Although the hunting of dolphins is widely condemned in the west, Japanese defend the practice as a local custom...
You know, back in the 1940s, it was local US custom to intern Japanese Americans. Apparently, we don't do that any more...
... and say it is no different to the slaughter of other animals for meat.
Some would argue that killing dolphins (and whales) is more akin to killing humans [ or at least chimps - or Republicans (kidding, Kidding - geesh) ] than other animals killed for their meat, due to their high intelligence. For example, Dolphins don't build nuclear reactors in earthquake and/or tsunami zones.
but let's not pretend that there aren't supervisors and employees out there who can have a meaningful discussion about goals. That question is entirely appropriate in some job interviews, performance reviews, and succession planning-type situations.
Sure, I get that, but many, many times employee evaluations are masturbation exercises meant to make the sheep feel good - especially now, in a down economy, when companies are narrowly focused on being "competitive" - mean they only pay/provide the minimum they think required (regardless of their up earnings and stock performance).
Personally, my job doesn't define me and I don't really have any "goals" except to provide the best quality work that both I can do and that can be done - for personal/professional integrity reasons. I'm now 50, live responsibly and (way) under my means, and have been financially independent for over 10 years for my current and foreseeable future - even w/o a job. I'm not rich, but don't *ever* have to work again. I continue to work because (a) I'd be bored otherwise, (b) my team relies on me, (c) my wife died 8 years ago (on Jan 13) and I haven't figured out what else to do with my life, because *she* was my life.
To each their own. I understand that I am, and my situation is, unusual.
I answered a similar question - What is your desired future position - in the self-evaluation section of an on-line annual employes performance review once and wrote "International Space Station". It remained the pre-filled, default answer for the next five years, before it was removed by someone.
Here's basically what I want in a job: (1a) Sufficient pay, (1b) Flexible hours, (2) Interesting work, (3) Leave me alone. If I have a problem with any of those, I'll let you know. (Been continuously employed since 1987)
- taking the car to the grocery store that's 100 meters from your place is just stupid.
How are you going to get the groceries back home, make 10 trips? I think I'd prefer to drive.
My wife lived in Spain for a year, way back in the day, and said people typically did a small shop every (or every other) day buying a few fresh things they needed for that day or the next few. Here in 'murica, we tend to do big, infrequent shops buying lots of stuff all at once - often pre/packaged stuff, with lots of preservatives.
JPMorgan is buying a one-year extension and will start converting its machines to Windows 7 in July; about 3,000 of its 19,000 ATMs need enhancements before the process can begin...
Um... Start converting 4 months after XP goes EOL? Did they *just* find out about the deadline? And why can't they start upgrading the other 16,000 systems? I'm pretty sure XP and 7 systems can be operated together...got one of each in my office - for testing.
He went out to his car and retrieved his firearm. The question will be asked, if you were concerned for your safety....why did you return to the theater?
According to TFA, he left to get a manager, but returned w/o one.
They state that a 15mph crash can subject the brain to 220G of force wearing a polystyrene helmet. Using the paper helmet, the test units brain-analogue was subjected to a mere 70G of force. This was tested in Europe, where regulations state for a helmet to be approved, the brain may not be subjected to more than 300G of force at 15mph.
Those are metric G forces and won't work in the US.:-)
You don't find many of these kind of posts anymore. Not a single offtopic mention of NSA, Snowden, Assange, Bitcoin, or how stupid one is if they support any political party. I know, they'll show up soon, but at least I can enjoy the moment before I hit the refresh button.
I've been hatching a theory, very loosely based on Godwin's Law, that any thread here that includes either NSA, Snowden, or Bitcoin ultimately will include the other two. The theory hasn't previously include Assange since we haven't heard much about him lately, but I'll consider incorporating him into it if need be.
In this case, your theory is rather prescient. I read somewhere that IA Labs was developing their WiFi controllers in cahoots with the NSA, providing secret back doors and monitoring capabilities for the NSA - so they could monitor and subtly control our gaming behaviors - and that Snowden leaked this information to Assange. Everyone involved was paid in Bitcoins.
Now that we know, this exploit can obviously be circumvented by wrapping the WiFi controllers in tin foil.
Comparing a trip to the Moon to a trip to Mars belies your complete cretinism. Google "distance" and compare that of the Moon to that of Mars.
Except for the part where I said, "(obviously not as ambitious as going to / living on Mars)". I know their respective distances and delta-v budgets; I can read and learned *some* math/physics for my BSCS - way back in 1987. The fact is, since we can *actually* send things to Mars, we *could* send people, if we wanted to.
Space mission faster and more ambitious than NASA financed by reality TV and application fees?
They did manage to get the Moon landing done is fairly short order - in the 1960s - (obviously not as ambitious as going to / living on Mars) but, sadly, present-day NASA is crippled by the fear of people actually dying, LOTS of bureaucracy, politics (internal and external) and Congress. If the Government (meaning "we the People") *really* wanted to be on Mars, we'd be there.
With the slow erosion of the written in stone personal freedoms associated with the Bill of Rights, it is not astonishing an implied freedom is being phased out.
You realize that everything in the Bill of Rights is regarding your relationship with the Government, not corporations or other individuals, right?
There's an free iPhone app to simulate a slit-scan camera. It doesn't take a "$50,000 camera".
Sure, but the actual smartphone camera cannot really compare with a high-end digital SLR or $16,000 Optronis video camera that can capture up to 100,000 frames per second?
His implication is that Obama should have either committed to winning the war, and won it;
I don't think this (or this type of) war can be "won" unless you wage it over geological time frames. How long have people in the Middle East been killing each other because they either can/will not find common-ground or simply agree to disagree and decide to live together peacefully? How long has the cycle revenge and retribution been revolving? (Granted, those questions could be asked of the US Congress.) They all act like fucking children....
That's because, sadly, too many people fall for the "I might be bad, but that person's worse" fallacy.
It might be worse than that. I know many people that let single issues, like gun control, abortion rights and gay marriage, influence their votes to the exclusion of all else. I have one co-worker who almost voted for a Democrat, as they agreed on many economic issues, but couldn't because that candidate also supported abortion rights. Props to him for sticking to his beliefs, but I think it's short sighted and/or narrow-minded.
Capsicum is a genus of flowering plants in the nightshade family Solanaceae. Its species are native to the Americas, where they have been cultivated for thousands of years. In modern times, it is cultivated worldwide, and has become a key element in many regional cuisines. In addition to use as spices and food vegetables, capsicum has also found use in medicines....
The piquant (spicy) variety are commonly called chili peppers, or simply "chilies".
Slashdot Mirror
But I hear they taste like chicken.
Everything tastes like chicken because the Matrix doesn't know any better...
Obligatory XKCD
That has got to be one of the most dead-on appropriate "obligatories" I've seen in a long time.
For sure. Even as a long, long time Emacs user, I didn't know you could program it for that.
Although the hunting of dolphins is widely condemned in the west, Japanese defend the practice as a local custom ...
You know, back in the 1940s, it was local US custom to intern Japanese Americans. Apparently, we don't do that any more...
... and say it is no different to the slaughter of other animals for meat.
Some would argue that killing dolphins (and whales) is more akin to killing humans [ or at least chimps - or Republicans (kidding, Kidding - geesh) ] than other animals killed for their meat, due to their high intelligence. For example, Dolphins don't build nuclear reactors in earthquake and/or tsunami zones.
but let's not pretend that there aren't supervisors and employees out there who can have a meaningful discussion about goals. That question is entirely appropriate in some job interviews, performance reviews, and succession planning-type situations.
Sure, I get that, but many, many times employee evaluations are masturbation exercises meant to make the sheep feel good - especially now, in a down economy, when companies are narrowly focused on being "competitive" - mean they only pay/provide the minimum they think required (regardless of their up earnings and stock performance).
Personally, my job doesn't define me and I don't really have any "goals" except to provide the best quality work that both I can do and that can be done - for personal/professional integrity reasons. I'm now 50, live responsibly and (way) under my means, and have been financially independent for over 10 years for my current and foreseeable future - even w/o a job. I'm not rich, but don't *ever* have to work again. I continue to work because (a) I'd be bored otherwise, (b) my team relies on me, (c) my wife died 8 years ago (on Jan 13) and I haven't figured out what else to do with my life, because *she* was my life.
To each their own. I understand that I am, and my situation is, unusual.
Q: Where do you see yourself in five years?
I answered a similar question - What is your desired future position - in the self-evaluation section of an on-line annual employes performance review once and wrote "International Space Station". It remained the pre-filled, default answer for the next five years, before it was removed by someone.
Here's basically what I want in a job: (1a) Sufficient pay, (1b) Flexible hours, (2) Interesting work, (3) Leave me alone. If I have a problem with any of those, I'll let you know. (Been continuously employed since 1987)
- taking the car to the grocery store that's 100 meters from your place is just stupid.
How are you going to get the groceries back home, make 10 trips? I think I'd prefer to drive.
My wife lived in Spain for a year, way back in the day, and said people typically did a small shop every (or every other) day buying a few fresh things they needed for that day or the next few. Here in 'murica, we tend to do big, infrequent shops buying lots of stuff all at once - often pre/packaged stuff, with lots of preservatives.
Opportunity only brought scissors, not paper...
JPMorgan is buying a one-year extension and will start converting its machines to Windows 7 in July; about 3,000 of its 19,000 ATMs need enhancements before the process can begin...
Um... Start converting 4 months after XP goes EOL? Did they *just* find out about the deadline? And why can't they start upgrading the other 16,000 systems? I'm pretty sure XP and 7 systems can be operated together...got one of each in my office - for testing.
How doth we study the little busy bee
Wearing sensors each shining hour,
To gather honey all the day
From every shining flower?
Burma Shave
[Apologies to Isaac Watts.]
The scaly texture conceals small holes in the material where water is sucked in.
Good thing Ocean water is free of any particulate matter that might clog these tiny little holes.
Right, because the guy should have remembered being taught it before he was born rather than so late in the game as when he was a child.
Well, ya, if he's Benjamin Buttons.
He went out to his car and retrieved his firearm. The question will be asked, if you were concerned for your safety....why did you return to the theater?
According to TFA, he left to get a manager, but returned w/o one.
That was my thought. He couldn't have just beaten the guy up?
The retired police officer with the gun is 71, the guy with the cell phone was 43.
Just add slight coating of durable paraffin wax.
Ya, but then I can't ride through fire to dry off.
They state that a 15mph crash can subject the brain to 220G of force wearing a polystyrene helmet. Using the paper helmet, the test units brain-analogue was subjected to a mere 70G of force. This was tested in Europe, where regulations state for a helmet to be approved, the brain may not be subjected to more than 300G of force at 15mph.
Those are metric G forces and won't work in the US. :-)
P.S. Don't use the paper helmet in the rain.
You don't find many of these kind of posts anymore. Not a single offtopic mention of NSA, Snowden, Assange, Bitcoin, or how stupid one is if they support any political party. I know, they'll show up soon, but at least I can enjoy the moment before I hit the refresh button.
I've been hatching a theory, very loosely based on Godwin's Law, that any thread here that includes either NSA, Snowden, or Bitcoin ultimately will include the other two. The theory hasn't previously include Assange since we haven't heard much about him lately, but I'll consider incorporating him into it if need be.
In this case, your theory is rather prescient. I read somewhere that IA Labs was developing their WiFi controllers in cahoots with the NSA, providing secret back doors and monitoring capabilities for the NSA - so they could monitor and subtly control our gaming behaviors - and that Snowden leaked this information to Assange. Everyone involved was paid in Bitcoins.
Now that we know, this exploit can obviously be circumvented by wrapping the WiFi controllers in tin foil.
Comparing a trip to the Moon to a trip to Mars belies your complete cretinism.
Google "distance" and compare that of the Moon to that of Mars.
Except for the part where I said, "(obviously not as ambitious as going to / living on Mars)". I know their respective distances and delta-v budgets; I can read and learned *some* math/physics for my BSCS - way back in 1987. The fact is, since we can *actually* send things to Mars, we *could* send people, if we wanted to.
And really there's no need for rude name-calling.
Run the whole thing from a abandoned United States Army Air Corps desert base and 24/7 communications won't be a problem.
Space mission faster and more ambitious than NASA financed by reality TV and application fees?
They did manage to get the Moon landing done is fairly short order - in the 1960s - (obviously not as ambitious as going to / living on Mars) but, sadly, present-day NASA is crippled by the fear of people actually dying, LOTS of bureaucracy, politics (internal and external) and Congress. If the Government (meaning "we the People") *really* wanted to be on Mars, we'd be there.
With the slow erosion of the written in stone personal freedoms associated with the Bill of Rights, it is not astonishing an implied freedom is being phased out.
You realize that everything in the Bill of Rights is regarding your relationship with the Government, not corporations or other individuals, right?
All the speed, agility and quite of a large, fully-laden truck combined with speed, agility and quiet of a large, fully-laden helio...
There's an free iPhone app to simulate a slit-scan camera. It doesn't take a "$50,000 camera".
Sure, but the actual smartphone camera cannot really compare with a high-end digital SLR or $16,000 Optronis video camera that can capture up to 100,000 frames per second?
His implication is that Obama should have either committed to winning the war, and won it;
I don't think this (or this type of) war can be "won" unless you wage it over geological time frames. How long have people in the Middle East been killing each other because they either can/will not find common-ground or simply agree to disagree and decide to live together peacefully? How long has the cycle revenge and retribution been revolving? (Granted, those questions could be asked of the US Congress.) They all act like fucking children....
That's because, sadly, too many people fall for the "I might be bad, but that person's worse" fallacy.
It might be worse than that. I know many people that let single issues, like gun control, abortion rights and gay marriage, influence their votes to the exclusion of all else. I have one co-worker who almost voted for a Democrat, as they agreed on many economic issues, but couldn't because that candidate also supported abortion rights. Props to him for sticking to his beliefs, but I think it's short sighted and/or narrow-minded.
Can someone explain what exactly Capsicum is?
Capsicum:
Capsicum is a genus of flowering plants in the nightshade family Solanaceae. Its species are native to the Americas, where they have been cultivated for thousands of years. In modern times, it is cultivated worldwide, and has become a key element in many regional cuisines. In addition to use as spices and food vegetables, capsicum has also found use in medicines. ...
The piquant (spicy) variety are commonly called chili peppers, or simply "chilies".
Use milk to calm the burn, not water or beer.