Chimps cannot vocalize speech, so Washoe was taught American Sign Language.
Several chimps and gorillas have been taught ASL. One thing they do NOT do, is teach that language to their offspring. They do not pass on the knowledge.
If this was a known requirement for googles products why did they start to begin with
There are applications for robots that could potentially be sold to billions of people. This just isn't one of them. A household cooking & cleaning robot would be a good product for Google. Warehouse automation robots are not.
Additionally, companies can fight against former employees drawing from that insurance. Many do.
If a company gives you severance pay, then you are not entitled to unemployment pay for the period covered by the severance. So if you get two months of severance pay, then you should wait for two months before applying for unemployment pay. My company had several employees apply for benefits immediately after termination, and we have always been successful in fighting it, and having their application denied.
In accordance with Brazilian law, employers have to provide a “healthy and varied” lunch for their workers.
That seems like an astoundingly stupid law. Why should my employer be responsible for choosing what I eat for lunch?
This is commonly accomplished through distribution of meal tickets
Why not just just pay them a little more instead? That will lower administrative costs for employers, while giving employees the freedom to choose what they spend their money on. Maybe they would prefer, say, medicine for their child, or gas for their car, rather than extra food.
Betting the acronym TANSTAAFL never even thinks of coming close to these discussions
Of course TANSTAAFL. There is always a price to pay. But for a poor person with no Internet, is it worth seeing some ads to get it? I think most poor people would say yes. I use plenty of ad supported services, even though I am not poor, just cheap.
An employee leaving means a sort of failure for the manager too.
I don't agree. A certain amount of employee churn is healthy. After 5 years or so at the same job, the employee may not be growing their skills, or creating much value. Sometimes, it is just time for an employee to move on. New employees need a few months to get up to speed, but they also contribute fresh ideas and perspectives.
In my experience, the best employees are "boomerangs", that resign, work somewhere else for a few years, and then return. Since they already know our culture, procedures, and people, they can be productive on day one, and they are often bursting with ideas about how to improve things, because they have been thinking about the problems for years.
To encourage boomerangs, we let them know the door is open, maintain an alumni network, invite them to our company picnic every year, etc.
I exist because of the result of biological processes that seek to procreate
No. That is the reason that your constituent atoms have a particular form and function. But it is not the reason they exist in the first place.
Science tells us that the Universe began as an infinitely dense singularity 13.85 billion years ago. We have no idea why that happened, but the answer is not "Darwin", since that skips over the first 10 billion years, especially those first few planck times.
It is the point, because change for the sake of change is usually Really Bad.
Nader supporters were not voting for "change for the sake of change". They were specifically voting against the centrist policies of Bill Clinton (fiscal restraint, free trade, welfare reform, etc.). The got the the change they wanted, as the Democratic Party has mostly abandoned those policies.
Likewise, Buchanan supporters wanted the Republican Party to focus on the "culture war" of social conservatism. Those voters also got what they wanted.
Please note: The 3rd party voters got what THEY wanted, not what YOU wanted, and not necessarily what was good for the country.
you still get a lot of rich people campaigning against GMO's, immunization & nuclear power.
A few random rich people may be against these, but I doubt if opposition is actually correlated with being rich. Anyway, looking at the views of rich people to debunk conspiracy theories is just a heuristic. A better heuristic is to look at informed people. For instance, as people learn more and more about GMO ( or nukes or vaccines), do they tend to fear it more or less?
Logically if this is a simmulation then one would guess that the players controlled by external overlords would be the most powerful sims.
You are assuming that the simulation is multiplayer. Maybe it is single player, in which case only I am real, and you and Donald Trump are simply artifacts of the simulation.
Since duopoly is inherent in First Past The Post voting, why do you then also believe that voting third party will break the duopoly?
Voting 3rd party will not break the duopoly, but it will change the duopoly. No voters changed the Democratic Party more than those who voted for Ralph Nader in 2000. Nobody changed the Republican Party more than those who voted for Pat Buchanan. Nader pulled the Democrats to the left, and Buchanan pulled the Republicans to the right. In my opinion this was a bad thing, but that is not the point. Those voters were effective. Unless you live in a swing state (and most people don't) your vote for either Hillary or Donald is meaningless. Voting 3rd party is be best way to make your vote count.
Is it true that in certain US states ("right to work?") you could be fired without recourse simply for being 'caught' looking at another job?
By default, employment is "at will", which means you can be fired at anytime for any legal reason or for no reason. If you have an employment contract or written employee agreement, that may supersede "at will". Where I work, our employee agreement specifically states that employment is "at will".
When I have fired employees, I never give a reason. I just sit them down in a conference room, with an HR rep present (and if the employee is female I make sure the HR rep is as well), and I tell them their employment is terminated, and I wish them the best of luck. I never go beyond that. If I give a reason, I am opening the door to a lawsuit. Most people know damn well why they are being fired, so there is no reason to list the reasons.
Why wouldn't I want my boss to know that there are other people chomping at the bit to hire me?
As a manager, I don't expect blind loyalty, and I assume that all my subordinates are open to better offers. But if they are actively looking, and devoting time to sending out resumes and talking to recruiters, then I will be reluctant to give them important assignments that they may not be around to complete. If I need to make a headcount reduction or free up a desk for a new hire, then they will be at the top of the list.
When an employee starts looking for a new job, it is usually not just about the money.
Lastly an October 1st deadline is irresponsible, as the slightest hiccup destroys holiday shopping
The obvious solution for a merchant is to upgrade before the deadline. The deadline is the last day to upgrade. Any merchant that waits until then to start the process deserves what they get.
Any idea on who pays for the terminal upgrade, it wasn't mentioned in the article?
The terminal is owned by the merchant, so they pay for it.
If it is being forced on a business, then the credit card company should be sending them out free of charge
It isn't being forced on them. They have the alternative of not accepting CC transactions, which is something many businesses do. At some point we need to have progress, and magstripes need to die. Many technical standards have deadlines where old features stop being supported.
The merchants have had plenty of time to upgrade, and plenty of warning that the end was coming. Most merchants support the change, since it is the merchants that pay the biggest price for fraud. That is why the plaintiffs are having problems organizing a class action. It is only a few whiners that are complaining.
It seems like they also wouldn't work if...the POWER GOES OUT
Most modern landline phones are powered with wall current. They don't work if the power goes out. Very few people still have POTS phones that draw power exclusively from the phone line.
Sure, landlines may be mostly useless these days, but they do have a few considerations left.
Old tech should be abandoned not when it has zero value, but when the value is less than the cost of keeping it around. It is time for landlines to die. It is also time for fax machines to die. Security alarms and pacemakers can use Internet, VOIP and/or a bridge to the cellular network.
Mobile phone carriers and telephone companies in general are arriving at that level of hatred
I use T-Mobile family plan, and I am happy with their service. My phone "just works" for a simple flat monthly fee.
people would rather be literally dry ass-fucked uncomfortably for hours than deal with them.
No, the dry ass-fucking should be reserved for people that use "literally" as an intensifier. Some ground glass should be added for those that use it to mean "figuratively".
So, Apple is blithely sidestepping the issue with careful phrasing, denying only activities about which they were not asked, while artfully ignoring those about which they were.
Indeed. If Apple is not scanning all the emails, they really need to issue a clear categorical denial immediately. Otherwise, Apple's statement should be taken as an admission of guilt. If you use Apple's email client, you should assume the NSA and FBI are reading everything you write.
we can't trust any company, not large and not even small.
You seem to be implying that small companies are generally more trustworthy. That is nonsense. Big companies have a lot more to lose by betraying the public's trust, and they have more legal oversight. When small companies cheat and betray, it doesn't make the headlines.
That handbook is about specific information requested through proper legal channels, such as a subpoena, warrant or an NSL. All companies are required to comply with those. It is not about scanning all email for keywords like TFA is describing. Perhaps Microsoft is doing what Yahoo did, but your link is not proof of that.
its worse than that. all major pipes to and from ANYWHERE are going thru US owned routers, core and otherwise.
That is why any data in transit should be encrypted. "They" can still do traffic analysis, and see who is talking to whom, but that can be ameliorated by using proxies and sending dummy traffic.
In all fairness, for self-driving cars to live up to the claims that proponents are making, they can't do this.
In all fairness, the proponents aren't claiming that SDCs are perfect, just better than HDCs.
Also, whatever bug or DB error that caused this specific problem has probably already been fixed. SDCs will improve. HDCs will not. You can't fix bugs in wetware.
So you don't think that just perhaps the officers wearing cameras were behaving better
Did you read TFA? Or the summary? Complaints against the police went down. So the police were behaving better, or perhaps there were fewer false complaints.
It seems to me that to place all of the blame on one side is rather narrow minded of you.
The summary says "everyone" behaved better, and does specifically blame either side. TFA implies that police behavior changed.
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Chimps cannot vocalize speech, so Washoe was taught American Sign Language.
Several chimps and gorillas have been taught ASL. One thing they do NOT do, is teach that language to their offspring. They do not pass on the knowledge.
If this was a known requirement for googles products why did they start to begin with
There are applications for robots that could potentially be sold to billions of people. This just isn't one of them. A household cooking & cleaning robot would be a good product for Google. Warehouse automation robots are not.
Additionally, companies can fight against former employees drawing from that insurance. Many do.
If a company gives you severance pay, then you are not entitled to unemployment pay for the period covered by the severance. So if you get two months of severance pay, then you should wait for two months before applying for unemployment pay. My company had several employees apply for benefits immediately after termination, and we have always been successful in fighting it, and having their application denied.
In accordance with Brazilian law, employers have to provide a “healthy and varied” lunch for their workers.
That seems like an astoundingly stupid law. Why should my employer be responsible for choosing what I eat for lunch?
This is commonly accomplished through distribution of meal tickets
Why not just just pay them a little more instead? That will lower administrative costs for employers, while giving employees the freedom to choose what they spend their money on. Maybe they would prefer, say, medicine for their child, or gas for their car, rather than extra food.
Betting the acronym TANSTAAFL never even thinks of coming close to these discussions
Of course TANSTAAFL. There is always a price to pay. But for a poor person with no Internet, is it worth seeing some ads to get it? I think most poor people would say yes. I use plenty of ad supported services, even though I am not poor, just cheap.
An employee leaving means a sort of failure for the manager too.
I don't agree. A certain amount of employee churn is healthy. After 5 years or so at the same job, the employee may not be growing their skills, or creating much value. Sometimes, it is just time for an employee to move on. New employees need a few months to get up to speed, but they also contribute fresh ideas and perspectives.
In my experience, the best employees are "boomerangs", that resign, work somewhere else for a few years, and then return. Since they already know our culture, procedures, and people, they can be productive on day one, and they are often bursting with ideas about how to improve things, because they have been thinking about the problems for years.
To encourage boomerangs, we let them know the door is open, maintain an alumni network, invite them to our company picnic every year, etc.
I exist because of the result of biological processes that seek to procreate
No. That is the reason that your constituent atoms have a particular form and function. But it is not the reason they exist in the first place.
Science tells us that the Universe began as an infinitely dense singularity 13.85 billion years ago. We have no idea why that happened, but the answer is not "Darwin", since that skips over the first 10 billion years, especially those first few planck times.
It is the point, because change for the sake of change is usually Really Bad.
Nader supporters were not voting for "change for the sake of change". They were specifically voting against the centrist policies of Bill Clinton (fiscal restraint, free trade, welfare reform, etc.). The got the the change they wanted, as the Democratic Party has mostly abandoned those policies.
Likewise, Buchanan supporters wanted the Republican Party to focus on the "culture war" of social conservatism. Those voters also got what they wanted.
Please note: The 3rd party voters got what THEY wanted, not what YOU wanted, and not necessarily what was good for the country.
you still get a lot of rich people campaigning against GMO's, immunization & nuclear power.
A few random rich people may be against these, but I doubt if opposition is actually correlated with being rich. Anyway, looking at the views of rich people to debunk conspiracy theories is just a heuristic. A better heuristic is to look at informed people. For instance, as people learn more and more about GMO ( or nukes or vaccines), do they tend to fear it more or less?
Logically if this is a simmulation then one would guess that the players controlled by external overlords would be the most powerful sims.
You are assuming that the simulation is multiplayer. Maybe it is single player, in which case only I am real, and you and Donald Trump are simply artifacts of the simulation.
There are those who believe that life here began out there, far across the universe
Or reality could have been created 5 seconds ago, with your memories of the past already prefabricated in your mind.
Since duopoly is inherent in First Past The Post voting, why do you then also believe that voting third party will break the duopoly?
Voting 3rd party will not break the duopoly, but it will change the duopoly. No voters changed the Democratic Party more than those who voted for Ralph Nader in 2000. Nobody changed the Republican Party more than those who voted for Pat Buchanan. Nader pulled the Democrats to the left, and Buchanan pulled the Republicans to the right. In my opinion this was a bad thing, but that is not the point. Those voters were effective. Unless you live in a swing state (and most people don't) your vote for either Hillary or Donald is meaningless. Voting 3rd party is be best way to make your vote count.
Is it true that in certain US states ("right to work?") you could be fired without recourse simply for being 'caught' looking at another job?
By default, employment is "at will", which means you can be fired at anytime for any legal reason or for no reason. If you have an employment contract or written employee agreement, that may supersede "at will". Where I work, our employee agreement specifically states that employment is "at will".
When I have fired employees, I never give a reason. I just sit them down in a conference room, with an HR rep present (and if the employee is female I make sure the HR rep is as well), and I tell them their employment is terminated, and I wish them the best of luck. I never go beyond that. If I give a reason, I am opening the door to a lawsuit. Most people know damn well why they are being fired, so there is no reason to list the reasons.
Why wouldn't I want my boss to know that there are other people chomping at the bit to hire me?
As a manager, I don't expect blind loyalty, and I assume that all my subordinates are open to better offers. But if they are actively looking, and devoting time to sending out resumes and talking to recruiters, then I will be reluctant to give them important assignments that they may not be around to complete. If I need to make a headcount reduction or free up a desk for a new hire, then they will be at the top of the list.
When an employee starts looking for a new job, it is usually not just about the money.
Lastly an October 1st deadline is irresponsible, as the slightest hiccup destroys holiday shopping
The obvious solution for a merchant is to upgrade before the deadline. The deadline is the last day to upgrade. Any merchant that waits until then to start the process deserves what they get.
Any idea on who pays for the terminal upgrade, it wasn't mentioned in the article?
The terminal is owned by the merchant, so they pay for it.
If it is being forced on a business, then the credit card company should be sending them out free of charge
It isn't being forced on them. They have the alternative of not accepting CC transactions, which is something many businesses do. At some point we need to have progress, and magstripes need to die. Many technical standards have deadlines where old features stop being supported.
The merchants have had plenty of time to upgrade, and plenty of warning that the end was coming. Most merchants support the change, since it is the merchants that pay the biggest price for fraud. That is why the plaintiffs are having problems organizing a class action. It is only a few whiners that are complaining.
It seems like they also wouldn't work if ...the POWER GOES OUT
Most modern landline phones are powered with wall current. They don't work if the power goes out. Very few people still have POTS phones that draw power exclusively from the phone line.
Sure, landlines may be mostly useless these days, but they do have a few considerations left.
Old tech should be abandoned not when it has zero value, but when the value is less than the cost of keeping it around. It is time for landlines to die. It is also time for fax machines to die. Security alarms and pacemakers can use Internet, VOIP and/or a bridge to the cellular network.
Mobile phone carriers and telephone companies in general are arriving at that level of hatred
I use T-Mobile family plan, and I am happy with their service. My phone "just works" for a simple flat monthly fee.
people would rather be literally dry ass-fucked uncomfortably for hours than deal with them.
No, the dry ass-fucking should be reserved for people that use "literally" as an intensifier. Some ground glass should be added for those that use it to mean "figuratively".
So, Apple is blithely sidestepping the issue with careful phrasing, denying only activities about which they were not asked, while artfully ignoring those about which they were.
Indeed. If Apple is not scanning all the emails, they really need to issue a clear categorical denial immediately. Otherwise, Apple's statement should be taken as an admission of guilt. If you use Apple's email client, you should assume the NSA and FBI are reading everything you write.
we can't trust any company, not large and not even small.
You seem to be implying that small companies are generally more trustworthy. That is nonsense. Big companies have a lot more to lose by betraying the public's trust, and they have more legal oversight. When small companies cheat and betray, it doesn't make the headlines.
Bullshit.
Proof: Microsoft (R) Online Services Global Criminal Compliance Handbook
That handbook is about specific information requested through proper legal channels, such as a subpoena, warrant or an NSL. All companies are required to comply with those. It is not about scanning all email for keywords like TFA is describing. Perhaps Microsoft is doing what Yahoo did, but your link is not proof of that.
This is exactly what they would have to say, legally speaking
No. Gag orders prevent you from telling the truth. They cannot, legally, require you to lie.
its worse than that. all major pipes to and from ANYWHERE are going thru US owned routers, core and otherwise.
That is why any data in transit should be encrypted. "They" can still do traffic analysis, and see who is talking to whom, but that can be ameliorated by using proxies and sending dummy traffic.
In all fairness, for self-driving cars to live up to the claims that proponents are making, they can't do this.
In all fairness, the proponents aren't claiming that SDCs are perfect, just better than HDCs.
Also, whatever bug or DB error that caused this specific problem has probably already been fixed. SDCs will improve. HDCs will not. You can't fix bugs in wetware.
So you don't think that just perhaps the officers wearing cameras were behaving better
Did you read TFA? Or the summary? Complaints against the police went down. So the police were behaving better, or perhaps there were fewer false complaints.
It seems to me that to place all of the blame on one side is rather narrow minded of you.
The summary says "everyone" behaved better, and does specifically blame either side. TFA implies that police behavior changed.