I'm a bit skeptical of buying and selling pollution indulgences as a solution as well.
It's what the USA brought to the table at Kyoto before walking away. It's about opportunists wanting to make money out of disaster. Stupid idea but we are stuck with it and it does have a mild side effect of discouraging pollution in some cases.
The problem here is it's "paid for speech" and not remotely anything like "free speech". As shown by many truth does not matter in this issue when countered by the power of the dollar and expensive but effective tricksters.
Ah yes, the petty "Fisking" dictionary of insults maintainer is maintaining the rage I see. Shall we put anyone who didn't vote for The Party in prison with all those protesters comrade?
In this case it's more like wanting to take legal action against someone that has been kicking your ribs in one by one for the last twenty years. "Oppression" seems to be a very poor fit.
It's about fraud. Widespread organised fraud. Should that really be legal in your opinion? Or should it be legal if they do it "for the party", since it's fraud for the sake of politics?
The entire reason we've got all this shit is because of some donors setting the agenda and turning science denial into a political point of difference between two parties when both used to consider reality previously. Do you deny science for The Party comrade? Papers please.
How did it come to this? When people are confusing things as wildly different as science and religion the PR brainwashers have spectacularly succeeded. Poster, from your low id number you should know better - so what the fuck happened?
You perhaps, but engineers have a code of ethics we are supposed to stick to. Coders like to pretend to be engineers so maybe they can start by copying that?
The thing you are missing here is that it's not the opinion that matters but the whole "astroturf" pile of shit to artificially cram it down people's throats as if it was something other than an organised campaign. Think of it as a botnet with a denial of service attack on those that are actually trying to get shit done.
What it looks like to me is that "administrators" moved in for a range of reasons. Running a school is a prestigious position in society (or it used to be), but the barrier of entry of having to be a successful teacher for many years kept out those who just wanted the position but would be useless at it. Now a well connected person in their twenties who has never had a job before can be put in charge of a school of a few hundred children! Teachers running schools wanted to spend what was seen as "too much money" by accountant types, so there's the trigger to remove them. There's the myth "a good manager can run anything", so following that the kids get handed over to someone more interested in cutting costs than positive outcomes for the students.
Thus we end up with losers who call for the Police over a minor matter instead of disciplining kids.
So yes, I agree with you, and that's how I see the feedback loop as starting off. There's a push for such a stupid system where I live but professional teachers are mostly still in charge.
It's obviously not them that have the money since they need governments to put it up, so where on earth are you going with what you've written above? It makes no sense as written.
could hear Ahmed's sister advising him how to respond to each of Marks' questions as he asked them
In the situation of small child versus Mark Cuban you think the small child should not be allowed help? Of course he was coached in that situation. If you had a kid that age would you leave them to fend for themselves against a journalist?
Windows has had the Desktops application and the PowerToys suite before that, which allowed for virtual desktops for decades now (since the NT 4.0 days.)
But it was fragile crap that seemed to fall over hourly. Matrox had a better implementation on MS and then Nvidia had one on MS, but they still fell a bit short of even twm and tended to stop working after updates.
The LA Times had a very popular article that kept comparing him to Steve Jobs. JOBS!??! Don't they mean Woz?!
No they mean Jobs just like they mean Edison with the light bulb and Gore with the internet. They want a lone hero to keep things simple and not a team - and if the hero is a businessman all the better.
why did he not speak up when the others thought it was a "credible threat"?
We don't know if they did and were ignored or shouted down or if they kept quiet. Once the egos of people who see themselves as more important than their jobs get into the picture the mere mortals tend to fade into the background.
by administrators who have complete intolerance as their goal
Personally I think that's one of many obvious consequences of having someone who has never been a professional teacher running a school. The US school system seems to be utterly fucked up compared with a lot of other places (and the US school system of some years ago) and that seems to be the major distinguishing feature. An "administrator" who knows a bit about kids is unlikely to have fucked up in such a dramatic way.
He's a ninth grader and there are adults that would make the same definition mistake. I once met some guy that "invented" a "fuel saving carberettor" by putting a spacer in there and thus tuning it to use less fuel on idle - and shit performance under load.
Have a shower. Before you put your clothes on pick up a dollar. You are now worth more than Trump four times over. The money he has now is less than he was supposed to pay back but did not.
If you can spend other people's money instead of your own, it's obvious which is the way to go in business.
Especially since he's famous for doing that four times over. Funny how he told the people he had fleeced that he had no money and then he suddenly had millions five minutes after the clock ran out - four times.
If there was big money behind nuclear power they could afford to build new stuff instead of getting governments to put up the money. Like it or not it is not commercially attractive. Small units may change that by making it less capital intensive, but for now the only movement is in China, India and Russia where "big money" has less of a say than "big government".
You clearly know almost nothing about the approaches and are just here to push a luddite political line - as shown from the previous discussion where you ran out the clock and claimed "victory" in some stupid argument game since there was no longer an opportunity to reply. For example:
You cant have variable output without runng below capacity
Which of course is one of the many downsides of load following, especially with nuclear where the fuel is running out of life whether you run at full power or not, or coal where reduced capacity requires not a lot less fuel than running at full capacity - but the main thing is a dramatic amount of life reduction of the equipment from variable loads producing variable stresses.
I also think you should apologise for your blatant lie about your background. Back in the day my first year students knew far more about these topics than you so your pretending to be a professional engineer is a disgusting kick to the face.
Seriously kid, it's what happened. Go ask your dad. "Saint Ronnie" was a real man back in the day, not some stupid legend, and he really did buy off Iran as his very first act as President. Indisputable recorded history. The disputable bit? Selling weapons to Iran and Hezbolla gets blamed on North but part of the first shipment contained a Bible signed by Ronnie himself, still on display in Tehran (so several journalists have reported). Hoax? Maybe, but since North was never convicted of treason it looks a lot like a real part of the puzzle.
Noticed all those "terrorist stings" where some mentally ill guy is groomed as a terrorist and is helpfully provided an idiots guide to terrorism kit by the guy that then carries out the arrest? It gets people promoted and it attracts extra funding but is neither about law enforcement or crime prevention. A lack of oversight by people who do not benefit from such theatre has made such a thing rife instead of instant dismissal of those who manufacture such fake criminal activity. Having such a thing as acceptable changes the entire focus of an org that gets up to such antics - real results no longer matter, you can just have a quota and Soviet style show trials if needed.
They are not professional law enforcement. That ship sailed long ago. Magic mind reading machines, having the guy too useless to even turn up with handcuffs to make the arrest in front of the cameras instead of a real policeman, it's more about appearance than performing a useful role in society, which sometimes happens as a side-effect but it's not the focus.
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It's what the USA brought to the table at Kyoto before walking away.
It's about opportunists wanting to make money out of disaster.
Stupid idea but we are stuck with it and it does have a mild side effect of discouraging pollution in some cases.
The problem here is it's "paid for speech" and not remotely anything like "free speech".
As shown by many truth does not matter in this issue when countered by the power of the dollar and expensive but effective tricksters.
Ah yes, the petty "Fisking" dictionary of insults maintainer is maintaining the rage I see.
Shall we put anyone who didn't vote for The Party in prison with all those protesters comrade?
In this case it's more like wanting to take legal action against someone that has been kicking your ribs in one by one for the last twenty years. "Oppression" seems to be a very poor fit.
Ah, the "silent majority" thing.
Doesn't work anymore. It never made sense anyway.
It's about fraud. Widespread organised fraud.
Should that really be legal in your opinion?
Or should it be legal if they do it "for the party", since it's fraud for the sake of politics?
The entire reason we've got all this shit is because of some donors setting the agenda and turning science denial into a political point of difference between two parties when both used to consider reality previously.
Do you deny science for The Party comrade? Papers please.
How did it come to this? When people are confusing things as wildly different as science and religion the PR brainwashers have spectacularly succeeded.
Poster, from your low id number you should know better - so what the fuck happened?
You perhaps, but engineers have a code of ethics we are supposed to stick to. Coders like to pretend to be engineers so maybe they can start by copying that?
The thing you are missing here is that it's not the opinion that matters but the whole "astroturf" pile of shit to artificially cram it down people's throats as if it was something other than an organised campaign.
Think of it as a botnet with a denial of service attack on those that are actually trying to get shit done.
Just because stupidity lurks in supporters of all *isms is no reason to put up with gang like activity from science deniers.
What it looks like to me is that "administrators" moved in for a range of reasons.
Running a school is a prestigious position in society (or it used to be), but the barrier of entry of having to be a successful teacher for many years kept out those who just wanted the position but would be useless at it. Now a well connected person in their twenties who has never had a job before can be put in charge of a school of a few hundred children!
Teachers running schools wanted to spend what was seen as "too much money" by accountant types, so there's the trigger to remove them.
There's the myth "a good manager can run anything", so following that the kids get handed over to someone more interested in cutting costs than positive outcomes for the students.
Thus we end up with losers who call for the Police over a minor matter instead of disciplining kids.
So yes, I agree with you, and that's how I see the feedback loop as starting off. There's a push for such a stupid system where I live but professional teachers are mostly still in charge.
It's obviously not them that have the money since they need governments to put it up, so where on earth are you going with what you've written above? It makes no sense as written.
In the situation of small child versus Mark Cuban you think the small child should not be allowed help? Of course he was coached in that situation. If you had a kid that age would you leave them to fend for themselves against a journalist?
But it was fragile crap that seemed to fall over hourly. Matrox had a better implementation on MS and then Nvidia had one on MS, but they still fell a bit short of even twm and tended to stop working after updates.
Wow - a master manipulator at such a young age! If your fantasy is true he really did deserve a trip to the White House.
Ever noticed that kids like to show off in front of other kids?
No they mean Jobs just like they mean Edison with the light bulb and Gore with the internet. They want a lone hero to keep things simple and not a team - and if the hero is a businessman all the better.
We don't know if they did and were ignored or shouted down or if they kept quiet. Once the egos of people who see themselves as more important than their jobs get into the picture the mere mortals tend to fade into the background.
Personally I think that's one of many obvious consequences of having someone who has never been a professional teacher running a school. The US school system seems to be utterly fucked up compared with a lot of other places (and the US school system of some years ago) and that seems to be the major distinguishing feature. An "administrator" who knows a bit about kids is unlikely to have fucked up in such a dramatic way.
He's a ninth grader and there are adults that would make the same definition mistake. I once met some guy that "invented" a "fuel saving carberettor" by putting a spacer in there and thus tuning it to use less fuel on idle - and shit performance under load.
Have a shower. Before you put your clothes on pick up a dollar. You are now worth more than Trump four times over. The money he has now is less than he was supposed to pay back but did not.
If you can spend other people's money instead of your own, it's obvious which is the way to go in business.
Especially since he's famous for doing that four times over.
Funny how he told the people he had fleeced that he had no money and then he suddenly had millions five minutes after the clock ran out - four times.
If there was big money behind nuclear power they could afford to build new stuff instead of getting governments to put up the money.
Like it or not it is not commercially attractive. Small units may change that by making it less capital intensive, but for now the only movement is in China, India and Russia where "big money" has less of a say than "big government".
You clearly know almost nothing about the approaches and are just here to push a luddite political line - as shown from the previous discussion where you ran out the clock and claimed "victory" in some stupid argument game since there was no longer an opportunity to reply. For example:
Which of course is one of the many downsides of load following, especially with nuclear where the fuel is running out of life whether you run at full power or not, or coal where reduced capacity requires not a lot less fuel than running at full capacity - but the main thing is a dramatic amount of life reduction of the equipment from variable loads producing variable stresses.
I also think you should apologise for your blatant lie about your background. Back in the day my first year students knew far more about these topics than you so your pretending to be a professional engineer is a disgusting kick to the face.
Seriously kid, it's what happened. Go ask your dad.
"Saint Ronnie" was a real man back in the day, not some stupid legend, and he really did buy off Iran as his very first act as President. Indisputable recorded history.
The disputable bit? Selling weapons to Iran and Hezbolla gets blamed on North but part of the first shipment contained a Bible signed by Ronnie himself, still on display in Tehran (so several journalists have reported). Hoax? Maybe, but since North was never convicted of treason it looks a lot like a real part of the puzzle.
Noticed all those "terrorist stings" where some mentally ill guy is groomed as a terrorist and is helpfully provided an idiots guide to terrorism kit by the guy that then carries out the arrest? It gets people promoted and it attracts extra funding but is neither about law enforcement or crime prevention. A lack of oversight by people who do not benefit from such theatre has made such a thing rife instead of instant dismissal of those who manufacture such fake criminal activity. Having such a thing as acceptable changes the entire focus of an org that gets up to such antics - real results no longer matter, you can just have a quota and Soviet style show trials if needed.
They are not professional law enforcement. That ship sailed long ago. Magic mind reading machines, having the guy too useless to even turn up with handcuffs to make the arrest in front of the cameras instead of a real policeman, it's more about appearance than performing a useful role in society, which sometimes happens as a side-effect but it's not the focus.