I once watched a video clip of an Iranian girl getting stoned to death by a crowd of people. At one point during the ordeal her dress started to ride up her legs. One of the attackers was very quick to cover up her legs again. Extremely horrific violence: Ok. Semi-nudity: Not ok.
I'm an Australian, and since the Australian dollar is pretty good against the US one now, it would be a good time to go there for a holiday. But I refuse to allow myself to sexually abused or get hit with an unknown and possibly unsafe dose of ionising radiation, so instead I holiday elsewhere.
There are plenty of seismologists that can predict an earthquake a week ahead of time. We just lack the technology to predict which seismologists they are.
In Phoenix you are allowed to carry water into most sporting events because you need to replace the water that evaporates and everyone does it in the summer.
I'm amazed that it's even worth mentioning that you are allowed to carry water into sporting events. Isn't the right to carry water just assumed?
I'm a business analyst, and when I did my degree they taught me UML and DFDs and various other types of diagrams. In the real world I never follow the rules though - I pick and choose the bits and pieces that I need. Ultimately my goal is to express information; having rules and a structure helps, but it's just as important to know when to break the rules.
A properly managed brainstorming session is a great tool for generating ideas. Some minds (such as mine) work really well in a brainstorming environment. One person says one thing, it leads to another, and through an associative process a whole bunch of ideas will come out. Lots of them will suck, but that's ok because sometimes a sucky idea will trigger someone to have a great idea. Only when the session is finished to you start evaluating them.
You ought to be careful using brainstorming to get a person to buy in to a project, because if they have bad ideas and you don't include them it will have the opposite effect.
It might actually be illegal. In a nutshell, the Privacy Act requires that all personal information must be kept appropriately secure. If a company sends personal information to a third party, it requires the company to ensure that they keep the information secure too (e.g. by having a clause in the contract requiring them to meet the requirements of the Privacy Act). It is not possible to provide personal information to a USA company and still meet the requirements of the Privacy Act, because the USA's Patriot Act allows the US government to gain access to that information (without even informing the information owner).
Does it count as a release if it is uploaded to Letitbit.net, which proceeds to try and trick me into downloading an.exe file, then presents me with about 20 unreadable captchas in a row, then fails because it uses javascript on some IP address which got blocked by noscript, then after making an exception for that IP address it says I have reached my free limit of one download per day?
Mine was a Mybook. I went to Seagate after that, but I have vowed never to purchase a Seagate drive again after my most recent experience. I plugged the drive in, and it kept trying to install software. Lucky my virus scanner blocked it. It was linked to an autorun.inf file that would try and install every time I even clicked it. They had managed to lock the file down so tightly that I could not remove it, copy it, or even view its contents. I had to reboot my computer into safe mode, log in as an administrator, and run CLI commands against the file just to get rid of it! That is so arrogant, and blatantly misleading given that they advertise the drive as "no software required".
I broke an external USB hard disk once (it tipped over while running). It cost me AUD $2600 to get it repaired. They got most of the data off; some was corrupted but fortunately nothing important. I take more regular backups now!
Pedantic note: in Australia we have a different flushing mechanism than in the US, so the water in our toilets circles neither clockwise nor counter-clockwise.
what do Australians call a boomerang that doesn't come back? A stick!
Technically a boomerang is any of a class of bent throwing sticks. They are not all designed to return to the thrower - the ones used as hunting weapons are thicker and heavier. The kink in the middle gives the stick an axis on which to turn, stabilising it and allowing it to be thrown further and with more accuracy. The returnable boomerangs are curved on one side and flat on the other like an aeroplane wing.
The thing that everyone forgets is that while you are in a rational state of mind, it is very easy to think through the safest options. But in a state of panic, rationality is literally impossible. The brain shuts down into a panic mode, and you no longer have control. So the design of the vehicle must be such that in a panic mode it responds to the driver's instinctive actions (most likely to slam on the brakes) accordingly. For example, I know exactly what I would do if my cars brakes failed: downshift the gears, horn on when/if I can, and gently apply the handbrake to bring myself to a stop. But in reality, if my brakes did fail, I would probably panic and just keep pressing the pedal until I had an accident (unless it happened on a long straight stretch of road where I'd have time to overcome the panic.
The risk in having customers pick and choose the channels they want is that over time, all of the channels will start trying to appeal to the lowest common denominator, and you'll wind up with a bunch of clones. Having a bunch of specialty channels means that there is (theoretically) more variety to choose from at any given time.
In Australia you must get consent before applying first aid, unless they are unconscious and cannot provide consent. This leads to an interesting potential situation where a bleeding person could refuse consent, and you have to wait until they pass out before attempting to apply first aid. If you apply first aid against consent, you can be charged with assault, so in the training they teach you to always ask first.
The Australian first aid law also talks about "duty of care" - if you are trained in first aid you have a duty of care in basically any situation in which you have a relationship with the person requiring aid. For example, if a friend, family member, or work colleague required first aid and I refused, I could be charged with negligence. If I was walking down the street and saw someone have a heart attack, or saw a horrific car crash, I would be under no legal obligation to help (moral obligation notwithstanding). However, if I were to talk to the victim, e.g. ask if they are ok or need help, then a relationship has been established and I would be legally obligated to apply first aid until a trained responder arrived.
"1000 mg" makes sense if the number of significant digits is important (which it would be in medicinal dosages). Alternatively they could write it as 1.000 g, but 1000mg is easier to read and compare with smaller doses, such as 500mg.
I must be one of the 1% then....beer is the first thing that comes to mind when someone says "tinny" to me. For what it is worth, I neither drink beer nor go out in boats.
I drive a 2005 Jeep Cherokee bought in Australia. According to the manual, the airbags will go off at different velocities depending on the severity of the crash.
It's easy to be critical, but there are many people who do not have strong spatial reasoning skills for whom reading a map is actually quite difficult. They respond much better to verbal instructions. Maps have long given a technological advantage to those with a spatial reasoning bent - GPS just evens the playing field.
I personally prefer to use a map, but a GPS is a great tool for me in an unfamiliar area when I approach unexpected traffic conditions, or make a wrong turn accidentally, or need to make a detour. It saves me having to pull over and do the whole map thing. When I do use the GPS I turn the sound off (I find the verbal instructions offputting) and just glance at it now and again. It can be done safely (it takes no more time than glancing at my speedo), so really the safety issue is more about the driver than the technology.
In Australia we have a great system. There is a State Government body called TAC. A large chunk of your annual car registration (this year for me it was around AUD$450, ~ £300, ~USD$475) is a compulsory fee to the TAC. The TAC have to main roles: spread the message of road safety through print, film, and other advertising media; and to provide compulsory third party personal insurance to all road users. If any person gets injured in a road accident, regardless of fault, their medical expenses will be paid. Because it is a government body, not a private corporate, profit is no longer the sole motive, so it seems to work pretty well.
All property insurance, whether it be third party or comprehensive, is at the discretion of the motorist. It is a competitive market though - I've got a 2005 Jeep and comprehensive insurance cost about AUD$750 (~ £500, ~USD$790), but if I was not financially well-off I could have got third party insurance only for as low as AUD$250 (~ £165, ~USD$260).
PS, I have no idea why there is a funny A in front of the pound symbol. I didn't want it there, but couldn't get rid of it:S
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It was footage from a mobile phone. Not a staged movie. The girl died when they slammed a cinderblock onto her head.
I once watched a video clip of an Iranian girl getting stoned to death by a crowd of people. At one point during the ordeal her dress started to ride up her legs. One of the attackers was very quick to cover up her legs again.
Extremely horrific violence: Ok.
Semi-nudity: Not ok.
I'm an Australian, and since the Australian dollar is pretty good against the US one now, it would be a good time to go there for a holiday. But I refuse to allow myself to sexually abused or get hit with an unknown and possibly unsafe dose of ionising radiation, so instead I holiday elsewhere.
There are plenty of seismologists that can predict an earthquake a week ahead of time. We just lack the technology to predict which seismologists they are.
In Phoenix you are allowed to carry water into most sporting events because you need to replace the water that evaporates and everyone does it in the summer.
I'm amazed that it's even worth mentioning that you are allowed to carry water into sporting events. Isn't the right to carry water just assumed?
I'm a business analyst, and when I did my degree they taught me UML and DFDs and various other types of diagrams. In the real world I never follow the rules though - I pick and choose the bits and pieces that I need. Ultimately my goal is to express information; having rules and a structure helps, but it's just as important to know when to break the rules.
A properly managed brainstorming session is a great tool for generating ideas. Some minds (such as mine) work really well in a brainstorming environment. One person says one thing, it leads to another, and through an associative process a whole bunch of ideas will come out. Lots of them will suck, but that's ok because sometimes a sucky idea will trigger someone to have a great idea. Only when the session is finished to you start evaluating them.
You ought to be careful using brainstorming to get a person to buy in to a project, because if they have bad ideas and you don't include them it will have the opposite effect.
You have no choice; they install the smart meter whether you will or nill it.
It might actually be illegal. In a nutshell, the Privacy Act requires that all personal information must be kept appropriately secure. If a company sends personal information to a third party, it requires the company to ensure that they keep the information secure too (e.g. by having a clause in the contract requiring them to meet the requirements of the Privacy Act). It is not possible to provide personal information to a USA company and still meet the requirements of the Privacy Act, because the USA's Patriot Act allows the US government to gain access to that information (without even informing the information owner).
Does it count as a release if it is uploaded to Letitbit.net, which proceeds to try and trick me into downloading an .exe file, then presents me with about 20 unreadable captchas in a row, then fails because it uses javascript on some IP address which got blocked by noscript, then after making an exception for that IP address it says I have reached my free limit of one download per day?
Mine was a Mybook. I went to Seagate after that, but I have vowed never to purchase a Seagate drive again after my most recent experience. I plugged the drive in, and it kept trying to install software. Lucky my virus scanner blocked it. It was linked to an autorun.inf file that would try and install every time I even clicked it. They had managed to lock the file down so tightly that I could not remove it, copy it, or even view its contents. I had to reboot my computer into safe mode, log in as an administrator, and run CLI commands against the file just to get rid of it! That is so arrogant, and blatantly misleading given that they advertise the drive as "no software required".
I broke an external USB hard disk once (it tipped over while running). It cost me AUD $2600 to get it repaired. They got most of the data off; some was corrupted but fortunately nothing important. I take more regular backups now!
Pedantic note: in Australia we have a different flushing mechanism than in the US, so the water in our toilets circles neither clockwise nor counter-clockwise.
Ah, the entomomorphic principle...
what do Australians call a boomerang that doesn't come back? A stick!
Technically a boomerang is any of a class of bent throwing sticks. They are not all designed to return to the thrower - the ones used as hunting weapons are thicker and heavier. The kink in the middle gives the stick an axis on which to turn, stabilising it and allowing it to be thrown further and with more accuracy.
The returnable boomerangs are curved on one side and flat on the other like an aeroplane wing.
The thing that everyone forgets is that while you are in a rational state of mind, it is very easy to think through the safest options. But in a state of panic, rationality is literally impossible. The brain shuts down into a panic mode, and you no longer have control. So the design of the vehicle must be such that in a panic mode it responds to the driver's instinctive actions (most likely to slam on the brakes) accordingly.
For example, I know exactly what I would do if my cars brakes failed: downshift the gears, horn on when/if I can, and gently apply the handbrake to bring myself to a stop. But in reality, if my brakes did fail, I would probably panic and just keep pressing the pedal until I had an accident (unless it happened on a long straight stretch of road where I'd have time to overcome the panic.
The risk in having customers pick and choose the channels they want is that over time, all of the channels will start trying to appeal to the lowest common denominator, and you'll wind up with a bunch of clones. Having a bunch of specialty channels means that there is (theoretically) more variety to choose from at any given time.
In Australia you must get consent before applying first aid, unless they are unconscious and cannot provide consent. This leads to an interesting potential situation where a bleeding person could refuse consent, and you have to wait until they pass out before attempting to apply first aid. If you apply first aid against consent, you can be charged with assault, so in the training they teach you to always ask first.
The Australian first aid law also talks about "duty of care" - if you are trained in first aid you have a duty of care in basically any situation in which you have a relationship with the person requiring aid. For example, if a friend, family member, or work colleague required first aid and I refused, I could be charged with negligence. If I was walking down the street and saw someone have a heart attack, or saw a horrific car crash, I would be under no legal obligation to help (moral obligation notwithstanding). However, if I were to talk to the victim, e.g. ask if they are ok or need help, then a relationship has been established and I would be legally obligated to apply first aid until a trained responder arrived.
"1000 mg" makes sense if the number of significant digits is important (which it would be in medicinal dosages). Alternatively they could write it as 1.000 g, but 1000mg is easier to read and compare with smaller doses, such as 500mg.
Technically, a notepad and pen is technology...
I must be one of the 1% then....beer is the first thing that comes to mind when someone says "tinny" to me. For what it is worth, I neither drink beer nor go out in boats.
I drive a 2005 Jeep Cherokee bought in Australia. According to the manual, the airbags will go off at different velocities depending on the severity of the crash.
Walk in the door, climb out the window! Problem solved!
It's easy to be critical, but there are many people who do not have strong spatial reasoning skills for whom reading a map is actually quite difficult. They respond much better to verbal instructions. Maps have long given a technological advantage to those with a spatial reasoning bent - GPS just evens the playing field.
I personally prefer to use a map, but a GPS is a great tool for me in an unfamiliar area when I approach unexpected traffic conditions, or make a wrong turn accidentally, or need to make a detour. It saves me having to pull over and do the whole map thing. When I do use the GPS I turn the sound off (I find the verbal instructions offputting) and just glance at it now and again. It can be done safely (it takes no more time than glancing at my speedo), so really the safety issue is more about the driver than the technology.
In Australia we have a great system. There is a State Government body called TAC. A large chunk of your annual car registration (this year for me it was around AUD$450, ~ £300, ~USD$475) is a compulsory fee to the TAC. The TAC have to main roles: spread the message of road safety through print, film, and other advertising media; and to provide compulsory third party personal insurance to all road users. If any person gets injured in a road accident, regardless of fault, their medical expenses will be paid. Because it is a government body, not a private corporate, profit is no longer the sole motive, so it seems to work pretty well.
All property insurance, whether it be third party or comprehensive, is at the discretion of the motorist. It is a competitive market though - I've got a 2005 Jeep and comprehensive insurance cost about AUD$750 (~ £500, ~USD$790), but if I was not financially well-off I could have got third party insurance only for as low as AUD$250 (~ £165, ~USD$260).
PS, I have no idea why there is a funny A in front of the pound symbol. I didn't want it there, but couldn't get rid of it :S