When I first moved to the USA, there were a number of British English words that were largely unknown in the USA. Now, they appear to be understood, if not in common use. For example: "loo".
I give credit to BBC and their fine TV shows such as Dr. Who; perhaps Danger Mouse.
We have both in America. A cookie is generally flat and sweet and brittle, mostly made of sugar and some wheat flour. A biscuit is a bread item usually made with yeast and is fluffy (maybe flaky) and not very sweet; it's something you might eat with dinner, and normally you put butter and jelly on it. Sometimes they're also called "rolls" or "dinner rolls". "Tough biscuit" wouldn't make any sense at all.
Not sure what part of America you visited. A Biscuit is a breakfast item and can certainly be tough. While not the most common usage, saying "tough biscuit" would certainly be understood by Americans although probably put dow more to a personal saying. As far as "cookie" or "biscuit" usage for small cakes, that is fairly recent. In old cookbooks that I have, you'll find such called "small" or "fine" cakes in those printed prior to WW1.
It's clear to me that the very wrong time to shop is the time that they *think* you are shopping. The real key to get good deals is to follow your own pattern and not the pattern set up by corporations.
In my personal experience, you really don't have a choice. It's the day after Thanksgiving, the family is together as anybody not working retail has the day off, there's not really anything to do, and because it is a weekday during store hours, somebody has errands to run including some shopping because they would otherwise be at work and unable to do it on any other day. Since there's nothing really to do but watch TV and everybody has been int he same house for over 24 hours at this point, it is now a family shopping expedition just to get out of the house. Stores realize this and put out sales to draw people to their stores. Now the deals are a thing and something to do as much as get any savings.
>> "factual news and authentic debate"
Where can I get this, so called, factual news?
All news sources have a slant. Some much worse than others...
Best bet is the Wall Street Journal. Stay away from opinion sections but for raw news you can consider it fairly well confirmed. The reason is that it is what people read for their news to make money. If they misrepresent the news, somebody making a business decision on that information could looks millions if billions. Murdoch's ownership is worrisome, but the people that make money still need to get their news someplace and there's no room for bias in facts when money is on the line. new York Times used to be in the same category but have seemed to slip in recent decades.
As for authentic debate, no idea. The money is all in being an echo chamber for somebody else.
So why, after all these years of feeding off his father's works, and hamstringing further attempts at filming his father's works, does Christopher suddenly give the ok to film other stories, to his old nemesis New Line, of all people?
We will terraform Mars. It will be what the first travelers want it to be.
It will be a constant battle as the solar wind strips the atmosphere away.
All civilization is constant battle to keep it maintained. The energy cost to terraform Mars is measured in days of total energy output of the sun. If they can manage to do that, then keeping in maintained will be trivial.
In this Weinsteinian era, it starts to make me wonder how much sexual harassment gets swept under the rug in this system.
Pressure some woman for sex and when she doesn't deliver, tell the body shop she's not working out and you want her replaced. Given the generally low ethics associated with body shops, I can totally see them playing into serial offenders and sending them easy prey.
Probably a lot, but while I'm sure it happens, most sexual harassement I've seen isn't calls for sex or even rude speech, but more like hiring the female system expert for your project, officially having her get coffee and make copies, while the manager's pet dude bro gets assigned to do the work, but told to have her do all the work for him, and then the manager gives all the credit and praise to the dude bro and refuses to even admit to anybody the female system expert ever did anything.
"I believe that even if the USA adopted the exact same laws that Japan has, gun violence in the USA wouldn't change very much."
Then you are a fool. As a canadian, I've been in physical encounters with people where they have drawn weapons. If I or they had a gun instead of a knife, things would have ended much worse for someone.
Generally, things end up worse if people have knives because others will argue with a knife, and usually get themselves just as hurt or dead as if getting shot. Whereas, most people don't argue with a gun. Truth is, more gun laws do lessen gun violence, but do not lessen violence, including homicides per capita. Most murders are people against friends an family and it doesn't seem that being forced to change methods actually affects the outcome in lethalness once they have decided to kill you.
I believe that even if the USA adopted the exact same laws that Japan has, gun violence in the USA wouldn't change very much. Changing the culture is much harder but also much more likely to have an effect.
You almost got it but not quite. If anything, because anti-gun people will especially drive it home, more restrictive gun laws do cause a sizable decrease in gun violence. What doesn't change is violence in general. Gun related homicides will be cut in half, however total homicides per capita will not. Actually, they usually drop the year of increased gun laws, and then go up. Then bob around a bit and follow the generally trends so it's hard to tell if they are having any effect at all. "Mass shootings" typically aren't statistically meaningful to such data. Sure, it might stop 50 people from being killed all at once in a year, but if the increase in actual deaths increases because a fraction of a percent, those saved are meaningless in light of many more being killed. It does however, allow people to feel good about themselves and think they did something with a simple solution, rather than deal with the much tougher solution of actually changing our murderous culture and actually saving total lives.
It's not just cassettes but also records. I grew up with them also although I still have a box of both because I can't find the heart to thrown them out and in some cases, can't find them in a digital format. Still, from the music podcasts I listen to it seems to be mostly just for collectablity. People are tired of tour t-shirts and buy records or tapes instead which often come with a way to download digital versions of the content. They get framed or put on a shelf as a collection. Perhaps sold on eBay to other collectors. Some probably get listened to and then there are DJs would will want to use real records.
Why would you want to launch horizontally, regarding (presumably) a second vehicle under development? It just doesn't seem like you make any meaningful improvements, unless you are small and being dropped from a plane at 50,000 feet
Eventually, all orbital shots are done horizontally, as you need horizontal speed to stay in orbit. Rockets just go striaght up inorder to get above the atmosphere first. Being launched by a second plane at 50,000 feet or so saves about 5% of the fuel costs of a rocket and when going to orbital velocities, one doesn't need much "vertical" velocity as the ground will drop off with "horizontal' travel quickly under the accelerations normally needed. The idea of a plane concept is that it can use atmospheric oxygen for combustion thus saving on fuel mass. Most of the orbital velocity will still require a rocket until we get ramjets, scramjets, etc working. Still, they'd have to make it work and then make it cost near the same a normal launch to make it more than just a engineering exercise.
That's the whole POINT of unionizing - to get more out of the employment arrangement than the employer would otherwise be able or inclined to pay.
As somebody who has been part of groups trying to unionize and who has friends in unions, that is pretty much false. The vast majority of unionization is all about bad management, dictatorial managers who usually are refusing to follow company policy or the law in what they demand of the people under them. Any pay raises the workers get typically go to the unions, all just to get management to agree upon and work with a common set of guidelines on what is appropriate at work. You have some Rush Limbaugh listening older ex-military Republicans have their family vacations next week get canceled because somebody else got fired and they have to cover or be demanded they work extra hours policy says they don't have to, and they'll lead the charge to unionize. I've seen it happen.
Because Serling smoked? No. If we can make concessions to the modern world, one of them can be not smoking.
Maybe he could have a nice bowl of quinoa while committing micro-aggressions against the audience by wearing dreadlocks or displaying a native American symbol on his shirt. O The Horror!
That sounds more like something that Alfred Hitchcock would do.
Pretty sure people not buying stuff was the point of the article:
Pretty sure the point of the article was "Shit! I've got to write up some words to post online to fill the space between my ads by my deadline. They better be either flat out wrong or devisive so the site can get some good traffic."
They don't buy an iPhone because it is value for money, and the iPhone and much of the tech in it is designed and manufactured in China.
From the breakdowns I've seen in various financial magazines, that should be "...much of the tech in it is designed in Korea, Taiwan, and Japan then shipped to China to be assembled." Those three nations get more of the money from the cost of an iPhone than China. Their the ones that really have the jobs and industry we probably really want.
Or at least they need to start being actual news feeds. Only showing you stuff you asked to see - or at least, if it must include ads, clearly labeling them as ads.
Nope. "The stuff you asked to see" is THE problem with the social media. You just become insulated in your bubble and it just keeps being reinforced. The old time news used to include all kinds of opinions.
The old time news maybe, but probably not today's news. Most people are into listening to the echo chamber of their choice as far as mainstream news sources go. If they are interested in getting actual news from relatively unbiased news sources, they're already doing it and will be using those sources in their feeds also.
Why would anybody shop there in the first place? Sounds scammy to me
It's the grocery store in the nice neighborhood, and therefore on the way home from work. No matter what, it's going to be more expensive than other places, but still have to show perceived added value over other places so people don't get angry enough to go someplace else. I've seen the same thing at QFCs. As the neighborhood becomes more affluent, the deli and cheese bar gets bigger, the alcohol selection get larger on the top end, and the cheap brands disappear for more expensive brands. Meanwhile, Red Apples with their cheap no name brands move farther out into the suburbs.
Honestly, I can say I'm about to stop giving a damn ether way and say we just toss all them out. Trump, Clinton, Ryan, the funny lady with the James Brown haircut, and etc etc etc. Clean house, remove all congress and both parties. Hell get rid of the parties. too. We can put the janitor in charge till we reelect new officials.
Unintended consequences. Our entire system was an attempt by the founding fathers to get away from political parties and thus the reason we don't have a parlimentary system with them baked in. In the end, we ended up with a two party system instead of a many party system. Trump also, was an attempt to clean house.
If Einstein was right, and space and time are the same thing, it seems reasonable that if the Universe has infinite space it should have infinite time.
There was a theory that it is and that the big bang was at 0 on the time line. Antimatter was just matter than was travelling backwards in time. Thus for the same issue we are talking about here, there is no real antimatter as it all went down the negative time while positive matter went down positive time for two separate universes going away from each other in time. Feynman diagrams work this way but I think they did some studies on irreversible process and came to the conclusion that anti-matter is travelling in the same direction as normal matter after all.
Most people above the age of 27 don't live in apartment complexes any more.
Looking around at sources, I'd say you're out of date. Home ownership at lower ages peaked at 2004 and have been dropping since then, now being at an all time low. You pretty much have to get above the 35 year mark to get to an age group that is mostly home owners these days.
When was the last time you watched/listened to broadcast?
Last and every time I have to visit my baby boomer parents, with the volume turned up so loud I have to sit in a different room to not have it be painful.
I'm struggling to figure out just what "trade secrets" there might be in a co-working setup.
I imagine it would be a list of their customers along with what they are being charged. Then they'll target those people with special deals, possibly at a loss, to cut their competition's income.
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When I first moved to the USA, there were a number of British English words that were largely unknown in the USA. Now, they appear to be understood, if not in common use. For example: "loo".
I give credit to BBC and their fine TV shows such as Dr. Who; perhaps Danger Mouse.
Cookie instead of biscuit is bad.
We have both in America. A cookie is generally flat and sweet and brittle, mostly made of sugar and some wheat flour. A biscuit is a bread item usually made with yeast and is fluffy (maybe flaky) and not very sweet; it's something you might eat with dinner, and normally you put butter and jelly on it. Sometimes they're also called "rolls" or "dinner rolls". "Tough biscuit" wouldn't make any sense at all.
Not sure what part of America you visited. A Biscuit is a breakfast item and can certainly be tough. While not the most common usage, saying "tough biscuit" would certainly be understood by Americans although probably put dow more to a personal saying. As far as "cookie" or "biscuit" usage for small cakes, that is fairly recent. In old cookbooks that I have, you'll find such called "small" or "fine" cakes in those printed prior to WW1.
...considered by many to be just as grating as "on of" would be to an American.
Well certainly because you get "off of" things and you get "onto" things. You get off of a bus and then back onto a bus.
It's clear to me that the very wrong time to shop is the time that they *think* you are shopping. The real key to get good deals is to follow your own pattern and not the pattern set up by corporations.
In my personal experience, you really don't have a choice. It's the day after Thanksgiving, the family is together as anybody not working retail has the day off, there's not really anything to do, and because it is a weekday during store hours, somebody has errands to run including some shopping because they would otherwise be at work and unable to do it on any other day. Since there's nothing really to do but watch TV and everybody has been int he same house for over 24 hours at this point, it is now a family shopping expedition just to get out of the house. Stores realize this and put out sales to draw people to their stores. Now the deals are a thing and something to do as much as get any savings.
>> "factual news and authentic debate" Where can I get this, so called, factual news? All news sources have a slant. Some much worse than others...
Best bet is the Wall Street Journal. Stay away from opinion sections but for raw news you can consider it fairly well confirmed. The reason is that it is what people read for their news to make money. If they misrepresent the news, somebody making a business decision on that information could looks millions if billions. Murdoch's ownership is worrisome, but the people that make money still need to get their news someplace and there's no room for bias in facts when money is on the line. new York Times used to be in the same category but have seemed to slip in recent decades.
As for authentic debate, no idea. The money is all in being an echo chamber for somebody else.
So why, after all these years of feeding off his father's works, and hamstringing further attempts at filming his father's works, does Christopher suddenly give the ok to film other stories, to his old nemesis New Line, of all people?
Christopher Tolkien is resigning from his position with his father's estate. A new regime is taking control.
We will terraform Mars. It will be what the first travelers want it to be.
It will be a constant battle as the solar wind strips the atmosphere away.
All civilization is constant battle to keep it maintained. The energy cost to terraform Mars is measured in days of total energy output of the sun. If they can manage to do that, then keeping in maintained will be trivial.
In this Weinsteinian era, it starts to make me wonder how much sexual harassment gets swept under the rug in this system.
Pressure some woman for sex and when she doesn't deliver, tell the body shop she's not working out and you want her replaced. Given the generally low ethics associated with body shops, I can totally see them playing into serial offenders and sending them easy prey.
Probably a lot, but while I'm sure it happens, most sexual harassement I've seen isn't calls for sex or even rude speech, but more like hiring the female system expert for your project, officially having her get coffee and make copies, while the manager's pet dude bro gets assigned to do the work, but told to have her do all the work for him, and then the manager gives all the credit and praise to the dude bro and refuses to even admit to anybody the female system expert ever did anything.
Then you are a fool. As a canadian, I've been in physical encounters with people where they have drawn weapons. If I or they had a gun instead of a knife, things would have ended much worse for someone.
Generally, things end up worse if people have knives because others will argue with a knife, and usually get themselves just as hurt or dead as if getting shot. Whereas, most people don't argue with a gun. Truth is, more gun laws do lessen gun violence, but do not lessen violence, including homicides per capita. Most murders are people against friends an family and it doesn't seem that being forced to change methods actually affects the outcome in lethalness once they have decided to kill you.
I believe that even if the USA adopted the exact same laws that Japan has, gun violence in the USA wouldn't change very much. Changing the culture is much harder but also much more likely to have an effect.
You almost got it but not quite. If anything, because anti-gun people will especially drive it home, more restrictive gun laws do cause a sizable decrease in gun violence. What doesn't change is violence in general. Gun related homicides will be cut in half, however total homicides per capita will not. Actually, they usually drop the year of increased gun laws, and then go up. Then bob around a bit and follow the generally trends so it's hard to tell if they are having any effect at all. "Mass shootings" typically aren't statistically meaningful to such data. Sure, it might stop 50 people from being killed all at once in a year, but if the increase in actual deaths increases because a fraction of a percent, those saved are meaningless in light of many more being killed. It does however, allow people to feel good about themselves and think they did something with a simple solution, rather than deal with the much tougher solution of actually changing our murderous culture and actually saving total lives.
So why cassettes? I don't get it.
It's not just cassettes but also records. I grew up with them also although I still have a box of both because I can't find the heart to thrown them out and in some cases, can't find them in a digital format. Still, from the music podcasts I listen to it seems to be mostly just for collectablity. People are tired of tour t-shirts and buy records or tapes instead which often come with a way to download digital versions of the content. They get framed or put on a shelf as a collection. Perhaps sold on eBay to other collectors. Some probably get listened to and then there are DJs would will want to use real records.
Why would you want to launch horizontally, regarding (presumably) a second vehicle under development? It just doesn't seem like you make any meaningful improvements, unless you are small and being dropped from a plane at 50,000 feet
Eventually, all orbital shots are done horizontally, as you need horizontal speed to stay in orbit. Rockets just go striaght up inorder to get above the atmosphere first. Being launched by a second plane at 50,000 feet or so saves about 5% of the fuel costs of a rocket and when going to orbital velocities, one doesn't need much "vertical" velocity as the ground will drop off with "horizontal' travel quickly under the accelerations normally needed. The idea of a plane concept is that it can use atmospheric oxygen for combustion thus saving on fuel mass. Most of the orbital velocity will still require a rocket until we get ramjets, scramjets, etc working. Still, they'd have to make it work and then make it cost near the same a normal launch to make it more than just a engineering exercise.
That's the whole POINT of unionizing - to get more out of the employment arrangement than the employer would otherwise be able or inclined to pay.
As somebody who has been part of groups trying to unionize and who has friends in unions, that is pretty much false. The vast majority of unionization is all about bad management, dictatorial managers who usually are refusing to follow company policy or the law in what they demand of the people under them. Any pay raises the workers get typically go to the unions, all just to get management to agree upon and work with a common set of guidelines on what is appropriate at work. You have some Rush Limbaugh listening older ex-military Republicans have their family vacations next week get canceled because somebody else got fired and they have to cover or be demanded they work extra hours policy says they don't have to, and they'll lead the charge to unionize. I've seen it happen.
Because Serling smoked? No. If we can make concessions to the modern world, one of them can be not smoking.
Maybe he could have a nice bowl of quinoa while committing micro-aggressions against the audience by wearing dreadlocks or displaying a native American symbol on his shirt. O The Horror!
That sounds more like something that Alfred Hitchcock would do.
Pretty sure people not buying stuff was the point of the article:
Pretty sure the point of the article was "Shit! I've got to write up some words to post online to fill the space between my ads by my deadline. They better be either flat out wrong or devisive so the site can get some good traffic."
They don't buy an iPhone because it is value for money, and the iPhone and much of the tech in it is designed and manufactured in China.
From the breakdowns I've seen in various financial magazines, that should be "...much of the tech in it is designed in Korea, Taiwan, and Japan then shipped to China to be assembled." Those three nations get more of the money from the cost of an iPhone than China. Their the ones that really have the jobs and industry we probably really want.
towards elite rent seekers. Owners, not workers.
Well, that's capitalism for you, which is not about profit driven economy, but about who owns the means of production, i.e. the capital.
Or at least they need to start being actual news feeds. Only showing you stuff you asked to see - or at least, if it must include ads, clearly labeling them as ads.
Nope. "The stuff you asked to see" is THE problem with the social media. You just become insulated in your bubble and it just keeps being reinforced. The old time news used to include all kinds of opinions.
The old time news maybe, but probably not today's news. Most people are into listening to the echo chamber of their choice as far as mainstream news sources go. If they are interested in getting actual news from relatively unbiased news sources, they're already doing it and will be using those sources in their feeds also.
Why would anybody shop there in the first place? Sounds scammy to me
It's the grocery store in the nice neighborhood, and therefore on the way home from work. No matter what, it's going to be more expensive than other places, but still have to show perceived added value over other places so people don't get angry enough to go someplace else. I've seen the same thing at QFCs. As the neighborhood becomes more affluent, the deli and cheese bar gets bigger, the alcohol selection get larger on the top end, and the cheap brands disappear for more expensive brands. Meanwhile, Red Apples with their cheap no name brands move farther out into the suburbs.
Honestly, I can say I'm about to stop giving a damn ether way and say we just toss all them out. Trump, Clinton, Ryan, the funny lady with the James Brown haircut, and etc etc etc. Clean house, remove all congress and both parties. Hell get rid of the parties. too. We can put the janitor in charge till we reelect new officials.
Unintended consequences. Our entire system was an attempt by the founding fathers to get away from political parties and thus the reason we don't have a parlimentary system with them baked in. In the end, we ended up with a two party system instead of a many party system. Trump also, was an attempt to clean house.
If Einstein was right, and space and time are the same thing, it seems reasonable that if the Universe has infinite space it should have infinite time.
There was a theory that it is and that the big bang was at 0 on the time line. Antimatter was just matter than was travelling backwards in time. Thus for the same issue we are talking about here, there is no real antimatter as it all went down the negative time while positive matter went down positive time for two separate universes going away from each other in time. Feynman diagrams work this way but I think they did some studies on irreversible process and came to the conclusion that anti-matter is travelling in the same direction as normal matter after all.
Well, to be fair, if you are a women, looking to get married and pregnant, homosexual men are evil...*snip*...
You have obviously never spent much time around homosexual men, or women for that matter.
Most people above the age of 27 don't live in apartment complexes any more.
Looking around at sources, I'd say you're out of date. Home ownership at lower ages peaked at 2004 and have been dropping since then, now being at an all time low. You pretty much have to get above the 35 year mark to get to an age group that is mostly home owners these days.
When was the last time you watched/listened to broadcast?
Last and every time I have to visit my baby boomer parents, with the volume turned up so loud I have to sit in a different room to not have it be painful.
I'm struggling to figure out just what "trade secrets" there might be in a co-working setup.
I imagine it would be a list of their customers along with what they are being charged. Then they'll target those people with special deals, possibly at a loss, to cut their competition's income.