You should have said reduction in *unprotected* anal sex. It's been widely shown that condoms are just as effective at preventing transmission of HIV in this scenario as in any other, including heterosexual vaginal-penile intercourse. However you just say "anal sex" in general and point out that 2/3 of AIDS cases are "homosexual". (answer is closer to 1/2, CDC is currently funded by bush and friends)
Also incorrect. You mean gay MEN. Lesbian women have the lowest instance of HIV/AIDS of any group. It's also worth pointing out that Black Americans have levels of HIV/AIDS in their communities that rival those of some African nations. It's not a "homosexual" disease. Its a disease that afflicts those who are shunned, poverty stricken, rejected from their families, and generally kicked around in everyday life.
Something in your post seems to indicate you have some level of homophobia. Get over it. Find a gay friend and learn from him. Figure out that he's not some raging demon hell-bent on spreading disease and destroying marriage.
Two issues i have with using this as a basis for your entire opinion:
1. it only looks since 1979. 2. it looks at troposphere tempratures (as opposed to sea/land surface tempratures)
Most data i've seen uses sea surface tempratures as the indicator of temprature anomolies. What would an anomoly in the troposphere indicate?
Most data i've seen draws from 150 years ago up until now so patterns can be easily seen. What value is there in only using the last 30 years of data? And is the any indication that global warming, should it be real, would manifest itself immediately as an anomoly in the troposphere?
To understand whether this is real or not you have to consider ALL data. Not just a small subset that supports your point of view.
Clearly apple had a reason to pull it. It made good business sense. It's not "them being assholes and balking at the free market." It's just good business. Maybe people displaying "i am rich" was not the signal they wanted their customers to send to other people. As far as their marketing is concerned: It's not about being rich. It's about being trendy and stylish. Those aren't necessarily the same thing. If customers get the idea that "apple is only for rich people", then their sales could drop off. To me it's fairly obvious why they would want to pull it. And btw, the apple store is not a "free market" and free market properties do not apply since apple makes the rules.
That article is interesting. I wonder if you could use a similar concept to battle viruses like HIV. Take HIV out of your body since it is good at evading the immune system, edit the payload with anti-HIV genes, and pump back in. The new viruses go infect target cells, but instead of inserting HIV genes, they insert genes to interfere with HIV. That concept is working by extracting cells outside the body and using HIV to deliver an anti-hiv gene.
Sorry, that argument is logically false also. (dont you understand statistics?) We saw a *spike* in 1998 and nothing has been "cooling" since. If you take 1998 out of the data and treat it as an outlier, then in fact it has been warmer every year from 1993 to today. Not quite as warm as 1998, but getting there. So why dont you take a look at the raw data and let me know if you still think everything's just peachy, yes?
I'm well aware there was a medevil warm period and a "little ice age". Both of those things lasted a few hundred years, and none of them were as extreme (cooling or heating) as what we've seenin the last 50. Sorry, nothing about this speaks "natural cycles" to me. Since a quick look at the data suggests otherwise, i think you're motives for believing what you want are not grounded in science, which is too bad.
I laugh when people do this. You're comparing geological cycles over thousands of years to problems we've been seeing in the last 50-60 years. Sorry guy, but the earth naturally does not change in only 50-60 years. The timescale of the planet is much longer. Climate changes in hundreds or thousands of years. Life has time to adapt during these changes. The planet moves on.
If we're seeing measurable problems in only 50 years, there is nothing natural about it.
Star wars: "So this is how liberty dies... with thunderous applause." - Padme
Civilization alpha centauri: "Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master. " - Commissioner Pravin Lal
That's interesting because just a couple years ago i was flamed and called an "idiot", right here on slashdot, for being a libertarian. Funny how things come full circle.
I always thought a creative solution to the problem would be a system that allows drivers to "tattle" on other drivers (somehow integrated into the car). Then people would be a lot more weary of being stupid in public. If enough drivers report some asshole distracted on his cell phone, he gets a ticket. He can fight it, but its hard to say "i did nothing wrong" when 100 other drivers reported you as being an idiot.
Do you think that's sustainable? If you can do it, there must be millions in line right after you. In a few years you might be training your replacement, at half-price.
And PS i work for in the US for an american company and we get 5 weeks a year as well. It's not that special.
slashdot needs a 'turn off funny' option because sometimes i want to read serious commentary about a topic it seems 50% of all posts seem to be smartass remarks. nothing personal.
I think all of this is a good example of teachers being techno-phobic and sticking to old traditional methods, something they know best.
I like the aforementioned example: "Forums are not authoratitive sources." Really? What if the post was made by the leading expert in the relative field? And what if you went to that expert's website and read more postings and gathered more information? There's nothing more authoratitive than hearing it directly from the source. In this case it's not the content that's the problem, its the fact that it was posted in a forum. MODE OF DELIVERY is what we're talking about here. And teachers seem to have an issue because the words were not printed in a book.
Physical books and journals are an outdated concept, teachers need to get over themselves.
God supposedly wrote the bible for people to understand, in our reference, not his. Writing the bible to his/her reference would be very iodic and i assume he/it is smarter than this. Anywho, if god meant "billion years" he should have just said it. Or at least "a ridicuously long amoung of time". Why would god try to decieve us? "day" does not mean "billion years". This sounds more like people trying to play with the meaning of words in order to hold on to their beliefs.
There there now, it's not so bad. They are sealing their fate.
Let them draw their battlegrounds at evolution. Let them come up with "intelligent design". Let them build their "World museum of the creator" that shows dinosaurs living with people. These things are absolutely silly. Most reasonable people will see right through it once confronted with the real facts.
They are tying the legitimacy of their faith to pseudoscience. This can and will backfire on them.
Weak. All you did was take out non-points in my arguement and didnt actually address any of the points im making, because, perhaps, you're wrong.
You dont quite get the difference i'm making between "privledge" and right. Rights are inherent so long as you don't break the law. "Privledges" (in theory) are inherent so long as you...dont break the law. Hum....Except we don't call them rights anymore. For what purpose? So people like you will give them up more easily.
Oh, is it a "privledge" now? That's funny how you so whole-heartedly believe what the government tells you. So if the govt wanted to take away that "privledge" at any time, for any reason, could they? After all, its not a right. What if they didn't like your name and put you on a "no-road" list, and took away your "privledge". What would you be saying then? "Well, it's a privledge and not a right. So i guess i have to live with it."
Privledge my butt. Driving is a RIGHT, SO LONG as you meet certain minimum legal/safety requirements and do not break the law. Just like freedom is a RIGHT, so long as you do not break the law and get thrown in jail. This is not a privledge.
Do you actually think about this kind of nonsense?
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Yes, that's what i read, and that's not a very good pointer. You should learn to use non-insulting pointers.
You said "anal sex" rather than "unprotected" anal sex. Wheras you didn't mention "unprotected" in the hetero-sex part.
Its like saying "blacks" and then following up with "european americans".
If you still dont understand why what you said would be insulting, that's sad.
So, if problems grow exponentially, and computers grow exponentially, then overall "progress" against those problems is linear. Right?
First you need to better educate yourself.
You should have said reduction in *unprotected* anal sex. It's been widely shown that condoms are just as effective at preventing transmission of HIV in this scenario as in any other, including heterosexual vaginal-penile intercourse. However you just say "anal sex" in general and point out that 2/3 of AIDS cases are "homosexual". (answer is closer to 1/2, CDC is currently funded by bush and friends)
Also incorrect. You mean gay MEN. Lesbian women have the lowest instance of HIV/AIDS of any group. It's also worth pointing out that Black Americans have levels of HIV/AIDS in their communities that rival those of some African nations. It's not a "homosexual" disease. Its a disease that afflicts those who are shunned, poverty stricken, rejected from their families, and generally kicked around in everyday life.
Something in your post seems to indicate you have some level of homophobia. Get over it. Find a gay friend and learn from him. Figure out that he's not some raging demon hell-bent on spreading disease and destroying marriage.
Two issues i have with using this as a basis for your entire opinion:
1. it only looks since 1979.
2. it looks at troposphere tempratures (as opposed to sea/land surface tempratures)
Most data i've seen uses sea surface tempratures as the indicator of temprature anomolies. What would an anomoly in the troposphere indicate?
Most data i've seen draws from 150 years ago up until now so patterns can be easily seen. What value is there in only using the last 30 years of data? And is the any indication that global warming, should it be real, would manifest itself immediately as an anomoly in the troposphere?
To understand whether this is real or not you have to consider ALL data. Not just a small subset that supports your point of view.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming
Clearly apple had a reason to pull it. It made good business sense. It's not "them being assholes and balking at the free market." It's just good business. Maybe people displaying "i am rich" was not the signal they wanted their customers to send to other people. As far as their marketing is concerned: It's not about being rich. It's about being trendy and stylish. Those aren't necessarily the same thing. If customers get the idea that "apple is only for rich people", then their sales could drop off. To me it's fairly obvious why they would want to pull it. And btw, the apple store is not a "free market" and free market properties do not apply since apple makes the rules.
That article is interesting. I wonder if you could use a similar concept to battle viruses like HIV. Take HIV out of your body since it is good at evading the immune system, edit the payload with anti-HIV genes, and pump back in. The new viruses go infect target cells, but instead of inserting HIV genes, they insert genes to interfere with HIV. That concept is working by extracting cells outside the body and using HIV to deliver an anti-hiv gene.
reference here: http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20080207_Study_says_genetic_trick_slows_AIDS_virus_growth.html
But im wondering if inserting such a virus directly would achieve the same thing.
Sorry, that argument is logically false also. (dont you understand statistics?) We saw a *spike* in 1998 and nothing has been "cooling" since. If you take 1998 out of the data and treat it as an outlier, then in fact it has been warmer every year from 1993 to today. Not quite as warm as 1998, but getting there. So why dont you take a look at the raw data and let me know if you still think everything's just peachy, yes?
And here it is, you can even see the 1998 spike.
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/corporate/pressoffice/myths/myth6_1.gif
I'm well aware there was a medevil warm period and a "little ice age". Both of those things lasted a few hundred years, and none of them were as extreme (cooling or heating) as what we've seenin the last 50. Sorry, nothing about this speaks "natural cycles" to me. Since a quick look at the data suggests otherwise, i think you're motives for believing what you want are not grounded in science, which is too bad.
I laugh when people do this. You're comparing geological cycles over thousands of years to problems we've been seeing in the last 50-60 years. Sorry guy, but the earth naturally does not change in only 50-60 years. The timescale of the planet is much longer. Climate changes in hundreds or thousands of years. Life has time to adapt during these changes. The planet moves on.
If we're seeing measurable problems in only 50 years, there is nothing natural about it.
relevant, and erie:
Star wars:
"So this is how liberty dies... with thunderous applause."
- Padme
Civilization alpha centauri:
"Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master. "
- Commissioner Pravin Lal
And if homosexuals could marry, there would be no need to outlaw fetuses.
That's interesting because just a couple years ago i was flamed and called an "idiot", right here on slashdot, for being a libertarian. Funny how things come full circle.
...Or they stand out in some horrid way from regular society that they were forced to start thinking about everything everyone else takes for granted.
Like, for example, they're gay.
I always thought a creative solution to the problem would be a system that allows drivers to "tattle" on other drivers (somehow integrated into the car). Then people would be a lot more weary of being stupid in public. If enough drivers report some asshole distracted on his cell phone, he gets a ticket. He can fight it, but its hard to say "i did nothing wrong" when 100 other drivers reported you as being an idiot.
Do you think that's sustainable? If you can do it, there must be millions in line right after you. In a few years you might be training your replacement, at half-price.
And PS i work for in the US for an american company and we get 5 weeks a year as well. It's not that special.
You wanna know why they don't fund research? I'll tell you why.
....anyone?
Raise your hand if you've written to congress lately and demanded more funding for scientific research.
How many clicks to profit?
e.g.
1. Kevin bacon
2. ?
3. profit!
slashdot needs a 'turn off funny' option because sometimes i want to read serious commentary about a topic it seems 50% of all posts seem to be smartass remarks. nothing personal.
I think all of this is a good example of teachers being techno-phobic and sticking to old traditional methods, something they know best.
I like the aforementioned example: "Forums are not authoratitive sources." Really? What if the post was made by the leading expert in the relative field? And what if you went to that expert's website and read more postings and gathered more information? There's nothing more authoratitive than hearing it directly from the source. In this case it's not the content that's the problem, its the fact that it was posted in a forum. MODE OF DELIVERY is what we're talking about here. And teachers seem to have an issue because the words were not printed in a book.
Physical books and journals are an outdated concept, teachers need to get over themselves.
Anyone know what these (initial) names represent?
XTE J1650-500?
GRO 1655-40?
God supposedly wrote the bible for people to understand, in our reference, not his. Writing the bible to his/her reference would be very iodic and i assume he/it is smarter than this. Anywho, if god meant "billion years" he should have just said it. Or at least "a ridicuously long amoung of time". Why would god try to decieve us? "day" does not mean "billion years". This sounds more like people trying to play with the meaning of words in order to hold on to their beliefs.
There there now, it's not so bad. They are sealing their fate.
Let them draw their battlegrounds at evolution. Let them come up with "intelligent design". Let them build their "World museum of the creator" that shows dinosaurs living with people. These things are absolutely silly. Most reasonable people will see right through it once confronted with the real facts.
They are tying the legitimacy of their faith to pseudoscience. This can and will backfire on them.
If you're very, very sure about that, are you out there making tons of cash by betting against the dollar? Just wondering.
Weak. All you did was take out non-points in my arguement and didnt actually address any of the points im making, because, perhaps, you're wrong.
You dont quite get the difference i'm making between "privledge" and right. Rights are inherent so long as you don't break the law. "Privledges" (in theory) are inherent so long as you...dont break the law. Hum....Except we don't call them rights anymore. For what purpose? So people like you will give them up more easily.
Oh, is it a "privledge" now? That's funny how you so whole-heartedly believe what the government tells you. So if the govt wanted to take away that "privledge" at any time, for any reason, could they? After all, its not a right. What if they didn't like your name and put you on a "no-road" list, and took away your "privledge". What would you be saying then? "Well, it's a privledge and not a right. So i guess i have to live with it."
Privledge my butt. Driving is a RIGHT, SO LONG as you meet certain minimum legal/safety requirements and do not break the law. Just like freedom is a RIGHT, so long as you do not break the law and get thrown in jail. This is not a privledge.
Do you actually think about this kind of nonsense?
No, you're wrong. Innovation is built right into the sop! Cryptography SOP, section 6 subsection 25, paragraph 3, lists the following step:
6.25
Programmer - innovate.