Arguably, you can reason yourself into an acceptable approximation of joseki once you are of decent strength. Just knowing the set lines won't do you any good, as they could be horrible to play given the rest of the board, and you won't know what to do if your opponent deviates.
Don't you know that all antibiotics are the same, work on the same infections in the same manner, and are only renamed for marketing purposes and in case some idiot thinks he has an allergy to one?
One of the key problems that was identified during 9/11 was the inability of emergency responders to communicate with each other effectively because different departments and jurisdictions used different codes to refer to the same situation, or the same code to refer to different situations. One of the solutions has been to limit the use of 10- codes so that inter-agency cooperation is simpler in an emergency.
As soon as police forces start encrypting their communications, you solve that problem by leaving them unable to effectively communicate with other agencies entirely, due to different encryption methods and keys. In the event of a large emergency, response time and effectiveness will likely be worse as a result.
Canada may be the second largest nation by size, but in terms of population, it ranks between Uganda and Algeria, which no one thinks of as particularly large in any sense. Looking at population density, it averages less than 10 people per square mile. Granted, the population is clustered near the southern border, but that means that US culture and media is that much more pervasive, since most Canadians are within an easy drive of the US and can receive broadcast stations from there.
So what happens when you have an island chain, and the fly-eating birds or whatever on island A can mate with those on B successfully, and those on island C can also mate with those on island B successfully, but those on island A can't successfully mate with those on island C?
The other thing about Occam's razor is that it only tells you that if you can account for something with either ABC or ABCD you should not involve D. If you are trying to compare between ABC and ABDE it is useless.
I've read some speculation that the 1918 pandemic was especially virulent because it started among soldiers at the front. Normally, the sickest people with the flu stay home and the less sick are more likely to go out and infect others, leading to the virus becoming less dangerous over time. Among the soldiers, though, the less sick would stay with their companies, limiting their contagiousness, while the more sick would go to the military hospitals, where they would come into contact with more people, and bring somewhat more virulent varieties into a larger number of people. This then lead (by this hypothesis) to an overall strengthening of the dangerousness of the flu before it spread to many countries outside Europe.
This is certainly an interesting line of thought. The only objection I can see is that right now, ICBM and rocket launches are closely monitored by multiple nations as an early warning system in the event of nuclear attack. By outfitting the same ICBM with a conventional warhead, one risks provoking a nuclear response to a conventional assault.
The SR-71s were certainly noticed by the Soviet's as they were passing through their airspace, and while successful, certainly, they could also have been used to hide the existence of the various spy satellite programs by providing a plausible alternative means by which the US could have gained the information they used at various treaty negotiations. Eisenhower's Corona program began in 1960, years before the blackbird began overflights of the Soviet Union, and was clearly both a gigantic success and a gigantic secret. Setting up a secondary secret program which had telltale signs the Soviet's could pick up on to mask the existence of the primary one seems like a great way to keep the satellite programs a secret both externally and within the US government, where they could also be attributed to the other program when discussing the results with individuals who needed the information but did not need to know about the program itself.
I moved from the US to Canada in 2000, and I remember spending a couple minutes converting my weight, height, etc. into metric, because I figured I would need to know it there. Sure enough, once I moved, signs were in metric, but everything was actually spoken of in imperial units, aside from road distances. People ordered half a pound of ham from the deli, were 5'6" or something, etc.
This may be a function of where I was (Montreal) but the only people I remember not being comfortable with imperial units were from way out west, often BC or Alberta.
The difference between your example and the issue at hand is that driving on the wrong side of the road is a civil infraction, as opposed to a crime like copyright infringement. The lack of moral standing for the side of the road one drives on is part of why it is considered so lightly, unless harm results. In addition, the rules of the road as a whole are pretty clear, as they can be summarized in a booklet of less than 100 pages with a lot of pretty pictures that every state distributes for free, while a thorough understanding of copyright often requires that one go to court, as fair use is a defense that must be established in court, and is not a clear subject.
Polio is a very interesting case study for this. Prior to the 19th century, debilitating disease and paralyzation from Polio was relatively rare. Polio's disease vector is an oral-fecal route, so with increasing sanitation in the 19th century, children started getting it later. Similar to chicken pox, which tends to be relatively mild as a young child and manifest more strongly as one's age of infection increases, Polio in infants and very young children doesn't cause many problems. The increase in sanitation, however, meant that children would contract it later and later, and instances of severe illness and complications went up as well through the 1950s, until widespread vaccination came into use.
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The correct term really should be "upload" since it's going into the series of tubes.
I think you are thinking of the Bushes.
Arguably, you can reason yourself into an acceptable approximation of joseki once you are of decent strength. Just knowing the set lines won't do you any good, as they could be horrible to play given the rest of the board, and you won't know what to do if your opponent deviates.
Please be kind to the ESL speakers.
Don't you know that all antibiotics are the same, work on the same infections in the same manner, and are only renamed for marketing purposes and in case some idiot thinks he has an allergy to one?
One of the key problems that was identified during 9/11 was the inability of emergency responders to communicate with each other effectively because different departments and jurisdictions used different codes to refer to the same situation, or the same code to refer to different situations. One of the solutions has been to limit the use of 10- codes so that inter-agency cooperation is simpler in an emergency.
As soon as police forces start encrypting their communications, you solve that problem by leaving them unable to effectively communicate with other agencies entirely, due to different encryption methods and keys. In the event of a large emergency, response time and effectiveness will likely be worse as a result.
Canada may be the second largest nation by size, but in terms of population, it ranks between Uganda and Algeria, which no one thinks of as particularly large in any sense. Looking at population density, it averages less than 10 people per square mile. Granted, the population is clustered near the southern border, but that means that US culture and media is that much more pervasive, since most Canadians are within an easy drive of the US and can receive broadcast stations from there.
So what happens when you have an island chain, and the fly-eating birds or whatever on island A can mate with those on B successfully, and those on island C can also mate with those on island B successfully, but those on island A can't successfully mate with those on island C?
The other thing about Occam's razor is that it only tells you that if you can account for something with either ABC or ABCD you should not involve D. If you are trying to compare between ABC and ABDE it is useless.
I've read some speculation that the 1918 pandemic was especially virulent because it started among soldiers at the front. Normally, the sickest people with the flu stay home and the less sick are more likely to go out and infect others, leading to the virus becoming less dangerous over time. Among the soldiers, though, the less sick would stay with their companies, limiting their contagiousness, while the more sick would go to the military hospitals, where they would come into contact with more people, and bring somewhat more virulent varieties into a larger number of people. This then lead (by this hypothesis) to an overall strengthening of the dangerousness of the flu before it spread to many countries outside Europe.
The failure rate for oral birth control tells us that many girls don't either.
This is certainly an interesting line of thought. The only objection I can see is that right now, ICBM and rocket launches are closely monitored by multiple nations as an early warning system in the event of nuclear attack. By outfitting the same ICBM with a conventional warhead, one risks provoking a nuclear response to a conventional assault.
The other good one in the area is the AFI theatre in silver spring.
The SR-71s were certainly noticed by the Soviet's as they were passing through their airspace, and while successful, certainly, they could also have been used to hide the existence of the various spy satellite programs by providing a plausible alternative means by which the US could have gained the information they used at various treaty negotiations. Eisenhower's Corona program began in 1960, years before the blackbird began overflights of the Soviet Union, and was clearly both a gigantic success and a gigantic secret. Setting up a secondary secret program which had telltale signs the Soviet's could pick up on to mask the existence of the primary one seems like a great way to keep the satellite programs a secret both externally and within the US government, where they could also be attributed to the other program when discussing the results with individuals who needed the information but did not need to know about the program itself.
If this were a problem, wouldn't it also affect nooks and other readers that use e-Ink? The displays are all made by the same company, after all.
Um... There was an earthquake centered near Frederick, MD just last year that was around 4.0, as I recall, which is hardly far away.
It really seems like the sort of statement that warrants a full colon.
That's not a scam, that's how mutual funds stick around!
CA might as well give up and become part of Mexico already.
An idea: Since Texas theoretically can secede from the union, then why can't the union secede California?
I think the civil war answered this question pretty clearly.
It's so rough, they put snipers on the roof!
Did you pay any attention when the original poster pointed out that he grew up in a metric country?
I moved from the US to Canada in 2000, and I remember spending a couple minutes converting my weight, height, etc. into metric, because I figured I would need to know it there. Sure enough, once I moved, signs were in metric, but everything was actually spoken of in imperial units, aside from road distances. People ordered half a pound of ham from the deli, were 5'6" or something, etc. This may be a function of where I was (Montreal) but the only people I remember not being comfortable with imperial units were from way out west, often BC or Alberta.
The difference between your example and the issue at hand is that driving on the wrong side of the road is a civil infraction, as opposed to a crime like copyright infringement. The lack of moral standing for the side of the road one drives on is part of why it is considered so lightly, unless harm results. In addition, the rules of the road as a whole are pretty clear, as they can be summarized in a booklet of less than 100 pages with a lot of pretty pictures that every state distributes for free, while a thorough understanding of copyright often requires that one go to court, as fair use is a defense that must be established in court, and is not a clear subject.
Polio is a very interesting case study for this. Prior to the 19th century, debilitating disease and paralyzation from Polio was relatively rare. Polio's disease vector is an oral-fecal route, so with increasing sanitation in the 19th century, children started getting it later. Similar to chicken pox, which tends to be relatively mild as a young child and manifest more strongly as one's age of infection increases, Polio in infants and very young children doesn't cause many problems. The increase in sanitation, however, meant that children would contract it later and later, and instances of severe illness and complications went up as well through the 1950s, until widespread vaccination came into use.
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