Hydrocarbons screw up the envonment. Nuclear would work nicely if not for the PR problem. Also, current reactor technology is one step away from nuclear weapons - if you've got a uranium enrichment plant, you can adapt it to make weapons-grade uranium by just reconfiguring a few controllers. That means a lot of countries of dubious stability can't really be trusted with it.
There is no one solution. Meeting power demands is going to have to be done via a variety of sources, depending upon local conditions, combined with measures to reduce demand. In the case of hydrocarbons that poses a problem, because any politician who promises to *raise* gas prices is going to crash hard next election.
Can't say on wind turbines, but power stations generally do use induction generators. The only permanent magnets used are for dark start purposes and emergency generators for cooling systems.
Also got to take into account the effects of climate change over a long enough term, impact of chemical pollution (including bioaccumulative ones like mercury) on prey species, things like that. It's very hard to calculate things like that.
Except on seabirds. Every few years we get some big oil spill where we can put a good number on the bird deaths and lay the blame upon oil.
One bell doesn't make much noise. Two bells bang together loudly. That's the experience with my cats, anyway. Cats sneak when hunting - if you want the bell to be effective when the cat is trying to be quiet, it'll have to be a constant annoyance to anyone around when the cat isn't sneaking.
I've seen a lot of collars come with decorative, silent bells.
Half the population of many muslim countries are named Mohammed. It's such a common name, they have to use an extended middle name in order to tell who they are talking about. They wouldn't consider it offensive.
Maybe the imams are just doing what any other politician does: Ramping up the rhetoric to tell the people what they want to hear in public.
It's aways hard to tell with politicians what they actually believe, and how much is a lie to ensure their popular support. Imams may be religious leaders, but really that's just another type of politician.
The poster is right. Iran is a threat, but not an existential threat. There's no possibility of them actually seriously destroying the US. Even if they did manage to make a nuclear bomb, they'd get smacked down so hard in that war the place would glow in the dark.
They can still pose a threat to US interests (the main US interest in that region being cheap, reliable oil). They could still kill a lot of people. They could still cause economic chaos. But when the dust settles, the US will be right there. Maybe a little bruise and minus a city, but still there.
The FBI is, in theory, suppose to investigate any crimes on US soil that are not under state jurisdiction. As the bomb threat was made across state lines, that makes it a crime for the FBI to be concerned with.
I wouldn't be at all surprised if this was a 'parallel construction' situation - the NSA helped with the tracking, but asked that their involvement be kept unofficial.
The NSA isn't suppose to be involved in law enforcement, but the lines are always hazy. Especially these days. A lot of things that would once have been considered simple domestic crimes are now being reclassified as terrorism - it makes it easier to get resources for the investigation and lets the prosecutors pile on more charges, and avoid awkward legal issues like needing warrants.
Which is why obesity is a 'disease of poverty.' The cheapest foods you can buy in developed countries are essentially lumps of sugar and fat with a trace of vitamins somewhere.
Want to see obesity rates in the US fall? Easy. There's one simple, almost trivial little thing the government can do that would save a considerable amount of spending and help combat obesity. Drop the corn subsidy! It won't happen, because the agricultural industry is a major contributer to a lot of political campaigns.
- You must adhere to living a strict Biblical lifestyle in order to maintain your membership. Not doing so can get you expelled from the program and will likely nullify any claims you may have as well. - 'For example, she told me a story of a member who was in a bad car accident requiring lots of medical work, but since the person was intoxicated when they got into the accident, the expense was not covered by Medi-Share.'
Roughly, they don't provide coverage for what they consider 'consequences of sin' - but define that quite broadly. I can't find the site any more, but I've read before of a person diagnosed with liver failure who medi-share wouldn't by out for - they judged his illness to be a consequence of excessive alcohol consumption. Similarily, they'll refuse to pay for pregnancy-related costs if the pregnancy is out of wedlock - and, while every parent likes to think their little angel of a daughter would never have premarital sex... teenagers do things like that. Similar again for smoking-related diseases - even if you quit smoking years ago, don't count on them to pay when you are diagnosed with lung cancer.
Also, I'd ignore the comments on that site. Given that every almost single one is heaping glowing praises upon the organisation, I'm guessing the site moderator has been selective in what gets through. No company can possibly be that perfect, religious or otherwise.
They are on the rise right now because, even though not considered legally insurance for most purposes, they do qualify under the new mandate - and, as they are very lightly regulated and don't cover routine checkups, they can be a lot cheaper than any conventional insurance provider. Thus a lot of people who were previously uninsured find Christian not-insurance to be the cheapest option.
Just don't depend on actually getting any money out from the religious health care pools. Unlike actual insurance companies, they have no legal obligation to pay at all. They also tend to happily take your 'donation' each month, but when you actually need to make a claim they'll decide your behavior is too sinful and kick you out. The main insurance industry is quite dodgy enough when it comes to finding excuses to avoid paying out - religious 'cost sharing' agencies are even worse.
Updating the database is trivial. The annoyance for me is that people keep clicking 'reply' on emails, so you can never, ever close down the old address. You need to leave it redirecting forever, just in case someone outside the organisation isn't aware of the change. It's just ugly. Worse, the users tend to insist upon changing their usernames - something that tends to make Windows misbehave in weird and horrible ways, when registry keys that refer to usernames no longer refer correctly.
Loss of virginity would have greatly lowered the value of a woman as a bride. But Mary was already betrothed to Joseph, and there was no real formalisation of marriage at the time, so there was no real obligation for her to be a virgin at that point.
A lot of modern Christian ideas of sexual 'purity' aren't anywhere in the bible - they are adapted from roman or medieval teachings. A very clear example of this can be seen in Samson, Judges 16. He visits and sleeps with a prostitute. Following which... nothing happens. No judgement from God. No disapproval. Far from it - he gets up in the morning and straight away starts using his divinely blessed superpowers. The truth is that, while Christians now have this notion that God calls upon men to remain virgins until married and monogamous thereafter, there was simply no such notion in Jewish culture of the time: If a man used the services of a prostitute, it was simply no big deal. The virginity of women was prized, but men faced no such restriction.
And the greek texts are themselves a translation. Jesus and his contempories would have spoken in aramaic (With a little hebrew mixed in when debating religious matters) - their words were translated before being recorded. Exactly what they said is now lost to history.
It's impossible to recognise satire like that accurately because there really are some extreme Christians who go to such lengths. Pensacola Christian College, for example, has been known to suspend students for making excessively long eye contact with someone of the opposite sex and has official rules (not just informal, they are written down in the rulebook) prohibiting such sinful activities as visiting the home of an unmarried person, dancing, visiting a cinema or being present in a mixed-sex group without an approved college chaperone. They even segregate their corridoors and elevators by gender, to make sure no male and female may ever accidentally encounter one another and be tempted to converse unsupervised.
Also, Christian linux distributions do exist. They aren't quite so elaborate though - the ones I know of are essentially just more mainstream distros wth a few extra packages added like bible reference software, Christian-themed wallpaper and some form of web filter.
It used to be a concern. Vaccination stopped that. Vaccination will continue to keep it stopped only so long as people use it.
Only one disease has ever been completly eradicated from the wild. Polio has been tantalisingly close for years too, but a different strain of anti-vax has been hindering eradication. Measles, however, is still there... simmering. Just waiting for the chance to make a resurgence.
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Hydrocarbons screw up the envonment. Nuclear would work nicely if not for the PR problem. Also, current reactor technology is one step away from nuclear weapons - if you've got a uranium enrichment plant, you can adapt it to make weapons-grade uranium by just reconfiguring a few controllers. That means a lot of countries of dubious stability can't really be trusted with it.
There is no one solution. Meeting power demands is going to have to be done via a variety of sources, depending upon local conditions, combined with measures to reduce demand. In the case of hydrocarbons that poses a problem, because any politician who promises to *raise* gas prices is going to crash hard next election.
Can't say on wind turbines, but power stations generally do use induction generators. The only permanent magnets used are for dark start purposes and emergency generators for cooling systems.
Also got to take into account the effects of climate change over a long enough term, impact of chemical pollution (including bioaccumulative ones like mercury) on prey species, things like that. It's very hard to calculate things like that.
Except on seabirds. Every few years we get some big oil spill where we can put a good number on the bird deaths and lay the blame upon oil.
Nor do most Americans. They like the symbolism of the bird, but the actual birds? Don't need them around to put their symbol everywhere.
Two bells.
One bell doesn't make much noise. Two bells bang together loudly. That's the experience with my cats, anyway. Cats sneak when hunting - if you want the bell to be effective when the cat is trying to be quiet, it'll have to be a constant annoyance to anyone around when the cat isn't sneaking.
I've seen a lot of collars come with decorative, silent bells.
Prosecution?
When does the US bother with prosecution for suspected terrorists? They'd just disappear him to a prison that doesn't officially exist somewhere.
Half the population of many muslim countries are named Mohammed. It's such a common name, they have to use an extended middle name in order to tell who they are talking about. They wouldn't consider it offensive.
It's possible they had Yahoo's help: 'When this user logs in, sneak this malicious HTML onto the page.'
Then all you need is a browser exploit, and there are plenty of those around.
Maybe the imams are just doing what any other politician does: Ramping up the rhetoric to tell the people what they want to hear in public.
It's aways hard to tell with politicians what they actually believe, and how much is a lie to ensure their popular support. Imams may be religious leaders, but really that's just another type of politician.
The poster is right. Iran is a threat, but not an existential threat. There's no possibility of them actually seriously destroying the US. Even if they did manage to make a nuclear bomb, they'd get smacked down so hard in that war the place would glow in the dark.
They can still pose a threat to US interests (the main US interest in that region being cheap, reliable oil). They could still kill a lot of people. They could still cause economic chaos. But when the dust settles, the US will be right there. Maybe a little bruise and minus a city, but still there.
The FBI is, in theory, suppose to investigate any crimes on US soil that are not under state jurisdiction. As the bomb threat was made across state lines, that makes it a crime for the FBI to be concerned with.
I wouldn't be at all surprised if this was a 'parallel construction' situation - the NSA helped with the tracking, but asked that their involvement be kept unofficial.
The NSA isn't suppose to be involved in law enforcement, but the lines are always hazy. Especially these days. A lot of things that would once have been considered simple domestic crimes are now being reclassified as terrorism - it makes it easier to get resources for the investigation and lets the prosecutors pile on more charges, and avoid awkward legal issues like needing warrants.
Take a look at the power supply for one.
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Only for patients who can defy an instinct programmed into them by a few hundres million years of evolution. It's doable, yes - but it's bloody hard!
If it were that simple to ignore instinctive urges, abstinance only education would be effective.
Which is why obesity is a 'disease of poverty.' The cheapest foods you can buy in developed countries are essentially lumps of sugar and fat with a trace of vitamins somewhere.
Want to see obesity rates in the US fall? Easy. There's one simple, almost trivial little thing the government can do that would save a considerable amount of spending and help combat obesity. Drop the corn subsidy! It won't happen, because the agricultural industry is a major contributer to a lot of political campaigns.
I can find some anecdotal horror stories, of course. But we both know anecdotes are worthless.
The best known of the pools is probably Medi-Share. From a website sympathetic to their position, http://christianpf.com/christian-health-insurance-alternative/
- You must adhere to living a strict Biblical lifestyle in order to maintain your membership. Not doing so can get you expelled from the program and will likely nullify any claims you may have as well.
- 'For example, she told me a story of a member who was in a bad car accident requiring lots of medical work, but since the person was intoxicated when they got into the accident, the expense was not covered by Medi-Share.'
Roughly, they don't provide coverage for what they consider 'consequences of sin' - but define that quite broadly. I can't find the site any more, but I've read before of a person diagnosed with liver failure who medi-share wouldn't by out for - they judged his illness to be a consequence of excessive alcohol consumption. Similarily, they'll refuse to pay for pregnancy-related costs if the pregnancy is out of wedlock - and, while every parent likes to think their little angel of a daughter would never have premarital sex... teenagers do things like that. Similar again for smoking-related diseases - even if you quit smoking years ago, don't count on them to pay when you are diagnosed with lung cancer.
Also, I'd ignore the comments on that site. Given that every almost single one is heaping glowing praises upon the organisation, I'm guessing the site moderator has been selective in what gets through. No company can possibly be that perfect, religious or otherwise.
They are on the rise right now because, even though not considered legally insurance for most purposes, they do qualify under the new mandate - and, as they are very lightly regulated and don't cover routine checkups, they can be a lot cheaper than any conventional insurance provider. Thus a lot of people who were previously uninsured find Christian not-insurance to be the cheapest option.
If you just want the anecdotes and horror stories though, here's one:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/02/26/christian-medical-plans-pass-health-law-despite-consumer-complaints/
That's from Fox News, so you'd imagine their bias to be in favor of the Christian not-insurance. If even they condemn it, you can be sure something is fishy.
Just don't depend on actually getting any money out from the religious health care pools. Unlike actual insurance companies, they have no legal obligation to pay at all. They also tend to happily take your 'donation' each month, but when you actually need to make a claim they'll decide your behavior is too sinful and kick you out. The main insurance industry is quite dodgy enough when it comes to finding excuses to avoid paying out - religious 'cost sharing' agencies are even worse.
Updating the database is trivial. The annoyance for me is that people keep clicking 'reply' on emails, so you can never, ever close down the old address. You need to leave it redirecting forever, just in case someone outside the organisation isn't aware of the change. It's just ugly. Worse, the users tend to insist upon changing their usernames - something that tends to make Windows misbehave in weird and horrible ways, when registry keys that refer to usernames no longer refer correctly.
Loss of virginity would have greatly lowered the value of a woman as a bride. But Mary was already betrothed to Joseph, and there was no real formalisation of marriage at the time, so there was no real obligation for her to be a virgin at that point.
A lot of modern Christian ideas of sexual 'purity' aren't anywhere in the bible - they are adapted from roman or medieval teachings. A very clear example of this can be seen in Samson, Judges 16. He visits and sleeps with a prostitute. Following which... nothing happens. No judgement from God. No disapproval. Far from it - he gets up in the morning and straight away starts using his divinely blessed superpowers. The truth is that, while Christians now have this notion that God calls upon men to remain virgins until married and monogamous thereafter, there was simply no such notion in Jewish culture of the time: If a man used the services of a prostitute, it was simply no big deal. The virginity of women was prized, but men faced no such restriction.
"And the angel of the LORD said unto him, Wherefore hast thou smitten thine ass these three times?" - Numbers 22:32
And the greek texts are themselves a translation. Jesus and his contempories would have spoken in aramaic (With a little hebrew mixed in when debating religious matters) - their words were translated before being recorded. Exactly what they said is now lost to history.
Poe's Law in action.
It's impossible to recognise satire like that accurately because there really are some extreme Christians who go to such lengths. Pensacola Christian College, for example, has been known to suspend students for making excessively long eye contact with someone of the opposite sex and has official rules (not just informal, they are written down in the rulebook) prohibiting such sinful activities as visiting the home of an unmarried person, dancing, visiting a cinema or being present in a mixed-sex group without an approved college chaperone. They even segregate their corridoors and elevators by gender, to make sure no male and female may ever accidentally encounter one another and be tempted to converse unsupervised.
Also, Christian linux distributions do exist. They aren't quite so elaborate though - the ones I know of are essentially just more mainstream distros wth a few extra packages added like bible reference software, Christian-themed wallpaper and some form of web filter.
In the year 2050, corporations will start to store their most valued creative employees in suspended animation to postpone their legal death.
It used to be a concern. Vaccination stopped that. Vaccination will continue to keep it stopped only so long as people use it.
Only one disease has ever been completly eradicated from the wild. Polio has been tantalisingly close for years too, but a different strain of anti-vax has been hindering eradication. Measles, however, is still there... simmering. Just waiting for the chance to make a resurgence.
A pox upon her house!
Yes, and their range is measured in milimeters.