In recent weeks nearly 100 Uber drivers have been attacked, sometimes while carrying customers. In one case, a taxi passenger was left with a broken face and black eye after he praised Uber.
Cabbies attacked the van of Julien Cinquin, a motorist at Porte Maillot, slashing his tyres and the rear window and throwing a banger in the back seat.
The taxi drivers have the right to protest peacefully. But to attack other people - no.
I've read some comments by French people, saying that they were ashamed and disgusted by the violent behavior of some of the strikers. I wonder if there's a way for French people to peacefully protest that kind of behavior. Maybe they can use taxis only when there is no other means of transportation, until the taxi unions apologize for the violence, and remove from union membership any members who attacked anyone.
Buy a bunch of toys and give them to your fire department for distribution at Christmas. Ask a major chain store to sell you a hundred pairs of kids shoes wholesale and give them to a shelter for abused women (You'll have to prove to them that's where the shoes went).
Once I went to the local Barnes & Noble, and bought several hundred dollars worth of books for our local library. The library official said thank you very much, but just for my information, I could have gotten them more books if I had given them a check instead of books. That's because the library could buy books at a discount (I guess because it was an institution).
So assuming you trust the organization, you might want to give them a check instead of a large number of items.
Give to a local literacy organization. Most libraries are affiliated with a literacy orginazation, and can give you information about it. Or you might prefer to donate your time instead of your money, and be a literacy tutor.
Being able to read and write opens up so many doors.
"Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish, and you feed him for life."
(Of course, you want to check out any orgainization before you dontate to it.)
Create a bookmarklet whose content is this: javascript:location="https://www.google.com/search?rls=en&q="+prompt("Search item - separate words with plus signs")+"&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&tbs=li:1";
When you want to search for something, click on the bookmarklet. When the small prompt window appears, enter the search word(s). Separate multiple words with plus signs (ex: happy+days). At the top of the resulting Google web page, in the "All results / Verbatim" menu, you'll see that "Verbatim" is selected.
You might have to adjust the bookmarklet to work in your browser. In your web browser, do a Google search, and check to see what "https://www.google.com/search?..." url is created. Adjust the bookmarklet to fit the url that you got.
Ok so the question now is, what will be done about this?
The DHS discovered the fact that TSA couldn't vet these employees. The DHS made six recommendations, and the TSA agreed with the recommendations. Will President Obama, or Francis Taylor (the Acting Administrator of the TSA), or Jeh Johnson (the head of the DHS), push to fix the communication problems? Or will they just shake their heads, and worry about the political fallout?
What you're talking about is called a responsive layout, and it's the current best practice for mobile support. It involves using CSS media queries to adjust the page layout based on the size of the display.
(And the Google algorithm does detect responsive layouts and consider them mobile friendly.)
Yes. Using responsive layout, you can adjust lots of things depending on the size of the screen. You can adjust the font size, number of columns (3 columns for a large computer screen, 1 column for a phone screen), the colors (brighter colors with lots of contrast for a phone, so the user can read the phone in bright sunlight), etc.
Web developers who aren't familiar with responsive design can find lots of tutorials and MOOC classes on it.
I agree with the frustration of finding that a website has changed to mobile-only, and now doesn't work well with a large computer screen. But that doesn't mean the website should not have become mobile-friendly. It means that the people who made it mobile-friendly should have used responsive design, so that the website would look right in any size screen.
I sometimes have this nightmare: I haven't been attending a class that I'm signed up for. (Usually because I didn't know that I was signed up for it.) Since I'm so far behind in the class, I have to drop the class, and there's just a short time left to drop it. I'm frantically rushing to drop the class before the deadline, after which you can't drop the class.
Write applications for an Apple or Android app store. Then you don't have to worry about getting hired and fired. Just know that it's hard to make your app stand out.
When you use your computer or mobile device, be on the lookout for times when you get annoyed because something is awkward or impossible to do. Then see if you can write easy-to-use software for that problem.
I was surprised but happy to see that foxnews.com had an article called "Levels of carbon dioxide in air hits milestone". (news.google.com had a link to it.) The article says pretty much what the research.noaa.gov article says. Hopefully some people reading the foxnews article will be convinced that global warming is real.
In this article about the lost supply craft, there's a picture of the inside of the ISS. In the article's picture, look at all of the exposed cables! I guess that's why the astronauts are sort of locking their arms in front of themselves - so they don't accidentally pull out a cable.
In the movie The Reluctant Astronaut, Don Knotts accidentally kicked a computer tape, as he was floating around in the capsule. Then he got peanut butter all over the tape, as he was putting it back onto its reel. Heh.
we're never going to do anything about it because we rely on you for cheap everything"?
That's true, but I'm afraid it's even worse than that. If China is the only country with factories for certain items, then we rely on them for those items, cheap or not. China is developing the power to tell us to stop supporting Taiwan or whatever, or else they'll stop selling us things that we need.
The US government should make up a list of manufactured goods that the US needs. Then have tax incentives for US companies to make those items in the US, with American managers and workers.
Chile's Calbuco volcano erupted on April 22, "at around 1800 local time". The second picture in this article shows the eruption at sunset. From that picture, you can see that the ash and smoke from the eruption have begun to spread. According to this web page, sunset in Chile these days is about 7:10 pm. So about an hour after the eruption, the clouds of dust and smoke had already started to spread.
Does anyone know if the smoke and ash particles are magnetic? If so, then maybe we can cut down on their spread through the atmosphere, by putting billions of magnetically-charged balloons into the atmosphere above Yellowstone, just before the eruption. Hopefully they would attract some of the smoke and ash particles, and eventually fall back to the earth.
(Of course, this assumes that we'll have a few hours warning before the eruption, and that the balloons are all ready to go.)
Udacity has a free class on Git and GitHub. I recommend it. They spend a little too much time on writing a chart that diagrams the different parts of Git, but the class is well-structured and clear.
Regarding FedEx Flight 705 - some details of the flight, and a transcript of the cockpit voice recorder, are here. You can read what they all said/yelled to each other during the fight.
9/11 is a good example of what people can do / want to do
Also the flight with Richard Reid, the "shoe bomber". From the Wikipedia article, "Several passengers worked together to subdue the 6 foot 4 inch (193 cm) tall, 200+ pound (90+ kg) Reid. They restrained him using plastic handcuffs, seatbelt extensions, leather waist belts, and headphone cords. A physician on board administered a tranquiliser to him which he found in the emergency medical kit of the airliner."
I'm concerned that the money will be spent in Silicon Valley, because that's where the jobs are. The problem is that a large proportion of the people living in Silicon Valley were not born in the US, and will live in the US only temporarily. If we concentrate the training there, then we'll be training a lot of students who will return to their home countries after a few years.
I'd rather spend the money in areas, like Appalacia, in which a higher proportion of students are Americans.
4) If you put an adjective before a noun ("small dog"), you don't have to put a syllable at the end of the adjective. In German, you do need that adjective ending (the "er" in "kleiner Hund").
And that adjective ending varies. It depends on gender, case, and definite/indefinite article.
It's just a pity that the world's de-facto common language (English) is so hard to learn well...
I can think of some ways that English is easier to learn than German (and I suppose easier to learn than other languages also):
1) You don't have to learn the gender of English nouns. Most English nouns have masculine/feminine gender for male/female people and animals, or neutral gender for all other nouns. The exceptions are calling an item like a ship "she" when you're being poetic, and calling someone "they" when you're trying to be gender-neutral.
2) There's only one way to say the English word "the". When I was studying German, I had to memorize charts of the different German ways to say "the", depending on whether the noun was masculine/feminine/neutral/plural, depending on case (nominative, accusative, etc.), and depending on whether the article was definite or indefinite.
3) Except for the verb "to be", English verbs have simple conjugation.
4) If you put an adjective before a noun ("small dog"), you don't have to put a syllable at the end of the adjective. In German, you do need that adjective ending (the "er" in "kleiner Hund").
English isn't easy to learn, but there are some ways it's easier to learn than other languages.
Regarding your Goethe quote: I'm an American native-English speaker. Studying German taught me how to use the word "whose", as in "the man whose car was hit". I didn't know how to say that properly in English until I learned how to say it in German. (My textbook had examples in English and in German.)
And of course, as no true Apple enthusiast at least in this country would dream of wearing a knock-off, even were it electrically and visually identical, Apple will still make a bazillion dollars off the product.
Well, I guess you could call me an "Apple enthusiast", in the sense that I prefer to use a Mac. But I don't plan to get even the cheapest Apple Watch, let alone an expensive one.
The article says, "Yet it is unlikely that buyers will mistake the clones for the real thing. The price tag alone is a dead giveaway -- the Apple Watch costs from $349 in the U.S." So I'm guessing they're buying the fake watches to show their friends: "Look - I have an Apple Watch!"
When Fantastic Voyage was being made into a movie, Bantam Books asked Isaac Asimov to write the story as a book. From the Wikipedia article, "Because the novelization was released six months before the movie, many people mistakenly believed Asimov's book had inspired the film." Asimov made some changes that he thought had to be made, but he kept to the movie's plot as much as possible.
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From a Telegraph article:
In recent weeks nearly 100 Uber drivers have been attacked, sometimes while carrying customers. In one case, a taxi passenger was left with a broken face and black eye after he praised Uber.
Cabbies attacked the van of Julien Cinquin, a motorist at Porte Maillot, slashing his tyres and the rear window and throwing a banger in the back seat.
The taxi drivers have the right to protest peacefully. But to attack other people - no.
I've read some comments by French people, saying that they were ashamed and disgusted by the violent behavior of some of the strikers. I wonder if there's a way for French people to peacefully protest that kind of behavior. Maybe they can use taxis only when there is no other means of transportation, until the taxi unions apologize for the violence, and remove from union membership any members who attacked anyone.
I agree with supporting local organizations.
Buy a bunch of toys and give them to your fire department for distribution at Christmas. Ask a major chain store to sell you a hundred pairs of kids shoes wholesale and give them to a shelter for abused women (You'll have to prove to them that's where the shoes went).
Once I went to the local Barnes & Noble, and bought several hundred dollars worth of books for our local library. The library official said thank you very much, but just for my information, I could have gotten them more books if I had given them a check instead of books. That's because the library could buy books at a discount (I guess because it was an institution).
So assuming you trust the organization, you might want to give them a check instead of a large number of items.
Hah!! I'll have to proofread my posts before submitting them. "organization". "donate".
Give to a local literacy organization. Most libraries are affiliated with a literacy orginazation, and can give you information about it. Or you might prefer to donate your time instead of your money, and be a literacy tutor.
Being able to read and write opens up so many doors.
"Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish, and you feed him for life."
(Of course, you want to check out any orgainization before you dontate to it.)
Create a bookmarklet whose content is this:
javascript:location="https://www.google.com/search?rls=en&q="+prompt("Search item - separate words with plus signs")+"&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&tbs=li:1";
When you want to search for something, click on the bookmarklet. When the small prompt window appears, enter the search word(s). Separate multiple words with plus signs (ex: happy+days). At the top of the resulting Google web page, in the "All results / Verbatim" menu, you'll see that "Verbatim" is selected.
You might have to adjust the bookmarklet to work in your browser. In your web browser, do a Google search, and check to see what "https://www.google.com/search?..." url is created. Adjust the bookmarklet to fit the url that you got.
Ok so the question now is, what will be done about this?
The DHS discovered the fact that TSA couldn't vet these employees. The DHS made six recommendations, and the TSA agreed with the recommendations. Will President Obama, or Francis Taylor (the Acting Administrator of the TSA), or Jeh Johnson (the head of the DHS), push to fix the communication problems? Or will they just shake their heads, and worry about the political fallout?
What you're talking about is called a responsive layout, and it's the current best practice for mobile support. It involves using CSS media queries to adjust the page layout based on the size of the display.
(And the Google algorithm does detect responsive layouts and consider them mobile friendly.)
Yes. Using responsive layout, you can adjust lots of things depending on the size of the screen. You can adjust the font size, number of columns (3 columns for a large computer screen, 1 column for a phone screen), the colors (brighter colors with lots of contrast for a phone, so the user can read the phone in bright sunlight), etc.
Web developers who aren't familiar with responsive design can find lots of tutorials and MOOC classes on it.
I agree with the frustration of finding that a website has changed to mobile-only, and now doesn't work well with a large computer screen. But that doesn't mean the website should not have become mobile-friendly. It means that the people who made it mobile-friendly should have used responsive design, so that the website would look right in any size screen.
I wonder if The Onion had ever published a story about real life people or new organizations referring to Onion stories as if they were true?
abcnews has such an article. The article includes lots of good links, including a link to the Onion FIFA article.
I sometimes have this nightmare: I haven't been attending a class that I'm signed up for. (Usually because I didn't know that I was signed up for it.) Since I'm so far behind in the class, I have to drop the class, and there's just a short time left to drop it. I'm frantically rushing to drop the class before the deadline, after which you can't drop the class.
My friends have had the same kind of dream.
Write applications for an Apple or Android app store. Then you don't have to worry about getting hired and fired. Just know that it's hard to make your app stand out.
When you use your computer or mobile device, be on the lookout for times when you get annoyed because something is awkward or impossible to do. Then see if you can write easy-to-use software for that problem.
I was surprised but happy to see that foxnews.com had an article called "Levels of carbon dioxide in air hits milestone". (news.google.com had a link to it.) The article says pretty much what the research.noaa.gov article says. Hopefully some people reading the foxnews article will be convinced that global warming is real.
In this article about the lost supply craft, there's a picture of the inside of the ISS. In the article's picture, look at all of the exposed cables! I guess that's why the astronauts are sort of locking their arms in front of themselves - so they don't accidentally pull out a cable.
In the movie The Reluctant Astronaut, Don Knotts accidentally kicked a computer tape, as he was floating around in the capsule. Then he got peanut butter all over the tape, as he was putting it back onto its reel. Heh.
we're never going to do anything about it because we rely on you for cheap everything"?
That's true, but I'm afraid it's even worse than that. If China is the only country with factories for certain items, then we rely on them for those items, cheap or not. China is developing the power to tell us to stop supporting Taiwan or whatever, or else they'll stop selling us things that we need.
The US government should make up a list of manufactured goods that the US needs. Then have tax incentives for US companies to make those items in the US, with American managers and workers.
Chile's Calbuco volcano erupted on April 22, "at around 1800 local time". The second picture in this article shows the eruption at sunset. From that picture, you can see that the ash and smoke from the eruption have begun to spread. According to this web page, sunset in Chile these days is about 7:10 pm. So about an hour after the eruption, the clouds of dust and smoke had already started to spread.
Does anyone know if the smoke and ash particles are magnetic? If so, then maybe we can cut down on their spread through the atmosphere, by putting billions of magnetically-charged balloons into the atmosphere above Yellowstone, just before the eruption. Hopefully they would attract some of the smoke and ash particles, and eventually fall back to the earth.
(Of course, this assumes that we'll have a few hours warning before the eruption, and that the balloons are all ready to go.)
Udacity has a free class on Git and GitHub. I recommend it. They spend a little too much time on writing a chart that diagrams the different parts of Git, but the class is well-structured and clear.
Do you mean WW I? Debs died in 1926.
Regarding FedEx Flight 705 - some details of the flight, and a transcript of the cockpit voice recorder, are here. You can read what they all said/yelled to each other during the fight.
9/11 is a good example of what people can do / want to do
Also the flight with Richard Reid, the "shoe bomber". From the Wikipedia article, "Several passengers worked together to subdue the 6 foot 4 inch (193 cm) tall, 200+ pound (90+ kg) Reid. They restrained him using plastic handcuffs, seatbelt extensions, leather waist belts, and headphone cords. A physician on board administered a tranquiliser to him which he found in the emergency medical kit of the airliner."
I'm concerned that the money will be spent in Silicon Valley, because that's where the jobs are. The problem is that a large proportion of the people living in Silicon Valley were not born in the US, and will live in the US only temporarily. If we concentrate the training there, then we'll be training a lot of students who will return to their home countries after a few years.
I'd rather spend the money in areas, like Appalacia, in which a higher proportion of students are Americans.
4) If you put an adjective before a noun ("small dog"), you don't have to put a syllable at the end of the adjective. In German, you do need that adjective ending (the "er" in "kleiner Hund").
And that adjective ending varies. It depends on gender, case, and definite/indefinite article.
It's just a pity that the world's de-facto common language (English) is so hard to learn well...
I can think of some ways that English is easier to learn than German (and I suppose easier to learn than other languages also):
1) You don't have to learn the gender of English nouns. Most English nouns have masculine/feminine gender for male/female people and animals, or neutral gender for all other nouns. The exceptions are calling an item like a ship "she" when you're being poetic, and calling someone "they" when you're trying to be gender-neutral.
2) There's only one way to say the English word "the". When I was studying German, I had to memorize charts of the different German ways to say "the", depending on whether the noun was masculine/feminine/neutral/plural, depending on case (nominative, accusative, etc.), and depending on whether the article was definite or indefinite.
3) Except for the verb "to be", English verbs have simple conjugation.
4) If you put an adjective before a noun ("small dog"), you don't have to put a syllable at the end of the adjective. In German, you do need that adjective ending (the "er" in "kleiner Hund").
English isn't easy to learn, but there are some ways it's easier to learn than other languages.
Regarding your Goethe quote: I'm an American native-English speaker. Studying German taught me how to use the word "whose", as in "the man whose car was hit". I didn't know how to say that properly in English until I learned how to say it in German. (My textbook had examples in English and in German.)
And of course, as no true Apple enthusiast at least in this country would dream of wearing a knock-off, even were it electrically and visually identical, Apple will still make a bazillion dollars off the product.
Well, I guess you could call me an "Apple enthusiast", in the sense that I prefer to use a Mac. But I don't plan to get even the cheapest Apple Watch, let alone an expensive one.
The article says, "Yet it is unlikely that buyers will mistake the clones for the real thing. The price tag alone is a dead giveaway -- the Apple Watch costs from $349 in the U.S." So I'm guessing they're buying the fake watches to show their friends: "Look - I have an Apple Watch!"
When Fantastic Voyage was being made into a movie, Bantam Books asked Isaac Asimov to write the story as a book. From the Wikipedia article, "Because the novelization was released six months before the movie, many people mistakenly believed Asimov's book had inspired the film." Asimov made some changes that he thought had to be made, but he kept to the movie's plot as much as possible.