CAN anything REALISTICALLY be done in a time-frame that would help save ANY of the remainder?
Yes. First, we stop digging.
Because if something CAN, all the whingeing and bitching is wasting time.
The problem is that the leaders of the worst offending countries don't really give a fuck or are actively trying to make things worse. A surprising number of world leaders seem to be self-absorbed nihilists.
I'm guessing you're in public education. Meritocracy isn't a label I'd normally assign to such an august institution.
Public education, private education, the vacation time is about the same. In fact, teaching at private universities is probably when I've had the most vacation time. And, it depends on what you'd mean by "merit". If you consider being smart worthy of merit, of course.
I know I'm smart enough not to have to work all summer long.
Guessing you're a teacher? There are definitely some perks to that life, though the downside is that you'll never get vacation at other times of year (e.g. going on a ski trip in January).
There is an academic break that usually runs four weeks from the second week of December to about January 7. That four weeks is enough time to squeeze in a little skiing.
So, to summarize: Three months' vacation during the summer. A week during Spring. A month in the Winter. I'm trying to figure out a time of the year where I might miss a vacation. Maybe I can't make it to New England during the Autumn.
I'm not trying to make any of you feel bad about your life choices, but I worked my entire adult life getting three months' vacation every year, plus a week for Spring Break and a week over the holidays.
As others here have said, you get paid what you're worth, I guess.
and Obama made huge use of Facebook along with other data mining for two successful campaigns, which apparently was OK and widely lauded at the time. Just where do conservatives invite any blame for collection entirely run for and by liberals, that conservatives just happened to also make use of?
There were very big differences in what the Obama campaign did with Facebook and what Cambridge Analytica did with Facebook. It all comes down to transparency and explicit consent.
The Obama campaign created a Facebook app for supporters to donate, learn of voting requirements, and find nearby houses to canvass. The app asked users’ permission to scan their photos, friends lists, and news feeds. Most users complied.
The people signing up knew the data they were handing over would be used to support a political campaign. Their friends, however, did not.
The people who downloaded the app used by Cambridge Analytica did not know their data would be used to aid any political campaigns. The app was billed as a personality quiz that would be used by Cambridge University researchers.
Aleksandr Kogan, one of the Cambridge researchers involved in the project, sold the data to the upstart political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica. The company then sold its services not only to the Trump campaign, but to the presidential campaign of Sen. Ted Cruz and the senatorial campaign of Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., among others.
When Facebook discovered a developer had shared users’ data without their consent in 2015, it asked both the original app and the consultancy to delete the data. That didn’t happen.
I assume you will object to these facts because they are from a Pulitzer Prize winning non-profit who promotes checking facts. Let me know and I'll provide other sources, but you'll have probably have a problem with those too. Here is the transparency statement of that Pulitzer Prize winning non-profit so you can see who's paying for these facts, which you probably believe are liberal facts, which by your definition cannot be true.
Richard Stallman is falling into the same trap that we've been stuck in for ages - he thinks that there is an easy legislative road out of societal problems.
I don't think so. Legislation doesn't solve societal problems, it just provides a legal framework for people to solve their own, either through the courts or through their representatives ( or via law enforcement). The alternative is individuals solving the problem by going after companies like Facebook with guns. Even boycotts (which are good) won't work because Facebook has designed itself so that its users are not its customers. You serve Facebook whether you choose to or not. The only realistic counterbalance to this type of corporate power is government action.
You're too smart to believe the right-wing nonsense that all government is bad. Government is people, my friend.
Let's rephrase it then. China has a lot of internal problems that other countries don't have that preclude them from advancing to the point where they can organically control their situation and a global empire.
Such as? If you haven't noticed, they're already doing both.
And how many grams of steel can you make this way?
You're changing the question again. First you said, "But how will we make steel"? Then, you said, "OK, you can make steel without coal, but it's dirty" and now, "But how much steel can you make with clean charcoal"?
You keep moving the bar. Steel was made without coal for millennia, using charcoal. Steel can be made without coal using electrolysis. In our lifetime, we will see a time when coal is best left in the ground. We might already be there.
Congratulations for completely not addressing anything I said and changing the topic - once again - to America's perceived shortcomings. Your comment is literally whataboutism.
But honestly, if you're going to make some very specific statements about China as some outlier from the norms of modern societies, and those statements describe properties that most Western governments embody, are you really saying anything at all?
China has TONS of internal problems."
Oh my god, not internal problems! How can they possibly compete with the West who have no internal problems??
The only thing even within shooting distance of Facebook in that image is Google Plus, which got left to die on the vine (get it? die on the vine?)
I still think that with all the shit Facebook is going through right now and the general sense of dislike/unease with the platform, that someone would take a run at it.
There are, you just don't know they exist or they aren't targeted at your social group or country. Facebook is just the more pervasive one but if you'd live in Asia, you probably wouldn't be on Facebook.
OK, so there are competitors overseas, so why not in the US?
You would think one of the Asian social media sites would try to adapt their product for the US market. Or something. I'm still not getting why there isn't an alternative. Does Facebook have the idea locked down via intellectual property?
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There's only one way to find out. But we know for sure it's not going to get better the way we're going.
Yes. First, we stop digging.
The problem is that the leaders of the worst offending countries don't really give a fuck or are actively trying to make things worse. A surprising number of world leaders seem to be self-absorbed nihilists.
What are you talking about? Except for the Skyway, I don't think there's a single toll booth inside the Chicago city limits.
"Alexa, stop spying on me."
Public education, private education, the vacation time is about the same. In fact, teaching at private universities is probably when I've had the most vacation time. And, it depends on what you'd mean by "merit". If you consider being smart worthy of merit, of course.
I know I'm smart enough not to have to work all summer long.
There is an academic break that usually runs four weeks from the second week of December to about January 7. That four weeks is enough time to squeeze in a little skiing.
https://registrar.calpoly.edu/...
So, to summarize: Three months' vacation during the summer. A week during Spring. A month in the Winter. I'm trying to figure out a time of the year where I might miss a vacation. Maybe I can't make it to New England during the Autumn.
Do you think faculty has to work during Spring Break?
I'm not trying to make any of you feel bad about your life choices, but I worked my entire adult life getting three months' vacation every year, plus a week for Spring Break and a week over the holidays.
As others here have said, you get paid what you're worth, I guess.
I can barely do those calculations when I'm sober. How am I supposed to do them when I'm driving?
Oh, don't be a dope.
There were very big differences in what the Obama campaign did with Facebook and what Cambridge Analytica did with Facebook. It all comes down to transparency and explicit consent.
http://www.politifact.com/trut...
I assume you will object to these facts because they are from a Pulitzer Prize winning non-profit who promotes checking facts. Let me know and I'll provide other sources, but you'll have probably have a problem with those too. Here is the transparency statement of that Pulitzer Prize winning non-profit so you can see who's paying for these facts, which you probably believe are liberal facts, which by your definition cannot be true.
http://www.politifact.com/trut...
I don't think so. Legislation doesn't solve societal problems, it just provides a legal framework for people to solve their own, either through the courts or through their representatives ( or via law enforcement). The alternative is individuals solving the problem by going after companies like Facebook with guns. Even boycotts (which are good) won't work because Facebook has designed itself so that its users are not its customers. You serve Facebook whether you choose to or not. The only realistic counterbalance to this type of corporate power is government action.
You're too smart to believe the right-wing nonsense that all government is bad. Government is people, my friend.
Meanwhile, here's what the good people at the FCC are up to:
https://boingboing.net/2018/04...
Such as? If you haven't noticed, they're already doing both.
No. California has a big budget surplus.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/j...
California: showing the rest of the US how to do it since 1850.
You're changing the question again. First you said, "But how will we make steel"? Then, you said, "OK, you can make steel without coal, but it's dirty" and now, "But how much steel can you make with clean charcoal"?
You keep moving the bar. Steel was made without coal for millennia, using charcoal. Steel can be made without coal using electrolysis. In our lifetime, we will see a time when coal is best left in the ground. We might already be there.
Only if you do it the same way it was done 2,000 years ago.
There are environmentally-friendly ways of making charcoal.
https://wiki.duke.edu/display/...
You can always tell when the knowledgeable cliimate "skeptics" show up to the conversation, because they make the most carefully-reasoned arguments.
Coking coal doesn't need to be mined from underground. Charcoal from wood or biomass can also be used to create new steel.
Also, it's possible to use electrolysis instead of coal to make steel, but the technology to do that on a large scale is still a few years away.
But honestly, if you're going to make some very specific statements about China as some outlier from the norms of modern societies, and those statements describe properties that most Western governments embody, are you really saying anything at all?
Oh my god, not internal problems! How can they possibly compete with the West who have no internal problems??
You could say that about many Western countries too, including (if not especially) the United States.
My Blogger? Really?
The only thing even within shooting distance of Facebook in that image is Google Plus, which got left to die on the vine (get it? die on the vine?)
I still think that with all the shit Facebook is going through right now and the general sense of dislike/unease with the platform, that someone would take a run at it.
https://news.vice.com/en_us/ar...
OK, so there are competitors overseas, so why not in the US?
You would think one of the Asian social media sites would try to adapt their product for the US market. Or something. I'm still not getting why there isn't an alternative. Does Facebook have the idea locked down via intellectual property?