H1N1 is believed to have been initially spread from a rather unkempt pig farm in Mexico, hence the swine flu. However, it isn't the fault of the pigs that the place was so nasty, it was the farmers.
So a more appropriate name would be the Dirty Mexican Flu. However that would unduly prejudice all Mexicans, just like "swine flu" unduly prejudices pigs and the pork industry.
I got an idea, how's about we ask someone about to die from it what it should be called? Maybe they might give us some perspective about whether the name is worth arguing about.
Based on 3rd party accounts, I remember a lot about what happened before I was born. Granted, Pearl Harbour doesn't keep me up nights, but a 5-year-old seeing 9/11 fotage for the first time might be kept up more than a few nights.
Think that nobody in NYC born after 9/11 was scared by the recent Air Force 1 fly-bys?
Granted the typical user won't even know this can be done, but the first thing I do when installing Windows is disable/uninstall autorun, MSN, IE, system restore, drive indexing, and pretty much any other M$ shyte I can. After that, XP is suite stable and very useable.
And yeasts have been cultured for a more predictable fermentation since it was discovered to be possible. Is the preservation of a certain yeast strain considered genetic manipulation? It would otherwise have drifted on and/or been replaced by a more aggressive yeast.
In other news, most of the vines for wine grapes have been transplanted onto north american roots due to a blight that started in the 1850's. To this day there are very few areas where vines can be grown on their original roots, Chile being one of the largest, and certain valleys in Australia. Not many vines with roots that can resist the blight produce desired grapes for wine either.
So botanical and microbial modifications are hardly new to the production of alcohol, it would be surprising if barley and hops weren't already genetically modified for yield, resilience, and/or flavor, just like many food crops are.
I can't believe ours is unique but perhaps it's quite rare.
Every star and planet is unique. They weren't made from an assembly line y'know!
And don't forget our form of life is equally unique, so it's a real needle-in-the-haystack situation. Kepler can search 10 x 10 degrees at a time, but with limited depth per scan, i.e. it has to change focus for objects 80 light-years away compared to objects 20 light-years away.
Then there's the inconvenient fact that communications take so long between such distant objects. Gliese 581 is 20.5 ly away, relatively nearby, but we could not expect a response to any message sent for 41 years, nor could any inhabitants of Gliese 581. The images taken are as it appeared when Bobby McFerrin's Don't Worry, Be Happy topped the charts.
They're dodging long-distance charges, just like software pirates dodge paying for content. TelefÃnica and Embratel are threatening to sue the US military for cutting their grass.
4) Spider the conversations for keywords and sell advertising to military contractors, which keeps the pirates fighting, giving the military more action, more is spent on guns and ammo, everyone's happy.
Apple released many such systems prior to OS 8 too, which could have multiple apps *open* at once, but could only *run* one at a time. Those who tried encoding MP3's in the background became very aware of this shortcoming.
Only thing surprising me about this is how surprised everyone seems. You may also be surprised why BT only blocked TPB for their mobile customers - they're mostly locked into contracts, while their home ISP hasn't blocked them, since they can switch providers without penalty.
Meanwhile, BT is getting lots of free publicity out of this, and I can't imagine someone actually getting upset about not being able to rock torrents on their cel. It will also get non-BT cel clients to try it. Another bullshit boondoggle designed to accomplish nothing but to seem productive.
Research teams will now be able to do in one day what previously took them three years.
So they can do 1000 times more just by upgrading the speed of the connection between the telescopes? That's pretty remarkable, why didn't they do it earlier?
Because now they're expected to actually FIND something of significance instead of photoshopping Keeley Hazell's cleavage onto planetary nebulae.
Most "eco-friendly" energy sources in fact either cause the same amount of pollution per energy unit or often more, such as biodiesel, ethanol, geothermal, and most wind farms barely break even after huge investment and CO2 emmissions from building them. Solar-thermal is the best renewable source for truly beneficial energy production (except for hydro-turbine of course). All other eco-friendly power projects are just political boondoggles.
In case you're wondering - boondoogle: a project funded by a government body that is of no real value to the community, done merely to appear productive.
The ratio of energy produced vs. fuel expended transporting and mounting large modern windmills is much lower than nuclear. There is a silly windmill farm being built in Ontario Canada set on an island, and the barge that carries the components across to the island has been burning almost 8000 gal (30,000L) of diesel fuel a week since last July, so far over 280,000 gallons of diesel fuel with absolutely no emmisions reduction processing whatsoever. Then there's the trucks that haul the components to the dock, etc. Altogether the emissions in this case rival coal, and they're produced before the energy is delivered.
Once it's running the real fun begins. Large windmills resonate a very low frequency that is inaudible to humans, but drives cattle nuts. It propogates through the ground, so the range is rather extensive, though not yet measured (to my knowledge). So the cattle farms on that island are probably going out of business, costing the community more jobs than the windmills created.
What they don't tell you about solar power is that a household solar-thermal system with 60% efficiency is feasible, thanks to an ultra-efficient steam engine, and would only require a 6' diameter collector dish to power the typical power-frugal household, and a second could power an electric vehicle. I don't know where the pressure is coming from to prevent these from hitting the market, but they could be sold and installed for under $3000.
There is simply much more clean energy to be gotten from solar than wind. On a mass scale, solar plants can deliver 500+MW, the equivalent of a 333 windmill farm, almost half an AP1000 nuke, with virtually no ecological impact whatsoever.
Maybe you didn't read the recent article about the causes of the TMI incident, but the primary cause was the lack of effective computer monitoring. They were so scared of a reactor meltdown that they didn't trust computers to prevent them. That would never happen today.
It's Chernobyl they should be afraid of. It was a far more severe catastrophe caused by the implementation of unproven technologies and safety measures, compounded by operator error. That fits the situation much closer.
Coincidentally, the worst man-made disaster to date was the failure of the Banqiao dam in 1975, which was built in China with the assistance of Soviet engineers. The ensuing floods, epidemics, and famine killed 171,000 people. You probably didn't hear about it since it wasn't reported outside China, and the death toll wasn't declassified until 2005.
So not only are they prone to create epic disasters, they might not inform the rest of the world if one happens, much less ask for assistance. To us they're disasters, maybe to them they're just population control with plausible deniability...
The real problem is that people don't instinctively challenge what they read/view in fancy publications or broadcasts. That's one thing blogs have going for them, people know to only accept posts as one person's opinion, which is all any mainstream news is.
Beat me to it. However the blame for the misnomer lies not in the media. A benign exploit was called a hack, but a hack causing damage was called a crack. That meant those who performed cracks were initially called 'crackers', a term that already had a racial connotation. They couldn't call them 'crackheads' either. Both the media and 'crackers' adopted the next closest related term.
Kinda sad that it's difficult to find a derogatory name for something because all relevant options are already in widespread use...
Agreed, "web design" has a graphics component, and often a scripting component, but the OT says "What do you call people who 'do HTML'?" which I interpret to be limited to templates and basic markup.
Actually, they must be using relatively simple impulse response sampling, the same thing used to record impulse responses of acoustic spaces for use in convolution reverb units/plug-ins. Those can be very easily recorded and reproduced. Having something that fits in your ear and can't be visualy detected that can fool an in-ear detector would be very difficult. If it was worth going deaf to have a surgically implanted fake OAE response, maybe.
But as I mentioned above, OAE's change. This process could only produce positive results. A negative result would not confirm that the person is an imposter.
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H1N1 is believed to have been initially spread from a rather unkempt pig farm in Mexico, hence the swine flu. However, it isn't the fault of the pigs that the place was so nasty, it was the farmers.
So a more appropriate name would be the Dirty Mexican Flu. However that would unduly prejudice all Mexicans, just like "swine flu" unduly prejudices pigs and the pork industry.
I got an idea, how's about we ask someone about to die from it what it should be called? Maybe they might give us some perspective about whether the name is worth arguing about.
Based on 3rd party accounts, I remember a lot about what happened before I was born. Granted, Pearl Harbour doesn't keep me up nights, but a 5-year-old seeing 9/11 fotage for the first time might be kept up more than a few nights.
Think that nobody in NYC born after 9/11 was scared by the recent Air Force 1 fly-bys?
Nothing was censored, the publisher (FEMA) simply stopped selling it due to public distaste.
It's absolutism that should be censored.
Granted the typical user won't even know this can be done, but the first thing I do when installing Windows is disable/uninstall autorun, MSN, IE, system restore, drive indexing, and pretty much any other M$ shyte I can. After that, XP is suite stable and very useable.
And yeasts have been cultured for a more predictable fermentation since it was discovered to be possible. Is the preservation of a certain yeast strain considered genetic manipulation? It would otherwise have drifted on and/or been replaced by a more aggressive yeast.
In other news, most of the vines for wine grapes have been transplanted onto north american roots due to a blight that started in the 1850's. To this day there are very few areas where vines can be grown on their original roots, Chile being one of the largest, and certain valleys in Australia. Not many vines with roots that can resist the blight produce desired grapes for wine either.
So botanical and microbial modifications are hardly new to the production of alcohol, it would be surprising if barley and hops weren't already genetically modified for yield, resilience, and/or flavor, just like many food crops are.
I can't believe ours is unique but perhaps it's quite rare.
Every star and planet is unique. They weren't made from an assembly line y'know!
And don't forget our form of life is equally unique, so it's a real needle-in-the-haystack situation. Kepler can search 10 x 10 degrees at a time, but with limited depth per scan, i.e. it has to change focus for objects 80 light-years away compared to objects 20 light-years away.
Then there's the inconvenient fact that communications take so long between such distant objects. Gliese 581 is 20.5 ly away, relatively nearby, but we could not expect a response to any message sent for 41 years, nor could any inhabitants of Gliese 581. The images taken are as it appeared when Bobby McFerrin's Don't Worry, Be Happy topped the charts.
They're dodging long-distance charges, just like software pirates dodge paying for content. TelefÃnica and Embratel are threatening to sue the US military for cutting their grass.
4) Spider the conversations for keywords and sell advertising to military contractors, which keeps the pirates fighting, giving the military more action, more is spent on guns and ammo, everyone's happy.
Apple released many such systems prior to OS 8 too, which could have multiple apps *open* at once, but could only *run* one at a time. Those who tried encoding MP3's in the background became very aware of this shortcoming.
Only thing surprising me about this is how surprised everyone seems. You may also be surprised why BT only blocked TPB for their mobile customers - they're mostly locked into contracts, while their home ISP hasn't blocked them, since they can switch providers without penalty.
Meanwhile, BT is getting lots of free publicity out of this, and I can't imagine someone actually getting upset about not being able to rock torrents on their cel. It will also get non-BT cel clients to try it. Another bullshit boondoggle designed to accomplish nothing but to seem productive.
Research teams will now be able to do in one day what previously took them three years. So they can do 1000 times more just by upgrading the speed of the connection between the telescopes? That's pretty remarkable, why didn't they do it earlier?
Because now they're expected to actually FIND something of significance instead of photoshopping Keeley Hazell's cleavage onto planetary nebulae.
More importantly, how does it compare to a $50 dash-mounted solar cel?
Most "eco-friendly" energy sources in fact either cause the same amount of pollution per energy unit or often more, such as biodiesel, ethanol, geothermal, and most wind farms barely break even after huge investment and CO2 emmissions from building them. Solar-thermal is the best renewable source for truly beneficial energy production (except for hydro-turbine of course). All other eco-friendly power projects are just political boondoggles.
In case you're wondering - boondoogle: a project funded by a government body that is of no real value to the community, done merely to appear productive.
The ratio of energy produced vs. fuel expended transporting and mounting large modern windmills is much lower than nuclear. There is a silly windmill farm being built in Ontario Canada set on an island, and the barge that carries the components across to the island has been burning almost 8000 gal (30,000L) of diesel fuel a week since last July, so far over 280,000 gallons of diesel fuel with absolutely no emmisions reduction processing whatsoever. Then there's the trucks that haul the components to the dock, etc. Altogether the emissions in this case rival coal, and they're produced before the energy is delivered.
Once it's running the real fun begins. Large windmills resonate a very low frequency that is inaudible to humans, but drives cattle nuts. It propogates through the ground, so the range is rather extensive, though not yet measured (to my knowledge). So the cattle farms on that island are probably going out of business, costing the community more jobs than the windmills created.
What they don't tell you about solar power is that a household solar-thermal system with 60% efficiency is feasible, thanks to an ultra-efficient steam engine, and would only require a 6' diameter collector dish to power the typical power-frugal household, and a second could power an electric vehicle. I don't know where the pressure is coming from to prevent these from hitting the market, but they could be sold and installed for under $3000.
There is simply much more clean energy to be gotten from solar than wind. On a mass scale, solar plants can deliver 500+MW, the equivalent of a 333 windmill farm, almost half an AP1000 nuke, with virtually no ecological impact whatsoever.
Maybe you didn't read the recent article about the causes of the TMI incident, but the primary cause was the lack of effective computer monitoring. They were so scared of a reactor meltdown that they didn't trust computers to prevent them. That would never happen today.
It's Chernobyl they should be afraid of. It was a far more severe catastrophe caused by the implementation of unproven technologies and safety measures, compounded by operator error. That fits the situation much closer.
Coincidentally, the worst man-made disaster to date was the failure of the Banqiao dam in 1975, which was built in China with the assistance of Soviet engineers. The ensuing floods, epidemics, and famine killed 171,000 people. You probably didn't hear about it since it wasn't reported outside China, and the death toll wasn't declassified until 2005.
So not only are they prone to create epic disasters, they might not inform the rest of the world if one happens, much less ask for assistance. To us they're disasters, maybe to them they're just population control with plausible deniability...
Which should you resent more, people's stupidity, or Apple/Microsoft's ability to profit from it?
There's a cheat on PBS that filters out all the Fox bias: NPR
The real problem is that people don't instinctively challenge what they read/view in fancy publications or broadcasts. That's one thing blogs have going for them, people know to only accept posts as one person's opinion, which is all any mainstream news is.
...progressing where?
Yay! I get free shit!
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Beat me to it. However the blame for the misnomer lies not in the media. A benign exploit was called a hack, but a hack causing damage was called a crack. That meant those who performed cracks were initially called 'crackers', a term that already had a racial connotation. They couldn't call them 'crackheads' either. Both the media and 'crackers' adopted the next closest related term.
Kinda sad that it's difficult to find a derogatory name for something because all relevant options are already in widespread use...
The trial should not be webcast because the RIAA's arguments are unpopular and public relations are unusually critical to their operation.
The trial should be webcast because the RIAA's arguments are unpopular and public relations are unusually critical to their operation.
How do you judge a case where both sides make the same argument?
Agreed, "web design" has a graphics component, and often a scripting component, but the OT says "What do you call people who 'do HTML'?" which I interpret to be limited to templates and basic markup.
and when the river runs red, take the dirt road?
And Mr. Blonde can pass as a cop!
Actually, they must be using relatively simple impulse response sampling, the same thing used to record impulse responses of acoustic spaces for use in convolution reverb units/plug-ins. Those can be very easily recorded and reproduced. Having something that fits in your ear and can't be visualy detected that can fool an in-ear detector would be very difficult. If it was worth going deaf to have a surgically implanted fake OAE response, maybe.
But as I mentioned above, OAE's change. This process could only produce positive results. A negative result would not confirm that the person is an imposter.