This is a reasonably simple concept when only discussing individual adults but there are huge holes. $1000/mo. in Oklahoma and the same amount in San Diego don't look anything alike. If you adjust for cost of living what is to keep everyone from "registering" in San Francisco and taking their money to Nebraska?
Most existing programs also scale by number of dependants to cover the increased costs.. If a single female has 5 children; under a BIG does she have to raise all 5 kids on $1000/mo? Do the kids start receiving their BIG at birth so she gets $5k/mo? Both of those are real problemss.
Dave
Our site had a "name brand, enterprise" tape carousel and "the" (not one of two) power supply failed. We have platinum support so I called the data-center team at the central office and their answer was "it is going to be about a month." The warranty was up, it was the end of the fiscal year and they were in negotiations for new hardware. I was dismayed that the data-center team thought no backups at our site for a month was ok, and further dismayed that no amount of escalation could get us even a used drive. I took it apart and it took a fairly standard power supply, just with long IDE power leads and a SUPER LONG floppy power plug to run the board, etc at the front of the machine. After some thinking I remembered an executive assistant had one of those really old Dell desktops that opens like a clamshell, with unbelievably long wiring that runs all the way around the case. Wirh a super long floppy power plug. I whipped them up a new replacement PC and retired the old one, ans stole the PSU. Pulled the whole wiring harness into the carousel chassis and reracked the whole thing. It ran, racked and with a power supply sitting on top of it, for 8 weeks until the replacement got there.
DB
They would have to understand why customers were angry to begin with, in order to build a decent simulator. To understand "what triggers heated calls all you have to do is care and listen your customers.
I was working at Disney Imagineering in 1999 and was sent to Florida for 3 weeks to bring Disney Quest (a five story arcade) online early to coincide with the opening of Animal Kingdom. We were working 8am to 2am and were stressed. They had a Daytona USA game 8 drivers wide and the SEGA setup guy showed us how to trip the unlimited free plays. The 8 of us would usually run it about an hour every night to burn off steam. I am sure it (really) doesn't compare to this but it was really fun to run hard against the same smart guys night after night. All were car guys, most with small-time racing experience so everyone brought something new every night.
I sincerely respect most of the views expressed on the subject over the last month or so. What I have not seen is any discussion on the fact that California grows a metric "Library of Congress" of shit in the central valley. If very much of that goes away, food prices will rise in California so food will be imported from the rest of the nation (40 million people and rising have to eat something) causing widespread price increases as the existing supply is spread thinner. Many express opinions framing this as "California's problem." California is handling their water issue poorly; but they are, in effect, subsidising the rest of the country’s food prices. Don't judge them too harshly. I don't know, but shipping them water may be more cost effective than judging them.
It also says "The vehicle, hoisted onto a test platform, was running its engine and drive train, simulating a real-life military scenario."
I have NEVER seen a vehicle in combat on a test platform OR tilted 45deg to improve the angle of incidence of the enemy weapons systems...
I am switching my home lighting over to LED. Unfortunately my "digital" dimmer on the "off" position bleeds enough power to leave the new LED light running right outside my bedroom. I will ind another solution this weekend but until then it is fortunate they stay cool enough to unscrew them just before I go to bed.
Linux Mint - DVD support out of the box. Linux Mint Cinnamon is basically a straight Windows desktop replacement. Installation is as straight forward as it gets. I have moved a ton of family, of all ages, to it and get hardly any user questions. It just works.
I live in the boonies so I fill from the same exact nozzle every time I am not on a road trip; OCD but it is easy to do. The dash readout is far off (1.3-2mpg low). The worst mileage tank I got 1.3 better than the dash, my best mileage tank was 2 better, normally I beat the dash display by about 1.5
Using "then" in place of "than" seems to be most frequent misuse I see here and abroad (on the web). Then refers to sequence or timing, than infers comparison but I see an expression of "this is better then that" in almost every thread.
True, I was looking at the commentary sweeping us unto the Utopian future not the stone age. But you're right, it could go that way (and there would be no malpractice but the hours and clients are still terrible. I think really many of the comments are good for a single generation, then spin the wheel and go again...
Construction, electrician, plumber, welder. You can't offshore these jobs, they must be done here.
But you can on-shore cheaper labor. H1-B? I grew up in southern California. I am not a union fan but this is instructive. My uncle was a plasterer in the plasterers union. They did mostly drywall but he was a highly skilled finish specialist and troubleshooter who could actually "plaster" a wall, do moldings etc. and made a good living. In came the third world labor at $8/hr to do all the drywall in LA and broke the union. Once the union was gone they immediately charged almost the same as the union plasterers. No reason not to anymore...
Very few jobs will exist for humans in any area of work much sooner than most people think. Obviously society will have to pay people not to work. Freedom might become a much more real concept when people are freed from monetary demands. The very notion of concepts such as socialism, communism and capitalism will become quaint and obsolete concepts.
I understand the thrust of your point, but if someone else provides your living you are a slave. They can stop providing it at will. They can choose to provide it only if they "insert any restriction here;" like all your data/communication/thoughts (in the future) belong to them. Point taken, but I don't *want* to belong to someone.
NO! I don't mean to be rude. I work with some great OBs but it is a terrible job. I work IT at a hospital and I work every department at every level. MDs are not going away so any field will do; surgeons especially cardiac are treated very well. Robots are coming in but as a tool for surgeons. Anesthesiologists are raking it in but that may be more prone to automation in the future. Nephrologist, neurologist, pathologist, the list is never ending, pick something you'll love (bioinformatics?). OBs have the worst patients, crappiest hours, highest malpractice insurance. This advice is from MDs. Unless she has an inalienable passion to be an OB, avoid it at all costs
Actually, this raises a more interesting question (at least to me) which your little thought experiment approaches. What if my autonomous car decides that the action to take that is likely to cause the least harm is to kill the driver? For example, what if the car has the opportunity to swerve off the side of a mountain road and drop you 1000 feet onto some rocks to avoid a crash that would have killed far more people than simply you? Is my autonomous car required to act in my own best interest, or should it act in the best interests of everyone on the road?
What if the oncoming car makes the same decision (similar programming) and both cars drive off the cliff?
Because someone has created something, or become rich, gives you no ethical reason to know there most personal details? Why do you believe they forfeit their privacy any more than someone who is not rich, or has not created anything? We are talking about human rights. If they created something useful for society; use it, don't abuse them...
How Senator Mitch McConnell got his information about Ashley Judd's private medical data for a slander campaign; and not see a corollary of the humanity that is the NSA?
If you read the news or the transcripts you would have seen they were talking about *what she wrote in her autobiography.* No one accessed her private medical data...
You did a beautiful job of paraphrasing, reminded me so much of the original:
"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."
Disclaimer: I do not believe technology is the best answer for everything.
I am the most adventurous person in my hospital IT Department so I get to go in ORs all the time (I was there yesterday).
1 - No code review: the devices are not "part of" the surgery they are peripheral; they do not code review every digital clock, cell phone in a surgical staff's pocket, or every iPod playing music en-suite.
2 - No distraction: I can tell you these people are serious professionals. The doctor was no more distracted by the tech during the operation than a coder would be by his dormant webcam or an email message coming in.
Regards,
Dave
If what you can learn from the meta-data is useable for fighting terrorism, which is rare, it will be far more easily used for nefarious purposes which are common. If it is "not easy" to use against citizens it will be too hard to make it very useful against terrorism. Either my rights are infringed because of the data - or the program serves no purpose.
I am IT staff at a hospital and end up working on the in-suite PCs alot since coworkers don't like being in a room with a patient open. The surgery schedule gets busier throughout the week with the busiest day being Thursday; at my hospital that is really the "Friday" of the OR. For reasons mentioned above only cases of eminent need are scheduled for Fridays and nothing on the weekend. If you are having surgery on a Friday or the weekend you are in a fairly grave state already.
Also: All doctors, surgeons and staff do rotations and coverage; so "shitty doctors and nurses and up working the weekends" is not a reality.
Marijuana Prosecution Not a High Priority, Says Obama +>Marijuana Prosecution a Political Priority, Says Obama. In swing states, or 'potential' swing states the feds won't ruffle any feathers - It's cool man. In California, which is not in play, the feds will hammer you.
Second issue (without regard to anyones position on either topic) - contrast the federal approach to say, the Arizona immigration law with:
"It does not make sense from a prioritization point of view for us to focus on recreational drug users in a state that has already said that, under state law, that's legal.' When asked if he supported legalizing marijuana, the president said he was not endorsing that. 'I wouldn't go that far, but what I think is that, at this point, Washington and Colorado, you've seen the voters speak on this issue.'"
You cannot reasonably defend one law as solely the purvue of the federal government and the other as "hey, we all have different expectations, Its cool"
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This is a reasonably simple concept when only discussing individual adults but there are huge holes. $1000/mo. in Oklahoma and the same amount in San Diego don't look anything alike. If you adjust for cost of living what is to keep everyone from "registering" in San Francisco and taking their money to Nebraska? Most existing programs also scale by number of dependants to cover the increased costs.. If a single female has 5 children; under a BIG does she have to raise all 5 kids on $1000/mo? Do the kids start receiving their BIG at birth so she gets $5k/mo? Both of those are real problemss. Dave
If a person is not wearing a bodycam that is on, and recording footage, they must not be a real cop. Hmmm?
Our site had a "name brand, enterprise" tape carousel and "the" (not one of two) power supply failed. We have platinum support so I called the data-center team at the central office and their answer was "it is going to be about a month." The warranty was up, it was the end of the fiscal year and they were in negotiations for new hardware. I was dismayed that the data-center team thought no backups at our site for a month was ok, and further dismayed that no amount of escalation could get us even a used drive. I took it apart and it took a fairly standard power supply, just with long IDE power leads and a SUPER LONG floppy power plug to run the board, etc at the front of the machine. After some thinking I remembered an executive assistant had one of those really old Dell desktops that opens like a clamshell, with unbelievably long wiring that runs all the way around the case. Wirh a super long floppy power plug. I whipped them up a new replacement PC and retired the old one, ans stole the PSU. Pulled the whole wiring harness into the carousel chassis and reracked the whole thing. It ran, racked and with a power supply sitting on top of it, for 8 weeks until the replacement got there. DB
They would have to understand why customers were angry to begin with, in order to build a decent simulator. To understand "what triggers heated calls all you have to do is care and listen your customers.
I was working at Disney Imagineering in 1999 and was sent to Florida for 3 weeks to bring Disney Quest (a five story arcade) online early to coincide with the opening of Animal Kingdom. We were working 8am to 2am and were stressed. They had a Daytona USA game 8 drivers wide and the SEGA setup guy showed us how to trip the unlimited free plays. The 8 of us would usually run it about an hour every night to burn off steam. I am sure it (really) doesn't compare to this but it was really fun to run hard against the same smart guys night after night. All were car guys, most with small-time racing experience so everyone brought something new every night.
I sincerely respect most of the views expressed on the subject over the last month or so. What I have not seen is any discussion on the fact that California grows a metric "Library of Congress" of shit in the central valley. If very much of that goes away, food prices will rise in California so food will be imported from the rest of the nation (40 million people and rising have to eat something) causing widespread price increases as the existing supply is spread thinner. Many express opinions framing this as "California's problem." California is handling their water issue poorly; but they are, in effect, subsidising the rest of the country’s food prices. Don't judge them too harshly. I don't know, but shipping them water may be more cost effective than judging them.
It also says "The vehicle, hoisted onto a test platform, was running its engine and drive train, simulating a real-life military scenario." I have NEVER seen a vehicle in combat on a test platform OR tilted 45deg to improve the angle of incidence of the enemy weapons systems...
I am switching my home lighting over to LED. Unfortunately my "digital" dimmer on the "off" position bleeds enough power to leave the new LED light running right outside my bedroom. I will ind another solution this weekend but until then it is fortunate they stay cool enough to unscrew them just before I go to bed.
Linux Mint - DVD support out of the box. Linux Mint Cinnamon is basically a straight Windows desktop replacement. Installation is as straight forward as it gets. I have moved a ton of family, of all ages, to it and get hardly any user questions. It just works.
I live in the boonies so I fill from the same exact nozzle every time I am not on a road trip; OCD but it is easy to do. The dash readout is far off (1.3-2mpg low). The worst mileage tank I got 1.3 better than the dash, my best mileage tank was 2 better, normally I beat the dash display by about 1.5
Using "then" in place of "than" seems to be most frequent misuse I see here and abroad (on the web). Then refers to sequence or timing, than infers comparison but I see an expression of "this is better then that" in almost every thread.
True, I was looking at the commentary sweeping us unto the Utopian future not the stone age. But you're right, it could go that way (and there would be no malpractice but the hours and clients are still terrible. I think really many of the comments are good for a single generation, then spin the wheel and go again...
Construction, electrician, plumber, welder. You can't offshore these jobs, they must be done here.
But you can on-shore cheaper labor. H1-B? I grew up in southern California. I am not a union fan but this is instructive. My uncle was a plasterer in the plasterers union. They did mostly drywall but he was a highly skilled finish specialist and troubleshooter who could actually "plaster" a wall, do moldings etc. and made a good living. In came the third world labor at $8/hr to do all the drywall in LA and broke the union. Once the union was gone they immediately charged almost the same as the union plasterers. No reason not to anymore...
Very few jobs will exist for humans in any area of work much sooner than most people think. Obviously society will have to pay people not to work. Freedom might become a much more real concept when people are freed from monetary demands. The very notion of concepts such as socialism, communism and capitalism will become quaint and obsolete concepts.
I understand the thrust of your point, but if someone else provides your living you are a slave. They can stop providing it at will. They can choose to provide it only if they "insert any restriction here;" like all your data/communication/thoughts (in the future) belong to them. Point taken, but I don't *want* to belong to someone.
NO! I don't mean to be rude. I work with some great OBs but it is a terrible job. I work IT at a hospital and I work every department at every level. MDs are not going away so any field will do; surgeons especially cardiac are treated very well. Robots are coming in but as a tool for surgeons. Anesthesiologists are raking it in but that may be more prone to automation in the future. Nephrologist, neurologist, pathologist, the list is never ending, pick something you'll love (bioinformatics?). OBs have the worst patients, crappiest hours, highest malpractice insurance. This advice is from MDs. Unless she has an inalienable passion to be an OB, avoid it at all costs
I guess we will be seeing Snowden back in the US as soon as his current asylum offer expires...
Actually, this raises a more interesting question (at least to me) which your little thought experiment approaches. What if my autonomous car decides that the action to take that is likely to cause the least harm is to kill the driver? For example, what if the car has the opportunity to swerve off the side of a mountain road and drop you 1000 feet onto some rocks to avoid a crash that would have killed far more people than simply you? Is my autonomous car required to act in my own best interest, or should it act in the best interests of everyone on the road?
What if the oncoming car makes the same decision (similar programming) and both cars drive off the cliff?
Because someone has created something, or become rich, gives you no ethical reason to know there most personal details? Why do you believe they forfeit their privacy any more than someone who is not rich, or has not created anything? We are talking about human rights. If they created something useful for society; use it, don't abuse them...
How Senator Mitch McConnell got his information about Ashley Judd's private medical data for a slander campaign; and not see a corollary of the humanity that is the NSA?
If you read the news or the transcripts you would have seen they were talking about *what she wrote in her autobiography.* No one accessed her private medical data...
No, the executive branch just selectively enforces it....
You did a beautiful job of paraphrasing, reminded me so much of the original: "But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."
Disclaimer: I do not believe technology is the best answer for everything. I am the most adventurous person in my hospital IT Department so I get to go in ORs all the time (I was there yesterday). 1 - No code review: the devices are not "part of" the surgery they are peripheral; they do not code review every digital clock, cell phone in a surgical staff's pocket, or every iPod playing music en-suite. 2 - No distraction: I can tell you these people are serious professionals. The doctor was no more distracted by the tech during the operation than a coder would be by his dormant webcam or an email message coming in. Regards, Dave
If what you can learn from the meta-data is useable for fighting terrorism, which is rare, it will be far more easily used for nefarious purposes which are common. If it is "not easy" to use against citizens it will be too hard to make it very useful against terrorism. Either my rights are infringed because of the data - or the program serves no purpose.
I am IT staff at a hospital and end up working on the in-suite PCs alot since coworkers don't like being in a room with a patient open. The surgery schedule gets busier throughout the week with the busiest day being Thursday; at my hospital that is really the "Friday" of the OR. For reasons mentioned above only cases of eminent need are scheduled for Fridays and nothing on the weekend. If you are having surgery on a Friday or the weekend you are in a fairly grave state already. Also: All doctors, surgeons and staff do rotations and coverage; so "shitty doctors and nurses and up working the weekends" is not a reality.
Marijuana Prosecution Not a High Priority, Says Obama +>Marijuana Prosecution a Political Priority, Says Obama. In swing states, or 'potential' swing states the feds won't ruffle any feathers - It's cool man. In California, which is not in play, the feds will hammer you. Second issue (without regard to anyones position on either topic) - contrast the federal approach to say, the Arizona immigration law with: "It does not make sense from a prioritization point of view for us to focus on recreational drug users in a state that has already said that, under state law, that's legal.' When asked if he supported legalizing marijuana, the president said he was not endorsing that. 'I wouldn't go that far, but what I think is that, at this point, Washington and Colorado, you've seen the voters speak on this issue.'" You cannot reasonably defend one law as solely the purvue of the federal government and the other as "hey, we all have different expectations, Its cool"