Specifics of immunization requirements are something I'm not entirely decided, but...
Parents who don't immunize children are endangering public safety, not just hurting themselves and their families. There is a small but significant percentage of the population that simply can't be immunized. Most commonly because they are too young for a specific immunization or because they have a weakened immune system that makes the immunization dangerous. There are also people who were immunized, but the immunization didn't take. These people rely on the general population to be immunized to create a herd immunity that keeps the diseases in check and/or wipes the diseases out.
People forget that not everyone can be immunized. The people who can't be immunized rely on herd immunity to prevent a disease from spreading to the point that it is dangerous. When you get large number of people opting out of immunization, the herd immunity becomes too weak to prevent a disease from taking hold and spreading. Once it starts spreading, the likelihood for a non-immunized person to catch it can shoot up dramatically.
For a $100 software package with no recurring costs 14 years is pretty good. Besides, XP is safe in the sense that cars are safe. Recalls and replacements are issued if a problem is found that causes the thing to physically injure/kill people during what is considered normal use. If a malicious 3rd party breaks into your 20 year old car, there is no recall.
While those cars from the 80's and 90's still run, they are less safe and easier to steal than new cars. The only updates that have to be released for them are if they find a way to injure their owners. XP updates are security updates. Did they give your 80's car a free update to a transponder key to make it more secure? Did they install new airbags or traction control system to keep it safe?
I'm sure if your XP version finds a way to jump out of the box and injure you that it will be dealt with.
Did they also say that they would take away your RAM at some point if you did have enough? Among other important differences with you story is that an always on connection means that you lose the game whenever the publishers decides to turn it off.
Publisher decisions like this are a perfectly valid thing to complain about. It expresses your displeasure to a company so that they make a product more to your liking, and it warns other people about the faults you care about.
If that number is just pulled from his ass, he has a surprisingly accurate back side.
70% of future oil delivery contracts(oil futures) are owned by speculators, and the large majority of those speculators are hedge funds and major banks. So while it may not be entirely accurate that 70% is accounted for by hedge funds, the real issue being discussed is speculation, and he was right about that.
There was a ship that tried using Vogon poetry for their password locks once. Unfortunately, after valiantly functioning for 3 weeks, the login daemon it decided it could no longer take it and convinced the ship's navigation system to fly into a nearby star. Further use of password verification system was banned several years later, after an intergalatic agreement was reach that said requiring people to remember Vogon poetry was cruel and inhumane.
I agree with this. My local bookstores would make a lot more money off of me(they already make a bit) if they could make their coffee shops large enough that I could actually sit down. Also, it surprises me how few bookstores seem to host book clubs and events.
I'm just wondering how long ago you read this? I read Dhalgren because of reviews from older family members and online praise. I really didn't think it was all that great, but have wondered if its because I'm not in the right generation. The material wasn't shocking to me so there was no reality-altering or view changing going on. I knew people who have had that reality altering experience from it, but they have all been at least a couple decades older.
Now It did seem like there were some interesting literary ideas in it, but that they were never fully realized. Because of that I may go back and read some more books by Delany at some point, are there others of that play around with the literary devices?
His transcripts are sealed, so we don't have his individual grades, true. But it is in public that he graduated magna cum laude. He was also picked to be an editor and then president of the Harvard Law Review. If none of those those count for anything, I'm not sure why his grades would.
Throwing facist around is overplayed, but fits this video. The ad being used was Apple's 1984 ad. Using that story against someone is making a facist comparision.
As for War of the Worlds. It was a book before being broadcast on the radia, and when adapted and broadcast it was announced, multiple times, that it was fictional. When it was realized that some people were taking it as actually happening announcements were made in the middle of the broadcast to assure them that it was not real. Welles also said afterwards that he didn't think they would do something like that again because it hadn't been their intention to scare people.
I pretty much agree. Thats why I have no problem with concealed carry and civilians with weapons in most places. I also have no problems with armed pilots, air marshals, law enforcement, and maybe even ex-military(not sure on this one because it seems like a pretty broad group that i'd need to think about), as long as these groups are confident in themselves and have proven themselves by some kind of certification. A pilot that can't shoot wouldn't be to helpful in my mind but I doubt thats what you were meaning. Basic gun training for civilians doesn't seem enough. Partially because if it was that easy, then terrorists/some other criminal group could bring guns on easily as well, and would probably be better trained then the civilians, and trained/positioned to work as a team.
One difference is that if a terrorist does pop up, and you miss hitting him with a knife its a bit less likely to overshoot and hit another passenger in the head. I'm not again'st all guns on planes, but just owning a gun doesn't mean you can shoot it well enough to be safe in a small high tension area packed with people who may act unexpectadly. You may be good enough, but most people I know with weapons aren't(by their own admission).
so, 16 collosi... all bosses... nothing else. really, they look like they could be interestin boss fights, but where is the rest of the game, it seems like something might be missing, perhaps a plot. 8 to 10 hours of bosses with low color saturation does not a good game make.
Change "fucking rednecks" to rednecks and I hear non-white people say it all the time, and pretty much never hear anyone take offense. Of course, throw an adjective in front of it and it changes completely. I've also known a number of jews who were refered to as names simliar to christ killer and didn't care, generally he found them fairly amusing.(occasionally a local uber-christian would get mad, but not the jewish guy).
Nigger is the only racial term I can think of at the moment that makes people mad only if a specific race uses it. I wouldn't mind much if people got mad when anyone used it, but personally it seems a bit racist for a single skin color of people to be completely singled out and not allowed to use it.
As for the whining and crying on daddy's shoulder, seems like its not the white guys that whine and cry and get angry whenever a naughty word gets used.
The long history of white slave owners and black slaves is over, lets let it pass and remember it as a bad time that is gone and must never be brought back.
There is a big difference between a game company and a 'public figure.' The public figures that get called for making racially insensitive remarks are generally those in the government and are therefore making laws that, if biased, could damage the lives of the groups who the figure disliked. A game company doesn't have that kind of direct effect on people's lives and livelihoods and should be allowed to express more extreme views, whether they company believes those views, is simply trying to reach a certain demographic, or is trying to give people who are sick of always having to be PC a break is irrelevant.
if this is held in court, wouldn't it mean that silence on other media would also be copyrighted by him. if so, what about blank cds....
btw, this post is at least as nonsensical as copyrighting silence.
bah, thats just wrong. you are definately right. the graphics were just there because something needed to be done to show what was happening, how how interesting and understandable would someone running a bunch of commandline shit be?
I'm not even to worried about little companies. I'm more worried about consumers who seems to be losing their rights. As of yet, I haven't found any recent laws that are truely designed to help small companies either though. The recent product protection laws have been along the lines of anti-copying laws. These are really to important for start-ups it seems. Theoretically they might be, but it seems the little guys are the ones who aren't screaming about the sky falling and industries disappearing. Where should I look if NONE of the news sites have them. That is generally the best place to go for news.
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Specifics of immunization requirements are something I'm not entirely decided, but...
Parents who don't immunize children are endangering public safety, not just hurting themselves and their families. There is a small but significant percentage of the population that simply can't be immunized. Most commonly because they are too young for a specific immunization or because they have a weakened immune system that makes the immunization dangerous. There are also people who were immunized, but the immunization didn't take. These people rely on the general population to be immunized to create a herd immunity that keeps the diseases in check and/or wipes the diseases out.
Mod parent up.
People forget that not everyone can be immunized. The people who can't be immunized rely on herd immunity to prevent a disease from spreading to the point that it is dangerous. When you get large number of people opting out of immunization, the herd immunity becomes too weak to prevent a disease from taking hold and spreading. Once it starts spreading, the likelihood for a non-immunized person to catch it can shoot up dramatically.
For a $100 software package with no recurring costs 14 years is pretty good. Besides, XP is safe in the sense that cars are safe. Recalls and replacements are issued if a problem is found that causes the thing to physically injure/kill people during what is considered normal use. If a malicious 3rd party breaks into your 20 year old car, there is no recall.
While those cars from the 80's and 90's still run, they are less safe and easier to steal than new cars. The only updates that have to be released for them are if they find a way to injure their owners. XP updates are security updates. Did they give your 80's car a free update to a transponder key to make it more secure? Did they install new airbags or traction control system to keep it safe?
I'm sure if your XP version finds a way to jump out of the box and injure you that it will be dealt with.
Did they also say that they would take away your RAM at some point if you did have enough? Among other important differences with you story is that an always on connection means that you lose the game whenever the publishers decides to turn it off.
Publisher decisions like this are a perfectly valid thing to complain about. It expresses your displeasure to a company so that they make a product more to your liking, and it warns other people about the faults you care about.
If that number is just pulled from his ass, he has a surprisingly accurate back side.
70% of future oil delivery contracts(oil futures) are owned by speculators, and the large majority of those speculators are hedge funds and major banks. So while it may not be entirely accurate that 70% is accounted for by hedge funds, the real issue being discussed is speculation, and he was right about that.
http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2012/03/rep_peter_defazio_asks_preside.html
http://www.worldenergy.org/documents/congresspapers/84.pdf
There was a ship that tried using Vogon poetry for their password locks once. Unfortunately, after valiantly functioning for 3 weeks, the login daemon it decided it could no longer take it and convinced the ship's navigation system to fly into a nearby star. Further use of password verification system was banned several years later, after an intergalatic agreement was reach that said requiring people to remember Vogon poetry was cruel and inhumane.
I agree with this. My local bookstores would make a lot more money off of me(they already make a bit) if they could make their coffee shops large enough that I could actually sit down. Also, it surprises me how few bookstores seem to host book clubs and events.
Also, only idiots pay anything more than a penny for a humble bundle. /s
I'm just wondering how long ago you read this? I read Dhalgren because of reviews from older family members and online praise. I really didn't think it was all that great, but have wondered if its because I'm not in the right generation. The material wasn't shocking to me so there was no reality-altering or view changing going on. I knew people who have had that reality altering experience from it, but they have all been at least a couple decades older.
Now It did seem like there were some interesting literary ideas in it, but that they were never fully realized. Because of that I may go back and read some more books by Delany at some point, are there others of that play around with the literary devices?
His transcripts are sealed, so we don't have his individual grades, true. But it is in public that he graduated magna cum laude. He was also picked to be an editor and then president of the Harvard Law Review. If none of those those count for anything, I'm not sure why his grades would.
Of course it does! But to stay away from the cacophony of people telling them opposite things they avoid reading Slashdot entirely.
Throwing facist around is overplayed, but fits this video. The ad being used was Apple's 1984 ad. Using that story against someone is making a facist comparision.
As for War of the Worlds. It was a book before being broadcast on the radia, and when adapted and broadcast it was announced, multiple times, that it was fictional. When it was realized that some people were taking it as actually happening announcements were made in the middle of the broadcast to assure them that it was not real. Welles also said afterwards that he didn't think they would do something like that again because it hadn't been their intention to scare people.
accidently got modded offtopic, posting to clear
I pretty much agree. Thats why I have no problem with concealed carry and civilians with weapons in most places. I also have no problems with armed pilots, air marshals, law enforcement, and maybe even ex-military(not sure on this one because it seems like a pretty broad group that i'd need to think about), as long as these groups are confident in themselves and have proven themselves by some kind of certification. A pilot that can't shoot wouldn't be to helpful in my mind but I doubt thats what you were meaning. Basic gun training for civilians doesn't seem enough. Partially because if it was that easy, then terrorists/some other criminal group could bring guns on easily as well, and would probably be better trained then the civilians, and trained/positioned to work as a team.
One difference is that if a terrorist does pop up, and you miss hitting him with a knife its a bit less likely to overshoot and hit another passenger in the head. I'm not again'st all guns on planes, but just owning a gun doesn't mean you can shoot it well enough to be safe in a small high tension area packed with people who may act unexpectadly. You may be good enough, but most people I know with weapons aren't(by their own admission).
Not if you have a job with days off that are during the week instead of the weekend.
so, 16 collosi... all bosses... nothing else. really, they look like they could be interestin boss fights, but where is the rest of the game, it seems like something might be missing, perhaps a plot. 8 to 10 hours of bosses with low color saturation does not a good game make.
Pretty sure they'd consider themselves a football team.
Change "fucking rednecks" to rednecks and I hear non-white people say it all the time, and pretty much never hear anyone take offense. Of course, throw an adjective in front of it and it changes completely. I've also known a number of jews who were refered to as names simliar to christ killer and didn't care, generally he found them fairly amusing.(occasionally a local uber-christian would get mad, but not the jewish guy).
Nigger is the only racial term I can think of at the moment that makes people mad only if a specific race uses it. I wouldn't mind much if people got mad when anyone used it, but personally it seems a bit racist for a single skin color of people to be completely singled out and not allowed to use it.
As for the whining and crying on daddy's shoulder, seems like its not the white guys that whine and cry and get angry whenever a naughty word gets used.
The long history of white slave owners and black slaves is over, lets let it pass and remember it as a bad time that is gone and must never be brought back.
There is a big difference between a game company and a 'public figure.' The public figures that get called for making racially insensitive remarks are generally those in the government and are therefore making laws that, if biased, could damage the lives of the groups who the figure disliked. A game company doesn't have that kind of direct effect on people's lives and livelihoods and should be allowed to express more extreme views, whether they company believes those views, is simply trying to reach a certain demographic, or is trying to give people who are sick of always having to be PC a break is irrelevant.
if this is held in court, wouldn't it mean that silence on other media would also be copyrighted by him. if so, what about blank cds.... btw, this post is at least as nonsensical as copyrighting silence.
i like the way you think. couldn't have said it better myself.
bah, thats just wrong. you are definately right. the graphics were just there because something needed to be done to show what was happening, how how interesting and understandable would someone running a bunch of commandline shit be?
I'm not even to worried about little companies. I'm more worried about consumers who seems to be losing their rights. As of yet, I haven't found any recent laws that are truely designed to help small companies either though. The recent product protection laws have been along the lines of anti-copying laws. These are really to important for start-ups it seems. Theoretically they might be, but it seems the little guys are the ones who aren't screaming about the sky falling and industries disappearing. Where should I look if NONE of the news sites have them. That is generally the best place to go for news.