I think I see what you're saying - but the thing is that it's exactly as you say - except that it takes years to know if the cure worked. If it did, then the body will fix itself etc. If it didn't, then it's not good.
And having that long waiting period is very draining for everyone, something I'm very aware of.
I'd love to know what the distinction between a "cure" and "removal or killing of cancerous cells" is. If you get all the cells, which is often not as hard as you'd think, that seems to me like a cure.
The trick is that it's not clear for years which was achieved.
It's easy to lower the cancer death rate; make sure people die of something else first!
Males will all eventually get prostate cancer; the rates are rising because they aren't dieing of the things we traditionally died of in the past - communicable diseases, war, accident and heart disease.
If we got out and started a good war, fewer people would die of cancer! Think of Iraq as a big anti-cancer crusade.
Always give as much notice as you can; at the worst they'll only pay you for the minimum notice period (which in this country is 4-6 weeks generally), but they may end up paying you for more.
I always think of this as being one of the perks of being in IT - you get some extra holidays whenever you change jobs.
This is really only an issue for the US - in the rest of the world we use DBT cards and the drivers for them are rock-solid. It also saves your CPU from having to do all the encoding...
Sadly, it seems frighteningly true of the Bush administration.
The world seems to be moving toward a conflict between two extremist groups - one "Muslim" and one "Christian" and neither bearing much relation to the teachings of either faith.
The _only_ way to tell the real thing from the fake is to look at the actual URL the link points to.
The morons who run the test changed them all to point to their own site; so every one of them is clearly fake.
Relying on any other content in the email is just stupid; the phishers will just improve their spelling and wording until it starts fooling enough people again.
Well, perhaps they should have gone down to a shop and buy some modern computers? They were certainly around in the 1990s, when the X-15 project was running.
And you'd think NASA of all people would have access to their records of the previous 40-50 years of R&D.
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I think I see what you're saying - but the thing is that it's exactly as you say - except that it takes years to know if the cure worked. If it did, then the body will fix itself etc. If it didn't, then it's not good.
And having that long waiting period is very draining for everyone, something I'm very aware of.
I'd love to know what the distinction between a "cure" and "removal or killing of cancerous cells" is. If you get all the cells, which is often not as hard as you'd think, that seems to me like a cure.
The trick is that it's not clear for years which was achieved.
Yeah, U2 broke up just after their greatest hits, back in the early 90s.
:P
Oh, wait.
Teach me for posting too early in the morning.
1 Watt is 1 amp at 1 volt potential; an Amp is a Coulomb per second, which is where the time dimension comes from.
1 Watt == 1 Joule per second
That also is 1 Amp at 1 Volt per second, but that's not the primary way you talk about a Watt.
A Watt is a unit of work, i.e. Energy per Time.
_Let's_ hope the results from this storm end up more entertaining THAN the Fantastic Four movie.
If you're going to be picky.
My iriver plays ogg files.
Except for the squids on Friday.
VISA are bastards, they fine everyone. But it's true they go after the bank first. So if the CBA hasn't given you a new one yet you're okay :)
Last time I worked in the CC/banking industry (about 12 months ago), this was forbidden too. VISA will fine you if they find out - about $50k/month.
Better get your POS software updated from your bank.
It's easy to lower the cancer death rate; make sure people die of something else first!
Males will all eventually get prostate cancer; the rates are rising because they aren't dieing of the things we traditionally died of in the past - communicable diseases, war, accident and heart disease.
If we got out and started a good war, fewer people would die of cancer! Think of Iraq as a big anti-cancer crusade.
Do it over NFS. It takes about 10 minutes to install a machine from start to finish that way.
You've just described a future. He's talking about options, not futures.
Options are just that, optional.
The big mistake - only giving two weeks notice.
Always give as much notice as you can; at the worst they'll only pay you for the minimum notice period (which in this country is 4-6 weeks generally), but they may end up paying you for more.
I always think of this as being one of the perks of being in IT - you get some extra holidays whenever you change jobs.
This is really only an issue for the US - in the rest of the world we use DBT cards and the drivers for them are rock-solid. It also saves your CPU from having to do all the encoding...
If he'd meant Kelvin, he wouldn't have said degrees, would he? How clueless do you think he is?
But weaseling out of things is what separates us from the animals!
Except the weasel.
Sadly, it seems frighteningly true of the Bush administration.
The world seems to be moving toward a conflict between two extremist groups - one "Muslim" and one "Christian" and neither bearing much relation to the teachings of either faith.
Well... except that with my fonts the 'a's were visibly different to real ones - they were noticably shorter (the x-height was wrong).
Not a very convincing spoof, it leapt right out at me as soon as the thing loaded.
Actually, I'm pretty sure there was at least one, and it lasted a long time; IIRC it's thought it was ended by volcanism.
Not to be picky, but you're measuring the frequency of the _radiation_ when you get a spectral line.
Just because it's not very energetic, doesn't make it not EM radiation.
The _only_ way to tell the real thing from the fake is to look at the actual URL the link points to.
The morons who run the test changed them all to point to their own site; so every one of them is clearly fake.
Relying on any other content in the email is just stupid; the phishers will just improve their spelling and wording until it starts fooling enough people again.
Err, my keyboard has '/' a line down and to the left of enter, and it's a standard US Honeywell thing.
Well, perhaps they should have gone down to a shop and buy some modern computers? They were certainly around in the 1990s, when the X-15 project was running.
And you'd think NASA of all people would have access to their records of the previous 40-50 years of R&D.
mplayer comes with a tool call mencoder that can do the same thing.