That's very true. Newsletters that I've read regularly for years, as soon as I delete two or three of them without opening the message first start getting sent to the spam folder.
Somehow despite being fairly promiscuous with my gmail address I only get six or seven spams a day (often from/for Christian Mingle, which is hilarious for multiple reasons). Maybe I've just been extraordinarily but I have not personally experienced this 'unsubscribe from one list and get added to seventeen more' phenomenon.
one easy answer is that species prefer different habitats. For example using contemporary species, yaks are probably never or only rarely going to fossilize - their environment is too dry and there are lots of scavengers. There may well be tons of water buffalo fossils however, just because they get washed away and buried in flood sediment on a regular basis. Similarly rare species will automatically form fewer fossils just because you're starting with a lower number of corpses. And a third possibility is that animals which have strong social bonds are more likely to form mass bone beds, because they won't leave their social group members to save themselves from a threat. As you mentioned, there's more possibilities but I wanted to spell a handful of them out.
Starting at 'you suck' is a great way to turn women off tech. Why should anyone (of any gender) put up with that? Women in general seem to have the self respect to go somewhere they aren't being denigrated for having done nothing wrong. The fact that more men are willing to put up with hazing bullshit is not necessarily a plus on their side of the book.
I thought that was a very self-aware and considerate comment, actually, and showed an appropriate response by saying that he would remove himself from the situation instead of trying to drag her down. I thought that's how adults are supposed to function - be aware of and accommodate your own weaknesses.
I offer my sympathy as a woman who's tried to call out her female coworkers on this very subject. The lack of introspection - indeed, the refusal to consider the need for introspection - is appalling. And damned those ladies can get vicious.:-(
I mentioned this in a comment above, but Polar makes a heart rate monitor sports bra. You still need the actual Polar monitor. Depending on what HRM you've got you may want to look into it.
Polar actually sells a sports bra version of their heart rate monitor strap. It's a brilliant idea, because wearing the strap under a sports bra isn't really all that pleasant. Lots of us do it, but it sort of sucks. You still have to attach the actual monitor with the transmitter and battery to the bra, but the electrodes and wiring are built in.
Turbines are stopped and the blades fully cleaned at least once a year anyway - bug residue and airborne particulates (mostly carbon based - hmm) adds a surprising amount of drag and reduces efficiency. It's a popular gig with rock climbers since the skills aren't that common, the work is seasonal, and the money is great.
I loved donating, and am also O+ but I tend toward vasovagal syncope (ie, I faint when my blood pressure changes rapidly) and after passing out in the recovery room a few times they moved me to half units and then a couple of times after that they started subtly encouraging me not to donate. I guess I was too much paperwork.:-(
former lab sample processor here - not CLT, but pre-test prep. For most tests you need serum, which is only about half the blood volume after centrifugation. Then it's poured off- by hand- into plastic sample vials. You lose some down the side of the tube, the tubes are wider than they need to be because human pour accuracy is bad which is more surplus, and the company always wants to keep at least one test's worth of serum as a backup in case a tube gets dropped or exposed to a contaminant or gets overheated or something, and because more often than you'd think doctors call up and say oh hey add these 40 tests to Bob's sample. Oh, and sample processors are expected to split well over 120 patient's orders an hour, usually into four or five tubes, sometimes a lot more.
A funny aside: some people have triglyceride levels so high that their blood serum is actually strawberry milkshake pink. Always impressive to see that.
same here, no hangovers thanks to generations of alcoholics pruning the family tree. Fortunately I find the feeling of being too-drunk an adequate deterrent.
I am _not_ offering samples as the process would be significantly more challenging and unpleasant for me than for fatphil here.:-)
I believe Babcox and Wilcox (the security contractor at Y-12) did in fact have their contract terminated and were replaced. I do not know who the replacement is.
I think perhaps you are projecting. I have in fact held some newborns, and they were far less aware of what was going on than my cats, and evinced fewer feelings. My cats, for example, can clearly demonstrate annoyance at one another; the babies I have been around seem to express only pleasure/displeasure and that in only the basest of manners, such as screaming and, oh, screaming. Something seems to change in them around five months, when one day you look in their eyes and there is actually someONE looking back at you.
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That's very true. Newsletters that I've read regularly for years, as soon as I delete two or three of them without opening the message first start getting sent to the spam folder.
Somehow despite being fairly promiscuous with my gmail address I only get six or seven spams a day (often from/for Christian Mingle, which is hilarious for multiple reasons). Maybe I've just been extraordinarily but I have not personally experienced this 'unsubscribe from one list and get added to seventeen more' phenomenon.
one easy answer is that species prefer different habitats. For example using contemporary species, yaks are probably never or only rarely going to fossilize - their environment is too dry and there are lots of scavengers. There may well be tons of water buffalo fossils however, just because they get washed away and buried in flood sediment on a regular basis. Similarly rare species will automatically form fewer fossils just because you're starting with a lower number of corpses. And a third possibility is that animals which have strong social bonds are more likely to form mass bone beds, because they won't leave their social group members to save themselves from a threat. As you mentioned, there's more possibilities but I wanted to spell a handful of them out.
Starting at 'you suck' is a great way to turn women off tech. Why should anyone (of any gender) put up with that? Women in general seem to have the self respect to go somewhere they aren't being denigrated for having done nothing wrong. The fact that more men are willing to put up with hazing bullshit is not necessarily a plus on their side of the book.
I thought that was a very self-aware and considerate comment, actually, and showed an appropriate response by saying that he would remove himself from the situation instead of trying to drag her down. I thought that's how adults are supposed to function - be aware of and accommodate your own weaknesses.
I offer my sympathy as a woman who's tried to call out her female coworkers on this very subject. The lack of introspection - indeed, the refusal to consider the need for introspection - is appalling. And damned those ladies can get vicious. :-(
oh, you were responsible for that tote I had to stow? That was an odd selection even for a Thursday.
Oh I like that one!
I've been a member since 1999, but thanks for playing.
I mentioned this in a comment above, but Polar makes a heart rate monitor sports bra. You still need the actual Polar monitor. Depending on what HRM you've got you may want to look into it.
Polar actually sells a sports bra version of their heart rate monitor strap. It's a brilliant idea, because wearing the strap under a sports bra isn't really all that pleasant. Lots of us do it, but it sort of sucks. You still have to attach the actual monitor with the transmitter and battery to the bra, but the electrodes and wiring are built in.
means they're not on hers.
Turbines are stopped and the blades fully cleaned at least once a year anyway - bug residue and airborne particulates (mostly carbon based - hmm) adds a surprising amount of drag and reduces efficiency. It's a popular gig with rock climbers since the skills aren't that common, the work is seasonal, and the money is great.
Link's not currently working for me, and I would love to see that info.
well, they look good in part because they poached about half of Lotus' design team, but thanks for the compliment?
also curious, I don't see anything blatant.
I loved donating, and am also O+ but I tend toward vasovagal syncope (ie, I faint when my blood pressure changes rapidly) and after passing out in the recovery room a few times they moved me to half units and then a couple of times after that they started subtly encouraging me not to donate. I guess I was too much paperwork. :-(
former lab sample processor here - not CLT, but pre-test prep. For most tests you need serum, which is only about half the blood volume after centrifugation. Then it's poured off- by hand- into plastic sample vials. You lose some down the side of the tube, the tubes are wider than they need to be because human pour accuracy is bad which is more surplus, and the company always wants to keep at least one test's worth of serum as a backup in case a tube gets dropped or exposed to a contaminant or gets overheated or something, and because more often than you'd think doctors call up and say oh hey add these 40 tests to Bob's sample. Oh, and sample processors are expected to split well over 120 patient's orders an hour, usually into four or five tubes, sometimes a lot more.
A funny aside: some people have triglyceride levels so high that their blood serum is actually strawberry milkshake pink. Always impressive to see that.
same here, no hangovers thanks to generations of alcoholics pruning the family tree. Fortunately I find the feeling of being too-drunk an adequate deterrent.
I am _not_ offering samples as the process would be significantly more challenging and unpleasant for me than for fatphil here. :-)
I believe Babcox and Wilcox (the security contractor at Y-12) did in fact have their contract terminated and were replaced. I do not know who the replacement is.
I freely admit that I am average at best when driving.
It worked in ancient Athens, and with much the same rationale- you don't want anyone ruling you who would actually want the job.
to avoid cross contamination, of course.
I think perhaps you are projecting. I have in fact held some newborns, and they were far less aware of what was going on than my cats, and evinced fewer feelings. My cats, for example, can clearly demonstrate annoyance at one another; the babies I have been around seem to express only pleasure/displeasure and that in only the basest of manners, such as screaming and, oh, screaming. Something seems to change in them around five months, when one day you look in their eyes and there is actually someONE looking back at you.
The study I've seen most frequently cited as a refutation to the rape can't cause pregnancy argument is from 1996 and was in fact prospective.
PubMed; Am J Obstet Gynecol. 1996 Aug;175(2):320-4; discussion 324-5.
We're not all idiots, thanks. Some of us are even familiar with the Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Theo van Gogh thing.
-a biologist in Kentucky