Or are you talking about maintaining a free software project?
Working on open source projects is worth a lot. Of course it depends on the kind of project. Being a committer on an Apache top-level project is better than having a degree, having your own sourceforge project that nobody has ever heard of isn't worth so much.
In Fallout 2 you had to survive with a melee weapon for quite a long time, and a couple of your companions were pretty effective despite being entirely melee oriented.
Down's is caused by an extra chromosome, it's impossible to defeat the syndrome during development without modifying the genetic code of every cell in the body.
Removing the extra gene can't be done, but for curing the symptoms (including the mental retardation), this research looks very promising. And it's the symptoms that are the problem here.
A friend told me about a young man with Downs syndrome who is adept at arithmetic. He lives alone and works as an accountant. Not bad at all for someone with his condition.
Ever heard of Chris Burke? Quite a lot of people would be jealous of accomplishments like that.
How is appointing a lunatic with an opposite bent to Hollywood's going to result in the law being re-aligned with common sense?
Exactly. If you only have lunatics on either side, what you end up with is bound to be lunacy. What we need is lunatics on both sides who shout extremist positions at each other and a pragmatic moderate in the middle who ignores them both equally.
Does HSUS operate outside the US? Because the scandal I'm talking about was in Netherland (where I live). It was all over the TV, newspapers, and parliament. It was very real, thought fortunately very small scale.
I grew up in cattle country, and I never once saw ANY rancher or feedlot (or anyone else for that matter) abuse livestock.
That's good. I hope farmers and ranchers in your area are very responsible in their treatment of livestock. But what's common in your area is not automatically universal. There is lots of cattle being treated badly. Sometimes legally, sometimes illegally. The illegal abuse is fortunately rare, but the legal mistreatment is often out of economic efficiency, and legal for that same reason.
It is an area where laws obviously help, and if you and ranchers in your area care about your cattle, wouldn't you want other ranchers and farmers to be held to the same high standards?
Tell me, do you really believe that some DO beat cattle just for the sheer fun of it??
Malice is surprisingly common in some people. Apathy even more so.
And do you really think a 1500 pound animal equipped with a short temper is going to just meekly put up with it??
Over here cattle isn't really all that short tempered. They're not like pigs or anything. But even if they are, there's often a fence separating animal from human.
It doesn't, but with some child prodigies I get the impression that every other aspect of development is sacrificed for excelling in one particular skill.
I'm all for well-rounded prodigies, but I've seen too many stories about brilliant children who were completely disfunctional in most areas outside their specialty.
"...hit their cattle with sticks" -- have you ever moved cattle?
I haven't, but my brother in law manages just fine without beating his cows. He's an excellent farmer who takes good care of his cows, but not everybody is like him.
There was a scandal here some months or years ago about unnecessary animal cruelty at cattle markets. Unnecessary cruelty, which is quite a bit more than a prod here and there to get the animal moving. And it was caught on camera, so kinda hard to deny.
But to hear the ARs talk, ranchers beat cattle just for the sheer hell of it.
Not all of them of course. Many farmers and cattle traders are good guys. Others aren't.
Someone who has no experience has no business telling someone who makes their living in that field how to do their job.
You could use that same argument to justify slavery. Since civil rights activists aren't running a cotton plantation, what right do they have criticizing someone who does?
get an eepc and install glubble on firefox (not tried that yet mind you).
I second Glubble. Officially it's focused at ages 6-12 I think, but it wouldn't surprise me if some of the websites they point to are also suitable for younger children. And it keeps them away from anything you think is inappropriate for them, and you get to keep an eye on what the hell they're doing on the web.
I was planning to buy my daughter (8) one, but I cannot find any linux models in Singapore sadly - forget the windows model! - i suppose that comes with minesweeper & solitaire at least! My eepc has Tuxmath - yeehar!
I got an eeepc for free. Windows model, unfortunately.
At age 2 he was using a remote control flight simulator and actually flying properly. By age 3 he was flying real large sized and powerful remote control helis and doing stunts that most adult pilots never master.
But at what age could he swim, climb a tree, or swim?
I'm all for teaching kids stuff and making them learn new and interesting skills, but I'd be really wary of turning them into prodigies who master only a single trick.
You're absolutely right of course. This kid's not interested in "anything electronic", he's interested in anything that goes "ping" or flashes pretty lights.
More importantly, this kid (like any other) is interested in anything his parents do. Until recently, my two year old nephew used to hold remote controls to his ear and call them daddy, because that's what his mother does with her mobile phone. By now, he has learned the difference between mobile phones and remote controls, but he's still not allowed to use them.
In other words, don't just let him watch you use the computer, play with him! Play with his toys. Show him what kind of cool stuff you can do with wooden blocks, with duplo, or with other toys that are suitable for a 2 year old. Play with them even when he's not interested, because that will make him interested.
His interest in computers will still be there in a couple of years. Or get him one of those cheap learning laptop toys. He can't tell the difference, and it'll give him the feeling he's doing what daddy is doing.
Mistreated, stressed, unhappy animals don't produce effectively. REGARDLESS OF SCALE, farmers and ranchers go to considerable lengths to ensure that livestock lead stress-free lives,
I truly wish you were right, but you're not. The economics of the meat industry lead many farmers to put as many animals as possible into as little space as possible, and spending as little time/attention on each animal as possible.
And then there's the veal that's apparently of better quality if the calf is kept in a small crate and never gets to see daylight in its life. In the EU it took legislation to put a stop to this, and as far as I understand it still happens in the US.
As a result, there is NO ONE more concerned about their animals' well-being than the livestock producers and slaughterhouses.
Some livestock producers and slaughterhouses are indeed very concerned with their animals' well being, but quite a lot are just in it for the money, which can lead to excessive cruelty.
And if you think there is more "mistreatment" now than in the past,
In scale definitely. In personal mistreatment probably not. Some farmers and cattle merchants still do hit their animals with sticks, but I like to believe that's the exception rather than the rule.
It's worse than vegans needing a huge array of vegetables. No plant produces vitamin B12, so vegans have to get it from some really odd sources, such as yeast extracts. It can be done, of course, but humans really do need to eat animals to live well.
As far as I understand, only children and pregnant women really need B12. And while plants don't have vitamin B12, eggs and cheese do, so you can live perfectly well without eating meat.
Then again, a few years ago I (vegetarian who ate lots of cheese and eggs) had a rare case of anemia that seemed to be related to a shortage of B12, so something in my understanding seems to be off.
Do you mean we're not allowed to eat protists either? Because if slime molds are out, then surely eating fungi and animals, being higher life forms, can't be ethical either.
I guess it depends on what you define as sentient. Whales (dunno), dolphins, and apes? - OK I'm not eating them, as they seem reasonably intelligent. Dogs - sure, as they are our pets.
Cows, and the rest of their ilk,I gladly eat.
I'm not stopping you from eating cows or chickens, but did you know pigs are actually smarter than dogs? In an experiment on animals playing computer games, pigs rivaled chimps.
But I agree. Foie Gras wouldn't be so bad if it happened without force feeding, and if apparently it can be done without force feeding, then why the hell are people still doing it?
Actually, until a couple hundred years ago, almost everyone had to butcher at least some of their own meat. Yet there were almost no willing vegetarians until only a couple decades ago.
Because until a couple of decades ago, there was no intensive meat industry that mistreated animals the way it currently does.
Also, until a couple hundred years ago, a lot of people didn't eat meat every day, but only once or twice a weak. And that's plenty.
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Or are you talking about maintaining a free software project?
Working on open source projects is worth a lot. Of course it depends on the kind of project. Being a committer on an Apache top-level project is better than having a degree, having your own sourceforge project that nobody has ever heard of isn't worth so much.
also its exactly 1 1973 V8 away from Mad Max town.
I liked the car you got in FO2. Maybe the DLC will add something like that?
You, sir, owe me a new sarcasm meter.
I'm actually partially serious. I can't wait until my upcoming kid is old enough to play with Lego.
In Fallout 2 you had to survive with a melee weapon for quite a long time, and a couple of your companions were pretty effective despite being entirely melee oriented.
Down's is caused by an extra chromosome, it's impossible to defeat the syndrome during development without modifying the genetic code of every cell in the body.
Removing the extra gene can't be done, but for curing the symptoms (including the mental retardation), this research looks very promising. And it's the symptoms that are the problem here.
A friend told me about a young man with Downs syndrome who is adept at arithmetic. He lives alone and works as an accountant. Not bad at all for someone with his condition.
Ever heard of Chris Burke? Quite a lot of people would be jealous of accomplishments like that.
How is appointing a lunatic with an opposite bent to Hollywood's going to result in the law being re-aligned with common sense?
Exactly. If you only have lunatics on either side, what you end up with is bound to be lunacy. What we need is lunatics on both sides who shout extremist positions at each other and a pragmatic moderate in the middle who ignores them both equally.
The scandal was generated by HSUS,
Does HSUS operate outside the US? Because the scandal I'm talking about was in Netherland (where I live). It was all over the TV, newspapers, and parliament. It was very real, thought fortunately very small scale.
I grew up in cattle country, and I never once saw ANY rancher or feedlot (or anyone else for that matter) abuse livestock.
That's good. I hope farmers and ranchers in your area are very responsible in their treatment of livestock. But what's common in your area is not automatically universal. There is lots of cattle being treated badly. Sometimes legally, sometimes illegally. The illegal abuse is fortunately rare, but the legal mistreatment is often out of economic efficiency, and legal for that same reason.
It is an area where laws obviously help, and if you and ranchers in your area care about your cattle, wouldn't you want other ranchers and farmers to be held to the same high standards?
Tell me, do you really believe that some DO beat cattle just for the sheer fun of it??
Malice is surprisingly common in some people. Apathy even more so.
And do you really think a 1500 pound animal equipped with a short temper is going to just meekly put up with it??
Over here cattle isn't really all that short tempered. They're not like pigs or anything. But even if they are, there's often a fence separating animal from human.
Why does it have to be either-or???
It doesn't, but with some child prodigies I get the impression that every other aspect of development is sacrificed for excelling in one particular skill.
I'm all for well-rounded prodigies, but I've seen too many stories about brilliant children who were completely disfunctional in most areas outside their specialty.
"...hit their cattle with sticks" -- have you ever moved cattle?
I haven't, but my brother in law manages just fine without beating his cows. He's an excellent farmer who takes good care of his cows, but not everybody is like him.
There was a scandal here some months or years ago about unnecessary animal cruelty at cattle markets. Unnecessary cruelty, which is quite a bit more than a prod here and there to get the animal moving. And it was caught on camera, so kinda hard to deny.
But to hear the ARs talk, ranchers beat cattle just for the sheer hell of it.
Not all of them of course. Many farmers and cattle traders are good guys. Others aren't.
Someone who has no experience has no business telling someone who makes their living in that field how to do their job.
You could use that same argument to justify slavery. Since civil rights activists aren't running a cotton plantation, what right do they have criticizing someone who does?
get an eepc and install glubble on firefox (not tried that yet mind you).
I second Glubble. Officially it's focused at ages 6-12 I think, but it wouldn't surprise me if some of the websites they point to are also suitable for younger children. And it keeps them away from anything you think is inappropriate for them, and you get to keep an eye on what the hell they're doing on the web.
I was planning to buy my daughter (8) one, but I cannot find any linux models in Singapore sadly - forget the windows model! - i suppose that comes with minesweeper & solitaire at least! My eepc has Tuxmath - yeehar!
I got an eeepc for free. Windows model, unfortunately.
Look up Justin Chi on Youtube.
At age 2 he was using a remote control flight simulator and actually flying properly.
By age 3 he was flying real large sized and powerful remote control helis and doing stunts that most adult pilots never master.
But at what age could he swim, climb a tree, or swim?
I'm all for teaching kids stuff and making them learn new and interesting skills, but I'd be really wary of turning them into prodigies who master only a single trick.
But you'll never ever have the chance again to play with toys all day.
Exactly. Getting to play with toys all day is the entire point of having a kid.
The Boohbah website also has this kind of stuff.
This is hilarious. I particularly enjoyed the screen with 5 balls each of which activates one track of a tune. And some funny creatures dancing to it.
Maybe computers can be appropriate for a toddler after all. Although I'm still not sure if a 2 year old can control a mouse.
Only a couple of months until I've got a kid of my own. Can't wait.
You're absolutely right of course. This kid's not interested in "anything electronic", he's interested in anything that goes "ping" or flashes pretty lights.
More importantly, this kid (like any other) is interested in anything his parents do. Until recently, my two year old nephew used to hold remote controls to his ear and call them daddy, because that's what his mother does with her mobile phone. By now, he has learned the difference between mobile phones and remote controls, but he's still not allowed to use them.
In other words, don't just let him watch you use the computer, play with him! Play with his toys. Show him what kind of cool stuff you can do with wooden blocks, with duplo, or with other toys that are suitable for a 2 year old. Play with them even when he's not interested, because that will make him interested.
His interest in computers will still be there in a couple of years. Or get him one of those cheap learning laptop toys. He can't tell the difference, and it'll give him the feeling he's doing what daddy is doing.
And he used wifi instead of Apple's lightning fast 3G network!
Mistreated, stressed, unhappy animals don't produce effectively. REGARDLESS OF SCALE, farmers and ranchers go to considerable lengths to ensure that livestock lead stress-free lives,
I truly wish you were right, but you're not. The economics of the meat industry lead many farmers to put as many animals as possible into as little space as possible, and spending as little time/attention on each animal as possible.
And then there's the veal that's apparently of better quality if the calf is kept in a small crate and never gets to see daylight in its life. In the EU it took legislation to put a stop to this, and as far as I understand it still happens in the US.
As a result, there is NO ONE more concerned about their animals' well-being than the livestock producers and slaughterhouses.
Some livestock producers and slaughterhouses are indeed very concerned with their animals' well being, but quite a lot are just in it for the money, which can lead to excessive cruelty.
And if you think there is more "mistreatment" now than in the past,
In scale definitely. In personal mistreatment probably not. Some farmers and cattle merchants still do hit their animals with sticks, but I like to believe that's the exception rather than the rule.
"Cannibals say that human tastes of chicken, so, babies taste of chicken.
Really? I was told it's more like pork.
animals with canines eat meat.
This is so completely false.
Personally I'd be a bit creeped out by the overly industrialised gen-tech related meat production. There's no pleasing me, I suppose.
It's worse than vegans needing a huge array of vegetables. No plant produces vitamin B12, so vegans have to get it from some really odd sources, such as yeast extracts. It can be done, of course, but humans really do need to eat animals to live well.
As far as I understand, only children and pregnant women really need B12. And while plants don't have vitamin B12, eggs and cheese do, so you can live perfectly well without eating meat.
Then again, a few years ago I (vegetarian who ate lots of cheese and eggs) had a rare case of anemia that seemed to be related to a shortage of B12, so something in my understanding seems to be off.
PETA and their Protista friends
Do you mean we're not allowed to eat protists either? Because if slime molds are out, then surely eating fungi and animals, being higher life forms, can't be ethical either.
I guess it depends on what you define as sentient.
Whales (dunno), dolphins, and apes? - OK I'm not eating them, as they seem reasonably intelligent.
Dogs - sure, as they are our pets.
Cows, and the rest of their ilk,I gladly eat.
I'm not stopping you from eating cows or chickens, but did you know pigs are actually smarter than dogs? In an experiment on animals playing computer games, pigs rivaled chimps.
this is pregnancy that every woman experiences.
Not every woman experiences pregnancy.
But I agree. Foie Gras wouldn't be so bad if it happened without force feeding, and if apparently it can be done without force feeding, then why the hell are people still doing it?
Actually, until a couple hundred years ago, almost everyone had to butcher at least some of their own meat. Yet there were almost no willing vegetarians until only a couple decades ago.
Because until a couple of decades ago, there was no intensive meat industry that mistreated animals the way it currently does.
Also, until a couple hundred years ago, a lot of people didn't eat meat every day, but only once or twice a weak. And that's plenty.