Touch typing classes aren't mandatory everywhere? I was forced to take some in grades 6, 8 and 9 (I was supposed to take one in grade 7 as well, but I got out of it). They were pretty pointless by the fourth class.
It probably doesn't matter much to the Chinese government that foreigners view the administration with disdain, as long as Chinese nationals view the administration with respect and trust.
Especially if they can pass off any negative foreign views of China as being an anti-Chinese bias.
Country kids always seem to have the most dangerous/painful ways to have fun. I know a guy who would hold onto electric fences in order to convince his friends that it was off so they would touch it and get shocked.
Second issue is this - women are generally considered the primary caretakers of children, and at the same time, are more likely to take time off, or prefer to work less hours. This is probably a good reason why they make less.
And this is the fault of women, not society? If men and women were viewed as equal partners in child-rearing, instead of the responsibility falling primarily to one partner over the other, wouldn't they both take time off to look after the kid?
So you missed the study where people admitted that they didn't hire women for top leadership positions because women aren't viewed as capable of leading? And the other one where people are often hesitant to hire women for important jobs because they're viewed as potential mothers? That women getting the same results as men had their accomplishments consistently undervalued?
In related news, NASA announces 10 day internships for undergraduates interested in a career in the space industry. Must be prepared to deal with potential bio hazards.
While this poster might not have expressed him/herself well, the point is valid.
The assumption that brilliant people (especially when it comes to "nerdy" fields like mathematics and physics) do not have a social life or are usually highly eccentric is still a stereotype. And it's not a matter of going out to bars and socializing (which I'm sure one could do in Waterloo anyways), what if Dr Hawking likes the theatre or visiting art galleries and museums. You can't just assume that because someone is brilliant in one field, they don't have other interests because it's very rare that someone only has one interest in life, even if they are very good at that one thing.
That being said, I don't know whether he actually does have any other interests or what they are.
No, it was on their website. They posted their grad student salaries online. Although they seem to have redone their website for this since I last checked and taken this information down (i.e. it looks very different).
This may be true, but man, I was stuck in Waterloo for a day and it was the most boring day I've ever had.
Side note: I somewhat forgot that the perimeter institute is based there (I'm not in theory so I don't pay much attention to where their institutions are actually located).
Actually, I refused to apply there because they pay female grad students in physics and astronomy $2000 more than their male peers and I don't think it's fair that I should get paid more for doing the same work, nor do I support an institution that would do such a thing. Also, they didn't have any profs with research that particularly interested me.
The first hit on google for my name is a facebook profile... but not mine, someone with the same name as me.
The first page has one post by me (on a geneology website) and the second page has some links about me winning a poster prize at a conference. The rest isn't me.
For those who don't follow links: Most men, or noodles, is made from four basic ingredients: wheat flour, salt, water, and kansui which is essentially a type of alkaline mineral water, containing sodium carbonate and usually potassium carbonate, as well as sometimes a small amount of phosphoric acid. .
Ramen can be made with egg instead of kansui, but I haven't encountered any.
How about you learn to cook and season your food well and then turn the "bland" nutritious food into delicious food?
I hardly ever go to the grocery store anymore because I just shop at the local produce market and the bulk barn (the latter sells junk food too, but I mostly buy rice, oatmeal and legumes). It's much cheaper as it is to make these foods than to buy prepackaged garbage and really, cooking healthy meals isn't hard and can be really delicious.
I'm not really enforcing your point. Portishead's Third (their most recent) actually did quite well commercially in its first week so as far as buying CDs which go on to become commercial successes go...
And for one thing, yes, I do burn CDs, occasionally I burn them for my friends, more often than not I'll send off an.ogg file in an email because that's just easier if I want to show them one track, but if I want to show a variety well... gmail only lets me send so many attachments so a mix CD is handy for this.
And yes, I make digital copies of my music, but they're free from the restrictions that individual mp3s I'd purchase online have and as I said, I can put them into whatever format I damn well please instead of being stuck with an mp3.
I bought Portishead's most recent CD the day it came out. They were still unpacking the new releases. Usually CDs aren't too expensive when they first come out and then they either get cheap after a while or prohibitively expensive. At any rate, I don't really care to purchase mp3s even if they come with digital versions of the album art, it's not the same as owning a physical copy and it's also stuck in one format which I might not be able to move to a different computer or make copies or share the copies with my friends, while if I rip a cd, I can do so in any format I want and send it to as many of my friends as I want.
Most aren't and that's my point. The music industry shouldn't be relying on sales in a format that most of their customers can't even play. How many kids under 20 do you know that own a CD player not in their car?
Everyone I know has a computer with an optical drive. These tend to play CDs.
Also, while I'm not under 20, I'm not too much over it and I have a stereo with CD and even cassette playing ability.
I haven't owned a portable CD player in over ten years. How about you?
I listen to mine 5 days a week on the bus to and from school.
If watching Law and Order has taught me anything, a person is held in jail before being tried and only then can they be bailed out (if someone could be bailed out after being convicted then a rich person could commit murder and basically face a fine).
I buy CDs and I'm neither over 50 or new to my country. I like the artwork and I like the fact that I can make my own.ogg files to go on my computer. Granted, I rarely buy them when they're not on sale and I don't buy everything I download (if someone can't put more than two good songs on an album I don't see why I should buy it). I know a number of people who actually still buy music in a physical format from a store, even if they don't all buy CDs (a couple of my friends collect vinyl).
If anything, I would say that radio stations have lost out more than anything. I used to listen to the radio frequently, but since I can now make my own playlists and listen to whatever song I want whenever I want and not put up with shitty songs, I don't anymore.
Yes, clearly everything runs smoothly when people work in different units. Nothing could ever go wrong. Nobody could spend millions on a probe only to smash it into a planet instead, right?
Intersecting orbits doesn't mean that they'll crash into each other and being in different planes (because Pluto's orbit is highly inclined) doesn't mean that the orbits don't cross.
Neptune is a planet because it has cleared all but the smaller crap out of its orbit. I mean, you're basically proposing that Jupiter isn't a planet because there are Trojans in the same orbit.
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Frodo isn't in The Hobbit. It involves Bilbo's adventures.
Touch typing classes aren't mandatory everywhere? I was forced to take some in grades 6, 8 and 9 (I was supposed to take one in grade 7 as well, but I got out of it). They were pretty pointless by the fourth class.
It probably doesn't matter much to the Chinese government that foreigners view the administration with disdain, as long as Chinese nationals view the administration with respect and trust.
Especially if they can pass off any negative foreign views of China as being an anti-Chinese bias.
Country kids always seem to have the most dangerous/painful ways to have fun. I know a guy who would hold onto electric fences in order to convince his friends that it was off so they would touch it and get shocked.
Second issue is this - women are generally considered the primary caretakers of children, and at the same time, are more likely to take time off, or prefer to work less hours. This is probably a good reason why they make less.
And this is the fault of women, not society? If men and women were viewed as equal partners in child-rearing, instead of the responsibility falling primarily to one partner over the other, wouldn't they both take time off to look after the kid?
So you missed the study where people admitted that they didn't hire women for top leadership positions because women aren't viewed as capable of leading? And the other one where people are often hesitant to hire women for important jobs because they're viewed as potential mothers? That women getting the same results as men had their accomplishments consistently undervalued?
In related news, NASA announces 10 day internships for undergraduates interested in a career in the space industry. Must be prepared to deal with potential bio hazards.
Wow. Note to self: Failed attempt at humour = troll.
While this poster might not have expressed him/herself well, the point is valid.
The assumption that brilliant people (especially when it comes to "nerdy" fields like mathematics and physics) do not have a social life or are usually highly eccentric is still a stereotype. And it's not a matter of going out to bars and socializing (which I'm sure one could do in Waterloo anyways), what if Dr Hawking likes the theatre or visiting art galleries and museums. You can't just assume that because someone is brilliant in one field, they don't have other interests because it's very rare that someone only has one interest in life, even if they are very good at that one thing.
That being said, I don't know whether he actually does have any other interests or what they are.
No, it was on their website. They posted their grad student salaries online. Although they seem to have redone their website for this since I last checked and taken this information down (i.e. it looks very different).
This may be true, but man, I was stuck in Waterloo for a day and it was the most boring day I've ever had.
Side note: I somewhat forgot that the perimeter institute is based there (I'm not in theory so I don't pay much attention to where their institutions are actually located).
Actually, I refused to apply there because they pay female grad students in physics and astronomy $2000 more than their male peers and I don't think it's fair that I should get paid more for doing the same work, nor do I support an institution that would do such a thing. Also, they didn't have any profs with research that particularly interested me.
Who in their right mind would want to move to Waterloo?
I mean, really, the university isn't even the best in Ontario, let alone the country and Waterloo itself is in the middle of nowhere.
Our sun won't produce Uranium either, it's not massive enough. Uranium is produced in supernovae via the r-process.
The first hit on google for my name is a facebook profile... but not mine, someone with the same name as me.
The first page has one post by me (on a geneology website) and the second page has some links about me winning a poster prize at a conference. The rest isn't me.
Ramen is wheat, not egg, so says the wiki.
For those who don't follow links: Most men, or noodles, is made from four basic ingredients: wheat flour, salt, water, and kansui which is essentially a type of alkaline mineral water, containing sodium carbonate and usually potassium carbonate, as well as sometimes a small amount of phosphoric acid. .
Ramen can be made with egg instead of kansui, but I haven't encountered any.
Mars doesn't have much snow. Haven't you seen the rover pictures?
How about you learn to cook and season your food well and then turn the "bland" nutritious food into delicious food?
I hardly ever go to the grocery store anymore because I just shop at the local produce market and the bulk barn (the latter sells junk food too, but I mostly buy rice, oatmeal and legumes). It's much cheaper as it is to make these foods than to buy prepackaged garbage and really, cooking healthy meals isn't hard and can be really delicious.
*shrugs* I don't live in the US so it doesn't matter to me too much if I get the details of American law wrong. :P
I'm not really enforcing your point. Portishead's Third (their most recent) actually did quite well commercially in its first week so as far as buying CDs which go on to become commercial successes go...
.ogg file in an email because that's just easier if I want to show them one track, but if I want to show a variety well... gmail only lets me send so many attachments so a mix CD is handy for this.
And for one thing, yes, I do burn CDs, occasionally I burn them for my friends, more often than not I'll send off an
And yes, I make digital copies of my music, but they're free from the restrictions that individual mp3s I'd purchase online have and as I said, I can put them into whatever format I damn well please instead of being stuck with an mp3.
I bought Portishead's most recent CD the day it came out. They were still unpacking the new releases. Usually CDs aren't too expensive when they first come out and then they either get cheap after a while or prohibitively expensive. At any rate, I don't really care to purchase mp3s even if they come with digital versions of the album art, it's not the same as owning a physical copy and it's also stuck in one format which I might not be able to move to a different computer or make copies or share the copies with my friends, while if I rip a cd, I can do so in any format I want and send it to as many of my friends as I want.
Most aren't and that's my point. The music industry shouldn't be relying on sales in a format that most of their customers can't even play. How many kids under 20 do you know that own a CD player not in their car?
Everyone I know has a computer with an optical drive. These tend to play CDs.
Also, while I'm not under 20, I'm not too much over it and I have a stereo with CD and even cassette playing ability.
I haven't owned a portable CD player in over ten years. How about you?
I listen to mine 5 days a week on the bus to and from school.
If watching Law and Order has taught me anything, a person is held in jail before being tried and only then can they be bailed out (if someone could be bailed out after being convicted then a rich person could commit murder and basically face a fine).
I buy CDs and I'm neither over 50 or new to my country. I like the artwork and I like the fact that I can make my own .ogg files to go on my computer. Granted, I rarely buy them when they're not on sale and I don't buy everything I download (if someone can't put more than two good songs on an album I don't see why I should buy it). I know a number of people who actually still buy music in a physical format from a store, even if they don't all buy CDs (a couple of my friends collect vinyl).
If anything, I would say that radio stations have lost out more than anything. I used to listen to the radio frequently, but since I can now make my own playlists and listen to whatever song I want whenever I want and not put up with shitty songs, I don't anymore.
Yes, clearly everything runs smoothly when people work in different units. Nothing could ever go wrong. Nobody could spend millions on a probe only to smash it into a planet instead, right?
Sometimes it's worth an inconvenience...
Intersecting orbits doesn't mean that they'll crash into each other and being in different planes (because Pluto's orbit is highly inclined) doesn't mean that the orbits don't cross.
Neptune is a planet because it has cleared all but the smaller crap out of its orbit. I mean, you're basically proposing that Jupiter isn't a planet because there are Trojans in the same orbit.