Logical fallacy. Pray tell, how is the United States most free? Capitalism came from Europe. Progressive is one of the most abused terms. All it means is an advocate for change/reform.
You need to learn your history, and please take a remedial reading class.
CCM's reputation is irrelevant to what did happen. I never said Daimler bought Chrysler to ruin it. When daimler came to the realization that the acquistian was a bad idea and they needed to divorce themselves from Chrysler, their plan was to sell the pieces, as pieces would fetch more money than the whole.
Chrysler was saved by CCM. Daimler was the one that wanted to break apart the company and sell the peices. CCM was serious about reinvigoratinig Chrysler, that is why the lured Jim Press away from Toyota. Chrysler's problem was its recovery coincided with the worldwide recession. At that point, CCM had nowhere to go.
That is not going to help when they collect your DNA. In California, they must collect your DNA if you are an adult and have been arrested for a felony. It goes into the state's DNA bank, where they keep it forever and share it with the feds. The law allows people to have their DNA profile removed from the database and destroyed if they have been found innocent or released without charges; it is not an automatic procedure, it requires the person to initiate a lengthy process leading to a court order.
http://ag.ca.gov/bfs/pdf/69IB_121508.pdf If the adult is arrested for a crime that could be charged as a felony or misdemeanor (i.e., it is a wobbler offense), the arrest is considered to be a felony arrest for the purposes of determining qualification for collection under Penal Code section 296.
"When your DNA is taken after an arrest at a political demonstration, it can have a silencing effect on political action," said Haskell. "Now my genetic information is stored indefinitely in a government database, simply because I was exercising my right to speak out."
Stop it. They are called rumor and lies. Owned up to it, you are responsible for spreading them. On your comment about about not seeing a need for a sevrer OS, please find some other line of work. I am sick and tired of incompetent people such as yoruself working in this field. It didn't used to be this way. Fom the 90s onward, aeery Tom, Dick, and Harry thicks they are an expert.
Just look at your statement:
As a result, SunOS will no longer be accessible as it use to be, causing it trouble in winning government contracts. I say good riddance... SunOS was cool, but with Oracle in charge, it's time to move on to greener pastures.
You have no clue what you are talking about. Are you 12? Does your daddy know you are using his account?
Check the Asian, White, and African American boxes next time. Every American is an African American based on the definition of having ancestry from Sub-Saharan Africa (as that region is the origin of the human species).
I cannot remember if Negro came before Colored. Soon followed by Black. That went out of style and we now have African American. It used to mean Americans that were descended from African slaves but folks like Obama would not qualify. Now it means Amercans that can trace their acenstry to Sub-Saharan Africa. Using that definition, every American is African American. Absolute craziness.
That is your problem, not mine. There is nothing wrong with the word oriental. The idea that it is a slur has happened within my lifetime. What is most odd is my Oriental friends, that live in the Orient, do not think of it as a slur. I often hear in the States that Oriental is seen as a way to denigate people from the Far East because it ignores unique cultures. Well, Asian is worse in that regard. Look at map, look at how many countries are on that continent. Political correctness run amok.
The real Motorola is the radio business (car radios, walkie-talkies, base stations, repeaters, etc). The company's first product was a car radio (hence the name Motorola) and they invented the walkie-talkie under a contract with the U.S. War Department. They only got into the semiconductor business to supply their own needs, and did not start producing products for others until 40 years after its founding.
You do not understand the database market. Oracle's competition includes products such as SQL Server, DB2, etc. What would be classified as enterprise level, where companies have large and critical data needs. MySQL is not in the same ballpark.
The President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology recently submitted its report to the president in which they stated that this influenza season might kill 30-90,000 people in the US. This forecast of the upcoming season caught the media's attention and appears to have stoked the public interest in influenza. We have had many requests for more information about influenza here at SBM, and so in this post I am going to discuss the basics of influenza and try to put the current pandemic and upcoming season in perspective.
I find it is best to start at the beginning.
What Is Influenza?
Within the public sphere, "The flu" has become shorthand for "I feel like crap." I suspect that this is part of the reason why some people think the influenza vaccine doesn't work. Medically speaking, however, influenza is a very specific family of viruses that cause a reasonably narrow set of problems for humans.
The influenza season in the Northern hemisphere usually runs from October through May, with a peak mid-February. Every season in the US between 5-20% of the US population is infected by influenza, and while the majority of people recover well from an influenza infection, not everyone will. Annually 200,000 people are hospitalized, and on average 36,000 will die either from influenza or its complications.
The classic influenza infection incubates for 1-4 days after exposure. Its onset is rapid, with most people experiencing high fever, headache, muscle aches, dry cough, sore throat, and nasal congestion. Gastro-intestinal symptoms like nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea are less common. Symptoms last from several days to almost two weeks, and a person is contagious from one day before symptoms begin to more than a week after symptom onset.
There are many strains of influenza. The current seasonal influenza is made up of three different influenza subtypes: A(H3N2), A(H1N1), and B. Don't confuse the seasonal A(H1N1) strain with the current pandemic 2009 A(H1N1); they are distinct. I will refer to them as A(H1N1) for the seasonal strain, and 2009 (H1N1) for the pandemic "swine flu" strain. Influenza B is less common, less virulent, has a slower mutation rate, and is thus a lesser risk; the rest of this discussion is focused on Influenza A.
How Does Influenza Spread?
Influenza has two dominant modes of transmission: droplet and contact transmission. Droplet means that when someone coughs or sneezes, extremely fine (and sometimes not-so-fine) droplets are aerosolized into the air around them. If these droplets come in contact with your nose, mouth, throat, or lungs, it is possible for you to become infected by the viruses in those droplets.
The second way influenza can be spread is either through direct contact or through an intermediate like a doorknob, known as a "fomite." The virus can survive for minutes to days depending on the surface, and if you touch that surface then your mouth or nose, again, it is possible that you can become infected. Influenza does not appear to be capable of spreading long distances through the air (across large rooms or through air vents).
How Does Influenza Change?
Influenza A is a versatile virus with many distinct serotypes. Most people are familiar with human, bird, and swine influenza, but influenza is in fact able to infect a large number of avian and mammalian species on the planet. It is important to realize that these viruses are not, despite their name, truly species specific. Random mutations and natural selection frequently create new strains of influenza capable of infecting other species; in its ability to mutate influenza is unparalleled.
Influenza is an RNA virus encoded by just 11 genes on 8 separate RNA segments. With only 11 genes, you can see that influenza is a relatively simple virus. But its simplicity is one of the most significant reasons for its succe
It is not about economics, it is about terror. The biggest bang for the buck would be maiming and killing young children. If they targeted schools instead of airplanes, it would be far easier and have a larger emotional impact.
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Take a remedial English class, you confuse the word progressive with the word Democrat.
can't see any other reason for collection of this data.
I will give two reason, bigotry and biology. Run off and do some reasearch.
A true Progressive wants
Logical fallacy. Pray tell, how is the United States most free? Capitalism came from Europe. Progressive is one of the most abused terms. All it means is an advocate for change/reform.
The Census has asked about race since 1850. American is not considered a race by biologists.
No where in the Constitution does it state that the government can do whatever it wants as long as it serves some nebulous "government purpose.".
There is over 100 years of case law that says otherwise. I recommend to stop commenting on a subject you know little to nothing about.
You need to learn your history, and please take a remedial reading class.
CCM's reputation is irrelevant to what did happen. I never said Daimler bought Chrysler to ruin it. When daimler came to the realization that the acquistian was a bad idea and they needed to divorce themselves from Chrysler, their plan was to sell the pieces, as pieces would fetch more money than the whole.
Chrysler was saved by CCM. Daimler was the one that wanted to break apart the company and sell the peices. CCM was serious about reinvigoratinig Chrysler, that is why the lured Jim Press away from Toyota. Chrysler's problem was its recovery coincided with the worldwide recession. At that point, CCM had nowhere to go.
Chrysler who bought Mercedes
It was Daimler-Benz that bought Chrysler.
Moore's law is about transistor density, not computing power.
That is not going to help when they collect your DNA. In California, they must collect your DNA if you are an adult and have been arrested for a felony. It goes into the state's DNA bank, where they keep it forever and share it with the feds. The law allows people to have their DNA profile removed from the database and destroyed if they have been found innocent or released without charges; it is not an automatic procedure, it requires the person to initiate a lengthy process leading to a court order.
http://ag.ca.gov/bfs/pdf/69IB_121508.pdf
If the adult is arrested for a crime that could be charged as a felony or misdemeanor (i.e., it is a wobbler offense), the arrest is considered to be a felony arrest for the purposes of determining qualification for collection under Penal Code section 296.
http://www.aclu.org/technology-and-liberty/aclu-lawsuit-challenges-california-s-mandatory-dna-collection-arrest
In March 2009, Lily Haskell attended a peace rally in San Francisco and was arrested. She was not charged with a crime and was quickly released, but not before being required to provide a DNA sample.
"When your DNA is taken after an arrest at a political demonstration, it can have a silencing effect on political action," said Haskell. "Now my genetic information is stored indefinitely in a government database, simply because I was exercising my right to speak out."
Gee, I feel the same way about Linux
Stop it. They are called rumor and lies. Owned up to it, you are responsible for spreading them. On your comment about about not seeing a need for a sevrer OS, please find some other line of work. I am sick and tired of incompetent people such as yoruself working in this field. It didn't used to be this way. Fom the 90s onward, aeery Tom, Dick, and Harry thicks they are an expert.
Just look at your statement:
As a result, SunOS will no longer be accessible as it use to be, causing it trouble in winning government contracts. I say good riddance... SunOS was cool, but with Oracle in charge, it's time to move on to greener pastures.
You have no clue what you are talking about. Are you 12? Does your daddy know you are using his account?
Accessibility guru? The best and the brightest for Solaris represent the kernel folks. How much more accessible can a command line be?
Check the Asian, White, and African American boxes next time. Every American is an African American based on the definition of having ancestry from Sub-Saharan Africa (as that region is the origin of the human species).
I cannot remember if Negro came before Colored. Soon followed by Black. That went out of style and we now have African American. It used to mean Americans that were descended from African slaves but folks like Obama would not qualify. Now it means Amercans that can trace their acenstry to Sub-Saharan Africa. Using that definition, every American is African American. Absolute craziness.
That is your problem, not mine. There is nothing wrong with the word oriental. The idea that it is a slur has happened within my lifetime. What is most odd is my Oriental friends, that live in the Orient, do not think of it as a slur. I often hear in the States that Oriental is seen as a way to denigate people from the Far East because it ignores unique cultures. Well, Asian is worse in that regard. Look at map, look at how many countries are on that continent. Political correctness run amok.
Indians are Asian. I think you mean Orientals and Indians.
The real Motorola is the radio business (car radios, walkie-talkies, base stations, repeaters, etc). The company's first product was a car radio (hence the name Motorola) and they invented the walkie-talkie under a contract with the U.S. War Department. They only got into the semiconductor business to supply their own needs, and did not start producing products for others until 40 years after its founding.
You do not understand the database market. Oracle's competition includes products such as SQL Server, DB2, etc. What would be classified as enterprise level, where companies have large and critical data needs. MySQL is not in the same ballpark.
The same is true of MySQL.
You are out of your depth. Go back and play with your medical devices, leave infectous disease to the professionals.
http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=1229
An Influenza Primer
The President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology recently submitted its report to the president in which they stated that this influenza season might kill 30-90,000 people in the US. This forecast of the upcoming season caught the media's attention and appears to have stoked the public interest in influenza. We have had many requests for more information about influenza here at SBM, and so in this post I am going to discuss the basics of influenza and try to put the current pandemic and upcoming season in perspective.
I find it is best to start at the beginning.
What Is Influenza?
Within the public sphere, "The flu" has become shorthand for "I feel like crap." I suspect that this is part of the reason why some people think the influenza vaccine doesn't work. Medically speaking, however, influenza is a very specific family of viruses that cause a reasonably narrow set of problems for humans.
The influenza season in the Northern hemisphere usually runs from October through May, with a peak mid-February. Every season in the US between 5-20% of the US population is infected by influenza, and while the majority of people recover well from an influenza infection, not everyone will. Annually 200,000 people are hospitalized, and on average 36,000 will die either from influenza or its complications.
The classic influenza infection incubates for 1-4 days after exposure. Its onset is rapid, with most people experiencing high fever, headache, muscle aches, dry cough, sore throat, and nasal congestion. Gastro-intestinal symptoms like nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea are less common. Symptoms last from several days to almost two weeks, and a person is contagious from one day before symptoms begin to more than a week after symptom onset.
There are many strains of influenza. The current seasonal influenza is made up of three different influenza subtypes: A(H3N2), A(H1N1), and B. Don't confuse the seasonal A(H1N1) strain with the current pandemic 2009 A(H1N1); they are distinct. I will refer to them as A(H1N1) for the seasonal strain, and 2009 (H1N1) for the pandemic "swine flu" strain. Influenza B is less common, less virulent, has a slower mutation rate, and is thus a lesser risk; the rest of this discussion is focused on Influenza A.
How Does Influenza Spread?
Influenza has two dominant modes of transmission: droplet and contact transmission. Droplet means that when someone coughs or sneezes, extremely fine (and sometimes not-so-fine) droplets are aerosolized into the air around them. If these droplets come in contact with your nose, mouth, throat, or lungs, it is possible for you to become infected by the viruses in those droplets.
The second way influenza can be spread is either through direct contact or through an intermediate like a doorknob, known as a "fomite." The virus can survive for minutes to days depending on the surface, and if you touch that surface then your mouth or nose, again, it is possible that you can become infected. Influenza does not appear to be capable of spreading long distances through the air (across large rooms or through air vents).
How Does Influenza Change?
Influenza A is a versatile virus with many distinct serotypes. Most people are familiar with human, bird, and swine influenza, but influenza is in fact able to infect a large number of avian and mammalian species on the planet. It is important to realize that these viruses are not, despite their name, truly species specific. Random mutations and natural selection frequently create new strains of influenza capable of infecting other species; in its ability to mutate influenza is unparalleled.
Influenza is an RNA virus encoded by just 11 genes on 8 separate RNA segments. With only 11 genes, you can see that influenza is a relatively simple virus. But its simplicity is one of the most significant reasons for its succe
It is not about economics, it is about terror. The biggest bang for the buck would be maiming and killing young children. If they targeted schools instead of airplanes, it would be far easier and have a larger emotional impact.
People with mental illness far worse are transported all the time. For the most servere cases, medication and restraints are used.
I did not ask that prior question because you answered it in a later comment. My question would have been, what law school did you gaduate from?
I don't recall stating an opinion on any legal issues recently. Are you confusing me with someone else?
Do you have short term memory problem?
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