Because that level of background radiation isn't high enough to indicate a threat. It's no different than cops training drug dogs to sit on command so they have probable cause to search a vehicle. Just set the detector low enough and look there! We have a reason to pull you over and search your car. Who needs actual probable cause when you can just manufacture it.
And, by the way, you're a dick. Maybe that's a good enough reason to search your car. Your attitude could indicate you're a threat. Let me just get my radiation detector.
I think there's enough police intrusion in the lives of ordinary citizens. I get that you're okay with it, but that doesn't mean the rest of us want to live in your Utopian police state, Cartman.
Well, since all they need to stop you and investigate is *reasonable suspicion,* I'd say that this stop was entirely within the bounds of good sense and reason.
I can't believe anyone is defending this, let alone getting modded up for it. Did Slashdot get taken over by News Corp recently?
Or did they check out his story and send him on his way?
I think it was the idea he was stopped at all. That was neither the type or level of radioactivity that should have set off a security alert.
Now routine medical diagnostics are now just one more reason for the police to intrude on the lives of everyday Americans. Apparently that's okay with you.
There's not been actual scientific evidence for radiation hormesis in humans, despite it being your pet theory.
These were animal studies and it's not my pet theory. I was directly involved in many of those studies as a staff scientist and I don't give a rat's ass what UNSCEAR says, I saw it over and over again.
The background cancer rate in humans is 1 in 3, so there would have to be a huge population study to validate the findings in humans and it's just not going to happen unless large populations of humans are exposed to varying yet highly precise levels of ionizing radiation.
And, just for the record, UNSCEAR couldn't find a black cat on a white field at high noon with a microscope.
Back in the day we were still doing radiation experiments in the U.S., the low dose groups consistently outlived the controls. The theory of radiation hormesis has been fairly well documented since the 50's.
The most supported version of how it works is that low levels of ionizing radiation do minor damage to DNA while triggering the repair mechanisms. While the DNA repair is happening, it fixes more than the damage from the ionizing radiation, cleaning up other little problems along the way. Obviously that's the highly simplified explanation, the details are mind numbingly complex. The interesting conclusion would be finding the exact line between a helpful dose and one that does more damage than the repair mechanisms can fix. It really takes a hell of a dose to raise your lifetime cancer risk, so I'm curious to see the study conclusions.
So those people who used to go sit in old uranium mines to inhale that radon gas might have been on to something.
He says the GSU came busting into his research facility in Orange Walk, killed his dog, took his passport, handcuffed him and arrested him on a bogus weapons charge.
Seriously, if the rocket went wonky the most likely place for it to land would be on Titusville. Whatever it hit there would make an instant improvement.
How convenient Anonymous took a sudden interest in China, which has been engaging in high level industrial espionage and spying for years. The timing is pretty convenient. How do you like some foreign government mucking around in your computers, bitches?
If you were the government launching a cyberattack, how would you spin it? Maybe by pinning it on a shadowy group operating outside the control of government? Hanging it on Anonymous makes it deniable.
It just seems strange to me there are so many children on heavy hitter psych meds. It can't be a total coincidence that their parent's generation started the trend toward better living through pharmacology. With their parents taking Zoloft, Seroquel, Zyprexa and Abilify like candy it just seems oddly coincidental that there are so many autistic kids running around.
Why on earth would oil companies sell gasoline here for $2.50 a gallon when they can sell it in France for $10 a gallon? Gas prices are higher because we're selling gasoline overseas. Welcome to the global economy.
There's at least one domestic downside to America's growing role as a fuel exporter. Experts say the trend helps explain why U.S. motorists are paying more for gasoline. The more fuel that's sent overseas, the less of a supply cushion there is at home.
I still remember crowds of complete fucking idiots chanting, "Drill, baby, drill!!" Pathetic.
The real question is whether anyone will notice the NYT going behind a pay wall? I keep hoping Fox News would disappear behind one, but finally had to throw in the towel and install MurdochBlock.
I doubt I'd notice if either one of them disappeared. It's so amusing to watch colonial media struggle with a new frontier.
Seriously, how bad would secession be? If we gave the southern states an out and shipped all the right wing extremists to the south and they could ship their liberals north.
America would be a better country without the south.
Working from home is nigh on impossible unless you have a door to close.
I get by just fine without a door. You can put your headphones on and tune out the rest of the world.
You can also rent space in one of those shared offices. It's cheap and a lot easier to claim the deduction. The IRS rules really need to catch up with the internet age. A lot of people are working at home but can't understand the bizarre rules and trying to slog through an 8829. If you work at home give people a standard office deduction. It doesn't matter if you work in a bedroom or the garage.
We could set up our network of orbiting drones as node relays and create our own internet. Take that AT&T!
It would work great until AOL launched their own drone, which would be the size of the Hindenburg, immediately swamping the other nodes with traffic and requiring users to type all in caps.
I don't understand how any click-through contract is legal. When you buy a house, you make the offer in writing and anything you scribble in the margins takes precedent over what's typed. Handwriting ON BEHALF OF [COMPANY NAME] above my signature saved my butt more than once.
There's no place to make margin notes in a click-through agreement, no negotiation and no consideration from the vendor. Click-throughs are not an agreement, they're hostage taking. It's not right making them enforceable.
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Because that level of background radiation isn't high enough to indicate a threat. It's no different than cops training drug dogs to sit on command so they have probable cause to search a vehicle. Just set the detector low enough and look there! We have a reason to pull you over and search your car. Who needs actual probable cause when you can just manufacture it.
And, by the way, you're a dick. Maybe that's a good enough reason to search your car. Your attitude could indicate you're a threat. Let me just get my radiation detector.
I think there's enough police intrusion in the lives of ordinary citizens. I get that you're okay with it, but that doesn't mean the rest of us want to live in your Utopian police state, Cartman.
Well, since all they need to stop you and investigate is *reasonable suspicion,* I'd say that this stop was entirely within the bounds of good sense and reason.
I can't believe anyone is defending this, let alone getting modded up for it. Did Slashdot get taken over by News Corp recently?
Or did they check out his story and send him on his way?
I think it was the idea he was stopped at all. That was neither the type or level of radioactivity that should have set off a security alert.
Now routine medical diagnostics are now just one more reason for the police to intrude on the lives of everyday Americans. Apparently that's okay with you.
On April 21, TrafficNet became self-aware and decided to play a giant game of bumper cars.
There's not been actual scientific evidence for radiation hormesis in humans, despite it being your pet theory.
These were animal studies and it's not my pet theory. I was directly involved in many of those studies as a staff scientist and I don't give a rat's ass what UNSCEAR says, I saw it over and over again.
The background cancer rate in humans is 1 in 3, so there would have to be a huge population study to validate the findings in humans and it's just not going to happen unless large populations of humans are exposed to varying yet highly precise levels of ionizing radiation.
And, just for the record, UNSCEAR couldn't find a black cat on a white field at high noon with a microscope.
Back in the day we were still doing radiation experiments in the U.S., the low dose groups consistently outlived the controls. The theory of radiation hormesis has been fairly well documented since the 50's.
The most supported version of how it works is that low levels of ionizing radiation do minor damage to DNA while triggering the repair mechanisms. While the DNA repair is happening, it fixes more than the damage from the ionizing radiation, cleaning up other little problems along the way. Obviously that's the highly simplified explanation, the details are mind numbingly complex. The interesting conclusion would be finding the exact line between a helpful dose and one that does more damage than the repair mechanisms can fix. It really takes a hell of a dose to raise your lifetime cancer risk, so I'm curious to see the study conclusions.
So those people who used to go sit in old uranium mines to inhale that radon gas might have been on to something.
He says the GSU came busting into his research facility in Orange Walk, killed his dog, took his passport, handcuffed him and arrested him on a bogus weapons charge.
Sounds like Belize is catching up to America.
Why Facebook would want to buy the Zune of search engines?
Cowards!!! Launch early, launch often.
Seriously, if the rocket went wonky the most likely place for it to land would be on Titusville. Whatever it hit there would make an instant improvement.
You're expecting a lot from a state that would elect Rick Scott governor. Modern Florida is what you get when the tea party runs a state.
Maybe someone needs a dose of laser guided democracy!
That was truly an upstanding thing to do.
It's not really a problem until the Koch family says it's a problem. Besides, if Oklahoma gets turned into a giant sinkhole would anyone really care?
The land where no good deed goes unpunished.
How convenient Anonymous took a sudden interest in China, which has been engaging in high level industrial espionage and spying for years. The timing is pretty convenient. How do you like some foreign government mucking around in your computers, bitches?
If you were the government launching a cyberattack, how would you spin it? Maybe by pinning it on a shadowy group operating outside the control of government? Hanging it on Anonymous makes it deniable.
an unmanned boat identified as a Japanese fishing vessel was spotted off the coast of Canada,
Use it for torpedo practice. Once it floats into your territorial waters just sink the damn thing. Problem solved.
It just seems strange to me there are so many children on heavy hitter psych meds. It can't be a total coincidence that their parent's generation started the trend toward better living through pharmacology. With their parents taking Zoloft, Seroquel, Zyprexa and Abilify like candy it just seems oddly coincidental that there are so many autistic kids running around.
Then Congress has to rename it Clown Security Theater and make the agents wear red plastic noses.
Why on earth would oil companies sell gasoline here for $2.50 a gallon when they can sell it in France for $10 a gallon? Gas prices are higher because we're selling gasoline overseas. Welcome to the global economy.
There's at least one domestic downside to America's growing role as a fuel exporter. Experts say the trend helps explain why U.S. motorists are paying more for gasoline. The more fuel that's sent overseas, the less of a supply cushion there is at home.
I still remember crowds of complete fucking idiots chanting, "Drill, baby, drill!!" Pathetic.
The real question is whether anyone will notice the NYT going behind a pay wall? I keep hoping Fox News would disappear behind one, but finally had to throw in the towel and install MurdochBlock.
I doubt I'd notice if either one of them disappeared. It's so amusing to watch colonial media struggle with a new frontier.
Seriously, how bad would secession be? If we gave the southern states an out and shipped all the right wing extremists to the south and they could ship their liberals north.
America would be a better country without the south.
I have it down for April 27th, unless it's been changed.
Working from home is nigh on impossible unless you have a door to close.
I get by just fine without a door. You can put your headphones on and tune out the rest of the world.
You can also rent space in one of those shared offices. It's cheap and a lot easier to claim the deduction. The IRS rules really need to catch up with the internet age. A lot of people are working at home but can't understand the bizarre rules and trying to slog through an 8829. If you work at home give people a standard office deduction. It doesn't matter if you work in a bedroom or the garage.
We could set up our network of orbiting drones as node relays and create our own internet. Take that AT&T!
It would work great until AOL launched their own drone, which would be the size of the Hindenburg, immediately swamping the other nodes with traffic and requiring users to type all in caps.
I don't understand how any click-through contract is legal. When you buy a house, you make the offer in writing and anything you scribble in the margins takes precedent over what's typed. Handwriting ON BEHALF OF [COMPANY NAME] above my signature saved my butt more than once.
There's no place to make margin notes in a click-through agreement, no negotiation and no consideration from the vendor. Click-throughs are not an agreement, they're hostage taking. It's not right making them enforceable.