Because you left out decriminalization. Do you think that when it was decided that prohibition of alcohol was a bad idea that it should be left up to the President and the Judicial system to give everyone pardons and immunity (which in most cases someone has to be arrested for something before they can receive either)? Don't you think it would be a hell of a lot easier of the legislators were able to change and retract laws? I would like to point out at this time there have probably been more judges bought and owned than congress-people. Granted the appeals court is usually a good check on this, but if you also own the district attorney...
I know many doctors, and I am going to have to call B.S. on this. I know several who have responded while off duty, and the only thing they mention is that they never give out their name when responding while off duty. However, in some places (my state is not such a region) an off duty doctor is only able to hand of care to someone as qualified or more qualified than themselves, in these areas there is an issue of if a doctor begins giving aid he may not be capable of handing off treatment to an emergency responder.
At the high school I attended there was, and I believe still is, an elective gym class that had CPR training - among other first aid - as part of the curriculum. The class was titled "Sports Fitness", and pretty much everyone that played any sport took it (part of the class included at least 2 days a week in the weight room, which definitely helped enrollment). Only two real flaws that I can think of were that the class was an elective - not required, and that CPR certification expires and you weren't allowed to take the class multiple times.
since the stupid computer doesn't have any convenient front ports for a USB flash drive. I've always used the one on the keyboard. However I guess this isn't available if you are using the wireless one, but you should be aware of that tradeoff.
It has been a while since I have been in High School, but I am guessing the administration didn't purposfully and didn't want to get involved in this. My guess would be someone, an angry someone (either parent or student), reported this. If it is like most administrations I know, the administration would say "well, we don't really know about this facebook thing and have more important stuff to do", as schools really don't like to bring negative attention to themselves, especially regarding student behavior. But as angry people tend to do, I am guessing they would not let up on the issue (be it because their kid was provided alcohol by another, or they weren't invited to the party, or Billy was supposed to go out with e but partied with Jill or whatever), and forced the administrations hand.
You have to remember the circumstances and context. John Henry was a black man in a time when employment prospects for black men were few and far between. Henry Ford for a long time refused to employ any blacks, and when he finally caved he only allowed them to hold janitorial positions. At the time a John Henry there were not near the same opportunities and services for someone to take advantage of, in addition to limits of transportation to and difficulty finding out about new jobs or opportunities due to communication limitations of the time. It's great that adaption was an option for your great-grandpa. Unfortunately adaptation is not an option for everyone.
Damned fool for fighting to keep the jobs of himself and his coworkers? I would argue that you are a damned fool if you lay over and no longer put food on the plate for your family. This isn't something where he had the choice to switch from a typewriter to a computer, but a case where a machine was going to entirely replace him and others. For modern perspective look at the fight between labor and automation in the auto industry.
The problem is that those big companies don't care. The free market idea assumes that if there is enough need, someone will supply something to fill it.
I hate this "big company" rhetoric. Let me ask you a question, how did these big companies become big companies? If there is enough need it will happen, no matter what the current providers want to happen, due to the creation of new companies and new players. Notice how Intel has now made moves into the graphical arena, and note that their are still graphics companies that could be potential competitors if they thought they could generate profit from the niche market (potential companies include VIA, Transmeta, 3DLabs, Matrox and others).
I'm sorry, but I just have to respond to this point
I cannot borrow an eBook from a library. Thousands of books for free. How the hell is this a factor? Its not like if you get an eBook you suddenly can't use a library. If you buy an eBook reader - guess what? - the thousands of books for free at the library are still there!
As someone who has been to Bangkok I am going to have to turn down your invitation to get myself killed. I also think in the interest of public safety you should withdraw your invite, especially to those from countries that drive on the right side of the road - it is hard enough to get used to that change let alone the loose traffic laws and darting motorcycle taxis.
Of course Nerds enjoy reading, but not on paper! You may have to turn in your card for. Now days you need a Nokia N810, an iPhone, a hacked Nintendo DS, a Bookeen, or a flash memory reader soldered to an LCD (bonus points if you add a speaker and ogg support for audio books). And you don't buy books, you get a scanner and a bash script along with a local library card. And Project Gutenberg.
Completely offtopic but this seems a good place to ask: is there a way to do something like that in Safari? Safari has converted me over with the dictionary support and the find functionality, but I dearly miss my imdb, urban dictionary, and dictionary.com keyword searches.
Since when is the Ocean a closed system? As I understood it the Ocean is a chaotic system, affected by the moon, melting of arctic ice, solar radiation, weather patterns, asteroids, river outpours, and a myriad of other inputs.
Isn't Konqueror based on Webkit? If so than I would say it has corporate support from Apple. IIRC Apple were the ones to get it to pass the Acid2 test.
The US spends a larger percent of its GDP on its military than most nations on the planet.
The U.S. spends a super-large amount on the military, but in comparison to GDP it is on par with most countries and behind many. The U.S. spends around 3.3% of GDP on military. For comparison China spends around 4%, Russia 4.8%, Saudi Arabia 12%, India 2.7%, Iran 4.6%, Greece 4.4%, Congo 21.7%, Singapore 5.2%, and North Korea 25%. (That data is from 2002, and these rates fluctuate, so they should be interpreted as an approximate figure. All numbers from the International Institute for Strategic Studies).
I read a humourous article a few years ago talking about surprising survey results.
Not only is that misspelled, but it should also be an indication to take that statistic with a grain of salt.
A guy I know who was in the SAS until a couple of years ago has told me about how easy it was to defeat the US forces in wargames, due to their arrogance and reliance on their technology.
The U.S. military has continued to show itself to be an exceptional force at winning battles and defeating enemy threats. Winning the war on the ground does not translate into victory on the ideological front though, where the U.S. has recently had great falterings (which in almost all cases in not the job of the military). Also remember that America loves disinformation, and is more than happy to have troops underperform in wargames and instruct soldiers not to use the full capabilities of their equipment (I wish I still had the citation, but there was a great example of a U.S. battleship seeing how fast a soviet sub trailing it could go, but stopped pretty far short of full speed so that the soviets wouldn't know exactly how fast our battleships could go).
stop thinking they are automatically the greatest nation on Earth just because they are America
Most Americans don't think that they are the greatest just because they are Americans, they think that because they have the most productive workforce outside of Germany, only behind Germany and China in the top exporter list, by far the wealthiest nation, and they have an army that is comparable to the rest of the world combined while spending a smaller fraction of the U.S. GDP on it than many other countries do. In addition, many of the shining examples of development (mainly Japan, Israel, and South Korea) have had heavy U.S. backing and influence. Regarding the U.S. as a joke is an even bigger mistake than regarding China as a joke. The U.S. is a juggernaut that does not appear to be going away anytime soon.
I wouldn't say never. Psychoacoustics is a fairly young field, and the models are still being worked on and changed. Give it a little while, the models are already good and getting better every year.
I wonder about this. I admit I don't know about Peru, but in my experiance (in the Dominican Republic, Thailand, and Laos among others) while the people in the country were poorer (in a monetary sense) they seemed to enjoy a higher quality of life (in most cases the rural poor were farmers, so always had food at the table) and much of the time the urban wells were cleaner than the city sources of water (Bangkok and parts of Thailand seemed to be an exception to this, as the cities had VERY cheap water available). An important note: just because water comes out of a clean spickit or indoor plumbing does NOT mean it is safe to drink.
Except for the fact that Jesus is pronounced way differently in Spanish than in English. Also, the Bible Belt is above the South, and if it wasn't Southerners would already know this (being close to the Mexico has some crazy correlation to higher Mexican populations). Anyways, most Bible Belters would HEAR "This is Hey-Zeus, How can I help you". and would think nothing of it.
A room like this should be cheaply done. Ideally, this room should get very little use, and making the room extremely nice would be a bigger waste of resources than the room itself.
I have to agree, I personally thought the coolest part of the Minority Report computer interface was the little portable screens. I wish that when I brought my PDA near my desktop that it would augment the desktop screen, instead of just "syncing" the two times. For example if I could work it out so that when linked via bluetooth that my PDA became a display of unread e-mail messages, system information, or a music remote control or something like that I would be ecstatic. That is the future that I am most excited about.
I know in my field computers have caused productivity to leap vast amounts, but we use most AS400 systems, and most all the office has thin-clients and VNC into the important stuff. Now I will give you that if we lose telephone or internet than the office grinds to a halt, and if the server goes down the warehouse can only work on already printed tickets, but those outages are rare and keep getting more scarce.
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Because you left out decriminalization. Do you think that when it was decided that prohibition of alcohol was a bad idea that it should be left up to the President and the Judicial system to give everyone pardons and immunity (which in most cases someone has to be arrested for something before they can receive either)? Don't you think it would be a hell of a lot easier of the legislators were able to change and retract laws? I would like to point out at this time there have probably been more judges bought and owned than congress-people. Granted the appeals court is usually a good check on this, but if you also own the district attorney...
Wouldn't that be RUS-eating vines? I mean, they are vines that eat rodents of unusual size - not vines of unusual size that eat rats.
I know many doctors, and I am going to have to call B.S. on this. I know several who have responded while off duty, and the only thing they mention is that they never give out their name when responding while off duty. However, in some places (my state is not such a region) an off duty doctor is only able to hand of care to someone as qualified or more qualified than themselves, in these areas there is an issue of if a doctor begins giving aid he may not be capable of handing off treatment to an emergency responder.
At the high school I attended there was, and I believe still is, an elective gym class that had CPR training - among other first aid - as part of the curriculum. The class was titled "Sports Fitness", and pretty much everyone that played any sport took it (part of the class included at least 2 days a week in the weight room, which definitely helped enrollment). Only two real flaws that I can think of were that the class was an elective - not required, and that CPR certification expires and you weren't allowed to take the class multiple times.
It has been a while since I have been in High School, but I am guessing the administration didn't purposfully and didn't want to get involved in this. My guess would be someone, an angry someone (either parent or student), reported this. If it is like most administrations I know, the administration would say "well, we don't really know about this facebook thing and have more important stuff to do", as schools really don't like to bring negative attention to themselves, especially regarding student behavior. But as angry people tend to do, I am guessing they would not let up on the issue (be it because their kid was provided alcohol by another, or they weren't invited to the party, or Billy was supposed to go out with e but partied with Jill or whatever), and forced the administrations hand.
You have to remember the circumstances and context. John Henry was a black man in a time when employment prospects for black men were few and far between. Henry Ford for a long time refused to employ any blacks, and when he finally caved he only allowed them to hold janitorial positions. At the time a John Henry there were not near the same opportunities and services for someone to take advantage of, in addition to limits of transportation to and difficulty finding out about new jobs or opportunities due to communication limitations of the time. It's great that adaption was an option for your great-grandpa. Unfortunately adaptation is not an option for everyone.
Damned fool for fighting to keep the jobs of himself and his coworkers? I would argue that you are a damned fool if you lay over and no longer put food on the plate for your family. This isn't something where he had the choice to switch from a typewriter to a computer, but a case where a machine was going to entirely replace him and others. For modern perspective look at the fight between labor and automation in the auto industry.
The problem is that those big companies don't care. The free market idea assumes that if there is enough need, someone will supply something to fill it.
I hate this "big company" rhetoric. Let me ask you a question, how did these big companies become big companies? If there is enough need it will happen, no matter what the current providers want to happen, due to the creation of new companies and new players. Notice how Intel has now made moves into the graphical arena, and note that their are still graphics companies that could be potential competitors if they thought they could generate profit from the niche market (potential companies include VIA, Transmeta, 3DLabs, Matrox and others).
How do you know I'm not just twice as likely to defend my home from a friend or family member?
Try driving in Bangkok!!!
As someone who has been to Bangkok I am going to have to turn down your invitation to get myself killed. I also think in the interest of public safety you should withdraw your invite, especially to those from countries that drive on the right side of the road - it is hard enough to get used to that change let alone the loose traffic laws and darting motorcycle taxis.
Of course Nerds enjoy reading, but not on paper! You may have to turn in your card for. Now days you need a Nokia N810, an iPhone, a hacked Nintendo DS, a Bookeen, or a flash memory reader soldered to an LCD (bonus points if you add a speaker and ogg support for audio books). And you don't buy books, you get a scanner and a bash script along with a local library card. And Project Gutenberg.
Completely offtopic but this seems a good place to ask: is there a way to do something like that in Safari? Safari has converted me over with the dictionary support and the find functionality, but I dearly miss my imdb, urban dictionary, and dictionary.com keyword searches.
Since when is the Ocean a closed system? As I understood it the Ocean is a chaotic system, affected by the moon, melting of arctic ice, solar radiation, weather patterns, asteroids, river outpours, and a myriad of other inputs.
Isn't Konqueror based on Webkit? If so than I would say it has corporate support from Apple. IIRC Apple were the ones to get it to pass the Acid2 test.
The US spends a larger percent of its GDP on its military than most nations on the planet.
The U.S. spends a super-large amount on the military, but in comparison to GDP it is on par with most countries and behind many. The U.S. spends around 3.3% of GDP on military. For comparison China spends around 4%, Russia 4.8%, Saudi Arabia 12%, India 2.7%, Iran 4.6%, Greece 4.4%, Congo 21.7%, Singapore 5.2%, and North Korea 25%. (That data is from 2002, and these rates fluctuate, so they should be interpreted as an approximate figure. All numbers from the International Institute for Strategic Studies).
I read a humourous article a few years ago talking about surprising survey results.
Not only is that misspelled, but it should also be an indication to take that statistic with a grain of salt.
A guy I know who was in the SAS until a couple of years ago has told me about how easy it was to defeat the US forces in wargames, due to their arrogance and reliance on their technology.
The U.S. military has continued to show itself to be an exceptional force at winning battles and defeating enemy threats. Winning the war on the ground does not translate into victory on the ideological front though, where the U.S. has recently had great falterings (which in almost all cases in not the job of the military). Also remember that America loves disinformation, and is more than happy to have troops underperform in wargames and instruct soldiers not to use the full capabilities of their equipment (I wish I still had the citation, but there was a great example of a U.S. battleship seeing how fast a soviet sub trailing it could go, but stopped pretty far short of full speed so that the soviets wouldn't know exactly how fast our battleships could go).
stop thinking they are automatically the greatest nation on Earth just because they are America
Most Americans don't think that they are the greatest just because they are Americans, they think that because they have the most productive workforce outside of Germany, only behind Germany and China in the top exporter list, by far the wealthiest nation, and they have an army that is comparable to the rest of the world combined while spending a smaller fraction of the U.S. GDP on it than many other countries do. In addition, many of the shining examples of development (mainly Japan, Israel, and South Korea) have had heavy U.S. backing and influence. Regarding the U.S. as a joke is an even bigger mistake than regarding China as a joke. The U.S. is a juggernaut that does not appear to be going away anytime soon.
I wouldn't say never. Psychoacoustics is a fairly young field, and the models are still being worked on and changed. Give it a little while, the models are already good and getting better every year.
It's worse out of the cities
I wonder about this. I admit I don't know about Peru, but in my experiance (in the Dominican Republic, Thailand, and Laos among others) while the people in the country were poorer (in a monetary sense) they seemed to enjoy a higher quality of life (in most cases the rural poor were farmers, so always had food at the table) and much of the time the urban wells were cleaner than the city sources of water (Bangkok and parts of Thailand seemed to be an exception to this, as the cities had VERY cheap water available). An important note: just because water comes out of a clean spickit or indoor plumbing does NOT mean it is safe to drink.
Except for the fact that Jesus is pronounced way differently in Spanish than in English. Also, the Bible Belt is above the South, and if it wasn't Southerners would already know this (being close to the Mexico has some crazy correlation to higher Mexican populations). Anyways, most Bible Belters would HEAR "This is Hey-Zeus, How can I help you". and would think nothing of it.
A room like this should be cheaply done. Ideally, this room should get very little use, and making the room extremely nice would be a bigger waste of resources than the room itself.
Modern bombs are launched (at least precision guided ones). The type of bomb you are thinking of is actually called a Gravity bomb.
I have to agree, I personally thought the coolest part of the Minority Report computer interface was the little portable screens. I wish that when I brought my PDA near my desktop that it would augment the desktop screen, instead of just "syncing" the two times. For example if I could work it out so that when linked via bluetooth that my PDA became a display of unread e-mail messages, system information, or a music remote control or something like that I would be ecstatic. That is the future that I am most excited about.
I know in my field computers have caused productivity to leap vast amounts, but we use most AS400 systems, and most all the office has thin-clients and VNC into the important stuff. Now I will give you that if we lose telephone or internet than the office grinds to a halt, and if the server goes down the warehouse can only work on already printed tickets, but those outages are rare and keep getting more scarce.