They're the sort of union that if they don't get what they want they sometimes break equipment, throw bricks through windows with murder threats on them, and other fucking insane bullshit.
Were this a union group without that reputation then I'd give them the benefit of the doubt. But this is the teamsters. They've a reputation of being rough with people that don't give them what they want. And the reality is that no one has patience for that shit anymore.
Or the anonymity, for that matter -- approaching a Google Street View car from any direction, probably results in enough images being captured of you from enough angles to turn your vandalism attempt into a scene from the Matrix. If they haven't matured out of that old-school kind of approach even today, a little technology may not be sufficient to get them to change their ways fast enough.
What's your picks, and rationale for not following ALL of those? Pick and choose, pick and choose...
That's easy enough; assign a robot to each of the bible's books, put them all in an arena, and let them fight to the death. Last robot standing gets to set canon.
Joel Spolsky has a take on this problem, called Evidence-Based Scheduling, which tracks past estimates against their deliveries, and uses that to improve future estimates.
Seek out people who understand this. Don't waste time with people who don't.
Only my opinion, but my corollary to this is that if you find yourself wasting time like this, make sure you tell yourself the truth about that. Your time is one of the only things you can't replace, and if you are truly forced to waste it in these situations, be kind to yourself and forgive yourself for the time you lost, and as soon as you can, don't throw years of good time after bad by thinking there's some benefit to it.
Only you can provide these things about you, so focus on providing them. And IMHO, the thoughts, views, ideas, hopes, dreams that you had, including the ones which nobody else really got when you shared it with them -- share them with her. It's part of what makes you uniquely what you are, and right or wrong, it's something she can keep with her and remember what made you you once you pass on. You can provide the specifics; she and others can provide their own analysis and conclusions later on.
In the future (and the present), you can look up public information on any topic, with varying amounts of research, so I'd worry less about that.
The costs of the big powers going to war is just too high for everyone (rational) to bear. So instead we trade, more or less peacefully.
Oddly enough, Saga depicts a war with costs along those lines. As a result, both sides "outsource" the conflict and have the native populations of other planets fight on their behalf.
... the downside of inducing passivity into a population. Aggression is ultimately what gets people out of bed in the morning instead of just remaining immobile and dying of thirst.
I'm waiting for the sequel, where they learn from their mistakes and directly induce passive-aggression into the population instead.
How about, two space faring species meet, trade technology, form a conglomerate socieity which is greater than either of them would be alone, culturally richer, with every individual in both societies better off?
Congratulations. I think you came up with the plot of the first sci-fi movie that nobody would bother to torrent.
Change this gene in something with a larger brain and you could create animals smart enough to deserve human rights. At that point the only ethical course of action is to give them said rights. The problem is the lack of a proper legal framework for such....
We need to start defining legal rights for intelligent, non-human entities immediately.
Totally not necessary:
Wait until animal brains improve some
Have them pass the bar exam
Now the burden is on them to define and argue the appropriate legal rights
Continue to improve animal brains
Legal framework is now in place once they reach the appropriate level of intelligence
when you've decided to use someone else's resources, be it Facebook, YouTube, or even Geocities, to host or distribute it, only to find they object to being used by a horrific terrorist organization.
Or AT&T, Cox, Comcast, Verizon... the only difference is that you're paying money to the latter. If they similarly object, what's to stop them from preventing you from using their (network) resources?
I'll reiterate how grateful I am that cell phone charging -- and as a side effect, data transfer -- have been standardized, thanks to the EU mandating the Micro-USB connector and voltage standard. It's made life easier for pretty much everybody worldwide who owns a cell phone. Maybe it's because countries that culturally emphasize improving the quality of life, have their services change in ways that improve the quality of life.
At the 43:25 minute mark, President Obama is supposed to say “I’ve heard some folks try to dodge the evidence by saying they’re not scientists; that we don’t have enough information to act. Well, I’m not a scientist, either. But you know what — I know a lot of really good scientists at NASA, and NOAA, and at our major universities. The best scientists in the world are all telling us that our activities are changing the climate, and if we do not act forcefully, we’ll continue to see rising oceans, longer, hotter heat waves, dangerous droughts and floods, and massive disruptions that can trigger greater migration, conflict, and hunger around the globe.”
Instead, the entire section is skipped. Obama’s comments resume with “The Pentagon says that climate change poses immediate risks to our national security. We should act like it.”
Maybe their expectation is that the appeal to military authority will carry more weight than the appeal to a scientific one?
The woman says "That's not the real problem here."
Instead of saying, for example, "My complaint is not about the cake, but that:
you didn't respect an agreement we had, or
I get the sense you don't consider what I want on an equal level as what you want in a given moment, or
I don't feel like I can trust your intentions when speaking to you, or
if you knew you could honor our agreement by buying more cake before eating the last slice, that you didn't have the foresight or consideration to do so.
In case this is obvious, I don't want to sound patronizing. I just wanted to be unambiguous about what I consider to be the problem."
Maybe it's my background kicking in, but the original phrase is about as useful as, "My computer's not working.", "Well, what happened?", "You mostly know the restricted context in what I use my computer for, just fix it."
Yes -- one would hope the specialists would have the latitude and motivation to research options to get the best answer possible; and no -- this was her husband, with a personally vested interest in the accuracy of the diagnosis of a single patient, not just any have-a-go engineer.
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They're the sort of union that if they don't get what they want they sometimes break equipment, throw bricks through windows with murder threats on them, and other fucking insane bullshit.
Were this a union group without that reputation then I'd give them the benefit of the doubt. But this is the teamsters. They've a reputation of being rough with people that don't give them what they want. And the reality is that no one has patience for that shit anymore.
Or the anonymity, for that matter -- approaching a Google Street View car from any direction, probably results in enough images being captured of you from enough angles to turn your vandalism attempt into a scene from the Matrix. If they haven't matured out of that old-school kind of approach even today, a little technology may not be sufficient to get them to change their ways fast enough.
What's your picks, and rationale for not following ALL of those? Pick and choose, pick and choose...
That's easy enough; assign a robot to each of the bible's books, put them all in an arena, and let them fight to the death. Last robot standing gets to set canon.
Joel Spolsky has a take on this problem, called Evidence-Based Scheduling, which tracks past estimates against their deliveries, and uses that to improve future estimates.
Seek out people who understand this. Don't waste time with people who don't.
Only my opinion, but my corollary to this is that if you find yourself wasting time like this, make sure you tell yourself the truth about that. Your time is one of the only things you can't replace, and if you are truly forced to waste it in these situations, be kind to yourself and forgive yourself for the time you lost, and as soon as you can, don't throw years of good time after bad by thinking there's some benefit to it.
Only you can provide these things about you, so focus on providing them. And IMHO, the thoughts, views, ideas, hopes, dreams that you had, including the ones which nobody else really got when you shared it with them -- share them with her. It's part of what makes you uniquely what you are, and right or wrong, it's something she can keep with her and remember what made you you once you pass on. You can provide the specifics; she and others can provide their own analysis and conclusions later on.
In the future (and the present), you can look up public information on any topic, with varying amounts of research, so I'd worry less about that.
Great idea; I'd provide them as a text list, and save the video for stuff that benefits from nonverbal cues.
Really, allergies make no fucking sense.
Yeah, how *do* they work?
The costs of the big powers going to war is just too high for everyone (rational) to bear. So instead we trade, more or less peacefully.
Oddly enough, Saga depicts a war with costs along those lines. As a result, both sides "outsource" the conflict and have the native populations of other planets fight on their behalf.
... the downside of inducing passivity into a population. Aggression is ultimately what gets people out of bed in the morning instead of just remaining immobile and dying of thirst.
I'm waiting for the sequel, where they learn from their mistakes and directly induce passive-aggression into the population instead.
How about, two space faring species meet, trade technology, form a conglomerate socieity which is greater than either of them would be alone, culturally richer, with every individual in both societies better off?
Congratulations. I think you came up with the plot of the first sci-fi movie that nobody would bother to torrent.
Change this gene in something with a larger brain and you could create animals smart enough to deserve human rights. At that point the only ethical course of action is to give them said rights. The problem is the lack of a proper legal framework for such. ...
We need to start defining legal rights for intelligent, non-human entities immediately.
Totally not necessary:
Consider, we could wipe out our unemployment problem RIGHT NOW if the average work week was cut to 35 hours a week.
Done. Is it working? (In reality, I'm sure this example has multiple other factors to consider).
That's crazy talk -- I bet you sympathize with those cheese-eating surrender monkeys.
You'd have legions of unemployed geniuses.
Pfft, big deal. There will always be work to do. Those roadrunners aren't going to catch themselves, you know.
Or worse, if it's resourceful enough.
The astronauts were paid their regular military salaries, plus hazardous duty pay. It was a pittance.
Too bad -- they should have negotiated better terms up front.
when you've decided to use someone else's resources, be it Facebook, YouTube, or even Geocities, to host or distribute it, only to find they object to being used by a horrific terrorist organization.
Or AT&T, Cox, Comcast, Verizon ... the only difference is that you're paying money to the latter. If they similarly object, what's to stop them from preventing you from using their (network) resources?
The angular momentum imparted by the planetoid caused Venus to "flip".
Wouldn't it keep rotating? Why would it flip end-to-end and then stop?
meeting in the lobby of the police department can help weed out people trying to rip others off
Well yeah, it's right there in the summary. It shouldn't come as much of a surprise.
I'll reiterate how grateful I am that cell phone charging -- and as a side effect, data transfer -- have been standardized, thanks to the EU mandating the Micro-USB connector and voltage standard. It's made life easier for pretty much everybody worldwide who owns a cell phone. Maybe it's because countries that culturally emphasize improving the quality of life, have their services change in ways that improve the quality of life.
At the 43:25 minute mark, President Obama is supposed to say “I’ve heard some folks try to dodge the evidence by saying they’re not scientists; that we don’t have enough information to act. Well, I’m not a scientist, either. But you know what — I know a lot of really good scientists at NASA, and NOAA, and at our major universities. The best scientists in the world are all telling us that our activities are changing the climate, and if we do not act forcefully, we’ll continue to see rising oceans, longer, hotter heat waves, dangerous droughts and floods, and massive disruptions that can trigger greater migration, conflict, and hunger around the globe.”
Instead, the entire section is skipped. Obama’s comments resume with “The Pentagon says that climate change poses immediate risks to our national security. We should act like it.”
Maybe their expectation is that the appeal to military authority will carry more weight than the appeal to a scientific one?
Why read some boring headlines, when you can read the comic book instead?
The woman says "That's not the real problem here."
Instead of saying, for example, "My complaint is not about the cake, but that:
In case this is obvious, I don't want to sound patronizing. I just wanted to be unambiguous about what I consider to be the problem."
Maybe it's my background kicking in, but the original phrase is about as useful as, "My computer's not working.", "Well, what happened?", "You mostly know the restricted context in what I use my computer for, just fix it."
Maybe they can just watch that Nicolas Cage animation together and call it a day.
Yes -- one would hope the specialists would have the latitude and motivation to research options to get the best answer possible; and no -- this was her husband, with a personally vested interest in the accuracy of the diagnosis of a single patient, not just any have-a-go engineer.
You'd probably have been able to get away with a cheaper solution if it was the FDA approved power supply that went bad.