That would be a bad idea economically. Gaving different timezones between France and Belgium or Germany would not be a good thing.
For me the timezones should be: Ireland, UK, Spain and Portugal
The rest of Westen Europe.
The rest of eastern Europe.
Just because the imaginary hour lines are deviding France and Belgium/Netherlands does not mean we can not move that imaginary line.
Stop thinking that we somehow need to regulate our clocks to that yellow thing. We are long way past that. Look at what makes the most sense economically and politically.
Now if Spain decides to take the same time as France, so should Portugal. And I do not care if this is wintertime, summertime or a whole new time.
Tell people there's an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure. --George Carlin
Does your job actually offer any benefit to the world at large? Does your company offer goods or services that are unique and essential?
Define essential.
If it is just to survive, people have done that in caves, so unless you are a hunter, you are NOT really essential? A doctor? Not essential, because the human race will survive without them. Just produce more offspring.
OTOH, having movie theaters and other form of entertainment mke live better for a lot of people, so they can be seen as essential as well.
HAM radio operators are essential? No they are not. People have survived longer with them than without them. The fact that you bought one for the Y2K collaps of civilisation does not mean anything.
To me, as a human being, humans are essential, not their jobs. I work for a living. I do not live for my work. There is plenty to go around to cut working hours in half and spend the gained time with friends or family or whatever we desire.
And the fact that some jobs will survive (there are still people that train horses) does not mean they are essential.
Fishing and farming has reduced in workforce a LOT. Building does not require as much people as e.g. in Egypt. We could build that pyramid, faster, cheaper better and with way less people right now. We have made things way bigger than the piramyds already. The need to repair has gone down in both time and cost. Automation of irigation has been going on for a long time. As well as the repair of them. Just look how much people the Netherlands needs now compared to when the windmills where still a thing.
The jobs will survive, but not even close in the numbers that exist now.
So we need to get our heads out of our asses and stop thinking that the only valuable people are those who do "essential" jobs and that the rest is waste. Instead we should look at the humans and see how we, as a species, spread the wealth and the free time, so we can become more human.
That, or a big war or revolution where a lot of people get killed and we need to build and rebuild. That sure sounds as the easier option.
There is a reason why there are only amateurs in IT. For bridgebuildibg there is accountavility if you do it wrong. If you hired people who are unqualified, you are held accountable.
All political parties have decided that such a thing is not needed in IT, so nno laws in that direction exist.
Just only now have they started this in lefist Europe with GDPR and this kind of thing is not even really included.
For a bus, instead of using a road to charge, they could use a troley like system. Something like this here
Just that it isn't connected all the time. Just at e.g. busstops and dedicated parts on the road. Using something where they can share tram wires would be a great option and perhaps cheaper than using a complete new system.
In many (European) cities, they already have a lot of dedicated tarm and bus lines on the road and even roads that are only accesible for buslines.
I also once saw a video of a busline (I think in Australia?) where they had a selfdriving lane for busses. Adding a charger over top would be easy and not that expensive.
From what I gather from the article is that people put the key in their code. It is not that Github did anything unsafe.
I assume what it could do is block sites that put the key in their code somehow. Obviously if I post the key somewhere else (e.g. here) there would not be a lot that could be done. It also means that code from Github can not be called safe to use, as you never know if somebody has not added malicious code to something that was safe before.
If I am somewhere mistaken, please do not hesitate to correct me.
Many years ago I knew somebody working on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. During a calm period, they would "trade" things that where not standard. e. g. a 10m2 of pie, a truckload of Christmas trees or, as one point, 2 camels.
This was just "fun" for them as they where bored. Buy low, sell high, so they all made some money. That is except for the last one. The camels where donated to the Frankfurt zoo, I believe.
This is the same. The traders do not care what they trade in, as long as they can make a bit of profit on the buying and selling. I9t could be chocolate, bonds, pork belly, white female slaves or Bitcoin. As long as they can take a bit of profit between the seller and the buyer, they are happy to take it.
If they should have gotten the training, but didn't, it is the fault of those that did not gave them the training. If they got the training and did not understood it, then it is the fault of the person giving the training.
In no way does it absolve Boeing for doing what it did.
If I let you fly a plane and I tell you it is OK and you crash that plane because I withheld information from you, directly or indirectly, I am at fault. And that is what Boing did.
You did something and you can measure that what you did, actually did it.
It is not like throwing a price to a customer and then he buys it. Perhaps he would have done that anyway. When you did the coding, you know that what you did was the cause of the improvement.
I know I have sat down for many hours, so a process can run 1 second faster and it runs once per week day. That is just over 5 minutes per year.
There is no way to defend spending so much time on it, except for ego.
So you pick one country, Venezuela, while there are so many European countries to pick from.
It is as if Socialism in and of itself is not bad, but people are bad. There is a shitload wrong with people abusing democracy as well. And sociaslism is not the opposite of democracy. Norway (another random country) proves that.
A two-party system is not a real democratic system (Yes, I know the USofA is a Republic)
Oh and people have been getting more stupid since Greeks ruled the world with their democracy.
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That would be a bad idea economically. Gaving different timezones between France and Belgium or Germany would not be a good thing.
For me the timezones should be:
Ireland, UK, Spain and Portugal
The rest of Westen Europe.
The rest of eastern Europe.
Just because the imaginary hour lines are deviding France and Belgium/Netherlands does not mean we can not move that imaginary line.
Stop thinking that we somehow need to regulate our clocks to that yellow thing. We are long way past that. Look at what makes the most sense economically and politically.
Now if Spain decides to take the same time as France, so should Portugal. And I do not care if this is wintertime, summertime or a whole new time.
And EU business will fill the gap. Supply and demand. If there is a demand, there will be a supply.
No idea if this will be legal or illegal, but that never stopped basic economics.
One of those thumping noises is "clap clap THUMP".
i.e. people have complained aout the qualityb of music for a LONG time. Queen's "We will rock you" was called noise by a lot of people at the time.
Tell people there's an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure. --George Carlin
I bet you vacinate your kids as well.
Science: what has it ever done for us? (Insert Monthy Python script)
Define essential.
If it is just to survive, people have done that in caves, so unless you are a hunter, you are NOT really essential? A doctor? Not essential, because the human race will survive without them. Just produce more offspring.
OTOH, having movie theaters and other form of entertainment mke live better for a lot of people, so they can be seen as essential as well.
HAM radio operators are essential? No they are not. People have survived longer with them than without them. The fact that you bought one for the Y2K collaps of civilisation does not mean anything.
To me, as a human being, humans are essential, not their jobs. I work for a living. I do not live for my work. There is plenty to go around to cut working hours in half and spend the gained time with friends or family or whatever we desire.
And the fact that some jobs will survive (there are still people that train horses) does not mean they are essential.
Fishing and farming has reduced in workforce a LOT. Building does not require as much people as e.g. in Egypt. We could build that pyramid, faster, cheaper better and with way less people right now. We have made things way bigger than the piramyds already. The need to repair has gone down in both time and cost. Automation of irigation has been going on for a long time. As well as the repair of them. Just look how much people the Netherlands needs now compared to when the windmills where still a thing.
The jobs will survive, but not even close in the numbers that exist now.
So we need to get our heads out of our asses and stop thinking that the only valuable people are those who do "essential" jobs and that the rest is waste. Instead we should look at the humans and see how we, as a species, spread the wealth and the free time, so we can become more human.
That, or a big war or revolution where a lot of people get killed and we need to build and rebuild. That sure sounds as the easier option.
Marketing for a remake us cheaper than for something new, or for the same price more effective.
Hero movies, star wars and trek. No need to explain anything. Just say there is a new one and people will come.
Remake? Nany oeople will look because of nostalgia, so you have already won a lot of eyes. As long as they make money of it, why should they stop?
I agree, except for the political bullshit part.
There is a reason why there are only amateurs in IT. For bridgebuildibg there is accountavility if you do it wrong. If you hired people who are unqualified, you are held accountable.
All political parties have decided that such a thing is not needed in IT, so nno laws in that direction exist.
Just only now have they started this in lefist Europe with GDPR and this kind of thing is not even really included.
For a bus, instead of using a road to charge, they could use a troley like system. Something like this here
Just that it isn't connected all the time. Just at e.g. busstops and dedicated parts on the road. Using something where they can share tram wires would be a great option and perhaps cheaper than using a complete new system.
In many (European) cities, they already have a lot of dedicated tarm and bus lines on the road and even roads that are only accesible for buslines.
I also once saw a video of a busline (I think in Australia?) where they had a selfdriving lane for busses. Adding a charger over top would be easy and not that expensive.
Yeah, but proving people guilty, even if they are not, is pretty easy.
Just accuse them of something and offer a plea bargain for something less: boom, guilty.
So Perl is out of the question as it IS the asshole.
These ethics questions about Artificial Inteligence would be a great platform for a series of books.
Just one thing: if they ever make it into a movie, please do not aks Will Smith to play a role. I saw what he did with "I am legend"
From what I gather from the article is that people put the key in their code. It is not that Github did anything unsafe.
I assume what it could do is block sites that put the key in their code somehow. Obviously if I post the key somewhere else (e.g. here) there would not be a lot that could be done. It also means that code from Github can not be called safe to use, as you never know if somebody has not added malicious code to something that was safe before.
If I am somewhere mistaken, please do not hesitate to correct me.
Many years ago I knew somebody working on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. During a calm period, they would "trade" things that where not standard. e. g. a 10m2 of pie, a truckload of Christmas trees or, as one point, 2 camels.
This was just "fun" for them as they where bored. Buy low, sell high, so they all made some money. That is except for the last one. The camels where donated to the Frankfurt zoo, I believe.
This is the same. The traders do not care what they trade in, as long as they can make a bit of profit on the buying and selling. I9t could be chocolate, bonds, pork belly, white female slaves or Bitcoin. As long as they can take a bit of profit between the seller and the buyer, they are happy to take it.
Stupid Dutch.
That does not mean it is the pilots fault.
If they should have gotten the training, but didn't, it is the fault of those that did not gave them the training. If they got the training and did not understood it, then it is the fault of the person giving the training.
In no way does it absolve Boeing for doing what it did.
If I let you fly a plane and I tell you it is OK and you crash that plane because I withheld information from you, directly or indirectly, I am at fault. And that is what Boing did.
Elevators are safer.
Thinking before commenting? You must be new here.
Or perhaps the thing you thought was sure, isn't at all and you just proved that your idea was wrong.
A researcher should prove and disprove, not only prove.
You did something and you can measure that what you did, actually did it.
It is not like throwing a price to a customer and then he buys it. Perhaps he would have done that anyway. When you did the coding, you know that what you did was the cause of the improvement.
I know I have sat down for many hours, so a process can run 1 second faster and it runs once per week day. That is just over 5 minutes per year.
There is no way to defend spending so much time on it, except for ego.
Include the cost of recycling in the cost of the product. That way the poluter (i.e. the person who buys the product) pays for it upfront.
Not that this will ever work. The US has not even figured out how to add the taxes on their prices, so people know what they need to pay.
Yes, I am aware that there are many different taxes. Yet somehow when you check out, the suddenly know what these taxes are.
So you pick one country, Venezuela, while there are so many European countries to pick from.
It is as if Socialism in and of itself is not bad, but people are bad. There is a shitload wrong with people abusing democracy as well. And sociaslism is not the opposite of democracy. Norway (another random country) proves that.
A two-party system is not a real democratic system (Yes, I know the USofA is a Republic)
Oh and people have been getting more stupid since Greeks ruled the world with their democracy.
You bribe or influence his boss to fire him. (or the people who control his contract if he is independent.)
Roaming is a thing of the past already for inside the EU since while. No roaming costs.
In Europe the caller also pays the call. The xell phone numbers have a separate atea code, so you will know, as a caller, if extra charges apply.
None of the "you call, I pay" stuff.