Really. Well, guess what, you do have to follow the rules because the law says so. Don't like it? Work to get the law changed.
Did you ever consider, for example, that you might decide to run a red light, not knowing that a car is about to come through, the driver doesn't know you're there, and has a green?
You enter intersection, smug in your illegal "the rules don't apply to me" attitude, crossing on a red illegally.
Driver, who is unaware of you and has a green and has every expectation that he/she will pass through unimpeded and therefore does not slow down, enters intersection.
Result: Smear on road, bike parts everywhere, a red splotch, and a dent on the grille of the car that will now be paid for by you because the accident was your fault. And a cop giving you a ticket that you now have to pay for in addition to your medical bills.
They do when they illegally ignore traffic control devices. I've had a bicyclist cut me off while I was making a legal left turn at a stoplight. I'd stopped, looked, started to make my turn. I was partway through doing so when a bicyclist coming in the opposite direction down the road I was turning from blew the stop sign and cut me off -- if I hadn't slammed my brakes on, I would have knocked her off her bike and under my car.
Hopefully also smashing the cell phone she had glued to her ear WHILE RIDING A BIKE IN AN ILLEGAL MANNER.
See, where I live bikes are subject to all traffic laws just like cars are. That includes traffic lights and stop/yield signs.
If that ever happens to me again I'm going to be on the phone with the police reporting an unsafe driver.
Excuse me? Who's the one who's sitting here saying "you should" do this "you should" do that, calling people assholes when they don't bend down to what someone else wants.
Did you ever think of the fact that there are multiple lanes in the road so that *GASP* THEY CAN BE USED TO CARRY TRAFFIC?
Did you ever think about the fact that those speed limit signs don't say "speed limit X in right lane only"? No. They apply to all lanes.
Stop whining when people don't bend down to yours, or anyone else's, desire to do anything illegal. Stop whining when people don't bend down to you when they don't want to. If I am driving along above or at the minimum (if any) and at or below the maximum, YOU are not the "fucking cops" either. Shut up, sit down, drive, and don't you even think about ramming me or forcing me to ram you. I can and will call the police and give your description, car make, model, and color, and license number to them.
And you might likely get served with a civil lawsuit, too.
You do not seem like you are fit to drive. Get the hell off the road before your superiority complex gets someone killed.
We generally aren't that bad around here although was it by any chance a large blue beat up conversion van from the 80s? That guy did the same thing to me, and when I brake checked him (lightly) he started actively trying to run me off the road. (I'd left my cell phone at home by mistake that day, too). I sped up to 100+ to escape, and HE FOLLOWED ME. I should have darted off on one of those 45mph-TOPS exits I was coming up on, using the sport abilities of the car I was in, and watched him roll over trying to follow.
I'm not sure if that is road rage or not, although I'm pretty sure it's aggressive behavior (in general; not road rage specifically) and I'm also pretty sure that brandishing a gun without a reason to do so (i.e. life not in danger) is illegal.
The BF2 no-cd works for me (though it's a little unstable). I'm a legitimate owner so I don't have CD key problems, and I can keep my disks on the shelf where they belong. I'm a heavy weekend user (I'm in a small group of friends and we have our own Allied Intent Xtended server). So far so good -- with one note, see below.
However, two people in our group can't play outside our VPN-restricted game because if they try they get a "CD key in use" error EVERY TIME. They have never given their keys out and their purchase is mostly worthless (it's not much of a single player game) outside our small group of friends. I suggested they contact EA. EA, naturally, did nothing. EA is content to let its customers get cheated and keep their money for a useless product.
As for our server: as far as I know we aren't using Punkbuster. The instability I see is sudden drop to desktop with no warning.
You forgot astronomers. Observations are routinely recorded in Universal Time.
Ramble:
The metric system may not be widely accepted among the general public in the US, but scientists use it, and so do many manufacturers and government agencies are supposed to as well. The standardized systems are there; the general public just refuses to use them, and signage/label makers aren't exactly helping things along.
I like to drive people nuts by routinely using metric measurements and 24-hour time; I've had people scratch their heads at my car's dashboard because it gives time in those weird military units and happily will tell you the outside temperature in Celsius. (Thank you, VW, for leaving the worldwide preference menus in the US version of the GTI!). Soon I plan to acclimatize myself to metric fuel consumption readings; which is the standard used outside the US? I have several choices, such as km/L or L/100 km. Which one should I select?
I got used to the metric system by just using it. Surely, the rest of us can do the same. It really is easier using base-10 instead of the crazy and arcane system that's "standard" here. I've already long since given up on weights and volumes when at the grocery store and just look at the metric equivalent on the label.
I got "XML file malformed" and got it through another link. The wrong way to greet people who try to help you establish a record is to have your site cough up nothing but excuses after a long while of thinking up what reason you'll get for why you can't get the file).
I think they'll get a record all right: a record number of people giving up and never coming back because they heard about this great browser but couldn't get it.
What exactly is Mozilla DOING with all the money Google gives it? Google doesn't go down when they update something.
It worked for me, although I went for en-GB since I prefer British English. (You can re-set the locale to en-US in the prefs file to stop sites from thinking you want UK-based searches, and remove the UK-based search engines that might be installed).
I tried a dozen times to help Mozilla get another download for its record, but their site just didn't want to let me in. If you want people to help you, don't shut them out!
Sorry, Mozilla. It looks like you didn't really need that official "clicked through some fancy button" download, since you didn't make sure I could see it.
That I don't know, as for me I only see it when I should, but you're not the only one to say it shows up all the time. Sorry. I hope someone else knows!
Now they produce complete open source software for all platforms (except codecs) and still, they get hit instead of the ultimate privacy invaders like Google.
What? You willingly typed your search query in, you willingly signed up to use their email service, you willingly allowed them to place cookies on your computer, clicked their ads, etc. etc. etc. Google can't get any info about you unless you give it some.
That is nowhere near the same thing as media players that phone home on you, when you expect them to just play your movie.
And you don't have to have all that crap in your system tray if you don't want it to be there. You can always not install it there in the first place and/or remove it yourself.
Antibiotics are already illegal without a prescription. What needs to be done isn't to make them illegal -- they do still have uses when used properly -- doctors need to be trained on when to prescribe. Antibiotics do nothing against viruses -- if a doctor is prescribing an antibiotic for a viral infection, he or she needs to be retrained, or even to find another sort of job/practice -- there's no excuse for not knowing something that basic, and no excuse for ignoring the fact if they do know it, because like you say, using antibiotics needlessly leads to things like MRSA.
Actually, my insurance company is protecting me from the unconscionable prices charged on these drugs. And, if you come here with any regularity you know how broken the patent system is. Generic drugs protect those of us (like me) who cannot spend hundreds of dollars per month on drugs needed to treat basic conditions.
Lower the prices in the US and raise them in other countries that can share more of the burden -- and fix the broken patent system.
Sometimes, "parasites" give the host some sort of benefit. That's symbiosis.
Generics lower costs for insurance companies, patients, and society at large (for instance, government programs pay for insurance for some, hence we all pay for those medications through our taxes).
And yet, if you live in Canada or elsewhere you get the same drug for far less. We're being ripped off by drug makers that game our crappy health care system. But thanks for trying.
In what way? Never had a problem with any of mine. Currently loving a 2007 GTI.
Features? I'll admit I'd like to see some of the engine choices make their way over here, but VW has gotten a lot better about letting us have some of the stuff that used to be Europe-only. Navigation, for example.
Now, if they would bring the Polo -- now's the time for a sub-Golf-sized car that gets the fuel economy to match.
The Director of the National Institutes of Health shall require that all investigators funded by the NIH submit... to the National Library of Medicine's PubMed Central... to be made publicly available no later than 12 months after the official date of publication...
Fortunately, the Public Library of Science is picking up speed nicely. My boss has had work published there already and as a supporter of open access, I'm happy about that.
You said that "Most academic research is paid for by taxpayers in some way. And yet, taxpayers are not permitted to read the fruits of this research without paying for it. As a matter of law any publication arising from public grants should be in the public domain."
This isn't true anymore, at least for NIH-funded research. Research published using NIH grants must now be available to the public via PubMedCentral. It does not require immediate full acces, but it must happen no less than one year after publication.
Science and Nature have a particular target "audience" and have a particular sort of subject they look for. They publish a wide range of research on a wide range of subjects, more so than, say, the Journal of Cell Biology -- JCB is a very "high impact" journal and is very important to cell biologists. But a paper appropriate for publication in Science may not be for JCB.
We hear about Science and Nature a lot because of their high "impact factor" and because the research they publish is often understandable by the general public (for instance, the paper a few years ago about preserved soft tissue in a T-rex specimen) -- that doesn't mean other very important journals are out there. But who, other than a subset of a particular discipline, would be interested in a paper about how a particular poxvirus fools cells' garbage-collection mechanisms to get where it "wants" to be?
Dad is a physicist (really high-level stuff). He works and outputs in LaTeX.
I work in a biomedical research lab and all I see all day is (ick) Word.
You wind up using the format that is already accepted in your field, or no one can read your documents. However, LaTeX is well-suited to writing mathematical formulae, and the fields that use LaTeX more deal far more heavily in hard formulas and numbers than life and social sciences do, so of course researchers in that field are going to use a format that allows them to publish their work. Life science uses a lot of imaging, and it's easy to attach JPEG or TIF format (most journals ask for TIF, at least those we've published in) to your Word document and to place a caption under the image.
When you submit the paper, you submit the figures separately from the text, and when the journal's editors/preparers are finished with it, what you get back is a bunch of hard copy reprints, for you to give out to friends and colleagues, and what shows up online is in PDF format and looks just like the rest of the papers published in that issue, using standard format the journal uses for the type of paper you've published.
My dad's a physicist, and he DOES write all his papers in LaTeX on his own (and started in a text editor, so he knows his stuff) but it's not necessary. Journals have typesetters/preparers whose job it is to take your rough proof (which is nearly always a Word file in biomedical journals, in my experience) and turn it into a finished, polished piece ready for publication. At times I can tell what app was used to create a document, and much of the time it's FrameMaker or similar, which most individuals aren't going to use -- most individuals make PDFs with Acrobat or features like the "save to PDF" feature in MacOS.
I do however have a recent document, not a journal article, that has the file name stamped at the bottom of each page. From the extension, I can tell that it was created in InDesign.
Text imported into InDesign can be in plain text format or, I believe -- it's been awhile since I've used InDesign, although I have done so in the past -- Word format.
So, in other words, people like my dad, who is the real live manifestation of your hypothetical researcher, are rare. I don't know if the time period in which one grew up would have any effect on the likelihood of being like him, but if it helps, he's in the 75-80 age range.
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Did you add "of the" ?
Really. Well, guess what, you do have to follow the rules because the law says so. Don't like it? Work to get the law changed.
Did you ever consider, for example, that you might decide to run a red light, not knowing that a car is about to come through, the driver doesn't know you're there, and has a green?
You enter intersection, smug in your illegal "the rules don't apply to me" attitude, crossing on a red illegally.
Driver, who is unaware of you and has a green and has every expectation that he/she will pass through unimpeded and therefore does not slow down, enters intersection.
Result: Smear on road, bike parts everywhere, a red splotch, and a dent on the grille of the car that will now be paid for by you because the accident was your fault. And a cop giving you a ticket that you now have to pay for in addition to your medical bills.
Still feeling so smug and untouchable?
Get off the road before you get yourself killed.
Whoops, I meant to say that I was making a legal left at a stop SIGN, not a stoplight. It doesn't matter that much, I know...
They do when they illegally ignore traffic control devices. I've had a bicyclist cut me off while I was making a legal left turn at a stoplight. I'd stopped, looked, started to make my turn. I was partway through doing so when a bicyclist coming in the opposite direction down the road I was turning from blew the stop sign and cut me off -- if I hadn't slammed my brakes on, I would have knocked her off her bike and under my car.
Hopefully also smashing the cell phone she had glued to her ear WHILE RIDING A BIKE IN AN ILLEGAL MANNER.
See, where I live bikes are subject to all traffic laws just like cars are. That includes traffic lights and stop/yield signs.
If that ever happens to me again I'm going to be on the phone with the police reporting an unsafe driver.
Excuse me? Who's the one who's sitting here saying "you should" do this "you should" do that, calling people assholes when they don't bend down to what someone else wants.
Did you ever think of the fact that there are multiple lanes in the road so that *GASP* THEY CAN BE USED TO CARRY TRAFFIC?
Did you ever think about the fact that those speed limit signs don't say "speed limit X in right lane only"? No. They apply to all lanes.
Stop whining when people don't bend down to yours, or anyone else's, desire to do anything illegal. Stop whining when people don't bend down to you when they don't want to. If I am driving along above or at the minimum (if any) and at or below the maximum, YOU are not the "fucking cops" either. Shut up, sit down, drive, and don't you even think about ramming me or forcing me to ram you. I can and will call the police and give your description, car make, model, and color, and license number to them.
And you might likely get served with a civil lawsuit, too.
You do not seem like you are fit to drive. Get the hell off the road before your superiority complex gets someone killed.
Who the hell do you think you are to decide who should be where?
Oh, right, one of those pricks who thinks everyone should bow to your will.
Maybe you shouldn't be driving.
We generally aren't that bad around here although was it by any chance a large blue beat up conversion van from the 80s? That guy did the same thing to me, and when I brake checked him (lightly) he started actively trying to run me off the road. (I'd left my cell phone at home by mistake that day, too). I sped up to 100+ to escape, and HE FOLLOWED ME. I should have darted off on one of those 45mph-TOPS exits I was coming up on, using the sport abilities of the car I was in, and watched him roll over trying to follow.
I'm not sure if that is road rage or not, although I'm pretty sure it's aggressive behavior (in general; not road rage specifically) and I'm also pretty sure that brandishing a gun without a reason to do so (i.e. life not in danger) is illegal.
The BF2 no-cd works for me (though it's a little unstable). I'm a legitimate owner so I don't have CD key problems, and I can keep my disks on the shelf where they belong. I'm a heavy weekend user (I'm in a small group of friends and we have our own Allied Intent Xtended server). So far so good -- with one note, see below.
However, two people in our group can't play outside our VPN-restricted game because if they try they get a "CD key in use" error EVERY TIME. They have never given their keys out and their purchase is mostly worthless (it's not much of a single player game) outside our small group of friends. I suggested they contact EA. EA, naturally, did nothing. EA is content to let its customers get cheated and keep their money for a useless product.
As for our server: as far as I know we aren't using Punkbuster. The instability I see is sudden drop to desktop with no warning.
You forgot astronomers. Observations are routinely recorded in Universal Time.
Ramble:
The metric system may not be widely accepted among the general public in the US, but scientists use it, and so do many manufacturers and government agencies are supposed to as well. The standardized systems are there; the general public just refuses to use them, and signage/label makers aren't exactly helping things along.
I like to drive people nuts by routinely using metric measurements and 24-hour time; I've had people scratch their heads at my car's dashboard because it gives time in those weird military units and happily will tell you the outside temperature in Celsius. (Thank you, VW, for leaving the worldwide preference menus in the US version of the GTI!). Soon I plan to acclimatize myself to metric fuel consumption readings; which is the standard used outside the US? I have several choices, such as km/L or L/100 km. Which one should I select?
I got used to the metric system by just using it. Surely, the rest of us can do the same. It really is easier using base-10 instead of the crazy and arcane system that's "standard" here. I've already long since given up on weights and volumes when at the grocery store and just look at the metric equivalent on the label.
I got "XML file malformed" and got it through another link. The wrong way to greet people who try to help you establish a record is to have your site cough up nothing but excuses after a long while of thinking up what reason you'll get for why you can't get the file).
I think they'll get a record all right: a record number of people giving up and never coming back because they heard about this great browser but couldn't get it.
What exactly is Mozilla DOING with all the money Google gives it? Google doesn't go down when they update something.
It worked for me, although I went for en-GB since I prefer British English. (You can re-set the locale to en-US in the prefs file to stop sites from thinking you want UK-based searches, and remove the UK-based search engines that might be installed).
I tried a dozen times to help Mozilla get another download for its record, but their site just didn't want to let me in. If you want people to help you, don't shut them out!
Sorry, Mozilla. It looks like you didn't really need that official "clicked through some fancy button" download, since you didn't make sure I could see it.
That I don't know, as for me I only see it when I should, but you're not the only one to say it shows up all the time. Sorry. I hope someone else knows!
There is such a thing for Macs. I would be quite surprised if no one's written such a thing for Windows/Linux.
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What? You willingly typed your search query in, you willingly signed up to use their email service, you willingly allowed them to place cookies on your computer, clicked their ads, etc. etc. etc. Google can't get any info about you unless you give it some.
That is nowhere near the same thing as media players that phone home on you, when you expect them to just play your movie.
And you don't have to have all that crap in your system tray if you don't want it to be there. You can always not install it there in the first place and/or remove it yourself.
Antibiotics are already illegal without a prescription. What needs to be done isn't to make them illegal -- they do still have uses when used properly -- doctors need to be trained on when to prescribe. Antibiotics do nothing against viruses -- if a doctor is prescribing an antibiotic for a viral infection, he or she needs to be retrained, or even to find another sort of job/practice -- there's no excuse for not knowing something that basic, and no excuse for ignoring the fact if they do know it, because like you say, using antibiotics needlessly leads to things like MRSA.
Actually, my insurance company is protecting me from the unconscionable prices charged on these drugs. And, if you come here with any regularity you know how broken the patent system is. Generic drugs protect those of us (like me) who cannot spend hundreds of dollars per month on drugs needed to treat basic conditions.
Lower the prices in the US and raise them in other countries that can share more of the burden -- and fix the broken patent system.
Sometimes, "parasites" give the host some sort of benefit. That's symbiosis.
Generics lower costs for insurance companies, patients, and society at large (for instance, government programs pay for insurance for some, hence we all pay for those medications through our taxes).
They're not parasites. They're symbionts.
And yet, if you live in Canada or elsewhere you get the same drug for far less. We're being ripped off by drug makers that game our crappy health care system. But thanks for trying.
In what way? Never had a problem with any of mine. Currently loving a 2007 GTI.
Features? I'll admit I'd like to see some of the engine choices make their way over here, but VW has gotten a lot better about letting us have some of the stuff that used to be Europe-only. Navigation, for example.
Now, if they would bring the Polo -- now's the time for a sub-Golf-sized car that gets the fuel economy to match.
You got the idea right, but the wrong date.
... to the National Library of Medicine's PubMed Central ... to be made publicly available no later than 12 months after the official date of publication ...
NOT-OD-08-033: Revised Policy on Enhancing Public Access to Archived Publications Resulting from NIH-Funded Research
The Director of the National Institutes of Health shall require that all investigators funded by the NIH submit
Fortunately, the Public Library of Science is picking up speed nicely. My boss has had work published there already and as a supporter of open access, I'm happy about that.
You said that "Most academic research is paid for by taxpayers in some way. And yet, taxpayers are not permitted to read the fruits of this research without paying for it. As a matter of law any publication arising from public grants should be in the public domain."
This isn't true anymore, at least for NIH-funded research. Research published using NIH grants must now be available to the public via PubMedCentral. It does not require immediate full acces, but it must happen no less than one year after publication.
NOT-OD-08-033: Revised Policy on Enhancing Public Access to Archived Publications Resulting from NIH-Funded Research
I don't believe the same is true for physical sciences yet. I should ask my dad, who's a DoE-funded researcher.
Science and Nature have a particular target "audience" and have a particular sort of subject they look for. They publish a wide range of research on a wide range of subjects, more so than, say, the Journal of Cell Biology -- JCB is a very "high impact" journal and is very important to cell biologists. But a paper appropriate for publication in Science may not be for JCB.
We hear about Science and Nature a lot because of their high "impact factor" and because the research they publish is often understandable by the general public (for instance, the paper a few years ago about preserved soft tissue in a T-rex specimen) -- that doesn't mean other very important journals are out there. But who, other than a subset of a particular discipline, would be interested in a paper about how a particular poxvirus fools cells' garbage-collection mechanisms to get where it "wants" to be?
Yup.
Dad is a physicist (really high-level stuff). He works and outputs in LaTeX.
I work in a biomedical research lab and all I see all day is (ick) Word.
You wind up using the format that is already accepted in your field, or no one can read your documents. However, LaTeX is well-suited to writing mathematical formulae, and the fields that use LaTeX more deal far more heavily in hard formulas and numbers than life and social sciences do, so of course researchers in that field are going to use a format that allows them to publish their work. Life science uses a lot of imaging, and it's easy to attach JPEG or TIF format (most journals ask for TIF, at least those we've published in) to your Word document and to place a caption under the image.
When you submit the paper, you submit the figures separately from the text, and when the journal's editors/preparers are finished with it, what you get back is a bunch of hard copy reprints, for you to give out to friends and colleagues, and what shows up online is in PDF format and looks just like the rest of the papers published in that issue, using standard format the journal uses for the type of paper you've published.
My dad's a physicist, and he DOES write all his papers in LaTeX on his own (and started in a text editor, so he knows his stuff) but it's not necessary. Journals have typesetters/preparers whose job it is to take your rough proof (which is nearly always a Word file in biomedical journals, in my experience) and turn it into a finished, polished piece ready for publication. At times I can tell what app was used to create a document, and much of the time it's FrameMaker or similar, which most individuals aren't going to use -- most individuals make PDFs with Acrobat or features like the "save to PDF" feature in MacOS.
I do however have a recent document, not a journal article, that has the file name stamped at the bottom of each page. From the extension, I can tell that it was created in InDesign.
Text imported into InDesign can be in plain text format or, I believe -- it's been awhile since I've used InDesign, although I have done so in the past -- Word format.
So, in other words, people like my dad, who is the real live manifestation of your hypothetical researcher, are rare. I don't know if the time period in which one grew up would have any effect on the likelihood of being like him, but if it helps, he's in the 75-80 age range.