It's honestly like you guys are determined to kill yourselves in the most expensive, controversial way possible. May I humbly recommend the Hutchins/Carradine route instead. It's a lot more pleasant and leaves a lot less mess.
Except that it runs the risk of giving the cleaning crew a coronary...
Apple made their ijunk devices, but for them to try and dictate what language or development package you use to create your apps is not a right that Apple has. It is little different than a car manufacturer trying to tell you which brand of gas you can use on your car.
If that needs any more explanation, it is a very long conversation where a variety of things have to be explained to you, and I don't have that kind of patience.
You don't read the science news stuff very often (or ever), do you... NASA has definitely found water on Mars already. They also found a number of minerals in the rocks that can only form in water, as far as we know. True, that as far as we know bit means it could be something else, but let's stick with known laws until we have evidence of something else before jumping of the cliff labeled "It's got to be caused by an unknown means". Don't forget Occam's Razor. (Especially when the alternative is trying to choose between Known Science and Baseless Denials.)
Does this mean the dust & sand thing is wrong? Not really, but it doesn't mean that water is out either. Funny thing about places that change environments, their primary methods of erosion change as well. Just look at Egypt over the past 30,000 years as a small example.
also, people don't much like 'private industry' doing it either. Why, for instance, do you think so many people use tools in their computers to block or delete tracking cookies, prevent personal information going out, etc. It's easy, they don't want anyone to get that info without them specifically and knowingly giving it to them, and they probably won't even do that for most of the creeps that want it.
Have you ever needed to get physical therapy to overcome the results of an injury?
Guess what, a lot of modern stuff they use costs thousands of dollars and is less effective than playing that Wii. Most of the rest of the stuff is like something out of a chrome torture chamber. It's a very good idea to use a Wii for this, it's inexpensive in the extreme, and it's effective for certain things.
Please note: You aren't a doctor or therapist, don't even try to set up a 'therapy' regime for yourself.
Of course the insurance doesn't want to pay, they don't want to pay for anything, they even have a department whose main purpose is to not pay.
My roomie keeps threatening to reduce expenses by killing the cable TV. Sometimes I think it annoys him when I reply with, "Fine by me.". After all, I may have the TV on, but I watch almost none of it, certainly nothing I can't get from the internet, especially the stuff from other countries.
Buying something cheap in one place and shipping it to someplace else where you sell it for a profit, even if you have to price it less than the other people at that second location is and has been a mainstay of trade and commerce for at least 6,000 years.
And no, you don't get to say squat about it if you sell it to this guy for one price, and he sells it somewhere else for another. The fact that you sell in both locations (but at different prices), thus making this scenario a possibility is your own fault. The only thing you can do is sell the same product for the same price in all locations. If you don't like it, get out of the market.
There's that, and an extraordinarily small sample size. Not to mention the sheep were supposedly all in good health, unlike possible human victims. As far as a medical study goes to prove or disprove reports of complications in field conditions with actual humans, it's a worthless piece of shit. (And I'm being nice about it.) It's obviously propaganda as opposed to credible science.
Not to sound like a tinfoil hat wearer, but do you think funding of the study by the Taser company and it being done by stockholders in the same company might have something to do with it?
On April 1st a newspaper (which was probably printed the prior day or night, and obviously written before that point) had a story that the town was being invaded by giant aliens. There is a nearby military base. Nobody could see anything wrong, hear any explosions, see any smoke columns, or any other signs of problems. Not one person was running through the streets in charred rags yelling about an apocalypse. There were no radio, TV, or phone reports from any government agency or even media coverage of this. Nobody had called to police to report this. (Maybe to ask about it, but not report it.) There weren't any armored vehicles rushing to the site. You're at ground zero, and it's a nice quiet day. No attempts were made to contact governmental authorities of any kind for verification. No one questioned that the newspaper (which has such a huge lag time between event and distribution) had a story that near instant media didn't.
So what do these morons do? Assume it's real and hide/waste police resources... Again, MORONS !!! (I'm directing most of this at the mayor, since he had the most capability to speak with authorities, and should be using his head for something other than a hat rack.)
At least when HG Wells did it, some people missed the part of the broadcast calling it a play, and it was over one of the "instant media" source, aka radio. Not to mention, phone systems at that time were far less capable than they are now and the landing had supposedly taken place in a rural area in the early parts of the broadcast. By the way, the original broadcast was recorded and archived, it's really cool to listen to. I had a tape of it when I was a kid. (Actually I think it was several tapes, but it was a long time ago)
Next up, Scrabble Phoneme Edition. If you can make the sound, it's in! Phhhhtttt gets recognized as valid, though you'll have to use blank tiles to spell it...
Since the people patenting genes aren't creating them, even by accident, I've never understood how they could possible claim a patent on them. (Or copyright, or trademark.)
Now if it was a man made gene sequence, that would be another story, but even then, I'd say copyright the new gene you made, and maybe patent the process if it's new.
As to the Rx companies that whine "we can't make new drugs if we don't have a patent on the gene", well, how do I put this lightly... You are so full of sh## it's unbelievable! You patent the new drug you greedy lying morons!
The active ingredient that makes that pepper so hot is Capsaicin, the same stuff in pepper spray.
Is it actually cheaper for them to use the local grown pepper with a variable yield than just using the pure substance with a controlled yield?
The article says they want to use it for troops in cold areas. This scares me. It heavily implies that some moron in charge has no understanding of science. Just because it tastes hot doesn't mean it'll help avoid hypothermia in the slightest. (In fact, they are more likely to succumb to hypothermia if they try to 'reduce' the 'heat' from those peppers by taking off clothes or drinking cold liquids or sucking snow.)
I'm going to throw out a guess that this isn't about the effectiveness of the pepper, but rather a homegrown movement to use a local product (in an inferior form) rather than a possibly foreign product. Sometimes the politicians in India are know to do stupid things like that. Come to think of it, sometimes US politicians do the same thing... (Buy American! Even if it's a piece of crap that costs three times as much as the one made in Canada, or where-ever.)
One last thing, don't forget that exposure to high doses of Capsaicin can seriously mess you up, and in some extreme cases, kill. (For example, gassing someone who has asthma.)
Government (and bureaucracies) tendency to not fix anything like that until they have to. Public outcry over the situation is one way to increase the 'have to' value. Also, keeping problems secret has always been a major dodge for not having to deal with an issue.
Salt (more specifically sodium chloride) is needed for your continuing good health. It's the same with iodine and many many other things. What do they all have in common?
Take too much and it will mess you up.
I've seen people get sick from taking too many vitamins. Is he going to ban those as well. People have died from drinking too much water, guess he'll ban water also. And don't forget food. That most heinous of delectables, eat too much and you'll get obese, and we know what obesity does to your health, better ban that too...
To put it simply, Mister Ortiz, you are a very dangerous imbecile that needs to learn about basic nutrition and sciences. Until then, keep you unhealthy and absurd ideas to yourself.
all projects have a point of diminishing returns. The key to limiting, or exasperating this problem is good or bad project management. Of course, if the 'project' is a large series of little projects that don't have dependency on each other, you can greatly increase personnel easily, such as the people in this argument. They didn't really bust the myth, rather they used a situation where they didn't exceed the number of optimal personnel.
All it takes to bypass all the security in the world is one mistake by one person one time. (I've seen it happen more than I can count, and that's a pretty big number.)
I didn't mind it when the ads were banner ads or sidebars. I didn't mind when the showed up between articles. Some of the animated ones were ok.
But the moment they got annoying, they had to go. Popups are pure evile, popunders, even more so. Ads with jarring animations or ads with bright distractions prevented enjoyment of the page and had to be killed. Scripted ads that followed my mouse or stayed on screen at all times needed to be destroyed. Ads with sound also had to be annihilated and silenced. Those in the middle of articles needed to be (re)moved.
The advertisers started this war, and the websites may be in the crossfire of lost revenues, but there is no way in hell I'm going to give in to those evil marketing weasels. Down them all and let the DNS server sort them out!
The moral of this story is that when you let someone tromp all over you and your readers/customers, you don't deserve to have the internet anymore...
So what you're saying is you'll punish a business or organization that is being harassed for whistleblowing because a non-regulated bank (by activity if not labeling) has cut them off from it's services for questionable and possibly collusional activity with the corporation that was the focus of whistleblowing of possible illegal and probably underhanded activities.
Do you advocate the raping of females that wear short skirts also?
I can't remember what software it was, but I remember running across it in the late 90s, possibly as late as 2002. And although it was a different way to get people to try the software before buying, nobody liked it.
I wonder if Sony listed it in their prior art section. (If they did, I don't see how it could ever get approved, as it's essentially saying "we exactly duplicated a function some else already made and published, so give us sole rights to something that we don't have anything to do with cause we're greedy"...)
Really wish I could remember what the name(s) was/were.
I know you are just trying to make a joke, but please try to hit above 2nd grade science.
The sky is dark everywhere that doesn't have sufficient atmosphere and light to create the light scattering effect (don't remember proper name) that makes our daytime sky look blue. It's a similar effect to a prism splitting light into it's separate spectrum, but a little more complicate with nitrogen absorption and a few other things. You ever wonder why the daytime sky seems to change color when the sun gets to an extreme relative angle? (i.e. sunset)
Go for bamboo, it's a grass, just really big and strong grass. If you're lucky, it might attract weekend Wuxia events.
(If you don't know what Wuxia is, either check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuxia or any of those martial arts flicks with impossible action, one example would be Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. Basically almost any Wire Fu movie would do. )
That's not going to happen, most of them are too stupid to understand basic things like that which were taught in high school gov class. (Or whatever they call it today.) They don't understand grade school science either...
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It's honestly like you guys are determined to kill yourselves in the most expensive, controversial way possible. May I humbly recommend the Hutchins/Carradine route instead. It's a lot more pleasant and leaves a lot less mess.
Except that it runs the risk of giving the cleaning crew a coronary...
Apple made their ijunk devices, but for them to try and dictate what language or development package you use to create your apps is not a right that Apple has.
It is little different than a car manufacturer trying to tell you which brand of gas you can use on your car.
If that needs any more explanation, it is a very long conversation where a variety of things have to be explained to you, and I don't have that kind of patience.
You don't read the science news stuff very often (or ever), do you...
NASA has definitely found water on Mars already.
They also found a number of minerals in the rocks that can only form in water, as far as we know.
True, that as far as we know bit means it could be something else, but let's stick with known laws until we have evidence of something else before jumping of the cliff labeled "It's got to be caused by an unknown means". Don't forget Occam's Razor. (Especially when the alternative is trying to choose between Known Science and Baseless Denials.)
Does this mean the dust & sand thing is wrong? Not really, but it doesn't mean that water is out either. Funny thing about places that change environments, their primary methods of erosion change as well. Just look at Egypt over the past 30,000 years as a small example.
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also, people don't much like 'private industry' doing it either. Why, for instance, do you think so many people use tools in their computers to block or delete tracking cookies, prevent personal information going out, etc. It's easy, they don't want anyone to get that info without them specifically and knowingly giving it to them, and they probably won't even do that for most of the creeps that want it.
Have you ever needed to get physical therapy to overcome the results of an injury?
Guess what, a lot of modern stuff they use costs thousands of dollars and is less effective than playing that Wii.
Most of the rest of the stuff is like something out of a chrome torture chamber.
It's a very good idea to use a Wii for this, it's inexpensive in the extreme, and it's effective for certain things.
Please note: You aren't a doctor or therapist, don't even try to set up a 'therapy' regime for yourself.
Of course the insurance doesn't want to pay, they don't want to pay for anything, they even have a department whose main purpose is to not pay.
My roomie keeps threatening to reduce expenses by killing the cable TV.
Sometimes I think it annoys him when I reply with, "Fine by me.".
After all, I may have the TV on, but I watch almost none of it, certainly nothing I can't get from the internet, especially the stuff from other countries.
Buying something cheap in one place and shipping it to someplace else where you sell it for a profit, even if you have to price it less than the other people at that second location is and has been a mainstay of trade and commerce for at least 6,000 years.
And no, you don't get to say squat about it if you sell it to this guy for one price, and he sells it somewhere else for another. The fact that you sell in both locations (but at different prices), thus making this scenario a possibility is your own fault. The only thing you can do is sell the same product for the same price in all locations. If you don't like it, get out of the market.
Better a D&D reference than another of the endless Harry Potter ones...
There's that, and an extraordinarily small sample size. Not to mention the sheep were supposedly all in good health, unlike possible human victims.
As far as a medical study goes to prove or disprove reports of complications in field conditions with actual humans, it's a worthless piece of shit. (And I'm being nice about it.)
It's obviously propaganda as opposed to credible science.
Not to sound like a tinfoil hat wearer, but do you think funding of the study by the Taser company and it being done by stockholders in the same company might have something to do with it?
Ok, let's see if I've got this right.
On April 1st a newspaper (which was probably printed the prior day or night, and obviously written before that point) had a story that the town was being invaded by giant aliens.
There is a nearby military base.
Nobody could see anything wrong, hear any explosions, see any smoke columns, or any other signs of problems.
Not one person was running through the streets in charred rags yelling about an apocalypse.
There were no radio, TV, or phone reports from any government agency or even media coverage of this.
Nobody had called to police to report this. (Maybe to ask about it, but not report it.)
There weren't any armored vehicles rushing to the site.
You're at ground zero, and it's a nice quiet day.
No attempts were made to contact governmental authorities of any kind for verification.
No one questioned that the newspaper (which has such a huge lag time between event and distribution) had a story that near instant media didn't.
So what do these morons do? Assume it's real and hide/waste police resources... Again, MORONS !!!
(I'm directing most of this at the mayor, since he had the most capability to speak with authorities, and should be using his head for something other than a hat rack.)
At least when HG Wells did it, some people missed the part of the broadcast calling it a play, and it was over one of the "instant media" source, aka radio. Not to mention, phone systems at that time were far less capable than they are now and the landing had supposedly taken place in a rural area in the early parts of the broadcast.
By the way, the original broadcast was recorded and archived, it's really cool to listen to. I had a tape of it when I was a kid. (Actually I think it was several tapes, but it was a long time ago)
It's a word, why can't I use it?
Next up, Scrabble Phoneme Edition. If you can make the sound, it's in! Phhhhtttt gets recognized as valid, though you'll have to use blank tiles to spell it...
Since the people patenting genes aren't creating them, even by accident, I've never understood how they could possible claim a patent on them. (Or copyright, or trademark.)
Now if it was a man made gene sequence, that would be another story, but even then, I'd say copyright the new gene you made, and maybe patent the process if it's new.
As to the Rx companies that whine "we can't make new drugs if we don't have a patent on the gene", well, how do I put this lightly...
You are so full of sh## it's unbelievable! You patent the new drug you greedy lying morons!
Ok, I'll end this rant for now.
The active ingredient that makes that pepper so hot is Capsaicin, the same stuff in pepper spray.
Is it actually cheaper for them to use the local grown pepper with a variable yield than just using the pure substance with a controlled yield?
The article says they want to use it for troops in cold areas. This scares me. It heavily implies that some moron in charge has no understanding of science. Just because it tastes hot doesn't mean it'll help avoid hypothermia in the slightest. (In fact, they are more likely to succumb to hypothermia if they try to 'reduce' the 'heat' from those peppers by taking off clothes or drinking cold liquids or sucking snow.)
I'm going to throw out a guess that this isn't about the effectiveness of the pepper, but rather a homegrown movement to use a local product (in an inferior form) rather than a possibly foreign product. Sometimes the politicians in India are know to do stupid things like that.
Come to think of it, sometimes US politicians do the same thing...
(Buy American! Even if it's a piece of crap that costs three times as much as the one made in Canada, or where-ever.)
One last thing, don't forget that exposure to high doses of Capsaicin can seriously mess you up, and in some extreme cases, kill.
(For example, gassing someone who has asthma.)
it does, who do you think the pirates kidnapped, a native? >^_^<
Government (and bureaucracies) tendency to not fix anything like that until they have to.
Public outcry over the situation is one way to increase the 'have to' value.
Also, keeping problems secret has always been a major dodge for not having to deal with an issue.
Salt (more specifically sodium chloride) is needed for your continuing good health.
It's the same with iodine and many many other things.
What do they all have in common?
Take too much and it will mess you up.
I've seen people get sick from taking too many vitamins. Is he going to ban those as well.
People have died from drinking too much water, guess he'll ban water also.
And don't forget food. That most heinous of delectables, eat too much and you'll get obese, and we know what obesity does to your health, better ban that too...
To put it simply, Mister Ortiz, you are a very dangerous imbecile that needs to learn about basic nutrition and sciences. Until then, keep you unhealthy and absurd ideas to yourself.
all projects have a point of diminishing returns.
The key to limiting, or exasperating this problem is good or bad project management.
Of course, if the 'project' is a large series of little projects that don't have dependency on each other, you can greatly increase personnel easily, such as the people in this argument.
They didn't really bust the myth, rather they used a situation where they didn't exceed the number of optimal personnel.
I've always liked Atomic Batteries, can run your space probe for 20 years and my junk usually doesn't survive 10...
All it takes to bypass all the security in the world is one mistake by one person one time.
(I've seen it happen more than I can count, and that's a pretty big number.)
I didn't mind it when the ads were banner ads or sidebars.
I didn't mind when the showed up between articles.
Some of the animated ones were ok.
But the moment they got annoying, they had to go.
Popups are pure evile, popunders, even more so.
Ads with jarring animations or ads with bright distractions prevented enjoyment of the page and had to be killed.
Scripted ads that followed my mouse or stayed on screen at all times needed to be destroyed.
Ads with sound also had to be annihilated and silenced.
Those in the middle of articles needed to be (re)moved.
The advertisers started this war, and the websites may be in the crossfire of lost revenues, but there is no way in hell I'm going to give in to those evil marketing weasels.
Down them all and let the DNS server sort them out!
The moral of this story is that when you let someone tromp all over you and your readers/customers, you don't deserve to have the internet anymore...
So what you're saying is you'll punish a business or organization that is being harassed for whistleblowing because a non-regulated bank (by activity if not labeling) has cut them off from it's services for questionable and possibly collusional activity with the corporation that was the focus of whistleblowing of possible illegal and probably underhanded activities.
Do you advocate the raping of females that wear short skirts also?
I can't remember what software it was, but I remember running across it in the late 90s, possibly as late as 2002.
And although it was a different way to get people to try the software before buying, nobody liked it.
I wonder if Sony listed it in their prior art section.
(If they did, I don't see how it could ever get approved, as it's essentially saying "we exactly duplicated a function some else already made and published, so give us sole rights to something that we don't have anything to do with cause we're greedy"...)
Really wish I could remember what the name(s) was/were.
I know you are just trying to make a joke, but please try to hit above 2nd grade science.
The sky is dark everywhere that doesn't have sufficient atmosphere and light to create the light scattering effect (don't remember proper name) that makes our daytime sky look blue. It's a similar effect to a prism splitting light into it's separate spectrum, but a little more complicate with nitrogen absorption and a few other things. You ever wonder why the daytime sky seems to change color when the sun gets to an extreme relative angle? (i.e. sunset)
Go for bamboo, it's a grass, just really big and strong grass.
If you're lucky, it might attract weekend Wuxia events.
(If you don't know what Wuxia is, either check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuxia or any of those martial arts flicks with impossible action, one example would be Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. Basically almost any Wire Fu movie would do. )
That's not going to happen, most of them are too stupid to understand basic things like that which were taught in high school gov class.
(Or whatever they call it today.)
They don't understand grade school science either...