Yup, a nice large federal database of anyone who has ever had a mental health issue.
No. Only the people who have had to go to COURT over their mental health issues. That's not the same. But look on the bright side, you could probably work as a reporter - especially for Fox.
Depending on where you live, medical doctors do have quite a bit of power (ask the TB guy who was forcibly locked up) to force you into treatment.
In the third world maybe. In the US, Canada and the UK (which are the countries I have medical experience with) only a judge can do that. And usually the patient has to agree.
However your chances of surviving a hit with a blunt object, or a stab with a knife, are FAR greater than surviving a gunshot.
In countries with tight gun control, overall violence is pretty much the same. Mortality, however, is FAR lower.
Yes criminals will have the guns. Even if you take the guns away, they'll have knives, or SOME sort of weapon. After all, that's the whole point of being a criminal. However a mugger is not likely to shoot up a school or a McDonalds. The most he'll do is kill his victim.
If only professors were allowed to carry concealed weapons (pending background checks and the usual hoop jumping), Cho wouldn't have squeezed more than a couple shots off before he was taken down.
Give teachers weapons, and expect classrooms of students to be killed once in a while. Should we give weapons to the students too, to counter this?
and to get a gun you need to go through a months long process, by that time it would be obvious they're not mentally stable enough to own a gun.
Would it be obvious? Not all mass murderers masturbate in public and sit around going "budumbudumbudum" all day long. Most of them are pretty normal people, until the day they put a bullet in your skull.
While claiming that slashdot presents a double standard when it comes to information, don't forget that you also share this double standard. Or how about I install a webcam in your shower so that we can all watch you when you pee in there?
If you can't see the difference between personal privacy and, say, a video driver, there is something wrong with you.
Medical records are private for a reason. A case in point is the poor bastard with TB, and the HELL the press is putting him through - painting him as some sort of malicious person and blowing everything out of proportion. They fail to mention that of all the infectious diseases, TB is probably the hardest one to catch. You can't get it like you can get a cold, you usually need prolonged contact with the person (AND usually have to be immunodeficient yourself). But now Joan Q. Public is scared shitless, because if the bird flu doesn't get her, TB will. And now she has someone to hate - Mr. Andrew Speaker.
What happens when employers decide to hire people based on their medical history? Oh no, look, this one is always sick - or has condition "x" and will only be with us 3 years - better hire that other candidate.
What happens when insurance companies decide to insure only perfectly healthy people?
Privacy in personal matters works in favor of the little guy - it lets us hide our faults and imperfections from the world, and gives us a "second chance". And slashdot is all about the little guy.
It's not right because mass equals inertia - that is to say more energy is needed to compensate for orbital decay, but the orbit will also decay less.
You're thinking about decay.
I'm thinking about the energy required to correct the orbit.
Those are two separate things. One has nothing to do with mass (decay), but the other (correcting the orbit) certainly does. Remember that the quantity of fuel on board is limited. So if you have to do a longer burn every couple years to bump the station back up, it's going to shorten your total flight time - you'll run out of fuel faster.
That's what I was thinking. If you declare yourself censor, and hold the power to pick and choose - well with this power comes responsibility and accountability. Otherwise it's just arbitrary. All that kiddie porn may not be "protected" under copyright law, but if they let it through, well, looks like they are endorsing it, aren't they? How come they stop a Disney movie but not kiddie porn? If someone sends an email that forms part of an illegal act, they had better well catch it. Etc.
No, but they can probably X-ray them and call the authorities if they see something suspicious. You know the security companies at airports used to by private before 9/11 right? Nothing stopped them from x-raying your bags, and searching if they were suspicious.
I thought that even the police have to get a judge to authorize a warrant to search
Hahahahaha! Too much tv my friend. Yes in theory they need a warrant, but now they just make up some excuse to justify "probable cause", usually an unrelated offense. You don't want me to come in? You paranoid? You must be on cocaine. I have probable cause that you're dealing. After all, if you're not doing anything wrong then what are you afraid of. Here, let me kick your door in.
Hmmm ok, I'll grant you that (from what I remember from high school) the "g" part of a sattelite in orbit gets canceled out. However I think that the basic laws of motion - specifically F=ma still apply when it comes time to turn on the engine and give the station more velocity to bump it back up into a higher orbit. If m increases and the "a" that I need to increase the velocity is the same, I need more "F", which means a longer burn, which means more fuel.
I agree that mass has nothing to do with orbit decay, but is the above right? If not, why not?
Apparently they've become so efficient that the enormous distance to the Sun ceases to become a problem.
Or at least that's what the manufacturer says. And if you had a $40 M contract you'd say the same. We'll only really find out in 30 years when the guy in charge of the probe suddenly goes "where the hell did my probe go?" one Wednesday morning.
All your voltage are belong to us.
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Touché! That was cute, even for this tired old joke hehe. Well done sir.
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ahhh flashblock. The internet has not been the same since I got it.
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lol yeah, at least on earth you can get a good 12 hours out of solar panels. But what can you do with just 45 minutes?:-)
17.5 tons. I'm thinking about increased amount of propellant needed to keep the ISS in the correct orbit with this new "power source". Yes we can give you more power, but now we need to spend twice as much fuel to keep you in orbit, so your total flight time is decreased by 8 years...
That's the beauty of physics, everything is connected. And I'm not even a physicist.
There is nothing like media pitting two public figures against one another and, consequently, pitting supporters and detractors against each other, in order to generate some cheap polemic to exploit for some 15 minutes.
Yet another example of parasitic middlemen who seek to profit from someone else's work. Yeah the cost of distributing a 600k PDF file is really $25 per copy. Oh and before someone starts screaming about how the author deserves to make money - as far as I know, scientists do NOT earn money for their publications. They earn the ability to put their publication on their resumé, and that's it.
Peer review can easily be handled at the university level, by people who are on salary (after all, if ethics committees can exist, so can peer review). I pay thousands of dollars a year in professional magazine subscriptions, yet if I'd like to apply my mind to something outside my field for _fun_ or _curiosity_, apparently I have to pay the parasites even more.
After we kill all the lawyers, lets kill all the publishers, please.
Slashdot Mirror
Yup, a nice large federal database of anyone who has ever had a mental health issue.
No. Only the people who have had to go to COURT over their mental health issues. That's not the same. But look on the bright side, you could probably work as a reporter - especially for Fox.
Depending on where you live, medical doctors do have quite a bit of power (ask the TB guy who was forcibly locked up) to force you into treatment.
In the third world maybe. In the US, Canada and the UK (which are the countries I have medical experience with) only a judge can do that. And usually the patient has to agree.
Nah, the revolvers they use are the basic 6 or 5 round type. But they invented the magic instant autoloader.
It is a social problem.
Yes, people will always try to kill each other.
However your chances of surviving a hit with a blunt object, or a stab with a knife, are FAR greater than surviving a gunshot.
In countries with tight gun control, overall violence is pretty much the same. Mortality, however, is FAR lower.
Yes criminals will have the guns. Even if you take the guns away, they'll have knives, or SOME sort of weapon. After all, that's the whole point of being a criminal. However a mugger is not likely to shoot up a school or a McDonalds. The most he'll do is kill his victim.
If only professors were allowed to carry concealed weapons (pending background checks and the usual hoop jumping), Cho wouldn't have squeezed more than a couple shots off before he was taken down.
Give teachers weapons, and expect classrooms of students to be killed once in a while. Should we give weapons to the students too, to counter this?
Don't you SEE? IT'S THE GUNS, STUPID.
And I say that as a gun owner.
and to get a gun you need to go through a months long process, by that time it would be obvious they're not mentally stable enough to own a gun.
Would it be obvious? Not all mass murderers masturbate in public and sit around going "budumbudumbudum" all day long. Most of them are pretty normal people, until the day they put a bullet in your skull.
While claiming that slashdot presents a double standard when it comes to information, don't forget that you also share this double standard. Or how about I install a webcam in your shower so that we can all watch you when you pee in there?
If you can't see the difference between personal privacy and, say, a video driver, there is something wrong with you.
Medical records are private for a reason. A case in point is the poor bastard with TB, and the HELL the press is putting him through - painting him as some sort of malicious person and blowing everything out of proportion. They fail to mention that of all the infectious diseases, TB is probably the hardest one to catch. You can't get it like you can get a cold, you usually need prolonged contact with the person (AND usually have to be immunodeficient yourself). But now Joan Q. Public is scared shitless, because if the bird flu doesn't get her, TB will. And now she has someone to hate - Mr. Andrew Speaker.
What happens when employers decide to hire people based on their medical history? Oh no, look, this one is always sick - or has condition "x" and will only be with us 3 years - better hire that other candidate.
What happens when insurance companies decide to insure only perfectly healthy people?
Privacy in personal matters works in favor of the little guy - it lets us hide our faults and imperfections from the world, and gives us a "second chance". And slashdot is all about the little guy.
It's not right because mass equals inertia - that is to say more energy is needed to compensate for orbital decay, but the orbit will also decay less.
You're thinking about decay.
I'm thinking about the energy required to correct the orbit.
Those are two separate things. One has nothing to do with mass (decay), but the other (correcting the orbit) certainly does. Remember that the quantity of fuel on board is limited. So if you have to do a longer burn every couple years to bump the station back up, it's going to shorten your total flight time - you'll run out of fuel faster.
At the very least if we all start encrypting everything we send, the overall effect will help improve net security.
Bandwidth will take a huge hit though. Sheesh sending a video stream is bad enough - and you want to encrypt it?
if we could get fiber into every home.
:P
Yes people should eat more fiber, but what does that have to do with telecom?
OK, what about the other 999,999 torrent sites?
That's what I was thinking. If you declare yourself censor, and hold the power to pick and choose - well with this power comes responsibility and accountability. Otherwise it's just arbitrary. All that kiddie porn may not be "protected" under copyright law, but if they let it through, well, looks like they are endorsing it, aren't they? How come they stop a Disney movie but not kiddie porn? If someone sends an email that forms part of an illegal act, they had better well catch it. Etc.
How is this filtering different than what is going on in China?
Because the Chinese know it's happening to them?
No, but they can probably X-ray them and call the authorities if they see something suspicious. You know the security companies at airports used to by private before 9/11 right? Nothing stopped them from x-raying your bags, and searching if they were suspicious.
I thought that even the police have to get a judge to authorize a warrant to search
Hahahahaha! Too much tv my friend. Yes in theory they need a warrant, but now they just make up some excuse to justify "probable cause", usually an unrelated offense. You don't want me to come in? You paranoid? You must be on cocaine. I have probable cause that you're dealing. After all, if you're not doing anything wrong then what are you afraid of. Here, let me kick your door in.
Chain-Stokes
No offense, but it's Cheyne-Stokes. Too much ER/House/Gray's, my friend.
Love and Kisses,
A medical professional.
Hmmm ok, I'll grant you that (from what I remember from high school) the "g" part of a sattelite in orbit gets canceled out. However I think that the basic laws of motion - specifically F=ma still apply when it comes time to turn on the engine and give the station more velocity to bump it back up into a higher orbit. If m increases and the "a" that I need to increase the velocity is the same, I need more "F", which means a longer burn, which means more fuel.
I agree that mass has nothing to do with orbit decay, but is the above right? If not, why not?
Apparently they've become so efficient that the enormous distance to the Sun ceases to become a problem.
Or at least that's what the manufacturer says. And if you had a $40 M contract you'd say the same. We'll only really find out in 30 years when the guy in charge of the probe suddenly goes "where the hell did my probe go?" one Wednesday morning.
All your voltage are belong to us.
Touché! That was cute, even for this tired old joke hehe. Well done sir.
ahhh flashblock. The internet has not been the same since I got it.
lol yeah, at least on earth you can get a good 12 hours out of solar panels. But what can you do with just 45 minutes? :-)
17.5 tons. I'm thinking about increased amount of propellant needed to keep the ISS in the correct orbit with this new "power source". Yes we can give you more power, but now we need to spend twice as much fuel to keep you in orbit, so your total flight time is decreased by 8 years...
That's the beauty of physics, everything is connected. And I'm not even a physicist.
There is nothing like media pitting two public figures against one another and, consequently, pitting supporters and detractors against each other, in order to generate some cheap polemic to exploit for some 15 minutes.
It's called "politics".
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Yet another example of parasitic middlemen who seek to profit from someone else's work. Yeah the cost of distributing a 600k PDF file is really $25 per copy. Oh and before someone starts screaming about how the author deserves to make money - as far as I know, scientists do NOT earn money for their publications. They earn the ability to put their publication on their resumé, and that's it.
Peer review can easily be handled at the university level, by people who are on salary (after all, if ethics committees can exist, so can peer review). I pay thousands of dollars a year in professional magazine subscriptions, yet if I'd like to apply my mind to something outside my field for _fun_ or _curiosity_, apparently I have to pay the parasites even more.
After we kill all the lawyers, lets kill all the publishers, please.
I think you meant to say the shortage of such teachers (the good ones who teach underlying concepts rather than memorized steps).. is disappointing.
Excactly. However constructing complicated, yet elegant, sentences is a futile effort with some readers.