as a country you can't really afford to have everyone pissed off at you because you face things like international pressure, political sanctions and pre-emptive strikes
Tell me about it. I did a nuclear strike in Persia in Civ III, and suddenly everybody went bananas on me.
So you mean that there will be a check point for the congestion charges at every junction? I don't think so - only at the perimeter of the congestion charge area.
Please, don't be so silly! Those two scenarios could never happen in real life...
you are not allowed to drive: First of all, the police would have to monitor the exact location of every single car at every single moment - this will never happen. But, for the arguments sake, assume that they do. Just because you are in a "high-risk" group does not (can not!) mean that they have the right to revoke your drivers license. You could drive from the pub to your home because you work at the pub, or perhaps you did not drink anything with alcohol. If the police could revoke licenses just because you belong to a high-risk group, then men below the age of 25 would not be permitted to have a drivers license in the first place. In legal philosophy, you accept that certain actions done by the citizens cause a higher cost to the the society (e.g. people are allowed to drink alcohol and smoke), because otherwise it would be a Big Brother society.
you are required to attend to your local police station for an interview. You have been considered as a posible threat to national security. Does the police have a crime that you committed they can point to? Again, no, which means that they can't bring people in for interrogations at random.
If you really believe that your scenarios could happen, then I suggest that you pay a visit to Sweden (where we have national IDs and databases), and you'll see that your worst fears will not come true.
Digits number 7 and 8 did not show your birthplace: only digit number 7 gave information on where you were born (for example: 0=born in Sweden, 9=born in another country). Since a number of years, that information is no longer put there. However, digit number 8 and 9 is a sequential number displaying in which order you were born - for example 01=first male born on that day, 03=second male, and so on.
But I agree with you: it is a bit too easy to get information about another person given the "personnummer" (I don't want to translate it to social security number). It is a small comfort that we have laws regulating the computer usage of "personnummer".
One more thing: you probably can't take any samples or remove polyps with capsule endoscopy, so the patient may very well end up having a regular coloscopy anyway.
I've had four coloscopy exams (and the last time, the surgeon said that I didn't need any more - phew). The first time, I got some pretty strong stuff which was...interesting. I lay there on the bed wearing a "easy-to-open-in-the-back-shirt", when the nurse injected a mixture of valium-derivate and morphine-derivate. About 10-15 seconds later i hit, and I can swear I could feel the drugs working their way through finer and finer arteries. After that, I was pretty much (but not altogether) gone.
However, the following three times, I got almost no drugs at all, even though I clearly said I wanted them. The pain is quite high (imagine the pain and discomfort you feel when you have really bad gases/diarrhea, and then multiply by ten). I was lucky that my colon was healthy, as compared to someone who has, say, ulcerous colitis.
I have two advices if you are doing coloscopy with less drugs: breathe deeply and controlled - in through your nose and out through your mouth. It helps! Also: ask one of the nurses to massage/press on your stomach, so the colon is not quite so inflated. The worst part is when they are going through the sigmoid colon (right at the start and at the end of the coloscopy), but after that, just try to relax...
Er... 800 mm? That is 80 cm/31.5 inches - about the same as the circumference of my waist. I don't think the most talented sword swallower could gulp that down.
Why is it these lawmakers trust technology more than the people they represent?
Because the lawmakers, and many others, think that a big part of gun owners cannot be trusted?
I guess that the idea behind "smart guns" is equivalent to locks on bicycles: it prevents the average spur-of-the-moment theft. The problem is that you can never stop a determined individual...
PSYCHOLOGY Daniel Simons of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Christopher Chabris of Harvard University, for demonstrating that when people pay close attention to something, it's all too easy to overlook anything else -- even a man in a gorilla suit. REFERENCE: "Gorillas in Our Midst," Daniel J. Simons and Christopher F. Chabris, vol. 28, Perception, 1999, pages 1059-74. DEMO: WHO ATTENDED THE IG NOBEL CEREMONY: Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris
Yeah yeah, but if you closely observed who attended, you could see that it was not Simons and Chabris. In fact, it was Sigourney Weaver, who thought the award was for "Gorillas in the mist"!
Have you seen how good babelfish and google translating is now? *impressed* I write all my posts in klingon, like any true/., and use google to englishize them.
Yes, I think that Tom Lord has already discovered this. At least he must be a Klingon, because I don't think a human being can be so lacking in the social skills department.
Of course not, but we are not talking about "any" application here, right? We are talking about IE or Firefox. How many of the minor updates (through Windows update) for IE has had new features/methods? None; they have all been security related.
Excuse me?! You probably meant that the other way around, right? Advanced (read: inexperienced) users love auto updates, while inexperienced users just see the hassle of downloading patches ("my modem does not autodisconnect - why not?"), but they do not see the security holes being closed.
Ummm... Isn't that a crime? At least here in Sweden: A driver that impedes or disturbs another road-user or tram driver unnecessarily, to a greater extent, the traffic on a road, is sentenced to pay fines. (See paragraph 2 - in swedish of course).
Hehe - my mother brought up me and my brother during the 70's, and she thought that we should be raised independently of us being boys - all in the name of equality.
Oh boy, did those dolls suffer...:-) We were a bit disappointed that the dolls didn't have an exciting internal design, like watches or radios.
Sweden has used classes that only women can participate in. The women said it made them not feel as singled out as they would have been in mixed classes.
Of course, studies has shown both that mixed sex classes are better, as well as single sex classes... It is probably best to offer both alternatives.
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The first patent was taken in 1851 by the american Elias Howe, a well known sewing machine constructor. Important improvements were done by the american Whitcomb Judson (1893) and by the swedish-americans Peter A. Aronsson (1906) and Gideon Sundbäck (1913). In the first zippers, the hooks were sewn to the cloth, one at a time. Sundbäck's idea was to punch out the hooks and squeeze them into two textile tapes/ribbons, which could then be sewn to the clothes with a sewing machine.
I was thinking about the fact that I couldn't come up with the answer to this particular riddle, and I guess that is because english is only my second language (I am quite good at solving swedish crosswords, for example). What I wonder is. would the anterior superior temporal gyrus (aSTG) be involved in the same way, even for me - solving a problem in a non-native language?
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as a country you can't really afford to have everyone pissed off at you because you face things like international pressure, political sanctions and pre-emptive strikes
Tell me about it. I did a nuclear strike in Persia in Civ III, and suddenly everybody went bananas on me.
So you mean that there will be a check point for the congestion charges at every junction? I don't think so - only at the perimeter of the congestion charge area.
Please, don't be so silly! Those two scenarios could never happen in real life...
you are not allowed to drive: First of all, the police would have to monitor the exact location of every single car at every single moment - this will never happen. But, for the arguments sake, assume that they do. Just because you are in a "high-risk" group does not (can not!) mean that they have the right to revoke your drivers license. You could drive from the pub to your home because you work at the pub, or perhaps you did not drink anything with alcohol. If the police could revoke licenses just because you belong to a high-risk group, then men below the age of 25 would not be permitted to have a drivers license in the first place. In legal philosophy, you accept that certain actions done by the citizens cause a higher cost to the the society (e.g. people are allowed to drink alcohol and smoke), because otherwise it would be a Big Brother society.
you are required to attend to your local police station for an interview. You have been considered as a posible threat to national security. Does the police have a crime that you committed they can point to? Again, no, which means that they can't bring people in for interrogations at random.
If you really believe that your scenarios could happen, then I suggest that you pay a visit to Sweden (where we have national IDs and databases), and you'll see that your worst fears will not come true.
Digits number 7 and 8 did not show your birthplace: only digit number 7 gave information on where you were born (for example: 0=born in Sweden, 9=born in another country). Since a number of years, that information is no longer put there. However, digit number 8 and 9 is a sequential number displaying in which order you were born - for example 01=first male born on that day, 03=second male, and so on.
But I agree with you: it is a bit too easy to get information about another person given the "personnummer" (I don't want to translate it to social security number). It is a small comfort that we have laws regulating the computer usage of "personnummer".
One more thing: you probably can't take any samples or remove polyps with capsule endoscopy, so the patient may very well end up having a regular coloscopy anyway.
I've had four coloscopy exams (and the last time, the surgeon said that I didn't need any more - phew). The first time, I got some pretty strong stuff which was ...interesting. I lay there on the bed wearing a "easy-to-open-in-the-back-shirt", when the nurse injected a mixture of valium-derivate and morphine-derivate. About 10-15 seconds later i hit, and I can swear I could feel the drugs working their way through finer and finer arteries. After that, I was pretty much (but not altogether) gone.
However, the following three times, I got almost no drugs at all, even though I clearly said I wanted them. The pain is quite high (imagine the pain and discomfort you feel when you have really bad gases/diarrhea, and then multiply by ten). I was lucky that my colon was healthy, as compared to someone who has, say, ulcerous colitis.
I have two advices if you are doing coloscopy with less drugs: breathe deeply and controlled - in through your nose and out through your mouth. It helps! Also: ask one of the nurses to massage/press on your stomach, so the colon is not quite so inflated. The worst part is when they are going through the sigmoid colon (right at the start and at the end of the coloscopy), but after that, just try to relax...
Er... 800 mm? That is 80 cm/31.5 inches - about the same as the circumference of my waist. I don't think the most talented sword swallower could gulp that down.
Why is it these lawmakers trust technology more than the people they represent?
Because the lawmakers, and many others, think that a big part of gun owners cannot be trusted?
I guess that the idea behind "smart guns" is equivalent to locks on bicycles: it prevents the average spur-of-the-moment theft. The problem is that you can never stop a determined individual...
Yeah yeah, but if you closely observed who attended, you could see that it was not Simons and Chabris. In fact, it was Sigourney Weaver, who thought the award was for "Gorillas in the mist"!
And the australian Collins-type submarines were built by Kockums Marine Systems in Sweden; those Stirling AIP engines are quiet as well as being able to allow the submarine to stay submerged several weeks. Interesting that Sweden possess such a prominent position in the submarine market (scroll down towards the end).
Yes, I think that Tom Lord has already discovered this. At least he must be a Klingon, because I don't think a human being can be so lacking in the social skills department.
employees interview themselves for YOUR company.
Of course not, but we are not talking about "any" application here, right? We are talking about IE or Firefox. How many of the minor updates (through Windows update) for IE has had new features/methods? None; they have all been security related.
advanced users hate autoupdates
Excuse me?! You probably meant that the other way around, right? Advanced (read: inexperienced) users love auto updates, while inexperienced users just see the hassle of downloading patches ("my modem does not autodisconnect - why not?"), but they do not see the security holes being closed.
I think the original poster was commatose...
Ummm... Isn't that a crime? At least here in Sweden: A driver that impedes or disturbs another road-user or tram driver unnecessarily, to a greater extent, the traffic on a road, is sentenced to pay fines. (See paragraph 2 - in swedish of course).
Hehe - my mother brought up me and my brother during the 70's, and she thought that we should be raised independently of us being boys - all in the name of equality.
:-) We were a bit disappointed that the dolls didn't have an exciting internal design, like watches or radios.
Oh boy, did those dolls suffer...
I'm not convinced that women in general are as capable as men when it comes to disciplines like engineering or Computer Science
Would you care to elaborate on that?
Yeah well, how about programs that abort?
Sweden has used classes that only women can participate in. The women said it made them not feel as singled out as they would have been in mixed classes.
Of course, studies has shown both that mixed sex classes are better, as well as single sex classes... It is probably best to offer both alternatives.
The first patent was taken in 1851 by the american Elias Howe, a well known sewing machine constructor. Important improvements were done by the american Whitcomb Judson (1893) and by the swedish-americans Peter A. Aronsson (1906) and Gideon Sundbäck (1913). In the first zippers, the hooks were sewn to the cloth, one at a time. Sundbäck's idea was to punch out the hooks and squeeze them into two textile tapes/ribbons, which could then be sewn to the clothes with a sewing machine.
Check out CDs, DVDs Eyed For Long-Term Archival Use, because a lot of this has already been covered...
... between Noah's Ark and Joan of Arc?
Noah's Ark was made of wood; Joan of Arc was Maid of Orleans.
Twist and shout!
Ah, thank you!
I was thinking about the fact that I couldn't come up with the answer to this particular riddle, and I guess that is because english is only my second language (I am quite good at solving swedish crosswords, for example). What I wonder is. would the anterior superior temporal gyrus (aSTG) be involved in the same way, even for me - solving a problem in a non-native language?