...space has been declining in popularity? There was a time when the idea of Space Travel excited the entire country, nowadays people just dismiss it as a waste of money. As peoples interest in space decline, surprise surprise, so does NASA's budget.
If you want to get more serious cutting edge space science done, then you need to make the whole concept popular again. That is why I think this whole Virgin Venture is worthwhile, not because it's an eccentric joyride for the rich.
Or you could just educate them to not be lazy bums? Who on earth advocates placing more people below the poverty line in order to keep the workforce competitive? That's backwards thinking no matter how you look at it.
Unless you are rich and have your own business. In which case a highly competitive workforce means you get to pay people crap because they are desperate for the job.
So why spend four years after high school gaining skills that aren't wanted? Why spend the money to increase student performance when we can enjoy the use of that money today
All I hear is "Why put money into a savings account / pension when you could be spending it today?"
It's that sort of thinking that keeps generation after generation of lower class families on the poverty line. The reason to educate the masses to the fullest extent is to increase the quality of life for the greatest number of people, it has sod all to do with whether I'm gonna need all that History or German I learnt back in school right now. I'm planning on living a fairly long while yet, who knows when something I learnt years ago might come in handy and give me the edge over a competitor? Eventually I'll pass my accumulated wealth onto my children who will have an even better start in life. My family will be pushed so far above that poverty line that they can't even see it anymore. The entire point of government with regards to education is to take the long view. It's rare that I see it happening though...
Disclaimer: I'm middle class white and in a decent job; I accredit the latter part to my education.
Whilst that may be true for some people, there are millions around the world who take every word spoken as if it's straight from God. Not everyone has the intellectual faculty to distinguish between peoples opinions on different topics.
A classic example is the whole Bill Clinton - Lewinsky affair. How many people seriously think that cheating on your wife actually has anything to do with how good you are at forming economic policy or dealing with foreign affairs? But nonetheless, a lot of people believed that he should be impeached due to incompetence? (Sorry if I didn't get my facts exactly straight, not American and still in school at the time!)
Don't mean to bring up any political discussion and certainly don't mean to bring up the whole Clinton thing, but it's a very good example of people being unable to separate what people do and say on one topic from what they do or say in another.
Amongst 1st world nations, the USA is the only one that has a large portion believing in creationism. The rest of the developed world thinks of it as a joke.
I think I they are referring to the container they use to carry a bomb to the bomb disposal van. If they've decided that it is safe to move the bomb, they will try and move it to a secure location and do a controlled detonation rather than risk peoples lives defusing it.
A couple of unlucky guys have to carry the bomb from the site to the bomb truck, they would use one of these bins to contain the bomb while they do that. It may not be 100% effective but it's sure as hell better than just carrying the bomb with your bare hands!
QUID is just as much of an Acronym as yours is for CREDIT.
Quid is British slang for £1. They were just trying to make an acronym to fit the facts like you.
Of course, this may be known to everyone already. If so, then I am getting increasingly redundant and might as well stop typing. But, just in case I'm not just repeating information you already know, I figured I would just inform you about the whole Quid slang thing.
I'm doing the exact opposite. Graduated with a physics degree, couldn't find a decent paying relevant job, now I'm working in IT.
You say you're from Yorkshire, did you consider relocating down south? It's where 90% of the decent IT jobs are. Even basic 1st line support can start you on £20k in some places.
Someone has modded this funny but I don't know why.
A better way to put it would be that the laws only apply when it suits the EU member states. If they don't want to enforce an EU regulation, they don't.
"Sure, had you or I been one of the cops in the situation, we would have recognized that the chance of that being an explosive is next to nothing"
I agree. When you are responsible for the safety of an entire airport, "next to nothing" isn't good enough to just let people through. Suspicious things should always be investigated, otherwise you get to be the poor guy who says "we thought it was just some art student" after the bomb has gone off.
I doubt anyone would deny that this was above average on any scale of suspiciousness.
In this case it is the fault of the developer. Not because they were forced to make an entirely sixaxis game (who knows?), but because they didn't even include an alternate control scheme so you can swap to the analog sticks.
The main problem in my opinion is that the messenger generally has only reviewed it for a short period of time. How long did it take them to learn windows? Speaking from just a general user POV, I know that I've been using Windows since 3.1 but still find new things that I didn't know (or would rather not have known...) about the OS all the time.
Why exactly should someone who has only used Ubuntu for a day, week or month suddenly assume that it should be just exactly the same as the OS they've been using for ten years?
Why should you be able to pick up a completely different OS in a week when you spent ages learning Windows? This is why these "I tried Ubuntu but it wasn't as good as windows" messengers tend to get shot down so often.
PS. I agree that all criticism of Ubuntu should be taken constructively and fixed, to do otherwise would be dismissive of your users and remarkably MS-like.
Arnica does work, but don't necessarily associate it with Homeopathy. Maybe a homeopathic store was where you found it, but I've used normal concentrated Arnica and it works brilliantly on bruises.
It's probably the only "natural" remedy I know of that actually works better than any manufactured "western" medicine.
They say that roughly 50% of the time you are focused on two different letters. Most of that is with uncrossed eyes and a little bit with crossed line of sight.
To tinhk of it anehtor way, your eyes are not ncesesrilay radineg the leterts in the same oredr as you wolud eexpct (left to right).
Take this example: Think and Tihnk.
The new study suggests that when I read the word "Think" I'm mostly just reading it one letter after the other in order. It also suggests that some of the time I'm reading the "H" with my left and my right eye reads the "I". But, the study also suggests that our eyes can cross, so when I look at "Tihnk" maybe my eyes are reading it the other way round, "I" with my right and "H" with my left. This leaves you with the exact same letter order as the properly spelt word. Thus implying that the order of the letters in a word are not as important as you might think. With the addition of a first and last letter rule for a bit of added linguistic comprehension, this is much the same as the Cambridge study you mentioned.
I don't know whether I managed to convey my point very well, but I hope you understand what I'm getting at. From my perspective the two studies seem to go hand in hand.
It was always going to be cross-platform. I can't remember exactly but I think it was supposed to be about 6 months till the Linux release. This is why the previous fuss about the iplayer was so strange, people just couldn't wait.
Now all that's happened is the government have agreed with the BBC about a timescale.
You are assuming that these old satellites actually have a physical connection between the tanks to balance the fuel load. If not, then a method to even it out (without some sort of pipe) is actually a very good idea.
And the US lost as many to Hurricane Katrina as they did in those wars. For that matter, the last big heat wave in the US in 1980 killed an estimated 10000-15000 people.
I think we should perhaps leave natural disasters out of a political discussions as it doesn't matter whether you are a Democrat or a Republican, Socialist or a Communist, they're still gonna happen.
And that's the scary thing. I would rather live in a society where my leaders don't actually treat me like a "potential" criminal, just waiting for me to slip up. I'd much prefer to be treated as an innocent until proven otherwise.
Of course, I do live in England so I've gotten kinda used to being watched...
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...space has been declining in popularity? There was a time when the idea of Space Travel excited the entire country, nowadays people just dismiss it as a waste of money. As peoples interest in space decline, surprise surprise, so does NASA's budget.
If you want to get more serious cutting edge space science done, then you need to make the whole concept popular again. That is why I think this whole Virgin Venture is worthwhile, not because it's an eccentric joyride for the rich.
Or you could just educate them to not be lazy bums? Who on earth advocates placing more people below the poverty line in order to keep the workforce competitive? That's backwards thinking no matter how you look at it.
Unless you are rich and have your own business. In which case a highly competitive workforce means you get to pay people crap because they are desperate for the job.
So why spend four years after high school gaining skills that aren't wanted? Why spend the money to increase student performance when we can enjoy the use of that money today
All I hear is "Why put money into a savings account / pension when you could be spending it today?"
It's that sort of thinking that keeps generation after generation of lower class families on the poverty line. The reason to educate the masses to the fullest extent is to increase the quality of life for the greatest number of people, it has sod all to do with whether I'm gonna need all that History or German I learnt back in school right now. I'm planning on living a fairly long while yet, who knows when something I learnt years ago might come in handy and give me the edge over a competitor? Eventually I'll pass my accumulated wealth onto my children who will have an even better start in life. My family will be pushed so far above that poverty line that they can't even see it anymore. The entire point of government with regards to education is to take the long view. It's rare that I see it happening though...
Disclaimer: I'm middle class white and in a decent job; I accredit the latter part to my education.
Whilst that may be true for some people, there are millions around the world who take every word spoken as if it's straight from God. Not everyone has the intellectual faculty to distinguish between peoples opinions on different topics.
A classic example is the whole Bill Clinton - Lewinsky affair. How many people seriously think that cheating on your wife actually has anything to do with how good you are at forming economic policy or dealing with foreign affairs? But nonetheless, a lot of people believed that he should be impeached due to incompetence? (Sorry if I didn't get my facts exactly straight, not American and still in school at the time!)
Don't mean to bring up any political discussion and certainly don't mean to bring up the whole Clinton thing, but it's a very good example of people being unable to separate what people do and say on one topic from what they do or say in another.
Amongst 1st world nations, the USA is the only one that has a large portion believing in creationism. The rest of the developed world thinks of it as a joke.
I think I they are referring to the container they use to carry a bomb to the bomb disposal van. If they've decided that it is safe to move the bomb, they will try and move it to a secure location and do a controlled detonation rather than risk peoples lives defusing it.
A couple of unlucky guys have to carry the bomb from the site to the bomb truck, they would use one of these bins to contain the bomb while they do that. It may not be 100% effective but it's sure as hell better than just carrying the bomb with your bare hands!
I quite often think that another war with the French would be good for us....
Then I remember the rugby and am satisfied.
QUID is just as much of an Acronym as yours is for CREDIT.
Quid is British slang for £1. They were just trying to make an acronym to fit the facts like you.
Of course, this may be known to everyone already. If so, then I am getting increasingly redundant and might as well stop typing. But, just in case I'm not just repeating information you already know, I figured I would just inform you about the whole Quid slang thing.
I'm doing the exact opposite. Graduated with a physics degree, couldn't find a decent paying relevant job, now I'm working in IT.
You say you're from Yorkshire, did you consider relocating down south? It's where 90% of the decent IT jobs are. Even basic 1st line support can start you on £20k in some places.
Someone has modded this funny but I don't know why.
A better way to put it would be that the laws only apply when it suits the EU member states. If they don't want to enforce an EU regulation, they don't.
"Sure, had you or I been one of the cops in the situation, we would have recognized that the chance of that being an explosive is next to nothing"
I agree. When you are responsible for the safety of an entire airport, "next to nothing" isn't good enough to just let people through. Suspicious things should always be investigated, otherwise you get to be the poor guy who says "we thought it was just some art student" after the bomb has gone off.
I doubt anyone would deny that this was above average on any scale of suspiciousness.
In this case it is the fault of the developer. Not because they were forced to make an entirely sixaxis game (who knows?), but because they didn't even include an alternate control scheme so you can swap to the analog sticks.
There is no plural as by definition you can have only one Nemesis.
The main problem in my opinion is that the messenger generally has only reviewed it for a short period of time. How long did it take them to learn windows? Speaking from just a general user POV, I know that I've been using Windows since 3.1 but still find new things that I didn't know (or would rather not have known ...) about the OS all the time.
Why exactly should someone who has only used Ubuntu for a day, week or month suddenly assume that it should be just exactly the same as the OS they've been using for ten years?
Why should you be able to pick up a completely different OS in a week when you spent ages learning Windows? This is why these "I tried Ubuntu but it wasn't as good as windows" messengers tend to get shot down so often.
PS. I agree that all criticism of Ubuntu should be taken constructively and fixed, to do otherwise would be dismissive of your users and remarkably MS-like.
"It's also highly ironic that the "Software Freedom Law Center" is fighting to restrict freedom and prevent the BSD projects from using this code."
I'm from the SFLC and I'm here to help.
Arnica does work, but don't necessarily associate it with Homeopathy. Maybe a homeopathic store was where you found it, but I've used normal concentrated Arnica and it works brilliantly on bruises.
It's probably the only "natural" remedy I know of that actually works better than any manufactured "western" medicine.
They say that roughly 50% of the time you are focused on two different letters. Most of that is with uncrossed eyes and a little bit with crossed line of sight.
To tinhk of it anehtor way, your eyes are not ncesesrilay radineg the leterts in the same oredr as you wolud eexpct (left to right).
Take this example: Think and Tihnk.
The new study suggests that when I read the word "Think" I'm mostly just reading it one letter after the other in order. It also suggests that some of the time I'm reading the "H" with my left and my right eye reads the "I". But, the study also suggests that our eyes can cross, so when I look at "Tihnk" maybe my eyes are reading it the other way round, "I" with my right and "H" with my left. This leaves you with the exact same letter order as the properly spelt word. Thus implying that the order of the letters in a word are not as important as you might think. With the addition of a first and last letter rule for a bit of added linguistic comprehension, this is much the same as the Cambridge study you mentioned.
I don't know whether I managed to convey my point very well, but I hope you understand what I'm getting at. From my perspective the two studies seem to go hand in hand.
It was always going to be cross-platform. I can't remember exactly but I think it was supposed to be about 6 months till the Linux release. This is why the previous fuss about the iplayer was so strange, people just couldn't wait.
Now all that's happened is the government have agreed with the BBC about a timescale.
I see no news here...
You are assuming that these old satellites actually have a physical connection between the tanks to balance the fuel load. If not, then a method to even it out (without some sort of pipe) is actually a very good idea.
If everyone started fixing Microsoft's problems for them, they'd never bother writing good code in the first place.
Oh, wait a sec...
And the US lost as many to Hurricane Katrina as they did in those wars. For that matter, the last big heat wave in the US in 1980 killed an estimated 10000-15000 people.
I think we should perhaps leave natural disasters out of a political discussions as it doesn't matter whether you are a Democrat or a Republican, Socialist or a Communist, they're still gonna happen.
Do not want!!!!!
(If you get that, I'll give you a cookie)
I had my bike stolen a week after I bought it in Japan. It was locked up too.
I like to think it was ninjas...
And that's the scary thing. I would rather live in a society where my leaders don't actually treat me like a "potential" criminal, just waiting for me to slip up. I'd much prefer to be treated as an innocent until proven otherwise.
Of course, I do live in England so I've gotten kinda used to being watched...