3/4 of the people conceived never are even born. This is because of the body's spontaneous abort mechanism that ceases pregnancies that have genetic problems.
I'm saying that 60 to 80% of all fertilized eggs fail to implant, and that the majority of those are *normal* eggs that don't have genetic problems.
This is because of the body's spontaneous abort mechanism that ceases pregnancies that have genetic problems.
No, it's much much more common that than. 60 to 80% of ALL fertilized eggs (blatsocysts?) fail to implant in the womb. Healthy or not.
So, does that mean the mother is guilty of murder? Do we need to install strainers in toilets to catch these little guys as they exit the body with menses?
"the numbers consistently suggest that, at minimum, two-thirds of all human eggs fertilized during normal conception either fail to implant at the end of the first week or later spontaneously abort. Some experts suggest that the numbers are even more dramatic. John Opitz, a professor of pediatrics, human genetics, and obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Utah, told the Presidentâ(TM)s Council on Bioethics last September that preimplantation embryo loss is âoeenormous. Estimates range all the way from 60 percent to 80 percent of the very earliest stages, cleavage stages, for example, that are lost.â
I'm not a member of the GOP, but I think it speaks volumes when those in charge of the party denounce and even take efforts to derail the campaign of somebody who says something so stupid.
The problem is that most in the GOP really be BELIEVE along the lines of what Akin said, they're just smart enough to keep their mouth's shut.
After all, where did this "forcible rape" vs "non-focrible rape" distinction come from? GOP-created legislation designed to shut down funding for abortions by narrowing the definition of rape. Voted for by Paul Ryan.
I hate to break this to you, but tax-paid jobs are not an overall economic "stimulus", no matter how you slice it. The numbers don't add up. It's nothing more than an illusion of success.
Incorrect. They're not tax-paid jobs, they're DEBT-paid jobs. We're spending FUTURE taxes (revenues) on these jobs.
That's the whole point. We need to put $ in the pockets of consumers so that they SPEND and stimulate the economy.
When you're in a recession, you dip into savings to make ends meet. If you were stupid enough not to keep any savings from when times were good (*cough* Bush tax cuts *cough*), then you "put your bills on the credit card" to make ends meet.
There are two possible outcomes:
1) Times eventually become good again (due to the stimulus), we pay back the debt we incurred by creating the stimulus, and then HOPEFULLY put some $$ in the bank during said good times so that when the next bust happens, we'll have that savings to fall back on to stimulate the economy once more (instead of having to rely on debt to do it).
2) The stimulus wasn't big enough or didn't work for whatever reason, the economy completely tanks, and we all declare bankruptcy.
Of course, #2 is more likely to happen without a stimulus ANYWAY, so you may as well go for the stimulus. Who cares what the balance sheet says when you declare bankruptcy? It makes no difference if you're defaulting on $2T vs $4T (totally made up numbers) makes no difference.
"The CBO figures released Tuesday estimate that the stimulus package raised the gross domestic product this past quarter by 0.3 percent-1.9 percent.
The CBO report provided a broad range of the estimated number of full-time jobs created because of the stimulus â" from a low of 500,000 to a high of 3.3 million jobs."
I'm not okay with Google Street View coming into my place of business and taking pictures of me and my colleagues without permission, no. But then, it wouldn't really be called "street" view, would it?
Ah, but you already gave them permission to do it (taking about Apple Store in this instance), you just have a problem with HOW the pictures are taken.
My comment was aimed at the fact that many people describe Google Street View as "permission creep", in that while public photography is legal, but no one "expected" a company like Google to take a picture of a huge percentage of the private homes in the US when such a law was enacted.
A similar argument is used against license plate readers on cop cars. Sure, it's OK for a cop to manually enter a license plate into a computer and check the status, because it requires EFFORT and can't be done on an industrial scale. But now there are plate scanners that literally run EVERY license plate within view. Is it still "OK" now that it's monumentally easy?
This is what REALLY drives me crazy about political conservatives in the US.
They constantly complain about "big government" and its ability to interfere in your life. Obamacare "death panels" are a prime example. However, these same conservatives are *totally OK* with giving the government what is literally the most powerful tool possible: To legally KILL YOU!
Conservatives constantly complain that government can never do anything right, that it's full of both incompetence and corruption, yet they're more than happy to hand over the power of life-and-death over every American citizen to it. They can just not fathom that some day, maybe, it could be THEM falsely convicted to some crime and sent to the death chamber.
Don't dictate whether I can own a gun, but feel free to detain and murder me if you see fit....
It's permission creep: a positive response to 'can I take a picture here' doesn't imply 'I can install hidden networked cameras and publish photos of thousands of pictures taken over the course of weeks'.
So can I assume you're not OK with Google Street View?
"the largest and most significant[1] great library of the ancient world. It flourished under the patronage of the Ptolemaic dynasty and functioned as a major center of scholarship [...]
Julius Caesar accidentally burned the library down when he set fire to his own ships to frustrate Achillas' attempt to limit his ability to communicate by sea."
If you can get on the CAN bus, you may be able to talk to the ECU, Body Computer, etc without going near the OBD port.
The CAN bus allows devices to talk to one another without any kind of central host (duh, the purpose of a bus). I read somewhere (possibly bullshit) that on some cars you can get onto the CAN bus through the exterior side mirrors (wiring) and then issue PIDs that way to talk to the rest of the car.
At least on my Honda, the ECU is offline unless there's a key turned in the ingnition...but maybe you can "fake" that status by issuing various PIDs through the CAN bus?
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The gameplay was fantastic, I agree. But the soundtrack and look (Designer's Republic) were what made the game.
Ah, but he said:
3/4 of the people conceived never are even born. This is because of the body's spontaneous abort mechanism that ceases pregnancies that have genetic problems.
I'm saying that 60 to 80% of all fertilized eggs fail to implant, and that the majority of those are *normal* eggs that don't have genetic problems.
This is because of the body's spontaneous abort mechanism that ceases pregnancies that have genetic problems.
No, it's much much more common that than. 60 to 80% of ALL fertilized eggs (blatsocysts?) fail to implant in the womb. Healthy or not.
So, does that mean the mother is guilty of murder? Do we need to install strainers in toilets to catch these little guys as they exit the body with menses?
http://discovermagazine.com/2004/may/cover/article_view?b_start:int=2&-C
"the numbers consistently suggest that, at minimum, two-thirds of all human eggs fertilized during normal conception either fail to implant at the end of the first week or later spontaneously abort. Some experts suggest that the numbers are even more dramatic. John Opitz, a professor of pediatrics, human genetics, and obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Utah, told the Presidentâ(TM)s Council on Bioethics last September that preimplantation embryo loss is âoeenormous. Estimates range all the way from 60 percent to 80 percent of the very earliest stages, cleavage stages, for example, that are lost.â
I'm not a member of the GOP, but I think it speaks volumes when those in charge of the party denounce and even take efforts to derail the campaign of somebody who says something so stupid.
The problem is that most in the GOP really be BELIEVE along the lines of what Akin said, they're just smart enough to keep their mouth's shut.
After all, where did this "forcible rape" vs "non-focrible rape" distinction come from? GOP-created legislation designed to shut down funding for abortions by narrowing the definition of rape. Voted for by Paul Ryan.
Fucking disgusting.
No, they do not want it to EXIST. At all. Not there, but not where you are either.
Ah yes, the exact same reason the Christian Taliban so loves DOMA.
Hey, screw States rights (rather against typical conservative discourse, no?)! No gays can get married, anywhere!
Goddamn it, the first rule of ###### is do not talk about ######.
His Stimulus? You mean the one started by his predecessor?
Nope, you're thinking of the bailout. That was started on Bush's watch. The stimulus is 100% Obama's.
Unless you mean the post-9/11 Bush stimulus that put a couple hundred bucks in everyone's pocket.
Well, Typically a Hurricane leaves a larger footprint than a Tornado
That's an understatement.
A hurricane has a footprint, what, 10,000x that of a tornado? Hurricanes are hundreds of miles wide.
Just play it on a Mac (which uses OpenGL).
It looks great.
Long Live System 7!
*ducks*
Capital investment and production are what drive the economy.
Utter nonsense. Reagan called, he wants his voodoo economics back.
Supply-side economics makes no, zero, nada sense. People don't buy stuff because there's more of it.
I'm a conservative and I personally don't know any conservatives who like the TSA. We consider it another example of an overgrown government.
It's not that conservative dislike the job the TSA does, they dislike that the job is done by the Gov.
If the TSA were privatized and did exactly the same job, most conservatives would be hunky-dory with it.
Yeah yeah, I know, straw man. But if the shoe fits...
I hate to break this to you, but tax-paid jobs are not an overall economic "stimulus", no matter how you slice it. The numbers don't add up. It's nothing more than an illusion of success.
Incorrect. They're not tax-paid jobs, they're DEBT-paid jobs. We're spending FUTURE taxes (revenues) on these jobs.
That's the whole point. We need to put $ in the pockets of consumers so that they SPEND and stimulate the economy.
When you're in a recession, you dip into savings to make ends meet. If you were stupid enough not to keep any savings from when times were good (*cough* Bush tax cuts *cough*), then you "put your bills on the credit card" to make ends meet.
There are two possible outcomes:
1) Times eventually become good again (due to the stimulus), we pay back the debt we incurred by creating the stimulus, and then HOPEFULLY put some $$ in the bank during said good times so that when the next bust happens, we'll have that savings to fall back on to stimulate the economy once more (instead of having to rely on debt to do it).
2) The stimulus wasn't big enough or didn't work for whatever reason, the economy completely tanks, and we all declare bankruptcy.
Of course, #2 is more likely to happen without a stimulus ANYWAY, so you may as well go for the stimulus. Who cares what the balance sheet says when you declare bankruptcy? It makes no difference if you're defaulting on $2T vs $4T (totally made up numbers) makes no difference.
He's already been doing that since he's been in office with no results.
http://www.cbo.gov/publication/42715
Sorry, the CBO disagrees with you.
"The CBO figures released Tuesday estimate that the stimulus package raised the gross domestic product this past quarter by 0.3 percent-1.9 percent.
The CBO report provided a broad range of the estimated number of full-time jobs created because of the stimulus â" from a low of 500,000 to a high of 3.3 million jobs."
from: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1111/68965.html
I'm not okay with Google Street View coming into my place of business and taking pictures of me and my colleagues without permission, no. But then, it wouldn't really be called "street" view, would it?
Ah, but you already gave them permission to do it (taking about Apple Store in this instance), you just have a problem with HOW the pictures are taken.
My comment was aimed at the fact that many people describe Google Street View as "permission creep", in that while public photography is legal, but no one "expected" a company like Google to take a picture of a huge percentage of the private homes in the US when such a law was enacted.
A similar argument is used against license plate readers on cop cars. Sure, it's OK for a cop to manually enter a license plate into a computer and check the status, because it requires EFFORT and can't be done on an industrial scale. But now there are plate scanners that literally run EVERY license plate within view. Is it still "OK" now that it's monumentally easy?
This is what REALLY drives me crazy about political conservatives in the US.
They constantly complain about "big government" and its ability to interfere in your life. Obamacare "death panels" are a prime example. However, these same conservatives are *totally OK* with giving the government what is literally the most powerful tool possible: To legally KILL YOU!
Conservatives constantly complain that government can never do anything right, that it's full of both incompetence and corruption, yet they're more than happy to hand over the power of life-and-death over every American citizen to it. They can just not fathom that some day, maybe, it could be THEM falsely convicted to some crime and sent to the death chamber.
Don't dictate whether I can own a gun, but feel free to detain and murder me if you see fit....
It's permission creep: a positive response to 'can I take a picture here' doesn't imply 'I can install hidden networked cameras and publish photos of thousands of pictures taken over the course of weeks'.
So can I assume you're not OK with Google Street View?
Oh, and speaking of pot, do you really believe that if such surveillance were made illegal no one would listen in?
Of course not, but good luck getting a search warrant based on illegally-obtained evidence.
Get a provider that supports SSL. Then you can claim you downloaded 350GB of Linux distros last month!
Do they need to add more LCD panels? :)
Nah, just more epicycles.
The only reason we have any archaeology is because people didn't write anything down.
The Library of Alexandria begs to differ:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Alexandria
"the largest and most significant[1] great library of the ancient world. It flourished under the patronage of the Ptolemaic dynasty and functioned as a major center of scholarship [...]
Julius Caesar accidentally burned the library down when he set fire to his own ships to frustrate Achillas' attempt to limit his ability to communicate by sea."
WHOOPS!
Wow, another 4X game that's exactly like Warcraft III, which came out, what, a decade ago? /snore
Sorry, messed up my terminology a bit. PIDs are just requests for data, I don't think they can actually *affect* anything or change data.
But yeah, the CAN bus is where you can make mischief.
If you can get on the CAN bus, you may be able to talk to the ECU, Body Computer, etc without going near the OBD port.
The CAN bus allows devices to talk to one another without any kind of central host (duh, the purpose of a bus). I read somewhere (possibly bullshit) that on some cars you can get onto the CAN bus through the exterior side mirrors (wiring) and then issue PIDs that way to talk to the rest of the car.
At least on my Honda, the ECU is offline unless there's a key turned in the ingnition...but maybe you can "fake" that status by issuing various PIDs through the CAN bus?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAN_bus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OBD-II_PIDs
They're two, they're four, they're six, they're eight,
Shunting trucks and hauling freight!
Red and green and brown and blue,
They're the really useful crew!
Why, yes, I DO have a 3 year old! Why do you ask?