The point is you don't want to turn it off, or even lock it, because it's quite possibly monitoring something important, or at the very least has data up on screen you want to keep visible.. However the keyboard is covered in blood and you need to clean it off.
For the life of me I can't imagine why people are acting like this is some crazy requirement, it's literally just a switch that turns off the user inputs.
If ridesharing congests cities, then the profit per ride will decrease, and the cost to consumers per mile will go up. If it rises high enough, then people will go back to mass transit options, provided they have the ability to circumvent traffic. Really, all this is doing is producing a new equilibrium point, one that makes driving more cumbersome for car owners and delivery drivers (Who, I might add are also a growing part of the problem. Constant small deliveries have generated a lot of extra traffic.)
You seem to have all the pieces, so I'm not sure why you aren't putting this together. A "Diversity Officer" is a compliance officer, similar to a safety officer or a similar position. They are there to:
A. Make sure relevant laws and rules are followed
B. Oversee education to help employees understand the importance of following the rules
C. Demonstrate a good faith effort on the part of the company when the rules are inevitably broken
The only difference is that public opinion is far more relevant than it would be in an industrial safety situation. They need a level of seniority to accomplish goals A and C specifically, if they were a peon nobody would listen to them and they wouldn't be a satisfactory example/sacrifice to regulators or the public at large when something happened that needed accounting for.
Maybe because your inherent conflict of interest in the game's success would be make your review suspect, and doubly so if it was revealed that you didn't disclose it.
You wouldn't happen to be the aforementioned manager, by any chance?
You're right. Steam should continue to let this company use its storefront to defraud users lest it hurt those who were already defrauded. This is impeccable logic.
I remember reading a sci fi story where the aliens were doing just that, holding a star in a weird excited state. After tens of thousands of years, maybe more, of doing that without getting any response, they gave up. Humanity just assumed it was the result of natural phenomena. Meanwhile, birds on earth had evolved to use the output of the star in their navigation sense, and many were confused and lost when it ended.
oddly, just a few years ago no one said things like "Obama illegally blocked tax-exempt applications by conservative groups" or "Obama illegally encouraged/facilitated running guns into Mexico in a program called "Fast n' Furious"" and so on
I really can't believe you are serious with this quote.Obama or the Obama administration was blamed for literally anything that happened. They very specifically blamed him for the two things you just mentioned. It was ludicrous in many cases - I remember Obama being blamed when his daughter's school served sushi on the anniversary of Pearl Harbor, as if he had personally set the menu.
While it's hyperbole to look at a 4% budget reduction and assume that a service will fail, it it ludicrous to look at a 4% reduction and assume that it will improve. Since I would assume we would want our weather forecasting to improve, cuts don't seem to be a solution. As for "legacy" employees, if there's one lesson to be learned from any business that engages in repeated rounds of staff cuts, it's that the people who tend to remain do so due to their skill in office politics, rather than their usefulness.
Musk wanted the farthest he could get, to show capability. If he could get out of the solar system he would have. Not to mention Mars is not really a commercial destination, but there has been a lot of interest recently in asteroids as a source of minerals. He's just shown the world he can get there with car-sized equipment for $90m.
So the 2-3 billion a year operational cost keeps being thrown around, why is that so high? Is it due to the number of support launches, and if so, wouldn't having cheap heavy lift capability (like the Falcon Heavy) make it much cheaper to maintain?
It seems to me if nothing else the solar modules and frame would be useful for something, since they are already in orbit.
They aren't "wasting a launch", they are testing a rocket. You don't send up a useful payload in a test launch, because it might fail, and useful payloads cost orders of magnitudes more than a $50K used car. Not only that, useful payloads have specific launch requirements, not just "up" or whatever gets you the best launch test data.
i.e. this is just a very minor publicity stunt, there are more important things to get angry about.
Well, he's not following the directions, so he should get points docked. If it's so easy he should be able to write down the corresponding steps without too much trouble. If they are teaching a method he doesn't like, he should learn it anyway. If he wants to write the steps of his own, allegedly superior, method down also for comparison I imagine he would be free to do so.
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If this is real, I think it might be my favorite technological development of the year.
This is spot on.
The point is you don't want to turn it off, or even lock it, because it's quite possibly monitoring something important, or at the very least has data up on screen you want to keep visible.. However the keyboard is covered in blood and you need to clean it off.
For the life of me I can't imagine why people are acting like this is some crazy requirement, it's literally just a switch that turns off the user inputs.
I think the downward trend he's talking about is just the phasing out of legacy devices and bulbs, at which point you hit a new equilibrium.
Don' let me leave Murph!!!
That is pretty impressive, with this they can they finally get the efficiency benefits of a "clean" rotor.
If ridesharing congests cities, then the profit per ride will decrease, and the cost to consumers per mile will go up. If it rises high enough, then people will go back to mass transit options, provided they have the ability to circumvent traffic. Really, all this is doing is producing a new equilibrium point, one that makes driving more cumbersome for car owners and delivery drivers (Who, I might add are also a growing part of the problem. Constant small deliveries have generated a lot of extra traffic.)
i wonder if Apple is offering some special technical support to get people to do these kinds of things. If they're not, they really should.
Apparently, the Free State Project has also eliminated paragraphs.
You seem to have all the pieces, so I'm not sure why you aren't putting this together. A "Diversity Officer" is a compliance officer, similar to a safety officer or a similar position. They are there to:
The only difference is that public opinion is far more relevant than it would be in an industrial safety situation. They need a level of seniority to accomplish goals A and C specifically, if they were a peon nobody would listen to them and they wouldn't be a satisfactory example/sacrifice to regulators or the public at large when something happened that needed accounting for.
Mr. President, we must not allow a diversity gap!
Maybe because your inherent conflict of interest in the game's success would be make your review suspect, and doubly so if it was revealed that you didn't disclose it.
You wouldn't happen to be the aforementioned manager, by any chance?
You're right. Steam should continue to let this company use its storefront to defraud users lest it hurt those who were already defrauded. This is impeccable logic.
I remember reading a sci fi story where the aliens were doing just that, holding a star in a weird excited state. After tens of thousands of years, maybe more, of doing that without getting any response, they gave up. Humanity just assumed it was the result of natural phenomena. Meanwhile, birds on earth had evolved to use the output of the star in their navigation sense, and many were confused and lost when it ended.
I really can't believe you are serious with this quote.Obama or the Obama administration was blamed for literally anything that happened. They very specifically blamed him for the two things you just mentioned. It was ludicrous in many cases - I remember Obama being blamed when his daughter's school served sushi on the anniversary of Pearl Harbor, as if he had personally set the menu.
While it's hyperbole to look at a 4% budget reduction and assume that a service will fail, it it ludicrous to look at a 4% reduction and assume that it will improve. Since I would assume we would want our weather forecasting to improve, cuts don't seem to be a solution. As for "legacy" employees, if there's one lesson to be learned from any business that engages in repeated rounds of staff cuts, it's that the people who tend to remain do so due to their skill in office politics, rather than their usefulness.
Musk wanted the farthest he could get, to show capability. If he could get out of the solar system he would have. Not to mention Mars is not really a commercial destination, but there has been a lot of interest recently in asteroids as a source of minerals. He's just shown the world he can get there with car-sized equipment for $90m.
...and it involves actual tests? I'm pretty shocked.
So the 2-3 billion a year operational cost keeps being thrown around, why is that so high? Is it due to the number of support launches, and if so, wouldn't having cheap heavy lift capability (like the Falcon Heavy) make it much cheaper to maintain?
It seems to me if nothing else the solar modules and frame would be useful for something, since they are already in orbit.
Since everyone is screaming at each other below this post, I'll leave this here. List of common building materials with their energy embodied in production
Mrs. Frizzle, is that you?
They aren't "wasting a launch", they are testing a rocket. You don't send up a useful payload in a test launch, because it might fail, and useful payloads cost orders of magnitudes more than a $50K used car. Not only that, useful payloads have specific launch requirements, not just "up" or whatever gets you the best launch test data.
i.e. this is just a very minor publicity stunt, there are more important things to get angry about.
This is fascinating, but I don't believe any of it.
Well, he's not following the directions, so he should get points docked. If it's so easy he should be able to write down the corresponding steps without too much trouble. If they are teaching a method he doesn't like, he should learn it anyway. If he wants to write the steps of his own, allegedly superior, method down also for comparison I imagine he would be free to do so.
To be fair, he has been here since the beginning.