Thomas Jefferson edited his own Bible and struck out all passages referencing Jesus as divine. So yes, I do have evidence that the authors did the same sanitizing.
Apparently, it's not a government agency, but a separate non profit organization. Still, I agree that this entire law is garbage. Unfortunately, most wedding planners will just shrug and append the fee to the total invoice. For weddings, which cost $2000 on the rock bottom end, an extra $10 won't make too much difference.
The effect they describe can be seen in Atlanta on particularly bad days (although it also sometimes has a greenish yellow tinge in the spring when the pollen counts get insanely high.) What really hit me in the gut, though, was seeing the city from atop a mountain a hundred miles away. The Blue Ridge mountains around us were all surrounded by clear blue skies, but Atlanta to the south was shrouded in what looked like a gray-violet miasma. The same smog that turned the skies white inside the city was gray from a distance.
I think we need to be more concerned with pulling crap out of the atmosphere than putting more stuff in it.
We have a lot of issues with crappy connections to remote offices that would pay mega bucks for this kind of bandwidth. The main office in the big city has a nice fat 100 mbps connection, but their remote offices are stuck on 6 mpbs down and a measly 1.5 up - which means any time the try to transmit data back to the mothership, they're waiting 10 minutes for a single record to update. It sucks.
I hear this sometimes, when in reality the major barrier to new market participants is the fact that banks don't want to loan to anyone who isn't already profitable. It used to be that a start up business could take out a 100K loan, boot up, run for a few years, have the initial loan paid back in 5 years, and be good to go. Heaven help you today: Banks weren't even loaning to people with perfect credit back in 2009, and they're only starting to ease up now. Regulations have zilch to do with it.
There have been a lot of advances in contact lenses over the past decade. These days, I wear a pair for a few weeks nonstop, and when they start to get itchy, peel em off and toss em and start with a fresh pair. About the only time I notice them is when I first wake up, and a few drops of solution solves that problem.
That said, when the Goggles were introduced, Google said they'd have a pair that were designed to clip onto regular glasses instead of be stand alone glasses unto themselves.
I'm wondering how these will fare compared to some of their sci-fi counterparts did, actually. So far the most interesting take on augmented reality I've read/watched has been from the series Denno Coil, but this sort of technology has featured in a few other dystopias, too.
Generally, the office music station is set to the eighties, but occasionally it's "ABC Lounce Music" off iTunes, or the seventies, or when one of us does some particularly outstanding feat, a station of our choice. We do have personal headphones, but that's for webinars and junk that other people probably don't want or need to hear.
The general rule in my office is to ask them a medium-ish question, and then if their answer involves within a minute or so "Google search" you know you have a winner.
Yep. I've worked in two "paperless offices" so far, and what happened was that people ended up having to print out everything anyway. For one thing, it's easier to get someone to sign a sheet of paper in blue ink and just tuck it away in an HR folder than it is to implement safe digital signatures most places. If you're having a discussion about a complex help desk ticket, and you want someone to take a look at the specific ticket but it's nearly identical to twelve other tickets, you have to write down the ticket number... or hey, just print out the ticket and hand it to them (as my boss did to me twice this morning.) And heaven help you if the Internet goes down and you're using SaaS. Suddenly, everything has to go into temporary Word files... which are later on printed out so they can be entered into the system properly.
Dried fruits aren't fruit, they're candy. Added sugar and all. Raw fruits are still not something you should eat exclusively or binge on, but having apples, bananas, and oranges as a daily thing is totally worth the natural fruit sugars.
The hunter/gatherers did have some grains in their diets, but they were a luxury and a seasonal thing at best. Grinding flour by hand with stones would take someone hours for just a few cups. And it would be unleavened, and probably simply mixed with fats and nuts before cooking, making it wildly different from what we know as bread today. Still, a great way to get some quick energy during the busy summer hunting/storing season, and sweetened with some fruits, probably a nice treat.
Unfortunately, CEOs and CFOs get their jollies by "cutting costs" in order to please the shareholders. "Increasing costs" sounds terrible to your board of directors. The term used instead is "expanding" and/or "growing" or to be really obscure about it, "investing in future growth opportunities." It's the lack of such expansion that caused the recession to stick around for so long, because even the companies that had the capital on hand to continue expanding were afraid to do so in the off chance the economy worsened again. So, it was "keep costs low" to please the financial markets.
My very Republican, very stalwart conservative father in law went on an unexpected rant last weekend, regarding day traders of all things. He feels that taxes on stocks kept less than 24 hours should be 90% of profits, dropping to 50% after a week, and then back down to standard capital gains after one year. I'd never thought I'd hear such words fall from his lips, but then again he is a player in the long game of the stock markets.
write their own textbooks. Several of my comp-sci profs, and some other profs that are colleagues of my husband, write their own textbooks. They are then allowed to give students free access to their own locally hosted version, or the students can pay the blood money to the publisher (a used copy of my database textbook went for $120) if they so desire - since they know the professor gets a chunk of change from that sale.
Not all professors have the time or the skills needed to write a book, although depending on their contract, writing a text certainly helps them with the "publish or perish" problem. And if they get lucky, the text is adopted at other schools and they make a little extra cash from it.
Browsing concentration is sort of the opposite of "flow" concentration. Flow concentration is engaged when you're doing something engrossing - painting, writing, sudoku, coding. As long as we balance out our browsing habit with artistic and creative pursuits, we'll be fine.
I was able to attend such an academy of "enriched curriculum" for absolutely no extra cost to my parents. It was a magnet school, consistently ranked one of the top hundred schools in the nation, and since it was considered a public school, it came out of the regular school system's budget. I had to test into the school, but that just ensured the "best and brightest" were the ones that got in - not necessarily the ones with rich parents. Public schools can succeed.
Vouchers aren't going to help. The public school systems aren't broken, its society that is broken. Kids who are individually motivated and have parental support will do great in any school environment. Kids who lack motivation but have parental pressure may be forced into rebellion in their later teenager years or college, but they'll at least do well in grade school. Kids who have motivation but lack parental support are the ones who are trapped in the school system, and their parents won't take advantage of things like vouchers. And the kids who lack motivation and lack parental support will eventually drop out because we have no support system for them. Any increased funding needs not go to vouchers, but instead to parental education to encourage the unmotivated parents to be more involved in their children's lives.
Curious here as well. Any time Christian Science Monitor posts one of their mini tests (my favorite recent ones were "Are you smarter than an atheist?" and "Could you pass the naturalization test?") I'm all over those. I like tests, unlike the majority of Americans. I'm also a total nerd and science geek, though, with my RSS plugged in to Discover Blogs...
A missing button, a broken vase, a bent prong on a plug - sure. But most of the things we throw out are broken beyond repair. A white shirt with a large coffee stain that won't bleach out is pretty much over and done as a shirt, and can safely be downgraded to "wipe rag." The last pair of jeans I gave up on had an inseam that had split right down the middle. Even with a patch, even with me re-sewing the seam, they were still structurally degraded. Ever have a seam split in public? It's pretty embarrassing. That said, I didn't actually throw the jeans away - I cut the panels free and saved the scraps without holes in them for quilting.
When I first read the headline I thought the "Apple tax" was that of common parlance, e.g. the overpriced hardware, the $99 iOS developer fee, etc. I had to reread it once I started to read the summary.
If every company in the world became carbon neutral, then Google might have accomplished something big. Now, given what the electricity situation is in Japan at the moment, the real news is going to be when Sony or Hitachi goes neutral.
A fairly recent example of that was Clariton. It was prescription only when I was first put on it as a teenager, but the FDA shrugged when no one got sick and now you can buy it off the top shelf in the grocery store.
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Thomas Jefferson edited his own Bible and struck out all passages referencing Jesus as divine. So yes, I do have evidence that the authors did the same sanitizing.
Apparently, it's not a government agency, but a separate non profit organization. Still, I agree that this entire law is garbage. Unfortunately, most wedding planners will just shrug and append the fee to the total invoice. For weddings, which cost $2000 on the rock bottom end, an extra $10 won't make too much difference.
The effect they describe can be seen in Atlanta on particularly bad days (although it also sometimes has a greenish yellow tinge in the spring when the pollen counts get insanely high.) What really hit me in the gut, though, was seeing the city from atop a mountain a hundred miles away. The Blue Ridge mountains around us were all surrounded by clear blue skies, but Atlanta to the south was shrouded in what looked like a gray-violet miasma. The same smog that turned the skies white inside the city was gray from a distance.
I think we need to be more concerned with pulling crap out of the atmosphere than putting more stuff in it.
We have a lot of issues with crappy connections to remote offices that would pay mega bucks for this kind of bandwidth. The main office in the big city has a nice fat 100 mbps connection, but their remote offices are stuck on 6 mpbs down and a measly 1.5 up - which means any time the try to transmit data back to the mothership, they're waiting 10 minutes for a single record to update. It sucks.
There are some constructive games, to be fair. Cooking Mama on the DS taught me how to make perfect tamagoyaki,
I hear this sometimes, when in reality the major barrier to new market participants is the fact that banks don't want to loan to anyone who isn't already profitable. It used to be that a start up business could take out a 100K loan, boot up, run for a few years, have the initial loan paid back in 5 years, and be good to go. Heaven help you today: Banks weren't even loaning to people with perfect credit back in 2009, and they're only starting to ease up now. Regulations have zilch to do with it.
There have been a lot of advances in contact lenses over the past decade. These days, I wear a pair for a few weeks nonstop, and when they start to get itchy, peel em off and toss em and start with a fresh pair. About the only time I notice them is when I first wake up, and a few drops of solution solves that problem.
That said, when the Goggles were introduced, Google said they'd have a pair that were designed to clip onto regular glasses instead of be stand alone glasses unto themselves.
I'm wondering how these will fare compared to some of their sci-fi counterparts did, actually. So far the most interesting take on augmented reality I've read/watched has been from the series Denno Coil, but this sort of technology has featured in a few other dystopias, too.
Generally, the office music station is set to the eighties, but occasionally it's "ABC Lounce Music" off iTunes, or the seventies, or when one of us does some particularly outstanding feat, a station of our choice. We do have personal headphones, but that's for webinars and junk that other people probably don't want or need to hear.
The general rule in my office is to ask them a medium-ish question, and then if their answer involves within a minute or so "Google search" you know you have a winner.
Yep. I've worked in two "paperless offices" so far, and what happened was that people ended up having to print out everything anyway. For one thing, it's easier to get someone to sign a sheet of paper in blue ink and just tuck it away in an HR folder than it is to implement safe digital signatures most places. If you're having a discussion about a complex help desk ticket, and you want someone to take a look at the specific ticket but it's nearly identical to twelve other tickets, you have to write down the ticket number... or hey, just print out the ticket and hand it to them (as my boss did to me twice this morning.) And heaven help you if the Internet goes down and you're using SaaS. Suddenly, everything has to go into temporary Word files... which are later on printed out so they can be entered into the system properly.
Dried fruits aren't fruit, they're candy. Added sugar and all. Raw fruits are still not something you should eat exclusively or binge on, but having apples, bananas, and oranges as a daily thing is totally worth the natural fruit sugars.
The hunter/gatherers did have some grains in their diets, but they were a luxury and a seasonal thing at best. Grinding flour by hand with stones would take someone hours for just a few cups. And it would be unleavened, and probably simply mixed with fats and nuts before cooking, making it wildly different from what we know as bread today. Still, a great way to get some quick energy during the busy summer hunting/storing season, and sweetened with some fruits, probably a nice treat.
Unfortunately, CEOs and CFOs get their jollies by "cutting costs" in order to please the shareholders. "Increasing costs" sounds terrible to your board of directors. The term used instead is "expanding" and/or "growing" or to be really obscure about it, "investing in future growth opportunities." It's the lack of such expansion that caused the recession to stick around for so long, because even the companies that had the capital on hand to continue expanding were afraid to do so in the off chance the economy worsened again. So, it was "keep costs low" to please the financial markets.
My very Republican, very stalwart conservative father in law went on an unexpected rant last weekend, regarding day traders of all things. He feels that taxes on stocks kept less than 24 hours should be 90% of profits, dropping to 50% after a week, and then back down to standard capital gains after one year. I'd never thought I'd hear such words fall from his lips, but then again he is a player in the long game of the stock markets.
Actually, I've seen linked articles about it here at least every other day.
write their own textbooks. Several of my comp-sci profs, and some other profs that are colleagues of my husband, write their own textbooks. They are then allowed to give students free access to their own locally hosted version, or the students can pay the blood money to the publisher (a used copy of my database textbook went for $120) if they so desire - since they know the professor gets a chunk of change from that sale.
Not all professors have the time or the skills needed to write a book, although depending on their contract, writing a text certainly helps them with the "publish or perish" problem. And if they get lucky, the text is adopted at other schools and they make a little extra cash from it.
Browsing concentration is sort of the opposite of "flow" concentration. Flow concentration is engaged when you're doing something engrossing - painting, writing, sudoku, coding. As long as we balance out our browsing habit with artistic and creative pursuits, we'll be fine.
I was able to attend such an academy of "enriched curriculum" for absolutely no extra cost to my parents. It was a magnet school, consistently ranked one of the top hundred schools in the nation, and since it was considered a public school, it came out of the regular school system's budget. I had to test into the school, but that just ensured the "best and brightest" were the ones that got in - not necessarily the ones with rich parents. Public schools can succeed.
Vouchers aren't going to help. The public school systems aren't broken, its society that is broken. Kids who are individually motivated and have parental support will do great in any school environment. Kids who lack motivation but have parental pressure may be forced into rebellion in their later teenager years or college, but they'll at least do well in grade school. Kids who have motivation but lack parental support are the ones who are trapped in the school system, and their parents won't take advantage of things like vouchers. And the kids who lack motivation and lack parental support will eventually drop out because we have no support system for them. Any increased funding needs not go to vouchers, but instead to parental education to encourage the unmotivated parents to be more involved in their children's lives.
Curious here as well. Any time Christian Science Monitor posts one of their mini tests (my favorite recent ones were "Are you smarter than an atheist?" and "Could you pass the naturalization test?") I'm all over those. I like tests, unlike the majority of Americans. I'm also a total nerd and science geek, though, with my RSS plugged in to Discover Blogs...
A missing button, a broken vase, a bent prong on a plug - sure. But most of the things we throw out are broken beyond repair. A white shirt with a large coffee stain that won't bleach out is pretty much over and done as a shirt, and can safely be downgraded to "wipe rag." The last pair of jeans I gave up on had an inseam that had split right down the middle. Even with a patch, even with me re-sewing the seam, they were still structurally degraded. Ever have a seam split in public? It's pretty embarrassing. That said, I didn't actually throw the jeans away - I cut the panels free and saved the scraps without holes in them for quilting.
When I first read the headline I thought the "Apple tax" was that of common parlance, e.g. the overpriced hardware, the $99 iOS developer fee, etc. I had to reread it once I started to read the summary.
If every company in the world became carbon neutral, then Google might have accomplished something big. Now, given what the electricity situation is in Japan at the moment, the real news is going to be when Sony or Hitachi goes neutral.
A fairly recent example of that was Clariton. It was prescription only when I was first put on it as a teenager, but the FDA shrugged when no one got sick and now you can buy it off the top shelf in the grocery store.
Mine changed just this past year. And my optometrist did the "fitting." He also sells me my contacts at a better than market price.