I was joking. Of course cow tipping is impossible. Hell, horses DO sleep standing up (for the most part) and tipping them is impossible too, for all the other reasons you mentioned.
Name three (3) major things apple did first. Please note that first means no one else did them before apple.
I guess "major" is subjective, but my recollection is they were first to...
Release a PC with a color display
Release a PC with a floppy drive
Release an OS with pull down menus
Release an OS with drag n' drop file manipulation
Release an OS with a clipboard
Support forked/streamed files
Release a PC with a color display
Release a PC with built in four-voice sound
Release a PC with wireless networking
cow-tipping is not actually feasible, as far as I can tell.
I have to dissagree. My experience is that with some practice and a little help from a hazer, a 200lb man can tip a medium sized Corriente steer quite reliably. The preferred method is to chase it down from behind, lean off your horse and drop your upper body substantially onto the steer's neck. Then you wrap your far elbow around the far horn, simultaneously grabbing the near horn with your near hand. Allow the steer to pull you off your horse then dig your heels in to bring the animal to a halt. Push down on the near horn with your near hand while pulling the far horn towards your body with your elbow. A skilled practitioner can use this method to tip a cow in a few seconds, provided his hazer keeps the animal moving in a straight line. It looks something like this.
Sorry about that. I'll try top be more Larsonesque next time. It is the nature of Jews to complain about the things we love, and the Merritt is my all time favorite road. My best friend in High School felt differently. He maintained that the Hutchinson River Parkway was the greatest highway in the country on the strength of its even more extreme (for a limited access highway) twistiness. Back then there were sections, since straightened, which could choke a 240Z's apex speed down to 45 MPH (IIRC. Can't recall motorcycle numbers). Of course, the poor surface conditions contributed to that. Unlike the Merritt, which has always been well maintained, the Hutch pretty decrepit back then. Compared to the Merritt, the Hutch was ugly, mainly because it lacked the large grassy tree filled median of the former. My dad remembers when the Merritt had no rail on the median and people used to drive smack into those trees. That reminds me of the time my aforementioned friend's father drunk drove his '70 1/2 F400 Firebird into the toll booth on the Saw Mill Parkway. Couldn't quite find the space between the booths. The cops came and gave him a lift home. The seventies sure were a different different era.
The same is more or less true of most of the Merritt Parkway in Connecticut, which first opened in 1938. Most of the on and off-ramps have been lengthened and straightened, and a couple of big highway interchanges added where new roads sprung up, but the road itself hasn't changed in my lifetime. Believe me, the new ramps were necessary. The old ones were all decreasing radius blind curves dumping right into traffic with no runoff room. The Exit 27 Southbound onramp (technically on the Hutchinson Parkway, but essentially demarcating the border between the two as well as between NY and CT) was literally a 90 degree spur two car lengths long with a stop sign at the highway. It hit the highway right after an overpass with no visibility so there was no way to see if cars were coming. You just stopped your car perpendicular to the road, checked that there was nobody under the bridge at that moment, punched it and crossed your fingers. Another feature which has just recently changed is the Sikorsky Bridge over the Housatonic River. This engineering marvel did not previously support pavement. Instead its surface was an open steel grate. I'm not kidding. Riding a motorcycle over this in the rain with a passenger was perhaps the scariest thing a human being could undertake. But to be fair, at least half of this structure was part of the Wilbur Cross Parkway, not the Merritt (the WC, the Merritt and the Hutch were all Rt. 15 and shared an exit numbering scheme). The road itself is exactly the same size and shape as when it opened. It retains its rural charm scores of unique and beautiful overpasses.
Hmm, interesting, I don't recall any taxpayers moaning about this particular tax.. I would say it's mainly phone companies..
Obviously we went to different colleges. Resistance to the phone tax has always very popular among anti-war activists. It is quite common for them to refuse to pay it.
There is a much more significant gene flow between dogs and coyotes. Are dogs coyotes? There is also evidence of even more significant gene flow between coyotes and wolves. Are coyotes wolves? One popular hypothesis suggests that the Red Wolf (Canis Rufus) is actually a wolf-coyote hybrid. Why do taxonimists persist in clasifying coyotes as a seperate species (Canis Latrans)? The fact is the 1993 "reclassification" of dogs was totally arbitrary. There is no doubt that wolves, dogs, and coyotes evolved from a common ancestor. However they are now extremely distinct in physical and mental conformation, as well as evolutionary niche. If we are going to ignore that and classify dogs as wolves based on genetic isolation and percentage genetic similarity, then we have to classify coyotes as wolves too. Of course to do so retards our understanding of the actual natural natural functions of these three fascinating animals who think live and function socially in completely different ways. IPerhaps the real issue is that our concept of species does not match up all that well with evolutionary reality.
Some of these differences have very significant evolutionary consequences, such as domestic canids menstruating twice as often as wild canids. And it is important to note dogs and wolves fill completely seperate ecological niches. Again, if you use DNA as a means of defining canus as a species, then jackals and coyotes are wolves too. Again, I recommend you read the Coppingers's book. Ray is a very respected ethologist, arguably the most respected canine ethologist.
This is the classic hypothesis of why our ancestors started to stand, and there is a species of monkey that lives in grasslands now (forget what they're called though) that are standing erect as well.
Interestingly, bonobos spend a lot of time standing and walking erect, despite being arborial. They also like to have sex missionary. The females have protruding mammaries on their chests, much like human women. Arguably, they are the Charo of the Ape world.
The domestic dog Canis lupus familiaris is recognised as a subspecies of the wild wolf Canis lupus. Have you ever watched a dog while it is asleep? It's dreaming it's a wolf.
Dogs and wolves are descended from a common ancestor, but they diverged in evolution about 15,000 years ago. Dog social and breeding behavior are very different from wolves. Coyotes and Jackals are just as closely related to wolves as dogs, often behave more like them, yet are not classified as a subspecies of lupus. Ray and Lorna Coppinger make this argument very convincingly in their book "Dogs".
Agreed! Chimps are off the sexual radar. Now bonobos OTOH... slim, lithe, upright bodies. Breasts and vulva in the correct place. Insatiable appetite for casual sex. Far lower beer goggle quotient than chimps.
Major League Baseball is a monopoly, which made their pre-union abuse of players even worse. On top of that they had (have) an anti-trust exemption from the federal governement. But it is not a labor monopsony because the players work for the individual teams, not the league. Until the union and Curt Flood, the teams colluded to act as a monopsony. Since the Flood decision, players operate in a competetive labor market with about 280 employers. Because of the efforts of Major League Players Asssociation they are guaranteed decent compensation and working conditions even at the lowest levels.
Pre-union Hollywood was an oligopoly which acted as a collusive labor monopsony. I don't understand your question about actors moving between companies. That is the rule, not the exception. Does Johnny Depp make all his movies for the same studio and producer? Do commercial actors only work for one agency and product? All actors are free lancers.
I also don't understand what free-lancing has to do with the question of the efficacy of unionism for highly skilled labor.
Unions are great at representing manual workers who perform repetitive tasks and who have a very horizontal organisation structure. If there are 100 people on your production line reporting to one supervisor even if you churn out more gizmos than anyone else you do not stand much of a chance at becoming the supervisor. Hence why it is in your interest to bargain collectively and have all of your standards raised.
If on the other hand your job involves a high level of innovation and metal agility these attributes may well contribute to you rising through an organisation. Such organisations are often far more vertical in structure. In this case, it is unlikely that you would benefit from collective bargaining where the curve is straightened out.
You mean like actors? Acting involves mental agility and inovation and has an extremely high potential for upward mobility (directing and producing). Or at least it does now that SAG has won actors professional freedom. Before SAG (and the support of Betty Davis, Bogart and a few other powerful stars) actors were wage slaves under studio contract. Now they have a nice guaranteed minimum wage and weild substantial power and money in the industry. Just recently, in the 2000 commercial strike, the Screen Actors Guild saved Pay-Per-Play residuals for actors and won a cable residual increase of 140% up from $1014 to $2460.
How about baseball? Is that a mindless repetetive task? Seems to me the Players Association has done pretty well by the players.
Technically the Poles (and maybe Czechs, I can't remember) fighting in the Battle of Britain were an independent force. Although logistically absorbed and attached to the RAF after the fall of Poland, the Polish Air Force was an independent, Polish trained and financed entity with its own units commnaded by its own officers. After the war the UK billed Poland for the materials Poles expended defending Britain. The Polish Airforce attached to the RAF was the fourth largest allied air force in the war. During the Battle of Britain, the Polish Air force accounted for 18% of German air-to-air losses and produced 40 aces.
Amazingly, the Polish air forces even mounted a reasonably effective defense during the German invasion of Poland. Flying 158 woefully obsolete PZL P.7 and PZL P.11 fighters they managed to destroy between 100 and 200 German aircraft.
Incidentally, the highest scoring US ace of the European theatre was a Polish-American who served in the Polish Air Force. Francis Gabreski volunteered for the 315th (Polish) Fighter Squadron "Deblinski." Later he founded an exchange program between the Air Corps and the Polish Air Force and flew for the US. He ended the war with a total of 30 kills. In Korea he added 6.5 more.
My point was that you should write your Rep and say this issue decides your vote in the next election. The House has not killed the amendment yet and Reps are theoretically more afraid of the electorate than Senators anyway. It is at least worth a shot. I would call my Rep but he wrote the amendment, so it would be pointless.
The fact that the House defeated it means that it's dead, and we're screwed.
The House didn't defeat it. It hasn't even seen the bill yet. What happened was that the House Committee on Energy & Commerce voted for the bill but against my Representative Ed Markey's amendment protecting net neutrality. The bill will proceed to the floor where Ed will once again tack on his courageous little amendment and the telecom whores will once again strip it off.
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I'd be curious to see how shows like ER or House actually compare to real medicine.
I can't comment overall, but on ER I have seen a couple of very realistic portrayals of medical technologies with which I am experienced. On one episode the doctor with the limp described an ongoing beating heart valve replacement using the Cohn Cardiac Stabalizer. She even credited Bill Cohn at Beth Israel in Boston with its development. In the background they showed the procedure on the monitor. The footage was Dr. Cohn's own from a procedure he performed. He also does his own editing. The others were passing references to medline and paperchase online medical reference searches.
"Driessen has also written about the role that think tanks can play in helping corporations achieve their objectives. Such outlets "can provide research, present credible independent voices on a host of issues, indirectly influence opinion and political leaders, and promote responsible social and economic agendas," he advised companies in a 2001 essay published in Capital PR News. "They have extensive networks among scholars, academics, scientists, journalists, community leaders and politicians.... You will be amazed at how much they do with so little."
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The Apple ][ had color graphics in 1977.
I was joking. Of course cow tipping is impossible. Hell, horses DO sleep standing up (for the most part) and tipping them is impossible too, for all the other reasons you mentioned.
Release a PC with a color display
Release a PC with a floppy drive
Release an OS with pull down menus
Release an OS with drag n' drop file manipulation
Release an OS with a clipboard
Support forked/streamed files
Release a PC with a color display
Release a PC with built in four-voice sound
Release a PC with wireless networking
Sorry about that. I'll try top be more Larsonesque next time. It is the nature of Jews to complain about the things we love, and the Merritt is my all time favorite road. My best friend in High School felt differently. He maintained that the Hutchinson River Parkway was the greatest highway in the country on the strength of its even more extreme (for a limited access highway) twistiness. Back then there were sections, since straightened, which could choke a 240Z's apex speed down to 45 MPH (IIRC. Can't recall motorcycle numbers). Of course, the poor surface conditions contributed to that. Unlike the Merritt, which has always been well maintained, the Hutch pretty decrepit back then. Compared to the Merritt, the Hutch was ugly, mainly because it lacked the large grassy tree filled median of the former. My dad remembers when the Merritt had no rail on the median and people used to drive smack into those trees. That reminds me of the time my aforementioned friend's father drunk drove his '70 1/2 F400 Firebird into the toll booth on the Saw Mill Parkway. Couldn't quite find the space between the booths. The cops came and gave him a lift home. The seventies sure were a different different era.
The same is more or less true of most of the Merritt Parkway in Connecticut, which first opened in 1938. Most of the on and off-ramps have been lengthened and straightened, and a couple of big highway interchanges added where new roads sprung up, but the road itself hasn't changed in my lifetime. Believe me, the new ramps were necessary. The old ones were all decreasing radius blind curves dumping right into traffic with no runoff room. The Exit 27 Southbound onramp (technically on the Hutchinson Parkway, but essentially demarcating the border between the two as well as between NY and CT) was literally a 90 degree spur two car lengths long with a stop sign at the highway. It hit the highway right after an overpass with no visibility so there was no way to see if cars were coming. You just stopped your car perpendicular to the road, checked that there was nobody under the bridge at that moment, punched it and crossed your fingers. Another feature which has just recently changed is the Sikorsky Bridge over the Housatonic River. This engineering marvel did not previously support pavement. Instead its surface was an open steel grate. I'm not kidding. Riding a motorcycle over this in the rain with a passenger was perhaps the scariest thing a human being could undertake. But to be fair, at least half of this structure was part of the Wilbur Cross Parkway, not the Merritt (the WC, the Merritt and the Hutch were all Rt. 15 and shared an exit numbering scheme). The road itself is exactly the same size and shape as when it opened. It retains its rural charm scores of unique and beautiful overpasses.
in other words, how does it scale?"
So you don't think any of these problems are related to Proposition 13?
There is a much more significant gene flow between dogs and coyotes. Are dogs coyotes? There is also evidence of even more significant gene flow between coyotes and wolves. Are coyotes wolves? One popular hypothesis suggests that the Red Wolf (Canis Rufus) is actually a wolf-coyote hybrid. Why do taxonimists persist in clasifying coyotes as a seperate species (Canis Latrans)? The fact is the 1993 "reclassification" of dogs was totally arbitrary. There is no doubt that wolves, dogs, and coyotes evolved from a common ancestor. However they are now extremely distinct in physical and mental conformation, as well as evolutionary niche. If we are going to ignore that and classify dogs as wolves based on genetic isolation and percentage genetic similarity, then we have to classify coyotes as wolves too. Of course to do so retards our understanding of the actual natural natural functions of these three fascinating animals who think live and function socially in completely different ways. IPerhaps the real issue is that our concept of species does not match up all that well with evolutionary reality.
Some of these differences have very significant evolutionary consequences, such as domestic canids menstruating twice as often as wild canids. And it is important to note dogs and wolves fill completely seperate ecological niches. Again, if you use DNA as a means of defining canus as a species, then jackals and coyotes are wolves too. Again, I recommend you read the Coppingers's book. Ray is a very respected ethologist, arguably the most respected canine ethologist.
Agreed! Chimps are off the sexual radar. Now bonobos OTOH... slim, lithe, upright bodies. Breasts and vulva in the correct place. Insatiable appetite for casual sex. Far lower beer goggle quotient than chimps.
Let's hear it for the horny ape!
Bush was right!
Now if we could just figureout how to make a human-chimpanzee hybrid with four butts.
Major League Baseball is a monopoly, which made their pre-union abuse of players even worse. On top of that they had (have) an anti-trust exemption from the federal governement. But it is not a labor monopsony because the players work for the individual teams, not the league. Until the union and Curt Flood, the teams colluded to act as a monopsony. Since the Flood decision, players operate in a competetive labor market with about 280 employers. Because of the efforts of Major League Players Asssociation they are guaranteed decent compensation and working conditions even at the lowest levels.
Pre-union Hollywood was an oligopoly which acted as a collusive labor monopsony. I don't understand your question about actors moving between companies. That is the rule, not the exception. Does Johnny Depp make all his movies for the same studio and producer? Do commercial actors only work for one agency and product? All actors are free lancers.
I also don't understand what free-lancing has to do with the question of the efficacy of unionism for highly skilled labor.
How about baseball? Is that a mindless repetetive task? Seems to me the Players Association has done pretty well by the players.
Not only is it easy to teach a dog to do this, it is easy to accidentally teach her to do it.
Technically the Poles (and maybe Czechs, I can't remember) fighting in the Battle of Britain were an independent force. Although logistically absorbed and attached to the RAF after the fall of Poland, the Polish Air Force was an independent, Polish trained and financed entity with its own units commnaded by its own officers. After the war the UK billed Poland for the materials Poles expended defending Britain. The Polish Airforce attached to the RAF was the fourth largest allied air force in the war. During the Battle of Britain, the Polish Air force accounted for 18% of German air-to-air losses and produced 40 aces.
Amazingly, the Polish air forces even mounted a reasonably effective defense during the German invasion of Poland. Flying 158 woefully obsolete PZL P.7 and PZL P.11 fighters they managed to destroy between 100 and 200 German aircraft.
Incidentally, the highest scoring US ace of the European theatre was a Polish-American who served in the Polish Air Force. Francis Gabreski volunteered for the 315th (Polish) Fighter Squadron "Deblinski." Later he founded an exchange program between the Air Corps and the Polish Air Force and flew for the US. He ended the war with a total of 30 kills. In Korea he added 6.5 more.
My point was that you should write your Rep and say this issue decides your vote in the next election. The House has not killed the amendment yet and Reps are theoretically more afraid of the electorate than Senators anyway. It is at least worth a shot. I would call my Rep but he wrote the amendment, so it would be pointless.
They mentioned valve replacement, which can be done on a beating heart without the use of a heart and lung machine. Doesn't help JWs, but is much easier on your body.
Driessen is a paid oil industry lobbyist who professionally promotes junk science through industry funded think tanks
"Driessen has also written about the role that think tanks can play in helping corporations achieve their objectives. Such outlets "can provide research, present credible independent voices on a host of issues, indirectly influence opinion and political leaders, and promote responsible social and economic agendas," he advised companies in a 2001 essay published in Capital PR News. "They have extensive networks among scholars, academics, scientists, journalists, community leaders and politicians.... You will be amazed at how much they do with so little."