They could overlap the ad flags for a random few seconds into the programming on each end of the ad block.
That wouldn't help them really. You could still use the current methods of commercial detection. The flag would still signal you that a commercial is definitely coming up within the next few seconds or so, and greatly increase the hit/miss ratio of the algorithms.
In the accident, the 20-year-old driver fell asleep while talking on the phone, crossed three lanes of traffic and hit a car driven by a 55-year-old woman, who later died. Authorities lodged what they thought was Michigan's first cellphone-related negligent-homicide charge. Later, they added drug charges, after a medical exam allegedly turned up illegal drugs in the driver's system.
So this kid took drugs and fell asleep while driving, and somehow the cell phone is to blame? I think I'm confused...
It's not ironic. It's not a shift in meaning. It's not the natural evolution of language. It's someone who fucked up and tried to cover it up by spouting more bullshit.
It's not the natural evolution of language? Instead it's some vast conspiracy to cover up a slip of the tongue? And you actually, truly BELIEVE that? Honestly? Come on. You may not like it, but to deny the existance of the mutated meme is living in la-la land.
I'm not forgetting that claim at all. I'm saying that would be an example of the psychosomatic response that may exist either as an indirect or result of or completely independent from a more subtle and very real affect.
Huh? The original poster makes the claim, among others, that strong electrical fields make his eyes water. Test proposed: we'll turn an eletrical field on or off in multiple trials and you tell us whether it's on or off each time. Simple as that. You said that wasn't a good test because there might be a delayed reaction to the electrical field. But that's not what the original poster was claiming. Now you're complicating it with talks of second order psychosomatic responses based on other suble effects. You're putting the cart before the horse. First you do the simple experiement above, and if there are significant results, then you can talk about reasons for the effect.
But what I think you're really trying to argue is that if the above experiement fails, it doesn't disprove that electrical fields could effect a person physically. Well, yes... but you couldn't ever disprove such a broad statement with any experiement. The aim is not to prove it couldn't happen, the aim is to show it *IS* happening. Until then, you just don't know.
The whole "you can't tell when the EM source is on" approach seems rather problematic to me. If the reaction to EM takes time in the body, it could be quite possible that a person would not be be consciously aware of it.
I think you're forgetting the claim of the original poster. "There were some rooms where my eyes would water if I entered them." Given that claim, the proposed experiement is ok (except for some single vs double blind issues with it).
Or did you make enough calls to 911 to make it statiscly relevant? If so you where put on hold while they send out the police to arrest you!
Well, I don't know the original posters situation but I used to live by a dangerous intersection and called 911 at least once every couple weeks or so to report yet another accident in front of my house. So you can actually have a situation where you make a lot of 911 calls and still not be abusing the system.
I love Minis (I own 2) but Ars' $525 price includes a 15" Acer LCD ($178) and $16 for keyboard & mouse. (Also, $81 of that is for XP Home.)
Not to nitpick, but XP Home actually isn't included in Ars' price. It's only mentioned after the $525 total. So with XP Home, the total comes to $606. You're right though, it does include the LCD.
I know it's a bit off topic, but Erik the Viking wasn't actually Monty Python. It was written and directed by Terry Jones, and had John Cleese in it. That is, undoubtedly, why you associated it with Monty Python.
I thought the definition was something that can reproduce with another of that same species and have viable offspring (ie, offspring who themselves can reproduce)?
Yes, I think that's a reasonable rule of thumb of what a species is, but it certainly isn't always true. Wolves and Dogs, for example, have been classified as two different species but can interbreed.
I wouldn't be too sure; people have funny notions about words that classify, some times. We have a "vegetarian" at work, self-proclaimed because she doesn't eat meat. Only, she does eat fish... which... are vegetables, I guess?
Yes... I've got a wife like that. Well, I'd appeal to the fact that animal is a scientific classification, but in a discussion involving ID proponents, that might not pull a lot of weight.
ID supporters don't disagree that evolution occurs [...] they don't think evolution explains the creation of life.
Neither do the evolutionist.
I think the pro-evolution crowd here had better be careful, because while they are screaming about the ID'ers being ignorant they are demonstrating that it is the evolutionists that are ignorant.
For a bug to evolve into an animal would require millions of generations
Just to be pedantic, it wouldn't take any time at all for a bug to evolve into an animal... bugs are animals. I'm guessing the original poster meant mammal, not animal.
They are not common anymore and worth more than a buck to a collector
Really? Last I checked, you could go to any bank and get a roll of Susan B's, no problem. I used to do this to pay my daily $1.10 toll with two coins instead of of five. But it's been about six years since my commute changed and I stopped having to pay the toll. Maybe you can't get 'em so easily anymore, but I'd be surprised.
THANK YOU for referring to The united States of America as a republic and NOT as a democracy. I am so SICK of hearing every pundit, politician, and 'journalist' trying to brainwash us into thinking that we live in a democracy.
What the heck are you whining about? A republic is often, and definitely in the case of the US, also a representative democracy. The two terms are not mutually exclusive. If you're getting all pissy because you think the use of the word democracy should refer soley to direct democracies and no other forms, that's an issue you need to work through with your therapist.
I thought it was brilliant. I also thought when the others were starting to get shot up that Joss was gonna have the balls to kill them all off and end the whole thing in a glorious downward spiral. But alas, no...
It was actually Book's death I didn't like. So pointless and uninteresting.
a quick call to your bank or Visa will cause almost immeadiate suspension or termination of the merchants account.
I wish. I've complained to Visa/Mastercard on several occasions about local merchants placing minimum limits on credit card purchases. They always say they'll "look into it", but months later the merchants still have the same minimums.
PETA mad!! PETA liek no killing animalss!!1! *pouts*
Actually, PETA recommends killing feral cats. Yes, believe it or not, even though it's been shown time and again not to reduce or help the feral cat population, PETA thinks we should kill them. Their only other, laughably naive, solution is to release them into your house. So much for being an animal rights organization...
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Only the most foolish designers in the world would manage to some how connect the in-car stereo system to say, the braking system.
Don't be so sure. A lot of modern OEM radios are tied into the car's central CAN bus, so they can do things like talk to the CD changer, get input from the steering wheel buttons, or put info onto the LCD in the instrument cluster. If the radio device has enough programability to put fake packets onto the bus (not completely unbelievable, given the complex navigation radios these days), it could probably do all kinds of scary things.
Granted, I'm a city boy, but you really don't know much about farming, do you? A cow only has to be inseminated once.
You don't know much about farming either, city boy. You can't continually milk a cow. You have to let her rest for a period of a few months or she'll have health problems. So you do actually need to re-inseminate yearly or so.
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That wouldn't help them really. You could still use the current methods of commercial detection. The flag would still signal you that a commercial is definitely coming up within the next few seconds or so, and greatly increase the hit/miss ratio of the algorithms.
So this kid took drugs and fell asleep while driving, and somehow the cell phone is to blame? I think I'm confused...
It's not the natural evolution of language? Instead it's some vast conspiracy to cover up a slip of the tongue? And you actually, truly BELIEVE that? Honestly? Come on. You may not like it, but to deny the existance of the mutated meme is living in la-la land.
Huh? The original poster makes the claim, among others, that strong electrical fields make his eyes water. Test proposed: we'll turn an eletrical field on or off in multiple trials and you tell us whether it's on or off each time. Simple as that. You said that wasn't a good test because there might be a delayed reaction to the electrical field. But that's not what the original poster was claiming. Now you're complicating it with talks of second order psychosomatic responses based on other suble effects. You're putting the cart before the horse. First you do the simple experiement above, and if there are significant results, then you can talk about reasons for the effect.
But what I think you're really trying to argue is that if the above experiement fails, it doesn't disprove that electrical fields could effect a person physically. Well, yes... but you couldn't ever disprove such a broad statement with any experiement. The aim is not to prove it couldn't happen, the aim is to show it *IS* happening. Until then, you just don't know.
I think you're forgetting the claim of the original poster. "There were some rooms where my eyes would water if I entered them." Given that claim, the proposed experiement is ok (except for some single vs double blind issues with it).
Um... VMS is definitely NOT "some form of *nix".
Well, I don't know the original posters situation but I used to live by a dangerous intersection and called 911 at least once every couple weeks or so to report yet another accident in front of my house. So you can actually have a situation where you make a lot of 911 calls and still not be abusing the system.
BTW, I was never put on hold.
There's always this little backwater O/S
Not to nitpick, but XP Home actually isn't included in Ars' price. It's only mentioned after the $525 total. So with XP Home, the total comes to $606. You're right though, it does include the LCD.
I know it's a bit off topic, but Erik the Viking wasn't actually Monty Python. It was written and directed by Terry Jones, and had John Cleese in it. That is, undoubtedly, why you associated it with Monty Python.
Yes, I think that's a reasonable rule of thumb of what a species is, but it certainly isn't always true. Wolves and Dogs, for example, have been classified as two different species but can interbreed.
Yes... I've got a wife like that. Well, I'd appeal to the fact that animal is a scientific classification, but in a discussion involving ID proponents, that might not pull a lot of weight.
Neither do the evolutionist.
I think the pro-evolution crowd here had better be careful, because while they are screaming about the ID'ers being ignorant they are demonstrating that it is the evolutionists that are ignorant.
Dear Pot, meet Mr. Kettle.
Just to be pedantic, it wouldn't take any time at all for a bug to evolve into an animal... bugs are animals. I'm guessing the original poster meant mammal, not animal.
Really? Last I checked, you could go to any bank and get a roll of Susan B's, no problem. I used to do this to pay my daily $1.10 toll with two coins instead of of five. But it's been about six years since my commute changed and I stopped having to pay the toll. Maybe you can't get 'em so easily anymore, but I'd be surprised.
What the heck are you whining about? A republic is often, and definitely in the case of the US, also a representative democracy. The two terms are not mutually exclusive. If you're getting all pissy because you think the use of the word democracy should refer soley to direct democracies and no other forms, that's an issue you need to work through with your therapist.
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I thought it was brilliant. I also thought when the others were starting to get shot up that Joss was gonna have the balls to kill them all off and end the whole thing in a glorious downward spiral. But alas, no...
It was actually Book's death I didn't like. So pointless and uninteresting.
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I wish. I've complained to Visa/Mastercard on several occasions about local merchants placing minimum limits on credit card purchases. They always say they'll "look into it", but months later the merchants still have the same minimums.
Dang, that sounds so familiar... I'm afraid I know it, but I just don't seem to have complete recall.
I certainly didn't get it. But my question is, could we use Professor Perry's drill to tap into that water?
Actually, PETA recommends killing feral cats. Yes, believe it or not, even though it's been shown time and again not to reduce or help the feral cat population, PETA thinks we should kill them. Their only other, laughably naive, solution is to release them into your house. So much for being an animal rights organization...
Don't be so sure. A lot of modern OEM radios are tied into the car's central CAN bus, so they can do things like talk to the CD changer, get input from the steering wheel buttons, or put info onto the LCD in the instrument cluster. If the radio device has enough programability to put fake packets onto the bus (not completely unbelievable, given the complex navigation radios these days), it could probably do all kinds of scary things.
You don't know much about farming either, city boy. You can't continually milk a cow. You have to let her rest for a period of a few months or she'll have health problems. So you do actually need to re-inseminate yearly or so.