Definitely not 12 gauge. Why on earth would you use 12 gauge for skeet shooting? It's a clay pigeon, not a crazy next-door neighbor. It was some kind of birdshot, I don't recall the exact spec, but it had barely any recoil, which means that even if it wasn't.410, then it was pretty close. Nonetheless, in most cases a quadcopter doesn't move nearly as quickly as a clay pigeon, and if you can't down a quadcopter that's anywhere within the effective range of birdshot then you're kind of a bad shot.
Eh... With a shotgun you don't exactly have to be a crack shot. I've done skeet shooting with no experience at all and typically was able to shoot two of them down in succession, (that is, both being launched at the same time, hit one, cock, hit another one) even at long range.
Drones should be even easier since you don't have to lead as far.
You can either mail it in or bring it to a polling station.
I was at first surprised to see Arizona mentioned because our ballot system uses those forms where you use a marker to draw a line to connect your choice. The scanners aren't internet connected and just show a tally that gets reported, with write in candidates being manually counted where indicated.
That said, it somewhat makes sense that no actual damage was done in the Arizona case, though I honestly have no idea how registration data is stored as it is possible to register to vote online at the service Arizona website used by the DMV.
No, I'm not looking for a middle ground between information and disinformation. THAT is the fallacy. Rather, I'm looking for a middle ground between being a pussy and being a dick without resorting to being an asshole.
Ugh...you're really part of that movement? Hay caramba...
I mean I get it, I've had enough with trigger warnings, safe spaces, unfair campaigns, and the fact that Bruce Jenner can kill somebody, and then proceed to sue one of his victims, but once he gets a sex change suddenly he's a stunning and brave hero. It's all a big load of 100% grade A bullshit.
This alt-right, and the fact that Europe now has 25% of the voting population favoring self-identified fascist parties, I think it's more of a reaction to the insane notion that you MUST hop aboard the pussy wagon and truly believe in all of the bullshit I just described above, and if you don't then you MUST be a Nazi IRL and we cast the out. Well, it kind of leaves very little choice, doesn't it?
But, I'm not going to go repeat world war 2 (I mean shit, I still have yet to see what exactly the world's beef with the Jews is) however at the same time I'm going to disregard that notion of "they came for..." because I honestly think both sides of this issue are evil.
Insulin is harder to fuck up than epinephrine, and if you do fuck it up the symptoms are easier to correct. Epinephrine, by the way, is the hormone secreted by the glands that sit atop your kidneys; most people know it as adrenaline after the name brand of the first synthetic version of it. Also, if you inject a dose of epinephrine standard for prophylaxis treatment into a vein, it'll cause a hypertensive surge that will kill you fairly quickly.
But this is Bing maps, or did you mean to say that Bing maps is better for finding x-rated theaters? If so, you might need a time machine to travel back to 1980.
Since there seems to be a lot of confusion in the media about the real issue here, the EpiPen problem (1) has nothing to do with drug patents, and (2) has relatively little to do with patent protection in general.
IIRC doesn't the patent in this case apply specifically to the mechanism? And yes, epinephrine, for those who don't know, is commonly called adrenaline, which is the name brand of synthetic (but is chemically identical to the endogenous source, and thus no different from it) epinephrine.
And indeed, in many cases when there's a drug monopoly, it doesn't involve a patent. Because I have stage 4 CKD, I have problems with gout. The only medication that effectively treats it in my case is a drug called colchicine. That particular drug has been in use for a few centuries now, but a company presently has market exclusivity. Why? Well, when the Food and Drug Act was passed in 1934, any drug made from that point forward had have its efficacy proven before it could be prescribed, however old medications were "grandfathered in" until a few decades ago (I don't remember the exact year) when the FDA said they needed to pass scientific scrutiny, go through clinical trials, etc, to have their efficacy empirically proven. Colchicine was one of these drugs, and before this happened it was about 10 cents a pill, until the company that put it through its paces was granted market exclusivity as part of their efforts to prove that it works. They then trademarked it under the name Colcrys and raised the price to about $6 per pill.
And again, there is no intellectual property involved here, just the FDA granting market exclusivity. And to a point, I agree with this; they put in the effort to make sure that a drug that's actually by all definitions of the word toxic (it comes from a highly toxic plant) actually works and won't kill you, which isn't a cheap thing to do, they should be able to see a return on investment. But allowing them to raise the price of a drug that is super cheap to produce to a price that's just flat out extortion is ridiculous.
About the only rationale I can figure for avoiding the syringe issue is people's fear of needles
Actually believe it or not I'm less scared of a syringe than an autoinjector. Why? Because in the Army we were issued an autoinjector in case of exposure to some kind of gas (I don't remember which one) which you were supposed to inject into the muscle in your butt cheek. The scary part was how I saw one of these stick right through a 2x4 piece of wood. Imagine if you accidentally stuck your hip bone or your hand...oww...I'll stick with the syringe, thanks.
I think the engineers probably thought of that to be honest. Between that, and in colder regions, it is obligatory. Except for maybe where I live, (the arid Sonoran Desert, which Phoenix is a part of) where having a fan outside just means you get hot air blown in your face.
Yeah, on account of the FDA, I had to wait 16 years for corneal crosslinking to finally become a thing in the US even though it's been in use safely elsewhere for longer than that.
Indeed there doesn't seem to be any good reason to prevent importing anything from international editions of books (save money for college students) to pharmaceuticals. There may be some merit to that argument for places like Mexico where quality controls are quite poor, however that should be a judgement call left up to the consumer. Likewise, I think the idea of tariffs, embargos, and other forms of mercantilism ultimately cost a domestic economy much more than they supposedly preserve.
Nevertheless, I don't think that's quite the root of the problem. This isn't, by any definition whatsoever, a free market. This is in fact a government granted monopoly. You cannot have both a free market AND a monopoly in most cases. That said, I don't quite understand why we give i.e. patent holders, copyright holders, etc free reign on how, when, where, and how much they can charge for anything with the sky being the limit. There probably should be some system in place whereby if they opt for government protection, then they must follow certain pricing and trade rules in order to keep that protection.
I think that what he's saying is that if you're a male and you really think we need more pay equality then go give half of your paycheck to one of your female co-workers to help balance things out.
I don't think any company has a monopoly on any particular market, except maybe Microsoft when it comes to desktop systems. But nobody cares about that anymore now that mobile has taken the show, which in the US is a clear duopoly, though Google *may* be considered a monopoly outside of the US here.
As far as the social, chatty apps, I really doubt that WhatsApp has anywhere close to a monopoly.
Do you know why most employment contracts say that? Because unions fought (and died) for that right. Do you know why you occasionally get to take a Saturday and Sunday off of work? Why you occasionally get a little vacation? Guess.
Not one thing you listed here was brought about by unions. I'm sick of this myth being repeated because it's a total load of shit.
Paid sick days is a concept that goes as far back as Ancient Egypt, and has been in use almost all throughout history.
Having Sunday off has been a thing since the industrial revolution, prior to which most people were farmers and didn't have a "work week" per se. Saturdays off, and indeed the 40 hour work week, began with Henry Ford, who wanted to attract workers who wouldn't just suddenly stop showing up one day to seek greener pastures. Unions had absolutely not a thing to do with that, nevermind dying for it.
Paid time off began as a similar industry trend, along with company sponsored health insurance, as a result of government wage ceilings during WWII. Why? Because companies needed something other than money to offer employees to retain them from going elsewhere.
Another concept that people like to attribute to unions, which isn't, is hazardous duty pay/benefits. Dupont started that before unions were even a thing to retain workers who wanted to switch jobs because they were afraid that their families would starve if they were to die while making black powder and other explosives like nitroglycerine.
So please, stop these lies (yes, they're blatant lies) about how good you think unions are, because they aren't responsible for ANY of the things that people think they're responsible for.
As for the lawn chair and umbrellas bit, that's not in the contract. What's in the contract is how long it will take for the job to be completed. The company I'm referring to, CenturyLink, figures that into the SLA guarantees, which are total crap compred to their main competitor, Cox. However we need a dual-home WAN link, which means we need both companies, even if one is totally shitty.
You can get a decent jolt with just a 3.3v battery and a transformer (like the kind found in radios, camera flash, etc.) It won't kill you, but if you aren't expecting it and are already in a tense state (like one might be while escaping after robbing somebody) it'll probably make you panic for a bit and make you drop what you're doing.
IANAL but I don't think you need to even get to the "right to privacy" legal theory. It's your device, and you can give it permission to capture and store biometric data and upload it to the cloud. If somebody picks up and uses your device, any information they give it, biometric or otherwise, becomes your information provided it isn't trademarked or copyrighted, and even if they somehow manage to do those things for their biometric data and likeness of their face, capturing it for your own personal use (submitting it as evidence, for example) would easily fall under fair use.
They go to the flyover states because there's a lot less red tape shit to put up with. That, and reduced chance of unions. I work telecom and I can't fucking stand CWA.
My current plan is to own a house, and have it fully paid for. Once that is done, all necessary costs of living are just peanuts and I could live comfortably on less than minimum wage.
I should be able to pull that off some time within the next 3 years.
No, usually it's a matter of they give you a EULA, but instead of doing the sensible thing and making the software enforce the limits of your license, they just expect every single one of your employees to read it. If you do even something small like install it on a server with one too many cores, have one too many users, etc, they'll basically name their own price for an upgrade, which is usually an unreasonable price because you are in no position to negotiate, and if you don't agree to the price they'll sue you for copyright infringement.
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Definitely not 12 gauge. Why on earth would you use 12 gauge for skeet shooting? It's a clay pigeon, not a crazy next-door neighbor. It was some kind of birdshot, I don't recall the exact spec, but it had barely any recoil, which means that even if it wasn't .410, then it was pretty close. Nonetheless, in most cases a quadcopter doesn't move nearly as quickly as a clay pigeon, and if you can't down a quadcopter that's anywhere within the effective range of birdshot then you're kind of a bad shot.
Eh... With a shotgun you don't exactly have to be a crack shot. I've done skeet shooting with no experience at all and typically was able to shoot two of them down in succession, (that is, both being launched at the same time, hit one, cock, hit another one) even at long range.
Drones should be even easier since you don't have to lead as far.
You'll have to take it to the polling station if you waited too long to mail it in.
You can either mail it in or bring it to a polling station.
I was at first surprised to see Arizona mentioned because our ballot system uses those forms where you use a marker to draw a line to connect your choice. The scanners aren't internet connected and just show a tally that gets reported, with write in candidates being manually counted where indicated.
That said, it somewhat makes sense that no actual damage was done in the Arizona case, though I honestly have no idea how registration data is stored as it is possible to register to vote online at the service Arizona website used by the DMV.
No, I think this is all being orchestrated by the Bilderberg group in tandem with the NWO as part of the conspiracy to take over the world with IPv6.
(And yes, people on the infowars forum actually believe that IPv6 is part of an NWO plot to take over the world.)
No, I'm not looking for a middle ground between information and disinformation. THAT is the fallacy. Rather, I'm looking for a middle ground between being a pussy and being a dick without resorting to being an asshole.
Ugh...you're really part of that movement? Hay caramba...
I mean I get it, I've had enough with trigger warnings, safe spaces, unfair campaigns, and the fact that Bruce Jenner can kill somebody, and then proceed to sue one of his victims, but once he gets a sex change suddenly he's a stunning and brave hero. It's all a big load of 100% grade A bullshit.
This alt-right, and the fact that Europe now has 25% of the voting population favoring self-identified fascist parties, I think it's more of a reaction to the insane notion that you MUST hop aboard the pussy wagon and truly believe in all of the bullshit I just described above, and if you don't then you MUST be a Nazi IRL and we cast the out. Well, it kind of leaves very little choice, doesn't it?
But, I'm not going to go repeat world war 2 (I mean shit, I still have yet to see what exactly the world's beef with the Jews is) however at the same time I'm going to disregard that notion of "they came for..." because I honestly think both sides of this issue are evil.
Insulin is harder to fuck up than epinephrine, and if you do fuck it up the symptoms are easier to correct. Epinephrine, by the way, is the hormone secreted by the glands that sit atop your kidneys; most people know it as adrenaline after the name brand of the first synthetic version of it. Also, if you inject a dose of epinephrine standard for prophylaxis treatment into a vein, it'll cause a hypertensive surge that will kill you fairly quickly.
But this is Bing maps, or did you mean to say that Bing maps is better for finding x-rated theaters? If so, you might need a time machine to travel back to 1980.
Since there seems to be a lot of confusion in the media about the real issue here, the EpiPen problem (1) has nothing to do with drug patents, and (2) has relatively little to do with patent protection in general.
IIRC doesn't the patent in this case apply specifically to the mechanism? And yes, epinephrine, for those who don't know, is commonly called adrenaline, which is the name brand of synthetic (but is chemically identical to the endogenous source, and thus no different from it) epinephrine.
And indeed, in many cases when there's a drug monopoly, it doesn't involve a patent. Because I have stage 4 CKD, I have problems with gout. The only medication that effectively treats it in my case is a drug called colchicine. That particular drug has been in use for a few centuries now, but a company presently has market exclusivity. Why? Well, when the Food and Drug Act was passed in 1934, any drug made from that point forward had have its efficacy proven before it could be prescribed, however old medications were "grandfathered in" until a few decades ago (I don't remember the exact year) when the FDA said they needed to pass scientific scrutiny, go through clinical trials, etc, to have their efficacy empirically proven. Colchicine was one of these drugs, and before this happened it was about 10 cents a pill, until the company that put it through its paces was granted market exclusivity as part of their efforts to prove that it works. They then trademarked it under the name Colcrys and raised the price to about $6 per pill.
And again, there is no intellectual property involved here, just the FDA granting market exclusivity. And to a point, I agree with this; they put in the effort to make sure that a drug that's actually by all definitions of the word toxic (it comes from a highly toxic plant) actually works and won't kill you, which isn't a cheap thing to do, they should be able to see a return on investment. But allowing them to raise the price of a drug that is super cheap to produce to a price that's just flat out extortion is ridiculous.
About the only rationale I can figure for avoiding the syringe issue is people's fear of needles
Actually believe it or not I'm less scared of a syringe than an autoinjector. Why? Because in the Army we were issued an autoinjector in case of exposure to some kind of gas (I don't remember which one) which you were supposed to inject into the muscle in your butt cheek. The scary part was how I saw one of these stick right through a 2x4 piece of wood. Imagine if you accidentally stuck your hip bone or your hand...oww...I'll stick with the syringe, thanks.
I think the engineers probably thought of that to be honest. Between that, and in colder regions, it is obligatory. Except for maybe where I live, (the arid Sonoran Desert, which Phoenix is a part of) where having a fan outside just means you get hot air blown in your face.
Yeah, on account of the FDA, I had to wait 16 years for corneal crosslinking to finally become a thing in the US even though it's been in use safely elsewhere for longer than that.
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Indeed there doesn't seem to be any good reason to prevent importing anything from international editions of books (save money for college students) to pharmaceuticals. There may be some merit to that argument for places like Mexico where quality controls are quite poor, however that should be a judgement call left up to the consumer. Likewise, I think the idea of tariffs, embargos, and other forms of mercantilism ultimately cost a domestic economy much more than they supposedly preserve.
Nevertheless, I don't think that's quite the root of the problem. This isn't, by any definition whatsoever, a free market. This is in fact a government granted monopoly. You cannot have both a free market AND a monopoly in most cases. That said, I don't quite understand why we give i.e. patent holders, copyright holders, etc free reign on how, when, where, and how much they can charge for anything with the sky being the limit. There probably should be some system in place whereby if they opt for government protection, then they must follow certain pricing and trade rules in order to keep that protection.
I think that what he's saying is that if you're a male and you really think we need more pay equality then go give half of your paycheck to one of your female co-workers to help balance things out.
It's hard for me to hate facebook since I don't use any of their products with any regularity.
I don't think any company has a monopoly on any particular market, except maybe Microsoft when it comes to desktop systems. But nobody cares about that anymore now that mobile has taken the show, which in the US is a clear duopoly, though Google *may* be considered a monopoly outside of the US here.
As far as the social, chatty apps, I really doubt that WhatsApp has anywhere close to a monopoly.
Do you know why most employment contracts say that? Because unions fought (and died) for that right. Do you know why you occasionally get to take a Saturday and Sunday off of work? Why you occasionally get a little vacation? Guess.
Not one thing you listed here was brought about by unions. I'm sick of this myth being repeated because it's a total load of shit.
Paid sick days is a concept that goes as far back as Ancient Egypt, and has been in use almost all throughout history.
Having Sunday off has been a thing since the industrial revolution, prior to which most people were farmers and didn't have a "work week" per se. Saturdays off, and indeed the 40 hour work week, began with Henry Ford, who wanted to attract workers who wouldn't just suddenly stop showing up one day to seek greener pastures. Unions had absolutely not a thing to do with that, nevermind dying for it.
Paid time off began as a similar industry trend, along with company sponsored health insurance, as a result of government wage ceilings during WWII. Why? Because companies needed something other than money to offer employees to retain them from going elsewhere.
Another concept that people like to attribute to unions, which isn't, is hazardous duty pay/benefits. Dupont started that before unions were even a thing to retain workers who wanted to switch jobs because they were afraid that their families would starve if they were to die while making black powder and other explosives like nitroglycerine.
So please, stop these lies (yes, they're blatant lies) about how good you think unions are, because they aren't responsible for ANY of the things that people think they're responsible for.
As for the lawn chair and umbrellas bit, that's not in the contract. What's in the contract is how long it will take for the job to be completed. The company I'm referring to, CenturyLink, figures that into the SLA guarantees, which are total crap compred to their main competitor, Cox. However we need a dual-home WAN link, which means we need both companies, even if one is totally shitty.
You can get a decent jolt with just a 3.3v battery and a transformer (like the kind found in radios, camera flash, etc.) It won't kill you, but if you aren't expecting it and are already in a tense state (like one might be while escaping after robbing somebody) it'll probably make you panic for a bit and make you drop what you're doing.
IANAL but I don't think you need to even get to the "right to privacy" legal theory. It's your device, and you can give it permission to capture and store biometric data and upload it to the cloud. If somebody picks up and uses your device, any information they give it, biometric or otherwise, becomes your information provided it isn't trademarked or copyrighted, and even if they somehow manage to do those things for their biometric data and likeness of their face, capturing it for your own personal use (submitting it as evidence, for example) would easily fall under fair use.
They go to the flyover states because there's a lot less red tape shit to put up with. That, and reduced chance of unions. I work telecom and I can't fucking stand CWA.
I figured the first joke would have involved Asians and their driving habits.
My current plan is to own a house, and have it fully paid for. Once that is done, all necessary costs of living are just peanuts and I could live comfortably on less than minimum wage.
I should be able to pull that off some time within the next 3 years.
I think it probably doesn't help that Louisiana sits below sea level.
What about Bing maps? You just made somebody at Microsoft very sad.
No, usually it's a matter of they give you a EULA, but instead of doing the sensible thing and making the software enforce the limits of your license, they just expect every single one of your employees to read it. If you do even something small like install it on a server with one too many cores, have one too many users, etc, they'll basically name their own price for an upgrade, which is usually an unreasonable price because you are in no position to negotiate, and if you don't agree to the price they'll sue you for copyright infringement.