Bizarre? When so many European countries were willing to cause a major diplomatic incident and prevent a South American presidents plane from flying over just because they thought Snowden might be on it?
DDT is unavailable in the US, which killed the economy of scale for producing it. Only very small amounts are now produced. Producing very small amounts of anything is very expensive, which is what torpedoed wider distribution of it in poorer areas of the earth.
n anti-malaria operations the use of DDT for indoor residual spraying has declined substantially over the past 30years, but this insecticide is still considered valuable for malaria control, mainly because of its low cost relative to alternative insecticides. Despite the development of resistance to DDT in some populations of malaria vector Anopheles mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae), DDT remains generally effective when used for house-spraying against most species of Anopheles, due to excitorepellency as well as insecticidal effects. A 1990 cost comparison by the World Health Organization (WHO) found DDT to be considerably less expensive than other insecticides, which cost 2 to 23 times more on the basis of cost per house per 6 months of control. To determine whether such a cost advantage still prevails for DDT, this paper compares recent price quotes from manufacturers and WHO suppliers for DDT and appropriate formulations of nine other insecticides (two carbamates, two organophosphates and five pyrethroids) commonly used for residual house-spraying in malaria control programmes. Based on these 'global' price quotes, detailed calculations show that DDT is still the least expensive insecticide on a cost per house basis, although the price appears to be rising as DDT production declines. At the same time, the prices of pyrethroids are declining, making some only slightly more expensive than DDT at low application dosages. Other costs, including operations (labour), transportation and human safety may also increase the price advantages of DDT and some pyrethroids vs. organophosphates and carbamates, although possible environmental impacts from DDT remain a concern. However, a global cost comparison may not realistically reflect local costs or effective application dosages at the country level. Recent data on insecticide prices paid by the health ministries of individual countries showed that prices of particular insecticides can vary substantially in the open market. Therefore, the most cost-effective insecticide in any given country or region must be determined on a case-by-case basis. Regional coordination of procurement of public health insecticides could improve access to affordable products.
If you believe in individual freedom and you're going to any Nordic country (unlikely combination I know) then please bring a many guns and ammunition as you can smuggle through. It is increasingly likely we're going to have revolutions and civil wars here soon although the rest of western Europe might still beat us to it.
Please remember us if you end up in Russia. Stamped AK-47's are a-okay.
"Did you read what I said? I didn't advocate the UK as a better place, but as a convenient place to get EU citizenship to go to other countries in the EU that are better.
You could've picked a whole fucking other better country. Like Germany, or Norway.Uh, Norway isn't an EU member state.
(Snowden seems to me somewhat equivalent to the 'Falcon' in "The Falcon and the Snowman", with updated technology.
Nah, the Falcon seems to have been much crazier (and more amusing) than boring old Snowden:
On 21 January 1980, Boyce escaped from Lompoc. While a fugitive, Boyce carried out 17 bank robberies in Idaho and Washington State. Adopting the alias of "Anthony Edward Lester," Boyce did not believe he could live as a fugitive forever, and began to study aviation in an attempt to flee to the Soviet Union, where he believed he would accept a commission as an officer in the Soviet Armed Forces.
Maybe the envirowackos will figure out a way to torpedo the vaccine like they did DDT, so's the price goes thru the roof and becomes unaffordable for poor countries such as those in Africa, like they did for DDT.
DDT is pretty fucking cheap. When did it's "price go through the roof"?
Spend time in any African country and you realise that the ignorance about medical issues is an inbred thing - I was in South Africa in 2011 and saw lots of billboards all over the country with the Health Ministers image on it and the quote "avoid AIDS, get circumcised"
Circumcising African men may cut their risk of catching AIDS in half, the National Institutes of Health said today.
if you're going to be a saudi arabian net-activist - first thing you should do would be to move the fuck away from there, because they're giant cocksuckers the whole lot.
Anyone who writes, repeatedly "But all languages are not equivalent", repeatedly, only to mention that all languages are equivalent somewhere near the end of the article should hand in his geek card.
Help! The sky is falling! A companies revenue in one country now only dwarves 62 countries!
Bizzare. Why link to a dodgy souce like that (that gives out-of-date figures) rather than linking to a dodgy source like this that has up-to-date figures?
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Bizarre? When so many European countries were willing to cause a major diplomatic incident and prevent a South American presidents plane from flying over just because they thought Snowden might be on it?
So complain about the NIH, not the stupid Africans.
DDT is unavailable in the US, which killed the economy of scale for producing it. Only very small amounts are now produced. Producing very small amounts of anything is very expensive, which is what torpedoed wider distribution of it in poorer areas of the earth.
RU sure?
Cost-comparison of DDT and alternative insecticides for malaria control
n anti-malaria operations the use of DDT for indoor residual spraying has declined substantially over the past 30years, but this insecticide is still considered valuable for malaria control, mainly because of its low cost relative to alternative insecticides. Despite the development of resistance to DDT in some populations of malaria vector Anopheles mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae), DDT remains generally effective when used for house-spraying against most species of Anopheles, due to excitorepellency as well as insecticidal effects. A 1990 cost comparison by the World Health Organization (WHO) found DDT to be considerably less expensive than other insecticides, which cost 2 to 23 times more on the basis of cost per house per 6 months of control. To determine whether such a cost advantage still prevails for DDT, this paper compares recent price quotes from manufacturers and WHO suppliers for DDT and appropriate formulations of nine other insecticides (two carbamates, two organophosphates and five pyrethroids) commonly used for residual house-spraying in malaria control programmes. Based on these 'global' price quotes, detailed calculations show that DDT is still the least expensive insecticide on a cost per house basis, although the price appears to be rising as DDT production declines. At the same time, the prices of pyrethroids are declining, making some only slightly more expensive than DDT at low application dosages. Other costs, including operations (labour), transportation and human safety may also increase the price advantages of DDT and some pyrethroids vs. organophosphates and carbamates, although possible environmental impacts from DDT remain a concern. However, a global cost comparison may not realistically reflect local costs or effective application dosages at the country level. Recent data on insecticide prices paid by the health ministries of individual countries showed that prices of particular insecticides can vary substantially in the open market. Therefore, the most cost-effective insecticide in any given country or region must be determined on a case-by-case basis. Regional coordination of procurement of public health insecticides could improve access to affordable products.
Benjamin Franklin Bache, arrested for editing a newspaper may have agreed with the AC however.
Uninfected men are unable to infect women.
If you believe in individual freedom and you're going to any Nordic country (unlikely combination I know) then please bring a many guns and ammunition as you can smuggle through. It is increasingly likely we're going to have revolutions and civil wars here soon although the rest of western Europe might still beat us to it.
Please remember us if you end up in Russia. Stamped AK-47's are a-okay.
Anders? Are they letting you post from your cell?
"Did you read what I said? I didn't advocate the UK as a better place, but as a convenient place to get EU citizenship to go to other countries in the EU that are better.
You could've picked a whole fucking other better country. Like Germany, or Norway.Uh, Norway isn't an EU member state.
Minor problem - Norway isn't an EU member.
(Snowden seems to me somewhat equivalent to the 'Falcon' in "The Falcon and the Snowman", with updated technology.
Nah, the Falcon seems to have been much crazier (and more amusing) than boring old Snowden:
On 21 January 1980, Boyce escaped from Lompoc. While a fugitive, Boyce carried out 17 bank robberies in Idaho and Washington State. Adopting the alias of "Anthony Edward Lester," Boyce did not believe he could live as a fugitive forever, and began to study aviation in an attempt to flee to the Soviet Union, where he believed he would accept a commission as an officer in the Soviet Armed Forces.
DDT was unethically fed to prisoners and was found to be non-carcinogenic.
And everything that doesn't cause cancer is good.
Maybe the envirowackos will figure out a way to torpedo the vaccine like they did DDT, so's the price goes thru the roof and becomes unaffordable for poor countries such as those in Africa, like they did for DDT.
DDT is pretty fucking cheap. When did it's "price go through the roof"?
Spend time in any African country and you realise that the ignorance about medical issues is an inbred thing - I was in South Africa in 2011 and saw lots of billboards all over the country with the Health Ministers image on it and the quote "avoid AIDS, get circumcised"
Circumcising African men may cut their risk of catching AIDS in half, the National Institutes of Health said today.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/13/health/13cnd-hiv.html?_r=0
So, the NIH are a bunch of ignorant Africans now?
Encryption should be end-to-end. How can you trust someone else to do it for you?
Depends. Do you have EDGE?
(What a stupid name for a phone, like people are happy when they see a litte "E" or "2.5" symbol).
What's stopping you putting a video recorder on the SCART/VGA/HDMI/whatever line between your cable box and your TV, in a daisy chain fashion? So
'cos it's HDMI, not SCART and fucking around with HDCP would be a mega pain.
Fast, unlimited cap internet access -- especially if you work from home -- is easily worth $125/mo.
Fuck that. 100Mbps internet + telephone + basic cable costs me 35EUR a month.
..by "equal rights" you seem to actually mean "inclusion into the special rights club that all non-married people are still excluded from."
Well, no.
Equal rights to marry the person they want to marry.
Gay people don't get to be "included into the special rights club" if they don't marry.
Anyway, the solution is simple: Better education, not better 'communication'.
Not really.
The more science you know, the less worried you are about climate
It's a Lewis Page article - as usual when Page reports research it turns out that the research doesn't say what Page claims it does.
The US Military is confusing East Africa with the Horn of Africa.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Africa#cite_note-Britannica-5
blackraven14250 said:
I'm pretty sure you're making shit up, since the US is almost 5 times larger than the horn of Africa.
The Horn of Africa is Eritrea, Djibouti, Ethiopia and Somalia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horn_of_Africa
It has an area of 1,882,857 km2 The USA has an area of 9,826,675 km2[
So blackraven14250 is right, the USA is 5 times the size of the Horn of Africa.
The closed source driver is a non-issue as long as nVidia would provide continuous support for it.
Nothing to add
if you're going to be a saudi arabian net-activist - first thing you should do would be to move the fuck away from there, because they're giant cocksuckers the whole lot.
What, all of them?
Anyone who writes, repeatedly "But all languages are not equivalent", repeatedly, only to mention that all languages are equivalent somewhere near the end of the article should hand in his geek card.
And, lest anyone forget, there was a time when "made in USA" meant copycat designs and dodgy quality.
I think, although they don't say, the conservapedia values must be PPP, not nominal, so the wikipedia version is here.
Also coservapedia seems just to have gone down. Maybe they don't work Sundays?
Help! The sky is falling! A companies revenue in one country now only dwarves 62 countries!
Bizzare. Why link to a dodgy souce like that (that gives out-of-date figures) rather than linking to a dodgy source like this that has up-to-date figures?