I felt the same way for a long time, but then someone gave me a good explanation: a hate crime charge is basically the assault/murder/whatever charge PLUS a harassment/terrorism charge on behalf of the targeted community. I think there would be a lot less confusion and contentiousness over the concept if it were legally written out that way (as separate charges) instead of with the shorthand of "hate crime", but when has legal language ever prioritized clarity?
I forgot to mention this in the survey itself, and it's been slashdotted now anyway (ha ha!), but I find it downright embarrassing that/. still doesn't allow unicode beyond the basic Latin set. Yeah, yeah, some pranksters can make the page's text run backwards by using some special character. Solution: Exclude that/those character(s). I've lost count of the times I've seen someone's touche with the proper accent mark get butchered into touch, or seen an attempted discussion of Chinese or Japanese language severely stifled by the inability to just fucking show people what you're talking about. And let's not even mention how much easier it could be to convey some mathematical concepts. This goes beyond/. being America-centric and into a whole new level of head-in-the-sand, and I don't understand how it's stayed this way so long.
This reminds me of the time I was in line at a con and the people next to me were trying to answer the question: Is Superman cirumcised? They argued for over an hour without reaching a firm conclusion. It was one of the most fascinating and hilarious conversations I've been party to in my lifetime of geekery.
One of the gender differences in English uses that has interested me most is the male tendency to use absolutes more often. A lot of it seems to stem from the sort of "fish story" and humor-based phase of social bonding that begins for most boys in grade school. Men are more likely to say "always" when they mean "usually", "never" when they mean "rarely", etc... which tends to mean that those pedants among us who try to use more precise language sometimes end up appearing more effeminate, or weak (i.e. "You talk like a fag, and your shit's all retarded.") I often wonder how the social interactions between geeks and non-geeks, including bullying, are affected/effected by linguistic cues like these.
I ordered their Africa netbook as a gift for someone last spring. The "Linux" version was actually Windows CE with all the windows logos scrubbed. Cute trick:P
Also it loaded from flash instead of having an actual BIOS, so attempting to install my own OS was non-trivial. They're false-advertising bastards to be sure.
It's apparently common to use fragrance (either sprayed perfume or scented magazine inserts) for "enrichment" of zoo animals so they don't get bored. A zookeeper maybe spritzes a log in the course of cleaning the tiger enclosure, and when the tigers come back in, they go nuts over this new smell, sniffing it repeatedly, rubbing against it, clawing at it etc.. I recall hearing that tigers go especially mental over Obsession and Charlie (probably all the musk).
I don't disagree that there are more examples of institutional age discrimination against the young, but I feel I should mention that I've stayed at my share of hostels around the world that didn't allow anyone over 30. I'm sure I'm going to miss having such cheap accommodations available when I start traveling again.
Uh, that may not be the best metaphor for the point you want to make. Being in the eye of the hurricane usually does mean that you're about half-done with it, which is all the WHO is cautiously suggesting now.
I seem to recall reading an article many years ago about a trial in the UK in which this same technique was working quite well on humans. Of course I can't seem to track down the article now, and the closest thing I did find was this article from five years ago about a business providing this service. Unfortunately, it only muddies the waters further by including the line "To date, no companies or research groups in the world have been able to demonstrate the formation of a living, natural tooth." Does anyone else remember the trial I mentioned or am I just imagining things again?
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It's well known that randomly encountered bears will hop on you and take all your gold.
This is why it's very important to RTFA once in a blue moon:
"[The research involves] really bizarre and strange experiments with sheep and pigs and eggs," he said. "It's totally esoteric; very strange indeed."
Considering that they tried to breed them with other land-lubbing livestock, I think it's safe to assume the "cows" mentioned in the summmary are the mooing kind.
I was on Zoloft for a couple of years way back when I was a teenager. It did fuckall to help my depression, I still hated life and still contemplated suicide, but I noticed something funny after I stopped taking it (due to severe gastrointestinal side effects). A few days after I'd quit the pills cold turkey, I was thinking of something I was stressed about, and along with the common wave of emotional despair, felt a physical sinking in my chest that I realized I hadn't felt for... about two years. I laughed when I realized that that was probably the chemical reaction that the SSRI had been halting, and laughed harder the longer I contemplated what a drop in the bucket it was in the scope of the depression I was struggling with. It made me understand the extent to which the Zoloft was just targeting a symptom of a larger problem, like any number of other medications do. There may be some people whose depression truly does stem from such a one-note imbalance, and I truly hope that the medication can help them, but it doesn't surprise me that antidepressants could be so insignificant to so many others.
That/is/ a sticky situation, and one I've encountered once or twice myself. My best suggestion would be to point her toward alternative therapies that are actually valid, i.e. the teas, plants, and extracts that contain the active components that modern medicines synthesize. Maybe point out that many natural remedies can be bought cheaply or grown for free and that most people selling a cure-all at a premium are con-artists and that she has no more reason to trust their pills than those from big pharma. If she doesn't want to take a potassium pill, then she can eat some bananas. Diet modification is a long-standing all natural therapy. Basically, try to set her right without coming off as thinking that modern Western medicine is the only solution and that all alternative therapies are false, since that will just make her more defensive. That she holds such extreme beliefs as a medical professional is disturbing; my mother is an RN and I currently work as a caregiver, and infection and contamination control are of extreme importance (as you already seem to know). If you have reason to think that her beliefs are interfering with her work to the point of endangering anyone, it's time to consider talking to the nursing board (you call anonymously and just ask questions without giving out her name, if you wish).
It's never easy to change someone's mind, and it's not easy to see a loved one disregard logic at every turn. My advice may not help much, but I wish you the best of luck all the same.
Most grown-up DVDs are pretty good about allowing the menu button at all times (I suspect because they know they couldn't get away with blocking), but the couple of Disney DVDs I've seen make my DVD player give the little "no way!" hand icon through a startlingly long run of previews and advertisements.
My point being that a natural language search may not be enough to answer such queries, you'd pretty much need a massively advanced AI that could synthesize knowledge to understand your summaries and pick through which content matches.
Some quick Googling lead me to The Long Rain, though I only got to that by remembering how the native venusians liked to take their time torturing and drowning visitors and having those keywords to add.
I think you may have confused "love" and "codependence".
In all seriousness, the ways people define love vary greatly. Sacrifice and risk aren't such important factors for everyone as they seem to be for you, but that doesn't mean that what they're feeling isn't love, it's just not your perception of love.
Funnily enough, I got to reading about a similar service last week: The DNA Ancestry Project run by GeneBase (they've had banner ads all over ScienceDaily). As the name implies, it focuses on the Ancestry rather than giving information on disease susceptibility, though I think I remember reading that you'd have full access to your code online and be able to search it. Unfortunately, looking around for further info online returned a blog post full of commenters who were ripped off in a big way by the company. I'm not saying that any company running a similar service is also out to scam you, but I would generally encourage the buyer to be wary, particularly considering the cost of the service and how little and often vague our knowledge really is in this field at the moment.
Sadly, that was pretty much my first thought. Even as someone who doesn't keep an LJ, I've been stunned by how badly they've handled each censorship snafu I've heard of. Accusing people in rape victim support groups of criminal intent was only one of their more hilarious fuck-ups.
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I felt the same way for a long time, but then someone gave me a good explanation: a hate crime charge is basically the assault/murder/whatever charge PLUS a harassment/terrorism charge on behalf of the targeted community. I think there would be a lot less confusion and contentiousness over the concept if it were legally written out that way (as separate charges) instead of with the shorthand of "hate crime", but when has legal language ever prioritized clarity?
Seriously, especially since bees are thought to communicate chiefly through dance!
I forgot to mention this in the survey itself, and it's been slashdotted now anyway (ha ha!), but I find it downright embarrassing that /. still doesn't allow unicode beyond the basic Latin set. Yeah, yeah, some pranksters can make the page's text run backwards by using some special character. Solution: Exclude that/those character(s). I've lost count of the times I've seen someone's touche with the proper accent mark get butchered into touch, or seen an attempted discussion of Chinese or Japanese language severely stifled by the inability to just fucking show people what you're talking about. And let's not even mention how much easier it could be to convey some mathematical concepts. This goes beyond /. being America-centric and into a whole new level of head-in-the-sand, and I don't understand how it's stayed this way so long.
This reminds me of the time I was in line at a con and the people next to me were trying to answer the question: Is Superman cirumcised? They argued for over an hour without reaching a firm conclusion. It was one of the most fascinating and hilarious conversations I've been party to in my lifetime of geekery.
Obligatory Penny Arcade: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/5/1/
One of the gender differences in English uses that has interested me most is the male tendency to use absolutes more often. A lot of it seems to stem from the sort of "fish story" and humor-based phase of social bonding that begins for most boys in grade school. Men are more likely to say "always" when they mean "usually", "never" when they mean "rarely", etc... which tends to mean that those pedants among us who try to use more precise language sometimes end up appearing more effeminate, or weak (i.e. "You talk like a fag, and your shit's all retarded.") I often wonder how the social interactions between geeks and non-geeks, including bullying, are affected/effected by linguistic cues like these.
I ordered their Africa netbook as a gift for someone last spring. The "Linux" version was actually Windows CE with all the windows logos scrubbed. Cute trick :P
Also it loaded from flash instead of having an actual BIOS, so attempting to install my own OS was non-trivial. They're false-advertising bastards to be sure.
From what I've seen, Japanese input through IBus seems to work more smoothly on the last couple versions of Ubuntu than SCIM does.
Here are instructions from the Ubuntu forums that worked for me:
you need to go to system->administration->language support
then install the Japanese.
Next go to system -> preferences -> ibus
and configure your preferences.
then under preferences add "ibus-daemon --xim" to your startup programs.
It should work like a charm then.
It's apparently common to use fragrance (either sprayed perfume or scented magazine inserts) for "enrichment" of zoo animals so they don't get bored. A zookeeper maybe spritzes a log in the course of cleaning the tiger enclosure, and when the tigers come back in, they go nuts over this new smell, sniffing it repeatedly, rubbing against it, clawing at it etc.. I recall hearing that tigers go especially mental over Obsession and Charlie (probably all the musk).
I would write my contrary view for you here, but Stephen Fry has already stated it much better than I believe I ever could: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_osQvkeNRM
I don't disagree that there are more examples of institutional age discrimination against the young, but I feel I should mention that I've stayed at my share of hostels around the world that didn't allow anyone over 30. I'm sure I'm going to miss having such cheap accommodations available when I start traveling again.
Uh, that may not be the best metaphor for the point you want to make. Being in the eye of the hurricane usually does mean that you're about half-done with it, which is all the WHO is cautiously suggesting now.
I seem to recall reading an article many years ago about a trial in the UK in which this same technique was working quite well on humans. Of course I can't seem to track down the article now, and the closest thing I did find was this article from five years ago about a business providing this service. Unfortunately, it only muddies the waters further by including the line "To date, no companies or research groups in the world have been able to demonstrate the formation of a living, natural tooth." Does anyone else remember the trial I mentioned or am I just imagining things again?
It's well known that randomly encountered bears will hop on you and take all your gold.
Yeah, it's probably just you.
I was on Zoloft for a couple of years way back when I was a teenager. It did fuckall to help my depression, I still hated life and still contemplated suicide, but I noticed something funny after I stopped taking it (due to severe gastrointestinal side effects). A few days after I'd quit the pills cold turkey, I was thinking of something I was stressed about, and along with the common wave of emotional despair, felt a physical sinking in my chest that I realized I hadn't felt for... about two years. I laughed when I realized that that was probably the chemical reaction that the SSRI had been halting, and laughed harder the longer I contemplated what a drop in the bucket it was in the scope of the depression I was struggling with. It made me understand the extent to which the Zoloft was just targeting a symptom of a larger problem, like any number of other medications do. There may be some people whose depression truly does stem from such a one-note imbalance, and I truly hope that the medication can help them, but it doesn't surprise me that antidepressants could be so insignificant to so many others.
Not larger than a whale, larger than whales. All of them.
That /is/ a sticky situation, and one I've encountered once or twice myself. My best suggestion would be to point her toward alternative therapies that are actually valid, i.e. the teas, plants, and extracts that contain the active components that modern medicines synthesize. Maybe point out that many natural remedies can be bought cheaply or grown for free and that most people selling a cure-all at a premium are con-artists and that she has no more reason to trust their pills than those from big pharma. If she doesn't want to take a potassium pill, then she can eat some bananas. Diet modification is a long-standing all natural therapy. Basically, try to set her right without coming off as thinking that modern Western medicine is the only solution and that all alternative therapies are false, since that will just make her more defensive. That she holds such extreme beliefs as a medical professional is disturbing; my mother is an RN and I currently work as a caregiver, and infection and contamination control are of extreme importance (as you already seem to know). If you have reason to think that her beliefs are interfering with her work to the point of endangering anyone, it's time to consider talking to the nursing board (you call anonymously and just ask questions without giving out her name, if you wish).
It's never easy to change someone's mind, and it's not easy to see a loved one disregard logic at every turn. My advice may not help much, but I wish you the best of luck all the same.
Most grown-up DVDs are pretty good about allowing the menu button at all times (I suspect because they know they couldn't get away with blocking), but the couple of Disney DVDs I've seen make my DVD player give the little "no way!" hand icon through a startlingly long run of previews and advertisements.
My point being that a natural language search may not be enough to answer such queries, you'd pretty much need a massively advanced AI that could synthesize knowledge to understand your summaries and pick through which content matches.
Some quick Googling lead me to The Long Rain, though I only got to that by remembering how the native venusians liked to take their time torturing and drowning visitors and having those keywords to add.
I think you may have confused "love" and "codependence".
In all seriousness, the ways people define love vary greatly. Sacrifice and risk aren't such important factors for everyone as they seem to be for you, but that doesn't mean that what they're feeling isn't love, it's just not your perception of love.
Funnily enough, I got to reading about a similar service last week: The DNA Ancestry Project run by GeneBase (they've had banner ads all over ScienceDaily). As the name implies, it focuses on the Ancestry rather than giving information on disease susceptibility, though I think I remember reading that you'd have full access to your code online and be able to search it. Unfortunately, looking around for further info online returned a blog post full of commenters who were ripped off in a big way by the company. I'm not saying that any company running a similar service is also out to scam you, but I would generally encourage the buyer to be wary, particularly considering the cost of the service and how little and often vague our knowledge really is in this field at the moment.
Sadly, that was pretty much my first thought. Even as someone who doesn't keep an LJ, I've been stunned by how badly they've handled each censorship snafu I've heard of. Accusing people in rape victim support groups of criminal intent was only one of their more hilarious fuck-ups.