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The Positive Internet Company | About Us. Read any company's website and they proclaim their "commitment" to "customer satisfaction" and the "philosophy" that underpins their business. Surely nobody is convinced by this shallow corporatese especially when the reality is alienating call-queues, indifferent "computer says no" attitudes and unresponsive support. We hate this. Our company's motto of "we're good" sums up our approach to everything we do more than any long-winded "mission statement" ever could.

We've been doing this as long as anybody. One of our directors published the very first book introducing the UK public to the Internet back in 1993. When we started out, many wrote-off Linux and associated software as geek toys. Simply put, no call queues, no low-level call centres and a team hand-picked not just for their technical brilliance but their flexible understanding of your needs. Registered Office: Northside House, Mount Pleasant, Barnet, EN4 9EE. Company Registration Number: 3673639 Directors: T.S.

6 Rules That Should Be Guiding Your Career. On the weakness of weak ties « Twitter Research. Data The data that I am using for this analysis is the following: Each group of people consists of 100 people that have been highly listed for a given topic in Twitter e.g. snowboarding or comedy or any other topical interest that people have on Twitter. There are 170 of such groups, each consisting of exactly 100 members (You can read how I created such groups in my recent blog posts here and here In an abstract way you can imagine the structure of the network to looks something like this: The graphic above indicates that we only have the friend-follower ties on Twitter between those people.

But indeed there are quite a few more ties between people, resulting in a multiplex network between them. Schematically this looks something like this: Ties Non-valued-ties: Valued ties: Results No ties.

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Facebook Enables Privacy Options For Old Profile Pics & Finally Honors Photo Deletion Requests. If you were tired of blocking all of your profile photos instead of just the select embarrassing ones, Facebook finally made a fix that will please you. You can now set a privacy setting for each individual photo in your Profile Photos album instead of applying a universal privacy setting across all your pics. To access the new controls, just click on the photo in question and then click the ‘Edit’ on the left. This privacy widget on each photo puts your Profile Photos album in its own special category alongside Mobile Uploads and gives users much more control over what pictures the public can and cannot see. However, keep in mind that your cover photos are still visible to everyone. It’s probably a good idea to keep those pictures from the strip club last weekend off of those public platforms, but you probably already knew that. For the rest of your photo albums, the old privacy guidelines still apply, which means one privacy setting will be placed on all pictures in the album.

Why We Should Rethink A 'Hard-Wired' Human Nature : 13.7: Cosmos And Culture. Hide captionA marching band leads the horse-drawn carriage carrying Robert Champion following his November 2011 funeral in Decatur, Georgia. David Goldman/AP A marching band leads the horse-drawn carriage carrying Robert Champion following his November 2011 funeral in Decatur, Georgia. This headline in the February 17th issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education caught my attention, After a Death, A Question: Are Students Hard-Wired for Hazing? The death mentioned is that of Robert Champion, the Florida A&M band student who, in November 2011, died after his fellow band members allegedly beat him brutally as part of a long tradition of hazing. I can't read about Champion's death with the clinical detachment of a social scientist who seeks to understand human behavior. That discourse promotes or suggests the idea that much of human nature is hard-wired; it's innate and pre-determined.

In a weak sense, we humans do have some tendencies inherited from our prehistoric past.

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