I think it's more fair to say that it's not a good idea to plan on doing your reproducing after 35 because a) fertility goes down (for both men and women), b) the odds of birth defects go up (although that risk increases most seriously after 40), c) the stress of pregnancy and childbirth is harder on older mothers that aren't in good physical condition (cardio, body mass, and nutrition), and d) there may be some implications regarding breast and uterine cancer from having those organs go through typical pregnancy growth after an extra decade or more of slow DNA degradation (so extra vigilance is necessary in the long term). However it's still quite possible if you're in good physical condition and you don't have religious or personal hangups about aborting a pregnancy if early screening shows genetic problems with the fetus. The fertility part is still a crapshoot, though one which my wife and I appear to have beaten twice, and which my parents also beat twice. However I have known others who have not been so lucky, so it's not an approach I would recommend taking lightly.
Nevertheless, I can't remember our doctor recommending against pregnancy after 35 (let alone strongly recommending against it). I don't believe our doctor has any religious hangups regarding abortions of fetuses with trisomy or other serious genetic impairments. Maybe that's more of an issue in the USA where a high proportion of the population (presumably including doctors) have strong fundamentalist religious beliefs?
Apparently you should have been talking to Parm Gill if you wanted help with Immigration matters but couldn't get through to the Minister of Immigration.
Well, if you're going to the trouble to teach people how to make IED's to attack an occupying force, then you will probably try to teach them how to do it with materials that are easily available locally. So I think you can expect that, while Casios may not have been the most popular watch in Afghanistan, they were probably readily available and moderately popular.
While it's great to love the ideals that are in stated in the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights, you have to keep in mind the reality and how well it matches. For instance legalized slavery for nearly 100 years after Independence, and institutionalized racism for much longer. The USA has done a lot of nasty brutal things in the last 100 years in Central and South America and in the Middle East and a lot of the problems it faces now are blowback for those actions.
It certainly isn't the only developed country with that problem of course. But it's kind of like falling in love with your ideal of an airbrushed woman (or man) in a magazine and asking them to marry you, not realizing that they are a chain smoking, philandering, alcoholic. Now, they may be one of the best available chain smoking, philandering, alcoholics, but...
His point was that if the TSA was an effective deterrent against airplane-targetted terrorism, the terrorists would have substituted another type of target. It's a corollary of goods substitution under price pressure in micro-economics. Given the dearth of successful attacks against other target substitutions, it can be surmised that the TSA attacks are neither causing target substitutions, nor catching terrorists.
Heh. Pamela has her own "birther skeptic" movement. She could be in worse company. Although, given what (understandable) lengths she's gone to to maintain her anonymity, Pamela Jones may be a pseudonym and therefore not what's on her birth certificate. PJ also may not have been born in the U.S.A. Fortunately the latter isn't necessary for being a thorn in the side of legal trolls.
Well to be fair, in the last few years as they've been getting close to pulling the plug on the Tevatron, they've been cranking up the amount of energy they pump into it. They're pushing it close to its limits, presumably because it won't matter if they break it when it's going to be taken off-line anyways. Under those circumstances of applying higher energy levels than before, there are good reasons why they might be making new findings instead of just the cynical one of "the grant is running out".
Well, the other problem is that if Google set that precedent, it would also be asking for Microsoft to set up some legal cases in other countries with some stalking horses. Google pulling out of Italy would give MS Bing carte blanche on search, and MS wouldn't be above trying to trick Google to hand them other countries one at a time.
What should happen is that everybody should start doing searches on Google, Bing, and all other search engines for "Padova Maria Luisa" and "culo de cavallo"
The thing about price gouging and piracy is that it's like bad management and unions. Once you let piracy and unions out of Pandora's Box, it's awfully hard to stuff them back in.
Excuse me, but hasn't the opposite also been the case? That people were convicted based on 'DNA testing' which was alleged to have been 'scientific proof' and therefore less falsifiable than mere testimony - but that the convictions were then overturned?
I believe that when that has happened, it was due to the DNA evidence being thrown out for various reasons: collected in an invalid manner (i.e. no search warrant), a break in the chain of evidence custody that meant it could have been contaminated, actual contamination due to human error in the lab, or poor procedure that meant that samples were mixed up and confused.
Now don't get me wrong, there has been some people stating that the limited number of gene markers being used in current forensic DNA testing is insufficient to guarantee a 1-1 match in a population the size of the USA, let alone the world, so false positives aren't ruled out. However barring human error, false negatives from DNA testing are. But that's not the point here. The point is that people who were convicted based on evidence from people and facts considered reliable enough that a guilt was "beyond a reasonable doubt" turned out to be innocent after all. So those reliable facts and witnesses weren't so reliable after all.
the testimony of hundreds of reliable witnesses isn't a bad start. This level of proof would be sufficient in a court.
Prior to the advent of DNA testing, courts had sentenced to death or life in prison people based on testimony of reliable eyewitnesses, only to have DNA testing later show that those people were innocent of those crimes. While those "reliable UFO witnesses" may be reliable witnesses under normal circumstances, they could very well all be subject to similar occasional brain dysfunctions that are expressed in these similar hallucinations. When taken in the context of a billion people on the Earth, a few hundred or even thousands of "reliable UFO witnesses" are effectively a minor statistical anomaly that are well within the spectrum of mental health issues in the population at large.
But in the last 20 years, all the conservatives have been racking up Canada's debt at record pace
You're forgetting Joe Clark, who tried to balance the books and lost an election and got shown the door for it. He had terrible communications skills, but I respected his integrity and principles. Since then, I can't think of another high-profile federal "conservative" I can say that about.
B.S. The Conservatives' inability to balance the budget is because they handed out tax cuts left, right, and center to buy votes and keep their corporate donors happy. When the global economy tanked and they had to increase public spending to balance the private sector shrinkage, there was nothing left in the kitty to pay for it. Keynesian economics work when you remember to set aside money in the good times to balance out what you have to pay out in the bad times so that you don't run up massive debts. Whatever institution handed Harper his economic degree should be asking for it back. Also, just as with Reagan in the US, Mulroney's PCs ran up a good chunk of the debt in Canada. Joe Clark had the guts to try to turn that situation around and everybody gave him the bum's rush for it.
Yes, in the debates of the last election, he was one of the most cogent of the party leaders.
The majority of voting Canadians have not voted for Harper. If they're anything like me, they don't want to see Harper as PM any longer, and are getting annoyed that the other three party leaders can't get together to find enough common ground to demote Harper to Stornoway, but instead leave him at Sussex Drive to implement an agenda that is much more harmful to their professed goals than anything on which they would compromise together.
You could vote for your second-favourite local candidate and send a letter to your favourite candidate explaining that, while you liked him personally, you couldn't countenance the person his party has selected as leader. You had to take into consideration the limited power your representative would have had with that leader while your representative would have been a back-bencher (or even with him as a minister).
At least you have a local representative you can support. The Liberal candidate in Vancouver Centre is Hedy Fry. She's a shoo-in no matter how I vote, and I would much rather a Liberal government than one with Harper as PM, but she's said too many bone-headed things over the years for me to have any respect for her.
P.S. Stéphane Dion was probably the Liberal equivalent of the Progressive Conservatives' Joe Clark. Both were principled visionaries with speech impediments who lacked the charisma and communication skills to sell their vision to a wilfully ignorant Canadian populace.
While it isn't around anymore, AmigaOS had a very object-oriented design. With the exception of the (BCPL-based) file system, AmigaOS was implemented in C and assembler, but the design of the O/S libraries and their interfaces was object-oriented back when C++ was struggling to escape from Bell Labs.
You're confusing Iraq and Afghanistan. Chretien kept us out of Iraq despite Harper's USA-fawning grandstanding. That probably saved way more Canadian taxpayer dollars than were ever wasted on the sponsorship scandal. Doesn't make the sponsorship scandal right or forgivable, but it is a reminder that incompetence can wind up being much more expensive than some low-level greed and nepotism when you're talking about running a country. For all their flaws, the Liberals continued what Joe Clark started, getting Canada's fiscal house in order, and the "Conservatives" have placed that at risk. Every time I hear Harper crow about how the Conservatives' sound fiscal management made Canada weather the Great Recession well, I feel nauseous.
Harper and the Conservatives were the ones who argued in favour of big bank mergers and weaker banking regulation while in opposition. They allowed 30 and 40 year mortgages, feeding a housing bubble, only to backtrack when they saw the housing disaster south of the border. History will probably rate Harper as a better prime minister than Mulroney, but that's a pretty low bar.
Don't go looking for good government from those who claim that good government is not possible. They have every motivation to prove themselves right, consciously and subconsciously.
just short of a recent upgrade to a chip in everybody's hand.
The chip isn't the problem. The real problem comes when the LED attached to the chip starts glowing when you reach thirty years old. Then everyone expects you to submit to your death at Carousel.
Yes, if you saw Intel roadmaps from the late 90's, that was exactly Intel's plan. They opened the door with Itanium and AMD walked through it with Opteron. They also opened another door earlier when they were pushing P4/NetBurst/RAMBUS which let through Thunderbird. They've been a little more careful about trying non-competitive gouging manoeuvres since, but there is little reason to believe they wouldn't go back to those tactics if AMD went under tomorrow.
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I think it's more fair to say that it's not a good idea to plan on doing your reproducing after 35 because a) fertility goes down (for both men and women), b) the odds of birth defects go up (although that risk increases most seriously after 40), c) the stress of pregnancy and childbirth is harder on older mothers that aren't in good physical condition (cardio, body mass, and nutrition), and d) there may be some implications regarding breast and uterine cancer from having those organs go through typical pregnancy growth after an extra decade or more of slow DNA degradation (so extra vigilance is necessary in the long term). However it's still quite possible if you're in good physical condition and you don't have religious or personal hangups about aborting a pregnancy if early screening shows genetic problems with the fetus. The fertility part is still a crapshoot, though one which my wife and I appear to have beaten twice, and which my parents also beat twice. However I have known others who have not been so lucky, so it's not an approach I would recommend taking lightly.
Nevertheless, I can't remember our doctor recommending against pregnancy after 35 (let alone strongly recommending against it). I don't believe our doctor has any religious hangups regarding abortions of fetuses with trisomy or other serious genetic impairments. Maybe that's more of an issue in the USA where a high proportion of the population (presumably including doctors) have strong fundamentalist religious beliefs?
I thought lead was what the Romans used as a sweetener?
Never. Republicans need something to make themselves feel good and feel that Democrats are dumber.
Apparently you should have been talking to Parm Gill if you wanted help with Immigration matters but couldn't get through to the Minister of Immigration.
Well, if you're going to the trouble to teach people how to make IED's to attack an occupying force, then you will probably try to teach them how to do it with materials that are easily available locally. So I think you can expect that, while Casios may not have been the most popular watch in Afghanistan, they were probably readily available and moderately popular.
While it's great to love the ideals that are in stated in the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights, you have to keep in mind the reality and how well it matches. For instance legalized slavery for nearly 100 years after Independence, and institutionalized racism for much longer. The USA has done a lot of nasty brutal things in the last 100 years in Central and South America and in the Middle East and a lot of the problems it faces now are blowback for those actions.
It certainly isn't the only developed country with that problem of course. But it's kind of like falling in love with your ideal of an airbrushed woman (or man) in a magazine and asking them to marry you, not realizing that they are a chain smoking, philandering, alcoholic. Now, they may be one of the best available chain smoking, philandering, alcoholics, but...
His point was that if the TSA was an effective deterrent against airplane-targetted terrorism, the terrorists would have substituted another type of target. It's a corollary of goods substitution under price pressure in micro-economics. Given the dearth of successful attacks against other target substitutions, it can be surmised that the TSA attacks are neither causing target substitutions, nor catching terrorists.
Heh. Pamela has her own "birther skeptic" movement. She could be in worse company. Although, given what (understandable) lengths she's gone to to maintain her anonymity, Pamela Jones may be a pseudonym and therefore not what's on her birth certificate. PJ also may not have been born in the U.S.A. Fortunately the latter isn't necessary for being a thorn in the side of legal trolls.
Well to be fair, in the last few years as they've been getting close to pulling the plug on the Tevatron, they've been cranking up the amount of energy they pump into it. They're pushing it close to its limits, presumably because it won't matter if they break it when it's going to be taken off-line anyways. Under those circumstances of applying higher energy levels than before, there are good reasons why they might be making new findings instead of just the cynical one of "the grant is running out".
P.S. Padova Maria Luisa appears to be the Milan Tribunal judge giving the order.
Well, the other problem is that if Google set that precedent, it would also be asking for Microsoft to set up some legal cases in other countries with some stalking horses. Google pulling out of Italy would give MS Bing carte blanche on search, and MS wouldn't be above trying to trick Google to hand them other countries one at a time.
What should happen is that everybody should start doing searches on Google, Bing, and all other search engines for "Padova Maria Luisa" and "culo de cavallo"
The thing about price gouging and piracy is that it's like bad management and unions. Once you let piracy and unions out of Pandora's Box, it's awfully hard to stuff them back in.
Excuse me, but hasn't the opposite also been the case? That people were convicted based on 'DNA testing' which was alleged to have been 'scientific proof' and therefore less falsifiable than mere testimony - but that the convictions were then overturned?
I believe that when that has happened, it was due to the DNA evidence being thrown out for various reasons: collected in an invalid manner (i.e. no search warrant), a break in the chain of evidence custody that meant it could have been contaminated, actual contamination due to human error in the lab, or poor procedure that meant that samples were mixed up and confused.
Now don't get me wrong, there has been some people stating that the limited number of gene markers being used in current forensic DNA testing is insufficient to guarantee a 1-1 match in a population the size of the USA, let alone the world, so false positives aren't ruled out. However barring human error, false negatives from DNA testing are. But that's not the point here. The point is that people who were convicted based on evidence from people and facts considered reliable enough that a guilt was "beyond a reasonable doubt" turned out to be innocent after all. So those reliable facts and witnesses weren't so reliable after all.
Prior to the advent of DNA testing, courts had sentenced to death or life in prison people based on testimony of reliable eyewitnesses, only to have DNA testing later show that those people were innocent of those crimes. While those "reliable UFO witnesses" may be reliable witnesses under normal circumstances, they could very well all be subject to similar occasional brain dysfunctions that are expressed in these similar hallucinations. When taken in the context of a billion people on the Earth, a few hundred or even thousands of "reliable UFO witnesses" are effectively a minor statistical anomaly that are well within the spectrum of mental health issues in the population at large.
You're forgetting Joe Clark, who tried to balance the books and lost an election and got shown the door for it. He had terrible communications skills, but I respected his integrity and principles. Since then, I can't think of another high-profile federal "conservative" I can say that about.
B.S. The Conservatives' inability to balance the budget is because they handed out tax cuts left, right, and center to buy votes and keep their corporate donors happy. When the global economy tanked and they had to increase public spending to balance the private sector shrinkage, there was nothing left in the kitty to pay for it. Keynesian economics work when you remember to set aside money in the good times to balance out what you have to pay out in the bad times so that you don't run up massive debts. Whatever institution handed Harper his economic degree should be asking for it back. Also, just as with Reagan in the US, Mulroney's PCs ran up a good chunk of the debt in Canada. Joe Clark had the guts to try to turn that situation around and everybody gave him the bum's rush for it.
Yes, in the debates of the last election, he was one of the most cogent of the party leaders.
The majority of voting Canadians have not voted for Harper. If they're anything like me, they don't want to see Harper as PM any longer, and are getting annoyed that the other three party leaders can't get together to find enough common ground to demote Harper to Stornoway, but instead leave him at Sussex Drive to implement an agenda that is much more harmful to their professed goals than anything on which they would compromise together.
You could vote for your second-favourite local candidate and send a letter to your favourite candidate explaining that, while you liked him personally, you couldn't countenance the person his party has selected as leader. You had to take into consideration the limited power your representative would have had with that leader while your representative would have been a back-bencher (or even with him as a minister).
At least you have a local representative you can support. The Liberal candidate in Vancouver Centre is Hedy Fry. She's a shoo-in no matter how I vote, and I would much rather a Liberal government than one with Harper as PM, but she's said too many bone-headed things over the years for me to have any respect for her.
I think, Nepal, Mongolia, and some nations in the Caucasus have a substantive prior claim. Still, I got a chuckle out of your post.
P.S. Stéphane Dion was probably the Liberal equivalent of the Progressive Conservatives' Joe Clark. Both were principled visionaries with speech impediments who lacked the charisma and communication skills to sell their vision to a wilfully ignorant Canadian populace.
While it isn't around anymore, AmigaOS had a very object-oriented design. With the exception of the (BCPL-based) file system, AmigaOS was implemented in C and assembler, but the design of the O/S libraries and their interfaces was object-oriented back when C++ was struggling to escape from Bell Labs.
You're confusing Iraq and Afghanistan. Chretien kept us out of Iraq despite Harper's USA-fawning grandstanding. That probably saved way more Canadian taxpayer dollars than were ever wasted on the sponsorship scandal. Doesn't make the sponsorship scandal right or forgivable, but it is a reminder that incompetence can wind up being much more expensive than some low-level greed and nepotism when you're talking about running a country. For all their flaws, the Liberals continued what Joe Clark started, getting Canada's fiscal house in order, and the "Conservatives" have placed that at risk. Every time I hear Harper crow about how the Conservatives' sound fiscal management made Canada weather the Great Recession well, I feel nauseous.
Harper and the Conservatives were the ones who argued in favour of big bank mergers and weaker banking regulation while in opposition. They allowed 30 and 40 year mortgages, feeding a housing bubble, only to backtrack when they saw the housing disaster south of the border. History will probably rate Harper as a better prime minister than Mulroney, but that's a pretty low bar.
Don't go looking for good government from those who claim that good government is not possible. They have every motivation to prove themselves right, consciously and subconsciously.
The chip isn't the problem. The real problem comes when the LED attached to the chip starts glowing when you reach thirty years old. Then everyone expects you to submit to your death at Carousel.
Yes, if you saw Intel roadmaps from the late 90's, that was exactly Intel's plan. They opened the door with Itanium and AMD walked through it with Opteron. They also opened another door earlier when they were pushing P4/NetBurst/RAMBUS which let through Thunderbird. They've been a little more careful about trying non-competitive gouging manoeuvres since, but there is little reason to believe they wouldn't go back to those tactics if AMD went under tomorrow.