it seemed unlikely (I work in medical lab testing and have been in pharamceutical manufacturing, and am fairly familiar with biohazard regs), but I've never caught the gentleman in question in a lie. He may well have fallen foul of one of those corporate myths we've all been guilty of spreading from time to time about things we as worker bees just don't know about and don't know who to ask for the real answer.
I certainly don't worry much about what's in my shampoo beyond it had better have some sodium laureth sulfate and I'd prefer it didn't smell disgusting.
I'm a regular blood donor, I'm on the bone marrow donor registry, and my family and friends all know I approve of my organs being donated (they think it's strange since i dislike most people so much, but they're ok with it). I would totally agree with and promote this kind of approach to blood donation. I pass out every other time i give blood (450 mL units, not even full ones- I don't weigh enough) and I keep doing it! It makes no sense. Go donate some blood, people. It's easy, and you get free snacks and orange juice. And if you're like me, you get to experience the truly unusal and unique sensation of feeling the inside of your nose get cold and knowing you're falling over, but not caring a whole lot:p
before anyone asks- i've asked the staff at my donor center if i should stop donating and whether I'm causing them a lot of problems with my near-faints. They keep insisting i'm not, and that i should come back. Damned O+ blood.. One of my current co-workers used to work there and told me they sell the excess or unsuitable blood to comsetic companies for use in protein shampoos and such. Anyone know the truth on that? I don't mind passing out to help people but i'd rather not do so for somebody's shiny hair.
I've always wondered why we deem it acceptable to put our loved ones or ourselves through this sort of hell, but when it comes to our animals we're almost perfectly able to say "let them die in as much peace, comfort, and dignity as possible.":-(
GP- I'm sorry about your kitty. They're so fully desert adapted that unless it's injury or disease it's the kidneys that go first.. at least it's fast.
it wasn't my intent to imply that older people might not abuse it as well- just that an older person would have more options (private investigator, more experience at stalking, more psycho friends etc) and that something this simplistic was more likely to be abused by younger and/or less sophisticated users.
it seems more likely to me that a couple of sixteen year olds will be dating and have given each other permission to locate- then when they break up one tracks down the other and makes a messy scene- either in the public screaming fit variety or the bloody stains everywhere variety. I just don't think that this is something necessary.
I was recently considering entering graduate school, and one of the fellowships I was looking at was for a study examining very nearly this topic- the effect of antibacterial-contaminated runnoff from farms on soil and watershed bacteria, with a possible extension into effects on the digestive flora of aquatic life. I didn't take it, but it seemed like a very interesting and important subject. If it's made it into the mainstream press already, though, I would have been facing a pretty limited opportunity for publishing. I'm glad the information's out there! Maybe this wll help make clear the importance of more limited prophylactic antibiotic use.
I really like Heifer International (http://www.heifer.org./ You're giving the gift of self-sufficiency to people that really want it: participants ask for help, and recieve training, assistance in building livestock pens and equipment, and depending on their individual and community situation at least one female livestock animal appropriate to their environment. The only thing Heifer asks from the participants in return is that they pass on an equivalent gift to another needy family, in the form of training or the first female offspring of their gift animal. Heifer works all over the world, including the poorer areas of the United States: they have a map on their site that shows current active projects. Due to the nature of their work they have to be in fairly stable areas -you don't want your newly-gifted goats to be stolen and fed to soldiers after all- but those are often the regions that seem to need the most help and that no one know s_how_ to help.
If it helps build their credibility, Heifer has been a Motley Fool choise philanthopy for at least two years now.
i know, i know, responding to someone openly going by the name trollable. My biologist's background won't let me leave this be, though.
If the grandparent was living in the bush in Alaska and ate his bear there, it may well have been living entirely off of salmon runs, in which case it would have been carnivorous when he ate it. As for whales, that depends upon the species of whale; the baleen whales eat krill, which is composed of small shrimp-like creatures while orcas- killer whales? you've heard of them -are most certainly carnivorous. Dogs on the other hand will eat just about anything if they have to- rabbit droppings (good source of fiber, those) come to mind. They prefer meat but don't require it in the way that cats do. Tyranosaurus probably tasted at least a little bit like chicken, and quite possibly modern factory farm chicken at that... Do you know what your food's been eating?
When I did my last research project, I had no clue what my results meant and made that clear in my paper!
This was an undergraduate ornithology project that was supposed to take six weeks, according to my advisor. Every professor I've told about it since then has said, that's graduate level at least...
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that... person... looks exactly like my ex-boyfriend, if said ex-boyfriend lost some weight and was drunk off his ass. This is hilarious.
I play ATiTD and I can assure you that we have a much higher percentage of female characters being played by actual, real-life females than almost any other game out there.
a classic use for old computer bits is making them into jewelry- things like capacitor earrings, pendants made out of those little copper-wrapped magnets, pins made from colorful heat sinks and interestingly-patterned chips.
They make good refirgerator magnets, as well. And if you're patient, you can make your own motherboard clipboard.
I got Pogo.com to work, though I don't quite remember how.. You might want to try the site with firefox 0.9.3 and the current version of Java. And i believe the popup blocking has to be turned off, which is a pity. Goodluck.
my friends and I just watched that last week! We decided it must have been a pilot for a British TV series that got canned. And the guy who bought it picked it out for the very same reason- he thought there would at least be dragons in it. Instead we got a horrible mashing of Robin Hood and Ivanhoe. Dreadful.
Ah. Thank you; this is a little odd, though not especially different from clauses I've seen in some sorts of freeware/shareware licenses. If that's the only odd aspect to the license, you'd think they _would_ just use the GPL and tack on a little comment before or after the license text making the request. But i guess that being a GA (gov. agency) they have to reinvent the wheel every so often.
Hmm, i wonder how clunky a NASA-developed wheel would be...
the excerpt you included in your comment does not demonstrate that this is the case at all. Did you perhaps snip the wrong piece of text? No, I have not read the license in question, but please, if there is such a clause, post it. Thanks! -turtledawn
This is my favorite fantasy series. The characters are well developed, the plot has lots of interesting twists, and the characters you'd think are shoo-ins for winning, don't win. It's not the typical American fantasy novel, and I'm eagerly awaiting the next installment in the series. If you like this, you might also like the "Kushiel" series by Jacqeline Carey, with the caveat that it's a little explicit in places.
Gee- thanks for that lovely generalization. I'm sure every girl geek out here will now be sure to stay away from you.
I had to actually try to keep it a secret from my boyfriend that I was installing Linux on my computer so that I could have the opportunity to learn the system for myself. Every time prior to this experiment that I had a problem with my Linux partition and asked him for advice he would assume that I couldn't possibly understand his explanation (not usually true; I may not be a CS major but I'm also not stupid). This is, of course, the most certain way of making sure that someone never gets to the point of understanding the explanation!
well-written review- if you're trying to impress your English teacher! Moderately useful, though I'm not likely to read something like this, especially as it sounds too ambitious to pull everything off in one book.
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it seemed unlikely (I work in medical lab testing and have been in pharamceutical manufacturing, and am fairly familiar with biohazard regs), but I've never caught the gentleman in question in a lie. He may well have fallen foul of one of those corporate myths we've all been guilty of spreading from time to time about things we as worker bees just don't know about and don't know who to ask for the real answer.
I certainly don't worry much about what's in my shampoo beyond it had better have some sodium laureth sulfate and I'd prefer it didn't smell disgusting.
I'm a regular blood donor, I'm on the bone marrow donor registry, and my family and friends all know I approve of my organs being donated (they think it's strange since i dislike most people so much, but they're ok with it). I would totally agree with and promote this kind of approach to blood donation. I pass out every other time i give blood (450 mL units, not even full ones- I don't weigh enough) and I keep doing it! It makes no sense. Go donate some blood, people. It's easy, and you get free snacks and orange juice. And if you're like me, you get to experience the truly unusal and unique sensation of feeling the inside of your nose get cold and knowing you're falling over, but not caring a whole lot :p
before anyone asks- i've asked the staff at my donor center if i should stop donating and whether I'm causing them a lot of problems with my near-faints. They keep insisting i'm not, and that i should come back. Damned O+ blood.. One of my current co-workers used to work there and told me they sell the excess or unsuitable blood to comsetic companies for use in protein shampoos and such. Anyone know the truth on that? I don't mind passing out to help people but i'd rather not do so for somebody's shiny hair.
I've always wondered why we deem it acceptable to put our loved ones or ourselves through this sort of hell, but when it comes to our animals we're almost perfectly able to say "let them die in as much peace, comfort, and dignity as possible." :-(
GP- I'm sorry about your kitty. They're so fully desert adapted that unless it's injury or disease it's the kidneys that go first.. at least it's fast.
it wasn't my intent to imply that older people might not abuse it as well- just that an older person would have more options (private investigator, more experience at stalking, more psycho friends etc) and that something this simplistic was more likely to be abused by younger and/or less sophisticated users.
it seems more likely to me that a couple of sixteen year olds will be dating and have given each other permission to locate- then when they break up one tracks down the other and makes a messy scene- either in the public screaming fit variety or the bloody stains everywhere variety. I just don't think that this is something necessary.
That is a fascinating idea.
I was recently considering entering graduate school, and one of the fellowships I was looking at was for a study examining very nearly this topic- the effect of antibacterial-contaminated runnoff from farms on soil and watershed bacteria, with a possible extension into effects on the digestive flora of aquatic life. I didn't take it, but it seemed like a very interesting and important subject. If it's made it into the mainstream press already, though, I would have been facing a pretty limited opportunity for publishing. I'm glad the information's out there! Maybe this wll help make clear the importance of more limited prophylactic antibiotic use.
I really like Heifer International (http://www.heifer.org./ You're giving the gift of self-sufficiency to people that really want it: participants ask for help, and recieve training, assistance in building livestock pens and equipment, and depending on their individual and community situation at least one female livestock animal appropriate to their environment. The only thing Heifer asks from the participants in return is that they pass on an equivalent gift to another needy family, in the form of training or the first female offspring of their gift animal. Heifer works all over the world, including the poorer areas of the United States: they have a map on their site that shows current active projects. Due to the nature of their work they have to be in fairly stable areas -you don't want your newly-gifted goats to be stolen and fed to soldiers after all- but those are often the regions that seem to need the most help and that no one know s_how_ to help.
If it helps build their credibility, Heifer has been a Motley Fool choise philanthopy for at least two years now.
i know, i know, responding to someone openly going by the name trollable. My biologist's background won't let me leave this be, though.
If the grandparent was living in the bush in Alaska and ate his bear there, it may well have been living entirely off of salmon runs, in which case it would have been carnivorous when he ate it. As for whales, that depends upon the species of whale; the baleen whales eat krill, which is composed of small shrimp-like creatures while orcas- killer whales? you've heard of them -are most certainly carnivorous. Dogs on the other hand will eat just about anything if they have to- rabbit droppings (good source of fiber, those) come to mind. They prefer meat but don't require it in the way that cats do. Tyranosaurus probably tasted at least a little bit like chicken, and quite possibly modern factory farm chicken at that... Do you know what your food's been eating?
When I did my last research project, I had no clue what my results meant and made that clear in my paper!
This was an undergraduate ornithology project that was supposed to take six weeks, according to my advisor. Every professor I've told about it since then has said, that's graduate level at least...
that... person... looks exactly like my ex-boyfriend, if said ex-boyfriend lost some weight and was drunk off his ass. This is hilarious.
I play ATiTD and I can assure you that we have a much higher percentage of female characters being played by actual, real-life females than almost any other game out there.
a classic use for old computer bits is making them into jewelry- things like capacitor earrings, pendants made out of those little copper-wrapped magnets, pins made from colorful heat sinks and interestingly-patterned chips.
They make good refirgerator magnets, as well. And if you're patient, you can make your own motherboard clipboard.
I got Pogo.com to work, though I don't quite remember how.. You might want to try the site with firefox 0.9.3 and the current version of Java. And i believe the popup blocking has to be turned off, which is a pity. Goodluck.
my friends and I just watched that last week! We decided it must have been a pilot for a British TV series that got canned. And the guy who bought it picked it out for the very same reason- he thought there would at least be dragons in it. Instead we got a horrible mashing of Robin Hood and Ivanhoe. Dreadful.
Ah. Thank you; this is a little odd, though not especially different from clauses I've seen in some sorts of freeware/shareware licenses. If that's the only odd aspect to the license, you'd think they _would_ just use the GPL and tack on a little comment before or after the license text making the request. But i guess that being a GA (gov. agency) they have to reinvent the wheel every so often.
Hmm, i wonder how clunky a NASA-developed wheel would be...
the excerpt you included in your comment does not demonstrate that this is the case at all. Did you perhaps snip the wrong piece of text? No, I have not read the license in question, but please, if there is such a clause, post it. Thanks!
-turtledawn
This is my favorite fantasy series. The characters are well developed, the plot has lots of interesting twists, and the characters you'd think are shoo-ins for winning, don't win. It's not the typical American fantasy novel, and I'm eagerly awaiting the next installment in the series. If you like this, you might also like the "Kushiel" series by Jacqeline Carey, with the caveat that it's a little explicit in places.
Gee- thanks for that lovely generalization. I'm sure every girl geek out here will now be sure to stay away from you.
I had to actually try to keep it a secret from my boyfriend that I was installing Linux on my computer so that I could have the opportunity to learn the system for myself. Every time prior to this experiment that I had a problem with my Linux partition and asked him for advice he would assume that I couldn't possibly understand his explanation (not usually true; I may not be a CS major but I'm also not stupid). This is, of course, the most certain way of making sure that someone never gets to the point of understanding the explanation!
perhaps when those neuron microchips are developed, they could serve as the interface device?
i don't even have my webcam linked up, dork. It was supposed to be funny.
what linus would say if someone installed him in a toaster?
My roommate and I- two attractive college females- are pointing BOTH our webcams at-- A CAN OF TUNAFISH!!!! Come and get it, boys.
i got the same thing, and the page one level up produced nearly the same thing. Hitting the link off the main page didn't work either. Ah well.
well-written review- if you're trying to impress your English teacher! Moderately useful, though I'm not likely to read something like this, especially as it sounds too ambitious to pull everything off in one book.