For those of you who make fun of the Soviet system wen you probably wheren't even born then, this is a lesson: Soviets took care of their people well and their medicine was top.
Eight months ago, I pulled my adopted son out of a Russian hospital in Novosibirsk against the will of the doctor. He had severe asthma and bronchitis which he had contracted while there for minor outpatient surgery. He hadn't been bathed or had his clothes changed in weeks. He was lying in a wet cloth diaper. His crib was made from knit kite string. This is the same hospital where I saw, with my own eyes, supplies being delivered by horse-drawn cart. He is covered in scars. He had more scars at 1 year old than I had at 33. One of them is a scar on his scrotum where they split it front to back for exploratory surgery. In the US, they would have ordered a cat scan. This was last winter. Would you say things have improved since soviet times?
Want to know why it's uncool to me? This may be flaimbait, but it's the truth. A disproportionate number of Indians favor this language and environment. This makes it nearly impossible for me to take these contracts since it tends to drive down rates. Same thing for oracle related work.
The worst part of this election is that it's hinging on what may be some exagerations from a boasting veteran of what happened 35 years ago.
The point is not what really happened 35 years ago. That's irrelevant. The point is, did he lie about it? I think what rubs conservatives the wrong way about Kerry is that he has the same slimey quality that Clinton had.
Next time you're in Japan, go to a store and buy a gift for someone, then ask the store to wrap it for you, then watch in amazment. They place the box diagonally on a sheet of wrapping paper (one size fits all), then they simply roll up the box and seal it with one piece of tape. It takes about three or four seconds. I watched it dozens of times and I still can't do it.
Actually, it is a low carb diet. I limit my carb intake to less than 50 grams a day. For the first two weeks, atkins limits you to 20 a day. Then he recommends increasing the daily limit by 5 grams each week until you stop losing, then drop back down 5 more grams. For me, that number is around 60 grams a day, more if I exercise. I do this eating vegitables and fruits. Read the book.
1. Speech recoginition will be common-place. It's nearly there now, only a little more processing power is needed. You'll talk to everything imaginable from your car to your toaster.
2. #1 will lead to universal translators. Well, not exactly, because there will still be babel-fish type problems with the translation, but I think it will work great for simple dialog. There will be a button you can press which marks the translation as bad, it gets sent in real-time to a human who does the translation the old fashioned way, then sends you back the right translation. The system remembers the fix so it doesn't make a mistake again.
3. Biometrics instead of pin codes and signatures. This will be done to fix the problem of identity theft which will get nothing but worse.
4. rfid tag checkout. they'll weigh your produce in the produce department and make a special tag, just like the meat department now. You'll need one of those stupid (rfid) cards to make this work. They'll charge you more for a manual checkout. All of this to prevent shoplifting and improve customer data collection.
5. More electric cars as battery technology improves, but it will be decades before the end of gasoline. You'll still have to drive.
6. Broadband Internet everywhere. People will start bringing their devices to work to use their connection instead of the one at work. This will cause privacy issues at work. Many places will jam/prohibit your own devices from being on in the workplace.
7. Real actual video phones, over ip.
8. Every surface imaginable will have an LCD displaying some sort of advertisement.
by slipping on ice and hitting his head? I eat more vegitables and fiber now than I did before this diet. Get your facts straight.
P.S. You'll now see posts about how much he weighed when he died. What people fail to point out was that this was water wait gained while he was in a coma. One month before he died, he was at an idea weight for his age, and there are pictures to prove it.
Nothing that has you excluding entire parts of your diet can be healthy.
This is FUD. You don't exclude carbohydrates completely. The idea is that what the US government says is an appropriate amount of carbohydrate in your diet is way over estimated. I've lost 70 pounds with this diet (actually a slight variation of it). I still eat fruit. I eat more vegitables. Sometimes I eat some whole-grain bread. I stopped consuming anything with refined sugar or flour, partially hydroginated vegitable oil, or high fructose corn syrup. I also don't eat potatos anymore. Anywhere you eat potatos, I eat vegitables instead. I still eat exactly the same amount of meat and fat as I did before the diet. I've gone from 290 pounds to 220 pounds. My waist has gone from 44" to 36" and I've dropped four shirt sizes, all without a significant increase in exercise. And essentially, all I did was replace sugar and potatos with vegitables.
Actually, it does have fad-like qualities at the moment, but that diet has been around for 30 years. I lost 70 pounds with it. I'm certain I'll be using it in 10 years.
In two weeks I'm flying to russia to adopt a child. This child is an orphan and is from an undesirable ethnic group in russia, a double-whammy in their society. If I don't bring him to america, he's doomed. Is that a good enough reason to fly? If I fly, am I still allowed to not like flying? or avoid it when I can? Can I still choose to drive from chicago to orlando (which I do) instead fo flying? If you don't want to eat tuna, eat something else. But in many cases, there's no practical alternative to flying.
I mean sure, the consumer saves a buck or so because of the cheaper labor...
Where do you shop? From where I'm standing, prices didn't change one bit because of outsourcing. According to the IRS, CEO salaries sure did though, as did corporate profits. It's clear what happened. Corporations screwed the middle class.
I'll say it until people understand it or refute it: you cannot be both for free trade and against outsourcing.
My complaint is not that my entire career was outsourced, but that it happened so quickly. I took a 66% pay cut in 8 months and I was lucky to stay employed. People have five year car loans and thirty year mortgages. These sorts of changes should have been implemented over time so that people can plan for them.
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Al go play it for them live or something?
There's an acoustic version of Amish Paradise?!
I'm so excited about the possibilities of genetic engineering.
Me too! I can't wait for a girlfriend with fold-back teeth!
For those of you who make fun of the Soviet system wen you probably wheren't even born then, this is a lesson: Soviets took care of their people well and their medicine was top.
Eight months ago, I pulled my adopted son out of a Russian hospital in Novosibirsk against the will of the doctor. He had severe asthma and bronchitis which he had contracted while there for minor outpatient surgery. He hadn't been bathed or had his clothes changed in weeks. He was lying in a wet cloth diaper. His crib was made from knit kite string. This is the same hospital where I saw, with my own eyes, supplies being delivered by horse-drawn cart. He is covered in scars. He had more scars at 1 year old than I had at 33. One of them is a scar on his scrotum where they split it front to back for exploratory surgery. In the US, they would have ordered a cat scan. This was last winter. Would you say things have improved since soviet times?
I prefer this one.
Want to know why it's uncool to me? This may be flaimbait, but it's the truth. A disproportionate number of Indians favor this language and environment. This makes it nearly impossible for me to take these contracts since it tends to drive down rates. Same thing for oracle related work.
He should hand the reigns over to Spielberg
"And in a flash of light, the light sabres change into flashlights!"
The worst part of this election is that it's hinging on what may be some exagerations from a boasting veteran of what happened 35 years ago.
The point is not what really happened 35 years ago. That's irrelevant. The point is, did he lie about it? I think what rubs conservatives the wrong way about Kerry is that he has the same slimey quality that Clinton had.
Next time you're in Japan, go to a store and buy a gift for someone, then ask the store to wrap it for you, then watch in amazment. They place the box diagonally on a sheet of wrapping paper (one size fits all), then they simply roll up the box and seal it with one piece of tape. It takes about three or four seconds. I watched it dozens of times and I still can't do it.
You can see a line of lights following the trans-siberia railroad to vladivostok.
Actually, it is a low carb diet. I limit my carb intake to less than 50 grams a day. For the first two weeks, atkins limits you to 20 a day. Then he recommends increasing the daily limit by 5 grams each week until you stop losing, then drop back down 5 more grams. For me, that number is around 60 grams a day, more if I exercise. I do this eating vegitables and fruits. Read the book.
ok, here goes. This stuff will be here:
1. Speech recoginition will be common-place. It's nearly there now, only a little more processing power is needed. You'll talk to everything imaginable from your car to your toaster.
2. #1 will lead to universal translators. Well, not exactly, because there will still be babel-fish type problems with the translation, but I think it will work great for simple dialog. There will be a button you can press which marks the translation as bad, it gets sent in real-time to a human who does the translation the old fashioned way, then sends you back the right translation. The system remembers the fix so it doesn't make a mistake again.
3. Biometrics instead of pin codes and signatures. This will be done to fix the problem of identity theft which will get nothing but worse.
4. rfid tag checkout. they'll weigh your produce in the produce department and make a special tag, just like the meat department now. You'll need one of those stupid (rfid) cards to make this work. They'll charge you more for a manual checkout. All of this to prevent shoplifting and improve customer data collection.
5. More electric cars as battery technology improves, but it will be decades before the end of gasoline. You'll still have to drive.
6. Broadband Internet everywhere. People will start bringing their devices to work to use their connection instead of the one at work. This will cause privacy issues at work. Many places will jam/prohibit your own devices from being on in the workplace.
7. Real actual video phones, over ip.
8. Every surface imaginable will have an LCD displaying some sort of advertisement.
combined with the way Dr. Atkins died
by slipping on ice and hitting his head? I eat more vegitables and fiber now than I did before this diet. Get your facts straight.
P.S. You'll now see posts about how much he weighed when he died. What people fail to point out was that this was water wait gained while he was in a coma. One month before he died, he was at an idea weight for his age, and there are pictures to prove it.
Nothing that has you excluding entire parts of your diet can be healthy.
This is FUD. You don't exclude carbohydrates completely. The idea is that what the US government says is an appropriate amount of carbohydrate in your diet is way over estimated. I've lost 70 pounds with this diet (actually a slight variation of it). I still eat fruit. I eat more vegitables. Sometimes I eat some whole-grain bread. I stopped consuming anything with refined sugar or flour, partially hydroginated vegitable oil, or high fructose corn syrup. I also don't eat potatos anymore. Anywhere you eat potatos, I eat vegitables instead. I still eat exactly the same amount of meat and fat as I did before the diet. I've gone from 290 pounds to 220 pounds. My waist has gone from 44" to 36" and I've dropped four shirt sizes, all without a significant increase in exercise. And essentially, all I did was replace sugar and potatos with vegitables.
Atkins diet fad is going to last a whole decade?
Actually, it does have fad-like qualities at the moment, but that diet has been around for 30 years. I lost 70 pounds with it. I'm certain I'll be using it in 10 years.
But that's just natural selection eliminating Mac users from the genetic pool.
One could argue that they were never in the gene pool to begin with.
Boycotting it won't work.
This is true. Only by defeating Malak can we bring about the destruction of the Star Forge.
Pazaak anyone?
Unless i'm like, REALLY in the mood for it.
In two weeks I'm flying to russia to adopt a child. This child is an orphan and is from an undesirable ethnic group in russia, a double-whammy in their society. If I don't bring him to america, he's doomed. Is that a good enough reason to fly? If I fly, am I still allowed to not like flying? or avoid it when I can? Can I still choose to drive from chicago to orlando (which I do) instead fo flying? If you don't want to eat tuna, eat something else. But in many cases, there's no practical alternative to flying.
What's next, required DNA samples if you want to buy a souvenier?
Just last week in amsterdam (schippol), I had to show my boarding pass (to be scanned) to buy souveniers at one store and water at another.
I, for one, do not want to live in a world where slacking and procrastinating are eliminated by a pill.
Pez
How about if the pills came out of superman's mouth when you tilt his head back?
there may be a genetic reason I will be rejected by their church
Don't worry. The gene therapy medication is sure to show up in a sports drink.
shite-bike
I know! The Pooter-Scooter!
I'm sure it's gets shitty mileage.
Does he call it the shite-bike?
excrement-powered scooter
I'm sure it's gets shitty mileage.
I mean sure, the consumer saves a buck or so because of the cheaper labor...
Where do you shop? From where I'm standing, prices didn't change one bit because of outsourcing. According to the IRS, CEO salaries sure did though, as did corporate profits. It's clear what happened. Corporations screwed the middle class.
I'll say it until people understand it or refute it: you cannot be both for free trade and against outsourcing.
My complaint is not that my entire career was outsourced, but that it happened so quickly. I took a 66% pay cut in 8 months and I was lucky to stay employed. People have five year car loans and thirty year mortgages. These sorts of changes should have been implemented over time so that people can plan for them.