There have already been trials. You give the treatment to one group of at-risk individuals and a placebo to another group. You make sure that they understand that they aren't to rely on this as a cure/certain protection. Then you follow them over the years and see what the infection rate is. If 30% of the control group is infected with HIV at the end and only 5% of the treatment group is infected, you've got a good result. If they are both about the same, your treatment doesn't work.
I definitely think that the signal strength is a big factor. Any enemies of the US that wanted to take action against us would first need to get the equipment to do this. This would mean diverting funds from other efforts like hijackings or bomb making materials. And even if you got the equipment, is Voyager really what you want to hijack? Let's be honest, if you change a few commands to a 34 year old space probe a light-day (give or take) from the Earth, it's not that big of a deal. Well, it'd be a big deal to NASA, some scientists, and space geeks like us, but the politicians and the general public would yawn. If you took out a few dozen communications satellites instead, a lot more people would take notice.
True, but that would be more or less a chance encounter. Right now, it is going at 17.26 km/s. I don't know offhand if it is headed anywhere in the general vicinity of Alpha Centauri, the nearest star to us and the closest gravity boost Voyager could get. For the sake of argument, let's say it is. Alpha Centauri is about 4.24 light years away from us or about 4 × 10^13 km. At its current speed, it would take about 73,437 years for the Voyager probe to reach Alpha Centauri. In 73,000+ years, we went from the Middle Stone Age to the present day. I wonder what mankind's civilization will be like (if it is even around) in 73,000+ years. I doubt anyone will even remember about Voyager.
You should mix the drinks. If she wants Egg Nog (or some other drink), give her a drop of the drink in a glass of water and ask her if it is too strong. (You could always pour half of the glass into another half glass of water and shake it up to strengthen it.)
Of course, you'll want to drink the "weak" version of the drinks... you know, the ones not strengthened by being diluted in water.
Now if they could only paint flames on the pills. Everyone knows painting flames on a car makes it go faster so the same principle should work for pills.
My point was more that, even if you did hold the laptop in your lap (right over your crotch and not simply on your legs), your sperm will be under skin and tissue. This would afford some protection from the WiFi radiation. (The skin/tissue would absorb the radiation so it might not even reach the sperm.)
Just to play devil's advocate (not that I accept the study - I think it's flawed), one data point does not equal proof. Perhaps your sperm count would have been 600 million had you not been using the laptop.
I do agree that the heat is likely a bigger issue than any WiFi radiation.
Not sure about this article, but another article I read did say that they had a laptop with WiFi disabled and a second control with no laptop at all and didn't see the drops that they saw on the WiFi laptop.
My complaint would be that one does not usually store one's sperm directly under the laptop. There's usually some flesh between the laptop and the sperm. Would that flesh be enough to absorb the WiFi radiation? I'm thinking probably since WiFi's penetration is only millimeters. A few millimeters of skin/tissue should protect your sperm.
Then again, my wife and I are done with having kids (stopping at 2), so perhaps I should look at this as birth control.;-)
And, what's worse, it means that the real identity thieves rarely get caught. Someone can use their place of employment to steal personal information and quietly sell it on the black mark for $5 a pop. They can even sell the same identity more than once. Those buyers, then, turn around and commit the fraud that is usually associated with ID theft. (Buying electronics under another person's name, opening and maxing out new credit cards, buying homes, committing crimes and giving another person's name/DOB/SSN when arrested, etc.) The buyer might be caught, but the seller can slip through to steal and sell more identities.
And why should our issues of "Good vs Evil" be the same as God's? Meaning, if a good couple dies childless but a bad couple dies after having 10 kids and 30 grandkids, that might seem unfair. Perhaps it is. But maybe that good couple has DNA that would have a negative effect on humanity's evolution and the bad couple's would have a beneficial effect? Or, going on a non-evolutionary route, perhaps a child the good couple would have had would have rebelled from being good and would have become a horrible murderer. Perhaps the bad couple's grandkids will seek to repair their tainted family name by being good.
If you are postulating a being for whom "a thousand years is like a day", then the good vs. evil of our day to day lives would be pretty meaningless for him. One day for him would be like 2/10ths of a second. How often do you agonize over the morality of actions that take you 2/10ths of a second?
My son was in the first grade when he figured out how to use our DVR. Had to have a talk with him about why he couldn't just record every program that he wanted to without asking Mommy and/or Daddy. Not sure even elementary school kids live by TV schedule anymore.
Yes, I have tried. Office and Openoffice don't recognize the file format. I'm not too comfortable about submitting my documents to random websites for "conversion." (Especially if all I know about the website is that it comes up in a Google search.)
Notepad does allow me to open them and view some of the text, but it is very garbled. Some text is missing, chunks of text are placed in various different sections, and much of the "text" are characters that don't make any sense (which, of course, comes from Notepad's inability to properly render the Multimate file format). I was only able to recreate one document via Notepad's rendering.
I no longer have Multimate. Just the files I wrote awhile back when I used the program. Ii haven't been able to find any program that can read these files.
Unfortunately, while I still have the Multimate files, I don't have Multimate itself. So I need to find some program that can translate them into a more modern file format (or just spit out the plain text).
You're lucky. I didn't use WordPerfect, but used Multimate instead. Now, I have a bunch of Multimate documents that can't be converted into Word or OpenDocument formats.
Not all forms of civil disobedience require you to cooperate with an arresting officer.
Some disciplines of civil disobedience hold that the protestor must submit to arrest and cooperate with the authorities. Others advocate falling limp or otherwise resisting arrest, especially when it will hinder the police from effectively responding to a mass protest. A possible disadvantage of going limp, for those who wish to communicate with the arresting officer about their ideals, is that it may be difficult to do so while being dragged across the ground.
The Occupy protesters wanted to intentionally make it hard (in a nonviolent manner) for police to arrest them. So they sat down and though they allowed police to drag them away, they weren't going to fully cooperate. (They could get charged with resisting arrest which, I'm sure, is something they were expecting to be charged with. You don't go into a situation like this expecting *NOT* to get charged.)
The police still could have dragged them off without resorting to pepper spray. People may not have handles, but they have arms and legs. Two officers, working together, could drag one protester away from the group, handcuff him/her, and move him to a designated spot out of the way. Then they could repeat this for each of the other protesters. Would it be easy? Of course not. But lack of ease doesn't mean that the police get to resort to pepper spray.
The police had the right to arrest the protesters. That doesn't need to involve pepper spray, however. They should have forcibly pulled the protesters apart and into police cars (or wherever they were going to pull them to). This isn't to say that this would be easy, of course. They would have had to expend considerable effort to arrest the protesters. Still, it was doable and the protesters weren't showing any sign that they would be violent about it. Spraying nonviolent protesters with pepper spray in an attempt to get them to scatter was excessive and not needed.
When I was watching the video, the first thing I thought was "The police are going to go after that guy with the video camera." Then I saw a second video camera. And a third. And an iPad (obviously recording video). And a laptop (webcam, most likely). And a dozen (if not more) cameras trained on the police. So the police would have had their hands full trying to suppress all of the video footage.
And, after Irene, some members of Congress wanted to delay flood victim relief until everyone in Congress sat down and agreed on what programs would be cut to raise the money for the flood victims. Because what people with no homes to live in and businesses that lost everything really want is for the bureaucrats to make sure all the books are balanced before they get federal disaster relief!
And, even if Congress were to make such a rule, guess who could decide that they don't need to abide by it? That's right. Congress. So, when it becomes inconvenient (say, when they wanted to sneak a SOPA piece in), they could modify the rule to allow for exceptions.
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There have already been trials. You give the treatment to one group of at-risk individuals and a placebo to another group. You make sure that they understand that they aren't to rely on this as a cure/certain protection. Then you follow them over the years and see what the infection rate is. If 30% of the control group is infected with HIV at the end and only 5% of the treatment group is infected, you've got a good result. If they are both about the same, your treatment doesn't work.
I definitely think that the signal strength is a big factor. Any enemies of the US that wanted to take action against us would first need to get the equipment to do this. This would mean diverting funds from other efforts like hijackings or bomb making materials. And even if you got the equipment, is Voyager really what you want to hijack? Let's be honest, if you change a few commands to a 34 year old space probe a light-day (give or take) from the Earth, it's not that big of a deal. Well, it'd be a big deal to NASA, some scientists, and space geeks like us, but the politicians and the general public would yawn. If you took out a few dozen communications satellites instead, a lot more people would take notice.
True, but that would be more or less a chance encounter. Right now, it is going at 17.26 km/s. I don't know offhand if it is headed anywhere in the general vicinity of Alpha Centauri, the nearest star to us and the closest gravity boost Voyager could get. For the sake of argument, let's say it is. Alpha Centauri is about 4.24 light years away from us or about 4 × 10^13 km. At its current speed, it would take about 73,437 years for the Voyager probe to reach Alpha Centauri. In 73,000+ years, we went from the Middle Stone Age to the present day. I wonder what mankind's civilization will be like (if it is even around) in 73,000+ years. I doubt anyone will even remember about Voyager.
You just have to be careful. Looking at photos of young, hot stars under 180 million years old can get you in trouble.
What if you paint smiley faces on fire... you know, to make them feel better faster?
Oh rats, that didn't work as intended. Someone call the burn ward.
You should mix the drinks. If she wants Egg Nog (or some other drink), give her a drop of the drink in a glass of water and ask her if it is too strong. (You could always pour half of the glass into another half glass of water and shake it up to strengthen it.)
Of course, you'll want to drink the "weak" version of the drinks... you know, the ones not strengthened by being diluted in water.
Now if they could only paint flames on the pills. Everyone knows painting flames on a car makes it go faster so the same principle should work for pills.
Obligatory SMBC: http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2438
"In our lifetimes, we will find a cure for virus!"
My point was more that, even if you did hold the laptop in your lap (right over your crotch and not simply on your legs), your sperm will be under skin and tissue. This would afford some protection from the WiFi radiation. (The skin/tissue would absorb the radiation so it might not even reach the sperm.)
Just to play devil's advocate (not that I accept the study - I think it's flawed), one data point does not equal proof. Perhaps your sperm count would have been 600 million had you not been using the laptop.
I do agree that the heat is likely a bigger issue than any WiFi radiation.
Not sure about this article, but another article I read did say that they had a laptop with WiFi disabled and a second control with no laptop at all and didn't see the drops that they saw on the WiFi laptop.
My complaint would be that one does not usually store one's sperm directly under the laptop. There's usually some flesh between the laptop and the sperm. Would that flesh be enough to absorb the WiFi radiation? I'm thinking probably since WiFi's penetration is only millimeters. A few millimeters of skin/tissue should protect your sperm.
Then again, my wife and I are done with having kids (stopping at 2), so perhaps I should look at this as birth control. ;-)
And, what's worse, it means that the real identity thieves rarely get caught. Someone can use their place of employment to steal personal information and quietly sell it on the black mark for $5 a pop. They can even sell the same identity more than once. Those buyers, then, turn around and commit the fraud that is usually associated with ID theft. (Buying electronics under another person's name, opening and maxing out new credit cards, buying homes, committing crimes and giving another person's name/DOB/SSN when arrested, etc.) The buyer might be caught, but the seller can slip through to steal and sell more identities.
"Ok, time to get some work done on my computer. Where'd I put those glasses?!!!"
And why should our issues of "Good vs Evil" be the same as God's? Meaning, if a good couple dies childless but a bad couple dies after having 10 kids and 30 grandkids, that might seem unfair. Perhaps it is. But maybe that good couple has DNA that would have a negative effect on humanity's evolution and the bad couple's would have a beneficial effect? Or, going on a non-evolutionary route, perhaps a child the good couple would have had would have rebelled from being good and would have become a horrible murderer. Perhaps the bad couple's grandkids will seek to repair their tainted family name by being good.
If you are postulating a being for whom "a thousand years is like a day", then the good vs. evil of our day to day lives would be pretty meaningless for him. One day for him would be like 2/10ths of a second. How often do you agonize over the morality of actions that take you 2/10ths of a second?
No, the message was: "I'm not dead yet. I feel fine. I think I'll go for a walk... er, float. I feel happy. I feel happy."
My son was in the first grade when he figured out how to use our DVR. Had to have a talk with him about why he couldn't just record every program that he wanted to without asking Mommy and/or Daddy. Not sure even elementary school kids live by TV schedule anymore.
Yes, I have tried. Office and Openoffice don't recognize the file format. I'm not too comfortable about submitting my documents to random websites for "conversion." (Especially if all I know about the website is that it comes up in a Google search.)
Notepad does allow me to open them and view some of the text, but it is very garbled. Some text is missing, chunks of text are placed in various different sections, and much of the "text" are characters that don't make any sense (which, of course, comes from Notepad's inability to properly render the Multimate file format). I was only able to recreate one document via Notepad's rendering.
I no longer have Multimate. Just the files I wrote awhile back when I used the program. Ii haven't been able to find any program that can read these files.
Unfortunately, while I still have the Multimate files, I don't have Multimate itself. So I need to find some program that can translate them into a more modern file format (or just spit out the plain text).
You're lucky. I didn't use WordPerfect, but used Multimate instead. Now, I have a bunch of Multimate documents that can't be converted into Word or OpenDocument formats.
Not all forms of civil disobedience require you to cooperate with an arresting officer.
(Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_disobedience#Cooperation_with_authorities )
The Occupy protesters wanted to intentionally make it hard (in a nonviolent manner) for police to arrest them. So they sat down and though they allowed police to drag them away, they weren't going to fully cooperate. (They could get charged with resisting arrest which, I'm sure, is something they were expecting to be charged with. You don't go into a situation like this expecting *NOT* to get charged.)
The police still could have dragged them off without resorting to pepper spray. People may not have handles, but they have arms and legs. Two officers, working together, could drag one protester away from the group, handcuff him/her, and move him to a designated spot out of the way. Then they could repeat this for each of the other protesters. Would it be easy? Of course not. But lack of ease doesn't mean that the police get to resort to pepper spray.
The police had the right to arrest the protesters. That doesn't need to involve pepper spray, however. They should have forcibly pulled the protesters apart and into police cars (or wherever they were going to pull them to). This isn't to say that this would be easy, of course. They would have had to expend considerable effort to arrest the protesters. Still, it was doable and the protesters weren't showing any sign that they would be violent about it. Spraying nonviolent protesters with pepper spray in an attempt to get them to scatter was excessive and not needed.
When I was watching the video, the first thing I thought was "The police are going to go after that guy with the video camera." Then I saw a second video camera. And a third. And an iPad (obviously recording video). And a laptop (webcam, most likely). And a dozen (if not more) cameras trained on the police. So the police would have had their hands full trying to suppress all of the video footage.
And, after Irene, some members of Congress wanted to delay flood victim relief until everyone in Congress sat down and agreed on what programs would be cut to raise the money for the flood victims. Because what people with no homes to live in and businesses that lost everything really want is for the bureaucrats to make sure all the books are balanced before they get federal disaster relief!
And, even if Congress were to make such a rule, guess who could decide that they don't need to abide by it? That's right. Congress. So, when it becomes inconvenient (say, when they wanted to sneak a SOPA piece in), they could modify the rule to allow for exceptions.