I find this concept kind of weird. Maybe it is because I live in Australia where all internet access is metered (different issue - lets not go there at the moment). But, I provide the wireless network in my house, not my ISP. How can they put limits on how you use your wireless network? All they could limit is the way you use your internet connection. Particularly in Australia, if I want to pay for 12GB of downlowads, what business of theirs is it who uses it? Does it really matter if I invite a neighbour over and they use my computer on my wireless network or I just cut that step out and let them use my wireless network from their house.
Sadly I don't have personal experience of North Africa or Mexico. If you are willing to fund my study tour I will gladly oblige. Until then, I'll base my personal anecdotes on places I have been.
The studies that are being reported on have not made any comparison of the two effects. They have examined the independent effect of Vitamin D. The offsetting costs of getting your Vitamin D through the sun are opined about by Dr. Giovannucci but there are no studies on that balance. Thus, I stand by the statement that the study (or studies) don't say anything. The article does.
From the article: So the thinking is this: Even if too much sun leads to skin cancer, which is rarely deadly, too little sun may be worse.,p>I take issue with the statement that skin cancer is rarely deadly. Maybe all you pasty faced pommies and septics don't get enough sun to kill you but in Australia the sun can and does kill a lot of people every year.
From personal experience I can also add that the sun in the Northern Hemisphere never seemed as hot or burning as the sun in Australia. I could walk around in the summer sun in Boston and barely get even a touch of colour. In Australia I would be burnt in less than an hour - probably quicker. Sun screen is very important in Australia as is a hat and a shirt.
And finally, this article demonstrates the quest of reporters to beat up each marginal scientific discovery into something that it isn't just to get a good headline. With medical news this invariably creates all sorts of problems. The study found that Vitamin D can be beneficial for treating cancers but said absolutely nothing about the delivery mechanism. Getting your Vitamin D directly from the sun also means you get wonderful melanomas via UVA and UVB radiation. Sure, Vitamin D on its own is fine but the side effects of getting it directly from the sun are pretty severe.
Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better than wine.
Because of the savour of thy good ointments thy name is as ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love thee.
Draw me, we will run after thee: the king hath brought me into his chambers: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will remember thy love more than wine: the upright love thee.
And, a little further on...
While the king sitteth at his table, my spikenard sendeth forth the smell thereof.
A bundle of myrrh is my well-beloved unto me; he shall lie all night betwixt my breasts.
My beloved is unto me as a cluster of camphire in the vineyards of Engedi.
Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes.
Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant: also our bed is green.
The beams of our house are cedar, and our rafters of fir.
Do you need me to draw you a picture or will that suffice?
Perhaps a video player is coming faster than we think
I don't know how fast you think its coming - but I think it will be a cold day in Cupertino before we see one of those.
A coulour screen is one thing but even the photo functionality on the iPod itself hasn't caught on. It seems that the most common use (and even this isn't common) is actually to hook the iPod up to a TV to show off the photos, not on the dinky little screen of the iPod. Video would be an order of magnitude worse.
Bi-wiring! Man, get with the program! You need to bi-amp! Get another 62 lbs. receiver and a special active crossover processor to maximise your sonic pleasure. Better still, go with monoblocks and get 15 power amplifiers (I hope you don't have any three way speakers in that setup or you'll have to get congressional approval for the engineering works required to support the weight)
25 foot length Monster Cables! Why the hell are you using such long cables - you are probably coiling the excess and creating wonderful inductance loops. You could probably levitate your receiver if you set it up right and really turned the volume up!
The parent has it all ass backwards. Key attributes of public goods are that they are neither excludable nor rival. A public good that is excludable and rival is not a public good - it's a private good.
Furthermore, 'the Internet' is excludable - what do you think password protected sites are? The WSJ is clearly excludable.
The only thing in that post that is almost correct is that the Internet is not rivalrous in consumption. The fact that I am reading something does not prevent someone else from reading it (unless the Slashdot effect is operating when it is precisely because others are consuming the content that I can't... maybe I should say that the Internet is also rival in consumption but in a way that is normally irrelevant. And technically this applies to bandwidth rather than 'the Internet'.)
The GHz myth is not a long standing one. The MHz myth on the other hand has been around for quite a while.
Oh, and may I just say, "When I were a lad, we didn't have any of these new fangled GHz, we had MHz and were damn lucky to even have one of them. Kids these days! Don't know how good they have it."
I have a 2 year-old and my difficulty is keeping her away from technology. She loves to press buttons and type on the keyboard of the computer. So, if you do any computing in their presence they will invariably want to copy you. The idea that you will have to 'introduce' your child to technology strikes me as a bit strange - by your very actions you will be doing so.
Thus, I think your difficulty will be making sure that your child enjoys a full range of activities rather than focusing on something their parent already does - keeping them away from technoloy will be the difficult bit. (I also say this because toddlers tend to focus on one activity and keep repeating it a lot - start with something early and they will lock into it almost obsessively. My daughter loves watching Wallace and Grommit so, first thing in the morning, she says 'Rabbit' (which really means Grommit because his long ears do kind of look like a bunnies), but I digress.)
I'm not advocating a particular solution - just that there is good reason to be concerned. The government also regulates motorcycles to ensure they are safe to ride, rock climbing equipment to make sure it is adequate for the purpose, fast food to ensure that hygiene standards are met and many other facets of practically every aspect of your life. It is all in the name of public health and consumer protection. If you think about it, a lot of your freedoms rely on the government ensuring that there aren't people out there ripping you off and endangering your life through shoddy equipment or poor hygiene standards.
It depends if you become a burden on the state or other people as a result of that.
Drink driving is illegal because of the harm it causes to others. Drinking of itself is not - but by doing legal drugs you have the potential to harm someone.
Smoking tobacco creates harm to others - even if you never blow your smoke on anyone - you get sick and need expensive hospital treatment when your lungs collapse.
Smoking pretty much anything with regularity will raise your risk of cancer and the burden you place on others through your medical bills.
Do you want to argue that the only reason drug addicts steal to support their habit (and thereby harm others) is that the drugs are illegal and thereby have a high price?
As for the name, I would say that a derrivative is exactly that - something derrived from something else. People may treat them as bets but they are still based on (derrived from) something physical.
Bread is derrived from wheat, wheat is derrived from seed, you are derrived from your parents, Space Balls is derrived from Star Wars, derrivatives contracts are derrived from stocks and bonds.
Physicalism: a thesis that the descriptive terms of scientific language are reducible to terms which refer to spatiotemporal things or events or to their properties
And how does that make things any clearer? It is possible to use real words and still make no sense at all - grammar errors are one example, dropping meaningless jargon is another. I think the Wiki entry falls into that category. I didn't say the word didn't exist - just that it was used in a way that was virtually useless - just dropping a load of jargon doesn't make things right. In fact, it is usually a sign that the person doesn't really know what they are talking about.
Also, there is an underlying commodity in just the same way that stocks have underlying commodities - it's just one step further removed. If you read the Wiki entry you would know that the Black-Scholes formula shows that derrivatives are equivalent to combinations of traditional stocks. A pork bellies futures contract still refers to the underlying commodity of pork bellies.
Now when Second Life goes under-- and it probably will at some point, though it could be a year or two decades from now-- your investment in their "land" and "property" is gone. It's not like you can carry it over to Everquest...
But that can be factored into the price. I have ownership of this property for, say, five years and, as such, it is worth less to me than something I can own forever. (The maintainers have a repo with you if you want to get all financial jargony.)
But, I can't imagine that people really care whether the duration of ownership is two years or 20 years - it will be so passe two years from now, and the pimply faced teenagers who only have a second life may get a first life in that time. It may have nostalgia value, but it would have to be one very understanding girlfriend who would let you take her back to your place when your place is virtual real estate on a server somewhere.
Physicalistic!? Wikipedia needs to get some better contributors.
Not to mention the fact that it is plain wrong. There is a very clear reason for the existence of derrivatives - people want to buy them and find them useful for managing risk.
I think the question is - why issue calculators at all?
I think it is perfectly acceptable to require students to have a level of mental arithmetic ability - it is the first check that you've done something stupid when using a calculator or computer or whatever. However, if the point is to test students mental abilities then write the test so that it don't include sections that require calculators to complete and make sure it can all be done using mental arithmetic (or pen and paper arithmetic as the case may be - being a first step towards mental arithmetic).
I see minimal benefit in testing whether someone can use a calculator properly. It's about as useful as testing that someone can use Word. These are not the skills that are going to get you a job or even add to your education. They are dead end tasks that only ever fulfil a supporting role in whatever it is that you are doing. There are better things to be teaching student and they already have too many things they are required to learn.
Actually I would argue there is a comparison: they all display the same sense of ethics - none. Hence, they are all the spawn of Satan from the deepest circle of Hell.
I have a clue about how bad they all are - you seem to be romanticising Microsoft just because they 'only' make software. Have you actually read the documents from Microsoft's antitrust trial? I have.
The suns were always pretty close, and obviously pretty far away.
Yeah, if they were closer everything on the planet would have been incinerated. Come on, our sun is pretty far away too!
But don't go assuming that they are some kind of static system where they are laid out in a straight line. There ain't no gravitational physics I know of that would allow two suns that are at different distances from a planet to, nonetheless, remain in the same relative positions as viewed from the surface of a planet. You want to explain that one?
Surely you haven't been asleep over the past year while Microsoft has been explicitly building a patent portfolio? What do you think that is for? Defence?
In the past Microsoft hasn't needed to use a patent portfolio for bullying - they have just demanded that anybody who does business with them must waive all patent claims against them. Talk to the Japanese antitrust authorities about this. So what if they haven't used a 9mm handgun (patents) for bullying, they've been using a Uzi instead.
Compared to leaders in other industries they are still evil abominations from the pit of Hell.
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I find this concept kind of weird. Maybe it is because I live in Australia where all internet access is metered (different issue - lets not go there at the moment). But, I provide the wireless network in my house, not my ISP. How can they put limits on how you use your wireless network? All they could limit is the way you use your internet connection. Particularly in Australia, if I want to pay for 12GB of downlowads, what business of theirs is it who uses it? Does it really matter if I invite a neighbour over and they use my computer on my wireless network or I just cut that step out and let them use my wireless network from their house.
Sadly I don't have personal experience of North Africa or Mexico. If you are willing to fund my study tour I will gladly oblige. Until then, I'll base my personal anecdotes on places I have been.
The studies that are being reported on have not made any comparison of the two effects. They have examined the independent effect of Vitamin D. The offsetting costs of getting your Vitamin D through the sun are opined about by Dr. Giovannucci but there are no studies on that balance. Thus, I stand by the statement that the study (or studies) don't say anything. The article does.
From personal experience I can also add that the sun in the Northern Hemisphere never seemed as hot or burning as the sun in Australia. I could walk around in the summer sun in Boston and barely get even a touch of colour. In Australia I would be burnt in less than an hour - probably quicker. Sun screen is very important in Australia as is a hat and a shirt.
And finally, this article demonstrates the quest of reporters to beat up each marginal scientific discovery into something that it isn't just to get a good headline. With medical news this invariably creates all sorts of problems. The study found that Vitamin D can be beneficial for treating cancers but said absolutely nothing about the delivery mechanism. Getting your Vitamin D directly from the sun also means you get wonderful melanomas via UVA and UVB radiation. Sure, Vitamin D on its own is fine but the side effects of getting it directly from the sun are pretty severe.
Because of the savour of thy good ointments thy name is as ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love thee.
Draw me, we will run after thee: the king hath brought me into his chambers: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will remember thy love more than wine: the upright love thee.
And, a little further on...
While the king sitteth at his table, my spikenard sendeth forth the smell thereof.
A bundle of myrrh is my well-beloved unto me; he shall lie all night betwixt my breasts.
My beloved is unto me as a cluster of camphire in the vineyards of Engedi.
Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes.
Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant: also our bed is green.
The beams of our house are cedar, and our rafters of fir.
Do you need me to draw you a picture or will that suffice?
I don't know how fast you think its coming - but I think it will be a cold day in Cupertino before we see one of those.
A coulour screen is one thing but even the photo functionality on the iPod itself hasn't caught on. It seems that the most common use (and even this isn't common) is actually to hook the iPod up to a TV to show off the photos, not on the dinky little screen of the iPod. Video would be an order of magnitude worse.
25 foot length Monster Cables! Why the hell are you using such long cables - you are probably coiling the excess and creating wonderful inductance loops. You could probably levitate your receiver if you set it up right and really turned the volume up!
Jolly Plastic Expandable Girlfriend?
Well, as soon as you replied it made your post (partially) redundant. Isn't circular logic fun?
Furthermore, 'the Internet' is excludable - what do you think password protected sites are? The WSJ is clearly excludable.
The only thing in that post that is almost correct is that the Internet is not rivalrous in consumption. The fact that I am reading something does not prevent someone else from reading it (unless the Slashdot effect is operating when it is precisely because others are consuming the content that I can't... maybe I should say that the Internet is also rival in consumption but in a way that is normally irrelevant. And technically this applies to bandwidth rather than 'the Internet'.)
The GHz myth is not a long standing one. The MHz myth on the other hand has been around for quite a while.
Oh, and may I just say, "When I were a lad, we didn't have any of these new fangled GHz, we had MHz and were damn lucky to even have one of them. Kids these days! Don't know how good they have it."
Can it do tricks like the Seals at the circus?
Thus, I think your difficulty will be making sure that your child enjoys a full range of activities rather than focusing on something their parent already does - keeping them away from technoloy will be the difficult bit. (I also say this because toddlers tend to focus on one activity and keep repeating it a lot - start with something early and they will lock into it almost obsessively. My daughter loves watching Wallace and Grommit so, first thing in the morning, she says 'Rabbit' (which really means Grommit because his long ears do kind of look like a bunnies), but I digress.)
I'm not advocating a particular solution - just that there is good reason to be concerned. The government also regulates motorcycles to ensure they are safe to ride, rock climbing equipment to make sure it is adequate for the purpose, fast food to ensure that hygiene standards are met and many other facets of practically every aspect of your life. It is all in the name of public health and consumer protection. If you think about it, a lot of your freedoms rely on the government ensuring that there aren't people out there ripping you off and endangering your life through shoddy equipment or poor hygiene standards.
It depends if you become a burden on the state or other people as a result of that.
Drink driving is illegal because of the harm it causes to others. Drinking of itself is not - but by doing legal drugs you have the potential to harm someone.
Smoking tobacco creates harm to others - even if you never blow your smoke on anyone - you get sick and need expensive hospital treatment when your lungs collapse.
Smoking pretty much anything with regularity will raise your risk of cancer and the burden you place on others through your medical bills.
Do you want to argue that the only reason drug addicts steal to support their habit (and thereby harm others) is that the drugs are illegal and thereby have a high price?
Bread is derrived from wheat, wheat is derrived from seed, you are derrived from your parents, Space Balls is derrived from Star Wars, derrivatives contracts are derrived from stocks and bonds.
Gold gets kept for nostaliga and not much more. That and people keep wanting to rent it for some strange reason.
And how does that make things any clearer? It is possible to use real words and still make no sense at all - grammar errors are one example, dropping meaningless jargon is another. I think the Wiki entry falls into that category. I didn't say the word didn't exist - just that it was used in a way that was virtually useless - just dropping a load of jargon doesn't make things right. In fact, it is usually a sign that the person doesn't really know what they are talking about.
Also, there is an underlying commodity in just the same way that stocks have underlying commodities - it's just one step further removed. If you read the Wiki entry you would know that the Black-Scholes formula shows that derrivatives are equivalent to combinations of traditional stocks. A pork bellies futures contract still refers to the underlying commodity of pork bellies.
And who's Moran?
But that can be factored into the price. I have ownership of this property for, say, five years and, as such, it is worth less to me than something I can own forever. (The maintainers have a repo with you if you want to get all financial jargony.)
But, I can't imagine that people really care whether the duration of ownership is two years or 20 years - it will be so passe two years from now, and the pimply faced teenagers who only have a second life may get a first life in that time. It may have nostalgia value, but it would have to be one very understanding girlfriend who would let you take her back to your place when your place is virtual real estate on a server somewhere.
Not to mention the fact that it is plain wrong. There is a very clear reason for the existence of derrivatives - people want to buy them and find them useful for managing risk.
I think it is perfectly acceptable to require students to have a level of mental arithmetic ability - it is the first check that you've done something stupid when using a calculator or computer or whatever. However, if the point is to test students mental abilities then write the test so that it don't include sections that require calculators to complete and make sure it can all be done using mental arithmetic (or pen and paper arithmetic as the case may be - being a first step towards mental arithmetic).
I see minimal benefit in testing whether someone can use a calculator properly. It's about as useful as testing that someone can use Word. These are not the skills that are going to get you a job or even add to your education. They are dead end tasks that only ever fulfil a supporting role in whatever it is that you are doing. There are better things to be teaching student and they already have too many things they are required to learn.
Your solution involves two suns that are approximately the same distance from the planet. Nice try...
I have a clue about how bad they all are - you seem to be romanticising Microsoft just because they 'only' make software. Have you actually read the documents from Microsoft's antitrust trial? I have.
Yeah, if they were closer everything on the planet would have been incinerated. Come on, our sun is pretty far away too!
But don't go assuming that they are some kind of static system where they are laid out in a straight line. There ain't no gravitational physics I know of that would allow two suns that are at different distances from a planet to, nonetheless, remain in the same relative positions as viewed from the surface of a planet. You want to explain that one?
In the past Microsoft hasn't needed to use a patent portfolio for bullying - they have just demanded that anybody who does business with them must waive all patent claims against them. Talk to the Japanese antitrust authorities about this. So what if they haven't used a 9mm handgun (patents) for bullying, they've been using a Uzi instead.
Compared to leaders in other industries they are still evil abominations from the pit of Hell.