the Aeron is it allows airflow around your body. I'm going to make my work buy one today.
This is embarrassing, but two years ago I had surgery on my butt. I can't remember the name of the condition, but it has generally been reserved for truckdrivers. Basically what happens is a hair in your crack becomes ingrown because you sweat (I live in a sub-tropical environment and at the time, wasn't wearing 100% cotton underwear), and sitting down all day the hair grows inward. Long story short, you go to *extreme* pain very quickly and hence I had a lot of morphine (which is good) and a general anesthetic and surgery to remove about 60ml of pus (which was bad). I had an additional hole in my arse about the size of my fist (poor choice, perhaps a tennis ball).
The next worst thing was the healing process. You have to regularly wash the wound out three times daily to prevent the condition occurring again until the wound completely heals. That takes about 4 months! I'm stoked that my partner is a nurse, but it's not really all as glamorous as it sounds.
You do not want this condition! Wear 100% cotton underwear, pants that breath, and a chair that does not allow you to lean back. (Found the condition - pilonidal cyst - beware the gross pictures)
commonwealth = all the places we conquered (Australia, etc) That's funny. Probably should have picked a better example... something actually fought over. Not just rocked on by, looked at the map and said "funny, that's not marked here".
Although, Australian aborigines may have something to say about that. While watching the kangaroo roast over the coals, leaning on spears and generally shooting the breeze, strange pinkos arrived and had sticks that made big noise, bigger than kookaburra, and made hurtfulness. Strange tribe, not seen before, declared 'ownership'* of land.
Can't believe you were modded insightful.
* Ownership being difficult for the then aborigines to understand since land will still be there when they die.
And this is why those sort of comparisons/calculations are insufficient. The capita that gets the "tonnes of CO2 produced" should be those who consume the final products, not the producers. If people were not buying the oil-based products, people would not be producing them. Who's the guilty one? Well, pretty much any country that's able to read this posting.
That's pretty damn good, really. As long as you have some server on you home network that counts your downloads (and uploads by the look of it - looks like a total traffic thing). I'd love it compared to what I've got - 10Mbps/128Kbps, 7GiB peak, 14GiB [12am-8am], 128Kbps once peak limit hit, uploads don't count, $AU50 per month.
You bastards. Damn you and your kind for being able to see the future and plan for it.
Maybe some of your infrastructure politicians should have a little chat with the Australian ones. Or we could video conference [claps hands together with glee!]. We could send you a video around 0.001 megapixel at 15 fps.
I'm Australian. Average teacher wage in the public sector (teaching to 72% of school age population) is $45,000. Average national wage is $51,000. At those levels, you get taxed roughly 30% of your income before it even gets into your bank account, and pay 10% GST on most goods.
A house in one of the top 5 cities (housing > 90%) of the population will set you back a median of $400,000. Interest rates are around 8.5%.
My parents (both high school teachers) told me that I'd be dumb to go into teaching. That was twelve years ago. They were right, I would have been on the poverty line.
I highly doubt that paying one profession more will significantly impact on inflation. I'm talking about teachers here, those that have a huge impact on our next generation that will work and provide services for us when we retire, not the entire public service.
Here in Australia we've got more teachers than any other profession by far Not quite true, according to the ABS http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/ABS@.NSF/7d12b0f6763c78caca257061001cc588/afd59622d819b4a3ca2573d20010eebd!OpenDocument, Education and training is the largest group (percentage of total working) which covers many more categories than the primary and high school teachers that we are talking about.
I feel that offering more dollars for the profession will fix *some* of the issues because there will be a greater pool to choose from. Thereby increasing the chances of getting those individuals who can teach material in many different ways, not just that from a particular text.
The other major problem is with the curriculum. Who is writing it (be it different for different states and territories), what is their background, their performance in that background, agenda (hidden or public), and what are they basing their decisions on? School is meant to be hard. It's when it is hard that you are learning. I just saddens me that when I went through the school system, there were still the older teachers, those that were *the* brightest (teaching was almost impossible to get into at university because of the high standards) and were still passionate. The last of that group will be retiring in 5 years as they hit the 65 years of age. What we are left with are those who can *just* pass high school and still get into the profession. Actually, you don't even need to pass high school. You can do a year at tafe, kiss arse and get good results and then get accepted into teaching at uni. It's a joke.
Clearly this is happening... in the western world anyway. It's the only way that schools can keep up with the shear numbers of parent classified geniuses.
We've noticed this 'dumbing down' (thanks Idiocracy) for a while now at Uni. The newer mathematics students enrolling in first year are lacking some of the basic skills. Example: a couple of years ago, trigonometric functions and identities were completely removed from the high school syllabus. It goes back all the way to year one at school.
I don't think teachers are being paid enough and they are certainly not valued enough by the community. Once upon a time, the best and brightest minds went into the teaching profession; it had respect and was highly valued. Now, it's whoever wants to become one, winner by default. The best and brightest need to be attracted back. Why would somebody who has the ability to earn more than four times the national average wage go into a job that earns less than the average wage?
While I totally agree, a cli google command would totally make my day, a poster (jdogalt (961241)) above has found in Google's EULA:
"5.3 You agree not to access (or attempt to access) any of the Services by any means other than through the interface that is provided by Google, unless you have been specifically allowed to do so in a separate agreement with Google. You specifically agree not to access (or attempt to access) any of the Services through any automated means (including use of scripts or web crawlers) and shall ensure that you comply with the instructions set out in any robots.txt file present on the Services."
I guess if J&J had won, there would have been some Germans that would have their war crime convictions overturned (at least, the family name) because the red cross would have just been another merchant ship. That would have been fine.
I think you bang on the money. I mean, there is also maintennance to consider.
I currently pay $AU120 per quarter for my electricity plus and extra $AU75 for it to come from "green sources" (which by the way amazes me since we don't have any wind farms or solar plants here in Oz, not enough to generate electricity on this scale, so I bet that money is going into company coffers). I'll pay $AU1000 a year, upfront if need be, for investment in this kind of infrastructure.
By that logic we should also stop desalination of water for drinking purposes because we'll drain the oceans.
I have no figures to back this up but I think it is safe to assume that our sun contributes more energy to this little planet that what we could drain by wind farms. Either that or our working year will get longer as we begin slowing the spin of the earth.
and told me that I'd be utterly stupid to become one. Apparently other kids parents strip away any warm fuzzy feelings as their kids are 'geniuses' and 'angels' and you're too stupid to see that.
I could be very wrong... but, don't single cell organisms have a short lifespan? A greater number of generations per time unit will yield greater change. The GGP was posting to a tree that is 40 000 years old. A 'simple' organism has the ability to undergo many more orders of magnitude genetic changes.
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I'm going to make my work buy one today.
This is embarrassing, but two years ago I had surgery on my butt. I can't remember the name of the condition, but it has generally been reserved for truckdrivers. Basically what happens is a hair in your crack becomes ingrown because you sweat (I live in a sub-tropical environment and at the time, wasn't wearing 100% cotton underwear), and sitting down all day the hair grows inward. Long story short, you go to *extreme* pain very quickly and hence I had a lot of morphine (which is good) and a general anesthetic and surgery to remove about 60ml of pus (which was bad). I had an additional hole in my arse about the size of my fist (poor choice, perhaps a tennis ball).
The next worst thing was the healing process. You have to regularly wash the wound out three times daily to prevent the condition occurring again until the wound completely heals. That takes about 4 months! I'm stoked that my partner is a nurse, but it's not really all as glamorous as it sounds.
You do not want this condition! Wear 100% cotton underwear, pants that breath, and a chair that does not allow you to lean back. (Found the condition - pilonidal cyst - beware the gross pictures)
This is totally off topic, but now I need to point out how much I hate reading white text on a black back ground. My eyes do funny things.
Thanks for the links.
That's funny. Probably should have picked a better example
Although, Australian aborigines may have something to say about that. While watching the kangaroo roast over the coals, leaning on spears and generally shooting the breeze, strange pinkos arrived and had sticks that made big noise, bigger than kookaburra, and made hurtfulness. Strange tribe, not seen before, declared 'ownership'* of land.
Can't believe you were modded insightful.
* Ownership being difficult for the then aborigines to understand since land will still be there when they die.
And this is why those sort of comparisons/calculations are insufficient. The capita that gets the "tonnes of CO2 produced" should be those who consume the final products, not the producers. If people were not buying the oil-based products, people would not be producing them. Who's the guilty one? Well, pretty much any country that's able to read this posting.
That's pretty damn good, really. As long as you have some server on you home network that counts your downloads (and uploads by the look of it - looks like a total traffic thing). I'd love it compared to what I've got - 10Mbps/128Kbps, 7GiB peak, 14GiB [12am-8am], 128Kbps once peak limit hit, uploads don't count, $AU50 per month.
You bastards. Damn you and your kind for being able to see the future and plan for it.
Maybe some of your infrastructure politicians should have a little chat with the Australian ones. Or we could video conference [claps hands together with glee!]. We could send you a video around 0.001 megapixel at 15 fps.
I'm Australian. Average teacher wage in the public sector (teaching to 72% of school age population) is $45,000. Average national wage is $51,000. At those levels, you get taxed roughly 30% of your income before it even gets into your bank account, and pay 10% GST on most goods.
A house in one of the top 5 cities (housing > 90%) of the population will set you back a median of $400,000. Interest rates are around 8.5%.
My parents (both high school teachers) told me that I'd be dumb to go into teaching. That was twelve years ago. They were right, I would have been on the poverty line.
I highly doubt that paying one profession more will significantly impact on inflation. I'm talking about teachers here, those that have a huge impact on our next generation that will work and provide services for us when we retire, not the entire public service.
Here in Australia we've got more teachers than any other profession by far
Not quite true, according to the ABS http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/ABS@.NSF/7d12b0f6763c78caca257061001cc588/afd59622d819b4a3ca2573d20010eebd!OpenDocument, Education and training is the largest group (percentage of total working) which covers many more categories than the primary and high school teachers that we are talking about.
I feel that offering more dollars for the profession will fix *some* of the issues because there will be a greater pool to choose from. Thereby increasing the chances of getting those individuals who can teach material in many different ways, not just that from a particular text.
The other major problem is with the curriculum. Who is writing it (be it different for different states and territories), what is their background, their performance in that background, agenda (hidden or public), and what are they basing their decisions on? School is meant to be hard. It's when it is hard that you are learning. I just saddens me that when I went through the school system, there were still the older teachers, those that were *the* brightest (teaching was almost impossible to get into at university because of the high standards) and were still passionate. The last of that group will be retiring in 5 years as they hit the 65 years of age. What we are left with are those who can *just* pass high school and still get into the profession. Actually, you don't even need to pass high school. You can do a year at tafe, kiss arse and get good results and then get accepted into teaching at uni. It's a joke.
Clearly this is happening ... in the western world anyway. It's the only way that schools can keep up with the shear numbers of parent classified geniuses.
We've noticed this 'dumbing down' (thanks Idiocracy) for a while now at Uni. The newer mathematics students enrolling in first year are lacking some of the basic skills. Example: a couple of years ago, trigonometric functions and identities were completely removed from the high school syllabus. It goes back all the way to year one at school.
I don't think teachers are being paid enough and they are certainly not valued enough by the community. Once upon a time, the best and brightest minds went into the teaching profession; it had respect and was highly valued. Now, it's whoever wants to become one, winner by default. The best and brightest need to be attracted back. Why would somebody who has the ability to earn more than four times the national average wage go into a job that earns less than the average wage?
True ... Truecrypt is badass for the powers that be.
However, fear mongers will really, really hate talented individuals that post step-by-step instructions on how to set up http://nsa.unaligned.org/.
While I totally agree, a cli google command would totally make my day, a poster (jdogalt (961241)) above has found in Google's EULA:
... no mod points.
"5.3 You agree not to access (or attempt to access) any of the Services by any means other than through the interface that is provided by Google, unless you have been specifically allowed to do so in a separate agreement with Google. You specifically agree not to access (or attempt to access) any of the Services through any automated means (including use of scripts or web crawlers) and shall ensure that you comply with the instructions set out in any robots.txt file present on the Services."
Sorry jdogalt
Sure, but does it have electrolytes?
I can verify that it doesn't work with lynx either.
That's funny ... I was looking for the link to read "x bytes more" but couldn't find it. Perhaps some print statements needed to locate the bug?
I guess if J&J had won, there would have been some Germans that would have their war crime convictions overturned (at least, the family name) because the red cross would have just been another merchant ship. That would have been fine.
I think you bang on the money. I mean, there is also maintennance to consider.
I currently pay $AU120 per quarter for my electricity plus and extra $AU75 for it to come from "green sources" (which by the way amazes me since we don't have any wind farms or solar plants here in Oz, not enough to generate electricity on this scale, so I bet that money is going into company coffers). I'll pay $AU1000 a year, upfront if need be, for investment in this kind of infrastructure.
By that logic we should also stop desalination of water for drinking purposes because we'll drain the oceans.
I have no figures to back this up but I think it is safe to assume that our sun contributes more energy to this little planet that what we could drain by wind farms. Either that or our working year will get longer as we begin slowing the spin of the earth.
Not forgetting that as these things become more popular people will become desensitized and stop the wonder
Looks like you need to add "Anonymous Coward" to your friends list.
and told me that I'd be utterly stupid to become one. Apparently other kids parents strip away any warm fuzzy feelings as their kids are 'geniuses' and 'angels' and you're too stupid to see that.
Hey, given the shitload of volcanic bathymetry manipulation I've been doing I'd vote for bathysphere.
"Of course it's right! This OS is written for it!"
Yeah, cause I'd hate to think AssTard could be dismissed as a creepynut.
Just throwing a little more weight behind the thanks.
I could be very wrong ... but, don't single cell organisms have a short lifespan? A greater number of generations per time unit will yield greater change. The GGP was posting to a tree that is 40 000 years old. A 'simple' organism has the ability to undergo many more orders of magnitude genetic changes.
Wow, that Eugenics was really scary reading. I knew about Australia but Canada and Sweden were a major shock - forced sterilization.