But (steam power, automobiles, computers) that's all tangible things. The next revolution will be social and will happen when average Mare-Cans start to explore outside of their own borders and mindset.
Even if 10 million Americans are complete morons, that envelope calculation estimate also implies that there are at least double that amount who are un-morons.
All software is just an improved way to do a job better. Unfortunately, the tool itself has become its own industry stumbling from innovation to innovation while promising everything and delivering not much. It's job creation for the 21st century.
The sooner corporations realize that IT is not the solution to all their problems, the better.
Just because your post was rated informative (and it was, actually) there is a difference between "where", "we're" and "were". Brits tend to pronounce and write the word as if they are the same.
With devices becoming smaller and smaller, let's hope that the fart smeller crowd doesn't swallow all our high-priced toys.
I speak from experience as a dad - it's a good thing that kids are small and easy to pick up; otherwise they'd choke on things they find on the floor or tables.
Note to Creator: please make children smaller. Compare the size of what went in to the size of what eventually comes out.
Columbo, Kojak, Mike Hammer, Cannon, Spenser, Baretta, McCloud, McMillan & Wife, Banacek, Barnaby Jones, Dragnet, The Equalizer, The Fugitive, The Green Hornet, Hart to Hart, Hawaii Five-O.
You apparently forgot about Kolchak, The Night Stalker. That was quirky and interesting and didn't last very long.
For the less age-challenged, the Dano (sic) reference is to Hawaii Five oh. I almost wrote "Mannix", such are the problems of being over the hill. I.E., over 40.
Awards shows/ceremonies are designed to generate income and attract attention. Roddenberry is not a good choice because he's not as rich, influential or alive as Spielberg.
University will be a good life experience for dealing with people.
Whatever field you decide to follow, find the oldest, brightest workplace mentor (not the photocopy guy that's been there for 39 years) and learn from him/her. You will gain from the experience from someone who grew up in an environment where having a degree was not a necessary requirement.
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Maybe it's just cheaper in the long run to buy a vaccuum-insulated stainless steel tank than it is to deal with bulky, deteriorating insulating products. I'll bet that the annular space and the ullage is also purged with nitrogen, if not being an actual vaccuum space.
Liquid oxygen, liquid nitrogen and liquid hydrogen is transported this way. You probably pass or see some of these tankers on the road every day.
Fluid dynamics is one of the least understood fields of physics and engineering. It is why mega-computers are built and what weather forecasts (and long-range climate prediction) are based on.
In Canada, health care for most ailments is not a profit centre. It is seen as a public service.
In the US, much money is to be made via middlemen bartering because it encourages the dog-eat-dog philosophy of the American economic system. That's where all the money goes. Don't be surprised when your private health insurance company declines you coverage or increases premiums because you once had a cold in 1978.
The only people that will be able to get decent, affordable health insurance will be AH's proposed master race and the rich.
Of course, "invisible hand of the market" will eventually correct this, but it won't matter much after you're dead, will it?
If you think that computer-based "newspeak" is a legitimate form of English you should consider that this phenomenon has only happened over the past 10 years or so.
On my (engineering-based) discussion list there is a bit of a rebellion from the competent English-speakers (native and not). Some people are just incoherent, but think they are communicating. Often, they then get offended because they were not understood in the first place.
Nice long post, by the way. Most people won't read past the first two paragraphs, which is part of the problem.
copypaste and teen coolness is the source of much of this. 'Cause, you know, like, it's more important to be cool in the eyes of your peers than it is to be coherent. Isn't this need to be perceived as "cool" a recent invention? I blame Fonzie.
Bullshit. Every meeting with my friends (just kidding, I don't actually have any) starts with something like:
Beer?
OK.
And then the language deteriorates about 120 minutes later after comments about the barmaid's tits, the latest "news" and "shit, this place is crappy" interaction.
In Quebec during the political linguistic fever there was a provincial government publication called "lexique de l'industrie petroliere" which suggested French alternatives for commonly-used English words in the refining community.
As a Montreal-based head office engineering department, we tried to (and did) comply with the dictate.
Drawings and "official documents" are one thing and reality is another. When we went onsite to survey/check/talk to operators/plant people (many of whom were native French-speakers) about an on-going project, we found out that the governmental language rules were a joke to them.
You don't fuck around with terms when it can mean that someone might die due to a misunderstanding.
There is a growing sentiment up here that we should no longer offer the USA preferential access to our natural resources. If you don't want our lumber or our beef, why should we be paying high electric rates to subsidise California?
The Canadians could just "shut off the lights" to a few million Americans quite easily in order to enforce these supposed Free Trade Agreements. That would be incredibly unpolite to do in the long-term scheme of things.
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Did Babbage actually say, "apprehend" rather than "comprehend?
But (steam power, automobiles, computers) that's all tangible things. The next revolution will be social and will happen when average Mare-Cans start to explore outside of their own borders and mindset.
Even if 10 million Americans are complete morons, that envelope calculation estimate also implies that there are at least double that amount who are un-morons.
To bite my shiny metal ass?
Aplologies to Bender.
All software is just an improved way to do a job better. Unfortunately, the tool itself has become its own industry stumbling from innovation to innovation while promising everything and delivering not much. It's job creation for the 21st century.
The sooner corporations realize that IT is not the solution to all their problems, the better.
I didn't understand. Please type it out on an IBM Model 01, scan and then FAX it to me.
People just don't want to have to think. That's the ultimate problem.
People have been trained and taught to not think over the past decades because "the computer will take care of that".
Just because you and I understand the potential ramifications of using an infernal "thinking" machine doesn't mean that everyone else does.
Just because your post was rated informative (and it was, actually) there is a difference between "where", "we're" and "were". Brits tend to pronounce and write the word as if they are the same.
With devices becoming smaller and smaller, let's hope that the fart smeller crowd doesn't swallow all our high-priced toys.
I speak from experience as a dad - it's a good thing that kids are small and easy to pick up; otherwise they'd choke on things they find on the floor or tables.
Note to Creator: please make children smaller. Compare the size of what went in to the size of what eventually comes out.
"would of"?
Do you speak Anglais?
Columbo, Kojak, Mike Hammer, Cannon, Spenser, Baretta, McCloud, McMillan & Wife, Banacek, Barnaby Jones, Dragnet, The Equalizer, The Fugitive, The Green Hornet, Hart to Hart, Hawaii Five-O.
You apparently forgot about Kolchak, The Night Stalker. That was quirky and interesting and didn't last very long.
For the less age-challenged, the Dano (sic) reference is to Hawaii Five oh. I almost wrote "Mannix", such are the problems of being over the hill. I.E., over 40.
Awards shows/ceremonies are designed to generate income and attract attention. Roddenberry is not a good choice because he's not as rich, influential or alive as Spielberg.
University will be a good life experience for dealing with people.
Whatever field you decide to follow, find the oldest, brightest workplace mentor (not the photocopy guy that's been there for 39 years) and learn from him/her. You will gain from the experience from someone who grew up in an environment where having a degree was not a necessary requirement.
Nice post.
Maybe it's just cheaper in the long run to buy a vaccuum-insulated stainless steel tank than it is to deal with bulky, deteriorating insulating products. I'll bet that the annular space and the ullage is also purged with nitrogen, if not being an actual vaccuum space.
Liquid oxygen, liquid nitrogen and liquid hydrogen is transported this way. You probably pass or see some of these tankers on the road every day.
Fluid dynamics is one of the least understood fields of physics and engineering. It is why mega-computers are built and what weather forecasts (and long-range climate prediction) are based on.
The sky is not falling.
In Canada, health care for most ailments is not a profit centre. It is seen as a public service.
In the US, much money is to be made via middlemen bartering because it encourages the dog-eat-dog philosophy of the American economic system. That's where all the money goes. Don't be surprised when your private health insurance company declines you coverage or increases premiums because you once had a cold in 1978.
The only people that will be able to get decent, affordable health insurance will be AH's proposed master race and the rich.
Of course, "invisible hand of the market" will eventually correct this, but it won't matter much after you're dead, will it?
Je ne comprend pas or je n'ais pas compris (I don't understand or I didn't understand). Take your pick.
I'm proud to be illitterate and mispell in two langues.
If you think that computer-based "newspeak" is a legitimate form of English you should consider that this phenomenon has only happened over the past 10 years or so.
On my (engineering-based) discussion list there is a bit of a rebellion from the competent English-speakers (native and not). Some people are just incoherent, but think they are communicating. Often, they then get offended because they were not understood in the first place.
Nice long post, by the way. Most people won't read past the first two paragraphs, which is part of the problem.
copypaste and teen coolness is the source of much of this. 'Cause, you know, like, it's more important to be cool in the eyes of your peers than it is to be coherent. Isn't this need to be perceived as "cool" a recent invention? I blame Fonzie.
Bullshit. Every meeting with my friends (just kidding, I don't actually have any) starts with something like:
Beer?
OK.
And then the language deteriorates about 120 minutes later after comments about the barmaid's tits, the latest "news" and "shit, this place is crappy" interaction.
WTF?
In Quebec during the political linguistic fever there was a provincial government publication called "lexique de l'industrie petroliere" which suggested French alternatives for commonly-used English words in the refining community.
As a Montreal-based head office engineering department, we tried to (and did) comply with the dictate.
Drawings and "official documents" are one thing and reality is another. When we went onsite to survey/check/talk to operators/plant people (many of whom were native French-speakers) about an on-going project, we found out that the governmental language rules were a joke to them.
You don't fuck around with terms when it can mean that someone might die due to a misunderstanding.
There is a growing sentiment up here that we should no longer offer the USA preferential access to our natural resources. If you don't want our lumber or our beef, why should we be paying high electric rates to subsidise California?
The Canadians could just "shut off the lights" to a few million Americans quite easily in order to enforce these supposed Free Trade Agreements. That would be incredibly unpolite to do in the long-term scheme of things.
Cue all the posts from USers wanting to emigrate.
Don't move here!