Actually I was very surprised to see 'creating embryos' listed as part of that legislation. I would think that Australia, like the U.S. would have so many unused embryos from in-vitro fertilization clinics that there would be absolutely no need to worry about creating new ones just for science.
Am I running a "business" -- and can I hire in-game "employees" ?
Yes, but be careful not to hire too many. If you hire more than 14, you will have to provide them with virtual health insurance. And the rates on virtual disability insurance are just crazy. All that hacking and slashing...
Every single MMOPRG states in its own EULA that the virtual goods received in game are their own property. Now, even if they can't stop all E-bay auctions, web sites selling currency or characters it doesn't change the fact that the sellers do not own the property to begin with. If anything, its trafficing in stolen goods.
Umm, the virtual items never leave the servers of the MMOPRG servers that run them. They are still owned/controlled by the game company, which can delete/change/duplicate them at will if they want to. The only thing changing is which virtual character on the game companies server currently holds the virtual item that was created and still overall controlled by the game company. There is nothing 'stolen' from the game companies servers, so no 'trafficking in stolen goods' can occur.
according to our beloved Wikipedia, the lethal dose for INGESTED is.03uCi
Umm, No.
I'll pass on commenting on how 'accurate' Wikipedia is as a reference, and even refrain from bashing the original poster for citing it incorrectly, but on top of all that.... you are reading it wrong.
It's hard to say what you originally read because the original poster cited it wrong, but I believe you are referring to this:
"The maximum allowable body burden for ingested polonium is only 1,100 becquerels (0.03 microcurie),"
'Maximum allowable body burden (dose)' is NOT the same as 'Lethal dose'.
The government regulates what the allowable yearly exposure dosage is for workers handling radiation. These are way way below the lethal dosage.
Maybe I'm wrong, and it takes more than 0.03uCi to kill someone.
Yes, you are.
So we're talking about killing 10% of Chicago? Is that OK with you?
You are, I'm not, and No.
According to one of the references in that Wiki article, and I've seen others where it is less lethal, 'In rats a dose of 1.45 MBq/kg of 210Po tends to cause death in about 30 days.'
1.45 MBq/kg
If you have a 50 kg human (someone small), that's:
1.45 x 50 = 72.5 MBq needed to kill in 30 days (assuming Kg equivalents between human and rat. It's not strictly, but for some reason they won't let us do the real test...)
72.5×10^6 Becquerels are needed
(1 Ci = 3.7×10^10 Becquerels )
So that makes 1.959 uCi as the amount needed to kill in 30 days. (It's effective biological half-life is 37 days, so the 30 days to kill isn't a bad starting point)
That's 65x more than you are talking about.
Chicago's population is 2.8 million. 10% of that is 280,000.
280,000 x 20 vials at 0.1 uCi/vial = 5,600,000 vials needed.
Do you really think someone ordering 5 and a half MILLION vials of that isn't going to raise a few flags?
Oh, and that's ingested. If you talk about putting them on gift certificates or whatever the hell your original idea for external exposure was, we are talking about many *BILLIONS* of vials.
Please stop over hyping this crap. There are lots of ways the boogie man can get us. This is one of the least likely.
They're selling 0.1uCi for $69, which is 3x the 0.03uCi lethal dose.
Umm, NO. 0.03uCi is not a lethal dose. Perhaps you are misreading that crap on wikipedia?
"maximum allowable body burden" is NOT the same thing as "Lethal dose".
The government regulates the maximum allowable yearly exposure of workers who handle radiation (I'm one), and the maximum allowable exposure is far far below the lethal dose.
0.03uCi is NOT a lethal dose of Polonium-210
Are we really discussing the operational details of poisoning 10-100% of Chicago?
I don't know what you are talking about, but I'm talking about how the poisoning of one spy is being overyhyped by people like you into 'terrorists can buy enough radioactive material from illegitimate companies on the internet to poison everyone in Chicago!'.
As someone who has spent considerable time behind a real wheel (not a game) racing, let me say that you can be plenty attentive and not at all relaxed while your back is reclined. My drivers seats were never quite at 135 degrees, but they were well past 90.
I agree you need a bigger monitor. Subconsciously you might be trying to get closer to the action going on in your monitor. When the scene is wrapped around you in real windows, there isn't the same desire to scoot the head forward.
That's assuming no one launches the first batch thinking they are going to get 70 virgins out of the deal, or that Jesus is coming back and all the 'good' folks are going straight to heaven, so it doesn't matter if the rest of us get cooked...
Deluded folks don't fear the same things you and I do.
One thing that should have the advertisers salivating though, is product placement. The much higher resolution of HD makes it easier for viewers to be able to read the label of that box of product X that happens to be sitting on the shelf behind the actors, etc.
Gee, yeah, Bill Gates is an average case and couldn't possibly be an exception like what the grandparent admitted exits.
The average kid has rich parents like Bill Gates did, who would help finance his life during his risky venture in starting a company. The average kid has the contacts with other rich or very talented people who could get into a school like Harvard to join up with to start a venture.
Crap. Utter crap. Learning, Self-esteem, respect, etc, all start at home. If the parents were parenting we wouldn't be having the problems we are today.
I didn't act up at school because I knew what would happen when I got home. I didn't want to disappoint my parents, and I also knew there would be consequences for my actions. The parenting I had dictated my actions at school. If parents did real parenting, rather than leave it to the schools, you wouldn't see these problems.
Fixing those issues still won't totally solve the problem.
There have been viruses which send out replicas in encrypted zip files by email, with written instructions in the email for what password to type in to unencrypt the attached file and to launch the program within. People dutifully followed the instructions and launched the viruses on their machines.
Preventing the email client from launching executables has already been bypassed. Users will do it for them. And as long as people are allowed to run executables they want to (and you are never going to stop that on a machine you don't control), this is going to happen.
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Probably because that's a really really really dumb clause, when you don't know what versions will look like, or whether you will agree with them.
Actually I was very surprised to see 'creating embryos' listed as part of that legislation. I would think that Australia, like the U.S. would have so many unused embryos from in-vitro fertilization clinics that there would be absolutely no need to worry about creating new ones just for science.
I like your general idea, but I'd go about a foot farther.
That's a defense?
'Real' databases don't have a setting for 'screw data integrity'. Data integrity is kind of one of the central points of a relational database.
It just shows it's background as a toy, not a real database.
Am I running a "business" -- and can I hire in-game "employees" ?
Yes, but be careful not to hire too many. If you hire more than 14, you will have to provide them with virtual health insurance. And the rates on virtual disability insurance are just crazy. All that hacking and slashing...
Every single MMOPRG states in its own EULA that the virtual goods received in game are their own property. Now, even if they can't stop all E-bay auctions, web sites selling currency or characters it doesn't change the fact that the sellers do not own the property to begin with. If anything, its trafficing in stolen goods.
Umm, the virtual items never leave the servers of the MMOPRG servers that run them. They are still owned/controlled by the game company, which can delete/change/duplicate them at will if they want to. The only thing changing is which virtual character on the game companies server currently holds the virtual item that was created and still overall controlled by the game company. There is nothing 'stolen' from the game companies servers, so no 'trafficking in stolen goods' can occur.
Ding, Ding, Ding. Give that man a cigar.
You can't just pour something the size of the pyramids and expect to have it set in any reasonable time frame.
Ever see movies of the building of the Hoover dam? It was done in a lot of small blocks, and for a very good reason:
"The Bureau of Reclamation engineers calculated that if the dam were built in a single continuous pour, the concrete would have gotten so hot that it would have taken 125 years for the concrete to cool to ambient temperatures. The resulting stresses would have caused the dam to crack and crumble"
I'd rather they use blatant sex to sell stuff..... period. ;)
Your point is that fear mongering idiots want to stop you from taking toothpaste onto an airplane.
So to prove your point, you are a fear mongering idiot about something (polonium) that's 1000x less dangerous than you are claiming.
Right...
Being both an idiot a hypocrite at the same time isn't going to persuade many folks to your side.
Many many thousands of us who have done biology or chemistry for decades know that.
You frighten too easily.
"That's ok. You are their best seller."
Yup. Most likely.
It'd be a shame if he put his list of flaws in an Oracle Database running on the net... and someone hacked it and published them anonymously...
It wouldn't be his fault at all, so he'd be immune from their lawsuits at that point, and still get them out there.
according to our beloved Wikipedia, the lethal dose for INGESTED is .03uCi
Umm, No.
I'll pass on commenting on how 'accurate' Wikipedia is as a reference, and even refrain from bashing the original poster for citing it incorrectly, but on top of all that.... you are reading it wrong.
It's hard to say what you originally read because the original poster cited it wrong, but I believe you are referring to this:
"The maximum allowable body burden for ingested polonium is only 1,100 becquerels (0.03 microcurie),"
'Maximum allowable body burden (dose)' is NOT the same as 'Lethal dose'.
The government regulates what the allowable yearly exposure dosage is for workers handling radiation. These are way way below the lethal dosage.
Maybe I'm wrong, and it takes more than 0.03uCi to kill someone.
Yes, you are.
So we're talking about killing 10% of Chicago? Is that OK with you?
You are, I'm not, and No.
According to one of the references in that Wiki article, and I've seen others where it is less lethal, 'In rats a dose of 1.45 MBq/kg of 210Po tends to cause death in about 30 days.'
1.45 MBq/kg
If you have a 50 kg human (someone small), that's:
1.45 x 50 = 72.5 MBq needed to kill in 30 days (assuming Kg equivalents between human and rat. It's not strictly, but for some reason they won't let us do the real test...)
72.5×10^6 Becquerels are needed
(1 Ci = 3.7×10^10 Becquerels )
So that makes 1.959 uCi as the amount needed to kill in 30 days. (It's effective biological half-life is 37 days, so the 30 days to kill isn't a bad starting point)
That's 65x more than you are talking about.
Chicago's population is 2.8 million. 10% of that is 280,000.
280,000 x 20 vials at 0.1 uCi/vial = 5,600,000 vials needed.
Do you really think someone ordering 5 and a half MILLION vials of that isn't going to raise a few flags?
Oh, and that's ingested. If you talk about putting them on gift certificates or whatever the hell your original idea for external exposure was, we are talking about many *BILLIONS* of vials.
Please stop over hyping this crap. There are lots of ways the boogie man can get us. This is one of the least likely.
They're selling 0.1uCi for $69, which is 3x the 0.03uCi lethal dose.
Umm, NO. 0.03uCi is not a lethal dose. Perhaps you are misreading that crap on wikipedia?
"maximum allowable body burden" is NOT the same thing as "Lethal dose".
The government regulates the maximum allowable yearly exposure of workers who handle radiation (I'm one), and the maximum allowable exposure is far far below the lethal dose.
0.03uCi is NOT a lethal dose of Polonium-210
Are we really discussing the operational details of poisoning 10-100% of Chicago?
I don't know what you are talking about, but I'm talking about how the poisoning of one spy is being overyhyped by people like you into 'terrorists can buy enough radioactive material from illegitimate companies on the internet to poison everyone in Chicago!'.
No. They can't. Simple enough.
You need in excess of 1000 vials of it to kill *1* person (and that's ingested, not external exposure on a gift card!)....
So no, he can't mail order enough to kill all of Chicago by embedding them in gift certificates.
As someone who has spent considerable time behind a real wheel (not a game) racing, let me say that you can be plenty attentive and not at all relaxed while your back is reclined. My drivers seats were never quite at 135 degrees, but they were well past 90.
I agree you need a bigger monitor. Subconsciously you might be trying to get closer to the action going on in your monitor. When the scene is wrapped around you in real windows, there isn't the same desire to scoot the head forward.
Of course it will never happen(fear is the key),
That's assuming no one launches the first batch thinking they are going to get 70 virgins out of the deal, or that Jesus is coming back and all the 'good' folks are going straight to heaven, so it doesn't matter if the rest of us get cooked...
Deluded folks don't fear the same things you and I do.
One thing that should have the advertisers salivating though, is product placement. The much higher resolution of HD makes it easier for viewers to be able to read the label of that box of product X that happens to be sitting on the shelf behind the actors, etc.
Gee, yeah, Bill Gates is an average case and couldn't possibly be an exception like what the grandparent admitted exits.
The average kid has rich parents like Bill Gates did, who would help finance his life during his risky venture in starting a company. The average kid has the contacts with other rich or very talented people who could get into a school like Harvard to join up with to start a venture.
Yeah, good example that. You really showed him.
Crap. Utter crap. Learning, Self-esteem, respect, etc, all start at home. If the parents were parenting we wouldn't be having the problems we are today.
I didn't act up at school because I knew what would happen when I got home. I didn't want to disappoint my parents, and I also knew there would be consequences for my actions. The parenting I had dictated my actions at school. If parents did real parenting, rather than leave it to the schools, you wouldn't see these problems.
Are people getting 150 emails saying "$$money$$ buy th!$ stockzor!!" actually buying that stock?
Are there lots of people in the world who are stupid and greedy?
YES.
Witness how many folks lose money to 411 scammers.
As the man said, there is a sucker born every minute.
Fixing those issues still won't totally solve the problem.
There have been viruses which send out replicas in encrypted zip files by email, with written instructions in the email for what password to type in to unencrypt the attached file and to launch the program within. People dutifully followed the instructions and launched the viruses on their machines.
Preventing the email client from launching executables has already been bypassed. Users will do it for them. And as long as people are allowed to run executables they want to (and you are never going to stop that on a machine you don't control), this is going to happen.
We need user education.
Heh, sorry. It's one of those typo's I just can't seem to break.
Bah, They Might Be Giants recorded I Can Hear You on one of them. It's still a great format. ;)