I've been on several search committees at a state university for faculty positions in a chemistry department. We are actively _trying_ to get women faculty, but last time around I don't think we even got one female applicant...certainly not a domestic (USA) female applicant.
In the search prior to that, we had one qualified female applicant. We offered her the position, and she turned it down. We moved to the next most qualified candidate, who was male.
I have no idea how we'd handle a quota. Just pick someone off the street and say to her "okay, you're a chemistry professor. We need to keep our federal funding."?
I never understand why Hollywood cannot stick to the material that made a property popular in the first place. Take "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" as a perfect example. As best I could tell, that movie had absolutely nothing to do with the graphic novel on which it was based. They even _added_ characters that weren't in the original material. I just don't know what the point of licensing something is if you don't actually intend to use it? At least they got "Iron Man" right.
"...he challenges big pharma companies, many of which haven't had an important new compound approved in ages, and academic researchers who are content with getting NIH grants and publishing research papers with little regard to whether their work leads to something that can alleviate disease, to change their ways."
What absolute horseshit. Has he _been_ to a meeting on, say, cancer research recently? I have. And I'll tell you that the vast majority of Big Pharma and academic researchers with NIH grants are working their asses off to develop the Next Big Drug. Not only are there public health reasons involved, but also big financial reasons as well. I've seen amazing things thrown at problems: room-sized robots screening chemical libraries, natural product extractions from flora and fauna harvested by divers from the sea floor, massive computer time and effort thrown into drug design, data mining of the literature of known compounds and their interaction partners, ultra-precise radiation delivery systems involving whole-body imaging...in other words, _huge_ technological efforts costing millions--nay, billions of dollars to develop treatments for cancer.
And you know what the net result is? We're still using drugs and techniques mostly discovered in the '60's to the '70's. Why? Because despite all of these efforts, we haven't found anything that works better. And that's the important thing. It has to work better. Not as good as. Better. Nothing much does.
There's luck involved. Things like Viagra come along not because we _designed_ it to be an ED drug (in fact, it was originally a treatment for high blood pressure), but because it was _discovered_ to be an ED treatment. You can say "I'm going to have a drug to treat prostate cancer by the next Apple Developers Conference" all you want, but it ain't gonna happen unless you get amazingly lucky.
Pharma is not the semiconductor industry because people are not machines.
The magic depends on how you pronounce the word "nuclear". If you pronounce it "New Cle Ur", it is very frightening and you are likely a mad scientist or hippie liberal. Then it's a black magic word. But, if you pronounce it "New Kuh Ler", you are a down-home, folksy kind of guy and people like you and will believe what you say. Then it becomes a white magic word.
Congress is involved now because Congress has been involved...well, practically forever. The Copyright Royalty Board, as part of the Library of Congress, and as authorized by the Copyright Royalty and Distribution Reform Act of 2004, sets the statutory licenses and fees on copyrighted material. So, no, Congress has no power to set prices, but they do have the constitutional power to set fees and royalties. For example, "fair use" of copyrighted material is set by Congress.
Maybe they just got the date wrong. Maybe it was really March 20th, 1947, when the egg suddenly lost navigational control due to a most unexpected balancing of gravitational forces.
Some of the local drinking crowd likes to go on "hash runs", where you run from one stash of beer to another, drink, then run on to the next stash. They usually do this in public areas like parks or occasionally sidewalks. A couple years ago, a friend of mine was marking the run route with chalk dust. He has a rather obnoxious personality, and when one old guy asked him "Is that anthrax?", he said something sarcastically back, like "oh, of course it's anthrax". About 6 hours later he was arrested by the FBI and charged with a variety of terrorist-related counts! He spent a couple of days in jail, and was finally released (I assume when they confirmed that it was chalk). However, to my knowledge, the charges have never been dropped.
Wouldn't it be cool to make new episodes of Star Trek TOS using this technology? If you coupled it with voice synthesis, you could have Bones and Scotty right in the mix. Maybe the producers could save enough on actor's salaries to pay to get some writers!
I was just pointing out to my friend who picked me up at the airport a week ago how insane people are to behave in just this way. It's as if the mentality is "oh,no...you ain't getting to the luggage before I do, even if your piece comes off first!" I've had to nearly forcibly break between people who wouldn't budge just to get to my bag, all the while they are still waiting for there's to appear.
My regular DirecTV receiver connected to my inexpensive HD projection TV went out last month. I had bought it before the projection TV so it only supportted SDTV. I thought, "what the hell, I'll go with the HDTV receiver replacement. The NFL will look so cool in HD." The replacement SDTV receiver was $49. The HDTV receiver was $449.
I stuck with SDTV. I'm not paying $400 to see a wrinkle on John Madden's face.
If you've got old scientific code lying around, one of the older output formats from these programs (maybe vector) was the Hewlet Packard Graphics Language (HPGL), which was/is used to drive plotters. Canvas was the only graphics package I found that would open HPGL files. I used Canvas to make a great figure for a paper.
The estimate a year ago was 15,000 dead Iraqis [may require registration]. At that time there were only 230 US soldiers dead as well, so assuming the Iraqi death toll paces the US death toll, that would imply around 75,000 Iraqis killed. That's not far off from the 100,000 estimate.
Who the hell does call KFC? I find it weird. Sometimes, before I had an obnoxious answering message, it would be along the lines of "I can't come in today". It was bizarre since, on my machine, I would clearly state my name and that I was out and would you please leave a message. Then, I'd get messages like "Uhh...I can't make it in today".
So, I went with a stronger message. My last one (before my Mom asked me to take it off) was:
Hello, and welcome to KFC's fat and disgusting line. If you're fat, press one. If you're disgusting, press 2. If you're fat and disgusting, press 3. If you'd like to know how our fried chicken can make you more fat and more disgusting, please press 4. If you realize this is not KFC and want to leave me a message, you can do that after the beep.
You should hear some of the messages that got left. Mostly..."what the hell...?"
Unless they figure out who all my friends and family members are. I don't answer the phone if I don't recognize the number. My current phone number is one digit off from the local KFC, so I get a half-dozen calls every day that I don't answer.
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Won't be in the theatrical movie, but will be on the DVD once it's released: Tales of the Black Freighter.
We could all wear this hat to the movie!
I've been on several search committees at a state university for faculty positions in a chemistry department. We are actively _trying_ to get women faculty, but last time around I don't think we even got one female applicant...certainly not a domestic (USA) female applicant.
In the search prior to that, we had one qualified female applicant. We offered her the position, and she turned it down. We moved to the next most qualified candidate, who was male.
I have no idea how we'd handle a quota. Just pick someone off the street and say to her "okay, you're a chemistry professor. We need to keep our federal funding."?
I never understand why Hollywood cannot stick to the material that made a property popular in the first place. Take "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" as a perfect example. As best I could tell, that movie had absolutely nothing to do with the graphic novel on which it was based. They even _added_ characters that weren't in the original material. I just don't know what the point of licensing something is if you don't actually intend to use it? At least they got "Iron Man" right.
Mississippi Space Medical School Grads
Space Lawyer would eventually have turned up on Voyager.
"...he challenges big pharma companies, many of which haven't had an important new compound approved in ages, and academic researchers who are content with getting NIH grants and publishing research papers with little regard to whether their work leads to something that can alleviate disease, to change their ways."
What absolute horseshit. Has he _been_ to a meeting on, say, cancer research recently? I have. And I'll tell you that the vast majority of Big Pharma and academic researchers with NIH grants are working their asses off to develop the Next Big Drug. Not only are there public health reasons involved, but also big financial reasons as well. I've seen amazing things thrown at problems: room-sized robots screening chemical libraries, natural product extractions from flora and fauna harvested by divers from the sea floor, massive computer time and effort thrown into drug design, data mining of the literature of known compounds and their interaction partners, ultra-precise radiation delivery systems involving whole-body imaging...in other words, _huge_ technological efforts costing millions--nay, billions of dollars to develop treatments for cancer.
And you know what the net result is? We're still using drugs and techniques mostly discovered in the '60's to the '70's. Why? Because despite all of these efforts, we haven't found anything that works better. And that's the important thing. It has to work better. Not as good as. Better. Nothing much does.
There's luck involved. Things like Viagra come along not because we _designed_ it to be an ED drug (in fact, it was originally a treatment for high blood pressure), but because it was _discovered_ to be an ED treatment. You can say "I'm going to have a drug to treat prostate cancer by the next Apple Developers Conference" all you want, but it ain't gonna happen unless you get amazingly lucky.
Pharma is not the semiconductor industry because people are not machines.
The magic depends on how you pronounce the word "nuclear". If you pronounce it "New Cle Ur", it is very frightening and you are likely a mad scientist or hippie liberal. Then it's a black magic word. But, if you pronounce it "New Kuh Ler", you are a down-home, folksy kind of guy and people like you and will believe what you say. Then it becomes a white magic word.
There are safety glasses with specific wavelength filters for working with lasers. You can get them from just about any scientific supply company.
Congress is involved now because Congress has been involved...well, practically forever. The Copyright Royalty Board, as part of the Library of Congress, and as authorized by the Copyright Royalty and Distribution Reform Act of 2004, sets the statutory licenses and fees on copyrighted material. So, no, Congress has no power to set prices, but they do have the constitutional power to set fees and royalties. For example, "fair use" of copyrighted material is set by Congress.
Maybe they just got the date wrong. Maybe it was really March 20th, 1947, when the egg suddenly lost navigational control due to a most unexpected balancing of gravitational forces.
Some of the local drinking crowd likes to go on "hash runs", where you run from one stash of beer to another, drink, then run on to the next stash. They usually do this in public areas like parks or occasionally sidewalks. A couple years ago, a friend of mine was marking the run route with chalk dust. He has a rather obnoxious personality, and when one old guy asked him "Is that anthrax?", he said something sarcastically back, like "oh, of course it's anthrax". About 6 hours later he was arrested by the FBI and charged with a variety of terrorist-related counts! He spent a couple of days in jail, and was finally released (I assume when they confirmed that it was chalk). However, to my knowledge, the charges have never been dropped.
Wouldn't it be cool to make new episodes of Star Trek TOS using this technology? If you coupled it with voice synthesis, you could have Bones and Scotty right in the mix. Maybe the producers could save enough on actor's salaries to pay to get some writers!
...did it land Australia-up or Austraila-down?
...then, in this order:
(1) suspected terrorists
(2) suspected spies
(3) convicted felons
(4) criminal defendants
(5) pedophiles
(6) sex offenders
(7) welfare recipients
(8) homosexuals
(9) negroes
(10) Jews
(11) terrorists (i.e., anyone left who isn't white and doesn't love Jesus Christ)
"a few years ago i needed to send emails to nigeria on a daily basis. you should have seen my spam count then!"
Yeah, yeah...but how much money did you make?
I mean the Kubrick version, without that shitty upbeat, nonsensical ending that Spielberg put on.
Also, "Minority Report", without that shitty upbeat, nonsensical ending that Spielberg put on.
I was just pointing out to my friend who picked me up at the airport a week ago how insane people are to behave in just this way. It's as if the mentality is "oh,no...you ain't getting to the luggage before I do, even if your piece comes off first!" I've had to nearly forcibly break between people who wouldn't budge just to get to my bag, all the while they are still waiting for there's to appear.
My regular DirecTV receiver connected to my inexpensive HD projection TV went out last month. I had bought it before the projection TV so it only supportted SDTV. I thought, "what the hell, I'll go with the HDTV receiver replacement. The NFL will look so cool in HD." The replacement SDTV receiver was $49. The HDTV receiver was $449.
I stuck with SDTV. I'm not paying $400 to see a wrinkle on John Madden's face.
If you've got old scientific code lying around, one of the older output formats from these programs (maybe vector) was the Hewlet Packard Graphics Language (HPGL), which was/is used to drive plotters. Canvas was the only graphics package I found that would open HPGL files. I used Canvas to make a great figure for a paper.
Does the Batcomputer run Linux?
They have the HP logo on the back, so maybe HP-branded is a better description. Does Apple really make them with the HP logo?
The estimate a year ago was 15,000 dead Iraqis [may require registration]. At that time there were only 230 US soldiers dead as well, so assuming the Iraqi death toll paces the US death toll, that would imply around 75,000 Iraqis killed. That's not far off from the 100,000 estimate.
Dear Mr. President and Sen. Kerry:
Do you think that in your lifetime, the Dept. of Homeland Security will reduce the threat level to "Low"?
How about even "Guarded"?
How about ever?
Links to a goatse site.
Who the hell does call KFC? I find it weird. Sometimes, before I had an obnoxious answering message, it would be along the lines of "I can't come in today". It was bizarre since, on my machine, I would clearly state my name and that I was out and would you please leave a message. Then, I'd get messages like "Uhh...I can't make it in today".
So, I went with a stronger message. My last one (before my Mom asked me to take it off) was:
Hello, and welcome to KFC's fat and disgusting line. If you're fat, press one. If you're disgusting, press 2. If you're fat and disgusting, press 3. If you'd like to know how our fried chicken can make you more fat and more disgusting, please press 4. If you realize this is not KFC and want to leave me a message, you can do that after the beep.
You should hear some of the messages that got left. Mostly..."what the hell...?"
My current one just promotes salad.
Unless they figure out who all my friends and family members are. I don't answer the phone if I don't recognize the number. My current phone number is one digit off from the local KFC, so I get a half-dozen calls every day that I don't answer.