What does 'enforce it' mean? Germany is down to 6 months of service and by no means do all adults participate (women are not conscripted and lots of men are given medical exemptions, even from the alternative civilian service, and there is at least some momentum for ending conscription) and given that less than 1 in 100 Canadians are serving in the military, you should probably explain what you mean there also.
(You appear to be correct about Norway (at least for men) and I don't feel the need to argue about not taking policy cues from the China)
I guess it might be, I'm not sure the 'rabid, unthinking' is justified.
And I have to say, I don't really like the phrase "carrying out its role in society", it quietly implies that things are concrete, and they really probably should not be.
So you are faced with the rather novel situation where any motivated individual can successfully resist the state and your instinct is to label it rabid anti-establishmentism?
(and as others have pointed out, it is novel, doors can be broken, safes can be cracked, well used encryption is not so trivial to defeat)
If you read through a bit, you will see that they currently incur legal expenses of about $500 million a year and spend about $9 billion a year on R&D.
(Of course, those legal expenses include settlements...)
The very name MRSA comes from being resistant to a penicillin derivative. I'm not arguing that the problem is limited to those older classes of drugs either, I'm arguing that at the moment, there are usually other options.
(and the basic underlying argument is that antibiotic misuse is a serious public health issue but not a serious existential threat; the misuse reduces the medical effectiveness of the drugs, driving up the cost of effective treatment, it does not mean that there will be diseases in 2100 that are resistant to dozens of different antibiotic mechanisms, the defenses are too metabolically expensive for that)
Most of the resistance business is about penicillin derivatives, tetracyclines and vancomycin, all of which come from the 1950s or earlier.
Sure, misuse is making those antibiotics less effective at treating diseases, but the other half of the equation is that they have been so effective for 50 years that it hasn't been particularly worthwhile to pursue drugs that use different mechanisms of attack.
Rapid genome sequencing is changing that, expect all sorts of novel antibiotics over the next 20 years. Also expect to pay for them.
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Why would you argue that the price of the commodity going up without impacting the price of the producers is a sign of strength in the commodity?
It will be interesting to see if the tea parties help the Republicans pull defeat out from under the rug of victory.
I love the juxtaposition between your talk of asset bubbles and your certainty that the price of gold is a harbinger of the doomed dollar.
Lost battle.
So should fire services be enforced at the federal level, or should people make smart decisions about the jurisdictions they choose to live in?
Just boil the Atlantic and harvest energy from the larger, more predictable hurricanes.
What does 'enforce it' mean? Germany is down to 6 months of service and by no means do all adults participate (women are not conscripted and lots of men are given medical exemptions, even from the alternative civilian service, and there is at least some momentum for ending conscription) and given that less than 1 in 100 Canadians are serving in the military, you should probably explain what you mean there also.
(You appear to be correct about Norway (at least for men) and I don't feel the need to argue about not taking policy cues from the China)
Please substantiate your statement that there is a taste for war in this population.
I guess it might be, I'm not sure the 'rabid, unthinking' is justified.
And I have to say, I don't really like the phrase "carrying out its role in society", it quietly implies that things are concrete, and they really probably should not be.
You will also need a judge in your pocket.
So you are faced with the rather novel situation where any motivated individual can successfully resist the state and your instinct is to label it rabid anti-establishmentism?
(and as others have pointed out, it is novel, doors can be broken, safes can be cracked, well used encryption is not so trivial to defeat)
Microsoft does, on an annual basis:
http://www.microsoft.com/investor/reports/ar09/10k_fr_dis.html
If you read through a bit, you will see that they currently incur legal expenses of about $500 million a year and spend about $9 billion a year on R&D.
(Of course, those legal expenses include settlements...)
What is it you think that angry candles enable us to do?
Until one actually does it, you are also making assumptions.
There are plenty of commercials on PBS, they just happen to be between programs, rather than interrupting them.
Why did you get yourself upholstered?
Seems strange to me.
I used Windows 95 once, so I know you are full of shit.
The very name MRSA comes from being resistant to a penicillin derivative. I'm not arguing that the problem is limited to those older classes of drugs either, I'm arguing that at the moment, there are usually other options.
(and the basic underlying argument is that antibiotic misuse is a serious public health issue but not a serious existential threat; the misuse reduces the medical effectiveness of the drugs, driving up the cost of effective treatment, it does not mean that there will be diseases in 2100 that are resistant to dozens of different antibiotic mechanisms, the defenses are too metabolically expensive for that)
There is a preference for it, you can set your own default.
Most of the resistance business is about penicillin derivatives, tetracyclines and vancomycin, all of which come from the 1950s or earlier.
Sure, misuse is making those antibiotics less effective at treating diseases, but the other half of the equation is that they have been so effective for 50 years that it hasn't been particularly worthwhile to pursue drugs that use different mechanisms of attack.
Rapid genome sequencing is changing that, expect all sorts of novel antibiotics over the next 20 years. Also expect to pay for them.
The USDA prohibits feeding mammal tissues to ruminants.
That still leaves them room to feed chicken to cattle though.
Yes, you can just buy them OTC (at least, in the U.S.).
As a vegetarian, you barely have the energy to type a short message, so we all appreciate you dropping by.
That isn't quite how it works.
I HATE IT WHEN AUDIO FILES DISRESPECT MY SPEAKERS.
Oh, was I yelling? Sorry. No, I really am sorry, I didn't realize that I was doing so.