So you're capable of learning, great. Then a good university will teach you how to think and criticize. It will also expose you to other people, other cultures, and culture in general. Yeah, you're probably thinking you can do all that on your own. Except it's suprising how much easier it is if you have help. The student ID card, if nothing else: ie discounts on useful things like eurorail tickets or museum tickets. And some things you just really can't learn unless you have someone else to ask if you're doing it right. Plus for what might be the first time in your life, you'll be taught by people who love what they are doing. Take advantage of it, ask them about their research. Take a wide range of classes, do the liberal arts education thing even if you're a CS major or an engineer. You'll still need to know how to read and write well.
And sometimes the best lessons aren't those you've directly paid for. Dorm life, a new city, meeting new people, pranks, scavenger hunts, hanging out with people who actually want to learn...
Let me be clear: you can go to a school that is wrong for you, or a bad school, or not ever wander out of your dorm room, and have the same meat grinder approach. Life is what you make it. And maybe you don't need to go to college at all, maybe vocational school or no further school is right for you. But you shouldn't stop learning. And that's what college is for: a formalized spot for you to dedicate yourself to learning for a certain period of time.
Pure glass is pretty inert stuff. If you try to add color, at least to metal, you quickly run into problems. At least, that's what I recall from pacemaker leads.
Can't Open Office sue for trademark infringement? I think they ought to. And if someone is collecting money for such a suit, I'd like to know who so I can contribute.
There are developers in other states that would kill for the amount of profit San Francisco developers claim they "need to have to break even". What you don't mention is that even the "affordable housing" isn't very affordable. Working class people can only afford to live in San Francisco if they were there before the.com boom in a rent-controlled apartment. Half a million dollars will maybe buy you half of a house. None of my tech friends have bought a house there. And I certainly followed one of them around to enough open houses... When someone on a.com salary can't buy a house, and they have good credit, and they have a down payment, you should figure that something is wrong. Build more housing, you might say. Good idea, except that for the most part, the places people want to live (vibrant neighborhoods, nightlife, etc.) are already developed with charming Victorians and are not more than 2-3 stories high. And what developers want to build are ugly, blocky condos. Not single family houses.
More on topic: There was some public support for a publicly-owned backbone to be installed in the soon-to-be-upgraded sewer/drainage system, coupled with wifi to do the last leg. Certainly it would have been faster. And if you partnered with a business to offer a wire installation to your house, even more significantly faster.
I also love how poor people are assumed to have the money to go and buy a wireless card/hub/etc., if they have a computer in the first place.
Have you not heard of Doctors on-call? This isn't about you calling your regular doctor at an odd hour, it's about a hospital paging them because they're on rotation and are needed in ER.
And said Doctor (or whatever other profession, NOC admin, etc) wouldn't be in a movie theater and expect to NOT be reached, unless they wanted to get in trouble. Although one hopes they'd set the pager/cell/i$Device to vibrate.
I guess you didn't go look up the SEC reports. Drug companies spend more on P&R than R&D these days. You can thank the laws allowing them to market drugs to the public for that. (ie TV ads, bus shelters, newspapers... they've got the saturation thing down pat) Before it would have just been some doctor junkets, which are much cheaper in comparison.
Secondly: if you don't want to support for-profit health insurance companies, pick a plan from a non-profit company if your company lets you choose between providers. As a side note: non-profit hospitals aren't run as efficiently as not-for-profit/for-profit hospitals.
Who are non-profit companies? Remember that those of us who are self-employed are kind of screwed. And last I checked, there wasn't exactly a Consumer Report thing that would help you pick the best insurance company. The insurance I bought has a high premium, high deductable, AND they still denied the only claim I've put in. What's the point? And I'm pretty damn healthy.
Also, there was a study that showed you got better care at a non-profit hospital. This makes sense: if you're doing health-care for profit, then you're under pressure to increase profits. One way to do that is to decrease standards of care. Of course, that seems to be the case for all hospitals these days. And it especially wouldn't apply if you go to one of the public hospitals in LA where they like discharging you onto Skid Row. (A quick google search should find you plenty of info on all this.)
Yeah, but maybe at least my insurance claims will stop being denied. I'm not sure it made sense for me to even buy it. I'm still not sure: I have a high deductable, and they still deny my claims.
I'd like to believe in a free market here, but I think it's failed here.
"Based on respected scientific opinion that a well-documented rise in global temperatures and attendant climatological and environmental changes have resulted from a significant increase in the atmospheric concentration of "greenhouse gases"..."
Apparently our conservative, let's overturn Roe vs. Wade and Brown vs.Board of Education, actually thinks climate change is real. But then they read their science briefs.
(I'll agree that pinning numbers of deaths to it is all going to be in how you bother to count. But I'm really surprised you aren't modded as flamebait.)
The hosting company can break that relationship for pretty much whatever reason they see fit, including parody...If the Yes Men put this out using their own resources, etc. and were sued for it, that's where US law would protect them
Their own resources? You mean get hosting further uplink? You mean buy backbone? Because unless you have protection somewhere, someone can always pull your plug.
...it is a very nice new bit of evidence that our understanding of heavy hadrons (particles composed of quarks, one of which a b or a c) is very accurate. The particles, yielding a signal whose significance exceeds seven standard deviations, have a mass in perfect agreement with theoretical expectations.
Its discovery and the measurement of its mass provide new understanding of how the strong nuclear force acts upon quarks, the basic building blocks of matter.
"Knowing the mass of the cascade b baryon gives scientists information they need in order to develop accurate models of how individual quarks are bound together into larger particles such as protons and neutrons," said Physicist and Associate Director for High Energy Physics for the Department of Energy's Office of Science Robin Staffin.
Shows that YES! Building particle detectors involves a large waterpark a la Waterworld. You can make money off of that, therefore, it must be practical. (Seriously, is my browser showing this wrong? I see no indication that this guy is joking?)
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So you're capable of learning, great. Then a good university will teach you how to think and criticize. It will also expose you to other people, other cultures, and culture in general. Yeah, you're probably thinking you can do all that on your own. Except it's suprising how much easier it is if you have help. The student ID card, if nothing else: ie discounts on useful things like eurorail tickets or museum tickets. And some things you just really can't learn unless you have someone else to ask if you're doing it right. Plus for what might be the first time in your life, you'll be taught by people who love what they are doing. Take advantage of it, ask them about their research. Take a wide range of classes, do the liberal arts education thing even if you're a CS major or an engineer. You'll still need to know how to read and write well.
And sometimes the best lessons aren't those you've directly paid for. Dorm life, a new city, meeting new people, pranks, scavenger hunts, hanging out with people who actually want to learn...
Let me be clear: you can go to a school that is wrong for you, or a bad school, or not ever wander out of your dorm room, and have the same meat grinder approach. Life is what you make it. And maybe you don't need to go to college at all, maybe vocational school or no further school is right for you. But you shouldn't stop learning. And that's what college is for: a formalized spot for you to dedicate yourself to learning for a certain period of time.
Pure glass is pretty inert stuff. If you try to add color, at least to metal, you quickly run into problems. At least, that's what I recall from pacemaker leads.
Can't Open Office sue for trademark infringement? I think they ought to. And if someone is collecting money for such a suit, I'd like to know who so I can contribute.
Do they actually do this? If it doesn't say "digitally remastered!" or anything on it?
I should probably insert a snide comment about remastering for cell phone ring tones.
Yeah, it was a stupid "quiz" that people posted the html results. Was goatseu the name of the NSFW picture? Does it matter?
It was an excellent example of why this policy won't really work. People post quiz results all the time without any context.
Somebody has a chip on their shoulder.
.com boom in a rent-controlled apartment. Half a million dollars will maybe buy you half of a house. None of my tech friends have bought a house there. And I certainly followed one of them around to enough open houses... When someone on a .com salary can't buy a house, and they have good credit, and they have a down payment, you should figure that something is wrong. Build more housing, you might say. Good idea, except that for the most part, the places people want to live (vibrant neighborhoods, nightlife, etc.) are already developed with charming Victorians and are not more than 2-3 stories high. And what developers want to build are ugly, blocky condos. Not single family houses.
There are developers in other states that would kill for the amount of profit San Francisco developers claim they "need to have to break even". What you don't mention is that even the "affordable housing" isn't very affordable. Working class people can only afford to live in San Francisco if they were there before the
More on topic:
There was some public support for a publicly-owned backbone to be installed in the soon-to-be-upgraded sewer/drainage system, coupled with wifi to do the last leg. Certainly it would have been faster. And if you partnered with a business to offer a wire installation to your house, even more significantly faster.
I also love how poor people are assumed to have the money to go and buy a wireless card/hub/etc., if they have a computer in the first place.
They don't have brakes.
c.f. to your typical driver on the road: can you imagine the licensing problems? Might as well just stick with planes and autos.
It sounds like this would be similar to poster talks you already get at conventions, although you can't ask questions in real-time.
Do you believe they coexisted with humans?
*show picture of Jesus riding a dinosaur* (it was on Conservapedia for a while)
I boggle as to how they were modded up as "interesting" and not "funny".
If it were me, I'd be torn between modding down as "troll" and up as "funny". But then I have a sick sense of humor.
How secure or not are those?
I would have thought a study saying "M-class video games are more interesting", would be stating the obvious, and therefore not very interesting.
Now, that *half* the kids are saying they play them because they can't think of ANYTHING better to do? Oh man, we are doomed.
Am I the only one who first read this and wondered how radioactive gas had gotten out there?
This sort of thing used to be done with pagers.
Have you not heard of Doctors on-call? This isn't about you calling your regular doctor at an odd hour, it's about a hospital paging them because they're on rotation and are needed in ER.
And said Doctor (or whatever other profession, NOC admin, etc) wouldn't be in a movie theater and expect to NOT be reached, unless they wanted to get in trouble. Although one hopes they'd set the pager/cell/i$Device to vibrate.
So are you saying that because self-employed insurance options are poor, nobody should be self-employed?
That's nice. So do you both have health care?
If you get it through your employer, that's nice. If you're self-employed, good luck finding anything reasonably priced that's useful for much.
I guess you didn't go look up the SEC reports. Drug companies spend more on P&R than R&D these days. You can thank the laws allowing them to market drugs to the public for that. (ie TV ads, bus shelters, newspapers... they've got the saturation thing down pat) Before it would have just been some doctor junkets, which are much cheaper in comparison.
Who are non-profit companies? Remember that those of us who are self-employed are kind of screwed. And last I checked, there wasn't exactly a Consumer Report thing that would help you pick the best insurance company. The insurance I bought has a high premium, high deductable, AND they still denied the only claim I've put in. What's the point? And I'm pretty damn healthy.
Also, there was a study that showed you got better care at a non-profit hospital. This makes sense: if you're doing health-care for profit, then you're under pressure to increase profits. One way to do that is to decrease standards of care. Of course, that seems to be the case for all hospitals these days. And it especially wouldn't apply if you go to one of the public hospitals in LA where they like discharging you onto Skid Row. (A quick google search should find you plenty of info on all this.)
What sorts of reforms would you propose?
Yeah, but maybe at least my insurance claims will stop being denied. I'm not sure it made sense for me to even buy it. I'm still not sure: I have a high deductable, and they still deny my claims.
I'd like to believe in a free market here, but I think it's failed here.
Massachusetts et al. v EPA:
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"Based on respected scientific opinion that a well-documented rise in global temperatures and attendant climatological and environmental changes have resulted from a significant increase in the atmospheric concentration of "greenhouse gases"
Apparently our conservative, let's overturn Roe vs. Wade and Brown vs.Board of Education, actually thinks climate change is real. But then they read their science briefs.
(I'll agree that pinning numbers of deaths to it is all going to be in how you bother to count. But I'm really surprised you aren't modded as flamebait.)
Their own resources? You mean get hosting further uplink? You mean buy backbone? Because unless you have protection somewhere, someone can always pull your plug.
As I was on the train this morning, three of the newspapers I came across had articles on it.
http://www.pegasusnews.com/news/2007/jun/14/uta-f
So, yeah, Standard Model stuff. Practical? Well:
http://motls.blogspot.com/2007/06/d0-discovers-ca
Shows that YES! Building particle detectors involves a large waterpark a la Waterworld. You can make money off of that, therefore, it must be practical. (Seriously, is my browser showing this wrong? I see no indication that this guy is joking?)
Better enjoy it while it lasts.