Yeah. You know what, I graduated with a degree in CS from a top 5 ranked CS dept. I couldn't get a job out of school so I went to work at the company I worked at the summer before. I moved to St. Louis into an apartment complex where it was a huge Indian community. I didn't realize it at first, but a LOT of them were in CS work and since most were foreign they must have been on H1-B. Unfortunately I read about all of this now after I have moved on. So I met a new neighbor once and welcomed him. He said he had a degree in CS and he looked younger than I. I told him I have a degree in CS also, from Illinois. He was like "wow". The funny part was that he had a job related to CS and I didn't. It would have been an interesting experiment to become friends with more of them and apply for jobs the same places they work. I did have some friends there but didn't get into talking about that ever.
Ok change "chewing gum" to "vandalism" then, hehe. Sure it was over the top, but I thought it was funny:) Why is selling gum illegal anyway? Is it supposed to be a public good thing? You give evidence yourself for how more strict S'pore is. I imagine it's a clean country though.
Well, that's what I thought we were talking about here. Less transportation equals less and/or more expensive fresh vegetables, yeah.
If that's what the original poster meant then I don't see how more CO2 would hurt vegetables as long as major climate change doesn't happen as a result. Yes, and CO2 doesn't really make dirty air.
Well of course everyone that lives in the city doesn't have to do it. Gardens make more fresh vegetables in season (=fresh) than a family can eat from what I've seen, since they are always being passed around here. Actually if you lived in a huge city like NY it could be a business idea to start a garden and fresh produce business since farms are presumably so far away. You can probably get a good price for the goods and it might be doable if you find a spot to grow stuff. I know there are gardens on the roofs of some buildings:) It doesn't have to be downtown, just relatively close.
Cities have farmer's markets. They get fresh food from nearby, at least in the ones I've been to. It doesn't have to be grown in the city. Go buy vegetables there. I'm near St. Louis (one of the worst urban sprawl offenders). Trucking some stuff in from the outskirts is a lot less carbon emissions than getting oranges from Florida and apples from Washington etc.
I know this won't happen since economic forces are at work. Transportation (gas) costs will just keep going up however. We could stand to use trains more than we do instead of using trucking so much (and subsidize or de-subsidize accordingly).
You could plant your own garden! or have neighbors and friends that have one and pass around the fresh vegetables certain times of the year. Some people still do that.:)
Farms have a lot of plants that eat CO2 and emit O2, yes, but it's temporary. We harvest the plants, eat the food, tear up the ground and do it again. Trees used to be there and they did a lot more of the CO2 eating and weren't harvested.
how about all the ice in Greenland melting? That's kind of convincing. Whether humans are the main problem or not, something is happening. yeah I didn't rtfa yet hehe
Why do things like this get patents? The touchpad has already been invented. Will this prevent other manufacturers from putting touchpads around their screens? That's ridiculous. It just seems like everything is patented (or pending) today even if it's not an invention of any kind.
I lived in an apartment complex in a suburb of St. Louis that was definitely an xpatriate Indian community. I didn't notice at first but there were some things that implied female subservience. For example, walking ont othe grocery store I noticed an Indian couple. The woman had been a bit in front but she got to the side and let her husband enter first. It was obvious enough to notice if you were looking. I have also heard bits about an Indian guy and (European) American woman in a relationship and it seemed that the guy had problems with her being her own person.
So have you noticed any of these cultural things?
That said, I met a lot of cool people living there. I played basketball hehe, kicked their butts. I also played ping pong with them. They played cricket out there also but I didn't play:)
"I have done internships before with some of the top American countries. The environment here is at the same level if not better than the companies I've worked for"
I know the feeling:) I was in the college of engineering also and all my CS/engineering classes were like that. Also, when I lived in St. Louis for a few years I was in an apartmen complex that was a major Indian expatriate community. It was interesting.
Well it's kind of organic when you meet someone through a friend or at some activity.
The problem is that work is the place where I see the most girls and where I spend the most time. Well now that I just got a new job at a small company there is only one female and she's married.
wow that worked? that's great to hear. I have been skeptical. Sometimes they fill those type of things with fake listings to get new users. Mainly I never wanted to try something like that because I figured it should happen organically, but I guess it doesn't matter how it begins, it's organic after that anyway.
I imagine I will be friends with a girl for a long time before I become more involved and then marry her. Can I say 'girl'? I have some friends-who-are-girls for a long time but I only have one in mind that could become something and even that is a longshot. We did "meet" organically but unfortunately it has just been online and she's pretty darn far away.
Ok well I went there and I saw the first few headlines and freaked out a bit... like oh my god, that's not right, hide in the corner kind of freaking out..shiver. The lame sexual harassment joke did cross my mind. Then after I made the comment, I read some more, read a forum with a bunch of moms commenting even, and became sadder and sadder.
I actually asked something like that in my sexual harassment training class. We went over all the things you can't do and how anything at all can be considered harassment if it makes someone uncomfortable and I asked, "so if you wanted to ask someone out, how could you do it?"
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Yeah. You know what, I graduated with a degree in CS from a top 5 ranked CS dept. I couldn't get a job out of school so I went to work at the company I worked at the summer before. I moved to St. Louis into an apartment complex where it was a huge Indian community. I didn't realize it at first, but a LOT of them were in CS work and since most were foreign they must have been on H1-B. Unfortunately I read about all of this now after I have moved on. So I met a new neighbor once and welcomed him. He said he had a degree in CS and he looked younger than I. I told him I have a degree in CS also, from Illinois. He was like "wow". The funny part was that he had a job related to CS and I didn't. It would have been an interesting experiment to become friends with more of them and apply for jobs the same places they work. I did have some friends there but didn't get into talking about that ever.
Ok change "chewing gum" to "vandalism" then, hehe. :)
Sure it was over the top, but I thought it was funny
Why is selling gum illegal anyway? Is it supposed to be a public good thing? You give evidence yourself for how more strict S'pore is. I imagine it's a clean country though.
You get 40 canings or something for chewing gum in Singapore, LOL.
Well, that's what I thought we were talking about here. Less transportation equals less and/or more expensive fresh vegetables, yeah.
If that's what the original poster meant then I don't see how more CO2 would hurt vegetables as long as major climate change doesn't happen as a result. Yes, and CO2 doesn't really make dirty air.
Interesting. I was going to say they use straw but it is used less now with modern farming.
:)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw
Well of course everyone that lives in the city doesn't have to do it. Gardens make more fresh vegetables in season (=fresh) than a family can eat from what I've seen, since they are always being passed around here. Actually if you lived in a huge city like NY it could be a business idea to start a garden and fresh produce business since farms are presumably so far away. You can probably get a good price for the goods and it might be doable if you find a spot to grow stuff. I know there are gardens on the roofs of some buildings :) It doesn't have to be downtown, just relatively close.
Cities have farmer's markets. They get fresh food from nearby, at least in the ones I've been to. It doesn't have to be grown in the city. Go buy vegetables there. I'm near St. Louis (one of the worst urban sprawl offenders). Trucking some stuff in from the outskirts is a lot less carbon emissions than getting oranges from Florida and apples from Washington etc.
I know this won't happen since economic forces are at work. Transportation (gas) costs will just keep going up however. We could stand to use trains more than we do instead of using trucking so much (and subsidize or de-subsidize accordingly).
You could plant your own garden! or have neighbors and friends that have one and pass around the fresh vegetables certain times of the year. Some people still do that. :)
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by the way, Greenland is still mostly covered with ice (for now), not permafrost. Permafrost is permanently frozen ground, ice isn't needed.
Farms have a lot of plants that eat CO2 and emit O2, yes, but it's temporary. We harvest the plants, eat the food, tear up the ground and do it again. Trees used to be there and they did a lot more of the CO2 eating and weren't harvested.
LOL, thanks for the laugh.
how about all the ice in Greenland melting? That's kind of convincing. Whether humans are the main problem or not, something is happening. yeah I didn't rtfa yet hehe
Why do things like this get patents? The touchpad has already been invented. Will this prevent other manufacturers from putting touchpads around their screens? That's ridiculous. It just seems like everything is patented (or pending) today even if it's not an invention of any kind.
Why is this not linked to flagrant disregard? ...a site that actually has some value. something smells.
$20 DVD players at Wal-Mart anyone?
yeah that's sort of a negative of scraping :)
and gmail or whatever was blocked at work so you would have to use your work email.
Thanks for posting and answering questions :)
:)
I lived in an apartment complex in a suburb of St. Louis that was definitely an xpatriate Indian community. I didn't notice at first but there were some things that implied female subservience. For example, walking ont othe grocery store I noticed an Indian couple. The woman had been a bit in front but she got to the side and let her husband enter first. It was obvious enough to notice if you were looking. I have also heard bits about an Indian guy and (European) American woman in a relationship and it seemed that the guy had problems with her being her own person.
So have you noticed any of these cultural things?
That said, I met a lot of cool people living there. I played basketball hehe, kicked their butts. I also played ping pong with them. They played cricket out there also but I didn't play
hehe
I know the feeling :)
I was in the college of engineering also and all my CS/engineering classes were like that. Also, when I lived in St. Louis for a few years I was in an apartmen complex that was a major Indian expatriate community. It was interesting.
Well it's kind of organic when you meet someone through a friend or at some activity.
Thanks for the info.
Well of course I was too young to remember so I'm more worried about the long term effects. It just makes sense, it's obviously there for a reason.
Maybe early trauma like that affects development in some unknown way though.
I am against tattoos and piercings and the whole bit too... so yeah, scarred for life literally I guess.
Hey congrats. Yeah that's good to hear, but I notice a large number of women seem to be attracted to the knuckle dragging barbarians.
Hehe, my buddy is a rocket scientist as well as he continuously reminds me.
Thanks.
Hey, I hope I'll find someone too, lol.
Well thanks. Yeah I still have hope in there somewhere
The problem is that work is the place where I see the most girls and where I spend the most time. Well now that I just got a new job at a small company there is only one female and she's married.
wow that worked? that's great to hear. I have been skeptical. Sometimes they fill those type of things with fake listings to get new users. Mainly I never wanted to try something like that because I figured it should happen organically, but I guess it doesn't matter how it begins, it's organic after that anyway.
I imagine I will be friends with a girl for a long time before I become more involved and then marry her. Can I say 'girl'? I have some friends-who-are-girls for a long time but I only have one in mind that could become something and even that is a longshot. We did "meet" organically but unfortunately it has just been online and she's pretty darn far away.
Ok well I went there and I saw the first few headlines and freaked out a bit... like oh my god, that's not right, hide in the corner kind of freaking out..shiver. The lame sexual harassment joke did cross my mind. Then after I made the comment, I read some more, read a forum with a bunch of moms commenting even, and became sadder and sadder.
:(
darn parents
I actually asked something like that in my sexual harassment training class. We went over all the things you can't do and how anything at all can be considered harassment if it makes someone uncomfortable and I asked, "so if you wanted to ask someone out, how could you do it?"
There was pretty much just silence in the room.