I am, gasp, a female software engineer. I work at a defense contractor,
Good. And this rules out the notion of 'socially meaningful' work as a prerequisite. There are plenty of women willing to drop bombs on people (just being facetious here;-)).
The hostile environment is sometimes present in subtle ways,
The hostile environment has been growing as a reaction to increasing numbers of women in the workplace. As far as I can tell, this 'environment' is manufactured outrage produced by a few social and religious conservatives who are wailing about their loss of control of the 'culture' in this nation.
My solution: Identify the troublemakers and escort them to the door. One thing that threatens almost any companies survival is upper management's loss of control of the company culture. And having employees that actively work against it (or even side track a portion of the organization's resources pursuing their own agendas) is counter productive.
Like you won't be asked to provide valid ID to rent/borrow a car. And that a condition of running such a service won't be to hand over records to the local authorities. And if there is an issue of abuse (anything from vandalism to car services being held liable for the presence/absence of occupants) internal cameras will become a condition of rental.
My precious little one can't be seen in a school bus! Think of the embarrassement and damage to the child's self esteem if it is not dropped at school in the obligatory Range Rover. They even dark tint school bus windows now so passers-by can't recognize and/or taunt the poor kids degraded by having to ride in the big yellow bus.
There are quite a few technologies being proposed to solve the energy storage for renewable sources problem. What needs to be addressed is: Who pays for it?
"Our antiquated grid" does just fine when we schedule power from producers with a commitment to produce or provide 'spinning reserve' in the event that they can't. That has been a part of the economic decision making process for decades that selected one source over another. But now, the renewables community is angling to push this part of the responsibility onto other entities. "You need batteries. We'll just sit here and generate when we feel like it."
Mandatory unpaid overtime is often just a scam to get more work done for less money. Once overtime has to be paid for, it's amazing how well management can suddenly plan a project to get it done within the 40 hours per week allotted.
Yeah, emergencies come up. But if they are so much a part of the company culture that management has to put a 'mandatory unpaid overtime' clause in the company policy, it was planned in advance.
Remember that old random headline generator? This appears to be a webified version of that.
Back in the last generation, when the Web was just taking off, we had a guy at a company I worked for who wrote a vision/mission statement generator based on spew. Most of the work appered to be populating the input data table with vision-y/mission-y type vocabulary. It was scary how well it worked to generate the same sort of nonsense that program management was in the habit of creating.
And when the NSA needs help interpreting intercepted technical data, for example, it subcontracts with local 'domain experts'. In the aviation biz, that would be Boeing. So Airbus, good luck with those bids for aircraft sales.
If you think that a large part of what the NSA and CIA do isn't plain old economic espionage, I've got swamp land in Florida to sell you.
If quantum entanglement is a manifestation of 'communications' through a wormhole, then can we create an entangled particle pair, drag one far, far away and start poking it (with some signal). Then, we should be able to observe it's paired partner and extract that signal.
Even if this doesn't give us faster-than-light communications, it has uses. Imagine a submarine with one of a pair of particles in a transmitter. Wiggle (bounce, or whatever) that particle and watch its partner on land. You now have a comm link (possibly at a high speed) from or to an environment that isn't affected by the r.f. propagation problem. Also, untappable optical (or whatever) links. Because there is no physical medium between the endpoints for the NSA to tap.
Best analogy is Einstein's explaination of how radio works:
"You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat."
Current theory states that high speed cosmic particles ionize the air so the lightning can arc.
Seems plausible. The Pacific DC Intertie operates at 1 MV line to line (500 kV line to ground). This is a greater field strength than cloud to ground lightning, but it doesn't flash over (nearly as often). So lightning must depend on some property or phenomena that occurs at higher altitudes, but not at or near ground level.
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I am, gasp, a female software engineer. I work at a defense contractor,
Good. And this rules out the notion of 'socially meaningful' work as a prerequisite. There are plenty of women willing to drop bombs on people (just being facetious here ;-)).
The hostile environment is sometimes present in subtle ways,
The hostile environment has been growing as a reaction to increasing numbers of women in the workplace. As far as I can tell, this 'environment' is manufactured outrage produced by a few social and religious conservatives who are wailing about their loss of control of the 'culture' in this nation.
My solution: Identify the troublemakers and escort them to the door. One thing that threatens almost any companies survival is upper management's loss of control of the company culture. And having employees that actively work against it (or even side track a portion of the organization's resources pursuing their own agendas) is counter productive.
Like you won't be asked to provide valid ID to rent/borrow a car. And that a condition of running such a service won't be to hand over records to the local authorities. And if there is an issue of abuse (anything from vandalism to car services being held liable for the presence/absence of occupants) internal cameras will become a condition of rental.
My precious little one can't be seen in a school bus! Think of the embarrassement and damage to the child's self esteem if it is not dropped at school in the obligatory Range Rover. They even dark tint school bus windows now so passers-by can't recognize and/or taunt the poor kids degraded by having to ride in the big yellow bus.
But what I want is for all of those cars full of passengers to get ticketed for using the single occupant lanes!
There are quite a few technologies being proposed to solve the energy storage for renewable sources problem. What needs to be addressed is: Who pays for it?
"Our antiquated grid" does just fine when we schedule power from producers with a commitment to produce or provide 'spinning reserve' in the event that they can't. That has been a part of the economic decision making process for decades that selected one source over another. But now, the renewables community is angling to push this part of the responsibility onto other entities. "You need batteries. We'll just sit here and generate when we feel like it."
Mandatory unpaid overtime is often just a scam to get more work done for less money. Once overtime has to be paid for, it's amazing how well management can suddenly plan a project to get it done within the 40 hours per week allotted.
Yeah, emergencies come up. But if they are so much a part of the company culture that management has to put a 'mandatory unpaid overtime' clause in the company policy, it was planned in advance.
which slows people down and makes them more docile, and a docile populace is what governments want, because they rock the boat less.
The function of which has largely been taken over by chemtrails.
I'm pretty sure that Shinto has nothing to do with it,
I think the Chinese might beg to differ with you.
Stop drinking my motor vehicle fuel!
if only we could identify the common cause here.
Religion.
the White House wifi password
'admin'.
Remember that old random headline generator? This appears to be a webified version of that.
Back in the last generation, when the Web was just taking off, we had a guy at a company I worked for who wrote a vision/mission statement generator based on spew. Most of the work appered to be populating the input data table with vision-y/mission-y type vocabulary. It was scary how well it worked to generate the same sort of nonsense that program management was in the habit of creating.
So, we have the home page for Slashdot beta ready to go.
The higher court has a tee time.
"Even if this doesn't give us faster-than-light communications"
You acknowledge communications are impossible using QE pairs
You do understand why these are not equivalent statements.
You acknowledge this at the start
No, I don't. That would be proving a negative, which is a logical fallacy.
I'd cave in after a while.
"The drugs are right there, officer. In the cabinet underneath the video camera streaming this whole scene out to YouTube."
It just sits there, looking all gooey and non-Newtonian. It's just so wrong.
This could be the next thing. Forget vegan/vegetarianism.
And when the NSA needs help interpreting intercepted technical data, for example, it subcontracts with local 'domain experts'. In the aviation biz, that would be Boeing. So Airbus, good luck with those bids for aircraft sales.
If you think that a large part of what the NSA and CIA do isn't plain old economic espionage, I've got swamp land in Florida to sell you.
If quantum entanglement is a manifestation of 'communications' through a wormhole, then can we create an entangled particle pair, drag one far, far away and start poking it (with some signal). Then, we should be able to observe it's paired partner and extract that signal.
Even if this doesn't give us faster-than-light communications, it has uses. Imagine a submarine with one of a pair of particles in a transmitter. Wiggle (bounce, or whatever) that particle and watch its partner on land. You now have a comm link (possibly at a high speed) from or to an environment that isn't affected by the r.f. propagation problem. Also, untappable optical (or whatever) links. Because there is no physical medium between the endpoints for the NSA to tap.
Best analogy is Einstein's explaination of how radio works:
"You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat."
*Subject to copyright restrictions, of course.
Current theory states that high speed cosmic particles ionize the air so the lightning can arc.
Seems plausible. The Pacific DC Intertie operates at 1 MV line to line (500 kV line to ground). This is a greater field strength than cloud to ground lightning, but it doesn't flash over (nearly as often). So lightning must depend on some property or phenomena that occurs at higher altitudes, but not at or near ground level.
P.S. Extra points for that 'current theory' pun.