Psssht. You missed the latest conservatard meme that scientists are only doing it FOR TEH GRANTS. Haven't you heard that by grant-whoring you get to drive a Porsche with complimentary bitches to snort coke out of their navels? Or does that only apply to climatology? I am confused these days....
I think with a focus on bioinformatics, you are set up well. I was more of a spectroscopy guy back then, mostly NMR, and that seems slightly problematic these days.Others I studied with, people with a focus on proteomics and transcriptomics with a solid bioinformatic background immediately got good research jobs with the industry. I won't cite my only bioinformatics paper here, as it is too embarassing.... Some genetic algorithm stuff on optimizing the tendency of sequences to adopt helical structures. But hey, it got published:P
Oh, to tie this to the topic at hand - I did not get a job in research, despite a good publication history in Biochemistry, Journal of Virology and JACS... I am doing the good old patent lawyering thing now... Go figure.... The whole field of research is swamped with graduates...:P
Hm, I have a PhD in biochemistry to my name, but I think you are overexaggerating the differences to the humanities here. Yes, the degree was hard, we got tested to the limits of our intellectual capacities, but then again, I hang around with a lot of history and linguistics guys - if I listen to their musings I feel slightly inadequate... That stuff *can* be hard, too, if you do not treat it as a feel-good degree....
It's the 90% thing that doesn't do it for me. Sure, I consider myself a nerd. I do run a fileserver and a thin mediaplayer client on linux. My main desktop, however, is Win7 and will stay Win7 for a considerable time, because Linux just does not do what I need when it comes to gaming and sound editing/digital music production. That's not the main point, though - the main point is that even my fileserver/media client setup is not something you can sell to your average Joe Blow. There IS a usability issue.
Yeah, which, from a European point of view, is more due to the insane amount of lawyer and court fees you gotta pay compared to us around here. From what I gather, you can simply smash your opponent in the US by the implied threat of litigation costs to be expected. It's a bit more decent around here, although the local glibertardians would like to expand it into the same direction.
This is were the IP system gets turned into madness at the moment - they are spearheading to kill the whole concept of the first sale doctrine with that... And they seem to succeed
I don't often agree with you, cpu6502, actually close to never. But when it comes to Monsanto, I wholeheartedly do. And I happen to be a biochemist working in a patent law firm....
Try this next time. As unlikely to be touched by a Coors-swilling roommate as Guiness, but I promise you, you won't look at Guiness with your arse after trying this....
The really scary thing is that a subsistence farmer barely scraping by probably eats better than what was served up on that budget in those shows. Don't know how representative that was, but it looked scary. I freely admit to food hipsterism - the tablespoon of Merlot reduction over the fillet of lamb i made yesterday could have paid for 10 school meals, I guess - but then again, I happily pay my taxes, they pay for civilization. If I'd lived in the US or UK, I'd be far more happy if said taxes would pay for decent school meals, though....
Psshhht.... Legal theory. Weighing competing interests. You don't do that around the RAH!-RAH!-Freedom! glibertarian crowd. Tends to disturb their karma. Never a pretty sight.
To answer your questions, which, unfortunately, are a bit too close to invoking Poe's Law, yes, payphones are gone, no, crime rate is down. If you can bike it, you can walk it with a flat. Jeez.
I just had a Scottish craft beer, which, according to a review on ratebeer.com has notes of "sheet metal", "wet rock" and "mineral rich soil" in it. I think I should add "with a 'clear' aftertaste" to it;)
Uhm, a decent pasta sauce should count as vegetable... in case you mean a tomato sauce there.
Lightly fry some onions, garlic, celery and carrot in olive oil, add peeled tomato cubes, let simmer - no matter how long. Short gives a fresh, summery zingy taste, long gives you that settled, autumny thick sauce. Salt, pepper, some basil. Done.
Of course that refers to a decent spaghetti sauce. But a caterer that takes a contract for a couple of hundreds of meals per day and can't prepare that should be flogged, tarred, feathered, covered in honey and left outside for the fire ants to have a party.
I went to the girl's blog instead of the BBC article, and almost all the pictures I saw looked like good food with a very nice presentation. Perhaps the BBC went out of their way to pick the worst examples to make their story more "interesting"?
Most of the pictures on the girl's blog seem to have been sent in by visitors to show what goes on in their cafeterias.
Been the same way when I went to the local high school-equivalent in our socialist hell-hole of Germany. From what I hear of old friends who became teachers, it's still that way. Which, I guess, goes to show that this is more a consequence of helicopter parenting and think-of-the-children-craze than of any "nanny state"-leanings.
Ok, thanks. That clarifies it. The first ones have not been found, though - if they continue not to be, you will end up with the cosmic engineer without interventions, though - just wanted to make clear if that would be a position you are compatible with.
Yes, I do understand that, but doesn't that leave you at an essentially deistic position? God as the supreme engineer who set up the universe in such a way that we in our current form were inevitable? That's what I am wondering about.
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Psssht. You missed the latest conservatard meme that scientists are only doing it FOR TEH GRANTS. Haven't you heard that by grant-whoring you get to drive a Porsche with complimentary bitches to snort coke out of their navels? Or does that only apply to climatology? I am confused these days....
I think with a focus on bioinformatics, you are set up well. I was more of a spectroscopy guy back then, mostly NMR, and that seems slightly problematic these days.Others I studied with, people with a focus on proteomics and transcriptomics with a solid bioinformatic background immediately got good research jobs with the industry. I won't cite my only bioinformatics paper here, as it is too embarassing.... Some genetic algorithm stuff on optimizing the tendency of sequences to adopt helical structures. But hey, it got published :P
Oh, to tie this to the topic at hand - I did not get a job in research, despite a good publication history in Biochemistry, Journal of Virology and JACS... I am doing the good old patent lawyering thing now... Go figure.... The whole field of research is swamped with graduates... :P
Hm, I have a PhD in biochemistry to my name, but I think you are overexaggerating the differences to the humanities here. Yes, the degree was hard, we got tested to the limits of our intellectual capacities, but then again, I hang around with a lot of history and linguistics guys - if I listen to their musings I feel slightly inadequate... That stuff *can* be hard, too, if you do not treat it as a feel-good degree....
It's the 90% thing that doesn't do it for me. Sure, I consider myself a nerd. I do run a fileserver and a thin mediaplayer client on linux. My main desktop, however, is Win7 and will stay Win7 for a considerable time, because Linux just does not do what I need when it comes to gaming and sound editing/digital music production. That's not the main point, though - the main point is that even my fileserver/media client setup is not something you can sell to your average Joe Blow. There IS a usability issue.
And if the Linux community wants Linux to be used, they only have to make it usable.
Waiting for more than a decade...
And nothing of lasting cultural value ;)
That IS her. Perfect match. Get a career in casting actors, you know what you are doing.
Optional, mate, optional - I am going for purity and simplicity here ;)
Yeah, which, from a European point of view, is more due to the insane amount of lawyer and court fees you gotta pay compared to us around here. From what I gather, you can simply smash your opponent in the US by the implied threat of litigation costs to be expected. It's a bit more decent around here, although the local glibertardians would like to expand it into the same direction.
This is were the IP system gets turned into madness at the moment - they are spearheading to kill the whole concept of the first sale doctrine with that... And they seem to succeed
I don't often agree with you, cpu6502, actually close to never. But when it comes to Monsanto, I wholeheartedly do. And I happen to be a biochemist working in a patent law firm....
Try this next time. As unlikely to be touched by a Coors-swilling roommate as Guiness, but I promise you, you won't look at Guiness with your arse after trying this....
The really scary thing is that a subsistence farmer barely scraping by probably eats better than what was served up on that budget in those shows. Don't know how representative that was, but it looked scary. I freely admit to food hipsterism - the tablespoon of Merlot reduction over the fillet of lamb i made yesterday could have paid for 10 school meals, I guess - but then again, I happily pay my taxes, they pay for civilization. If I'd lived in the US or UK, I'd be far more happy if said taxes would pay for decent school meals, though....
Psshhht.... Legal theory. Weighing competing interests. You don't do that around the RAH!-RAH!-Freedom! glibertarian crowd. Tends to disturb their karma. Never a pretty sight.
or they will be foods that require fork and spoon and will take too long to eat.
Uhm. WHAT?
To answer your questions, which, unfortunately, are a bit too close to invoking Poe's Law, yes, payphones are gone, no, crime rate is down. If you can bike it, you can walk it with a flat. Jeez.
I just had a Scottish craft beer, which, according to a review on ratebeer.com has notes of "sheet metal", "wet rock" and "mineral rich soil" in it. I think I should add "with a 'clear' aftertaste" to it ;)
Uhm, a decent pasta sauce should count as vegetable... in case you mean a tomato sauce there.
Lightly fry some onions, garlic, celery and carrot in olive oil, add peeled tomato cubes, let simmer - no matter how long. Short gives a fresh, summery zingy taste, long gives you that settled, autumny thick sauce. Salt, pepper, some basil. Done.
Of course that refers to a decent spaghetti sauce. But a caterer that takes a contract for a couple of hundreds of meals per day and can't prepare that should be flogged, tarred, feathered, covered in honey and left outside for the fire ants to have a party.
I went to the girl's blog instead of the BBC article, and almost all the pictures I saw looked like good food with a very nice presentation. Perhaps the BBC went out of their way to pick the worst examples to make their story more "interesting"?
Most of the pictures on the girl's blog seem to have been sent in by visitors to show what goes on in their cafeterias.
Been the same way when I went to the local high school-equivalent in our socialist hell-hole of Germany. From what I hear of old friends who became teachers, it's still that way. Which, I guess, goes to show that this is more a consequence of helicopter parenting and think-of-the-children-craze than of any "nanny state"-leanings.
So, you would be "fine" with paying taxes, as long as no one enforced it on you? I.e. making it basically voluntary?
Ok, thanks. That clarifies it. The first ones have not been found, though - if they continue not to be, you will end up with the cosmic engineer without interventions, though - just wanted to make clear if that would be a position you are compatible with.
Yes, I do understand that, but doesn't that leave you at an essentially deistic position? God as the supreme engineer who set up the universe in such a way that we in our current form were inevitable? That's what I am wondering about.
Let me guess, the "violence" you are talking of is actually the fact that you have to pay taxes to finance part of the society that is supporting you?