nurses are required to have an encyclopaedic knowledge of drugs (dosage, side-effects, etc), medical procedures, and so on.
You've obviously never had a nurse. Perhaps they're *supposed* to be well versed in those areas, but they either don't actually know, or don't care. I'm also sure that there are good nurses out there. I just haven't run into any who were supposed to be caring for the people I watched die. They even had badass medical insurance.
Six weeks ago I got slashed in the face by a guy with a knife on Chalk Farm Road, in Camden.
I chased him about 600 meters but he ran into a dark council estate and was not that stupid, the guy still had a knife/friends and I had neither.
This isn't making much sense to me.
Did the guy sneak up on you, slash your face, and then run away?
Did he rob you, then slash your face, and you decided to chase after him?
Did you assault the guy, get cut by him, and then continue the pursuit?
The first option makes no sense but explains the chase. The second option makes no sense because I don't see why he wouldn't just cut you up some more instead of running. The third option makes no sense because if you assaulted the guy you wouldn't go get the police.
Surely the story is none of "our" business anyhow, but in this case the parts you left out make it sound like a ridiculous circumstance.
If me, and just about anyone else in the world starts playing a brand new game at the same time, I'll beat them. I'd bet money on it (if I were able to somehow verify that it was indeed their first time). But if they practice, and I practice, they'll eventually beat me at it. Why? I don't know why. Maybe I don't care to get any better at the specific game since it serves me no purpose. Maybe I'm content with my initial skill level. Who knows.
In general, I'm a great first-time gamer. But if I work for 20 hours to improve, and someone else does the same... I will likely not get much better. Perhaps this fits your situation as well.
...for one person who is against the war to use anything but lies, ignorance, and oversimplification to support their viewpoint.
There are countless reasons why we _should_ remove Saddam from power, but I'll be damned if I can't find a good long term reason to leave him alone.
For those of you who think we're doing this to scare Iraqi's from joining terrorist groups, you're misinformed. For those of you who think we're doing this to get oil, you're misinformed.
Proper information is out there, but they conceal that sort of information in books.
If I didn't have a computer when I was a kid, I would have done just as poorly as my classmates who were just as smart as I was, but unmotivated to learn.
Computers were fun to play with, are fun to play with, and will always be fun to play with. Once in a while you learn something by screwing around, and that's the only reason I'm not in jail or dead right now.
And if all you think a laptop is for is writing a research paper, and you don't think you can learn algebra with a computer, then how in the FUCK did you find slashdot?
BTW - it's NOT your fucking tax dollars going into this. It was privately funded. If you want to force-feed a kid "culture" and drop $50M on getting them a tomato in their lunch instead of catsup, then put up the cash.
Someone thought that computers would serve them well, and he came through with the funding.
I like the way that you know EXACTLY how to improve Maine public schools. You must be a fucking genius. Why is it that you geniuses never have any money, and instead try to force people who do have it to put it where you want it to go? Or do you have $37M and are just a selfish bastard who doesn't want to help out the schoolkids?
Hell, I don't have $37M, but it's none of my fucking business to tell someone HOW to be a fucking philanthropist.
It shocks me to find so many anti-big-bang postings after this story. And not constructive criticisms, but rather religious-sounding trolls.
I feel like I just showed up at a meeting of the Flat Earther's society. One of you even offered: "Don't even get me started on evolution."
This is not what I have come to expect from Slashdotters in general. We argue intelligently (for the most part) about topics such as which operating system eats the most dick, and then people decide that evolution is something that shouldn't even be taken seriously.
Yes, these things are theories, but when I see Slashdotters giving empty objections to theories for the sake of them being theories, I get sick to my stomach.
I think there are very few stupid individuals, HOWEVER, the second they make a decision as a group, most become complete ignoramuses. Look at our political parties. Look at our businesses. Look at the laws governing homeowners associations all over the country (Esp. Nevada). Look at the fact that some people actually think that the new airport security regulations are making anything safer than it was before.
The government knows how dumb people are as a group, or else they wouldn't throw placebos at us on a daily basis to make us "feel safe" and so on.
"Joe sixpack" may be a very intelligent person on his own, but in a group he has proven to be a complete idiot.
It's shocking, actually.
BTW - I think the legislation is a fine idea, just that your comment was silly as hell.
In his book "What do you care what other people think?" he talks about the Challenger thing, and talks about NASA in general.
Just a good book all around. Wish we still had Feynman around to see what happened this time.
This is sad. Very sad. But not for the astronauts.
I'll go out on a limb here and say that the astronauts themselves would trade their lives in a second to be in space, and to contribute whatever it was that they did on this mission. I know I would.
So I won't waste a tear mourning them. I'll save the tears for their families and friends. I have no business mourning sad. Only remembering them.
Book 1 was a good book. Book 2 was very good. Three was solid. 4 was one of my favorite books of all time. 5 was good.
When book 6 came out, it was a minor disappointment. It didn't really end. It was weird, and felt unfinished.
And then book 7 came out. It was horrible. 8 did no better. 9 made me sick to my stomach, and I have forced myself to read only the first 100 pages thus far of book 10.
Now people remember book 6 as a great book, as it was the last book worth reading in the series.
If you are going to read tWoT, just stop in the middle and remember RJ as a solid author who does well with character development. Read any farther only to be let down time and again, hoping for a glimpse of the past greatness.
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Certainly he should have downloaded SETI@Work.
~D
nurses are required to have an encyclopaedic knowledge of drugs (dosage, side-effects, etc), medical procedures, and so on.
You've obviously never had a nurse. Perhaps they're *supposed* to be well versed in those areas, but they either don't actually know, or don't care. I'm also sure that there are good nurses out there. I just haven't run into any who were supposed to be caring for the people I watched die. They even had badass medical insurance.
~D
Nu ma nu ma nu ma iei!
~D
Do they use Tolkien Ring?
~D
You're thinking of the Bourne Again Christian Conjecture.
This isn't making much sense to me.
Did the guy sneak up on you, slash your face, and then run away?
Did he rob you, then slash your face, and you decided to chase after him?
Did you assault the guy, get cut by him, and then continue the pursuit?
The first option makes no sense but explains the chase. The second option makes no sense because I don't see why he wouldn't just cut you up some more instead of running. The third option makes no sense because if you assaulted the guy you wouldn't go get the police.
Surely the story is none of "our" business anyhow, but in this case the parts you left out make it sound like a ridiculous circumstance.
'tis but a scratch!
~D
Wouldn't it pass even that too, sometimes?
~D
I think the subject line says it all. You can't worry about your software working for that long until your hardware can last that long.
~D
This system is absolutely ridiculous.
Are you trying to tell me that a smart 10 year old is the same thing as a dumb 13 year old?
~D
It might not be cheating.
If me, and just about anyone else in the world starts playing a brand new game at the same time, I'll beat them. I'd bet money on it (if I were able to somehow verify that it was indeed their first time). But if they practice, and I practice, they'll eventually beat me at it. Why? I don't know why. Maybe I don't care to get any better at the specific game since it serves me no purpose. Maybe I'm content with my initial skill level. Who knows.
In general, I'm a great first-time gamer. But if I work for 20 hours to improve, and someone else does the same... I will likely not get much better. Perhaps this fits your situation as well.
~D
Then it may be confused for a Lord of the Rings story.
~D
nice.
...for one person who is against the war to use anything but lies, ignorance, and oversimplification to support their viewpoint.
There are countless reasons why we _should_ remove Saddam from power, but I'll be damned if I can't find a good long term reason to leave him alone.
For those of you who think we're doing this to scare Iraqi's from joining terrorist groups, you're misinformed. For those of you who think we're doing this to get oil, you're misinformed.
Proper information is out there, but they conceal that sort of information in books.
~D
And I like the "future" as seen from 1950 a lot more than i like the future as seen from any other era.
Look at original cover art for Isaac Asimov stories. Not the reprints. The originals. Domed cities. Flying cities. Monoliths beyond description.
And these images.
I like yesteryear's view of the future more than I like today, or today's view of the future.
~D
If I didn't have a computer when I was a kid, I would have done just as poorly as my classmates who were just as smart as I was, but unmotivated to learn.
Computers were fun to play with, are fun to play with, and will always be fun to play with. Once in a while you learn something by screwing around, and that's the only reason I'm not in jail or dead right now.
And if all you think a laptop is for is writing a research paper, and you don't think you can learn algebra with a computer, then how in the FUCK did you find slashdot?
BTW - it's NOT your fucking tax dollars going into this. It was privately funded. If you want to force-feed a kid "culture" and drop $50M on getting them a tomato in their lunch instead of catsup, then put up the cash.
Someone thought that computers would serve them well, and he came through with the funding.
I like the way that you know EXACTLY how to improve Maine public schools. You must be a fucking genius. Why is it that you geniuses never have any money, and instead try to force people who do have it to put it where you want it to go? Or do you have $37M and are just a selfish bastard who doesn't want to help out the schoolkids?
Hell, I don't have $37M, but it's none of my fucking business to tell someone HOW to be a fucking philanthropist.
~D
It shocks me to find so many anti-big-bang postings after this story. And not constructive criticisms, but rather religious-sounding trolls.
I feel like I just showed up at a meeting of the Flat Earther's society. One of you even offered: "Don't even get me started on evolution."
This is not what I have come to expect from Slashdotters in general. We argue intelligently (for the most part) about topics such as which operating system eats the most dick, and then people decide that evolution is something that shouldn't even be taken seriously.
Yes, these things are theories, but when I see Slashdotters giving empty objections to theories for the sake of them being theories, I get sick to my stomach.
Ok, back to work.
~D
--Don't underestimate joe sixpack...
I think there are very few stupid individuals, HOWEVER, the second they make a decision as a group, most become complete ignoramuses. Look at our political parties. Look at our businesses. Look at the laws governing homeowners associations all over the country (Esp. Nevada). Look at the fact that some people actually think that the new airport security regulations are making anything safer than it was before.
The government knows how dumb people are as a group, or else they wouldn't throw placebos at us on a daily basis to make us "feel safe" and so on.
"Joe sixpack" may be a very intelligent person on his own, but in a group he has proven to be a complete idiot.
It's shocking, actually.
BTW - I think the legislation is a fine idea, just that your comment was silly as hell.
~D
You're 100 percent right.
Sucks that you can't buy a car because you like it, but instead because you need the armor, but that's how it is.
~D
2 SMALL adults and 3 SMALL kids, unless you equate "can fit" with "fit comfortably."
Try finding some friends who are over 6'2" tall and see how well they fit.
I'm sure I would agree with you if I were a midget (under 6'2").
~D
One out of three ain't bad.
- "i can't use my hands".. you can't when you drive either
Bullshit. You are "supposed" to use both your hands while driving, but you have the ability to use one or a knee.
That's not an option with the Segway.
- "i've gotta stand up".. that's part of the point, they take up less room
If I have to stand up anyhow I may as well walk. While it may be part of the point, it's also the reason that someone doesn't want to drop $5k on one.
- "they'll kill people on sidewalks".. amazing, this argument. It's a total non-starter. Anyone on rollerblades or a bike is much more of a danger.
Ok, I'll grant you that this is a stupid argument.
~D
Who in their right mind would actually pay money for Microsoft software?
eBay probably realizes this, knows that the items will get no bids, and will just waste space on their servers.
On the other hand, people -buy- Apple software. People -like- Apple software.
~D
In his book "What do you care what other people think?" he talks about the Challenger thing, and talks about NASA in general.
Just a good book all around. Wish we still had Feynman around to see what happened this time.
This is sad. Very sad. But not for the astronauts.
I'll go out on a limb here and say that the astronauts themselves would trade their lives in a second to be in space, and to contribute whatever it was that they did on this mission. I know I would.
So I won't waste a tear mourning them. I'll save the tears for their families and friends. I have no business mourning sad. Only remembering them.
~D
Uh, no. Even if you are confusing a marathoner with a sprinter, the segway is still slower.
12 mph is good for a 5 minute mile, which is about the same as a third-rate high school distance runner.
~D
Oddly enough, I know at least 2 people who seriously read 3-4 books a night. They just shoot through them faster than I can.
I wish I could read that quickly.
~D
Book 1 was a good book. Book 2 was very good. Three was solid. 4 was one of my favorite books of all time. 5 was good.
When book 6 came out, it was a minor disappointment. It didn't really end. It was weird, and felt unfinished.
And then book 7 came out. It was horrible. 8 did no better. 9 made me sick to my stomach, and I have forced myself to read only the first 100 pages thus far of book 10.
Now people remember book 6 as a great book, as it was the last book worth reading in the series.
If you are going to read tWoT, just stop in the middle and remember RJ as a solid author who does well with character development. Read any farther only to be let down time and again, hoping for a glimpse of the past greatness.
~D