While all of those things are terrible and kill millions each year, and have done for a very very long time (with the exception of AIDS), NONE of them have the potential to wipe our 70 million people in the space of 6 months.
Whether the H5N1 thing is hype or not, someone discovering easier ways to synthesise anti-viral drugs is a Good Thing.
Eventually there IS going to be another flu pandemic, the way the virus mutates and our global society assure us of it, the real question is is it going to kill millions of people or just give everyone a lousy week of work.;-)
Just thought I'd chip in by pointing out that we've all seen (and know without being told) that driving in any kind of traffic causes large amounts of stress, and generally stressed people are more ill than those that are laid-back.
Ever wonder why country people, especially farmers and people who do physical work, always seem healthier?
Actually it's very common for cpu manufacturers to just underclock overheating chips.
Also, an AMD chip is only rated up to around 75^C anyway from memory.
Oh for gods sake, for a start, when has it been said that it's to prevent welfare fraud?
The obvious benefit of such a card is administration costs.
In Australia, to go on welfare such as say... a health care card, you need to go to centrelink, present something like a drivers license, a bankcard, and your birth certificate/passport. So you already do have to jump through rings to get welfare.
As for fraud, a health care card is quite literally a business-card sized piece of paper, and if you wanted to "steal someones welfare identity" all you'd need to do is photocopy that piece of paper and make a fake drivers license. Which in fact WOULD be simpler than creating a fake smart ID card, or at least cheaper.
Heh, funny thing is this card is even more benign, it's mainly to be used for dealing with govt. "welfare"
"OMG, he goes to centrelink every month on this day!" ha, handy.
It's effectively just a details card for administration with the public health and welfare systems, and I do believe we already carry round health-care cards for such things.
It's moving from paper to plastic+memory
Advertising a drug like GHB as being "healthier" than alcohol at normal levels is pretty screwed up man, seeing as it's ridiculously easy to make and as a result most of the stuff that you could buy on the street is made by some skeg bastard in his garage and is contaminated with nasties.
Yeah I'm sure those quirky Japanese engineers didn't think of that!:-P
While you could be right, it's not like wired electrical trains are perfect, that wire infrastructure ISN'T simple to maintain, I witnessed that the other day when a train on my line ripped down the wires for 2 of the 3 tracks.
Also isn't power loss for DC over wires rather large? I'd think if you had an efficient way of storing and extracting that power to just carry it with the train it would be much better.
Also who knows, maybe one day all trains will become electric with this technology, even the ones in the middle of nowhere, I know that electricity had to be generated somewhere but those big power stations have a lot more potential to create clean(ish) energy than those dirty old diesel engine trains.
*yawn* and I'm terribly offended that you would use the word "gay" in the incorrect "homosexual way". Being that I'm a light-hearted happy person that is.
Just because a mathematical theory is known to be most likely true, and used for all practical purposes, does not mean that it's been PROVED to be true.
Because it can't promote thoughtful discussion it's not news?
We get a nice spiel everytime a US politician mentions a computer term (and inevitably mis-pronounces it) but this isn't newsworthy?
Heh, that aside, this isn't newsworthy as it's not the majority party that proposed it, it was a failed leader of a currently unelectable party spurting whatever crap he can in his dying throes.
Not to say I have anything agains Labour, I'll happily vote the victorian labour government in at the next election just as I VERY VERY happily helped vote the liberal government out, but I think as far as federal goes it's either greens or a donkey vote.
"I mean, the wear swimsuits when they take showers."
uh, what? I'm Australian, never worn a swimsuit in the shower unless it was on the beach with no walls. Hell I've never even seen someone wear a swim.. damnit, TOGS in the shower at the public pool in the changerooms, and they generally don't have walls.
I probably should have pointed out that the labour party in Australia is traditionally trying to represent the "working-class" and that's why I used that instead of just "mums and dads"
Personally, I'm from a working class family and like most Australian parents mine honestly couldn't give a f*%#!, it's just porn folks;-)
It's more of a "the government says this" and the public says "yeah try and enforce it" kind of thing really.
The two major governments are reasonably conservative (although an analogy of the labor party to the democrats is just plain farsical) and so we get crap like this proposed.
Also, puritanical implies religious, Australia is very secular, and this is more a case of "working class mums and dads don't want their kids looking up porn".
That said, this is a completely ludicrious proposal by the labor party and needless to say they've lost my vote for the next federal election.
Ha, no actually you're wrong!
Believe it or not, the world does not revolve around you, and doesn't have to dumb itself down accordingly just so you get it!
Amazing revelations eh? Think of all those jokes that may have been there but you just didn't get because they weren't thinking of you!
Whether abortion is legal or not is a decision for the state governments.
What particular drugs are safe for use SHOULD be determined by experts.
The health-minister having control over one particular drug just because a vocal minority doesn't support what it is used for doesn't fit in with this. Whether RU486 is safe or not should be decided by those who actually know what the %#!&* they're on about, whether it is legal to have an abortion is decided by the sate govt.
The way it was before was a clear work-around or the "federation of states" way that Australia works and was inevitable that it would be scrapped.
rack. off. silly. fundie.
The situation you are completely skewing was the first piece of socially progressive legislation I have seen from the federal govt. in years, and surprise surprise it was a conscience vote.
For those who haven't heard the actual information to recognise what the parent says as blatant lies, the ACTUAL event was that parliament took power away from the health minister, a POLITICIAN, not an expert, to veto the drug RU486 from being prescribed by doctors to patients.
RU486 is an abortion drug, the health-minister had veto power over it in Australia so no doctor could prescribe it to a patient, despite the fact that the FEDERAL health-minister has no expertise over such a drug and abortion is not federally illegal in Australia, actually I don't think they even have the power to make it illegal. Long story short, control over the drug was transferred to the TGA, the Therapeutic Goods Administration, a panel of EXPERTS, who will decide over whether the drug is SAFE to use or not, and then whether it can be used comes down to where it should, state law over whether abortion is legal or not.
The health-minister having control over this drug in the first place was a completely ludicrous situation, as was shown by the complete ROLLING he and his fellow "pro-life" boys got in parliament on the conscience vote.
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Well you're the chemist so correct me if I'm wrong here, but i didn't think Tamiflu was a vaccine?
Care to share the information?
Also I think you'll find that "Tamiflu" is the name of a drug, not the name of a company.
While all of those things are terrible and kill millions each year, and have done for a very very long time (with the exception of AIDS), NONE of them have the potential to wipe our 70 million people in the space of 6 months.
Whether the H5N1 thing is hype or not, someone discovering easier ways to synthesise anti-viral drugs is a Good Thing.
;-)
Eventually there IS going to be another flu pandemic, the way the virus mutates and our global society assure us of it, the real question is is it going to kill millions of people or just give everyone a lousy week of work.
Just thought I'd chip in by pointing out that we've all seen (and know without being told) that driving in any kind of traffic causes large amounts of stress, and generally stressed people are more ill than those that are laid-back.
Ever wonder why country people, especially farmers and people who do physical work, always seem healthier?
Actually it's very common for cpu manufacturers to just underclock overheating chips.
Also, an AMD chip is only rated up to around 75^C anyway from memory.
lol, whoops
bah, anyway, prime-minister schmime-minister, he'll say whatever crap will win him another election.
Oh for gods sake, for a start, when has it been said that it's to prevent welfare fraud?
The obvious benefit of such a card is administration costs.
In Australia, to go on welfare such as say... a health care card, you need to go to centrelink, present something like a drivers license, a bankcard, and your birth certificate/passport. So you already do have to jump through rings to get welfare.
As for fraud, a health care card is quite literally a business-card sized piece of paper, and if you wanted to "steal someones welfare identity" all you'd need to do is photocopy that piece of paper and make a fake drivers license. Which in fact WOULD be simpler than creating a fake smart ID card, or at least cheaper.
Heh, funny thing is this card is even more benign, it's mainly to be used for dealing with govt. "welfare"
"OMG, he goes to centrelink every month on this day!" ha, handy.
It's effectively just a details card for administration with the public health and welfare systems, and I do believe we already carry round health-care cards for such things.
It's moving from paper to plastic+memory
Advertising a drug like GHB as being "healthier" than alcohol at normal levels is pretty screwed up man, seeing as it's ridiculously easy to make and as a result most of the stuff that you could buy on the street is made by some skeg bastard in his garage and is contaminated with nasties.
As someone said gaffer tape is often a better option. :-P
That said DUCT tape is very good at what it's designed for, try and guess what that is
Yeah I'm sure those quirky Japanese engineers didn't think of that! :-P
While you could be right, it's not like wired electrical trains are perfect, that wire infrastructure ISN'T simple to maintain, I witnessed that the other day when a train on my line ripped down the wires for 2 of the 3 tracks.
Also isn't power loss for DC over wires rather large? I'd think if you had an efficient way of storing and extracting that power to just carry it with the train it would be much better.
Also who knows, maybe one day all trains will become electric with this technology, even the ones in the middle of nowhere, I know that electricity had to be generated somewhere but those big power stations have a lot more potential to create clean(ish) energy than those dirty old diesel engine trains.
*yawn* and I'm terribly offended that you would use the word "gay" in the incorrect "homosexual way". Being that I'm a light-hearted happy person that is.
realising you're incompetent doesn't make you competent, it just means you're not ignorant to your incompetence.
Just because a mathematical theory is known to be most likely true, and used for all practical purposes, does not mean that it's been PROVED to be true.
your mum's porn???!
:-P I'm so sorry, had to be done
Because it can't promote thoughtful discussion it's not news?
We get a nice spiel everytime a US politician mentions a computer term (and inevitably mis-pronounces it) but this isn't newsworthy?
Heh, that aside, this isn't newsworthy as it's not the majority party that proposed it, it was a failed leader of a currently unelectable party spurting whatever crap he can in his dying throes.
Not to say I have anything agains Labour, I'll happily vote the victorian labour government in at the next election just as I VERY VERY happily helped vote the liberal government out, but I think as far as federal goes it's either greens or a donkey vote.
Heh, from memory we already have this, any ISP has to provide a cheap isp based or pc based filtering system for the customer.
from memory.
It's just apparently some people are too lazy to do that, and the government has to hold their hand and protect their children for them.
"I mean, the wear swimsuits when they take showers."
uh, what? I'm Australian, never worn a swimsuit in the shower unless it was on the beach with no walls. Hell I've never even seen someone wear a swim.. damnit, TOGS in the shower at the public pool in the changerooms, and they generally don't have walls.
rofl
;-)
I probably should have pointed out that the labour party in Australia is traditionally trying to represent the "working-class" and that's why I used that instead of just "mums and dads"
Personally, I'm from a working class family and like most Australian parents mine honestly couldn't give a f*%#!, it's just porn folks
It's more of a "the government says this" and the public says "yeah try and enforce it" kind of thing really.
The two major governments are reasonably conservative (although an analogy of the labor party to the democrats is just plain farsical) and so we get crap like this proposed.
Also, puritanical implies religious, Australia is very secular, and this is more a case of "working class mums and dads don't want their kids looking up porn".
That said, this is a completely ludicrious proposal by the labor party and needless to say they've lost my vote for the next federal election.
Ha, no actually you're wrong!
Believe it or not, the world does not revolve around you, and doesn't have to dumb itself down accordingly just so you get it!
Amazing revelations eh? Think of all those jokes that may have been there but you just didn't get because they weren't thinking of you!
Whether abortion is legal or not is a decision for the state governments.
What particular drugs are safe for use SHOULD be determined by experts.
The health-minister having control over one particular drug just because a vocal minority doesn't support what it is used for doesn't fit in with this. Whether RU486 is safe or not should be decided by those who actually know what the %#!&* they're on about, whether it is legal to have an abortion is decided by the sate govt.
The way it was before was a clear work-around or the "federation of states" way that Australia works and was inevitable that it would be scrapped.
rack. off. silly. fundie. The situation you are completely skewing was the first piece of socially progressive legislation I have seen from the federal govt. in years, and surprise surprise it was a conscience vote. For those who haven't heard the actual information to recognise what the parent says as blatant lies, the ACTUAL event was that parliament took power away from the health minister, a POLITICIAN, not an expert, to veto the drug RU486 from being prescribed by doctors to patients. RU486 is an abortion drug, the health-minister had veto power over it in Australia so no doctor could prescribe it to a patient, despite the fact that the FEDERAL health-minister has no expertise over such a drug and abortion is not federally illegal in Australia, actually I don't think they even have the power to make it illegal. Long story short, control over the drug was transferred to the TGA, the Therapeutic Goods Administration, a panel of EXPERTS, who will decide over whether the drug is SAFE to use or not, and then whether it can be used comes down to where it should, state law over whether abortion is legal or not. The health-minister having control over this drug in the first place was a completely ludicrous situation, as was shown by the complete ROLLING he and his fellow "pro-life" boys got in parliament on the conscience vote.
well done, you just proved his point, "Origin of the species" NOT "Origin of life"