One thing that really struck me about Academy was "Why are they introducing teen angst and bad soft porn?" It just struck me as formulaic and very, very tiresome.
Star Trek was always about possibilities and the future and hope. It was always about serious ideas and social problems. Delving into teen hormonal drama had nothing to do with that.
Holly Hunter was a delight, as was Paul Giamatti.
If you want more ATC staff, then pay more and make the job more attractive with better shifts and more benefits. You don't have the money? Then you cannot afford to have air travel..
You complain "Nobody wants to work!"? Nobody has ever wanted to work. That complaint has been around for hundreds of years. Work is a PITA and the vast majority of humanity would not do it if they didn't have to do it to live. You need to pay people for their work, and if you don't pay enough they are not interested. You get what you pay for, and if you don't pay, you don't get.
Recently there was an incident where some worker was heard to be saying "all you had do to was pay us enough to live". As long as that sort of thing keeps happening, Americans need to realize that there's something really wrong with a system that just grinds down the workers and thinks they can always grind a little harder.
It can be. It's just going to cost money.
Purifying Helium is simple in principle: Just make it VERY cold. Every other element or molecule will turn to liquid or solid and can be drained or filtered away. What's left is pure helium. The problem is that it takes a significant amount of energy and technical effort to get the temperature down to where it needs to be. You have to get it down to between 4.2 and 20.28 Kelvin to really get it purified.
So it's all about cost. If you go to the effort and cost to collect all the helium gas used in the manufacturing and recycle it, then there's no shortage. But it costs money.
Also note that Helium is a renewable resource. It comes from the alpha decay of radioisotopes deep in the Earth's crust and collects in gas pockets that can be mined for it. So we're not doomed if a little of it is wasted: But we should be careful with it anyway.
There are many industries where an engineer has to sign off work before it goes into production.
Frankly it's about time someone said that a professional has to put their chop on critical work. It's an important part of delivering and managing important infrastructure and systems.
"Windows 10 users must enroll in Microsoft's paid Extended Security Updates program to get the new certificates. "
Holding your system to ransom. You never really thought it was "your" PC, did you?
The interesting issue here is that Bitcoin is a fiat currency, but it is backed by nothing. It's not that other currencies are not fiat currencies, but they are backed by something.
The US dollar is "backed" in the sense that if it crashes, the USA will do "something" to relieve the crash, and it's currently a currency that is needed to buy oil worldwide, and it's currently accepted as a "reserve currency". Could all of this change and the US dollar become worthless? Yes, of course but that would not happen until the US economy is completely destroyed. Most people would consider that unlikely, so they accept the fiat US dollar as a stable investment.
I suspect Bitcoin survived this long since it developed a little bit of real-world usefulness as a tool for moving and laundering criminal proceeds. As law enforcement gets better at attacking that criminal revenue chain, that usefulness is going to fade.
In a sense, the fact Bitcoin is a fiat currency backed by nothing is part of its allure: That makes it volatile. That makes it really attractive to gamblers or the professional gamblers who take big risks and call themselves "investors"
But eventually there will be a run on Bitcoin, just as there always is with any bubble. Perhaps this is just a big run. And there will continue to be runs as long as Bitcoin exists.
Here in Toronto, we have thousands of people riding around on ebikes and scooters. We are supposed to have a law that they need to have working pedals, but that is completely ignored unless the cops do a blitz. Anyone on a gas-powered moped needs a license, registration, proper helmet and insurance. These e-bikes are just as fast and just as hazardous, but the rules don't apply.
We have a LOT of drunks wobbling around on these: They don't need a license. Users of these things often go along with their feet dragging, no gloves, and a bicycle helmet instead of a real helmet. And a lot of them buy the "hop up" kits that make these things just as fast as small motorcycles and way faster than a moped. These things are deathtraps for the users in this city.
As far as I'm concerned, the licensing, insurance, registration and PPE requirements should be the same for ALL powered vehicles on the street, electric or gas. New Jersey is absolutely right to enforce these requirements.
It's a shame you don't understand police work. Evidence is actually needed: Public video is very valuable, as is citizen-posted cell phone video and reports, provided they are not "edited" for malicious purpose.
Look at what happened in Minnesota: Lots of video of the murder of the woman in the SUV has been very helpful in keeping that horror from being swept under the rug. (Note: I don't consider ICE as "police": They are racist and untrained brownshirts.)
And your Denver situation is far more a straw man argument (Or "argue by exception") than mine.
Next time you're carjacked, robbed in public, or assaulted in broad daylight in public, please make sure you get permission from the EFF and Amnesty International before you permit the police to use any video to track down the criminal who hurt you and recover your property or get restitution.
You may not get any justice, and a criminal may be free to commit violent crime against others with impunity, but think how morally superior you will be!
So a bunch of cameras are streaming live video of a public space on the Internet.
So what? It's a public space with no expectation of privacy. Does a camera have to point to a coffeepot to be acceptable?
An adequate bootstrap is a contradiction in terms.
