*I* am not the government. Individual information only needs to be disclosed when the individual is acting on behalf of the government. That's what we're talking about here, Captain Overly Literal Interpretation.
A democracy only works if the system is transparent.
Just because they're reusable doesn't mean they're reusable forever. It wouldn't surprise me if by "reusable" they mean "we can launch them about four or five times before they wear out, with a lot of maintenance in between. Assuming they don't come back down on a granite mountain or something."
Back in the 70s, they spent a hell of a lot of time twaddling with the rockets before launching them.
To be fair, 2 each of Soyuz and shuttle missions have ended up killing their crewmembers. That NASA had 7 crewmembers on each of those flights vs. 3 and 1 on the Soyuz flights just means that the U.S. gambled more astronauts on each roll of the dice, not that they're less reliable statistically.
I would assume they probably have upwards of a thousand little fiddly bits like sensors in each rocket...in which case, installing a single one wrong seems to be pretty damn good. Well, other than the fact that it caused the whole rocket to fail, I mean...
Thanks for the explanation. This is the latest in a string of articles where there is some argument that is "intuitively obvious" that nobody bothers to actually explain.
while Democrats have always kissed and bent over for Unions it appears Republicans are starting to do the same
Don't tell Governor Walker from my state (Wisconsin) that. After taking away union bargaining rights and surviving a subsequent recall attempt, supposedly some people want him to run for president or something. He was practically the Republican golden boy for awhile from the sounds of it.
That's me being an idiot and posting before reading the whole thing again. Dammit.
Okay, so the passenger might like some form of guarantee that they won't promptly be killed in traffic, but in case of accident the damage of all other parties are covered, yes? So the only difference between taxi insurance and normal car insurance is the passenger being insured specially?
Why would driving a taxi require a different license than your regular bog-standard license? Or, for that matter, why would you need different insurance? Collision insurance same as anything.
And if you say "because they're taxis"...no. Just no.
Two men that lose their virginity to each other are essentially a zero risk, but equally banned as if they go having sex with anybody that will say yes.
Admittedly.
Although actually, you can contract HIV through childbirth if your mother has it, so there's still a nonzero chance if you don't know the health of the mother. Or blood transfusions etc. The chance is only zero for the specific vector of sexual transmission.
Maybe it's just because I'm not a statistics person so I'm not sufficiently screwy in the head, but I don't see how (picking one person from the population with a known percentage chance) is any different from (having a single person from the same population in front of you with the same chance).
Like I said, questioning the rationale and methodology for the lines being drawn is a different issue. It sounds like you're saying "numbers don't work the way you think they do," which may be true.
Two men that lose their virginity to each other are essentially a zero risk, but equally banned as if they go having sex with anybody that will say yes.
Admittedly.
You can't seriously suggest that a woman having unprotected anal sex with an HIV infected man in exchange for drugs is really a lower risk than a typical gay man?
Give me the odds and I'll let you know. I have a college degree; I think I can manage multiplication.
Without treatment, average survival time after infection with HIV is estimated to be 9 to 11 years, depending on the HIV subtype.[4] After the diagnosis of AIDS, if treatment is not available, survival ranges between 6 and 19 months.[147][148] HAART and appropriate prevention of opportunistic infections reduces the death rate by 80%, and raises the life expectancy for a newly diagnosed young adult to 20–50 years.[146][149][150] This is between two thirds[149] and nearly that of the general population.[15][151] If treatment is started late in the infection, prognosis is not as good:[15] for example, if treatment is begun following the diagnosis of AIDS, life expectancy is ~10–40 years.[15][146] Half of infants born with HIV die before two years of age without treatment.[132]
(That is why you should smack anyone who gives you facts in percentages)
The total numbers don't help when you've got two people sitting in front of you, one with an established 20% chance of having it, and one with a 30% chance. You can lecture all you want about discrimination, but it doesn't change the fact that the second person is more of a risk.
Whether it's *too much risk* is another question. So is donation procedure (pre or post test, etc.). Don't complain when the facts don't back you up.
My favorite part was the first time I donated, when they gave me a flyer patting me on the back for it, which included a story about some guy who had needed 12 pints of blood transfused to pull through. 12 pints!
According to their commercials, that same amount of blood could have saved up to 36 people who *weren't* spraying blood like a firehose. This is why we have a blood shortage! Priorities, people!
Pale Moon is forked Firefox without the UI fuckage. You can't like Firefox and not like Pale Moon. In which case, why are you even posting in this discussion?
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Third party voting is failing for the same reason
Because not enough people are doing it.
When both sides are spewing propaganda, it's a matter of trust. Which both sides by definition do not really deserve.
*I* am not the government. Individual information only needs to be disclosed when the individual is acting on behalf of the government. That's what we're talking about here, Captain Overly Literal Interpretation.
A democracy only works if the system is transparent.
Tom Baker and Colin Baker, respectively (Fourth and Sixth).
You would want to attract Reavers because...?
Just because they're reusable doesn't mean they're reusable forever. It wouldn't surprise me if by "reusable" they mean "we can launch them about four or five times before they wear out, with a lot of maintenance in between. Assuming they don't come back down on a granite mountain or something."
Back in the 70s, they spent a hell of a lot of time twaddling with the rockets before launching them.
To be fair, 2 each of Soyuz and shuttle missions have ended up killing their crewmembers. That NASA had 7 crewmembers on each of those flights vs. 3 and 1 on the Soyuz flights just means that the U.S. gambled more astronauts on each roll of the dice, not that they're less reliable statistically.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D...
I would assume they probably have upwards of a thousand little fiddly bits like sensors in each rocket...in which case, installing a single one wrong seems to be pretty damn good. Well, other than the fact that it caused the whole rocket to fail, I mean...
Thanks for the explanation. This is the latest in a string of articles where there is some argument that is "intuitively obvious" that nobody bothers to actually explain.
Yeah, because I'm going to plug their chat into a chi-square language analyzer. Simple this surely ain't.
while Democrats have always kissed and bent over for Unions it appears Republicans are starting to do the same
Don't tell Governor Walker from my state (Wisconsin) that. After taking away union bargaining rights and surviving a subsequent recall attempt, supposedly some people want him to run for president or something. He was practically the Republican golden boy for awhile from the sounds of it.
Yeah, those lazy fuckers should have anticipated the automobile by 100 years!
I Fought the Law and the Law Won
That's me being an idiot and posting before reading the whole thing again. Dammit.
Okay, so the passenger might like some form of guarantee that they won't promptly be killed in traffic, but in case of accident the damage of all other parties are covered, yes? So the only difference between taxi insurance and normal car insurance is the passenger being insured specially?
Why would driving a taxi require a different license than your regular bog-standard license? Or, for that matter, why would you need different insurance? Collision insurance same as anything.
And if you say "because they're taxis"...no. Just no.
Two men that lose their virginity to each other are essentially a zero risk, but equally banned as if they go having sex with anybody that will say yes.
Admittedly.
Although actually, you can contract HIV through childbirth if your mother has it, so there's still a nonzero chance if you don't know the health of the mother. Or blood transfusions etc. The chance is only zero for the specific vector of sexual transmission.
Maybe it's just because I'm not a statistics person so I'm not sufficiently screwy in the head, but I don't see how (picking one person from the population with a known percentage chance) is any different from (having a single person from the same population in front of you with the same chance).
Like I said, questioning the rationale and methodology for the lines being drawn is a different issue. It sounds like you're saying "numbers don't work the way you think they do," which may be true.
Two men that lose their virginity to each other are essentially a zero risk, but equally banned as if they go having sex with anybody that will say yes.
Admittedly.
You can't seriously suggest that a woman having unprotected anal sex with an HIV infected man in exchange for drugs is really a lower risk than a typical gay man?
Give me the odds and I'll let you know. I have a college degree; I think I can manage multiplication.
They were capable of reproduction at one point, though. Blood cells never are.
In other news, HIV won't kill you
Umm...excuse me? Troll much?
Without treatment, average survival time after infection with HIV is estimated to be 9 to 11 years, depending on the HIV subtype.[4] After the diagnosis of AIDS, if treatment is not available, survival ranges between 6 and 19 months.[147][148] HAART and appropriate prevention of opportunistic infections reduces the death rate by 80%, and raises the life expectancy for a newly diagnosed young adult to 20–50 years.[146][149][150] This is between two thirds[149] and nearly that of the general population.[15][151] If treatment is started late in the infection, prognosis is not as good:[15] for example, if treatment is begun following the diagnosis of AIDS, life expectancy is ~10–40 years.[15][146] Half of infants born with HIV die before two years of age without treatment.[132]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...
So yeah, without treatment it kind of sounds like there's a good chance it'll kill you. Even with treatment, there's a 20% chance of fatality anyway.
That's presumably why they have the "have you had sex with another man, even once, since 1970" question.
(That is why you should smack anyone who gives you facts in percentages)
The total numbers don't help when you've got two people sitting in front of you, one with an established 20% chance of having it, and one with a 30% chance. You can lecture all you want about discrimination, but it doesn't change the fact that the second person is more of a risk.
Whether it's *too much risk* is another question. So is donation procedure (pre or post test, etc.). Don't complain when the facts don't back you up.
My favorite part was the first time I donated, when they gave me a flyer patting me on the back for it, which included a story about some guy who had needed 12 pints of blood transfused to pull through. 12 pints!
According to their commercials, that same amount of blood could have saved up to 36 people who *weren't* spraying blood like a firehose. This is why we have a blood shortage! Priorities, people!
Or it shows that he takes things a hell of a lot less seriously than you do.
I think we could use taking stuff less seriously as a society.
Pale Moon is forked Firefox without the UI fuckage. You can't like Firefox and not like Pale Moon. In which case, why are you even posting in this discussion?
most of the day I hang out in Emacs, so I wouldn't even notice if purple elves where dancing on it, naked.
You just made my week. Thank you.
*high-fives*