They're pretty vexatious people and I think these people are complaining that technology work, i.e. thinking, is hard work and they don't enjoy the social stigma of being a computer nerd to do it.
My instinct is starting to tell me this whole thing is a ploy to drive down tech salaries. They tried to pitch young against old and now they are trying to pitch man against women. Those vocal enough to create professional outrage are easily manipulated, just prompt them with a narrative and then point them towards the people you want to troll.
Someone who thinks that they should get something for free just because they have the "right" gender, race, sexual preference or place of birth.
You mean those with a sense of entitlement because they seem to want to take what someone else earned and feel that they deserve it too?. Unfortunately I've never got much for free, I worked my arse off to get everything I've got.
The thing that really bothers me though is the complete lack of any gratitude for the role men have played in society. Most of us here work in tech, for which I am grateful for the opportunities I've had, however what I don't see women fighting for the right to work in the high risk or disgusting jobs like HF riggers, sewers workers, underground miners, builders or the dozens of other shitty jobs that men *have* to do. What about female loggers or fisherwomen (which doesn't even spell check).
They aren't they fighting to take on the roles that have high rates of fatalities in men or even acknowledge that men have high rates of suicide just that men got into this work because we have a dick, not because we endured years of social isolation, belittlement, exclusion, isolation, study and hard work to do the kind of thing that is interesting and brings some meaning to working. I welcome any female that is prepared to do that and become my peer, she will have earned my respect.
I see no reason why some currently unknown discovery would make an arrogant premise like this any more than a belief system - we know everything now, no need to strive or explore. The Human species has been artificially limited simply as a process of the economic systems we have in place before discussing any of the many flow on effects from that.
Nutrition itself is a massive factor and considering whether athletes have reached peak human performance has little to do with maximum functional longevity for people who have different objectives. The lessons I have *personally* learned from a lifetime of fitness training and martial arts has left me with so many questions about unexplored areas of human potential that tell me that we still have so much to learn and that this article is just wrong.
One such lesson was how do I address the accumulated injury that I carry in my body? So roughly three years ago I started a process of extreme physical therapy to resolve accumulated scar tissue throughout my body. In that time I have resolved 28 physical injuries, I have had joints and bones in my body become jelly like and reform stronger and more flexible than they were before. At this very moment my right elbow is reforming and has maintained a constant temperature of 33C for the last two months as it gradually improves, an extremely painful process, however one that has obliterated scarred muscles and the painful knots associated with it.
This has destroyed many stressors in my life, I sleep better, my body functions better and I am more relaxed. I documented the process and collected data because I was trying to understand it however I had no idea of the profound impact this would have on my well being. Fingers, wrists, elbows shoulders, neck, ribcage, toes, ankles knees hips and even my spine have all been radically repaired and improved, many minor aliments I suffered just disappeared. I have less aches and pains now than I did 30 years ago and I don't groan when I get up or move.
So if I can can uncover that process myself I think that people dedicated to improving human health and performance can uncover a lot more in the years to come.
Because men like that say I know what I'm doing. They think they know everything.
This is not about men and women, it's about the self entitled brat that my wife would call a stupid bitch because even when she was told not to look into the sun, she did. Doesn't mean all women, doesn't mean there isn't a male version. Interesting how some people project their insecurities into what they read and try to find a reason to be offended by the simplest explanation about what happened.
Doctors in New York say a woman in her 20s came in three days after looking at the Aug. 21 eclipse without protective glasses. She had peeked several times, for about six seconds, when the sun was only partially covered by the moon.
Why do people do this?
Because women like that generally say Don't tell me what to do. I think they think it's something to do with the patriarchy.
My point is that while I don't doubt the fossil-fuel industries great lobbying power, I do doubt that they would have so easily prevailed had it not been for the negative public opinion of Nuclear power.
They are two separate forces. Public opinion is a nice cover for the machinations of the oil industry. When was the last time you wrote a letter to a politician. Public opinion is a storm to be weathered however it has very little influence over Nuclear Policy compared to the oil/coal industry. It's also in the oil/coal industries interest to deflect blame onto their opponents.
Because of Chernobyl, Three mile Island, Fukushima, and arguably the worst blow to the image of Nuclear power; The fictional movie "The China Syndrome," there is little public support for Nuclear power despite the threat of Global climate change.
Perhaps people are starting to see the threat of radionuclides as a long term threat to the human genome that is at least as significant as global warming.
Germany is shutting down all of its plants, China has frozen new plant approvals and even in France, once the showcase for the industry, nuclear power generation is set to drop to 50 percent by 2025
Perhaps they are beginning to see the economics and (lack of) energy return of nuclear power isn't worth it for the risk they present. Only people who don't really understand Nuclear Power support it anymore. I think people are beginning to understand the complexities of Nuclear Power and what they should be afraid of.
Oil, Coal and Nuclear are the axis of energy evil.
Now that we've clarified that, could you possibly link to some GOOD examples of oil industry patents which have kept other energy production methods from competing?
Apart from not knowing what your subjective definition of GOOD is, you are missing the point. The patents aren't the relevant point, the enacted law is. The oil industry did that to the Nuclear Industry, fait accompli. At issue is the methods oil and coal use maintaining their hegemony.
Care to explain why they haven't bother with Fast Neutron Nuclear Reactor's.
They did bother, it didn't reach its design objectives. Nuclear supporters would argue that ti was closed down because of protests and a rocket attack, however the reality was that the sodium cooling system was always going to be subject to leaks and the ingress of air. I'd be more inclined to think that Switzerland asked France to be a good neighbour and please don't put several thousands of tons of radioactive, highly explosive sodium near our border please.
Could it be that it is not the silver bullet you make it to be?
It most certainly isn't. Even IFR needs significant advancements in materials technology to be viable in the long terms. Additionally it would be much better if it was cooled with lead as opposed to sodium.
The point I am making is that there is much gnashing of teeth by supporters of Nuclear power that greenies and Nimbys are responsible for the woes of the nuclear industry and that Fast breeders reactors, that they confuse with fast burner reactors and re-processing technology would solve everything if only we developed and deployed them.
Well an appropriate technology was developed, and it answered a lot of the objections to nuclear power, but the oil industry crushed it with lobbying efforts.
Are you seriously suggesting that the oil industry only has three patents? Do you seriously think that I am capable of listing all of the oil industries patents in a few minutes?
Please consider what you are thinking and saying before you post. It's easy to construct a strawman and then burn it.
read, then re-read, then re-re-read the sentence of mine that you quoted. I said they could export these reactors i.e. the technology, the design. They use their own damn weapons grade materials for fuel.
The oil and coal industry hold significant patents on the devices that make competing energy systems viable.
Interesting. Do you have some of these patent numbers ?
Sure, US4009052,US3791867, US3972759, though I think it will be easier for you to start working your way through the Energy act I posted and you'll get an idea how the oil industry works.
IIRC around sec 625 is where the funding is allocated to destroy the only demonstrated viable functioning prototype of the Integral Fast Reactor, a Fast Neutron Nuclear Reactor, high burn up rate (almost 20%) with a design that encapsulated a self contained fuel reprocessing facility, that produces electricity (obsoleting coal) and hydrogen (obsoleting oil - whilst maintaining existing vehicle fleets), producing medical isotopes, whilst burning through the stocks of enough weapons grade plutonium and Depleted uranium to power the US for the next 5000 years. Your tax dollars at work.
I think it's important to consider if Oil and Coal would be motivated to maintain their multi-trilllion dollar profits and capable of doing this than greenies and NIMBYs that are so often accused. It's time for that stupid premise to be put aside with the naivety that allows it to be believed. Greenies and NIMBYs didn't argue for billions of dollars of subsidies to maintain oil industry profits and I think it's safe to say that a nuclear reactor that promotes nuclear disarmament is in everybody's interest. The US could export these reactors to Russia, China even North Korea and end global conflict within 5 years whilst solving the global nuclear waste issue, but oil.
The only loser would have been oil and coal. You think they're going to give up trillions of dollars? No, they're gonna start lobbying, it's cheaper. Repealing the "New Deal PUCHA (Act)" that was put in place to prevent a repeat of the 1929 depression in the bargain so they can rort half billion dollar subsidy hits on delayed conventional nuclear facility construction, whilst claiming input tax credits. That's the reality of energy funding policy, that's how the scam works.
I now nobody likes nuclear, and nobody likes consumerism, and we all want a quiet life in the countryside, until we need a hospital and emergency chopper ride, but essentially, there seems to be only one choice, between two kinds of energy:
1. coal, oil, gas, wind, solar
2. nuclear
The oil and coal industry hold significant patents on the devices that make competing energy systems viable. Even the darling of Nuclear power technology, the Integral Fast Reactor has been destroyed by oil and coal industry lobbying. Nuclear power is used by the oil and coal industry as a way to extract taxation credits from the taxpayer,
[citation] Section 600-657 US Energy Policy Act.
Oil and Coal own the energy market and that is the way it will remain whilst they own the patents, the market and the politicians that regulate it.
Checking the equipment he was supposed to have serviced confirms it. What's the GPS got to do with this?
They are probably jerks themselves sticking their noses into their employees whereabouts - control vs trust. It says more about the management than the employees.
Cmon, you snowflakes have no viable argument against cats.
They climb fences into other peoples yards where they don't belong, which is complete irresponsible cat ownership. They kill native bird species, lizzards and anything else because that is their instinctive nature - to hunt.
The biggest problem with cats are the owners in complete denial about the cat's most basic instinct to hunt and kill and letting them roam freely. As opposed to dogs which are much easier to control, it is completely inappropriate for someone's cat to be outside a house because of how easily they can climb. Therefore it is a valid consideration to trap cats coming onto your property because the owners have no control over where the cat roams with their toxoplasmosis.
On the whole though, I do like domesticated cats, they are funny creatures. Generally cat owners do not take responsibility for controlling their pets, which is not the cat's fault, however it is the biggest problem with cats, irresponsible cat ownership.
Border Collies are dog ownership on hard mode. They're extremely intelligent and extremely high energy, so they're difficult to provide for properly.
I know what you mean - I took my dog on runs with me. Towards the end she would have difficulty keeping up and fell behind and she would just stop, so I made it so she had to make it to a certain part of the run and I would pick her up and carry her to enhance my training - it was ridiculous, the look on her face.
It's how I knew I was doing an honest workout - if I could wear the dog out.
If he did that as well, then he is using privacy rights as a thin proxy for being unprofessional.
This.
If the company was tracking why he didn't repeatedly wake up a 3 am to answer a false positive from a system they would not fix, then the situation may be different. In this case he's been a dick and now it will be used as justification to crack down on all the normal people in his company - what a guy!
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They're pretty vexatious people and I think these people are complaining that technology work, i.e. thinking, is hard work and they don't enjoy the social stigma of being a computer nerd to do it.
My instinct is starting to tell me this whole thing is a ploy to drive down tech salaries. They tried to pitch young against old and now they are trying to pitch man against women. Those vocal enough to create professional outrage are easily manipulated, just prompt them with a narrative and then point them towards the people you want to troll.
Someone who thinks that they should get something for free just because they have the "right" gender, race, sexual preference or place of birth.
You mean those with a sense of entitlement because they seem to want to take what someone else earned and feel that they deserve it too?. Unfortunately I've never got much for free, I worked my arse off to get everything I've got.
The thing that really bothers me though is the complete lack of any gratitude for the role men have played in society. Most of us here work in tech, for which I am grateful for the opportunities I've had, however what I don't see women fighting for the right to work in the high risk or disgusting jobs like HF riggers, sewers workers, underground miners, builders or the dozens of other shitty jobs that men *have* to do. What about female loggers or fisherwomen (which doesn't even spell check).
They aren't they fighting to take on the roles that have high rates of fatalities in men or even acknowledge that men have high rates of suicide just that men got into this work because we have a dick, not because we endured years of social isolation, belittlement, exclusion, isolation, study and hard work to do the kind of thing that is interesting and brings some meaning to working. I welcome any female that is prepared to do that and become my peer, she will have earned my respect.
You can't even talk about that.
I though equality was more about getting equal than getting even.
I see no reason why some currently unknown discovery would make an arrogant premise like this any more than a belief system - we know everything now, no need to strive or explore. The Human species has been artificially limited simply as a process of the economic systems we have in place before discussing any of the many flow on effects from that.
Nutrition itself is a massive factor and considering whether athletes have reached peak human performance has little to do with maximum functional longevity for people who have different objectives. The lessons I have *personally* learned from a lifetime of fitness training and martial arts has left me with so many questions about unexplored areas of human potential that tell me that we still have so much to learn and that this article is just wrong.
One such lesson was how do I address the accumulated injury that I carry in my body? So roughly three years ago I started a process of extreme physical therapy to resolve accumulated scar tissue throughout my body. In that time I have resolved 28 physical injuries, I have had joints and bones in my body become jelly like and reform stronger and more flexible than they were before. At this very moment my right elbow is reforming and has maintained a constant temperature of 33C for the last two months as it gradually improves, an extremely painful process, however one that has obliterated scarred muscles and the painful knots associated with it.
This has destroyed many stressors in my life, I sleep better, my body functions better and I am more relaxed. I documented the process and collected data because I was trying to understand it however I had no idea of the profound impact this would have on my well being. Fingers, wrists, elbows shoulders, neck, ribcage, toes, ankles knees hips and even my spine have all been radically repaired and improved, many minor aliments I suffered just disappeared. I have less aches and pains now than I did 30 years ago and I don't groan when I get up or move.
So if I can can uncover that process myself I think that people dedicated to improving human health and performance can uncover a lot more in the years to come.
Adobe Flash is mentioned about 10 times as an attack vector. Try reading the article.
How many more reasons are required to get rid of it.
I wonder if I'd be troll for saying:
Because men like that say I know what I'm doing. They think they know everything.
This is not about men and women, it's about the self entitled brat that my wife would call a stupid bitch because even when she was told not to look into the sun, she did. Doesn't mean all women, doesn't mean there isn't a male version. Interesting how some people project their insecurities into what they read and try to find a reason to be offended by the simplest explanation about what happened.
Yeah, just like Boeing was the first to develop reusable first stages for orbital class launchers... /s
Bah, Boeing probably regrets not being able to boast about the secret missions to Mar they have already done.
Why do people do this?
Because women like that generally say Don't tell me what to do. I think they think it's something to do with the patriarchy.
You body needs it.
And Blade Drummer a story about a vampire drummer replicant.
My point is that while I don't doubt the fossil-fuel industries great lobbying power, I do doubt that they would have so easily prevailed had it not been for the negative public opinion of Nuclear power.
They are two separate forces. Public opinion is a nice cover for the machinations of the oil industry. When was the last time you wrote a letter to a politician. Public opinion is a storm to be weathered however it has very little influence over Nuclear Policy compared to the oil/coal industry. It's also in the oil/coal industries interest to deflect blame onto their opponents.
Because of Chernobyl, Three mile Island, Fukushima, and arguably the worst blow to the image of Nuclear power; The fictional movie "The China Syndrome," there is little public support for Nuclear power despite the threat of Global climate change.
Perhaps people are starting to see the threat of radionuclides as a long term threat to the human genome that is at least as significant as global warming.
Germany is shutting down all of its plants, China has frozen new plant approvals and even in France, once the showcase for the industry, nuclear power generation is set to drop to 50 percent by 2025
Perhaps they are beginning to see the economics and (lack of) energy return of nuclear power isn't worth it for the risk they present. Only people who don't really understand Nuclear Power support it anymore. I think people are beginning to understand the complexities of Nuclear Power and what they should be afraid of.
Oil, Coal and Nuclear are the axis of energy evil.
Oh, sorry about that. My bad.
Apology accepted.
Now that we've clarified that, could you possibly link to some GOOD examples of oil industry patents which have kept other energy production methods from competing?
Apart from not knowing what your subjective definition of GOOD is, you are missing the point. The patents aren't the relevant point, the enacted law is. The oil industry did that to the Nuclear Industry, fait accompli. At issue is the methods oil and coal use maintaining their hegemony.
Care to explain why they haven't bother with Fast Neutron Nuclear Reactor's.
They did bother, it didn't reach its design objectives. Nuclear supporters would argue that ti was closed down because of protests and a rocket attack, however the reality was that the sodium cooling system was always going to be subject to leaks and the ingress of air. I'd be more inclined to think that Switzerland asked France to be a good neighbour and please don't put several thousands of tons of radioactive, highly explosive sodium near our border please.
Could it be that it is not the silver bullet you make it to be?
It most certainly isn't. Even IFR needs significant advancements in materials technology to be viable in the long terms. Additionally it would be much better if it was cooled with lead as opposed to sodium.
The point I am making is that there is much gnashing of teeth by supporters of Nuclear power that greenies and Nimbys are responsible for the woes of the nuclear industry and that Fast breeders reactors, that they confuse with fast burner reactors and re-processing technology would solve everything if only we developed and deployed them.
Well an appropriate technology was developed, and it answered a lot of the objections to nuclear power, but the oil industry crushed it with lobbying efforts.
Please consider what you are thinking and saying before you post. It's easy to construct a strawman and then burn it.
What's stopping the oil industry from giving up it trillions of dollars of profits? Greed grasshopper, greed.
read, then re-read, then re-re-read the sentence of mine that you quoted. I said they could export these reactors i.e. the technology, the design. They use their own damn weapons grade materials for fuel.
The oil and coal industry hold significant patents on the devices that make competing energy systems viable.
Interesting. Do you have some of these patent numbers ?
Sure, US4009052,US3791867, US3972759, though I think it will be easier for you to start working your way through the Energy act I posted and you'll get an idea how the oil industry works.
IIRC around sec 625 is where the funding is allocated to destroy the only demonstrated viable functioning prototype of the Integral Fast Reactor, a Fast Neutron Nuclear Reactor, high burn up rate (almost 20%) with a design that encapsulated a self contained fuel reprocessing facility, that produces electricity (obsoleting coal) and hydrogen (obsoleting oil - whilst maintaining existing vehicle fleets), producing medical isotopes, whilst burning through the stocks of enough weapons grade plutonium and Depleted uranium to power the US for the next 5000 years. Your tax dollars at work.
I think it's important to consider if Oil and Coal would be motivated to maintain their multi-trilllion dollar profits and capable of doing this than greenies and NIMBYs that are so often accused. It's time for that stupid premise to be put aside with the naivety that allows it to be believed. Greenies and NIMBYs didn't argue for billions of dollars of subsidies to maintain oil industry profits and I think it's safe to say that a nuclear reactor that promotes nuclear disarmament is in everybody's interest. The US could export these reactors to Russia, China even North Korea and end global conflict within 5 years whilst solving the global nuclear waste issue, but oil.
The only loser would have been oil and coal. You think they're going to give up trillions of dollars? No, they're gonna start lobbying, it's cheaper. Repealing the "New Deal PUCHA (Act)" that was put in place to prevent a repeat of the 1929 depression in the bargain so they can rort half billion dollar subsidy hits on delayed conventional nuclear facility construction, whilst claiming input tax credits. That's the reality of energy funding policy, that's how the scam works.
Look for yourself, it's US law, enacted.
I would love to see a Left Vs Right Survivor series. I bet you the right wins!
There would be no-one left.
I now nobody likes nuclear, and nobody likes consumerism, and we all want a quiet life in the countryside, until we need a hospital and emergency chopper ride, but essentially, there seems to be only one choice, between two kinds of energy:
1. coal, oil, gas, wind, solar
2. nuclear
The oil and coal industry hold significant patents on the devices that make competing energy systems viable. Even the darling of Nuclear power technology, the Integral Fast Reactor has been destroyed by oil and coal industry lobbying. Nuclear power is used by the oil and coal industry as a way to extract taxation credits from the taxpayer, [citation] Section 600-657 US Energy Policy Act.
Oil and Coal own the energy market and that is the way it will remain whilst they own the patents, the market and the politicians that regulate it.
I just spat my tea all over my monitor from laughing when I saw that.
Checking the equipment he was supposed to have serviced confirms it. What's the GPS got to do with this?
They are probably jerks themselves sticking their noses into their employees whereabouts - control vs trust. It says more about the management than the employees.
Cmon, you snowflakes have no viable argument against cats.
They climb fences into other peoples yards where they don't belong, which is complete irresponsible cat ownership. They kill native bird species, lizzards and anything else because that is their instinctive nature - to hunt.
The biggest problem with cats are the owners in complete denial about the cat's most basic instinct to hunt and kill and letting them roam freely. As opposed to dogs which are much easier to control, it is completely inappropriate for someone's cat to be outside a house because of how easily they can climb. Therefore it is a valid consideration to trap cats coming onto your property because the owners have no control over where the cat roams with their toxoplasmosis.
On the whole though, I do like domesticated cats, they are funny creatures. Generally cat owners do not take responsibility for controlling their pets, which is not the cat's fault, however it is the biggest problem with cats, irresponsible cat ownership.
Border Collies are dog ownership on hard mode. They're extremely intelligent and extremely high energy, so they're difficult to provide for properly.
I know what you mean - I took my dog on runs with me. Towards the end she would have difficulty keeping up and fell behind and she would just stop, so I made it so she had to make it to a certain part of the run and I would pick her up and carry her to enhance my training - it was ridiculous, the look on her face.
It's how I knew I was doing an honest workout - if I could wear the dog out.
If he did that as well, then he is using privacy rights as a thin proxy for being unprofessional.
This.
If the company was tracking why he didn't repeatedly wake up a 3 am to answer a false positive from a system they would not fix, then the situation may be different. In this case he's been a dick and now it will be used as justification to crack down on all the normal people in his company - what a guy!