No conclusions, or even implications, can be drawn at all from simple correlation..
Don't be so daft. You can (and usually do) conclude that there is a correlation. If you find that every time yo go to a restaurant you get sick, you cannot conclude that they have bad hygiene, use a spice you are allergic to, or are trying to poison you - but you would conclude that there is a correlation for "some" reason and avpid the place.
This is what Michael Gerson calls "the soft bigotry of low expectations." Oh, those poor negroes never really had a chance. The ghetto is such a terrible place... s Shenanigans! It's possible for anyone with the drive, determination and ability to achieve success. Racism may be an obstacle, but it's not insurmountable.
Well if you want to call people who take circumstances into account "soft racism". If you do that you must not complain when they remove quotas for employment, special educational grants for minorities, admission programs allowing lower grades etc.
I started with my dad's old petrol lawnmower. Seriously it had a single-cylinder engine with a really basic carburettor and was about 25 years old. I kept that thing going for decades, most of the time it was decoking, unblocking gets or adjusting the spark gap.
We need to be careful in dismissing old skills. Just because we may not need them for our work doesn't mean that losing them won't have a negative impact. Look at the parallel with physical exercise. we can do our jobs without any for a time, but if we never exercise then eventually we will get physical and mental issues that will undermine our performance and well-being. It could be the same with memory tasks; we can do with a lower level for a while but if we always have access to google, schedules, etc. could we reach a point where our lack of memory impairs our usefulness even with these tools? Or could it lead to earlier problems with day to day living as we age? I would be cautious about relying on technology too much.
Its not the grub issue, I will try the graphics driver later. Since I use wifi, which is not oaded in te command line, I have to work out how to download the packages in Windows then apply them. I have to say that I am not in a great hurry as W7 is quite usable.
I have just brought a Thinkpad E525. I have tried to install Ubuntu (dual boot) but it won't load except in the command-line recovery mode. I think that this is a graphics driver comaptability issue but until I sort it its Windows 7 for me.
An educationalist is someone who researches education, or shapes education policy. It's somewhere in between "education expert" and "education policy czar / ivory tower education academic" in flamebaitness. "Educationalist" *is* a word, in relatively common use (Google tells me it's about half as common as "critical theory" (in quotes) on the web), unlike flamebaitness which I just made up.
I won't be pedantic, and go into any detail as to what the definition of "word" is, as there are several different meanings, one of which ("a word in common use") which makes some kind of sense in the way you are using it.
Exactly. It is the same as the distinction between a musicologist and a musician, or even a dietologist and a dieter.
The main point I didn't get across well in the parent post is that we had an incorrect view of what an ex military person would be like. We thought we were doing him a favour by taking him on, but in reality he is one of our best recruits.
I did computer networking in the Marines, was on the spearhead of a lot of new technologies back in that time. Yet when I got out in 1999 a lot of companies didn't want the Military guy with 9 years experience, they wanted the recent college graduate with a piece of paper. Time and Time again i was told they could get the college grad cheaper than my 9 years of Experience.
I kept telling the prospective employeers that I was coming from a job where I effectively made $1.67/hr. They could pay me the same as a college grad and I'd be happy. But it was always, "HR wont let us"...
I finally gave up and went into consulting and made a good living through. Ironically 3 of the 10 or so companies I applied for later hired me as a contractor for 1 to 3 months to come in and fix up what the college grads screwed up or to show their teams how to update their technology.
The problem is, as I learned from a former client that was a head hunter, most HR people don't know how to relate military experiance to real world applications and training. The Military gives you a stack of papers with how your various training relates to the real world, but even those definitions fall short of anything a civilian world HR person will understand.
We hired an ex-military guy in the UK, and it was seen by many people as a risk. I really don't know what we expected - we had an idea he might be "rough on the edges", but the guy is one of the easiest people to work with and a very good worker. We took him on as a trainee thinking his technical skills might not be up to scratch, but quickly promoted him as he was fine. In addition to this he has excellent time management skills, is one of the most polite people I have coma across (I don't often get thanked for telling someone to do something in a different way), and can just keep working methodically and systematically when others are panicking, like when we have a site outage.
Way to miss the point. Listen up, moron. The question is, why bother with the German physical presence. The internet is connected everywhere. It just doesn't make sense to me why they want the German physical presence.
Just maybe they don't want to offer Facebook to all the world outside the USA without any advertising revenue. Maybe they want to advertise German companies to German users of facebook
Your premise is basically correct, but the use of the word "advice" was somewhat improper. It's if someone promises you something - for example, if you call a charity and promise to give them $10,000, and they then hire a contractor to build them a new food shelf building, and you then refuse to give them the money, they can sue you under p.e. to force you to follow through with your promise.
Just giving someone advice ("hey, you should think about building a castle in this swamp!") does not mean that someone could then sue you when the castle burns down, falls over, and then sinks.
Of course if you are a professional builder and paid to advise then you could be used if you had not shown "reasonable care" in giving the advice.
Making for personal use and research is protected.
I don't believe it is
Brown & Michaels Frequently Asked Questions on PATENTS says: "It [A patent] is a right to stop others from making, using or selling - any one of these. Thus, even if an infringer were to make the invention in a foreign country, he could not sell it in the USA. Similarly, it is still an infringement if the invention is made in this country but exported immediately, or if a person buys the invention overseas and uses it in the USA for their own use - there is no "personal use" exception for patent infringement.
ehow.com says: "Fair Use with Patent Law
There is no equivalent law for patents to the U.S. fair use clause which applies to copyright. Other countries have a patent law with similar applications, but there is no provision that allows a general exemption from liability when using a patent without obtaining a license from the patent holder.
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Diaspora is probably the most relevant
No conclusions, or even implications, can be drawn at all from simple correlation..
Don't be so daft. You can (and usually do) conclude that there is a correlation. If you find that every time yo go to a restaurant you get sick, you cannot conclude that they have bad hygiene, use a spice you are allergic to, or are trying to poison you - but you would conclude that there is a correlation for "some" reason and avpid the place.
This is what Michael Gerson calls "the soft bigotry of low expectations." Oh, those poor negroes never really had a chance. The ghetto is such a terrible place... s Shenanigans! It's possible for anyone with the drive, determination and ability to achieve success. Racism may be an obstacle, but it's not insurmountable.
Well if you want to call people who take circumstances into account "soft racism". If you do that you must not complain when they remove quotas for employment, special educational grants for minorities, admission programs allowing lower grades etc.
You can start with a moped or a bicycle.
I started with my dad's old petrol lawnmower. Seriously it had a single-cylinder engine with a really basic carburettor and was about 25 years old. I kept that thing going for decades, most of the time it was decoking, unblocking gets or adjusting the spark gap.
my tank is full of gas and there is a chicken in my pot, what is the problem?
I hate it when that happens. Get him out quick, he'll go crazy and eat hundreds of dollars worth of weed.
"ur grandparents' skillset is not the skillset that will serve us the best."
The hell you say. Look how well your generation is doing. EVERYTHING IS FUCKED
Is that you Grandpa Simpson?
Why can't we just call people "hyper", "slow", "lazy", "shy", "wierd", "dumn", or "scary"?
I know you are, you say you are.
So what am I?
We need to be careful in dismissing old skills. Just because we may not need them for our work doesn't mean that losing them won't have a negative impact. Look at the parallel with physical exercise. we can do our jobs without any for a time, but if we never exercise then eventually we will get physical and mental issues that will undermine our performance and well-being. It could be the same with memory tasks; we can do with a lower level for a while but if we always have access to google, schedules, etc. could we reach a point where our lack of memory impairs our usefulness even with these tools? Or could it lead to earlier problems with day to day living as we age? I would be cautious about relying on technology too much.
Its not the grub issue, I will try the graphics driver later. Since I use wifi, which is not oaded in te command line, I have to work out how to download the packages in Windows then apply them. I have to say that I am not in a great hurry as W7 is quite usable.
A new kind of TV...... but no indication of what
I have just brought a Thinkpad E525. I have tried to install Ubuntu (dual boot) but it won't load except in the command-line recovery mode. I think that this is a graphics driver comaptability issue but until I sort it its Windows 7 for me.
WTF is an "educationalist"?
Let me explain:
Those who can do
Those who can't teach
Those who can neither do nor teach talk about teaching
The latter are educationalists
An educationalist is someone who researches education, or shapes education policy. It's somewhere in between "education expert" and "education policy czar / ivory tower education academic" in flamebaitness. "Educationalist" *is* a word, in relatively common use (Google tells me it's about half as common as "critical theory" (in quotes) on the web), unlike flamebaitness which I just made up.
I won't be pedantic, and go into any detail as to what the definition of "word" is, as there are several different meanings, one of which ("a word in common use") which makes some kind of sense in the way you are using it.
Exactly. It is the same as the distinction between a musicologist and a musician, or even a dietologist and a dieter.
The main point I didn't get across well in the parent post is that we had an incorrect view of what an ex military person would be like. We thought we were doing him a favour by taking him on, but in reality he is one of our best recruits.
I did computer networking in the Marines, was on the spearhead of a lot of new technologies back in that time. Yet when I got out in 1999 a lot of companies didn't want the Military guy with 9 years experience, they wanted the recent college graduate with a piece of paper. Time and Time again i was told they could get the college grad cheaper than my 9 years of Experience. I kept telling the prospective employeers that I was coming from a job where I effectively made $1.67/hr. They could pay me the same as a college grad and I'd be happy. But it was always, "HR wont let us"...
I finally gave up and went into consulting and made a good living through. Ironically 3 of the 10 or so companies I applied for later hired me as a contractor for 1 to 3 months to come in and fix up what the college grads screwed up or to show their teams how to update their technology.
The problem is, as I learned from a former client that was a head hunter, most HR people don't know how to relate military experiance to real world applications and training. The Military gives you a stack of papers with how your various training relates to the real world, but even those definitions fall short of anything a civilian world HR person will understand.
We hired an ex-military guy in the UK, and it was seen by many people as a risk. I really don't know what we expected - we had an idea he might be "rough on the edges", but the guy is one of the easiest people to work with and a very good worker. We took him on as a trainee thinking his technical skills might not be up to scratch, but quickly promoted him as he was fine. In addition to this he has excellent time management skills, is one of the most polite people I have coma across (I don't often get thanked for telling someone to do something in a different way), and can just keep working methodically and systematically when others are panicking, like when we have a site outage.
We will certainly hire ex-military again!
More to the point who is going enforce the German law?
As I posted elsewhere, the court can order German ISPs to block facebook.
Or just send the bailifs round to Facebooks office in Hamburg
Way to miss the point. Listen up, moron. The question is, why bother with the German physical presence. The internet is connected everywhere. It just doesn't make sense to me why they want the German physical presence.
Just maybe they don't want to offer Facebook to all the world outside the USA without any advertising revenue. Maybe they want to advertise German companies to German users of facebook
Lol yeah Greek debt is the problem when Germany has more than three times the debt of Greece.
I think that's a bit like saying to your bank manager "why worry about my $5,000 loan when Bill gates has loans many times that size.
Your premise is basically correct, but the use of the word "advice" was somewhat improper. It's if someone promises you something - for example, if you call a charity and promise to give them $10,000, and they then hire a contractor to build them a new food shelf building, and you then refuse to give them the money, they can sue you under p.e. to force you to follow through with your promise.
Just giving someone advice ("hey, you should think about building a castle in this swamp!") does not mean that someone could then sue you when the castle burns down, falls over, and then sinks.
Of course if you are a professional builder and paid to advise then you could be used if you had not shown "reasonable care" in giving the advice.
Making for personal use and research is protected.
I don't believe it is
Brown & Michaels Frequently Asked Questions on PATENTS says: "It [A patent] is a right to stop others from making, using or selling - any one of these. Thus, even if an infringer were to make the invention in a foreign country, he could not sell it in the USA. Similarly, it is still an infringement if the invention is made in this country but exported immediately, or if a person buys the invention overseas and uses it in the USA for their own use - there is no "personal use" exception for patent infringement.
ehow.com says: "Fair Use with Patent Law
There is no equivalent law for patents to the U.S. fair use clause which applies to copyright. Other countries have a patent law with similar applications, but there is no provision that allows a general exemption from liability when using a patent without obtaining a license from the patent holder.