Committing criminal offenses are one thing, driving home and cooking dinner is something completely different. Most employers do have an interest in whether an employee is assaulting others or stealing money. An interest in whether or not you're shopping in the adult novelty store or going to church goes far beyond an employer's interest.
Yes, this. Once upon a time, in most places, police spent most of their time "policing", but it seems there has been a fundamental shift from policing to law enforcement. Policing in my mind involves actively making sure public order is kept, people are protected, and problem avoidance is the focus. Law enforcement involves actively searching for instances laws being broken. There is a difference. And the difference breeds a different mindset with the LE mindset supporting a hunters/hunted environment as opposed to a helpful friend with a stick in case shit gets too far sideways.
I just recently was responsible for a piece of a math and science night at my son's school and by far the biggest hit was the model of Hawai`i Island in Minecraft that I built from a digital elevation model from ISS data. The kids loved it, the parents didn't hate it, and I had a helluva good time with my son building it. With the age group you're working with, you can walk them through identifying data needs and data sources, moving data amongst different tools and formats, and then doing something fun and visual with it at the end of the day. Your hometown might not have active volcanoes in the backyard like mine, but you get the point.
None in Polynesia? Tell that to the Polynesian Voyaging Society, http://pvs.kcc.hawaii.edu/. Though not a daily form of transportation any longer, there is an ongoing, long-term collection of projects and groups throughout Polynesia rebuilding traditional wayfinding and sailing skills.
GP has an interesting idea, though I don't think a double-hulled canoe, even a rather large one, and a few thousand of its twins, would make any difference whatsoever.
And to let my political stripes show, I might question having some of the poorest folks in the world, already worrying about their island homes being inundated by sea-level rise, pick of the trash of the richest folks in the world.
If Joddrell Bank is closed who's going to fail to detect the Vogon's when they show up?
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And the Polynesians that colonized half the planet's surface (the Pacific Basin) and the original Native Americans who colonized North and South America. Can't forget them.
If the/. community provides any indication, good grammar checkers wouldn't be used even if they existed. Spell checkers work very well and no one seems to pay them any heed.
The fact that the Pentagon is driving this says much about our personal and political leadership. The military should worry about defending the country and the politicians should worry about education, business, politics, etc so the military has a qualified pool of potential resources, be they people, chemicals, metals, whatever they may need. When the military has to step in and do the job of the parents and politicians for their HR pool, many someones are screwing up royally somewhere.
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Committing criminal offenses are one thing, driving home and cooking dinner is something completely different. Most employers do have an interest in whether an employee is assaulting others or stealing money. An interest in whether or not you're shopping in the adult novelty store or going to church goes far beyond an employer's interest.
Yes, this. Once upon a time, in most places, police spent most of their time "policing", but it seems there has been a fundamental shift from policing to law enforcement. Policing in my mind involves actively making sure public order is kept, people are protected, and problem avoidance is the focus. Law enforcement involves actively searching for instances laws being broken. There is a difference. And the difference breeds a different mindset with the LE mindset supporting a hunters/hunted environment as opposed to a helpful friend with a stick in case shit gets too far sideways.
I just recently was responsible for a piece of a math and science night at my son's school and by far the biggest hit was the model of Hawai`i Island in Minecraft that I built from a digital elevation model from ISS data. The kids loved it, the parents didn't hate it, and I had a helluva good time with my son building it. With the age group you're working with, you can walk them through identifying data needs and data sources, moving data amongst different tools and formats, and then doing something fun and visual with it at the end of the day. Your hometown might not have active volcanoes in the backyard like mine, but you get the point.
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None in Polynesia? Tell that to the Polynesian Voyaging Society, http://pvs.kcc.hawaii.edu/. Though not a daily form of transportation any longer, there is an ongoing, long-term collection of projects and groups throughout Polynesia rebuilding traditional wayfinding and sailing skills. GP has an interesting idea, though I don't think a double-hulled canoe, even a rather large one, and a few thousand of its twins, would make any difference whatsoever. And to let my political stripes show, I might question having some of the poorest folks in the world, already worrying about their island homes being inundated by sea-level rise, pick of the trash of the richest folks in the world.
And what does it mean for this poor cat I've got crammed in a box?
If Joddrell Bank is closed who's going to fail to detect the Vogon's when they show up?
And the Polynesians that colonized half the planet's surface (the Pacific Basin) and the original Native Americans who colonized North and South America. Can't forget them.
Perhaps the SEP (Somebody Else's Problem) field's power source is failing.
If the /. community provides any indication, good grammar checkers wouldn't be used even if they existed. Spell checkers work very well and no one seems to pay them any heed.
The fact that the Pentagon is driving this says much about our personal and political leadership. The military should worry about defending the country and the politicians should worry about education, business, politics, etc so the military has a qualified pool of potential resources, be they people, chemicals, metals, whatever they may need. When the military has to step in and do the job of the parents and politicians for their HR pool, many someones are screwing up royally somewhere.
My complaint is non-COMPLIANT English.