And if you live in one of those cities it would seem to me to be your responsibility to pay attention to the roaming indicator on your phone. If you don't want to do that then you can lock your phone in "home only" mode (CDMA) or manually specify the carrier's network (GSM) to keep it from roaming.
No. It is the responsibility of the telco to make sure they charge you correctly. They have chosen to bill based on your physical location. The have chosen to make those towers count as roaming, and have placed them so that they overlap with towers that do not count as roaming for a US citizen. In order to prevent fraudulent charges they should set up any tower that could broadcast into both countries as roaming for neither.
No kidding. I have to wonder if they bothered to look at the number of accidents caused when someone did something stupid. TFA doesn't mention accidents at all.
Agreed! On the other hand, a large number of my non-technical friends and family use Facebook as their primary means of keeping in contact. My solution has been to basically put nothing up that I would not put on a web forum using my real name. I think that is a fair policy.
My trick has been to lay small patches of chicken wire between the plants. Cats hate to step on it and it is easy enough to pick up and move out of the way as needed. Not ideal, but I don't think banning cat ownership is workable...
1) It is my belief, given the relatively small number of reported cases, that we don't know if the H1N1 virus is really killing the obese at higher rates.
2) From personal experience I can state that where BMI would indicate I am obese, I am not. If I had died from H1N1 it would have been chalked up to "it killed an obese person".
3) Thus, until we have a larger population diagnosed with H1N1 we can not necessarily determine that it is actually killing the obese. Granted a 40+ BMI is just about impossible without being obese.
That said, I never claimed I was not overweight. When I reach my target body fat percentage I will be somewhere in the mid-twenties for BMI. I apologize if I gave the impression that I was bragging, I assure you that this is not the case. At 20% body fat, though, I do happily leave the house.:)
I agree that Waste : Hip ratio and body fat percentage are the only other valid measures. If we got a body fat reading at yearly physicals (the same time that BMI is reported) we'd have better individual models.
However, given the low number of people I don't think we have enough of a population with H1N1 yet (though in September we might) to know whether or not the illness is actually killing the obese or if it is killing athletes. Granted it would be difficult as Hell to be in shape and have a BMI of 40+ so perhaps the point is moot.
For example, my bodyfat percentage is 20% but my BMI is 30.3. So apparently I am not a part-time athlete but am instead obese according to the CDC. By their standards the virus might have an increased effect on me, though I am in no way overweight. Once we have a higher population of people with that have been diagnosed statistical outliers like myself should just disappear in the results.
I think most people realize that it is entirely symbolic. Some people just can't help but make fun of others by recasting their traditions on the worst possible light.
I agree that if the game is crap it won't be worth playing on any platform. However, while under a "strict NDA" according to TFS he probably can not give a review out without violating aforementioned NDA.
The same is true for me on the Macbook. I use X from time to time, but for the most part there are native versions of what I use (such as open office). I think GIMP is the one exception, but to be fair I just pulled the binary off of a linux box, I didn't check for a native version.
You are absolutely correct, a judge disliking the defendant has no place in legal proceedings. On the other hand, the blatant disregard of court orders does need to have a deleterious effect on the individual breaking that court order.
In this case the Professor doesn't appear to be obeying a court order. That is not conducive to getting this trial underway and it hurts the defendant since the judge now has to take issue with everything the defendant's lawyer does.
What should happen is that a new judge, impartial to the ongoing trial, weighs in and decides what penalty, if any, is appropriate. That would get us as close to "Vulcans" as we're likely to see.
Good plan. The next time an atheist comes to my door to preach at me I'll just tell them to go away. Oh, wait, that never happens.
On the other hand, evangelical religious folk do come to my door and try to convert me or, as has happened int the past, try to convince neighborhood kids to join their church when they think the parents aren't home.
What it really boils down to is that game designers need to strike a balance between "Oh my God I'm going to die" and ease of game play.
Games like City of Heroes have this done right (we won't discuss the Architect missions). People that want more challenge can go and set their instance difficulty higher, earning more rewards (and more experience) for their troubles. More casual players can set the difficulty lower. Seems to be win-win.
Unfortunately, where games require that players share a broad world at all times this doesn't work out. It may be that outside of non-combat areas each difficulty level should be its own instance, and players go to the difficulty they want when they travel.
That is a really, really good point. BMI is meant to be used as a tool to measure populations, not to be used to measure individuals. Body fat percentage and muscle mass percentages are far better tools to use for yourself to determine if you have a healthy weight or not. Sadly, due to psychological hang-ups a lot of people can't just look into the mirror to make that determination.
However, since this study was done using statistics from a broad portion of the population it is quite likely that not everyone who was "overweight" according to their BMI was an athlete.
This isn't the case, though I do agree about the difference between the attitudes of Conservationists and Environmentalists. I know that it is easier to blame a group with an opposing view, and limiting controlled burns certainly didn't help, but since controlled burns are back in use you can't pin the blame entirely on their lack.
In California we have a major issue with non-native grasses. Every year after a fire we end up with grasses growing in where chaparral plants used to be. They are not from a fire-based ecology as the natives are and they provide the fuel we're seeing now whenever a fire burns. Native plants are slowly being forced out and what replaces them burns very well.
Take a look at any hillside in southern California (as I am right now). You see a lot of mustard and European grasses, but not much in the way of manzanita, bunch grass (now extinct), Mule Fat, etc. Those grasses burn high and bright, and there is little we can do about it other than keep our homes clear, don't build in areas with a high burn risk (developers be damned), and get used to fighting major fires every year.
Couple this with the Pine Borer Beetle in the coastal mountains killing, depending on who you listen to, between 40% and 70% of the pine trees and the new Oak Beetle found in San Diego killing Oak trees and we have a little powder keg just waiting to go off.
But I also think the hatred for it is as silly and vapid as the adoration for the Prius. Both share one overwhelming trait; their greatest value in the eyes of those that drive them is that of being a status symbol, literally a way to telling other drivers "I'm better than you".
So ironically, the eco-weenies that criticize Hummer drivers have much more in common with them than they'd ever like to admit.
I see. So the 45 to 50 MPG that a Prius gets has no value to the owner at all. Truly yours is a dizzying intellect.
While I understand that some people consider cars to be a status symbol that is hardly the only reason to drive a vehicle, let alone an SUV (which some people believe they need for kids or haulage) or a hybrid (which some people believe saves the Earth, but most just don't want to pay for gas).
The truth is more that interfering with nature is fairly futile, and it would be wiser to live in concert with it instead of fighting it all the time. For instance, we have a huge problem with fires in California. The natives just lived in baskets and set them on fire every year; regular fire keeps the forest healthy. The Pomo people lived in this area for at least ten thousand years so obviously they were doing something right.
While you are correct that in California we have a fire-based ecology, you might have missed the reason that our fires are getting worse and worse.
When I was volunteering for the National Forest Service I got a chance to read a study that they had conducted on California's undeveloped acreage and parkland. The invasive European grasses that have supplanted the native chaparral are not fire-resistant and they grow much faster than the native plants do.
So, we've managed to import a bunch of invasive Mediterranean and European plants that are highly flammable and fast growing to a fire-based ecology. Every year the first plants that start growing in the burn areas are the invasive species. They provide the tinder for the next fire season(s).
The study came to the conclusion that unless we can clear in excess of 40 million hectares of land over the next few years we as a State are going to have to get used to this year-round fire season. Frankly, given California's budget history I think that we'd rather spend the money on firefighters than on using our copious prison population to do some gardening.
The new BeBook (yes, I put an affiliate id in there. You can skip my affiliate link, but I would appreciate it if you didn't) that is coming out soon is also rumored to support pen input. I'm an owner of the original BeBook and the current price ($280 US) has been worth it for me. Between it and Baen's free library I have a ton of sci-fi. Files from work are easy enough to convert over for reference during travel, and it handles pdf images pretty well.
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And if you live in one of those cities it would seem to me to be your responsibility to pay attention to the roaming indicator on your phone. If you don't want to do that then you can lock your phone in "home only" mode (CDMA) or manually specify the carrier's network (GSM) to keep it from roaming.
No. It is the responsibility of the telco to make sure they charge you correctly. They have chosen to bill based on your physical location. The have chosen to make those towers count as roaming, and have placed them so that they overlap with towers that do not count as roaming for a US citizen. In order to prevent fraudulent charges they should set up any tower that could broadcast into both countries as roaming for neither.
No kidding. I have to wonder if they bothered to look at the number of accidents caused when someone did something stupid. TFA doesn't mention accidents at all.
Agreed! On the other hand, a large number of my non-technical friends and family use Facebook as their primary means of keeping in contact. My solution has been to basically put nothing up that I would not put on a web forum using my real name. I think that is a fair policy.
Well, that and don't run any apps.
My trick has been to lay small patches of chicken wire between the plants. Cats hate to step on it and it is easy enough to pick up and move out of the way as needed. Not ideal, but I don't think banning cat ownership is workable...
I think you missed the point:
1) It is my belief, given the relatively small number of reported cases, that we don't know if the H1N1 virus is really killing the obese at higher rates.
2) From personal experience I can state that where BMI would indicate I am obese, I am not. If I had died from H1N1 it would have been chalked up to "it killed an obese person".
3) Thus, until we have a larger population diagnosed with H1N1 we can not necessarily determine that it is actually killing the obese. Granted a 40+ BMI is just about impossible without being obese.
That said, I never claimed I was not overweight. When I reach my target body fat percentage I will be somewhere in the mid-twenties for BMI. I apologize if I gave the impression that I was bragging, I assure you that this is not the case. At 20% body fat, though, I do happily leave the house. :)
I agree that Waste : Hip ratio and body fat percentage are the only other valid measures. If we got a body fat reading at yearly physicals (the same time that BMI is reported) we'd have better individual models.
However, given the low number of people I don't think we have enough of a population with H1N1 yet (though in September we might) to know whether or not the illness is actually killing the obese or if it is killing athletes. Granted it would be difficult as Hell to be in shape and have a BMI of 40+ so perhaps the point is moot.
For example, my bodyfat percentage is 20% but my BMI is 30.3. So apparently I am not a part-time athlete but am instead obese according to the CDC. By their standards the virus might have an increased effect on me, though I am in no way overweight. Once we have a higher population of people with that have been diagnosed statistical outliers like myself should just disappear in the results.
I think most people realize that it is entirely symbolic. Some people just can't help but make fun of others by recasting their traditions on the worst possible light.
I'll be doing this tonight. I want something light weight and easy to use for web browsing and email when guests come over or for when I travel.
I agree that if the game is crap it won't be worth playing on any platform. However, while under a "strict NDA" according to TFS he probably can not give a review out without violating aforementioned NDA.
The same is true for me on the Macbook. I use X from time to time, but for the most part there are native versions of what I use (such as open office). I think GIMP is the one exception, but to be fair I just pulled the binary off of a linux box, I didn't check for a native version.
You are absolutely correct, a judge disliking the defendant has no place in legal proceedings. On the other hand, the blatant disregard of court orders does need to have a deleterious effect on the individual breaking that court order.
In this case the Professor doesn't appear to be obeying a court order. That is not conducive to getting this trial underway and it hurts the defendant since the judge now has to take issue with everything the defendant's lawyer does.
What should happen is that a new judge, impartial to the ongoing trial, weighs in and decides what penalty, if any, is appropriate. That would get us as close to "Vulcans" as we're likely to see.
That and he had the bet with Heinlein. Wouldn't want to lose that $50!
Good plan. The next time an atheist comes to my door to preach at me I'll just tell them to go away. Oh, wait, that never happens.
On the other hand, evangelical religious folk do come to my door and try to convert me or, as has happened int the past, try to convince neighborhood kids to join their church when they think the parents aren't home.
What it really boils down to is that game designers need to strike a balance between "Oh my God I'm going to die" and ease of game play.
Games like City of Heroes have this done right (we won't discuss the Architect missions). People that want more challenge can go and set their instance difficulty higher, earning more rewards (and more experience) for their troubles. More casual players can set the difficulty lower. Seems to be win-win.
Unfortunately, where games require that players share a broad world at all times this doesn't work out. It may be that outside of non-combat areas each difficulty level should be its own instance, and players go to the difficulty they want when they travel.
Oh? If this trend continues I look forward to the resurgence of electro-shock therapy.
Good times.
To continue that thought, you can review the body fat percentage scale very readily.
For testing health? Bah. Better test would be to see how long it takes you to get winded screwing at a medium pace.
Is two hours good or bad? I don't have any index to compare the measurement to!
That is a really, really good point. BMI is meant to be used as a tool to measure populations, not to be used to measure individuals. Body fat percentage and muscle mass percentages are far better tools to use for yourself to determine if you have a healthy weight or not. Sadly, due to psychological hang-ups a lot of people can't just look into the mirror to make that determination. However, since this study was done using statistics from a broad portion of the population it is quite likely that not everyone who was "overweight" according to their BMI was an athlete.
This isn't the case, though I do agree about the difference between the attitudes of Conservationists and Environmentalists. I know that it is easier to blame a group with an opposing view, and limiting controlled burns certainly didn't help, but since controlled burns are back in use you can't pin the blame entirely on their lack.
In California we have a major issue with non-native grasses. Every year after a fire we end up with grasses growing in where chaparral plants used to be. They are not from a fire-based ecology as the natives are and they provide the fuel we're seeing now whenever a fire burns. Native plants are slowly being forced out and what replaces them burns very well.
Take a look at any hillside in southern California (as I am right now). You see a lot of mustard and European grasses, but not much in the way of manzanita, bunch grass (now extinct), Mule Fat, etc. Those grasses burn high and bright, and there is little we can do about it other than keep our homes clear, don't build in areas with a high burn risk (developers be damned), and get used to fighting major fires every year.
Couple this with the Pine Borer Beetle in the coastal mountains killing, depending on who you listen to, between 40% and 70% of the pine trees and the new Oak Beetle found in San Diego killing Oak trees and we have a little powder keg just waiting to go off.
But I also think the hatred for it is as silly and vapid as the adoration for the Prius. Both share one overwhelming trait; their greatest value in the eyes of those that drive them is that of being a status symbol, literally a way to telling other drivers "I'm better than you".
So ironically, the eco-weenies that criticize Hummer drivers have much more in common with them than they'd ever like to admit.
I see. So the 45 to 50 MPG that a Prius gets has no value to the owner at all. Truly yours is a dizzying intellect.
While I understand that some people consider cars to be a status symbol that is hardly the only reason to drive a vehicle, let alone an SUV (which some people believe they need for kids or haulage) or a hybrid (which some people believe saves the Earth, but most just don't want to pay for gas).
The truth is more that interfering with nature is fairly futile, and it would be wiser to live in concert with it instead of fighting it all the time. For instance, we have a huge problem with fires in California. The natives just lived in baskets and set them on fire every year; regular fire keeps the forest healthy. The Pomo people lived in this area for at least ten thousand years so obviously they were doing something right.
While you are correct that in California we have a fire-based ecology, you might have missed the reason that our fires are getting worse and worse.
When I was volunteering for the National Forest Service I got a chance to read a study that they had conducted on California's undeveloped acreage and parkland. The invasive European grasses that have supplanted the native chaparral are not fire-resistant and they grow much faster than the native plants do.
So, we've managed to import a bunch of invasive Mediterranean and European plants that are highly flammable and fast growing to a fire-based ecology. Every year the first plants that start growing in the burn areas are the invasive species. They provide the tinder for the next fire season(s).
The study came to the conclusion that unless we can clear in excess of 40 million hectares of land over the next few years we as a State are going to have to get used to this year-round fire season. Frankly, given California's budget history I think that we'd rather spend the money on firefighters than on using our copious prison population to do some gardening.
I forgot to mention, that it is open source to boot. The unit comes with a copy of the GPL3 in ebook format.
You have non-US options.
You can get a Bebook for a lot less. They just dropped the price in anticipation of their new model and they're $70 US cheaper than a Kindle2.
The new BeBook (yes, I put an affiliate id in there. You can skip my affiliate link, but I would appreciate it if you didn't) that is coming out soon is also rumored to support pen input. I'm an owner of the original BeBook and the current price ($280 US) has been worth it for me. Between it and Baen's free library I have a ton of sci-fi. Files from work are easy enough to convert over for reference during travel, and it handles pdf images pretty well.