Arsenic pollution doesn't have to be man-made, and groundwater-borne arsenic frequently isn't. Go check out the Wikipedia page on it, which is also summarized nicely here. The external links are particularly enlightening, and you can check up on all those shiny statistics.
Well, for what it's worth, some people were on the right track from the start. From the first BBC article:
A local journalist, Martine Hanlon, told the BBC experts [that he] did not believe the meteor would make anybody sick, but they did think a chemical reaction caused by its contact with the ground could release toxins such as sulphur and arsenic.
Sadly true. I attended Purdue myself and (years before the RIAA started mailing out these letters) knew several people who had received notices that they must cease and desist or face the possibility of not graduating. To support this effort, certain parties would periodically identify Purdue IP addresses on common sharing grounds (i.e., Kazaa) and notify the school. To their credit, the official use policy of on-campus internet included a "I will not pirate" paragraph, and the administration only seemed to target the excessive bandwidth users.
I just signed up for it (for my new phone) and it took exactly 22 minutes from the time I loaded DoNotCall.gov to the time that I got the confirmation email and clicked the corresponding link.
Here's hoping the/. effect doesn't bog it down too much today....
To play devil's advocate, consider how you don't have to change your number when you switch cell or telephone providers. Unless you really want a local number (which a lot of people don't care about these days, due to the free long distance provided with most cell plans), you really don't have any incentive to switch numbers. Forcing them to die out, then, could seem arbitrary.
Given that there hasn't been a hard push for Vista for U.K. businesses (and that some vendors have been encouraging their customers to wait), this is not a particularly big surprise. It's just too risky while Vista is this new.
If you take a risk with a new operating system at home and it doesn't work out, you may be out some cash. If you did it across your business, you may be out of a job (and a company, for that matter!).
Unless you're carrying something like the Anarchist Cookbook, it seems unlikely that additional suspicion should be warranted. Given this time of year, it seems ironic that security would be judging others by the cover (and content) of their books rather than their actual threat, if any existed at all.
Why does he think the d-pad can necessarily provide better control? The issue isn't that motion controls are by-nature loose; it's that developers are new to doing it right. Lair sucked because they did it wrong, pure and simple, and it might (or might not) have been OK if they'd worked harder at really nailing it.
I strongly suggest that you check out ISBNDB, which is an online database of ISBN numbers. You wouldn't have to go look up numbers in-person, thereby removing any possible blame from yourselves.
I wouldn't be surprised if the Coop attempted to challenge the ISBNDB, however....
You're forgetting the issuing agent, the US ISBN Agency. From their website:
As the U.S. ISBN Agency, R R Bowker is the exclusive US source of publisher prefixes and accompanying ranges of ISBN numbers for eligible publishers.
Once the ISBN number is sold to the publisher, they "own" it and can do with it what they please. One could argue, however, that the display of the ISBN on the outside of the book or on publisher or publisher-approved websites constitutes public disclosure, resulting in forfeiture of that knowledge to the public domain.
The current statute of limitations would generally restrict this to less than 15 years (and, for the majority of crimes, less than 6 years), though there are undoubtedly exceptions (i.e., treason).
Given that you can freely rotate in zero-gravity, this would require that a room have no diagonal length of at least 190.5 cm. Are space station rooms really that small?
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Arsenic pollution doesn't have to be man-made, and groundwater-borne arsenic frequently isn't. Go check out the Wikipedia page on it, which is also summarized nicely here. The external links are particularly enlightening, and you can check up on all those shiny statistics.
The symptoms match.
And, before anyone starts up with the whole "apple seed" thing - that's cyanide, not arsenic.
Sadly true. I attended Purdue myself and (years before the RIAA started mailing out these letters) knew several people who had received notices that they must cease and desist or face the possibility of not graduating. To support this effort, certain parties would periodically identify Purdue IP addresses on common sharing grounds (i.e., Kazaa) and notify the school. To their credit, the official use policy of on-campus internet included a "I will not pirate" paragraph, and the administration only seemed to target the excessive bandwidth users.
You mean this one?
One big advantage here is that they make it easy to file complaints right off the do-not-call-list webpage.
Hearing that cellphone ring is not very seductive. Maybe it's my choice of ringtone....
I just signed up for it (for my new phone) and it took exactly 22 minutes from the time I loaded DoNotCall.gov to the time that I got the confirmation email and clicked the corresponding link.
/. effect doesn't bog it down too much today....
Here's hoping the
To play devil's advocate, consider how you don't have to change your number when you switch cell or telephone providers. Unless you really want a local number (which a lot of people don't care about these days, due to the free long distance provided with most cell plans), you really don't have any incentive to switch numbers. Forcing them to die out, then, could seem arbitrary.
Signing up on a web form every 5 years - 10 minutes Avoiding telemarketing phone calls during dinner, sex, and sleep - Priceless.
Given that there hasn't been a hard push for Vista for U.K. businesses (and that some vendors have been encouraging their customers to wait), this is not a particularly big surprise. It's just too risky while Vista is this new.
If you take a risk with a new operating system at home and it doesn't work out, you may be out some cash. If you did it across your business, you may be out of a job (and a company, for that matter!).
You mean despite the many times it has been challenged or banned?
Unless you're carrying something like the Anarchist Cookbook, it seems unlikely that additional suspicion should be warranted. Given this time of year, it seems ironic that security would be judging others by the cover (and content) of their books rather than their actual threat, if any existed at all.
Why does he think the d-pad can necessarily provide better control? The issue isn't that motion controls are by-nature loose; it's that developers are new to doing it right. Lair sucked because they did it wrong, pure and simple, and it might (or might not) have been OK if they'd worked harder at really nailing it.
Here you go.
I strongly suggest that you check out ISBNDB, which is an online database of ISBN numbers. You wouldn't have to go look up numbers in-person, thereby removing any possible blame from yourselves.
I wouldn't be surprised if the Coop attempted to challenge the ISBNDB, however....
Click here for Google's cached version of the page.
Well, in 12 hours (when the /. effect has worn off), I guess I'll thank you.
The current statute of limitations would generally restrict this to less than 15 years (and, for the majority of crimes, less than 6 years), though there are undoubtedly exceptions (i.e., treason).
That should be:
Not exactly. Given that each person's DNA is derived from both of their parents' sets, as well as the introduction of , the amount of mutual information between your DNA and any relative becomes drastically small.
You seriously should, if returning Mars samples or exploring water flow on Mars are on your priority list.
Space exploration is probably the greatest interdisciplinary field that we can pursue. Nearly every field will be essential to some part of it.
Given that you can freely rotate in zero-gravity, this would require that a room have no diagonal length of at least 190.5 cm. Are space station rooms really that small?
Not necessarily.
Geek factor 9: ENGAGE!