Every time I hear good things about a movie or I really like a song on the radio, I consider breaking my 'don't give any money to the MPAA/RIAA' policy. Fortunately they keep doing shit like this and I'm recommited to only giving my entertainment dollars to independents.
I'm saying (rightly or wrongly) they would have gone unpunished if the third person hadn't died.
They were unlucky enough to have been caught up in the dragnet. If they contributed significantly to her suicide then they're assholes and deserve what they get. If they had nothing to do with it then what possible good can come from ruining their lives?
The phrase "good news everyone" is a reference to Professor Farnsworth from Futurama. He often uses this phrase to announce very bad news.
The death of one child is a tragedy, and the way authorities deal with it is by destroying the lives of two more young people? That's fucked up. I'm dismayed I have to spell it out in black and white but I suppose nuances often go astray in writing.
Good news everyone. We've not only lost the life of one young person, we now get to destroy the lives of two more!
It wouldn't surprise me if the guys involved fucked her and then had nothing else to do with her and weren't involved in the bullying. That's not the nicest thing to do, but it's hardly strange behaviour for teenage guys.
"Programming" is a massive category. Some programmers need incredible math skills to do their jobs. Some programmers convert thousands to hundreds with broken substring operations, then keep their jobs, and make good money doing it. So there's a spectrum.
Aaaah, Expert Sex Change, you never fail to deliver.
I don't think I was expressing bias. I am against excessive government intervention, so if anything his footnote agreed with my political beliefs. However, it's clearly a reference to the american health reform bill, and as such it's offtopic and should be modded down as such. It's also phrased in a way that invites arguement. i.e. flamebait
Think of it as +1 informative, -1/2 offtopic -1/2 flamebait.
Ironically my post was modded 50% insightful, 30% OT, 20% overrated.
I originally modded you as informative, since you explained the problem very well. Now I'm posting to undo it since you managed to fit a 'government is evil' rant in there.
In New Zealand it's all on the cost vs QALYs (Quality adjust life years) curve. I imagine it's similar in England.
'Cure' an 80 year old of cancer and they're going to live another ten years maybe (10 QALYs). Extend their life by 5 years with very expensive drugs and you've maybe given them another 3 QALYs. If the first drug is four times more expensive than the second one then the second one will get approved over the first one.
Distinguishing between 'curing' the disease and providing someone with another 5 years is rather meaningless. This is what QALYs vs cost attempts to solve.
Incidentally, from memory I think we draw the line at about $100k/QALY.
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Every time I hear good things about a movie or I really like a song on the radio, I consider breaking my 'don't give any money to the MPAA/RIAA' policy. Fortunately they keep doing shit like this and I'm recommited to only giving my entertainment dollars to independents.
I'm saying (rightly or wrongly) they would have gone unpunished if the third person hadn't died.
They were unlucky enough to have been caught up in the dragnet. If they contributed significantly to her suicide then they're assholes and deserve what they get. If they had nothing to do with it then what possible good can come from ruining their lives?
Wow some people completely miss the point.
The phrase "good news everyone" is a reference to Professor Farnsworth from Futurama. He often uses this phrase to announce very bad news.
The death of one child is a tragedy, and the way authorities deal with it is by destroying the lives of two more young people? That's fucked up. I'm dismayed I have to spell it out in black and white but I suppose nuances often go astray in writing.
Lies! We all know Slashdot editors run firefox spellchecker, autocorrect and then post the story.
Good news everyone. We've not only lost the life of one young person, we now get to destroy the lives of two more!
It wouldn't surprise me if the guys involved fucked her and then had nothing else to do with her and weren't involved in the bullying. That's not the nicest thing to do, but it's hardly strange behaviour for teenage guys.
That's nothing. I eat 3 big macs every day and I'm not addicted.
There's one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhkXr7M4JbQ&feature=channel
Ok, it does have shitload of rules associated with it, but on the technical side they have almost free reign.
Interestingly it was something of a failure and the competition is going back to a tightly regulated class system for the next one.
"Programming" is a massive category. Some programmers need incredible math skills to do their jobs. Some programmers convert thousands to hundreds with broken substring operations, then keep their jobs, and make good money doing it. So there's a spectrum.
Aaaah, Expert Sex Change, you never fail to deliver.
You're wasting db space with that field. If you're only interested in zero or not zero make it a BOOL. There's no need for INT.
More importantly, have you ever tried to swim the length of an Olympic sized swimming pool? Those things are BIG, man.
Yes I did fail swimming howdidyouknow?
Same thing as every other steam turbine power plant - a water source to act as the heat dump.
(I think I may have missed your point)
I don't think I was expressing bias. I am against excessive government intervention, so if anything his footnote agreed with my political beliefs. However, it's clearly a reference to the american health reform bill, and as such it's offtopic and should be modded down as such. It's also phrased in a way that invites arguement. i.e. flamebait
Think of it as +1 informative, -1/2 offtopic -1/2 flamebait.
Ironically my post was modded 50% insightful, 30% OT, 20% overrated.
I originally modded you as informative, since you explained the problem very well. Now I'm posting to undo it since you managed to fit a 'government is evil' rant in there.
Data from the Texas power grid (ERCOT) isn't accesible by IPs outside the US.
So to get the data I had to go tell my boss that I'd be accessing a proxy and would probably view some porn on my computer while doing so.
Proxys - too obscure for terrorists apparently.
I might be missing something, but we don't we just make the cars quieter?
I had a friend who is doing a PhD in maths and he can't calculate basic arithmetic to save his life. It's a redundant skill for pretty much everyone.
I'm guessin you aced all those 'please show full working' tests in school.
I'm glad that blog has the word 'science' in its title, otherwise I would think it was a load of made up nonsense.
Yes! That's why whenever I look at the sky I can only see 133 stars.
http://www.atlasoftheuniverse.com/50lys.html
Like communism? Socialism?
I think it's more that most 'isms' are based on a sound principle when first devised, but rarely work when followed to their conclusion.
Sorry, I'm not clicking anything that has 'colon' in the url. I learnt that the hard.
Do you mean !privacy => !freedom?
Then logically freedom => privacy
Wow modded informative.
I don't think anyone involved in the American healthcare debate disputes that America has great care if you can pay for it.
Why one side keeps on bringing this up confuses me, as it's irrelevant to the discussion.
only loose 5% of their population.
Well that's lucky, imagine the chaos if you loosed 100% of Canadians onto the world.
Think of the Hockey.
Think of the roundaboots.
Think of the mooses!
In New Zealand it's all on the cost vs QALYs (Quality adjust life years) curve. I imagine it's similar in England.
'Cure' an 80 year old of cancer and they're going to live another ten years maybe (10 QALYs). Extend their life by 5 years with very expensive drugs and you've maybe given them another 3 QALYs. If the first drug is four times more expensive than the second one then the second one will get approved over the first one.
Distinguishing between 'curing' the disease and providing someone with another 5 years is rather meaningless. This is what QALYs vs cost attempts to solve.
Incidentally, from memory I think we draw the line at about $100k/QALY.