It's not US units that are confusing anyone, it's the tendency of the unenlightened to turn every system of measure into a customary system.
The metric system is great, so it has to be corrupted by things like using weight and mass units interchangeably (to the point that people are genuinely confused about which is which) and making up non-systematic units where it's convenient (tonnes, hectares, etc).
It's quite staggering that GCHQ would permit the highest law making body in the land to put its data into a cloud they know they and NSA have access to. Exposing the law making process to known foreign surveillance.
Exposing the law making process to surveillance available to only a select few is not a bug, it's a feature.
(a) because breeding captive mosquitoes is not very difficult (though it's not pain free: mosquitoes require a blood meal to reproduce, which often involves a person sticking his/her arm in the cage)
They don't stick an arm in. They use bladders of blood they hang in the cage.
The technical term for those blood bags is "grad student".
Being a perennial postdoc is not an "academic career" and it's not what anybody is aspiring to. Ideally, it's a poorly paid training position that is supposed to precede a real career. In practice, it's just another way to squeeze the productivity out of young researchers before they get too jaded and quit academia.
Postdocs, like grad students, are just cheap labor (consumable resources) used to prop the whole system up.
So what this all adds up to is that it means that tech companies want people who are already cleared because they're too lazy or too cheap to go through the process themselves. Instead they'd rather some other company go through the expense and then poach employees off them.
That sums it up. If they aren't willing to foot the cost and wait for the process, they aren't terribly concerned about keeping you on in the long-term anyway. Requiring an active security clearance a good sign to potential applicants in itself.
Speaking of Robert Peel, his principles of policing by consent are pretty damned enlightened and we could really benefit from paying attention to them today.
The screen seems to hog the battery more than just the data connection. Unless my phone is particularly good at tearing down the connection and rebuilding it.
(Anecdote follows: For example, the last time I charged my phone was the night before last and I listened to Pandora all day at work yesterday, but never did much texting/email/screen-on activity. My phone sat in my pants pocket last night and when I checked it this morning, it was at 70%. I don't use my work's wifi for my personal phone, so all of the data used was through the cellular network.
A day of traveling and using only my phone for work email, web browsing, etc, will use the charge much more quickly.)
It's a Lumia 640 with a 2500 mAh battery. I don't use Skype, but calls and SMS/MMS come through immediately. I have sound notifications turned off for everything but calls and texts, so I'm sure the email is just being polled at intervals. I'm not a fan of enormous phones, either, so I'm sure the measly 5" screen cuts the power use down.
I only even considered this phone because my wife had a Lumia 635 and would regularly get a week off of a charge. She would lose her charger fairly often because she so rarely used it. Of course, she was only using the phone for calls and texting.
My current phone gets 2+ days of charge, while checking email in the background, playing music during the day, and being used for regular messaging and web browsing. The magic lies in it not being optimized for thin! over having decent battery life.
Ironically, it's also a Windows Phone, which was a surprising decent OS, despite having poor app availability and being abandoned by Microsoft. I've never been a fan of MS stuff, but wanted to try it out after having iPhones and Android phones. I'm definitely going to miss not being tethered to a charger when I go back to whichever of those I end up with next.
.40 isn't a good bet, especially with the FBI moving to 9mm. 12ga buck is easy enough to find, even in cities, and there's always the ubiquitous.22lr (don't underestimate it: cheap, light, readily suppressible, and still lethal - if SHTF, you can actually hunt small game with it and still have something left to eat after you shoot it). But yeah, 9mm and 5.56/.223 are everywhere in the US.
The modern military is extremely dependent on domestic supply chains that would crumble if the supporting populace was at war with the government. The civilians (who outnumber all of the active troops 300 to 1, including the cooks, mechanics, and desk jockeys) would only need to interrupt the delivery of food, fuel, electricity, etc to the bases to seriously disrupt any campaign. Hell, even the military's arms and ammunition are purchased from private manufacturers.
Occupying a foreign country is not even remotely comparable to suddenly occupying your own country.
Thank you for the most stomach-turning comment of the day!
A bleach solution won't necessarily dissolve the residue, but may sterilize and crustify the outer layer of it. You'd need physical scrubbing or at least sonication to remove it. The mere idea of owning and using previously used and obviously soiled medical tools of unknown history from Goodwill is bordering on nightmare fuel.
I used to do that for everything, but Amazon Logistics can't seem to find the loading dock (right next to the front door and typically adorned with UPS or FedEx trucks) and sends everything back complaining that the "address doesn't exist". I've seen the drivers wandering around in the lobby, not bothering to actually talk to anybody, then shrugging and leaving with the package.
Leaving the package at home is fine as long as it's not easily seen from the road. Package thefts are crimes of opportunity and don't typically involve approaching each house to look for packages.
That's just as big of a failure. A good fall guy is at least convincing and allows you to claim that you were taking matters seriously. If your fall guy is obviously unqualified, all of the responsibility gets shifted back to you for choosing somebody that is clearly not fit for the role.
They failed at having good operational security and at picking effective fall guys/gals.
No it doesn't. You just use a synth library like every cheapo keyboard has done since MIDI first came about. If somebody wants high quality samples, they can add them themselves.
As usual, it's not the countless scientists and engineers that designed and built the machinery that allows this abundance, instead, we focus on one person who had nothing to do with it, and he gets all the credit.
Science and technology are not a product of the ultra-wealthy and we need to shed the collective delusion that being wealthy is somehow correlated with generalized intelligence or an interest in progress. Technology, especially as a tool for saving labor, is most useful for those who can least afford labor and has done way more for improving the lives of commoners than the wealthy.
Their interest in it, nerdy exceptions like Musk aside, is focused on improving the productivity of their profit generating machines. If it weren't for the lowly scientists and engineers, the wealthy would still be living in their drafty castles with hundreds of servants and be perfectly content with it.
Hopefully, our current president's time in the limelight will give everybody a clearer picture of how the typical plutocrat thinks and help break this spell.
I image a project where DNA samples are taken from successful business executives and politicians -- under the guise of finding out what makes them such superior and wonderful specimens of humanity of course -- to find out if there's a genetic component to being such a selfish duplicitous asshole.
You could even test for the gene during pregnancy, like is done for Down Syndrome: "It's a boy! He'll either be a successful business tycoon (or maybe the President!) or end up in prison. Either way, he'll likely throw you under a bus for a shiny nickel."
...it makes me happy to see others doing well, and it makes me unhappy to see others not doing well.
Which is likely because you see others as actual people (like yourself, but distinct from yourself) instead of resources to be exploited. This doesn't seem to be a universal ability and the perspective of those without it is fairly alien to those who have it (and vice versa, I assume). What's pathetic is that our society rewards, and even seems to revere, such people.
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US units are confusing you.
It's not US units that are confusing anyone, it's the tendency of the unenlightened to turn every system of measure into a customary system.
The metric system is great, so it has to be corrupted by things like using weight and mass units interchangeably (to the point that people are genuinely confused about which is which) and making up non-systematic units where it's convenient (tonnes, hectares, etc).
It's quite staggering that GCHQ would permit the highest law making body in the land to put its data into a cloud they know they and NSA have access to. Exposing the law making process to known foreign surveillance.
Exposing the law making process to surveillance available to only a select few is not a bug, it's a feature .
FTFY.
Jail, as in yet to be tried but being held in lieu of bail or having only been convicted of a misdemeanor? Plenty of them probably were innocent.
(a) because breeding captive mosquitoes is not very difficult (though it's not pain free: mosquitoes require a blood meal to reproduce, which often involves a person sticking his/her arm in the cage)
They don't stick an arm in. They use bladders of blood they hang in the cage.
The technical term for those blood bags is "grad student".
Being a perennial postdoc is not an "academic career" and it's not what anybody is aspiring to. Ideally, it's a poorly paid training position that is supposed to precede a real career. In practice, it's just another way to squeeze the productivity out of young researchers before they get too jaded and quit academia.
Postdocs, like grad students, are just cheap labor (consumable resources) used to prop the whole system up.
So what this all adds up to is that it means that tech companies want people who are already cleared because they're too lazy or too cheap to go through the process themselves. Instead they'd rather some other company go through the expense and then poach employees off them.
That sums it up. If they aren't willing to foot the cost and wait for the process, they aren't terribly concerned about keeping you on in the long-term anyway. Requiring an active security clearance a good sign to potential applicants in itself.
Speaking of Robert Peel, his principles of policing by consent are pretty damned enlightened and we could really benefit from paying attention to them today.
The screen seems to hog the battery more than just the data connection. Unless my phone is particularly good at tearing down the connection and rebuilding it.
(Anecdote follows: For example, the last time I charged my phone was the night before last and I listened to Pandora all day at work yesterday, but never did much texting/email/screen-on activity. My phone sat in my pants pocket last night and when I checked it this morning, it was at 70%. I don't use my work's wifi for my personal phone, so all of the data used was through the cellular network.
A day of traveling and using only my phone for work email, web browsing, etc, will use the charge much more quickly.)
It's a Lumia 640 with a 2500 mAh battery. I don't use Skype, but calls and SMS/MMS come through immediately. I have sound notifications turned off for everything but calls and texts, so I'm sure the email is just being polled at intervals. I'm not a fan of enormous phones, either, so I'm sure the measly 5" screen cuts the power use down.
I only even considered this phone because my wife had a Lumia 635 and would regularly get a week off of a charge. She would lose her charger fairly often because she so rarely used it. Of course, she was only using the phone for calls and texting.
My current phone gets 2+ days of charge, while checking email in the background, playing music during the day, and being used for regular messaging and web browsing. The magic lies in it not being optimized for thin! over having decent battery life.
Ironically, it's also a Windows Phone, which was a surprising decent OS, despite having poor app availability and being abandoned by Microsoft. I've never been a fan of MS stuff, but wanted to try it out after having iPhones and Android phones. I'm definitely going to miss not being tethered to a charger when I go back to whichever of those I end up with next.
.40 isn't a good bet, especially with the FBI moving to 9mm. 12ga buck is easy enough to find, even in cities, and there's always the ubiquitous .22lr (don't underestimate it: cheap, light, readily suppressible, and still lethal - if SHTF, you can actually hunt small game with it and still have something left to eat after you shoot it). But yeah, 9mm and 5.56/.223 are everywhere in the US.
The modern military is extremely dependent on domestic supply chains that would crumble if the supporting populace was at war with the government. The civilians (who outnumber all of the active troops 300 to 1, including the cooks, mechanics, and desk jockeys) would only need to interrupt the delivery of food, fuel, electricity, etc to the bases to seriously disrupt any campaign. Hell, even the military's arms and ammunition are purchased from private manufacturers.
Occupying a foreign country is not even remotely comparable to suddenly occupying your own country.
$250 with ads. Yuck.
They're not going to tell you that! That third party has a reputation to uphold.
Thank you for the most stomach-turning comment of the day!
A bleach solution won't necessarily dissolve the residue, but may sterilize and crustify the outer layer of it. You'd need physical scrubbing or at least sonication to remove it. The mere idea of owning and using previously used and obviously soiled medical tools of unknown history from Goodwill is bordering on nightmare fuel.
I used to do that for everything, but Amazon Logistics can't seem to find the loading dock (right next to the front door and typically adorned with UPS or FedEx trucks) and sends everything back complaining that the "address doesn't exist". I've seen the drivers wandering around in the lobby, not bothering to actually talk to anybody, then shrugging and leaving with the package.
Leaving the package at home is fine as long as it's not easily seen from the road. Package thefts are crimes of opportunity and don't typically involve approaching each house to look for packages.
That's just as big of a failure. A good fall guy is at least convincing and allows you to claim that you were taking matters seriously. If your fall guy is obviously unqualified, all of the responsibility gets shifted back to you for choosing somebody that is clearly not fit for the role.
They failed at having good operational security and at picking effective fall guys/gals.
No it doesn't. You just use a synth library like every cheapo keyboard has done since MIDI first came about. If somebody wants high quality samples, they can add them themselves.
I used to work at a place like that, too. The janitors would use the key on their huge keyring to bypass all of the security and grab the garbage cans.
As usual, it's not the countless scientists and engineers that designed and built the machinery that allows this abundance, instead, we focus on one person who had nothing to do with it, and he gets all the credit.
Science and technology are not a product of the ultra-wealthy and we need to shed the collective delusion that being wealthy is somehow correlated with generalized intelligence or an interest in progress. Technology, especially as a tool for saving labor, is most useful for those who can least afford labor and has done way more for improving the lives of commoners than the wealthy.
Their interest in it, nerdy exceptions like Musk aside, is focused on improving the productivity of their profit generating machines. If it weren't for the lowly scientists and engineers, the wealthy would still be living in their drafty castles with hundreds of servants and be perfectly content with it.
Hopefully, our current president's time in the limelight will give everybody a clearer picture of how the typical plutocrat thinks and help break this spell.
Skinny jeans, probably...
Ack. Don't do this! Those old posts are best left buried in the past.
(Also, this method only returned the highly rate old posts.)
Listen to music? About 8 hours a day.
A babel fish sounds great, but with 5 hours of battery life when brand new, these won't get you through a day with music.
I image a project where DNA samples are taken from successful business executives and politicians -- under the guise of finding out what makes them such superior and wonderful specimens of humanity of course -- to find out if there's a genetic component to being such a selfish duplicitous asshole.
You could even test for the gene during pregnancy, like is done for Down Syndrome: "It's a boy! He'll either be a successful business tycoon (or maybe the President!) or end up in prison. Either way, he'll likely throw you under a bus for a shiny nickel."
...it makes me happy to see others doing well, and it makes me unhappy to see others not doing well.
Which is likely because you see others as actual people (like yourself, but distinct from yourself) instead of resources to be exploited. This doesn't seem to be a universal ability and the perspective of those without it is fairly alien to those who have it (and vice versa, I assume). What's pathetic is that our society rewards, and even seems to revere, such people.