In many traditions, including astrology, the moon represents the feminine. It is the yin, the intuitive, the emotions. Women are connected to the moon by their menstrual cycles while they are fertile, and all beings, including the earth herself, are affected by the pull of the tides.
1) Certain health issues may be highly correlated with certain traits or lifestyle decisions which are highly sensitive topics. If you picked up gonorrhea 15 years ago because "There's a time and a place for everything, and it's called college", do you want your current prospective employer deciding whether to hire you based on whether they expect you to sleep around with the staff?
I can honestly say STDs didn't occur to me. The worse case scenario I came up with was some condition derived from drug use back when the person was young and stupid, though the majority of STD cases are probably also symptoms of young and stupid.
Are we talking about all health records being public, or just public officials? I would want to know if a candidate was very 'loose' in his/her early life.
2) Some people specifically don't want the sympathy or pity that full disclosure of their infirmities would engender.
If it's a prior affliction or something minor enough that you can hide in everyday behaviour, people forget. Though if they haven't seen you in a while they will likely ask about it. A simple 'fine' will end the topic. If it isn't hidable (cane, wheelchair, McCain's raising-his-arms-higher-than-his-shoulder), sympathy is probably unavoidable.
3) Health insurers might deny you for coverage or claims if they knew you had X abnormality. Employers might turn you down because you're more expensive to insure (and their insurer gives them a break if they keep people with certain issues off the payroll).
Is it not illegal to lie when they ask about that?
4) Sometimes "your" health history isn't just yours. Should my birth histories be made public, so that my children's earliest moments are a matter of public record? What if they're applying to some college, and someone comes out with a study that correlates c-section delivery with underachieving... should "my" health history compromise their chances of admittance?
Again, the answer is affected by whether this is a matter for everyone or just elected officials. If it's for everyone, the c-section would likely be a part of the child's medial history as well, so the point is moot. If it's just public officials, it could be a problem. But maybe there just isn't enough children of female elected officials (I can't imagine a c-section being on the father's record) to be worth the college's time or effort. And the notoriety of teaching the official's kids may be worth the risk, anyways.
5) Fear of disclosure of treatment already prevents many people from seeking help when they know they have mental health issues, due to stigma. If all health-related information was public knowledge, this would be far worse.
That would be closing the barn door after the horses have escaped. If they are avoiding treatment because they don't want anyone to know about their condition, making their condition public suddenly does away with that excuse.
6) Even if an individual doesn't have any issues they think should be private, if privacy is not the norm, then anyone who strives to keep things private will have a spotlight shone on them. What are they hiding? If everyone sent all their mail on postcards, then everyone would be suspicious of the guy whose mail came in envelopes, but with envelopes as the norm, you can send confidential or private information through the mail without piquing the public's interest.
The government is made up of individuals, but they are easily identifiable, and the distinction between their private lives and their official actions is quite clear.
The point of not allowing a private life is preventing back-room deals and the like.
That and the flood is old testament. The new testament explicitly says they're allowed to throw out pieces of the old testament they don't like...
Just some of the rules, but it's a moot issue. The superficial rules (people went overboard in deciding what counted as "work" on the Sabbath, among other things) are discarded, but the important ones are distilled down to the two most important ones. "Do not commit murder" and "Do not steal" are redundant with "Love your neighbour as yourself".
When the/. article came saying that the WHO declared swine flu a pandemic, my reaction was: "It's still around?"
That's how little buzz it's getting here.
I've observed that high-efficiency/electric vehicles tend to be very cramped for anyone of above average height. The sketch does not assure me that this car would be any different.
In math, to teach is to do. You can't teach math without solving math problems. And you quickly and easily check if you got it right (just plug in the variables and compute). Everything else has more subjective meanings of correct/incorrect and use more scarce resources than pencil-paper-calculator.
Many professions pay much better than teaching in college, naturally appealing to most people. That means there are two types of professors: Those that love to teach, and those that have the certificates but can't hold a job in the real world.
It's plausible that you might wish to convey an idea by referencing a small part of a large copyrighted work. It's not plausible that you wish to convey the exact full content of War and Peace.
I would probably reference an entire film or tv episode that has Chuck Norris in it if I wanted to convey PURE AWESOME.
Guess the trick is to find a way to make them want to disinfect their computers.
Or make them want something that Linux has but Windows doesn't. Unfortunately, users tend to have weird priorities. They won't budge over the seemingly intangible factor known as 'security', but they might switch in a heartbeat for Gnometris.
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In many traditions, including astrology, the moon represents the feminine. It is the yin, the intuitive, the emotions. Women are connected to the moon by their menstrual cycles while they are fertile, and all beings, including the earth herself, are affected by the pull of the tides.
I prefer to call both Moon and Earth 'it'.
^^ Obviously not a science fiction fan.
I am Terran.
For comparison, on my system removing libc6 from Ubuntu would break 1288 packages.
1) Certain health issues may be highly correlated with certain traits or lifestyle decisions which are highly sensitive topics. If you picked up gonorrhea 15 years ago because "There's a time and a place for everything, and it's called college", do you want your current prospective employer deciding whether to hire you based on whether they expect you to sleep around with the staff?
I can honestly say STDs didn't occur to me. The worse case scenario I came up with was some condition derived from drug use back when the person was young and stupid, though the majority of STD cases are probably also symptoms of young and stupid.
Are we talking about all health records being public, or just public officials? I would want to know if a candidate was very 'loose' in his/her early life.
2) Some people specifically don't want the sympathy or pity that full disclosure of their infirmities would engender.
If it's a prior affliction or something minor enough that you can hide in everyday behaviour, people forget. Though if they haven't seen you in a while they will likely ask about it. A simple 'fine' will end the topic. If it isn't hidable (cane, wheelchair, McCain's raising-his-arms-higher-than-his-shoulder), sympathy is probably unavoidable.
3) Health insurers might deny you for coverage or claims if they knew you had X abnormality. Employers might turn you down because you're more expensive to insure (and their insurer gives them a break if they keep people with certain issues off the payroll).
Is it not illegal to lie when they ask about that?
4) Sometimes "your" health history isn't just yours. Should my birth histories be made public, so that my children's earliest moments are a matter of public record? What if they're applying to some college, and someone comes out with a study that correlates c-section delivery with underachieving... should "my" health history compromise their chances of admittance?
Again, the answer is affected by whether this is a matter for everyone or just elected officials. If it's for everyone, the c-section would likely be a part of the child's medial history as well, so the point is moot. If it's just public officials, it could be a problem. But maybe there just isn't enough children of female elected officials (I can't imagine a c-section being on the father's record) to be worth the college's time or effort. And the notoriety of teaching the official's kids may be worth the risk, anyways.
5) Fear of disclosure of treatment already prevents many people from seeking help when they know they have mental health issues, due to stigma. If all health-related information was public knowledge, this would be far worse.
That would be closing the barn door after the horses have escaped. If they are avoiding treatment because they don't want anyone to know about their condition, making their condition public suddenly does away with that excuse.
6) Even if an individual doesn't have any issues they think should be private, if privacy is not the norm, then anyone who strives to keep things private will have a spotlight shone on them. What are they hiding? If everyone sent all their mail on postcards, then everyone would be suspicious of the guy whose mail came in envelopes, but with envelopes as the norm, you can send confidential or private information through the mail without piquing the public's interest.
Yes. Your point?
And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith.
The government is made up of individuals, but they are easily identifiable, and the distinction between their private lives and their official actions is quite clear.
The point of not allowing a private life is preventing back-room deals and the like.
So, no private personnel matters (including health matters) for any public employee?
I don't consider health matters private. Why should I care who knows about my injuries and ailments?
That and the flood is old testament. The new testament explicitly says they're allowed to throw out pieces of the old testament they don't like...
Just some of the rules, but it's a moot issue. The superficial rules (people went overboard in deciding what counted as "work" on the Sabbath, among other things) are discarded, but the important ones are distilled down to the two most important ones. "Do not commit murder" and "Do not steal" are redundant with "Love your neighbour as yourself".
When the /. article came saying that the WHO declared swine flu a pandemic, my reaction was: "It's still around?"
That's how little buzz it's getting here.
More accurately, the rainbow was representative of the promise that God would never again destroy the whole earth with water. We get fire next time.
Or maybe the command is simply 'make tiny ridges' and leaves the body to figure out the details.
The good ones bring their students along for the ride.
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They started handing out custom TLDs already?
Clamwin is the only free virus software I know you can use on commercial PCs.
I'm sure you don't need permission from the authors to install Conficker.
I've observed that high-efficiency/electric vehicles tend to be very cramped for anyone of above average height. The sketch does not assure me that this car would be any different.
The Smart ROLLED OVER, SEVERAL TIMES...
Assuming airbags remain intact: So?
Drop a rubber ball and an egg: which is in better shape afterwards?
If it's open source, why lease? Why not just make one?
You have to compile by hand.
In math, to teach is to do. You can't teach math without solving math problems. And you quickly and easily check if you got it right (just plug in the variables and compute). Everything else has more subjective meanings of correct/incorrect and use more scarce resources than pencil-paper-calculator.
Many professions pay much better than teaching in college, naturally appealing to most people. That means there are two types of professors: Those that love to teach, and those that have the certificates but can't hold a job in the real world.
We were to be accorded limited/fair use of purchased copyrighted works. Instead we are only allowed to view...
How are we supposed to view without someone distributing? For that matter, why does nobody accuse libraries of violating copyright?
I think I will be quoting this post in my next letter to my Congress-critter.
It's plausible that you might wish to convey an idea by referencing a small part of a large copyrighted work. It's not plausible that you wish to convey the exact full content of War and Peace.
I would probably reference an entire film or tv episode that has Chuck Norris in it if I wanted to convey PURE AWESOME.
Guess the trick is to find a way to make them want to disinfect their computers.
Or make them want something that Linux has but Windows doesn't. Unfortunately, users tend to have weird priorities. They won't budge over the seemingly intangible factor known as 'security', but they might switch in a heartbeat for Gnometris.
If you really need a term for a member of either one, Congressionor is a pretty bad-ass-sounding title.
Don't we prefer congress-critter?
That would of course cut the Oscar ceremony in half.
Is there a downside?
Acknowledgement of gender is not sexist.