You own it. It's your property. It's it not illegal to work on your own property to effect a repair.
They might not want you to do that. They might not publish the information for you to do that. It might invalidate an agreement like a warranty or service plan. But it's yours to do with as you wish.
As someone who has worked with sensitive medical equipment, this is highly misleading. It's not always possible to effectively shield stuff. Strong microwave radiation can induce current in all sorts of devices; you've doubtless heard it affect loudspeakers. There are even more sensitive coils in many medical devices. Not turning phones off is a selfish thing to do. Why is your personal convenience more important than the primary function of a hospital?
Exactly so. It's not just medical use either. In a big industrial facility doing shift work, you would hand over the pager as part of the handoff between shifts. You were now responsible and accountable. A sizeable physical token is useful because it has meaning, much moreso than a purely electronic system such as a phone app.
As for Lord of the Rings, it has quite a lot of lore adapted from other sources, from the Bible to Norse legends, Old English mythology and others. From the lore to the morality plays, it's not purely fictitious and completely divorced from our own world. Though it is, of course, a set of fantasy novels.
Yes, it's largely fantasy with a lot of comedy, but there's a lot more in them than just that. Pratchett was a very well read fellow, and his books are stuffed full of little bits like this which are a wry and insightful take on situations in the real world. If you're poor, you can end up spending more on all sorts of items, from utilities like gas and electricity to clothing and food. And largely because a lack of up front captital limits your choices. His point is quite insightful, and the way he intersperses them and wraps them up within the comedy is genius.
What about Going Postal? The whole thing is an allegory about idealistic open source developers and the free software foundation going up against the cruel and callous system, wrapped up in a fantasy world and storyline with a suitably comic villain. But it's much deeper than that. It even has a G-N-U in it.
It's not ubuntu is it? I've experienced the same for a few years now. Tried several different graphics cards, to no avail. I suspect it might be the compositor; I hear the GPU fans speed up during the freeze and wonder if it's a GPU lockup and reset after a timeout.
If I run vmware workstation, it happens every few minutes, and sometimes locks up the machine. I suspect this is a separate locking bug somewhere, but it might interact badly with X due to grabbing the input focus. Filed several tickets with them over the years, but it's never been resolved either.
Still not up there at the KDE3 level, but definitely better than KDE4. For me, KDE3 was and still is the pinnacle of desktop user interfaces. Functional, fast, usable and looked nice. And had a lot of very nice applications to go with it.
At a job interview a few weeks back (embedded), they showed me another team's product--cross platform app development for ios/android/pc/mac and it was all C# with Xamarin. If it's sufficiently cross-platform for companies to use for their products, it's probably not that limited.
And, to be fair, they aren't entirely wrong about that. Since the vaccine *is* the virus, in an inert or attenuated form, there is a small possibility of that happening. You are getting a low grade infection, or at the very least a response to something mimicking an infection. So if your immune system is compromised, or there's a problem with a particular vaccine batch, you could be put at risk.
Overall, the benefits outweigh the risks, and today we have very good quality control, so the argument is not very convincing. But I wouldn't dismiss it out of hand; there is some valid science behind it.
It's not "safe", it's still pretty toxic if you read the MSDS for it. However a typical vaccine would contain a huge 50 micrograms of the stuff. Most of which would be excreted by the body over the following weeks-months. It has a relatively large biological half-life of several weeks, but of the tiny amount present originally, there would only be a tiny fraction left a year later. It was never a huge cause for concern, and was only dropped due to the irrational hysteria. Not entirely a bad thing that it was dropped--just a bit pointless given the risk/benefit tradeoffs.
Diseases can spread exponentially. If you don't immediately contain them then it ceases to be an emergency, and becomes an out of control disaster. An epidemic, with fatalities.
So, no, emergency is exactly the correct name for it. The reason we don't suffer from the worst effects of diseases like this in the Western world is precisely *because* our health authorities are monitoring these situations, ready to act quickly if the situation demands it. We should be thankful we get to live in such a safe situation, rather than minimising and undermining the true value in what we have created for ourselves.
I should also add for the first point that you also get a significant benefit of maternal antibodies, and if your mother had measles you will also gain protection this way as well. If your mother never had it or a related infection, and has no protective antibodies, you'll also be at a very increased risk. This is another factor why the death rate can get up to 1/2 in addition to the genetic aspect, and why the death rate is reduced in Western populations where measles has been historically endemic. We all have measles antibodies, and this typically reduces the severity of any infection.
The death rate from measles in an unvaccinated and unchallenged population is just under 1 person in 2 (~48%). This for example would be the Americas or Pacific islands prior to contact with the West. The only reason it's less today is because of two factors. Firstly, evolution. In the West, where measles was endemic, we are genetically selected for tolerance to it. Same as for certain influenza strains, the black death, and other historical nasties. Why? Because all the other people are *dead*. We are the survivors who have the genetics to cope with it. Secondly, vaccination. If you get infected in the West, and you are unvaccinated, you benefit from everyone around you being vaccinated. The disease can't spread as far or as fast. Infections aren't as severe, you aren't being exposed to the same quantity of the virus or as many strains of it. You're in a protective bubble which isn't even visible. It's called "herd immunity", because the population as a whole benefits from the immunity as a result of vaccination, even if the vaccination rate is not 100%.
Death rates from measles in the West had come down to 1/200 (UK) - 1/500 (US) before the introduction of vaccination programmes. This was largely down to improvements in overall living standards (primarily nutrition) and medical care in the early-mid 20th century. Today, even those numbers are a memory. Today, we are complacent because we have forgotten how awful a killer measles can be. Aside from the deaths, also consider the chance of permanent brain damage, permanent hearing loss or partial loss, or other permanent damage to the body. It's not just a few itchy spots for a week, it's a deadly serious infection.
"Anti-vaxxers" aren't being lied to. They are simply profoundly ignorant about the disease and the risks involved. They are only safe today to make their stupid choices because everyone else gets vaccinated. Once a critical number opt out of being vaccinated, and herd immunity is compromised, then measles epidemics will return. This story is one of several, and it will continue to get worse until we sort out the issues with people not being vaccinated.
Likewise in the UK. For the first ones in primary school, a parent could accompany us. The girl who went in before me screamed her head off at the needle, so I was thankful for that at the time! Later ones like TB were done at secondary school.
Unless you're going to have a severe reaction to the vaccine, I don't think there are many valid medical reasons to opt out. None of the people my age, from any religious or cultural background were exempted. Everyone just got it routinely, and no one really thought much of it. It seems like it was at least two decades later before vaccines became "controversial" thanks to that idiot Wakefield, and most especially the media for whipping up the storm which followed. I count them all culpable for profiting from the deaths and misery resulting from their poor journalism.
"proven to contain". No. That's a really weird conspiracy-theory stance. No. They are *known* to contain various substances because they have a *purpose*, and were specifically added to serve that purpose. Some are to act as a preservative (e.g. thimerosal--a form or mercury). Others are to act as an adjuvant (e.g. aluminium). Adjuvants stimulate an inflammatory response which causes the immune system to notice and react to the virus part of the vaccine, and develop a proper immune response. Without it, the vaccine would not work, or would work very poorly.
The tiny amounts of e.g. mercury and aluminium in a vaccine are of little consequence. Most of the mercury will be excreted over weeks-months, and it was only present in microgram quantities in any case.
As for your father's medication, this has zero bearing on vaccines and it completely irrelevant.
I think we'll manage just fine without Google. They are, after all, nothing more than a parasitical aggregator in any case. I generally read several news websites directly (as well as printed copy), it's not like Google was adding a lot of value on top of that.
Luke does have experience with flying landspeeders. They cut that scene out of the re-release though (with Biggs on Tattooine). And his father was supposed to be an excellent pilot. While it's a little bit of a stretch to take that into flying an X-wing straight off, it's at least plausible.
It isn't coded language for anything of the sort. It refers to far-left, Marxist, intersectionality-based identity politics. Which is a rather different, and quite unpleasant, beast.
Have you never tried it with some slices of extra mature cheddar? It melts under the grill just as well as processed cheese and tastes so much better. Shame I became so lactose intolerant I can't have even a small bit of the stuff.
It's the same story in the UK, with many closures and a terrible suicide rate. Small family-run dairy farms are no longer profitable, and the outright abuse of such farmers by big supermarkets and buying groups really should have been investigated. Many were running for years at a loss due to how they were screwed over by them. The milk market seems badly broken.
Don't know about the US, but in the UK Kraft had to rename their processed cheese slices to "Singles" because however it's made, it doesn't meet the criteria to call it cheese.
I've been reading OSNews for almost as long as I've been reading slashdot. It has always been more of a niche site, solely focused upon operating systems-related news, but within that niche it has had a better focus on relevant articles, better editing, and a higher quality of comments given the smaller and more dedicated userbase. I'd have to say, based upon the terrible comments so far on this story, that the quality of slashdot comments has seriously declined over the last few years. They are basically all worthless so far, and it's sad that clueless and disrespectful trolling is all that the slashdot community can come up with for the possible passing OSNews, a minor but worthy high quality competitor for many years.
Apple made a deal with the devil when they transformed their products into "fashion statements". The problem being that fashion is a fickle thing, and while they profited greatly from their image and sold a whole lot of iPhones, fashion always changes and they stand to be left behind when their design aesthetic goes out of fashion. This is why leaving their core computing competency behind has been so short-sighted, particularly when they have the money and resources to do both very well. Will they have enough left to fall back upon when the bubble bursts?
The first generation of EVs like the Nissan Leaf are now reaching the second hard market in reasonable numbers (in the UK). This is because they are coming off lease from the original owners. A second hard one is still expensive, but over time they will trickle down as they depreciate. I know a few people with new and second-hand Leafs, and they all love them. With ICE manufacture on the road to being phased out, the transition is going to happen in our lifetime.
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You own it. It's your property. It's it not illegal to work on your own property to effect a repair.
They might not want you to do that. They might not publish the information for you to do that. It might invalidate an agreement like a warranty or service plan. But it's yours to do with as you wish.
As someone who has worked with sensitive medical equipment, this is highly misleading. It's not always possible to effectively shield stuff. Strong microwave radiation can induce current in all sorts of devices; you've doubtless heard it affect loudspeakers. There are even more sensitive coils in many medical devices. Not turning phones off is a selfish thing to do. Why is your personal convenience more important than the primary function of a hospital?
Exactly so. It's not just medical use either. In a big industrial facility doing shift work, you would hand over the pager as part of the handoff between shifts. You were now responsible and accountable. A sizeable physical token is useful because it has meaning, much moreso than a purely electronic system such as a phone app.
Fiction can have truths within it.
As for Lord of the Rings, it has quite a lot of lore adapted from other sources, from the Bible to Norse legends, Old English mythology and others. From the lore to the morality plays, it's not purely fictitious and completely divorced from our own world. Though it is, of course, a set of fantasy novels.
Yes, it's largely fantasy with a lot of comedy, but there's a lot more in them than just that. Pratchett was a very well read fellow, and his books are stuffed full of little bits like this which are a wry and insightful take on situations in the real world. If you're poor, you can end up spending more on all sorts of items, from utilities like gas and electricity to clothing and food. And largely because a lack of up front captital limits your choices. His point is quite insightful, and the way he intersperses them and wraps them up within the comedy is genius.
What about Going Postal? The whole thing is an allegory about idealistic open source developers and the free software foundation going up against the cruel and callous system, wrapped up in a fantasy world and storyline with a suitably comic villain. But it's much deeper than that. It even has a G-N-U in it.
It's not ubuntu is it? I've experienced the same for a few years now. Tried several different graphics cards, to no avail. I suspect it might be the compositor; I hear the GPU fans speed up during the freeze and wonder if it's a GPU lockup and reset after a timeout.
If I run vmware workstation, it happens every few minutes, and sometimes locks up the machine. I suspect this is a separate locking bug somewhere, but it might interact badly with X due to grabbing the input focus. Filed several tickets with them over the years, but it's never been resolved either.
Still not up there at the KDE3 level, but definitely better than KDE4. For me, KDE3 was and still is the pinnacle of desktop user interfaces. Functional, fast, usable and looked nice. And had a lot of very nice applications to go with it.
It makes you wonder if they will be sued when someone trips over an exposed loop and ends up being injured.
At a job interview a few weeks back (embedded), they showed me another team's product--cross platform app development for ios/android/pc/mac and it was all C# with Xamarin. If it's sufficiently cross-platform for companies to use for their products, it's probably not that limited.
And, to be fair, they aren't entirely wrong about that. Since the vaccine *is* the virus, in an inert or attenuated form, there is a small possibility of that happening. You are getting a low grade infection, or at the very least a response to something mimicking an infection. So if your immune system is compromised, or there's a problem with a particular vaccine batch, you could be put at risk.
Overall, the benefits outweigh the risks, and today we have very good quality control, so the argument is not very convincing. But I wouldn't dismiss it out of hand; there is some valid science behind it.
It's not "safe", it's still pretty toxic if you read the MSDS for it. However a typical vaccine would contain a huge 50 micrograms of the stuff. Most of which would be excreted by the body over the following weeks-months. It has a relatively large biological half-life of several weeks, but of the tiny amount present originally, there would only be a tiny fraction left a year later. It was never a huge cause for concern, and was only dropped due to the irrational hysteria. Not entirely a bad thing that it was dropped--just a bit pointless given the risk/benefit tradeoffs.
Diseases can spread exponentially. If you don't immediately contain them then it ceases to be an emergency, and becomes an out of control disaster. An epidemic, with fatalities.
So, no, emergency is exactly the correct name for it. The reason we don't suffer from the worst effects of diseases like this in the Western world is precisely *because* our health authorities are monitoring these situations, ready to act quickly if the situation demands it. We should be thankful we get to live in such a safe situation, rather than minimising and undermining the true value in what we have created for ourselves.
I should also add for the first point that you also get a significant benefit of maternal antibodies, and if your mother had measles you will also gain protection this way as well. If your mother never had it or a related infection, and has no protective antibodies, you'll also be at a very increased risk. This is another factor why the death rate can get up to 1/2 in addition to the genetic aspect, and why the death rate is reduced in Western populations where measles has been historically endemic. We all have measles antibodies, and this typically reduces the severity of any infection.
The death rate from measles in an unvaccinated and unchallenged population is just under 1 person in 2 (~48%). This for example would be the Americas or Pacific islands prior to contact with the West. The only reason it's less today is because of two factors. Firstly, evolution. In the West, where measles was endemic, we are genetically selected for tolerance to it. Same as for certain influenza strains, the black death, and other historical nasties. Why? Because all the other people are *dead*. We are the survivors who have the genetics to cope with it. Secondly, vaccination. If you get infected in the West, and you are unvaccinated, you benefit from everyone around you being vaccinated. The disease can't spread as far or as fast. Infections aren't as severe, you aren't being exposed to the same quantity of the virus or as many strains of it. You're in a protective bubble which isn't even visible. It's called "herd immunity", because the population as a whole benefits from the immunity as a result of vaccination, even if the vaccination rate is not 100%.
Death rates from measles in the West had come down to 1/200 (UK) - 1/500 (US) before the introduction of vaccination programmes. This was largely down to improvements in overall living standards (primarily nutrition) and medical care in the early-mid 20th century. Today, even those numbers are a memory. Today, we are complacent because we have forgotten how awful a killer measles can be. Aside from the deaths, also consider the chance of permanent brain damage, permanent hearing loss or partial loss, or other permanent damage to the body. It's not just a few itchy spots for a week, it's a deadly serious infection.
"Anti-vaxxers" aren't being lied to. They are simply profoundly ignorant about the disease and the risks involved. They are only safe today to make their stupid choices because everyone else gets vaccinated. Once a critical number opt out of being vaccinated, and herd immunity is compromised, then measles epidemics will return. This story is one of several, and it will continue to get worse until we sort out the issues with people not being vaccinated.
Likewise in the UK. For the first ones in primary school, a parent could accompany us. The girl who went in before me screamed her head off at the needle, so I was thankful for that at the time! Later ones like TB were done at secondary school.
Unless you're going to have a severe reaction to the vaccine, I don't think there are many valid medical reasons to opt out. None of the people my age, from any religious or cultural background were exempted. Everyone just got it routinely, and no one really thought much of it. It seems like it was at least two decades later before vaccines became "controversial" thanks to that idiot Wakefield, and most especially the media for whipping up the storm which followed. I count them all culpable for profiting from the deaths and misery resulting from their poor journalism.
"proven to contain". No. That's a really weird conspiracy-theory stance. No. They are *known* to contain various substances because they have a *purpose*, and were specifically added to serve that purpose. Some are to act as a preservative (e.g. thimerosal--a form or mercury). Others are to act as an adjuvant (e.g. aluminium). Adjuvants stimulate an inflammatory response which causes the immune system to notice and react to the virus part of the vaccine, and develop a proper immune response. Without it, the vaccine would not work, or would work very poorly.
The tiny amounts of e.g. mercury and aluminium in a vaccine are of little consequence. Most of the mercury will be excreted over weeks-months, and it was only present in microgram quantities in any case.
As for your father's medication, this has zero bearing on vaccines and it completely irrelevant.
I think we'll manage just fine without Google. They are, after all, nothing more than a parasitical aggregator in any case. I generally read several news websites directly (as well as printed copy), it's not like Google was adding a lot of value on top of that.
Luke does have experience with flying landspeeders. They cut that scene out of the re-release though (with Biggs on Tattooine). And his father was supposed to be an excellent pilot. While it's a little bit of a stretch to take that into flying an X-wing straight off, it's at least plausible.
It isn't coded language for anything of the sort. It refers to far-left, Marxist, intersectionality-based identity politics. Which is a rather different, and quite unpleasant, beast.
Have you never tried it with some slices of extra mature cheddar? It melts under the grill just as well as processed cheese and tastes so much better. Shame I became so lactose intolerant I can't have even a small bit of the stuff.
It's the same story in the UK, with many closures and a terrible suicide rate. Small family-run dairy farms are no longer profitable, and the outright abuse of such farmers by big supermarkets and buying groups really should have been investigated. Many were running for years at a loss due to how they were screwed over by them. The milk market seems badly broken.
Don't know about the US, but in the UK Kraft had to rename their processed cheese slices to "Singles" because however it's made, it doesn't meet the criteria to call it cheese.
I've been reading OSNews for almost as long as I've been reading slashdot. It has always been more of a niche site, solely focused upon operating systems-related news, but within that niche it has had a better focus on relevant articles, better editing, and a higher quality of comments given the smaller and more dedicated userbase. I'd have to say, based upon the terrible comments so far on this story, that the quality of slashdot comments has seriously declined over the last few years. They are basically all worthless so far, and it's sad that clueless and disrespectful trolling is all that the slashdot community can come up with for the possible passing OSNews, a minor but worthy high quality competitor for many years.
Apple made a deal with the devil when they transformed their products into "fashion statements". The problem being that fashion is a fickle thing, and while they profited greatly from their image and sold a whole lot of iPhones, fashion always changes and they stand to be left behind when their design aesthetic goes out of fashion. This is why leaving their core computing competency behind has been so short-sighted, particularly when they have the money and resources to do both very well. Will they have enough left to fall back upon when the bubble bursts?
The first generation of EVs like the Nissan Leaf are now reaching the second hard market in reasonable numbers (in the UK). This is because they are coming off lease from the original owners. A second hard one is still expensive, but over time they will trickle down as they depreciate. I know a few people with new and second-hand Leafs, and they all love them. With ICE manufacture on the road to being phased out, the transition is going to happen in our lifetime.