"Oriental" = of the Orient, i.e. from the East. I can't find anything offensive in that, sorry. No more so than "Westerner" which I hear all the time and no one complains.
Look up Edward Said and Orientalism. He basically argues that the Western interpretation of the Orient (usually applied to Egypt/Middle East/India subcontinent as opposed to "Asian" states) was based on observations and attitudes from European imperialism and remained static since. So the West sees the "Orient" as backwards, stuck in the past, and unevolving while the West is modern, rational, etc. It carries an inherent superiority of the West over the East. It would be as if the US only saw Europe as full of castles and villages, or Europe say the US as nothing but plantations and log cabins.
A bit more detail would be nice. Did they shut down the Internet on Russian territory? Probably not, that'd be some hot potato if they were found. If they blocked the IP on the US-side, there are plenty of proxies both in and out of the US to work through.
We've seen plenty of cases where power failures, bugs, script kiddies, or downright stupidity or apathy have brought major companies to a standstill. If any organization could undertake a successful, targeted attack on the internet and networking structure of a specific company without collateral damage, it would be the NSA.
Give me graphically remastered early Halo games on my PC and Microsoft can have my money. I tried replaying Halo on a modern TV and the graphics have aged terribly. I don't pay full price for games but I probably would for that. The only other game I
would
have paid full price for was Metro:Exodus before they pulled their EPICally (see what I did there?) bonehead move to pull it from Steam.
First of all there are plenty of people out there that find heavier women to be attractive. Secondly, why would you feel the need to inform any woman of your level of sexual attraction towards them unsolicited?
Remember, in 2012 the Chinese were the ones who built the arks that were going to save humanity. And in The Martian Matt Damon would have died without the Chinese's help.
It would have been a real breakthrough if it worked. It does work on some level, but not as advertised. She does understand how it works. She's not the reason it doesn't work. She's the reason it got so big without working.
It didn't work. There was no way they could do the amount of tests they claimed or intended with the amount of blood provided per sample.
I forgot who but she's somebody's God daughter or something. As long as we continue to pretend our ruling class doesn't exist they're untouchable.
Warren Buffet nailed it. (apologies for the WaPo link, open it in incognito/private mode).
Her father was a VP at Enron(!) then worked at government agencies and her mother was a Congressional staffer. Explains why almost all of her board members were former government officials (none of the board members had experience with biomedical technology-how that didn't raise red flags with investors I don't know; they were probably too busy seeing green)
CEO != CTO. Learn the difference. CEO is a fundraiser. Expecting her to be the brains behind the technology belies ignorance of how corporations work on YOUR part.
One would hope the founder of a medical technology company would have a fundamental understanding of the technology and science behind their primary product, especially if they were touting it as a revolutionary breakthrough.
Not only did the festival fail, but it would appear that the organizers had no affiliation with Epic, and (as hinted by the article) no permission to use the Fortnite branding. They've set themselves up for a nice lawsuit, either from attendees or Epic itself.
People's lives were not actually at risk as a result of testing their product, that's false.
Receiving false or inaccurate results from a blood test could lead to people not getting necessary treatment or undergoing unnecessary treatment. If no one was physically harmed she was certainly paving the way to make it possible.
Of the currently 12 questions that are currently +5 Insightful or Informative at the time of this post, why are 10 of them by ACs? And why do most of them have no child posts? Generally comments on Slashdot that warrant +5 moderation tend to generate plenty of child and grandchild comments.
It's not 100% realistic yet. The faces look good, but with the hair and body there are a lot of issues. I pulled up one picture and the face is a significantly lighter tone than the neck/chest area which leads to issue number 2, the woman does not appear to have a neck. The ears are just close enough to realistic to notice they aren't right, and the hair coming down over the body isn't correct either. But the facial features are really good.
This submission is fake news. There was a reported sighting in 2013.
There are reported sightings of thylacines as well, but they are still officially considered extinct. In this case, the last documented (not reported) sighting was 110 years ago. However, reported sightings are what led the researchers to this discovery as it gave them a good idea of where to look.
The US doesn't make consumer products. So yes, unless you regularly purchase aircraft, industrial/heavy machinery, tractors/combines, or trains then you aren't very likely to have purchased something made in America lately
I understand and agree with your sentiment, but you are also factually incorrect. The article says that Thomas called Webster in 2014, but he was not arrested until 2017, 3 years later. He was then tried and convicted in October 2018, and finally sentenced in February 2019.
Webster didn't involve the FBI until Thomas started threatening his family, described his house, etc. Until then he was just blowing it off. Also, if you read the article, he was charged in 2014, but wasn't arrested until he came to the US in 2017.
let's looks at the Titanic sinking and the classic "women and children first".
In practice, it was "Women, Children, and the Rich" first. I bet if the life rafts were somehow damaged in an accident today, leaving not enough space, it would be the same. The ship employees would save Jeff Bezos over Joe Nobody, forced with a choice.
But I generally agree with your point. Politics often ends up being about social and emotional factors. For example, it's common hear to "he/she hates America" or along the lines of "he/she hates blue/red culture". That's about one's alleged internal motivations, biases, background, not raw numbers.
Is he/she "one of us" is probably the biggest factor in politics.
It would say it wasn't a conscious decision so much as a product of the ship layout (the wealthier people were closer to the lifeboats) and ingrained social conditioning with the poorer people "waiting their turn" and the crew defaulting to non-emergency policies. When/if 2nd and 3rd class passengers made it to the deck they were loaded into the boats alongside the wealthy. I believe they even started loading female crew into the boats as well if I remember correctly. It was also a product of luck on which boats you tried to board: some boat crews refused to take men and would send boats empty while others would take women/children, then if there was room and no more women/children around would take men to fill up the boat.
That's $237 less, or a savings of 53%. Just how much per person is being subsidized to an extremely large, national airline, even if it's from a smaller sub partner?
I can tell you the actual flights are flowing by Piedmont Airlines as American Eagle...
The Essential Air Service program subsidized from $10-977 per passenger in 2014. Of course, from what I can see ABE and SCE aren't in EAS. I would say that part of it is that (I'm going to say "loss" as in the difference between the 2 fares, not necessarily that the ticket loses money) the loss from the SCE-PHL-ABE is spread between 2 flight segments and therefore the difference is mostly made up from other passengers.
Aircraft also have minimum operating costs that must be covered (fuel, maintenance, etc). Once those costs are covered then additional passengers add minimal fuel costs but even at a reduced fare can still provide enough revenue to cover their additional cost and provide additional revenue.
So it's possible that the PHI-ABE leg has already covered it's costs, so adding even reduced fare passengers to that flight helps cover the cost of the SCE-PHL leg.
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"Oriental" = of the Orient, i.e. from the East. I can't find anything offensive in that, sorry. No more so than "Westerner" which I hear all the time and no one complains.
Look up Edward Said and Orientalism. He basically argues that the Western interpretation of the Orient (usually applied to Egypt/Middle East/India subcontinent as opposed to "Asian" states) was based on observations and attitudes from European imperialism and remained static since. So the West sees the "Orient" as backwards, stuck in the past, and unevolving while the West is modern, rational, etc. It carries an inherent superiority of the West over the East. It would be as if the US only saw Europe as full of castles and villages, or Europe say the US as nothing but plantations and log cabins.
It is unclear...why the clips depicting suicide methods were embedded in children's cartoons.
People are dicks.
A bit more detail would be nice. Did they shut down the Internet on Russian territory? Probably not, that'd be some hot potato if they were found. If they blocked the IP on the US-side, there are plenty of proxies both in and out of the US to work through.
We've seen plenty of cases where power failures, bugs, script kiddies, or downright stupidity or apathy have brought major companies to a standstill. If any organization could undertake a successful, targeted attack on the internet and networking structure of a specific company without collateral damage, it would be the NSA.
Can you imagine a world where you had to actually have some first-hand knowledge of something before you could express an opinion?
I don't know what that world would be like, but I don't like it.
They'll know that I'm a woman's man, which is fine by me.
Might have a lot of false positives on Egyptians though.
would
have paid full price for was Metro:Exodus before they pulled their EPICally (see what I did there?) bonehead move to pull it from Steam.
First of all there are plenty of people out there that find heavier women to be attractive. Secondly, why would you feel the need to inform any woman of your level of sexual attraction towards them unsolicited?
Remember, in 2012 the Chinese were the ones who built the arks that were going to save humanity. And in The Martian Matt Damon would have died without the Chinese's help.
It would have been a real breakthrough if it worked. It does work on some level, but not as advertised. She does understand how it works. She's not the reason it doesn't work. She's the reason it got so big without working.
It didn't work. There was no way they could do the amount of tests they claimed or intended with the amount of blood provided per sample.
I forgot who but she's somebody's God daughter or something. As long as we continue to pretend our ruling class doesn't exist they're untouchable. Warren Buffet nailed it. (apologies for the WaPo link, open it in incognito/private mode).
Her father was a VP at Enron(!) then worked at government agencies and her mother was a Congressional staffer. Explains why almost all of her board members were former government officials (none of the board members had experience with biomedical technology-how that didn't raise red flags with investors I don't know; they were probably too busy seeing green)
At least it only cost $15-25 and people weren't trapped there without food...
Well, they are still in England....
CEO != CTO. Learn the difference. CEO is a fundraiser. Expecting her to be the brains behind the technology belies ignorance of how corporations work on YOUR part.
One would hope the founder of a medical technology company would have a fundamental understanding of the technology and science behind their primary product, especially if they were touting it as a revolutionary breakthrough.
Not only did the festival fail, but it would appear that the organizers had no affiliation with Epic, and (as hinted by the article) no permission to use the Fortnite branding. They've set themselves up for a nice lawsuit, either from attendees or Epic itself.
People's lives were not actually at risk as a result of testing their product, that's false.
Receiving false or inaccurate results from a blood test could lead to people not getting necessary treatment or undergoing unnecessary treatment. If no one was physically harmed she was certainly paving the way to make it possible.
What's the penalty for participating in an unregistered sport?
They take your ball and go home.
Of the currently 12 questions that are currently +5 Insightful or Informative at the time of this post, why are 10 of them by ACs? And why do most of them have no child posts? Generally comments on Slashdot that warrant +5 moderation tend to generate plenty of child and grandchild comments.
It's not 100% realistic yet. The faces look good, but with the hair and body there are a lot of issues. I pulled up one picture and the face is a significantly lighter tone than the neck/chest area which leads to issue number 2, the woman does not appear to have a neck. The ears are just close enough to realistic to notice they aren't right, and the hair coming down over the body isn't correct either. But the facial features are really good.
I pulled up the website and the picture looked a lot like me.....
This submission is fake news. There was a reported sighting in 2013.
There are reported sightings of thylacines as well, but they are still officially considered extinct. In this case, the last documented (not reported) sighting was 110 years ago. However, reported sightings are what led the researchers to this discovery as it gave them a good idea of where to look.
You can fly a 320 across the Atlantic if you are prepared for a 14 hour flight with 2 stops. I do not recommend it unless you are a fan of masochism.
The US doesn't make consumer products. So yes, unless you regularly purchase aircraft, industrial/heavy machinery, tractors/combines, or trains then you aren't very likely to have purchased something made in America lately
I understand and agree with your sentiment, but you are also factually incorrect. The article says that Thomas called Webster in 2014, but he was not arrested until 2017, 3 years later. He was then tried and convicted in October 2018, and finally sentenced in February 2019.
Webster didn't involve the FBI until Thomas started threatening his family, described his house, etc. Until then he was just blowing it off. Also, if you read the article, he was charged in 2014, but wasn't arrested until he came to the US in 2017.
In practice, it was "Women, Children, and the Rich" first. I bet if the life rafts were somehow damaged in an accident today, leaving not enough space, it would be the same. The ship employees would save Jeff Bezos over Joe Nobody, forced with a choice.
But I generally agree with your point. Politics often ends up being about social and emotional factors. For example, it's common hear to "he/she hates America" or along the lines of "he/she hates blue/red culture". That's about one's alleged internal motivations, biases, background, not raw numbers.
Is he/she "one of us" is probably the biggest factor in politics.
It would say it wasn't a conscious decision so much as a product of the ship layout (the wealthier people were closer to the lifeboats) and ingrained social conditioning with the poorer people "waiting their turn" and the crew defaulting to non-emergency policies. When/if 2nd and 3rd class passengers made it to the deck they were loaded into the boats alongside the wealthy. I believe they even started loading female crew into the boats as well if I remember correctly. It was also a product of luck on which boats you tried to board: some boat crews refused to take men and would send boats empty while others would take women/children, then if there was room and no more women/children around would take men to fill up the boat.
Cost of ticket on American Airlines: $447
That's $237 less, or a savings of 53%. Just how much per person is being subsidized to an extremely large, national airline, even if it's from a smaller sub partner? I can tell you the actual flights are flowing by Piedmont Airlines as American Eagle...
The Essential Air Service program subsidized from $10-977 per passenger in 2014. Of course, from what I can see ABE and SCE aren't in EAS. I would say that part of it is that (I'm going to say "loss" as in the difference between the 2 fares, not necessarily that the ticket loses money) the loss from the SCE-PHL-ABE is spread between 2 flight segments and therefore the difference is mostly made up from other passengers.
Aircraft also have minimum operating costs that must be covered (fuel, maintenance, etc). Once those costs are covered then additional passengers add minimal fuel costs but even at a reduced fare can still provide enough revenue to cover their additional cost and provide additional revenue.
So it's possible that the PHI-ABE leg has already covered it's costs, so adding even reduced fare passengers to that flight helps cover the cost of the SCE-PHL leg.