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To be pulled by horses or mexican immigrants ?

Edit: well you might get the range if you want to drive tiny little Honda golf carts at 30mph. But what about real men that want to drive a 5000hp electric train at 300mph

Invest in roads - presumably for cars powered by oil to drive on?

Now that's a long term vision of the future!

Unless you gave the immigrants with STEM PhDs greencards. It just seems odd that a Yankee going to Texas is welcome but a foreigner taking the same job, paying the same US tax - but who was raised and educated at some other nations expense is somehow a threat.

In every other country there is a central government who have a department of immigration who accept applications from outsiders and judge them on their experience, qualifications, education etc.

You should try having a functional and effective national government - just a thought?

'our' jobs?

Suppose you are in california and Caltech hires a new Yorker as a postdoc instead of you - is that any better/worse than them hiring a Canadian/Brit or German?

Suppose they hired an American who had done their graduate work at oxford - is that better than hiring a Brit who had done their phd at Caltech?

The problem is that most Americans are the descendents of the people that arrived, displaced the native population, took their land and exploited it's natural resources.

So naturally they are wary of people coming along and doing the same to them.

This doesn't really apply to Canada.

So leaving your main system exposed to the new zero day vunerability for a whole day while you do the tests!

Did those security experts suggest that the new patches would have any less holes than the current ones?

Meanwhile all the other experts suggest not touching a high performance, high throughput system by immediately installing every new patch that arrives.

You have a choice between:

The chance of someone bothering to hack you multiplied by the chance that the new patch doesn't include several new security bugs

Or the chance of a new untested patch bringing down your business.

Unfortunately radio take a long time and a lot of money to get approval for, and the process is different for every country. And it's the entire 'system' that needs approval - you can't just say the chip is already used by everyone else.

That's why your laptop will often have the wifi+bluetooth model as a little simm card under a cover, it allows them to get the radio 'system' approved separately from the computer and use the same radio in different models without repeating the process.

Yes - especially for the big name firms in the US

And it's even worse than that - 20/30 years ago most of those none law/medicine degrees would have got somebody a VP type job. Now a non-professional degree gets you an entry level secretary job.

If you compare the lifetime earnings of a rare graduate 30years ago with those of a new 'social studies' type grad today it will be a lot worse

"the jewish genocide"

But how many know about any other victims?

When church leaders in the US talk about removing homosexuals from the community, or councils in the UK evict gypsies - do they get the hint?

A moron "flogging" button would be better

It would be easier if there was a set of easily identifiable colored icons so you could click and report someone for being a terrorist, homosexual, gypsy, jew.

Is there any sort of existing standard ?

No - it says national courst can't do this - this leaves the door open to a cross-border Eu law (written by the MPAA) which will ban it.

And then this ruling says that national courts can't introduce a looser law of their own.

Many companies and ALL government jobs segregate on professional or union. Since the only profession they admit is engineer - anyone technical, however well qualified, who is not an engineer is treated the same as the janitor.

I don't mind that - I object to that it's ONLY engineers that are 'professional', science PhD = janitor.

In fact I don't think engineers should be allowed to use any of mechanics, statics, thermodynamics, solid state electronics, etc without getting a professional physicist to approve it.

My undergrad university sends me begging letters - the place I did my Phd doesn't. They don't consider it worth the postage cost given what Phds earn!

That is current averages ie. historical data.

What it says is that somebody who got a medical/law degree 20-30 years ago, did very well over the last 20-30 years.

It says nothing about whether somebody leaving school today will do better in 20-30 years having spent 10x as much as their parents generation on college - rather than becoming a plumber or electrician or founding a startup

But in Canada software engineers aren't professionals - because they aren't engineers!

That's why in spite of my Oxbridge PhD I'm not an exempt employee, have to belong to the union (teamsters) and can't supervise anybody. While a 21year old 'environmental-engineering' grad is exempt

"I have the right to access material that I own, even if that means removing the DRM from it."

Not according to the DMCA you don't. Accessing material you bought - what are you? Some kind of terrorist?

With some technical knowledge and violating federal law - you can get access to stuff you already own?

That's like saying your banks' ATM network going down isn't news because you can always get through the vault door with some C4 and take your money that way.

I have the original no-wifi cheap kobo, it only has free content on it.

I connected it the PC and and simply copied epub and pdf to it using calibre. It comes with 100 free books that you can erase, none of the memory is reserved (except for the OS)

ePub works perfectly.

pdf is a little limited in range of zoom, for technical books I convert to epub with calibre and download that.

The only downside of the Kobo - it takes a long time to boot up if it has fully shutdown. Then once it has started it takes a long time to open books.

Just like the people that design SCADA systems in fact

> I did not realize there were this many clueless idiots

You didn't? Why do you think we need to make the switch to IPV6?

I just assume TV programs about science/engineering, even British ones, will be disappointing.

Oddly the maths in Derek Jacobi's portrayal is very good - but the human drama doesn't always work. In one scene he is talking to the commanding officer who says all this sex business is just youthfulness and it doesn't really matter when you get older. But a 20something Turing is played by a 50something Jacobi who looks 20years older than the actor playing the C/O!

Ditto for South Africa. There is (or was) an awful lot of home grown military and mining technology from the days of apartheid and sanctions when everything had to be invented locally.

Ironically a lot of the Isreali inventiveness was from the days when they didn't get automatic US military support. If you want to crush a country's R&D drive, simply give them shiny military toys for free.

It's a TV program. What proportion of the TV viewing public are more interested in the entscheidungsproblem compared to sex and death ?

On the other hand, at least it wasn't BBC. Then it would have somebody on a bike doing zany things (cos science is fun) that fit in a specific section of schools curriculum (so they meet their public service quota)