The Canadian Reform Alliance Party? They were very aware of the multi-party system and were a merger to reduce division between the severe-right and the moderate right.
We have CRAP to thank for the modern Canadian Conservatives.
Some Westerners have extended family or cultural ties to dangerous places.
Also some of these kidnappings occurred when things were safer than now... When there's an outbreak of new crime, there's always people who are caught unaware before it becomes common knowledge to stay away. Some of these people have been captive for over a year.
I personally travelled to Iran and Eastern Turkey (when it was safer...) because I wanted to better understand the local culture. I learned a lot and I'm glad I did it. At the time it was when the U.S. had Iraq reasonably under control, Eastern Turkey was stable and Ahmadinijad was on his first term. It wasn't so bad, but... a few months later, things got crazy.
Today I would not go. But I wouldn't fault anyone who had family for going.
Shingles is not adult-chicken pox. Shingles is a remergence of the virus. Adults can get chickenpox. It's just that most have had chicken pox as children, or they're immunized.
You can only get shingles if you had chicken pox. It's far less likely to get shingles if you've been immunized to chicken pox.
This means that if you have a 'pox party' rather than immunizing, you're not only giving your child chicken pox, but they have a far greater likelihood of developing shingles later in life.
My girlfriend endured shingles, she was in agony for over a week and the symptoms are extremely different than chicken pox. She had chicken pox as a child.
"Chicken Pox for adults is known as Shingles which is far nastier than Chicken Pox"
Wrong to an extreme.
Shingles is a resurgence of the virus which causes chicken pox. Once you get chicken pox, the virus is dormant in your body, your immune system continues to fight it. When your immune system is weakened, you get shingles.
Vaccination against chicken pox not only reduces chicken pox, but never being infected with the wild strain of chicken pox reduces the probability of contracting shingles when older:
" the risk of getting shingles from vaccine-strain VZV after chickenpox vaccination is much lower than getting shingles after natural infection with wild-type VZV" http://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/vaccines/varicella/
"...mature growth fixes more CO2 than new growth."
Only if your definition of "mature" is the peak-growth period of the trees and not a forest which has stopped growing.
Mature forests are as carbon neutral as an untapped oil deposit. Carbon release through decay balances with carbon capture from growth.
Using forests as a tool for carbon capture means either growing forests to maturity as carbon storage fields, or clearcutting new-growth forests and building permanent structures with a lot of wood, of course considerin the carbon-cost of processing the lumber and restoring soil nutrients.
Hardwood floors in shopping malls might be a good start.
I agree that mistakes happen, but failing because there wasn't enough content, or the content wasn't suitable to educate children with? That shows profound and fundamental incompetence.
Even if they ran a pilot and the teachers and students lied to the exec, or Pearson lied and failed to meet their contractual obligations, the exec is still on the hook. Investigations are important, but the outcome doesn't matter, if the exec delegates to incompetent underlings, they're ultimately responsible.
I have been told that it has more popularity in Japan because it's an easy gateway to learning European languages.
By "popularity" I mean slightly less overwhelming disinterest. It would be interesting to hear from a Japanese-geek on it.
Anyone interested in Esparanto should watch Incubus http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059311/. A must for Shatner fans too. Pre-trek. The mix of Spanish, Italian and French "accents" also shows a subtle problem with synthetic languages.
Seems to depend on the manager and the local corporate climate. My team had more autonomy. I was also "irreplaceable", so they needed time to find a replacement.
It's a big company. Lots of variation. If I could have given two weeks and left everyone happy, I would have.
..."traditional ideologies and authorities were being torn down there "
They were experimental and short-lived ideologies that were torn down. 20 years earlier it was war era, 30 : depression, 40: hedonism, 50: another war then the industrial revolution and agrarian society.
The nuclear family, single income post-industrial home was an ideal which nobody liked. Feminism cites it a lot, but I think it's only because boomers own the bookshelves, the experiences of their mothers is strong and the boomers came with waves of universities custom built for them. The generation before was lucky to get highschool, meanwhile the boomers were publishing papers, and lots of crappy profs were being brought in with tenure (I know because they were still around in the 90s...)
Communications were revolutionizing our perceptions of race, while war made the roles of gender and the meaning of race more complex. Rodenbery and Lucile Ball both had optimistic visions, which was cool and I think added to the future.
Luceille Ball was smart and powerful and saw a show that fit her ideals. I don't think Trek was at all random and the establishment being overthrown wasn't very established. Trek's influence was minimal, but it predicted the future.... I mean, in terms of multiculturalism and gender. Sulu was on the bridge when the Green Hornet was dealing with Bruce Lee being "too Asian" for a lead role. It's hard to believe how racist people were.
I guess if those are the traditional values you mean, then I agree, they were being slowly eroded. But Trek wasn't wildly successful (at first) and certainly didn't replace a void in the Western psyche. It was given a chance by an idealist, and was successful years later in re-runs.
crc32 is the name of the algorithm. If you dont know what it is, what it is for or why it exists, comments aren't the place to describe it.
Incorrect, misleading or unnecessary comments are worse than no comments at all.
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In other words, perfect as a second car for upper-middle-class suburbanites who don't drive far.
That's a small population.
Does geofencing count?
I'm no Apple fan, but I leave Bluetooth and GPS on all day, every day, and I still get 18-24 hour battery life on my iPhone 4s.
I don't get the hate.
"... condescension from the faculty, the peer pressure, and limited job prospects after graduation..."
Bravo. Way to encourage girls to participate in CS!
The Canadian Reform Alliance Party? They were very aware of the multi-party system and were a merger to reduce division between the severe-right and the moderate right.
We have CRAP to thank for the modern Canadian Conservatives.
If you're afraid of India, Israel and China, you should stay home. The world's too scary for you.
Some Westerners have extended family or cultural ties to dangerous places.
Also some of these kidnappings occurred when things were safer than now... When there's an outbreak of new crime, there's always people who are caught unaware before it becomes common knowledge to stay away. Some of these people have been captive for over a year.
I personally travelled to Iran and Eastern Turkey (when it was safer...) because I wanted to better understand the local culture. I learned a lot and I'm glad I did it. At the time it was when the U.S. had Iraq reasonably under control, Eastern Turkey was stable and Ahmadinijad was on his first term. It wasn't so bad, but... a few months later, things got crazy.
Today I would not go. But I wouldn't fault anyone who had family for going.
Shingles is not adult-chicken pox. Shingles is a remergence of the virus. Adults can get chickenpox. It's just that most have had chicken pox as children, or they're immunized.
You can only get shingles if you had chicken pox. It's far less likely to get shingles if you've been immunized to chicken pox.
This means that if you have a 'pox party' rather than immunizing, you're not only giving your child chicken pox, but they have a far greater likelihood of developing shingles later in life.
http://www.patient.co.uk/health/chickenpox-in-adults-and-teenagers
My girlfriend endured shingles, she was in agony for over a week and the symptoms are extremely different than chicken pox. She had chicken pox as a child.
If you're talking about Accutane, it cured me after 20 years of severe cystic acne.
Cured. No more drugs, no more blood on my shirts, could go swimming and even get my first massage.
Medical science is pretty clear about what they dont know. You always have to read carefully.
"Chicken Pox for adults is known as Shingles which is far nastier than Chicken Pox"
Wrong to an extreme.
Shingles is a resurgence of the virus which causes chicken pox. Once you get chicken pox, the virus is dormant in your body, your immune system continues to fight it. When your immune system is weakened, you get shingles.
Vaccination against chicken pox not only reduces chicken pox, but never being infected with the wild strain of chicken pox reduces the probability of contracting shingles when older:
" the risk of getting shingles from vaccine-strain VZV after chickenpox vaccination is much lower than getting shingles after natural infection with wild-type VZV" http://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/vaccines/varicella/
+1, ... much more of a story than I remember.
It's blindingly obvious to me that animals are intelligent and should be treated with respect.
"we aren't talking about something that is passed down from mother to offspring, it's something taught in a lab."
umm. They do teach eachother. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loulis_(chimpanzee)
It wasn't his mother who taught him, she was used for medical testing. And he learned from other chips in a sanctuary, not the wild.
"...mature growth fixes more CO2 than new growth."
Only if your definition of "mature" is the peak-growth period of the trees and not a forest which has stopped growing.
Mature forests are as carbon neutral as an untapped oil deposit. Carbon release through decay balances with carbon capture from growth.
Using forests as a tool for carbon capture means either growing forests to maturity as carbon storage fields, or clearcutting new-growth forests and building permanent structures with a lot of wood, of course considerin the carbon-cost of processing the lumber and restoring soil nutrients.
Hardwood floors in shopping malls might be a good start.
I agree that mistakes happen, but failing because there wasn't enough content, or the content wasn't suitable to educate children with? That shows profound and fundamental incompetence.
Even if they ran a pilot and the teachers and students lied to the exec, or Pearson lied and failed to meet their contractual obligations, the exec is still on the hook. Investigations are important, but the outcome doesn't matter, if the exec delegates to incompetent underlings, they're ultimately responsible.
The exec who signed off on it should get the pink slip. Not the person in procurement.
If you don't understand the plan, don't sign off on it.
..."burger flipping ass has just banned you for daring to challenge me, you pompous PhD-wielding expert"...
Burger-flipping and PhD aren't mutually exclusive.
He's been asked by the Bolivian ambassador to call their president to apologize. This is certainly not a bad thing, and certainly not uncalled for.
It could be a good opportunity to repair relations with an ally.
"He's no uneducated, he's just anti-science."
I can't help but to read this in a Cletus accent.
I didn't mean to imply that it wasn't niche.
A good friend of mine attended a lot of Esparanto conventions. He met lots of Japanese people in the process.... but it's just one anecdote.
I have been told that it has more popularity in Japan because it's an easy gateway to learning European languages.
By "popularity" I mean slightly less overwhelming disinterest. It would be interesting to hear from a Japanese-geek on it.
Anyone interested in Esparanto should watch Incubus http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059311/. A must for Shatner fans too. Pre-trek. The mix of Spanish, Italian and French "accents" also shows a subtle problem with synthetic languages.
Seems to depend on the manager and the local corporate climate. My team had more autonomy. I was also "irreplaceable", so they needed time to find a replacement.
It's a big company. Lots of variation. If I could have given two weeks and left everyone happy, I would have.
..."traditional ideologies and authorities were being torn down there "
They were experimental and short-lived ideologies that were torn down. 20 years earlier it was war era, 30 : depression, 40: hedonism, 50: another war then the industrial revolution and agrarian society.
The nuclear family, single income post-industrial home was an ideal which nobody liked. Feminism cites it a lot, but I think it's only because boomers own the bookshelves, the experiences of their mothers is strong and the boomers came with waves of universities custom built for them. The generation before was lucky to get highschool, meanwhile the boomers were publishing papers, and lots of crappy profs were being brought in with tenure (I know because they were still around in the 90s...)
Communications were revolutionizing our perceptions of race, while war made the roles of gender and the meaning of race more complex. Rodenbery and Lucile Ball both had optimistic visions, which was cool and I think added to the future.
Luceille Ball was smart and powerful and saw a show that fit her ideals. I don't think Trek was at all random and the establishment being overthrown wasn't very established. Trek's influence was minimal, but it predicted the future.... I mean, in terms of multiculturalism and gender. Sulu was on the bridge when the Green Hornet was dealing with Bruce Lee being "too Asian" for a lead role. It's hard to believe how racist people were.
I guess if those are the traditional values you mean, then I agree, they were being slowly eroded. But Trek wasn't wildly successful (at first) and certainly didn't replace a void in the Western psyche. It was given a chance by an idealist, and was successful years later in re-runs.
I resigned from IBM and worked there for 2 months until end of term. They paid for a company lunch on my last day.
crc32 is the name of the algorithm. If you dont know what it is, what it is for or why it exists, comments aren't the place to describe it. Incorrect, misleading or unnecessary comments are worse than no comments at all.
Over-commenting is a very real problem, and CRC32 is CS101. If I was reviewing code which described what CRC32 was, I would remove the comments.