Well put, girlintraining. Use a camera, and put the officer's face and actions in front of people who can personally shame him (or her) into remorse.
My small vow: The next time I see someone stopped by numerous police cars, I am going to stop and take a few pictures. The police try to keep us from seeing their actions, on the street, but we can look. Be the mindful observer.
WEIRD FACT ABOUT PICTURES: I have often seen, in a picture or video, brutality that was happening right under my nose...because it's often quick and quiet. TAKE A PICTURE. It will show more than the eye can see.
Police are supposed to be trained officers. They are being provoked by taunts? Throw those goddamn police out of their jobs, with a black mark on their records. What you say is (trolling?) bullshit. I have seen numerous videos of peaceful people blindsided by police with pepper spray and bludgeons. Overwhelming force, yet the police are provoked by taunts? You live in a world of hypocrisy and denial, previous poster.
If you want a "user experience" with someone second-guessing you and tossing extra keywords into every search, pfft, google it.
I occasionally try new search engines ( Google remained my favorite ) yet recently switched, due to proof that one is better... for me. I'm a scientist. I was convinced by the results of the game, Three Engine Monte, over at http://blekko.com/
" search term/monte "
I was impressed by how often I picked the Blekko search results link. Most often, the more relevant listing was unearthed by Blekko. I found better information with Blekko. I was mightily impressed, and switched. Unless you want local listings every search on a movie title, (which still seems intrusive to me), in which case stick with the big brother who gives you priority paid listings.
Grasshopper, if you are not trying new search engines, regularly, you are <strike>eating search results pablum</strike> missing out on some awesome information.
Amazing paid travel and meeting of fine minds, the freedom to know first hand the world Dr. Hawking lives in, the ability to say whatever you think to whoever you want -- ZOUNDS! all this and money, too?
Focus on finances:: troubling.
I would take this job in a heartbeat, and figure out the wires, hardware, and software interface as I go. It's obviously custom, and I m able to pickup where the former person left off. Credentials--Scientist who is comfortable setting up complicated lab equiment, learning to run and troubleshoot HPLC and PCR (piece of cake) and microarras, surf along the growing information network, as new replaces old. Experienced coder on-the-fly Perl and Java Python concatanations.
Better question is this, "Sir: Is there a person leaving who will train me?"
I never thought of that! MightyMartian has a valid point that valuable, difficult-to-manufacture long chain hydrocarbons are being squandered to produce combustion.
That's the same way I feel about sequestering gold. This non-tarnish metal is an extremely valuable manufacturing commodity. And diamonds, the hardest substance known to man, are another stupidly sequestered resource.
This baffling story is raw inspiration. The suicide of one's online self is a serious event. Do you suppose, if Mark began again, he would create another space of vision and beauty? Of course. A new vision.
He was (?) singularly poised at a wrinkle-in-time to become Our Voice. Yet, our wins are our losses. We lose the ability to hear the muse. Sometimes one cannot even see the new task, when there is clamor (hands vibrate and wave) loud eddies that distract from the quiet voice of curiosity.
Mark will find the muse again, find his new task, and may each of us ( me least of all ) seek a location where we can hear the muse most clearly.
Transporting a telescope that big is a Darwin Award waiting to happen, so this means: No longer a winning incident in the making. "good job kids" - Charles R. Darwin
That's not true: We have inherent unconscious bias (M.Gladwell, et. al.) and it's powerful enough to make us eat more food, buy more products, etc., because the "game" of selling to you capitalizes on your blindness, yes you (yourself) will have a subset of the human traits that make you a sheep to some marketing campaigns. Moo.
# (: There are two kinds of people in this world: You, who think youre immune from the science about human behavior ("Duh I filter all that stuff out") and me, who thinks that immunity lies in accepting my gullible side and avoiding the "marketing matrix."
You can't address "the source of the problem" without a benevolent eye toward human vulnerabilities. We do volunteer information frivolously "just because some site asks for it" -- in return for a minimal value. That does not make us stupid. That is human nature. Human weakness. The average human does not, and cannot, look ahead that far.
When businesses capitalize on human nature, human weakness, that's not OK. It's unethical. Our society is afraid to use the statistics of human behavior to say, "business cannot capitalize on the human weaknesses in the manner of a, b, c." Somehow our human weaknesses are ignored, belittled, treated as an unmentionable embarrassment. We cannot say, "50% of humans do "x" therefore you may not merchandise based on "x". Somehow it makes our species feel too stupid, to be seen as a species with limitations to our collective reasoning powers.
We all (acording to our behavior) long for a white-haired person to trust, to give us a permanent cure to bad breath, etc. Human "weaknesses" (in other words, instincts honed by millenia of natural selection) are exploited, in our lifetimes to an unprecedented degree of sophistication, to sell products. But nobody feels comfortable saying it's wrong. Instead of saying, "All humans trust old folks in a position of prominence, do not market that way!" we say, "People are stupid to trust TV ads showing old folks in a position of prominence." This is completely illogical to blame humans for their instincts!!!
Dudes! our instincts to trust, or not trust, are completely natural and sane. INSANE is using adverts to place "old folks in a position of prominence" as maketing drones. It's a complete misuse and overthrow of otherwise-sensible and otherwise-useful instincts.
money is not the only motivator. In fact, for scientists, it is a very poor motivator. Scientists tend to be motivated by everything but money.
money is not the only motivator. but in health care, it is the only motivator that matters. Otherwise scientists would be avidly working on cures for the interesting (sorry) orphan diseases. Money is the only motivator that matters - in health care research.
This is my experience, too. Where are these doctors, giving more medical care than I need? I live in an affluent area in California. Yet no doctor has ever mentioned that I seem to have a dislocated shoulder. Yes, I have had a dislocated shoulder since childhood (near as I can figure) which was only diagnosed last year, by a neruomuscular massage physical therapist / body genius.
The shoulder is now relocated (what an amazing feeling of relief and right-ness) but I will need physical therapy for a year or more, to offset the problems caused by other muscles "shouldering" the problem of how to keep my body upright. In retrospect, my physical complaints of being un-coordinated, stumbling into walls frequently, my posture, and my inability to dance or move smoothly, were clearly begging for medical attention.
IMO what we need are more people with knowledge, seeing fewer patients, so they can treat the whole patient, not just a currently-manifesting problem. A life-long Scientist, I now believe that holistic medicine is equally powerful. Science let me down. A dyslexic and unassuming body-worker, making a low-to-comfortable income, was far more effective than a series of well paid doctors over decades of my life.
We have lost so many words needlessly. Rapeseed is an oil seed once grown mainly in Europe. Today we are aware that some food oils are healthy, and some are not; when people noticed that Rapeseed oil is healthier than others, it became a celebrity cooking oil. How to market it, though? Rapeseed oil? um... gRapeseed? um... today, we call Rapeseed oil "canola oil."
I thought it was sad we've lost Rapeseed as a socially appropriate crop, but then, why go on growing a crop called Rapeseed when the word represents an act that is so repugnanat?
Further musing on philosophy that stems from a dictionary "fixation" of a term: flammable and inflammable. Let's move on beyond the obvious confusion. WHY are there ambiguous terms like this? As a scientist, I suspect there is a category of things that are so important, we only need to know the existence of the problem, not its polarity. In other words, only one meaning is important, while the other can generally be discarded.
Consider the word pair, flammable/inflammable. We need to know if something can catch fire. It's a special context. We look across the campfire and worry that the dancing children will catch on fire, and we shout out, "Are their banners ___?!" ( We never look across the campfire and wonder if that (say, an iron grille) might _not_ catch on fire, and shout out, "___!?" )
Such terms are very special. They are a barometer for our species' priorities.
I was once really bothered by the flammable / inflammable conflation, but the more I grow, the more comfortable I am with words that are defined by common useage, not because "there's nothing we can do about it" but because "perhaps common usage knows more than I do about this word."
PG&E - Pacific Gas And Electric (and other utitilies) have full reign over entering my backyard to check my meter monthly. I've long wondered whether and/or when they'll team up with others to provide sensitive data to those with money.
Wikipedia was great. Wikipedia is broken. And it's broken because of f**kery like the above post, extolling how wonderful it is that Wikipedia has managed to split-the-hair and call the county "Londonderry" and the city "Derry." Here is a post by a Wikipedia insider, bragging that Wikipedia does not reflect REALITY.
Wikipedia was great.
Wikipedia is broken.
Smart people like me cannot correct facts or grammar, without being reverted.
QUOTE: "Donation is indeed forced... That's not a donation, that's tax." - - -
RESPONSE: This "donation" is a cynical maneuver. The companies that install huge, bright LED billboards along I80 in California also donate money to children's charities. So... when the populace tried to ban these distracting eyesore billboards, there was a big outcry.
"But they are donating $$$ to childrens' charities, and if we don't let them put up those billboards, then childrens' charities will lose $$$!"
It's a very very manipulative tactic. And it works. Which makes me sick.
Respectfully submit that those who are obsessed with the scientific laboratory definition of 'room temperature' are missing the meaning in this context:
It is *not* an ultra-cold storage device with expensive cooling requirements, useful only for the long-term archival needs of Deep Pockets. It is a room-temperature (in the common meaning of the phrase) storage device that is within reach of Shallow Pockets consumers.
I, for one, have been yearning to store my photos until I'm old and need to draw on them for happy memories. For my 90-year-old withered carcass, the loss of past photographs means the loss of memories. Huzzah for advancements in LT storage.
I searched the thread and found no mention of the time suck negative, whereas if a game is awesome rocks, you get more than your money's worth hour-wise, but lose like 2000 hours of your life playing it. And flunk out of your PhD program. Statistics (on game's value hours/dollar) was never your strong suit.
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Well put, girlintraining. Use a camera, and put the officer's face and actions in front of people who can personally shame him (or her) into remorse.
My small vow: The next time I see someone stopped by numerous police cars, I am going to stop and take a few pictures. The police try to keep us from seeing their actions, on the street, but we can look. Be the mindful observer.
WEIRD FACT ABOUT PICTURES: I have often seen, in a picture or video, brutality that was happening right under my nose...because it's often quick and quiet. TAKE A PICTURE. It will show more than the eye can see.
Police are supposed to be trained officers. They are being provoked by taunts? Throw those goddamn police out of their jobs, with a black mark on their records. What you say is (trolling?) bullshit. I have seen numerous videos of peaceful people blindsided by police with pepper spray and bludgeons. Overwhelming force, yet the police are provoked by taunts? You live in a world of hypocrisy and denial, previous poster.
If you want a "user experience" with someone second-guessing you and tossing extra keywords into every search, pfft, google it.
I occasionally try new search engines ( Google remained my favorite ) yet recently switched, due to proof that one is better... for me. I'm a scientist. I was convinced by the results of the game, Three Engine Monte, over at http://blekko.com/
" search term /monte "
I was impressed by how often I picked the Blekko search results link. Most often, the more relevant listing was unearthed by Blekko. I found better information with Blekko. I was mightily impressed, and switched. Unless you want local listings every search on a movie title, (which still seems intrusive to me), in which case stick with the big brother who gives you priority paid listings.
Grasshopper, if you are not trying new search engines, regularly, you are <strike>eating search results pablum</strike> missing out on some awesome information.
Amazing paid travel and meeting of fine minds, the freedom to know first hand the world Dr. Hawking lives in, the ability to say whatever you think to whoever you want -- ZOUNDS! all this and money, too?
Focus on finances :: troubling.
I would take this job in a heartbeat, and figure out the wires, hardware, and software interface as I go. It's obviously custom, and I m able to pickup where the former person left off. Credentials--Scientist who is comfortable setting up complicated lab equiment, learning to run and troubleshoot HPLC and PCR (piece of cake) and microarras, surf along the growing information network, as new replaces old. Experienced coder on-the-fly Perl and Java Python concatanations.
Better question is this, "Sir: Is there a person leaving who will train me?"
Forget about the money. Take the job.
I never thought of that! MightyMartian has a valid point that valuable, difficult-to-manufacture long chain hydrocarbons are being squandered to produce combustion.
That's the same way I feel about sequestering gold. This non-tarnish metal is an extremely valuable manufacturing commodity. And diamonds, the hardest substance known to man, are another stupidly sequestered resource.
Homo sapiens are dingbat dumb.
This baffling story is raw inspiration. The suicide of one's online self is a serious event. Do you suppose, if Mark began again, he would create another space of vision and beauty? Of course. A new vision.
He was (?) singularly poised at a wrinkle-in-time to become Our Voice. Yet, our wins are our losses. We lose the ability to hear the muse. Sometimes one cannot even see the new task, when there is clamor (hands vibrate and wave) loud eddies that distract from the quiet voice of curiosity.
Mark will find the muse again, find his new task, and may each of us ( me least of all ) seek a location where we can hear the muse most clearly.
Love, attention, bliss.
Quiet.
Transporting a telescope that big is a Darwin Award waiting to happen, so this means: No longer a winning incident in the making. "good job kids" - Charles R. Darwin
"Anyone with an IQ over 100 can filter stuff."
That's not true: We have inherent unconscious bias (M.Gladwell, et. al.) and it's powerful enough to make us eat more food, buy more products, etc., because the "game" of selling to you capitalizes on your blindness, yes you (yourself) will have a subset of the human traits that make you a sheep to some marketing campaigns. Moo.
# (: There are two kinds of people in this world: You, who think youre immune from the science about human behavior ("Duh I filter all that stuff out") and me, who thinks that immunity lies in accepting my gullible side and avoiding the "marketing matrix."
Howto: Framing Your Thoughts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5f9R9MtkpqM&feature=player_detailpage#t=222s
Low hanging fruit: Harvested. Difficult questions: Fruit harvested only when money is evident.
You are viewing a romanticized history of science, via textbooks. The scientific research community, today, is very different from that of Jonas Salk.
You can't address "the source of the problem" without a benevolent eye toward human vulnerabilities. We do volunteer information frivolously "just because some site asks for it" -- in return for a minimal value. That does not make us stupid. That is human nature. Human weakness. The average human does not, and cannot, look ahead that far.
When businesses capitalize on human nature, human weakness, that's not OK. It's unethical. Our society is afraid to use the statistics of human behavior to say, "business cannot capitalize on the human weaknesses in the manner of a, b, c." Somehow our human weaknesses are ignored, belittled, treated as an unmentionable embarrassment. We cannot say, "50% of humans do "x" therefore you may not merchandise based on "x". Somehow it makes our species feel too stupid, to be seen as a species with limitations to our collective reasoning powers.
We all (acording to our behavior) long for a white-haired person to trust, to give us a permanent cure to bad breath, etc. Human "weaknesses" (in other words, instincts honed by millenia of natural selection) are exploited, in our lifetimes to an unprecedented degree of sophistication, to sell products. But nobody feels comfortable saying it's wrong. Instead of saying, "All humans trust old folks in a position of prominence, do not market that way!" we say, "People are stupid to trust TV ads showing old folks in a position of prominence." This is completely illogical to blame humans for their instincts!!!
Dudes! our instincts to trust, or not trust, are completely natural and sane. INSANE is using adverts to place "old folks in a position of prominence" as maketing drones. It's a complete misuse and overthrow of otherwise-sensible and otherwise-useful instincts.
What you say makes no sense to me, and I am a sensible, well informed, credible individual. What you say?
money is not the only motivator. In fact, for scientists, it is a very poor motivator. Scientists tend to be motivated by everything but money.
money is not the only motivator. but in health care, it is the only motivator that matters. Otherwise scientists would be avidly working on cures for the interesting (sorry) orphan diseases. Money is the only motivator that matters - in health care research.
This is my experience, too. Where are these doctors, giving more medical care than I need? I live in an affluent area in California. Yet no doctor has ever mentioned that I seem to have a dislocated shoulder. Yes, I have had a dislocated shoulder since childhood (near as I can figure) which was only diagnosed last year, by a neruomuscular massage physical therapist / body genius.
The shoulder is now relocated (what an amazing feeling of relief and right-ness) but I will need physical therapy for a year or more, to offset the problems caused by other muscles "shouldering" the problem of how to keep my body upright. In retrospect, my physical complaints of being un-coordinated, stumbling into walls frequently, my posture, and my inability to dance or move smoothly, were clearly begging for medical attention.
IMO what we need are more people with knowledge, seeing fewer patients, so they can treat the whole patient, not just a currently-manifesting problem. A life-long Scientist, I now believe that holistic medicine is equally powerful. Science let me down. A dyslexic and unassuming body-worker, making a low-to-comfortable income, was far more effective than a series of well paid doctors over decades of my life.
We have lost so many words needlessly. Rapeseed is an oil seed once grown mainly in Europe. Today we are aware that some food oils are healthy, and some are not; when people noticed that Rapeseed oil is healthier than others, it became a celebrity cooking oil. How to market it, though? Rapeseed oil? um... gRapeseed? um... today, we call Rapeseed oil "canola oil."
I thought it was sad we've lost Rapeseed as a socially appropriate crop, but then, why go on growing a crop called Rapeseed when the word represents an act that is so repugnanat?
Further musing on philosophy that stems from a dictionary "fixation" of a term: flammable and inflammable. Let's move on beyond the obvious confusion. WHY are there ambiguous terms like this? As a scientist, I suspect there is a category of things that are so important, we only need to know the existence of the problem, not its polarity. In other words, only one meaning is important, while the other can generally be discarded.
Consider the word pair, flammable/inflammable. We need to know if something can catch fire. It's a special context. We look across the campfire and worry that the dancing children will catch on fire, and we shout out, "Are their banners ___?!" ( We never look across the campfire and wonder if that (say, an iron grille) might _not_ catch on fire, and shout out, "___!?" )
Such terms are very special. They are a barometer for our species' priorities.
I was once really bothered by the flammable / inflammable conflation, but the more I grow, the more comfortable I am with words that are defined by common useage, not because "there's nothing we can do about it" but because "perhaps common usage knows more than I do about this word."
Love, the Word Goddess
PG&E - Pacific Gas And Electric (and other utitilies) have full reign over entering my backyard to check my meter monthly. I've long wondered whether and/or when they'll team up with others to provide sensitive data to those with money.
Wikipedia was great. Wikipedia is broken. And it's broken because of f**kery like the above post, extolling how wonderful it is that Wikipedia has managed to split-the-hair and call the county "Londonderry" and the city "Derry." Here is a post by a Wikipedia insider, bragging that Wikipedia does not reflect REALITY.
Wikipedia was great.
Wikipedia is broken.
Smart people like me cannot correct facts or grammar, without being reverted.
Wikipedia is broken.
Wikipedia WAS great.
QUOTE: "Donation is indeed forced... That's not a donation, that's tax."
- - -
RESPONSE: This "donation" is a cynical maneuver. The companies that install huge, bright LED billboards along I80 in California also donate money to children's charities. So... when the populace tried to ban these distracting eyesore billboards, there was a big outcry.
"But they are donating $$$ to childrens' charities, and if we don't let them put up those billboards, then childrens' charities will lose $$$!"
It's a very very manipulative tactic. And it works. Which makes me sick.
Agreed. That is why, for instance, your voting records are not public, regardless of whether you want them to be public.
Respectfully submit that those who are obsessed with the scientific laboratory definition of 'room temperature' are missing the meaning in this context:
It is *not* an ultra-cold storage device with expensive cooling requirements, useful only for the long-term archival needs of Deep Pockets. It is a room-temperature (in the common meaning of the phrase) storage device that is within reach of Shallow Pockets consumers.
I, for one, have been yearning to store my photos until I'm old and need to draw on them for happy memories. For my 90-year-old withered carcass, the loss of past photographs means the loss of memories. Huzzah for advancements in LT storage.
When I clicked on your link, the menu at the restaurant did not feature black duck anything.
Congratulations! YOu have won the honor of testing our first dose of the medicine. What, you don't want the prize? Should have read the fine print...
You poor poohs! It sounds horrible. Thanks for sharing your stories of doctor trauma. i cannot stand to have my eyeballs touched -- squick!
I searched the thread and found no mention of the time suck negative, whereas if a game is awesome rocks, you get more than your money's worth hour-wise, but lose like 2000 hours of your life playing it. And flunk out of your PhD program. Statistics (on game's value hours/dollar) was never your strong suit.
Hey we're good now, come on over.
It's a fun challenge to keep up with a slashdotting.
This is the first year I've been able to tweak the settings
to hold my own.
ServerLimit 512
MaxClients 512
MaxRequestsPerChild 50000
I've been told the website design is so dinosaur it's practically 2002. Kids today.