Posts by Triggerfish 2452 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Feb 2010
I seem to remember one of the reasons Cuba has a higher ratio of doctors is that they used (don't know if they still do), offer free medical training to doctors from other countries I think on the proviso they stayed in cuba a few years afterwards before returning to their home countries. They have a lot of students from poorer countries and I think one of the largest medical schools.
The jury is still out on fish feeling pain. Funnily enough because some of the issues is how do you define pain? There's certainly stress indications, and to some degree pain/ or its equivalent makes evolutionary sense I would think.
This PFK article is pretty good on it.
http://www.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk/content.php?sid=5436
The immediate sentence in the article though says researchers say may be causing, clickbait headline.
More than likely it would not surprise (in a complete guess), as being a number of factors, generally speaking a lot of species are pretty robust at dealing with a crisis of some sort, such as climate change, but they often seems to get hit with double whammys such as an addition of habitat loss, or pollution, I think it tips the edge of how much they can come back from a problem.
Oh they could build a big firewall and go down the China route I suppose, after all its for our own good.
Just as a note I have a friend who has worked with various intel type organisations US and UK his comment once was if you saw what (our MPs) they want to do, you'd be sickened.
Meh if you try talk talks service, you'll realise how atrocious they are, seriously the amount of time I spend resetting a router or rebooting it, because my connection just stops. Frankly their service status page has never listed an issue in my area and yet my connections drops out at least once a day.
Well to be honest if the trucks already pulled up and indicating left and you try and get down the side tha'ts pretty much Darwin in action.
This is from the British Cycling Org website "Filtering up the left hand side of high-sided vehicles is a complete NO. Several cyclists can be situated at the side of the vehicle without being seen by the driver."
https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/insightzone/techniques/balance_and_coordination/article/izn20130830-Effective-traffic-riding-part-1-0
I think you are reading this wrong he was in line, the truck would be behind him and should stay behind him, instead it pulls up alongside him. This is why the suggestion of taking up the whole lane in front of the truck proposed by someone else on here is a solution to that.
I have to say as well as someone who cycles, drives and has been on motorbikes. There's a big attitude with some motorists in the UK that make riding unsafe it's almost like they resent people who are not driving so much they do irrational things that put the cyclist/motorcyclist at risk. Seriously I feel safer riding a motorbike in parts of SEA compared with riding bikes on some English roads.
Crows are clever buggers, and known for enjoying playing if any bird was going to think a fountain is a novelty they wouldn't surprise me.
Then again a shop I worked in had a parrot and that used to love getting sprayed with a plant mister, it would actually stand in front of you and spread its wings and turn around for an even spray.
There's a good trade in rare species for various reasons, Tigers might be impressive but people will buy these because they are rare and its status to own them. Or just because they are cute and so a must have for someone with more money than morals.
The trade in animals like the Loris is down to how appealing they are, having met a rescued slow loris that was being kept by a friend for a while until it could be moved to a sanctuary I can see the attraction in them as pets (to some degree, there are downsides), but they should never be taken out of the wild. Stealing the monkeys from a zoo is probably easier than capturing them and gets you nicely around having to worry about smuggling them out of Brazil.
Thing is if you look at some comments by US workers working for Amazon warehouses, It seems the chance for going for a drink seems slim, they work them down to the last second and if you are a bit behind on how quick you pick things, come back from break (which also includes checking in and out for the break as part of your break time) I get the impression with US laws on employment and dismissal you are pretty much out of the window that day.
I can see your point with a UKIP and Cons coalition, however I think with proportional representation you might find people becoming more interested at grass roots level and people might feel more motivated to vote for candidates.
You might have an unpalatable coalition this time, but I would wonder what would happen the next election when people actually start feeling like their vote can make a difference.
Yeah agree here, even if you are working out formulas a rough idea of what you should be getting eg an energy output, or amount of force, comes from what you know and its been enough to stop me making a mistake when i have accidently added one zero to many on a calculation.
Eurofighter doesn't fly with stability I think they do that with a few modern fighters so that the are more manavuerable.
I would have thought with the X-Wing you are not getting enough surface area or the right wing shape on the leading edges, although thrust will help with that. Just what point does it stop being a plane for aerodynamics and turn into a rocket?
You could argue foraging is ok. Having been a guest in some relatively poor farming areas in Thailand, foraging was pretty common, (ants egg curry surprisingly good, monitor lizard not bad from what I remember), and even with friends from there who were now better off they would still be picking up different bits you could eat when we holidaying down on the beaches like indian almonds washed in on the tide, cashew apples things like that, probably more to show us, but it showed what habits they grew up with.
I have to agree with you, analogy probably isn't the correct word and what you describe is a better description, that and being able to translate the effects into something useful for non technical people or see the use in a technology that can be applied to a business or design, is a definite skill set that is sometimes lacking among the tech crowd.
Think of it less as a story, and more about being able to deliver an analogy that translates the technical into something less technical. I have worked with plenty who have way more IT qualifications than I, but who would be awful describing something needed to a non technically minded person.
A programmer I know who has worked with compilers for MS, started of as a civ engineer, then did something to do with eco tourism before moving into programming.
I just read that whole review thinking I would find something in it that described a point to a smartwatch and you know what there's nothing, really it doesn't even seem that much use for a quick glance at the time.
I am not interested in smartwatches but I was at least expecting something that would make me think hmmn that's pretty groovy, but it does naff all.
Also if you think that's nice design then go look at something by IWC that's how nice watches should look.
Plus if you are worried about the glass getting cracked on the bedpost whilst sleeping then how do you wear it outdoors without worrying about it getting broken?
Some of that DOS was remarkably robust especially with a Unix back office. We had to call around our estate to make sure they were happy with the service, and some stores didn't even know they had tech support since they had never had to call them, there were cheap (basically pc rather than server kit) sitting in the back offices that had uptime running in 5-6 years region.
It also said a lot about call centres and SLA's because the call centre manager hated to see us sitting round on our arses most days (if there was an issue we fixed the damn thing properly, the NT team relied mainly on reboots), and they hated that they could not get the customer to change over to their NT software, they used to bring them in to the centre and try and sell them to the NT software desks which was always really busy (with rebooting), showing how many calls they could handle and how quickly (reboot). While for some reason our customer liked our quiet desk where we sat around not having many issues and taking only a few calls (we might take some time, the process was fettle so it runs then fix properly - but that screws call stats).
Getting physical access to a drawer is not a problem usually anyway, most have a small hole a bit like CD drawers used to have poke a pin in and it releases the lock.
The problem is a cashier would have a discrepancy that would show up on a Z-reading (don't know if they still call it that, acted as tech support for POS software many many years ago), which shows the total from the transactions.
If a cashier was going to fiddle a cash drawer then the ability to do mental arithmetic and keeping the running total in your head for the till, plus what change you should be giving (basically you balance the books in your head), is easier you ring up as no sales (to pop the drawer but no value entered in the checkouts final total), the average customer doesn't care about a receipt.
Depending on the set up, changing prices would not be easy either a lot of the stores had price files sent down to the back office that was then loaded down to the tills, not sure if you could change them after that easily.
It really depends on how they set up their POS network - some stores checkout die completely with loss of the server, some we worked with were pretty robust (and running all on DOS) and would continue because they stored local copies.
I would have though the grand prize was access to the CC merchant services that will be running somewhere the last one I saw (again years ago) used to have a service running on a SCO box and would squirt all that data to a bank that processed it and sent back auth codes for the cards.
I can tell you also many stores do not check when someone turns up looking like they should be working there, I have walked right up to the server racks in the offices of some large chains and not once has someone said anything (I was actually supposed to be doing so btw), ask for where the sign in book is and you are pretty much accepted.
No but its unusual, people at my place think my phones locked down to paranoid levels (its not btw, just things like location, etc turned off when not in use). There's becoming a changing attitude to privacy especially the younger generations, who seem to have grown up without knowing what it really was.
Having worked in temp job for the council a couple of years ago to avoid living on the dole, I could say there are people out there at least education wise out of the ten temps that started it included me relatively well educated in engineering and It with experience, a physics grad an architect and a economy grad, that was out of ten new starters. I can assure you working in a call centre for council tax was not what we had thought of as ideal jobs.
Seem to remember some program talking about how the Japanese came over and spent a long time looking at bikes like Triumphs a few years later, Yamaha's and Kawasaki's etc turned up. Must be even easier for the Chinese they already have the infrastructure from making everyone's already..
They will probably just end up arresting each other for filming police officers in public, under some part of the anti-terrorists offence list they don't understand.
There be released images of police officers beating up other officers, and claiming it was a resisted arrest, the police complaints commission will eat itself trying to suppress evidence on both sides of the complaint.
Could be entertaining.
Thing is with doing that the Lib Dems have shown they will either fold/lie for a sniff of power over tuition fees, or are run by a politically naive leader who has managed to be maneuvered by the Cons as a scapegoat for a lots of things. Neither fill you with confidence.
As for Salmond whilst I can understand the SNP movement, Salmond himself strikes me a bit like George Galloway (ok not quite has bad Galloway the demagogue), those who seek power and all that.
Well my core 6600 duo has been running since the release date of that chip so almost 9 years and to be honest I only upgraded because i toasted the mainboard. Before that it run perfectly fine for most thing I wanted which includes some music mixing, home entertainment centre & playing games (admittedly mainly strategy, and yes the newest full on pc shooters did not look as good), and all the other usual PC uses, it had good components throughout when built and that makes a difference, the only thing I upgraded was a graphics card when someone I knew replaced theirs with a newer version, and that's currently now running in a core i5 and keeping me perfectly happy.
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