No it isn't, and that fallacy is behind a lof of modern-day disfunctionality - the idea that There Can Be Only One True Answer.
Ah, so my (non-exclusive) answer is wrong because I (didn't) assert it to be the One True Answer. But your One True Answer is The One True Answer. Oh, and there are no such things as The One True Answer (The One True Answer asserting this, obviously excepted because the author obviously didn't take any logic).
If you actually study formal logic, you'll discover that binary/boolean/Aristotelian logic is only one form of logic.
You can solve all multiplication problems with addition. Note, nowhere did I say you *must* or *only* use addition. You are arguing against something I didn't say. You find what works, and use it. You are arguing that my car isn't a car because trucks exist. That is dumb.
I can tell for sure that philosophy is NOT the answer to engineering problems.
And you imply that IT problems are engineering problems. I disagree. IT problems are generally human problems. 90% of IT problems are user errors. The designers saw "best utility" as an engineering problem and built something correct, but useless. If it's counter-intuitive to a user, it's bad engineering. Even if it meets all the specifications. The problem is so few bad engineers can recognize it in themselves.
It's not about the Americans being not "qualified" but that a E/CE/CS degree is irrelevant to IT. IT is, in the most general sense, best served by a logic and philosophy/psychology degree. Every problem is solved by a binary decision tree.
"The computer isn't working." Well, that's hardware or software. If hardware, it's an internal or external fault. If internal, it's a part failure or install failure. If part, replace part. If install, re-seat hardware. Most any problem is a set of questions, each one narrowing down the choices, until the answer is found. The ability to break down problems like that is logic. Knowing what to ask and how to respond is generaly from experience. Dealing with the people that are experiencing the problem, or designing something for them to use is a "soft" skill that a psychology or other "soft" degree might help best with.
There isn't a good education for IT. It's never been addressed. The few places that teach "IT" generally teach to some specific certification tests, and nothing about how to apply it.
So if you are sunbathing in your back yard, with 12 ft fences and no buildings visible, would you still presume privacy? Should you be mailed a ticket for sunbathing nude?
Interesting. I'll have to send the kids to Finland for uni. I wonder what the fees are like in China. They have some good universities there. And are an economic powerhouse,
People who say a film only costs $20,000 to make are either productions that somehow shot and finished in 1 day or else they're saying that their crew's time was worth nothing.
Or they get people to trade working on a film for working on a film (they get to be in credits and such, so some think it a good thing to get the experience, even if unpaid). According to the IRS, donated time is worthless.
That's not what the links from the other guy indicate, but if it actually works, that's great. For those that "never really learn Finnish" what language do they take classes in? Do they take the classes in Finnish, but never get to a conversational level?
And your comment of "even if I spoke no..." makes it sound like you did, not that you didn't and it wasn't a problem. So you spoke Russian (something more common in foreign students than Finnish), but that's not on the "allowed" languages for free tuition, so it seems the issue is the bad cite I was given, not my interpretation of it. But good to hear from an independent source that the cite was worthless.
However, what is it you mean about what could have been done differently?
Mostly design and engineering issues. Designing the systems to work during catastrophies, rather than having backups that are very likely to fail in the event of a primary failure.
The heat from a melt-down is more than enough to power systems that would prevent the melt-down (not just passive cooling, but emergency turbines within the plant, generating lower voltage than the main ones to run on when mains power is lost, looping primary power off-site was a design failure I remember pointing out to the engineer in my first tour of a nuclear plant, when I was 8. The "It'll never happen" did, just not at his plant.
Yes. Every presidential election in the last 15 years had "anomolies" greater than the vote spread. There are precincts that recorded more "valid" votes than people registered to vote, in an area with low voter turnout. Ballot boxes from areas that strongly lean one way or the other were "lost".
By all appearances the US government accurately reflects the collective preferences of its citizens. If you have evidence to the contrary, let's hear it.
I don't get "proof". Those with "proof" are discredited through expensive smear campaigns, or never heard from. As I don't wish to be disappeared, I prefer to watch from the side-lines. Watergate wasn't a one-off, it was business as usual (and one of the least direct tampering in recent history). Campaigns are to get the vote close enough to cheat the victory, and if you are leading enough, you don't need to cheat, except to make sure the other guy doesn't cheat you.
There are what, two that have free tuition, but only in unpopular local languages? And one or two others? That doesn't seem common. The initial comments seemed to imply that it was common in the EU for foreign tuition to be the same as local. That's most assuredly false. So yes, you are answering one subset of the question, and pretending it's the only one that matters (especially since you've shown your hateful anti-American attitude, and need to show the answer proves Americans wrong).
And I've worked with sealed generators designed to be submerged. It's cheaper to run an exhaust pipe and intake pipe 30 feet in the air, than mount a generator 3 stories up.
And it wouldn't have mattered much for fukushima, as the fuel was contaminated by the seawater. Though the responders would have had more options if they had a fuel-less working generator.
There were a lot of simple almost-free things that could have been done differently with the generators to prevent the problems caused by loss of power (then we'd know if the problems were caused by the earthquake, as the people responsible for the generators assert).
I never moved the goalposts. And the statement I was addressing was "So if I just show up in a European country, they'll let me go to university for free? Hint: No they won't." where one would presume the OP was in the US, so yes, it was about an American. And, as you point out, the number of Americans speaking Finnish is minuscule. It's you who is moving the goal posts. Not me.
Spain looks pretty good, but no, I'm not interested for myself. Maybe my kids some day, but I already have a master's degree. I don't need anymore. Though I need to see which countries in Europe allow dual citizens. France does, but has stricter requirements. Spain is easier to become citizen, but doesn't allow duality. Nor does Germany. UK does. So more important than cheap tuition, is someplace to get a third citizenship from. Gotta have options when the US finally self-destructs, and tries to take the rest of the world with it.
The trouble to learn an unusual language to be able to get free tuition is not worth it, and most of the rest of the ones with the same rules for foreigners have higher fees for foreigners. And none of the languages are common first or second languages, so it would likely take extreme effort to be able to get anything from that "free" education.
You can't choose where you were born. You can choose where you live. If you are born in the US, you *can't* go to uni in Europe for free (without some unusual scholarships). There's no way to move to europe as a 12 year old on your own, and if you move there on a student visa, you are going to pay.
So the point was, the advice was correct, but 100% useless. What can a person, already born, do about it?
I wonder if the emergency generators are in a basement that could flood?
No, that'd be stupid. The generators are on the top floor. But the fuel is under the basement for safety (and not fully sealed from water contamination).
Or, as I have seen in person, the grid power comes in the basement, and the generator feeds the basement cutover switch, but they put the generators on the roof, and the fuel on the roof of the parking structure (to reduce fire risk to the building), with a safe and reliable connection between the fuel and generators. When the flood hits, the electronics in the basement go, taking out the building and the generators. So the generators would be worthless in a flood.
Not too far off the N.O. floods. The flood pumps were water rated, and would have worked fine, but the electronics running them weren't sealed against water, so the pumps couldn't get power, despite being built to run underwater. So many people focus on the levees, they miss the hundreds of other lessons to be learned about disaster preparedness.
Yeah, I paid a PE to review a deck design. I threw out his plans and re-designed it myself. About 2 weeks after that, a similar deck to what the PE designed failed, injuring 20. My deck is still standing strong. Like this article, the regs counted on one strength measure, ignoring all others (quartering winds ignored in regulation, because a traditional building is strongest against them). So they built it to the regulations, but the regulations were flawed. Same with me. The deck materials would support the weight, but the deck would fail in a single piece. I'd rather it not fail. The PE didn't understand that.
PEs are more like the military. You must be willing to follow the rules, even when the rules are wrong. Questioning and independent thought are not rewarded. You spend more time justifying your decision than making it, and whether it works is irrelevant, so long as you can prove it was proper. Let the guys who write the regs worry about what's proper.
That's the same thing CPAs sell - the market pays Price Waterhouse Coopers to find the truth, rather than skewing things.
Yeah, those CPAs auditing Enron did a bang-up job of it, didn't they?
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No it isn't, and that fallacy is behind a lof of modern-day disfunctionality - the idea that There Can Be Only One True Answer.
Ah, so my (non-exclusive) answer is wrong because I (didn't) assert it to be the One True Answer. But your One True Answer is The One True Answer. Oh, and there are no such things as The One True Answer (The One True Answer asserting this, obviously excepted because the author obviously didn't take any logic).
If you actually study formal logic, you'll discover that binary/boolean/Aristotelian logic is only one form of logic.
You can solve all multiplication problems with addition. Note, nowhere did I say you *must* or *only* use addition. You are arguing against something I didn't say. You find what works, and use it. You are arguing that my car isn't a car because trucks exist. That is dumb.
I can tell for sure that philosophy is NOT the answer to engineering problems.
And you imply that IT problems are engineering problems. I disagree. IT problems are generally human problems. 90% of IT problems are user errors. The designers saw "best utility" as an engineering problem and built something correct, but useless. If it's counter-intuitive to a user, it's bad engineering. Even if it meets all the specifications. The problem is so few bad engineers can recognize it in themselves.
Why do you hate MBAs and CIOs? Envy?
It's not about the Americans being not "qualified" but that a E/CE/CS degree is irrelevant to IT. IT is, in the most general sense, best served by a logic and philosophy/psychology degree. Every problem is solved by a binary decision tree.
"The computer isn't working." Well, that's hardware or software. If hardware, it's an internal or external fault. If internal, it's a part failure or install failure. If part, replace part. If install, re-seat hardware. Most any problem is a set of questions, each one narrowing down the choices, until the answer is found. The ability to break down problems like that is logic. Knowing what to ask and how to respond is generaly from experience. Dealing with the people that are experiencing the problem, or designing something for them to use is a "soft" skill that a psychology or other "soft" degree might help best with.
There isn't a good education for IT. It's never been addressed. The few places that teach "IT" generally teach to some specific certification tests, and nothing about how to apply it.
So if you are sunbathing in your back yard, with 12 ft fences and no buildings visible, would you still presume privacy? Should you be mailed a ticket for sunbathing nude?
PETA thinks that vanity pets are cruel slavery. PETA hates animals, but hates humans more.
The stables are developed by Trump for another failed monument to his ego. The horses are cooked for opening dinner.
Interesting. I'll have to send the kids to Finland for uni. I wonder what the fees are like in China. They have some good universities there. And are an economic powerhouse,
For many things, the designs are released for free. How do you steal the "free" item?
People who say a film only costs $20,000 to make are either productions that somehow shot and finished in 1 day or else they're saying that their crew's time was worth nothing.
Or they get people to trade working on a film for working on a film (they get to be in credits and such, so some think it a good thing to get the experience, even if unpaid). According to the IRS, donated time is worthless.
That's not what the links from the other guy indicate, but if it actually works, that's great. For those that "never really learn Finnish" what language do they take classes in? Do they take the classes in Finnish, but never get to a conversational level?
..." makes it sound like you did, not that you didn't and it wasn't a problem. So you spoke Russian (something more common in foreign students than Finnish), but that's not on the "allowed" languages for free tuition, so it seems the issue is the bad cite I was given, not my interpretation of it. But good to hear from an independent source that the cite was worthless.
And your comment of "even if I spoke no
However, what is it you mean about what could have been done differently?
Mostly design and engineering issues. Designing the systems to work during catastrophies, rather than having backups that are very likely to fail in the event of a primary failure.
The heat from a melt-down is more than enough to power systems that would prevent the melt-down (not just passive cooling, but emergency turbines within the plant, generating lower voltage than the main ones to run on when mains power is lost, looping primary power off-site was a design failure I remember pointing out to the engineer in my first tour of a nuclear plant, when I was 8. The "It'll never happen" did, just not at his plant.
Do votes get miscounted?
Yes. Every presidential election in the last 15 years had "anomolies" greater than the vote spread. There are precincts that recorded more "valid" votes than people registered to vote, in an area with low voter turnout. Ballot boxes from areas that strongly lean one way or the other were "lost".
By all appearances the US government accurately reflects the collective preferences of its citizens. If you have evidence to the contrary, let's hear it.
I don't get "proof". Those with "proof" are discredited through expensive smear campaigns, or never heard from. As I don't wish to be disappeared, I prefer to watch from the side-lines. Watergate wasn't a one-off, it was business as usual (and one of the least direct tampering in recent history). Campaigns are to get the vote close enough to cheat the victory, and if you are leading enough, you don't need to cheat, except to make sure the other guy doesn't cheat you.
There are what, two that have free tuition, but only in unpopular local languages? And one or two others? That doesn't seem common. The initial comments seemed to imply that it was common in the EU for foreign tuition to be the same as local. That's most assuredly false. So yes, you are answering one subset of the question, and pretending it's the only one that matters (especially since you've shown your hateful anti-American attitude, and need to show the answer proves Americans wrong).
And I've worked with sealed generators designed to be submerged. It's cheaper to run an exhaust pipe and intake pipe 30 feet in the air, than mount a generator 3 stories up.
And it wouldn't have mattered much for fukushima, as the fuel was contaminated by the seawater. Though the responders would have had more options if they had a fuel-less working generator.
There were a lot of simple almost-free things that could have been done differently with the generators to prevent the problems caused by loss of power (then we'd know if the problems were caused by the earthquake, as the people responsible for the generators assert).
I never moved the goalposts. And the statement I was addressing was "So if I just show up in a European country, they'll let me go to university for free? Hint: No they won't." where one would presume the OP was in the US, so yes, it was about an American. And, as you point out, the number of Americans speaking Finnish is minuscule. It's you who is moving the goal posts. Not me.
I dunno, how do you effect change in a democracy?
When it's a corrupt one that isn't a "democracy" any more outside name, you don't.
Spain looks pretty good, but no, I'm not interested for myself. Maybe my kids some day, but I already have a master's degree. I don't need anymore. Though I need to see which countries in Europe allow dual citizens. France does, but has stricter requirements. Spain is easier to become citizen, but doesn't allow duality. Nor does Germany. UK does. So more important than cheap tuition, is someplace to get a third citizenship from. Gotta have options when the US finally self-destructs, and tries to take the rest of the world with it.
Someone else indicated it was easy to get a "free" degree in europe. That doesn't seem the case. That's all I said.
How many people in France know Finnish? Almost none? Then your irrational hate is misaimed.
The trouble to learn an unusual language to be able to get free tuition is not worth it, and most of the rest of the ones with the same rules for foreigners have higher fees for foreigners. And none of the languages are common first or second languages, so it would likely take extreme effort to be able to get anything from that "free" education.
Name one. I did a quick look, and I didn't see any where foreign students on a student visa were tuition-free.
You can't choose where you were born. You can choose where you live. If you are born in the US, you *can't* go to uni in Europe for free (without some unusual scholarships). There's no way to move to europe as a 12 year old on your own, and if you move there on a student visa, you are going to pay.
So the point was, the advice was correct, but 100% useless. What can a person, already born, do about it?
I wonder if the emergency generators are in a basement that could flood?
No, that'd be stupid. The generators are on the top floor. But the fuel is under the basement for safety (and not fully sealed from water contamination).
Or, as I have seen in person, the grid power comes in the basement, and the generator feeds the basement cutover switch, but they put the generators on the roof, and the fuel on the roof of the parking structure (to reduce fire risk to the building), with a safe and reliable connection between the fuel and generators. When the flood hits, the electronics in the basement go, taking out the building and the generators. So the generators would be worthless in a flood.
Not too far off the N.O. floods. The flood pumps were water rated, and would have worked fine, but the electronics running them weren't sealed against water, so the pumps couldn't get power, despite being built to run underwater. So many people focus on the levees, they miss the hundreds of other lessons to be learned about disaster preparedness.
PEs are more like the military. You must be willing to follow the rules, even when the rules are wrong. Questioning and independent thought are not rewarded. You spend more time justifying your decision than making it, and whether it works is irrelevant, so long as you can prove it was proper. Let the guys who write the regs worry about what's proper.
That's the same thing CPAs sell - the market pays Price Waterhouse Coopers to find the truth, rather than skewing things.
Yeah, those CPAs auditing Enron did a bang-up job of it, didn't they?
Weird Al gets permission because being right and getting sued sucks. Getting permission prevents such issues. It's expensive to win in court, even if you are clearly right.