> I do feel that if we are going to get a handle on the management of various global pollutants the population size must be taken into account.
Does the atmosphere give one tiny shit about "per capita" figures? I would think the ONLY important figures are absolute volumes/masses of the offending stuff being put up there.
> He says it's the tai chi that gives him longevity...
As long as someone says it, it must be true!
> and I ain't gonna argue with him.
Then that makes it, almost by definition, faith.
I have no doubt your practice helped you in some physiological way and helped your balance, and it may even BE true, but the reasons you cite are not really valid scientific evidence. That said, yeah, exercise is good, I'm sure your instructor can do exactly what you say he can, and I'm very happy for you (truly) to be in the shape you are now given your illness. Godspeed, sir.
> This is great news because this could help wipe out Afghanistan's poverty, the actual biggest obstacle to a functioning government.
You're correct, but... they have generations of to-the-bones corruption to leach out, and that will take until both you and I (and I suspect our grandkids) are long gone. The types of gov'ts that flourish in that part of the world, at least for recorded history, value their ideology more than their economy.
> Gary McKinnon, still suffering from Asperger's syndrome,...
Is Asperger's something one can stop suffering from? I realize other temporary things were listed that I cut off so maybe that's what the "still" is referring to, but that read funny to me.
> Now, it is also known that new matter-antimatter element pairs are being created and annihilated all the time everywhere, this is where Hawking radiation comes from.
Wait, what? We "know" this because of a theoretical radiation that has never been observed?
Your post and citation shows that *driving* through a construction zone is risky to the workers. Nothing in there shows that *speeding* is, or rather, is any MORE risky than not. And it also says nothing of the added or diminished risk to the workers OR the drivers when there is wide variation in speeds. Would the workers be in more danger if EVERYONE was speeding at roughly the same rate over some going fast and some not? I honestly don't know.
I'm playing devil's advocate here; I'm one of the old assholes that slows down in a construction zone, generally going the posted limits while trying not to cause a huge speed variation condition. But your well intentioned and researched post here doesn't really address the issue to which you're responding.
I used to work for Salomon Brothers (Wall Street firm, bought by Smith Barney in the 90's). When I started, part of the orientation spiel was a story the CTO told about a young trader that mistakenly keyed in " of shares" to buy/sell instead of doing what he was told, which was to buy/sell " of DOLLARS WORTH of shares". The story goes that since a trader's word is his bond, he was beholden to make the trade, which he did, and it swung the market wildly that day.
He knew he was fired, so when he was called in to his superior's office, he was willing to suffer the consequences. After a royal ass chewing, he said he'd be out forthwith; the superior countered with, "Son, we just paid a hell of a lot of money for your experience; we're not going to throw that away too. Get back to work."
I'm sure this was apocryphal, but I also suspect this sort of thing happens quite a lot, and this was the perfect storm of an uneasy market, a 3 orders of magnitude mistake, on a component of an extremely leveraged indicator.
Was that quote in reference to THIS asteroid? If you'll pardon the paraphrasing, i.e., "If we're on a collision course with this asteroid...", vs. "This experiment is a valuable technology and skillset to have, so if we find some as-yet unfound asteroid in the future with which we are on a collision course, we may repeat this process to find out its composition..." ? I read it as the latter, but I'm hardly a yardstick for understanding.
I've been watching "play" for a while now; it seems to be getting pretty good press. Can you go into a little more detail what you like about it? What's your "work flow" like if you want to add, say, a new screen? How [well] does it interact with your DB layer, etc? Would love to hear some real world stories; both good and bad.
PdaNet is the same, no? (Other than the pay version of EasyTether is cheaper.)
"Note: Once trial expires, you can continue using PdaNet for free. The only difference is that free edition blocks secure web sites." -- http://www.junefabrics.com/android/
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So it has to lead us, but not by much... =)
...statistical nomenclature is "half those odds"? Use terms a non-statistician might understand.
Mm. I ask because IBM's been around SO LONG, and they still seem to have a hell of an engineering presence.
Where is IBM in this continuum?
> I do feel that if we are going to get a handle on the management of various global pollutants the population size must be taken into account.
Does the atmosphere give one tiny shit about "per capita" figures? I would think the ONLY important figures are absolute volumes/masses of the offending stuff being put up there.
> The University of Arizona team reported that their genetically modified mosquitoes ...
What could POSSIBLY go wrong?
> He says it's the tai chi that gives him longevity...
As long as someone says it, it must be true!
> and I ain't gonna argue with him.
Then that makes it, almost by definition, faith.
I have no doubt your practice helped you in some physiological way and helped your balance, and it may even BE true, but the reasons you cite are not really valid scientific evidence. That said, yeah, exercise is good, I'm sure your instructor can do exactly what you say he can, and I'm very happy for you (truly) to be in the shape you are now given your illness. Godspeed, sir.
> Considering your pretending that wasn't that standard thought at that point in time...
I can't even parse this. What the hell are you trying to say?
> This is great news because this could help wipe out Afghanistan's poverty, the actual biggest obstacle to a functioning government.
You're correct, but... they have generations of to-the-bones corruption to leach out, and that will take until both you and I (and I suspect our grandkids) are long gone. The types of gov'ts that flourish in that part of the world, at least for recorded history, value their ideology more than their economy.
> Gary McKinnon, still suffering from Asperger's syndrome,...
Is Asperger's something one can stop suffering from? I realize other temporary things were listed that I cut off so maybe that's what the "still" is referring to, but that read funny to me.
... and keep allowing it. The telco lobbies will make sure of that.
> Now, it is also known that new matter-antimatter element pairs are being created and annihilated all the time everywhere, this is where Hawking radiation comes from.
Wait, what? We "know" this because of a theoretical radiation that has never been observed?
Suggesting Taco Bell is ok... it's the aftermath that can be alienating.
Your post and citation shows that *driving* through a construction zone is risky to the workers. Nothing in there shows that *speeding* is, or rather, is any MORE risky than not. And it also says nothing of the added or diminished risk to the workers OR the drivers when there is wide variation in speeds. Would the workers be in more danger if EVERYONE was speeding at roughly the same rate over some going fast and some not? I honestly don't know.
I'm playing devil's advocate here; I'm one of the old assholes that slows down in a construction zone, generally going the posted limits while trying not to cause a huge speed variation condition. But your well intentioned and researched post here doesn't really address the issue to which you're responding.
I used to work for Salomon Brothers (Wall Street firm, bought by Smith Barney in the 90's). When I started, part of the orientation spiel was a story the CTO told about a young trader that mistakenly keyed in " of shares" to buy/sell instead of doing what he was told, which was to buy/sell " of DOLLARS WORTH of shares". The story goes that since a trader's word is his bond, he was beholden to make the trade, which he did, and it swung the market wildly that day.
He knew he was fired, so when he was called in to his superior's office, he was willing to suffer the consequences. After a royal ass chewing, he said he'd be out forthwith; the superior countered with, "Son, we just paid a hell of a lot of money for your experience; we're not going to throw that away too. Get back to work."
I'm sure this was apocryphal, but I also suspect this sort of thing happens quite a lot, and this was the perfect storm of an uneasy market, a 3 orders of magnitude mistake, on a component of an extremely leveraged indicator.
Bob.
Was that quote in reference to THIS asteroid? If you'll pardon the paraphrasing, i.e., "If we're on a collision course with this asteroid...", vs. "This experiment is a valuable technology and skillset to have, so if we find some as-yet unfound asteroid in the future with which we are on a collision course, we may repeat this process to find out its composition..." ? I read it as the latter, but I'm hardly a yardstick for understanding.
In that same week was "comstockery", if that fits any better.
Thank you. "Bowdlerize" was a "word of the day" for me from a long, long time ago, and I'd yet to see it in actual use.
I've been watching "play" for a while now; it seems to be getting pretty good press. Can you go into a little more detail what you like about it? What's your "work flow" like if you want to add, say, a new screen? How [well] does it interact with your DB layer, etc? Would love to hear some real world stories; both good and bad.
I have no citation here, but I suspect twitter was well beyond "a dozen" users before they started feeling whatever pain they said Rails was behind.
From what basis does this "deservedness" come? The courts aren't there to listen to any nutjob that wants to tell a story, so... no, it doesn't.
The article you are responding to clearly states that 1 in 40 people who engage in these activities are not any more dangerous while doing it.
That's one way to read it. The other way is that these 1 in 40 suck as bad as normal people texting, even when they're not.
PdaNet is the same, no? (Other than the pay version of EasyTether is cheaper.)
"Note: Once trial expires, you can continue using PdaNet for free. The only difference is that free edition blocks secure web sites." -- http://www.junefabrics.com/android/
Dropped a V3 Razr in the toilet. It was off at the time. I took the battery out, dried it out over a halogen lamp overnight. Worked fine the next day.