Dogs have noseprints that are as unique as fingerprints (and in fact are legal ID for dogs in Canada).
Uh... why exactly is Canada defining legal and illegal ways of identifying dogs?
If you register a dog and the dog gets picked up by the authorities there must be a way to track the dog back to the owner. Here the dog is supposed to have a collar with a numbered tag. The nose print technique sounds less ambiguous though RFID would be better these days I think.
I noticed this at the zoo watching a bunch of monkeys swing from branch the branch in a cage. The tree branches they had been given had been worn smooth through long use and every time a monkey grabbed on to a smooth branch I felt a jab in my fingers in sympathy. There is something bad about grabbing a smooth object and relying on it to save your life.
So maybe finger prints improve grip with smooth timber surfaces. Testing against glass doesn't sound very realistic. We didn't evolve to grip glass. Or maybe (as the summary suggests) it is something to do with detecting the texture of a surface to find a place to grip.
Of course they don't ask why people have unique finger prints. Maybe it evolved to make murderers easier to catch.
I don't live in a floodzone, or a hurricane zone, or an area that is subject to typhoons, or tsunamis, or dust storms, or earthquakes, or...
Shit happens. The bush fires in my state five months ago almost hit the metropolitan area where I live. Washington state in the US apparently has a super volcano potentially about to blow. Lots of people around the world live close to or below sea level. Disasters happen sometimes. The shocking thing to me (as a non-US person) was that the response from emergency management people seemed to be below what would normally be expected in the US. But I also think that the victims of that disaster did less to help themselves than they could have done.
If anyone needs me, I'll be in the backyard building a rocket ship to seek out another planet free of Twitter. Hopefully it'll just have more minor problems like being covered in methane or a flesh eating silicon based virus...
You can't escape. Twitter travels at the speed of light. But this is a generational thing. For my sister, her neurons have been modified by consumption of ecstasy. Mobile phones have been cheap and available since she was 15 or so. Emailing small bits of crap around the world is a way of life for her.
Sure, I would like to live 1000 years but I am not going to like the world that distance into the future.
At the same time, independent groups doing investigative journalism have grown in number and size, fueled by foundations and wealthy patrons, and are offering their work to newspapers, magazines, television and radio news programs, and news Web sites. [emphasis added]
Lets all take a cue from Woodward and Bernstein, who all these J school grads aspire to emulate - follow the money. These groups are being funded by people with agendas, just like the media they purport to study/critique.
Yeah I don't see it as necessesarily worse than, say, News Corporation, which has its own agendas.
The company plans to unveil its first car in London later this month, a small two-seater that weighs roughly 700 pounds.
A car that will never sell anywhere in the US due to total inability to pass crash safety test. I'm actually surprised that it can be sold anywhere in the first world, to be honest.
I don't see the point of very small cars like this. If I don't need to carry anything I will ride my bike. If I do then I use my big, inefficient van. A small car wouldn't be much use to me because it can't carry much.
Additionally I don't see how people can commit to lease a car like this for 20 years. Surely their lifestyle and requirements will change before then.
Did you tell these useless doctors about the cycling?
Yep, but the bit the doctor doesn't understand (and the bike shop does) is that by height (193cm) is too high for off the shelf bike frames. I tend to ride around with the seat too low, hence the knee pain. Of course most bike shops will still sell bikes which are too small for the owner. There is no ethical standard which requires them to put the welfare of the customer/patient before getting a sale.
My friend's mother got cancer. They tried all sorts of "natural" treatments. By the time they were willing to give up and try real medicine it was too late and she died.
Thats absolutely terrible. I am sorry to hear about it. I have never suggested that people with cancer should do other than see the appropriate medical professional.
When my son was young he would get infections from time to time. Some doctors and nurses would tell us that panadol is a good way to get his temperature down, others would say that panadol can't do that. Seems like a pretty easy thing to test to me.
Years ago when I developed knee problems from cycling I took it to several doctors. One doctor who claimed to be a sports injury specialist told me to put a bandage on it and it should be okay. Eventually I went to a bike shop which caters to the racing crowd. They do a lot of static training there after hours. I paid them to fit my bike to me and bought extra gear to get the fit right. The owner recommended an osteopath he knew who rides bikes and understands the issues. The combination of the two fixed the problem. Doctors were worse than useless.
The only news here is that until her age nobody had imagined it was Crohn's disease.
It is a pretty common disease!
Yeah it happens. My 14 year old nephew has fungal meningitis. You expect that to happen if you have a suppressed immune system due to age or disease. In his case there just isn't a reason.
Lets be thankful that the ozone layer would get a well needed boost, considering what we have done to it. And the auroras would be fantastic, once particles start to arrive.
The yield of such a gamma ray blast might x-ray and bake us pretty nicely, but it might be distant enough, hopefully.
But there aren't any aliens around. I wonder if they know something we don't? What we need is a ringworld with the rotation axis at 90 degrees to the direction of Betelgeuse.
The question for me is how long does the bad stuff last?. If the answer if less than 12 hours then I will be hoping it happens just after Betelgeuse drops below the horizon at 144 degrees east.
Is jaywalking a crime? How bout spitting on the sidewalk? Littering?
Misdemeanours.
You must be on the phone a lot.
Oddly enough I am the current record holder for issues raised in the IT bug tracking system at my work. So I am on the phone for that quite a bit. I used to work on traffic signals in the city where I live so I log a lot of faults for that. If I see an abandoned car I tend to call it in to the police. I ride a bicycle to work and I have tasks open with the Melbourne City Council for engineering work which I believe is dangerous for me. For me its a matter of keeping an eye out for problems.
Keep your 'private' data on an external hard drive and just leave the system drive for the OS + applications. Extra paranoid people can encrypt it to for good measure.
A month ago a friend of my nephew was killed by a driver in a hit and run collision (I won't call it an accident). My brother in law told me that the way the police found the driver was that her boyfriend took the car to a repair place to be resprayed in a different color. Staff at the repair place looked at the damage and called the police.
If you see evidence of a crime you have to call the police. Thats the law where I live.
I did an amateur radio course when I was 16. At one point we did a field trip to the Radio Australia transmitting station in Shepparton. They had old transmitters on display which were just like a normal valve radio, scaled up to the size of a small room. It even had an air gapped tuning gang in the middle with a steering wheel on top. Amazing stuff.
One of their operational transmitters had a gauge showing two kilowatts of reflected power from the antenna. We asked, but the staff wouldn't let us take it home, even though they weren't using it for anything.
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Dogs have noseprints that are as unique as fingerprints (and in fact are legal ID for dogs in Canada).
Uh... why exactly is Canada defining legal and illegal ways of identifying dogs?
If you register a dog and the dog gets picked up by the authorities there must be a way to track the dog back to the owner. Here the dog is supposed to have a collar with a numbered tag. The nose print technique sounds less ambiguous though RFID would be better these days I think.
I noticed this at the zoo watching a bunch of monkeys swing from branch the branch in a cage. The tree branches they had been given had been worn smooth through long use and every time a monkey grabbed on to a smooth branch I felt a jab in my fingers in sympathy. There is something bad about grabbing a smooth object and relying on it to save your life.
So maybe finger prints improve grip with smooth timber surfaces. Testing against glass doesn't sound very realistic. We didn't evolve to grip glass. Or maybe (as the summary suggests) it is something to do with detecting the texture of a surface to find a place to grip.
Of course they don't ask why people have unique finger prints. Maybe it evolved to make murderers easier to catch.
I don't live in a floodzone, or a hurricane zone, or an area that is subject to typhoons, or tsunamis, or dust storms, or earthquakes, or...
Shit happens. The bush fires in my state five months ago almost hit the metropolitan area where I live. Washington state in the US apparently has a super volcano potentially about to blow. Lots of people around the world live close to or below sea level. Disasters happen sometimes. The shocking thing to me (as a non-US person) was that the response from emergency management people seemed to be below what would normally be expected in the US. But I also think that the victims of that disaster did less to help themselves than they could have done.
What do we get out of this? Is it any different?
If anyone needs me, I'll be in the backyard building a rocket ship to seek out another planet free of Twitter. Hopefully it'll just have more minor problems like being covered in methane or a flesh eating silicon based virus ...
You can't escape. Twitter travels at the speed of light. But this is a generational thing. For my sister, her neurons have been modified by consumption of ecstasy. Mobile phones have been cheap and available since she was 15 or so. Emailing small bits of crap around the world is a way of life for her.
Sure, I would like to live 1000 years but I am not going to like the world that distance into the future.
From the article:
Lets all take a cue from Woodward and Bernstein, who all these J school grads aspire to emulate - follow the money. These groups are being funded by people with agendas, just like the media they purport to study/critique.
Yeah I don't see it as necessesarily worse than, say, News Corporation, which has its own agendas.
The company plans to unveil its first car in London later this month, a small two-seater that weighs roughly 700 pounds.
A car that will never sell anywhere in the US due to total inability to pass crash safety test. I'm actually surprised that it can be sold anywhere in the first world, to be honest.
I don't see the point of very small cars like this. If I don't need to carry anything I will ride my bike. If I do then I use my big, inefficient van. A small car wouldn't be much use to me because it can't carry much.
Additionally I don't see how people can commit to lease a car like this for 20 years. Surely their lifestyle and requirements will change before then.
I though 13 was an unlucky number. Didn't Apollo 13 end in a bad way?
The ending was okay. The middle bit was a bit stressful.
Did you tell these useless doctors about the cycling?
Yep, but the bit the doctor doesn't understand (and the bike shop does) is that by height (193cm) is too high for off the shelf bike frames. I tend to ride around with the seat too low, hence the knee pain. Of course most bike shops will still sell bikes which are too small for the owner. There is no ethical standard which requires them to put the welfare of the customer/patient before getting a sale.
My friend's mother got cancer. They tried all sorts of "natural" treatments. By the time they were willing to give up and try real medicine it was too late and she died.
Thats absolutely terrible. I am sorry to hear about it. I have never suggested that people with cancer should do other than see the appropriate medical professional.
When my son was young he would get infections from time to time. Some doctors and nurses would tell us that panadol is a good way to get his temperature down, others would say that panadol can't do that. Seems like a pretty easy thing to test to me.
Years ago when I developed knee problems from cycling I took it to several doctors. One doctor who claimed to be a sports injury specialist told me to put a bandage on it and it should be okay. Eventually I went to a bike shop which caters to the racing crowd. They do a lot of static training there after hours. I paid them to fit my bike to me and bought extra gear to get the fit right. The owner recommended an osteopath he knew who rides bikes and understands the issues. The combination of the two fixed the problem. Doctors were worse than useless.
The only news here is that until her age nobody had imagined it was Crohn's disease. It is a pretty common disease!
Yeah it happens. My 14 year old nephew has fungal meningitis. You expect that to happen if you have a suppressed immune system due to age or disease. In his case there just isn't a reason.
Well you should know. I can't remember now. Was it the Pak who built the ring? Or another race who descended from them?
If it protected the ring from the core explosion it should protect us from Betelgeuse at 500 light years.
The neutrinos will do no such thing.
Lets be thankful that the ozone layer would get a well needed boost, considering what we have done to it. And the auroras would be fantastic, once particles start to arrive.
I just read a story today about a lady who missed the Air France flight that killed everyone on board and then today died in a car wreck.
Yeah I think Alanis Morissette is working on the song as we speak.
My understanding is that the axis on which it spins would not force any gamma rays towards Earth's direction
That assumption relies on a lot of theory. One things for sure, if that star goes bang our theories will improve at a rapid rate.
The yield of such a gamma ray blast might x-ray and bake us pretty nicely, but it might be distant enough, hopefully.
But there aren't any aliens around. I wonder if they know something we don't? What we need is a ringworld with the rotation axis at 90 degrees to the direction of Betelgeuse.
The question for me is how long does the bad stuff last?. If the answer if less than 12 hours then I will be hoping it happens just after Betelgeuse drops below the horizon at 144 degrees east.
There's no reason for them what so ever to look at the pictures.
What if it was his desktop background?
Is jaywalking a crime? How bout spitting on the sidewalk? Littering?
Misdemeanours.
You must be on the phone a lot.
Oddly enough I am the current record holder for issues raised in the IT bug tracking system at my work. So I am on the phone for that quite a bit. I used to work on traffic signals in the city where I live so I log a lot of faults for that. If I see an abandoned car I tend to call it in to the police. I ride a bicycle to work and I have tasks open with the Melbourne City Council for engineering work which I believe is dangerous for me. For me its a matter of keeping an eye out for problems.
that may be. but you live in australia; which is entirely populated by criminals, as everyone knows
Not only that but we also have rodents of unusual size to contend with.
Keep your 'private' data on an external hard drive and just leave the system drive for the OS + applications. Extra paranoid people can encrypt it to for good measure.
Stupid people will continue to do the obvious.
A month ago a friend of my nephew was killed by a driver in a hit and run collision (I won't call it an accident). My brother in law told me that the way the police found the driver was that her boyfriend took the car to a repair place to be resprayed in a different color. Staff at the repair place looked at the damage and called the police.
If you see evidence of a crime you have to call the police. Thats the law where I live.
I did an amateur radio course when I was 16. At one point we did a field trip to the Radio Australia transmitting station in Shepparton. They had old transmitters on display which were just like a normal valve radio, scaled up to the size of a small room. It even had an air gapped tuning gang in the middle with a steering wheel on top. Amazing stuff.
One of their operational transmitters had a gauge showing two kilowatts of reflected power from the antenna. We asked, but the staff wouldn't let us take it home, even though they weren't using it for anything.
I googled it and got a hit on geranium diodes. Maybe so many people make the same mistake that google is useless for spell checking.