True, a lot of heart disease is a result of our modern diet. But cancer? No. All animals get cancer, even insectivores. And you still have to die of something. Heart disease and cancer are more common now because we can prevent or cure just about everything else.
If they can make a grub that tastes as good as a prawn, I'll eat it!
Man what is happening over there in the US? Didn't you guys start off as the good guys? When did it all start to go so horribly wrong?
No, the US stated off as a bunch of terrorists in the 1770s. It took a long time to earn Good Guy status. The real respect came from WWII and its aftermath. Sad that the respect is being squandered.
According to Wikipedia, the law was about keeping a gun at home, not carrying one. And it was aimed at burglaries, not violent crime. It is only a city of 30,000, so I hope there is not enough serious violent crime to draw any statistically significant conclusions. But you would have to worry that a reduction in burglaries might be accompanied by a smaller increase in robbery. I'll take 100 burglars over one armed robbery, thankyou.
Yet, what sets them apart in a human's mind is a dolphin's physical ability to vocalize.
No, it it the resemblance of their face to a smiling human that affects us. It is really hard for an octopus to smile. Octopuses do have big child-like eyes, but that is not enough to be cute.
(And BTW, ants hunt in groups. Not really a sign of intelligence.)
Your internet history is recorded and retained for 2+ years at your ISP
Maybe. That is why I use https://encrypted.google.com/ Of course Google may be in with them, so you should also use a prepaid wireless internet connection in a false name, bought with cash. And not from home. They triangulate your location.
meh, it was a big deal when an el cheapo Celeron 300 was overclocked to 450MHz routinely, with no special hardware. Almost enough to decode DVDs in real time:-)
OK, I had a google and see what you mean. The press in North America tend to publicise a stupidly meaningless number of 40% of crashes being alcohol related. So ignore it. Most of what is in the papers is rubbish.
It does not matter how many deaths are alcohol-caused if the testing makes no difference. Here is some real data on how many accidents were prevented by well-publicised random breath testing: http://casr.adelaide.edu.au/T95/paper/s29p6.html
Do that nationally and thousands of families will be spared death and disability.
That's not the fault of the actual connector. Nokia just failed to attach it to the circuit-board properly. It is only surface-mounted in the N900, no solder-through pins or resin.
What figures include passenger alcohol? The ones I saw included only drivers and pedestrians, not passengers. Anyway, it does not matter if you do the analysis properly. I have seen some sites that publish the total number of fatalities in "alcohol-related" accidents. In that case, the actual numbers have little meaning, but the trend may still be useful.
You need to look at the stat's a bit closer to get cause. The "alcohol-related" label is useful for further analysis. For a simplest approximation, you take the excess deaths in alcohol-related group. Using data from random breath testing, and from tests after accidents, you can determine how much alcohol increases the risk.
You might find that almost all accidents with drivers over 0.15 can be statistically attributed to alcohol, but only half the accidents with drivers reading 0.05.
1) Bullshit, blood tests are accurate while breath tests are all across the board in terms of accuracy. If you think you are under the limit, always go with the blood test because the breathalyser is more likely to screw you.
He means that the official breath test (big machine, not hand-held) has its reading lowered by an error margin. Blood tests are more accurate, so the claimed reading will almost always be higher.
violates the 5th amendment of the US constitution,
Do you think a breathalyzer counts as "witness against himself", or are you concerned that the officer is taking the motorists breath "without just compensation" ?
Thats how it is in most of the world. Not jail maybe, but you get arrested for the purpose of getting a blood test if you refuse a breath test. Same if you fail the roadside breath test, you can be arrested long enough to get a more reliable test. That doesn't necessarily mean being charged on the spot or jail, unless you have a very high reading. It could mean a summons in the post. Having a magistrate on site seems an awkward way to do things. Florida is a state right? They get to pass their own laws? Why can they not just pass a law to allow random breath testing? e.g. give the same penalty for refusal as for failure. Drink driving kills far more people than terrorism, and it seems an utterly miniscule inconvenience compared to the ludicrous actions of the DHS.
You mean Fox News is real?! I thought it was just a parody invented by the Daily Show. We get the "International Edition" of that here, and they show clips of Fox. C'mon... it is just a joke, right?
Of course your education is biased. The taxes were as real a cause as Iraq's WMDs, or slavery in the US civil war. Lack of representation in Parliament was a very legitimate gripe, but I'm not sure that killing people was the only solution. Are non-citizens in the US who lack voting rights still required to pay taxes? A more critical look at our own history might benefit us all.
I have this brilliant idea to solve the battery range problem. Since buses travel on fixed routes, you could run overhead electric wires to power them, removing the need for expensive and heavy batteries, and increasing speed. I cannot believe nobody has thought of this before, and this is the worlds first electric bus fleet.
thousands died in the Revolutionary War so America could become independent.
Bad things can happen during the commission of a good thing.
Gosh. Do they still teach you in school that the American Revolutionary War was unambiguously a good thing? The precedent it set led to millions of deaths in the US civil war, and the near extermination of native tribes. A little more patience could have seen gradual independence without violent upheaval, as managed in later colonies such as those in Australia and Asia. Anyway, what is so awful about being Canada that was worth such mass slaughter?
Democracy is a rather lame excuse when you are rebelling from the nation that invented modern democracy, with the parliamentary system.
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True, a lot of heart disease is a result of our modern diet. But cancer? No. All animals get cancer, even insectivores.
And you still have to die of something. Heart disease and cancer are more common now because we can prevent or cure just about everything else.
If they can make a grub that tastes as good as a prawn, I'll eat it!
Man what is happening over there in the US? Didn't you guys start off as the good guys? When did it all start to go so horribly wrong?
No, the US stated off as a bunch of terrorists in the 1770s. It took a long time to earn Good Guy status. The real respect came from WWII and its aftermath.
Sad that the respect is being squandered.
According to Wikipedia, the law was about keeping a gun at home, not carrying one. And it was aimed at burglaries, not violent crime.
It is only a city of 30,000, so I hope there is not enough serious violent crime to draw any statistically significant conclusions.
But you would have to worry that a reduction in burglaries might be accompanied by a smaller increase in robbery.
I'll take 100 burglars over one armed robbery, thankyou.
Yet, what sets them apart in a human's mind is a dolphin's physical ability to vocalize.
No, it it the resemblance of their face to a smiling human that affects us. It is really hard for an octopus to smile.
Octopuses do have big child-like eyes, but that is not enough to be cute.
(And BTW, ants hunt in groups. Not really a sign of intelligence.)
Laurie would never have got that lucrative job if he behaved like Fry.
Your internet history is recorded and retained for 2+ years at your ISP
Maybe. That is why I use https://encrypted.google.com/
Of course Google may be in with them, so you should also use a prepaid wireless internet connection in a false name, bought with cash.
And not from home. They triangulate your location.
meh, it was a big deal when an el cheapo Celeron 300 was overclocked to 450MHz routinely, with no special hardware. Almost enough to decode DVDs in real time :-)
No, but if you overclock it too far, it will go backwards.
Yeah, an LED-backlit LCD display. AC is right.
My car has many electrical parts, but that does not make it an electric car.
OK, I had a google and see what you mean. The press in North America tend to publicise a stupidly meaningless number of 40% of crashes being alcohol related. So ignore it. Most of what is in the papers is rubbish.
It does not matter how many deaths are alcohol-caused if the testing makes no difference.
Here is some real data on how many accidents were prevented by well-publicised random breath testing:
http://casr.adelaide.edu.au/T95/paper/s29p6.html
Do that nationally and thousands of families will be spared death and disability.
That's not the fault of the actual connector. Nokia just failed to attach it to the circuit-board properly.
It is only surface-mounted in the N900, no solder-through pins or resin.
So what is your point? Better data is available.
However, most states seem to be able to get away with these checkpoints in the name of public safety.
You seem to have forgotten the important keyword "unreasonable". Anyway, a breath test is not a search, any more than a speed camera is.
What figures include passenger alcohol? The ones I saw included only drivers and pedestrians, not passengers. Anyway, it does not matter if you do the analysis properly.
I have seen some sites that publish the total number of fatalities in "alcohol-related" accidents. In that case, the actual numbers have little meaning, but the trend may still be useful.
No difference at all. Except for the massive difference in inconvenience level, privacy issues, and effectiveness. What a ridiculous assertion.
You need to look at the stat's a bit closer to get cause. The "alcohol-related" label is useful for further analysis.
For a simplest approximation, you take the excess deaths in alcohol-related group.
Using data from random breath testing, and from tests after accidents, you can determine how much alcohol increases the risk.
You might find that almost all accidents with drivers over 0.15 can be statistically attributed to alcohol, but only half the accidents with drivers reading 0.05.
1) Bullshit, blood tests are accurate while breath tests are all across the board in terms of accuracy. If you think you are under the limit, always go with the blood test because the breathalyser is more likely to screw you.
He means that the official breath test (big machine, not hand-held) has its reading lowered by an error margin. Blood tests are more accurate, so the claimed reading will almost always be higher.
violates the 5th amendment of the US constitution,
Do you think a breathalyzer counts as "witness against himself", or are you concerned that the officer is taking the motorists breath "without just compensation" ?
Or did you mean Space Corps Directive 004?
Thats how it is in most of the world. Not jail maybe, but you get arrested for the purpose of getting a blood test if you refuse a breath test. Same if you fail the roadside breath test, you can be arrested long enough to get a more reliable test. That doesn't necessarily mean being charged on the spot or jail, unless you have a very high reading. It could mean a summons in the post.
Having a magistrate on site seems an awkward way to do things.
Florida is a state right? They get to pass their own laws? Why can they not just pass a law to allow random breath testing? e.g. give the same penalty for refusal as for failure.
Drink driving kills far more people than terrorism, and it seems an utterly miniscule inconvenience compared to the ludicrous actions of the DHS.
You mean Fox News is real?! I thought it was just a parody invented by the Daily Show. We get the "International Edition" of that here, and they show clips of Fox. ... it is just a joke, right?
C'mon
A lawyer? Some form of protest was my first thought.
Of course your education is biased. The taxes were as real a cause as Iraq's WMDs, or slavery in the US civil war. Lack of representation in Parliament was a very legitimate gripe, but I'm not sure that killing people was the only solution.
Are non-citizens in the US who lack voting rights still required to pay taxes?
A more critical look at our own history might benefit us all.
I have this brilliant idea to solve the battery range problem.
Since buses travel on fixed routes, you could run overhead electric wires to power them, removing the need for expensive and heavy batteries, and increasing speed.
I cannot believe nobody has thought of this before, and this is the worlds first electric bus fleet.
thousands died in the Revolutionary War so America could become independent.
Bad things can happen during the commission of a good thing.
Gosh. Do they still teach you in school that the American Revolutionary War was unambiguously a good thing? The precedent it set led to millions of deaths in the US civil war, and the near extermination of native tribes.
A little more patience could have seen gradual independence without violent upheaval, as managed in later colonies such as those in Australia and Asia.
Anyway, what is so awful about being Canada that was worth such mass slaughter?
Democracy is a rather lame excuse when you are rebelling from the nation that invented modern democracy, with the parliamentary system.
Its not paranoia if they really are out to get you.