I can't help but think there are many types of people on this survey, some will be rigid, others will always be dynamic. I personally listen almost exclusively to alternative rock stations, and while I like my favorites, I quickly tire of the repeat playlist on your Morning Zoo.
But most importantly, I follow the 5/10/85 rule. 5% of music is timeless brilliance, 10% is listenable yet disposable, and 85% is crap. Those percentages vary by genre.
My workplace treats women very well. This comment is more geared towards the 70's-90's. I knew a few women in a tech company I worked for that were subjected to pressures they shouldn't have been.
I'm not going to flame, but I'm curious why you would think someone stupid for it. I still use gmail for the simple reasons that it always had more free storage than I needed, and now I'm stuck with it because it's been my personal address for almost 10 years. That doesn't make someone a moron (and yes, I'm aware of what they do with it, I put nothing of real value there that wasn't there over five years ago).
My hotmail account would have been it, except a short-sighted MS exec deleted a bunch of e-mails without telling me, losing me forever.
Not at all, men have been the mules of our society. My point is that things will change, not that men have had it easy. and I see the intricacies (men have always gone to battle and got maimed, for instance).
You're making interesting points. I'm not saying it's fair play, but it is what is happening.
It drives me nuts that in the eyes of extremists all men are assumed to be a potential child molesters if they were to hug a child that's not their own, we are all assumed potential rapists, and we are all evil oppressors of women.
What got us this way is that some very few men were, and now all of us are paying the price for it.
Re your second point. What I wonder is how much of it is related to parenting. Are the parents of the disinterested young men letting the games babysit for them instead of them interacting with them? I know kids are stubborn, but if you take away the game and force them to play, they will eventually do it. Parents need to show them the media stories are exaggerated, life is not inherently stacked against them, and that having meaningful relationships is healthy.
A lot of what you mentioned in your last paragraph is spot on, and I worry about that. I'd love for my girls to have a career and family too, my wife and I started in our mid-30s and while I don't think either of us settled, waiting could have led us to do so. The problems now and in the future will be different than what they were then, hopefully they won't be getting fondled at work for a chance at a promotion.
As a father of two young girls, I'm rather conflicted.
Anyone has to admit that for most of recorded human history, women have been suppressed (as they continue to be in many parts of the world). At the moment, women are occasionally getting the upper-hand, and not always because of merit. What men are seeing now is how it feels to be the under-served, and men don't like it.
Someday we can hope the world will become a true meritocracy where people are only judged on their actions and merits, and the pendulum will stop swinging. Until then men are going to be eating the shit sandwich we've been serving for quite a while. That may be great for my girls, but not necessarily for me.
Nut an increase in greenhouse gas is a problem which you msy hsve noticed if you live in the west (drought)
The amount is way less howevere.
Humans are fueled by plants or animal protein that has recently been carbon in the atmosphere. Its not an addition to the amount of carbon that is around.
No need to call people a 'nut', especially when you are not informed.
The EPA recognized CO2 as a pollutant, but there are no limits on discharge, that is a key difference.
The west has had much more severe droughts in the last 1000 years than this one. It may be anthropogenic, but there is plenty of history to say it doesn't.
Also, the natural cycle of CO2 far exceeds the CO2 generated by anthropogenic sources, by more than a factor of 15. Look up carbon balance.
To me the cool thing is that they will have a small battery powered drone providing you with your goods, without using a car with a driver to deliver it over many miles. Think of the energy savings, that's efficient, responsible, and affordable. Two years ago I was thinking this is a hoax, but I'll eat crow and say it may work.
The one thing I didn't notice until now is that the balls were often over-inflated by the NFL, they said some of the were 16 psi, where they should be between 12.5 and 13.5. In that case, they were doing the right thing.
Fair enough point, there are other dangerous jobs and I benefit from their work. This report says that the police officer is a little less than half as likely to die on the job as a truck driver (fishers, timber cutters, and airline pilots(!) are the most risky).
These statistics aren't normalized for patrolled neighborhoods though, I'm sure the cop in Oakland has a higher risk of fatality than the cop in Palo Alto. Fishermen also don't have to pick up the body of a 15 year old girl that committed suicide out of the bathtub. So yes, I'm grateful for the labor of those who work in risky jobs, and I'm grateful for the cops that help minimize random acts of violence.
I just don't understand why good cops lie to cover for bad ones, but they're the reason we have to have articles like this.
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I don't like it either, but I have a fair guess about why it happens. I was in the Army National Guard, as well as a fraternity pledge, and I observe the camaraderie among the troops develops greatly in shared stressful situations...you can always count on your teammate for assistance when nobody else will. It's hard to turn someone in or away after they helped you through something really bad.
Why is using actual data on how dangerous the job is compared to other jobs pointless? Because it doesn't support your argument?
... fish don't have shotguns in the back seat)
Neither do the vast, vast majority of people.
Agreed on the second part, but the issue is the police officer's job is to insert themselves into situations where the suspects are doing wrong and have an interest avoiding prison. This leads to return actions from humans that are often violent, and that is not something most people deal with everyday. No other job, except for firemen and the military, has that as part of the job description.
Maybe it wasn't clear in my first post, but I stated that the abusive cops need to be removed (the thin blue line) and I support the recent efforts to monitor police actions. But this blanket smearing of cops is foolish, for one it doesn't recognize the service of those who do well, and second, it makes future potentially qualified candidates not want the job, leaving it to the power hungry people that you don't want patrolling the streets to fill their shoes.
One item the media seems to dismiss is that there are almost 40 million police interactions every year. About 1.4% claim there was force used, and the majority state it was excessive. The number that has made the recent news is a dozen or so.
I will be the first to say that 1.4% is far too much, but you can also note that 98.6% follow procedure, and all beat cops have a non-zero probability of being shot when they go to work that morning. Their job is hard (and quoting stats comparing cops to fisherman is pointless, fish don't have shotguns in the back seat).
I have a friend whose husband was killed in the line of duty, he was stopping a warehouse robbery. It didn't make national news, and her kids grew up without their father. Yes, there are issues with the thin blue line and the recent monitoring with cell phones is a benefit, but before anyone goes around blasting cops without considering the whole picture, just imagine what it would be like if they did not protect us and serve us from the anarchy that would be there without them.
The plot line of Better Call Saul is that Jimmy found out a nursing home was overcharging senior citizens and he built a fraud case. They planned a 20 million dollar lawsuit because of fraud.
Funny in medicine, it's standard operating procedure.
I want my doctors well compensated, and I don't even mind seeing dozens of new hospitals being erected throughout California with the latest in technology. But the graft needs to stop.
I have no idea on either, but I do know that they have a very liberal campus policy with regards to wardrobe, hair, etc. There is plenty of body art to be seen, not sure whether they work in design.
The point is to have enough people inoculated such that herd immunity takes effect. There will always be a few people that can't take the vaccine. As long as they are few, the rest are safe.
From a communication standpoint, I agree. But Antarctic expeditions always had the expectation of water, air, and probably fish, availability, which are valuable and scarce resources in space; the environment is challenging but they could survive. On a Mars exploration not having the ability to survive in the natural environment would be terrifying, and I think that would increase feelings of isolation.
Others have already posted, but from a pragmatic standpoint if you could select 2 or 3 candidate moves and do a quick check on them to see where they would go, it would be a much greater advantage than doing the analysis in your head.
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I can't help but think there are many types of people on this survey, some will be rigid, others will always be dynamic. I personally listen almost exclusively to alternative rock stations, and while I like my favorites, I quickly tire of the repeat playlist on your Morning Zoo.
But most importantly, I follow the 5/10/85 rule. 5% of music is timeless brilliance, 10% is listenable yet disposable, and 85% is crap. Those percentages vary by genre.
My workplace treats women very well. This comment is more geared towards the 70's-90's. I knew a few women in a tech company I worked for that were subjected to pressures they shouldn't have been.
In January, there was pressure from some activist investors for Yahoo! and AOL to merge. http://www.usatoday.com/story/...
I guess not so much anymore.
That is nuts. I had high speed internet in Oklahoma 15 years ago, you'd think the home of Microsoft would have good connectivity.
I'm not going to flame, but I'm curious why you would think someone stupid for it. I still use gmail for the simple reasons that it always had more free storage than I needed, and now I'm stuck with it because it's been my personal address for almost 10 years. That doesn't make someone a moron (and yes, I'm aware of what they do with it, I put nothing of real value there that wasn't there over five years ago).
My hotmail account would have been it, except a short-sighted MS exec deleted a bunch of e-mails without telling me, losing me forever.
Not at all, men have been the mules of our society. My point is that things will change, not that men have had it easy. and I see the intricacies (men have always gone to battle and got maimed, for instance).
I'll check out your reference.
You're making interesting points. I'm not saying it's fair play, but it is what is happening.
It drives me nuts that in the eyes of extremists all men are assumed to be a potential child molesters if they were to hug a child that's not their own, we are all assumed potential rapists, and we are all evil oppressors of women.
What got us this way is that some very few men were, and now all of us are paying the price for it.
Re your second point. What I wonder is how much of it is related to parenting. Are the parents of the disinterested young men letting the games babysit for them instead of them interacting with them? I know kids are stubborn, but if you take away the game and force them to play, they will eventually do it. Parents need to show them the media stories are exaggerated, life is not inherently stacked against them, and that having meaningful relationships is healthy.
A lot of what you mentioned in your last paragraph is spot on, and I worry about that. I'd love for my girls to have a career and family too, my wife and I started in our mid-30s and while I don't think either of us settled, waiting could have led us to do so. The problems now and in the future will be different than what they were then, hopefully they won't be getting fondled at work for a chance at a promotion.
I'm not an SJW, but I know that you are an AC.
As a father of two young girls, I'm rather conflicted.
Anyone has to admit that for most of recorded human history, women have been suppressed (as they continue to be in many parts of the world). At the moment, women are occasionally getting the upper-hand, and not always because of merit. What men are seeing now is how it feels to be the under-served, and men don't like it.
Someday we can hope the world will become a true meritocracy where people are only judged on their actions and merits, and the pendulum will stop swinging. Until then men are going to be eating the shit sandwich we've been serving for quite a while. That may be great for my girls, but not necessarily for me.
Nut an increase in greenhouse gas is a problem
which you msy hsve noticed if you live in the west (drought)
The amount is way less howevere.
Humans are fueled by plants or animal protein that has recently been carbon in the atmosphere. Its not an addition to the amount of carbon that is around.
No need to call people a 'nut', especially when you are not informed.
The EPA recognized CO2 as a pollutant, but there are no limits on discharge, that is a key difference.
The west has had much more severe droughts in the last 1000 years than this one. It may be anthropogenic, but there is plenty of history to say it doesn't.
Also, the natural cycle of CO2 far exceeds the CO2 generated by anthropogenic sources, by more than a factor of 15. Look up carbon balance.
To me the cool thing is that they will have a small battery powered drone providing you with your goods, without using a car with a driver to deliver it over many miles. Think of the energy savings, that's efficient, responsible, and affordable. Two years ago I was thinking this is a hoax, but I'll eat crow and say it may work.
The one thing I didn't notice until now is that the balls were often over-inflated by the NFL, they said some of the were 16 psi, where they should be between 12.5 and 13.5. In that case, they were doing the right thing.
I'll never forget the line from Gattaca.
"I belonged to a new underclass, no longer determined by social status or the color of your skin. No, we now have discrimination down to a science."
The movie is 18 years old now, and we are closing in on Andrew Niccol's idea faster than I would like.
Fair enough point, there are other dangerous jobs and I benefit from their work. This report says that the police officer is a little less than half as likely to die on the job as a truck driver (fishers, timber cutters, and airline pilots(!) are the most risky).
These statistics aren't normalized for patrolled neighborhoods though, I'm sure the cop in Oakland has a higher risk of fatality than the cop in Palo Alto. Fishermen also don't have to pick up the body of a 15 year old girl that committed suicide out of the bathtub. So yes, I'm grateful for the labor of those who work in risky jobs, and I'm grateful for the cops that help minimize random acts of violence.
I just don't understand why good cops lie to cover for bad ones, but they're the reason we have to have articles like this.
dom
I don't like it either, but I have a fair guess about why it happens. I was in the Army National Guard, as well as a fraternity pledge, and I observe the camaraderie among the troops develops greatly in shared stressful situations...you can always count on your teammate for assistance when nobody else will. It's hard to turn someone in or away after they helped you through something really bad.
Why is using actual data on how dangerous the job is compared to other jobs pointless? Because it doesn't support your argument?
... fish don't have shotguns in the back seat)
Neither do the vast, vast majority of people.
Agreed on the second part, but the issue is the police officer's job is to insert themselves into situations where the suspects are doing wrong and have an interest avoiding prison. This leads to return actions from humans that are often violent, and that is not something most people deal with everyday. No other job, except for firemen and the military, has that as part of the job description.
Maybe it wasn't clear in my first post, but I stated that the abusive cops need to be removed (the thin blue line) and I support the recent efforts to monitor police actions. But this blanket smearing of cops is foolish, for one it doesn't recognize the service of those who do well, and second, it makes future potentially qualified candidates not want the job, leaving it to the power hungry people that you don't want patrolling the streets to fill their shoes.
One item the media seems to dismiss is that there are almost 40 million police interactions every year. About 1.4% claim there was force used, and the majority state it was excessive. The number that has made the recent news is a dozen or so.
I will be the first to say that 1.4% is far too much, but you can also note that 98.6% follow procedure, and all beat cops have a non-zero probability of being shot when they go to work that morning. Their job is hard (and quoting stats comparing cops to fisherman is pointless, fish don't have shotguns in the back seat).
I have a friend whose husband was killed in the line of duty, he was stopping a warehouse robbery. It didn't make national news, and her kids grew up without their father. Yes, there are issues with the thin blue line and the recent monitoring with cell phones is a benefit, but before anyone goes around blasting cops without considering the whole picture, just imagine what it would be like if they did not protect us and serve us from the anarchy that would be there without them.
The plot line of Better Call Saul is that Jimmy found out a nursing home was overcharging senior citizens and he built a fraud case. They planned a 20 million dollar lawsuit because of fraud.
Funny in medicine, it's standard operating procedure.
I want my doctors well compensated, and I don't even mind seeing dozens of new hospitals being erected throughout California with the latest in technology. But the graft needs to stop.
I have no idea on either, but I do know that they have a very liberal campus policy with regards to wardrobe, hair, etc. There is plenty of body art to be seen, not sure whether they work in design.
If you've ever been to the Apple campus, you'll find there is not a shortage of tattoos.
+1 Insightful
The point is to have enough people inoculated such that herd immunity takes effect. There will always be a few people that can't take the vaccine. As long as they are few, the rest are safe.
One must admit that guy is brilliant.
From a communication standpoint, I agree. But Antarctic expeditions always had the expectation of water, air, and probably fish, availability, which are valuable and scarce resources in space; the environment is challenging but they could survive. On a Mars exploration not having the ability to survive in the natural environment would be terrifying, and I think that would increase feelings of isolation.
Others have already posted, but from a pragmatic standpoint if you could select 2 or 3 candidate moves and do a quick check on them to see where they would go, it would be a much greater advantage than doing the analysis in your head.
The guy should get the hammer...