Lee said they were looking at three possible routes the virus could have taken onto campus: wild birds, NIAS vehicles, and supply deliveries. 'We will determine the reason for the infection, and we are going to hold those responsible accountable,' he said."
OK... Just how do you hold wild birds accountable???
Form a Fact Finding Committee, start several task forces, budget a few hundred million for the whole process, lose sight of the objective, point fingers, trade polarizing recriminations in media and ultimately issue a report that is over 1,000 pages long and nobody can even understand.
Oh, wait, in Korea... put a net over it for a couple hundred dollars.
Nature is most perseverant. Sure glad I don't eat any poultry products, by products from Korea. At least, I don't think I do, but that Poisoned Milk thing from China showed just how global food distribution is, even to a seemingly unrelated supplier half way around the world.
I was the best mathematician in my university math classes. Who knew?
Genius ahead of its time.
I know I was hard at work involving the subtraction of beer from a case, addition to empty bottles, dividing time between drinking and the necessary room and multiplying the number of pink elephants surrounding me.
Before financing, people had large bank balances in this account type (I swear I amd not making this up) called 'Savings'. Banks actually paid people interest, rather than collecting it on all their debt. The banks borrowed from depositors for loans rather than borrowing from the Federal Reserve for nearly free.
The concept of this makes the mind reel. I may have to take out a loan and buy myself some aspirin.
Well, in this case it's some capitalists taking advantage of a business opportunity to spy on you. What bothers me is I don't recall signing any sort of release on this, when someone wants to look where I've been driving my car.
Which is worse, the government spying on you or business, which then sells the info, perhaps to someone who could be interested in robbing you or kidnapping your child, and using this sort of information as a resource?
Well, if you people would stop talking about TV and the shit you watch, you wouldn't hear anyone tell you that they don't watch TV.
That's about the size of it. Where I work most people watch a few shows and avidly follow one or two. The subject of shows or even commercials they have found entertaining pop up occasionally and I just gently remind them I don't watch TV. I just haven't been interested and watching most shows I find a trying experience.
As I have watched about 1 hour of TV over the past 10 years, I'm non-plussed. I have always felt the broadcasters were allowed to run roughshod over the public, with plenty of help from the federal government. It's a new century, can we start looking beyond 20th century business models, yet?
I really loved playing the original Paradroid on the C64. Had to beat computer intelligence at toggling logic gates. Makes you think much faster when looking at logic circuits later.:D
The trick is getting to kids before their idiot peers who casually go around saying things like "Math is hard", "I can't do math, it's difficult", "Math is only for really super smart people."
Math is actually pretty easy, but once you've convinced yourself it's hard it becomes twice the battle, first to get past that mental barrier about how impossible it is.
Same applies to many areas of study. I was coding like a coding fool on National Coding Day and my High School counselor wouldn't let me into the programming classes because my math grades needed to be higher. Pfft, like math is more prevailing than logic. Anyway, plenty of misconceptions on what people are really capable of, particularly at a very young age.
I think there's a growing culture of morons who think you should molly coddle kids rather than get those little brains working during the time in their lives when they are capable of learning the fastest.
I don't understand how trucks, which require much more fuel, and more driver time per load, have so thoroughly replaced railroads for long hauls. Making trucks more efficient is a fine idea, but it's only nibbling at the edges. Why not go back to trains for medium to long distances?
Rail trails. Most of the track miles in the USA has been consigned to rail trails or built over. I travel quite a lot and can spot old rail grades, despite lack of ties and rails, frequently across the landscape. It would astound some people to see just how much rail there once was in this country. Some was pulled up and removed for good reason, because the demand didn't exist to sustain it. Others were retired because so much dependence upon the flexibility of trucking. Intermodal freight still makes good economic sense, containers moved by flat cars enmasse, but sometimes it just doesn't make any sense at all to have thousands of trucks on the road when the contents could be moved much more cost effectively by rail, even light rail.
American commerce is addicted to trucking, even long-haul, such as L.A. to Denver, Denver to Columbus, Columbus to Orlando, etc. I once worked in the freight and logistics industry and the one thing trucks do have is flexibility. They can run short spokes more effectively than rail, but it's hard to beat rail for long haul. Customers are used to footing the expense of the inefficiency of moving one or two trailers hundreds of miles, where rail could have done for much less cost. Some day, when petroleum is no longer cheap we'll wish we still had rails everywhere.
On the truck side, I'd applaud these WAVE trucks as I hate getting stuck behind stinky diesels, which give me splitting headaches from their pungent exhaust.
My crappy old Nikon D70s, consigned to the junk heap, says they could do better on build quality and components.
Consumer line = consumer quality. Should have opted for the D700.
Odd that. I could drive nails into a board with my old FE II and it would still work like a Swiss watch. It's been banged up and struck rocks while hopping to a better vantage (and slipping) and all I ever lost as a lens cap. Consumer end back then was still quality. Now consumer is an excuse to use cheap parts. So much fail there.
I was a Canon man. But they have seriously dropped the ball in the image sensor department. They continue to use ancient sensors that simply cannot compete in today's market. I sold all my Canon cameras and lenses and moved to Nikon and could not be happier. I do not have to resort to hacks to get an image that is close to a Nikon image.
I ditched Nikon for Canon and couldn't be more happy.
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I'm pretty sure it's illegal in the United States. If our law is ahead of yours, you guys are in pretty bad shape!
Once again issuing laws to break the balls of businesses! Oh, it's got to be that socialism again!
Whinge. Gnash. Foam.
OK... Just how do you hold wild birds accountable???
Form a Fact Finding Committee, start several task forces, budget a few hundred million for the whole process, lose sight of the objective, point fingers, trade polarizing recriminations in media and ultimately issue a report that is over 1,000 pages long and nobody can even understand.
Oh, wait, in Korea... put a net over it for a couple hundred dollars.
Nature is most perseverant. Sure glad I don't eat any poultry products, by products from Korea. At least, I don't think I do, but that Poisoned Milk thing from China showed just how global food distribution is, even to a seemingly unrelated supplier half way around the world.
perhaps we could learn to enjoy rubber chickens
Some people cuss a lot. Others swear. Some use foul language.
But some are just potty-mouthed. Their attempts to sound tough are just so infantile.
Profanity is the resort of of those who have too weak a mind to formulate a good counter argument or biting riposte.
I'd say he was just too unimaginative -- fancy that for someone hailing from Marketing.
I'm sorry... is there a better word to describe this self-absorbed troll?
They should have sacked him -- if not to save the company several missteps, just to see the look on his face.
With the low low interest rates you would be a fool not to refinance your house and take out a home equity loan to purchase said aspirin.
Perhaps I could buy stock on margin with borrowed money, what could go wrong?
I was the best mathematician in my university math classes. Who knew?
Genius ahead of its time.
I know I was hard at work involving the subtraction of beer from a case, addition to empty bottles, dividing time between drinking and the necessary room and multiplying the number of pink elephants surrounding me.
Heady times.
Before financing, people had large bank balances in this account type (I swear I amd not making this up) called 'Savings'. Banks actually paid people interest, rather than collecting it on all their debt. The banks borrowed from depositors for loans rather than borrowing from the Federal Reserve for nearly free.
The concept of this makes the mind reel. I may have to take out a loan and buy myself some aspirin.
what else is new
Well, in this case it's some capitalists taking advantage of a business opportunity to spy on you. What bothers me is I don't recall signing any sort of release on this, when someone wants to look where I've been driving my car.
Which is worse, the government spying on you or business, which then sells the info, perhaps to someone who could be interested in robbing you or kidnapping your child, and using this sort of information as a resource?
Well, if you people would stop talking about TV and the shit you watch, you wouldn't hear anyone tell you that they don't watch TV.
That's about the size of it. Where I work most people watch a few shows and avidly follow one or two. The subject of shows or even commercials they have found entertaining pop up occasionally and I just gently remind them I don't watch TV. I just haven't been interested and watching most shows I find a trying experience.
Oh, I own one, I just can't be bothered to turn it on and watch anything on it.
There's much more entertaining and mentally stimulating content on the interwebs, anyway.
As I have watched about 1 hour of TV over the past 10 years, I'm non-plussed. I have always felt the broadcasters were allowed to run roughshod over the public, with plenty of help from the federal government. It's a new century, can we start looking beyond 20th century business models, yet?
Bass O Matic meals extend life span -- but who wants to live extra years if that's what it takes?!?
Rocky's Boots.
'Nuff said.
I really loved playing the original Paradroid on the C64. Had to beat computer intelligence at toggling logic gates. Makes you think much faster when looking at logic circuits later. :D
The trick is getting to kids before their idiot peers who casually go around saying things like "Math is hard", "I can't do math, it's difficult", "Math is only for really super smart people."
Math is actually pretty easy, but once you've convinced yourself it's hard it becomes twice the battle, first to get past that mental barrier about how impossible it is.
Same applies to many areas of study. I was coding like a coding fool on National Coding Day and my High School counselor wouldn't let me into the programming classes because my math grades needed to be higher. Pfft, like math is more prevailing than logic. Anyway, plenty of misconceptions on what people are really capable of, particularly at a very young age.
I think there's a growing culture of morons who think you should molly coddle kids rather than get those little brains working during the time in their lives when they are capable of learning the fastest.
Thats called power
If that were true... whatsit say about Windows.
Not sure if this is laugh or crying material.
Sounds like a good side-plot to a spy spoof. Too bad Leslie Nielsen isn't around to take advantage of it.
Especially someone who would cheat a spy.
I don't understand how trucks, which require much more fuel, and more driver time per load, have
so thoroughly replaced railroads for long hauls. Making trucks more efficient is a fine idea, but
it's only nibbling at the edges. Why not go back to trains for medium to long distances?
Rail trails. Most of the track miles in the USA has been consigned to rail trails or built over. I travel quite a lot and can spot old rail grades, despite lack of ties and rails, frequently across the landscape. It would astound some people to see just how much rail there once was in this country. Some was pulled up and removed for good reason, because the demand didn't exist to sustain it. Others were retired because so much dependence upon the flexibility of trucking. Intermodal freight still makes good economic sense, containers moved by flat cars enmasse, but sometimes it just doesn't make any sense at all to have thousands of trucks on the road when the contents could be moved much more cost effectively by rail, even light rail.
American commerce is addicted to trucking, even long-haul, such as L.A. to Denver, Denver to Columbus, Columbus to Orlando, etc. I once worked in the freight and logistics industry and the one thing trucks do have is flexibility. They can run short spokes more effectively than rail, but it's hard to beat rail for long haul. Customers are used to footing the expense of the inefficiency of moving one or two trailers hundreds of miles, where rail could have done for much less cost. Some day, when petroleum is no longer cheap we'll wish we still had rails everywhere.
On the truck side, I'd applaud these WAVE trucks as I hate getting stuck behind stinky diesels, which give me splitting headaches from their pungent exhaust.
Nikon produces a number of pro lenses in "light grey". Besides, Nikon cameras do have a advantage in (usable) ISO.
I used to believe that.
Taking pictures by firelight last November in Death Valley with a Canon 6D knocked my socks off. Very impressive.
Nikon is still a step ahead! First post!
My crappy old Nikon D70s, consigned to the junk heap, says they could do better on build quality and components.
Consumer line = consumer quality.
Should have opted for the D700.
Odd that. I could drive nails into a board with my old FE II and it would still work like a Swiss watch. It's been banged up and struck rocks while hopping to a better vantage (and slipping) and all I ever lost as a lens cap. Consumer end back then was still quality. Now consumer is an excuse to use cheap parts. So much fail there.
It's their money, they can do what they want with it. Plain and simple.
"The man behind that company should be put behind bars."
No, he shouldn't.
It is morally wrong to let a fool keep his money.
no...you forgot to develop a cloud-based API in Ruby that leveraged social graphs and advanced mapping functions...
nobody could figure out what and where a "Golden Gate Bridge" was...
I guess I need to actualize more. I'll start forming a committee to look into it.
I was a Canon man. But they have seriously dropped the ball in the image sensor department. They continue to use ancient sensors that simply cannot compete in today's market. I sold all my Canon cameras and lenses and moved to Nikon and could not be happier. I do not have to resort to hacks to get an image that is close to a Nikon image.
I ditched Nikon for Canon and couldn't be more happy.
Nikon is still a step ahead! First post!
My crappy old Nikon D70s, consigned to the junk heap, says they could do better on build quality and components.