It's more about driver intoxication level and the number of other vehicles on the road. 600 cars going 50 MPH on a one-mile stretch of 4-lane freeway is extremely dangerous. 60 cars going 80 MPH on that same mile of freeway is must less dangerous.
The trouble is with making laws that can represent the danger inherent in widely varying situations. So we end with laws that make sense some of the time (at best) but have no rationale for existence at other times. For example, who cares if you run a red light at a rural intersection instead of waiting 2 minutes for the light to cycle when there are no other cars? The police will definitely ticket you if they see it, but there's nothing unsafe about stopping, looking both ways, and then proceeding if there is no cross traffic.
However, because there’s only about one dark lightning occurrence for every thousand visible flashes and because pilots take great pains to avoid thunderstorms, Dwyer says, the risk of injury is quite limited. No one knows for sure if anyone has ever been hit by dark lightning.
They're quite knowledgeable about DRUG TRAFFICKING. Expertise in other areas relevant to law enforcement should not be assumed. Apple either has a copy of your key or can crack their own encryption when they need to. The NSA could probably crack it too, but why would the DEA go to the NSA and why should the NSA concern itself with helping the DEA crack cases? That's not their job.
That's not justice because there ARE such things as original inventions. If I have a patent and you make something that's a in the gray area where it's a judgement call whether my patent was infringed, the jury should be able to find that the particular work was non-infringing without making it so people can now copy my work exactly.
That would hardly be a problem for patent trolls. They'd form a new corporation for each case they intend to bring and sell the patent to that company.
And they're all similarly non-perilous in the face of modern medicine.
That's not correct. The Spanish flu was a particularly deadly strain, unlike most other flu variants before and since and we don't really know why it was so bad. It is completely possible for a deadly new flu (or other disease) variant to crop up for which we just don't have the proper medicines. Flu outbreaks can be reduced with vaccination campaigns, but that depends on the correct prediction of what flu types will be going around in a few months. Sometimes the flu shots are effective and sometimes they're not because the formulators guessed wrong. There are now antivirals like Tamiflu, but not all types of flu are susceptible to it.
Ebola IS very dangerous to humans and it does spread, but there have been a lot of outbreaks and they always burn out in a few days. It kills its victims too fast to spread rapidly once people are aware that people are getting sick. To be a big threat to humans, a disease has to have a longer incubation. Smallpox, for example, had an incubation period of about 12 days.
Interestingly, during the 19th and early 20th centuries, a less-virulent form of smallpox evolved, called "variola minor." Patients with this form didn't get as sick but it was higly communicable. The minor form spread rapidly and might eventually have made full-blown smallpox extinct if the eradication campaign hadn't made both forms extinct in the wild.
The plague took months to spread around Europe when there was no sanitation whatsoever. As a weapon of mass destruction, diseases are (a) wildly impractical and (b) much less convenient than many alternatives.
The Spanish Flu took about six weeks to go from barely noticeable levels to its peak. Other flu strains do the same.
The consequences of the material getting out are worse with the pathogens because it doesn't take any technical capability at all to start the spread of the pathogen. All a person has to do is get infected, or get another person infected.
Steal 20 pounds of weapons-grade plutonium and you have 20 of raw material that you need a Ph.D. and a lot of engineering knowledge to convert into a bomb that can kill millions of people.
Also, the pathogen is millions of times easier to conceal.
Seriously, I can't see a practical application for this in combination with room lighting. And in the typical multipath light environment of a room that people live and work in, your speeds are going to be a lot less than what they measured under optimal conditions. One advantage though: only adding a conventional telescope, you could establish point to point links through open air over miles without breaking any FCC (or agency in your-country-of-choice) emission rules.
I'm not sure what you think you're getting at, but early Catholics actively sought to disseminate the Bible (by translating it to Latin) and later sought to control its message (look up Jon Hus, then Martin Luther). Modern translations of the text rarely have anything to do with the terrible Latin and KJV translations that came before them and instead rely on original source materials.
By EDITING, I mean they selected and/or wrote many of the source materials. WRT the OT, it's possible to get a pre-Catholic, which means a pre-Christian text to start with. For the NT, not so much. And many of the modern Bible translators are not satisfied with the meanings that Jews ascribe to OT words.
I suspect that these automatic graders would give the same grade to an essay if all the sentences were rearranged, or if the nouns were randomly switched around.
For example, the previous sentence might receive the same grade as this one:
Sentences suspect that these automatic nouns would give the same essay to a grade if all the graders were rearranged, or if I were randomly switched around.
In my defense, I fixed the articles to make the rearranged sentence conventional in terms of article use. But that could be done automatically.
Now let's mess with things on the next level by changing some of the verbs that automated understanding probably wouldn't object to, but a human reader would.
Sentences expect that these automatic nouns would imagine the same essay to a grade if all the graders were expunged, or if I were randomly spotted around.
The original Google search yielded 23800 results. The second sentence yielded 8160 results and the top site was about grammar (and several of the top results were about autism). Impressive given that the sentence breaks no grammar rules despite being nonsense. The last sentence yielded 454 results.
So maybe the situation is not quite so bad as one would think. Google, at least, seems to distinguish between nonsense sentences and normal language, but the search results can't be used as a measure of sentence quality. "Oh my God!!!" turned up 384 million results, whereas the previous sentence was only worth 1.2 million.
Isn't that what physics is? Applying the right formula? I don't think much is gained by having students memorize formulas anyway. In real life you just look up general formulas on google/wikipedia/wolfram and apply them to your specific problem. I suppose it's useful to be able to derive certain formulas as a method to gain greater insight into patterns and ways of thinking, but I don't think this depth is commonly required in high school.
If it were my kid, I'd rather he knew how to google formulas and apply them to specific problems than have a bunch of formulas memorized. People naturally memorize things if they use them enough. Rather than having kids memorize specific formulas, I think it's more useful that they memorize the best way to find specific formulas (i.e. google, wolfram, etc). That's much more efficient.
I have a bunch of physics formulas memorized because I used them a lot. The ones I don't use a lot I just look up when they are needed. If I forget one, it's not a big deal. If I forget how to look up formulas (not sure how that would happen) I would be screwed.
The purpose of EDUCATION is to teach the student how to understand and think about the material.
Raymond Lane, who was recently re-elected by only 58.8% of shareholders.
Winning an election with 58% of the vote is perfectly fine. Until you realize that he had no opponent. Just like elections in the old Soviet Union or other dictatorships, elections for most boards of directors are a complete fraud. If there is one seat open on the board, there is exactly one candidate.
And that cuts to the heart of the problem with such a system.. who decides what taking sufficient steps involves? People who support this idea assume that they or someone like them will be in charge, but chances are it would be a beurocratic mess which would involve certification of underlying components (like the OS), which would not make FOSS people very happy...
The only people who would benefit from such a situation are lawyers who would have another category of people to sue.
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So demand 1.5 billion bench trials.
Problem solved.
But it will never happen. The government would go broke trying to buy postage to send you the tickets.
Yes, but it would save the post office. ;-)
all right then! Carry on!
It's more about driver intoxication level and the number of other vehicles on the road. 600 cars going 50 MPH on a one-mile stretch of 4-lane freeway is extremely dangerous. 60 cars going 80 MPH on that same mile of freeway is must less dangerous.
The trouble is with making laws that can represent the danger inherent in widely varying situations. So we end with laws that make sense some of the time (at best) but have no rationale for existence at other times. For example, who cares if you run a red light at a rural intersection instead of waiting 2 minutes for the light to cycle when there are no other cars? The police will definitely ticket you if they see it, but there's nothing unsafe about stopping, looking both ways, and then proceeding if there is no cross traffic.
So demand 1.5 billion bench trials.
Problem solved.
But it will never happen. The government would go broke trying to buy postage to send you the tickets.
However, because there’s only about one dark lightning occurrence for every thousand visible flashes and because pilots take great pains to avoid thunderstorms, Dwyer says, the risk of injury is quite limited. No one knows for sure if anyone has ever been hit by dark lightning.
But at least they'll be BLIND Somali pirates with mirrors.
Uranium 235 yes. Plutonium no.
They're quite knowledgeable about DRUG TRAFFICKING. Expertise in other areas relevant to law enforcement should not be assumed. Apple either has a copy of your key or can crack their own encryption when they need to. The NSA could probably crack it too, but why would the DEA go to the NSA and why should the NSA concern itself with helping the DEA crack cases? That's not their job.
That's not justice because there ARE such things as original inventions. If I have a patent and you make something that's a in the gray area where it's a judgement call whether my patent was infringed, the jury should be able to find that the particular work was non-infringing without making it so people can now copy my work exactly.
Their main assets are patents. Make them forfeit money AND their patents.
That would hardly be a problem for patent trolls. They'd form a new corporation for each case they intend to bring and sell the patent to that company.
And they're all similarly non-perilous in the face of modern medicine.
That's not correct. The Spanish flu was a particularly deadly strain, unlike most other flu variants before and since and we don't really know why it was so bad. It is completely possible for a deadly new flu (or other disease) variant to crop up for which we just don't have the proper medicines. Flu outbreaks can be reduced with vaccination campaigns, but that depends on the correct prediction of what flu types will be going around in a few months. Sometimes the flu shots are effective and sometimes they're not because the formulators guessed wrong. There are now antivirals like Tamiflu, but not all types of flu are susceptible to it.
Ebola IS very dangerous to humans and it does spread, but there have been a lot of outbreaks and they always burn out in a few days. It kills its victims too fast to spread rapidly once people are aware that people are getting sick. To be a big threat to humans, a disease has to have a longer incubation. Smallpox, for example, had an incubation period of about 12 days.
Interestingly, during the 19th and early 20th centuries, a less-virulent form of smallpox evolved, called "variola minor." Patients with this form didn't get as sick but it was higly communicable. The minor form spread rapidly and might eventually have made full-blown smallpox extinct if the eradication campaign hadn't made both forms extinct in the wild.
The plague took months to spread around Europe when there was no sanitation whatsoever. As a weapon of mass destruction, diseases are (a) wildly impractical and (b) much less convenient than many alternatives.
The Spanish Flu took about six weeks to go from barely noticeable levels to its peak. Other flu strains do the same.
The consequences of the material getting out are worse with the pathogens because it doesn't take any technical capability at all to start the spread of the pathogen. All a person has to do is get infected, or get another person infected.
Steal 20 pounds of weapons-grade plutonium and you have 20 of raw material that you need a Ph.D. and a lot of engineering knowledge to convert into a bomb that can kill millions of people.
Also, the pathogen is millions of times easier to conceal.
The hospital may also be committing a serious crime. But you're right that responding in kind would be a very bad idea.
Dunno, but I've been waiting for this to happen. It's an obvious step for botnet owners.
It has been going on since 2011.
Or by pouring vodka in it. Remember that? Booze-Fueled Gadgets
Seriously, I can't see a practical application for this in combination with room lighting. And in the typical multipath light environment of a room that people live and work in, your speeds are going to be a lot less than what they measured under optimal conditions. One advantage though: only adding a conventional telescope, you could establish point to point links through open air over miles without breaking any FCC (or agency in your-country-of-choice) emission rules.
I'm not sure what you think you're getting at, but early Catholics actively sought to disseminate the Bible (by translating it to Latin) and later sought to control its message (look up Jon Hus, then Martin Luther). Modern translations of the text rarely have anything to do with the terrible Latin and KJV translations that came before them and instead rely on original source materials.
By EDITING, I mean they selected and/or wrote many of the source materials. WRT the OT, it's possible to get a pre-Catholic, which means a pre-Christian text to start with. For the NT, not so much. And many of the modern Bible translators are not satisfied with the meanings that Jews ascribe to OT words.
I suspect that these automatic graders would give the same grade to an essay if all the sentences were rearranged, or if the nouns were randomly switched around.
For example, the previous sentence might receive the same grade as this one:
Sentences suspect that these automatic nouns would give the same essay to a grade if all the graders were rearranged, or if I were randomly switched around.
In my defense, I fixed the articles to make the rearranged sentence conventional in terms of article use. But that could be done automatically.
Now let's mess with things on the next level by changing some of the verbs that automated understanding probably wouldn't object to, but a human reader would.
Sentences expect that these automatic nouns would imagine the same essay to a grade if all the graders were expunged, or if I were randomly spotted around.
The original Google search yielded 23800 results. The second sentence yielded 8160 results and the top site was about grammar (and several of the top results were about autism). Impressive given that the sentence breaks no grammar rules despite being nonsense. The last sentence yielded 454 results.
So maybe the situation is not quite so bad as one would think. Google, at least, seems to distinguish between nonsense sentences and normal language, but the search results can't be used as a measure of sentence quality. "Oh my God!!!" turned up 384 million results, whereas the previous sentence was only worth 1.2 million.
Isn't that what physics is? Applying the right formula? I don't think much is gained by having students memorize formulas anyway. In real life you just look up general formulas on google/wikipedia/wolfram and apply them to your specific problem. I suppose it's useful to be able to derive certain formulas as a method to gain greater insight into patterns and ways of thinking, but I don't think this depth is commonly required in high school.
If it were my kid, I'd rather he knew how to google formulas and apply them to specific problems than have a bunch of formulas memorized. People naturally memorize things if they use them enough. Rather than having kids memorize specific formulas, I think it's more useful that they memorize the best way to find specific formulas (i.e. google, wolfram, etc). That's much more efficient.
I have a bunch of physics formulas memorized because I used them a lot. The ones I don't use a lot I just look up when they are needed. If I forget one, it's not a big deal. If I forget how to look up formulas (not sure how that would happen) I would be screwed.
The purpose of EDUCATION is to teach the student how to understand and think about the material.
It isn't even remotely the same company since they split off Agilent.
Raymond Lane, who was recently re-elected by only 58.8% of shareholders.
Winning an election with 58% of the vote is perfectly fine. Until you realize that he had no opponent. Just like elections in the old Soviet Union or other dictatorships, elections for most boards of directors are a complete fraud. If there is one seat open on the board, there is exactly one candidate.
Not all board elections are run that way.
If you succeed in fucking up somebody else's life but don't ever get what you want how is that winning?
And that cuts to the heart of the problem with such a system.. who decides what taking sufficient steps involves? People who support this idea assume that they or someone like them will be in charge, but chances are it would be a beurocratic mess which would involve certification of underlying components (like the OS), which would not make FOSS people very happy...
The only people who would benefit from such a situation are lawyers who would have another category of people to sue.