I suppose the women and men in uniform calling you "Chief" is assigning an equivalent military title to your role as an instructor-who-is-not-called-professor? Professors are like commissioned officers so they attribute to you a non-commissioned officer's rank?
Just FYI, Chief is also used to address Army & Marine Corp warrant officers. The warrant ranks sit between NCOs and commissioned officers.
The only thing is that persons in uniform calling me sir, (or ma'am in your case) puts me a little at unease because whatever my level of authority, I am not serving in the military and I have not served in the military.
If it eases your conscience a little, military personnel generally address civilians as "sir" or "ma'am". There's nothing authoritative about it, it's just how the military trains its personnel.
Can I ask where you were raised? I was brought up in the southern US and "sir" or "ma'am" was a fairly common form of address, particularly kids addressing adults or two adults who hadn't previously met addressing each other for the first time. Times have changed somewhat, I imagine.
We don't really know if these things are superior to, equal to, or inferior to the existing back-braces. I imagine that's why Lowe's is only using it in a single store at first. You know, test bed, evaluation, all that good stuff.
It may sound far-fetched, but it's possible. Anthrax spores are ridiculously hardy under natural conditions and can survive in their dormant state for years. (Decontamination is done with either high heat (120 celcius) or some rather nasty chemicals.) Gruinard Island is the most famous example, but there are other cases of dormant anthrax spores "waking up" decades after the original victim, either animal or human, died from infection. Anthrax can also spread by inhalation, touch (if there's an open wound), or ingestion. Let's say one of the reindeer walked by the original corpse and inhaled some spores. Reindeer gets infected. Reindeer herders slaughter reindeer before it shows symptoms and eat the meat. Now they're infected.
Driers are useful when the conditions outside aren't amenable to drying clothing. For example, if the outside temperature is below freezing, which is common in many places for at least one month out of the year, clothing turns into icicles. Or if it's raining outside. Or if it's early spring and the local farmers are spreading manure in their fields in preparation for the spring harvest, and you don't want your clothing to smell like manure after a few hours outside. (For the record, I have no objection to living near farmers who use manure. I just keep my windows closed at certain times of the day and don't hang my laundry out to dry.)
As for interior, my current apartment doesn't have room for me to put a drying rack anywhere that I won't trip over it.
There are valid reasons for someone to own a drier and not hang their clothing outside.
108. The United Nations Mission concludes that chemical weapons have been used in the ongoing conflict between the parties in the Syrian Arab Republic.
Ghouta, 21 August 2013
109. The United Nations Mission collected clear and convincing evidence that chemical weapons were used also against civilians, including children, on a relatively large scale in the Ghouta area of Damascus on 21 August 2013.
110. This conclusion was based on the following:
(a) Impacted and exploded surface-to-surface rockets, capable to carry a chemical payload, were found to contain Sarin;
(b) Close to the rocket impact sites, in the area where patients were affected, the environment was found to be contaminated by Sarin;
(c) The epidemiology of over 50 interviews given by survivors and health-care workers provided ample corroboration of the medical and scientific results; (d) A number of patients/survivors were clearly diagnosed as intoxicated by an organophosphorous compound;
(e) Blood and urine samples from the same patients were found positive for Sarin and Sarin signatures.
The US, UK, France and Human Rights Watch blame Assad based on the trajectory of the rockets and type of rocket used (see Appendix 5 of the report). The Russians claim the Syrian government handed them material proof that the rebels carried out the attacks, but to my knowledge neither Russia or Syria ever made that evidence publicly available. You're free to believe what you like, but don't misrepresent what's in the actual report. We're Slashdot and we're better than that.
I concur. I stopped buying Sony products after the root-kit debacle in 2005. I don't by Apple products because I don't like their walled garden model. Samsung was my go-to for a while since they made decent products and didn't seem to view their customer base as chattel, but the recent incidents with the Galaxy Note 7 are making me wary of purchasing anything else from them.
The usual laissez-faire counter-argument is "go make your own" but most of us don't have the time or expertise to build our own printers (or cellphones, or cars, or tractors, or....). Fair Phone seems to be making a stab at on the cell phone front (though that does nothing to alleviate the service provider problem) but I'm not aware of many other companies or outfits doing anything similar on other fronts.
While joining copper pipe is a PITA, cutting copper isn't all that difficult if you've got a half-way decent pipe cutter. Shouldn't cost you more than $10 at your local hardware store. If you're not familiar w/ PEX piping, I can't recommend it highly enough. I bought a fixer-upper some years ago and used PEX to re-route several water lines as part of the remodel. Connecting PEX to existing copper lines isn't terribly difficult, you just have to make sure you have the right-size compression fitting.
I didn't see a geographic location mentioned in the story, but building regulations vary from state to state here in the US. Some states require you hire a licensed specialist for particular types of constructions. In other states, anyone can do any type of work but are required to have it inspected by a licensed professional or building inspector prior to moving on to related jobs. For example, you can do your own electrical work but you're required to have the box and wiring inspected before you start attaching outlets and fixtures.
I heartily agree with resurrecting the CCC and/or WPA. Unfortunately I see two major political obstacles to their return. The first would come from the private construction sector who would argue the government would effectively underbid them on all public construction projects and thereby force them out of that market. The second would be the http://www.bls.gov/web/empsit/cpsee_e16.htm). I could easily see someone like Ta-Nehisi Coates claiming such programs were inherently racist, due to the kind of work being done.
It boggles my mind that deletionists exist. To what end? Just to piss everyone off? To make Wikipedia unreliable or not useful and thereby drive us all back to the days when only things printed on paper mattered? Or do some men just want to watch the world (not) learn?
Use vs Utilize does have an actual nuance in some circles. "Use": this device is doing it's intended purpose, ie a butterknife to cut butter. "Utilize": this device is replacing a widget we don't actually have but it's the closest thing at hand that gets the job done, ie a butterknife to turn a flat-head screw.
I think you're describing something akin to a steganographic partition. According to Wikipedia "FreeOTFE and TrueCrypt allow a second encrypted file system to be hidden within another encrypted file system. The goal of this filesystem-within-a-filesystem is to allow the users to have a “decoy” file system with data that is interesting but not overtly sensitive. A person who is arrested or captured with a laptop encrypted using this software could then give up the first file system’s password, with the hope that the decoy would be sufficient to satisfy the person’s interrogators." It's not precisely what you're describing, but close.
The Sad Puppies evolved. I've followed this whole shebang for the last few years, mostly out of curiosity. The most civil response I saw to Sad Puppies last year was "Recommendations are fine, but you didn't have a large enough list of recommendations, so you're really just slate voting." To counter that, this year the Sad Puppies basically ran a mini-nomination. They put up a website (http://sadpuppies4.org/) where anyone could post a nomination recommendation for whatever they believed was worthy of a Hugo nomination. Ancillary Mercy ended up on the list: http://sadpuppies4.org/the-lis....
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I suppose the women and men in uniform calling you "Chief" is assigning an equivalent military title to your role as an instructor-who-is-not-called-professor? Professors are like commissioned officers so they attribute to you a non-commissioned officer's rank?
Just FYI, Chief is also used to address Army & Marine Corp warrant officers. The warrant ranks sit between NCOs and commissioned officers.
The only thing is that persons in uniform calling me sir, (or ma'am in your case) puts me a little at unease because whatever my level of authority, I am not serving in the military and I have not served in the military.
If it eases your conscience a little, military personnel generally address civilians as "sir" or "ma'am". There's nothing authoritative about it, it's just how the military trains its personnel.
Can I ask where you were raised? I was brought up in the southern US and "sir" or "ma'am" was a fairly common form of address, particularly kids addressing adults or two adults who hadn't previously met addressing each other for the first time. Times have changed somewhat, I imagine.
We don't really know if these things are superior to, equal to, or inferior to the existing back-braces. I imagine that's why Lowe's is only using it in a single store at first. You know, test bed, evaluation, all that good stuff.
It may sound far-fetched, but it's possible. Anthrax spores are ridiculously hardy under natural conditions and can survive in their dormant state for years. (Decontamination is done with either high heat (120 celcius) or some rather nasty chemicals.) Gruinard Island is the most famous example, but there are other cases of dormant anthrax spores "waking up" decades after the original victim, either animal or human, died from infection. Anthrax can also spread by inhalation, touch (if there's an open wound), or ingestion. Let's say one of the reindeer walked by the original corpse and inhaled some spores. Reindeer gets infected. Reindeer herders slaughter reindeer before it shows symptoms and eat the meat. Now they're infected.
Driers are useful when the conditions outside aren't amenable to drying clothing. For example, if the outside temperature is below freezing, which is common in many places for at least one month out of the year, clothing turns into icicles. Or if it's raining outside. Or if it's early spring and the local farmers are spreading manure in their fields in preparation for the spring harvest, and you don't want your clothing to smell like manure after a few hours outside. (For the record, I have no objection to living near farmers who use manure. I just keep my windows closed at certain times of the day and don't hang my laundry out to dry.)
As for interior, my current apartment doesn't have room for me to put a drying rack anywhere that I won't trip over it.
There are valid reasons for someone to own a drier and not hang their clothing outside.
No one is claiming it's a magic-bullet (sort-of pun not intended), but it's one more tool in the tool kit. Isn't that a good thing?
Had I the mod points. Bravo, good Gravis, bravo.
The first gas attack in Ghouta in 2013 was confirmed by the UN to be initiated by the (US backed) rebels.
Incorrect. The UN report only confirms that chemical weapons had been used, but said nothing about responsibility. This is the conclusion from the UN report on Ghouta:
108. The United Nations Mission concludes that chemical weapons have been used in the ongoing conflict between the parties in the Syrian Arab Republic.
Ghouta, 21 August 2013
109. The United Nations Mission collected clear and convincing evidence that chemical weapons were used also against civilians, including children, on a relatively large scale in the Ghouta area of Damascus on 21 August 2013.
110. This conclusion was based on the following:
(a) Impacted and exploded surface-to-surface rockets, capable to carry a chemical payload, were found to contain Sarin;
(b) Close to the rocket impact sites, in the area where patients were affected, the environment was found to be contaminated by Sarin;
(c) The epidemiology of over 50 interviews given by survivors and health-care workers provided ample corroboration of the medical and scientific results;
(d) A number of patients/survivors were clearly diagnosed as intoxicated by an organophosphorous compound;
(e) Blood and urine samples from the same patients were found positive for Sarin and Sarin signatures.
The US, UK, France and Human Rights Watch blame Assad based on the trajectory of the rockets and type of rocket used (see Appendix 5 of the report). The Russians claim the Syrian government handed them material proof that the rebels carried out the attacks, but to my knowledge neither Russia or Syria ever made that evidence publicly available.
You're free to believe what you like, but don't misrepresent what's in the actual report. We're Slashdot and we're better than that.
I concur. I stopped buying Sony products after the root-kit debacle in 2005. I don't by Apple products because I don't like their walled garden model. Samsung was my go-to for a while since they made decent products and didn't seem to view their customer base as chattel, but the recent incidents with the Galaxy Note 7 are making me wary of purchasing anything else from them.
The usual laissez-faire counter-argument is "go make your own" but most of us don't have the time or expertise to build our own printers (or cellphones, or cars, or tractors, or....). Fair Phone seems to be making a stab at on the cell phone front (though that does nothing to alleviate the service provider problem) but I'm not aware of many other companies or outfits doing anything similar on other fronts.
Wal-Marts will generally let folks w/ RVs park overnight without a fuss. I'm not sure how that squares with local vagrancy laws though.
While joining copper pipe is a PITA, cutting copper isn't all that difficult if you've got a half-way decent pipe cutter. Shouldn't cost you more than $10 at your local hardware store.
If you're not familiar w/ PEX piping, I can't recommend it highly enough. I bought a fixer-upper some years ago and used PEX to re-route several water lines as part of the remodel. Connecting PEX to existing copper lines isn't terribly difficult, you just have to make sure you have the right-size compression fitting.
I didn't see a geographic location mentioned in the story, but building regulations vary from state to state here in the US. Some states require you hire a licensed specialist for particular types of constructions. In other states, anyone can do any type of work but are required to have it inspected by a licensed professional or building inspector prior to moving on to related jobs. For example, you can do your own electrical work but you're required to have the box and wiring inspected before you start attaching outlets and fixtures.
I think you mean the Air Force's budget. The budget wasn't cut, they just diverted it to the F-35.
Imagine if all the money the world spends on $THINGIDONOTCAREFOR would, for just one year, be funnelled into $THINGSIDEEMMOREIMPORTANT...
Where are mod points when I truly need them?
ISIS has a surprisingly sophisticated logistics chain: http://www.reuters.com/article... The study referenced in the article is found here: http://www.conflictarm.com/pub...
I heartily agree with resurrecting the CCC and/or WPA. Unfortunately I see two major political obstacles to their return. The first would come from the private construction sector who would argue the government would effectively underbid them on all public construction projects and thereby force them out of that market. The second would be the http://www.bls.gov/web/empsit/cpsee_e16.htm). I could easily see someone like Ta-Nehisi Coates claiming such programs were inherently racist, due to the kind of work being done.
It boggles my mind that deletionists exist. To what end? Just to piss everyone off? To make Wikipedia unreliable or not useful and thereby drive us all back to the days when only things printed on paper mattered? Or do some men just want to watch the world (not) learn?
This is another good film with an all male cast. You could certainly cast women and keep the premise, but the dynamic would change quite a bit I think.
I say let 'em have at it. The dead don't care. Cemeteries are for the living.
Proof, if it were needed, that people are too stupid to be trusted with decisions like this
And what decisions, praytell, are people to be trusted with?
Use vs Utilize does have an actual nuance in some circles. "Use": this device is doing it's intended purpose, ie a butterknife to cut butter. "Utilize": this device is replacing a widget we don't actually have but it's the closest thing at hand that gets the job done, ie a butterknife to turn a flat-head screw.
If you pop hot on a drug test for a drug you're legally prescribed, you show your employer your prescription or a doctor's note.
I think you're describing something akin to a steganographic partition. According to Wikipedia "FreeOTFE and TrueCrypt allow a second encrypted file system to be hidden within another encrypted file system. The goal of this filesystem-within-a-filesystem is to allow the users to have a “decoy” file system with data that is interesting but not overtly sensitive. A person who is arrested or captured with a laptop encrypted using this software could then give up the first file system’s password, with the hope that the decoy would be sufficient to satisfy the person’s interrogators." It's not precisely what you're describing, but close.
The Sad Puppies evolved. I've followed this whole shebang for the last few years, mostly out of curiosity. The most civil response I saw to Sad Puppies last year was "Recommendations are fine, but you didn't have a large enough list of recommendations, so you're really just slate voting." To counter that, this year the Sad Puppies basically ran a mini-nomination. They put up a website (http://sadpuppies4.org/) where anyone could post a nomination recommendation for whatever they believed was worthy of a Hugo nomination. Ancillary Mercy ended up on the list: http://sadpuppies4.org/the-lis....
He was popular as a war hero. As a president he was deeply divisive, particularly for his treatment of South Carolina's threat of secession in 1832.