"During weeks 12 to 25, total deaths in 119 U.S. cities increased from 148,395 (2010) to 155,015 (2011), or 4.46 percent. This was nearly double the 2.34 percent rise in total deaths (142,006 to 145,324) in 104 cities for the prior 14 weeks, significant at p 0.000001 (Table 2). This difference between actual and expected changes of +2.12 percentage points (+4.46% – 2.34%) translates to 3,286 “excess” deaths (155,015 × 0.0212) nationwide. Assuming a total of 2,450,000 U.S. deaths will occur in 2011 (47,115 per week), then 23.5 percent of deaths are reported (155,015/14 = 11,073, or 23.5% of 47,115). Dividing 3,286 by 23.5 percent yields a projected 13,983 excess U.S. deaths in weeks 12 to 25 of 2011."
I would expect an article to be ignored when the authors pull numbers out of their ass like this.
Whoever upvoted your post needs to be more skeptical. First of all, they just give a number without stating over what period of time. Secondly, the total deaths aren't stated so for all we know the death increase could be statistically insignificant. Third, fallout doesn't kill you like that. You don't just keel over and die; you get cancer that later kills you. Lastly, the "mostly among infants" claim shows that this is pure FUD.
I'm not surprised your 10 year old switches still work. I'm a member of a team doing network hardware upgrades for my uni and I've been pulling out plenty of gear of that age or older.
The High School that I went to had something like this. I never had to take it however because I was in the magnet program and they shoehorned the test into the first week of the intro CS course.
In the case of the fax machines, they probably were used internally by their manufacturer, then their manufacturer may have subsidized them for business contacts etc.
I know for a fact that Ma Bell did a similar thing for phone service; if you worked for them you got free phone service for life. Because of this my grandparents still don't pay anything for their service.
How would these be determined? I'm a little ill-informed about how bitcoin gets converted into "real" money so it seems to me that BitInstant can fiddle with these all it wants in order to maximize its profits.
Wow those kinder eggs are considered illegal contraband? When I was younger my dad would bring back one for me and each of my siblings each time he traveled to europe for work.
I've seen someone walk through security with a nearly full bottle of iced tea. He had forgotten he had it on him and the screeners never even caught it.
But then you have to take into account that we are hardwired to be communal creatures. We can never have true liberty because our biology pushes us to fit in with others. As history has shown groupthink is very dangerous and stupid. Government will always be needed because we are not rational beings. The whole reason people want the latest iShiny isn't because they have researched all the options and know that it is the best; it's that everyone is getting it.
Defaulting to self regulation imo is as bad as defaulting to government regulation.
I am currently working on a very large project to replace hundreds of switches on my campus. Naturally part of this involves finding them first and sometimes it can be challenging because the building has no sane numbering system. Of course, the easy method would be to simply look at the plans, but nobody in the entire network operations group has access to them. The reason: 9/11.
Oh I know that nobody needs a 2880x1800 screen (myself included) and that most people are just fine with 1366x768. It's just that I have a laptop with a 1366x768 screen and I do real work on it and it's far too cramped. I make do with it because it's what I've got but if I had room in my budget for something with a screen resolution bigger than 1366x768 I'd buy it.
Yet the government tries to do that and "libertarians" cry foul.
Libertarianism is based upon a false premise; it assumes humans are fully informed rational beings. The reality is that we are never fully informed which forces us to rely on irrational things like emotions.
According to my grandpa (who was part of the postwar "cleanup crew" in korea), they weren't even allowed to sell the stuff to the locals. It all had to be destroyed.
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So what will happen if NK truly opens themselves up to the internet (not like China) and gives its citizens unfettered access?
The illusion will be shattered for the citizens of NK, they will begin to demand more from their government and openess will come.
From the video it seems that they were rifle rounds, not birdshot.
So I found the ignored article and I was none to surprised to find that there was some incredible extrapolation.
link: http://www.radiation.org/reading/pubs/HS42_1F.pdf
"During weeks 12 to 25, total deaths in 119 U.S. cities increased from 148,395
(2010) to 155,015 (2011), or 4.46 percent. This was nearly double the 2.34 percent
rise in total deaths (142,006 to 145,324) in 104 cities for the prior 14 weeks,
significant at p 0.000001 (Table 2). This difference between actual and expected
changes of +2.12 percentage points (+4.46% – 2.34%) translates to 3,286 “excess”
deaths (155,015 × 0.0212) nationwide. Assuming a total of 2,450,000 U.S. deaths
will occur in 2011 (47,115 per week), then 23.5 percent of deaths are reported
(155,015/14 = 11,073, or 23.5% of 47,115). Dividing 3,286 by 23.5 percent
yields a projected 13,983 excess U.S. deaths in weeks 12 to 25 of 2011."
I would expect an article to be ignored when the authors pull numbers out of their ass like this.
Whoever upvoted your post needs to be more skeptical. First of all, they just give a number without stating over what period of time. Secondly, the total deaths aren't stated so for all we know the death increase could be statistically insignificant. Third, fallout doesn't kill you like that. You don't just keel over and die; you get cancer that later kills you. Lastly, the "mostly among infants" claim shows that this is pure FUD.
Oh and correlation != causation.
I'm not surprised your 10 year old switches still work. I'm a member of a team doing network hardware upgrades for my uni and I've been pulling out plenty of gear of that age or older.
The High School that I went to had something like this. I never had to take it however because I was in the magnet program and they shoehorned the test into the first week of the intro CS course.
Poe's law may also apply here.
Well you're quite the loon.
In the case of the fax machines, they probably were used internally by their manufacturer, then their manufacturer may have subsidized them for business contacts etc.
I know for a fact that Ma Bell did a similar thing for phone service; if you worked for them you got free phone service for life. Because of this my grandparents still don't pay anything for their service.
How would these be determined? I'm a little ill-informed about how bitcoin gets converted into "real" money so it seems to me that BitInstant can fiddle with these all it wants in order to maximize its profits.
Get to a stage where you can send out self-replicating robots to collect and process asteroids for you.
I'll pass on the self-replicating robots; we all know what happens next.
I remember 4.2; I wouldn't consider it as ready for prime time.
We all know that's nothing but an urban legend.
Wow those kinder eggs are considered illegal contraband? When I was younger my dad would bring back one for me and each of my siblings each time he traveled to europe for work.
Makes me feel proud of the US Border Patrol.
I think it looks more like a Reliant Robin.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b4WzWFKQ20
I've seen someone walk through security with a nearly full bottle of iced tea. He had forgotten he had it on him and the screeners never even caught it.
$30 a month isn't affordable?
But then you have to take into account that we are hardwired to be communal creatures. We can never have true liberty because our biology pushes us to fit in with others. As history has shown groupthink is very dangerous and stupid. Government will always be needed because we are not rational beings. The whole reason people want the latest iShiny isn't because they have researched all the options and know that it is the best; it's that everyone is getting it.
Defaulting to self regulation imo is as bad as defaulting to government regulation.
It's public so I'm assuming that it has more to do with inane government regulations than someone actually thinking.
I am currently working on a very large project to replace hundreds of switches on my campus. Naturally part of this involves finding them first and sometimes it can be challenging because the building has no sane numbering system. Of course, the easy method would be to simply look at the plans, but nobody in the entire network operations group has access to them. The reason: 9/11.
Oh I know that nobody needs a 2880x1800 screen (myself included) and that most people are just fine with 1366x768. It's just that I have a laptop with a 1366x768 screen and I do real work on it and it's far too cramped. I make do with it because it's what I've got but if I had room in my budget for something with a screen resolution bigger than 1366x768 I'd buy it.
A laptop with a screen like that isn't designed for real work.
Yet the government tries to do that and "libertarians" cry foul.
Libertarianism is based upon a false premise; it assumes humans are fully informed rational beings. The reality is that we are never fully informed which forces us to rely on irrational things like emotions.
According to my grandpa (who was part of the postwar "cleanup crew" in korea), they weren't even allowed to sell the stuff to the locals. It all had to be destroyed.
I have no idea if this story is true, but reportedly old Cadillacs contained a couple hundred pounds of lead weights just to make the ride smoother.