I had chickenpox twice when I was a child. My first case was so mild that my immune system did not maintain antibodies for it. My second case was more severe and my immunity to chicken pox has persisted. Yes, antibodies developed by vaccines can wear off, but so can antibodies developed by normal infections. Also, shingles is just a reemergence of the same chickenpox virus that most adults contracted as children. The virus hides in the nervous system and reemerges as people get older and their immune systems get weaker and less able to fight off the virus.
Not all viruses are the same. Many viruses have DNA coding that weeds out mutations. Measles, chickenpox, polio, and smallpox are viruses that do this. This is why vaccinations for these diseases work for decades and why people can develop life-long immunity after a childhood infection. Some viruses, like Influenza and HIV, mutate rapidly and are hard to inoculate against. Incidentally, viruses tend to mutate more quickly in malnourished people. If food shortages become more widespread as the world population increases we are likely to see more frequent viral mutations.
Yes, vaccines do cause injury. The oral polio vaccines was one particular vaccine that could cause a polio infection. There is a genetic disorder that can cause children who receive vaccinations develop high fevers than can cause brain damage or death (but any infection can trigger this response). There is always a risk of infection for any injections. But if billions of dollars been paid out, or is it extremely difficult to win a case? It seems like the two statements are at odds with each other. Statistics show that 80% of cases are settled out of court with the plaintiff receiving an award. Of the remaining cases that are adjudicated, about one quarter of then result in a win for the plaintiff. http://time.com/3995062/vaccin... Now, if a person tries to go to the court saying the MMR vaccine caused their child's Autism, they will loose. Not only is there no verifiable link between Autism and vaccinations, the doctor who originally put forward this notion was prosecuted for fraud because he was developing his own competing vaccine technology and wanted to discredit existing technologies.
On a side note, Jurassic Park glossed over almost all of the science, and the book was better.
The Toyota hybrid design is too complicated and not flexible enough. They have a transmission powered by either electric motor or engine, and an engine that functions to either drive the transmission or charge the batteries. Yeah, maybe that design got them to market faster because it was easier to add an electric motor and battery to an already well-engineered drive train, but it was short-sighted thinking. They should have redesigned their hybrids with a simplified transmission, driven by an electric motor, powered by a battery, charged by a gasoline generator. The transmission can be simplified because electric motors don't have the narrow RPM power band that engines suffer from and can apply torque even at 0 RPMs, which engines can not. It would also have given them flexibility to change out the power plant from gasoline generator to anything else (fuel cell, diesel, propane, ethanol, bigger batteries, etc.) that can provide electricity.
Just to make this clear, are you saying the American Nazis DON'T attack people?
I am as much against the Antifa movement's violent practices as the next guy, but to my knowledge they have not committed outright murder. The same can not be said for the various Neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups.
Effective range on a shotgun is well under 100 meters. Bird shot is effective on ducks only out to about 35 meters. Lacking an comparative test I expect effectiveness against drones is about the same. Buckshot may be able to damage a drone at somewhat longer range, but with fewer pellets per shot it would be harder to score a hit.
... But even a well-aimed bullet should solve the problem....
It's impossible to consistently hit an erratically moving small target at range with a bullet. Phalanx CIWS systems do it with bursts of 20mm machine gun fire, and that would cause casualties if done over populated areas. Shotguns don't have the range. Air burst flak shells could work, but that would mean firing explosive munitions at low altitudes over a populated area.
My concern about using the eagles is the risk of injury to the eagles.
Raytheon has a technology already. High-energy directed microwaves. If these are industrial drones they should be large enough to detect and target within the 1KM perimeter allowed by British regulations. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Email is forbidden and fax machines persist (in the US) primarily due to HIPPA regulation 45 CFR 164.312(e)(1).
(1)Standard: Transmission security. Implement technical security measures to guard against unauthorized access to electronic protected health information that is being transmitted over an electronic communications network.
Email can not guarantee that all hops in the SMTP path are encrypted. Fax bypasses this regulation because POTS is not considered an electronic communications network. There are work arounds. Encrypted attachments are OK, but better are secure email services where the message recipient receives an HTTPS link to download the message and they manage user accounts and passwords. I assume these are not used often because of the perceived complexity or the expense of using HIPPA compliant 3rd party vendors or software.
I used to work for a school. I had to deal with HIPPA regs from a technical angle for students with special needs.
For the best students, they offer scholarships. They offer the perks to lure in any student willing to pay, like the moth to a flame.
More to the point, students can pay because loans are easy to get in any amount, financial institutions are willing to loan because students can't usually escape the debt even by bankruptcy (in the US), and students are lied to for their entire young lives that a four year communications degree is a good financial investment. In addition, schools find more and more ways to stretch out a bachelors degree to more than four years to get that extra semester or three of tuition, and they press on about how important the tuition inflating community aspects of college, like clubs and sports, are. In reality, college is half bait-n-switch scam and half good-faith delusion by college administration and staff who think all the extras are crucial to a good education. In the end, students come out of university frequently without knowing how to do what they were supposedly training for because the schools are too busy training them to be "well rounded" individuals rather that giving them the tools they need to be successful.
I may sound anti-education, but nothing is farther than the truth. I believe that education is the only feasible solution to the worlds ills. But, modern education is rotten with perverse incentives to lead vulnerable, naive youths into spending their future away on marginally useful degrees.
I think you do not appreciate the scope of the problem in the US. Within walking distance from work, I can think of at least 5 trendy restaurants (just of the ones I frequent) that are done in all metal, wood, and cement. Cement floors. Cement columns. Cement ceilings. Wood, metal, or some kind of engineered laminate furniture. The only cloth will be the seat cushions, if they exist. A quarter full at lunch and they are already loud. Fill them up with the dinner crowds and they are unbearable.
No it's not. It's a result of most interior designers not having a clue about acoustics.
At work, our offices were redone by a high-priced interior design firm. Most of our conference rooms were done in all hard surfaces, granite tables, wood floors, high ceilings, the works. They were also so acoustically noisy that people would have to yell in order for the person across the table from you to understand what they were saying. Some rooms were so bad that it was physically painful for me to be in the room due to the sound reflections. The high ambient noise also wreaked havoc with our conference phones. Callers would frequently complain that they coudn't understand anything we said. The rooms looked great, but utterly failed in their purpose of facilitating communications.
After a year of pushing, I finally got them to allow me to have a local acoustical tile manufacturer install sound dampening tiles in one conference room. The boss was so impressed with the results that he got the remaining 6 rooms done within the next two months.
And with that Apple got preferential Intel treatment that had been the domain of Dell. (Whole other story there me thinks.) Apple won't be in any rush to jeopardise this position.
I think you are correct considering that A) Apple sells new machines with 4 to 5 year old CPU models, and B) Apple is supposedly designing their own desktop and laptop chips to be rolled out in about 2 years.
Why build when you can seize by eminent domain? Cities could take over operation and maintenance of the physical distribution network and lease access to any number of ISPs. That would be the fastest way to a competitive market.
There is truth to that, but it was bolstered by racism and xenophobia. Marijuana was a drug thought to be smoked by Latin Americans coming North to take our jobs. It was also popular in Jazz circles, music mostly created by African Americans. White America couldn't stand the thought of their sons and daughters smoking pot and associating with blacks and hispanics.
Now that I've had some time to churn through the memory banks, I recall at the time we were bumping into the 4GB memory limit regularly. We customers said to Intel that we needed 64bit memory addressing in x86. Intel told us that we couldn't have it; I forget all the excuses for why not. Instead they tried to sell us a new platform without software compatibility. Then AMD said we could have it, with backward compatibility, and gave us AMD-64. Intel had to eat crow when they followed up about 2 years later with their own 64 bit CPUs.
Intel moved too soon, it was too expensive, there was no transition plan, and they didn't get enough industry partners to buy in. It wasn't the first time nor will it be the last when a major industry player thought they could strong-arm everyone into a new platform only to be shown that they can't.
This could be my ignorance showing, but there is something I've never understood about Intel's architecture strategy. It's well known by now that Intel chips don't execute x86 instructions. Rather, they decode x86 instructions into more RISK-like micro-ops and execute micro-ops. Why not expose the micro-ops to compilers? Let programs bypass x86 and get closer to the hardware. That would allow software companies to transition gradually away from x86, rather that jumping in feet first in to an unfamiliar ecosystem like Intel asked us to do with IA-64.
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Is this the secret court you are talking about? The one advertised the HRSA web site? https://www.hrsa.gov/vaccine-c...
You are almost entirely incorrect.
I had chickenpox twice when I was a child. My first case was so mild that my immune system did not maintain antibodies for it. My second case was more severe and my immunity to chicken pox has persisted. Yes, antibodies developed by vaccines can wear off, but so can antibodies developed by normal infections. Also, shingles is just a reemergence of the same chickenpox virus that most adults contracted as children. The virus hides in the nervous system and reemerges as people get older and their immune systems get weaker and less able to fight off the virus.
Not all viruses are the same. Many viruses have DNA coding that weeds out mutations. Measles, chickenpox, polio, and smallpox are viruses that do this. This is why vaccinations for these diseases work for decades and why people can develop life-long immunity after a childhood infection. Some viruses, like Influenza and HIV, mutate rapidly and are hard to inoculate against. Incidentally, viruses tend to mutate more quickly in malnourished people. If food shortages become more widespread as the world population increases we are likely to see more frequent viral mutations.
Yes, vaccines do cause injury. The oral polio vaccines was one particular vaccine that could cause a polio infection. There is a genetic disorder that can cause children who receive vaccinations develop high fevers than can cause brain damage or death (but any infection can trigger this response). There is always a risk of infection for any injections. But if billions of dollars been paid out, or is it extremely difficult to win a case? It seems like the two statements are at odds with each other. Statistics show that 80% of cases are settled out of court with the plaintiff receiving an award. Of the remaining cases that are adjudicated, about one quarter of then result in a win for the plaintiff. http://time.com/3995062/vaccin... Now, if a person tries to go to the court saying the MMR vaccine caused their child's Autism, they will loose. Not only is there no verifiable link between Autism and vaccinations, the doctor who originally put forward this notion was prosecuted for fraud because he was developing his own competing vaccine technology and wanted to discredit existing technologies.
On a side note, Jurassic Park glossed over almost all of the science, and the book was better.
The Toyota hybrid design is too complicated and not flexible enough. They have a transmission powered by either electric motor or engine, and an engine that functions to either drive the transmission or charge the batteries. Yeah, maybe that design got them to market faster because it was easier to add an electric motor and battery to an already well-engineered drive train, but it was short-sighted thinking. They should have redesigned their hybrids with a simplified transmission, driven by an electric motor, powered by a battery, charged by a gasoline generator. The transmission can be simplified because electric motors don't have the narrow RPM power band that engines suffer from and can apply torque even at 0 RPMs, which engines can not. It would also have given them flexibility to change out the power plant from gasoline generator to anything else (fuel cell, diesel, propane, ethanol, bigger batteries, etc.) that can provide electricity.
Eff that. Pokemon in the cartoons are sentient beings. It's a blood sport fought with slave species.
Just to make this clear, are you saying the American Nazis DON'T attack people?
I am as much against the Antifa movement's violent practices as the next guy, but to my knowledge they have not committed outright murder. The same can not be said for the various Neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups.
Effective range on a shotgun is well under 100 meters. Bird shot is effective on ducks only out to about 35 meters. Lacking an comparative test I expect effectiveness against drones is about the same. Buckshot may be able to damage a drone at somewhat longer range, but with fewer pellets per shot it would be harder to score a hit.
... But even a well-aimed bullet should solve the problem. ...
It's impossible to consistently hit an erratically moving small target at range with a bullet. Phalanx CIWS systems do it with bursts of 20mm machine gun fire, and that would cause casualties if done over populated areas. Shotguns don't have the range. Air burst flak shells could work, but that would mean firing explosive munitions at low altitudes over a populated area.
My concern about using the eagles is the risk of injury to the eagles.
Directed energy is probably the best option.
Raytheon has a technology already. High-energy directed microwaves. If these are industrial drones they should be large enough to detect and target within the 1KM perimeter allowed by British regulations.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Directed microwaves. Best overall option.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Can't be. All modern systems require NOSMOKE.EXE compatible memory.
Can I assume the RAM is spherical, mass-less, and stretch-less in the equations?
The last recorded words of the human civilization will be: "Wonder what happens if we push this button?" ....
We already avoided this fate once.
Once?
9 times the world was at the brink of nuclear war — and pulled back
https://www.businessinsider.co...
But, it's not "on a computer", so it's safe.
Email is forbidden and fax machines persist (in the US) primarily due to HIPPA regulation 45 CFR 164.312(e)(1).
(1)Standard: Transmission security. Implement technical security measures to guard against unauthorized access to electronic protected health information that is being transmitted over an electronic communications network.
Email can not guarantee that all hops in the SMTP path are encrypted. Fax bypasses this regulation because POTS is not considered an electronic communications network. There are work arounds. Encrypted attachments are OK, but better are secure email services where the message recipient receives an HTTPS link to download the message and they manage user accounts and passwords. I assume these are not used often because of the perceived complexity or the expense of using HIPPA compliant 3rd party vendors or software.
I used to work for a school. I had to deal with HIPPA regs from a technical angle for students with special needs.
For the best students, they offer scholarships. They offer the perks to lure in any student willing to pay, like the moth to a flame.
More to the point, students can pay because loans are easy to get in any amount, financial institutions are willing to loan because students can't usually escape the debt even by bankruptcy (in the US), and students are lied to for their entire young lives that a four year communications degree is a good financial investment. In addition, schools find more and more ways to stretch out a bachelors degree to more than four years to get that extra semester or three of tuition, and they press on about how important the tuition inflating community aspects of college, like clubs and sports, are. In reality, college is half bait-n-switch scam and half good-faith delusion by college administration and staff who think all the extras are crucial to a good education. In the end, students come out of university frequently without knowing how to do what they were supposedly training for because the schools are too busy training them to be "well rounded" individuals rather that giving them the tools they need to be successful.
I may sound anti-education, but nothing is farther than the truth. I believe that education is the only feasible solution to the worlds ills. But, modern education is rotten with perverse incentives to lead vulnerable, naive youths into spending their future away on marginally useful degrees.
I think you do not appreciate the scope of the problem in the US. Within walking distance from work, I can think of at least 5 trendy restaurants (just of the ones I frequent) that are done in all metal, wood, and cement. Cement floors. Cement columns. Cement ceilings. Wood, metal, or some kind of engineered laminate furniture. The only cloth will be the seat cushions, if they exist. A quarter full at lunch and they are already loud. Fill them up with the dinner crowds and they are unbearable.
No it's not. It's a result of most interior designers not having a clue about acoustics.
At work, our offices were redone by a high-priced interior design firm. Most of our conference rooms were done in all hard surfaces, granite tables, wood floors, high ceilings, the works. They were also so acoustically noisy that people would have to yell in order for the person across the table from you to understand what they were saying. Some rooms were so bad that it was physically painful for me to be in the room due to the sound reflections. The high ambient noise also wreaked havoc with our conference phones. Callers would frequently complain that they coudn't understand anything we said. The rooms looked great, but utterly failed in their purpose of facilitating communications.
After a year of pushing, I finally got them to allow me to have a local acoustical tile manufacturer install sound dampening tiles in one conference room. The boss was so impressed with the results that he got the remaining 6 rooms done within the next two months.
And with that Apple got preferential Intel treatment that had been the domain of Dell. (Whole other story there me thinks.) Apple won't be in any rush to jeopardise this position.
I think you are correct considering that A) Apple sells new machines with 4 to 5 year old CPU models, and B) Apple is supposedly designing their own desktop and laptop chips to be rolled out in about 2 years.
"- not actually evil, but bad tempered, bureaucratic, officious and callous."
HAD more than 3 employees over 40. Get your tenses right.
Why build when you can seize by eminent domain? Cities could take over operation and maintenance of the physical distribution network and lease access to any number of ISPs. That would be the fastest way to a competitive market.
There is truth to that, but it was bolstered by racism and xenophobia. Marijuana was a drug thought to be smoked by Latin Americans coming North to take our jobs. It was also popular in Jazz circles, music mostly created by African Americans. White America couldn't stand the thought of their sons and daughters smoking pot and associating with blacks and hispanics.
Now that I've had some time to churn through the memory banks, I recall at the time we were bumping into the 4GB memory limit regularly. We customers said to Intel that we needed 64bit memory addressing in x86. Intel told us that we couldn't have it; I forget all the excuses for why not. Instead they tried to sell us a new platform without software compatibility. Then AMD said we could have it, with backward compatibility, and gave us AMD-64. Intel had to eat crow when they followed up about 2 years later with their own 64 bit CPUs.
Intel moved too soon, it was too expensive, there was no transition plan, and they didn't get enough industry partners to buy in. It wasn't the first time nor will it be the last when a major industry player thought they could strong-arm everyone into a new platform only to be shown that they can't.
This could be my ignorance showing, but there is something I've never understood about Intel's architecture strategy. It's well known by now that Intel chips don't execute x86 instructions. Rather, they decode x86 instructions into more RISK-like micro-ops and execute micro-ops. Why not expose the micro-ops to compilers? Let programs bypass x86 and get closer to the hardware. That would allow software companies to transition gradually away from x86, rather that jumping in feet first in to an unfamiliar ecosystem like Intel asked us to do with IA-64.