If you've seen the regular expressions that most people use, you'd realize that they're practically worthless for anything but the barest of input validation.
They usually catch too much, or catch too little, or just plain catch the wrong stuff.
Most of the regular expressions I look at all day long wouldn't work if it weren't for perl's backtracing, which means that the regexes are slower than they should be.
Think about it, using a mac you forget about security. I don't run antivirus on my mac, or spyware tools and i dont' worry when i open my email or surf. On my windows machine, I worry if my virus defs and anti spyware are current or when my last scan occured. Every time I open IE, I remember that i can only go to trusted websites.
For me, these for for different reasons. Mac was built more secure to begin with, and in order for something to do some serious damage, it would have to have me enter my password, asking for admin rights.
This doesn't happen on the PC.
Apple's security isn't worse than the PC just becasue there are fewer threats; because in many ways Apple's security is default better than a PC. For starts, Apple Mac OSX installs default with no ports active. I can do a default install of Mac OSX, unpatched, and throw it on the internet, and wait for someone to attack it, but this will never happen, because about all it responds to is "ping".
Objective c vs C++ is what people should be comparing here. I can see objections to syntax with objective C. It is much different than modern languages using the "." notation and so forth. My wife and I both have trouble remembering the syntax for objective C, but I haven't tried that hard to use it yet either.
Most of this syntax stuff, is that ObjC is a proper superset of C, so the code that is ObjC only has to look quite different from C. Where as C++ tries to hide the C extentions behind code that looks like C, ObjC went the other route, and made it look different.
Then the whole thing that ObjC is a proper Object Oriented langauge with message passing, rather than C++'s bastardized fake Object Oriented, which is little more than just function calls with a silent struct pointer (I know about virtualized functions, but they're not default).
I still don't think it's useless still though. Even a review of brochures can lead towards eliminating choices that are just straight up not worth even looking at.
So beyond the most cursory of examinations, it's entirely useless.
Still, I don't think I'll keep trying this method of test taking...
Probably a good idea... heh
I actually did fail one test VERY VERY BADLY once. (I don't know weird, right? I don't remember all the tests that I aced, but I remember distinctly the one test that I scored about 25% on.)
I had just arrived in Germany a day earlier, and had never been so surrounded by German in my life! (I studied it for 10 years prior, but I'd never actually had to USE German except online and then only reading/writing.)
So, I arrive at the Goethe Institute in Munich, and had to take a German test, which I was just entirely unprepared for, in order to prove that I was able to command the German language well enough to take the class that I had signed up for.
So, the test consisted of "Put the correct preposition in the correct place", and the text consisted of such words that only by the end of the 15~30 minutes that it took me to work through the text, did I realize that it were talking about irrigation, and watering technologies. Yay me! Put the prepositions into a text that I couldn't even understand.
At this point I was just entirely beaten, and I could hardly work on any of the rest of the test. I was doubting even the most basic of questions that I should have known. There was a part that asked me to convert adjectives into verbs, and one of them was "lang" (long) and I *knew* the verb "verlängern" (to lengthen) but I had never been confronted with this issue before (adjective -> verb) I just knew the two independent words. I guessed that my instinct were wrong, and went with the example in the text. That was quite wrong.
There were also some "reform a sentence" questions that appanently one had to get perfectly grammatically correct in order to get credit for it, because I didn't get any of those.
So, I ended up with 12 out of 50 correct. Funny thing is, I only needed 25 on the test, to get into the class that I was trying for. Now that I've been through it by fire, it's possible that I could have made it now.
The fact that I'm currently working part-time for not much better than entry-level wages (at the age of 40) suggests a lack of correlation between test scores and professional success.
Quite true.
(I happen to like my job, though, so I'm not really complaining.)
Maybe it does correlate with being smart though. You obviously were smart enough to get a job you enjoy.;)
You know... I explicitly said that I was joking. I don't argue with anyones opinion of what the perfect government would be, because they all have their reasons and the reasons make sense.
But practically, everyone who has attempted to enact any utopian government has only succeeded in making an opressive regime. Perhaps the only reason why the US doesn't have such a government is because our founding fathers didn't try to make a PERFECT government, they tried to make a government that was restricted, and confined, and answerable to the people.
They take only one free DB. Oracle and IBM DB2 they take the lowest level option that is provided.
This presents a comparison on a level important to a small business, in that they would only need the lowest level of a DB line. I would have non-the-less been nice for them to compare also the first level of Microsoft's SQL Server, rather than just the crippled free version.
The comparison isn't entirely bogus, it's just skewed to the benefit of F/OSS.
If you're comparing the most affordable models of various car companies, you're looking at for instance, the Civic, and the Corolla. Now, imagine that some car company makes a car that is a poor comparison of an Supra, but offers it free. Suddenly in this key area (the cheapest alternative from each company) you end up with the free option winning outright.
This only helps the small business. A larger business has money as almost no object, and they just pick the best solution overall. A smaller business though must definitely make a choice with money as a consideration.
When I destroy all the tyrants in the world, I will rule everyone justly, and ensure that no other tyrants can possibly come up in their place! My tyranny^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hutopia will know no bounds!....
Not really, I'm just joking... but that seems to be how many revolutionaries think
Once, I stayed up all night to give a presentation as my mid-term for a German class.
The next day, I gave my presentation, but then when I sat down, I just totally zoned out, and started falling passing in and out of sleep. Once, when I woke up, I felt all sick. I got up, and asked for permission to leave, "I feel sick, may I leave?" and the teacher I remember was just like confused... To have a student ask for permission to leave, I guess. It doesn't happen often in college.
So, I get out into the hall, and I start trying to make it to the bathroom, and there are these two girls in the hall, I pushed passed them mutter, "Entschuldigen." (German for "excuse me") and the proceeded to pass out on the floor in front of them.
Some guy helped me up and got me to the bathroom, where I puked, then went to the healthcare center. I had apparently severly dehydrated, because getting fluids in me helped me right away.
I ended up missing a Japanese oral class that I'm supposed to cheat, and the teacher was mad at me. I thought she had known that I had passed out, but she hadn't, when I told her, she apologized for thinking I was just lazy, and I stopped being an oral monitor to kind of "save face".
Some people are just good at tests. I'm one of them. I was at a Hooters in my college town with some friends on finals week, and I owed one of them a pitcher. I offered to buy a pitcher, and everyone just looked at me like I was stupid, and the waitress was all "Well, only stupid people drink during finals."
I was like, my bad... I didn't realize that taking tests was something HARD to do.
BTW, I took the GRE too, scored 790 of 800 on the analytical, but my verbal was just "average". I just can't track all those crazy words they throw out on me... been learning too many foreign languages.
I'm one of those bastards with the near photographic memory, so I would never study, and just show up to a test like any other day, and ace the tests. (Usually 90%+)
But the last final I ever took in college was my scariest. I hadn't attended the class since the mid-term, the teacher was just so horrible, I was convinced I could learn better from the book. So, I avoided my STAT class, and forgot entirely to read the book. End of the year came around, and I realized, that this was the only class I wasn't sure about passing and I needed it to graduate.
I teamed up with another guy in the same boat as me (we both had good mid-term scores, but then neglected the rest of the class.) We both ended up studying till all hours of the night.
I walked into class after this rigerous night of studying and took the test, I ended up with an almost perfect score, and what with the curve, I actually ended up with an A in the course.
Afterwards, I walked out of the building to walk home, and to my surprise my car was parked there in the teachers' lot. I had driven it in during the night when it was allowed to park there, and entirely forgot about it.
In the U.S. you can at any moment go to a hospital or doctor for something as little as having a headache or a feeling of frustration.
While I was in Germany in April of 2004, they were implementing a 10 copay so that people would stop wasting doctors times for headaches and feeling frustrated. They wanted them to just take OTC medicine, or call up their mom. Hell, it's not so important so as to see a doctor over.
Quite to the contrary, if healthcare is free, people will exploit it. Unlike America where we typically have copays around $20 or more for a doctor's visit. If it's going to cost you $20 to see a doctor over a headache, then you're not likely to go in, unless that headache is darn well worth $20.
In fact, I had a cold awhile ago, and I called up a doctor's office that my insurance would cover, and wanted to see a doctor, because I felt like crap, and I thought it might be the flu. I ended up talking to a nice nurse person, and it went away 3 days later. But at no time did they suggest that they were going to let me come in and talk to a doctor.
Humidity only impacts things that require the evaporation of water for cooling. What we consider "Air conditioning" works relevant of humidity, and actually dehumidifies.
Often in a dry climate you'll see people using evaporative coolers, or "swap coolers", which use the evaporation of water to cool the air passing through mesh thingies. This humidifies the air, and makes it cooler, but only works in dry climates.
The benefit of this is that it's cheaper, requires less technical expertise to fix problems. Also, dry climates rarely have to worry about unbearable heat while the humidity is high, because if the humidity is high, then it's raining, and if it's raining, the sun isn't out, and if the sun isn't out, then it's cold.
Could you point me to a single case of a hiker that died of starvation? Not one that was suffering from it (which happens in a very short period of time) but that actually died of it and not exposure or dehydration.
Now that I think about it, the story doesn't make sense... Rephrase it to, there are hikers/stranded people that are surrounded by food, yet begin to starve. I mean, the food is right freakin' there, but they're unwilling to eat it.
Careful with that logic. It sounds like it would allow the testing of peyote, cocaine, opium, and such on children, since those substances have been consumed for thousands of years as well. Ever wonder if opium treats ADD/ADHD? Lets shoot up a bunch of children with it, since it is obviously natural and has been around a while.
Children have had these items tested on them. Cocaine was a "miracle cure" in the past, and was offered even in children's medicine. It kind of dropped off in use as a miracle cure, because the FDA started requiring people to label it.
Opium has likely been tested on children also, considering how prevalent it was in China before and during the various Opium wars. If you tell me that no child anywhere has had opium, I'd very much doubt this.
Peyote, I don't know enough about to make any comment on.
Alcohol has been tested on children. In small amounts, it is known to not kill them. (Millions of parents giving their kids a sip of alcohol can't be ignored) So, the question is, at what point would it become lethal for a child? Well, considering that alcohol reacts in general with a child's physiology the same as an adults, we can figure out how much a lethal dose should be.
The effects of all of these drugs are also known as they act upon pregnant women.
Considering that we know both the effects, we can actually validate if any of this stuff has a medical basis, or if it's in fact even in the best interests of the child. (There are numerous treatments that we give children with severe effects, because it solves a much more important issue that is killing them. For example: Chemotherapy!)
And, if the snake oil vendors of the day were still around, they would have something that included cocaine that they would sell that cured ADD/ADHD. I'll guarentee you. In fact, I'm sure there are quacks out there who are offering things like magnets and whatever that foot massage bullshit is, or even chriopractic adjustments under the guise that they could cure your childs ADD/ADHD.
What about "natural" unpasturized milk, is that safe?
People have been drinking natural milk since the beginning of drinking milk. It's perfectly safe if you get it fresh everytime. Dairies used to deliver fresh milk every morning/every other to ensure that it were safe to drink.
Same with saltine crackers. They've been around for centuries, if not millenia. I don't know they thought it were safe for pregnant women to eat, but it was certainly before many clinical ethics were established.
And as far as this goes, at one period of time, people thought tomatoes were poisonous for a long time. It was just their opinion. Didn't take long to prove counter-evident though, because if you were to eat one, and didn't die, then it were a counter example.
The problem is that if people don't know, who's going to be the brave soul to try it?
I think this is were so many of our food phobias come from. We are equipped to literally eat just about anything out there, but we refuse to in most cases (there are soldier and hikers that die from starvation in places heavy with flora and fauna that are edible) Mostly because we are unsure of the results, and we as humans generally are not willing to accept the risk of death, or sever sickness as a result of eating something that we shouldn't have.
In the same way, our ethics should provide that one not be exposed to anything without clear disclosure as to its known safety and problems. (And yes, "We've been eating it for thousands of years" is a valid response.)
I think that, unfortunate as it may be, laziness and greed are natural tendencies that should be opposed in oneself and they, not free trade, are the cause of misery and inequality.
Many people perscribe laziness to the fact that someone is doing poorly, but this is not always the condition that they are under. By far above and beyond laziness is their original starting position. Even a lazy person (me) can go to college, and get a 3.0 GPA, and get hired by a big company (Microsoft) getting more money than either of his parents earned at the height of their earning power.
Why did I manage to do that? Because my play time was actually worth more than my productive time. I enjoyed playing with computers, and programming, and I'm good at it. As a result, I did better.
Nothing besides luck, and initial opportunity. Without my parents being as well off as they moderately were, they would never have been able to afford a computer as early as I got my hands on one, and I would have likely found something else to concentrate on (or remained doing math, just because I found it fun) and pure chance that doing computers became hot, and paid well.
If I had gone into strict mathematics, I would likely have ended up doing something that paid a lot less... but again, due to the opportunity afforded me by my parents economic position, I was able to attend college, recover from failures, and keep moving up the ladder, rather than being forced to stop climbing, and just go forward.
I have a friend who's likely way more intelligent than I, and significantly less lazy, but his mother was a single parent teacher, with little child support, and he got the genetic shit card. (High fuctioning autism, dyslexia, a growth disorder that left him much shorter than everyone else, but since he'll never stop growing, he's caught up a lot.)
This friend had all the preconditions that people think should produce a better situation for himself, but due to luck (shitty in his case) he's ending up worse than his parents, and due to parental opportunity, he's significantly behind lazy me.
Aren't good ol' interlibrary loans done based on name/address/phone information?
If this were at a college, like it appears that it were. Then the school likely uses the students SSN as a unique numeric id for the students.
Though, like you noticed, that's an entirely different matter from the Dept of HomeSec coming out and questioning a college student over his reading material.
I have a bigger issue with the idea that the earth is attempting to drill to the center of the earth. Wouldn't the earth already BE in the center of the earth?
On the other hand, I don't suppose it would be that hard to get to the middle of the earth, I mean, it's just a few thousand tons... just pull up the blueprints and find the center of the middle deck, and head on over there.
It may not be in the dictionary yet, but the neologistic compound "to copyright-infringe" is just as structurally sound as "to babysit" or "to house-sit", and I guess a lot of us would find it more precise and more understandable than the stretched analogy "to steal".
While I agree with this, the point was to be a pedantic Grammar Nazi. As as we all know, Grammar Nazis regularly apply well-meaning reasoning in the wrong situation that ends up having lasting impacts upon our language for a long long time.
I quite understood the guy, but in my opinion if you want to nitpick someone, you ask for every nitpick you get back.
Now, that I think about it, perhaps you didn't get my intended light-hearted tone.
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If you've seen the regular expressions that most people use, you'd realize that they're practically worthless for anything but the barest of input validation.
They usually catch too much, or catch too little, or just plain catch the wrong stuff.
Most of the regular expressions I look at all day long wouldn't work if it weren't for perl's backtracing, which means that the regexes are slower than they should be.
Think about it, using a mac you forget about security. I don't run antivirus on my mac, or spyware tools and i dont' worry when i open my email or surf. On my windows machine, I worry if my virus defs and anti spyware are current or when my last scan occured. Every time I open IE, I remember that i can only go to trusted websites.
For me, these for for different reasons. Mac was built more secure to begin with, and in order for something to do some serious damage, it would have to have me enter my password, asking for admin rights.
This doesn't happen on the PC.
Apple's security isn't worse than the PC just becasue there are fewer threats; because in many ways Apple's security is default better than a PC. For starts, Apple Mac OSX installs default with no ports active. I can do a default install of Mac OSX, unpatched, and throw it on the internet, and wait for someone to attack it, but this will never happen, because about all it responds to is "ping".
Objective c vs C++ is what people should be comparing here. I can see objections to syntax with objective C. It is much different than modern languages using the "." notation and so forth. My wife and I both have trouble remembering the syntax for objective C, but I haven't tried that hard to use it yet either.
Most of this syntax stuff, is that ObjC is a proper superset of C, so the code that is ObjC only has to look quite different from C. Where as C++ tries to hide the C extentions behind code that looks like C, ObjC went the other route, and made it look different.
Then the whole thing that ObjC is a proper Object Oriented langauge with message passing, rather than C++'s bastardized fake Object Oriented, which is little more than just function calls with a silent struct pointer (I know about virtualized functions, but they're not default).
Right... very good point.
I still don't think it's useless still though. Even a review of brochures can lead towards eliminating choices that are just straight up not worth even looking at.
So beyond the most cursory of examinations, it's entirely useless.
Still, I don't think I'll keep trying this method of test taking...
Probably a good idea... heh
I actually did fail one test VERY VERY BADLY once. (I don't know weird, right? I don't remember all the tests that I aced, but I remember distinctly the one test that I scored about 25% on.)
I had just arrived in Germany a day earlier, and had never been so surrounded by German in my life! (I studied it for 10 years prior, but I'd never actually had to USE German except online and then only reading/writing.)
So, I arrive at the Goethe Institute in Munich, and had to take a German test, which I was just entirely unprepared for, in order to prove that I was able to command the German language well enough to take the class that I had signed up for.
So, the test consisted of "Put the correct preposition in the correct place", and the text consisted of such words that only by the end of the 15~30 minutes that it took me to work through the text, did I realize that it were talking about irrigation, and watering technologies. Yay me! Put the prepositions into a text that I couldn't even understand.
At this point I was just entirely beaten, and I could hardly work on any of the rest of the test. I was doubting even the most basic of questions that I should have known. There was a part that asked me to convert adjectives into verbs, and one of them was "lang" (long) and I *knew* the verb "verlängern" (to lengthen) but I had never been confronted with this issue before (adjective -> verb) I just knew the two independent words. I guessed that my instinct were wrong, and went with the example in the text. That was quite wrong.
There were also some "reform a sentence" questions that appanently one had to get perfectly grammatically correct in order to get credit for it, because I didn't get any of those.
So, I ended up with 12 out of 50 correct. Funny thing is, I only needed 25 on the test, to get into the class that I was trying for. Now that I've been through it by fire, it's possible that I could have made it now.
The fact that I'm currently working part-time for not much better than entry-level wages (at the age of 40) suggests a lack of correlation between test scores and professional success.
;)
Quite true.
(I happen to like my job, though, so I'm not really complaining.)
Maybe it does correlate with being smart though. You obviously were smart enough to get a job you enjoy.
You know... I explicitly said that I was joking. I don't argue with anyones opinion of what the perfect government would be, because they all have their reasons and the reasons make sense.
But practically, everyone who has attempted to enact any utopian government has only succeeded in making an opressive regime. Perhaps the only reason why the US doesn't have such a government is because our founding fathers didn't try to make a PERFECT government, they tried to make a government that was restricted, and confined, and answerable to the people.
They take only one free DB. Oracle and IBM DB2 they take the lowest level option that is provided.
This presents a comparison on a level important to a small business, in that they would only need the lowest level of a DB line. I would have non-the-less been nice for them to compare also the first level of Microsoft's SQL Server, rather than just the crippled free version.
The comparison isn't entirely bogus, it's just skewed to the benefit of F/OSS.
If you're comparing the most affordable models of various car companies, you're looking at for instance, the Civic, and the Corolla. Now, imagine that some car company makes a car that is a poor comparison of an Supra, but offers it free. Suddenly in this key area (the cheapest alternative from each company) you end up with the free option winning outright.
This only helps the small business. A larger business has money as almost no object, and they just pick the best solution overall. A smaller business though must definitely make a choice with money as a consideration.
When I destroy all the tyrants in the world, I will rule everyone justly, and ensure that no other tyrants can possibly come up in their place! My tyranny^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hutopia will know no bounds! ....
Not really, I'm just joking... but that seems to be how many revolutionaries think
SHIT! I studied the wrong major :(
Huk Huk.
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Once, I stayed up all night to give a presentation as my mid-term for a German class.
The next day, I gave my presentation, but then when I sat down, I just totally zoned out, and started falling passing in and out of sleep. Once, when I woke up, I felt all sick. I got up, and asked for permission to leave, "I feel sick, may I leave?" and the teacher I remember was just like confused... To have a student ask for permission to leave, I guess. It doesn't happen often in college.
So, I get out into the hall, and I start trying to make it to the bathroom, and there are these two girls in the hall, I pushed passed them mutter, "Entschuldigen." (German for "excuse me") and the proceeded to pass out on the floor in front of them.
Some guy helped me up and got me to the bathroom, where I puked, then went to the healthcare center. I had apparently severly dehydrated, because getting fluids in me helped me right away.
I ended up missing a Japanese oral class that I'm supposed to cheat, and the teacher was mad at me. I thought she had known that I had passed out, but she hadn't, when I told her, she apologized for thinking I was just lazy, and I stopped being an oral monitor to kind of "save face".
Some people are just good at tests. I'm one of them. I was at a Hooters in my college town with some friends on finals week, and I owed one of them a pitcher. I offered to buy a pitcher, and everyone just looked at me like I was stupid, and the waitress was all "Well, only stupid people drink during finals."
I was like, my bad... I didn't realize that taking tests was something HARD to do.
BTW, I took the GRE too, scored 790 of 800 on the analytical, but my verbal was just "average". I just can't track all those crazy words they throw out on me... been learning too many foreign languages.
I'm one of those bastards with the near photographic memory, so I would never study, and just show up to a test like any other day, and ace the tests. (Usually 90%+)
But the last final I ever took in college was my scariest. I hadn't attended the class since the mid-term, the teacher was just so horrible, I was convinced I could learn better from the book. So, I avoided my STAT class, and forgot entirely to read the book. End of the year came around, and I realized, that this was the only class I wasn't sure about passing and I needed it to graduate.
I teamed up with another guy in the same boat as me (we both had good mid-term scores, but then neglected the rest of the class.) We both ended up studying till all hours of the night.
I walked into class after this rigerous night of studying and took the test, I ended up with an almost perfect score, and what with the curve, I actually ended up with an A in the course.
Afterwards, I walked out of the building to walk home, and to my surprise my car was parked there in the teachers' lot. I had driven it in during the night when it was allowed to park there, and entirely forgot about it.
In the U.S. you can at any moment go to a hospital or doctor for something as little as having a headache or a feeling of frustration.
While I was in Germany in April of 2004, they were implementing a 10 copay so that people would stop wasting doctors times for headaches and feeling frustrated. They wanted them to just take OTC medicine, or call up their mom. Hell, it's not so important so as to see a doctor over.
Quite to the contrary, if healthcare is free, people will exploit it. Unlike America where we typically have copays around $20 or more for a doctor's visit. If it's going to cost you $20 to see a doctor over a headache, then you're not likely to go in, unless that headache is darn well worth $20.
In fact, I had a cold awhile ago, and I called up a doctor's office that my insurance would cover, and wanted to see a doctor, because I felt like crap, and I thought it might be the flu. I ended up talking to a nice nurse person, and it went away 3 days later. But at no time did they suggest that they were going to let me come in and talk to a doctor.
It's not that hard though to set up an enclosed space with desert-like conditions.
You just have a dehumidifier, and sun lamps. As long as you can get the temp to 100+, and the humidity below 5~10% then you're all good.
Humidity only impacts things that require the evaporation of water for cooling. What we consider "Air conditioning" works relevant of humidity, and actually dehumidifies.
Often in a dry climate you'll see people using evaporative coolers, or "swap coolers", which use the evaporation of water to cool the air passing through mesh thingies. This humidifies the air, and makes it cooler, but only works in dry climates.
The benefit of this is that it's cheaper, requires less technical expertise to fix problems. Also, dry climates rarely have to worry about unbearable heat while the humidity is high, because if the humidity is high, then it's raining, and if it's raining, the sun isn't out, and if the sun isn't out, then it's cold.
I know you mean well... but since beer is a diaretic, you're supposed very vehemently avoid it if you're dehydrated.
Could you point me to a single case of a hiker that died of starvation? Not one that was suffering from it (which happens in a very short period of time) but that actually died of it and not exposure or dehydration.
Now that I think about it, the story doesn't make sense... Rephrase it to, there are hikers/stranded people that are surrounded by food, yet begin to starve. I mean, the food is right freakin' there, but they're unwilling to eat it.
Careful with that logic. It sounds like it would allow the testing of peyote, cocaine, opium, and such on children, since those substances have been consumed for thousands of years as well. Ever wonder if opium treats ADD/ADHD? Lets shoot up a bunch of children with it, since it is obviously natural and has been around a while.
Children have had these items tested on them. Cocaine was a "miracle cure" in the past, and was offered even in children's medicine. It kind of dropped off in use as a miracle cure, because the FDA started requiring people to label it.
Opium has likely been tested on children also, considering how prevalent it was in China before and during the various Opium wars. If you tell me that no child anywhere has had opium, I'd very much doubt this.
Peyote, I don't know enough about to make any comment on.
Alcohol has been tested on children. In small amounts, it is known to not kill them. (Millions of parents giving their kids a sip of alcohol can't be ignored) So, the question is, at what point would it become lethal for a child? Well, considering that alcohol reacts in general with a child's physiology the same as an adults, we can figure out how much a lethal dose should be.
The effects of all of these drugs are also known as they act upon pregnant women.
Considering that we know both the effects, we can actually validate if any of this stuff has a medical basis, or if it's in fact even in the best interests of the child. (There are numerous treatments that we give children with severe effects, because it solves a much more important issue that is killing them. For example: Chemotherapy!)
And, if the snake oil vendors of the day were still around, they would have something that included cocaine that they would sell that cured ADD/ADHD. I'll guarentee you. In fact, I'm sure there are quacks out there who are offering things like magnets and whatever that foot massage bullshit is, or even chriopractic adjustments under the guise that they could cure your childs ADD/ADHD.
What about "natural" unpasturized milk, is that safe?
People have been drinking natural milk since the beginning of drinking milk. It's perfectly safe if you get it fresh everytime. Dairies used to deliver fresh milk every morning/every other to ensure that it were safe to drink.
Same with saltine crackers. They've been around for centuries, if not millenia. I don't know they thought it were safe for pregnant women to eat, but it was certainly before many clinical ethics were established.
And as far as this goes, at one period of time, people thought tomatoes were poisonous for a long time. It was just their opinion. Didn't take long to prove counter-evident though, because if you were to eat one, and didn't die, then it were a counter example.
The problem is that if people don't know, who's going to be the brave soul to try it?
I think this is were so many of our food phobias come from. We are equipped to literally eat just about anything out there, but we refuse to in most cases (there are soldier and hikers that die from starvation in places heavy with flora and fauna that are edible) Mostly because we are unsure of the results, and we as humans generally are not willing to accept the risk of death, or sever sickness as a result of eating something that we shouldn't have.
In the same way, our ethics should provide that one not be exposed to anything without clear disclosure as to its known safety and problems. (And yes, "We've been eating it for thousands of years" is a valid response.)
Yes, in fact I do- the pay certainly is no reason to be a farmer. Who would choose to be a farmer for the pay?
I prefer to think about the implication that farmers are poor because they're lazy...
I think that, unfortunate as it may be, laziness and greed are natural tendencies that should be opposed in oneself and they, not free trade, are the cause of misery and inequality.
Many people perscribe laziness to the fact that someone is doing poorly, but this is not always the condition that they are under. By far above and beyond laziness is their original starting position. Even a lazy person (me) can go to college, and get a 3.0 GPA, and get hired by a big company (Microsoft) getting more money than either of his parents earned at the height of their earning power.
Why did I manage to do that? Because my play time was actually worth more than my productive time. I enjoyed playing with computers, and programming, and I'm good at it. As a result, I did better.
Nothing besides luck, and initial opportunity. Without my parents being as well off as they moderately were, they would never have been able to afford a computer as early as I got my hands on one, and I would have likely found something else to concentrate on (or remained doing math, just because I found it fun) and pure chance that doing computers became hot, and paid well.
If I had gone into strict mathematics, I would likely have ended up doing something that paid a lot less... but again, due to the opportunity afforded me by my parents economic position, I was able to attend college, recover from failures, and keep moving up the ladder, rather than being forced to stop climbing, and just go forward.
I have a friend who's likely way more intelligent than I, and significantly less lazy, but his mother was a single parent teacher, with little child support, and he got the genetic shit card. (High fuctioning autism, dyslexia, a growth disorder that left him much shorter than everyone else, but since he'll never stop growing, he's caught up a lot.)
This friend had all the preconditions that people think should produce a better situation for himself, but due to luck (shitty in his case) he's ending up worse than his parents, and due to parental opportunity, he's significantly behind lazy me.
Aren't good ol' interlibrary loans done based on name/address/phone information?
If this were at a college, like it appears that it were. Then the school likely uses the students SSN as a unique numeric id for the students.
Though, like you noticed, that's an entirely different matter from the Dept of HomeSec coming out and questioning a college student over his reading material.
Pff... you're probably getting referal credit.... I'll just search for it on my own, so you don't get credit for my order, you karma whore. ;)
I have a bigger issue with the idea that the earth is attempting to drill to the center of the earth. Wouldn't the earth already BE in the center of the earth?
On the other hand, I don't suppose it would be that hard to get to the middle of the earth, I mean, it's just a few thousand tons... just pull up the blueprints and find the center of the middle deck, and head on over there.
It may not be in the dictionary yet, but the neologistic compound "to copyright-infringe" is just as structurally sound as "to babysit" or "to house-sit", and I guess a lot of us would find it more precise and more understandable than the stretched analogy "to steal".
While I agree with this, the point was to be a pedantic Grammar Nazi. As as we all know, Grammar Nazis regularly apply well-meaning reasoning in the wrong situation that ends up having lasting impacts upon our language for a long long time.
I quite understood the guy, but in my opinion if you want to nitpick someone, you ask for every nitpick you get back.
Now, that I think about it, perhaps you didn't get my intended light-hearted tone.
You mean infringe on copyrighted data... "copyright infringe" isn't a verb ;)
Well, I mean... I'm not playing the Grammar Nazi, but if you're going to get pedantic on people...