Why on earth would anyone volunteer information to their landlords about which social media services they use?
"List your active social media accounts: 'I have no accounts to which I can grant you the requested access.'"
This doesn't even constitute lying on the application. What are they going to do - manually scan popular social media platforms for accounts that appear similar to you?
I switched to a standing desk about 12 months ago. I'm a pretty fit and active guy, but I have a variety of knee and back problems from years of martial arts training. Particularly, I have patellofemoral arthritis ("theatre knee") that gets worse when I keep my knee bent at 90 degrees or less. On a friend's advice, I built a standing desk and gave it a whirl.
The first two to three months sucked a lot. I could only stand for 1-2 hours at a time before my knees or feet were too sore to continue. I had to adjust the ergonomics of my workspace, particularly the height of my monitor, to avoid neck irritation. However, my lower back felt great for the first time in years. I kept going.
Somewhere around the 90 day mark, all my aches and pains vanished. My feet stopped getting sore. My knees no longer hurt. My back feels better than it did when I was 20. My hip flexors are more mobile. I can now on my feet all day with no problem. Standing around at parties doesn't make my feet or back sore. I also lost 5 lbs with no effort because of the increase caloric expenditure.
I'd recommend a standing desk to anyone with the willpower to make it through the transition. It's well worth it, in my opinion.
I live in Atlanta but grew up in Boston. I fully agree that southerners can't drive in the snow. Your advice is good. However, it is also totally useless for what happened here.
People were stuck in their cars because a million vehicles tried to exit a ten square mile area simultaneously. It was instant gridlock. Proper acceleration technique means nothing if there is nowhere to go. Once the inevitable handful of accidents occurred, even the lucky folks that were on the front of the traffic wave couldn't get anywhere.
I know it's cool to like small development houses, but I really don't understand the massive love for Torchlight. It was a cute game with a decent concept. The skill system, however, which is absolutely fundamental to ARPGs, was generally lackluster and without any depth or "wow" factor. Itemization was SO random that it became a massive headache just to sort through the hordes of affixes to find out what was good and what wasn't.
Torchlight was a not-bad-enough game that I'll give them a second chance on the sequel, but it certainly wasn't a great game and not a patch on any installment in the Diablo series.
“No, it’s not an X-ray,” she told Abbott. “It is 10,000 times safer than your cell phone and uses the same type of radio waves as a sonogram.”
The TSA scanners aren't comparable in any useful sense to cell phones or sonograms. (Cellphones are non-ionizing radiation and sonograms are pressure waves.) Is it any wonder that these guys don't get the benefit of the doubt?
Data show that having children decreases happiness. They also eat a lot of your time (which could be better spent doing science) and they're extremely expensive (scientists don't get paid that much). Knowing this, why would anyone who respects data have children?
Just because there's an ongoing cost and time periods where the net return might be negative doesn't mean that the whole project isn't worthwhile. Driving to the store is less fun and more expensive than reading a book. Cooking is also work. However, after I've done both I get to eat a delicious meal.
These studies also tend to only interview people who are in the immediate throes of child-rearing. It shouldn't be surprising at all that if you talk to people in the early stages of a project with heavy up-front cost that they might feel worn down. Now go ask your parents or grandparents what they think about children. Mine have said repeatedly that children are the most, if not the only, truly rewarding thing they've done with their lives. (However, none of them denies that it isn't work.)
People will do absolutely anything while driving. I have personally witnessed the following activities performed by a (presumably) sober adult, driving a vehicle at ~70 mph on I-75 south in Atlanta:
1) Playing the the flute. The driver had both hands on the flute, with sheet music propped up on the wheel. He was steering the car with his knees.
2) Shaving one's head. This man was peering into his rear view mirror, head lathered with shaving cream, shaving his head with a STRAIGHT RAZOR.
I doubt the libertarians are the ones complaining.
Customers are still handing over money for tickets, regardless of how much they may cry about it. The only thing the complaints indicate is that the price is approaching their willingness to pay. Nothing about a free market says that every purchase should leave you feeling like you got a great deal.
Yes, actually we do have a fundamental right to drive. More specifically, all rights not directly addressed in the Constitution are reserved by the people. This includes driving. However, the government does an end-run around this by saying that they can restrict who can access the public road system. Having your driver's license revoked (or not having one) does not prohibit you from driving on private property.
"Edgeline technology is said to be so ink-efficient that if HP were to sell these printers, they would never match the money they make from consumables (cartridges etc) now."
So they've innovated their way out of their own ability to gouge their customers? My heart bleeds...
Yes, people are starving in a variety of locales in the world. Yes, world population in stabilizing. No, it is not stabilizing due to starvation. Read up on the demographic transition.
"In short, I don't think she says anything moronic; I just think she doesn't say anything useful either"
Agreed. I know Dr. Thompson personally (I was a TA for a simulation modeling class she taught at MIT). She is bright, well-spoken, and eminently coherent. I see the points she was trying to get across in this study (which were subsequently misconstrued), and while I'm sure they and the foundational analyses are accurate I find them to be intellectually inane and practically useless. I'll have to ask her about it when school starts up again. =)
I doubt that your professor gets anything resembling 50% of the sale price. I know a professor at MIT whose textbook sells for $130+ and he recieves on the order of $6 per copy. Money? Yes. Lots? Hardly.
Honestly, I learned the most about computers from playing games. My experiences as a kid messing with networks so that I could play Doom with my friends taught me far more than anything I did in the classroom. There's nothing like real-world application.
-Belief in and reverence for a supernatural power or powers regarded as creator and governor of the universe. -A personal or institutionalized system grounded in such belief and worship. -The life or condition of a person in a religious order. -A set of beliefs, values, and practices based on the teachings of a spiritual leader. -A cause, principle, or activity pursued with zeal or conscientious devotion.
philosophy
-Love and pursuit of wisdom by intellectual means and moral self-discipline. -Investigation of the nature, causes, or principles of reality, knowledge, or values, based on logical reasoning rather than empirical methods. -A system of thought based on or involving such inquiry: the philosophy of Hume.... -A system of values by which one lives: has an unusual philosophy of life
Is this a tax on ignorance? On lack of tech skills? Is this fair?
No more so than failing to buy high-return stocks is a tax on people who don't do financial research. By the same logic as the original poster: Just becaue you aren't getting something doesn't mean it's being taken from you.
tax
n.
2. A fee or dues levied on the members of an organization to meet its expenses.
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Why on earth would anyone volunteer information to their landlords about which social media services they use?
"List your active social media accounts: 'I have no accounts to which I can grant you the requested access.'"
This doesn't even constitute lying on the application. What are they going to do - manually scan popular social media platforms for accounts that appear similar to you?
I think they can rest easy. Tesla will ABSOLUTELY break ground or not break ground on their new facility next month.
I switched to a standing desk about 12 months ago. I'm a pretty fit and active guy, but I have a variety of knee and back problems from years of martial arts training. Particularly, I have patellofemoral arthritis ("theatre knee") that gets worse when I keep my knee bent at 90 degrees or less. On a friend's advice, I built a standing desk and gave it a whirl.
The first two to three months sucked a lot. I could only stand for 1-2 hours at a time before my knees or feet were too sore to continue. I had to adjust the ergonomics of my workspace, particularly the height of my monitor, to avoid neck irritation. However, my lower back felt great for the first time in years. I kept going.
Somewhere around the 90 day mark, all my aches and pains vanished. My feet stopped getting sore. My knees no longer hurt. My back feels better than it did when I was 20. My hip flexors are more mobile. I can now on my feet all day with no problem. Standing around at parties doesn't make my feet or back sore. I also lost 5 lbs with no effort because of the increase caloric expenditure.
I'd recommend a standing desk to anyone with the willpower to make it through the transition. It's well worth it, in my opinion.
I live in Atlanta but grew up in Boston. I fully agree that southerners can't drive in the snow. Your advice is good. However, it is also totally useless for what happened here.
People were stuck in their cars because a million vehicles tried to exit a ten square mile area simultaneously. It was instant gridlock. Proper acceleration technique means nothing if there is nowhere to go. Once the inevitable handful of accidents occurred, even the lucky folks that were on the front of the traffic wave couldn't get anywhere.
I know it's cool to like small development houses, but I really don't understand the massive love for Torchlight. It was a cute game with a decent concept. The skill system, however, which is absolutely fundamental to ARPGs, was generally lackluster and without any depth or "wow" factor. Itemization was SO random that it became a massive headache just to sort through the hordes of affixes to find out what was good and what wasn't.
Torchlight was a not-bad-enough game that I'll give them a second chance on the sequel, but it certainly wasn't a great game and not a patch on any installment in the Diablo series.
From TFA:
“No, it’s not an X-ray,” she told Abbott. “It is 10,000 times safer than your cell phone and uses the same type of radio waves as a sonogram.”
The TSA scanners aren't comparable in any useful sense to cell phones or sonograms. (Cellphones are non-ionizing radiation and sonograms are pressure waves.) Is it any wonder that these guys don't get the benefit of the doubt?
I don't know that I consider "Error establishing a database connection" all that creative. Mod down TFA.
Data show that having children decreases happiness. They also eat a lot of your time (which could be better spent doing science) and they're extremely expensive (scientists don't get paid that much). Knowing this, why would anyone who respects data have children?
Just because there's an ongoing cost and time periods where the net return might be negative doesn't mean that the whole project isn't worthwhile. Driving to the store is less fun and more expensive than reading a book. Cooking is also work. However, after I've done both I get to eat a delicious meal. These studies also tend to only interview people who are in the immediate throes of child-rearing. It shouldn't be surprising at all that if you talk to people in the early stages of a project with heavy up-front cost that they might feel worn down. Now go ask your parents or grandparents what they think about children. Mine have said repeatedly that children are the most, if not the only, truly rewarding thing they've done with their lives. (However, none of them denies that it isn't work.)
Corporations - and governments.
People will do absolutely anything while driving. I have personally witnessed the following activities performed by a (presumably) sober adult, driving a vehicle at ~70 mph on I-75 south in Atlanta:
1) Playing the the flute. The driver had both hands on the flute, with sheet music propped up on the wheel. He was steering the car with his knees.
2) Shaving one's head. This man was peering into his rear view mirror, head lathered with shaving cream, shaving his head with a STRAIGHT RAZOR.
Because THQ owns the license to WH40K and not Mythic. =/
God, that would drive me insane.
I doubt the libertarians are the ones complaining. Customers are still handing over money for tickets, regardless of how much they may cry about it. The only thing the complaints indicate is that the price is approaching their willingness to pay. Nothing about a free market says that every purchase should leave you feeling like you got a great deal.
Yes, actually we do have a fundamental right to drive. More specifically, all rights not directly addressed in the Constitution are reserved by the people. This includes driving. However, the government does an end-run around this by saying that they can restrict who can access the public road system. Having your driver's license revoked (or not having one) does not prohibit you from driving on private property.
$50 in 1988 is equivalent to $88 now. Prices are dropping in real terms. (http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl)
"Edgeline technology is said to be so ink-efficient that if HP were to sell these printers, they would never match the money they make from consumables (cartridges etc) now." So they've innovated their way out of their own ability to gouge their customers? My heart bleeds...
The founder of Harmonix came and spoke to the MIT business school a couple months ago and basically said exactly that.
Yes, people are starving in a variety of locales in the world. Yes, world population in stabilizing. No, it is not stabilizing due to starvation. Read up on the demographic transition.
"In short, I don't think she says anything moronic; I just think she doesn't say anything useful either" Agreed. I know Dr. Thompson personally (I was a TA for a simulation modeling class she taught at MIT). She is bright, well-spoken, and eminently coherent. I see the points she was trying to get across in this study (which were subsequently misconstrued), and while I'm sure they and the foundational analyses are accurate I find them to be intellectually inane and practically useless. I'll have to ask her about it when school starts up again. =)
I doubt that your professor gets anything resembling 50% of the sale price. I know a professor at MIT whose textbook sells for $130+ and he recieves on the order of $6 per copy. Money? Yes. Lots? Hardly.
It's mostly likely an anglification of how you would spell "Neutrophils" in Spanish.
From www.dictionary.com
ain't P Pronunciation Key (nt)
Nonstandard
1. Contraction of am not.
2. Used also as a contraction for are not, is not, has not, and have not.
Honestly, I learned the most about computers from playing games. My experiences as a kid messing with networks so that I could play Doom with my friends taught me far more than anything I did in the classroom. There's nothing like real-world application.
Buddism is a philosophy, not a religion.
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religion
-Belief in and reverence for a supernatural power or powers regarded as creator and governor of the universe.
-A personal or institutionalized system grounded in such belief and worship.
-The life or condition of a person in a religious order.
-A set of beliefs, values, and practices based on the teachings of a spiritual leader.
-A cause, principle, or activity pursued with zeal or conscientious devotion.
philosophy
-Love and pursuit of wisdom by intellectual means and moral self-discipline.
-Investigation of the nature, causes, or principles of reality, knowledge, or values, based on logical reasoning rather than empirical methods.
-A system of thought based on or involving such inquiry: the philosophy of Hume.
-A system of values by which one lives: has an unusual philosophy of life
Is this a tax on ignorance? On lack of tech skills? Is this fair?
No more so than failing to buy high-return stocks is a tax on people who don't do financial research. By the same logic as the original poster: Just becaue you aren't getting something doesn't mean it's being taken from you.
tax
n.
2. A fee or dues levied on the members of an organization to meet its expenses.
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