You should never mention Australia's penal colony heritage when in the presence of Australians.
They are very self-conscious about it.
Whatever sense of humor they may possess quickly vanishes should somebody be tactless enough to forget that rule and try to talk about white Australia's history.
I've no idea where you get your information from, but nobody that I know is sensitive about it! Why, just the other day I was having a laugh about our convict history with my mate. In fact, we were laughing so hard we woke up the owner of the house we were robbing and had to make a quick getaway. Maybe you got your impression about our sense of humour from that guy, because I don't think he was laughing that much (though it was kind of hard to tell through all of that duct tape).
I know that this is going to sound horribly callous, and I am personally very sad that we have to say goodbye to yet another species (and especially a species of dolphin, the puppies of the ocean), but does it really matter that the species has gone extinct? The human race nowadays spends more time adapting the environment to itself than vice versa, and all the while it is just getting bigger and consuming more resources...eventually there's going to be a collapse and humans will either disappear or at least be severely diminished. New animal species will evolve, life will go on, and the successors to humans will probably not mourn the massive wave of extinctions during the atomic age any more than we today mourn the massive wave of extinctions 65 million years (and six months) ago.
Maybe I'm just being cynical because it seems so futile to try and protect other species. We may be successful in protecting some, but it's only going to be a temporary solution unless we can stem human overpopulation, and - barring some catastrophe - I don't see that happening any time soon.
I am also a vegetarian, and all I can say is that once it has been tested and proven safe, I would have no ethical objection to eating Squirted Meat. However, since becoming vegetarian, the thought of eating meat (even ethically acquired meat, such as that of an animal that died of natural causes) has become distasteful to me, so I would not eat the meat unless necessary.
It should be noted though that if in a situation where other food was unavailable, I would have no hesitation to eat ethically acquired meat, whether it be from a laser printer, a cow or a human. In fact, if the infrastructure is in place then I would like to donate my body to be eaten by starving people when I die. See the following link for a very interesting and insightful discussion of the benefits of ethical cannibalism: http://www.uq.edu.au/~pdwgrey/web/can/cannibalism. html
Actually, in Eastern culture the Swastika can be found facing in either direction, for example in Hinduism when facing right it represents the evolution of the universe (Pravritti), and when facing left it represents the involution of the universe (Nivritti). A lot of myth and misinformation has sprung up about the symbol since some German nutcase with a bad haircut decided he liked it. Loads of information here
Has anyone got any examples of something which smells different when a different isotope is involved? I'd love to know what an isotope smells like!
If the theory turns out to be correct, would this make it easier to create "smellovision"? You could have some sort of nasal attachment which at different points during the program causes specific molecular vibrations, thus causing the viewer to perceive different smells.
If Han Tak could be free, she would like to bring her husband a meal. Something simple -- some rice, some kimchi, some barbecued meat. A meal that tastes like home.
I don't think this is the most tactful ending to an article about a girl who got burned to death!
Are you sure of that? I bet that there are just as many intelligent pedos as there are stupid ones, it's just that the stupid ones are the only ones that get caught.
I've had vista for nigh on seventy years, and I had to walk backwards up a hill for forty miles at 4am every day to use it! And we didn't have none of those fancy computers to run it on, we had to manipulate the bits with our fingers, in the snow, without gloves on!
Where I work I have to log in to several systems, and the passwords have to be changed at intervals ranging from 1 to 2 months (so the different systems are never in sync). What I do is use the exact same prefix for every password and just modify the last couple of characters. Then I have a little list in the format: System 1: 0u System 2: iJ System 3: #r etc. Since nobody knows the prefix, this is just as secure as having a single password that never changes.
Yahoo provides throwaway addresses (addressguard) to paying subscribers
I am not a paying subscriber and I have access to Addressguard. I love it, I use it for everything I register for. It's also not linked to your actual account in any way. The addresses are in the format "basename-something@yahoo.com". The basename is common to all of your addressguard addresses (mine is "azilanen"), and the part following the dash can be anything you want. My yahoo ID is something totally different, and I only give that out to friends.
It's interesting because it allows you to have unlimited addresses so you can see which forums/sites the spammers are getting your email address from.
Let's think for a moment. What if I sit down to write a utterly new language, and create dictionaries, an alphabet, a syntax and everything, and publishes it... I've been doing a creative task, which I should be able to claim copyright for. Can I then stop others from using that language without paying me royalties? I guess so, since I've used my creativity, which is essential to be able to claim copyright in the us... In europe, the mere 'sweat of the brow' is enough...
IANAL, but how I imagine it would work is that you would own the copyright of the dictionaries/publications, but not the language itself. So if Joe Bloggs comes along and translates Shakespeare into said language, he would not be in breach of copyright
I read in the newspaper some time ago that in one of the cities in India they are combatting the problem of drunks urinating on the walls by plastering the walls with pictures of God. I couldn't find a link for it sorry. Maybe we could outsource the development of more pop-up toilets to India...
So what happens if you are a tourist taking a stroll and wander into the DMZ..... Robot: [unintelligible Korean words in computer voice] Tourist: "Huh?" Flips through phrasebook. Phrasebook: "You have 20 seconds to leave or I will shoot you in the face." Tourist: Looks at watch...gulps Robot: [more Korean words] Tourist: Flips through phrasebook Phrasebook: "Bang. Bang." Tourist: Pines for fjords.
I'm no rocket scientist, but I am wondering: Can the astronauts toss rubbish on a sideways/backwards diagonal? If you apply minimal thrust, then it is still going to be moving "forward", but it will be going slower than the ISS and on a slightly different angle. Then, even if by some odd chance it did hit the ISS at a later time, it wouldn't have a head-on collision, it would just glance off the side at an angle. To avoid sending the ISS off sideways, you could divide the rubbish in half, and send half the mass to the left and backwards, and half the mass to the right and backwards.
I am assuming that this idea is not plausible because nobody else is mentioning it, but I'm curious to learn why.
H.
What do I need to learn English for? I'm never going to England! (apologies to Homer Simpson).
Seriously though, I used to tutor various information systems subjects at university, in which there were a lot of foreign students, often with poor English skills. Unless the particular assignment had specific requirements for English ability, I only marked the students down for bad English if I couldn't understand what they were writing. I didn't worry about poor spelling (unless it was inconsistent - I saw one student spell the name of a company 6 different ways on two pages once!) or grammatical mistakes. My reasoning was:
The students were being assessed on their abilities in the subject, not English
If the student went back overseas and got a job in his/her native country, then the language would not matter, only the knowledge of the subject matter would
If the student remained in Australia and tried to get a job, the employer would notice their inability to communicate and would probably not hire them.
Usually these sort of students didn't get high marks anyway because they had trouble understanding the subjects, let alone doing assignments etc. There were some fun moments, like a Russian student I once had who put ":)" into his technical report several times! Maybe he should go to New Zealand.
I did a Bachelor of Information Systems degree (graduated in 2003) from Monash University. This degree was focussed on the software development life cycle. It was a three year degree, and each year had a year-long "studio" class which integrated all of the knowledge from the other classes. It had a very strong focus on teamwork.
1st year: covered introductory concepts, including web design, database design, software development life cycle etc. The studio class focussed on working in teams, and consisted mostly of independent exercises based on what had been covered in the other subjects.
2nd year: Further developed the concepts taught in the first year. Covered things like OO design, normalisation (ouch!), project management etc. Also had some elective subjects (I did basic Java - I'm not much of a coder but it dovetailed really well with the OO stuff I was learning). The studio class (about 20 students) broke into groups of 4-6 and over the course of the year developed a fictional information system. The first half was devoted to requirements gathering and analysis, the second half covered design, implementation and integration. The example system was for a group of stores and had to manage day-to-day transaction processing, inventory management and re-order for all stores, reporting and administration. Trying to coordinate 20 undergraduates developing the same system taught us a lot about the benefit of standards!
3rd year: Most of the subjects in the third year were electives, allowing students to determine which direction they wished to go, such as interface design, IT management, project management etc. In the studio class we were broken into groups of 4-6 and had to develop a real project for a real client. The project went for the whole year, and the grading was based on how well each individual performed in the team.
The main drawback of the course was that there was no coding involved - if you wanted to learn coding you had to do it through elective subjects. This meant it also attracted a whole lot of people who wanted to be in IT but couldn't/wouldn't do coding! The degree was very heavy on theory too, and of course in the real world, most of the theory is totally ignored:-P I've had two jobs since I graduated, one in the public service and one in a small private company, and I've not seen a DFD or normalisation anywhere:-P
This will allow for more variety in TV Dinner desserts, because they can just shield it so only the stuff that needs to get nuked will get nuked. w00t!
You can already do this. Just place aluminium foil over the areas that you don't want cooked. The foil will reflect the microwaves, so the covered parts will only be heated by convection. As long as the foil is fairly smooth there should be no problems.
I'll swap you for an original hand-drawn graphite-on-napkin titled "Stick Figure With Sailor Hat". I am quite versatile, and can also cover styles such as Stick Figures with Pirate Hats, Stick Figures with Top Hats and Stick Figures Without Hats.
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I agree, "deadhookers" is in very poor taste. It should be tagged as "deceasedhookers" instead.
I know that this is going to sound horribly callous, and I am personally very sad that we have to say goodbye to yet another species (and especially a species of dolphin, the puppies of the ocean), but does it really matter that the species has gone extinct? The human race nowadays spends more time adapting the environment to itself than vice versa, and all the while it is just getting bigger and consuming more resources...eventually there's going to be a collapse and humans will either disappear or at least be severely diminished. New animal species will evolve, life will go on, and the successors to humans will probably not mourn the massive wave of extinctions during the atomic age any more than we today mourn the massive wave of extinctions 65 million years (and six months) ago.
Maybe I'm just being cynical because it seems so futile to try and protect other species. We may be successful in protecting some, but it's only going to be a temporary solution unless we can stem human overpopulation, and - barring some catastrophe - I don't see that happening any time soon.
I hate to be a grammar nazi, but you spelled "z'nourrwringmm" wrong! Roflcopter!
I am also a vegetarian, and all I can say is that once it has been tested and proven safe, I would have no ethical objection to eating Squirted Meat. However, since becoming vegetarian, the thought of eating meat (even ethically acquired meat, such as that of an animal that died of natural causes) has become distasteful to me, so I would not eat the meat unless necessary.
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It should be noted though that if in a situation where other food was unavailable, I would have no hesitation to eat ethically acquired meat, whether it be from a laser printer, a cow or a human. In fact, if the infrastructure is in place then I would like to donate my body to be eaten by starving people when I die. See the following link for a very interesting and insightful discussion of the benefits of ethical cannibalism: http://www.uq.edu.au/~pdwgrey/web/can/cannibalism
Actually, in Eastern culture the Swastika can be found facing in either direction, for example in Hinduism when facing right it represents the evolution of the universe (Pravritti), and when facing left it represents the involution of the universe (Nivritti). A lot of myth and misinformation has sprung up about the symbol since some German nutcase with a bad haircut decided he liked it. Loads of information here
Has anyone got any examples of something which smells different when a different isotope is involved? I'd love to know what an isotope smells like!
If the theory turns out to be correct, would this make it easier to create "smellovision"? You could have some sort of nasal attachment which at different points during the program causes specific molecular vibrations, thus causing the viewer to perceive different smells.
That's because Texas needs a regular and dependable electricity supply for their chairs...
I don't think this is the most tactful ending to an article about a girl who got burned to death!
Are you sure of that? I bet that there are just as many intelligent pedos as there are stupid ones, it's just that the stupid ones are the only ones that get caught.
I've had vista for nigh on seventy years, and I had to walk backwards up a hill for forty miles at 4am every day to use it! And we didn't have none of those fancy computers to run it on, we had to manipulate the bits with our fingers, in the snow, without gloves on!
Where I work I have to log in to several systems, and the passwords have to be changed at intervals ranging from 1 to 2 months (so the different systems are never in sync). What I do is use the exact same prefix for every password and just modify the last couple of characters. Then I have a little list in the format:
System 1: 0u
System 2: iJ
System 3: #r
etc. Since nobody knows the prefix, this is just as secure as having a single password that never changes.
So what would 270 degrees feel like?
Very hot!
Okay, I'll go back into my box now.
I am not a paying subscriber and I have access to Addressguard. I love it, I use it for everything I register for. It's also not linked to your actual account in any way. The addresses are in the format "basename-something@yahoo.com". The basename is common to all of your addressguard addresses (mine is "azilanen"), and the part following the dash can be anything you want. My yahoo ID is something totally different, and I only give that out to friends.
It's interesting because it allows you to have unlimited addresses so you can see which forums/sites the spammers are getting your email address from.
That's because atheists have very little to gain by wasting their time trying to convert people (apart from the odd atheist with a sense of humour).
IANAL, but how I imagine it would work is that you would own the copyright of the dictionaries/publications, but not the language itself. So if Joe Bloggs comes along and translates Shakespeare into said language, he would not be in breach of copyright
Excellent summary! Thanks very much :-)
I read in the newspaper some time ago that in one of the cities in India they are combatting the problem of drunks urinating on the walls by plastering the walls with pictures of God. I couldn't find a link for it sorry. Maybe we could outsource the development of more pop-up toilets to India...
So what happens if you are a tourist taking a stroll and wander into the DMZ.....
Robot: [unintelligible Korean words in computer voice]
Tourist: "Huh?" Flips through phrasebook.
Phrasebook: "You have 20 seconds to leave or I will shoot you in the face."
Tourist: Looks at watch...gulps
Robot: [more Korean words]
Tourist: Flips through phrasebook
Phrasebook: "Bang. Bang."
Tourist: Pines for fjords.
I'm no rocket scientist, but I am wondering: Can the astronauts toss rubbish on a sideways/backwards diagonal? If you apply minimal thrust, then it is still going to be moving "forward", but it will be going slower than the ISS and on a slightly different angle. Then, even if by some odd chance it did hit the ISS at a later time, it wouldn't have a head-on collision, it would just glance off the side at an angle. To avoid sending the ISS off sideways, you could divide the rubbish in half, and send half the mass to the left and backwards, and half the mass to the right and backwards.
I am assuming that this idea is not plausible because nobody else is mentioning it, but I'm curious to learn why. H.
Seriously though, I used to tutor various information systems subjects at university, in which there were a lot of foreign students, often with poor English skills. Unless the particular assignment had specific requirements for English ability, I only marked the students down for bad English if I couldn't understand what they were writing. I didn't worry about poor spelling (unless it was inconsistent - I saw one student spell the name of a company 6 different ways on two pages once!) or grammatical mistakes. My reasoning was:
- The students were being assessed on their abilities in the subject, not English
- If the student went back overseas and got a job in his/her native country, then the language would not matter, only the knowledge of the subject matter would
- If the student remained in Australia and tried to get a job, the employer would notice their inability to communicate and would probably not hire them.
Usually these sort of students didn't get high marks anyway because they had trouble understanding the subjects, let alone doing assignments etc. There were some fun moments, like a Russian student I once had who put ":)" into his technical report several times! Maybe he should go to New Zealand.I did a Bachelor of Information Systems degree (graduated in 2003) from Monash University. This degree was focussed on the software development life cycle. It was a three year degree, and each year had a year-long "studio" class which integrated all of the knowledge from the other classes. It had a very strong focus on teamwork.
:-P I've had two jobs since I graduated, one in the public service and one in a small private company, and I've not seen a DFD or normalisation anywhere :-P
1st year: covered introductory concepts, including web design, database design, software development life cycle etc. The studio class focussed on working in teams, and consisted mostly of independent exercises based on what had been covered in the other subjects.
2nd year: Further developed the concepts taught in the first year. Covered things like OO design, normalisation (ouch!), project management etc. Also had some elective subjects (I did basic Java - I'm not much of a coder but it dovetailed really well with the OO stuff I was learning). The studio class (about 20 students) broke into groups of 4-6 and over the course of the year developed a fictional information system. The first half was devoted to requirements gathering and analysis, the second half covered design, implementation and integration. The example system was for a group of stores and had to manage day-to-day transaction processing, inventory management and re-order for all stores, reporting and administration. Trying to coordinate 20 undergraduates developing the same system taught us a lot about the benefit of standards!
3rd year: Most of the subjects in the third year were electives, allowing students to determine which direction they wished to go, such as interface design, IT management, project management etc. In the studio class we were broken into groups of 4-6 and had to develop a real project for a real client. The project went for the whole year, and the grading was based on how well each individual performed in the team.
The main drawback of the course was that there was no coding involved - if you wanted to learn coding you had to do it through elective subjects. This meant it also attracted a whole lot of people who wanted to be in IT but couldn't/wouldn't do coding! The degree was very heavy on theory too, and of course in the real world, most of the theory is totally ignored
The degree kind of died not long after I graduated, and whole of Monash University's IT faculty kind of had a re-shuffle. The closest thing to my degree now seems to be the Bachelor of Information Technology and Systems (BITS) - Information systems major, which seems to be a bit better (it has networking, coding etc).
You can already do this. Just place aluminium foil over the areas that you don't want cooked. The foil will reflect the microwaves, so the covered parts will only be heated by convection. As long as the foil is fairly smooth there should be no problems.
I'll swap you for an original hand-drawn graphite-on-napkin titled "Stick Figure With Sailor Hat". I am quite versatile, and can also cover styles such as Stick Figures with Pirate Hats, Stick Figures with Top Hats and Stick Figures Without Hats.
Wow, married for -7 months....that's a pretty neat trick :-)