Not true. Moderate use of testosterone is safe with minimal side effects. Do a google search on "HRT" to see why many middle aged men are prescribed test by their doctors. The steroid users at the gym are taking 10-30x the normal amount of testosterone your body produces while HRT users are only taking about 2-3x normal. The main problem I see with this treatment is that the men would only get 1 injection per month and even with longer lasting testosterone, their levels are still going to vary wildly. What's the point of birth control if your libido crashes every 4 weeks.
As long as the NEA and Dept of Education have power, education will never be fixed. They're happy with the status quo, and many parents are as well. We've been talking about educational reform since the 1980's, but it hasn't happened. The teachers' unions aren't willing to give up anything, and many parents are all for standards in the abstract, but not so much when their precious little Johnny gets a C.
I've been on bulletin boards, mailing list since the 80's and usenet since the 90's, and I've found that the best strategy is to give them a private warning and then ban them if they keep up the bad behavior. Anything else just prolongs the inevitable, wastes your time, and drives away contributing posters.
Wouldn't they fall under HIPAA since this involves medical testing and records?
No, because you explicitly give permission for the insurance company to view your medical records as part of your coverage agreement.
If you want to keep medical information truly private, pay for it out of pocket.
I spent several years in graduate school and I bet I filled out a maximum total of about 25 pages of forms for admission, financial aid, and assistantships over that time - and probably 10 of those were just for the CA state financial aid form. If the workload and responsibility of filling out a few forms to get free money is too much for you to bear, then graduate school is probably not for you. Hell, I've worked for companies with more paperwork than that just for getting medical benefits.
This is bunk.
How many disgruntled Automotive Industries went on a shooting spree and NEVER gave any signs? Most. Same for the classic Postal Workers...
And what about the guy in Office Space?
Actually when they've investigated, it turns almost every disgruntled shooter DID give signs beforehand. It was just that most co-workers, manager, and neighbors ignored the signs or were clueless that they were significant. People almost never just 'snap' and become violent - usually there's a predictable series of escalating steps that they go through before that point. There's an excellent book, "The Gift of Fear" by Gavin De Becker, that goes into how to predict who will become violent at work. One of his main points is that when we find someone 'creepy', it's actually an early warning system that they're likely to be a danger. However due to social conditioning, people usually ignore their gut feelings which is a mistake. He also helped develop the model that the Secret Service uses to decide whether people who have made threats are probably harmless or likely to eventually commit violence.
It was brought out that the company didn't want the same thing to happen this year & to make sure it didn't. With many contractors & other employees in there using any software they saw fit...it was common practice/knowledge that the licenses weren't current.
Maybe they were deserving bastards, but from your comment it sounds like they were at least making a good faith effort to comply. Why make a complaint to the BSA other than for spite?
But optical scanning won't catch ambiguous ballots e.g. a mark that goes less than halfway through the box which would be discovered during a hand recount. One benefit of electronic machines is that they eliminate ambiguity. Personally I'm okay with not counting ballots that are not completely marked or punched. Voting does require a modicum of personal responsibility to ensure your vote does count.
There's nothing wrong with paper voting - the catch is that paper ballots have to be counted and almost always this means machine counted. No matter what system you use for marking them, checking a box, fill-in dots or lines, punch out chads, etc., some percentage of people will manage to create a ballot that's inconsistent (voting for more than one candidate in the same contest) and/or ambiguous (dimpled or hanging chads, stray pen marks). One benefit of electronic voting machines is that they prevent these kind of errors. Another is that the ballot can be updated very close to the election day. With paper ballots, once they are printed, it's nearly impossible to make any changes which leads to dead men and withdrawn candidates appearing on the ballots.
A lot of the move toward electronic voting machines is an (over)reaction to the 2000 election fiasco in Miami Beach County. If you accept paper ballots, then you're going to have to accept that a certain number of people will cast spoiled (hence invalid) ballots.
There's a lot that Microsoft can learn from Google, but I just don't see Google competing with Microsoft at the OS level, especially with an OS based off the internet. Ulimately you need code executing on a local processor and here there are already several established competitors. Even if most applications are pulled from the network, there still are issues of performance, latency, and security. Plus not every system is always connected to a network. I can see Google possibly competing sucessfully with MS Office products, but not as an OS.
An revolutionary militia is not necessarily a terrorist organization. There are quite a few groups who run around in the woods with guns and talk about revolution. But as long as it's talk and they don't plan or execute specific terrorist acts, it's legal.
Haven't you heard of the term 'deep pockets'? Verizon wouldn't be tried in a criminal court - it's the civil litigation that they should be afraid of. For corporations civil juries are scary since they're unpredictable and can have nearly open-ended judgements. Even if Verizon settles any suits out of court, these can add up. Plus they wouldn't to get the reputation as an easy mark. It's much easier to let individual ISPs make decisions on questionable content.
Yes, a key plot point was that Pham Nuwen had been around so long that he knew layers of the software and hardware that no one else did. This essentially gave him a backdoor into the systems that he could use against the Emergents.
a few weeks ago, King Bush just signed an order to spend 1.2 Billion to build a 700 mile wall between US and Mexico.
You might want to take a refresher course in civics. What happened was Bush signed into law a bill authorizing the building of a border fence that had been passed by both the House and Senate. This was not an 'order' - it's how laws get passed under the constitution. If you're unhappy with the law, blame Congress since they initiated and passed it. Bush was more of a reluctant signer since his immigration views are far more open-borders than congress. Maybe it's time to bring back the old cartoons "I'm just a bill, on capitol hill...".
Damn I wish I mod points for you - I was just about to post the same suggestions.
I doubt the poster's parents are going to change, so why fight a battle you can't win. Just build as much security into the hardware and system settings as you can and have them update automatically. I would also suggest adding another harddrive to be used solely for backups, and have the backups happen automatically every week. Unless his parents are suicidal, this should keep them pretty safe and limit the amount of damage in case they do get hit. Life is too short to be angry at your parents over a few files on a disk.
If it wasn't for drugs, most Americans would probably never learn the metric system - well at least the mass and volume parts of it. Too bad there's not something illegal involving kilometers.
Endurance sports can definitely cause a lowering of testosterone. Add that to being 40+ y.o. and possible radiation exposure and you've got several risk factors. I suspect that with additional reseach, doctors will decide that most men over 45 could use testosterone replacement therapy. The current 'normal' levels of testosterone are 300 - 1000 ng/dl. This is a ridiculously wide range that includes men from 18 to 80. A lot of men over 40 are in the 300 range and are considered normals despite the fact that they suffer from low testosterone symptoms.
You wanna rethink that analogy there, "Reality Master"? Cause I'm pretty sure they call those places "locksmiths."
Except that in most states you have to have a license (and background check) to operate as a locksmith. If you started handing out machines that could pick a standard lock to non-locksmiths, it probably would be against the law.
I agree - it would have been smart of him to either use a fake airline or put a large 'FAKE' watermark in the background. In Hollywood when they use prop money in movie scenes, they're always careful to make it obvious to anyone closely examining the bills that they're fake. Otherwise they could run afoul of counterfeiting laws, even if there was no attempt to distribute the fake maoney.
The president already has the power to order to use military forces within a state, but only in circumstances involving rebellion or insurrection. Note that this is not martial law since civilian laws and courts are still operating - see Ex parte Milligan
This law is a reaction to the after effects of hurricaine Katrina. Since there wasn't an insurrection, federal troops could only be used in LA if requested by the Governor. Unfortunately local authorities including Mayor Nagin and Governor Blanco were hapless and hesitated in inviting them in or allowing local National Guard troops to be federalized. The irony is that the federal government is going to be blamed by people anyway for any bad response to a disaster, so it only seems fair that they should have the power to legally intervene in these circumstances when local authorities are not up to the task.
Only the Legislative branch can do so, and only "when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it." Ah, but in this case, it IS the Legislative who has done so; except we are not currently suffering from Rebellion or Invasion, ergo it would be unconstitutional.
Yes the power to suspend habeas corpus resides with Congress. However to claim that Congress has done this with the MCA is an abuse of language. The only people who might claim to have lost habeas corpus rights would be resident aliens who are found to be unlawful combatants. And it seems fairly clear that people captured overseas and held in Guantanamo and never brought to the U.S. wouldn't get HC rights anyway so the constitution doesn't have any say there. However I would agree that taking away HC rights from a legal resident alien has to be justified through the constitution's rebellion or invasion clause. I suppose if they are inside the U.S., it could be argued that this constitutes an invasion of sorts, but I will admit this is stretching.
There are classes of non-citizens who get fewer protections than citizens, in particular POWs even while being held within U.S. borders. They can be held for the duration of the conflict, however long that might be. One of the reasons for congress passing the MCA was to make it clear that unlawful combatants do not get more protection than actual lawful combatants. It would have been unfair if those who do not follow the Geneva Conventions got better legal treatment than those who do.
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Not true. Moderate use of testosterone is safe with minimal side effects. Do a google search on "HRT" to see why many middle aged men are prescribed test by their doctors. The steroid users at the gym are taking 10-30x the normal amount of testosterone your body produces while HRT users are only taking about 2-3x normal. The main problem I see with this treatment is that the men would only get 1 injection per month and even with longer lasting testosterone, their levels are still going to vary wildly. What's the point of birth control if your libido crashes every 4 weeks.
Guess I'll have to use the caps lock LED as my secure interface except Doh! it puts out signals that can be sniffed as well.
As long as the NEA and Dept of Education have power, education will never be fixed. They're happy with the status quo, and many parents are as well. We've been talking about educational reform since the 1980's, but it hasn't happened. The teachers' unions aren't willing to give up anything, and many parents are all for standards in the abstract, but not so much when their precious little Johnny gets a C.
I've been on bulletin boards, mailing list since the 80's and usenet since the 90's, and I've found that the best strategy is to give them a private warning and then ban them if they keep up the bad behavior. Anything else just prolongs the inevitable, wastes your time, and drives away contributing posters.
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I spent several years in graduate school and I bet I filled out a maximum total of about 25 pages of forms for admission, financial aid, and assistantships over that time - and probably 10 of those were just for the CA state financial aid form. If the workload and responsibility of filling out a few forms to get free money is too much for you to bear, then graduate school is probably not for you. Hell, I've worked for companies with more paperwork than that just for getting medical benefits.
But optical scanning won't catch ambiguous ballots e.g. a mark that goes less than halfway through the box which would be discovered during a hand recount. One benefit of electronic machines is that they eliminate ambiguity. Personally I'm okay with not counting ballots that are not completely marked or punched. Voting does require a modicum of personal responsibility to ensure your vote does count.
There's nothing wrong with paper voting - the catch is that paper ballots have to be counted and almost always this means machine counted. No matter what system you use for marking them, checking a box, fill-in dots or lines, punch out chads, etc., some percentage of people will manage to create a ballot that's inconsistent (voting for more than one candidate in the same contest) and/or ambiguous (dimpled or hanging chads, stray pen marks). One benefit of electronic voting machines is that they prevent these kind of errors. Another is that the ballot can be updated very close to the election day. With paper ballots, once they are printed, it's nearly impossible to make any changes which leads to dead men and withdrawn candidates appearing on the ballots.
A lot of the move toward electronic voting machines is an (over)reaction to the 2000 election fiasco in Miami Beach County. If you accept paper ballots, then you're going to have to accept that a certain number of people will cast spoiled (hence invalid) ballots.
There's a lot that Microsoft can learn from Google, but I just don't see Google competing with Microsoft at the OS level, especially with an OS based off the internet. Ulimately you need code executing on a local processor and here there are already several established competitors. Even if most applications are pulled from the network, there still are issues of performance, latency, and security. Plus not every system is always connected to a network. I can see Google possibly competing sucessfully with MS Office products, but not as an OS.
An revolutionary militia is not necessarily a terrorist organization. There are quite a few groups who run around in the woods with guns and talk about revolution. But as long as it's talk and they don't plan or execute specific terrorist acts, it's legal.
Haven't you heard of the term 'deep pockets'? Verizon wouldn't be tried in a criminal court - it's the civil litigation that they should be afraid of. For corporations civil juries are scary since they're unpredictable and can have nearly open-ended judgements. Even if Verizon settles any suits out of court, these can add up. Plus they wouldn't to get the reputation as an easy mark. It's much easier to let individual ISPs make decisions on questionable content.
Yes, a key plot point was that Pham Nuwen had been around so long that he knew layers of the software and hardware that no one else did. This essentially gave him a backdoor into the systems that he could use against the Emergents.
Maybe it's time to bring back the old cartoons "I'm just a bill, on capitol hill...".
Damn I wish I mod points for you - I was just about to post the same suggestions.
I doubt the poster's parents are going to change, so why fight a battle you can't win. Just build as much security into the hardware and system settings as you can and have them update automatically. I would also suggest adding another harddrive to be used solely for backups, and have the backups happen automatically every week. Unless his parents are suicidal, this should keep them pretty safe and limit the amount of damage in case they do get hit. Life is too short to be angry at your parents over a few files on a disk.
If it wasn't for drugs, most Americans would probably never learn the metric system - well at least the mass and volume parts of it. Too bad there's not something illegal involving kilometers.
Endurance sports can definitely cause a lowering of testosterone. Add that to being 40+ y.o. and possible radiation exposure and you've got several risk factors. I suspect that with additional reseach, doctors will decide that most men over 45 could use testosterone replacement therapy. The current 'normal' levels of testosterone are 300 - 1000 ng/dl. This is a ridiculously wide range that includes men from 18 to 80. A lot of men over 40 are in the 300 range and are considered normals despite the fact that they suffer from low testosterone symptoms.
Except that in most states you have to have a license (and background check) to operate as a locksmith. If you started handing out machines that could pick a standard lock to non-locksmiths, it probably would be against the law.
I agree - it would have been smart of him to either use a fake airline or put a large 'FAKE' watermark in the background. In Hollywood when they use prop money in movie scenes, they're always careful to make it obvious to anyone closely examining the bills that they're fake. Otherwise they could run afoul of counterfeiting laws, even if there was no attempt to distribute the fake maoney.
The president already has the power to order to use military forces within a state, but only in circumstances involving rebellion or insurrection. Note that this is not martial law since civilian laws and courts are still operating - see Ex parte Milligan
This law is a reaction to the after effects of hurricaine Katrina. Since there wasn't an insurrection, federal troops could only be used in LA if requested by the Governor. Unfortunately local authorities including Mayor Nagin and Governor Blanco were hapless and hesitated in inviting them in or allowing local National Guard troops to be federalized. The irony is that the federal government is going to be blamed by people anyway for any bad response to a disaster, so it only seems fair that they should have the power to legally intervene in these circumstances when local authorities are not up to the task.
Only the Legislative branch can do so, and only "when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it." Ah, but in this case, it IS the Legislative who has done so; except we are not currently suffering from Rebellion or Invasion, ergo it would be unconstitutional.
Yes the power to suspend habeas corpus resides with Congress. However to claim that Congress has done this with the MCA is an abuse of language. The only people who might claim to have lost habeas corpus rights would be resident aliens who are found to be unlawful combatants. And it seems fairly clear that people captured overseas and held in Guantanamo and never brought to the U.S. wouldn't get HC rights anyway so the constitution doesn't have any say there. However I would agree that taking away HC rights from a legal resident alien has to be justified through the constitution's rebellion or invasion clause. I suppose if they are inside the U.S., it could be argued that this constitutes an invasion of sorts, but I will admit this is stretching.
There are classes of non-citizens who get fewer protections than citizens, in particular POWs even while being held within U.S. borders. They can be held for the duration of the conflict, however long that might be. One of the reasons for congress passing the MCA was to make it clear that unlawful combatants do not get more protection than actual lawful combatants. It would have been unfair if those who do not follow the Geneva Conventions got better legal treatment than those who do.