I think this thread is a good demonstration why I do not like the English language's deviation from how other Germanic languages write a single word for a single idea. Hint: the "science" part in "science fiction" is simply an adjective that describes the noun "fiction". It is the noun that is the important part.
OK, I won't make the mistake again of asking which part of "science fiction" don't you understand....
I want to chip in about the general topic of standards and methodologies. Please remember that one isn't (necessarily) better than the other - they are all simply tools working towards a goal and you use whatever tool works best in your circumstances. Now, your GOAL is the important thing: communicating between different members of the company (communication over space) and remembering (communication over time) - which sometimes is important even if you are one person. Using a formal standard to do this should accomplish several things:
Personally, I do favour a more hands-off approach. Let people figure out their own future, as (IMHO) it seems that western aid often brings with it a perpetual dependence on that aid.
On the other hand, from some of your previous posts I gather that you personally are an emigrant from China to a large western state. A lot of emigration from "poor countries" to western countries happens because people are not happy with the way those countries (the people in it) survive, they want to "survive" somewhat "better". "Better" being in part defined by the standard of living such aid seems to suggest. (Because there are also some "worse" aspects to western culture in comparison to what is left behind.) I guess your opinion would carry more weight if you were still living and working in China. Just saying.
Were the government a force for good, I'd be pacified, but since they have proven to be in the service of big syndicate, I'm worried.
That's the problem of this post-modernist world. Your definition of "good" does not coincide with the next guy's definition of "good".
A man has to get there and do all the hardwork himself.
Pity they didn't send Bruce Willis with. What with all his previous experience. Would have been a win-win.
Big data knows who you voted for. Big data knows what kind of hamburger you get from McDonalds. Big data knows what fragrance your girlfriend/wife wears.
THAT IS THE POINT OF BIG DATA.
Big data takes shit loads of seemingly unrelated bits of information that people foolishly air in public, cross-references it, then uses it to make correlation based predictions.
I haven't voted in quite a number of years.
I don't eat fast food.
I don't have a girlfriend/wife.
The best that Big Data (Facebook) was able to do with that last bit of information (which I explicitly filled in) was to serve up ads for 2 or 3 recurring online dating sites. I don't do online dating (any more), because big data seems to be quite inept at matching me up with someone with the same views on politics and health as me. Let's not even get started on religion, education, sense of humour.....
I want ads that I actually want to click on!
I want that perfect match as promised!
And where's my flying car?
An acquaintance who lives in Germany once showed me an experimental setup he had: replaced his house's heating with a small generator (sealed unit) that generated electricity as well as heating the house from the waste heat. Apparently it was still allowed to run on the "heating oil" (diesel fuel), while natural "heating" gas-burning versions were available too. So you still get the heat for which the fuel originally was intended, but some electricity as a bonus. You'd still be dependent on a stockpile of fuel though...
This may not be practical in a densely populated first-world city (with more regulations than sane) but I still like wood as a renewable fuel source for space heating (and emergency cooking). While there are a lot of wood (and coal and even gas) burning stoves being manufactured in various North-European countries (and South American, South Africa, China etc.) Rocket Stove Mass Heaters (which may be googled) seem to be cheaper to construct and cleaner burning - IF you can get the building plans approved.... Retrofitting an existing building can however be a pain.
It's still a death ray, just a 2km + 1 foot long death ray
Oh the mix of imperial + metric - now my head hurts
Unfortunately the mechanism (*) wasn't invented by Obama, but he sure as hell is using it to his advantage.
(* = and by this I mean the mechanism allowing for whooshes, not the 12 inch particle accelerator.)
Due to some medical problems involving endocrinology, I imagine my body being somewhat more sensitive to hormonal/nutrient changes than the norm. Nothing insurmountable - apart from my chronic medication, the normal rules of eating healthily, exercising, and getting enough sleep seem to do the trick well enough to see me through the normal day-to-day.
A year or two ago I started in a job that required (tele or physical) presence for releases every second week (a lot of people where involved each time, it mostly involved waiting for everyone to do what they do, doing some checks in your own area of responsibility when the time came around). This normally was scheduled to start at 22:00 or 00:00, often it only finished around 06:00 or 07:00. (This was after working a normal 8-5 workday...)
Of course, everyone was given time off for the time spent on releases. But getting home at (say) 7, trying to sleep was nearly impossible for me. In my case I'd sleep maybe an hour or two, then wake up tired and grumpy, and because there was nothing else to do, eventually go back to work to put in a handful of (sluggish) hours. I did feel that I only got back into a fairly normal routine, waking up refreshed and ready, after about a week. Rinse and repeat. Apart from an inability to concentrate sufficiently at work, it also left me listless and tired. My social life suffered, as well as "reading up" I would normally do on subject matter in the evenings to keep up with developments in my field. Not good for work performance, or career in general....
Yeah, imagine a multi-million company thinking that such practices are good w.r.t. their mission critical systems.... (You can imagine what other "innovations" such an organisation can dream up.) I'm glad I'm out of there, money or not.
(I don't envy parents of small babies in this regard, but that is another matter for now.)
While sleep researchers seem to be clear that they still know very little about their subject, the basics of the light/dark cycle (including "blue" and "yellow" light) and its influence on hormones (melatonin, serotonin,
I'm currently trying to uphold a routine (including weekends and holidays) of bedtime around 21:00 or 22:00 at the latest, which allows me to wake up naturally (no alarms) around sunrise. Routine does not go together well with exceptions, which is a bit sucky when you are doing a little evening coding and get into the "flow" and just want to finish one last thing... Might also interfere with some socialising. But on the whole, a healthy sleep routine is benefiting me at least as much as all the healthy eating and exercising combined.
Just another one of those covert feminism-agenda-pushing articles....
They omitted that the man they are blaming is also white, then it would have been perfect.
Next week's your big chance.
I'm from a bit out of town (country/continent/hemisphere), so pardon my ignorance. But are you telling us that 3-year old stories get dredged up now for the sole purpose of swaying election outcomes?
Remember to say hello to your bank teller.
