I went through engineering school, and 20 years of work (not as an engineer), before finding a calculus text that explained why the derivative of x^2 is 2x. Along with many practical applications of calculus.
That book was Calculus Made Simple, published in 1914. Thanks, Project Gutenberg!
Edit: derivative of x^2 is 2x. Got my differentiation and integration confused!
I live in Canada and find that while the water is refreshing and just a little startling, it’s only the first fraction of a second and then it’s fine.
I have bad news for him. If he’s the right wing RATM fan, he wasn’t stupider before.
I know someone who works in a university group related to privacy issues. He refuses to have a smartphone because of the ease which which almost anyone can track you and your activities. I think he has an old flip phone.
Collins Bay Institution is also in Kingston, not all that far from the old Kingdom Pen. It is within a 5-10 minute walk of many houses and apartments.
It makes more sense to refer to RFK Sr. Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in 1968.
Once again, it appears that a conservative has an epiphany when the harsh, Darwinian economic and social policies of his party affect him personally.
In case you didn’t read the article, his disillusionment with the Conservative party, after having been a lifelong member and a cabinet minister under Stephen Harper, appeared when he had a severely handicapped child.
“Whatabout…”
But how much do IP laws actually protect the little guy? When a large corporation can bankrupt me by prolonging litigation until I have nothing left, what leverage do I really have?
There are certainly cases where small creators and inventors were able to overcome this disadvantage, but I suspect that they are the tiny minority, celebrated when they do achieve it.
When I go into a Costco, I take a minute to look at the board showing the pictures names of long-time employees. At my local one, they have about 15 people who have been working there for over 30 years.
Met a woman who had been a Costco employee for 25 years. In addition to everything else, she got 6 weeks of paid holidays a year. How many other retail employers come anywhere close to that?
That’s like Dan Savage saying that he knows men can’t get pregnant, but with God all things are possible so he will keep on trying to impregnate his husband.
I think that it’s more accurate to say that studios refusing to share profits with the creators is going to cost the economy $5 billion.
That’s really great! Almost 25 years ago I passed level 2, after what I thought was quite a lot of work. The reading comprehension was definitely the hardest part for me, because of kanji, of course. Having left Japan more than 20 years ago, of course I have lost most of what I knew. But I’ve learned lots of other things, so it’s all good.
Good luck in December!
I am certainly no expert in Japanese it’s been more than 20 years since I lived there.
But one of my ways of understanding は and が is like in them to the articles “the” and “a”. The former is talking about something that has not been mentioned before, or is unique. The latter is referring to an object that the listener knows.
To use your programming analogy, maybe it’s like differentiating between an object and a class.
Lord Foul’s Bane, by Stephen R. Donaldson. The main character is transported to a mystical land and one of the first things has does is rape the young woman who summoned him. The repercussions last literally for millennia.
That’s exactly right. The proof is quite simple and there’s no reason it shouldn’t be taught instead of just getting students to accept magic rules.