I read that article, and it seems that the main proponent of the idea that not all of his problems may be caused by boxing is -- surprise -- his "long-time ringside physician".
This is like the tobacco industry claiming that smoking does not cause cancer.
All you're doing by spreading this kind of panicky attitude is asking for silly legislation which outlaws a perceived danger
The sanest reaction would be not to outlaw, but make the athletes pay the full cost of their activities. Instead of giving scholarships to athletes, schools should start charging them for the future cost of treating their problems, even if that cost only arises years after they left school.
If football players were told "you are likely to need intensive medical care from your forties until your premature death, so start saving now" perhaps they would think twice and choose some less destructive recreational activities.
Look, who cares if that article isn't well referenced or cited. I was just looking for a general idea
And a general idea is all you'll ever get on Wikipedia that you can trust. Those warnings seem like some form of propaganda which tries to project an aura of reliability that the Wikipedia does not have.
The way I would do it would be to allow only logged-in edition and institute some form of "karma", where users could label content as "vandalism". Users with a high level of vandalism in their contributions would be banned.
In short, I would make Wikipedia somewhat like Slashdot, only I think the Slashdot criteria for moderation isn't very good, I would let any logged-in user with enough karma to moderate. That would create a herd-mentality, for sure, but I believe it would be in the right direction. People who just wanted to troll would get tired of it pretty soon.
I'm sure there are many people who are willing to work seriously to make Wikipedia work. Just look at what they have created, despite all the bullshit the overlords impose upon us, the humble contributors.
In this book there's a description on how an Al Qaeda member infiltrated the US Army. He had been a major in the Egyptian army before he joined the terrorist group. He went to the US and married an American girl to get citizenship. He joined the US Army and was rather quickly promoted to sergeant, after all he had been a major before and had good knowledge of military subjects. He then proceeded to send US Army training material to Muslim radicals, those manuals were found in Al Qaeda camps in Afghanistan after 9/11.
Think Harold Agnew would tell Ali Muhammed Whatever how to build a weapon?
Seriously now, who do you think would find it easier to get classified information? A truck driver or a US Army sergeant?
my company had installed so many things on my laptop that it crashed or locked often, and booting took more than 20 minutes. There was no way around this while still on the domain, and if you run Windows here, you have to be on the domain
One of my goals was to have everything be as easy as Windows.
So, what he's looking for is how to make a boot in Ubuntu take more than 20 minutes?
I stopped reading Mad when Don Martin died. His cartoons were pure, unadulterated, fun. He had that rare insight that humor must be fun, it needs not always carry a transcendental message...
Copying a file is not *necessarily* theft, but it *can* be theft,
Perhaps it could be called "theft" if it's done without permission and you delete the original after copying. Otherwise the rightful owner will still have possession of the file. The owner might be harmed in some way by this copying, but it's not theft. If a kid throws a ball that makes a dent in your car you cannot say he "stole" your fender. It's a different kind of damage.
Stretching the sense of words for hyperbole is wrong, it distorts people's perception of reality. The teacher in this story was so used to calling unauthorized copying "theft" that she came to think that physically abusing someone to the point of forcibly taking away their property is no worse than the act of copying information.
1) I pick up your book bag. Unzip it. Take several papers, books, and containers from you. Hell I even take the whole bag.... #1 = Civil penalties and maybe a little jail time. Probably time served and community service. Termination of employment.
I had no idea theft was a civil offense. I mean physical theft where you take away some person's property, not the copyright violations that some people call "theft" today.
Thanks to the MAFIAA, people seem to be blurring the lines between philosophical discussion and actual physical violence where someone's property is forcibly taken away.
FTFA: "My binder was in my backpack, and she went into my backpack to take it"
Hey folks, write this down: TAKING AWAY A BINDER IS THEFT. COPYING A FILE IS NOT THEFT. Is this clear?
I'd like to add that Canada's doctor brain-drain has come to be primarily because we imposed a cap on the number of reimbursable treatments per year an individual doctor could make. This was done primarily to make sure doctors weren't scamming the system and pumping through a hundred "clients" per day
A question: is there a cap on how many drains a Canadian plumber can unclog? If he can unclog a hundred drains per day, and get paid by the people who hired him, why not?
If EVERY person were perfect, if there were no freeloaders, no greedy people, no lazy people, socialism would be the perfect system. The problem is that every time a system is implemented by the state someone will invent a clever way to get more than his fair share.
why should I foot the bill for 9-1-1 services or the police or fire departments?
Large corporations often have their own private fire brigades, you probably don't have the economy of scale to make it work.
As for police, the old Romans had the answer: "quis custodiet ipso custodes?". Who polices the police itself? You can hire a private security force, and probably will if you are rich enough. But there's a need to have at the top level a meta-police that makes sure the police doesn't grab too much power. Unfortunately, this does not always work, see the "war on drugs" for an example, but a public police force controlled by a democratic state is the closest to the ideal we have ever managed to get.
There are SOME tasks that can only be performed by a state organization, the trick for a successful society is to keep the government intervention to the smallest level possible. The alternative extreme was called "Soviet Union", but it died of natural death.
You realize NHS doesn't preclude you having your own insurance, right?
Why should I pay twice for the same service? Or am I free to pay or not pay the taxes that maintain the NHS?
Besides, you raise an interesting point. If the NHS were so good, there would be NO private insurance at all, because there would be no market for it. If there are any people who feel the need for private health insurance, it's because the NHS is not adequate for people who can pay for a better service. Which means that everybody has to pay for an inferior service.
What's the exact difference between this and a system where everybody is left to their own means? Poor people pay for cheap health insurance, providing assistance on the same level as the NHS provides, rich people pay for premium quality, getting the same level of service as people who prefer to pay for their own insurance even if they have access to the NHS.
I also give some of my money to a health insurance policy. Everyone who believes in having some security against unforeseen health problems are also free to do so. But I also believe in freedom of choice. I'm free to choose the exact level of protection I want. I don't want to be spoon-fed with a health insurance plan.
Did I make a wrong choice? Ooops! Perhaps I didn't have the health insurance I needed, perhaps I crossed the street at the wrong time, perhaps I ate the wrong mushroom. But at least it was *MY* choice, I'd rather die of a disease my health insurance didn't cover than from a disease the State Health Insurance Plan didn't provide for.
Divide a loaf of bread between 8 people, do you work out what 0.125 of the loaf is then weigh each piece off or do you just split into halves repeatedly ?
That's really useful to know. But one of the guys isn't hungry, how do we split the loaf among seven people?
take Pi for instance. 22/7 is exact - 3.142 is far from exact
Huh? Do you live in some state that has legislated the value of pi? In my calculator, (3.142 - pi) equals 0.000407, while (22 / 7 - pi) equals 0.00126, which means the decimal approximation you gave is three times more exact than the fraction.
Analogue watches convey the information you need, ie. how long until... or how long past. Digital watches just give you a figure which you then have to convert into your desired answer.
That's why for some applications analog instruments are better than digital ones. When you are fine tuning an electronic equipment, for instance, it's often better to use an analog multimeter because the movement of a needle gives a better visualization of a peak value than a string of changing digits. But the analog multimeter is calibrated with the exact same scale as the digital equipment.
Analog vs. digital has nothing to do with decimal vs. arbitrary multiples. A digital watch gives time in the same duodecimal units as the digital watch, which makes it so hard to perform calculations involving time.
If it takes me twenty minutes to paint a door, how long will it take me to paint twenty three doors? Answer: multiply 20 * 23 = 460 minutes, divide by 60, that's seven, 460 - 7 * 60 = 40, the remainder is minutes, so the answer is seven hours and forty minutes.
If a board is twenty centimeters wide, how wide are twenty three boards? Answer: multiply 20 * 23 = 460, move the decimal point two digits to get 4.60 meters.
Why can't you Americans face the simple truth that the arithmetic we use has ten different digits, which means it's much simpler to divide by ten than by any other number?
Lets pretend this law was a good one that we wanted to see enforced, how can a state enforce it?
Short answer: it cannot. It would be unconstitutional in at least two counts: if considered as commerce, states cannot interfere in interstate commerce. If not considered as commerce then it's equivalent to speech, and would violate the First Amendment.
A state can prohibit gambling, for instance betting on horse races. But it cannot prohibit anyone to publish horse race results. What could the state of Kentucky do if someone phones a bookmaker in Las Vegas placing a bet on a horse?
if the websites & owners in Antigua (or wherever they're based) were selling US credit card numbers & the accompanying data, from servers in Antigua at http://identity-theft.ag/ for purposes of fraud - what could a state do to enforce anti-fraud laws?
Go after the buyers. Who uses that data for committing fraud? That's where the actual harm is perpetrated.
having developed in.NET and QT,.NET is far easier and more enjoyable to develop in
I beg to disagree. At work we are developing a mixed application, I do my part in Qt and some other people are doing another part in.NET.
I end doing much more than the share we had agreed on at the beginning, because I'm so much more productive in Qt that they throw anything they cannot get ready on time at me. It's beginning to look like the small auxiliary part that was first assigned, at my urging, to Qt will end up being the main part of the system.
.NET might be OK, if you are restricted to some very simple functions, but when you try to step just a little bit off the beaten track you sink into quicksand.
One example from our project: we had to get some internationalized text from an XML interface. This text was used to get data came from an Oracle db, in ISO-8859-1 coding, and the XML interface used UTF-8 coding. After three weeks of failures, the.NET team threw in the towel and I did it in half a day, using Python and PyQt. It seems that the challenge of handling a mixed set of accented and unaccented characters in mixed encodings, getting the data from Oracle, handling the XML, and printing it correctly to the screen was too much of a challenge to the.NET developers.
Of course, this may be more due to the lack of good developers in the.NET side of the project, but I have often seen this happen with.NET: really good developers sometimes don't like to work in.NET
you can evolve radiation-hardened extremophiles with nothing more than a superfund site and a decade or three
That's true, considering that there are bacteria able to survive inside nuclear reactors. But I think the earth's magnetic field biggest plus is protecting our atmosphere, not us, from the sun. There are theories that the lack of a magnetic field made both Venus and Mars what they are today.
In the case of Venus all the hydrogen was swept away, leaving the planet completely dry. Mars, having a smaller gravitation, lost the other gases too, with only a very thin atmosphere remaining. In both cases, the probability of life arising is very small.
If you had read the ruling, you'd have noticed that this judge seems to be smart enough to realize that, even assuming a sale was lost, the amount the victims lost is not the same as the sale price.
The price of sale is equal to cost + profit. If a CD costing $10 is shoplifted instead of sold, the seller loses $10. If a CD is downloaded illegally, the seller may claim he lost a sale, but he cannot claim he lost the CD he had to produce and deliver to the store at a price. He still has the CD to sell, at a profit, to another customer.
I wonder what the reaction would be if a judge told the RIAA this: "OK, you lost a million sales. You can get $10 million in restitution, under the condition that you manufacture and deliver one million CDs to the defendant, who is free to sell those CDs at whatever price he can get".
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I read that article, and it seems that the main proponent of the idea that not all of his problems may be caused by boxing is -- surprise -- his "long-time ringside physician".
This is like the tobacco industry claiming that smoking does not cause cancer.
What? You don't know what's "woosification"? It means "becoming like Bertie Wooster
The sanest reaction would be not to outlaw, but make the athletes pay the full cost of their activities. Instead of giving scholarships to athletes, schools should start charging them for the future cost of treating their problems, even if that cost only arises years after they left school.
If football players were told "you are likely to need intensive medical care from your forties until your premature death, so start saving now" perhaps they would think twice and choose some less destructive recreational activities.
What do you expect? He has probably been playing football for too long.
It's the silent farts that are deadliest. A law requiring all farts to be noisy would be much more important that this stupid phone camera law.
I just pray to God they will remember to outlaw all circumventing devices.
And a general idea is all you'll ever get on Wikipedia that you can trust. Those warnings seem like some form of propaganda which tries to project an aura of reliability that the Wikipedia does not have.
The way I would do it would be to allow only logged-in edition and institute some form of "karma", where users could label content as "vandalism". Users with a high level of vandalism in their contributions would be banned.
In short, I would make Wikipedia somewhat like Slashdot, only I think the Slashdot criteria for moderation isn't very good, I would let any logged-in user with enough karma to moderate. That would create a herd-mentality, for sure, but I believe it would be in the right direction. People who just wanted to troll would get tired of it pretty soon.
I'm sure there are many people who are willing to work seriously to make Wikipedia work. Just look at what they have created, despite all the bullshit the overlords impose upon us, the humble contributors.
In this book there's a description on how an Al Qaeda member infiltrated the US Army. He had been a major in the Egyptian army before he joined the terrorist group. He went to the US and married an American girl to get citizenship. He joined the US Army and was rather quickly promoted to sergeant, after all he had been a major before and had good knowledge of military subjects. He then proceeded to send US Army training material to Muslim radicals, those manuals were found in Al Qaeda camps in Afghanistan after 9/11.
Seriously now, who do you think would find it easier to get classified information? A truck driver or a US Army sergeant?
FTFA:
So, what he's looking for is how to make a boot in Ubuntu take more than 20 minutes?
I stopped reading Mad when Don Martin died. His cartoons were pure, unadulterated, fun. He had that rare insight that humor must be fun, it needs not always carry a transcendental message...
Perhaps it could be called "theft" if it's done without permission and you delete the original after copying. Otherwise the rightful owner will still have possession of the file. The owner might be harmed in some way by this copying, but it's not theft. If a kid throws a ball that makes a dent in your car you cannot say he "stole" your fender. It's a different kind of damage.
Stretching the sense of words for hyperbole is wrong, it distorts people's perception of reality. The teacher in this story was so used to calling unauthorized copying "theft" that she came to think that physically abusing someone to the point of forcibly taking away their property is no worse than the act of copying information.
I see you have never had a science lab class. It's a pity, you don't know what you've missed.
I remember even the meanest bullies in the class loved the part where we measured the speed of a BB, or the frog dissection.
I had no idea theft was a civil offense. I mean physical theft where you take away some person's property, not the copyright violations that some people call "theft" today.
Thanks to the MAFIAA, people seem to be blurring the lines between philosophical discussion and actual physical violence where someone's property is forcibly taken away.
Hey folks, write this down: TAKING AWAY A BINDER IS THEFT. COPYING A FILE IS NOT THEFT. Is this clear?
A question: is there a cap on how many drains a Canadian plumber can unclog? If he can unclog a hundred drains per day, and get paid by the people who hired him, why not?
If EVERY person were perfect, if there were no freeloaders, no greedy people, no lazy people, socialism would be the perfect system. The problem is that every time a system is implemented by the state someone will invent a clever way to get more than his fair share.
Large corporations often have their own private fire brigades, you probably don't have the economy of scale to make it work.
As for police, the old Romans had the answer: "quis custodiet ipso custodes?". Who polices the police itself? You can hire a private security force, and probably will if you are rich enough. But there's a need to have at the top level a meta-police that makes sure the police doesn't grab too much power. Unfortunately, this does not always work, see the "war on drugs" for an example, but a public police force controlled by a democratic state is the closest to the ideal we have ever managed to get.
There are SOME tasks that can only be performed by a state organization, the trick for a successful society is to keep the government intervention to the smallest level possible. The alternative extreme was called "Soviet Union", but it died of natural death.
Why should I pay twice for the same service? Or am I free to pay or not pay the taxes that maintain the NHS?
Besides, you raise an interesting point. If the NHS were so good, there would be NO private insurance at all, because there would be no market for it. If there are any people who feel the need for private health insurance, it's because the NHS is not adequate for people who can pay for a better service. Which means that everybody has to pay for an inferior service.
What's the exact difference between this and a system where everybody is left to their own means? Poor people pay for cheap health insurance, providing assistance on the same level as the NHS provides, rich people pay for premium quality, getting the same level of service as people who prefer to pay for their own insurance even if they have access to the NHS.
You are free to do so, I also believe in that, may I recommend the organization I use do distribute my wealth?
I also give some of my money to a health insurance policy. Everyone who believes in having some security against unforeseen health problems are also free to do so. But I also believe in freedom of choice. I'm free to choose the exact level of protection I want. I don't want to be spoon-fed with a health insurance plan.
Did I make a wrong choice? Ooops! Perhaps I didn't have the health insurance I needed, perhaps I crossed the street at the wrong time, perhaps I ate the wrong mushroom. But at least it was *MY* choice, I'd rather die of a disease my health insurance didn't cover than from a disease the State Health Insurance Plan didn't provide for.
Not applicable in this case. Obama works at his home now.
That's really useful to know. But one of the guys isn't hungry, how do we split the loaf among seven people?
Huh? Do you live in some state that has legislated the value of pi? In my calculator, (3.142 - pi) equals 0.000407, while (22 / 7 - pi) equals 0.00126, which means the decimal approximation you gave is three times more exact than the fraction.
That's why for some applications analog instruments are better than digital ones. When you are fine tuning an electronic equipment, for instance, it's often better to use an analog multimeter because the movement of a needle gives a better visualization of a peak value than a string of changing digits. But the analog multimeter is calibrated with the exact same scale as the digital equipment.
Analog vs. digital has nothing to do with decimal vs. arbitrary multiples. A digital watch gives time in the same duodecimal units as the digital watch, which makes it so hard to perform calculations involving time.
If it takes me twenty minutes to paint a door, how long will it take me to paint twenty three doors? Answer: multiply 20 * 23 = 460 minutes, divide by 60, that's seven, 460 - 7 * 60 = 40, the remainder is minutes, so the answer is seven hours and forty minutes.
If a board is twenty centimeters wide, how wide are twenty three boards? Answer: multiply 20 * 23 = 460, move the decimal point two digits to get 4.60 meters.
Why can't you Americans face the simple truth that the arithmetic we use has ten different digits, which means it's much simpler to divide by ten than by any other number?
Short answer: it cannot. It would be unconstitutional in at least two counts: if considered as commerce, states cannot interfere in interstate commerce. If not considered as commerce then it's equivalent to speech, and would violate the First Amendment.
A state can prohibit gambling, for instance betting on horse races. But it cannot prohibit anyone to publish horse race results. What could the state of Kentucky do if someone phones a bookmaker in Las Vegas placing a bet on a horse?
Go after the buyers. Who uses that data for committing fraud? That's where the actual harm is perpetrated.
Because anyone would do fine as Apple's CEO...
This could happen sooner than you expect
I beg to disagree. At work we are developing a mixed application, I do my part in Qt and some other people are doing another part in .NET.
I end doing much more than the share we had agreed on at the beginning, because I'm so much more productive in Qt that they throw anything they cannot get ready on time at me. It's beginning to look like the small auxiliary part that was first assigned, at my urging, to Qt will end up being the main part of the system.
One example from our project: we had to get some internationalized text from an XML interface. This text was used to get data came from an Oracle db, in ISO-8859-1 coding, and the XML interface used UTF-8 coding. After three weeks of failures, the .NET team threw in the towel and I did it in half a day, using Python and PyQt. It seems that the challenge of handling a mixed set of accented and unaccented characters in mixed encodings, getting the data from Oracle, handling the XML, and printing it correctly to the screen was too much of a challenge to the .NET developers.
Of course, this may be more due to the lack of good developers in the .NET side of the project, but I have often seen this happen with .NET: really good developers sometimes don't like to work in .NET
That's true, considering that there are bacteria able to survive inside nuclear reactors. But I think the earth's magnetic field biggest plus is protecting our atmosphere, not us, from the sun. There are theories that the lack of a magnetic field made both Venus and Mars what they are today.
In the case of Venus all the hydrogen was swept away, leaving the planet completely dry. Mars, having a smaller gravitation, lost the other gases too, with only a very thin atmosphere remaining. In both cases, the probability of life arising is very small.
If you had read the ruling, you'd have noticed that this judge seems to be smart enough to realize that, even assuming a sale was lost, the amount the victims lost is not the same as the sale price.
The price of sale is equal to cost + profit. If a CD costing $10 is shoplifted instead of sold, the seller loses $10. If a CD is downloaded illegally, the seller may claim he lost a sale, but he cannot claim he lost the CD he had to produce and deliver to the store at a price. He still has the CD to sell, at a profit, to another customer.
I wonder what the reaction would be if a judge told the RIAA this: "OK, you lost a million sales. You can get $10 million in restitution, under the condition that you manufacture and deliver one million CDs to the defendant, who is free to sell those CDs at whatever price he can get".