So the home care organization I work for is under staffed and begging it's workers to work at different times (night/mornings/weekends) to cover the lack of people. Yet my schedule only has a couple hours worth of clients and the phones are ringing off the hook so I can't call in to take some of the load off.
And the local hospitals are over crowded and the nurses there are afraid for their licences because of the lack of care. So I can't really complain too much in the face of that.
We really need to figure out what we are going to do with all these people getting sick and old all the time.
Thousands of hot, local singles are waiting to play at bubbulon.com.
I just watched the stairs scene with Don and his boss. Hilarious and very well played.
Is it good? I want to get into it but I needed more opinions before I committed.
It is interesting. At times it is kind of hard to see through all of the rather backwards cultural attitudes that filled the culture of the early 1960s but once you can do that the story really starts to pull you in. They do a good job of making the characters dark in a very human sense but the show also does a good job of breaking down those impermeable barriers between the viewer and the characters to elicit empathy. Empathy may not be the correct word but you do want to know where the journey will take the cast. For better or worse.
My mastiff loves being snuggled. When I let them in, the other two dogs will trot inside eagerly, but he'll gladly stand in the doorway for petting indefinitely.
[The bureaucracy] is best encapsulated in an anecdote from my visit to Athens. A friend and I met up at a new bookstore and café in the centre of town, which has only been open for a month. The establishment is in the center of an area filled with bars, and the owner decided the neighborhood could use a place for people to convene and talk without having to drink alcohol and listen to loud music. After we sat down, we asked the waitress for a coffee. She thanked us for our order and immediately turned and walked out the front door. My friend explained that the owner of the bookstore/café couldn’t get a license to provide coffee. She had tried to just buy a coffee machine and give the coffee away for free, thinking that lingering patrons would boost book sales. However, giving away coffee was illegal as well. Instead, the owner had to strike a deal with a bar across the street, whereby they make the coffee and the waitress spends all day shuttling between the bar and the bookstore/café. My friend also explained to me that books could not be purchased at the bookstore, as it was after 18h and it is illegal to sell books in Greece beyond that hour. I was in a bookstore/café that could neither sell books nor make coffee.
Well, I find it funny.
It is always worth remembering that the preservation of a way of life imposes a cumulative cost, and if you don't have the other hand of the state engaging in Socialism! by generating industrial wealth through coercively mobilizing capital and labour, what do you have? Just traditionalism?
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Hm. So, debate over several days regarding the second amendment to the US constitution. I have been trying to get clarification on the notion that restricting ownership of any weapon is an infringement. I asked if that meant they believed nuclear weapons should be purchasable by private citizens.
I just watched the stairs scene with Don and his boss. Hilarious and very well played.
Is it good? I want to get into it but I needed more opinions before I committed.
It is interesting. At times it is kind of hard to see through all of the rather backwards cultural attitudes that filled the culture of the early 1960s but once you can do that the story really starts to pull you in. They do a good job of making the characters dark in a very human sense but the show also does a good job of breaking down those impermeable barriers between the viewer and the characters to elicit empathy. Empathy may not be the correct word but you do want to know where the journey will take the cast. For better or worse.
I don't. In all the clips I've watched, none of the characters have seemed the least bit sympathetic or pleasant. It's no It's Sunny, but it's close.
Why is it that new MMOs keep getting one thing right, but still get something else totally wrong?
TOR: Actually cool leveling up quests, but has WoW's hotbar combat
Tera: Actually has awesome action oriented combat, but has horrible fetch quests
GW2: Really cool quest and living world, hotbar combat
rising health and development in the Arab regions and how its impacts on the Arab Spring
...
beware causation, again o_O
Of course. Its a theory paper. And one of the keys to a good theory paper is never ever stating causation. In fact in my field you never ever state causation unless you have completed Koch Postulate.
Ronya, good social science points out correlation only if their is statistical significance and does not go beyond that. And even then in a study must break down possible confounders and other variables that can make your own research mute.
We don't do causation.
granger causalityyyyyy
also instrumental variables, or discontinuity tests
econometrics really loves aggressively speculating on causation; we can advance a lot further than sociology can by invoking the neoclassical framework and its bevy of assumptions
I see that as one of the biggest weaknesses in current culture of economics is that so much is taken on faith(assumptions) and causality is attached to a lot of things that it shouldn't. I hope one day there will be a shift to where the rest of us are with causality. Hell I do a lot of work in epidemiology which deals with pretty easy causation with diseases and we still don't like using the word or promoting the idea x causes y. And it makes us stronger in the long run with our study designs and publishing with potential confounders and such and promoting more studies.
IV is apparently used in epidemiology; I see no reason in principle why discontinuity regressions can't be used too, although of course Granger causality requires a heck lot more built into it
really discontinuity just requires an assumption of continuity (ha-ha) and IV just requires an existing theory of causation to springboard from. Which you do have, yes? You don't speculate that diseases can spread via radio waves, you assume some kind of physical proximity, droplet spray/etc. at the very least? etc.
Why is it that new MMOs keep getting one thing right, but still get something else totally wrong?
TOR: Actually cool leveling up quests, but has WoW's hotbar combat
Tera: Actually has awesome action oriented combat, but has horrible fetch quests
GW2: Really cool quest and living world, hotbar combat
I just watched the stairs scene with Don and his boss. Hilarious and very well played.
Is it good? I want to get into it but I needed more opinions before I committed.
It is interesting. At times it is kind of hard to see through all of the rather backwards cultural attitudes that filled the culture of the early 1960s but once you can do that the story really starts to pull you in. They do a good job of making the characters dark in a very human sense but the show also does a good job of breaking down those impermeable barriers between the viewer and the characters to elicit empathy. Empathy may not be the correct word but you do want to know where the journey will take the cast. For better or worse.
I don't. In all the clips I've watched, none of the characters have seemed the least bit sympathetic or pleasant. It's no It's Sunny, but it's close.
There is a definite disconnection between modern attitudes and the characters in the show. It is no easy task to break through that barrier and watching clips would never do that.
It's a show that has to be taken into holistically because otherwise it's just "MY GOD PEOPLE WERE AWFUL BACK THEN"
Hm. So, debate over several days regarding the second amendment to the US constitution. I have been trying to get clarification on the notion that restricting ownership of any weapon is an infringement. I asked if that meant they believed nuclear weapons should be purchasable by private citizens.
They called that a strawman.
I'm not sure how it could be a strawman.
It'd be a straw man if you were accusing them of thinking that nuclear weapons should be purchasable, but you were actually doing the opposite.
I'm guessing that they think that any exaggerated scenario constitutes a straw man.
The owners of a 148-year-old clipper ship have "no plans" to forcibly remove a Sunderland man who occupied it over plans to move it to Australia.
Peter Maddison, from Sunderland, boarded the City of Adelaide on Sunday, claiming the vessel should return to Wearside where it was built.
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Jim Tildesley, project director with the Scottish Maritime Museum, said: "This man has done this before. It will not hinder our plans or change our minds about the ship's future.
"We have no plans to forcibly remove Mr Maddison. In fact we have no plans to talk to him at all."
I think the exasperated tone of the museum's statement is what I find so funny about this.
Hm. So, debate over several days regarding the second amendment to the US constitution. I have been trying to get clarification on the notion that restricting ownership of any weapon is an infringement. I asked if that meant they believed nuclear weapons should be purchasable by private citizens.
They called that a strawman.
I'm not sure how it could be a strawman.
Strawman, no.
Reductio ad absurdum, possibly.
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Hm. So, debate over several days regarding the second amendment to the US constitution. I have been trying to get clarification on the notion that restricting ownership of any weapon is an infringement. I asked if that meant they believed nuclear weapons should be purchasable by private citizens.
They called that a strawman.
I'm not sure how it could be a strawman.
Aren't you Canadian?
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Why is it that new MMOs keep getting one thing right, but still get something else totally wrong?
TOR: Actually cool leveling up quests, but has WoW's hotbar combat
Tera: Actually has awesome action oriented combat, but has horrible fetch quests
GW2: Really cool quest and living world, hotbar combat
Le sigh.
Because you're a glass half-empty.
Where's that motivational poster?
"My glass is half full."
"My glass is half empty."
"Guys, I think this is piss."
Hm. So, debate over several days regarding the second amendment to the US constitution. I have been trying to get clarification on the notion that restricting ownership of any weapon is an infringement. I asked if that meant they believed nuclear weapons should be purchasable by private citizens.
They called that a strawman.
I'm not sure how it could be a strawman.
It's not really a defensible point from either side of the argument. If you go for the absolute strictest interpretation of the amendment, its creation being to ensure that citizens could defend themselves from an out of control government, then yes, anyone should be able to purchase a nuke as the government has nukes. But the amendment was created at a time where the invention of a weapon that could eradicate an entire city in one shot wasn't really foreseeable. This isn't to say that the second amendment no longer applies of course, just that there has to be a more common sense application of it.
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It is interesting. At times it is kind of hard to see through all of the rather backwards cultural attitudes that filled the culture of the early 1960s but once you can do that the story really starts to pull you in. They do a good job of making the characters dark in a very human sense but the show also does a good job of breaking down those impermeable barriers between the viewer and the characters to elicit empathy. Empathy may not be the correct word but you do want to know where the journey will take the cast. For better or worse.
Applausitorium!
Cuddle sluts are the best.
I just dropped my tie tack!
My mastiff loves being snuggled. When I let them in, the other two dogs will trot inside eagerly, but he'll gladly stand in the doorway for petting indefinitely.
Well, I find it funny.
It is always worth remembering that the preservation of a way of life imposes a cumulative cost, and if you don't have the other hand of the state engaging in Socialism! by generating industrial wealth through coercively mobilizing capital and labour, what do you have? Just traditionalism?
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They called that a strawman.
I'm not sure how it could be a strawman.
Want me to run ahead?
Why is it that new MMOs keep getting one thing right, but still get something else totally wrong?
TOR: Actually cool leveling up quests, but has WoW's hotbar combat
Tera: Actually has awesome action oriented combat, but has horrible fetch quests
GW2: Really cool quest and living world, hotbar combat
Le sigh.
Unlimited funds and no oversight to do whatever horribly unethical science he wants.
IV is apparently used in epidemiology; I see no reason in principle why discontinuity regressions can't be used too, although of course Granger causality requires a heck lot more built into it
really discontinuity just requires an assumption of continuity (ha-ha) and IV just requires an existing theory of causation to springboard from. Which you do have, yes? You don't speculate that diseases can spread via radio waves, you assume some kind of physical proximity, droplet spray/etc. at the very least? etc.
who you callin a slut
Because you're a glass half-empty.
I am calling you a slut.
Let's cuddle, bitch.
There is a definite disconnection between modern attitudes and the characters in the show. It is no easy task to break through that barrier and watching clips would never do that.
It's a show that has to be taken into holistically because otherwise it's just "MY GOD PEOPLE WERE AWFUL BACK THEN"
and yes they do a lot of awful things.
You don't know me very well, do ye?
Yo' face.
It'd be a straw man if you were accusing them of thinking that nuclear weapons should be purchasable, but you were actually doing the opposite.
I'm guessing that they think that any exaggerated scenario constitutes a straw man.
https://twitter.com/Hooraydiation
I think the exasperated tone of the museum's statement is what I find so funny about this.
you kiss yo momma with that mouf
... run?
I am most of the way through season 2 and need to get back into. It's easily my favorite TV show on right now.
how horrified should I be of things going terribly wrong with the whole iran + israel + america stew that's boiling?
Sorry, a flagon half-empty.
Strawman, no.
Reductio ad absurdum, possibly.
Aren't you Canadian?
I've been trying. :P I'm about thiiiiiis close to writing the dude off as a zealot who refuses to actually think about his beliefs.
Nah, my flagon is totally full because I am a featherweight and I gotta nurse that shit.
Human life is just one indefinitely prolonged experience of horror.
https://twitter.com/Hooraydiation
A perfectly reasonable debate tactic against an overly generalized blanket statement like theirs
Where's that motivational poster?
"My glass is half full."
"My glass is half empty."
"Guys, I think this is piss."
It's not really a defensible point from either side of the argument. If you go for the absolute strictest interpretation of the amendment, its creation being to ensure that citizens could defend themselves from an out of control government, then yes, anyone should be able to purchase a nuke as the government has nukes. But the amendment was created at a time where the invention of a weapon that could eradicate an entire city in one shot wasn't really foreseeable. This isn't to say that the second amendment no longer applies of course, just that there has to be a more common sense application of it.