That has changed since the storm tho. I bet water had something to do with it.
that is pretty nice smelling. French royalty used to piss and crap on the floor wherever they stood, hence the need for strong perfumes to cover up the smell.
This must be the third time in as many days I've seen the lawsuit explained on/. and modded to +5. I'm thinking trolls just like to trot it out whenever there's an article on lawsuits, and don't bother reading the replies, or don't actually care whether their original stance was wrong or not (hence they are trolls).
I think it's a waste of time to try to get these people to read what really happened.
On the other hand, I think it's stupid that the result was to require McD to put "Hot" all over the hot cups. It's nearly as stupid as the warning labels on ladders that people might fall off and injure themselves if they're high above the ground. A better resolution probably would've been to require them to lower the temperature of their coffee.
These are not "Classics." Classics are things that survive the test of time. They aren't necessarily "popular" per se, but they are constantly referenced in popular culture, and continue to be meaningful and enjoyable even today. The Odyssey, Hamlet, Huckleberry Finn, these are classics. Harry Potter and The Da Vinci Code, not so much.
I'm sure Henry James was pretty damn popular back in his day, but who the hell reads him anymore? In fact, how many people could name a book by Henry James without doing a search online for the author?
As for science books, I'd suggest looking at "The Elegant Universe" or "Silent Spring." I don't think the latter was written within the 1983-present timeframe though.
Largely untrue. Certainly, in the middle ages when conditions were less than sanitary and the people were generally stuck in a perpetual state of ignorance, mortality rate was low.
However, in the east where things were better, people lived to 60 and 70 quite often. The life expectancy for adults was probably between 60 and 80 (which it is today). Heck, there are records of people who lived well past 100 throughout the past two thousand years, though they are indeed exceptional.
The only time and places this didn't apply to was where there was war and strife. Then life expectancy did drop to pretty low numbers. The only saving grace was that people back then had kids early and often. So by the time they were dead at 30, they'd have at least one teenage child and several more reaching that age. And back then, 13 was more or less the start of adulthood.
That's not true at all. Wall Street will grab whomever they think is qualified, economics major or not. And just because you're an economics major doesn't mean you'll go straight into Wall Street. You have to be good--really good--at math.
Math and science majors who do exceptionally well in big-name schools go into Wall Street, i-banking, and other high-paying, high-stress jobs. Liberal arts majors, not so much.
Don't forget that their decisions influence whether the company sinks or soars. If job security depended on one person, you'd probably want that person to be well compensated. If there are a hundred of you, I think everybody'd put in a little bit extra to make sure that job security was there.
And I haven't even gotten to the part about promotions or growth.
How much is "regularly"? 1 hour? 2 hours? 30 minutes going to and from work?
That is to say, how much sun exposure to how large an area and for how long would produce enough Vitamin D for a day? And does it have to be direct sunlight, or could you stand in the shade behind? What about behind glass windows, in the shade or in direct sunlight?
If you really only have to be in the sun for 20 minutes a day, then maybe it'd be worth it to go outside for a walk during lunch, instead of bothering with supplements. And for people who work the odd shifts, it might be worth it to do that walking before or after work.
You have the right to do as you wish to your body. But if you wish to be a part of society, you also have the right to pay for it according to the terms set out by society. Nobody's stopping you from leading an unhealthy lifestyle. But there are costs associated with the unhealthy lifestyle, and you should be the one paying those costs, not the rest of society.
Think of it this way: If you hire a contractor to patch up your roof, you pay a certain sum. If you let your roof go into disrepair and you need a completely new roof because a patch job won't be sufficient, you pay a much greater sum. You don't expect your neighbors to pay the difference for you.
What are "good" and "bad" genes with respect to lifestyle choices? And yes, if people would rather choose the new 50" plasma over a year's supply of healthy (albeit slightly more expensive foods), or sitting in front of said TV after work instead of going out for a jog or to the gym or even just walk around while watching TV, then it is a lifestyle choice. And people who choose unhealthy lifestyles should be given the bill.
You can't help your genetic makeup. But that doesn't mean you should sit back and do nothing. And quite frankly, claiming that your genetic code made you overweight or caused your heart attack or stroke is just a poor excuse for negligence. Though you're free to do to your body as you wish, if you want to be a part of society (have health insurance), then you're also free to pay the costs of what you've done to your body.
Despite weighing less than 150, I have high cholestrol. It's genetic. So I don't eat red meats as much, I eat more vegetables and poultry, and especially fish, and my LDL cholestrol is now tolerable. I'm not going to sit around and wait for that heart attack or stroke, firstly because I have no desire to waste my time going to the hospital for something that's easily preventable (or outright dying for that mattter), and secondly because I'm not going to burden the people around me, as well as society, with issues that I can proactively prevent.
Other genetic factors may or may not allow people to choose whether they need medical help. But any genetic factors that have to do with being too damn fat are mitigable.
Note to/., the comment box is really, really tiny with this CSS, and is only perhaps 100 pixels across. Oh, and my double \n\r's are turning into singles using "Plain Old Text". I had to use <br> and "HTML Formatted" to get the double-line break.
Bach is a mind sucking alien. Active listening to music tends to divert focus away from any real work. This especially applies to Classical music, where the majority of the pieces require active listening to fully appreciate. That's why people go to concert halls for concerts or recitals. Otherwise, classical musicians would be playing the background music at starbucks or something. As such, music that is a little less antiquated also requires active listening, but only if you're paying attention to the lyrics.
(weird, I have two \n\r's above this, but only one shows up despite my option being "Plain Old Text")
Elevator music is specifically tailored to not require active listening. Which is why it's used as a part of the ambience even in places that are bustling with activity (hotel lobbys for example).
Anyway, actively listening to music won't result in much work getting done. Passive listening, on the other hand, has little detriment to productivity. For that, I recommend early Mozart and Hayden, and I'd say stay away from the late classical and from the romantics entirely. Anything newer has never interested me, but if 4'22" is any indication, maybe the rest are acceptable for passive listening. Then again, maybe not.
Just pick a standard and run with it. Every other "standard" can be supported, and the client can be configured to use it instead of the default, but start with one as the default to use when sending mail.
Yea, but is he better or worse than the alternative?
All politicians are crooks and liars. It's a job requirement. The real question is, how do their actions affect us? In this case, it doesn't. It's like the whole Monica Lewinsky scandal. None of your business, none of mine.
At the same time, if you went to a very good friend of yours to get a mortgatge, and your friend offered to lower your interest rate by.5%, would you bite? Would the average American bite? Yeah, as unrealistic as it seems, we probably should hold politicians to a higher standard than the average Joe, seeing as they are supposed to be better than us. But the fact of the matter is, if you'd make the same decisions if put into a similar situation, then critizing anyone else for it would make you a hypocrite.
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Wait, so the social norm in Pittsburgh, is shoot first, ask permission later?
This must be the third time in as many days I've seen the lawsuit explained on /. and modded to +5. I'm thinking trolls just like to trot it out whenever there's an article on lawsuits, and don't bother reading the replies, or don't actually care whether their original stance was wrong or not (hence they are trolls).
I think it's a waste of time to try to get these people to read what really happened.
On the other hand, I think it's stupid that the result was to require McD to put "Hot" all over the hot cups. It's nearly as stupid as the warning labels on ladders that people might fall off and injure themselves if they're high above the ground. A better resolution probably would've been to require them to lower the temperature of their coffee.
Not if his kids are 40 years old and still living in his basement.
And three gives you the centerfold easter egg...
These are not "Classics." Classics are things that survive the test of time. They aren't necessarily "popular" per se, but they are constantly referenced in popular culture, and continue to be meaningful and enjoyable even today. The Odyssey, Hamlet, Huckleberry Finn, these are classics. Harry Potter and The Da Vinci Code, not so much.
I'm sure Henry James was pretty damn popular back in his day, but who the hell reads him anymore? In fact, how many people could name a book by Henry James without doing a search online for the author?
As for science books, I'd suggest looking at "The Elegant Universe" or "Silent Spring." I don't think the latter was written within the 1983-present timeframe though.
When the average of your population reads at a basic or below-basic level, it is quite fathomable indeed.
To quote the late great George Carlin, "half of them are even stupider!"
Or maybe they should have.
That's what I don't understand...
Why aren't the tourism and aviation special interest groups taking a stand against these things? These draconian laws result directly in their loss...
Largely untrue. Certainly, in the middle ages when conditions were less than sanitary and the people were generally stuck in a perpetual state of ignorance, mortality rate was low.
However, in the east where things were better, people lived to 60 and 70 quite often. The life expectancy for adults was probably between 60 and 80 (which it is today). Heck, there are records of people who lived well past 100 throughout the past two thousand years, though they are indeed exceptional.
The only time and places this didn't apply to was where there was war and strife. Then life expectancy did drop to pretty low numbers. The only saving grace was that people back then had kids early and often. So by the time they were dead at 30, they'd have at least one teenage child and several more reaching that age. And back then, 13 was more or less the start of adulthood.
That's not true at all. Wall Street will grab whomever they think is qualified, economics major or not. And just because you're an economics major doesn't mean you'll go straight into Wall Street. You have to be good--really good--at math.
Math and science majors who do exceptionally well in big-name schools go into Wall Street, i-banking, and other high-paying, high-stress jobs. Liberal arts majors, not so much.
Don't forget that their decisions influence whether the company sinks or soars. If job security depended on one person, you'd probably want that person to be well compensated. If there are a hundred of you, I think everybody'd put in a little bit extra to make sure that job security was there.
And I haven't even gotten to the part about promotions or growth.
How much is "regularly"? 1 hour? 2 hours? 30 minutes going to and from work?
That is to say, how much sun exposure to how large an area and for how long would produce enough Vitamin D for a day? And does it have to be direct sunlight, or could you stand in the shade behind? What about behind glass windows, in the shade or in direct sunlight?
If you really only have to be in the sun for 20 minutes a day, then maybe it'd be worth it to go outside for a walk during lunch, instead of bothering with supplements. And for people who work the odd shifts, it might be worth it to do that walking before or after work.
It'd be even more awesome if they had to assemble/disassemble the pieces in just the right way to gain access. And probably even more secure.
The problem is, medicine is always trying to prolong the life of these people.
I will reiterate what I wrote in another post:
You have the right to do as you wish to your body. But if you wish to be a part of society, you also have the right to pay for it according to the terms set out by society. Nobody's stopping you from leading an unhealthy lifestyle. But there are costs associated with the unhealthy lifestyle, and you should be the one paying those costs, not the rest of society.
Think of it this way: If you hire a contractor to patch up your roof, you pay a certain sum. If you let your roof go into disrepair and you need a completely new roof because a patch job won't be sufficient, you pay a much greater sum. You don't expect your neighbors to pay the difference for you.
What are "good" and "bad" genes with respect to lifestyle choices? And yes, if people would rather choose the new 50" plasma over a year's supply of healthy (albeit slightly more expensive foods), or sitting in front of said TV after work instead of going out for a jog or to the gym or even just walk around while watching TV, then it is a lifestyle choice. And people who choose unhealthy lifestyles should be given the bill.
/., the comment box is really, really tiny with this CSS, and is only perhaps 100 pixels across. Oh, and my double \n\r's are turning into singles using "Plain Old Text". I had to use <br> and "HTML Formatted" to get the double-line break.
You can't help your genetic makeup. But that doesn't mean you should sit back and do nothing. And quite frankly, claiming that your genetic code made you overweight or caused your heart attack or stroke is just a poor excuse for negligence. Though you're free to do to your body as you wish, if you want to be a part of society (have health insurance), then you're also free to pay the costs of what you've done to your body.
Despite weighing less than 150, I have high cholestrol. It's genetic. So I don't eat red meats as much, I eat more vegetables and poultry, and especially fish, and my LDL cholestrol is now tolerable. I'm not going to sit around and wait for that heart attack or stroke, firstly because I have no desire to waste my time going to the hospital for something that's easily preventable (or outright dying for that mattter), and secondly because I'm not going to burden the people around me, as well as society, with issues that I can proactively prevent.
Other genetic factors may or may not allow people to choose whether they need medical help. But any genetic factors that have to do with being too damn fat are mitigable.
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And the day they compile the release version of Windows would be Judgment Day.
Reference: Planet of the Apes.
Major cities are served by multiple providers. Usually not in the same areas, but there are a few places where you do have a choice.
(weird, I have two \n\r's above this, but only one shows up despite my option being "Plain Old Text")
Elevator music is specifically tailored to not require active listening. Which is why it's used as a part of the ambience even in places that are bustling with activity (hotel lobbys for example).
Anyway, actively listening to music won't result in much work getting done. Passive listening, on the other hand, has little detriment to productivity. For that, I recommend early Mozart and Hayden, and I'd say stay away from the late classical and from the romantics entirely. Anything newer has never interested me, but if 4'22" is any indication, maybe the rest are acceptable for passive listening. Then again, maybe not.
Just pick a standard and run with it. Every other "standard" can be supported, and the client can be configured to use it instead of the default, but start with one as the default to use when sending mail.
Yea, but is he better or worse than the alternative?
All politicians are crooks and liars. It's a job requirement. The real question is, how do their actions affect us? In this case, it doesn't. It's like the whole Monica Lewinsky scandal. None of your business, none of mine.
At the same time, if you went to a very good friend of yours to get a mortgatge, and your friend offered to lower your interest rate by .5%, would you bite? Would the average American bite? Yeah, as unrealistic as it seems, we probably should hold politicians to a higher standard than the average Joe, seeing as they are supposed to be better than us. But the fact of the matter is, if you'd make the same decisions if put into a similar situation, then critizing anyone else for it would make you a hypocrite.