No. It's a 20 year study. 17% of men get prostate cancer over their lifetimes. If the study population were 50+ at the start that seems low. if the study population were under 30 at the start that that seems really high and I suspect their population consisted of Chernobyl residents...
But bullets have been dodged in TV shows and movies, so clearly TV show land has different rules in the first place.
And why wouldn't a tommy gun kill a couple of Borg, if you kept trying they'd adapt and their shields would deflect them (or whatever). Normal phasers kill the first couple of Borgs just by changing the frequency...
Phasers have at least three benefits:
1. No need to carry ammunition. 2. No need to adjust your shooting for varying levels of gravity that someone exploring space and planets and what not would encounter. THough they do seem to be close quarter weapons rather than sniper rifles so that probably isn't such an issue. 3. Adjustable from tickle to stun to kill to disintegrate.
But yes, it's a TV show that is aiming for entertainment rather than realism and the phasers they present are rather silly.
people don't actually have an issue with paying to access content and will do so even though they can download the same stuff for free on bittorrent.
How the content industry let netflix take that market that was open for them to grab and how the music industry managed to let a niche computer company take over a similar music market that was open for them to grab I will never know.
Well actually of course I will know, too busy clinging to the distribution model they already had.
You aren't, you are using blood pumped by the heart to power the signalling of the heart.
It's the same as spark plugs triggering ignitition in an internal combustion engine being powered by electricity being generated by that engine.
It's not perpetual motion because the actual energy for the work is coming from food or gasoline depending on which one we are talking about. Some of it is merely being siphoned off to use in keeping the device running.
A developer can develop on a 9" netbook screen just fine.
They will however, be more productive with more screen real estate. And multiple monitors helps when dealing with systems that don't manage windows very well and even in those that do as a help in mentally partitioning things.
Is saving $200 worth the lower productivity? There's the business decision...
Because that provides a way for a company/person with capital to pay the person who doesn't have the capital for their invention, while transferring the risk of the business being mismanaged from the patent owner to the business runner.
It also doesn't change anything since nothing stops the patent holder from contracting with a company to sue whomever they tell him to sue while they provide the lawyers and funds and also keep the settlements/damage awards in return for them paying him some cash.
My snoozes do the same thing - though for getting the kid to the school bus, not me to work.
Downside is if I delay on a snooze the rest of the alarms are now late (I think, I've never actually tried). Upside is if I dismiss one the rest all don't sound (oh look there's a blizzard outside, no school bus today).
I said "large recession" which is hardly "a little bit".
But no I don't think it will effect them as much as mainstream economics thinks - in fact I think the expectation that it will do so is likely to have a bigger impact than the actual effect.
Foreign fat cats keep lending the US money because they believe idiot economists who didn't see the recent financial collapse coming, and because they have the money already and so keeping the status quo that has made them have that money is in their interest. It could last as is for another decade or more, or it could collapse this year - it's an unstable situation. Of course I expected the US housing bubble to pop in 2004, so given my record of such predictions this'll probably last another couple of centuries...
Except that debt has nothing to do with their economy. Having it devalued to $0 in the next five minutes would do exactly nothing to the Chinese economy.
There is no factory that would suddenly shut down because an asset owned by the Chinese government dropped in value. Just as if it suddenly trippled in value in the 5 minutes it would be exactly nothing to the Chinese economy.
Of course the follow on effects of the US not being able to fund their government defecit and either having to print money the more old fashioned way or dramatically raise taxes would destroy the US economy. That in turn would be a significant issue for Chinese exporters - but they do export to countries that are not America and the American economic destruction would see world demand (and hence prices) on their imports drop significantly, so while triggering a large recession would not be a complete collapse.
(1) That's irrelevant to the Navy doing the job it exists for. The Navy does not set European or American policy.
(2) Sure freedom of the seas includes not letting the Nazi's control shipping, but that's hardly the exclusive meaning. It is broader than it should be - it should only include maintaining freedom of the seas for ships under an American flag, but that would probably be even worse in your "selective" complaint.
No they couldn't. There's the requirements you are ignoring like "without invading Somalia". Sure we ignored that recently in Pakistan, but do you really want that to be the norm?
Protecting shipping in international waters is part of the Navy's job. It's in their god damn mission statement: "maintaining freedom of the seas".
Which other of their reasons for them existing do you want them to ignore?
In the windows world rar is one of those perfectly cromulent tools, why use something else when the current tool works just fine.
And given it's the piracy scene that the tool isn't free software is completely irrelevant.
I'm pretty sure BitTorrent isn't the primary mechanism of the initial distribution of pirated material. I guess maybe for the movie world where you don't need people who have learnt how to remove disk checks and other copy protection schemes and hence anyone can make the initial copy.
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No. It's a 20 year study. 17% of men get prostate cancer over their lifetimes. If the study population were 50+ at the start that seems low. if the study population were under 30 at the start that that seems really high and I suspect their population consisted of Chernobyl residents...
Even faster CEOs won't take on such personal liability, at least not without compensation levels that make the current ludicrous levels look cheap.
They'll take a job at the local investment bank instead, where the only safety issues are paper cuts and RSI from counting the bags of money.
That scratching sound is onda technology getting added to the "don't use" list all around the world.
But bullets have been dodged in TV shows and movies, so clearly TV show land has different rules in the first place.
And why wouldn't a tommy gun kill a couple of Borg, if you kept trying they'd adapt and their shields would deflect them (or whatever). Normal phasers kill the first couple of Borgs just by changing the frequency...
Phasers have at least three benefits:
1. No need to carry ammunition.
2. No need to adjust your shooting for varying levels of gravity that someone exploring space and planets and what not would encounter. THough they do seem to be close quarter weapons rather than sniper rifles so that probably isn't such an issue.
3. Adjustable from tickle to stun to kill to disintegrate.
But yes, it's a TV show that is aiming for entertainment rather than realism and the phasers they present are rather silly.
people don't actually have an issue with paying to access content and will do so even though they can download the same stuff for free on bittorrent.
How the content industry let netflix take that market that was open for them to grab and how the music industry managed to let a niche computer company take over a similar music market that was open for them to grab I will never know.
Well actually of course I will know, too busy clinging to the distribution model they already had.
that lack clear scientific and clinical proof.
Fruit and vegetables, they might cause cancer.
Reading and writing, who knows what damage they might be doing to people's eyes and wrists.
Wearing clothing, who knows what such an unnatural activity does to our skin.
You aren't, you are using blood pumped by the heart to power the signalling of the heart.
It's the same as spark plugs triggering ignitition in an internal combustion engine being powered by electricity being generated by that engine.
It's not perpetual motion because the actual energy for the work is coming from food or gasoline depending on which one we are talking about. Some of it is merely being siphoned off to use in keeping the device running.
A developer can develop on a 9" netbook screen just fine.
They will however, be more productive with more screen real estate. And multiple monitors helps when dealing with systems that don't manage windows very well and even in those that do as a help in mentally partitioning things.
Is saving $200 worth the lower productivity? There's the business decision...
Because that provides a way for a company/person with capital to pay the person who doesn't have the capital for their invention, while transferring the risk of the business being mismanaged from the patent owner to the business runner.
It also doesn't change anything since nothing stops the patent holder from contracting with a company to sue whomever they tell him to sue while they provide the lawyers and funds and also keep the settlements/damage awards in return for them paying him some cash.
Yes because antibiotics do wonders on colds.
Or maybe it's a competely unrelated thing to making lemon (with it's high vitamin C content) palatable?
Please refuse antibiotics from the evil Big Pharma next time you have an infection.
Nope. Diet coke is what you want, those articial sweeteners are medical cure-alls.
Simple confirmation bias means even if people get information from all points of view they still manage to reinforce their existing beliefs.
Might as well speed it up a little.
It doesn't matter.
If they claim to do X when in fact they do not do X, or claim not to do X when in fact they do do X then you have deceptive trade practices.
It doesn't matter if they obviously lying, and anyone who knows anything about what they do can tell that.
Coca Cola also can't claim that drinking coke cures cancer, even though anyone with two brain cells to rub together knows it doesn't.
That's the point. If that's the case then houses are clearly overpriced and buying one would be stupid.
My snoozes do the same thing - though for getting the kid to the school bus, not me to work.
Downside is if I delay on a snooze the rest of the alarms are now late (I think, I've never actually tried). Upside is if I dismiss one the rest all don't sound (oh look there's a blizzard outside, no school bus today).
Bullshit.
If amazon.com is down because someone at Amazon pushed the wrong button, Comcast has no obligation to do anything about it.
If some unrelated ISP screwed some routing up Comcast does not have to help them fix it.
on the screen of my phone while still in bed basically every week day.
I suspect that's more popular than Facebook...
I said "large recession" which is hardly "a little bit".
But no I don't think it will effect them as much as mainstream economics thinks - in fact I think the expectation that it will do so is likely to have a bigger impact than the actual effect.
Foreign fat cats keep lending the US money because they believe idiot economists who didn't see the recent financial collapse coming, and because they have the money already and so keeping the status quo that has made them have that money is in their interest. It could last as is for another decade or more, or it could collapse this year - it's an unstable situation. Of course I expected the US housing bubble to pop in 2004, so given my record of such predictions this'll probably last another couple of centuries...
That's the slightly less old fashioned way, in which there's some pretending that it isn't just printing money even though it obviously is.
The more old fashioned way is printing with no pretending.
People famous in creative fields are sometimes "quirky". Who would have thunk it.
People who do well running tech companies are sometimes "geeks" who like tech. Who would have thunk it.
Currently it's free. You get the SLA you would expect for free.
Except that debt has nothing to do with their economy. Having it devalued to $0 in the next five minutes would do exactly nothing to the Chinese economy.
There is no factory that would suddenly shut down because an asset owned by the Chinese government dropped in value. Just as if it suddenly trippled in value in the 5 minutes it would be exactly nothing to the Chinese economy.
Of course the follow on effects of the US not being able to fund their government defecit and either having to print money the more old fashioned way or dramatically raise taxes would destroy the US economy. That in turn would be a significant issue for Chinese exporters - but they do export to countries that are not America and the American economic destruction would see world demand (and hence prices) on their imports drop significantly, so while triggering a large recession would not be a complete collapse.
(1) That's irrelevant to the Navy doing the job it exists for. The Navy does not set European or American policy.
(2) Sure freedom of the seas includes not letting the Nazi's control shipping, but that's hardly the exclusive meaning. It is broader than it should be - it should only include maintaining freedom of the seas for ships under an American flag, but that would probably be even worse in your "selective" complaint.
No they couldn't. There's the requirements you are ignoring like "without invading Somalia". Sure we ignored that recently in Pakistan, but do you really want that to be the norm?
Protecting shipping in international waters is part of the Navy's job. It's in their god damn mission statement: "maintaining freedom of the seas".
Which other of their reasons for them existing do you want them to ignore?
In the windows world rar is one of those perfectly cromulent tools, why use something else when the current tool works just fine.
And given it's the piracy scene that the tool isn't free software is completely irrelevant.
I'm pretty sure BitTorrent isn't the primary mechanism of the initial distribution of pirated material. I guess maybe for the movie world where you don't need people who have learnt how to remove disk checks and other copy protection schemes and hence anyone can make the initial copy.