The real minimum wage is always 0. I work in Seattle, where they recently did this. Entry level places where I live (not in Seattle), where the minimum wage is $10/hour, all have help wanted signs out. In downtown Seattle, however there was a wave of restaurant closings, and I don't see help wanted signs anywhere. Could be other causes for the difference, of course, maybe it's something else - but it's not a promising sign for teens looking for that first job.
You must be talking about a different Seattle than the one I live in. I'm seeing new restaurants opening weekly where I am, Capitol Hill, and haven't heard of any large closings in downtown. Von's closed, but that was way before the minimum wage move.
Canada pay an average of about half as much in taxes (scaled to their income), for the same quality and the same service.
From what I've heard about medicine in Canada from locals, this is laughably untrue. Only someone who has never had more than a minor boo-boo could claim the service is the same.
True. All the people I know in Canada, especially the ones with children, say it's much better than the US.
I love my cheap little Apple TV and will probably upgrade it to the next model when that comes out.
Same here. I don't see why they don't do with it what they did with the iPod and just add the TV features they were looking at to it. Add a small camera and give it messenger and FaceTime. Feature creep would make the next version more desirable and keep it ahead of other rivals without having to deal with the actual TV part.
I'd become a REPUBLICAN if the Republican party were anything like it was in the JFK years.
That would involve kicking out all the Dixiecrats that were part of the Democratic party back then but left due to civil rights and joined the Republicans under Nixon and Reagan.
In atmosphere, nukes produce blast because of high energy x-rays igniting atmosphere. This won't happen in space.
So how would letting off a nuke near or on an asteroid produce reaction and change the course of the asteroid?
Basically, the x-rays will ignite the surface of the asteroid instead. If the material in the asteroid is sub-optimal for this purpose, there have been designs of turning a nuclear bomb into a kinetic weapon that should work in this regard. Basically the bomb sits in an x-ray reflective shell, and when the bomb explodes, the x-rays bounce around the shell before the exploded bits of the bomb destroy it and exit an aperture. At the end of the aperture is a large, dense block of x-ray absorbing material. This material is vaporized by the x-rays and is all traveling in a similar direction as the x-rays were all going in that general direction. This plasma moving at relativistic speeds then slams into the target like a nuclear shot gun blast. IIRC, this design was built for using nuclear bombs against space ships and it was estimated that it could direct 95% of the energy of the bomb at the intended target.
Using a Kueurig is sort of like using a rental one person self driving car instead of just buying a normal car, except you still have to park it someplace and use special, throwaway gas tanks. Now they are talking about developing the equivalent in trucks and planes for when you need them.
There is a course in men's studies it is called HISTORY.
History is gender neutral.
Not really. For most of history, women, and non-whites in the Western world, were prevented from participating and even when they did often had their achievements ignored or claimed by those in power, i.e. men. Claiming that history is gender neutral is a bit like claiming that the South, pre and post Civil War, has been race neutral.
This goes into why there are women's and other 'person's studies'. From my discussions with my friends that are sociology professors and the like, when discussing things like sexism and racism academically, the critical aspect of such is who holds the power in the relationship. To put it very simply, racism in such discussions are not just the case of one race/sex treating another race/sex differently, but one race/sex having power over the other race/sex in society and using it to dominate.
Hitler happened because the victors of WWI were (successfully) trying to extract every ounce of energy and dignity from the German people. Ignoring that little bit of information is not going to help anyone.
Hitler happened because it was a time of conflicting ideals. Monarchism was dead with WW1 and the 20's and 30's was a three way battle between fascism, communism, and democracy across the world. The debts put on Germany for WW1 may have helped Hitler take power, but the foundation of the national Socialist party gained reputation for aiding in fighting off the communist coup in Bavaria in 1920, while fascism was also won out in Spain and Italy with its own movements in Britain and the US.
With the decline of civility, asking a woman out and being rejected is no longer, "I'm sorry. I appreciate you asking but I'm just not interested" to, "Fucking loser! Why would you talk to me? Get the fuck out of here."
It is?
It is when you really are a loser who can't tell that your attentions have been unwanted and you have been given subtle and possibly not so subtle clues to leave her alone for quit some time.
No. It wasn't. I had various smartphones for years before the iPhone came out. It didn't even have apps (at first). You fell for Apple's marketing, which wasn't remotely true.
Personally, I fell for a workable web browser and decent screen on a phone I could move my photography portfolio to after using other people's iPhones.
In Dr. White’s model, the propellant ions of the MagnetoHydroDynamics drive are replaced as the fuel source by the virtual particles of the Quantum Vacuum, eliminating the need to carry propellant.
Let's see: we can violate conservation of momentum by invoking some sort of vaguely defined quantum woo. Riiiight. Where do I send my check?
Although I haven't seen the math or read the articles yet, the above sentence makes sense to me. Instead of inputing energy to fuel and kicking out the back, they input the energy to the virtual pairs that are in all space. That gives the drive it's thrust as they are pushing against the virtual pairs which then recombine and cease to exist. However, when they cease to exist, they should still have a higher net energy over free space which would result in EM radiation being released when the virtual particles cease to exist. They might not cease to exist and thus the new particles never recombine and become actual particles, but the energies of the two particles (minus what was inputted into them) would be opposite of each other.
Mac OS 10.1? No. Especially since it was just a free bug fix for 10.0. and improved upon by later dot updates. I've still seen 10.4 in the wild and have my own 10.6 computer for older hardware or Rosetta support. Go out to some still running F5 firewalls, and people would probably be scarred as to what version of Linux is being run.
Exactly what kind of support are they getting? Just telephone type "my cup holder broke"? Seems like internal IT could handle most of that. Or are they actually fixing Windows XP bugs for them?
They were probably getting the same thing that my company is paying and getting which is security fixes. They are still being created and sent out to customers that pay. Windows update is not working, they'd have to be installed individually or via the domain management.
There is a 3D printer, but suggesting a makerspace must have one is an odd and rather arbitrary decision: why would you focus on that one technology, it's terribly limiting? Why not sewing or brass casting or something else?
Because a 3D printer opens up a lot of opportunities for the other options. In my case, I used it to make the prototypes I used in making the molds for lost wax bronze casting. As it was the class was me using it as small batch manufacturing and a bunch of clay sculptures looking to make their sculptures into bronze. In the place where I did my 3D printing, it was used for several of the other items you listed in making custom cases for electronics, robotic pieces, and art. It's also a good introduction into CAD/CAM.
Nim was one of the chimps I heard about, I think. I specifically remember a story about smoking marijuana. The actual phrase was "stone smoke". The story went that guy telling the story was working on a grad paper on w weekend the chimp was living with him, and the chimp came in and was signing something like "make stone smoke" but he had to finish the paper so he kept telling him later. After a while he realized he hadn't see the chimp in a bit so he went looking and found the chimp who had not only found his stash, but was about halfway through rolling a decent looking joint.
It was 20+ years ago, but there were other chimps including Washoe, or at least I remember hearing the name. Not sure if it was Fouts I listened to, but here's his web page,Washoe's move to OK. There were more chimps involved and more grad students. I forget which one I heard stories from but he ran a shop on campus corner which had a picture of a bird drawn by one of the chimps.
"The ruling marks the first time in U.S. history that an animal has been covered by a writ of habeus corpus, which typically allows human prisoners to challenge their detention."
While I question some of the treatment of research animals, what exactly did the chimps ask of the court?
Careful what you ask for. I knew some of the people involved with an old program at OU teaching chimps sign language. They eventually had the vocabularies of human 3 year olds. The program was eventually cancelled and the chimps split up to other research facilities. I've heard the stories from the grad students involved about how they would go visit those chimps, and they would sign "I'm in pain. I want to go home." while in the cages.
I hope we reach "peak phone" soon, because for those of us who don't spend every waking moment with our cell phone, the shit which is focused around that is kind of tedious.
I'm waiting for that moment to pass, and then I will finally get a smart phone. My wife has a smart phone, but I'm the techie, and I still have a flip phone. It's $15, no contract, easily replaceable, and does everything that my first $250 flip phone did years ago. I'm thrilled with it.
Unfortunately, I have the feeling that this will end up more like me when I didn't even have a phone. My grandmother was going to be in town and just said "Give me your cell number and I'll call you once we're downtown and ready for lunch." It was awkward and she just assumed since I was a techie, that I would have a cell phone. I figured I should get one and did so before she arrived on her trip. I suspect, at some point, feature phone people will find themselves unable to operate normally in society. They'll have to get a smartphone or become noticeably eccentric.
A high-level call came in from London. Nikolai, surprised and intrigued, took the call himself. A young mans’s face appeared on the screen. “I’m a headhunter and have your first manager ready to jump ship and come work for you,” he said.
Nikolai frowned. “What?”
“The person who you worked for at your first job. You liked her and said she was a great boss. You told her so. I have it on tape.”
“You must be joking,” Nikolai said. “That manager was just a cybernetic interface. You can’t headhunt a data system.”
“Yes, I can,” the young man said truculently. “The old expert system’s been scrapped in favor of a new one with a sounder ideology. Look.” A second face appeared on the screen: it was a superhumanly smooth and faintly glowing image of his old manager. “Please hire me, Nikolai,” the image said woodenly.”I hate it here.”
The young man’s face reappeared. Nikolai laugh in credulously. “So you’ve saved the old tapes?” Nikolai said. “I don’t know what your game is, but I supposed the data has a certain value. I’m prepared to be generous.” He named a price. The young man shook his head. Nikolai grew impatient. “Look,” he said. “What makes you think a mere expert system has any objective worth?”
“I know it does, “ the young man said. “I’m one myself.”
Well, I don't expect anyone earning MINIMUM WAGE to own their own home, regardless. Do you? That's what renting is for. Move up out of minimum wage, then we'll talk about ownership.
As somebody looking at buying a house this year, paying mortgage is generally less than paying rent. This is especially true if you take into account the next 20 to 30 years of rent increases you'll have to go through.
create a pipeline from the PNW down to southern CA. done.
Sorry, we're having our own drought up here. Snow pack was so bad this year that most of the ski parks never even opened. Drought conditions have already been called for about half the counties.
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The real minimum wage is always 0. I work in Seattle, where they recently did this. Entry level places where I live (not in Seattle), where the minimum wage is $10/hour, all have help wanted signs out. In downtown Seattle, however there was a wave of restaurant closings, and I don't see help wanted signs anywhere. Could be other causes for the difference, of course, maybe it's something else - but it's not a promising sign for teens looking for that first job.
You must be talking about a different Seattle than the one I live in. I'm seeing new restaurants opening weekly where I am, Capitol Hill, and haven't heard of any large closings in downtown. Von's closed, but that was way before the minimum wage move.
Wrong. You can't consume what hasn't been produced. Production comes first; production is fundamental.
Wrong. You can't sell product that doesn't have demand. Demand comes first; demand is fundamental.
Wrong. You can't have demand for something that doesn't have proper Marketing. Marketing comes first; Marketing is fundamental.
Wrong. You can't consume what hasn't been produced. Production comes first; production is fundamental.
Wrong. You can't sell product that doesn't have demand. Demand comes first; demand is fundamental.
Canada pay an average of about half as much in taxes (scaled to their income), for the same quality and the same service.
From what I've heard about medicine in Canada from locals, this is laughably untrue. Only someone who has never had more than a minor boo-boo could claim the service is the same.
True. All the people I know in Canada, especially the ones with children, say it's much better than the US.
I love my cheap little Apple TV and will probably upgrade it to the next model when that comes out.
Same here. I don't see why they don't do with it what they did with the iPod and just add the TV features they were looking at to it. Add a small camera and give it messenger and FaceTime. Feature creep would make the next version more desirable and keep it ahead of other rivals without having to deal with the actual TV part.
I'd become a REPUBLICAN if the Republican party were anything like it was in the JFK years.
That would involve kicking out all the Dixiecrats that were part of the Democratic party back then but left due to civil rights and joined the Republicans under Nixon and Reagan.
In atmosphere, nukes produce blast because of high energy x-rays igniting atmosphere. This won't happen in space.
So how would letting off a nuke near or on an asteroid produce reaction and change the course of the asteroid?
Basically, the x-rays will ignite the surface of the asteroid instead. If the material in the asteroid is sub-optimal for this purpose, there have been designs of turning a nuclear bomb into a kinetic weapon that should work in this regard. Basically the bomb sits in an x-ray reflective shell, and when the bomb explodes, the x-rays bounce around the shell before the exploded bits of the bomb destroy it and exit an aperture. At the end of the aperture is a large, dense block of x-ray absorbing material. This material is vaporized by the x-rays and is all traveling in a similar direction as the x-rays were all going in that general direction. This plasma moving at relativistic speeds then slams into the target like a nuclear shot gun blast. IIRC, this design was built for using nuclear bombs against space ships and it was estimated that it could direct 95% of the energy of the bomb at the intended target.
Can someone provide a car analogy?
Using a Kueurig is sort of like using a rental one person self driving car instead of just buying a normal car, except you still have to park it someplace and use special, throwaway gas tanks. Now they are talking about developing the equivalent in trucks and planes for when you need them.
There is a course in men's studies it is called HISTORY.
History is gender neutral.
Not really. For most of history, women, and non-whites in the Western world, were prevented from participating and even when they did often had their achievements ignored or claimed by those in power, i.e. men. Claiming that history is gender neutral is a bit like claiming that the South, pre and post Civil War, has been race neutral.
This goes into why there are women's and other 'person's studies'. From my discussions with my friends that are sociology professors and the like, when discussing things like sexism and racism academically, the critical aspect of such is who holds the power in the relationship. To put it very simply, racism in such discussions are not just the case of one race/sex treating another race/sex differently, but one race/sex having power over the other race/sex in society and using it to dominate.
Hitler happened because the victors of WWI were (successfully) trying to extract every ounce of energy and dignity from the German people. Ignoring that little bit of information is not going to help anyone.
Hitler happened because it was a time of conflicting ideals. Monarchism was dead with WW1 and the 20's and 30's was a three way battle between fascism, communism, and democracy across the world. The debts put on Germany for WW1 may have helped Hitler take power, but the foundation of the national Socialist party gained reputation for aiding in fighting off the communist coup in Bavaria in 1920, while fascism was also won out in Spain and Italy with its own movements in Britain and the US.
It is?
It is when you really are a loser who can't tell that your attentions have been unwanted and you have been given subtle and possibly not so subtle clues to leave her alone for quit some time.
No. It wasn't. I had various smartphones for years before the iPhone came out. It didn't even have apps (at first). You fell for Apple's marketing, which wasn't remotely true.
Personally, I fell for a workable web browser and decent screen on a phone I could move my photography portfolio to after using other people's iPhones.
In Dr. White’s model, the propellant ions of the MagnetoHydroDynamics drive are replaced as the fuel source by the virtual particles of the Quantum Vacuum, eliminating the need to carry propellant.
Let's see: we can violate conservation of momentum by invoking some sort of vaguely defined quantum woo. Riiiight. Where do I send my check?
Although I haven't seen the math or read the articles yet, the above sentence makes sense to me. Instead of inputing energy to fuel and kicking out the back, they input the energy to the virtual pairs that are in all space. That gives the drive it's thrust as they are pushing against the virtual pairs which then recombine and cease to exist. However, when they cease to exist, they should still have a higher net energy over free space which would result in EM radiation being released when the virtual particles cease to exist. They might not cease to exist and thus the new particles never recombine and become actual particles, but the energies of the two particles (minus what was inputted into them) would be opposite of each other.
Do you know anyone running Mac OS X 10.1,...
Mac OS 10.1? No. Especially since it was just a free bug fix for 10.0. and improved upon by later dot updates. I've still seen 10.4 in the wild and have my own 10.6 computer for older hardware or Rosetta support. Go out to some still running F5 firewalls, and people would probably be scarred as to what version of Linux is being run.
Exactly what kind of support are they getting? Just telephone type "my cup holder broke"? Seems like internal IT could handle most of that. Or are they actually fixing Windows XP bugs for them?
They were probably getting the same thing that my company is paying and getting which is security fixes. They are still being created and sent out to customers that pay. Windows update is not working, they'd have to be installed individually or via the domain management.
There is a 3D printer, but suggesting a makerspace must have one is an odd and rather arbitrary decision: why would you focus on that one technology, it's terribly limiting? Why not sewing or brass casting or something else?
Because a 3D printer opens up a lot of opportunities for the other options. In my case, I used it to make the prototypes I used in making the molds for lost wax bronze casting. As it was the class was me using it as small batch manufacturing and a bunch of clay sculptures looking to make their sculptures into bronze. In the place where I did my 3D printing, it was used for several of the other items you listed in making custom cases for electronics, robotic pieces, and art. It's also a good introduction into CAD/CAM.
Because all the standard depictions of accretion disks are art, not real depictions.
Nim was one of the chimps I heard about, I think. I specifically remember a story about smoking marijuana. The actual phrase was "stone smoke". The story went that guy telling the story was working on a grad paper on w weekend the chimp was living with him, and the chimp came in and was signing something like "make stone smoke" but he had to finish the paper so he kept telling him later. After a while he realized he hadn't see the chimp in a bit so he went looking and found the chimp who had not only found his stash, but was about halfway through rolling a decent looking joint.
It was 20+ years ago, but there were other chimps including Washoe, or at least I remember hearing the name. Not sure if it was Fouts I listened to, but here's his web page,Washoe's move to OK. There were more chimps involved and more grad students. I forget which one I heard stories from but he ran a shop on campus corner which had a picture of a bird drawn by one of the chimps.
"The ruling marks the first time in U.S. history that an animal has been covered by a writ of habeus corpus, which typically allows human prisoners to challenge their detention." While I question some of the treatment of research animals, what exactly did the chimps ask of the court?
Careful what you ask for. I knew some of the people involved with an old program at OU teaching chimps sign language. They eventually had the vocabularies of human 3 year olds. The program was eventually cancelled and the chimps split up to other research facilities. I've heard the stories from the grad students involved about how they would go visit those chimps, and they would sign "I'm in pain. I want to go home." while in the cages.
I hope we reach "peak phone" soon, because for those of us who don't spend every waking moment with our cell phone, the shit which is focused around that is kind of tedious.
I'm waiting for that moment to pass, and then I will finally get a smart phone. My wife has a smart phone, but I'm the techie, and I still have a flip phone. It's $15, no contract, easily replaceable, and does everything that my first $250 flip phone did years ago. I'm thrilled with it.
Unfortunately, I have the feeling that this will end up more like me when I didn't even have a phone. My grandmother was going to be in town and just said "Give me your cell number and I'll call you once we're downtown and ready for lunch." It was awkward and she just assumed since I was a techie, that I would have a cell phone. I figured I should get one and did so before she arrived on her trip. I suspect, at some point, feature phone people will find themselves unable to operate normally in society. They'll have to get a smartphone or become noticeably eccentric.
A high-level call came in from London. Nikolai, surprised and intrigued, took the call himself. A young mans’s face appeared on the screen. “I’m a headhunter and have your first manager ready to jump ship and come work for you,” he said.
Nikolai frowned. “What?”
“The person who you worked for at your first job. You liked her and said she was a great boss. You told her so. I have it on tape.”
“You must be joking,” Nikolai said. “That manager was just a cybernetic interface. You can’t headhunt a data system.”
“Yes, I can,” the young man said truculently. “The old expert system’s been scrapped in favor of a new one with a sounder ideology. Look.” A second face appeared on the screen: it was a superhumanly smooth and faintly glowing image of his old manager. “Please hire me, Nikolai,” the image said woodenly.”I hate it here.”
The young man’s face reappeared. Nikolai laugh in credulously. “So you’ve saved the old tapes?” Nikolai said. “I don’t know what your game is, but I supposed the data has a certain value. I’m prepared to be generous.” He named a price. The young man shook his head. Nikolai grew impatient. “Look,” he said. “What makes you think a mere expert system has any objective worth?”
“I know it does, “ the young man said. “I’m one myself.”
(Apologies to Bruce Sterling.)
Washington says otherwise: http://www.ecy.wa.gov/drought/
Well, I don't expect anyone earning MINIMUM WAGE to own their own home, regardless. Do you? That's what renting is for. Move up out of minimum wage, then we'll talk about ownership.
As somebody looking at buying a house this year, paying mortgage is generally less than paying rent. This is especially true if you take into account the next 20 to 30 years of rent increases you'll have to go through.
create a pipeline from the PNW down to southern CA. done.
Sorry, we're having our own drought up here. Snow pack was so bad this year that most of the ski parks never even opened. Drought conditions have already been called for about half the counties.