Too bad my body can no longer handle that kind of work, or I'd be back at "the plant" in a heartbeat.
Yep. I see lots of 20 and 30 year old guys in construction / fishing / general labor making $40 - $70 / hr on a high school GED. Works OK until you hit 50 and you realize that your back / hips / knees weren't designed to do this for another 30 years.
Save up your paychecks until then. It gets lonely in the bunkhouse after a while.
If you are having an issue like that, then you should have the knowledge and technical know how to change the connectors with something non standard. Say for example, take the ethernet port and replace it with an 8 pin DIN connector. No chance of that being plugged into the wrong network accidentally.
(Yes, I used a DIN as it comes to mind, but it could have issues, as other things use it, you could make a completely different connector for it if you wanted.)
All you have to do is to wire the Ethernet cables differently from standards (and color code them lest hours of amusement and consternation ensue).
Making a movie from a novel is rather hard. They are different experiences, rely on different cues, have different timings and often play to different audiences.
Yes, Blade Runner isn't Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. Aliens is just Giger and Dan O'Bannon and bog knows what Prometheus was about aside from Charleze Theron in a tight fitting flight suit, but it will be interesting to see how this turns out.
Beats Transformer movies and the sad fall of Joss Whedon.
Cigarettes and other form of tobacco are problematic since you are SUPPOSED to get addicted to them following the manufacturers instructions, hopes and dreams. Alcohol, it can be argued, you are supposed to 'enjoy responsibly' (and only get addicted to if you have some form of mental or genetic deficiency).
Ka-CHING! *
* to all you young folk who have never seen a real cash register, that's the noise the device makes when it rings up a sale.
We know that life has started out in an anaerobic environment with water present. Everything else is up for grabs. So if you're looking for life-as-we-know-it, it makes sense to go with the conditions we already know works.
TF Headline is, of course, hyperbolic. Alien life doesn't necessarily require conditions similar to earth. But that's were the money is. If you have limit the types of planet systems you will spend the time and money to look carefully at, you just might go with what has worked.
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"I think this scientist is so brave and patriotic that he should get a personal commendation from the President himself."
- Hon. John Boehner (R-Ohio), Speaker of the US House of Representatives
It is not about NIMBY --- it is just common sense.
"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."
-- Albert Einstein
Thank you $random_slashdot_user for your deeply insightful and carefully worked out analysis of a complicated issue.
I am sure that the folks at the CDC would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
Too bad my body can no longer handle that kind of work, or I'd be back at "the plant" in a heartbeat.
Yep. I see lots of 20 and 30 year old guys in construction / fishing / general labor making $40 - $70 / hr on a high school GED. Works OK until you hit 50 and you realize that your back / hips / knees weren't designed to do this for another 30 years.
Save up your paychecks until then. It gets lonely in the bunkhouse after a while.
Normal Rockwell has been dead for years.
Nothing new....
"It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."
--- Shakespeare.
An ethnography Nazi!
Didn't realize Slashdot had one of them.
Excellent advice! I'll just go tell my mom ....
If you are having an issue like that, then you should have the knowledge and technical know how to change the connectors with something non standard. Say for example, take the ethernet port and replace it with an 8 pin DIN connector. No chance of that being plugged into the wrong network accidentally.
(Yes, I used a DIN as it comes to mind, but it could have issues, as other things use it, you could make a completely different connector for it if you wanted.)
All you have to do is to wire the Ethernet cables differently from standards (and color code them lest hours of amusement and consternation ensue).
... but reducing distraction is also important.
Depends on the distraction, because, e.g., looking at pictures of baby animals actually improves the performance.
Oh yes, baby! Bring out the animal in me! Yes!
If you like superhero movies.
Oh, Joss, why couldn't you have stuck with Westerns?
Not everyone is 14 years old.
Making a movie from a novel is rather hard. They are different experiences, rely on different cues, have different timings and often play to different audiences.
Yes, Blade Runner isn't Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. Aliens is just Giger and Dan O'Bannon and bog knows what Prometheus was about aside from Charleze Theron in a tight fitting flight suit, but it will be interesting to see how this turns out.
Beats Transformer movies and the sad fall of Joss Whedon.
"A walk through the ocean of most souls would scarcely get your feet wet".
- Deteriorata
They are one of those few groups who shouldn't get any healthcare at all. Even when their problem is seemingly unrelated to smoking.
You wouldn't want them to get vaccinated? Or have communicable diseases treated?
Did you work this out all by yourself or did you get help?
Not everybody works in marketing.
I'll bet you're a blast at parties....
Cigarettes and other form of tobacco are problematic since you are SUPPOSED to get addicted to them following the manufacturers instructions, hopes and dreams. Alcohol, it can be argued, you are supposed to 'enjoy responsibly' (and only get addicted to if you have some form of mental or genetic deficiency).
Ka-CHING! *
* to all you young folk who have never seen a real cash register, that's the noise the device makes when it rings up a sale.
Oooh boy...
And your take on golf is....
Maybe yes, maybe no.
We know that life has started out in an anaerobic environment with water present. Everything else is up for grabs. So if you're looking for life-as-we-know-it, it makes sense to go with the conditions we already know works.
TF Headline is, of course, hyperbolic. Alien life doesn't necessarily require conditions similar to earth. But that's were the money is. If you have limit the types of planet systems you will spend the time and money to look carefully at, you just might go with what has worked.
Slashdot.
Where even car mirrors have political and racial overtones.
Ain't letting nobody wave no knife around my manly bits. They be too manly for that!
How about a laser? You can do a vasectomy with a laser - how cool is that?
Of course, you could do a vasectomy with a shark. I'm not sure that 'cool' would be the appropriate adjective.
It's called 'marriage'.
You sure they were vasectomies?
Funny. I don't recall seeing any Boeing pens last time I was there. I did see a number of pretty attractive female engineers and pilots.
Maybe Lockheed makes the pens.