FWIW, Huckabee has a natural Evangelical audience that has been waiting for a candidate to get behind. couple that with having good oration skills and a good bit of charm, and Huckabee is getting literally millions of dollars in free exposure from the media about the new darling candidate. Bully for him, but once/if people manage to get past the charm, they'll notice some of the pretty significant skeletons in the closet.
You obviously realize a lot of this depends on the state laws.
DNCs are regulated by both the state and FTC (As well as the FCC), which makes an incredible mis-mash of laws. In addition there are two types of EBRs (Established (or Existing) Business Relationship), Inquiry or Transactional. Inquiry means you call them asking for more information, Transactional means you've purchased or have an ongoing relationship with said company. Typically there is a 3 Month EBR for inquiry, and 18 months for transactional (that's the base law set by the FTC), but those lengths can be overruled by the state regulations. For example: ALaska, arkansas does not permit any inquiry Indiana, Wisconsin and New Jersey, typically have no EBR Exemptions permitted at all.
It's a case where you have to look the information up by state. As far as the subsidiary parent exemption being passed up or down, that's something I can't answer. But you can check with your state AG and see what he or she says.
13,000+ people died from drunk people getting into their car and hitting other cars or other objects last year. 13,000+ people died the year before for the same reason. If 3000 people is enough to justify ubiquitous information gathering you espouse, what would 13K dead each year justify? Fear is motivating you, but it's an irrational fear, as evidenced by the example above. Looking at it from a anecdotal justification like 'oh my god, it could be my sister, or my mother, or father", becomes a recipe to justify any excess. After all, 2 deaths are a tragedy, 2 million deaths are a statistic.
Also, you're reversing the idea behind the Constitution, Try looking at it as maximal powers granted to the government instead of the maximum allowed to the individual. The idea of holding dossiers on American Citizens strikes me as anathema to very core of what America and the Constitution represents and stands for. After all, if 3000 people can justify the erosion of Constitutional protections, what would you propose to do about the death of 13K people each year?
On the Punk Side: Why Not DK? or Toss in Some Misfits/Samhain (Die Die My darling or London Dungeon)
Goth/Punk: The Damned The Cure (Early Cure was closer to Punk than anything else)
Good Ole Rock: The Who Pink Floyd Prince
Other: Ministry Killing Joke Faith No More
Really, There are a ton of good artists from the 80s... but will people find the gems? I can handle GH if it's 50 percent pop songs from hell, but I do want a variety of songs and genres to enjoy.
Millions in development costs? You seem to think that somehow that is a lot of money. Please, let me correct you on where the real costs for drug companies are.
Or the nearly 5 Billion spent in advertising, which averages to an average TV Viewer sitting through 30 hours of drug ads per year.http://www.wtop.com/?nid=106&sid=1117765
While profits aren't a dirty word, your millions of dollars in development costs pales to the 8 billion plus *increase* in profits the pharmaceutical companies had in only 6 months since January 1, 2006, http://oversight.house.gov/Documents/2006091911562 3-70677.pdf (PDF Warning!)
How will legal downloading help Brick and Mortar stores? They're still not going to see any of the money. Maybe it'd help the record companies, but as far as a distribution process through record stores, I truely think it may be a lost cause.
And as far as blaming piracy for the death of dedicated record stores, I'd more likely blame Wal Mart, Target, Best Buy, etc., who only carry the high volume low profit music. Sure, I can pick up the latest CD X at Wal-Mart for 12 - 14 bucks, but unless I'm into whatver the current faux chic music is, I really am stuck.
The only good news is, I've taken to ordering my music direct from the artist wherever possible. Freezepop and James Plotkin's Phantomsmasher are two relatively recent examples where i was motivated by tracks they had available for free listening. I just wish there was a dedicated music site that let artists promote their music independant of the Record Labels. (and Myspace so does not count anymore, no matter what it's origional intent!)
Why are people ignoring what is going on in Florida House District 13?
The Rebublicans are claiming a 369 vote victory. However the EVMs in Sarasota county, reported
an undervote of 18,000. or 1 in 6 of the total votes, which is much higher than the undervote in both the other counties and on average. Sarasota County also happened to be where the Democrat challenger won the vote by 6 percentage points (of the votes cast in that county).
There are some obviously severe issues with Electronic Voting, Particularly when there is no paper trail (as in the case for this district). Sure, there are ways to change the vote on a paper verification ballot, however large scale fraud becomes problematic to implement.
The switch from "buyer beware" to "seller beware" is why so many interesting places and things are no longer available to us, or cost ten times as much.
I'd be curious to see examples? Mind you, I'm pretty Libertarian, so I want to see and read more on things related to this.
Beyond the lawsuit, I would not be shocked to see criminal charges against the people who ran the contest. Their actions directly led to the death of another person.
I was with you until you misused the word 'directly' for emphasis.
I think there is a direct causal link. The Radio Station people held a contest to drink water. Said water caused a swelling of the brain which was fatal.
If there were more steps between the action and the death, I'd say the Radio Station people wouldn't be at risk of criminal charges, For example, if someone was driving too fast for conditions, lost control and killed someone walking down the road they could have criminal charges against them (Reckless behavior by Driving too fast for conditions)). However if said driver hit a telephone pole, which then pulled down onto a powerline, which then caused the power to go out, which made someone fall down some stairs and died from the resulting injuries. they would not be culpable for the death (Disclaimer IANAL) as there are too many steps from the act versus the cause of death.
Directly was used with a specific point in mind, that the actions of the radio station led directly to the death of a person. The question that also will need to be asked, did the actions rise to the level of reckless?
The radio station is the one holding the contest. Drinking too much water is a non obvious danger. But the radio station is the one who should perform the due dilligance.
Just because we happen to know that water can be dangerous doesn't mean other people do. And certainly expecting a mother of 3 doing a 'contest' that sounds like something fun and silly to expect any danger from the contest is unreasonable.
Perhaps the most important thing to remember is that generally people, rightly or wrongly, Trust people in charge. Think of the Milgram Experiment as an extreme example. Even though the objectives of the experiment are different, it shows the same underlying principle: people generally listen to people they think are athority figures. And in this case, the contest holders are the athority figures.
Beyond the lawsuit, I would not be shocked to see criminal charges against the people who ran the contest. Their actions directly led to the death of another person.
Because possession of a.mp3 is not, in of itself, a crime. If you've legally purchased the mp3 according to the laws of that country, it's very hard for the RIAA to say, 'but they didn't pay us the money' particularly since the RIAA is the "Recording Industry Association of America" and not the "Recording Industry Association of Russia" or whichever country it may be. Now if there were a law passed saying that no mp3s may be 'imported' from another country if the RIAA hasn't been paid off, then there might be an issue with the 'importing' of the mp3 track to your computer.
IANAL, and if someone else has any thoughts or corrections who is, I'd love to hear them.
Just as a FYI, On Oct 28th, Writing for a three-judge panel, District Judge James Wolf said Florida law allows poll workers to display informational notices, so long as they are impartial and do not favor a specific candidate. The unanimous ruling reversed an Oct. 18 decision barring the signs. However the court ruled that *All* Candidates must be listed on the signs to prevent any appearance of endorsement for a single candidate. The Democrat party said the ruling was reasonable and have not appealed. (Information from the South Florida Sun-Sentinel)
Maybe you think you haven't broken any (non-trivial) laws, but how certain of this are you? Have you check the entire Criminal Code of your state (as well as the federal code) to verify your compliance? No, you haven't, I haven't and I'm pretty damn sure no one knows all the laws that exist in the United States. In Georgia, there was the ye old Fornication law, which was a Felony Punishable by up to 5 years in prison. All jokes about slashdot and sex aside, Until that law was repealed, it was used as a weapon by the police because they wanted to punish someone. (in the recent case that prompted the appeal, both people we're above the age of consent but the parole officer wanted the Female in question put back in jail, so had her arrested for having sex with her boyfriend (and the trouble included in violating parole by being arrested for a felony). http://www2.gsu.edu/~wwwrad/archive/politics/2003/ sexlaw.htm Sure it is an extreme case, but now you have a choice, either you can say that 'well that law is seldomly enforced so I shouldn't worry about it' and accept that you break laws. Or you can treat that law with the same respect you would treat other, more commonly enforced, laws and simply not have sex.
How about North Carolina and Florida, where it is illegal for members of the opposite sex to live together unmarried, (as roommates or lovers, it's the act of living together that is a crime) http://www.unmarriedamerica.org/News-About-Us/Anti -cohabitation.htm So, by definition I've commited literally hundreds of felonies. I'll probably never be charged with any of them. But if I piss of the wrong people, or someone decides to come after me. You can bet that I'm screwed. So, go on thinking that everything is about money. it's not, it's about power and control.
Notice, I'm not even talking about the PATRIOT act, nor am I blaming a party. This is simply about the people in charge wanting to make sure they can enforce their control on the people who are not in charge.
you can use the mirror sites www.electoral-vote2.com and www.electoral-vote3.com. He had problems in 2004 with people coordinating dos attacks against the site.
Why? Because it's a large object not trapped in any particular orbital period and has no obvious objects in
the region of space that it orbits. I mean, come on, it has an orbital period of 508 years and it's not
gravitationally locked with any objects that we know of. Also, if you're going
to claim that Pluto or another object like 2003 EL61 is too close to 2003 UB313 (AKA Xena), then you have to demote
Mercury Venus Earth and Mars, because they come within "mere" tens of millions of miles of each other.
Strange but true. If there were lots of objects near 2003 UB313 that were nearly the same size, we'd have seen them
by now. And before anyone says, well the object is flattened by it's rotation, have you checked Jupiter recently?
The sucker is considered a planet and it looks like a ball in one of those fun mirrors that make you look fat, all from
the 10 hour rotational period.
So yeah, demote Pluto if you want, but promote "Xena."
So here I am, working on a startup Social Networking Site, wondering, How in the hell
am I going to implement the requirements if they become law? In particular since our
policy is very specific about not tracking users and ensuring privacy by not keeping
records of where a user goes or what pages they visit.
I mean I suppose it wouldn't be that difficult to write a script to record what
each user's ip login is and dump it to a file. and I suppose it wouldn't be that
difficult to record each user and when they visit a page and dump that to a file.
That's not the point. The point is this data retention is an undue burden on any
company involved in social networking. Not to mention the forced collection of
information for law enforcement purposes strikes me as a potential Fourth Amendment
violation. And yes, a social networking site would have standing as being harmed
as we are the ones who being forced to spend money to track and retain the records.
So yes, i can promise you, we will be sending letters, and we will be prepared
to file suit against the implementation of the law if it does pass and get signed.
I gotta say, the best part of that site is this map. If there was ever proof that many Americans know little to nothing about Canada, it's the diagram of the province of Saskatchewan labeled "Saskatchewan, Ontario". LOL
Of course, the actual labelling of the map was done by the Canadian Website http://www.nuclearfaq.ca/uranium_map.htmnuclearfaq .ca. So unless Americans are running nuclearfaq.ca, I suspect your 'best part' doesn't quite hold up:).
Having had someone I know go to Guatemala in 97 for some Amnesty International work, come back having contracted Maleria (She was living in Georgia at the time). IIRC it took the Staff a good month before they came to the conclusion that... oh, you have Maleria. This despite her own research of the clockwork fevers and weakness. This despite knowing that she had recently returned from a part of the world where Maleria was pervasive.
Doctors aren't perfect, and if something is outside of their experience, oftentimes they're not going to know what is going on. And to compound the problem there are some doctors who look for additional help, at least not right away. That's not a slam on Doctors, simply a point of human nature. I don't see the issue being a political one, more of a, 'but that doesn't happen here, so that can't be what's wrong' issue.
a couple of good points to chew on. we really want to find something short and descriptive, but it's hard to find something that is catchy enough. *ponders* Good point about the fonts, Comic Sans was put in more as a whim. And the pages are constantly in flux as we are trying to find ways to render things in a more effective layout. But thank you for your thoughts.
2 very valid points. Is 6 too many characters to ask... Have to check but I don't see a reason why it couldn't be dropped to 5, (I wouldn't want to go lower than 5). And at the moment it is geared towards the United States. Out of curiosity, do you know of any compiled lists of schools by country/Region? I'd be more than happy to add them in.
I ask, because I've been working on creating a new social networking site that's geared more towards the academic side. There's still a lot of work to do on the site, but I'm curious what features people would want from a more academic standpoint? (Maybe this would be a good Ask Slashdot)?
http://www.apbctr.com/ Please understand that it's still a massive work in progress, and effectively one person doing the coding and another person doing the economics (I hope the webserver can handle it).
The reasons are simple. Even Mike Brown says there is no scientific basis for calling 2003 UB313 a planet. Here is what he said last year:
I will not argue that it is a scientific planet, because there is no good scientific definition which fits our solar system and our culture, and I have decided to let culture win this one.
He's using Mike Brown's acceptance of the generally accepted cultural view that planets are 'anything pluto sized or larger' as a way of discrediting 2003 UB313. In fact, Mike Brown had felt previously that the definition of Planet was unsatisfactory and threw out some ideas on how the definition could be altered. http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~mbrown/sedna/index.htm l#planets links to the text in question. Mike Brown has since come to the conclusion that culture is going to decide what defines a planet, not a bunch of scientists. So basicly, unless the scientists who want to change the definition of a planet can convince society to listen, it's going to be like a tree falling in a forest with no one around to hear it. Sure, it happened, but who cares?
(you know it's bad when you have to follow up your own post)
Next time I'm so going to check the related items links. that big bold statement at the bottom of "Fool's Goldfish" maybe a subtle hint. I'm not sure though. Forget "Mad Max", I'm holding out hope for "Reign of Fire." After all, it's not every day you get to remark about guys leaping at dragons with Battle axes.
Slashdot Mirror
FWIW, Huckabee has a natural Evangelical audience that has been waiting for a candidate to get behind. couple that with having good oration skills and a good bit of charm, and Huckabee is getting literally millions of dollars in free exposure from the media about the new darling candidate. Bully for him, but once/if people manage to get past the charm, they'll notice some of the pretty significant skeletons in the closet.
You obviously realize a lot of this depends on the state laws. DNCs are regulated by both the state and FTC (As well as the FCC), which makes an incredible mis-mash of laws. In addition there are two types of EBRs (Established (or Existing) Business Relationship), Inquiry or Transactional. Inquiry means you call them asking for more information, Transactional means you've purchased or have an ongoing relationship with said company. Typically there is a 3 Month EBR for inquiry, and 18 months for transactional (that's the base law set by the FTC), but those lengths can be overruled by the state regulations. For example: ALaska, arkansas does not permit any inquiry Indiana, Wisconsin and New Jersey, typically have no EBR Exemptions permitted at all.
It's a case where you have to look the information up by state. As far as the subsidiary parent exemption being passed up or down, that's something I can't answer. But you can check with your state AG and see what he or she says.
Also, you're reversing the idea behind the Constitution, Try looking at it as maximal powers granted to the government instead of the maximum allowed to the individual. The idea of holding dossiers on American Citizens strikes me as anathema to very core of what America and the Constitution represents and stands for. After all, if 3000 people can justify the erosion of Constitutional protections, what would you propose to do about the death of 13K people each year?
On the Punk Side:
Why Not DK?
or Toss in Some Misfits/Samhain (Die Die My darling or London Dungeon)
Goth/Punk:
The Damned
The Cure (Early Cure was closer to Punk than anything else)
Good Ole Rock:
The Who
Pink Floyd
Prince
Other:
Ministry
Killing Joke
Faith No More
Really, There are a ton of good artists from the 80s... but will people find the gems? I can handle GH if it's 50 percent pop songs from hell, but I do want a variety of songs and genres to enjoy.
Millions in development costs? You seem to think that somehow that is a lot of money. Please, let me correct you on where the real costs for drug companies are.
2 3-70677.pdf (PDF Warning!)
Think of the implications of the 100 plus million spent in lobbyists to get new bills passed. http://skeptically.org/polrec/id14.html
Or the nearly 5 Billion spent in advertising, which averages to an average TV Viewer sitting through 30 hours of drug ads per year.http://www.wtop.com/?nid=106&sid=1117765
While profits aren't a dirty word, your millions of dollars in development costs pales to the 8 billion plus *increase* in profits the pharmaceutical companies had in only 6 months since January 1, 2006, http://oversight.house.gov/Documents/200609191156
How will legal downloading help Brick and Mortar stores? They're still not going to see any of the money. Maybe it'd help the record companies, but as far as a distribution process through record stores, I truely think it may be a lost cause.
And as far as blaming piracy for the death of dedicated record stores, I'd more likely blame Wal Mart, Target, Best Buy, etc., who only carry the high volume low profit music. Sure, I can pick up the latest CD X at Wal-Mart for 12 - 14 bucks, but unless I'm into whatver the current faux chic music is, I really am stuck.
The only good news is, I've taken to ordering my music direct from the artist wherever possible. Freezepop and James Plotkin's Phantomsmasher are two relatively recent examples where i was motivated by tracks they had available for free listening. I just wish there was a dedicated music site that let artists promote their music independant of the Record Labels. (and Myspace so does not count anymore, no matter what it's origional intent!)
Why wouldn't this apply to the RIAA as well?
Why are people ignoring what is going on in Florida House District 13?
The Rebublicans are claiming a 369 vote victory. However the EVMs in Sarasota county, reported an undervote of 18,000. or 1 in 6 of the total votes, which is much higher than the undervote in both the other counties and on average. Sarasota County also happened to be where the Democrat challenger won the vote by 6 percentage points (of the votes cast in that county).
There are some obviously severe issues with Electronic Voting, Particularly when there is no paper trail (as in the case for this district). Sure, there are ways to change the vote on a paper verification ballot, however large scale fraud becomes problematic to implement.
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http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/sectio
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida's_13th_congr
http://www.verifiedvotingfoundation.org/article.p
http://www.cqpolitics.com/2006/12/the_cqpolitics_
The switch from "buyer beware" to "seller beware" is why so many interesting places and things are no longer available to us, or cost ten times as much.
I'd be curious to see examples? Mind you, I'm pretty Libertarian, so I want to see and read more on things related to this.
I was with you until you misused the word 'directly' for emphasis.
I think there is a direct causal link. The Radio Station people held a contest to drink water. Said water caused a swelling of the brain which was fatal.
If there were more steps between the action and the death, I'd say the Radio Station people wouldn't be at risk of criminal charges, For example, if someone was driving too fast for conditions, lost control and killed someone walking down the road they could have criminal charges against them (Reckless behavior by Driving too fast for conditions)). However if said driver hit a telephone pole, which then pulled down onto a powerline, which then caused the power to go out, which made someone fall down some stairs and died from the resulting injuries. they would not be culpable for the death (Disclaimer IANAL) as there are too many steps from the act versus the cause of death.
Directly was used with a specific point in mind, that the actions of the radio station led directly to the death of a person. The question that also will need to be asked, did the actions rise to the level of reckless?
The radio station is the one holding the contest. Drinking too much water is a non obvious danger. But the radio station is the one who should perform the due dilligance.
Just because we happen to know that water can be dangerous doesn't mean other people do. And certainly expecting a mother of 3 doing a 'contest' that sounds like something fun and silly to expect any danger from the contest is unreasonable.
Perhaps the most important thing to remember is that generally people, rightly or wrongly, Trust people in charge. Think of the Milgram Experiment as an extreme example. Even though the objectives of the experiment are different, it shows the same underlying principle: people generally listen to people they think are athority figures. And in this case, the contest holders are the athority figures.
Beyond the lawsuit, I would not be shocked to see criminal charges against the people who ran the contest. Their actions directly led to the death of another person.
Because possession of a .mp3 is not, in of itself, a crime. If you've legally purchased the mp3 according to the laws of that country, it's very hard for the RIAA to say, 'but they didn't pay us the money' particularly since the RIAA is the "Recording Industry Association of America" and not the "Recording Industry Association of Russia" or whichever country it may be. Now if there were a law passed saying that no mp3s may be 'imported' from another country if the RIAA hasn't been paid off, then there might be an issue with the 'importing' of the mp3 track to your computer.
IANAL, and if someone else has any thoughts or corrections who is, I'd love to hear them.
Just as a FYI, On Oct 28th, Writing for a three-judge panel, District Judge James Wolf said Florida law allows poll workers to display informational notices, so long as they are impartial and do not favor a specific candidate. The unanimous ruling reversed an Oct. 18 decision barring the signs. However the court ruled that *All* Candidates must be listed on the signs to prevent any appearance of endorsement for a single candidate. The Democrat party said the ruling was reasonable and have not appealed. (Information from the South Florida Sun-Sentinel)
Maybe you think you haven't broken any (non-trivial) laws, but how certain of this are you? Have you check the entire Criminal Code of your state (as well as the federal code) to verify your compliance? No, you haven't, I haven't and I'm pretty damn sure no one knows all the laws that exist in the United States. In Georgia, there was the ye old Fornication law, which was a Felony Punishable by up to 5 years in prison. All jokes about slashdot and sex aside, Until that law was repealed, it was used as a weapon by the police because they wanted to punish someone. (in the recent case that prompted the appeal, both people we're above the age of consent but the parole officer wanted the Female in question put back in jail, so had her arrested for having sex with her boyfriend (and the trouble included in violating parole by being arrested for a felony). http://www2.gsu.edu/~wwwrad/archive/politics/2003/ sexlaw.htm Sure it is an extreme case, but now you have a choice, either you can say that 'well that law is seldomly enforced so I shouldn't worry about it' and accept that you break laws. Or you can treat that law with the same respect you would treat other, more commonly enforced, laws and simply not have sex.
How about North Carolina and Florida, where it is illegal for members of the opposite sex to live together unmarried, (as roommates or lovers, it's the act of living together that is a crime) http://www.unmarriedamerica.org/News-About-Us/Anti -cohabitation.htm So, by definition I've commited literally hundreds of felonies. I'll probably never be charged with any of them. But if I piss of the wrong people, or someone decides to come after me. You can bet that I'm screwed. So, go on thinking that everything is about money. it's not, it's about power and control.
Notice, I'm not even talking about the PATRIOT act, nor am I blaming a party. This is simply about the people in charge wanting to make sure they can enforce their control on the people who are not in charge.
And that, is why I am a libertarian.
you can use the mirror sites www.electoral-vote2.com and www.electoral-vote3.com. He had problems in 2004 with people coordinating dos attacks against the site.
Why? Because it's a large object not trapped in any particular orbital period and has no obvious objects in the region of space that it orbits. I mean, come on, it has an orbital period of 508 years and it's not gravitationally locked with any objects that we know of. Also, if you're going to claim that Pluto or another object like 2003 EL61 is too close to 2003 UB313 (AKA Xena), then you have to demote Mercury Venus Earth and Mars, because they come within "mere" tens of millions of miles of each other.
Strange but true. If there were lots of objects near 2003 UB313 that were nearly the same size, we'd have seen them by now. And before anyone says, well the object is flattened by it's rotation, have you checked Jupiter recently? The sucker is considered a planet and it looks like a ball in one of those fun mirrors that make you look fat, all from the 10 hour rotational period.
So yeah, demote Pluto if you want, but promote "Xena."
So here I am, working on a startup Social Networking Site, wondering, How in the hell am I going to implement the requirements if they become law? In particular since our policy is very specific about not tracking users and ensuring privacy by not keeping records of where a user goes or what pages they visit.
I mean I suppose it wouldn't be that difficult to write a script to record what each user's ip login is and dump it to a file. and I suppose it wouldn't be that difficult to record each user and when they visit a page and dump that to a file.
That's not the point. The point is this data retention is an undue burden on any company involved in social networking. Not to mention the forced collection of information for law enforcement purposes strikes me as a potential Fourth Amendment violation. And yes, a social networking site would have standing as being harmed as we are the ones who being forced to spend money to track and retain the records.
So yes, i can promise you, we will be sending letters, and we will be prepared to file suit against the implementation of the law if it does pass and get signed.
I gotta say, the best part of that site is this map. If there was ever proof that many Americans know little to nothing about Canada, it's the diagram of the province of Saskatchewan labeled "Saskatchewan, Ontario". LOL
Of course, the actual labelling of the map was done by the Canadian Website http://www.nuclearfaq.ca/uranium_map.htmnuclearfaq .ca. So unless Americans are running nuclearfaq.ca, I suspect your 'best part' doesn't quite hold up :).
Having had someone I know go to Guatemala in 97 for some Amnesty International work, come back having contracted Maleria (She was living in Georgia at the time). IIRC it took the Staff a good month before they came to the conclusion that... oh, you have Maleria. This despite her own research of the clockwork fevers and weakness. This despite knowing that she had recently returned from a part of the world where Maleria was pervasive.
Doctors aren't perfect, and if something is outside of their experience, oftentimes they're not going to know what is going on. And to compound the problem there are some doctors who look for additional help, at least not right away. That's not a slam on Doctors, simply a point of human nature. I don't see the issue being a political one, more of a, 'but that doesn't happen here, so that can't be what's wrong' issue.
a couple of good points to chew on. we really want to find something short and descriptive, but it's hard to find something that is catchy enough. *ponders* Good point about the fonts, Comic Sans was put in more as a whim. And the pages are constantly in flux as we are trying to find ways to render things in a more effective layout. But thank you for your thoughts.
2 very valid points. Is 6 too many characters to ask... Have to check but I don't see a reason why it couldn't be dropped to 5, (I wouldn't want to go lower than 5). And at the moment it is geared towards the United States. Out of curiosity, do you know of any compiled lists of schools by country/Region? I'd be more than happy to add them in.
http://www.apbctr.com/ Please understand that it's still a massive work in progress, and effectively one person doing the coding and another person doing the economics (I hope the webserver can handle it).
I'll be curious what people suggest...
The reasons are simple. Even Mike Brown says there is no scientific basis for calling 2003 UB313 a planet. Here is what he said last year:
I will not argue that it is a scientific planet, because there is no good scientific definition which fits our solar system and our culture, and I have decided to let culture win this one.
He's using Mike Brown's acceptance of the generally accepted cultural view that planets are 'anything pluto sized or larger' as a way of discrediting 2003 UB313. In fact, Mike Brown had felt previously that the definition of Planet was unsatisfactory and threw out some ideas on how the definition could be altered. http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~mbrown/sedna/index.htm l#planets links to the text in question. Mike Brown has since come to the conclusion that culture is going to decide what defines a planet, not a bunch of scientists. So basicly, unless the scientists who want to change the definition of a planet can convince society to listen, it's going to be like a tree falling in a forest with no one around to hear it. Sure, it happened, but who cares?
I wish, it would be really cool to see a Starcraft MMO. Now If-Only ghost would come out first.
Considering they have http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/060324/20060324005315.html ?.v=1shelved Ghost. It's looking rather grim for the Starcraft Universe (At least until their cash cow (pony?) gets milked into oblivion (awaits)).
he asked for it:0 38555
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=181816&cid=15
Of course, books mean we have to imagine it, but this is slashdot, that's all we do anyway... right? right????
(you know it's bad when you have to follow up your own post)
Next time I'm so going to check the related items links. that big bold statement at the bottom of "Fool's Goldfish" maybe a subtle hint. I'm not sure though. Forget "Mad Max", I'm holding out hope for "Reign of Fire." After all, it's not every day you get to remark about guys leaping at dragons with Battle axes.