A reasonable hypothesis, but the worst possible way to support any claim, especially a controversial one, it to provide a youtube link. One three-year-old viral video hit does not make a scientific revolution.
How widespread is the use of CDMA in the first place?
That depends what you mean. The old 2G GSM is TDMA (time division multiple access), whereas the modern 3G UMTS used in most of the world is CDMA - Code division multiple access. Fortunately TFA refers to a particular CDMA implementation used in the US (CDMA2000), and not the much more common UMTS version, or CDMA in general.
- The right to a trial. Anyone who refuses to plea-bargain faces a heavy penalty. Perhaps years in jail for an offence that normally attracts a non-custodial sentence. - The right to a speedy trial. People can be locked up for years on remand. (This probably applies in most countries.) - warrantless wiretapping
I think we may have a new record for the most trivial, inconsequential piece of "news" that made it to/. merely by being possibly related to Fukushima.
if verifiable evidence arises that contradicts it, that the theory is modified or thrown away
Wrong approach. I theory is not "right", but useful. A good theory makes accurate, but not necessarily perfect, predictions. You don't throw away Newtons laws because relativity is more accurate - ie closer to real world observations. Real world evidence "contradicts" relativity, but we don't call it wrong because it is imperfect.
"why should we punish ourselves when we're just a small portion of the world's population and China and India, who have the vast majority of the world's population, don't give a fuck at all?"
That's funny. Over here we get "why should we punish ourselves when we're just a small portion of the world's population and China, the United States, and India, who have the majority of the world's emissions, don't give a fuck at all?"
TFA says caesium in the concrete, so 30 years half life. And if the concrete of the apartment becomes airborne, you have bigger worries than the radiation.
The kid is not radioactive. He carries a "dosimeter" which measures the total dose he receives. Anyone living in a brick or concrete building gets more radiation than in a timber house, but this particular block has rather more than usual.
No cash for copper. ID required and a direct deposit to a bank account.
That would be too easy. Why don't they do it? Pawn shops here need ID from every seller, and must submit serial numbers of everything to the police. Its not perfect but does make a big difference. Then again, I have to show ID to buy some decongestant, and that seems to make no difference whatsoever to the availability of meth. Which probably just shows that drugs are a bad metaphor.
the option was perhaps 3 months of such high pain management... compared to a few years of being able to actually do something with life.
I don't understand. You make it sound clear-cut. Where is the dilemma? Was there a problem with your insurance? If the hospital did not have the treatment option, why did the doctor not transfer or refer the patient on? Isn't it normal and expected for a small hospital to transfer a patient with needs they cannot meet?
our local hospital gave a 'go home a die' diagnosis. Cleveland said they could do something. I'd like all hospitals to have better treatment.
More is not always better. (Where I am, at least) the problem is more one of excessive intervention at end of life than not enough. When doctors are dying, they have less treatment than average people. Excessive treatment may mean a slow painful (or doped out) death in hospital, rather than a slightly quicker more dignified death at home. Or it can mean risking death on the operating table for very limited gains. And that is without considering the financial cost.
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I am however on the IQ scale a "genius", ... Standardized tests regularly place me in the top 99%.
I thought them "geniuses" were supposed to be good at maths. Maybe the second claim was more accurate.
I believe it has something to do with fructose.
A reasonable hypothesis, but the worst possible way to support any claim, especially a controversial one, it to provide a youtube link.
One three-year-old viral video hit does not make a scientific revolution.
The German reputation for brutality is well-founded. Their operas last three or four days. And they have no word for "fluffy".
How widespread is the use of CDMA in the first place?
That depends what you mean. The old 2G GSM is TDMA (time division multiple access), whereas the modern 3G UMTS used in most of the world is CDMA - Code division multiple access.
Fortunately TFA refers to a particular CDMA implementation used in the US (CDMA2000), and not the much more common UMTS version, or CDMA in general.
> people shouldn't have to witness graphic sex acts
Who said that? Not TFA. Maybe it was just calendar girls, and the graphic sex acts are a product of the readers depraved imagination?
they expose themselves to get some lulz on a boring legal call.
They are not the KGB or SPECTRE. The "lulz" is their whole raison d'etre.
'The Earth is acting like a giant vacuum cleaner powered by gravity in space, pulling in particles of dust,
Could this be the first ever genuinely witty pun in a /. header, or merely a freak accident?
No semi-automatic rifles only pistols. That's how fucked up it is.
That applies to recreational hunters, not professionals.
Too hard to kill a deer or kangaroo with a bolt-action?
Getting a license for something that can kill an elephant in aus, you make me laugh.
She'll be right mate. Professional hunters can use semi-automatics. It is only machine guns and rocket launchers that are illegal.
Name one constitutional freedom you have lost.
- The right to a trial. Anyone who refuses to plea-bargain faces a heavy penalty. Perhaps years in jail for an offence that normally attracts a non-custodial sentence.
- The right to a speedy trial. People can be locked up for years on remand. (This probably applies in most countries.)
- warrantless wiretapping
just for a start.
I think we may have a new record for the most trivial, inconsequential piece of "news" that made it to /. merely by being possibly related to Fukushima.
Not quite, the dark side of the moon is also the side that's facing away from the sun at any given time.
Clearly not in this context. That would make no sense. And spy satellites use radar and passive infra-red at night.
You do realize that the dark side of the moon doesn't always cover the same ground, right?
You do realise the term refers to the far side of the moon, which is in gravitational lock with the earth?
It wasn't before, but it probably is now.
The chances of this becoming a new internet meme are ... inconceivable!
if verifiable evidence arises that contradicts it, that the theory is modified or thrown away
Wrong approach. I theory is not "right", but useful. A good theory makes accurate, but not necessarily perfect, predictions.
You don't throw away Newtons laws because relativity is more accurate - ie closer to real world observations.
Real world evidence "contradicts" relativity, but we don't call it wrong because it is imperfect.
"why should we punish ourselves when we're just a small portion of the world's population and China and India, who have the vast majority of the world's population, don't give a fuck at all?"
That's funny. Over here we get "why should we punish ourselves when we're just a small portion of the world's population and China, the United States, and India, who have the majority of the world's emissions, don't give a fuck at all?"
I take it you didn't catch the episode of Penn & Teller's "Bulshit" on this one.
Don't knock Penn & Teller too hard. Nobody is always right, and there is a shortage of intelligent & honest conservatives in America.
TFA says caesium in the concrete, so 30 years half life.
And if the concrete of the apartment becomes airborne, you have bigger worries than the radiation.
The kid is not radioactive. He carries a "dosimeter" which measures the total dose he receives.
Anyone living in a brick or concrete building gets more radiation than in a timber house, but this particular block has rather more than usual.
Norway ... has some of the highest radeon levels in the world...
Radeon levels? Is Nvidia an obscene word in the Norwegian language perhaps?
No cash for copper. ID required and a direct deposit to a bank account.
That would be too easy. Why don't they do it? Pawn shops here need ID from every seller, and must submit serial numbers of everything to the police. Its not perfect but does make a big difference.
Then again, I have to show ID to buy some decongestant, and that seems to make no difference whatsoever to the availability of meth.
Which probably just shows that drugs are a bad metaphor.
Yes, it would be so cool to say "My scanning tunneling microscope goes to ELEVEN".
the option was perhaps 3 months of such high pain management ... compared to a few years of being able to actually do something with life.
I don't understand. You make it sound clear-cut. Where is the dilemma? Was there a problem with your insurance? If the hospital did not have the treatment option, why did the doctor not transfer or refer the patient on? Isn't it normal and expected for a small hospital to transfer a patient with needs they cannot meet?
our local hospital gave a 'go home a die' diagnosis. Cleveland said they could do something. I'd like all hospitals to have better treatment .
More is not always better. (Where I am, at least) the problem is more one of excessive intervention at end of life than not enough. When doctors are dying, they have less treatment than average people. Excessive treatment may mean a slow painful (or doped out) death in hospital, rather than a slightly quicker more dignified death at home. Or it can mean risking death on the operating table for very limited gains. And that is without considering the financial cost.
But what is your total tax rate?
When you add in government budget deficit and extra health care cost, the US and Canada are very similar, about 38%.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Canadian_and_American_economies