This is the kind of thing voters hoped Trump would focus on, instead of Twitter fights with athletes. He used to always rail against China's trade practices. Let's hope the Good Trump comes out instead of the Distracted Trump.
Unfortunately Trump badly misunderstands the realities of the situation with North Korea. China has somewhat more leverage than it will use and but not as much as western governments assume. Neither Russia nor China want the North Korean problem resolved at all. China doesn't really want things to get worse, but they do enjoy seeing the USA reeling about what to do there, as does Russia. Neither country really wants anything to happen that makes the US stronger. Having the US distracted by a minor power is good for both Russia and China in a lot of ways. So because Trump seems to truly believe that China can solve his problem for him, he won't do much to piss them off. Sure there will be some possible arms sales to Taiwan but previous presidents have done that anyway. He's not going to push much on trade with China. Maybe in domestic appearances he'll blast them and their practices for sound bites, but in the end he's not going to really do much or anything about it because he still thinks China is willing to solve his North Korean problem for him. As long as he believes that, his hands will be tied.
I'm wondering if some of these numbers are happening because more people are choosing to live together to save money. This could include all sorts of situations that don't involve romance like friends sharing an apartment, college graduates moving back with mom and dad, and so on. It's interesting to note that the actual article didn't paint as rosy a picture as the excerpts above did. It says that people with higher incomes are now renting and a higher percentage of renters are older, white, and have kids (or may just fall into one of those categories). In my metro area, all the new home construction I see is extremely expensive (roughly $500,000 and up) and I have my doubts as to how wise it is to build those expensive homes given that we're not a high cost metro area. I don't really see any new construction that I would deem "affordable" for the average person.
Facebook still has a long way to go in comparison to Twitter. If some moron I went to high school with posts a link to an article that says "Hillary Clinton under the control of communist, ISIS loving illegal immigrants from Mars" and the dude says he believes it, many people just shrug their shoulders and conclude the guy is an idiot and get on with life. On Twitter, major sources (CNN, Yahoo, and many many more) post comments by nobodies ranting or raving about this or that and act like what this unknown person just said is just THE... MOST.... IMPORTANT... THING... EVER... SAID...IN... HISTORY. Facebook certainly does or did a lot to spread nonsense, but I still see Twitter as far more destructive because nobody in the media seems to think that anything on Twitter can just be ignored.
I have a good friend who is a Center Ice subscriber because his team's TV partner isn't carried by his cable provider. He's told me that some small number of his team's home games are theoretically blacked out on Center Ice but in every case he can switch to the visiting team's feed of the exact same game and watch it without restrictions. Seems like these very restrictive rules may just be for Canada. I know that you guys have your own TV deals that don't have anything at all to do with what we have in the USA.
If it's an actual broadcast, they lose all expectation to stop distribution once they put it out there. It's the equivalent of shouting from a mountain top (and in many cases it is literally that) and expecting all those who hear you to not repeat what you said. Even if copyright law is on their side, common sense says "fuck you".
Nice try, but it's not legally like that at all. 3 years ago a company named Aereo tried a similar tactic to argue that their TV service, which didn't involve them paying licensing fees for the channels they offered, was basically what you are claiming and the Supreme Court had a very different idea. When the law says "It's illegal to do that" and you think "common sense" says otherwise, the law can still come after you and you will lose your argument.
Just how far does this guy have to go before he lacks the support to continue?
I came to the conclusion months ago that he can't do anything that will cause his hardcore supporters to stop supporting him. We're getting reports of people in places like Alabama saying if Jesus came back and ran as a Democrat they'd still vote for Trump. We need to admit in America that for about 80-90% of the population the only thing that matters is whether there is a D or an R by a candidate's name and all other issues are negotiable. Assuming he can avoid doing something illegal that gets him removed from office or makes him resign, he's going to be re-elected in 2020. The economy is good and in almost every case of a sitting president losing a re-election bid, a bad economy was in play. Heck, GW Bush and Obama both ran for re-election with kind of crummy economies and both won easily. Trump has everything in his favor. The damage will be immense and his successor will have to do a lot of repair work in 2024 to fix the messes he'll cause in 2 terms, but angry white people love him and there's sadly still enough of them to decide the election in 2020 for Trump.
You seem Russian as those are Russian type explanations. First of all, the Russian language has been de-emphasized ever since Ukraine gained independence. While there was some stupid law like you mention, the reality is that Ukrainian education has been in Ukrainian, not Russian, for a very long time now. I remember over a decade ago meeting a lady who taught in what the US would call elementary school and she was an ethnic Russian, but she told me that she was required by law to teach in Ukrainian. Please note that she lived in a town currently under rebel control in East Ukraine where most people speak Russian by choice. Crimea has always had a chip on its shoulder about being given by Krushchev to Ukraine and Russia exploited this. The law change is just an excuse. They've been looking for a reason to go back to Russia for a very long time and the instability in the national government provided the pretext Putin needed to "liberate" them. And that liberation was really mostly to get control of the naval bases there. I have known for a very long time that Ukraine allowing Russians to keep ships there was a really bad idea, but government after government foolishly believed that they could pacify Mother Russia by doing so and she wouldn't attack them.
Do note that this so-called "peace keeping force monitored by the OSCE" is only Russian and other nations are not allowed to participate. The OCSE monitoring is theoretical at best. Your reason stated for Saakhasvili's invasion is correct, but note that you are forgetting to mention that Russian troops went there to "help" (wink wink) during a previous ethnic clash over a decade earlier and never left.
Then we have the usual "Don't single out Russia. Everybody else is doing it and doing it more!" argument. You lose on that one.
Sadly, this really ignorant post is currently modded "Insightful", which it most certainly is not. And I have no mod points to mod it down with.
North Korea has no diplomatic relations with Japan, nor is it interesting in "settling" any issue at all with Japan. The purpose of the ballistic missiles is to threaten the USA. The only player in this game that North Korea wants to settle anything with is the USA. And just so you know, in the past a Japanese administration tried the "play nice" tactic with North Korea and it didn't accomplish anything except end up with Japan giving up food aid for nothing in return.
He seems to still be in Iran so the charges would be because
1) If he ever leaves Iran, Interpol can possibly pick him up if he goes to a country that respects the warrant and deliver him to the USA for trial.
2) It makes a point to Iran that if they want to continue messing with dual nationals and imprisoning them for flimsy reasons, the USA can go after their citizens too.
...briefly what fortune is in this context (as in, the Unix program, not the magazine, town, or band):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortune_(Unix)
For once I actually knew exactly what it was in reference to. I'm used to most Slashdot articles being like this - "FartKnocker, a new OO programming language that everybody is using, just got a new release" or talking about new tools that do things that other tools already did but somebody didn't think the older tools were cool enough so they wrote completely new ones that don't add any new functionality but work in more complex ways and are much harder to use than the older tools and they just pretend that they are better than the older ones. Also fun are the tools that actually almost nobody has ever used or heard of except for maybe 100 people in the entire world and the Slashdot article just assumes that everybody has not only heard of it, but uses it.
Need more info to comment properly. Lots of Americans don't want to work in California at all because of costs, so your comment "we're a satellite office elsewhere" may mean that the satellite office is another extremely high cost area like Los Angeles or San Francisco. You're vague about what you do, and I get that, but it may also be that your job requirements are so specific that most IT people can't meet them so you're just hiring H1Bs who claim they meet them but maybe really don't, but your company just sucks it up and figures out a way to train them on the job to get them able to do the work. It can also be that your company is too small and Americans who could work for you are going to bigger, more stable companies instead. And finally, while your management may be telling you "We tried but we just can't find Americans for our jobs" it may not be true. I got on my current job when the company I now work for acquired a successful startup I was working for and I can assure you in the startup days that lots of H1Bs were hired just to save money. Smaller companies watch the budget more than you may realize.
Of course, we know they're not going to be doing that either. Even ignoring the continual delays, SLS is simply an impractical launch vehicle. Way too expensive per launch, and they'll never have enough launches to refine it.
NASA needs to accept that it's not going to be a launch supplier, and switch to what it does best: R&D and exploration missions. And the new launch environment should be embraced.
Quite right. And it took an outsider (Musk) to ask a game changing question ("Can first stage rockets be salvaged and reused to save money?") because when NASA got started doing launches, that wasn't possible at all. So over the years as technology changed, nobody at NASA ever thought about it because they were too entrenched in the old way of doing launches to ask any new questions.
mail servers, for instance, eventually wound up migrating to Microsoft Exchange
WTH? E-mail is one of the easiest systems to NOT use any Windows-specific software with --- in fact, the more mature implementations of SMTP and IMAP servers run on Linux and much more robustly, than those pieces of shit called 'Exchange' and 'Outlook'.
Let the church say "Amen" to that one. I work for a US based Fortune 500 company as a result of being hired by a company they bought out. They left us alone for several years and during that time we maintained our own email systems on Linux. It was so much easier than now when we are forced to use corporate Exchange servers with awful Outlook clients. I just despise Outlook and remain amazed that people actually like it. When we ran our own servers I could write procmail rules to handle my email and do what I wanted and I loved Thunderbird as a client. Outlook is much worse to using procmail + Thunderbird.
I recently flew out of the US to a county on the Pacific Ocean side of the globe and my flights required me to go through LAX both leaving and returning. All I can tell you is that TSA lines in LAX are pretty tough and long and if you aren't in TSA pre check, you may honestly need 2 hours to go through that line. I don't live in California so I can't really tell you why, but it does seem that LAX is the worst place in the USA to deal with TSA that I've seen.
When I saw the headline, I was going to come here and post a joke about the "world's oldest profession". But after reading the summary/article, I'm really saddened. Every family has skeletons in their closets, but this deception goes right to the core of who we are as humans.
In the USA, this kind of deception could have legal consequences that might be bad for the actor. In most if not all US states, child support is viewed as the right of the child. That means that states can go after deadbeat dads. And there have been cases where non-biological fathers thought they were a child's biological father and found out that they weren't but they still had to pay child support because it's the child's right to get support and that trumps a lack of a biological connection.
There are more than three reasons. The question begging here assumes the only legitimate usage of bitcoin is among criminals. This is patently false. There are nations with less than ideal currencies where bitcoin is commonly being used as exchange currency.
I'd like some real, verifiable examples of how bitcoin is even useful in an ordinary person's every day life in one of those countries rather than "It's true because I say so".
False. Bitcoin circulates, it has underlying value, and it is deflationary. Every day bitcoin goes out of circulation as people lose access to wallets. I myself have lost access to at least 25 bitcoin over the years and nobody else has access either... that would be $187,500 at the $7500 per 1.0 btc I saw the other day.
I'm sorry but this is going to be really mean spirited. What exactly does this say about both you and bitcoin that this even true? Should we even be paying attention to a person who basically admitted that through either his own incompetence or the insecurity of bitcoin that over $187,000 worth of bit coins went into the bit bucket and nothing can be done about it?
Bite Me! do these individuals know how the internet works?
Actually in legal circles many or most lawyers and judges barely know how to use computers and how the internet works. And the reality of the US legal system is that it's not really set up to reach the correct decision, it's actually set up to reach a decision of some kind. Lawyers don't care at all when they lose if they get paid because they can try to get their clients to appeal and - win for the lawyers - the appeal process brings in more money.
In any event, I figure this one will be appealed and it will likely go to the Supreme Court and we'll eventually get a final decision here. If it ends end up being a free speech issue over a copyright issue, and I think it could, this decision will get overturned. All judges are subject to political and personal biases of various kinds and the verdict you get at higher court levels is mostly due to this rather than the true merits of the case, although if one side does have really bad lawyers, that can be the main factor in the final outcome.
The cost of education has skyrocketed to the point that it may have just become a bad investment. The cost of graduate degrees if one is required to get student loans to complete leaves you with years and years of debt. If you aren't lucky enough to land a high paying job as soon as you complete you degree you are left struggling to make the investment in education worth it. Basic economics-high cost means people won't buy. Numbers will most likely continue to fall as cost rises.
Wish I had mod points to mod this up. I think this is it plus I've worked my whole work career in IT after graduating with a BS in Computer Science and I've never seen a real need even for people with a master's degree, let alone a PhD. I've known of cases where PhDs actually can be detrimental and people won't get hired because they are "overqualified". So with no real pressure to have to get advanced degrees to get jobs and some pressure against the most advanced graduate degree, yeah, pretty much it's only going to be rich foreigners and a small number of really determined Americans who are going to do this. Of course if you want more Americans with advanced STEM degrees, actually stopping the devaluing of the American IT worker might be a really good way to accomplish that.
I think there's several different reasons and not every workplace uses every possible reason for making people come in.
1) No partition cubes are now trendy because pointy haired bosses have seized onto it as the key to greater productivity. My current employer has experimented with that and while some groups of customer service people do now have cubicles like that, at present it looks pretty much dead in the IT parts of the office because it just seems unnecessary and maybe even counterproductive. People who buy into this kind of cubicle situation big time are going to make employees come in.
2) We had posts here that IBM was making people come in mostly to force people to leave the company. They always cut staff to prop up their stock value and making the work environment unpleasant by making distant workers have to deal with horrible commutes again is a way to make people remove themselves voluntarily from IBM.
3) My previous employer to save money made a large number of the employees at our building work from home whether they wanted to or not so they could reduce floor space and then freaked out after doing so and demanded that those employees they forced to work at home come into the office at least one day a week and use the temporary mini cubicles they setup for people who just came in for the day. I can assure you that my previous employer did not know at all what they were doing, so I suspect a lot of the companies making people come in fall into this category too.
Note that I know Volt and Leaf owners, all of them have a similarly positive experience (battery life strong after 180k miles, regenerative breaking making the brakes last a long time, and no mechanical issues with the motors to speak of).
I think your well meaning post is confusing both types of cars and specific models there. The Volt is a hybrid. It's not fully electric. The similar sounding Bolt is fully electric, but it's only been available for about 1 year at best, in most places just since earlier this year. The Leaf is fully electric but it first got sold in 2010 and given its very limited range (about 85 miles on a full charge under average conditions) it's highly unlikely that anybody has a Leaf with 180k miles on it. You may be thinking of something like a Prius hybrid here.
I had a Leaf on lease for 3 years and I really liked it. Never had a single repair on it. The only complaint I have is that the stock tires were rated for something like 60,000 miles but I had to replace them all around 30,000. I've never had a car where the stock tires lasted as long as they were rated for. My life circumstances changed and I had to turn the Leaf back in when the lease ran out, but I'm definitely interested in the future in getting another electric vehicle. My whole experience with the Leaf was great.
I write in KSH, CSH, Python and Perl regularly... Of the three, Perl is my hands down favorite for a scripting language.
You should absolutely not be scripting in CSH - ever. Even the guys who wrote it said so. Do a search on "why not to write in csh" without the quote marks and read at least the first 2 matches currently coming up on Google. There are problems with this shell that are over 20 years old and they've still never been fixed. The major articles on the subject, which are really old because the problems have been around forever, have interesting examples you can try and see that the errors from 20+ years ago still exist. I'd say that one of the biggest reasons KSH even exists, if not the biggest reason, is because CSH is so bad to program in.
Why should they be surprised? PHDs are treated like crappy free labor by universities.
Perhaps when they stopping paying administration officials obscene salaries and pay professors and grads what they are actually worth the quality at universities will improve.
While this is certainly true in the USA, the specific instance referenced above was in the UK. Can any UK Slashdotters give us a UK perspective on this?
I'm also wondering if in a few more years this might sort itself out as too many people jump into the field in college and there end up being more graduates than there are really jobs and some companies don't do a very good job of figuring out who really knows their stuff and who doesn't. The growth in this field can't be infinite, can't be indefinite and I think eventually it's going to fall under the same cost pressure every other IT field has faced where non-tech management begins to devalue it and looks for cheaper overseas alternatives.
I'm terrible at picking stocks. But I'd say buy now.
AMD had a fantastic Q3 and predicted a slower Q4 (as expected), and the stock has fallen a ton in the past few days. It really makes no sense.
AMD also has fantastic products out now with more to come.
Sadly, reality doesn't have a lot to do with the stock market. It's not current, but you might remember how investors propped up SCO for years when the only thing they had going for them was a slim chance that they might win their lawsuit against IBM and come into a fortune from IBM and other companies having to pay licensing fees. William Poundstone wrote a book a few years ago called _Fortune's Formula_ and if you read it, it will change your thinking about the stock market forever in a negative way. I read it and I understand now how the market doesn't really operate on rational principles and how people with more money than me can game the system so they can always make a profit. I still invest in stocks a little and of course I have a 401K fund at work I put money into, but I no longer believe that anybody can just make money in the market by doing careful research. The stock market is all just a game. It's like betting in a casino with maybe slightly better odds but the house is always going to win. In the stock market the rich people are the house.
It's been a while, but I have been there. It was pretty old when I was last there, although I read that they are building a new terminal. Odessa isn't a particularly busy airport so it probably makes safer test for any hackers (fewer flights mean fewer victims if it causes an airplane crash). Kiev's main airport KBP should definitely be on the lookout. As a point of interest, an Anonymous Coward posted about the "Gay Jew conspiracy" and Russian trolls, but note that Odessa does actually have some direct flights to Israel. The city of Uman is about halfway between Kiev and Odessa and both the Kiev and Odessa airports have direct flights to Israel and get a decent number of pilgrims who visit a grave in Uman of a rabbi important to Hassidic Judaism.
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This is the kind of thing voters hoped Trump would focus on, instead of Twitter fights with athletes. He used to always rail against China's trade practices. Let's hope the Good Trump comes out instead of the Distracted Trump.
Unfortunately Trump badly misunderstands the realities of the situation with North Korea. China has somewhat more leverage than it will use and but not as much as western governments assume. Neither Russia nor China want the North Korean problem resolved at all. China doesn't really want things to get worse, but they do enjoy seeing the USA reeling about what to do there, as does Russia. Neither country really wants anything to happen that makes the US stronger. Having the US distracted by a minor power is good for both Russia and China in a lot of ways. So because Trump seems to truly believe that China can solve his problem for him, he won't do much to piss them off. Sure there will be some possible arms sales to Taiwan but previous presidents have done that anyway. He's not going to push much on trade with China. Maybe in domestic appearances he'll blast them and their practices for sound bites, but in the end he's not going to really do much or anything about it because he still thinks China is willing to solve his North Korean problem for him. As long as he believes that, his hands will be tied.
I'm wondering if some of these numbers are happening because more people are choosing to live together to save money. This could include all sorts of situations that don't involve romance like friends sharing an apartment, college graduates moving back with mom and dad, and so on. It's interesting to note that the actual article didn't paint as rosy a picture as the excerpts above did. It says that people with higher incomes are now renting and a higher percentage of renters are older, white, and have kids (or may just fall into one of those categories). In my metro area, all the new home construction I see is extremely expensive (roughly $500,000 and up) and I have my doubts as to how wise it is to build those expensive homes given that we're not a high cost metro area. I don't really see any new construction that I would deem "affordable" for the average person.
Facebook still has a long way to go in comparison to Twitter. If some moron I went to high school with posts a link to an article that says "Hillary Clinton under the control of communist, ISIS loving illegal immigrants from Mars" and the dude says he believes it, many people just shrug their shoulders and conclude the guy is an idiot and get on with life. On Twitter, major sources (CNN, Yahoo, and many many more) post comments by nobodies ranting or raving about this or that and act like what this unknown person just said is just THE ... MOST.... IMPORTANT... THING... EVER... SAID ...IN... HISTORY. Facebook certainly does or did a lot to spread nonsense, but I still see Twitter as far more destructive because nobody in the media seems to think that anything on Twitter can just be ignored.
I have a good friend who is a Center Ice subscriber because his team's TV partner isn't carried by his cable provider. He's told me that some small number of his team's home games are theoretically blacked out on Center Ice but in every case he can switch to the visiting team's feed of the exact same game and watch it without restrictions. Seems like these very restrictive rules may just be for Canada. I know that you guys have your own TV deals that don't have anything at all to do with what we have in the USA.
If it's an actual broadcast, they lose all expectation to stop distribution once they put it out there. It's the equivalent of shouting from a mountain top (and in many cases it is literally that) and expecting all those who hear you to not repeat what you said. Even if copyright law is on their side, common sense says "fuck you".
Nice try, but it's not legally like that at all. 3 years ago a company named Aereo tried a similar tactic to argue that their TV service, which didn't involve them paying licensing fees for the channels they offered, was basically what you are claiming and the Supreme Court had a very different idea. When the law says "It's illegal to do that" and you think "common sense" says otherwise, the law can still come after you and you will lose your argument.
Just how far does this guy have to go before he lacks the support to continue?
I came to the conclusion months ago that he can't do anything that will cause his hardcore supporters to stop supporting him. We're getting reports of people in places like Alabama saying if Jesus came back and ran as a Democrat they'd still vote for Trump. We need to admit in America that for about 80-90% of the population the only thing that matters is whether there is a D or an R by a candidate's name and all other issues are negotiable. Assuming he can avoid doing something illegal that gets him removed from office or makes him resign, he's going to be re-elected in 2020. The economy is good and in almost every case of a sitting president losing a re-election bid, a bad economy was in play. Heck, GW Bush and Obama both ran for re-election with kind of crummy economies and both won easily. Trump has everything in his favor. The damage will be immense and his successor will have to do a lot of repair work in 2024 to fix the messes he'll cause in 2 terms, but angry white people love him and there's sadly still enough of them to decide the election in 2020 for Trump.
You seem Russian as those are Russian type explanations. First of all, the Russian language has been de-emphasized ever since Ukraine gained independence. While there was some stupid law like you mention, the reality is that Ukrainian education has been in Ukrainian, not Russian, for a very long time now. I remember over a decade ago meeting a lady who taught in what the US would call elementary school and she was an ethnic Russian, but she told me that she was required by law to teach in Ukrainian. Please note that she lived in a town currently under rebel control in East Ukraine where most people speak Russian by choice. Crimea has always had a chip on its shoulder about being given by Krushchev to Ukraine and Russia exploited this. The law change is just an excuse. They've been looking for a reason to go back to Russia for a very long time and the instability in the national government provided the pretext Putin needed to "liberate" them. And that liberation was really mostly to get control of the naval bases there. I have known for a very long time that Ukraine allowing Russians to keep ships there was a really bad idea, but government after government foolishly believed that they could pacify Mother Russia by doing so and she wouldn't attack them.
Do note that this so-called "peace keeping force monitored by the OSCE" is only Russian and other nations are not allowed to participate. The OCSE monitoring is theoretical at best. Your reason stated for Saakhasvili's invasion is correct, but note that you are forgetting to mention that Russian troops went there to "help" (wink wink) during a previous ethnic clash over a decade earlier and never left.
Then we have the usual "Don't single out Russia. Everybody else is doing it and doing it more!" argument. You lose on that one.
... with NK.
It's Japan's jurisdiction.
Sadly, this really ignorant post is currently modded "Insightful", which it most certainly is not. And I have no mod points to mod it down with.
North Korea has no diplomatic relations with Japan, nor is it interesting in "settling" any issue at all with Japan. The purpose of the ballistic missiles is to threaten the USA. The only player in this game that North Korea wants to settle anything with is the USA. And just so you know, in the past a Japanese administration tried the "play nice" tactic with North Korea and it didn't accomplish anything except end up with Japan giving up food aid for nothing in return.
He seems to still be in Iran so the charges would be because
1) If he ever leaves Iran, Interpol can possibly pick him up if he goes to a country that respects the warrant and deliver him to the USA for trial.
2) It makes a point to Iran that if they want to continue messing with dual nationals and imprisoning them for flimsy reasons, the USA can go after their citizens too.
...briefly what fortune is in this context (as in, the Unix program, not the magazine, town, or band):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortune_(Unix)
For once I actually knew exactly what it was in reference to. I'm used to most Slashdot articles being like this - "FartKnocker, a new OO programming language that everybody is using, just got a new release" or talking about new tools that do things that other tools already did but somebody didn't think the older tools were cool enough so they wrote completely new ones that don't add any new functionality but work in more complex ways and are much harder to use than the older tools and they just pretend that they are better than the older ones. Also fun are the tools that actually almost nobody has ever used or heard of except for maybe 100 people in the entire world and the Slashdot article just assumes that everybody has not only heard of it, but uses it.
Need more info to comment properly. Lots of Americans don't want to work in California at all because of costs, so your comment "we're a satellite office elsewhere" may mean that the satellite office is another extremely high cost area like Los Angeles or San Francisco. You're vague about what you do, and I get that, but it may also be that your job requirements are so specific that most IT people can't meet them so you're just hiring H1Bs who claim they meet them but maybe really don't, but your company just sucks it up and figures out a way to train them on the job to get them able to do the work. It can also be that your company is too small and Americans who could work for you are going to bigger, more stable companies instead. And finally, while your management may be telling you "We tried but we just can't find Americans for our jobs" it may not be true. I got on my current job when the company I now work for acquired a successful startup I was working for and I can assure you in the startup days that lots of H1Bs were hired just to save money. Smaller companies watch the budget more than you may realize.
Of course, we know they're not going to be doing that either. Even ignoring the continual delays, SLS is simply an impractical launch vehicle. Way too expensive per launch, and they'll never have enough launches to refine it.
NASA needs to accept that it's not going to be a launch supplier, and switch to what it does best: R&D and exploration missions. And the new launch environment should be embraced.
Quite right. And it took an outsider (Musk) to ask a game changing question ("Can first stage rockets be salvaged and reused to save money?") because when NASA got started doing launches, that wasn't possible at all. So over the years as technology changed, nobody at NASA ever thought about it because they were too entrenched in the old way of doing launches to ask any new questions.
mail servers, for instance, eventually wound up migrating to Microsoft Exchange
WTH? E-mail is one of the easiest systems to NOT use any Windows-specific software with --- in fact, the more mature implementations of SMTP and IMAP servers run on Linux and much more robustly, than those pieces of shit called 'Exchange' and 'Outlook'.
Let the church say "Amen" to that one. I work for a US based Fortune 500 company as a result of being hired by a company they bought out. They left us alone for several years and during that time we maintained our own email systems on Linux. It was so much easier than now when we are forced to use corporate Exchange servers with awful Outlook clients. I just despise Outlook and remain amazed that people actually like it. When we ran our own servers I could write procmail rules to handle my email and do what I wanted and I loved Thunderbird as a client. Outlook is much worse to using procmail + Thunderbird.
I recently flew out of the US to a county on the Pacific Ocean side of the globe and my flights required me to go through LAX both leaving and returning. All I can tell you is that TSA lines in LAX are pretty tough and long and if you aren't in TSA pre check, you may honestly need 2 hours to go through that line. I don't live in California so I can't really tell you why, but it does seem that LAX is the worst place in the USA to deal with TSA that I've seen.
When I saw the headline, I was going to come here and post a joke about the "world's oldest profession". But after reading the summary/article, I'm really saddened. Every family has skeletons in their closets, but this deception goes right to the core of who we are as humans.
In the USA, this kind of deception could have legal consequences that might be bad for the actor. In most if not all US states, child support is viewed as the right of the child. That means that states can go after deadbeat dads. And there have been cases where non-biological fathers thought they were a child's biological father and found out that they weren't but they still had to pay child support because it's the child's right to get support and that trumps a lack of a biological connection.
There are more than three reasons. The question begging here assumes the only legitimate usage of bitcoin is among criminals. This is patently false. There are nations with less than ideal currencies where bitcoin is commonly being used as exchange currency.
I'd like some real, verifiable examples of how bitcoin is even useful in an ordinary person's every day life in one of those countries rather than "It's true because I say so".
False. Bitcoin circulates, it has underlying value, and it is deflationary. Every day bitcoin goes out of circulation as people lose access to wallets. I myself have lost access to at least 25 bitcoin over the years and nobody else has access either... that would be $187,500 at the $7500 per 1.0 btc I saw the other day.
I'm sorry but this is going to be really mean spirited. What exactly does this say about both you and bitcoin that this even true? Should we even be paying attention to a person who basically admitted that through either his own incompetence or the insecurity of bitcoin that over $187,000 worth of bit coins went into the bit bucket and nothing can be done about it?
Bite Me! do these individuals know how the internet works?
Actually in legal circles many or most lawyers and judges barely know how to use computers and how the internet works. And the reality of the US legal system is that it's not really set up to reach the correct decision, it's actually set up to reach a decision of some kind. Lawyers don't care at all when they lose if they get paid because they can try to get their clients to appeal and - win for the lawyers - the appeal process brings in more money.
In any event, I figure this one will be appealed and it will likely go to the Supreme Court and we'll eventually get a final decision here. If it ends end up being a free speech issue over a copyright issue, and I think it could, this decision will get overturned. All judges are subject to political and personal biases of various kinds and the verdict you get at higher court levels is mostly due to this rather than the true merits of the case, although if one side does have really bad lawyers, that can be the main factor in the final outcome.
The cost of education has skyrocketed to the point that it may have just become a bad investment. The cost of graduate degrees if one is required to get student loans to complete leaves you with years and years of debt. If you aren't lucky enough to land a high paying job as soon as you complete you degree you are left struggling to make the investment in education worth it. Basic economics-high cost means people won't buy. Numbers will most likely continue to fall as cost rises.
Wish I had mod points to mod this up. I think this is it plus I've worked my whole work career in IT after graduating with a BS in Computer Science and I've never seen a real need even for people with a master's degree, let alone a PhD. I've known of cases where PhDs actually can be detrimental and people won't get hired because they are "overqualified". So with no real pressure to have to get advanced degrees to get jobs and some pressure against the most advanced graduate degree, yeah, pretty much it's only going to be rich foreigners and a small number of really determined Americans who are going to do this. Of course if you want more Americans with advanced STEM degrees, actually stopping the devaluing of the American IT worker might be a really good way to accomplish that.
I think there's several different reasons and not every workplace uses every possible reason for making people come in.
1) No partition cubes are now trendy because pointy haired bosses have seized onto it as the key to greater productivity. My current employer has experimented with that and while some groups of customer service people do now have cubicles like that, at present it looks pretty much dead in the IT parts of the office because it just seems unnecessary and maybe even counterproductive. People who buy into this kind of cubicle situation big time are going to make employees come in.
2) We had posts here that IBM was making people come in mostly to force people to leave the company. They always cut staff to prop up their stock value and making the work environment unpleasant by making distant workers have to deal with horrible commutes again is a way to make people remove themselves voluntarily from IBM.
3) My previous employer to save money made a large number of the employees at our building work from home whether they wanted to or not so they could reduce floor space and then freaked out after doing so and demanded that those employees they forced to work at home come into the office at least one day a week and use the temporary mini cubicles they setup for people who just came in for the day. I can assure you that my previous employer did not know at all what they were doing, so I suspect a lot of the companies making people come in fall into this category too.
Note that I know Volt and Leaf owners, all of them have a similarly positive experience (battery life strong after 180k miles, regenerative breaking making the brakes last a long time, and no mechanical issues with the motors to speak of).
I think your well meaning post is confusing both types of cars and specific models there. The Volt is a hybrid. It's not fully electric. The similar sounding Bolt is fully electric, but it's only been available for about 1 year at best, in most places just since earlier this year. The Leaf is fully electric but it first got sold in 2010 and given its very limited range (about 85 miles on a full charge under average conditions) it's highly unlikely that anybody has a Leaf with 180k miles on it. You may be thinking of something like a Prius hybrid here.
I had a Leaf on lease for 3 years and I really liked it. Never had a single repair on it. The only complaint I have is that the stock tires were rated for something like 60,000 miles but I had to replace them all around 30,000. I've never had a car where the stock tires lasted as long as they were rated for. My life circumstances changed and I had to turn the Leaf back in when the lease ran out, but I'm definitely interested in the future in getting another electric vehicle. My whole experience with the Leaf was great.
I write in KSH, CSH, Python and Perl regularly... Of the three, Perl is my hands down favorite for a scripting language.
You should absolutely not be scripting in CSH - ever. Even the guys who wrote it said so. Do a search on "why not to write in csh" without the quote marks and read at least the first 2 matches currently coming up on Google. There are problems with this shell that are over 20 years old and they've still never been fixed. The major articles on the subject, which are really old because the problems have been around forever, have interesting examples you can try and see that the errors from 20+ years ago still exist. I'd say that one of the biggest reasons KSH even exists, if not the biggest reason, is because CSH is so bad to program in.
Why should they be surprised? PHDs are treated like crappy free labor by universities.
Perhaps when they stopping paying administration officials obscene salaries and pay professors and grads what they are actually worth the quality at universities will improve.
While this is certainly true in the USA, the specific instance referenced above was in the UK. Can any UK Slashdotters give us a UK perspective on this?
I'm also wondering if in a few more years this might sort itself out as too many people jump into the field in college and there end up being more graduates than there are really jobs and some companies don't do a very good job of figuring out who really knows their stuff and who doesn't. The growth in this field can't be infinite, can't be indefinite and I think eventually it's going to fall under the same cost pressure every other IT field has faced where non-tech management begins to devalue it and looks for cheaper overseas alternatives.
I'm terrible at picking stocks. But I'd say buy now.
AMD had a fantastic Q3 and predicted a slower Q4 (as expected), and the stock has fallen a ton in the past few days. It really makes no sense. AMD also has fantastic products out now with more to come.
Sadly, reality doesn't have a lot to do with the stock market. It's not current, but you might remember how investors propped up SCO for years when the only thing they had going for them was a slim chance that they might win their lawsuit against IBM and come into a fortune from IBM and other companies having to pay licensing fees. William Poundstone wrote a book a few years ago called _Fortune's Formula_ and if you read it, it will change your thinking about the stock market forever in a negative way. I read it and I understand now how the market doesn't really operate on rational principles and how people with more money than me can game the system so they can always make a profit. I still invest in stocks a little and of course I have a 401K fund at work I put money into, but I no longer believe that anybody can just make money in the market by doing careful research. The stock market is all just a game. It's like betting in a casino with maybe slightly better odds but the house is always going to win. In the stock market the rich people are the house.
What kind of money are we even talking about here realistically? One thousand dollars? Five thousand?
It's been a while, but I have been there. It was pretty old when I was last there, although I read that they are building a new terminal. Odessa isn't a particularly busy airport so it probably makes safer test for any hackers (fewer flights mean fewer victims if it causes an airplane crash). Kiev's main airport KBP should definitely be on the lookout. As a point of interest, an Anonymous Coward posted about the "Gay Jew conspiracy" and Russian trolls, but note that Odessa does actually have some direct flights to Israel. The city of Uman is about halfway between Kiev and Odessa and both the Kiev and Odessa airports have direct flights to Israel and get a decent number of pilgrims who visit a grave in Uman of a rabbi important to Hassidic Judaism.