I don't think you understand what positive and negative mean. You are testing for cancer. If the color remains pink, the test is positive for cancer. If the color turns blue, the test is negative for cancer. You are assigning emotional values to a test result, because for you cancer is "negative" so it would be a "negative" result. Fortunately science doesn't work that way.
As for false positives: you REQUIRE cancer for the color to remain the same. Why would there be false positives? If there is cancer, the color remains the same. A false positive would be a test where a color change happened on the presence of disease, only it also happens sometimes when you shake the test tube. So look, the color changed, it must be positive! No, Sally just shook the tube again, it's a false positive. Get it?
Biopsy will always be the definitive test. You can see the cancer cells right there in front of you in the microscope. You can determine exactly which type and which stage, as well as appropriate treatments. However a cheap and effective screening test is more than welcome before you start taking a knife/needle to everyone. That way you can divide people into a group that needs further study and a group that doesn't need to be studied for almost no cost. You don't waste time and resources studying false positives (by other means) and hopefully no false negative slips through the cracks and gets sent home.
And...plenty of Americans have been jailed in China.
For breaking Chinese law, in China. Not for "violating" unilateral sanctions by the US (which are not legal) and traveling to Canada. China has no sanctions against Iran nor is it bound by US dictates. Chinese citizens are not required to follow US law while outside the US. This is like Saudi Arabia grabbing your girlfriend you took with you on a trip to Egypt and stoning her to death for adultery.
You have a strange notion about how client/service provider relationships work. I'm paying the money. I get what I want or I take my money elsewhere. The tail does not wag the dog.
Provisions of the federal income tax that subsidize domestic production of fossil fuels include the expensing of exploration, development, and intangible drilling costs; the use of percentage depletion instead of cost depletion to recover drilling and development costs of oil and gas wells and coal mining properties; and numerous smaller incentives for production and distribution of oil, coal, and natural gas.
If it exists on the net, they should find it (except for criminally illegal content like child pr0n).
Playing the devil's advocate here - if they're truly neutral they should find that too. But they should call the authorities, whose job it is to shut those places down. Not try to pretend to be the authority and take it on themselves. That's how you start sliding down the slippery slope of non neutrality.
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I don't think you understand what positive and negative mean. You are testing for cancer. If the color remains pink, the test is positive for cancer. If the color turns blue, the test is negative for cancer. You are assigning emotional values to a test result, because for you cancer is "negative" so it would be a "negative" result. Fortunately science doesn't work that way.
As for false positives: you REQUIRE cancer for the color to remain the same. Why would there be false positives? If there is cancer, the color remains the same. A false positive would be a test where a color change happened on the presence of disease, only it also happens sometimes when you shake the test tube. So look, the color changed, it must be positive! No, Sally just shook the tube again, it's a false positive. Get it?
Biopsy will always be the definitive test. You can see the cancer cells right there in front of you in the microscope. You can determine exactly which type and which stage, as well as appropriate treatments. However a cheap and effective screening test is more than welcome before you start taking a knife/needle to everyone. That way you can divide people into a group that needs further study and a group that doesn't need to be studied for almost no cost. You don't waste time and resources studying false positives (by other means) and hopefully no false negative slips through the cracks and gets sent home.
And...plenty of Americans have been jailed in China.
For breaking Chinese law, in China. Not for "violating" unilateral sanctions by the US (which are not legal) and traveling to Canada. China has no sanctions against Iran nor is it bound by US dictates. Chinese citizens are not required to follow US law while outside the US. This is like Saudi Arabia grabbing your girlfriend you took with you on a trip to Egypt and stoning her to death for adultery.
And salt water is not very good for rocket engines you plan on using again.
When Windows gives you a blue screen instead of erasing your hard drive, it's working as designed.
When your plane engine catches fire but the wing which is full of fuel doesn't explode, it's working as designed.
Failure is another opportunity for learning.
What could possibly go wrong?
You find out it's a dragon tail not a tiger tail?
Because people are saying mean things to each other and companies are afraid of lawsuits.
My dog has a facebook account. I don't.
Like that time I came under sniper fire in Bosnia...
An ocean of false positives is not efficient - you're stuck with figuring out which one is the truth, so you're back to square one.
Increase them!
You have a strange notion about how client/service provider relationships work. I'm paying the money. I get what I want or I take my money elsewhere. The tail does not wag the dog.
Because greed.
users would be more accepting of ads that play when they choose to pause a show for a bit while they do something else.
And how much do they expect advertisers to pay for ads that people are guaranteed not be watching - because they're doing something else?
That implies they're not one-way hashed
_strrev() is an awesome password "hashing" function!
This is by design, not a bug.
We'll just code this in, no one will notice.
Isn't cause and effect amazing? You ban some cars and lo, there are fewer cars! It's like magic.
subsidize
See that word there? 8th word in the quote? I didn't put it there.
Yes you can... but then tolerance kicks in and beer just doesn't do it anymore, so you move on to something with more punch than 5% by volume...
Provisions of the federal income tax that subsidize domestic production of fossil fuels include the expensing of exploration, development, and intangible drilling costs; the use of percentage depletion instead of cost depletion to recover drilling and development costs of oil and gas wells and coal mining properties; and numerous smaller incentives for production and distribution of oil, coal, and natural gas.
Alcoholics tend to drink stuff a little stronger than beer.
Too big to.... give a fuck about you.
If it exists on the net, they should find it (except for criminally illegal content like child pr0n).
Playing the devil's advocate here - if they're truly neutral they should find that too. But they should call the authorities, whose job it is to shut those places down. Not try to pretend to be the authority and take it on themselves. That's how you start sliding down the slippery slope of non neutrality.