You beat me to it. I'm the chief promoter of Pi Day at my workplace, and it's mostly almost all about the pie. One of the secretaries likes to sing Pi Carols, but it's pretty much about the pie eating.
This guy was not fired for his beliefs. He was demoted and later fired, because he was a "team lead" and proselytized to his subordinates while on the clock as a government employee. This is a violation of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. His co-workers complained he was harassing them, it was investigated, and her received a written warning. He persisted and was demoted. Duh! Failure to Acquire Clue often has negative career consequences. He was terminated along with 245 others due to budget cuts. Again, Duh!. Negative performance reviews will put you onto the redundancy list. The bottom line though, is that when you are a government employee, you don't get to promote religion at work. Period.
Do people in Nevada get some sort of horrible sickness?
Many people in Nevada seem to suffer from horrible sickness, but it seems to increase the closer you get to Las Vegas. I'm certainly not ruling out a California connection, though.
Nothing to do with California. Rule #1 in Nevada: Protection, Protection, Protection!
Stop being stupid...please ?
It's correct as it is.
the "major X5 solar flare" IS...etc
It's been corrected; meaning the main story. The first sentence originally read, "According to spaceweather.com, a major X5 solar flare is on it's way to deliver a glancing blow to the Earth's magnetic field." That is incorrect. Dropping the apostrophe has now made it correct.
What the heck does it mean? Even the linked Wikipedia article is a mass of technobabble understandable only to subject matter experts. How about something to tell us what these changes to gene expression (whatever that is) mean in human readable terms.
No. Sorry, but this is not the information you're looking for. You can go about your business. How can we mad scientists create our army of supermen (and women) if every Tom, Dick, and Harry can understand the user manual?
>I find it amusing and depressing that modern medical science has fallen so far. Everything that is known by modern medicine owes its beginnings in ancient medical practices such as Chinese medicine and homeopathy.
Far from having "fallen so far," modern medicine has come a long way since its roots. Polio killed people when I was a child, and I challenge you to find a homeopathic polio vaccine.
>A perfect example of this is aspirin. Hundreds, if not thousands, of years ago, the medical minds of the day would give their patients tea brewed from willow bark to ease their pain. Where is aspirin found in nature? Willow bark.
You seem to be confusing herbal medicine with homeopathy. I have a degree in botany and actually have studied and used herbal medicine (more as a hobby than anything.) Yes, willow bark, Salix sp. contains salicin, which is similar to acetylsalicylic acid. The concentration in the willow bark varies widely from species to species, and willows are relatively difficult to key out. In species with enough active ingredient to be effective, the concentration can vary from 0.01% to over 10% depending on time of year, growing location and other factors. That's a 100-fold difference in concentration of the active ingredient making it fairly difficult to make sure you get an effective dose and don't O.D. Personally, I find it easier and safer to take two 500 mg. tablets. Also, you don't want to give willow bark tea to a child, because of Reyes Syndrome, and I have yet to find the Tylenol Bush.
>Natural cures and remedies are available for most ailments,
No, they aren't. There are no natural remedies for polio, smallpox, yellow fever, scarlet fever, TB, Ebola, rabies, cholera, and a whole long list of others.
>but modern medicine has dismissed the natural treatments in favor of synthetic solutions.
That's because they work better. There is a treatment for breast cancer derived from the bark of the Pacific yew tree, Taxus brevifolia. If your wife, daughter, or sister has breast cancer, you really want them taking the commercial drug under the supervision of a good oncologist, rather than sucking on yew bark. Also, before a synthetic version was developed, the tree was damn near wiped out from people stripping the bark to sell.
>These same synthetic solutions have lead to the rise of super-germs and man-made diseases Mother Nature would have nightmares about.
"Super germs" have come about through the overuse of antibiotics, an entirely different issue.
This is how "fired" works at this level. The chairman of the board of directors meets with the CEO and explains that the CEO will no longer be working there. The CEO then resigns "to spend more quality time with my family."
Words and punctuation have meaning. If you use them improperly, you change the meaning of what is being said. This matters a lot in contracts as well as everyday communication.
Secondly, this is a website for technically minded people. Presumably, many of us have been programmers at some point, or at least we have some familiarity with coding. If you are not such, let me assure you that a compiler cares about spelling and punctuation. It cares a lot.
You need to change banks. Or, rather, exchange your bank for a credit union. Use your ATM card to withdraw cash from your account. I pay a small transaction fee and no percentage. By making large withdrawals I minimized the transaction fee hit.
Holding mine and my wife's newer chipped version as I write. On mine, the laminated page is the inside of the front cover. On hers, it is page 3. Mine looks far more sturdy and less likely to peel than hers. The covers of hers are more rigid and actually more likely to show damage. Maybe they are supposed to protect the chip, but it leaves it more likely to show damage. It's like the difference between a leather cover (old) and cardboard (new).
Agreed that's a good idea. I have done that while sailing. It's still in my back pocket, or front depending on the pants/shorts. It's not trashed by any means, but it sure isn't, " essentially as new as the day I put the bag around it."
My current passport does not have a chip in it and is good for another year. It is also pretty damn beat up. It has stickers on the outside that French immigration has put on it. It has been bent and tweaked by a variety of national border control types, and no one has ever applied a visa stamp gently. It has also spent a lot of time in my pocket, because nothing says "Tourist here please rob me" like one of those dorky things hanging around your neck. As a result of being in my pocket, it has gotten sat on, sweated on, bent, etc. In short, it looks like the passport of someone who travels a lot, which I guess they don't see a lot at American Airlines in Dallas. I respect my passport enough that I don't leave it in hotel safes, don't hang it around my neck to get snatched, and generally try to keep it from getting stolen, which has resulted in it looking weathered and worn. The airline employee in Dallas is a tool.
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You beat me to it. I'm the chief promoter of Pi Day at my workplace, and it's mostly almost all about the pie. One of the secretaries likes to sing Pi Carols, but it's pretty much about the pie eating.
This guy was not fired for his beliefs. He was demoted and later fired, because he was a "team lead" and proselytized to his subordinates while on the clock as a government employee. This is a violation of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. His co-workers complained he was harassing them, it was investigated, and her received a written warning. He persisted and was demoted. Duh! Failure to Acquire Clue often has negative career consequences. He was terminated along with 245 others due to budget cuts. Again, Duh!. Negative performance reviews will put you onto the redundancy list. The bottom line though, is that when you are a government employee, you don't get to promote religion at work. Period.
Do people in Nevada get some sort of horrible sickness?
Many people in Nevada seem to suffer from horrible sickness, but it seems to increase the closer you get to Las Vegas. I'm certainly not ruling out a California connection, though.
Nothing to do with California. Rule #1 in Nevada: Protection, Protection, Protection!
Stop being stupid...please ? It's correct as it is.
the "major X5 solar flare" IS...etc
It's been corrected; meaning the main story. The first sentence originally read, "According to spaceweather.com, a major X5 solar flare is on it's way to deliver a glancing blow to the Earth's magnetic field." That is incorrect. Dropping the apostrophe has now made it correct.
>Cthulhu / Dagon 2012 Why vote for the lesser of two evils?
Damn! I've been supporting Nyarlathotep for Vice President. Looks like I missed the party convention. Where was it?
Is it paranoid to think that these first two might be a couple of ranging shots?
It's on its way.
Agreed. Darwin used the phrase, "use, disuse, etc." frequently in OTOOS, although he never explained the "etc."
What the heck does it mean? Even the linked Wikipedia article is a mass of technobabble understandable only to subject matter experts. How about something to tell us what these changes to gene expression (whatever that is) mean in human readable terms.
No. Sorry, but this is not the information you're looking for. You can go about your business. How can we mad scientists create our army of supermen (and women) if every Tom, Dick, and Harry can understand the user manual?
Free parking. Little risk of theft. Makes people wonder what you're up to. Winner all around.
I guess it's finally time to retire the Iris Indigo.
The law of natural selection is already operating at peak efficiency.
>I find it amusing and depressing that modern medical science has fallen so far. Everything that is known by modern medicine owes its beginnings in ancient medical practices such as Chinese medicine and homeopathy.
Far from having "fallen so far," modern medicine has come a long way since its roots. Polio killed people when I was a child, and I challenge you to find a homeopathic polio vaccine.
>A perfect example of this is aspirin. Hundreds, if not thousands, of years ago, the medical minds of the day would give their patients tea brewed from willow bark to ease their pain. Where is aspirin found in nature? Willow bark.
You seem to be confusing herbal medicine with homeopathy. I have a degree in botany and actually have studied and used herbal medicine (more as a hobby than anything.) Yes, willow bark, Salix sp. contains salicin, which is similar to acetylsalicylic acid. The concentration in the willow bark varies widely from species to species, and willows are relatively difficult to key out. In species with enough active ingredient to be effective, the concentration can vary from 0.01% to over 10% depending on time of year, growing location and other factors. That's a 100-fold difference in concentration of the active ingredient making it fairly difficult to make sure you get an effective dose and don't O.D. Personally, I find it easier and safer to take two 500 mg. tablets. Also, you don't want to give willow bark tea to a child, because of Reyes Syndrome, and I have yet to find the Tylenol Bush.
>Natural cures and remedies are available for most ailments,
No, they aren't. There are no natural remedies for polio, smallpox, yellow fever, scarlet fever, TB, Ebola, rabies, cholera, and a whole long list of others.
>but modern medicine has dismissed the natural treatments in favor of synthetic solutions.
That's because they work better. There is a treatment for breast cancer derived from the bark of the Pacific yew tree, Taxus brevifolia. If your wife, daughter, or sister has breast cancer, you really want them taking the commercial drug under the supervision of a good oncologist, rather than sucking on yew bark. Also, before a synthetic version was developed, the tree was damn near wiped out from people stripping the bark to sell.
>These same synthetic solutions have lead to the rise of super-germs and man-made diseases Mother Nature would have nightmares about.
"Super germs" have come about through the overuse of antibiotics, an entirely different issue.
My college career was greatly aided by the fact that many of these people will play poker for money.
Now we'll have to deal with Dr. Evil running the place.
No, Wolowitz only has the toilet control codes.
This could be a serious mistake. Disturb the Great Old Ones at your peril.
This is how "fired" works at this level. The chairman of the board of directors meets with the CEO and explains that the CEO will no longer be working there. The CEO then resigns "to spend more quality time with my family."
He didn't get fired for trying to bribe the administration. He got fired for not being successful at it.
You are incorrectly inferring that they are talking about an interlock system.
Otherwise, how would you ever get a taxi in Paris?
So who cares?
Words and punctuation have meaning. If you use them improperly, you change the meaning of what is being said. This matters a lot in contracts as well as everyday communication.
Secondly, this is a website for technically minded people. Presumably, many of us have been programmers at some point, or at least we have some familiarity with coding. If you are not such, let me assure you that a compiler cares about spelling and punctuation. It cares a lot.
You need to change banks. Or, rather, exchange your bank for a credit union. Use your ATM card to withdraw cash from your account. I pay a small transaction fee and no percentage. By making large withdrawals I minimized the transaction fee hit.
Holding mine and my wife's newer chipped version as I write. On mine, the laminated page is the inside of the front cover. On hers, it is page 3. Mine looks far more sturdy and less likely to peel than hers. The covers of hers are more rigid and actually more likely to show damage. Maybe they are supposed to protect the chip, but it leaves it more likely to show damage. It's like the difference between a leather cover (old) and cardboard (new).
Agreed that's a good idea. I have done that while sailing. It's still in my back pocket, or front depending on the pants/shorts. It's not trashed by any means, but it sure isn't, " essentially as new as the day I put the bag around it."
My current passport does not have a chip in it and is good for another year. It is also pretty damn beat up. It has stickers on the outside that French immigration has put on it. It has been bent and tweaked by a variety of national border control types, and no one has ever applied a visa stamp gently. It has also spent a lot of time in my pocket, because nothing says "Tourist here please rob me" like one of those dorky things hanging around your neck. As a result of being in my pocket, it has gotten sat on, sweated on, bent, etc. In short, it looks like the passport of someone who travels a lot, which I guess they don't see a lot at American Airlines in Dallas. I respect my passport enough that I don't leave it in hotel safes, don't hang it around my neck to get snatched, and generally try to keep it from getting stolen, which has resulted in it looking weathered and worn. The airline employee in Dallas is a tool.
And get off my lawn.