The Canadian On-line Pharmacy is the most prolific spammer in the world. It makes all kinds of bogus claims about how its products are approved by the USA authorities, when most of them are not because they are made by Russian criminals whithout ethics, standards, or regulation of any kind. They have probably poisoned an untold number of people. I hope they string the bastard up by his balls.
No, regulations do not maske things worse. Unregulated markets are the worst that they ever can be. Regulations are necessary to prevent the market from sticking as price attempts to match supply with demand through fair competition. Corporations trading in the market do their best to introduce barriers to competition that restrict market adustment in their favour. We need more regulation, and then more again, to overcome these bastards. It does have to be done properly. Regulations that are not working in the consumer interest should be removed or repaired.
Whats the big deal? Planits are transiting the sun every day: we are just not in the right place to see them, The usefulness of this event ended 200 years ago. Get over it.
This story just does not look like it could be true. The writer appears to not have a clue what he is talking about, or else he is running a scare campaign for some political reason. The UN has no taxation powers, and it has no mandate to ever become involved in such matters. At best it could consider proposals by member nations that recommend technical telecommunications standards that allow for such taxation in those countries that want it. Even then it would have to go through the torturous ITU processes.
If the USA would take down its trade subsidies and allow poor countries to sell their agricultural produce in markets that were not distorted by American aid and subsidised US products, then they could feed themselves without our charity..
Cold War, Vietnam, Iraq, Adghanistan, Africa, South America: they are all part of the Third World War, WW3. This has been fought in third World countries for the last 50 years, mostly by proxy.
Christians have so much riding on creationsim because if Genesis falls apart then there was no original sin and therefore no need for a saviour, so Jesus Christ was moot.
The American Creationist Christians are fighting hard against evolution because their whole world will collapes if Genesis is not literally true.
Without the sin of Adam and Eve there would be no need for redemption and therefore no saviour in Jesus Christ. We must understand that this is not negotiatiable for them. They will not be convinced by science or logic.
They must be ignored like stubborn children. There is more evidence for the Tooth Fairy than Christianity, burt eventually kids grow out of that belief.
"Then, when they got a monopoly on the rare earth market, they suddenly shot the prices up and started raking in the cash. Now the US company is reopening their plant because the economic conditions are favorable and because worldwide demand is growing enough that it will be difficult for China to flood the market again"
The international competition regulator, the WTO, does not work well enough to control a monopoly in China. This is largely due to American contributions to the WTO regulations intended to give an advantage to the USA. The strategy has backfired: too bad, start again.
Other than that, this is how the markets are supposed to work. Stop blearing about that. Thew invisible hand was an American idea.
It is silly to expect all that to be covered by the 8th grade curriculum. Up to that point education should be concentrating on stimulating interest and allowing the students to study what they find interesting. If they like it, they will learn it, because their minds are open and the learning can flow in.
Many kids have shown that they can remember a huge amount of useless information if it is presented on baseball cards with hero pictures, and they are interested in the sport. If they love it they will learn it.
Of course many kids will learn nothing because many, perhaps most, teachers are incapable of stimulating interest to the desired extent. This may be because their students are too dumb to see the point. My point is that such people cannot absorb an education at that age but perhaps many will become capable as they mature and they should have access to learning then. It is a mistake to apply one formula to every child at a particular age.
The interest method would look chaotic at first as many lag behind and a few steam ahead. Eventually we might raise a generation of self motivated intellectuals who do very well in life and take the nation forward. Results oriented parents and politicians would have trouble adapting.
Bottom line: the results are to be expected. I don't care because it is not important. Under our current system real science learning comes after school.
Regarding science: you can learn all you need from primary school in a week at high school, and you can learn all you need from high school in a month at college. So school is really only about baby sitting and socializing. It would be much better to use some of this time for stimulating and interest in science and to forget about testing knowledge except in a fun competitive way (quiz, not exam). Qualifications from exam passes are mostly worthless as an indicator of real learning.
It's OK. THis is only happening in the USA, and Americans have had more than their share of the good things of life for many decades now. It is time to let more intelligent countries have a go.
Ignorance is bliss. They probably wont even understand what is happening to them.
It is always best to buy a cheap no name Chinese brand DVD player or set top box of any kind. Not only are they much cheaper but all this DRM nonsense and advertising pain is avoidable. They have not been got at by corporates protecting profits at your ex[pense. The brand names are made in the same Chinese factories so the quality difference is moot. The market is supposed to be free, and barriers to entry cause too much friction in letting price fall so that supply will match demand at a point that is acceptyable to consumers.
You cannot balance out the past influence of the neocons by voting for a guy who is in the center. You will only maintain the status quo that way. That is why we still have troops in Afghanistan.
The idiocracy of the whole TSA thing is that they all missed the main lesson of 911. The day actually demonstrated that sometimes the passengers really do need to have weapons. That sad day could not have turned out any worse if everyone aboard each of the hijacked aircraft had been obliged to carry a loaded pistol.
Put a loaded glock in each seat back, I say.
I think it is a most relevant/. subject. I, for one nerd, would be pleased to see any gun happy vigilante bastard who is willing to shoot a youth in the back put in jail forever - if the court finds that that was the situation. We need a precedent like this to set a hard limit on neighbourhood watch powers.
In spite of all the coverage we have to reserve judgement because we still do not know what really happened. The kid's color should be irrelevant, but probably it was not so to the accused.
Put together a small quiet desktop PC with a fast processor, plenty of RAM, a TB HD, very good video card, and two twin tuner HD receiver cards. Load it with MS Windows 7 ultimate 64 and run windows media center. That's it! None of the others can match the elegant user interface.
I don't like MS much either, but it is free if you are prepared to put up with the nag screens.
The fact that this bill passed throught the legislature means that most people are like that in Arizona. They simply don't understand the enormity of what they have done because they are not very smart. Low IQ must be prolific in that state, or else their politicians are so fucked up by protestant puritism that they have no idea how offensive their actions are to normal enlightened Americans.
On the other hand, perhaps it is simple populist political pandering and they really don't give a rat's ass about cyber bullying.
How about firing everyone up the chain of command who supported them.
You have a point. The Police must have had some very bad legal advice not to see the difference between using a cell phone as an audio recorder, and makiing a recroding through the telecommunications network. In this country we are entitled to record our own conversations, so the question is whether the arrest scene voices can be regarded as a conversion of the person doing the recording. It is not so clear whether it is OK to record background noise that includes the conversations of others. I suspect that it is OK, but the recording cannot be used as evidence in court.
To make this clear the person recording should say something very softly and this may make it a legal admissable conversation.
The legal advisers are professionals who must carry insurance for professional indemnity. This insurance is there to be tapped when they make mistakes like this that cause great budget wastage and humiliation for state services. The other people in the chain of command should be able to trust the advice of in-house or external legal advisers.
It is not intended that the facility will all be located entirely in the country of South Africa, but all over the war-torn African continent, Australia is an entire continent, as well as a very stable, safe and modern country. The decision should be based on risk management grounds.
You Americans are funny!
Scientific theories exist for all time, and don't stop being theories because experiments show them to give predictable results and explain the phenomenon that they were proposed to explain and hence they become widely accepted as the probable truth by most intelligent educated people. Even so these theories are always open to be rejected in the future by superior theories that explain more and enable more predictions. That is how science works.
The dumb American Conservative idea that a theory is some kind of vague unproven assertion is extremely naive. The theory of evolution was a brilliant idea that led to some of the best science we have today, including the entire field of genetics. It is one of the best supported theories we have, and will never be deposed by religious morons who believe that it discredits their Bible book of answers to everything.
The theory of the Bible as the source of all truth is one that cannot be sustained through scientific method or reason, and it enables us to predict nothing at all. Therefore it should be rejected as science. Even most Christians do not subscribe to that theory - it seems to be mainly supported among poorly educated Americans who do not understand the first thing about science: scientific method and reasoning. This is not a conspiracy, and neither is it a competition.
Science is about questions that can't be answered.
Religious fundamentalism is about answers that can't be questioned.
"Although the space environment is typically very cold" What is cold in that environment. If there is nothing around you then you would not perceive cold. You are perfectly insulated. Heat has to travel by conduction, convection or radiation. Your body could lose heat only by radiating it into space.
I think this is a very good example of premature reaction to a headline, with insufficient information being offered for an understanding of the action by authorities.. Social services simply do not place a restriction like that without having good reason. No reasons are given here. The porno pictures are not the reason if he reported them. When the police and social services went to the house they discovered something else, either on the computer or in discussions with the family. They cannot reval what that something was because the investigation is continuing. The case is interesting on a salacious level, but is not particularly unusual. The plain facts are worthy of reporting, but the analysis is entirely premature and poor journalism. Time will reveal the truth but it is most likely not worth waiting for
We need a situation in which car manufacturers have nothing to do with the audio, video, phone, or navigation systems installed in their cars. They should simply implement a standard rack system and connectors whic will take any devices made to that standard. Then we can install and update as often as we like our equipment in our car as easily as we can do it in our house.
I would avoid any car that attempted to tie me into Apple proprietary, closed, over-priced, devices and services.
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The Canadian On-line Pharmacy is the most prolific spammer in the world. It makes all kinds of bogus claims about how its products are approved by the USA authorities, when most of them are not because they are made by Russian criminals whithout ethics, standards, or regulation of any kind. They have probably poisoned an untold number of people. I hope they string the bastard up by his balls.
No, regulations do not maske things worse. Unregulated markets are the worst that they ever can be. Regulations are necessary to prevent the market from sticking as price attempts to match supply with demand through fair competition. Corporations trading in the market do their best to introduce barriers to competition that restrict market adustment in their favour. We need more regulation, and then more again, to overcome these bastards. It does have to be done properly. Regulations that are not working in the consumer interest should be removed or repaired.
Whats the big deal? Planits are transiting the sun every day: we are just not in the right place to see them, The usefulness of this event ended 200 years ago. Get over it.
This story just does not look like it could be true. The writer appears to not have a clue what he is talking about, or else he is running a scare campaign for some political reason. The UN has no taxation powers, and it has no mandate to ever become involved in such matters. At best it could consider proposals by member nations that recommend technical telecommunications standards that allow for such taxation in those countries that want it. Even then it would have to go through the torturous ITU processes.
"no right to own personal property " Rubbish. Her personal wealth makes ERII is one of the richest women in the world.
If the USA would take down its trade subsidies and allow poor countries to sell their agricultural produce in markets that were not distorted by American aid and subsidised US products, then they could feed themselves without our charity..
Cold War, Vietnam, Iraq, Adghanistan, Africa, South America: they are all part of the Third World War, WW3. This has been fought in third World countries for the last 50 years, mostly by proxy.
Christians have so much riding on creationsim because if Genesis falls apart then there was no original sin and therefore no need for a saviour, so Jesus Christ was moot.
The American Creationist Christians are fighting hard against evolution because their whole world will collapes if Genesis is not literally true. Without the sin of Adam and Eve there would be no need for redemption and therefore no saviour in Jesus Christ. We must understand that this is not negotiatiable for them. They will not be convinced by science or logic. They must be ignored like stubborn children. There is more evidence for the Tooth Fairy than Christianity, burt eventually kids grow out of that belief.
What a disgrace. The USA should heed it own rhetoric at the WTO.
"Then, when they got a monopoly on the rare earth market, they suddenly shot the prices up and started raking in the cash. Now the US company is reopening their plant because the economic conditions are favorable and because worldwide demand is growing enough that it will be difficult for China to flood the market again" The international competition regulator, the WTO, does not work well enough to control a monopoly in China. This is largely due to American contributions to the WTO regulations intended to give an advantage to the USA. The strategy has backfired: too bad, start again. Other than that, this is how the markets are supposed to work. Stop blearing about that. Thew invisible hand was an American idea.
It is silly to expect all that to be covered by the 8th grade curriculum. Up to that point education should be concentrating on stimulating interest and allowing the students to study what they find interesting. If they like it, they will learn it, because their minds are open and the learning can flow in. Many kids have shown that they can remember a huge amount of useless information if it is presented on baseball cards with hero pictures, and they are interested in the sport. If they love it they will learn it. Of course many kids will learn nothing because many, perhaps most, teachers are incapable of stimulating interest to the desired extent. This may be because their students are too dumb to see the point. My point is that such people cannot absorb an education at that age but perhaps many will become capable as they mature and they should have access to learning then. It is a mistake to apply one formula to every child at a particular age. The interest method would look chaotic at first as many lag behind and a few steam ahead. Eventually we might raise a generation of self motivated intellectuals who do very well in life and take the nation forward. Results oriented parents and politicians would have trouble adapting. Bottom line: the results are to be expected. I don't care because it is not important. Under our current system real science learning comes after school. Regarding science: you can learn all you need from primary school in a week at high school, and you can learn all you need from high school in a month at college. So school is really only about baby sitting and socializing. It would be much better to use some of this time for stimulating and interest in science and to forget about testing knowledge except in a fun competitive way (quiz, not exam). Qualifications from exam passes are mostly worthless as an indicator of real learning.
It's OK. THis is only happening in the USA, and Americans have had more than their share of the good things of life for many decades now. It is time to let more intelligent countries have a go. Ignorance is bliss. They probably wont even understand what is happening to them.
It is always best to buy a cheap no name Chinese brand DVD player or set top box of any kind. Not only are they much cheaper but all this DRM nonsense and advertising pain is avoidable. They have not been got at by corporates protecting profits at your ex[pense. The brand names are made in the same Chinese factories so the quality difference is moot. The market is supposed to be free, and barriers to entry cause too much friction in letting price fall so that supply will match demand at a point that is acceptyable to consumers.
You cannot balance out the past influence of the neocons by voting for a guy who is in the center. You will only maintain the status quo that way. That is why we still have troops in Afghanistan.
The idiocracy of the whole TSA thing is that they all missed the main lesson of 911. The day actually demonstrated that sometimes the passengers really do need to have weapons. That sad day could not have turned out any worse if everyone aboard each of the hijacked aircraft had been obliged to carry a loaded pistol. Put a loaded glock in each seat back, I say.
I think it is a most relevant /. subject. I, for one nerd, would be pleased to see any gun happy vigilante bastard who is willing to shoot a youth in the back put in jail forever - if the court finds that that was the situation. We need a precedent like this to set a hard limit on neighbourhood watch powers.
In spite of all the coverage we have to reserve judgement because we still do not know what really happened. The kid's color should be irrelevant, but probably it was not so to the accused.
Put together a small quiet desktop PC with a fast processor, plenty of RAM, a TB HD, very good video card, and two twin tuner HD receiver cards. Load it with MS Windows 7 ultimate 64 and run windows media center. That's it! None of the others can match the elegant user interface. I don't like MS much either, but it is free if you are prepared to put up with the nag screens.
The fact that this bill passed throught the legislature means that most people are like that in Arizona. They simply don't understand the enormity of what they have done because they are not very smart. Low IQ must be prolific in that state, or else their politicians are so fucked up by protestant puritism that they have no idea how offensive their actions are to normal enlightened Americans. On the other hand, perhaps it is simple populist political pandering and they really don't give a rat's ass about cyber bullying.
How about firing everyone up the chain of command who supported them. You have a point. The Police must have had some very bad legal advice not to see the difference between using a cell phone as an audio recorder, and makiing a recroding through the telecommunications network. In this country we are entitled to record our own conversations, so the question is whether the arrest scene voices can be regarded as a conversion of the person doing the recording. It is not so clear whether it is OK to record background noise that includes the conversations of others. I suspect that it is OK, but the recording cannot be used as evidence in court. To make this clear the person recording should say something very softly and this may make it a legal admissable conversation. The legal advisers are professionals who must carry insurance for professional indemnity. This insurance is there to be tapped when they make mistakes like this that cause great budget wastage and humiliation for state services. The other people in the chain of command should be able to trust the advice of in-house or external legal advisers.
It is not intended that the facility will all be located entirely in the country of South Africa, but all over the war-torn African continent, Australia is an entire continent, as well as a very stable, safe and modern country. The decision should be based on risk management grounds.
You Americans are funny! Scientific theories exist for all time, and don't stop being theories because experiments show them to give predictable results and explain the phenomenon that they were proposed to explain and hence they become widely accepted as the probable truth by most intelligent educated people. Even so these theories are always open to be rejected in the future by superior theories that explain more and enable more predictions. That is how science works. The dumb American Conservative idea that a theory is some kind of vague unproven assertion is extremely naive. The theory of evolution was a brilliant idea that led to some of the best science we have today, including the entire field of genetics. It is one of the best supported theories we have, and will never be deposed by religious morons who believe that it discredits their Bible book of answers to everything. The theory of the Bible as the source of all truth is one that cannot be sustained through scientific method or reason, and it enables us to predict nothing at all. Therefore it should be rejected as science. Even most Christians do not subscribe to that theory - it seems to be mainly supported among poorly educated Americans who do not understand the first thing about science: scientific method and reasoning. This is not a conspiracy, and neither is it a competition. Science is about questions that can't be answered. Religious fundamentalism is about answers that can't be questioned.
"Although the space environment is typically very cold" What is cold in that environment. If there is nothing around you then you would not perceive cold. You are perfectly insulated. Heat has to travel by conduction, convection or radiation. Your body could lose heat only by radiating it into space.
I think this is a very good example of premature reaction to a headline, with insufficient information being offered for an understanding of the action by authorities.. Social services simply do not place a restriction like that without having good reason. No reasons are given here. The porno pictures are not the reason if he reported them. When the police and social services went to the house they discovered something else, either on the computer or in discussions with the family. They cannot reval what that something was because the investigation is continuing. The case is interesting on a salacious level, but is not particularly unusual. The plain facts are worthy of reporting, but the analysis is entirely premature and poor journalism. Time will reveal the truth but it is most likely not worth waiting for
We need a situation in which car manufacturers have nothing to do with the audio, video, phone, or navigation systems installed in their cars. They should simply implement a standard rack system and connectors whic will take any devices made to that standard. Then we can install and update as often as we like our equipment in our car as easily as we can do it in our house. I would avoid any car that attempted to tie me into Apple proprietary, closed, over-priced, devices and services.