Mountain vs molehill.
Whether or not companies are releasing antibiotics in rivers in India, the big problem is improper use across the globe. Also, China and India are still dealing with huge QC and fraud problems when it comes to drug manufacturing. Combine improper use with drugs that frequently only have a fraction of the stated amount of the active ingredient...
I will take "two crewmen in a first-contact situation taking their helmets off, running off like ninnies, getting lost, and contaminating themselves." over "Roman emperor fights a gladiator."
How about "the crewman in charge of making maps, the one controlling the little map making drones, the one who presumably has a friggin' map gets lost" followed by " the biologist decides to pet a snake" Lots of stories require designated idiots in order to be told, but this one would have been less frustrating if the designated incompetence extended to their pilot accidentally crashing their ship into the star at the beginning of the movie.
True for most markets, where the majority of electricity is used by businesses. If the market is mostly residential and it gets really cold at night, peak power often happens at night. For your second point: yep. That's how businesses have done it all along.
That problem was solved over 30 years ago: heat storage units. My mom's power company shuts off the power for her heater when it's 40 below in the middle of the night (Northern WI) fairly often: it's not really noticeable for at least 10 hrs. The heat storage unit (basically a pile of bricks and a fan) works great. In return she gets a big discount on her power bill.
Because their policies page states clearly that they do not allow malicious software on the site, and further that they do NOT accept any software that contains the following:
Software that installs viruses, Trojan horses, malicious adware, spyware, or other malicious software at any point during or after installation.
Software that installs without notice and without the user’s consent.
Software that includes or uses surreptitious data collection.
Software that diverts or modifies end users’ default browsers, search-engine home pages, providers, security, or privacy-protection settings without the users’ permission.
Software that installs in a concealed manner or denies users an opportunity to read the license agreement and/or to knowingly consent to the installation.
Software that induces installation by making false or misleading claims about the software or the software publisher.
So no enforcement against libel, slander, harassment, conspiracy (hey, I only said I'd pay the guy to commit murder, I didn't actually pay the guy), etc.
Exactly. Such a simple elegant answer to a tough question.
Cue several centuries of judges and lawyers arguing over what constitutes speech and what constitutes action. Yelling "fire" in a crowded theatre? Political campaign contributions or commercials? The seven deadly words of television?
No, the less popular channels would remain free. The marginal cost of delivering one more low budget channel is nil - but you do get a cut of the advertising revenue.
I think the way it would work would be that the price of basic cable would triple, the price of HBO will end up keeping pace with Netflix, and ESPN will be split into several channnels so that you end up paying extra for each major sport you want to watch.
+$25 to sit near the front of the plane so you don't have to spend 30 minutes in your seat both before and after the plane lands
Yet everyone in first class seems happy to be the first to board. Is the free drink the airline offers you really that much better than the one you could have gotten sitting in an airport bar?
You simply have to lie on your resume if you don't want this kind of thing to happen. Been out of work for 2 years? Get a friend to make up a start-up (or make one up yourself) and put that on your resume. You never look bad for having worked at a failed start-up.
Why even lie? If you're unemployed, roll yourself a start-up. If you use it to ask lots of people lots of questions ("how do I?", "Who knows how to?") you'll keep making connections and learning as opposed to just living in self-promoting/begging-for-a-job hell. People will want to talk to you a lot more if you are discussing how to solve a problem as opposed to asking for money.
Anyway, it worked for me.
The government won't care unless you've figured out a way to use your refrigerator to dodge taxes. The interested parties will be private and very much for profit.
Plenty do. Art museums started doing regular cocktails/music nights to help attract new members years ago. Most folks just show up to make the scene, but enough end up as donors that it's caught on with other types of museums.
At any rate, I don't think it's a coincidence that this news is happening at the same time that Netflix is announcing that it will be expanding to Australia and New Zealand in two months. Anyone want to bet against Netflix service being more expensive and the title selection more limited than it is in the US?
The problem with sophistry is that Aristotle himself arrived at the following "facts" through strict reasoning (as opposed to, you know counting or measuring:
Second sentence:
Tomasetti crunched the numbers and compared them with actual cancer statistics, he concluded that this theory explained two-thirds of all cancers.
Thus, Tomasetti and Vogelstein reasoned, the tissues that host the greatest number of stem cell divisions are those most vulnerable to cancer. When Tomasetti crunched the numbers and compared them with actual cancer statistics, he concluded that this theory explained two-thirds of all cancers.
Could be worse. My girlfriend and I realized that her idea of a comfortable room temperature is about 77-80F and mine is about 60-77F. For sleeping, I'm more comfortable below 70. Yep: she's a bit anemic.
This is hardly a new problem. Our education system simply doesn't engage with boys and hasn't for years at this point.
The thing is, I don't think the US school system was more engaging in the past. Sure, there were more vocational programs back then, but as mentioned in your links, vocational programs were traditionally offered to lower performing students who weren't headed for college. If anything school was much less engaging: more drills and fewer games, boring textbooks that were full of text instead of pictures, computer aided learning was learning to program, etc.
How about this: it's not that schools are less engaging than they used to be, it's that the outside world is much more engaging. There are more distractions than ever before for kids, and the designers of those distractions are much more skilled and have much better tools for holding their attention than in the past. At the same time, schools have decided to focus on attempting to make everything interesting instead of on giving people the ability to grind through stuff they find boring. The tenacity and discipline to slog through boring stuff is what gets you the opportunities and skills to do fun stuff.
The predecessors actually have to do something in the real world, like bombing third-world peasants, while the F-35 sits in a hangar. Besides, who's really going to risk a $200,000,000 jet to blow up a $10,000 pickup with a couple of guys with RPGs in the back?
That problem was solved over 10 years ago by Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney: if the country you have a beef with doesn't have any decent targets, attack a country with bigger targets instead.
For Windows: Negativescreen. I have it set to go to red text on a black background or go back to normal when I hit alt-win-v. It' much harder to get a useful setting on my tablet.
Could be worse. It is (or at least was) common to take on many more science grad students than they really have room for, then give a bunch the boot with a masters degree. Reason being that once you advance to candidacy you spend most of your time in a lab and become expensive to support instead of cheap teaching labor. But with the way NIH funding is going these days I think the winnowing process for grad students will be which ones manage to win their own fellowships, since few labs will be able to support them if they don't.
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Mountain vs molehill. Whether or not companies are releasing antibiotics in rivers in India, the big problem is improper use across the globe. Also, China and India are still dealing with huge QC and fraud problems when it comes to drug manufacturing. Combine improper use with drugs that frequently only have a fraction of the stated amount of the active ingredient ...
Nah, War has great spinoffs. If you're still around at the end of it, that is.
I will take "two crewmen in a first-contact situation taking their helmets off, running off like ninnies, getting lost, and contaminating themselves." over "Roman emperor fights a gladiator."
How about "the crewman in charge of making maps, the one controlling the little map making drones, the one who presumably has a friggin' map gets lost" followed by " the biologist decides to pet a snake" Lots of stories require designated idiots in order to be told, but this one would have been less frustrating if the designated incompetence extended to their pilot accidentally crashing their ship into the star at the beginning of the movie.
True for most markets, where the majority of electricity is used by businesses. If the market is mostly residential and it gets really cold at night, peak power often happens at night. For your second point: yep. That's how businesses have done it all along.
That problem was solved over 30 years ago: heat storage units. My mom's power company shuts off the power for her heater when it's 40 below in the middle of the night (Northern WI) fairly often: it's not really noticeable for at least 10 hrs. The heat storage unit (basically a pile of bricks and a fan) works great. In return she gets a big discount on her power bill.
Well with ToS and people clicking on "I Agree"
Yeah, about that ToS. FTA:
Because their policies page states clearly that they do not allow malicious software on the site, and further that they do NOT accept any software that contains the following: Software that installs viruses, Trojan horses, malicious adware, spyware, or other malicious software at any point during or after installation. Software that installs without notice and without the user’s consent. Software that includes or uses surreptitious data collection. Software that diverts or modifies end users’ default browsers, search-engine home pages, providers, security, or privacy-protection settings without the users’ permission. Software that installs in a concealed manner or denies users an opportunity to read the license agreement and/or to knowingly consent to the installation. Software that induces installation by making false or misleading claims about the software or the software publisher.
So no enforcement against libel, slander, harassment, conspiracy (hey, I only said I'd pay the guy to commit murder, I didn't actually pay the guy), etc.
Exactly. Such a simple elegant answer to a tough question.
Cue several centuries of judges and lawyers arguing over what constitutes speech and what constitutes action. Yelling "fire" in a crowded theatre? Political campaign contributions or commercials? The seven deadly words of television?
All future flights I have done domestically in the US I have managed to book on Virgin and the quality of those has been excellent.
Which has an abysmal profit margins compared to airlines like Spirit. Enjoy it while it lasts.
No, the less popular channels would remain free. The marginal cost of delivering one more low budget channel is nil - but you do get a cut of the advertising revenue. I think the way it would work would be that the price of basic cable would triple, the price of HBO will end up keeping pace with Netflix, and ESPN will be split into several channnels so that you end up paying extra for each major sport you want to watch.
+$25 to sit near the front of the plane so you don't have to spend 30 minutes in your seat both before and after the plane lands
Yet everyone in first class seems happy to be the first to board. Is the free drink the airline offers you really that much better than the one you could have gotten sitting in an airport bar?
These fuckers need to stop selling shit they can't support.
Before you pay for it Gogo asks you not to use it to stream video or use other high bandwidth applications.
You simply have to lie on your resume if you don't want this kind of thing to happen. Been out of work for 2 years? Get a friend to make up a start-up (or make one up yourself) and put that on your resume. You never look bad for having worked at a failed start-up.
Why even lie? If you're unemployed, roll yourself a start-up. If you use it to ask lots of people lots of questions ("how do I?", "Who knows how to?") you'll keep making connections and learning as opposed to just living in self-promoting/begging-for-a-job hell. People will want to talk to you a lot more if you are discussing how to solve a problem as opposed to asking for money. Anyway, it worked for me.
The government won't care unless you've figured out a way to use your refrigerator to dodge taxes. The interested parties will be private and very much for profit.
Plenty do. Art museums started doing regular cocktails/music nights to help attract new members years ago. Most folks just show up to make the scene, but enough end up as donors that it's caught on with other types of museums.
At any rate, I don't think it's a coincidence that this news is happening at the same time that Netflix is announcing that it will be expanding to Australia and New Zealand in two months. Anyone want to bet against Netflix service being more expensive and the title selection more limited than it is in the US?
The problem with sophistry is that Aristotle himself arrived at the following "facts" through strict reasoning (as opposed to, you know counting or measuring:
Second sentence:
Tomasetti crunched the numbers and compared them with actual cancer statistics, he concluded that this theory explained two-thirds of all cancers.
Thus, Tomasetti and Vogelstein reasoned, the tissues that host the greatest number of stem cell divisions are those most vulnerable to cancer. When Tomasetti crunched the numbers and compared them with actual cancer statistics, he concluded that this theory explained two-thirds of all cancers.
Could be worse. My girlfriend and I realized that her idea of a comfortable room temperature is about 77-80F and mine is about 60-77F. For sleeping, I'm more comfortable below 70. Yep: she's a bit anemic.
This is hardly a new problem. Our education system simply doesn't engage with boys and hasn't for years at this point.
The thing is, I don't think the US school system was more engaging in the past. Sure, there were more vocational programs back then, but as mentioned in your links, vocational programs were traditionally offered to lower performing students who weren't headed for college. If anything school was much less engaging: more drills and fewer games, boring textbooks that were full of text instead of pictures, computer aided learning was learning to program, etc.
How about this: it's not that schools are less engaging than they used to be, it's that the outside world is much more engaging. There are more distractions than ever before for kids, and the designers of those distractions are much more skilled and have much better tools for holding their attention than in the past. At the same time, schools have decided to focus on attempting to make everything interesting instead of on giving people the ability to grind through stuff they find boring. The tenacity and discipline to slog through boring stuff is what gets you the opportunities and skills to do fun stuff.
Until a Jam Proof Drone cane be made, manned fighters will be around.
by ~2020, the manned fighters will need to be drone proof a lot more than the drones will need to be jam-proof.
The predecessors actually have to do something in the real world, like bombing third-world peasants, while the F-35 sits in a hangar. Besides, who's really going to risk a $200,000,000 jet to blow up a $10,000 pickup with a couple of guys with RPGs in the back?
That problem was solved over 10 years ago by Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney: if the country you have a beef with doesn't have any decent targets, attack a country with bigger targets instead.
For Windows: Negativescreen. I have it set to go to red text on a black background or go back to normal when I hit alt-win-v. It' much harder to get a useful setting on my tablet.
Could be worse. It is (or at least was) common to take on many more science grad students than they really have room for, then give a bunch the boot with a masters degree. Reason being that once you advance to candidacy you spend most of your time in a lab and become expensive to support instead of cheap teaching labor. But with the way NIH funding is going these days I think the winnowing process for grad students will be which ones manage to win their own fellowships, since few labs will be able to support them if they don't.
If they won't budge ask about a proficiency test.