It depends - in some cases "incompetent" is code for refused to work extra hours for no extra pay, looked at me funny or is not one of the "right people" due to race, nationality, religion, politics, hobbies or who they associate with. You'll probably find it's just a case of needing more than one person to make that call to remove it as an excuse instead of actual incompetence.
Government control of electric utilities would not unduly hold back innovation or progress.
I used to work in a building that had "City Electric Light" over the door - it was a power station that was run by a private company that just sat on their assets and did not innovate or progress in any way. It was only when a fed-up government bought out all the tiny little power utilities and started putting together a network with economies of scale that there was any sign of progress (but not a change to the sign on the door over the next fifty years). Private monopolies have no need to progress but government run ones are subjected to other forces, so they often do innovate and progress. See also the slow suicide of the US steel and sugar industries as protected private monopolies that do not progress.
at a desk where you can CALMLY sit down and have reference materials open means fixing problems are less likely to cause new ones.
Just having a desk in a server room with very long video/kdb/mouse/serial cables to a screen etc on the desk can make a massive difference on the cheap. If it's only going to be used occasionally on things that are not available on a network at the time there's not so much call for a KVM box with multiple connections. A big bench is also good for setting up that new noisy server that will piss everyone off if you do it in another work area.
So a dumb terminal has an entire copy of MS Windows instead of WinCE or a cast of thousands of non-MS options, and due to that it has a huge attack surface despite only doing a very limited job. An ATM should be simple and locked down since all it's doing is being an input device to a server and getting instructions from the server to spit out cash. It's obvious. Sleazy deals where one bit of MS cuts into the market of a different bit of MS are the only reason why such stupidity happens and you get a desktop computer doing the job of an embedded device.
Spoken by one who contends that German windmills are used for peaking
They are not base load and more of them are brought online when base load is not enough - fits the definition perfectly. As I wrote above you appear to have far less than what would be expected for general knowledge on the topic so it was a very poor choice for your bait and switch. Perhaps you should limit your very long and repetitive misdirections to something related to your competency?
theoretical wind scenarios
A weather map is not theoretical. Imagined patterns in a graph that depends on a lot of secondary factors is theoretical at best. Yet another utterly pathetic act of attempting to displace your own bad behaviour onto others.
Stop creating students/graduates that no one wants to hire
What people want to hire is telephone sanitizers, because they understand the need. What people need to hire is people building some new technology we've never heard of yet, to stop the equivalent of us being thirty feet deep in horse shit if we retain the status quo instead of trains, trams, busses, cars, bikes etc - but they don't understand the need, hence the "too many graduates" situation. If we're not going to be the useless "B" arc we need to focus less on the "service economy" of managing problems and put some effort into solving them instead. Less horseshit shovellers and instead people working out ways to avoid horseshit in the first place. However that's a long term view and incompatible with what is taught in an MBA in shouting, funny thing is nobody is complaining about too many of those.
You are the bait and switch loser and not me. I've got no idea why you thought that would work since you appear to have far less than normal general knowledge about electricity generation and distribution.
I see you can write a lot of bullshit, but not admit to your fabrication
That pre-emptive bullshit of assigning your own actions to others is especially juvenile. What a truly pathetic creature you are. So much time waving something around as a prop when you could have learned a thing or two about it instead.
to the experience in managing a virtual infrastructure
Or you take a soldier that has been managing virtual infrastructures instead of artillery:) Or you take a soldier that has spent ages applying a systems approach to a variety of different things and has learned two, maybe three programming languages - maybe they can learn number four? Maybe they actually can apply something approaching an engineering solution to problems instead of a basket weaving one - you have to admit that some areas of IT have a very low expected skill level. Having the patience to read a pile of manuals and understand them counts for a lot more than is expected sometimes.
Why is this a shock? Who else trains people these days? It's been suggested for years that the military produce the best pilots, the best mechanics and a pile of other roles. Why not IT technicians? After all, they don't expect to employ instant experts and take on the best bullshitter at an interview, they take on people who look like they may be able to do a job and dedicate the effort into making sure they have an expert after a while.
Why don't you go back and read what i actually said
Yes, let's look at the line I'm discussing shall we:
lol.. Silly, He couldn't have been traitorous as president
Does that sort out the attention span problem or mixing me up with another poster or whatever the hell is going on? "I am England/I am America" went out with Magna Carta when King John was put in his place, and it's never come back. A President CAN be found a traitor. The will of the people doesn't choose one King, they choose a pile of other people to make sure there is not just an authoritarian King who does not answer to anyone else, but instead a President with deliberately limited power who can be held to account by the court.
Look at my post immediately before your first reply - OBVIOUS ISN'T IT? Why pretend otherwise. You did a goalpost shift in some silly attempt to "blind me with science", yet for some reason you have less than the average general knowledge on the topic you did the goalpost shift into - and took it upon yourself to attack a former power industry engineer while so disarmed! What an utterly pathetic performance and a example to hold up as how stupid someone can look why they put blind ideology before really obvious reality. No wind? Anywhere? How fucking stupid? Oh it's not stupid you say, I have this graph that if you squint at just in the right way you can see some sort of pattern. What's the graph of I ask? Some sort of power shit that is beneath your dignity to understand you say.
What an utterly pathetic performance. Especially all that juvenile shouting to a crowd that isn't there. Whoever trained you for your role in society would be ashamed of you looking at all that drivel you have expelled onto the page above. All presumably so you can be a good comrade and attack an industry that your personal little Stalin dislikes, maybe so you can be promoted to commissar or blackboard monitor or something. What a pathetic weak willed creature you are. I taught at University for a while and was exposed to the losers in the political clubs and you remind me very much of the ones that devoted far too much effort to bullshit and did not pass their degrees.
How about actually thinking about the example of a President that wanted to declare war but did not until Pearl Harbour instead of your strange answer. If that's not enough think about why Johnson fabricated the Gulf Of Tonkin thing instead of just declaring war. The USA is not run by a King.
I see you are back to making separate posts BTW, the hostages in the Iran contra deal were not the same hostages in Iran.
It appears you've got me mixed up with the other poster, so NOW I'm making separate posts to clarify. I raised the Iran-Contra situation (as distinct from the other Iran situation from the other poster) as a serious of examples of a sitting President doing weapons deals with two parties that were declared enemies of the USA at the time. Various extralegal actions made the players immune to prosecution for everything, even North's embezzlement - it appears treason is not when you sell American weapons to terrorists with a track record of killing Americans but instead when you beat Russians at chess.
If an institution has a policy of kicking out or otherwise punishing students who cheat then why bother getting the people in politics involved? Such laws are pointless so it doesn't matter if only a couple of states have them.
See - the argument is pointless since all I'm trying to say is a President can be charged with treason in the right circumstances. If a President could not then that's where that "divine right of Kings" which is the opposite of what George Washington wanted would be in play - a President is not supposed to be above the law or be the embodiment of the law. Does that make sense? Maybe if Reagan wasn't mentioned all the irrelevant baggage wouldn't have come out.
Hell, we have senators and government officials making deals with Castro in Cuba
One part of the CIA was running guns to him early on at the same time another part was trying to stop people running guns to him. Somewhere an obsession with secrecy broke the chain of command.
Meanwhile the rest of us laugh at not just the MTGOX losers but the lot of you taken in by the pyramid scam with a hidden founder at the top of the pyramid. If you are so savvy and an anarchist who likes the label libertarian, then how come you haven't noticed that each bitcoin contains a tracking trail that makes it of less use to anarchists or libertarians than real cash where it's very difficult to track? It's almost as if it was invented to provide a panopticon into financial transactions.
Nice how you sidestepped the Hezbolla thing, especially given current events. It's a testament to discipline that North and Poindexder were not murdered in a Rambo rampage by ex-Marines after they were pardoned.
Because it is equivalent to the idea that a President is above the law and has had no place in the English and US legal systems since the 1200s. A President or King can be charged with treason if there are grounds for it. If a President were to declare or "undeclare" an enemy due to outside inducement and enough of the rest of the State saw it as a betrayal of the country then treason would be the charge. If a "Manchurian Canditate" situation was possible you can bet treason would be on the table if someone under the control of another state got the top job.
we were talking specifically about the conspiracy about Reagan colluding with Iran
Initially that was before he was President so the silly "President can't be treasonous because they are the LAW" thing doesn't apply either way.
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It depends - in some cases "incompetent" is code for refused to work extra hours for no extra pay, looked at me funny or is not one of the "right people" due to race, nationality, religion, politics, hobbies or who they associate with.
You'll probably find it's just a case of needing more than one person to make that call to remove it as an excuse instead of actual incompetence.
I used to work in a building that had "City Electric Light" over the door - it was a power station that was run by a private company that just sat on their assets and did not innovate or progress in any way. It was only when a fed-up government bought out all the tiny little power utilities and started putting together a network with economies of scale that there was any sign of progress (but not a change to the sign on the door over the next fifty years). Private monopolies have no need to progress but government run ones are subjected to other forces, so they often do innovate and progress. See also the slow suicide of the US steel and sugar industries as protected private monopolies that do not progress.
Just having a desk in a server room with very long video/kdb/mouse/serial cables to a screen etc on the desk can make a massive difference on the cheap. If it's only going to be used occasionally on things that are not available on a network at the time there's not so much call for a KVM box with multiple connections.
A big bench is also good for setting up that new noisy server that will piss everyone off if you do it in another work area.
So a dumb terminal has an entire copy of MS Windows instead of WinCE or a cast of thousands of non-MS options, and due to that it has a huge attack surface despite only doing a very limited job. An ATM should be simple and locked down since all it's doing is being an input device to a server and getting instructions from the server to spit out cash. It's obvious. Sleazy deals where one bit of MS cuts into the market of a different bit of MS are the only reason why such stupidity happens and you get a desktop computer doing the job of an embedded device.
They are not base load and more of them are brought online when base load is not enough - fits the definition perfectly. As I wrote above you appear to have far less than what would be expected for general knowledge on the topic so it was a very poor choice for your bait and switch. Perhaps you should limit your very long and repetitive misdirections to something related to your competency?
A weather map is not theoretical. Imagined patterns in a graph that depends on a lot of secondary factors is theoretical at best. Yet another utterly pathetic act of attempting to displace your own bad behaviour onto others.
It's gravely wrong and that's enough to discuss even if you got something right a bit down the page.
What people want to hire is telephone sanitizers, because they understand the need. What people need to hire is people building some new technology we've never heard of yet, to stop the equivalent of us being thirty feet deep in horse shit if we retain the status quo instead of trains, trams, busses, cars, bikes etc - but they don't understand the need, hence the "too many graduates" situation.
If we're not going to be the useless "B" arc we need to focus less on the "service economy" of managing problems and put some effort into solving them instead. Less horseshit shovellers and instead people working out ways to avoid horseshit in the first place. However that's a long term view and incompatible with what is taught in an MBA in shouting, funny thing is nobody is complaining about too many of those.
Not a glut - a shortage of jobs and a situation where the leading roles in science and technology are being handed to China and India on a plate.
You are the bait and switch loser and not me. I've got no idea why you thought that would work since you appear to have far less than normal general knowledge about electricity generation and distribution.
That pre-emptive bullshit of assigning your own actions to others is especially juvenile. What a truly pathetic creature you are. So much time waving something around as a prop when you could have learned a thing or two about it instead.
Or you take a soldier that has been managing virtual infrastructures instead of artillery :)
Or you take a soldier that has spent ages applying a systems approach to a variety of different things and has learned two, maybe three programming languages - maybe they can learn number four? Maybe they actually can apply something approaching an engineering solution to problems instead of a basket weaving one - you have to admit that some areas of IT have a very low expected skill level. Having the patience to read a pile of manuals and understand them counts for a lot more than is expected sometimes.
Why is this a shock? Who else trains people these days?
It's been suggested for years that the military produce the best pilots, the best mechanics and a pile of other roles. Why not IT technicians? After all, they don't expect to employ instant experts and take on the best bullshitter at an interview, they take on people who look like they may be able to do a job and dedicate the effort into making sure they have an expert after a while.
The military also train leaders. Hardly anyone else does.
Yes, let's look at the line I'm discussing shall we:
Does that sort out the attention span problem or mixing me up with another poster or whatever the hell is going on? "I am England/I am America" went out with Magna Carta when King John was put in his place, and it's never come back. A President CAN be found a traitor. The will of the people doesn't choose one King, they choose a pile of other people to make sure there is not just an authoritarian King who does not answer to anyone else, but instead a President with deliberately limited power who can be held to account by the court.
Look at my post immediately before your first reply - OBVIOUS ISN'T IT? Why pretend otherwise. You did a goalpost shift in some silly attempt to "blind me with science", yet for some reason you have less than the average general knowledge on the topic you did the goalpost shift into - and took it upon yourself to attack a former power industry engineer while so disarmed!
What an utterly pathetic performance and a example to hold up as how stupid someone can look why they put blind ideology before really obvious reality.
No wind? Anywhere? How fucking stupid? Oh it's not stupid you say, I have this graph that if you squint at just in the right way you can see some sort of pattern. What's the graph of I ask? Some sort of power shit that is beneath your dignity to understand you say.
What an utterly pathetic performance. Especially all that juvenile shouting to a crowd that isn't there. Whoever trained you for your role in society would be ashamed of you looking at all that drivel you have expelled onto the page above. All presumably so you can be a good comrade and attack an industry that your personal little Stalin dislikes, maybe so you can be promoted to commissar or blackboard monitor or something. What a pathetic weak willed creature you are. I taught at University for a while and was exposed to the losers in the political clubs and you remind me very much of the ones that devoted far too much effort to bullshit and did not pass their degrees.
How about actually thinking about the example of a President that wanted to declare war but did not until Pearl Harbour instead of your strange answer. If that's not enough think about why Johnson fabricated the Gulf Of Tonkin thing instead of just declaring war.
The USA is not run by a King.
Wouldn't existing laws for fraud solve that?
It appears you've got me mixed up with the other poster, so NOW I'm making separate posts to clarify. I raised the Iran-Contra situation (as distinct from the other Iran situation from the other poster) as a serious of examples of a sitting President doing weapons deals with two parties that were declared enemies of the USA at the time. Various extralegal actions made the players immune to prosecution for everything, even North's embezzlement - it appears treason is not when you sell American weapons to terrorists with a track record of killing Americans but instead when you beat Russians at chess.
If an institution has a policy of kicking out or otherwise punishing students who cheat then why bother getting the people in politics involved? Such laws are pointless so it doesn't matter if only a couple of states have them.
World War 2 would have had US involvement far earlier if that was actually the case.
See - the argument is pointless since all I'm trying to say is a President can be charged with treason in the right circumstances. If a President could not then that's where that "divine right of Kings" which is the opposite of what George Washington wanted would be in play - a President is not supposed to be above the law or be the embodiment of the law. Does that make sense?
Maybe if Reagan wasn't mentioned all the irrelevant baggage wouldn't have come out.
One part of the CIA was running guns to him early on at the same time another part was trying to stop people running guns to him. Somewhere an obsession with secrecy broke the chain of command.
Meanwhile the rest of us laugh at not just the MTGOX losers but the lot of you taken in by the pyramid scam with a hidden founder at the top of the pyramid. If you are so savvy and an anarchist who likes the label libertarian, then how come you haven't noticed that each bitcoin contains a tracking trail that makes it of less use to anarchists or libertarians than real cash where it's very difficult to track? It's almost as if it was invented to provide a panopticon into financial transactions.
Nice how you sidestepped the Hezbolla thing, especially given current events. It's a testament to discipline that North and Poindexder were not murdered in a Rambo rampage by ex-Marines after they were pardoned.
Because it is equivalent to the idea that a President is above the law and has had no place in the English and US legal systems since the 1200s. A President or King can be charged with treason if there are grounds for it. If a President were to declare or "undeclare" an enemy due to outside inducement and enough of the rest of the State saw it as a betrayal of the country then treason would be the charge. If a "Manchurian Canditate" situation was possible you can bet treason would be on the table if someone under the control of another state got the top job.
Initially that was before he was President so the silly "President can't be treasonous because they are the LAW" thing doesn't apply either way.
Ah yes, but this loser reporting Queens probably thinks it's not just any Friday but time for Joe Friday - of Drag Net.