So in order to make a safety device to prevent you from sticking the hook to far in the ear, you need to stick the hook into the ear. Personally, I'd use something else to measure.
You're wasting your time. The gummy bear protects the ear drum -- as long as you don't push the hook through the gummy bear when measuring, you're not going to damage the important parts of your ear.
Note to self: DO NOT PUSH FISHHOOK THROUGH REMAINING EARDUM.
Use a straightened fishhook, the barb will make the gummy bear easy to remove. Just be sure to wait until the gummy bear is warm and soft. And insert the hook very gently. And stick the hook through a cork first, to limit the depth it can penetrate -- measure by sticking the hook into the ear until it hits the gummy bear, then add 1/4 inch (about 1/2 cm). THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT. The length of hook sticking out of the cork should be distance to gummy bear in ear canal + 1/4 inch.
If the hook pulls out of the gummy bear, put a piece of ice in the ear, wait until it melts, then try again.
Depending on the size of his office, I'd either suggest a full-fledged CMS, or using a secured backup service like the ones available from Iron Mountain.
For a couple thousand bucks a year, he could have all his data and documents backed up daily by Iron Mountain. Not sure about legal requirements, though -- but if you call them, any vendor who is qualified will be able (and happy) to provide compliance certs or letters for the states in question.
Is this superfreighter carrying breadboxes, or whales maybe? Atomic bombs? I just need some perspective on this new unit of measurement.
That's the beauty of the unit -- it's cargo-agnostic. It could be carrying flaps-of-butterfly-wings, or ponies (especially those of the OMG! variety), or printed Libraries of Congress if you really want to confuse the issue.
Not for nothing... but just because something is published as part of a marketing campaign doesn't mean it isn't significant, or a worthwhile topic for discussion.
It DOES mean we should take the figures with a grain of salt.
I'm not really sure what you're adding to the discussion, we are all already aware that security vendors pump risk and impact estimates all the time.
But wait! There's more. Here's a link to a summary of another study. Sorry I don't subscribe to the Journal of Geophysical Research, or I'd link that actual study.
For particulates and SO2 emissions, not so... please see the article from earlier this morning/last night where it's discussed in detail. Freighters and superfreighters have an awfully dirty combustion process that uses awfully dirty fuel.
We could save about 75% of the spam energy used today -- 25 TWh per year; that's like taking 2.3 million cars off the road.
Or far less than one container ship.
I know, that's for particulate and SO2 emissions, not CO2.
But still, kind of puts things in perspective, huh? Imagine if we bought fewer consumer goods from 8000 miles away... and how much less energy would be consumed. It could dwarf the savings from spam filtering -- not that this makes spam filtering any less of a good idea.
On a side note, I'd like to propose a new standard unit for the metrically challenged.
Superfreighter -- a unit for large amounts of particulate and SO2 pollution. Approximately equal to 50 million cars.
Besides, even if they could agree that something has to be done, things like that tend to be quite expensive. And banks currently definitly have other problems than losing a few million dollars, they're loosing billions every day.
The biggest cause of the economic crisis is the credit crunch because banks are NOT loosing money, they are tightening lending.
I was raising the point that the private sector will screw it up somewhere along the chain, sorry I wasn't more specific.
I simply do not trust the private sector (especially the large numbers of shipping companies) to ensure that the fuel is secure from procurement to waste disposal.
As for nuclear plants being run by the private sector... there are a huge number of systems and people responsible for on-site safety and security. This is not possible with container ships.
Say a thundercloud approaches, you can A: have lots of very tall spikes penetrate it so it discharges. B: create a grounding effect with some kind of plasma arc or C: put lightening rods[1] all along the storms path hoping that the thunder will hit the rod, not something else[2].
[1] I prefer shortening rods. Cuz Mama loves shortnin', shortnin', Mama loves shortnin', shortnin', Mama loves shortnin' bread. As you'd know if you ever watched Bugs Bunny.
[2]Good luck with that. Thunder tends to propagate as a pressure wave, not sure how you could make it selectively hit a single target. Oh I see. You meant lightning.:)
Do antibiotics wipe out everything in person's gut, or is there enough left over that people get recolonized with the same set of microbes they had before taking the antibiotics?
I don't recall where I read it, but I distinctly remember reading something along the lines that the appendix serves as a resevoir of gut bacteria, and that it replenishes normal gut bacteria after episodes of horrific diarrhea, for example.
I don't know if the appendix is sufficiently protected from antibiotic dispersion in the gut to be effective after a course of antibiotics. I do know that, for me, taking probiotic supplements after a course of antibiotics helps me return to regular. I'm on antibiotics frequently due to Lyme Disease.
One more note -- I'm not skinny. At all. Though I'm fairly fit (can run 3 miles in 21 minutes).
Just to restate this in blindingly simple terms -- if someone tries not to get caught when committing a crime, they should be subject to harsher punishment?
Seriously?
So if someone hides a body, he should have an increased jail time (not a decreased jail time for eventually disclosing the location of the body)?
If I fudge my books to embezzle money, I should have an increased jail sentence over someone who just takes the cash and makes no effort to not get caught?
Why are we rewarding stupidity?
I think I know why...
If [PUNISHMENT] times [RISK OF GETTING CAUGHT] is less than [BENEFIT OF CRIME] then [COMMIT CRIME].
Since these criminals using proxies reduce their risk of getting caught, they need to have harsher punishments in order for the punishment to act as a deterrent.
It's hardly fair, though, since the down side of all this is that the legit use of proxies is made to seem like a crime itself. Maybe they need to realize that this formula, while logical, doesn't actually work, since criminals tend to underestimate their risk of getting caught.
From the proposal (actually, the first line of the damn thing):
Supporting multiple OS versions is not zero cost, in terms of testing, code complexity and developer sanity.
Furthermore, I'd hate to see Mozilla get bogged down in the same must-maintain-backwards-compatibility-cruft that MS fell victim to. Firefox is already bloated enough.
Hey, is it any surprise campus security are afraid of Command Line Interface Terrorism?
Seriously, I'd love to be able to read more info on this... without knowing all the evidence presented to get the warrant, it's a little silly to say that his use of multiple PCs and Linux was enough for the judge to have granted the warrant.
Most likely, the reason those items were brought up as evidence for the warrant is so that the warrant would cover the devices in question -- to justify action bigger than just reviewing his account history on the BC networks.
If he was a suspect for some other reason, wouldn't it make sense that the police would have reason to search his multiple devices?
I think the EFF does a lot of good things -- but their PR blurbs tend to leave out enough critical info that I am beginning to dismiss them out of hand.
So, as an outreach to all the potential Linux users out there, why don't all the LUGs volunteer time to teach people how to use Linux? Hook up with state resources, threaten to sue if the state refuses to commit resources equal to those given to MS.
This could be a great way to use grassroots education (open-source education, if you will) to increase the Linux userbase. Also some great PR, as the LUGs get to put a face on Linux users -- some facetime with Joe Sixpack could really help bring Linux into the mainstream.
[remembers what everyone looked like the last time I went to a LUG meeting]
On second thought, maybe we can set up a foundation to pay professional trainers...
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It will get into the water table.
I don't see the problem. Imagine -- well water that is pre-carbonated.
Think of the reduction in cost of producing Mountain Dew!
You're wasting your time. The gummy bear protects the ear drum -- as long as you don't push the hook through the gummy bear when measuring, you're not going to damage the important parts of your ear.
Note to self: DO NOT PUSH FISHHOOK THROUGH REMAINING EARDUM.
Dude... we had change from pro-coal to anti-coal. Now we have change back to pro-coal from anti-coal.
Maybe my math sucks, but that's 200% of the change we expected.
Why you hatin'?
Use a straightened fishhook, the barb will make the gummy bear easy to remove. Just be sure to wait until the gummy bear is warm and soft. And insert the hook very gently. And stick the hook through a cork first, to limit the depth it can penetrate -- measure by sticking the hook into the ear until it hits the gummy bear, then add 1/4 inch (about 1/2 cm). THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT. The length of hook sticking out of the cork should be distance to gummy bear in ear canal + 1/4 inch.
If the hook pulls out of the gummy bear, put a piece of ice in the ear, wait until it melts, then try again.
Or so I've heard (muffled, of course).
I agree 100%.
Depending on the size of his office, I'd either suggest a full-fledged CMS, or using a secured backup service like the ones available from Iron Mountain.
For a couple thousand bucks a year, he could have all his data and documents backed up daily by Iron Mountain. Not sure about legal requirements, though -- but if you call them, any vendor who is qualified will be able (and happy) to provide compliance certs or letters for the states in question.
Meh. The operating costs of that are too high (refrigeration ain't cheap). I suggest RAID-0, Redundant Array of Inexpensive Dumpsters.
This does have an issue with degradation of the lawyers over time, but that's OK... it feeds into our COMP-Office Services Technology department.
That's the beauty of the unit -- it's cargo-agnostic. It could be carrying flaps-of-butterfly-wings, or ponies (especially those of the OMG! variety), or printed Libraries of Congress if you really want to confuse the issue.
Not for nothing... but just because something is published as part of a marketing campaign doesn't mean it isn't significant, or a worthwhile topic for discussion.
It DOES mean we should take the figures with a grain of salt.
I'm not really sure what you're adding to the discussion, we are all already aware that security vendors pump risk and impact estimates all the time.
I agree 100% on taxing emissions. I think we need to stop letting companies externalize costs like pollution.
Problem is, it's damn hard to quantify the costs and assess the tax fairly, especially when we're talking about tens of thousands of pollutants.
You don't have to believe me.
But wait! There's more. Here's a link to a summary of another study. Sorry I don't subscribe to the Journal of Geophysical Research, or I'd link that actual study.
Sorry, link was on another site... not slashdot.
Here's the article in question re: particulate, SO2, and NOx emissions of superfreighters.
I think you're getting a bit confused on the standard units.
Car is a standard unit for pollution (particularly CO2 emissions).
VW Beetles are a unit of length, but only when stacked or laid end-to-end.
For fuel efficiency you are correct.
For particulates and SO2 emissions, not so... please see the article from earlier this morning/last night where it's discussed in detail. Freighters and superfreighters have an awfully dirty combustion process that uses awfully dirty fuel.
Or far less than one container ship.
I know, that's for particulate and SO2 emissions, not CO2.
But still, kind of puts things in perspective, huh? Imagine if we bought fewer consumer goods from 8000 miles away... and how much less energy would be consumed. It could dwarf the savings from spam filtering -- not that this makes spam filtering any less of a good idea.
On a side note, I'd like to propose a new standard unit for the metrically challenged.
Superfreighter -- a unit for large amounts of particulate and SO2 pollution. Approximately equal to 50 million cars.
The biggest cause of the economic crisis is the credit crunch because banks are NOT loosing money, they are tightening lending.
/deliberately obtuse
I was raising the point that the private sector will screw it up somewhere along the chain, sorry I wasn't more specific.
I simply do not trust the private sector (especially the large numbers of shipping companies) to ensure that the fuel is secure from procurement to waste disposal.
As for nuclear plants being run by the private sector... there are a huge number of systems and people responsible for on-site safety and security. This is not possible with container ships.
Give the man some credit, he's not that bad.
He'll be peddling drugs to support his fetish sex addiction.
[1] I prefer shortening rods. Cuz Mama loves shortnin', shortnin', Mama loves shortnin', shortnin', Mama loves shortnin' bread. As you'd know if you ever watched Bugs Bunny.
:)
[2]Good luck with that. Thunder tends to propagate as a pressure wave, not sure how you could make it selectively hit a single target. Oh I see. You meant lightning.
I don't recall where I read it, but I distinctly remember reading something along the lines that the appendix serves as a resevoir of gut bacteria, and that it replenishes normal gut bacteria after episodes of horrific diarrhea, for example.
I don't know if the appendix is sufficiently protected from antibiotic dispersion in the gut to be effective after a course of antibiotics. I do know that, for me, taking probiotic supplements after a course of antibiotics helps me return to regular. I'm on antibiotics frequently due to Lyme Disease.
One more note -- I'm not skinny. At all. Though I'm fairly fit (can run 3 miles in 21 minutes).
As opposed to mathematical physical masturbation? Like using a slide rule?
Cosplaying, attending conventions, hiding deformities...
:)
Protip: remember your audience
Just to restate this in blindingly simple terms -- if someone tries not to get caught when committing a crime, they should be subject to harsher punishment?
Seriously?
So if someone hides a body, he should have an increased jail time (not a decreased jail time for eventually disclosing the location of the body)?
If I fudge my books to embezzle money, I should have an increased jail sentence over someone who just takes the cash and makes no effort to not get caught?
Why are we rewarding stupidity?
I think I know why...
If [PUNISHMENT] times [RISK OF GETTING CAUGHT] is less than [BENEFIT OF CRIME] then [COMMIT CRIME].
Since these criminals using proxies reduce their risk of getting caught, they need to have harsher punishments in order for the punishment to act as a deterrent.
It's hardly fair, though, since the down side of all this is that the legit use of proxies is made to seem like a crime itself. Maybe they need to realize that this formula, while logical, doesn't actually work, since criminals tend to underestimate their risk of getting caught.
From the proposal (actually, the first line of the damn thing):
Furthermore, I'd hate to see Mozilla get bogged down in the same must-maintain-backwards-compatibility-cruft that MS fell victim to. Firefox is already bloated enough.
Hey, is it any surprise campus security are afraid of Command Line Interface Terrorism?
Seriously, I'd love to be able to read more info on this... without knowing all the evidence presented to get the warrant, it's a little silly to say that his use of multiple PCs and Linux was enough for the judge to have granted the warrant.
Most likely, the reason those items were brought up as evidence for the warrant is so that the warrant would cover the devices in question -- to justify action bigger than just reviewing his account history on the BC networks.
If he was a suspect for some other reason, wouldn't it make sense that the police would have reason to search his multiple devices?
I think the EFF does a lot of good things -- but their PR blurbs tend to leave out enough critical info that I am beginning to dismiss them out of hand.
So, as an outreach to all the potential Linux users out there, why don't all the LUGs volunteer time to teach people how to use Linux? Hook up with state resources, threaten to sue if the state refuses to commit resources equal to those given to MS.
This could be a great way to use grassroots education (open-source education, if you will) to increase the Linux userbase. Also some great PR, as the LUGs get to put a face on Linux users -- some facetime with Joe Sixpack could really help bring Linux into the mainstream.
[remembers what everyone looked like the last time I went to a LUG meeting]
On second thought, maybe we can set up a foundation to pay professional trainers...