And no, we are not designed at the most basic level to kill large mammals. For the most basic level, go and read a book about apes feeding habits.
Gorillas eat leaves (which we cannot), and chimps are omnivores. There are no deer in the trees, but chimps do hunt, kill and eat monkeys. What was your point?
When I was growing up, the thinking about SIDS was that while the phenomenon existed, a good number of SIDS cases were actually murders of children by parents
It is human nature to suspect the mother. We see motive and opportunity, and hate not having an explanation. But the evidence does not support a high rate of maternal homicide, and never has. We still suspect the mother. Here in Australia, there is a similar condition known as Sleepy Infant Dingo Syndrome.
Would we accept a routine game that put a gun to our head and gave us a 1 in 200 chance of putting a bullet in our brain? No. But we ask that of pregnant mothers. The tests are NOT accurate -- there are false positives and then you get risk factors like "1 in 244" You see to be confusing the safe screening test with the risky but accurate diagnostic test. First a mother takes the SAFE screening test to assess risk. Then, if risk is high, you may take the proper diagnostic test. The exact threshold depends on individual values and circumstances.
If you equate a miscarriage with a bullet to the mother's head, you are an idi^W poor cantidate for these tests.
What exactly is the problem here? Amniocentesis is the ONLY risky test that is routinely offered around here, and then only after preliminary screening indicates a significant risk. What else is there? Some blood tests for the mother (rubella, diabeties,...), and a non-invasive ultrasound. What are these other tests that increase risk, and are actually offered to parents? I assume from the insurance comments that you are in the US: is it so different there? Given a 1 in 150 risk of Downs from the screening test, many parents would opt for amniocentesis to confirm. A miscarriage means maybe a six month delay in parenting. A Downs birth is a life sentence. If you disagree, don't get the test. Downs is certainly not the worst disability a baby can have, but it is detectable and common, especially with older mothers.
> Toyota is about to pass GM as the world's biggest, and they sell SMALL CARS.... All his Camry's were gone.
Hmmm... only an American would call the Camry small:-) 1.5 tons empty, 4.8m long, 117kW But the fuel economy is reasonable at 8.9L/100km. (26.4mpg US?)
> You will either want to get an upconverting DVD player that can display at least 720p with a decent output or build a Media PC.
Why? I don't understand the point. Why is the up-conversion in the DVD player better that the up-conversion in the expensive TV? (talking about digital displays, not CRT)
An airplane wing does not produce lift because it is angled downwards, it generates lift almost purely because of its shape.
I understand the basic idea of the aerofoil. But are you overstating it? If an angled wing doesn't generate much lift, how is it that stunt pilots can fly upside-down? I thought in this case the wing angle has to overcome the downward aerofoil "lift".
Or what about all those toy rubber-band powered planes with flat wings?
I sympathise with the GP. I see this "could care less" frequently on/. and it's damned annoying,
like bad double negatives (I don't want no...) or hearing the word "nuke-u-lar".
I assume it is some local idiom.
And anyway, Chinese internet cafes are 99% full of people playing on-line games or watching videos.
(and smoking) They COULD NOT care less about the firewall.
> Why not? Unless they get the majority (do you think they will?) they should make a nice counterbalance.
Isn't that what the Palestianians said about Hamas?
Actually, the Iranians are white, so I guess that answers your question.
Even the Arabs are no darker than a lot of mediterranean Europeans, if not too suntanned.
I don't know why Americans keep calling Arabs brown, but consider the closely-related Jews to be white.
And whatever it is, I don't think it's good. I went on holiday last year for three weeks to Australia and television there is wall to wall crap. Adverts every couple of minutes
You are confusing two thing: - federally tax-funded television, ABC and SBS, which can be very good, and programs are never interrupted by adverts. - advertising funded commercial TV which has descended from bad to utter crap.
Fortunately all the good programs from commercial networks are available on DVD or bit-torrent. (both of them?:-) And all the good topical doco / current affairs programs are on non-commercial stations. (Except Nine's "Sunday" program.) So you need never watch adverts, not even on fast-forward.
I was just comparing "Lord of the Rings 1" DVD to HDTV.
The DVD is letterboxed 2.35:1, while the HDTV version was fullscreen 16:9.
The TV version has some cut off the left and right, but actually shows MORE
above and below. Presumably it shows extra bits you don't see in the
cinema prints.
No more slashdot. And this time I'm putting slashdot.org in the modem firewall list, changing the modem password to random junk, and super-gluing over the reset button.
Is there a support group for ex-slashdot readers? Please reply by e-mail.
Finland has a reasonably strong cinematic history. Probably the most notable film for non-Finns recently would The Man Without a Past...
How could you not mention Aki's greatest work, "Leningrad Cowboys Go America" ? It was a big hit as far away as Australia, where the band actually did a concert tour - I swear! It didn't hurt its popularity that the movie was mostly in English. Well worth watching, if you like twisted humour.
re: "100 PRISONERS AND A LIGHT BULB" According to the website, the best solution is around 10 years! Would you rot in solitary for 10 years to be certain of a right answer? After 2 years, there is a 93% chance everyone has been through. After 3 years, its 99.8%, assuming noone died first. Enough for me! But how do you measure time? The best reliable estimate would be by counting your visits to the living room. How many needed for, say, 99% chance of success? Should a certain number of prisoners be nominated to count? Can the bulb help optimise it a little? Do the prisoners have access to a computer during their meeting to program a numeric solution?
> This difference alludes to the fact that most of the Chinese population DOES NOT have the financial resources to obtain these items.
Not so simple, it is cultural. Even in places where there is plenty of money and broadband infrastructure you will find large dark rooms full of young Chinese on computers. Mostly they are playing networked games. The most obvious difference between here (Australia) and China, is that the China 'net cafes are full of cigarette smoke.
pardon? MP3 took off because it could be downloaded easily over a dial-up modem. It was communications bandwidth, not storage. They still burned then in CD format.
> still a pain in the ass to strip CSS off of DVDs.
You must be kidding. In Linux, its transparent. Under windoze? Surely there are some point-and-drool spyware-laden disc copiers to download free?
Are you baiting for instructions? Use google. With a computer, anything is only hard the first time, then its a one-liner.
meltdown? The safety and waste disposal questions have been beaten to death on slashdot.
But what about the proliferation question? These reactors use weapons grade uranium fuel, "40% U235" according to this greenie site:
Win32 LoadLibrary failed to load: avisynth.dll,/usr/lib/codecs/avisynth.dll,
That version of mplayer works fine for me, and I dont have a file called 'avisynth.dll' anywhere. It also seems to work without any win32 DLLs. You must have a version compiled without Quicktime support. Did you compile your own? Try downloading a pre-built binary for your distro.
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When I was growing up, the thinking about SIDS was that while the phenomenon existed, a good number of SIDS cases were actually murders of children by parents
It is human nature to suspect the mother. We see motive and opportunity, and hate not having an explanation.
But the evidence does not support a high rate of maternal homicide, and never has. We still suspect the mother.
Here in Australia, there is a similar condition known as Sleepy Infant Dingo Syndrome.
Would we accept a routine game that put a gun to our head and gave us a 1 in 200 chance of putting a bullet in our brain? No. But we ask that of pregnant mothers. The tests are NOT accurate -- there are false positives and then you get risk factors like "1 in 244"
You see to be confusing the safe screening test with the risky but accurate diagnostic test. First a mother takes the SAFE screening test to assess risk. Then, if risk is high, you may take the proper diagnostic test. The exact threshold depends on individual values and circumstances.
If you equate a miscarriage with a bullet to the mother's head, you are an idi^W poor cantidate for these tests.
What exactly is the problem here? Amniocentesis is the ONLY risky test that is routinely offered around here, and then only after preliminary screening indicates a significant risk. What else is there? Some blood tests for the mother (rubella, diabeties, ...), and a non-invasive ultrasound. What are these other tests that increase risk, and are actually offered to parents?
I assume from the insurance comments that you are in the US: is it so different there?
Given a 1 in 150 risk of Downs from the screening test, many parents would opt for amniocentesis to confirm.
A miscarriage means maybe a six month delay in parenting. A Downs birth is a life sentence. If you disagree, don't get the test.
Downs is certainly not the worst disability a baby can have, but it is detectable and common, especially with older mothers.
> Toyota is about to pass GM as the world's biggest, and they sell SMALL CARS. ... All his Camry's were gone.
:-)
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Hmmm... only an American would call the Camry small
1.5 tons empty, 4.8m long, 117kW
But the fuel economy is reasonable at 8.9L/100km. (26.4mpg US?)
http://camry.toyota.com.au/toyota/vehicle/Specifi
> You will either want to get an upconverting DVD player that can display at least 720p with a decent output or build a Media PC.
Why? I don't understand the point.
Why is the up-conversion in the DVD player better that the up-conversion in the expensive TV?
(talking about digital displays, not CRT)
+4 informative!? Where's the "-1 bleedin' obvious" mod? Are there not enough serious errors in the summaries to worry about?
> It made a generation of young people think that getting music for free was practically a birthright.
Free? As opposed to $1 for a cassette tape.
Damn that evil Philips corporation, profiting from theft.
I understand the basic idea of the aerofoil. But are you overstating it? If an angled wing doesn't generate much lift, how is it that stunt pilots can fly upside-down? I thought in this case the wing angle has to overcome the downward aerofoil "lift".
Or what about all those toy rubber-band powered planes with flat wings?
I assume it is some local idiom. And anyway, Chinese internet cafes are 99% full of people playing on-line games or watching videos. (and smoking) They COULD NOT care less about the firewall.
> Why not? Unless they get the majority (do you think they will?) they should make a nice counterbalance. Isn't that what the Palestianians said about Hamas?
Even the Arabs are no darker than a lot of mediterranean Europeans, if not too suntanned. I don't know why Americans keep calling Arabs brown, but consider the closely-related Jews to be white.
And whatever it is, I don't think it's good. I went on holiday last year for three weeks to Australia and television there is wall to wall crap. Adverts every couple of minutes
:-)
You are confusing two thing:
- federally tax-funded television, ABC and SBS, which can be very good, and programs are never interrupted by adverts.
- advertising funded commercial TV which has descended from bad to utter crap.
Fortunately all the good programs from commercial networks are available on DVD or bit-torrent. (both of them?
And all the good topical doco / current affairs programs are on non-commercial stations. (Except Nine's "Sunday" program.) So you need never watch adverts, not even on fast-forward.
In my house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!
I was just comparing "Lord of the Rings 1" DVD to HDTV. The DVD is letterboxed 2.35:1, while the HDTV version was fullscreen 16:9. The TV version has some cut off the left and right, but actually shows MORE above and below. Presumably it shows extra bits you don't see in the cinema prints.
No more slashdot.
And this time I'm putting slashdot.org in the modem firewall list,
changing the modem password to random junk, and super-gluing
over the reset button.
Is there a support group for ex-slashdot readers?
Please reply by e-mail.
How could you not mention Aki's greatest work, "Leningrad Cowboys Go America" ?
It was a big hit as far away as Australia, where the band actually did a concert tour - I swear!
It didn't hurt its popularity that the movie was mostly in English. Well worth watching, if you like twisted humour.
re: "100 PRISONERS AND A LIGHT BULB"
According to the website, the best solution is around 10 years!
Would you rot in solitary for 10 years to be certain of a right answer?
After 2 years, there is a 93% chance everyone has been through.
After 3 years, its 99.8%, assuming noone died first. Enough for me!
But how do you measure time? The best reliable estimate would be
by counting your visits to the living room. How many needed for, say, 99% chance of success?
Should a certain number of prisoners be nominated to count? Can the bulb help optimise it a little?
Do the prisoners have access to a computer during their meeting to program a numeric solution?
So who's body is in Les Invalides?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Invalides
> This difference alludes to the fact that most of the Chinese population DOES NOT have the financial resources to obtain these items.
Not so simple, it is cultural. Even in places where there is plenty of money and broadband infrastructure
you will find large dark rooms full of young Chinese on computers. Mostly they are playing
networked games. The most obvious difference between here (Australia) and China, is that
the China 'net cafes are full of cigarette smoke.
pardon? MP3 took off because it could be downloaded easily over a dial-up modem. It was communications bandwidth, not storage. They still burned then in CD format.
> still a pain in the ass to strip CSS off of DVDs.
You must be kidding. In Linux, its transparent. Under windoze? Surely there are some point-and-drool spyware-laden disc copiers to download free?
Are you baiting for instructions? Use google.
With a computer, anything is only hard the first time, then its a one-liner.
http://www.bellona.no/en/international/russia/nuke _industry/co-operation/39015.html
That version of mplayer works fine for me, and I dont have a file called 'avisynth.dll' anywhere. It also seems to work without any win32 DLLs. You must have a version compiled without Quicktime support. Did you compile your own? Try downloading a pre-built binary for your distro.
C|net:t +Kazaa/2100-1030_3-5849480.html
/ 2005/1242.html
http://news.com.com/Australian+court+rules+agains
Full judgement:
http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/cth/federal_ct
- reasonably plain english, and worth reading. No cause for outrage here folks.