When they do poach they get slapped with lawsuits from the company they recruited from saying the person they got can't work anywhere near a computer for a number of years. So poaching really makes no sense because of the counter lawsuits. Are they going to deny that people have "critical information" and shut down the lawsuits that follow from poaching ?
If this bill passes I would expect an immediately ordered audit of all current providers to prove that they in no way used any public money to fund their infrastrucure. If they did then the public should be asking for the money back.
--The "private market" has already used billions of dollars of federal tax money to build out their networks. So basically what this law is saying is that it was okay for the incumbent operators to take tax money, but bar any new competition from doing the same.--
So if the bill passes the current providers should be asked to pay it all back with interest.
Just get something along those lines added to the bill and watch it disappear real fast.
Distributors used to be need to sponsor copying films and publicity. They are no longer needed the cinema house can handle all of that directly. The current process for independents (anyone not in house to a production-distribution conglomerate) is to make a movie, then spend time showing it at festivals looking for a distributor to pick it up so that the film can be copied and promoted. That is no longer needed.
With digital projection there is no need for making expensive copies of films and cinema houses are capable of doing their own advertising (see all the pre-show stuff). There should a path directly from the festivals to the cinema houses.
Cinema houses could do this easily. The problem would be that the next "in house" production blockbuster by a distributor would not be available to the cinema house.
Do we really? See the US and the elimination of the welfare state. To some degree this can be done if you can get the willpower to have a high taxes. Providing for the poor who don't work means taxing the rich, aka the 1% at high levels. That is not happening. And the "system" is not going to let it happen.
>> But what will we do of the excess people then ?
sarcasm -> solyent green
Very Real !! There will be war/revolution.
A very large mostly idle population always leads to unrest. The eventual victors apply their population against others in war. The losers suffer internal revolution. The question is which governments move to the optimal solution first. The idle population problem is solved in two manners by the solution. However the solution is not permanent unless you can prevent the population from recovering.
The proper solution is we live the life of leisure we should have with modern efficiencies working 10 hours a week each. That will not happen. So we get one of the other solutions.
Basic manufacturing labor is in 2 forms 1) local construction this is non-portable and while modernization gains have happened. It is still taking many man hours to make a house. 2) assembly (this is gadgets or cars) the finished good is portable modernization has applied the Ford factor and there is incredible pressure to reduce the man/hour cost.
a) finished goods are globally transportable, means manpower is used where manpower is lowest cost
b) mechanization is reducting the needed manpower for assembly, every year there is less for someone to do to assemble 100 of something
c) this somewhat applies to farming
The great industrial revolution provided jobs for lots of people to move from farming to manufacturing. We are now facing the reverse prospect where the mechinical revolution is displacing manufacturing jobs. There really are no replacement jobs, "tech" jobs require education and there are not really enough demand.
The post-industrial age is upon us. There really are not places for most of the people to work.
The black box is hard mounted to a solid part of the car. The black box and associated accelerometers stop hard. A person in a seat, surround by air bags and wearing a seat belt does not stop nearly as hard.
Now if there had been no seat belt and no air bags.....
0 poke 32788+p,65; p=p+peek(151)*2-1; print tab(rnd()*37),"###"; if (peek(32788+p)==32) goto
((Not sure of exact syntax and rnd() operation, it fit in the character limit using the short forms of the commands.
p starts at zero of course. clear the screen. scroll to the bottom. RUN
An "A" is your space ship. Starts in the middle of the top of the screen. It moves left or right depending on if shift is pressed or not. Update of P based on shift detected with the peek. A block "###" is put in a random location at the bottom of the screen and screen scrolled. so it looks like the "###" are appearing at the bottom and flying up. The game ends if your A would hit a ###. Use the shift key to avoid them as they fly up from the bottom.
When the politicians admit a) they don't understand the tech b) are willing to take the positions of the media companies that donate to them
So the US is led by ludites who have sold their favor to the corporations. And this (the US) is the self descibed "leader of the free world".
Where is the power of the people in this process? Where is the representation of the taxed? Where is the educated and informed action that is supposed to happen in a democracy?
Do we need more proof we are living in a corporatocracy ?
And all sides will fire off patent lawsuits over trivial features like form filling and email forming. The lawyers will get rich the market will be blocked and confused.
All hail patents the great pusher of innovation, NOT.
Steering wheel mounted spike pointed at drivers chest. The spike gets longer at faster speeds and with less spacing. As a bonus it will encourage people to be thinner.
The problem is cars are to easy to drive and we keep making them easier. That means it demands less attention most of the time.
Class Action Waiver..... ((sorry had to remove the text I pasted -- stupid slashdot filter says I am using to many caps. I copied the original text verbatim))
Global climate change will lead to sea level rises. This will displace people. It is rising, sea graph at http://www.climate.org/topics/sea-level/index.html#sealevelrise
The US has 57,000 km^2 of land below 1.5m above sea level. Another 33,000km^2 of land between 1.5m and 3.5m. (Source epa.gov)
"Over 600 million people live in coastal areas that are less than 10 meters above sea level, and two-thirds of the world’s cities that have populations over five million are located in these at-risk areas (http://www.climate.org/topics/sea-level/index.html#sealevelrise) Low-lying coastal regions in developing countries such as Bangladesh, Vietnam, India, and China have especially large populations living in at-risk coastal areas such as deltas. "
"Shanghai, altitude roughly 3 meters (10 feet) above sea level, is among dozens of great world cities — including London, Miami, New York, New Orleans, Mumbai, Cairo, Amsterdam and Tokyo — threatened by sea levels that now are rising twice as fast as projected just a few years ago, expanding from warmth and meltwater."
Seems to me all the supercomputer models are predicting the disaster called global climate change is powered by human CO2 emissions. We have predicted it. It has a decided human cause against which we can take direct action. Over the next 50 years billions of people will be displaced. Trillions or more of infrastructure will be lost to rising oceans.
Are we doing anything? Seems to me the whole prediction thing is useless if we are unwilling to take action on the results. Is it because the results are wrong or is it because it involves money in peoples pockets.
We can make the predictions, we need to remove the barriers to action.
I thought the Republican doctrine was less government interference and all about letting the free market do things. What is the party position for interfering in the labour market in this way? On what grounds is this within party policy?
3 phase has 2 ways of looking at the voltages, Y or delta. The 3 phase delta is 440v when you measure between any pair of the 3 wires. The center point is ground. You don't see that in delta, but you do when measuring it in Y form. The same signals that are 440v when measured as a pair are 3 x 380v when looked at in the Y configuration.
So 3 phase 440v gives you 3x 380v to ground.
As to the 12v/5v/1.5v/ whatever you are going to have to do DC to DC all over the place. Better to have as high a voltage as possible for less current and less losses.
With a good teacher there is no need for whiz bang fancy pants hook'em when their your graphics.
They need good teachers. Invest the money in training/sceening teachers properly. Cirriculum and all that other stuff is fluff from the people that want to sell text books and hardware.
Why were the radiation levels not a purchasing requirement? I would expect any radiation unit to have the exposure level very clearly identified.
Either specify that all units supplied must be under a maximum exposure (at all points in their operating life) set by the TSA or the supplier is liable. Or the supplier can specify an exposure level when delivering the unit and the TSA can decide to accept or decline the purpose.
In either case the design limit should be easily available. And publishable as a start. If the design limit is not available, then on what criteria where the purchases authorized and who authorized the purchases without strict exposure limits. Because it would just be sheer stupidity to operate like that. (Of couse I expect a governemnt agencey to be operating within the stupidity realm).
> CO2 outpaces worst-case scenarios yet the heat doesn't show up.
Heat lags CO2. Just like the middle of winter is not Dec 21 and the middle of summer is not June 21. The earth is warming up a little more each year. Please learn a little before making wrong headed statements.
Adding heat to the oceans takes a long time. Think boiling water. Adding 1 or 2 degrees to the entire oceans takes an awful lot of energy accumulation. The heat we have added so far has just started to turn over the ocean currents.
What high school does not teach is a self work ethic. This leaves the student totally unprepared for college where they are not even punished for not showing up at class. Miss a class or two, skip doing the required reading and suddenly they are totally lost and way to far behind. It is sink or swim in the sense of being self-responsible for attending class and doing the required out of class work.
University means 15 hours of classes and 30 hours of self motivated work a week. Most are not going to do that. Especially when you add in being away from home for the first time.
-- see this policy -- that is not preparation for university
http://oncampus.macleans.ca/education/2010/09/29/teaching-plagiarism/ "Under a new evaluation method for report cards, Saskatoon public high school students will no longer face penalties for handing assignments in late or trying to pass off someone else’s work as their own. The idea, according to the board, is to shift focus from behaviour to learning. “We’re trying to keep the emphasis on the learning, not on the penalty,” "
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When they do poach they get slapped with lawsuits from the company they recruited from saying the person they got can't work anywhere near a computer for a number of years. So poaching really makes no sense because of the counter lawsuits.
Are they going to deny that people have "critical information" and shut down the lawsuits that follow from poaching ?
If this bill passes I would expect an immediately ordered audit of all current providers to prove that they in no way used any public money to fund their infrastrucure. If they did then the public should be asking for the money back.
--The "private market" has already used billions of dollars of federal tax money to build out their networks. So basically what this law is saying is that it was okay for the incumbent operators to take tax money, but bar any new competition from doing the same.--
So if the bill passes the current providers should be asked to pay it all back with interest.
Just get something along those lines added to the bill and watch it disappear real fast.
Distributors used to be need to sponsor copying films and publicity. They are no longer needed the cinema house can handle all of that directly.
The current process for independents (anyone not in house to a production-distribution conglomerate) is to make a movie, then spend time showing it at festivals looking for a distributor to pick it up so that the film can be copied and promoted. That is no longer needed.
With digital projection there is no need for making expensive copies of films and cinema houses are capable of doing their own advertising (see all the pre-show stuff). There should a path directly from the festivals to the cinema houses.
Cinema houses could do this easily. The problem would be that the next "in house" production blockbuster by a distributor would not be available to the cinema house.
Prime example evidence #1 of how SOPA breaks the cloud.
A single complaint that a cloud service has a copyright file can result in a takedown of the entire cloud. Stranding all clients of that cloud.
Thanks to the government and their extra-judicial processes, they have broken the notion of internet provided services.
> we can now provide for people who don't work
Do we really? See the US and the elimination of the welfare state. To some degree this can be done if you can get the willpower to have a high taxes.
Providing for the poor who don't work means taxing the rich, aka the 1% at high levels. That is not happening. And the "system" is not going to let it happen.
>> But what will we do of the excess people then ?
sarcasm -> solyent green
Very Real !!
There will be war/revolution.
A very large mostly idle population always leads to unrest. The eventual victors apply their population against others in war. The losers suffer internal revolution. The question is which governments move to the optimal solution first. The idle population problem is solved in two manners by the solution. However the solution is not permanent unless you can prevent the population from recovering.
The proper solution is we live the life of leisure we should have with modern efficiencies working 10 hours a week each. That will not happen.
So we get one of the other solutions.
The world is facing a major economic turmoil.
Basic manufacturing labor is in 2 forms
1) local construction this is non-portable and while modernization gains have happened. It is still taking many man hours to make a house.
2) assembly (this is gadgets or cars) the finished good is portable modernization has applied the Ford factor and there is incredible pressure to reduce the man/hour cost.
a) finished goods are globally transportable, means manpower is used where manpower is lowest cost
b) mechanization is reducting the needed manpower for assembly, every year there is less for someone to do to assemble 100 of something
c) this somewhat applies to farming
The great industrial revolution provided jobs for lots of people to move from farming to manufacturing. We are now facing the reverse prospect where the mechinical revolution is displacing manufacturing jobs. There really are no replacement jobs, "tech" jobs require education and there are not really enough demand.
The post-industrial age is upon us. There really are not places for most of the people to work.
The black box is hard mounted to a solid part of the car. The black box and associated accelerometers stop hard.
A person in a seat, surround by air bags and wearing a seat belt does not stop nearly as hard.
Now if there had been no seat belt and no air bags .....
0 poke 32788+p,65; p=p+peek(151)*2-1; print tab(rnd()*37),"###"; if (peek(32788+p)==32) goto
((Not sure of exact syntax and rnd() operation, it fit in the character limit using the short forms of the commands.
p starts at zero of course. clear the screen. scroll to the bottom. RUN
An "A" is your space ship. Starts in the middle of the top of the screen. It moves left or right depending on if shift is pressed or not. Update of P based on shift detected with the peek.
A block "###" is put in a random location at the bottom of the screen and screen scrolled. so it looks like the "###" are appearing at the bottom and flying up.
The game ends if your A would hit a ###. Use the shift key to avoid them as they fly up from the bottom.
When the politicians admit
a) they don't understand the tech
b) are willing to take the positions of the media companies that donate to them
So the US is led by ludites who have sold their favor to the corporations. And this (the US) is the self descibed "leader of the free world".
Where is the power of the people in this process? Where is the representation of the taxed?
Where is the educated and informed action that is supposed to happen in a democracy?
Do we need more proof we are living in a corporatocracy ?
And all sides will fire off patent lawsuits over trivial features like form filling and email forming. The lawyers will get rich the market will be blocked and confused.
All hail patents the great pusher of innovation, NOT.
Steering wheel mounted spike pointed at drivers chest. The spike gets longer at faster speeds and with less spacing.
As a bonus it will encourage people to be thinner.
The problem is cars are to easy to drive and we keep making them easier. That means it demands less attention most of the time.
You have to love the new EULA Sony put in place.
http://legaldoc.dl.playstation.net/ps3-eula/psn/u/u_tosua_en.html
Class Action Waiver. .... ((sorry had to remove the text I pasted -- stupid slashdot filter says I am using to many caps. I copied the original text verbatim))
Global climate change will lead to sea level rises. This will displace people.
It is rising, sea graph at http://www.climate.org/topics/sea-level/index.html#sealevelrise
The US has 57,000 km^2 of land below 1.5m above sea level. Another 33,000km^2 of land between 1.5m and 3.5m. (Source epa.gov)
"Over 600 million people live in coastal areas that are less than 10 meters above sea level, and two-thirds of the world’s cities that have populations over five million are located in these at-risk areas (http://www.climate.org/topics/sea-level/index.html#sealevelrise) Low-lying coastal regions in developing countries such as Bangladesh, Vietnam, India, and China have especially large populations living in at-risk coastal areas such as deltas. "
"Shanghai, altitude roughly 3 meters (10 feet) above sea level, is among dozens of great world cities — including London, Miami, New York, New Orleans, Mumbai, Cairo, Amsterdam and Tokyo — threatened by sea levels that now are rising twice as fast as projected just a few years ago, expanding from warmth and meltwater."
Seems to me all the supercomputer models are predicting the disaster called global climate change is powered by human CO2 emissions. We have predicted it. It has a decided human cause against which we can take direct action. Over the next 50 years billions of people will be displaced. Trillions or more of infrastructure will be lost to rising oceans.
Are we doing anything? Seems to me the whole prediction thing is useless if we are unwilling to take action on the results.
Is it because the results are wrong or is it because it involves money in peoples pockets.
We can make the predictions, we need to remove the barriers to action.
No an american, so I am confused.
I thought the Republican doctrine was less government interference and all about letting the free market do things.
What is the party position for interfering in the labour market in this way? On what grounds is this within party policy?
Does the red get held on the cross street longer ?
That just makes the red-runners life a lot more safer and encourages the behavior.
Does it trigger the 5ton metal barrier at the stop line ?
That make sit safer for the cross street and discourages the behavior. But we don't have the 5ton barriers.
440 * sin(120) = 381.05 ....
3 phase has 2 ways of looking at the voltages, Y or delta.
The 3 phase delta is 440v when you measure between any pair of the 3 wires. The center point is ground. You don't see that in delta, but you do when measuring it in Y form. The same signals that are 440v when measured as a pair are 3 x 380v when looked at in the Y configuration.
So 3 phase 440v gives you 3x 380v to ground.
As to the 12v/5v/1.5v/ whatever you are going to have to do DC to DC all over the place. Better to have as high a voltage as possible for less current and less losses.
The small copters should be autonomous and stream media to wifi.
Get it to follow a reporter/protestor into a situation like a Occupy eviction.
My camera, its up there. The foottage of you punching me in the face, that's already on google.
With a good teacher there is no need for whiz bang fancy pants hook'em when their your graphics.
They need good teachers. Invest the money in training/sceening teachers properly. Cirriculum and all that other stuff is fluff from the people that want to sell text books and hardware.
so we should all go back to manual looms and employ millions.
Why were the radiation levels not a purchasing requirement? I would expect any radiation unit to have the exposure level very clearly identified.
Either specify that all units supplied must be under a maximum exposure (at all points in their operating life) set by the TSA or the supplier is liable.
Or the supplier can specify an exposure level when delivering the unit and the TSA can decide to accept or decline the purpose.
In either case the design limit should be easily available. And publishable as a start.
If the design limit is not available, then on what criteria where the purchases authorized and who authorized the purchases without strict exposure limits. Because it would just be sheer stupidity to operate like that. (Of couse I expect a governemnt agencey to be operating within the stupidity realm).
Yeah that really make sense.
"If you view this web page then you must send me $1M within 3 days as a viewing fee."
> CO2 outpaces worst-case scenarios yet the heat doesn't show up.
Heat lags CO2. Just like the middle of winter is not Dec 21 and the middle of summer is not June 21.
The earth is warming up a little more each year. Please learn a little before making wrong headed statements.
Adding heat to the oceans takes a long time. Think boiling water. Adding 1 or 2 degrees to the entire oceans takes an awful lot of energy accumulation. The heat we have added so far has just started to turn over the ocean currents.
What high school does not teach is a self work ethic. This leaves the student totally unprepared for college where they are not even punished for not showing up at class. Miss a class or two, skip doing the required reading and suddenly they are totally lost and way to far behind.
It is sink or swim in the sense of being self-responsible for attending class and doing the required out of class work.
University means 15 hours of classes and 30 hours of self motivated work a week. Most are not going to do that. Especially when you add in being away from home for the first time.
-- see this policy -- that is not preparation for university
http://oncampus.macleans.ca/education/2010/09/29/teaching-plagiarism/
"Under a new evaluation method for report cards, Saskatoon public high school students will no longer face penalties for handing assignments in late or trying to pass off someone else’s work as their own. The idea, according to the board, is to shift focus from behaviour to learning. “We’re trying to keep the emphasis on the learning, not on the penalty,” "