Many world leaders or people of prominence are wary of eating anything on camera. The President of the United States is not allowed to be filmed eating on camera unless approved by the secret service.
> Many world leaders or people of prominence are wary of eating anything on camera.
Indeed.
No-one will ever let Ed Miliband, the then leader of the UK Labour Party in 2014, forget his unfortunate bacon sandwich moment. Hell, the event even has its own Wikipedia page:
We're truly doomed as a species if the image of someone eating a sandwich is the death of a politician's career and not all horrible shit politicians actually do.
Not trying to sound pernickity here but do you have a source on that? I find minor details like that really interesting and I couldn't think of good reasons why except PR, and if that was the only reason why would it be up to the secret service to decide? I tried Googling but couldn't find much.
There's no way the Secret Service could enforce that rule. Freedom of the press applies - the best they can do is avoid having the President eat in public.
I saw it quite a few times in reputable publications. I'm the last person to have a high opinion of the press's honesty, but multiple orgs lying about it would be a bizarre and easily-defeated conspiracy.
There's a scandal every month about some politician eating wrong -- whether it's them being too messy, or not messy enough. It's especially bad in UK politics.
There was furor over Trump wanting two scoops of ice cream instead of one[1]. I believe that in a post-Trump world, the American President will just never eat as far as the public knows. All meal-related meetings will be held behind closed doors, with not even a peep as to what was on the menu. All President-related meals will henceforth be national secrets revealed only to those with top security clearances. The White House kitchen will be treated with a similar secrecy as Area 51.
President will just never eat as far as the public knows
If the president never eats in public, how do we know they’re not a robot? This was a major plot point in the Asimov short story Evidence. The character went to extreme lengths to avoid being seen eating (and turned out to be a robot in the end).
Baby Alive has been able to eat since the early 1970s. Pretty sure robopresident could find a place to internally store consumed food until returning to its maintenance pod.
In the story above, the candidate is capable of eating (and does so in front of one of the roboticist main characters). She points out, as you do, that it would be trivial to store food internally for later disposal
How do you know anyone isn’t a robot who can fake eat?
This is the premise of the short story. The robot politician pretends to eat in order to trick his opponents who are trying to out him as a robot by proving he can’t eat.
Spoilers: they then try to trick the robot into violating the three laws of robotics. He ends up tricking his opponents by having another robot attack him, letting him freely defend himself when he otherwise wouldn’t be able to (since robots can’t harm humans).
It’s a fantastic story. Well worth the read. My description doesn’t do it justice.
I'm not sure what the flagged comment was, but this response implies that the president should be free to do anything, while we limit the press. That sounds backwards.
Saying "there is age discrimination in the tech industry" is looking at the symptoms. The root cause is not being able to look at it from the system's viewpoint that causes it.
Tech industry especially the cutting/bleeding edge segment, is a crapshoot. Its survival depends on breaking rules, boundaries, assumptions and being starry-eyed believers
Seasoned engineers appear to "project" they are fixated on things knowingly or unknowingly. If you are doing it unknowingly - time to review one's communication style.
Also, this segment survives (or emerges out of) by riding the technology shifts. For example, here is a shift in the software programming segment.
green screen -> desktop -> web -> mobile -> deep learning.
Most companies do prefer to hire senior members who have experience with prior technology segment and are attempting a newer one.
Very concise. Btw, I see that you created this tool. It is a brilliant tool. Just wish people would start using this tool to explain the steps instead of writing them in ad filled/narrow column pages.
Planet’s satellites use Indian launch vehicles due to their economic viability. They were muted in their response to Debris in outer soace due to Indian anti satellite test.
Degraded? Oh, is it looking bad for India? Then India should stop doing bad things. 10 Million people are caged right now, while you can express yourself and you have the audacity to try to mute me too now.
Here's your source, I am not into bullshit:
“While Planet enjoys a great working partnership with agencies of India’s government — like ISRO — we categorically condemn the anti-satellite missile intercept recently conducted by India’s defense department,” the San Francisco-based company tweeted March 27. “Space should be used for peaceful purposes, and destroying satellites on orbit severely threatens the long-term stability of the space environment for all space operators. Planet urges all space-capable nations to respect our orbital commons.”
Planet will still not be boycotting ISRO and using them for the upcoming launch of 5th series of Dove satellites.
I always wondered why doesn't the government install a few hundred web cams across the big cities for the rest of world, including the journalists to see the reality. Why do only the journalists have to travel there and take pictures of whatever corner they want and tell whatever story they want to tell.
Definitely old videos. At least most of them. Also the account sharing the video is a high ranking police office. Not sure why an Indian police officer is a reputable source in this situation but NYT, BCC, HuffPost, AJE, BusinessInsider, etc are not.
Reminds me of the time terrorists were shooting up Mumbai. A "brave" TV news channel gave live coverage. Intelligence agencies found out that the live coverage was being used by handlers to give specific instructions to the attackers.
fakenews NYT is more reliable than someone on the ground.. hilarious
check the twitter feed this journalist also
https://twitter.com/AdityaRajKaul/status/1161226787352825856
The only time I accepted Govt offer was to take around 40-50 journalists in batches of 5 on a chopper to show Srinagar yesterday after Eid prayers. This was to bust rumours of massive protests or state brutality. There were no people visible on the streets. Restrictions in place
I tried using AirTable twice. It has a steep learning curve. The UI comes in the way often.
If they really have day-to-day users - they must be from the top down approach (somebody up the chain selected it) or forcefully committed ones or a have a perfect use-case.
a. These are meant for a business to show off its compliance. A business means it is already making money. I am sure every company would be happy to pay that 100CHF to buy it for you , just like they can afford to buy a book, if they are thinking about ISO.
b. The ISO compliance is to be asserted by a 3rd party auditor. They are a member of the ISO community and/or have a copy of the standard with them.
I went through hearing the similar ("talking like an engineer") comment myself. One thing made a big difference in transitioning
to company leadership.
I thought I was a leader of the people reporting to me.
A leader in a generic sense, as in civic leaders.
I have to fight for or work towards their betterment.
With that thinking, every discussion with upper management would come across as the defence, for the team, for the processes.
One executed corrected my understanding that I am not a generic leader. I am a company leader. That means the company is first and foremost. My communication and thought process has to reflect that.
It sounded a bit harsh in the beginning but it helped me become a better company leader and good for the people reporting to me and customers in the long run.
Letting robocalls go unaddressed for this long highlights the greed side of capitalism.
- Make money from problems. It is not in the best interest of companies to eliminate money making problems.
- Problems are more beneficial if they impact average joe. They won't be able to fight and choose to pay ransom for partial relief.
- The greed side of capitalism can only be handled by governments. Unfortunately, this helps comes only after a big collateral damage, in this case, millions annoyed with robocalls.
by Annoyed user who gets 3 robocalls per day, despite using all kinds of blocking mechanisms.
>> Gorbachev held firm. “‘As the ex-leader, I just would not,’” Helbing recalled Gorbachev saying.
It is not clear why he wouldn't do that.