Lockheed and Boeing don't own the technology in the Stealth Bombers. The US Government, through the DoD payed for the development and as such own the rights to the technology (as specified in the contract).
Actually, he just might be describing China as well. When you add in China's environmental issues, social unrest and corruption, you just might be looking at a powder keg.
Hey, a question for you on performance. How well does Win 7 run in VMware? Is it possible to play DX games that way? I'm panning on getting a Powerbook in two months and dualbooting Win7 on it.
You're right in that they do have backup generators. However, the generators are only required to supply power for 24 hours. Beyond that, you don't have any guarantee. When was the last time you lost power for more than 24 hours?
I don't understand how a Californian city expects people to live without basic emergency supplies.
Given most of the warnings, I don't think they do expect you to live. Seriously, X has been known to cause cancer in the State of California. It's a wonder anyone in California doesn't have cancer.;)
GM is having to do a bunch of research to develop a car worthy lithium battery in a very short time.
Not GM. A123 and LG(?) are the two companies performing the research. GM has merely been testing the battery packs to figure out which one to go with. I think they decided on LG.
How do you stop a battery fire? Put water on it (AFFF is mostly water)? A dry chemical fire extinguisher? More likely, just let it burn out...
With regards to lithium batteries, just let it burn out and evacuate the area is what we do. HF is kind of dangerous and water doesn't put out lithium. It's interesting working down the hall from a battery testing lab.
Then, the question becomes, is the planet warming actually a bad thing? To cite one thing you mention, arable land, this would actually increase in a warmer world. Russia and Canada warming up would open up a very large chunk of arable land to farming or for farming more than one crop per year. Many people tend to say climate change will be bad, but never mention any benefits or to look at the end balance of good and bad.
Well, given that every species on the planet, including ourselves, is thoroughly adapted to their current environment=, I'm a little shocked you find that surprising.
For humans, which environment would that be? The Sahara Desert, the Russian Siberia, the Amazon Rainforest, the Himalayan Mountains, the US Plains, the Pacific Islands? Humans have adapted to be able to live everywhere.
To your point about most abortions around the 9th week.... take the tumor out then & see if it's a human.... not likely. Will it survive then outside the womb & develop? No... so it's not a human yet.
How do you define human? A fetus at 22 weeks development can survive to adulthood. Would you define that as human, then? A newborn baby can not survive without help. Is that newborn baby then not human as it can not survive without help?
I'm asking this seriously. If you took said fetus out of the woman at the 9 week stage, what are the chances it would survive w/o assistance?
I brought up 9 weeks because the OP said that 99% of abortions occur before the fetus has a nervous system or organs. It was merely a convenient time point to show the OP was wrong. As for survival chances, the same as any baby carried to full term would have without assistance. Zero. No human baby can survive without assistance.
You also bring up "immorality"... morality in general is a very subjective thing and I personally prefer ethics.
Again, something the OP brought up, not me.
Plain and simple, if it would kill my wife to have a baby and she got pregnant (and she would otherwise be able to live a semi-normal healthy lifespan), my guess is that I would want to keep my wife alive... however, I would still leave the decision up to her.
This would be a different case altogether than what was posted by the OP. Also, from the statistics, 94% are not for possible health complications and the remaining 6% includes the health of the child not just the mother. No one I know would bar a medically necessary abortion, provided it was actually medically necessary for the life of the mother.
There is no such thing as a "baby" until it is born. Before that it is a faetus, a pre-stage in the creation of a baby. 99% of all chosen abortions are done before the featus has organs, let alone nervous system.
Source? Citation? The heartbeat begins at week five. The nervous system during week four. wiki, Because with that, this page contradicts you give with 48% of abortions occurring after the 9th week, by which time the brain, eyes, skin and other organs have begun devolpment.
It is quite immoral to force people what to do with their bodies, especially since the grounds for objections are at best some kind of vitalism - soul, spirit and other nonsense.
How about the immorality of deciding to end the life of the fetus? Isn't this exactly the same thing you are complaining about, except on the other person involved? By the time most abortions occur, the fetus has a brain, an active nervous system, a heart beat, skin, eyes, what more do you need to know that the fetus is alive?
Er, the article is saying that those with private insurance have more access to psychotherapy while those with Medicare have easier access to drugs. What was your point again?
All private health care is in business for is to take profit. They have have no more interest in providing a service than the government does. Privatization advocates are at best dishonest.
With Privatization I can play the wolves off each other. I'd like to see you try that with the government. Although I do find it interesting that you simultaneously bash privatization and then the government and call privatization advocates dishonest. You yourself seem to say both are dishonest yet insult me for choosing the one that doesn't have the guns and write the laws. Perhaps I've merely chosen to take the lesser of two evils.
Hm. A two to one disparity is proposed as reasonable in the article due to environmental conditions (2nd page, 2nd paragraph). To increase that to 4 to 1 would require contributing factors. Part of this appears to be due to the cost of medication being less than that of therapy (1st page, 2nd paragraph).
One thing I would put forth as additional explanation is the over prescribing of medication in the US. People tend to think that if a child is behaving 'perfectly' they need a magic pill to make them better. This is something that started over twenty years ago and is nothing new. It would be interesting to question the parents of poor kids v. the parents middle class kids and see what their responses are on medicating their kids. If a poor family is more likely to blindly follow the doctors advice and a middle class family is more likely to ask questions first, this could explain the rest of the disparity (1st page, paragraph 11-14).
By the way, I don't see how "the poor are already dominate in terms of population" factors into this. The 4x is scaled to the population of those on medicaid v. private insurance. What we're looking at has nothing to do with the absolute population size and only the percentage of the populations receiving medication. If I'm missing something on that, could you please explain it a bit more?
Or you could enroll the entire population--not just the poor--in Medicaid and get better treatment for half the price.
I think this article (among others) demonstrates "better treatment" is not the case. The number of seniors who opt for supplemental (private) insurance in the Medicare plan would also support this.
Many doctors refuse Medicaid patients, and they could either take the pay-cut or try their hand at investment banking.
Many doctors refuse Medicaid due to the long times for repayment and Medicaid paying below the actual cost of treatments. I'll stick with my current private insurance.
Not DB, no. It's based on the volume indicator which is probably related to voltage only. In other words, it would still depend on which headphones you use.
Medicair/Medicaid is the public healthcare insurance, not the private healthcare insurance. This data would seem to support the removal of the government run insurance plan and its replacement with a private plan.
It's sarcasm. Just in case you aren't in the US, the elected leaders have proposed a very big change in the US health insurance industry. Some versions include a public option and some do not. The OP appears to be a critic of the public option. Re-read it in this light and it should make more sense.
I'm pretty sure a "sub class of humans" isn't what the OP meant. However, several mental diseases such as bi-polar and alzheimer's do have genetic causes and run in families. Sad, but true. Similarly, these diseases make it more difficult to succeed, not impossible, just something that raises the bar. This would be more along this lines of those who have mental diseases are more likely to be poor, which would be interesting to study.
Or, more likely to ask questions and investigate the drugs? In first grade, my teacher told my mother I had ADD and needed medication. She asked me why I was 'spacing out' in class. The reason was I was bored. It seems that if a kid doesn't behave 'perfectly', they need to be put on medication. I sometimes wonder if this need for meds is part of the problem. Hm. On a related note, I wonder if there is a difference in the likelyhood of medication between boys and girls.
You wouldn't even need to migrate Exchange (just yet, anyway). If you could just replace the Outlook Client in total and still use the Exchange backend, you could make a killing. Actually, I remember reading on/. about a drop in replacement for Exchange that ran on Linux. I think Zarafa is the one. All it needs is a replacement for Outlook to go with it.
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Lockheed and Boeing don't own the technology in the Stealth Bombers. The US Government, through the DoD payed for the development and as such own the rights to the technology (as specified in the contract).
Actually, he just might be describing China as well. When you add in China's environmental issues, social unrest and corruption, you just might be looking at a powder keg.
Hey, a question for you on performance. How well does Win 7 run in VMware? Is it possible to play DX games that way? I'm panning on getting a Powerbook in two months and dualbooting Win7 on it.
You're right in that they do have backup generators. However, the generators are only required to supply power for 24 hours. Beyond that, you don't have any guarantee. When was the last time you lost power for more than 24 hours?
The same has been said of computers, Televisions, Radios, telephones, electricity and a whole host of other items. Wait 20 years.
Are you familiar with the Berne Convention? My guess would be proving infringement in the US is a first step to getting it shut down in Canada.
How would you even notice a 10ms drop? That's half sine a wave in Europe and barely that in the US.
I don't understand how a Californian city expects people to live without basic emergency supplies.
Given most of the warnings, I don't think they do expect you to live. Seriously, X has been known to cause cancer in the State of California. It's a wonder anyone in California doesn't have cancer. ;)
GM is having to do a bunch of research to develop a car worthy lithium battery in a very short time.
Not GM. A123 and LG(?) are the two companies performing the research. GM has merely been testing the battery packs to figure out which one to go with. I think they decided on LG.
How do you stop a battery fire? Put water on it (AFFF is mostly water)? A dry chemical fire extinguisher? More likely, just let it burn out...
With regards to lithium batteries, just let it burn out and evacuate the area is what we do. HF is kind of dangerous and water doesn't put out lithium. It's interesting working down the hall from a battery testing lab.
Then, the question becomes, is the planet warming actually a bad thing? To cite one thing you mention, arable land, this would actually increase in a warmer world. Russia and Canada warming up would open up a very large chunk of arable land to farming or for farming more than one crop per year. Many people tend to say climate change will be bad, but never mention any benefits or to look at the end balance of good and bad.
Well, given that every species on the planet, including ourselves, is thoroughly adapted to their current environment=, I'm a little shocked you find that surprising.
For humans, which environment would that be? The Sahara Desert, the Russian Siberia, the Amazon Rainforest, the Himalayan Mountains, the US Plains, the Pacific Islands? Humans have adapted to be able to live everywhere.
To your point about most abortions around the 9th week.... take the tumor out then & see if it's a human.... not likely. Will it survive then outside the womb & develop? No... so it's not a human yet.
How do you define human? A fetus at 22 weeks development can survive to adulthood. Would you define that as human, then? A newborn baby can not survive without help. Is that newborn baby then not human as it can not survive without help?
I'm asking this seriously. If you took said fetus out of the woman at the 9 week stage, what are the chances it would survive w/o assistance?
I brought up 9 weeks because the OP said that 99% of abortions occur before the fetus has a nervous system or organs. It was merely a convenient time point to show the OP was wrong. As for survival chances, the same as any baby carried to full term would have without assistance. Zero. No human baby can survive without assistance.
You also bring up "immorality"... morality in general is a very subjective thing and I personally prefer ethics.
Again, something the OP brought up, not me.
Plain and simple, if it would kill my wife to have a baby and she got pregnant (and she would otherwise be able to live a semi-normal healthy lifespan), my guess is that I would want to keep my wife alive... however, I would still leave the decision up to her.
This would be a different case altogether than what was posted by the OP. Also, from the statistics, 94% are not for possible health complications and the remaining 6% includes the health of the child not just the mother. No one I know would bar a medically necessary abortion, provided it was actually medically necessary for the life of the mother.
There is no such thing as a "baby" until it is born. Before that it is a faetus, a pre-stage in the creation of a baby. 99% of all chosen abortions are done before the featus has organs, let alone nervous system.
Source? Citation? The heartbeat begins at week five. The nervous system during week four. wiki, Because with that, this page contradicts you give with 48% of abortions occurring after the 9th week, by which time the brain, eyes, skin and other organs have begun devolpment.
It is quite immoral to force people what to do with their bodies, especially since the grounds for objections are at best some kind of vitalism - soul, spirit and other nonsense.
How about the immorality of deciding to end the life of the fetus? Isn't this exactly the same thing you are complaining about, except on the other person involved? By the time most abortions occur, the fetus has a brain, an active nervous system, a heart beat, skin, eyes, what more do you need to know that the fetus is alive?
Er, the article is saying that those with private insurance have more access to psychotherapy while those with Medicare have easier access to drugs. What was your point again?
All private health care is in business for is to take profit. They have have no more interest in providing a service than the government does. Privatization advocates are at best dishonest.
With Privatization I can play the wolves off each other. I'd like to see you try that with the government. Although I do find it interesting that you simultaneously bash privatization and then the government and call privatization advocates dishonest. You yourself seem to say both are dishonest yet insult me for choosing the one that doesn't have the guns and write the laws. Perhaps I've merely chosen to take the lesser of two evils.
Hm. A two to one disparity is proposed as reasonable in the article due to environmental conditions (2nd page, 2nd paragraph). To increase that to 4 to 1 would require contributing factors. Part of this appears to be due to the cost of medication being less than that of therapy (1st page, 2nd paragraph).
One thing I would put forth as additional explanation is the over prescribing of medication in the US. People tend to think that if a child is behaving 'perfectly' they need a magic pill to make them better. This is something that started over twenty years ago and is nothing new. It would be interesting to question the parents of poor kids v. the parents middle class kids and see what their responses are on medicating their kids. If a poor family is more likely to blindly follow the doctors advice and a middle class family is more likely to ask questions first, this could explain the rest of the disparity (1st page, paragraph 11-14).
By the way, I don't see how "the poor are already dominate in terms of population" factors into this. The 4x is scaled to the population of those on medicaid v. private insurance. What we're looking at has nothing to do with the absolute population size and only the percentage of the populations receiving medication. If I'm missing something on that, could you please explain it a bit more?
Or you could enroll the entire population--not just the poor--in Medicaid and get better treatment for half the price.
I think this article (among others) demonstrates "better treatment" is not the case. The number of seniors who opt for supplemental (private) insurance in the Medicare plan would also support this.
Many doctors refuse Medicaid patients, and they could either take the pay-cut or try their hand at investment banking.
Many doctors refuse Medicaid due to the long times for repayment and Medicaid paying below the actual cost of treatments. I'll stick with my current private insurance.
Not DB, no. It's based on the volume indicator which is probably related to voltage only. In other words, it would still depend on which headphones you use.
Medicair/Medicaid is the public healthcare insurance, not the private healthcare insurance. This data would seem to support the removal of the government run insurance plan and its replacement with a private plan.
It's sarcasm. Just in case you aren't in the US, the elected leaders have proposed a very big change in the US health insurance industry. Some versions include a public option and some do not. The OP appears to be a critic of the public option. Re-read it in this light and it should make more sense.
I'm pretty sure a "sub class of humans" isn't what the OP meant. However, several mental diseases such as bi-polar and alzheimer's do have genetic causes and run in families. Sad, but true. Similarly, these diseases make it more difficult to succeed, not impossible, just something that raises the bar. This would be more along this lines of those who have mental diseases are more likely to be poor, which would be interesting to study.
Or, more likely to ask questions and investigate the drugs? In first grade, my teacher told my mother I had ADD and needed medication. She asked me why I was 'spacing out' in class. The reason was I was bored. It seems that if a kid doesn't behave 'perfectly', they need to be put on medication. I sometimes wonder if this need for meds is part of the problem. Hm. On a related note, I wonder if there is a difference in the likelyhood of medication between boys and girls.
You wouldn't even need to migrate Exchange (just yet, anyway). If you could just replace the Outlook Client in total and still use the Exchange backend, you could make a killing. Actually, I remember reading on /. about a drop in replacement for Exchange that ran on Linux. I think Zarafa is the one. All it needs is a replacement for Outlook to go with it.