I would argue that a billionaire wanting to sink money into this when the technology isn't there yet, should be taxed higher so that the money can be directed towards more urgent things
Unfortunately the example from the summary are not fair use cases, more like original producers vs hangers on. The content publishers are using bot's without checking the results. They need to have some guy checking the flags and using sanity testing to verify if the flag is correct. I mean come on, NASA vs some newspaper in Cincinnati, who in the fuck is more likely to have produced footage from the curiosity rover on Mars. Or DNC coverage, who has the copyright, the DNC or a news organization rebroadcasting what the DNC made? Some types of people accept what a program says as the gospel truth, which leads to fuckups like the content flagging and Knight Capital. Computers are tools, not overlords as someone else said.
Apparently ScienceDebate.org partnered with Scientific American Magazine to ask the questions. SA's page can be found here
Hopefully their servers can hold up better under the strain.
Ummm... Small point, but 2-propanol IS isopropyl alcohol. So, no billion dollars to make the switch
And therein lies the joke, I ( a non chemistry buff) can quickly Google 2-propanol and see that they are one in the same, yet a normal automated HR screening process will kick one and accept the other. Kinda sad when you have a human resources check list without humans in it hey?
Now imagine the lowest two of your ten people team just left. Who would you want as replacement? Certainly not anybody who is better than you at their job.
Spot on, and what makes it even better is the ramp up time for the 2 new and less skilled hires ensures that they will be mediocre in comparison to the established team. Therefor earning them low marks in the next review and booting them out the door taking their years salary and training overhead with them. Looking at it's logical conclusion there would be a high turnover rate in the team under this stack ranking system leaving that money to walk out the door with no return on investment and maybe a bad rep from the recently fired.
Of course, that is specifically prohibited by the Third Amendment.
By gosh you're right, quick someone call the cops that weren't hired because not one paid taxes. Then we can argue the case in front of a judge that wasn't hired cause no one paid taxes. We can hold the trial in the field where a courthouse wasn't built because no one paid taxes (maybe the squirrels will find them guilty). Then we can sentence them to a prison that wasn't built cause no one paid taxes.
(not directed at you fahrbot-bot just all the people that think no taxes are a good thing)
Just recently there was a bill before congress to eliminate overtime for IT employees. Nobody else, just IT employees.
The bill being referred to by the parent was the CPU act (cute acronym).
The status is here. Thankfully it seems kinda stalled but three more cosponsors signed on since it was first read on Oct 20, 2011.
If Fox News' Derp-O-Sphere can label patent trolls as terrorists and inform the pitchfork and shotgun base.... that *might* actually be helpful.
That would be nice as patent trolls care little for political affiliation and will happily shake down a republican as well as a democrat. But alas the comment section for this story on Foxnews is mostly filled with complaints about Fark, not the lesson from the story itself. People seem content to hate each other for their political leanings, and won't realize some issues transcend politics and need cooperation to root out.
Oh yeah, it is. But I was just taking the title from the original article. They most likely used "mistake" because there have not been any cases filed yet and they don't want to get hit with a suit for libel. Kinda like how most news articles about criminal trials refer to the defendant as allegedly committing a crime up until they are convicted. The news story stinks to high heaven of fraud and negligence but until the story gets told in a courtroom the press kinda has to use neutral terms like mistake and such.
Over the years, I seem to have trained my brain to seek out patterns in everything I encounter. This makes sleeping rough as any back ground noise resembling human speech causes me to become fully alert as my brain tries to make sense of what it heard. Only solution to this I've found is a good white noise generator that operates on the same frequency patterns as speech.
I had that problem too, best thing i've found is to just get a small fan. Loud enough to drown out most background noise like conversations and walking yet not loud enough to keep you awake.
This is probably very British of me but my immediate internal response to this was "150 year old castles? Leeds has a shopping centre that's over 100 years old!"
The difference between America and England is, the Americans think 100 years is a long time and the English think 100
miles (160.93 Km) is a long distance.
Not sure who originally said it but it seemed relevent.
Presumably his point was that he wanted to build factories in the US, but regulations and unnecessary costs prevented him.
Yeah, regulations like sane labor laws and costs such as a livable wage. Source. I'm sorry but if apples vision of a ideal work force is one where they can stack employees 8-10 to a room in on site dormitories, roust 8000 of them in the middle of a night and pay them $1.41 an hour, then they can keep that vision. There may be some areas where US manufacturing can improve, but laws forcing companies to treat their employees as human beings is not one of them.
Were it not illegal, someone would have already started a new airline to offer just that, ball groping free travel and would be selling more tickets than all the other airlines combined.
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Posting while drinking makes you forget ending tags. *facepalm* Well, at least the link still works.
I would argue that a billionaire wanting to sink money into this when the technology isn't there yet, should be taxed higher so that the money can be directed towards more urgent things
So you want to tax a man higher for actually putting his money where his mouth is and pushing humanity forward? Versus the other members of the 1% that are just sitting on their money in FDIC insured accounts? At least he's putting skin in the game. I argue conversely that those who sit and do nothing should be taxed at a higher rate. Force them to put their money into ideas and plans, rather then cower under the skirt of the government they hate so much.
Unfortunately the example from the summary are not fair use cases, more like original producers vs hangers on. The content publishers are using bot's without checking the results. They need to have some guy checking the flags and using sanity testing to verify if the flag is correct. I mean come on, NASA vs some newspaper in Cincinnati, who in the fuck is more likely to have produced footage from the curiosity rover on Mars. Or DNC coverage, who has the copyright, the DNC or a news organization rebroadcasting what the DNC made? Some types of people accept what a program says as the gospel truth, which leads to fuckups like the content flagging and Knight Capital. Computers are tools, not overlords as someone else said.
some shirt who would not know fun if it was beaten in to him with a rusty pipe.
I smell another blockbuster idea here. Beat the Shirt!
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To make matters worse, their last gamble on a designer-led Maxis game, Spore, didn't turn out to be very profitable.
To be fair if they had taken the more obvious lessons from that failure Madden 10 would have been a very unique departure from the previous games.
Apparently ScienceDebate.org partnered with Scientific American Magazine to ask the questions. SA's page can be found here Hopefully their servers can hold up better under the strain.
Ummm... Small point, but 2-propanol IS isopropyl alcohol. So, no billion dollars to make the switch
And therein lies the joke, I ( a non chemistry buff) can quickly Google 2-propanol and see that they are one in the same, yet a normal automated HR screening process will kick one and accept the other. Kinda sad when you have a human resources check list without humans in it hey?
Remember back in the days that Windows didn't have basic operating system features like memory protection and used to crash thrice daily?
Remember back in the days where using the latest version of IE would assure you that nothing but the most quirky IE only pages would render correctly?
Remember back in the days where Apple had a usable GUI for half a decade and MS users were stuck on a really shitty command line?
Pepperidge Farm remembers
Now imagine the lowest two of your ten people team just left. Who would you want as replacement? Certainly not anybody who is better than you at their job.
Spot on, and what makes it even better is the ramp up time for the 2 new and less skilled hires ensures that they will be mediocre in comparison to the established team. Therefor earning them low marks in the next review and booting them out the door taking their years salary and training overhead with them. Looking at it's logical conclusion there would be a high turnover rate in the team under this stack ranking system leaving that money to walk out the door with no return on investment and maybe a bad rep from the recently fired.
Of course, that is specifically prohibited by the Third Amendment.
By gosh you're right, quick someone call the cops that weren't hired because not one paid taxes.
Then we can argue the case in front of a judge that wasn't hired cause no one paid taxes.
We can hold the trial in the field where a courthouse wasn't built because no one paid taxes (maybe the squirrels will find them guilty).
Then we can sentence them to a prison that wasn't built cause no one paid taxes.
(not directed at you fahrbot-bot just all the people that think no taxes are a good thing)
They could quote Total Recall line for line, played Red Faction religiously and listened to 30 Seconds to Mars a lot?
They tried it with Omaha, but that city's Chamber of Commerce is not one to be trifled with.
All the cool kids use Ruby.
there are very few businesses where how long somebody is has anything to do with their job performance.
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Just recently there was a bill before congress to eliminate overtime for IT employees. Nobody else, just IT employees.
The bill being referred to by the parent was the CPU act (cute acronym). The status is here. Thankfully it seems kinda stalled but three more cosponsors signed on since it was first read on Oct 20, 2011.
If Fox News' Derp-O-Sphere can label patent trolls as terrorists and inform the pitchfork and shotgun base.... that *might* actually be helpful.
That would be nice as patent trolls care little for political affiliation and will happily shake down a republican as well as a democrat. But alas the comment section for this story on Foxnews is mostly filled with complaints about Fark, not the lesson from the story itself. People seem content to hate each other for their political leanings, and won't realize some issues transcend politics and need cooperation to root out.
like this one? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1yRMY7g6iE&feature=g-hist&context=G2afe3d3AHT2vXZwBNAA
Oh yeah, it is. But I was just taking the title from the original article. They most likely used "mistake" because there have not been any cases filed yet and they don't want to get hit with a suit for libel. Kinda like how most news articles about criminal trials refer to the defendant as allegedly committing a crime up until they are convicted. The news story stinks to high heaven of fraud and negligence but until the story gets told in a courtroom the press kinda has to use neutral terms like mistake and such.
Over the years, I seem to have trained my brain to seek out patterns in everything I encounter. This makes sleeping rough as any back ground noise resembling human speech causes me to become fully alert as my brain tries to make sense of what it heard. Only solution to this I've found is a good white noise generator that operates on the same frequency patterns as speech.
I had that problem too, best thing i've found is to just get a small fan. Loud enough to drown out most background noise like conversations and walking yet not loud enough to keep you awake.
This is probably very British of me but my immediate internal response to this was "150 year old castles? Leeds has a shopping centre that's over 100 years old!"
The difference between America and England is, the Americans think 100 years is a long time and the English think 100 miles (160.93 Km) is a long distance.
Not sure who originally said it but it seemed relevent.
And weapons, we in the US loves us some guns. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arms_industry#World.27s_largest_arms_exporters
What the AC said, Khan baby, Khan
http://www.khanacademy.org/
Presumably his point was that he wanted to build factories in the US, but regulations and unnecessary costs prevented him.
Yeah, regulations like sane labor laws and costs such as a livable wage. Source. I'm sorry but if apples vision of a ideal work force is one where they can stack employees 8-10 to a room in on site dormitories, roust 8000 of them in the middle of a night and pay them $1.41 an hour, then they can keep that vision. There may be some areas where US manufacturing can improve, but laws forcing companies to treat their employees as human beings is not one of them.
Were it not illegal, someone would have already started a new airline to offer just that, ball groping free travel and would be selling more tickets than all the other airlines combined.
I like this guys idea: http://www.cracked.com/blog/if-awesome-lunatics-ran-airlines/
Minnesota, one of the smaller US states.
We're not small! It's just really cold up here and we just got out of the pool.