"Profiteering" is just another word for market economics. This is just supply and demand. The supply is limited, the demand is surging, so of course the price should go up to the market-clearing level. The alternative is rationing and shortages, which is idiotic.
consider an advanced race on another planet eavesdropping on the Khardasians and the news.
They can only eavesdrop because of broadcast TV and radio. But broadcasting doesn't make much sense, and is being phased out and replaced with cable and cellular. So perhaps most other planetary civilizations never make the "mistake" of broadcasting, and start with more efficient communications from the beginning. If so, we would never see them, but they would still be "out there".
Now if you really want to damage an aircraft carrier, you should go below the water line.
With a drone? I think a better strategy is to fly into the elevator bay to access the hanger, and then detonate next to a fuel line or, even better, a munitions trolly.
Anyway, TFA is making a big deal out of nothing. It is peacetime and the ship was IN PORT. Most air defense systems were shutdown. What could they do? Open fire with a 20mm Vulcan?
Is that really the average age of all employees or an "Engineer" positions age?
According to TFA, 29 is the median age of all employees at both Google and Facebook.
TFA says the "29" comes from the Huffington Post, and provides a link. Follow the link to Huffington Post, and they say the number came from ComputerWorld and PayScale.com. ComputerWorld pulls the number from a claim in Robert Heath's lawsuit, the subject of TFA, thus closing the circle.
I call that BS. Way before Al Gore became the spokesman for climate change republicans were already steering away from it because... lobbying.
Wrong and wrong. Republicans tended to be more opposed to action than Democrats, but there used to be support on the right. Cap-and-trade was a right wing idea (but maybe not a very good one). Also many Democrats opposed action, especially from industrial states like West Virginia and Michigan... and yes, West Virginia and Michigan were once Democratic states.
Now let's talk about lobbying. Liberals tend to have a knee-jerk reaction to blame every Republican issue on "lobbyists" and "big money". That is nonsense. Sure the Koch Brothers and Exxon spent money undermining action on climate change, but it is mostly a grass roots issue. Working class people see it as just another issue where ivory tower intellectuals are pushing them down, and Al Gore is not going to appeal to these people. You might want to try actually talking to some Republicans.
If that's true, it's just more evidence that the right is a plague on this country, and planet.
So? Politics is a fact of life. Are you ok with destroying the planet as long as it is someone else's fault? Advocates of climate action knew (or should have known) that using a partisan politician as their champion would have a strong negative effect on building consensus and actually getting anything done.
A big mistake was making Al Gore the spokesman for climate change. That unnecessarily politicized the issue. Back in 2007, most Republican presidential candidates agreed that climate change was a serious issue that need to be addressed. That would never happen today. They don't want to be accused of "agreeing with Al Gore". For Republican politicians, it is a toxic issue, and has become an ideological litmus test, so facts and evidence no longer matter.
When Social Security was created in the 1930's, there was 19 workers for every retiree.
... and the amount paid to those retirees was ZERO. SS was not available to existing retirees. Only to new retirees that had paid into the system when they were still working. Plus you had to pay in for a certain number of years before being eligible for benefits. The taxes were collected in the 1930s, but the first benefits were paid in 1940.
Because of these very restricted eligibility requirements, SS ran HUGE surpluses for decades. This had deleterious effects in the long run, because bad policies were hidden by the surpluses, and are now politically impossible to fix.
It's going to get really hard to find enough under 30 people to support an aging society.
Yet every time Slashdot has a story on AI or robotics, the consensus is that all the jobs are going to disappear. So how can there be a shortage of both workers and jobs?
It is easy to oppose the drones when you live in safe suburb of Karachi or Islamabad. It is much different if you live in Waziristan, where the Taliban forces girls out of school and boys into war. Most people there see the drones as a benefit.
companies have moved from offices and cubicles to giving everyone one or two meters of desk space sitting face to face and side to side of each other
Can you cite any actual evidence that open offices are more prevalent today?
My experience has been the exact opposite. I worked as a programmer in a bullpen in the 1970s, a cubicle in the 1980s, and a real office ever since. Apple is famously moving in the wrong direction, but I don't think that is typical. I am aware of several companies that switched to quiet offices with walls.
Also, as an old geezer, I have never felt discriminated against, and I have never felt that my age or experience was a handicap. I am open to learning new skills, and often start using new tech before the younglings, but I love it when a 20-something learns about an elegant tool from a more civilized age.
The numbers from this "study" are implausible. 9% of people in Austin bought new cars because Uber left town? I don't think so. First, only about 10% of people buy a car in each year, so this would be a DOUBLING of car sales. Second, only about 16% of people even have the Uber app installed, and many of those use it very infrequently. Third, after Uber and Lyft left town, several other local ride-sharing companies popped up, and have been popular. So there hasn't actually been a drop in ride-sharing options.
This was either a very flawed "study", or maybe the journalist just bungled the description of what it really says. No link to the study is provided in TFA, and it isn't clear that it has even been published yet.
Uhh, it was $8700 over several months. The guy could have made more money if he just got a job at McDonalds. Maybe ISIS's "vast worldwide network" isn't such a big threat after all.
Hawaiian law says that the shoreline is public land. The Supreme Court interpreted that law to require reasonable public access, since otherwise the law would be meaningless in many areas. The legislature can clarify the original law by amending or replacing it if they so chose, but they have never done that.
Hawaii's beach access law is even stronger than California's. Not only is the beach public up to the highest wash of the waves, but the public is allowed to cross private land to reach the beach, and landowners cannot block their path.
This is the law of the land because a little boy was unable to reach the beach near his home and had to walk for miles to swim in the ocean. Then that little boy grew up, and became the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Hawaii.
He has supported higher taxes for alternative energy and stem cell research. He has donated to both Dem and Rep candidates, mostly moderates (at least by California standards). There is no record of him donating to a Libertarian.
I did poop like a rabbit for a few days. A constipated rabbit.
Stress induced constipation is already a problem for soldiers, so it never made sense to me how they made it even worse by feeding us rations devoid of fiber. I tried to keep myself unclogged by buying fruit and veggies from the locals, but others just stole from the trees and fields. I doubt if that was good for "winning hearts and minds". How hard would it be to include some prunes?
MREs are better than C-Rats, but I would prefer a Walmart TV dinner over either. I don't think people will pay Amazon to eat MREs. When I ate MREs, I was paid to eat them.
... but how exactly would you do this without 100x Hughesnet levels of latency?
The round trip latency is about 2.5 seconds, which is a killer for voice, but is fine for texting. No one born after 1990 uses voice anyway. I have two teenagers, and I have to use texting to tell them dinner is ready.
They way it works in China is first you sign the contract. Then you negotiate. I am not joking either.
I also work in China, and I concur with this. It is difficult to enforce contracts, so a written agreement doesn't mean much in practice. Personal relationships and Guanxi are much more important. Start with small deals and work up as you build the relationship. If you aren't sure, then use an escrow service so neither party can screw the other.
Also Taiwan believes they are the true China and hope that the other part will one day be merged back into Taiwan.
That is Guomindang dogma, but almost no one in Taiwan believes that. Most would prefer independence, especially after seeing how the CCP has treated Hong Kong.
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Agree.... at least until something goes wrong. Don't be too quick to regulate.
The problem with the singularity, is that by the time you realize something is wrong, it is too late to stop it.
Just ask John Conner.
"Profiteering" is just another word for market economics. This is just supply and demand. The supply is limited, the demand is surging, so of course the price should go up to the market-clearing level. The alternative is rationing and shortages, which is idiotic.
consider an advanced race on another planet eavesdropping on the Khardasians and the news.
They can only eavesdrop because of broadcast TV and radio. But broadcasting doesn't make much sense, and is being phased out and replaced with cable and cellular. So perhaps most other planetary civilizations never make the "mistake" of broadcasting, and start with more efficient communications from the beginning. If so, we would never see them, but they would still be "out there".
Now if you really want to damage an aircraft carrier, you should go below the water line.
With a drone? I think a better strategy is to fly into the elevator bay to access the hanger, and then detonate next to a fuel line or, even better, a munitions trolly.
Anyway, TFA is making a big deal out of nothing. It is peacetime and the ship was IN PORT. Most air defense systems were shutdown. What could they do? Open fire with a 20mm Vulcan?
Is that really the average age of all employees or an "Engineer" positions age?
According to TFA, 29 is the median age of all employees at both Google and Facebook.
TFA says the "29" comes from the Huffington Post, and provides a link. Follow the link to Huffington Post, and they say the number came from ComputerWorld and PayScale.com. ComputerWorld pulls the number from a claim in Robert Heath's lawsuit, the subject of TFA, thus closing the circle.
680x0 Assembly was elegant, intuitive, and a crap-ton better than Intel's nonsense. :)
But there is a reason it is no longer used much. A single instruction could generate up to six page faults. The 68k put the C in CISC.
I call that BS. Way before Al Gore became the spokesman for climate change republicans were already steering away from it because... lobbying.
Wrong and wrong. Republicans tended to be more opposed to action than Democrats, but there used to be support on the right. Cap-and-trade was a right wing idea (but maybe not a very good one). Also many Democrats opposed action, especially from industrial states like West Virginia and Michigan ... and yes, West Virginia and Michigan were once Democratic states.
Now let's talk about lobbying. Liberals tend to have a knee-jerk reaction to blame every Republican issue on "lobbyists" and "big money". That is nonsense. Sure the Koch Brothers and Exxon spent money undermining action on climate change, but it is mostly a grass roots issue. Working class people see it as just another issue where ivory tower intellectuals are pushing them down, and Al Gore is not going to appeal to these people. You might want to try actually talking to some Republicans.
If that's true, it's just more evidence that the right is a plague on this country, and planet.
So? Politics is a fact of life. Are you ok with destroying the planet as long as it is someone else's fault? Advocates of climate action knew (or should have known) that using a partisan politician as their champion would have a strong negative effect on building consensus and actually getting anything done.
A big mistake was making Al Gore the spokesman for climate change. That unnecessarily politicized the issue. Back in 2007, most Republican presidential candidates agreed that climate change was a serious issue that need to be addressed. That would never happen today. They don't want to be accused of "agreeing with Al Gore". For Republican politicians, it is a toxic issue, and has become an ideological litmus test, so facts and evidence no longer matter.
When Social Security was created in the 1930's, there was 19 workers for every retiree.
... and the amount paid to those retirees was ZERO. SS was not available to existing retirees. Only to new retirees that had paid into the system when they were still working. Plus you had to pay in for a certain number of years before being eligible for benefits. The taxes were collected in the 1930s, but the first benefits were paid in 1940.
Because of these very restricted eligibility requirements, SS ran HUGE surpluses for decades. This had deleterious effects in the long run, because bad policies were hidden by the surpluses, and are now politically impossible to fix.
It's going to get really hard to find enough under 30 people to support an aging society.
Yet every time Slashdot has a story on AI or robotics, the consensus is that all the jobs are going to disappear. So how can there be a shortage of both workers and jobs?
You would be fighting back too if bombs were ripping through your village for no fucking reason.
This is not supported by evidence. American drone strikes are widely unpopular in the muslim world. But the drone strikes are supported in the villages actually getting bombed.
It is easy to oppose the drones when you live in safe suburb of Karachi or Islamabad. It is much different if you live in Waziristan, where the Taliban forces girls out of school and boys into war. Most people there see the drones as a benefit.
companies have moved from offices and cubicles to giving everyone one or two meters of desk space sitting face to face and side to side of each other
Can you cite any actual evidence that open offices are more prevalent today?
My experience has been the exact opposite. I worked as a programmer in a bullpen in the 1970s, a cubicle in the 1980s, and a real office ever since. Apple is famously moving in the wrong direction, but I don't think that is typical. I am aware of several companies that switched to quiet offices with walls.
Also, as an old geezer, I have never felt discriminated against, and I have never felt that my age or experience was a handicap. I am open to learning new skills, and often start using new tech before the younglings, but I love it when a 20-something learns about an elegant tool from a more civilized age.
The numbers from this "study" are implausible. 9% of people in Austin bought new cars because Uber left town? I don't think so. First, only about 10% of people buy a car in each year, so this would be a DOUBLING of car sales. Second, only about 16% of people even have the Uber app installed, and many of those use it very infrequently. Third, after Uber and Lyft left town, several other local ride-sharing companies popped up, and have been popular. So there hasn't actually been a drop in ride-sharing options.
This was either a very flawed "study", or maybe the journalist just bungled the description of what it really says. No link to the study is provided in TFA, and it isn't clear that it has even been published yet.
But activity like this gets by???
Uhh, it was $8700 over several months. The guy could have made more money if he just got a job at McDonalds. Maybe ISIS's "vast worldwide network" isn't such a big threat after all.
Since when do judges create laws?
Hawaiian law says that the shoreline is public land. The Supreme Court interpreted that law to require reasonable public access, since otherwise the law would be meaningless in many areas. The legislature can clarify the original law by amending or replacing it if they so chose, but they have never done that.
Hawaii's beach access law is even stronger than California's. Not only is the beach public up to the highest wash of the waves, but the public is allowed to cross private land to reach the beach, and landowners cannot block their path.
This is the law of the land because a little boy was unable to reach the beach near his home and had to walk for miles to swim in the ocean. Then that little boy grew up, and became the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Hawaii.
And hardcore libertarians when someone dares ask them to share.
Take a look at Vinod's political donations.
He has supported higher taxes for alternative energy and stem cell research. He has donated to both Dem and Rep candidates, mostly moderates (at least by California standards). There is no record of him donating to a Libertarian.
I did poop like a rabbit for a few days. A constipated rabbit.
Stress induced constipation is already a problem for soldiers, so it never made sense to me how they made it even worse by feeding us rations devoid of fiber. I tried to keep myself unclogged by buying fruit and veggies from the locals, but others just stole from the trees and fields. I doubt if that was good for "winning hearts and minds". How hard would it be to include some prunes?
The one way trip is 2.5 seconds. Round trip is about 5-6 seconds.
Distance to the moon = 384,400 km
Speed of light = 299,792 km/sec
Round trip time = (distance * 2) / speed = 2.56 seconds.
MREs are better than C-Rats, but I would prefer a Walmart TV dinner over either. I don't think people will pay Amazon to eat MREs. When I ate MREs, I was paid to eat them.
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The catch was that the law was written by the telecoms
Bullcrap. The telecoms never wrote any network neutrality law. Why would they? They are getting everything they want by packing the FCC with cronies.
Feel free to prove me wrong by posting a citation.
... but how exactly would you do this without 100x Hughesnet levels of latency?
The round trip latency is about 2.5 seconds, which is a killer for voice, but is fine for texting. No one born after 1990 uses voice anyway. I have two teenagers, and I have to use texting to tell them dinner is ready.
We told you that "Net Neutrality" as-a-law was written by the telecoms.
Bullcrap. The telcoms have always opposed NN, and have worked hard and spent a lot of money to get it repealed.
They way it works in China is first you sign the contract. Then you negotiate. I am not joking either.
I also work in China, and I concur with this. It is difficult to enforce contracts, so a written agreement doesn't mean much in practice. Personal relationships and Guanxi are much more important. Start with small deals and work up as you build the relationship. If you aren't sure, then use an escrow service so neither party can screw the other.
Also Taiwan believes they are the true China and hope that the other part will one day be merged back into Taiwan.
That is Guomindang dogma, but almost no one in Taiwan believes that. Most would prefer independence, especially after seeing how the CCP has treated Hong Kong.