I don't have a source, but I've been told that stress chemicals released before slaughter will make meat taste worse. This was given as a reason why meat from small farms often tastes better; in a slaughterhouse the animal is in a stressful environment full of the smell dead relatives; from a small farm the animal was probably killed by a familiar handler in a relatively normal environment.
Ah, I liked the Netherlands. Only problem I had with language was when I said 'hello' to someone, they thought I was speaking Dutch;)
I would guess your attention from UK recruiters, and possibly your hirability, are due to their staggering abuse of keyword searching. I had a recruiter refuse my cv.pdf explicitly because their candidate database only indexes word documents. If you have a cv posted somewhere with nice keywords like 'ASP.NET 7 years commercial' (my condolances if you do) you probably catch a lot of searches regardless of anything else in there.
That's a good tip about the blogging. I'm employed out of the tech field at the moment, and my Google presence is weak. Obviously a tech blog isn't a quick fix but it would be a good way to expose my abilities which aren't tied to a job description.
What's your country? Canada? Anyway, I've been looking for programming work in the UK for 18 months, and the job market was shot to hell. It's been picking up for the last six months or so, but before that there were no entry or low level jobs. There were still plenty companies looking urgently for a guru in $technology to singlehandedly save their dying project (could be your level) but the whole sector was on a hiring freeze for any employee they couldn't make a detailed business case for.
I get the feeling it's picking up now and the graduates with impeccable academic records can get work in random 'need a geek' positions; there's still a glut of generic untapped potential though which will take a while to get soaked back into employment.
You're (sic) healthcare is up to the whims of a politician.
And it's fantastic! Healthcare is a major election issue. Politicians are spineless attention seekers who will do anything to get elected. You can't get elected on a platform of reducing healthcare, and every election cycle the opposition parties pick apart the performance of the health system and loudly promise to improve it. Then whoever is elected sets the health budget at the lowest they think they can get away with and lets the doctors get on with it. The doctors routinely overspend because they won't refuse necessary treatment, and then the new opposition parties complain about the budget shortfall and any shortcomings at the next election.
The system is very focused on the best outcome for the lowest cost which is a much better climate for preventative medicine.
Compare that to private health insurance, where a bean counter will approve as little care as will keep them from getting sued, and I'll take it any day.
Evolution says the species that adapt to change easier than others will survive.
Evolution doesn't say much. Adaptability is only an advantage if there's some change to adapt to. In a relatively static environment evolution will usually select for hard wired behaviour because it's cheaper than adaptability. How a species evolves just depends on the error function it's being selected against.
Humans seem to be a freakish niche species that managed to make ridiculous levels of intelligence and adaptability work.
The words you're looking for are 'adapted' or 'specialized'. It's not clear what a quantity of evolution would measure, but if anything I think it would measure relative genetic distance from a common ancestor.
It's an improvement for accuracy, but the French are still bitter about the loss of prestige for them. The Buttload used to be defined by a huge platinum-iridium butt in Paris.
...much of the Earth's surface is constantly subducted and renewed at plate boundaries, much of the fossil record of very early times is lost - and there has been speculation that the best place to find fossils of very early life on earth is on meteorite fragments on the surface of the moon.
I've never heard of plate subduction being a problem for fossils, although I could be wrong. Plates are subducted very slowly, even on a geological timescale. I understand the problem to be that you need very specific conditions to form fossils in the first place.
With regard to fossils being ejected to the moon... I can't see that happening. Assume that the ejected matter is from a random point on the earth's surface. How many fossils would there be in a ton of random earth crust? That's even assuming the rock wasn't liquified by whatever ejected it in the first place.
Drunk driving is a big deal! Cite from a random google:
In 2007, 37 percent of [USA] road fatalities involved alcohol consumption by one of the drivers. This percentage has decreased significantly from 60 percent in 1982, but still accounts for more than a third of all traffic fatalities.
Although you are correct that the drunk driving rate is dropping, it's still a huge killer.
Just from interest... When I buy things online I'm always (possibly unduly) worried about receiving stolen goods and promoting petty crime. When I see an ad for shrinkwrapped goods I assume the seller nicked them from the store where they work. My experience of record stores is that they would do as you; replace the 3c plastic case and carry on.
I don't mean to sound accusatory, just wondering if other people think the same way I do.
In other news, isn't it funny how many people lose the charger for their iPod/PSP then try and sell them online?
I used to have a summer job working for enrollments at my university. Every year we'd send out a bunch of enrollment packs to all the students which they could mail back or just deliver to the university before classes started for the next semester. After the main enrollment period one of our other menial tasks was to gut all the returned mail and reclaim the printed materials (such as the fairly weighty book listing all the offered courses). There were always a few geniuses whose enrollment was delayed because they filled in the forms and stuck them back in the envelope with "return to sender" on the outside. It's a neat trick AS LONG AS THE RECIPIENT EXPECTS IT.
I always wanted to look up their results and confirm my suspicions about their grades. Curse my professionalism and respect for privacy:(
Trying to take a dispassionate stance, I'm encouraged by the emerging 'stock exchange'. It means the local economy is stable enough and trustworthy enough to support investment. Now if only we can change the profit calculations to favour, say, fishing Somali waters instead of piracy, they could keep the local investment infrastructure but make money off something that won't cause international incidents.
One minor clarification to your post is that you don't vote for a party, it only seems that way because the parties hand out "how to vote" leaflets and most people simply copy their favorite party's recommendations.
I'm not sure what you mean there; in New Zealand under the MMP system we specifically vote for a party to run the country. We also have a separate vote for our local representative which need not correlate with the party vote.
The size of parliament can vary from term to term due to a difference between the number of MPs a party is allocated based on party votes and the number of MPs who have the right to sit in parliament because they won their electorate vote.
Can you elaborate or provide a reference re: radiation poisoning? I don't know much about it, but I thought that the kind of radiation would make a big difference as to what a dose would do to you - gamma ranging from sunburn at low doses to crispy fried at high (which matches your statement), but alpha or maybe beta emitters being ingested would cause cancerous mutation roughly in proportion to how much you swallow (sucks to be an unpopular Russian.)
Hell, I'd be very surprised if any serious politician didn't have a passing acquaintance with The Prince - the same way I expect any Philosophy major to have read some Ayn Rand. You might not agree with the content, but you should know what is in it so you won't be laughed at.
Raw tuna's pretty fab actually and definitely worth a sample, but I wouldn't be surprised if you're not getting it in your local sushi. Raw tuna, raw or smoked salmon and eel are where I jump to on a sushi menu. It should be a deep red colour like red wine, not can brown.
I use my phone instead of a wristwatch because, many years ago, I realised that a watch was fueling my latent obsessive-compulsive tendencies. I was constantly checking the time when I wasn't actively engaged in another task. I gave it up cold turkey and became much calmer once I knew the time as "I need to be somewhere in about half an hour". The modern world is full of ways to find out the time except for places like casinos which deliberately want you to lose track of the time. Plenty of opportunities to keep synchronised to the nearest half hour, and if you don't have an appointment wouldn't it be better for your blood pressure to lose track of the time when you're engaged in something?
Fishing my cell phone out of my pocket is just inconvenient enough that I haven't got hooked on knowing the time again.
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That they make a reasonable prediction based on past experience?
I don't have a source, but I've been told that stress chemicals released before slaughter will make meat taste worse. This was given as a reason why meat from small farms often tastes better; in a slaughterhouse the animal is in a stressful environment full of the smell dead relatives; from a small farm the animal was probably killed by a familiar handler in a relatively normal environment.
Ah, I liked the Netherlands. Only problem I had with language was when I said 'hello' to someone, they thought I was speaking Dutch ;)
I would guess your attention from UK recruiters, and possibly your hirability, are due to their staggering abuse of keyword searching. I had a recruiter refuse my cv.pdf explicitly because their candidate database only indexes word documents. If you have a cv posted somewhere with nice keywords like 'ASP.NET 7 years commercial' (my condolances if you do) you probably catch a lot of searches regardless of anything else in there.
That's a good tip about the blogging. I'm employed out of the tech field at the moment, and my Google presence is weak. Obviously a tech blog isn't a quick fix but it would be a good way to expose my abilities which aren't tied to a job description.
If it makes you feel better, I'm an atheist from New Zealand.
What's your country? Canada? Anyway, I've been looking for programming work in the UK for 18 months, and the job market was shot to hell. It's been picking up for the last six months or so, but before that there were no entry or low level jobs. There were still plenty companies looking urgently for a guru in $technology to singlehandedly save their dying project (could be your level) but the whole sector was on a hiring freeze for any employee they couldn't make a detailed business case for.
I get the feeling it's picking up now and the graduates with impeccable academic records can get work in random 'need a geek' positions; there's still a glut of generic untapped potential though which will take a while to get soaked back into employment.
And it's fantastic! Healthcare is a major election issue. Politicians are spineless attention seekers who will do anything to get elected. You can't get elected on a platform of reducing healthcare, and every election cycle the opposition parties pick apart the performance of the health system and loudly promise to improve it. Then whoever is elected sets the health budget at the lowest they think they can get away with and lets the doctors get on with it. The doctors routinely overspend because they won't refuse necessary treatment, and then the new opposition parties complain about the budget shortfall and any shortcomings at the next election.
The system is very focused on the best outcome for the lowest cost which is a much better climate for preventative medicine.
Compare that to private health insurance, where a bean counter will approve as little care as will keep them from getting sued, and I'll take it any day.
Evolution doesn't say much. Adaptability is only an advantage if there's some change to adapt to. In a relatively static environment evolution will usually select for hard wired behaviour because it's cheaper than adaptability. How a species evolves just depends on the error function it's being selected against.
Humans seem to be a freakish niche species that managed to make ridiculous levels of intelligence and adaptability work.
The words you're looking for are 'adapted' or 'specialized'. It's not clear what a quantity of evolution would measure, but if anything I think it would measure relative genetic distance from a common ancestor.
For God's sake, fixed that for you. In this of all statements.
For those in the UK, it is available on BBC iPlayer until January 2. linky.
It's an improvement for accuracy, but the French are still bitter about the loss of prestige for them. The Buttload used to be defined by a huge platinum-iridium butt in Paris.
I've never heard of plate subduction being a problem for fossils, although I could be wrong. Plates are subducted very slowly, even on a geological timescale. I understand the problem to be that you need very specific conditions to form fossils in the first place.
With regard to fossils being ejected to the moon... I can't see that happening. Assume that the ejected matter is from a random point on the earth's surface. How many fossils would there be in a ton of random earth crust? That's even assuming the rock wasn't liquified by whatever ejected it in the first place.
Drunk driving is a big deal! Cite from a random google:
Although you are correct that the drunk driving rate is dropping, it's still a huge killer.
Just from interest... When I buy things online I'm always (possibly unduly) worried about receiving stolen goods and promoting petty crime. When I see an ad for shrinkwrapped goods I assume the seller nicked them from the store where they work. My experience of record stores is that they would do as you; replace the 3c plastic case and carry on.
I don't mean to sound accusatory, just wondering if other people think the same way I do.
In other news, isn't it funny how many people lose the charger for their iPod/PSP then try and sell them online?
I used to have a summer job working for enrollments at my university. Every year we'd send out a bunch of enrollment packs to all the students which they could mail back or just deliver to the university before classes started for the next semester. After the main enrollment period one of our other menial tasks was to gut all the returned mail and reclaim the printed materials (such as the fairly weighty book listing all the offered courses). There were always a few geniuses whose enrollment was delayed because they filled in the forms and stuck them back in the envelope with "return to sender" on the outside. It's a neat trick AS LONG AS THE RECIPIENT EXPECTS IT.
I always wanted to look up their results and confirm my suspicions about their grades. Curse my professionalism and respect for privacy :(
No need to worry about that, once they're in orbit it's all weightless (although still massive).
Trying to take a dispassionate stance, I'm encouraged by the emerging 'stock exchange'. It means the local economy is stable enough and trustworthy enough to support investment. Now if only we can change the profit calculations to favour, say, fishing Somali waters instead of piracy, they could keep the local investment infrastructure but make money off something that won't cause international incidents.
I'm not sure what you mean there; in New Zealand under the MMP system we specifically vote for a party to run the country. We also have a separate vote for our local representative which need not correlate with the party vote.
The size of parliament can vary from term to term due to a difference between the number of MPs a party is allocated based on party votes and the number of MPs who have the right to sit in parliament because they won their electorate vote.
Can you elaborate or provide a reference re: radiation poisoning? I don't know much about it, but I thought that the kind of radiation would make a big difference as to what a dose would do to you - gamma ranging from sunburn at low doses to crispy fried at high (which matches your statement), but alpha or maybe beta emitters being ingested would cause cancerous mutation roughly in proportion to how much you swallow (sucks to be an unpopular Russian.)
Hell, I'd be very surprised if any serious politician didn't have a passing acquaintance with The Prince - the same way I expect any Philosophy major to have read some Ayn Rand. You might not agree with the content, but you should know what is in it so you won't be laughed at.
How dare you insult the intelligence of moderators? I have mod points, and I'm going to mod you down right now!
Why remove even the most obscure places from a database where you won't find them unless you deliberately look?
Then I shall be Fah Q 2!
Raw tuna's pretty fab actually and definitely worth a sample, but I wouldn't be surprised if you're not getting it in your local sushi. Raw tuna, raw or smoked salmon and eel are where I jump to on a sushi menu. It should be a deep red colour like red wine, not can brown.
I use my phone instead of a wristwatch because, many years ago, I realised that a watch was fueling my latent obsessive-compulsive tendencies. I was constantly checking the time when I wasn't actively engaged in another task. I gave it up cold turkey and became much calmer once I knew the time as "I need to be somewhere in about half an hour". The modern world is full of ways to find out the time except for places like casinos which deliberately want you to lose track of the time. Plenty of opportunities to keep synchronised to the nearest half hour, and if you don't have an appointment wouldn't it be better for your blood pressure to lose track of the time when you're engaged in something?
Fishing my cell phone out of my pocket is just inconvenient enough that I haven't got hooked on knowing the time again.