And everyone knows that the particular workers who start the lawsuit are probably blackballed for life.
The company will look for opportunities to fire them with cause and other companies who catch the activity in a background check won't hire them.
So it take a while before workers raise the issue. In the mean time, extra profits for the corporation. If the profits are higher than the likely fines or the fines are likely to apply down the road after management has collected their bonuses and moved on to another company.. then it's a simple profit/loss business decision.
When a company breaks the law, any contract you signed is non-binding.
If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and sounds like a duck- it's a duck. It doesn't matter if you call it a contractor.
If amazon wants contractors then it needs to put the jobs up for bids, accept random contractors for a given job, be subject to occasional shortages, etc. Once it tries to "lock" the contractors into fixed hours and shifts- they are not contractors- they are employees.
The video here shows the drown was shot down in an area where housing was typical suburban housing with normal sized lots. The video of the police talking to the man in front of his own house also shows he is in a typical suburban housing area - not off in the country. The flight recorder shows the drone was over 250' off the ground (hell of a shot - depending on how many shots were fired). The ground is basically flat and level (no hills) but it shows -45' altitude so it could have been just over 200' off the ground.
For what it's worth- I wouldn't want a drone flying over my house taking video either.
Admittedly I missed the birdshot part. The max range of buckshot is about 80 yards. The effective range of buckshot is under 50 yards (but the odd birdshot in the eye doesn't care about effective range).
Also, being lightweight, birdshot will actually lose horizontal velocity more than heaver shot or bullets.
So 80 yards.. 240'. If he was in a suburban neighborhood, he could hit animals, children, and people sunbathing for 2 to 3 houses in all directions. Fatality is unlikely as velocity is low enough not to penetrate skin and clothing much less bone.
Even from a hand gun like a 9mm, you are talking over a mile when shot upwards at the wrong angle. Forward velocity does not drop below killing velocity before downwards acceleration causes the bullet to hit the ground or some low object.
Actually, they are pointing out a major logic hole in the movie.
Very interesting.
The movie also assumes a short time scale and pretty much direct attacks. Some retaliatory strikes that were targeted at the economy and power generation followed by peace talks instead of all out war might be a winning move too.
LIkewise, nuking to 'wound' instead of nuking to kill.
Still a fun movie. But it automatically succeeded because it was the point the writers wanted to make.
In a craptastic universe, (say on the outer limits TV show), it would have automatically failed.
besides, I don't see the guy making specific predictions about what would happen. What someone should do is use the data we have on martial soil to duplicate the setup and see what happens.
Also, I think that the martian light issue isn't a deal. Even in the book, the station would have to be opaque so it is purely a question of whether he had sufficient artificial lighting inside the station. I don't recall if that was a addressed in the book or not but it would have been overly bright and hard to watch so wouldn't be emphasized in the movie.
Science is a prediction based on observed data. We literally have almost no observations during a period of higher temperatures. The first predictions (large numbers of storms) were wrong. That's okay. But the data set is still very small. You can't make reliable predictions til you have more data.
173,000 terawatts of incoming solar radiation. 47 terawatts geothermal heat flux from the Earth's interior
Earth's energy imbalance measurements provided by Argo floats detected accumulation of ocean heat content (OHC). The estimated imbalance was measured during a deep solar minimum of 2005-2010 at 0.58 ± 0.15 W/mÂ.[10] Later research estimated the surface energy imbalance to be 0.60 ± 0.17 W/mÂ.[11]
Actually, we won't. The sample size is too small. There could be a period of severe hurricanes every 150 years and this would be the first time we are recording it.
Other data sets supporting global warming are much larger and we can draw conclusions from them but hurricanes would take a long time to get enough samples.
Great TV series tho. Amazing how they had at least 60% great episodes and very few stinkers. Yet they could only find good ideas for one Highlander movie.
Except that its completely untrue, it's an interesting position.
Firstly, you can see it here where young workers post stupid shit like, "I want to hire people I'm comfortable with so I hire young people like me" and "I don't feel comfortable being boss of someone older than me." which is flat out bald discrimination. And lol.. this gem by Zuckenberg, "Young people are just smarter".
All you have to do is substitute 'females" or "blacks" and it's obvious. "I want to hire people I'm comfortable with so I hire white males like me".
Secondly, some companies like Infosys *require* that you put your high school graduation date on your resume. Not college date-- high school. This is a proxy for asking your age.
What is ironic about all this is by not fighting against age discrimination now, you doom yourself to face it. And pretty quickly-- it starts at 45 in the IT field and gets intense at age 50.
That's 15 years from retirement age. If you are in IT, your high pay is an illusion because you should really be saving much harder than people in other fields.
Ooo. Say you could rent an autonomous car and it would go to the starbucks and then you could use skype on your cell phone to telepresence to the star bucks and order/pay for the coffee "in person" and then the car brings the coffee to wherever you are.
Or going to pick things up. People just load things in the car (which you can see by skype like video) and you pay remotely and then it brings it to wherever you are.
The rates would have to be reasonable and that's a problem because when we drive the car ourselves we don't think about the actual cost of our car for that actual trip.
Though the reviewers did find that six or less hours of sleep was associated with a 12% increased risk of death, they also found a 30% increase linked with nine or more hours. It is unclear why the newspapers all focused on the risks of less sleep.
And there are causality and correlation risks with the data tho-- you may not be sleeping much because you are sick already. You may be sleeping too much because you are sick already.
Hit from behind sitting at a red light. Three 24 year old males in the cab of the truck weren't paying attention. They were also buzzed. I was in a blue sedan. Hit from behind sitting at a red light. Lady "thought" the light had changed. I was in a large SUV. Hit from behind sitting at a red light. Two high school students caravaning and one was tailgating the other. When the first braked, the second rearended her- was stunned by the airbag and didn't even brake before hitting me. I was in a bright blue medium size SUV. Hit from the front while sitting at a red light. The other driver "assumed" no one was behind him and wanted to switch into the left turn lane. Didn't bother to check his rear view mirror. I was in a large SUV.
Friend hit from behind. The other driver had been talking on his cell phone and dropped it. Without thinking he bent over to pick it up from the floor board. This while doing 65mph in the HOV lane.
As I said, in every major accident the other driver was ticketed. I now watch my rear view mirror when stopped. Until there are cars stopped behind me, I'm at risk.
Human beings 'zone out'. Human beings make assumptions. Human beings make mistakes. Human beings are reckless. Human beings run red lights at high speeds long after they've been red and T-BONE people. Human beings are angry and irrational because of their day at work or because they are rushing to make an appointment that they are late for or their spouse just left them or they just got fired. Human beings drink and drive.
Autoland has great value in that it allows aircraft to land in visibility that is too low to land manually (fog, generally), and as such gets a good bit of usage at major airports on foggy mornings.... Most airliners that are certified for Autoland, must perform at least one successful Autoland each 30 days in order to maintain certification. So, at least once a month, most commercial and freight large aircraft must do one.... A guess though, if you were to ask 10 random pilots, would probably end up around one autoland per 50 manual landings....
And this article is almost 4 years old. Autoland is much more commonly used today- especially for planes carrying packages instead of humans.
Now let's review my friends experience with human drivers tonight.
Tailgating. Holding down the horn.
The lanes to the left and right of her were open.
Finally. zooming around her on the left-- cutting in front of her within a few feet and braking hard. Which was stupid because so many assholes have done that trick now that when someone passes me in anger, I'm already slowing down. She knows to do the same thing.
A google car will NEVER do that.
Let's review my accidents with humans.
Rear ended from behind while sitting at a red light (30mph) (he was ticketed) Rear ended from behind while sitting at a red light (5mph) (minor damage- more from my bike rack to her grille). Sideswiped by an 18 wheeler that changed lanes into me without signaling (he was ticketed) Front ended when the truck in front of me put it into reverse at a redlight and GUNNED backwards into me. (minor damage to my front bumper). Rear ended from behind while sitting at a red light (30+mph - car totaled) (she was ticketed) The person that rammed me in a parking lot when I wasn't even there and drove off without leaving info.
How about my friend who was nearly killed recently. Rear ended from behind while sitting in the HOV lane with stopped traffic (50+ mph- evidence the human didn't even brake until he was 20' behind doing over 50mph).
NONE of these accidents would have happened had a google car been driving.
If nothing else- I'd like cars to start slowing down automatically when they detect a collision is about to occur. And prevent a driver from flooring it into another car ahead or behind them when both are stopped.
I, for one, an looking forward to our autonomous car overlords.
Slashdot Mirror
Exactly.
And everyone knows that the particular workers who start the lawsuit are probably blackballed for life.
The company will look for opportunities to fire them with cause and other companies who catch the activity in a background check won't hire them.
So it take a while before workers raise the issue. In the mean time, extra profits for the corporation. If the profits are higher than the likely fines or the fines are likely to apply down the road after management has collected their bonuses and moved on to another company.. then it's a simple profit/loss business decision.
When a company breaks the law, any contract you signed is non-binding.
If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and sounds like a duck- it's a duck. It doesn't matter if you call it a contractor.
If amazon wants contractors then it needs to put the jobs up for bids, accept random contractors for a given job, be subject to occasional shortages, etc. Once it tries to "lock" the contractors into fixed hours and shifts- they are not contractors- they are employees.
It's really that simple.
http://www.wdrb.com/story/2967...
The video here shows the drown was shot down in an area where housing was typical suburban housing with normal sized lots.
The video of the police talking to the man in front of his own house also shows he is in a typical suburban housing area - not off in the country.
The flight recorder shows the drone was over 250' off the ground (hell of a shot - depending on how many shots were fired).
The ground is basically flat and level (no hills) but it shows -45' altitude so it could have been just over 200' off the ground.
For what it's worth- I wouldn't want a drone flying over my house taking video either.
A shotgun depends on the type of shot. In this case it was birdshot. If it had been .00, the range was 2000 feet.
I missed the type of weapon and used the recent home depot lady gun (a 9mm).
A rifle would have an even further range than a 9mm handgun.
Even so, he could have injured unintended people up to 80 yards away (even tho he could only reliably hit a target up to 50 yards away).
Since it is so harmless, would you care to stand 60 yards downrange while I let off several rounds of birdshot in your general direction?
Admittedly I missed the birdshot part. The max range of buckshot is about 80 yards. The effective range of buckshot is under 50 yards (but the odd birdshot in the eye doesn't care about effective range).
Also, being lightweight, birdshot will actually lose horizontal velocity more than heaver shot or bullets.
So 80 yards.. 240'. If he was in a suburban neighborhood, he could hit animals, children, and people sunbathing for 2 to 3 houses in all directions. Fatality is unlikely as velocity is low enough not to penetrate skin and clothing much less bone.
Even from a hand gun like a 9mm, you are talking over a mile when shot upwards at the wrong angle. Forward velocity does not drop below killing velocity before downwards acceleration causes the bullet to hit the ground or some low object.
This was a very dangerous action.
Actually, they are pointing out a major logic hole in the movie.
Very interesting.
The movie also assumes a short time scale and pretty much direct attacks. Some retaliatory strikes that were targeted at the economy and power generation followed by peace talks instead of all out war might be a winning move too.
LIkewise, nuking to 'wound' instead of nuking to kill.
Still a fun movie. But it automatically succeeded because it was the point the writers wanted to make.
In a craptastic universe, (say on the outer limits TV show), it would have automatically failed.
Could it be improved? Sure. No one can be an expert in all fields.
Is it science fantasy? Nope.
besides, I don't see the guy making specific predictions about what would happen. What someone should do is use the data we have on martial soil to duplicate the setup and see what happens.
Also, I think that the martian light issue isn't a deal. Even in the book, the station would have to be opaque so it is purely a question of whether he had sufficient artificial lighting inside the station. I don't recall if that was a addressed in the book or not but it would have been overly bright and hard to watch so wouldn't be emphasized in the movie.
Science is a prediction based on observed data. We literally have almost no observations during a period of higher temperatures. The first predictions (large numbers of storms) were wrong. That's okay. But the data set is still very small. You can't make reliable predictions til you have more data.
Also, consider "black swan" events.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
173,000 terawatts of incoming solar radiation.
47 terawatts geothermal heat flux from the Earth's interior
Earth's energy imbalance measurements provided by Argo floats detected accumulation of ocean heat content (OHC). The estimated imbalance was measured during a deep solar minimum of 2005-2010 at 0.58 ± 0.15 W/mÂ.[10] Later research estimated the surface energy imbalance to be 0.60 ± 0.17 W/mÂ.[11]
Actually, we won't. The sample size is too small. There could be a period of severe hurricanes every 150 years and this would be the first time we are recording it.
Other data sets supporting global warming are much larger and we can draw conclusions from them but hurricanes would take a long time to get enough samples.
nt.
Great TV series tho. Amazing how they had at least 60% great episodes and very few stinkers. Yet they could only find good ideas for one Highlander movie.
The Matrix was a great film. I'm glad they didn't have any sequels for it. It was one of a kind.
Except that its completely untrue, it's an interesting position.
Firstly, you can see it here where young workers post stupid shit like, "I want to hire people I'm comfortable with so I hire young people like me" and "I don't feel comfortable being boss of someone older than me." which is flat out bald discrimination. And lol.. this gem by Zuckenberg, "Young people are just smarter".
All you have to do is substitute 'females" or "blacks" and it's obvious. "I want to hire people I'm comfortable with so I hire white males like me".
Secondly, some companies like Infosys *require* that you put your high school graduation date on your resume. Not college date-- high school. This is a proxy for asking your age.
What is ironic about all this is by not fighting against age discrimination now, you doom yourself to face it. And pretty quickly-- it starts at 45 in the IT field and gets intense at age 50.
That's 15 years from retirement age. If you are in IT, your high pay is an illusion because you should really be saving much harder than people in other fields.
Ooo. Say you could rent an autonomous car and it would go to the starbucks and then you could use skype on your cell phone to telepresence to the star bucks and order/pay for the coffee "in person" and then the car brings the coffee to wherever you are.
Or going to pick things up. People just load things in the car (which you can see by skype like video) and you pay remotely and then it brings it to wherever you are.
The rates would have to be reasonable and that's a problem because when we drive the car ourselves we don't think about the actual cost of our car for that actual trip.
http://www.nhs.uk/news/2010/05...
Though the reviewers did find that six or less hours of sleep was associated with a 12% increased risk of death, they also found a 30% increase linked with nine or more hours. It is unclear why the newspapers all focused on the risks of less sleep.
And there are causality and correlation risks with the data tho-- you may not be sleeping much because you are sick already. You may be sleeping too much because you are sick already.
There's always one person who questions reality.
Let's go thru the accidents.
Hit from behind sitting at a red light. Three 24 year old males in the cab of the truck weren't paying attention. They were also buzzed. I was in a blue sedan.
Hit from behind sitting at a red light. Lady "thought" the light had changed. I was in a large SUV.
Hit from behind sitting at a red light. Two high school students caravaning and one was tailgating the other. When the first braked, the second rearended her- was stunned by the airbag and didn't even brake before hitting me. I was in a bright blue medium size SUV.
Hit from the front while sitting at a red light. The other driver "assumed" no one was behind him and wanted to switch into the left turn lane. Didn't bother to check his rear view mirror. I was in a large SUV.
Friend hit from behind. The other driver had been talking on his cell phone and dropped it. Without thinking he bent over to pick it up from the floor board. This while doing 65mph in the HOV lane.
As I said, in every major accident the other driver was ticketed. I now watch my rear view mirror when stopped. Until there are cars stopped behind me, I'm at risk.
Human beings 'zone out'. Human beings make assumptions. Human beings make mistakes. Human beings are reckless. Human beings run red lights at high speeds long after they've been red and T-BONE people. Human beings are angry and irrational because of their day at work or because they are rushing to make an appointment that they are late for or their spouse just left them or they just got fired. Human beings drink and drive.
Automated cars are going to be much safer for us.
You are very ignorant of the facts.
https://www.quora.com/How-ofte...
Autoland has great value in that it allows aircraft to land in visibility that is too low to land manually (fog, generally), and as such gets a good bit of usage at major airports on foggy mornings. ... ... ...
Most airliners that are certified for Autoland, must perform at least one successful Autoland each 30 days in order to maintain certification. So, at least once a month, most commercial and freight large aircraft must do one.
A guess though, if you were to ask 10 random pilots, would probably end up around one autoland per 50 manual landings.
And this article is almost 4 years old. Autoland is much more commonly used today- especially for planes carrying packages instead of humans.
Many planes land and take off automatically now.
The pilot and copilot are just watching.
per my bud the air traffic controller. I was surprised.
but outside of stormy weather- a plane's experience is much more predictable than an automobile's experience.
No dogs running across the road. Other planes have flight plans and fly mostly in straight lines.
No stop/go/tailgating on the runway.
Planes are well maintained and not likely to stall on the runway.
It sounds cautious.
Now let's review my friends experience with human drivers tonight.
Tailgating. Holding down the horn.
The lanes to the left and right of her were open.
Finally. zooming around her on the left-- cutting in front of her within a few feet and braking hard. Which was stupid because so many assholes have done that trick now that when someone passes me in anger, I'm already slowing down. She knows to do the same thing.
A google car will NEVER do that.
Let's review my accidents with humans.
Rear ended from behind while sitting at a red light (30mph) (he was ticketed)
Rear ended from behind while sitting at a red light (5mph) (minor damage- more from my bike rack to her grille).
Sideswiped by an 18 wheeler that changed lanes into me without signaling (he was ticketed)
Front ended when the truck in front of me put it into reverse at a redlight and GUNNED backwards into me. (minor damage to my front bumper).
Rear ended from behind while sitting at a red light (30+mph - car totaled) (she was ticketed)
The person that rammed me in a parking lot when I wasn't even there and drove off without leaving info.
How about my friend who was nearly killed recently.
Rear ended from behind while sitting in the HOV lane with stopped traffic (50+ mph- evidence the human didn't even brake until he was 20' behind doing over 50mph).
NONE of these accidents would have happened had a google car been driving.
If nothing else- I'd like cars to start slowing down automatically when they detect a collision is about to occur. And prevent a driver from flooring it into another car ahead or behind them when both are stopped.
I, for one, an looking forward to our autonomous car overlords.
just as dumb.
Look- I understand the need for an emergency- hard wired- kill switch.
I.e. a hard switch you can flip to turn off the vehicle.
I can even understand "not autonomous for now/the next few years" but anything else is just silly.
Can they stop me from taking a picture of the picture with my smart phone and then transferring it back to my computer?
Aye, but if you save that extra instead of frittering it away, you can retire years before you are 67.