It is not very hard to perform the research on this
Collins Vs Remington 1994
Lewy v. Remington, 1988
Campbell v. Remington 1992
Chapa v. Garcia
Remington has quietly paid almost $20 million to settle claims out ofï court.
In 1995, Remington openly acknowledges the need to âoefixâ the fire control However, the designs met their downfall during Remingtonâ(TM)s economic analysis. Project spending was put on hold in May 1998.
Video says the cost savings was 5 and a half cents a gun (in the 1940's).
Apparently their can with Remington rifles. Youtube has videos with police swat demonstrating the rifles can fire themselves under various common circumstances.
They had a special on CNBC with several people who had really tragic stories and the original designer of the gun (now in his 90's) said, they knew of the problem 30 years ago and he proposed a fix at the time but the gun was "too far" along in production and executives vetoedit.
I've worked for a company that spent close to an extra billion dollars and was only 5% along it's schedule when it was supposed to be 100% complete.
And it's happened many times with SAP installations.
Another cause for KS being late may be that they don't cut scope/cost/quality to make the deadline (as companies often do). Many private companies deliver crap, on time- or late- and over budget- but it was time to ship it so it went.
Seriously.. this sounds directly like a microsoft propaganda puff piece.
I would want the actual data to be made available for independent analysis before wasting slashdot's bandwidth on an article saying "a microsoft executive says users are liking our product".
"We ask why there is violence in our schools, but we have systematically removed God from our schools," Huckabee said on Fox News, discussing the murder spree that took the lives of 20 children and 6 adults in Newtown, CT that morning. "Should we be so surprised that schools would become a place of carnage?"
Law enforcement has released few details on the alleged gunman, but Huckabee suggested that the separation of church and state may have spurred his rampage.
"[W]e've made it a place where we don't want to talk about eternity, life, what responsibility means, accountability -- that we're not just going to have be accountable to the police if they catch us, but one day we stand before, you know, a holy God in judgment," Huckabee said. "If we don't believe that, then we don't fear that."
He said those suffering from a crisis from faith should look to God in the community's response to the violence. But he added that "Maybe we ought to let [God] in on the front end and we wouldn't have to call him to show up when it's all said and done at the back end."
And Mr Huckabee is not alone in his evil version of Christianity..
Christian radio host Bryan Fischer took to his American Family Association radio show this afternoon to say that God didnâ(TM)t stop the horrific Connecticut elementary school shooting spree because he does not go âoewhere he is not wanted.â
Fischer made the case that, in his mind, God would have protected the shooting victims had there been a system of school prayer and a respect for the Ten Commandments in public classrooms.
âoeWhere was God when all of this went down?â Fischer began. âoeHereâ(TM)s the bottom line: God is not going to go where he is not wanted.â
He explained: âoeWeâ(TM)ve spent 50 years telling God to get lost. Telling God we do not want you in our schools. We do not want to pray to in our schools. We do not want to pray to you before football games. We do not want to pray to you before graduationâ¦. We donâ(TM)t want your word read in our schools.â
Yet, there is a lot of evidence that productivity growth has reached a point where there is not enough work for people if everyone works 40 hours a week.
In fact, you could kill a lot of our current unemployment if you implemented overtime for exempt people who were not supervisors of at least 3 other people.
a) raise taxes on assholes like Mr. Schmidt. b) close the loopholes Mr. Schmidt is using. c) put laws on the books such that any kind of money flowing out of the country for service or franchise fees is subject to income tax.
Not just filtering but also your prior searches appear to be calculated both in the search results and the advertisement you get everywhere.
A friend of mine thought they might have bed bugs. I searched for bedbugs-- suddenly many familiar sites are spamming me with bedbug ads.
I did some stock searches. Suddenly I'm getting ads for stock sites everywhere i go.
It felt a bit inappropriate and creepy on certain sites.
Anyway- so say I want to see nude pictures of the latest starlet. Suddenly, I'm getting a lot more adult targeted advertising. And my results my have more nudity in them (provided safesearch is off).
It crashes all the different parts of our lives together. It's part of why I left facebook. I got tired of all my very different friends and relatives smashing together and seeing parts of me I didn't want them to see.
I agree, when the automated drone army gets here then it ends badly for the 'majority'.
And I think that long term, the automated drone army can keep up with humans. Plus the weapons they use can't be reused by humans.
You'd have to attack the power sources-- power plants and transmission lines. And you'd probably depend on someone in Louie's organization feeling genocide was wrong and ratting him out.
it doesn't have to end badly-- it could be a paradise-- but I'm afraid we won't be able to get there from where we are in our current moral values. Too much emphasis on people who do not work as being losers and deserving of their fates.
Half of humanity is really suited (mentally) to not much above manual labor or sitting at a station monitoring an area making sure things are okay. And their jobs are being automated out of existence.
If properly designed automated trucks and restaurant, you do not need anyone to unload the truck.
You don't need someone there to fix the machine when it breaks. And with a properly designed machine, you don't need a human being to fix it. It's simpler to do a module replacement and if that fails, swap the entire unit.
No.. the main problem I see is when out of work humans start fucking with the machines.
If you want to be poor, skip college and trade school.
The likelyhood of being a successful businessman like those listed is actually LOWER than your odds of being a successful actor.
And for actor's it's like 999:1.
So sure-- skip college if you are brilliant ( and often you have at least a couple hundred grand startup money plus a lot of ivy league contacts and 14 years of elite private schooling and tutoring before college) and go for that 999:1 shot.
Otherwise, if you are a normal person- no contacts, average intelligent to even a little smart, average to slightly above average drive... go to college or trade school.
And actually there was an enormous selective pressure in this area from at least 1600 until about 1900.
If you were unfit in an obvious way the parents would not allow their children to marry you. This extended all the way down to the lower classes. It even extended to your relatives.
So even if you just had a cousin in the loony bin, you might be turned down for marriage into many families and denied the chance to procreate with that genetic stock.
It was sort of like eugenics before their was eugenics.
The problem with eugenics is that after you get past the obvious breeding points (crazy, parents died before 50, lower than average intelligence) then you get into unobvious problems (like two smart parents might produce an autistic child instead of a super genius) and dumb selection reasons (skin color, social group, etc.).
And of course a lot of groups have gotten around this by cheating. In the past between 2% (among the wealthy) and 10% (among a group of detroit blacks) of children were found to be sired by other men than the supposed father. I think even 1 of 24 hasidic jews was found to have inappropriate parentage but I might be misremembering that- and 24 is a very small sample size.
Good or bad? Specifically with regard to automated and robotic replacements for human labor (now down to about $15,000 per year for a robot that can work for 3 shifts), do you think it's reasonable to presume a crisis of the capitalist model due to nearly complete automation?
Used to be, you worked 50 hours a week and the company paid that off with security.
Today, you are expected to work 60+ hours a week, get divorced, have health issues, even die on the job (had multiple deaths in the current project so far : cancer, heart attacks, some among young people who shouldn't be having these problems) - as bad as building a big steel bridge or skyscraper).
Then at the end they lay you off and put infosys on support for the project.
There is no "paying your dues" any more.
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Bonus points: If the replacements suck - the executive gets "fired" and gets 2 years severance- effectively 3 years pay for the last year's work.
---
I made it to the "finish" line- I never have to work again. Now, I'll only develop things that I want to develop (like I started because I loved programming). I'll never work on a holiday, or over night, or unpaid overtime again. I compiled and installed my first android program this week.
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Main point, you young pups just need to be aware there is no loyalty, there is no payback. You'll be used like batteries and it's up to you to use the company right back. To leave in the middle of a project if they put you on a dead technology. Give them the loyalty they give you. If it makes financial sense do it. Otherwise walk away.
Got a fabulous company/manager? That could change tomorrow. I've seen it three times in my short career. New management can destroy the pleasure in a company within 60 days and then finish off the company in under 6 months and walk away rich while leaving nothing behind for the employees.
And when you find yourself working over 60 hours a week- that's WHEN you need to be looking most. It's always time to be looking unless there is a huge completion bonus (and just be aware the company will probably screw you out of 50-75% of the bonus).
--- And for the record- they put a bunch of young hotshots on the last project I was involved with. It was (is) horrible. They missed requirements, they turned in specs which didn't meet the requirements, they wrote horribly inefficient code, they managed projects terribly. Some of them were walking around with black eyes from lack of sleep. And that exhaustion showed in everything they did and the enormously inexperienced snap decisions they made.
Kids are great for new technology-- and for small things. Enterprise level stuff and good project management requires experience. Oh the greatest thing was their decision to use only "happy path" testing. No negative testing. Ah the rewards of that decision just keep paying dividends.
Why don't executives like experienced hands? Because they say "no, it's not possible" instead of "yes, I'll kill myself to make it possible" even when it's clearly impossible.
But 40 is something new. It used to be 45. What's next... 35?
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Until about 2004, we were able to refactor and improve the quality of code.
Now, those changes must be approved by management. And management never approves refactoring changes and always approves adding new features.
It used to be easy to improve code... now it's almost impossible in any sox controlled environment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iis8nxGl-hQ
It is not very hard to perform the research on this
Collins Vs Remington 1994
Lewy v. Remington, 1988
Campbell v. Remington 1992
Chapa v. Garcia
Remington has quietly paid almost $20 million to settle claims out ofï court.
In 1995, Remington openly acknowledges the need to âoefixâ the fire control However, the designs met their downfall during Remingtonâ(TM)s economic analysis. Project spending was put on hold in May 1998.
Video says the cost savings was 5 and a half cents a gun (in the 1940's).
Apparently their can with Remington rifles. Youtube has videos with police swat demonstrating the rifles can fire themselves under various common circumstances.
They had a special on CNBC with several people who had really tragic stories and the original designer of the gun (now in his 90's) said, they knew of the problem 30 years ago and he proposed a fix at the time but the gun was "too far" along in production and executives vetoedit.
I've worked for a company that spent close to an extra billion dollars and was only 5% along it's schedule when it was supposed to be 100% complete.
And it's happened many times with SAP installations.
Another cause for KS being late may be that they don't cut scope/cost/quality to make the deadline (as companies often do). Many private companies deliver crap, on time- or late- and over budget- but it was time to ship it so it went.
Which is why they wanted a unique cell phone number to identify my account...
Which is when I stopped using Facebook (about 7-8 months ago).
Seriously.. this sounds directly like a microsoft propaganda puff piece.
I would want the actual data to be made available for independent analysis before wasting slashdot's bandwidth on an article saying "a microsoft executive says users are liking our product".
I mean-- seriously. Come on.
Welcome to the lunatic fringe Mr Huckabee...
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/huckabee-schools-place-of-carnage-because-we-systematically
"We ask why there is violence in our schools, but we have systematically removed God from our schools," Huckabee said on Fox News, discussing the murder spree that took the lives of 20 children and 6 adults in Newtown, CT that morning. "Should we be so surprised that schools would become a place of carnage?"
Law enforcement has released few details on the alleged gunman, but Huckabee suggested that the separation of church and state may have spurred his rampage.
"[W]e've made it a place where we don't want to talk about eternity, life, what responsibility means, accountability -- that we're not just going to have be accountable to the police if they catch us, but one day we stand before, you know, a holy God in judgment," Huckabee said. "If we don't believe that, then we don't fear that."
He said those suffering from a crisis from faith should look to God in the community's response to the violence. But he added that "Maybe we ought to let [God] in on the front end and we wouldn't have to call him to show up when it's all said and done at the back end."
And Mr Huckabee is not alone in his evil version of Christianity..
Christian radio host Bryan Fischer took to his American Family Association radio show this afternoon to say that God didnâ(TM)t stop the horrific Connecticut elementary school shooting spree because he does not go âoewhere he is not wanted.â
Fischer made the case that, in his mind, God would have protected the shooting victims had there been a system of school prayer and a respect for the Ten Commandments in public classrooms.
âoeWhere was God when all of this went down?â Fischer began. âoeHereâ(TM)s the bottom line: God is not going to go where he is not wanted.â
He explained: âoeWeâ(TM)ve spent 50 years telling God to get lost. Telling God we do not want you in our schools. We do not want to pray to in our schools. We do not want to pray to you before football games. We do not want to pray to you before graduationâ¦. We donâ(TM)t want your word read in our schools.â
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Yea because that would be real armageddon type stuff.
Exactly...
Yet, there is a lot of evidence that productivity growth has reached a point where there is not enough work for people if everyone works 40 hours a week.
In fact, you could kill a lot of our current unemployment if you implemented overtime for exempt people who were not supervisors of at least 3 other people.
Don't think binary.
Think 20 to 25% unemployment.
The other 75% to 80% still have money to buy burgers.
You are absolutely correct.
That's why it's imperative that we
a) raise taxes on assholes like Mr. Schmidt.
b) close the loopholes Mr. Schmidt is using.
c) put laws on the books such that any kind of money flowing out of the country for service or franchise fees is subject to income tax.
Not just filtering but also your prior searches appear to be calculated both in the search results and the advertisement you get everywhere.
A friend of mine thought they might have bed bugs. I searched for bedbugs-- suddenly many familiar sites are spamming me with bedbug ads.
I did some stock searches. Suddenly I'm getting ads for stock sites everywhere i go.
It felt a bit inappropriate and creepy on certain sites.
Anyway- so say I want to see nude pictures of the latest starlet. Suddenly, I'm getting a lot more adult targeted advertising. And my results my have more nudity in them (provided safesearch is off).
It crashes all the different parts of our lives together. It's part of why I left facebook. I got tired of all my very different friends and relatives smashing together and seeing parts of me I didn't want them to see.
I agree, when the automated drone army gets here then it ends badly for the 'majority'.
And I think that long term, the automated drone army can keep up with humans. Plus the weapons they use can't be reused by humans.
You'd have to attack the power sources-- power plants and transmission lines.
And you'd probably depend on someone in Louie's organization feeling genocide was wrong and ratting him out.
it doesn't have to end badly-- it could be a paradise-- but I'm afraid we won't be able to get there from where we are in our current moral values. Too much emphasis on people who do not work as being losers and deserving of their fates.
Half of humanity is really suited (mentally) to not much above manual labor or sitting at a station monitoring an area making sure things are okay. And their jobs are being automated out of existence.
If properly designed automated trucks and restaurant, you do not need anyone to unload the truck.
You don't need someone there to fix the machine when it breaks. And with a properly designed machine, you don't need a human being to fix it. It's simpler to do a module replacement and if that fails, swap the entire unit.
No.. the main problem I see is when out of work humans start fucking with the machines.
And we all know how well things worked for King Louis XVI.
Essentially, the CEO's have gone from 50x average wages in 1978 to over 500x average wages today.
If you are alive, in any country in the world, you are wagering in a market of unknown fairness.
And it's probably unfair.
If you want to be poor, skip college and trade school.
The likelyhood of being a successful businessman like those listed is actually LOWER than your odds of being a successful actor.
And for actor's it's like 999:1.
So sure-- skip college if you are brilliant ( and often you have at least a couple hundred grand startup money plus a lot of ivy league contacts and 14 years of elite private schooling and tutoring before college) and go for that 999:1 shot.
Otherwise, if you are a normal person- no contacts, average intelligent to even a little smart, average to slightly above average drive... go to college or trade school.
Real wheat intolerance destroys the lower intestines.
It generally is more intense if you take a break from wheat and then come back.
And it often doesn't prevent reproduction so there is less selective pressure against it.
Most conducive to procreation (of their own or their relatives genes).
Personal survival is optional after procreation.
And actually there was an enormous selective pressure in this area from at least 1600 until about 1900.
If you were unfit in an obvious way the parents would not allow their children to marry you.
This extended all the way down to the lower classes. It even extended to your relatives.
So even if you just had a cousin in the loony bin, you might be turned down for marriage into many families and denied the chance to procreate with that genetic stock.
It was sort of like eugenics before their was eugenics.
The problem with eugenics is that after you get past the obvious breeding points (crazy, parents died before 50, lower than average intelligence) then you get into unobvious problems (like two smart parents might produce an autistic child instead of a super genius) and dumb selection reasons (skin color, social group, etc.).
And of course a lot of groups have gotten around this by cheating. In the past between 2% (among the wealthy) and 10% (among a group of detroit blacks) of children were found to be sired by other men than the supposed father. I think even 1 of 24 hasidic jews was found to have inappropriate parentage but I might be misremembering that- and 24 is a very small sample size.
Selection based on culture is the definition of fitness for an environment where selection is based on culture.
Yes. They had cases and cases of Monster in the work areas and they gave out cans of red bull in party favor bags with each milestone.
Good or bad?
Specifically with regard to automated and robotic replacements for human labor (now down to about $15,000 per year for a robot that can work for 3 shifts), do you think it's reasonable to presume a crisis of the capitalist model due to nearly complete automation?
Used to be, you worked 50 hours a week and the company paid that off with security.
Today, you are expected to work 60+ hours a week, get divorced, have health issues, even die on the job (had multiple deaths in the current project so far : cancer, heart attacks, some among young people who shouldn't be having these problems) - as bad as building a big steel bridge or skyscraper).
Then at the end they lay you off and put infosys on support for the project.
There is no "paying your dues" any more.
---
Bonus points: If the replacements suck - the executive gets "fired" and gets 2 years severance- effectively 3 years pay for the last year's work.
---
I made it to the "finish" line- I never have to work again. Now, I'll only develop things that I want to develop (like I started because I loved programming). I'll never work on a holiday, or over night, or unpaid overtime again. I compiled and installed my first android program this week.
---
Main point, you young pups just need to be aware there is no loyalty, there is no payback. You'll be used like batteries and it's up to you to use the company right back. To leave in the middle of a project if they put you on a dead technology. Give them the loyalty they give you. If it makes financial sense do it. Otherwise walk away.
Got a fabulous company/manager? That could change tomorrow. I've seen it three times in my short career. New management can destroy the pleasure in a company within 60 days and then finish off the company in under 6 months and walk away rich while leaving nothing behind for the employees.
And when you find yourself working over 60 hours a week- that's WHEN you need to be looking most. It's always time to be looking unless there is a huge completion bonus (and just be aware the company will probably screw you out of 50-75% of the bonus).
---
And for the record- they put a bunch of young hotshots on the last project I was involved with. It was (is) horrible. They missed requirements, they turned in specs which didn't meet the requirements, they wrote horribly inefficient code, they managed projects terribly. Some of them were walking around with black eyes from lack of sleep. And that exhaustion showed in everything they did and the enormously inexperienced snap decisions they made.
Kids are great for new technology-- and for small things. Enterprise level stuff and good project management requires experience. Oh the greatest thing was their decision to use only "happy path" testing. No negative testing. Ah the rewards of that decision just keep paying dividends.
Why don't executives like experienced hands? Because they say "no, it's not possible" instead of "yes, I'll kill myself to make it possible" even when it's clearly impossible.
But 40 is something new. It used to be 45. What's next... 35?