"After their spirits get broken, the workers actually start functioning as a well-oiled team."
I'm pretty sure that after how corporations have been treating workers for the last couple of decades, and especially during the past five years, any spirits the workers have don't need much to be broken.
Was never a fan of Matt Smith. Though not completely his fault. He hasn't had the best of scripts. I also haven't liked how they portrayed this version of the Doctor. I found him to be too willing to kill off an adversary. Previous Doctors would only do that as a last resort. I know that the Doctor was supposed to be going through his darkest period but even so I think that one of his core morals should have been kept.
Actually who you hire would depend on your needs. If you need someone to write the software then go for the person who went to trade school and can program. If you want someone to design the program then hire the person who has done all the math.
Of course it all depends on personality, other experience, etc, etc.
Just because their enemies are currently close doesn't mean that they will always be that way. Maybe they will get into an escalating trade war with Brazil or some other emerging nation. (Admittedly not very likely.) The point is that you develop the capability before you find out that you really need it.
Or they just want to lob a couple over at England for all of those years of colonization.
I think you would have to start with some of the current adults with the stories of people shooting themselves or others. I know that most owners are good and you only hear about the really bad ones so our views on gun owners are skewed. But you hear of enough people getting hurt that some safety courses wouldn't be such a bad thing.
I love how that they insinuate that only students from low income families come unprepared for engineering studies. Yes I realize that the odds are true that it is the case but just because you go to a well funded school doesn't mean that you have good teachers or that the student is mature enough to do well in the university setting.
The rise of coal use in Europe isn't completely due to economics. Part of it is due to Germany shutting down their nuclear plants and having to offset that electricity generation by increasing the production at their existing coal plants. They are also building (or planning to build) coal plants to help offset the loss of their nuclear plants.
And if everyone suddenly shifted to paying with cash do you really think that prices would suddenly drop? Maybe a few small stores with good owners would do it. But I doubt the rest would. I know that when Loblaws started charging for plastic shopping bags due to the city of Toronto's fee they didn't drop their prices. For example the 4 litre bags of milk would take up one plastic shopping bag and it didn't get reduced.
A MTBF measured in millions of cycles does not mean it will last millions of cycles. It can break on the first use, just not likely. Light bulbs have MTBF measured in thousands of hours. Can you think of one (or more) that you know did not last a thousand?
The Internet didn't make us smarter. Or even the WWW as you are suggesting with your Google example. They just allowed us to find things faster. Before the web you would say "look it up in an encyclopedia" or "look it up in a book." Yes it took longer but still took all of the same skills so computers have not made us smarter.
What computers have given us is the possibility to be more knowledgeable if we use it wisely. Examples of not using it wisely would include following the Kardashians on Twitter or keeping up with 500 people we don't know on Facebook but call our best friends. Yes, there may be some entertainment value in there but I feel sorry for people for whom that is their sole source of new knowledge.
I have little doubt that if you took an infant from a thousand or two thousand years ago and raised them identically to someone born today that you could not tell the difference. Obviously if you brought someone older there would be a huge culture shock to manage. Look at how people have changed behaviour in the past when new technologies have caused disruptions. Are there huge differences between us and a person from even a hundred years ago, especially in the fields of math, science, and medicine. But do you really think that those people would have been incapable to understanding such concepts?
What makes everyone so sure that having knowledge is going to make people smarter? And for that who's definition of smarter? We know that in countries in which the women become better educated and have better control of their lives the number of children they have goes down. Part of that is having access to birth control which the Catholic church refuses to let people use. Here we have two groups with opposing viewpoints both claiming to have the smarter option.
From the article: “The IFPI investigator handed over the evidence material to the MPAA senior executive who then changed the text file before the anti-piracy organization handed over the evidence to the Finnish police,” Hietanen says.
Not quite the clear chain of evidence unless the MPAA is a member of the justice system in Finland. It doesn't say that the executive had someone present from IFPI when making changes or not.
I'm not arguing for a socialist government system. Why are so many people scared of having everyone given health care provided, or at least funded, from the government? After all you have public education and you aren't screaming about being socialists. I know that it's in society's interest to have a well educated work force but isn't a healthy work force also good for society?
There are problems with the Canadian system just like there are problems with any system but it's far from insanity. Last fall I picked up an infection in my foot and it was swollen up almost 50% and turned beet red within 24 hours. I went to the ER, got diagnosed with cellulitis, and given a dose of IV antibiotics all within six hours. That day I had supplies delivered to my door for another four treatments of the antibiotics and a nurse came by to administer them starting the next day. If it hadn't been my foot I would have had to go a clinic but I was barely able to walk at the time so the home support was provided. I was told to go back to the ER for a follow-up and was put on an oral antibiotic to clear the rest of the infection. My total cost for all of that was approximately $30 for the oral antibiotics and a prescription for an anti-inflammatory. If that's the insanity of the Canadian system I will gladly take it.
I will admit that for non-emergency cases things can take longer here than in the US. And we do have problems in certain fields such as mental health care.
Maybe your deficit is falling because you are bringing your military home from two campaigns and your stimulus spending has stopped. Add in the fact that the economy has started to grow again which adds a bit to the tax revenue and of course you are going to get a falling deficit. Yes there have been a few cuts made. But the US is in bad shape economically speaking and needs to get things in order before things get worse. Unfortunately it seems like the politicians are more concerned about pointing fingers and getting re-elected rather than the health of their country.
I'm sure the military could have supplied a few mobile kitchens and cooks or at least boxes of MREs (or whatever the ready to eat meals are called nowadays). There's got to be a base somewhere close to Boston.
I didn't say that WWII was the fault of the US. I said that the US should have intervened earlier and saved countless lives. It's not like Hitler wrote a book and said what his ambitions were. Oh wait he did. That's why Churchill was so adamant about not signing treaties with him. But the US was so isolationist that it took an attack from the Japanese to make them really commit to the war effort.
I don't know about the US law but I would guess that the terrorism charges are at the federal level and they might move him to a federal court on those. I was hoping that someone would answer your question because I was wondering about it too but it kind of side tracked.
I wish I could believe that but with the article (and others that I've read) stating that they are questioning him without Miranda rights being issued to him I have little faith that it will be a show trial. I find it quite disturbing at how easily it is to have these rights taken away from someone. On one hand people are being told that everything is safe because the suspect has been captured but the suspects rights have been taken away because there's a danger to society. It's either one or the other.
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"After their spirits get broken, the workers actually start functioning as a well-oiled team."
I'm pretty sure that after how corporations have been treating workers for the last couple of decades, and especially during the past five years, any spirits the workers have don't need much to be broken.
So ideally who would like to see as the next Doctor?
For me it would be Stephen Fry.
Was never a fan of Matt Smith. Though not completely his fault. He hasn't had the best of scripts. I also haven't liked how they portrayed this version of the Doctor. I found him to be too willing to kill off an adversary. Previous Doctors would only do that as a last resort. I know that the Doctor was supposed to be going through his darkest period but even so I think that one of his core morals should have been kept.
Actually who you hire would depend on your needs. If you need someone to write the software then go for the person who went to trade school and can program. If you want someone to design the program then hire the person who has done all the math.
Of course it all depends on personality, other experience, etc, etc.
Just because their enemies are currently close doesn't mean that they will always be that way. Maybe they will get into an escalating trade war with Brazil or some other emerging nation. (Admittedly not very likely.) The point is that you develop the capability before you find out that you really need it.
Or they just want to lob a couple over at England for all of those years of colonization.
Couldn't Branson just kick in the $1M out of pocket change?
Well obviously the treatment for parvovirus must have been tested on animals so there's no way that PETA could use that now could they?
C is perfect for making daemons though.
Never mind all those other people that got killed from the Iraq War.
Well this is the government that wanted to build a whole bunch of prisons for all that unreported crime!
I think you would have to start with some of the current adults with the stories of people shooting themselves or others. I know that most owners are good and you only hear about the really bad ones so our views on gun owners are skewed. But you hear of enough people getting hurt that some safety courses wouldn't be such a bad thing.
I love how that they insinuate that only students from low income families come unprepared for engineering studies. Yes I realize that the odds are true that it is the case but just because you go to a well funded school doesn't mean that you have good teachers or that the student is mature enough to do well in the university setting.
The rise of coal use in Europe isn't completely due to economics. Part of it is due to Germany shutting down their nuclear plants and having to offset that electricity generation by increasing the production at their existing coal plants. They are also building (or planning to build) coal plants to help offset the loss of their nuclear plants.
And if everyone suddenly shifted to paying with cash do you really think that prices would suddenly drop? Maybe a few small stores with good owners would do it. But I doubt the rest would. I know that when Loblaws started charging for plastic shopping bags due to the city of Toronto's fee they didn't drop their prices. For example the 4 litre bags of milk would take up one plastic shopping bag and it didn't get reduced.
A MTBF measured in millions of cycles does not mean it will last millions of cycles. It can break on the first use, just not likely. Light bulbs have MTBF measured in thousands of hours. Can you think of one (or more) that you know did not last a thousand?
The Internet didn't make us smarter. Or even the WWW as you are suggesting with your Google example. They just allowed us to find things faster. Before the web you would say "look it up in an encyclopedia" or "look it up in a book." Yes it took longer but still took all of the same skills so computers have not made us smarter.
What computers have given us is the possibility to be more knowledgeable if we use it wisely. Examples of not using it wisely would include following the Kardashians on Twitter or keeping up with 500 people we don't know on Facebook but call our best friends. Yes, there may be some entertainment value in there but I feel sorry for people for whom that is their sole source of new knowledge.
I have little doubt that if you took an infant from a thousand or two thousand years ago and raised them identically to someone born today that you could not tell the difference. Obviously if you brought someone older there would be a huge culture shock to manage. Look at how people have changed behaviour in the past when new technologies have caused disruptions. Are there huge differences between us and a person from even a hundred years ago, especially in the fields of math, science, and medicine. But do you really think that those people would have been incapable to understanding such concepts?
What makes everyone so sure that having knowledge is going to make people smarter? And for that who's definition of smarter? We know that in countries in which the women become better educated and have better control of their lives the number of children they have goes down. Part of that is having access to birth control which the Catholic church refuses to let people use. Here we have two groups with opposing viewpoints both claiming to have the smarter option.
From the article: “The IFPI investigator handed over the evidence material to the MPAA senior executive who then changed the text file before the anti-piracy organization handed over the evidence to the Finnish police,” Hietanen says.
Not quite the clear chain of evidence unless the MPAA is a member of the justice system in Finland. It doesn't say that the executive had someone present from IFPI when making changes or not.
I'm not arguing for a socialist government system. Why are so many people scared of having everyone given health care provided, or at least funded, from the government? After all you have public education and you aren't screaming about being socialists. I know that it's in society's interest to have a well educated work force but isn't a healthy work force also good for society?
There are problems with the Canadian system just like there are problems with any system but it's far from insanity. Last fall I picked up an infection in my foot and it was swollen up almost 50% and turned beet red within 24 hours. I went to the ER, got diagnosed with cellulitis, and given a dose of IV antibiotics all within six hours. That day I had supplies delivered to my door for another four treatments of the antibiotics and a nurse came by to administer them starting the next day. If it hadn't been my foot I would have had to go a clinic but I was barely able to walk at the time so the home support was provided. I was told to go back to the ER for a follow-up and was put on an oral antibiotic to clear the rest of the infection. My total cost for all of that was approximately $30 for the oral antibiotics and a prescription for an anti-inflammatory. If that's the insanity of the Canadian system I will gladly take it.
I will admit that for non-emergency cases things can take longer here than in the US. And we do have problems in certain fields such as mental health care.
Maybe your deficit is falling because you are bringing your military home from two campaigns and your stimulus spending has stopped. Add in the fact that the economy has started to grow again which adds a bit to the tax revenue and of course you are going to get a falling deficit. Yes there have been a few cuts made. But the US is in bad shape economically speaking and needs to get things in order before things get worse. Unfortunately it seems like the politicians are more concerned about pointing fingers and getting re-elected rather than the health of their country.
Let me know when you start to get socialized health care. Making people buy health insurance is not social health care.
Ha, ha. Funny.
We use kilometres up here.
I'm sure the military could have supplied a few mobile kitchens and cooks or at least boxes of MREs (or whatever the ready to eat meals are called nowadays). There's got to be a base somewhere close to Boston.
I didn't say that WWII was the fault of the US. I said that the US should have intervened earlier and saved countless lives. It's not like Hitler wrote a book and said what his ambitions were. Oh wait he did. That's why Churchill was so adamant about not signing treaties with him. But the US was so isolationist that it took an attack from the Japanese to make them really commit to the war effort.
I don't know about the US law but I would guess that the terrorism charges are at the federal level and they might move him to a federal court on those. I was hoping that someone would answer your question because I was wondering about it too but it kind of side tracked.
I wish I could believe that but with the article (and others that I've read) stating that they are questioning him without Miranda rights being issued to him I have little faith that it will be a show trial. I find it quite disturbing at how easily it is to have these rights taken away from someone. On one hand people are being told that everything is safe because the suspect has been captured but the suspects rights have been taken away because there's a danger to society. It's either one or the other.