Is there no better use for research funding than to study the self-evident and report the obvious?
It is obvious to you that murder acts like a disease? What is self-evident about it?
There might be some use in this if it led to an accurate predictive formula for preemptive intervention, but I see nothing about that in TFA or the summary.
Did you even read TFA?
..so that police might potentially identify problem areas as they are emerging—or perhaps, one imagines, before they emerge./quote/
Sounds to me like it might lead to an accurate predictive formula for preemptive intervention.
A degree doesn't magically bestow ANYTHING. People that think they have a degree and somehow get to start a rung higher than someone without one are sadly mistaken as well.
Actually it does. People with a degree start a rung higher than someone without one.
If you have two candidates, and neither have any experience, the one with a degree in the field they are applying, will get the job more often. As other commenters pointed out, the one without a degree may not even get the resume in the door.
The biggest thing most people I've dealt with need to understand is there is nothing wrong with going to a state school
This isn't exactly true. You can get a good education at a state school, but generally you can get a better education at a more expensive private school. Is it worth the extra expense? It is hard to say. I know the big company I ended up working for, typically doesn't recruit at the state school I went to.
Going to a premium school opens more doors for you than a state school will.
I've never been to an F1 race, but I have heard that the noise is incredible.
while an electric engine is fairly quiet, don't discount the noise of the tires and the sound of the car travelling through the air.
I participant in a sport, where we have no engines, so most of the noise we make is from the wheels. Yet when we race in the 60-80mph range, we sound like jet engines. A little quieter, but there is still some noise... From a vehicle without a motor.
This is like sentencing a truck designer to death because trucks are used to transport alcohol.
It would be much more like sentencing a truck designer to death because he designed a truck to explicitly transport alcohol, in a place where it is forbidden by death to transport alcohol.
I remember when several bread makers quit using preservatives over some FUD or other. It benefited the entire bread supply chain since the bread would spoil faster
But tasted WAY better, and is probably healthier for you.
One of the things I LOVE about Europe is the bread. It is SOOOO much better over there. Mainly because they don't use preservatives, and bake it fresh. It doesn't last as long, but boy is it tasty. No FUD there.
I think TFA is talking about inventions that happen on company time. Copyrights have "work for hire" and self owned works. While inventions belong soley to the inventor. TFA is suggesting, if you create something patentable on company time, it should belong to the company.
How does this solve anything? What is wrong with corporate ownership of patents and copyrights? Can a corporation own anything? When 1,000 people work on something, who owns it? All 1000
Your solution solves no problems, but introduces plenty.
Now, if you create a work specifically commissioned by your employer, the employer should own the right to
use your creation, but not to make a product out of it, and resell it, unless you were hired and have in writing communication
that the work was specifically for that purpose
If an employer commissions you to make a work of art, they OWN that art. They can do whatever they want with it. IF you want to retain rights over the work, you need to negotiate that up front. Not the other way around.
What you are saying is kind of like "Yeah I'll build this chair for you, but you can't resell"
Hi. I'm right here in the good old USA, and I can confirm for everybody that is in fact 100% an irrational attachment.
It isn't irrational, at least from a consumer point of view. A pocket full of dollar coins is heavy. It is one thing I hate about London (granted their pounds feel like pounds)
I disagree. I think teaching children about fictional all powerful beings as if they were real is a form of abuse. This perpetuates a society which can't distinguish between right and wrong
Where do you think the concepts of "right" and "wrong" come from?
For once that Fahrenheit unit is kinda useful, you could at least use it!
Fahrenheit is a VERY useful scale, for humans (that is what it was designed for) I wouldn't go so far as to claim "for once.. kinda useful" in terms of science.
In an afternoon, a guy can build an equivalent computer from components, install his favorite OS, and be ready to start installing all his required software in the morning.
Because people don't want to do that. Your average user does not want to select and then build a computer from components.
I'm not endorsing crime, nor advocating that criminals and suddenly the victims, but is the US federal government in the right to seize domains?
How else would you expect this to work?
Let us suppose that this is a storefront, selling counterfeit goods. If there is enough evidence the goods are illegal, the government will generally arrest the owners and shut the store down. How is this any different? They didn't take the property to keep forever, and according the article due process appears to be being followed. Don't forget that this wasn't just the US, but the US working with foreign law enforcement agencies.
Are you suggesting that they should have arrested the owners, but left the domains running so people could still lose money?
"Grey imports" are not counterfeits. And while there may be unlicensed product that was generated on the same assembly line, I've never seen a counterfeit product that was as good a quality as the original. The vast majority of counterfeit products are products of inferior quality.
Shutting down sellers of counterfeit products is more to protect the consumer than to protect the IP of big corporations.
And how is that statement in conflict with the OPs statement?
In the private sector no one cares who owns the company... unless you are dealing with government contracts. You claim that a number of private enterprises are bound by one agreement or another... Where do you think those agreements originate?
I don't really know what you like about the ribbon, but chances are many of the features you like and use are not actually indicative of the ribbon, but where simply introduced at the same time. The main problem with the ribbon (at least for me) is a lot of things I used to be one click away, are not two or more. The ribbon is basically a 2 dimensional sticky menu. Microsoft got rid of toolbars and went back to win 3.1 days... that is what is wrong with the ribbon.
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How is this "junk science." They don't say that murder IS a disease. Just that it can be analyzed in the same way a disease can be analyzed.
Is there no better use for research funding than to study the self-evident and report the obvious?
It is obvious to you that murder acts like a disease? What is self-evident about it?
There might be some use in this if it led to an accurate predictive formula for preemptive intervention, but I see nothing about that in TFA or the summary.
Did you even read TFA?
..so that police might potentially identify problem areas as they are emerging—or perhaps, one imagines, before they emerge./quote/ Sounds to me like it might lead to an accurate predictive formula for preemptive intervention.
So why would I want to wager in a market that I can't guarantee is fair?
Because if you know how to exploit it, you can make gobs and gobs of money. Just because a market isn't fair, doesn't mean YOU can't earn money.
A degree doesn't magically bestow ANYTHING. People that think they have a degree and somehow get to start a rung higher than someone without one are sadly mistaken as well.
Actually it does. People with a degree start a rung higher than someone without one.
If you have two candidates, and neither have any experience, the one with a degree in the field they are applying, will get the job more often. As other commenters pointed out, the one without a degree may not even get the resume in the door.
The biggest thing most people I've dealt with need to understand is there is nothing wrong with going to a state school
This isn't exactly true. You can get a good education at a state school, but generally you can get a better education at a more expensive private school. Is it worth the extra expense? It is hard to say. I know the big company I ended up working for, typically doesn't recruit at the state school I went to.
Going to a premium school opens more doors for you than a state school will.
I don't know, but to me F1 looks like its turned into a glorified testing ground for technology to put into road cars.
That is what car racing has pretty much ALWAYS been.
Only for lower class hicks.
So the higher class hicks lust after what? Wine and cheese?
I've never been to an F1 race, but I have heard that the noise is incredible.
while an electric engine is fairly quiet, don't discount the noise of the tires and the sound of the car travelling through the air.
I participant in a sport, where we have no engines, so most of the noise we make is from the wheels. Yet when we race in the 60-80mph range, we sound like jet engines. A little quieter, but there is still some noise... From a vehicle without a motor.
This is like sentencing a truck designer to death because trucks are used to transport alcohol.
It would be much more like sentencing a truck designer to death because he designed a truck to explicitly transport alcohol, in a place where it is forbidden by death to transport alcohol.
I remember when several bread makers quit using preservatives over some FUD or other. It benefited the entire bread supply chain since the bread would spoil faster
But tasted WAY better, and is probably healthier for you.
One of the things I LOVE about Europe is the bread. It is SOOOO much better over there. Mainly because they don't use preservatives, and bake it fresh. It doesn't last as long, but boy is it tasty. No FUD there.
The fact that it was finally shut down was news. http://www.the-digital-reader.com/2012/12/02/wistorn-folds-up-polymer-vision-flexible-ereaders-are-once-again-science-fiction/#.UL0VTIM0V8G
I think TFA is talking about inventions that happen on company time. Copyrights have "work for hire" and self owned works. While inventions belong soley to the inventor. TFA is suggesting, if you create something patentable on company time, it should belong to the company.
How does this solve anything? What is wrong with corporate ownership of patents and copyrights? Can a corporation own anything? When 1,000 people work on something, who owns it? All 1000
Your solution solves no problems, but introduces plenty.
More should be borrowed from the patent doctrine.
Now, if you create a work specifically commissioned by your employer, the employer should own the right to use your creation, but not to make a product out of it, and resell it, unless you were hired and have in writing communication that the work was specifically for that purpose
If an employer commissions you to make a work of art, they OWN that art. They can do whatever they want with it. IF you want to retain rights over the work, you need to negotiate that up front. Not the other way around.
What you are saying is kind of like "Yeah I'll build this chair for you, but you can't resell"
Hi. I'm right here in the good old USA, and I can confirm for everybody that is in fact 100% an irrational attachment.
It isn't irrational, at least from a consumer point of view. A pocket full of dollar coins is heavy. It is one thing I hate about London (granted their pounds feel like pounds)
I disagree. I think teaching children about fictional all powerful beings as if they were real is a form of abuse. This perpetuates a society which can't distinguish between right and wrong
Where do you think the concepts of "right" and "wrong" come from?
For once that Fahrenheit unit is kinda useful, you could at least use it!
Fahrenheit is a VERY useful scale, for humans (that is what it was designed for) I wouldn't go so far as to claim "for once .. kinda useful" in terms of science.
In an afternoon, a guy can build an equivalent computer from components, install his favorite OS, and be ready to start installing all his required software in the morning.
Because people don't want to do that. Your average user does not want to select and then build a computer from components.
I'm not endorsing crime, nor advocating that criminals and suddenly the victims, but is the US federal government in the right to seize domains?
How else would you expect this to work?
Let us suppose that this is a storefront, selling counterfeit goods. If there is enough evidence the goods are illegal, the government will generally arrest the owners and shut the store down. How is this any different? They didn't take the property to keep forever, and according the article due process appears to be being followed. Don't forget that this wasn't just the US, but the US working with foreign law enforcement agencies.
Are you suggesting that they should have arrested the owners, but left the domains running so people could still lose money?
"Grey imports" are not counterfeits. And while there may be unlicensed product that was generated on the same assembly line, I've never seen a counterfeit product that was as good a quality as the original. The vast majority of counterfeit products are products of inferior quality. Shutting down sellers of counterfeit products is more to protect the consumer than to protect the IP of big corporations.
Not all enthusiasts are interested in the beefiest machine they can find.
YES, yes they do... Otherwise they aren't an enthusiast.
And how is that statement in conflict with the OPs statement?
In the private sector no one cares who owns the company... unless you are dealing with government contracts. You claim that a number of private enterprises are bound by one agreement or another... Where do you think those agreements originate?
I don't really know what you like about the ribbon, but chances are many of the features you like and use are not actually indicative of the ribbon, but where simply introduced at the same time. The main problem with the ribbon (at least for me) is a lot of things I used to be one click away, are not two or more. The ribbon is basically a 2 dimensional sticky menu. Microsoft got rid of toolbars and went back to win 3.1 days... that is what is wrong with the ribbon.
older versions of office have no problem reading newer versions file formats. Just like newer versions can read older versions just fine.
Easy solution to the facebook problem... don't do it. I don't. It's an obvious trap.
It is an obvious trap for what? And no, people who use facebook aren't silly. You can stay bitter and old fashioned if you want