Don't be silly. The state National Guards of any number US states that border Canada are larger and better equipped than the entire Canadian Armed Forces.
If you have the latest 4.11.08 baseband, there is (to the best of my knowledge) no way to un-SIMlock it.
My wife is travelling in Australia and China and wanted to use her iPhone there. Rooting and unlocking my Samsung Galaxy S took about 10 minutes, but there is no way to unlock the iPhone 4 if you upgraded to iOS 5. We could have paid Rogers (Canada) $60 to do it, but we didn't think of it until we left for Australia and it was cheaper to just buy a cheap nokia prepaid burn phone and then only use her iPhone on WiFi.
You are willfully ignorant. None of the common drug resistant bacteria originate in the third world. Most are drug resistant strains of bacteria that everyone carries every day. Antibiotics are expensive and in short supply in most of the third world, so it would be difficult for drug resistant strains of 3rd world bacteria to evolve to threaten Europe. You can't blame this one on the non-arians.
I'm not sure exactly where this line of thought is going.
Plague is not a good comparison for drug resistance. Because of its infrequence and high mortality rate, it SHOULD be treated aggressively with antibiotics. Unfortunately, where plague and other infectious diseases are more frequent, antibiotics are neither cheap nor available. It is only due to plague's history of pandemics that it gets such a high priority from public health agencies. Air travel and globalization is more of a benefit for treating plague as it allows the WHO, CDC, etc. to rapidly identify and respond to a localized outbreak.
MRSA (Staphylococcus) is not an external threat, an exotic third world doomsday bug for which we have to call in Dustin Hoffman, Rene Ruso and Morgan Freeman. It's home grown. We are all covered in Staphylococcus and it's western medical practices that have created the drug resistance.
I guess you could say, in this respect, the developed world's problem is overuse of antibiotics. The developing world's problem is a lack of antibiotics. Neither situation, in this case, is significantly impacted by the ease of air travel. The same can not be said for all pathogens.
"No, it's not cut and dry, but it IS known that not finishing the regimes is the largest impact in creating the superbug. SO large in fact that all other ways are trivial by comparison"
You are right that it's not cut and dried. There are other significant causes of drug resistant bacterial. Hospitals (where finishing regimes is probably the highest) are notorious for contamination, cross contamination and re-contamination. Hospitals (and nursing homes) are full of people with compromised or weakened immune systems, chronic incontinence / diarrhea, catheters, diabetes, poor circulation, bad teeth and gums, bed sores, fragile skin, etc. which all encourage persistent, difficult to treat infections. Many, with weakened kidney function can not take Sulfonamides - another class of drugs used to combat bacterial infections, so have had recurring and persistent infections and often multiple cycles of targeted and broad spectrum antibiotics. Daycares are also disease factories.
Even outside of hospitals, nursing homes and daycares, even the most clean and healthy of us are cover with and full of bacteria. Simply by shaking hands, opening a door, touching a faucet, borrowing a pen (how many people have you seen chew on pens/pencils) etc. we transfer bacteria which can transfer drug resistance from person to person.
Okay - yeah, the guy said virus rather than bacteria. Got it.
First of all, antibiotics, even when taken appropriately and in full dosage/cycle, do not wipe out all of, and only, the targeted bacteria. Certain classes of antibiotic work best against certain broad classes of of bacteria. Some (bactericidal) antibiotics directly kill bacteria, other (bacteriostatic) antibiotics only prevent the multiplication (growth) of the bacteria. No ingested or injected antibiotic is so specific that it ONLY effects the targeted strain or body system, and short of dosing to eradicate the beneficial "flora" in your body, most antibiotics destroy the bacteria to the point where your immune system can finish the job. Drugs targeted to UTIs, ear infections or respiratory infections will also kill beneficial bacteria in your gut. As a result, even following the most rigorous dosage of antibiotics, we remain covered with and full of bacteria, most of which (beneficial, benign and toxic) have now been exposed an antibiotic and the evolutionary selective process begins. This is obviously exacerbated with physicians prescribe antibiotics for viral infections. Even when it is a bacterial infection, without a sample/culture, it is only an experienced / educated guess at the specific strain, so often they prescribe more broad spectrum antibiotics.
You are right that the issue with antibiotics in cattle is the filthy, over crowded feedlot environment. A concentrated, high energy grain such as corn makes densely packed feedlots possible. Large feedlots would not be possible of cattle were fed prairie grasses.
Corn is massively subsidized in the US - in the form of direct payments, crop insurance subsidies, price supports, various counter cyclical programs and market loss assistance, which total anywhere from $3B to $10B annually. Approximately 40% of corn production is for animal feed. Corn is also fed to chickens (who exist in similar crowded, antibiotic infused environments) and "poultry litter" is then fed to feedlot cattle.
Corn subsidies -> cheap corn -> high energy, concentrated animal feed -> requires less (or no) pasture -> enables crowded feedlots -> increases spread of disease -> requires antibiotics.
The Black Death was pandemic and in fact there were multiple pandemics. The first recorded outbreak was in the 6th century (Plague of Justinian). Cycles of plague continued up until the 18th century (in China and India). The Black Death however is usually associated with the plagues of the 13th and 14th centuries in Europe and the Middle East.
The Black Death / Black Plague - which was probably a mix of bubonic and pneumonic plagues, maybe other diseases as well, was "beaten" primarily because it had an extremely high mortality rate, tended to reverse urbanization and many infected communities were quarantined. Cities and towns gradually improved the level of sanitation. Other factors that mitigated later outbreaks include the dominance of different species of rats in some areas and the surviving human population developing some resistance. Also - after killing anywhere from 40% to 90% of the local population, it simply ran its course.
Modern outbreaks of plague tend to be rural (where closer contact with animals, animal feed, rats, etc. is common) which tends to isolate the outbreak, and yes, antibiotics can quickly, locally, eradicated the outbreak. In cities with modern sanitation it is extremely rare. Air travel and mixing of populations is not a big issue for plague, but at some point, it will be for the next pandemic (virus, bacteria, prion, what ever).
Nursing has changed a lot since WWII. It's silly to have university trained nurses emptying bed pans, changing linens and cleaning. However what is called a "nurse" in many different jurisdictions varies quite greatly from glorified maids to highly skilled health practitioners.
Also outsourcing non-clinical functions in hospitals need not be an issue. The problem is that many outsourcing agreement are very poorly written and have incentives to reduce costs, but not improve performance. There is no reason that most food preparation, laundry services and cleaning can't be outsourced. However the contractors need oversight, performance metrics and continuous improvement. Administrators who oversee contracts also need oversight and performance incentives. In many cases the problem is not the contract, but the person overseeing the contract is too cosy with the contractor (having been winded and dined).
Here in British Columbia, in one Health Authority, the Hospital Employees Unions had bizarre agency issues as they represented everyone from cafeteria and custodial workers to lab technicians. The non-skilled staff wanted job security and protection from outsourcing while the para-clinical / technical staff wanted better wages, benefits and professional development. Food service workers wanted to protect their over paid burger flippers (actually mushy vegetables and over cooked, bland meal makers) while lab techs wanted pay commensurate with private labs. The union went to the wall for the burger flippers because the health authority wanted to outsource most food and laundry services.
Most of Google's partners are established players in the mobile marketplace. Apple was a late comer to the market. The iPhone is a great product, but it was not the first smartphone; Apple simply integrated and packaged existing technology better than most of the competitors. What Apple is trying to do, is to eek out some small space of "innovation" in all of the borrowed or cross licensed technology in the iPhone and use it to suppress competition. So far, what they have come up with as innovative, game changing iPhone technology are things like rounded corners, rectangles, specific gestures and possibly multi-touch.
My experience is that most iPhone users are unable to make any distinction between functionality or usability/experience between a top tier Android phone and an iPhone 4. Their only rational for favoring the iPhone is because it's an iPhone. My wife has an iPhone 4 - I have a Samsung Galaxy S. Any time she wants to do something, it ends up being done on my phone. Wireless tethering while we were on vacation - it's dead simple on my Samsong. She couldn't get it to work on her iPhone. The kids want to play a game - oh, it's free to install the Android version. Skype - works better on my phone. Why can't I see this website - oh it's Flash. But my wife still smirks and laughs because I don't have an iPhone.
At least WebOS and Win7 phone and RIM Blackberry and Nokia N Series, and, and, and,.... tried to do something original.
Wow - a clueless fan boy. What intellectual property of Apple's did Microsoft steal in the 1980's and 1990's? The GUI? Don't let the facts interfere with your impassioned lovefest for wonderboy Jobs.
Every single "innovation" in the Apple Lisa/Macintosh graphical user interface was pioneered years before at SRI and Xerox PARC. The first computer that brought all of the elements of the GUI together was the Xerox Alto. Alan Kay, Larry Tesler, Dan Ingalls, who designed the Alto, built upon earlier work by Doug Englebart at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI). The Xerox Alto had a bit mapped graphical desktop with windows, icons and mouse driven menus - including icons for printing and file deletion. The Alto also featured an Ethernet (also developed at PARC and licensed to 3Com) interface and was fully networked. The Alto was not a commercial success.
However not actually owning the IP didn't stop Apple from suing Microsoft and HP over copyright infringement for GUI elements and concepts. In the end Apple pretty much lost everything except for a very minor victory over a very specific representations of trash can and file folder icons. Xerox also tried to sue Apple, but it's case was dismissed because Xerox had licensed some of its GUI technology to Apple earlier.
In the smartphone / PDA arena, Apple does have some original IP, but most of that dates back to the Newton - which was way ahead of its time. The first PDA was probably the Psion Organizer, but most of the truly innovative stuff in smartphones nad PDAs was developed by Palm, RIM, Nokia and others. Like most Apple products, the iPhone is not conceptually or technology innovative. It is simply an great implementation and tight integration of other companies innovations, with excellent packaging and marketing.
The real loss is innovation. Google just spend billions on Motorola and IBM to acquire a portfolio of patents on old, obsolete technology. Microsoft et. al, also spend billions on obsolete Nortel and Novel technology. These billions could have been used to develop truly new and innovative products and services that would have benefited the marketplace and possibly even energized the economy. The millions spend on legal costs pale in comparison.
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Oh yeah, and NONE of the commonwealth countries have any capacity to project force overseas.
Don't be silly. The state National Guards of any number US states that border Canada are larger and better equipped than the entire Canadian Armed Forces.
How'd that work out for y'all last time? 1812?
Las Vegas is in Nevada. Gambling and advertising gambling is legal in Nevada.
It was the dark of the moon on the sixth of June in a Kenworth pullin logs ...
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Ah, Rubber Duck, this is Sodbuster. C'mon back?
Yeah, ten-four Sodbuster.
Listen, ya wanna put that microbus in behind that suicide jockey?
Yeah he's haulin' NUKES and he needs all the help he can get
Shoot something.
Wait a million years.
You sunk my battle ship.
how else are they going to pay for the grass and hookers?
If you have the latest 4.11.08 baseband, there is (to the best of my knowledge) no way to un-SIMlock it.
My wife is travelling in Australia and China and wanted to use her iPhone there. Rooting and unlocking my Samsung Galaxy S took about 10 minutes, but there is no way to unlock the iPhone 4 if you upgraded to iOS 5. We could have paid Rogers (Canada) $60 to do it, but we didn't think of it until we left for Australia and it was cheaper to just buy a cheap nokia prepaid burn phone and then only use her iPhone on WiFi.
You are willfully ignorant. None of the common drug resistant bacteria originate in the third world. Most are drug resistant strains of bacteria that everyone carries every day. Antibiotics are expensive and in short supply in most of the third world, so it would be difficult for drug resistant strains of 3rd world bacteria to evolve to threaten Europe. You can't blame this one on the non-arians.
I'm not sure exactly where this line of thought is going.
Plague is not a good comparison for drug resistance. Because of its infrequence and high mortality rate, it SHOULD be treated aggressively with antibiotics. Unfortunately, where plague and other infectious diseases are more frequent, antibiotics are neither cheap nor available. It is only due to plague's history of pandemics that it gets such a high priority from public health agencies. Air travel and globalization is more of a benefit for treating plague as it allows the WHO, CDC, etc. to rapidly identify and respond to a localized outbreak.
MRSA (Staphylococcus) is not an external threat, an exotic third world doomsday bug for which we have to call in Dustin Hoffman, Rene Ruso and Morgan Freeman. It's home grown. We are all covered in Staphylococcus and it's western medical practices that have created the drug resistance.
I guess you could say, in this respect, the developed world's problem is overuse of antibiotics. The developing world's problem is a lack of antibiotics. Neither situation, in this case, is significantly impacted by the ease of air travel. The same can not be said for all pathogens.
"No, it's not cut and dry, but it IS known that not finishing the regimes is the largest impact in creating the superbug. SO large in fact that all other ways are trivial by comparison"
You are right that it's not cut and dried. There are other significant causes of drug resistant bacterial. Hospitals (where finishing regimes is probably the highest) are notorious for contamination, cross contamination and re-contamination. Hospitals (and nursing homes) are full of people with compromised or weakened immune systems, chronic incontinence / diarrhea, catheters, diabetes, poor circulation, bad teeth and gums, bed sores, fragile skin, etc. which all encourage persistent, difficult to treat infections. Many, with weakened kidney function can not take Sulfonamides - another class of drugs used to combat bacterial infections, so have had recurring and persistent infections and often multiple cycles of targeted and broad spectrum antibiotics. Daycares are also disease factories.
Even outside of hospitals, nursing homes and daycares, even the most clean and healthy of us are cover with and full of bacteria. Simply by shaking hands, opening a door, touching a faucet, borrowing a pen (how many people have you seen chew on pens/pencils) etc. we transfer bacteria which can transfer drug resistance from person to person.
Okay - yeah, the guy said virus rather than bacteria. Got it.
First of all, antibiotics, even when taken appropriately and in full dosage/cycle, do not wipe out all of, and only, the targeted bacteria. Certain classes of antibiotic work best against certain broad classes of of bacteria. Some (bactericidal) antibiotics directly kill bacteria, other (bacteriostatic) antibiotics only prevent the multiplication (growth) of the bacteria. No ingested or injected antibiotic is so specific that it ONLY effects the targeted strain or body system, and short of dosing to eradicate the beneficial "flora" in your body, most antibiotics destroy the bacteria to the point where your immune system can finish the job. Drugs targeted to UTIs, ear infections or respiratory infections will also kill beneficial bacteria in your gut. As a result, even following the most rigorous dosage of antibiotics, we remain covered with and full of bacteria, most of which (beneficial, benign and toxic) have now been exposed an antibiotic and the evolutionary selective process begins. This is obviously exacerbated with physicians prescribe antibiotics for viral infections. Even when it is a bacterial infection, without a sample/culture, it is only an experienced / educated guess at the specific strain, so often they prescribe more broad spectrum antibiotics.
You are right that the issue with antibiotics in cattle is the filthy, over crowded feedlot environment. A concentrated, high energy grain such as corn makes densely packed feedlots possible. Large feedlots would not be possible of cattle were fed prairie grasses.
Corn is massively subsidized in the US - in the form of direct payments, crop insurance subsidies, price supports, various counter cyclical programs and market loss assistance, which total anywhere from $3B to $10B annually. Approximately 40% of corn production is for animal feed. Corn is also fed to chickens (who exist in similar crowded, antibiotic infused environments) and "poultry litter" is then fed to feedlot cattle.
Corn subsidies -> cheap corn -> high energy, concentrated animal feed -> requires less (or no) pasture -> enables crowded feedlots -> increases spread of disease -> requires antibiotics.
The Black Death was pandemic and in fact there were multiple pandemics. The first recorded outbreak was in the 6th century (Plague of Justinian). Cycles of plague continued up until the 18th century (in China and India). The Black Death however is usually associated with the plagues of the 13th and 14th centuries in Europe and the Middle East.
The Black Death / Black Plague - which was probably a mix of bubonic and pneumonic plagues, maybe other diseases as well, was "beaten" primarily because it had an extremely high mortality rate, tended to reverse urbanization and many infected communities were quarantined. Cities and towns gradually improved the level of sanitation. Other factors that mitigated later outbreaks include the dominance of different species of rats in some areas and the surviving human population developing some resistance. Also - after killing anywhere from 40% to 90% of the local population, it simply ran its course.
Modern outbreaks of plague tend to be rural (where closer contact with animals, animal feed, rats, etc. is common) which tends to isolate the outbreak, and yes, antibiotics can quickly, locally, eradicated the outbreak. In cities with modern sanitation it is extremely rare. Air travel and mixing of populations is not a big issue for plague, but at some point, it will be for the next pandemic (virus, bacteria, prion, what ever).
Do you drink milk?
Nursing has changed a lot since WWII. It's silly to have university trained nurses emptying bed pans, changing linens and cleaning. However what is called a "nurse" in many different jurisdictions varies quite greatly from glorified maids to highly skilled health practitioners.
Also outsourcing non-clinical functions in hospitals need not be an issue. The problem is that many outsourcing agreement are very poorly written and have incentives to reduce costs, but not improve performance. There is no reason that most food preparation, laundry services and cleaning can't be outsourced. However the contractors need oversight, performance metrics and continuous improvement. Administrators who oversee contracts also need oversight and performance incentives. In many cases the problem is not the contract, but the person overseeing the contract is too cosy with the contractor (having been winded and dined).
Here in British Columbia, in one Health Authority, the Hospital Employees Unions had bizarre agency issues as they represented everyone from cafeteria and custodial workers to lab technicians. The non-skilled staff wanted job security and protection from outsourcing while the para-clinical / technical staff wanted better wages, benefits and professional development. Food service workers wanted to protect their over paid burger flippers (actually mushy vegetables and over cooked, bland meal makers) while lab techs wanted pay commensurate with private labs. The union went to the wall for the burger flippers because the health authority wanted to outsource most food and laundry services.
Light flew United. Nutrinos took SouthWest.
The draft was written .... in crayon.
Desperate losers couldn't find a date within their own species.
I feel stupider just reading this.
Most of Google's partners are established players in the mobile marketplace. Apple was a late comer to the market. The iPhone is a great product, but it was not the first smartphone; Apple simply integrated and packaged existing technology better than most of the competitors. What Apple is trying to do, is to eek out some small space of "innovation" in all of the borrowed or cross licensed technology in the iPhone and use it to suppress competition. So far, what they have come up with as innovative, game changing iPhone technology are things like rounded corners, rectangles, specific gestures and possibly multi-touch.
At least WebOS and Win7 phone and RIM Blackberry and Nokia N Series, and, and, and, .... tried to do something original.
Fixed.
Wow - a clueless fan boy. What intellectual property of Apple's did Microsoft steal in the 1980's and 1990's? The GUI? Don't let the facts interfere with your impassioned lovefest for wonderboy Jobs.
Every single "innovation" in the Apple Lisa/Macintosh graphical user interface was pioneered years before at SRI and Xerox PARC. The first computer that brought all of the elements of the GUI together was the Xerox Alto. Alan Kay, Larry Tesler, Dan Ingalls, who designed the Alto, built upon earlier work by Doug Englebart at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI). The Xerox Alto had a bit mapped graphical desktop with windows, icons and mouse driven menus - including icons for printing and file deletion. The Alto also featured an Ethernet (also developed at PARC and licensed to 3Com) interface and was fully networked. The Alto was not a commercial success.
However not actually owning the IP didn't stop Apple from suing Microsoft and HP over copyright infringement for GUI elements and concepts. In the end Apple pretty much lost everything except for a very minor victory over a very specific representations of trash can and file folder icons. Xerox also tried to sue Apple, but it's case was dismissed because Xerox had licensed some of its GUI technology to Apple earlier.
In the smartphone / PDA arena, Apple does have some original IP, but most of that dates back to the Newton - which was way ahead of its time. The first PDA was probably the Psion Organizer, but most of the truly innovative stuff in smartphones nad PDAs was developed by Palm, RIM, Nokia and others. Like most Apple products, the iPhone is not conceptually or technology innovative. It is simply an great implementation and tight integration of other companies innovations, with excellent packaging and marketing.
The real loss is innovation. Google just spend billions on Motorola and IBM to acquire a portfolio of patents on old, obsolete technology. Microsoft et. al, also spend billions on obsolete Nortel and Novel technology. These billions could have been used to develop truly new and innovative products and services that would have benefited the marketplace and possibly even energized the economy. The millions spend on legal costs pale in comparison.
Of course there is always ... the Dirty Sanchez Bomb.
So after - what a year or more of fondling, groping and youtubing passengers - have they found a dildo bomb yet?