And they also ignore that unless you keep your entire savings under your mattress, you probably have your money invested in something else, you're not affected by inflation.
Here in the UK the current Bank of England rate is 0.5% & inflation is between 3 & 4% so money in current accounts and even money in many savings accounts is affected by inflation. You have to be really a savvy or lucky saver to beat it at the moment.
Not only that, but a large part (perhaps a majority) of the UK population have little or no savings, so combined with our current austerity measures (i.e. pay freezes, cuts, VAT increase etc.) inflation has had an impact on people's purchasing power - they feel poorer, even if technically they're not.
Whilst people here aren't quite as crazy (at least in public) as some of the stuff I've heard from the US, they certainly don't like inflation.
But there is nothing stopping a bunch of regular joes from throwing a couple bucks into a pool to raise that much money together.
If any of my favorite authors put a book out like that, I'd throw $5 or $10 into the pot to get it "released".
We would need someone to administer a scheme like that - maybe they could find new authors that we might like & they might also have to do some promotion to get enough people interested in some books. What could we call those people? "Publishers" sounds like a good name for them...
actually if you bought it from a UK retail outlet (PC World for example) and say you installed Linux instead of the provided OS they WILL tell you that your hardware warranty is no longer valid, or at least that's what they were telling people 2-3 years ago before there was some public outcry about it.
Just because that was what they were telling you doesn't make it true.
All of these description are pulled from this site. Of course, I replaced signs of the zodiac with races, religions, or ethnicities. My point is that astrology will not destroy the world, but it is a nonsensical way of categorizing and stereotyping people.
I don't believe in the BS myself, but I just wanted to point out that Indian horoscopes are more nuanced than that - they don't arbitrarily divide the human race into twelve groups, instead holy men extort money from you by making shit up supposedly based on the exact date, time and location of your birth. It's a very 'personalised' reading, more akin to things like cold reading than western astrology. Disclaimer: I'm of Indian ethnic origin myself (born and brought up in the UK though).
Then when they graduate they find out that they're competing against folks who will accept take home pay that they could exceed being a school teacher! (One of the most underpaid jobs in America BTW.) If you're a lucky enough American to land a good job in the field out of college, you'll see the other side-effect of these folks... depressed wages.
1) This is what's classically known as free market capitalism. Something you* Americans are famous for trying to spread; if you want a protectionist economy, you really shouldn't demonise it's alternatives. Personally, I'm rather fond of this aspect of capitalism; if I want to do the same job as you and am just as capable, it's your tough luck if I'm willing to do it for a lower wage. However, good luck in trying to spread social democracy amongst the American people, I don't think you'll get far in a country where 'socialist' is an insult though.
2)Your country should pay teachers more, if they really are one of the lowest paid professions, they should be paid a lot more. Education is important and you want the best and brightest doing it. Here in the UK it's a well respected and reasonably well paid job. The best Head teachers can earn a lot of money and even the average teachers pay is good (raw numbers are skewed upwards due to London weighting, so here's a link to teacher pay grades separating them out rather than an average figure: http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=6000186 )
*Disclaimer - I'm a 2nd\3rd Gen Indian from the UK, born and brought up. Here the Indian stereotype is doctor\lawyer type professions on high wages. Personally, I'm a librarian; a profession taken up for love, not money.
Having a representative body like a Senate already identifies the system of government as a republic.
Not necessarily - modern constitutional monarchies are also representative democracies like the USA, and dictatorships like Egypt can also be republics.
Google has something *far* more important in their portfolio than patents -- a division in Ireland beyond the reach of US antitrust regulation that unilaterally runs their entire US advertising sales operations. If Google decides that Oracle (and its major partners) now has to pay 10 or 100 times as much money to advertise on Google because all discounts (that otherwise apply to everyone else by default) have been revoked for them, well... Oracle won't be advertising on Google, and won't be visible in advertising in any context that relies on Google, adwords, Admobile, or the rest. Competition? Oh, right... Microsoft via Bing. I'm sure they'll roll out the red carpet and welcome Oracle with open arms. Oh, wait... does Oracle have lawsuits against Microsoft, too? Oh dear... I guess they WON'T be advertising online in the US, after all. Well, unless they start buying up ads on adult sites & sponsoring apps through MiKandi...
Still well within reach of EU antitrust regulations though; Oracle also does business in the EU so both are subject to it's rules. If Google did what you suggest, Oracle would complain to the EU and you'd have the odd situation of two large US companies battling it out in European courts.
Seriously, our ability to survive on Mars is roughly comparable to being able to establish a base of operations in the Caribbean at the period of time when Columbus was able to set sail for there.
If anything, it's better - at least Mars is quite well mapped now.
You mean after paying £3700/year for the NHS (average cost per taxpayer), which you have no choice but to pay, you can pay for the private insurance as well? How nice. My completely private insurance in the US costs about half of that and I get much better care, non-existent waiting times, and no rationing of drugs I might need based on decisions of a government committee. NICE denies hundreds of important drugs, including latest cancer treatments, based purely on cost.
Don't fool yourself; the UK spends less per capita* than the USA. Your insurance is also on top of government spend. We get the NHS for our money, what does your government spend it's health budget on?
Is it as good as a system where a 15yr old can have temporal lobe brain surgery from some of the best neurosurgeons in the world? I got that more than a decade ago at Great Ormond St. Hospital. for my epilepsy. Your private insurance would probably count that as a "pre-existing condition". Do you think they would have paid for he operation? What if the operation didn't cure the epilepsy after your parents were forced to re-mortgage to pay for it because the insurance wouldn't? That's the real state of US health care. I'll stick with the NHS, thanks.
If your life costs the taxpayer more than £44K per year or whatever the amount is today as decided by NICE you are left to die for the good of the collective.
BS. NICE only issue guidelines, and if you really disagree with them, you have the option to get private treatment (e.g. from Bupa) who will give you access to treatment regardless of NICE as they are not part of the NHS.
I believe this is not entirely correct. There are a thousand or so languages/dialect spoken in India, and most of them are completely indistinguishable from each other - even in written form.
Wrong. Let's take major North Indian languages closely related to Hindi as my first examples 1)Punjabi - Sounds a lot like Hindi, but written in a totally different alphabet. 2)Gujarati - Sounds totally different to Hindi, but uses only a slight variant of the Hindi alphabet (Devanagari). South Indian languages come from a totally different branch of the language tree
You're mostly right, the main reason you can't get away with speaking English to the average working Indian is largely to do with India's literacy rate; having said that English is more popular as a second language in parts of South India than Hindi, a big reason for this being that North Indian languages are etymoligcally (sp?) close to Hindi whereas South Indian ones are miles away. Having said that, even among the literate middle classes - people who learnt English at school - there's the problem of lack of use. Few people need to regularly use English when Punjabi\Gujrati etc. will do, so naturally struggle when called upon to use it. Personally, I have the reverse problem, being born and brought up in England, I fully understand spoken Hindi & Punjabi but struggle to speak them without my Hampshire accent and have totally forgotten how to read them.
The placebo affect comes from thinking that you are taking medication.
Did you even read the title, let alone the summary or TFA? If not, here it is for your convenience: "Placebos Work -- Even Without Deception" - I think that's a hint that they might work even when you know you're taking them.
So? Money is going into developer's hands. If you want a demo, that's one way to do it.
They've solved the problem with bundle 2 anyway - you can choose to give more money once they've sent you the download link. I paid $10 straight away (after the first bundle, I was sure I'd like at least one of these; also some went to charity) - I've already upped it to $20 for the whole bundle after starting the first game (Braid). As, once charity donations are taken into account, that's less than $4 per game - I may well up it again if I really like one of the others.
"no background or literature review, please revise. Please consider the tone of your paper." The fact that research is original does not guarantee publication.
They weren't guaranteed publication; from the wired article:
Getting the paper published was a struggle as well. In particular, several journals got stuck on the fact that the paper doesn’t cite any references.
However, I'm inclined to agree with the justification given in the paper abstract:
including references in this instance would be disingenuous for two reasons. First, given the way scientific data are naturally reported, the relevant information is simply inaccessible to the literate ability of 8- to 10-year-old children, and second, the true motivation for any scientific study (at least one of integrity) is one's own curiousity, which for the children was not inspired by the scientific literature, but their own observations of the world. This lack of historical, scientific context does not diminish the resulting data, scientific methodology or merit of the discovery for the scientific and ‘non-scientific’ audience. On the contrary, it reveals science in its truest (most naive) form,
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And they also ignore that unless you keep your entire savings under your mattress, you probably have your money invested in something else, you're not affected by inflation.
Here in the UK the current Bank of England rate is 0.5% & inflation is between 3 & 4% so money in current accounts and even money in many savings accounts is affected by inflation. You have to be really a savvy or lucky saver to beat it at the moment.
Not only that, but a large part (perhaps a majority) of the UK population have little or no savings, so combined with our current austerity measures (i.e. pay freezes, cuts, VAT increase etc.) inflation has had an impact on people's purchasing power - they feel poorer, even if technically they're not.
Whilst people here aren't quite as crazy (at least in public) as some of the stuff I've heard from the US, they certainly don't like inflation.
Yes, really: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NatWest_Three#Extradition_controversy
But there is nothing stopping a bunch of regular joes from throwing a couple bucks into a pool to raise that much money together.
If any of my favorite authors put a book out like that, I'd throw $5 or $10 into the pot to get it "released".
We would need someone to administer a scheme like that - maybe they could find new authors that we might like & they might also have to do some promotion to get enough people interested in some books. What could we call those people? "Publishers" sounds like a good name for them...
that's the total in the linked article as well - the /. headline is wrong.
actually if you bought it from a UK retail outlet (PC World for example) and say you installed Linux instead of the provided OS they WILL tell you that your hardware warranty is no longer valid, or at least that's what they were telling people 2-3 years ago before there was some public outcry about it.
Just because that was what they were telling you doesn't make it true.
It is intended to answer the question of how life came to exist,
Nope, that's abiogenesis - a different branch of biology altogether.
All of these description are pulled from this site. Of course, I replaced signs of the zodiac with races, religions, or ethnicities. My point is that astrology will not destroy the world, but it is a nonsensical way of categorizing and stereotyping people.
I don't believe in the BS myself, but I just wanted to point out that Indian horoscopes are more nuanced than that - they don't arbitrarily divide the human race into twelve groups, instead holy men extort money from you by making shit up supposedly based on the exact date, time and location of your birth. It's a very 'personalised' reading, more akin to things like cold reading than western astrology. Disclaimer: I'm of Indian ethnic origin myself (born and brought up in the UK though).
Then when they graduate they find out that they're competing against folks who will accept take home pay that they could exceed being a school teacher! (One of the most underpaid jobs in America BTW.) If you're a lucky enough American to land a good job in the field out of college, you'll see the other side-effect of these folks ... depressed wages.
1) This is what's classically known as free market capitalism. Something you* Americans are famous for trying to spread; if you want a protectionist economy, you really shouldn't demonise it's alternatives. Personally, I'm rather fond of this aspect of capitalism; if I want to do the same job as you and am just as capable, it's your tough luck if I'm willing to do it for a lower wage. However, good luck in trying to spread social democracy amongst the American people, I don't think you'll get far in a country where 'socialist' is an insult though.
2)Your country should pay teachers more, if they really are one of the lowest paid professions, they should be paid a lot more. Education is important and you want the best and brightest doing it. Here in the UK it's a well respected and reasonably well paid job. The best Head teachers can earn a lot of money and even the average teachers pay is good (raw numbers are skewed upwards due to London weighting, so here's a link to teacher pay grades separating them out rather than an average figure: http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=6000186 )
*Disclaimer - I'm a 2nd\3rd Gen Indian from the UK, born and brought up. Here the Indian stereotype is doctor\lawyer type professions on high wages. Personally, I'm a librarian; a profession taken up for love, not money.
Having a representative body like a Senate already identifies the system of government as a republic.
Not necessarily - modern constitutional monarchies are also representative democracies like the USA, and dictatorships like Egypt can also be republics.
Qatar - I remember that place. Too bad that nobody came to help when it was annexed by Iraq.
I think that you're mixing Qatar with Kuwait
So... does this mean things like NoScript automatically prevent the issue?
Yep - all his proof of concepts needed javascript turned on for his domain.
Google has something *far* more important in their portfolio than patents -- a division in Ireland beyond the reach of US antitrust regulation that unilaterally runs their entire US advertising sales operations. If Google decides that Oracle (and its major partners) now has to pay 10 or 100 times as much money to advertise on Google because all discounts (that otherwise apply to everyone else by default) have been revoked for them, well... Oracle won't be advertising on Google, and won't be visible in advertising in any context that relies on Google, adwords, Admobile, or the rest. Competition? Oh, right... Microsoft via Bing. I'm sure they'll roll out the red carpet and welcome Oracle with open arms. Oh, wait... does Oracle have lawsuits against Microsoft, too? Oh dear... I guess they WON'T be advertising online in the US, after all. Well, unless they start buying up ads on adult sites & sponsoring apps through MiKandi...
Still well within reach of EU antitrust regulations though; Oracle also does business in the EU so both are subject to it's rules. If Google did what you suggest, Oracle would complain to the EU and you'd have the odd situation of two large US companies battling it out in European courts.
no sane manufacturer is going to start mass producing self-driving vehicles of any form.
leaving a gap in the market for the insane ones? ;p
There are places not requiring it. But generally speaking, you'd prefer to avoid them. Voluntarily.
Which ones? Would they let me move there if I wanted to or would they consider me as a trespasser?
I hear Somalia is nice this time of year...
Seriously, our ability to survive on Mars is roughly comparable to being able to establish a base of operations in the Caribbean at the period of time when Columbus was able to set sail for there.
If anything, it's better - at least Mars is quite well mapped now.
You mean after paying £3700/year for the NHS (average cost per taxpayer), which you have no choice but to pay, you can pay for the private insurance as well? How nice. My completely private insurance in the US costs about half of that and I get much better care, non-existent waiting times, and no rationing of drugs I might need based on decisions of a government committee. NICE denies hundreds of important drugs, including latest cancer treatments, based purely on cost.
Don't fool yourself; the UK spends less per capita* than the USA. Your insurance is also on top of government spend. We get the NHS for our money, what does your government spend it's health budget on?
Is it as good as a system where a 15yr old can have temporal lobe brain surgery from some of the best neurosurgeons in the world? I got that more than a decade ago at Great Ormond St. Hospital. for my epilepsy. Your private insurance would probably count that as a "pre-existing condition". Do you think they would have paid for he operation? What if the operation didn't cure the epilepsy after your parents were forced to re-mortgage to pay for it because the insurance wouldn't? That's the real state of US health care. I'll stick with the NHS, thanks.
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Total_health_expenditure_per_capita,_US_Dollars_PPP.png
If your life costs the taxpayer more than £44K per year or whatever the amount is today as decided by NICE you are left to die for the good of the collective.
BS. NICE only issue guidelines, and if you really disagree with them, you have the option to get private treatment (e.g. from Bupa) who will give you access to treatment regardless of NICE as they are not part of the NHS.
Rule 0: don't allow stupid people near important data.
Rule -1: Don't allow stupid people.
I believe this is not entirely correct. There are a thousand or so languages/dialect spoken in India, and most of them are completely indistinguishable from each other - even in written form.
Wrong. Let's take major North Indian languages closely related to Hindi as my first examples 1)Punjabi - Sounds a lot like Hindi, but written in a totally different alphabet. 2)Gujarati - Sounds totally different to Hindi, but uses only a slight variant of the Hindi alphabet (Devanagari).
South Indian languages come from a totally different branch of the language tree
You're mostly right, the main reason you can't get away with speaking English to the average working Indian is largely to do with India's literacy rate; having said that English is more popular as a second language in parts of South India than Hindi, a big reason for this being that North Indian languages are etymoligcally (sp?) close to Hindi whereas South Indian ones are miles away. Having said that, even among the literate middle classes - people who learnt English at school - there's the problem of lack of use. Few people need to regularly use English when Punjabi\Gujrati etc. will do, so naturally struggle when called upon to use it. Personally, I have the reverse problem, being born and brought up in England, I fully understand spoken Hindi & Punjabi but struggle to speak them without my Hampshire accent and have totally forgotten how to read them.
Isn't it time we start ignoring people who don't make any sense.
Ideally, yes. Unfortunately, they are allowed to vote, so that the people who *do* listen to them can get elected.
The placebo affect comes from thinking that you are taking medication.
Did you even read the title, let alone the summary or TFA? If not, here it is for your convenience: "Placebos Work -- Even Without Deception" - I think that's a hint that they might work even when you know you're taking them.
So? Money is going into developer's hands. If you want a demo, that's one way to do it.
They've solved the problem with bundle 2 anyway - you can choose to give more money once they've sent you the download link. I paid $10 straight away (after the first bundle, I was sure I'd like at least one of these; also some went to charity) - I've already upped it to $20 for the whole bundle after starting the first game (Braid). As, once charity donations are taken into account, that's less than $4 per game - I may well up it again if I really like one of the others.
Peer reviewed? So then, it was reviewed by 8 year olds? How hard is that?
No, it was reviewed by other Biologists - like it or not, these kids are now published biologists. Age has nothing to do with it.
"no background or literature review, please revise. Please consider the tone of your paper." The fact that research is original does not guarantee publication.
They weren't guaranteed publication; from the wired article:
Getting the paper published was a struggle as well. In particular, several journals got stuck on the fact that the paper doesn’t cite any references.
However, I'm inclined to agree with the justification given in the paper abstract:
including references in this instance would be disingenuous for two reasons. First, given the way scientific data are naturally reported, the relevant information is simply inaccessible to the literate ability of 8- to 10-year-old children, and second, the true motivation for any scientific study (at least one of integrity) is one's own curiousity, which for the children was not inspired by the scientific literature, but their own observations of the world. This lack of historical, scientific context does not diminish the resulting data, scientific methodology or merit of the discovery for the scientific and ‘non-scientific’ audience. On the contrary, it reveals science in its truest (most naive) form,
and see no reason for denying publication.