it would arguably be easier or less stressful than driving ourselves. Part of that is the feeling of control that we want over the situation. While the occupants might technically exercise ultimate control over a self-driving vehicle in the form of ownership, the lack of immediate control might not be accepted.
There are still people that own and ride horses, even in suburban and urban areas, even after the automobile has supplanted the horse as the primary means of transportation, and despite the drawbacks that caring for another living thing over an inanimate object creates. I very much doubt that eliminating the ability to drive on unimproved 'roads' in national forests and other undeveloped lands will ever pass, as too many people enjoy doing it and too many other people would like the option even if they don't do it regularly.
I'll happily use a self-driving car for my morning commute and for other mundane driving, but I will not voluntarily give up the right to drive myself when I want to. If it comes down to the choice between only autonomous vehicles or only human-driven vehicles, I would cast my support for the latter.
Pretty much. I can see cases for autonomous vehicles, but I can also see cases where one want or even needs to operate the vehicle. I don't doubt that drivers will want to cede driving to the car for their boring commutes or even for relatively boring cross-country drives on interstate highways, but there are on-road and off-road drives that are a lot of fun for the enthusiast and many such as I won't want to give up the option for that.
This might be one area where looking at the current behavior of the wealthy could indicate how people will behave when self-driving cars become mainstream. Many very wealthy people will employ a driver for mundane driving but will drive themselves for leisure driving or sport. I could see the family sedan or van or SUV being primarily self-driving, but in a household with more than one car a second vehicle might be sportier and more commonly human-driven, either on-road or off-road. I also expect that self-driving vehicles will still be capable of being human-driven so that people can drive on unpaved roads or can place vehicles in garages or service bays where the computer probably would struggle to figure out the logic of the area.
Given that Chernobyl blew up in 1986 and again raised our fear of what was going to happen with nuclear power, I don't think it's as obscure to children of the Eighties as you're assuming.
...if you have the financial resources to afford to crash and burn. For most of us there's a significant incubation period that might even require profitability before we can afford to push past the point of safety or reliability and dial it back.
Even more importantly, the FDIC works to merge banks when they're overleveraged, so qualifying insured accounts even over the guaranteed $250,000 haven't been impacted. The customer finds that they're now working with a different bank, the bank that absorbed their failing bank.
No, banks were allowed to engage in business other than loaning money based on deposits. Once banks turned into investment banks with excessive leverage and a desire to profit from the market itself then they became a danger. On the other hand, good old fashioned insured deposit accounts (ie, FDIC/NCUA territory) were completely untouched by the crisis in the United States.
What will your excuse be after that?
I expect that he's angry because of being hit with overdraft fees, had loans go into default, been denied loans at application, or been mired in credit card debt from a card he got through his bank.
Most of those would be his problem, not the bank's. The bank is not obligated to let the account holder spend more money than they have. I disagree with how the banks will debit against the account largest transaction to smallest so that multiple small transactions each incur their own overdraft fee, but my solution is to not go overdraft.
Otherwise, I also haven't heard of banks' customers' money being lost when the FDIC gets involved. They will force mergers if that's what it takes to keep balance sheets solvent. The banks really don't like it when the FDIC realizes that they're overleveraged and steps in to remedy it.
It's no longer funny, it's hilarious. It's hilarious that people still trust an untraceable, pseudoanonymous bit of data that's worth real money to organizations that have no bigger entity breathing down their necks.
I have no love for big banks, but at least in the United States, the FDIC and NCUA do a good job of regulating the banks and credit unions such that the bank cannot simply steal your money wholesale and get away with it.
You can polish a turd. It's called a Corpolite. It's fossilized dung.
In other words, you can polish a turd, but it takes a very, very long time.
Yes, but there are a relative few number of fossil-fuel-burning power plants compared to fossil-fuel-burning automobiles, and once the electric car is built, it can be charged from electricity produced from any power plant, not simply a fossil-fuel plant. That means that the fossil-fuel plants can be replaced over time as they reach end-of-life or when they no longer meet emissions standards.
It's great if you want pictures of naked people. It will even suggest which bits of anatomy to include in your search, or which acts of intercourse may be suggested or found, and who else to look for in such states.