This is really, really stange that they would test this, because it is commonly known that most currency contains traces of cocaine.
Actually, the point is that "commonly known" doesn't come into play often enough in courts. It actually had to be hammered home in study after study before courts stopped using the "dog smelled cocaine in his wallet" test for arrest, RICO seizures, etc. Prior to the "commonly known" point, it was pretty common to use it as evidence in court.
This Urban Legends article has a good summary on the problem. Specifically, it mentions that courts and police used to use the presence of cocaine on cash as evidence of its ill-gotten past, but have drifted from that view.
You see, the duck has a sense of humor. He was actually only quacking once, then opening his mouth in time to the echo(s) - a "bill-sync", if you will, of his own echo.
Of course, people saw this duck "quacking" twice in a canyon years ago and then failed to hear the echo, and thought it was magic or something.
Sort of like the bird in the "Monty Python" Beethoven sketch with John Cleese, where the bird was just opening and closing his beak to taunt the poor Beethoven.
Some of the smarter ducks had even mastered the "repeat and fade" trick that the goose never really figured out.
Imagine being able to administer a drug test to an employee by simply swabbing the mouse or keyboard after hours. Suddenly, being in the same room as someone who had smoked some pot recently. (A recent famous drug case found cocaine traces on the paper currency in the pockets of many people in the court room - even the judge.)
Imagine being able to screen people for EVERYTHING as they pass through a "metal" detector at the airport. If you even touch a firearm within a few days of take-off, you'll have residue on your fingers.
If this can be tuned for genetic testing, then films like GATTACA will be more science and less fiction.
OK, now I've got to go scrub my hands for an hour.
Carrying this forward, I don't think a whole lot of the music released in the past twenty years (or so) really will be listened to 150 years from now.
Will twelve-year-old girls be sitting around a campfire singing "Karma Chameleon" years from now? (Side point: will the making of fire be protected by the DMCA? Stay tuned...)
Well, in the US, sugar (crystal, cane, etc.) prices are kept artificially high through protectionism. Maybe these germs can run off of corn syrup?
It got so bad that American companies were importing iced tea mix to extract the sugar and get around the tariff. That soon got caught. Some American companies actually would have a Canadian branch/company convert sugar to molasses, import the exempt molasses, and convert it back to sugar. That got caught, too.
The price difference got bad enough that the LifeSavers are now no longer made in the US, but Canada. I wonder how longer before an enterprising company imports the LifeSavers to extract the sugar.
I guess the question of economics depends, as usual, on where you live.
It's not for me because I use DSL, so I have to have local telephone service anyway...
When my DSL was set up I had that as a question, and the ISP said that they specifically set up my service so that would be a non-issue. While I must have wires to the CLEC, I don't have to have any phone service at all. They said that they rig it that way now because they had expected problems where people would kill (or lose) phone service, but blame the ISP for lost connectivity. Since the ISP/CLEC relationship is sometimes shaky at best, they said it saves lots of phone calls. They've had a fair number of customers go all-cellular, or switch local carriers and worry about lost DSL in the interim.
If your DSL company doesn't do it and you're willing to hop, shop around for someone who's willing to do it.
My ISP (Soltec) is a little more expensive than others, but the service is incredible; they're willing to remotely administer my Speedstream (5861) router*, but also willing to let me take over if I want. The tech who helped set me up is a former student of mine when I taught high-school, so there was no jerking around.
* a cool piece of equipment if ever there was one!
My company also has the policy that while the employee to be fired is in their firing meeting...
They do that here, too. The catch is that to the rest of the employees, the firing can often look arbitrary, and everyone gets nervous.
For example, last month they let go of two people (for diff. reasons). Each of them had several meetings for "remediation" (warnings) for months in advance, but they had to finally let them go. The meetings were usually in private, so nobody else knew. All that anyone else knew was that suddenly they're packing up a box and saying goodbye.
The management isn't allowed to tell anyone it's coming since it's an HR policy, and the employee isn't likely to brag that they're "on the bubble", so all anyone else sees is that their own job appears to be pretty fragile. We all "know" differently, but the impression is there.
Her having her reputation and life ruined by having her deception,... in the public record is a singuarly natural and appropriate consequence of her despicable actions.
Yes, but as a minor, she'll have no public record. Short of actually killing someone, a minor in the US (I assume this is the US) isn't usually named in the public record for any crime unless an exception is specifically made for their case, usually murder.
BTW, I'm also a former teacher who left for better hours and money, but I understand the rules all too well: we were taught in college to never be alone with a student of either sex, but work long enough and eventually circumstances may leave you out of eyeshot of anyone for a few seconds, and an angry student can get even real fast. Some of these kids can really work the system, and morals aren't even on their radars.
Ah, you're talking of the microwave stuff; yes, you sometimes have to look for sales, too. At our house we have one of those "Whirly Pops". It's a pot you put on the stove, and it has a hand-crank that keeps the kernels at the bottom from sitting too long. Add 1/2 cup of popcorn and 2 tbsp of oil. Depending upon the brand of popcorn, you can usually get every last kernel to pop.;)
A buck buys a one pound bag, which is usually good for about ten-fifteen LARGE buckets of popcorn.
Irony - then there's the recent reporting here at/. that the phone companies (heck, even many state DMVs) are selling your name and number to these people in the first place.
Also, yes I loved the Lily Tomlin bit. Esp, the one where she pulls a plug out - "whoops! There goes Cleveland!"
Yes, I've noticed the volume lately, too. It's as though they've chopped the theater down to 1/4 it's original size, but kept the volume cranked.
I've seen three movies in the last year ("Phantom Menace", "Road to Perdition" (yeah, I know - wife picked it), and "Jonah: Veggie Tales" (daughter picked it)). All were really loud. Oddly, the Jonah film was so loud that my ears truly hurt, and I had to cover my (2.5yo) daughter's ears in scenes. I got to see much of the audience wincing in pain at the louder parts.
What's worse is that all three of the movies have been horribly out of focus. Sometimes, the little slide-show thing they run before the show is fine, but the movie I paid for has always been like a visit to the eye doctor.
Add to this the rudeness of the other patrons (turn off the phone - you're not that important) and the incredible shrinking popcorn bucket, and I've been seeing fewer movies every year.
Suddenly, a large TV hooked up to a computer and a DVD makes much more sense: free popcorn, sharp picture (usually), control over the volume, ability to stop the show, and the ability to kick out rude patrons. Every $30 (two tickets and popcorn) movie we DON'T see is money that can go to the home version. Yeah, we don't see them as big or as early, but I'm fed up.
Not all that uncommon - look into food allergies and see if they apply.
Not talking peanuts and shock necessarily, but there are a host of pages out there by some very good sources about this topic.
For example, for me most soft cheeses get me all "distant" and everything starts going all "tunnel vision." I can function, but feel like I'm having an out of body experience. For other people, it's nuts, berries, etc. and jitters. Many people point to sugar as a culprit, but that's a bit of a cop-out.
Try "ADHD food allergy" in Google and you might be surprised.
As a former teacher, and a parent, I'd recommend that you locate a good dietician for suggestions. To make a generalization, doctors aren't a good source for this kind of help since they aren't taught nutrition; our family is vegan and the pediatrician asked about my daughter: "where does she get her protein?" A friend is a doctor and it's amazing the number of things he doesn't know about nutrition, like what foods have what vitamins, etc.
Another reason smart kids have "ADHD" is they just get bored easily, too. My IQ's in the range of your daughter's (as are many people who post here) and I'm sure most found the early years of education a long, tedious wait for people to get to the point. As a teacher, I now know that very few schools allow a room of 20-30 kids to each explore their own way of learning things. My parents got called in to a conference once because I "wouldn't stay on task" - apparently, I would go to look up a word in a dictionary, and end up finding another word too, and another, etc. I learned a lot of words, but annoyed the teachers.
Take care and I hope it all works out for you.
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In some cases, the codes are also designed to prevent certain types of construction from going in, for no obvious reason other than to "preserve the neighborhood".
In one older suburb of the Chicago area, there's a rule that says that electrical outlets, even the GF kind, can't be less than six feet from a tub. Now, a bathroom without an outlet isn't that useful, but it limits your construction to bathrooms larger than six feet. The end result and goal is to keep small bathrooms, thus keep small houses and housing units out, and property values up. Safety is touted, but the intent and result are clear. NIMBY and property values.
In my old neighborhood, they wanted me to get a building permit and two inspector visits (before and after) in order to replace my old toilet. Paid plumbing work could only be done by those plumbers licensed by/in the town. The few plumbers were all intensely rude, late, etc. and could afford it, since there was essentially no recourse or alternative; one yelled at my wife for five minutes when she simply asked "where is the plumber?" The promised goal may have been to ensure that the work done on the property was done to the town spec. by someone who knows it, but the end result was a caste/guild system beyond compare.
(Afternote: I then went ahead and had two new bathrooms completely torn out and redone, and all non-code plumbing replaced with copper without a permit by an ace and artist for less money than it would have cost to do it "by the book". Yeah, the intent may have been "solid/safe workmanship" and home values, but the result was one ticked-off homeowner who got out of there and went to a town where I got a nicer house, twice-as-large house for less than I sold the old one. And I completely let any prospective homeowner know the town's name.)
Additional dings against rail in this country are mostly political.
Most of the "middle of nowhere" stops for Amtrak were due to pork-barrelling in the 70's to get Amtrak approval. With Amtrak bleeding cash, it becomes less clear whether rail is a business or a public service. Nobody asks the CTA in Chicago, for example, to be fully self-sufficient (heavy subsidies).
Roads and air travel are also heavily subsidized, but those subsidies are buried deeper and aren't as apparent. For example, the millions of dollars spent in widening an expressway leading to an airport might be paid for with not only gas taxes, but also general taxes diverted for the purpose. United Airlines would have no additional outlay, but would benefit.
The additional bugaboo is that most travel is designed around the car. Suburbs are planted in the middle of nowhere with grocery and retail "a short drive away", but a long and dangerous walk or bike. Similarly, jobs are also being located without other amenities, but simply "cheap land" and "near a highway". It's like building a Sim City with Residential units in one corner and Commercial in the opposite, then connecting them with roads only. People then have a vested interest in their cars (fueled by commercials of people driving badly on empty roads and also low gas prices) and will fight most attempts at rail that don't connect them to their "current" job's doorstep.
There's often a Simpson-esque rally in the US press whenever another country pulls this sort of thing off. People often ask "Why can't we just covert/reuse existing railways."
The problem becomes one of how you define straight. These tracks need to be really straight for long lengths to get such numbers, and while your typical subway or Amtrak route looks straight, that's only when viewed at lower speeds (under 60MPH). Even then, lots of these routes are shaky. Take it up to over 100 and suddenly, it's not so straight anymore.
Anyone who's taken their car to really high speeds on public roads can usually attest that a straight road at 70 isn't as straight at 120.
Recent autopsies of Alzheimer patients show that ~30% of them exhibit brain matter characteristics consistent with CJD. THe question is: is current US beef already heavily infected with a long-term strain of this condition?
I have, and the rules are different than most companies. If you've ever worked in legal, then corporate, you know the diff. I've trained, supported and done development at probably five out of the top twenty largest firms, and dozens of the top 200.
Every attorney is a PHB, complete with their own dictates and whims. Some attorneys are cool, some aren't. Going "by the book" is a great way to tick off someone who can get you fired.
Yes, it should be a stated/printed IT policy that only Macs are supported, but you've still gotta help the Windows users. But do it slowly, begrudgingly, and occasionally mention that it's just a favor, and how lucky they were that someone was around who could do it.
Failure to support their PCs can get you fired, or at least make your life rough. Supporting them too well will subvert your goal and make your job harder in the long run. You want to get across the point that it's the PC that's making their job harder, not you. If you can rig the network to drop a fair percent of their packets or throttle their bandwidth on days you're in the mood, then do it to slow things down a little. When their coworkers and secretaries are getting lower pings and faster downloads than they are, they'll figure it's the PC and come to your side.
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This Urban Legends article has a good summary on the problem. Specifically, it mentions that courts and police used to use the presence of cocaine on cash as evidence of its ill-gotten past, but have drifted from that view.
Of course, people saw this duck "quacking" twice in a canyon years ago and then failed to hear the echo, and thought it was magic or something.
Sort of like the bird in the "Monty Python" Beethoven sketch with John Cleese, where the bird was just opening and closing his beak to taunt the poor Beethoven.
Some of the smarter ducks had even mastered the "repeat and fade" trick that the goose never really figured out.
Imagine being able to administer a drug test to an employee by simply swabbing the mouse or keyboard after hours. Suddenly, being in the same room as someone who had smoked some pot recently. (A recent famous drug case found cocaine traces on the paper currency in the pockets of many people in the court room - even the judge.)
Imagine being able to screen people for EVERYTHING as they pass through a "metal" detector at the airport. If you even touch a firearm within a few days of take-off, you'll have residue on your fingers.
If this can be tuned for genetic testing, then films like GATTACA will be more science and less fiction.
OK, now I've got to go scrub my hands for an hour.
Will twelve-year-old girls be sitting around a campfire singing "Karma Chameleon" years from now? (Side point: will the making of fire be protected by the DMCA? Stay tuned...)
"APC shocked"? Not using their own equipment, perhaps?
All I need now is "String Theory" and I win!
It got so bad that American companies were importing iced tea mix to extract the sugar and get around the tariff. That soon got caught. Some American companies actually would have a Canadian branch/company convert sugar to molasses, import the exempt molasses, and convert it back to sugar. That got caught, too.
The price difference got bad enough that the LifeSavers are now no longer made in the US, but Canada. I wonder how longer before an enterprising company imports the LifeSavers to extract the sugar.
I guess the question of economics depends, as usual, on where you live.
showing up in 1941 even had some occasional mentions of the use of subsonics to scare off invaders.
"and makes a slinkety sound?"
My 3 year old just got one of those and we're all still singing the song. Love that song.
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When my DSL was set up I had that as a question, and the ISP said that they specifically set up my service so that would be a non-issue. While I must have wires to the CLEC, I don't have to have any phone service at all. They said that they rig it that way now because they had expected problems where people would kill (or lose) phone service, but blame the ISP for lost connectivity. Since the ISP/CLEC relationship is sometimes shaky at best, they said it saves lots of phone calls. They've had a fair number of customers go all-cellular, or switch local carriers and worry about lost DSL in the interim.
If your DSL company doesn't do it and you're willing to hop, shop around for someone who's willing to do it.
My ISP (Soltec) is a little more expensive than others, but the service is incredible; they're willing to remotely administer my Speedstream (5861) router*, but also willing to let me take over if I want. The tech who helped set me up is a former student of mine when I taught high-school, so there was no jerking around.
* a cool piece of equipment if ever there was one!
They do that here, too. The catch is that to the rest of the employees, the firing can often look arbitrary, and everyone gets nervous.
For example, last month they let go of two people (for diff. reasons). Each of them had several meetings for "remediation" (warnings) for months in advance, but they had to finally let them go. The meetings were usually in private, so nobody else knew. All that anyone else knew was that suddenly they're packing up a box and saying goodbye.
The management isn't allowed to tell anyone it's coming since it's an HR policy, and the employee isn't likely to brag that they're "on the bubble", so all anyone else sees is that their own job appears to be pretty fragile. We all "know" differently, but the impression is there.
Did we have this chat a few days ago?
Yes, but as a minor, she'll have no public record. Short of actually killing someone, a minor in the US (I assume this is the US) isn't usually named in the public record for any crime unless an exception is specifically made for their case, usually murder.
BTW, I'm also a former teacher who left for better hours and money, but I understand the rules all too well: we were taught in college to never be alone with a student of either sex, but work long enough and eventually circumstances may leave you out of eyeshot of anyone for a few seconds, and an angry student can get even real fast. Some of these kids can really work the system, and morals aren't even on their radars.
Ah, you're talking of the microwave stuff; yes, you sometimes have to look for sales, too. At our house we have one of those "Whirly Pops". It's a pot you put on the stove, and it has a hand-crank that keeps the kernels at the bottom from sitting too long. Add 1/2 cup of popcorn and 2 tbsp of oil. Depending upon the brand of popcorn, you can usually get every last kernel to pop. ;)
A buck buys a one pound bag, which is usually good for about ten-fifteen LARGE buckets of popcorn.
Also, yes I loved the Lily Tomlin bit. Esp, the one where she pulls a plug out - "whoops! There goes Cleveland!"
I've seen three movies in the last year ("Phantom Menace", "Road to Perdition" (yeah, I know - wife picked it), and "Jonah: Veggie Tales" (daughter picked it)). All were really loud. Oddly, the Jonah film was so loud that my ears truly hurt, and I had to cover my (2.5yo) daughter's ears in scenes. I got to see much of the audience wincing in pain at the louder parts.
What's worse is that all three of the movies have been horribly out of focus. Sometimes, the little slide-show thing they run before the show is fine, but the movie I paid for has always been like a visit to the eye doctor.
Add to this the rudeness of the other patrons (turn off the phone - you're not that important) and the incredible shrinking popcorn bucket, and I've been seeing fewer movies every year.
Suddenly, a large TV hooked up to a computer and a DVD makes much more sense: free popcorn, sharp picture (usually), control over the volume, ability to stop the show, and the ability to kick out rude patrons. Every $30 (two tickets and popcorn) movie we DON'T see is money that can go to the home version. Yeah, we don't see them as big or as early, but I'm fed up.
Not talking peanuts and shock necessarily, but there are a host of pages out there by some very good sources about this topic.
For example, for me most soft cheeses get me all "distant" and everything starts going all "tunnel vision." I can function, but feel like I'm having an out of body experience. For other people, it's nuts, berries, etc. and jitters. Many people point to sugar as a culprit, but that's a bit of a cop-out.
Try "ADHD food allergy" in Google and you might be surprised.
As a former teacher, and a parent, I'd recommend that you locate a good dietician for suggestions. To make a generalization, doctors aren't a good source for this kind of help since they aren't taught nutrition; our family is vegan and the pediatrician asked about my daughter: "where does she get her protein?" A friend is a doctor and it's amazing the number of things he doesn't know about nutrition, like what foods have what vitamins, etc.
Another reason smart kids have "ADHD" is they just get bored easily, too. My IQ's in the range of your daughter's (as are many people who post here) and I'm sure most found the early years of education a long, tedious wait for people to get to the point. As a teacher, I now know that very few schools allow a room of 20-30 kids to each explore their own way of learning things. My parents got called in to a conference once because I "wouldn't stay on task" - apparently, I would go to look up a word in a dictionary, and end up finding another word too, and another, etc. I learned a lot of words, but annoyed the teachers.
Take care and I hope it all works out for you.
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In some cases, the codes are also designed to prevent certain types of construction from going in, for no obvious reason other than to "preserve the neighborhood".
In one older suburb of the Chicago area, there's a rule that says that electrical outlets, even the GF kind, can't be less than six feet from a tub. Now, a bathroom without an outlet isn't that useful, but it limits your construction to bathrooms larger than six feet. The end result and goal is to keep small bathrooms, thus keep small houses and housing units out, and property values up. Safety is touted, but the intent and result are clear. NIMBY and property values.
In my old neighborhood, they wanted me to get a building permit and two inspector visits (before and after) in order to replace my old toilet. Paid plumbing work could only be done by those plumbers licensed by/in the town. The few plumbers were all intensely rude, late, etc. and could afford it, since there was essentially no recourse or alternative; one yelled at my wife for five minutes when she simply asked "where is the plumber?" The promised goal may have been to ensure that the work done on the property was done to the town spec. by someone who knows it, but the end result was a caste/guild system beyond compare.
(Afternote: I then went ahead and had two new bathrooms completely torn out and redone, and all non-code plumbing replaced with copper without a permit by an ace and artist for less money than it would have cost to do it "by the book". Yeah, the intent may have been "solid/safe workmanship" and home values, but the result was one ticked-off homeowner who got out of there and went to a town where I got a nicer house, twice-as-large house for less than I sold the old one. And I completely let any prospective homeowner know the town's name.)
Actually, with OS X, it was a bunch of Mac users who were being switched to Unix! (sort of)
Some very good points.
Additional dings against rail in this country are mostly political.
Most of the "middle of nowhere" stops for Amtrak were due to pork-barrelling in the 70's to get Amtrak approval. With Amtrak bleeding cash, it becomes less clear whether rail is a business or a public service. Nobody asks the CTA in Chicago, for example, to be fully self-sufficient (heavy subsidies).
Roads and air travel are also heavily subsidized, but those subsidies are buried deeper and aren't as apparent. For example, the millions of dollars spent in widening an expressway leading to an airport might be paid for with not only gas taxes, but also general taxes diverted for the purpose. United Airlines would have no additional outlay, but would benefit.
The additional bugaboo is that most travel is designed around the car. Suburbs are planted in the middle of nowhere with grocery and retail "a short drive away", but a long and dangerous walk or bike. Similarly, jobs are also being located without other amenities, but simply "cheap land" and "near a highway". It's like building a Sim City with Residential units in one corner and Commercial in the opposite, then connecting them with roads only. People then have a vested interest in their cars (fueled by commercials of people driving badly on empty roads and also low gas prices) and will fight most attempts at rail that don't connect them to their "current" job's doorstep.
There's often a Simpson-esque rally in the US press whenever another country pulls this sort of thing off. People often ask "Why can't we just covert/reuse existing railways."
The problem becomes one of how you define straight. These tracks need to be really straight for long lengths to get such numbers, and while your typical subway or Amtrak route looks straight, that's only when viewed at lower speeds (under 60MPH). Even then, lots of these routes are shaky. Take it up to over 100 and suddenly, it's not so straight anymore.
Anyone who's taken their car to really high speeds on public roads can usually attest that a straight road at 70 isn't as straight at 120.
Recent autopsies of Alzheimer patients show that ~30% of them exhibit brain matter characteristics consistent with CJD. THe question is: is current US beef already heavily infected with a long-term strain of this condition?
I'll try to find a link later.
Every attorney is a PHB, complete with their own dictates and whims. Some attorneys are cool, some aren't. Going "by the book" is a great way to tick off someone who can get you fired.
Yes, it should be a stated/printed IT policy that only Macs are supported, but you've still gotta help the Windows users. But do it slowly, begrudgingly, and occasionally mention that it's just a favor, and how lucky they were that someone was around who could do it.
Failure to support their PCs can get you fired, or at least make your life rough. Supporting them too well will subvert your goal and make your job harder in the long run. You want to get across the point that it's the PC that's making their job harder, not you. If you can rig the network to drop a fair percent of their packets or throttle their bandwidth on days you're in the mood, then do it to slow things down a little. When their coworkers and secretaries are getting lower pings and faster downloads than they are, they'll figure it's the PC and come to your side.
Up until four years ago, they used to sell driver's license and vehicle registration info for cash to direct marketers. They've since stopped.