Thimerosal is in contact lens solution. How much thimerosal goes down the drain compared to how much goes into your arm when you get stuck with a needle? I know that the link is desired to go to the pharmacutical companies - after all, if there was a link, then they could get sued for billions.
If thimerosal causes autism, then the source would more likely be waste water contaminated with contact lens solution - not vaccines. The mercury would get into the food chain via fish, and from there into chicken, cows, or directly into kids. If the assholes growing food don't give a shit about BSE, then do you think they give a shit about mercury contamination? The FDA lets them put rat shit into canned chili. Seriously. Think about what you're putting in your body.
The "Amish don't get vaccines so they don't get Autism" link is flawed. A correlation is not a cause e.g. 98% of cancer patients wear shoes. The amish also churn their own butter. Maybe margarine causes autism. Maybe it's sitting too close to a CPU power supply. Maybe it's watching too much TV or letting your brain get bombarded with em radiation. Maybe it's that they kill all the kids who are "touched" and say they died in a barn-raising accident.
That doesn't mean that thimerosal isn't a link - just that the link with vaccines is weak and is probably discountable. The FDA has concluded that the amount of mercury consumed in an average diet is about the same as the mercury exposure from vaccines: http://www.fda.gov/cber/vaccine/thimfaq.htm
I'm a vegetarian. I don't eat any meats nor any products containing meat. They use sheep blood to make vaccines. I still get all my shots and so do (will) my kids. I'd be devastated if they developed autism, but I'd try to find the real reason, not just jump on the "it must be the vaccines!" bandwagon in the hopes that I could cash in on a lawsuit against a rich defendant.
Before I became an EE, I was an Optician. The special glasses for computer use are just anti-reflective. They will do SFA if you don't wear glasses. The people at the glasses stores are sometimes misinformed. (Seriously.) There are no glasses that someone with your prescription should wear while using the computer. If you wanted to buy them from me, I'd have advised you not to buy anything. If you insisted, I would have sold you plain plastic lenses with an anti-glare coating. Don't buy glass, and don't buy polycarbonate. (Glass is too heavy, and polycarb is too fibrous.) Make sure you can get your money back, since you're going to bring them back for a refund after a week or two anyway.
I wear contacts adjusted for long-distance viewing (20/10 and 20/15) and I have no problems using a computer for most of the day. (20 years of computer work, I'm 29 (today, actually - It's my birthday!) I take breaks, have the light adjusted correctly, and don't let anyone touch my monitor. I trained everyone by doing this: As soon as someone touches the screen, the conversation is over. I get up, go get the windex, and clean the screen. Then they can continue.
When you set up your lights, have no lights behind you. Your monitor should be backlight with light that is dimmer than you would prefer for reading. You can get task lighting for reading. If there are lights behind you, get rid of them.
Finally, do less work in a day. You aren't productive after 4-5 hours. You're just wasting time.
Since this is a discussion about energy conversion, he's calling us North Americans faggots, meaning a low-efficiency type of fuel. It's like saying "Ha, your computer runs at 4 megs!"
Either that or he's stuck in a time or country where it's big deal to be gay. I pity his country's education system.
Thank you for the correction. I had always thought the wrong thing. I hadn't even heard of a gibi prefix for measurement until you and the other responder pointed it out.
Seriously, someone should be going to jail for putting fraudulent values on the box.
There are 1024 bytes in a kb, not 1000. Saying there's 1000 is false, it's wrong, and it's fraud. It's like Intel saying the 1.8GHz chip is 3.6GHz because they're using a harmonic.
Patriotic American Protection Suite / Anti-Terrorism Disk Protection Schema
That way, they can smear anyone who tries to run for re-election after voting it down.
John Congressman voted against the Patriotic American Protection Suite and the Anti-Terrorism Disk Protection Schema Acts. He thinks that Al-Queda should be allowed to fund their activites through bootleg music.
For the good of the species, we must all die. That way there are resources for the newer models.
My daughter is smarter, faster, and cuter than I am. Her kids will be better than her. What right do I have to take away their future by eating their food?
Intel doesn't make Celerons. They never have, and they never will. They don't make 2.4GHz chips anymore. They make one type of chip, and that's it. They make the top-of-the-line chip only and exclusively.
So where do the other chips come from?
They're the top-of-the line chips that fail the quality standards. Maybe they didn't get all the cache working. Maybe it's not stable at the fastest speed. It doesn't matter. What you're getting is Intel's garbage that they didn't feel was good enough to stamp with their flagship product's stamp.
It's not the OS. Most of the computing power in a cluster goes to communication between the nodes in the cluster. That's true of any operating system you put on it.
When you have an owner, a CTO, a CEO, end users, product maintenance, new R&D, etc. all asking for your attention and you don't have time to relax and concentrate, errors fall through the cracks. You'll learn this.
Yes, it's a fuck-up. That's exactly what it is. I personally fucked up a line - ONE FUCKING LINE - of code that caused a worldwide recall on our products. (I used = instead of |= ) It's unlikely, but there's a chance that someone's going to die if the unit doesn't get refitted before it gets used.
It was missed in my tests, it was missed in the pre-production tests, it was missed in the post-production tests, and only one repeat ONE customer told me that it was wrong, MONTHS after other customers told me that they LOVED the new firmware version.
Some employers won't let you say "fuck", let alone "fuck-up". Right now, there's a guy getting a red flag at DOD / DND for having "Fuck" show up too many times on a web page. The moniker "bug" was coined over 100 years ago, when "damn" was offensive. If you want to use your own nomenclature, go ahead. Just don't be surprised when someone asks you want the fuck you're talking about.
They won't think anything of this time period. Once the Freedom Servers go down, they won't be able to access any records after the date when access to the Freedom Servers was required.
There's just going to be a big hole in our history that our descendants just won't be able to get any information from.
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You don't have to drain the battery - you can disconnect it.
Your virtual machine could flash your BIOS without your consent. Then you're boned. A bootstrap doesn't require a lot of space.
Oh fuck me - the next step is a VM rootkit that flashes the bios to keep a VM rootkit.
Fark too.
We'll be able to use maps.google.com/infrared to see the server from space.
I have to pee.
Thanks a lot.
I have lousy vision when uncorrected. (20/500 or more)
With my glasses, it gets down to 20/20.
With my contacts, I get 20/10 in one eye and 20/5 in the other.
Without zoom or nightvision, explain how my vision could be improved...
Let's take a quick look at thimerosal.
h e:jal0zB4l-8MJ:www.pkids.org/PEDSarticle.pdf+
Thimerosal is in contact lens solution. How much thimerosal goes down the drain compared to how much goes into your arm when you get stuck with a needle? I know that the link is desired to go to the pharmacutical companies - after all, if there was a link, then they could get sued for billions.
If thimerosal causes autism, then the source would more likely be waste water contaminated with contact lens solution - not vaccines. The mercury would get into the food chain via fish, and from there into chicken, cows, or directly into kids. If the assholes growing food don't give a shit about BSE, then do you think they give a shit about mercury contamination? The FDA lets them put rat shit into canned chili. Seriously. Think about what you're putting in your body.
The "Amish don't get vaccines so they don't get Autism" link is flawed. A correlation is not a cause e.g. 98% of cancer patients wear shoes. The amish also churn their own butter. Maybe margarine causes autism. Maybe it's sitting too close to a CPU power supply. Maybe it's watching too much TV or letting your brain get bombarded with em radiation. Maybe it's that they kill all the kids who are "touched" and say they died in a barn-raising accident.
Check out this study based on Denmark outlawing thimerosal from vaccines. There was no repeat NO decrease in the rate of Autism.
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&q=cac
That doesn't mean that thimerosal isn't a link - just that the link with vaccines is weak and is probably discountable. The FDA has concluded that the amount of mercury consumed in an average diet is about the same as the mercury exposure from vaccines:
http://www.fda.gov/cber/vaccine/thimfaq.htm
I'm a vegetarian. I don't eat any meats nor any products containing meat. They use sheep blood to make vaccines. I still get all my shots and so do (will) my kids. I'd be devastated if they developed autism, but I'd try to find the real reason, not just jump on the "it must be the vaccines!" bandwagon in the hopes that I could cash in on a lawsuit against a rich defendant.
Before I became an EE, I was an Optician. The special glasses for computer use are just anti-reflective. They will do SFA if you don't wear glasses. The people at the glasses stores are sometimes misinformed. (Seriously.) There are no glasses that someone with your prescription should wear while using the computer. If you wanted to buy them from me, I'd have advised you not to buy anything. If you insisted, I would have sold you plain plastic lenses with an anti-glare coating. Don't buy glass, and don't buy polycarbonate. (Glass is too heavy, and polycarb is too fibrous.) Make sure you can get your money back, since you're going to bring them back for a refund after a week or two anyway.
I wear contacts adjusted for long-distance viewing (20/10 and 20/15) and I have no problems using a computer for most of the day. (20 years of computer work, I'm 29 (today, actually - It's my birthday!) I take breaks, have the light adjusted correctly, and don't let anyone touch my monitor. I trained everyone by doing this: As soon as someone touches the screen, the conversation is over. I get up, go get the windex, and clean the screen. Then they can continue.
When you set up your lights, have no lights behind you. Your monitor should be backlight with light that is dimmer than you would prefer for reading. You can get task lighting for reading. If there are lights behind you, get rid of them.
Finally, do less work in a day. You aren't productive after 4-5 hours. You're just wasting time.
Maybe it's an attempt at a troll.
Maybe he's brain damaged.
Maybe the liquid nitrogen has run out and there's not much mentation left.
Maybe he's nine and he's trying to be cool to impress us.
I'm certainly impressed. I didn't know that our canine colleagues had learned how to use computers.
It's definitely 0.4%. You are correct and the math in the article is incorrect.
You get a gold star.
Washington, D.C.
That's where your career criminals go to hide.
Thanks.
I think that some people are abusing their mod points. It's kind of obvious that they didn't even check the link before modding.
Thanks for checking the link; those reviews are pure comedy gold.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000 28XKKM/103-1908885-3713448?v=glance
He's English.
They use "faggot" as a term for firewood.
Since this is a discussion about energy conversion, he's calling us North Americans faggots, meaning a low-efficiency type of fuel. It's like saying "Ha, your computer runs at 4 megs!"
Either that or he's stuck in a time or country where it's big deal to be gay. I pity his country's education system.
That's a little embarassing.
Thank you for the correction. I had always thought the wrong thing. I hadn't even heard of a gibi prefix for measurement until you and the other responder pointed it out.
Seriously, someone should be going to jail for putting fraudulent values on the box.
There are 1024 bytes in a kb, not 1000. Saying there's 1000 is false, it's wrong, and it's fraud. It's like Intel saying the 1.8GHz chip is 3.6GHz because they're using a harmonic.
Patriotic American Protection Suite / Anti-Terrorism Disk Protection Schema
That way, they can smear anyone who tries to run for re-election after voting it down.
John Congressman voted against the Patriotic American Protection Suite and the Anti-Terrorism Disk Protection Schema Acts. He thinks that Al-Queda should be allowed to fund their activites through bootleg music.
No previews after 9pm.
No.
For the good of the species, we must all die. That way there are resources for the newer models.
My daughter is smarter, faster, and cuter than I am. Her kids will be better than her. What right do I have to take away their future by eating their food?
The important thing is that these translators aren't gay. That's what really matters in America and the US military, isn't it?
(As I've said before, I'd rather be covered by a gay guy who thought I was hot than by a homophobe who thought I was gay.)
You want to know where Celerons come from?
Intel doesn't make Celerons. They never have, and they never will. They don't make 2.4GHz chips anymore. They make one type of chip, and that's it. They make the top-of-the-line chip only and exclusively.
So where do the other chips come from?
They're the top-of-the line chips that fail the quality standards. Maybe they didn't get all the cache working. Maybe it's not stable at the fastest speed. It doesn't matter. What you're getting is Intel's garbage that they didn't feel was good enough to stamp with their flagship product's stamp.
Feel better now that you know?
I'm out of points, but that was the funniest post I've seen on /. all week.
It's ironic, not paradoxial. Paradoxial would be if LEGO was suing them for making a similar product while at the same time not suing them.
It's not the OS. Most of the computing power in a cluster goes to communication between the nodes in the cluster. That's true of any operating system you put on it.
When you have an owner, a CTO, a CEO, end users, product maintenance, new R&D, etc. all asking for your attention and you don't have time to relax and concentrate, errors fall through the cracks. You'll learn this.
Yes, it's a fuck-up. That's exactly what it is. I personally fucked up a line - ONE FUCKING LINE - of code that caused a worldwide recall on our products. (I used = instead of |= ) It's unlikely, but there's a chance that someone's going to die if the unit doesn't get refitted before it gets used.
It was missed in my tests, it was missed in the pre-production tests, it was missed in the post-production tests, and only one repeat ONE customer told me that it was wrong, MONTHS after other customers told me that they LOVED the new firmware version.
Some employers won't let you say "fuck", let alone "fuck-up". Right now, there's a guy getting a red flag at DOD / DND for having "Fuck" show up too many times on a web page. The moniker "bug" was coined over 100 years ago, when "damn" was offensive. If you want to use your own nomenclature, go ahead. Just don't be surprised when someone asks you want the fuck you're talking about.
No, a recipe for a house fire is:
206 litres gasoline
53 litres ether
159 pounds dryer lint
481 litres cooking oil
1 lit cigarette
Mix all. Now THAT'S a fire.
Seriously, the three biggest causes of house fires are smoking, clogged dryers, and grease fires.
There have been fuel-cell busses running in Vancouver for a few years, too.
Must have something to do with Ballard...
They won't think anything of this time period. Once the Freedom Servers go down, they won't be able to access any records after the date when access to the Freedom Servers was required.
There's just going to be a big hole in our history that our descendants just won't be able to get any information from.
Oh, so you're a white male?
Remember, if you're a darkie or a hot woman, plan to spend some extra time being strip-searched. It's for your own protection.