Problem/Condition: A substantial percentage of all homicides in the United States are committed by intimate partners of the victims. Among females, approximately 1 in 3 homicides are intimate partner homicides (IPHs).
Homicide was found to be the leading cause of death for pregnant women in Maryland, according to a March 2001 study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Using death records and coroner reports, state health department researchers found 247 pregnancy-associated deaths between 1993 and 1998. Among those deaths, 50 were murders. By comparison, homicide was the fifth-leading cause of death among Maryland women. And, nationwide, the maternal mortality rate was just 9.9 percent in 1999, the most recent year for which statistics are available.
Nationally, homicide is a leading killer of young women--pregnant or not. In 1999, homicide was the second-leading cause of death among women ages 20 to 24. It was fifth among women ages 25-34. Accidents are the top cause of death in both age groups.
Just ask anyone who has had to repair monitors from the 90-es and AT Computer cases. If the switch is purely mechanical, turning it off will cause a discharge from the capacitive/inductive charge in the device. This discharge will slowly eat into the switch contacts until they break.
Your advice is a decade out of date, doesn't apply to todays computers, as well as being just plain wrong even back in the 80's, never mind the '90s.
Televisions from the old days had higher capacitive/inductive charges, and the on-off button didn't "get eaten" (there were no remotes in those days).
I've been using the same power bar for over a decade - that switch hasn't "been eaten" either.
Come to think of it, neither have any of the light switches here (and the're all several decades old).
The simple fact is that the switches you claim were "eaten" were cheap. There's no reason for an on/off switch not to last for 10,000 to 10,00,000 cycles... heck, even todays hard drives are made to power on/off 10,000 - 20,000 times. Studies by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (quoted below) prove today's computers last longer if you turn them off when not in use.
Switching off a computer extends its lifetime, contrary to some misconceptions. Leaving a computer running the whole year will cost you more than 1,000 kWh/y, or almost as much a the total electricity consumption of a high-efficiency household.
Use one large power strip for your computer, broadband modem, scanner, printer, monitor, and speakers. Switch it off when equipment is not in use. This is a practical way to cut 200 kWh/y or more of standby losses (see standby).
Minimise printing. Laser printers use more electricity than inkjet printers.
For more information see Greencampus Harvard and the Rocky Mountains Institute.
9. Cut off standby losses ("The vicious energy-suckers")
Most modern electric appliances consume electricity even when turned off. For TVs, VCRs, faxes, HiFis, computer screens, cable boxes, and broadband modems this is on average some 40 - 120 kWh/y. In total, household losses can reach several hundreds kWhs/y, all for doing nothing useful.
The best solution is to buy appliances that have a very low standby energy consumption. Standby power consumption is mentioned in the product manual and can be checked before buying. Or you can look for it on specialised websites (see links). For most appliances, it should be around 0.5 - 1 watts/hour or 4-8 kWh/year. Keep in mind that the cost of wasted standby energy over a model's lifetime can be higher than the cost of buying it!
A power strip is also the most practical way to switch of VCR, TV and DVD-player stand-by losses (you can cut off all three devices at once).
The multi socket power strip: a practical way to combat stand-by losses. This model costs only 1.8 euro and can save you more than 100kWh/y!
In the 15 countries of the EU in 2000, the total energy lost to standby in households was estimated at 94 billion kWh, or the equivalent of 12 large nuclear or coal power plants.
Frequent on-off cycles vs. health of the computer hardware: Studies on computer equipment sold after 1998 indicate that there is no appreciable 'wear and tear' from shutting computers off once or twice daily. Most experts state that if a computer is to be left unused for four or more hours, it can be shut down without affecting its lifespan.
The information EZConserve has reviewed indicates that the risk of reducing a computer's useful life by turning it off at night is not the issue that
The problem is that we recognize that our governments' sovereignty over its own citizens stop once they're outside the territory. The US, on the other hand, expects its citizens to obey American authority worldwide.
This is a mixed blessing. For example, it allows the US to charge pedopholes for having sex with kids in Thailand.
if they ever find the neantherthal DNA, if it exists.
Of course it exists. And its still in the gene pool. Haven't you seen all those people with unibrows?:-)
On a side note - check out all the actors who have plucked their unibrows. Salma Hayek, Colin Farrell, Angie Harmon...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monobrow
Take the murders caused by hand guns out of the US stats, and our murder rates are similar.
Guns don't kill - stupid people with guns kill.
Per capita, Canada has more firearms, but WAY less hand guns, than the US. There's the causative difference - pretty much unregulated hand gun ownership.
Watch the +5 posts in this story. How much you wanna bet it's all about Bush and the CIA is evil, when the story is about blogging? It's funny how no offtopic mods hit those posts.
The story is in YRO - Your Rights Online. It's not about blogging per se, but about losing your job while exercising your right to speak out about government-sponsored torture.
If you're all that upset, why don't you blog about all the GOOD things torture provides:
a new job opening at BEA, as long as you don't go around saying "torture is a Bad Thing"
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Gee, I guess when it comes to the good things about torture, I'm pretty much drawing blanks... but I'm sure that if you give the CIA a few days, they'll find someone who's gone through it who is willing to say (under threat of more torture) that waterboarding isn't "really" torture.
Torture is just stupid. It gets you inaccurate information, and provides rationalization for your enemies to go that much further. There IS no up side.
I can't speak for those "other countries", but the Canadian constitutional applies to everyone, citizen and non-citizen alike, just like the rest of the laws.
It's also why we're reluctant to extradite death-penalty cases unless we get assurances that the death penalty won't apply. Once they're here, they have the same right not to be put to death for a crime as anyone else.
It must work - our murder rate is 1/3 the US rate.
and the victim is unlikely to actually die if this is done by skilled practitioners.
Who'd they practice on before they became so skilled?
Gov't Torturer: I only lost 3 this week.
Superior: Good enough. Here's your "Skilled in Waterboarding" cert. And no, I don't want to know what you did with the bodies.
Gov't Torturer: Thanks. BTW, you might want to avoid the "mystery meat" at the cafeteria.
I tried that. The problem with ATI drivers seems to be that if the old one in the pci slot is also an ATI, it refuses to install ("Your hardware isn't supported") - it seems to want to stop as soon as it finds an ATI card, instead of enumerating all the possible video cards. The "solution" is to yank out the old ATI card, which isn't really a solution, because then you're back to a single-monitor setup, which is almost impossible to work with once you've gone dual.
I guess whoever rated it as flamebait missed the irony - the history of Microsoft calling Open Source a virus...
... if you wanted a joke about open sores and taste:
A leper was eating his Big Mac, when he noticed another patron staring at him, ashen-faced, not eating his Happy Meal.
He walked over to the guy and said, "look I know my appearance has ruined your meal. Please, let me pay for another one."
The other customer said "No, its not you."
The leper returned to his seat, but a few minutes later noticed the guy still staring, his food untouched, so he went and repeated his offer, and got the same response.
Finally, the leper finishes his meal, sees the guy still staring at him, with his food now cold and uneaten.
He goes over and says "Look, I know you're trying to be nice, but I've been through this before. I know my appearance is revolting to most people, and I insist on replacing your meal."
Customer: "No, its okay. Honest, it's not you!"
Leper: "Well, if its not me, what WAS it?"
Customer: "The guy behind you dipping his fries in your neck."
-- Now, what is the first thing that's going to come to mind when you hear "Do you want fries with that?"
Way back when, I had my old box set up as a dual-screen, dual-boot (linux/win98). 1 ATI card, 1 integrated video card. Both linux and Windows had no problem using both cards.
Now - upgrade to a better box, throw in a Radeon 9200, and nothing works properly except under SUSE. Ubuntu, for example, insists on using only the PCI card (doesn't matter which one you have configured as the primary in the bios, PCI or AGP).
So, throw on a copy of Windows. Ha - the situation is worse. W2003 uses the 9200, but in 4-bit "colour", 800x600 res. The other ATI card is invisible to the system. Installing the drivers - oh joy - they refuse to install. XP Pro? No real diff.
SuSE 10.0, on the other hand, saw and configured both cards. However, trying to install ATI's drivers under both Ubuntu and SUSE failed - the install program craps out.
When it comes to video cards, from now on ATI means "All Time Ignore". I didn't have these problems with the old GeForce 2 with TV-out that worked perfectly.
I remembr one time being asked for my opinion of the opening pages from one manuscript.
I knew I was doomed - it was all in italics - on purple paper.
Me: Do you want me to be honest, or nice?
Her: Honest, of course.
Me: Its pretentious, self-conscious, amateur garbage.
Her: (Hmph!) You never heard of "If you can't say anything good, don't say anything?"
Me: Those are its good points.
The real rule is 2 different fonts, and sometimes 3 for certain specialized cases. Anyone using 6 different fonts is doing "ransom notes", not "documents." Pick 1 proportional font, 1 monospaced font, and stick with them.
Ditto for anyone who overuses font-variants. Stylizing every second word (italic, or underlined, or bold, or whatever combo) just doesn't work.
I figure anyone who actually tries it deserves one of these
Kind of like the oakie who went to the doctor for a vasectomy:
Oakie: I want to get a vasectomy.
Dr: Just put a cherry bomb in an empty beer can and count to 10.
... Oakie sees 3 doctors, and they all say the same thing... until finally...
Dr: No problem, my secretary can book you an appointment.
Oakie: Great doc. Hey, can you explain why all the other docs said I should just stick a cherry bomb in an empty beer can and count to ten?
Dr: Oh, you're an oakie? Sorry, just stick a cherry bomb in a beer can and count to 10. It works.
Later that day... Oakie has his buddy over, explains how the docs all told him the same thing.
Billy-Bod: Youy gonna try it?
Oakie: Might as well...
(Oakie puts lit cherry bomb in tin can, holds can in one hand, starts counting on his fingers with the other hand..
1... 2... 3... 4... 5...
(runs out of fingers, holds tin can between thighs so he can continue counting...)
The article pointed out thes are non-rechargeable lithium batteries - the disposable type you put in cameras, etc. They're fully charged when manufactured, so there's no way to ship them in even a partially-discharged state. When a new one goes, either from design defect, poor quality control, or mishandling, it REALLY goes.
Also, you CAN completely discharge a rechargeable lithium battery and then recharge it. (How do I know it was completely discharged? Stupid me put it in my pocket with change and keys - so you KNOW that it got shorted out at some point - but it was totally dead, so no harm done). The recharging circuitry isn't supposed to let you recharge a completely dead battery (the battery will get REALLY warm, for example), but I've done it. That particular cell phone battery is now 5 years old, been through well over its rated maximum charge/discharge cycles - 500, and still keeps a 50% or greater charge (though for a while it would keep hardly any charge at all).
They're talking about non-rechargeable batteries - and some of them WILL fail before they reach the store. Internal shorts (say from vibration) aren't as likely, and won't cause as much localized heat buildup sitting in an open-air display as the would densely packed in a container on an airplane.
The problem is that already-charged lithium batteries contain a lot of energy, and if they short out, they will heat up fast.
A new, uncharged rechargeable battery, on the other hand, is basically a dead battery. Short it out and nothing happens.
Here's something you can try at home if you're a total skeptic: charge up your cell-phone battery, remove it from your phone and drop it in your pocket along with some change or a set of keys, and go for a walk. You'll KNOW when the battery shorts ut.
If you go to the site it says you can access it from Firefox. If the names are comments, you won't be able to access it from code, because like you said, they won't be compiled. So they have to be part of the code.
ummm - news flash - firefox is a web browser/b>. All they have to do is include a link on the toolbar to a web site, some AJAX, and there is your "interactive access from firefox".
This is true, but they also supply office space, etc. Why do you think they established a gambling commission?
I've driven by the reserve often enough (I get most of my computer parts there - http://frostys.qc.ca/ ) Hard disks, for example, are cheaper than at future shop, and come with a 3 to 5-year warranty OEM, instead of the 1-year retail warranty, the guys are friendly, etc.
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The stats for both countries are based on murder rates per capita, so the difference in population is irrelevent.
As for "being safe from it", check out these stats from the Centers for Disease Control:. htm
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/ss5003a1
Or this ...
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http://www.now.org/issues/violence/043003pregnant
Just ask anyone who has had to repair monitors from the 90-es and AT Computer cases. If the switch is purely mechanical, turning it off will cause a discharge from the capacitive/inductive charge in the device. This discharge will slowly eat into the switch contacts until they break.
Your advice is a decade out of date, doesn't apply to todays computers, as well as being just plain wrong even back in the 80's, never mind the '90s.
Televisions from the old days had higher capacitive/inductive charges, and the on-off button didn't "get eaten" (there were no remotes in those days).
I've been using the same power bar for over a decade - that switch hasn't "been eaten" either.
Come to think of it, neither have any of the light switches here (and the're all several decades old).
The simple fact is that the switches you claim were "eaten" were cheap. There's no reason for an on/off switch not to last for 10,000 to 10,00,000 cycles... heck, even todays hard drives are made to power on/off 10,000 - 20,000 times. Studies by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (quoted below) prove today's computers last longer if you turn them off when not in use.
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/ climate-change/take_action/12_steps
url:httpwwwrecyclingadvocatesorgnewslettermay2002h tm
Like a lot of things ... it depends.
The problem is that we recognize that our governments' sovereignty over its own citizens stop once they're outside the territory. The US, on the other hand, expects its citizens to obey American authority worldwide.
This is a mixed blessing. For example, it allows the US to charge pedopholes for having sex with kids in Thailand.
if they ever find the neantherthal DNA, if it exists.
Of course it exists. And its still in the gene pool. Haven't you seen all those people with unibrows? :-)
On a side note - check out all the actors who have plucked their unibrows. Salma Hayek, Colin Farrell, Angie Harmon ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monobrow
Must have been those "long pork" ribs or the "hairless goat" souvlaki. Or maybe it was the hot dogs made from "choice cuts".
For those who don't get it, google for "long pig", "long pork", "hairless goat"
You're right - correlation isn't causation.
Take the murders caused by hand guns out of the US stats, and our murder rates are similar.
Guns don't kill - stupid people with guns kill.
Per capita, Canada has more firearms, but WAY less hand guns, than the US. There's the causative difference - pretty much unregulated hand gun ownership.
Watch the +5 posts in this story. How much you wanna bet it's all about Bush and the CIA is evil, when the story is about blogging? It's funny how no offtopic mods hit those posts.
The story is in YRO - Your Rights Online. It's not about blogging per se, but about losing your job while exercising your right to speak out about government-sponsored torture.
If you're all that upset, why don't you blog about all the GOOD things torture provides:
Gee, I guess when it comes to the good things about torture, I'm pretty much drawing blanks ... but I'm sure that if you give the CIA a few days, they'll find someone who's gone through it who is willing to say (under threat of more torture) that waterboarding isn't "really" torture.
Torture is just stupid. It gets you inaccurate information, and provides rationalization for your enemies to go that much further. There IS no up side.
I can't speak for those "other countries", but the Canadian constitutional applies to everyone, citizen and non-citizen alike, just like the rest of the laws.
It's also why we're reluctant to extradite death-penalty cases unless we get assurances that the death penalty won't apply. Once they're here, they have the same right not to be put to death for a crime as anyone else.
It must work - our murder rate is 1/3 the US rate.
and the victim is unlikely to actually die if this is done by skilled practitioners.
Who'd they practice on before they became so skilled?
Gov't Torturer: I only lost 3 this week.
Superior: Good enough. Here's your "Skilled in Waterboarding" cert. And no, I don't want to know what you did with the bodies.
Gov't Torturer: Thanks. BTW, you might want to avoid the "mystery meat" at the cafeteria.
No, this is just more of SCO purposefully not understanding how software development works.
To do otherwise would be the exception, not the norm.
as long as they let me know about it before I buy it.
The best way to avoid it is to get rid of windows.
The second-best way is to reinstall from scratch, disable product activation (reset5setup.exe - Reset 5.02), and update using AutoPatcher.
Our faces and irises are visible and our voices are being recorded.
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200209/mann
Iris scanner - a million bucks
Glasses with a picture of someone else's eyeballs - $5.00
Stickin' it to da man! - priceless.
I tried that. The problem with ATI drivers seems to be that if the old one in the pci slot is also an ATI, it refuses to install ("Your hardware isn't supported") - it seems to want to stop as soon as it finds an ATI card, instead of enumerating all the possible video cards. The "solution" is to yank out the old ATI card, which isn't really a solution, because then you're back to a single-monitor setup, which is almost impossible to work with once you've gone dual.
I guess whoever rated it as flamebait missed the irony - the history of Microsoft calling Open Source a virus ...
-- Now, what is the first thing that's going to come to mind when you hear "Do you want fries with that?"
since we're talking about AIDS, shouldn't it be "Open Sores", and not "Open Source" ?
Way back when, I had my old box set up as a dual-screen, dual-boot (linux/win98). 1 ATI card, 1 integrated video card. Both linux and Windows had no problem using both cards.
Now - upgrade to a better box, throw in a Radeon 9200, and nothing works properly except under SUSE. Ubuntu, for example, insists on using only the PCI card (doesn't matter which one you have configured as the primary in the bios, PCI or AGP).
So, throw on a copy of Windows. Ha - the situation is worse. W2003 uses the 9200, but in 4-bit "colour", 800x600 res. The other ATI card is invisible to the system. Installing the drivers - oh joy - they refuse to install. XP Pro? No real diff.
SuSE 10.0, on the other hand, saw and configured both cards. However, trying to install ATI's drivers under both Ubuntu and SUSE failed - the install program craps out.
When it comes to video cards, from now on ATI means "All Time Ignore". I didn't have these problems with the old GeForce 2 with TV-out that worked perfectly.
I remembr one time being asked for my opinion of the opening pages from one manuscript.
I knew I was doomed - it was all in italics - on purple paper.
Me: Do you want me to be honest, or nice?
Her: Honest, of course.
Me: Its pretentious, self-conscious, amateur garbage.
Her: (Hmph!) You never heard of "If you can't say anything good, don't say anything?"
Me: Those are its good points.
The real rule is 2 different fonts, and sometimes 3 for certain specialized cases. Anyone using 6 different fonts is doing "ransom notes", not "documents." Pick 1 proportional font, 1 monospaced font, and stick with them.
Ditto for anyone who overuses font-variants. Stylizing every second word (italic, or underlined, or bold, or whatever combo) just doesn't work.
I figure anyone who actually tries it deserves one of these
Kind of like the oakie who went to the doctor for a vasectomy:
The article pointed out thes are non-rechargeable lithium batteries - the disposable type you put in cameras, etc. They're fully charged when manufactured, so there's no way to ship them in even a partially-discharged state. When a new one goes, either from design defect, poor quality control, or mishandling, it REALLY goes.
Also, you CAN completely discharge a rechargeable lithium battery and then recharge it. (How do I know it was completely discharged? Stupid me put it in my pocket with change and keys - so you KNOW that it got shorted out at some point - but it was totally dead, so no harm done). The recharging circuitry isn't supposed to let you recharge a completely dead battery (the battery will get REALLY warm, for example), but I've done it. That particular cell phone battery is now 5 years old, been through well over its rated maximum charge/discharge cycles - 500, and still keeps a 50% or greater charge (though for a while it would keep hardly any charge at all).
They're talking about non-rechargeable batteries - and some of them WILL fail before they reach the store. Internal shorts (say from vibration) aren't as likely, and won't cause as much localized heat buildup sitting in an open-air display as the would densely packed in a container on an airplane.
The problem is that already-charged lithium batteries contain a lot of energy, and if they short out, they will heat up fast.
A new, uncharged rechargeable battery, on the other hand, is basically a dead battery. Short it out and nothing happens.
Here's something you can try at home if you're a total skeptic: charge up your cell-phone battery, remove it from your phone and drop it in your pocket along with some change or a set of keys, and go for a walk. You'll KNOW when the battery shorts ut.
"You have chosen to download EVE_3913_a.exe"
no thanks.
If you go to the site it says you can access it from Firefox. If the names are comments, you won't be able to access it from code, because like you said, they won't be compiled. So they have to be part of the code.
ummm - news flash - firefox is a web browser/b>. All they have to do is include a link on the toolbar to a web site, some AJAX, and there is your "interactive access from firefox".
This is true, but they also supply office space, etc. Why do you think they established a gambling commission?
I've driven by the reserve often enough (I get most of my computer parts there - http://frostys.qc.ca/ ) Hard disks, for example, are cheaper than at future shop, and come with a 3 to 5-year warranty OEM, instead of the 1-year retail warranty, the guys are friendly, etc.