All there needs to be for spam to exist is people that think it works. It may be the spammer himself or someone paying for his "marketing services", but nothing else is needed. Sure, if it doesn't work they might get discouraged and quit - but then another idiot might come along.
I'm not saying that spam doesn't work - with so many morons out there, it's certainly possible. But arguing that it wouldn't exist if it didn't work is stupid.
The point about absorption by water spiking at 3 cm is that elsewhere in the spectrum absorption is orders of magnitude lower. Radio waves can reach anywhere from 1 m to much longer, do you worry about those? (Btw, am I the only one that did the microwave experiment in first-year physic lab? With the klystrons beaming microwaves at the sensors? And having to adjust the positions of my equipment so that other groups' microwaves didn't contaminate my results?)
Regarding "even if only a small part gets absorbed", does this mean that heating your brain to 37.01 degrees C is somehow worse than, say, breathing the fumes (CO, particulates, etc.) from a generator? That's what people in such remote locations would be doing instead.
The comparison with visible light was based on your assumption that microwaves would be more dangerous than radio waves because waves with a higher frequency are more damaging. If enough visible light to act as a power supply was concentrated in a tight beam (say, a laser), it'd fry you a lot quicker.
Actually, the article you mention suggests that they do a pretty good job - it is ozone generators that are recommended against. It does warn that "ozone generators, negative ion generators, and certain other electronic air cleaners that are not listed by the FDA, or cannot otherwise prove that their ozone emission levels are lower than 0.05 ppm, may produce levels of ozone recognized as unsafe for humans and are not recommended for use in occupied spaces because of the risk of generation of ozone"; however, that depends on the air cleaner and is probably much smaller with devices not intended to produce ozone. (Anyone know if there are any results from such tests? Consumer Reports, maybe?)
Cold can be caused by one of ~200 strains from several virus families, including rhinovirus (~50%), coronaviruses (15-20%), parainfluenza viruses, respiratory syncytial viruses, adenoviruses, etc.
Parainfluenza is a paramyxoviridae, but not the main cold virus.
Naturally, the higher the frequency, the more damage the radiation can do (this is elementary quantum mechanics: the energy of a photon is given by planck's constant times the frequency).
Ooooh, scary. And visible light (being of a much shorter wavelength than microwaves measured in centimetres) has a frequency that's orders of magnitude higher. Let's all hide in the dark!
In case you missed the sarcasm, microwaves don't cause the sort of cellular damage that UV, X-Rays, gamma rays cause (with gamma rays being the most energetic/damaging). Microwaves aren't ionizing radiation, they just make molecules rotate around a bit more, ie. heating them. These microwaves may pose a problem if they heat objects that get in the way, though. It also depends on the wavelength of the microwaves - absorption by water spikes at 3 cm, but microwave ovens use a longer wavelength to penetrate deeper, since if it doesn't interact it can still get reflected around the inside until it does. Presumably, a wavelength used to transmit power would be chosen to be as inefficient as possible in imparting energy to water (and things that contain it, like brains).
I agree. There's pretty slim pickings out there. The only ones I can think of are the Handera 330 and the Clie SL10. Both of these use AAA batteries (4 in the 330, 2 in the SL10) and are monochrome (240x320 for the 330, 320x320 for the SL10 - which works better for some apps since it can do 160x160 as well) so they get great battery life. Just get a couple sets of NIMH batteries and swap them every few weeks. I have both of them, though the 330 has a broken screen from when I was hit by a truck. I don't know about how good the PIM software is, though, as I've never tried it.
Besides the above, if you can find something that is monochrome, it's a good bet that it'll get decent battery life. Or maybe just something that can be run without a backlit screen - I've got a GP32 handheld, and it gets good battery life (>10 hours? I haven't really tested it...) despite having an ARM processor, stereo sound, and a beautiful PDA-sized (but landscape) reflective colour screen that puts the Gameboy Advance to shame.
There's reasonable doubt that he's not guilty. After all, he hasn't been proven innocent yet, has he? Just to drive the point home, we're talking about folks that would harass and threaten a pediatrician...
Ah, but the beauty of it having its own category is that you can exclude it using your Preferences/Homepage menu, instead of whining about LOTR topics. So, uh, why didn't you go do that?
Electricity has zero CO2 output (at the point of use), so isn't taxed (at least not directly). LPG has very low CO2 output per unit, so is taxed at a lower rate than gasoline. Gasoline/Diesel/Grease all produce a similar amount of CO2, so they all receive a similar tax weighting.
That's insane. It misses the point of biodiesel entirely: all of the CO2 produced was sucked up by the original plant source, so the net CO2 production is zero.
Well, I'm not sure if it's what you're looking for, but the GuidePlus software that came with my ATI All-in-Wonder 9700 has Canadian listings and works quite well - I can just click the button to record, select the quality (DVD>ATI VCR>VCD), and I'm done.
...since most palms have some sort of flash memory card support (SD in Palm, Memory Stick in Clie, Compact Flash in Handera). More memory would allow more programs to be stored in the (much faster) RAM. I'm not sure if it would speed up programs on the flash memory - I think it would, since programs loaded once seem to load much faster if they're loaded again after being used once (eg, 4 seconds the first time, 2 seconds the next). Anyone know if the palm OS has caching?
Yeah, the extra RAM would be nice... I've got almost 40 megs of medical software on my card - being able to store it all in RAM would speed things up a bit. Unfortunately, I suspect that this will only be available for the new StrongARM power-gobbling multimedia devices which get 3 or 4 hours of battery life at best...
Seriously: "GBonGBA v0.4 01/12/03 - As weird as it sounds, this is a GameBoy emulator for the GameBoy Advance. It allows you to play GameBoy roms on your GameBoy Advance without the use of a GB Bridge."
Supposedly there's a Smart Media Card Reader coming out for the GBA that will be able to do this. I'm not sure how big they can get, but SMC's are pretty cheap.
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I agree. Besides, if Firefly is a rip-off of anything, I'd say it would more likely be a rip-off of Outlaw Star. It even had a "girl in a box" and the authorities and pirates both chased them to get her...
This kind of thinking is kind of pointless, especially when all we got were a few episodes - no real way of knowing where the show is going. I didn't like Firefly at first, but by the end (or would that be the beginning?) I thought it was pretty good. It would probably have been a lot better if Fox hadn't #%@#ed with it.
Not to mention that the excess ketones may also cause nausea - though I guess this might help one lose weight. Also, it may cause headaches and bad breath.
Much of the weight lost is water anyway, since the first thing that happens is depletion of the body's glycogen stores. (Glycogen being the storage form of glucose, which the brain needs to survive - it can partially make do with ketones, but not immediately or entirely.)
(Sorry for the late reply... I confused it with the earlier post on my user page and didn't notice your reply.)
Well, as a Canadian, I normally give up a third of my salary in income taxes, which isn't that bad of a deal, as I've got more cash than I know what to do with. (It's a bit of a shock after being a starving student for 5 years.) Though I'm going to be getting $3000 of that back from last year, since I only started working after I got my license in July, and ended up being in a lower bracket than you'd expect from my paychecks.
The example you give from Germany is pretty sick, but I'm not aware of anything like that happening here. Some things are pretty screwed up here, though... I said "normally" earlier since I'm recovering from being hit by a truck in January. The surgeons and nurses were first-rate, I got a surprisingly nice private room, physio, a CPM (continuous passive motion) machine to improve the range of motion on my right knee, etc. There was one thing that wasn't so great, though - I didn't get an MRI done until Monday (I was hit on a Friday night) because there weren't any techs available on the weekends. Of all the reasons not to get an MRI... Anyway, the surgeon made a stink about it (he had to go into the right knee a second time, which - besides causing more damage - probably negated any savings from having MRI techs working for weeks).
Which means that yes, things do get fucked up here, too. They've been going downhill in BC since Campbell was elected and started gutting the system (while simultaneously managing to change a surplus into a huge deficit).
While it is true that a lot of the shortened life expectancy is probably due to poor lifestyle choices, Canadians have similar bad habits, but (I'd have to look up the exact stats) longer life expectancy and much lower health care costs. Also, it would be hard for any article to do more than imply a connection without prospective randomized controlled trials of hundreds of countries to get a statistically significant result - which would be rather difficult. Rather, it just points out that spending a lot of money in a for-profit system doesn't guarantee better health.
Yeah, I'm not sure why the specs are so limited - even if it needs high-res for the keys, it should at least run in monochrome. The best palm-based calculator I've found is EasyCalc, which runs on pretty much everything (it isn't RPN, though). I just wish there were portable keypads you could plug in like the portable keyboard - so the combined machine would still be around the size of a scientific calc and the numbers would be in a pattern that's actually usable. (All the keyboards I've seen for the palm just have the numbers along the top, which takes me longer to type than enter by tapping or graffiti.
The thing that bugs me the most is that I'm not interested in any of their music regardless. I'd rather not waste a CDR on that crap. I don't really like much music, and the stuff I do like often comes from games, anime, or independents.
I have gotten copies of games in the past, but they don't get any money. Anime companies don't get any money, either. I doubt anyone but a few large companies and a couple "artists" (OK, the gov't has probably siphoned off a little, too) has seen a cent from this.
I buy all my anime from CNL. The selection is huge, and though the base prices aren't that great, with my discount I often pay less in Canadian$ than the MSRP is in US$. The shipping is pretty cheap, and I don't get screwed on customs. (I've ended up paying 50% extra on stuff from the US - there's no way I'm buying from there again. I have had better luck with stuff from overseas.)
'Course, I make enough that I've spent aroud $100/week on anime since I graduated. It's a huge change from being a starving student... ^_^
I agree with point "b"... I just need to get cable or adsl so I can finish downloading a series before (it gets released over here/I die of old age).
Do they have any position on the 2nd amendment? I looked at their site, but couldn't find anything. Or has there just been no real threat to it? I'm not aware of any happening in the US - and not being able to sell handguns with no waiting periods or background checks at guns shows doesn't count.
Something like Rock's disgusting billion-dollar registry would count... $%!# Liberals.
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All there needs to be for spam to exist is people that think it works. It may be the spammer himself or someone paying for his "marketing services", but nothing else is needed. Sure, if it doesn't work they might get discouraged and quit - but then another idiot might come along.
I'm not saying that spam doesn't work - with so many morons out there, it's certainly possible. But arguing that it wouldn't exist if it didn't work is stupid.
The point about absorption by water spiking at 3 cm is that elsewhere in the spectrum absorption is orders of magnitude lower. Radio waves can reach anywhere from 1 m to much longer, do you worry about those? (Btw, am I the only one that did the microwave experiment in first-year physic lab? With the klystrons beaming microwaves at the sensors? And having to adjust the positions of my equipment so that other groups' microwaves didn't contaminate my results?)
Regarding "even if only a small part gets absorbed", does this mean that heating your brain to 37.01 degrees C is somehow worse than, say, breathing the fumes (CO, particulates, etc.) from a generator? That's what people in such remote locations would be doing instead. The comparison with visible light was based on your assumption that microwaves would be more dangerous than radio waves because waves with a higher frequency are more damaging. If enough visible light to act as a power supply was concentrated in a tight beam (say, a laser), it'd fry you a lot quicker.
Actually, the article you mention suggests that they do a pretty good job - it is ozone generators that are recommended against. It does warn that "ozone generators, negative ion generators, and certain other electronic air cleaners that are not listed by the FDA, or cannot otherwise prove that their ozone emission levels are lower than 0.05 ppm, may produce levels of ozone recognized as unsafe for humans and are not recommended for use in occupied spaces because of the risk of generation of ozone"; however, that depends on the air cleaner and is probably much smaller with devices not intended to produce ozone. (Anyone know if there are any results from such tests? Consumer Reports, maybe?)
Parainfluenza is a paramyxoviridae, but not the main cold virus.
Ooooh, scary. And visible light (being of a much shorter wavelength than microwaves measured in centimetres) has a frequency that's orders of magnitude higher. Let's all hide in the dark!
In case you missed the sarcasm, microwaves don't cause the sort of cellular damage that UV, X-Rays, gamma rays cause (with gamma rays being the most energetic/damaging). Microwaves aren't ionizing radiation, they just make molecules rotate around a bit more, ie. heating them. These microwaves may pose a problem if they heat objects that get in the way, though. It also depends on the wavelength of the microwaves - absorption by water spikes at 3 cm, but microwave ovens use a longer wavelength to penetrate deeper, since if it doesn't interact it can still get reflected around the inside until it does. Presumably, a wavelength used to transmit power would be chosen to be as inefficient as possible in imparting energy to water (and things that contain it, like brains).
Besides the above, if you can find something that is monochrome, it's a good bet that it'll get decent battery life. Or maybe just something that can be run without a backlit screen - I've got a GP32 handheld, and it gets good battery life (>10 hours? I haven't really tested it...) despite having an ARM processor, stereo sound, and a beautiful PDA-sized (but landscape) reflective colour screen that puts the Gameboy Advance to shame.
There's reasonable doubt that he's not guilty. After all, he hasn't been proven innocent yet, has he? Just to drive the point home, we're talking about folks that would harass and threaten a pediatrician...
Ah, but the beauty of it having its own category is that you can exclude it using your Preferences/Homepage menu, instead of whining about LOTR topics. So, uh, why didn't you go do that?
Electricity has zero CO2 output (at the point of use), so isn't taxed (at least not directly).
LPG has very low CO2 output per unit, so is taxed at a lower rate than gasoline.
Gasoline/Diesel/Grease all produce a similar amount of CO2, so they all receive a similar tax weighting.
That's insane. It misses the point of biodiesel entirely: all of the CO2 produced was sucked up by the original plant source, so the net CO2 production is zero.
Well, I'm not sure if it's what you're looking for, but the GuidePlus software that came with my ATI All-in-Wonder 9700 has Canadian listings and works quite well - I can just click the button to record, select the quality (DVD>ATI VCR>VCD), and I'm done.
...since most palms have some sort of flash memory card support (SD in Palm, Memory Stick in Clie, Compact Flash in Handera). More memory would allow more programs to be stored in the (much faster) RAM. I'm not sure if it would speed up programs on the flash memory - I think it would, since programs loaded once seem to load much faster if they're loaded again after being used once (eg, 4 seconds the first time, 2 seconds the next). Anyone know if the palm OS has caching?
Yeah, the extra RAM would be nice... I've got almost 40 megs of medical software on my card - being able to store it all in RAM would speed things up a bit. Unfortunately, I suspect that this will only be available for the new StrongARM power-gobbling multimedia devices which get 3 or 4 hours of battery life at best...
Still, it sure sounds like Theo screwed this up. You'd think he could keep his mouth shut until he cashed the cheque...
Seriously: "GBonGBA v0.4 01/12/03 - As weird as it sounds, this is a GameBoy emulator for the GameBoy Advance. It allows you to play GameBoy roms on your GameBoy Advance without the use of a GB Bridge."
Supposedly there's a Smart Media Card Reader coming out for the GBA that will be able to do this. I'm not sure how big they can get, but SMC's are pretty cheap.
Outlaw star made sense?!
This kind of thinking is kind of pointless, especially when all we got were a few episodes - no real way of knowing where the show is going. I didn't like Firefly at first, but by the end (or would that be the beginning?) I thought it was pretty good. It would probably have been a lot better if Fox hadn't #%@#ed with it.
Much of the weight lost is water anyway, since the first thing that happens is depletion of the body's glycogen stores. (Glycogen being the storage form of glucose, which the brain needs to survive - it can partially make do with ketones, but not immediately or entirely.)
Hmm... the nutrition course I took must've simplified things a bit. The values were...
1 gram carbohydrate = 4 kcal
1 gram fat = 9 kcal
1 gram protein = 4 kcal
1 gram alcohol = 7 kcal
Though they might have taken the extra work required for proteins to be burned into account.
Well, as a Canadian, I normally give up a third of my salary in income taxes, which isn't that bad of a deal, as I've got more cash than I know what to do with. (It's a bit of a shock after being a starving student for 5 years.) Though I'm going to be getting $3000 of that back from last year, since I only started working after I got my license in July, and ended up being in a lower bracket than you'd expect from my paychecks.
The example you give from Germany is pretty sick, but I'm not aware of anything like that happening here. Some things are pretty screwed up here, though... I said "normally" earlier since I'm recovering from being hit by a truck in January. The surgeons and nurses were first-rate, I got a surprisingly nice private room, physio, a CPM (continuous passive motion) machine to improve the range of motion on my right knee, etc. There was one thing that wasn't so great, though - I didn't get an MRI done until Monday (I was hit on a Friday night) because there weren't any techs available on the weekends. Of all the reasons not to get an MRI... Anyway, the surgeon made a stink about it (he had to go into the right knee a second time, which - besides causing more damage - probably negated any savings from having MRI techs working for weeks).
Which means that yes, things do get fucked up here, too. They've been going downhill in BC since Campbell was elected and started gutting the system (while simultaneously managing to change a surplus into a huge deficit).
While it is true that a lot of the shortened life expectancy is probably due to poor lifestyle choices, Canadians have similar bad habits, but (I'd have to look up the exact stats) longer life expectancy and much lower health care costs. Also, it would be hard for any article to do more than imply a connection without prospective randomized controlled trials of hundreds of countries to get a statistically significant result - which would be rather difficult. Rather, it just points out that spending a lot of money in a for-profit system doesn't guarantee better health.
Yeah, I'm not sure why the specs are so limited - even if it needs high-res for the keys, it should at least run in monochrome. The best palm-based calculator I've found is EasyCalc, which runs on pretty much everything (it isn't RPN, though). I just wish there were portable keypads you could plug in like the portable keyboard - so the combined machine would still be around the size of a scientific calc and the numbers would be in a pattern that's actually usable. (All the keyboards I've seen for the palm just have the numbers along the top, which takes me longer to type than enter by tapping or graffiti.
I have gotten copies of games in the past, but they don't get any money. Anime companies don't get any money, either. I doubt anyone but a few large companies and a couple "artists" (OK, the gov't has probably siphoned off a little, too) has seen a cent from this.
I buy all my anime from CNL. The selection is huge, and though the base prices aren't that great, with my discount I often pay less in Canadian$ than the MSRP is in US$. The shipping is pretty cheap, and I don't get screwed on customs. (I've ended up paying 50% extra on stuff from the US - there's no way I'm buying from there again. I have had better luck with stuff from overseas.)
'Course, I make enough that I've spent aroud $100/week on anime since I graduated. It's a huge change from being a starving student... ^_^
I agree with point "b"... I just need to get cable or adsl so I can finish downloading a series before (it gets released over here/I die of old age).
Do they have any position on the 2nd amendment? I looked at their site, but couldn't find anything. Or has there just been no real threat to it? I'm not aware of any happening in the US - and not being able to sell handguns with no waiting periods or background checks at guns shows doesn't count.
Something like Rock's disgusting billion-dollar registry would count... $%!# Liberals.