Which carries over to the idea of a 3D printed Penis with more girth and length. That should sell.
They already exist, and they're called dildoes. Most men aren't wild about amputating the original and replacing it with a lump of pink plastic though.
They were caught red-handed cutting corners at the Olkiluoto site in Finland. Finns take security very seriously and hence the plant is already years late..
Yet another example of how interfering in the free market just ruins it for everyone.
If the communist Finns had just let the French build a quick and dirty version, they could have sorted out any resulting accidental deaths through the courts, thereby reducing the upfront costs and allowing the shareholders time to extract the profits before they could be wasted on compensation and paying government "safety" inspectors' exorbitant salaries.
And i will say it again : nuclear power is prohibitively expensive.
Compared to what? It's one of the very, very few industries that doesn't get a truly massive subsidy in terms of having its externalities paid for by someone else and never put on the books.
Doesn't? Are you trying to be funny?
The nuclear power industry depends absolutely on government underwriting the unquantified future costs of disposal/storage of radioactive waste and decommissioning power stations.
If you wanted a poster boy for "having its externalities paid for by someone else and never put on the books" a smiling Nuclear Power Baby would be it.
My point is the current new tech will be a lot safer and therefore far less expensive as they won't need to factor in the cost of hypothetical catastrophes.
Most of the losses come not from Areva's core business but from various adventures the former management engaged in (most of them for ego-boosting reasons): trying to build a reactor in Finland without its usual parters, getting swindled when buying uranium mines (again, to bypass it's usual parters), and investing heavily in renewables because it's cool.
Nuclear is cheap. Project delays are not cheap in nuclear, or a dam (hydro if you will) or a tunnel or any large scale project. Uncertain political environment is a death knell for large scale projects.
Whether you like it or not, energy production is an inherently political subject., and for better or worse, in a democracy the politicians have to take account of public opinion.
It was all a lot easier in the USSR, where there was no criticism of Chernobyl from the happy locals.
Minecraft is one of the things I like least on the Internet right now. It epitomises everything I dislike about the environment given to the young generation, their imaginations torn from them, pushed into building artificial worlds because making in the real one is hampered by a perfect storm of regulation and fear under the umbrella of crony capitalism.
Is this the bit where I say something about playing in the woods when I was a kid?
Or perhaps I just understand the difference between a subjective opinion and an objective fact and I'm not arrogant enough to assume that my opinions are somehow more worthy than anyone else's.
There is a lot of ground between an objective fact and a purely subjective opinion, but if you want to treat the world in a binary heads/tails way and achieve the rich inner life of a tossed coin, that's up to you.
I've read a dozen articles about Marissa Mayer describing her as a "brilliant engineer" but I've never seen or heard what she's actually designed, implemented or improved.
Anyone got citations?
I'm not entirely sure, but I think she was the one who invented pron, so we should really all show a bit more respect.
From a 1990 essay comes the insight
"The ability to get ahead in an organization is simply another talent, like the ability to play chess, paint pictures, do coronary bypass operations or pick pockets. There are some people who are extraordinarily good at manipulating- organizations to serve their own ends. The Russians, who have suffered under such people for centuries, have a name for them-- apparatchiks. It was an observer of apparatchiks who coined the maxim, 'The scum rises to the top.' "
It is as insightful in its own way as "The Mythical Man-Month".
What is so interesting is that in many (large) organisations, this is pretty much codified in their HR structures, so that in annual appraisals rather than being scored at what you've actually done in your job, it's all about how you have developed a network of trusted colleagues, attended negotiating and presentation courses, volunteered to run the sports club, and absorbed the company Mission Statement.
You do know math right? Your 18/7 claim is only 4 hours shy of hers.
You do know reading comprehension, right? OP was not "claiming" 18/7, he was pointing out that that's what a 130 hour week means, and it is palpable nonsense.
Anyone who claims to work 130 hour weeks is quite simply a liar. There's no way that person is producing anything resembling 'work' for more than 18 hours per day, 7 days a week. She may have been in the office for that long, but she sure as hell wasn't working. What is it with this fetishism about long work weeks? What's next, claims about a 170 hour week?
Goddammit yes, if it takes 170 hours a week to get the job done, then I expect my people to work 170 hours a week!
Oh, and damn those people that want to insist that I get overtime for every moment I spend at the office after hours.
Yeah, I really hate getting paid for the work I do too. If it wasn't for my wife and kids needing to eat now and then, I'd probably pay just to be allowed to come into the office.
It seems like a good compromise might be to allow telecommuting three days a week: tuesday, wednesday, and thursday, and have mondays and fridays be in the office. That way you still get to interact with your team, and talk to the people you need to talk to, but you are spared 60% of the time and expense of commuting, and all the in-office distractions on those days.
Um, for most people it's on Mondays and Fridays that you want to be "telecommuting". You get a nice long weekend that way, ifyouknowwhatimean.
The problem is there are as equally unproductive amounts of people as your pulled out of thin air numbers in the office too.
Some of the lazy bastards even take time to read and post on internet forums while they're supposed to be working in the office. Un-fucking-believable...
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The US is doing quite well compared to Europe; Europe is imploding.
Proof yet again that there should be a "-5 factually incorrect and based on no evidence whatsoever" mod option.
Which carries over to the idea of a 3D printed Penis with more girth and length. That should sell.
They already exist, and they're called dildoes. Most men aren't wild about amputating the original and replacing it with a lump of pink plastic though.
The contract includes fines for delays, and the Finns (no pun intended)
(and no pun made)
They were caught red-handed cutting corners at the Olkiluoto site in Finland. Finns take security very seriously and hence the plant is already years late..
Yet another example of how interfering in the free market just ruins it for everyone.
If the communist Finns had just let the French build a quick and dirty version, they could have sorted out any resulting accidental deaths through the courts, thereby reducing the upfront costs and allowing the shareholders time to extract the profits before they could be wasted on compensation and paying government "safety" inspectors' exorbitant salaries.
..And France is sinking like a rock. This is just one example.
Yes, the whole nuclear power industry started from scratch a couple of years ago when the Socialists got in.
Most opponents of nuclear power aren't particularly keen on fossil fuel power stations either, you know.
The only long term hope is fusion power, but realistically that's at least a couple of generations away.
And i will say it again : nuclear power is prohibitively expensive.
Compared to what? It's one of the very, very few industries that doesn't get a truly massive subsidy in terms of having its externalities paid for by someone else and never put on the books.
Doesn't? Are you trying to be funny?
The nuclear power industry depends absolutely on government underwriting the unquantified future costs of disposal/storage of radioactive waste and decommissioning power stations.
If you wanted a poster boy for "having its externalities paid for by someone else and never put on the books" a smiling Nuclear Power Baby would be it.
My point is the current new tech will be a lot safer and therefore far less expensive as they won't need to factor in the cost of hypothetical catastrophes.
Welcome to Westworld.
Most of the losses come not from Areva's core business but from various adventures the former management engaged in (most of them for ego-boosting reasons): trying to build a reactor in Finland without its usual parters, getting swindled when buying uranium mines (again, to bypass it's usual parters), and investing heavily in renewables because it's cool.
tl;dr it's someone else's fault
Nuclear is not expensive, it requires an upfront investment.
And of course, you usually get the public/government to pay for the downstream costs like storage of waste and de-commissioning.
If only it wasn't for those pesky Health and Safety rules, it would be a licence to print money.
Nuclear is cheap. Project delays are not cheap in nuclear, or a dam (hydro if you will) or a tunnel or any large scale project. Uncertain political environment is a death knell for large scale projects.
Whether you like it or not, energy production is an inherently political subject., and for better or worse, in a democracy the politicians have to take account of public opinion.
It was all a lot easier in the USSR, where there was no criticism of Chernobyl from the happy locals.
Minecraft is one of the things I like least on the Internet right now. It epitomises everything I dislike about the environment given to the young generation, their imaginations torn from them, pushed into building artificial worlds because making in the real one is hampered by a perfect storm of regulation and fear under the umbrella of crony capitalism.
Is this the bit where I say something about playing in the woods when I was a kid?
Or perhaps I just understand the difference between a subjective opinion and an objective fact and I'm not arrogant enough to assume that my opinions are somehow more worthy than anyone else's.
There is a lot of ground between an objective fact and a purely subjective opinion, but if you want to treat the world in a binary heads/tails way and achieve the rich inner life of a tossed coin, that's up to you.
Popularity doesn't equate to quality and you're an idiot for thinking that it does.
Please list the objective criteria for rating the quality of a piece of art. We'll wait.
Getting people who know what they are talking about to agree how good a piece of art is usually works best.
Someone who doesn't see why popularity does not equal quality is pretty much excluded from the "know what they are talking about" group.
Apparently naively, I would have expected BoM to be markedly more predictable, and controllable, than either legal or software costs.
No, it is in the real world of buying stuff, doing something to it and selling it for a profit that the real risks and rewards of business lie.
Legal and software costs are generally annoyances rather than the cause of businesses going bust, whatever the hysteria on places like slashdot.
The tl;dr here is that Triggertrap didn't have a properly costed business plan. Like most failed businesses.
I've read a dozen articles about Marissa Mayer describing her as a "brilliant engineer" but I've never seen or heard what she's actually designed, implemented or improved.
Anyone got citations?
I'm not entirely sure, but I think she was the one who invented pron, so we should really all show a bit more respect.
From a 1990 essay comes the insight "The ability to get ahead in an organization is simply another talent, like the ability to play chess, paint pictures, do coronary bypass operations or pick pockets. There are some people who are extraordinarily good at manipulating- organizations to serve their own ends. The Russians, who have suffered under such people for centuries, have a name for them-- apparatchiks. It was an observer of apparatchiks who coined the maxim, 'The scum rises to the top.' "
http://bobshea.net/empire_of_t...
It is as insightful in its own way as "The Mythical Man-Month".
What is so interesting is that in many (large) organisations, this is pretty much codified in their HR structures, so that in annual appraisals rather than being scored at what you've actually done in your job, it's all about how you have developed a network of trusted colleagues, attended negotiating and presentation courses, volunteered to run the sports club, and absorbed the company Mission Statement.
You do know math right? Your 18/7 claim is only 4 hours shy of hers.
You do know reading comprehension, right? OP was not "claiming" 18/7, he was pointing out that that's what a 130 hour week means, and it is palpable nonsense.
Anyone who claims to work 130 hour weeks is quite simply a liar. There's no way that person is producing anything resembling 'work' for more than 18 hours per day, 7 days a week. She may have been in the office for that long, but she sure as hell wasn't working. What is it with this fetishism about long work weeks? What's next, claims about a 170 hour week?
Goddammit yes, if it takes 170 hours a week to get the job done, then I expect my people to work 170 hours a week!
Yahoo has a great news thread that somehow custom tailors to you without you doing anything.
Are you suggesting that the Singularity has appeared at Yahoo, and a vast AI is in control?
have gone from Zero to a Billion dollar ad business under Mayer.
so they are an ad company now. ok
Google is also an ad company.
all the other features and apps ecosystem of a modern smartphone
Porn in your pocket when you go for a dump at work is the killer app of the Smartphone, as far as I can see.
Apart from that, everything else is easier with a reasonable sized laptop.
Oh, and damn those people that want to insist that I get overtime for every moment I spend at the office after hours.
Yeah, I really hate getting paid for the work I do too. If it wasn't for my wife and kids needing to eat now and then, I'd probably pay just to be allowed to come into the office.
It seems like a good compromise might be to allow telecommuting three days a week: tuesday, wednesday, and thursday, and have mondays and fridays be in the office. That way you still get to interact with your team, and talk to the people you need to talk to, but you are spared 60% of the time and expense of commuting, and all the in-office distractions on those days.
Um, for most people it's on Mondays and Fridays that you want to be "telecommuting". You get a nice long weekend that way, ifyouknowwhatimean.
The problem is there are as equally unproductive amounts of people as your pulled out of thin air numbers in the office too.
Some of the lazy bastards even take time to read and post on internet forums while they're supposed to be working in the office. Un-fucking-believable...