That's exactly why I wanted to work WITH them and not independently. I was hoping to leverage my knowledge of the language and culture to assist the efforts.
Right now, I would not volunteer simply because the money I spend in travelling back will have a greater impact through donation than my unskilled presence.
I understand their need for procedure when they are spending for the trip. All I wanted was to contribute to their efforts with my language skills and my physical labour in the short period that the local Red Crosses were overwhelmed. I was hoping that co-ordinating with the red cross on site as an independent volunteer would be possible, but apparently, they'd rather take my money ( which by all accounts were not needed on site )
Given that I was allowed to volunteer (alongside red cross) to help out Katrina evacuees who were placed at our campus, I didn't see much of a difference in me going there and working with red cross volunteers in the affected areas.
Maybe I do not understand the procedure very well, I have been involved with efforts for the earthquake relief in Gujarat as well and there is a lot of help that can be offered by people with no formal disaster relief training and there are a lot of avenues for it too. Sure you need a background check, but if someone comes to a site and asks you how he can help, would they turn him away? Are/should the red cross (be) allowed to drive untrained public away if they are helping the cause?
I was pointing out the opportunistic operator asking me for my ticket money and offering me a volunteer role while clearly stating that the ARC was not involved in the Tsunami rescue efforts directly.
Right, but as an atheist, both of us have a burning desire to have logical reasons for religious beliefs (which explains the absence of religious beliefs in my case). So what is your logical reason?
This was like my experience when the Tsunami struck Asia. I had lived in two of the worst hit places (in India and Indonesia) and could speak the languages. I called the local Red Cross and asked them if they had any efforts going on there and if I could go (on my own ticket) and help out with the rescue efforts. The ARC were like, ummm... We aren't really sending people there, but you can donate the money. I replied saying I could SEE red cross workers there on TV. The female's said that they were from a different country (probably local) and that the ARC was a separate entity. Then she offered me a volunteer position as a phone operator. I think it might jsut be the ARC, but still...
Belief in any god pretty much qualifies you as a lunatic I'll bite...Atheist as I am, I still think that is an unfair statement towards people who've found a way to keep themselves happy. I used the phrase 'we hindus' because I am a hindu by birth and hinduism has two aspects to it-the religious aspect and the cultural/social aspect. Being hindu is similar to being Jewish almost. It is not a choice, it is more of a cultural identity. Regardless, seeing as we beoth don't believe in god, I leave it up to you to describe to me why belief in a god makes someone a lunatic.
Oddly enough, they required me to explicitly consent to being taken to a hospital even though my blood pressure was dangerously low and people had to pinch me and put ice on me to keep me conscious. Weird.
Shani (equivalent of 'Saturday' i.e. Saturn) is supposed to bestow incredible mathematical and analytical prowess on those he favors. Of course, if you don't study math regularly or piss him off otherwise (by claiming that you don't need math-fu to be a CS Guru), he takes offence and punishes you with '7.5 yrs of ill luck'. I inherited one of these spells and it's supposed to wear of this year (w00t!). I have avoided too much ill luck by studying a lot of math (pseudo-penance) and consequently having Shani reducing the burden of ill luck I am carrying. Had I not been under this curse, I would have become an accountant.
An astrologer told my family at birth that I would be an auditor. He later informed us about the curse when he observed my aunt's stars clashing with mine (since I lived with her for an year) and said that the reason I was still doing reasonably well was because I had a passion for math.
My last visit to the hospital: $866 for 25min spent in the hospital. Doctor's consultation itself was probably 3-4min. The fire dept took me there and 2 nurses from the hospital spent a total of about 10 min collecting my personal information, moving a stand to hold the IV pouch and getting me some Gatorade.
With respect to the internet though, there is a growing population of adults adept at using it with children. And this number will keep growing as time progresses. Like the cell phone. When I was young, I used to do all kinds of cool stuff with my dad's cell phone that he couldn't (skins, ringtones, screensavers). I could wield a remote control better than either of my parents. However, today, both my parents and I are at the same level w.r.t remotes and they've closed up the gap on cell phones (ignore smartphones for now). I think all technologies go through the transition from "teens know it better than their parents" to "everyone knows it". It has to start at "teens know it better" because young people learn better and faster than old people. I learnt, became fluent and became better than peer group native speakers at a completely new language (Bahasa Indonesia) in a year or so when I was 11. I doubt I can learn a new language that efficiently or even that well now at 21. My code-fu used to be strong where I could pick up a programming language no problem in 2-3 months flat. I then realized I was getting weaker and transitioned into my current state where I know how to program well and adapt to different languages as I am required to. I therefore have no preference for programming language. My strongest language is always "the one I am using now". My kids on the other hand, when they do populate the world, will certainly annihilate me at programming in the latest language, but the gap won't be as much as it is between me and my parents. I will however suck balls at using the hoverboard that all the kids will be going to school in.
In my experience, the better the questions are (from a cheating perspective), the harder it becomes to grade them. You start having to ensure that the student is allowed to demonstrate their ability, but that there are a large number of ways to do so (otherwise, if there's just 1 right answer, Joe tells everyone how it's done and the teacher can't identify the cheaters). However, when there are so many ways to answer a question, grading it becomes harder and in some cases, impossible to achieve in a given time frame. Highly pressured and lazy teachers generally write bad questions (again, from a cheating perspective).
My point is that good questions are no doubt hard to write, but sometimes even if you HAVE good questions, it may not be feasible to grade.
P.S. Can Hinduism be disqualified from the religion contest by having thousands of entrants or are we Hindus playing it safe by believing in so many of them?
I wouldn't necessarily say that the current generation knows so much more about the internet (compared to its kids) than the previous one did. The average knowledge rises, but so does the average knowledge of their kids. Also, the quality of tools and easy of use did increase incredibly during the last 10-20 years. Your point makes sense. One one hand you have people in their late 30s who are starting to become parents of teens. They experienced the growth of the internet in THEIR youth and are well versed in its use. On the other, you have myspace kids who think using meebo makes them better than the AOLuser. I sort of forgot that the latter aren't usually born to the former.
I'm 21, and I'm expecting teen children in about 20 years. I also fully expect them to kick my ass at using technology since they'll know ('What I know' + 'What they learn') and I can't resonably expect parents to keep up with the pace of learning that youngsters have.
Any parents here with kids that are less nerdy/1337 to themselves?
Anyway, nowadays everyone says "Sony's failing because they make the PS3 SKU's price point too high." Where are you writing from -- two weeks ago? Your UID betrays your not being up to date
That should be: "Sony's failing because their not aware that your a subscriber to the meme that the 80GB SKU's price point is too high"
The word meme bothers me to no end. People abuse the breadth of its definition to help them be vague. And then they proceed to be smug because they are so 'with the times'.
Weddings are assumed to be religious in nature, even if marriages are not. I apologize for the 'odd' usage of the word marriage. The word 'marriage' also describes a wedding according to the dictionary and I (and a lot of Indian people) use it in that sense. Being a fan of semantics rather than dictionary definitions though, I realize in America, this is not a common usage (and I need to adjust my vocabulary) as I learnt some time ago when I asked a colleague who had returned from her brother's wedding, "How was the marriage?" and received a pained, shocked look on her face in response. It didn't help that she was in a happy marriage at the time and I referred to it in the past tense:))
with the rest of what you said, but I did not get married in the registrar's (or clerk's) office - I never went there. The religious official who married my wife and I had authority from the state to make the marriage legally binding, and so I got married in a church. Perhaps it's different in your country. Now that you mention it, I think religious officials DO generally have the authority to legalize marriages at the wedding ceremony and this makes it all the worse because the word 'wedding' or 'marriage' can refer to both legal and religious union. It wouldn't be a problem if the two were not considered synonymous and that one does not imply the other. It doesn't for me, but it does for a lot of people and they don't feel the need to separate the two.
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That's exactly why I wanted to work WITH them and not independently. I was hoping to leverage my knowledge of the language and culture to assist the efforts.
Right now, I would not volunteer simply because the money I spend in travelling back will have a greater impact through donation than my unskilled presence.
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I understand their need for procedure when they are spending for the trip. All I wanted was to contribute to their efforts with my language skills and my physical labour in the short period that the local Red Crosses were overwhelmed. I was hoping that co-ordinating with the red cross on site as an independent volunteer would be possible, but apparently, they'd rather take my money ( which by all accounts were not needed on site )
Given that I was allowed to volunteer (alongside red cross) to help out Katrina evacuees who were placed at our campus, I didn't see much of a difference in me going there and working with red cross volunteers in the affected areas.
Maybe I do not understand the procedure very well, I have been involved with efforts for the earthquake relief in Gujarat as well and there is a lot of help that can be offered by people with no formal disaster relief training and there are a lot of avenues for it too. Sure you need a background check, but if someone comes to a site and asks you how he can help, would they turn him away? Are/should the red cross (be) allowed to drive untrained public away if they are helping the cause?
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I was pointing out the opportunistic operator asking me for my ticket money and offering me a volunteer role while clearly stating that the ARC was not involved in the Tsunami rescue efforts directly.
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I listened to the mback when they were free... on Napster
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Right, but as an atheist, both of us have a burning desire to have logical reasons for religious beliefs (which explains the absence of religious beliefs in my case). So what is your logical reason?
This was like my experience when the Tsunami struck Asia. I had lived in two of the worst hit places (in India and Indonesia) and could speak the languages. I called the local Red Cross and asked them if they had any efforts going on there and if I could go (on my own ticket) and help out with the rescue efforts. The ARC were like, ummm... We aren't really sending people there, but you can donate the money. I replied saying I could SEE red cross workers there on TV. The female's said that they were from a different country (probably local) and that the ARC was a separate entity. Then she offered me a volunteer position as a phone operator. I think it might jsut be the ARC, but still...
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:) No worries... I didn't expect you to have one anyway...
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I was just making a weak pun on how homeopathic medicines are 1e-35 % solutions in water of some chemical
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Does the fire dept. charge your for 911 calls?
Oddly enough, they required me to explicitly consent to being taken to a hospital even though my blood pressure was dangerously low and people had to pinch me and put ice on me to keep me conscious. Weird.
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Finally! All that non-conformance pays off!!
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Shani (equivalent of 'Saturday' i.e. Saturn) is supposed to bestow incredible mathematical and analytical prowess on those he favors. Of course, if you don't study math regularly or piss him off otherwise (by claiming that you don't need math-fu to be a CS Guru), he takes offence and punishes you with '7.5 yrs of ill luck'. I inherited one of these spells and it's supposed to wear of this year (w00t!). I have avoided too much ill luck by studying a lot of math (pseudo-penance) and consequently having Shani reducing the burden of ill luck I am carrying. Had I not been under this curse, I would have become an accountant.
An astrologer told my family at birth that I would be an auditor. He later informed us about the curse when he observed my aunt's stars clashing with mine (since I lived with her for an year) and said that the reason I was still doing reasonably well was because I had a passion for math.
HTH
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My last visit to the hospital: $866 for 25min spent in the hospital. Doctor's consultation itself was probably 3-4min. The fire dept took me there and 2 nurses from the hospital spent a total of about 10 min collecting my personal information, moving a stand to hold the IV pouch and getting me some Gatorade.
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With respect to the internet though, there is a growing population of adults adept at using it with children. And this number will keep growing as time progresses. Like the cell phone. When I was young, I used to do all kinds of cool stuff with my dad's cell phone that he couldn't (skins, ringtones, screensavers). I could wield a remote control better than either of my parents. However, today, both my parents and I are at the same level w.r.t remotes and they've closed up the gap on cell phones (ignore smartphones for now). I think all technologies go through the transition from "teens know it better than their parents" to "everyone knows it". It has to start at "teens know it better" because young people learn better and faster than old people. I learnt, became fluent and became better than peer group native speakers at a completely new language (Bahasa Indonesia) in a year or so when I was 11. I doubt I can learn a new language that efficiently or even that well now at 21. My code-fu used to be strong where I could pick up a programming language no problem in 2-3 months flat. I then realized I was getting weaker and transitioned into my current state where I know how to program well and adapt to different languages as I am required to. I therefore have no preference for programming language. My strongest language is always "the one I am using now". My kids on the other hand, when they do populate the world, will certainly annihilate me at programming in the latest language, but the gap won't be as much as it is between me and my parents. I will however suck balls at using the hoverboard that all the kids will be going to school in.
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In my experience, the better the questions are (from a cheating perspective), the harder it becomes to grade them. You start having to ensure that the student is allowed to demonstrate their ability, but that there are a large number of ways to do so (otherwise, if there's just 1 right answer, Joe tells everyone how it's done and the teacher can't identify the cheaters). However, when there are so many ways to answer a question, grading it becomes harder and in some cases, impossible to achieve in a given time frame. Highly pressured and lazy teachers generally write bad questions (again, from a cheating perspective).
My point is that good questions are no doubt hard to write, but sometimes even if you HAVE good questions, it may not be feasible to grade.
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P.S. Quite sad that I have to use bold tags to keep the spelling nazis away
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P.S. Can Hinduism be disqualified from the religion contest by having thousands of entrants or are we Hindus playing it safe by believing in so many of them?
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Dyson Sphere and all the /.ers rejoiced!
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God's crawlers don't recognize /. tags. They don't honour 'robots.txt' either.
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I'm 21, and I'm expecting teen children in about 20 years. I also fully expect them to kick my ass at using technology since they'll know ('What I know' + 'What they learn') and I can't resonably expect parents to keep up with the pace of learning that youngsters have.
Any parents here with kids that are less nerdy/1337 to themselves?
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That should be:
"Sony's failing because their not aware that your a subscriber to the meme that the 80GB SKU's price point is too high"
The word meme bothers me to no end. People abuse the breadth of its definition to help them be vague. And then they proceed to be smug because they are so 'with the times'.
I, for one, welcome our meme-loving overlords
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