One thing that could help is to go ahead and have a prophylactic appendectomy! I don't know how many other body parts can be removed for a net decrease in health risk, but NASA has certainly considered checking astronauts' appendices at the launchpad, especially in the case of astronauts potentially headed Mars-ward.
Same is often done for scientists wintering in Antarctica.
From the article's lead paragraph:... and showed off features that he said would drive a new wave of personal computer upgrades.
I imagine the intended meaning of "upgrades" was in the sense that folks would be persuaded to upgrade their operating system, rather than in the hardware sense, but it makes me grin (or grimace) to think that a new OS could be so bloated as to demand "a new wave" of better hardware.
In case you were confused (like me) after installing the update as to why your iPod (dock connector or earlier) still doesn't display the shuffle option, do the following:
1. Open the "Settings" menu. 2. Select "Main Menu". 3. Set "Shuffle Songs" to "on".
I admire your work not just for its intense ingenuity, but also for its over-arching consistency -- a feat all the more impressive because your books are so sprawling. So I ask:
How do you revise? I mean, do you go back over your work with a fine-toothed comb, trying to find all the "perfect" words, or do you incline your ear toward polishing the rhythms of your sentences? Do you rearrange whole chunks of your narrative? Do you look for plot holes after the fact or just try to avoid them in the first place -- some of both seems necessary, but which strategy dominates?
Also, I've read that you write out your first drafts longhand before typing up your later manuscripts. Is that just what you're most comfortable with, or does it serve a specific purpose in your creative process?
Finally, how do you know when you've finished a book?
Answer as many or as few of these questions as you please. Thanks.
It's not contrary to Communist ideology, but China has additional concerns. Mao built the popularity of his government in large measure through a campaign extolling the "rustic virtues" of his people -- since peasants lead the most virtuous lives, they're the true People, and so they deserve socioeconomic equality, etc etc. The interests of the common people (at least as articulated by Mao) should guide the country and legitimate its leadership.
I guess those "virtues" are what's being "offended" by pornography.
Under Lenin's communist theory, by contrast, Russia believed in having an elite intellectual vanguard making all policy decisions. The Russian peasants couldn't matter less.
That's one reason why America's fears about Russia and China conspiring during the Cold War were never really well-founded. Two totally different flavors of Communism.
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One thing that could help is to go ahead and have a prophylactic appendectomy! I don't know how many other body parts can be removed for a net decrease in health risk, but NASA has certainly considered checking astronauts' appendices at the launchpad, especially in the case of astronauts potentially headed Mars-ward.
Same is often done for scientists wintering in Antarctica.
From the article's lead paragraph: ... and showed off features that he said would drive a new wave of personal computer upgrades.
I imagine the intended meaning of "upgrades" was in the sense that folks would be persuaded to upgrade their operating system, rather than in the hardware sense, but it makes me grin (or grimace) to think that a new OS could be so bloated as to demand "a new wave" of better hardware.
In case you were confused (like me) after installing the update as to why your iPod (dock connector or earlier) still doesn't display the shuffle option, do the following:
1. Open the "Settings" menu.
2. Select "Main Menu".
3. Set "Shuffle Songs" to "on".
Nifty.
Neal,
I admire your work not just for its intense ingenuity, but also for its over-arching consistency -- a feat all the more impressive because your books are so sprawling. So I ask:
How do you revise? I mean, do you go back over your work with a fine-toothed comb, trying to find all the "perfect" words, or do you incline your ear toward polishing the rhythms of your sentences? Do you rearrange whole chunks of your narrative? Do you look for plot holes after the fact or just try to avoid them in the first place -- some of both seems necessary, but which strategy dominates?
Also, I've read that you write out your first drafts longhand before typing up your later manuscripts. Is that just what you're most comfortable with, or does it serve a specific purpose in your creative process?
Finally, how do you know when you've finished a book?
Answer as many or as few of these questions as you please. Thanks.
It's not contrary to Communist ideology, but China has additional concerns. Mao built the popularity of his government in large measure through a campaign extolling the "rustic virtues" of his people -- since peasants lead the most virtuous lives, they're the true People, and so they deserve socioeconomic equality, etc etc. The interests of the common people (at least as articulated by Mao) should guide the country and legitimate its leadership.
I guess those "virtues" are what's being "offended" by pornography.
Under Lenin's communist theory, by contrast, Russia believed in having an elite intellectual vanguard making all policy decisions. The Russian peasants couldn't matter less.
That's one reason why America's fears about Russia and China conspiring during the Cold War were never really well-founded. Two totally different flavors of Communism.