... is someone coming out of a restroom stall with a kindle or an iPad. Over the decades, I've seen plenty of people taking hard copies of books to the toilet.
It seems that the article's author leaps to the conclusion that a lack of engineers and scientists in politics is a bad thing for innovation.
That was one point he made. I agree with you that he's out to lunch on that.
He claims that the reason young people in the US don't pursue engineering careers is because engineering isn't respected. Ummmm, no. It's because the market works. There's little market demand for engineers today. We're not using the engineers we already have and don't need more. Engineering jobs have been offshored even faster than the manufacturing jobs which preceded them. No doubt the spectacle of their peers working their butts off in engineering school for 5+ years only to graduate to diminishing job prospects was probably enough to persuade many not to follow in their footsteps.
Next he proclaims the schools are broken, that we need to train more engineers and scientists, fund more research, etc.. No. That's what we've been doing all along and the jobs disappeared anyway.
Andy understands that scaling up innovation is what makes innovation matter and it's the scaling up that is not taking place in America anymore. Scaling up is my specialty. I don't much care for pure research. But if you want to make a million of 'em, I'm your man. All this business has been airmailed to China to make big bonuses for corporate CEOs. And now everyone wonders why we don't make things anymore.
I have news for Norm Augustine. Flogging ourselves about the schools is not going to bring those jobs back. Further, America is not losing it's edge in innovation. The edge he refers to disappeared almost 2 decades ago.
Indeed. Consider also that many 'sex offenders' are people who got drunk and peed in public. Some are even people who, while teens, sent pictures of themselves to their girlfriend or boyfriend.
This is the undifferentiated continuum of sex offenses. They get put on the same registry with guys who rape little kids. It has become commonplace that a guy with "child porn" on his computer gets a harsher sentence than a guy who actually does something to a real child.
The whole thing is a god damned racket. They won't stiffen the penalties because it's easier to obtain convictions as things stand. Instead, we continue this hysterical circle drawing bullshit so the slop can continue and others can make money off this sorry state of affairs.
Putting someone to death without failsafe, bullet proof evidence is wrong.
Convicting people of ANY crime without failsafe, bullet proof evidence is wrong. If wrongfully convicted people are being exonerated from death row, there's bound to be lots more wrongfully convicted persons languishing in prison for lesser offenses.
Most end up there due to prosecutorial abuses. Our justice system is rigged to produce convictions.
... he was arrested for demonstrating specific knowledge about something that appears to be a carefully-concealed easter egg. That suggests very strongly that he is in fact party to fraud.
Sure. He tried to beat these crooks at their own game but he was discovered. They don't want any competing crooks.
I suppose there are people who feel like they are being entertained when they patronize casinos but they are also supporting a racket. The gaming "industry" was mostly founded by the mob, then overrun by slightly less seedy corporate interests. But it still just scaled up grift.
Here's hoping they all die and bust hell wide open.
There ain't never been a free market. There ain't never gonna be a free market.
Power, water, sewer, transportation and communications will be monopolies. The question is whether they'll be regulated or not. If not, consumers will get reamed.
The arbitrary application of existing, irrelevant laws to cover actions which the powers that be find convenient to criminalize offers proof that the rule of law is dead, that people are afraid to speak and act against it, and that we now have rule by force.
Agreed.
It will take conscientious effort by a large part of the population to peacefully reverse this disturbing trend.
I don't know what sort of conscientious effort you're referring to. Historically, few tyrannies have been eliminated peacefully.
So if it's OK to use cameras to prevent store clerks from committing crimes (or document them), why is it not OK to use cameras to prevent police officers from committing crimes (or document them)?
Have you heard the Tea Partiers and Conservatives on this issue? They're braying about "government takeover" and calling net neutrality an assault on basic liberties.
Yeah and the same fools were braying about a "government takeover" of health care. It was actually a health care takeover of government.
In most areas, commercial real estate is going empty.
This is being driven by a desire to control employees. They want to huddle them close together so they are easier to watch and they tend to police each other.
FTA: "And this movement provides proprioceptive feedback that, over time, helps patients' brains rewire themselves, so that they are eventually able to carry out the motion on their own"
proprioceptive, ain't that an erection that last more than 4 hours... no wait, that's priapism...
If they're sick enough or they have sick kids, most people where I work stay home and work some from home. Otherwise, they come to the office sick and spread their germs. That way more people get sick.
Businesses used to give most workers paid sick leave. I suppose that's another disappearing benefit.
I'm sure there are those who would abuse it but this hooky detective stuff is nothing but intimidation.
Yep. The democrats sold out to corporate interests long ago. Obama shills for the big multinational corporations now because he knows he's toast in 2012. Working people have no real advocacy and our democracy is a sham.
"While U.S. deposits also exist in several states such as Idaho, Wyoming and Utah, they are still being explored and could take as many as 15 years before becoming fully operational, according the GAO report."
It's alot easier to get out of industries than it is to get in. I suspect this won't be the last industry we'll want to redevelop. It was foolish to get out of it in the first place. The same can be said for other industries.
Better ban talking to people in the car with you as well. and car radios. And thinking about things you plan to do that day.
Yes the bigger problem is distracted drivers. I've seen people reading paperback books, newspapers and stapled together papers at the wheel. I've seen people eating serious sandwiches, combing their hair, applying make-up and changing clothes. And of course there are people that daydream at the wheel. I saw one woman having a midlife crisis in a mid-sized Chrysler.
It's not practical to try to legislate away all the possible distractions. Instead, how about we charge the people who cause accidents and if they were distracted, note that. If someone demonstrates a pattern of distracted driving, take their license. They are every bit as dangerous as a drunk driver.
He better start loosening his ass up now so it hurts less when he hits the cell block.
I'm surprised the allusions to prison rape persist. It still happens, though not as common as it once was. In the 20 years since the Richard Speck scandal, most US prisons have instituted controls which have been effective at reducing sexual assault. This guy is more at risk of being stabbed. While sexual assaults have been reduced, stabbings are way up and it's hard for the staff to stop this. The prisoners are very clever at making shanks and hiding them so that regardless of their location, they can access one.
This man has violated one of the 10 commandments. He has borne false witness against his neighbor. If being stabbed with a shank is his fate, as my grandmother would say, it's good enough for him.
When I saw the subject line, the first thing that came to mind was a nuke plant accident in the US analogous to the Deepwater Horizon, creating our own version of the Red Forest.
"Fans buy tickets with a credit card and must then go to the venue with the same credit card and a photo ID to gain admittance."
"And no, it isn't reasonable to require everyone to show up 1 hour before the show just so they can get inside in time to see the opening act."
Yep. With paperless, they have to see your credit card and ID, which creates a bottleneck. After enough people have experiences like missing most of Dream Theatre, not to mention standing in unnecessarily long lines, concert attendance will decline.
I'm surprised they're doing something like this in the middle of the worst recession in my lifetime. I'd think they would be trying to make the concert experience more appealing. Instead, they're doing things that will aggravate people and discourage attendance.
This is like shutting the barn door after the horse has run off. Where the hell has Andy Grove been for the past quarter century? He liked "free trade" while he was doing well. Now he doesn't think so much of it. Newsflash Andy: the damage is done. Most of the electronic industry was airmailed to China in the 90s. Plants were shuttered, supply chains dismantled and expertise scattered.
The "chain of experience" is a dim memory. Most who knew how to manufacture electronics are nearing retirement age. Well into my 50s, I'm probably one of the youngest engineers you'll find who has significant transformer design experience.
Semiconductor foundries like TI, Harris and other began offshoring their operations 4 years ago. Now suddenly Andy Grove is looking around and finding he has few competitors still in the US. He's not finding as many new engineering grads to staff his operation with. He has extrapolated this trend to it's logical conclusion and doesn't like what he sees. Well, Andy, I came to that conclusion 20 years ago. I was shouted down by the likes of you and other libertarian fools.
Take a good, long look at Detroit. That is what's in store for all of the United States.
I'm a musician, one of the people ASCAP claims to be helping. I don't feel helped. ASCAP and BMI shakedown establishments who hire live music. Either they pay this extortion or no cover tunes can be played there. If you post your rendition of a cover tune online to promote your fledgling local band, you may be sued or extorted. Sure makes it more difficult to get a band off the ground.
I despise these sons of bitches and I'm sure I'm not alone. I also think ASCAP and BMI people are aware that their policies and activities make them unpopular. I've never seen or heard anyone who identifies themselves with ASCAP. I understand why.
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... is someone coming out of a restroom stall with a kindle or an iPad. Over the decades, I've seen plenty of people taking hard copies of books to the toilet.
just like how other appointments in his administration turned out to be.
He just named GE CEO Immelt to a rather important post. The foxes are guarding the hen house.
It seems that the article's author leaps to the conclusion that a lack of engineers and scientists in politics is a bad thing for innovation.
That was one point he made. I agree with you that he's out to lunch on that.
He claims that the reason young people in the US don't pursue engineering careers is because engineering isn't respected. Ummmm, no. It's because the market works. There's little market demand for engineers today. We're not using the engineers we already have and don't need more. Engineering jobs have been offshored even faster than the manufacturing jobs which preceded them. No doubt the spectacle of their peers working their butts off in engineering school for 5+ years only to graduate to diminishing job prospects was probably enough to persuade many not to follow in their footsteps.
Next he proclaims the schools are broken, that we need to train more engineers and scientists, fund more research, etc.. No. That's what we've been doing all along and the jobs disappeared anyway.
Former Intel Andy Grove has a much better understanding of our situation. How to Make an American Job Before It's Too Late: Andy Grove
Andy understands that scaling up innovation is what makes innovation matter and it's the scaling up that is not taking place in America anymore. Scaling up is my specialty. I don't much care for pure research. But if you want to make a million of 'em, I'm your man. All this business has been airmailed to China to make big bonuses for corporate CEOs. And now everyone wonders why we don't make things anymore.
I have news for Norm Augustine. Flogging ourselves about the schools is not going to bring those jobs back. Further, America is not losing it's edge in innovation. The edge he refers to disappeared almost 2 decades ago.
The Gibson guitar plant used to be there. There was also a company that made band saws for cutting metal parts.
Indeed. Consider also that many 'sex offenders' are people who got drunk and peed in public. Some are even people who, while teens, sent pictures of themselves to their girlfriend or boyfriend.
This is the undifferentiated continuum of sex offenses. They get put on the same registry with guys who rape little kids. It has become commonplace that a guy with "child porn" on his computer gets a harsher sentence than a guy who actually does something to a real child.
The whole thing is a god damned racket. They won't stiffen the penalties because it's easier to obtain convictions as things stand. Instead, we continue this hysterical circle drawing bullshit so the slop can continue and others can make money off this sorry state of affairs.
Putting someone to death without failsafe, bullet proof evidence is wrong.
Convicting people of ANY crime without failsafe, bullet proof evidence is wrong. If wrongfully convicted people are being exonerated from death row, there's bound to be lots more wrongfully convicted persons languishing in prison for lesser offenses.
Most end up there due to prosecutorial abuses. Our justice system is rigged to produce convictions.
Sure. He tried to beat these crooks at their own game but he was discovered. They don't want any competing crooks.
I suppose there are people who feel like they are being entertained when they patronize casinos but they are also supporting a racket. The gaming "industry" was mostly founded by the mob, then overrun by slightly less seedy corporate interests. But it still just scaled up grift.
Here's hoping they all die and bust hell wide open.
There ain't never been a free market. There ain't never gonna be a free market.
Power, water, sewer, transportation and communications will be monopolies. The question is whether they'll be regulated or not. If not, consumers will get reamed.
The arbitrary application of existing, irrelevant laws to cover actions which the powers that be find convenient to criminalize offers proof that the rule of law is dead, that people are afraid to speak and act against it, and that we now have rule by force.
Agreed.
It will take conscientious effort by a large part of the population to peacefully reverse this disturbing trend.
I don't know what sort of conscientious effort you're referring to. Historically, few tyrannies have been eliminated peacefully.
So if it's OK to use cameras to prevent store clerks from committing crimes (or document them), why is it not OK to use cameras to prevent police officers from committing crimes (or document them)?
Because the USA has become a police state.
Have you heard the Tea Partiers and Conservatives on this issue? They're braying about "government takeover" and calling net neutrality an assault on basic liberties.
Yeah and the same fools were braying about a "government takeover" of health care. It was actually a health care takeover of government.
In most areas, commercial real estate is going empty.
This is being driven by a desire to control employees. They want to huddle them close together so they are easier to watch and they tend to police each other.
FTA: "And this movement provides proprioceptive feedback that, over time, helps patients' brains rewire themselves, so that they are eventually able to carry out the motion on their own"
proprioceptive, ain't that an erection that last more than 4 hours ... no wait, that's priapism ...
If they're sick enough or they have sick kids, most people where I work stay home and work some from home. Otherwise, they come to the office sick and spread their germs. That way more people get sick.
Businesses used to give most workers paid sick leave. I suppose that's another disappearing benefit.
I'm sure there are those who would abuse it but this hooky detective stuff is nothing but intimidation.
Yep. The democrats sold out to corporate interests long ago. Obama shills for the big multinational corporations now because he knows he's toast in 2012. Working people have no real advocacy and our democracy is a sham.
As my wife says, "calculus has not changed much in the last 6 years, but my textbook has gone through 3 revisions in that time!"
Uhhhh, Calculus has not changed much in the last 6 decades. Neither have a number of other subjects.
Molycorp is restarting the rare earths mine in the U.S. but the industry to process the ore will take 15 years to redevelop.
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-07-28/molycorp-s-ipo-aims-at-chinese-grip-on-smart-bombs.html
"While U.S. deposits also exist in several states such as Idaho, Wyoming and Utah, they are still being explored and could take as many as 15 years before becoming fully operational, according the GAO report."
It's alot easier to get out of industries than it is to get in. I suspect this won't be the last industry we'll want to redevelop. It was foolish to get out of it in the first place. The same can be said for other industries.
Better ban talking to people in the car with you as well.
and car radios.
And thinking about things you plan to do that day.
Yes the bigger problem is distracted drivers. I've seen people reading paperback books, newspapers and stapled together papers at the wheel. I've seen people eating serious sandwiches, combing their hair, applying make-up and changing clothes. And of course there are people that daydream at the wheel. I saw one woman having a midlife crisis in a mid-sized Chrysler.
It's not practical to try to legislate away all the possible distractions. Instead, how about we charge the people who cause accidents and if they were distracted, note that. If someone demonstrates a pattern of distracted driving, take their license. They are every bit as dangerous as a drunk driver.
More bars in more places ...
He better start loosening his ass up now so it hurts less when he hits the cell block.
I'm surprised the allusions to prison rape persist. It still happens, though not as common as it once was. In the 20 years since the Richard Speck scandal, most US prisons have instituted controls which have been effective at reducing sexual assault. This guy is more at risk of being stabbed. While sexual assaults have been reduced, stabbings are way up and it's hard for the staff to stop this. The prisoners are very clever at making shanks and hiding them so that regardless of their location, they can access one.
This man has violated one of the 10 commandments. He has borne false witness against his neighbor. If being stabbed with a shank is his fate, as my grandmother would say, it's good enough for him.
When I saw the subject line, the first thing that came to mind was a nuke plant accident in the US analogous to the Deepwater Horizon, creating our own version of the Red Forest.
"Fans buy tickets with a credit card and must then go to the venue with the same credit card and a photo ID to gain admittance."
"And no, it isn't reasonable to require everyone to show up 1 hour before the show just so they can get inside in time to see the opening act."
Yep. With paperless, they have to see your credit card and ID, which creates a bottleneck. After enough people have experiences like missing most of Dream Theatre, not to mention standing in unnecessarily long lines, concert attendance will decline.
I'm surprised they're doing something like this in the middle of the worst recession in my lifetime. I'd think they would be trying to make the concert experience more appealing. Instead, they're doing things that will aggravate people and discourage attendance.
This is like shutting the barn door after the horse has run off. Where the hell has Andy Grove been for the past quarter century? He liked "free trade" while he was doing well. Now he doesn't think so much of it. Newsflash Andy: the damage is done. Most of the electronic industry was airmailed to China in the 90s. Plants were shuttered, supply chains dismantled and expertise scattered.
The "chain of experience" is a dim memory. Most who knew how to manufacture electronics are nearing retirement age. Well into my 50s, I'm probably one of the youngest engineers you'll find who has significant transformer design experience.
Semiconductor foundries like TI, Harris and other began offshoring their operations 4 years ago. Now suddenly Andy Grove is looking around and finding he has few competitors still in the US. He's not finding as many new engineering grads to staff his operation with. He has extrapolated this trend to it's logical conclusion and doesn't like what he sees. Well, Andy, I came to that conclusion 20 years ago. I was shouted down by the likes of you and other libertarian fools.
Take a good, long look at Detroit. That is what's in store for all of the United States.
I'm a musician, one of the people ASCAP claims to be helping. I don't feel helped. ASCAP and BMI shakedown establishments who hire live music. Either they pay this extortion or no cover tunes can be played there. If you post your rendition of a cover tune online to promote your fledgling local band, you may be sued or extorted. Sure makes it more difficult to get a band off the ground.
I despise these sons of bitches and I'm sure I'm not alone. I also think ASCAP and BMI people are aware that their policies and activities make them unpopular. I've never seen or heard anyone who identifies themselves with ASCAP. I understand why.