As far as I know they didn't. They didn't correct for creepy fellow male students mobbing them nor for creepy professors hitting on them or for creepy co workers mobbing them and hitting on them once they graduate either.
A scary finding of the questionnaire was that women reported their high school guidance counselors were very non-supportive of their decision to study engineering. Non-supportive is a nice word, because I got long letters that talked about how they were actually discouraged by people in their high schools. There seem to be many high schools in our country which discourage women from taking advanced math and physics courses, and, in fact, there seem to be very few women who were physics teachers in high school.
Two-thirds of the women who are married say they make more money then their husbands, and in many of those families, that really is a source of tension for women engineers as well as for other women.
They were expected to take care of household duties any way.
And having a child is a challenge - especially since men don't get maternity leave.
--
However, creepy bad behavior and biased doesn't stop all female engineers.
1. Emily Roebling (1803-1903)
Emily Roebling stepped in as the first woman field engineer and technical leader of the Brooklyn Bridge when her husband, Washington Roebling, became paralyzed and could no longer work without the help of his wife. Emily became responsible for much of the chief engineerâ(TM)s duties, including day-to-day supervision and project management. The Brooklyn Bridge was completed in 1883 and holds a plaque honoring Emily and her husband.
Emily_Warren_Roebling
2. Beulah Louise Henry (1187-1973)
Beulah Henry was known as âoethe lady Edisonâ in the 1920s and 1930s for the many inventions she patented, including a bobbin-free lockstitch sewing machine, a doll with flexible arms, a vacuum ice cream freezer, a doll with a radio inside and a typewriter that made multiple copies without carbon paper. Henry made a large fortune during her career by capitalizing on her inventions through manufacturing companies to produce her creations.
Beulahlouisehenry 3. Hedy Lamarr (1913-2000)
Hedy Lamarr might be recalled as a sexy movie star of the 1930s and 1940s, however, few know that she invented a remote-controlled communications system for the U.S military during World War II. Lamarrâ(TM)s frequency hopping theory now serves as a basis for modern communication technology, such as Bluetooth and Wi-Fi network connections.
hedy_lamarr 4. Stephanie Louise Kwolek (born 1923)
While working for DuPont, Stephanie Louise Kwolek discovered liquid crystalline polymers, which resulted in the product Kevlar. Containing fibers that are stronger than steel, Kevlar is used to make bulletproof vests, radial tires, airplane fuselages and fiber optic cables. For her accomplishments as a research scientist she received the National Medal of Technology in 1996 and was named to the National Womenâ(TM)s Hall of Fame in 2003. The American Chemical Society awarded her the Perkin Medal in 1997.
Kwolek famous female engineer 5. Martha J. Coston (1826-1904)
Another famous female engineer in history, Martha Coston is credited with developing a signaling flare system thatâ(TM)s used by the U.S. military and known as Coston flares. Coston needed a way to support herself and her children after the death of her husband and discovered a design he had left behind in a notebook. She worked for nearly 10 years revising the designs to include pyrotechnic components to create a long-lasting and multicolored system of flares.
martha coston 6. Lillian Gilbreth (1878-1972)
Lillian Gilbreth contributed to industrial engineering by studying workplace patterns and ergonomics. She became the first female member of the American Soci
This is a great site for cross checking / validating for politifact bias.
It's strongly conservative biased so it's only helpful for conservative statements.
Those I checked seemed pretty reasonable. On example being where Obama called Bengazi a terrorist act- Romney later said Obama said Bengazi was a terrorist incident (or an incident of terrorism) and politifact jumped all over it as a false statement by Romney since "act" is different than "incident". Politifact seemed pretty biased in that case (quibbling).
However- It only shows about 7% of politifacts ratings of falsehoods are dubious. So about 93% of the time, politifact gets it right.
More tricky is the failure to rate true statements. Clearly any statement which is true but non-controversial won't be fact checked ("The sky is blue! I'm pro-american!"). And it's proving a negative (They DIDN'T choose to rate this controversial and true statement by my candidate so he looks less truthful!).
Anyway, Politifactbias.com is one way to cross check Politifact.com.
And ironically shows politifact bias is fairly small (7% of statements found to be incorrect/biased by a hostile audience of politifactbias.com users).
However, since we are not actually willing to let people die like that, they go to the emergency room with crisis level conditions and wrack up huge bills which they cannot afford to pay-- and then those unpaid bills go into the costs for everyone else's insurance premiums.
Universal care means most of those cases get treated with inexpensive pills and doctor's office visits. And the charges for procedures are at covered rates instead of the up to 20x more expensive 'uncovered' rates for procedures and tests done and required under emergency conditions.
The ACA is more fiscally responsible than what we were doing. Universal health care would be even more fiscally responsible.
There are six things that the Lord hates, seven that are an abomination to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil, a false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers. Proverbs 19:9 ESV / 690 helpful votes
A false witness will not go unpunished, and he who breathes out lies will perish. Proverbs 12:22 ESV / 653 helpful votes
Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord, but those who act faithfully are his delight. Psalm 101:7 ESV / 448 helpful votes
No one who practices deceit shall dwell in my house; no one who utters lies shall continue before my eyes. Colossians 3:9-10 ESV / 406 helpful votes
Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator. Luke 8:17 ESV / 319 helpful votes
For nothing is hidden that will not be made manifest, nor is anything secret that will not be known and come to light. Proverbs 12:19 ESV / 253 helpful votes
Truthful lips endure forever, but a lying tongue is but for a moment. 1 John 2:4 ESV / 233 helpful votes
Whoever says âoeI know himâ but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him, Ephesians 4:25 ESV / 210 helpful votes
Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another. John 8:44 ESV / 196 helpful votes
You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has nothing to do with the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies. Revelation 21:8 ESV / 167 helpful votes
But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.â 1 John 1:9 ESV / 166 helpful votes
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Exodus 20:16 ESV / 166 helpful votes
âoeYou shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. Proverbs 24:28 ESV / 165 helpful votes
Be not a witness against your neighbor without cause, and do not deceive with your lips. Matthew 15:18-20 ESV / 132 helpful votes
But what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this defiles a person. For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander. These are what defile a person. But to eat with unwashed hands does not defile anyone.â Proverbs 19:5 ESV / 127 helpful votes
A false witness will not go unpunished, and he who breathes out lies will not escape. Romans 12:17-21 ESV / 119 helpful votes
Repay no one evil for evil, but give thought to do what is honorable in the sight of all. If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all. Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, âoeVengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.â To the contrary, âoeif your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals on his head.â Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. John 8:43-47 ESV / 119 helpful votes
Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot bear to hear my word. You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning,
They've only fact checked 75 trump statements but close to 140 hillary clinton statement.
OTH, they've fact checked 71 jeb bush statements and he has a much more favorable rating than Trump which would argue against bias.
I don't perceive Politifact as being particularly against Trump so the fact his ratings are terrible and Bush's are good would support the fact that Trump statements which can be fact checked are not true more often. Trump also has a very high "pants on fire" rating which they reserve for statements which are not only untrue but also ridiculous.
But your point is valid- they could be ignoring (thru intentional or unintentional bias) some of trumps truthful verifiable statements.
The site gives perfectly good ratings to honest republican candidates.
I think most of expect politicians to shade the truth a quarter of the time and lie a quarter of the time while being honest the rest of the time. that's the stardard for politicians.
Cruz and Trump are something exceptional and their low ratings were due to their own statements (which you can check by following the links). If any would care to show that "pants on fire" lies were actually true or "mostly false statements" were actually true, then I'll cede that politifact is biased.
However, when I've checked it- it has been as reliable as snopes.
I wrote this for another forum which was focused on trump. But basically only 21% of Ted Cruz's statements are true or mostly true. He lies twice as often as Clinton and Sanders and almost twice as often as Rubio. He's facile at lying. Lying is a tool in his tool box. It has little to do with his face.
From politifact, the Pulitzer prize winning political fact checking site.
Trump is saying mostly false statements to outright lies 78% of the time. When caught in a lie, he just lies again.
I was suprised to see Cruz had such a high lie rating given that he's christian and christians are against the lord of lies but his particular sect does approve of lying in the service of the lord so that may be playing a factor here.
Trump is almost a full order of magnitude more dishonest however.
Expensive oil helps 5% of the population at the expense of the other 95%.
Yes, that money and lives spent are vastly ineffecient. But the oil companies have externalized their security costs onto the rest of the citizens.
If that 2 to 3 trillion dollars was paid by the oil companies instead, gasoline and oil products would be much higher. By having them paid for with taxes it provides the illusion that oil isn't as expensive as oil really is.
There is only one "Barbera Streisand" but many people with criminal records.
Sure-- this ONE criminal might be outed (and mostly forgotten within a couple years by 99% of the public). But the rest benefit from the fight.
People used to be able to serve their time and restart their lives. Today, eternal punishment seems to be the standard. You can have trouble finding jobs for years after getting a simple misdemeanor. This would tend to make you return to criminal activity and then be put in prison again-- at a cost of $31,000 per year.in higher taxes.
It's interesting because I know 0% of democrats will vote for Trump and I've seen *recent* polls (on 538.com) showing that 47% of republicans will stay home rather than vote for Trump.
I get the facist, authoritarian appeal of the man. It's scary because this is how democracies are lost. But... I don't think you can be elected with 53% of the republican vote.
OTH, the 35% who hate Hillary and would never vote for her are mostly republican anyway.
It's hard for me to judge between her and Bernie. Bernie is a lot more likable. Hillary is a lot tougher and has a ton of grit and also showed herself to be an extremely loyal democrat last election.
When you mix in the supreme court thing- all obama has to do is nominate a highly qualified moderate but slightly liberal hispanic supreme court justice candidate and when the republicans refuse to even give that candidate a hearing (much less a vote- and much less a no vote), they can kiss florida and perhaps texas and arizona goodbye for the next 20 years.
Funny thing is spending 2 to 3 trillion dollars and 4,000 young united states citizen's lives isn't even considered a subsidy for oil... and it is.
Sooner we reduce dependency on oil, the sooner ISIS and the like get starved out for cash.
We don't need to eliminate oil to do that. just a 5% reduction in consumption will do it. With storage as full as it is, even 1 to 2% will extend the decline by another year or two.
Personally, I find the republicans to be much more authoritarian than democrats.
one thing that will certainly be true is that there will be no "he said/she said" in this case. Google will have a recording of everything about the accident.
If the car was at fault, the software will be tuned.
Accidents happen. So far, they happen less frequently with automated cars.
Well, realize that you are lucky because there are many programming jobs out there.
Don't get me wrong- it pays well. You can retire early (I retired at 51) because the pay is high.
It sounds like your work never has tight deadlines. That's very nice. In my experience, that's not typical.
Programmers at the major contracting houses put in long hours. Programmers at consumer businesses put in long (and holiday) hours. Programming at new development companies is insane. I had a friend who had a bed in his office, which also had showers, and food was provided. On our big project, food was provided two meal a day and 7am to 9pm hours were typical. Around releases, hours were longer.
I don't know about the defense industry. I always got the impression Nasa was a pretty cushy programming job. I'm sure there are easy programming jobs out there.
Fast food was 2-3 hours of busy and 5 hours of mostly standing around doing light work. It's not really work to push 3 burgers around the grill unless you are counting standing up as hard work.
OTH, at exxon, they have a lot of standing desks. Because people's backs are too messed up to sit any more.
I'm sure some burger jobs are harder than others tho.
Look, I agree your point has some validity. But I think you have a false impression of how hard IT work is for many in the field.
"For instance, a decade ago, during the Internet bubble, a book called "Death March" became a best seller. It documented how insane hours for programmers led to health issues. It concluded that poor project management was to blame.
In 2004, coders actually sued Electronic Arts regarding overtime and won a $15 million settlement.
Years later, in 2010, a story went viral from a woman married to a programmer who worked for Rockstar Games. It told how the company expected programmers to work 12-hour days/six days a week for months or years on end, damaging some programmers' health as a result of the strain."
Tell that to the two buses of football players after the game who all ordered custom burgers.
Even there it was just a matter of stepping up the pace for 20 minutes.
At burger king, it's simply a matter of loading the burgers on a machine.
At Fuddruckers, they are not exactly killing themselves. You put the meat on the burger and start the bread in the machine. If you are selling a large volume someone else is going to dress the bun and you simply put the cooked meat on the prepared burger. if you are selling a low volume, you'll dress the burger yourself while the burgers cook.
I've worked at much harder manual labor jobs. making sepia blue prints was very intensive continuous work.
The aspect of programming is you typically do not get a break if you are a developer (as opposed to a maintenance programmer or analyst). You just type and type and type and type. Debug. submit for testing and start typing on the next project.
I do massage therapy on people disabled from typing these days. Some can't lift their arm above shoulder height due to pain (infra spinatus) and some can't put their hands in a keyboard position (extensors, flexors, and interosseous but sometimes opponens pollicus).
They are making billions of dollars because of the way the system is set up. If it had been set up differently, they would have never made a dime.
We can disagree on what's a fair amount to take, but Google's tax rate was so low it was embarrassing and they volunteered to pay more when first caught. It was like Romney refusing to share his tax returns because the 13% rate he paid was lower than just about anyone in the country and he knew it would come across very badly.
If you are rich- I salute you defending your self interests. If you are not rich- you are stupid. Not ignorant. Stupid.
If we can sacrifice 30,000 lives a year to protect our freedom from government tyranny with guns, we can sure as heck sacrifice a dozen lives to protect ourselves from government tyranny.
And the guns don't even stand a chance against government weaponry any more*. At least the privacy actually works.
* Put a person with any gun against an apache helicopter that can put fourteen 30mm shells center of mass while the person is in soft cover under trees. From 12,000 feet away.
** Breaking peoples' privacy is much less public and much more dangerous to our way of life.
I think we can look at two particular definitions for fair as a start
Fair: adverb:
1. without cheating or trying to achieve unjust advantage.
"no one could say he played fair"
I think it's clear that google (and many other companies) are cheating and trying to achieve an unjust advantage by using features of globalism to artificially shift revenue around.
Two primary methods are
a) setting up a shell company in another country and making a sham loan with interest payments greater than the profits of the sheltered company.
b) setting up a shell company in another country and paying license, franchise or other fees greater than the profits of the sheltered company.
I think the IRS and corresponding agencies are just about done with both those methods. I anticipate them declaring such excessive fees and such loans to be fraudulent tax shelters. And coming after the money. Like with SYSCO who tried something similar and ended up paying close to a billion dollars in taxes.
The other is Fair: Adjective 1. in accordance with the rules or standards; legitimate.
Pretty much the same thing. The people elect a government which sets up standard methods of taxing and standard tax rates. Those who avoid paying taxes by using non-standard setups are not being fair. Likewise by this standard, I think they will only make it so far. And I think like all greedy individuals, they pushed this one too far. And so there will be a reckoning. And once one country does it and makes it stick... I pity the shareholders of these cheating companies.
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As far as I know they didn't. They didn't correct for creepy fellow male students mobbing them nor for creepy professors hitting on them or for creepy co workers mobbing them and hitting on them once they graduate either.
Of course, they do face significant challenges
http://gos.sbc.edu/b/baum.html
A scary finding of the questionnaire was that women reported their high school guidance counselors were very non-supportive of their decision to study engineering. Non-supportive is a nice word, because I got long letters that talked about how they were actually discouraged by people in their high schools. There seem to be many high schools in our country which discourage women from taking advanced math and physics courses, and, in fact, there seem to be very few women who were physics teachers in high school.
Two-thirds of the women who are married say they make more money then their husbands, and in many of those families, that really is a source of tension for women engineers as well as for other women.
They were expected to take care of household duties any way.
And having a child is a challenge - especially since men don't get maternity leave.
--
However, creepy bad behavior and biased doesn't stop all female engineers.
1. Emily Roebling (1803-1903)
Emily Roebling stepped in as the first woman field engineer and technical leader of the Brooklyn Bridge when her husband, Washington Roebling, became paralyzed and could no longer work without the help of his wife. Emily became responsible for much of the chief engineerâ(TM)s duties, including day-to-day supervision and project management. The Brooklyn Bridge was completed in 1883 and holds a plaque honoring Emily and her husband.
Emily_Warren_Roebling
2. Beulah Louise Henry (1187-1973)
Beulah Henry was known as âoethe lady Edisonâ in the 1920s and 1930s for the many inventions she patented, including a bobbin-free lockstitch sewing machine, a doll with flexible arms, a vacuum ice cream freezer, a doll with a radio inside and a typewriter that made multiple copies without carbon paper. Henry made a large fortune during her career by capitalizing on her inventions through manufacturing companies to produce her creations.
Beulahlouisehenry
3. Hedy Lamarr (1913-2000)
Hedy Lamarr might be recalled as a sexy movie star of the 1930s and 1940s, however, few know that she invented a remote-controlled communications system for the U.S military during World War II. Lamarrâ(TM)s frequency hopping theory now serves as a basis for modern communication technology, such as Bluetooth and Wi-Fi network connections.
hedy_lamarr
4. Stephanie Louise Kwolek (born 1923)
While working for DuPont, Stephanie Louise Kwolek discovered liquid crystalline polymers, which resulted in the product Kevlar. Containing fibers that are stronger than steel, Kevlar is used to make bulletproof vests, radial tires, airplane fuselages and fiber optic cables. For her accomplishments as a research scientist she received the National Medal of Technology in 1996 and was named to the National Womenâ(TM)s Hall of Fame in 2003. The American Chemical Society awarded her the Perkin Medal in 1997.
Kwolek famous female engineer
5. Martha J. Coston (1826-1904)
Another famous female engineer in history, Martha Coston is credited with developing a signaling flare system thatâ(TM)s used by the U.S. military and known as Coston flares. Coston needed a way to support herself and her children after the death of her husband and discovered a design he had left behind in a notebook. She worked for nearly 10 years revising the designs to include pyrotechnic components to create a long-lasting and multicolored system of flares.
martha coston
6. Lillian Gilbreth (1878-1972)
Lillian Gilbreth contributed to industrial engineering by studying workplace patterns and ergonomics. She became the first female member of the American Soci
http://www.politifactbias.com/
This is a great site for cross checking / validating for politifact bias.
It's strongly conservative biased so it's only helpful for conservative statements.
Those I checked seemed pretty reasonable. On example being where Obama called Bengazi a terrorist act- Romney later said Obama said Bengazi was a terrorist incident (or an incident of terrorism) and politifact jumped all over it as a false statement by Romney since "act" is different than "incident". Politifact seemed pretty biased in that case (quibbling).
However- It only shows about 7% of politifacts ratings of falsehoods are dubious. So about 93% of the time, politifact gets it right.
More tricky is the failure to rate true statements. Clearly any statement which is true but non-controversial won't be fact checked ("The sky is blue! I'm pro-american!"). And it's proving a negative (They DIDN'T choose to rate this controversial and true statement by my candidate so he looks less truthful!).
Anyway, Politifactbias.com is one way to cross check Politifact.com.
And ironically shows politifact bias is fairly small (7% of statements found to be incorrect/biased by a hostile audience of politifactbias.com users).
However, since we are not actually willing to let people die like that, they go to the emergency room with crisis level conditions and wrack up huge bills which they cannot afford to pay-- and then those unpaid bills go into the costs for everyone else's insurance premiums.
Universal care means most of those cases get treated with inexpensive pills and doctor's office visits.
And the charges for procedures are at covered rates instead of the up to 20x more expensive 'uncovered' rates for procedures and tests done and required under emergency conditions.
The ACA is more fiscally responsible than what we were doing. Universal health care would be even more fiscally responsible.
There is a feedback loop with all fossil fuels. As you wean off of them, the financial case for weaning off of them becomes challenging.
It's the right thing to do, but early adopters may look foolish for a few years when actually they are being wise.
It's not the face. Cruz looks a lot like Colin Mockery. Colin is well liked and a funny guy.
It's how Cruz carries himself. He's not comfortable in his own skin.
You may need a refresher on the bible being against lying generally.
https://www.openbible.info/top...
Proverbs 6:16-19 ESV / 824 helpful votes
There are six things that the Lord hates, seven that are an abomination to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil, a false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers.
Proverbs 19:9 ESV / 690 helpful votes
A false witness will not go unpunished, and he who breathes out lies will perish.
Proverbs 12:22 ESV / 653 helpful votes
Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord, but those who act faithfully are his delight.
Psalm 101:7 ESV / 448 helpful votes
No one who practices deceit shall dwell in my house; no one who utters lies shall continue before my eyes.
Colossians 3:9-10 ESV / 406 helpful votes
Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator.
Luke 8:17 ESV / 319 helpful votes
For nothing is hidden that will not be made manifest, nor is anything secret that will not be known and come to light.
Proverbs 12:19 ESV / 253 helpful votes
Truthful lips endure forever, but a lying tongue is but for a moment.
1 John 2:4 ESV / 233 helpful votes
Whoever says âoeI know himâ but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him,
Ephesians 4:25 ESV / 210 helpful votes
Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another.
John 8:44 ESV / 196 helpful votes
You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has nothing to do with the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
Revelation 21:8 ESV / 167 helpful votes
But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.â
1 John 1:9 ESV / 166 helpful votes
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Exodus 20:16 ESV / 166 helpful votes
âoeYou shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
Proverbs 24:28 ESV / 165 helpful votes
Be not a witness against your neighbor without cause, and do not deceive with your lips.
Matthew 15:18-20 ESV / 132 helpful votes
But what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this defiles a person. For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander. These are what defile a person. But to eat with unwashed hands does not defile anyone.â
Proverbs 19:5 ESV / 127 helpful votes
A false witness will not go unpunished, and he who breathes out lies will not escape.
Romans 12:17-21 ESV / 119 helpful votes
Repay no one evil for evil, but give thought to do what is honorable in the sight of all. If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all. Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, âoeVengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.â To the contrary, âoeif your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals on his head.â Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
John 8:43-47 ESV / 119 helpful votes
Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot bear to hear my word. You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning,
I think you have a valid point. They may be ignoring some truthful statements that he has made.
There is an article here...
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12...
They've only fact checked 75 trump statements but close to 140 hillary clinton statement.
OTH, they've fact checked 71 jeb bush statements and he has a much more favorable rating than Trump which would argue against bias.
I don't perceive Politifact as being particularly against Trump so the fact his ratings are terrible and Bush's are good would support the fact that Trump statements which can be fact checked are not true more often. Trump also has a very high "pants on fire" rating which they reserve for statements which are not only untrue but also ridiculous.
But your point is valid- they could be ignoring (thru intentional or unintentional bias) some of trumps truthful verifiable statements.
.
I didn't say honest as a priest.
All politicians lie. My point was that cruz and trump lie much more than the standard for politicians.
Oh yea...
http://www.politifact.com/pers...
48% of Bush's statements are all true or mostly true. Another 22% are half true.
1% better than Sanders.
http://www.politifact.com/pers...
39% of Christie's statements are all true or mostly true. Another 26% are half true.
The site gives perfectly good ratings to honest republican candidates.
I think most of expect politicians to shade the truth a quarter of the time and lie a quarter of the time while being honest the rest of the time. that's the stardard for politicians.
Cruz and Trump are something exceptional and their low ratings were due to their own statements (which you can check by following the links).
If any would care to show that "pants on fire" lies were actually true or "mostly false statements" were actually true, then I'll cede that politifact is biased.
However, when I've checked it- it has been as reliable as snopes.
I wrote this for another forum which was focused on trump. But basically only 21% of Ted Cruz's statements are true or mostly true. He lies twice as often as Clinton and Sanders and almost twice as often as Rubio. He's facile at lying. Lying is a tool in his tool box. It has little to do with his face.
From politifact, the Pulitzer prize winning political fact checking site.
http://www.politifact.com/pers...
51% of Clinton's statements are all true or mostly true. Another 21% are half true.
http://www.politifact.com/pers...
48% of Sander's statements are all true or mostly true. Another 21% are half true.
http://www.politifact.com/pers...
35% of Rubio's statements are all true or mostly true. Another 22% are half true.
http://www.politifact.com/pers...
21% of Ted Cruz's statements are all true or mostly true. Another 13% are half true.
http://www.politifact.com/pers...
8% of Trump's statements are all true or mostly true. Another 14% are half true.
yes.. 8% is yoooge.
Trump is saying mostly false statements to outright lies 78% of the time. When caught in a lie, he just lies again.
I was suprised to see Cruz had such a high lie rating given that he's christian and christians are against the lord of lies but his particular sect does approve of lying in the service of the lord so that may be playing a factor here.
Trump is almost a full order of magnitude more dishonest however.
Two to three trillion dollars and 4000 lives to protect oil fields.
We were only in iraq because of oil.
There are many many other nations we could invade to free from dictators but we don't... because oil.
There are many many other genocides going on.. and we do nothing... because oil.
I'm ignoring the continuing ongoing cost to protect oil fields (Billions of tax payer dollars per year).
If those fields were worth 5% as much, and were 5% as critical, we wouldn't be spending so much to protect them.
Oil is hugely subsidized by governments. Diversified energy generation sources reduces oil's criticality and value.
This is an odd point. I don't hate Trump. I find him scary but somehow, he avoids me hating him.
Might not be true for minorities tho.
Expensive oil helps 5% of the population at the expense of the other 95%.
Yes, that money and lives spent are vastly ineffecient. But the oil companies have externalized their security costs onto the rest of the citizens.
If that 2 to 3 trillion dollars was paid by the oil companies instead, gasoline and oil products would be much higher. By having them paid for with taxes it provides the illusion that oil isn't as expensive as oil really is.
There is a key difference.
There is only one "Barbera Streisand" but many people with criminal records.
Sure-- this ONE criminal might be outed (and mostly forgotten within a couple years by 99% of the public). But the rest benefit from the fight.
People used to be able to serve their time and restart their lives. Today, eternal punishment seems to be the standard. You can have trouble finding jobs for years after getting a simple misdemeanor. This would tend to make you return to criminal activity and then be put in prison again-- at a cost of $31,000 per year.in higher taxes.
It's interesting because I know 0% of democrats will vote for Trump and I've seen *recent* polls (on 538.com) showing that 47% of republicans will stay home rather than vote for Trump.
I get the facist, authoritarian appeal of the man. It's scary because this is how democracies are lost. But... I don't think you can be elected with 53% of the republican vote.
OTH, the 35% who hate Hillary and would never vote for her are mostly republican anyway.
It's hard for me to judge between her and Bernie. Bernie is a lot more likable. Hillary is a lot tougher and has a ton of grit and also showed herself to be an extremely loyal democrat last election.
When you mix in the supreme court thing- all obama has to do is nominate a highly qualified moderate but slightly liberal hispanic supreme court justice candidate and when the republicans refuse to even give that candidate a hearing (much less a vote- and much less a no vote), they can kiss florida and perhaps texas and arizona goodbye for the next 20 years.
Funny thing is spending 2 to 3 trillion dollars and 4,000 young united states citizen's lives isn't even considered a subsidy for oil... and it is.
Sooner we reduce dependency on oil, the sooner ISIS and the like get starved out for cash.
We don't need to eliminate oil to do that. just a 5% reduction in consumption will do it. With storage as full as it is, even 1 to 2% will extend the decline by another year or two.
Personally, I find the republicans to be much more authoritarian than democrats.
one thing that will certainly be true is that there will be no "he said/she said" in this case. Google will have a recording of everything about the accident.
If the car was at fault, the software will be tuned.
Accidents happen. So far, they happen less frequently with automated cars.
How many robots have been replaced?
How many human jobs have been added?
Well, realize that you are lucky because there are many programming jobs out there.
Don't get me wrong- it pays well. You can retire early (I retired at 51) because the pay is high.
It sounds like your work never has tight deadlines. That's very nice. In my experience, that's not typical.
Programmers at the major contracting houses put in long hours. Programmers at consumer businesses put in long (and holiday) hours.
Programming at new development companies is insane. I had a friend who had a bed in his office, which also had showers, and food was provided.
On our big project, food was provided two meal a day and 7am to 9pm hours were typical. Around releases, hours were longer.
I don't know about the defense industry. I always got the impression Nasa was a pretty cushy programming job. I'm sure there are easy programming jobs out there.
Fast food was 2-3 hours of busy and 5 hours of mostly standing around doing light work. It's not really work to push 3 burgers around the grill unless you are counting standing up as hard work.
OTH, at exxon, they have a lot of standing desks. Because people's backs are too messed up to sit any more.
I'm sure some burger jobs are harder than others tho.
Look, I agree your point has some validity. But I think you have a false impression of how hard IT work is for many in the field.
http://www.geekwire.com/2012/f...
"Facebook employees gripe about the long hours"
https://www.glassdoor.com.au/R...
"long hours, high stress"
http://www.businessinsider.com...
"For instance, a decade ago, during the Internet bubble, a book called "Death March" became a best seller. It documented how insane hours for programmers led to health issues. It concluded that poor project management was to blame.
In 2004, coders actually sued Electronic Arts regarding overtime and won a $15 million settlement.
Years later, in 2010, a story went viral from a woman married to a programmer who worked for Rockstar Games. It told how the company expected programmers to work 12-hour days/six days a week for months or years on end, damaging some programmers' health as a result of the strain."
Tell that to the two buses of football players after the game who all ordered custom burgers.
Even there it was just a matter of stepping up the pace for 20 minutes.
At burger king, it's simply a matter of loading the burgers on a machine.
At Fuddruckers, they are not exactly killing themselves. You put the meat on the burger and start the bread in the machine. If you are selling a large volume someone else is going to dress the bun and you simply put the cooked meat on the prepared burger. if you are selling a low volume, you'll dress the burger yourself while the burgers cook.
I've worked at much harder manual labor jobs. making sepia blue prints was very intensive continuous work.
The aspect of programming is you typically do not get a break if you are a developer (as opposed to a maintenance programmer or analyst).
You just type and type and type and type. Debug. submit for testing and start typing on the next project.
I do massage therapy on people disabled from typing these days. Some can't lift their arm above shoulder height due to pain (infra spinatus) and some can't put their hands in a keyboard position (extensors, flexors, and interosseous but sometimes opponens pollicus).
They are making billions of dollars because of the way the system is set up. If it had been set up differently, they would have never made a dime.
We can disagree on what's a fair amount to take, but Google's tax rate was so low it was embarrassing and they volunteered to pay more when first caught. It was like Romney refusing to share his tax returns because the 13% rate he paid was lower than just about anyone in the country and he knew it would come across very badly.
If you are rich- I salute you defending your self interests. If you are not rich- you are stupid. Not ignorant. Stupid.
As stated, I'm willing to sacrifice my own life to continue to have liberty for everyone.
You really think if Apple folds that bad guys won't migrate to another actually secure device?
Terrorists and criminals own clothing. Owning clothing is the mark of a terrorist or criminal.
Terrorist and criminals write down evil plans with pens and paper. Pen and paper are the mark of a terrorist or crimianl.
Terrorists and criminals eat food...
No it's not.
If we can sacrifice 30,000 lives a year to protect our freedom from government tyranny with guns, we can sure as heck sacrifice a dozen lives to protect ourselves from government tyranny.
And the guns don't even stand a chance against government weaponry any more*. At least the privacy actually works.
* Put a person with any gun against an apache helicopter that can put fourteen 30mm shells center of mass while the person is in soft cover under trees. From 12,000 feet away.
** Breaking peoples' privacy is much less public and much more dangerous to our way of life.
Note, the FBI chose this particular case to push publicly but they have 10 other phones not owned by terrorists that they also want Apple to break.
They've had lots of phones of criminals but chose not to push this until they had a good "test case".
The answer to them is no. Hell no.
I think we can look at two particular definitions for fair as a start
Fair: adverb:
1. without cheating or trying to achieve unjust advantage.
"no one could say he played fair"
I think it's clear that google (and many other companies) are cheating and trying to achieve an unjust advantage by using features of globalism to artificially shift revenue around.
Two primary methods are
a) setting up a shell company in another country and making a sham loan with interest payments greater than the profits of the sheltered company.
b) setting up a shell company in another country and paying license, franchise or other fees greater than the profits of the sheltered company.
I think the IRS and corresponding agencies are just about done with both those methods. I anticipate them declaring such excessive fees and such loans to be fraudulent tax shelters. And coming after the money. Like with SYSCO who tried something similar and ended up paying close to a billion dollars in taxes.
The other is
Fair: Adjective
1. in accordance with the rules or standards; legitimate.
Pretty much the same thing. The people elect a government which sets up standard methods of taxing and standard tax rates. Those who avoid paying taxes by using non-standard setups are not being fair. Likewise by this standard, I think they will only make it so far. And I think like all greedy individuals, they pushed this one too far. And so there will be a reckoning. And once one country does it and makes it stick... I pity the shareholders of these cheating companies.