And the pirate bay is approving the work they promote based on quality, so yeah, this seems like an excellent tool to get the word out for those with real talent.
Irrelevant. Zimmerman started the fight by following a person that he merely found suspicious. The right of self-defense only applies when another person starts the fight.
I'm guessing that these books haven't been subjected to recaptcha yet. Considering the number of books that google has scanned, this could take a while.
In this case, the business (wireless) is pretty competitive - so if AT&T decided to pass on the fine to their customers they face a real risk of losing those customers to a carrier that has not incurred the fines.
This is the market where they charge $20/Month for 300MB of data, and another $20/Month for texting.
This is the same thing. Parents, if you see a game rating above your child's age - don't buy it! or if you really feel that little Johnny can handle Nun Slashers Effect 3 for the Sony EyeStation then go ahead, but don't blame the video game industry when your son gets busted for assault and ends up living with you until he's 45!
To be fair, most of the people complaining about video game violence aren't the parents of the perps. They have observed their child and can see that they where a trouble maker even before they picked up a game pad. Most of the complaining comes from bored activists and politicians who are so far removed from what is actually going on.
Pick up a pair of in-ear-monitors. Once they form a good seal, you could be on a noisy subway train, but you can still hear the softer parts of the music pretty well. The only downside is that they tend to get caked with earwax.
And how about the 184 out of 200 women who DON'T get an eating disorder as a result of looking at skinny models? If 200 women look at skinny models, and only 16 of them develop an eating disorder, it's quite likely that there is something way deeper than "skinny models cause it" - treat the mental illness that causes that small number of women who obsess over their body image.
Agreed that AN is more complex than just media influencing youngsters into thinking they need to lose weight. It just seemed absurd to make decisions based purely on the numbers affected.
Because last I checked, heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, stroke, and all of the other complications that come along with being overweight & obese are pretty damned expensive conditions to treat.
Well those aren't guaranteed outcomes of obesity.
If you want to oversimplify the cause & treatment of the obesity problem like that, why can't we do the same thing to anorexics: "anorexic people can just eat more food."
Well Anorexia is a disorder with issues of emotional regulation and self-image. The other group is fairly broad group with multiple unrelated causes. Sure, some of the obese have emotional issues that need to be looked at. Others probably have undiagnosed endocrine issues. A fairer comparison would probably be the underweight vs the overweight, or those with eating disorders vs. those with emotional eating problems.
(Note: binge eating, i.e., bulimia without the puking, is also an eating disorder. Which means there is some non-zero overlap between this 2-3% and this next statistic...)
So... treatment for eating disorders (and the complications related to them) would have to be roughly THIRTY TIMES more expensive than treatment for obesity & overweight (and complications related to...) in order to justify banning skinny models, but not banning overweight or obese models. It would have to be *30 times* more harmful to society to have skinny models making girls feel bad about themselves than having fat models making girls think it's okay to be obese.
Except, that most plus-sized models are normal weight to slighty overweight. And there is no evidence than anyone is gaining any fat in order to look like models. Treatment for an eating disorder is also several orders of magnitude more expensive. Most overweight people can lose the excess weight by cutting out sugary stuff from their diet, while an eating disorder is treated with expensive therapy. I don't think many who are overweight see their habits as acceptable.
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If your so worried about night vision, then why not invest in an eye patch?
And the pirate bay is approving the work they promote based on quality, so yeah, this seems like an excellent tool to get the word out for those with real talent.
Irrelevant. Zimmerman started the fight by following a person that he merely found suspicious. The right of self-defense only applies when another person starts the fight.
Esperanto? I think the term you where looking for is lingua franca.
Considering that I can simply do a search with the song title and artist name, and find a song on youtube, how effective has this tool been?
There's nothing about it which is worthy of collecting any royalties.
Like that's ever stopped anyone from trying to collect royalties.
Flights to the sun are free?
What about the required equipment? Energy required to melt the pennies?
I'm guessing that these books haven't been subjected to recaptcha yet. Considering the number of books that google has scanned, this could take a while.
And TFA says the cards are thinner. You'd have to sand it down too. I guess every picometer counts.
$23M? Where did he get that figure? The human body is mostly water. Not worth very much.
In this case, the business (wireless) is pretty competitive - so if AT&T decided to pass on the fine to their customers they face a real risk of losing those customers to a carrier that has not incurred the fines.
This is the market where they charge $20/Month for 300MB of data, and another $20/Month for texting.
This is the same thing. Parents, if you see a game rating above your child's age - don't buy it! or if you really feel that little Johnny can handle Nun Slashers Effect 3 for the Sony EyeStation then go ahead, but don't blame the video game industry when your son gets busted for assault and ends up living with you until he's 45!
To be fair, most of the people complaining about video game violence aren't the parents of the perps. They have observed their child and can see that they where a trouble maker even before they picked up a game pad. Most of the complaining comes from bored activists and politicians who are so far removed from what is actually going on.
If movie theaters enforced such notices strictly, they'd get lawsuits from some diabetes advocacy group.
I'm quite sure that the theaters sell plenty of things that can treat hypoglycemia.
Well one would hope that the paperwork is there to prevent searches and seizures against innocent people.
Pick up a pair of in-ear-monitors. Once they form a good seal, you could be on a noisy subway train, but you can still hear the softer parts of the music pretty well. The only downside is that they tend to get caked with earwax.
He's rationalized what he's done. No lack of empathy is required.
But then that means less money for these private prisons.
The world is such a terrible place. Why would you want to view it without tinted glasses?
I think if you where going to use this, then you'd probably want the ability to copy and paste that exists in the html version.
Wouldn't it be simpler to securely delete the data? Then there's nothing to decrypt.
And get caught!
Sorry no citations.
And how about the 184 out of 200 women who DON'T get an eating disorder as a result of looking at skinny models? If 200 women look at skinny models, and only 16 of them develop an eating disorder, it's quite likely that there is something way deeper than "skinny models cause it" - treat the mental illness that causes that small number of women who obsess over their body image.
Agreed that AN is more complex than just media influencing youngsters into thinking they need to lose weight. It just seemed absurd to make decisions based purely on the numbers affected.
Because last I checked, heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, stroke, and all of the other complications that come along with being overweight & obese are pretty damned expensive conditions to treat.
Well those aren't guaranteed outcomes of obesity.
If you want to oversimplify the cause & treatment of the obesity problem like that, why can't we do the same thing to anorexics: "anorexic people can just eat more food."
Well Anorexia is a disorder with issues of emotional regulation and self-image. The other group is fairly broad group with multiple unrelated causes. Sure, some of the obese have emotional issues that need to be looked at. Others probably have undiagnosed endocrine issues. A fairer comparison would probably be the underweight vs the overweight, or those with eating disorders vs. those with emotional eating problems.
(Note: binge eating, i.e., bulimia without the puking, is also an eating disorder. Which means there is some non-zero overlap between this 2-3% and this next statistic...)
That would be the nonpurging subtype of bulimia.
So... treatment for eating disorders (and the complications related to them) would have to be roughly THIRTY TIMES more expensive than treatment for obesity & overweight (and complications related to...) in order to justify banning skinny models, but not banning overweight or obese models. It would have to be *30 times* more harmful to society to have skinny models making girls feel bad about themselves than having fat models making girls think it's okay to be obese.
Except, that most plus-sized models are normal weight to slighty overweight. And there is no evidence than anyone is gaining any fat in order to look like models. Treatment for an eating disorder is also several orders of magnitude more expensive. Most overweight people can lose the excess weight by cutting out sugary stuff from their diet, while an eating disorder is treated with expensive therapy. I don't think many who are overweight see their habits as acceptable.
Anorexia is the most extreme eating disorder, and only accounts for a fraction of all eating disorders. All of which can have medical complications.