...yours
why dont you explain? if it is lol funny then you should be able to say why
doesn't matter if they're volunteers...but thanks for confirming for everyone that my first point was accurate, while simultaneously *contributing nothing* to the actual conversation
1st problem is in bold...see, Burning Man is about overcomplicating and mystifying something to make it have social cachet...****ANYTIME**** you ask a question like this to a Burning Man veteran, you should expect a bullshit answer...somehow it will be bullshit
Arctica is a group of people volunteering to dispense ice at burning man.
Feel free to keep disliking something you know nothing about.
So, how does the fact that "Arctica" uses volunteers negate the point I made here:
in other words, the problem lies with the ice truck people ("Arctica")...they are just douchebags...**they could try to make it better but they don't care**....the problem with this system is that Burning Man as an event encourages this superiority complex mentality
Nothing you said addresses that at all...
They can be volunteers and still douchebags...the point is it's obvious they could do it faster but they dont care
which i feel confirms my theory about Burning Man, as does your last comment
TFA's tech is all an extension of Google Glass in a way
Google's after the defense contractor market now...developing/marketing Glass as a consumer product was an afterthought and mostly for PR, imho
also: I reject your acknowledgement of my feelings
so what were you suggesting then? when you said this:
We already have all the worst sides of authoritarianism, so why not get what few good things there are, too?
We already have all the worst sides of authoritarianism, so why not get what few good things there are, too?
you're an idiot
just because some asshats are screening new hire's facebook page doesn't mean we should surrender all privacy rights
really, everything about your post is upside-down...
are you saying that Japan does not pad it's crime rates? Or are you criticizing the source in the particular movie, or using movies as sources no matter what, or...?
just criticizing a source with no context is trolling...
The problem w/ the "women only" conclusion is that it myopically focuses on **ONE** factor as if it is the determining factor in mission success.
Part of this is the fault of NASA admin/beauracracy: "We can't spare the weight" is an excuse for all kinds of ideas NASA wanted to kill...
"Too heavy" is almost a trope in NASA/space circles...it's the go-to way for beauracrats to make their presence known.
As others have pointed out, weight and food requirements are not a determining factor in mission success.
At best, the "weight is everything" mentality is obsolete...IMHO it was never about weight ultimately (of course it matters to mission planning)...it was just a handy excuse.
Also...there is some misplaced feminism here...women have been dismissed from science b/c sexism for centuries, and often the reasons given are something **other than gender**...a beaurecratic answer that belies the real motivation for the decision.
All in all, dumb analysis like in TFA are a legacy of sexism and bad beaurecratic management...it's like the sexism equivalent of what the CIA calls "blowback"
I'd asked a handful of Burning Man veterans about this, and they said that Arctica had tried this at one point, but was required to stop by Nevada health code regulations, which treated ice as a "food product" and therefore said that it could not be moved out onto the counter until an order has been placed. This sounded puzzling to me...
this is why i don't like Burning Man...
1st problem is in bold...see, Burning Man is about overcomplicating and mystifying something to make it have social cachet...****ANYTIME**** you ask a question like this to a Burning Man veteran, you should expect a bullshit answer...somehow it will be bullshit
2nd problem is in italics...the problem is not trusting your own common sense! obviously they are full of shit and just making stuff up to sound like they know what is going on
in other words, the problem lies with the ice truck people ("Arctica")...they are just douchebags...they could try to make it better but they don't care....the problem with this system is that Burning Man as an event encourages this superiority complex mentality
If you're in a position to actually hire new graduates, how much do you care about applicants' alma maters?
depends on the school!
some schools matter, and some do not....and some that matter are a benefit, and some are a drawback!
if an applicant came from a program that distinguishes itself among others by *requiring all grads to make a capstone project* for example...that could be a point in the applicants favor over others who did not do a capstone
everyone wants a fighting robot league...it's like jetpacks, hover boards, and other stuff featured in sci fi depictions of "the future"
fighting robots are awesome...this is not in dispute...
here are the 3 most salient factors as to when we will have a fighting robots league:
1. technology...especially materials science...we've gotten to the point conceptually that we can model any form of robot, but it's making the materials stand the stress, and batteries to power it...those are our limitations now
2. $$$...fighting robots are expensive...a league needs money
3. competition > PR...they have to be the opposite of MLS or WWE...this has to be done right and not over marketed or over simplified (how it can go wrong: something like the random narrator voice in Mythbusters)
this is your formula for a robot fighting league
Were there fewer fools, knaves would starve. - Anonymous