-not my original work- The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German (which was the other possibility). As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty's Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a five-year phase-in plan that would become known as "Euro-English."
In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make sivil servants jump with joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome "ph" will be> replaced with "f." This will make words like fotograf 20 per cent shorter.
In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, alwil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away.
By the fourth yer peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" "z" and "w" with "v".
During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no> mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
Well, they obviously chose the wrong profession. Had they been Wall Street hedge fund bankers, they would have got an invite to the next country estate deer hunt.
This system uses the principal of echo cancellation to work. Typical transmit levels are +20dbm and receive levels are -80dBm. That's 100dB of echo cancellation. That's damn hard to achieve. The issue they will have is real world echo cancellation where you reflections change from moving nearby objects. Eg a metal bladed ceiling fan in a room that causes a significant reflection of the transmitted signal to modulate at dozens of Hz meaning you will have to recharacterise your echo cancellation every few milliseconds.
Can't do that in Australia as we have Fringe Benefits Tax. Anything, including business lunches or business cars parked at your private home are considered personal income and if paid by the business are taxed at very high rates.
Gosh, try Australia, where we have : fixed speed cameras, mobile speed cameras, hand held radar, point to point average speed cameras. There's not much speeding going on in Oz, because ultimately the demerit point system is of more consequence than the monetary value of the fine.
Reminds me of the Myth-busters episode where Tory, Jamie, Kari wouldn't hurl on the spinning motion sickness chair; but Adam and Grant would. It seemed ginger & motion sickness tablets worked really well for those of us susceptible to motion sickness. Maybe some people will just need to resort to medication.
What. No treetab control. This is the first thing I install on Firefox. I have 50+ tabs open at any one time, and don't get how anyone can do that with horizontal tabs.
calorific intake is too simplistic. Gut bacteria greatly effects HOW the food we eat is metabolised. Some of the energy is consumed by bacteria, and some shoots out the backside. There was a recent case of a normal weight woman getting a fecal transplant from an obese donor, and now this woman has become obese but not changed her diet and lifestyle.
I've always wanted to be able to print super detailed gigapixel maps, but not found any up to date tools to do the stitching. It's a pity pro still limits the resolution so much.
How can an unvaccinated kid infect and kill your child if your child was vaccinated?
No vaccine is 100% effective. So "herd immunity" still marginally benefits the vaccinated.
How can an unvaccinated kid infect and kill your child if your child was vaccinated?
No vaccine is 100% effective. So "herd immunity" still marginally benefits the vaccinated.
So show me a study on how effective the vaccine is? There are lots of other reasons for disease rates plummeting which are more to do with isolation practices and good hygenie.
Where is the evidence for a working measles vaccine? There is no blinded RCT. It sure sounds like the observational evidence is confounded.
“A likely reason for this is that the case may have been misdiagnosed as a non-specific viral illness. Measles has become relatively uncommon in Singapore with two decades of widespread measles vaccination, and especially after the second dose policy was implemented in 1998. Many primary care doctors may not even see a single case of measles in a year. This makes diagnosis more difficult.”
“This was not a blind study, since the investigators knew which children had received measles vaccine. It seems probable that the occurrence of so much ‘measles-like’ illness in the vaccinated children was a reflexion of the difficulty in making a firm diagnosis of measles in the African child at one visit.”
“As only approximately 7% of the clinically-diagnosed cases of measles reported locally turned out to be measles by laboratory testing, there is a need for laboratory confirmation of measles to avoid misidentification of cases and improve disease surveillance.(2)”
“Before the introduction of measles vaccines, measles virus infected 95%–98% of children by age 18 years [1–4], and measles was considered an inevitable rite of passage. Exposure was often actively sought for children in early school years because of the greater severity of measles in adults.”
"“It is evident from Table IV that many children in all three groups were unwell and that the proportion was greatest in the live-vaccine group (61 %), less in the killed/live-vaccine group (54%), and least in the unvaccinated group (38%)...
Table VI shows the cases of measles reported by the parents and those seen and diagnosed by the doctor. Of the total cases reported the doctor saw about 60%, and, of these, confirmed the parents' diagnosis in 93 % in the control group, 64% in the killed/live-vaccine group, and 70% in the live vaccine group."
"Measles
Evidence from cohort studies
Effectiveness against measles was investigated in three cohort studies (Marin 2006; Marolla 1998; Ong 2007)...
There was a lack of adequate description of exposure (vaccine content and schedules) in all cohort studies. Another recurring problem was the failure of any study to provide descriptions of all outc
I know plenty of kids who have been vaccinated against measles yet still caught it. Something fishy is going on. One should always have a healthy skepticism when it involves complex biological systems. Here is a book by an ex board certified nephrologist who saw issues with vaccines in her clinical practice and wrote a convincing book about the subject.
I read 'Darwins Black Box' by Behe many years ago, and thought he made good rational arguments about irreducible complexity.
When a genetic mutation occurs, there will be a continuum of effect, from new feature to no effect to death. Natural selection will only have a certain forcing effect that is weighted to the 'death' end of the scale.
The problem I have with evolution, is the vast majority of any random mutation will be non beneficial and that this process will happen faster than natural selection can remove these defects from the population.
Isn't this a problem for Evolution proponents. Evolution requires that beneficial DNA mutations win out over non-beneficial.
Lets say DNA is like a self replicating VM. The VM has built in error correction but occasionally a copy error occurs. The premise of evolution, is this copy error is occasionally beneficial and the non beneficial errors eventually die out, but the spectrum of copy errors can cause vastly different outcomes. Sometimes a copy error may change an eye color, or cause a miscarriage. The question is, does the rate of beneficial mutations outweigh the rate of non-beneficial so the NEW functionality is created and functional entropy is halted? My pragmatic side says, If I changed random bytes in a VM, I wouldn't eventually get a facial recognition system, I'd get slowly decaying VM.
Visual Basic is not suitable for anything, except perhaps as a form of torture.
I've never understood the hate for VB. I program mostly in C and C#, but back in mid 90's I needed to write a large program that drove a real time thermometric titration system. VB6 was a fantastic GUI RAD that was able to everything I needed, including the creation of custom windows that were dynamically generated from SQL tables, to hooking into of DLL libraries that did BSpline array manipulation. I would have gone nuts writing that in C back in the day. The verbose syntax of VB makes it easier for a broader range of abilities to be introduced to programming without all the symbology of C like languages getting in the way.
I used the side tab in chrome before it was dropped. As soon as it was dropped I deleted chrome from my system. Every PC I setup for anyone has Firefox with side tabs. I can have over 50 tabs open and it's the only sensible way to navigate on a 16:9 screen. There is a forum that discusses this, and the engineer who dropped it says very few used it. Well duh: you had to execute obscure commands to even enable it. Side tabs should be the default mode for any browser.
I want to know why he would program all day on 17" monitors? We don't even let secretaries use 17" monitors. Go get 27" 1920x1080. I'm currently using a 4k 27" at native resolutions and I'm in my mid 40's.
What currency do you have to pay your taxes in? This is what gives 'power' to a currency. There is also a very interesting web site I've been reading philosophyofmetrics.com , that details how the worlds central banks are trying to replace the usd with sdr's.
I can't hear myself think for all the/. Groupthink. All my kids a fully vaccinated, but I smell something fishy about the industry. http://www.amazon.com/Dissolvi...
The book of Revelation has the ultimate answer for "It's bulky. It can be forgotten, or lost" and "My wallet is on a chain"
It forced all people, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to have a mark on the right hand or forehead. Without the mark of the name of the Beast or the number of its name, it was impossible to buy or sell anything. Solve a riddle: Put your heads together and figure out the meaning of the number of the Beast. It's a human number: six hundred sixty-six. (Revelation 13:15-18 MSG)
Slashdot Mirror
-not my original work-
The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German (which was the other possibility). As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty's Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a five-year phase-in plan that would become known as "Euro-English."
In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make sivil servants jump with joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome "ph" will be> replaced with "f." This will make words like fotograf 20 per cent shorter.
In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, alwil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away.
By the fourth yer peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" "z" and "w" with "v".
During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no> mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
Well, they obviously chose the wrong profession. Had they been Wall Street hedge fund bankers, they would have got an invite to the next country estate deer hunt.
I was told by an Amercian, that you tend not to use knives; ie that many of you only use a fork at the dinner table? Is that true?
Would you please stop freaking using imperial units. The rest of the world has moved on, and /. Should of all places be setting an example.
This system uses the principal of echo cancellation to work.
Typical transmit levels are +20dbm and receive levels are -80dBm. That's 100dB of echo cancellation. That's damn hard to achieve. The issue they will have is real world echo cancellation where you reflections change from moving nearby objects. Eg a metal bladed ceiling fan in a room that causes a significant reflection of the transmitted signal to modulate at dozens of Hz meaning you will have to recharacterise your echo cancellation every few milliseconds.
Can't do that in Australia as we have Fringe Benefits Tax. Anything, including business lunches or business cars parked at your private home are considered personal income and if paid by the business are taxed at very high rates.
Gosh, try Australia, where we have : fixed speed cameras, mobile speed cameras, hand held radar, point to point average speed cameras. There's not much speeding going on in Oz, because ultimately the demerit point system is of more consequence than the monetary value of the fine.
Reminds me of the Myth-busters episode where Tory, Jamie, Kari wouldn't hurl on the spinning motion sickness chair; but Adam and Grant would. It seemed ginger & motion sickness tablets worked really well for those of us susceptible to motion sickness. Maybe some people will just need to resort to medication.
What. No treetab control.
This is the first thing I install on Firefox. I have 50+ tabs open at any one time, and don't get how anyone can do that with horizontal tabs.
calorific intake is too simplistic. Gut bacteria greatly effects HOW the food we eat is metabolised. Some of the energy is consumed by bacteria, and some shoots out the backside. There was a recent case of a normal weight woman getting a fecal transplant from an obese donor, and now this woman has become obese but not changed her diet and lifestyle.
My wife reads about this stuff all the time, and the evidence is starting to point to the food pyramid being upside down!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt40...
http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst...
I've always wanted to be able to print super detailed gigapixel maps, but not found any up to date tools to do the stitching. It's a pity pro still limits the resolution so much.
How can an unvaccinated kid infect and kill your child if your child was vaccinated?
No vaccine is 100% effective. So "herd immunity" still marginally benefits the vaccinated.
How can an unvaccinated kid infect and kill your child if your child was vaccinated?
No vaccine is 100% effective. So "herd immunity" still marginally benefits the vaccinated.
So show me a study on how effective the vaccine is? There are lots of other reasons for disease rates plummeting which are more to do with isolation practices and good hygenie.
http://www.amazon.com/Dissolvi...
This is a lift from an AC post
Where is the evidence for a working measles vaccine? There is no blinded RCT. It sure sounds like the observational evidence is confounded.
“A likely reason for this is that the case may have been misdiagnosed as a non-specific viral illness. Measles has become relatively uncommon in Singapore with two decades of widespread measles vaccination, and especially after the second dose policy was implemented in 1998. Many primary care doctors may not even see a single case of measles in a year. This makes diagnosis more difficult.”
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pu...
“This was not a blind study, since the investigators knew which children had received measles vaccine. It seems probable that the occurrence of so much ‘measles-like’ illness in the vaccinated children was a reflexion of the difficulty in making a firm diagnosis of measles in the African child at one visit.”
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pm...
“As only approximately 7% of the clinically-diagnosed cases of measles reported locally turned out to be measles by laboratory testing, there is a need for laboratory confirmation of measles to avoid misidentification of cases and improve disease surveillance.(2)”
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pu...
“Before the introduction of measles vaccines, measles virus infected 95%–98% of children by age 18 years [1–4], and measles was considered an inevitable rite of passage. Exposure was often actively sought for children in early school years because of the greater severity of measles in adults.”
http://jid.oxfordjournals.org/...
"“It is evident from Table IV that many children in all three groups were unwell and that the proportion was greatest in the live-vaccine group (61 %), less in the killed/live-vaccine group (54%), and least in the unvaccinated group (38%)...
Table VI shows the cases of measles reported by the parents and those seen and diagnosed by the doctor. Of the total cases reported the doctor saw about 60%, and, of these, confirmed the parents' diagnosis in 93 % in the control group, 64% in the killed/live-vaccine group, and 70% in the live vaccine group."
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pm...
"Measles
Evidence from cohort studies
Effectiveness against measles was investigated in three cohort studies (Marin 2006; Marolla 1998; Ong 2007)...
There was a lack of adequate description of exposure (vaccine content and schedules) in all cohort studies. Another recurring problem was the failure of any study to provide descriptions of all outc
I know plenty of kids who have been vaccinated against measles yet still caught it. Something fishy is going on.
One should always have a healthy skepticism when it involves complex biological systems.
Here is a book by an ex board certified nephrologist who saw issues with vaccines in her clinical practice and wrote a convincing book about the subject.
http://www.amazon.com/Dissolvi...
Kind of fits. Alibaba needs 40 thieves.
Those are interesting points.
I read 'Darwins Black Box' by Behe many years ago, and thought he made good rational arguments about irreducible complexity.
When a genetic mutation occurs, there will be a continuum of effect, from new feature to no effect to death.
Natural selection will only have a certain forcing effect that is weighted to the 'death' end of the scale.
The problem I have with evolution, is the vast majority of any random mutation will be non beneficial and that this process will happen faster than natural selection can remove these defects from the population.
Isn't this a problem for Evolution proponents.
Evolution requires that beneficial DNA mutations win out over non-beneficial.
Lets say DNA is like a self replicating VM. The VM has built in error correction but occasionally a copy error occurs. The premise of evolution, is this copy error is occasionally beneficial and the non beneficial errors eventually die out, but the spectrum of copy errors can cause vastly different outcomes. Sometimes a copy error may change an eye color, or cause a miscarriage.
The question is, does the rate of beneficial mutations outweigh the rate of non-beneficial so the NEW functionality is created and functional entropy is halted?
My pragmatic side says, If I changed random bytes in a VM, I wouldn't eventually get a facial recognition system, I'd get slowly decaying VM.
Visual Basic is not suitable for anything, except perhaps as a form of torture.
I've never understood the hate for VB. I program mostly in C and C#, but back in mid 90's I needed to write a large program that drove a real time thermometric titration system. VB6 was a fantastic GUI RAD that was able to everything I needed, including the creation of custom windows that were dynamically generated from SQL tables, to hooking into of DLL libraries that did BSpline array manipulation. I would have gone nuts writing that in C back in the day.
The verbose syntax of VB makes it easier for a broader range of abilities to be introduced to programming without all the symbology of C like languages getting in the way.
I used the side tab in chrome before it was dropped. As soon as it was dropped I deleted chrome from my system. Every PC I setup for anyone has Firefox with side tabs. I can have over 50 tabs open and it's the only sensible way to navigate on a 16:9 screen. There is a forum that discusses this, and the engineer who dropped it says very few used it. Well duh: you had to execute obscure commands to even enable it. Side tabs should be the default mode for any browser.
I've also been hearing about success in treating tinnitus by stimulation of the Vegas nerve.
I want to know why he would program all day on 17" monitors? We don't even let secretaries use 17" monitors. Go get 27" 1920x1080. I'm currently using a 4k 27" at native resolutions and I'm in my mid 40's.
What currency do you have to pay your taxes in? This is what gives 'power' to a currency. There is also a very interesting web site I've been reading philosophyofmetrics.com , that details how the worlds central banks are trying to replace the usd with sdr's.
I can't hear myself think for all the /. Groupthink.
All my kids a fully vaccinated, but I smell something fishy about the industry.
http://www.amazon.com/Dissolvi...
So if I said:
I stopped watching 60 minutes 10 years ago, because went from serious journalism to trashy current affairs program.
Then that would be ad-hominem .?
The book of Revelation has the ultimate answer for "It's bulky. It can be forgotten, or lost" and "My wallet is on a chain"
It forced all people, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to have a mark on the right hand or forehead.
Without the mark of the name of the Beast or the number of its name, it was impossible to buy or sell anything.
Solve a riddle: Put your heads together and figure out the meaning of the number of the Beast. It's a human number: six hundred sixty-six. (Revelation 13:15-18 MSG)