Who the heck cares if she was charged or not? The issue is whether or not the school / state has any business deciding how a child will be fed over and against the wishes of the parent.
Youre changing the issue onto something completely irrelevant.
The girl’s mother — who said she wishes to remain anonymous to protect her daughter from retaliation — said she received a note from the school stating that students who did not bring a “healthy lunch” would be offered the missing portions, which could result in a fee from the cafeteria, in her case $1.25.
Thats not "the word of a four old kid". You can question the authenticity of the note, but right now im questioning the reliability of your statement since we can already see that it is not correct.
And can we be clear here: if this is accurate, do you not find a problem with the state determining what a four year old will be eating, even if they have to override the mother?
Well theres your problem, if you think Mormonism is related to protestantism at all.
I mean, they dont even use the same texts, believe in the same God (that is, they believe who / what God is totally different than what we believe-- for one, they do not believe his being or station to be unique), believe in the same afterlife, or believe that our texts are accurate.
As for mega churches, well, there are bad churches out there, liberal denominations, and gross heresies, all parading as historic christianity. Thats nothing new; there are still churches that hold to solid evangelical (in the original sense of the word) values.
TL;DR just because that dude on late night TV claims that $20 will bring Christ into your life, doesnt make him christian.
Yea, it didnt use the words upper limit or even limit. Simply says "the length of a mans days shall be 120". If you try to look at it literally, it makes no sense, since when you say "the length of that wood is 5 feet" you dont mean "up to 5 feet", but that you are either giving an exact, or close approximation, of its size.
Given that there arent any people who lived exactly 120 years that I can think of in the Bible, I think it is fair to say that it was an approximation of some kind that has been pretty accurate.
Aside from all the other explainations given here (he DID die, eventually), there is another meaning, that he died a spiritual death on that day-- which is referenced in the new testament (hebrews?) where it talks about how through one man we all died. Clearly what is in mind isnt simply a physical death, as we are all still walking around.
Microsoft also waits a tad more than a year between versions, and doesnt charge you for the service packs. Paying $30 per service pack would set MS and Apple at parity in OS pricing.
Not sure what your meaning is here. The complaint isn't about the use of fluorescent lightbulbs or space heaters, but about scanners using ionizing radiation.
Thats just it: Millimeter-wave scanners do NOT use X-rays because they are different from backscatter machines. Its radiation is NOT ionizing--ONLY the X-ray backscatter is ionizing; terahertz radiation, once again, is widely believed to only cause thermal effects due to where it lies in the spectrum (between infrared and microwave, neither of which is ionizing).
The worst you can get on these scanners is that some animals in a few tests exhibited increased tumor rate in line with other animals subjected to significant stress. That is, Terahertz radiation is as carcinogenic as stress, maybe.
So sure, complain about x-ray backscatter (though those complaints, too, have issues because of a lack of studies showing significant negative effects), but to claim that Terahertz radiation is somehow ionizing and that THATS the reason to stop the TSA just shows your ignorance and sidetracks the conversation.
Im not personally bothered by the scanners-- but I recognize the issues, and can understand how it could be a big deal for some people. But any discussion about cancer from millimeter-wave systems is ignorant at best, and dishonest at worst.
So people who have concerns about the safety of the body scanners and extra radiation exposure are alarmist or sensationalist?
If they have no evidence to back it up, and if conventional scientific wisdom says "it is incredibly unlikely to cause anything more than thermal effects", then yes. All signs point to this being as dangerous as WiFi radiation, and considerably less dangerous than actually getting on the plane and going into the upper atmosphere.
We know enough about radiation exposure to proceed with caution.
The problem is that there is widespread ignorance about what "radiation" is. Your fluorescent lightbulb above your head is giving off many kinds of radiation, but none (that hit you) are generally harmful. In high enough intensity, that spectrum of radiation could certainly cause negative (thermal) effects; but that doesnt mean we need to complain about TSA procedures because they involve fluorescent lightbulbs.
Likewise, if you have a space heater, it is probably giving off loads of infrared radiation, which is generally understood to become harmful at about the time it is no longer tolerable from a pain standpoint. Terahertz radiation falls in about the same category (infrared), and noone (AFAIK) has shown it to do anything more than heat stuff up.
One other thing, accused murderers dont generally have access to the murder weapon once the case has started, due to real concerns about evidence tampering. Likewise, someone accused of computer mischief is not likely to be allowed access to said server because of how easy it would be to clear evidence.
And when you are on bail, there are real restrictions that come with it because of the risk that you could take actions subversive to the case-- such as messing with evidence or fleeing the country.
Pray tell how exactly he intends to phone people when he doesn't have their phone number, or perhaps even their address or real name?
Heres a skill more useful than GoogleFu: Pick up your phone, and press '0'. A friendly person will assist you in finding what you need.
or perhaps even their address or real name?
You can also get a phonebook, but thats getting rather advanced. Theres this thing called "the yellow pages", and its counterpart "the white pages" where you can find such things.
Sure he could ask his lawyer to get these things, but that assumes he can find and afford a lawyer who is competent enough to use the internet, whom he can trust with his passwords and accounts, and who knows where online to look for the information in question.
Googling someone wont really tell you about their competence any more than the yellow pages. And heres yet another free tip: Ask a trusted friend who they recommend for a lawyer. Or even better, ask THEM to do the research.
The possibilities abound, when you dont stake your entire life on a single 1.5mbps connection.
I wasnt claiming anything. Check who posted what post before making such accusations; I was merely poking fun at the absurdity of jurors not being allowed to know of the defendants arrest.
Basically, it is widely believed that any damage would be "thermal in nature". That is, if youre getting tissue damage, you'll probably notice a burning sensation.
Regardless of the other issues involved, that article is sensationalist nonsense. The guy isnt offering any evidence or research, just his on personal speculation on what might happen if you zapped 80million children with misconfigured X-Ray machines.
Does he have any case studies or even anecdotes to offer? No, but that doesnt stop him from relying on his credentials to make his idle speculation news-worthy.
Hey, Im a network engineer, and I think there could be a chance that those X-ray machines might cause TCP/IP errors in nearby UTP cables. Can I have a news story?
Yes, until every hint of bigotry is stamped out and the economy is fixed, the FBI should cease all of its operations. They should recall all of their field agents and have them start working on the economy right away, and on a campaign to end discrimination.
You do realize that "the government" isnt a single entity, right? And that the FBI has nothing to do with how the economy is doing and how our money is spent?
(Hint, that second part is what Congress is working on right now. I suppose the FBI should go on leave till they make a decision?)
"You jurors have been called here to determine the innocence or guilt of a person we may or may not have arrested and who may or may not be appearing in court at some indeterminate time in the future...."
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Who the heck cares if she was charged or not? The issue is whether or not the school / state has any business deciding how a child will be fed over and against the wishes of the parent.
Youre changing the issue onto something completely irrelevant.
The girl’s mother — who said she wishes to remain anonymous to protect her daughter from retaliation — said she received a note from the school stating that students who did not bring a “healthy lunch” would be offered the missing portions, which could result in a fee from the cafeteria, in her case $1.25.
Thats not "the word of a four old kid". You can question the authenticity of the note, but right now im questioning the reliability of your statement since we can already see that it is not correct.
And can we be clear here: if this is accurate, do you not find a problem with the state determining what a four year old will be eating, even if they have to override the mother?
Terahertz topic was mentioned in a different thread, this reply should have gone there.
Or one of those things about attributing posts and statements to the wrong person, that also explain whats going on here?
I didn't get very far in economics, but I always thought the more units you sold meant the lower the unit price could go due to scales of economy.
Apparently not far at all. More demand=price goes up.
Lion: July 2011
Mountain Lion: Summer 2012
Looks like "1 year" to me.
Yes, for OSX they call them "Snow Leopard" and "Mountain Lion".
Well theres your problem, if you think Mormonism is related to protestantism at all.
I mean, they dont even use the same texts, believe in the same God (that is, they believe who / what God is totally different than what we believe-- for one, they do not believe his being or station to be unique), believe in the same afterlife, or believe that our texts are accurate.
As for mega churches, well, there are bad churches out there, liberal denominations, and gross heresies, all parading as historic christianity. Thats nothing new; there are still churches that hold to solid evangelical (in the original sense of the word) values.
TL;DR just because that dude on late night TV claims that $20 will bring Christ into your life, doesnt make him christian.
Yea, it didnt use the words upper limit or even limit. Simply says "the length of a mans days shall be 120". If you try to look at it literally, it makes no sense, since when you say "the length of that wood is 5 feet" you dont mean "up to 5 feet", but that you are either giving an exact, or close approximation, of its size.
Given that there arent any people who lived exactly 120 years that I can think of in the Bible, I think it is fair to say that it was an approximation of some kind that has been pretty accurate.
This has me wanting to play a game of 24.
8-1-1-6 go!
Pretty sure he got modded troll for opening with a trollish statement.
Not sure what school of logic you went to, that classifies ridicule as rational thought.
Aside from all the other explainations given here (he DID die, eventually), there is another meaning, that he died a spiritual death on that day-- which is referenced in the new testament (hebrews?) where it talks about how through one man we all died. Clearly what is in mind isnt simply a physical death, as we are all still walking around.
Clearly, what was meant was that every person lives to exactly 120 years, not a day more or less, amirite?
Could have sworn the protestant reformation had something to say about that practice.
Microsoft also waits a tad more than a year between versions, and doesnt charge you for the service packs.
Paying $30 per service pack would set MS and Apple at parity in OS pricing.
Wait, youre suggesting that the order granting bail allows the defendant to travel abroad if he so desires?
THOSE would be interesting bail terms.
Not sure what your meaning is here. The complaint isn't about the use of fluorescent lightbulbs or space heaters, but about scanners using ionizing radiation.
Thats just it: Millimeter-wave scanners do NOT use X-rays because they are different from backscatter machines. Its radiation is NOT ionizing--ONLY the X-ray backscatter is ionizing; terahertz radiation, once again, is widely believed to only cause thermal effects due to where it lies in the spectrum (between infrared and microwave, neither of which is ionizing).
The worst you can get on these scanners is that some animals in a few tests exhibited increased tumor rate in line with other animals subjected to significant stress. That is, Terahertz radiation is as carcinogenic as stress, maybe.
So sure, complain about x-ray backscatter (though those complaints, too, have issues because of a lack of studies showing significant negative effects), but to claim that Terahertz radiation is somehow ionizing and that THATS the reason to stop the TSA just shows your ignorance and sidetracks the conversation.
Im not personally bothered by the scanners-- but I recognize the issues, and can understand how it could be a big deal for some people. But any discussion about cancer from millimeter-wave systems is ignorant at best, and dishonest at worst.
So people who have concerns about the safety of the body scanners and extra radiation exposure are alarmist or sensationalist?
If they have no evidence to back it up, and if conventional scientific wisdom says "it is incredibly unlikely to cause anything more than thermal effects", then yes. All signs point to this being as dangerous as WiFi radiation, and considerably less dangerous than actually getting on the plane and going into the upper atmosphere.
We know enough about radiation exposure to proceed with caution.
The problem is that there is widespread ignorance about what "radiation" is. Your fluorescent lightbulb above your head is giving off many kinds of radiation, but none (that hit you) are generally harmful. In high enough intensity, that spectrum of radiation could certainly cause negative (thermal) effects; but that doesnt mean we need to complain about TSA procedures because they involve fluorescent lightbulbs.
Likewise, if you have a space heater, it is probably giving off loads of infrared radiation, which is generally understood to become harmful at about the time it is no longer tolerable from a pain standpoint. Terahertz radiation falls in about the same category (infrared), and noone (AFAIK) has shown it to do anything more than heat stuff up.
One other thing, accused murderers dont generally have access to the murder weapon once the case has started, due to real concerns about evidence tampering. Likewise, someone accused of computer mischief is not likely to be allowed access to said server because of how easy it would be to clear evidence.
And when you are on bail, there are real restrictions that come with it because of the risk that you could take actions subversive to the case-- such as messing with evidence or fleeing the country.
Pray tell how exactly he intends to phone people when he doesn't have their phone number, or perhaps even their address or real name?
Heres a skill more useful than GoogleFu: Pick up your phone, and press '0'. A friendly person will assist you in finding what you need.
or perhaps even their address or real name?
You can also get a phonebook, but thats getting rather advanced. Theres this thing called "the yellow pages", and its counterpart "the white pages" where you can find such things.
Sure he could ask his lawyer to get these things, but that assumes he can find and afford a lawyer who is competent enough to use the internet, whom he can trust with his passwords and accounts, and who knows where online to look for the information in question.
Googling someone wont really tell you about their competence any more than the yellow pages. And heres yet another free tip: Ask a trusted friend who they recommend for a lawyer. Or even better, ask THEM to do the research.
The possibilities abound, when you dont stake your entire life on a single 1.5mbps connection.
I wasnt claiming anything. Check who posted what post before making such accusations; I was merely poking fun at the absurdity of jurors not being allowed to know of the defendants arrest.
The worst thing you can do with this issue, if you really are opposed, is not to spread misinformation and hysteria around non-issues like terahertz radiation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terahertz_radiation#Safety
Basically, it is widely believed that any damage would be "thermal in nature". That is, if youre getting tissue damage, you'll probably notice a burning sensation.
Regardless of the other issues involved, that article is sensationalist nonsense. The guy isnt offering any evidence or research, just his on personal speculation on what might happen if you zapped 80million children with misconfigured X-Ray machines.
Does he have any case studies or even anecdotes to offer? No, but that doesnt stop him from relying on his credentials to make his idle speculation news-worthy.
Hey, Im a network engineer, and I think there could be a chance that those X-ray machines might cause TCP/IP errors in nearby UTP cables. Can I have a news story?
Yes, until every hint of bigotry is stamped out and the economy is fixed, the FBI should cease all of its operations. They should recall all of their field agents and have them start working on the economy right away, and on a campaign to end discrimination.
You do realize that "the government" isnt a single entity, right? And that the FBI has nothing to do with how the economy is doing and how our money is spent?
(Hint, that second part is what Congress is working on right now. I suppose the FBI should go on leave till they make a decision?)
"You jurors have been called here to determine the innocence or guilt of a person we may or may not have arrested and who may or may not be appearing in court at some indeterminate time in the future...."