I guess with 1/3rd of their power offline, they could mandate energy rations to everyone. If they get tired of that system they can, as a community, opt to re-instate their reactors and make a long term plan to switch to some other non-petroleum source for power. They have brilliant scientists, I'm sure they can figure this out. Greed seems like less of a hindrance there than here in the USA.
I can send a test ping from my home near the east coast all the way to a Sonus Soft switch in Los Angeles and back in 65ms. Back in the dial-up days it was acceptable to have 100ms ping times across a single link. A T1 should have ping times in 15ms across the single hop. DSL should be in the 50ms range on a bad day.
This sounds like a good thing to me. All these 'it looks like a gui so ill stumble through it myself' employers quickly disregard the need to actually hire an IT person. If anything this should be a welcome job opportunity for our fields. There was a gradual migration of people not hiring anyone for their IT and trying to do it on their own. This should help keep the job market healthy for both direct employees and for IT consultants who manage shops too small to justify someone on their payroll full time.
perhaps you're right. I just think there needs to be some decent amount of hero worship for these sort of individuals. Its totally pathetic that some athlete gets paid millions to play a game as a career and gets huge amount of hero worship. Yet some inventor or small group of scientists are going to come up with the next breakthrough that transforms the cost of energy into something so cheap its practically free for everyone; and they might get 15min of fame and thats it. Personally I think if there were more emphasis put on scientific achievement the way we put on whether someone can make a shot consistently from the 3pt line, we'd be much further along in our breakthroughs.
in the UK she'd probably get awarded knighthood. Ive always felt that those who make this game changing discoveries in the US should get something similar to this. Maybe a lifetime of no personal income tax? if not her, whoever does come up with the total cure for cancer is likely to get some small-prize announcement and that would be the end of the story by the news media. Meanwhile we will hear year after year sports announcements about some athlete making 30 million a year who, by the way, did NOT manage to cure cancer.
One way to break into the tech field is by doing contract work. This can include working for 'temp' agencies that specialize in IT work. As said agency moves you from one assignment to another you could easily get 2 - 3 different companies under your belt that way in just a couple years. Then your resume would list the parent 'contractor' and then list the individual contract assignments with date ranges, project tasks and usual fluff. The only thing you would be lacking is health insurance, which if you are young and unmarried might be a gamble worth taking, otherwise you're going to have to figure out that obstacle.
who would have thought that one of the first signs of diabetes (dry hands and feet caused by inadequate circulation to sweat glands) would turn out to be a unknowing champion for personal liberties.
thats generally how its interpreted everywhere. Every state has some manner of child protective services and the whole visible mark rule applies. Some states may make leeway to use paddles or belts, but they still cant leave marks. If you leave marks and you get reported CPS definitely will open a case and assign a social worker to re-educate the family on what is and is not appropriate.
spanking is not discipline.. it is used to get their attention and if you dont follow up with a real consequence you teach them nothing. The word Discipline comes from the word Disciple. It means 'to teach'. What exactly are you teaching by applying pain for a brief period of time? Even way back in the days of actual 'rod's being used.. it was to stop them from doing whatever half-assed thing they were doing right that moment (getting their attention).. but the actual Discipline came afterwards when they got some other consequence that had a much longer lasting effect than the initial slap with a stick of wood.
spanking is not meant to be a discipline but a means of getting their attention, If and when a spanking is required.. its done as a means to bring the child back to reality and should be followed up with an actual consequence. example:
*spank child 2 -3 times with open hand* "Now that I have your attention, you are grounded for 1 week. No television or electronic games during that week"
that's what we would do with new guys on the ship. Its kinda funny to have the EEOW (engineering officer of the watch) announce #1 reactor is critical and 3 or 4 people on the mess decks jump up and say 'oh shit!' and take off running into the engine room.
well the boron solution eats up thermal neutrons.. which is why we call it a neutron poison. If its maintaining steady state without the use of delayed neutrons its definitely supercritical. I just hate the way people throw the word 'critical' around like its a terrible thing.
As a former navy nuclear enlisted personnel; I can tell you that reactors operate at criticality all the time. The mere definition of critical is when all the thermal neutrons born from fission go on to cause more fission reactions. Critical = steady state. 'Prompt critical' or 'supercritical' is when its critical without the contribution of thermal (delayed) neutrons.
Every single reactor startup, we calculate exactly what rod height we expect to reach when the reactor goes critical. Once we are critical we then allow steam demand and thermal coolant temperature to drive reactor power output. higher temps are less dense thereby thermalising fewer neutrons lowering reactor power. If steam demand or load increases coolant temperature subsequently lowers making the coolant more dense in turn thermalising more neutrons increasing reactor output. Its all driven back to steady state. This is commonly referred to as a negative reactivity coefficient. Critical = steady state and Steady state is a good thing.
because I'll be damned if I'll ever join one of those brainless twit websites that completely invade your privacy. Hell if it ever gets to a point where i'm somehow legally or financially required to surrender my privacy to facebook my page is going to be a big white banner that says "FUCK YOU FOR BOTHERING TO LOOK HERE!". I've seen presumably 'personal' sites like this used all the time to discriminate against job applicants. Several times they got teachers fired because someone ELSE posted a picture of a teacher with a glass of wine (no big deal right?); yet because of their districts strict policy, not about drinking but about advertising drinking, they were fired. They can all go fuck themselves as far as I am concerned. and to Spotify, here is hoping you lose your ass on your decision to sell your soul to facebook.
So the software developer/programmer who gets put on the task of discovering why the latest version of software is causing crashes and has to debug and write a patch and submit it to the community for code review is not considered "maintenance of computer systems"? IMHO its the highest and most prestigious level of maintenance. When the factory supplied part doesn't fit and a machinist takes it and works it on the milling machine for a while until it fits exactly; he's transformed a completely non-working disaster into a fully functioning system again.
likewise the system administrator that has to apply updates or service packs on a semi religious basis is also performing maintenance IMHO. Any monkey can apply a service pack or click through a EULA and click the next button. Knowing how to back out if things go bad, knowing enough to read and understand the changelog, scheduling the work to take place with minimal impact on productivity, knowing whether or not this update even addresses any problems you have and deciding its better to stick with whats working than take the chance of buying new problems; this is your REAL skill. This is what justifies your salary.
I would say they BOTH qualify as maintaining a computer system. There are more jobs out there fixing bugs than there are doing ground-up design of a new product. The wheel was invented some 5000 years ago. That doesnt mean we havent improved on it since then:-)
there are financial damages from spam. 1/3rd of my bandwidth as an ISP is email. If 50% of email is spam then I am paying for bandwidth at the 90% percentile accounting, based on a large chunk of it as unsolicited bulk mail. I should be able to make the spammer pay me for this but there is no way to do that. If 100Mbps of my bandwidth is spam, and that amounts to an extra $10k per month I have to pay for that bandwidth that we end up filtering from our customer in our spam filters, then shouldnt someone else have to pay for that $10k in damages we have to pay? Regular bulk mail from the post office requires the 'spammers' to pay postage to deliver. I get the mail but at no time do I have to go to the post office and shell out money against my will to pay for that crap that shows up in my mailbox.
to whom can we make donations to ensure he is put in a cell with a extremely large (in both senses of the word), horny, sex offender? Death to all spammers!
as long as the money stays within your country then yes it helps circulate currency. The real danger would be if a large portion of those overpriced goods were being diverted to other countries; then it becomes a trade deficit. You definitely don't want some contract where things are being purchased well above their value be linked to a company out of... take India for example. As politically incorrect as it may sound, the idea is to sell more stuff to other countries than you buy from them. This is one of the issues we have in the US with immigration, even though no one wants to view it in purely economic terms. When someone living in the US, often not legally, claims a ridiculous amount of dependent exemptions on their withholding for (W-4) they pay very little toward government taxes (knowing they wont be filing for a return anyway) and then sends 90% of their paycheck back to their families via Western Union; this amounts to a trade deficit. Right now we have a 10 billion dollar annual trade deficit from this situation. As long as your spending stays 'in house' completely, you are not affecting your countries overall wealth, only selectively redistributing it via sales contracts.
having worked in a few environments that manufacture good for the government here in the US, I realized nothing will ever be as cheap as over the counter. For example, take a $14 toilet seat. The government isn't content buying a $14 toilet seat from a retail outlet. They pass on paperwork requirements to their contract suppliers, a whole trunkload of paperwork. Suddenly they want every part serialized, tracked, accounted for. When its all said and done you've had to hire another 20 - 30 employees just to handle a simple $14 toilet seat. This, in part, is why sometimes toilet seats that you would see for $14 are now purchased for $90 or even $200. The government also needs to do its contribution to waste fraud and abuse. They can't leave the entire burden up to the vendor because the government half is still full of waste. I am not implying fraud does not or will not occur, but its less frequent than the prices alone indicate. Its more of a case of waste than anything. Add to that the senators being able to suddenly tout all these extra jobs they help 'create' and you have a recipe for this sort of thing all over.
With humans everything ultimately boils down to successful reproduction aka SEX. When analyzing the behavior of nations during the late 20th and early 21st centuries, everything is about OIL. Everything!
I agree on the quantifying everything on oil. In the early 90's I read a book called the First Millennial Foundation: Colonizing the stars in 8 easy steps. They often quantified everything in barrels of oil at nearly every step. Even the OTEC ocean thermal power generators were rated in how much in barrels of oil they would contribute to global power. We use so much coal and oil I have to laugh at the people that honestly think wind+solar+wave power is going to completely replace oil and coal. Our demand alone is in the hunderds of terrawatts and these wind generators cant even produce 1kw per square meter. Its more like 20% of that.
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I guess with 1/3rd of their power offline, they could mandate energy rations to everyone. If they get tired of that system they can, as a community, opt to re-instate their reactors and make a long term plan to switch to some other non-petroleum source for power. They have brilliant scientists, I'm sure they can figure this out. Greed seems like less of a hindrance there than here in the USA.
I can send a test ping from my home near the east coast all the way to a Sonus Soft switch in Los Angeles and back in 65ms. Back in the dial-up days it was acceptable to have 100ms ping times across a single link. A T1 should have ping times in 15ms across the single hop. DSL should be in the 50ms range on a bad day.
This sounds like a good thing to me. All these 'it looks like a gui so ill stumble through it myself' employers quickly disregard the need to actually hire an IT person. If anything this should be a welcome job opportunity for our fields. There was a gradual migration of people not hiring anyone for their IT and trying to do it on their own. This should help keep the job market healthy for both direct employees and for IT consultants who manage shops too small to justify someone on their payroll full time.
perhaps you're right. I just think there needs to be some decent amount of hero worship for these sort of individuals. Its totally pathetic that some athlete gets paid millions to play a game as a career and gets huge amount of hero worship. Yet some inventor or small group of scientists are going to come up with the next breakthrough that transforms the cost of energy into something so cheap its practically free for everyone; and they might get 15min of fame and thats it. Personally I think if there were more emphasis put on scientific achievement the way we put on whether someone can make a shot consistently from the 3pt line, we'd be much further along in our breakthroughs.
in the UK she'd probably get awarded knighthood. Ive always felt that those who make this game changing discoveries in the US should get something similar to this. Maybe a lifetime of no personal income tax? if not her, whoever does come up with the total cure for cancer is likely to get some small-prize announcement and that would be the end of the story by the news media. Meanwhile we will hear year after year sports announcements about some athlete making 30 million a year who, by the way, did NOT manage to cure cancer.
there's an app for that?
One way to break into the tech field is by doing contract work. This can include working for 'temp' agencies that specialize in IT work. As said agency moves you from one assignment to another you could easily get 2 - 3 different companies under your belt that way in just a couple years. Then your resume would list the parent 'contractor' and then list the individual contract assignments with date ranges, project tasks and usual fluff. The only thing you would be lacking is health insurance, which if you are young and unmarried might be a gamble worth taking, otherwise you're going to have to figure out that obstacle.
who would have thought that one of the first signs of diabetes (dry hands and feet caused by inadequate circulation to sweat glands) would turn out to be a unknowing champion for personal liberties.
I seriously doubt a cashier could afford neither a lawyer or the repeated lab tests
if i had mod points I'd give you a few for that funny retort. That was pretty clever.
thats generally how its interpreted everywhere. Every state has some manner of child protective services and the whole visible mark rule applies. Some states may make leeway to use paddles or belts, but they still cant leave marks. If you leave marks and you get reported CPS definitely will open a case and assign a social worker to re-educate the family on what is and is not appropriate.
spanking is not discipline.. it is used to get their attention and if you dont follow up with a real consequence you teach them nothing. The word Discipline comes from the word Disciple. It means 'to teach'. What exactly are you teaching by applying pain for a brief period of time? Even way back in the days of actual 'rod's being used.. it was to stop them from doing whatever half-assed thing they were doing right that moment (getting their attention) .. but the actual Discipline came afterwards when they got some other consequence that had a much longer lasting effect than the initial slap with a stick of wood.
spanking is not meant to be a discipline but a means of getting their attention, If and when a spanking is required.. its done as a means to bring the child back to reality and should be followed up with an actual consequence. example:
*spank child 2 -3 times with open hand*
"Now that I have your attention, you are grounded for 1 week. No television or electronic games during that week"
that's what we would do with new guys on the ship. Its kinda funny to have the EEOW (engineering officer of the watch) announce #1 reactor is critical and 3 or 4 people on the mess decks jump up and say 'oh shit!' and take off running into the engine room.
well the boron solution eats up thermal neutrons .. which is why we call it a neutron poison. If its maintaining steady state without the use of delayed neutrons its definitely supercritical. I just hate the way people throw the word 'critical' around like its a terrible thing.
As a former navy nuclear enlisted personnel; I can tell you that reactors operate at criticality all the time. The mere definition of critical is when all the thermal neutrons born from fission go on to cause more fission reactions. Critical = steady state. 'Prompt critical' or 'supercritical' is when its critical without the contribution of thermal (delayed) neutrons.
Every single reactor startup, we calculate exactly what rod height we expect to reach when the reactor goes critical. Once we are critical we then allow steam demand and thermal coolant temperature to drive reactor power output. higher temps are less dense thereby thermalising fewer neutrons lowering reactor power. If steam demand or load increases coolant temperature subsequently lowers making the coolant more dense in turn thermalising more neutrons increasing reactor output. Its all driven back to steady state. This is commonly referred to as a negative reactivity coefficient. Critical = steady state and Steady state is a good thing.
because I'll be damned if I'll ever join one of those brainless twit websites that completely invade your privacy. Hell if it ever gets to a point where i'm somehow legally or financially required to surrender my privacy to facebook my page is going to be a big white banner that says "FUCK YOU FOR BOTHERING TO LOOK HERE!". I've seen presumably 'personal' sites like this used all the time to discriminate against job applicants. Several times they got teachers fired because someone ELSE posted a picture of a teacher with a glass of wine (no big deal right?); yet because of their districts strict policy, not about drinking but about advertising drinking, they were fired. They can all go fuck themselves as far as I am concerned. and to Spotify, here is hoping you lose your ass on your decision to sell your soul to facebook.
So the software developer/programmer who gets put on the task of discovering why the latest version of software is causing crashes and has to debug and write a patch and submit it to the community for code review is not considered "maintenance of computer systems"? IMHO its the highest and most prestigious level of maintenance. When the factory supplied part doesn't fit and a machinist takes it and works it on the milling machine for a while until it fits exactly; he's transformed a completely non-working disaster into a fully functioning system again.
likewise the system administrator that has to apply updates or service packs on a semi religious basis is also performing maintenance IMHO. Any monkey can apply a service pack or click through a EULA and click the next button. Knowing how to back out if things go bad, knowing enough to read and understand the changelog, scheduling the work to take place with minimal impact on productivity, knowing whether or not this update even addresses any problems you have and deciding its better to stick with whats working than take the chance of buying new problems; this is your REAL skill. This is what justifies your salary.
I would say they BOTH qualify as maintaining a computer system. There are more jobs out there fixing bugs than there are doing ground-up design of a new product. The wheel was invented some 5000 years ago. That doesnt mean we havent improved on it since then :-)
arent they unique in their sickle cell anemia? maybe mating with the neanderthal kept everyone else from being pre-disposed to that?
there are financial damages from spam. 1/3rd of my bandwidth as an ISP is email. If 50% of email is spam then I am paying for bandwidth at the 90% percentile accounting, based on a large chunk of it as unsolicited bulk mail. I should be able to make the spammer pay me for this but there is no way to do that. If 100Mbps of my bandwidth is spam, and that amounts to an extra $10k per month I have to pay for that bandwidth that we end up filtering from our customer in our spam filters, then shouldnt someone else have to pay for that $10k in damages we have to pay? Regular bulk mail from the post office requires the 'spammers' to pay postage to deliver. I get the mail but at no time do I have to go to the post office and shell out money against my will to pay for that crap that shows up in my mailbox.
to whom can we make donations to ensure he is put in a cell with a extremely large (in both senses of the word), horny, sex offender? Death to all spammers!
with the ever increasing price per ounce of gold, Gold is the next gold rush ;-)
as long as the money stays within your country then yes it helps circulate currency. The real danger would be if a large portion of those overpriced goods were being diverted to other countries; then it becomes a trade deficit. You definitely don't want some contract where things are being purchased well above their value be linked to a company out of... take India for example. As politically incorrect as it may sound, the idea is to sell more stuff to other countries than you buy from them. This is one of the issues we have in the US with immigration, even though no one wants to view it in purely economic terms. When someone living in the US, often not legally, claims a ridiculous amount of dependent exemptions on their withholding for (W-4) they pay very little toward government taxes (knowing they wont be filing for a return anyway) and then sends 90% of their paycheck back to their families via Western Union; this amounts to a trade deficit. Right now we have a 10 billion dollar annual trade deficit from this situation. As long as your spending stays 'in house' completely, you are not affecting your countries overall wealth, only selectively redistributing it via sales contracts.
having worked in a few environments that manufacture good for the government here in the US, I realized nothing will ever be as cheap as over the counter. For example, take a $14 toilet seat. The government isn't content buying a $14 toilet seat from a retail outlet. They pass on paperwork requirements to their contract suppliers, a whole trunkload of paperwork. Suddenly they want every part serialized, tracked, accounted for. When its all said and done you've had to hire another 20 - 30 employees just to handle a simple $14 toilet seat. This, in part, is why sometimes toilet seats that you would see for $14 are now purchased for $90 or even $200. The government also needs to do its contribution to waste fraud and abuse. They can't leave the entire burden up to the vendor because the government half is still full of waste. I am not implying fraud does not or will not occur, but its less frequent than the prices alone indicate. Its more of a case of waste than anything. Add to that the senators being able to suddenly tout all these extra jobs they help 'create' and you have a recipe for this sort of thing all over.
With humans everything ultimately boils down to successful reproduction aka SEX. When analyzing the behavior of nations during the late 20th and early 21st centuries, everything is about OIL. Everything!
I agree on the quantifying everything on oil. In the early 90's I read a book called the First Millennial Foundation: Colonizing the stars in 8 easy steps. They often quantified everything in barrels of oil at nearly every step. Even the OTEC ocean thermal power generators were rated in how much in barrels of oil they would contribute to global power. We use so much coal and oil I have to laugh at the people that honestly think wind+solar+wave power is going to completely replace oil and coal. Our demand alone is in the hunderds of terrawatts and these wind generators cant even produce 1kw per square meter. Its more like 20% of that.