So CAFE is kind of like our Unemployment Rate; not really a good indicator of anything, but it's a consistent baseline to compare a bad standard from year to year.
In the US, the Unemployment Rate is manipulated regularly to make things look "not as bad". The real number that people should look at is employed labor. That number has been dropping steadily since its peak in the 80s, IIRC, and is now hovering near 60% of the labor force.
Last time I had numbers, there were more than 2M individuals attached 1 way or another with the Navy. The navy is much bigger than just active duty personnel.
Yes, but he forgot to have a writing team that could put together more than two coherent scenes in a row, much less create a coherent story. It also looked like he mashed up the worst parts of the worst mad max movie (Beyond Thunderdome) with some of the abandoned (with good reason) film styles of the first. A shallow copy at best that left me with apathy about any of the characters.
Many seem to be happy if they can make 80% of full salary and have every weekend be a 3 day weekend (and still avoid 10 hour days).
And this is how you become unemployed. Say what you will, but the reason people work as much as they do is so they don't get laid off or replaced. I too would love to work four 6 hour days a week. It's just not going to happen unless I solely do contract work, and then I'll spend as much time tracking down additional work to keep me working. Like it or not, employers require a minimum of 40 hours a week for a reasonably paying job, at least anywhere I've been.
I saw ID: Resurgence. It was an ok popcorn movie that I did not dislike. Like the first, I didn't expect an awesomely well-acted movie. I expected some entertainingly humorous blow up some aliens action with some corny lines. It delivered that, mostly.
the story of Mad Max... first quarter of of the film grunting through a steel mask/gag. That didn't stop the movie from being nominated for ten Oscars and winning six, including best picture.
That pile of crap won 6 oscars (no, I can't be bothered to confirm it myself). I'd say the original was far far better, as were a bunch of other C movies made back then.
Except this "entitled" generation will walk away from a job they consider "hard" or "not fun" and play Pokemon Go all day instead or loaf on a sofa in their parent's basement. If something looks disagreeable, they do crap all to get it done. Hell, what's more shocking is how little interest they display in their own skillset, unless it's to keep up with Bobby who's working on this super cool (defined as only Bobby and 3 other people, tops, use it) framework that's supposed to make all that boring old shit go away. By interest, I mean this millennial generation knows next to nothing about those boring things like register instructions, pointers, data structures, and how your choice of algorithms and tradeoffs affect performance. It's likely why they consider Ruby awesome, and about that security stuff... isn't that for the system and network admins to worry about?
I could go on and on about it, but why? You'd just say I'd be repeating the meme. In this case, they are the meme. Hell, I'll bet more than half these kids never mowed a lawn, chopped wood, or did any physical labor at all. What's more, I'll bet 95% of them wouldn't know where the oil drain on their cars are, how to check their oil level or add oil. Granted, I'd say half of my generation didn't know, but that was only half. It's just downright sad how little practical information they know. I'd be shocked if they knew how to scramble an egg. (OK, that might be an exaggeration) I had one guy around 25 that we decided had the right stuff to get hired, but apparently he was so distressed by having to reveal some of what he didn't know in the interview that he took himself out of the running. He started the interview by saying he wanted to learn... and we were willing to give him that chance. The interview wasn't even grueling IMNSHO, I merely wanted to know what he'd worked on and how he tackled problems he encountered.
Entitled special snowflake? That's hilarious. The only thing either of us are entitled to are opinions. And FYI, when I finally got lucky and got my first "career" job offer, it was for less pay than waiters and pizza delivery drivers were making at the time. So making more than the previous generation? Not when I started, and that was true for my graduating class and several following ones. Welcome to student loans with a due date that would eat up more than week's wages a month, because unless you were lucky, you weren't going to get paid much more than minimum wage. Hell, I didn't even qualify for middle class standing for 10+ years after starting my career. It's hard when you try to start working at the beginning of a major recession.
So yes, I, along with lots of others, do judge millennials harshly. They are lazy. They do appear to feel entitled. They expect 6 figure jobs right out of college. That time may be at an end for most, at least until inflation comes back.
Ah quit being a whiney asshole. They are entitled. Have you dealt with these assholes? I have, and geez, don't hurt their feelings by telling them their work needs improvement, because, well, just because they're super special snowflakes and know more about whatever topic they think they know more in than people that have actually been working in the field for decades. Yeah, cry me a river. And no, I was not privileged or even lucky.
So lowering costs (diesel, labor) and increasing yields (less pest damage, less competition from weeds) that lead to lower prices and less environmental damage isn't worthwhile? I'm sorry version 1.0 isn't exactly what you wanted, but how is that an argument against it?
I'm not sure those tradeoffs have actually led to less environmental damage.
So what you're in favor of is something far beyond our current ability, as well as absurd? (How would you prevent them from speciating? Why not just take the easier route and engineer them into extinction (doable with existing tech) and breed a new pollinator from an existing one?)
Speciation takes time. Several of the diseases would likely be long extinct prior to that happening again. But why not shoot for the stars? After all, you're fine with thinking you can better nature. It's only a question of specifics here. Inject a gene here, roll back a mutation there. As for causing those specific mosquitos to go extinct, well, haven't we been trying that in various forms for the past 100 years?
Microsoft is a US entity, Microsoft Ireland, is an Irish entity (hint - they're incorporated in Ireland). Now, Microsoft US may own the Irish entity, but that doesn't mean Microsoft Ireland is a US entity, nor subject to any US laws. Microsoft Ireland may allow Microsoft US access to data they hold, but I'll bet it is under the auspices of Irish law, as the EU privacy cases just recently decided make clear.
Then again, many consider you wrong. Why can a government claim rights over assets under another government's sovereignty? What you're proposing is that gov A can tell a company based under gov B's control to supply it with information that is in direct violation of gov B's laws, merely because it has a presence somewhere under gov A's sovereignty. So, let's assume that there's a letter in Disney France's possession. So the US gov can force Disney HQ to produce said letter if France's laws forbid releasing such data without a *French* warrant?
It's obvious to me that gov A would have to go to gov B to get a valid warrant from gov B to get whatever they wanted, and yes, that makes for a painful process. Such is the rule of law. You don't just get what you want from anywhere you want because you passed some law in a banana republic.
Not at all. I personally wish golden rice worked and was viable. It's not. I wish there was a magic gene we could insert to make all food crops grow fast with no fertilizer or water requirements and result in abundant healthy food. That hasn't happened either. It appears nature has already made the trade-offs in growth and production optimizations for the base plants that we've selectively bred for traits we find more desirable. In this case, improving upon nature has proven to be quite difficult. Tinkering with genes for features that don't address those beneficial base requirements seem to have been commercially successful. Hence my skepticism.
Now something I could really get behind is removing certain mosquito's blood sucking gene set, reverting them back to a nectar eating bunch and ridding ourselves of a huge disease problem and creating more pollinators, solving 2 problems at once. Or maybe addressing various genetic diseases or improving things, like eyesight adding ultra violet and upper infrared, along with better night vision. Those are things that have benefits.
We need to get rid of our first past the post voting system, because without changing that we have no real hope for anything but two tribes that end up becoming more and more opposed to each other to the point of absurdity. Even if both the Democrat and Republican parties ceased to exist tomorrow, the Green and Libertarian (or some other parties) would be there to fill their shoes and nothing would ultimately change.
Why would glyphosate resistance from an inserted gene be more likely to have a bad effect than the same property brought about by heavy x-ray doses and genetic testing to find strains to breed together?
I wanted to let that stand on its own.
The point I'm trying to get across is that everything you've ever eaten has had random, untested mutations in its DNA, so why would carefully planned changes that go through multiple stages of testing be more likely to cause problems?
Then address this statement: those carefully planned changes and multiple stages of testing are not done for safety or betterment of mankind in general, but to make a product that allows the sale of more product to produce more money. The ones that aim to help mankind in general (golden rice) may actually be a solution looking for a problem, as the problem it was designed to address is already waning.
Pollution should be avoided in general. You're complaining that someone got some distilled water mixed in with your river water.
That's some logic twisting there. I'm impressed. I'm complaining someone got self-replicating river water mixed in with my distilled water, and I can't get it out.
So an inert (and easily replaced) part of one product
Apparently not inert. And why was it in the product in the first place?
You've gone from "a fabric used in Toyota Camrys is possibly more flammable than expected" to "ban the wheel".
Really? I'm arguing that every product produced via GMO go through the proper chain of applicability for food purposes. GMO is a process, not a product. GMO is equivalent to chemistry, and the product is equivalent to, well, it's not actually, because the product is equivalent to a new living species.
Every product should be individually approved.
We do that already - EPA, FDA, USDA.
Apparently not yet, or I'm not understanding your argument. If you're arguing every single GMO product should go through all 3 agencies, we're on the same page.
As for Windows OS of choice, if I did have to upgrade, I'd go with Windows Server 2016 when it goes GA.
I guess $500+ (based on 2012R2 pricing) for an OS is reasonable. But price aside, I think I'd still go with a systemd infested Ubuntu before installing any MS spyware.
I was hoping that <some language> would quietly die not that <some language> itself is bad but there is so much <some language> junk developed by companies that is just good enough to ship on a schedule we'll finish fixing it later and then later never comes... I guess it's job security since there is no short supply of crap.
More likely this provides a simple list of potential future arrestees. I wouldn't be surprised if an official Russian browser comes out, along with a few chat clients, etc, that if you don't use those... well....How is the gulag treating you, comrade?
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So CAFE is kind of like our Unemployment Rate; not really a good indicator of anything, but it's a consistent baseline to compare a bad standard from year to year.
In the US, the Unemployment Rate is manipulated regularly to make things look "not as bad". The real number that people should look at is employed labor. That number has been dropping steadily since its peak in the 80s, IIRC, and is now hovering near 60% of the labor force.
Last time I had numbers, there were more than 2M individuals attached 1 way or another with the Navy. The navy is much bigger than just active duty personnel.
And apparently they should. Geez, 500K copies that are illegal 5 years later? I mean, the gov is slow, but they're not that slow.
Yes, but he forgot to have a writing team that could put together more than two coherent scenes in a row, much less create a coherent story. It also looked like he mashed up the worst parts of the worst mad max movie (Beyond Thunderdome) with some of the abandoned (with good reason) film styles of the first. A shallow copy at best that left me with apathy about any of the characters.
Many seem to be happy if they can make 80% of full salary and have every weekend be a 3 day weekend (and still avoid 10 hour days).
And this is how you become unemployed. Say what you will, but the reason people work as much as they do is so they don't get laid off or replaced. I too would love to work four 6 hour days a week. It's just not going to happen unless I solely do contract work, and then I'll spend as much time tracking down additional work to keep me working. Like it or not, employers require a minimum of 40 hours a week for a reasonably paying job, at least anywhere I've been.
I saw ID: Resurgence. It was an ok popcorn movie that I did not dislike. Like the first, I didn't expect an awesomely well-acted movie. I expected some entertainingly humorous blow up some aliens action with some corny lines. It delivered that, mostly.
the story of Mad Max ... first quarter of of the film grunting through a steel mask/gag. That didn't stop the movie from being nominated for ten Oscars and winning six, including best picture.
That pile of crap won 6 oscars (no, I can't be bothered to confirm it myself). I'd say the original was far far better, as were a bunch of other C movies made back then.
Except this "entitled" generation will walk away from a job they consider "hard" or "not fun" and play Pokemon Go all day instead or loaf on a sofa in their parent's basement. If something looks disagreeable, they do crap all to get it done. Hell, what's more shocking is how little interest they display in their own skillset, unless it's to keep up with Bobby who's working on this super cool (defined as only Bobby and 3 other people, tops, use it) framework that's supposed to make all that boring old shit go away. By interest, I mean this millennial generation knows next to nothing about those boring things like register instructions, pointers, data structures, and how your choice of algorithms and tradeoffs affect performance. It's likely why they consider Ruby awesome, and about that security stuff... isn't that for the system and network admins to worry about?
I could go on and on about it, but why? You'd just say I'd be repeating the meme. In this case, they are the meme. Hell, I'll bet more than half these kids never mowed a lawn, chopped wood, or did any physical labor at all. What's more, I'll bet 95% of them wouldn't know where the oil drain on their cars are, how to check their oil level or add oil. Granted, I'd say half of my generation didn't know, but that was only half. It's just downright sad how little practical information they know. I'd be shocked if they knew how to scramble an egg. (OK, that might be an exaggeration) I had one guy around 25 that we decided had the right stuff to get hired, but apparently he was so distressed by having to reveal some of what he didn't know in the interview that he took himself out of the running. He started the interview by saying he wanted to learn... and we were willing to give him that chance. The interview wasn't even grueling IMNSHO, I merely wanted to know what he'd worked on and how he tackled problems he encountered.
Entitled special snowflake? That's hilarious. The only thing either of us are entitled to are opinions. And FYI, when I finally got lucky and got my first "career" job offer, it was for less pay than waiters and pizza delivery drivers were making at the time. So making more than the previous generation? Not when I started, and that was true for my graduating class and several following ones. Welcome to student loans with a due date that would eat up more than week's wages a month, because unless you were lucky, you weren't going to get paid much more than minimum wage. Hell, I didn't even qualify for middle class standing for 10+ years after starting my career. It's hard when you try to start working at the beginning of a major recession.
So yes, I, along with lots of others, do judge millennials harshly. They are lazy. They do appear to feel entitled. They expect 6 figure jobs right out of college. That time may be at an end for most, at least until inflation comes back.
Ah quit being a whiney asshole. They are entitled. Have you dealt with these assholes? I have, and geez, don't hurt their feelings by telling them their work needs improvement, because, well, just because they're super special snowflakes and know more about whatever topic they think they know more in than people that have actually been working in the field for decades. Yeah, cry me a river. And no, I was not privileged or even lucky.
I personally wish golden rice worked and was viable. It's not.
I have no idea what you're talking about - it works just fine
Enlightenment awaits you.
So lowering costs (diesel, labor) and increasing yields (less pest damage, less competition from weeds) that lead to lower prices and less environmental damage isn't worthwhile? I'm sorry version 1.0 isn't exactly what you wanted, but how is that an argument against it?
I'm not sure those tradeoffs have actually led to less environmental damage.
So what you're in favor of is something far beyond our current ability, as well as absurd? (How would you prevent them from speciating? Why not just take the easier route and engineer them into extinction (doable with existing tech) and breed a new pollinator from an existing one?)
Speciation takes time. Several of the diseases would likely be long extinct prior to that happening again. But why not shoot for the stars? After all, you're fine with thinking you can better nature. It's only a question of specifics here. Inject a gene here, roll back a mutation there. As for causing those specific mosquitos to go extinct, well, haven't we been trying that in various forms for the past 100 years?
You'd likely tell your employer you could not legally comply. Your resignation is offered if they wish.
And that's the point here, MS cannot force it's Irish subsidiary to give it data.
Microsoft is a US entity, Microsoft Ireland, is an Irish entity (hint - they're incorporated in Ireland). Now, Microsoft US may own the Irish entity, but that doesn't mean Microsoft Ireland is a US entity, nor subject to any US laws. Microsoft Ireland may allow Microsoft US access to data they hold, but I'll bet it is under the auspices of Irish law, as the EU privacy cases just recently decided make clear.
IANAL of any type.
Then again, many consider you wrong. Why can a government claim rights over assets under another government's sovereignty? What you're proposing is that gov A can tell a company based under gov B's control to supply it with information that is in direct violation of gov B's laws, merely because it has a presence somewhere under gov A's sovereignty. So, let's assume that there's a letter in Disney France's possession. So the US gov can force Disney HQ to produce said letter if France's laws forbid releasing such data without a *French* warrant?
It's obvious to me that gov A would have to go to gov B to get a valid warrant from gov B to get whatever they wanted, and yes, that makes for a painful process. Such is the rule of law. You don't just get what you want from anywhere you want because you passed some law in a banana republic.
Not at all. I personally wish golden rice worked and was viable. It's not. I wish there was a magic gene we could insert to make all food crops grow fast with no fertilizer or water requirements and result in abundant healthy food. That hasn't happened either. It appears nature has already made the trade-offs in growth and production optimizations for the base plants that we've selectively bred for traits we find more desirable. In this case, improving upon nature has proven to be quite difficult. Tinkering with genes for features that don't address those beneficial base requirements seem to have been commercially successful. Hence my skepticism.
Now something I could really get behind is removing certain mosquito's blood sucking gene set, reverting them back to a nectar eating bunch and ridding ourselves of a huge disease problem and creating more pollinators, solving 2 problems at once. Or maybe addressing various genetic diseases or improving things, like eyesight adding ultra violet and upper infrared, along with better night vision. Those are things that have benefits.
Whoosh
We need to get rid of our first past the post voting system, because without changing that we have no real hope for anything but two tribes that end up becoming more and more opposed to each other to the point of absurdity. Even if both the Democrat and Republican parties ceased to exist tomorrow, the Green and Libertarian (or some other parties) would be there to fill their shoes and nothing would ultimately change.
Remove the party affiliation on the ballot.
When Netflix split streaming off, I stuck with disks. Haven't regretted it yet.
Why would glyphosate resistance from an inserted gene be more likely to have a bad effect than the same property brought about by heavy x-ray doses and genetic testing to find strains to breed together?
I wanted to let that stand on its own.
The point I'm trying to get across is that everything you've ever eaten has had random, untested mutations in its DNA, so why would carefully planned changes that go through multiple stages of testing be more likely to cause problems?
Then address this statement: those carefully planned changes and multiple stages of testing are not done for safety or betterment of mankind in general, but to make a product that allows the sale of more product to produce more money. The ones that aim to help mankind in general (golden rice) may actually be a solution looking for a problem, as the problem it was designed to address is already waning.
Pollution should be avoided in general. You're complaining that someone got some distilled water mixed in with your river water.
That's some logic twisting there. I'm impressed. I'm complaining someone got self-replicating river water mixed in with my distilled water, and I can't get it out.
So an inert (and easily replaced) part of one product
Apparently not inert. And why was it in the product in the first place?
You've gone from "a fabric used in Toyota Camrys is possibly more flammable than expected" to "ban the wheel".
Really? I'm arguing that every product produced via GMO go through the proper chain of applicability for food purposes. GMO is a process, not a product. GMO is equivalent to chemistry, and the product is equivalent to, well, it's not actually, because the product is equivalent to a new living species.
Every product should be individually approved.
We do that already - EPA, FDA, USDA.
Apparently not yet, or I'm not understanding your argument. If you're arguing every single GMO product should go through all 3 agencies, we're on the same page.
but your average programmer will spit out something that limps along
This is true no matter the language. Copy-Paste from stackoverflow will never substitute for a real programmer
As for Windows OS of choice, if I did have to upgrade, I'd go with Windows Server 2016 when it goes GA.
I guess $500+ (based on 2012R2 pricing) for an OS is reasonable. But price aside, I think I'd still go with a systemd infested Ubuntu before installing any MS spyware.
In fact, such a thing is literally inconceivable. It's so inconceivable that I don't even know what I'm talking about.
You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means
I was hoping that <some language> would quietly die not that <some language> itself is bad but there is so much <some language> junk developed by companies that is just good enough to ship on a schedule we'll finish fixing it later and then later never comes... I guess it's job security since there is no short supply of crap.
FTFY
More likely this provides a simple list of potential future arrestees. I wouldn't be surprised if an official Russian browser comes out, along with a few chat clients, etc, that if you don't use those... well....How is the gulag treating you, comrade?
And your results would be just as accurate as hers.
Actually my results would be more meaningful, as I'd outsource to a reputable lab at quantity discounts.