So, what I'm hearing is American's can't deal with reality. That would explain the uptake of 'reality TV' I suppose, there ain't nothing real about that pile of fetid dingoes kidneys.
I spent 2 years working for a utility company in Australia where we had an annual change freeze to core systems during the bushfire season. We couldn't afford for systems to be down for non-essential changes when there was the possibility of a 'real world' emergency breaking out. This went doubly so for anything involved in the SCADA network.
In a world where people truly respected the personal rights of others, your hypothetical woman should be able to dance through the park stark naked and not fear sexual assault.
Sadly however we know that isn't a low risk activity. But apparently, neither is sleeping in your own bed at home behind a locked door - there was an incident in my home town last week of a woman suffering an aggravated sexual assault at home in her own bed. It certainly wasn't the first news report I'd heard of similar assaults.
Blaming the victim is denial of the responsibility of the aggressor to behave in a civillised manner in the first place.
My senior year physics teacher used to regularly ask me what I was doing in his class (the only girl), and on of my teacher from the previous year repeatedly told me that I only needed to learn how to cook and sew. I was the top student from my year and the only girl doing the Maths/Science stream. This was in the '80s.
I wonder if it was in anyway linked to the public service exams from China - your social status, salary and job were all defined by how well you performed on the Public Service exam. IIRC you could retake the exam annually to move up in the ranks, but risked moving backwards.
An anti-confrontation course my college ran (mandatory for all students) suggested using "I'm confused, help me to understand..." rather than just outright telling them they are wrong.
I was bullied, whether it was for being smart (top student in my year) or being poorly socialised, I don't know.
I would routinely be not chosen for teams in sport (even though I regularly participated in house athletics and swimming and was part of the school gymnastics squad). In year 12 my locker would be turned upside down and faced into the wall - I got quite skilled at flipping it back the other way. I even had a tub of red paint thrown over me at one point like Carrie at the prom.
I was the only girl in the Maths/Science stream in senior year. Even a couple of my teachers gave me grief about why wasn't I taking accounting or typing like the other girls (what was I doing in the physics and extended maths class).
It was isolating and even now, over 20 years later, I generally feel like I'm always outside of the general flock.
University was a wake up call, when I went from frequently being the smartest person in the room to not even close. Not that I was in the bottom segment, but I was certainly no longer in the top.
Not trolling, but it seems to me that if everyone's DNA were on record the crime rates would drop through the floor.
You'd think so, wouldn't you. But if you read the summary, the guy in question volunteered his own DNA which came back as a 100% match. Most criminals aren't that smart. They frequently believe they won't get caught - if they even think about it at all.
Having sentencing that is intended to be a deterrent - up to and including the death sentence in some states - doesn't stop people from trying to get away with murder.
People committing assault/rape/murder are rarely thinking with their rational brain when they commit the crime.
Personally, I stopped going to church because of what I like to refer to as "1-hour-a-week Christians". Who seem to think because they rock up to a specific geographic location at a set time each week it excuses them for how they behave the rest of the week.
These days I'd class myself as more agnostic, but with a strong moral code. I still try to stick to the 10 commandments, except for the one about having no other god. If god really exists, he/she has an odd sense of humour to permit some of what is dones in his/her name. I believe in an non-interventionalist god. I don't care how much you pray - he/she expects you to work it out for yourself.
I have a Quadra 8100AV for a while, second hand, I used the 'AV' to run dual displays.
My boyfriend at the time (now husband) came home one day to tell me how Windows 95 supported dual displays and it was awesome and I said - oh, my Mac does that now with System 7.5.x, grabbed a second monitor from my Centris 610 and showed him. He's been a mac convert ever since (and the Centris pretty much never got it's monitor back).
From memory they were a Kodak DCS100 in a compact shell. (The Kodak DCS family were originally a Nikon DSL camera body with a digital back, the Quicktake used the DCS chipset.).
BTW there is a flash storage solution for iPhone/iPads, it's called an Airstash. My husband has one and uses it constantly to load large media files to and from his iPad.
Taking this question entirely seriously for a moment and assuming you were too.
IVF is popular because something like 1 in 7 couples have difficulty conceiving naturally. Even having managed to conceive something like 70-80% of conceptions fail to result in a viable pregnancy because they don't attach properly to the uterine lining. It's part of the reason that even women who aren't on birth control don't have a pregnancy every month they are 'fertile' and have sex.
Potentially the use of artificial wombs would reduce the instance of miscarriage and improve the success rates of IVF beyond what is currently normal. There are plenty of people out there who would like to have children for whom 'good old fashioned fucking' isn't a viable solution.
I upgraded my phone last weekend and migrated my authenticator using the restore code, it worked fine. I checked the keys were in sync before wiping the old phone. I didn't need to disable the authenticator form my old account to do so, it just worked.
Not knowing what system Bob currently has in place, Google Docs may (or may not) be an improvement.
However, there is no such thing as a document management system that can't be screwed up for it's effectiveness by poor data hygiene processes.
Any system needs to have a high level plan for how the data will be structured and organised. Meta data needs to be agreed upon and used. The information architecture needs to scale and be flexible to be restructured if something changes in how you want to access it (say in response to mandatory reporting requirements being changed).
The tool in most cases is the least important part. It's how intuitive the navigation is and how well everyone sticks to using the agreed (and published) naming conventions and saving files in the agreed locations. Even simple things like naming your files YYYYMMDD_Agenda.doc can help make things easier to find and simpler to sort.
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Is it a turkey pizza?
I now have a mental picture of someone substituting chestnuts with watches for turkey stuffing.
This deserves mod points.
One has to wonder if the lack of any genuine examples of irony is intentional and is of itself ironic.
So, what I'm hearing is American's can't deal with reality. That would explain the uptake of 'reality TV' I suppose, there ain't nothing real about that pile of fetid dingoes kidneys.
I spent 2 years working for a utility company in Australia where we had an annual change freeze to core systems during the bushfire season. We couldn't afford for systems to be down for non-essential changes when there was the possibility of a 'real world' emergency breaking out. This went doubly so for anything involved in the SCADA network.
My husband listens to DSOTM almost daily.
Am I ever going to see your face again? No way... etc...
The same thing we do every night, Pinky - try to take over the world!
- Brain
In a world where people truly respected the personal rights of others, your hypothetical woman should be able to dance through the park stark naked and not fear sexual assault.
Sadly however we know that isn't a low risk activity. But apparently, neither is sleeping in your own bed at home behind a locked door - there was an incident in my home town last week of a woman suffering an aggravated sexual assault at home in her own bed. It certainly wasn't the first news report I'd heard of similar assaults.
Blaming the victim is denial of the responsibility of the aggressor to behave in a civillised manner in the first place.
My senior year physics teacher used to regularly ask me what I was doing in his class (the only girl), and on of my teacher from the previous year repeatedly told me that I only needed to learn how to cook and sew. I was the top student from my year and the only girl doing the Maths/Science stream. This was in the '80s.
I wonder if it was in anyway linked to the public service exams from China - your social status, salary and job were all defined by how well you performed on the Public Service exam. IIRC you could retake the exam annually to move up in the ranks, but risked moving backwards.
An anti-confrontation course my college ran (mandatory for all students) suggested using "I'm confused, help me to understand..." rather than just outright telling them they are wrong.
I was bullied, whether it was for being smart (top student in my year) or being poorly socialised, I don't know.
I would routinely be not chosen for teams in sport (even though I regularly participated in house athletics and swimming and was part of the school gymnastics squad). In year 12 my locker would be turned upside down and faced into the wall - I got quite skilled at flipping it back the other way. I even had a tub of red paint thrown over me at one point like Carrie at the prom.
I was the only girl in the Maths/Science stream in senior year. Even a couple of my teachers gave me grief about why wasn't I taking accounting or typing like the other girls (what was I doing in the physics and extended maths class).
It was isolating and even now, over 20 years later, I generally feel like I'm always outside of the general flock.
University was a wake up call, when I went from frequently being the smartest person in the room to not even close. Not that I was in the bottom segment, but I was certainly no longer in the top.
Not trolling, but it seems to me that if everyone's DNA were on record the crime rates would drop through the floor.
You'd think so, wouldn't you. But if you read the summary, the guy in question volunteered his own DNA which came back as a 100% match. Most criminals aren't that smart. They frequently believe they won't get caught - if they even think about it at all.
Having sentencing that is intended to be a deterrent - up to and including the death sentence in some states - doesn't stop people from trying to get away with murder.
People committing assault/rape/murder are rarely thinking with their rational brain when they commit the crime.
Personally, I stopped going to church because of what I like to refer to as "1-hour-a-week Christians". Who seem to think because they rock up to a specific geographic location at a set time each week it excuses them for how they behave the rest of the week.
These days I'd class myself as more agnostic, but with a strong moral code. I still try to stick to the 10 commandments, except for the one about having no other god. If god really exists, he/she has an odd sense of humour to permit some of what is dones in his/her name. I believe in an non-interventionalist god. I don't care how much you pray - he/she expects you to work it out for yourself.
I have a Quadra 8100AV for a while, second hand, I used the 'AV' to run dual displays.
My boyfriend at the time (now husband) came home one day to tell me how Windows 95 supported dual displays and it was awesome and I said - oh, my Mac does that now with System 7.5.x, grabbed a second monitor from my Centris 610 and showed him. He's been a mac convert ever since (and the Centris pretty much never got it's monitor back).
From memory they were a Kodak DCS100 in a compact shell. (The Kodak DCS family were originally a Nikon DSL camera body with a digital back, the Quicktake used the DCS chipset.).
Claris Works became Apple Works became iWorks which became Pages/Numbers/Keynote/Bento.
BTW there is a flash storage solution for iPhone/iPads, it's called an Airstash. My husband has one and uses it constantly to load large media files to and from his iPad.
And for the on topic reaction: Google does not want.
Taking this question entirely seriously for a moment and assuming you were too.
IVF is popular because something like 1 in 7 couples have difficulty conceiving naturally. Even having managed to conceive something like 70-80% of conceptions fail to result in a viable pregnancy because they don't attach properly to the uterine lining. It's part of the reason that even women who aren't on birth control don't have a pregnancy every month they are 'fertile' and have sex.
Potentially the use of artificial wombs would reduce the instance of miscarriage and improve the success rates of IVF beyond what is currently normal. There are plenty of people out there who would like to have children for whom 'good old fashioned fucking' isn't a viable solution.
I thought they picked something secure like Hunter2?
I upgraded my phone last weekend and migrated my authenticator using the restore code, it worked fine. I checked the keys were in sync before wiping the old phone. I didn't need to disable the authenticator form my old account to do so, it just worked.
Not knowing what system Bob currently has in place, Google Docs may (or may not) be an improvement.
However, there is no such thing as a document management system that can't be screwed up for it's effectiveness by poor data hygiene processes.
Any system needs to have a high level plan for how the data will be structured and organised. Meta data needs to be agreed upon and used. The information architecture needs to scale and be flexible to be restructured if something changes in how you want to access it (say in response to mandatory reporting requirements being changed).
The tool in most cases is the least important part. It's how intuitive the navigation is and how well everyone sticks to using the agreed (and published) naming conventions and saving files in the agreed locations. Even simple things like naming your files YYYYMMDD_Agenda.doc can help make things easier to find and simpler to sort.