But if you carry one in a holster, you can literally pull out the gun and kill someone in seconds.
And yet, as the number of Concealed Carry license holders increased in recent decades, the murder rate has declined.
Yes, correlation does not equal causation, but it's hard to see how "higher carry rates" + "lower murder rates" matches up with what I quoted above....
The CIA may have started out detached from the military
The CIA did NOT start out detached from the military. The first two DCI were an Admiral and a General. Most of its agents in the beginning were military men.
Somebody with that security clearance shouldn't have been able to leave the country without permission.
>What security clearance are we talking about here? Only thing I've heard mentioned was "Top Secret", which is not really high as security clearances go - hell, *I* had a TS clearance....
On the other hand, this site lists Austria as 1037 years old, Hungary as 1012. Please remind me, what country did that guy named Franz Joseph rule?
That would be the Austro-Hungarian EMPIRE.
In case you hadn't heard, an EMPIRE is a group of countries with a common ruler.
In the case of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Austria and Hungary were countries that were PART of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Along with pieces of Germany and Italy and bits of various Balkan places...
so what you are saying is someone else didnt get the lungs and now shes getting 2 sets?
She got two set. That's a done deal.
Whether anyone went without because she got two sets is debatable. Depends a lot on matches - maybe there was someone who was an even better match than her, that lost out when she was moved to the top of the list she wasn't even suppposed to be on.
Or not. It's possible neither of those sets of lungs would have been useful to anyone else waiting.
But disregarding that completely, as you look out far enough, the likeliness that the sun will nova starts to increase dramatically, and further still, you hit heat death of the whole universe. That's pretty catastrophic, and pretty certain.:p
And in neither of those cases do we really care much about preserving our knowledge for those who come later....
A patient of chemo for cancer will take many thousands of dollars each year to combat their disease, so this is where cancer treatment seems to have stalled out in the US.
I had CLL. I received chemotherapy twice in three years.
Doctor decided that a bone marrow transplant was worth the risk, since I was going to run out of chemo options really quickly at that rate.
So, had allogenic stem cell transplant. Donor was almost a perfect match (he had a virus that I'd never been exposed to, but otherwise perfect).
No longer have CLL (yes, they check regularly, and will do so for a long time to come).
So, no, cancer treatment hasn't "stalled out" in the USA. It's progress is just...spotty. Some forms of cancer are easier to deal with than others, and some forms of treatment are becoming safer than they used to be....
P.S. Oh, and if you want to do something vaguely worthwhile, try donating bone marrow/stem cells - http://bethematch.org/. You might just save a life....
(when you donate there is a time period after the patient has had their marrow destroyed but before you actually donate, if you change your mind and decide not to donate during that time period the patient will almost certainly die unless another donor can be found and medically cleared in a matter of days)
Umm, no.
Had this done last fall.
The Donor was donating before they started the chemotherapy on me. Until he'd provided enough stem cells, I just lay in the hospital bed getting nothing at all done....
For those, both outside and inside the U.S., who are wondering why health insurance is a benefit attached to a person's job, rather than a social benefit from the government (like in most other countries) or something each person seeks on the open market (like automobile insurance), the answer is: "it's complicated."
Not terribly.
It all started with the Wage and Price Controls put into place during WW2.
Which left employers unable to offer more money to attract qualified employees, till some bright boy figured "hey, if we pay for health insurance for that new engineer, that'll be a bit more incentive to work for US rather than THEM (since we both have to offer the same salary)".
By the time the Wage and Price Controls were lifted, the Unions had started to add that to the bargaining process, and the rest, as they say, was history.
Protons have historically been highly reliable. A mishap like this happens every now and then to any launcher.
This was the 387th Proton launch. A quick check, and I find that 36 of them have failed (including this latest one), plus three or four "partial failures" (they got into the wrong orbit, but were still usable).
So Proton has a 9.3% failure rate, which is still much more reliable than Shuttle's 1.5% failure rate.
Oh, wait....
Note, for those who would like to insist that Proton failures were common in the early days, but very rare once they got the bugs out, that Proton failed once in each of 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013.
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Mugawd! Someone else still remembers that story?!
Of course it does! If you need to steal a gun, what better way to find one than just looking up the location of the nearest gun owner with this app?
Wow! FIVE across the USA.
That must've, what, tripled the US homicde rate?
And yet, as the number of Concealed Carry license holders increased in recent decades, the murder rate has declined.
Yes, correlation does not equal causation, but it's hard to see how "higher carry rates" + "lower murder rates" matches up with what I quoted above....
The CIA did NOT start out detached from the military. The first two DCI were an Admiral and a General. Most of its agents in the beginning were military men.
US Constitution, Article III, Section 3.
Learn it, love it, live it.
Good point, indeed! We only have to add 30 or so addresses each, and the dataset will be done - everyone will be in it...
The whole "sowing the ground with salt" thing is symbolic - it doesn't (and didn't, in Carthage's case) render the area uninhabitable.
Unless you use a huge amount of salt, which they couldn't afford even if they'd had it available in such quantities (they didn't).
>What security clearance are we talking about here? Only thing I've heard mentioned was "Top Secret", which is not really high as security clearances go - hell, *I* had a TS clearance....
Only by people who don't know the Constitutional definition of "traitor" - look it up sometime, it might enlighten you.
The rest of us, well, we think a lot of things about Snowden, but traitor isn't on the list.
Since the NSA is logging (supposedly) metadata, and NOT the content of the messages, encrypting your email would have no effect at all.
About ten times the population density of the USA, as an example.
Of countries with >10 million people, it's the number seven in population density.
Hmm, sounds overpopulated to me.
Geneticallly speaking, second cousins are no more likely to produce defectives than perfect strangers.
That would be the Austro-Hungarian EMPIRE.
In case you hadn't heard, an EMPIRE is a group of countries with a common ruler.
In the case of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Austria and Hungary were countries that were PART of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Along with pieces of Germany and Italy and bits of various Balkan places...
She got two set. That's a done deal.
Whether anyone went without because she got two sets is debatable. Depends a lot on matches - maybe there was someone who was an even better match than her, that lost out when she was moved to the top of the list she wasn't even suppposed to be on.
Or not. It's possible neither of those sets of lungs would have been useful to anyone else waiting.
And in neither of those cases do we really care much about preserving our knowledge for those who come later....
I had CLL. I received chemotherapy twice in three years.
Doctor decided that a bone marrow transplant was worth the risk, since I was going to run out of chemo options really quickly at that rate.
So, had allogenic stem cell transplant. Donor was almost a perfect match (he had a virus that I'd never been exposed to, but otherwise perfect).
No longer have CLL (yes, they check regularly, and will do so for a long time to come).
So, no, cancer treatment hasn't "stalled out" in the USA. It's progress is just...spotty. Some forms of cancer are easier to deal with than others, and some forms of treatment are becoming safer than they used to be....
P.S. Oh, and if you want to do something vaguely worthwhile, try donating bone marrow/stem cells - http://bethematch.org/. You might just save a life....
Umm, no.
Had this done last fall.
The Donor was donating before they started the chemotherapy on me. Until he'd provided enough stem cells, I just lay in the hospital bed getting nothing at all done....
TWO lung transplants. The first one didn't work out, so they replaced them again this past week.
Not terribly.
It all started with the Wage and Price Controls put into place during WW2.
Which left employers unable to offer more money to attract qualified employees, till some bright boy figured "hey, if we pay for health insurance for that new engineer, that'll be a bit more incentive to work for US rather than THEM (since we both have to offer the same salary)".
By the time the Wage and Price Controls were lifted, the Unions had started to add that to the bargaining process, and the rest, as they say, was history.
So, in Nevada, if you want Solar, your neighbors pay for most of it?
Or, contrariwise, if your neighbor wants Solar, YOU pay for part of it?
Or are you one of those people that believe that "subsidy" is a magical source of free money?
This was the 387th Proton launch. A quick check, and I find that 36 of them have failed (including this latest one), plus three or four "partial failures" (they got into the wrong orbit, but were still usable).
So Proton has a 9.3% failure rate, which is still much more reliable than Shuttle's 1.5% failure rate.
Oh, wait....
Note, for those who would like to insist that Proton failures were common in the early days, but very rare once they got the bugs out, that Proton failed once in each of 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013.
There were rather more than 300 in America by 1800, only 11 years after the Constitution was ratified.
So, I'm curious - what do you think we did to piss the Japanese off in 1941?
Or the Germans, for that matter?
Do keep in mind that they declared war on us, not the other way around?
We might also wonder what Poland did to piss Germany off in 1939, or what the USSR did to piss Germany off in 1941.
Or what China did to piss Japan off, for that matter...
Umm, no.
What Christianity prohibited was "charging interest". When you can't make any money by lending it, whyever would you bother lending money?