Am I the only one sick of this? I'm a customer, not a 'consumer'. We are not open mouths gobbling up capitalism (at least I'm not). This label signifies what is wrong with capitalism at large today. Depersonification. We're an equation to be plugged into an economics spreadsheet, nothing more.
After 200 years of scientific progress, to quote Freud, life is still an improved means to an unimproved end. Namely, we have not conquered death, or even begun to understand the reason we age. So what have we accomplished? We've neatly rearranged the deckchairs on the Titanic of our lives, and postponed the sinking by a few hours.
At the risk of being offtopic, a midwife delivery at home doesn't expose the newborn to any foreign germs outside what the mother has already built up an immunity to, so the antibodies present in the breastmilk provide great protection. Infant mortality in the past was a product of bad hygene. Nowadays we have sterile pads, rubbing alcohol, and bars of soap.
A hospital is no place for a non-risky birth. Pregnancy is not a medical condition. The only reason people go is because they're conditioned to go. Tell me, when was the last time you heard of a birth story where the baby came "on the way to the hospital" and the child died? Never.
Finally I can't believe how the hospital won't let you hold your own baby for hours afterwards. Inhuman.
Not enough has changed until these types of programs are illegal, and the executives of the companies that make them are serving Enron prison sentences.
They are human scum of the worst possible kind. High Priests in the religion of capitalist greed.
If there really aren't a lot of IT jobs out there, should we really be helping a college sucker young students into an IT program? I mean, people spend thousands of dollars a year in tuition. If there's a really good chance that they won't get a job after studying, and we help a college convince them otherwise and blow their college fund on a lost cause, I'd say that's pretty scummy.
I'm sure I'm not the only one who groans at TV commercials for "massage therapy" and other bullshit programs at colleges (IADT anyone?) which are really just a means to exploit vulnerable students for profit. In fact, the only good job prospect for the program I just mentioned is prostitution. Let's not help these kinds of people.
You can use the best building materials available to modern man, sparing no expense, but your construction will never be as stable as it could be if you're building on swampland.
At any point in the pregnancy up until around 6mo, the fetus can be spontaneously aborted, or premature labour can commence, and the fetus will not survive.
What is the difference between a baby and a fetus in the womb? Whether or not the mother intends to give birth, as far as I can tell. So that's where the discriminant lies.
What you posted could be restated as follows, losing none of the relevant information, and being 100x easier to read:
"A nulling interferometer does what the moon does during a solar eclipse -- it blocks out the starlight, although instead of simply blocking the light, it removes it using a light interference technique. And just as a total eclipse allows us to view the normally-obscured faint detail around the edge of the sun, a nuller allows astronomers to see the fainter objects around a star that would otherwise be outshone."
Nelson Mandela was a martyr for the cause of South African liberty. He (obviously) didn't die.
Liberty of course means liberty in the classical sense: freedom from the racist, near-genocidal oppression of the Apartheid government, as opposed to freedom to hand out no-bid contracts to your friends at Haliburton.
Different cable providers have different software. Videotron up here in Quebec includes a Show Finder utility you can get to by hitting the yellow triangle button, as well as a splash screen with live updated weather, picture in picture, email, etc.
I've had my 8300 PVR for about six months now with only one problem in that time. A single episode of Voyager got corrupted, which wasn't so bad, since it was a rerun and sucked anyway.:)
You also need to factor in the probability that, at the resistance you calculated, the 'tuna can' would have been vapourized. The real resistance of whatever substance they used is obviously much lower.
It sure wouldn't spread very far destroying its hosts, now would it? Kind of like how Ebola never spreads very far, due to the high lethality and low incubation period.
Star Trek gave many people a vision of a future much more peaceful and prosperous than the present day, and awakened who knows how many minds to the potential and wonder of the universe and science. I'm in the sciences today because of it.
The hope that tomorrow can be better than today is what keeps all people going. Star Trek really connected with people on a level I've rarely seen.
Something is terribly wrong when we've let ourselves be renamed into what amounts to a giant mouth sucking in 'product'. It's dehumanizing. We are no longer people; we're an economic equation.
Why have we let ourselves be redefined in this way?
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There are plenty of good old Roman names that start with Q. Quintus, etc. They could certainly use it.
I've never seen "concentrate" spelled quite like that. +2 points for originality.
Am I the only one sick of this? I'm a customer, not a 'consumer'. We are not open mouths gobbling up capitalism (at least I'm not). This label signifies what is wrong with capitalism at large today. Depersonification. We're an equation to be plugged into an economics spreadsheet, nothing more.
After 200 years of scientific progress, to quote Freud, life is still an improved means to an unimproved end. Namely, we have not conquered death, or even begun to understand the reason we age. So what have we accomplished? We've neatly rearranged the deckchairs on the Titanic of our lives, and postponed the sinking by a few hours.
So basically you're saying that most people are slaves to money. You could have just wrote that to begin with. :)
Most students don't live in dorms. Dormitory life may be fine when you're 18; it's not so great when you're 25, married, and have a kid.
At the risk of being offtopic, a midwife delivery at home doesn't expose the newborn to any foreign germs outside what the mother has already built up an immunity to, so the antibodies present in the breastmilk provide great protection. Infant mortality in the past was a product of bad hygene. Nowadays we have sterile pads, rubbing alcohol, and bars of soap.
A hospital is no place for a non-risky birth. Pregnancy is not a medical condition. The only reason people go is because they're conditioned to go. Tell me, when was the last time you heard of a birth story where the baby came "on the way to the hospital" and the child died? Never.
Finally I can't believe how the hospital won't let you hold your own baby for hours afterwards. Inhuman.
So have the baby at home. People have only been doing it for...hmm... every century of the human race, save the last one.
My wife calls them 'hospital moms' and 'too posh to push', they have to rush to the hospital for an epidural or their life is over. Give me a break.
Not enough has changed until these types of programs are illegal, and the executives of the companies that make them are serving Enron prison sentences.
They are human scum of the worst possible kind. High Priests in the religion of capitalist greed.
If there really aren't a lot of IT jobs out there, should we really be helping a college sucker young students into an IT program? I mean, people spend thousands of dollars a year in tuition. If there's a really good chance that they won't get a job after studying, and we help a college convince them otherwise and blow their college fund on a lost cause, I'd say that's pretty scummy.
I'm sure I'm not the only one who groans at TV commercials for "massage therapy" and other bullshit programs at colleges (IADT anyone?) which are really just a means to exploit vulnerable students for profit. In fact, the only good job prospect for the program I just mentioned is prostitution. Let's not help these kinds of people.
You can use the best building materials available to modern man, sparing no expense, but your construction will never be as stable as it could be if you're building on swampland.
Windows is swampland.
So the only convincing argument for the teaching of science is its economic benefits?
What a sad country you live in. The Fundies are crazily religious, but will give it all up for the promise of a buck. Sounds like America!
The US seems to have no greater god than greed.
At any point in the pregnancy up until around 6mo, the fetus can be spontaneously aborted, or premature labour can commence, and the fetus will not survive.
What is the difference between a baby and a fetus in the womb? Whether or not the mother intends to give birth, as far as I can tell. So that's where the discriminant lies.
What you posted could be restated as follows, losing none of the relevant information, and being 100x easier to read:
"A nulling interferometer does what the moon does during a solar eclipse -- it blocks out the starlight, although instead of simply blocking the light, it removes it using a light interference technique. And just as a total eclipse allows us to view the normally-obscured faint detail around the edge of the sun, a nuller allows astronomers to see the fainter objects around a star that would otherwise be outshone."
Nelson Mandela was a martyr for the cause of South African liberty. He (obviously) didn't die.
Liberty of course means liberty in the classical sense: freedom from the racist, near-genocidal oppression of the Apartheid government, as opposed to freedom to hand out no-bid contracts to your friends at Haliburton.
Different cable providers have different software. Videotron up here in Quebec includes a Show Finder utility you can get to by hitting the yellow triangle button, as well as a splash screen with live updated weather, picture in picture, email, etc.
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I've had my 8300 PVR for about six months now with only one problem in that time. A single episode of Voyager got corrupted, which wasn't so bad, since it was a rerun and sucked anyway.
You also need to factor in the probability that, at the resistance you calculated, the 'tuna can' would have been vapourized. The real resistance of whatever substance they used is obviously much lower.
It sure wouldn't spread very far destroying its hosts, now would it? Kind of like how Ebola never spreads very far, due to the high lethality and low incubation period.
If you don't like the summary bit, go ahead and edit it. Oh wait...
The biggest welfare program in the US is the Military. Its budget eclipses every other program combined.
Star Trek gave many people a vision of a future much more peaceful and prosperous than the present day, and awakened who knows how many minds to the potential and wonder of the universe and science. I'm in the sciences today because of it.
The hope that tomorrow can be better than today is what keeps all people going. Star Trek really connected with people on a level I've rarely seen.
No jury will fine someone a billion dollars for sharing music.
Something is terribly wrong when we've let ourselves be renamed into what amounts to a giant mouth sucking in 'product'. It's dehumanizing. We are no longer people; we're an economic equation.
Why have we let ourselves be redefined in this way?
Ignoring expicit ads on web pages will drive the adoption of ads embedded in the content, which you will be impossible to block.
Be careful.
Burt Rutan never got his ship into orbit. Not even close.