Yeah, well you need to get more modern roundabouts in the US. They have apparently 40% fewer vehicle collisions, 80% fewer injuries and 90% fewer serious injuries and fatalities than intersections.
Not that it excuses sociopaths sending text messages while driving, but better junctions (aka roundabouts) will stop them, and a bunch of other idiots causing so much mayhem.
While the accident and fatality rates might have been falling, what you miss is that without the cell phone they would probably have been falling faster.
There have been studies done with drivers in simulators that show they are far more likely to have an accident if they are sending text messages on their phone, or taking phone calls for that matter.
The Driving Standards Agency and the Department of Transport in the UK has conducted research into this using simulators, and yes they have more accidents. As a simulator allows you to control all the additional factors and the findings are in line with common sense, I feel it is safe to conclude they are accurate.
To equate Britain to England demonstrates that your "public" education (because in the U.K. that means something entirely different) was/is considerably lacking in geography.
In the EU that would be an instant lost case of unfair dismissal for the employer. The best you can do is suspend them on full pay with immediate effect while a dismissal procedure is followed. In your case the inappropriate stuff could have been done to frame him and you just don't know in advance.
Keeping hold of any personal possessions would amount to theft in the UK. as there would be a clear intention to permanently deprive. I cannot imagine it would be different elsewhere.
An in the UK you can get private health care insurance if you want it. BUPA
The ignorance displayed by large sections of the US public is truly breathtaking. You have no idea how stupid you are all making yourself look in the eyes of the rest of the world, and a couple of months ago I would have said that was impossible.
What the fuck, even in the United Kingdom with the NHS for over 60 years now, there is a thriving private insurance industry, with private hospitals. Some employers even over private health insurance, and some people take it out privately.
This is clearly uninformed nonsense, along the lines of claiming that Stephen Hawkings would be dead under the NHS, when he is in fact British and gets excellent treatment without which he would be dead under the NHS.
The thing is that life expectancy is closely tied to your socioeconomic group. The top group in the USA has worse life expectancy and health outcomes than the lowest group in the UK, despite expenditure on health care in the USA being twice the percentage of GDP that it is in the UK.
I don't for one minute claim our health care system is perfect, but it is *FAR* less broken than the one in the USA.
Your massive craft size is due to shielding and shock absorbers -- and the impulse comes from massively dirty fallout. Hell, the article you link to contains more than enough information to show how impractical this idea is.
The massive craft size is due to the fact that you can now viably start to lift that amount of material. Why go from a few tonnes of payload to 100 tonnes, when going to 1000 or 5000 tonnes is just as easy? Why mess about assembling something like the ISS when you can lift a much bigger structure into space in one go?
The fallout is why Project Orion was abandoned. However if you can use laser inertial confinement to ignite a pure fusion explosion there is no fallout and it is back on.
The only viable mechanisms to obtain low earth orbit is a rail-gun single-impulse launcher (for supplies, humans can't survive pulling that many Gs) and conventional chemical rockets.
Write when you solve that F=M*A problem for G.
Wrong nuclear pulse detonation is a perfectly viable method from a technical standpoint. The problem is current thermonuclear devices have fallout issues that make them unacceptable. Switch to a pure fusion explosion the fallout issues disappear and off we go.
Using nuclear pulse propulsion. If you can have pure fusion explosions ignited by laser, you get over the fallout problems when using conventional thermonuclear devices and it becomes a viable rocket propulsion system.
Basically you need 800 0.15kT explosions 1 second apart to lift 1600 tonnes into low earth orbit or 1200 tonnes to the moon or 800 tonnes to Mars orbit and return.
If you go to 0.35kT explosions then you are looking at 5700 tonne to the moon, and 5300 tonne to Mars orbit and return.
There where designs for 8 million tonne "ships"
It should also be possible to accelerate the ships to around 10% the speed of light.
The problem is your case is made on a faulty premise. It fails to take into account the whole picture and equates all crime as being the same.
If you own a gun the suicide rate goes up 25%, and the chances of suffering a gun injury goes up 32%.
http://ericwalczak0.tripod.com/id10.html
Clearly owning a gun is not automatically going to making you safer in the home.
There is *very* little that could be removed from my home that is irreplaceable, and to be honest I doubt a their would take most of them. That is what insurance is for.
Therefore the question one would have to ask oneself is does owning a gun improve me and my families chances of surviving till tomorrow. If the answer to that is no, and all the statistics point to this being the right answer, then rationally owning a gun is dumb and stupid thing to do.
It is like driving a SUV and thinking it makes you safer. Wrong per passenger mile traveled you are more likely to be killed or seriously injured in an SUV than almost any other type of motor vehicle. Yet people "feel" safer in a SUV, just the same way people "feel" safer when owning a gun
But what sort of crime? If burglary goes up a bit, but the murder rate goes down then this is in my opinion a better choice.
The fact is in the USA you are more likely to be killed by a gun if you have a gun.
I would suspect that Mahatma Gandhi also supported gun controls (though I have no proof that he did). I think if everyone was like him the world would be a much much nicer place.
I would also add that if you have a gun in the USA you or a close family member is *MORE* likely to be killed by a gun than if you don't have a gun.
It's like driving in a SUV and thinking you are safer than being in a normal car. Wrong again you are more likely to be killed or seriously injured in a SUV than an ordinary car.
There is also the case of the guinea pig farmer's mother if I recall correctly, whose body was snatched from a grave and whose wear abouts is currently unknown.
I am afraid that you are engaged in some seriously flawed and faulty thinking.
Firstly what you failed to ask is what percentage of drugs that fail animal experiments would pass human experiments.
Secondly remember animal experiments are generally for toxicity not efficacy, i.e. is drug X going to kill or seriously harm the subject. Just because drug X is safe to try on humans does not mean it does anything useful.
Did the drug fail human experiments? Yes. Did the drug testing process fail? No. Human volunteers for taking random chemical compounds are very few and far between. I hope you are signed up for lots of early stage drug tests.
Thirdly different animals are good analogs for different human organs. So a guinea pig is good for heart drugs, and a cat for liver drugs etc. These are made up examples as I don't actually know which animals are used for what.
Finally democratic society has deemed testing on animals acceptable. As a consequence society has the right to punish those who engaging in terrorist activities because they don't agree with animal testing. If you don't like it use the democratic process to change it.
I never quite understand why I would want a VGA or DVI or any other external graphics slot on a netbook. Seems to defeat the purpose of a netbook. The only thing I can think of that might require that is a presentation, in which case turn it into a PDF and do your presentation using Acrobat on what ever PC happens to be connected to the projector.
I also somewhat struggle with the concept of a RJ45 socket for ethernet, a WiFi connection is perfectly satisfactory for a netbook.
All these external ports make the device more expensive, and prone to failure.
Then again my perfect netbook has a Cortex A9 ARM processor, 1GB of RAM and 8GB of flash, coupled with a 9" screen using the technology from the XO-1, with WiFi and Bluetooth, a few USB sockets, Mac style calculator keyboard, a battery life of 12 hours minimum and cost under $200
The thing is, printing lots of labels just isn't something traditional apps (open office) are good at (outside of the traditional "print 400 copies of the same label" or "mailmerge"). You are much better off with a quick and dirty (web?) app that sends the right formatting commands directly to the printer.
Not really. We buy our boxes on a five year maintenance contract, so we need five years minimum.
Also first revisions of a release tend to have rough edges. For example CentOS/RedHat 5 was full of problems till 5.3 that basically made it unusable for NFS.
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Yeah, well you need to get more modern roundabouts in the US. They have apparently 40% fewer vehicle collisions, 80% fewer injuries and 90% fewer serious injuries and fatalities than intersections.
Not that it excuses sociopaths sending text messages while driving, but better junctions (aka roundabouts) will stop them, and a bunch of other idiots causing so much mayhem.
While the accident and fatality rates might have been falling, what you miss is that without the cell phone they would probably have been falling faster.
There have been studies done with drivers in simulators that show they are far more likely to have an accident if they are sending text messages on their phone, or taking phone calls for that matter.
The Driving Standards Agency and the Department of Transport in the UK has conducted research into this using simulators, and yes they have more accidents. As a simulator allows you to control all the additional factors and the findings are in line with common sense, I feel it is safe to conclude they are accurate.
Britain is only called England by ignoramuses. While the full details are complex (see ) the basics are that Britain is the combination of at least England, Wales and Scotland and Northern Ireland.
To equate Britain to England demonstrates that your "public" education (because in the U.K. that means something entirely different) was/is considerably lacking in geography.
In the EU that would be an instant lost case of unfair dismissal for the employer. The best you can do is suspend them on full pay with immediate effect while a dismissal procedure is followed. In your case the inappropriate stuff could have been done to frame him and you just don't know in advance.
Keeping hold of any personal possessions would amount to theft in the UK. as there would be a clear intention to permanently deprive. I cannot imagine it would be different elsewhere.
You are clearly not British then. Many Australians have attitudes and use language that is offensive and to many racist towards the British.
Except there exist Y chromosome defects that result in an entirely female physiology. That is the problem it is not that simple.
And that MRI scanner you seem to like talking about so much was invented in the United Kingdom, funded by the NHS at least in part.
Maybe it is the one that put the British citizen, and UK resident Stephen Hawkings to death?
An in the UK you can get private health care insurance if you want it. BUPA
The ignorance displayed by large sections of the US public is truly breathtaking. You have no idea how stupid you are all making yourself look in the eyes of the rest of the world, and a couple of months ago I would have said that was impossible.
What the fuck, even in the United Kingdom with the NHS for over 60 years now, there is a thriving private insurance industry, with private hospitals. Some employers even over private health insurance, and some people take it out privately.
This is clearly uninformed nonsense, along the lines of claiming that Stephen Hawkings would be dead under the NHS, when he is in fact British and gets excellent treatment without which he would be dead under the NHS.
The thing is that life expectancy is closely tied to your socioeconomic group. The top group in the USA has worse life expectancy and health outcomes than the lowest group in the UK, despite expenditure on health care in the USA being twice the percentage of GDP that it is in the UK.
I don't for one minute claim our health care system is perfect, but it is *FAR* less broken than the one in the USA.
Your massive craft size is due to shielding and shock absorbers -- and the impulse comes from massively dirty fallout. Hell, the article you link to contains more than enough information to show how impractical this idea is.
The massive craft size is due to the fact that you can now viably start to lift that amount of material. Why go from a few tonnes of payload to 100 tonnes, when going to 1000 or 5000 tonnes is just as easy? Why mess about assembling something like the ISS when you can lift a much bigger structure into space in one go?
The fallout is why Project Orion was abandoned. However if you can use laser inertial confinement to ignite a pure fusion explosion there is no fallout and it is back on.
The only viable mechanisms to obtain low earth orbit is a rail-gun single-impulse launcher (for supplies, humans can't survive pulling that many Gs) and conventional chemical rockets.
Write when you solve that F=M*A problem for G.
Wrong nuclear pulse detonation is a perfectly viable method from a technical standpoint. The problem is current thermonuclear devices have fallout issues that make them unacceptable. Switch to a pure fusion explosion the fallout issues disappear and off we go.
Using nuclear pulse propulsion. If you can have pure fusion explosions ignited by laser, you get over the fallout problems when using conventional thermonuclear devices and it becomes a viable rocket propulsion system.
Project Orion
Basically you need 800 0.15kT explosions 1 second apart to lift 1600 tonnes into low earth orbit or 1200 tonnes to the moon or 800 tonnes to Mars orbit and return.
If you go to 0.35kT explosions then you are looking at 5700 tonne to the moon, and 5300 tonne to Mars orbit and return.
There where designs for 8 million tonne "ships"
It should also be possible to accelerate the ships to around 10% the speed of light.
The problem is your case is made on a faulty premise. It fails to take into account the whole picture and equates all crime as being the same.
If you own a gun the suicide rate goes up 25%, and the chances of suffering a gun injury goes up 32%.
http://ericwalczak0.tripod.com/id10.html
Clearly owning a gun is not automatically going to making you safer in the home.
There is *very* little that could be removed from my home that is irreplaceable, and to be honest I doubt a their would take most of them. That is what insurance is for.
Therefore the question one would have to ask oneself is does owning a gun improve me and my families chances of surviving till tomorrow. If the answer to that is no, and all the statistics point to this being the right answer, then rationally owning a gun is dumb and stupid thing to do.
It is like driving a SUV and thinking it makes you safer. Wrong per passenger mile traveled you are more likely to be killed or seriously injured in an SUV than almost any other type of motor vehicle. Yet people "feel" safer in a SUV, just the same way people "feel" safer when owning a gun
But what sort of crime? If burglary goes up a bit, but the murder rate goes down then this is in my opinion a better choice.
The fact is in the USA you are more likely to be killed by a gun if you have a gun.
I would suspect that Mahatma Gandhi also supported gun controls (though I have no proof that he did). I think if everyone was like him the world would be a much much nicer place.
I would also add that if you have a gun in the USA you or a close family member is *MORE* likely to be killed by a gun than if you don't have a gun.
It's like driving in a SUV and thinking you are safer than being in a normal car. Wrong again you are more likely to be killed or seriously injured in a SUV than an ordinary car.
I believe it also serves some of the area around Kingston upon Hull, which may well include Spurn Point, the place in question.
Or more precisely the Royal National Lifeboat Institute or RNLI
There is also the case of the guinea pig farmer's mother if I recall correctly, whose body was snatched from a grave and whose wear abouts is currently unknown.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/animal-rights-activists-condemned-as-guinea-pig-farm-gives-up-fight-504066.html
There were also a range of arson attacks.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2005/jun/25/animalwelfare.world
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/5259774.stm
I am afraid that you are engaged in some seriously flawed and faulty thinking.
Firstly what you failed to ask is what percentage of drugs that fail animal experiments would pass human experiments.
Secondly remember animal experiments are generally for toxicity not efficacy, i.e. is drug X going to kill or seriously harm the subject. Just because drug X is safe to try on humans does not mean it does anything useful.
Did the drug fail human experiments? Yes. Did the drug testing process fail? No. Human volunteers for taking random chemical compounds are very few and far between. I hope you are signed up for lots of early stage drug tests.
Thirdly different animals are good analogs for different human organs. So a guinea pig is good for heart drugs, and a cat for liver drugs etc. These are made up examples as I don't actually know which animals are used for what.
Finally democratic society has deemed testing on animals acceptable. As a consequence society has the right to punish those who engaging in terrorist activities because they don't agree with animal testing. If you don't like it use the democratic process to change it.
No you don't understand the difference between a photograph and an image, because your comprehension of the English language is flawed.
Actually the UK has a problem with extremist animal rights activists who do go round bombing things. Some of these are now behind bars and rightly so.
I never quite understand why I would want a VGA or DVI or any other external graphics slot on a netbook. Seems to defeat the purpose of a netbook. The only thing I can think of that might require that is a presentation, in which case turn it into a PDF and do your presentation using Acrobat on what ever PC happens to be connected to the projector.
I also somewhat struggle with the concept of a RJ45 socket for ethernet, a WiFi connection is perfectly satisfactory for a netbook.
All these external ports make the device more expensive, and prone to failure.
Then again my perfect netbook has a Cortex A9 ARM processor, 1GB of RAM and 8GB of flash, coupled with a 9" screen using the technology from the XO-1, with WiFi and Bluetooth, a few USB sockets, Mac style calculator keyboard, a battery life of 12 hours minimum and cost under $200
The thing is, printing lots of labels just isn't something traditional apps (open office) are good at (outside of the traditional "print 400 copies of the same label" or "mailmerge"). You are much better off with a quick and dirty (web?) app that sends the right formatting commands directly to the printer.
That is why you use glables instead.
Not really. We buy our boxes on a five year maintenance contract, so we need five years minimum.
Also first revisions of a release tend to have rough edges. For example CentOS/RedHat 5 was full of problems till 5.3 that basically made it unusable for NFS.