I guess I feel sorry for the grandparent poster more than anything else. The guy's got at least 9 spelling/grammatical errors in his post that I could count. He's clearly a bit challenged and his employer's really taking advantage of him.
Most people understand that CSI is TV and not real, and most people are what juries are made up of.
[citation needed] Lately, there have been a handful of articles written bemoaning the fact that juries do demand CSI style evidence in order to convict.
Felonies really belong in the company of rape, robbery, and murder. There's no way you can convince me that doing crime X for profit a felony - hell, a B&E is usually done for profit, as is fraud. Not too many crimes that aren't violent and also aren't done for profit.
Well, when almost all the activity is from 2 ips - hoe and work - except for the 30 failed logins at 3am from some ip owned by moldova, it shouldn't be too hard to interpret.
Well, we have some anomalous results in cell cultures, but we would need some sort of increase in bad things traceable to EMF before I'll care. Sure, it's worth looking at, but some people give it way more attention than it deserves.
But there could be another mechanism, even one we don't know about yet.
That's not how science works. First you determine that there is some sort of effect, then go looking for a mechanism. Go find an effect and we'll look for the reason why.
How do you exclude the possibility that EMF may cause a mutation by an unknown mechanism?
It's not ionizing, so that's pretty simple. Cells are fairly resilient - a small amount of heat isn't that big a deal.
If something "gets a little warmer", chemical reactions are affected.
Humans function quite well, even when they 'get a little warmer'
The scientific way of answering the question "does EM radiation effect biological systems" is to observe biological systems that have been exposed to various sorts of EM radiation and see if there are any effects. Saying "our models don't allow for such effects, therefore they cannot exist" is faith-based reasoning, not science.
Nobody's saying that. They're saying that the guys who think their cell phone causes cancer are whackjobs and that the only observable effect is 'get warmer', which ain't shit.If you're concerned about radiation and how it affects you, go do a study. Good luck controlling for the ambient noise and the big ball of fusion in the sky pumping out ionizing radiation. In the meantime, since you haven't made any claims that can really be tested, our models don't cover such effects, there is no proposed mechanism and not much energy in the first place, I won't lose sleep.
That's not a gun. That's a mutual agreement between two consenting private parties.
Yeah, in a Libertarian world. In a Libertarian world, me putting a gun to your head and not pulling the trigger for half your worldly goods is a mutual agreement between two consenting private parties.
That's why I'm not a Libertarian - I live in the real world, where that's called extortion.
Oh, and since this is post number 666 for me, it seems like a good time to start another character... err, account.
Is it really illegal to yell "Fire" in a crowded theatre, and if so, why?
Yes, it is. When you do this, the obvious result is that the people stampede the exits, possibly crushing each other on the way you - you are inciting a riot.
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Imagine the speed improvements any processor would have if it didn't require backward compability
First, the instruction set only affects the decode stage - this is a small part of the processor. Second, you won't see something like that for at least 5 years due to all the x86 stuff floating around.
I think your perspective shift got a bit skewed. Your little metal disks have value because of what they represent. movies and music have value because of what they are. If the US Government went away tomorrow, your metal disks would become worthless, but if Hollywood sank into the sea, I could still watch Wild Wild West.
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I guess I feel sorry for the grandparent poster more than anything else. The guy's got at least 9 spelling/grammatical errors in his post that I could count. He's clearly a bit challenged and his employer's really taking advantage of him.
Maybe he's just exhausted from working too much.
âsIf the driver decides they can beat the train, how many emergency workers will it take to pry the dead teenagers from the car?"
One guy with a shopvac?
Most people understand that CSI is TV and not real, and most people are what juries are made up of.
[citation needed] Lately, there have been a handful of articles written bemoaning the fact that juries do demand CSI style evidence in order to convict.
so what? It's still binding.
It's all Obama's fault!
Felonies really belong in the company of rape, robbery, and murder. There's no way you can convince me that doing crime X for profit a felony - hell, a B&E is usually done for profit, as is fraud. Not too many crimes that aren't violent and also aren't done for profit.
What is your girlfriend's name? Let's see the wife try to guess that one.
Her name is Alberta, she lives in Vancouver, she cooks like my mother and, um, other stuff.
Well, when almost all the activity is from 2 ips - hoe and work - except for the 30 failed logins at 3am from some ip owned by moldova, it shouldn't be too hard to interpret.
It does, but I thought it only applied to politicians.
Well, we have some anomalous results in cell cultures, but we would need some sort of increase in bad things traceable to EMF before I'll care. Sure, it's worth looking at, but some people give it way more attention than it deserves.
But there could be another mechanism, even one we don't know about yet.
That's not how science works. First you determine that there is some sort of effect, then go looking for a mechanism. Go find an effect and we'll look for the reason why.
How do you exclude the possibility that EMF may cause a mutation by an unknown mechanism?
It's not ionizing, so that's pretty simple. Cells are fairly resilient - a small amount of heat isn't that big a deal.
If something "gets a little warmer", chemical reactions are affected.
Humans function quite well, even when they 'get a little warmer'
The scientific way of answering the question "does EM radiation effect biological systems" is to observe biological systems that have been exposed to various sorts of EM radiation and see if there are any effects. Saying "our models don't allow for such effects, therefore they cannot exist" is faith-based reasoning, not science.
Nobody's saying that. They're saying that the guys who think their cell phone causes cancer are whackjobs and that the only observable effect is 'get warmer', which ain't shit.If you're concerned about radiation and how it affects you, go do a study. Good luck controlling for the ambient noise and the big ball of fusion in the sky pumping out ionizing radiation. In the meantime, since you haven't made any claims that can really be tested, our models don't cover such effects, there is no proposed mechanism and not much energy in the first place, I won't lose sleep.
That's not a gun. That's a mutual agreement between two consenting private parties.
Yeah, in a Libertarian world. In a Libertarian world, me putting a gun to your head and not pulling the trigger for half your worldly goods is a mutual agreement between two consenting private parties.
That's why I'm not a Libertarian - I live in the real world, where that's called extortion.
Oh, and since this is post number 666 for me, it seems like a good time to start another character... err, account.
Limited means not infinite. 200 years is still limited.
Adding 20 years to the term every 20 years sounds pretty infinite to me.
sports-illustrated.sex, anyone?
Aren't you leaving out the fact that you got your box cheaper than it costs to manufacture?
What's that got to do with anything? I didn't force them to do it, so it's just a good opportunity for me.
The first generation choose to go, but do they have the right to deprive their children of the choice not to go?
I'll sidestep this one and comment that nobody gets to choose where they're born.
Is it really illegal to yell "Fire" in a crowded theatre, and if so, why?
Yes, it is. When you do this, the obvious result is that the people stampede the exits, possibly crushing each other on the way you - you are inciting a riot.
Imagine the speed improvements any processor would have if it didn't require backward compability
First, the instruction set only affects the decode stage - this is a small part of the processor. Second, you won't see something like that for at least 5 years due to all the x86 stuff floating around.
is actually claiming that HTML uses escape sequences
Which is total bunk, just like the case itself. HTML doesn't have escapes (well, except &), it has syntax
What OS?
The ITS at MIT. (lameness filter cram cram stuff adding more words so taco won't get pissed at me and ruin his engagement high)
How was it interpreted?
It crashed the system. (crash crash boom click whirrrrr...)
Where did you type it?
On the command line, where else? (lameness filter cram stuff wodge spank spank WHUMP!) (byt the way, the lameness filter really bites.
I think your perspective shift got a bit skewed. Your little metal disks have value because of what they represent. movies and music have value because of what they are. If the US Government went away tomorrow, your metal disks would become worthless, but if Hollywood sank into the sea, I could still watch Wild Wild West.
Porn isn't illegal
Remember, we're talking about a guy who thinks he can legislate morality. It might not be legal for long.
I gather that the TCP/IP stack is BSD-deriv
You gather incorrectly. The ftp client and perhaps the telnet client are BSD derived. The stack is MS native.
if you buy the book, you will instantly set off a red flag in the FBI's new book purchase surveilance system
Congratulations, Mr. Gore, someone bought your book.