My topic? One of these This "Which is better: An hour of a talking head, or an hour of someone reading an all-text Powerpoint?" Or "The rise of lengthy video presentations for simple concepts, and why tens of thousands of Americans kill themselves with opiates each year."
I never called my cat when I was putting out food. I asked some friends and they said they hadn't thought about it, but they didn't call their cats either. It's probably because, as you say, there's no point in calling a creature that appears within seconds of your getting the food bag out and is already trying to shove you aside from the bowl.
My dogs were mind readers. They appeared underfoot if I even looked in the direction of the pantry. Come to think of it, the dogs were always underfoot.
OTOH, both the cats I had (different times) were self-adopting and probably lost pet cats. We didn't feed them for the first few months, but they decided they lived at our house and acted like pets whenever we came out. Eventually the smart one moved in to be a mostly inside cat. I suspect the were applying an "I'm a pet" template to us.
The smart one learned its name, the other did not. The one that learned its name would come when I went outside and called because it seemed to enjoy walking in the woods with me. Or sometimes I would call her, and she would call back and pretend that I needed to help her get out of the tree she was in. However, I had observed her running up and down trees like a squirrel when she didn't know I was watching. I have no idea what that was about.
I taught her one trick. I would say "squeal like a pig: and she would reliably meow in response. I offered no treats, I just told her good girl when she responded like I wanted, and soon we had a game to play.
So all that is needed to give the situation some humanity would be to have a nurse stand next to the robot and repeat what it says. It doesn't even need to be a nurse, it could easily be done by a desktop tech from IT who was in the area.
Because they sound good? I do not understand these kids. I only use cassettes to boot my Burroughs B1720. I'm not hearing any sound but the howling of the head-per-track disk.
Better yet, what about just not trying to control everything everyone does? Why should anyone care if someone cheats? What difference does it make?
There are several reasons we care about cheating in school, and it has to do with why we give tests and grade them in the first place. It mostly has to do with the fact that society is competitive and there is not enough to go around, so we want to give resources to the people who will do the best job with those resources. People who cheat can get the rewards that should have gone to a more talented and hard working non-cheater.
And secondly, society is harmed when people get into positions for which they are not competent and later have to be fired because work is not getting done.. Society cares because no one wants a doctor that cheated his way through and does not actually know the content. Society does not want to have engineers designing buildings that have pieces fall off because the engineer got hired on the basis of grades that promised skills he doesn't actually have. An employer does not want to have an assistant for a job that requires knowledge of a second language, if that person had cheated his way through the courses.
On a personal level, people who cheat can get better grades than people who do not cheat, given similar levels of talent. If they have better grades than you, they get into better schools (or grad school) that have more opportunities for the social contacts necessary for getting the best jobs.
The problem with your theory is that you can get a disease, that you have been vaccinated for, if you're hit with a huge amount of the infectious agent. i.e. If you sit down next to someone who's leaking measles all over the place
You've kind of answered your own question here. If the intelligent people refrain from sitting down next to someone who is "leaking measles all over the place" then the Darwinian principle would still hold.
It's not necessary to sit next to a measles infected person, or even be near a measles infected person to get infected. https://www.cdc.gov/measles/ab... "Also, measles virus can live for up to two hours in an airspace where the infected person coughed or sneezed. If other people breathe the contaminated air or touch the infected surface, then touch their eyes, noses, or mouths, they can become infected. Measles is so contagious that if one person has it, 90% of the people close to that person who are not immune will also become infected.
Infected people can spread measles to others from four days before through four days after the rash appears."
You just set off memory of my dad handing me a paper bag of the tubes from our TV. I rode my bicycle to the drugstore to use their tube testing machine. Inside the machine was a drawer that had boxes of replacements. I had no idea of what I was doing, but no way would I tell him that. Somehow I figured it out,I think.
Burglars might like to know who is traveling and on the other side of the country. Or people doing corporate espionage might like to poke around in the target's home computer and have time to clean up their traces.
The method used was to find the most distinct query for each state from a list of the top 100 queries for all states. This nearly guarantees that the result will NOT be the most popular query for any state,
I think what this is about is that it is really old news, and because it's rare and been a long time since then, newly trained doctors don't have this on their radar. The much larger risk is from transfusions and graft material, a few hundred of those have occurred vs the 6 or so from surgical instruments over the last few decades.
Disagree. Every physical process that doesn't involve gravitation can, in principle, be accurately modeled by a quantum theory based model to any desired degree of precision.
There's no way to accurately model planetary atmospheres without involving gravity, so the poster who said "The Greenhouse Effect is no more "purely" quantum mechanical than a cow is "purely" spherical." is correct, even if he didn't know why.
Also, the poster who said "Ironically, the Green House effect is a purely quantum mechanical one." is also mistaken because a correct model of the so-called Green House effect depends upon interactions between the layers of the atmosphere. And those layers are due to gravity, among other things.
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What were they using before when they designed bicycle helmets? Astrology? Homeopathy? Republicanism?
As you say, I'm not seeing science in there.
My first thought was "engineering". Back in Edison's day, they would have called it "inventing".
My topic? One of these
This
"Which is better: An hour of a talking head, or an hour of someone reading an all-text Powerpoint?"
Or
"The rise of lengthy video presentations for simple concepts, and why tens of thousands of Americans kill themselves with opiates each year."
I never called my cat when I was putting out food.
I asked some friends and they said they hadn't thought about it, but they didn't call their cats either. It's probably because, as you say, there's no point in calling a creature that appears within seconds of your getting the food bag out and is already trying to shove you aside from the bowl.
My dogs were mind readers. They appeared underfoot if I even looked in the direction of the pantry. Come to think of it, the dogs were always underfoot.
OTOH, both the cats I had (different times) were self-adopting and probably lost pet cats. We didn't feed them for the first few months, but they decided they lived at our house and acted like pets whenever we came out. Eventually the smart one moved in to be a mostly inside cat. I suspect the were applying an "I'm a pet" template to us.
The smart one learned its name, the other did not. The one that learned its name would come when I went outside and called because it seemed to enjoy walking in the woods with me. Or sometimes I would call her, and she would call back and pretend that I needed to help her get out of the tree she was in. However, I had observed her running up and down trees like a squirrel when she didn't know I was watching. I have no idea what that was about.
I taught her one trick. I would say "squeal like a pig: and she would reliably meow in response. I offered no treats, I just told her good girl when she responded like I wanted, and soon we had a game to play.
"Urgency must be our watch word."
Why? Is it going somewhere?
Yes, but it'll be back in about 27 days.
So all that is needed to give the situation some humanity would be to have a nurse stand next to the robot and repeat what it says. It doesn't even need to be a nurse, it could easily be done by a desktop tech from IT who was in the area.
Because they sound good? I do not understand these kids. I only use cassettes to boot my Burroughs B1720. I'm not hearing any sound but the howling of the head-per-track disk.
You reminded me of one of my favorites youtubes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
One of the ones I saw looked like Paul McCartney in drag was having a stroke.
You can find some more like that on this web site:
https://www.paulmccartney.com/...
...is Elon Musk building his launchpads partly in Mexico/within feet of the border? Isn't that a security risk to the launchpad?
It's not on the border.
https://www.google.com/maps/@2...
Smart, talented, hard-working people succeed, regardless of whether someone else cheats
That's so astonishing ignorant of the real world it makes me embarrassed that I had replied to you.
Better yet, what about just not trying to control everything everyone does? Why should anyone care if someone cheats? What difference does it make?
There are several reasons we care about cheating in school, and it has to do with why we give tests and grade them in the first place.
It mostly has to do with the fact that society is competitive and there is not enough to go around, so we want to give resources to the people who will do the best job with those resources. People who cheat can get the rewards that should have gone to a more talented and hard working non-cheater.
And secondly, society is harmed when people get into positions for which they are not competent and later have to be fired because work is not getting done..
Society cares because no one wants a doctor that cheated his way through and does not actually know the content.
Society does not want to have engineers designing buildings that have pieces fall off because the engineer got hired on the basis of grades that promised skills he doesn't actually have.
An employer does not want to have an assistant for a job that requires knowledge of a second language, if that person had cheated his way through the courses.
On a personal level, people who cheat can get better grades than people who do not cheat, given similar levels of talent. If they have better grades than you, they get into better schools (or grad school) that have more opportunities for the social contacts necessary for getting the best jobs.
The problem with your theory is that you can get a disease, that you have been vaccinated for, if you're hit with a huge amount of the infectious agent. i.e. If you sit down next to someone who's leaking measles all over the place
You've kind of answered your own question here. If the intelligent people refrain from sitting down next to someone who is "leaking measles all over the place" then the Darwinian principle would still hold.
It's not necessary to sit next to a measles infected person, or even be near a measles infected person to get infected.
https://www.cdc.gov/measles/ab...
"Also, measles virus can live for up to two hours in an airspace where the infected person coughed or sneezed. If other people breathe the contaminated air or touch the infected surface, then touch their eyes, noses, or mouths, they can become infected. Measles is so contagious that if one person has it, 90% of the people close to that person who are not immune will also become infected.
Infected people can spread measles to others from four days before through four days after the rash appears."
whatever it is, it's broke in some way
This arrangement is typical, and it's more about tax avoidance than anything else.
It's so common that I wonder why this arrangement merits an article.
You want to see a master at work? Look at Ikea's corporate structure.
What I saw was an Autobot taking out a Decepticon.
You just set off memory of my dad handing me a paper bag of the tubes from our TV. I rode my bicycle to the drugstore to use their tube testing machine. Inside the machine was a drawer that had boxes of replacements. I had no idea of what I was doing, but no way would I tell him that. Somehow I figured it out,I think.
That does happen. It's one of the clues that you may have an infestation of small children in the house.
Burglars might like to know who is traveling and on the other side of the country.
Or people doing corporate espionage might like to poke around in the target's home computer and have time to clean up their traces.
The method used was to find the most distinct query for each state from a list of the top 100 queries for all states. This nearly guarantees that the result will NOT be the most popular query for any state,
I think what this is about is that it is really old news, and because it's rare and been a long time since then, newly trained doctors don't have this on their radar.
The much larger risk is from transfusions and graft material, a few hundred of those have occurred vs the 6 or so from surgical instruments over the last few decades.
overview
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p...
https://www.cdc.gov/prions/cjd...
Here's the WHO guidelines from 1999 for avoiding and decontamination
https://www.who.int/csr/resour...
Disagree. Every physical process that doesn't involve gravitation can, in principle, be accurately modeled by a quantum theory based model to any desired degree of precision.
There's no way to accurately model planetary atmospheres without involving gravity, so the poster who said "The Greenhouse Effect is no more "purely" quantum mechanical than a cow is "purely" spherical." is correct, even if he didn't know why.
Also, the poster who said "Ironically, the Green House effect is a purely quantum mechanical one." is also mistaken because a correct model of the so-called Green House effect depends upon interactions between the layers of the atmosphere. And those layers are due to gravity, among other things.
You must be part of the 1% club. The rest of us who only make six figures can't afford garages. Silicon Valley is just too god damm expensive.
Anyone can have a garage anywhere. You just need to know how to make one.
Here's some examples you may emulate.
https://cml.sad.ukrd.com/image...
https://www.yorkmix.com/wp-con...
Poorly thought out attempts at garage-making.
http://news.images.itv.com/ima...
https://www.jdn.co.il/wp-conte...
I think I'm in line before Hillary
Well now, when the time comes, you better be ready to step up to the plate. We're counting on you.
What authority do you have to rtfa?
Ahh, ya busted me. lol
That question is answered in the article.