What happens at hospitals when the power goes out? Same thing as at any place where power is critical (assuming the people in charge have half a brain)...the generators kick on.
There's a simple solution. Don't enter into that contract. You don't want some company holding your documents hostage because you used their DRM software? Then don't use it. No whining required.
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No, it's not fair use for the girlfriend to use it. It's only fair use for the owner to make and use copies. One MIGHT be able to argue that a spouse could use it under community property laws, but that'd be a big stretch. It is illegal under American law for the girlfriend to copy music from the boyfriend.
Also, even if you made a backup and gave it to the girlfriend, you can't claim it's fair use. Just because there is no profit doesn't mean there's no violation of copyright law.
You obviously haven't even attempted to look into what adaptive equipment is available.
There are wheelchair accessories and specialty wheelchairs that allow people to traverse virtually every surface, including, yes, sand. Think of a dune-buggy crossed with a wheelchair. There are all-terrain wheelchairs. There are even floating wheelchairs meant to allow the non-ambulatory that creature comfort of being in a pool.
Wheelchairs can cause fairly serious injuries when they have mechanical failures. Ever seen an electric wheelchair stuck in forward run into a wall? Not pretty. And I've seen wheels fall off of manual wheelchairs (fortunately, not when a person was in it).
Also, have you ever tried to push an electric wheelchair? They can be incredibly heavy, and sometimes it's difficult (ie, near impossible) to get the things in neutral. If the batteries die on one of these robotic legs, it won't be the end of the world, virtually every public place you can think of has a spare wheelchair lying around for injured customers/clients.
Yeah, it's going to suck if there's a power failure or mechanical failure with these robot legs. But it's not going to be much different than the failures that occur with manual or electric chairs.
Keep in mind that manual wheelchairs already require two hands, so that's not an issue for many wheelchair users.
And there are already devices out there that allow wheelchair users with limited/no hand control to still use their wheelchair. A mouth-controlled joystick is one method of allowing a quadriplegic to remain fairly independent. While these robotic legs currently require two joysticks, it wouldn't surprise me if they were able to get it down to one, meaning that any person who can use a wheelchair (manual or electric) would be able to use those legs.
Indeed. I've been using computers quite heavily for a good 14 years now, and have never had an issue.
Developing carpal tunnel is not a sure thing. You've got to figure in suspectibility to injury of the joints, level of exercise that counteracts repetitive movements, and various psychological factors.
Using a computer is not some sort of carpal tunnel death sentence. Get some activity, be aware of how much your attitude affects your body, and you can greatly reduce your chances of carpal tunnel. Throw in ergonomic stuff, and you're even better off.
Use your brains, people. Don't be a victim, carpal tunnel is not inevitable for most.
I worked in a large hospital, running 2k. Specifically, I worked in a remote site, with both inpatient and outpatient services, located approximately 10 miles from the primary (full-service) hospital. It was extraordinarily rare that we were hit by worms and the like.
Our network went down twice in the three years I was there. Once was because a construction crew managed to run a backhoe through the fiber feeding the primary hospital. Their network stayed up (though they lost all outside connectivity), but we lost it. The other time was because of an actual worm.
Our paper, sneaker, and phone backups worked pretty well, too. Lowly work-study students and other non-essential personnel were drafted as runners.
#1 is reasonable. #2 is not. You are assuming that prayer causes miracles, which is a pretty big assumption. I think most faithful would say that they do not pray for full on miracles, but just a little help.
So what you're saying is that all non-lab research is invalid, correct? Because every time you step outside of a lab, you introduce countless uncontrollable variables. Hell, even IN a lab you can't always account for everything.
Again, when dealing with human subjects, that's practically impossible. Even when doing things such as drug studies, unless the medicine is administered by a professional, it's pretty much impossible to assure that all subjects are getting the same dosage. Subjects choose not to take all their pills, or they forget one and double up when they shouldn't have, etc. It's just an unfortunate reality, and really the only way you can compensate for it is to have a sufficiently large sample size such that you are reasonably sure most of your subjects have the correct dosage of the experimental treatment.
I'm too lazy to RTFS, but the portions you quoted don't imply significance at all. "Suggestive trend" is a term us researchers use when we're close to significane but not quite there (in the case of the agriculture research I do, "trend" refers to that region from around 0.20>p>0.11). Likewise, stating absolute numbers but not mentioning p-values again suggests a trend, not actual significance.
You simply cannot control for everything when doing research. So you just have to make sure you have a sufficiently large sample so that confounding variables don't have any significant impact.
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How silly of us to have forgotten that there was no family strife before the invention of cell phones!
Try driving a vintage car and claiming that.
While they can be terrible in the hands of the wrong person, they can be an incredibly useful tool.
Was it actually the company that inflicted harm, or the idiotic city government for not paying their bills?
What happens at hospitals when the power goes out? Same thing as at any place where power is critical (assuming the people in charge have half a brain)...the generators kick on.
There's a simple solution. Don't enter into that contract. You don't want some company holding your documents hostage because you used their DRM software? Then don't use it. No whining required.
My HP LaserJet 4L is still kicking after a good thirteen years or so.
Of course, one time we did have a problem. My cat chewed through the cable.
The thing is a tank. I will give it up when it is pried from my cold dead hands.
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There have been rumours for many years of women who read slashdot. And I have come to tell you the truth, yes, in fact, we do exist.
And, yeah, the ex-boyfriend reads slashdot. So yeah, those rumours about male slashdot readers having girlfriends? Also occasionally true.
No, it's not fair use for the girlfriend to use it. It's only fair use for the owner to make and use copies. One MIGHT be able to argue that a spouse could use it under community property laws, but that'd be a big stretch. It is illegal under American law for the girlfriend to copy music from the boyfriend.
Also, even if you made a backup and gave it to the girlfriend, you can't claim it's fair use. Just because there is no profit doesn't mean there's no violation of copyright law.
More like almost seven years. I only know this 'cause Napster is how I met my ex.
Welcome to not getting access to your password protected stuff when you're drunk, high, or have suffered a stroke or other brain injury.
You obviously haven't even attempted to look into what adaptive equipment is available.
There are wheelchair accessories and specialty wheelchairs that allow people to traverse virtually every surface, including, yes, sand. Think of a dune-buggy crossed with a wheelchair. There are all-terrain wheelchairs. There are even floating wheelchairs meant to allow the non-ambulatory that creature comfort of being in a pool.
Wheelchairs can cause fairly serious injuries when they have mechanical failures. Ever seen an electric wheelchair stuck in forward run into a wall? Not pretty. And I've seen wheels fall off of manual wheelchairs (fortunately, not when a person was in it).
Also, have you ever tried to push an electric wheelchair? They can be incredibly heavy, and sometimes it's difficult (ie, near impossible) to get the things in neutral. If the batteries die on one of these robotic legs, it won't be the end of the world, virtually every public place you can think of has a spare wheelchair lying around for injured customers/clients.
Yeah, it's going to suck if there's a power failure or mechanical failure with these robot legs. But it's not going to be much different than the failures that occur with manual or electric chairs.
Keep in mind that manual wheelchairs already require two hands, so that's not an issue for many wheelchair users.
And there are already devices out there that allow wheelchair users with limited/no hand control to still use their wheelchair. A mouth-controlled joystick is one method of allowing a quadriplegic to remain fairly independent. While these robotic legs currently require two joysticks, it wouldn't surprise me if they were able to get it down to one, meaning that any person who can use a wheelchair (manual or electric) would be able to use those legs.
Indeed. I've been using computers quite heavily for a good 14 years now, and have never had an issue.
Developing carpal tunnel is not a sure thing. You've got to figure in suspectibility to injury of the joints, level of exercise that counteracts repetitive movements, and various psychological factors.
Using a computer is not some sort of carpal tunnel death sentence. Get some activity, be aware of how much your attitude affects your body, and you can greatly reduce your chances of carpal tunnel. Throw in ergonomic stuff, and you're even better off.
Use your brains, people. Don't be a victim, carpal tunnel is not inevitable for most.
I worked in a large hospital, running 2k. Specifically, I worked in a remote site, with both inpatient and outpatient services, located approximately 10 miles from the primary (full-service) hospital. It was extraordinarily rare that we were hit by worms and the like.
Our network went down twice in the three years I was there. Once was because a construction crew managed to run a backhoe through the fiber feeding the primary hospital. Their network stayed up (though they lost all outside connectivity), but we lost it. The other time was because of an actual worm.
Our paper, sneaker, and phone backups worked pretty well, too. Lowly work-study students and other non-essential personnel were drafted as runners.
#1 is reasonable. #2 is not. You are assuming that prayer causes miracles, which is a pretty big assumption. I think most faithful would say that they do not pray for full on miracles, but just a little help.
700 is pretty damned large. 100 is generally considered a minimum for randomization in the field I'm in.
So what you're saying is that all non-lab research is invalid, correct? Because every time you step outside of a lab, you introduce countless uncontrollable variables. Hell, even IN a lab you can't always account for everything.
Again, when dealing with human subjects, that's practically impossible. Even when doing things such as drug studies, unless the medicine is administered by a professional, it's pretty much impossible to assure that all subjects are getting the same dosage. Subjects choose not to take all their pills, or they forget one and double up when they shouldn't have, etc. It's just an unfortunate reality, and really the only way you can compensate for it is to have a sufficiently large sample size such that you are reasonably sure most of your subjects have the correct dosage of the experimental treatment.
I really hope that was sarcasm.
I'm too lazy to RTFS, but the portions you quoted don't imply significance at all. "Suggestive trend" is a term us researchers use when we're close to significane but not quite there (in the case of the agriculture research I do, "trend" refers to that region from around 0.20>p>0.11). Likewise, stating absolute numbers but not mentioning p-values again suggests a trend, not actual significance.
You simply cannot control for everything when doing research. So you just have to make sure you have a sufficiently large sample so that confounding variables don't have any significant impact.
-Jenn
Well played.
Funny, I swear quite a bit, and yet managed to score above the 90th percentile in both the verbal and analytical writing sections of the GRE.
-Jenn