Haha, so true. If it had been any more different from the original trilogy then people would be complaining that it departed from the heart and soul of SW, that it was Star Trek rebranded, etc. I took my kids to it, we had a great time too - it was fun and it felt nice and Star Wars-y.
Thank goodness some people have a clue. I pretty much did the same thing.
We like the Star Wars universe, we got to see more of it, and now I'm cautiously optimistic about future installments. WIN!
Yeah, I think that Abrams had to hook into the old movies to make the connection. I also noticed that there was a lot of hooks from the Star Wars books, which had some pretty good stories if you aren't expecting hard sci fi and were just reading for entertainment. I share your cautious optimism and I think that this director knows that there are some pretty caustic people out there who attempt to ruin it for everyone.
No, I mean "speak for yourself" as in "my money is not gone, so don't tell me that it is".
I see, so you responded to try to poison my experience.
I am old enough to be able to tell commercial hype and paid reviews from actual quality and honest recommendation.
And cynical enough to be incapable of suspending judgement too, it would seem. That you even read them shows a pretty toxic attitude and not very good for your mental health.
My money is unspent (on this). I only downloaded it because of ESR's comments about the filming location of the last scene, where new Luke finds old Luke.
Oh, so you reduced it to your bandwidth costs instead, you still spent your money, but instead wasted your potential to experience joy with others by watching a downloaded fragment of the movie to confirm it wasn't up to you 'standards', or was it the whole movie you watched. You sound very sad, lonely and pathetic to me. It's a real shame for you.
And what can I say: If that unimaginative "best of" remake keeps you entertained,
Just say nothing, anything you do say just spoils it for others and no one is interested in you opinion anyway.
What entertains me doesn't get made into movies, like Eon, Redemption space, The City and the Stars, They're sci-fi *books*. What entertained me about Star Wars was going to have a good time with my friends, bringing the kids and grandpa, getting there a little late to get some ice cream which helped us avoid the ads, piling into the seats we *booked* and sitting there with my best friend who I saw the original movies with. You think it's about a movie, I think it's about people. That's why...
I pity you.
Actually, you pity yourself. I wouldn't be surprised if no one wanted to see the movie with you because you ruin the experience for everyone around you with your moaning and groaning and you instead justify that by saying 'you didn't want to see it anyway'.
People like you are why new stories for movies don't get made because you suck the oxygen out of the room and there is no fun when you are around. I have zero expectations from movies anymore because of whiners like you and your constant, draining pointless negativity that poisons everything.
Which is, of course, an excuse for you to maintain your misery, which you can wallow in alone. If you want to remain pathetic, that's your choice.
I am. I didn't have any expectations and I had a great time. You guys are all the same you know, when something new comes out you ignore it because it's unfamiliar and when you get what you ask for you complain because it is.
You just can't sit back and enjoy it for what it is.
You can either get on the ride and enjoy it or not, but once your done none of your whining about how the movie and your expectations don't align matter.
"So far, over 150 million pounds of methane have been released by the leak, " so by that measure 5666792.59539 cubic feet, so about $10 million - 50 million down the drain so far
I'd like to know how much heat trapping capacity they are releasing into the atmosphere as well.
What you want from a waste storage facility is low permeability of the ground to water viz, for a set bit of geometry and pressure difference, you only get a low flow of water through the unit you're considering. Granites can be low permeability - if they're not fractured or heavily corroded.
Thanks for those details. I see what you mean about fracturing however it's really interesting what you say about the corrosion of the granite. What corrodes it? Does the granite become a porous structure?
I note that the description of the FINNISH waste repository has the repository being dug into granite, but the waste being buried in (bentonite) clay within the segments of the mine.
Exactly, I read about that bit too. IIRC, the way the bentonite clay clumps and holds the water in place was why it was selected. Is the un-fractured low permeable granite selected for if the water is also under pressure?
I'd welcome any specific expertise in geology you have on the subject RockDoctor! (great pseudonym btw)
I wish to voice my opposition to the Trans Pacific Partnership Bill. I ask that you reject the Trans Pacific Partnership until proper time has been given for our citizens to analyse it's effect.
Considering there are roughly thirty chapters and 6000 pages in this Trade Agreement I would be expecting it to be scrutinised and proper time for the ramifications to be thoughly assessed and not rushed passed the house, considering there is no emergency that it addresses.
As an important part of a functioning democracy, citizens should be allowed to veiw all documents being presented to the parliment so that the impact on our society can be evaluated. The secrecy that has shoulded this bill over the last few years of it's construction followed by the limited time granted, relative to the amount of pages in the Bill, to allow for such analysis subverts the intention of democratic process.
As our representatives you are bound to provide 'Responsible Government' to citizens. Passing a Bill that cannot be evaluated is not a form of responsible government, for this reason alone the Bill should be rejected.
I would like the house to go further and introduce laws, practises or other available legislative instruments that prevent the rushing any legislation into law that has a detremental effect to the country and, that in the event of any emergency legislation passed as law, a mandatory sunset period that has the duration of the government that sponsors the bill.
The other issues rasied by segments of the TPP leaked on the Internet that effectively give away the effective sovreignty of our nation, through Investor State Dispute Settlements, is disturbing. Chilling effects on the Health, intellectual property and many other things that are nation destroying.
For these reasons, and many more, I ask you to defeat the TPP passing into law, and enact structures that prevent these kinds of agreements ever being rushed through the House.
As to specific parts of the agreement I object to the following clauses and seek their removal from any finalized agreement:
I'd been considering this for some time. Generally I am writing letters to politicians to raise their awareness of an issue as they have the same problem most busy people do, they are time poor. The difference is, it's the job they were elected to do. Throw in entities with vested interests in an issue and you reach the point where the only people trying to influence politicians are the one being paid to do it.
/. is *almost* the right platform due to the longer posts and the moderation system that provides a basis to categorize them. I have some doubts about twitter and facebook as a platform as they are too transient and not focused on certain topics. Take an example of a proposed act of law, such as the TPP, a trade agreement with 6000 pages in it that has serious ramifications for most people here. Even a large document like this could be picked apart easily by 100 people participating in a single thread dividing the document up. For a single person it represents a massive workload, for a lot of people, not much at all.
So, since the question has been asked, here is a experiment for anyone willing to participate, right here, right now. I am writing letters to politicians regarding the TPP. I will reply to my own thread with a version of the draft and I invite anyone or everyone to word their concerns and add it to the letter and extend the effort I've made. Anyone who is prepared to read a section of the TPP and voice specific concerns, even better, just post which section you are refering to.
The end goal of this experiement is a letter that anyone can send to their representatives and maybe we can get politician to work for the people, for once. Alternatively, we will know just how effective the platforms are for this kind of thing.
I'm am having the same problem, it is very difficult to find copies of the original act. This book makes comparison between versions of the original bill. If I can dig it out of my archive I will post what I can.
You triggered an interesting journey, in my attempts to find the online references to the original Bill, it showed that the Bill poses challenges to the very sovereignty of the states and relegating them to the same role as a citizen. You question has uncovered some interesting things that I wasn't aware of as a consequence of forcing this on citizens of Nevada.
The DOE's own 1982 Nuclear Waste policy Act reported that the Yucca Mountain's geology is "inappropriate to contain nuclear waste"
Do you have any evidence of that claim? Everything I've found points to the contrary.
You will have to look at the earlier revisions as opposed to the amended Act, especially if you are reading it online where the emphasis changed to using containment devices. I should have said 'original' document. Thanks for pointing that out.
Exactly. If someone has screwed up then nothing will happen. If someone uses it, that's different and then you also have your misuse case as the basis for legal action if required (make sure to have misuse messages and warnings in place). Not that you want to take legal action, it's just being in the position to take that action if you can or need to.
Build a geologically sound facility in granite that is in line with the DOE's 'defense in depth' design philosophy. If politics wasn't a factor in the first place we wouldn't be having this discussion at all. Politics placed the facility at Yucca, not science.
Yucca Mountain was a no-brainer when we started looking into it and it's a no-brainer now. Those that oppose it are either (1) useful idiots, (2) financially interested in competing energy generation methods, or (3) actively and purposefully attempting to weaken or destroy the US.
So how do you apply your reasoning to the D.O.E who ruled it inappropriate to contain nuclear waste? Let's look at your points:
(1) useful idiots
Which Wikipedia defines as In political jargon, useful idiot is a term for people perceived as propagandists for a cause whose goals they are not fully aware of, and who are used cynically by the leaders of the cause., do you know who you are serving?
(2) financially interested in competing energy generation methods
You really don't know who is drinking who's milkshake do you? I suggest you read the 2005 Energy Act, Sec 638 onwards.
(3) actively and purposefully attempting to weaken or destroy the US.
Sure, you can blind yourself to the facts, however if you do it in a way that ends up hurting a lot of people, it isn't a very good way to serve your country.
Environmental concerns are addressed in Section C.9 so it's pretty ridiculous to think that greenpeace, hippys in combi vans, NIMBYS or any one else for that matter have any influence at in the placement of these facilities.
When you consider there has been a bunch of GenIII reactors already proposed and placed blaming 'NIMBY's is just a big conspiracy theory for people unwilling to engage in a fact based argument. The concerns of any objections in to the placement of facilities have already been addressed and according to the Bills that are acts of law the only thing that can stop them being deployed is the expense of building them.
Pointing fingers is just a way to ignore the process and economics involved in proposing and building a Nuclear Reactor and supporting facilities.
Studies of the Yucca mountain hydrology revealed that the passage cl-36 from atmospheric nuclear testing took less that 50 years in ground water through Yucca mountain so the reality of Yucca is it is inappropriate to contain *any* kind of radioactive products. Yucca is pumice and volcanic ash, you *need* granite for a serious facility. The proposed Swedish facility is better designed than Yucca and is a good template for the U.S to use when it finds a suitable granite mountain, like the Rocky mountains, for example.
Yeah, because having 50 storage sites that all have to be protected in geographically unsound locations is far better than a single properly built and guarded site.
And the massive infrastructure costs involved in transporting it to each of the storage facilities.
Incorrect, you have 3 times the mass. That is why it is called a 'breeder' reactor, it 'breeds' more plutonium
2 the gack left is less radioactive than the stuff you started with (and has much shorter half-lives)
That's also wrong. When you are talking about fast neutron reactors that can burn transuranics into fissile ash the 'gack' is extremely radioactive *because* it has a shorter half life than the 'gack' of conventional reactor technology.
3 in some cases you can run the waste back through to "cook" it even more
After extensive re-processing of the fuel to extract the waste products, so not quite the same thing.
The DOE's own 1982 Nuclear Waste policy Act reported that the Yucca Mountain's geology is "inappropriate to contain nuclear waste". The most appropriate way to move the Nuclear Industry forward is to develop a geologically stable containment facility for radionuclide inside a granite mountain as opposed to a pumice mountain like Yucca.
The destination of the facility is important because an infrastructure plan to move 70,000 tons of plutonium (and other things) to that facility will be significantly more expensive than the facility itself. Radioactive by-products of Uranium mining and enrichment must be properly contained with respect to ground water contamination. That would begin to look like sound nuclear policy.
Pumice is very porous and floats on water, granite is very dense and contains water very well. To say this is 'NIMBY' is to ignore the fact that not all types of rock are the same.
I maintain that a professional UI/UX designer doesn't exist. They're amateurs. Dabblers. Dilettantes. They're not much better than feng-shui mongers.
Indeed. I always thought of UI testing as another skill in the toolkit. Improving it was part of the user *acceptance* testing. I think implementing the domain design is much more challenging than what was going to be hooked up to my controllers. The UI testing was signalling the end nearing of a project. We design the tests and usually delegate it while focused on issues critical for delivery.
If someone said there was a specialist UI/UX designer I would wonder what I could learn that I wasn't already doing. Maybe I'm missing something.
In my day we had ergonomists and human factors people, with some actual basis in science.
I don't know if it's what you experienced but during UAT, we recorded using cameras on the screen, face, keyboard and mouse of the users testing the software and then gave them a list of tasks to perform. You could then see the expression on their face and what they were doing that helped figure out how to resolve UI issues. I thought it was a pragmatic approach to UI design that the users could own, after all they would be stuck with it, not me. I see UI design as another thing that went sometime with the domain being implemented. Great if I can get users testing as soon as possible.
UI design is an important thing amongst a lot of important things, some of which are more important, most of which are a lot more difficult.
America can only be saved by the people who love it. People who cherish freedom and the ideals of democracy and who are prepared to defend it. Your political parties are two different arms of the same political parties. You are deluded if you think left and right politics even exists anymore.
Franklin predicted that the downfall of the American dream of democracy world come from the corruption of the people. This is not to say that the people are corrupt, even when many are. What it means is that the people have been corrupted (access to education, healthcare, employment, media) so they can be incrementally cheated out of the right to democracy, with their rights progressively converted to capital.
Your most dangerous enemies are your domestic enemies who control money and power. I hope you can sort it out, I miss the nice America.
I call bullshit. How could an extremophile that's highly adapted for cold temperatures not only survive in the elevated temperature of a mammal body, not only evade the mammal adaptive immune system that is so effective diseases have to be highly specialised to defeat it, not only have any kind of physiological effect, but a positive one too?
I'd say that is what happened - but maybe he has qualifications that we don't. Maybe he will become a Russian super hero...
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As compared to what,
Compared to nothing. what it is, for what it is. A gigantic fuck-up that we see from these industries that they're sowwy about
Haha, so true. If it had been any more different from the original trilogy then people would be complaining that it departed from the heart and soul of SW, that it was Star Trek rebranded, etc. I took my kids to it, we had a great time too - it was fun and it felt nice and Star Wars-y.
Thank goodness some people have a clue. I pretty much did the same thing.
We like the Star Wars universe, we got to see more of it, and now I'm cautiously optimistic about future installments. WIN!
Yeah, I think that Abrams had to hook into the old movies to make the connection. I also noticed that there was a lot of hooks from the Star Wars books, which had some pretty good stories if you aren't expecting hard sci fi and were just reading for entertainment. I share your cautious optimism and I think that this director knows that there are some pretty caustic people out there who attempt to ruin it for everyone.
No, I mean "speak for yourself" as in "my money is not gone, so don't tell me that it is".
I see, so you responded to try to poison my experience.
I am old enough to be able to tell commercial hype and paid reviews from actual quality and honest recommendation.
And cynical enough to be incapable of suspending judgement too, it would seem. That you even read them shows a pretty toxic attitude and not very good for your mental health.
My money is unspent (on this). I only downloaded it because of ESR's comments about the filming location of the last scene, where new Luke finds old Luke.
Oh, so you reduced it to your bandwidth costs instead, you still spent your money, but instead wasted your potential to experience joy with others by watching a downloaded fragment of the movie to confirm it wasn't up to you 'standards', or was it the whole movie you watched. You sound very sad, lonely and pathetic to me. It's a real shame for you.
And what can I say: If that unimaginative "best of" remake keeps you entertained,
Just say nothing, anything you do say just spoils it for others and no one is interested in you opinion anyway.
What entertains me doesn't get made into movies, like Eon, Redemption space, The City and the Stars, They're sci-fi *books*. What entertained me about Star Wars was going to have a good time with my friends, bringing the kids and grandpa, getting there a little late to get some ice cream which helped us avoid the ads, piling into the seats we *booked* and sitting there with my best friend who I saw the original movies with. You think it's about a movie, I think it's about people. That's why...
I pity you.
Actually, you pity yourself. I wouldn't be surprised if no one wanted to see the movie with you because you ruin the experience for everyone around you with your moaning and groaning and you instead justify that by saying 'you didn't want to see it anyway'.
People like you are why new stories for movies don't get made because you suck the oxygen out of the room and there is no fun when you are around. I have zero expectations from movies anymore because of whiners like you and your constant, draining pointless negativity that poisons everything.
Which is, of course, an excuse for you to maintain your misery, which you can wallow in alone. If you want to remain pathetic, that's your choice.
Your money is gone
Speak for yourself.
I am. I didn't have any expectations and I had a great time. You guys are all the same you know, when something new comes out you ignore it because it's unfamiliar and when you get what you ask for you complain because it is.
You just can't sit back and enjoy it for what it is.
You can either get on the ride and enjoy it or not, but once your done none of your whining about how the movie and your expectations don't align matter.
Your money is gone and it ain't coming back.
"So far, over 150 million pounds of methane have been released by the leak, " so by that measure 5666792.59539 cubic feet, so about $10 million - 50 million down the drain so far
I'd like to know how much heat trapping capacity they are releasing into the atmosphere as well.
Many fees on cards.
Thanks AmiMoJo, as you can see the TPP is massive. I think the experiment is showing that internet activism is mostly talk.
What you want from a waste storage facility is low permeability of the ground to water viz, for a set bit of geometry and pressure difference, you only get a low flow of water through the unit you're considering. Granites can be low permeability - if they're not fractured or heavily corroded.
Thanks for those details. I see what you mean about fracturing however it's really interesting what you say about the corrosion of the granite. What corrodes it? Does the granite become a porous structure?
I note that the description of the FINNISH waste repository has the repository being dug into granite, but the waste being buried in (bentonite) clay within the segments of the mine.
Exactly, I read about that bit too. IIRC, the way the bentonite clay clumps and holds the water in place was why it was selected. Is the un-fractured low permeable granite selected for if the water is also under pressure?
I'd welcome any specific expertise in geology you have on the subject RockDoctor! (great pseudonym btw)
I wish to voice my opposition to the Trans Pacific Partnership Bill. I ask that you reject the Trans Pacific Partnership until proper time has been given for our citizens to analyse it's effect.
Considering there are roughly thirty chapters and 6000 pages in this Trade Agreement I would be expecting it to be scrutinised and proper time for the ramifications to be thoughly assessed and not rushed passed the house, considering there is no emergency that it addresses.
As an important part of a functioning democracy, citizens should be allowed to veiw all documents being presented to the parliment so that the impact on our society can be evaluated. The secrecy that has shoulded this bill over the last few years of it's construction followed by the limited time granted, relative to the amount of pages in the Bill, to allow for such analysis subverts the intention of democratic process.
As our representatives you are bound to provide 'Responsible Government' to citizens. Passing a Bill that cannot be evaluated is not a form of responsible government, for this reason alone the Bill should be rejected.
I would like the house to go further and introduce laws, practises or other available legislative instruments that prevent the rushing any legislation into law that has a detremental effect to the country and, that in the event of any emergency legislation passed as law, a mandatory sunset period that has the duration of the government that sponsors the bill.
The other issues rasied by segments of the TPP leaked on the Internet that effectively give away the effective sovreignty of our nation, through Investor State Dispute Settlements, is disturbing. Chilling effects on the Health, intellectual property and many other things that are nation destroying.
For these reasons, and many more, I ask you to defeat the TPP passing into law, and enact structures that prevent these kinds of agreements ever being rushed through the House.
As to specific parts of the agreement I object to the following clauses and seek their removal from any finalized agreement:
I'd been considering this for some time. Generally I am writing letters to politicians to raise their awareness of an issue as they have the same problem most busy people do, they are time poor. The difference is, it's the job they were elected to do. Throw in entities with vested interests in an issue and you reach the point where the only people trying to influence politicians are the one being paid to do it.
So, since the question has been asked, here is a experiment for anyone willing to participate, right here, right now. I am writing letters to politicians regarding the TPP. I will reply to my own thread with a version of the draft and I invite anyone or everyone to word their concerns and add it to the letter and extend the effort I've made. Anyone who is prepared to read a section of the TPP and voice specific concerns, even better, just post which section you are refering to.
The end goal of this experiement is a letter that anyone can send to their representatives and maybe we can get politician to work for the people, for once. Alternatively, we will know just how effective the platforms are for this kind of thing.
I'm am having the same problem, it is very difficult to find copies of the original act. This book makes comparison between versions of the original bill. If I can dig it out of my archive I will post what I can.
You triggered an interesting journey, in my attempts to find the online references to the original Bill, it showed that the Bill poses challenges to the very sovereignty of the states and relegating them to the same role as a citizen. You question has uncovered some interesting things that I wasn't aware of as a consequence of forcing this on citizens of Nevada.
The DOE's own 1982 Nuclear Waste policy Act reported that the Yucca Mountain's geology is "inappropriate to contain nuclear waste"
Do you have any evidence of that claim? Everything I've found points to the contrary.
You will have to look at the earlier revisions as opposed to the amended Act, especially if you are reading it online where the emphasis changed to using containment devices. I should have said 'original' document. Thanks for pointing that out.
And see what they do with it.
Exactly. If someone has screwed up then nothing will happen. If someone uses it, that's different and then you also have your misuse case as the basis for legal action if required (make sure to have misuse messages and warnings in place). Not that you want to take legal action, it's just being in the position to take that action if you can or need to.
"We shouldn't use Yucca Mountain"
"What should we do instead"
Build a geologically sound facility in granite that is in line with the DOE's 'defense in depth' design philosophy. If politics wasn't a factor in the first place we wouldn't be having this discussion at all. Politics placed the facility at Yucca, not science.
That you do not understand that you've just combined two mutually incompatible ideas, is a symptom of our problem.
Please explain? Why are freedom and democracy "two mutually incompatible ideas"?
Yucca Mountain was a no-brainer when we started looking into it and it's a no-brainer now. Those that oppose it are either (1) useful idiots, (2) financially interested in competing energy generation methods, or (3) actively and purposefully attempting to weaken or destroy the US.
So how do you apply your reasoning to the D.O.E who ruled it inappropriate to contain nuclear waste? Let's look at your points:
(1) useful idiots
Which Wikipedia defines as In political jargon, useful idiot is a term for people perceived as propagandists for a cause whose goals they are not fully aware of, and who are used cynically by the leaders of the cause., do you know who you are serving?
(2) financially interested in competing energy generation methods
You really don't know who is drinking who's milkshake do you? I suggest you read the 2005 Energy Act, Sec 638 onwards.
(3) actively and purposefully attempting to weaken or destroy the US.
Studies of Yucca mountain hydrology and the U.S Geological service's map of underground aquifers suggest that operating Yucca mountain would result in the gradual poisoning of the water supplies for Los Angeles and probably San Diego and Phoenix as well.
Sure, you can blind yourself to the facts, however if you do it in a way that ends up hurting a lot of people, it isn't a very good way to serve your country.
Let's have a look at the NIMBY argument that is so often cited as a cause of obstructing the placement of Nuclear facilities.
Placement of Nuclear facilities is governed by a Suitability Criteria that is an act of law.
Environmental concerns are addressed in Section C.9 so it's pretty ridiculous to think that greenpeace, hippys in combi vans, NIMBYS or any one else for that matter have any influence at in the placement of these facilities.
When you consider there has been a bunch of GenIII reactors already proposed and placed blaming 'NIMBY's is just a big conspiracy theory for people unwilling to engage in a fact based argument. The concerns of any objections in to the placement of facilities have already been addressed and according to the Bills that are acts of law the only thing that can stop them being deployed is the expense of building them.
Pointing fingers is just a way to ignore the process and economics involved in proposing and building a Nuclear Reactor and supporting facilities.
Studies of the Yucca mountain hydrology revealed that the passage cl-36 from atmospheric nuclear testing took less that 50 years in ground water through Yucca mountain so the reality of Yucca is it is inappropriate to contain *any* kind of radioactive products. Yucca is pumice and volcanic ash, you *need* granite for a serious facility. The proposed Swedish facility is better designed than Yucca and is a good template for the U.S to use when it finds a suitable granite mountain, like the Rocky mountains, for example.
Yeah, because having 50 storage sites that all have to be protected in geographically unsound locations is far better than a single properly built and guarded site.
And the massive infrastructure costs involved in transporting it to each of the storage facilities.
1 you are now dealing with a TENTH of the mass
Incorrect, you have 3 times the mass. That is why it is called a 'breeder' reactor, it 'breeds' more plutonium
2 the gack left is less radioactive than the stuff you started with (and has much shorter half-lives)
That's also wrong. When you are talking about fast neutron reactors that can burn transuranics into fissile ash the 'gack' is extremely radioactive *because* it has a shorter half life than the 'gack' of conventional reactor technology.
3 in some cases you can run the waste back through to "cook" it even more
After extensive re-processing of the fuel to extract the waste products, so not quite the same thing.
The DOE's own 1982 Nuclear Waste policy Act reported that the Yucca Mountain's geology is "inappropriate to contain nuclear waste". The most appropriate way to move the Nuclear Industry forward is to develop a geologically stable containment facility for radionuclide inside a granite mountain as opposed to a pumice mountain like Yucca.
The destination of the facility is important because an infrastructure plan to move 70,000 tons of plutonium (and other things) to that facility will be significantly more expensive than the facility itself. Radioactive by-products of Uranium mining and enrichment must be properly contained with respect to ground water contamination. That would begin to look like sound nuclear policy.
Pumice is very porous and floats on water, granite is very dense and contains water very well. To say this is 'NIMBY' is to ignore the fact that not all types of rock are the same.
I maintain that a professional UI/UX designer doesn't exist. They're amateurs. Dabblers. Dilettantes. They're not much better than feng-shui mongers.
Indeed. I always thought of UI testing as another skill in the toolkit. Improving it was part of the user *acceptance* testing. I think implementing the domain design is much more challenging than what was going to be hooked up to my controllers. The UI testing was signalling the end nearing of a project. We design the tests and usually delegate it while focused on issues critical for delivery.
If someone said there was a specialist UI/UX designer I would wonder what I could learn that I wasn't already doing. Maybe I'm missing something.
In my day we had ergonomists and human factors people, with some actual basis in science.
I don't know if it's what you experienced but during UAT, we recorded using cameras on the screen, face, keyboard and mouse of the users testing the software and then gave them a list of tasks to perform. You could then see the expression on their face and what they were doing that helped figure out how to resolve UI issues. I thought it was a pragmatic approach to UI design that the users could own, after all they would be stuck with it, not me. I see UI design as another thing that went sometime with the domain being implemented. Great if I can get users testing as soon as possible.
UI design is an important thing amongst a lot of important things, some of which are more important, most of which are a lot more difficult.
America is doomed.
America can only be saved by the people who love it. People who cherish freedom and the ideals of democracy and who are prepared to defend it. Your political parties are two different arms of the same political parties. You are deluded if you think left and right politics even exists anymore.
Franklin predicted that the downfall of the American dream of democracy world come from the corruption of the people. This is not to say that the people are corrupt, even when many are. What it means is that the people have been corrupted (access to education, healthcare, employment, media) so they can be incrementally cheated out of the right to democracy, with their rights progressively converted to capital.
Your most dangerous enemies are your domestic enemies who control money and power. I hope you can sort it out, I miss the nice America.
I call bullshit. How could an extremophile that's highly adapted for cold temperatures not only survive in the elevated temperature of a mammal body, not only evade the mammal adaptive immune system that is so effective diseases have to be highly specialised to defeat it, not only have any kind of physiological effect, but a positive one too?
I'd say that is what happened - but maybe he has qualifications that we don't. Maybe he will become a Russian super hero...