Breathed already has tentative plans to bring the penguin back in a short feature about discovering a certain country in Europe. It will be called "Mr. Opus's Holland.
...I don't happen to know how they would rule in the Ninth Circuit.
The Ninth circuit will rule whichever way that sets a precedent that requires an incredibly broad or perverse interpretation of the Constitution, goes against the voters' wishes, and/or angers the Republicans. The trick is to figure what ruling best fits that description.
Salt doesn't evaporate; it would have fallen out of the clouds while they were still in the ocean.
Huh? if sand can travel from one continent to another why wouldn't salt that has been lifted up to the clouds travel also with the wind and fall with the rain?
Salt that is blown into the air stays in the air. On the other hand, water that evaporates doesn't take the salt with it. Since this proposed solution is to spray salt water rather than let the water evaporate, there will be salt particles for the water vapor to condense around and form clouds.
I would argue that decisions like this are to a large extent the result of a way of thinking specifically associated with business schools and their MBA graduates. It is a type of thinking that looks at the operations of businesses through the lens of a limited set of parameters, as if these parameters can be a substitute for concrete knowledge of the nuts and bolts details of a company's operations. MBA thinking causes managers to close their minds, to limit their decisions to what is immediately measurable and graphable. Extreme adherents to this way of thinking often fail to see the big picture in their business and in the economy.
It isn't the business schools, it's the people. Good MBA programs focus on improving the value of a business, both long and short term, which requires nuts-and-bolts knowledge. Unfortunately, the most self-centered folks in the USA (or greater, for all I know,) figure a business education will show them how to use the capitalist system to their advantage, working toward doing whatever is needed to stroke their egos, including writing a resume that inflates their "paper-route" to "managing district distribution and revenue collection functions for a citywide printing enterprise." The board or powers-that-be of their prospective employer are often too busy to see past the smoke, or are too limited in thought to look outside of their limited search, and end up employing the great, lying, salesman as a manager in a position needing critical thought rather than the extremely qualified candidate who is very slightly outside of their nanoradian focus. I've seen similar thinking in many HR departments - someone with no direct experience but lots of otherwise stellar relevant experience is passed over in favor of someone who had years of lackluster experience.
Back to the Executive cycle - Once the egotistical, lying, salesman has his position, the folks with MBAs who adhere to principles such as long-term-profitability, accounting standards and procedures, risk management, and sustainability are shown the door, since unexpected large short term profits get a bigger ego boost to the egotistical lying salesman than sustained long-term above-sector-average performance. Thus, long term profitability is traded for short term results, and the lying, egotistical salesmem get bonuses and severance packages.
This cycle is self-perpetuating, since the egotistical, lying, salesman hires (or is hired by) folks with similar personality attributes, even though they may be unqualified for the position, so that there is mutual support of their incompetent decisions. After these folks wring all of the short term profit out of a particular business, and everyone realizes what happened, they resign, and move on to looking for the next job, with a resume bullet of "increased profitability XX% in X quarters", which others who are too lazy to research will find impressive, and then hire to run their business (in to the ground), restarting the cycle.
Not that I have personally seen it, or anything like that...
...The USAF needs technicians who can figure out things on their own...
I think the services that have folks out in the middle of the jungle/desert/ocean need those types of techicians more than the service that can make a phone call and get parts/support.
If you are called a 'CIO' then you are pretty much guaranteed to be an idiot. WTF is an 'Information Officer' anyway, and how can you be the chief one if there are no others?
It's often just a position so someone can get paid a lot to tell the IT department to produce data that verifies that GIGO is true. This is done by providing data and assumptions for the GI so that the GO can be presented to the board to justify whatever decision is fashionable at the moment.
What is wrong with being head of the IT department? It doesn't sound as swanky, which is surely a good thing, reminding you that IT is there to serve the rest of the business.
That position is called Director of Information Technology, and they don't get to be as clueless or as well compensated as a CIO.
I'm busy enough keeping our systems running and taking care of whatever issues our clients come up with. I don't have time to go snooping around for the fun of it.
Maybe not applicable in your situation, but in general, from my very limited experience, those most likely to snoop were those that were less competent, and snooping and such gave them a sense of power. If these less-competent, morally challenged coworkers weren't so busy snooping in everyone's personal business, maybe they could learn their jobs and help with the workload.
"There are enough loopholes in the general theory of relativity to allow antimatter to fall up rather than down in a gravitational field. We've never been able to make enough of the stuff to do the experiment. But at the European particle physics laboratory at CERN, where scientists have been refining the technique for making antihydrogen, researchers are designing an experiment called AEGIS that will finally settle the matter.
I did horribly and still got 102. That makes me fear for humanity.
There were a few I didn't know, (such as the name of Alexander's horse,) and it said that after answering 10 questions, many of them history, I am #111 in the world with a score of around 125. (It estimated my IQ at 142, with a 17 point penalty for only answering 10 questions.) I'm guessing it must be a small world after all, if I am in that position relative to the population.
Well, assuming they're flying at the same thousands-of-feet altitudes as the other planes, and put in their own paths with nothing intersecting, just like the other planes, and given their own slot for landing in, just like the other planes, what's the big deal?
Loss of communications. If you lose comms in a manned aircraft, the pilot follows his flight plan as filed until he regains comms or is able to take appropriate action to land safely. If you lose comms with an unmanned aircraft, depending upon its programming, it may or may not follow a flight plan, avoid other aircraft, and/or land safely.
...Get everyone to associate the Air Force with high speed high tech computer hacking and security so that they have a better image for hiring...
I think they are going about it the wrong way. By throwing around buzzwords for the sake of doing so, those who actually have a clue will avoid them like the Jar Jar Binks show.
The Air Force Cyber Command has already shown that it lacks original thought in its choice of a command patch, which hasn't pleased everyone. I'm beginning to think that the USAF just needed a command for folks that they don't trust with real weapons, and this command will be a place to put them where they can't hurt anyone. Either that, or someone with a lot of power is in serious need of a rectal craniectomy.
1: There is absolutely -ZERO- events causing the gas and oil spikes, which means there is no end to their price climb in sight. Picture what will happen to prices of fuel when some yahoo lights a fart anywhere near an oil refinery. $6-$8 a gallon of regular unleaded is almost a certain thing in most of the US by the end of the year. ... 3: The dollar is rapidly losing ground against every single currency in the world. The only reason that the dollar buys what it does is because people believe in it... and people are not anymore.
I believe that as oil is a global commodity, if item #3 is true, that would be a cause of item #1 for folks living in the U.S.
Just like the military, which has yet to truly admit it (but they have in a way), things are mostly done by outside contractors or civilian employees making more than they could if they worked for the military doing the same job. Our tax dollars at work!!
Although the individual contractors make more than they would if they were in the military, the contracts I am familiar with usually end up saving the military money. It usually takes significantly fewer contractors, (since contractors don't have as many bureaucratic layers and don't need to be temporarily absent to attend training, take medical leave, attend command meetings, or touchy-feely workshops,) and don't have many of the non-salary costs of the military (such as transfers, schools, support personnel, etc.).
If the military's hiring contractors saves money and frees military personnel from mundane, unrewarding, and/or unchallenging jobs, I'm all for it, even if the individual contractors cost more on a per-person basis. On the other hand, if the military is spending more money on contractors than it would spend by using military personnel, it is a waste of tax dollars, and if I recall correctly, part of a US Military officer's duty is to ensure that tax dollars are not wasted, and if tax dollars are being wasted, someone is not doing their job. (I forget the exact wording requiring officers to be vigilant of costs; someone who knows will probably respond and correct me.)
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Breathed already has tentative plans to bring the penguin back in a short feature about discovering a certain country in Europe. It will be called "Mr. Opus's Holland.
"A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State" is a justification for what follows, not a limit.
Doesn't "the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." mean the same thing?
The Ninth circuit will rule whichever way that sets a precedent that requires an incredibly broad or perverse interpretation of the Constitution, goes against the voters' wishes, and/or angers the Republicans. The trick is to figure what ruling best fits that description.
Salt that is blown into the air stays in the air. On the other hand, water that evaporates doesn't take the salt with it. Since this proposed solution is to spray salt water rather than let the water evaporate, there will be salt particles for the water vapor to condense around and form clouds.
It isn't the business schools, it's the people. Good MBA programs focus on improving the value of a business, both long and short term, which requires nuts-and-bolts knowledge. Unfortunately, the most self-centered folks in the USA (or greater, for all I know,) figure a business education will show them how to use the capitalist system to their advantage, working toward doing whatever is needed to stroke their egos, including writing a resume that inflates their "paper-route" to "managing district distribution and revenue collection functions for a citywide printing enterprise." The board or powers-that-be of their prospective employer are often too busy to see past the smoke, or are too limited in thought to look outside of their limited search, and end up employing the great, lying, salesman as a manager in a position needing critical thought rather than the extremely qualified candidate who is very slightly outside of their nanoradian focus. I've seen similar thinking in many HR departments - someone with no direct experience but lots of otherwise stellar relevant experience is passed over in favor of someone who had years of lackluster experience.
Back to the Executive cycle - Once the egotistical, lying, salesman has his position, the folks with MBAs who adhere to principles such as long-term-profitability, accounting standards and procedures, risk management, and sustainability are shown the door, since unexpected large short term profits get a bigger ego boost to the egotistical lying salesman than sustained long-term above-sector-average performance. Thus, long term profitability is traded for short term results, and the lying, egotistical salesmem get bonuses and severance packages.
This cycle is self-perpetuating, since the egotistical, lying, salesman hires (or is hired by) folks with similar personality attributes, even though they may be unqualified for the position, so that there is mutual support of their incompetent decisions. After these folks wring all of the short term profit out of a particular business, and everyone realizes what happened, they resign, and move on to looking for the next job, with a resume bullet of "increased profitability XX% in X quarters", which others who are too lazy to research will find impressive, and then hire to run their business (in to the ground), restarting the cycle.
Not that I have personally seen it, or anything like that...
I think the services that have folks out in the middle of the jungle/desert/ocean need those types of techicians more than the service that can make a phone call and get parts/support.
Public defenders are for criminal cases only, and usually assigned only when the defendant is too poor to afford a lawyer. The RIAA files civil cases.
Political_Correctness ?
And make sure there is no misunderstanding or spelling errors - too many employers are willing to pay *weakly*.
Some versions of the Predator UAV carry and launch Hellfire missiles.
It's often just a position so someone can get paid a lot to tell the IT department to produce data that verifies that GIGO is true. This is done by providing data and assumptions for the GI so that the GO can be presented to the board to justify whatever decision is fashionable at the moment.
That position is called Director of Information Technology, and they don't get to be as clueless or as well compensated as a CIO.
Judging by current output, costs must be incredibly low, already.
I was thinking more like
Can Microsoft move forward with a completely new, fast, and secure OS and still keep legacy application support?
Yes, it is theoretically possible, sort of like extrasolar planetary colonization, only not as likely in an equal time period.
Will Microsoft move forward with a completely new, fast, and secure OS...?
And your response (...Based on past performance: No...) answers the slightly modified question perfectly as well.
Maybe not applicable in your situation, but in general, from my very limited experience, those most likely to snoop were those that were less competent, and snooping and such gave them a sense of power. If these less-competent, morally challenged coworkers weren't so busy snooping in everyone's personal business, maybe they could learn their jobs and help with the workload.
Because your lobbyist doesn't contribute as much to the appropriate candidates' election campaigns?
Or will it settle (or unsettle) the anti-matter?
An Italian Job? Inspire you to write "A Million Little Pizzas" upon your alleged recovery?
I took the thirty question version, with my daughter interrupting me, and managed to drop my score quite a bit. Maybe more accurate that way.
There were a few I didn't know, (such as the name of Alexander's horse,) and it said that after answering 10 questions, many of them history, I am #111 in the world with a score of around 125. (It estimated my IQ at 142, with a 17 point penalty for only answering 10 questions.) I'm guessing it must be a small world after all, if I am in that position relative to the population.
Loss of communications. If you lose comms in a manned aircraft, the pilot follows his flight plan as filed until he regains comms or is able to take appropriate action to land safely. If you lose comms with an unmanned aircraft, depending upon its programming, it may or may not follow a flight plan, avoid other aircraft, and/or land safely.
If the US Air Force had a sense of humor, they would name the YAL-1 "Shark."
I think they are going about it the wrong way. By throwing around buzzwords for the sake of doing so, those who actually have a clue will avoid them like the Jar Jar Binks show.
The Air Force Cyber Command has already shown that it lacks original thought in its choice of a command patch, which hasn't pleased everyone. I'm beginning to think that the USAF just needed a command for folks that they don't trust with real weapons, and this command will be a place to put them where they can't hurt anyone. Either that, or someone with a lot of power is in serious need of a rectal craniectomy.
I believe that as oil is a global commodity, if item #3 is true, that would be a cause of item #1 for folks living in the U.S.
Although the individual contractors make more than they would if they were in the military, the contracts I am familiar with usually end up saving the military money. It usually takes significantly fewer contractors, (since contractors don't have as many bureaucratic layers and don't need to be temporarily absent to attend training, take medical leave, attend command meetings, or touchy-feely workshops,) and don't have many of the non-salary costs of the military (such as transfers, schools, support personnel, etc.).
If the military's hiring contractors saves money and frees military personnel from mundane, unrewarding, and/or unchallenging jobs, I'm all for it, even if the individual contractors cost more on a per-person basis. On the other hand, if the military is spending more money on contractors than it would spend by using military personnel, it is a waste of tax dollars, and if I recall correctly, part of a US Military officer's duty is to ensure that tax dollars are not wasted, and if tax dollars are being wasted, someone is not doing their job. (I forget the exact wording requiring officers to be vigilant of costs; someone who knows will probably respond and correct me.)