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Post by nautonnier on Oct 12, 2020 18:27:35 GMT
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Post by missouriboy on Oct 13, 2020 2:38:04 GMT
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Post by nautonnier on Oct 13, 2020 10:05:10 GMT
It will also depend on those who do not normally vote the people that are happy to go along because really it didn't seem to affect their lives let the people who get wound up about politics play their games nothing much will change.... Except now people can see that it DOES affect them. Small towns like Kenosha can suddenly be full of mobs in black shirts, out of town youngsters from their mom's basements burning businesses at random. This election affects you whether you like it or not and you do NOT like what his happening. These people are the 'soul of America' they do not see politics as important but now it is so they will vote against anyone wanting to 'change America' and they can see Portland, Seattle, New York City, and that is what they do not want. These people are not normally considered in polls. November 4th will be interesting - or possibly November 5th - which has a different but related meaning in UK. November 5th in UK is a celebration of the stopping of the plot to blow up parliament. A celebration with fireworks and burning effigies of one of the plotters on those bonfires, that the status quo was retained.
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Post by nautonnier on Oct 13, 2020 15:37:53 GMT
Model based system engineering is where things are now. Add in the agile systems development which is now both software and hardware (the hardware is part of the model developed by the agile software - so when you think the model looks right the hardware specs for each module are transmitted over to the automated manufacturing line and 'instantiated' by 3D printers and modern adaptable factory lines. You have to be at the stage where if the software model flies the real aircraft will too. The verification and validation are obviously essential steps. So now the hardware designs and their modeling software are modules that can be saved and reused as in all the best programming and they do not need to be reinvented for the next aircraft. if there is a new requirement then the new module 'inherits' the structures, testing and regression testing of the its progenitor the savings can be enormous. It does take some effort to get engineers to design things at a higher level of abstraction to allow different inheritance lines. Same in the factories where systems are generic rather than specific. In the old systems the up front cost of the system (the one always quoted by congress) was only 5% of the lifetime cost of the system. So a saving of 20% on the up front cost was really only a 1% saving in lifetime terms and could even be an overall loss if it increased lifetime cost of ownership. Also all that cost was only for that one system - F-22 lifetime support is nothing like F-35 lifetime support; the lack of commonality increases sometimes more than doubles all sorts of long term costs. Exciting times
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Post by nautonnier on Oct 24, 2020 13:45:19 GMT
Just a random thought here that may cause the next head explosion... As you all will know the US Federal Government - Congress/Administration has a set of 'Enumerated Powers' given it by the Constitution. To keep the federal government in its box, the Tenth Amendment emphasizes that the Enumerated Powers are ALL that the federal government can do everything else is up to the States and if they don't take charge it is the people can decide for themselves. Here it is in the real language: Now one of the items you will NOT find in that list of powers is healthcare or pandemic planning. So for COVID for example the President called a task force of state governors under the Vice President to plan and the Federal government provided support to states on request. That is now The Constitution was set up. [Side note: Joe Biden continually saying he has a plan - is unconstitutional as is a mask mandate - it is explicitly NOT the President's or Federal government's JOB] Obamacare is apparently outside the Enumerated Powers except that it was passed by SCOTUS on the casting vote of John Roberts who claimed that the 'Individual Mandate' effectively made Obamacare a tax. The Individual Mandate has been repealed. The next case to be heard by the SCOTUS after Amy Coney Barret's inauguration is a case from several states saying that as the Individual Mandate has been repealed Obamacare can no longer be claimed to be a tax. The news organizations have been trying to insist that the case will only consider severability - can the remainder stand on its own, which in a way it is - but it is more than that. Once the individual mandate has gone Obamacare is no longer a tax - and Obamacare is unconstitutional I forecast a VERY noisy few months.
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Post by nautonnier on Oct 27, 2020 19:16:55 GMT
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Post by missouriboy on Oct 31, 2020 0:45:17 GMT
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Post by walnut on Oct 31, 2020 0:57:09 GMT
In the interest of vanquishing the enemy, I'd like to see that. But I don't think that I like the principle... Twitter and Facebook are not public utilities, they are just websites owned by some shareholders. They don't cost anything to read or post on, and what they do seems like it should be their business. They are not broadcasting over public airwaves so nothing really needs to be rationed and licensed in the public interest.
It's pretty pathetic the hold that they have on us.
What Jack Dorsey told Ted Cruz was true- there are other websites people can visit.
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Post by missouriboy on Oct 31, 2020 1:36:45 GMT
In the interest of vanquishing the enemy, I'd like to see that. But I don't think that I like the principle... Twitter and Facebook are not public utilities, they are just websites owned by some shareholders. They don't cost anything to read or post on, and what they do seems like it should be their business. They are not broadcasting over public airwaves so nothing really needs to be rationed and licensed in the public interest. It's pretty pathetic the hold that they have on us. What Jack Dorsey told Ted Cruz was true- there are other websites people can visit. Teddy Roosevelt's antitrust targets were big oil and big railroads. I consider the internet to be a public resource ... thus public airwaves. Use and access should be available to all, and those providing access should be defined as public utilities. We should go back to net neutrality. I think that any company using the public internet should be broken up if it controls an overwhelming portion of the traffic in its particular market. I am generally against Big Government, but also am against monopoly control by any business. I think that competition would thrive if the Big Boys were emasculated. The pieces would more readily gravitate to different consumer preference.
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Post by nautonnier on Oct 31, 2020 3:16:41 GMT
In the interest of vanquishing the enemy, I'd like to see that. But I don't think that I like the principle... Twitter and Facebook are not public utilities, they are just websites owned by some shareholders. They don't cost anything to read or post on, and what they do seems like it should be their business. They are not broadcasting over public airwaves so nothing really needs to be rationed and licensed in the public interest. It's pretty pathetic the hold that they have on us. What Jack Dorsey told Ted Cruz was true- there are other websites people can visit. The point is who is responsible for content. IF the site owners are responsible for content then they cannot have no responsibility for content. The responsibility can be identified by who assesses and allows/disallows content. If the [name a media company] modifies or disallows content then it is a publisher under Sect 230. If the [name a media company] has no input on the content then it is a communications utility. Seems that they want to play both ends against the middle at the moment. I suspect they will be facing fines that are a percentage of worldwide turnover in the future - that tends to get their attention.
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Post by walnut on Oct 31, 2020 13:13:13 GMT
In the interest of vanquishing the enemy, I'd like to see that. But I don't think that I like the principle... Twitter and Facebook are not public utilities, they are just websites owned by some shareholders. They don't cost anything to read or post on, and what they do seems like it should be their business. They are not broadcasting over public airwaves so nothing really needs to be rationed and licensed in the public interest. It's pretty pathetic the hold that they have on us. What Jack Dorsey told Ted Cruz was true- there are other websites people can visit. The point is who is responsible for content. IF the site owners are responsible for content then they cannot have no responsibility for content. The responsibility can be identified by who assesses and allows/disallows content. If the [name a media company] modifies or disallows content then it is a publisher under Sect 230. If the [name a media company] has no input on the content then it is a communications utility. Seems that they want to play both ends against the middle at the moment. I suspect they will be facing fines that are a percentage of worldwide turnover in the future - that tends to get their attention. In the beginning, Twitter and Facebook seemed to be taking the position that they are just large, successful message boards, and they could not possibly be expected to moderate the hundreds of thousands of independent posts per day for content. They should have stayed on that course. Unless someone posts a recipe for nerve gas, or posts overtly threatening messages towards specific people, then all posts should be un-moderated. Also advertising. Facebook should take any and all legal and appropriate ads, and not review for bias etc. That was a foolish shift that they made, but the cat is now out of the bag, and others will now decide how they get to run their own businesses.
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Post by sigurdur on Nov 11, 2020 4:33:52 GMT
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Post by sigurdur on Nov 18, 2020 18:16:00 GMT
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Post by missouriboy on Nov 18, 2020 20:52:59 GMT
Many of them could be unemployed while plumbers, electricians, and other trades continue to do well. Does the above include Social Justice Warriors?
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Post by nonentropic on Nov 18, 2020 21:06:09 GMT
SJWs are the basis of a great organic fertilizer, not as good as fish but are fully kosher. I think.
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