This is exactly the kinds of pragmatic thinking we need to teach young people: consequences of heavy decisions. How and why to muse over a decision before making it. There aren't classes in this kind of thing, but it's def. what history is made of.
Wait, I thought the Egyptians created Leonardo Da Vinci's workshop in 1115 A.D., right about the time Caesar signed a peace treaty with the Aztecs. Thank god they didn't include Michelangelo or the recent cleaning of the David would've confused the hell out of me.
hm, I don't recall it ever really being that outrageous for people to order groceries from the web...
Mod me down (no, really, this part's offtopic) but that comment smells sorta like the NYT story about the burgeoning US sex slave trade, that was then debunked on Slate. Smell meaning, squeezed out of the thinnest of evidence.
Of course, like Rumsfeld on Face the Nation, I'll be glad to backpedal if someone wants to Thomas Friedman me...
Hopefully, "Go Ogle" indexing would fare better than Amazon's suggestions...
(ps, please post date this post until after the Twins are legal so it's not so wrong. Actually, I don't think it'll escape being wrong. I mean, have you SEEN "Meet me at the Mall"?!)
Most nerds are by nature designers, thinkers, and problem solvers. IT has a lot of problems that are already solved, and merely require maintenance - but aren't necessarily design positions. It's possible that some of the 6 of 7 who are dissatisfied are so because they're unchallenged - want to do more, but can't.
These days, all you have to do is go online and join a "social networking" site. The pumping will be done for you."
I doubt that. I've seen plenty of boring Friendster profiles who I'd never contact the person behind, and I've de-Friendster-ated more than a couple of people who signed up and added me, but frankly just ended up not being interesting enough to bother. "Favorite color: OMG-Pink. Favorite Music: Britney Houston."
Thankfully, to keep it interesting we always have the
Fakesters.
For a few years in Seattle - probably from 1999 to 2002 - there was an arcade called Hi-Score that had a few of these classic games and some pinball machines. Great fun and they capitalized on the same market that'll go see the museum show.
It was on Pine street on Cap Hill. An artist friend had painted their sign. Ahh, back in the days...
Gack what a fluff piece that is. I notice there's NOTHING about the effect long-term use can have on your kidney (not that I'm quoting any source, I'm just sayin'.)
18:41 13 February 04
NewScientist.com news service
Taking a coffee break at work may actually sabotage employees' ability to do their jobs and undermine teamwork instead of boosting it, suggests new research.
Dosing up on caffeine is particularly unhelpful to men, disrupting their emotions and hampering their ability to do certain tasks, suggests a report by psychologists Lindsay St Claire and Peter Rogers at Bristol University in the UK.
Many people take coffee breaks at work believing this will reduce their feelings of stress. But theories about the effects of caffeine are conflicting. Some studies suggest caffeine can worsen anxiety and trigger stress, while others show it boosts confidence, alertness and sociability, making certain tasks easier.
But this latest report, released by the UK's Economic and Social Research Council on Friday, backs the view that coffee exacerbates stress, especially in men, and makes people less co-operative when working in teams.
"Our research findings suggest that the commonplace tea or coffee break might backfire in business situations, particularly where men are concerned," says St Claire. "Far from reducing stress, it might actually make things worse."
(Let's all remember our junkie lessons from John Waters' movie Female Trouble, where they're shooting up in one scene: " 'Liquid eyeliner', taken internally, enhances one's beauty awareness." Bah, hahahaah!)
Oh, honey, look! Remember that time that we sat down to review our photos of that day that we were going through all our old things, and we found those photos of the old house before we moved, and there was that huge archive of those photos that we'd taken when we decided to upload all our real photos of that sole vacation that we've had time to take since buying this thing, and... honey? Honey??
It's not particular to MS, it's just that MS is so huge. This argument has been made before.
That's just the nature of this corporate-level of biology that does its own thing with regard to only the checks on it put in place by other corporations on the same scale. Business aims to survive, it's a stable evolutionary configuration.
MBAs, however, who compose large chunks of this corporate biology and help in guiding it, are, of course, "just doing their job"... i.e., serving a system that is only beholden to humans as much as humans have sway over its survival, which is not much. I couldn't care less if I kill cells in my body when I have a glass of wine tonight and smoke a cigarette, but they'd better do what their told (cancer, ahem) or I'm rubbing their tiny asses out.
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Ninety days?! Madame Souza accomplished this feat in about two minutes.
What kind of mod points are you lazy teenagers assigning here?
Whatevs, gramps. If you want to articulate a cogent argument against spelling reform, feel free.
This is exactly the kinds of pragmatic thinking we need to teach young people: consequences of heavy decisions. How and why to muse over a decision before making it. There aren't classes in this kind of thing, but it's def. what history is made of.
This all reminds me of Kim Stanley Robinson's alternate-world-history, The Years of Rice and Salt.
That said, playing the game taught me a hell of a lot about organization, being a naturally-disorg-ey person.
OK, so the standards will be incompatible with six billion (potential) users abroad, but internally consistent with one billion?
A billion people on the same platform can't be wrong. *hyuk* [/stupid semiracist paraphrase]
hm, I don't recall it ever really being that outrageous for people to order groceries from the web...
Mod me down (no, really, this part's offtopic) but that comment smells sorta like the NYT story about the burgeoning US sex slave trade, that was then debunked on Slate. Smell meaning, squeezed out of the thinnest of evidence.
Of course, like Rumsfeld on Face the Nation, I'll be glad to backpedal if someone wants to Thomas Friedman me...
Hopefully, "Go Ogle" indexing would fare better than Amazon's suggestions...
(ps, please post date this post until after the Twins are legal so it's not so wrong. Actually, I don't think it'll escape being wrong. I mean, have you SEEN "Meet me at the Mall"?!)
Funny you should ask... "Young America's news source: Jon Stewart"
Wonkette is essentially a poster on slashdot who gets +5 Funny in every post. (She and her colleagues used to do it all the time on suck.com.)
SURGENOR!
Why isn't he the one cracking open the trial patients' heads?
I heard "I enlarged Peter."
And no one will know you're using it!
That's been my experience anyway.
I doubt that. I've seen plenty of boring Friendster profiles who I'd never contact the person behind, and I've de-Friendster-ated more than a couple of people who signed up and added me, but frankly just ended up not being interesting enough to bother. "Favorite color: OMG-Pink. Favorite Music: Britney Houston."
Thankfully, to keep it interesting we always have the Fakesters.
The last thing I want geeks designing is my clothes. I'm not fond of the short-sleeve-polo-with-company-logo, okay!
It was on Pine street on Cap Hill. An artist friend had painted their sign. Ahh, back in the days...
Mmm, bacon.
Gack what a fluff piece that is. I notice there's NOTHING about the effect long-term use can have on your kidney (not that I'm quoting any source, I'm just sayin'.)
(Initial text of the article:)
Coffee-breaks sabotage employees' abilities
18:41 13 February 04 NewScientist.com news service Taking a coffee break at work may actually sabotage employees' ability to do their jobs and undermine teamwork instead of boosting it, suggests new research. Dosing up on caffeine is particularly unhelpful to men, disrupting their emotions and hampering their ability to do certain tasks, suggests a report by psychologists Lindsay St Claire and Peter Rogers at Bristol University in the UK. Many people take coffee breaks at work believing this will reduce their feelings of stress. But theories about the effects of caffeine are conflicting. Some studies suggest caffeine can worsen anxiety and trigger stress, while others show it boosts confidence, alertness and sociability, making certain tasks easier. But this latest report, released by the UK's Economic and Social Research Council on Friday, backs the view that coffee exacerbates stress, especially in men, and makes people less co-operative when working in teams. "Our research findings suggest that the commonplace tea or coffee break might backfire in business situations, particularly where men are concerned," says St Claire. "Far from reducing stress, it might actually make things worse."
(Let's all remember our junkie lessons from John Waters' movie Female Trouble, where they're shooting up in one scene: " 'Liquid eyeliner', taken internally, enhances one's beauty awareness." Bah, hahahaah!)
they also say "don't hit enter when you're trying to hit the quotes key when y're stuck on a nonergo kb" but that's offtopic..
(Wife and poolboy have wandered offscreen.)
It's not particular to MS, it's just that MS is so huge. This argument has been made before.
That's just the nature of this corporate-level of biology that does its own thing with regard to only the checks on it put in place by other corporations on the same scale. Business aims to survive, it's a stable evolutionary configuration.
MBAs, however, who compose large chunks of this corporate biology and help in guiding it, are, of course, "just doing their job"... i.e., serving a system that is only beholden to humans as much as humans have sway over its survival, which is not much. I couldn't care less if I kill cells in my body when I have a glass of wine tonight and smoke a cigarette, but they'd better do what their told (cancer, ahem) or I'm rubbing their tiny asses out.
Um, yeah. Whatever that all means...
Oy, what have we come to when Mutable Realms counts as pr0n for this poor guy?
Baby, you need to get out more. After a few drinks, they all look like the avatars of your dreams. :)