I'm a little curious about what exactly they get out of Picasa, since they have an AdSense referral program....
"When a user you've referred to Picasa downloads and runs the product for the first time, we'll credit your account with up to US$1. The user you refer must be using Windows and not have previously installed Picasa in order for you to receive credit."
I wonder what the deal is, exactly. I guess I can see why they'd want to get people downloading it, it's Google branded, they have the blog-this button and such... maybe they have deals with the photo providers... hmm. I don't know exactly.
In fact, DeWitt's 1956 article in the Journal of Agriculture and Food Chemistry came to a very different conclusion. DeWitt reported no significant difference in egg hatching between birds fed DDT and birds not fed DDT. Carson also omitted to mention DeWitt's report that DDT-fed pheasants hatched about 50 percent more eggs than 'control' pheasants. As to DDT causing cancer in humans, study after study reports no association between DDT exposure and cancer rates.
Dr Joel Bitman and his associates at the US Department of Agriculture published an article in Nature in 1969, which found that Japanese quail fed DDT produced eggs with thinner shells and lower calcium content. Further examination of Dr Bitman's study revealed that the quails under experiment had been fed a diet with a calcium content of only 0.56 percent, whereas a normal quail diet consists of 2.7 percent calcium. Calcium deficiency is known to cause thin eggshells. After much criticism, Bitman repeated the test, this time with sufficient calcium levels, and the birds produced eggs without thinned shells.
Following years of feeding experiments, scientists at the Department of Poultry Science at Cornell University 'found no tremors, no mortality, no thinning of eggshells and no interference with reproduction caused by levels of DDT which were as high as those reported to be present in most of the wild birds where "catastrophic" decreases in shell quality and reproduction have been claimed' (2).
You do realize that's why the hospitals are closing, right? They're required to provide healthcare to anyone who "needs" it - all the way from triage to birth to cancer treatment - regardless of whether or not the person can pay.
I get that, but I don't understand how it would be "useful" to keep illegal immigrants from coming into the country instead. Unless you define "useful" in a particularly greedy and selfish manner...
The way everyone's been spinning things, I honestly thought that you'd see much higher numbers than that for Fox - I mean, I was really expecting numbers three or four times as high So much for the "unwashed masses", I guess.
Probably because carbon dioxide compresses very well (which is why you see it in soft drinks and compressed C02 cartridges in the terrestrial world). Also, oxygen is dangerously flammable.
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Random crazy idea. They should buy the counterfeiters out for a nominal sum in exchange for dropping the charges. If it's that well-organized...
RFID chip implants don't have to be mandatory. All you have to do is make it a rule that you can't fly, or cross the border, or get a drivers license without one.
Or you could try to use them in banking in a cashless society instead of cell phones or whatever.
Why do they keep requiring new editions when there are plenty of old ones on the used market?
Apparently the accredidation agencies are stupid about that. They supposedly want universities to have a lot of new editions instead of old ones. But they won't tell anyone exactly how much of which and what.
"There is no silver-bullet answer," he says of balancing privacy and national security. "There are actually a lot of silver BBs and if you put enough of those together in a coherent way, wrap it with good policy, procedures and training, then you can have the same impact as a silver bullet."
Insert your own joke here about silver birdshot pellets and quail-hunting expeditions...
Your theory is cutely paranoid, but I believe your understanding of X-ray production is flawed or incomplete. X-rays will not be produced merely because something operates "at the same voltage as" medical X-ray equipment. There is nothing specially magical about having electricity at that voltage. Rather, there are two ways to generate electrons: in the first, you use a synchrotron (a circular type of particle accelerator) and in the second, more traditional manner, you simply run high-energy electrons through a vacuum tube and into a special metallic target: the high-energy electron then knocks loose an electron in the metal and an electron from a higher orbital falls down to take its place (emitting an X-ray photon as it does so - that's flourescence for you). The physics in an internal combustion engine aren't really conducive to this: the electrons are not accelerated in a vacuum, but rather they are conducted along through the gasoline/air mixture (which experiences electrical breakdown and rapidly becomes ionized in the gap between the two electrodes). Even then, consider that undirected X-ray radiation would end up diminishing in intensity with the square of distance (and you've got several feet). And finally, there is also a nontrivial amount of shielding between You and the Engine, in the forms of the engine block (remember, these supposed X-rays are INSIDE the cylinders), the car body, and whatever else is in between.
If thousands of cancers a year are being blamed on ultraviolet, well, there's a lot more ultraviolet streaming down from the Sun then you could theoretically come up with as coming out of your car engine. Now, secondhand smoke is another matter, and I suspect a highly overrated cancer threat, but that's another story. Don't hold your breath for an "amazing blessing".
Doesn't really share the views? That's putting it mildly.
When I helped to create Greenpeace from a church basement in Vancouver in 1971 I had no idea that I would spend the next 15 years as an international director and leader of many Greenpeace campaigns. I also had no idea that after I left in 1986 they would evolve into a band of scientific illiterates who use Gestapo tactics to silence people who wish to express their views in a civilized forum. And I could never have guessed that my former colleague and then teen-age founder of Greenpeace France, Remi Parmentier, would be the one issuing the orders to silence me.
I've never thought of a set of projection screens as a sculpture before
Eh, this guy in my class takes beeswax and his own hair, makes blobs, and says they represent "stem cells". For this, he gets a special exhibit all to himself and all sorts of bubbly effusive praise from the art department.
WTF are driver developers supposed to do in all this, anyway? How do you get Microsoft to sign or approve a driver that you haven't developed yet? How do you develop it if Microsoft hasn't approved you yet? If you don't have some pre-existing relationship, what do you do?
To be fair, there's also some compelling economic policy reasons for the poverty situation. Take Zimbabwe. They decided to go ahead with this massive land redistribution program, kicking the white people off their spacious farms and redistributing the land to blacks. A noble endeavour? Perhaps in theory. But now they're stuck with an inflation rate of 600% or so and massive starvation.
Other African countries have... well, few things so extreme, but sometimes they have things to prevent their population from being "exploited". And it may just be that a little exploitation is the price of economic success. I have a random column on the matter of Africa by some award-winning economist if you care for a peek.
Is the new "Hannover" Lotus Notes client out yet? I hadn't heard, and I expected it would be big news if it was.... It's a LOT nicer and shinier than the old client. If it's out it could make the switch entirely reasonable...
But then you're stuck with an incompetent federal bureaucracy. You think health insurance is bad now? Imagine if hospitals were more like the Department of Motor Vehicles...
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I mean, why not just port Lighttpd? It's smaller!
... Actually, that could explain a lot about her....
This is probably going to end up as an excellent way to make sure that no one bothers to do nanotechnology research in the United States.
"Oh, you're a web designer, are you?"
"Yeah, I designed Slashdot."
"You're hired. How much do you want to be paid?"
Well, maybe not quite THAT good, but... You get the idea.
This just means you'll need some better airtight packaging.
And, for the record, the only thing Apple makes that I own is the Mighty Mouse (it works surprisingly well with my IBM ThinkPad).
The way everyone's been spinning things, I honestly thought that you'd see much higher numbers than that for Fox - I mean, I was really expecting numbers three or four times as high So much for the "unwashed masses", I guess.
Probably because carbon dioxide compresses very well (which is why you see it in soft drinks and compressed C02 cartridges in the terrestrial world). Also, oxygen is dangerously flammable.
Random crazy idea. They should buy the counterfeiters out for a nominal sum in exchange for dropping the charges. If it's that well-organized...
If thousands of cancers a year are being blamed on ultraviolet, well, there's a lot more ultraviolet streaming down from the Sun then you could theoretically come up with as coming out of your car engine. Now, secondhand smoke is another matter, and I suspect a highly overrated cancer threat, but that's another story. Don't hold your breath for an "amazing blessing".
Eh, this guy in my class takes beeswax and his own hair, makes blobs, and says they represent "stem cells". For this, he gets a special exhibit all to himself and all sorts of bubbly effusive praise from the art department.
This is not art. It's just artsy.
WTF are driver developers supposed to do in all this, anyway? How do you get Microsoft to sign or approve a driver that you haven't developed yet? How do you develop it if Microsoft hasn't approved you yet? If you don't have some pre-existing relationship, what do you do?
Other African countries have... well, few things so extreme, but sometimes they have things to prevent their population from being "exploited". And it may just be that a little exploitation is the price of economic success. I have a random column on the matter of Africa by some award-winning economist if you care for a peek.
Is the new "Hannover" Lotus Notes client out yet? I hadn't heard, and I expected it would be big news if it was.... It's a LOT nicer and shinier than the old client. If it's out it could make the switch entirely reasonable...
But then you're stuck with an incompetent federal bureaucracy. You think health insurance is bad now? Imagine if hospitals were more like the Department of Motor Vehicles...
So, how does(n't) this all affect Firefox, Mozilla, Opera, and other sorts of browsers? At the technological, legal, and market-share levels?