There is a big difference with your examples though. artificial orange flavor and synthetic fibers are 100% man made. This stuff is still bio-produced and is just as organic as "real" meat. We just induced growth via artificial methods rather than having the animal grow naturally. Its more like Splenda vs regular sugar. They are have much much more similarity than dissimilarity.
If they develop a way of exercising this "artificial" meat, then it should be indistinguishable from normal meat.
Often the entire page is delayed until it has been fully cached, meaning it COULD display that empty box and fill it in when it gets the info but insteads it decides to make you wait for it all at once.
I personally use adblock in addition to the hosts file from http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts2.htm It just redirects known bad/ad domains to loopback. Some affiliate sites (like bing cashback) are affected, but its easy to find them and comment out those entries. Quite often Ill find an ad that adblock misses and it just loads up a blank window because it was blocked by the host file.
So you are paying about 300 dollars to be taught not how to be scammed on the internet? Sounds about right to me. I doubt any of their customers fall for something like that again.
that this is simply another attempt at rationalizing world government and the demise of national sovereignty. Its just trying to say that our huge deficit to other countries is okay because we get a little back from it, and its not worth demanding any sort of independence.
I've worked in surgery as a technologist (ie the one who sets up and gets instruments ready for the doc, as well as the one ultimately responsible for sterility) and I really question your fun related fact. For one thing, it makes no sense.
You are correct, however, about wearing sterile gloves. Most of the time they are wearing two layers in fact. However, they are also playing around with sharp, pointy thingies and they tend to pierce or tear gloves very often. Thats one of the things the technologist watches for and reminds them to change their gloves if needed. Before scrubbing in, it is required to wash your hands. Many places have a 5 minute scrub mandatory for each case, some just mandate that for the first operaiton of the day and then chemical solutions (kind of like germ-x on steroids) for the rest of the day. Either way, this device would be awesome if it could replace those. A normal hand scrub to get off dirt and residue, then this for 12 seconds. It might not be any faster than the solutions, but it is much friendlier. That stuff really gets irritating to the skin after using it 10 times a day for years.
I doubt Obama is even slightly involved beyond appointing key person who is involved to a broad role of which 'computer privacy law' is a drop in the bucket.
Thats the line I really meant to point out. I was lazy and didnt edit the original quote. My bad.
I didnt say all of the accusations. Bush had very little control compared to what he is accused of. I disagree with many things done during the administration (but under this one though) but its funny how everything that happened 2000-2008 is his fault, but now when something could cast a bad light on Obama then suddenly/. realizes that the president isnt the only person in the government and sometimes things happen without their knowledge/approval.
If you know it is malfunctioning, then yes you are responsible. If a kid runs out in the street to get a ball right in front of you, then you aren't. Big differences in the situation. This case is more like the former.
I disagree. This is a perfect comparison. It doesn't matter if it was an accident, you still killed someone and should be held accountable. In this case, the defendant was financially motivated, not meaning to attack the country directly, and the charges should take that into account. I think circumstances would be different if his actions caused a critical failure of some sort, death, etc.
You say you disagree, but I think we really agree more than disagree. We are both saying that:
A) it isn't treason, its fraud B)any death/damage caused by the systems failure would be his fault
The analogy is faulty, but the fundamentals we agree on.
The question isn't whether he's everything the advertising billed him as, it's whether he was a better choice than the alternative.
Not really. The question HERE is whether the article writer has a shred of journalistic integrity at all.
Seriously, first read the article and then post. I doubt Obama is even slightly involved beyond appointing key person who is involved to a broad role of which 'computer privacy law' is a drop in the bucket. This headline is as absurd as printing 'Obama wants to banish ketchup based on an incident where the secretary of defense complained there was too much ketchup on their McDonalds cheeseburger.
Second, the dispute here is pretty benign. Federal investigators had a WARRANT to search a PC for evidence of steriod use for a handful of players, and uncovered evidence of some hundred other players using steroids in the same folder and files as the information for the players in question. The dispute is whether they should be allowed to use the additional evidence of the additional crime.
The court ruled no, citing that the investigators 'actively scrolled the excel spreadsheet past the names of the players in question'. Come on. Even I, a privacy advocate, don't see anything wrong with what the agents did. I don't even think its wrong to admit this as evidence. I'd argue against being able to search inside every document, hack encrypted files,... but they found evidence of additional instances of the same crime in the same files and folders that their warrant covered.
Clearly this ruling probably should be overturned. I don't think agents should be given carte blanche to search your entire PC and charge you with unrelated crimes. But there is probably some middle ground where if they are investing the PC for evidence you ripped off the Smiths with ScamX, and they find evidence in the same file you that also ripped off the Jones... that SHOULD be allowed.
But bottom line, declaring that Obama "wants" anything at all with respect to this case is absurd.
Hmmm, using that logic we could also clear Bush of many of the accusations layed on him.Thus, it must be false logic.
It doesn't take much to identify repeat offenders. If you have a whole team of cops and shrinks telling you that this man is going to reoffend and you release him anyway then it is at least partially your fault.
When you have people with rap sheets 2 or three pages long and they still get released on parole or "good behavior" then its pretty certain that this career criminal isnt going to suddently start being a saint. If they are, they need to prove that first.
That is a ridiculous comparison. Manslaughter, IMO, should not be a crime. Either it was murder or it was an accident, and accidents shouldn't be punished.
Note that I consider accidents to be those things that you could not control, ie someone jumps in front of your car. Not your fault. If you were drunk and hit someone, however, then you made the intentional choice to get drunk. The consequences of getting drunk involved killing someone. You might not have intended to kill them, but you intended to get yourself into a state where you couldn't control your actions and thereby pose a threat.
Sell bad hardware to the Navy, well you intended to commit fraud. The results of that fraud might not be intentional, ie failure of mission critical systems and death, but you started the chain reaction. I'm not saying it is treason either, but any damage as a result of his fraud is still his fault, intended or not.
Unless it is about homosexuality. In that case nobody can help it because it is all genetics right? I'd have to conclude that the current PC is the other way around, which is to say, that your behavior is geneticly based and you cant help yourself for any bad things you do.
Myself, I see it as that everyone is born with a tendency to be/do something. That may be alcoholism, drug dependent, psycopath, rapist, artist, politician, etc etc etc. How you decide to react to those tendancies is a result of your upbringing. There are plenty of people who admit same-sex attraction, but conciously decide not to act on them because they personally believe it to be wrong. There are plenty of violent tendancies that people conciously decide not to act on because they know them to be wrong. Your reaction is more important than anything else.
Born with a desire to kill and rape? So what. Don't do it, and if you do then prepare to face to penalty. Its no different than alcoholics who really really want that beer but know they shouldnt and so they quit.
The "proper process" is artificially inflated by people pointing at the "proper process". There is little reason that the trial should be held any different, and the judgement carried out swiftly.
Its also not so easy to point out and say Mr. X was wrongfully convicted (which is happening less and less each year) and so all capital punishment is wrong. If you let someone go free, either on parole or absolved of the charges, any future repeat offenses they carry out are on your hands. That means that failure to keep the guilty and dangerous locked up means you are complacent in the death/harm of an innocent just as if you locked up an innocent to begin with.
Population density between Texas and North Dakota is hugely different. Sure Texas is huge, but they have major urban cities far far beyond anything in North Dakota. If you broke it down to counties and matched according to inhabitants per square mile, I'd wager that Texas and North Dakota would be very similar. The only exceptions being the big cities which would have no equivalent in North Dakota.
Of the 4.5m individuals in the database, a fifth have never received any convictions or cautions from the Police.
Than means that for approx 80% of the people they initially suspected, they were right! Far be it for me to support Big Brother, but its hard to find fault with a law enforcement system that actually seem to be doing what it is supposed to.
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Which the consumer then pays in higher product costs...
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That totally reminds me of the cow at the Restaurant at the End of the Universe.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minor_characters_from_The_Hitchhiker's_Guide_to_the_Galaxy#Dish_of_the_Day
There is a big difference with your examples though. artificial orange flavor and synthetic fibers are 100% man made. This stuff is still bio-produced and is just as organic as "real" meat. We just induced growth via artificial methods rather than having the animal grow naturally. Its more like Splenda vs regular sugar. They are have much much more similarity than dissimilarity.
If they develop a way of exercising this "artificial" meat, then it should be indistinguishable from normal meat.
Often the entire page is delayed until it has been fully cached, meaning it COULD display that empty box and fill it in when it gets the info but insteads it decides to make you wait for it all at once.
I personally use adblock in addition to the hosts file from http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts2.htm It just redirects known bad/ad domains to loopback. Some affiliate sites (like bing cashback) are affected, but its easy to find them and comment out those entries. Quite often Ill find an ad that adblock misses and it just loads up a blank window because it was blocked by the host file.
So you are paying about 300 dollars to be taught not how to be scammed on the internet? Sounds about right to me. I doubt any of their customers fall for something like that again.
that this is simply another attempt at rationalizing world government and the demise of national sovereignty. Its just trying to say that our huge deficit to other countries is okay because we get a little back from it, and its not worth demanding any sort of independence.
I dont think he meant everyone as "everyone on slashdot" but everyone as in "everyone in the media and public"
I've worked in surgery as a technologist (ie the one who sets up and gets instruments ready for the doc, as well as the one ultimately responsible for sterility) and I really question your fun related fact. For one thing, it makes no sense.
You are correct, however, about wearing sterile gloves. Most of the time they are wearing two layers in fact. However, they are also playing around with sharp, pointy thingies and they tend to pierce or tear gloves very often. Thats one of the things the technologist watches for and reminds them to change their gloves if needed. Before scrubbing in, it is required to wash your hands. Many places have a 5 minute scrub mandatory for each case, some just mandate that for the first operaiton of the day and then chemical solutions (kind of like germ-x on steroids) for the rest of the day. Either way, this device would be awesome if it could replace those. A normal hand scrub to get off dirt and residue, then this for 12 seconds. It might not be any faster than the solutions, but it is much friendlier. That stuff really gets irritating to the skin after using it 10 times a day for years.
Luckily, there are four Starbucks in each section.
I doubt Obama is even slightly involved beyond appointing key person who is involved to a broad role of which 'computer privacy law' is a drop in the bucket.
Thats the line I really meant to point out. I was lazy and didnt edit the original quote. My bad.
I didnt say all of the accusations. Bush had very little control compared to what he is accused of. I disagree with many things done during the administration (but under this one though) but its funny how everything that happened 2000-2008 is his fault, but now when something could cast a bad light on Obama then suddenly /. realizes that the president isnt the only person in the government and sometimes things happen without their knowledge/approval.
If you know it is malfunctioning, then yes you are responsible. If a kid runs out in the street to get a ball right in front of you, then you aren't. Big differences in the situation. This case is more like the former.
I disagree. This is a perfect comparison. It doesn't matter if it was an accident, you still killed someone and should be held accountable. In this case, the defendant was financially motivated, not meaning to attack the country directly, and the charges should take that into account. I think circumstances would be different if his actions caused a critical failure of some sort, death, etc.
You say you disagree, but I think we really agree more than disagree. We are both saying that:
A) it isn't treason, its fraud
B)any death/damage caused by the systems failure would be his fault
The analogy is faulty, but the fundamentals we agree on.
The intention to punch them brings with it the responsibility of the outcome, regardless of how severe it is.
The question isn't whether he's everything the advertising billed him as, it's whether he was a better choice than the alternative.
Not really. The question HERE is whether the article writer has a shred of journalistic integrity at all.
Seriously, first read the article and then post. I doubt Obama is even slightly involved beyond appointing key person who is involved to a broad role of which 'computer privacy law' is a drop in the bucket. This headline is as absurd as printing 'Obama wants to banish ketchup based on an incident where the secretary of defense complained there was too much ketchup on their McDonalds cheeseburger.
Second, the dispute here is pretty benign. Federal investigators had a WARRANT to search a PC for evidence of steriod use for a handful of players, and uncovered evidence of some hundred other players using steroids in the same folder and files as the information for the players in question. The dispute is whether they should be allowed to use the additional evidence of the additional crime.
The court ruled no, citing that the investigators 'actively scrolled the excel spreadsheet past the names of the players in question'. Come on. Even I, a privacy advocate, don't see anything wrong with what the agents did. I don't even think its wrong to admit this as evidence. I'd argue against being able to search inside every document, hack encrypted files, ... but they found evidence of additional instances of the same crime in the same files and folders that their warrant covered.
Clearly this ruling probably should be overturned. I don't think agents should be given carte blanche to search your entire PC and charge you with unrelated crimes. But there is probably some middle ground where if they are investing the PC for evidence you ripped off the Smiths with ScamX, and they find evidence in the same file you that also ripped off the Jones... that SHOULD be allowed.
But bottom line, declaring that Obama "wants" anything at all with respect to this case is absurd.
Hmmm, using that logic we could also clear Bush of many of the accusations layed on him.Thus, it must be false logic.
It doesn't take much to identify repeat offenders. If you have a whole team of cops and shrinks telling you that this man is going to reoffend and you release him anyway then it is at least partially your fault.
When you have people with rap sheets 2 or three pages long and they still get released on parole or "good behavior" then its pretty certain that this career criminal isnt going to suddently start being a saint. If they are, they need to prove that first.
That is a ridiculous comparison. Manslaughter, IMO, should not be a crime. Either it was murder or it was an accident, and accidents shouldn't be punished.
Note that I consider accidents to be those things that you could not control, ie someone jumps in front of your car. Not your fault. If you were drunk and hit someone, however, then you made the intentional choice to get drunk. The consequences of getting drunk involved killing someone. You might not have intended to kill them, but you intended to get yourself into a state where you couldn't control your actions and thereby pose a threat.
Sell bad hardware to the Navy, well you intended to commit fraud. The results of that fraud might not be intentional, ie failure of mission critical systems and death, but you started the chain reaction. I'm not saying it is treason either, but any damage as a result of his fraud is still his fault, intended or not.
It seems that the blindfold has fallen off the Lady Justice as she holds her scales.
Unless it is about homosexuality. In that case nobody can help it because it is all genetics right?
I'd have to conclude that the current PC is the other way around, which is to say, that your behavior is geneticly based and you cant help yourself for any bad things you do.
Myself, I see it as that everyone is born with a tendency to be/do something. That may be alcoholism, drug dependent, psycopath, rapist, artist, politician, etc etc etc. How you decide to react to those tendancies is a result of your upbringing. There are plenty of people who admit same-sex attraction, but conciously decide not to act on them because they personally believe it to be wrong. There are plenty of violent tendancies that people conciously decide not to act on because they know them to be wrong. Your reaction is more important than anything else.
Born with a desire to kill and rape? So what. Don't do it, and if you do then prepare to face to penalty. Its no different than alcoholics who really really want that beer but know they shouldnt and so they quit.
The "proper process" is artificially inflated by people pointing at the "proper process". There is little reason that the trial should be held any different, and the judgement carried out swiftly.
Its also not so easy to point out and say Mr. X was wrongfully convicted (which is happening less and less each year) and so all capital punishment is wrong. If you let someone go free, either on parole or absolved of the charges, any future repeat offenses they carry out are on your hands. That means that failure to keep the guilty and dangerous locked up means you are complacent in the death/harm of an innocent just as if you locked up an innocent to begin with.
Population density between Texas and North Dakota is hugely different. Sure Texas is huge, but they have major urban cities far far beyond anything in North Dakota. If you broke it down to counties and matched according to inhabitants per square mile, I'd wager that Texas and North Dakota would be very similar. The only exceptions being the big cities which would have no equivalent in North Dakota.
Of the 4.5m individuals in the database, a fifth have never received any convictions or cautions from the Police.
Than means that for approx 80% of the people they initially suspected, they were right! Far be it for me to support Big Brother, but its hard to find fault with a law enforcement system that actually seem to be doing what it is supposed to.
Because gun crime went up in England after the handgun bans started?