Remember that government funded superbowl ad about how buying marijuana was helping put box-cutters into the hands of hijackers?
If they legalized it then we could just sanction the bad countries... I really don't understand how marijuana, which is primarily supplied by other american citizens, could help terrorists. Maybe buying marijuana increases demand, and thus marijuana sold in other countries by terrorists ends up having a higher profit margin, and thus somehow.. no wait, that was the US Supreme Court's justification for how a woman in california growing marijuana for personal use (medical) could be classified as INTERstate commerce.
Constitution violation FTW!
Getting back to the article (or whatever's going on here), the reason terror financing is hard to track down is because about half the world's monitary value is in dollars. I suppose the best way to fight terror financing is to just inflate our currency... an overstuffed budget should do the trick, way to go dubya!
Also, the real reason drugs cost so much is that drug companies spend over 60% of their income on marketing (which includes those little doctor boondoggles) and lobbying.
Actually it's more like 30%, and it more than likely has little to do with the price of drugs.
The price of drugs has a direct corrilary to how much they're able to charge for them. Some drugs take years on the market to pay for themselves--especially those speciality drugs that cost $10,000 a dose and are only given once when you're about to die. Drugs like these don't get advertised because they don't need to be, the cost is coming from R&D directly, and something new may come along, making the drug obsolete and a "dead end".
It takes 30% of the drug companies' incomes to convince you that taking celebrex (a "blockbuster drug") is better than asprin, though it has little advantage. Does it pay for itself? Hell yes. Celebrex paid for its own development plus the development of probably 6 or 8 other drugs, and MARKETING is what sold it. Celebrex itself was practially worthless, I was even on it for a while until my sample box ran out and I told my doc "this **** is totally ineffective, even when snorted." He then gave me over-the-counter "Wobenzeim" and my symptoms were totally gone in 5 days. Studies show only 18% of people have positive results better than placebo.
As with anything related to toxicology, the dose is the poison.
Not to mention the person's physiology. There's a reason they call the lethal dose of something the "LD50", and that's because that's the dose at which 50% of the animals they injected the substance into died. (they measure it in milligrams of drug per kiligram of animal, in case you're wondering).
Some people are immune to AIDS, some people are allergic to peanut butter, in some people Ibuprophen works for headaches, in others Asprin or Tylenol works. Sometimes people are just plain different.
There was an article in The Economist (print edition, so I wont bother linking) about how doing DNA tests on people and finding out how they would react to drugs would save a lot of time and possibly lives. The reason we don't is because it's expensive and people (all of a sudden, and seemingly on this issue alone) are concerned about privacy.
There was a reason 1 out of every 100,000 people who took Vioxx died, and it's not because Merck was "evil," it's because they simply couldn't account for all the different physiologies out there. Don't worry though, the law suits will certainly ensure higher prescription drug prices in the future, all due to ignorance and jerks like James Sokolove.:)
Some females play video games. We've gotten that for YEARS; it's about as revolutionary at this point as minorities going to college.
I find the Fragdolls website sort of amusing. It seems to do nothing but promote a few girls who play video games.. What else do they do?.. well they're semi-attractive 20-somethings, of course.. just look at their profiles, it's an amature modeling site.
That's unlike any clan I've ever been in. Most of the people in clan [DXM] were so overweight I doubt they could even stand upright for a whole photoshoot..
Their site is paid for by ubisoft, and I wouldn't be surprised if they make a bit on the side so they can devote more time to gaming and attracting males to specific areas such as x-box live games.
And what kind of "serious gamer" puts x-box as their mainstay? Last time I checked, half the genres out there are nearly unplayable without a mouse.
I'd imagine this type of thing would deter more women to play games than anything else.
I could be wrong though, I know when my girlfriend played Battlefield 2 she was all about flirting with the other team to get them to type more than play. We'd win nearly every round.
Didn't McDonalds use to post on their restraunts how many burgers they sold? Yeah, that's third rate alright. Just look how poorly that third rate chain has done! =)
McDonalds now says "billions and billions" sold instead of exact figures. I take that to mean that they're hiding their OBVIOUSLY declining sales figures in an effort to mislead stockholders.
Please point to one study that shows the left bias of NPR News.
Humans can't help but be bias, this is due to them being human.
NPR's news is written and recited by humans.
Therefore NPR is bias.
Bias isn't always obvious and is rarely on purpose. The UCLA study on bias found that journalists often will use the WORDING of a story to slant it one way or another. For instance, they'll say that Newt Gengrich "gained notoriety for his time as house leader" instead of saying "he was the house leader." Of course, this is not word for word from the study, please read it before deciding how much you believe it.
Getting back to your request, the study states that NPR does indeed have bias but not much more-so than the average publication such as Time magazine, for instance.
I equate being a partisan to having a mental disorder, due to a study I read on how the rational thinking center of the brain of a partisan literally shuts down when exposed to a differing viewpoint. The reason partisan journalists are bias is because they think all facts point towards their viewpoint as "truth."
The brain will cut off information input at some point because if we really knew how many variables we DIDN'T know, we'd never make any decisions. That's why I don't vote:)
He may end up being right. Gambling with so much money on movies may no longer be worth it. On the other hand, with less money needed, they may end up making better movies.
Dramas and science fiction are not necessarily "better."
My favorite genre is action, if someone's not saying "I AM the law" or blowing something up periodically, I want my money/time/bandwidth back.
I wont even stay in the room/theater to watch dramas. In order to get me to watch titanic, my girlfriend had to splice in scenes from the Rambo series every 3 minutes.
Remember that part where Leonardo DiCaprio explodes and his guts fly everywhere? That was rad.
Maybe I read this wrong, but it seems like a huge windfall for consumer electronics manufacturers if/when this goes into effect...
It doesn't mean that people will have to buy new stuff, it just says that all new stuff will have to be compliant.
If the new standards are harder to comply with, perhaps it could mean less profit on new items sold.
On the other hand, this power could be used to further DRM restrictions on all consumer electronics manufacturers.
What the FCC is doing to consumers with this whole digital broadcast thing is actually much worse as it actually FORCES people who want to watch network TV broadcasts to "upgrade."
Moreover, I'd like to add that forcing cable companies to comply with FCC regulations is totally ridiculous. How do they regulate wiring intrastate using the "interstate commerce clause"?
As a Libertarian, I guess I should be used to people ignoring the constitution when it comes to things they agree with. One tiny law with good intentions could open the door, legally speaking, for anything.
I absolutely hate fighting games that rely on memorizing combos to determine who is the better fighter. Even on the Gamecube, fighting games like Smash Brothers break this horrible standard and let everybody smash buttons and do every move with ease.
Yeah but from the looks of things...
you can simply put one controller in each hand and start punching and blocking like in real life (maybe strap one on a leg to kick).
It wont be the person with the better memory that wins, but the one with the most controllers duct taped to various appendages.
Without a support for your hand, you'll have to support the weight of your hand by... the use of your arm muscles, leading quickly to fatigue and muscle strain
If you get muscle strain just by moving a mouse, perhaps you should consider leaving your apartment/mom's basement more often.
I disagree. What happens more often is that someone posts something that, at first glance, seems Insightful or Informative, only to be debunked as speculation or an outright fabrication.
Or, more likely in some cases, different demographics come on at different times during the day and disagree.
Moreover, if someone posts it and it looks convicing, chances are someone believes it and it should be up there to be debunked. Let people decide what to believe, modding down is equivelent to censorship in some cases. Many issues do not have a "correct" answer that we know of, yet reading slashdot comments modded +4 or 5 would lead you to believe that there is almost always one.
Often, the more gray an area, the more hotly disputed the viewpoints are.
While I believe MySQL works better and has more support for the *nix platform you should have no major problems with running MySQL on Windows. I have seen it done lots of times without problems.
I agree, and in addition I'd like to add that MS Access' GUI is freaking painful to use. I took a course in it once...
"OK click here, here and here, and type this here while keeping in mind case sensitivity" "Or I could just type in the SQL..." "SQL doesn't do that!" *remote access into professor's insecure computer* "It sure does, look here." "Take your 'A' and leave."
While it's mostly clear what you mean, the sentence could take on different meaning. For example, the "It needs to be not to long" could (easily in fact) be interpreted to mean the length of the article should be appropriate as not to leave the reader "longing" for more.
yeah, I could see someone reading it that way.. if they were a COMMUNIST.
I didn't RTFA.. anyone who's been here a month knows how this place works and that it aint gonna change no matter how much people complain. Deal with it or go somewhere else. Personally I choose to click on the article link and/or read the comments. (not in this case, however)
Also, it'd be nice if comments weren't able to be modded down after 2 or more people mod them up, this will help prevent political and ignorance bias. I've had a couple comments go from +5 to -1.
AFAIK, there's a strong dispute over whether this is really a black hole.
The BBC never makes mistakes like that... I swear to God, that elevator reported on yesterday really DOES travel at 3,314 feet/second! It's so if the Earths gravity suddenly disappears, at least you wont spill your coffee on the way up to your office!
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Remember that government funded superbowl ad about how buying marijuana was helping put box-cutters into the hands of hijackers?
If they legalized it then we could just sanction the bad countries... I really don't understand how marijuana, which is primarily supplied by other american citizens, could help terrorists. Maybe buying marijuana increases demand, and thus marijuana sold in other countries by terrorists ends up having a higher profit margin, and thus somehow.. no wait, that was the US Supreme Court's justification for how a woman in california growing marijuana for personal use (medical) could be classified as INTERstate commerce.
Constitution violation FTW!
Getting back to the article (or whatever's going on here), the reason terror financing is hard to track down is because about half the world's monitary value is in dollars. I suppose the best way to fight terror financing is to just inflate our currency... an overstuffed budget should do the trick, way to go dubya!
Also, the real reason drugs cost so much is that drug companies spend over 60% of their income on marketing (which includes those little doctor boondoggles) and lobbying.
Actually it's more like 30%, and it more than likely has little to do with the price of drugs.
The price of drugs has a direct corrilary to how much they're able to charge for them. Some drugs take years on the market to pay for themselves--especially those speciality drugs that cost $10,000 a dose and are only given once when you're about to die. Drugs like these don't get advertised because they don't need to be, the cost is coming from R&D directly, and something new may come along, making the drug obsolete and a "dead end".
It takes 30% of the drug companies' incomes to convince you that taking celebrex (a "blockbuster drug") is better than asprin, though it has little advantage. Does it pay for itself? Hell yes. Celebrex paid for its own development plus the development of probably 6 or 8 other drugs, and MARKETING is what sold it. Celebrex itself was practially worthless, I was even on it for a while until my sample box ran out and I told my doc "this **** is totally ineffective, even when snorted." He then gave me over-the-counter "Wobenzeim" and my symptoms were totally gone in 5 days. Studies show only 18% of people have positive results better than placebo.
My friend is paying me to do her website on astrology. This might save me from having to read all that heinous shite.
I've been reading books for days and I still think a "house" is a building.
As with anything related to toxicology, the dose is the poison.
:)
Not to mention the person's physiology. There's a reason they call the lethal dose of something the "LD50", and that's because that's the dose at which 50% of the animals they injected the substance into died. (they measure it in milligrams of drug per kiligram of animal, in case you're wondering).
Some people are immune to AIDS, some people are allergic to peanut butter, in some people Ibuprophen works for headaches, in others Asprin or Tylenol works. Sometimes people are just plain different.
There was an article in The Economist (print edition, so I wont bother linking) about how doing DNA tests on people and finding out how they would react to drugs would save a lot of time and possibly lives. The reason we don't is because it's expensive and people (all of a sudden, and seemingly on this issue alone) are concerned about privacy.
There was a reason 1 out of every 100,000 people who took Vioxx died, and it's not because Merck was "evil," it's because they simply couldn't account for all the different physiologies out there. Don't worry though, the law suits will certainly ensure higher prescription drug prices in the future, all due to ignorance and jerks like James Sokolove.
Some females play video games. We've gotten that for YEARS; it's about as revolutionary at this point as minorities going to college.
I find the Fragdolls website sort of amusing. It seems to do nothing but promote a few girls who play video games.. What else do they do?.. well they're semi-attractive 20-somethings, of course.. just look at their profiles, it's an amature modeling site.
That's unlike any clan I've ever been in. Most of the people in clan [DXM] were so overweight I doubt they could even stand upright for a whole photoshoot..
Their site is paid for by ubisoft, and I wouldn't be surprised if they make a bit on the side so they can devote more time to gaming and attracting males to specific areas such as x-box live games.
And what kind of "serious gamer" puts x-box as their mainstay? Last time I checked, half the genres out there are nearly unplayable without a mouse.
I'd imagine this type of thing would deter more women to play games than anything else.
I could be wrong though, I know when my girlfriend played Battlefield 2 she was all about flirting with the other team to get them to type more than play. We'd win nearly every round.
Didn't McDonalds use to post on their restraunts how many burgers they sold? Yeah, that's third rate alright. Just look how poorly that third rate chain has done! =)
McDonalds now says "billions and billions" sold instead of exact figures. I take that to mean that they're hiding their OBVIOUSLY declining sales figures in an effort to mislead stockholders.
Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
At first glance, one might think so. However, Judge Dredd proved that it actually requires 85 million dollars to say that line.
Because he single handedly changed the way movies are made and presented.
Does that somehow make him an expert in market economics?
I'd much rather hear Speilberg's take--a director/producer that rarely put his stank on a losing film.
In fact, last time I checked Speilberg has never directed a film that lost money, and he's done many more films than Lucas.
Please point to one study that shows the left bias of NPR News.
:)
Humans can't help but be bias, this is due to them being human.
NPR's news is written and recited by humans.
Therefore NPR is bias.
Bias isn't always obvious and is rarely on purpose. The UCLA study on bias found that journalists often will use the WORDING of a story to slant it one way or another. For instance, they'll say that Newt Gengrich "gained notoriety for his time as house leader" instead of saying "he was the house leader." Of course, this is not word for word from the study, please read it before deciding how much you believe it.
Getting back to your request, the study states that NPR does indeed have bias but not much more-so than the average publication such as Time magazine, for instance.
I equate being a partisan to having a mental disorder, due to a study I read on how the rational thinking center of the brain of a partisan literally shuts down when exposed to a differing viewpoint. The reason partisan journalists are bias is because they think all facts point towards their viewpoint as "truth."
The brain will cut off information input at some point because if we really knew how many variables we DIDN'T know, we'd never make any decisions. That's why I don't vote
Exactly. Why listen to Lucas?
I'm sure he also thought Episode 1 wasn't going to suck. Oops.
He may end up being right. Gambling with so much money on movies may no longer be worth it. On the other hand, with less money needed, they may end up making better movies.
Dramas and science fiction are not necessarily "better."
My favorite genre is action, if someone's not saying "I AM the law" or blowing something up periodically, I want my money/time/bandwidth back.
I wont even stay in the room/theater to watch dramas. In order to get me to watch titanic, my girlfriend had to splice in scenes from the Rambo series every 3 minutes.
Remember that part where Leonardo DiCaprio explodes and his guts fly everywhere? That was rad.
Maybe I read this wrong, but it seems like a huge windfall for consumer electronics manufacturers if/when this goes into effect...
It doesn't mean that people will have to buy new stuff, it just says that all new stuff will have to be compliant.
If the new standards are harder to comply with, perhaps it could mean less profit on new items sold.
On the other hand, this power could be used to further DRM restrictions on all consumer electronics manufacturers.
What the FCC is doing to consumers with this whole digital broadcast thing is actually much worse as it actually FORCES people who want to watch network TV broadcasts to "upgrade."
Moreover, I'd like to add that forcing cable companies to comply with FCC regulations is totally ridiculous. How do they regulate wiring intrastate using the "interstate commerce clause"?
As a Libertarian, I guess I should be used to people ignoring the constitution when it comes to things they agree with. One tiny law with good intentions could open the door, legally speaking, for anything.
I absolutely hate fighting games that rely on memorizing combos to determine who is the better fighter. Even on the Gamecube, fighting games like Smash Brothers break this horrible standard and let everybody smash buttons and do every move with ease.
Yeah but from the looks of things...
you can simply put one controller in each hand and start punching and blocking like in real life (maybe strap one on a leg to kick).
It wont be the person with the better memory that wins, but the one with the most controllers duct taped to various appendages.
... Massively Multiplayer Online Solitaire
John Madden is booked to be the announcer in a series that will surely take the market by storm.
Without a support for your hand, you'll have to support the weight of your hand by ... the use of your arm muscles, leading quickly to fatigue and muscle strain
If you get muscle strain just by moving a mouse, perhaps you should consider leaving your apartment/mom's basement more often.
pfft! drinking McDonald's Coffee is worse than getting burned by it.
will it copy a 17MB file in under 20 minutes?
Did you seriously hold onto that blog entry for SEVEN YEARS to post it?
I think the mods just wanted to give me more karma.. either that or they think I'm good at math. I thank 'em just the same.
I disagree. What happens more often is that someone posts something that, at first glance, seems Insightful or Informative, only to be debunked as speculation or an outright fabrication.
Or, more likely in some cases, different demographics come on at different times during the day and disagree.
Moreover, if someone posts it and it looks convicing, chances are someone believes it and it should be up there to be debunked. Let people decide what to believe, modding down is equivelent to censorship in some cases. Many issues do not have a "correct" answer that we know of, yet reading slashdot comments modded +4 or 5 would lead you to believe that there is almost always one.
Often, the more gray an area, the more hotly disputed the viewpoints are.
While I believe MySQL works better and has more support for the *nix platform you should have no major problems with running MySQL on Windows. I have seen it done lots of times without problems.
I agree, and in addition I'd like to add that MS Access' GUI is freaking painful to use. I took a course in it once...
"OK click here, here and here, and type this here while keeping in mind case sensitivity"
"Or I could just type in the SQL..."
"SQL doesn't do that!"
*remote access into professor's insecure computer*
"It sure does, look here."
"Take your 'A' and leave."
While it's mostly clear what you mean, the sentence could take on different meaning. For example, the "It needs to be not to long" could (easily in fact) be interpreted to mean the length of the article should be appropriate as not to leave the reader "longing" for more.
yeah, I could see someone reading it that way.. if they were a COMMUNIST.
I didn't RTFA.. anyone who's been here a month knows how this place works and that it aint gonna change no matter how much people complain. Deal with it or go somewhere else. Personally I choose to click on the article link and/or read the comments. (not in this case, however)
Also, it'd be nice if comments weren't able to be modded down after 2 or more people mod them up, this will help prevent political and ignorance bias. I've had a couple comments go from +5 to -1.
AFAIK, there's a strong dispute over whether this is really a black hole.
The BBC never makes mistakes like that... I swear to God, that elevator reported on yesterday really DOES travel at 3,314 feet/second! It's so if the Earths gravity suddenly disappears, at least you wont spill your coffee on the way up to your office!
Does anyone have a better reference for the effective temperature involved?
It's about a billion times hotter than the ambient temperature of the Library of Congress.
You know, scientific notation was created for a reason.
Yes, and that reason was to confuse the hell out of me. It sounds a lot bigger to say billion million trillion than to say 1x10^24.
I mean, who needs exact numbers when all you really need to know is that it's so big you shouldn't think about it for fear of a migraine.
Hope this is more than one-upman ship
Yeah, the smooth ride helps to prevent throw-upmanship.