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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: Need some information on the European work week. |
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Posted: 14 Aug 2012, 6:54 am
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Replies: 2
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Regulations and customs vary quite a lot between different countries.
For example the French pretty much all take long lunches to have a good meal, very short working week but very productive per hour.
Which country in particular are you interested in? |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: 40+. No degree. Discovered a passion for science. Options? |
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Posted: 14 Aug 2012, 6:50 am
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Replies: 4
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| You could offer to volunteer as a lab assistant for a day or two a week? |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: ASD as a Rising Subculture |
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Posted: 14 Aug 2012, 6:38 am
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Replies: 34
Views: 3,206
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| I don't think that an autistic culture will form because a culture is defined by a set of beings all voluntarily behaving in a certain way to be part of the group identity. This social communication and automatically adjusting your behaviour to be part of the group is exactly what autistics lack . ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: United Against Neurelitism/sustainable development/Agenda 21 |
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Posted: 14 Aug 2012, 6:35 am
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Replies: 37
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| I agree with you. I think that localism is more sustainable on a global scale. I think things like the 100 mile diet are worthy of promoting. Its tough in most places but were I live I can collect oysters in months without "r"s and crabs in months with them Bread is tougher we try to source local f... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Hate living, fear dying |
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Posted: 14 Aug 2012, 5:49 am
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Replies: 13
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| there is no reason to fear death, one should fear only pain. The idea of not being ... doesn't everyone fear this? Nope. You live, you die, your body gets put in the ground and turned into compost. The End. I find it more scary to contemplate eternal life, what exactly would you do in the second bi... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: ASD as a Rising Subculture |
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Posted: 14 Aug 2012, 5:45 am
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Replies: 34
Views: 3,206
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| I don't think that an autistic culture will form because a culture is defined by a set of beings all voluntarily behaving in a certain way to be part of the group identity. This social communication and automatically adjusting your behaviour to be part of the group is exactly what autistics lack. If... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Curiosity Rover/Robotics special interest |
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Posted: 14 Aug 2012, 5:28 am
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Replies: 16
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| If you read up on proposed sample return missions for Mars it is hard, really hard. Some of the mission designs need five different spacecraft to pull it off. Recovering a rover weighing a ton would also be a lot harder than retrieving a few kilos of dust and rock samples. so it's safe to say it wo... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Am I being Hacked????Help! |
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Posted: 14 Aug 2012, 5:26 am
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Replies: 13
Views: 1,823
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| And the screen does to turn black, but when I come back and jiggle the mouse, it no longer shows the page for my system, but for the other one. I am a bit confused by what you mean by this, do you have remote access software installed so that you can use one computer from the other computer? :? ? I... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Am I being Hacked????Help! |
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Posted: 14 Aug 2012, 2:52 am
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Replies: 13
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AutisticBelle wrote: And the screen does to turn black, but when I come back and jiggle the mouse, it no longer shows the page for my system, but for the other one.
I am a bit confused by what you mean by this, do you have remote access software installed so that you can use one computer from the other computer? |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Am I being Hacked????Help! |
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Posted: 14 Aug 2012, 2:13 am
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Replies: 13
Views: 1,823
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| I never use the system that it appears someone is trying to get in through, and it is never up, or open, but the password is simple and the hint says just that. Why is this computer turned on if you never use it, where is this computer (home, dorm room, school, work etc), where is it from (did you ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Why use guns for killing |
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Posted: 14 Aug 2012, 1:46 am
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Replies: 229
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| Not sure if this relevant to the debate: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/family-deranged-man-fatally-shot-cops-times-square-upset-deadly-force-article-1.1134880 Crazy knife wielding man takes six blasts of pepper spray to the face to no effect, two officers open fire shooting the guy seven times... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Am I being Hacked????Help! |
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Posted: 14 Aug 2012, 1:05 am
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| Ease of Access is an accessibilty feature built into all modern windows operating systems, you probably clicked on the little button in the bottom left hand corner of the login screen by accident. How do you know someone has been 'trying to bypass my system passwords'? How do you know that someone t... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Should interracial marriages be promoted? |
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Posted: 14 Aug 2012, 12:05 am
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| Other than the IQ population studies we've discussed in the past, do you have any sources? Also, schizophrenia is partly caused by environmental factors. It's much higher in poor whites than it is in more wealthy ones, for example. Schizophrenia, in Moroccans, is several times higher than in any ot... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Curiosity Rover/Robotics special interest |
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Posted: 13 Aug 2012, 11:18 pm
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| how much harder would it be, to retrieve curiosity than to have deposited it there? First you would have to get to Mars. Then you would have to land near the rover. Then you would have to move to the rover and contain it. Then you need to escape the gravity well of Mars and get back to earth. Then ... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Whats wrong with using HTML tables? |
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Posted: 13 Aug 2012, 10:59 pm
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Replies: 13
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| Because CSS lets you do this: http://www.csszengarden.com/ If you are having trouble figuring out what that site is click on a few of the different designs to see how much they differ. That is done without touching a single line of HTML, the only thing changing is the stylesheet. Who cares? By using... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Is Economic Superiority Due to Cultural Superiority? |
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Posted: 04 Aug 2012, 5:47 am
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Replies: 84
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| Try looking at two things you seem to be missing from your myopic view of Israel's history. Number one Kibbutz. Number two the Jewish National Fund. Jews were in Palestine a long time before the founding of Israel, they purchased their land, including in the Negev Correct. They recognized the Bedou... |
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