This was a hard lesson for me to learn, but a worthwhile one. Things that are unique - stuff I've created, programs, stories, resume, art I've scanned, pictures - those things needs to be backed up. (I use DropBox for my text based stuff and have shifted pictures through media over the years Floppies to a ZIP disk to a CD-R to a DVD-R -- next stop will be a Blue-Ray-R one of these years, most likely.)
13 GB from a pirated copy of a TV series does not need to be backed up. Odds are you can either watch it again on-demand from a streaming site, or purchase a legit copy of the series on DVD for $20 if Netflix or Hulu have failed you.
Here's what happens: Someone who is mentally ill is "helped" against their will. They are put on medication that quiets the voices but also dulls their mind. They are functional again, but they feel they have lost themselves. The hospital releases them, and things are okay for a while but then they stop taking the medication because it makes them feel uneasy or sick or slow-witted. As the medicine wears off, they feel great and think that they're cured. A week later, they're back to living in a parallel universe.
My schizophrenic sister lives in a group home, with other non-violent mentally ill people. They are forced to take their medicine whether they want to or not. However, they also have supervision, visiting allowed, and they can come and go from the home as they please (to go shopping, go to church, etc.) They all have been in and out of hospitals for their entire lives. Unfortunately, the medication that keeps her demons quiet is also slowly killing her by destroying her liver. Most people with schizophrenia won't live past 50 - either the lifestyle will kill them or the medication will.
It collects money from individuals and redistributes it to create a civilization in which everyone benefits (e.g. by not having to trip over dead people in the street.) The fact that 30% isn't going back to individual people or organizations is what's eyebrow raising to me. That's money paid out to private contractors, who are happily redistributing from the tax cookie jar while simultaneously acting as a middle man and skimming their share off the top.
All smart colleges and universities do that. My master's cohort had 20 people in it. Could they have taken more? Probably, if they didn't require a fairly high GRE and didn't want to maintain their 3-month-average job placement. It also ensures they only enroll the brightest folks - although some of the doctors out there make me question that.
It's not restricted at the "union" level - it's restricted at the school level. The local vet school, for example, strictly caps enrollment at 100 new students a year, with another 200 or so continuing on in specialty fields. So they have roughly 600 students enrolled maximum. This is because veterinary medicine is a slow growth field, and they want to produce enough students to replace retiring vets and match growth without flooding the market, lowering wages, and making people with $200K in student loans unemployed.
There is a dire shortage of doctors in certain fields, so medical schools who handle those specialty fields (e.g. geriatrics - old people are not glamorous) are increasing enrollment cautiously.
The general understanding is that girls are better behaved in school and more likely to pay attention in class, do their homework, etc. Yet at some point, the guys "naturally" overtake them once they start paying attention, usually in high school.
I know this is a joke, but there is a huge amount of truth in this as well. The worst are the FAKE pockets. Why, why do they bother with going through this elaborate pocket charade?
Is it possible? Yes, anything is. But it's also not set in stone. While everyone assumes that men are better at spacial reasoning than women, I yawned my way through every spacial reasoning test they could throw at me when I was a kid and was declared gifted in spacial analysis, despite being female. (Probably why I enjoy hanging out in a relational database as an adult.) When we say "men are better at X" and "women are better at Y" it's all about averages.
It's not how many dishes you can pack in there, it's how they are oriented inside the dishwasher that matters. Unless you have a newer model with 128 spray jets in every direction, your dishwasher's cleaning power is going to be based out of the center of the rack where the jet sprayers come from. Thus, for maximum cleanliness, everything should be placed inside oriented with the dirty surface facing toward the middle. Sure, you can pack more dishes in by sticking them in the optimized stacking pattern along the rows, but they're not going to get as clean.
There are some crops suitable to CA, but they tend to be low-moisture/succulents/native desert plants. Dryland farming works well, but those crops aren't as profitable as the water-hungry ones.
Thanks for the correction. I also note I mistakenly put eurkaryotes as 3.5 billion years old, when I meant 1.5 billion. Stupid keyboard, not reading my mind properly!
Good point. I am thinking specifically of two Anonymous members/affiliates/4chan trolls I know in real life, who wouldn't give a rat's ass about that issue. But this is the Internet, of course, and smart people can get irrational about the weirdest things. (Well, not so smart, if he got caught.)
Weaknesses of Evolution that are okay to mention:
-The fossil record is incomplete, and will always be incomplete because we will never be able to catalog everything that ever lived.
-The fossil record can occasionally be misleading, because sometimes animals that look similar aren't as closely related as we thought. (DNA and genome science has fixed a lot of this problem with molecular clocks.)
-The fossil record only captures creatures that have hard parts - soft bodied fossils are difficult to find since the soft tissue is so rarely preserved.
-There are no fossils of life before the Cambrian explosion. (I'm leaning toward the "God interference" part of evolution as being when a prokaryote ate an archaea and they merged into a eukaryote 3.5 billion years ago. ID people and Creationists alike hate that idea, but we have evidence it happened and the miracle of complex life was born.)
The problem is that these are not the weaknesses that they want to discuss, at least not completely. They'd rather go on about eyeballs and "irreducible complexity" and the Earth coming into creation in the first place, which is planetary science and not biology.
"Evidence that fits the predicted model" is as close as science ever gets to "proof." And when it doesn't fit the predicted model, it's a huge deal so you better triple check it before telling anyone about it.
That's the problem with out-sourcing to the experts without hiring an expert of your own in-house to verify that it was being done right. If there was an internal guy who was tasked with verifying the architecture and the security of the work, make him the scapegoat - but the fact that they're just trying to fine the organization outright is a clue to me that the didn't have an internal resource in place when they should have.
Nope, it's right. The hacker claimed to be part of Anonymous.. Which is kind of odd, most of the time they do vigilante justice on organizations that actually deserve it, like Scientology.
I agree, districts should follow natural boundaries or when that is implausible, county lines. Or at the very least, be forced to be contiguous. Sometimes little pockets of districts end up surrounded entirely by other districts, cut off from their main part (happened in Illinois. Crazy.)
The last go round they split our state district straight down the middle of the city to deliberately weaken the urban vote by watering it down with the surrounding rural areas. We have no representation and no voice now. Before, we had at least one guy on our side.
I think the problem is that one of these days it's going to stop working. If a system has native XP on it, the hardware has reached end of life. Sure it's chugging along now, but unless the person has been taking it apart and dusting it regularly it's probably caked with filth after ten years of being used even infrequently.
And someone who knows to take a can of air to the inside of a PC is probably tech savvy enough to at least be aware that the operating system they are running on is kind of old. Someone who isn't aware that the inside gets nasty - e.g. someone still running on XP on original hardware today - is going to be completely screwed when the HDD dies because they probably didn't have a backup running either. At least if someone goes through an orderly transition from one PC to another, there's a good chance they've got a backup of their grandbaby's pictures burned onto CD by the person who set up the new system at Best Buy.
I suppose if we had anything besides kitty cats (e.g. we were having kids) that might be the case. But we earn the same amount of money, work the same amount of hours, and have no children. We both have pensions through our jobs, and we're both stuffing as much cash into our Roths/401(ks) as we can. Why shouldn't we split expenses and keep the rest for ourselves? That way I know I can drop $300 on a new video card or at the mall on clothes and he can spend $300 traveling for a conference, and neither of us resent the other one for using more than their fair share of a fairly equal pot.
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Wonderful analogy.
This was a hard lesson for me to learn, but a worthwhile one. Things that are unique - stuff I've created, programs, stories, resume, art I've scanned, pictures - those things needs to be backed up. (I use DropBox for my text based stuff and have shifted pictures through media over the years Floppies to a ZIP disk to a CD-R to a DVD-R -- next stop will be a Blue-Ray-R one of these years, most likely.)
13 GB from a pirated copy of a TV series does not need to be backed up. Odds are you can either watch it again on-demand from a streaming site, or purchase a legit copy of the series on DVD for $20 if Netflix or Hulu have failed you.
Here's what happens: Someone who is mentally ill is "helped" against their will. They are put on medication that quiets the voices but also dulls their mind. They are functional again, but they feel they have lost themselves. The hospital releases them, and things are okay for a while but then they stop taking the medication because it makes them feel uneasy or sick or slow-witted. As the medicine wears off, they feel great and think that they're cured. A week later, they're back to living in a parallel universe.
My schizophrenic sister lives in a group home, with other non-violent mentally ill people. They are forced to take their medicine whether they want to or not. However, they also have supervision, visiting allowed, and they can come and go from the home as they please (to go shopping, go to church, etc.) They all have been in and out of hospitals for their entire lives. Unfortunately, the medication that keeps her demons quiet is also slowly killing her by destroying her liver. Most people with schizophrenia won't live past 50 - either the lifestyle will kill them or the medication will.
That was my first thought too. But to be successful, it needs to go viral. That's another order of magnitude in difficulty.
It collects money from individuals and redistributes it to create a civilization in which everyone benefits (e.g. by not having to trip over dead people in the street.) The fact that 30% isn't going back to individual people or organizations is what's eyebrow raising to me. That's money paid out to private contractors, who are happily redistributing from the tax cookie jar while simultaneously acting as a middle man and skimming their share off the top.
All smart colleges and universities do that. My master's cohort had 20 people in it. Could they have taken more? Probably, if they didn't require a fairly high GRE and didn't want to maintain their 3-month-average job placement. It also ensures they only enroll the brightest folks - although some of the doctors out there make me question that.
It's not restricted at the "union" level - it's restricted at the school level. The local vet school, for example, strictly caps enrollment at 100 new students a year, with another 200 or so continuing on in specialty fields. So they have roughly 600 students enrolled maximum. This is because veterinary medicine is a slow growth field, and they want to produce enough students to replace retiring vets and match growth without flooding the market, lowering wages, and making people with $200K in student loans unemployed.
There is a dire shortage of doctors in certain fields, so medical schools who handle those specialty fields (e.g. geriatrics - old people are not glamorous) are increasing enrollment cautiously.
The actual line was "Math is hard, let's go shopping!"
The general understanding is that girls are better behaved in school and more likely to pay attention in class, do their homework, etc. Yet at some point, the guys "naturally" overtake them once they start paying attention, usually in high school.
I know this is a joke, but there is a huge amount of truth in this as well. The worst are the FAKE pockets. Why, why do they bother with going through this elaborate pocket charade?
Is it possible? Yes, anything is. But it's also not set in stone. While everyone assumes that men are better at spacial reasoning than women, I yawned my way through every spacial reasoning test they could throw at me when I was a kid and was declared gifted in spacial analysis, despite being female. (Probably why I enjoy hanging out in a relational database as an adult.) When we say "men are better at X" and "women are better at Y" it's all about averages.
Have you never heard of bistro-math, so powerful that it can run a spaceship?!
It's not how many dishes you can pack in there, it's how they are oriented inside the dishwasher that matters. Unless you have a newer model with 128 spray jets in every direction, your dishwasher's cleaning power is going to be based out of the center of the rack where the jet sprayers come from. Thus, for maximum cleanliness, everything should be placed inside oriented with the dirty surface facing toward the middle. Sure, you can pack more dishes in by sticking them in the optimized stacking pattern along the rows, but they're not going to get as clean.
There are some crops suitable to CA, but they tend to be low-moisture/succulents/native desert plants. Dryland farming works well, but those crops aren't as profitable as the water-hungry ones.
Thanks for the correction. I also note I mistakenly put eurkaryotes as 3.5 billion years old, when I meant 1.5 billion. Stupid keyboard, not reading my mind properly!
Good point. I am thinking specifically of two Anonymous members/affiliates/4chan trolls I know in real life, who wouldn't give a rat's ass about that issue. But this is the Internet, of course, and smart people can get irrational about the weirdest things. (Well, not so smart, if he got caught.)
Weaknesses of Evolution that are okay to mention:
-The fossil record is incomplete, and will always be incomplete because we will never be able to catalog everything that ever lived.
-The fossil record can occasionally be misleading, because sometimes animals that look similar aren't as closely related as we thought. (DNA and genome science has fixed a lot of this problem with molecular clocks.)
-The fossil record only captures creatures that have hard parts - soft bodied fossils are difficult to find since the soft tissue is so rarely preserved.
-There are no fossils of life before the Cambrian explosion. (I'm leaning toward the "God interference" part of evolution as being when a prokaryote ate an archaea and they merged into a eukaryote 3.5 billion years ago. ID people and Creationists alike hate that idea, but we have evidence it happened and the miracle of complex life was born.)
The problem is that these are not the weaknesses that they want to discuss, at least not completely. They'd rather go on about eyeballs and "irreducible complexity" and the Earth coming into creation in the first place, which is planetary science and not biology.
"Evidence that fits the predicted model" is as close as science ever gets to "proof." And when it doesn't fit the predicted model, it's a huge deal so you better triple check it before telling anyone about it.
That's the problem with out-sourcing to the experts without hiring an expert of your own in-house to verify that it was being done right. If there was an internal guy who was tasked with verifying the architecture and the security of the work, make him the scapegoat - but the fact that they're just trying to fine the organization outright is a clue to me that the didn't have an internal resource in place when they should have.
Nope, it's right. The hacker claimed to be part of Anonymous.. Which is kind of odd, most of the time they do vigilante justice on organizations that actually deserve it, like Scientology.
I agree, districts should follow natural boundaries or when that is implausible, county lines. Or at the very least, be forced to be contiguous. Sometimes little pockets of districts end up surrounded entirely by other districts, cut off from their main part (happened in Illinois. Crazy.)
The last go round they split our state district straight down the middle of the city to deliberately weaken the urban vote by watering it down with the surrounding rural areas. We have no representation and no voice now. Before, we had at least one guy on our side.
I think the problem is that one of these days it's going to stop working. If a system has native XP on it, the hardware has reached end of life. Sure it's chugging along now, but unless the person has been taking it apart and dusting it regularly it's probably caked with filth after ten years of being used even infrequently.
And someone who knows to take a can of air to the inside of a PC is probably tech savvy enough to at least be aware that the operating system they are running on is kind of old. Someone who isn't aware that the inside gets nasty - e.g. someone still running on XP on original hardware today - is going to be completely screwed when the HDD dies because they probably didn't have a backup running either. At least if someone goes through an orderly transition from one PC to another, there's a good chance they've got a backup of their grandbaby's pictures burned onto CD by the person who set up the new system at Best Buy.
People who like having paper records of transactions.
I suppose if we had anything besides kitty cats (e.g. we were having kids) that might be the case. But we earn the same amount of money, work the same amount of hours, and have no children. We both have pensions through our jobs, and we're both stuffing as much cash into our Roths/401(ks) as we can. Why shouldn't we split expenses and keep the rest for ourselves? That way I know I can drop $300 on a new video card or at the mall on clothes and he can spend $300 traveling for a conference, and neither of us resent the other one for using more than their fair share of a fairly equal pot.