You're right. The proper gender neutral term in English is "steward." However, feminists have convinced us all that the English convention of using male nouns and pronouns in a dual role as genderless ones is somehow sexist, politically correct types like to switch them up. So you might say "she" when you're speaking in general, instead of "he." Or "stewardess" instead of "steward."
It is kind of annoying, but I don't see how it hurts anyone. Perhaps you should take up a hobby other than Slashdot? Running is wonderful for improving your mood.
"Except that's exactly what happens up here in Canada."
RCMP officers are rotated every few years, and all receive the same basic training, in the same place.
Also, your description of working conditions sounds like southern Ontario fantasy. I can assure you that in my home town, about 1400 km north of the latitude of Toronto, there was a regular RCMP station, completely separate hospital, and nobody resides at either one. Okay, technically the hospital has several residents since it merged with the long term care facility, but no cops live there. Actually, Sudbury and Quebec City, are more than 300 km north of Toronto (not sure where your definition of "southern Ontario" ends) and Winnipeg, Regina, Saskatoon, Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver, and Victoria are all 300 or more km north of Sudbury. I've been to all those cities. They definitely have dedicated police stations. And hospitals.
Nobody does anything like what you seem to be implying. Watching an animal surgery would be like watching a human one, complete with anesthetic, monitors and a skilled surgeon. When animals are sacrificed it must be done by one of a couple of approved methods, picked not only because they're humane but because they have the lowest possible probability of failing and causing unintentional suffering. In order to use animals in the first place you must very carefully describe to one or more ethics committees what you want to do, how you're going to do it, how many animals you need, why you need them, and what you're going to learn. Any violations of your approved protocol are serious, even if they seem like small things. You don't stand a chance of being approved unless there's a very good reason for any pain the animal might suffer. It's rare that any animal would be subjected to something as inhumane as, say, a mouse trap, and the resulting knowledge has been, and will continue to be, used to relieve the suffering of millions of humans AND animals.
In contrast, how many people think twice about putting out some rat poison to deal with some pests? Rat poison that acts by interfering with clotting, causing the rat to die of hemorrhaging?
The people doing the research aren't soulless monsters. I know quite a few, and I had a couple as roommates in grad school. One of them sat as the student representative on an ethics committee.
Cosmetics and other non-medical testing may be different. I'm not familiar with it, but that's not what we're talking about here.
So buy an FTDI. They're what, 30 cents? Or a few pullup resistors for practically nothing. The vast majority of people don't need or want RS-232, the connector is big and clunky, and the high voltage, which isn't needed by almost everyone, makes things more complicated.
If you really do lots of RS-232 work and you were smart you'd do a little run of converter boards to turn RS-232 into something useful. Slap one of those onto whatever projector or other device you're working with and never worry about it again.
I have a better idea. Next time those activists got to the doctor, they should be offered bleeding and sea cures as treatment. No antibiotics, insulin, or modern drugs.
What a stupid post. The Harper government has done some things I disagree with, but it hasn't committed genocide. As for the rest, you don't betray your community, your neighbours or your country by turning in violent criminals.
Policing in Canada is a provincial responsibility but except for Quebec, Ontario and Newfoundland and Labrador, the provinces contract provincial policing to the RCMP. Major cities within provinces often have their own police forces.
The system works quite well. Places that are big enough to maintain and properly train police forces have them, but everywhere else uses provincially or nationally maintained forces. That way you don't have to worry about how well Joe the Sheriff in Backwoods Nowhere does his job.
You seem preoccupied with selling your data. Google is in a position to do more harm with it than just about anyone they might sell it to.
I do not have faith in the good intentions of corporations. I use Google services where it makes sense, in the knowledge that I'm giving them something for what they're giving me. I don't just give them whatever they ask for (or take) because, hey, they said they wouldn't do any evil!
If the two are ethnically Chechnyan, which they appear to be, they are by definition (not technically) caucasian, Chechnya being in the Caucasus region and all.
I don't suppose your religion is also one that shoots abortion doctors, beats up gay men and blew up a lot of stuff in Ireland twenty years ago?
And by "religion" I mean Christianity, not the particular sect you belong to. You've tarred 1.3 billion Muslims with the same brush, it's only fair that you accept responsibility for the crimes of your own religious brothers with the same generality.
So he used the wrong term. Maybe you're not a racist, you're a religist.
Read the Qur'an and listen to the words of Muslim clerics and you will see how anyone who believes in tolerance, equality, justice for all, and freedom of expression should opose Islam
The Qur'an is an old book with some pleasant parables, a few decent suggestions and a whole lot of violence, nastiness and plain weird shit. So is the bible, which the Qur'an is based upon. Fortunately, the vast majority of Muslims don't believe it's their duty to kill non-believers any more than the vast majority of Christians believe it's their duty to kill heretics. A few do. They're the bad ones. But hating people just because of the particular major religion they identify themselves with is stupid. Hating everyone from one religion and minimizing the crimes of terrorists from another just because you like it better is even dumber.
It's a challenge, and some PR. The soldiers certainly don't win, but it's pretty impressive to see them jog across the finish line with a big backpack and boots on. There was a guy from my home town who ran it as Elvis. There are usually lots of people who run in costumes.
The point of a marathon usually isn't to finish with the best time, it's to finish.
Someone told me about an experiment once. They setup some kind of gun training seminar. At one point they passed out some (fake) guns, but not enough so everybody had one. Then a masked man with a paintball gun burst in yelling and shooting.
Almost all of the unarmed participants hit the floor and didn't get any paint on them. Most of the armed participants hesitated, figuring out whether they should shoot back, duck then shoot back, just duck, etc. Most of them were shot.
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You could be completely gender neutral and use "stews." But they don't like that for some reason.
You're right. The proper gender neutral term in English is "steward." However, feminists have convinced us all that the English convention of using male nouns and pronouns in a dual role as genderless ones is somehow sexist, politically correct types like to switch them up. So you might say "she" when you're speaking in general, instead of "he." Or "stewardess" instead of "steward."
It is kind of annoying, but I don't see how it hurts anyone. Perhaps you should take up a hobby other than Slashdot? Running is wonderful for improving your mood.
Chance. I do not think that word means what you think it means.
Lots. You'd have to know the neutrino mass to calculate it precisely.
"Except that's exactly what happens up here in Canada."
RCMP officers are rotated every few years, and all receive the same basic training, in the same place.
Also, your description of working conditions sounds like southern Ontario fantasy. I can assure you that in my home town, about 1400 km north of the latitude of Toronto, there was a regular RCMP station, completely separate hospital, and nobody resides at either one. Okay, technically the hospital has several residents since it merged with the long term care facility, but no cops live there. Actually, Sudbury and Quebec City, are more than 300 km north of Toronto (not sure where your definition of "southern Ontario" ends) and Winnipeg, Regina, Saskatoon, Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver, and Victoria are all 300 or more km north of Sudbury. I've been to all those cities. They definitely have dedicated police stations. And hospitals.
Speaking as someone from Canada... You guys must have done something wrong.
Nobody does anything like what you seem to be implying. Watching an animal surgery would be like watching a human one, complete with anesthetic, monitors and a skilled surgeon. When animals are sacrificed it must be done by one of a couple of approved methods, picked not only because they're humane but because they have the lowest possible probability of failing and causing unintentional suffering. In order to use animals in the first place you must very carefully describe to one or more ethics committees what you want to do, how you're going to do it, how many animals you need, why you need them, and what you're going to learn. Any violations of your approved protocol are serious, even if they seem like small things. You don't stand a chance of being approved unless there's a very good reason for any pain the animal might suffer. It's rare that any animal would be subjected to something as inhumane as, say, a mouse trap, and the resulting knowledge has been, and will continue to be, used to relieve the suffering of millions of humans AND animals.
In contrast, how many people think twice about putting out some rat poison to deal with some pests? Rat poison that acts by interfering with clotting, causing the rat to die of hemorrhaging?
The people doing the research aren't soulless monsters. I know quite a few, and I had a couple as roommates in grad school. One of them sat as the student representative on an ethics committee.
Cosmetics and other non-medical testing may be different. I'm not familiar with it, but that's not what we're talking about here.
So buy an FTDI. They're what, 30 cents? Or a few pullup resistors for practically nothing. The vast majority of people don't need or want RS-232, the connector is big and clunky, and the high voltage, which isn't needed by almost everyone, makes things more complicated.
If you really do lots of RS-232 work and you were smart you'd do a little run of converter boards to turn RS-232 into something useful. Slap one of those onto whatever projector or other device you're working with and never worry about it again.
You've got access to several interfaces. Build it.
What? Speak up!
I have a better idea. Next time those activists got to the doctor, they should be offered bleeding and sea cures as treatment. No antibiotics, insulin, or modern drugs.
What a stupid post. The Harper government has done some things I disagree with, but it hasn't committed genocide. As for the rest, you don't betray your community, your neighbours or your country by turning in violent criminals.
Policing in Canada is a provincial responsibility but except for Quebec, Ontario and Newfoundland and Labrador, the provinces contract provincial policing to the RCMP. Major cities within provinces often have their own police forces.
The system works quite well. Places that are big enough to maintain and properly train police forces have them, but everywhere else uses provincially or nationally maintained forces. That way you don't have to worry about how well Joe the Sheriff in Backwoods Nowhere does his job.
Those "miles" aren't like any miles you've ever heard of.
It IS the amps that kill you. What they fail to mention is that the voltage is doing the pushing.
I prefer my car to play music and a shoulder massage would be great. Not sure of the last one, but lots of people have air fresheners in their cars.
Android is your example of new technology? It's Linux with a GUI designed for small screens.
Their search technology was fairly innovative, as was the stuff they did with translate.
You seem preoccupied with selling your data. Google is in a position to do more harm with it than just about anyone they might sell it to.
I do not have faith in the good intentions of corporations. I use Google services where it makes sense, in the knowledge that I'm giving them something for what they're giving me. I don't just give them whatever they ask for (or take) because, hey, they said they wouldn't do any evil!
If the two are ethnically Chechnyan, which they appear to be, they are by definition (not technically) caucasian, Chechnya being in the Caucasus region and all.
I don't suppose your religion is also one that shoots abortion doctors, beats up gay men and blew up a lot of stuff in Ireland twenty years ago?
And by "religion" I mean Christianity, not the particular sect you belong to. You've tarred 1.3 billion Muslims with the same brush, it's only fair that you accept responsibility for the crimes of your own religious brothers with the same generality.
So he used the wrong term. Maybe you're not a racist, you're a religist.
The Qur'an is an old book with some pleasant parables, a few decent suggestions and a whole lot of violence, nastiness and plain weird shit. So is the bible, which the Qur'an is based upon. Fortunately, the vast majority of Muslims don't believe it's their duty to kill non-believers any more than the vast majority of Christians believe it's their duty to kill heretics. A few do. They're the bad ones. But hating people just because of the particular major religion they identify themselves with is stupid. Hating everyone from one religion and minimizing the crimes of terrorists from another just because you like it better is even dumber.
Their "hike" is more of a jog. And yes, they usually seem to finish mixed in with the non-elite runners.
It's a challenge, and some PR. The soldiers certainly don't win, but it's pretty impressive to see them jog across the finish line with a big backpack and boots on. There was a guy from my home town who ran it as Elvis. There are usually lots of people who run in costumes.
The point of a marathon usually isn't to finish with the best time, it's to finish.
Someone told me about an experiment once. They setup some kind of gun training seminar. At one point they passed out some (fake) guns, but not enough so everybody had one. Then a masked man with a paintball gun burst in yelling and shooting.
Almost all of the unarmed participants hit the floor and didn't get any paint on them. Most of the armed participants hesitated, figuring out whether they should shoot back, duck then shoot back, just duck, etc. Most of them were shot.
Sure, civilians with guns never shoot anybody innocent. Unless they're wearing hoodies and black. But then they're not innocent, right?