. ..especially since it's people who do real work potentially getting sick instead of the executives who were historically the ones to make overseas trips.
No. Historically it is boatloads of trench level traders who make the overseas trips. It's the import/export business that does the bulk of the traveling, not the tech industry.Nowadays they just use telecommincations to make deals and only the guys at UPS and FedEx do the actual traveling.
Modern offshoring is possible specifically because you don't need large numbers of people hand carrying postit notes from continent to continent anymore, and thus now it is only the higher level sorts who get to do the traveling.
Serious footbacll fans who dig their video games upgrade each year primarily because of the one item you didn't list - the evolving team roster.
I understand that this is, in fact, the driving force behind sports game sales. I can't say I've ever really understood it.
I play sports games for the game, so when I find one I like I'm perfectly happy sticking with that edition until a truely superior simulation comes along.
. ..the developers always seem coy enough to always add some new, 'This sucks, can't wait til next year's release' "feature."
And I'm alergic to being treated like a hamster who is expected to keep dropping fifty dollar bills into the slot just to be allowed to run on a wheel that goes nowhere.
Oddly enough I have personal familiarity with the very pump in question.
The vandals were . ..students.
That's just the sort of thing that happens when you put a college out in the middle of the frickin' woods, have one bar right on the edge of campus, and put a pump right in front of it.
Clearly an attractive nuisance under the circumstances.
And they still haven't replaced the handle. It's not like anyone really gives a damn about the pump anyway. They've invented this stuff called "Indoor Plumbing."
One thing that annoys me about churches constantly quoting the Epistles is that they largely ignore the fact that Paul was addressing a specific question in a specific context.
Specifically Roman gentiles. He had to entirely recast the relgion to attract them.
The Epistles, since the often answer specific questions form the basis for many of the customs, beliefs, and practices of modern Christianity.
Which, as per above, is really Paulism, not Christianity. That is why Paul is so often quoted. The words of Christ, so far as we actually know them (which is to say, not really) are actually very problematic to the The Church.
I have no doubt the man was quite an enlightened individual, nor do I doubt is sincerity or motivation for a moment.
I do. If you read the epistles very carefully and combine them with what is known of the life of Saul of Tarsus a very clear image of an entirely selfmotived, remorsless, selfpromoting. ..psychopath, clearly emerges.
The man was a bloody nut case who founded a religion in the quest for personal agrandizment.
But them I've never had the benefit of being a Christian, so what the hell do I know.
The rocket scientists were no more in charge than they are at NASA. They worked under a purely military administration. Higher members of that administration did, in fact, do time.
Please see the post immediately prior to your own.
This is not an HMO cost reducing issue. As far as I'm concerned if you were to confine me to a hospital for the rest of my life because of my risk factor you might just as well shoot me now and be done with it. I'd shoot myself after a few weeks anyway.
So I'm "at risk." Big deal. We all are. Some of us just carry higher risks, like coal miners and auto commuters. I'll live until I die, just like everybody else.
As one of my greatest risks is acquiring a respiratory infection, like a cold, ironically the one place I don't want to be is in a big building full of sick people anyway. On the whole I'm safest in a cabin out in the woods, growing my own food.
"Maybe people that ill should be in a hospital, not walking around in the streets?"
I don't see myself wearing one of these things, but I could, by certain definitions, be considered "at risk."
But I am not ill, per se. I do not even vaguely belong in a hospital. Think about people with severe allergies. Bee stings, peanuts, whatever. Perfectly healthy, but at high risk of going into anaphylactic shock. There are any number of other conditions which carry extreme risks, but which don't really count as illness and for which hospitalization would be a silly waste, both for them and for the hospital.
They're risk conditions. A walking emergency if you like. A chronic condition, but with no acute symptoms requiring actual direct intervention.
I do, on occasion, wear a data recording heart monitor wrist watch that works by radio telemetry, although it does not transmit to a remote location. I guess someone could aim a receiver at me to pick up the signals, but. . .
I'm absolutely clueless as to what use this data would be to the police, and I'm one of "privacy freaks" around here.
In any case, as this is medical data it is already privileged by law.
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. . .especially since it's people who do real work potentially getting sick instead of the executives who were historically the ones to make overseas trips.
No. Historically it is boatloads of trench level traders who make the overseas trips. It's the import/export business that does the bulk of the traveling, not the tech industry.Nowadays they just use telecommincations to make deals and only the guys at UPS and FedEx do the actual traveling.
Modern offshoring is possible specifically because you don't need large numbers of people hand carrying postit notes from continent to continent anymore, and thus now it is only the higher level sorts who get to do the traveling.
KFG
How many pairs of shoes do you need?
42. D'oh!
KFG
to see which one is smarter.
Some say man, but I say no,
De woman run de man like a puppet show.
KFG
Why can't I get paid to spout idiotic claptrap all day?
You haven't made management yet?
KFG
They're also investigating a giant mound of rock that appears to have been made into the shape of a face...
They're covering this up, because the face is real; and it turns out it's Pauly Shore.
KFG
Conversely it might be nice if CS majors were also educated in basic science, language, history, business and even the arts.
If this trend continues perhaps in future American undergraduate students will once again be demanding an education.
Ah, the irony of it all.
KFG
Serious footbacll fans who dig their video games upgrade each year primarily because of the one item you didn't list - the evolving team roster.
.the developers always seem coy enough to always add some new, 'This sucks, can't wait til next year's release' "feature."
I understand that this is, in fact, the driving force behind sports game sales. I can't say I've ever really understood it.
I play sports games for the game, so when I find one I like I'm perfectly happy sticking with that edition until a truely superior simulation comes along.
. .
And I'm alergic to being treated like a hamster who is expected to keep dropping fifty dollar bills into the slot just to be allowed to run on a wheel that goes nowhere.
KFG
Oddly enough I have personal familiarity with the very pump in question.
.students.
The vandals were . .
That's just the sort of thing that happens when you put a college out in the middle of the frickin' woods, have one bar right on the edge of campus, and put a pump right in front of it.
Clearly an attractive nuisance under the circumstances.
And they still haven't replaced the handle. It's not like anyone really gives a damn about the pump anyway. They've invented this stuff called "Indoor Plumbing."
KFG
for "We'll."
Substitute a brain for my tapioca while you're at it.
KFG
We'll do that the moment we stop using it as an acronym ourselves.
KFG
The photo is underexposed black.
The question remains, do the women have put up with having a fly for no particular reason other than logistical ease, or. . .
do the men have to, ummmmmmmmmmmmm, "go" without.
KFG
. . .high double digit mileages
To tell you the truth I'm not much interested in "milage." I'm interested in fuel use.
The total fuel my car uses; and that I must pay for.
KFG
There sure are some hard asses getting mod points.
Calluses.
KFG
. . .may become. . .
.
Or may not. Experience has taught me not to rely overmuch on wishes for salvation.
. . . fuel of choice. .
The source of the energy, whatever it is. Electrical energy is potential energy. Something has to invest in the potential.
KFG
No, not really. Based on the title I was hoping for a story on synthetic abiogenesis.
Life truely from scratch is the, ummmm, "Holy Grail" of the life sciences. The true uncharted territory.
This is just another story about genetic engineering.
KFG
One thing that annoys me about churches constantly quoting the Epistles is that they largely ignore the fact that Paul was addressing a specific question in a specific context.
.psychopath, clearly emerges.
Specifically Roman gentiles. He had to entirely recast the relgion to attract them.
The Epistles, since the often answer specific questions form the basis for many of the customs, beliefs, and practices of modern Christianity.
Which, as per above, is really Paulism, not Christianity. That is why Paul is so often quoted. The words of Christ, so far as we actually know them (which is to say, not really) are actually very problematic to the The Church.
I have no doubt the man was quite an enlightened individual, nor do I doubt is sincerity or motivation for a moment.
I do. If you read the epistles very carefully and combine them with what is known of the life of Saul of Tarsus a very clear image of an entirely selfmotived, remorsless, selfpromoting. .
The man was a bloody nut case who founded a religion in the quest for personal agrandizment.
But them I've never had the benefit of being a Christian, so what the hell do I know.
KFG
The rocket scientists were no more in charge than they are at NASA. They worked under a purely military administration. Higher members of that administration did, in fact, do time.
KFG
Once again it'll be announced. . .
.
This story is, essentially a dupe, of a dupe, of a dupe, of a. .
It's the bloody flying car of the Internet. Every year there's a new model, without there ever being a new model.
KFG
Please see the post immediately prior to your own.
This is not an HMO cost reducing issue. As far as I'm concerned if you were to confine me to a hospital for the rest of my life because of my risk factor you might just as well shoot me now and be done with it. I'd shoot myself after a few weeks anyway.
So I'm "at risk." Big deal. We all are. Some of us just carry higher risks, like coal miners and auto commuters. I'll live until I die, just like everybody else.
As one of my greatest risks is acquiring a respiratory infection, like a cold, ironically the one place I don't want to be is in a big building full of sick people anyway. On the whole I'm safest in a cabin out in the woods, growing my own food.
KFG
"Maybe people that ill should be in a hospital, not walking around in the streets?"
I don't see myself wearing one of these things, but I could, by certain definitions, be considered "at risk."
But I am not ill, per se. I do not even vaguely belong in a hospital. Think about people with severe allergies. Bee stings, peanuts, whatever. Perfectly healthy, but at high risk of going into anaphylactic shock. There are any number of other conditions which carry extreme risks, but which don't really count as illness and for which hospitalization would be a silly waste, both for them and for the hospital.
They're risk conditions. A walking emergency if you like. A chronic condition, but with no acute symptoms requiring actual direct intervention.
I do, on occasion, wear a data recording heart monitor wrist watch that works by radio telemetry, although it does not transmit to a remote location. I guess someone could aim a receiver at me to pick up the signals, but. . .
I'm absolutely clueless as to what use this data would be to the police, and I'm one of "privacy freaks" around here.
In any case, as this is medical data it is already privileged by law.
KFG
Their out of print section sucks.
KFG
Batman!
KFG
Not you.
KFG
Read the article.
Now that's just crazy talk.
KFG
Do my shoes count?
KFG