He knows he got screwed in his case, as politics were more important in his company. I can relate to his position, and am sorry to say that I have yet to see a company that doesn't have politics play an important role. You must be willing to play politics in addition to being productive, or you will get used and tossed.
Sounds like his manager failed to successfully play politics.
Great, anther toy encouraging society to regress back to adolescent behavior...with much higher stakes.
The stakes may be higher than some people think. Over thepast few years, several people I casually know (that is, I only know them by face and first name) have expressed the opinion that the sex offender list is a license to hunt and kill. How many people with similar names are going to get "tagged" by this service?
How about a real Detective Mudoch? (Admittedly, Canadian) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1091909/?ref_=nv_sr_4)
Interesting, but it would still be just a copy. You will still be dead.
Putting your brain in a tank with life support and connections to an avatar would extend your life. But only for along as you can pay the costs (and even then, only up to a few hundred years, assuming the neurology researchers' estimates are reasonable).
Besides, I don't think I'd be a happy clone/chatbot going around with a patent number on my arse.
Yes, you would. You'd be programmed to be happy. (and to not notice the patent number).
This wasn't black ice. It was a solid sheet of ice, curb to curb, sitting on every paved surface in the area. Without a single grain of salt, sand, or gravel sitting on top. Without a single gap of cleared road surface peeking through. If you've seen conditions like that in Michigan, you guys have the shittiest snow management system in the country, because unlike Georgia, you should be prepared.
I live in the "snow belt" and have driven through Michigan and several other northern states. High priority areas get prepped/cleared first, then other areas in order of descending priority. As such, there are many areas where the road conditions were even worse while waiting for the crews to get to them.
It just isn't affordable to have the kind of coverage you seem to think those states should have.
On the other hand, those of us in the snow belt should not be making fun of those who don't, so are prepared.
I'm pretty sure that Emily Deschanel's character on Bones has a STEM job.
Also, Amanda Tapping's character, Helen Magnus on Sanctuary. (I would also counter her role as Samantha Carter on Stargate: SG1 as both a co-lead* and a STEM job.) If you insist on "mainstream" TV shows, I would count Pauley Perrette's role as Abby Sciuto on NCIS as both a co-lead* and a STEM job.
*These are shows with an ensemble cast, so there are multiple co-leads. Also, in both shows, there were episodes where Abby or Samantha were the central protagonsit (as was other episodes where other members of the ensemble were central).
Many company have internal applications that require IE. Fro example, my employer and a lot of other companies I know of rely on a web-based "project time and resource reporting" system that only supports IE (ver 6 or newer) and uses several methods to get around user agent header spoofing. It is the only reason I still use IE.
Probably very few people are visiting W3Schools from their corporate PCs, so their statistics won't include those installations. On the other hand, if people who use EI at work are using other browsers on their own time, that might show a real preference for not using IE. (Of course, there are people like my parents who are completely oblivious to the fact they are using Windows/IE at work and Linux/FF at home. (I set up their home PCs for them. Unfortunately, they keep telling their friends who great I am at keeping their home PCs running smoothly.)
These companies collectively off-shored $400B in profits last year. they can afford another $10k a year for their engineers.
$10k * 100,000 engineers = $1B additional wage cost.
Seems reasonable to me. Of course, I am an engineer (thought not one of those engineers).
running power cables and water lines isn't particularly expensive
Water lines, in areas subject to freezing weather, need to be underground to protect against freezing. Elsewhere, water lines tend to be underground because elevating them is usually impractical in an urban environment. Putting those lines underground actually is very expensive.
Power lines underground are expensive enough that very few neighborhoods are willing to pay the power companies to bury them. Adding lines to existing poles would result in the new lines being too low, so either the poles have to be replaced with taller ones, or parallel sets of poles placed. Either way, is actually very expensive.
Crapware? I quit worrying about that in the early 90's when Packard Bell started doing it. It baffles me that everyone does not do it.
The crapware subsidizes the cost of the PC. PC manufacturers get paid to put that stuff on their PCs. The crapware vendors pay for this in the hope that enough customers will like something enough to actually buy the full version. Apparently this happens enough for the practice to be profitable.
I read somewhere that cyanide gas was used. I suspect that if nitrogen was ever considered, the peopled involved assumed it would result in painful suffocation.
Or just closing the room vents. Putting a mask on the convict would likely make him panic.
So what's the "pain" if they put them under anesthesia, then remove your heart, and hand it to the parent of the person you killed while you were still alive, then unplug you? That level of retribution is what I see called for here.
If you mean simply death-by-vivisection, even the US considers that far too barbaric. If you mean harvesting organs, doctors competent to do that won't do that unless the donor is brain dead. But there's a catch. The US Supreme Court has ruled that the mentally incompetent cannot be executed. If the convict is brain dead, then he is no longer mentally competent, so must then be kept alive until he does of natural causes. Therefore, execution must take the form of stopping the heart, first. But the chemicals used to do that make also make the other organs useless. While it would be possible to anesthetize the convict then use a defib machine to stop the heart, it requires a qualified doctor (an anesthetist) to do that correctly, so again, not going to happen.
No doubt there are unethical doctors who would be willing to do this, but using them would open yet another legal/political minefield. I think Ohio politicians who allowed this execution are going to have far more than enough trouble walking the one they just created.
Even if Texas seceded from the US, they will still drag the US down their "rabbit hole" due to lack of an organized counter balance on the influence their money has on text books.
Sadly, the open text book project won't be of much help. As great the potential of this project for increasing rational thought, ultimately, someone has to put in money to make the texts available, whether electronically or in print. The conservatives who are running text book selection in Texas aren't going to let federal tax money pay for it. And if they'd even touch it at all, more likely they would take the material, re-edit it, then make profits from the distribution (and maybe printing) charges.
The organizations still doing actual science are either under the control of similar conservatives or barely have enough money to do science, let alone donate enough to the open text book project to make a real difference.
And if a grass roots organization tried, how much money would it be allowed to raise before it gets either co-opted or shutdown?
You are in a maze of little twisting passages, all alike.
