OK. Let's try to cure Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease. If Mad Cow disease is cured as a side benefit, great.
As for the comparison with AIDS. The behavior modifications required are of an entirely different nature. You see, the "culprits" now are individuals, the majority of who are impoverished and under educated with little communications equipment available to begin with. So even getting condoms and the message of responsible sex to them is tough.
As if that wasn't bad enough the victims are usually the same people and their own families. In other words. They get AIDS because they don't know better and have very limited options. (I have spoken to HIV victims in my own country)
Mad Cow disease on the other hand is produced exclusively on midsized to large cattle farms in industrialised middle income and wealthy countries. They continue to raise cattle on beef scraps because that's cheaper than using grain and grass. This gives them an additional competitive advantage over the smaller farmers that do not have the equipment necessary for reprocessing cattle scraps.
None of them stops on his own because that will let the others who continue get ahead in the marketplace. Keep in mind that the farmer I'm talking about here is more often than not university educated. He knows about all the government farm subsidies and makes sure to collect his share. In short, he is fully integrated in a well regulated society.
If regulations were put in place banning the sale of beef fed cattle or putting an additional tax on it to remove the price advantage the practise would disappear overnight.
Most importantly, This disease is hitting people who have no way of knowing that this risk exists in a particular slice of meat because gee, It's not even on the package.
In short.
Cause of Mad Cow Disease -: people with as much education and more wealth than the average slashdoter selling a defective product. Killing other people.
Cause of AIDS -: People with limited education and few options following a basic biological urge.
One can be stopped by a few of earths most stable governments (England, USA, Germany etc...) passing relatively simple legislation (and enforcing it).
OK. The other items make sense. However, Why do we need to "cure Mad Cow disses"?
This is an ailment which only arises when cattle is fed body parts of previously slaughtered cattle. After several generations of meat fed cattle eating meat fed cattle Mad cow disease pops up. This is why after an "outbreak" which the local authorities respond to by burning entire herds the disease seams to disappear for several months or even a couple years before popping up again in another location.
Cows are not like people or pigs. They were never designed to eat meat in the 1st place. Once we stop forcing cattle into cannibalism, mad cow disease will disappear on it's own.
One of the underlying principles of Extradition both between states in the US and internationally is that the offence you are being extradited for should be illegal in both countries.
I.e. Britain will not extradite someone to Saudi Arabia on an Alcohol Consumption charge.
By that logic. Spamhaus has the full protection of British law as long as it remains within Britain. To clarify what that means. Think in terms of tons of burning metal sinking in the Atlantic while men splash around searching for missing limbs.
Unless of course Spamhous actually pisses off it's own (UK) government. In which case directors could be classified as terrorist and turn of in Guantanamo Bay.
Ohmm. There are a few places to download QBASIC still and it dose run on XP (if a little too fast to play Nibbles on a 3Ghz machine). Too lazy to create links though so here are the 1st site and the actual zip file I found there.
To expose your USB drive to a magnet and not louse data what you need isn't a better memory technology inside. Fact is as long as you are rearranging electrons to store data your data is vulnerable to magnets.
What you need to achieve that is better shielding. I can't remember the brand but I once left a 32 MB thumb drive stuck to the magnet of a 15" Pile, speaker. None of the 20 MB of data on it was damaged.
This stick had a Metal shell. Perhaps someone who knows more than I do about memory technology and Physics could give a detailed explanation of my observed results.
The text of the bait post doesn't match the Picture included with it.
The quote: "i don't get fucked in my ass since my hole is tite..........don't even try or think about it."
The girl in that picture, Looks like she has been Analyzed enough to need a diaper. To say nothing of doubts of tightness anywhere when you look like that from behind.
ohm... I never said this was only for the pore. I said it's what the pore need. I.e. Pore people are much better off if they get clean tapwater too. Dosn't meen it's not great for the rest of us or that developed contries don't have it in abundance.
No. That's because India has the 2nd largest population. It's beeten by China.
A better measure is per capita deployment where some European countries have passed 100% (more people with 2 or more cellphones than people with none at all).
Or even small "Developing" countries like Jamaica with Over 2 Million Cellphones and a population of 2.7 Million.
Right now I'm working for one of the "culprits" in this phenomenal growth. Digicel allegedly sold 300,000 phones in it's 1st month of operations in Haiti. If you check the CIA Factbook, it basically says this is the worst run country in the western hemisphere. I have been here for 3 months now and I can say it's the worst I have seen.
Despite that, Somebody sold 300,000 phones in a month. How? Because a prepaid cellphone with free incoming calls is exactly what you need when you are impoverished. Looking for work? Put the number on your resume. Family members in a developed country? Give them the number so they can call you and you can ask for remittances.
Seriously. That's why it makes sense to sell a U$75 phone for U$25 to someone who had to save for weeks to pay that price.
So yeah. A nation doesn't even have to be emerging for Cellphones to take off. It could be a textbook case of "How to, not develop".
PS: Another sign of underdevelopment is when you must import almost your entire technical staff.
There are a couple of problems with good quality SciFi shows on TV. I'll explain them here the best I can. I'll compare them to the queens of long run. Soap operas to clarify.
#1. FX costs money. Every time Serenity lands on a new planet or SG1 steps through the gate you spend as much on Special Effects as you would for a whole season of "The Yong and the Restless".
#2. SciFi Fans are few. It's true. Sure we can pack 10,000 StarGate fans into a convention center if we realy tried. However in real viewership SciFi lags behind cop shows and soaps.
#3. As if the numbers problem wasn't bad enogh, Advertising dolars spent for SF spots do not generally bring good returns. The reason is simple. The more intelligent/educated (not necessarily related traits) a person is the less influence advertising has on buying decisions. For the SF fan market you have to figure out what they want and tell them you are now selling it. Soup fans will happily let you tell them what they want.
#4. Politics. Good SciFi shows will deal with real social issues in an "it's so out there" way. What's really disturbing is that our favorite writers are falling into the trap of simply deciding that certain things we see everyday don't exist in the univers they created.
My favorite example of this. AIDS in the Stargate universe. It simply doesn't exist. How many people in the real world who passed all the right security screens and have high level clearance are now infected with HIV? How many of those would take the decision Sam's dad did when the facts are presented? Meanwhile on SG1 there is the ongoing plot-line that the Tocra have a shortage of hosts.
And don't get me started on that bracelet thing which turned 3 members of SG1 (didn't work on Teal'k) into SuperHeroes.
FireFly being set in the far future (post terrestrial exudes) gave it the chance to dodge that sort of issue without forcing us to ask why. However the Reavers worry me. How savage can you get while still maintaining complex machinery?
And yes. Firefly dose lay it out that an old ship will simply drop out of the sky if you don't keep fixing things as they break.
PS: What has become of BSG? Last season I saw ended with Cylons marching through the streets of a new human "city" while the fleet in orbit was out of medical supplies (Thanks to the climate on the planet below)
Great War (AKA World War 1) World War 2 Cold War Gulf War War on Terror
yes I left out dozens of other wars and probebly misnamed that last one. The point was to show the reletive time frames of the 2 wars mentiond by the parent.
I read somewhere that it takes more energy to make a solar panel than that panel produces in it's lifetime.
As for the Hidrogen economy. How's this version. Nuclear power plants produce Significantly more electricity than is produced today.
Electrical devices to extract Hidrogen from watter are sold at Walmart.
You plug in the device, connect a hose, fill up you car with Hidrogen and drive it wherever. Running low 50 miles from home? Gas stations can buy the same devices you did. And then charge you a fee to fil up.
Gee. Only downside it what to do with all that Nuclear waste?
The sure fire, must win ideas (Like a fast food outlet in the middle of the business district) usually run into stiff competition and hence slim margins. What make spectacular 10 and 100 fold returns on your investments are those ideas that are so wacky they couldn't get a commercial bank loan..
You know ideas like "Lets get the same old books that people buy at brick and mortar stores and sell them online" or "Gee, how about if we sell the operating system like it wasn't a part of the computer, but it's own product".
Most of those ideas are actually Waco and money invested in them is lost. Occasionally one hits pay dirt and a VC makes a killing.
What they came up with for that is the "10 bagger". Bet on 10 ideas that _almost_ make sense to you. Fully prepare for 8 of them to completely tank and loose everything you invest, while 1 will turn a small profit and the other makes the kind of returns that capitalists of all stripes salivate over.
These guys claim to be doing exactly what a layman should do when he thinks he has discovered technology which challenges a fundamental scientific principle.
Invite as many credible scientific experts as you can find to test it and report the results of such testing in peer reviewed scientific publications and on the Internet.
Free energy is one of the biggest discoveries that people are seriously searching for. That and intelligent extraterrestrial life.
And yes, apart from free energy there is the promise of virtually free energy. I.e. If you could create a small (as in portable) device that can separate Water molecules into the atomic components and burn the resulting Hydrogen for energy, cool. If the energy generated in that process is significantly greater (1.5X to 2X) than what is required to run the machine, viola. Virtually free energy.
Bonus points if it runs on watter too impure to drink and still maintains a positive balance even with the purification process.
So let them be. If it's bogus that will come out in the testing. This has happened before, without the invitations. If it's legit. Whoopee. countries like mine which produce mineral raw materials (bauxite) but import all our energy needs could see a an economic bump.
A bump our politicians will work feverishly to squander, but that's a different story.
In Jamaica you need 4 recommendations including from senior police officer and a justice of the peace plus you must "demonstrate a "need" to be armed. It usually takes a year or more for your application to get processed.
Ohh... and if you are caught with a gun and without a proper license ("Gun" includes, ammunition, fireworks, realistic toy guns and depending on the judge unrealistic toy guns)
Very few Jamaicans have a license to Carry a gun (somewhere around 30,000 inclusive or 8,000 police, 5,000 (approximately) Army and 10,000 armed security guards.
Small Wonder we have the highest murder rate on the planet. 1,650 dead in 2005 in a country of only 2.7 million.
PS: Guess how much respect I have for true pasifists?
PPS: If you employ a bodyguard or even call on the police, you are no more a pasifist than the man with dreadlocks who eats Pork is a Rasta.
I had tong planted firmly in cheack when I typed parent.:)
Frankly the only way to make power tools safe is to set minimum limits on the inteligence of users and to train those users before they start.
Even so alcohol, personal problems or fatigue will cause a worker to get careless and luse 2 milimeters of his fingertip. (Hapend when My dad was pulling 18 hour days in the furniture shop to get orders out in time for back to school shoping (6 son Kindergarten to University).
Long as we build with mate3rials togher than we are, we will do grivius bodily harm to ourselvs. We just have to keap making the tools safer in reasonable ways.
BTW: A safty measure that slows down work will be dangerus for a man payed on completed items. "Hast makes waste" and sometimes you waste pints of bload.
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OK. Let's try to cure Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease. If Mad Cow disease is cured as a side benefit, great.
As for the comparison with AIDS. The behavior modifications required are of an entirely different nature. You see, the "culprits" now are individuals, the majority of who are impoverished and under educated with little communications equipment available to begin with. So even getting condoms and the message of responsible sex to them is tough.
As if that wasn't bad enough the victims are usually the same people and their own families. In other words. They get AIDS because they don't know better and have very limited options. (I have spoken to HIV victims in my own country)
Mad Cow disease on the other hand is produced exclusively on midsized to large cattle farms in industrialised middle income and wealthy countries. They continue to raise cattle on beef scraps because that's cheaper than using grain and grass. This gives them an additional competitive advantage over the smaller farmers that do not have the equipment necessary for reprocessing cattle scraps.
None of them stops on his own because that will let the others who continue get ahead in the marketplace. Keep in mind that the farmer I'm talking about here is more often than not university educated. He knows about all the government farm subsidies and makes sure to collect his share. In short, he is fully integrated in a well regulated society.
If regulations were put in place banning the sale of beef fed cattle or putting an additional tax on it to remove the price advantage the practise would disappear overnight.
Most importantly, This disease is hitting people who have no way of knowing that this risk exists in a particular slice of meat because gee, It's not even on the package.
In short.
Cause of Mad Cow Disease -: people with as much education and more wealth than the average slashdoter selling a defective product. Killing other people.
Cause of AIDS -: People with limited education and few options following a basic biological urge.
One can be stopped by a few of earths most stable governments (England, USA, Germany etc...) passing relatively simple legislation (and enforcing it).
The other cannot.
OK. The other items make sense. However, Why do we need to "cure Mad Cow disses"?
This is an ailment which only arises when cattle is fed body parts of previously slaughtered cattle. After several generations of meat fed cattle eating meat fed cattle Mad cow disease pops up. This is why after an "outbreak" which the local authorities respond to by burning entire herds the disease seams to disappear for several months or even a couple years before popping up again in another location.
Cows are not like people or pigs. They were never designed to eat meat in the 1st place. Once we stop forcing cattle into cannibalism, mad cow disease will disappear on it's own.
Free Reg requierd.
"slashdolts" is back.
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Close.
One of the underlying principles of Extradition both between states in the US and internationally is that the offence you are being extradited for should be illegal in both countries.
I.e. Britain will not extradite someone to Saudi Arabia on an Alcohol Consumption charge.
By that logic. Spamhaus has the full protection of British law as long as it remains within Britain. To clarify what that means. Think in terms of tons of burning metal sinking in the Atlantic while men splash around searching for missing limbs.
Unless of course Spamhous actually pisses off it's own (UK) government. In which case directors could be classified as terrorist and turn of in Guantanamo Bay.
Ohmm. There are a few places to download QBASIC still and it dose run on XP (if a little too fast to play Nibbles on a 3Ghz machine). Too lazy to create links though so here are the 1st site and the actual zip file I found there.
# QBASICm icrosoft/qbasic11.zip
http://www.uv.tietgen.dk/staff/mlha/Download/DOS/
http://www.uv.tietgen.dk/staff/mlha/Download/DOS/
Thank you very much for so clearly and concisely explaining the different positions.
Fact is, As an individual, or a charitable organisation, I can decide not to go there because I do not approve of censorship etc...
However a business can't just ignore 1.3 Million potential consumers. Not when it tells it's shareholders that it is on a global growth trajectory.
To expose your USB drive to a magnet and not louse data what you need isn't a better memory technology inside. Fact is as long as you are rearranging electrons to store data your data is vulnerable to magnets.
What you need to achieve that is better shielding. I can't remember the brand but I once left a 32 MB thumb drive stuck to the magnet of a 15" Pile, speaker. None of the 20 MB of data on it was damaged.
This stick had a Metal shell. Perhaps someone who knows more than I do about memory technology and Physics could give a detailed explanation of my observed results.
You know what's really sick?
The text of the bait post doesn't match the Picture included with it.
The quote: "i don't get fucked in my ass since my hole is tite..........don't even try or think about it."
The girl in that picture, Looks like she has been Analyzed enough to need a diaper. To say nothing of doubts of tightness anywhere when you look like that from behind.
ohm... I never said this was only for the pore. I said it's what the pore need. I.e. Pore people are much better off if they get clean tapwater too. Dosn't meen it's not great for the rest of us or that developed contries don't have it in abundance.
No. That's because India has the 2nd largest population. It's beeten by China.
A better measure is per capita deployment where some European countries have passed 100% (more people with 2 or more cellphones than people with none at all).
Or even small "Developing" countries like Jamaica with Over 2 Million Cellphones and a population of 2.7 Million.
Right now I'm working for one of the "culprits" in this phenomenal growth. Digicel allegedly sold 300,000 phones in it's 1st month of operations in Haiti. If you check the CIA Factbook, it basically says this is the worst run country in the western hemisphere. I have been here for 3 months now and I can say it's the worst I have seen.
Despite that, Somebody sold 300,000 phones in a month. How? Because a prepaid cellphone with free incoming calls is exactly what you need when you are impoverished. Looking for work? Put the number on your resume. Family members in a developed country? Give them the number so they can call you and you can ask for remittances.
Seriously. That's why it makes sense to sell a U$75 phone for U$25 to someone who had to save for weeks to pay that price.
So yeah. A nation doesn't even have to be emerging for Cellphones to take off. It could be a textbook case of "How to, not develop".
PS: Another sign of underdevelopment is when you must import almost your entire technical staff.
There are a couple of problems with good quality SciFi shows on TV. I'll explain them here the best I can. I'll compare them to the queens of long run. Soap operas to clarify.
#1. FX costs money. Every time Serenity lands on a new planet or SG1 steps through the gate you spend as much on Special Effects as you would for a whole season of "The Yong and the Restless".
#2. SciFi Fans are few. It's true. Sure we can pack 10,000 StarGate fans into a convention center if we realy tried. However in real viewership SciFi lags behind cop shows and soaps.
#3. As if the numbers problem wasn't bad enogh, Advertising dolars spent for SF spots do not generally bring good returns. The reason is simple. The more intelligent/educated (not necessarily related traits) a person is the less influence advertising has on buying decisions. For the SF fan market you have to figure out what they want and tell them you are now selling it. Soup fans will happily let you tell them what they want.
#4. Politics. Good SciFi shows will deal with real social issues in an "it's so out there" way. What's really disturbing is that our favorite writers are falling into the trap of simply deciding that certain things we see everyday don't exist in the univers they created.
My favorite example of this. AIDS in the Stargate universe. It simply doesn't exist. How many people in the real world who passed all the right security screens and have high level clearance are now infected with HIV? How many of those would take the decision Sam's dad did when the facts are presented? Meanwhile on SG1 there is the ongoing plot-line that the Tocra have a shortage of hosts.
And don't get me started on that bracelet thing which turned 3 members of SG1 (didn't work on Teal'k) into SuperHeroes.
FireFly being set in the far future (post terrestrial exudes) gave it the chance to dodge that sort of issue without forcing us to ask why. However the Reavers worry me. How savage can you get while still maintaining complex machinery?
And yes. Firefly dose lay it out that an old ship will simply drop out of the sky if you don't keep fixing things as they break.
PS: What has become of BSG? Last season I saw ended with Cylons marching through the streets of a new human "city" while the fleet in orbit was out of medical supplies (Thanks to the climate on the planet below)
Thanks for the link (althogh I clicked throgh to original link before reading any posts here.
On a personal note. I can do without the Betty Ford clinic but damnd if I'm going to give up my moment in the sun with Oprah.
TFA gave no indication that Don thoght it wise or even knows why it is being done.
He just stated what is. "My boss now insists that we all wear a tie to work. In a call center."
Same tone.
RTFA again. Please
Uhm. Quick hitory lesson. In cronological order.
Great War (AKA World War 1)
World War 2
Cold War
Gulf War
War on Terror
yes I left out dozens of other wars and probebly misnamed that last one. The point was to show the reletive time frames of the 2 wars mentiond by the parent.
I read somewhere that it takes more energy to make a solar panel than that panel produces in it's lifetime.
As for the Hidrogen economy. How's this version. Nuclear power plants produce Significantly more electricity than is produced today.
Electrical devices to extract Hidrogen from watter are sold at Walmart.
You plug in the device, connect a hose, fill up you car with Hidrogen and drive it wherever. Running low 50 miles from home? Gas stations can buy the same devices you did. And then charge you a fee to fil up.
Gee. Only downside it what to do with all that Nuclear waste?
Here goes.
Any criminal activity is deamd outside a lawyers power. Droping nukes on a courtroom breaks a few laws.
In other words: "Anything" and "Anything within my power" are 2 vastly diferent statements.
Or at least, that's what I would say if this darned hook wasn't lodged in my gum. At least the bait was yumy.
Ohm... When you burn Hydrogen in air the "waste product" is water.
That's what makes this virtually free energy. At the end of the process you get back the water you started with.
There is another piece to the VC puzzle.
The sure fire, must win ideas (Like a fast food outlet in the middle of the business district) usually run into stiff competition and hence slim margins. What make spectacular 10 and 100 fold returns on your investments are those ideas that are so wacky they couldn't get a commercial bank loan..
You know ideas like "Lets get the same old books that people buy at brick and mortar stores and sell them online" or "Gee, how about if we sell the operating system like it wasn't a part of the computer, but it's own product".
Most of those ideas are actually Waco and money invested in them is lost. Occasionally one hits pay dirt and a VC makes a killing.
What they came up with for that is the "10 bagger". Bet on 10 ideas that _almost_ make sense to you. Fully prepare for 8 of them to completely tank and loose everything you invest, while 1 will turn a small profit and the other makes the kind of returns that capitalists of all stripes salivate over.
I don't see why the hostility.
These guys claim to be doing exactly what a layman should do when he thinks he has discovered technology which challenges a fundamental scientific principle.
Invite as many credible scientific experts as you can find to test it and report the results of such testing in peer reviewed scientific publications and on the Internet.
Free energy is one of the biggest discoveries that people are seriously searching for. That and intelligent extraterrestrial life.
And yes, apart from free energy there is the promise of virtually free energy. I.e. If you could create a small (as in portable) device that can separate Water molecules into the atomic components and burn the resulting Hydrogen for energy, cool. If the energy generated in that process is significantly greater (1.5X to 2X) than what is required to run the machine, viola. Virtually free energy.
Bonus points if it runs on watter too impure to drink and still maintains a positive balance even with the purification process.
So let them be. If it's bogus that will come out in the testing. This has happened before, without the invitations. If it's legit. Whoopee. countries like mine which produce mineral raw materials (bauxite) but import all our energy needs could see a an economic bump.
A bump our politicians will work feverishly to squander, but that's a different story.
Personaly I would scrible the priscription along with a tubaligation apointment. If I didn't think she was sincear.
AC from parent would it bother you to take that permanent contraceptive?
If it would. Why?
So for those who actualy get to read consumer report.
Who won ?
I live in Gun control hell.
In Jamaica you need 4 recommendations including from senior police officer and a justice of the peace plus you must "demonstrate a "need" to be armed. It usually takes a year or more for your application to get processed.
Ohh... and if you are caught with a gun and without a proper license ("Gun" includes, ammunition, fireworks, realistic toy guns and depending on the judge unrealistic toy guns)
Very few Jamaicans have a license to Carry a gun (somewhere around 30,000 inclusive or 8,000 police, 5,000 (approximately) Army and 10,000 armed security guards.
Small Wonder we have the highest murder rate on the planet. 1,650 dead in 2005 in a country of only 2.7 million.
PS: Guess how much respect I have for true pasifists?
PPS: If you employ a bodyguard or even call on the police, you are no more a pasifist than the man with dreadlocks who eats Pork is a Rasta.
I had tong planted firmly in cheack when I typed parent. :)
Frankly the only way to make power tools safe is to set minimum limits on the inteligence of users and to train those users before they start.
Even so alcohol, personal problems or fatigue will cause a worker to get careless and luse 2 milimeters of his fingertip. (Hapend when My dad was pulling 18 hour days in the furniture shop to get orders out in time for back to school shoping (6 son Kindergarten to University).
Long as we build with mate3rials togher than we are, we will do grivius bodily harm to ourselvs. We just have to keap making the tools safer in reasonable ways.
BTW: A safty measure that slows down work will be dangerus for a man payed on completed items. "Hast makes waste" and sometimes you waste pints of bload.