And besides, it's not like folks are going to physically locate themselves for optimum WiFi distribution. They'll be wherever they are.
They will if they are any sort of nerd who has done any wardriving. Don't tell me you have never held your laptop vertical in just the right spot out the car window to get a connection.
Back in my microbiology and pathology classes, my professor commented how medical training really splits people into two camps. Some go germaphobic and paranoid about every little bug under the sun. Others realize how amazing the immune system is and let it do its job. If anything, I've become a little less paranoid about germs since then. Sure in the operating room its absolute sterility, but at home? Ehh, whats a little green fuzz?
Precisely. Bleach is an excellent disinfectant but the only way to get that 100% effectiveness is too be very patient and apply it to every possible surface for the minimum time length. When you clean the bathroom floor, its doubtful you are going to be that thorough. Unfortunately its corrosiveness limits it to stuff like floors and counter tops.
Theoretically yes. It would just take rerouting the incoming kidney blood supply into a loop to bypass it into dialysis. However, you would likely have to filter the drugs out, pass it back to the kidney, reroute it out again and restore the drug. Wouldn't help if your kidneys died from lack of blood supply. Last case scenario stuff probably though.
alcohol works entirely differently. There is little to no risk of resistance to these forms of santization, but the problem with soaps and detergents that use other antibacterial agents is real.
How about we build a giant spaceship, sterilize everything then put a bunch of clones into stasis on it. Then we can nuke the earth to abolish all micro-flora and recolonize it with our new germ free overlords.
Thats really a bit misleading. For one, that article is some 6 years old. Furthermore, lot revolves on what you term a disinfectant to be. Sometimes its the same antibiotic used for medication, just used topically on a surface. Other times it is a extremely toxic chemical that really is the nuclear bomb of the microbial world. They simply cannot form a resistance to it because it is literally impossible to survive when used properly. The article talks specifically about catheters and soap dispensers. Not knowing what type of catheters they are talking about really makes it a lot of speculation, but it is much more likely that it was a case of poor cleaning for reusable models (most are disposable anyways), being left in too long, or not being inserted correctly. For soaps, then it is likely a similar antibacterial as used in medication. For most situations this is entirely unnecessary. Antibacterial soaps and detergents are a large part of the problem to begin with. Alcohol based and similar sanitizers work though an entirely different process are are much much less vulnerable to any sort of resistance.
That is a valid concern, but then you have to take a look at how many people would really go to the black market. First, you have to know how to find it. Make it too easy, and you get caught easy. Make it hard, and your operation stays small and has little impact. Sure it will go on, but probably not much different than what there already is.
Taxes don't target the elite, they hover above them. Everything you do only hits the middle class and by attacking them, you split their ranks into slum side and elite side.
I really like that line. The rich have enough left over to still be filth rich. The poor just get refunded in terms of public assistance. The middle see a distinct impact to their budget. disclosure, I lean towards the FairTax myself.
So you have someone knowingly drinking one poison, and the potential to be drinking another unknown poison. How do you come up years later claiming that X people died from drinking the unknown poison?
Steam actually has a system to handle DLCs. They can be installed/uninstalled independently of the main game. In fact, I initially thought that the update might have been installed as such, in which case I could have uninstalled it and rolled back on my own.
One important part that you mentioned is "without changing any of the existing content". Taking TF2 for example, there have been a lot of updates and new content. However, the original game is still present and if you want you can still start a vanilla server and block any of the new content. As such, it has been added to, but not changed, by DLCs. By changing the existing content so drastically it is really somewhere between a true bug-fix update and a DLC update.
Notably, in this situation the ESRB would have changed if the update were to have been evaluated. The different between "partial nudity" and "full nudity" is important to a lot of people. (Note to readers: Regardless of if you care or not, many people do. Many people have mothers/wives/sisters/daughters whom they care about and whose feelings they respect. Even if a nipple doesn't offend you or I, it does them.)
Witcher: Enhanced Edition. It's a Polish game that was released in the US first in a censored version and in Europe uncensored. Then they released a "Director's Cut" patch for the US version that uncensored it. I looked for any sort of way to roll it back on my own, but didn't find squat. In updating they removed the textures and meshes for the uncensored version. I'd love to know a way to roll back to the original, but I haven't found anything. They claim that it was an opt-in update, but that is complete hogwash. There is no way I would have ever approved it.
Errr, the article is about how canceling it is going to cost about as much to finish it. Pretty much all the posts I've read here so far say pretty much the same thing, ie, just finish it. Yet since I dared mention the great Obama, you pick me to bash. How about this little tidbit from the article.
The agency was careful to point out that the letter "is in no way to be construed as direction to cease [work]." Congress has forbidden NASA from canceling any part of Constellation without its permission, which so far it shows no signs of giving.
Indeed, about 30 members of Congress wrote Bolden recently to warn that his efforts to prepare for termination without permission from Congress — including gathering information about closeout costs — could be viewed as illegal.
So really, Obama has no authority to really cancel it. Its just more fingers into a pie that he isn't supposed to be touching anyway.
An update is a fix for a bug, which I authorized. This wasn't an update, it was a complete change. Imagine taking your car to the shop for a regular check up. You authorize new tires, oil change, new wipers etc. When it comes back painted pink that is another story.
Every year for the last ten years has been setting record temperatures.
and the counter claim was
Its been cooling a bit for the last 8 years
so out of our sample of 10, we have 8 conflicting with the original claim, then yes I would say that is statistically significant. You could pull back farther into the past (I have no idea what the weather patterns were 40 years ago) but the problem with that is the claim that we dirty Americans with our pollution are causing the change. 100 years ago CO2 emissions were small compared to what they are today. So we have this problem were the weather patterns were doing whatever they were doing 40 years ago. For the sake of simplicity lets say they were going up at a slow rate. It couldn't have been too fast or we would already be baking compared to what it was in 1900. CO2 emissions were rising too, although relative to today, still pretty low. Then a few decades ago CO2 starts climbing rapidly due to global development. CO2 today is likely a few magnitude higher than it was back then, yet despite a spike in CO2 emissions, recent years show a reversal of the heating trend.
Taken all together, it is a fallacy to disregard recent temperatures as being statistically unimportant because they are a minority. Factoring in other information, such as the amount of CO2 released in each of those years, gives them increased importance.
PS here is a nice graph showing CO2 estimates over the last few centuries. I have no idea of its accuracy. I just pulled it from a google search http://www.mongabay.com/images/2006/graphs/co2_global_1750-2000.jpg Interestingly, the same place had another chart showing the past few years and future estimates by country. http://photos.mongabay.com/09/forecast_co2_line.jpg Seems the Chinese are the ones we should be worried about, not us fat Americans with our SUVs.
Except you are still giving complete control over your games to a third party. I used to love steam. Then one day they decided that they wanted to change the censored version of a game I bought into the uncensored version. I was annoyed, but more importantly the women folk didn't like it when they saw it. Contacted support to ask for it to be rolled back or for a refund. Was treated like an absolute idiot and was pretty much told to piss off. This after years of being a loyal customer have having spent hundreds of dollars on games. Just completely out of the blue and without permission changed the fundamental character of the game. Had they even tried to apologize I might have been okay with it. Instead I got couple idiots lying to me how they are contacting the developers to try to fix it and other BS. Not just poor support, but down right insulting. When I tried to get another associate thinking I got a bad apple the first time, it was the same thing. They hold every game I ever bought on there for ransom and there is nothing I can do about it. No matter how good it may seem now, it will come back to screw you. It is still DRM, it just has a happy face painted on it.
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And besides, it's not like folks are going to physically locate themselves for optimum WiFi distribution. They'll be wherever they are.
They will if they are any sort of nerd who has done any wardriving. Don't tell me you have never held your laptop vertical in just the right spot out the car window to get a connection.
Back in my microbiology and pathology classes, my professor commented how medical training really splits people into two camps. Some go germaphobic and paranoid about every little bug under the sun. Others realize how amazing the immune system is and let it do its job. If anything, I've become a little less paranoid about germs since then. Sure in the operating room its absolute sterility, but at home? Ehh, whats a little green fuzz?
Precisely. Bleach is an excellent disinfectant but the only way to get that 100% effectiveness is too be very patient and apply it to every possible surface for the minimum time length. When you clean the bathroom floor, its doubtful you are going to be that thorough.
Unfortunately its corrosiveness limits it to stuff like floors and counter tops.
Theoretically yes. It would just take rerouting the incoming kidney blood supply into a loop to bypass it into dialysis. However, you would likely have to filter the drugs out, pass it back to the kidney, reroute it out again and restore the drug. Wouldn't help if your kidneys died from lack of blood supply. Last case scenario stuff probably though.
alcohol works entirely differently. There is little to no risk of resistance to these forms of santization, but the problem with soaps and detergents that use other antibacterial agents is real.
How about we build a giant spaceship, sterilize everything then put a bunch of clones into stasis on it. Then we can nuke the earth to abolish all micro-flora and recolonize it with our new germ free overlords.
Thats really a bit misleading. For one, that article is some 6 years old.
Furthermore, lot revolves on what you term a disinfectant to be. Sometimes its the same antibiotic used for medication, just used topically on a surface. Other times it is a extremely toxic chemical that really is the nuclear bomb of the microbial world. They simply cannot form a resistance to it because it is literally impossible to survive when used properly.
The article talks specifically about catheters and soap dispensers. Not knowing what type of catheters they are talking about really makes it a lot of speculation, but it is much more likely that it was a case of poor cleaning for reusable models (most are disposable anyways), being left in too long, or not being inserted correctly. For soaps, then it is likely a similar antibacterial as used in medication. For most situations this is entirely unnecessary. Antibacterial soaps and detergents are a large part of the problem to begin with. Alcohol based and similar sanitizers work though an entirely different process are are much much less vulnerable to any sort of resistance.
That is a valid concern, but then you have to take a look at how many people would really go to the black market. First, you have to know how to find it. Make it too easy, and you get caught easy. Make it hard, and your operation stays small and has little impact. Sure it will go on, but probably not much different than what there already is.
Nope
http://www.fairtax.org/site/PageServer?pagename=about_fairtax_four#regressive
Taxes don't target the elite, they hover above them. Everything you do only hits the middle class and by attacking them, you split their ranks into slum side and elite side.
I really like that line. The rich have enough left over to still be filth rich. The poor just get refunded in terms of public assistance. The middle see a distinct impact to their budget.
disclosure, I lean towards the FairTax myself.
...that Al Gore uses a mac? Is he a board member at Starbucks too?
So you have someone knowingly drinking one poison, and the potential to be drinking another unknown poison. How do you come up years later claiming that X people died from drinking the unknown poison?
Yet now days anyone mentioning a "death panel" is mocked...
Are they really that unthinkable considering these sort of events?
You're right. The Reaper drones cost $10 million. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MQ-9_Reaper
Steam actually has a system to handle DLCs. They can be installed/uninstalled independently of the main game. In fact, I initially thought that the update might have been installed as such, in which case I could have uninstalled it and rolled back on my own.
One important part that you mentioned is "without changing any of the existing content". Taking TF2 for example, there have been a lot of updates and new content. However, the original game is still present and if you want you can still start a vanilla server and block any of the new content. As such, it has been added to, but not changed, by DLCs. By changing the existing content so drastically it is really somewhere between a true bug-fix update and a DLC update.
Notably, in this situation the ESRB would have changed if the update were to have been evaluated. The different between "partial nudity" and "full nudity" is important to a lot of people. (Note to readers: Regardless of if you care or not, many people do. Many people have mothers/wives/sisters/daughters whom they care about and whose feelings they respect. Even if a nipple doesn't offend you or I, it does them.)
Witcher: Enhanced Edition. It's a Polish game that was released in the US first in a censored version and in Europe uncensored. Then they released a "Director's Cut" patch for the US version that uncensored it.
I looked for any sort of way to roll it back on my own, but didn't find squat. In updating they removed the textures and meshes for the uncensored version. I'd love to know a way to roll back to the original, but I haven't found anything. They claim that it was an opt-in update, but that is complete hogwash. There is no way I would have ever approved it.
Yet since I dared mention the great Obama, you pick me to bash. How about this little tidbit from the article.
The agency was careful to point out that the letter "is in no way to be construed as direction to cease [work]." Congress has forbidden NASA from canceling any part of Constellation without its permission, which so far it shows no signs of giving. Indeed, about 30 members of Congress wrote Bolden recently to warn that his efforts to prepare for termination without permission from Congress — including gathering information about closeout costs — could be viewed as illegal.
So really, Obama has no authority to really cancel it. Its just more fingers into a pie that he isn't supposed to be touching anyway.
Ya, then I would get hit with a cease and desist letter and lawsuit for infringing Pixar's copyright. Thanks a lot.
Like I said, uncensoring the game was just the catalyst. What really pissed me off was the treatment later when I contacted support.
I'm in the USA.
An update is a fix for a bug, which I authorized. This wasn't an update, it was a complete change.
Imagine taking your car to the shop for a regular check up. You authorize new tires, oil change, new wipers etc. When it comes back painted pink that is another story.
They keep coming up with new ways to celebrate mediocrity!
I should put that on a bumper sticker.
So instead of paying them to finish the project, we are going to pay them what we would have paid to finish it to cancel it! Go Obama!
Every year for the last ten years has been setting record temperatures.
and the counter claim was
Its been cooling a bit for the last 8 years
so out of our sample of 10, we have 8 conflicting with the original claim, then yes I would say that is statistically significant. You could pull back farther into the past (I have no idea what the weather patterns were 40 years ago) but the problem with that is the claim that we dirty Americans with our pollution are causing the change. 100 years ago CO2 emissions were small compared to what they are today. So we have this problem were the weather patterns were doing whatever they were doing 40 years ago. For the sake of simplicity lets say they were going up at a slow rate. It couldn't have been too fast or we would already be baking compared to what it was in 1900. CO2 emissions were rising too, although relative to today, still pretty low. Then a few decades ago CO2 starts climbing rapidly due to global development. CO2 today is likely a few magnitude higher than it was back then, yet despite a spike in CO2 emissions, recent years show a reversal of the heating trend.
Taken all together, it is a fallacy to disregard recent temperatures as being statistically unimportant because they are a minority. Factoring in other information, such as the amount of CO2 released in each of those years, gives them increased importance. PS here is a nice graph showing CO2 estimates over the last few centuries. I have no idea of its accuracy. I just pulled it from a google search http://www.mongabay.com/images/2006/graphs/co2_global_1750-2000.jpg Interestingly, the same place had another chart showing the past few years and future estimates by country. http://photos.mongabay.com/09/forecast_co2_line.jpg Seems the Chinese are the ones we should be worried about, not us fat Americans with our SUVs.
Except you are still giving complete control over your games to a third party. I used to love steam. Then one day they decided that they wanted to change the censored version of a game I bought into the uncensored version. I was annoyed, but more importantly the women folk didn't like it when they saw it. Contacted support to ask for it to be rolled back or for a refund. Was treated like an absolute idiot and was pretty much told to piss off. This after years of being a loyal customer have having spent hundreds of dollars on games. Just completely out of the blue and without permission changed the fundamental character of the game. Had they even tried to apologize I might have been okay with it. Instead I got couple idiots lying to me how they are contacting the developers to try to fix it and other BS. Not just poor support, but down right insulting. When I tried to get another associate thinking I got a bad apple the first time, it was the same thing. They hold every game I ever bought on there for ransom and there is nothing I can do about it.
No matter how good it may seem now, it will come back to screw you. It is still DRM, it just has a happy face painted on it.