If it is businesses that are the prime users of your maps, then the taxes that support your operation should be assessed against businesses instead of citizens. If you need to do more flyovers to improve your products, raise the taxes against businesses. If they convince politicians that the taxes are excessive, don't do the flyovers. Every business gets a variety of taxes assessed against them, some benefit them, some don't. Overall the goal is an equitable distibution that supports everyone. This is true for personal taxes as well, even though some people don't have children they still pay school taxes. Likewise, even though this is the goal, in practice it could rarely be said to be equitable. But for that problem I blame the politicians, the people who vote for them, the people who stuff the ballots and the people who buy the politicians.
Any one can get on the highways without a driver's license. Just like anyone can get in a car drunk and start driving. And if you don't believe so, check out the newspaper (online of course) for the arrests in the past week. Even the arrests don't keep them off the road.
My first Squadron Commander was a former SR-71 pilot. When they started up the program again in the 90s, he was one of the very few still in the Air Force. He got to go back to them for 6months to a year till they shut it down again at which point he retired. He had the stuff that said he was part of the Mach 3 club. It definitely went faster than Mach 3, and he would basically admit that it did, but he would never give the actual limit.
Sorry your story didn't turn out as well. I walked into my guidance counselor (fortunately it was my aunt) office very early in my sophomore year, within two weeks after it started and told her I've had enough, I want to go to college next year. My regrets are that I waited till my sophomore year. There were some conditions but they were easily met. I had already gotten a 1270 SAT back when I was 12. I was taking AP calculus that year, but only because they had refused to give it to me the previous year. I also corrected teachers when necessary, but only if I was paying attention, which truthfully wasn't often. The book was in my hands, what did I need teacher for? If the book wasn't good enough, I could always visit the library (pre-internet days for all the younguns out there) We did have the AP classes which a classmate of mine ended taking 11 or 12. He skipped a year and a half at Carnegie Mellon. Since I was a poor kid and skewed the curve, they were more than happy to see me go. I know this because they manipulated the class ranking so that my friend came in as Salutatorian and the lawyer's daughter made Valedictorian. I was halfway to my degree by that point and no longer cared.
Treat teenagers like children and that's all they'll ever be. Just with adult bodies. And we (U.S.) already have enough spoiled, irresponsible kids in adult bodies.
Treat teenagers like adults and they can be as responsible as any adult. And hey, we're going to need them working to pay for social security for all those baby boomers.
If nothing else treat each 'number' as two characters and use A-F (or 0-5) followed by 0-9, similar to how base 255 is displayed, two hex next to each other. By always using two characters, parsing it should be simple.
Having been one of those freaks you talk about as well as an introvert, going to classes with students 4-5 years older than me HELPED my social skills. It is very easy to socialize with people like you, it takes social skills to socialize with people NOT like you. I didn't take geometry class with 11 year old eggheads like myself, I took them with average and above average 15 and 16 year olds. That way builds social skills. If they can't deal with being a freak, how are they going to manage when they first get a job and their boss is extremely average, or their President is well below average?
Likewise, being able to impress someone your own age is NOT going to get you a job when starting out; your boss is probably going to be at least 10-20 years older than you. The high school cliques do NOT teach you social skills. Only someone who is willing to go outside their clique, even their age group, are the ones who will truly develop social skills, at least for those those for whom it does not come naturally. And if those skills are not inborn, then trying to advance yourself is one way of getting some practice.
What part of "snowball's chance in hell" don't you understand? But if you have video, catch the guy in the act of torturing 20 people, have 50 eyewitnesses, sometimes you just have to execute them. But if you have to depend on a prosecutor up for election, a defense attorney who can't get a better job and 12 people who couldn't get out of jury duty, you should almost always side on jail time not the death penalty.
Exactly. Once the volume gets high enough, even highly improbable events become probable that at least 1 person experiences it. There's the one guy who's been hit by lightning at least 7 times. There may be no one else hit more than 3 times. Many folks have been focusing on the quoted failure percentage. The more appropriate number is the MTBF, which I haven't seen. But still that's just the mean. Also, values for new items are going to be different than those for refurbs. Manufacturing differences are likely involved as well. The independence between subsequent trials is inaccurate and makes a binomial approximation invalid--the 1 in over a trillion estimate quoted by others completely wrong. So, given that SOMEBODY has to have had the most returns, 11 does not seem unreasonable and could be completely due to the the Xboxes themselves. In fact, my guess is that this is the case.
Except that kids in the back seat is probably the third most dangerous way to drive. Teenagers in every seat including the driver is probably the second most dangerous. And topping the list is wife and mother in law in the car unmuzzled. Add your own mother and you have an accident waiting to happen. And if the distraction level doesn't do it, the driver just must turn into oncoming traffic. None of those involve a cell phone. And none could be tested properly without hidden camera techniques. Therefore those experiments you mention have huge flaws in them.
I agree with much of your assertion that Cap punishment has not been effective in its present form in the US. But I believe part of that is related to your statement that it is cheaper to lock them away than to execute them. That in itself is much of the problem. The legal system is bloated beyond belief and backed up worse than our freeways during rush hour. Why does it take 20 years to execute someone? Those two items make the cost exorbitant
Execution should be swift. No more than a year from sentencing, and preferably less than a month. Now that brings up the other problem with capital punishment. First, cops and prosecutor who screw up or are criminal in their actions. Their actions in the recent past sending probably innocent people to the death penalty have made many of these punishments suspect. Because of that, the eternal appeal process is somewhat justified and a death penalty somewhat unjustified.
If that process can be fixed and the justice system in general, then capital punishment and punishment overall could work as intended. However, given that many of our so called leaders are a product of this system, and the system generates so much wealth for lawyers, that has a snowball's chance in hell for the near future.
Therefore, the death penalty should be reserved for mass murderers when there is no doubt of their guilt. And hanging at dawn. All others go to the slammer, even if they deserve death. No death row.
We solved that problem by taking the lid off the tank. The cat got her water from there. No worries about drinking contaminated water and no more her spilling her water dish.
Ah but if he does that, HIS Boss may realize that he can cut costs further by hiring a manager in India that reports to him for that low low price. So if your boss is smart, he won't look at it that way. However, I have seen many bosses, and they barely plan forward enough to unzip when they are in the restroom. Realizing that something they do could cost them their own job, impossible.
Age 11 in 10th or 11th grade geometry class in US, though the material was likely not covered directly. The necessary parts were provided, though no example that was similar was likely explored. Then I went back to 6th grade for my other courses. Your mileage will vary.
Destroying satellites is the last thing you want to do, IF you depend on satellites. A country with little need for permanent presence in space (North Korea maybe?) could easily use the threat of knocking out a satellite. The problem is that a country knocking out a US (or other country's) satellite could easily cause damage to third party nations' satellites. Is it worth having multiple countries mad at you?
And why didn't the judge jail those attorneys for contempt? The judge could have handled this case a lot better, look at the tape, determine which claims were correct and then proceeded in a proper manner.
Voyager at times could be alright, but in general I agree with your assessment. DS9 definitely started off slowly, but once they had several plot lines going through all the episodes, it really took off. In fact, I preferred the later episodes of DS9 to most of TNG.
Can I get a vote on Man-Kzin Wars. But I would do a movie for one of the longer stories and follow it up with a serial television show for the short stories. Hell, it fits the Stargate treatment perfectly. It can be a series of 1 hour episodes with an overarching storyline that threads them all together. Likewise, you can give it the Star Trek treatment to handle different eras. Niven's works could also fill several series. The popularity of Heroes show that a well done show can survive on TV, if the network supports it. The other killer for sci-fi is writing, the other way beloved sci-fi shows die an early death.
There's never a good reason to launch dead mass on a satellite. But the economics of repair in space are just not worth it, unless the repair (or refuel-don't count fuel mass,it's not wasted mass, if it can be done) satellite mass is a small fraction of the destination satellite.
Also, in most cases you are better off launching a next-gen satellite than trying to repair an older one. By next-gen, I don't necessarily mean bleeding edge, untested technology, I typically mean reliable technology made lighter and less power hungry, particularly if you can use 2 or 3 older units for the same mass and power as 1 new unit.
Several small sats or multiple redundancies on a large one can be so much more useful than one big one with no redundancies. Fact of life is that parts of spacecraft fail, SPOF kills...True for all except for very specific tasks. An imaging system that has to see further and/or clearer than previous ones fits that requirement. Still want the redundancy on as much as possible within reason (mass, power, size, etc.)
Well, perhaps Windows should have a "Make Computing in Windows Easier" Tab. Not necessarily one that, when activated, installs Linux as I am sure someone was going to suggest--we are talking about gaming. A tab that has choices like Enter Gaming mode, or Enter Online gaming mode, which then proceeds to turn off MS services and other crap that are not required. When done, you could then select limited productivity mode, which would then restore the bloatware OS, probably with at most 1 restart.
By the time that males and females reach college, most of their personality, at least with regards to learning and desires will be formed. It's still mutable at that point, but basically the damage, if any, is done at that point. Lousy professors and attitudes may change the percentages some, and I am sure that there are lots of women out there who'll say they left Engineering due to the profs and classmates they ran into. You will find that lots of men left those fields as well.
However, if women and men do start out at birth with an equal opportunity to reach the greatest levels of Engineering expertise, it is in grades K-12 and probably primarily K-6 that efforts will show the best benefits. There, is where the attitudes like "I'm a girl, I can't do math" are formed. You want to fix a problem, that's where you go. Once they are in the workplace, it's almost impossible to do anything effective on a large scale.
For college freshman, you're trying to cater to their desires. For those who are undeclared, just treat men and women equally. True, this may be easier said than done with some prevailing attitudes. For businesses, once again, treat them equally, and make your decisions based on their abilities and experiences.
Based on the current male to female ratio, women have an easy way in to the marketplace if they want to be, but do they want to deal with the disparate ratio? If they have made it this far, the answer is usually as much as the men want to stay in engineering. My office is about 50/50, though a related office is about 90/10 male. Plus several of the women have fallen victim to the family and are now part timers (all with 10+ years experience).
I can get Microsoft Office for $20. I work for a very large group that uses Microsoft. In return for selling out to Microsoft, all the employees get the offer to buy a licensed copy of Office for $20. Of course, 8 years ago, we were allowed to take the disks to install on our home computer for free. 8 years ago, I had Office on my home computer. Now, OpenOffice, also free.
And if Senator Longbottom wants to play the blame game, he's probably got lots of skeletons in his closet, many of which will send him to jail for a long time.
Well let's see. Algebra 1, that was my 4th grade, Algebra 2 was 5th grade. After that, public schools became very ineffective. That idea sounds good, but I was in no position to judge which teachers were best at teaching because I was so far beyond the material that the most effective way for me to learn was to ignore the teacher and learn on my own.
There should be some focus on teaching children how to think and learn on their own and critical thinking. If children learn those skills, you can live with both types of teachers easily. The only problem with that plan is that it would reduce the number of sheep voters.
Bringing them back in is the best method for LEO satellites. Super sync is the best for geo and semi-synch as it takes too much fuel to bring them back in, fuel that could extend life for months and probably years. The risk is small, particularly if 1) enough fuel is budgeted to easily target an ocean impact and 2) if the vehicle is composed of ablatable materials (aluminum for example instead of titanium). MIR was the biggest concern due to its size. The Shuttle debris, also large in mass, was a somewhat lucky event (check the CAIB report for estimates). Part of its survival was the aerodynamic surfaces. The typical LEO satellite will ablate quite a bit. Still a risk, but less than the initial launch was.
There are some things a satellite can do during a space weather event, but luck and prayer is involved. Safe modes for example. The key there is to avoid some action that starts irrevocable actions from beginning automatically (for example, the on board computer having memory changes due to high energy events, think it is a high spin and start thrusting to control it.
It's been a while since I had my course on this stuff, but the semi synch and polar satellites are among the most disadvantaged (GPS and regular weather satellites)
Now having said all that, space weather reports are more useful terrestrially than for on orbit satellites. Communications can be highly dependent on space weather as hams have known for a long time. Google search on "GPS degradation due to space weather" shows numerous hits. AF regularly reports on expected GPS accuracy around the world, and space weather is just one consideration.
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If it is businesses that are the prime users of your maps, then the taxes that support your operation should be assessed against businesses instead of citizens. If you need to do more flyovers to improve your products, raise the taxes against businesses. If they convince politicians that the taxes are excessive, don't do the flyovers. Every business gets a variety of taxes assessed against them, some benefit them, some don't. Overall the goal is an equitable distibution that supports everyone. This is true for personal taxes as well, even though some people don't have children they still pay school taxes. Likewise, even though this is the goal, in practice it could rarely be said to be equitable. But for that problem I blame the politicians, the people who vote for them, the people who stuff the ballots and the people who buy the politicians.
Any one can get on the highways without a driver's license. Just like anyone can get in a car drunk and start driving. And if you don't believe so, check out the newspaper (online of course) for the arrests in the past week. Even the arrests don't keep them off the road.
My first Squadron Commander was a former SR-71 pilot. When they started up the program again in the 90s, he was one of the very few still in the Air Force. He got to go back to them for 6months to a year till they shut it down again at which point he retired. He had the stuff that said he was part of the Mach 3 club. It definitely went faster than Mach 3, and he would basically admit that it did, but he would never give the actual limit.
Sorry your story didn't turn out as well. I walked into my guidance counselor (fortunately it was my aunt) office very early in my sophomore year, within two weeks after it started and told her I've had enough, I want to go to college next year. My regrets are that I waited till my sophomore year. There were some conditions but they were easily met. I had already gotten a 1270 SAT back when I was 12. I was taking AP calculus that year, but only because they had refused to give it to me the previous year. I also corrected teachers when necessary, but only if I was paying attention, which truthfully wasn't often. The book was in my hands, what did I need teacher for? If the book wasn't good enough, I could always visit the library (pre-internet days for all the younguns out there) We did have the AP classes which a classmate of mine ended taking 11 or 12. He skipped a year and a half at Carnegie Mellon. Since I was a poor kid and skewed the curve, they were more than happy to see me go. I know this because they manipulated the class ranking so that my friend came in as Salutatorian and the lawyer's daughter made Valedictorian. I was halfway to my degree by that point and no longer cared.
Treat teenagers like children and that's all they'll ever be. Just with adult bodies. And we (U.S.) already have enough spoiled, irresponsible kids in adult bodies.
Treat teenagers like adults and they can be as responsible as any adult. And hey, we're going to need them working to pay for social security for all those baby boomers.
If nothing else treat each 'number' as two characters and use A-F (or 0-5) followed by 0-9, similar to how base 255 is displayed, two hex next to each other. By always using two characters, parsing it should be simple.
Having been one of those freaks you talk about as well as an introvert, going to classes with students 4-5 years older than me HELPED my social skills. It is very easy to socialize with people like you, it takes social skills to socialize with people NOT like you. I didn't take geometry class with 11 year old eggheads like myself, I took them with average and above average 15 and 16 year olds. That way builds social skills. If they can't deal with being a freak, how are they going to manage when they first get a job and their boss is extremely average, or their President is well below average?
Likewise, being able to impress someone your own age is NOT going to get you a job when starting out; your boss is probably going to be at least 10-20 years older than you. The high school cliques do NOT teach you social skills. Only someone who is willing to go outside their clique, even their age group, are the ones who will truly develop social skills, at least for those those for whom it does not come naturally. And if those skills are not inborn, then trying to advance yourself is one way of getting some practice.
When did I work with you?
What part of "snowball's chance in hell" don't you understand? But if you have video, catch the guy in the act of torturing 20 people, have 50 eyewitnesses, sometimes you just have to execute them. But if you have to depend on a prosecutor up for election, a defense attorney who can't get a better job and 12 people who couldn't get out of jury duty, you should almost always side on jail time not the death penalty.
Exactly. Once the volume gets high enough, even highly improbable events become probable that at least 1 person experiences it. There's the one guy who's been hit by lightning at least 7 times. There may be no one else hit more than 3 times. Many folks have been focusing on the quoted failure percentage. The more appropriate number is the MTBF, which I haven't seen. But still that's just the mean. Also, values for new items are going to be different than those for refurbs. Manufacturing differences are likely involved as well. The independence between subsequent trials is inaccurate and makes a binomial approximation invalid--the 1 in over a trillion estimate quoted by others completely wrong. So, given that SOMEBODY has to have had the most returns, 11 does not seem unreasonable and could be completely due to the the Xboxes themselves. In fact, my guess is that this is the case.
Except that kids in the back seat is probably the third most dangerous way to drive. Teenagers in every seat including the driver is probably the second most dangerous. And topping the list is wife and mother in law in the car unmuzzled. Add your own mother and you have an accident waiting to happen. And if the distraction level doesn't do it, the driver just must turn into oncoming traffic. None of those involve a cell phone. And none could be tested properly without hidden camera techniques. Therefore those experiments you mention have huge flaws in them.
I agree with much of your assertion that Cap punishment has not been effective in its present form in the US. But I believe part of that is related to your statement that it is cheaper to lock them away than to execute them. That in itself is much of the problem. The legal system is bloated beyond belief and backed up worse than our freeways during rush hour. Why does it take 20 years to execute someone? Those two items make the cost exorbitant
Execution should be swift. No more than a year from sentencing, and preferably less than a month. Now that brings up the other problem with capital punishment. First, cops and prosecutor who screw up or are criminal in their actions. Their actions in the recent past sending probably innocent people to the death penalty have made many of these punishments suspect. Because of that, the eternal appeal process is somewhat justified and a death penalty somewhat unjustified.
If that process can be fixed and the justice system in general, then capital punishment and punishment overall could work as intended. However, given that many of our so called leaders are a product of this system, and the system generates so much wealth for lawyers, that has a snowball's chance in hell for the near future.
Therefore, the death penalty should be reserved for mass murderers when there is no doubt of their guilt. And hanging at dawn. All others go to the slammer, even if they deserve death. No death row.
We solved that problem by taking the lid off the tank. The cat got her water from there. No worries about drinking contaminated water and no more her spilling her water dish.
Ah but if he does that, HIS Boss may realize that he can cut costs further by hiring a manager in India that reports to him for that low low price. So if your boss is smart, he won't look at it that way. However, I have seen many bosses, and they barely plan forward enough to unzip when they are in the restroom. Realizing that something they do could cost them their own job, impossible.
Age 11 in 10th or 11th grade geometry class in US, though the material was likely not covered directly. The necessary parts were provided, though no example that was similar was likely explored. Then I went back to 6th grade for my other courses. Your mileage will vary.
Destroying satellites is the last thing you want to do, IF you depend on satellites. A country with little need for permanent presence in space (North Korea maybe?) could easily use the threat of knocking out a satellite. The problem is that a country knocking out a US (or other country's) satellite could easily cause damage to third party nations' satellites. Is it worth having multiple countries mad at you?
And why didn't the judge jail those attorneys for contempt? The judge could have handled this case a lot better, look at the tape, determine which claims were correct and then proceeded in a proper manner.
Voyager at times could be alright, but in general I agree with your assessment. DS9 definitely started off slowly, but once they had several plot lines going through all the episodes, it really took off. In fact, I preferred the later episodes of DS9 to most of TNG.
Can I get a vote on Man-Kzin Wars. But I would do a movie for one of the longer stories and follow it up with a serial television show for the short stories. Hell, it fits the Stargate treatment perfectly. It can be a series of 1 hour episodes with an overarching storyline that threads them all together. Likewise, you can give it the Star Trek treatment to handle different eras. Niven's works could also fill several series. The popularity of Heroes show that a well done show can survive on TV, if the network supports it. The other killer for sci-fi is writing, the other way beloved sci-fi shows die an early death.
There's never a good reason to launch dead mass on a satellite. But the economics of repair in space are just not worth it, unless the repair (or refuel-don't count fuel mass,it's not wasted mass, if it can be done) satellite mass is a small fraction of the destination satellite.
Also, in most cases you are better off launching a next-gen satellite than trying to repair an older one. By next-gen, I don't necessarily mean bleeding edge, untested technology, I typically mean reliable technology made lighter and less power hungry, particularly if you can use 2 or 3 older units for the same mass and power as 1 new unit.
Several small sats or multiple redundancies on a large one can be so much more useful than one big one with no redundancies. Fact of life is that parts of spacecraft fail, SPOF kills...True for all except for very specific tasks. An imaging system that has to see further and/or clearer than previous ones fits that requirement. Still want the redundancy on as much as possible within reason (mass, power, size, etc.)
Well, perhaps Windows should have a "Make Computing in Windows Easier" Tab. Not necessarily one that, when activated, installs Linux as I am sure someone was going to suggest--we are talking about gaming. A tab that has choices like Enter Gaming mode, or Enter Online gaming mode, which then proceeds to turn off MS services and other crap that are not required. When done, you could then select limited productivity mode, which would then restore the bloatware OS, probably with at most 1 restart.
By the time that males and females reach college, most of their personality, at least with regards to learning and desires will be formed. It's still mutable at that point, but basically the damage, if any, is done at that point. Lousy professors and attitudes may change the percentages some, and I am sure that there are lots of women out there who'll say they left Engineering due to the profs and classmates they ran into. You will find that lots of men left those fields as well.
However, if women and men do start out at birth with an equal opportunity to reach the greatest levels of Engineering expertise, it is in grades K-12 and probably primarily K-6 that efforts will show the best benefits. There, is where the attitudes like "I'm a girl, I can't do math" are formed. You want to fix a problem, that's where you go. Once they are in the workplace, it's almost impossible to do anything effective on a large scale.
For college freshman, you're trying to cater to their desires. For those who are undeclared, just treat men and women equally. True, this may be easier said than done with some prevailing attitudes. For businesses, once again, treat them equally, and make your decisions based on their abilities and experiences.
Based on the current male to female ratio, women have an easy way in to the marketplace if they want to be, but do they want to deal with the disparate ratio? If they have made it this far, the answer is usually as much as the men want to stay in engineering. My office is about 50/50, though a related office is about 90/10 male. Plus several of the women have fallen victim to the family and are now part timers (all with 10+ years experience).
I can get Microsoft Office for $20. I work for a very large group that uses Microsoft. In return for selling out to Microsoft, all the employees get the offer to buy a licensed copy of Office for $20. Of course, 8 years ago, we were allowed to take the disks to install on our home computer for free. 8 years ago, I had Office on my home computer. Now, OpenOffice, also free.
And if Senator Longbottom wants to play the blame game, he's probably got lots of skeletons in his closet, many of which will send him to jail for a long time.
Well let's see. Algebra 1, that was my 4th grade, Algebra 2 was 5th grade. After that, public schools became very ineffective. That idea sounds good, but I was in no position to judge which teachers were best at teaching because I was so far beyond the material that the most effective way for me to learn was to ignore the teacher and learn on my own.
There should be some focus on teaching children how to think and learn on their own and critical thinking. If children learn those skills, you can live with both types of teachers easily. The only problem with that plan is that it would reduce the number of sheep voters.
Bringing them back in is the best method for LEO satellites. Super sync is the best for geo and semi-synch as it takes too much fuel to bring them back in, fuel that could extend life for months and probably years. The risk is small, particularly if 1) enough fuel is budgeted to easily target an ocean impact and 2) if the vehicle is composed of ablatable materials (aluminum for example instead of titanium). MIR was the biggest concern due to its size. The Shuttle debris, also large in mass, was a somewhat lucky event (check the CAIB report for estimates). Part of its survival was the aerodynamic surfaces. The typical LEO satellite will ablate quite a bit. Still a risk, but less than the initial launch was.
There are some things a satellite can do during a space weather event, but luck and prayer is involved. Safe modes for example. The key there is to avoid some action that starts irrevocable actions from beginning automatically (for example, the on board computer having memory changes due to high energy events, think it is a high spin and start thrusting to control it.
It's been a while since I had my course on this stuff, but the semi synch and polar satellites are among the most disadvantaged (GPS and regular weather satellites)
Now having said all that, space weather reports are more useful terrestrially than for on orbit satellites. Communications can be highly dependent on space weather as hams have known for a long time. Google search on "GPS degradation due to space weather" shows numerous hits. AF regularly reports on expected GPS accuracy around the world, and space weather is just one consideration.