It tasted just like normal water. The methane bubbles up and evaporates into the air in a matter of seconds after pouring the glass, and even if that weren't the case, methane, while flammable, is also odourless, colourless, and non-toxic.
You seem to be forgetting the financial companies who were so fucking broke we had to give them money or the world would end. You know, the same companies who took our money, turned around and gave billions in bonuses to their employees, presumably for doing such a wonderful job
Interestingly, it is, mostly. In the early 90s, when blank CDs were becoming a big thing, the CRIA (Canadian RIAA) lobbied for levies on blank media to offset people using the blanks to copy their IP. Well, the lobbying worked, and since the 90s we've had a levy taken off the top of any blank media purchase to cover piracy.
Therefore, because the CRIA is being paid for you copying before you've even done it, it basically works out that it's implied permission to copy. Thus, we end up in a position where downloading things to copy is legal, though distribution or uploading is still illegal. Bittorrent, for example, could still potentially land you in hot water, as you're distribution in addition to downloading, though no cases have been tried on those grounds yet
According to my anecdata, that's not even particularly true anymore since Win7. The work laptop I'm typing this on right now gets rebooted once a month (on Patch Tuesday) and otherwise is up for a full month at a time between patches.
Additionally, I have a Win7 home theatre box with a current uptime well over 100 days - I don't patch this one often due to its lack of net connectivity.
Presumably he's referring to the Unity GUI in the latest Ubuntu release. I mean really, only a truly evil mastermind would create an interface like that.
It's this kind of rhetoric that does nothing to inform the debate, and is entirely without merit here.
The government wastes money on a bad contract, and your solution is the wholesale murder of government employees? Makes me glad you're just an internet tough guy, and not in any position of power.
I bet some clansman ax-murderer would love to have one of them to represent him.
Amusingly, even the KKK wants nothing to do with Westboro. When even the Klan thinks you're nuts, you must be doing something special.
The KKK is not down with Westboro
For the edification of non-biologist slashdotters, there is a major difference between Influenza types and the various rhinoviruses.
Essentially it boils down to Influenza having much less variation in basic structure. Each strain of Influenza Type A is a similar RNA strand, the difference between the strains being the type of hemagglutinin (HA code) and the type of neuraminidase (NA code), these being the proteins that are responsible for binding to host cells, and releasing viral progeny from host cells, respectively. Because each strain is structurally the same, only differing in protein counts, it's relatively "easy" to target shared characteristics for vaccination.
Human rhinoviruses (HRV) are a much different story. There are scores of unique serotypes for HRV (over 100 serotypes have been sequenced to date, though this still pales in comparison with the 4400 identified serotypes of salmonella), and the problem is that there isn't the same level of shared base between rhinoviruses. Because they vary so wildly, there isn't a basic structure to target with minor variations for each strain.
Fortunately, much progress has been made in this regard. The Journal of Virology had a paper a couple of years back detailing a specific protein that was found to be rather common in variants of HRV, and more work is being done along these lines all the time, so it's quite possible that there could be a vaccination for the common cold in the relatively near future
Well, apparently you tricked a couple people there, enough to get modded Insightful at least.
As I'm sure you're well aware, Kissinger was awarded the Nobel specifically for his role in the negotiation of the Paris Peace Accords (the 1973 ceasefire and withdrawal of US troops from Vietnam). Whether he should have declined the award like Le Duc Tho did is another story, but irrelevant to the discussion at hand.
I'm not sure that you can make a claim that Obama had done anything remotely similar when he was awarded the Prize.
Nor here. It really sucks that I can't pick up DC Universe to play with my friends that have grabbed it (published by Sony Online Entertainment) , but it sucks even more that the same guys who swore they'd never buy a Sony product are perfectly happy to give them money because a fancy new game came out.
I believe GP may be referring to IsoHunt, I often see torrents commented as bad by a random person, and then somebody with like 2000 positive reputation will remove the false flag and post that it is, in fact, a legitimate file.
My assumption is that the people calling legit torrents fake are shills for the media houses trying to get people not to download legit files.
There is a bit of a difference between leaving signs that you're away visible to anyone who happens to be passing your home, and actually broadcasting that information on the internet. More to the point, people who might otherwise take precautions, like getting a friend to pick up their mail while they're away on vacation, end up broadcasting the fact that they're away to the whole net-connected world and think nothing of it.
You're creating a false dichotomy where there need not be one. There's no difference between taking the precaution of having a friend pick up your mail and taking the precaution of not broadcasting your whereabouts to the entire fucking world
I just find it really hard to believe that if Miley Cyrus were to record a track on her own, upload it to her blog, and sell an unencumbered version of it for $1, she would make no profit. That cuts out graphic artists, distributors, agents, CEOs, secretaries, RIAA lawyers, brick and mortar stores, promotion companies, and marketers, and yet the product is the same.
As much as I loathe defending the labels, I have to take exception with this argument. I agree that right now Miley Cyrus could make a profit selling $1 tracks on her website. However, without her label spending a fair amount of money on marketing, she wouldn't be selling tracks since nobody would have heard of her (Okay, Miley's not the greatest example since her father is a celebrity, but you get the point).
The point is, as much as I agree that the labels' business model is outdated and harmful in many ways to both consumers and artists, the labels do serve some useful purposes, and aren't entirely irrelevant.
If they feel that their children are being exposed to viewpoints that they don't agree with, let them home school their kids or send them to a private school.
I highly doubt there are many parents who can afford the anywhere from ~$10,000 to $40,000 tuition fees per child, per year that don't already have their kids in private school
And if cops come calling they'd have a perfectly valid probable cause, namely a freshly arrested employee that you hired. If drugs were found on him, and at his house, then why not at work? If they don't have a search warrant it's only because it would be mighty stupid for a manager to say "no" to them. They'd just call your boss and the company loses two people for the price of one. No company can say "no" to a *reasonable* request of police. Besides, they can also arrest you for obstruction of justice or things like that, never charge though, so you only get to spend a night in jail, and then explain your actions to your boss again... good luck with that.
Since, as we're all well aware, the Fourth Amendment applies when police officers enter a corporation's place of business to search for evidence of crime, I'm really very curious where you're getting your information?
If the police do have probable cause to search the office, then they can simply apply for a search warrant. Failing to do so does not negate rights guaranteed by the Constitution.
I'd really like to see a citation of a case where a manager was arrested for exercising his right to refuse consent to an illegal search.
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It tasted just like normal water. The methane bubbles up and evaporates into the air in a matter of seconds after pouring the glass, and even if that weren't the case, methane, while flammable, is also odourless, colourless, and non-toxic.
You seem to be forgetting the financial companies who were so fucking broke we had to give them money or the world would end. You know, the same companies who took our money, turned around and gave billions in bonuses to their employees, presumably for doing such a wonderful job
They burgle, you fucking dolt
No seriously though, you're retarded
Interestingly, it is, mostly. In the early 90s, when blank CDs were becoming a big thing, the CRIA (Canadian RIAA) lobbied for levies on blank media to offset people using the blanks to copy their IP. Well, the lobbying worked, and since the 90s we've had a levy taken off the top of any blank media purchase to cover piracy. Therefore, because the CRIA is being paid for you copying before you've even done it, it basically works out that it's implied permission to copy. Thus, we end up in a position where downloading things to copy is legal, though distribution or uploading is still illegal. Bittorrent, for example, could still potentially land you in hot water, as you're distribution in addition to downloading, though no cases have been tried on those grounds yet
According to my anecdata, that's not even particularly true anymore since Win7. The work laptop I'm typing this on right now gets rebooted once a month (on Patch Tuesday) and otherwise is up for a full month at a time between patches.
Additionally, I have a Win7 home theatre box with a current uptime well over 100 days - I don't patch this one often due to its lack of net connectivity.
The devolution will not be televised... thank God.
Presumably he's referring to the Unity GUI in the latest Ubuntu release. I mean really, only a truly evil mastermind would create an interface like that.
If you're in a relationship that will end because you couldn't solve a computer problem, you've got bigger issues.
It's this kind of rhetoric that does nothing to inform the debate, and is entirely without merit here. The government wastes money on a bad contract, and your solution is the wholesale murder of government employees? Makes me glad you're just an internet tough guy, and not in any position of power.
I bet some clansman ax-murderer would love to have one of them to represent him.
Amusingly, even the KKK wants nothing to do with Westboro. When even the Klan thinks you're nuts, you must be doing something special. The KKK is not down with Westboro
For the edification of non-biologist slashdotters, there is a major difference between Influenza types and the various rhinoviruses.
Essentially it boils down to Influenza having much less variation in basic structure. Each strain of Influenza Type A is a similar RNA strand, the difference between the strains being the type of hemagglutinin (HA code) and the type of neuraminidase (NA code), these being the proteins that are responsible for binding to host cells, and releasing viral progeny from host cells, respectively. Because each strain is structurally the same, only differing in protein counts, it's relatively "easy" to target shared characteristics for vaccination.
Human rhinoviruses (HRV) are a much different story. There are scores of unique serotypes for HRV (over 100 serotypes have been sequenced to date, though this still pales in comparison with the 4400 identified serotypes of salmonella), and the problem is that there isn't the same level of shared base between rhinoviruses. Because they vary so wildly, there isn't a basic structure to target with minor variations for each strain.
Fortunately, much progress has been made in this regard. The Journal of Virology had a paper a couple of years back detailing a specific protein that was found to be rather common in variants of HRV, and more work is being done along these lines all the time, so it's quite possible that there could be a vaccination for the common cold in the relatively near future
Hey look, AC made a funny!
I'm slightly surprised to find out that the Canadian government runs Medicare and Amtrak. When did this happen?
Well, apparently you tricked a couple people there, enough to get modded Insightful at least.
As I'm sure you're well aware, Kissinger was awarded the Nobel specifically for his role in the negotiation of the Paris Peace Accords (the 1973 ceasefire and withdrawal of US troops from Vietnam). Whether he should have declined the award like Le Duc Tho did is another story, but irrelevant to the discussion at hand.
I'm not sure that you can make a claim that Obama had done anything remotely similar when he was awarded the Prize.
Nor here. It really sucks that I can't pick up DC Universe to play with my friends that have grabbed it (published by Sony Online Entertainment) , but it sucks even more that the same guys who swore they'd never buy a Sony product are perfectly happy to give them money because a fancy new game came out.
No need to wait, the failing has already been done: Deadly Human Trebuchet
+1 Masturbation Joke
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I believe GP may be referring to IsoHunt, I often see torrents commented as bad by a random person, and then somebody with like 2000 positive reputation will remove the false flag and post that it is, in fact, a legitimate file.
My assumption is that the people calling legit torrents fake are shills for the media houses trying to get people not to download legit files.
There is a bit of a difference between leaving signs that you're away visible to anyone who happens to be passing your home, and actually broadcasting that information on the internet. More to the point, people who might otherwise take precautions, like getting a friend to pick up their mail while they're away on vacation, end up broadcasting the fact that they're away to the whole net-connected world and think nothing of it.
You're creating a false dichotomy where there need not be one. There's no difference between taking the precaution of having a friend pick up your mail and taking the precaution of not broadcasting your whereabouts to the entire fucking world
I just find it really hard to believe that if Miley Cyrus were to record a track on her own, upload it to her blog, and sell an unencumbered version of it for $1, she would make no profit. That cuts out graphic artists, distributors, agents, CEOs, secretaries, RIAA lawyers, brick and mortar stores, promotion companies, and marketers, and yet the product is the same.
As much as I loathe defending the labels, I have to take exception with this argument. I agree that right now Miley Cyrus could make a profit selling $1 tracks on her website. However, without her label spending a fair amount of money on marketing, she wouldn't be selling tracks since nobody would have heard of her (Okay, Miley's not the greatest example since her father is a celebrity, but you get the point).
The point is, as much as I agree that the labels' business model is outdated and harmful in many ways to both consumers and artists, the labels do serve some useful purposes, and aren't entirely irrelevant.
If they feel that their children are being exposed to viewpoints that they don't agree with, let them home school their kids or send them to a private school.
I highly doubt there are many parents who can afford the anywhere from ~$10,000 to $40,000 tuition fees per child, per year that don't already have their kids in private school
And if cops come calling they'd have a perfectly valid probable cause, namely a freshly arrested employee that you hired. If drugs were found on him, and at his house, then why not at work? If they don't have a search warrant it's only because it would be mighty stupid for a manager to say "no" to them. They'd just call your boss and the company loses two people for the price of one. No company can say "no" to a *reasonable* request of police. Besides, they can also arrest you for obstruction of justice or things like that, never charge though, so you only get to spend a night in jail, and then explain your actions to your boss again... good luck with that.
Since, as we're all well aware, the Fourth Amendment applies when police officers enter a corporation's place of business to search for evidence of crime, I'm really very curious where you're getting your information?
If the police do have probable cause to search the office, then they can simply apply for a search warrant. Failing to do so does not negate rights guaranteed by the Constitution.
I'd really like to see a citation of a case where a manager was arrested for exercising his right to refuse consent to an illegal search.