I'm somewhat skeptical here. From my very small n=2 study, my husband and myself, infected the same year in 2006 (we both had HIV negative and positive tests that same year) with the same virus, as evidenced by genotype mutations test, I can tell you that my husband progressed from HIV to AIDS in less than a year, and had to go on antiretrovirals right away, whereas I didn't need medication for years and chose to remain without them for 4 years. I was in HIV controller studies. There was no change to my immune system on paper. But I was very tired, and I later chose to go on meds anyway. I had to drop out of the studies for this reason. I don't know what came of them. We are of different ethnicity - I am of caucasian and middle eastern descent; while my husband is asian; so our genetic are probably quite different.
It seems to me that this difference in disease progression between countries may have less to do with the virus itself evolving than it does with people's immune systems and genome evolving and becoming better able to deal with the virus.
Your numbers reflect my experience as well except for 802.11ac .
I am getting between 300 to 400 mbps real world throughput depending on how far the wifi device is from the router. That's with connection rates between 500 and 1300 mbps - the later achieved with an Asus PCIE 802.11ac NIC.
You may want to read the Windsor ruling more carefully, it does not say what you stated.
DOMA section was overturned, which means the federal government must recognize same-sex marriages of couples that were married in states or countries that allow it.
Many of the state constitutional bans on same-sex marriage weren't enacted directly by voters, but by the legislatures. The Windsor case says nothing about the voters in each state.
The Supreme Court also let stand a ruling about Prop 8, which found that a state ban on same-sex marriage in California, directly voted on by the California electorate, was unconstitutional.
The 2 rulings are not in contradiction. Both will be used to overturn many of the remaining state constitutional bans on same-sex marriage.
It was certainly not one activist judge that overturned Prop 22, the predecessor to Prop 8. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage_in_California
First, there was a trial court decision .
"On March 14, 2005, Judge Kramer ruled that California statutes limiting marriage to opposite-sex couples were unconstitutional."
This decision was then overturned, in a 2-1 ruling. "he state and organizations opposed to same-sex marriage appealed. Division Three of the First District Court of Appeal held extended oral argument on the cases on July 10, 2006, before a three-judge panel. In a 2-to-1 decision, the appellate court overturned the lower court"
Finally, there was a California Supreme Court decision, which is made of 7 judges. That ruling went 4-3 .
I count one trial court judge, one appellate court judge, and four California supreme Court judges, that were on the side of finding Prop 22 unconstitutional.
Also, do you think it was "activist judges" that overturned anti-miscegenation laws in 1967 nationwide, in a unanimous 9-0 ruling in "Loving vs Virginia" ? I guess you want those laws back on the books, too .
I meant that same-sex couples already had the legal right to get married in California before Prop 8, in 2008. And 18,000 of those couples had weddings. You can italicize the word all you want, but a civil wedding ceremony is just as legally valid.
The couples never had the legal right to a "civil union", which never existed in California.
The donation directly contributed to stripping LGBT Californians from the right to marry, a right they already had.
It wasn't just an indication of Eich's opinion.
While Obama wasn't in favor of granting rights of same-sex couples to marry in states where they didn't have them, he also never called for taking those rights away in states that did.
"old status quo" ? Interesting choice of words. It just doesn't work that way. Prop 8 was unique in taking existing rights away.
If Prop 8 had tried to bring back racial segregation in marriage, instead of bringing back gender discrimination in marriage, would it be right to call him a bigot or not ?
IMO, once he donated to the hateful Prop 8 campaign to take rights away, the onus was on him to prove that he wasn't a bigot. But he refused to address anything about his past political action.
As someone who is in an interracial, same-sex marriage in California, I don't see a difference there. Bigotry is bigotry, whether it's racism or anti-gay bigotry.
He wasn't a recent hire though. He was a founder. He was promoted from CTO to CEO.
The board knew about his donation to Prop 8 two years ago. There was no major backlash at that time when he was still only CTO. The backlash started after his promotion to CEO.
He was not fired, but his resignation certainly resulted from the pressure of the boycott.
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Yes; but we were infected with identical virus. The difference in disease progression was due to our genetics, not the virus mutating.
I'm somewhat skeptical here. From my very small n=2 study, my husband and myself, infected the same year in 2006 (we both had HIV negative and positive tests that same year) with the same virus, as evidenced by genotype mutations test, I can tell you that my husband progressed from HIV to AIDS in less than a year, and had to go on antiretrovirals right away, whereas I didn't need medication for years and chose to remain without them for 4 years. I was in HIV controller studies. There was no change to my immune system on paper. But I was very tired, and I later chose to go on meds anyway. I had to drop out of the studies for this reason. I don't know what came of them. We are of different ethnicity - I am of caucasian and middle eastern descent; while my husband is asian; so our genetic are probably quite different.
It seems to me that this difference in disease progression between countries may have less to do with the virus itself evolving than it does with people's immune systems and genome evolving and becoming better able to deal with the virus.
Just wait until for the deadly delivery drones.
that money can buy.
Actually, there is no microSD slot on the Nexus 6 or 9 .
http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2014/10/15/motorola-nexus-6-everything-you-need-to-know/
http://www.extremetech.com/computing/192061-nexus-9-unveiled-43-screen-64-bit-tegra-k1-soc-android-5-0-and-no-micro-sd-slot
Also, the battery is non-removable.
I will keep my LG G3 .
Your numbers reflect my experience as well except for 802.11ac .
I am getting between 300 to 400 mbps real world throughput depending on how far the wifi device is from the router.
That's with connection rates between 500 and 1300 mbps - the later achieved with an Asus PCIE 802.11ac NIC.
IMO, 802.11ac is a huge advance over 802.11n.
The state subsidies for solar in California have ended for the major utilities.
Agreed.
And the Plug-in-Prius can't even drive 100% electric at freeway speeds.
The "plug-in" part really is a joke on the Prius. It's definitely not worth the extra $5k over the regular Prius.
FYI, I drive a Leaf and my husband drives a Prius.
I live in Silicon Valley and AT&T can't even deliver 128 kbps DSL at my address. No DSL service available at any speed, period.
Burger King went out of business in France a long time ago.
Looks like they are trying again, with a total of 2 (two) restaurants nationwide.
You may want to read the Windsor ruling more carefully, it does not say what you stated.
DOMA section was overturned, which means the federal government must recognize same-sex marriages of couples that were married in states or countries that allow it.
Many of the state constitutional bans on same-sex marriage weren't enacted directly by voters, but by the legislatures. The Windsor case says nothing about the voters in each state.
The Supreme Court also let stand a ruling about Prop 8, which found that a state ban on same-sex marriage in California, directly voted on by the California electorate, was unconstitutional.
The 2 rulings are not in contradiction. Both will be used to overturn many of the remaining state constitutional bans on same-sex marriage.
Did you notice the part where he apologized for doing so, and Brendan Eich did not ?
It was certainly not one activist judge that overturned Prop 22, the predecessor to Prop 8.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage_in_California
First, there was a trial court decision .
"On March 14, 2005, Judge Kramer ruled that California statutes limiting marriage to opposite-sex couples were unconstitutional."
This decision was then overturned, in a 2-1 ruling.
"he state and organizations opposed to same-sex marriage appealed. Division Three of the First District Court of Appeal held extended oral argument on the cases on July 10, 2006, before a three-judge panel. In a 2-to-1 decision, the appellate court overturned the lower court"
Finally, there was a California Supreme Court decision, which is made of 7 judges. That ruling went 4-3 .
I count one trial court judge, one appellate court judge, and four California supreme Court judges, that were on the side of finding Prop 22 unconstitutional.
Also, do you think it was "activist judges" that overturned anti-miscegenation laws in 1967 nationwide, in a unanimous 9-0 ruling in "Loving vs Virginia" ?
I guess you want those laws back on the books, too .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loving_v._Virginia
Actually, I misread it as "erotic hardons" .
I meant that same-sex couples already had the legal right to get married in California before Prop 8, in 2008. And 18,000 of those couples had weddings.
You can italicize the word all you want, but a civil wedding ceremony is just as legally valid.
The couples never had the legal right to a "civil union", which never existed in California.
You call it judicial activism, I call it civil rights.
The donation directly contributed to stripping LGBT Californians from the right to marry, a right they already had.
It wasn't just an indication of Eich's opinion.
While Obama wasn't in favor of granting rights of same-sex couples to marry in states where they didn't have them, he also never called for taking those rights away in states that did.
That is an important distinction, in my mind.
"old status quo" ? Interesting choice of words. It just doesn't work that way. Prop 8 was unique in taking existing rights away.
If Prop 8 had tried to bring back racial segregation in marriage, instead of bringing back gender discrimination in marriage, would it be right to call him a bigot or not ?
IMO, once he donated to the hateful Prop 8 campaign to take rights away, the onus was on him to prove that he wasn't a bigot. But he refused to address anything about his past political action.
As someone who is in an interracial, same-sex marriage in California, I don't see a difference there. Bigotry is bigotry, whether it's racism or anti-gay bigotry.
Andrew Sullivan is just Andrew Sullivan.
He has changed his political tune many times.
It's hard to fit him in one box.
He has many contradictions, too.
What equal right ? The right to be Mozilla CEO ? I don't think we all have that right.
We do have right to speak up, as much as the Mozilla CEO had the right to his political contributions.
Actually same-sex couples already had legal recognition in California before Prop 8.
Prop 8 took away the right of same-sex couples to get married.
http://voterguide.sos.ca.gov/past/2008/general/title-sum/prop8-title-sum.htm
ELIMINATES RIGHT OF SAME–SEX COUPLES TO MARRY. INITIATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT.
After Prop 8 passed, proponents also tried to retroactively divorce existing same-sex couples.
He wasn't a recent hire though. He was a founder. He was promoted from CTO to CEO.
The board knew about his donation to Prop 8 two years ago. There was no major backlash at that time when he was still only CTO.
The backlash started after his promotion to CEO.
He was not fired, but his resignation certainly resulted from the pressure of the boycott.
Sure, it is your right to call the backlash hate, but that doesn't really make it so.
If that's hate, I'd love to know what you call the "Yes on 8" video ads that called gays dangerous to children, etc ?
http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2014/04/04/brendan_eich_supported_prop_8_which_was_worse_than_you_remember.html
Please watch them before answering.
You can boycott the LGBT community by not marrying someone of the same-sex.
Also, by leaving the rest of us who did alone, rather than try to take away our rights, as Prop 8 did.
Check out the actual campaign "Yes on 8" campaign ads, and then tell me if they are not hateful.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2014/04/04/brendan_eich_supported_prop_8_which_was_worse_than_you_remember.html