Tell me how this is worse than trying to get electronic records in a village where the power has been out for a week, let alone network access.
And how well do you think that the e-records will be updated when the power comes back on, given that the medical staff are busy dealing with medical problems?
Is there a way you could encrypt the files or folders that are shared via dropbox, so that only people you have authorized (via a key) could decrypt them?
What?! When was that? The mid 90s? And even their signature franchises (warcraft, diablo) are pretty derivative in their origins... it took several iterations of rehashing to make them more original!
Oh, you mean like millions of people (our parents and grandparents and, for some, our great-grandparents) did before video-on-demand at all hours and in all places was a necessity?
Please, do tell us how we survived those dark ages.
Actually, toothpaste is one of the first places that it should be banned, since toothpaste with triclosan loads your body more heavily than any other triclosan containing personal care product.
When you brush your teeth, you scuff your gums up and the triclosan goes directly into your blood, from where it ends up in your fatty tissues and hangs around much longer than you would like it to. The best part is when nursing mothers end up feeding it to their newborns. This is hardly the case with soaps, unless you're eating them.
Unless there's a reason why somebody NEEDS triclosan tooth paste (and I can't think of one; having a statistically better chance of good breath isn't what I consider a "need"), it shouldn't be promoted.
I prefer AAs; they last a long time by themselves, you can get a big box of them from harbor freight for like $3 and be set for at least a year, and they don't need any special consideration for disposal.
Sure, you can throw your expensive lithium batteries that always seem to crap out after a few months in the regular trash, too, but then you'd be an asshole.
I think he meant that they could tell you to buy a 360 controller or they could tell you to buy a dual-shock, thus making one of them the default controller.
Ever heard of having just enough rope to hang yourself? That's what happens with a lot of scientific arguments, just like you implied with your stem cell analogy.
Fluoride in ground water comes from fluoride crystal deposits--it's F+ ion. Fluoridated water has F+ ion as well, IIRC... I may be wrong there. The way it gets there, however, is by adding either a fluoride salt (NaF)...
Yes. Basically. Fluoride is an anion (F-), and your "fluoride crystals" are fluoride salts. Fluoride (the ion) must have a counter ion with it; very simple forms would be NaF (sodium fluoride) or HF (hydrofluoric acid).
or complex fluorochemicals, some of which are actually acids.
Define "complex," and why do we care if they are acids? The water won't be acidic when it reaches your tap.
This is toxic industrial waste with hazmat handling restrictions.
This statement adds nothing to your argument. There are plenty of beneficial compounds that are toxic at high concentrations and regulated as hazards. Furthermore, there are plenty of beneficial compounds that are byproducts of other processes. You're thinking of Hexafluorosilicic acid, and you're talking about it like it's dihydrogen monoxide--you know, the dangerous toxic waste that kills millions yearly and was used by Hitler and Stalin.
Yeah, you want fluoride in your water. You want it in trace amounts, though; and you want F+ ion, not all the other garbage that gets dumped in your water to get F+ ion into it artificially.
The amount added to drinking water is a trace amount, and may be less than many natural waters have. If the concentrations are the same, what's the problem?
Furthermore, in the case of the two examples you gave, the "other garbage" (also in trace amounts) is sodium or silica, both of which you unquestionably consume in much greater quantities daily.
Yes, that's right, silica. According to wikipedia, in water at neutral pH, Hexafluorosilicic acid decomposes into silica, and the F- ions that kids crave:
SiF6^2- + 2 H2O => 6 F- + SiO2 + 4 H+
Silica, by the way, is the active ingredient in sand.
If they artificially produced F+ ion by stripping it out of toxic waste, you'd get something vastly different
No, no you wouldn't, because you can't just strip out the fluoride. That's not how chemistry works. You could spend money to convert it into another fluoride compound (like NaF), but the safety of the consumer would be exactly the same either way, as long as it was pure. In fact, it's probably better that they don't use NaF, because we get plenty of Na on our french fries.
--and the argument would be entirely stupid.
No comment.
Instead, the argument is between people shouting "FLUORIDE" while the reality is between Fluoride and Toxic Fluoride Compounds.
It's really a shame that you have no idea what you're talking about, because there is actually a huge issue at stake that is just over the horizon from your argument, and that is the growing use of fluorinated carbon compounds. These are persistent, carcinogenic, endocrine disrupting, bioaccumulating, and every other dangerous word you can think of.
If you want to talk about that, then I'm sure we'd agree that we don't want halocarbons of any kind used any more than absolutely necessary (are you listening to me, State of California?), but unfortunately you've been suckered by a bunch of pseudoscientific babble.
Many water sources are naturally fluoridated, and having a minimum fluoride content can be directly correlated with occurrence of cavities in the population. Fluoride is not any less natural than any other salt (sorry, "mineral"), and varies geographically like all the rest.
My city has fluoridation equipment that it never uses, because the source water always exceeds the recommended dose.
If the PS4 isn't powerful enough to emulate a PS3 in software, then what makes it powerful enough to warrant obsoleting the PS3? Pretty much every previous generation has had this capability (ignoring engineered incompatibility, like cartridges).
So apps from the App store don't use the shared libraries provided by the operating system? Which are updated by the operating system's update utility? News to me.
Even here in the future, stable is fine for pretty much any normal home and office use. And if it isn't, the upgrade to unstable is almost trivial to perform and isn't likely to cause any problems.
Malaysian Chinese restaurants must follow a different philosophy from American Chinese restaurants, which are about the gaudiest thing this side of an Indian bus.
This just in: given unlimited resources, people can do simple things in impractical ways. Film at 11.
In 1995, it was impractical to download videos on demand. Being the first idiot to wait 104 days for a video to download doesn't make you a pioneer; it means you have the resources to waste doing something impractical.
These kind of demonstrations are different than actually doing something to develop the technology. We know what the state of the art is, and we see inklings of what could be done in the future. Generating trivial results doesn't do anything more to drive that point home.
You have no better sense of how cold "really cold" is beyond "colder than ice," and you obviously would have got that from Fahrenheit, as well.
Let's go the other direction. What difference would it make if I told you that the temperature in an oven was 300 C or 600 F? They're both "really hot" and "hotter than boiling water." Neither one gives you a better sense of how hot, because your body certainly wouldn't know the difference between 200, 300, or 400 C. They're all "hot."
The difference between C and F matters when we talk about the temperature range that our bodies might experience--say, (-10) to 40 C and 0 to 100 F. There it can be confusing, because it's hard for a person who is used to a "warm day" in Fahrenheit (80 - 90) to mentally scale it to C (27 - 32). But for extrema, it's all "hot" or "cold."
No, no it can't. A two or three year old PC can have a new GPU and a memory upgrade and be semi-competant again. A five or six year old PC needs to be rebuilt from the bottom up.
I know, because I'm in the process of doing that right now. My Core 2 Duo + AMD 5570 has gone as far as it is going to go. It's had a GPU update and a memory refresh. It is now CPU limited in most games and buying a new GPU for this old box would be a waste of money.
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Tell me how this is worse than trying to get electronic records in a village where the power has been out for a week, let alone network access.
And how well do you think that the e-records will be updated when the power comes back on, given that the medical staff are busy dealing with medical problems?
When you're using a log scale?
Is there a way you could encrypt the files or folders that are shared via dropbox, so that only people you have authorized (via a key) could decrypt them?
What?! When was that? The mid 90s? And even their signature franchises (warcraft, diablo) are pretty derivative in their origins... it took several iterations of rehashing to make them more original!
Oh, you mean like millions of people (our parents and grandparents and, for some, our great-grandparents) did before video-on-demand at all hours and in all places was a necessity?
Please, do tell us how we survived those dark ages.
Actually, toothpaste is one of the first places that it should be banned, since toothpaste with triclosan loads your body more heavily than any other triclosan containing personal care product.
When you brush your teeth, you scuff your gums up and the triclosan goes directly into your blood, from where it ends up in your fatty tissues and hangs around much longer than you would like it to. The best part is when nursing mothers end up feeding it to their newborns. This is hardly the case with soaps, unless you're eating them.
Unless there's a reason why somebody NEEDS triclosan tooth paste (and I can't think of one; having a statistically better chance of good breath isn't what I consider a "need"), it shouldn't be promoted.
That is the article linked in the summary, ya rube.
I prefer AAs; they last a long time by themselves, you can get a big box of them from harbor freight for like $3 and be set for at least a year, and they don't need any special consideration for disposal.
Sure, you can throw your expensive lithium batteries that always seem to crap out after a few months in the regular trash, too, but then you'd be an asshole.
I think he meant that they could tell you to buy a 360 controller or they could tell you to buy a dual-shock, thus making one of them the default controller.
Ever heard of having just enough rope to hang yourself? That's what happens with a lot of scientific arguments, just like you implied with your stem cell analogy.
Yes. Basically. Fluoride is an anion (F-), and your "fluoride crystals" are fluoride salts. Fluoride (the ion) must have a counter ion with it; very simple forms would be NaF (sodium fluoride) or HF (hydrofluoric acid).
Define "complex," and why do we care if they are acids? The water won't be acidic when it reaches your tap.
This statement adds nothing to your argument. There are plenty of beneficial compounds that are toxic at high concentrations and regulated as hazards. Furthermore, there are plenty of beneficial compounds that are byproducts of other processes. You're thinking of Hexafluorosilicic acid, and you're talking about it like it's dihydrogen monoxide--you know, the dangerous toxic waste that kills millions yearly and was used by Hitler and Stalin.
The amount added to drinking water is a trace amount, and may be less than many natural waters have. If the concentrations are the same, what's the problem?
Furthermore, in the case of the two examples you gave, the "other garbage" (also in trace amounts) is sodium or silica, both of which you unquestionably consume in much greater quantities daily.
Yes, that's right, silica. According to wikipedia, in water at neutral pH, Hexafluorosilicic acid decomposes into silica, and the F- ions that kids crave:
SiF6^2- + 2 H2O => 6 F- + SiO2 + 4 H+
Silica, by the way, is the active ingredient in sand.
No, no you wouldn't, because you can't just strip out the fluoride. That's not how chemistry works. You could spend money to convert it into another fluoride compound (like NaF), but the safety of the consumer would be exactly the same either way, as long as it was pure. In fact, it's probably better that they don't use NaF, because we get plenty of Na on our french fries.
No comment.
It's really a shame that you have no idea what you're talking about, because there is actually a huge issue at stake that is just over the horizon from your argument, and that is the growing use of fluorinated carbon compounds. These are persistent, carcinogenic, endocrine disrupting, bioaccumulating, and every other dangerous word you can think of.
If you want to talk about that, then I'm sure we'd agree that we don't want halocarbons of any kind used any more than absolutely necessary (are you listening to me, State of California?), but unfortunately you've been suckered by a bunch of pseudoscientific babble.
Many water sources are naturally fluoridated, and having a minimum fluoride content can be directly correlated with occurrence of cavities in the population. Fluoride is not any less natural than any other salt (sorry, "mineral"), and varies geographically like all the rest.
My city has fluoridation equipment that it never uses, because the source water always exceeds the recommended dose.
If the PS4 isn't powerful enough to emulate a PS3 in software, then what makes it powerful enough to warrant obsoleting the PS3? Pretty much every previous generation has had this capability (ignoring engineered incompatibility, like cartridges).
I've never understood why the Moon song is always the one that gets mentioned; African Mines was the JAM!
So apps from the App store don't use the shared libraries provided by the operating system? Which are updated by the operating system's update utility? News to me.
Even here in the future, stable is fine for pretty much any normal home and office use. And if it isn't, the upgrade to unstable is almost trivial to perform and isn't likely to cause any problems.
Malaysian Chinese restaurants must follow a different philosophy from American Chinese restaurants, which are about the gaudiest thing this side of an Indian bus.
This just in: given unlimited resources, people can do simple things in impractical ways. Film at 11.
In 1995, it was impractical to download videos on demand. Being the first idiot to wait 104 days for a video to download doesn't make you a pioneer; it means you have the resources to waste doing something impractical.
These kind of demonstrations are different than actually doing something to develop the technology. We know what the state of the art is, and we see inklings of what could be done in the future. Generating trivial results doesn't do anything more to drive that point home.
How about confiscating your financial resources back on earth, and convincing friendly nations to do the same?
It's not like the US has to send law enforcement officers to every foreign country, either.
I can watch Netflix on my Nexus S, and I don't think that it uses Silverlight.
What you are saying doesn't make any sense.
You have no better sense of how cold "really cold" is beyond "colder than ice," and you obviously would have got that from Fahrenheit, as well.
Let's go the other direction. What difference would it make if I told you that the temperature in an oven was 300 C or 600 F? They're both "really hot" and "hotter than boiling water." Neither one gives you a better sense of how hot, because your body certainly wouldn't know the difference between 200, 300, or 400 C. They're all "hot."
The difference between C and F matters when we talk about the temperature range that our bodies might experience--say, (-10) to 40 C and 0 to 100 F. There it can be confusing, because it's hard for a person who is used to a "warm day" in Fahrenheit (80 - 90) to mentally scale it to C (27 - 32). But for extrema, it's all "hot" or "cold."
I'll switch to this bank (PSP for the nitpickers) for my daily banking until my old bank can handle Bitcoin in the same way.
So, never?
No, no it can't. A two or three year old PC can have a new GPU and a memory upgrade and be semi-competant again. A five or six year old PC needs to be rebuilt from the bottom up.
I know, because I'm in the process of doing that right now. My Core 2 Duo + AMD 5570 has gone as far as it is going to go. It's had a GPU update and a memory refresh. It is now CPU limited in most games and buying a new GPU for this old box would be a waste of money.
> Zynga games is a big draw for Facebook
I want some of what you're smoking.
Can somebody explain why Valve wouldn't want to do this (add a repo to sources.list and update via apt)?
It could still do version checks and even prompt you to run a script (by clicking an update button) to run apt-get update.
Just because you can copy and paste doesn't mean you can parse. Keep trying, though!