Really? What's wrong with you bunch? Even in my 3rd world country you get paid sick days. The requirement by _law_ is a minimum of 14 paid sick days if no hospitalization is needed, and 60 days if hospitalization is needed.
I suspect a "no pay sick leave" policy like this spreads diseases way more than refusing the not very effective flu vaccines. Just think about it - you have all these miserable people sneezing all those viruses everywhere for days, and thus you end up with more miserable people.
Of course in my country you need a doctor to certify you sick enough to not work. And depending on the doctor you might end up with people still going to work sick and contagious. Not sure if there's a standard, some will not certify you sick enough if you are still fit enough to work (priority = short term productivity), and some may certify you as sick if you are likely to spread a disease - can be a mix of the two, and depend on how nasty they think your disease is (I suspect if it's just a mild cold most won't care). Anyway seems to be up to the doctor. Hence my proposal for less misery in the world by strict quarantines if you are noticeably sick:).
The other method to reduce transmission is prevent caregivers from working in the hospital if they show signs of being sick with any significantly harmful highly contagious disease. If they get sick way too often with such diseases then they should be fired as being not fit for the job - because the very same practices (washing hands regularly, etc) that reduce the odds of you spreading disease from patient to patient, also reduce the odds of you contracting such diseases. If they are not part of your lifestyle and habit, perhaps you should not be working in the hospital as a caregiver.
In fact if everyone was forced to quarantine themselves till they are fully recovered at the first sign of sickness then most contagious diseases will have to evolve to not be so obvious. This would result in more diseases becoming less acutely harmful.
Yes a disease might still be contagious before you start getting a fever, coughing/sneezing/puking/shitting a lot, but that unpleasant stuff happens because the viruses that caused those happen to spread better. So if we started strictly quarantining ourselves immediately on any signs of such stuff then these diseases would have to evolve to not do such stuff - because diseases that do such stuff would not spread so well.
But I think this is never going to happen unless some really nasty disease starts spreading and we don't have decent countermeasure (or don't have one that scales well enough). Everyone (bosses, employees, teachers, students, parents etc) seems fine with people going to work/school because they're not sick enough... "Don't be a baby" etc. As long as that continues, most people will have a high chance of getting that unpleasantly sick.
I'd rather have my car do the job. That way I'd still detect the icy patches even on non-fancy roads. But it'll probably be very expensive to have sensors capable of reliably detecting icy patches on the road 100 metres away.
Plus, again, it's not like the other choices of a game do it any differently. It's not like TOR lets you do any meaningful switching between rifle and melee weapons, for example.
I believe Guild Wars 2 has meaningful melee-ranged weapon switching for many builds/classes. Guild Wars 1 does for certain builds (and many builds have meaningful weapon switching if it doesn't have to be melee).
I don't like the talent tree sort of system, probably that's why I'm sticking with GW1 till Anet kills the game or I find something else similar. GW2 does many things better, but I think it's better for those who like the WoW, SW:ToR sort of games.
I tried SW:ToR and it was boring. When the trial period ran out, I felt very little sense of loss. The PvE gameplay wasn't much better than some crappy free-to-play MMO I played. The PvP wasn't that interesting. So I'm not surprised SW:ToR didn't take many players from WoW.
The USA's debts to China are payable in _US_ dollars, not Euros, not renminbi, not gold. So the USA can pay its debts to China in full any time it wants. Think about that.
The US Federal Reserve created trillions of US dollars in 2008+ by loaning from "thin air". Guess how China and the rest of the USA's creditors feel about that. They're not going to make loud noises publicly about it since that would just make things worse.
China is not that stupid though - they got more tech for all that funny money. And they've managed to use some of that funny money to buy real stuff.
Javascript is faster nowadays though. Is making a JIT (or similar) for Perl/Python/Ruby harder than for Javascript? Or is it just because enough $$$ and smart people were thrown at the problem?
How efficient are those two-way web socket communications after the first NAT hop? Web sockets are probably more useful for malware authors:).
Leaving a connection open to receive messages from the server is what many conventional TCP clients do. Same goes for polling. Just because it's HTTP doesn't magically make it bad.
It's a matter of the odds. It's unlikely you are being MITMed the first time you use it.
It's when your bank's or email provider's cert changes a bit too early, or to one from a different CA, then you should choose to not to log in till you can confirm that everything is ok.
I don't care about the google problem much since I don't really use gmail and people are free to MITM my search results. Maybe one day I'll see if I can fix Certificate Patrol so that it works better with rotating certificates, if the developers don't get around to fixing it by then.
If you're talking about revolution think about this: Do you really think the voters will do better with their bullets than their ballots? Or are you planning to silence all those voters Mr Dictator?
Maybe the voters are voting for what they think is the best. If you disagree you can vote differently, but it doesn't mean your voice should be louder than theirs. If they are voting against their best interests, it may be stupid but it is still their choice (and responsibility). And it's a lot less messy when done with ballots than with bullets.
You really believe that idiocy? If enough people believe that they truly deserve whatever government they get.
Just too bad for the other voters who actually vote for what they want.
As far as I see it's even stupider to keep playing those stupid games, vote for what you don't want, and then grumble that you are not getting what you want.
That's how democracy works. With democracy the voters are more likely to get a government that they deserve.
If the voters really hated the R/D, they should stop playing stupid games and vote for something else. Because the politicians are better at playing the "game theory" games than they are.
Even if some 3rd party doesn't win, if that 3rd party gets 20% of the votes the R and D will take notice and possibly change some things. Otherwise, why should the R/D do things differently? The voters keep telling them "more of the same".
As it is the people have spoken and they are saying "more of the same". Starting a revolution to "correct" things is ridiculous. Who thinks the same idiots will be better at deciding where their bullets go than their ballots?
Or does the upcoming Mr Dictator-for-life thinks he knows better than the voters?
Guess it disagrees with the US Court's interpretation too (http://scholar.google.com.my/scholar_case?case=14806734468103617188&hl=en&as_sdt=2&as_vis=1&oi=scholarr&sa=X&ei=qzjoUMy1I8njrAePoIDoAw&ved=0CC0QgAMoADAA ).
So I guess the conceal is considered an active thing and not passive.
Whoever, having knowledge of the actual commission of a felony cognizable by a court of the United States, conceals and does not as soon as possible make known the same to some judge or other person in civil or military authority under the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.
I am not a lawyer but my reading of "and does not as soon as possible make known the same to some judge" disagrees with your interpretation.
5 seconds won't work. You have to give them a few (3?) minutes to leave your house and get clear of it. "Self Destruct" sequence triggered whenever closet door is opened.
To be more convincing have a numeric key pad to enter a disarm code (which stops the countdown).
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Really? What's wrong with you bunch? Even in my 3rd world country you get paid sick days. The requirement by _law_ is a minimum of 14 paid sick days if no hospitalization is needed, and 60 days if hospitalization is needed.
:).
I suspect a "no pay sick leave" policy like this spreads diseases way more than refusing the not very effective flu vaccines. Just think about it - you have all these miserable people sneezing all those viruses everywhere for days, and thus you end up with more miserable people.
Of course in my country you need a doctor to certify you sick enough to not work. And depending on the doctor you might end up with people still going to work sick and contagious. Not sure if there's a standard, some will not certify you sick enough if you are still fit enough to work (priority = short term productivity), and some may certify you as sick if you are likely to spread a disease - can be a mix of the two, and depend on how nasty they think your disease is (I suspect if it's just a mild cold most won't care). Anyway seems to be up to the doctor. Hence my proposal for less misery in the world by strict quarantines if you are noticeably sick
The middleman often provides the service of letting you know of the indie developer's product.
If done well it's better than googling for games that you might like, and possibly worth paying for.
The other method to reduce transmission is prevent caregivers from working in the hospital if they show signs of being sick with any significantly harmful highly contagious disease. If they get sick way too often with such diseases then they should be fired as being not fit for the job - because the very same practices (washing hands regularly, etc) that reduce the odds of you spreading disease from patient to patient, also reduce the odds of you contracting such diseases. If they are not part of your lifestyle and habit, perhaps you should not be working in the hospital as a caregiver.
In fact if everyone was forced to quarantine themselves till they are fully recovered at the first sign of sickness then most contagious diseases will have to evolve to not be so obvious. This would result in more diseases becoming less acutely harmful.
Yes a disease might still be contagious before you start getting a fever, coughing/sneezing/puking/shitting a lot, but that unpleasant stuff happens because the viruses that caused those happen to spread better. So if we started strictly quarantining ourselves immediately on any signs of such stuff then these diseases would have to evolve to not do such stuff - because diseases that do such stuff would not spread so well.
But I think this is never going to happen unless some really nasty disease starts spreading and we don't have decent countermeasure (or don't have one that scales well enough). Everyone (bosses, employees, teachers, students, parents etc) seems fine with people going to work/school because they're not sick enough... "Don't be a baby" etc. As long as that continues, most people will have a high chance of getting that unpleasantly sick.
Not necessarily a show stopper - ammonia dissolves quite well in water. Toxic metals might be a bigger problem.
Meh, they should just hire nuclear submariners instead of pilots. They manage OK.
Nowadays much of what NASA does seems to be a big waste of time and money.
Something more like microwave radar or FLIR cameras might work.
OP said reflective so I think they are these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat's_eye_(road)
I'd rather have my car do the job. That way I'd still detect the icy patches even on non-fancy roads. But it'll probably be very expensive to have sensors capable of reliably detecting icy patches on the road 100 metres away.
You're right, my apologies. I was ignorant of what a websocket is.
I think you miss my point. The server cannot connect to a web browser that's behind a NAT. Whether you use a web-socket or not.
Hence the web browser leaving a http connection open to the server is more efficient than stuff not working at all.
If the economy isn't good cash-strapped Govs may decide to supplement their budgets with hefty fines.
Plus, again, it's not like the other choices of a game do it any differently. It's not like TOR lets you do any meaningful switching between rifle and melee weapons, for example.
I believe Guild Wars 2 has meaningful melee-ranged weapon switching for many builds/classes. Guild Wars 1 does for certain builds (and many builds have meaningful weapon switching if it doesn't have to be melee).
I don't like the talent tree sort of system, probably that's why I'm sticking with GW1 till Anet kills the game or I find something else similar. GW2 does many things better, but I think it's better for those who like the WoW, SW:ToR sort of games.
I tried SW:ToR and it was boring. When the trial period ran out, I felt very little sense of loss. The PvE gameplay wasn't much better than some crappy free-to-play MMO I played. The PvP wasn't that interesting. So I'm not surprised SW:ToR didn't take many players from WoW.
The USA's debts to China are payable in _US_ dollars, not Euros, not renminbi, not gold. So the USA can pay its debts to China in full any time it wants. Think about that.
The US Federal Reserve created trillions of US dollars in 2008+ by loaning from "thin air". Guess how China and the rest of the USA's creditors feel about that. They're not going to make loud noises publicly about it since that would just make things worse.
China is not that stupid though - they got more tech for all that funny money. And they've managed to use some of that funny money to buy real stuff.
Javascript is faster nowadays though. Is making a JIT (or similar) for Perl/Python/Ruby harder than for Javascript? Or is it just because enough $$$ and smart people were thrown at the problem?
How efficient are those two-way web socket communications after the first NAT hop? Web sockets are probably more useful for malware authors :).
Leaving a connection open to receive messages from the server is what many conventional TCP clients do. Same goes for polling. Just because it's HTTP doesn't magically make it bad.
Bet she'd be able to give interesting replies to "sudo make me a sandwich" ;).
It's a matter of the odds. It's unlikely you are being MITMed the first time you use it.
It's when your bank's or email provider's cert changes a bit too early, or to one from a different CA, then you should choose to not to log in till you can confirm that everything is ok.
I don't care about the google problem much since I don't really use gmail and people are free to MITM my search results. Maybe one day I'll see if I can fix Certificate Patrol so that it works better with rotating certificates, if the developers don't get around to fixing it by then.
If you're talking about revolution think about this: Do you really think the voters will do better with their bullets than their ballots? Or are you planning to silence all those voters Mr Dictator?
Maybe the voters are voting for what they think is the best. If you disagree you can vote differently, but it doesn't mean your voice should be louder than theirs.
If they are voting against their best interests, it may be stupid but it is still their choice (and responsibility). And it's a lot less messy when done with ballots than with bullets.
You really believe that idiocy? If enough people believe that they truly deserve whatever government they get.
Just too bad for the other voters who actually vote for what they want.
As far as I see it's even stupider to keep playing those stupid games, vote for what you don't want, and then grumble that you are not getting what you want.
Don't you already have a police force for that? Why expand the scope of the TSA? Have they proven themselves to be better at this sort of thing?
That's how democracy works. With democracy the voters are more likely to get a government that they deserve.
If the voters really hated the R/D, they should stop playing stupid games and vote for something else. Because the politicians are better at playing the "game theory" games than they are.
Even if some 3rd party doesn't win, if that 3rd party gets 20% of the votes the R and D will take notice and possibly change some things. Otherwise, why should the R/D do things differently? The voters keep telling them "more of the same".
As it is the people have spoken and they are saying "more of the same". Starting a revolution to "correct" things is ridiculous. Who thinks the same idiots will be better at deciding where their bullets go than their ballots?
Or does the upcoming Mr Dictator-for-life thinks he knows better than the voters?
Doesn't mean it's not useful though.
Just because you can debate whether a shade of grey is black or white doesn't mean the concept of black and white is flawed.
Guess it disagrees with the US Court's interpretation too (http://scholar.google.com.my/scholar_case?case=14806734468103617188&hl=en&as_sdt=2&as_vis=1&oi=scholarr&sa=X&ei=qzjoUMy1I8njrAePoIDoAw&ved=0CC0QgAMoADAA ).
So I guess the conceal is considered an active thing and not passive.
Whoever, having knowledge of the actual commission of a felony cognizable by a court of the United States, conceals and does not as soon as possible make known the same to some judge or other person in civil or military authority under the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.
I am not a lawyer but my reading of "and does not as soon as possible make known the same to some judge" disagrees with your interpretation.
5 seconds won't work. You have to give them a few (3?) minutes to leave your house and get clear of it. "Self Destruct" sequence triggered whenever closet door is opened.
To be more convincing have a numeric key pad to enter a disarm code (which stops the countdown).