It's certainly the case that many media outlets may have guidelines for suicide reporting for some of the the very reasons you mention, though it appears in the US, at least, there are no industry-wide standards. One other possible reason for not reporting on the contents of, or mentioning, a note is that many, and possibly even most, suicides do not leave a note. I was surprised to learn this, personally, as media/entertainment portrayal of suicide lead me to believe that leaving a note was a normal part of the whole process.
seconded. after my dlink crapped out on me, i switched to a wrt54gl, stuck dd-wrt on it and have been very satisfied with the results. after reading this story, i'm happier than ever that someone talked me into trying dd-wrt.
i'm well under 55, but i grew up watching b&w television until i was in my teens (we couldn't afford one of those fancy-pants color tvs). not only did i dream in color as a child (as i still do now), but i tended to recall the b&w shows i'd seen in color.
How many devices do you typically connect to your system at a time?
if we're talking firewire, two (and, for whatever reason, i need them to be on separate busses): one dv camera (canon gl1) and an external drive to which to capture the video (there's not enough room for large video captures/projects on the internal drive). my ol' powerbook with one fw400 and one fw800 port works great for that. not sure i could make it work with the latest mbp and its single fw800 port, so i'll be saving a lot of money not buying one, i guess. as it happens, i end up using two fw ports just about as often as i need to use two usb ports.
Most XBox 360 consoles before the recent hardware changes will die with unreasonably short lives. It's just a matter of time. It's a design flaw, not a manufacturing flaw.
i was also amused at the coincidence of this article hitting the actual day we finally broke down and bought a 360 (mainly in anticipation of rock band 2). keeping us away from the 360 until now had been price, a dearth of games that interested us (i used to be all about the fps, but no more) and the RRoD problem. i had asked a friend, about a year ago, about the issue and was astounded to learn the failure rate was in the double digits (i think he said it was around 13% back then). my faint hope is that, by waiting until this most recent hardware release, we're less likely to encounter the issue. have there been real changes made, or am i just living in a land of candy canes and fairies?
exactly. i was a passenger on a similar flight, once, myself (hi, john!). a fellow student was working on his pilot's license and took me out for a spin. the plane gradually lost all internal electrical and radio, leaving us out of contact with the tower and without that directional thingy (i don't know about planes) or lights (it was still daylight, though). in addition to the redundent system for the engine you mention, there is also a mechanical override for lowering the landing gear. i was a bit disappointed to discover that, as i though we were going to get to do a belly landing in the grass. there really was no worry, especially as the airstrip at which we were landing was extremely underpopulated (in fact, once we'd landed we discovered we were the *only* people there... including "air traffic control"). the approach to the landing strip was easily the most humorous part of the whole experience, as it involved him looking out his side of the plane, me looking out mine and then both of us agreeing that no one was coming - much like crossing an intersection. the whole thing was a non-thing, in terms of fear factor, as we were really never in any danger (and the pilot really kept his cool well, leaving me feeling very confident), but it's been a fun story to relate to others.
a friend of mine built his into a solar coffee roaster, has subsequently refined and enlarged the design several times (it no longer resembles the original) and started a solar-roasted coffee business that seems to be going well.
writing clear, readable code isn't a "guy" thing or a "girl" thing, it's a "good programmer" thing. similarly, writing confusing, obfuscated code isn't a "guy" thing or a "girl" thing, it's a "clueless programmer" thing (unless it's being done for the ioccc, in which case it's totally cool).
do i comment my code? yes, but it's not because i'm "touchy-feely". i hate commenting my code. i hate documenting my work. it's a chore and a bore (and something i often leave until the very end). i do it because it's essential for me to be able to go back to my work in a few months time and understand what the heck it was i was doing/thinking at the time. this was drummed into us at school by our prof, who made code commenting and documentation 15% of the grade. he also required we use informative variable names and write legible code and we'd get dinged heavily if we didn't. i think he was right and so i continue to try to follow his advice every day, and this includes code i write purely for myself, but it goes against my nature.
i'm reminded of one time, early in my career, where i was given a small problem to solve. i solved it, then set about seeing what i could do to make it tighter and more clever, getting very caught up in the process. finally, i was very pleased to have something that used all kinds of nifty, bit-shifting tricks and whatnot and fit all on one line. i was pretty stoked, actually. awesome! it looked cool! the senior programmer mentoring me took a look at it, told me he thought it was way neat, but requested that i redo it all so that it a) was on many lines and 2) made sense to everyone else who'd have to come by later and figure out what i was doing. oh, and could i please be sure to include comments? lesson learned.
Anecdotal evidence isn't. I don't think it's possible for you to make the claim that you know what's generally common practice among *all* ranchers and farmers based on your individual experience.
When it comes down to how an individual chooses to run/defend his or her ranch, it's highly dependent on the *local* population of livestock predators (which might also include things that attack humans). granted. in all likelihood, much (or even most) of the "they always carry guns" vs "we never carried guns" disagreement here is the result of locale. i worked on a farm/ranch in nebraska and, while there was almost certainly a gun somewhere on the property, i never saw it. i also never personally encountered a need for one. maybe there are more exciting, wild-and-feral bits to nebraska than the part i was occupying, but the most dangerous things i encountered on a daily basis were stinging insects (i did keep a stick around for beating off the smaller bugs and then just hoped the larger ones would stay away). the only instance in which a gun was likely put to use on this farm/ranch would have been to dispatch of badly sick or injured livestock and not for personal defense, so there was never one kept "at the ready".
ah. the evil thickens. i literally have only one other option for my area, and that's clearwire, which is just unacceptably slow and overpriced. color me depressed.
absolutely, i have been. i'm convinced that my ISP (charter) is throttling youtube specifically. i'll see speeds from youtube at less than 1/4 what i'll see from other sites (say, pulling apple trailers or watching flash content on any other site but youtube). it's been going on for... i'm not certain how long, but a month at least? i'm trying to figure out to whom i should make my angry phone call. if i can find any viable alternative to charter in my area, i'm going for it.
will AdBlock Plus let me watch the video and not suffer the ads
i'll be honest, i'm not sure, but i think in several cases, yes. i've watched quite a lot of tv episodes on the nbc site (the newer stuff, plus burned through all the retro offerings) and never saw an ad. i thought, "how nice, for a change, offering up their content without ads." it wasn't until i was on someone else's computer, not running ABP, that i realized there actually were ads inserted into the shows. ABP had been blocking them for me (for the record, i run both NoScript and ABP... and i can't recall whether or not i had to allow adscripts to run). i've run into instances on some sites where i can't get a vid to play unless i actually disable ABP so they can deliver their intro advert, but a lot of the time i don't have to do that and i'm increasingly inclined to simply do without anything i can't watch with ABP (and NoScript) in place (it's largely just entertainment, after all, and not that important).
I'm at the doctor's, awaiting my appointment. we all know how long that takes. so, to amuse myself while waiting, I get out my mobile device to see whether there's any free wifi floating about so that I can read/.. lo, there is, the signal is strong and the WAP's SSID is the doc's name. it's totally open, so I "naturally assume" it's being provided to me as a convenience, kind of like the three-month old US Weekly's in the waiting room (I didn't ask, though). imagine my amusement at finding this article on the front page.
unless your television has an atsc tuner (which wasn't clear to me from what you posted), you will need a box. as far as i know, most standard-def televisions (at least ones of the age i own(>5 years old)) only have ntsc tuners. i am unable to view ota digital signals on my tv without an atsc tuner which, in my case, is supplied by an elgato eye-tv (run through an old mac mini i have no other use for). i could, of course, be totally wrong.
In California If you produce more electricity than your use from the solar panels on your house you not only don't get to sell your excess electricity at wholesale rates you just get credits that expire on your anniversary of having net metering.
i do not believe mr. righi was displaying "deliberate disrespect", nor was he doing anything "just to prove he could". he was defending his civil rights/liberties because it is necessary to do so. if one does not, one runs the far more serious risk of losing them. would it have been easier for him to simply roll over and comply? most probably, but it wouldn't necessarily have been right. as i see it, what he did wasn't just for his own sake but for the sake of everyone who has gone through or might go through something similar.
FTA: "They found that the SIDS babies had an abnormality in their brain stems that might impair vital reflexes such as breathing. The defect appeared to affect the brain stem's ability to regulate serotonin, the chemical that helps control these vital body functions.
In a normal baby, a rise in carbon dioxide would activate nerve cells to send a signal to wake up and breathe faster. Babies with abnormalities wouldn't get such activation."
it sounds to me this is more a congenital abnormality than a defect likely to arise due to trauma/injury.
i agree on the BMI == (largely)BS thing, and come to it from the other side.
i'm a low-density kind of person - i haven't got much muscle mass and my bones aren't particularly dense, either. my BMI puts me in the underweight range (i should mention i'm female), but i would not say i'm exactly skinny. in fact, in terms of body fat %, i'm on the high end of normal. i would say my BMI fails to represent my actual physical state pretty thoroughly.
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The trouble is they're putting others at risk who, for varying reasons, are unable to be vaccinated. That is irresponsible, to say the least.
It's certainly the case that many media outlets may have guidelines for suicide reporting for some of the the very reasons you mention, though it appears in the US, at least, there are no industry-wide standards. One other possible reason for not reporting on the contents of, or mentioning, a note is that many, and possibly even most, suicides do not leave a note. I was surprised to learn this, personally, as media/entertainment portrayal of suicide lead me to believe that leaving a note was a normal part of the whole process.
seconded. after my dlink crapped out on me, i switched to a wrt54gl, stuck dd-wrt on it and have been very satisfied with the results. after reading this story, i'm happier than ever that someone talked me into trying dd-wrt.
i'm well under 55, but i grew up watching b&w television until i was in my teens (we couldn't afford one of those fancy-pants color tvs). not only did i dream in color as a child (as i still do now), but i tended to recall the b&w shows i'd seen in color.
How many devices do you typically connect to your system at a time?
if we're talking firewire, two (and, for whatever reason, i need them to be on separate busses): one dv camera (canon gl1) and an external drive to which to capture the video (there's not enough room for large video captures/projects on the internal drive). my ol' powerbook with one fw400 and one fw800 port works great for that. not sure i could make it work with the latest mbp and its single fw800 port, so i'll be saving a lot of money not buying one, i guess. as it happens, i end up using two fw ports just about as often as i need to use two usb ports.
Most XBox 360 consoles before the recent hardware changes will die with unreasonably short lives. It's just a matter of time. It's a design flaw, not a manufacturing flaw.
i was also amused at the coincidence of this article hitting the actual day we finally broke down and bought a 360 (mainly in anticipation of rock band 2). keeping us away from the 360 until now had been price, a dearth of games that interested us (i used to be all about the fps, but no more) and the RRoD problem. i had asked a friend, about a year ago, about the issue and was astounded to learn the failure rate was in the double digits (i think he said it was around 13% back then). my faint hope is that, by waiting until this most recent hardware release, we're less likely to encounter the issue. have there been real changes made, or am i just living in a land of candy canes and fairies?
exactly. i was a passenger on a similar flight, once, myself (hi, john!). a fellow student was working on his pilot's license and took me out for a spin. the plane gradually lost all internal electrical and radio, leaving us out of contact with the tower and without that directional thingy (i don't know about planes) or lights (it was still daylight, though). in addition to the redundent system for the engine you mention, there is also a mechanical override for lowering the landing gear. i was a bit disappointed to discover that, as i though we were going to get to do a belly landing in the grass. there really was no worry, especially as the airstrip at which we were landing was extremely underpopulated (in fact, once we'd landed we discovered we were the *only* people there ... including "air traffic control"). the approach to the landing strip was easily the most humorous part of the whole experience, as it involved him looking out his side of the plane, me looking out mine and then both of us agreeing that no one was coming - much like crossing an intersection. the whole thing was a non-thing, in terms of fear factor, as we were really never in any danger (and the pilot really kept his cool well, leaving me feeling very confident), but it's been a fun story to relate to others.
a friend of mine built his into a solar coffee roaster, has subsequently refined and enlarged the design several times (it no longer resembles the original) and started a solar-roasted coffee business that seems to be going well.
everyone knows ROT13 is easily cracked. those of us in the know have long since switched to the much more robust ROT26.
writing clear, readable code isn't a "guy" thing or a "girl" thing, it's a "good programmer" thing. similarly, writing confusing, obfuscated code isn't a "guy" thing or a "girl" thing, it's a "clueless programmer" thing (unless it's being done for the ioccc, in which case it's totally cool).
do i comment my code? yes, but it's not because i'm "touchy-feely". i hate commenting my code. i hate documenting my work. it's a chore and a bore (and something i often leave until the very end). i do it because it's essential for me to be able to go back to my work in a few months time and understand what the heck it was i was doing/thinking at the time. this was drummed into us at school by our prof, who made code commenting and documentation 15% of the grade. he also required we use informative variable names and write legible code and we'd get dinged heavily if we didn't. i think he was right and so i continue to try to follow his advice every day, and this includes code i write purely for myself, but it goes against my nature.
i'm reminded of one time, early in my career, where i was given a small problem to solve. i solved it, then set about seeing what i could do to make it tighter and more clever, getting very caught up in the process. finally, i was very pleased to have something that used all kinds of nifty, bit-shifting tricks and whatnot and fit all on one line. i was pretty stoked, actually. awesome! it looked cool! the senior programmer mentoring me took a look at it, told me he thought it was way neat, but requested that i redo it all so that it a) was on many lines and 2) made sense to everyone else who'd have to come by later and figure out what i was doing. oh, and could i please be sure to include comments? lesson learned.
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disclaimer: i was a flautist, so it was expected i'd know of the more notable ones (met rampal once, as he was my teacher's teacher).
When it comes down to how an individual chooses to run/defend his or her ranch, it's highly dependent on the *local* population of livestock predators (which might also include things that attack humans). granted. in all likelihood, much (or even most) of the "they always carry guns" vs "we never carried guns" disagreement here is the result of locale. i worked on a farm/ranch in nebraska and, while there was almost certainly a gun somewhere on the property, i never saw it. i also never personally encountered a need for one. maybe there are more exciting, wild-and-feral bits to nebraska than the part i was occupying, but the most dangerous things i encountered on a daily basis were stinging insects (i did keep a stick around for beating off the smaller bugs and then just hoped the larger ones would stay away). the only instance in which a gun was likely put to use on this farm/ranch would have been to dispatch of badly sick or injured livestock and not for personal defense, so there was never one kept "at the ready".
ah. the evil thickens. i literally have only one other option for my area, and that's clearwire, which is just unacceptably slow and overpriced. color me depressed.
absolutely, i have been. i'm convinced that my ISP (charter) is throttling youtube specifically. i'll see speeds from youtube at less than 1/4 what i'll see from other sites (say, pulling apple trailers or watching flash content on any other site but youtube). it's been going on for ... i'm not certain how long, but a month at least? i'm trying to figure out to whom i should make my angry phone call. if i can find any viable alternative to charter in my area, i'm going for it.
will AdBlock Plus let me watch the video and not suffer the ads
... and i can't recall whether or not i had to allow adscripts to run). i've run into instances on some sites where i can't get a vid to play unless i actually disable ABP so they can deliver their intro advert, but a lot of the time i don't have to do that and i'm increasingly inclined to simply do without anything i can't watch with ABP (and NoScript) in place (it's largely just entertainment, after all, and not that important).
i'll be honest, i'm not sure, but i think in several cases, yes. i've watched quite a lot of tv episodes on the nbc site (the newer stuff, plus burned through all the retro offerings) and never saw an ad. i thought, "how nice, for a change, offering up their content without ads." it wasn't until i was on someone else's computer, not running ABP, that i realized there actually were ads inserted into the shows. ABP had been blocking them for me (for the record, i run both NoScript and ABP
I'm at the doctor's, awaiting my appointment. we all know how long that takes. so, to amuse myself while waiting, I get out my mobile device to see whether there's any free wifi floating about so that I can read /.. lo, there is, the signal is strong and the WAP's SSID is the doc's name. it's totally open, so I "naturally assume" it's being provided to me as a convenience, kind of like the three-month old US Weekly's in the waiting room (I didn't ask, though). imagine my amusement at finding this article on the front page.
unless your television has an atsc tuner (which wasn't clear to me from what you posted), you will need a box. as far as i know, most standard-def televisions (at least ones of the age i own(>5 years old)) only have ntsc tuners. i am unable to view ota digital signals on my tv without an atsc tuner which, in my case, is supplied by an elgato eye-tv (run through an old mac mini i have no other use for). i could, of course, be totally wrong.
Well on the bright side, at least you're staying in shape ...
and carbon neutral
my experience was that the firewall was not enabled by default. I had to enable it myself. the rest of what you posted is certainly the case, though.
see micheas' post here:
incredible.
i do not believe mr. righi was displaying "deliberate disrespect", nor was he doing anything "just to prove he could". he was defending his civil rights/liberties because it is necessary to do so. if one does not, one runs the far more serious risk of losing them. would it have been easier for him to simply roll over and comply? most probably, but it wouldn't necessarily have been right. as i see it, what he did wasn't just for his own sake but for the sake of everyone who has gone through or might go through something similar.
FTA: "They found that the SIDS babies had an abnormality in their brain stems that might impair vital reflexes such as breathing. The defect appeared to affect the brain stem's ability to regulate serotonin, the chemical that helps control these vital body functions.
In a normal baby, a rise in carbon dioxide would activate nerve cells to send a signal to wake up and breathe faster. Babies with abnormalities wouldn't get such activation."
it sounds to me this is more a congenital abnormality than a defect likely to arise due to trauma/injury.
i agree on the BMI == (largely)BS thing, and come to it from the other side.
i'm a low-density kind of person - i haven't got much muscle mass and my bones aren't particularly dense, either. my BMI puts me in the underweight range (i should mention i'm female), but i would not say i'm exactly skinny. in fact, in terms of body fat %, i'm on the high end of normal. i would say my BMI fails to represent my actual physical state pretty thoroughly.
not totally implausible, given the number of mac owners who use firefox rather than safari (myself included).
compact luggable
... i meant to say "compaq luggable" ... at something like 30 pounds it was anything but compact.
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