They weren't prohibited from setting their own speed limits. Read the article more carefully.
The Emergency Highway Energy Conservation Act was a bill in the U.S. Congress that enacted the National Maximum Speed Law. States had to agree to the limit if they desired to receive federal funding for highway repair.
States could have set higher speed limits or had no speed limits at all - at the cost of no more federal funding for their highways.
That's typically how the federal government gets control of powers that were never granted to it by the constitution: "We can't take these powers from the states, but if you don't voluntarily give them to us you'll get no more federal funding for your state." Also, the federal government can also operate under a budget deficit while states cannot, giving the states a distinct disadvantage in such transactions.
Did you actually see it? The "hypothetical poor" wasn't hypothetically poor at all. As the question was presented, the hypothetical guy had enough money to pay for health insurance but had chosen not to because he didn't think he "needed" it.
Here is the original question:
Let me ask you this hypothetical question: A healthy 30-year-old young man has a good job, makes a good living, but decides “you know what? I’m not going to spend 200, 300 dollars a month for health insurance ‘cuz I’m healthy, I don’t need it”. But something terrible happens and all of the sudden he needs it. Who’s gonna pay for it if he goes into a coma, for example. Who pays for that?
I might have some sympathy for a guy who can't afford health insurance, but I see no reason to bail out a guy who can afford it and decides to risk not having it anyway. He had the choice; he gambled; he lost. Now he pays the penalty.
It is, but that doesn't work with AIDS because it targets the immune system.
When you get a viral infection, the immune system doesn't target the virus itself; rather, it targets and destroys the infected cells. This prevents them from producing any more copies of the virus. But when it's the immune system being infected, it ends up killing itself, hence the name "auto-immune disease".
A vaccine works by infecting cells with an inert virus that makes the cell appear infected, but doesn't mass-reproduce itself or have significant ill effects on the patient. The immune system randomly produces a variety of antibodies, each of which targets some specific type of abnormal cell. Eventually an immune cell that has the antibody which detects the infected cells comes along and kills them. Then it starts mass-producing that antibody so the immune system will detect and kill that infection faster in the future.
If you tried to vaccinate against AIDS, you'd just end up killing off the patient's immune system - and since immunity is carried within the immune system itself, you've killed off the cells that were supposed to detect the infection in the future and subdue it before it got out of hand. The bone marrow will rebuild the immune system, but the new generation of cells don't know what they were supposed to be targeting because the cells with the antibodies targeting cells with AIDS were all killed off with the rest of the immune system.
where does the "attempting to provide material support and resources to al Qaeda for attacks on U.S. soldiers overseas" charge come from?
RTFA. He was buying cell phones, rigging them as remote switches to trigger IEDs, and selling them to people he thought were al Qaeda operatives, hoping they'd be used to attack U.S. soldiers overseas.
The people he thought were al Qaeda operatives were really undercover FBI agents, so his attempt to support al Qaeda failed.
If they still have a copy of it, they're required to include it.
Databases often do a "lazy delete" - mark a single "deleted" bit that prevents it from showing up anymore. Only periodically will they compact the database, removing all the records that are marked for deletion. If they have plenty of storage they may never compact due to the required downtime during the process.
So if it's "deleted", but it's not really gone, they still have to give you a copy of it.
It's that surprising? Most people's status updates alone would take up dozens of pages.
Then of course you have your photos, videos, notes, message history, chat history, comments you've posted, tags you've received, events you've been invited to, groups you've joined, everything you've ever "liked"...
I imagine most people would be shocked to find out how many groups they're in, or how many posts, pages, or links they've "liked".
I had that happen to me once. A complete uninstall and reinstall fixed it.
It wasn't a problem with my profile - a brand-new profile did the same thing - so if it's happening to you, back up your profile with FEBE, do the uninstall and reinstall, add FEBE and restore your profile.
No. Trying to step between a police officer and the person he is trying to arrest would be "interfering". Saying something is exercising your freedom of speech. There is absolutely nothing you could say that would "interfere" with a police officer's ability to arrest someone.
The active ingredient in pepper spray is capsaicin, a substance derived from the cayenne pepper plant. When the stream spray was first introduced, the NYPD purchased a brand of canisters made by Defense Technology of America (DTA), which contained 0.63 ounces of a solution made of 10% oleoresin capsicum. In January 1997, the NYPD switched to a brand made by Mace Security International (MSI) of Bennington, Vermont.
They aren't using chemical mace, but they are using Mace® pepper spray.
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Know what's good for that? Yoghurt.
Just the news I wanted to hear less than a week after watching Robotropolis.
(Which sucked, by the way.)
They weren't prohibited from setting their own speed limits. Read the article more carefully.
The Emergency Highway Energy Conservation Act was a bill in the U.S. Congress that enacted the National Maximum Speed Law. States had to agree to the limit if they desired to receive federal funding for highway repair.
States could have set higher speed limits or had no speed limits at all - at the cost of no more federal funding for their highways.
That's typically how the federal government gets control of powers that were never granted to it by the constitution: "We can't take these powers from the states, but if you don't voluntarily give them to us you'll get no more federal funding for your state." Also, the federal government can also operate under a budget deficit while states cannot, giving the states a distinct disadvantage in such transactions.
Did you actually see it? The "hypothetical poor" wasn't hypothetically poor at all. As the question was presented, the hypothetical guy had enough money to pay for health insurance but had chosen not to because he didn't think he "needed" it.
Here is the original question:
Let me ask you this hypothetical question: A healthy 30-year-old young man has a good job, makes a good living, but decides “you know what? I’m not going to spend 200, 300 dollars a month for health insurance ‘cuz I’m healthy, I don’t need it”. But something terrible happens and all of the sudden he needs it. Who’s gonna pay for it if he goes into a coma, for example. Who pays for that?
I might have some sympathy for a guy who can't afford health insurance, but I see no reason to bail out a guy who can afford it and decides to risk not having it anyway. He had the choice; he gambled; he lost. Now he pays the penalty.
It is, but that doesn't work with AIDS because it targets the immune system.
When you get a viral infection, the immune system doesn't target the virus itself; rather, it targets and destroys the infected cells. This prevents them from producing any more copies of the virus. But when it's the immune system being infected, it ends up killing itself, hence the name "auto-immune disease".
A vaccine works by infecting cells with an inert virus that makes the cell appear infected, but doesn't mass-reproduce itself or have significant ill effects on the patient. The immune system randomly produces a variety of antibodies, each of which targets some specific type of abnormal cell. Eventually an immune cell that has the antibody which detects the infected cells comes along and kills them. Then it starts mass-producing that antibody so the immune system will detect and kill that infection faster in the future.
If you tried to vaccinate against AIDS, you'd just end up killing off the patient's immune system - and since immunity is carried within the immune system itself, you've killed off the cells that were supposed to detect the infection in the future and subdue it before it got out of hand. The bone marrow will rebuild the immune system, but the new generation of cells don't know what they were supposed to be targeting because the cells with the antibodies targeting cells with AIDS were all killed off with the rest of the immune system.
No... This is slashdot. It's really bad at displaying characters like the superscript 2 which would have made GP's post correct.
(1 - 90%)^2 = 1 - 99%
He had 2 targets. One was the Pentagon. The other was the U.S. Capitol. He had 2 planes. One was an F-86. Guess what the other was?
Yeah, the other plane was an F-4 Phantom.
where does the "attempting to provide material support and resources to al Qaeda for attacks on U.S. soldiers overseas" charge come from?
RTFA. He was buying cell phones, rigging them as remote switches to trigger IEDs, and selling them to people he thought were al Qaeda operatives, hoping they'd be used to attack U.S. soldiers overseas.
The people he thought were al Qaeda operatives were really undercover FBI agents, so his attempt to support al Qaeda failed.
It says that he planned "jihad" and he is quoted saying "[the Pentagon]'s the target to eliminate and terrify all enemies of Allah."
Explain what?
It's a 404 now. Or did you want me to explain one of those filters?
No, it's an Aeonity blog hosting Goatse via a bit.ly link. Telnet comes in handy sometimes.
I also took the opportunity to add a few more AdBlock Plus filters.
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slashdot.org#a(href*=/boredgeek)
If they still have a copy of it, they're required to include it.
Databases often do a "lazy delete" - mark a single "deleted" bit that prevents it from showing up anymore. Only periodically will they compact the database, removing all the records that are marked for deletion. If they have plenty of storage they may never compact due to the required downtime during the process.
So if it's "deleted", but it's not really gone, they still have to give you a copy of it.
It's that surprising? Most people's status updates alone would take up dozens of pages.
Then of course you have your photos, videos, notes, message history, chat history, comments you've posted, tags you've received, events you've been invited to, groups you've joined, everything you've ever "liked"...
I imagine most people would be shocked to find out how many groups they're in, or how many posts, pages, or links they've "liked".
AdBlock Plus will do the trick, as long as you block all of Facebook's domains. I posted a list above, but here's a link if you're lazy.
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2448786&cid=37531014
Where do I find it in Windows Control Panel?
Oh right, I don't have it. Why should I? There are free PDF printers that do the job perfectly well.
Video DownloadHelper is compatible up to version 8.0a1. And you should use JDownloader anyway.
I had that happen to me once. A complete uninstall and reinstall fixed it.
It wasn't a problem with my profile - a brand-new profile did the same thing - so if it's happening to you, back up your profile with FEBE, do the uninstall and reinstall, add FEBE and restore your profile.
Bullshit! AdBlock Plus is listed for compatibility all the way up to Firefox 9.0a1.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-plus/
Add-ons are automatically updated now unless they specifically had a reason to break on the new version.
http://blog.mozilla.com/addons/2011/06/07/making-compatible-with-firefox-5-and-6/
Who actually uses some craptastic Adobe product when there are free PDF printers that do the job perfectly well?
Is there something that Create PDF is capable of that I'm not aware I needed?
thanks to human laziness very few people are going to go to all that trouble just to see the naked photo
You're kidding. Right?
Okay then. How much of the land did the peasants own?
No. Trying to step between a police officer and the person he is trying to arrest would be "interfering". Saying something is exercising your freedom of speech. There is absolutely nothing you could say that would "interfere" with a police officer's ability to arrest someone.
From your own link:
The active ingredient in pepper spray is capsaicin, a substance derived from the cayenne pepper plant. When the stream spray was first introduced, the NYPD purchased a brand of canisters made by Defense Technology of America (DTA), which contained 0.63 ounces of a solution made of 10% oleoresin capsicum. In January 1997, the NYPD switched to a brand made by Mace Security International (MSI) of Bennington, Vermont.
They aren't using chemical mace, but they are using Mace® pepper spray.
Oh look, another guy confusing wealth with income.
Tell me, how much of the gold in the lord's vaults did the peasants get?