How much does your standing desk cost? Where did you get it? How difficult was it to get your job to buy it and or let you have it?
It was cheap: iKEA adjustable table. Also I work from home, so employer approval wasn't a problem.:)
However, were I working in a cubefarm it wouldn't be too difficult. Most cube setups I've worked in (except for the horrible waist high ones) accomodate adjustable height shelving. So you could have teo shelves, one for monitors and one for keyboard/mouse.
That touches on the biggest liability: drivers. If something like this became commonplace would you want someone with the skill of your average bus driver zipping along at 120mph holding your life in their hands?
My daughter is four years old. Her favorite iPad game at the moment is robot brothers. She plays it obsessively, though limited to 30 minutes or so per day. It is a puzzle solver game, and she's persistently stayed at it, solving level after level, for weeks. It is not just teaching her problem solving, but also the patience and focus necessary to doggedly pursue a goal. Seems like a good thing to me.
We think there are cigar smoking villains in back rooms writing our laws when in fact the real authors are nitwit staffers transcribing the rantings of mobs of emotional idiots.
Methinks you're letting hatred of emotion cloud your judgement.
See, there you are with the rhetorical "present your opponent with a false dichotomy, both ends of which display them in a negative light" trope. I'll bet you have a "don't be childish and evasive and answer my question" response all ready when I don't fall into it, or other such response. And there's even an interesting self contradiction: you talk about presenting me with multiple possibilities when much of your attack rhetoric falls into the binary choice pattern.
You assume that I insulted you and felt contempt for you. Yet you keep coming back for more. Are you as bored as I am? I'm currently in a crowded theater waiting for a midnight showing of "The Hunger Games" to start. What are you up to?
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Absolutely. I'm introducing my daughter to algebra now.
She's 4.
It's slow going, but she's getting the basics.
To think a professor thinks we should drop the subject from college because it's too hard just boggles the mind.
How much does your standing desk cost? Where did you get it?
How difficult was it to get your job to buy it and or let you have it?
It was cheap: iKEA adjustable table. Also I work from home, so employer approval wasn't a problem. :)
However, were I working in a cubefarm it wouldn't be too difficult. Most cube setups I've worked in (except for the horrible waist high ones) accomodate adjustable height shelving. So you could have teo shelves, one for monitors and one for keyboard/mouse.
You want to stay on your feet? Use a standing desk. I've had one for the past year and a half and it is awesome.
That touches on the biggest liability: drivers. If something like this became commonplace would you want someone with the skill of your average bus driver zipping along at 120mph holding your life in their hands?
I agree, unions are awesome. I allows mediocre employees to receive the same compensation as the excellent employees.
As opposed to stack ranking, which allows excellent employees to get the same evaluation as mediocre employees.
And it's the only time in 15 years of slashdotting that I got a first post, to boot.
KHAAAAAAAAAAN!!!!!
he's happy and my MacBook is safe.
Just wait until he decides to see how far he can throw applesauce.
I suggest a sheet or saran wrap over the keyboard, just in case...
Your idealism is touching.
The only way tuition will ever go down is if students stop enrolling because they can't pay.
Then you'll have an uneducated underclass. Is that what you're after or is it just a pleasant side effect?
There is no "safe dose"
Citation, please.
I think it's unlikely a tsunami will hit Missouri.
It is so easy to spew bullshit from a point of ignorance. That is why you must be a parent to understand.
So please shut the fuck up.
My daughter is four years old. Her favorite iPad game at the moment is robot brothers. She plays it obsessively, though limited to 30 minutes or so per day. It is a puzzle solver game, and she's persistently stayed at it, solving level after level, for weeks. It is not just teaching her problem solving, but also the patience and focus necessary to doggedly pursue a goal. Seems like a good thing to me.
And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?
A lot of us, actually. You do it every time you eat a double cheeseburger. So the trick is to make destroying evil in yourself fun, easy, and tasty.
Only half joking.
We think there are cigar smoking villains in back rooms writing our laws when in fact the real authors are nitwit staffers transcribing the rantings of mobs of emotional idiots.
Methinks you're letting hatred of emotion cloud your judgement.
Straw man. Attribution of false motivation.
Lame.
Done. Go back to your self satisfied existence.
Not even close to what I think. Matters not.
See, there you are with the rhetorical "present your opponent with a false dichotomy, both ends of which display them in a negative light" trope. I'll bet you have a "don't be childish and evasive and answer my question" response all ready when I don't fall into it, or other such response. And there's even an interesting self contradiction: you talk about presenting me with multiple possibilities when much of your attack rhetoric falls into the binary choice pattern.
You assume that I insulted you and felt contempt for you. Yet you keep coming back for more. Are you as bored as I am? I'm currently in a crowded theater waiting for a midnight showing of "The Hunger Games" to start. What are you up to?
d00d, you natter on about how many assumptions I'm making, blithely unaware of your own. It maketh me giggle.
Kettle black.
Because you can't help it.
Name one energy production method in one country that is not subsidized by a government.