The situation that I heard about was teenagers (presumably at the lower end of that age range) accidentally ingesting them from putting them on their lips, tongue or teeth in trying to simulate piercings & jewelry.
It's still absolutely retarded that the CPSC is so bent on banning these things. I think the extent of their influence is getting them off retail store shelves, not outlawing their sale completely.
"At least" they've only gone after Buckyballs, not the other manufacturers. I bought mine from NeoCube, as they're by far the cheapest for their large combo set. Buckyballs are expensive. As NeoCube and others (like Zen Magnets) generally only sell online, I'm not sure if they're in the CPSC's reach.
Yeah, and I end up stopping using those sites. It's gotten to the point where it grates against my principles enough that I will change my habits based on issues like this.
"Businessweek also reported that today, the business brings in about $2 million in annual revenue.
That’s not chump change, especially if you consider Foursquare’s assertions that it hasn’t spent any money on advertising, has a tiny sales staff, and actually blocks some big accounts from buying ads on its service"
Many small business which are suppliers establish themselves already having a customer base from their prior life. Word of mouth is best for small local businesses. Sure, some advertising is often necessary, but many of them also know that they don't have the infrastructure or manpower to handle a large customer influx.
Plus, many small businesses run on tight margins and just barely pay for themselves, if they're lucky. Trying to make it big selling advertising to small businesses is like trying to bleed a turnip.
Hell, have you noticed how Google's advertisements on other sites like Slashdot change based on what you've been recently searching on Google.
The least you could do (besides an adblocker, assuming you haven't already got one and are whitelisting slashdot) is disable all cookies, enabling exceptions for sites you want. It's scary seeing how many cookies from how many different sites a single page tries to set nowadays. By disabling all by default, I end up enabling only the one(s) required for login, and it leaves all the other tracking cookies blocked. Sure, there are non-cookie ways to track, especially by IP and browser version/feature fingerprint, but Google no longer remembers my searches with just blocked cookies.
What you call "common sense" in this case is anathema to standard politics. Political parties work by funneling money through regulations, not by using regulations to do the right thing. It is a major shift here in political ideology to have a party actually stand on this type of platform.
The social realities of gun violence in Australia are different than the social realities of the US.
In the US, the vast majority of gun violence is gang-related. I'd have to find the numbers again, but they seemed to indicate that the US has less non-gang gun violence per capita than other western countries with strict gun control. You average American Joe, even those nutter redneck stereotypes, respect firearms, generally treat them safely, and generally do not use them as a crutch through which to turn to violence. It's the problems of poverty, social and racial segregation, erosion of strong family units, and cultures of anti-authority and anti-success that breed gangs and their related violence here. In factual, statistical reality, gun violence is not a widespread problem cutting through the general cross-section of America; it's localized to gang-ridden areas, and those numbers are large enough to skew the averages.
Given all of this, I doubt the efficacy of gun control laws to significantly impede the access of firearms to organized criminal groups who already procure their weapons through illegal means. The only type of gun control that would work against the majority of gun violence in America would be that which targeted the illegal channels, not the legal owners. All of the proposed legislation I've heard about only ever talks about regulating legal sales.
either way it should be clear that his beliefs are not going to be the company line at MS
That's not clear at all. We have no idea what the company line internally is, and one person spouting off casually might very well reflect what the rest of the direction is behind the scenes. The guy got shoved out because he made the public angry, and for no other reason.
I'm not sure they can back out at this point. The relationships with publishers in getting exclusives and launch titles hinges on obligations like this. Remember, it's the publishers who are demanding these sorts of DRM measures more than any console manufacturer themselves, so I don't think MS could pull something so important to that relationship when the wheels are already in motion.
If they pass the test, who cares if they just learned from lectures, knew the material from beforehand, looked it up from another source, or other non-textbook methods of learning? The point is that, at the end of the class, the student can show they learned the material.
The scientist who first named the actual element settled on the name aluminum, which matches the oxide to the elemental name, alumina -> aluminum, as is consistent with other oxides. It is not incorrect, and predates the -ium use.
Well, *something* needs to come out to run higher-bandwidth displays and other peripherals. Even if there's not much using it now, at least once the peripherals become more commonplace there will be connector & driver support available if it goes through all that now.
People can and still do write OSes in 35 days. Just look at the 8-bit CPU & microcontroller hobbyist groups. Lots of new or rehashed implementations come up relatively quickly, vs trying to do the same on full-on workstations. The scope of these machines allow complete understanding and control to be quite tractable in a 1-person effort.
That's why a flat tax is often presented with an offset to provide a buffer at the low end. Something like your owed tax = (Income - $15k) * Flat_Tax_Rate.
The problem with things like subways is that there's no room for competition. You're not going to have 15 separate companies digging their own tunnels through the city and offering well-distributed terminals to everybody. When there's a tightly shared central resource, especially when based on physical real estate, it makes sense that the government of the area address it.
And I feel very unsafe working with stupid stoners that toked up at lunch and are now opperating heavy equiptment and dangererous tools and potentially endangering my life.
Alcohol is legal, yet you'll still get yourself fired and/or arrested for endangering the public while intoxicated. Endangerment is pretty orthogonal to total drug prohibition, and should stay illegal.
I mapped steering to the left analog stick, and accelerate/brake to the right analog stick. Worked a whole lot better than squeezing the buttons, not knowing how hard was maximum pressure. (I think it was GT, was a while ago since I've always used real force-feedback wheels since...)
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This will no doubt become an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of a REPL.
The situation that I heard about was teenagers (presumably at the lower end of that age range) accidentally ingesting them from putting them on their lips, tongue or teeth in trying to simulate piercings & jewelry.
It's still absolutely retarded that the CPSC is so bent on banning these things. I think the extent of their influence is getting them off retail store shelves, not outlawing their sale completely.
"At least" they've only gone after Buckyballs, not the other manufacturers. I bought mine from NeoCube, as they're by far the cheapest for their large combo set. Buckyballs are expensive. As NeoCube and others (like Zen Magnets) generally only sell online, I'm not sure if they're in the CPSC's reach.
What caused the big bang?
I don't ask this to agree with the GP, I ask this to point out the brokenness of these types of questions in general.
Yeah, and I end up stopping using those sites. It's gotten to the point where it grates against my principles enough that I will change my habits based on issues like this.
Case in point, from TFA:
"Businessweek also reported that today, the business brings in about $2 million in annual revenue.
That’s not chump change, especially if you consider Foursquare’s assertions that it hasn’t spent any money on advertising, has a tiny sales staff, and actually blocks some big accounts from buying ads on its service"
Many small business which are suppliers establish themselves already having a customer base from their prior life. Word of mouth is best for small local businesses. Sure, some advertising is often necessary, but many of them also know that they don't have the infrastructure or manpower to handle a large customer influx.
Plus, many small businesses run on tight margins and just barely pay for themselves, if they're lucky. Trying to make it big selling advertising to small businesses is like trying to bleed a turnip.
Hell, have you noticed how Google's advertisements on other sites like Slashdot change based on what you've been recently searching on Google.
The least you could do (besides an adblocker, assuming you haven't already got one and are whitelisting slashdot) is disable all cookies, enabling exceptions for sites you want. It's scary seeing how many cookies from how many different sites a single page tries to set nowadays. By disabling all by default, I end up enabling only the one(s) required for login, and it leaves all the other tracking cookies blocked. Sure, there are non-cookie ways to track, especially by IP and browser version/feature fingerprint, but Google no longer remembers my searches with just blocked cookies.
What you call "common sense" in this case is anathema to standard politics. Political parties work by funneling money through regulations, not by using regulations to do the right thing. It is a major shift here in political ideology to have a party actually stand on this type of platform.
The social realities of gun violence in Australia are different than the social realities of the US.
In the US, the vast majority of gun violence is gang-related. I'd have to find the numbers again, but they seemed to indicate that the US has less non-gang gun violence per capita than other western countries with strict gun control. You average American Joe, even those nutter redneck stereotypes, respect firearms, generally treat them safely, and generally do not use them as a crutch through which to turn to violence. It's the problems of poverty, social and racial segregation, erosion of strong family units, and cultures of anti-authority and anti-success that breed gangs and their related violence here. In factual, statistical reality, gun violence is not a widespread problem cutting through the general cross-section of America; it's localized to gang-ridden areas, and those numbers are large enough to skew the averages.
Given all of this, I doubt the efficacy of gun control laws to significantly impede the access of firearms to organized criminal groups who already procure their weapons through illegal means. The only type of gun control that would work against the majority of gun violence in America would be that which targeted the illegal channels, not the legal owners. All of the proposed legislation I've heard about only ever talks about regulating legal sales.
either way it should be clear that his beliefs are not going to be the company line at MS
That's not clear at all. We have no idea what the company line internally is, and one person spouting off casually might very well reflect what the rest of the direction is behind the scenes. The guy got shoved out because he made the public angry, and for no other reason.
I'm not sure they can back out at this point. The relationships with publishers in getting exclusives and launch titles hinges on obligations like this. Remember, it's the publishers who are demanding these sorts of DRM measures more than any console manufacturer themselves, so I don't think MS could pull something so important to that relationship when the wheels are already in motion.
Laptops get old and fail, probably moreso than desktops. People don't necessarily need to upgrade, but they do need to replace.
We do have a better form of energy: nuclear. It's already in portable use, in satellites and naval craft.
Beyond that, "dinosaur juice" offers a far greater power density over most of the other "safe" energy storage devices.
I didn't say *all* other oxides, just other oxides. ;-)
alumina -> aluminum
lanthana -> lanthanum
magnesia -> magnesium
ceria -> cerium
thoria -> thorium
(examples from the wiki page)
If they pass the test, who cares if they just learned from lectures, knew the material from beforehand, looked it up from another source, or other non-textbook methods of learning? The point is that, at the end of the class, the student can show they learned the material.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminum#Etymology
The scientist who first named the actual element settled on the name aluminum, which matches the oxide to the elemental name, alumina -> aluminum, as is consistent with other oxides. It is not incorrect, and predates the -ium use.
Well, *something* needs to come out to run higher-bandwidth displays and other peripherals. Even if there's not much using it now, at least once the peripherals become more commonplace there will be connector & driver support available if it goes through all that now.
People can and still do write OSes in 35 days. Just look at the 8-bit CPU & microcontroller hobbyist groups. Lots of new or rehashed implementations come up relatively quickly, vs trying to do the same on full-on workstations. The scope of these machines allow complete understanding and control to be quite tractable in a 1-person effort.
That's why a flat tax is often presented with an offset to provide a buffer at the low end. Something like your owed tax = (Income - $15k) * Flat_Tax_Rate.
The problem with things like subways is that there's no room for competition. You're not going to have 15 separate companies digging their own tunnels through the city and offering well-distributed terminals to everybody. When there's a tightly shared central resource, especially when based on physical real estate, it makes sense that the government of the area address it.
And I feel very unsafe working with stupid stoners that toked up at lunch and are now opperating heavy equiptment and dangererous tools and potentially endangering my life.
Alcohol is legal, yet you'll still get yourself fired and/or arrested for endangering the public while intoxicated. Endangerment is pretty orthogonal to total drug prohibition, and should stay illegal.
Imagine you're a guy in your mid-30s, educated in Switzerland, a smart enough guy.
Really? 'He couldn't speak English, didn't pass any exams, was obsessed with basketball, computer games'
The kid's spoiled and chances are he's inherited & has been brought up with a god complex as well.
I'm curious why they haven't revealed what it looks like yet.
I mapped steering to the left analog stick, and accelerate/brake to the right analog stick. Worked a whole lot better than squeezing the buttons, not knowing how hard was maximum pressure. (I think it was GT, was a while ago since I've always used real force-feedback wheels since...)
As well if the word "Islam" has a greater or lesser effect than "Atheist".