It sounds like you work with some very nice people. It's always refreshing to hear how only the most upstanding and honorable people are hired to be police officers. Simply refreshing. It's amazing how people don't have more respect for these honorable people just doing their jobs.
Didn't these words come out of your mouth: "As far as I can discern, that argument is an artificial construct created by liberals to belittle anyone who doesn't agree with them."
If you had said "i have never set foot on the moon" and then followed it up with "As far as I can discern, the moon is an artificial construct created by liberals...," would that me make paranoid for thinking you didn't believe in the moon?
Like MADD? Tears and letters have led to dui check points and SCOTUS even ruled it as constitutional only because "there was no way to address dui" unless the police had DUI checkpoints!
When enough crying mother's talk about how their son and daughter got sent to jail, politicians might have the support they need to not be afraid to "be against CP".
I do not know one single person against legalizing gay-marriage who thinks that gay marriage will weaken their marriage. As far as I can discern, that argument is an artificial construct created by liberals to belittle anyone who doesn't agree with them.
Well, since you don't know anyone who thinks that then it must not exist. Go read some of the awful anti-gay websites (worldmagblog, etc). They all spread FUD about weakening people's marriages.
How is that paranoia? It's not even a strictly liberal argument. It's more of a libertarian argument. The state shouldn't be interfering with people's contracts.
This will probably be used primarily against conservatives who oppose gay marriage, since homosexuals are currently attempting to control information sources to sway the voters who've rejected gay marriage in about 30 states. While most outspoken celebrities and MSM is on their side, they can't force their opponents off the internet unless they infringe upon their free speech rights, so that's what they're trying to do here.
How's the tin-foil hat?
Homosexuals are attempting to control information sources!!! ZOMFG! Quick! Activate hetero-defense systems. Everyone, touch their opposite sex partner to create a wave of Hetero-ness to defend us!!!!
I would hate for my marriage to be weaken by gay marriage to the point where i suddenly don't just like cock, but love it and need it. Please, Jesus, protect me from this!!!
Don't force me to reconsider my "choice" of being hetero!
They are only now saying that the current H1N1 strain isn't as bad as first thought.
I mean what do you want? Would you feel better if they were proved right and millions died? It's not like a 6 month to 7 year interval of fear mongering. It was one week of prudent precautions. Don't be a big baby about it.
I mean do you really believe the CDC is fear mongering so they can build a $500 billion budget for a war on flu? Because they are the normal part of Gov't that forges Mexican death certificates so they could raise the flu threat level just to fuck with your head. Everyone knows the CDC is the most politicized department of the gov't.
What don't you understand about exponential progressions?
Why isn't anyone going bananas when he sees a car?
Can you phrase your question in a more ignorant manner?
You sound like the people who talk about a the chances of a tornado making a fully working 747 out of parts as proof that evolution couldn't possibly be valid. You're in good company.
Agreed. But if we are going to extrapolate, we need to be concerned with worst-case scenarios, only because the worst-case scenarios can be most effectively mitigated by early action.
Because you are being stupid. Educate yourself a just a little bit, so the rest of slashdot doesn't have to bitch slap you up a couple of IQ points.
No one is suggesting that it will be a 100% or even 50% mortality rate. The numbers in mexico looked like a 7.5% mortality rate, but none of it was confirmed because testing takes time.
It's highly infectious once it spreads to millions of people, it's too late if your THEN find out it has a high mortality rate. Just because it takes weeks to infect the entire population doesn't mean we should wait until then to do something.
Go travel to mexico if your balls are as big as your talk. Go get infected so you can get immunity to it. It won't kill you, right?
Because you are being stupid. Educate yourself a just a little bit, so the rest of slashdot doesn't have to bitch slap you up a couple of IQ points.
No one is concerned that it is going to kill 100% or even 50% of the population. Mexico was at a 7.5% mortality rate of suspected infections.
7.5% of the entire population is a large number. The more we can slow down it's spread, the more time we will be able to evaluate the flu, the more time we have to produce vaccines and antivirals, and the less likely we'll have a viral "slashdot" affect on the hospitals. Picture 50 million hospitalized in one week versus 10,000 a week.
There are worst disease killing people, but they don't spread at the rate an airborne one does (250 million * 5% mortality rate (is hopefully 0.1%)).
And HIV/AIDS is JUST a virus like the flu. Why do people worry about things that are "just" viruses?
We still don't know if it's not a super-kill flu. When we have 10,000 infected and only 0.1% deaths, we'll really know better. When we had 60 confirmed cases and 1 death, that was close to a 2% fatality rate.
Of course old and badly medicated people can die from it.
Explain to me why the 1908 "just" flu had a mortality rate of 50% in army units. Oh, because just maybe it had a huge mortality rate on the 20-50 age range and the people that had strong immune systems?
I'm no biologist either, but isn't the "regular garden-variety flu that we get every year" a new strain (or more than one) every year?
In the same way that Windows 3.11, Windows XP/Vista, BEos, VXWorks, and Linux are all just new strains of operating systems. Aren't they all just about the same?
IANAMB, but wikipedia is your friend: genetic/antigenic drift (ie: POSIX compatible versions of each other):
Antigenic drift[1][2] is the process of random accumulation of mutations in viral genes recognized by the immune system. Such accumulation may significantly change the antigens of the virus, and may help it evade the immune system. This process may lead to a loss of immunity, or in vaccine mismatch when one of the strains selected for the vaccine doesn't optimally match the circulating strains."
genetic/antigenic shift:
the process by which at least two different strains of a virus, (or different viruses), especially influenza, combine to form a new subtype having a mixture of the surface antigens of the two original strains. The term antigenic shift is more often applied specifically, (but is not limited) to the influenza literature, as it is the best known example (e.g. visna virus in sheep[1]). Antigenetic shift is a specific case of reassortment or viral shift that confers a phenotypic change.
So? If you don't like that the author/publisher has a perpetual copyright (I believe they expire after 80 years) then do not buy and do not utilize their works. You are not entitled to their works
Try life of author plus 70 years or 120 years for corporate ownership. Why shouldn't i utilize their works? They decided to publish. Their cultural references are built on the public domain and other copyrighted works, they should have to give something back to the culture they are benefiting from. Besides the fact that copyright is forever now. In 15 years, Congress will extend it again. Works never make it back into public domain.
The compromise used to be that we respect their copyright knowing that eventually it enters the public domain. In the absence of a public domain, i'm not really sure how much we get out of the compromise.
They've traced swine-flu to undercooked bacon. That's the only thing all of the victims had in common. Feel free to ride public transportation, just watch out for bacon bits.
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Great insight; however, i take a little bit of issue with this:
No one is asking for 100% of cops to be non-assholes, but can't we aim to have over 50% of them be upstanding honorable people?
BZZZZZT. Wrong!
What law allows confiscation of photographs? Trespass is the only law that is applicable here (if they asked him to leave).
If you don't have your liberty you are under arrest.
Oh, yeah, he was being a dick for not apologizing for being told he would be tackled if he left. Thank you for clearing that up.
It sounds like you work with some very nice people. It's always refreshing to hear how only the most upstanding and honorable people are hired to be police officers. Simply refreshing. It's amazing how people don't have more respect for these honorable people just doing their jobs.
What words have i put in your mouth exactly?
Didn't these words come out of your mouth: "As far as I can discern, that argument is an artificial construct created by liberals to belittle anyone who doesn't agree with them."
If you had said "i have never set foot on the moon" and then followed it up with "As far as I can discern, the moon is an artificial construct created by liberals...," would that me make paranoid for thinking you didn't believe in the moon?
Like MADD? Tears and letters have led to dui check points and SCOTUS even ruled it as constitutional only because "there was no way to address dui" unless the police had DUI checkpoints!
When enough crying mother's talk about how their son and daughter got sent to jail, politicians might have the support they need to not be afraid to "be against CP".
Well, since you don't know anyone who thinks that then it must not exist. Go read some of the awful anti-gay websites (worldmagblog, etc). They all spread FUD about weakening people's marriages.
How is that paranoia? It's not even a strictly liberal argument. It's more of a libertarian argument. The state shouldn't be interfering with people's contracts.
I hope they jail every single creator and distributor of child porn. Let's apply the law consistently so everyone can see how BAD IT IS!
Once the law ruins more lives than it protects (if it hasn't already), maybe, just maybe people will realize how stupid it is.
How's the tin-foil hat?
Homosexuals are attempting to control information sources!!! ZOMFG! Quick! Activate hetero-defense systems. Everyone, touch their opposite sex partner to create a wave of Hetero-ness to defend us!!!!
I would hate for my marriage to be weaken by gay marriage to the point where i suddenly don't just like cock, but love it and need it. Please, Jesus, protect me from this!!!
Don't force me to reconsider my "choice" of being hetero!
No. There is going to be a rush on cheap second-hand sun servers so people can trade them in for $8k a pop. (ebay has sparc20s for $140 buynow price).
Seriously? you can't find a citation on your own?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu
They are only now saying that the current H1N1 strain isn't as bad as first thought.
I mean what do you want? Would you feel better if they were proved right and millions died? It's not like a 6 month to 7 year interval of fear mongering. It was one week of prudent precautions. Don't be a big baby about it.
I mean do you really believe the CDC is fear mongering so they can build a $500 billion budget for a war on flu? Because they are the normal part of Gov't that forges Mexican death certificates so they could raise the flu threat level just to fuck with your head. Everyone knows the CDC is the most politicized department of the gov't.
What don't you understand about exponential progressions?
Can you phrase your question in a more ignorant manner?
You sound like the people who talk about a the chances of a tornado making a fully working 747 out of parts as proof that evolution couldn't possibly be valid. You're in good company.
Agreed. But if we are going to extrapolate, we need to be concerned with worst-case scenarios, only because the worst-case scenarios can be most effectively mitigated by early action.
What's your point? Eventually given enough time a million people will die? That's amazing.
If that is the case, who cares if a milion die in one year from the flu?
ORLY? So you are saying more than 1000 people have been infected and less than one has died?
In the US it has still been about 10x more fatal than seasonal flu. I'm not sure what seasonal flu you are talking about.
Because you are being stupid. Educate yourself a just a little bit, so the rest of slashdot doesn't have to bitch slap you up a couple of IQ points.
No one is suggesting that it will be a 100% or even 50% mortality rate. The numbers in mexico looked like a 7.5% mortality rate, but none of it was confirmed because testing takes time.
It's highly infectious once it spreads to millions of people, it's too late if your THEN find out it has a high mortality rate. Just because it takes weeks to infect the entire population doesn't mean we should wait until then to do something.
Go travel to mexico if your balls are as big as your talk. Go get infected so you can get immunity to it. It won't kill you, right?
Because you are being stupid. Educate yourself a just a little bit, so the rest of slashdot doesn't have to bitch slap you up a couple of IQ points.
No one is concerned that it is going to kill 100% or even 50% of the population. Mexico was at a 7.5% mortality rate of suspected infections.
7.5% of the entire population is a large number. The more we can slow down it's spread, the more time we will be able to evaluate the flu, the more time we have to produce vaccines and antivirals, and the less likely we'll have a viral "slashdot" affect on the hospitals. Picture 50 million hospitalized in one week versus 10,000 a week.
There are worst disease killing people, but they don't spread at the rate an airborne one does (250 million * 5% mortality rate (is hopefully 0.1%)).
And HIV/AIDS is JUST a virus like the flu. Why do people worry about things that are "just" viruses?
We still don't know if it's not a super-kill flu. When we have 10,000 infected and only 0.1% deaths, we'll really know better. When we had 60 confirmed cases and 1 death, that was close to a 2% fatality rate.
Explain to me why the 1908 "just" flu had a mortality rate of 50% in army units. Oh, because just maybe it had a huge mortality rate on the 20-50 age range and the people that had strong immune systems?
In the same way that Windows 3.11, Windows XP/Vista, BEos, VXWorks, and Linux are all just new strains of operating systems. Aren't they all just about the same?
IANAMB, but wikipedia is your friend:
genetic/antigenic drift (ie: POSIX compatible versions of each other):
genetic/antigenic shift:
What i can't make fun of Jew for being stupid here? When did slashdot start protecting religion?
Bah. it was supposed to get +1 funny. If you are on slashdot and aren't educated about the flu, you deserve some mis-information.
Try life of author plus 70 years or 120 years for corporate ownership. Why shouldn't i utilize their works? They decided to publish. Their cultural references are built on the public domain and other copyrighted works, they should have to give something back to the culture they are benefiting from. Besides the fact that copyright is forever now. In 15 years, Congress will extend it again. Works never make it back into public domain.
The compromise used to be that we respect their copyright knowing that eventually it enters the public domain. In the absence of a public domain, i'm not really sure how much we get out of the compromise.
They've traced swine-flu to undercooked bacon. That's the only thing all of the victims had in common. Feel free to ride public transportation, just watch out for bacon bits.
You wouldn't want to tarnish something as sacred as a deadly virus that kills people, by naming it after an unclean animal.
Well, i guess the Christians and Muslims make asses out of themselves, it's time for the Jews to act idiotic too.