Scientists might want to rethink the moniker "habitable zone" if it is filled with a deadly amount of stellar radiation... After all, the very definition of the habitable zone is based on the right amount of energy allow for liquid water reaching the planet...
sadly enough, they could have learned that from listening to Major Kira on DS9. And lots of more lessons on how to run your group of resistance/freedom fighters/terrorists/guerilla/whatever underground organization.
Like, if you'd put a swing somewhere near a human inhabited area, enough people would swing on it. (adult specimen for some reason only when they don't feel watched)
Or a sign "Wet paint". Another mystery of the universe why nobody believes such signs without checking for themselves.
Of course IT shops need direct access to their IT. But most shops are anything from ice cream parlors to carpenters. The prototypical SMB. They don't need their IT as we do. They need it like we need electricity or running water. Pretty much standard, but reliable.
If they just had tried soldiers for carrying out orders, they would have had to hold the same measurements against their own soldiers (who of course were responsible for quite a number of civilian casualities, too) To escape that quandary, the "crimes against humanity" were invented. Which kept allied soldiers from prosecution for simply killing people, but allowed to sentence the leading german heads for industrial mass-killing.
(To be fair: the allied forces concentrated on hanging the head honchos and turned a blind eye to the common grunts)
I used to work in heavy industry back oh 15 years ago now. The stuff we sold went to the US military, and was used for scraping your ICBM's(particularly the minutemans). Everything had to be checked like that before it went out, but the differences were trivial in terms of what we sold to the general public and what went to the military.
Wait wait wait..... You sold parts needed to scrap nuclear missiles to the general public?
Hmm... seems that everyone needs to have some high-adrenaline hobby nowadays....
It's both moving to where the next job will be. So where's the difference between moving back to Idaho (Indiana, Wisconsin, Delaware) or moving back to France? (Canada, Norway, Japan...)
I know it may come as shocking news to some people in the US: but not everywhere outside the US is a 3rd world hell hole.
The only difference is that we could be sure that as he came into the States as a temp worker, he won't have to leave his home country.
Look, as long as we have H1-B visas allowing spouses to work is the right thing to do. Would you suggest that we allow H1-B visa holders to come here but deny them the right to register their kids to school? Of course not. Well, the ability of their spouse to seek gainful employment is no different.
But how could we keep going on ranting about those filthy foreigners sitting on their butts all day if we'd allow all of them to get a job?
But Facebook and MS have offices (and developers!) around the world already. If they just wanted cheap, they could hire them into an office in a cheaper country.
Or in other words: An offshoring country wants to keep more jobs onshore. So how is that bad?
I've seen plenty of people on/. decrying the fact that H-1B workers are horribly underpaid. Having met quite a lot of them, I've yet to discover one that's actually paid any less than their American (or green-card-holding) counterparts.
No. It's not that H-1B workers are underpaid compared to Americans. EVERYONE in a similar position now is underpaid. The H1-B workers prevented the skill shortage that would have put Americans in a position to negotiate for higher saleries.
Who cares about making the world as a whole a better place? People everywhere would prefer to live in a dunghole as long as their neighbours have it even worse. (There have been studies abou tthat)
If the employer wants them working massive over time they have little choice in the matter other than to do it or go home.
So what's the difference to non-visa jobs? If you' can score a job in Silicon Valley and move there from, say, Montana, and your employer demands ridiculous overtime, leaving the job and moving back home (or wherever you can find your next job) is pretty much the same situation.
Most Americans seem to think that H1-B workers would agree to slave like job conditions just to be in the US. Is it that hard to imagine that people may be agree to live in the US if they can get a got job there? "going home" is usually not some kind punishment.
I'd assume that most of these positions require some kinde of degree and not just a few weeks training. And if the US would be really intrested, they would not try to keep people from getting their degrees with absurdly high tuition fees.
Actually, assigning a finite monetary value to human life is the only ethical thing to do. For example: wider highway lanes are safer than narrow highway lanes, and if you place infinite value on a human life, it would make sense to make all highway lanes infinitely wide. Obviously, that's not possible. So how do you calculate the optimal width of a highway lane? You estimate the monetary value of the lives that would be lost at various lane widths.
No, I look up the maximum width of vehicles. Highway lane wider than that (beyond a margin caus you can't keep the steering wheel exactly straight) has a minimum effect on highway accidents. only few crashs happen due to lateral movement of the cars. And even if, that's the reason d'etre for guard rails. they're designed to absorb as much kinetic energy as possible.
But if the White House says it wants to KEEP the skilled H1-B workers, they want it to become one. Nothing wrong with that either, but they have to kame up their mind.
But what if the driver of the other car, that will survive by steering your car over the cliff, would become the father of the next Hitler?
A car will never have enough data to make a "right" descision in such a situation. Even the example from the intro is an invalid one as for a morally sound descision, you'd need to know how many passengers (and perhaps even WHICH passengers) are in those cars. Family of 5? Single guy with cancer anyway? And such an alogorith would mean assigning an individual (monetary or any dimensionless number - no difference) value to a human life. And then you've left the field of ethical behaviour quite a while ago.
Live with imperfect descissions, as you never will be able to make the perfect one. So just stick to the usual heuristics: If you can't avoid both obstacles, Avoid the one that's closer. even if you hit the other one, you'll have a split second longer to brake. THAT might make the differnce between life and death.
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I usually use EMV + PIN
should be safe enough. I wonder why people keep useing those magnetic stripes.
No one is asking Bing (or any other searchengine) to remove their names from the index.
This whole thing is SO useless and will be forgotten itself in a few months.
But isn't some radiation shielding not already part of the requirements?
Scientists might want to rethink the moniker "habitable zone" if it is filled with a deadly amount of stellar radiation... After all, the very definition of the habitable zone is based on the right amount of energy allow for liquid water reaching the planet...
Star Trek.
sadly enough, they could have learned that from listening to Major Kira on DS9. And lots of more lessons on how to run your group of resistance/freedom fighters/terrorists/guerilla/whatever underground organization.
Like, if you'd put a swing somewhere near a human inhabited area, enough people would swing on it. (adult specimen for some reason only when they don't feel watched)
Or a sign "Wet paint". Another mystery of the universe why nobody believes such signs without checking for themselves.
We should take of our IT glasses.
Of course IT shops need direct access to their IT. But most shops are anything from ice cream parlors to carpenters. The prototypical SMB. They don't need their IT as we do. They need it like we need electricity or running water. Pretty much standard, but reliable.
Probably.. but they had the basic decency to set up that construct instead of plain obvious victor's justice
Look who is calling who a thief....
But it wasn't that simple.
If they just had tried soldiers for carrying out orders, they would have had to hold the same measurements against their own soldiers (who of course were responsible for quite a number of civilian casualities, too) To escape that quandary, the "crimes against humanity" were invented. Which kept allied soldiers from prosecution for simply killing people, but allowed to sentence the leading german heads for industrial mass-killing.
(To be fair: the allied forces concentrated on hanging the head honchos and turned a blind eye to the common grunts)
They are being used to further facilitate the downfall of the USA and its cultures and history.
By helping to spread the language and culture prevalent in the US?
Intresting theory.
Oh yes... with canada on #3....
I used to work in heavy industry back oh 15 years ago now. The stuff we sold went to the US military, and was used for scraping your ICBM's(particularly the minutemans). Everything had to be checked like that before it went out, but the differences were trivial in terms of what we sold to the general public and what went to the military.
Wait wait wait..... You sold parts needed to scrap nuclear missiles to the general public?
Hmm... seems that everyone needs to have some high-adrenaline hobby nowadays....
*shrug*
It's both moving to where the next job will be. So where's the difference between moving back to Idaho (Indiana, Wisconsin, Delaware) or moving back to France? (Canada, Norway, Japan...)
I know it may come as shocking news to some people in the US: but not everywhere outside the US is a 3rd world hell hole.
The only difference is that we could be sure that as he came into the States as a temp worker, he won't have to leave his home country.
Look, as long as we have H1-B visas allowing spouses to work is the right thing to do. Would you suggest that we allow H1-B visa holders to come here but deny them the right to register their kids to school? Of course not. Well, the ability of their spouse to seek gainful employment is no different.
But how could we keep going on ranting about those filthy foreigners sitting on their butts all day if we'd allow all of them to get a job?
But Facebook and MS have offices (and developers!) around the world already. If they just wanted cheap, they could hire them into an office in a cheaper country.
Or in other words: An offshoring country wants to keep more jobs onshore. So how is that bad?
I've seen plenty of people on /. decrying the fact that H-1B workers are horribly underpaid. Having met quite a lot of them, I've yet to discover one that's actually paid any less than their American (or green-card-holding) counterparts.
No. It's not that H-1B workers are underpaid compared to Americans. EVERYONE in a similar position now is underpaid. The H1-B workers prevented the skill shortage that would have put Americans in a position to negotiate for higher saleries.
They have the same negotiating power as other employees, too: leave the company.
Who cares about making the world as a whole a better place? People everywhere would prefer to live in a dunghole as long as their neighbours have it even worse. (There have been studies abou tthat)
If the employer wants them working massive over time they have little choice in the matter other than to do it or go home.
So what's the difference to non-visa jobs? If you' can score a job in Silicon Valley and move there from, say, Montana, and your employer demands ridiculous overtime, leaving the job and moving back home (or wherever you can find your next job) is pretty much the same situation.
Most Americans seem to think that H1-B workers would agree to slave like job conditions just to be in the US. Is it that hard to imagine that people may be agree to live in the US if they can get a got job there? "going home" is usually not some kind punishment.
I'd assume that most of these positions require some kinde of degree and not just a few weeks training. And if the US would be really intrested, they would not try to keep people from getting their degrees with absurdly high tuition fees.
Actually, assigning a finite monetary value to human life is the only ethical thing to do. For example: wider highway lanes are safer than narrow highway lanes, and if you place infinite value on a human life, it would make sense to make all highway lanes infinitely wide. Obviously, that's not possible. So how do you calculate the optimal width of a highway lane? You estimate the monetary value of the lives that would be lost at various lane widths.
No, I look up the maximum width of vehicles. Highway lane wider than that (beyond a margin caus you can't keep the steering wheel exactly straight) has a minimum effect on highway accidents. only few crashs happen due to lateral movement of the cars. And even if, that's the reason d'etre for guard rails. they're designed to absorb as much kinetic energy as possible.
But if the White House says it wants to KEEP the skilled H1-B workers, they want it to become one. Nothing wrong with that either, but they have to kame up their mind.
Well, one half are honorable businessmen, the other half are "honorable businessmen"....
But what if the driver of the other car, that will survive by steering your car over the cliff, would become the father of the next Hitler?
A car will never have enough data to make a "right" descision in such a situation. Even the example from the intro is an invalid one as for a morally sound descision, you'd need to know how many passengers (and perhaps even WHICH passengers) are in those cars. Family of 5? Single guy with cancer anyway? And such an alogorith would mean assigning an individual (monetary or any dimensionless number - no difference) value to a human life. And then you've left the field of ethical behaviour quite a while ago.
Live with imperfect descissions, as you never will be able to make the perfect one. So just stick to the usual heuristics: If you can't avoid both obstacles, Avoid the one that's closer. even if you hit the other one, you'll have a split second longer to brake. THAT might make the differnce between life and death.