It's only a matter of time before these start to be used in real crimes. If you want to shut down the ability to call for help quickly this would be a very effective method. There was a time where pay phones where everywhere, but now most if not all have been ripped out in my local area. Land lines are becoming increasingly rare so It'll eventually come to a point where one of these devices would practically grantee no one can communicate with the Police while it's turned on. I don't so much care about someone causing an annoying call to be dropped, but it is the same tech that would help ensure someones getaway.
Yes, C-Sections are in fact linked to Asthma. If you ask your OB or ask your spouse to ask her OB you'll find out. It's common knowledge for the medical community and is one of the reasons some hospitals have made moves to fix the C-Section rates.
Yea the good old days when doctors had a 40% death rate for mother and child during pregnancy because they were too stupid to watch their hands after handling dead bodies. Then used their improved death rate after they figured out how to wash their hands to claim modern medicine was saving lives. Now we have a 30% percent C-Section rate because doctors prescribe them because its after 5 on Friday or the Weekend even though they are aware that C-Sections are linked to Asthma and other respiratory diseases.
Doctors and Scientists demonized midwives as "witches" and worse to give us Puerperal fever. Which caused an extreamly high infant and mother mortality. Which then caused every idiot to believe that before modern medicine was about 40%. Truth is Scientists and Doctors caused it and the actual mortality rate has always been closer to 1 in 100 prior to their incompetence getting injected in. And the 40% rate was caused by Modern Medicine to begin with. Doctors now perscribe C-Sections because it's interfering with their Weekend or their 5 O'clock Golf game. Truth is C-Section are tied to Athma. Wonder why Athma increases whenever a country "modernizes" and moves more to centralized hospital medicine. When you ask a doctor if this medicine given to a mother during labor will cause any problems with the Child long term they say "Sorry but we can't do that due to Ethical testing concerns we cant perform a double blind study to find out". So they are willing to go into the Ethically ambiguous area of not knowing if something is dangerous and rather than find out they use another "Ethics" argument to defend themselves.
What has Pseudoscience given us? Asprin as Willow Bark Tea. Hypnosis as pain management.
What has modern medicine and science given us? Plenty, but demonizing others and blaming your 40% mortality rate on others doesn't help gain you any respect.
That sounds reasonable. At least their site has most of it priced at 6 or less. The Items priced higher then that look to be collections or have bonus material like sound tracks. How a book has a sound track is beyond me.
If that's the signal they dropped out of warp then point our radio observatories at it to see if they broadcast anything else. If they used any form of EM communication we might be able to pick it up if we know where to point the equipment.
So why in the last 700 million years of earth being habitable have they not come by and colonized it? I would think Hawking would be disappointed in them passing up the opportunity.
Actually it's the size and age of the Universe and the large number of stars that is the source of the paradox. In the Milky Way there is what? 200-400 Billion stars? If intelligent life evolves on 1% that is 2 - 4 Billion intelligent life forms. Only if Intelligent Life evolves on somewhere around 5 x 10^-9th of the stars, which would defy the mediocrity principal, would it make sense that we wouldn't find them. Once an Intelligent life form evolves, and assuming that FTL is impossible it should take anywhere from 5 to 50 million years for that civilization to visit every star in the galaxy. Since the Universe is somewhere around 10 billion there have been plenty of time even with the extreamly small chance of life outside of earth evolving that the entire galaxy should have been colonized multiple times by several different life forms, or we are dealing with the odds that Intelligent life evolves at an even lower value putting it somewhere in the area of Unique.
Now you're in the part of the Paradox where you're explaining it by proposing something that defys the mediocrity principle. Yea their might be life forms so far beyond organic and humanoid life, but unless the mediocrity principle is wrong life similar to ours should have evolved as well. So now you're leaving it as Beings so great and powerful we'd only be able to describe them as Gods and the life on Earth. I think I've read this "theory" somewhere before.
Why even use passwords. This is the kind of system that should require a two factor authentication. You shouldn't be able to gain access to an election system unless you actually have the key to the ballot box.
Then we just end up in the other areas of the Paradox like why if they have FTL travel they should have already come here, and there should be clear evidence of it. I'd rather think that this kind of tech gets developed tested and the entire civilization that made it is wiped out by the test flight.
Way back the kind of service Stratfor provides was valuable. Having someone in a foreign country pickup a local paper compile the relevant information then send them out to clients was valuable. The Internet has made this service worthless, but they are probably still used just because ripping them out of the burocracy is difficult. The CIA also got slapped around a bit when it was found out that they had ditched a large portion of "human" intelligence gathering in favor of electronic gathering after 9/11. So, they are probably a bit against just stripping out something worthless that allows them to claim "human" intelligence gathering. WikiLeaks and Anonymous just got tricked by Stratfor's internal Koolaid and Marketing trying to convince their clients that they are valuable. The value Stratfor really has is when a country shuts-down the internet internally, but at that point you really need a real spy since they probably stop the newspapers and other service that Stratfor uses too.
Improved image quality is one thing. I'd rather see it in wide screen, but that's probably not possible even if you go back to the original source footage.
converting current auto fleet from gasoline to ethanol is an amazingly simple process; some new gaskets, rejetting the injectors, and adjusting the timing. Most modern CC, FI vehicles probably wouldn't require anything more than a quick reprogramming.
Depending on when you purchased it that's a waist of a hundred bucks. I might be foolish enough to spend 150 bucks on Steel Battalion because I like the novelty of a huge controller that only works with 1 game and it's sequel. However, to buy the Wii Fit just to wave the controller around is a waist. It's not that fun compared to an actual game where I'd be still waiving the controller around. vidnet's comment about kids being incentivised makes sense to cheat, but to cheat at a game that gives you no awards to brag about makes no sense at all, and is boring as all hell. I understand people who bought it to try and get fit and gave up, but why sit down and wave the stick around?
Thus we are back to my original point. The Java memory switches are for Garbage Collection Management. They are not as you put it so the "System administrators can also partition what any application can do, in case one is rogue". They are there so that you can adjust the GC, and your OS has its own controls to stop an application from going Rogue and taking down your system. Using them as memory limits to prevent an application from going rogue is counter productive to using them to optimize garbage collection.
Jack la Lane is smart about it but eating fish disqualifies you as a vegetarian unless your Asian. For some reason Asians don't believe fish is a meat, I've never understood why.
Primates have binocular vision so they have depth perception so they can jump from tree to tree. Eyes in front is not because we are an evolved predator, but because we evolved from Primates.
Humans are Omnivores for a reason. Meat eaters are healthier then vegetarians because it is overly complex to match the incomplete proteins in plants all the time. If we were intended to eat just vegetables we would have multiple stomachs like cattle do so that we'd be able to get those vitamins and proteins easier. A good number of Primates eat meat as well for the same reason. The Illusion that Vegetarians are "healthier" is because they typically are more "health conscious" and go to the doctor frequently, watch their weight, and all the other hypochondriac things they have to do.
If you use a Credit Card even a prepaid one you're still going to have to connect to their payment system in order to process the transaction. A pain to track, and as long as you haven't used your home PC your safe. Cash is as close to "Anonymous" as you can get and bitcoin has some weird method for processing transactions that attempts to be "Anonymous" but I don't have faith in it. Letting others make the payment is also a risk to me since they could just be waiting for a mark, and they could just rat me out when they end up with legal paperwork. All that is far too complicated or risky just to remain Anonymous.
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It's only a matter of time before these start to be used in real crimes. If you want to shut down the ability to call for help quickly this would be a very effective method. There was a time where pay phones where everywhere, but now most if not all have been ripped out in my local area. Land lines are becoming increasingly rare so It'll eventually come to a point where one of these devices would practically grantee no one can communicate with the Police while it's turned on. I don't so much care about someone causing an annoying call to be dropped, but it is the same tech that would help ensure someones getaway.
Yes, C-Sections are in fact linked to Asthma. If you ask your OB or ask your spouse to ask her OB you'll find out. It's common knowledge for the medical community and is one of the reasons some hospitals have made moves to fix the C-Section rates.
Yea the good old days when doctors had a 40% death rate for mother and child during pregnancy because they were too stupid to watch their hands after handling dead bodies. Then used their improved death rate after they figured out how to wash their hands to claim modern medicine was saving lives. Now we have a 30% percent C-Section rate because doctors prescribe them because its after 5 on Friday or the Weekend even though they are aware that C-Sections are linked to Asthma and other respiratory diseases.
Asprin is just the old folk remedy of Willow Bark Tea purified to just its active ingredient.
What has Pseudoscience given us? Asprin as Willow Bark Tea. Hypnosis as pain management.
What has modern medicine and science given us? Plenty, but demonizing others and blaming your 40% mortality rate on others doesn't help gain you any respect.
That sounds reasonable. At least their site has most of it priced at 6 or less. The Items priced higher then that look to be collections or have bonus material like sound tracks. How a book has a sound track is beyond me.
If that's the signal they dropped out of warp then point our radio observatories at it to see if they broadcast anything else. If they used any form of EM communication we might be able to pick it up if we know where to point the equipment.
So why in the last 700 million years of earth being habitable have they not come by and colonized it? I would think Hawking would be disappointed in them passing up the opportunity.
Actually it's the size and age of the Universe and the large number of stars that is the source of the paradox. In the Milky Way there is what? 200-400 Billion stars? If intelligent life evolves on 1% that is 2 - 4 Billion intelligent life forms. Only if Intelligent Life evolves on somewhere around 5 x 10^-9th of the stars, which would defy the mediocrity principal, would it make sense that we wouldn't find them. Once an Intelligent life form evolves, and assuming that FTL is impossible it should take anywhere from 5 to 50 million years for that civilization to visit every star in the galaxy. Since the Universe is somewhere around 10 billion there have been plenty of time even with the extreamly small chance of life outside of earth evolving that the entire galaxy should have been colonized multiple times by several different life forms, or we are dealing with the odds that Intelligent life evolves at an even lower value putting it somewhere in the area of Unique.
Now you're in the part of the Paradox where you're explaining it by proposing something that defys the mediocrity principle. Yea their might be life forms so far beyond organic and humanoid life, but unless the mediocrity principle is wrong life similar to ours should have evolved as well. So now you're leaving it as Beings so great and powerful we'd only be able to describe them as Gods and the life on Earth. I think I've read this "theory" somewhere before.
Why even use passwords. This is the kind of system that should require a two factor authentication. You shouldn't be able to gain access to an election system unless you actually have the key to the ballot box.
Then we just end up in the other areas of the Paradox like why if they have FTL travel they should have already come here, and there should be clear evidence of it. I'd rather think that this kind of tech gets developed tested and the entire civilization that made it is wiped out by the test flight.
Unless the resulting burst is a Gamma Ray Burst we should already have seen other aliens using this kind of tech.
Way back the kind of service Stratfor provides was valuable. Having someone in a foreign country pickup a local paper compile the relevant information then send them out to clients was valuable. The Internet has made this service worthless, but they are probably still used just because ripping them out of the burocracy is difficult. The CIA also got slapped around a bit when it was found out that they had ditched a large portion of "human" intelligence gathering in favor of electronic gathering after 9/11. So, they are probably a bit against just stripping out something worthless that allows them to claim "human" intelligence gathering. WikiLeaks and Anonymous just got tricked by Stratfor's internal Koolaid and Marketing trying to convince their clients that they are valuable. The value Stratfor really has is when a country shuts-down the internet internally, but at that point you really need a real spy since they probably stop the newspapers and other service that Stratfor uses too.
Improved image quality is one thing. I'd rather see it in wide screen, but that's probably not possible even if you go back to the original source footage.
converting current auto fleet from gasoline to ethanol is an amazingly simple process; some new gaskets, rejetting the injectors, and adjusting the timing. Most modern CC, FI vehicles probably wouldn't require anything more than a quick reprogramming.
So replacing all the rubber seals is simple?
Didn't the EPA come out and say that Fracking can be Safe, but that operators were being careless/taking shortcuts.
Depending on when you purchased it that's a waist of a hundred bucks. I might be foolish enough to spend 150 bucks on Steel Battalion because I like the novelty of a huge controller that only works with 1 game and it's sequel. However, to buy the Wii Fit just to wave the controller around is a waist. It's not that fun compared to an actual game where I'd be still waiving the controller around. vidnet's comment about kids being incentivised makes sense to cheat, but to cheat at a game that gives you no awards to brag about makes no sense at all, and is boring as all hell. I understand people who bought it to try and get fit and gave up, but why sit down and wave the stick around?
Thus we are back to my original point. The Java memory switches are for Garbage Collection Management. They are not as you put it so the "System administrators can also partition what any application can do, in case one is rogue". They are there so that you can adjust the GC, and your OS has its own controls to stop an application from going Rogue and taking down your system. Using them as memory limits to prevent an application from going rogue is counter productive to using them to optimize garbage collection.
What kind of person Cheats at Wii Fit?
Jack la Lane is smart about it but eating fish disqualifies you as a vegetarian unless your Asian. For some reason Asians don't believe fish is a meat, I've never understood why.
Primates have binocular vision so they have depth perception so they can jump from tree to tree. Eyes in front is not because we are an evolved predator, but because we evolved from Primates.
Humans are Omnivores for a reason. Meat eaters are healthier then vegetarians because it is overly complex to match the incomplete proteins in plants all the time. If we were intended to eat just vegetables we would have multiple stomachs like cattle do so that we'd be able to get those vitamins and proteins easier. A good number of Primates eat meat as well for the same reason. The Illusion that Vegetarians are "healthier" is because they typically are more "health conscious" and go to the doctor frequently, watch their weight, and all the other hypochondriac things they have to do.
If you use a Credit Card even a prepaid one you're still going to have to connect to their payment system in order to process the transaction. A pain to track, and as long as you haven't used your home PC your safe. Cash is as close to "Anonymous" as you can get and bitcoin has some weird method for processing transactions that attempts to be "Anonymous" but I don't have faith in it. Letting others make the payment is also a risk to me since they could just be waiting for a mark, and they could just rat me out when they end up with legal paperwork. All that is far too complicated or risky just to remain Anonymous.
I'm shocked myself. I had assumed that it was already dead, and thus MS didn't need to kill anything.