Imagine that, people who are running a black market for illegal items and ways to rip people off end up ripping people off and throwing their users under the bus. Next you'll be telling me that drug dealers don't get FDA approval for their merchandise!
There are lots of opportunities to contribute (either your personal data, or code/tech.) There are open APIs to let you design opt-in activities using everything from step data off of personal devices to entire genomes.
https://www.openhumans.org/ [openhumans.org]
OBJ DISCLAIMER: I was just elected to the OH Board of Directors...
I'm always upset when I see journalists using non-standard units. No one uses tennis courts anymore. Football fields, schoolbuses and milli-Library-Of-Congresses please! (Or, if you live in the UK, Football fields (the other kind), double-decker buses, and fempto-Houses-of-Commons.
They can just replace The Stig with Jeff Bezos...
If one genome is big, 100,000 genomes is overwhelmingly huge, and it’s Dr. Madeleine Ball’s job to keep all the data happy. Ball oversees data collection and the public data portals for the PGP, as their Director of Biology. This can be as awesomely geeky as tweaking python scripts to analyze data, or as mundane as packaging blood samples so they can be sent off to be biobanked.
To me, the most interesting stuff is in regard to data formats that only sound like standards.
One of Ball’s largest challenges is the lack of uniformity in personal health records (PHRs). The PGP program participants (who currently number in the low thousands) are very active, uploading all sorts of personal data such as PHRs, X-Rays, and MRI scans. Unfortunately, getting all that information into a consistent format is daunting. “Everyone has their own way of doing a health record,” says Ball, “And they all say, ‘Oh, we have electronic health records,’ as if it solves everything. That’s kind of like saying, ‘We all have Word documents;’ it doesn’t mean they’re all using the same coding systems.”
See what you think.
Danerys also shows another key quality of good project management: She constantly seeks to learn, and she frequently integrates new information into her plans. That allows her to take advantage of opportunities when they arise, where an inflexible project leader (say, King Joffrey) sees only distractions.
At one point, she tells her people, “I swear to you that those who would harm you will die screaming.” Remember that loyalty to your team is important, although threatening blood and fire might not work in the boardroom.
Well, perhaps it depends on your boardroom.
I know the original comment was a troll, but I'll state for the record that the Fund will have no say in the administration of the scholarship, CalArts will run it just as they do all their other scholarships. In fact, the IRS was pretty adamant about that point.
Interesting... Did you know that 85% of female bronies dislike or are at best neutral to the term "pegasister"? Bro is gender neutral in this day and age.
1) Unless you think that pretty much every piece of quality animation produced in the last 30 years (Iron Giant, Dexter's Laboratory, everything from Pixar, etc.) is "soul-crushingly-commercial toy-selling animation", you might want to do a little research on CalArts and their animation program.
2) In addition to the scholarship, the Brony Thank You Fund also donated nearly $20,000 to Toys for Tots, over $10,000 to the College View School, and over $1,600 each to GLSEN and Engineers without Borders in the last 12 months. Bronies for Good (a brony fundraising group) raised over $100,000 to aid an orphanage.
The only sarcasm I can detect around here is yours...
How about people who are genuinely appreciative of an animated cartoon with all-ages appeal, quality animation, and great voice work.
Not everything needs to be some kind of snarky ironic entity. There's room in the world for sincerity, as much as the Internet tries to beat that sentiment into oblivion.
And for the record, less than 20% of bronies self-identify as furries, the vast majority are heterosexual, and the fandom has nothing to do with pedophilia.
I think he had an appointment pending, assuming he has a good pair of hiking boots handy.
Remember, UNIX spelled backwards is XINU. -- Mt.
