I'd like to see how you arrive at that conclusion. Granted, I only spent ten minutes googling but the highest estimate on bucket drownings was 10-40 per year. Even taking the worst end of that statistic you're still well behind toddler firearm deaths. The CDC puts the figure at 80ish but other sources are suggesting that figure is low, possibly due to the CDC being severely restricted on the subject.
Hey, don't look down under to make you feel better about your expensive plans. For AU$50 my current provider will give you unlimited calls, unlimited text, and 10 gig of data - either 4G or 3G depending on what is available in your area. Unused data can be rolled over to the next month. Now international calls are limited - I think to the countries I would call occasionally the plan includes what works out to about 6 hours talk time a month - but I don't call overseas from my mobile (cell) phone all that often. After we do a currency conversion we get a plan price of about $35 in American money. Even the most overpriced unwieldy telecommunications company in Australia (I think most Australians would know to whom I refer) will give you 7gig and unlimited talk for under the US$50 pricepoint. For only 1gig with unlimited talk and text prices start around AU$30 or US$21.
One more thing, never paid for an incoming text in my life - what is that all about?
"Up to" is a weasel phrase designed to generate hype. For example: I played a season of soccer when I was young and scored up to three goals a game - that is, in one game when the opposition had two players sent off I scored the only three goals I scored that season. Typically I scored no goals per game. Let's hear how far over the limit the vehicles actually are in real world conditions and then we'll talk about how big a deal this story is or isn't.
Also, I'm almost certain India is not a signatory. The issue of whether we (Australia) should be selling them uranium as a non-signatory came up a few years ago.
We flee in terror before your devastating attack. However will we survive without the ability to express the rough equivalent of twenty-five thousandths of inches in the most convenient metric unit?
I get a strong urge to slap programmers who use the simplified evenly divisible by four rule to calculate leap years. It just so happens that 2000 was the 1 in 400 XX00 year that is a leap year so it works a couple of decades either way. The problems start when your code is applied to a longer or historical data set. This can happen when you don't have full knowledge of how your code is going to be used or just when you fall into your old bad habit of ignoring the function for your simple and wrong divisible by four rule and don't even see the problem coming, Symptoms include days of the week out of sync, computations involving date/time functions and the hand rolled divisible by four rule start to give odd results, your monthly and yearly averages are out, that very pretty graph dives from a narrow range in the thousands to zero at the end of February 1900, throwing the whole graph out of scale, and you get to find out how graciously or otherwise your system handles being asked about a date that doesn't exist, or if you're really, really lucky like I was - all of the above. I don't know who wrote the wretched code but I had to fix it. Most languages have a decent set of date/time functions - use them unless you have a really good reason not to.
In the fruit and vegetable section no, but for the majority of the breakfast cereal aisle the difference in nutritional value may be less than you think.
I'm pretty sure both of these researchers were in still in grade school 25 years ago. Do you understand how the ship became trapped or the difference between land and sea ice? Having said that I'm very impressed with the variety of materials you've used in your straw man collage.
I could open 2 MB files no problem in Notepad when I was running Windows 95 on my 75 MHz Pentium, with only 4 MB of RAM.
I don't mean to disrupt your rant but either your memory is failing or mine is. My recollection was that there was a 64k limit on notepad files until either Windows Mistakes Edition or Win2k.
This is why I like preferential voting. You get to vote for your preferred candidate and if that person isn't elected your vote still counts toward what you consider the lesser evil. You number your candidates in order of preference. If no candidate gets an absolute majority the candidate with the least primary votes is eliminated and their votes distributed to the next preference and so on until a candidate has an absolute majority.
And unless the state has specifically permitted this by legislation or given you an ironclad immunity deal (let's face it, not many countries are going to be happy to give foreign navies the right to point large guns at their civilians without recourse) such actions would be highly inadvisable. If you point a gun at another vessel and demand it cut its engines while in port you better be able to make a very strong case that it was the threat otherwise you may be spending a lot longer on shore leave than anticipated. In my own jurisdiction those actions would likely have you on the hook for assault and false imprisonment
While I am not a fan of the Catholic church it must be said in fairness that they also advocate monogamy which, if practiced, would probably significantly slow the spread of HIV/AIDS. It's no more fair to blame them for people following half their teachings than it is to blame the auto manufacturer of your choice because you drained the oil as recommended in the users manual but didn't bother to refill it before you drove off. I think their stance on contraception is wrong for a number of other reasons but let's not overreach.
The moon is tidally locked so you're probably worrying about the wrong horizon. Go ahead and build on different sides - how does that help you when the moon is on the opposite side of the earth?
How does that help you? Your enemies don't even have to bother to destroy your lunar telecommunications system - they just wait until it is below the horizon.
Uh, you do understand we're talking about tariffs, not sanctions, right? Sanctions are generally restrictions on trade and/or financial transactions. I suspect Iraq is the example you're thinking of. Tariffs are simply are tax on export. or (more commonly) imports. I honestly don't know where sanctions stand constitutionally in the United States but any argument that tariffs are unconstitutional is utter crap. Pretty much the first piece of major legislation passed after the introduction of the constitution was the Tariffs Act.
As someone who has used both cutting methods very recently this seems a little implausible.
If you put a spinning blade into a metal safe it is going to make a hell of a racket which is probably not an ideal situation for a thief
Now a plasma cutter is one of the power hungriest tools I have ever used. I wouldn't count on even being able to run it off a standard household point. In addition you're going to need an air compressor which is hardly a quiet beast. Making a racket and then coming out of someone's house carrying a plasma cutter and dragging an air compressor will make even the least curious neighbour inquisitive.
Documents of a proprietary nature could include documents that disagree with the published findings.
Irrelevant. Let us say that I privately compile useful data and sell it to recoup the costs incurred in collecting it plus a little profit for my trouble - that is, I own data of proprietary nature. Now if I sell (or give because I believe in the value of the research) a copy to a public scientist that does not mean they get to put my data on the public record the first time they get a FOIA - effectively dropping the value of my data to zero.
So, if you want to force public scientists to release proprietary material you can choose between:
(a) public scientists not being able to gain access to private data sets which will stifle their research
(b) public scientists being sued into oblivion which will really stifle their research
My back of the envelope calculations suggest that even for a straight line shot from the moon with no other forces in play a one degree change in any direction would result in you missing the earth entirely. Now when you take into account gravity from at least three bodies, what atmospheric conditions will be like in X time when your shot actually reaches earth (keep in mind that for most shots you'll likely be going through atmosphere on an angle), I'd be very impressed if you landed your shot in the right country.
In addition your shell has to not burn up in the atmosphere. Even if you get all that right there's going to be a significant time lag between when you fire your shot and when it arrives so you're only good against very stationary targets. Even if you fire at Mach 10 a competing bomber crew is probably going to have taken off, destroyed the target with an accurate, guided solution, and be home in bed by the time your shot arrives.
In short, an interesting exercise but there are probably quicker, cheaper, and more reliable ways to hit stationary targets.
Cite your source. I'm pretty sure there are no term limits for Australian politicians. Some of them have been there forever. Take for instance Billy Hughes - the guy spent 58 consecutive years in parliament, representing four electorates in two states as a member of four different political parties. (to put that in American terms think of him as someone who spent significant time as both a Republican and a Democrat and a member of a couple of funny breakaway parties) If he hadn't died of old age he would probably still be there.
You produced an article about at study essentially about caffeine withdrawals which is nothing particularly new. Perhaps I missed something but I see nothing there to back up your assertion that "you probably would not have CFS if you got over your addition to caffeine". Try actually backing up your assertions before calling for rebuttals. Out of curiosity, do you actually know anyone with severe CFS?
Can't comment on European attitudes. My family left Europe well over a century ago. It's not my thing but if the Europeans get all hot and bothered about sending a convicted murderer to jail then who am I to judge?
North Korea is a barbaric dictatorship with a despotic leader where your chances of a fair trial are small to arguably non-existent. Italy is a peaceful democracy with a functional judicial system that was deemed fair enough by the United States for extradition treaty to be signed. Completely different situation warranting a completely different response.
well if the italians thought that their citizen was getting railroaded in the US contrary to justice I would hope that they would advocate for the freedom for their citizen.
Absolutely - and they would be well within their rights to offer consular support and even express their dissatisfaction through diplomatic channels but ultimately it would remain an American legal issue. I don't think that's the issue in question here.
although notice your straw man I never said that obama should step in and put an end to the matter.
Actually, that's exactly what you said. It's a direct quote what you said.
i just said that she shouldn't be deported.
Okay, we'll run with that as your intent then. The United States has an extradition treaty with Italy. I think it dates back to the mid eighties. It looks like this case would meet all the legal requirements. If the extradition should be blocked at a political level then there would be the prospect of other countries deciding that their extradition treaty with the United States wasn't worth the paper it was written on and tearing it up or preparing to randomly raise their middle finger to extradition requests from the United States if it wasn't politically expedient at home.
what do you mean "reasons why you're not very well liked?" americans? or me?
I was referring to an opinion of Americans and the American government that is quite prevalent internationally. As for you personally, I don't have enough information to make a judgement.
An earlier post made reference to some EU jurisdictions allowing double jeopardy to which you replied - and note that I'm quoting you here - "Sure whatever, as long as they do it to themselves and not Americans." Now correct me if I'm very much mistaken but that reads a lot like if a foreigner comes to the US and commits a crime they will be tried under US laws and legal principles but if an American goes to a foreign country and commits a crime we expect American legal principles to override the laws of that foreign country. Can you see how this might come across as a trifle arrogant?
I don't care if Knox is guilty or innocent. I expect proper legal process to be followed. If you don't like the Italian legal system you shouldn't have signed an extradition treaty with them. For further reading see how the US has tended to react when told no on the matter of extradition even when the country had no treaty obligation to extradite the person in question. If you need help finding a starting place then here's a hint: look slightly south from Uzbekistan.
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I'd like to see how you arrive at that conclusion. Granted, I only spent ten minutes googling but the highest estimate on bucket drownings was 10-40 per year. Even taking the worst end of that statistic you're still well behind toddler firearm deaths. The CDC puts the figure at 80ish but other sources are suggesting that figure is low, possibly due to the CDC being severely restricted on the subject.
Hey, don't look down under to make you feel better about your expensive plans. For AU$50 my current provider will give you unlimited calls, unlimited text, and 10 gig of data - either 4G or 3G depending on what is available in your area. Unused data can be rolled over to the next month. Now international calls are limited - I think to the countries I would call occasionally the plan includes what works out to about 6 hours talk time a month - but I don't call overseas from my mobile (cell) phone all that often. After we do a currency conversion we get a plan price of about $35 in American money. Even the most overpriced unwieldy telecommunications company in Australia (I think most Australians would know to whom I refer) will give you 7gig and unlimited talk for under the US$50 pricepoint. For only 1gig with unlimited talk and text prices start around AU$30 or US$21.
One more thing, never paid for an incoming text in my life - what is that all about?
"Up to" is a weasel phrase designed to generate hype. For example: I played a season of soccer when I was young and scored up to three goals a game - that is, in one game when the opposition had two players sent off I scored the only three goals I scored that season. Typically I scored no goals per game. Let's hear how far over the limit the vehicles actually are in real world conditions and then we'll talk about how big a deal this story is or isn't.
Also, I'm almost certain India is not a signatory. The issue of whether we (Australia) should be selling them uranium as a non-signatory came up a few years ago.
We flee in terror before your devastating attack. However will we survive without the ability to express the rough equivalent of twenty-five thousandths of inches in the most convenient metric unit?
I get a strong urge to slap programmers who use the simplified evenly divisible by four rule to calculate leap years. It just so happens that 2000 was the 1 in 400 XX00 year that is a leap year so it works a couple of decades either way. The problems start when your code is applied to a longer or historical data set. This can happen when you don't have full knowledge of how your code is going to be used or just when you fall into your old bad habit of ignoring the function for your simple and wrong divisible by four rule and don't even see the problem coming, Symptoms include days of the week out of sync, computations involving date/time functions and the hand rolled divisible by four rule start to give odd results, your monthly and yearly averages are out, that very pretty graph dives from a narrow range in the thousands to zero at the end of February 1900, throwing the whole graph out of scale, and you get to find out how graciously or otherwise your system handles being asked about a date that doesn't exist, or if you're really, really lucky like I was - all of the above. I don't know who wrote the wretched code but I had to fix it. Most languages have a decent set of date/time functions - use them unless you have a really good reason not to.
In the fruit and vegetable section no, but for the majority of the breakfast cereal aisle the difference in nutritional value may be less than you think.
I'm pretty sure both of these researchers were in still in grade school 25 years ago. Do you understand how the ship became trapped or the difference between land and sea ice? Having said that I'm very impressed with the variety of materials you've used in your straw man collage.
I could open 2 MB files no problem in Notepad when I was running Windows 95 on my 75 MHz Pentium, with only 4 MB of RAM.
I don't mean to disrupt your rant but either your memory is failing or mine is. My recollection was that there was a 64k limit on notepad files until either Windows Mistakes Edition or Win2k.
This is why I like preferential voting. You get to vote for your preferred candidate and if that person isn't elected your vote still counts toward what you consider the lesser evil. You number your candidates in order of preference. If no candidate gets an absolute majority the candidate with the least primary votes is eliminated and their votes distributed to the next preference and so on until a candidate has an absolute majority.
And unless the state has specifically permitted this by legislation or given you an ironclad immunity deal (let's face it, not many countries are going to be happy to give foreign navies the right to point large guns at their civilians without recourse) such actions would be highly inadvisable. If you point a gun at another vessel and demand it cut its engines while in port you better be able to make a very strong case that it was the threat otherwise you may be spending a lot longer on shore leave than anticipated. In my own jurisdiction those actions would likely have you on the hook for assault and false imprisonment
While I am not a fan of the Catholic church it must be said in fairness that they also advocate monogamy which, if practiced, would probably significantly slow the spread of HIV/AIDS. It's no more fair to blame them for people following half their teachings than it is to blame the auto manufacturer of your choice because you drained the oil as recommended in the users manual but didn't bother to refill it before you drove off. I think their stance on contraception is wrong for a number of other reasons but let's not overreach.
Okay, I'll bite.
The moon is tidally locked so you're probably worrying about the wrong horizon. Go ahead and build on different sides - how does that help you when the moon is on the opposite side of the earth?
How does that help you? Your enemies don't even have to bother to destroy your lunar telecommunications system - they just wait until it is below the horizon.
Uh, you do understand we're talking about tariffs, not sanctions, right? Sanctions are generally restrictions on trade and/or financial transactions. I suspect Iraq is the example you're thinking of. Tariffs are simply are tax on export. or (more commonly) imports. I honestly don't know where sanctions stand constitutionally in the United States but any argument that tariffs are unconstitutional is utter crap. Pretty much the first piece of major legislation passed after the introduction of the constitution was the Tariffs Act.
Yes.
Yes.
Next question?
As someone who has used both cutting methods very recently this seems a little implausible.
If you put a spinning blade into a metal safe it is going to make a hell of a racket which is probably not an ideal situation for a thief
Now a plasma cutter is one of the power hungriest tools I have ever used. I wouldn't count on even being able to run it off a standard household point. In addition you're going to need an air compressor which is hardly a quiet beast. Making a racket and then coming out of someone's house carrying a plasma cutter and dragging an air compressor will make even the least curious neighbour inquisitive.
Documents of a proprietary nature could include documents that disagree with the published findings.
Irrelevant. Let us say that I privately compile useful data and sell it to recoup the costs incurred in collecting it plus a little profit for my trouble - that is, I own data of proprietary nature. Now if I sell (or give because I believe in the value of the research) a copy to a public scientist that does not mean they get to put my data on the public record the first time they get a FOIA - effectively dropping the value of my data to zero.
So, if you want to force public scientists to release proprietary material you can choose between:
(a) public scientists not being able to gain access to private data sets which will stifle their research
(b) public scientists being sued into oblivion which will really stifle their research
My back of the envelope calculations suggest that even for a straight line shot from the moon with no other forces in play a one degree change in any direction would result in you missing the earth entirely. Now when you take into account gravity from at least three bodies, what atmospheric conditions will be like in X time when your shot actually reaches earth (keep in mind that for most shots you'll likely be going through atmosphere on an angle), I'd be very impressed if you landed your shot in the right country.
In addition your shell has to not burn up in the atmosphere. Even if you get all that right there's going to be a significant time lag between when you fire your shot and when it arrives so you're only good against very stationary targets. Even if you fire at Mach 10 a competing bomber crew is probably going to have taken off, destroyed the target with an accurate, guided solution, and be home in bed by the time your shot arrives.
In short, an interesting exercise but there are probably quicker, cheaper, and more reliable ways to hit stationary targets.
Cite your source. I'm pretty sure there are no term limits for Australian politicians. Some of them have been there forever. Take for instance Billy Hughes - the guy spent 58 consecutive years in parliament, representing four electorates in two states as a member of four different political parties. (to put that in American terms think of him as someone who spent significant time as both a Republican and a Democrat and a member of a couple of funny breakaway parties) If he hadn't died of old age he would probably still be there.
When I went to school most anonymous speech was shared via the back of the toilet door.
You produced an article about at study essentially about caffeine withdrawals which is nothing particularly new. Perhaps I missed something but I see nothing there to back up your assertion that "you probably would not have CFS if you got over your addition to caffeine". Try actually backing up your assertions before calling for rebuttals. Out of curiosity, do you actually know anyone with severe CFS?
Can't comment on European attitudes. My family left Europe well over a century ago. It's not my thing but if the Europeans get all hot and bothered about sending a convicted murderer to jail then who am I to judge?
North Korea is a barbaric dictatorship with a despotic leader where your chances of a fair trial are small to arguably non-existent. Italy is a peaceful democracy with a functional judicial system that was deemed fair enough by the United States for extradition treaty to be signed. Completely different situation warranting a completely different response.
well if the italians thought that their citizen was getting railroaded in the US contrary to justice I would hope that they would advocate for the freedom for their citizen.
Absolutely - and they would be well within their rights to offer consular support and even express their dissatisfaction through diplomatic channels but ultimately it would remain an American legal issue. I don't think that's the issue in question here.
although notice your straw man I never said that obama should step in and put an end to the matter.
Actually, that's exactly what you said. It's a direct quote what you said.
i just said that she shouldn't be deported.
Okay, we'll run with that as your intent then. The United States has an extradition treaty with Italy. I think it dates back to the mid eighties. It looks like this case would meet all the legal requirements. If the extradition should be blocked at a political level then there would be the prospect of other countries deciding that their extradition treaty with the United States wasn't worth the paper it was written on and tearing it up or preparing to randomly raise their middle finger to extradition requests from the United States if it wasn't politically expedient at home.
what do you mean "reasons why you're not very well liked?" americans? or me?
I was referring to an opinion of Americans and the American government that is quite prevalent internationally. As for you personally, I don't have enough information to make a judgement.
An earlier post made reference to some EU jurisdictions allowing double jeopardy to which you replied - and note that I'm quoting you here - "Sure whatever, as long as they do it to themselves and not Americans." Now correct me if I'm very much mistaken but that reads a lot like if a foreigner comes to the US and commits a crime they will be tried under US laws and legal principles but if an American goes to a foreign country and commits a crime we expect American legal principles to override the laws of that foreign country. Can you see how this might come across as a trifle arrogant?
I don't care if Knox is guilty or innocent. I expect proper legal process to be followed. If you don't like the Italian legal system you shouldn't have signed an extradition treaty with them. For further reading see how the US has tended to react when told no on the matter of extradition even when the country had no treaty obligation to extradite the person in question. If you need help finding a starting place then here's a hint: look slightly south from Uzbekistan.