Maybe. Or we can have millions of British school children blow in the same direction (Easterly?) at the same time and see if the scientists can measure the earth's rotation slowing....
...but nobody would say we can't match the feats of ENIAC....
Yeah, but why bother. The feets on that thing had to be huge to hold it up. Them little rubber feets on my desktop work just fine now and we have some bigger feets on the server racks in the other room....
Oh, sorry. Since this was/. I assumed you misspelled your post.
It's the moon. This isn't the pristine Arctic National Wildlife preserve we're talking about. It's a barren chunk of desolate rock.
Didn't you see the remake of 'The Time Machine'? It was exploitation of the moon that caused the cataclysmic changes that allowed the Morlocks to evolve to entrhall the Eloy....
Reminds me of the following anecdote (can't vouch for its authenticity):
About 1966 or so, a NASA team doing work for the Apollo moon mission took the astronauts near Tuba City where the terrain of the Navajo Reservation looks very much like the Lunar surface. Along with all the trucks and large vehicles, there were two large figures dressed in full Lunar spacesuits.
Nearby a Navajo sheep herder and his son were watching the strange creatures walk about, occasionally being tended by personnel. The two Navajo people were noticed and approached by the NASA personnel. Since the man did not know English, his son asked for him what the strange creatures were and the NASA people told them that they are just men that are getting ready to go to the moon.
The man became very excited and asked if he could send a message to the moon with the astronauts. The NASA personnel thought this was a great idea so they rustled up a tape recorder. After the man gave them his message, they asked his son to translate. His son would not.
Later, they tried a few more people on the reservation to translate and every person they asked would chuckle and then refuse to translate.
Finally, with cash in hand, someone translated the message, "Watch out for these guys, they come to take your land."
No. That's just the final reservation and the US govt. hasn't figured out a way to move 'em all yet. Probably looking for a contrail of tears (at least until they leave the atmosphere...).
I think you missed the point of the sig. It seems you read it as "is the equivalent of being ostracized AS a child molester." The sig on the other hand is saying that to be rejected by the bar association is similar to being rejected by child molesters.
What part of short-/immediate-term implies serious counseling and changing thinking patterns?
It wasn't 'short-/immediate-term' that I was keying on, but rather the statement as a whole:
I would have thought that potential suicides would need much more help than that in the short-/immediate-term.
'Much more help' isn't something that you can give in the short-term and so I assumed that you were confusing a temporary change of mind with a long-term solution. Sorry.
What surprised me was that the short-term crisis could pass so quickly.
Someone who calls for help wants to be talked out of it, so you have a cooperative subject to begin with. Without that one factor the amount of time would likely soar.
One of the overriding thoughts of a person contemplating suicide is often the idea that nobody cares. Even if they can't think of someone in their own life who cares, the fact that someone would volunteer their time to help them is an indicator that there are people who care. One factor in the development of the idea that nobody cares is a sense that people don't listen to them. Again, the person on the other end of the phone needn't listen for hours (as a rule), but taking the time to hear what the caller has to say will often dispel that idea (for the time being).
I would have thought that potential suicides would need much more help than that in the short-/immediate-term.
And you would be correct in that assumption. The problem is you're confusing a temporary reprieve with a more permanent solution. It's one thing to talk someone out of an attempt at suicide at a given point in time and quite another to get to the root causes and change the thinking patterns that lead to those thoughts of suicide.
If your government representative does not represent you and your interests, align with like-minded people and work for getting your reprehensive replaced.
Was that intentional or just a bit of serendipity?
So, Microsoft doesn't fix the problem in all the time that Opera 6 is the latest version, but once Opera 7 comes along (which fixes the problem) they are suddenly interested in writing non-standards compliant pages to accomodate an problem which most Opera users who are also MSN users would have already upgraded to fix? Yeah. That makes 'em right I guess....
I think the maxim was to apply to lawyers as well. It's better to have someone from the outside looking in to see what you don't see and to draw out information you assume is evident because you've taken it for granted. I'm not trying to drum up business for the members of the bar, but going it alone is rarely the wisest decision when the stakes are high (as they often are when dealing with the courts).
You could also downplay the 'wars' part of it and mix in some footage of a wide variety of wild and weird engineering feets, projects and competitions.
What about those handicapped engineers they're looking for who might have no feets?
FPGA? What sort of politically correct tripe is that?! Let's return to the kinder, gentler days when it was OK to call a woman a 'lady' and restore the LPGA before the next tour. I mean, we all know that a 'L'ady refers to a 'F'emale, right????? I mean....
...it's the unfortunate truth that it is still hard to do anything meaningful with a Mac.
IANAMF (I am not a mac fanatic), but I don't see this as any more accurate a statement than, "It's the unfortunate truth that it is still hard to do anything meaningful with a computer." If you mean using a Mac won't ensure world peace, then you're right, but your statement applies to virtually everything. You need to define 'meaningful' before your statement can be meaningful.
The essential thing to keep in mind is that money represents something... most often gold, crude oil, but human services too for example.
While money may be a measurement of the value of something (which is what I think you're trying to say) it does not represent anything more than the confidence in the entity that prints the money. At one time all of the money in the US represented an amount of gold held in reserve. No additional money could be printed unless gold reserves were increased. Today, we can print money at will with the only thing backing the cash being the confidence in the government to back the notes it prints. Thats part of the reason there are such wide variations in the value of currency - because it is no longer tied to a standard (gold). Confidence rises and your cash is worth more. Confidence nosedives and your cash is worth less (or worthless.....).
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Maybe. Or we can have millions of British school children blow in the same direction (Easterly?) at the same time and see if the scientists can measure the earth's rotation slowing....
I must have stumbled onto the Beta version because I see stories all the time and then, wow! a couple days later I see the same story.
You don't know how relieved I am since I just thought something had changed in the Matrix and they were onto me, y'know....
...but nobody would say we can't match the feats of ENIAC....
/. I assumed you misspelled your post.
Yeah, but why bother. The feets on that thing had to be huge to hold it up. Them little rubber feets on my desktop work just fine now and we have some bigger feets on the server racks in the other room....
Oh, sorry. Since this was
There also used to be a 'freeway' between (I think, been a while since I've been there) Wacol Prison and near Indooropilly (big shopping precinct.)
Been a while since you've been to prison or shopping?
Hmmm. I suppose, with a wide enough monitor, even 'War and Peace' could be a one liner....
It's the moon. This isn't the pristine Arctic National Wildlife preserve we're talking about. It's a barren chunk of desolate rock.
Didn't you see the remake of 'The Time Machine'? It was exploitation of the moon that caused the cataclysmic changes that allowed the Morlocks to evolve to entrhall the Eloy....
Oh, yeah.... You insensitive cannibal.
Reminds me of the following anecdote (can't vouch for its authenticity):
About 1966 or so, a NASA team doing work for the Apollo moon mission took the astronauts near Tuba City where the terrain of the Navajo Reservation looks very much like the Lunar surface. Along with all the trucks and large vehicles, there were two large figures dressed in full Lunar spacesuits.
Nearby a Navajo sheep herder and his son were watching the strange creatures walk about, occasionally being tended by personnel. The two Navajo people were noticed and approached by the NASA personnel. Since the man did not know English, his son asked for him what the strange creatures were and the NASA people told them that they are just men that are getting ready to go to the moon.
The man became very excited and asked if he could send a message to the moon with the astronauts. The NASA personnel thought this was a great idea so they rustled up a tape recorder. After the man gave them his message, they asked his son to translate. His son would not.
Later, they tried a few more people on the reservation to translate and every person they asked would chuckle and then refuse to translate.
Finally, with cash in hand, someone translated the message, "Watch out for these guys, they come to take your land."
No. That's just the final reservation and the US govt. hasn't figured out a way to move 'em all yet. Probably looking for a contrail of tears (at least until they leave the atmosphere...).
I do believe you're liable to find libel to be the word you're actually looking for....
I think you missed the point of the sig. It seems you read it as "is the equivalent of being ostracized AS a child molester." The sig on the other hand is saying that to be rejected by the bar association is similar to being rejected by child molesters.
What part of short-/immediate-term implies serious counseling and changing thinking patterns?
It wasn't 'short-/immediate-term' that I was keying on, but rather the statement as a whole:
I would have thought that potential suicides would need much more help than that in the short-/immediate-term.
'Much more help' isn't something that you can give in the short-term and so I assumed that you were confusing a temporary change of mind with a long-term solution. Sorry.
What surprised me was that the short-term crisis could pass so quickly.
Someone who calls for help wants to be talked out of it, so you have a cooperative subject to begin with. Without that one factor the amount of time would likely soar.
One of the overriding thoughts of a person contemplating suicide is often the idea that nobody cares. Even if they can't think of someone in their own life who cares, the fact that someone would volunteer their time to help them is an indicator that there are people who care. One factor in the development of the idea that nobody cares is a sense that people don't listen to them. Again, the person on the other end of the phone needn't listen for hours (as a rule), but taking the time to hear what the caller has to say will often dispel that idea (for the time being).
In that case, right-wingers wouldn't pass the turing test. Ever.
I dunno. Most of 'em I know found the Florida voter jokes pretty funny while the left-wingers didn't....
I would prefer the technology be called Sensory Perception Integration Technologies (SPIT) - the clothes that make you drool.
You could bask in the glistening SPIT on your clothes or relish the thought that passers by can enjoy the smell of SPIT on your shirt.....
Sending a large EMP through my nice new hi-fi strikes me as a really bad idea!
Bad example. How likely are you to tote your new hi-fi from Walmart to Walmart? Your new MP3 player on the other hand....
I would have thought that potential suicides would need much more help than that in the short-/immediate-term.
And you would be correct in that assumption. The problem is you're confusing a temporary reprieve with a more permanent solution. It's one thing to talk someone out of an attempt at suicide at a given point in time and quite another to get to the root causes and change the thinking patterns that lead to those thoughts of suicide.
If your government representative does not represent you and your interests, align with like-minded people and work for getting your reprehensive replaced.
Was that intentional or just a bit of serendipity?
So, Microsoft doesn't fix the problem in all the time that Opera 6 is the latest version, but once Opera 7 comes along (which fixes the problem) they are suddenly interested in writing non-standards compliant pages to accomodate an problem which most Opera users who are also MSN users would have already upgraded to fix? Yeah. That makes 'em right I guess....
I think the maxim was to apply to lawyers as well. It's better to have someone from the outside looking in to see what you don't see and to draw out information you assume is evident because you've taken it for granted. I'm not trying to drum up business for the members of the bar, but going it alone is rarely the wisest decision when the stakes are high (as they often are when dealing with the courts).
Who was it said that a person who acts as their own attorney has a fool for a client?
You could also downplay the 'wars' part of it and mix in some footage of a wide variety of wild and weird engineering feets, projects and competitions.
What about those handicapped engineers they're looking for who might have no feets?
That's incredible. Looks just like the blank page I got at the link in the article - except I assume it's reversed being a mirror and all....
FPGA? What sort of politically correct tripe is that?! Let's return to the kinder, gentler days when it was OK to call a woman a 'lady' and restore the LPGA before the next tour. I mean, we all know that a 'L'ady refers to a 'F'emale, right????? I mean....
What? Oh. Never mind.
Well, that too....
...it's the unfortunate truth that it is still hard to do anything meaningful with a Mac.
IANAMF (I am not a mac fanatic), but I don't see this as any more accurate a statement than, "It's the unfortunate truth that it is still hard to do anything meaningful with a computer." If you mean using a Mac won't ensure world peace, then you're right, but your statement applies to virtually everything. You need to define 'meaningful' before your statement can be meaningful.
The essential thing to keep in mind is that money represents something... most often gold, crude oil, but human services too for example.
While money may be a measurement of the value of something (which is what I think you're trying to say) it does not represent anything more than the confidence in the entity that prints the money. At one time all of the money in the US represented an amount of gold held in reserve. No additional money could be printed unless gold reserves were increased. Today, we can print money at will with the only thing backing the cash being the confidence in the government to back the notes it prints. Thats part of the reason there are such wide variations in the value of currency - because it is no longer tied to a standard (gold). Confidence rises and your cash is worth more. Confidence nosedives and your cash is worth less (or worthless.....).