And curiously, a radio ad I hear a lot lately is starts off about the super-high-tech drains that can't clog. Then it goes on to say that those drains don't exist and pimps a drain-cleaning company.
So how long will it be before we have superhyrdophobic sewer pipe?
At least in Arizona, a divorced woman over 50 can get "spousal maintenance" for the rest of her life, not revisable due to circumstances (e.g. unemployment of the ex-husband, including retirement or disability.) Which might explain some of the 70-something greeters at Wal-Mart.
Secondly, it's fast. It loads pages fast. It loads fast from a cold start. It loads a new tab fast. It loads a new window fast with Ctrl+n.
That depends a lot on how much the page itself loads third-party scripts, Flash apps, etc. If you can't block them, it may not matter how fast your browser is.
I have my desktop set up to use Ryan Bliss' art as wallpaper, and a lot of people see the nature scenes and think they're photographs. And, frankly, some of them really are that good.
On the other hand, good as Bliss and others may be, I really do prefer the actual photographs that $HERSELF takes. It's hard to compete with Mother Nature.
Publish or perish. And journals prioritize first results on a research question, just like newspapers want to scoop the competition. On top of that, even first news on a hypothesis is less likely to be published if it's negative.
So what do you expect academics to do? Reinvestigating a previously reported research result is unlikely to get funded, it's unlikely to be published even if it is researched. They live and die by publications.
Unless and until the publication system makes it possible for academics to check each others' work without killing their own careers, we won't see it happen.
I wouldn't be surprised if 6 new sats designed and launched between now and then could actually do the job of the 18 mission the TFA mentions.
The number of satellites required is more a function of geometry than technology: In close, there's only so much surface visible and only so much area covered per day. Farther out, there's more area covered (albeit at lower resolution) but less per day goes under the eye.
Barring SF-novel grade technology that can count pubic hairs from the orbit of Uranus, there's only so much that you can do to counter those constraints.
FS should tell them to take their money and stuff it where the sun don't shine.
From a source literally next door to FSU Economics, the decision to accept the funding was very controversial -- but it was also made at a level way above the departmental level.
I don't recall whether the faculty senate took up the issue or not -- I can certainly see why they might.
The program shouldn't be very expensive on a per-student basis, especially compared to the physical sciences.
That's the problem: it doesn't cost much and as a result doesn't draw big research grants. The University cut of a research grant pays for a lot more than just keeping the lights on, and when money gets tight that makes all the difference. Don't imagine that CS will be the last.
Florida has to cut the budget somwhere, and universities are hotbeds of radical socialist indoctrination. Especially computer science. Now, if the CS department could pay its own way like football does that might be different.
Fortunately, Florida State has found a solution to the problem: their economics department has found a sponsor who will provide lots of funding in return for veto power over new faculty hires. UF is no doubt looking for to improve on the method.
Either version can cause shingles later in life. In fact, early research is bearing out predictions that mass chicken pox vaccinations will lead to increased shingles rates.
The reason that the shingles rates are increasing is that the wild virus is not circulating (and thus not rechallenging) as previously. Without repeated exposure to the virus, immune response declines over time until the viruses lurking in the nerve roots get a chance to bloom again (just like cold sores.)
Which was what was predicted. The good news, though, is that the rates will decline again because (you can look this up) the vaccine strain does not cause the same latent infection (or not the same magnitude of latent infection) as the wild virus. Ideally a recombinant vaccine may be developed to do a better job, but I'm not complaining -- I know I have the latent infection and will cheerfully accept the half-measures as an alternative to shingles.
Where do you think shingles came from before there was a CP vaccine? "Shingles" is the reactivation of the same freaking virus you had long ago -- because herpes is forever.
The vaccine, unlike the wild virus, does not take up residence in nerve roots and does not have the potential to cause shingles later. However, both the wild immunity and the vaccine immunity wane with age, so if you're not routinely exposed to the wild virus you need a booster to prevent shingles.
Which, thank you, I will be getting along with my pertussis booster in about two years. Both I and my (now adult) children have had the wild flavor of chicken pox, and I can do without another round with it. Unlike some, I can read the medical literature on this stuff. I even talk to my doctor, believe it or not.
Vaccines aren't perfect, and with pertussis it's important to get them vaccinated as soon as most of them can mount an effective response. So if enough kids are vaccinated, the odds that the ones who do come down with it are vaccinated becomes greater than that they're unvaccinated.
All in all a pretty basic exercise in high-school probability algebra.
Rates for pertussis vaccination nationally in the USA have not gone below 80% since the vaccine was introduced before I was born -- and I well predate both polio vaccines.
What's changed is that there is now an adult vaccine in addition to the childhood series.
In principle... pertussis could be eradicated; but we have a long way to go.
Ummm.... no. Unlike measles or polio, pertussis is a bacterial disease. Bordatella Pertussis can live without humans. The only way to eradicate it is to sterilize all of its potential habitats (unlike viruses, bacteria don't need hosts per se) and clear the disease from any human carriers.
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And curiously, a radio ad I hear a lot lately is starts off about the super-high-tech drains that can't clog. Then it goes on to say that those drains don't exist and pimps a drain-cleaning company.
So how long will it be before we have superhyrdophobic sewer pipe?
Both on the letter of the law and the root cause of the fact that to date, the only "displaced homemaker" recipients have been women.
The jury awarded the ridiculous damages.
Based on the Court's instructions regarding the law.
At least in Arizona, a divorced woman over 50 can get "spousal maintenance" for the rest of her life, not revisable due to circumstances (e.g. unemployment of the ex-husband, including retirement or disability.) Which might explain some of the 70-something greeters at Wal-Mart.
Tenenbaum can at least get a court to declare bankruptcy and move on with his life.
Is this judgment dischargable in bankruptcy? IIRC the law on that kind of thing changed rather dramatically a few years ago.
The Supreme Court's job is not to protect you from the democratic system.
I now understand why the Court refused cert on Citizens United.
Tenenbaum is just entering the job market and can't pay the penalty
Surely he has organs he could sell.
Secondly, it's fast. It loads pages fast. It loads fast from a cold start. It loads a new tab fast. It loads a new window fast with Ctrl+n.
That depends a lot on how much the page itself loads third-party scripts, Flash apps, etc. If you can't block them, it may not matter how fast your browser is.
it weren't designed primarily as an advertising medium that optimises the browser as a vehicle for tracking users.
I have my desktop set up to use Ryan Bliss' art as wallpaper, and a lot of people see the nature scenes and think they're photographs. And, frankly, some of them really are that good.
On the other hand, good as Bliss and others may be, I really do prefer the actual photographs that $HERSELF takes. It's hard to compete with Mother Nature.
You cannot sue for something that has not yet happened. Period.
I've heard of somthing called "injunctive relief." I've also heard of courts issuing "protective orders."
So what do you expect academics to do? Reinvestigating a previously reported research result is unlikely to get funded, it's unlikely to be published even if it is researched. They live and die by publications.
Unless and until the publication system makes it possible for academics to check each others' work without killing their own careers, we won't see it happen.
I wouldn't be surprised if 6 new sats designed and launched between now and then could actually do the job of the 18 mission the TFA mentions .
The number of satellites required is more a function of geometry than technology: In close, there's only so much surface visible and only so much area covered per day. Farther out, there's more area covered (albeit at lower resolution) but less per day goes under the eye.
Barring SF-novel grade technology that can count pubic hairs from the orbit of Uranus, there's only so much that you can do to counter those constraints.
The U.S. relies on this network of satellites for ...climate change data
'Nuff said.
Show me a culture that doesn't have the concept of ordered sets -- which is all that a "number line" is.
And, no, I don't mean the fancy mathematical formalism. I mean things like narratives, directions from A to B, etc.
Start by studying the Hopi.
But no, it's one of the Kochtopus tentacles.
FS should tell them to take their money and stuff it where the sun don't shine.
From a source literally next door to FSU Economics, the decision to accept the funding was very controversial -- but it was also made at a level way above the departmental level.
I don't recall whether the faculty senate took up the issue or not -- I can certainly see why they might.
The program shouldn't be very expensive on a per-student basis, especially compared to the physical sciences.
That's the problem: it doesn't cost much and as a result doesn't draw big research grants. The University cut of a research grant pays for a lot more than just keeping the lights on, and when money gets tight that makes all the difference. Don't imagine that CS will be the last.
Florida has to cut the budget somwhere, and universities are hotbeds of radical socialist indoctrination. Especially computer science. Now, if the CS department could pay its own way like football does that might be different.
Fortunately, Florida State has found a solution to the problem: their economics department has found a sponsor who will provide lots of funding in return for veto power over new faculty hires. UF is no doubt looking for to improve on the method.
Either version can cause shingles later in life. In fact, early research is bearing out predictions that mass chicken pox vaccinations will lead to increased shingles rates.
The reason that the shingles rates are increasing is that the wild virus is not circulating (and thus not rechallenging) as previously. Without repeated exposure to the virus, immune response declines over time until the viruses lurking in the nerve roots get a chance to bloom again (just like cold sores.)
Which was what was predicted. The good news, though, is that the rates will decline again because (you can look this up) the vaccine strain does not cause the same latent infection (or not the same magnitude of latent infection) as the wild virus. Ideally a recombinant vaccine may be developed to do a better job, but I'm not complaining -- I know I have the latent infection and will cheerfully accept the half-measures as an alternative to shingles.
Where do you think shingles came from before there was a CP vaccine? "Shingles" is the reactivation of the same freaking virus you had long ago -- because herpes is forever.
The vaccine, unlike the wild virus, does not take up residence in nerve roots and does not have the potential to cause shingles later. However, both the wild immunity and the vaccine immunity wane with age, so if you're not routinely exposed to the wild virus you need a booster to prevent shingles.
Which, thank you, I will be getting along with my pertussis booster in about two years. Both I and my (now adult) children have had the wild flavor of chicken pox, and I can do without another round with it. Unlike some, I can read the medical literature on this stuff. I even talk to my doctor, believe it or not.
Now, get off my lawn.
Vaccines aren't perfect, and with pertussis it's important to get them vaccinated as soon as most of them can mount an effective response. So if enough kids are vaccinated, the odds that the ones who do come down with it are vaccinated becomes greater than that they're unvaccinated.
All in all a pretty basic exercise in high-school probability algebra.
No one vaccinated for it.
Rates for pertussis vaccination nationally in the USA have not gone below 80% since the vaccine was introduced before I was born -- and I well predate both polio vaccines.
What's changed is that there is now an adult vaccine in addition to the childhood series.
In principle... pertussis could be eradicated; but we have a long way to go.
Ummm .... no. Unlike measles or polio, pertussis is a bacterial disease. Bordatella Pertussis can live without humans. The only way to eradicate it is to sterilize all of its potential habitats (unlike viruses, bacteria don't need hosts per se) and clear the disease from any human carriers.
Ain't gonna happen.