there's a huge gender imbalance in nursing and primary education as well; when will society get around to 'fixing' that?
There are efforts to recruit more men into these professions. This is especially important in early primary education where there is evidence that boys, and especially black boys lacking male role models in their lives, do better with male teachers. Over feminization of education is not a good thing for our society. We need more men teaching kindergarten.
The US is rapidly moving away from coal. No new coal plants are being built, and none are planned. Many are closing every year.
Coal is dying. Even Trump supporters know that.
... and natural gas
Shutting gas turbine plants is stilly if we are still burning coal. Coal emits twice the CO2 and many times more other gunk. Electricity is fungible, so you always want to close your dirtiest and least economical plants first, and that ain't gas.
China and India are still busily building new coal plants
China and India are building new coal plants to meet rapidly growing demand for power. Most of that new demand is not for lighting, cooking, or transport, but for air conditioning.
If you want to reduce coal consumption, the best, most cost effective, and politically acceptable solution, is better ACs.
The worst ACs have three times the power consumption of the best for the same cooling capacity. There is huge room for improvement.
This smells like the result of MBAs ignoring engineers...
It is worse in the military, because communication is inherently unidirectional, and they can go years between real world validations (i.e. wars).
"War games" are setup by the same people that are being tested, so if they fail the test, they can just change the rules and have a do-over. This famously happened during the run up to the 2003 Iraqi invasions, when opfor was repeatedly banned from using unconventional tactics, such as underage bicycle messengers and roadside bombs, because that was "unrealistic".
I had personal experience with this nonsense when I was a young lieutenant. I was part of the Red Team (opfor), and we were hopelessly out numbered and out gunned since we were playing "insurgents". So we decided to go asymmetric... and cut off the Blue Team's water supply. I was told that wasn't allowed, and to turn it back on immediately. So then we set up road blocks that targeted their chow trucks. Nope, that wasn't allowed either.
But we were permitted to launch a hopeless frontal attack directly into their entrenchments, which we did on the last day of the exercise so we could go home early. In the after-action critique, I can remember the colonel getting up and congratulating everyone on a job well done. That's when I decided a military career was not for me, and I am not surprised that America proceeded to lose several wars.
The farmed Atlantic salmon are selectively bred to grow fast. They do this by focusing on eating, and ignoring predators, which are absent in their pens.
There have been many accidental releases of farmed Atlantic salmon in the Pacific Ocean, and there is no evidence that any of them survived for long.
Atlantic and Pacific salmon do not interbreed. They are more distantly related than their phenotype suggests. They don't even have the same number of chromosomes.
They are paid a portion of the fare, not a fixed hourly rate. So that is more like a contractor than an employee. If they drive around to get to areas with fares, and don't get enough to cover their gas/depreciation, then they can take a loss. That is one of the IRS criteria for contractors vs employees.
Also, employees can negotiate their pay, and often do.
If you watch the video, you can see one cop planting the drugs, while two other cops stand and watch as if planting evidence is perfectly normal and routine.
Only the cop planting the evidence was fired. The other two corrupt cops are still Baltimore police officers.
Well, it has been almost a week since we last rehashed this topic, so let's do a review. There is no ONE criterium that makes someone a contractor or employee. The IRS has a 20 point checklist (listed below). Uber meets some of the criteria, and doesn't meet others. But it is a checklist, not a scorecard. So does that mean their drivers are employees? Answer: Maybe.
Also, it is not necessarily "better" to be an employee... or a contractor. Employees tend to get more benefits in addition to their pay, but also tend to be paid less and have less flexibility.
1. Must the individual take instructions from your management staff regarding when, where, and how work is to be done? 2. Does the individual receive training from your company? 3. Is the success or continuation of your business somewhat dependent on the type of service provided by the individual? 4. Must the individual personally perform the contracted services? 5. Have you hired, supervised, or paid individuals to assist the worker in completing the project stated in the contract? 6. Is there a continuing relationship between your company and the individual? 7. Must the individual work set hours? 8. Is the individual required to work full time at your company? 9. Is the work performed on company premises? 10. Is the individual required to follow a set sequence or routine in the performance of his work? 11. Must the individual give you reports regarding his/her work? 12. Is the individual paid by the hour, week, or month? 13. Do you reimburse the individual for business/travel expenses? 14. Do you supply the individual with needed tools or materials? 15. Have you made a significant investment in facilities used by the individual to perform services? 16. Is the individual free from suffering a loss or realizing a profit based on his work? 17. Does the individual only perform services for your company? 18. Does the individual limit the availability of his services to the general public? 19. Do you have the right to discharge the individual? 20. May the individual terminate his services at any time?
TFA is just a series of anecdotes. The complainers are a small vocal minority, and it is far from clear that this is a real "trend" rather than just a media fad.
The only fix for this would completely break backwards compatibility
Nonsense. An obvious solution would be to ban all American companies from 3P spoofing, and ban them from connecting to foreign networks that allow it. Give them six months to implement it.
During those six months, any country that wants to continue to connect to America's phone system (i.e. all expect North Korea) would scramble to fix their own phone systems. Most would need to do nothing, since 3P spoofing is ALREADY ILLEGAL. In India, 3P spoofing is already illegal for domestic calls, but allowed for international calls, so it would be only a minor change.
you have to give credit to a China-like approach: swift bullet to the head to deter all future people
China executed a few people for selling baby formula laced with melamine. Since then they have had... dozens more incidents of intentionally contaminated food.
"Shooting people in the head" is NOT a deterrent to people that don't think they will get caught, and it is an easy excuse to NOT fix the systemic problems of poor regulation, corrupt food safety inspectors, nobody double checking the checkers, etc.
The contaminated formula was sold for years, killing many Chinese babies, and was only discovered when it was exported to New Zealand, and the melamine was detected by NZ food inspectors. Most other Chinese food scandals also were detected by foreigners.
In the French case, the solution is not to "shoot the cop" but to ask why he had access to so much information in the first place. For instance, to get GPS info on a phone, he should have needed his ID, a PIN or password, and a valid warrant. Yet he apparently needed none of those things. This is far more than "one bad cop". It is a rotten broken system. None of their internal systems or cross checks caught this guy. It was only revealed by outside info.
Breakdown of trust in the government strikes at the heart of society.
Some mistrust of government is healthy for a society. It is too much trust that is dangerous.
So there are legitimate reasons to allow caller ID spoofing
Of course there are, and you listed several, but that WAS NOT THE QUESTION,
Let me repeat: Is there any legitimate use case for THIRD PARTY phone number spoofing?
This means you call from a number that you own and control, and you make it look like it is coming from a number that you do NOT own or control, and do not have permission to use. This is obviously useful to criminals. Is it needed by anyone else?
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there's a huge gender imbalance in nursing and primary education as well; when will society get around to 'fixing' that?
There are efforts to recruit more men into these professions. This is especially important in early primary education where there is evidence that boys, and especially black boys lacking male role models in their lives, do better with male teachers. Over feminization of education is not a good thing for our society. We need more men teaching kindergarten.
Even countries like Germany are having a hard time moving away from coal
Solar doesn't work well in Germany because it is about as cloudy as the Bering Sea. They should import solar from sunny places like Spain.
CO2 is a global problem. Solutions don't have to be localized.
the US will never get off coal
The US is rapidly moving away from coal. No new coal plants are being built, and none are planned. Many are closing every year.
Coal is dying. Even Trump supporters know that.
... and natural gas
Shutting gas turbine plants is stilly if we are still burning coal. Coal emits twice the CO2 and many times more other gunk. Electricity is fungible, so you always want to close your dirtiest and least economical plants first, and that ain't gas.
China and India are still busily building new coal plants
China and India are building new coal plants to meet rapidly growing demand for power. Most of that new demand is not for lighting, cooking, or transport, but for air conditioning.
If you want to reduce coal consumption, the best, most cost effective, and politically acceptable solution, is better ACs.
The worst ACs have three times the power consumption of the best for the same cooling capacity. There is huge room for improvement.
This smells like the result of MBAs ignoring engineers...
It is worse in the military, because communication is inherently unidirectional, and they can go years between real world validations (i.e. wars).
"War games" are setup by the same people that are being tested, so if they fail the test, they can just change the rules and have a do-over. This famously happened during the run up to the 2003 Iraqi invasions, when opfor was repeatedly banned from using unconventional tactics, such as underage bicycle messengers and roadside bombs, because that was "unrealistic".
I had personal experience with this nonsense when I was a young lieutenant. I was part of the Red Team (opfor), and we were hopelessly out numbered and out gunned since we were playing "insurgents". So we decided to go asymmetric ... and cut off the Blue Team's water supply. I was told that wasn't allowed, and to turn it back on immediately. So then we set up road blocks that targeted their chow trucks. Nope, that wasn't allowed either.
But we were permitted to launch a hopeless frontal attack directly into their entrenchments, which we did on the last day of the exercise so we could go home early. In the after-action critique, I can remember the colonel getting up and congratulating everyone on a job well done. That's when I decided a military career was not for me, and I am not surprised that America proceeded to lose several wars.
Semper Fi.
Global warming is just a red herring ...
I see what you did there.
Just make fewer babies.
Meh. I'd rather eat tofu.
The farmed Atlantic salmon are selectively bred to grow fast. They do this by focusing on eating, and ignoring predators, which are absent in their pens.
There have been many accidental releases of farmed Atlantic salmon in the Pacific Ocean, and there is no evidence that any of them survived for long.
Atlantic and Pacific salmon do not interbreed. They are more distantly related than their phenotype suggests. They don't even have the same number of chromosomes.
You should see Tensorflow, a huge steaming pile of crud built on python and its legacy libraries.
Tensorflow has bindings for other languages. For instance: Tensorflow C++ API, with no Python needed.
Google collected data on them, and used that data to display ads.
So they saw ads for things that matched their interests, rather than ads for things that did not match their interests.
It is hard to see how that was damaging.
Maybe the concept of independent contractors should not exist without a state license.
So babysitters will need a license from the state?
They are paid a portion of the fare, not a fixed hourly rate. So that is more like a contractor than an employee. If they drive around to get to areas with fares, and don't get enough to cover their gas/depreciation, then they can take a loss. That is one of the IRS criteria for contractors vs employees.
Also, employees can negotiate their pay, and often do.
This feature caught Baltimore police planting drugs in an attempt to fake body camera footage.
If you watch the video, you can see one cop planting the drugs, while two other cops stand and watch as if planting evidence is perfectly normal and routine.
Only the cop planting the evidence was fired. The other two corrupt cops are still Baltimore police officers.
Well, it has been almost a week since we last rehashed this topic, so let's do a review. There is no ONE criterium that makes someone a contractor or employee. The IRS has a 20 point checklist (listed below). Uber meets some of the criteria, and doesn't meet others. But it is a checklist, not a scorecard. So does that mean their drivers are employees? Answer: Maybe.
Also, it is not necessarily "better" to be an employee ... or a contractor. Employees tend to get more benefits in addition to their pay, but also tend to be paid less and have less flexibility.
1. Must the individual take instructions from your management staff regarding when, where, and how work is to be done?
2. Does the individual receive training from your company?
3. Is the success or continuation of your business somewhat dependent on the type of service provided by the individual?
4. Must the individual personally perform the contracted services?
5. Have you hired, supervised, or paid individuals to assist the worker in completing the project stated in the contract?
6. Is there a continuing relationship between your company and the individual?
7. Must the individual work set hours?
8. Is the individual required to work full time at your company?
9. Is the work performed on company premises?
10. Is the individual required to follow a set sequence or routine in the performance of his work?
11. Must the individual give you reports regarding his/her work?
12. Is the individual paid by the hour, week, or month?
13. Do you reimburse the individual for business/travel expenses?
14. Do you supply the individual with needed tools or materials?
15. Have you made a significant investment in facilities used by the individual to perform services?
16. Is the individual free from suffering a loss or realizing a profit based on his work?
17. Does the individual only perform services for your company?
18. Does the individual limit the availability of his services to the general public?
19. Do you have the right to discharge the individual?
20. May the individual terminate his services at any time?
That is a restriction imposed by the host country, not by China.
Yeah, half the screens will go dark, being polarized one way. The other half will be largely unaffected.
Obvious solution: Just tilt your head 90 degrees.
Color is how we distinguish light frequency. That's what color is!
Who said anything about frequency? These glasses filter by wavelength, not frequency. Totally different thing.
YouTube and Android are clearly monopolies.
... except that there are clear alternatives to both, and depending on how you measure it, neither is even the market leader.
Android is on more phones than iOS, but iOS has higher revenue and higher profit.
Tudou has fewer videos than YouTube, but has more viewers, and is more profitable.
TFA is just a series of anecdotes. The complainers are a small vocal minority, and it is far from clear that this is a real "trend" rather than just a media fad.
They'll import American consumerism, fashion, and a large part of culture as well.
Have you ever been to China? Go to Shanghai, and walk down Nanjing Lu.
The main difference between American consumerism and Chinese consumerism is that in China the malls are ten stories tall.
Communist nations only allow the most loyal to get a passport and enjoy a free education in the USA.
Over a hundred million Chinese have passports, and there are almost no restrictions on Chinese citizens traveling abroad.
Many people insist that nuclear is expensive, but that applies to virtually all nascent technologies.
Nuclear is different. Over the last seven decades, nuclear has steadily become MORE EXPENSIVE.
No other technology has followed that path.
The only fix for this would completely break backwards compatibility
Nonsense. An obvious solution would be to ban all American companies from 3P spoofing, and ban them from connecting to foreign networks that allow it. Give them six months to implement it.
During those six months, any country that wants to continue to connect to America's phone system (i.e. all expect North Korea) would scramble to fix their own phone systems. Most would need to do nothing, since 3P spoofing is ALREADY ILLEGAL. In India, 3P spoofing is already illegal for domestic calls, but allowed for international calls, so it would be only a minor change.
His foundation pays for research that leads to patents on treatments that it then collects royalties on.
Can you back this up with a citation or example?
States eradicated smallpox a couple decades ago just fine.
The WHO eliminated smallpox. The WHO is now trying to eliminate malaria ... by working closely with the Gates Foundation.
you have to give credit to a China-like approach: swift bullet to the head to deter all future people
China executed a few people for selling baby formula laced with melamine. Since then they have had ... dozens more incidents of intentionally contaminated food.
"Shooting people in the head" is NOT a deterrent to people that don't think they will get caught, and it is an easy excuse to NOT fix the systemic problems of poor regulation, corrupt food safety inspectors, nobody double checking the checkers, etc.
The contaminated formula was sold for years, killing many Chinese babies, and was only discovered when it was exported to New Zealand, and the melamine was detected by NZ food inspectors. Most other Chinese food scandals also were detected by foreigners.
In the French case, the solution is not to "shoot the cop" but to ask why he had access to so much information in the first place. For instance, to get GPS info on a phone, he should have needed his ID, a PIN or password, and a valid warrant. Yet he apparently needed none of those things. This is far more than "one bad cop". It is a rotten broken system. None of their internal systems or cross checks caught this guy. It was only revealed by outside info.
Breakdown of trust in the government strikes at the heart of society.
Some mistrust of government is healthy for a society. It is too much trust that is dangerous.
So there are legitimate reasons to allow caller ID spoofing
Of course there are, and you listed several, but that WAS NOT THE QUESTION,
Let me repeat: Is there any legitimate use case for THIRD PARTY phone number spoofing?
This means you call from a number that you own and control, and you make it look like it is coming from a number that you do NOT own or control, and do not have permission to use. This is obviously useful to criminals. Is it needed by anyone else?