Agreed. This is snake-oil, and from a practical point-of-view the government should put a stop to it. It would be nothing but a hundred-fold waste of test kits since, as noted, others would be pressured into doing it also.
I recognize the idealistic objection, that the government shouldn't have a say at all. This is not without merit I suppose, but it would be nice to have a relatively "shallow" pragmatic analysis, rather than having every court ruling devolve into an argument (or rather, a one-sided rantfest) about Federalism.
Note that if Creekstone (who I am sure is a paragon of decency and ethics as opposed to all those other corporations who are just in it for the money...) really wanted to do something about BSE, they could increase feed quality and living conditions e.g. by supplying free-range conditions less susceptible to epidemic. Why are they not doing this? Because it is cheaper to sell the snake-oil image of 100% testing.
I used it to play along with a school website which absolutely refused to work on anything but IE.
Note, it's a very detailed install script, and not entirely trivial to get it to play well with another wine install. But for almost one-click install of a near-perfect IE6 (or 5.5, or 5) under linux, it is awesome.
It doesn't solve your Adobe dependencies, but just thought I'd spread the word.
It seems like everyone but you has already taken account of, and compensated for, the change in scale caused by score inflation which is, after all, blindingly obvious. So, it wouldn't be a very interesting experiment. It would be a baking-soda-and-vinegar-volcano sort of "experiment."
I don't understand who would be eager to start yet another corporation in the vein of the previous N which were shut down almost-immediately by the courts?
That's 0.001% of Nanos affected _at some point in their lifetimes_. For the failure to occur DURING a few-hours flight, would be drastically less likely!
Some people also call it the "propeller" key or just the "Apple" key, although this is outdated (pre-OS X).
BTW, the emblem was originally going to be an apple, except that the designer decided that it would be tasteless overkill and sold Steve Jobs on the St. John's Arms design instead.
Congratulations! You are the winner (of nothing)! I've been waiting for someone to mention the "Smiler" analogy. Just figures that it'd be on slashdot.
Time will tell if we have to consider Warren Ellis as prescient, instead of a hack with a few good ideas.:)
Gee, genius, maybe they're doing a preliminary survey to find out, in which neighborhoods these toilets will suffer the same fate as the ones in Seattle.
I don't even get the feeling yet. Those webtoys feel totally detached from its search engine (this is actually be a bad thing for its brand, and I don't think they're doing it for fear of antitrust). And even if they weren't, there is Yahoo! which does the same stuff and is definitely not being kept down by google.
The only feasible way (imho) antitrust could kick in, is if they block services from non-android mobiles. I'm waiting for them to try something like this, but I don't know how likely it'll be depending on the licensing terms for android.
Yeah, but there's no problem with "monopolization" unless you use it to leverage other distinct products or prevent competition. Since google does nothing but search (for now) and "cuil" works as it should, what would these unsurprising antitrust issues be exactly?
Privacy and data-retention issues maybe, but antitrust? Why?
It didn't stop people appreciating System Shock 2, a game where every weapon takes the same space, a full vertical strip (1x3). Armors/suits are 2x2, "potions" are 1x1 with stacking, and all other items are 1x1.
Despite the "unrealism", inventory juggling is fairly well balanced in SS2. All weapons are the same so that when you change weapons, they can go into the other slot. As it is, the slots force you to make hard choices about what to bring along (bringing a hazmat suit and combat armor will cut into your overall carry capacity inconvenience) while not inconveniencing hot-swapping too much.
You can "buy" a few more slots (1x3 at a time, up to 4x3) by either increasing strength, or spending (rare) perks.
You know, life insurance in the US typically does cover suicide after a fixed initial period (typically from 6 mo. to 2 yrs.) mostly to prevent against obvious fraud. In a way, it is random if for no other reason than that so-called "Acts of God" are random, and their effects may cause one to lose all hope and turn to the proverbial shotgun mouthwash.
The rest of your post I 100% agree with. It's worth noting though, that the U SAP AT RIOT ACT was already drafted & waiting in a drawer for just such an occasion. I don't know if these laws were passed out of terror, or sheer opportunistic glee.
Great explanation, thanks! Although I just have astigmatism, I wish that the various people who've poked at my eyes could have been arsed to tell me this sort of thing whilst they were shining lights and paralyzing them.
There was another comment here on slashdot about someone's journey through steroidal eye drops, cataracts and (thoroughly successful) glaucoma surgery. It gave me the willies; apparently they basically slough off the whole cornea and replace?
I don't understand how you can call it mere cosmetic surgery. If the cornea has been adjusted to fit, then the eye as a whole isn't myopic anymore, right? It's just not-myopic in an artificial way. That's "cosmetic" the same way an artificial joint is cosmetic.
I wasn't aware that myopia is a risk factor for glaucoma, but from what little I have googled, I haven't found a causal explanation. Isn't it possible that the adjustment of the cornea may reduce the increased risk for glaucoma?
The side effects are unpleasant, but they are well-known and fairly consistent. Additional to what you listed, there are some vision degradation problems at high altitude due to pressure changes. I wouldn't get it done at the moment. Still, it's a fairly low-risk tradeoff as opposed to high doses of anabolic steroids.
And DEK's further note about the name: "Not even I was brazen enough to call the course `distinuous mathematics'."
(For those unfamiliar, the idea of the book (and I presume the course) was to build up to elegant concepts and results like in advanced calculus (continuous mathematics), while using an elementary discrete combinatoric context. Hence, con-crete math.)
If little Johnny is promising in his drive and "natural talent" (whatever that is), I'm sure he can get his school coach to get him started on an effective pharmaceutical regimen.
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Agreed. This is snake-oil, and from a practical point-of-view the government should put a stop to it. It would be nothing but a hundred-fold waste of test kits since, as noted, others would be pressured into doing it also.
I recognize the idealistic objection, that the government shouldn't have a say at all. This is not without merit I suppose, but it would be nice to have a relatively "shallow" pragmatic analysis, rather than having every court ruling devolve into an argument (or rather, a one-sided rantfest) about Federalism.
Note that if Creekstone (who I am sure is a paragon of decency and ethics as opposed to all those other corporations who are just in it for the money...) really wanted to do something about BSE, they could increase feed quality and living conditions e.g. by supplying free-range conditions less susceptible to epidemic. Why are they not doing this? Because it is cheaper to sell the snake-oil image of 100% testing.
Who cares about a little bit of fraud, when your graphics designer is simulating at least two corporations in silicon!
This worked a treat for me:
http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Main_Page
I used it to play along with a school website which absolutely refused to work on anything but IE.
Note, it's a very detailed install script, and not entirely trivial to get it to play well with another wine install. But for almost one-click install of a near-perfect IE6 (or 5.5, or 5) under linux, it is awesome.
It doesn't solve your Adobe dependencies, but just thought I'd spread the word.
Amusingly, Ludwig von Mises' younger brother Richard was a real scientist with significant contributions in engineering and probability/statistics.
Not every change made in Ubuntu is non-free/binary.
Or if the paint they use for the new warning is itself carcinogenic.
"Warning: previous warning may have been a carcinogen. The persons responsible for that warning have been sacked."
It seems like everyone but you has already taken account of, and compensated for, the change in scale caused by score inflation which is, after all, blindingly obvious. So, it wouldn't be a very interesting experiment. It would be a baking-soda-and-vinegar-volcano sort of "experiment."
LOL whut?
I don't understand who would be eager to start yet another corporation in the vein of the previous N which were shut down almost-immediately by the courts?
Not to mention Random Acts of Senseless Violence.
A brilliant observation worthy of the annals of slashdot. However, not all iPods burst into flame before the end of their lifetimes...
That's 0.001% of Nanos affected _at some point in their lifetimes_. For the failure to occur DURING a few-hours flight, would be drastically less likely!
Some people also call it the "propeller" key or just the "Apple" key, although this is outdated (pre-OS X).
BTW, the emblem was originally going to be an apple, except that the designer decided that it would be tasteless overkill and sold Steve Jobs on the St. John's Arms design instead.
Congratulations! You are the winner (of nothing)! I've been waiting for someone to mention the "Smiler" analogy. Just figures that it'd be on slashdot.
Time will tell if we have to consider Warren Ellis as prescient, instead of a hack with a few good ideas. :)
Gee, genius, maybe they're doing a preliminary survey to find out, in which neighborhoods these toilets will suffer the same fate as the ones in Seattle.
I don't even get the feeling yet. Those webtoys feel totally detached from its search engine (this is actually be a bad thing for its brand, and I don't think they're doing it for fear of antitrust). And even if they weren't, there is Yahoo! which does the same stuff and is definitely not being kept down by google.
The only feasible way (imho) antitrust could kick in, is if they block services from non-android mobiles. I'm waiting for them to try something like this, but I don't know how likely it'll be depending on the licensing terms for android.
Yeah, but there's no problem with "monopolization" unless you use it to leverage other distinct products or prevent competition. Since google does nothing but search (for now) and "cuil" works as it should, what would these unsurprising antitrust issues be exactly?
Privacy and data-retention issues maybe, but antitrust? Why?
Note well: Walmart could not claim the smiley, because it had already been claimed.
Even the Watchmen movie trailer has a license for it, as you can see in the last few frames.
It didn't stop people appreciating System Shock 2, a game where every weapon takes the same space, a full vertical strip (1x3). Armors/suits are 2x2, "potions" are 1x1 with stacking, and all other items are 1x1.
Despite the "unrealism", inventory juggling is fairly well balanced in SS2. All weapons are the same so that when you change weapons, they can go into the other slot. As it is, the slots force you to make hard choices about what to bring along (bringing a hazmat suit and combat armor will cut into your overall carry capacity inconvenience) while not inconveniencing hot-swapping too much.
You can "buy" a few more slots (1x3 at a time, up to 4x3) by either increasing strength, or spending (rare) perks.
You know, life insurance in the US typically does cover suicide after a fixed initial period (typically from 6 mo. to 2 yrs.) mostly to prevent against obvious fraud. In a way, it is random if for no other reason than that so-called "Acts of God" are random, and their effects may cause one to lose all hope and turn to the proverbial shotgun mouthwash.
The rest of your post I 100% agree with. It's worth noting though, that the U SAP AT RIOT ACT was already drafted & waiting in a drawer for just such an occasion. I don't know if these laws were passed out of terror, or sheer opportunistic glee.
Great explanation, thanks! Although I just have astigmatism, I wish that the various people who've poked at my eyes could have been arsed to tell me this sort of thing whilst they were shining lights and paralyzing them.
There was another comment here on slashdot about someone's journey through steroidal eye drops, cataracts and (thoroughly successful) glaucoma surgery. It gave me the willies; apparently they basically slough off the whole cornea and replace?
I don't understand how you can call it mere cosmetic surgery. If the cornea has been adjusted to fit, then the eye as a whole isn't myopic anymore, right? It's just not-myopic in an artificial way. That's "cosmetic" the same way an artificial joint is cosmetic.
I wasn't aware that myopia is a risk factor for glaucoma, but from what little I have googled, I haven't found a causal explanation. Isn't it possible that the adjustment of the cornea may reduce the increased risk for glaucoma?
The side effects are unpleasant, but they are well-known and fairly consistent. Additional to what you listed, there are some vision degradation problems at high altitude due to pressure changes. I wouldn't get it done at the moment. Still, it's a fairly low-risk tradeoff as opposed to high doses of anabolic steroids.
And DEK's further note about the name: "Not even I was brazen enough to call the course `distinuous mathematics'."
(For those unfamiliar, the idea of the book (and I presume the course) was to build up to elegant concepts and results like in advanced calculus (continuous mathematics), while using an elementary discrete combinatoric context. Hence, con-crete math.)
If little Johnny is promising in his drive and "natural talent" (whatever that is), I'm sure he can get his school coach to get him started on an effective pharmaceutical regimen.
Isn't that the only reason for undergoing LASIK?