"form an ANZAC Space Agency together" So that'd be an Australia and New Zealand Army Corps Space Agency then?
Thats not going to end well you know.
Be extremely careful. You are about to subject us all to some teary-eyed Aussie reciting the line how it was all the fault of the British general who couldn't tell time and sent those brave ANZACs to their deaths in Simla Bay at 5 past ten instead of 10 past five. And he'll be humming the Walzing Mathilda all the while.
None of us want this. So just lay off on how they bungled Gallipoli and we'll all be the better for it.
This story might not be as surprising as it first seems.
Anyone who has been to Vancouver can tell you that by far the most crime-ridden part of the city - we are talking Main St. & Hastings - surrounds the police station and has done so for time immemorial.
Admittedly Main & Hastings is not the most dangerous area since the crime we are talking about is mainly drugs and prostitution. And I believe they have recently moved the central offices of the station to a new location (near Broadway?).
Facing the prospect of only having longish things to write from this point on, I'm wondering if I should take the time to learn LaTeX now. On the other hand, if I do that, am I giving up being able to easily send drafts to other people for review? What about reference management with stuff like Zotero?
As an learning exercise I wrote a humanities paper in LaTeX (XeTeX actually, non-Latin character support is a must for me). The results were beautiful. The bibliography -- in Turabian style -- was done perfectly with BibTex. I couldn't have been happier.
Then I had to convert it to a MSWord document for publication.
I even have a "best way to google my name" section on my resume:
"Greg Barton" java -indonesia -kayak -mozart -football
i.e. I'm the Greg Barton who's a java programmer, but not the Indonesia expert, olympic kayaker, football coach, or Mozart scholar.
Fool of a Barton! You could have gone with:
"Greg Barton" +java +indonesia +kayak +mozart football
and been the java programming, Indonesia researching, olympic kayaking, Mozart studying Greg Barton (football coaching optional).
Actually, all statistics books I've read that have a section on history mention her graphs, and Charles Joseph Minard's graph of Napoleons losses in Russia. Most people I've meet and discussed statistics with have heard this before
For the sake of completeness, you should have mentioned that in your history books you read that Charles Joseph Minard's graphs started appearing after the Crimean War and, consequently, the graphs of Florence Nightingale.
You just have to budget in medical costs as part of your lively hood, don't live beyond your means, and you can afford health care. Most employers offer it....when I work for myself, I buy a nice high deductible policy, just for catastrophic problems (heart attack, etc)...and I stuff to the max my pre-tax dollars into a Health Savings Account...that can grow with simple interest, or even be invested. I pay for my normal Dr. visits, and meds...I tell them I'm paying for it, and they give me usually about a 15% or more discount.
Well maybe it's time you move to a hood that is less lively. That'll help keep down the medical costs for problems like muggings and gunshot wounds.
"Legendary Blue Grass musician Eddie Adcock has undergone brain surgery to treat a hand tremor, playing his banjo throughout to test the success of the procedure. Adcock suffers from essential tremor, a condition where there is a continuing deterioration in areas of the brain that control movement causing a tremor that usually appears when the person tries to act or move. Deep brain stimulation can be used to treat the movement difficulties of both Parkinson's and essential tremor by sinking an electrode into the thalamus, a deep brain area that is part of the motor loop a circuit that helps coordinate movement. Surgeons placed electrodes in Adcock's brain and fitted a pacemaker in his chest, which delivers a small current that shuts down the region of his brain causing the tremors. The most sensible thing to do was to tweak the system while Adcock was playing the banjo to optimize the effect for the thing that's most important to him."
For me at least, it's still faster to load MS Office under wine than to open OpenOffice. That being said, I do use it (wrote my thesis in it) but I feel my document writing future might be in LaTeX.
Besides any reasons for why they tend to point northwards, I think the astonishing thing is that no one has realised this before. Humans are good at noticing patterns and this seems as though it would be such an obvious one to a sizeable part of humanity -- farmers -- around the world.
The map should have included Russia and other Eastern European areas. Also, one thing that makes me skeptical of the maps accuracy is there doesn't appear to be an overlap between EL and IT2.
Agreed. What would have been really interesting would have been Turkey's presence on the map. I'd love to see the amount overlap with overlap with its neighbours - notably Greece.
I meant especially Sicily (and Malta) in terms of direct immigration, but also other parts of southernmost Italy. The contact with North Africa has been a longstanding one, and perhaps long enough for the effects to have spread northwards (over hundreds or even thousand of years). The Alps hypothesis still seems a bit unlikely to me.
The article is quite light on details, but instead of the Alps, couldn't the reason for the Italian blob being outside the rest of Europe have more to do with it having absorbed a significant Arab/Berber population from North Africa?
The Iberian peninsula is also cut off by mountains but it sits in nicely with the rest of Europe. Of course Spain also had its Berbers and Arabs but kicked them - and the Jews - out rather successfully in 1492.
Even if breaking in houses is illegal, I still have a lock on my door. Why? Because some people don't care about the law.
Even if snooping on e-mail is illegal, you still need to encrypt your mails. Why? Because some governments don't care about the law.
megaditto:
If you think your padlock is keeping the Government away (the guys with aircraft carriers and nukes), you must be crazy.
The key, megaditto, is in the word "analogy". No one is trying to stop aircraft carriers with padlocks. (Or maybe padlock was your analogy for encryption and nukes, an analogy for decryption?)
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"form an ANZAC Space Agency together" So that'd be an Australia and New Zealand Army Corps Space Agency then?
Thats not going to end well you know.
Be extremely careful. You are about to subject us all to some teary-eyed Aussie reciting the line how it was all the fault of the British general who couldn't tell time and sent those brave ANZACs to their deaths in Simla Bay at 5 past ten instead of 10 past five. And he'll be humming the Walzing Mathilda all the while.
None of us want this. So just lay off on how they bungled Gallipoli and we'll all be the better for it.
Tellico for KDE might be a suitable solution. I use it extensively as a collection manager.
This story might not be as surprising as it first seems.
Anyone who has been to Vancouver can tell you that by far the most crime-ridden part of the city - we are talking Main St. & Hastings - surrounds the police station and has done so for time immemorial.
Admittedly Main & Hastings is not the most dangerous area since the crime we are talking about is mainly drugs and prostitution. And I believe they have recently moved the central offices of the station to a new location (near Broadway?).
Facing the prospect of only having longish things to write from this point on, I'm wondering if I should take the time to learn LaTeX now. On the other hand, if I do that, am I giving up being able to easily send drafts to other people for review? What about reference management with stuff like Zotero?
As an learning exercise I wrote a humanities paper in LaTeX (XeTeX actually, non-Latin character support is a must for me). The results were beautiful. The bibliography -- in Turabian style -- was done perfectly with BibTex. I couldn't have been happier.
Then I had to convert it to a MSWord document for publication.
You can opt out, you can start paying for all services that would normally be ad supported. Anything else is just freeloading.
So you're the kind of guy who yells at his kids when they go to the bathroom during a TV commercial break hey?
Do I have to look at all the ads when I get on the bus, so as to justify the ticket's price?
Shall we kick those blind, non-ad seeing freeloaders off the internet too while we are at it?
I even have a "best way to google my name" section on my resume:
"Greg Barton" java -indonesia -kayak -mozart -football
i.e. I'm the Greg Barton who's a java programmer, but not the Indonesia expert, olympic kayaker, football coach, or Mozart scholar.
Fool of a Barton! You could have gone with:
and been the java programming, Indonesia researching, olympic kayaking, Mozart studying Greg Barton (football coaching optional).
Actually, all statistics books I've read that have a section on history mention her graphs, and Charles Joseph Minard's graph of Napoleons losses in Russia. Most people I've meet and discussed statistics with have heard this before
For the sake of completeness, you should have mentioned that in your history books you read that Charles Joseph Minard's graphs started appearing after the Crimean War and, consequently, the graphs of Florence Nightingale.
but hopefully it wasn't "luck" that made them have a spare bag.
So sorry about the accents.
... well at least until I see otherwise.
You just have to budget in medical costs as part of your lively hood, don't live beyond your means, and you can afford health care. Most employers offer it....when I work for myself, I buy a nice high deductible policy, just for catastrophic problems (heart attack, etc)...and I stuff to the max my pre-tax dollars into a Health Savings Account...that can grow with simple interest, or even be invested. I pay for my normal Dr. visits, and meds...I tell them I'm paying for it, and they give me usually about a 15% or more discount.
Well maybe it's time you move to a hood that is less lively. That'll help keep down the medical costs for problems like muggings and gunshot wounds.
Finally, a truly intrepid IBEX.
A comedy genius is born.
"Legendary Blue Grass musician Eddie Adcock has undergone brain surgery to treat a hand tremor, playing his banjo throughout to test the success of the procedure. Adcock suffers from essential tremor, a condition where there is a continuing deterioration in areas of the brain that control movement causing a tremor that usually appears when the person tries to act or move. Deep brain stimulation can be used to treat the movement difficulties of both Parkinson's and essential tremor by sinking an electrode into the thalamus, a deep brain area that is part of the motor loop a circuit that helps coordinate movement. Surgeons placed electrodes in Adcock's brain and fitted a pacemaker in his chest, which delivers a small current that shuts down the region of his brain causing the tremors. The most sensible thing to do was to tweak the system while Adcock was playing the banjo to optimize the effect for the thing that's most important to him."
Yikes!
For me at least, it's still faster to load MS Office under wine than to open OpenOffice. That being said, I do use it (wrote my thesis in it) but I feel my document writing future might be in LaTeX.
It looks good, runs fast enough for my porpoises.
Ah, are the cetaceans now also running Macs? What's next, Proboscidea!?!
Floating data centres... fine that's cool. But when they have navies patrolling the waters to protect the servers. That'll be the real story.
Load them onto a password protected internet account and bury the password in your capsule.
Besides any reasons for why they tend to point northwards, I think the astonishing thing is that no one has realised this before. Humans are good at noticing patterns and this seems as though it would be such an obvious one to a sizeable part of humanity -- farmers -- around the world.
I mean, where are good honest Republicans like our men Larry Craig and Bob Allen going to go for a little dick?
The map should have included Russia and other Eastern European areas. Also, one thing that makes me skeptical of the maps accuracy is there doesn't appear to be an overlap between EL and IT2.
Agreed. What would have been really interesting would have been Turkey's presence on the map. I'd love to see the amount overlap with overlap with its neighbours - notably Greece.
I meant especially Sicily (and Malta) in terms of direct immigration, but also other parts of southernmost Italy. The contact with North Africa has been a longstanding one, and perhaps long enough for the effects to have spread northwards (over hundreds or even thousand of years). The Alps hypothesis still seems a bit unlikely to me.
Just a thought though.
The article is quite light on details, but instead of the Alps, couldn't the reason for the Italian blob being outside the rest of Europe have more to do with it having absorbed a significant Arab/Berber population from North Africa?
The Iberian peninsula is also cut off by mountains but it sits in nicely with the rest of Europe. Of course Spain also had its Berbers and Arabs but kicked them - and the Jews - out rather successfully in 1492.
Here are a couple of screenshots (in a language other than English)
It's Georgian. In language and alphabet.
Daimanta:
Even if breaking in houses is illegal, I still have a lock on my door. Why? Because some people don't care about the law. Even if snooping on e-mail is illegal, you still need to encrypt your mails. Why? Because some governments don't care about the law.
megaditto:
If you think your padlock is keeping the Government away (the guys with aircraft carriers and nukes), you must be crazy.
The key, megaditto, is in the word "analogy". No one is trying to stop aircraft carriers with padlocks. (Or maybe padlock was your analogy for encryption and nukes, an analogy for decryption?)