Exactly. The two are barely comparable from a content perspective:
On G+ I have a groomed list of about a hundred people scattered through various circles. I try and post something interesting or original every day: a link or one of my own photos. And what I typically see posted in return is great original content with a smattering of the most interesting links from people who's opinions and ideas I actually value.
On Facebook I'm peppered with the typical (and already thoroughly discussed) inane saccharine mommy-updates, zinga updates, and other random drivel on an account I only keep active because of there are a small handful of people so glued to the platform they no longer reply to regular email, but whom I need to be in contact every so often for various family or volunteering reasons.
The thing is that new users need some kind of G+ buddy system these days, a well-connected user to say: join, and circle these fifty people.
Ultimately, I don't think will come down to much actual enforcement. Having myself been technically "at fault" in a minor collision a few years back a law like this would have meant actual justice for me against the douche who really caused the mishap. Instead of the cops saying "well, it's not illegal to be talking on a phone" and leaving it to me to try to prove undue care and attention on his part -- which went nowhere, btw -- it would have been a matter of proving he was on a phone; wham, he's breaking the law and bam, it's his fault now. Which he was... and he should have been. In my opinion, this is about assigning legal fault where fault is due -- and if people are a little more careful on the roads as a result, bonus. In my case, a minor insurance blemish, but in larger collisions with real injuries and lawsuits, invaluable.
I tend to believe we spend far too much time talking about RIGHTS and far too little talking about RESPONSIBILITIES. As in, we have the 'right to free speech', but it is our responsibility to use it wisely. Equal and balancing forces. Or, at least they should be.
This is not museum, it is a propaganda machine for a very specific set of religious beliefs. Yes, they have the right to share those beliefs, but the Creation/ID movement has long since forgotten it also has the responsibility to present their view in an honest and forthright manner. Willful ignorance, deception, and clouding over inconvenient information presented by science is no better than the worst kinds of advertising and political spinning.
Whatever kind of religion you follow, spirituality you practice, or whatever you happen to believe, it is very sad when you need to shrink the universe to fit inside your tiny mind rather than expanding your mind to accommodate a vast and complex universe.
I _just_ bought a new system last week after my three year old laptop all but cratered. When the laptop was new we tried Red Hat: it couldn't handle the power regulation and the fan would spin up to crazy speeds, and GRUB would kill the boot sector when we did any sort of drive configuration in Windows. It was a lost cause.
I decided to give Ubuntu a chance again with this new system. I got Windows pre-installed, but fired up the free boot disks Ubuntu mailed to me a few weeks previously. The kernel wouldn't boot from that version (6.06) on my hardware (duo core, 64 bit) and the online "solution" was to disable the USB support. Not.
A 600 MB download later of the 6.10 version, and yes it booted. Installed. Seemingly smoothly. But wait! The install didn't recognize onboard ethernet. (Back to the windows partition, and six reboots later it's working.) But wait, my $300 VPU is acting like a $20 video card because ATI is not well supported (apparently). I still don't have that figured out. SH errors and BASH errors trying to install the drivers.
So, four evenings later I've got a system that does about 80% of what I paid for. Will I use it? I haven't decided yet. And I'm an easy convert.
At what point is this just catering to companies who are running an otherwise closed network? It goes against what I understand to be the fundamental rule of the Internet: networks should at least attempt to play nice with each other. I understand there is a business perspective here, but I can't say I'm too interested in developing (free) content for mobile devices that will just end up enhancing the value of those closed cellular networks -- especially on my own dime.
Maybe the cellular providers should be getting together to provide.mobi domains to already registered matching.com,.org,.net, etc as incentives for providing that content. My naive utopian thought for the day.
Agreed. It could just be that those same folks who tend to keep regular "healthy" sleeping habits, are the same types of folks who also tend to eat their veggies, exercise regularly, stretch, and do all those other healthy things that make them skinny.
In July, I caught my twit of a summer-student/intern severely abusing her internet privileges. I couldn't fire her because she was a short-term contract employee and some other HR-policy crap. My first response was to cut her off, so I blocked all the IM traffic coming out of her computer. I gave her a what-for and put a parental blocker on her machine (she still needed some access to the net to do her job). She thought she was being secretive about the whole thing and HER FIRST RESPONSE was to pretend to type and work, all the while diddling her cell phone under the desk. When she switched to her cellphone she would spend ALL DAY msn'ing back and forth with her pals. I was rightly pissed off at first. There was nothing I could do unless I could prove it, and I couldn't prove it without violating a bunch of organizational privacy rules. But all was right with my world when she vapidly proclaimed at the lunch table one day that her recently arrrived monthly phone bill was roughly equivalent to her monthly pay. Easy come, easy go.
And she just didn't get it.
Still, it was quite a waste. Soured my opinion of summer-students all around.
... and as Canadian's learned in our last Federal Election. The actual results blew the polls out of the water. Polls are meaningless because the only results that have any sort of official "reliablility" are conducted on the shrinking minority of those who are home to answer their phones when the pollsters call. Who is that? Seniors, housewives, and childless computer geeks?
In fact, not only did I see one driving around Edmonton yesterday, but it belongs to a local registry agent who bought it, and plastered his logo and signage all over the exterior.
On a bit of a tangental subject: Does anyone know of a good site that lists the general political slant of a variety of magazines? For example (IMHO) that POPULAR SCIENCE tends to lean a little to the right or that WIRED used to be quite left leaning and now is only moderately so.
From the New England Journal of Medicine Article:
"These results strongly indicate that our patient has a loss-of-function mutation in the myostatin gene, thus suggesting that the inactivation of myostatin has similar effects in humans, mice, and cattle. So far, we have not observed any health problems in the patient. Since myostatin is also expressed in the heart, we have closely monitored our patient's cardiac function but have not yet detected any signs of cardiomyopathy or a conduction disturbance.
However, at 4.5 years of age, our patient is still too young for such abnormalities to be ruled out definitively.
"Our results suggest the possibility that
muscle bulk and strength could be therapeutically
increased by the inactivation of myostatin in patients with muscle-wasting conditions."
n engl j med 350;26 www.nejm.org june 24,2004
The "downside" is linked to a variety of rare neuromuscular disorders, related to (but distinct from) various forms of muscular dystrophy (think Jerry Lewis Telethon). It's not so much what this discovery means for body-builders or people looking to be "extra-strong" but what it means to folks who are born _without_ the ability to produce myostatin. A lack of myostatin would more than likely mean a quick deterioration of the skeletal muscle system, and more importantly, a progressive weakening of the heart muscle and diaphragm, eventually leading to death by complications.
I picked up copy of PocketQuicken for my Handspring a few months ago. Best thing I ever did. I've turned from hard working slob with no money and credit card debt to hard working slob with some money but NO credit card debt. At the risk of sounding like an info-mercial: Sure, you can do that in a paper and pencil chequebook, but put the portability of palmOS-based accounting program with the power of a home-system-based Quicken (syncs up nice and simple) and finances are suddenly amazingly simple.
That, and it plays solitaire.
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I ask dad: "Do you know this guy?"
Dad replies: "Yes I know Frank. He is an awesome poultry researcher. As you will note some of his publications are with my second cousin from Rocky Mtn House. Did not know Frank was a lego nut."
Just goes to show you what you can hide from your collegues.
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Exactly. The two are barely comparable from a content perspective:
On G+ I have a groomed list of about a hundred people scattered through various circles. I try and post something interesting or original every day: a link or one of my own photos. And what I typically see posted in return is great original content with a smattering of the most interesting links from people who's opinions and ideas I actually value.
On Facebook I'm peppered with the typical (and already thoroughly discussed) inane saccharine mommy-updates, zinga updates, and other random drivel on an account I only keep active because of there are a small handful of people so glued to the platform they no longer reply to regular email, but whom I need to be in contact every so often for various family or volunteering reasons.
The thing is that new users need some kind of G+ buddy system these days, a well-connected user to say: join, and circle these fifty people.
Ultimately, I don't think will come down to much actual enforcement. Having myself been technically "at fault" in a minor collision a few years back a law like this would have meant actual justice for me against the douche who really caused the mishap. Instead of the cops saying "well, it's not illegal to be talking on a phone" and leaving it to me to try to prove undue care and attention on his part -- which went nowhere, btw -- it would have been a matter of proving he was on a phone; wham, he's breaking the law and bam, it's his fault now. Which he was... and he should have been. In my opinion, this is about assigning legal fault where fault is due -- and if people are a little more careful on the roads as a result, bonus. In my case, a minor insurance blemish, but in larger collisions with real injuries and lawsuits, invaluable.
I tend to believe we spend far too much time talking about RIGHTS and far too little talking about RESPONSIBILITIES. As in, we have the 'right to free speech', but it is our responsibility to use it wisely. Equal and balancing forces. Or, at least they should be.
This is not museum, it is a propaganda machine for a very specific set of religious beliefs. Yes, they have the right to share those beliefs, but the Creation/ID movement has long since forgotten it also has the responsibility to present their view in an honest and forthright manner. Willful ignorance, deception, and clouding over inconvenient information presented by science is no better than the worst kinds of advertising and political spinning.
Whatever kind of religion you follow, spirituality you practice, or whatever you happen to believe, it is very sad when you need to shrink the universe to fit inside your tiny mind rather than expanding your mind to accommodate a vast and complex universe.
From the front lines...
I _just_ bought a new system last week after my three year old laptop all but cratered. When the laptop was new we tried Red Hat: it couldn't handle the power regulation and the fan would spin up to crazy speeds, and GRUB would kill the boot sector when we did any sort of drive configuration in Windows. It was a lost cause.
I decided to give Ubuntu a chance again with this new system. I got Windows pre-installed, but fired up the free boot disks Ubuntu mailed to me a few weeks previously. The kernel wouldn't boot from that version (6.06) on my hardware (duo core, 64 bit) and the online "solution" was to disable the USB support. Not.
A 600 MB download later of the 6.10 version, and yes it booted. Installed. Seemingly smoothly. But wait! The install didn't recognize onboard ethernet. (Back to the windows partition, and six reboots later it's working.) But wait, my $300 VPU is acting like a $20 video card because ATI is not well supported (apparently). I still don't have that figured out. SH errors and BASH errors trying to install the drivers.
So, four evenings later I've got a system that does about 80% of what I paid for. Will I use it? I haven't decided yet. And I'm an easy convert.
At what point is this just catering to companies who are running an otherwise closed network? It goes against what I understand to be the fundamental rule of the Internet: networks should at least attempt to play nice with each other. I understand there is a business perspective here, but I can't say I'm too interested in developing (free) content for mobile devices that will just end up enhancing the value of those closed cellular networks -- especially on my own dime. Maybe the cellular providers should be getting together to provide .mobi domains to already registered matching .com, .org, .net, etc as incentives for providing that content. My naive utopian thought for the day.
Agreed. It could just be that those same folks who tend to keep regular "healthy" sleeping habits, are the same types of folks who also tend to eat their veggies, exercise regularly, stretch, and do all those other healthy things that make them skinny.
In July, I caught my twit of a summer-student/intern severely abusing her internet privileges. I couldn't fire her because she was a short-term contract employee and some other HR-policy crap. My first response was to cut her off, so I blocked all the IM traffic coming out of her computer. I gave her a what-for and put a parental blocker on her machine (she still needed some access to the net to do her job). She thought she was being secretive about the whole thing and HER FIRST RESPONSE was to pretend to type and work, all the while diddling her cell phone under the desk. When she switched to her cellphone she would spend ALL DAY msn'ing back and forth with her pals. I was rightly pissed off at first. There was nothing I could do unless I could prove it, and I couldn't prove it without violating a bunch of organizational privacy rules. But all was right with my world when she vapidly proclaimed at the lunch table one day that her recently arrrived monthly phone bill was roughly equivalent to her monthly pay. Easy come, easy go.
And she just didn't get it.
Still, it was quite a waste. Soured my opinion of summer-students all around.
... and as Canadian's learned in our last Federal Election. The actual results blew the polls out of the water. Polls are meaningless because the only results that have any sort of official "reliablility" are conducted on the shrinking minority of those who are home to answer their phones when the pollsters call. Who is that? Seniors, housewives, and childless computer geeks?
Right-o....
In fact, not only did I see one driving around Edmonton yesterday, but it belongs to a local registry agent who bought it, and plastered his logo and signage all over the exterior.
Great advice.
On a bit of a tangental subject: Does anyone know of a good site that lists the general political slant of a variety of magazines? For example (IMHO) that POPULAR SCIENCE tends to lean a little to the right or that WIRED used to be quite left leaning and now is only moderately so.
I'd be interested to see something like this...
My bad. That's correct. A surplus would lead to deterioration. Thanks.
From the New England Journal of Medicine Article: "These results strongly indicate that our patient has a loss-of-function mutation in the myostatin gene, thus suggesting that the inactivation of myostatin has similar effects in humans, mice, and cattle. So far, we have not observed any health problems in the patient. Since myostatin is also expressed in the heart, we have closely monitored our patient's cardiac function but have not yet detected any signs of cardiomyopathy or a conduction disturbance. However, at 4.5 years of age, our patient is still too young for such abnormalities to be ruled out definitively. "Our results suggest the possibility that muscle bulk and strength could be therapeutically increased by the inactivation of myostatin in patients with muscle-wasting conditions." n engl j med 350;26 www.nejm.org june 24,2004
The "downside" is linked to a variety of rare neuromuscular disorders, related to (but distinct from) various forms of muscular dystrophy (think Jerry Lewis Telethon). It's not so much what this discovery means for body-builders or people looking to be "extra-strong" but what it means to folks who are born _without_ the ability to produce myostatin. A lack of myostatin would more than likely mean a quick deterioration of the skeletal muscle system, and more importantly, a progressive weakening of the heart muscle and diaphragm, eventually leading to death by complications.
Markian Hlynka! That's not a REAL name. I call your bluff.
I picked up copy of PocketQuicken for my Handspring a few months ago. Best thing I ever did. I've turned from hard working slob with no money and credit card debt to hard working slob with some money but NO credit card debt. At the risk of sounding like an info-mercial: Sure, you can do that in a paper and pencil chequebook, but put the portability of palmOS-based accounting program with the power of a home-system-based Quicken (syncs up nice and simple) and finances are suddenly amazingly simple. That, and it plays solitaire.
I ask dad: "Do you know this guy?" Dad replies: "Yes I know Frank. He is an awesome poultry researcher. As you will note some of his publications are with my second cousin from Rocky Mtn House. Did not know Frank was a lego nut." Just goes to show you what you can hide from your collegues.