There are 23 official languages in the EU. And many more in Europe [wikipedia.org].
Interestingly the article lists Russian as one of those European languages so either this should be the second European commander or the first commander from the EU.
But chronic postherpetic neuralgia is a godawful complication in later life, and it's reasonable to believe that the vaccine will limit that.
...and what are the potential complications from the vaccine later in life? Will your immunity last? Nobody knows because the vaccine has not been around that long. On the other hand we do know for a fact that the rate of complications from the actual disease is very low. Perhaps the rate of complications from the vaccine will be lower - if everyone always remembers to take boosters - but there is no firm evidence for this yet and even if there is a slight preference for the vaccine what is the benefit if I have to remember to have a booster every 10-20 years? Remember that the WHO primarily argues for the vaccination on economic, not medical grounds.
Regarding the "boost effect for parents": why would this be an issue? Once you are infected with chicken pox the virus is never eradicated and remains with you and is just kept under constant control by the immune system. This is why a sudden case of shingles in later life is often the sign of something more serious which is compromising the immune system.
Also, to counter you anecdote, the vaccine should not be given to people who have already had the disease since there is a small risk that it will weaken the immune response to the real virus in them and may cause shingles. Hence your example is also possible with the vaccine.
Actually there was an item on the BBC yesterday. They are now training drivers to use regenerative breaking for trains in the UK. Rather than store it locally they put power back into the overhead lines. Apparently it is around 14% efficient which, since the power is not always there on demand, means they get to power ~10% of trains "for free".
No vaccination: person gets chicken pox as a kid is ill for a week, recovers and has immunity for life (unless something else compromises their immune system).
With vaccination: person gets vaccinated as a kid and gets immunity for 10 years (might be as long as 20 now but really they don't know how long the immunity lasts because it has not been around that long). As a teenager parents ensure they get the 10 year booster so immunity continues. Next booster (or first if 20 years) comes due at university. The person is probably completely unaware of it, forgets to have it and is no longer immune to chicken pox. Several years later they are exposed and then get a serious case of shingles.
So which one do YOU think is the way to go? The problem is that with the vaccine being handed out like candy it is hard for kids to get exposed. Our kids will have to get vaccinated if they haven't managed to catch it before ~15 but it would be better for them to be exposed to the disease beforehand.
If you want to do business with a country then you have to obey its laws. This is why MS is taking EU law seriously: they want to be able to continue selling Windows and Office in the EU. A Canadian ISP is different because it does not do any business outside Canada. If people in the US want to connect to it that is their business, not the ISPs. If you ring someone in Canada from the US using a phone the person you are talking to is not, now magically subject to US law.
So I take it you would be outraged if a US hospital voluntarily provides free healthcare to a bunch of people?
If the copyright holders had asked the Canadian ISP nicely i.e. not quoting irrelevant foreign laws and demanding their compliance then I would have had no problem - as long as the ISP did not break Canadian law in complying. Being polite doesn't cost anything and is often far more effective which is something the US seems to frequently forget.
I imagine that you would have an issue if I turned up at a US hospital, as a foreigner, demanded free healthcare quoting the relevant act of parliament, and they just capitulated and decided that they had to obey Canadian law. Of course if I asked nicely and they decided to be generous and give it then nobody would have an issue would they? See how manners work?
Think we could have practically wiped out polio or smallpox in this country if we just kicked back and waited to see what happened?
No, but the case for these vaccines was clear since both small pox and polio are incredibly serious diseases resulting in high mortality rates or permanent handicap. For these diseases the rate of serious complications from the vaccine is far, far lower than the rate of serious consequences from the disease so it is very clear that you should vaccinate.
The problem is that we are now developing vaccines for diseases which have far, far lower rates of complications and fatalities. An example is chicken pox. The rate of complications from the vaccine is comparable to the rate of complications from the disease, the WHO recommends it mainly as an economic measure (stops parents missing work to look after sick kids) and since the vaccine wears off you have to have booster shots or risk getting shingles as an adult which is a serious disease.
Swine flu seems to be between the two. The disease can sometimes be serious but the vaccine has had no large scale testing. Hence, since I'm not an "at risk" category I'm waiting this one out at least until a while after the mass vaccination has started to see if there are an complications from the vaccine. Once the guinea pigs have shown it is safe I'll get my shot then.
I understood that there is some battery capacity onboard diesel-electric's - at a minimum for the starter motor - but no where near enough for any significant travel. So it is not quite so different. I'd also be surprised if regenerative breaking is not included on more recent examples too. Certainly it has been included on pure electric cars well before 2006.
Actually DMCA takedown notice is a benign part of that act, unlike anti-circumvention provisions.
So what? It is NOT the law in Canada. We have laws guaranteeing public access to healthcare which are benign - does that mean that the US should be required to follow Canadian law? The correct response from the Canadian ISP should be to mail back an elementary school book explaining about how countries are different with a suggestion that they read it and learn something.
I would also dispute how benign it actually is because it can be used to intimidate people into taking down material that they are legally entitled to show such as the case here.
Perhaps they did not go back far enough? Diesel-electric transmission has been around since the 1920's. From the 1960's until they electrified the line the East Coast Mainline in the UK ran Diesel-Electric trains. Of course the system is somewhat simpler than hybrid cars but the basic principle is the same: fuel runs generator and the generator charges batteries and powers electric traction motors.
But quotes for the "free market cost of antimatter" are based on the fantastic costs of generating it in an accelerator.
Why pay? - antimatter is available for free! One cosmic ray passes through every cubic centimetre of your body every second that you stand on the Earth's surface and about half are anti-muons. In addition, since they are available everywhere on Earth (and other planets with atmospheres) storage is not a problem - wherever you go there will still be anti-matter there for you!
There must already be legal definitions of compensation in the US otherwise income tax would be trivially easy to avoid.
"What salary? This was a 'gift' from the company."
It's true that laws can lag company practices by a few years - as was the case with company cars in the UK - but they inevitably catch up. In fact when tax money is involved it is amazing how rapid governments can move.
The FTC rules only apply to people in the US. Once again this is an example of how one country's laws are meaningless on the Internet. They will simply pay non-Americans to astroturf. You cannot tell whether someone is typing with an American accent on the net - although cultural references can sometimes give it away.
I believe that your founding fathers disagree: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.". Without healthcare your life will be shorter, you may have your liberty restricted by curable conditions and pursuing happiness becomes impossible.
...And yet, ANY PERSON, regardless of insurance or socioeconomic status, is able to walk into an emergency room in America TODAY and receive full treatment without concern over the final cost.
If that is true why was my Canadian insurance required to pay when we took my son to a US emergency room a couple of years ago? It is true that they have to treat you and the accountant does not get set on you until it is time to leave but if you cannot afford it they can certainly make you bankrupt. So I would hardly say that this qualifies to "without concern over final cost". In fact the only exit from the emergency room was through the account's office.
Therefore, if we are providing health care for everyone, we need to make sure that people are taking care of themselves.
No you do not - you just need to make sure that those costs are covered. This is the justification for taxing tobacco in the UK. Smokers generally have substantial health problems so there is a tax on cigarettes to cover the cost of treating those health problems. I have no trouble with there being a tax on junk food to cover the associated health costs. Those who eat more of it will pay more tax and hence foot their own healthcare bill. This does not make it a "nanny state": it simply means that you are end up paying for the consequences of your own choices.
Taxing junk food when you have practically no public healthcare like the US is unjustifiable. It is essentially the government saying that they disapprove of your behaviour. This is a true "nanny state" because they are trying to modify your behaviour "for your own good" and you still have to cover the cost of your own healthcare on top of this.
Why? If the most important aim is to stop illegal downloads then a far better solution would be to abolish IP laws. That would completely stop all those illegal downloads. Of course the consequences of that on the economy would probably be bad but likely no worse than everyone being forced to return to dial-up and it has the advantage of completely solving the problem and not just reducing it.
No but we do get to watch Wild Canada through the hole in our igloo wall. It's on 24 hours a day up here, it can be a bit boring in winter, especially when we get a lot of snowy interference with the signal.
You're telling me that you'd rather censor every media outlet than allow about 12 people to endure a little boredom?
If you are serious about contaminating people then yes because it is the ONLY way to do it.
They're professionals.
So am I. I am a scientist it is my profession to be ONLY influenced by evidence and not supposition far more so than a judge. So if the judge is allowed to ignore seqestering why shouldn't I be also if we are basing it on training?
A judge is thoroughly trained to resist these sources of bias.
No, they are thoroughly trained to follow the law as it has been interpreted before and, as anyone knows, you can twist that interpretation to be what you want.
Unlike the jury, there is no time during the trial when things are going on in the courtroom
What about when they go home at night on a multi-day trial? What about when they have lunch?
Requiring them to avoid the media would would mean barring judges from all media for much of their adult lives.
So what? They chose ot be judges. If it is so important for the jury then it must be equally important for the judge...of course this is the reason why it does not apply to judges and so I would argue shoudl also not apply to jurors.
Judges are concerned with the legal questions in a case, which are not generally at issue in the media.
Only partly true. They can overrule the jury in rare cases (if they find that no reasonably jury could reach a guilty verdict for example). They also decide sentencing which is most certainly discussed in the media. In addition I understand that in the US in some cases the public votes for them to get/keep their job and so they are arguably far, far more likely to influenced by the media than a juror who, if they disagree with the media, suffers no consequences whatsoever.
is there a service provider in the middle of Outback, Nowhere in Australia, or in Canada, or even some areas of the United States?
I am curious as to why it is "the outback, Australia" and "areas of the US" but apparently all of Canada? We have a large variety of service providers up here: elk, bison, deer and moose. On advantage of our providers is that they can actually drag the child back with them - I'd like to see any of your fancy US providers do that. We even have a new cutting edge, high speed Canada goose network that has just enough capacity to carry iPhone traffic. So please remember that just because we all live in igloos doesn't mean that don't have access the latest tech.
But if these things become prevalent then the parents that don't track and log their children's movements will be seen as irresponsible.
Highly doubtful, especially if you argued that you wanted to protect your child's privacy - well at least here in Canada where privacy is taken seriously. Having said that I see no problem with the watch as long as the child knows that it contains a tracker device. Frankly though a better device would be one which has a "panic" button to alert your parents. That way the child is not tracked until they want to be. I think they already have such things for hikers in remote locations.
Why should they have to tolerate the boredom? Is the judge also required to avoid watching any television or using the web while presiding over the court to avoid it influencing his sentencing decision? If you can trust the judge not to get biased then why not the jury too?
If it is important to prevent the jury hearing about the trial then ban all coverage of it in the media until a verdict is reached. Of course that only applies to the country the trial is in but very few trails hold any interest outside one country and even those that are are unlikely to be covered by international media until there is a verdict. Jurors that are treated sensibly and with respect are far more likely to do a good job than those who are subject to arbitrary rules that are applied unevenly.
Most certainly there is job protection in the UK. In fact there is arguably far too much job protection. To fire someone for incompetence you are required to give them written notice multiple times before you can actually fire them. The only exception is contract work where you can always opt to not renew the contract. This is how they killed academic tenure in the UK.
The OU actively develops Moodle, particularly the quiz module. This works on all machines since it is a web application. You can also get several of their courses via iTunesU which is hardly Windows-based!
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It is actually the largest nation on Earth, with Canada in second place (as long as we keep Quebec!).
There are 23 official languages in the EU. And many more in Europe [wikipedia.org].
Interestingly the article lists Russian as one of those European languages so either this should be the second European commander or the first commander from the EU.
But chronic postherpetic neuralgia is a godawful complication in later life, and it's reasonable to believe that the vaccine will limit that.
Regarding the "boost effect for parents": why would this be an issue? Once you are infected with chicken pox the virus is never eradicated and remains with you and is just kept under constant control by the immune system. This is why a sudden case of shingles in later life is often the sign of something more serious which is compromising the immune system.
Also, to counter you anecdote, the vaccine should not be given to people who have already had the disease since there is a small risk that it will weaken the immune response to the real virus in them and may cause shingles. Hence your example is also possible with the vaccine.
Actually there was an item on the BBC yesterday. They are now training drivers to use regenerative breaking for trains in the UK. Rather than store it locally they put power back into the overhead lines. Apparently it is around 14% efficient which, since the power is not always there on demand, means they get to power ~10% of trains "for free".
I don't think you understand how it works:
No vaccination: person gets chicken pox as a kid is ill for a week, recovers and has immunity for life (unless something else compromises their immune system).
With vaccination: person gets vaccinated as a kid and gets immunity for 10 years (might be as long as 20 now but really they don't know how long the immunity lasts because it has not been around that long). As a teenager parents ensure they get the 10 year booster so immunity continues. Next booster (or first if 20 years) comes due at university. The person is probably completely unaware of it, forgets to have it and is no longer immune to chicken pox. Several years later they are exposed and then get a serious case of shingles.
So which one do YOU think is the way to go? The problem is that with the vaccine being handed out like candy it is hard for kids to get exposed. Our kids will have to get vaccinated if they haven't managed to catch it before ~15 but it would be better for them to be exposed to the disease beforehand.
If you want to do business with a country then you have to obey its laws. This is why MS is taking EU law seriously: they want to be able to continue selling Windows and Office in the EU. A Canadian ISP is different because it does not do any business outside Canada. If people in the US want to connect to it that is their business, not the ISPs. If you ring someone in Canada from the US using a phone the person you are talking to is not, now magically subject to US law.
So I take it you would be outraged if a US hospital voluntarily provides free healthcare to a bunch of people?
If the copyright holders had asked the Canadian ISP nicely i.e. not quoting irrelevant foreign laws and demanding their compliance then I would have had no problem - as long as the ISP did not break Canadian law in complying. Being polite doesn't cost anything and is often far more effective which is something the US seems to frequently forget.
I imagine that you would have an issue if I turned up at a US hospital, as a foreigner, demanded free healthcare quoting the relevant act of parliament, and they just capitulated and decided that they had to obey Canadian law. Of course if I asked nicely and they decided to be generous and give it then nobody would have an issue would they? See how manners work?
Often (as the bigger of the two), the US...
I think you actually mean "as the one with the larger economy". If you care to look at a map you'll find that Canada is actually bigger than the US.
Think we could have practically wiped out polio or smallpox in this country if we just kicked back and waited to see what happened?
No, but the case for these vaccines was clear since both small pox and polio are incredibly serious diseases resulting in high mortality rates or permanent handicap. For these diseases the rate of serious complications from the vaccine is far, far lower than the rate of serious consequences from the disease so it is very clear that you should vaccinate.
The problem is that we are now developing vaccines for diseases which have far, far lower rates of complications and fatalities. An example is chicken pox. The rate of complications from the vaccine is comparable to the rate of complications from the disease, the WHO recommends it mainly as an economic measure (stops parents missing work to look after sick kids) and since the vaccine wears off you have to have booster shots or risk getting shingles as an adult which is a serious disease.
Swine flu seems to be between the two. The disease can sometimes be serious but the vaccine has had no large scale testing. Hence, since I'm not an "at risk" category I'm waiting this one out at least until a while after the mass vaccination has started to see if there are an complications from the vaccine. Once the guinea pigs have shown it is safe I'll get my shot then.
I understood that there is some battery capacity onboard diesel-electric's - at a minimum for the starter motor - but no where near enough for any significant travel. So it is not quite so different. I'd also be surprised if regenerative breaking is not included on more recent examples too. Certainly it has been included on pure electric cars well before 2006.
Actually DMCA takedown notice is a benign part of that act, unlike anti-circumvention provisions.
So what? It is NOT the law in Canada. We have laws guaranteeing public access to healthcare which are benign - does that mean that the US should be required to follow Canadian law? The correct response from the Canadian ISP should be to mail back an elementary school book explaining about how countries are different with a suggestion that they read it and learn something.
I would also dispute how benign it actually is because it can be used to intimidate people into taking down material that they are legally entitled to show such as the case here.
Perhaps they did not go back far enough? Diesel-electric transmission has been around since the 1920's. From the 1960's until they electrified the line the East Coast Mainline in the UK ran Diesel-Electric trains. Of course the system is somewhat simpler than hybrid cars but the basic principle is the same: fuel runs generator and the generator charges batteries and powers electric traction motors.
But quotes for the "free market cost of antimatter" are based on the fantastic costs of generating it in an accelerator.
Why pay? - antimatter is available for free! One cosmic ray passes through every cubic centimetre of your body every second that you stand on the Earth's surface and about half are anti-muons. In addition, since they are available everywhere on Earth (and other planets with atmospheres) storage is not a problem - wherever you go there will still be anti-matter there for you!
There must already be legal definitions of compensation in the US otherwise income tax would be trivially easy to avoid. "What salary? This was a 'gift' from the company." It's true that laws can lag company practices by a few years - as was the case with company cars in the UK - but they inevitably catch up. In fact when tax money is involved it is amazing how rapid governments can move.
The FTC rules only apply to people in the US. Once again this is an example of how one country's laws are meaningless on the Internet. They will simply pay non-Americans to astroturf. You cannot tell whether someone is typing with an American accent on the net - although cultural references can sometimes give it away.
Health care is not an entitlement or a right.
I believe that your founding fathers disagree: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.". Without healthcare your life will be shorter, you may have your liberty restricted by curable conditions and pursuing happiness becomes impossible.
...And yet, ANY PERSON, regardless of insurance or socioeconomic status, is able to walk into an emergency room in America TODAY and receive full treatment without concern over the final cost.
If that is true why was my Canadian insurance required to pay when we took my son to a US emergency room a couple of years ago? It is true that they have to treat you and the accountant does not get set on you until it is time to leave but if you cannot afford it they can certainly make you bankrupt. So I would hardly say that this qualifies to "without concern over final cost". In fact the only exit from the emergency room was through the account's office.
Therefore, if we are providing health care for everyone, we need to make sure that people are taking care of themselves.
No you do not - you just need to make sure that those costs are covered. This is the justification for taxing tobacco in the UK. Smokers generally have substantial health problems so there is a tax on cigarettes to cover the cost of treating those health problems. I have no trouble with there being a tax on junk food to cover the associated health costs. Those who eat more of it will pay more tax and hence foot their own healthcare bill. This does not make it a "nanny state": it simply means that you are end up paying for the consequences of your own choices.
Taxing junk food when you have practically no public healthcare like the US is unjustifiable. It is essentially the government saying that they disapprove of your behaviour. This is a true "nanny state" because they are trying to modify your behaviour "for your own good" and you still have to cover the cost of your own healthcare on top of this.
Let's go back to dialup.
Why? If the most important aim is to stop illegal downloads then a far better solution would be to abolish IP laws. That would completely stop all those illegal downloads. Of course the consequences of that on the economy would probably be bad but likely no worse than everyone being forced to return to dial-up and it has the advantage of completely solving the problem and not just reducing it.
I suppose you watched Wild America?
No but we do get to watch Wild Canada through the hole in our igloo wall. It's on 24 hours a day up here, it can be a bit boring in winter, especially when we get a lot of snowy interference with the signal.
You're telling me that you'd rather censor every media outlet than allow about 12 people to endure a little boredom?
If you are serious about contaminating people then yes because it is the ONLY way to do it.
They're professionals.
So am I. I am a scientist it is my profession to be ONLY influenced by evidence and not supposition far more so than a judge. So if the judge is allowed to ignore seqestering why shouldn't I be also if we are basing it on training?
A judge is thoroughly trained to resist these sources of bias.
No, they are thoroughly trained to follow the law as it has been interpreted before and, as anyone knows, you can twist that interpretation to be what you want.
Unlike the jury, there is no time during the trial when things are going on in the courtroom
What about when they go home at night on a multi-day trial? What about when they have lunch?
Requiring them to avoid the media would would mean barring judges from all media for much of their adult lives.
So what? They chose ot be judges. If it is so important for the jury then it must be equally important for the judge...of course this is the reason why it does not apply to judges and so I would argue shoudl also not apply to jurors.
Judges are concerned with the legal questions in a case, which are not generally at issue in the media.
Only partly true. They can overrule the jury in rare cases (if they find that no reasonably jury could reach a guilty verdict for example). They also decide sentencing which is most certainly discussed in the media. In addition I understand that in the US in some cases the public votes for them to get/keep their job and so they are arguably far, far more likely to influenced by the media than a juror who, if they disagree with the media, suffers no consequences whatsoever.
is there a service provider in the middle of Outback, Nowhere in Australia, or in Canada, or even some areas of the United States?
I am curious as to why it is "the outback, Australia" and "areas of the US" but apparently all of Canada? We have a large variety of service providers up here: elk, bison, deer and moose. On advantage of our providers is that they can actually drag the child back with them - I'd like to see any of your fancy US providers do that. We even have a new cutting edge, high speed Canada goose network that has just enough capacity to carry iPhone traffic. So please remember that just because we all live in igloos doesn't mean that don't have access the latest tech.
But if these things become prevalent then the parents that don't track and log their children's movements will be seen as irresponsible.
Highly doubtful, especially if you argued that you wanted to protect your child's privacy - well at least here in Canada where privacy is taken seriously. Having said that I see no problem with the watch as long as the child knows that it contains a tracker device. Frankly though a better device would be one which has a "panic" button to alert your parents. That way the child is not tracked until they want to be. I think they already have such things for hikers in remote locations.
Why should they have to tolerate the boredom? Is the judge also required to avoid watching any television or using the web while presiding over the court to avoid it influencing his sentencing decision? If you can trust the judge not to get biased then why not the jury too?
If it is important to prevent the jury hearing about the trial then ban all coverage of it in the media until a verdict is reached. Of course that only applies to the country the trial is in but very few trails hold any interest outside one country and even those that are are unlikely to be covered by international media until there is a verdict. Jurors that are treated sensibly and with respect are far more likely to do a good job than those who are subject to arbitrary rules that are applied unevenly.
Not in UK either
Most certainly there is job protection in the UK. In fact there is arguably far too much job protection. To fire someone for incompetence you are required to give them written notice multiple times before you can actually fire them. The only exception is contract work where you can always opt to not renew the contract. This is how they killed academic tenure in the UK.
The OU actively develops Moodle, particularly the quiz module. This works on all machines since it is a web application. You can also get several of their courses via iTunesU which is hardly Windows-based!