Actually it seems to me that mass market home computers were the late 1970s...and mass market video tape didn't quite exist then either. Oh, very well off folks had it - but not most of us.
What's crazy about preparing for disasters? Even large ones?
What is crazy is having such a normalcy bias that you don't think ANYTHING can happen.
What is crazy is allowing preparing for unlikely disasters (such as the moon falling to earth) and neglecting your life NOW.
If you're the Japanese PM, and North Korea is saying "I am going to nuke you" - is it unreasonable to prepare for this?
Feral Nerd, I'm NOT dissing you I'm just saying that I don't think that preparing, even for major disasters, is unreasonable.
Indeed it was ALL OVER television radio and print throughout the 1970s.
We were all going to die because the ice sheets would be covering most of North America by 2000. (Okay that I think is an exaggeration but..).
Actually, my observation about conservatives is that they tend to love their elderly relatives a lot.
It's the "liberals" who want to see them euthanised.
They're trying this in UK as well as Canada. It makes no sense - many people in the USA have the day off after American Thanksgiving - which is one of the reasons why people shopped. However, Thanksgiving in Canada is in October, and UK doesn't have it at all - so... wtf?
And I've taken many theory and practical classes and found way more "cookbook" work in practical classes, without much theory. I will agree that theory class quality can leave quite a bit to be desired.
General Ed is general ed. However, given the rising illiteracy and innumeracy among "college graduates" one does wonder how many have been paid so much to accomplish so little."
Hey, I'd love it if all our military was pulled out of EUrope immediately.
However, if you believe the world is filled with unicorns and rainbows, it isn't.
And computer science theory isn't important? Personally, I find understanding of complexity analysis to be really useful. Not to mention a bunch of other abstract comp sci things.
Then again, in this day and age when you're told 'just use this API to do X' I guess I can see it.
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Actually it seems to me that mass market home computers were the late 1970s...and mass market video tape didn't quite exist then either. Oh, very well off folks had it - but not most of us.
Clinton and nuclear secrets to China. Bush and Saudi Arabia Obama and probably everyone. No idea about Trump.
And the question I keep having is, how do you run an industrial society using people who cannot use human language?
Of course.
What's crazy about preparing for disasters? Even large ones? What is crazy is having such a normalcy bias that you don't think ANYTHING can happen. What is crazy is allowing preparing for unlikely disasters (such as the moon falling to earth) and neglecting your life NOW. If you're the Japanese PM, and North Korea is saying "I am going to nuke you" - is it unreasonable to prepare for this? Feral Nerd, I'm NOT dissing you I'm just saying that I don't think that preparing, even for major disasters, is unreasonable.
Indeed it was ALL OVER television radio and print throughout the 1970s. We were all going to die because the ice sheets would be covering most of North America by 2000. (Okay that I think is an exaggeration but ..).
Actually, my observation about conservatives is that they tend to love their elderly relatives a lot. It's the "liberals" who want to see them euthanised.
Not to mention one of the huge producers of truck/lorry tractors is ... Volvo.
Makes sense to me!
Boy, do I understand from where you are coming!
They're trying this in UK as well as Canada. It makes no sense - many people in the USA have the day off after American Thanksgiving - which is one of the reasons why people shopped. However, Thanksgiving in Canada is in October, and UK doesn't have it at all - so ... wtf?
Post Christmas sales are probably pretty good too.
Indeed. If one wishes to use the term 'gasoline' that's fine - but it is a petroleum product, so 'petrol' seems reasonable. And I'm a Yank.
They're called American units now - but throughout most of my life it was called "The Imperial System."
That was the USSR. I'd say Japan popped their own bubble.
And I've taken many theory and practical classes and found way more "cookbook" work in practical classes, without much theory. I will agree that theory class quality can leave quite a bit to be desired. General Ed is general ed. However, given the rising illiteracy and innumeracy among "college graduates" one does wonder how many have been paid so much to accomplish so little."
Hey, I'd love it if all our military was pulled out of EUrope immediately. However, if you believe the world is filled with unicorns and rainbows, it isn't.
Better get a mySpace account, too.
AND the EU economy is larger than ours AND the US pays an extraordinary amount for the defense of Europe. (Except for UK, they carry their weight).
Thanks, but we'd just as soon not. We need the remaining 15 jobs we have in the country.
The left has been pretty good about throwing out the whole constitution too - not ordinary people, but leftist leaders.
It depends. I've worked in devops shops where there was pretty cavalier access to production - which used to freak me out.
Exactly. It would be nice if clothing sizes were the GARMENT size and you simply bought the size you wanted for the degree of snugness/looseness.
Specifics please?
And computer science theory isn't important? Personally, I find understanding of complexity analysis to be really useful. Not to mention a bunch of other abstract comp sci things. Then again, in this day and age when you're told 'just use this API to do X' I guess I can see it.