The natural occurrence of the radioactive types is already very low (except as a direct product of uranium/thorium). So if you have.01% presence of a radioactive isotope and it has a half life of 52.5×10+3 years (as for lead-202) you aren't going to get emissions from it very often. For those that are counted in days or even months, it has already decayed as far as it can over the course of a millennium sitting in a mine.
In addition, disabling the “Other OS” feature will help ensure that PS3 owners will continue to have access to the broad range of gaming and entertainment content from SCE and its content partners on a more secure system.
I'm a bit skeptical of your claims about lead decay in electronics. While some isotopes of lead are radioactive, those are products of uranium decay, which as any good geek knows, goes through alpha and beta decay until it ends as a stable particle of lead-206. In that pathway there is lead-214 and lead-210 that have half-lives of half an hour and 22 years respectively. However, unless they are putting uranium in your electronics, the only lead present is going to be from mined ores that have had plenty of time to decompose into a stable form.
The best chart of lead isotopes I found is here http://education.jlab.org/itselemental/iso082.html. I'm not sure why, but it lists a half life for lead-204 even though I thought it was supposed to be stable. Most half lives are a few minutes or hours.
I'm not debating about depriving the company their rightful revenue. I'm with you on that. I really agree with pretty much everything you said. My post was just pointing out that a pirate is not another type of customer just because they receive the goods/services provided by the company, as your analogy indicated. Equating a taxi to downloads just doesn't work.
In regards to your sig, I think we have another example here. I have no idea why my first post was marked troll. I thought it conveyed a rather important distinction.
Unless they had no reason to hit the A button and it was an accident that just happened to trigger an error message without actually breaking any functionality.
Except that in the taxi you are using a limited resource, ie there are a finite number of cabs that can be occupied at any given moment. By getting in one you are assuming responsibility to pay for the ride at the end. Riding and not paying consumes resources from the driver that cannot be recovered, and would have otherwise gone to another rider/customer, as well has preventing another customer from having a cab at their disposal to have ridden. There are an infinite number of pirated copies that can be downloaded, and one person downloading it does not deprive another person the ability to buy it at the store.
To be sure, most of China’s 384 million Internet users log on for mundane reasons that don’t challenge the limits of free speech. A lot of Chinese citizens also accept the notion that stability and continued economic growth depend on government controls, including censorship.
WTF? Does this ring 1984 to anybody? "Sure its oppression, but its okay. The people prefer it this way." What kind of asinine journalism is that?!? It seems to me much more likely that the people just don't dare speak up against it, rather than that they are willing and happy to be controlled by Big Brother.
Its is almost impossible to fire a teacher due to teachers unions. Hence, in the original post, the teacher that was laid off still gets paid almost as much as before. There are many many stories of teachers who are still being paid to do nothing because nobody wants them. Many of them have been caught having sex with their students, molestation, etc etc. Despite being convicted and in jail, they still draw paychecks because they can't be fired. For the parties, its just pointing out that its the democratic party that has the history of claiming a great injustice in the land and sponsoring a new government program to correct it, while also promising how inexpensive it will be and how great of a job they will do, just as the parent was talking about.
I have a friend who was a teacher in California for a year.
Teacher unions are evil. End of story.
And yet many of the same people who will cry foul over this will be first in line telling the government it is morally obligated to provide X social program or prop up Y industry "for the good of the country."
Ugg, so now we have to start worrying about the differences between animals and humans? Do I really care how good a hawk can see? Are we talking about turning people into animals?
In other words, other than as part of a ridiculous straw man arguement, why would we extend this to all the animal kingdom?
For sight, there IS an objective standard for what is normal. The ability to differentiate between all the colors of the rainbow. Done. Sold. Whamo. If you can't tell the difference between red and green, then we can fix it so you can. Your example about introversion is irrelevant because, as you say, there is no standard normal. Indeed, I would be curious to know if the report focused that introversion is a disorder that afflicted 25% of the population, or if it was a disorder that afflicted 25% of the population.
Pros vs Cons There are (debatably) pros to being a highly functional autistic. It can be a benefit to a science/music/social services career, and becomes a large part of that persons identity and daily life. Some might say they like it that way. They cant say they prefer it that way, because they have never had anything else to compare it too. I can't think of any benefit of being color blind, and I've never met anyone that is who wouldn't rather just have fully functional sight. To most, if not all, it is an annoyance rather than part of their identity.
No it doesnt. An application for your local grocery customer loyalty program usually asks more questions. Even the registration form for most home appliances asks for more.
Incorrect. There are significant physiological and genetic differences between cancerous cells and normal cells. It would be entirely possible to target the RNA sequence to only bind to malignant cells and ignore normal ones.
And his is that since you arent putting in a domain name, your dns server is irrelevant. It is never contacted.
For what it is worth, I also use OpenDNS and that loads just fine. You are probably putting a www in front, in which case it will try to resolve as a domain name and not as an IP.
More to the root problem, though, why the hell would they alter the well-established criteria for a dangerous fall to reduce the load on their ambulance network? Why in god's name didn't they get more frickin ambulances?!
-devilsadvocate- Maybe they assumed that a fall from that height would usually kill the person anyway, so there isn't much point in hurrying. -/devilsadvocate-
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The natural occurrence of the radioactive types is already very low (except as a direct product of uranium/thorium). So if you have .01% presence of a radioactive isotope and it has a half life of 52.5×10+3 years (as for lead-202) you aren't going to get emissions from it very often. For those that are counted in days or even months, it has already decayed as far as it can over the course of a millennium sitting in a mine.
In addition, disabling the “Other OS” feature will help ensure that PS3 owners will continue to have access to the broad range of gaming and entertainment content from SCE and its content partners on a more secure system.
lulz...
I'm a bit skeptical of your claims about lead decay in electronics. While some isotopes of lead are radioactive, those are products of uranium decay, which as any good geek knows, goes through alpha and beta decay until it ends as a stable particle of lead-206. In that pathway there is lead-214 and lead-210 that have half-lives of half an hour and 22 years respectively. However, unless they are putting uranium in your electronics, the only lead present is going to be from mined ores that have had plenty of time to decompose into a stable form.
The best chart of lead isotopes I found is here http://education.jlab.org/itselemental/iso082.html. I'm not sure why, but it lists a half life for lead-204 even though I thought it was supposed to be stable. Most half lives are a few minutes or hours.
without actually breaking any functionality
I'm not debating about depriving the company their rightful revenue. I'm with you on that. I really agree with pretty much everything you said. My post was just pointing out that a pirate is not another type of customer just because they receive the goods/services provided by the company, as your analogy indicated. Equating a taxi to downloads just doesn't work.
In regards to your sig, I think we have another example here. I have no idea why my first post was marked troll. I thought it conveyed a rather important distinction.
Unless they had no reason to hit the A button and it was an accident that just happened to trigger an error message without actually breaking any functionality.
Except that in the taxi you are using a limited resource, ie there are a finite number of cabs that can be occupied at any given moment. By getting in one you are assuming responsibility to pay for the ride at the end. Riding and not paying consumes resources from the driver that cannot be recovered, and would have otherwise gone to another rider/customer, as well has preventing another customer from having a cab at their disposal to have ridden.
There are an infinite number of pirated copies that can be downloaded, and one person downloading it does not deprive another person the ability to buy it at the store.
Nope. In fact once I saw the source I knew something like that was coming.
To be sure, most of China’s 384 million Internet users log on for mundane reasons that don’t challenge the limits of free speech. A lot of Chinese citizens also accept the notion that stability and continued economic growth depend on government controls, including censorship.
WTF? Does this ring 1984 to anybody? "Sure its oppression, but its okay. The people prefer it this way." What kind of asinine journalism is that?!? It seems to me much more likely that the people just don't dare speak up against it, rather than that they are willing and happy to be controlled by Big Brother.
Its is almost impossible to fire a teacher due to teachers unions. Hence, in the original post, the teacher that was laid off still gets paid almost as much as before. There are many many stories of teachers who are still being paid to do nothing because nobody wants them. Many of them have been caught having sex with their students, molestation, etc etc. Despite being convicted and in jail, they still draw paychecks because they can't be fired.
For the parties, its just pointing out that its the democratic party that has the history of claiming a great injustice in the land and sponsoring a new government program to correct it, while also promising how inexpensive it will be and how great of a job they will do, just as the parent was talking about.
"The ridiculous spending of the Bush era..."
How quaint. When Bush did it, it was bad. When Obama speeds it up a gazilion times, its good?
They needed 2/3rds for health care too.. See how much that stopped them?
I think after this and the Clintons, No one with any brains would vote for or claim to be Democrat.
When did they?
I have a friend who was a teacher in California for a year.
Teacher unions are evil. End of story.
And yet many of the same people who will cry foul over this will be first in line telling the government it is morally obligated to provide X social program or prop up Y industry "for the good of the country."
You do know what party controls New York, right?
Ugg, so now we have to start worrying about the differences between animals and humans? Do I really care how good a hawk can see? Are we talking about turning people into animals?
In other words, other than as part of a ridiculous straw man arguement, why would we extend this to all the animal kingdom?
For sight, there IS an objective standard for what is normal. The ability to differentiate between all the colors of the rainbow. Done. Sold. Whamo. If you can't tell the difference between red and green, then we can fix it so you can. Your example about introversion is irrelevant because, as you say, there is no standard normal. Indeed, I would be curious to know if the report focused that introversion is a disorder that afflicted 25% of the population, or if it was a disorder that afflicted 25% of the population.
He is also older. Unless you are comparing shooting the day before and after the surgery, then there are many other variables to account for.
Pros vs Cons
There are (debatably) pros to being a highly functional autistic. It can be a benefit to a science/music/social services career, and becomes a large part of that persons identity and daily life. Some might say they like it that way. They cant say they prefer it that way, because they have never had anything else to compare it too. I can't think of any benefit of being color blind, and I've never met anyone that is who wouldn't rather just have fully functional sight. To most, if not all, it is an annoyance rather than part of their identity.
No it doesnt. An application for your local grocery customer loyalty program usually asks more questions. Even the registration form for most home appliances asks for more.
Incorrect. There are significant physiological and genetic differences between cancerous cells and normal cells. It would be entirely possible to target the RNA sequence to only bind to malignant cells and ignore normal ones.
And his is that since you arent putting in a domain name, your dns server is irrelevant. It is never contacted.
For what it is worth, I also use OpenDNS and that loads just fine. You are probably putting a www in front, in which case it will try to resolve as a domain name and not as an IP.
See the difference between http://0x42.0x66.0x0d.0x63/ and http://www.0x42.0x66.0x0d.0x63/
ambulances don't run on good deeds and angels wings.
They would if those gosh darn republicans would just get out of the Obamassiah's way!
Neither do 911 operators ask for proof of insurance.
Move along folks... Nothing to see here...
More to the root problem, though, why the hell would they alter the well-established criteria for a dangerous fall to reduce the load on their ambulance network? Why in god's name didn't they get more frickin ambulances?!
-devilsadvocate-
Maybe they assumed that a fall from that height would usually kill the person anyway, so there isn't much point in hurrying.
-/devilsadvocate-