Today’s revelations underscore the urgent need for significant legal reform, including proper pre-judicial authorisation and meaningful oversight of the use of surveillance powers by the UK security services, the organisation said.
Even Amnesty International stated that the surveillance doesn't appear to be illegal under current law.
That's sort of the point of most of his works... They don't actually work the way we expect.
Usually it ends up with the situation being explained by the robot
You repeated what GP said.
He has no insight.
The premise is that only this year's bonus matters, and that a short and planned outage this year will cost him more than keeping the plant operating efficiently in the long term. That's absurd.
by importing a pair-wise comma-separated list of skills and their similarity scores
we’re generating that automatically from job descriptions posted on our site.
So what this really shows is how often the same two buzzwords appear together in a job description posted on Dice.
I found another comment in his report interesting:
We also tried using the resume dataset, but the results were of a lower quality,
I assume by "lower quality" he really means "people list every buzzword they can think of on the resumes posted on Dice".
Given the inputs I wouldn't expect any surprises in the results. But that said, it's an interesting project and they did a very nice job with the visualization.
Take another look at the numbers for Republican vs. Democrat. They are much closer than the summary (mis)led you to believe by quoting the Conservative vs. Liberal numbers.
Also notice the subtle wording of the AGW question: "The earth is getting warmer mostly because of human activity". The word "mostly" is clearly there to bias the answers. They didn't ask "Is the earth getting warmer?", or "Is human activity contributing to the earth getting warmer?"
What I see is people turning more and more away from learning, actual knowledge, and truth, and turning back towards religion
Where do you see that? Church membership per capita is way down in the US.
Also keep in mind the the Pew Trust is notoriously liberal, especially related to environmental issues. It isn't a surprise that their survey pushes their agenda. They're also known for sending their own employees (and having them claim to be from the general public) to attend congressional hearings so it appears there's more grass root support for their causes than there actually is.
Aside from pointing out the glaringly obvious (people who identify themselves as Conservative gave responses consistent with what you would expect from people who identify themselves as conservative, same for LIberals),
1) There is a much smaller difference between Republicans and Democrats than there is between Conservatives and Liberals, e.g. the Evolution question goes from 21% versus 54% (Ideology) to 57% versus 72% (Party Id).
2) Several of the questions show a fairly small difference between Republicans and Democrats (pesticides, animal research, world population, vaccines, manned space programs, bioengineered fuel, and space station).
In 10 occupations, the state’s total compensation was at or above the market. In four occupations, the state’s total compensation was below the market.
So California needs to cut (or not change) the compensation of ten occupations and increase it for four. Seems reasonable.
No amount of careful planning will ever replace dumb luck.