A microscopic organism or agent, especially one that is pathogenic, such as a bacterium or virus.
Usage The terms germ and microbe have been used to refer to invisible agents of disease since the nineteenth century, when scientists introduced the germ theory of disease, the idea that infections and contagious diseases are caused by microorganisms. Microbe, a shortening and alteration of microorganism, comes from the Greek prefix mikro-, "small," and the word bios, "life." Scientists no longer use the terms germ and microbe very much. Today they can usually identify the specific agents of disease, such as individual species of bacteria or viruses. To refer generally to agents of disease, they use the term pathogen, from the Greek pathos, "suffering," and the suffix -gen, "producer." They use microorganism to refer to any unicellular organism, whether disease-causing or not.
The American Heritage Science Dictionary Copyright 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
I think most people (myself included) take the meds for 'aches and pains' and to sleep. The fever gets suppressed as a byproduct of those meds. If there was some way to take meds to keep the fever without aching joints and a screaming headache that would be fine with me.
I know it goes DEEPLY against human nature, but why don't people just sit quietly? There's no FBI 'interrogation' if the accused just remains SILENT. Just sit there. Mentally design a house in your head. Do nothing. Shut up.
Veganism is about minimizing cruelty and suffering
Not entirely. If you were to milk a Jersey cow that happily lives in a field and drink that milk, you're not a vegan but you're also not encouraging pain and suffering. Ditto frying up some eggs laid by chickens clucking around in your barn. Again, not vegan but not encouraging cruelty and suffering. Now granted there are horrible dairy and chicken farms that are immensely cruel, but it's not difficult to eat "cruelty free" eggs and dairy, it's just more expensive.
How are you going to get the groceries back home, make 10 trips? I think I'd prefer to drive.
Certainly for 'the big shop' we need the car - But if I'm doing a 'medium shop' I just throw on a big backpack, clip the leash on the dog and walk the kilometer to the supermarket.
I've never used an adblocker - Suppose I could, but can't be bothered.
I know ads drive the Slashdot crowd batshit bananas crazy, but f*ck, get over it. How does a 10 second ad for a Chevy ruin your life? I just tune them out...
The ability to remotely remove progams en masse from people's computers, without them even knowing it.
What the smeg do you think anti-malware software DOES day in and day out? Removing a program without impacting the user is exactly what these programs are supposed to do.
I'm sorry, but your thoughtful and well-written response is counter to the "Me hate Microsoft me LOVE TOR" groupthink on Slashdot, where facts are irrelevant and just muddy the waters.
Please move along.
(You're welcome to join me as I sit quietly in the corner, waiting to get modded down to troll.)
I can say that I've never had a single sale at a tradeshow
Our company has never closed a sale at a show, but we've certainly come back from many shows with leads that translate into business. I staffed a show last year that resulted in one $60K sale alone... Assuming our cost to attend was $20K, that's $40K that wouldn't have been in our pocket otherwise - And that's just one example of many.
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"Germs" typically refers to living things. Influenza is a virus.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/germ http://www.thefreedictionary.c...
germ (jurm)
A microscopic organism or agent, especially one that is pathogenic, such as a bacterium or virus.
Usage The terms germ and microbe have been used to refer to invisible agents of disease since the nineteenth century, when scientists introduced the germ theory of disease, the idea that infections and contagious diseases are caused by microorganisms. Microbe, a shortening and alteration of microorganism, comes from the Greek prefix mikro-, "small," and the word bios, "life." Scientists no longer use the terms germ and microbe very much. Today they can usually identify the specific agents of disease, such as individual species of bacteria or viruses. To refer generally to agents of disease, they use the term pathogen, from the Greek pathos, "suffering," and the suffix -gen, "producer." They use microorganism to refer to any unicellular organism, whether disease-causing or not.
The American Heritage Science Dictionary Copyright 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
I'm quite sure the larger contributing factor to the flu spreading is people going to work while sick, not a suppressed fever.
Much better approach would be creating a culture in the USA where its OK to stay home when sick.
But of course we can't do that, because SOCIALISM.
I think most people (myself included) take the meds for 'aches and pains' and to sleep. The fever gets suppressed as a byproduct of those meds. If there was some way to take meds to keep the fever without aching joints and a screaming headache that would be fine with me.
Slashdot groupthink requires any posting about censorship in a police state to be followed by an obligatory "YEAH BUT THE USA IS 100 TIMES WORST!"
This post must be made by a geek in his mum's basement, whose only travel out of the USA was a trip to Winnipeg to meet a girl he met on ICQ.
insisted on interrogating the user for hours
I know it goes DEEPLY against human nature, but why don't people just sit quietly? There's no FBI 'interrogation' if the accused just remains SILENT. Just sit there. Mentally design a house in your head. Do nothing. Shut up.
You forgot to write "Micro$oft."
Veganism is about minimizing cruelty and suffering
Not entirely. If you were to milk a Jersey cow that happily lives in a field and drink that milk, you're not a vegan but you're also not encouraging pain and suffering. Ditto frying up some eggs laid by chickens clucking around in your barn. Again, not vegan but not encouraging cruelty and suffering. Now granted there are horrible dairy and chicken farms that are immensely cruel, but it's not difficult to eat "cruelty free" eggs and dairy, it's just more expensive.
How are you going to get the groceries back home, make 10 trips? I think I'd prefer to drive.
Certainly for 'the big shop' we need the car - But if I'm doing a 'medium shop' I just throw on a big backpack, clip the leash on the dog and walk the kilometer to the supermarket.
I've never used an adblocker - Suppose I could, but can't be bothered.
I know ads drive the Slashdot crowd batshit bananas crazy, but f*ck, get over it. How does a 10 second ad for a Chevy ruin your life? I just tune them out...
It's a Horta of course. Doesn't anyone at the JPL watch Star Trek?
http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Horta
The ability to remotely remove progams en masse from people's computers, without them even knowing it.
What the smeg do you think anti-malware software DOES day in and day out? Removing a program without impacting the user is exactly what these programs are supposed to do.
I'm sorry, but your thoughtful and well-written response is counter to the "Me hate Microsoft me LOVE TOR" groupthink on Slashdot, where facts are irrelevant and just muddy the waters.
Please move along.
(You're welcome to join me as I sit quietly in the corner, waiting to get modded down to troll.)
It is freaky that the crew survived the explosion and floated down in the crew compartment
"Floated" down? I think the word you are looking for is "plummeted." I'd also allow "plunged."
Cite one historical example of a free market existing
I have a friend who makes nice clay pots and sells them on Craigslist for cash.
What's the point is spending hundreds of billions of dollars in building sitting ducks that can be taken out by a single hypersonic missile?
Because the people you target with carriers don't have hypersonic missiles. The people with hypersonic missiles get threatened with MAD.
Wtf does this have to do with communism?
Nothing, but he's replying to a parent that said the USA was the financier of terrorism.
The USA is not, Saudi Arabia is.
As an [anecdote] of an [anecdote] the [anecdote] applies here. I definitely feel like I've been screwed.
short version is it's a snake pit but you can make some serious $ if you can survive in it & produce!
The anonymous coward is correct.
I work for an enterprise software company (security space) and I'm friends with much of our sales team. Exactly the same deal.
Oprah! Call Jenny McCarthy, quick! We've got a situation in India that requires ignorance, stat!
I'd like to know if you've got a viable alternative?
Only fantasy-land solutions that require the USA fixing its broken government.
The most frustrating part of this to me is that people die - both combatants and not - as a consequence of decisions made by these clowns.
>>> Put ALL effort into engines that don't
>>> use fossil fuel at all. Thanks.
>> Then effort doesn't go into 'engines' -
>> It goes into energy storage solutions
>> that have the weight / energy capacity of gasoline.
> Why ignore the inefficiency of internal combustion?
What is an example of an internal combustion enginet that doesn't use fossil fuels?
Put ALL effort into engines that don't use fossil fuel at all. Thanks.
Then effort doesn't go into 'engines' - It goes into energy storage solutions that have the weight / energy capacity of gasoline.
I can say that I've never had a single sale at a tradeshow
Our company has never closed a sale at a show, but we've certainly come back from many shows with leads that translate into business. I staffed a show last year that resulted in one $60K sale alone... Assuming our cost to attend was $20K, that's $40K that wouldn't have been in our pocket otherwise - And that's just one example of many.
Windows 8 is still a piece of shit,
Rubbish. I've been using it daily for 8 months. Works well and has never crashed.
On the bus / train I can use metro mode, then at my desk I load the desktop, connect to the domain and do work. Slick.