If there are problems with the workforce, it is mostly among the youth who are far too easily distracted and don't commit themselves too much to their work. (once again, YMMV)
There might be a reason for their distractions. See this article from the Harvard Business Review which talks about the differences between the current and former generations when it comes to work.
Then there is this article from Bloomberg Businessweek which talks about the same issue. Both came about because of the Washington Post article which essentially said that the current generation has a lazy work ethic.
While it can be said the current generation (gees, does that make me sound old) doesn't seem to want to get their hands dirty (so to speak), they are willing to work on a problem until they find a resolution. Whether that is good or bad is up to the manager.
While they tried to block the flow of oil by shoving mud and other stuff down the tube, is there are a reason why they couldn't use some variant of expandable foam to seal the pipe?
By that I mean, shove a smaller diameter pipe down the main pipe, say to a depth of 500', then inject the expandable foam into the main pipe to seal it?
Yes, I am aware, as James Cameron remarked, one has to worry about the oil bursting out somewhere else, but is my above question even feasible?
The problem is, there's a misprint in the wording. It's not bear arms, it's bare arms. Everyone has the right to bare arms.
Also, it's vague because the way it is written, it seems you can have arms because you are part of the militia since the militia was to supplement any standing army.
Little known fact: people still had to register ownership of their weapons so the government knew who they could call on to muster the militia. The NRA will never admit to it because that would do away with their efforts to not have people register today.
And for the link to the Militia Act of 1792 which required white men (only men) to be notified upon their 18th birthday that they are automatically enrolled in the militia: http://www.constitution.org/mil/mil_act_1792.htm
After all, if you're going to call forth the militia, it's a good idea to have some way of knowing who actually owns a weapon, don't ya think?
It is far more plausible to believe that civilian networks will rebound faster from a cyber attack without federal interference because most civilian networks are run by people who do that sort of thing for a living,
Agreed. Just look at what a great job the civilian oil industry has done in stopping the flow of oil from the broken well in the Gulf by the people who do that sort of thing for a living when the government hasn't interfered.
I'm not saying you're wrong, just giving a counter-example to the mantra that private companies are better at doing things than the government. Government, on the whole, can martial resources more quickly and get them to where they are needed faster than can civilian institutions. However, that requires that both parties not be at each other's throats during the process. The process should be:
1) Government gets the resources and delivers them to pre-position points
2) Civilian organizations then distribute/use those resources as they know what needs to be done
To use Haiti as an example, it should have been the government, in the form of the military, who got to the airport first, then using engineers, cleared a path from the airport to the city. During that time, basic resources should have been collected and prepared for delivery with civilian organizations working with the government on what aid was really needed.
Once a path was cleared, the resources were delivered along with the civilians who would be distributing the resources, using the paths cleared by the engineers.
This is a very basic overview of what needed to be done, but you get the point. A partnership of government and civilian organizations is what is needed in emergencies. Not one or the other.
I tell everyone, both at work and the few who know I work in the IT field, that whenever you are asked if you to install something, the answer is always no. I don't care if it tells you your computer will explode and burn your house down, the answer is no. I don't care if it tells you that 1 million babies will be killed if you don't install the software. The answer is still no.
No, no, no, no, no!
Of course not making them admin helps in this regard, but malware can still find a way to install itself so the answer is always no when asked if you want to install "Ultimate Web Cleaner Deluxe Plus!".
I guess it's a good thing I don't have a cell phone. No cell phone, no tracking. No tracking, no data mining.
About the best the marketers know about me is from my grocery shopping card, though what they glean from my buying a 5 lb. tub of Crisco, two 48-count packs of condoms, three baby bottles and the 5 lb. jar of grape jelly every two weeks is up to them.
Does the Northwest have exotic women and/or liquors?
The Northwest, and the West Coast as a whole, has a fairly substantial Asian population. LA, SF, Seattle and Portland have large Asian populations in particular.
If James were to visit, we would never see him again. Sensory overload would be his downfall.
Fashion is an interesting case because it's exempted from copyright laws
Actually, it's not completely exempt because there have been numerous cases of copyright in the fashion industry. For example, Van Halen suing Nike over a criss-cross pattern on a line of sneakers Nike produced. Anthropologie has sued Forever 21 (see below for a separate case) over copyright infringement for nine garments. We also have Diane von Furstenberg suing Target (see separate case below) for copyright infringement as well as other issues.
There is the case of jewelry company Merit Diamond Corp that sued Samuels Jewelers and Rogers Jewelers because their design of certain pieces of their jewelry was copies of Merit's. A similar case involved Tacori vs Beverly Jewelry Company Ltd for copyright infringement of ring designs.
However, to prove your point about the fashion industry and copyright, see this article from the NY Times from March which talks about this very subject.
I can confirm what the poster says. When I travel down their way, I pass several dairy farms. Go even further into the County, which has a large Amish population, and you have farms everywhere you look.
There are a few farms near me but nothing on the scale that Lancaster County has.
Another source might be chicken farms. There is one about a mile from where I live and sometimes, when the wind is just right, its odor wafts my way.
I realize the amount of crap a chicken produces compared to what a cow produces is orders of magnitude different, but if there was a way to use the droppings on-site, that would solve two issues: power production and waste disposal.
You don't learn C for the syntax, you learn it for the side effects.
Every time I hear the words "side effects", I am reminded of some medicine that was advertised several years ago where one of the possible effects of taking the medication was an oily discharge.
Is this one of the side effects of learning C you're talking about? Please say no.
You know, the whole "fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me"
No, no. You have it all wrong. Here's the actual quote:
There's an old saying in Tennessee -- I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee -- that says, fool me once, shame on -- [pauses] - shame on you. Fool me -- You can't get fooled again. - George Bush, September 17, 2002.
B. I know I wasn't quite as elegant in my language as I should have been, but it's one of those questions I've had rattling around my skull for some time and would pop out if I met Hawking, Kaku, etc.
The question has always been, why is gravity the weakest of the three even though it's the one we're most familiar with? My solution (yeah right) would be because the other three forces are so much stronger that like radio waves, their strength decreases the further out you go.
Again, since we haven't detected any gravitational waves, using either Occam's Razor or Sherlock Holmes' comment about eliminating the impossible and whatever is left, no matter how improbable, must be the truth, it would seem the reason we can't unify gravity with the other three is because it's not a separate force, but is the result of the other three forces interacting with one another.
On a side note, if someone in the field decides to pursue this and finds I'm partially or fully correct, I want credit for it. It will probably be the only thing history will know me for (unless I'm elected benevolent dictator of Earth).
We know the Holy Grail is to have a Grand Unified Theory of the four forces. To date, three have been combined with gravity being the lone holdout.
Is there a reason why gravity can't be a force unto itself but rather, the result of the other three forces? By that I mean, since the Strong and Weak forces hold things together, is there some reason they can't be creating gravity with their forces weakening the further out you go, similar to how radio waves get weaker as they propagate outwards.
Even though this experiment is an attempt to detect gravitational waves, since we haven't found any to date, could the above be a different explanation for why we haven't found any (yet)?
At the moment they're free to use (free electricity, free parking) once you've paid an annual fee.
So they're not free then. If you have to pay to use something, it's not free. Just like "free" healthcare isn't free. You, and others, have paid taxes for decades to (hopefully) get medical service when you need it. Of course if you die early, you don't get to use that which you've paid for, but that's another issue.
Short of breathing, drinking from a pond/stream/river or taking a shit, there isn't anything that's free. Someone, somewhere, has to pay for it by some measure.
It was almost always economic factors, typically due to political issues.
WTF? Political issues? How does not compensating someone for the time and effort they put into something, which they are not giving away for free, a political issue?
People can try to rationalize it all they want, but when they do not compensate someone for what they produce, when that person is not giving the product away, is a form of theft. Call it copyright infringement, call it piracy, call it what ever you want, but you are stealing from that person. In the case of games, music, etc, you are using the product without compensating the person(s) who put the time and effort into producing the product.
I know I'll be modded down and I don't care. This nonsense that people can try to rationalize why they're stealing someone from someone is bull shit. You wouldn't like it if someone took something of yours without being compensated, except if you willingly gave it to them, so don't do it to someone else.
If you think it's a great thing to simply take something you want without compensating the person for their work, you go out and produce something and give it away. See how long you last when no one is paying you for your work.
Ding! That was the first (of a very few) dvds I bought. While a few parts were exaggerated, the overall concept of how security testing firms do their testing was accurate (for its day).
But of course, the best part is the infamous lines:
"I want peace on Earth and goodwill toward men."
"We are the United States government. We don't do that sort of thing."
I don't particularly agree with their corporate mission ("glorify god")
Who says you can't learn anything by surfing the web while at work? I did not know that and looked it up to confirm what you said.
Scratch another place not to go to.*
*To those of you who are going to whine or mod me down for saying that, take a look at yourself before you open your mouth (or type the words). Do you not go to some place(s) because of their corporate policies, working conditions, charities they give to, etc? If so, one word describes you: hypocrite.
You had the choice between talking about a redheaded dominatrix and a car analogy, and you went with the car analogy?
Considering the redheaded dominatrix in Tomcats (ok, not truly a dominatrix), one has to be careful of what wishes for. Especially when granny is around.
What kind of work is useful to experiment on in microgravity?
Don't know how useful it is, but Japanese astronaut Naoko Yamazaki has demonstrated that soap bubbles retain their color in space, answering a scientific question from her daughter.
Again, how useful this is will depend on the person.
As far as anyone can tell, not one of these people were fired for both not doing their job and for using work equipment in a HIGHLY non-work related manner.
Then again, we have the same thing around here. We know for a fact and have documented at least two people repeatedly, for over half an hour each day for months on end, trying to access porn and porn-related sites. Yet, like the SEC, none have been canned.
To use a tired comment, there used to be a time when one could work hard, get recognized and advance ones career through such work. No longer. Apparently failure is the new success.
The point of this endeavor was to determine if this a true asteroid or a planet-bomb sent by the Gamilons in their attempt to kill us.
If it's just an asteroid, no harm, no foul. But if it's a planet bomb, then we need to get the Argo ready to take off and begin its long journey to Iscandar even though Queen Starsha sent us plans for the wave motion engine but couldn't send us plans for the Cosmo DNA device.
Of course, maybe the LHC is really the first stage in the production of the wave motion gun and all of this is merely a ruse to keep the people from panicking.
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If there are problems with the workforce, it is mostly among the youth who are far too easily distracted and don't commit themselves too much to their work. (once again, YMMV)
There might be a reason for their distractions. See this article from the Harvard Business Review which talks about the differences between the current and former generations when it comes to work.
Then there is this article from Bloomberg Businessweek which talks about the same issue. Both came about because of the Washington Post article which essentially said that the current generation has a lazy work ethic.
While it can be said the current generation (gees, does that make me sound old) doesn't seem to want to get their hands dirty (so to speak), they are willing to work on a problem until they find a resolution. Whether that is good or bad is up to the manager.
"Please state the nature of the medical emergency."
While they tried to block the flow of oil by shoving mud and other stuff down the tube, is there are a reason why they couldn't use some variant of expandable foam to seal the pipe?
By that I mean, shove a smaller diameter pipe down the main pipe, say to a depth of 500', then inject the expandable foam into the main pipe to seal it?
Yes, I am aware, as James Cameron remarked, one has to worry about the oil bursting out somewhere else, but is my above question even feasible?
The problem is, there's a misprint in the wording. It's not bear arms, it's bare arms. Everyone has the right to bare arms.
Also, it's vague because the way it is written, it seems you can have arms because you are part of the militia since the militia was to supplement any standing army.
Little known fact: people still had to register ownership of their weapons so the government knew who they could call on to muster the militia. The NRA will never admit to it because that would do away with their efforts to not have people register today.
For reference: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504383_162-5258192-504383.html
And for the link to the Militia Act of 1792 which required white men (only men) to be notified upon their 18th birthday that they are automatically enrolled in the militia: http://www.constitution.org/mil/mil_act_1792.htm
After all, if you're going to call forth the militia, it's a good idea to have some way of knowing who actually owns a weapon, don't ya think?
It is far more plausible to believe that civilian networks will rebound faster from a cyber attack without federal interference because most civilian networks are run by people who do that sort of thing for a living,
Agreed. Just look at what a great job the civilian oil industry has done in stopping the flow of oil from the broken well in the Gulf by the people who do that sort of thing for a living when the government hasn't interfered.
I'm not saying you're wrong, just giving a counter-example to the mantra that private companies are better at doing things than the government. Government, on the whole, can martial resources more quickly and get them to where they are needed faster than can civilian institutions. However, that requires that both parties not be at each other's throats during the process. The process should be:
1) Government gets the resources and delivers them to pre-position points
2) Civilian organizations then distribute/use those resources as they know what needs to be done
To use Haiti as an example, it should have been the government, in the form of the military, who got to the airport first, then using engineers, cleared a path from the airport to the city. During that time, basic resources should have been collected and prepared for delivery with civilian organizations working with the government on what aid was really needed.
Once a path was cleared, the resources were delivered along with the civilians who would be distributing the resources, using the paths cleared by the engineers.
This is a very basic overview of what needed to be done, but you get the point. A partnership of government and civilian organizations is what is needed in emergencies. Not one or the other.
I tell everyone, both at work and the few who know I work in the IT field, that whenever you are asked if you to install something, the answer is always no. I don't care if it tells you your computer will explode and burn your house down, the answer is no. I don't care if it tells you that 1 million babies will be killed if you don't install the software. The answer is still no.
No, no, no, no, no!
Of course not making them admin helps in this regard, but malware can still find a way to install itself so the answer is always no when asked if you want to install "Ultimate Web Cleaner Deluxe Plus!".
I guess it's a good thing I don't have a cell phone. No cell phone, no tracking. No tracking, no data mining.
About the best the marketers know about me is from my grocery shopping card, though what they glean from my buying a 5 lb. tub of Crisco, two 48-count packs of condoms, three baby bottles and the 5 lb. jar of grape jelly every two weeks is up to them.
Does the Northwest have exotic women and/or liquors?
The Northwest, and the West Coast as a whole, has a fairly substantial Asian population. LA, SF, Seattle and Portland have large Asian populations in particular.
If James were to visit, we would never see him again. Sensory overload would be his downfall.
Fashion is an interesting case because it's exempted from copyright laws
Actually, it's not completely exempt because there have been numerous cases of copyright in the fashion industry. For example, Van Halen suing Nike over a criss-cross pattern on a line of sneakers Nike produced. Anthropologie has sued Forever 21 (see below for a separate case) over copyright infringement for nine garments. We also have Diane von Furstenberg suing Target (see separate case below) for copyright infringement as well as other issues.
There is the case of jewelry company Merit Diamond Corp that sued Samuels Jewelers and Rogers Jewelers because their design of certain pieces of their jewelry was copies of Merit's. A similar case involved Tacori vs Beverly Jewelry Company Ltd for copyright infringement of ring designs.
Most lawsuits in the fashion industry revolve around trademark and patent infringement such as the case against Paris Hilton, Coach vs. Target and Trovata vs Forever 21.
However, to prove your point about the fashion industry and copyright, see this article from the NY Times from March which talks about this very subject.
The fin on top of your head doesn't do what you think it does.
Hey fellow PAer, Dauphin County here.
I can confirm what the poster says. When I travel down their way, I pass several dairy farms. Go even further into the County, which has a large Amish population, and you have farms everywhere you look.
There are a few farms near me but nothing on the scale that Lancaster County has.
Another source might be chicken farms. There is one about a mile from where I live and sometimes, when the wind is just right, its odor wafts my way.
I realize the amount of crap a chicken produces compared to what a cow produces is orders of magnitude different, but if there was a way to use the droppings on-site, that would solve two issues: power production and waste disposal.
does it run Linux?
Oh wait!
You don't learn C for the syntax, you learn it for the side effects.
Every time I hear the words "side effects", I am reminded of some medicine that was advertised several years ago where one of the possible effects of taking the medication was an oily discharge.
Is this one of the side effects of learning C you're talking about? Please say no.
You know, the whole "fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me"
No, no. You have it all wrong. Here's the actual quote:
There's an old saying in Tennessee -- I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee -- that says, fool me once, shame on -- [pauses] - shame on you. Fool me -- You can't get fooled again. - George Bush, September 17, 2002.
B. I know I wasn't quite as elegant in my language as I should have been, but it's one of those questions I've had rattling around my skull for some time and would pop out if I met Hawking, Kaku, etc.
The question has always been, why is gravity the weakest of the three even though it's the one we're most familiar with? My solution (yeah right) would be because the other three forces are so much stronger that like radio waves, their strength decreases the further out you go.
Again, since we haven't detected any gravitational waves, using either Occam's Razor or Sherlock Holmes' comment about eliminating the impossible and whatever is left, no matter how improbable, must be the truth, it would seem the reason we can't unify gravity with the other three is because it's not a separate force, but is the result of the other three forces interacting with one another.
On a side note, if someone in the field decides to pursue this and finds I'm partially or fully correct, I want credit for it. It will probably be the only thing history will know me for (unless I'm elected benevolent dictator of Earth).
We know the Holy Grail is to have a Grand Unified Theory of the four forces. To date, three have been combined with gravity being the lone holdout.
Is there a reason why gravity can't be a force unto itself but rather, the result of the other three forces? By that I mean, since the Strong and Weak forces hold things together, is there some reason they can't be creating gravity with their forces weakening the further out you go, similar to how radio waves get weaker as they propagate outwards.
Even though this experiment is an attempt to detect gravitational waves, since we haven't found any to date, could the above be a different explanation for why we haven't found any (yet)?
At the moment they're free to use (free electricity, free parking) once you've paid an annual fee.
So they're not free then. If you have to pay to use something, it's not free. Just like "free" healthcare isn't free. You, and others, have paid taxes for decades to (hopefully) get medical service when you need it. Of course if you die early, you don't get to use that which you've paid for, but that's another issue.
Short of breathing, drinking from a pond/stream/river or taking a shit, there isn't anything that's free. Someone, somewhere, has to pay for it by some measure.
It was almost always economic factors, typically due to political issues.
WTF? Political issues? How does not compensating someone for the time and effort they put into something, which they are not giving away for free, a political issue?
People can try to rationalize it all they want, but when they do not compensate someone for what they produce, when that person is not giving the product away, is a form of theft. Call it copyright infringement, call it piracy, call it what ever you want, but you are stealing from that person. In the case of games, music, etc, you are using the product without compensating the person(s) who put the time and effort into producing the product.
I know I'll be modded down and I don't care. This nonsense that people can try to rationalize why they're stealing someone from someone is bull shit. You wouldn't like it if someone took something of yours without being compensated, except if you willingly gave it to them, so don't do it to someone else.
If you think it's a great thing to simply take something you want without compensating the person for their work, you go out and produce something and give it away. See how long you last when no one is paying you for your work.
Ding! That was the first (of a very few) dvds I bought. While a few parts were exaggerated, the overall concept of how security testing firms do their testing was accurate (for its day).
But of course, the best part is the infamous lines:
"I want peace on Earth and goodwill toward men."
"We are the United States government. We don't do that sort of thing."
I don't particularly agree with their corporate mission ("glorify god")
Who says you can't learn anything by surfing the web while at work? I did not know that and looked it up to confirm what you said.
Scratch another place not to go to.*
*To those of you who are going to whine or mod me down for saying that, take a look at yourself before you open your mouth (or type the words). Do you not go to some place(s) because of their corporate policies, working conditions, charities they give to, etc? If so, one word describes you: hypocrite.
You had the choice between talking about a redheaded dominatrix and a car analogy, and you went with the car analogy?
Considering the redheaded dominatrix in Tomcats (ok, not truly a dominatrix), one has to be careful of what wishes for. Especially when granny is around.
What kind of work is useful to experiment on in microgravity?
Don't know how useful it is, but Japanese astronaut Naoko Yamazaki has demonstrated that soap bubbles retain their color in space, answering a scientific question from her daughter.
Again, how useful this is will depend on the person.
As far as anyone can tell, not one of these people were fired for both not doing their job and for using work equipment in a HIGHLY non-work related manner.
Then again, we have the same thing around here. We know for a fact and have documented at least two people repeatedly, for over half an hour each day for months on end, trying to access porn and porn-related sites. Yet, like the SEC, none have been canned.
To use a tired comment, there used to be a time when one could work hard, get recognized and advance ones career through such work. No longer. Apparently failure is the new success.
The point of this endeavor was to determine if this a true asteroid or a planet-bomb sent by the Gamilons in their attempt to kill us.
If it's just an asteroid, no harm, no foul. But if it's a planet bomb, then we need to get the Argo ready to take off and begin its long journey to Iscandar even though Queen Starsha sent us plans for the wave motion engine but couldn't send us plans for the Cosmo DNA device.
Of course, maybe the LHC is really the first stage in the production of the wave motion gun and all of this is merely a ruse to keep the people from panicking.
Take him away boys!
That should be:
Bake him away toys!