They don't need engineers. They need accountants: Someone who can explain to them that every $1 they spend filtering microparticles out of the ocean would be a hundred times as effective if spent to prevent the trash reaching the ocean in the first place.
California specifically allows flex-time schedules, such as 4x10 and 9x80.
They allow 4x10 is there is a vote by the "work unit" to approve it. But it can't be done with a simple agreement between a single individual and an employer.
9x80 is illegal since it is more than 40 hours in one week. You can't do it, even if both the workers and the employer want it.
your company can even qualify for a tax credit for implementing them (it reduces traffic congestion).
I am interested in learning more about this. Do you have a citation?
So.. To sum up your arguments, because the F35 program was sooo expensive and other options *might* have been cheaper we should just not spend anything?
Strawman argument. Neither the GPP nor anyone else said we should "not spend anything".
What he said was we should cut current spending by half. Much of the savings could go toward scientific research that would make us stronger in the long run.
America faces no serious short term security threats. We are far stronger than China or Russia, and no other geopolitical adversary is even close. But China is growing rapidly, increasing defense spending, and is likely to be a far more formidable adversary in the future. Now is the time to cut back on idiotic dinosaurs like the F-35 and start investing for the long term needs of our country.
The people running China today are the political heirs of people that opposed the Cultural Revolution. Xi's dad was persecuted and imprisoned by the Red Guards.
... which last I checked actually beats both Hitler AND Stalin which is just mind boggling.
Sure, but with a billion people, they had a lot more to work with. On a per capita basis, Hitler and Stalin were the death count winners.
But it is also an unfair comparison. Nearly all of Hitler's killings were intentional, as were many of Stalin's. But in China, the vast majority were killed by mismanagement and economic incompetence. That is more like manslaughter than murder.
If China has better education, why do many more Chinese come to America for an education than the reverse?
America has the best elite universities in the world. If you can afford to pay any price, America is the place to go for higher education.
But China does very well in primary and secondary (high school) education. They also do a very good job of giving a lot of people useful college degrees. China graduates about 600,000 engineers per year. America produces 70,000. But America is ahead on Gender Studies and Art History.
The fact that he is a dipshit does not change the validity of his argument. An assertion should be judged on its merits, not on the character of the advocate.
America is spending a trillion dollars on a new manned fighter as we enter an age that will almost certainly be dominated by drones.
America is spending $1.2 trillion on nuclear modernization despite already having 10 times the nuke capability of China.
Prior to WW2, America spent little on the peacetime military. Instead, we had to "gear up" for each war. After WW2, we went to permanently high spending.
Let's look at the "before" and "after" scorecard:
Before: 1776 - Won - American Revolution 1812 - Tie - War of 1812 1847 - Won - Mexican War 1861 - Won - Civil War 1898 - Won - Spanish-American War 1914 - Won - WW1 1941 - Won - WW2
After: 1950 - Tie - Korean War 1964 - Lost - Vietnam 1982 - Lost - Lebanon intervention 1991 - Thought we won, but eventually lost - Iraq 1992 - Lost - Somalia 2003 - Lost - Iraq 2001 - Lost - Afghanistan
So is "eternal vigilance" actually working? I don't think so, and the evidence suggests that the main effect of a "always ready" military is that it makes it really easy to jump into stupid wars without clear goals or strategies.
This is coming from an admitted Communist Party member
Being a member of the CPC doesn't mean anything in terms of beliefs or ideology. Most people join to improve their career prospects. It is a difficult process. A candidate must take an exam, and provide personal references to his good character. But once you are in, you are in an elite club with many benefits and privileges... which is sort of ironic when you consider what Communism is supposed to be.
In America, people with different views join different political parts. But in China, there is only one party, so ambitious people of every ideology join. The CPC has everything from reactionary Maoists to free-market libertarians.
... from a country that doesn't value Freedom.
Per capita, America imprisons far more people than China. This is true even if you include the ~1M Uyghurs in "re-education" camps. China is certainly repressive, but I don't think America is a good counter-example of a "Shining City on the Hill".
Well here in the USA we value are freedoms and will spend no expense to defend it.
If our defense budget was cut in half, which freedoms would I lose?
I was reusing the same 4 bottles for a month at a time, refilling with filtered water, until another report came out indicating I was at higher risk of ingesting toxins by doing that.
Generally, we don't care about RAM holding its state beyond a power cycle
This is because our systems are designed with the assumption that RAM is volatile.
If RAM held its value, there would be no need to have a distinction between RAM and "Disk". Computers would boot far faster. Databases would be right on the memory bus, with no need to "sync" to reliable storage. Many, many applications and services could be faster, simpler and more reliable.
honestly, flash degradation hasn't been an issue in RAM modules, since, forever. In flash storage, the degradation hasn't been shown to be much of an issue with MLC let alone SLC drives.
Flash degradation is not a problem because Flash is only used in applications where the degradation won't be a problem. If a Flash replacement can be faster and have unlimited write cycles, then there will be many, many applications for it that Flash can't fulfill.
Shouldn't the DOD know exactly what our missile defense system is running? Why did they need to generate a report for this?
How do people "know" things? By learning. How would they learn? By reading. What would they read? A report. Where would the report come from? Someone tasked with generating it.
Do you really think everyone in DoD is somehow born with knowledge about missile system OSes, and all the flaws in those OSes?
Also, this has nothing to do with the security of "ballistic missiles". The missiles managed by MDA are NOT ballistic.
you'll have "water refugees" leaving the west and flooding your job market, lowering your wages...
California refugees don't lower wages, they raise them. They sell their $2M condo in west LA, and buy a 1035-Exchange mansion in Texas, thus generating dozens of construction jobs and yet more jobs for all the trucks of furniture to fill it up.
I live in San Jose, and if I sold my house and moved back to where i grew up, I could afford to buy the entire trailer park.
1. They have kids in America. Their kids are native born American citizens, and grow up to vote mostly Democratic.
2. They move into neighborhoods and make friends. Their neighbors realize that they are mostly decent hard working people just trying to get ahead in life, and maybe they shouldn't be demonized. Voters tend to oppose immigration most vehemently where it is rare, and see it as no big deal where it is common.
Disclaimer: I live in San Jose, California, one of the brownest cities in America. Also one of the most prosperous, and with the lowest crime rate of any big city (1M+). I believe immigration is a good thing, and we should encourage more of it.
Sure, assigning a 3-digit number is so much cheaper than providing actual health care for mental disorders
The first step in providing that mental health care is to identify who needs it. The phone number does that.
or addressing actual causes for suicides (like tasking people to go somewhere and kill people for no good reason).
Veterans have double the suicide rate of civilians. But that isn't because they are veterans, but because they are mostly male.
Once you adjust for gender, veterans actually have a lower rate than civilians. Also, suicide among veterans is not correlated with having served in combat (most veterans have never shot at anyone, and have never been shot at).
He was a co-founder of Napster. He helped get Facebook off the ground, and was the president of the company until he was arrested for cocaine possession. He was played by Justin Timberlake in the movie.
People use the advertised numbers to compare with other products before they buy. So they need to be correct.
No. They need to be wrong. Everybody else also counts a few pixels under the bezel, so for an Apples-to-apples (sorry) comparison, Apple should do the same. This is standard industry practice.
The pixel layout is different for OLED, where blue LEDs tend to be brighter but also have a shorter lifetime. So this is compensated in software by increasing the current to the blue LEDs as the screen ages. OLEDs use PenTile pixel layout.
With PenTile, instead of RGB-RGB-RGB-... the pixels are RG-BG-RG-BG-.... The green pixels are narrower but twice as densely packed. This provides very good resolution, and continues to do so even as the screen ages. PenTile was pioneered by Samsung... and Samsung makes the screen for the iPhone X.
Disclaimer: I am a happy owner of a four year old iPhone 6.
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I can't think of anything, even the trivial things that are easy to take for granted, that humans ever got right on the first go.
The atomic bomb worked on the first try.
We had enough metal for 3 bombs: Trinity at Alamogordo, Little Boy at Hiroshima, and Fat Man at Nagasaki.
All three worked perfectly.
Get some of his engineers on the project
They don't need engineers. They need accountants: Someone who can explain to them that every $1 they spend filtering microparticles out of the ocean would be a hundred times as effective if spent to prevent the trash reaching the ocean in the first place.
California specifically allows flex-time schedules, such as 4x10 and 9x80.
They allow 4x10 is there is a vote by the "work unit" to approve it. But it can't be done with a simple agreement between a single individual and an employer.
9x80 is illegal since it is more than 40 hours in one week. You can't do it, even if both the workers and the employer want it.
your company can even qualify for a tax credit for implementing them (it reduces traffic congestion).
I am interested in learning more about this. Do you have a citation?
So.. To sum up your arguments, because the F35 program was sooo expensive and other options *might* have been cheaper we should just not spend anything?
Strawman argument. Neither the GPP nor anyone else said we should "not spend anything".
What he said was we should cut current spending by half. Much of the savings could go toward scientific research that would make us stronger in the long run.
America faces no serious short term security threats. We are far stronger than China or Russia, and no other geopolitical adversary is even close. But China is growing rapidly, increasing defense spending, and is likely to be a far more formidable adversary in the future. Now is the time to cut back on idiotic dinosaurs like the F-35 and start investing for the long term needs of our country.
Uhhh wasn't that the excuse Albert Speer and the rest of the industrialists used in 1945?
Yes, and correctly so. Mere association should not be a crime.
Still doesn't change the fact you are working for a bunch that killed at last count 65 million
The people running China today are the political heirs of people that opposed the Cultural Revolution. Xi's dad was persecuted and imprisoned by the Red Guards.
... which last I checked actually beats both Hitler AND Stalin which is just mind boggling.
Sure, but with a billion people, they had a lot more to work with. On a per capita basis, Hitler and Stalin were the death count winners.
But it is also an unfair comparison. Nearly all of Hitler's killings were intentional, as were many of Stalin's. But in China, the vast majority were killed by mismanagement and economic incompetence. That is more like manslaughter than murder.
Nearly all drug laws were created by politicians. I don't believe any were put to a vote by the people.
Indeed ... and where drug laws have been put to a direct vote by the people in referendums, people have voted to repeal them.
Marijuana is now legal in 10 states. None were legalized by politicians. All were by direct referendum.
Claiming that harsh drug laws represent "the will of the people" is absurd.
We have several people working four 10s and taking off Fridays
Unless they are paid overtime, this is illegal in some states, including California.
If China has better education, why do many more Chinese come to America for an education than the reverse?
America has the best elite universities in the world. If you can afford to pay any price, America is the place to go for higher education.
But China does very well in primary and secondary (high school) education. They also do a very good job of giving a lot of people useful college degrees. China graduates about 600,000 engineers per year. America produces 70,000. But America is ahead on Gender Studies and Art History.
What a dipshit
Logical fallacy: argumentum ad hominem.
The fact that he is a dipshit does not change the validity of his argument. An assertion should be judged on its merits, not on the character of the advocate.
America is spending a trillion dollars on a new manned fighter as we enter an age that will almost certainly be dominated by drones.
America is spending $1.2 trillion on nuclear modernization despite already having 10 times the nuke capability of China.
Prior to WW2, America spent little on the peacetime military. Instead, we had to "gear up" for each war. After WW2, we went to permanently high spending.
Let's look at the "before" and "after" scorecard:
Before:
1776 - Won - American Revolution
1812 - Tie - War of 1812
1847 - Won - Mexican War
1861 - Won - Civil War
1898 - Won - Spanish-American War
1914 - Won - WW1
1941 - Won - WW2
After:
1950 - Tie - Korean War
1964 - Lost - Vietnam
1982 - Lost - Lebanon intervention
1991 - Thought we won, but eventually lost - Iraq
1992 - Lost - Somalia
2003 - Lost - Iraq
2001 - Lost - Afghanistan
So is "eternal vigilance" actually working? I don't think so, and the evidence suggests that the main effect of a "always ready" military is that it makes it really easy to jump into stupid wars without clear goals or strategies.
This is coming from an admitted Communist Party member
Being a member of the CPC doesn't mean anything in terms of beliefs or ideology. Most people join to improve their career prospects. It is a difficult process. A candidate must take an exam, and provide personal references to his good character. But once you are in, you are in an elite club with many benefits and privileges ... which is sort of ironic when you consider what Communism is supposed to be.
In America, people with different views join different political parts. But in China, there is only one party, so ambitious people of every ideology join. The CPC has everything from reactionary Maoists to free-market libertarians.
... from a country that doesn't value Freedom.
Per capita, America imprisons far more people than China. This is true even if you include the ~1M Uyghurs in "re-education" camps. China is certainly repressive, but I don't think America is a good counter-example of a "Shining City on the Hill".
Well here in the USA we value are freedoms and will spend no expense to defend it.
If our defense budget was cut in half, which freedoms would I lose?
I was reusing the same 4 bottles for a month at a time, refilling with filtered water, until another report came out indicating I was at higher risk of ingesting toxins by doing that.
Simple solution: Use a glass bottle.
Some US cities have already banned or taxed single use plastic shopping bags.
Single use plastic bags have also been banned in the entire state of Hawaii.
Generally, we don't care about RAM holding its state beyond a power cycle
This is because our systems are designed with the assumption that RAM is volatile.
If RAM held its value, there would be no need to have a distinction between RAM and "Disk". Computers would boot far faster. Databases would be right on the memory bus, with no need to "sync" to reliable storage. Many, many applications and services could be faster, simpler and more reliable.
honestly, flash degradation hasn't been an issue in RAM modules, since, forever. In flash storage, the degradation hasn't been shown to be much of an issue with MLC let alone SLC drives.
Flash degradation is not a problem because Flash is only used in applications where the degradation won't be a problem. If a Flash replacement can be faster and have unlimited write cycles, then there will be many, many applications for it that Flash can't fulfill.
Or they were pixelated because it was all staged, and they were his buddies who agreed to act in his film.
Yes, they ARE ballistic, because they have to be to hit a ballistic trajectory target before terminal stage.
The are NOT ballistic missiles. They have terminal guidance to a moving target.
Ballistic missile
I guess everybody is hallucinating all the populist parties rising in Europe.
Those xenophobic parties are strongest in Eastern Europe: Poland, Czech Rep., Hungary. These are the countries with the least immigration.
You, Shanghai Bill, live in San Jose now? The other month you kept saying China...
I live in San Jose. I was working in my company's Shanghai office from mid-August to October.
Shouldn't the DOD know exactly what our missile defense system is running? Why did they need to generate a report for this?
How do people "know" things? By learning. How would they learn? By reading. What would they read? A report. Where would the report come from? Someone tasked with generating it.
Do you really think everyone in DoD is somehow born with knowledge about missile system OSes, and all the flaws in those OSes?
Also, this has nothing to do with the security of "ballistic missiles". The missiles managed by MDA are NOT ballistic.
you'll have "water refugees" leaving the west and flooding your job market, lowering your wages...
California refugees don't lower wages, they raise them. They sell their $2M condo in west LA, and buy a 1035-Exchange mansion in Texas, thus generating dozens of construction jobs and yet more jobs for all the trucks of furniture to fill it up.
I live in San Jose, and if I sold my house and moved back to where i grew up, I could afford to buy the entire trailer park.
How do illegal immigrants vote?
They shift votes blueward in two ways:
1. They have kids in America. Their kids are native born American citizens, and grow up to vote mostly Democratic.
2. They move into neighborhoods and make friends. Their neighbors realize that they are mostly decent hard working people just trying to get ahead in life, and maybe they shouldn't be demonized. Voters tend to oppose immigration most vehemently where it is rare, and see it as no big deal where it is common.
Disclaimer: I live in San Jose, California, one of the brownest cities in America. Also one of the most prosperous, and with the lowest crime rate of any big city (1M+). I believe immigration is a good thing, and we should encourage more of it.
You noticed that the party of states rights & small govt, made it so states can't pass their own Internet Regulations bill. That's rich.
The priority of rights should be:
Individual > Local > State > National
This isn't the national government overriding states' rights. It is the national government protecting individual rights.
the state needs money to fight the drought.
Obvious solution: If you have a shortage of water, raise the price of water.
Currently, California not only fails to discourage waste, they subsidize it.
Sure, assigning a 3-digit number is so much cheaper than providing actual health care for mental disorders
The first step in providing that mental health care is to identify who needs it. The phone number does that.
or addressing actual causes for suicides (like tasking people to go somewhere and kill people for no good reason).
Veterans have double the suicide rate of civilians. But that isn't because they are veterans, but because they are mostly male.
Once you adjust for gender, veterans actually have a lower rate than civilians. Also, suicide among veterans is not correlated with having served in combat (most veterans have never shot at anyone, and have never been shot at).
and why is he so important
He was a co-founder of Napster. He helped get Facebook off the ground, and was the president of the company until he was arrested for cocaine possession. He was played by Justin Timberlake in the movie.
I should care about his wedding?
Well, for one thing, his wife is hot.
People use the advertised numbers to compare with other products before they buy. So they need to be correct.
No. They need to be wrong. Everybody else also counts a few pixels under the bezel, so for an Apples-to-apples (sorry) comparison, Apple should do the same. This is standard industry practice.
The pixel layout is different for OLED, where blue LEDs tend to be brighter but also have a shorter lifetime. So this is compensated in software by increasing the current to the blue LEDs as the screen ages. OLEDs use PenTile pixel layout.
With PenTile, instead of RGB-RGB-RGB- ... the pixels are RG-BG-RG-BG- .... The green pixels are narrower but twice as densely packed. This provides very good resolution, and continues to do so even as the screen ages. PenTile was pioneered by Samsung ... and Samsung makes the screen for the iPhone X.
Disclaimer: I am a happy owner of a four year old iPhone 6.