We spend more money because of overhead in administration and technology. The right amount and kind of administration is absolutely necessary, as is the right amount and kinds of technology.
Unfortunately, in the US, we seem to have lost sight of the "right" part of that statement and substituted "more".
Get the government out of the way? Ok, so we'll ensure that every school in states like Alabama, Mississippi, Utah, and Texas teach that God snapped his fingers and created man, and that he really intended the U.S. to be a Christian nation, and only Republicans are real people. Anyone who disagrees obviously hates their mothers, America, and apple pie. Oh, also they are dirty communist terrorist nazi fag junkies so don't forget to bring your assault rifle to gun class little Jimmy!
I advise you get on this right away, and encourage you to live in the paradise you helped create.
Mark McMenamin is well known in science circles as a crank, a woo woo practitioner, and a media hungry crack-pot.
While it is true that octopuses do build midden piles, there is absolutely no evidence that they are doing anything other than keeping their lairs clean and occasionally building walls to keep predators out.
Funny thing too, there are occasionally fossils of soft bodied creatures found, which is how we know that octopus and squid were around quite a long time ago. I would expect, if this were some sort of gigantic octopus lair, fossilized beaks, sucker rings, and other cephalopod body structures would have been found in the same area as the bones.
If we're going to indulge in a bit of science fiction and pretend that some giant squid or octopus was arranging bones in self-portraiture patterns, why would they make pictures of sucker clubs? Among the cephalopods that are social, communication is performed by shifting colors and changing patterns on the skin and kinesic and proxemic body language.
Jobs wasn't a great innovator in technology, but he was a pretty great salesman and marketer. One of his greatest marketing campaigns was convincing people that he was some sort of fantastic technological innovator.
His second great achievement was having a pretty plastic shell designed for a bucket of computer innards and then charging double over the nearest competing product, and actually making sales.
Third, he recognized the power of good design in both the interface and the a fore mentioned pretty plastic shell. While I've listed this third, it is probably his greatest, longest lasting, and closest to technical innovation. Apple, as a company, really gets design. It shows in every single one of their products, and often times has won out over functionality. I wish more companies got design at the same fundamental level, but integrated it better with function.
Fourth, Steve Jobs managed to get a whole generation to believe that they were thinking differently by purchasing the same computer.
You know, I think that if I had to choose, I'd gladly take the Space Nutter religion over it's competitors.
Traditional Religion says that there is a man living in the sky and he sees everything we do. Space Nutterism put a man in the sky, and has been able to keep them there off and on since the 1970s. Those men were able to see much, and the unmanned cameras we put up along side them have made tremendous contributions to farming, fire fighting, building, and anything else that relies on the weather or accurate maps.
Traditional Religion says that Heaven (and it's equivalents) are beautiful places full of delights and wonders that you'll get to see when you die. Space Nutterism put cameras on the ground and in space and we now have beautiful, wonderful, delightful pictures of the heavens that anyone can see, just about any time they want.
Traditional Religion says you should live in peace with your fellow man, but you're free to kill them if they disagree on the name of your invisible sky man. Space Nutterism has pulled together men and women from different nations, religions, and economic classes and caused them all to work together on projects that have made life better for the whole lot of us.
Traditional Religion gives us stories from long ago and states that if you just believe in the invisible sky man hard enough, amazing things could happen to you. Space Nutterism gives us video, pictures, audio recordings, and the actual artifacts that have been to amazing places and done amazing things.
Traditional Religion says that, through your invisible sky man, all things are possible. Space Nutterism says that through our own hard work and cleverness, all things are possible.
Yes, surely corporate CEOs and even private citizens can do the minimal amount of thinking required to see that much of the modern communications infrastructure we take for granted wouldn't have been possible without a functional space program. I am certain that the innovation and materials science that allowed us to get in to space will not be overlooked by anyone, nor will people make the mistake of conflating the sunk costs of basic research with some sort of profit/loss business model that doesn't apply in this situation.
As long as the robot/machine that I am to merge with can be made (or my brain can be made to interpret) to look like Lucy Liu, then I'll have no problem.
Doves and pigeons are very closely related and some of the few birds that produce crop milk.
Very specifically, crop milk is the sloughed lining of the interior of the crop. Pigeons and doves will stop eating a few days before they lay and fill their crops with seeds, insects, and sometimes fruits or berries. They will keep these foods items in the crop, grinding them over and over with the gizzard while the skin cells lining the inside of the crop get irritated and engorge with fluid. Once the chicks start feeding, which is very soon after hatching, the cells detach, burst, and mix with the well ground food items.
The resulting mix smells horrible and is my least favorite part of dealing with my birds.
So, yeah. Cooing Farms Crop Milk will never find a place in my refrigerator.
I thought this article was posted on the Onion at first.
You know, this is why I need to land me that first CEO job. It seems that no matter how badly you fuck up, no matter how many pooches you screw, no matter how toxic you are to shareholder assets or confidence, and no matter how much of a buffoon you make of yourself, as long as you've been a CEO, you will always get hired.
Photographer jumps in to the air, you see the focus ring slowly turn and there is this huge thunking sound as it stops. Then this slow motion finger lands on the shutter release and then BAM BAM BAM! as the mirror slaps home.
They wanted to make Photographer's Creed: Fashion Week, but they couldn't figure out how to make jockeying for position in the line, sucking up to the media coordinators, and screwing with other photographer's tape lines in to a mini-game.
I could care less about the semantics of the FPS argument, what I want to know is what cameras will be featured in the game? Will you start out with film or will it be all digital?
If there is film, will you have developing and printing mini-games? Can I load my own 35mm cartridges? Will medium and large format cameras be available along an upgrade path? Will you be able to find a Speed Graphic 4X5 in a chest hidden on the third floor of the warlords compound?
Will lenses be accurately modeled? Its going to suck if the Nikkor 70-200 f2.8 doesn't have soft focus unless you're stopped down one or two steps.
How about camera bodies? Will I have to choose a path like a tech tree? Will selecting Nikon over Canon open up secret areas for me, like the special Nikon only brothel or the Canon only poppy field?
My god you guys, this could be like Grand Turismo, with cameras!
This is pretty much the way I've been mating for the last 15 years, and its highly effective.
Of course, you don't make too many friends and its tempting to deny you're the father of the uglier children that are sometimes brought around, but overall its a rather successful strategy.
If I don't have to get dressed, I won't. I hate wearing clothing. If I could somehow convince my company to go clothing optional, I'd be parked behind my desk in a pair of boxers, if even that.
There have been grey and black market Cisco devices floating around for as long as I've been in IT. This isn't some new amazing thing.
Plus, it isn't the quality of the product that tips people off, it's when you call Cisco to get your new routers on your support contract and they tell you the serial numbers are invalid.
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We spend more money because of overhead in administration and technology. The right amount and kind of administration is absolutely necessary, as is the right amount and kinds of technology.
Unfortunately, in the US, we seem to have lost sight of the "right" part of that statement and substituted "more".
Get the government out of the way? Ok, so we'll ensure that every school in states like Alabama, Mississippi, Utah, and Texas teach that God snapped his fingers and created man, and that he really intended the U.S. to be a Christian nation, and only Republicans are real people. Anyone who disagrees obviously hates their mothers, America, and apple pie. Oh, also they are dirty communist terrorist nazi fag junkies so don't forget to bring your assault rifle to gun class little Jimmy!
I advise you get on this right away, and encourage you to live in the paradise you helped create.
You can't hug your children with robotic arms.
Mark McMenamin is well known in science circles as a crank, a woo woo practitioner, and a media hungry crack-pot.
While it is true that octopuses do build midden piles, there is absolutely no evidence that they are doing anything other than keeping their lairs clean and occasionally building walls to keep predators out.
Funny thing too, there are occasionally fossils of soft bodied creatures found, which is how we know that octopus and squid were around quite a long time ago. I would expect, if this were some sort of gigantic octopus lair, fossilized beaks, sucker rings, and other cephalopod body structures would have been found in the same area as the bones.
If we're going to indulge in a bit of science fiction and pretend that some giant squid or octopus was arranging bones in self-portraiture patterns, why would they make pictures of sucker clubs? Among the cephalopods that are social, communication is performed by shifting colors and changing patterns on the skin and kinesic and proxemic body language.
Jobs wasn't a great innovator in technology, but he was a pretty great salesman and marketer. One of his greatest marketing campaigns was convincing people that he was some sort of fantastic technological innovator.
His second great achievement was having a pretty plastic shell designed for a bucket of computer innards and then charging double over the nearest competing product, and actually making sales.
Third, he recognized the power of good design in both the interface and the a fore mentioned pretty plastic shell. While I've listed this third, it is probably his greatest, longest lasting, and closest to technical innovation. Apple, as a company, really gets design. It shows in every single one of their products, and often times has won out over functionality. I wish more companies got design at the same fundamental level, but integrated it better with function.
Fourth, Steve Jobs managed to get a whole generation to believe that they were thinking differently by purchasing the same computer.
/me too
Ok, fess up you guys. Who told the government about USENET?
You know, I think that if I had to choose, I'd gladly take the Space Nutter religion over it's competitors.
Traditional Religion says that there is a man living in the sky and he sees everything we do.
Space Nutterism put a man in the sky, and has been able to keep them there off and on since the 1970s. Those men were able to see much, and the unmanned cameras we put up along side them have made tremendous contributions to farming, fire fighting, building, and anything else that relies on the weather or accurate maps.
Traditional Religion says that Heaven (and it's equivalents) are beautiful places full of delights and wonders that you'll get to see when you die.
Space Nutterism put cameras on the ground and in space and we now have beautiful, wonderful, delightful pictures of the heavens that anyone can see, just about any time they want.
Traditional Religion says you should live in peace with your fellow man, but you're free to kill them if they disagree on the name of your invisible sky man.
Space Nutterism has pulled together men and women from different nations, religions, and economic classes and caused them all to work together on projects that have made life better for the whole lot of us.
Traditional Religion gives us stories from long ago and states that if you just believe in the invisible sky man hard enough, amazing things could happen to you.
Space Nutterism gives us video, pictures, audio recordings, and the actual artifacts that have been to amazing places and done amazing things.
Traditional Religion says that, through your invisible sky man, all things are possible.
Space Nutterism says that through our own hard work and cleverness, all things are possible.
Yes, surely corporate CEOs and even private citizens can do the minimal amount of thinking required to see that much of the modern communications infrastructure we take for granted wouldn't have been possible without a functional space program. I am certain that the innovation and materials science that allowed us to get in to space will not be overlooked by anyone, nor will people make the mistake of conflating the sunk costs of basic research with some sort of profit/loss business model that doesn't apply in this situation.
As long as the robot/machine that I am to merge with can be made (or my brain can be made to interpret) to look like Lucy Liu, then I'll have no problem.
I raise Zenaida asiatica and the crop milk comments apply to all of family Columbidae.
Doves and pigeons are very closely related and some of the few birds that produce crop milk.
Very specifically, crop milk is the sloughed lining of the interior of the crop. Pigeons and doves will stop eating a few days before they lay and fill their crops with seeds, insects, and sometimes fruits or berries. They will keep these foods items in the crop, grinding them over and over with the gizzard while the skin cells lining the inside of the crop get irritated and engorge with fluid. Once the chicks start feeding, which is very soon after hatching, the cells detach, burst, and mix with the well ground food items.
The resulting mix smells horrible and is my least favorite part of dealing with my birds.
So, yeah. Cooing Farms Crop Milk will never find a place in my refrigerator.
If that were the case, I'd already be in a executive VP position.
I thought this article was posted on the Onion at first.
You know, this is why I need to land me that first CEO job. It seems that no matter how badly you fuck up, no matter how many pooches you screw, no matter how toxic you are to shareholder assets or confidence, and no matter how much of a buffoon you make of yourself, as long as you've been a CEO, you will always get hired.
Photographer jumps in to the air, you see the focus ring slowly turn and there is this huge thunking sound as it stops. Then this slow motion finger lands on the shutter release and then BAM BAM BAM! as the mirror slaps home.
Yeah, I'm digging this idea.
They wanted to make Photographer's Creed: Fashion Week, but they couldn't figure out how to make jockeying for position in the line, sucking up to the media coordinators, and screwing with other photographer's tape lines in to a mini-game.
I could care less about the semantics of the FPS argument, what I want to know is what cameras will be featured in the game? Will you start out with film or will it be all digital?
If there is film, will you have developing and printing mini-games? Can I load my own 35mm cartridges? Will medium and large format cameras be available along an upgrade path? Will you be able to find a Speed Graphic 4X5 in a chest hidden on the third floor of the warlords compound?
Will lenses be accurately modeled? Its going to suck if the Nikkor 70-200 f2.8 doesn't have soft focus unless you're stopped down one or two steps.
How about camera bodies? Will I have to choose a path like a tech tree? Will selecting Nikon over Canon open up secret areas for me, like the special Nikon only brothel or the Canon only poppy field?
My god you guys, this could be like Grand Turismo, with cameras!
There have been reports that twitter is stripping the #occupywallst hash tag out of messages if it appears at the end.
This is pretty much the way I've been mating for the last 15 years, and its highly effective.
Of course, you don't make too many friends and its tempting to deny you're the father of the uglier children that are sometimes brought around, but overall its a rather successful strategy.
/raises hand
Pffft, get with the time dilation man. All the cool kids will have a high probability of using anti-neutrinos.
I haven't tried those. Regular kilts, yes, but at home I still prefer as little as possible.
If I don't have to get dressed, I won't. I hate wearing clothing. If I could somehow convince my company to go clothing optional, I'd be parked behind my desk in a pair of boxers, if even that.
I have kids and it isn't any different.
I think we finally have the answer to the age old question of "Where's the warez!"
They are right here, on this stack of 3.5" floppies.
There have been grey and black market Cisco devices floating around for as long as I've been in IT. This isn't some new amazing thing.
Plus, it isn't the quality of the product that tips people off, it's when you call Cisco to get your new routers on your support contract and they tell you the serial numbers are invalid.