I don't care for the rest of Nickelback, but their drummer is top-notch. Metallica's drummer tried out to become Dream Theater's new drummer after Mike Portnoy quite and then wanted back in. The rest of DT claimed Portnoy really nailed the audition but frankly, I cannot see him coming close to Portnoy. Now they have Mike Mangini and he's great.
Another old group still touring is Deep Purple. Jon Lord left and then died a bit later (not so long ago, in fact). And Ritchie Blackmore is playing Renaissance music with his wife, but DP is still a good strong band with Steve Morse on guitar....they should put Ian Gillan out to pasture though.
I work in a combination engineering (without PhDs) and science (with PhDs) environment. I'll admit the PhDs are bit high on the Oddness Scale. The engineers, however, have this enormous chip on their shoulder about the qualities of the PhDs. They widely deride the PhDs has not doing anything real or even capable of doing anything real. Some PhDs are like this. In general, though, the PhDs are working on higher level problems, so it isn't any mystery that the engineers find them difficult to relate to. I get the general impression that for engineers, good mathematics is born of a virgin and immediately applicable to their interests. That "other" mathematics is the stuff that's difficult to understand and probably invented by PhDs somewhere in a ivory tower dedicated to the ineffable. Getting engineers to back off their immediate problem and tell us any general lessons about their widgets is nearly impossible, and they take pride in snowing us with trivial detail that makes no difference in the general picture. When we do attempt to generalized, we are immediately hit with "it doesn't solve my immediate problem with all the details filled in." Yeah, well, that's because your problem was generalized into a class of problems and the math we gave you will work for the entire class; now quit bitching and particularize it to your widget.
Yes and no. Vietnam cuddled up to the U.S., not the other way around. They felt threatened by China. Can you imagine that?
The Philippines told the U.S. to go suck eggs years ago when they closed the U.S. bases. Then the Muslims in the south got armed and pissed, the Philippines decided a bit of military training with U.S. advisers would be acceptable. But China next decided they owned the entire S. China Sea right down the Philippines. The Philippine government then more or less said, "bases, shmases, let's be buddies again like the good old days when you booted out the Japanese."
China brought increased U.S. involvement in SE Asia on themselves.
It doesn't have anything to do with ICANN. It has everything to do with China realizing it cannot keep expanding its economy without a lock on a lot more natural resources. They've already claimed most of the S. China Sea all the way down the Philippines. Their "deals" in Africa are designed to lock in their claim to Africa's natural resources. They have even expressed an interest in making claims in the Arctic.
Put quickly, there is no governor on China's ambitions. Their domestic politics requires them to keep their young people supplied with enough interest in economic gain so that they don't turn to political interests. They also see the U.S. as a declining power.
This is only the beginning. It will be rough century.
Not just this area, China is claiming all the ocean down to the Philippines. China has driven several of the SE Asian countries closer to the U.S. Even Vietnam wants to cuddle closer to the U.S.
The current stock market is a bubble inflated by the Fed in their effort to goose the rest of the economy. When quantitative easing is eased, don't be near the stock market.
While I'm at it, the Republican Party is an ignorance bubble...too bad it won't pop any time soon. And I'm a Republican, my views haven't changed but those anti-science, Bible thumping morons will damage this country for decades by not investing in education, science, etc.
Insurance companies also have panels that decide whether you get covered for whatever ails you.
The insurance companies have also fixed the system so that, as you observe, the U.S. has a problem with access. When a prior condition is enough to ding you out of the insurance market, one must question whether the insurance companies are worth having or should be first up against the wall.
Really? The CO2 in the atmosphere is acidifying the oceans. You recall the oceans? The base of the food chain? Big bodies of water? Maybe you've heard of them.
So at what point will the CO2 magically disappear and our oceans revert to their normal acidity?
Now don't be picking winners and losers. If the human and animal pop. are losers, it's okay because government wasn't involved.
Oil came into its own via monopolies. After the government broke up the oil companies, they already had time to drive down their cost and build oil into the fabric of the U.S. economy.
Research is cheap. Most of the discretionary budget is cheap. The real money is in the 2/3's of the budget that is mandatory. And guess what will blow the doors off the budget in the coming years? Yup, the Blue Haired and the AARP.
Research at least creates job either in the near term or the far term. What the U.S. spends on research is pixie dust compared to the mandatory budget.
Yeah, that's exactly why I get on a plane, to have an unending conversation with my seat mates and allow them to honk on about anything that goes pop in their brains. Forget it.
I don't know about all UAVs but the U.S. military ones are programmed to fly home if they get confused. Dunno how they find home if they lose GPS but at least they thought about the issue.
So what you are saying is that the IRS should cut out the middle men (us) and just get the straight information from the NSA. That alone would pay for itself in lost time for the pop. to do their tax returns.
Okay, let's zero out your expected take from SS and Medicare when you are too old to fund yourself. And while we're at it, it would be okay if Grandma moved in with you, right? Her meds only run a few thou a month, but that's a small price for you to pay to be freed of the Fed. Gov. Let's remove NiH, because you will never get cancer, contract a food born illness, or get nailed by the next pandemic. You'll let the mentally ill live with you, 'cause they'll need a place to stay. They usually need meds too.
Let's also turn the world over to the Chinese because in 20 years, we'll be entirely self-sufficient and won't need any open trading partners. And while we're at it, lets get rid of NTSA and the FAA, you won't die in an airline accident because the airlines cut corners. Let's abolish the SEC, Wall Street and the Banks have your best interests at heart.
And let's get rid of that awful FBI, if your father gets whacked, you won't need no stinking investigation as to whom did it. Come to think of it, we won't have to worry about young kids getting kidnapped because there will be no federal agency to track them down. They shouldn't have gotten their asses kidnapped in the first place. We also don't need the federal prison system, them guys can kip at your house right...be sure to keep your gun loaded and by your bedside, they tend to sleepwalk a bit.
I think in the beginning, there were plenty of employees that got rich off stock options. However, to my eye, management and stockholders got greedy. Management also considered themselves techno-stars when in reality, technology had passed them by and they never got the memo. Considering themselves techno-stars, many lessor employees must be techno-weenies and hence stack ranking was born.
The only poetic justice was that Ballmer was stack-ranked as a non-performing asset and deemed expendable. They should have sacked Gates, he's the one who gave MS their sclerotic management culture, but he bailed before them chickens came home to roost.
The poppy trade is the main source of income for the Taliban. They only stopped it when they were in power because they realized they couldn't get people all religiously snockered if they were already snockered. The Taliban also stopped a lot of limbs from working and many heads. That's what they did when they couldn't stop the peoples' brains from working.
Please try to keep up. There a growing movement among the judiciary and state elected officials to reduce the prison pop. especially for non-violent drug offenders. Even that hero of the right, Richard Viguerie is behind the effort. Some are on board for the usual liberal causes, some are on board because it is expensive keeping people locked up.
It isn't so much management, it is basic understanding of what animates human behavior. When a CEO cannot see this, it means they have no empathy because they cannot see themselves being subject to the same insane system. In that case, the best thing one can do is leave at the earliest opportunity because it will only get worse.
Slashdot Mirror
I don't care for the rest of Nickelback, but their drummer is top-notch. Metallica's drummer tried out to become Dream Theater's new drummer after Mike Portnoy quite and then wanted back in. The rest of DT claimed Portnoy really nailed the audition but frankly, I cannot see him coming close to Portnoy. Now they have Mike Mangini and he's great.
Another old group still touring is Deep Purple. Jon Lord left and then died a bit later (not so long ago, in fact). And Ritchie Blackmore is playing Renaissance music with his wife, but DP is still a good strong band with Steve Morse on guitar....they should put Ian Gillan out to pasture though.
I work in a combination engineering (without PhDs) and science (with PhDs) environment. I'll admit the PhDs are bit high on the Oddness Scale. The engineers, however, have this enormous chip on their shoulder about the qualities of the PhDs. They widely deride the PhDs has not doing anything real or even capable of doing anything real. Some PhDs are like this. In general, though, the PhDs are working on higher level problems, so it isn't any mystery that the engineers find them difficult to relate to. I get the general impression that for engineers, good mathematics is born of a virgin and immediately applicable to their interests. That "other" mathematics is the stuff that's difficult to understand and probably invented by PhDs somewhere in a ivory tower dedicated to the ineffable. Getting engineers to back off their immediate problem and tell us any general lessons about their widgets is nearly impossible, and they take pride in snowing us with trivial detail that makes no difference in the general picture. When we do attempt to generalized, we are immediately hit with "it doesn't solve my immediate problem with all the details filled in." Yeah, well, that's because your problem was generalized into a class of problems and the math we gave you will work for the entire class; now quit bitching and particularize it to your widget.
Yes and no. Vietnam cuddled up to the U.S., not the other way around. They felt threatened by China. Can you imagine that?
The Philippines told the U.S. to go suck eggs years ago when they closed the U.S. bases. Then the Muslims in the south got armed and pissed, the Philippines decided a bit of military training with U.S. advisers would be acceptable. But China next decided they owned the entire S. China Sea right down the Philippines. The Philippine government then more or less said, "bases, shmases, let's be buddies again like the good old days when you booted out the Japanese."
China brought increased U.S. involvement in SE Asia on themselves.
It doesn't have anything to do with ICANN. It has everything to do with China realizing it cannot keep expanding its economy without a lock on a lot more natural resources. They've already claimed most of the S. China Sea all the way down the Philippines. Their "deals" in Africa are designed to lock in their claim to Africa's natural resources. They have even expressed an interest in making claims in the Arctic.
Put quickly, there is no governor on China's ambitions. Their domestic politics requires them to keep their young people supplied with enough interest in economic gain so that they don't turn to political interests. They also see the U.S. as a declining power.
This is only the beginning. It will be rough century.
Not just this area, China is claiming all the ocean down to the Philippines. China has driven several of the SE Asian countries closer to the U.S. Even Vietnam wants to cuddle closer to the U.S.
The current stock market is a bubble inflated by the Fed in their effort to goose the rest of the economy. When quantitative easing is eased, don't be near the stock market.
While I'm at it, the Republican Party is an ignorance bubble...too bad it won't pop any time soon. And I'm a Republican, my views haven't changed but those anti-science, Bible thumping morons will damage this country for decades by not investing in education, science, etc.
Let's overlook the 20 million Chinese that didn't get educated because Mao killed them via hunger, purges, whatever it took...he wasn't choosy.
Insurance companies also have panels that decide whether you get covered for whatever ails you.
The insurance companies have also fixed the system so that, as you observe, the U.S. has a problem with access. When a prior condition is enough to ding you out of the insurance market, one must question whether the insurance companies are worth having or should be first up against the wall.
The U.S. spends about $2.4 Trillion on the "safety net" out of a $3.5 Trillion budget.
Intel cannot make money on ARM. My own opinion is that this is an attempt to knacker ARM development. No company should take Intel up on this.
Really? The CO2 in the atmosphere is acidifying the oceans. You recall the oceans? The base of the food chain? Big bodies of water? Maybe you've heard of them.
So at what point will the CO2 magically disappear and our oceans revert to their normal acidity?
Now don't be picking winners and losers. If the human and animal pop. are losers, it's okay because government wasn't involved.
Oil came into its own via monopolies. After the government broke up the oil companies, they already had time to drive down their cost and build oil into the fabric of the U.S. economy.
Research is cheap. Most of the discretionary budget is cheap. The real money is in the 2/3's of the budget that is mandatory. And guess what will blow the doors off the budget in the coming years? Yup, the Blue Haired and the AARP.
Research at least creates job either in the near term or the far term. What the U.S. spends on research is pixie dust compared to the mandatory budget.
Yeah, that's exactly why I get on a plane, to have an unending conversation with my seat mates and allow them to honk on about anything that goes pop in their brains. Forget it.
I don't know about all UAVs but the U.S. military ones are programmed to fly home if they get confused. Dunno how they find home if they lose GPS but at least they thought about the issue.
So what you are saying is that the IRS should cut out the middle men (us) and just get the straight information from the NSA. That alone would pay for itself in lost time for the pop. to do their tax returns.
Okay, let's zero out your expected take from SS and Medicare when you are too old to fund yourself. And while we're at it, it would be okay if Grandma moved in with you, right? Her meds only run a few thou a month, but that's a small price for you to pay to be freed of the Fed. Gov. Let's remove NiH, because you will never get cancer, contract a food born illness, or get nailed by the next pandemic. You'll let the mentally ill live with you, 'cause they'll need a place to stay. They usually need meds too.
Let's also turn the world over to the Chinese because in 20 years, we'll be entirely self-sufficient and won't need any open trading partners. And while we're at it, lets get rid of NTSA and the FAA, you won't die in an airline accident because the airlines cut corners. Let's abolish the SEC, Wall Street and the Banks have your best interests at heart.
And let's get rid of that awful FBI, if your father gets whacked, you won't need no stinking investigation as to whom did it. Come to think of it, we won't have to worry about young kids getting kidnapped because there will be no federal agency to track them down. They shouldn't have gotten their asses kidnapped in the first place. We also don't need the federal prison system, them guys can kip at your house right...be sure to keep your gun loaded and by your bedside, they tend to sleepwalk a bit.
Unless you miss one drunken evening and find you are now a eunuch.
I think in the beginning, there were plenty of employees that got rich off stock options. However, to my eye, management and stockholders got greedy. Management also considered themselves techno-stars when in reality, technology had passed them by and they never got the memo. Considering themselves techno-stars, many lessor employees must be techno-weenies and hence stack ranking was born.
The only poetic justice was that Ballmer was stack-ranked as a non-performing asset and deemed expendable. They should have sacked Gates, he's the one who gave MS their sclerotic management culture, but he bailed before them chickens came home to roost.
The poppy trade is the main source of income for the Taliban. They only stopped it when they were in power because they realized they couldn't get people all religiously snockered if they were already snockered. The Taliban also stopped a lot of limbs from working and many heads. That's what they did when they couldn't stop the peoples' brains from working.
Please try to keep up. There a growing movement among the judiciary and state elected officials to reduce the prison pop. especially for non-violent drug offenders. Even that hero of the right, Richard Viguerie is behind the effort. Some are on board for the usual liberal causes, some are on board because it is expensive keeping people locked up.
It isn't so much management, it is basic understanding of what animates human behavior. When a CEO cannot see this, it means they have no empathy because they cannot see themselves being subject to the same insane system. In that case, the best thing one can do is leave at the earliest opportunity because it will only get worse.
Or someone like John Gotti...which this sort of smacks of. Only "made" members can introduce new members to the family...
Just a factoid, the U.S. is about equal to China in manufacturing, so stop spreading the mis-information that the U.S. doesn't make anything anymore.
Hireable? He wouldn't be fundable at any uni. All that theoretical nonsense? No chance of it ever succeeding in the view of funding agencies.