And that, in a nutshell, is why you are not a scientist. The efficacy of any treatment needs to be judged by reliable trials, not by what some guy on slashdot said. What did Singh say? The libellous words were "there is not a jot of evidence that chiropractic works", or something to that effect. That's a pretty reasonable summary of the scientific evidence. I'll leave it to you to explain why it's better to respond to such a statement with a lawsuit than a study of your own.
CSS is not getting fixed on Idle because Taco and co want it to go away. Since they are corporate schills, they can't say so: all they can do is make it so bad they just "have" to kill it.
Actually, fitting cable TV to most peoples cars sounds like a very sensible safety measure, the reason being they wouldn't be able to go anywhere due to the cable attached to their car.
The quickest way to sort out the human rights situation in China is to create a population with enough of a stake in society for it to be worth standing up and be counted. Free speech means very little when you're on the breadline. Even if your boycott had any meaningful effect, it would just make government repression easier, not harder - and China is quite easily big enough to run a closed economy if it wanted to.
CmdrTaco is probably the only bastion of sense that keeps me reading/....no doubt Thursday will end this forever, but until then...did you know Barack Obama was actually born in Michigan?
Protip, calling someone a "fucking retard" doesn't make your argument stronger. You're wrong, but given your debating skills so far, I'm not going to bother telling you why. Enjoy being ignorant, and have a nice day.
Which is why you can only enter certain trades if you are colour blind. Pilots can have certain types, but must be able to recognise bright red and green. Infantry generally welcomes most types, as they are useful, as OP points out. Certain trades are disbarred entirely.
In fairness, in your late teens and twenties you are genetically programmed to act tribally, to join a group and be an integral part of it, come what may. If you end up in a group that has great fun writing hacking software, and getting up to high jinks at the weekend, it's a very difficult situation to dispute with. There's a reason that soldiers are recruited at this age.
I complain about this every time the subject comes up, but the problem is a contractual one. You are having to place trust in a CA you have no contractual relationship, so what mechanism causes that CA to work in your favour? None. Browsers should ship without any root certificates, and users should pay to subscribe to whoever they choose to provide them with root signing services. Economics would help enforce the trust issues. It isn't a magic bullet, of course, but to me it takes the biggest weakness out of the way.
To me, that would be one of the beauties of ditching the majority of early maths education - it would mean we could get rid of these idiots that destroy generations of potential mathematicians.
It's an unfortunate by-product of them not wanting to do separate courses on things like measure theory, because they know undergraduates will sleep through them. So you need an emergency primer on such things when you do come to study something useful.
That's because you've never used it were not shown its applications. Functional analysis is one of the most powerful weapons in the applied mathematicians toolkit - it's essential to quantum theory and financial mathematics, for example.
I'm sorry, but you're just insulting the Chinese here. Do you really think they don't know they are being censored heavily? They know just fine and they believe it is a price worth paying for social harmony. I don't agree with that, but that is the argument you have to make and win to get anywhere.
Preventative care should be paid for by the consumer, not the insurer. Insurance manages the risks of a homogeneous cohort: preventative care isn't a risk, it's the exact opposite. Economically, it would be more efficient for the insurer to make having adequate preventative care a policy condition. However, since they can front-slice a margin on it, they don't (which comes back to the incredibly distorted market for health insurance in the US, but...)
Really, the point is not that this deal is wonderful and will solve everything. It's that a change has been made, and once results come out it will be possible to change again. If this had failed, nobody would dare touch healthcare again until 2040 or thereabouts.
Insurance just requires reducing moral hazard to manageable levels, something they've done for years. Self selection is not going to be a major shock to the system for insurers.
What the balls? There would be nothing unconstitutional about a poll tax. Your argument is sophistry, because I don't see many people attempting to live without an income, car, residence, or indeed ever purchasing anything that involved a sales tax.
The question is, do you want your ambulances to respond to calls in order of arrival or priority? Assuming incoming calls are Poisson distributed, you can pretty much guarantee that sooner or later you will not have enough, so you need to have decided beforehand. Historically, in the UK we dispatched by order of arrival, but as more and more people have started to call for shaving cuts and sprained ankles, this has become untenable.
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And that, in a nutshell, is why you are not a scientist. The efficacy of any treatment needs to be judged by reliable trials, not by what some guy on slashdot said. What did Singh say? The libellous words were "there is not a jot of evidence that chiropractic works", or something to that effect. That's a pretty reasonable summary of the scientific evidence. I'll leave it to you to explain why it's better to respond to such a statement with a lawsuit than a study of your own.
Yes, write your own user stylesheet and specify your choice of font as !important.
CSS is not getting fixed on Idle because Taco and co want it to go away. Since they are corporate schills, they can't say so: all they can do is make it so bad they just "have" to kill it.
Actually, fitting cable TV to most peoples cars sounds like a very sensible safety measure, the reason being they wouldn't be able to go anywhere due to the cable attached to their car.
The quickest way to sort out the human rights situation in China is to create a population with enough of a stake in society for it to be worth standing up and be counted. Free speech means very little when you're on the breadline. Even if your boycott had any meaningful effect, it would just make government repression easier, not harder - and China is quite easily big enough to run a closed economy if it wanted to.
China is a totalitarian state. Has been since 949.
FTFY. To an order of magnitude, anyways.
CmdrTaco is probably the only bastion of sense that keeps me reading /....no doubt Thursday will end this forever, but until then...did you know Barack Obama was actually born in Michigan?
Protip, calling someone a "fucking retard" doesn't make your argument stronger. You're wrong, but given your debating skills so far, I'm not going to bother telling you why. Enjoy being ignorant, and have a nice day.
Chill out and have some orange juice. This is advice from someone who chose not to spend mod points on you :p
Which is why mainstream economics doesn't actually take your kind of market-worship seriously anymore.
This is like saying that physicists don't take Newton's Laws seriously any more.
Which is why you can only enter certain trades if you are colour blind. Pilots can have certain types, but must be able to recognise bright red and green. Infantry generally welcomes most types, as they are useful, as OP points out. Certain trades are disbarred entirely.
In fairness, in your late teens and twenties you are genetically programmed to act tribally, to join a group and be an integral part of it, come what may. If you end up in a group that has great fun writing hacking software, and getting up to high jinks at the weekend, it's a very difficult situation to dispute with. There's a reason that soldiers are recruited at this age.
I complain about this every time the subject comes up, but the problem is a contractual one. You are having to place trust in a CA you have no contractual relationship, so what mechanism causes that CA to work in your favour? None. Browsers should ship without any root certificates, and users should pay to subscribe to whoever they choose to provide them with root signing services. Economics would help enforce the trust issues. It isn't a magic bullet, of course, but to me it takes the biggest weakness out of the way.
To me, that would be one of the beauties of ditching the majority of early maths education - it would mean we could get rid of these idiots that destroy generations of potential mathematicians.
It's an unfortunate by-product of them not wanting to do separate courses on things like measure theory, because they know undergraduates will sleep through them. So you need an emergency primer on such things when you do come to study something useful.
Which makes me wonder why the 99.8% are doing a CS degree. If you want to be a car mechanic, you don't do a mechanical engineering degree.
That's because you've never used it were not shown its applications. Functional analysis is one of the most powerful weapons in the applied mathematicians toolkit - it's essential to quantum theory and financial mathematics, for example.
Attempts have been made at the general case, but it is a hard problem: how do you ensure fair resource sharing and reliability?
Since donations spike after an outage, they profit from downtime :p
I'm sorry, but you're just insulting the Chinese here. Do you really think they don't know they are being censored heavily? They know just fine and they believe it is a price worth paying for social harmony. I don't agree with that, but that is the argument you have to make and win to get anywhere.
That case wasn't about the constitutionality of the poll tax, it was about whether you could require payment of it as a qualification to vote.
Really, the point is not that this deal is wonderful and will solve everything. It's that a change has been made, and once results come out it will be possible to change again. If this had failed, nobody would dare touch healthcare again until 2040 or thereabouts.
Insurance just requires reducing moral hazard to manageable levels, something they've done for years. Self selection is not going to be a major shock to the system for insurers.
What the balls? There would be nothing unconstitutional about a poll tax. Your argument is sophistry, because I don't see many people attempting to live without an income, car, residence, or indeed ever purchasing anything that involved a sales tax.
The question is, do you want your ambulances to respond to calls in order of arrival or priority? Assuming incoming calls are Poisson distributed, you can pretty much guarantee that sooner or later you will not have enough, so you need to have decided beforehand. Historically, in the UK we dispatched by order of arrival, but as more and more people have started to call for shaving cuts and sprained ankles, this has become untenable.