I don't think anyone would argue with the "government doesn't always know best" argument you're putting forward. However, the point of Gardisil is to prevent forms of HPV that cause cancer. It prevents it, whether you are stupid (sexually active, no protection) or unlucky (you are raped by someone with HPV or perhaps you marry a man who has it and doesn't know it). Disease doesn't discriminate. A transmission path is a transmission path.
It irritates the hell out of me that we have to have the Ryan White's of the world to teach us that moralizing about disease agents is wrong.
I believe we should use medical knowledge to treat and prevent diseases. Without immunization rules, we'd still have polio and smallpox running rampant. HPV vaccination is merely the next step in prevention. I hope we get an HIV one soon, too. Regulating private behavior is so unlikely and so likely to be struck down by the Supreme Court (c.f., Lawrence v Texas), I doubt you have anything to worry about there. If anything it will be insurance companies telling people to quit or lose their insurance and they'll be begging the government to come save them from those bad men.
Eventually we'll have a shot or pill for addictive brain chemistry that will make this whole mess go away.
Of course they want to milk every penny. Last mile infrastructure is frickin' expensive. Look at Grande -- they had to stop their massive expansion because the capital cost was killing them. The other thing is that reducing your speed reduces their bandwidth costs because you'll be less likely to download as much. They want to stave off having to pay for more upstream bandwidth as long as possible.
No doubt she'd've gotten first place if you'd done her work for her and she put her name on it like everyone else. Sometimes these damn competitive kids activities just piss me off. I've always made my son do the work and only helped where he really needed it.
Off-topic: And may I add that Lego is serious about the 16+ age for the Death Star II. That is one complicated piece of crap with a horrible mounting system. I had to use twisty ties to keep it together. My rather impatient 12 yr old was definitely not up to the task of that thing. It's been more of a co-project than "his" project as he had intended.
I think you misunderstood. The USB is to plug in a hub for a full size keyboard and mouse. The HDMI is for the display. The point is just to make your PDA a portable computer you can dock anywhere, but that still functions as a phone, calendar, etc. I'd like something like that.
Or hell, have a USB 2.0 port where you could plug in a USB hub that links to keyboard and mouse and ch-ching a firewire or USB LCD display. A USB or Firewire display would be slow, but probably adequate... though some sort of tinier DVI would be the best. I was thinking HDMI, but the encoding for that would just suck an iPhone-type device dry and wouldn't even have the decency to call the next morning.
I run it on Linux, though there is Mac and Windows support as well. It's just a BOINC process. I use the Debian packages and added the WCG project and voila, I'm crunching numbers for science and humanity.
There are some folks who argue saving the energy is better (if you can't afford it, I agree!). However, I think it would have been worse for these projects to have never existed and/or to have built their own massive server farms. Spreading the energy burden around the world sounds to me like a better proposition than, say, building another coal plant to supply their growing farms.
I just didn't buy the transition. It's as much a failure of the dialog and plot as it is of the acting. Having said that, III was more tolerable than I and II. Tolerable, not good.
This strikes me as an intentional leak perpetrated by an employee who thought it was dumb to retract all of that. Just a gut feeling. I have no way to back that up.
I don't buy it. The only thing I see is you're making excuses for them. Itemized billing? Ha. Database space? Ha. Even in bulk, 90 days of text messages is not that much data for a major corporation. Call interference -- for a text message? Ha!
While greed is always a factor with big corporations, many of the charges put in place have primary purpose of keeping capacity in check. While the marketing folk at big telecomm corporations love the word "unlimited" it creates nightmares for the engineering folk who find that their SS7 network completely congested. They investitage and find that while it was designed to carry 30 SMSs per day for the 30 million subscribers for which it was scaled is now at it's limit because of an open source project that breaks up TCP packets and transmits them over SMS and allows people to download pr0n to their restrictive countries over SMS.
Do you have a URL for an article that states that the SMS network is so overwhelmed with text messages that all non-unlimited (limited) customers must subsidize their unlimited brethren at an incredible mark-up?
'Cause, really, I think it makes far more sense that carriers abuse their captive audience with outrageous pricing of extremely inexpensive commodity SMS service. But I've been wrong before.
So... get an unlimited plan? Oh wait, they charge you extra for the privilege of never using your voice minutes to cover the cost of the text messaging, which itself is entirely negligible. Negligible on the scale of non-spam email vs total Internet bandwidth negligible. This gouging is just so painful to observe.
For the record, I hate text messages except for those occasional times when they make sense (finding someone at a loud concert, e.g.). Paying an outrageous rate both inbound and outbound for 140 bytes is entirely ridiculous.
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So the only problem is... it's Sprint.
Yuck.
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Yet...
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I don't think anyone would argue with the "government doesn't always know best" argument you're putting forward. However, the point of Gardisil is to prevent forms of HPV that cause cancer. It prevents it, whether you are stupid (sexually active, no protection) or unlucky (you are raped by someone with HPV or perhaps you marry a man who has it and doesn't know it). Disease doesn't discriminate. A transmission path is a transmission path.
It irritates the hell out of me that we have to have the Ryan White's of the world to teach us that moralizing about disease agents is wrong.
I believe we should use medical knowledge to treat and prevent diseases. Without immunization rules, we'd still have polio and smallpox running rampant. HPV vaccination is merely the next step in prevention. I hope we get an HIV one soon, too. Regulating private behavior is so unlikely and so likely to be struck down by the Supreme Court (c.f., Lawrence v Texas), I doubt you have anything to worry about there. If anything it will be insurance companies telling people to quit or lose their insurance and they'll be begging the government to come save them from those bad men.
Eventually we'll have a shot or pill for addictive brain chemistry that will make this whole mess go away.
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I don't think there's anything scary about mandatory immunizations, provided they are safe, regulated appropriately, and administered correctly.
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ISDN? I have no idea what they charge for it these days.
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Of course they want to milk every penny. Last mile infrastructure is frickin' expensive. Look at Grande -- they had to stop their massive expansion because the capital cost was killing them. The other thing is that reducing your speed reduces their bandwidth costs because you'll be less likely to download as much. They want to stave off having to pay for more upstream bandwidth as long as possible.
Cheers,
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No doubt she'd've gotten first place if you'd done her work for her and she put her name on it like everyone else. Sometimes these damn competitive kids activities just piss me off. I've always made my son do the work and only helped where he really needed it.
Off-topic: And may I add that Lego is serious about the 16+ age for the Death Star II. That is one complicated piece of crap with a horrible mounting system. I had to use twisty ties to keep it together. My rather impatient 12 yr old was definitely not up to the task of that thing. It's been more of a co-project than "his" project as he had intended.
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I think you misunderstood. The USB is to plug in a hub for a full size keyboard and mouse. The HDMI is for the display. The point is just to make your PDA a portable computer you can dock anywhere, but that still functions as a phone, calendar, etc. I'd like something like that.
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So there you go. iPhone + USB + HDMI.
Where's my money?
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Or hell, have a USB 2.0 port where you could plug in a USB hub that links to keyboard and mouse and ch-ching a firewire or USB LCD display. A USB or Firewire display would be slow, but probably adequate... though some sort of tinier DVI would be the best. I was thinking HDMI, but the encoding for that would just suck an iPhone-type device dry and wouldn't even have the decency to call the next morning.
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I run it on Linux, though there is Mac and Windows support as well. It's just a BOINC process. I use the Debian packages and added the WCG project and voila, I'm crunching numbers for science and humanity.
There are some folks who argue saving the energy is better (if you can't afford it, I agree!). However, I think it would have been worse for these projects to have never existed and/or to have built their own massive server farms. Spreading the energy burden around the world sounds to me like a better proposition than, say, building another coal plant to supply their growing farms.
I have wind power. Natch.
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Personally, I prefer World Community Grid. I've been a member of the Slashdot team there since 2005 sometime.
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o Rock has dust on it - there has been a martian sand storm
o Rock is swaying back and forth slighly - a martian sand storm is brewing
o Rock cannot be seen - there is a martian sand storm
o Rock is white - there was a martian sand storm
o Rock is levitating - caution: martian sand storm
o Rock is floating - seriously, you guys, martian sand storm
o Rock has gone - martian sand storm
I just didn't buy the transition. It's as much a failure of the dialog and plot as it is of the acting. Having said that, III was more tolerable than I and II. Tolerable, not good.
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You're right, of course. If this is for personal use, perhaps you could convince a stateside buddy to send it to you, at least as a stopgap solution.
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I know! They even have a picture of my house, you insensitive clod!
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This strikes me as an intentional leak perpetrated by an employee who thought it was dumb to retract all of that. Just a gut feeling. I have no way to back that up.
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Ha! That's awesome. You get my humor seal of approval this morning.
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I don't buy it. The only thing I see is you're making excuses for them. Itemized billing? Ha. Database space? Ha. Even in bulk, 90 days of text messages is not that much data for a major corporation. Call interference -- for a text message? Ha!
These people are printing money.
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Do you have a URL for an article that states that the SMS network is so overwhelmed with text messages that all non-unlimited (limited) customers must subsidize their unlimited brethren at an incredible mark-up?
'Cause, really, I think it makes far more sense that carriers abuse their captive audience with outrageous pricing of extremely inexpensive commodity SMS service. But I've been wrong before.
Cheers,
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Hahaha! That's awesome. Great comment.
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So... get an unlimited plan? Oh wait, they charge you extra for the privilege of never using your voice minutes to cover the cost of the text messaging, which itself is entirely negligible. Negligible on the scale of non-spam email vs total Internet bandwidth negligible. This gouging is just so painful to observe.
For the record, I hate text messages except for those occasional times when they make sense (finding someone at a loud concert, e.g.). Paying an outrageous rate both inbound and outbound for 140 bytes is entirely ridiculous.
Yeargh! End of rant.
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Were you thinking of:
You can destroy the Emperor. He has foreseen this. It is your destiny. Join me, and together we can rule the galaxy as father and son. Come with me. It is the only way.
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Austin Energy has a Power Partner Program where they install a special thermostat to your A/C that cycles power less often during peak summer usage.
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Yep. Natural gas, propane, or electricity, depending on model. It's illegal to hook up an electric one to your home in Austin, TX.
I wonder how much draw the igniter on a natural gas tankless has. Could you put it on a UPS so you could have a hot shower when the power's off?
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