So many people use drugs recreationally and it does not effect their work habbits or lives.
If i was emplyoing someone I would evaluate their ability to do their job, if they had a drug habbit that prevented them doing their job to the best of their ability then they would not get it. Its not my business to know if they are taking drugs recreationally or not, is my business if they are coming into work under the influence of drugs.
There is a big difference in recreational drug use and a drug habbit, I have worked promoting safe partying at rave parties, there are a huge amount of people who excell at their work, but participate in recreational drug consumption.
I don't see it as any different and going out on the weekend to get blind drunk. What you do in your sparwe time is your own business, as long as you don't bring it into the work place.
With the 100's of billions America is devoting to freeing Iraq its pretty obvious what is more important.
The fuel may be a small account for the total cost, but the US is more focused on trying to secure oil, then explore space.
My point was until there is an immediate reason to be there for the good of the US, the govenrment isn't going to want to put any more money then is needed.
It takes a lot of energy to get into space, unfortunatly the engery that gets the shuttle into space is running out so governments are spending much more money on fighting over the last scraps of it.
Until there is a real motivation to go to space again, Say China announcing plans for a nuclear powered space station which could fuel another space race.
Tourism will help push us into space, with the rising costs of oil its going to cause a lot of problems getting there. If Airlines are going broke everwhere, keeping a space tourism business going would be extremly high risk.
Just before I left we got the smoothwall box, it was really good I found it. It is progress, but apart from myself and the DEET Tech who was looking after the school, no one else had any idea what it did, or what Linux was.
Because its a backend service users don't care about it at all.
I don't know how much the State Government of Victoria wastes on Open Software licencing with MS. For the cost of a CD schools can buy open licences for Windows Server Products, Windows XP, Office.
A primary school I was administering for a while was had open licence copies for Win2K3, WinXp, Office2k3, Exchange 2K3, SQL 2000, ISA server and all that was used was WinXP & Win2k3 Server.
It seems a waste of money, moving to linux could help cut costs on resources and and put it into what should matter in schools. TRAINING!!!
They also need to name their chips better to actually differentiate more simply between their lines.
Telling a customer the difference between a Pentium D, Pentium 4, Pentium 4 EE, Celeron D is hard enough without actually having to know what chips are out and what is offering the best performance for price. It feels a lot like market saturation sometimes.
I haven't really read how this e-voting works, but if it means you can log on to a website and vote from home, wouldn't that make your vote not anonymus? What would happen with the log of your IP, your vote could be traced back to you.
I like paper ballots because they don't get traced back to you, once you put it in the box you have no identity.
Australia's biggest carrier Telstra have written off WiMax and are killing their CDMA network to replace it with a 3G HSDPA service running on the back of its GSM network.
Although the network has a much larger range then WiMax, the bandwidth won't be cheap and it looks like Australia is going to go through the same crap it has gone through Wired Broadband, suffering poor bandwidth at high prices and a very slow adoption rate.
Hopefully startup's like Unwired who are investing in WiMax infrastructure manage to get enough business before thier costs send them broke, its hard competing with monopolies like Telstra, but if Australian communications are to have any decent competitive future it has to be done.
It turned out the name had already been reported, but there was no drivers licence number, it was only local in the area and they were trying to catch the guy who was stocking up on it. I wasn't given much information after that. Both the police and the pharmacist were very apologetic to me, I think I was a worst case scenario.
like one measure, which would make it harder for illicit labs to obtain ingredients for methamphetamine by requiring pharmacies to sell nonprescription cold medicines only from behind the counter.
This is already the case in Australia, although its a good idea a lot of pharmacists love to treat you like a criminal when you go in with a head cold to buy a pack of cold and flue tablets.
Last year one of them refused to hand my drivers license back and I had to go to collect it from the police station after a few questions, turns out another guy with a name similar to mine had bought a few packets recently from that same chemist. All I wanted was bloody cold and flue tabs!!!!
On a satellite imaging program that allows me to zoom in on a nude beach.
If you could do it in movies in the early 90's, you would think by now in 2006 there would be a version we all can use to perve on our naturalist friends.:D
Where would the Fantasy genre be if Tolkien had copyrighted most of his "ideas" instead of only his books?
We are lucky I guess when he wrote it there was not a publishing version of the MPAA or RIAA vigorously defending its copywrite holders works.
The law suits would have been funny though,
"So Mr Author, please explain the difference between your version of a high elf compared to the referance of Mr Tolkien's works, and we don't care how much of difference its total life points or what its modifier is."
Although the revolution specs arn't confirmed they will be better then 6 year old hardware, games will look a lot nicer and will be more dynamic.
Its the quality of the games that matters how do sony expect to use an old and getting very dated console to compete with something brand new by just tricking out a new controller and releasing a few more games.
I think this is more a problem with girls, then it is with boys, when I was 9 a female friend of mine began puberty very early, she started developing breasts & began her period, for her the next couple of years were very traumatic as she was victimised by other girls & picked on by boys because of her funny bodily changes, entering high school she was extremly depressed & paranoid about herself.
In early high school, she had problems with her sexuality, related to her depression & self image she didn't care what she did & ended up becoming sexually active more out of lack of care, she had been taught about it but because of her traumatic time of enterting puberty early it had made her self-destructive.
Hitting puberty early can increase the risk of early exposure to sex, but the biggest factor is the lack of education provided to people, my friend had explained what had happened to her & that it was normal but it didn't help that nearly everybody else didn't have puberty explained properly for another few years, it was all a big joke but to my friend it was serious and if everyone had been educated a little earlier she may have not had the problems later in life.
I blame the internet on dodgy game releases now that require constant patching, playing games 10 years ago the titles did have their problems, but they were no where near as buggy as they are these days, it seems like developers know they can release titles with bugs & expect the general public to do their testing so they can patch the holes later.
Im not looking forward to the PS3 with online, I buy a console because I know I won't have to worry about game patching, it looks likes thats all about to change.I just hope the sony online service doesn't charge a service fee for me to update buggy games.
I work in a small company supporting many clients, my employer values my abilities & wants me to grow with the company as it expands so they can give me more responsibilities.
They pay for my training books and my exams and I have worked out with them a number of hours a week where I can have study time, as well as putting in time out of hours too.
I'm currently completing my MCSE & then aim to move onto CISCO & Citrix.
Because we specialise in medicine, at the same time I am learing specialist software & how everything works in a Medical Practice, these skills are not easy to come by so my employer realises it is more cost effective to train me up through the business.
All this training I have had to negotiate myself with my employer, I have had to agree to conditions on pay and also have performance conditions on my exams, I have to be able to show my employer that what I am learning is a benefit to the company & good for the business.
For my job I think the negotiation process has been good, because it has helped me get what I want & also its good for my employer aswell.
Currently people awaiting donors for hearts are assesed on age & how they live & will they benefit a heart.
I know there are a lot of people who live a good life & then suffer heart failure, but there is also a lot of people simply who simply live badly, they drink and smoke too much, eat too much & they don't exercise.
If there was a quick fix to heart problems, how many people would change their lives? Would they improve their quality of living or would they simply just resume their old ways & end up having to have the procedure again at the expense of the public health system.
Im all for ways of improving our chance of living through medicine, but there are a lot of people who bring upon these conditions because of their own lazyness & over-indulgence. Fixing their hearts won't nessesarily make them want to improve other area's of their life which created the heart problem in the beginning.
With medicine getting better & much more serious conditions being able to be fixed a lot easier, what are the social implications of this, humans are lazy, would it help create a society of people less concerned about their health? And what would that cost?
I don't think this will effect fine wine, with all of its Traditions and it has an established community that celebrates it, almost like a religion.
With the cheaper tablewines though this will probably be good for business, wine won't have to be stored as long and better products can be served to the market. I like table wine and I have found there are some really good ones & really bad ones, something like this could improve the overall quality of the cheaper wines & make it a lot eaiser to find a good cheap wine.
With boutique beer becoming more popular & mixed drinks going into more exotic flavours and still being sold at really cheap prices, improved table wine quality would help it compete against these products.
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I guess this will finally disprove the theory that the moon is made of cheese.
Until the title says "Nothing to see here, the planet is A OK!!"
Drugs are taboo,
So many people use drugs recreationally and it does not effect their work habbits or lives.
If i was emplyoing someone I would evaluate their ability to do their job, if they had a drug habbit that prevented them doing their job to the best of their ability then they would not get it. Its not my business to know if they are taking drugs recreationally or not, is my business if they are coming into work under the influence of drugs.
There is a big difference in recreational drug use and a drug habbit, I have worked promoting safe partying at rave parties, there are a huge amount of people who excell at their work, but participate in recreational drug consumption.
I don't see it as any different and going out on the weekend to get blind drunk. What you do in your sparwe time is your own business, as long as you don't bring it into the work place.
In soviet America, the Government open sources you!!
With the 100's of billions America is devoting to freeing Iraq its pretty obvious what is more important.
The fuel may be a small account for the total cost, but the US is more focused on trying to secure oil, then explore space.
My point was until there is an immediate reason to be there for the good of the US, the govenrment isn't going to want to put any more money then is needed.
It takes a lot of energy to get into space, unfortunatly the engery that gets the shuttle into space is running out so governments are spending much more money on fighting over the last scraps of it.
Until there is a real motivation to go to space again, Say China announcing plans for a nuclear powered space station which could fuel another space race.
Tourism will help push us into space, with the rising costs of oil its going to cause a lot of problems getting there.
If Airlines are going broke everwhere, keeping a space tourism business going would be extremly high risk.
I want to transmit my application to the acadmey this year!!!
Yeehaaaaaaaaa!!!!
Just before I left we got the smoothwall box, it was really good I found it. It is progress, but apart from myself and the DEET Tech who was looking after the school, no one else had any idea what it did, or what Linux was.
Because its a backend service users don't care about it at all.
I don't know how much the State Government of Victoria wastes on Open Software licencing with MS. For the cost of a CD schools can buy open licences for Windows Server Products, Windows XP, Office.
A primary school I was administering for a while was had open licence copies for Win2K3, WinXp, Office2k3, Exchange 2K3, SQL 2000, ISA server and all that was used was WinXP & Win2k3 Server.
It seems a waste of money, moving to linux could help cut costs on resources and and put it into what should matter in schools. TRAINING!!!
They also need to name their chips better to actually differentiate more simply between their lines.
Telling a customer the difference between a Pentium D, Pentium 4, Pentium 4 EE, Celeron D is hard enough without actually having to know what chips are out and what is offering the best performance for price. It feels a lot like market saturation sometimes.
AMD at least is a little bit simpler to follow.
I haven't really read how this e-voting works, but if it means you can log on to a website and vote from home, wouldn't that make your vote not anonymus? What would happen with the log of your IP, your vote could be traced back to you.
I like paper ballots because they don't get traced back to you, once you put it in the box you have no identity.
Australia's biggest carrier Telstra have written off WiMax and are killing their CDMA network to replace it with a 3G HSDPA service running on the back of its GSM network.
Although the network has a much larger range then WiMax, the bandwidth won't be cheap and it looks like Australia is going to go through the same crap it has gone through Wired Broadband, suffering poor bandwidth at high prices and a very slow adoption rate.
Hopefully startup's like Unwired who are investing in WiMax infrastructure manage to get enough business before thier costs send them broke, its hard competing with monopolies like Telstra, but if Australian communications are to have any decent competitive future it has to be done.
It turned out the name had already been reported, but there was no drivers licence number, it was only local in the area and they were trying to catch the guy who was stocking up on it. I wasn't given much information after that. Both the police and the pharmacist were very apologetic to me, I think I was a worst case scenario.
This is already the case in Australia, although its a good idea a lot of pharmacists love to treat you like a criminal when you go in with a head cold to buy a pack of cold and flue tablets. Last year one of them refused to hand my drivers license back and I had to go to collect it from the police station after a few questions, turns out another guy with a name similar to mine had bought a few packets recently from that same chemist. All I wanted was bloody cold and flue tabs!!!!
On a satellite imaging program that allows me to zoom in on a nude beach.
:D
If you could do it in movies in the early 90's, you would think by now in 2006 there would be a version we all can use to perve on our naturalist friends.
Where would the Fantasy genre be if Tolkien had copyrighted most of his "ideas" instead of only his books?
We are lucky I guess when he wrote it there was not a publishing version of the MPAA or RIAA vigorously defending its copywrite holders works.
The law suits would have been funny though,
"So Mr Author, please explain the difference between your version of a high elf compared to the referance of Mr Tolkien's works, and we don't care how much of difference its total life points or what its modifier is."
Although the revolution specs arn't confirmed they will be better then 6 year old hardware, games will look a lot nicer and will be more dynamic.
Its the quality of the games that matters how do sony expect to use an old and getting very dated console to compete with something brand new by just tricking out a new controller and releasing a few more games.
I invested all my money in a huge 7.1 stereo for the dolby digital introduction on my DVD's.
I am now deaf, and the foundations of my house are in a serious state of dis-repair, but i still have a kick ass stereo!!!!!
I think this is more a problem with girls, then it is with boys, when I was 9 a female friend of mine began puberty very early, she started developing breasts & began her period, for her the next couple of years were very traumatic as she was victimised by other girls & picked on by boys because of her funny bodily changes, entering high school she was extremly depressed & paranoid about herself.
In early high school, she had problems with her sexuality, related to her depression & self image she didn't care what she did & ended up becoming sexually active more out of lack of care, she had been taught about it but because of her traumatic time of enterting puberty early it had made her self-destructive.
Hitting puberty early can increase the risk of early exposure to sex, but the biggest factor is the lack of education provided to people, my friend had explained what had happened to her & that it was normal but it didn't help that nearly everybody else didn't have puberty explained properly for another few years, it was all a big joke but to my friend it was serious and if everyone had been educated a little earlier she may have not had the problems later in life.
I blame the internet on dodgy game releases now that require constant patching, playing games 10 years ago the titles did have their problems, but they were no where near as buggy as they are these days, it seems like developers know they can release titles with bugs & expect the general public to do their testing so they can patch the holes later.
Im not looking forward to the PS3 with online, I buy a console because I know I won't have to worry about game patching, it looks likes thats all about to change.I just hope the sony online service doesn't charge a service fee for me to update buggy games.
I work in a small company supporting many clients, my employer values my abilities & wants me to grow with the company as it expands so they can give me more responsibilities.
They pay for my training books and my exams and I have worked out with them a number of hours a week where I can have study time, as well as putting in time out of hours too.
I'm currently completing my MCSE & then aim to move onto CISCO & Citrix.
Because we specialise in medicine, at the same time I am learing specialist software & how everything works in a Medical Practice, these skills are not easy to come by so my employer realises it is more cost effective to train me up through the business.
All this training I have had to negotiate myself with my employer, I have had to agree to conditions on pay and also have performance conditions on my exams, I have to be able to show my employer that what I am learning is a benefit to the company & good for the business.
For my job I think the negotiation process has been good, because it has helped me get what I want & also its good for my employer aswell.
Currently people awaiting donors for hearts are assesed on age & how they live & will they benefit a heart.
I know there are a lot of people who live a good life & then suffer heart failure, but there is also a lot of people simply who simply live badly, they drink and smoke too much, eat too much & they don't exercise.
If there was a quick fix to heart problems, how many people would change their lives? Would they improve their quality of living or would they simply just resume their old ways & end up having to have the procedure again at the expense of the public health system.
Im all for ways of improving our chance of living through medicine, but there are a lot of people who bring upon these conditions because of their own lazyness & over-indulgence. Fixing their hearts won't nessesarily make them want to improve other area's of their life which created the heart problem in the beginning.
With medicine getting better & much more serious conditions being able to be fixed a lot easier, what are the social implications of this, humans are lazy, would it help create a society of people less concerned about their health? And what would that cost?
I don't think this will effect fine wine, with all of its Traditions and it has an established community that celebrates it, almost like a religion.
With the cheaper tablewines though this will probably be good for business, wine won't have to be stored as long and better products can be served to the market. I like table wine and I have found there are some really good ones & really bad ones, something like this could improve the overall quality of the cheaper wines & make it a lot eaiser to find a good cheap wine.
With boutique beer becoming more popular & mixed drinks going into more exotic flavours and still being sold at really cheap prices, improved table wine quality would help it compete against these products.
In Java 1 & 2 our exam was paper based, we had to read a case study & then write the code.
It was kind of sucky because all semester we were encouraged to use the API, but then in the exam we were given nothing.
Still it made us really learn the code.
Ignorance is bliss.