An even more interresting question is: why is consensuel sex in a movie rated 18, while a murder is rated 13 or so. The "we don't want the kids to imitate" argument doesn't work here.
Just consider the case where China would say "we will not lend any more money and we will not renew any of the current loans (i.e. we want our money back as soon as the agreement allows it)". That would create very serious problems for the US. Of course, at the moment it's not in China's best interests either because the US is a good customer, but that could change. It also means it's now in the US' best interests to be a good customer.
the USA will just tell china to wait for it's money like a good boy.
Just tell *any* country/institution that you won't pay your debt and you're in for a financial collapse because then nobody else will lend you anything.
really it's in china's best interests to play nice with america as it's their number one customer, without them china's rise is finished as their own domestic demand can't support the double digit growth they have been enjoying (as seen in their 8% figure)
It's not because China depends on the US that it hasn't got the US by the balls. It's probably *because* they depend so much on the US that they want to make sure to hold all this US dept and be able to exert some control.
When you come in to the US, they tell you that you don't have to comply with the checks, but that if you don't you can't enter. So what if you refuse to comply with that one? You can't leave?
Great cartoon. Couldn't think of a better way to illustrate the problem. What's scary is when you realise just how much corn you need to fill up a tank (a few hundred kg IIRC).
It's not that simple. You *can* make things that last out of plastics. My son is playing with plastic toys I used to play with and they're in good shape. The problem now is with cheap, thin plastics.
But I just don't believe you when you claim you have to read the manual to use the new version.
You're right, I just gave up. Seriously, I've often switched to new versions of the software without being totally confused by the new interface. That was the first time I had a spend time just to find how to open a document.
"If I need to read the manual before I can use the new version of X, the interface is crap". That's what I have against the ribbon. Thankfully, I rarely have to deal with MS Office.
Close, but not quite. You still have the "bad sectors" that the drive remapped to another area and then completely forgot about. Those would likely still contain the original data. All you have to do is convince (r replace) the drive's electronics to read them.
Regardless of whether you choose to do a masters or start working right away, it's not likely to penalize your career. So how about you do what you feel like doing? It's really important to feel comfortable in what you're doing. If you don't like your masters, it'll be useless, but if you really like it, then I'm sure it'll be very valuable. My only advice if you want to do a masters is don't do a "course masters", do a research masters.
They're probably Wolf spiders anyway, not "Bird Eaters". As long as they're not funnel-web spiders I guess it's not too bad. Having *that* crawl all over the place would really suck.
I agree that it's time that matters. The problem is that it's often a lot longer to take public transport than to drive. Make public transport more efficient (i.e. faster) and you'll see a lot more people using it.
Yes, I was on the Storrs campus. To be honest it looked to me like a high school sometimes. On the funny side, it was the first (and only) time in my life I saw the police (a university police, no less!) stop a snowball fight using tear gas!
Tests are the easy way out for too many professors; I think projects, open book exams and papers are the way to go.
What's the difference between a test an an exam (not a native English speaker, so there seems to be a subtlety I'm missing here)? I definitely agree that close-book exams are bad because in real-life you'll have the books and if it's important you'll know it without the book eventually. I also agree that projects are a good thing. However, I've seen too often professors rely too much on projects and not enough on exams. The result is that you have people who understand nothing and still pass because they had good people doing the project for them (I've rarely seen a team where everyone works equally and rarely seen a team of more than 4 where there isn't one that doesn't work at all).
Some would say that if we COULD create a universe with life in it that we would be defined as gods to those we have created. Our knowledge would be far beyond that of what we have created, at least initially, and our existence would be so far beyond that of our creations that we WOULD seem godlike.
But what's more interesting is the possibility that we would create beings that are more intelligent than we are. Which of course brings the possibility that our own god would be even less intelligent (but with more resources) than we are.
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I wonder if that would be possible if the planet's star collided with a second star, which could have inverted the original momentum.
Two space shuttle disasters in just a little over 100 missions. That's almost (not quite) as safe as serving in Iraq.
When did they make volts a unit of energy?
Ever since the charge is fixed to one electron.
I'm pretty sure what happened before the big bang is similar to what will happen after eternity.
It doesn't even have anything onboard to which you could apply the phase "reverse the polarity"
Of course it does. I heard it's powered by AA batteries.
I'm not claiming ye did, merely replying to gp.
Its the same thing with health care. Because there is not an infinite supply of livers, along with an infinite supply of doctors,
As far as I know, selling organs to the highest bidder is still illegal in most countries.
Every joule of energy we get on the earth, without tapping geothermal sources, originally comes from the sun.
There's actually another exception: nuclear energy. It comes from supernovas that predate the solar system's formation.
An even more interresting question is: why is consensuel sex in a movie rated 18, while a murder is rated 13 or so. The "we don't want the kids to imitate" argument doesn't work here.
Just consider the case where China would say "we will not lend any more money and we will not renew any of the current loans (i.e. we want our money back as soon as the agreement allows it)". That would create very serious problems for the US. Of course, at the moment it's not in China's best interests either because the US is a good customer, but that could change. It also means it's now in the US' best interests to be a good customer.
the USA will just tell china to wait for it's money like a good boy.
Just tell *any* country/institution that you won't pay your debt and you're in for a financial collapse because then nobody else will lend you anything.
really it's in china's best interests to play nice with america as it's their number one customer, without them china's rise is finished as their own domestic demand can't support the double digit growth they have been enjoying (as seen in their 8% figure)
It's not because China depends on the US that it hasn't got the US by the balls. It's probably *because* they depend so much on the US that they want to make sure to hold all this US dept and be able to exert some control.
When you come in to the US, they tell you that you don't have to comply with the checks, but that if you don't you can't enter. So what if you refuse to comply with that one? You can't leave?
Great cartoon. Couldn't think of a better way to illustrate the problem. What's scary is when you realise just how much corn you need to fill up a tank (a few hundred kg IIRC).
The reason is simple; Steel vs. plastics.
It's not that simple. You *can* make things that last out of plastics. My son is playing with plastic toys I used to play with and they're in good shape. The problem now is with cheap, thin plastics.
Now, that's a more accurate title.
But I just don't believe you when you claim you have to read the manual to use the new version.
You're right, I just gave up. Seriously, I've often switched to new versions of the software without being totally confused by the new interface. That was the first time I had a spend time just to find how to open a document.
"If I need to read the manual before I can use the new version of X, the interface is crap". That's what I have against the ribbon. Thankfully, I rarely have to deal with MS Office.
But what IS overwritten is gone.
Close, but not quite. You still have the "bad sectors" that the drive remapped to another area and then completely forgot about. Those would likely still contain the original data. All you have to do is convince (r replace) the drive's electronics to read them.
Regardless of whether you choose to do a masters or start working right away, it's not likely to penalize your career. So how about you do what you feel like doing? It's really important to feel comfortable in what you're doing. If you don't like your masters, it'll be useless, but if you really like it, then I'm sure it'll be very valuable. My only advice if you want to do a masters is don't do a "course masters", do a research masters.
They're probably Wolf spiders anyway, not "Bird Eaters". As long as they're not funnel-web spiders I guess it's not too bad. Having *that* crawl all over the place would really suck.
I agree that it's time that matters. The problem is that it's often a lot longer to take public transport than to drive. Make public transport more efficient (i.e. faster) and you'll see a lot more people using it.
Yes, I was on the Storrs campus. To be honest it looked to me like a high school sometimes. On the funny side, it was the first (and only) time in my life I saw the police (a university police, no less!) stop a snowball fight using tear gas!
Tests are the easy way out for too many professors; I think projects, open book exams and papers are the way to go.
What's the difference between a test an an exam (not a native English speaker, so there seems to be a subtlety I'm missing here)? I definitely agree that close-book exams are bad because in real-life you'll have the books and if it's important you'll know it without the book eventually. I also agree that projects are a good thing. However, I've seen too often professors rely too much on projects and not enough on exams. The result is that you have people who understand nothing and still pass because they had good people doing the project for them (I've rarely seen a team where everyone works equally and rarely seen a team of more than 4 where there isn't one that doesn't work at all).
Some would say that if we COULD create a universe with life in it that we would be defined as gods to those we have created. Our knowledge would be far beyond that of what we have created, at least initially, and our existence would be so far beyond that of our creations that we WOULD seem godlike.
But what's more interesting is the possibility that we would create beings that are more intelligent than we are. Which of course brings the possibility that our own god would be even less intelligent (but with more resources) than we are.
Every kid deserves to be taught by a teacher with above-average skills. That'll solve everything.