How are you going to develop any antibodies if you never are exposed to this stuff?
We are breeding entire generations that can be knocked on their collective ass by the mildest of flu strains simply because they have been raised in a risk averse world.
The problem with line-item veto, or any kind of system that tries to minimize the practice of "sneaking things into" a bill, is that the party in power (majority party) can simply choose to remove any part of the bill they don't like, or ADD whatever they want to any bill, confident that they will be able to pass it.
Line item Veto does not ADD items to bills, nor does it make it easier for the majority to ADD items to bills.
All it does is to make it possible for the Executive branch to kill entire projects. Not add them, not change them.
Line item veto is used in several US states, quite successfully. It does not lead to abuse.
Minority projects still make it in. Often these are negotiated in advance with the Governor's office to assure no line item veto, often in exchange for allowing majority projects thru.
Governors virtually never turn around and line-item veto projects thusly agreed upon, to do so would poison the well.
Any state that elects a super-majority from one party deserves exactly the kind of government they elected, and soon learns the wisdom of their way.
Except that line item vetoes, as we know them, apply only to appropriations bills, allowing the executive to strike specific expenditures.
No one has proposed a line item veto allowing the editing out of specific words or phrases other than appropriations. ,
The kind of line item you imagine might allow the executive branch to change the meaning of a law which disallowed a specific act/event into one that specifically required that same act/event.
Lets give thieves yet another reason to hack phones.
Bad enough when they run up huge bills calling back to the home country, but now they can empty your account at the same time.
Is the phone company going to offer all the same protections that a credit card company does? Disputed charge resolution? Lost of stolen protection.
Is there any government over site?
Why let yet another bunch enter the banking business (because that is what it is) when we can't even properly regulate the clowns running banks and credit card clearing currently?
As does mars. It has a weak field, but it also is suspected of having a much smaller molten core.
Europa and Ganymede have molten cores due to gravitational churning.
So far, molten cores correlate well with magnetic field strength. Oceans, when present, tend to be on those bodies having molten cores, but their absense does not entirely preclude a magnetic field.
People forget that many traits didn't evolve for a specific purpose, but rather, were random mutations that were not selected against, because they did the species no harm.
Random mutations are also selected FOR. Any mutation that gets its owner a better chance to reproduce is VASTLY more likely to persist than is one that is merely harmless.
In fact, the concepts of "mutations not selected against" is, by itself, insufficient to describe differentiation.
A useless, but not harmful mutation would extinguish within the population by shear weight of numbers given sufficient time.
The fact that finger prints are virtually universal suggests their absence is what was selected against.
To me it seems highly unlikely that acrylic glass would have played any part in this selection.
In fact, the grip upon the skin of a member of the opposite sex would seem far more immediately useful to a developing species.
The technology to do that, while the first round is still on it's way up, has been around for quite some time. So let's see, about 5 seconds sounds about right.
Why do you assume that "sending the cops" is the only possible response?
Because US Cities only have cops.
Anyone who seriously even hints that counter fire will ever be allowed in US Cities is delusional.
That's because doing things that would catch them BEFORE the fact are kinda frowned upon.
Clearly you haven't attended a ball game any time recently.
People are screened at the gate. Bags are checked.
But the whole point of your post is that we EITHER have to let people get killed and catch the culprits after the fact OR we have to set up a Gestapo state. You seem to allow no middle ground.
Silly as the method proposed by TFA is, it is at least an attempt at a third approach.
The obvious counter argument is that it wouldn't have been worked on in the first place because it would have given them no competitive advantage without the patent, so the 'life saving feature' would never have been developed, and those "lives would not have saved".
The obvious counter argument, like so much else of what SEEMS obvious, is false.
If Apple had a decent battery life they would not need such desperate measures. This gives them no real advantage (only an advertising advantage), all it does is get them some slight bit less far behind the battery life of regular phones.
But this feature should be MANDATED on all phones, not PATENTED by one manufacturer.
There are some things that society needs to the extent that patents should not be granted. (Yes, I realize this is a pretty far stretch in the present case, and if the iPhone didn't have such a lame battery it wouldn't be a problem).
But still, (obligatory car analogy) are crumple zones in the front of automobiles patented? Are seat belts patented. Is the yellow line down the center of a roadway patented?
Unless or until we legislate Forced Licensing with capped royalties, there are some inventions for which patents should not be granted.
So much of what is sold as Protection these days is all about catching people AFTER the fact.
How many total FAILS do we need to see that buses still get bombed and innocent Brazilians still get shot in the head no matter how many security cams you hang up?
The truth is that the real terrorists don't care if they are caught, and this type of situation will not prevent sneaking weapons or explosives into a stadium, or prevent someone half a mile away from dropping a 8 or 10 mortar rounds into an event before the police could roll a single squad car.
Further, a blimp in the air will set the event security staff at ease making it easier for nefarious individuals to accomplish their goals.
Wait till the EU finds out they are shipping an FTP client!!!
Yes, command line ftp has been in every version of windows since 95. Directions? It has directions that are equivalent to the directions shipped with IE. Seriously, when was the last time you saw a microsoft OS ship with Directions? Dos 6.0?
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How are you going to develop any antibodies if you never are exposed to this stuff?
We are breeding entire generations that can be knocked on their collective ass by the mildest of flu strains simply because they have been raised in a risk averse world.
Are we any safer?
Mod parent up.
Really, what could Possibly go wrong with advertising one's position down to the nearest 5 yards to hundreds of unknown individuals?
"Liberal Democracy" is code for something, but I know now what.
We have in the US, a republican (lower case R) form of government, best described as a representitive democracy.
The problem with line-item veto, or any kind of system that tries to minimize the practice of "sneaking things into" a bill, is that the party in power (majority party) can simply choose to remove any part of the bill they don't like, or ADD whatever they want to any bill, confident that they will be able to pass it.
Line item Veto does not ADD items to bills, nor does it make it easier for the majority to ADD items to bills.
All it does is to make it possible for the Executive branch to kill entire projects. Not add them, not change them.
Line item veto is used in several US states, quite successfully. It does not lead to abuse.
Minority projects still make it in. Often these are negotiated in advance with the Governor's office to assure no line item veto, often in exchange for allowing majority projects thru.
Governors virtually never turn around and line-item veto projects thusly agreed upon, to do so would poison the well.
Any state that elects a super-majority from one party deserves exactly the kind of government they elected, and soon learns the wisdom of their way.
Except that line item vetoes, as we know them, apply only to appropriations bills, allowing the executive to strike specific expenditures.
No one has proposed a line item veto allowing the editing out of specific words or phrases other than appropriations. ,
The kind of line item you imagine might allow the executive branch to change the meaning of a law which disallowed a specific act/event into one that specifically required that same act/event.
So, be careful what you wish for.
So he gets an A for security awareness then.
Why was this not in the system to begin with?
Not to mention the dreaded Kite Krash when the winds die.
Imagine a whirling blade structure auto rotating down into (insert nightmare scenario here).
Then how many 12 year olds will it take to run into the wind to pull it back again when the winds return?
Exactly.
Lets give thieves yet another reason to hack phones.
Bad enough when they run up huge bills calling back to the home country, but now they can empty your account at the same time.
Is the phone company going to offer all the same protections that a credit card company does? Disputed charge resolution? Lost of stolen protection.
Is there any government over site?
Why let yet another bunch enter the banking business (because that is what it is) when we can't even properly regulate the clowns running banks and credit card clearing currently?
Why would you pay $.50 to use this when transactions on credit cards and (some) debit cards are free?
Because Carlos does not take credit cards and you don't want to go to his street corner carrying cash.
As does mars. It has a weak field, but it also is suspected of having a much smaller molten core.
Europa and Ganymede have molten cores due to gravitational churning.
So far, molten cores correlate well with magnetic field strength. Oceans, when present, tend to be on those bodies having molten cores, but their absense does not entirely preclude a magnetic field.
Evolution also "weeds in" useful mutations.
People forget that many traits didn't evolve for a specific purpose, but rather, were random mutations that were not selected against, because they did the species no harm.
Random mutations are also selected FOR. Any mutation that gets its owner a better chance to reproduce is VASTLY more likely to persist than is one that is merely harmless.
In fact, the concepts of "mutations not selected against" is, by itself, insufficient to describe differentiation.
A useless, but not harmful mutation would extinguish within the population by shear weight of numbers given sufficient time.
The fact that finger prints are virtually universal suggests their absence is what was selected against.
To me it seems highly unlikely that acrylic glass would have played any part in this selection.
In fact, the grip upon the skin of a member of the opposite sex would seem far more immediately useful to a developing species.
The technology to do that, while the first round is still on it's way up, has been around for quite some time. So let's see, about 5 seconds sounds about right.
Why do you assume that "sending the cops" is the only possible response?
Because US Cities only have cops.
Anyone who seriously even hints that counter fire will ever be allowed in US Cities is delusional.
Why assume gunmen?
Do you know how long it takes to drop 15 mortar rounds in tube?
Do you have any idea how hard a mortar team in an alley would be to spot from 500 feet?
And since that alley might be half a mile from the stadium, do you know how long getting cops over there would take?
Like I said, this is a pointless technology.
That's because doing things that would catch them BEFORE the fact are kinda frowned upon.
Clearly you haven't attended a ball game any time recently.
People are screened at the gate. Bags are checked.
But the whole point of your post is that we EITHER have to let people get killed and catch the culprits after the fact OR we have to set up a Gestapo state. You seem to allow no middle ground.
Silly as the method proposed by TFA is, it is at least an attempt at a third approach.
There are less than 5 Goodyear camera blimps in the US.
So your definition of "many" is rather flawed.
No one is proposing to use existing blimps.
The obvious counter argument is that it wouldn't have been worked on in the first place because it would have given them no competitive advantage without the patent, so the 'life saving feature' would never have been developed, and those "lives would not have saved".
The obvious counter argument, like so much else of what SEEMS obvious, is false.
If Apple had a decent battery life they would not need such desperate measures. This gives them no real advantage (only an advertising advantage), all it does is get them some slight bit less far behind the battery life of regular phones.
People invent the vast majority of things out of personal curiosity. (Like wireless telephones for example: http://www.google.com/patents?id=tMxIAAAAEBAJ&printsec=abstract&zoom=4&source=gbs_summary_r&cad=0_0 ).
With a building laying on top of you, or upside down in a car crash?
Think before you post.
But this feature should be MANDATED on all phones, not PATENTED by one manufacturer.
There are some things that society needs to the extent that patents should not be granted. (Yes, I realize this is a pretty far stretch in the present case, and if the iPhone didn't have such a lame battery it wouldn't be a problem).
But still, (obligatory car analogy) are crumple zones in the front of automobiles patented? Are seat belts patented. Is the yellow line down the center of a roadway patented?
Unless or until we legislate Forced Licensing with capped royalties, there are some inventions for which patents should not be granted.
Wake me when Rainer and Adams all start smoking at the same time.
Otherwise, in people as well as volcanoes, an occasional good healthy belch relieves a lot of pressure.
You DO KNOW that the Superdome rumors were ALL proven false don't you?
And you DO KNOW it has a DOME, rendering blimps ineffective, don't you?
And the drone would be cheaper.
Just getting a blimp to the site would cost more and require way more advanced planning and advanced notice.
I read this and facepalmed,
So we know this AC doesn't wear glasses.
So much of what is sold as Protection these days is all about catching people AFTER the fact.
How many total FAILS do we need to see that buses still get bombed and innocent Brazilians still get shot in the head no matter how many security cams you hang up?
The truth is that the real terrorists don't care if they are caught, and this type of situation will not prevent sneaking weapons or explosives into a stadium, or prevent someone half a mile away from dropping a 8 or 10 mortar rounds into an event before the police could roll a single squad car.
Further, a blimp in the air will set the event security staff at ease making it easier for nefarious individuals to accomplish their goals.
This is utterly pointless technology.
Wait till the EU finds out they are shipping an FTP client!!!
Yes, command line ftp has been in every version of windows since 95. Directions? It has directions that are equivalent to the directions shipped with IE. Seriously, when was the last time you saw a microsoft OS ship with Directions? Dos 6.0?