Correct, except for the bit where they subsequently stopped her checks when they decided to "investigate" her "business" - apparently the the NY Department of Labor does not believe in "innocent until proven guilty".
Was there a sign or something saying "if this checkpoint is not attended, do not pass?" and how far apart along the border are these checkpoints? Because the situation you describe smells of honeypot - one which, apparently, is easily tested by having some innocent third party cross first.
Note I live in Australia, with no experience of such border checkpoints.
Plus what it would do for portable IT if the new battery tech scales down to phones and laptops...
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Well, having had relatives and friends die from smoking, even if I didn't know what the manufactuers put in them I'd still be not keen on much risk at all as far as cigarettes are concerned.
As for my cough, I should've clearly separated that reaction to close-up cig, more concentrated smoke, from my comments re my neighbours; I apologise.
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Oh, what the heck. "The Health Consequences of Involuntary Exposure to Tobacco Smoke: A Report of the Surgeon General was prepared by the Office on Smoking and Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The Report was written by 22 national experts who were selected as primary authors. The Report chapters were reviewed by 40 peer reviewers, and the entire Report was reviewed by 30 independent scientists and by lead scientists within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Department of Health and Human Services. Throughout the review process, the Report was revised to address reviewersâ(TM) comments."http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/library/secondhandsmoke/factsheets/factsheet6.html
As much as I take anything government-issued with a grain of salt, I've had enough personal experience with cigarettes and the deaths therefrom to give smokers a wide berth even if the surgeon general had instead said smoking gives you immortality.
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Where's the science to back up the poster's claim I'm responding to? What were we arguing about anyway?
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One. You didn't mention a "charcoal grill" and I don't use one anyway. By the way, real charcoal or artificial (googling, "popular brands may also contain coal dust, starch, sodium nitrate, limestone and borax")?
Two. Citation needed. Here's mine: "there is no risk-free level of exposure to secondhand smoke", The Health Consequences of Involuntary Exposure to Tobacco Smoke: A Report of the Surgeon General. 2006. I know I'm something of a miner's canary, but if I'm breathing enough of the stuff to make me cough, it's not very dilute, is it?
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Just cause you can smell it doesn't mean you're breathing in anywhere near enough to cause any amount of harm.
Citation needed. I'll go first: "Surgeon General reports there is no safe level of secondhand smoke", Chicago Tribune, June 27, 2006.
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You gloss over the difference between an unpleasant smell and toxic fumes.
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Did ask. Got an apology. Smoke didn't stop. Nicotine is, after all, highly addictive.
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Electric car. Hydrogen bus. Push mower (or goat). Solar oven. People not smoking the mass-manufactured tubes of carcinogens, heavy metals and other crap most folks think of as cigarettes these days.
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So, you can think of a bunch of solutions, you just don't want to do any of them. And although you should be able to do whatever you want, your neighbor should obey your every command? That's what your saying, right?
No, it's not. The solutions I mentioned all involve my family suffering or paying so my neighbours can continue to foul the air for their pleasure. So I asked you, oh wise prince, to offer me the solution where neither of us has to dictate what the other should do. Now put up - what's the solution that allows my neighbours to foul the air and my family to breathe fresh air, with neither of us having to tell the other what to do?
Tolerating people who do things you don't like is part of living in society.
Yes. So is taking responsibility for one's actions that affect the society you live in. It cuts both ways.
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the simplest way to avoid second hand smoke is to not hang around people who are smoking
So, my new neighbours are heavy smokers. The prevailing winds blow their smoke straight into my house. Given your maxim that nobody should be able to tell anyone else how to live their life - so I can't dicate they give up smoking and they can't dictate I install air filters or a giant windbreak or move elsewhere - what solution does the wise prince propose that still lets my family have clean air?
Yep, that's pretty much the difference between the US and Australia, yours are greedy, ours are stupid.:)
Seriously, some in this thread are claiming it's because of compulsory voting, but I'd have to say they really haven't thought through the consequences of allowing optional voting in a country whose catchprase is "she'll be right mate". 90% of the country would wake up the day after the election with a hangover and wondering why the new Prime Minister had a monocle and a fluffy white cat.
And on the same line, why would laptops from US companies NOT have back doors? E.g. Microsoft, being let off the hook for anti-trust suits all the time, would have a case of secretly cooperating with the US government to build in back doors as compensation for being allowed to live.
The US government doesn't need backdoors put into Microsoft Windows. It's had holes you could drive packets through for years.
Given it's a cheap Atom/Windows netbook that chops off Adobe dialog boxes, has to be 1024x600. I agree with the AC that putting Adobe CS4 on it was a waste of tax dollars. There are morons in my government that would be dangerous in a padded cell, let alone public office.
I have no problem criminalizing normal stuff and arresting people "interested" in making them - because it's just plain old simple terrorism.
Epic fail. Being interested in building a HERF device - or even doing so - doesn't make anyone a criminal, let alone a terrorist. I direct your attention to the concept of "intent".
I'd heard that too, so soon after we got a portable GPS for our car I tested it - the speedo was within 1 km/hr of the GPS all the way up to 110 km/hr. Mind you, that assumes the GPS unit wasn't also incorrect, but I'd also done timed runs against distance markers and that seems to agree.
"many more people buy DVDs than videogames" Really? This slashdot article back in 2004 says the game industry is bigger than hollywood, and this year it's arguable that the game industry is bigger than the movie industry worldwide:
The catch is the "direct" part of a direct nuclear strike. You don't need great accuracy to nuke a large city - but you do need it to nuke a small, hardened, underground silo. Did we have that kind of precision in our ICBMs back in the cold war? I don't know.
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I'm not sure, but he may be referring to (A) the eight years between 1996 (the patenting year) and 2004 (when the funding boost mentioned in your citation began), and/or (B) actual R&D being cut at the same time the PHBs get big raises: http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/local/news/general/csiro-to-slash-support-funding/418253.aspx?storypage=0
Correct, except for the bit where they subsequently stopped her checks when they decided to "investigate" her "business" - apparently the the NY Department of Labor does not believe in "innocent until proven guilty".
It reminded me more of a green pumpkin. Apples aren't the only things with stems.
Was there a sign or something saying "if this checkpoint is not attended, do not pass?" and how far apart along the border are these checkpoints? Because the situation you describe smells of honeypot - one which, apparently, is easily tested by having some innocent third party cross first. Note I live in Australia, with no experience of such border checkpoints.
Plus what it would do for portable IT if the new battery tech scales down to phones and laptops...
Well, having had relatives and friends die from smoking, even if I didn't know what the manufactuers put in them I'd still be not keen on much risk at all as far as cigarettes are concerned. As for my cough, I should've clearly separated that reaction to close-up cig, more concentrated smoke, from my comments re my neighbours; I apologise.
Oh, what the heck. "The Health Consequences of Involuntary Exposure to Tobacco Smoke: A Report of the Surgeon General was prepared by the Office on Smoking and Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The Report was written by 22 national experts who were selected as primary authors. The Report chapters were reviewed by 40 peer reviewers, and the entire Report was reviewed by 30 independent scientists and by lead scientists within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Department of Health and Human Services. Throughout the review process, the Report was revised to address reviewersâ(TM) comments." http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/library/secondhandsmoke/factsheets/factsheet6.html
As much as I take anything government-issued with a grain of salt, I've had enough personal experience with cigarettes and the deaths therefrom to give smokers a wide berth even if the surgeon general had instead said smoking gives you immortality.
Where's the science to back up the poster's claim I'm responding to? What were we arguing about anyway?
One. You didn't mention a "charcoal grill" and I don't use one anyway. By the way, real charcoal or artificial (googling, "popular brands may also contain coal dust, starch, sodium nitrate, limestone and borax")?
Two. Citation needed. Here's mine: "there is no risk-free level of exposure to secondhand smoke", The Health Consequences of Involuntary Exposure to Tobacco Smoke: A Report of the Surgeon General. 2006. I know I'm something of a miner's canary, but if I'm breathing enough of the stuff to make me cough, it's not very dilute, is it?
Citation needed. I'll go first: "Surgeon General reports there is no safe level of secondhand smoke", Chicago Tribune, June 27, 2006.
You gloss over the difference between an unpleasant smell and toxic fumes.
Did ask. Got an apology. Smoke didn't stop. Nicotine is, after all, highly addictive.
Electric car. Hydrogen bus. Push mower (or goat). Solar oven. People not smoking the mass-manufactured tubes of carcinogens, heavy metals and other crap most folks think of as cigarettes these days.
No, it's not. The solutions I mentioned all involve my family suffering or paying so my neighbours can continue to foul the air for their pleasure. So I asked you, oh wise prince, to offer me the solution where neither of us has to dictate what the other should do. Now put up - what's the solution that allows my neighbours to foul the air and my family to breathe fresh air, with neither of us having to tell the other what to do?
Yes. So is taking responsibility for one's actions that affect the society you live in. It cuts both ways.
So, my new neighbours are heavy smokers. The prevailing winds blow their smoke straight into my house. Given your maxim that nobody should be able to tell anyone else how to live their life - so I can't dicate they give up smoking and they can't dictate I install air filters or a giant windbreak or move elsewhere - what solution does the wise prince propose that still lets my family have clean air?
Mazda, 323 Protege, 2003. The GPS is some LG brand. Since it was about a year ago, I did another test run to avoid relying on memory:
Car/GPS readings 20/20, 30/30, 40/39, 50/48, 60/58, 70/68, 80/79, 90/89, 100/99. No 110 zone locally, sorry. :)
Yep, that's pretty much the difference between the US and Australia, yours are greedy, ours are stupid. :)
Seriously, some in this thread are claiming it's because of compulsory voting, but I'd have to say they really haven't thought through the consequences of allowing optional voting in a country whose catchprase is "she'll be right mate". 90% of the country would wake up the day after the election with a hangover and wondering why the new Prime Minister had a monocle and a fluffy white cat.
The US government doesn't need backdoors put into Microsoft Windows. It's had holes you could drive packets through for years.
Given it's a cheap Atom/Windows netbook that chops off Adobe dialog boxes, has to be 1024x600. I agree with the AC that putting Adobe CS4 on it was a waste of tax dollars. There are morons in my government that would be dangerous in a padded cell, let alone public office.
What do you think about SWAT teams and the national guard?
Epic fail. Being interested in building a HERF device - or even doing so - doesn't make anyone a criminal, let alone a terrorist. I direct your attention to the concept of "intent".
I'd heard that too, so soon after we got a portable GPS for our car I tested it - the speedo was within 1 km/hr of the GPS all the way up to 110 km/hr. Mind you, that assumes the GPS unit wasn't also incorrect, but I'd also done timed runs against distance markers and that seems to agree.
"many more people buy DVDs than videogames" Really? This slashdot article back in 2004 says the game industry is bigger than hollywood, and this year it's arguable that the game industry is bigger than the movie industry worldwide:
http://www.google.com/search?q=gaming+industry+vs+movie+industry
From what I understand, the feds left the default passwords unchanged. Which is like having a lock but leaving the key in it.
The catch is the "direct" part of a direct nuclear strike. You don't need great accuracy to nuke a large city - but you do need it to nuke a small, hardened, underground silo. Did we have that kind of precision in our ICBMs back in the cold war? I don't know.