Free speech is applicable to any entity be it an individual or an aggregate. This will be true so long as corporations continue to be recognized as having been endowed with personhood. You might not like it, but that doesn't change it.
For the purpose of this discussion lower income people don't matter as few buy new cars in the first place, their adoption will be when EVs enter the used car lots. $40K is actually in range of a rather large (U.S. at least) population. While it may or may not frustrate your budget it's not a "for the 1%" price.
Absent those clear metrics the unions are so fond of, one must rely upon anecdotes both from within and without as well as secondary, or symptomatic evidence. Given the sizable quantity of which, they become far more trustworthy of a source than would normally be afforded them. The history of unions has little to do with unions in the present. It would be interesting to see how you come to the conclusion that there's even grounds for debate on the union stance with regards to metrics, especially ones that enable national, let alone global apples for apples comparisons. I would also love hear how you think your beloved unions have maintained the bargain of quality work for quality jobs throughout the years, especially as it relates to education.
It is rather interesting that you bring up "private schools." They are generally known to out perform their public school counter parts. What's rather funny about that is that in most cases the per-student funding is actually less and their teachers are seldom unionized.
For the record, I would fall left of center on the political bar, or Chaotic-Good on the D&D alignment spectrum. I'm actually rather offended you'd lump me with tea-baggers and neo-cons.
Average teacher salaries. California had the nation's highest average salary in 2002-03, at $55,693. States joining California in the top tier were Michigan, at $54,020; Connecticut, at $53,962; New Jersey, at $53,872; and the District of Columbia, at $53,194.
Being one of the highest paid, it's kind of strange that Mark identified New Jersey as the school system in need of help. From all appearances the US is saddled on the high-end of average yet performance is far from. It's a real pain when there's actual metrics to by which to measure these crap arguments. Funny how the teacher unions are so against them. I'd accept your "the system" argument if and only if you included the union to which these teacher belong.
Dear Geekoid,
Do you really think Mark didn't have that sort of thing in mind? That he didn't pay the consultants to come up with such things? I'm afraid teachers are a large part of the problem. Their unions consistently thwart attempts to address teacher performance or rather the lack thereof. Do a search on the various attempts to deal with bad teachers and you will find attempts that have nearly all failed by the hands of the teacher's unions.
Trouble is he didn't bother to identify the source of the problem first. The east coast is dirty politics and Mafia rule to the very core. He might as well have given the money to a drug dealer instead, the outcomes wouldn't be much different.
Ownership of a late model BMW might not fit the budget of most blue-collar folks, but if you head to any moderately affluent city you'll spot nearly as many BMWs as you do Hyundais. Globally annual sales of BMWs are only about 1/7 that of Ford.
It might not be Ford's 15.6 million cars but 1.86 million car sales isn't exactly niche either. Perhaps your "for the 1%" mindset is a bit inaccurate. As to the comparison, piecing together information... 20% of world steel output goes to automobile manufacturing. World crude steel output for 2012 was 1548 Mt so I suppose that means about 309.6 megatons goes to cars. So relatively speaking 9000 tons isn't much of a dent, but it does sound like a significant step towards building manufacturer confidence in the material as well as gaining some economies of scale.
The trouble is when you're left without viable alternatives they can pretty much crap on whatever they choose and you have to eat it. Even if you were so fortunate to get the opportunity for "green field" implementations your choices are next to non-existent if your requirements made Java the primary choice in the first place. You cannot simply say "screw Oracle, I'll use C++", or "screw Oracle, I'll use C#", "... Ruby", "... Python", "...".
The liquid within the siphon tube acts in a manner similar to a pump's piston. For the siphon to work a sufficient amount of liquid is required to be drawn by gravity to the receiving end to overcome the head pressure on the end from which the liquid is being drawn. Atmospheric pressure contributes only in as much as it can vary the head pressure that needs to be overcome for the siphon to operate. The idea of a pump's piston may be extended to the vessel from which the liquid is being drawn. Consider for a moment that this vessel is sealed but for the point from which the liquid is siphoned. As the liquid in the vessel is drawn down a vacuum is created which resists the drawing of liquid. The more liquid siphoned away the greater the vacuum and thus the greater the head pressure that must be overcome for the siphon to operate. Of course this could operate in the reverse fashion were a substance to be pressed into the vessel from which the liquid is drawn. As the pressure increases against the liquid the head pressure is reduced.
In part I share that sentiment. That is, right up to the point that the innocents that don't get choice where their parents force them to live are affected. If you choose to live on the fringes of the grid, that's your problem. If your kids suffer from lack of opportunity because you force them to live on the fringes of the grid, you're a douche bag.
Setting all that aside however, we have a company that was given all manner of financial benefits in exchange for their obligation to provide 45Mbps broadband. They failed to deliver and now are being given a free pass instead of being forced to return the money. That's complete and utter bullsh*t.
I'm not sure it's a valid argument. The probability of errors that may be found in a given system is proportional to the complexity of that system. Likewise the cost to maintain and evolve a system is proportionally tied to its complexity. It is therefore a worthy to goal to reduce system complexity whenever possible. If network communication infrastructure is taken to be the system, then it naturally follows that the fewer implementations that exist for performing SSL/TLS communication the less likely there will exist security vulnerabilities. Relatedly the cost to identify and correct vulnerabilities will be proportionally smaller. Said simply, it's much easier to guard one door than it is to guard many.
Suggesting that a "monoculture" is bad relies upon the same faulty premises of "security through obscurity." The failure with respect to OpenSSL and Heartbleed wasn't the monoculture. It was the lack of altruistic eyes scrutinizing it. More implementations would have only required more eyes.
I'd rather skip the unforeseen accidents and just get the American Dental Association (or similar) to vouch for its wondrous therapeutic benefits. That way I can get the fools to dump it into the water themselves.
Perhaps, but the design is still somewhat myopic. It solves one problem but leaves open others. The world's oceans for instance, make for the one of the best conveyors of leaked radioactive material. To my view at least they would also be far more prone to weather related disasters even if they weren't as affected by seismic events--though I'm not really sure how they're an improvement with respect to Tsunami and rogue waves.
The single largest contributor to nuclear reactor safety, or more precisely the lack thereof is that the overwhelming majority of the ones currently in operation were built decades ago from designs dating back 50+ years. The engineers of my grandparent's generation did wonderful work for their time, their understanding and their available technology. But to continue to rely upon BWRs, especially ones built so long ago is the folly and the reason nuclear power gets the reputation it does.
Espionage is never legitimate unless you consider it acceptable for others to do it to you in the manner in which you do it to them. The hypocrisy of the NSA, CIA, GCHQ, BND, Mossad, FSB, etc. is grossly palpable. Everyone seems to do it, yet it's "shame on you" if anyone does it them. Pulling down the curtains was an important demonstration of collective, well deserved shame.
This crap belongs in movies and video games, not the real world. The citizenry of the world's nations should not be the game pieces used in the amusement and distraction of political and military rulers.
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Free speech is applicable to any entity be it an individual or an aggregate. This will be true so long as corporations continue to be recognized as having been endowed with personhood. You might not like it, but that doesn't change it.
For the purpose of this discussion lower income people don't matter as few buy new cars in the first place, their adoption will be when EVs enter the used car lots. $40K is actually in range of a rather large (U.S. at least) population. While it may or may not frustrate your budget it's not a "for the 1%" price.
Enjoy your resale.
Absent those clear metrics the unions are so fond of, one must rely upon anecdotes both from within and without as well as secondary, or symptomatic evidence. Given the sizable quantity of which, they become far more trustworthy of a source than would normally be afforded them. The history of unions has little to do with unions in the present. It would be interesting to see how you come to the conclusion that there's even grounds for debate on the union stance with regards to metrics, especially ones that enable national, let alone global apples for apples comparisons. I would also love hear how you think your beloved unions have maintained the bargain of quality work for quality jobs throughout the years, especially as it relates to education.
It is rather interesting that you bring up "private schools." They are generally known to out perform their public school counter parts. What's rather funny about that is that in most cases the per-student funding is actually less and their teachers are seldom unionized.
For the record, I would fall left of center on the political bar, or Chaotic-Good on the D&D alignment spectrum. I'm actually rather offended you'd lump me with tea-baggers and neo-cons.
Under-paid?
Average teacher salaries. California had the nation's highest average salary in 2002-03, at $55,693. States joining California in the top tier were Michigan, at $54,020; Connecticut, at $53,962; New Jersey, at $53,872; and the District of Columbia, at $53,194.
Source: http://www.educationworld.net/salaries_us.html
Being one of the highest paid, it's kind of strange that Mark identified New Jersey as the school system in need of help. From all appearances the US is saddled on the high-end of average yet performance is far from. It's a real pain when there's actual metrics to by which to measure these crap arguments. Funny how the teacher unions are so against them. I'd accept your "the system" argument if and only if you included the union to which these teacher belong.
Don't make sense, lest you feel the wrath of the union.
Dear Geekoid, Do you really think Mark didn't have that sort of thing in mind? That he didn't pay the consultants to come up with such things? I'm afraid teachers are a large part of the problem. Their unions consistently thwart attempts to address teacher performance or rather the lack thereof. Do a search on the various attempts to deal with bad teachers and you will find attempts that have nearly all failed by the hands of the teacher's unions.
Trouble is he didn't bother to identify the source of the problem first. The east coast is dirty politics and Mafia rule to the very core. He might as well have given the money to a drug dealer instead, the outcomes wouldn't be much different.
Less grip doesn't mean much if you don't have to restrain as much energy.
Ownership of a late model BMW might not fit the budget of most blue-collar folks, but if you head to any moderately affluent city you'll spot nearly as many BMWs as you do Hyundais. Globally annual sales of BMWs are only about 1/7 that of Ford.
Mono is about five years behind.
It might not be Ford's 15.6 million cars but 1.86 million car sales isn't exactly niche either. Perhaps your "for the 1%" mindset is a bit inaccurate. As to the comparison, piecing together information... 20% of world steel output goes to automobile manufacturing. World crude steel output for 2012 was 1548 Mt so I suppose that means about 309.6 megatons goes to cars. So relatively speaking 9000 tons isn't much of a dent, but it does sound like a significant step towards building manufacturer confidence in the material as well as gaining some economies of scale.
The trouble is when you're left without viable alternatives they can pretty much crap on whatever they choose and you have to eat it. Even if you were so fortunate to get the opportunity for "green field" implementations your choices are next to non-existent if your requirements made Java the primary choice in the first place. You cannot simply say "screw Oracle, I'll use C++", or "screw Oracle, I'll use C#", "... Ruby", "... Python", "...".
Clearly the author is not correctly attributing the source of the problem.
The USPS doesn't pay taxes. That means that we are paying their taxes.
The liquid within the siphon tube acts in a manner similar to a pump's piston. For the siphon to work a sufficient amount of liquid is required to be drawn by gravity to the receiving end to overcome the head pressure on the end from which the liquid is being drawn. Atmospheric pressure contributes only in as much as it can vary the head pressure that needs to be overcome for the siphon to operate. The idea of a pump's piston may be extended to the vessel from which the liquid is being drawn. Consider for a moment that this vessel is sealed but for the point from which the liquid is siphoned. As the liquid in the vessel is drawn down a vacuum is created which resists the drawing of liquid. The more liquid siphoned away the greater the vacuum and thus the greater the head pressure that must be overcome for the siphon to operate. Of course this could operate in the reverse fashion were a substance to be pressed into the vessel from which the liquid is drawn. As the pressure increases against the liquid the head pressure is reduced.
In part I share that sentiment. That is, right up to the point that the innocents that don't get choice where their parents force them to live are affected. If you choose to live on the fringes of the grid, that's your problem. If your kids suffer from lack of opportunity because you force them to live on the fringes of the grid, you're a douche bag.
Setting all that aside however, we have a company that was given all manner of financial benefits in exchange for their obligation to provide 45Mbps broadband. They failed to deliver and now are being given a free pass instead of being forced to return the money. That's complete and utter bullsh*t.
Absolutely. Don't bother regulating because then these businesses can make their evil ways canonized into law. Far better to let them just run rogue.
I'm not sure it's a valid argument. The probability of errors that may be found in a given system is proportional to the complexity of that system. Likewise the cost to maintain and evolve a system is proportionally tied to its complexity. It is therefore a worthy to goal to reduce system complexity whenever possible. If network communication infrastructure is taken to be the system, then it naturally follows that the fewer implementations that exist for performing SSL/TLS communication the less likely there will exist security vulnerabilities. Relatedly the cost to identify and correct vulnerabilities will be proportionally smaller. Said simply, it's much easier to guard one door than it is to guard many.
Suggesting that a "monoculture" is bad relies upon the same faulty premises of "security through obscurity." The failure with respect to OpenSSL and Heartbleed wasn't the monoculture. It was the lack of altruistic eyes scrutinizing it. More implementations would have only required more eyes.
I'd rather skip the unforeseen accidents and just get the American Dental Association (or similar) to vouch for its wondrous therapeutic benefits. That way I can get the fools to dump it into the water themselves.
Now, now, let's be fair, we shouldn't leave out those that would require triple the dose.
What if it was beer?
Perhaps, but the design is still somewhat myopic. It solves one problem but leaves open others. The world's oceans for instance, make for the one of the best conveyors of leaked radioactive material. To my view at least they would also be far more prone to weather related disasters even if they weren't as affected by seismic events--though I'm not really sure how they're an improvement with respect to Tsunami and rogue waves.
The single largest contributor to nuclear reactor safety, or more precisely the lack thereof is that the overwhelming majority of the ones currently in operation were built decades ago from designs dating back 50+ years. The engineers of my grandparent's generation did wonderful work for their time, their understanding and their available technology. But to continue to rely upon BWRs, especially ones built so long ago is the folly and the reason nuclear power gets the reputation it does.
Espionage is never legitimate unless you consider it acceptable for others to do it to you in the manner in which you do it to them. The hypocrisy of the NSA, CIA, GCHQ, BND, Mossad, FSB, etc. is grossly palpable. Everyone seems to do it, yet it's "shame on you" if anyone does it them. Pulling down the curtains was an important demonstration of collective, well deserved shame.
This crap belongs in movies and video games, not the real world. The citizenry of the world's nations should not be the game pieces used in the amusement and distraction of political and military rulers.