In select works, this tawdry and bent environment, rich
with human longing and broken promise, serves as a playground to Bickerton's signature blue man, who reappears as an explosive madman on a white - knuckle tear through the world, gluttonously devouring all that is adrenal or sensual.
Peopled by boxers, drunks, truck drivers, murderers, bounty hunters, drifters traveling under assumed names, and men whose luck ran out a thousand miles ago, these stories feel hard - won from life, and if they are moody and stark, so too are they filled
with human longing.
With humans long gone from the trading arena and algorithms left solely in charge of the casino formerly known as «the stock market», in which price discovery is purely a function of highly levered synthetic instruments such as ES and SPY or, worse, the EURUSD and not fundamentals, numerous valuation dislocations are bound to occur.
Although your dog can survive on an all - meat diet if certain nutrients and minerals are added, dogs have evolved
with humans long enough that they often do better on diets more similar to ours.
Although cats don't live as long as humans do, they can stay
with their human longer if they get the right nutrition.
Not exact matches
It turns out that these
long - lived fishes, who are our ancient evolutionary cousins, share the core of an adaptive immune system
with human beings.
We're still learning more each week about what the birth defects associated
with the virus looks like, and how
long it stays in
humans.
That might seem like a huge stroke of luck for any company, but Johansson signed on after controversially severing her ties as an ambassador
with human rights and aid organization Oxfam, which has
long opposed Israeli settlement in the West Bank.
BELARUS: The EU has
long had difficult relations
with Belarus, one of Moscow's closest allies, and has sanctions in place because of
human - rights abuses and treatment of political opponents.
In an earlier computing era — not really so
long ago — a beautiful hardware device
with smartly tailored software to run it was a market - shaking innovation, and no one did that better than Apple: Its combined expertise in hardware design and
human interface design were unmatched.
Not only does this suggest modern
humans might have been stepping tentatively into Europe and getting friendly
with Neanderthals
long before the wave of migration that led to today's population, it shows Neanderthals were more diverse than we thought.
Guantanamo has been criticized by
human rights groups,
with some of its prisoners held for a decade or
longer without being charged or given a trial.
Writer Gillian Terzis explains that, «
Humans have
long entertained the possibility of communing
with the machines, exploring them as servants, or using them for sexual gratification.
Exxon has argued against all the other shareholder proposals as well, including a «policy to explicitly prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity»; a policy articulating Exxon's «respect for and commitment to the
human right to water»; «a report discussing possible
long term risks to the company's finances and operations posed by the environmental, social and economic challenges associated
with the oil sands»; a report of «known and potential environmental impacts» and «policy options» to address the impacts of the company's «fracturing operations»; a report of recommendations on how Exxon can become an «environmentally sustainable energy company»; and adoption of «quantitative goals... for reducing total greenhouse gas emissions.»
With the incorporation of artificial intelligence (AI), bots are no
longer one dimensional search tools, they are dynamic machines that can query information, learn your behaviors, anticipate problems, and organize tasks for their
human counterparts.
Months -
long testing of the system began in November at the energy department's Nevada National Security Site,
with an eye toward providing energy for future
human and robotic missions in space and on the surface of Mars, the moon or other solar system destinations.
With his record running times, Bolt stretched the limits of
human achievement, sending physicists scrambling to explain what made him so special ---- in essence, his
longer, stronger legs create more ground force to propel him forward ---- and ponder the possibility of anyone on the planet ever running faster.
Many robotics and AI experts aren't too concerned
with the
long term, believing that machines will ultimately elevate the type of work that
humans do.
It's a strategy AT&T used to great effect in the 1970s to sell
long - distance telephony — «Reach out and touch someone» — and again in the 1990s
with a series of spots about distant spouses and overworked moms to sell
human connection in the nascent digital age.
To have the prison alone,
with no
human contact for
long periods of time.
It's easy to lose the
human touch when communicating across
long distances, but here are some simple steps to keep relationships alive
with a remote workforce:
In the
long run this trend will actually push toward the re-localization and re-humanization of the economy,
with the 19th - and 20th - century economies of scale exploited where they make sense (cheap, identical, disposable goods), and
human - oriented techniques (both older and newer) increasingly accounting for goods and services that are valuable, customized, or
long - lasting.»
The legal profession can easily cease being useful to its clients whenever it no
longer tempers guidance on the law
with reality, particularly business reality, as well as the
human desires of clients.
In determining the compensation of our named executive officers other than our Chief Executive Officer, the compensation committee receives input from our Chief Executive Officer and Executive Vice President of
Human Resources
with respect to appropriate base salary levels and short - term and
long - term incentive awards for such officers.
Those numbers will go a
long way to quell opposition from anti-automation traditionalists, paving the way for more features that allow robot cars to share the road
with human - piloted ones.
Trade is a great driver of productivity, and so the risk of growing protectionism concerns me.15 More open trade
with the United States and Mexico in the 1990s gave Canadian firms access to much bigger markets and therefore greater incentives to invest — in both physical and
human capital.16 Disrupting supply chains and reducing incentives to compete will not create more jobs and income in the
long run.
What has kept
humans alive and productive for so
long in the face of disaster... but
with an ugly side effect.
For people living in rural areas, where wait times for driverless Uber or any kind of public transit are completely unreasonable, yet don't have money to burn an extra $ 10k on their car to make it autonomous, will continue to buy old - fashioned
human - driven cars
with gas pedals and steering wheels
long into the future — and will not accept not being able to drive their cars into cities.
A market for lunar services is already emerging and while some companies are focused on developing
longer - term plans to return
humans to the lunar surface, there are also many companies
with nearer - term needs for lunar services.
Once the
human underwriter gives you the green light, you have credit approval, which means that you, the borrower, meet the lender's guidelines and can close as
long as the property also complies
with the lender's requirements.
Part 1 of 2: The Confluence of Buyer Personas and Company Personas (look for part 2 coming soon
with our partners at HG Data) The idea of creating buyer personas has
long been used by marketers to create a
human profile of our buyers.
I'm going to answer this one based on my vast experience
with human nature — something that can only be acquired after you've lived as
long as I have.
Yandex could also improve its commitments to users» privacy by clarifying its handling of user information, and giving users clear options to control what information the company collects and shares, and for how
long it retains it, so that people can better understand the privacy, security, and
human rights risks associated
with Yandex services.
Not
long ago, technology and automobile companies were talking as though the time was just around the corner when
human drivers would be sharing the road
with cars and trucks barreling along the highways under machine...
Because investors are only
human, they will often want to hold less volatile investments
with their shares to smooth their returns over shorter periods, even though it costs them money
long - term.
The outcome of a war will not only lead to a sharp escalation in
human casualties and displaced families, who have yet to come to terms
with the death and destruction from the conflicts in Iraq, Yemen and Syria, but the region itself may no
longer be the landscape it currently is as most countries in the area will struggle to recuperate from the large - scale devastation caused by a war.
Such a new ecclesiastical body is designed to allow these pathetic
human beings, who are so deeply locked into a world that no
longer exists, to form a community in which they can continue to hate gay people, distort gay people
with their hopeless rhetoric and to be part of a religious fellowship in which they can continue to feel justified in their homophobic prejudices for the rest of their tortured lives.
So, you are using the same mechanism that
humans long before us have used — we fill our knowledge voids
with a god.
You just have to take the time to think about it
long enough to see that these ancient written texts were written by
humans with less knowledge about science than we have now.
Plus,
humans could had ridden camels alone without cargo
long before using them for cargo, where a
human weight alone is a much lighter load than
with cargo, that it might not show load stress in previous fossils, let alone that those projected camels are only the known ones by archeologists.
Indonesia has the largest Muslim population and it has experienced productive and peaceful times in the decade since the Bali Bombings, actively committed to redressing a
long history of
human rights abuse and repairing once - frayed bonds
with modern neighbors like Australia and New Zealand.
The Bible also tells us that the wolf will lie down
with the lamb (Isaiah 11:6), meaning that once the curse of sin is removed, the animals» behavior will change and we
humans will no
longer need them for food and clothing.
When Wycliffe and Hus took issue
with mendicants and papal overreach, they were simply expressing a «
long - standing frustration,» not making an innovative call for the abolition of «
human institutions.»
The outstanding example, of course, is the Chinese government's
long - running «one - child policy,» replete
with forced abortions, public trackings of menstrual cycles, family flight, increased female infanticide, sterilization, and other assaults too numerous even to begin cataloguing here — in fact, so numerous that they are now widely, if often grudgingly, acknowledged as wrongs even by international
human - rights bureaucracies.
Could it be God likes to see all these grubby
humans groping around, arguing
with each other over how
long our hair can be and whether to cut our beards?
You will probably decide that means your God will be able to hold on a bit
longer as the Creator
with humans as its special creation.
Yet having encountered this fantastic tree
with human features, readers can no
longer look upon real trees as mere objects meant only for our manipulation.
It is the 1st book of the Bible, Genesis, that gives us how
long our Creator, Jehovah God, took in preparing the earth for
human habitation (when it reached the proper point of preparation), a period of six «creative» days,
with each «day» being several thousand years
long.
I had thought that the
human state of falleness was a state that somehow through discipleship
with Jesus would somehow in the
long run work its way out and then the gate to the tree would be open.
Each of the three will denote the good for a
human individual.1 Because of its
long association
with the liberal tradition, «interest» is so often used to mean an individual's private happiness that the phrase «private view of interest» may seem redundant.