I wonder where all these companies are. The last three companies I've worked for, the CIOs/CEOs have all had a "Buy, Don't Build" philosophy, and I've been given the impression that's a very common CIO attitude.
No, people did not stop buying Dixie Chicks records. Country Radio collectively simply banned them.
Which, really, is funny. The Dixie Chicks are hardly the first liberal country artist. It's interesting how, say, Willie Nelson or Steve Earle aren't banned. It's almost lke the *real* problem is that the official country market just doesn't like uppity women.
I've been told that Whole Foods stocks unroasted beans, but that they won't let you take them unroasted. They'll only sell them to you if you let them roast them for you. I don't know if that's true, though, and I can't imagine why that would be the case.
Humans are not herbivores. We are also not carnivores. We are omnivores.
It's hard to argue that the modern western diet has far more meat than was ever natural during our evolution (along with far more dairy, and probably a lot more grains). However, our closest primate relatives are also observed to eat meat, though again, not as much as in the modern western diet.
Lucinda Williams *is* country, she's just not the crappy country anyone is allowed to hear on the radio.
She records on Lost Highway records, a country-music label. Headquartered in Nashville, TN.
She's what is often labeled as "alt.country", "americana" and about 100 other labels. Basically it means "country artist who doesn't play the heavily-produced pop country that everyone seem to think is country music these days".
Eric Clapton, being one of the premiere bluesmen alive, is a lot closer to real country music than Kenny Chesney too.
Fact: Saddam sponsored terrorism. Among his other acts, was paying rewards to families of suicide bombers who blow themselves up in Israel. That alone is enough to condemn him. That sounds like a great reason for Israel to invade Iraq.
I'd be willing to bet good money that in the next congressional and senatorial elections after that, the vast majority of the incumbents were re-elected.
So, if we don't bother to unelect them when they abuse us, aren't we really just getting the government we deserve?
First, BioEssays is pretty much just a literature review journal.
Second, Edwards didn't do any experiments, he draws conclusions from literature from the 1920s, attacking a paper published in 1972 in a way that amounts to splitting a statistical hair, and ignoring all corroborative data meeting his criteria that have been published since then.
But no reasonable people are expecting perfect 1:1 ratios. We're talking about a 1:2 ratio in a situation where there is no identified genetic reason one gender would dominate over another so much, and that ratio is not consistent in other countries. That leads to reasonably suspect that the reasons are cultural and can be improved. If they can be improved through reasonable attempts to recognize the needs and desires of different groups, there's no good reason not to. A diversity of backgrounds, both gender, ethnic, and class, are good for any team, as it provides more perspectives to look at a problem. That doesn't take the place of skill and competence, but if you can have skill and competence *and* diversity, that's a great place to be.
Good point, that must by why shooting sprees happen much more frequently in countries with more restrictive gun laws. You can hardly take a walk without ducking the flying bullets in Japan, the UK, etc.
My ISP sent me an email informing me of a copyright violation because I had been downloading an episode of Earthworm Jim via eMule. (Nothing serious, just an initially friendly warning asking me to stop sharing copyrighted files.)
So...it seems perfectly sensible to me that an ISP that can monitor for copyright infringment has no reason not to also monitor for botnet activity/virus infections/etc. Now, in the case of my ISP, SpeakEasy, they may very well do that for all I know. But the point is, if my ISP can monitor activity, they all can, and at least when it comes to virus/trojan stuff, they damn well should. It's just good customer service to let your customers know that their systems have been compromised.
Berger eventually pled guilty to a misdemeanor charge of unauthorized removal and retention of classified material on April 1, 2005. Under a plea agreement, U.S. attorneys recommended a fine of $10,000 and a loss of security clearance for three years. However, on September 8, U.S. Magistrate Judge Deborah Robinson increased the fine to $50,000 at Berger's sentencing. Robinson stated, "The court finds the fine [recommended by government prosecutors] is inadequate because it doesn't reflect the seriousness of the offense."[14] Berger was also ordered to serve two years of probation and to perform 100 hours of community service.
People who keep objecting to the "silly old-west" theme should perhaps talk to an anthropologist or historian or two who knows a little something about how remote or frontier societies develop, even when their parent societies are affluent.
There are places on Earth *right now* where people don't have running water or electricity, and do subsistence farming with domesticated animals. Western-style clothing evolved in the US because it was *practical* for low-tech manufacture with locally available materials and for the local environmental conditions. Why would you think that all remote space colonies would all have their own replicators and Mr Fusion generators?
Compared to almost all other sci-fi shows ever made, more of Firefly was realistic than fantastical. There was no faster-than-light travel or wormholes of folding space or whatever. People had to grow and raise their food, and it was real food not bioengineered food paste. The entire show took place within one single solar system. People had idiomatic speech patterns that were not simply "This is how we talk today with some made-up words thrown in". Which is not to say the show was pure science-based speculative fiction, but it generally took much smaller leaps than the typical sci-fi show.
Firefly isn't going to bring about a golden age of peace and prosperity or foster a new religion, but there was a lot of positive things to say about it as a representative of the sci-fi genre.
"I'm not going to be running OS X for a file server anytime soon."
Have you tried? I only ask because another department in my company was benchmarking file server solutions, and that group is heavily pro-linux so all their file servers were linux servers save one. They also got an Xserve to try out. In the end when they ran all their benchmarks the Xserve running OSX beat their custom-built linux servers by a pretty big margin I was told.
In the end they went with the linux solution anyway, for both preference and cost reasons, but it wasn't because OSX didn't perform well.
I have other friends who teach at universities in addition to my wife. They're not even *allowed* to base grades on things like spelling/grammar because they are not teaching english/writing classes. Yes, I'm serious. (These are at big US state universities.)
My wife is an adjunct professor at a university, and she pretty routinely nails at least 1 or 2 students for blatant plagiarism per class.
She doesn't use any special software or tools though, it's almost always obvious, such as when a student suddenly starts spelling words correctly they have never spelled right all semester, or using coherent sentence structures, etc, and usually googling a few snippets of the questionable paper turns up the plagiarized sources. (Yes, people just copy/paste from wikipedia and other sources without citing it and try to turn it in as their own.)
So, basically, this tool kind of sounds like it's more for professors that are too lazy, unobservant, or overworked to actually recognize their own students writing after a whole semester. And I guess for busting the genuinely clever plagiarists who are buying papers all semester long that they know haven't been published elsewhere online.
According to my wife, who has at times been involved in some SG-1 fan groups/lists/boards/etc, a seemingly shockingly large contingent of Stargate fans are military folk, either active military themselves or military spouses. I've always been curious about this, and wondered if there is similar military fanbases of other major sci-fi shows, or if SG-1 attracts more of them for some reason. Perhaps the military premise and involvement with the show?
More importantly, why is it George Lucas's fault that audiences don't go to cerebral sci-fi films? It's not like they haven't made any over the years since then (Solaris, etc), they just usually don't get many people into the theaters.
Frankly, audiences don't clamor for cerebral films of any genre. The Fault, Dear Brutus, lies not in our Star Wars, but in ourselves.
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I wonder where all these companies are. The last three companies I've worked for, the CIOs/CEOs have all had a "Buy, Don't Build" philosophy, and I've been given the impression that's a very common CIO attitude.
No, people did not stop buying Dixie Chicks records. Country Radio collectively simply banned them.
Which, really, is funny. The Dixie Chicks are hardly the first liberal country artist. It's interesting how, say, Willie Nelson or Steve Earle aren't banned. It's almost lke the *real* problem is that the official country market just doesn't like uppity women.
"Their only real cost of distribution is the cost to run the store."
Oh well I'm sure that's nothing. I've heard Amazon's expenses are practically zero.
Not only that, but the pSeries boxes practically *are* big iron. They're basically smaller mainframes that run AIX and linux virtual machines.
So I would say they're moving from Venti Iron to Grande Iron.
My wife often buys her unroasted beans online from http://www.sweetmarias.com/ or http://www.rileys-coffee.com/ . So if you don't have a good local source of unroasted beans, you can get them online too.
I've been told that Whole Foods stocks unroasted beans, but that they won't let you take them unroasted. They'll only sell them to you if you let them roast them for you. I don't know if that's true, though, and I can't imagine why that would be the case.
It didn't ask for the root password when you originally installed it. Why would it need it when you upgraded it?
Humans are not herbivores. We are also not carnivores. We are omnivores.
It's hard to argue that the modern western diet has far more meat than was ever natural during our evolution (along with far more dairy, and probably a lot more grains). However, our closest primate relatives are also observed to eat meat, though again, not as much as in the modern western diet.
Lucinda Williams *is* country, she's just not the crappy country anyone is allowed to hear on the radio.
She records on Lost Highway records, a country-music label. Headquartered in Nashville, TN.
She's what is often labeled as "alt.country", "americana" and about 100 other labels. Basically it means "country artist who doesn't play the heavily-produced pop country that everyone seem to think is country music these days".
Eric Clapton, being one of the premiere bluesmen alive, is a lot closer to real country music than Kenny Chesney too.
Tex-Mex, Cajun, Creole, various styles of southern barbecue, and various native american regional cuisines are just a few types of "American" food.
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Also, there are some of the world's best chocolatiers in America, imo, such as:
http://www.moonstruckchocolate.com/
http://www.johnandkiras.com/site/Welcome_business
http://www.vosgeschocolate.com/
Of course, some of the world's worst chocolatiers are in the US also. We like to be the best at everything, including being the worst.
What was the *US* reason for invading again?
I'd be willing to bet good money that in the next congressional and senatorial elections after that, the vast majority of the incumbents were re-elected.
So, if we don't bother to unelect them when they abuse us, aren't we really just getting the government we deserve?
First, BioEssays is pretty much just a literature review journal.
Second, Edwards didn't do any experiments, he draws conclusions from literature from the 1920s, attacking a paper published in 1972 in a way that amounts to splitting a statistical hair, and ignoring all corroborative data meeting his criteria that have been published since then.
But no reasonable people are expecting perfect 1:1 ratios. We're talking about a 1:2 ratio in a situation where there is no identified genetic reason one gender would dominate over another so much, and that ratio is not consistent in other countries. That leads to reasonably suspect that the reasons are cultural and can be improved. If they can be improved through reasonable attempts to recognize the needs and desires of different groups, there's no good reason not to. A diversity of backgrounds, both gender, ethnic, and class, are good for any team, as it provides more perspectives to look at a problem. That doesn't take the place of skill and competence, but if you can have skill and competence *and* diversity, that's a great place to be.
Good point, that must by why shooting sprees happen much more frequently in countries with more restrictive gun laws. You can hardly take a walk without ducking the flying bullets in Japan, the UK, etc.
My ISP sent me an email informing me of a copyright violation because I had been downloading an episode of Earthworm Jim via eMule. (Nothing serious, just an initially friendly warning asking me to stop sharing copyrighted files.)
So...it seems perfectly sensible to me that an ISP that can monitor for copyright infringment has no reason not to also monitor for botnet activity/virus infections/etc. Now, in the case of my ISP, SpeakEasy, they may very well do that for all I know. But the point is, if my ISP can monitor activity, they all can, and at least when it comes to virus/trojan stuff, they damn well should. It's just good customer service to let your customers know that their systems have been compromised.
Berger eventually pled guilty to a misdemeanor charge of unauthorized removal and retention of classified material on April 1, 2005. Under a plea agreement, U.S. attorneys recommended a fine of $10,000 and a loss of security clearance for three years. However, on September 8, U.S. Magistrate Judge Deborah Robinson increased the fine to $50,000 at Berger's sentencing. Robinson stated, "The court finds the fine [recommended by government prosecutors] is inadequate because it doesn't reflect the seriousness of the offense."[14] Berger was also ordered to serve two years of probation and to perform 100 hours of community service.
Correction: Cattle were *domesticated* to die.
People who keep objecting to the "silly old-west" theme should perhaps talk to an anthropologist or historian or two who knows a little something about how remote or frontier societies develop, even when their parent societies are affluent.
There are places on Earth *right now* where people don't have running water or electricity, and do subsistence farming with domesticated animals. Western-style clothing evolved in the US because it was *practical* for low-tech manufacture with locally available materials and for the local environmental conditions. Why would you think that all remote space colonies would all have their own replicators and Mr Fusion generators?
Compared to almost all other sci-fi shows ever made, more of Firefly was realistic than fantastical. There was no faster-than-light travel or wormholes of folding space or whatever. People had to grow and raise their food, and it was real food not bioengineered food paste. The entire show took place within one single solar system. People had idiomatic speech patterns that were not simply "This is how we talk today with some made-up words thrown in". Which is not to say the show was pure science-based speculative fiction, but it generally took much smaller leaps than the typical sci-fi show.
Firefly isn't going to bring about a golden age of peace and prosperity or foster a new religion, but there was a lot of positive things to say about it as a representative of the sci-fi genre.
"I'm not going to be running OS X for a file server anytime soon."
Have you tried? I only ask because another department in my company was benchmarking file server solutions, and that group is heavily pro-linux so all their file servers were linux servers save one. They also got an Xserve to try out. In the end when they ran all their benchmarks the Xserve running OSX beat their custom-built linux servers by a pretty big margin I was told.
In the end they went with the linux solution anyway, for both preference and cost reasons, but it wasn't because OSX didn't perform well.
I have other friends who teach at universities in addition to my wife. They're not even *allowed* to base grades on things like spelling/grammar because they are not teaching english/writing classes. Yes, I'm serious. (These are at big US state universities.)
My wife is an adjunct professor at a university, and she pretty routinely nails at least 1 or 2 students for blatant plagiarism per class.
She doesn't use any special software or tools though, it's almost always obvious, such as when a student suddenly starts spelling words correctly they have never spelled right all semester, or using coherent sentence structures, etc, and usually googling a few snippets of the questionable paper turns up the plagiarized sources. (Yes, people just copy/paste from wikipedia and other sources without citing it and try to turn it in as their own.)
So, basically, this tool kind of sounds like it's more for professors that are too lazy, unobservant, or overworked to actually recognize their own students writing after a whole semester. And I guess for busting the genuinely clever plagiarists who are buying papers all semester long that they know haven't been published elsewhere online.
I ask you, which is worse, smearing yourself with your parents feces or smearing yourself with your own feces?
Christopher Tolkien needs to take his lips from his dead father's teat.
According to my wife, who has at times been involved in some SG-1 fan groups/lists/boards/etc, a seemingly shockingly large contingent of Stargate fans are military folk, either active military themselves or military spouses. I've always been curious about this, and wondered if there is similar military fanbases of other major sci-fi shows, or if SG-1 attracts more of them for some reason. Perhaps the military premise and involvement with the show?
More importantly, why is it George Lucas's fault that audiences don't go to cerebral sci-fi films? It's not like they haven't made any over the years since then (Solaris, etc), they just usually don't get many people into the theaters.
Frankly, audiences don't clamor for cerebral films of any genre. The Fault, Dear Brutus, lies not in our Star Wars, but in ourselves.