Cruditys aside there are more reasons than basic nutrition that breast milk is preferable to formula. For instance the mother is eating food from the local environment so the baby slowly builds tolerance and taste for food they will later survive on. Newer studies have shown that peanut and shellfish allergies can be overcome in this way.
In that case Ireland wasn't a true country for 800 of the last 900 years and yet we have one of the most unique and vibrant cultures in the world and we are not losing that anytime soon. Your rationale of a "true country" is wrong. Yyou are confusing economics and power with culture and patriotism. Most EU citizens still have huge national pride but they can understand the power of a single economic bloc. The US economic federation is not logically separated from patriotic ideology in the same way. Citizens of different US states have ideologies that they believe to be more valid than their compatriots and more worthy of being described as the American way. Europeans have a sense of Europeanness but they identify more strongly with their country/unit. 300 or so million people is just too large a population to share a culture with and homogenizing statistics that are geographical in nature is meaningless.
If you* had ignored Afghanistan in the first place they wouldn't have developed the Taliban and if you had ignored Korea there wouldn't be a North and a South. Just sayin!
*Posited under the safe assumption that by "we" you mean the United States and not the Slashdot population.
This reminds me of the Kurt Vonnegut bit in Slaughterhouse Five about Americans attitude towards esteem and money.
"America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. To quote the American humorist Kin Hubbard, “It ain’t no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.” It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by the American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters. The meanest eating or drinking establishment, owned by a man who is himself poor, is very likely to have a sign on its wall asking this cruel question: “if you’re so smart, why ain’t you rich?” There will also be an American flag no larger than a child’s hand – glued to a lollipop stick and flying from the cash register."
I'm curious if the parent was modded Insightful because the post has some new information or because people just agree with the poster. I happen to like Unity and think it's intuitive and useful but I guess that means I'm a troll and/or need mental realignment to conform with the collective.
Different cultures don't necessarily have different priorities. They just manifest the expression of their culture through their choices. In my country both basketball and hockey are minor sports and it's not for money or climate reasons. My country (conveniently?) is a small island and thus the culture is geographically delineated. I believe that in the US you have a geographically homogeneous meta-culture (e.g. stars and stripes and hamburgers) overarching slowly coalescing traditional cultures (e.g. Irish-Italian, Jewish-Catholic). It's important to remember that and to celebrate the differences. The really important thing is not to confuse all of this with people's individual ability to carry out a particular function or role,
I'm curious. I work for an American corporation and in any problem that arises that requires collaboration the first priority seems to be proving it's not your fault as quickly as possible.Recent software engineering methodologies try to emphasize that a problem belongs to a team or even to a team of teams but the onus is to get the issue solved not show it's somebody elses problem. Am I wrong? I blame the fact that it's so easy to get fired in the US.
Can I just say that, despite all the Gnome/ Unity bickering, it's nice to occasionally see Linux distro stories in Slashdot again and to read comments by users who use and embrace open source software at least occasionally (whatever their desktop preference).:)
I would love to be a fly on the wall at the meetings where Big Oil decide the viability of drilling / mining in the Arctic based on the ability to efficiently transport resources south; based on predicting if the NE Passage will remain open and using evidence of human accelerated Global Warming as relevant business data for the decision.
Hmm! If I was a reasonably unkempt young guy living independently, without dependents and with a job I wasn't too concerned about (or no job) I might find it expedient to claim I was homeless. A homeless person might not have a drivers license or social security card or credit card and might have an obscure back story making it difficult to associate them with an identity. I could then accept the charges for a low level white collar crime and just do the jail time or accept the terms of release, sign what I had to as John Doe or Joe Bloggs or whatever and then go back to my real life. The more "Anonymous" I made myself the easier it might be for me to avoid having my real record associated with a criminal conviction.
Have you been following the London riots at all? I suggest looking at some of the links marked #londonriots on Twitter. You don't need an account. These kids are not fighting the power. They are smashing up and looting locally owned stores in their community and setting fire to buildings with people asleep upstairs in them and then actively preventing fire fighters from putting out the fires. I'm not sure what that has to do with labor union demos?
Of course it is true that girls with whom you have a positive social rapport do not mind sexual jokes and often find them funny. However this joke was made "about" girls in a male dominated forum. That is absolutely not the same thing. I totally agree with your point about respect and that's why you should be careful about language. For instance you often talk "to" a child or a pet but you talk "with" a person.
“The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.”
Philip K. Dick
For those who are not aware metro.co.uk is the website of a print ad rag distributed free to commuters daily in the UK. The Financial Times or Wall Street Journal it most certainly aint!.
I'm curious what the resume you are using to job search looks like. We have rolled over a number of ages of computing in the last 30 years and listing obsolete tech on your list of skills is probably pointless and won't be grepped by recruiting agency suits either. It is much more useful to roll up your experience into a good paragraph on your many years of problem analysis and software design. It's also a good idea to list mentoring and technical leadership skills. And if you are 30 years in the industry and haven't engaged in (or don't wish to engage in) lead technical roles then employers could well be suspicious of hiring a "lone coder" or clock puncher. In which case you could set up your own software contracting company.
That sort of makes environmental "scrappage" schemes redundant then doesn't it? The government before this one here in Ireland introduced a scheme where you could get an automatic €1500 deducted from the price of a new car if you scrapped one that was over 10 years old. However the scheme has been running for more than 5 years now so all the old rust buckets are now arguably off the road and we are creating a financial incentive for people to scrap a healthy old car in favour of buying a spiffy new one.
They certainly won't at current consumption rates no. I live at 53 degrees north latitude and my building has air conditioning and sealed shut windows. This means as the climate gets warmer it requires more energy to drive the air conditioning to keep the building cool. This is totally illogical when opening the windows has been effective for adequate cooling here for centuries.
I got a real nostalgia kick out of this - not from the Lion Voltron reference but from the idea of spending half the day looking for a kitschy ringtone. Oh to be 24 again.
Tubesteak was taking advantage of that, acting as if the scientists were trying to cover up that information, when in fact they made no attempt to conceal it.
Most of your point on TFA being a summary is for granted even though the modders seem to think it is somehow new information. The point is Tubesteak posited some extra information and you categorically stated (i.e not suggested) his intentions were dishonest and further alleged that his ethics are questionable. This does smack of trolldom.
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Cruditys aside there are more reasons than basic nutrition that breast milk is preferable to formula. For instance the mother is eating food from the local environment so the baby slowly builds tolerance and taste for food they will later survive on. Newer studies have shown that peanut and shellfish allergies can be overcome in this way.
In that case Ireland wasn't a true country for 800 of the last 900 years and yet we have one of the most unique and vibrant cultures in the world and we are not losing that anytime soon. Your rationale of a "true country" is wrong. Yyou are confusing economics and power with culture and patriotism. Most EU citizens still have huge national pride but they can understand the power of a single economic bloc.
The US economic federation is not logically separated from patriotic ideology in the same way. Citizens of different US states have ideologies that they believe to be more valid than their compatriots and more worthy of being described as the American way. Europeans have a sense of Europeanness but they identify more strongly with their country/unit.
300 or so million people is just too large a population to share a culture with and homogenizing statistics that are geographical in nature is meaningless.
A Dear leader and a Taliban without an axe to grind with the US.
If you* had ignored Afghanistan in the first place they wouldn't have developed the Taliban and if you had ignored Korea there wouldn't be a North and a South. Just sayin!
*Posited under the safe assumption that by "we" you mean the United States and not the Slashdot population.
This reminds me of the Kurt Vonnegut bit in Slaughterhouse Five about Americans attitude towards esteem and money.
"America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. To quote the American humorist Kin Hubbard, “It ain’t no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.” It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by the American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters. The meanest eating or drinking establishment, owned by a man who is himself poor, is very likely to have a sign on its wall asking this cruel question: “if you’re so smart, why ain’t you rich?” There will also be an American flag no larger than a child’s hand – glued to a lollipop stick and flying from the cash register."
I'm curious if the parent was modded Insightful because the post has some new information or because people just agree with the poster.
I happen to like Unity and think it's intuitive and useful but I guess that means I'm a troll and/or need mental realignment to conform with the collective.
Different cultures don't necessarily have different priorities. They just manifest the expression of their culture through their choices. In my country both basketball and hockey are minor sports and it's not for money or climate reasons. My country (conveniently?) is a small island and thus the culture is geographically delineated. I believe that in the US you have a geographically homogeneous meta-culture (e.g. stars and stripes and hamburgers) overarching slowly coalescing traditional cultures (e.g. Irish-Italian, Jewish-Catholic). It's important to remember that and to celebrate the differences. The really important thing is not to confuse all of this with people's individual ability to carry out a particular function or role,
I'm curious. I work for an American corporation and in any problem that arises that requires collaboration the first priority seems to be proving it's not your fault as quickly as possible.Recent software engineering methodologies try to emphasize that a problem belongs to a team or even to a team of teams but the onus is to get the issue solved not show it's somebody elses problem. Am I wrong? I blame the fact that it's so easy to get fired in the US.
...and Slashdot fell for it. Stop giving O'Leary free advertising. I mean is their even an IT slant to this?
Can I just say that, despite all the Gnome/ Unity bickering, it's nice to occasionally see Linux distro stories in Slashdot again and to read comments by users who use and embrace open source software at least occasionally (whatever their desktop preference). :)
"Qualified" to "diagnose" ? He just expressed an opinion. Direct experience with something does lead to greater skill at recognizing it.
I would love to be a fly on the wall at the meetings where Big Oil decide the viability of drilling / mining in the Arctic based on the ability to efficiently transport resources south; based on predicting if the NE Passage will remain open and using evidence of human accelerated Global Warming as relevant business data for the decision.
Hmm!
If I was a reasonably unkempt young guy living independently, without dependents and with a job I wasn't too concerned about (or no job) I might find it expedient to claim I was homeless. A homeless person might not have a drivers license or social security card or credit card and might have an obscure back story making it difficult to associate them with an identity. I could then accept the charges for a low level white collar crime and just do the jail time or accept the terms of release, sign what I had to as John Doe or Joe Bloggs or whatever and then go back to my real life. The more "Anonymous" I made myself the easier it might be for me to avoid having my real record associated with a criminal conviction.
Have you been following the London riots at all? I suggest looking at some of the links marked #londonriots on Twitter. You don't need an account. These kids are not fighting the power. They are smashing up and looting locally owned stores in their community and setting fire to buildings with people asleep upstairs in them and then actively preventing fire fighters from putting out the fires.
I'm not sure what that has to do with labor union demos?
Of course it is true that girls with whom you have a positive social rapport do not mind sexual jokes and often find them funny. However this joke was made "about" girls in a male dominated forum. That is absolutely not the same thing. I totally agree with your point about respect and that's why you should be careful about language. For instance you often talk "to" a child or a pet but you talk "with" a person.
"freedom fighters"? You mean "insurgents" don't you? http://www.thefreedictionary.com/insurgent
“The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.”
Philip K. Dick
For those who are not aware metro.co.uk is the website of a print ad rag distributed free to commuters daily in the UK. The Financial Times or Wall Street Journal it most certainly aint!.
I'm curious what the resume you are using to job search looks like. We have rolled over a number of ages of computing in the last 30 years and listing obsolete tech on your list of skills is probably pointless and won't be grepped by recruiting agency suits either.
It is much more useful to roll up your experience into a good paragraph on your many years of problem analysis and software design. It's also a good idea to list mentoring and technical leadership skills. And if you are 30 years in the industry and haven't engaged in (or don't wish to engage in) lead technical roles then employers could well be suspicious of hiring a "lone coder" or clock puncher. In which case you could set up your own software contracting company.
Amen to that. Hyper focus does not happen all the time. In fact I have some genuinely interesting work to do right now and yet here I am posting on /.
That sort of makes environmental "scrappage" schemes redundant then doesn't it? The government before this one here in Ireland introduced a scheme where you could get an automatic €1500 deducted from the price of a new car if you scrapped one that was over 10 years old. However the scheme has been running for more than 5 years now so all the old rust buckets are now arguably off the road and we are creating a financial incentive for people to scrap a healthy old car in favour of buying a spiffy new one.
They certainly won't at current consumption rates no. I live at 53 degrees north latitude and my building has air conditioning and sealed shut windows. This means as the climate gets warmer it requires more energy to drive the air conditioning to keep the building cool. This is totally illogical when opening the windows has been effective for adequate cooling here for centuries.
I was wondering why my Slashdot RSS feed was reading like a grad thesis paper title.
I got a real nostalgia kick out of this - not from the Lion Voltron reference but from the idea of spending half the day looking for a kitschy ringtone.
Oh to be 24 again.
*sigh* I think it comes down to saying something the mods like to hear, not whether it is off topic or not.
Bingo!
Perhaps that's when its time to consider getting your tech news elsewhere.
Tubesteak was taking advantage of that, acting as if the scientists were trying to cover up that information, when in fact they made no attempt to conceal it.
Most of your point on TFA being a summary is for granted even though the modders seem to think it is somehow new information.
The point is Tubesteak posited some extra information and you categorically stated (i.e not suggested) his intentions were dishonest and further alleged that his ethics are questionable. This does smack of trolldom.