This is the best that I could find. I can't vouch for its veracity but I've never heard of bits being cut out of the Wizard of Oz.
The bits that are left in the Wizard of Oz are bad enough! Am I the only one who thinks it is one of the most cynical films ever made? Examples include the 'good' witch saying "Only bad witches are ugly." When presenting the heart to the tin man, the Wizard says something like "The measure of our hearts isn't how much we love others, but how much others love us." I can't remember exactly what the formula is that the scarecrow recites when he gets his diploma, but I think it was the square of the hypoteneuse is equal to the sum of the other two sides. And that just isn't right.
And that's just the obvious stuff. If you start looking at what really happens in the film... this poor woman finds someone drops a HOUSE on her sister crushing her, and then this same person goes on to steal her sisters most prized possession and rightful inheritance. That film is seriously nasty but put enough sugar on it and people think that it's all nicey nicey.
As a software developer, one of the best things I've found a use for in PP is the animation -- animating sequence diagrams (or other interactions of components) step by step is very handy in getting a concept across to people who can't make sense of a static sequence diagram.
That's true. Though the last time I did a presentation that required animation (in fact the only time), I used Flash.
I don't know why you got modded off-topic by the way, as this whole story seems off-topic to me. As far as I'm concerned, the GP managed to drag the discussion back towards "stuff that matters."
What should someone's UID have to do with the validity of what they post?/. is hardly the whole world and someone recently registered may have a huge wealth of experience to bring to the community. And as the population ages, and the demographic shifts low UIDs to older and older people, should that incur respect? Hardly - science and technology is driven by new blood all the time.
I'll accept an argument from Mickey Mouse if he's right, and if Einstein gets his sums wrong, they're still wrong.
Open Office has a Power Point style component called Presentation. It seems to have all the essential features and it's open source, so maybe you'll prefer it.
Personally, I don't like using any kind of presentation software as I find it limiting. It's old fashioned, but nicely written notes to pass around, printed on good quality paper make a better impression in my experience. It allows more detail and is something that can be referred to afterwards.
If you're using it for a large lecture of some kind though, maybe you want it.
I wondered how this would fit in with the PETA crowd who thinks that cows hate what is happeneing while being milked.
I don't think any animal rightsists are against the act of milking. I think you do a little disservice to them to say that. You may or may not think the following is a problem, but here is the real point that PETA try to make:
but calves born on dairy farms are taken from their mothers when they are just 1 day old and fed milk replacers (including cattle blood) so that humans can have the milk instead.(1,2)
Female cows are artificially inseminated shortly after their first birthdays.(3) After giving birth, they lactate for 10 months, then they are re-inseminated, and the cycle starts again. Some spend their entire lives standing on concrete floors; others are crammed into massive mud lots. Cows have a lifespan of about 25 years and can produce milk for eight or nine years, but the stress caused by factory-farm conditions leads to disease, lameness, and reproductive problems that render cows worthless to the dairy industry by the time they are 4 or 5 years old, at which time they are sent to the slaughterhouse.(4,5)
Although these animals would naturally make only enough milk to meet the needs of their calves (around 16 pounds a day), genetic manipulation, antibiotics, and hormones are used to force each cow to produce more than 18,000 pounds of milk a year (an average of 50 pounds a day).(8,9) Cows are also fed unnatural, high-protein diets, which include dead chickens, pigs, and other animals, because their natural diet of grass would not provide the nutrients necessary for them to produce the massive amounts of milk required by the industry.(10)
Clearly if the cows natural breeding life is cut from 8-9 years to half that, then the cow is undergoing some very extraordinary stress and adverse conditions.
How about population? The energy we want for research and creating cool things, etc., is probably much less than the amount we use just driving around, lighting and heating, etc. Technology has increased the capability of the individual enormously. Why can't we get by with a world population of 2 or 3 billion. That's still enough that we can all have a good social life.
Note that I'm not advocating radical population control. Native population in the developed West is dropping, with people having fewer children. It's only immigration that is off-setting this. I believe that reduced birth rate is a result of increased education and opportunity (of both genders). If you want to get the World population under control, you need to get schools out there and sexual equality. Given how much has been spent on warfare and violent means of social control, it makes you wonder what could be achieved with an equal amount of money spent on building schools, providing internet access and IT facilities. Quite a lot, is my guess.
Actually, there are a few ways that charitable donations can be profitable for you. In this particular case however, the money was donated by PA, not him, so he would theoretically be saving money on this; except that he wont qualify for the tax break, PA will.
All they've done (I assume) is say in the accompanying letter, "we are donating this on behalf of..."
Also, the surety of compensation encourages these farmers to own up to outbreaks on their farms. This is a very big positive when failure to do so could result in a pandemic that could kill millions, including loved ones of your own.
Please tell me, exactly why should I compensate farmers in another nation because they have experienced failure that they knew, in their line of work, was possible?
Assumption: Lack of consumption means failure of the business and bankcruptcy for a lot of these people.
Not compensating will result in damage to an already poor economy through failure of internal business, increased dependence on imported food, elimination of distinctive breeding strains that must be replaced with genetically homogenous breeds, sometimes licenced from multinationals. Resulting damage to economy results in less stability, more extreme government, less ability to trade with other nations and purchase foreign goods (physical and information and media), increased hostility to nations that sat back and let them suffer. All of these are negatives for you assuming you are representing the USA, here.
Compensating will result in a more productive economy resulting in a better trading partner, more stability, less extreme government. Relations between the donor and recipient nation will recieve a positive boost. All of these are positives. The negative cost of compensation is likely to be pretty darn small. If a nation can spend over $400,000,000,000 on its military for example, then $1,000,000 seems like it wont make a perceptible dent in your pay packet.
I don't think the parent deserved a flamebait mod. Viruses don't mate with each other. Unless you know about how they can exchange genetic material through the medium of infecting a common cell, then 'interbreeding' of viruses does seem implausible. And I think awareness of how this can happen is not that common, so it's easy to see how the the poster could see it as someone creating hype.
And as a result of his demand for backing up the statement, we got a nice, clear explanation of how it happens from another poster, which will probably educate many more people.
I'm in the UK and we have a substantial muslim population. So I don't see this clear-cut cultural us and them between the EU and Turkey that you seem to.
If the possibility of EU membership encourages Turkey to improve on its human rights record, then I see that as a good thing.
So what this means is that if the bird flu and another strain mutate in one cell, there are hundreds of possibilities.
And millions of infected cells producing them. And viruses A and B re-infecting infected cells again and again to jumble it up repeatedly. Mathematics says we'll be unlucky, I'm afraid.
Absolutlely right! I'm organizing a flu immunisation program in my local area (South West UK), and we want to jab as many people as possilble. The vaccines wont do anything to protect against bird flu, but what we don't want is for someone to have both at once. If that happens there is the risk of the viruses 'interbreeding' and then you've got a much more lethal flu that goes human to human.
The rest of us find it a reliable source of entertainment.
Oh the Daily Mail is really funny until you realize that it has a circulation of about 2.5million, compared to say the Indpendent at 250k. Then you're just frightened.:(
Btw, you missed out the regular Graham Hancock book tie-ins about crystal skulls, ancient civilisations and prophecies of doom when Cthulhu returns to eat us, etc.:)
As I've grown up, I've started questioning the fundamentals of beds and beddings. First off - "soft is good." I went through a period of sleeping on the floor. So long as I had a layer of the duvet between me and the carpet I actually found it quite easy to sleep on the floor. For the sake of company, I've now gone back to beds, but I need to have the hardest matresses available, otherwise I feel like something's trying to eat me. My back always feels a little off in the morning if I sleep on a soft matress. Not using a bed also saves on a lot of floor space in studio apartments. You just roll up your duvet(s) and you're done.
Sleeping without a pillow feels odd at first, but you quickly get used to it and now, sleeping with a pillow can make my neck ache a little in the morning. Sleeping on your side requires one, but on your front doesn't and on your back is definitely better without. I'm seriously considering trying one of those wooden blocks the old japanese use.
Duh! How slow have I been? I always found that water kept in a jug in the fridge tasted better than drinking it straight from the tap but I always thought I must be imagining it because I couldn't see how the water could change. Some scientist I turn out to be - setting my theory above my experience. Thank you - I'll now resume keeping water in the fridge.
Once a machine falls off the end of the ol' upgrade queue (I have 4 right now including my Powerbook, that's enough...) I usually end up packing it up and shipping it off to someone I know who needs a computer.
Heh! I don't know if Poe wrote under the influence or not, but Coleridge definitely did. Anyone who wrote the line "As though the Earth in fast thick pants were breathing" doesn't leave much room for doubt.:)
I can't be bothered googling the script now, but I seem to remember the Whately girls doing this big round about which entity to summon. I think it went something like: "Dimensional Shambler? No arms. Shoggoth? Ew! Nightcrawler? something something. Byakhee? Oooo!"
If everyone is doing it for no profit anyway, then just do the whole performance in disguise (shouldn't be hard) and do it with minimal warning. Put the video on P2P and take personal vows of anonymity. Come to think of it... the vows probably wouldn't be necessary.;)
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Also the bodyguard of the old bloke terrorised by Alex in A Clockwork Orange. You get to see more of him in that film than you do in Hitch Hiker's.
That's a big bloke.
This is the best that I could find. I can't vouch for its veracity but I've never heard of bits being cut out of the Wizard of Oz.
The bits that are left in the Wizard of Oz are bad enough! Am I the only one who thinks it is one of the most cynical films ever made? Examples include the 'good' witch saying "Only bad witches are ugly." When presenting the heart to the tin man, the Wizard says something like "The measure of our hearts isn't how much we love others, but how much others love us." I can't remember exactly what the formula is that the scarecrow recites when he gets his diploma, but I think it was the square of the hypoteneuse is equal to the sum of the other two sides. And that just isn't right.
And that's just the obvious stuff. If you start looking at what really happens in the film... this poor woman finds someone drops a HOUSE on her sister crushing her, and then this same person goes on to steal her sisters most prized possession and rightful inheritance. That film is seriously nasty but put enough sugar on it and people think that it's all nicey nicey.
As a software developer, one of the best things I've found a use for in PP is the animation -- animating sequence diagrams (or other interactions of components) step by step is very handy in getting a concept across to people who can't make sense of a static sequence diagram.
That's true. Though the last time I did a presentation that required animation (in fact the only time), I used Flash.
I don't know why you got modded off-topic by the way, as this whole story seems off-topic to me. As far as I'm concerned, the GP managed to drag the discussion back towards "stuff that matters."
Whoah, that flew right over your head, didn't it? Having a low UID doesn't mean someone is smarter, it means they were around on Slashdot earlier.
That's what I said. Having a low UID doesn't mean someone is smarter, it just means they were around on
I love when 5 digit UIDs remind people of this
What should someone's UID have to do with the validity of what they post?
I'll accept an argument from Mickey Mouse if he's right, and if Einstein gets his sums wrong, they're still wrong.
Open Office has a Power Point style component called Presentation. It seems to have all the essential features and it's open source, so maybe you'll prefer it.
Personally, I don't like using any kind of presentation software as I find it limiting. It's old fashioned, but nicely written notes to pass around, printed on good quality paper make a better impression in my experience. It allows more detail and is something that can be referred to afterwards.
If you're using it for a large lecture of some kind though, maybe you want it.
"Why do I have such a big penis? Does everyone else have a big penis or am I alone in having such a great big penis?"
This from "CaptainCucumber" ?
I don't believe that I'm about to post this link... but here you go. Good luck. br
I wondered how this would fit in with the PETA crowd who thinks that cows hate what is happeneing while being milked.
I don't think any animal rightsists are against the act of milking. I think you do a little disservice to them to say that. You may or may not think the following is a problem, but here is the real point that PETA try to make:
Although these animals would naturally make only enough milk to meet the needs of their calves (around 16 pounds a day), genetic manipulation, antibiotics, and hormones are used to force each cow to produce more than 18,000 pounds of milk a year (an average of 50 pounds a day).(8,9) Cows are also fed unnatural, high-protein diets, which include dead chickens, pigs, and other animals, because their natural diet of grass would not provide the nutrients necessary for them to produce the massive amounts of milk required by the industry.(10)
Actually, if it doesn't taste salty, but rather tastes sweet, then get it checked out because that's a sign of diabetes.
*sigh* Let the piss-taking begin.
How about population? The energy we want for research and creating cool things, etc., is probably much less than the amount we use just driving around, lighting and heating, etc. Technology has increased the capability of the individual enormously. Why can't we get by with a world population of 2 or 3 billion. That's still enough that we can all have a good social life.
Note that I'm not advocating radical population control. Native population in the developed West is dropping, with people having fewer children. It's only immigration that is off-setting this. I believe that reduced birth rate is a result of increased education and opportunity (of both genders). If you want to get the World population under control, you need to get schools out there and sexual equality. Given how much has been spent on warfare and violent means of social control, it makes you wonder what could be achieved with an equal amount of money spent on building schools, providing internet access and IT facilities. Quite a lot, is my guess.
Actually, there are a few ways that charitable donations can be profitable for you. In this particular case however, the money was donated by PA, not him, so he would theoretically be saving money on this; except that he wont qualify for the tax break, PA will.
All they've done (I assume) is say in the accompanying letter, "we are donating this on behalf of..."
Also, the surety of compensation encourages these farmers to own up to outbreaks on their farms. This is a very big positive when failure to do so could result in a pandemic that could kill millions, including loved ones of your own.
To paraphrase, Donne, no country is an island.
Please tell me, exactly why should I compensate farmers in another nation because they have experienced failure that they knew, in their line of work, was possible?
Assumption: Lack of consumption means failure of the business and bankcruptcy for a lot of these people.
Not compensating will result in damage to an already poor economy through failure of internal business, increased dependence on imported food, elimination of distinctive breeding strains that must be replaced with genetically homogenous breeds, sometimes licenced from multinationals. Resulting damage to economy results in less stability, more extreme government, less ability to trade with other nations and purchase foreign goods (physical and information and media), increased hostility to nations that sat back and let them suffer. All of these are negatives for you assuming you are representing the USA, here.
Compensating will result in a more productive economy resulting in a better trading partner, more stability, less extreme government. Relations between the donor and recipient nation will recieve a positive boost. All of these are positives. The negative cost of compensation is likely to be pretty darn small. If a nation can spend over $400,000,000,000 on its military for example, then $1,000,000 seems like it wont make a perceptible dent in your pay packet.
One of the first targets in Iraq (accidentally of course) was a seed bank, containing thousands of species of irreplacabale genetic material
I'm very interested in this. If you can provide more information or a good source, this would be extremely useful to me.
I don't think the parent deserved a flamebait mod. Viruses don't mate with each other. Unless you know about how they can exchange genetic material through the medium of infecting a common cell, then 'interbreeding' of viruses does seem implausible. And I think awareness of how this can happen is not that common, so it's easy to see how the the poster could see it as someone creating hype.
And as a result of his demand for backing up the statement, we got a nice, clear explanation of how it happens from another poster, which will probably educate many more people.
I'm in the UK and we have a substantial muslim population. So I don't see this clear-cut cultural us and them between the EU and Turkey that you seem to.
If the possibility of EU membership encourages Turkey to improve on its human rights record, then I see that as a good thing.
So what this means is that if the bird flu and another strain mutate in one cell, there are hundreds of possibilities.
And millions of infected cells producing them. And viruses A and B re-infecting infected cells again and again to jumble it up repeatedly. Mathematics says we'll be unlucky, I'm afraid.
Absolutlely right! I'm organizing a flu immunisation program in my local area (South West UK), and we want to jab as many people as possilble. The vaccines wont do anything to protect against bird flu, but what we don't want is for someone to have both at once. If that happens there is the risk of the viruses 'interbreeding' and then you've got a much more lethal flu that goes human to human.
The rest of us find it a reliable source of entertainment.
Oh the Daily Mail is really funny until you realize that it has a circulation of about 2.5million, compared to say the Indpendent at 250k. Then you're just frightened.
Btw, you missed out the regular Graham Hancock book tie-ins about crystal skulls, ancient civilisations and prophecies of doom when Cthulhu returns to eat us, etc.
As I've grown up, I've started questioning the fundamentals of beds and beddings. First off - "soft is good." I went through a period of sleeping on the floor. So long as I had a layer of the duvet between me and the carpet I actually found it quite easy to sleep on the floor. For the sake of company, I've now gone back to beds, but I need to have the hardest matresses available, otherwise I feel like something's trying to eat me. My back always feels a little off in the morning if I sleep on a soft matress. Not using a bed also saves on a lot of floor space in studio apartments. You just roll up your duvet(s) and you're done.
Sleeping without a pillow feels odd at first, but you quickly get used to it and now, sleeping with a pillow can make my neck ache a little in the morning. Sleeping on your side requires one, but on your front doesn't and on your back is definitely better without. I'm seriously considering trying one of those wooden blocks the old japanese use.
Duh! How slow have I been? I always found that water kept in a jug in the fridge tasted better than drinking it straight from the tap but I always thought I must be imagining it because I couldn't see how the water could change. Some scientist I turn out to be - setting my theory above my experience. Thank you - I'll now resume keeping water in the fridge.
Once a machine falls off the end of the ol' upgrade queue (I have 4 right now including my Powerbook, that's enough...) I usually end up packing it up and shipping it off to someone I know who needs a computer.
Hello...
^_^ This is sounding scarily realizable.
"The Fools! They said it couldn't be done!"
And so another sceptic begins the descent into madness...
Good luck! This could be the most cult cult play of all plays about cultists ever.
Heh! I don't know if Poe wrote under the influence or not, but Coleridge definitely did. Anyone who wrote the line "As though the Earth in fast thick pants were breathing" doesn't leave much room for doubt.
I can't be bothered googling the script now, but I seem to remember the Whately girls doing this big round about which entity to summon. I think it went something like: "Dimensional Shambler? No arms. Shoggoth? Ew! Nightcrawler? something something. Byakhee? Oooo!"
If everyone is doing it for no profit anyway, then just do the whole performance in disguise (shouldn't be hard) and do it with minimal warning. Put the video on P2P and take personal vows of anonymity. Come to think of it... the vows probably wouldn't be necessary.