I've been around many alsatians, and many pitbulls (never had one, but many friends have). Given equal training, equal education (or whatever you want to call what some people do to their dogs), most pitbulls will be different from alsatians in temperament. When they are in attack mode, they're much more likely to not let go, and to bite much harder. There's a spectrum among breeds regarding the agressiveness of their attacks, and that's something you can't argue, I think. You can abuse the hell out of Yorkshire Terriers, they just won't be as dangerous as pitbulls.
Change 'engineering' to 'law', and you have a similar situation in Brazil. There are 1,500 law schools in the country. Most graduates today never end up practicing it.
I don't know if you have a duty or not, that's really not for me to say. What I will say is: don't think you should care for your father just because you get along well. Think about you growing up instead. Did he take care of you? Brought food to the table? Was a reasonably good father? Being your friend was not viewed as a father's role in many of past generation's fathers, and in many cultures in general. If I had nothing to talk about with my father, I'd still call him sometimes and thank him for having been a good one. After all, he could have just shunned all of it and said "Do I still have a duty to take care of my children, despite me not really wanting this burden?"
Of, course, I'm saying this to people who had a distant dad, but one who was at least there, and was at least decent and stuck through it. Your upbringing may have been different.
Why do these n-dimension demos always have the little 2d man seeing the world as if he could fly away from his 2d plane and see it from above? In that example where narrator says the 2d man would be intrigued about the circle floating, he would actually only see a line moving up and down. The ball crossing the plane would be just a line stretching and shrinking. If he lived in a 2d world, what he could actually see would be /pretty/ limited.
You're saying like its one way. Why aren't you calling for the U.S. to stop the heavy subsidizing of its agriculture production and allow it to compete freely with other countries crops who want to export to the U.S.? Or should free market be only for the industries where the U.S. has an upper hand? Brazil and India can compete on crops and mining, but not on most manufactured goods. I'm all for lowering import taxes, but it should go both ways.
There are machines that do this. Prety expensive though. Maybe too expensive for a uni's department where there won't be enough work to justify the machine's price?
I see overuse of antibiotics around me all the time. Just the other day my friend's daughter had bronchitis and readily prescribed antibiotics. A couple of days later when it didn't get any better, she got a stronger shot of the same antibiotic. Then it still didn't get any better and another doctor just decided to change it to another kind. There wasn't any of the "let's wait it out and see if this is viral instead of bacterial" or any testing done. And this isn't a single case. It's the norm with 80% of doctors I hear about.
KUSC listener here too. I agree it's great station, plus it's available on my quite old Squeezebox devices. It's owned and operated by the University of Southern California
Everyone is saying your thinking doesn't apply because scandinavian countries are small and homogeneous and the policies wouldn't work in the US Some of this is just BS. It's like if the US had no public education and people just shrugged "Free basic education for all doesn't work and Scandinavia doesn't count, they're too small and homogeneous."
Sure, just as when I lived in a big crowded city I never really encountered anyone who was more than mildly annoyed by graffitti, trash in the street, minor vandalism (broken street lights, etc), and even petty theft.
You know, this is true even in countries where (my luck) old editions of chess books are printed without updating the notation to algebraic. Turns out people buy and read the books, but when they talk about chess, they use algebraic.
PS. it's changed a bit in the past few years, since the older books aren't being reprinted as much.
Off topic, but you know the person doesn't play chess when (this is very common) they think that a chess master can spot a mate-in-1 and nobody else can. Mate in 1s are fairly easy to spot if you've been playing chess for, let's say, 2 years. In reality, a chess master would spot something like "bishop to queen whatever, rook takes bishop, pawn to whatever, rook takes pawn, queen to whatever and then you have mate in 2"
I'm only whining about this because it's too common a cliché in popular culture.
What? Sure, if you want to remove some of the starch, but what if you don't? I don't really know why you should if you don't want to, unless it was dirty, but rice today comes pretty clean of debris and bugs. Plus, it's going to be cooked, so no problem there.
I didn't know that. I thought the PLBs would have some feature to prevent accidental activation. But then, people have to pick up a phone and dial a specific 3 digit sequence to call for emergency, and the thing is abused too often, so, yeah, I believe it.
A ham radio is good to have, but in many remote places will be useless if you can't reach a repeater. I would definitely take a PLB and not rely solely on my HT if I was going somewhere remote.
If you don't want to pay a subscription, a good option is a Personal Locator Beacon (commonly abbreviated to PLB). Another advantage they have is that the batteries last for 5 years or more, and usually send a stronger signal (this was a couple of years ago, don't know if it has changed). The disadvantage is that they don't do messaging.
>in Latin America the family is given a much higher importance than in the States or Europe
I'm brazilian. I have a sister who is married to an american, and they live in the U.S. He always jokes how my sister talks to our mother in Brazil 10x more than he talks to his, yet his mother lives 15 minutes away.
And he's not even talking about software bloat. The word processor I have on my early 90's Powerbook is more responsive, generally faster to use, than my current one running on a Core 2 duo processor. Oh, and by the way, I was once complaining about this to a friend who's in IT, and he told me how the speed in which a software runs doesn't mean anything regarding its quality. What I mean is, I was telling him how bad some new software was because it was quite slower than one 10 years older which did the same thing, and he tolde me that, in software engineering, this (speed) is never a measure of a program's quality. Is this universally accepted? Speed and responsiveness are not taken into account? I always meant to ask other people in this field, but always forgot.
I listened to a few, maybe up to four, then I couldn't take it anymore, the war fetish just got too high. I think I hit the stop button for good when he said on the podcast how he "only read a book if it was about war". Don't get me wrong, the idead of owning up to the results of your team is great, but the constant high-intensity, treat-everything-in-life-as-if-you're-in-combat-and-you-have-to-crush-it mood seems too one-sided a view of leadership to take.
The Army manual on leadership, on the other hand, I find very good.
I'm brazilian, and lived a big part of my life in a city where there were two religious groups who did ayahuasca. In my 20's, I had quite a lot of friends who tried it, with some doing it quite frequently and a few even joining the groups as full members. The experience I had with knowing them before and after ayahuasca not too different than with other drugs/hallucinogens: my friends related life-changing events, consciousness expanding trips etc, yet I could never figure out any change they had that I or different friends achieved through literature, art, music, philosophy, or plain just growing older and trying to become smarter or a better person. The funniest thing is, the guy who was most outspoken about his transformation, about feeling 'the wisdom of the plant spirits', and how all this here was 'a dream reality', after a few years became a cop. Another friend is today a wealthy corporate lawyer. I know I might get a lot of downvotes, but knowing all these people who took ayahuasca became actually a strong argument for a materialistic view of the whole thing. You drink it, you hallucinate, it gives you the lasting, powerful impression that it was more real than this "other" reality.
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things every pro user said, since the invention of laptops, for every brand.
> "If you’re one of the eight or nine people on the planet who has never interacted with Alexa"
What?? Replace "planet" with "United States". I doubt outside Europe and North America Alexa is that pervasive. I only know one person who has it in their home, and I know a bunch of rich people who shop at Amazon. It's just nowhere near common in my large, very populated country.