That's one of the most ridiculous biased articles I've ever read on Fox.
A father is not just a paternity test, its who is in the relationship with the mother. You cannot be there one minute playing daddy, then decide it is not working out an claim there is no need of support cause 'dem brats aint mine'. If you decide to enter a relationship with children, then you are taking on the responsibility of raising those children both now and in the future. Man up for fuck sakes.
Because I don't want to control womens' bodies, I want to protect an innocent life. I'm willing to make exceptions for cases of rape and cases where childbirth poses a risk to the mother's life, but for every other aborted fetus out there, there are two people who should be forced to take responsibility for what they created. I don't feel that abortion should be allowed to be used as a backup for when birth control fails or is forgotten.
Which is EXACTLY why drugs like RU486 should be allowed instead of protested against thinking it is the same as abortion. The more actual abortions that are prevented the better, but I agree there will always be legitimate reasons to allow an abortion.
Conservatives are against the destruction of an embryo for the purposes of scientific research.
Stop making ridiculous blanket statements. I consider myself a conservative and have no problem with stem cell research at all. Keep your blatantly incorrect generalizations to yourself.
Ok, so the cars must have daytime running lights and bilingual manuals. Nothing much else
What legal differences are there to warranties? Some manufacturers like Toyota will honour US car warranties but many like Chrysler will not. If some do then it cant be that onerous if there is indeed a difference.
Every book that shows an oak tree. The tree just isn't explicitly stating that it uses a Fibonacci sequence (it cant give interviews) but it is clear to anyone that wants to look closely at its branch structure.
It's the attitudes that are dangerous - always angry and argumentative. Nothing constructive.
We should have a plan in place that is presented to any invading species: We'll round up all the Republicans, Tea Party crackpots, lawyers and religious fundamentalists and hand them over. You throw them into the sun or suck their brains out - whatever, we don't care. Our race will be much happier, and peace will rein throughout the galaxy.
Its not just Australia. Canada gests shafted too. For example if I look up the price of a car here in Canada, and the price of the EXACT same car in the US, the base price (no sales tax, delivery or anything) is typically 30-40% more here in Canada. On the price of a car that is significant. And it cannot be cost of shipping being the differentiator since the US is less than an hour away by car, and we have a free trade deal so there are no import duties on north american made products. The manufacturer discourages walking across the border and buying a car as they will refuse to honour any warranty of any cross-border purchased new vehicle.
Ok, divide my bill by my total use and I get 14c/kWh. Even if you pretend the US utilities don't include things like delivery in their bill (which is over 30% of my bill) the Ontario prices are still in line with the US.
Really? I thought you were missing the point of the argument that every game requires a minimum of resources to run . If you dont have them then you cant run it. The makers of the game decide if the resource restrictions put too much of a demand on their users - if its too high then they limit their potential market - simple as that.
Clearly in this case they didn't believe that this would be too much of a restriction. The people who are complaining that their internet is not stable enough ("it went down three times last month!!") need to get a grip on reality and see what is really important.
I think you are remembering wrong. The prices I quoted are in Ontario from the latest bill I have sitting in front of me. Ontario with over 50% nuclear power is among the cheapest places for power in north america.
Neil Young, Rush, John Candy... that's all you'll ever need to know about that country.
And.. Pamela Anderson, Dan Aykroyd, Justin Bieber, Jim Carrey, Tommy Chong, James Doohan (Scotty) William Shatner (Kirk), Erica Durance (Lois in Smallville), Brendan Fraser, Natasha Henstridge, Margot Kidder (Lois in Superman), Howie Mandel, Rick Moranis, Matthew Perry, Jason Priesly, Keanu Reeves, Martin Short, Eugene Levy, Keifer Sutherland, Amanda Tapping (my fave!), Fay Wray, Leslie Nielson, Meg Tilly, and hundreds of other actors generally thought of as American.
Also dont forget Canadians created all the robotics on the shuttle and space station, Superman, IMAX, insulin, sonar, timezones, roller skates, chocolate bars, the pacemaker, trivial pursuit, electric streetcars, football goalposts, and of course the Blackberry.
We also helped you name the whitehouse by setting fire to the original.
So clearly you must own a Blackberry if you are concerned about security since all other smartphones can be eavesdropped onto. You must also have timfoiled your house.
Cable connectioms across the country arent stable enough leaving 100 million potentioal users in the dirt.
How about servicemen in afgahnistan? Or on deployment on ships? They cant play it either. They cant even play Starcraft againist each other in their down time.
Yes! And what about all those people on laptops or PCs that dont have the graphics horsepower to run the game?
What about those that have maxed out their harddrive storage??
Those bastards!! Why didn't they think of these things and design it so everyone can run it?
The blackberry is the ONLY smartphone that is secure, which is why companies love them and RIM will always have a market share for corporations, ones that care about security anyway.
Since all software is assumed to fail 100% of the time, and by implication all software failures will cause harm, then no medical devices can include software of any sort? Is that what you're saying?
No. Software can fail and not cause harm. That's the art to system design - no matter what single failure happens to software on my systems, absolutely nothing hazardous can happen to the patient.
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What you say is perfectly correct. It comes down to patient safety and whether all electrical design and safety have been taken into account. The medical device manufacturer would have to certify any monitor (or any other commercial device) for compliance, cheap or not.
Poor documentation is more strongly associated with "developed cheaply" than "developed fast". IMHO.
You not only have to document the software, but the architecture, and the process used. Testing must be complete and recorded properly. If it has a GUI then it also must go through user trials to show the GUI is clear and not confusing to the operator. This all takes time.
what precisely is it about specifically Windows CE that would render it automatically unsuitable for the application in question?
I never said it was unsuitable. I just said any device must be proven that it will not cause harm if it fails. It all depends on the device and your argument that it doesn't matter if it crashes since that patient cannot be harmed is valid. So then it comes down to can it miscalculate the times (double dose or miss a dose), or calculate the dose incorrectly or fail to restart if crashed.
Oh, sorry, by the criteria you've stated, you can't have any sort of software in the device
I never said nor implied that
Because all software fails, and fails harmfully.
Clearly false. As I said as a designer of medical devices (with lots of software) you can have medical devices with software. You just have to prove that no matter what the software does, the system will not harm a patient. If you cannot then it will certainly fail the certification process.
if I rip apart (say) the emergency defibrillator on the wall beside my desk (...), I'd not find a line of software inside it anywhere?
Of course you will find software, but you will also find failsafes in hardware (or possibly independent software) that ensure that if the software did fail, it's impossible for the patient to be shocked incorrectly
Yes. Apparently 'good' is getting together with dozens of people you dont really know and beating the crap out of people. Lets make sure we don't restrict their freedom to do that!
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That's one of the most ridiculous biased articles I've ever read on Fox.
A father is not just a paternity test, its who is in the relationship with the mother. You cannot be there one minute playing daddy, then decide it is not working out an claim there is no need of support cause 'dem brats aint mine'. If you decide to enter a relationship with children, then you are taking on the responsibility of raising those children both now and in the future. Man up for fuck sakes.
Because I don't want to control womens' bodies, I want to protect an innocent life. I'm willing to make exceptions for cases of rape and cases where childbirth poses a risk to the mother's life, but for every other aborted fetus out there, there are two people who should be forced to take responsibility for what they created. I don't feel that abortion should be allowed to be used as a backup for when birth control fails or is forgotten.
Which is EXACTLY why drugs like RU486 should be allowed instead of protested against thinking it is the same as abortion. The more actual abortions that are prevented the better, but I agree there will always be legitimate reasons to allow an abortion.
Conservatives are against the destruction of an embryo for the purposes of scientific research.
Stop making ridiculous blanket statements. I consider myself a conservative and have no problem with stem cell research at all. Keep your blatantly incorrect generalizations to yourself.
Ok, so the cars must have daytime running lights and bilingual manuals. Nothing much else
What legal differences are there to warranties? Some manufacturers like Toyota will honour US car warranties but many like Chrysler will not. If some do then it cant be that onerous if there is indeed a difference.
Except for unlimited internet access, so do I
I have unlimited send and receive texting messaging and chat on my blackberry..
Every book that shows an oak tree. The tree just isn't explicitly stating that it uses a Fibonacci sequence (it cant give interviews) but it is clear to anyone that wants to look closely at its branch structure.
It's the attitudes that are dangerous - always angry and argumentative. Nothing constructive.
We should have a plan in place that is presented to any invading species: We'll round up all the Republicans, Tea Party crackpots, lawyers and religious fundamentalists and hand them over. You throw them into the sun or suck their brains out - whatever, we don't care. Our race will be much happier, and peace will rein throughout the galaxy.
Its not just Australia. Canada gests shafted too. For example if I look up the price of a car here in Canada, and the price of the EXACT same car in the US, the base price (no sales tax, delivery or anything) is typically 30-40% more here in Canada. On the price of a car that is significant. And it cannot be cost of shipping being the differentiator since the US is less than an hour away by car, and we have a free trade deal so there are no import duties on north american made products. The manufacturer discourages walking across the border and buying a car as they will refuse to honour any warranty of any cross-border purchased new vehicle.
It's price gouging pure and simple.
You can just point to the oak tree as demonstration for prior art. If a tree can figure this out then it must be obvious and therefore not patentable.
It's a SHE. Why does everyone think the activist is male?
Only SHE didn't threaten or incite anything.
Ok, divide my bill by my total use and I get 14c/kWh. Even if you pretend the US utilities don't include things like delivery in their bill (which is over 30% of my bill) the Ontario prices are still in line with the US.
Really? I thought you were missing the point of the argument that every game requires a minimum of resources to run . If you dont have them then you cant run it. The makers of the game decide if the resource restrictions put too much of a demand on their users - if its too high then they limit their potential market - simple as that.
Clearly in this case they didn't believe that this would be too much of a restriction. The people who are complaining that their internet is not stable enough ("it went down three times last month!!") need to get a grip on reality and see what is really important.
Yea. I was just being clear. Canada also has a famous Michael Jackson, except he's white.
I think you are remembering wrong. The prices I quoted are in Ontario from the latest bill I have sitting in front of me. Ontario with over 50% nuclear power is among the cheapest places for power in north america.
Neil Young, Rush, John Candy... that's all you'll ever need to know about that country.
And .. Pamela Anderson, Dan Aykroyd, Justin Bieber, Jim Carrey, Tommy Chong, James Doohan (Scotty) William Shatner (Kirk), Erica Durance (Lois in Smallville), Brendan Fraser, Natasha Henstridge, Margot Kidder (Lois in Superman), Howie Mandel, Rick Moranis, Matthew Perry, Jason Priesly, Keanu Reeves, Martin Short, Eugene Levy, Keifer Sutherland, Amanda Tapping (my fave!), Fay Wray, Leslie Nielson, Meg Tilly, and hundreds of other actors generally thought of as American.
Also dont forget Canadians created all the robotics on the shuttle and space station, Superman, IMAX, insulin, sonar, timezones, roller skates, chocolate bars, the pacemaker, trivial pursuit, electric streetcars, football goalposts, and of course the Blackberry.
We also helped you name the whitehouse by setting fire to the original.
Power, on the other hand... they have it, but it costs an arm and a leg. Literally.
Where did you get that impression? I pay 5.9c/kWh off peak and 10.7 on peak (60% of my usage was offpeak, only 25% of my usage is peak).
This site http://www.ppinys.org/reports/jtf/electricprices.html shows the average US citizen pays a lot more than that.
The only option is moving? Really? Can't find a different game to play? It it really that critical that you MUST play that game?
So clearly you must own a Blackberry if you are concerned about security since all other smartphones can be eavesdropped onto. You must also have timfoiled your house.
Cable connectioms across the country arent stable enough leaving 100 million potentioal users in the dirt. How about servicemen in afgahnistan? Or on deployment on ships? They cant play it either. They cant even play Starcraft againist each other in their down time.
Yes! And what about all those people on laptops or PCs that dont have the graphics horsepower to run the game?
What about those that have maxed out their harddrive storage??
Those bastards!! Why didn't they think of these things and design it so everyone can run it?
The blackberry is the ONLY smartphone that is secure, which is why companies love them and RIM will always have a market share for corporations, ones that care about security anyway.
That's why I use a blackberry. Secure encrypted communication..
Since all software is assumed to fail 100% of the time, and by implication all software failures will cause harm, then no medical devices can include software of any sort? Is that what you're saying?
No. Software can fail and not cause harm. That's the art to system design - no matter what single failure happens to software on my systems, absolutely nothing hazardous can happen to the patient.
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What you say is perfectly correct. It comes down to patient safety and whether all electrical design and safety have been taken into account. The medical device manufacturer would have to certify any monitor (or any other commercial device) for compliance, cheap or not.
Poor documentation is more strongly associated with "developed cheaply" than "developed fast". IMHO.
You not only have to document the software, but the architecture, and the process used. Testing must be complete and recorded properly. If it has a GUI then it also must go through user trials to show the GUI is clear and not confusing to the operator. This all takes time.
what precisely is it about specifically Windows CE that would render it automatically unsuitable for the application in question?
I never said it was unsuitable. I just said any device must be proven that it will not cause harm if it fails. It all depends on the device and your argument that it doesn't matter if it crashes since that patient cannot be harmed is valid. So then it comes down to can it miscalculate the times (double dose or miss a dose), or calculate the dose incorrectly or fail to restart if crashed.
Oh, sorry, by the criteria you've stated, you can't have any sort of software in the device
I never said nor implied that
Because all software fails, and fails harmfully.
Clearly false. As I said as a designer of medical devices (with lots of software) you can have medical devices with software. You just have to prove that no matter what the software does, the system will not harm a patient. If you cannot then it will certainly fail the certification process.
if I rip apart (say) the emergency defibrillator on the wall beside my desk (...), I'd not find a line of software inside it anywhere?
Of course you will find software, but you will also find failsafes in hardware (or possibly independent software) that ensure that if the software did fail, it's impossible for the patient to be shocked incorrectly
Yes. Apparently 'good' is getting together with dozens of people you dont really know and beating the crap out of people. Lets make sure we don't restrict their freedom to do that!