There's no shortage of food in the world overall.
There's only uneven distribution/consumption, and that's nothing to do with GMO or not GMO, and everything to do with politics and profit.
Even more bizarre in Australia, which is by now fairly thoroughly metricated, having mostly gone over in 1970.
Height and weight, most people now know metric BUT babies are still routinely referred to in pounds and ounces, and inches - the grandmother effect, I guess, but slowly changing.
Hardware, while always shown in metric, is a mixture. People will want 3.3m of 2x4 timber, or 30m of 1/2" copper pipe.
I reckon it will be another decade or two before all the old guys have been gone long enough.
Beer is no drama - we love our beer down under, and want every ml. But the various measures tend to have names which are neither metric nor imperial, so depending on where you are in the country, you might get a pony, a pot, a middy, or a schooner. Under the influence of British-style pubs you can get a pint, however, though some short-change you with a pissy little US pint.
Only a couple of months ago I ditched around half a cubic metre of CD-ROMs and floppies: shareware, MSDN, TechNet, Novell SEL, hardware drivers, even shrink-wrapped MS-DOS, XTree Gold,...
About 15 years ago, when a large Windows (NT) project was having trouble getting DNS to work properly at scale on NT, the SEs went to the source to ask how Microsoft themselves made it work. The sheepish answer was *cough*unix*cough*
Yes!
A person perceiving this as poetry is like a person perceiving a (natural) landscape as beautiful.
The intelligence is in the perceiver, not the "creator".
Absolutely agree. I started as a hobbyist with a 1MHz Signetics 2650 and 1kB RAM - I thought that was pretty cool. I had a book (dead trees) with details for a robot with trainable semi-random autonomous behavior and deviceless remote control (you whistled at it) that ran the 8085 and less than 1kB RAM. You can do PLENTY with a Pi.
My first experience of remote tech support was in 1986, when one of our systems in Bahrain needed support. The only communications available were phone or Telex. With timezone differences, we used Telex. I had to anticipate what might happen, describe what to look for, detail what to type, etc. without knowing if they'd get it right until the return Telex the next day. One of the trickier bits was describing what keys to press, as Telex had a far more limited character set than the computer keyboard. I would spend the first half of a message defining what keys I meant.
Later experience showed me that users tend to lie: "Would you check that the cable is plugged in, please?" 3 microseconds later "Yep!"
So I started resorting to "Please unplug the cable" 10 seconds later "OK". "Now plug it in again, please, and make sure it is the right way up and all the way in".
I forgot to mention - environmentally friendly. Not only is the lifecycle impact low (because they last so long), but they have introduced so many to the wonders of nature. And of course they have been putting oil back into the ground for the last 66 years.;-)
Land Rover. Not the poncy SUV-type things recently produced, though. Around 70% of all the Land Rovers ever built are reportedly still in use. Ugly, maybe. Agricultural, I guess. Maintainable - you bet (I had no trouble getting new parts for a 1973 model - and I could upgrade the brakes by just bolting on the ones from a heavier model). Speed - it doesn't matter if the mph (or km/h) is low if the route you can take is more direct and therefore shorter. Rust - extensive use of alloy (right from 1948) renders it largely resistant to the dreaded tinworm. Comfort - not if you're tall or wide, and pretty basic even if you're not. Safety - the other car is your crumple zone. (besides, you can't go fast enough to get into _real_ trouble. Capable - without doubt. An unmodified model from the 60s can still go places modern trucks with all the gadgets can't. Stories of 'barn finds' - cars that have sat in a field or shed for decades - are often found to start first time with a bit of fuel in the tank and a fresh battery.
mod parent up
A typical individual has very little power to negotiate against a large corporation (yes of course there are some people with highly in-demand skills or other negotiating levers, but most people not so much). Government regulation (or perhaps unions) can go someway toward balancing the situation.
If it's a choice between screwing a company and screwing a person, screw the company. (I don't buy the legal fiction that a company is a person)
Of course, if we can avoid screwing either, that's better.
Unashamedly anthropocentric.
GroupWise? That can scale.
eDirectory scales better than AD
and Zenworks manages devices of many types
Ooops. I got confused by daylight savings and had my watch set to 2004...
Much as Murdoch tried to buy the last US elections, he DID buy the last Australian elections (owns 60-70% of the press here) - installing a puppet leader who would stop FTTH which threatens Murdoch's cable network.
It is *not* illegal to enter Australia via any means to seek asylum, despite what so many of our politicians say. There are zero "illegal asylum seekers".
Asylum seekers may well perform illegal acts or use illegal services to get to Australia, but the actual act of coming to Australia to seek asylum is not illegal, whether they come by boat, plane or walk across the ocean floor.
They may be determined not to be asylum seekers, in which case their continued residence in Australia may be determined to be illegal, but that is separate from the act of coming to Australia to seek asylum.
Correct! And there are far more people illegally overstaying tourist and other visas than there are asylum seekers risking their lives in unsafe boats to legally flee persecution.
all they could do with the brakes is turn off and on any "skid control" systems, the brake system on cars is STILL a mechanical/hydrochloric system , link from steering wheel to steering rack is not fly by wire in the EU, and cars still have "butterfly" valves for air intake, that is linked to pedal postion.. via mechanical cable
Wow! what do they make the brake components from to avoid them being eaten away by the 'hydrochloric' system?
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There's no shortage of food in the world overall. There's only uneven distribution/consumption, and that's nothing to do with GMO or not GMO, and everything to do with politics and profit.
Even more bizarre in Australia, which is by now fairly thoroughly metricated, having mostly gone over in 1970. Height and weight, most people now know metric BUT babies are still routinely referred to in pounds and ounces, and inches - the grandmother effect, I guess, but slowly changing. Hardware, while always shown in metric, is a mixture. People will want 3.3m of 2x4 timber, or 30m of 1/2" copper pipe. I reckon it will be another decade or two before all the old guys have been gone long enough. Beer is no drama - we love our beer down under, and want every ml. But the various measures tend to have names which are neither metric nor imperial, so depending on where you are in the country, you might get a pony, a pot, a middy, or a schooner. Under the influence of British-style pubs you can get a pint, however, though some short-change you with a pissy little US pint.
Only a couple of months ago I ditched around half a cubic metre of CD-ROMs and floppies: shareware, MSDN, TechNet, Novell SEL, hardware drivers, even shrink-wrapped MS-DOS, XTree Gold, ...
About 15 years ago, when a large Windows (NT) project was having trouble getting DNS to work properly at scale on NT, the SEs went to the source to ask how Microsoft themselves made it work. The sheepish answer was *cough*unix*cough*
Yes! A person perceiving this as poetry is like a person perceiving a (natural) landscape as beautiful. The intelligence is in the perceiver, not the "creator".
Absolutely agree. I started as a hobbyist with a 1MHz Signetics 2650 and 1kB RAM - I thought that was pretty cool. I had a book (dead trees) with details for a robot with trainable semi-random autonomous behavior and deviceless remote control (you whistled at it) that ran the 8085 and less than 1kB RAM. You can do PLENTY with a Pi.
Backward? Do you mean it should be "kills this discovery and buys these girls out", or "buys this discovery and kills these girls"?
actually, looking at the article (!), they may want to promote safer cycling, not just recycling
... if there's a sign, and they've relocated the board-burning a few miles, things must be much better.
Liquid Nitrogen? I'd say VERY cool. Even cold.
My first experience of remote tech support was in 1986, when one of our systems in Bahrain needed support. The only communications available were phone or Telex. With timezone differences, we used Telex. I had to anticipate what might happen, describe what to look for, detail what to type, etc. without knowing if they'd get it right until the return Telex the next day. One of the trickier bits was describing what keys to press, as Telex had a far more limited character set than the computer keyboard. I would spend the first half of a message defining what keys I meant. Later experience showed me that users tend to lie: "Would you check that the cable is plugged in, please?" 3 microseconds later "Yep!" So I started resorting to "Please unplug the cable" 10 seconds later "OK". "Now plug it in again, please, and make sure it is the right way up and all the way in".
Everything is Awesome.
FTFY
It is a cheap teaching method that is consistently poor regardless of class size. FTFY
Try again - it's CONFIDANTE
I forgot to mention - environmentally friendly. Not only is the lifecycle impact low (because they last so long), but they have introduced so many to the wonders of nature. And of course they have been putting oil back into the ground for the last 66 years. ;-)
Land Rover. Not the poncy SUV-type things recently produced, though. Around 70% of all the Land Rovers ever built are reportedly still in use. Ugly, maybe. Agricultural, I guess. Maintainable - you bet (I had no trouble getting new parts for a 1973 model - and I could upgrade the brakes by just bolting on the ones from a heavier model). Speed - it doesn't matter if the mph (or km/h) is low if the route you can take is more direct and therefore shorter. Rust - extensive use of alloy (right from 1948) renders it largely resistant to the dreaded tinworm. Comfort - not if you're tall or wide, and pretty basic even if you're not. Safety - the other car is your crumple zone. (besides, you can't go fast enough to get into _real_ trouble. Capable - without doubt. An unmodified model from the 60s can still go places modern trucks with all the gadgets can't. Stories of 'barn finds' - cars that have sat in a field or shed for decades - are often found to start first time with a bit of fuel in the tank and a fresh battery.
Are you playing "bait the pedant" with your sig? OK, I'll bite. The expression is "For all intents and purposes.."
mod parent up A typical individual has very little power to negotiate against a large corporation (yes of course there are some people with highly in-demand skills or other negotiating levers, but most people not so much). Government regulation (or perhaps unions) can go someway toward balancing the situation.
If it's a choice between screwing a company and screwing a person, screw the company. (I don't buy the legal fiction that a company is a person) Of course, if we can avoid screwing either, that's better. Unashamedly anthropocentric.
GroupWise? That can scale. eDirectory scales better than AD and Zenworks manages devices of many types Ooops. I got confused by daylight savings and had my watch set to 2004...
Much as Murdoch tried to buy the last US elections, he DID buy the last Australian elections (owns 60-70% of the press here) - installing a puppet leader who would stop FTTH which threatens Murdoch's cable network.
Precisely because the population is so sparse, decent speeds could be a catalyst for, say, better telemedicine, better online learning...
It is *not* illegal to enter Australia via any means to seek asylum, despite what so many of our politicians say. There are zero "illegal asylum seekers".
Asylum seekers may well perform illegal acts or use illegal services to get to Australia, but the actual act of coming to Australia to seek asylum is not illegal, whether they come by boat, plane or walk across the ocean floor.
They may be determined not to be asylum seekers, in which case their continued residence in Australia may be determined to be illegal, but that is separate from the act of coming to Australia to seek asylum.
Correct! And there are far more people illegally overstaying tourist and other visas than there are asylum seekers risking their lives in unsafe boats to legally flee persecution.
all they could do with the brakes is turn off and on any "skid control" systems, the brake system on cars is STILL a mechanical/hydrochloric system , link from steering wheel to steering rack is not fly by wire in the EU, and cars still have "butterfly" valves for air intake, that is linked to pedal postion .. via mechanical cable
Wow! what do they make the brake components from to avoid them being eaten away by the 'hydrochloric' system?
... the kid in the LED suit on youtube has already won