A) Third world countries with human waste management issues, lack of clean water, etc,.... or B) First world countries where there is proper sanitation?
You can exclude non-disease-related deaths if you want, even.
I dont think its a fallacy to point out that NOONE has managed to make faster processors than x86-64 arch ones in years despite claims that there are superior processor arches. Appeal to authority is not necessarily a fallacy if all of the biggest authorities in the field agree.
Just a recommendation, if youre serious in wanting to stir up opposition to this type of stuff, speak honestly about it and cut the hyperbole: It makes you look like a kook.
The same lybia you bombed to the grounds to "liberate from tyranny" had on average a better living standar than your beloved america (this sounds strange, I know, but have you ever been to libya?
And i think the idea that Americans are afraid to speak out against the government is absurd. Have you not watched the news? Are you unaware that there are two major political parties, and they argue over everything? That there are sizeable factions called libertarians and Tea Party who have no problem speaking out against the things you mention?
This idea of Americans having some patriotic fervor that prevents us from stopping a police state is one of the stupidest stereotypes ever, because if theres one thing Americans are NOT afraid of, its boldly telling everyone exactly what they think (even when theyre dead wrong).
The estimate for the size of common dictionaries is ~30,000 words. 30,000 ^ 3 is 1/10th as many combinations as an 8 character alpha-numeric completely random word. Do one of those substitutions you sneered at in just ONE of your words, and that number absolutely skyrockets.
Guess which password is easier to remember when Im required to change it periodically? Guess which is more secure, in reality?
Its maybe 0.5% of the current necessary to run a small 80mm case fan. Its 1/500th of the normal current that a dumb USB device will draw. Its 1/10000th the current that a microwave or toaster oven draws.
Insurance is not an investment. It is risk protection,nothing more. Whether or not you have paid in for 30 years is financially irrelevant once you hit year 31 .
and get NONE of that money back when they need it?
Yes, you just described how insurance works. The idea isnt that "you get your money back" (it only works financially when people statistically do NOT get their money back, after all), its that youre reducing the risk of a gigantic lump sum cost that you cannot pay.
If your goal is to make sure "everyone gets their money back", sorry, thats not possible without a non-profit 100% efficient system. Good luck setting that up. Good luck especially if you intend to try to have government do it at 100% efficiency.
Also, theres the whole "our poverty line is generally above the median income of poorer countries" thing-- in other words, our poor arent really "poor" by anyone's standards except ours.
It might be good to research how well "the poor rising up" turned out the last several times it was tried this century, and whether you really think thats preferable to what we have.
How is your post even remotely insightful when its terribly wrong?
Under federal law, the punishment for rape can range from a fine to life imprisonment. The severity of the punishment is based on the use of violence, the age of the victim, and whether drugs or intoxicants were used to override consent. If the perpetrator is a repeat offender the law prescribes automatically doubling the maximum sentence.
if a site has to rely on spam to stay afloat, then it deserves to go offline
Enjoy returning to the days of terrible search engines, no WikiPedia (who uses ads to encourage donation during their yearly drive), and horrible mapping applications (remember mapquest days of yore?).
I know about it because I have been there and when you visit skype.com it doesnt even bother to hide the redirection to skype.tom.com.
If the worst I have to contend with on Google Talk is idle speculation, rather than the proven, blatant, and admitted backdoors that Skype has shipped with, Im fine with that.
For any privacy issues theyve had, there is NOTHING in Google's history that makes me think they would spill data to the government. Every single time theyve been broached on the subject theyve told the authorities to go suck eggs-- in fact their fights with China over this issue have been a longstanding sorepoint between the two.
Skype is worse than you think. Research the partnership that Skype has with TOM in china. Hint: If you plan on using skype in china, you probably dont want to download their version: It reports every word you say directly to the CCC.
Call me when Google Talk starts shipping with backdoors for one of the more politically repressive governments out there.
Google is monetizing you, and worse yet, tracking everything you do in unseen scale.
Correct up until the last 3 words. Google has ALWAYS been clear that data collection and advertising are their business models, and that thats the price of their service. They also tend to fight VERY strongly against government attempts to grab that data, and to anonymize data that can be anonymized.
Compare to Microsoft, who plays the defender of privacy despite the fact that Bing has the EXACT SAME MODEL as google, and they used to scan email in the EXACT SAME FASHION as gmail until criticism got them to change it-- and now they act like its some low move.
Of course, thats all well and good until you realize that they also have cooperated with Chinese authorities in their attempt to censor and prosecute activism, through a number of platforms (Bing, Skype, etc). Compare to Google, who has publicly fought China over censorship and information requests for the last 5 or 6 years now, including a very public fight against the GFW RST attacks directed against certain google searches.
So yea, sure buy into the FUD. Enjoy trading an open and transparent ad network for Microsoft and their ongoing not-so-clean record.
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Ah yes, the old "Mirriam-Webster-Illuminati conspiracy" defense, almost as effective as the chewbacca defense.
Im fairly certain that adding strawberry scent to soap does not remove its properties as a soap.
Probably not a good idea to take that too far though.
I mean, you can feed your kid raw chicken to expose him to a "variety of microbes" if you want, but I think Im gonna opt out of that.
In which countries do people live longer?
A) Third world countries with human waste management issues, lack of clean water, etc,....
or
B) First world countries where there is proper sanitation?
You can exclude non-disease-related deaths if you want, even.
XML should be banned too, I hear its just as dangerous as SOAP.
Why not just feed soap to the cows, since it kills bacteria?
I dont think its a fallacy to point out that NOONE has managed to make faster processors than x86-64 arch ones in years despite claims that there are superior processor arches. Appeal to authority is not necessarily a fallacy if all of the biggest authorities in the field agree.
Just a recommendation, if youre serious in wanting to stir up opposition to this type of stuff, speak honestly about it and cut the hyperbole: It makes you look like a kook.
The same lybia you bombed to the grounds to "liberate from tyranny" had on average a better living standar than your beloved america (this sounds strange, I know, but have you ever been to libya?
Whatever credibility you had was utterly lost here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Human_Development_Index
US is number 3, Libya is number 64.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_of_Economic_Freedom
US is number 10, Libya is something like #175.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_household_income
US is number 2, Libya isnt on the list.
And i think the idea that Americans are afraid to speak out against the government is absurd. Have you not watched the news? Are you unaware that there are two major political parties, and they argue over everything? That there are sizeable factions called libertarians and Tea Party who have no problem speaking out against the things you mention?
This idea of Americans having some patriotic fervor that prevents us from stopping a police state is one of the stupidest stereotypes ever, because if theres one thing Americans are NOT afraid of, its boldly telling everyone exactly what they think (even when theyre dead wrong).
Youre welcome to make your own architecture. We await eagerly the amazing innovations you will surely be bringing to the table.
The estimate for the size of common dictionaries is ~30,000 words. 30,000 ^ 3 is 1/10th as many combinations as an 8 character alpha-numeric completely random word. Do one of those substitutions you sneered at in just ONE of your words, and that number absolutely skyrockets.
Guess which password is easier to remember when Im required to change it periodically? Guess which is more secure, in reality?
Neither mA nor Volts is a measure of power
The joke
Its maybe 0.5% of the current necessary to run a small 80mm case fan. Its 1/500th of the normal current that a dumb USB device will draw. Its 1/10000th the current that a microwave or toaster oven draws.
Insurance is not an investment. It is risk protection,nothing more. Whether or not you have paid in for 30 years is financially irrelevant once you hit year 31 .
and get NONE of that money back when they need it?
Yes, you just described how insurance works. The idea isnt that "you get your money back" (it only works financially when people statistically do NOT get their money back, after all), its that youre reducing the risk of a gigantic lump sum cost that you cannot pay.
If your goal is to make sure "everyone gets their money back", sorry, thats not possible without a non-profit 100% efficient system. Good luck setting that up. Good luck especially if you intend to try to have government do it at 100% efficiency.
Also, theres the whole "our poverty line is generally above the median income of poorer countries" thing-- in other words, our poor arent really "poor" by anyone's standards except ours.
It might be good to research how well "the poor rising up" turned out the last several times it was tried this century, and whether you really think thats preferable to what we have.
For-profit corporations have no business in health insurance.
Neither does the federal government, unless I missed that clause.
Im not seeing the problem, that IS around the amount of power that an AA battery provides.
If you havent found a correlation between two things, it means you havent ttried hard enough.
That may be the single greatest site on the internet today.
How is your post even remotely insightful when its terribly wrong?
Under federal law, the punishment for rape can range from a fine to life imprisonment. The severity of the punishment is based on the use of violence, the age of the victim, and whether drugs or intoxicants were used to override consent. If the perpetrator is a repeat offender the law prescribes automatically doubling the maximum sentence.
--From Wikipedia
if a site has to rely on spam to stay afloat, then it deserves to go offline
Enjoy returning to the days of terrible search engines, no WikiPedia (who uses ads to encourage donation during their yearly drive), and horrible mapping applications (remember mapquest days of yore?).
I know about it because I have been there and when you visit skype.com it doesnt even bother to hide the redirection to skype.tom.com.
If the worst I have to contend with on Google Talk is idle speculation, rather than the proven, blatant, and admitted backdoors that Skype has shipped with, Im fine with that.
For any privacy issues theyve had, there is NOTHING in Google's history that makes me think they would spill data to the government. Every single time theyve been broached on the subject theyve told the authorities to go suck eggs-- in fact their fights with China over this issue have been a longstanding sorepoint between the two.
Skype is worse than you think. Research the partnership that Skype has with TOM in china. Hint: If you plan on using skype in china, you probably dont want to download their version: It reports every word you say directly to the CCC.
Call me when Google Talk starts shipping with backdoors for one of the more politically repressive governments out there.
Google is monetizing you, and worse yet, tracking everything you do in unseen scale.
Correct up until the last 3 words. Google has ALWAYS been clear that data collection and advertising are their business models, and that thats the price of their service. They also tend to fight VERY strongly against government attempts to grab that data, and to anonymize data that can be anonymized.
Compare to Microsoft, who plays the defender of privacy despite the fact that Bing has the EXACT SAME MODEL as google, and they used to scan email in the EXACT SAME FASHION as gmail until criticism got them to change it-- and now they act like its some low move.
Of course, thats all well and good until you realize that they also have cooperated with Chinese authorities in their attempt to censor and prosecute activism, through a number of platforms (Bing, Skype, etc). Compare to Google, who has publicly fought China over censorship and information requests for the last 5 or 6 years now, including a very public fight against the GFW RST attacks directed against certain google searches.
So yea, sure buy into the FUD. Enjoy trading an open and transparent ad network for Microsoft and their ongoing not-so-clean record.