I vaccinated my kids but did worry and it was a tough decision, left it to fate and proceeded to vaccinate.
If you drive a car with your kids in it, you are putting them at higher risk than pretty much anything else you could do. If you're worried about incredibly unlikely outcomes then cessation of driving should be your first step. It's the leading cause of death in children.
It becomes an issue if you are out in a rural area, and there are only two doctors that serve the area and both refuse to treat people who aren't vaccinated. If the patient doesn't have the money to travel to another doctor, it becomes a serious dilemma for that patient/family.
It is not a dilemma. The way out of the problem is to take the vaccine. How hard is that?
You want to live in the dark ages? Fine. And you can die there too.
Watch this video on BBC News of a 500ml drinks bottle bomb being detonated in an aircraft. It is possible. The man who built that bomb was Dr. Sidney Alford, an explosives and IED expert
You mean, these bombs are so easy to make even an explosives expert can do it? Oh my God... This changes things.
What people missed is that The Register later backpedalled and decided that, Yes, there was a viable liquid bomb plot.
Jesus, I had no idea it had been judged viable by *The Register*. If anybody on this planet knows bomb-making, it's them.
You seem to be calling for Google to manipulate and censor its search results based on a type of discourse you find unappetizing. That makes you even worse than Santorum (his opinions are backward and ridiculous, whereas yours drive toward the collapse of free society).
Amazing how fine the line is between being a mature adult (calling for reasonable discourse) and a boot-licking despot-lover (calling for censorship of the Internet and manipulation of search). So fine that you apparently just stepped over it.
I don't want to live anywhere without 3G or broadband. Few people do. It's like having a city without electricity or running water these days.
Being someone who lives near some of these "wastelands" I can assure you there's nothing there and anything qualifying as a "city" is going to have both 3G and broadband. You're worried that the lack of 3G access in the middle of a cattle rancher's mountainous 100,000 acre property is causing "unnecessary strife" and some kind of disconnect within the United States? You're smoking something.
where my wife or myself pledge we reviewed and assisted with homework
I'll do a hell of a lot for my kids and their education. Submitting to teacher authority is not on the list. Anybody suggesting they have the power to order me to do something like I'm the fucking kid will get laughed in their face. You must be on drugs if you think they can force you to sign a pledge or that it's appropriate to do so.
I guess $1.2 million could be considered serious cash. I mean, if you multiply that by a factor of about five thousand, you're up to 1% of the US military budget.
The point is to be a good team who gets work done, not to arbitrarily adhere to a bunch of principles. If the principles work for you, use them. If not, don't. A few years ago I was on three teams simultaneously and saw three different styles of scrum mastering, all different but effective. Depends who your team is made of. If your manager or scrum master is making you less effective, speak up. They aren't doing their jobs right.
Seems to me that if folks have to use public shame as a whip, the team has more problems than simple standups will fix.
Shame can create itself if you let it. You don't need to invent strange activities to shame people. If you have a good set of people, they'll feel bad all on their own for standing up their team (pun intended).
On the other hand, the pride of being able to come in every day and announce the accomplishments is a positive motivator.
Also, the idea that you might have to say "I didn't do anything of merit yesterday" to everyone you work with, is also a motivator.
If that's really the only purpose of the meeting why can't the status updates be emailed or shared some other way?
Email can be ignored, missed, or lost. Especially if all communication is done over hundreds of short emails. Furthermore, email encourages incomplete thinking where people send out bits and pieces of something instead of taking time to collect their thoughts and present a complete picture.
After all if you are not allowed to ask questions, discuss or interrupt, then each person might as well just write what they would have said in a brief message then email or share it some other way with everyone involved.
You can vary the level of hard-ass to suit the team. On my scrum teams interruption is common but is kept in check, and the meetings never run over 15 minutes. If somebody drones on and thereby prevents another person from giving status (time ran out), that person is lightly chastised and corrected. It depends who's on your team. If you're working with a bunch of egotists, loud mouths who like to hear themselves talk, etc. then you can certainly have problems.
So unless there's some other reason it sounds rather inefficient to me. I'm assuming of course that the participants read/scan status updates much faster than most people speak or listen.
As I said, the *fastest* way to read emailed status updates is to not read them. This can and will happen.
Yes, I know what it says. It says the probability of a comparison with the Nazis goes to one as thread length goes to infinity. First of all, it's only mildly humorous (it's actually kind of stupid). Second of all, that's NOT how people use the "law" in debates. When a Nazi comparison is drawn, the response will be "Godwin, you lose, sucker!"
So you can tell me all you want that's not what the "law" says, but it is how it is used and you can't deny it.
Fuck Godwin's law. All it was was a silly Usenet post decades ago, and we've allowed it to arbitrarily constrain debate ever since. Comparisons with the Nazis are forbidden (maybe I should say verboten) forever more. Nothing could ever be that bad again, right? Until it is, and then we forbid ourselves from realizing it because of some stupid fucking comment made in jest by a guy none of us have ever met. No, fuck Godwin's law. I don't operate my mind according to rules of thumb like that, because I'm not a fucking idiot.
To put it crudely the mass is "in" the energy, so wherever the energy is is where the mass is. In the case of kinetic energy it's simply a property of the moving object (and varies depending on frame of reference!) In the case of potential energy it manifests itself as the field between the objects which are interacting with each other. For instance two protons close together have more mass than two protons far away from each other -- the additional mass-energy resides in the EM field between the protons. Or to be quantum about it, the energy is manifest in the form of virtual photons which constitute the interaction between the protons.
Wrong. Simply raising the the temperature of an object does not raise the mass. What are you guys smoking?
We're smoking Einstein's old pajama pants. Also, we're correct and you aren't. Higher temperature means more energy in a system. More energy means more mass. Yeah, it's a little weird. It's also an inevitable consequence of the constant speed of light, and the conservation of momentum and energy. Starting with those three assumptions you can prove that E=mc^2.
I thought the distinction between quackery and medicine was sound experimental techniques, solid statistics, reproducible results and peer review. Not a sign-off by a three-letter-acronym government agency. Oh well, silly me.
It’s not tech related, it’s not significantly world changing to fall into the “stuff that matters” side of things, and it’s not even related to a topic that frequently interests this demographic (anyone here know off-hand where the other 4 older trees are?).
Uh, it's a physics story man. The theory is the wind was blowing so hard the friction of the bark moving back and forth reached the ignition point and the tree was literally "blown into flames." I fully expected to read the comments and see total carnage as informed citizens of Slashdot shot the idea to pieces. I'm completely f'ing disappointed.
All of that notwithstanding, if it costs more than $25 million to get the aircraft flying again, then saying it is $25 million in damage is just spewing bullshit. The $25 million figure is obviously being used to make some number somewhere look better. It's a lie.
Non-linearity? Quantum mechanics? Given that most of quantum theory is founded on linear operators I'd say "non-linear" notes are highly inappropriate:-)
Do our freedoms hold more weight than corporations' freedoms? Yes. The answer clearly is yes. Corporations and government are both servants of the people. You know, people -- individual specimens of Homo sapiens who exist on this planet. The only beings which actually exist. Those people.
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I vaccinated my kids but did worry and it was a tough decision, left it to fate and proceeded to vaccinate.
If you drive a car with your kids in it, you are putting them at higher risk than pretty much anything else you could do. If you're worried about incredibly unlikely outcomes then cessation of driving should be your first step. It's the leading cause of death in children.
It becomes an issue if you are out in a rural area, and there are only two doctors that serve the area and both refuse to treat people who aren't vaccinated. If the patient doesn't have the money to travel to another doctor, it becomes a serious dilemma for that patient/family.
It is not a dilemma. The way out of the problem is to take the vaccine. How hard is that?
You want to live in the dark ages? Fine. And you can die there too.
Watch this video on BBC News of a 500ml drinks bottle bomb being detonated in an aircraft. It is possible. The man who built that bomb was Dr. Sidney Alford, an explosives and IED expert
You mean, these bombs are so easy to make even an explosives expert can do it? Oh my God... This changes things.
What people missed is that The Register later backpedalled and decided that, Yes, there was a viable liquid bomb plot.
Jesus, I had no idea it had been judged viable by *The Register*. If anybody on this planet knows bomb-making, it's them.
You seem to be calling for Google to manipulate and censor its search results based on a type of discourse you find unappetizing. That makes you even worse than Santorum (his opinions are backward and ridiculous, whereas yours drive toward the collapse of free society).
Amazing how fine the line is between being a mature adult (calling for reasonable discourse) and a boot-licking despot-lover (calling for censorship of the Internet and manipulation of search). So fine that you apparently just stepped over it.
I don't want to live anywhere without 3G or broadband. Few people do. It's like having a city without electricity or running water these days.
Being someone who lives near some of these "wastelands" I can assure you there's nothing there and anything qualifying as a "city" is going to have both 3G and broadband. You're worried that the lack of 3G access in the middle of a cattle rancher's mountainous 100,000 acre property is causing "unnecessary strife" and some kind of disconnect within the United States? You're smoking something.
where my wife or myself pledge we reviewed and assisted with homework
I'll do a hell of a lot for my kids and their education. Submitting to teacher authority is not on the list. Anybody suggesting they have the power to order me to do something like I'm the fucking kid will get laughed in their face. You must be on drugs if you think they can force you to sign a pledge or that it's appropriate to do so.
I guess $1.2 million could be considered serious cash. I mean, if you multiply that by a factor of about five thousand, you're up to 1% of the US military budget.
The point is to be a good team who gets work done, not to arbitrarily adhere to a bunch of principles. If the principles work for you, use them. If not, don't. A few years ago I was on three teams simultaneously and saw three different styles of scrum mastering, all different but effective. Depends who your team is made of. If your manager or scrum master is making you less effective, speak up. They aren't doing their jobs right.
you've already lost the game...
I see what you did there... AC bastard!
Seems to me that if folks have to use public shame as a whip, the team has more problems than simple standups will fix.
Shame can create itself if you let it. You don't need to invent strange activities to shame people. If you have a good set of people, they'll feel bad all on their own for standing up their team (pun intended).
On the other hand, the pride of being able to come in every day and announce the accomplishments is a positive motivator.
Also, the idea that you might have to say "I didn't do anything of merit yesterday" to everyone you work with, is also a motivator.
If that's really the only purpose of the meeting why can't the status updates be emailed or shared some other way?
Email can be ignored, missed, or lost. Especially if all communication is done over hundreds of short emails. Furthermore, email encourages incomplete thinking where people send out bits and pieces of something instead of taking time to collect their thoughts and present a complete picture.
After all if you are not allowed to ask questions, discuss or interrupt, then each person might as well just write what they would have said in a brief message then email or share it some other way with everyone involved.
You can vary the level of hard-ass to suit the team. On my scrum teams interruption is common but is kept in check, and the meetings never run over 15 minutes. If somebody drones on and thereby prevents another person from giving status (time ran out), that person is lightly chastised and corrected. It depends who's on your team. If you're working with a bunch of egotists, loud mouths who like to hear themselves talk, etc. then you can certainly have problems.
So unless there's some other reason it sounds rather inefficient to me. I'm assuming of course that the participants read/scan status updates much faster than most people speak or listen.
As I said, the *fastest* way to read emailed status updates is to not read them. This can and will happen.
And if they don't comply? Then what? You'll create the Great Firewall of EU to keep Facebook out of your countries?
Yes, I know what it says. It says the probability of a comparison with the Nazis goes to one as thread length goes to infinity. First of all, it's only mildly humorous (it's actually kind of stupid). Second of all, that's NOT how people use the "law" in debates. When a Nazi comparison is drawn, the response will be "Godwin, you lose, sucker!"
So you can tell me all you want that's not what the "law" says, but it is how it is used and you can't deny it.
Fuck Godwin's law. All it was was a silly Usenet post decades ago, and we've allowed it to arbitrarily constrain debate ever since. Comparisons with the Nazis are forbidden (maybe I should say verboten) forever more. Nothing could ever be that bad again, right? Until it is, and then we forbid ourselves from realizing it because of some stupid fucking comment made in jest by a guy none of us have ever met. No, fuck Godwin's law. I don't operate my mind according to rules of thumb like that, because I'm not a fucking idiot.
To put it crudely the mass is "in" the energy, so wherever the energy is is where the mass is. In the case of kinetic energy it's simply a property of the moving object (and varies depending on frame of reference!) In the case of potential energy it manifests itself as the field between the objects which are interacting with each other. For instance two protons close together have more mass than two protons far away from each other -- the additional mass-energy resides in the EM field between the protons. Or to be quantum about it, the energy is manifest in the form of virtual photons which constitute the interaction between the protons.
Wrong. Simply raising the the temperature of an object does not raise the mass. What are you guys smoking?
We're smoking Einstein's old pajama pants. Also, we're correct and you aren't. Higher temperature means more energy in a system. More energy means more mass. Yeah, it's a little weird. It's also an inevitable consequence of the constant speed of light, and the conservation of momentum and energy. Starting with those three assumptions you can prove that E=mc^2.
Quackery is not a Good Thing in medicine.
I thought the distinction between quackery and medicine was sound experimental techniques, solid statistics, reproducible results and peer review. Not a sign-off by a three-letter-acronym government agency. Oh well, silly me.
Well to be fair, it depends on what the definition of "is" is...
It’s not tech related, it’s not significantly world changing to fall into the “stuff that matters” side of things, and it’s not even related to a topic that frequently interests this demographic (anyone here know off-hand where the other 4 older trees are?).
Uh, it's a physics story man. The theory is the wind was blowing so hard the friction of the bark moving back and forth reached the ignition point and the tree was literally "blown into flames." I fully expected to read the comments and see total carnage as informed citizens of Slashdot shot the idea to pieces. I'm completely f'ing disappointed.
All of that notwithstanding, if it costs more than $25 million to get the aircraft flying again, then saying it is $25 million in damage is just spewing bullshit. The $25 million figure is obviously being used to make some number somewhere look better. It's a lie.
I access the web from all kinds of different devices. They ALL support SSL. Why can't they all support email encryption? Diversity is no excuse.
Non-linearity? Quantum mechanics? Given that most of quantum theory is founded on linear operators I'd say "non-linear" notes are highly inappropriate :-)
mcgrew, I'm sad you think I'm that stupid. Obviously a lot is wrong, all over the world.
Do our freedoms hold more weight than corporations' freedoms? Yes. The answer clearly is yes. Corporations and government are both servants of the people. You know, people -- individual specimens of Homo sapiens who exist on this planet. The only beings which actually exist. Those people.
Because as we all know, once you've deleted it from the Internet it's gone.