Besides the human interest story, there is a specific news item in the post about tech people making communications easier in the midst of disaster. Isn't that really interesting for your inner nerd?
It's easy to blame the teachers. But this is probably an untrue accusation. Speaking to teachers, they themselves bemoan the lack of engagement of parents. So we have people who blame the teachers who blame the parents who blame the...are you getting where I'm going with that? There's something else wrong, and it's probably not the fault of a single class of people (there are so few common traits across all of them that such generalization is...short-sighted).
Then again, I had teachers that would go to sleep in class (in High School). Also, I was told not to go to a 4 year university by administrators (I went anyway). What kind of teachers and administrators do that? But I would say that my experiences are not exactly normal. My school didn't even offer a genetics course. Well, maybe it did. I wouldn't know; I was stuck in mid-level courses. I don't know why. I guess I didn't care enough. I didn't know better. I was 12 when that path started in Jr. High...
There is something else there. I think it's a more fundamental aspect to American culture, where intellectualism is shunned. Politicians pay lip service only to science, math, and even the humanities. Politicians and voters all say, "Education, education!" but that doesn't mean anything because no-one wants to look at policy. "Education" is an empty cheer. How many people are anti-education? Even a libertarian wants their kids to be educated, even if they're the ones that want to do it. And yet, we (in a general sense) want a president who isn't an elite, who we "can have a beer with." Do we remember that it was a news headline that Obama liked Dijon mustard? How positively absurd. We want the best athletes, the best doctors, the best everything, but we want a normal guy to run it all. Yeah. Sure.
It's not just Republicans/Fox that does this, just it seems more brazen there. And recent. I just got on a rant. Sorry.
I used to have an open area where at least 4 (and sometimes up to 7, before a layoff) people would work, all on the phones with constant interruptions and cross-talk. My nerves got very fried. I couldn't concentrate on anything before I quit because of all that damned noise.
Now I have an enclosed office with a very heavy door. I rarely close the door, but I just like being able to be able. And I can concentrate so much better in this environment. And, seriously, getting up and walking even to the other side of the building (or picking up that black thing in a cradle behind me) to talk to someone is not even that big of a deal.
Different people need different things for different jobs, I guess. But the small cubicles remind me of desks used in school. Maybe that's the next step...
Because they're actually anti-choice rather than pro-life.
Not saying you are, but that agenda is clearly against a woman's right to control their body and no concern for the human being that might exist if it comes to term.
Even if it is useful (and I'm not saying that it isn't), the root cause isn't women walking around, which they should be able to do anyway, it's people raping them that are the problem. Root cause, eh.
Like this, it's not that people need security at airports for such things, it's that people trying to hijack planes that are the problem. If you don't have hijackers, then you can carry your "knifes" without worry because there is no reason other than such people to disallow them.
She does have a point. What we do not is like telling women not to walk alone at night so they don't get raped when it would be far better to make sure men don't rape them. (Not ignoring the possibilities of other genders here, but...) What we do also fails in a painful way: The risk is ephemerally small. The cost is not worth the benefit.
People die, eventually. If you don't like that (or how they die for that matter), fix the root cause, not the symptoms.
Let's start like this: I think you're right. Eventually.
But then they'll realize that they can make you do stuff to keep your program going. This might be cool for kids and exercise programs, but I don't want to _have_ to do something so I can find out what happens in the last 15 minutes of {TV SHOW}.
You do know there are pharmacists and their technicians on duty, right? Ones that already are responsible for categorizing and, in some cases, preparing such drugs and delivery systems.We can fix it, we have the technology. There is no excuse simply because a hospital "needs a few extra tubes around." They don't run out of this stuff, and if they do then the hospital (as an entity separate from the patient) can be in serious trouble. And the cost of the tubes are ephemeral compared with the labor costs of the people that are already there.
The number of drugs most hospitals have on-hand, at all times, is mind-boggling; you think a few non-interchangeable tubes is going to be a problem? I'm sorry, it's not a car junkyard, eh.
It's not that the nurses shouldn't make mistakes (they shouldn't, but they do, because they're frakking human), but it's about making the system now allow stupid mistakes like this.
So, let me get this right...you want to use an ultra-portable computer, but there are some places you won't take it, and that is a problem with the device?
If you're going to go canoeing, walk over to your regular PC and print out the directions. Or, well, use a dropbox/autohotkey kind of setup where you can print files on a target computer once they are placed in a directory.
There are objections, man, but really, think about it for a half-second.
Also, there are big zip-loc bags you could use.
What do I know? I just carry my cheap netbook everywhere...
I cannot provide a citation, only anecdote. My last 2 health insurance companies surcharged you for being a smoker or living with one. They said they reserved the right to refuse payment for any "traditional smoker's disease" or some-such if you got sick and didn't pay up.
I am assuming, that if you paid then quit smoking and therefore stopped paying the surcharge, you were still screwed for the money later on if you got sick.
Do you live alone? Not a jab or anything, but kids and other people just move stuff for no reason. Yes, there is a "landing pad" for wallet and keys, why do they move what's there? I have no idea, but they do.
I just keep keys and my wallet in my bag or in my coat pocket now and I hang my coat up and my bag (some people have briefcases) is put away. If I don't have my bag, I probably don't need all the keys, and so I just take what I need.
Simple. And I don't care if I carry a bag around; I've got useful stuff in there.
Check out Every Day Carry Forums for some interesting things that people carry and the methods they use.
As a tech writer, it makes me feel bad that they're going away. But that I feel bad doesn't mean that they're a useful cost to the environment or industry. I haven't opened a manual for any game since I played games only on my new Genesis. And if you're having trouble with a game, well, the Internet is everywhere, and there probably is a walk-through somewhere.
Though I do wish I could skip or speed up some of those tutorials. Yes, I understand how to press the X button to jump, thank you.
The actions of one inside one's house and freedom of movement and ability to do what you want within the law? That's not freedom? That wouldn't fall under their human rights? Seriously?
Unless you think just food is a human right. Then I think you would be OK with people going and stealing food because they have a right to not starve. Certain rights have implications beyond the obvious.
I think you have an interesting point here on the resource requirements of regeneration. Part of the obesity problem is that our bodies evolved to store whatever they couldn't use right now for later, so it stands to reason that such things were "turned off" for efficiency's sake. We didn't necessarily evolve in a land of plenty
As for infection rates, I would like to see that study done, too...
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He's also innocent until proven guilty. He "should be tried" should be your stance.
Srsly?
Besides the human interest story, there is a specific news item in the post about tech people making communications easier in the midst of disaster. Isn't that really interesting for your inner nerd?
US-centric, obviously, here.
It's easy to blame the teachers. But this is probably an untrue accusation. Speaking to teachers, they themselves bemoan the lack of engagement of parents. So we have people who blame the teachers who blame the parents who blame the...are you getting where I'm going with that? There's something else wrong, and it's probably not the fault of a single class of people (there are so few common traits across all of them that such generalization is...short-sighted).
Then again, I had teachers that would go to sleep in class (in High School). Also, I was told not to go to a 4 year university by administrators (I went anyway). What kind of teachers and administrators do that? But I would say that my experiences are not exactly normal. My school didn't even offer a genetics course. Well, maybe it did. I wouldn't know; I was stuck in mid-level courses. I don't know why. I guess I didn't care enough. I didn't know better. I was 12 when that path started in Jr. High...
There is something else there. I think it's a more fundamental aspect to American culture, where intellectualism is shunned. Politicians pay lip service only to science, math, and even the humanities. Politicians and voters all say, "Education, education!" but that doesn't mean anything because no-one wants to look at policy. "Education" is an empty cheer. How many people are anti-education? Even a libertarian wants their kids to be educated, even if they're the ones that want to do it. And yet, we (in a general sense) want a president who isn't an elite, who we "can have a beer with." Do we remember that it was a news headline that Obama liked Dijon mustard? How positively absurd. We want the best athletes, the best doctors, the best everything, but we want a normal guy to run it all. Yeah. Sure.
It's not just Republicans/Fox that does this, just it seems more brazen there. And recent. I just got on a rant. Sorry.
I get the reference, but I'm just a paper pusher; I don't have any reports.
I used to have an open area where at least 4 (and sometimes up to 7, before a layoff) people would work, all on the phones with constant interruptions and cross-talk. My nerves got very fried. I couldn't concentrate on anything before I quit because of all that damned noise.
Now I have an enclosed office with a very heavy door. I rarely close the door, but I just like being able to be able. And I can concentrate so much better in this environment. And, seriously, getting up and walking even to the other side of the building (or picking up that black thing in a cradle behind me) to talk to someone is not even that big of a deal.
Different people need different things for different jobs, I guess. But the small cubicles remind me of desks used in school. Maybe that's the next step...
That's the states. The states can regulate commerce inside their state.
There is no federal auto insurance mandate. It's just obscenely common.
Because they're actually anti-choice rather than pro-life.
Not saying you are, but that agenda is clearly against a woman's right to control their body and no concern for the human being that might exist if it comes to term.
Even if it is useful (and I'm not saying that it isn't), the root cause isn't women walking around, which they should be able to do anyway, it's people raping them that are the problem. Root cause, eh.
Like this, it's not that people need security at airports for such things, it's that people trying to hijack planes that are the problem. If you don't have hijackers, then you can carry your "knifes" without worry because there is no reason other than such people to disallow them.
She does have a point. What we do not is like telling women not to walk alone at night so they don't get raped when it would be far better to make sure men don't rape them. (Not ignoring the possibilities of other genders here, but...) What we do also fails in a painful way: The risk is ephemerally small. The cost is not worth the benefit.
People die, eventually. If you don't like that (or how they die for that matter), fix the root cause, not the symptoms.
Of course, what do I know?
Let's start like this: I think you're right. Eventually.
But then they'll realize that they can make you do stuff to keep your program going. This might be cool for kids and exercise programs, but I don't want to _have_ to do something so I can find out what happens in the last 15 minutes of {TV SHOW}.
No. Of course not. Where would he keep us all?
In the article, he brought it in for an oil change and the mechanic/technician found it because a wire was sticking out where it shouldn't have been.
You do know there are pharmacists and their technicians on duty, right? Ones that already are responsible for categorizing and, in some cases, preparing such drugs and delivery systems.We can fix it, we have the technology. There is no excuse simply because a hospital "needs a few extra tubes around." They don't run out of this stuff, and if they do then the hospital (as an entity separate from the patient) can be in serious trouble. And the cost of the tubes are ephemeral compared with the labor costs of the people that are already there.
The number of drugs most hospitals have on-hand, at all times, is mind-boggling; you think a few non-interchangeable tubes is going to be a problem? I'm sorry, it's not a car junkyard, eh.
It's not that the nurses shouldn't make mistakes (they shouldn't, but they do, because they're frakking human), but it's about making the system now allow stupid mistakes like this.
Well, considering you're one data point...
Shy and introverted since forever...but that's not even relevant.
But, in this scenario, he's dead. Can't interrogate a corpse. Yet.
Obviously you can't see the facts.
So, let me get this right...you want to use an ultra-portable computer, but there are some places you won't take it, and that is a problem with the device?
If you're going to go canoeing, walk over to your regular PC and print out the directions. Or, well, use a dropbox/autohotkey kind of setup where you can print files on a target computer once they are placed in a directory.
There are objections, man, but really, think about it for a half-second.
Also, there are big zip-loc bags you could use.
What do I know? I just carry my cheap netbook everywhere...
Hmm, Blue Cross of Minn, IIRC.
I cannot provide a citation, only anecdote. My last 2 health insurance companies surcharged you for being a smoker or living with one. They said they reserved the right to refuse payment for any "traditional smoker's disease" or some-such if you got sick and didn't pay up.
I am assuming, that if you paid then quit smoking and therefore stopped paying the surcharge, you were still screwed for the money later on if you got sick.
Do you live alone? Not a jab or anything, but kids and other people just move stuff for no reason. Yes, there is a "landing pad" for wallet and keys, why do they move what's there? I have no idea, but they do.
I just keep keys and my wallet in my bag or in my coat pocket now and I hang my coat up and my bag (some people have briefcases) is put away. If I don't have my bag, I probably don't need all the keys, and so I just take what I need.
Simple. And I don't care if I carry a bag around; I've got useful stuff in there.
Check out Every Day Carry Forums for some interesting things that people carry and the methods they use.
As a tech writer, it makes me feel bad that they're going away. But that I feel bad doesn't mean that they're a useful cost to the environment or industry. I haven't opened a manual for any game since I played games only on my new Genesis. And if you're having trouble with a game, well, the Internet is everywhere, and there probably is a walk-through somewhere.
Though I do wish I could skip or speed up some of those tutorials. Yes, I understand how to press the X button to jump, thank you.
The running of a router in someone's house would qualify as something they can do within the law. That's their freedom, I would argue.
Like abortion, you don't like it, that's fine, but work to change the law, don't work by killing doctors. Maybe not the best example...
The actions of one inside one's house and freedom of movement and ability to do what you want within the law? That's not freedom? That wouldn't fall under their human rights? Seriously?
Unless you think just food is a human right. Then I think you would be OK with people going and stealing food because they have a right to not starve. Certain rights have implications beyond the obvious.
A simple search for the words "software validation" will be helpful in someone wanting to know the extents of such "approvals".
I think you have an interesting point here on the resource requirements of regeneration. Part of the obesity problem is that our bodies evolved to store whatever they couldn't use right now for later, so it stands to reason that such things were "turned off" for efficiency's sake. We didn't necessarily evolve in a land of plenty
As for infection rates, I would like to see that study done, too...