-242C is a temperature that doesn't exist, unless your religion allows temperatures below absolute zero. All we need now is a campaign for Intelligent Cold.;)
If I am ever stopped, I'll ask for a Breathalyzer test, over a roadside sobriety test, any day of the week. I would much rather have a carefully designed, well calibrated machine prove in seconds that I'm sober, than give a cop the opportunity to make a subjective judgment about me.
To me, this looks like a case of a bunch of guys who got nailed over the limit, who are attacking the one plank of evidence against them. OK, so it may not be 100% accurate, it may only be 96% accurate, or 90% accurate, but that means if you were convicted with a BAC over.09, you were STILL over.08 regardless. I bet a lot of these people are convinced they were less lubed up than they actually were.
I think the biggest objection is that there can be no 'informed consent' for this individual, and they would have no privacy. This breaks almost every tenet of the Belmont Report and the Helsinki Declaration.
This is not necessarily true. The UK DNA database allows the police to make educated guesses about the last name of the originator of a DNA sample, as your father often will have the surname name as you. Is it a stretch that with a possible name, race, and good probabilities of the contents of their medical records, it only takes a small push to get laws passed making this information part of the Government-accessible domain?
There is nothing unethical in this, but it does cause some problems. These people are not participating in a study, and therefore have not given Informed Consent. Instead, they have made their own decision to publish these details about themselves.
The problem is that this could lower the bar for expectations in formal medical studies in the future. It opens the door for study protocols that contain eroded protections for human research participants. It becomes more important than ever that the Independent Review Boards continue to carefully protect human participants from the subtle or obvious discrimination that can occur when this type of information can be associated with a person's identity.
It appears they now own the smoking remains of their DNS server. Which is "just recompense" for their leaving smoking remains where a client's site used to be.
I note this salute works on both big-endian and little-endian systems without conversion. Sweet.:)
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It could thus be argued that such a level of danger and fooling of the senses isn't involved, or the participants would not voluntarily jump off the platform.
I haven't jumped to a conclusion. I expressed a desire to read the protocol because I don't understand the rationale.
The summary didn't explain clearly, and the rationale would be in the protocol. I'd also like to read the Informed Consent.
Did I mention I work for an IRB?
Invalidating this experiment...
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Perception is a perceived experience. Time goes forward at an undetermined rate. These are fundamental. What isn't is the eye's ability to see fast-changing light patterns. Nothing presumes that even if perception of time changes, the eye has the ability to speed up and see something which is otherwise a blur.
This isn't a measurement of perception, but of the characteristics of eye refresh rates under stress.
I would have loved to have been on the IRB Board that oversaw this study, and read the protocol...
In 1985 there was an armed robbery of a jewelry store. The blurry videotape contained someone who looked like me. The CID kicked down my door at 6.30am and arrested me at gunpoint based on a phone tip-off. I was released within two hours as it was certainly mistaken identity - the robber was 3" taller than me.
My details were published. I lost my job. I lost my apartment. I lost my girlfriend. My car was repossessed because I lost my job.
All for being arrested, released without charge, and then my details getting out.
I also point out the fallacy that people shouldn't be allowed to express an opinion unless they've personally been a victim of the issue. Do you have an opinion on pedophiles? Keep it to yourself then, unless you were personally abused as a kid. That makes no sense, as does your statement.
He was visiting his family in a different town to his home town. Since police departments don't have a standardised non-emergency number, how would you expect him to know it?
Regardless, as he was being unlawfully detained against his will in that moment (as was his family, including minors) which is a felony action, I believe that counts as an 'emergency'...
You might think he was being whiney. Fine. But he and his family were being unlawfully detained, which is a kidnapping felony.
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I dunno. Rumor has it Jade Goody had sex with Stephen Hawking because she wanted to be like Marilyn Monroe. Maybe he's got severe HPV? *eeps*
The "Insightful" tag is only for ironic effect. You're not supposed to make insightful posts, you fool! :P
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Wouldn't that make upskirting too enjoyable for the victim?
Yeah, and this was the mistake I made. 237, 273... Ah the price I pay to make a joke about "Intelligent Cold"! :)
Shoulda got me some "Intelligent Dumb!"
-242C is a temperature that doesn't exist, unless your religion allows temperatures below absolute zero. All we need now is a campaign for Intelligent Cold. ;)
If I am ever stopped, I'll ask for a Breathalyzer test, over a roadside sobriety test, any day of the week. I would much rather have a carefully designed, well calibrated machine prove in seconds that I'm sober, than give a cop the opportunity to make a subjective judgment about me.
To me, this looks like a case of a bunch of guys who got nailed over the limit, who are attacking the one plank of evidence against them. OK, so it may not be 100% accurate, it may only be 96% accurate, or 90% accurate, but that means if you were convicted with a BAC over .09, you were STILL over .08 regardless. I bet a lot of these people are convinced they were less lubed up than they actually were.
I think the biggest objection is that there can be no 'informed consent' for this individual, and they would have no privacy. This breaks almost every tenet of the Belmont Report and the Helsinki Declaration.
I have the irrational need to stab you. Repeatedly. In the groinal area. Did I mention repeatedly?
This is not necessarily true. The UK DNA database allows the police to make educated guesses about the last name of the originator of a DNA sample, as your father often will have the surname name as you. Is it a stretch that with a possible name, race, and good probabilities of the contents of their medical records, it only takes a small push to get laws passed making this information part of the Government-accessible domain?
There is nothing unethical in this, but it does cause some problems. These people are not participating in a study, and therefore have not given Informed Consent. Instead, they have made their own decision to publish these details about themselves.
The problem is that this could lower the bar for expectations in formal medical studies in the future. It opens the door for study protocols that contain eroded protections for human research participants. It becomes more important than ever that the Independent Review Boards continue to carefully protect human participants from the subtle or obvious discrimination that can occur when this type of information can be associated with a person's identity.
It appears they now own the smoking remains of their DNS server. Which is "just recompense" for their leaving smoking remains where a client's site used to be.
That is not the statistic you were looking for...
When a household contains a firearm, for each time that firearm injures an intruder, it injures an occupant of the home 44 times.
Man, he's gonna get SO sued...
There isn't a link in your sig (what sig?) but I'd like to read. Link me!
I note this salute works on both big-endian and little-endian systems without conversion. Sweet. :)
It could thus be argued that such a level of danger and fooling of the senses isn't involved, or the participants would not voluntarily jump off the platform.
I haven't jumped to a conclusion. I expressed a desire to read the protocol because I don't understand the rationale.
The summary didn't explain clearly, and the rationale would be in the protocol. I'd also like to read the Informed Consent.
Did I mention I work for an IRB?
Perception is a perceived experience. Time goes forward at an undetermined rate. These are fundamental. What isn't is the eye's ability to see fast-changing light patterns. Nothing presumes that even if perception of time changes, the eye has the ability to speed up and see something which is otherwise a blur.
This isn't a measurement of perception, but of the characteristics of eye refresh rates under stress.
I would have loved to have been on the IRB Board that oversaw this study, and read the protocol...
Tic Tac Toe is not on your list.
This has happened to me.
In 1985 there was an armed robbery of a jewelry store. The blurry videotape contained someone who looked like me. The CID kicked down my door at 6.30am and arrested me at gunpoint based on a phone tip-off. I was released within two hours as it was certainly mistaken identity - the robber was 3" taller than me.
My details were published. I lost my job. I lost my apartment. I lost my girlfriend. My car was repossessed because I lost my job.
All for being arrested, released without charge, and then my details getting out.
I also point out the fallacy that people shouldn't be allowed to express an opinion unless they've personally been a victim of the issue. Do you have an opinion on pedophiles? Keep it to yourself then, unless you were personally abused as a kid. That makes no sense, as does your statement.
He was visiting his family in a different town to his home town. Since police departments don't have a standardised non-emergency number, how would you expect him to know it?
Regardless, as he was being unlawfully detained against his will in that moment (as was his family, including minors) which is a felony action, I believe that counts as an 'emergency'...
You might think he was being whiney. Fine. But he and his family were being unlawfully detained, which is a kidnapping felony.
Great. Now you want me to worry about alien races leeching off my wifi? When I can't even connect from 200 feet away?
Does this mean a non-profit can circumvent a patent simply by making and giving a drug away away?