What dog name pairs well with Olive?
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There is nothing new under the sun...we are the same monkeys that we have always been. Technology / circumstances have changed though, somewhat. Nature + Nurture, with the former unchanged and the latter altered might produce something different? But people thought that the internet would solve all the world's problems, and if you replace "internet" with anything else at all, repeat as nauseum, you get life... so no, it both "changed everything", while also changing nothing.
Strong societies beget weak children, who produce vulnerable societies, which after (as?) they fall apart beget strong children. That is what I see anyway, right or wrong. That is why it is important to ask questions as you are doing. Entropic decay can only be overcome with effort. You can't solve the world's problems, only your own - and those who are willing to listen. As an example, we cannot fix Reddit, only make a new place to be better, but that takes WORK.
She lost her sanity, but think what she gained from it!
Asking the important questions here!:-P
Poor dude (gender neutral usage there) has got nothing to lose, no wonder!
"They" are us. As we change things, they get changed:-). Slowly but surely... it's happening!
You look good! It's more about attitude - be professional, willing to please, think about others e.g. how they will see you, all of which you are already doing right here and now, so I think you got this! (I hope you can tell I'm not just saying that either - you really do!)
Just remember as you start to feel nervous: those feelings are a good thing, bc you care about the outcome, just don't let your nerves get in the way of showing them who you are. Plan ahead: a calming meal, get there way early or at least be nearby so you can't be delayed by any kind of travel issues at all.
If it helps: no matter what you will come out ahead, bc experience in interviewing is a learned skill that requires practice, and this you are being offered!
Good luck my dude!:-)
"Alpha" males - ftfy:-P
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It goes so much deeper than that though - e.g. more people voted against Hilary Clinton than for Trump, and now the same might happen again. Conservatives like to blame Liberals for why things cannot ever get done, but the same is also true in reverse.
It does no good to hate on an entire portion of the USA, since we can only control what we can control. i.e., can we fix ourselves? (whatever that means - in Hilary's case perhaps it might have meant campaigning a bit harder in additional states)
As people are saying, the South is not perfect but neither is the rest of the county, just different errors in different places. That said, I would not want to live there myself... :-P
Hence why a certain someone would really rather that not to happen:-D.
It probably depends on how much you trust the people handling them - scratches don't just happen, nor apparently can you trust people to report them, nor return the same DVD as what you sent them, etc. In an ideal world.... well anyway, we don't live in that.
Maybe, but she could also just happen to be right here, on this point. What sticks in the back of my mind is that McCarthy could have ended this at any point by simply doing what he previously gave his word that he would do, which is also what the majority of both Republicans and Democrats and thus all Americans want.
Edit: what I meant by the above is that he was going to pass an actual budget - and wasn't that already agreed upon months ago, more or less? Instead, he merely passed a continuing resolution, which is not the same thing, plus he also left out support for Ukraine. Yes he avoided a shutdown, it would be nice for her to acknowledge that, but he could have done so at any time and far more besides?
The reason he cited as to why he did not is bc he would be removed if he did, except now that seems likely to happen anyway?
He gave his word to everyone, which he went back on, and in a manner that also goes back in his word in the opposite direction too, caving on issues that he previously said were impossible to give in on. He's lying to the other side, he's lying to his own side, he allows himself to come to power with an insane restriction, then does nothing to change that, then seems shocked - shocked I tell you! - when they actually want to use that option.
I have to stop short of actually judging any of that bc I don't know enough, but it does seem an absolute mess. And at this point I could see Dems wishing to see someone else in charge of Repubs, if that would actually make things easier to move forward somehow.
It works in the short term, and that is all that matters. He geared up for an IPO, and the calculations end at that point, everything else is someone else's problem.
Miraheze is similar to how Fandom used to be, before ads entirely took over. There are no ads at all there. It is a site that uses MediaWiki so probably not many of its' sites would be news oriented (with like a single author controlling the content), but instead more wiki content for an entire community to share.
You seem to be thinking of something else where the word "evolution" does not readily apply. That word generally means a gradual change, in particular in response to environmental triggers, mostly in biology yeah but not exclusively - like political thinking "evolves" over time. Atoms gaining/losing electrons or even protons/neutrons is rather sudden, and while I suppose you could model the total number of subatomic particles in a system and use the atomic configurations they are in as the "identity" state that "changes" over time, or in response to variations in a star let's say, or even more loosely the amount of time that they bother to form atoms at all in such a plasma state, but I have never heard it used that way.
Maybe an example is how a computer is not only made up of 0s and 1s, but a system that makes use of those 0s and 1s to accomplish tasks, so that it is not merely flipping bits for their own sake, but instead, changing the bits alters the actual "information" content present in that system. It is the information itself then that evolves, not merely the bits, nor the electrons that make them up. In contrast, if an animal grabs ahold of a computer's hard drive, it may nibble on it, bat it around, try to mate with it, use it for nesting material, etc., but absent the computer itself, the patterns of 0s and 1s and electrons and such is no longer relevant. Hence even if it changes e.g. gets erased, or constantly gets modified by irradiation or whatever, I think we would no longer call that "evolution", even though it is still "change". Ideas likewise can evolve bc we humans will adapt our actions based off of those thoughts, so the patterns are still part of an "information" system.
But subatomic particles being in an atom or not... I don't see how that stores any "information" really, at that same level of organization. I mean it obviously does, bc everything is relevant, but what is interesting about it? Rather, atoms form the substrate building blocks upon which other forms of computation can take place, and like while biological DNA cannot store information without its component atomic structure, at the end of the day it is the "information" present in the DNA that it said to evolve, independently of its origin. Proof of that comes from us now being able to synthesize completely artificial DNA from scratch, using whatever code we input into it - so despite having no physical connection whatsoever to the original, a genetic message can be replicated, with or without modification. "Descent with modification" can now happen to messages that once were purely biological (as far as we knew, absent any aliens that originally made it or our computations all being a simulation in The Matrix or some such:-) but now can go through a virtual phase.
In contrast, while atomic structure certainly "changes", I am not aware of any information processing systems that really make use of that fact, beyond the obvious "atom A is over here and like this, while atom B is over there and looks like that". Then again, who knows really!? Anything is possible!! As the quote from Chrono Trigger says:
Am I a butterfly dreaming I'm a man... Or a bowling ball dreaming I'm a plate of sashimi? Never assume that what you see and feel is real!
Right but my point is that since some updates have broken their machines in the past, people have (somewhat justifiably) hesitated to update so readily. Imagine a surgeon prepping for the most complex surgery of their life early the next morning and is using the machine to prep... oops, the machine updated, the prep software no longer functions, now they stay up all night trying to fix their machine that wasn't even broken to begin with, and the patient is at more risk than otherwise even if that works was successful. Ok so that's hyperbolic but it relates (with less dire consequences) to so many far more common scenarios, like a teacher and their students all getting ready to go through finals week, but that very month sometime the machine decides it will not wait even a handful of hours until those busy people have a moment to update more risk free (maybe they are even responsible enough to not do their banking and such on it, so that access to their electronic notes is more important to them than some hypothetical risk of leaving a known vulnerability?).
Maybe I am missing something, like if forced updates only occur after years of choosing to delay the update (I left Windows behind years ago, except when forced to at work), but in general my own preference is that the machine should serve me, perhaps presenting me with a strongly worded warning if I do not comply, but the ultimate authority should be me, to decide my own timeframe.
And in case it's not obvious, I am talking about personally maintained machines, not IT staff rolling out an update that they have properly vetted - that really is different, since while the check is external it still does exist, plus such a user does not really "own" that machine to begin with hence literally (read the contracts even) has no "rights" to complain, at least to Microsoft since that would be IT staff that made that choice, right or wrong.
If only all updates were fully backwards compatible it would not be an issue.
Tbf, he lunges at everyone with a knife:-P.
Er?
That way you could have Olive & er. And if you get a third one you could call it John.
(Their nicknames could also be "Last", "Week", & "Tonight":-P)