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BTW, I know I'm probably a sucker, but I donated.

The short form...

People got elected to the local council and found out that all the power is held at the state level.

Now, there is a legal defense fund for an old guy that tried to get an animal shelter renovated.

Just like any large organization, some jobs will suck. Some will not.

For this job announcement the pay is $99,172 to $166,500 per year, depending on experience.

I was a GS-14 with just a B.S.

The best thing about government service is finding a position where you think the mission is important.

Also, the benefits are really good.

Yes, there are poeple that are retired in place in some organizations, but often good people do well. They tend to get recognition, but there are bad bosses there, too. You need to work with HR to move ASAP to a good team if you find yourself in a toxic place.

I know this was in England, but I always think of Bristol TN whenever I see "Bristol". So, I assumed everyone drowned.

Is this truly a Sanskrit Effect or is it an effect of memorization? I've heard of similar effects on London can drivers.

I do like the name, though, as a shorthand. Sanskrit Effect beats Cabbie Brain.

I have always thought the way to go was to mimic their practices. If you have a requirement to partner with a local company majority owner, so do we. If you require IP transfer, so do we. I think this would be more strategic than a broad tariff.

I came across this sentence today on a page for a public swimming pool. "Recent ADA changes have required the installation of entry steps and a power lift." [0] It reminded me of this thread.

Most of the value in government is setting standards so that society is more fair to those that have been ignored in the past. It struck me as odd in how they phrased this sentence. Now, I have to admit that the person that wrote the copy for this page has some kind of fetish for sharing building footprint measurements, but not height. So, I don't think copy editing is high on their list of skills.

The federal government was actually designed to be pretty inefficient in order to keep it small and out of people's hair. Government wasn't supposed to be good at making roads. It was supposed to be good at saying how wide those interstate highway lanes should be.

Don't even get me started on federal contract law and the FAR. I think it says somewhere around page 1312 in the FAR that government contracting should be as efficient as possible.

[0] https://www.bristoltn.org/202/Haynesfield-Aquatic-Center

The reason the message "All taxes are bad" resonates so well is because there has been a near constant cadence accompanying it that "All government is bad". Many people think there is no inherent value in government because that has been sold to them for the past 50+ years.

It is similar to the message that "Adam Smith's capitalism" = "no regulations" when in fact Adam Smith was not against regulations. Regulations are the structure that markets are built upon. Otherwise, everything is caveat emptor (translation: let the buyer beware) all the time.

It is hard to know where the correct line between total freedom and total government control lies, but I have to assume it is somewhere closer to the middle than either extreme, but the middle never makes the evening news.

What do the references "downstate conservatives" and "Donny" mean?

> older browsers or without JS

For sites that just convey text, they should work without JS. This would mostly solve accessibility (a11y) issues if sites looked to use simplicity wherever possible instead of adding complexity to solve issues caused by complexity.

I heard arguments where US Government employees were working on creating open access policies for the research they funded. People would lament, "Nobody will work with us if we force them to make their research open access." I would reply, "Who are they going to work with? The US Government is the only place with these big piles of money. Yes, they will take a principled stand until their next mortgage payment is due."

>There are trade-offs involved with any paradigm,...

Reminded me of the aphorism, "All models are wrong, but some are useful" [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_models_are_wrong

I found this to be so true at a job I had in international development. Being on a small but respected team in the org and having input on how projects all over the world would be implemented was very fulfilling.

I'll look into the regulator. Thanks.

Good news. The customer service rep said they are forwardning my request to the Networking Team after I shared https://www.troyhunt.com/heres-why-your-static-website-needs... and pointed out how easy it is to steal login info.

A video is worth a billion words.

Hopefully, Networking doesn't blow it off.

Thanks for the post!

I just deleted my FB account, and I am a little less of a product (today).

NASA has a nice summary of the rights the government has to contractor created works.[1]

A contractor may claim copyrights, but the government still has a license to the work that allows them under most circumstances to do anything they please (for the public good) with the work (e.g. publish it in the New York Times) and also release copies for reproduction (as long as you reproduce the copy you got directly from the government).

The general counsel of any agency can explain what the agency's rights are for any given work.

[1] https://www.nasa.gov/pdf/531751main_Government%20Data%20Righ...

There is an interactive display of the Green Book at the National Museum of African American History and Culture https://nmaahc.si.edu/ (I think on the second or third floor).

Also the New York Public Library has an interactive map fro their public domain collection http://publicdomain.nypl.org/greenbook-map/

Any news articles or court documents of these events?

The US Government is trying to address access to publicly funded research by requiring that most government agencies have open access plans.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=public+access+plan&ia=web

This was started government-wide from a memo by John Holdren.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/os...

Each agency comes up with their own plan, but they have to make access to the research possible without charge.

Many agencies provide access to submitted manuscripts.

Another good avenue to address access would be to get states to adopt similar policies based on research by state employees.

It is often easier to get states to pass laws than it is to deal at the federal level.

Is anyone interested in writing up some legislation?

> ...failures like Theranos...

I thought Theranos was still operating.

They shut down the draw center in PA, but they still have a lab running and draw centers in AZ aren't they?

It seems like the Wall Street Journal is writing a piece about a small adjustment by Theranos because of the understandably bad optics for their partner in PA.

Theranos is trying to innovate in a space where you cannot even ask how much a service costs.

Personally, I would go to Theranos if they just ran all the same tests as everyone else because they post their prices.

Searches on http://www.sunriselab.com/ and http://questdiagnostics.com/home.html show no prices at all.

Yes, Theranos was supposed to be based on a new technology (which may still work out in the long run), but just being customer focused would be disruptive in this industry.

My 5 and 7 year old LOVE DragonBox. (I would be bragging more, but they get into pretty big fights over whose turn it is.) The way it eased them into algebra is so simple that it is genius.

All math should be that approachable.

Here is a fun game then... BTW you happen to be doing math.

What About EMC?

Should they bear any of the burden or only the subsidiary?

What about those companies that use RSA products and services?

These are just questions.

Not advocacy.