As much as I like to bash megacorps for their misbehavior... that is completely unfair. I grew up less than 20 minutes from the Duane Arnold Energy Center (a nuclear powerplant outside Cedar Rapids, IA). They've never had an accident.
In fact the WORST accident in the History of nuclear power in the United States was Three Mile - and it was only a disaster because of the misinformation is spread about nuclear energy. The TOTAL dose of radiation that managed to escape Three Mile was less than the dose you'd get from the radioisotopes in the granite making up the halls of congress in a day.
Furthermore there are more modern reactor designs in which they're design to be IMPOSSIBLE to have criticality excursions (aka melt downs) - things such as PBRs where the nuclear moderator used in it is designed to become more efficient at capturing neutrons at higher temperatures. Literally if the coolant system fails the reactor, just by nuclear physics, ramps itself down. They've tried to make a PBR melt down, you cannot do it - their design was a success.
There are also other designs that cannot have criticality excursions.
Then there is also research into fusion reactors - again something that cannot have criticality excursions.
Then direct her there yourself. Say you noticed in the search history that she was searching for "hot guys".. have the birds and bees discussion with her - don't direct her to wikipedia for anatomy, there is a constant war about article bias through errors of [intentional] omission running on that site in relation to those articles, but direct her to another reliable site. If she wants to look at that kind of stuff.... shes going to look at it.
I had the internet when i was a teen... i looked at that kind of stuff, im now a married and productive member of society.
I have to say i disapprove of censorship.... i think you'll find more problems down the line with taking that solution instead of simply installing adblock plus
The worst thing you could possibly do is to try and block her attempts to get to content she really wants to get to.
However blocking accidental is really easy: remove IE if you haven't already, install Firefox if you haven't already and get the Ad Block Plus addon and subscribe to the EasyList USA blacklist. Ads.. what are ads?
now... just be honest and straight up with her about the birds and the bees.. and if she wants to look at stuff.. well she is going to look at stuff. It's not unhealthy, despite what our unhealthy prudish sexually-repressive culture wants to say.
(OMG! my 10 year old saw a titty on a movie! he's going to be a mass murderer now!)
Caveat: I am not a parent YET, but don't expect to change my opinions on this by the time i have kids of that age.
... this poses to many ethical and privacy issues to even consider being effective.
but seriously.. screw uninsured motorists.. i got T-boned by one once (driving one of my parents cars)... thanks for your stupidity costing my parents a perfectly good vehicle with no compensation.
there you go.. and i haven't read the rest of the replies yet but saying "parasite" was not serious.
I was using the MOST LOGICALLY AND EMPIRICALLY DEFENSIBLE definition of when it becomes a discrete life
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comercials? what are those? oooh right those things that my mythTV box automatically skips over
TV what's that? a large low resolution for it's size monitor(1280x720 for mine) Shaping my schedule to the TV shows? nooop... 1TB of storage + record when they show + watch when i want
no.. PARASITE begins at conception... it's not a discrete life until it can survive outside of its host (mother) without teh aid of modern medical technology.
Dr Jacobson is not stupid, I've met the man. I graduated with a degree in computer science from Iowa State University in December. I haven't taken a class from him, but again the man is not stupid.
He's malicious. He's being paid.
In fact I bet he even knows his testimony is full of shit.
Don't fool yourself, DRM is not about piracy. It is about inhibiting the exercise of fair use rights by legitimate customers and convincing them those rights do not exist. Rights such as format-shifting, time-shifting, personal backup copies, etc. DRM is just a way to increase their revenue stream because now instead of exercising your fair use right to copy that CD into your MP3 player you have to go pay another $1/song if they can convince you that right does not exist, or make exercising that right too difficult.
DRM has never, and will never, end real "piracy" as real pirate learn to bypass it with ease
yes - the regions of Delve, Querious, and about 2/3rds of Period Basis were controlled by Band of Brothers - in some systems Sov was gained by an ally of theirs who also had atleast 1 starbase in the system when BoB's ability to claim sov was destroyed by being disbanded.
All of member corporations of the former alliance BoB are still there and their assets are - they're just no longer effectively invincible. BoB had created such and effective network of defense using super-capitals, cyno jammers, and jump bridges that attacking any system in Delve was effectively suicide.
By destroying their Sov that invincibility has just been destroyed.
i know a while ago i saw an article where someone who naturally had the immunity gene donated bone marrow to someone with HIV - and the bone marrow transplant took and the person gained immunity and their immune system was able to attack the virus succesfully.
Radiation can create colored glows.. what do you think the Aurora are?
oh and btw
"A few curies (1 curie equals 37 gigabecquerels) of 210Po emit a blue glow which is caused by excitation of surrounding air." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polonium
I stopped reading at "consumption tax" - all sales taxes are inherently regressive (that meaning the poorer someone is the higher percent of their total income goes to tax)
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As much as I like to bash megacorps for their misbehavior... that is completely unfair. I grew up less than 20 minutes from the Duane Arnold Energy Center (a nuclear powerplant outside Cedar Rapids, IA). They've never had an accident.
In fact the WORST accident in the History of nuclear power in the United States was Three Mile - and it was only a disaster because of the misinformation is spread about nuclear energy. The TOTAL dose of radiation that managed to escape Three Mile was less than the dose you'd get from the radioisotopes in the granite making up the halls of congress in a day.
Furthermore there are more modern reactor designs in which they're design to be IMPOSSIBLE to have criticality excursions (aka melt downs) - things such as PBRs where the nuclear moderator used in it is designed to become more efficient at capturing neutrons at higher temperatures. Literally if the coolant system fails the reactor, just by nuclear physics, ramps itself down. They've tried to make a PBR melt down, you cannot do it - their design was a success.
There are also other designs that cannot have criticality excursions.
Then there is also research into fusion reactors - again something that cannot have criticality excursions.
im in a state that does require it.. and MY insurance has underinsured/uninsured coverage on both my and my wife's vehicles.
I make yuor meaningless 2 cents into meaningless 4 cents by adding mine... i agree
Then direct her there yourself. Say you noticed in the search history that she was searching for "hot guys".. have the birds and bees discussion with her - don't direct her to wikipedia for anatomy, there is a constant war about article bias through errors of [intentional] omission running on that site in relation to those articles, but direct her to another reliable site. If she wants to look at that kind of stuff.... shes going to look at it.
I had the internet when i was a teen... i looked at that kind of stuff, im now a married and productive member of society.
GP said nothing about government involvement... they, like me, most likely object to any and all censorship no matter the source.
Censorship is NEVER the answer.
I have to say i disapprove of censorship.... i think you'll find more problems down the line with taking that solution instead of simply installing adblock plus
The worst thing you could possibly do is to try and block her attempts to get to content she really wants to get to.
However blocking accidental is really easy: remove IE if you haven't already, install Firefox if you haven't already and get the Ad Block Plus addon and subscribe to the EasyList USA blacklist. Ads.. what are ads?
now... just be honest and straight up with her about the birds and the bees.. and if she wants to look at stuff.. well she is going to look at stuff. It's not unhealthy, despite what our unhealthy prudish sexually-repressive culture wants to say.
(OMG! my 10 year old saw a titty on a movie! he's going to be a mass murderer now!)
Caveat: I am not a parent YET, but don't expect to change my opinions on this by the time i have kids of that age.
... this poses to many ethical and privacy issues to even consider being effective.
but seriously.. screw uninsured motorists.. i got T-boned by one once (driving one of my parents cars)... thanks for your stupidity costing my parents a perfectly good vehicle with no compensation.
sorry i was being facetious to demonstrate some of the reasons why other access methods are trumping traditional TV/cable transmission
mine is a mythTV PVR and uploading videos onto it that i get through other means.
RE: anyone harping on the "PARASITE" statement... that word was being facetous.. the point i was making is that:
"life" begins when it is a discrete life - that is the most logically and empirically defensible definition
even if you don't accept that definition the fact remains: you cannot morally be forced to give of yourself for the sake of another.
there you go.. and i haven't read the rest of the replies yet but saying "parasite" was not serious.
I was using the MOST LOGICALLY AND EMPIRICALLY DEFENSIBLE definition of when it becomes a discrete life
comercials? what are those? oooh right those things that my mythTV box automatically skips over
TV what's that? a large low resolution for it's size monitor(1280x720 for mine)
Shaping my schedule to the TV shows? nooop... 1TB of storage + record when they show + watch when i want
no.. PARASITE begins at conception... it's not a discrete life until it can survive outside of its host (mother) without teh aid of modern medical technology.
try typing on a QWERTY keyboard not a SWASTIKA keyboard
i was not defending him... i was just making it clear how large of an asshole he is
It's probably a reference to IBM's strike team of lawyers that call themselves the Nazgul
Dr Jacobson is not stupid, I've met the man. I graduated with a degree in computer science from Iowa State University in December. I haven't taken a class from him, but again the man is not stupid.
He's malicious.
He's being paid.
In fact I bet he even knows his testimony is full of shit.
Again, he's being paid.
Don't fool yourself, DRM is not about piracy. It is about inhibiting the exercise of fair use rights by legitimate customers and convincing them those rights do not exist. Rights such as format-shifting, time-shifting, personal backup copies, etc. DRM is just a way to increase their revenue stream because now instead of exercising your fair use right to copy that CD into your MP3 player you have to go pay another $1/song if they can convince you that right does not exist, or make exercising that right too difficult.
DRM has never, and will never, end real "piracy" as real pirate learn to bypass it with ease
indeed it will... as BoB and basically become invulnerable in their core space - loosing sov breaks that
yes - the regions of Delve, Querious, and about 2/3rds of Period Basis were controlled by Band of Brothers - in some systems Sov was gained by an ally of theirs who also had atleast 1 starbase in the system when BoB's ability to claim sov was destroyed by being disbanded.
All of member corporations of the former alliance BoB are still there and their assets are - they're just no longer effectively invincible. BoB had created such and effective network of defense using super-capitals, cyno jammers, and jump bridges that attacking any system in Delve was effectively suicide.
By destroying their Sov that invincibility has just been destroyed.
i know a while ago i saw an article where someone who naturally had the immunity gene donated bone marrow to someone with HIV - and the bone marrow transplant took and the person gained immunity and their immune system was able to attack the virus succesfully.
Radiation can create colored glows.. what do you think the Aurora are?
oh and btw
"A few curies (1 curie equals 37 gigabecquerels) of 210Po emit a blue glow which is caused by excitation of surrounding air." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polonium
I stopped reading at "consumption tax" - all sales taxes are inherently regressive (that meaning the poorer someone is the higher percent of their total income goes to tax)
Your mouth is talking, and inaccurate numbers are spewing out of it
oh right kWh not mWh! my bad!
but yeah.. still cheaper