And it gets worse again when you start factoring in the "corruption of a minor" laws. In Ohio, it's legal to marry and have sex at the age of 16 with parental consent, but under 18, they're considered to be minors and any sexual contact can be considered to be corrupting them. Go figure.
Even if they are emancipated? Wonder what would happen if people had been married somewhere which actually grants such status to people... Anyway we'll probably see winged pigs before joined up thinking from legislators.
I am a Philips technician in Argentina. I do not do house calls, but if I did I would be paid the same: FIVE DOLLARS.
The cost of Philips sending you to do a house call is probably rather more. They have to get you there and whilst you are travelling you typically can't do much in the way of useful work. N.B. The cost of employing someone is always greater than what that employee is paid.
I played in a band for several years called "boywonder" and when a band of the same name surfaced, we naturally went after trademark rights. DC Comics were quickly on us requesting that any product with the use of the name be sent to them for examination citing infringement.
Since trademarks are ment to be specific to business types (and geography) you probably had more reason for going after the other band than DC Comics had for going after you. But no doubt they had more money to spend on lawyers, this being the kind of situation where depth of pockets matters more than the intent of the laws in question.
I think it's a great idea, but how many people will have to translate a document with similar results before it can be trusted?
Even if you get agreement on the translations you still have the problem of authentication of the documents. Quite a few forms of forensic examination require the originals...
So tell me, who is going to be attacking Australia? Who is going to attack them from the air so that the aussies break out their new shiny fighter jets and smite them.
Which they couldn't do with the fighters the RAAF currentlty has...
But if the newspaper is using NAT then they wouldn't know who at the newspaper was guilty, they'd need to examine each computer and see which has the necessary files.
It's perfectly possible to do this without accessing unrelated data or depriving the owners of their computers for a long period of time.
Impacts don't have to be circles necessarily, it depends on the path inclination. They could be ellipses too. (I'm learning a lot these days)
Things can be highly distorted on conventional maps. Since you are projecting parts of a sphere onto a flat sheet. In theory a tool such as Google Earth shouldn't suffer from this too much.
I know we don't have the previous satellite images from years gone by, but would it be practical to use some sort of image diffing program to look for changes in satellite imagery in the future? Yes, you'd get all the new building activity and whatnot, but we should also be able to tell when new craters hit (or other bigger changes happen) automatically.
There are easier ways to detect new impact events, such as the sismic shocks they produce.
The answer is for each program to register everything it needs (non-shared program files, shared program files, registry keys etc etc) in a central database.
Then, an inteligent uninstaller can remove the program.
When the last program claiming "I need this file" is removed, the file is removed.
Sounds not unlike the way unix filesystems handle files with multiple hard links...
Windows likes to have each program confined to a neat little space, except for DLLs, which are utterly inconsistent, and the registry, which is a terrible idea for many reasons.
You also sometimes get Windows applications which like to store data in the application directory, rather than looking at the User Shell Folders registry keys.
European help was rejected with phony arguments, despite being urgently, and obviously so, needed.
Not just European help, people from other parts of the US were prevented from helping. You even got the situation of doctors being prevented from treating people whilst their papers were checked.
Well if it's such an open secret, where is the evidence supporting that? Do you really think the US knows about it but simply isn't doing anything? Are you suggesting the US government is neglecting what is supposidly a huge and obvious resource of the same terrorism trying to undermine it and the country it's leading?
Governments tend only to be interested in opposing terrorism which is a threat to themselves. Most terrorists are not any kind of threat to governments in the first place.
I have a friend living in Dubai as an ex-pat and during his last visit here at Christmas we got into terrorism and financing. According to what he knows, it's an open secret that the wealthy and well connected in the Gulf States, including the UAE, finance terrorists.
Hardly confined to the UAE. Or to just wealthy individuals. Corporations and governments are also in the business of financing and supporting terrorists.
There's a reason they call the lethal dose of something the "LD50", and that's because that's the dose at which 50% of the animals they injected the substance into died. (they measure it in milligrams of drug per kiligram of animal, in case you're wondering).
Not only can the level of toxicity vary between species but also lab animals tend to be carefully bred to mimimise genetic variation. Thus all you may actually be finding out is that a certain dosage is likely to kill half of a certain strain of rodents. The figure may not even hold for the same species...
According to the study, two cups a day raised the risk of heart disease by 36% over one cup in people with the gene. The article does not say how much a single cup raises your risk.
"Cup" is a variable quantity as is ammount of coffee people put into their cup.
People have died from everything from eating too much salt to drinking too much carrot juice. Keep your diet balanced and your intakes in moderation, and you'll do far better than chasing around massive doses of things that are "good" for you.
One hing to remember is that "balanced diet" does not imply that every meal must be "balanced". A problem in many modern societies is that we have often trained ourselves to eat according to a clock, rather than according to what our bodies might actually need.
There's a perfectly viable means to deal with high-level waste: turn it into more fuel. If it's radioactive enough to be dangerous, it's probably radioactive enough to run a reactor.
Or some other method of turning the decay into usable energy.
Actually, if you've done your job right, you end up with a substance less radioactive than it was when you pulled it out of the ground.
Actually many of the fission products (and their "daughters") are rather more radioactive than uranium or plutonium. But hav ethe advantage that they can be chemically separated from the fuel.
Electric cars that have been put out have ranges of about 100 miles, which is plenty for most people's weekly commutes. Part of the problem, though, was that it was just relocating the pollution - instead of it coming out of your tailpipe, it was coming out of a coal power plant.
It depends on how the ammount of pollution from the power stations, per useful watt, compares with that from cars each with their own internal combustion engine.
That's because nuclear fuel is not made of magic beans as people expect but a rock that needs to be dug up, processed, enriched and manufactured into fuel rods/pellets.
The process of mining produces a large quantity of rather nasty waste. The cleaner alternative would be to recycle nuclear weapons into fuel, but countries with nuclear weapons are not too keen to give them up.
Of course human genes are still evolving; you just have to examine what it is these days that limits people in reproductivity, and what encourages them. It's obvious that we, as a species, should ever so slightly more alcohol-resistant, because drunk driving kills a lot of young people before they can reproduce.
Humans of European ancestory are already more resistant to alchol than most mammals. Because for a long time brewing was the normal method of purifying drinking water. Cars have only been around for just over a century, where as water living pathogens have been around a lot longer.
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And it gets worse again when you start factoring in the "corruption of a minor" laws. In Ohio, it's legal to marry and have sex at the age of 16 with parental consent, but under 18, they're considered to be minors and any sexual contact can be considered to be corrupting them. Go figure.
Even if they are emancipated? Wonder what would happen if people had been married somewhere which actually grants such status to people...
Anyway we'll probably see winged pigs before joined up thinking from legislators.
I am a Philips technician in Argentina. I do not do house calls, but if I did I would be paid the same: FIVE DOLLARS.
The cost of Philips sending you to do a house call is probably rather more. They have to get you there and whilst you are travelling you typically can't do much in the way of useful work.
N.B. The cost of employing someone is always greater than what that employee is paid.
I played in a band for several years called "boywonder" and when a band of the same name surfaced, we naturally went after trademark rights. DC Comics were quickly on us requesting that any product with the use of the name be sent to them for examination citing infringement.
Since trademarks are ment to be specific to business types (and geography) you probably had more reason for going after the other band than DC Comics had for going after you. But no doubt they had more money to spend on lawyers, this being the kind of situation where depth of pockets matters more than the intent of the laws in question.
I think it's a great idea, but how many people will have to translate a document with similar results before it can be trusted?
Even if you get agreement on the translations you still have the problem of authentication of the documents. Quite a few forms of forensic examination require the originals...
Does the Australian government think its people so dumb that they can't distinguish parody from sincerity?
Alternativly this disability is common amongst politicians.
This is a Bad Thing, and it's quite possibly unlawful.
It's also rather counter productive since it gets a lot of people looking at whatever all this fuss is about.
So tell me, who is going to be attacking Australia? Who is going to attack them from the air so that the aussies break out their new shiny fighter jets and smite them.
Which they couldn't do with the fighters the RAAF currentlty has...
But if the newspaper is using NAT then they wouldn't know who at the newspaper was guilty, they'd need to examine each computer and see which has the necessary files.
It's perfectly possible to do this without accessing unrelated data or depriving the owners of their computers for a long period of time.
Impacts don't have to be circles necessarily, it depends on the path inclination. They could be ellipses too. (I'm learning a lot these days)
Things can be highly distorted on conventional maps. Since you are projecting parts of a sphere onto a flat sheet.
In theory a tool such as Google Earth shouldn't suffer from this too much.
I know we don't have the previous satellite images from years gone by, but would it be practical to use some sort of image diffing program to look for changes in satellite imagery in the future? Yes, you'd get all the new building activity and whatnot, but we should also be able to tell when new craters hit (or other bigger changes happen) automatically.
There are easier ways to detect new impact events, such as the sismic shocks they produce.
Plus, I would fully expect the EU to increase the daily fine if this went on for a long time.
If the Doller continues to decline against the Euro this would happen automatically.
The answer is for each program to register everything it needs (non-shared program files, shared program files, registry keys etc etc) in a central database. Then, an inteligent uninstaller can remove the program. When the last program claiming "I need this file" is removed, the file is removed.
Sounds not unlike the way unix filesystems handle files with multiple hard links...
Windows likes to have each program confined to a neat little space, except for DLLs, which are utterly inconsistent, and the registry, which is a terrible idea for many reasons.
You also sometimes get Windows applications which like to store data in the application directory, rather than looking at the User Shell Folders registry keys.
European help was rejected with phony arguments, despite being urgently, and obviously so, needed.
Not just European help, people from other parts of the US were prevented from helping. You even got the situation of doctors being prevented from treating people whilst their papers were checked.
Well if it's such an open secret, where is the evidence supporting that? Do you really think the US knows about it but simply isn't doing anything? Are you suggesting the US government is neglecting what is supposidly a huge and obvious resource of the same terrorism trying to undermine it and the country it's leading?
Governments tend only to be interested in opposing terrorism which is a threat to themselves. Most terrorists are not any kind of threat to governments in the first place.
I have a friend living in Dubai as an ex-pat and during his last visit here at Christmas we got into terrorism and financing. According to what he knows, it's an open secret that the wealthy and well connected in the Gulf States, including the UAE, finance terrorists.
Hardly confined to the UAE. Or to just wealthy individuals. Corporations and governments are also in the business of financing and supporting terrorists.
Would you please stop propagating the stupid meme that obesity is somehow exclusively an American problem?
If would be rather ironic if "diet" food actually promoted obesity.
There's a reason they call the lethal dose of something the "LD50", and that's because that's the dose at which 50% of the animals they injected the substance into died. (they measure it in milligrams of drug per kiligram of animal, in case you're wondering).
Not only can the level of toxicity vary between species but also lab animals tend to be carefully bred to mimimise genetic variation. Thus all you may actually be finding out is that a certain dosage is likely to kill half of a certain strain of rodents. The figure may not even hold for the same species...
According to the study, two cups a day raised the risk of heart disease by 36% over one cup in people with the gene. The article does not say how much a single cup raises your risk.
"Cup" is a variable quantity as is ammount of coffee people put into their cup.
People have died from everything from eating too much salt to drinking too much carrot juice. Keep your diet balanced and your intakes in moderation, and you'll do far better than chasing around massive doses of things that are "good" for you.
One hing to remember is that "balanced diet" does not imply that every meal must be "balanced". A problem in many modern societies is that we have often trained ourselves to eat according to a clock, rather than according to what our bodies might actually need.
There's a perfectly viable means to deal with high-level waste: turn it into more fuel. If it's radioactive enough to be dangerous, it's probably radioactive enough to run a reactor.
Or some other method of turning the decay into usable energy.
Actually, if you've done your job right, you end up with a substance less radioactive than it was when you pulled it out of the ground.
Actually many of the fission products (and their "daughters") are rather more radioactive than uranium or plutonium. But hav ethe advantage that they can be chemically separated from the fuel.
Electric cars that have been put out have ranges of about 100 miles, which is plenty for most people's weekly commutes. Part of the problem, though, was that it was just relocating the pollution - instead of it coming out of your tailpipe, it was coming out of a coal power plant.
It depends on how the ammount of pollution from the power stations, per useful watt, compares with that from cars each with their own internal combustion engine.
That's because nuclear fuel is not made of magic beans as people expect but a rock that needs to be dug up, processed, enriched and manufactured into fuel rods/pellets.
The process of mining produces a large quantity of rather nasty waste. The cleaner alternative would be to recycle nuclear weapons into fuel, but countries with nuclear weapons are not too keen to give them up.
Of course human genes are still evolving; you just have to examine what it is these days that limits people in reproductivity, and what encourages them. It's obvious that we, as a species, should ever so slightly more alcohol-resistant, because drunk driving kills a lot of young people before they can reproduce.
Humans of European ancestory are already more resistant to alchol than most mammals. Because for a long time brewing was the normal method of purifying drinking water. Cars have only been around for just over a century, where as water living pathogens have been around a lot longer.