Believe it or not the transmission rate of HIV is actually pretty low as long as blood isn't involved. Not every instance of male/female intercourse, in fact not even most, is going to result in an infection. Furthermore, even if the mother does end up catching it there's till only a 25% chance the kid will get it as well, and that's if absolutely no precautions are taken. Take a look at the odds.
Of course this isn't saying that it isn't something people should worry about, low odds to catch but high odds to kill you is still something to worry about, but even with AIDS in the picture having lots of unprotected sex and thus lots of kids can still be a successful evolutionary strategy.
Yes, but you can't just dismiss the fact that people who have lots of unprotected sex tend to have more kids than those who practice abstinence. Abstinence is great for protecting yourself as an individual, but you can't just assume that natural selection is going to favor that strategy too.
That's... 100% backwards. If i had sex with a hundred women (yeah, i'm on slashdot, i wish) got AIDS and died, but that sex resulted in a half dozen kids then natural selection would favor me a hell of a lot more than someone who practiced complete abstinence.
Natural selection only "cares" (yes, i'm anthropomorphizing it, get over it) if you have kids and how many. It doesn't give a damn if you survive the process or not.
It's unlikely that the group that became the Australian aboriginals went straight from Africa to Australia, they were probably just a small part of a much larger migration pattern and there were most likely populations of them all over the middle east and Asia at the very least. Later groups out-competed those early settlers in every area where they encountered them.
Certainly things can change over the time spans we're talking about, but the Australian aborigines came from a culture that just wasn't as aggressive about pursuing competitive advantages against other humans, which for our species generally means technology. Of course it also doesn't help that they were incredibly isolated, and lack of competition means even less pressure to develop new technology.
In fact if there's an "early" group and a "late" group at all then it's almost a truism that the "late" group must have out competed the "early" group in the areas they dominated. At the very least they must have competed about as well or they couldn't have moved into the new area to begin with.
The vast amounts of time and space involved means that there's some room for a less competitive group to show up later and carve out a niche for themselves somewhere, but in general the most advanced and competitive group is going to be the last one that showed up for the same reason that you always find something in the last place you look. Once you've found it you stop looking, and once the most advanced and competitive group has moved in nobody else can.
If that were the case we would end up seeing massive relativist effects in the show, which do not happen. According to Einstein however quickly the Enterprise seems to be traveling or how much space has been warped from its perspective, from Starbase's perspective it's going to take years for Kirk to travel between one star and another.
And if it's actually an accurate result then it doesn't matter how small the value is. As soon as you break the speed of light by _any_ amount then the theoretical doors are wide open. According to Einstein breaking the speed of light by even just one nanosecond is _exactly_ as impossible as Star Trek variety warp speed.
Well the editors removed the second part of the post where i tried to promote an artist who created a pirate themed album and then told everyone to pirate it. And then they put it on the idle page without even a mention on the main page. Total fail. Oh well, here's what else i had to say in the original submission:
More recently the Celtic musician Marc Gunn, under the pseudonym "Captain Black Jack Murphy" has produced an album of pirate music titled "Pogue Mahone Means Kiss My Arse!" and made free copies available. He encourages everyone to support piracy by copying the album and sharing it with their friends. Of course if you like what you hear you should donate at that page or buy some of his other music. This is how many Slashdotters say music ought to be done, so how well will it work in practice? (Beware though, these are (mostly) real sea shanties and drinking songs performed acoustically. If you prefer heavily produced music from the modern labels this is not for you! Also, a couple of the songs are definitely NSFW.)
One group made what appears to be an honest mistake, and another group is correcting that mistake. It would be nice if they could always be 100% right the first time as you seem to be suggesting, but that's just not possible. On the other hand the most vocal supporters of the other side seem to never admit when they get something wrong and only listen to the people who generally support the idea of global climate change when they admit they're incorrect about something.
"Now glaciologists are left trying to figure out how not understate the importance of the extent glacial ice melt, while at the same time correcting the error."
They wouldn't have this issue if there wasn't an opposition that will shout it to the heavens every time a mistake or revision is made in relation to global warming but every statement made in support of it is ignored, even if the two are part of the same package. "It's bad, but not as bad as this" will only be interpreted as "they've admitted they're wrong so it's all a hoax!" If we could actually have a clam and reasoned discussion about the issue without people with vested interests in it dominating the debate then this wouldn't be a concern.
Rob Bricken of Topless Robot found someone else who agrees that artists should stop trying to meddle with their art after releasing it... George Lucas from 1988. He gave a speech to Congress about the issue in which he said, among other things,
"The public's interest is ultimately dominant over all other interests."
and
"Attention should be paid to the interest of those who are yet unborn, who should be able to see this generation as it saw itself, and the past generation as it saw itself."
Have you considered the rather drastic step of, i dunno, switching providers?
As long as we're speaking of the issue as if our opinions mattered at all, certainly there's far less grief involved in that than in forcing everyone who actually likes T-Mobile to have to switch to AT&T against their will.
Come now, to paraphrase "Volcano," it doesn't matter if you're a native European or a North African immigrant, we're all the same color after being carbonised by a nuclear waste furnace explosion. And that color is black. A crispy, crispy black.
I've never actually studied Marx, but that's pretty much the impression i've gotten second hand. He didn't think communism was going to happen anytime soon. It was Lenin and co who (purposefully?) misinterpreted what Marx said and claimed communism could work at the time they staged their revolutions.
In 20 or 40 or 100 years we may finally be at the point where we've figured out alternative forms of energy and automated production means we can make more than enough for everyone with a minimal amount of human labor. (Assuming we survive that long of course.) At that point we'll be seriously looking back at what Marx had to say. We may find that he didn't get everything right but i suspect he'll have gotten closer to a good solution for that situation than what capitalism would dictate.
Seanan McGuire has summed up the reasons why some people believe (or believed now?) that the Black Death may have been caused by something other than Yersinia Pestis in lyrical form. (Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be any recordings of her performing it on YouTube.)
This latest bit of research may have disproved the theory but it's still a fun song, and how often do you get to hear someone singing about epidemiology?:)
Actually, it was "2061" (which was written in the mid to late 80s.) The... prospectors? sent a transmission to their allies back on earth using "Lucy" as a prearranged code word to indicate that they should... start doing whatever it was they planned to do in the stock market if their hypothesis about the diamond's existence was confirmed.
He can't, he gave up his right to post stuff, now he has to submit like everyone else. (...er, that didn't come out quite right.)
"I'll continue to read Slashdot and hopefully my occasional story submissions will make the cut."
Naw! That'll never happen! I bet they've already set up a filter to send all your submissions to/dev/null. They convinced you dropping the right to post stories was for your own good, but no one likes past rulers who have been removed from power hanging around and fiddling with stuff;)
Come on, bring out the -1's. Show me how malevolent you really are, slashdot moderators.
Yeah you malevolent moderators you! It's not right to mod people down or insult them just because you disagree with them on a subject!!! It's in the rules!
(replace "White Sox" with your favorite team that plays a real sport based on physical prowess)
You obviously don't understand design patents. The deep, thick bezel and wheels on the Etch-A-Sketch completely discount your claim.
Also, on the 2001 claim by Samsung, if you look closely at the near "tablet" in the clip (saw on YouTube, not higher res) there appears to be a row of white dots, perhaps suggesting buttons on the bottom edge. iPad doesn't do that. Neither does Samsung.
You're right, i don't understand design patents. But from what you're saying all Samsung would have to do to fix the issue is stick a button on their devices? Exact same shape and everything, but now it has a button, and that would be okay?
We've seen dozens of tablet designs prototyped & on the market for years and suddenly Apple's catches the marketplace's attention and copycats don't create their own unique product look, they deliberately try to confuse customers into thinking their product is the Apple product rather than innovate or stand part.
Okay, this is just hogwash. No one is being confused about which one is the Apple product and i seriously doubt there is any intent to confuse. We're not talking about cheap imitation knock-offs. Apple products come with big giant Apple logos on the box, and the Samsung tablets are clearly branded as Samsung products. Samsung is reacting to the perception that the market has spoken and is saying that "rectangular slate without extra doodads is the form factor we prefer."
If there was something inherently unique about that form factor that hadn't been done before than Samsung would be in trouble, but as it is it's perfectly reasonable for people to try and give them what they want. There have been plenty of other handheld devices in the past with rounded corners and edges so you don't hurt yourself while using them. The only different thing about tablets is that you've taken away everything else except the screen.
In the drawing, any features shown with dashed lines are not part of the "claim" - they are exemplary in nature to help you see how the claimed features interrelate to the rest of the object. Only the parts with solid lines are considered part of the ornamental design which their patent is intended to cover.
Phew! Good thing they drew the picture of the person holding the iPad with a dashed line then, or we'd _all_ be in big trouble!
It's not the same color and it's mechanical rather than electronic, but i really don't think that's a significant difference in terms of the important bits. Flat rectangular thing with bezeled edges and rounded corners that your draw on. This form factor was worked out ages ago, the theory of improving the interface and what you can do with it are certainly important technological improvements but have little to do with the form factor that Apple is claiming is important.
And according to USGS it was also 0.6 miles deep, with a vertical uncertainty of plus or minus 4.6 miles. Gotta watch out for those mid-air earthquakes! They're sneaky!
From USGS
Magnitude 5.9
Date-Time
Tuesday, August 23, 2011 at 17:51:03 UTC
Tuesday, August 23, 2011 at 01:51:03 PM at epicenter
Location 37.975ÂN, 77.969ÂW
Depth 1 km (~0.6 mile) (poorly constrained)
Region VIRGINIA
Distances
6 km (4 miles) SSE (152Â) from Louisa, VA
6 km (4 miles) SW (236Â) from Mineral, VA
26 km (16 miles) SE (133Â) from Gordonsville, VA
32 km (20 miles) E (79Â) from Lake Monticello, VA
66 km (41 miles) NW (318Â) from Richmond, VA
134 km (83 miles) SW (219Â) from Washington, DC
Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 10.9 km (6.8 miles); depth +/- 7.4 km (4.6 miles)
Parameters NST=390, Nph=390, Dmin=57.9 km, Rmss=1.17 sec, Gp= 47Â,
M-type=regional moment magnitude (Mw), Version=6
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What do you think is involved in pregnancy? You fuck the girl while she's on her period, BLEEDING.
Believe it or not the transmission rate of HIV is actually pretty low as long as blood isn't involved. Not every instance of male/female intercourse, in fact not even most, is going to result in an infection. Furthermore, even if the mother does end up catching it there's till only a 25% chance the kid will get it as well, and that's if absolutely no precautions are taken. Take a look at the odds.
Of course this isn't saying that it isn't something people should worry about, low odds to catch but high odds to kill you is still something to worry about, but even with AIDS in the picture having lots of unprotected sex and thus lots of kids can still be a successful evolutionary strategy.
Yes, but you can't just dismiss the fact that people who have lots of unprotected sex tend to have more kids than those who practice abstinence. Abstinence is great for protecting yourself as an individual, but you can't just assume that natural selection is going to favor that strategy too.
That's... 100% backwards. If i had sex with a hundred women (yeah, i'm on slashdot, i wish) got AIDS and died, but that sex resulted in a half dozen kids then natural selection would favor me a hell of a lot more than someone who practiced complete abstinence.
Natural selection only "cares" (yes, i'm anthropomorphizing it, get over it) if you have kids and how many. It doesn't give a damn if you survive the process or not.
It's unlikely that the group that became the Australian aboriginals went straight from Africa to Australia, they were probably just a small part of a much larger migration pattern and there were most likely populations of them all over the middle east and Asia at the very least. Later groups out-competed those early settlers in every area where they encountered them.
Certainly things can change over the time spans we're talking about, but the Australian aborigines came from a culture that just wasn't as aggressive about pursuing competitive advantages against other humans, which for our species generally means technology. Of course it also doesn't help that they were incredibly isolated, and lack of competition means even less pressure to develop new technology.
In fact if there's an "early" group and a "late" group at all then it's almost a truism that the "late" group must have out competed the "early" group in the areas they dominated. At the very least they must have competed about as well or they couldn't have moved into the new area to begin with.
The vast amounts of time and space involved means that there's some room for a less competitive group to show up later and carve out a niche for themselves somewhere, but in general the most advanced and competitive group is going to be the last one that showed up for the same reason that you always find something in the last place you look. Once you've found it you stop looking, and once the most advanced and competitive group has moved in nobody else can.
If that were the case we would end up seeing massive relativist effects in the show, which do not happen. According to Einstein however quickly the Enterprise seems to be traveling or how much space has been warped from its perspective, from Starbase's perspective it's going to take years for Kirk to travel between one star and another.
And if it's actually an accurate result then it doesn't matter how small the value is. As soon as you break the speed of light by _any_ amount then the theoretical doors are wide open. According to Einstein breaking the speed of light by even just one nanosecond is _exactly_ as impossible as Star Trek variety warp speed.
Oh yeah, and there's a torrent of the album as well.
Well the editors removed the second part of the post where i tried to promote an artist who created a pirate themed album and then told everyone to pirate it. And then they put it on the idle page without even a mention on the main page. Total fail. Oh well, here's what else i had to say in the original submission:
More recently the Celtic musician Marc Gunn, under the pseudonym "Captain Black Jack Murphy" has produced an album of pirate music titled "Pogue Mahone Means Kiss My Arse!" and made free copies available. He encourages everyone to support piracy by copying the album and sharing it with their friends. Of course if you like what you hear you should donate at that page or buy some of his other music. This is how many Slashdotters say music ought to be done, so how well will it work in practice? (Beware though, these are (mostly) real sea shanties and drinking songs performed acoustically. If you prefer heavily produced music from the modern labels this is not for you! Also, a couple of the songs are definitely NSFW.)
One group made what appears to be an honest mistake, and another group is correcting that mistake. It would be nice if they could always be 100% right the first time as you seem to be suggesting, but that's just not possible. On the other hand the most vocal supporters of the other side seem to never admit when they get something wrong and only listen to the people who generally support the idea of global climate change when they admit they're incorrect about something.
"Now glaciologists are left trying to figure out how not understate the importance of the extent glacial ice melt, while at the same time correcting the error."
They wouldn't have this issue if there wasn't an opposition that will shout it to the heavens every time a mistake or revision is made in relation to global warming but every statement made in support of it is ignored, even if the two are part of the same package. "It's bad, but not as bad as this" will only be interpreted as "they've admitted they're wrong so it's all a hoax!" If we could actually have a clam and reasoned discussion about the issue without people with vested interests in it dominating the debate then this wouldn't be a concern.
"The public's interest is ultimately dominant over all other interests."
and
"Attention should be paid to the interest of those who are yet unborn, who should be able to see this generation as it saw itself, and the past generation as it saw itself."
Have you considered the rather drastic step of, i dunno, switching providers?
As long as we're speaking of the issue as if our opinions mattered at all, certainly there's far less grief involved in that than in forcing everyone who actually likes T-Mobile to have to switch to AT&T against their will.
Come now, to paraphrase "Volcano," it doesn't matter if you're a native European or a North African immigrant, we're all the same color after being carbonised by a nuclear waste furnace explosion. And that color is black. A crispy, crispy black.
I've never actually studied Marx, but that's pretty much the impression i've gotten second hand. He didn't think communism was going to happen anytime soon. It was Lenin and co who (purposefully?) misinterpreted what Marx said and claimed communism could work at the time they staged their revolutions.
In 20 or 40 or 100 years we may finally be at the point where we've figured out alternative forms of energy and automated production means we can make more than enough for everyone with a minimal amount of human labor. (Assuming we survive that long of course.) At that point we'll be seriously looking back at what Marx had to say. We may find that he didn't get everything right but i suspect he'll have gotten closer to a good solution for that situation than what capitalism would dictate.
Seanan McGuire has summed up the reasons why some people believe (or believed now?) that the Black Death may have been caused by something other than Yersinia Pestis in lyrical form. (Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be any recordings of her performing it on YouTube.)
:)
This latest bit of research may have disproved the theory but it's still a fun song, and how often do you get to hear someone singing about epidemiology?
Actually, it was "2061" (which was written in the mid to late 80s.) The... prospectors? sent a transmission to their allies back on earth using "Lucy" as a prearranged code word to indicate that they should... start doing whatever it was they planned to do in the stock market if their hypothesis about the diamond's existence was confirmed.
Sooner or later one side or the other will remember to call "no fake-backs!"
"I'll continue to read Slashdot and hopefully my occasional story submissions will make the cut."
Naw! That'll never happen! I bet they've already set up a filter to send all your submissions to /dev/null. They convinced you dropping the right to post stories was for your own good, but no one likes past rulers who have been removed from power hanging around and fiddling with stuff ;)
Ever notice that when an investigation is concluded that if it doesn't fit your biases you always question the biases of everyone who agrees with it?
Come on, bring out the -1's. Show me how malevolent you really are, slashdot moderators.
Yeah you malevolent moderators you! It's not right to mod people down or insult them just because you disagree with them on a subject!!! It's in the rules!
(replace "White Sox" with your favorite team that plays a real sport based on physical prowess)
You obviously don't understand design patents. The deep, thick bezel and wheels on the Etch-A-Sketch completely discount your claim.
Also, on the 2001 claim by Samsung, if you look closely at the near "tablet" in the clip (saw on YouTube, not higher res) there appears to be a row of white dots, perhaps suggesting buttons on the bottom edge. iPad doesn't do that. Neither does Samsung.
You're right, i don't understand design patents. But from what you're saying all Samsung would have to do to fix the issue is stick a button on their devices? Exact same shape and everything, but now it has a button, and that would be okay?
We've seen dozens of tablet designs prototyped & on the market for years and suddenly Apple's catches the marketplace's attention and copycats don't create their own unique product look, they deliberately try to confuse customers into thinking their product is the Apple product rather than innovate or stand part.
Okay, this is just hogwash. No one is being confused about which one is the Apple product and i seriously doubt there is any intent to confuse. We're not talking about cheap imitation knock-offs. Apple products come with big giant Apple logos on the box, and the Samsung tablets are clearly branded as Samsung products. Samsung is reacting to the perception that the market has spoken and is saying that "rectangular slate without extra doodads is the form factor we prefer."
If there was something inherently unique about that form factor that hadn't been done before than Samsung would be in trouble, but as it is it's perfectly reasonable for people to try and give them what they want. There have been plenty of other handheld devices in the past with rounded corners and edges so you don't hurt yourself while using them. The only different thing about tablets is that you've taken away everything else except the screen.
In the drawing, any features shown with dashed lines are not part of the "claim" - they are exemplary in nature to help you see how the claimed features interrelate to the rest of the object. Only the parts with solid lines are considered part of the ornamental design which their patent is intended to cover.
Phew! Good thing they drew the picture of the person holding the iPad with a dashed line then, or we'd _all_ be in big trouble!
But i still wish they'd introduce this as prior art.
It's not the same color and it's mechanical rather than electronic, but i really don't think that's a significant difference in terms of the important bits. Flat rectangular thing with bezeled edges and rounded corners that your draw on. This form factor was worked out ages ago, the theory of improving the interface and what you can do with it are certainly important technological improvements but have little to do with the form factor that Apple is claiming is important.
And according to USGS it was also 0.6 miles deep, with a vertical uncertainty of plus or minus 4.6 miles. Gotta watch out for those mid-air earthquakes! They're sneaky!
From USGS
Magnitude 5.9
Date-Time
Tuesday, August 23, 2011 at 17:51:03 UTC
Tuesday, August 23, 2011 at 01:51:03 PM at epicenter
Location 37.975ÂN, 77.969ÂW
Depth 1 km (~0.6 mile) (poorly constrained)
Region VIRGINIA
Distances
6 km (4 miles) SSE (152Â) from Louisa, VA
6 km (4 miles) SW (236Â) from Mineral, VA
26 km (16 miles) SE (133Â) from Gordonsville, VA
32 km (20 miles) E (79Â) from Lake Monticello, VA
66 km (41 miles) NW (318Â) from Richmond, VA
134 km (83 miles) SW (219Â) from Washington, DC
Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 10.9 km (6.8 miles); depth +/- 7.4 km (4.6 miles)
Parameters NST=390, Nph=390, Dmin=57.9 km, Rmss=1.17 sec, Gp= 47Â,
M-type=regional moment magnitude (Mw), Version=6