So, what you are saying is that private jobs with any public risk should require recorded fingerprints . ..I can imagine that extends to a goodly percentage of occupations.
I can only assume that right now all people working bus, taxi, aircraft, ferry, etc services in the US are fingerprinted?
Better throw in all construction workers, and others in situations where equipment drops, etc could kill others.
A good number of corporations already fingerprint employees and contractors, at least the larger companies, even in the absence of governments requiring it.
I can't comment about ferries and buses, but in my experience everyone working on aircraft services have been fingerprinted, I'd guess that that'd be true for almost all such workers in the US.
As a mechanical engineer involved in the construction field, I've been fingerprinted a few times just to be able to survey existing conditions or review the finished installation in a corporation's buildings, including the time we designed a Fingerprint Room for an existing office building. These were private companies that, as far as I know, did not have a government mandate to fingerprint employees, but I have to assume the full time employees were also fingerprinted, not just the contractors.
And I've been involved in construction projects in desert states where it was the opposite - you had to retain all of the runoff from your roof and parking lot completely within your property without any outlet to the storm sewer or river / drainage ditch, up to a certain amount of rainfall (can't remember if the amount was for a 50-year storm or what).
That is not strictly true. The body's respiration feedback mechanisms include the concentration of CO2 in the blood, and elevated CO2 levels will start to disrupt normal respiration when you get to something like 5,000 to 20,000 ppm in the atmosphere. (1/2% to 2%) It might not be particularly lethal at those does, but it may be unsuitable for more sensitive breathers at even lower concentrations.
Four years to recoup a capital investment is beyond fantastic.
And yet, I've been involved in numerous construction projects where a payback of more than 3 years would not even be considered. My boss once explained it to me that they have a fixed budget, don't have any capital available to go above that, and are taking a risk that has a non-negligible chance of going bankrupt within 3 years, anyway.
An investor is someone who participates with money in a venture in order to share from the future profits, but also bear the liabilities.
Sorry, but with the limited liability laws for corporations and the bankruptcy laws, the only risk an investor is bearing is a possible loss of their initial investment. Society as a whole bears the risk of liabilities, in exchange for the potential economic benefits of increased risk taking.
That won't work, either. NY city won a case against a developer who relied on their zoning map to start construction on a building several stories high. Even though they had a permit, and the zoning map said it could be that high, someone noticed that the steel skeleton was getting higher than allowed by the actual zoning ordinance (as opposed to the map) so the city made them dismantle a story or two.
Nope. Using those government maps won't get you off the hook. Typically, you need a survey by a licensed surveyor submitted and approved by the building dept. Even then, I know of a guy who couldnt move into his condo because it turned out half of his apartment was built on the next door neighbors property.
Wrong again. The actual quote, by Baron Acton, according to Wikipedia, is "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men."
Good or bad Desktops are pretty much gone, and laptops are going away as well. Offices are already going away from wired to wireless with the laptops.
Bullshit. And I say this as a guy with a laptop on his desk, rather than a desktop. The laptop is convenient for working on the train and bringing work home on the weekends, but, in general, I'd be better off with a more powerful desktop at work (the lack of dedicated graphics memory absolutely sucks on this laptop). And there's no way in hell I would be happy with a wifi connection at the office, rather than the fast wired connection I have.
What I read is that the government owner of the phone didn't want to pay the extra fees for the enterprise features that would have given them ultimate control of the phone.
. . . but I'd just as soon not have to vote for someone who I don't like or believe in just to prevent someone I think is even worse from getting elected; I'm sick and tired of having to choose the 'least bad' instead of the 'best' because I don't have any other choices.
We need a non-partisan primary system. One idea would be: Let the parties put up whoever they want, through party conventions, or elections, or whatever, but don't get the government involved in it. Then have a nation-wide primary election truly open to anyone who can get a few petition signatures, and put the top two vote-getters on the ballot for the general election (Top three if the top two don't add up to at least 67%)
The "two" parties are not going to let anything like that happen, though. Sigh.
I'll Fix That For Him:
The time to invest in new oil rigs is when the price is low, just before they start going back up.
Unfortunatley, the more companies think the price is going to go up, the more investments in new oil rigs there'll be, and the more new oil rigs there are, the lower the prices will be.
Never said automation would replace all the people in those job categories. But, as a force multiplier, it means you can get away with fewer human workers for a given task. That means, absent more tasks to do for those job descriptions, there will be fewer jobs available for humans for those positions. (No, I'm not a Luddite. I understand more work of a different kind and fewer hours per work week could be made possible) BTW I am an engineer, and I already see that the fees are getting squeezed while the requirements of the projects expanding to meet the expectations that automation drives. But the outcomes aren't often better because of it.
Developers of automation is the obvious one. Politicians for another. Artists. Engineers. Lawyers. Doctors and Nurses. Marketing. Soldiers. The list is pretty extensive. Automation will impact every job in some capacity but relatively few jobs will completely disappear.
Automation is already starting to replace engineers and soldiers. Expert systems are making inroads in medicine and law. There is already a glut of lawyers. Although the impact should be, for now, on the lower levels jobs of those fields, they could all be subject to great reductions in numbers of workers needed, except, due to obvious self-serving reasons, politicians.
Trump might not be as bad as you think. (He probably wouldn't nearly be as bad as Cruz) It all depends on who he would bring in to do all the work and to make decisions for him, since he really doesn't have any qualifications to be the president, other than being the delegator-in-chief.
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Well, there's your problem right there.
A good number of corporations already fingerprint employees and contractors, at least the larger companies, even in the absence of governments requiring it.
I can't comment about ferries and buses, but in my experience everyone working on aircraft services have been fingerprinted, I'd guess that that'd be true for almost all such workers in the US.
As a mechanical engineer involved in the construction field, I've been fingerprinted a few times just to be able to survey existing conditions or review the finished installation in a corporation's buildings, including the time we designed a Fingerprint Room for an existing office building. These were private companies that, as far as I know, did not have a government mandate to fingerprint employees, but I have to assume the full time employees were also fingerprinted, not just the contractors.
Astrolabe.
And I've been involved in construction projects in desert states where it was the opposite - you had to retain all of the runoff from your roof and parking lot completely within your property without any outlet to the storm sewer or river / drainage ditch, up to a certain amount of rainfall (can't remember if the amount was for a 50-year storm or what).
That is not strictly true. The body's respiration feedback mechanisms include the concentration of CO2 in the blood, and elevated CO2 levels will start to disrupt normal respiration when you get to something like 5,000 to 20,000 ppm in the atmosphere. (1/2% to 2%) It might not be particularly lethal at those does, but it may be unsuitable for more sensitive breathers at even lower concentrations.
And yet, I've been involved in numerous construction projects where a payback of more than 3 years would not even be considered. My boss once explained it to me that they have a fixed budget, don't have any capital available to go above that, and are taking a risk that has a non-negligible chance of going bankrupt within 3 years, anyway.
I'd like to know what the COP is on these. It didn't seem to say anywhere
At 2,000 psi, there are no phase transitions between liquid and gas.
It's interesting that you called those "Disney" movies, since, except for The Lion King, all of those stories pre-dated Walt Disney's birth.
Crap! I just cut down a tree in my yard this weekend.
Am I in trouble, or will the fact that it was a non-native invasive species* save me?
*buckthorn
Sorry, but with the limited liability laws for corporations and the bankruptcy laws, the only risk an investor is bearing is a possible loss of their initial investment. Society as a whole bears the risk of liabilities, in exchange for the potential economic benefits of increased risk taking.
I just turn the phone off and enjoy the sunny weather.
That won't work, either. NY city won a case against a developer who relied on their zoning map to start construction on a building several stories high. Even though they had a permit, and the zoning map said it could be that high, someone noticed that the steel skeleton was getting higher than allowed by the actual zoning ordinance (as opposed to the map) so the city made them dismantle a story or two.
Nope. Using those government maps won't get you off the hook. Typically, you need a survey by a licensed surveyor submitted and approved by the building dept. Even then, I know of a guy who couldnt move into his condo because it turned out half of his apartment was built on the next door neighbors property.
Wrong again. The actual quote, by Baron Acton, according to Wikipedia, is "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men."
Really? That program was started under the Bush administration.
Bullshit. And I say this as a guy with a laptop on his desk, rather than a desktop. The laptop is convenient for working on the train and bringing work home on the weekends, but, in general, I'd be better off with a more powerful desktop at work (the lack of dedicated graphics memory absolutely sucks on this laptop). And there's no way in hell I would be happy with a wifi connection at the office, rather than the fast wired connection I have.
What I read is that the government owner of the phone didn't want to pay the extra fees for the enterprise features that would have given them ultimate control of the phone.
We need a non-partisan primary system. One idea would be:
Let the parties put up whoever they want, through party conventions, or elections, or whatever, but don't get the government involved in it. Then have a nation-wide primary election truly open to anyone who can get a few petition signatures, and put the top two vote-getters on the ballot for the general election (Top three if the top two don't add up to at least 67%)
The "two" parties are not going to let anything like that happen, though. Sigh.
I'll Fix That For Him:
The time to invest in new oil rigs is when the price is low, just before they start going back up.
Unfortunatley, the more companies think the price is going to go up, the more investments in new oil rigs there'll be, and the more new oil rigs there are, the lower the prices will be.
No, you aren't allowed to drink or eat anything on the CTA, let alone alcohol. I'm surprised he didn't get arrested for public drinking.
Never said automation would replace all the people in those job categories. But, as a force multiplier, it means you can get away with fewer human workers for a given task. That means, absent more tasks to do for those job descriptions, there will be fewer jobs available for humans for those positions. (No, I'm not a Luddite. I understand more work of a different kind and fewer hours per work week could be made possible) BTW I am an engineer, and I already see that the fees are getting squeezed while the requirements of the projects expanding to meet the expectations that automation drives. But the outcomes aren't often better because of it.
Automation is already starting to replace engineers and soldiers. Expert systems are making inroads in medicine and law. There is already a glut of lawyers. Although the impact should be, for now, on the lower levels jobs of those fields, they could all be subject to great reductions in numbers of workers needed, except, due to obvious self-serving reasons, politicians.
Trump might not be as bad as you think. (He probably wouldn't nearly be as bad as Cruz) It all depends on who he would bring in to do all the work and to make decisions for him, since he really doesn't have any qualifications to be the president, other than being the delegator-in-chief.
Really? You think Clinton is a bigger clown than Trump or Carson?
I don't like Hillary much, but I wouldn't call her a clown.