I spent a couple of years around a Psych department at a major university while the gf was finishing her undergrad degree. I came to the exact same conclusion.
The only work I saw that seemed worth a damn was the physical stuff in regards to the brain. The rest of it was horseshit. Political pollsters know much more about extracting meaningful results from questionnaires than this department did. Never mind constructing a good one.
They don't care since it's all theater anyway. Why else have all the visible paraphernalia? Obscure security mechanisms, ala casinos, would be more effective if one wanted actual security.
The intent was to convince people to fly again after 9/11. So they made it as in your face as possible. The people didn't come back in the numbers which flew before, so they've been tweaking the process since then, both to increase usage and to combat new scares like shoe bombers and underwear bombers. They're lost. They don't know how to fix the problem and continue to make it worse.
I imagine the PCL interpreter on the printer shit the bed, this is why they were suggesting all these modifications to your document, hoping that the corner case would stop occurring if you altered the sequence of the PCL codes.
If Scandinavian children don't speak English, why is it that almost everyone Swedish or Finnish I have met speaks the language fluently? Are they learning it in high school?
It's so rare to run across a non-English speaker from Scandinavia that I note it more than I note those who do not.
It's not really a pun. The reason it's not a pun is that the word "universe" which is being played off of, doesn't really have two disjoint meanings. Most of the humor (or disgust) value of puns is in the conflating of those disjoint meanings.
You're right, this isn't about retaliation, really. She's releasing it now to get attention and money. That's called being an attention whore, hauling out your personal baggage for the world to see for money and some short-lived attention.
This kid deserved the beating. Too bad it was too late to help. I foresee a negative outcome, if we cared enough to watch over the course of 10-15 years.
The fact that so many people don't see the utter frustration with this kid depicted in the video shows the degeneracy of modern society. I see it in my daughter's fellow students on a daily basis. They are scum. No ethics, no moral compass, fulfill every desire and fuck the rest of the world. Seems to be the motto of this generation.
I agree entirely. "Computer stuff" is adequate for most people, including my parents AND the girlfriend AND my children. It's depressing at one level but vastly simplifies things at many others.
Coins are struck on presses with dies and planchets. This is cast. The relief is very high: this item would not stack. It really resembles a medal more than a coin.
I would have been much more impressed if they had constructed a press with sufficient power to strike such a large coin.
In the case of most of the large outfits, load diversion just requires too many people involved to not talk/benefit. It doesn't happen all that much, considering the value and quantities carried.
In small outfits it is more common. The seals they use for trucks are just plastic or lead bullshit and no one really checks. The worst ones are short-haul trucks with multiple stops. In that case, the sealing mechanisms are near-worthless and stuff 'falls off the truck' constantly.
It is kind of oxymoronic but the statement has meaning. It means that claims handling is by the company itself. They usually are underwritten with a balloon liability policy once the claim amount gets outrageous - at the time (early-mid 90s) $1mil.
The way the companies handle claims is by hiring an independent adjuster and/or a lawyer in the local area, depending on the situation. The adjuster handles it prior to litigation. When the litigation is imminent, the claim transfers to a lawyer for that bit. Most (90%+) claims get settled before actual lit, even if you have a lawyer.
I was an independent adjuster at the time. I did mostly BI claims but I did a bit of PD also - the trucking stuff covered both. Most of the calls I got were "we just had an accident on Metropolitan Ave in Brooklyn, go out and investigate. I'd take signed and recorded statements, pictures, get police reports, draw diagrams and then handle the claim until settlement -ie, negotiating with lawyers - in the case of the trucking companies. Did some auto stuff for smaller ins companies that didn't have local adjusters of their own, and bus companies which self-insure often, similar to the trucking companies.
With self-insured big trucking outfits having a one strike rule for their drivers, does this surprise you? A single ticket or accident ends your career with any big outfit. At that point, you can't get hired in the industry unless you can pony up the cash for your own private tractor. Anecdotal story: I once saved a driver's job by getting a ticket issued for backing up into a telephone pole overturned in NYC traffic court. If the ticket had stood, he'd have been unemployed the next day.
Never mind the GPS tracking of their rigs...true story, I got a call in 1992 or 3 to drive to a shopping mall in Brielle, NJ. There was a JB Hunt rig sitting there parked. I was told to take pictures of it, leave, then send them to the safety department. It seems the driver had gone to visit his girlfriend there with his rig. They saw the transponder there and wanted documentation so that he could be fired when he showed up at his terminal in Ohio or somewhere. Mind you, he was going to show up on time at the terminal, but that didn't matter, he'd diverted from their mandated route.
Policies like this create a lot of churn in the industry. Who would want to work for these people long term?
The end result is that the quality of long haul drivers declines over time. It also means they pay less to drivers over time. I think that's the objective.
There's a fair amount of mogas also, not just JP-8 "diesel", at military fueling points. Don't let them tell you that they've gotten rid of gasoline use in the military, it's a load of crap.
I removed the mobile FF from my phone and I won't be re-adding it because NoScript is available. It's dog-slow to load and render. The built-in browser is far superior.
Florian Mueller is a paid for troll. I couldn't care less what you think, Florian. Stop astroturfing your crap. You aren't a lawyer and have nothing relevant to say.
That would work if they mentioned Clovis. The problem is that they don't. They speak with this deity-like authority tone about what happened "Native Americans came 10,000 years ago", and don't take into account that there isn't conclusive evidence for much that happened back then in the Americas. Our best guess is just that, a best guess based on patchy evidence. The kids might pay more attention if we let them know that there isn't total agreement about these topics, that they are subject to debate. And that new evidence is being unearthed constantly.
They do a quick runthrough of the Clovis concept. They avoid the extinctions and don't permit much in the way of discussion about the various theories (ice free corridor? Boats?) and don't allow any potential pre-Clovis to leak into the discussion. The signs of pre-Columbian contact are similarly edited out, the first contact was Leif who stayed for a winter, and then Columbus.
I feel for authors of history books, after reading "Lies My Teacher Told Me", but things haven't gotten much better in the 15 or so years since that book.
Short of briefly mentioning Leif Ericsson, yes, they do. That's all they'll learn in school. Confirmed with my 17yo and 14yo within the last few years, 2 different school systems, different states (MD and NJ).
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I spent a couple of years around a Psych department at a major university while the gf was finishing her undergrad degree. I came to the exact same conclusion.
The only work I saw that seemed worth a damn was the physical stuff in regards to the brain. The rest of it was horseshit. Political pollsters know much more about extracting meaningful results from questionnaires than this department did. Never mind constructing a good one.
They don't care since it's all theater anyway. Why else have all the visible paraphernalia? Obscure security mechanisms, ala casinos, would be more effective if one wanted actual security.
The intent was to convince people to fly again after 9/11. So they made it as in your face as possible. The people didn't come back in the numbers which flew before, so they've been tweaking the process since then, both to increase usage and to combat new scares like shoe bombers and underwear bombers. They're lost. They don't know how to fix the problem and continue to make it worse.
They will never give up until forced to.
More's the pity that the truth in those words isn't clear. It's the reason why no solution is possible at this time, and perhaps ever.
I mean, does anyone ever gain increased profit from the complaining? Then why do it? It just encourages me to never even try any of their games.
I imagine the PCL interpreter on the printer shit the bed, this is why they were suggesting all these modifications to your document, hoping that the corner case would stop occurring if you altered the sequence of the PCL codes.
More than a 'small' supply. About 500 tons worth.
http://articles.cnn.com/2008-07-07/us/iraq.uranium_1_yellowcake-uranium-cameco?_s=PM:US
I was directly involved in this operation.
That's the problem, then. To me, and at least a couple others in the chain, the definitions are as follows:
Universe: Everything to infinity
LEGO Universe: Everything to infinity, just made of LEGO
Not very disjoint...
If Scandinavian children don't speak English, why is it that almost everyone Swedish or Finnish I have met speaks the language fluently? Are they learning it in high school?
It's so rare to run across a non-English speaker from Scandinavia that I note it more than I note those who do not.
It's not really a pun. The reason it's not a pun is that the word "universe" which is being played off of, doesn't really have two disjoint meanings. Most of the humor (or disgust) value of puns is in the conflating of those disjoint meanings.
I can think of somewhere sweaty where they can use this...
The biggest competitors are FDR and Wilson.
You're right, this isn't about retaliation, really. She's releasing it now to get attention and money. That's called being an attention whore, hauling out your personal baggage for the world to see for money and some short-lived attention.
This kid deserved the beating. Too bad it was too late to help. I foresee a negative outcome, if we cared enough to watch over the course of 10-15 years.
The fact that so many people don't see the utter frustration with this kid depicted in the video shows the degeneracy of modern society. I see it in my daughter's fellow students on a daily basis. They are scum. No ethics, no moral compass, fulfill every desire and fuck the rest of the world. Seems to be the motto of this generation.
I agree entirely. "Computer stuff" is adequate for most people, including my parents AND the girlfriend AND my children. It's depressing at one level but vastly simplifies things at many others.
Coins are struck on presses with dies and planchets. This is cast. The relief is very high: this item would not stack. It really resembles a medal more than a coin.
I would have been much more impressed if they had constructed a press with sufficient power to strike such a large coin.
In the case of most of the large outfits, load diversion just requires too many people involved to not talk/benefit. It doesn't happen all that much, considering the value and quantities carried.
In small outfits it is more common. The seals they use for trucks are just plastic or lead bullshit and no one really checks. The worst ones are short-haul trucks with multiple stops. In that case, the sealing mechanisms are near-worthless and stuff 'falls off the truck' constantly.
It is kind of oxymoronic but the statement has meaning. It means that claims handling is by the company itself. They usually are underwritten with a balloon liability policy once the claim amount gets outrageous - at the time (early-mid 90s) $1mil.
The way the companies handle claims is by hiring an independent adjuster and/or a lawyer in the local area, depending on the situation. The adjuster handles it prior to litigation. When the litigation is imminent, the claim transfers to a lawyer for that bit. Most (90%+) claims get settled before actual lit, even if you have a lawyer.
I was an independent adjuster at the time. I did mostly BI claims but I did a bit of PD also - the trucking stuff covered both. Most of the calls I got were "we just had an accident on Metropolitan Ave in Brooklyn, go out and investigate. I'd take signed and recorded statements, pictures, get police reports, draw diagrams and then handle the claim until settlement -ie, negotiating with lawyers - in the case of the trucking companies. Did some auto stuff for smaller ins companies that didn't have local adjusters of their own, and bus companies which self-insure often, similar to the trucking companies.
With self-insured big trucking outfits having a one strike rule for their drivers, does this surprise you? A single ticket or accident ends your career with any big outfit. At that point, you can't get hired in the industry unless you can pony up the cash for your own private tractor. Anecdotal story: I once saved a driver's job by getting a ticket issued for backing up into a telephone pole overturned in NYC traffic court. If the ticket had stood, he'd have been unemployed the next day.
Never mind the GPS tracking of their rigs...true story, I got a call in 1992 or 3 to drive to a shopping mall in Brielle, NJ. There was a JB Hunt rig sitting there parked. I was told to take pictures of it, leave, then send them to the safety department. It seems the driver had gone to visit his girlfriend there with his rig. They saw the transponder there and wanted documentation so that he could be fired when he showed up at his terminal in Ohio or somewhere. Mind you, he was going to show up on time at the terminal, but that didn't matter, he'd diverted from their mandated route.
Policies like this create a lot of churn in the industry. Who would want to work for these people long term?
The end result is that the quality of long haul drivers declines over time. It also means they pay less to drivers over time. I think that's the objective.
There's a fair amount of mogas also, not just JP-8 "diesel", at military fueling points. Don't let them tell you that they've gotten rid of gasoline use in the military, it's a load of crap.
Agree.
I removed the mobile FF from my phone and I won't be re-adding it because NoScript is available. It's dog-slow to load and render. The built-in browser is far superior.
Florian Mueller is a paid for troll. I couldn't care less what you think, Florian. Stop astroturfing your crap. You aren't a lawyer and have nothing relevant to say.
That would work if they mentioned Clovis. The problem is that they don't. They speak with this deity-like authority tone about what happened "Native Americans came 10,000 years ago", and don't take into account that there isn't conclusive evidence for much that happened back then in the Americas. Our best guess is just that, a best guess based on patchy evidence. The kids might pay more attention if we let them know that there isn't total agreement about these topics, that they are subject to debate. And that new evidence is being unearthed constantly.
You left out the genocide he was directly responsible for, according to Las Casas and other commentators of the time.
They do a quick runthrough of the Clovis concept. They avoid the extinctions and don't permit much in the way of discussion about the various theories (ice free corridor? Boats?) and don't allow any potential pre-Clovis to leak into the discussion. The signs of pre-Columbian contact are similarly edited out, the first contact was Leif who stayed for a winter, and then Columbus.
I feel for authors of history books, after reading "Lies My Teacher Told Me", but things haven't gotten much better in the 15 or so years since that book.
Short of briefly mentioning Leif Ericsson, yes, they do. That's all they'll learn in school. Confirmed with my 17yo and 14yo within the last few years, 2 different school systems, different states (MD and NJ).