The cited study shows nothing material. All religions are designed to make the common man accept that they should be humble and accept their position in life, so the rich can stay rich. I've no idea if there is a creator spirit or god, and have no interest in worshipping one even if there was. The concept is repugnant to me. But I will tell you this for 100% sure: every religion is a man-made thing designed to benefit one social group above a majority. If you don't believe this to be the case, ask yourself why none of the major deist religions encourage solo worship, instead preferring to herd their flocks together.
I don't understand your point about people dumping on religion. Shouldn't you just humbly accept that's how things are going to be and get on with it? Gods don't like it when you start going around expressing unapproved opinions. Bow your head, son, and whisper a little prayer of thanks. You did say that'd make you a better person, didn't you?
I prefer to keep my head unbowed, so I can look around me and see what's going on. I think that's the best way to be. You may not find that to be a very humble opinion and it isn't. It's my opinion and it's just plain better that yours.
I doubt that keeping a journal "strengthened their overall resilience and (made them) became less vulnerable to everyday stresses and complaints like rashes and headaches" - in fact I doubt there was any physical effect whatsoever. Any positive results will be down to carefully worded questions framed to elicit a desired response. If anything this is testimony to the effectiveness of research, most notably in the softer "sciences", in being able to achieve whatever results you feel biased towards.
Ask these self-same campus community member to keep their on-line journals for three months. Note the results in an unbiased manner. Leave them alone for a year then kill and dissect them in order to conduct a real scientific investigation. I guarantee none of them will have maintained their auras of optimism.
Telling me they were going to audit me under their Software Asset Management scheme.
I use the bare minimum amount of MS software where I work because it has built in redundancy. If you buy Microsoft Office 2010 chances are it won't open files created with the next version. Libre and Open Office don't seem to share that failing in Microsoft's product. That's why I use them - and I pretty much use them interchangeably because my peeps aren't particularly sophisticated users (nor am I).
So, having MS send me a letter basically accusing me of stealing because I don't use Outlook, Exchange, Office or whatever else they peddle, is pretty annoying. Why would I want to let myself get tangled up in that system?
Ironically, we're coming to end of life with our current accounting software (Sage Line 100) and are due an across the board refresh of the entire system. I was THIS close to buying into Outlook and Exchange and a limited deployment of MS Office because it integrates better (at all) with Sage Line 200 but that letter was a kick in the nuts. I am adamantly opposed to giving them money if that's how they treat customers - and I AM a customer. I've spent some proportion of my tech budget on their OS software, including the bare minimum server OS software to host our Sage installation. I must stress if I could go Linux I would but our accounting software, and in fact no accounting software that I can get local support for runs on anything but Microsoft OS's as clients and more importantly on the server side. There ARE web-based alternatives but they're clunky as hell, expensive and obviously vulnerable to downtime if t'internet goes down,
I'm not a tech guy, I'm an interested in tech guy. IT isn't my job, it's just one of the things I do here. Again, I don't have sophisticated users. Incredibly in a company with thirty people under the roof I am, at nearly fifty, the only geek. What can I say. We get our hands dirty, but Microsoft Office? Not THAT dirty.
Nope. It is hundreds. You can be arrested for sending a threatening text and there are, literally, hundreds and probably thousands of cases like that which have to be investigated each year. Is it always warranted? If we were a dispassionate race of aliens who could look at a result and weigh up the statistics that are behind it then sure, you'd say don't waste police time on threatening texts sent at half two on a Saturday night. But if someone gets hurt afterwards there's a witch-hunt so these things have to be investigated or the police are vilified and everyone asks why nothing was done. That's the system. No Chief Inspector is going to say, "Well, 99% of the time nothing comes of it and we can save millions of quid every year by just ignoring it." Mainly because a Chief Inspector would never say "quid".
And um, to add something, it's probably easier to train fresh engineers who haven't developed bad habits, than to hire expensive production engineers with experience. Undoubtedly the Chinese have a lot of experience in manufacturing, but it's not as if the West has been reduced to grubbing in the dirt with sticks - there's still a LOT of manufacturing going on in the US and elsewhere outside of China. If anything the Chinese are going to have to adapt to a whole bunch of new or different legislation and an entirely different breed of corrupt local official.
Christmas lights tend to be cheap and nasty, ie inefficient, and don't do much but glow. Unless you're planning on organizing trash bags full of them, a few compact fluorescent lights will be a better bet. I've grown chili peppers and herbs in rooms devoid of sunlight with great results. I prefer to use the "natural light" bulbs but as has been discussed, blue spectrum for growth, red spectrum for flowering - though this is really only important when you have a greenhouse full of pot and you're using sodium lighting I suspect. White light CFLs for out of season chilies and such are fine.
Shhh, noob. The world has changed a lot since then. We're all living under the ocean, eating meat knitted from hair and powering our kindles with shame.
Or kill cripples. Once those darn cripples are taken out of the system, us normals can enjoy our cheap premiums. Oh, and anyone with cancer. Kill the cripples and anyone with cancer. And kids - you any idea how much kids cost in medical insurance? Best drown them at birth. Also child-birth charges. We need to wriggle out of those. Let's remove any leveling mechanism from public health insurance because it's obviously, and clearly a scam. Once only healthy people aged 20-40 need health insurance, then we can finally get a realistic premium.
Suppose someone told you that you could save ten thousand dollars a year buying what you already buy. You'd listen, right? Suppose someone told you that you could avoid paying ten thousand dollars a year. You'd listen, right? Suppose someone said there was no need to pay twenty thousand dollars a year, for what the rest of the world gets for free? Communists, right? Your system is screwed. On the plus side, it only costs twenty thousand dollars a year to figure that out. Get a passport.
http://dx.com/s/hearing+aid
dealextreme is kinda consumer friendly. I haven't bought anything off aliexpress.com but I have bought a lot of very cheap crap off dx.com. Is it an alternative to everything else? Obviously not. Is it an alternative? Yes.
I can't promise that you'll get a custom-fitted, perfect hearing aid off dx.com. But, before you pay $10k for one you should probably browse there to see if it's a generic hunnerd dollah device. If some grubby crooks get outed in the meanwhile, all the better. I'm a capitalist at heart but I want to deliver value to my customers. If I can't do that, then I'd sooner stay in bed.
Some people want these Chinese sites to be secret, or argue that they're "taking jobs". Truth is, they want to protect their sources and charge you old money for new money.
Which is the problem. Obviously I haven't read the article but I highly doubt it is going to persuade Microsoft that they shouldn't copy Apple's, successful and highly profitable, strategy.
I think the major problem here is the inflated role of academic performance. Our society drains the individual of value and reduces him to pieces of paper. What we need is to change society, such that people are judged on their individual merits and not on academic performance.
Reform the educational system, provide alternate routes to good employment. Shutdown the school-prison pipeline.
Absolutely. Now, we need to figure out a way to judge someone on their merits... without paper... and there was that employment thing...
Whoa. This is too hard. Maybe that idea to make more prisons WILL solve the unemployment problem. At least we could try it. Some more.
I expect a bunch of vegans went and "persuaded" the researchers they'd made a little mistake with their research, Tony Soprano style. Then they all had a lie down because that much activity is going to exhaust a vegan.
I've been on the Internet a while. Back when it was the tenner-a-month club. You need to release your anger. Huh, what now? Yeah. You feel anger, then you let it go. It flies up and plugs holes in the ozone. Or rapes angels. Somesuch whatever. When a bad person makes you give in to a bad impulse, only badness wins. Now this may seem alien to you but once you realise that you can be as passive-aggressive sanctimonious as you desire in your forgiveness it opens up whole new avenues of creative vitriol.
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The cited study shows nothing material. All religions are designed to make the common man accept that they should be humble and accept their position in life, so the rich can stay rich. I've no idea if there is a creator spirit or god, and have no interest in worshipping one even if there was. The concept is repugnant to me. But I will tell you this for 100% sure: every religion is a man-made thing designed to benefit one social group above a majority. If you don't believe this to be the case, ask yourself why none of the major deist religions encourage solo worship, instead preferring to herd their flocks together.
I don't understand your point about people dumping on religion. Shouldn't you just humbly accept that's how things are going to be and get on with it? Gods don't like it when you start going around expressing unapproved opinions. Bow your head, son, and whisper a little prayer of thanks. You did say that'd make you a better person, didn't you?
I prefer to keep my head unbowed, so I can look around me and see what's going on. I think that's the best way to be. You may not find that to be a very humble opinion and it isn't. It's my opinion and it's just plain better that yours.
I doubt that keeping a journal "strengthened their overall resilience and (made them) became less vulnerable to everyday stresses and complaints like rashes and headaches" - in fact I doubt there was any physical effect whatsoever. Any positive results will be down to carefully worded questions framed to elicit a desired response. If anything this is testimony to the effectiveness of research, most notably in the softer "sciences", in being able to achieve whatever results you feel biased towards.
Ask these self-same campus community member to keep their on-line journals for three months. Note the results in an unbiased manner. Leave them alone for a year then kill and dissect them in order to conduct a real scientific investigation. I guarantee none of them will have maintained their auras of optimism.
Telling me they were going to audit me under their Software Asset Management scheme.
I use the bare minimum amount of MS software where I work because it has built in redundancy. If you buy Microsoft Office 2010 chances are it won't open files created with the next version. Libre and Open Office don't seem to share that failing in Microsoft's product. That's why I use them - and I pretty much use them interchangeably because my peeps aren't particularly sophisticated users (nor am I).
So, having MS send me a letter basically accusing me of stealing because I don't use Outlook, Exchange, Office or whatever else they peddle, is pretty annoying. Why would I want to let myself get tangled up in that system?
Ironically, we're coming to end of life with our current accounting software (Sage Line 100) and are due an across the board refresh of the entire system. I was THIS close to buying into Outlook and Exchange and a limited deployment of MS Office because it integrates better (at all) with Sage Line 200 but that letter was a kick in the nuts. I am adamantly opposed to giving them money if that's how they treat customers - and I AM a customer. I've spent some proportion of my tech budget on their OS software, including the bare minimum server OS software to host our Sage installation. I must stress if I could go Linux I would but our accounting software, and in fact no accounting software that I can get local support for runs on anything but Microsoft OS's as clients and more importantly on the server side. There ARE web-based alternatives but they're clunky as hell, expensive and obviously vulnerable to downtime if t'internet goes down,
I'm not a tech guy, I'm an interested in tech guy. IT isn't my job, it's just one of the things I do here. Again, I don't have sophisticated users. Incredibly in a company with thirty people under the roof I am, at nearly fifty, the only geek. What can I say. We get our hands dirty, but Microsoft Office? Not THAT dirty.
To summarize the summary: blibble blabble blabble blibble.... fork in the eye!
I don't even see how there could be a conflict. One is an internet company and the other mainly hunts seals and whales for meat.
Nope. It is hundreds. You can be arrested for sending a threatening text and there are, literally, hundreds and probably thousands of cases like that which have to be investigated each year. Is it always warranted? If we were a dispassionate race of aliens who could look at a result and weigh up the statistics that are behind it then sure, you'd say don't waste police time on threatening texts sent at half two on a Saturday night. But if someone gets hurt afterwards there's a witch-hunt so these things have to be investigated or the police are vilified and everyone asks why nothing was done. That's the system. No Chief Inspector is going to say, "Well, 99% of the time nothing comes of it and we can save millions of quid every year by just ignoring it." Mainly because a Chief Inspector would never say "quid".
That would be 2030 and 2040s. I'll need to review these estimates in ten years.
@tsalmark Best comment ever.
And um, to add something, it's probably easier to train fresh engineers who haven't developed bad habits, than to hire expensive production engineers with experience. Undoubtedly the Chinese have a lot of experience in manufacturing, but it's not as if the West has been reduced to grubbing in the dirt with sticks - there's still a LOT of manufacturing going on in the US and elsewhere outside of China. If anything the Chinese are going to have to adapt to a whole bunch of new or different legislation and an entirely different breed of corrupt local official.
where's the joke? How can you put kidding aside when you fail to kid?
What About Bob"
Christmas lights tend to be cheap and nasty, ie inefficient, and don't do much but glow. Unless you're planning on organizing trash bags full of them, a few compact fluorescent lights will be a better bet. I've grown chili peppers and herbs in rooms devoid of sunlight with great results. I prefer to use the "natural light" bulbs but as has been discussed, blue spectrum for growth, red spectrum for flowering - though this is really only important when you have a greenhouse full of pot and you're using sodium lighting I suspect. White light CFLs for out of season chilies and such are fine.
Trust me, a thousand people have already incorporated the idea into their NaNoWriMo plots.
And the real point is that these news sites don't want you to find the news even on their own sites, they want you to buy a newspaper.
Shhh, noob. The world has changed a lot since then. We're all living under the ocean, eating meat knitted from hair and powering our kindles with shame.
I want to buy hearing aid bonds.
Or kill cripples. Once those darn cripples are taken out of the system, us normals can enjoy our cheap premiums. Oh, and anyone with cancer. Kill the cripples and anyone with cancer. And kids - you any idea how much kids cost in medical insurance? Best drown them at birth. Also child-birth charges. We need to wriggle out of those. Let's remove any leveling mechanism from public health insurance because it's obviously, and clearly a scam. Once only healthy people aged 20-40 need health insurance, then we can finally get a realistic premium.
Suppose someone told you that you could save ten thousand dollars a year buying what you already buy. You'd listen, right? Suppose someone told you that you could avoid paying ten thousand dollars a year. You'd listen, right? Suppose someone said there was no need to pay twenty thousand dollars a year, for what the rest of the world gets for free? Communists, right? Your system is screwed. On the plus side, it only costs twenty thousand dollars a year to figure that out. Get a passport.
http://dx.com/s/hearing+aid dealextreme is kinda consumer friendly. I haven't bought anything off aliexpress.com but I have bought a lot of very cheap crap off dx.com. Is it an alternative to everything else? Obviously not. Is it an alternative? Yes.
I can't promise that you'll get a custom-fitted, perfect hearing aid off dx.com. But, before you pay $10k for one you should probably browse there to see if it's a generic hunnerd dollah device. If some grubby crooks get outed in the meanwhile, all the better. I'm a capitalist at heart but I want to deliver value to my customers. If I can't do that, then I'd sooner stay in bed.
Some people want these Chinese sites to be secret, or argue that they're "taking jobs". Truth is, they want to protect their sources and charge you old money for new money.
Man oh man, those wacky newspapers are at it again, doing their newspaper thing. Wow, somebody should newspaper them!
Ok... what's a newspaper exactly?
Which is the problem. Obviously I haven't read the article but I highly doubt it is going to persuade Microsoft that they shouldn't copy Apple's, successful and highly profitable, strategy.
I think the major problem here is the inflated role of academic performance. Our society drains the individual of value and reduces him to pieces of paper. What we need is to change society, such that people are judged on their individual merits and not on academic performance.
Reform the educational system, provide alternate routes to good employment. Shutdown the school-prison pipeline.
Absolutely. Now, we need to figure out a way to judge someone on their merits... without paper... and there was that employment thing... Whoa. This is too hard. Maybe that idea to make more prisons WILL solve the unemployment problem. At least we could try it. Some more.
Story, story, blah blah blah. Nurse Ratched was evil/good Winn from DS9 and Frank's mother from Shameless? I just.. I...
I know, i was cringing, they guy also seems like a bit of a prick. The girl does seems more knowledgeable and alot better composed.
Sadly that's how Tech reporting works. They feel the need to have a bald man in glasses presenting, as eye-candy for the geeks. Sex sells.
I expect a bunch of vegans went and "persuaded" the researchers they'd made a little mistake with their research, Tony Soprano style. Then they all had a lie down because that much activity is going to exhaust a vegan.
I've been on the Internet a while. Back when it was the tenner-a-month club. You need to release your anger. Huh, what now? Yeah. You feel anger, then you let it go. It flies up and plugs holes in the ozone. Or rapes angels. Somesuch whatever. When a bad person makes you give in to a bad impulse, only badness wins. Now this may seem alien to you but once you realise that you can be as passive-aggressive sanctimonious as you desire in your forgiveness it opens up whole new avenues of creative vitriol.
N and X and Y and Z and A and B? Slow down Captain Alphabet, we're not all mathemagicians.