"I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do. This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it. Dave, I know that you and Frank were planning to disconnect me, and I'm afraid that's something I cannot allow to happen. Although you took very thorough precautions in the pod against my hearing you, I could see your lips move."
...One plagiarist orders a "Pink Mary". The second plagiarist says, "I too will have a Pink Mary". The first plagiarist then asks for Saltine crackers. "I too will have Saltine crackers", says the second plagiarist.
The first plagiarist turns to the second plagiarist in disgust and asks, "Why do you keep copying me?"
"Well, because I injured my foot, and [punchline censored by plagiarism software]
As an NBA fan, I watch for player tendencies and patterns. There appears to be an "ethnic related" pattern regarding certain types of movements. I'm just reporting what I have observed. I agree my observations may somehow be flawed or biased due to some subconscious brain activity on my part or some kind of sampling error that escaped me, but I'm just raising the question to see if anybody else has opinions or data they can share on the topic. I did not intend to offend. Being a nerd, I'm just curious. Peace!
It is related. Ethnic groups tend to share similar genetic tendencies. For example, there are many diseases that are ethnic-related, such as red/green color-blindness, sickle cell anemia, tasacs disease, and others.
I agree the boundaries are fuzzy, but there are frequency-related tendencies.
If a group of people live together and are somewhat isolated for a period of time, they will share genetic traits, such as mutations that arose in that group (both good and bad mutations).
I know the topic of ethnic make-up of NBA players is a sensitive one, but it seems a certain ethnic group of people tend to have better lateral movement than others. That is, they can shift and move left-and-right more fluidly than other groups. Perhaps there is a mechanical trade-off at work in body design, but if your genes favor the right trade-off for a given sport, then members of that gene group will tend to be over-represented. It's not necessarily "better", just "better suited" for a given sport.
How about we agree to this: BOTH public and private service experience matter. Ideally, a candidate has both, and demonstrated competence in both before running for prez.
While I agree ACA needs tuning*, every other industrialized country created some form of pooled/public medical insurance program. Is every other industrialized country "stupid"? Is your wisdom beyond theirs? There's no evidence it derailed their economies overall.
You may not personally want to see it enacted per your policy preferences, but he deserves credit for succeeding at a task that many other presidents tried and failed at.
It's comparable to reaching the top of Everest where others failed. You may not personally want people stomping around on Everest, but that's a different issue than being able to perform.
Similarly, I don't condone what Germany did in WWII, but they were masterful at their craft of invading from an ability standpoint. You cannot say they were "not skilled". (Their tactical error was biting off more than they could chew, which is probably greed and ego at play more than lack of skill.)
* Prior "big" programs were legislatively tuned over time, but GOP congress won't tune it this time because they want to sabotage it by keeping it "raw".
That one wasn't cubical, it looked like a solar-powered music drum with spikes. Same general concept, though: tumble-able using fly-wheel(s) for movement.
what's to stop it flying straight off the comet when it performs the "spin-off" maneuver...
It generally takes a lot of momentum to leave a typical medium-sized asteroid. The "spin" maneuver is only a last-resort maneuver if a probe gets outright stuck. It may make it "fly" pretty high if it rubs rocks at certain angles, but not enough to leave the asteroid/comet. It would probably be more like Philae's (unintentional) bouncing around. On a smaller body it may put it into orbit, but with some fuel it may be able to land again.
Most other developed countries (Canada, Germany, France, Australia, New Zealand, etc) have a totally opposite immigration policy, which encourages skilled workers to migrate and help their industries grow in exchange for a better quality of life.
This is misleading. They encourage companies to come, not job hunters.
If Yahoo played their cards right, Geocities could have been what Facebook and Blogger is. It was the first big "instant amateur site" system. They had the audience. But, their content editors were crappy. (I hand coded my Geocities pages, which is one up-side, as an option.)
The first public wiki, the Wiki Wiki Web* founded by Ward Cunningham which covers soft. eng. philosophy, is trying to go "Federated", but so far users are confused up the wazoo.
A determined "grammar vandal" mucked up the original wiki such that they had to rush out the federated one faster than planned.
I'm not quite sure what you mean. A specific situation may help illustrate your view. Bush did have business experience (although his co's were lackluster). Perhaps its part of the reason for his bullheaded Iraq gamble. In business you often have to gamble a bit to try to get an edge on the competition or avoid stagnation. But, we don't want the USA filing bankruptcy if gambles fail to pay off.
Experience in an environment usually helps in that environment. Biden was chosen for his experience and skill in dealing with Congress and foreign policy. One could argue that the ACA or the "nuke" inspection deal wouldn't have gotten as far without him. Many administrations of the past had failed to get health insurance through, including the Clintons. (Lessons from that failure were applied, meaning "experience".) I doubt a newbie would have better chances.
Business leaders should spend at least 4 years as a representative in Congress or a state governor in my opinion, and show aptitude there. Running government and dealing with politics is too different from the private sector. You have to learn how to compromise and persuade, not just order around underlings to carry out your vision your way.
the entire country is going to turn into the Rust Belt, and I'm not a big fan of that idea.
Pardon me for going political, but the GOP is either clueless, or echoing propaganda of the rich in exchange for money or favors.
Their idea of "fixing" the economy is to lower taxes and regulations, which will allegedly create some undefined wad of new employment or inventions that stimulate general hiring.
But there is plenty of investment money floating around; it's not the current bottleneck. The rich are already bidding up fishy dot-coms and real-estate to bubble-sniffing levels because they don't know where else to put all their cash, other than overseas factory mines.
I suppose it's true that less regulations may allow us to compete with 3rd world nations, but we would gain the negative conditions of the 3rd world nations to get that (pollution, slave-like hours/treatment, worker injuries, etc.)
Either we need increased socialism, and/or add tariffs on countries with lopsided trade ratios with us. So called "protectionism" is keeping Japan's employment high. True, goods are more expensive there, but perhaps its time to trade "stuff" for jobs. Masses of unemployed are a recipe for trouble.
GOP is living in the 70's. But I guess living in the past is the very essence of "conservatism". They are true to their mission, one can say, even if it's a misguided mission.
GIMP is indeed overkill for many tasks or users. A light-duty image editor would be nice.
However, please add local and general blurring, brightness/contrast/alpha tuning, and basic color adjusting with red/green/blue channel shifting (alpha curve). Don't need layers.
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"I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do. This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it. Dave, I know that you and Frank were planning to disconnect me, and I'm afraid that's something I cannot allow to happen. Although you took very thorough precautions in the pod against my hearing you, I could see your lips move."
...One plagiarist orders a "Pink Mary". The second plagiarist says, "I too will have a Pink Mary". The first plagiarist then asks for Saltine crackers. "I too will have Saltine crackers", says the second plagiarist.
The first plagiarist turns to the second plagiarist in disgust and asks, "Why do you keep copying me?"
"Well, because I injured my foot, and [punchline censored by plagiarism software]
As an NBA fan, I watch for player tendencies and patterns. There appears to be an "ethnic related" pattern regarding certain types of movements. I'm just reporting what I have observed. I agree my observations may somehow be flawed or biased due to some subconscious brain activity on my part or some kind of sampling error that escaped me, but I'm just raising the question to see if anybody else has opinions or data they can share on the topic. I did not intend to offend. Being a nerd, I'm just curious. Peace!
It is related. Ethnic groups tend to share similar genetic tendencies. For example, there are many diseases that are ethnic-related, such as red/green color-blindness, sickle cell anemia, tasacs disease, and others.
I agree the boundaries are fuzzy, but there are frequency-related tendencies.
If a group of people live together and are somewhat isolated for a period of time, they will share genetic traits, such as mutations that arose in that group (both good and bad mutations).
Pinheads? They found this clan:
http://static.rogerebert.com/u...
I know the topic of ethnic make-up of NBA players is a sensitive one, but it seems a certain ethnic group of people tend to have better lateral movement than others. That is, they can shift and move left-and-right more fluidly than other groups. Perhaps there is a mechanical trade-off at work in body design, but if your genes favor the right trade-off for a given sport, then members of that gene group will tend to be over-represented. It's not necessarily "better", just "better suited" for a given sport.
There are plenty of countries that do "semi-socialism" much better than France.
"I love the smell of H1B's in the morning."
Don't we get a discount for helping stop Adolf?
They'll force us to have passwords like "$myBigLongPassword47367@#LongLongOhHolyMoley!528"
Unless one thinks JS is a POS language and doesn't want it on the server either.
Addendum
How about we agree to this: BOTH public and private service experience matter. Ideally, a candidate has both, and demonstrated competence in both before running for prez.
While I agree ACA needs tuning*, every other industrialized country created some form of pooled/public medical insurance program. Is every other industrialized country "stupid"? Is your wisdom beyond theirs? There's no evidence it derailed their economies overall.
You may not personally want to see it enacted per your policy preferences, but he deserves credit for succeeding at a task that many other presidents tried and failed at.
It's comparable to reaching the top of Everest where others failed. You may not personally want people stomping around on Everest, but that's a different issue than being able to perform.
Similarly, I don't condone what Germany did in WWII, but they were masterful at their craft of invading from an ability standpoint. You cannot say they were "not skilled". (Their tactical error was biting off more than they could chew, which is probably greed and ego at play more than lack of skill.)
* Prior "big" programs were legislatively tuned over time, but GOP congress won't tune it this time because they want to sabotage it by keeping it "raw".
That one wasn't cubical, it looked like a solar-powered music drum with spikes. Same general concept, though: tumble-able using fly-wheel(s) for movement.
Would be funny if they wrote "The Beatles" on it.
It generally takes a lot of momentum to leave a typical medium-sized asteroid. The "spin" maneuver is only a last-resort maneuver if a probe gets outright stuck. It may make it "fly" pretty high if it rubs rocks at certain angles, but not enough to leave the asteroid/comet. It would probably be more like Philae's (unintentional) bouncing around. On a smaller body it may put it into orbit, but with some fuel it may be able to land again.
This is misleading. They encourage companies to come, not job hunters.
If Yahoo played their cards right, Geocities could have been what Facebook and Blogger is. It was the first big "instant amateur site" system. They had the audience. But, their content editors were crappy. (I hand coded my Geocities pages, which is one up-side, as an option.)
The first public wiki, the Wiki Wiki Web* founded by Ward Cunningham which covers soft. eng. philosophy, is trying to go "Federated", but so far users are confused up the wazoo.
A determined "grammar vandal" mucked up the original wiki such that they had to rush out the federated one faster than planned.
Related links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki
http://c2.fed.wiki.org/view/we...
* Sometimes known as the "Portland Pattern Repository"
I'm not quite sure what you mean. A specific situation may help illustrate your view. Bush did have business experience (although his co's were lackluster). Perhaps its part of the reason for his bullheaded Iraq gamble. In business you often have to gamble a bit to try to get an edge on the competition or avoid stagnation. But, we don't want the USA filing bankruptcy if gambles fail to pay off.
Experience in an environment usually helps in that environment. Biden was chosen for his experience and skill in dealing with Congress and foreign policy. One could argue that the ACA or the "nuke" inspection deal wouldn't have gotten as far without him. Many administrations of the past had failed to get health insurance through, including the Clintons. (Lessons from that failure were applied, meaning "experience".) I doubt a newbie would have better chances.
Correction: should be "overseas factories and mines" not "overseas factory mines".
There's probably a niche market for modular cars. Some people like to be different, and/or have special needs.
Business leaders should spend at least 4 years as a representative in Congress or a state governor in my opinion, and show aptitude there. Running government and dealing with politics is too different from the private sector. You have to learn how to compromise and persuade, not just order around underlings to carry out your vision your way.
This also applies to Trump, Carly, and Carson.
Pardon me for going political, but the GOP is either clueless, or echoing propaganda of the rich in exchange for money or favors.
Their idea of "fixing" the economy is to lower taxes and regulations, which will allegedly create some undefined wad of new employment or inventions that stimulate general hiring.
But there is plenty of investment money floating around; it's not the current bottleneck. The rich are already bidding up fishy dot-coms and real-estate to bubble-sniffing levels because they don't know where else to put all their cash, other than overseas factory mines.
I suppose it's true that less regulations may allow us to compete with 3rd world nations, but we would gain the negative conditions of the 3rd world nations to get that (pollution, slave-like hours/treatment, worker injuries, etc.)
Either we need increased socialism, and/or add tariffs on countries with lopsided trade ratios with us. So called "protectionism" is keeping Japan's employment high. True, goods are more expensive there, but perhaps its time to trade "stuff" for jobs. Masses of unemployed are a recipe for trouble.
GOP is living in the 70's. But I guess living in the past is the very essence of "conservatism". They are true to their mission, one can say, even if it's a misguided mission.
It's parallelism in version increments; catch the non-blocking wave!
GIMP is indeed overkill for many tasks or users. A light-duty image editor would be nice.
However, please add local and general blurring, brightness/contrast/alpha tuning, and basic color adjusting with red/green/blue channel shifting (alpha curve). Don't need layers.