At the university where I did my undergrad, the cafeteria had a Chinese food Smorgasbord. It was fairly greasy, standard Chinese take-away food. My university had a lot of Asian international students, so their eating habits were not so westernized. What I noticed is that while they were eating the same food as their western counterparts, they ate less. They didn't pack their plates full like the locals. And guess what - they were all thinner.
Most people in western countries tend to overeat. I know I do. In high school, I would eat until I had enough. Later on, I ate until I was completely full. It's a bad habit to get into, and it's hard to get out of. In my opinion, the way to end this obesity "epidemic" is to develop good eating habits: don't stuff yourself at every meal, drink water instead of soda and juice (better for your teeth, anyway), try to eat fresh ingredients when possible instead of processed food filled with who knows what, and don't be a couch potato. Some people have genetic and/or metabolic problems that lead to them being obese. They need medical help. The rest don't.
The thing is, on Facebook, the potential to get abuse from someone is entirely under your control. Just follow some basic common-sense rules:
1. Don't friend people who you don't know. 2. Set your privacy settings so that only your friends can view your personal information (this is default, I believe) 3. If you have your doubts about someone but still want to friend them, choose the "view limited profile" option.
In other words, don't be a moron. Facebook has fully customizable privacy settings. You can allow or disallow specific people to view specific sections of your profile. Don't feel sure about someone but still want to friend them? Then don't let them see your email address, phone number, place of work or school! It's really a no-brainer!
The answer here is not law changes, but educating children about online safety.
Now, I know a lot of parents don't have a clue about the internet. My parents let my little sister go online unmonitored when she was 9. She liked playing Neopets. However, she also went on the forums and said "Hi everyone, my name is ***** and I'm 9 years old and I live in ******! Add me to your MSN!" She didn't know better. When I found out my parents weren't monitoring her at all, I had a little chat with them, and my mom made her block a long list of people from her MSN account (some with rather inappropriate screen names) and then she was only allowed to talk to people she already knew in person. She was upset about it at the time because she didn't understand why she had to remove all those people. Now that she's a little older, she understands and doesn't give away personal information online. So the lesson is educate your kids and they will be fine!!
When I was 11 or so I would swallow small beads just to prove that nothing will happen. My reasoning was "It's just plastic. It will just come out on the other end." Nothing happened. Though I guess if I was doing it now it would be a bit more interesting...
String theory is still just a bunch of fancy math. It literally started with a couple of guys saying "Hey, what if everything is made of tiny, vibrating strings?" It might be elegant, but without *any* physical evidence supporting it, it might forever be condemned to the realm of mathematics, not physics.
When I was 12, I got very interested in UFOs. I watched the crappy documentaries and various paranormal shows, the X-Files, and also got into sci-fi. I watched every sci-fi movie that came out (I was already a Star Wars fan from when I was little). Contact stuck out in particular. The UFO interest turned into an interest in astronomy, which later led to physics thanks to The Elegant Universe (book, not TV show).
So my opinion on how to get kids interested in science is go for sci-fi novels and stories! I never read cyberpunk books when I was younger, but I'm sure I would have loved them then.
When I was in middle school doing algebra, someone in the class asked "How is this going be useful for us in our lives?" and the teacher didn't have an answer. Instead, she said "It's your job to find out", which I think is a cop-out. There are so many careers that require math knowledge, for example any physical science, engineering, and finance.
I don't know if it's because of my personality or what, but I've always gotten on better with males than with females. Part of it is probably having more in common - I'm not excessively girly and I'm a bit of a geek. I've been in classes where I was the only girl, and I never felt uncomfortable about it and was never treated badly. It might be fair to say that they were nicer to me because I was female rather than "just another guy", but they didn't stare at my boobs either (at least not while I was looking).
AFAIK, most females have predominantly female friends. For a female in a male-dominated area, I think it's pretty important to be able to interact with guys and be comfortable about it.
"There are often confrontations at border crossings with suspected illegal aliens or drug runners," Lieberman says. "You don't want to hurt or kill them, just take them into custody. With this," he smiles, "they don't need to know English to comply."
Wouldn't it be easier to just have border officials who spoke Spanish?
In Dunedin, New Zealand (where I live), we have McDuff's beer. There is a brewery and everything. It used to be just Duff, but after a legal dispute with Fox, they wound up changing the name.
I want to highlight that this is not an academic article. It is not trying to be. It is based on my observations in the field, but I'm not trying to situate or theorize what is going on.
But it's not the interior of the Manchester Cathedral. It's a model of the cathedral. How is that different from a painting or some such? Is it really illegal?
The sole reason to install Linux is to feel superior to other computer users. Unfortunately for the Linux user community, distributions like Ubuntu have made it too easy for everyone to get a working Linux box -- they no longer have anything to make them feel special.
Installing a working Linux box used to require over 550 man hours, learning a Nordic language, sacrificing a goat, wading through hundreds of pages of (purposely) inscrutable help files, and in some cases programming a new driver in UNIVAC assembly code using nothing but punch cards while walking miles through the snow barefoot on the wrong side of the tracks and uphill both ways. Today, Linux distros are so idiot-proof that you can put their install CDs into the floppy drive upside-down and the fucker will still work.
Old-school Linux users were desperate to find a new way to feel superior. Some migrated to versions of BSD, others gave into baroque feats of self-torture like multi-booting 4 different operating systems from one USB drive. But it didn't have the same appeal as abusing other operating systems for their lack of 1337n355.
In this dark hour there was a new hope: Gentoo Linux, a distribution designed for users possessing that delicate combination of insecurity and masochism that results in an obsession with obscurity, optimization, and huge dollops of pain and frustration. Gentoo has sated all of these urges.
Enter the idea of a "haemorrhaging edge" distro: Gentoo. It is the exemplar of the term "haemorrhaging edge" -- there is no piece of software too advanced, too experimental, or too downright dangerous for the main tree. (If the users don't have a chance to crash their box at least once a week due to new and untested software they will swarm onto the forums and accuse Gentoo of "going all Debian" on them.)
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If I understood the concept, the whole setup is just symbolic and wouldn't work at all.
3) I went to a colloquium where a gentleman from wall street talked about options pricing and modeling said options in order to make money. He mentioned that today people with Physics, Math, and EE PhDs are in demand on wall street because they can do the complex math involved to model stock/options/commodities markets. (Interestingly, business oriented degrees such as finance and accounting are not considered for these type of jobs.) Theoretical physics winds up being preferred because Mathematicians are rarely interested in "getting their hands dirty" with real world applications.
In particular, theoretical physics that involves doing simulations.
Someone can quite easily mug you, rape you, shoot you, whatever in front of a camera. The cops might get to you by the time the act is done. All the camera will do is make it easier to identify the criminal afterwards, but if you're dead, what good does it do?
I'm not saying that the cameras are useless. I just think they instill a false sense of security.
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they were using Linux!
Most people in western countries tend to overeat. I know I do. In high school, I would eat until I had enough. Later on, I ate until I was completely full. It's a bad habit to get into, and it's hard to get out of. In my opinion, the way to end this obesity "epidemic" is to develop good eating habits: don't stuff yourself at every meal, drink water instead of soda and juice (better for your teeth, anyway), try to eat fresh ingredients when possible instead of processed food filled with who knows what, and don't be a couch potato. Some people have genetic and/or metabolic problems that lead to them being obese. They need medical help. The rest don't.
1. Don't friend people who you don't know.
2. Set your privacy settings so that only your friends can view your personal information (this is default, I believe)
3. If you have your doubts about someone but still want to friend them, choose the "view limited profile" option.
In other words, don't be a moron. Facebook has fully customizable privacy settings. You can allow or disallow specific people to view specific sections of your profile. Don't feel sure about someone but still want to friend them? Then don't let them see your email address, phone number, place of work or school! It's really a no-brainer!
The answer here is not law changes, but educating children about online safety.
Now, I know a lot of parents don't have a clue about the internet. My parents let my little sister go online unmonitored when she was 9. She liked playing Neopets. However, she also went on the forums and said "Hi everyone, my name is ***** and I'm 9 years old and I live in ******! Add me to your MSN!" She didn't know better. When I found out my parents weren't monitoring her at all, I had a little chat with them, and my mom made her block a long list of people from her MSN account (some with rather inappropriate screen names) and then she was only allowed to talk to people she already knew in person. She was upset about it at the time because she didn't understand why she had to remove all those people. Now that she's a little older, she understands and doesn't give away personal information online. So the lesson is educate your kids and they will be fine!!
Now, the kids' PJs can either be flame-retardant or non-carcinogenic, but not both!
When I was 11 or so I would swallow small beads just to prove that nothing will happen. My reasoning was "It's just plastic. It will just come out on the other end." Nothing happened. Though I guess if I was doing it now it would be a bit more interesting...
Also, does the manufacturing process output more CO2 than the plastic would save?
String theory is still just a bunch of fancy math. It literally started with a couple of guys saying "Hey, what if everything is made of tiny, vibrating strings?" It might be elegant, but without *any* physical evidence supporting it, it might forever be condemned to the realm of mathematics, not physics.
So my opinion on how to get kids interested in science is go for sci-fi novels and stories! I never read cyberpunk books when I was younger, but I'm sure I would have loved them then.
When I was in middle school doing algebra, someone in the class asked "How is this going be useful for us in our lives?" and the teacher didn't have an answer. Instead, she said "It's your job to find out", which I think is a cop-out. There are so many careers that require math knowledge, for example any physical science, engineering, and finance.
Surely a sense of humour shouldn't be a negative influence on their credibility.
Given the geography of the area, it's highly likely that they can.
AFAIK, most females have predominantly female friends. For a female in a male-dominated area, I think it's pretty important to be able to interact with guys and be comfortable about it.
Wouldn't it be easier to just have border officials who spoke Spanish?
That's right, it happened in the waters of New Zealand.
1. Take polaroids.
2. wait 100 billion years.
3 profit.
Yeah, tell that to the moon landing naysayers.
In Dunedin, New Zealand (where I live), we have McDuff's beer. There is a brewery and everything. It used to be just Duff, but after a legal dispute with Fox, they wound up changing the name.
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I want to highlight that this is not an academic article. It is not trying to be. It is based on my observations in the field, but I'm not trying to situate or theorize what is going on.
In Soviet Russia, emails delete the RNC!
But it's not the interior of the Manchester Cathedral. It's a model of the cathedral. How is that different from a painting or some such? Is it really illegal?
The sole reason to install Linux is to feel superior to other computer users. Unfortunately for the Linux user community, distributions like Ubuntu have made it too easy for everyone to get a working Linux box -- they no longer have anything to make them feel special.
Installing a working Linux box used to require over 550 man hours, learning a Nordic language, sacrificing a goat, wading through hundreds of pages of (purposely) inscrutable help files, and in some cases programming a new driver in UNIVAC assembly code using nothing but punch cards while walking miles through the snow barefoot on the wrong side of the tracks and uphill both ways. Today, Linux distros are so idiot-proof that you can put their install CDs into the floppy drive upside-down and the fucker will still work.
Old-school Linux users were desperate to find a new way to feel superior. Some migrated to versions of BSD, others gave into baroque feats of self-torture like multi-booting 4 different operating systems from one USB drive. But it didn't have the same appeal as abusing other operating systems for their lack of 1337n355.
In this dark hour there was a new hope: Gentoo Linux, a distribution designed for users possessing that delicate combination of insecurity and masochism that results in an obsession with obscurity, optimization, and huge dollops of pain and frustration. Gentoo has sated all of these urges.
Enter the idea of a "haemorrhaging edge" distro: Gentoo. It is the exemplar of the term "haemorrhaging edge" -- there is no piece of software too advanced, too experimental, or too downright dangerous for the main tree. (If the users don't have a chance to crash their box at least once a week due to new and untested software they will swarm onto the forums and accuse Gentoo of "going all Debian" on them.)
Well hello Captain Obvious!
In particular, theoretical physics that involves doing simulations.
Yet.
I'm not saying that the cameras are useless. I just think they instill a false sense of security.
Why don't they just install Linux?