When most nerve cells in the brain die, they release their chemicals into the space surrounding the cells. A lot of them are toxic to other brain cells, which cause the other brain cells to die. And then more, and then more.
Fairly recently a drug was developed to stop this chemical cascade, and it works well. It could be combined with this treatment to further limit brain damage caused by lack of oxygen.
You're subject to be cut off by your power company if you use too much power. For example, running large motor devices for a long time will cause them to cut you off, because your circuit and your neighborhood's circuit probably wasn't set up for you to be running large and very high power demand devices. There have been people cut off for running machine shops, plant growing operations (not necessarily for illegal substances..), etc.
The reason it isn't protested about is that it happens to so few people.
If everyone used the maximum amount of power that their houses could support, the power infrastructure would melt down. There's simply not enough electrons or metal.
Moving to a pay-per-demand system wouldn't be a bad idea, however, it would be abused. You'd end up paying Aussie bandwidth prices for a helluva lot smaller amount of bandwidth than you'll get today.
First, I think the girl was emotionally/mentally unstable to begin with. Most teenagers have emotional problems they have to work out, some more so than others.
Second, I think the people who's actions resulted in the suicide of the girl need to be punished..which is happening.
Depression is a REAL disease, and it isn't just being sad. Its where your entire worldview is skewed towards the negative. Like if your friend had to cancel some plans you had made, you might think that it was your fault or maybe they just didn't want to be around you. People think that its just being sad, but being sad is more like a number on a -10 to +10 chart of emotion, whereas depression would be like a chart of -20 to +5.
You can bet that if some people asked a retarded person to do something dangerous that resulted in the retarded person being injured or killed, people would be all over that one. They weren't in the mental capacity to see the consequences, just like the girl in this story wasn't in the emotional capacity to deal with the assholes that did this to her.
Had it been a boy really breaking up with her, no charges would have been pressed. But since the motive (revenge/humiliation) was established and intent to harm was also established, its time for them to pay the piper.
If the time comes where you have to email executives or go to the news, then that company's support has failed you, and quite epicly.
Rather than leaving it in the hands of the company, as they have already shown you that they don't care about your satisfaction by half-assing their support/service budget, I think that you should go directly to a lawyer. Get the proof they need, sue Dell in whatever court you can, and then make them pay your legal fees and for your wasted time. The benefit to this method is that they HAVE to respond or the judge will go ahead and grant you whatever you asked for, regardless of how retarded it is.
99.99% chance that they'll give you everything you ask for without going to court, unless you're one of those douchebags that wants seven million because you were inconvenienced.
Anyone who represents themselves will pretty much need to quit their jobs to track down/file paperwork/keep up with motions, etc. And lawyers are very good at making things confusing for people. Its not all about legal knowledge, either. Its about walking the walk for the judge. Most judges I've seen don't have a lot of patience, so whenever someone representing themselves mispronounces a word or has form 102(a) instead of 102(a.1), the judge is going to throw the book at them.
In my opinion, civil cases should be worked to not need lawyers.
I'd be afraid to let my data flow through a HOA-run network myself.
Some HOA's have rules that let them search your house if they suspect you're in violation of some rule.
I'd imagine a lot of them would have a snoop-your-Internet rule, too.
The first time you went to anonib, you'd be ostracized and kicked out of the neighborhood. The first time the snooty neighbors didn't like you, they'd ask their snooty friend who happens to be in a position of power to mess with you or your internet connection.
HOAs are just another way for a few unwashed citizens to step up and try to run the world the way they think it should be run, but couldn't even set foot in an actual position of power in the real world.
"Is there some way to use some visual medium to help boys crawl out of their shell?"
From an evolutionary stand point, this makes a lot of sense. The men were the strong, agile, good-reflexed ones that traditionally hunted and took care of the general defense of the town. They need vision in order to do these things. And reflexes. Doing something that requires both is like that satisfaction you get when the key turns in the lock.
We won't get into the mate-selection part of the process.
Make sure you get all of your food from those nice corporations, either through their seeds or from the shelves at the store.
Make sure you don't go anywhere at night where some low life might have illegally acquired a gun, because they aren't going to care about your laws or rules.
Make sure your family has enough food and water for disasters, and that they're willing to die when someone comes in with a gun and takes all of it away.
2. Safety risk if other drivers are mostly going above the speed limit (Atlanta highways, for example)
3. There'll always be people going ten under that you have to pass, and since you're such a good driver, you're not going to speed in the passing lane..causing severe traffic flow problems behind you.
4. If people can get away with it, people will do it. If there were snipers on every bridge with anti-material rifles that shot every car that was speeding, no one would speed. However, since a cop can pull over one person at a time, and often there aren't 40 cops at each speed trap...
5. Most speed limits are WAY TOO LOW for their roads. Some highways engineers developed to be traveled on at 70MPH are marked down to 45MPH to improve revenue and 'safety'
They really should do something about the soloing. Later it takes a full group to kill equal/slightly higher enemies. Granted, the xp is good for the effort, you can't get anywhere solo or even duo. It takes too long and you get an experience penalty for killing things below your level..
They should make it to where there are 'elite' type areas where groups can kil, and 'solo' type areas where people can solo..
I can't go back and play FFXI because the early areas are devoid of players thus making it nearly impossible to get low-level gear or decent experience. And even in areas where there are many people, you'll spend an hour after logging in trying to find a group...
The Internet could route around McColo too, if say, it were burned to the ground in the middle of the night. Or barring that, some 'hard pipe-hittin' thugs' somehow gained access to the building and went on a smashing spree. Anyone want to set up a donation box to hire somee thugs?
After all, what's this doing for us? It sounds almost like..well..treason! A foreign power is accessing systems in the United States and is using those systems to infect/enslave other systems. I wouldn't shed a tear if a black ops detachment traced the stuff back to its source and C4ed the offending equipment/operators in Russia or wherever they're coming from.
That might be a good idea, however, we all know how it would work in reality.
A company would get millions to meet x requirement in which x was set as low as possible according to however much kickback the decision maker at the university got. So that the local shady internet service would be filling their requirement of a 56k line for every student. That is, any student can use that one 56k line in the modem pool.
I propose a compromise.
How about we get something back for it? Maybe the RIAA sets up a grant program and offers each and every student attending $5,000 per year? Yeah, you know what else sounds stupid and far fetched? The only difference is that one side has the National Guard, police, and military under its control.
All the localities want their local shops to sell rather than to lose customers to online shops.
Online shops have many advantages, one being not having to pay cashiers. Cashiers also fill the role of 'sanity check' on prices. For example if your plasma TV scans at $1, they're probably going to get a manager.
A manager who will apologize, and maybe offer you a discount for the mistake but not down to $1.
Online shops don't have this. Its automated. They should hold them to it. If they don't want to have to honor the prices, they should have a sanity check on them like cashiers do. Or, perhaps, they should pay some cashiers?
Especially with issues affecting a greater-than-10% of X-Fi users. Namely, slowing performance and horrible static/crackling noises that result in not following PCI spec.
I don't want to be at work, but guess what? I don't have a whole lot of choice. Sure, I could go live in a homeless shelter, but I'd rather have a place to live, internet, real food, etc. So, their situation is different? Sometimes, yes, people are pressured into it. But why ever would you buy a shady looking person's favors off the street when you can walk into a well-lit building and pay fair prices for something that's regulated and kept under security (disease screening, drug screening, etc)?
Most of the times when the police set up stings for Craigslist ads, several things are required. First, the motive. Obviously money. Then they have to get the prostitute to agree to sex-for-money. I don't think agreeing to it over the phone or via Internet is enough for a conviction. Most stings involve a police officer setting up a 'date' with one of these posters and then springing the trap.
Usually they'll get one hotel room for it somewhere and arrest several in a night.
That being said, why should the government care if someone wants to get right to the point and exchange money directly for sex? There are plenty of people that are too busy/socially inept/ugly/etc to get sex the usual way. So the result is to effectively outlaw their only means of sexual outlet with other people?
A router has a pretty well-known (at least, to people in the networking world) function. To have it actually shape/alter/etc traffic to try to generate revenue, well, it sounds more like adware now.
I bet they were forced to have SecuROM but some saintly developer put in a way to bypass it. You all have to remember, plenty of developers read Slashdot. Plenty of them DO NOT WANT tripe like SecuROM or Starforce to be inserted into their wonderful games, but that some misguided person in management or legal demands that it happen.
Even if it causes people to HATE the game or be totally unable to run it, that's the law of the land.
If they ever catch who did it, they'll be fired or possibly have their pants sued off, though.
It really is just a matter of time before posting something they don't like in the forums will make it to where you can no longer play the game at all, as it refuses the authentication. If the forum is tied to the particular game's cd key I can kind of understand. However, someone buying a brand new game and being locked out of online play sounds like selling a defective product to me.
Since EA has the power to dictate whether or not you can even PLAY the game, why are they still allowed to sell games to people who's master accounts have been banned?
I recall hearing about a court case in which a large corporation bought out a bunch of smaller gyms and branded them. Well, one guy gets banned from one for something stupid (can't remember what it was, but I assure you it was petty and made both people look like assholes), so the guy goes and applies for a gym membership at another gym. Different name, different side of town, everything. They give him his membership and he pays all the fees and such, then they tell him he's banned from the gym, sorry, no refunds, go home.
He takes them to court and wins his money back and $1,000 or so for his trouble, because they knowingly and willingly sold him a defective product.
The United States doesn't HAVE to export anything. If they decide to not sell to China, then they will not sell to China. Even if its to trip up their space program. Or make billions starve. Or let their reactors melt themselves into the ground.
Point is, the United States can control its resources and technologies however it wants.
Get them for breach of contract. If they promised it and didn't provide it by even a longshot or forgiving definition, they owe it to you. Or they owe your money back.
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When most nerve cells in the brain die, they release their chemicals into the space surrounding the cells. A lot of them are toxic to other brain cells, which cause the other brain cells to die. And then more, and then more.
Fairly recently a drug was developed to stop this chemical cascade, and it works well. It could be combined with this treatment to further limit brain damage caused by lack of oxygen.
It makes plenty of sense.
You're subject to be cut off by your power company if you use too much power. For example, running large motor devices for a long time will cause them to cut you off, because your circuit and your neighborhood's circuit probably wasn't set up for you to be running large and very high power demand devices. There have been people cut off for running machine shops, plant growing operations (not necessarily for illegal substances..), etc.
The reason it isn't protested about is that it happens to so few people.
If everyone used the maximum amount of power that their houses could support, the power infrastructure would melt down. There's simply not enough electrons or metal.
Moving to a pay-per-demand system wouldn't be a bad idea, however, it would be abused. You'd end up paying Aussie bandwidth prices for a helluva lot smaller amount of bandwidth than you'll get today.
First, I think the girl was emotionally/mentally unstable to begin with. Most teenagers have emotional problems they have to work out, some more so than others.
Second, I think the people who's actions resulted in the suicide of the girl need to be punished..which is happening.
Depression is a REAL disease, and it isn't just being sad. Its where your entire worldview is skewed towards the negative. Like if your friend had to cancel some plans you had made, you might think that it was your fault or maybe they just didn't want to be around you. People think that its just being sad, but being sad is more like a number on a -10 to +10 chart of emotion, whereas depression would be like a chart of -20 to +5.
You can bet that if some people asked a retarded person to do something dangerous that resulted in the retarded person being injured or killed, people would be all over that one. They weren't in the mental capacity to see the consequences, just like the girl in this story wasn't in the emotional capacity to deal with the assholes that did this to her.
Had it been a boy really breaking up with her, no charges would have been pressed. But since the motive (revenge/humiliation) was established and intent to harm was also established, its time for them to pay the piper.
If the time comes where you have to email executives or go to the news, then that company's support has failed you, and quite epicly.
Rather than leaving it in the hands of the company, as they have already shown you that they don't care about your satisfaction by half-assing their support/service budget, I think that you should go directly to a lawyer. Get the proof they need, sue Dell in whatever court you can, and then make them pay your legal fees and for your wasted time. The benefit to this method is that they HAVE to respond or the judge will go ahead and grant you whatever you asked for, regardless of how retarded it is.
99.99% chance that they'll give you everything you ask for without going to court, unless you're one of those douchebags that wants seven million because you were inconvenienced.
This is absolutely true.
Anyone who represents themselves will pretty much need to quit their jobs to track down/file paperwork/keep up with motions, etc. And lawyers are very good at making things confusing for people. Its not all about legal knowledge, either. Its about walking the walk for the judge. Most judges I've seen don't have a lot of patience, so whenever someone representing themselves mispronounces a word or has form 102(a) instead of 102(a.1), the judge is going to throw the book at them.
In my opinion, civil cases should be worked to not need lawyers.
I'd be afraid to let my data flow through a HOA-run network myself.
Some HOA's have rules that let them search your house if they suspect you're in violation of some rule.
I'd imagine a lot of them would have a snoop-your-Internet rule, too.
The first time you went to anonib, you'd be ostracized and kicked out of the neighborhood. The first time the snooty neighbors didn't like you, they'd ask their snooty friend who happens to be in a position of power to mess with you or your internet connection.
HOAs are just another way for a few unwashed citizens to step up and try to run the world the way they think it should be run, but couldn't even set foot in an actual position of power in the real world.
"Is there some way to use some visual medium to help boys crawl out of their shell?"
From an evolutionary stand point, this makes a lot of sense. The men were the strong, agile, good-reflexed ones that traditionally hunted and took care of the general defense of the town. They need vision in order to do these things. And reflexes. Doing something that requires both is like that satisfaction you get when the key turns in the lock.
We won't get into the mate-selection part of the process.
Alright, that's cool. No guns.
Make sure you get all of your food from those nice corporations, either through their seeds or from the shelves at the store.
Make sure you don't go anywhere at night where some low life might have illegally acquired a gun, because they aren't going to care about your laws or rules.
Make sure your family has enough food and water for disasters, and that they're willing to die when someone comes in with a gun and takes all of it away.
1. A few extra minutes of travel time.
2. Safety risk if other drivers are mostly going above the speed limit (Atlanta highways, for example)
3. There'll always be people going ten under that you have to pass, and since you're such a good driver, you're not going to speed in the passing lane..causing severe traffic flow problems behind you.
4. If people can get away with it, people will do it. If there were snipers on every bridge with anti-material rifles that shot every car that was speeding, no one would speed. However, since a cop can pull over one person at a time, and often there aren't 40 cops at each speed trap...
5. Most speed limits are WAY TOO LOW for their roads. Some highways engineers developed to be traveled on at 70MPH are marked down to 45MPH to improve revenue and 'safety'
They really should do something about the soloing. Later it takes a full group to kill equal/slightly higher enemies. Granted, the xp is good for the effort, you can't get anywhere solo or even duo. It takes too long and you get an experience penalty for killing things below your level..
They should make it to where there are 'elite' type areas where groups can kil, and 'solo' type areas where people can solo..
I can't go back and play FFXI because the early areas are devoid of players thus making it nearly impossible to get low-level gear or decent experience. And even in areas where there are many people, you'll spend an hour after logging in trying to find a group...
The Internet could route around McColo too, if say, it were burned to the ground in the middle of the night. Or barring that, some 'hard pipe-hittin' thugs' somehow gained access to the building and went on a smashing spree. Anyone want to set up a donation box to hire somee thugs?
After all, what's this doing for us? It sounds almost like..well..treason! A foreign power is accessing systems in the United States and is using those systems to infect/enslave other systems. I wouldn't shed a tear if a black ops detachment traced the stuff back to its source and C4ed the offending equipment/operators in Russia or wherever they're coming from.
That might be a good idea, however, we all know how it would work in reality.
A company would get millions to meet x requirement in which x was set as low as possible according to however much kickback the decision maker at the university got. So that the local shady internet service would be filling their requirement of a 56k line for every student. That is, any student can use that one 56k line in the modem pool.
I propose a compromise.
How about we get something back for it? Maybe the RIAA sets up a grant program and offers each and every student attending $5,000 per year? Yeah, you know what else sounds stupid and far fetched? The only difference is that one side has the National Guard, police, and military under its control.
All the localities want their local shops to sell rather than to lose customers to online shops.
Online shops have many advantages, one being not having to pay cashiers. Cashiers also fill the role of 'sanity check' on prices. For example if your plasma TV scans at $1, they're probably going to get a manager.
A manager who will apologize, and maybe offer you a discount for the mistake but not down to $1.
Online shops don't have this. Its automated. They should hold them to it. If they don't want to have to honor the prices, they should have a sanity check on them like cashiers do. Or, perhaps, they should pay some cashiers?
I'd pay $10 to access a metric assload of older games, too. Provided they were updated to run on current machines.
Know what I wouldn't pay for?
"Here's your racing game. Its all shiny and new! Hey, all of those cars online are beating you :( Better buy that car so you can compete!"
or
"Here's your war game. Better buy that explodorifle so you can kill those tanks. Because everyone has one, they paid for theirs fair and square."
Gunbound is the perfect example. You can pay and get a pretty decent advantage. I avoid Gunbound because of that and the cheats.
Don't feed the trolls.
Pretty much everyone is against the 'small monthly fee' mindset.
Especially with issues affecting a greater-than-10% of X-Fi users. Namely, slowing performance and horrible static/crackling noises that result in not following PCI spec.
All the more reason to legalize and regulate it.
I don't want to be at work, but guess what? I don't have a whole lot of choice. Sure, I could go live in a homeless shelter, but I'd rather have a place to live, internet, real food, etc. So, their situation is different? Sometimes, yes, people are pressured into it. But why ever would you buy a shady looking person's favors off the street when you can walk into a well-lit building and pay fair prices for something that's regulated and kept under security (disease screening, drug screening, etc)?
Most of the times when the police set up stings for Craigslist ads, several things are required. First, the motive. Obviously money. Then they have to get the prostitute to agree to sex-for-money. I don't think agreeing to it over the phone or via Internet is enough for a conviction. Most stings involve a police officer setting up a 'date' with one of these posters and then springing the trap.
Usually they'll get one hotel room for it somewhere and arrest several in a night.
That being said, why should the government care if someone wants to get right to the point and exchange money directly for sex? There are plenty of people that are too busy/socially inept/ugly/etc to get sex the usual way. So the result is to effectively outlaw their only means of sexual outlet with other people?
You could be on to something there.
A router has a pretty well-known (at least, to people in the networking world) function. To have it actually shape/alter/etc traffic to try to generate revenue, well, it sounds more like adware now.
I bet they were forced to have SecuROM but some saintly developer put in a way to bypass it. You all have to remember, plenty of developers read Slashdot. Plenty of them DO NOT WANT tripe like SecuROM or Starforce to be inserted into their wonderful games, but that some misguided person in management or legal demands that it happen.
Even if it causes people to HATE the game or be totally unable to run it, that's the law of the land.
If they ever catch who did it, they'll be fired or possibly have their pants sued off, though.
It really is just a matter of time before posting something they don't like in the forums will make it to where you can no longer play the game at all, as it refuses the authentication. If the forum is tied to the particular game's cd key I can kind of understand. However, someone buying a brand new game and being locked out of online play sounds like selling a defective product to me.
Since EA has the power to dictate whether or not you can even PLAY the game, why are they still allowed to sell games to people who's master accounts have been banned?
I recall hearing about a court case in which a large corporation bought out a bunch of smaller gyms and branded them. Well, one guy gets banned from one for something stupid (can't remember what it was, but I assure you it was petty and made both people look like assholes), so the guy goes and applies for a gym membership at another gym. Different name, different side of town, everything. They give him his membership and he pays all the fees and such, then they tell him he's banned from the gym, sorry, no refunds, go home.
He takes them to court and wins his money back and $1,000 or so for his trouble, because they knowingly and willingly sold him a defective product.
Licenses can be defective, too.
The United States doesn't HAVE to export anything. If they decide to not sell to China, then they will not sell to China. Even if its to trip up their space program. Or make billions starve. Or let their reactors melt themselves into the ground.
Point is, the United States can control its resources and technologies however it wants.
Get them for breach of contract. If they promised it and didn't provide it by even a longshot or forgiving definition, they owe it to you. Or they owe your money back.
A question for the physics people out there.
At what point does Brownian motion become a serious consideration? What about tunneling electrons and other quantum-ish effects?
Tell that to people that were treated by the Therac-25 machines.