It's a problem if the symptoms only go away while you are taking the drug
Only if the drug produces symptoms of its own, or is expensive.
Ultimately what we care about is symptoms. That's what matters. If you're a doctor, the best way to fix many symptoms is to figure out what the underlying problem is and fix that. But as an 'end user' all I want is the symptoms to go away. If I find a bug in some software I've bought and report it, I don't want to hear the company saying "it doesn't work because there was a reference count leak and the object representing the File menu was destroyed twice'. I don't care what the underlying problem is. Just deliver me software that works whether you fix it by fixing the leak or by hacking the destructor so that it refuses to run twice.
You'd realize this if you ever got out of your ivory tower.
I've no idea what you are talking about. I live in Oakland and know the bad areas of Oakland, Berkeley, San Pablo and so on pretty well. I'm talking about the Bay Area as compared to other metropolitan areas which I know little about (because when you visit as a tourist you get a limited view). Many areas all over the US are world famous for poverty, but the Bay Area isn't. I'm assuming that's because the Bay Area is on average better off than these other areas and so hasn't garnered much publicity. But maybe I'm wrong, maybe on a nationwide scale, parts of the Bay Area really are bad. Actually, I just did some googling and found this. There we are, Oakland and Richmond are among the worst areas in the country, so you're right, and my view of US urban areas is skewed.
Why are you injecting race into this?
Because the school system here is segregated along racial lines despite this being 'liberal' California. To an outsider this sticks out like a sore thumb, but nobody here likes to talk about it.
Here's some background on the area my wife spends a lot of time in. One of the offices she works in (not a school, but in the education dept.) recently received a few stray bullets through it. The employees now hide behind a bunch of filing cabinets! (My wife no longer works there and she was a bit pissed off when her ex-colleagues accused her of being afraid to work there.) My wife has seen one bloodied corpse in the street, a 16 year old outside a school. I started googling for the precise news stories about these incidents but a search on "richmond", "california" and "shooting" turns up way to many stories for me to find the right ones.
I don't know how Richmond compares to the rest of the US. I've only ever lived in the San Francisco Bay area. One other commenter says it's one of worst areas in the country. I doubt that, you don't get many movies about the gangsters of Richmond and on the whole, the Bay Area is fairly affluent.
The part of Oakland that has its own school district is Piedmont. Note its geography. It's easy to find confirmation of what I say about the racial makeup of Piedmont and Oakland and comments about Piedmont schools compared to Oakland.
Girls know that they will have to fend, not only for themselves, but also for their children-to-be. 'Unfeminized' guys screw around without a care in the world and don't give a shit about paying for anyone's children, so they can afford to drop out.
The first titles using the touchpad were a hit and miss situations
Yes. It got better when game developers stopped using the touch screen. Don't get me wrong, I love my DS Lite (and I loved my DS before it) but using the touch screen as an analog joystick was a disaster.
...it's like inside a US school. My wife and I are from Britain but she has been doing part-time work in schools in Richmond, California. The guys look and acts like gangsters (presumably some of them are) and the girls act like hookers (which presumably some of them are). No learning takes place. Students bring stereos to work and play music throughout lessons. Every other word spoken by a student is 'fuck', or 'nigga' and the speech is barely distinguishable from grunting. There is no discipline of any sort. Of course there isn't, no teacher is stupid enough to argue with a classroom full of would-be gangsters (or actual gangsters). There are of course police throughout every school. Because the students are the way they are the authorities have to run the place like a police state. Want to visit the bathroom? You have to get paperwork allowing you to. And between lessons, groups of chaperones (I've no idea what they're actually called) connected by walkie-talkies have to sweep through the corridors, like in a police search operation, to ensure nobody is left outside class. Any time someone is found without the appropriate paperwork in the hallways a lockdown is instigated. Everyone has to dive under tables and doors have to be locked to protect against potential gunmen. This is of course justified by the number of times the potential gummen turn out to be gunmen.
Meanwhile the teachers have been 'educated' by the same system. They care nothing about teaching the students but if, God forbid, one of your actions should appear (in their fantasy world) to be an infringement of their constitutional rights, they'll scream like hell about it. The teachers of course think nothing of dressing like hookers and wearing T-shirts with obscenities emblazoned across them. (Of course not, they work for a government establishment and so their freedom of speech can't be restrained.)
Every morning the students all chant the Pledge of Allegiance. And periodically through the day they're encouraged to chant bizarre things like "I must express who I really am", "I have the right to be whoever I want" or some such American-style psychobabble. You probably think I'm making things up at this point. Maybe my wife is making this stuff up when she comes home from work, but I doubt it. This is what it means to be educated in California.
I also do voluntary work with kids in the area, trying to encourage an interest in science. The sad thing is that there are plenty of younger kids who have great potential. But so many of these kids have next to no chance of going anywhere with that potential.
Of course not all of California is like this. I live near an enclave of rich white-skinned people whose education district seceded from the surrounding city. House prices are through the roof there because apparently you can learn things in the few schools they have.
Still, a lot could have happened in the last ten years. Maybe it's like this in Britain now.
Assuming, perhaps incorrectly, that you were the OP
Who?
Alexander the Great didn't have much first hand evidence to reccomend his existance.
It's a bit silly to discuss history when you haven't a clue. This is like saying the world is flat or that the moon is a liberal myth. There is a vast amount of documentation about the life of Alexander including contemporaneous documents that are extant today.
If you take someone, who had as many first hand witnesses claiming to have seen him as Jesus did...
Who? We have gospels (religious documents, clearly written by zealots, and full of fantasy) written well after the supposed death of Jesus and a couple of paragraphs of doubtful origin in other non-religious texts. And that's it. There might have been several dozen people who fit the description of Jesus in the gospels (once you strip out the fantasy and exaggeration), there might be none. On the other hand, we have vastly more for characters like Julius Caesar, Cicero, Alexander and so on. We have only fragments for people like Thales and Anaximander, say, and it seems entirely rational to have qualms about stating definitively that these people existed too, especially given the propensity for people of the time to identify a school of thought with a single founder.
The evidence for his existance (sic) is about as strong as any figure, especially any peasant...
The "any figure" part is plain wrong. The "any peasant" part is exactly right.
Do you know of any conservatives who are reccomending stoning women for adultery?
No, but I know plenty who like to fuck up a woman's life by forcing her to give birth to a child she doesn't want as punishment for her having sex. Christians will typically pick and choose what you want to be literal and what you want to be symbolic. Today one might interpret 'stoning' as literally meaning stoning, and on another day, when it's more convenient, it means harsh punishment in general. Not that I care what Jesus said, there's next to no historical evidence for his existence so what he said is of no consequence.
I was worried that something like metal fatigue would set in. But metal fatigue is a result of microscopic fractures in the crystalline structure of the metal. These sensors have moving parts that are fabricated from a single flawless crystal. So nothing like metal fatigue can take place.
You can pump energy out of a spinning black hole using a technique discovered by Roger Penrose. A spinning black hole, with some other matter nearby, is a long way from "black". They can, in fact, be among the brightest things in the universe, at least in the X-ray spectrum.
if you make the test too difficult then people will just get into a car and drive and skip licensing
Yeah, but once you electrocute them they'll never do it again. That is what you do in the US isn't it? You strap criminals to chairs and electrocute them?
I don't mind the cyclists driving at 20mph even if it can be slightly annoying. What I don't like are the cyclists who make right turns at intersections while riding at 30mph with no hands at night without lights ignoring the stop signs and traffic lights while on the wrong side of the road - ie. 99.5% of the cyclists in San Francisco. Lock 'em up and question them harshly, that's what I say.
The evidence is purely the public evidence that's available to everyone - the UK will almost never have a major policy disagreement with the US. This was a Labour government that backed the war in Iraq - Labour's the party of pacificts and socialists. How did the US get the UK to sign on to its neo-con agenda in such a big way? The US has some hold over the UK that I don't claim to understand. I just think it's obvious that the hold is there and has been there for at least 20 years (which is when I started complaining that the UK was not independent of the US).
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"On the fifth day of their missions the Shock and Awe probes on Mars are doing fine. Shock is current exploring the northern polar cap and Awe is..." }
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Ultimately what we care about is symptoms. That's what matters. If you're a doctor, the best way to fix many symptoms is to figure out what the underlying problem is and fix that. But as an 'end user' all I want is the symptoms to go away. If I find a bug in some software I've bought and report it, I don't want to hear the company saying "it doesn't work because there was a reference count leak and the object representing the File menu was destroyed twice'. I don't care what the underlying problem is. Just deliver me software that works whether you fix it by fixing the leak or by hacking the destructor so that it refuses to run twice.
I'll let other people tell you why infrared photons have little to do with heat and instead point you to this that might be of interest.
Oh, sorry...the article's about Microsoft. No, choices are bad. More choices makes the OS more confusing and bloated.
I don't know how Richmond compares to the rest of the US. I've only ever lived in the San Francisco Bay area. One other commenter says it's one of worst areas in the country. I doubt that, you don't get many movies about the gangsters of Richmond and on the whole, the Bay Area is fairly affluent.
The part of Oakland that has its own school district is Piedmont. Note its geography. It's easy to find confirmation of what I say about the racial makeup of Piedmont and Oakland and comments about Piedmont schools compared to Oakland.
Girls know that they will have to fend, not only for themselves, but also for their children-to-be. 'Unfeminized' guys screw around without a care in the world and don't give a shit about paying for anyone's children, so they can afford to drop out.
Meanwhile the teachers have been 'educated' by the same system. They care nothing about teaching the students but if, God forbid, one of your actions should appear (in their fantasy world) to be an infringement of their constitutional rights, they'll scream like hell about it. The teachers of course think nothing of dressing like hookers and wearing T-shirts with obscenities emblazoned across them. (Of course not, they work for a government establishment and so their freedom of speech can't be restrained.)
Every morning the students all chant the Pledge of Allegiance. And periodically through the day they're encouraged to chant bizarre things like "I must express who I really am", "I have the right to be whoever I want" or some such American-style psychobabble. You probably think I'm making things up at this point. Maybe my wife is making this stuff up when she comes home from work, but I doubt it. This is what it means to be educated in California.
I also do voluntary work with kids in the area, trying to encourage an interest in science. The sad thing is that there are plenty of younger kids who have great potential. But so many of these kids have next to no chance of going anywhere with that potential.
Of course not all of California is like this. I live near an enclave of rich white-skinned people whose education district seceded from the surrounding city. House prices are through the roof there because apparently you can learn things in the few schools they have.
Still, a lot could have happened in the last ten years. Maybe it's like this in Britain now.
...someone who thinks that reality is something that you can be divorced from.
Real scientists have better things to do than play around with semantics Dream on!
Every cop knows what to say about dealing with incidents like this. They only become shining examples when they actually do it.
I was worried that something like metal fatigue would set in. But metal fatigue is a result of microscopic fractures in the crystalline structure of the metal. These sensors have moving parts that are fabricated from a single flawless crystal. So nothing like metal fatigue can take place.
You can pump energy out of a spinning black hole using a technique discovered by Roger Penrose. A spinning black hole, with some other matter nearby, is a long way from "black". They can, in fact, be among the brightest things in the universe, at least in the X-ray spectrum.
Read all about it!
Try 'eminently'.
I don't mind the cyclists driving at 20mph even if it can be slightly annoying. What I don't like are the cyclists who make right turns at intersections while riding at 30mph with no hands at night without lights ignoring the stop signs and traffic lights while on the wrong side of the road - ie. 99.5% of the cyclists in San Francisco. Lock 'em up and question them harshly, that's what I say.
The evidence is purely the public evidence that's available to everyone - the UK will almost never have a major policy disagreement with the US. This was a Labour government that backed the war in Iraq - Labour's the party of pacificts and socialists. How did the US get the UK to sign on to its neo-con agenda in such a big way? The US has some hold over the UK that I don't claim to understand. I just think it's obvious that the hold is there and has been there for at least 20 years (which is when I started complaining that the UK was not independent of the US).
Before people start correcting me: I just checked, Reynolds isn't actually Scottish though he studied in Scotland.
I was thinking more of Iain Banks. Must be a Scottish thing.
You mean like:
using namespace Mars {
"On the fifth day of their missions the Shock and Awe probes on Mars are doing fine. Shock is current exploring the northern polar cap and Awe is..."
}
using namespace Venus {
"As we approach half way through Harsh Questioning's first day on Venus it has just circled successfully around a pool of molten lead..."
}
Yeah, that might work.