"Selfies change all that. If I give you ten bucks to vote for my favorite candidate for mayor, I can withhold payment until you show me a selfie proving that you voted for my guy."
Uh... wouldn't it have the opposite effect? If you could do jail time for selling your vote, wouldn't that proof of having voted a certain way be evidence against you?
Considering that the older researchers probably remembered the era of crackpot medicine and patent cure-alls being pushed even by people you'd think would know better, one can't blame them for being skeptical, at least until better data arrived.
Smallpox was pretty obvious by reasonably consistent overt symptoms, and had also been known since ancient times (also, the correlation with immunity via cowpox had been understood for centuries). To widely deter smallpox, we only had to wait for the most primitive vaccine technology to arrive, and no new research was required to ID the cause. No guessing in the dark based on a plethora of vague symptoms that may or may not manifest over years or even decades.
In fact, some early vaccines (including the first one for smallpox) were produced before the concept of viruses existed, because the disease was easily recognised, and immunity transfer by some (then unknown) blood factor was fairly easy to accomplish even if no one understood why it worked.
Lack of ability to make correlations among lots of scattered data.
Pre-interent, you couldn't just search some online database to find papers that mentioned factors common to your research; you had to trawl through dozens of (very expensive) dead-tree medical journals and basically find a few hits by luck and perhaps experience (eg. knowing whose work to follow, and where they usually published).
And if the gay community hadn't been so unlucky as to be the first major group infected, thus giving researchers a hint that a vector/transmission process was involved, it might have taken another 20 years to identify the cause among the hundreds of other chronic and marginal health conditions.
I meant, is it possible that this hypothetical giant pulling-us-out-of-alignment planet is actually a dead dwarf star (dead long enough to have effectively zero luminosity and be therefore invisible), and if so was it a binary or a captive?
Cuz seems to me it's got to be more massive than any of the known planets to have this much effect.
I don't know anything more about this story either. But it sounds highly atypical. Lancaster doesn't have its own police force, and contracts with the Los Angeles Sheriff's Dept. for coverage. As a general rule they're lighter-handed than the average metro cop shop, possibly because they're spread thinner and don't have time to pursue bullshit.
But a few years ago, when the Feds told L.A. County that they'd have to reduce their jail population -- they picked out the problem prisoners and dumped 'em wholesale in the Antelope Valley. What had been isolated perps sneaking around in the dark suddenly became swarms of perps boldly going in broad daylight. Theft abruptly grew from the usual petty urban stuff to a cottage industry (particularly for metal), and same for gangs and drugs.
So I'm thinking this might have been a sting against a large drug or metal-fencing operation, using the cellphone thing as cover for what they were really after, not to mention as a quick way to ID both those present and those who needed pursuing.
Not justifying their action (which was, IMO, blatantly unconstitutional), just thinking of rationale based on the local situation.
Program Expenses (Percent of the charityâ(TM)s total expenses spent on the programs and services it delivers)
This doesn't say exactly what those expenses ARE, because it could well be that they spend 95% of their "program expenses" on admin, salaries, bribes, and various other overhead, and that only 5% actually trickles down to the nominal recipients.
This is something I became aware of while perusing tax info from a particular class of charities -- where "administrative expenses" is typically charity-speak for "owner's salary"... explaining why "administrative expenses" tends to be an upper-five to lower-six figure number even for charities that are basically one-man bands.
Someone pointed out that if Trump actually had a proper collection of skeletons, they'd already be on parade... if one jock-talk tape is the best they can do (at least, with documentation so the tale can't be promptly refuted by genuine witnesses) there probably isn't anything all that terrible waiting to be unearthed.
Nope, just tired of crappy ad hominem arguments that don't actually say anything beyond "we're right, you're wrong". Give me reasons and rationale and hard data (and I don't mean conveniently doctored data, like Mary Koss did), not just BS, and I'll listen. I might even change my mind, like I did on basic income -- once hard facts got laid out, not just leftist whining about their mythical notions of equality.
But hey, keep that bag over your head and complain how everyone else is in the dark.
Funny how if one discredits the campus nonsense and BLM, suddenly there are no accounts of sexism/racism. But hey, tell me I'm wrong again.... that's YOUR assumption.
They were the only two I found with any info at all. I didn't screen 'em for bias. (Having never heard anything about the company -- don't like the product so have paid no attention.)
I was responding to the prior poster's remarks about skin color. And actually, I'm okay with wait-and-see here. We do far more harm by forcing shit through, including SCOTUS confirmations, than we do with being patient.
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Very interesting, thanks. So where did this proposed planetary mass come from?
BTW, love your tagline... puts birds in a new perspective.
"Selfies change all that. If I give you ten bucks to vote for my favorite candidate for mayor, I can withhold payment until you show me a selfie proving that you voted for my guy."
Uh... wouldn't it have the opposite effect? If you could do jail time for selling your vote, wouldn't that proof of having voted a certain way be evidence against you?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
(starts a few minutes in)
Some of the presentations touch on specialty vaccine research for diseases like HIV and ebola.
Gad, when I was a biochem/microbiol student at MSU, virology was ONE class. We've come a long long way in a very short time.
Considering that the older researchers probably remembered the era of crackpot medicine and patent cure-alls being pushed even by people you'd think would know better, one can't blame them for being skeptical, at least until better data arrived.
Smallpox was pretty obvious by reasonably consistent overt symptoms, and had also been known since ancient times (also, the correlation with immunity via cowpox had been understood for centuries). To widely deter smallpox, we only had to wait for the most primitive vaccine technology to arrive, and no new research was required to ID the cause. No guessing in the dark based on a plethora of vague symptoms that may or may not manifest over years or even decades.
In fact, some early vaccines (including the first one for smallpox) were produced before the concept of viruses existed, because the disease was easily recognised, and immunity transfer by some (then unknown) blood factor was fairly easy to accomplish even if no one understood why it worked.
Lack of ability to make correlations among lots of scattered data.
Pre-interent, you couldn't just search some online database to find papers that mentioned factors common to your research; you had to trawl through dozens of (very expensive) dead-tree medical journals and basically find a few hits by luck and perhaps experience (eg. knowing whose work to follow, and where they usually published).
And if the gay community hadn't been so unlucky as to be the first major group infected, thus giving researchers a hint that a vector/transmission process was involved, it might have taken another 20 years to identify the cause among the hundreds of other chronic and marginal health conditions.
Also, multiple exposures may matter.
Witness that in Africa, HIV is primarily a hetero disease.
Also, the syphillis entry sore can be somewhere inside, where it can't be seen.
Nor is he "innocent". Maybe of being THE vector, but not of being A vector, perhaps a very significant one.
I meant, is it possible that this hypothetical giant pulling-us-out-of-alignment planet is actually a dead dwarf star (dead long enough to have effectively zero luminosity and be therefore invisible), and if so was it a binary or a captive?
Cuz seems to me it's got to be more massive than any of the known planets to have this much effect.
My first thought was to wonder if this "massive planet" is actually a dead star. Has there ever been any evidence that this was once a binary system?
Forgot this one, see also
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Not exactly.
http://www.geocraft.com/WVFoss...
Thanks; very informative. I did notice the rubber-tipped stylus wasn't terribly accurate.
Question: how is this different from a rubber-surfaced stylus? since a stylus does work on touchscreen phones.
Former Lancaster CA resident here.
I don't know anything more about this story either. But it sounds highly atypical. Lancaster doesn't have its own police force, and contracts with the Los Angeles Sheriff's Dept. for coverage. As a general rule they're lighter-handed than the average metro cop shop, possibly because they're spread thinner and don't have time to pursue bullshit.
But a few years ago, when the Feds told L.A. County that they'd have to reduce their jail population -- they picked out the problem prisoners and dumped 'em wholesale in the Antelope Valley. What had been isolated perps sneaking around in the dark suddenly became swarms of perps boldly going in broad daylight. Theft abruptly grew from the usual petty urban stuff to a cottage industry (particularly for metal), and same for gangs and drugs.
So I'm thinking this might have been a sting against a large drug or metal-fencing operation, using the cellphone thing as cover for what they were really after, not to mention as a quick way to ID both those present and those who needed pursuing.
Not justifying their action (which was, IMO, blatantly unconstitutional), just thinking of rationale based on the local situation.
Here's the problem I have with this:
Program Expenses
(Percent of the charityâ(TM)s total expenses spent on the programs and services it delivers)
This doesn't say exactly what those expenses ARE, because it could well be that they spend 95% of their "program expenses" on admin, salaries, bribes, and various other overhead, and that only 5% actually trickles down to the nominal recipients.
This is something I became aware of while perusing tax info from a particular class of charities -- where "administrative expenses" is typically charity-speak for "owner's salary"... explaining why "administrative expenses" tends to be an upper-five to lower-six figure number even for charities that are basically one-man bands.
Someone pointed out that if Trump actually had a proper collection of skeletons, they'd already be on parade... if one jock-talk tape is the best they can do (at least, with documentation so the tale can't be promptly refuted by genuine witnesses) there probably isn't anything all that terrible waiting to be unearthed.
Nope, just tired of crappy ad hominem arguments that don't actually say anything beyond "we're right, you're wrong". Give me reasons and rationale and hard data (and I don't mean conveniently doctored data, like Mary Koss did), not just BS, and I'll listen. I might even change my mind, like I did on basic income -- once hard facts got laid out, not just leftist whining about their mythical notions of equality.
But hey, keep that bag over your head and complain how everyone else is in the dark.
Funny how if one discredits the campus nonsense and BLM, suddenly there are no accounts of sexism/racism. But hey, tell me I'm wrong again.... that's YOUR assumption.
You seem to be arguing with someone else.
They were the only two I found with any info at all. I didn't screen 'em for bias. (Having never heard anything about the company -- don't like the product so have paid no attention.)
I was responding to the prior poster's remarks about skin color. And actually, I'm okay with wait-and-see here. We do far more harm by forcing shit through, including SCOTUS confirmations, than we do with being patient.