No Paki - for crisp sake! Apu is a Hindu Indian. He is frequently seen pouring milk onto the statue of elephant god Ganesh that is located in the corner of his store. FYI.
when you read the article, you find out that the material is not aluminum metal. It is just a transparent corund-like substance. Al203 alone is pretty hard (and easy to make - including gem colored versions) and the mixed oxide-nitride is probably harder.
About 8 years ago I was talking to a guy who owns a company in Arizona supplying some circuitry for fighter planes. They are actually not building them - they are buying stuff of the shelf (for few hundred bucks apiece). They put them in ovens and run a week-long diagnostics on them while heating them and doing other kinds of stress tests. Then they re-sell these tested boards for about 30k each.
(The guy was keen on employing refugee engineers from Bosnia - they don't complain much and if you don't overpay them, they will be glad to work on weekends too, to earn some extra wages for their families. He was telling me this on a ski lift in a Colorado mountain resort:)
1. Build an induction coil inside a plush chair 2. Choose an unpleasant relative (who has a remotely-rechageable implant). 3. Offer the chair (and step back). 5. Sue the battery manufacturer!! (Now, if you pool your implant-malfunctioning relatives with other parties you can do class-action suit instead)
Here is couple of reasons to quit (from experience)
1. Boss that is dishonest, manipulative and disloyal to his peole. You can put up with slave-driving, rude, tactless and unreasonable boss (up to a point) but you cannot work for a guy who is flaky, undercuts you, cheats, is arrogant and never listens. A borish but capable boss is preferable to a nice weak guy who does not take a good care of his people and projects. But the loyality, respect and honesty are the most important, they have to go both ways. 2. Incessant crunchtimes. It is good helping to save the company for a while and a campain that lasts for few weeks can be justified. But if they start anothe crash-effort immediately after the previous one ends and if they drive you for months without break, it means the managers are using you and do not give damn about you. This often happens when the top guys are either fools or dishonest and make promises on which it is impossible to make good. They are declaring crunchtime effort and setingt everybody elese to fail or burn out. 3. Tired/dispirited/cynical colleagues. If you see guys that are capable, bright but dilbertized, it usualy has a reason. You don't want to become like them. 4. Little things: Are people relaxed or are they freeking out? Is the company generaly scroodgy in little details - or is it generous? (I worked for a good company and then immediately for a very nasty one. The nasty company was paying me 5k extra and had a better research. The salary increase was not worth it. The little day-to day viciousnes from the management types made me eager to quit). 5. Does your work make the world a better place? If everything you have done gets useless (or worse) and you will have nothing exciting to say about the outcome of your effort, maybe you should quit while you can.
I worked for 3 pharma companies. I would never openly challenge a company like this about their product. I would find a new employer first and then I would try to leak out what was going on - and I would be extra careful that my new and old employers would not find out it was me. Why volunteer yourselfs to go in front of a firing squad? - It is not important that you made the point first, give a journalist a hint, he will give you a story. If they then call you then to testify, you do it, maybe without trying to look eager.
Reporting to autorities on your own employer - even if there was a serious wrongdoing - is certain to end your industry career.
the kind of wet towels that come in a sealed roll. Preferably the pleasantly scented kind - because you will be not be. Also, you may want to stock up on ointments to treat skin condition from wadding in dirty water, sweating in hot weather, not changing your clothes often and not showering enough.
Insightful?? How this can be insightfull? Do you realize how much money a successfull blowjob specialist can make?. I say: "Live on you knees and like it - or leave it."
this is a gas generator that (supposedly) reduces CO and NO emissions and improves fuel efficiency by injecting gas mix into combustion chamber. The advertised fuel efficiency effect is 10%. This effect is rather marginal and the tests they have done are unconvincing. (If you measure your fuel consumption with the device on, you cannot compare it with the manufacturers rated consumption - you must compare it with the same car/engine against the device off.)
Something may come out of this but I do not like these guys. I especialy do not like them raving about making Kjoto protocol obsolete - because they apparently have no clue what they are talking about. If physics and chemistry knowledge is lacking in their promo, I have doubts about their product too.
instead of this petulant childish reply, the situation was perfect for a corporate parody written in pure businesspeak.
If it was me, I have would send the guy the resume and quietly arrange an interwiew. After Redmont, I would give a nice press release that "the Microsoft core values and corporate structure did not seem to fit with my mission and objectives and it transpired that an employment at Microsoft would not result in synergies with the Open source movement"
I would take the day off. It could be more fun than visiting Church of Scientology recruitment center.
Fortunately, they do care about results around here - so much that my boss felt like "optimizing" our work style. He thought that he could sqeeze out another 50% productivity if he discouraged me from reading work-unrelated stuff and drinking tea all the time.
I tried all the reasoning that you suggested and I asked a friend to go in between so that I would not have to report to this abusive boss for awhile. I also asked the boss to find a replacement for me and updated my resume.
What eventualy did the trick was the work slowdown. You would be amazed how much less is done if you leave at 5pm every day and don't come back on weekends.
(I don't mind working lot of hours: it is actualy enjoyable - I do drug research synthetic work - as long as I don't have a slavedriver standing behind me and telling me to shake the sep funnels faster.)
My problem is that my boss does not like video games. He wants to see some (frentic) activity whenever he walks in our labs and offices and he is deeply suspicious that I am slacking off as much as I can. The results are no excuse for him.
Plus, since he is from a different field, he does not realy understand the details of our work (=ammount of work required) so whenever he assigns me a new (urgent) subproject and I would tell him how much time I will need to complete it, he starts arguing with me that I should finish it faster if I did not make excuses and work harder.
Now, he actualy stopped harrasing me lately (because it did not get him anywhere and I was about to quit) but he stil thinks that I am an overpaid slob and primadona.
Rain-X works by making the surface more greasy (water-repellent) which causes the drops growing big quicker. It is supposed to make a chemical bond with glass but the problem is that the bond is very unstable. And the greasines causes other yuck and dust to stick more easily to the windshield.
The described invention works by opposite effect - like a detergent, breaking dropplets to form a uniform water film. The polymer they use for attaching silica microparticles can be effective on its own and it is probably applicable as a water-based spray - it may not be very durable as such but it could be lot less messy for "apply by yourself" than Ran-X.
embrittling of polymers happen because the long polymer chains get fragmented by radiation and the internal defects accumulate. But PE is pretty resistant against UV-caused aging because it absorbs very little in UV region (but I do not know about the effect of highly energetic cosmic rays).
NASA should also consider highly rigid polymers like polycyclopentene - PCP has a good strenght and much higher melting point than PE. It is more expensive to make but I guess the price here is not the biggest factor.
The drug usage may actualy decrease when drug becomes OTC because the OTCs are not covered by US insurances as a rule. And the price has to be lower if patients end-up buying it out of their pocket (rather than paying some small fixed co-pay for dispensing a prescription). Doctors would not over-prescribe either because they would not profit from OTC prescription. Lose-lose situation.
Sir, I think you are talking out of your ass. The last thing that a pharma company desires is to have its unique patented medicine available over the counter. OTC medications have to be reasonably priced and are not covered by HMOs as a rule. The typical example are non-sedating antihistaminics of Claritin/Clarinex series. The company was forced by FDA to make it available OTC because the drug is effective and very safe. This greatly reduced health care costs since patients do not need precription. This was also a great blow to the company selling the stuff because the people use it less when they have to pay for it out of their pocket.
A medication that reverses effect of sleep deprivation and fatigue exists for at least 10 years. It is called Modafinil and endurance sport profesionals just love it. So does US army and Airforce: Modafinil can produce quite safe alertness without sleep for several days without jitternes, clenched jaw, hypomania and addiction, the typical problems of amphetamines. It gives no pleasurable high.
The downside of Modafinil is that if you don't sleep for a week, the immune system breaks down and you can die from a massive abdominal infection.
If you are eager to experiment on yourself, you can buy Modafinil from some Viagra-peddling web sites. Not that I would recommended it but the drug is supposed to be reasonably safe.
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No Paki - for crisp sake! Apu is a Hindu Indian. He is frequently seen pouring milk onto the statue of elephant god Ganesh that is located in the corner of his store. FYI.
when you read the article, you find out that the material is not aluminum metal. It is just a transparent corund-like substance. Al203 alone is pretty hard (and easy to make - including gem colored versions) and the mixed oxide-nitride is probably harder.
How many days can Snowhite cook - if every day she cooks twice as many dwarves as the day before?
About 8 years ago I was talking to a guy who owns a company in Arizona supplying some circuitry for fighter planes. They are actually not building them - they are buying stuff of the shelf (for few hundred bucks apiece). They put them in ovens and run a week-long diagnostics on them while heating them and doing other kinds of stress tests. Then they re-sell these tested boards for about 30k each.
:)
(The guy was keen on employing refugee engineers from Bosnia - they don't complain much and if you don't overpay them, they will be glad to work on weekends too, to earn some extra wages for their families. He was telling me this on a ski lift in a Colorado mountain resort
Bad, bad eucalyptus. Global warming is accelerating (marsupials).
1. Build an induction coil inside a plush chair
2. Choose an unpleasant relative (who has a remotely-rechageable implant).
3. Offer the chair (and step back).
5. Sue the battery manufacturer!!
(Now, if you pool your implant-malfunctioning relatives with other parties you can do class-action suit instead)
Here is couple of reasons to quit (from experience)
1. Boss that is dishonest, manipulative and disloyal to his peole. You can put up with slave-driving, rude, tactless and unreasonable boss (up to a point) but you cannot work for a guy who is flaky, undercuts you, cheats, is arrogant and never listens. A borish but capable boss is preferable to a nice weak guy who does not take a good care of his people and projects. But the loyality, respect and honesty are the most important, they have to go both ways.
2. Incessant crunchtimes. It is good helping to save the company for a while and a campain that lasts for few weeks can be justified. But if they start anothe crash-effort immediately after the previous one ends and if they drive you for months without break, it means the managers are using you and do not give damn about you. This often happens when the top guys are either fools or dishonest and make promises on which it is impossible to make good. They are declaring crunchtime effort and setingt everybody elese to fail or burn out.
3. Tired/dispirited/cynical colleagues. If you see guys that are capable, bright but dilbertized, it usualy has a reason. You don't want to become like them.
4. Little things: Are people relaxed or are they freeking out? Is the company generaly scroodgy in little details - or is it generous? (I worked for a good company and then immediately for a very nasty one. The nasty company was paying me 5k extra and had a better research. The salary increase was not worth it. The little day-to day viciousnes from the management types made me eager to quit).
5. Does your work make the world a better place? If everything you have done gets useless (or worse) and you will have nothing exciting to say about the outcome of your effort, maybe you should quit while you can.
"But once you taste the water, you realize the potential."
Perhaps a coffee flavoring agent for Folger's "value roast" blend, sold for office use only?
The headline fooled me. At first, I though he was going to a re-hab or something
80% of their jet fuel needs is hedged at $26 per barrel, to be exact.
I worked for 3 pharma companies. I would never openly challenge a company like this about their product. I would find a new employer first and then I would try to leak out what was going on - and I would be extra careful that my new and old employers would not find out it was me. Why volunteer yourselfs to go in front of a firing squad? - It is not important that you made the point first, give a journalist a hint, he will give you a story. If they then call you then to testify, you do it, maybe without trying to look eager.
Reporting to autorities on your own employer - even if there was a serious wrongdoing - is certain to end your industry career.
the kind of wet towels that come in a sealed roll. Preferably the pleasantly scented kind - because you will be not be. Also, you may want to stock up on ointments to treat skin condition from wadding in dirty water, sweating in hot weather, not changing your clothes often and not showering enough.
Insightful?? How this can be insightfull? Do you realize how much money a successfull blowjob specialist can make?. I say: "Live on you knees and like it - or leave it."
this is a gas generator that (supposedly) reduces CO and NO emissions and improves fuel efficiency by injecting gas mix into combustion chamber. The advertised fuel efficiency effect is 10%. This effect is rather marginal and the tests they have done are unconvincing.
(If you measure your fuel consumption with the device on, you cannot compare it with the manufacturers rated consumption - you must compare it with the same car/engine against the device off.)
Something may come out of this but I do not like these guys. I especialy do not like them raving about making Kjoto protocol obsolete - because they apparently have no clue what they are talking about. If physics and chemistry knowledge is lacking in their promo, I have doubts about their product too.
instead of this petulant childish reply, the situation was perfect for a corporate parody written in pure businesspeak.
If it was me, I have would send the guy the resume and quietly arrange an interwiew. After Redmont, I would give a nice press release that "the Microsoft core values and corporate structure did not seem to fit with my mission and objectives and it transpired that an employment at Microsoft would not result in synergies with the Open source movement"
I would take the day off. It could be more fun than visiting Church of Scientology recruitment center.
If you die and make it to the Heaven, the first thing you will notice is the funky Google sign over their gate.
Fortunately, they do care about results around here - so much that my boss felt like "optimizing" our work style. He thought that he could sqeeze out another 50% productivity if he discouraged me from reading work-unrelated stuff and drinking tea all the time.
I tried all the reasoning that you suggested and I asked a friend to go in between so that I would not have to report to this abusive boss for awhile. I also asked the boss to find a replacement for me and updated my resume.
What eventualy did the trick was the work slowdown. You would be amazed how much less is done if you leave at 5pm every day and don't come back on weekends.
(I don't mind working lot of hours: it is actualy enjoyable - I do drug research synthetic work - as long as I don't have a slavedriver standing behind me and telling me to shake the sep funnels faster.)
My problem is that my boss does not like video games. He wants to see some (frentic) activity whenever he walks in our labs and offices and he is deeply suspicious that I am slacking off as much as I can. The results are no excuse for him.
Plus, since he is from a different field, he does not realy understand the details of our work (=ammount of work required) so whenever he assigns me a new (urgent) subproject and I would tell him how much time I will need to complete it, he starts arguing with me that I should finish it faster if I did not make excuses and work harder.
Now, he actualy stopped harrasing me lately (because it did not get him anywhere and I was about to quit) but he stil thinks that I am an overpaid slob and primadona.
The only thing that Balmer threw was the hissy fit. He forgot to take some mints and that's why the chair topled over.
Maybe they can rename the city to New Venice - to prevent bad puns about the airport exits.
Rain-X works by making the surface more greasy (water-repellent) which causes the drops growing big quicker. It is supposed to make a chemical bond with glass but the problem is that the bond is very unstable. And the greasines causes other yuck and dust to stick more easily to the windshield.
The described invention works by opposite effect - like a detergent, breaking dropplets to form a uniform water film. The polymer they use for attaching silica microparticles can be effective on its own and it is probably applicable as a water-based spray - it may not be very durable as such but it could be lot less messy for "apply by yourself" than Ran-X.
For all virile octagenerians with sweet tooth who want to outlive their Social security.
embrittling of polymers happen because the long polymer chains get fragmented by radiation and the internal defects accumulate. But PE is pretty resistant against UV-caused aging because it absorbs very little in UV region (but I do not know about the effect of highly energetic cosmic rays).
NASA should also consider highly rigid polymers like polycyclopentene - PCP has a good strenght and much higher melting point than PE. It is more expensive to make but I guess the price here is not the biggest factor.
The drug usage may actualy decrease when drug becomes OTC because the OTCs are not covered by US insurances as a rule. And the price has to be lower if patients end-up buying it out of their pocket (rather than paying some small fixed co-pay for dispensing a prescription). Doctors would not over-prescribe either because they would not profit from OTC prescription. Lose-lose situation.
Sir, I think you are talking out of your ass. The last thing that a pharma company desires is to have its unique patented medicine available over the counter. OTC medications have to be reasonably priced and are not covered by HMOs as a rule. The typical example are non-sedating antihistaminics of Claritin/Clarinex series. The company was forced by FDA to make it available OTC because the drug is effective and very safe. This greatly reduced health care costs since patients do not need precription. This was also a great blow to the company selling the stuff because the people use it less when they have to pay for it out of their pocket.
A medication that reverses effect of sleep deprivation and fatigue exists for at least 10 years. It is called Modafinil and endurance sport profesionals just love it. So does US army and Airforce: Modafinil can produce quite safe alertness without sleep for several days without jitternes, clenched jaw, hypomania and addiction, the typical problems of amphetamines. It gives no pleasurable high.
The downside of Modafinil is that if you don't sleep for a week, the immune system breaks down and you can die from a massive abdominal infection.
If you are eager to experiment on yourself, you can buy Modafinil from some Viagra-peddling web sites. Not that I would recommended it but the drug is supposed to be reasonably safe.