The incidence rate differences observed in cohort studies between combat and non-combat veterans who got the same immunizations and drugs, used the same pesticides, and breathed the same amount if not more smoke from Kuwaiti oil field fires, have ruled out everything but uranium poisoning. The increase in brith defects observed in Basrah (graph here -- birth defects per 1000 births) mirrors that of the U.S. and U.K. troops' children's birth defects over time. The only hypothesis capable of explaining that is uranium inhalation, leading to spermatid genotoxicity from accumulation in the testes.
Having said that, there is no way to explain how the contamination of Basrah occured, because almost all the time during and after the battles when uranium aerosols were being released, the prevailing winds would have been blowing them away from the city. Some people have suggested some kind of food-chain contamination, relating to either goats or birds.
There is a collection of peer-reviewed medical research on the subject here.
Please see my reply here. I think most of it is uranium poisoning, but the numbers are so absurdly large that a lot of it does indeed have to be less-than-real.
I have a hard time believing it, too, but here's the source:
Writing in Preventive Psychiatry... Arthur N. Bernklau, executive director of Veterans for Constitutional Law in New York, stated, "... Out of the 580,400 soldiers who served in GW1 (the first Gulf War), of them, 11,000 are now dead. By the year 2000, there were 325,000 on Permanent Medical Disability. This astounding number of 'Disabled Vets' means that a decade later, 56% of those soldiers who served have some form of permanent medical problems." The disability rate for the wars of the last century was 5 percent; it was higher, 10 percent, in Viet Nam....
"Terry Jamison, Public Affairs Specialist, Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs, Department of Veterans Affairs, at the VA Central Office, recently reported that 'Gulf Era Veterans' now on medical disability, since 1991, number 518,739 Veterans," said Berklau.
I asked vet-advocate Dan Fahey about this and here's what he wrote back:
> Are those figures right? From what I can find in Medline, I was > expecting something like 35,000 on permanent disability, based > on mortality rates, which are reported to be quite low. If these > people are getting sick nine times more than Viet Nam vets, but > are only dying 1.2 times as often, that's just hard for me to > believe.
Yes, the figures are right, but their connection to DU is incorrect. This covers all injuries--broken leg, hurt back, as well as Gulf War illnesses.
So, not all of the 89% have Gulf War Syndrome, but a whole lot of them do.
It is extremely likely that Think Secret is getting its information directly from people who are themselves bound by confidentiality agreements.
You have no evidence that someone at Apple under NDA was directly leaking to Think Secret. It is quite plausible that the information was procured or conveyed through a third party, a wife or husband, for example.
Yet you are willing to put quite a bit of effort into your arguments which presume guilt. Why?
Remind me not to vote for you if you run for judge. Until people like you are in power, we presume the innocence of suspects until proven guilty. [tt]
I make the ReadSay PROnounce English system, which uses speech recognition to evaluate and diagnose pronunciation, and help with oral reading. I've been offering it for $499, but I'll give a $100 discount to anyone who says they saw it on Slashdot (the $499 price is to keep distributor partners happy.) I've been selling this since September, and all the existing customers (as few as there are so far) are happy with it. I'm (1) in the process of arranging two comparitive evaluations, which will each take months, and (2) trying to sell it to a big educational software publisher.
Has it occured to you that the Republican base supports the GOP because the bigoted, intolerant, exclusionism is compatible with their bible-belt religious beliefs?
If you're a Libertarian, please vote for Libertarian candidates or stay home. Anything else is harmful to the Libertarian movement.
What nonsense. The U.S. first-past-the-post elections suffer from the "spoiler effect," because of which most third-party voters are effectivly voting for the opposite of what they want.
If you really care about your third party, or accuracy in any
"spoiled" election (i.e., with any third party participant), then support instant runoff voting (IRV) with all of your political might, because any voting you do in a U.S. election before IRV is implemented is usually a vote for the other side.
Google top management says "beta" means only that major changes are still expected. The term doesn't mean any more to them than that, since they don't have releases like shrinkwrap/OEM software developers do.
Thanks. Let me ask some more: What are the dynamics of such a quasars that last for so long? When the big black holes collide, do they deform, splatter into pieces, start spinning and flatten, or what? What would such a quasar look like up close (discounting the instant subatomic vaporization....)?
Actually, those white "dots" (that look like a line) are multiple simulations from different error peturbations. You can see the slight discontinuity. But yes, they are designed to represent the 95% confidence range. That doesn't mean there's a 5% chance of an earth hit. In 3-D, from a graph like that, I'd estimate 0.02% or so.
wouldn't the multiserver, microkernel design allow for a later realtime version?
I hope so. A lot of media applications are going to need that support sooner rather than later.
The trouble with 2nd-generation microkernels is that everything, even e.g., a firewire driver, can get preempted, without a lot of trouble. There should be at least a proposed API for realtime support, even if it's not fleshed out until things are more settled.
From what I can tell by googling mailing lists, the Hurd people just haven't been attending to any kind of decent real time support. That won't satisfy video and embedded applications.
Similarly you can argue the subsidized access to information over the internet provides an external public good to those who aren't using it.
E.g., If my neighbor can learn the symtoms of her tuberculosis infection before it impacts me, then I benefit indirectly.
There are several classes of information beyond medical which act this way: commercial product and service availability information makes local economies more efficient, access to what would otherwise require a trip to a public library cust fuel consumption, homeowner insulation and repair information saves resources and time, etc.
Well, there are seven actual system calls but a few dozen support routines built on them. The actual system calls are just like, "act on this kernel interface page which contanges message(s) and/or parameter updates and/or other instructions." And also the kernel ABI has more than the API does, IIRC.
My big problem with the Hurd is that there is no attempt to provide real-time support. I'm not asking for a realtime libc or anything like that, just some process scheduling and preemption guarentees for device drivers. Am I wrong that this has been ignored?
L4 has only seven system calls, compared to several dozen in Mach. It fits in about 32KB, too, which is very much smaller than Mach.
But the small size doesn't make most systems faster. Running the same Unix API, L4 adds execution time overhead beyond the default monolithic Linux kernel, about 5%. (Does anyone know the figure for Linux-on-Mach? I know it's much greater than 5%....) However, there are some significant advantages having to do with debugging, maintainability, SMP, real time gaurentees, memory management, configurability, robustness, etc. Detailed discussion here.
Kernels based on the L4 API are second-generation -kernels. They are very lean and feature fast, message-based, synchronous IPC, simple-to-use external paging mechanisms, and a security mechanism based on secure domains (tasks, clans and chiefs). The kernels try to implement only a minimal set of abstractions on which operating systems can be built flexibly.
the fact that they've chosen to be mostly standards compliant on one of their significant projects could signal their intent to make IE more standards compliant
Yeah, just like Bush promising freedom for all could signal a change in policy towards dictatorships such as Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, etc.
Pudge has me foed, and thereby doesn't allow me to participate in his journal discussions, but you might want to point out this to him in his and your thread.
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Having said that, there is no way to explain how the contamination of Basrah occured, because almost all the time during and after the battles when uranium aerosols were being released, the prevailing winds would have been blowing them away from the city. Some people have suggested some kind of food-chain contamination, relating to either goats or birds.
There is a collection of peer-reviewed medical research on the subject here.
Please see my reply here. I think most of it is uranium poisoning, but the numbers are so absurdly large that a lot of it does indeed have to be less-than-real.
Heh. More articles claiming a service linked to from the front page of Google.com is suffering, please! [tt]
1.7 euro a minute? That's absurd! Surely you must mean 0.017/minute?
Yet you are willing to put quite a bit of effort into your arguments which presume guilt. Why?
Remind me not to vote for you if you run for judge. Until people like you are in power, we presume the innocence of suspects until proven guilty. [tt]
No, the models are trained on natural speech, not Vortrax. You can get a free demo of the speech engine I use here.
I make the ReadSay PROnounce English system, which uses speech recognition to evaluate and diagnose pronunciation, and help with oral reading. I've been offering it for $499, but I'll give a $100 discount to anyone who says they saw it on Slashdot (the $499 price is to keep distributor partners happy.) I've been selling this since September, and all the existing customers (as few as there are so far) are happy with it. I'm (1) in the process of arranging two comparitive evaluations, which will each take months, and (2) trying to sell it to a big educational software publisher.
Details at Daily Kos.
Has it occured to you that the Republican base supports the GOP because the bigoted, intolerant, exclusionism is compatible with their bible-belt religious beliefs?
What nonsense. The U.S. first-past-the-post elections suffer from the "spoiler effect," because of which most third-party voters are effectivly voting for the opposite of what they want.
If you really care about your third party, or accuracy in any "spoiled" election (i.e., with any third party participant), then support instant runoff voting (IRV) with all of your political might, because any voting you do in a U.S. election before IRV is implemented is usually a vote for the other side.
Google top management says "beta" means only that major changes are still expected. The term doesn't mean any more to them than that, since they don't have releases like shrinkwrap/OEM software developers do.
Thanks. Let me ask some more: What are the dynamics of such a quasars that last for so long? When the big black holes collide, do they deform, splatter into pieces, start spinning and flatten, or what? What would such a quasar look like up close (discounting the instant subatomic vaporization....)?
so, how long are quasars resulting from supermassive black hole collisions expected to last?
How can you have a five-digit userid and no karma bonus?
Actually, those white "dots" (that look like a line) are multiple simulations from different error peturbations. You can see the slight discontinuity. But yes, they are designed to represent the 95% confidence range. That doesn't mean there's a 5% chance of an earth hit. In 3-D, from a graph like that, I'd estimate 0.02% or so.
The trouble with 2nd-generation microkernels is that everything, even e.g., a firewire driver, can get preempted, without a lot of trouble. There should be at least a proposed API for realtime support, even if it's not fleshed out until things are more settled.
From what I can tell by googling mailing lists, the Hurd people just haven't been attending to any kind of decent real time support. That won't satisfy video and embedded applications.
E.g., If my neighbor can learn the symtoms of her tuberculosis infection before it impacts me, then I benefit indirectly.
There are several classes of information beyond medical which act this way: commercial product and service availability information makes local economies more efficient, access to what would otherwise require a trip to a public library cust fuel consumption, homeowner insulation and repair information saves resources and time, etc.
Well, there are seven actual system calls but a few dozen support routines built on them. The actual system calls are just like, "act on this kernel interface page which contanges message(s) and/or parameter updates and/or other instructions." And also the kernel ABI has more than the API does, IIRC.
My big problem with the Hurd is that there is no attempt to provide real-time support. I'm not asking for a realtime libc or anything like that, just some process scheduling and preemption guarentees for device drivers. Am I wrong that this has been ignored?
HTTPort has got to be the best steg browsing solution out there. I hear it's very popular in Saudi Aribia, which is much worse than China.
But the small size doesn't make most systems faster. Running the same Unix API, L4 adds execution time overhead beyond the default monolithic Linux kernel, about 5%. (Does anyone know the figure for Linux-on-Mach? I know it's much greater than 5%....) However, there are some significant advantages having to do with debugging, maintainability, SMP, real time gaurentees, memory management, configurability, robustness, etc. Detailed discussion here.
From the overview:
Other links: L4KA homepage, background info, more info with some historical L3 links.
Frankly, I think L4 is very much the right way to do things. I wish I could say the same for other parts of HURD.
Someone tell the Australians that the rest of the English speaking world avoids apostrophes in titles and proper nouns.
Pudge has me foed, and thereby doesn't allow me to participate in his journal discussions, but you might want to point out this to him in his and your thread.