If the Wii keeps the person that needs physical therapy more motivated to stay in therapy, the end result will be a quicker and more complete recovery which will lead to fewer long term health costs down the road. At the point where those savings become greater than the purchase price of the Wii, buying a Wii becomes cheaper than free.
Granted, that's a big `if.' But it is not implausible.
Only natural beings have forms in Plato. Artifacts have something like a form within the human mind but it isn't a form. It's particular to the intellect that is thinking it rather than being universal.
But, he would agree that nothing is ever discovered or invented. Positing an eternal world where all souls transmigrate from being to being, he appears to have through that every soul has done everything there is to do and has seen everything there is to do. So the process of discovery and invention would better be referred to as the process of recollection. It's merely remembering what went before.
But all of that is rather irrelevant. The universe of discourse is the legal realm which has no clear correspondence to the world as Plato saw it.
If you're in your late twenties, I've got ten years or so on you.
One thing I think is interesting about my daughters' experience is that they've gone to two different school districts, one in Ohio and one in Maryland. Despite the teaching quality being vastly different, the curriculum was much the same. I suspect that the similarities largely stem from the standards the came about from No Child Left Behind. The differences probably stem from a difference in community values. An inner city edge city of Cincinnati largely populated by families originally from Appalachia that moved into the rust belt during GM's peak years to find work has an entirely different outlook than an affluent suburb just outside of DC.
Yes, curriculum does vary between states and between school districts within states. It varies less so now than when you and I were kids but it does still vary.
That said, my daughter's experience is across two states, Ohio and Maryland. While the teaching staff in MD is far better than OH, the curriculum isn't all that different.
Both of my daughters were started on algebra by 6th grade and geometric proofs by 7th grade. My eldest, a junior in high school, is presently working on calculus.
The schedule you list sounds quite a bit like what I experienced back in the late seventies/early eighties. But, even then, when I got to high school, I was behind a good deal of the kids from other schools.
Widex, Soundex, Sonic Innovations, Siemens, and Amplisound are the ones I can think of off the top of my head. There are probably a couple dozen other manufacturers. A good audiologist will deal with a number of vendors are suggest the brand that makes the product that best meets a given patient's needs.
The insurance angle is also a dead end. Most insurance policies specifically deny coverage for hearing loss.
The small market angle also doesn't cut it. The market is huge, numbering in the millions.
Take people with next to no loss in the bass range but a profound loss in the high range. Now amplify all sounds across the board to where they can properly hear the high range. The bass range gets amplified so much that not only can they not hear the high range but their hearing is further damaged.
Great `solution' there.
Then there is the problem of feedback. People with significant hearing loss need a seal in their ear mold to prevent amplified sound from leaking back out to the microphone. This is why people with hearing aids get refitted with new molds every year or so. The shape of one's inner ear changes over time. A device that amplifies enough for people with significant hearing loss will cause feedback if the ear mold is not properly fitted.
And did I mention a combination of directional and omnidirectional microphones and telecoils yet?
Comparing assistive devices to hunters to hearing aids is like comparing the `reading glasses' in the checkout aisle in the pharmacy to glasses made to the prescription of an optometrist. There are people for whom the OTC solution may very well work. But for people with significant hearing or vision loss, it's not even close.
Rare is the insurance policy that will cover hearing aids. And if, like me, you already wear hearing aids, its a preexisting condition and you're fucked to an even greater extent. When I was buying private insurance rather than being part of a group plan, I was paying a 10% premium on a plan that explicitly denied any coverage of anything hearing related.
If they're running a franchise in a strip mall, more likely than not they're running something far closer to a snake oil reseller than to a traditional audiologist that resells a number of brands of hearing aids at a rather minimal profit.
Visible from school grounds. (Also, it makes a huge difference whether this was a public or private school. I don't know which it is.)
suspended for holding up a sign indicating support for marijuana
during a school field trip (presuming this is the bong hits for Jesus incident)
Both of these scenarios are fundamentally different in kind than school officials secretly observing students in places (such as their own bedrooms) where there is a reasonable expectation of privacy.
It's far less likely that someone will get injured in a car accident while on a commercial airliner than than it is that someone will get injured by an exploding battery on a commercial airliner.
I suspect Wil Wheaton fans are more likely to be Twitter users than your average bear. As of this past summer:
the HubSpot State of the Twittersphere study reports low activity levels for a significant number of users. Specifically, 55.5% of users are not following anyone, 54.9% have never tweeted and 52.71% have no followers.
Hence the relatively low numbers for/users/, defined as people that actually/use/ Twitter, and for/registered accounts/ which I should have qualified as/active/ registered accounts.
Last spring, Twitter had 6 million registered accounts and 14 million users. Even if both of those numbers doubled, they'd have fewer active users than Farmville. Heck, even if they trippled, they'd probably have fewer active users than Farmville.
Seriously, more people play a crappy-assed, viral game on Facebook than use Twitter. Facebook could lose every single Twitter user on the planet not lose a tenth of its userbase.
This is not to say that some new site might not be able to come along and dethrone Facebook from being the top of the heap. It's just that Twitter integration isn't going to do it. Some company needs to come along and supply a better, easier to use platform for serving up crappy-assed, viral games.
The allies had 1 soldier on the ground for close to every 10 German civilians during the occupation immediately after the fall of Berlin.
In Afghanistan, a nation of 30 million didn't even see 100,000 soldiers from the coalition of the willing.
If you took out all of the profits from direct and indirect government subsidies, it would be an open question whether or not Intel would a profitable concern. The largest difference between the firms being bailed out now and Intel is that Intel got on the gravy train earlier and spread its subsidies out over its entire lifetime.
Each network does have its own in house (or at least loosely affiliated) production company. But those production companies do not always sell their shows to their affiliated networks. For example, the studio that produces Medium is owned by CBS but the show was aired on NBC for the last five years until this week when NBC announced it would be cancelled. CBS, unsurprisingly, is picking it up.
But not all production studios are affiliated with networks. There are a fair number of independent studios. Most of the product from independent studios goes to cable channels or syndication rather than to one of the big networks but some network shows are still done by independent studios.
Add to this mix the increasing number of cable channels owned by various networks or other media conglomerates. Cable channels are getting reruns from the networks much more quickly than they used to. Some shows are bouncing back and forth between networks and cable channels. (Law and Order is famous for this.) In one interesting case, NBC is sharing the cost of producing a prime time drama (Friday Night Lights) with DirectTV.
The trade press reported very early this year that one of the only reason the show was renewed for the past season was because the production company (Warner Bros.) ate some of the normal costs associated with it so that it could serve as advertising for Terminator: Salvation. Absent a willingness for the production company to do that in the future, FOX can no longer make money on the series.
Compare the show to a show with worse ratings that did get renewed: Dollhouse. Dollhouse is produced by 20th Century Fox, so licensing fees stay within the Murdoch empire. The production company was willing to cut costs on what was already a relatively low budget production. (Ever notice how for a sci-fi show, the set is remarkably unglamorous? It's cheap!) So FOX figured that even with crap ratings, they could turn a profit once DVD sales and the like were figured in.
In both cases, it was entirely a business decision based on whether or not they thought that they could turn a profit.
Only if they're bottled incorrectly or stored improperly.
If the air in the bottle contains microorganisms, there is a chance that the wine will go bad, most frequently by turning to vinegar. Storing the bottles where they are exposed to direct sunlight or heat may also cause change for the worse but not as dramatically.
But if the wine was bottled properly, it should be fine for decades or even for hundreds of years.
Most of Machiavelli's advice had been around for centuries. Compare the chapter in Aritostotle's Politics on how a tyrant can keep power.
What made Machiavelli different is that rather than saying `tyranny is a bad thing but if a tyrant were to arise, this is how he keeps power...', he flat out said, `there is no virtue qua virtue, only success and failure.' Machiavelli ushered in modern political science by removing the question of virtue (and the common good) from political life, thereby eliminating questions of good and evil from politics.
That was a huge change. And, IMO, one that Machiavelli is properly villainized over.
As early as King Kong vs. Godzilla, if not earlier, Godzilla has been described as a cross between T-Rex and a Stegosaurus. T-Rexes, even if they stand upright, don't have plates along their spines. It's pretty clear that Godzilla was not exclusively patterned after a Tyrannosaur.
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If the Wii keeps the person that needs physical therapy more motivated to stay in therapy, the end result will be a quicker and more complete recovery which will lead to fewer long term health costs down the road. At the point where those savings become greater than the purchase price of the Wii, buying a Wii becomes cheaper than free.
Granted, that's a big `if.' But it is not implausible.
France: 500 warheads
China: 400+ warheads
Britain: 300+ warheads
The best estimates put Israel behind the UK.
Only natural beings have forms in Plato. Artifacts have something like a form within the human mind but it isn't a form. It's particular to the intellect that is thinking it rather than being universal.
But, he would agree that nothing is ever discovered or invented. Positing an eternal world where all souls transmigrate from being to being, he appears to have through that every soul has done everything there is to do and has seen everything there is to do. So the process of discovery and invention would better be referred to as the process of recollection. It's merely remembering what went before.
But all of that is rather irrelevant. The universe of discourse is the legal realm which has no clear correspondence to the world as Plato saw it.
Welcome to the brave new world.
If you're in your late twenties, I've got ten years or so on you.
One thing I think is interesting about my daughters' experience is that they've gone to two different school districts, one in Ohio and one in Maryland. Despite the teaching quality being vastly different, the curriculum was much the same. I suspect that the similarities largely stem from the standards the came about from No Child Left Behind. The differences probably stem from a difference in community values. An inner city edge city of Cincinnati largely populated by families originally from Appalachia that moved into the rust belt during GM's peak years to find work has an entirely different outlook than an affluent suburb just outside of DC.
Yes, curriculum does vary between states and between school districts within states. It varies less so now than when you and I were kids but it does still vary. That said, my daughter's experience is across two states, Ohio and Maryland. While the teaching staff in MD is far better than OH, the curriculum isn't all that different.
Both of my daughters were started on algebra by 6th grade and geometric proofs by 7th grade. My eldest, a junior in high school, is presently working on calculus.
The schedule you list sounds quite a bit like what I experienced back in the late seventies/early eighties. But, even then, when I got to high school, I was behind a good deal of the kids from other schools.
Widex, Soundex, Sonic Innovations, Siemens, and Amplisound are the ones I can think of off the top of my head. There are probably a couple dozen other manufacturers. A good audiologist will deal with a number of vendors are suggest the brand that makes the product that best meets a given patient's needs. The insurance angle is also a dead end. Most insurance policies specifically deny coverage for hearing loss. The small market angle also doesn't cut it. The market is huge, numbering in the millions.
Take people with next to no loss in the bass range but a profound loss in the high range. Now amplify all sounds across the board to where they can properly hear the high range. The bass range gets amplified so much that not only can they not hear the high range but their hearing is further damaged. Great `solution' there. Then there is the problem of feedback. People with significant hearing loss need a seal in their ear mold to prevent amplified sound from leaking back out to the microphone. This is why people with hearing aids get refitted with new molds every year or so. The shape of one's inner ear changes over time. A device that amplifies enough for people with significant hearing loss will cause feedback if the ear mold is not properly fitted. And did I mention a combination of directional and omnidirectional microphones and telecoils yet?
Comparing assistive devices to hunters to hearing aids is like comparing the `reading glasses' in the checkout aisle in the pharmacy to glasses made to the prescription of an optometrist. There are people for whom the OTC solution may very well work. But for people with significant hearing or vision loss, it's not even close.
Rare is the insurance policy that will cover hearing aids. And if, like me, you already wear hearing aids, its a preexisting condition and you're fucked to an even greater extent. When I was buying private insurance rather than being part of a group plan, I was paying a 10% premium on a plan that explicitly denied any coverage of anything hearing related.
If they're running a franchise in a strip mall, more likely than not they're running something far closer to a snake oil reseller than to a traditional audiologist that resells a number of brands of hearing aids at a rather minimal profit.
Visible from school grounds. (Also, it makes a huge difference whether this was a public or private school. I don't know which it is.)
during a school field trip (presuming this is the bong hits for Jesus incident)
Both of these scenarios are fundamentally different in kind than school officials secretly observing students in places (such as their own bedrooms) where there is a reasonable expectation of privacy.
It's far less likely that someone will get injured in a car accident while on a commercial airliner than than it is that someone will get injured by an exploding battery on a commercial airliner.
I suspect Wil Wheaton fans are more likely to be Twitter users than your average bear. As of this past summer:
Hence the relatively low numbers for /users/, defined as people that actually /use/ Twitter, and for /registered accounts/ which I should have qualified as /active/ registered accounts.
Latest research on Twitter users: http://mashable.com/2009/09/14/twitter-2009-stats/
That's 18 million people who access Twitter at least once per month.
Compare to Farmville: http://mashable.com/2009/12/02/farmville-bigger-than-twitter/
69 million users who play at least once per month
It's even more lopsided that I suggested.
Last spring, Twitter had 6 million registered accounts and 14 million users. Even if both of those numbers doubled, they'd have fewer active users than Farmville. Heck, even if they trippled, they'd probably have fewer active users than Farmville.
Seriously, more people play a crappy-assed, viral game on Facebook than use Twitter. Facebook could lose every single Twitter user on the planet not lose a tenth of its userbase.
This is not to say that some new site might not be able to come along and dethrone Facebook from being the top of the heap. It's just that Twitter integration isn't going to do it. Some company needs to come along and supply a better, easier to use platform for serving up crappy-assed, viral games.
Science Daily has the full press release which is a bit more informative: Genetic engineering feat could greatly reduce costs and the full paper is at the Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences: Nickel-inducible lysis system in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 (if you have access that is).
The allies had 1 soldier on the ground for close to every 10 German civilians during the occupation immediately after the fall of Berlin. In Afghanistan, a nation of 30 million didn't even see 100,000 soldiers from the coalition of the willing.
If you took out all of the profits from direct and indirect government subsidies, it would be an open question whether or not Intel would a profitable concern. The largest difference between the firms being bailed out now and Intel is that Intel got on the gravy train earlier and spread its subsidies out over its entire lifetime.
Each network does have its own in house (or at least loosely affiliated) production company. But those production companies do not always sell their shows to their affiliated networks. For example, the studio that produces Medium is owned by CBS but the show was aired on NBC for the last five years until this week when NBC announced it would be cancelled. CBS, unsurprisingly, is picking it up.
But not all production studios are affiliated with networks. There are a fair number of independent studios. Most of the product from independent studios goes to cable channels or syndication rather than to one of the big networks but some network shows are still done by independent studios.
Add to this mix the increasing number of cable channels owned by various networks or other media conglomerates. Cable channels are getting reruns from the networks much more quickly than they used to. Some shows are bouncing back and forth between networks and cable channels. (Law and Order is famous for this.) In one interesting case, NBC is sharing the cost of producing a prime time drama (Friday Night Lights) with DirectTV.
The trade press reported very early this year that one of the only reason the show was renewed for the past season was because the production company (Warner Bros.) ate some of the normal costs associated with it so that it could serve as advertising for Terminator: Salvation. Absent a willingness for the production company to do that in the future, FOX can no longer make money on the series.
Compare the show to a show with worse ratings that did get renewed: Dollhouse. Dollhouse is produced by 20th Century Fox, so licensing fees stay within the Murdoch empire. The production company was willing to cut costs on what was already a relatively low budget production. (Ever notice how for a sci-fi show, the set is remarkably unglamorous? It's cheap!) So FOX figured that even with crap ratings, they could turn a profit once DVD sales and the like were figured in.
In both cases, it was entirely a business decision based on whether or not they thought that they could turn a profit.
Because long range snipers aren't trained to take that sort of physics into account when shooting at targets over a kilometer away.
Only if they're bottled incorrectly or stored improperly.
If the air in the bottle contains microorganisms, there is a chance that the wine will go bad, most frequently by turning to vinegar. Storing the bottles where they are exposed to direct sunlight or heat may also cause change for the worse but not as dramatically.
But if the wine was bottled properly, it should be fine for decades or even for hundreds of years.
Most of Machiavelli's advice had been around for centuries. Compare the chapter in Aritostotle's Politics on how a tyrant can keep power. What made Machiavelli different is that rather than saying `tyranny is a bad thing but if a tyrant were to arise, this is how he keeps power ...', he flat out said, `there is no virtue qua virtue, only success and failure.' Machiavelli ushered in modern political science by removing the question of virtue (and the common good) from political life, thereby eliminating questions of good and evil from politics.
That was a huge change. And, IMO, one that Machiavelli is properly villainized over.
As early as King Kong vs. Godzilla, if not earlier, Godzilla has been described as a cross between T-Rex and a Stegosaurus. T-Rexes, even if they stand upright, don't have plates along their spines. It's pretty clear that Godzilla was not exclusively patterned after a Tyrannosaur.