It is already known where deforestation is happening, like, Brazil and Indonesia, for instance. So? What can we do about it? Oh, wait we know have a system:
offering the potential to take measures to investigate
Well, that phrase will sure scare the living heck out of anyone doing deforestation!
"Hey, kids! Get off my lawn, or I will get out my system offering the potential to take measures to investigate!
And do we even have a right to complain about it? Europe and the US gave their forests a Burma Shave during their industrial revolutions.
It's really a shame that research organizations are now forced to fund themselves. They have no other choice other than to create commercially viable technologies in order to justify their existence.
Imagine a world where pure research organizations could pursue long term ideas, and give the results of their works for free to the public?
The robot, called 'Rosemary,' is about the size of a lawn mower and has four extended treaded feet that swivel up and down to help it climb over obstacles.
Call it Rosilla. Maybe a real life Roseanne Barr can battle it, while crushing paper houses, and being attacked by plastic model tanks, with fire crackers on their gun barrels?
So what do they do with the highly radioactive robot Rosemary after it crawls out of the reactor? Can they de-radioactivize it, or something like that? Or does it get buried in a concrete coffin for future generations to deal with?
"Happy Hour, which will be unveiled to the public on May 28th, is one of several video games developed by Knack, a start-up founded by Guy Halfteck, an Israeli entrepreneur. The games include a version of Happy Hour in which sushi replaces booze, Words of Wisdom (a word game) and Balloon Brigade (which involves putting out fires with balloons and water). They are designed to test cognitive skills that employers might want, drawing on some of the latest scientific research. These range from pattern recognition to emotional intelligence, risk appetite and adaptability to changing situations."
"According to Chris Chabris of the Centre for Collective Intelligence at MIT, a member of the Knack team, games have huge advantages over traditional recruitment tools, such as personality tests, which can easily be outwitted by an astute candidate."
"Some firms seem to see the potential. The GameChanger unit of Shell, which seeks out new disruptive technologies for the oil giant, is about to test if Knack can help it identify innovators. Bain & Company, a consultancy, is to run a pilot: it will start by getting current staff to play the games, to see which skills make for a successful consultant. (The ability to charge a lot for stating the obvious is presumably not one of them.) “If someone can materially improve our ability to select the best talent, that is worth a lot to us,” says Mark Howorth, a recruiter at Bain. And if not, at least the process will be fun."
This might clear up some questions about what this is all about.
No, he thinks that they are under-valued and have the potential of making money in the future . . . if the free news model disappears, and the pay-walled model becomes the norm and profitable.
If that actually will come to be in the future . . . is quite debatable.
So anyway, he bought them because he thinks he can give them a better business model.
. . . and before that, they were ruined by Jazz music . . . and in the 60's by LSD . . . marijuana in the 70's . . . cocaine in the 80's . . . Grunge music in the 90's . . . the Internet in the 00's . . .
Basically, anything a generation is doing for fun, is ruining them.
No, Buffet has clearly stated that he will not buy stock in a company, if he does not know how they make money. That is why he stayed away from.com stocks when they were red hot.
In the long run, he strategy has worked out well for him and his investors.
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It is already known where deforestation is happening, like, Brazil and Indonesia, for instance. So? What can we do about it? Oh, wait we know have a system:
offering the potential to take measures to investigate
Well, that phrase will sure scare the living heck out of anyone doing deforestation!
"Hey, kids! Get off my lawn, or I will get out my system offering the potential to take measures to investigate!
And do we even have a right to complain about it? Europe and the US gave their forests a Burma Shave during their industrial revolutions.
Texas has a lot of hunting folks, and they tend to be in favor of preserving the environment . . . the environment is great hunting land.
'scare the heck' out of every creature in the area and would 'spray noxious chemicals all over the place.'
Yeah, that fairly describes anywhere hosting a spring break.
Oh, and Texas vermints and critters don't scare that easily. They won't give a hoot about no spaceman rockets.
It's really a shame that research organizations are now forced to fund themselves. They have no other choice other than to create commercially viable technologies in order to justify their existence.
Imagine a world where pure research organizations could pursue long term ideas, and give the results of their works for free to the public?
1 "bag of arse" = How many "Library of Congresses" . . . ?
Because they can . . . ?
Jack up the stock price . . . ? "Our FacePhone will be bigger than that puny iPhone!!! Buy our stock now, and get rich like Apple stockholders did!"
Wanting to own the content AND the device it is used on . . . ?
The FacePhone will look nice with the telephone carrier that they plan to buy next . . . ?
They have no better idea what to do with all that IPO cash . . . ?
. . . the grilling is finished.
The robot, called 'Rosemary,' is about the size of a lawn mower and has four extended treaded feet that swivel up and down to help it climb over obstacles.
But after a few hours in the Fukushima Daiichi EZ-Bake-Nuclear Oven, it will morph into this critter: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/cc/Mechagodzilla.jpg.
Call it Rosilla. Maybe a real life Roseanne Barr can battle it, while crushing paper houses, and being attacked by plastic model tanks, with fire crackers on their gun barrels?
So what do they do with the highly radioactive robot Rosemary after it crawls out of the reactor? Can they de-radioactivize it, or something like that? Or does it get buried in a concrete coffin for future generations to deal with?
"Happy Hour, which will be unveiled to the public on May 28th, is one of several video games developed by Knack, a start-up founded by Guy Halfteck, an Israeli entrepreneur. The games include a version of Happy Hour in which sushi replaces booze, Words of Wisdom (a word game) and Balloon Brigade (which involves putting out fires with balloons and water). They are designed to test cognitive skills that employers might want, drawing on some of the latest scientific research. These range from pattern recognition to emotional intelligence, risk appetite and adaptability to changing situations."
"According to Chris Chabris of the Centre for Collective Intelligence at MIT, a member of the Knack team, games have huge advantages over traditional recruitment tools, such as personality tests, which can easily be outwitted by an astute candidate."
"Some firms seem to see the potential. The GameChanger unit of Shell, which seeks out new disruptive technologies for the oil giant, is about to test if Knack can help it identify innovators. Bain & Company, a consultancy, is to run a pilot: it will start by getting current staff to play the games, to see which skills make for a successful consultant. (The ability to charge a lot for stating the obvious is presumably not one of them.) “If someone can materially improve our ability to select the best talent, that is worth a lot to us,” says Mark Howorth, a recruiter at Bain. And if not, at least the process will be fun."
This might clear up some questions about what this is all about.
The answer was 42 . . . now what was the question?
Germany has a long term plan to eliminate the long winter problem:
Global Warming.
I'm recruiting COBOL developers, any out there?
They are out doing obscenely high-paid consultant and maintenance work for banks, insurance companies, etc.
I had planned on doing the same thing with C development, but those damn meddling Apple kids have made C popular again.
I also did not avert an internet meltdown in the 1980s.
Add me to the list!!!
Me too!!!
. . . it also wasn't AOL, in the 90's . . .
Two lions escape from the zoo. One kills and eats a human on the street, and is subsequently hounded down and killed.
The other hides in the headquarters of a high tech company, and lives a long and peaceful life.
It eats middle level managers, and nobody even notices or cares.
No, he thinks that they are under-valued and have the potential of making money in the future . . . if the free news model disappears, and the pay-walled model becomes the norm and profitable.
If that actually will come to be in the future . . . is quite debatable.
So anyway, he bought them because he thinks he can give them a better business model.
. . . and before that, they were ruined by Jazz music . . . and in the 60's by LSD . . . marijuana in the 70's . . . cocaine in the 80's . . . Grunge music in the 90's . . . the Internet in the 00's . . .
Basically, anything a generation is doing for fun, is ruining them.
HP is destined to go right back to being a Printer company.
. . . you mean right back to selling oscillators out of a garage . . .
. . . I thought that political arguments about science always reduced themselves to splitting hairs . . .
Reporter: "How many people work in your company?"
CEO: "Oh, about half."
. . . only if the factory building has round corners . . .
. . . or does Apple own a patent titled, "A Method and Process for Making Stuff in a Building" . . . ?
. . . with the World Economies in Decline . . . the Moon stands out as the next Emerging Market!
. . . invest now! The Moon Economy will soon leave all the World Economies in the dust . . . !
No, Buffet has clearly stated that he will not buy stock in a company, if he does not know how they make money. That is why he stayed away from .com stocks when they were red hot.
In the long run, he strategy has worked out well for him and his investors.
Should the government bail out poor Facebook investors . . . ?
But it's always bad when someone gets hurt.
. . . it depends on who is in the car . . .
Like C scope and Emacs, http://emacswiki.org/emacs/CScopeAndEmacs ? The "Find functions calling this function" option?