Let's pretend that your are up for Phi Beta Kappa, or class valedictorian, and this putz hacks his grades to get enough A's to take that away from you and win the award. Suddenly your hard earned A's become less valuable, and you lost the award to someone who stole it.
Another example - what if you bought a bunch valuable original collectors items and want to sell them on Ebay for $100 each. Now someone else has made a bunch of cheap knock offs and few people can tell the difference. Now your item isn't worth as much, since the impostor will undercut your price (say $60), and you won't be able to get as much for your real item.
Much of basic research does not always produce immediately tangible results. SETI + Aricebo have produced massive distributed computing which is widely used now by many EXTREMELY worthwhile projects (protein folding, cancer research, etc). This is a basic tool now, and I'd say that's pretty valuable and productive.
Just because it isn't directly dumping 200 MPG cars into your lap, or producing a magic fat dissolving drug, doesn't mean that it isn't helping you somehow.
You are typically contagious before you feel sick. The feeling sick part usually happens AFTER your body has begun to mount an immune response, the sick feeling being all the cytokines and such, being released and their effect on the body.
Besides that - you've alreay "caught" it, and are no longer susceptible to that strain. Your other members of the household might still catch it though. And, yes, generally the bugs/viruses don't stay "live" that long outside the body. Most are dead within 72 hours or so.
For the specification they are trying to achieve, even a little chip from a corner would be a tremendous error. It's a lot tougher to damage a sphere that way. Of course you can damage both from dropping them.
I too think eventually this physical weight will be replaced by a known voltage/wattage on a scale to counteract a force, although for practicality purposes, having a physical object is probably much easier to use in daily situations.
How about some customizable on/off toggles, or dials for stuff like Javascript, cookies, etc. Hace it so that you can put it on the browser surface - like right next to the printer icon. Easily accessible, and not down 4 layers of menus.
Some tabs I don't mind cookies/java, and some tabs I don't want it. I need cookies when on ebay, but then don't want them when I click to some link on a foreign newspaper article. Or don't want java on when visiting pron sites, etc.
Maybe have a site "paranaoia" slider for security, or a "wife" button to erase all recent cookies from that particular tab;-)
Other than that, FF is pretty perfect just as it is, with the exception of fixing crashes.
Pretty much most mice will die from cancer at around 2 years of age in the lab, they generally only live to about one year in nature before they are eaten. Mice are used in immunology experiments because their immune system is extremely similar to humans.
As far as thinking I'm above nature - don't know much about that. But because humans are omnivores, I don't mind a tasty steak now and then. Don't criticize me on this, or do you also protest that wolves, lions and monkeys eat meat?
Recently, several people, in clinical trials, have been cured!! from metastatic (widespread) malignant melanoma - which is usually a 1-2 year death sentence after it has metastasized.
Many childhood leukemias have a 80% survival rate, whereas 30 years ago it was a 80% death rate.
Osteogenic and Ewings sarcoma (primary bone cancers) now has an 80% 5 year survival rate, 20 years ago it was a 20% 5 year survival rate. Now, 90-95% of the kids I operate on now get to keep their arms and legs with artificial bones. 30 years ago, they mostly had amputations.
Much of the advances have been from improved detection (MRI/CT/PET scans), and newer chemotherapies - ALL which have been based on animal research (F U PETA!)
Many scientists and MDs feel that immuno-therapy (using the bodies own immune system to fight/kill the cancer) will be the most fruitful research, and probably the most successful in the long run.
Seems like the Moon is a dead end - not much water there, no atmosphere. Mars on the otherhand, has water, a slight atmosphere (to protect against radiation).
Obviously we haven't even really tried to place a person on Mars yet, and can not do so practically, as opposed to the moon. I guess the Moon could be a learning "tool", so that we can get Mars right.
I always thought that the excessive radiation present on the Moon would make any long term colonization impossible, due to the doses people would receive. Mars has a minimal atmosphere which does protect somewhat against harmful radiation, and has higher gravity 0.3 Mars vs 0.16 for the Moon. The higher Martian gravity may protect us better against low gravity osteoporosis (thin bones).
I acquired her debt, even though I didn't "own" it, and so was thinking that the buyer, might be able to buy the sellers debt too, foolish as it may be.
Health insurance,is gradually picking up evidence , and will eventually start charging people premiums for habits and weight. Currently, they can not because of discrimination laws. Many countries, with more socialized forms of medicine, are already "rewarding patients"(not penalizing) who are in shape. Britain, will start doing this soon I think.
Can't answer your question if body builders pay more insurance. I, like most MD's, don't know all that much about insurance, other than it's a real pain in the butt for most of our patients - at least the ones with HMOs.
Again, I'm not trying to make insurance policy, nor do I agree with it, but I'm just thinking about how insurance companies will probably behave.
I'm tall too (6'4"), and so my BMI will tend to be higher. And yes I might not live as long as someone who is of average height, statistically speaking. In my original post, I made some clear distinctions between obesity and BMI. I never said that a high BMI meant someone was fat. Read my post carefully please.
Again, it looks like it benefits you, ON AVERAGE, to be average. Not too tall, short, heavy or thin. I'm not calling anyone fat just because they have a high BMI. It's body mass index, not Body Fat index, so it's not measuring % fat.
I didn't make this stuff up. A bunch of accountants just looked at who lived the longest, and it tended to be average type people. Not too short, skinny, tall, or fat. I specifically spoke about people outside the normal range not living as long, and didn't just limit myself to people higher than the ideal BMI I.E. SKINNY people too. I also spoke specifically about obese people(did NOT say high BMI), and how they might have higher insurance premiums, and not "big boned" people, so pay attention, and don't get all excited. The paper you are quoting is looking at a bunch of 80 year olds in Japan - this has a fair amount of selection bias, since many of the unhealthy people have already died by that time from cardiac or other conditions (Still #1 killer in America, #2 in Japan). The results in this study may merely show that very underweight people tend to be sicker than normal weight people and in this case overweight people as well. Cancer, tends to have a much, much higher frequency in this aging population, with patients typically losing weight - this study may just reflect that. This too lends credence to the BMI data - in that you want to be average.
Not sure why you went into the sterilization bit, and eugenics. I made, nor inferred anything about reproduction. And don't shoot the messenger.
These people already do pay higher premiums. Insurance companies look at how many miles you drive, where you park, speeding tickets, motorcycle drivers, etc. Riskier people do pay higher premiums - that's why your insurance goes down, after you turn 25, and after you marry. That's why your insurance goes up after accidents and speeding tickets.
I love the obsession with body builders and BMI, even though it is probably less than 1-2% of the population. Apparently many people on Slashdot are bodybuilders?
And yes body builders do have a shorter lifespan. Being in shape is another story.
What if the guy has a bunch of sub prime loans, and is under water on them. People can legally buy debt, so will they incur this as well? I've had my student loans sold to several different banks without my knowing, so why not sell your debt?
Americans are taller than the Japanese, and thus even relatively thinner people can have a larger waistline, and be considered fat. A better measurement, or goal might be percentage body fat or BMI (Cue the BMI holy wars of body builders).
Yes, obese people (and smokers) take more sick time, have more health expenses, lower productivity, etc. I'm a physician, and public health is one of the courses we take, so obesity and smoking related problems a are HUGE percentage of health dollars spent.
Now as far as BMI - it does not measure fat - let me repeat that- it DOES NOT measure fat, merely the relative weight to height. People in the ideal range tend to live longer. People outside the ideal range, be it fat or huge amounts of muscle, tend not to live as long (strain on the heart, kidneys, joints, etc).
I think it's only a matter of time before health insurance companies, and the government figure out that these obese people are not profitable/cost too much, and will penalize them accordingly.
In terms of public health, I think this is a good thing, as it will save a significant amount of money, and produce better health. I am also a big fan of free will, and independence, so if someone wants to be really fat, or smoke, then they should be able to - at a price.
By giving himself all A's, he effectively stole all the hard earned hours of study from those who honestly earned it. Just like stealing money. He will also steal chances that other students might have of getting into their choice of university.
He could have ruined the future lives of many other students. What if you didn't get into a good college because of grade inflation, etc. Then don't get into med school - that can be a serious loss.
If you break into someones house and get caught then no one is hurt, or if you shoot at someone, and miss no one is hurt either.
38 years is harsh, maybe the kid should spend 4 years in jail, to offset the years other kids spent studying their books.
Now I'm not tryingg to call anyone by names, but the country has a BILLION people! So the depth of talent and skills has to be phenomenal. There surely must be hundreds of people who have the skills to hack USAs computers.
Out of poverty often comes greatness (I view it as an excuse not to be distracted by crap like MTV and the NBA, and thereby spend more time of productive achievements). Look at India - it produced many of the great mathematical geniuses of our time - Ramanujan, etc.
Just like for trucks - make heavy cars/SUVs/whatever have slower speed limits on all roads, and fine heavily for going over it. That way, when people "need" to use their SUVs they can still use them- in the snow, hauling furniture, etc. Average Joe who uses his SUV for a commuter car in Los Angeles, will not want to use it since he can only go 50 MPH, and everyone else will be passing him. Obviously there are better examples than L.A, since average traffic speed is about 12 MPH.
Drive, take a train, ride a bike, horse or walk. But when it becomes necessary to do so, so that one may live in the USA, then restrictions on that activity essentially infringe on our rights. Obviously some lose this right because they are a menace to others (drunk drivers, etc).
As someone else pointed out, the TSA is my problem, since it is a governmental agency.
It would seem that Los Angeles to Las Vegas would be more population centered, thus insuring better profitability.
As far as mag-lev - why? Building a proven TGV type of track, would allow other trains to use it as well, also aiding in cost-benefit. Plan on multiple side junctions to allow the TGV type train to pass the slower trains, thus permitting dual use for freight, etc. I can't imagine the mag-lev train to be that much more efficient, since fuel cost , at those speeds, is all about fighting wind resistance, and not rolling resistance.
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Let's pretend that your are up for Phi Beta Kappa, or class valedictorian, and this putz hacks his grades to get enough A's to take that away from you and win the award. Suddenly your hard earned A's become less valuable, and you lost the award to someone who stole it.
Another example - what if you bought a bunch valuable original collectors items and want to sell them on Ebay for $100 each. Now someone else has made a bunch of cheap knock offs and few people can tell the difference. Now your item isn't worth as much, since the impostor will undercut your price (say $60), and you won't be able to get as much for your real item.
Now what do you think.
The F-22 does stuff TO people, Aricebo does stuff FOR people.
Much of basic research does not always produce immediately tangible results. SETI + Aricebo have produced massive distributed computing which is widely used now by many EXTREMELY worthwhile projects (protein folding, cancer research, etc). This is a basic tool now, and I'd say that's pretty valuable and productive.
Just because it isn't directly dumping 200 MPG cars into your lap, or producing a magic fat dissolving drug, doesn't mean that it isn't helping you somehow.
You are typically contagious before you feel sick. The feeling sick part usually happens AFTER your body has begun to mount an immune response, the sick feeling being all the cytokines and such, being released and their effect on the body.
Besides that - you've alreay "caught" it, and are no longer susceptible to that strain. Your other members of the household might still catch it though. And, yes, generally the bugs/viruses don't stay "live" that long outside the body. Most are dead within 72 hours or so.
For the specification they are trying to achieve, even a little chip from a corner would be a tremendous error. It's a lot tougher to damage a sphere that way. Of course you can damage both from dropping them.
I too think eventually this physical weight will be replaced by a known voltage/wattage on a scale to counteract a force, although for practicality purposes, having a physical object is probably much easier to use in daily situations.
How about some customizable on/off toggles, or dials for stuff like Javascript, cookies, etc. Hace it so that you can put it on the browser surface - like right next to the printer icon. Easily accessible, and not down 4 layers of menus.
Some tabs I don't mind cookies/java, and some tabs I don't want it. I need cookies when on ebay, but then don't want them when I click to some link on a foreign newspaper article. Or don't want java on when visiting pron sites, etc.
Maybe have a site "paranaoia" slider for security, or a "wife" button to erase all recent cookies from that particular tab ;-)
Other than that, FF is pretty perfect just as it is, with the exception of fixing crashes.
Pretty much most mice will die from cancer at around 2 years of age in the lab, they generally only live to about one year in nature before they are eaten.
Mice are used in immunology experiments because their immune system is extremely similar to humans.
As far as thinking I'm above nature - don't know much about that. But because humans are omnivores, I don't mind a tasty steak now and then. Don't criticize me on this, or do you also protest that wolves, lions and monkeys eat meat?
Recently, several people, in clinical trials, have been cured!! from metastatic (widespread) malignant melanoma - which is usually a 1-2 year death sentence after it has metastasized.
Many childhood leukemias have a 80% survival rate, whereas 30 years ago it was a 80% death rate.
Osteogenic and Ewings sarcoma (primary bone cancers) now has an 80% 5 year survival rate, 20 years ago it was a 20% 5 year survival rate. Now, 90-95% of the kids I operate on now get to keep their arms and legs with artificial bones. 30 years ago, they mostly had amputations.
Much of the advances have been from improved detection (MRI/CT/PET scans), and newer chemotherapies - ALL which have been based on animal research (F U PETA!)
Many scientists and MDs feel that immuno-therapy (using the bodies own immune system to fight/kill the cancer) will be the most fruitful research, and probably the most successful in the long run.
Seems like the Moon is a dead end - not much water there, no atmosphere. Mars on the otherhand, has water, a slight atmosphere (to protect against radiation).
Obviously we haven't even really tried to place a person on Mars yet, and can not do so practically, as opposed to the moon. I guess the Moon could be a learning "tool", so that we can get Mars right.
I always thought that the excessive radiation present on the Moon would make any long term colonization impossible, due to the doses people would receive. Mars has a minimal atmosphere which does protect somewhat against harmful radiation, and has higher gravity 0.3 Mars vs 0.16 for the Moon. The higher Martian gravity may protect us better against low gravity osteoporosis (thin bones).
I acquired her debt, even though I didn't "own" it, and so was thinking that the buyer, might be able to buy the sellers debt too, foolish as it may be.
Health insurance,is gradually picking up evidence , and will eventually start charging people premiums for habits and weight. Currently, they can not because of discrimination laws. Many countries, with more socialized forms of medicine, are already "rewarding patients"(not penalizing) who are in shape. Britain, will start doing this soon I think.
Can't answer your question if body builders pay more insurance. I, like most MD's, don't know all that much about insurance, other than it's a real pain in the butt for most of our patients - at least the ones with HMOs.
Again, I'm not trying to make insurance policy, nor do I agree with it, but I'm just thinking about how insurance companies will probably behave.
I'm tall too (6'4"), and so my BMI will tend to be higher. And yes I might not live as long as someone who is of average height, statistically speaking.
In my original post, I made some clear distinctions between obesity and BMI. I never said that a high BMI meant someone was fat. Read my post carefully please.
Height has been inversely related to longevity too - e.g. shorter people may live longer.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6T99-47W4M47-2&_user=4423&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000059605&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=4423&md5=6af865f928fb1bc2c65ff391841ad674
Again, it looks like it benefits you, ON AVERAGE, to be average. Not too tall, short, heavy or thin. I'm not calling anyone fat just because they have a high BMI. It's body mass index, not Body Fat index, so it's not measuring % fat.
I didn't make this stuff up. A bunch of accountants just looked at who lived the longest, and it tended to be average type people. Not too short, skinny, tall, or fat.
I specifically spoke about people outside the normal range not living as long, and didn't just limit myself to people higher than the ideal BMI I.E. SKINNY people too. I also spoke specifically about obese people(did NOT say high BMI), and how they might have higher insurance premiums, and not "big boned" people, so pay attention, and don't get all excited.
The paper you are quoting is looking at a bunch of 80 year olds in Japan - this has a fair amount of selection bias, since many of the unhealthy people have already died by that time from cardiac or other conditions (Still #1 killer in America, #2 in Japan).
The results in this study may merely show that very underweight people tend to be sicker than normal weight people and in this case overweight people as well. Cancer, tends to have a much, much higher frequency in this aging population, with patients typically losing weight - this study may just reflect that. This too lends credence to the BMI data - in that you want to be average.
Not sure why you went into the sterilization bit, and eugenics. I made, nor inferred anything about reproduction. And don't shoot the messenger.
These people already do pay higher premiums. Insurance companies look at how many miles you drive, where you park, speeding tickets, motorcycle drivers, etc.
Riskier people do pay higher premiums - that's why your insurance goes down, after you turn 25, and after you marry. That's why your insurance goes up after accidents and speeding tickets.
I love the obsession with body builders and BMI, even though it is probably less than 1-2% of the population. Apparently many people on Slashdot are bodybuilders?
And yes body builders do have a shorter lifespan. Being in shape is another story.
What if the guy has a bunch of sub prime loans, and is under water on them. People can legally buy debt, so will they incur this as well? I've had my student loans sold to several different banks without my knowing, so why not sell your debt?
Americans are taller than the Japanese, and thus even relatively thinner people can have a larger waistline, and be considered fat. A better measurement, or goal might be percentage body fat or BMI (Cue the BMI holy wars of body builders).
Yes, obese people (and smokers) take more sick time, have more health expenses, lower productivity, etc. I'm a physician, and public health is one of the courses we take, so obesity and smoking related problems a are HUGE percentage of health dollars spent.
Now as far as BMI - it does not measure fat - let me repeat that- it DOES NOT measure fat, merely the relative weight to height. People in the ideal range tend to live longer. People outside the ideal range, be it fat or huge amounts of muscle, tend not to live as long (strain on the heart, kidneys, joints, etc).
I think it's only a matter of time before health insurance companies, and the government figure out that these obese people are not profitable/cost too much, and will penalize them accordingly.
In terms of public health, I think this is a good thing, as it will save a significant amount of money, and produce better health. I am also a big fan of free will, and independence, so if someone wants to be really fat, or smoke, then they should be able to - at a price.
He's not playing Rock-Paper-Scissor, he's playing Bat-AcidSoakedSponge-Saw. The hand motions are a little strange though.
I mean come on - not too hard to get around, but still it's interesting.
By giving himself all A's, he effectively stole all the hard earned hours of study from those who honestly earned it. Just like stealing money. He will also steal chances that other students might have of getting into their choice of university.
He could have ruined the future lives of many other students. What if you didn't get into a good college because of grade inflation, etc. Then don't get into med school - that can be a serious loss.
If you break into someones house and get caught then no one is hurt, or if you shoot at someone, and miss no one is hurt either.
38 years is harsh, maybe the kid should spend 4 years in jail, to offset the years other kids spent studying their books.
Now I'm not tryingg to call anyone by names, but the country has a BILLION people! So the depth of talent and skills has to be phenomenal. There surely must be hundreds of people who have the skills to hack USAs computers.
Out of poverty often comes greatness (I view it as an excuse not to be distracted by crap like MTV and the NBA, and thereby spend more time of productive achievements). Look at India - it produced many of the great mathematical geniuses of our time - Ramanujan, etc.
SUV are much, much worse at avoiding collisions, and are more likely to be involved in accidents per driver miles.
Just like for trucks - make heavy cars/SUVs/whatever have slower speed limits on all roads, and fine heavily for going over it. That way, when people "need" to use their SUVs they can still use them- in the snow, hauling furniture, etc. Average Joe who uses his SUV for a commuter car in Los Angeles, will not want to use it since he can only go 50 MPH, and everyone else will be passing him. Obviously there are better examples than L.A, since average traffic speed is about 12 MPH.
and they run starting around 5:30 AM or so. That's what I used when I lived in BAltimore, and worked in DC
Drive, take a train, ride a bike, horse or walk. But when it becomes necessary to do so, so that one may live in the USA, then restrictions on that activity essentially infringe on our rights.
Obviously some lose this right because they are a menace to others (drunk drivers, etc).
As someone else pointed out, the TSA is my problem, since it is a governmental agency.
It would seem that Los Angeles to Las Vegas would be more population centered, thus insuring better profitability.
As far as mag-lev - why? Building a proven TGV type of track, would allow other trains to use it as well, also aiding in cost-benefit. Plan on multiple side junctions to allow the TGV type train to pass the slower trains, thus permitting dual use for freight, etc. I can't imagine the mag-lev train to be that much more efficient, since fuel cost , at those speeds, is all about fighting wind resistance, and not rolling resistance.