The sensitivity bees have to electrostatic energy, and the claims some people make of EMI sensitivity have no relation.
It HAS been documented that SOME people perceive things outside the radio-frequency spectrum that MOST people can not.
The assumption that some researcher somewhere will automatically instantly have the interest, and be able to secure the funding to study every natural anomaly, is based on naivete and ignorance.
And the phrase "please demonstrate it for science" is just ridiculous and childish.
It isn't about "a less-clean recording process" or improving it by means thereof.
Your understanding of analogue is seriously flawed; indeed, you can get "clipping" with any analogue signal.
There's more than "one good thing" about analogue recording - you just don't understand what analogue IS.
Tube amps do not necessarily distort, and an imitation of analogue distortion is just an imitation.
Everyone that rated your remarks highly are stunningly stupid. As opposed to ignorant. Ignorant people at least COULD potentially educate themselves. Stupid people CHOOSE to remain ignorant.
The point is to make it possible to ticket people for wearing them when they're in an accident, and assigning the fault OF the accidents people will undoubtedly be IN while wearing the device.
And also to make it easier to investigate weather someone was wearing one DURING the accident or not, the way we're able to tell now with cell phones and texting.
Generally my attitude is that most new laws are a bad idea and a gratuitous waste of time and taxpayer money, primarily for lawmakers self-aggrandizement and re-elect-ability. In this instance, however, this is not necessarily the case. If you cause an accident wearing this stupid device, you should be found at fault, and you should have to pay, just like all the asshole cell phone users clogging-up the roads causing accidents and being a hazard should be fined and have to pay dearly for being such selfish, ignorant, hazardous douchebags.
Politics is ugly and stupid, is all that I've taken out of the whole debacle.
Some dingbat using twitter managed to mess up her career and somebody else's over remarks that any intelligent person would regard as being silly and insignificant, at worst.
Also, employers tend towards being cowardly and stupid little tools. If you work for someone that's gonna fire you over something so trivial, what does that say about your employer and the state of employment in the US ?
Yeah, all this tech we have now, all this "social media" is such a huge boon and such remarkable "progress". It can be used to be productive, but overall, it's just another manifestation of how people waste time and jerk off and highlights the worst of what people are all about. Big surprise there !
It's that simple. Make your business model and services and support so bullet proof and customer-oriented that piracy is pointless, and you won't have a problem with piracy.
Arguments that piracy is a popularity tax, piracy is just the cost of doing business, piracy is an inevitability, all these arguments are only a partial consideration.
Yes, SOME things will always have a degree of piracy, that's a given. Work with it, since it's a fact of life. Instead of making your product something that people feel morally compelled to pirate, create a product and service and support model that's comprehensive and unique enough that piracy of it is pointless. In other words, sell a product that isn't just a one dimensional product. Sell a product that has a future, that purchasing includes so many perks and so many benefits that only an idiot would pirate it.
You know, a modern business model that incorporates the best of the things of the past, like excellent customer service, reliability, genuine product support, and innovation.
This, as opposed to something shiny and destined to be completely obsolete within months/a year.
"Perhaps more important, Facebook users have slightly more close confidents (2.16) than non-users (1.93). Confidents are defined as "people with whom they discuss important matters.""
Also from the same article :
"N for full sample 2,255 and margin of error is +/- 2.3 percantage ponts. N for facebook users-877 and margin of error is +/- 3.6 percentage points."
So, yeah, people who don't use FB at all are more intelligent.
At least, arguably, intelligent enough to regard such small sample sizes and such large margins of error as rendering the very slight significance of social network users as being somehow anything but more *needy* when it comes to the kind of *insulated* "social interaction" provided through the internet !
Of course social networks are just a tool, any tool can be used intelligently, or foolishly. Mostly social networks are used foolishly by people who are foolish for thinking that their constant status updates and "likes" are some kind of significant or meaningful "social" interaction.
To stupid people ignorance is bliss; to an informed patient, denying access to their own information, that could very well save their own lives because of the fear that some idiot is going to misuse their own information - is hardly a justification for keeping people who want to access their own medical data from having access to it.
The example you give is irrelevant to this discussion because it has nothing to do with denying access to your own medical information. The issue is not that the doctor has to immediately tell you every little detail. The issue is that you have a right to go looking at every little detail in your medical record.
And "dying on the table" is not an uncommon or unexpected thing, it's really not a big deal when you have a staff of highly trained people and equipment to immediately bring you back.
OMG, are you fucking kidding me ? "Appropriate balance" ?
The data on you is YOUR data, and you have an inalienable right to access that data, period.
The justification that a few "patients from hell" is a good enough excuse to keep secret dossiers on patients is utter bullshit.
What is insignificant in your medical record to one doctor may very well be profoundly important to another, and it's your right to get an opinion from another doctor, and your right to make your own health care decisions.
You can't DO this if you don't have access to your own medical record, and this is essentially what some corrupt doctors want - to prevent you from making YOUR OWN decisions, so that they can use you as their own personal piggy-bank.
The salt that's added to processed foods and that you buy to put on your table isn't much like the "salt" found in nature, which isn't just NaCl; it's a complex of minerals.
The "salt" added to processed foods has been heated-up several hundred degrees, refined, and fucked with/denatured. Big surprise, it's not good for you and is the cause of disease.
Yeah, yeah, all sorts of assholes are going to say "it's not the "salt", it's "too much 'salt' "
And to that I say, bullshit. You put this fake "salt" IN almost EVERYTHING, and then say "ohhh, it's not the salt it's too much salt". Truly idiotic. That's like saying It's not the arsenic, it's TOO MUCH arsenic.
An adulterated food supply is an adulterated food supply. The sooner we lay the blame where it belongs the sooner we can get back to eating food that is primarily nourishing, as opposed to eating shit that's primarily designed to make a big profit for some bullshit corporation that's appealing to the lowest common denominator.
Look at the contractors and businesses that DO business WITH it !
Is it any secret that THE biggest waste of tax dollars IS the military and it's corrupt business associations ?
Surprise, surprise, surprise ! ! !
Because nothing can take China down as effective as what's taken America down.
American skyrocketing medical costs over more than two decades have helped crush the economy here. This happening in China in a single decade could very well be a national disaster there of unprecedented proportions historically anywhere.
The other factor is the purity of the carbon.
Industry does use CO2; cheaper CO2 is an amazingly useful thing. Who currently sells CO2, and why would they not want this competition, and what kind of lobbying are they willing to do to prevent it from widespread adoption, despite the significant economical advantage, and changes to markets it's adoption would entail ?
What people don't do, because most lack a comprehensive understanding of how things are vs. theoretical ideals that are not based upon reality, is FOLLOW THE MONEY.
The most crucial thing anyone could do politically and intellectually is be aware and involved in industry, and strive to be knowledgeable about what is done now, and how it's done, what it costs to do it, who's doing it, and how they spend the their profits to keep doing it.
It's sounds complicated because it it; there's an interdependence that industry relies on, and it's naive to think that important discoveries and new processes are going to result in anything revolutionary anytime soon, particularly when most people are stuck in a la la land of ideals disassociated from reality.
CO2 isn't a bad thing. It's actually an awesome thing. Stick that CO2 in a proper usable form where it's needed and amazing things happen. You can grow plants in a greenhouse twice as fast without ANY need for pesticides, for instance. You can manufacture things cheaper and more efficiently. The question begging to be answered is in who's best interest is it to prevent the inevitable for as long as possible, and why...
Also the hoards of government subsidized researchers who are paid, not to actually accomplish anything, other than one another's continued future funding.
I mean, anyone that's even remotely familiar with the University system knows that degrees have always been a hit or miss indicator.
Honest to God, once Universities stopped teaching people Latin, the quality of a degree was a joke.
And all the degrees you can get without any significant Philosophy or History aren't worth the toilet paper I flush every morning.
And all you PolySci and MBA's - go fuck yourselves. The only people worse than you are the ones that go into advertising.
Teaching people to think for themselves, to question, to create - these are things of the past. You're on your own. Choose wisely, and don't expect to be rewarded by the stupid and banal for it. Just do it because it's awesome.
You can blame the President, blame a particular party, blame anyone randomly that you want.
The authority to permit this lies in Congress; THEY allowed this to happen, it's THEIR responsibility to fix it, and OURS to demand that they do.
For all the bitching here, I don't see anyone actually making any suggestions or efforts. Whining just makes you a whiner. DO something that actually matters.
The best investment isn't dumping money into making finite fossil fuel production more efficient. It's in investing in AMERICAN companies and technologies, the way the Chinese are investing in Chinese companies and technologies...
Sure, we should use the finite sources of fossil fuels we have as efficiently and cleanly as is possible. But certainly not at the expense or exclusion of alternatives.
It is not an either/or proposition, and never has been. Presenting it as such is a fallacy that does nothing good for the long term.
China is undercutting American production of a lot of things, and harming American industries, American workers, and American security. And it's doing it with the help of unscrupulous and well connected American corporations.
THAT is the real story here obfuscated in the typical Fox News way. Now lets insist our useless Congress DO something about it, or kick the whole lot of them out of office until we get someone in there that will put American interests first over corporate interests.
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The sensitivity bees have to electrostatic energy, and the claims some people make of EMI sensitivity have no relation.
It HAS been documented that SOME people perceive things outside the radio-frequency spectrum that MOST people can not.
The assumption that some researcher somewhere will automatically instantly have the interest, and be able to secure the funding to study every natural anomaly, is based on naivete and ignorance.
And the phrase "please demonstrate it for science" is just ridiculous and childish.
It isn't about "a less-clean recording process" or improving it by means thereof.
Your understanding of analogue is seriously flawed; indeed, you can get "clipping" with any analogue signal.
There's more than "one good thing" about analogue recording - you just don't understand what analogue IS.
Tube amps do not necessarily distort, and an imitation of analogue distortion is just an imitation.
Everyone that rated your remarks highly are stunningly stupid. As opposed to ignorant. Ignorant people at least COULD potentially educate themselves. Stupid people CHOOSE to remain ignorant.
The point is not to enable pulling people over.
The point is to make it possible to ticket people for wearing them when they're in an accident, and assigning the fault OF the accidents people will undoubtedly be IN while wearing the device.
And also to make it easier to investigate weather someone was wearing one DURING the accident or not, the way we're able to tell now with cell phones and texting.
Generally my attitude is that most new laws are a bad idea and a gratuitous waste of time and taxpayer money, primarily for lawmakers self-aggrandizement and re-elect-ability. In this instance, however, this is not necessarily the case. If you cause an accident wearing this stupid device, you should be found at fault, and you should have to pay, just like all the asshole cell phone users clogging-up the roads causing accidents and being a hazard should be fined and have to pay dearly for being such selfish, ignorant, hazardous douchebags.
Politics is ugly and stupid, is all that I've taken out of the whole debacle.
Some dingbat using twitter managed to mess up her career and somebody else's over remarks that any intelligent person would regard as being silly and insignificant, at worst.
Also, employers tend towards being cowardly and stupid little tools. If you work for someone that's gonna fire you over something so trivial, what does that say about your employer and the state of employment in the US ?
Yeah, all this tech we have now, all this "social media" is such a huge boon and such remarkable "progress". It can be used to be productive, but overall, it's just another manifestation of how people waste time and jerk off and highlights the worst of what people are all about. Big surprise there !
That it'll take 35 years for people to be made aware of.
While everybody's busy worrying about mostly irrelevant bullshit.
It's that simple. Make your business model and services and support so bullet proof and customer-oriented that piracy is pointless, and you won't have a problem with piracy.
Arguments that piracy is a popularity tax, piracy is just the cost of doing business, piracy is an inevitability, all these arguments are only a partial consideration.
Yes, SOME things will always have a degree of piracy, that's a given. Work with it, since it's a fact of life. Instead of making your product something that people feel morally compelled to pirate, create a product and service and support model that's comprehensive and unique enough that piracy of it is pointless. In other words, sell a product that isn't just a one dimensional product. Sell a product that has a future, that purchasing includes so many perks and so many benefits that only an idiot would pirate it.
You know, a modern business model that incorporates the best of the things of the past, like excellent customer service, reliability, genuine product support, and innovation.
This, as opposed to something shiny and destined to be completely obsolete within months/a year.
Somebody had to put the item in question in the bill.
Some investigative journalism would go a long way.
Unless he's ready to apologize for that bitch wife of his and her little past war on the independent music industry.
From the article you've quoted :
"Perhaps more important, Facebook users have slightly more close confidents (2.16) than non-users (1.93). Confidents are defined as "people with whom they discuss important matters.""
Also from the same article :
"N for full sample 2,255 and margin of error is +/- 2.3 percantage ponts. N for facebook users-877 and margin of error is +/- 3.6 percentage points."
So, yeah, people who don't use FB at all are more intelligent.
At least, arguably, intelligent enough to regard such small sample sizes and such large margins of error as rendering the very slight significance of social network users as being somehow anything but more *needy* when it comes to the kind of *insulated* "social interaction" provided through the internet !
Of course social networks are just a tool, any tool can be used intelligently, or foolishly. Mostly social networks are used foolishly by people who are foolish for thinking that their constant status updates and "likes" are some kind of significant or meaningful "social" interaction.
If this city councilman isn't voted out of office ?
To stupid people ignorance is bliss; to an informed patient, denying access to their own information, that could very well save their own lives because of the fear that some idiot is going to misuse their own information - is hardly a justification for keeping people who want to access their own medical data from having access to it.
The example you give is irrelevant to this discussion because it has nothing to do with denying access to your own medical information. The issue is not that the doctor has to immediately tell you every little detail. The issue is that you have a right to go looking at every little detail in your medical record.
And "dying on the table" is not an uncommon or unexpected thing, it's really not a big deal when you have a staff of highly trained people and equipment to immediately bring you back.
OMG, are you fucking kidding me ? "Appropriate balance" ?
The data on you is YOUR data, and you have an inalienable right to access that data, period.
The justification that a few "patients from hell" is a good enough excuse to keep secret dossiers on patients is utter bullshit.
What is insignificant in your medical record to one doctor may very well be profoundly important to another, and it's your right to get an opinion from another doctor, and your right to make your own health care decisions.
You can't DO this if you don't have access to your own medical record, and this is essentially what some corrupt doctors want - to prevent you from making YOUR OWN decisions, so that they can use you as their own personal piggy-bank.
The salt that's added to processed foods and that you buy to put on your table isn't much like the "salt" found in nature, which isn't just NaCl; it's a complex of minerals.
The "salt" added to processed foods has been heated-up several hundred degrees, refined, and fucked with/denatured. Big surprise, it's not good for you and is the cause of disease.
Yeah, yeah, all sorts of assholes are going to say "it's not the "salt", it's "too much 'salt' "
And to that I say, bullshit. You put this fake "salt" IN almost EVERYTHING, and then say "ohhh, it's not the salt it's too much salt". Truly idiotic. That's like saying It's not the arsenic, it's TOO MUCH arsenic.
An adulterated food supply is an adulterated food supply. The sooner we lay the blame where it belongs the sooner we can get back to eating food that is primarily nourishing, as opposed to eating shit that's primarily designed to make a big profit for some bullshit corporation that's appealing to the lowest common denominator.
Look at the contractors and businesses that DO business WITH it ! Is it any secret that THE biggest waste of tax dollars IS the military and it's corrupt business associations ? Surprise, surprise, surprise ! ! !
Because nothing can take China down as effective as what's taken America down.
American skyrocketing medical costs over more than two decades have helped crush the economy here. This happening in China in a single decade could very well be a national disaster there of unprecedented proportions historically anywhere.
The other factor is the purity of the carbon. Industry does use CO2; cheaper CO2 is an amazingly useful thing. Who currently sells CO2, and why would they not want this competition, and what kind of lobbying are they willing to do to prevent it from widespread adoption, despite the significant economical advantage, and changes to markets it's adoption would entail ? What people don't do, because most lack a comprehensive understanding of how things are vs. theoretical ideals that are not based upon reality, is FOLLOW THE MONEY. The most crucial thing anyone could do politically and intellectually is be aware and involved in industry, and strive to be knowledgeable about what is done now, and how it's done, what it costs to do it, who's doing it, and how they spend the their profits to keep doing it. It's sounds complicated because it it; there's an interdependence that industry relies on, and it's naive to think that important discoveries and new processes are going to result in anything revolutionary anytime soon, particularly when most people are stuck in a la la land of ideals disassociated from reality. CO2 isn't a bad thing. It's actually an awesome thing. Stick that CO2 in a proper usable form where it's needed and amazing things happen. You can grow plants in a greenhouse twice as fast without ANY need for pesticides, for instance. You can manufacture things cheaper and more efficiently. The question begging to be answered is in who's best interest is it to prevent the inevitable for as long as possible, and why...
You've had a student in your class 4 semesters in a row and you don't know why ?
How about asking him ?
I think you're more of the problem than you realize.
You aren't even curious ?
Wow.
Like There.com, and you'll see why it hasn't "taken off"
Interacting with stupid people, trolls, and retards in 3d just plain sucks.
Why would advertising and marketing suck any less in 3d than it does in 2d?
There's only just so much "immersion" people can tolerate.
Or at least never admit it...
Also the hoards of government subsidized researchers who are paid, not to actually accomplish anything, other than one another's continued future funding.
I mean, anyone that's even remotely familiar with the University system knows that degrees have always been a hit or miss indicator.
Honest to God, once Universities stopped teaching people Latin, the quality of a degree was a joke.
And all the degrees you can get without any significant Philosophy or History aren't worth the toilet paper I flush every morning.
And all you PolySci and MBA's - go fuck yourselves. The only people worse than you are the ones that go into advertising.
Teaching people to think for themselves, to question, to create - these are things of the past. You're on your own. Choose wisely, and don't expect to be rewarded by the stupid and banal for it. Just do it because it's awesome.
omitting the many, many caveats isn't true, isn't informative, and isn't useful.
Write your congress person that made this happen.
You can blame the President, blame a particular party, blame anyone randomly that you want.
The authority to permit this lies in Congress; THEY allowed this to happen, it's THEIR responsibility to fix it, and OURS to demand that they do.
For all the bitching here, I don't see anyone actually making any suggestions or efforts. Whining just makes you a whiner. DO something that actually matters.
The best investment isn't dumping money into making finite fossil fuel production more efficient. It's in investing in AMERICAN companies and technologies, the way the Chinese are investing in Chinese companies and technologies...
Sure, we should use the finite sources of fossil fuels we have as efficiently and cleanly as is possible. But certainly not at the expense or exclusion of alternatives.
It is not an either/or proposition, and never has been. Presenting it as such is a fallacy that does nothing good for the long term.
China is undercutting American production of a lot of things, and harming American industries, American workers, and American security. And it's doing it with the help of unscrupulous and well connected American corporations.
THAT is the real story here obfuscated in the typical Fox News way. Now lets insist our useless Congress DO something about it, or kick the whole lot of them out of office until we get someone in there that will put American interests first over corporate interests.
is not a scientist, and a scientist tries to create hypothesis while challenging his own.
These are not characteristics of the current bastardization of science most people are familiar with.