From my understanding of evolution, I think its surprising that we'd put the central waste facility right next to the playground and manufacturing plant.
Well, obviously, it's because the playground is so important that we need redundancy. Evolution has granted us a playground, and a backup playground right next to it.
Perhaps not ("I'm a doctor damnit, not a number cruncher!"), but I still am better informed than you are.
No, you're not better informed. The SDR, even if the UN starts using it, will be phased in over a long period to maintain stability. In addition, it WOULD include a USD component, just as it does now (currently, the SDR uses USD, EUR, GBP, and CNY -- 44%, 34%, 11%, 11% respectively).
The question is how the basket for the SDR will be changed to include more less developed nations.
At any rate, the USD will continue to be a major component of the world's reserve currency (which, even in the worst-case scenario for Americans, would still have the USD as the largest component, since it will be based on GDP [specifically, adjustments to the value based on inflation vs. change in GDP]. So the only thing that would collapse the value of the dollar is a collapse of the US economy... which, in your logic, is predicated on a collapse of the currency. That's circular logic.
Yeah, you might have missed the part when I referred to the Iraq invasion in the early 90s.
And if you think they went in without an invasion plan in the early 00's, you're sorely mistaken. Of course, the post-invasion plan was definitely lacking...
That only works if all the cancers are independent. In this case, if each one does not share causes with other cancers.
If they are not independent, then it's possible that a carcinogenic factor could produce multiple cancers (thus using your formula overstates the probability).
Discounting that, there's also the issue of people who get multiple cancers... or would get them, if the first one hadn't killed them already. This may cause probability statistics to be understated. Or, for the purpose of this calculation, you'd need to discount those who got fatal cancers prior to other cancers from the pool of those eligible for getting another cancer.
In short, the total cancer probability function is a lot more complicated than PRODUCT[1/p(x)].
The only milk is tit milk. Anything else should be a crime. My wife breast-fed my son until he was ten years old and now he's six feet tall, captain of the football team, and has already gotten more pusye than you will ever get in your collective lives.
Why would I want my kids to get more pus-eye? Sounds to me like that is a *negative* aspect of breast-feeding.
Oh, and in these parts, I think they call that "pinkeye", not "puseye", though both are accurate descriptions.
Triox, the now banned soil sterilizer, is chemically relate to Dioxin, AKA Agent Orange, the Cancerous defolient brought to you by out wonderful Goverment, and the nice company Monsanto, during The Vietnam war
What? Agent Orange is not another name for dioxins. They're chemically distinct from each other. Dioxins, however, are a contaminant in production of one (or more) of the major constituents of Agent Orange... that is, they were an unwanted byproduct in Agent Orange production. And calling out Monsanto without calling out Dow Chemical would be a mistake -- after all, Dow produced more Agent Orange for the US Government than Monsanto did.
It's been in the forecast for a long time. C64Love is not the right person to answer economics questions... some googling should help you.
The gist of it is that the US enjoys a very stable dollar because it is the world's reserve currency, and because oil is purchased in dollars globally. The speculation has been that the USD would be dropped as a reserve currency because it is no longer as stable as some of the alternative currencies (in particular, the EUR). C64Love is a little behind the current thought among most economists, however -- as we've seen this year, the Euro is not a valid alternative to the USD as a reserve currency -- the problems with the economies of Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Italy, and Greece mean that the EUR has a lot of question marks.
Since China's currency is still pegged to a basket of currencies (though less so than it was), their currency is not a valid reserve either -- no one knows if China would one day decide to screw everyone over by revaluing the currency.
In short, the USD is a lot less stable, especially forecasting 10-20 years from now, as it has been in the past. Fortunately for Americans, there are no currencies out there that look better.
Interestingly, currency issues have been mentioned as a big reason why the US went into Iraq in the early 90s... Iraq was beating some drums about selling oil in Euros. That would have been *disastrous* for the US economy...
But I'm assuming you're aware of most of this, and just questioning C64's claim since he talks out of his ass...
TNT wouldn't have to weigh tons to do tons of damage if we measure damage in terms of, say, tons of coke + mentos.
The C+M standard unit for explosive power is incomplete. One cannot express explosive power of coke and mentos without knowing the volume and pressure limits of the bomb container.
Let me instead suggest two alternatives (I prefer the first option, as the second one is just crass, I wouldn't normally make a comment like that to someone I respect -- but I include it in the pure interest of completeness):
1. Quantity of [one ton of (optimal coke + Mentos mixture) in a 2000L container that ruptures exactly at the point when the coke-Mentos reaction is complete, thus at maximum pressure]. We could call this tons of CM2KL.
2. My dicks in your momma's ass. As in, that nuclear warhead has the explosive power of 4.0 x 10^29 MDIYMA.
Lebron James paycheck is not dependent on the team he plays for making money, its dependent on how well he and his agent negotiate his contract.
That's not exactly true. The players unions in major sports negotiate with the owners of the league's teams to determine the total player compensation. This is the major thing that's keeping the NFL players and owners from reaching a new agreement -- the players want to see what portion of the revenues go to player salary, but the league is refusing to release the revenue figures. In the NBA, the salary structure for rookies, and the max salary for players, is partly a function of league revenues.
For any industry where individuals make a big difference to the product, the pay of the individuals in in some way related to revenues. Sometimes it not as clear-cut as a % of gross or net... that tends only to be the case where there's a higher level of risk.
Cops usually look for sudden spikes in power usage, or high usage, that indicates a growing operation.
That's not true. Cops don't regularly conduct fishing operations of utility records to find growers. Stop making things up. Under what authority can you claim that cops usually do that?
Cops do IR camera fly-bys, looking for the heat generated by a grow op (falls, debatedly, under "in plain sight"). Or if they have reason to suspect, they subpoena the utility for the records.
They then go on to talk about "winning experiences" without detail. Presumably they judged winning from the body language of the mice concerned. A winner would presumably dominate a loser with the loser often on their back or trying to stay out the way in a corner or similar.
That's a lot of presumption. I've seen caged mice fight... not a pretty sight. Gnashing of teeth and squeaks of terror and triumph... blood, fur, and intestines mixing into the bedding, trampled into a macabre stew beneath the writhing mass of strung-out mice, beady black eyes ignorant of anything but the basic will to survive peering out from beneath the rim of their barding.
But then again, those were trained battlemice, not the docile lab mice accustomed to maze-running and sniffing petulantly for treats; you probably wouldn't understand the visceral demands and basic morality of being a battlemouse.
FWIW, I think it's because women are never taught self-restraint wrt violence. Either they are completely restrained (no violence) or they go for broke. Us boys, we figured it out early in life... you hit too hard, even in play, and your friend gets hurt. Countless small altercations in childhood, and most boys learned how to use the right amount of force... so that fights between men are somewhat ritualized, rather than being full-on deathmatches.
And FWIW, I don't believe we should be teaching kids not to hit anybody... we should teach them not to provoke fights, how to de-escalate potentially violent situations, and not to hit anybody *first*. I think self-defense is a very important skill.
That said... I won't hit a woman no matter what she does to me. I've seen firsthand, working in the kind of bar you appreciate, that even if the woman is beating the living snot out of a guy, if he hits back -- when the cops come, the guy is the one getting cuffed.
Don't misread that, I'm not saying that fighting doesn't come naturally, I'm saying that fighting effectively does not come naturally, and men are the gatekeepers of that experience.
Meh. It comes down to early childhood. Boys are encouraged to, or at least not dissuaded from, play fighting moreso than girls.
My sister was a tomboy, and she feints, blocks, strikes for maximum impact, etc, as well as most men. She didn't need to be taught those skills... she learned them as a child.
It's not that fighting effectively doesn't come naturally to women... it's that boys are more likely than girls to spend a lot of time in their childhood honing those skills. This is exacerbated by the difference between organized sports for the two genders.
I've pulled two ticks off me in the last week alone. Big deal. They're nasty little things, but I haven't known anyone who's ever actually gotten a disease from one. I'm pretty sure the risk is way overstated.
Depends on what part of the country you're from.
Here in NJ (also in NY, CT, and some other states) Lyme disease is super common. I've had it four times, the second time as a kid I got no bullseye rash and it went undiagnosed for two years... I have some paralysis on the left side of my face (Bell's Palsy) and joint problems because of it -- never mind the treatments for depression that took me several years to get over (in any patient, it's hard to say if the Lyme Disease caused the depression... but aggregate among Lyme sufferers, there is a huge increase in incidence of depression and related conditions).
I could easily rattle off at least a dozen of my closer acquaintances who've had it, and every member of my immediate family has had it, as well as most of my extended family.
The ticks that tend to carry Lyme disease aren't those wood ticks that you feel crawling on you, and can spot easily from a couple yards away on a pant leg. They tend to be the size of poppy seeds.
Oh, I also got RMSF from a tick when I was fishing in eastern Washington State.
Count yourself lucky if tick-borne illnesses are rare where you live. They are no joke where I live. And staying on the path won't necessarily help you, *especially* in a park, where the woodland-fringe type habitat is often so carefully preserved. If you really want to prevent tick-borne illness, wear white socks, light-colored pants that you tuck into the socks, and use DEET on your socks, shoes and pants. When you come back inside, check yourself carefully for ticks. It's best to have someone else check the parts you have trouble seeing (one of my Lyme disease outbreaks was from a tick that burrowed it's head into my hairy asscrack -- no way I could see it myself)
Re: poison ivy (and oak and sumac)-- learn to recognize it. It's very easy to identify and avoid.
Tick-borne illnesses are a real threat in certain parts of the country. Don't dismiss the risk if you're in an area with high prevalence if you're the type who spends time outdoors.
Drywall is a crap insulator. Failure to insulate properly means more money spent on heating and cooling.
And for that matter, it may not meet local building codes.
So here's my one piece of advice for him:
Do your homework to ensure that your building meets local building codes. You'll probably need to consult with experts, or spend a lot of time in the library.
That is exactly why they take it, because they know you're in a hurry and can't put up a fight.
Ah yes, that must be why they take it. It all makes sense to me now -- it is part of the FAA plan's to accumulate the world's largest stockpile of diverse bottled water!
This, not a crash at Roswell, explains Area 51... this is where they store the bottled water in underground bunkers, awaiting the day when they can unleash the terror of 10,000,000 bottles of H2O upon the world!
Mwu-ha-ha-ha.
I think it's more of "if he really, really wants the water back, then we have reason to suspect the water *is* tampered with, and so we have reason to detain him and send the water to a lab for analysis".
So you won't be able to tell the difference between, say, a person who lived all year in Illinois (with a moderate isotope ratio) and a person who flies back and forth between Montana and Florida (who'd have a mix of "heavy" and "light" water in their system.)
Not true. The fact that the oxygen isotopes are bound into hair means that we have some kind of a time reference.
I've got a big collection of bottled water from a lot of different countries because I like the labels on them. I see a potential use for them now.
Dude, don't drink them! They're valuable! Do you know how hard it is to get illicit liquids like water into the US these days?
I had bottled water in my checked luggage seized last time I flew back from South America... maybe they thought I might have dissolved drugs in them or something. I figured it was better to let them keep them than ask for the water back, since all I wanted to do was catch my connecting flight (ATL airport, btw).
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Well, obviously, it's because the playground is so important that we need redundancy. Evolution has granted us a playground, and a backup playground right next to it.
No, you're not better informed. The SDR, even if the UN starts using it, will be phased in over a long period to maintain stability. In addition, it WOULD include a USD component, just as it does now (currently, the SDR uses USD, EUR, GBP, and CNY -- 44%, 34%, 11%, 11% respectively).
The question is how the basket for the SDR will be changed to include more less developed nations.
At any rate, the USD will continue to be a major component of the world's reserve currency (which, even in the worst-case scenario for Americans, would still have the USD as the largest component, since it will be based on GDP [specifically, adjustments to the value based on inflation vs. change in GDP]. So the only thing that would collapse the value of the dollar is a collapse of the US economy... which, in your logic, is predicated on a collapse of the currency. That's circular logic.
Yeah, you might have missed the part when I referred to the Iraq invasion in the early 90s.
And if you think they went in without an invasion plan in the early 00's, you're sorely mistaken. Of course, the post-invasion plan was definitely lacking...
That only works if all the cancers are independent. In this case, if each one does not share causes with other cancers.
If they are not independent, then it's possible that a carcinogenic factor could produce multiple cancers (thus using your formula overstates the probability).
Discounting that, there's also the issue of people who get multiple cancers... or would get them, if the first one hadn't killed them already. This may cause probability statistics to be understated. Or, for the purpose of this calculation, you'd need to discount those who got fatal cancers prior to other cancers from the pool of those eligible for getting another cancer.
In short, the total cancer probability function is a lot more complicated than PRODUCT[1/p(x)].
Why would I want my kids to get more pus-eye? Sounds to me like that is a *negative* aspect of breast-feeding.
Oh, and in these parts, I think they call that "pinkeye", not "puseye", though both are accurate descriptions.
What? Agent Orange is not another name for dioxins. They're chemically distinct from each other. Dioxins, however, are a contaminant in production of one (or more) of the major constituents of Agent Orange... that is, they were an unwanted byproduct in Agent Orange production.
And calling out Monsanto without calling out Dow Chemical would be a mistake -- after all, Dow produced more Agent Orange for the US Government than Monsanto did.
It's been in the forecast for a long time. C64Love is not the right person to answer economics questions... some googling should help you.
The gist of it is that the US enjoys a very stable dollar because it is the world's reserve currency, and because oil is purchased in dollars globally. The speculation has been that the USD would be dropped as a reserve currency because it is no longer as stable as some of the alternative currencies (in particular, the EUR). C64Love is a little behind the current thought among most economists, however -- as we've seen this year, the Euro is not a valid alternative to the USD as a reserve currency -- the problems with the economies of Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Italy, and Greece mean that the EUR has a lot of question marks.
Since China's currency is still pegged to a basket of currencies (though less so than it was), their currency is not a valid reserve either -- no one knows if China would one day decide to screw everyone over by revaluing the currency.
In short, the USD is a lot less stable, especially forecasting 10-20 years from now, as it has been in the past. Fortunately for Americans, there are no currencies out there that look better.
Interestingly, currency issues have been mentioned as a big reason why the US went into Iraq in the early 90s... Iraq was beating some drums about selling oil in Euros. That would have been *disastrous* for the US economy...
But I'm assuming you're aware of most of this, and just questioning C64's claim since he talks out of his ass...
The C+M standard unit for explosive power is incomplete. One cannot express explosive power of coke and mentos without knowing the volume and pressure limits of the bomb container.
Let me instead suggest two alternatives (I prefer the first option, as the second one is just crass, I wouldn't normally make a comment like that to someone I respect -- but I include it in the pure interest of completeness):
1. Quantity of [one ton of (optimal coke + Mentos mixture) in a 2000L container that ruptures exactly at the point when the coke-Mentos reaction is complete, thus at maximum pressure]. We could call this tons of CM2KL.
2. My dicks in your momma's ass. As in, that nuclear warhead has the explosive power of 4.0 x 10^29 MDIYMA.
I think it's the network.
My Blackberry Tour has had the same problem.
That's not exactly true. The players unions in major sports negotiate with the owners of the league's teams to determine the total player compensation. This is the major thing that's keeping the NFL players and owners from reaching a new agreement -- the players want to see what portion of the revenues go to player salary, but the league is refusing to release the revenue figures. In the NBA, the salary structure for rookies, and the max salary for players, is partly a function of league revenues.
For any industry where individuals make a big difference to the product, the pay of the individuals in in some way related to revenues. Sometimes it not as clear-cut as a % of gross or net... that tends only to be the case where there's a higher level of risk.
Homogeneous marriages are not legal in most states. Besides, it's just plain repulsive.
A daddy proton and a mommy electron get married...
That's not true. Cops don't regularly conduct fishing operations of utility records to find growers. Stop making things up. Under what authority can you claim that cops usually do that?
Cops do IR camera fly-bys, looking for the heat generated by a grow op (falls, debatedly, under "in plain sight"). Or if they have reason to suspect, they subpoena the utility for the records.
False. Do your homework before making a claim like that.
In FY2009, MD spent approx 1.6 Bn on highway administration. 2010 appropriation is about 1.3 Bn. 2011 proposed appropriation is 1.4 Bn.
For FY2009, fuel tax receipts totaled only 758 million, of which only $549 million went to the Dept of transportation.
Once again, 5 minutes of googling proves you to be an ignorant liar.
Sources:
http://www.comp.state.md.us/finances/revenue/motorfuel/FuelAnnualReportFY2009.pdf
http://dbm.maryland.gov/agencies/operbudget/Documents/2011/Proposed/trans.pdf
That's a lot of presumption. I've seen caged mice fight... not a pretty sight. Gnashing of teeth and squeaks of terror and triumph... blood, fur, and intestines mixing into the bedding, trampled into a macabre stew beneath the writhing mass of strung-out mice, beady black eyes ignorant of anything but the basic will to survive peering out from beneath the rim of their barding.
But then again, those were trained battlemice, not the docile lab mice accustomed to maze-running and sniffing petulantly for treats; you probably wouldn't understand the visceral demands and basic morality of being a battlemouse.
FWIW, I think it's because women are never taught self-restraint wrt violence. Either they are completely restrained (no violence) or they go for broke. Us boys, we figured it out early in life... you hit too hard, even in play, and your friend gets hurt. Countless small altercations in childhood, and most boys learned how to use the right amount of force... so that fights between men are somewhat ritualized, rather than being full-on deathmatches.
And FWIW, I don't believe we should be teaching kids not to hit anybody... we should teach them not to provoke fights, how to de-escalate potentially violent situations, and not to hit anybody *first*. I think self-defense is a very important skill.
That said... I won't hit a woman no matter what she does to me. I've seen firsthand, working in the kind of bar you appreciate, that even if the woman is beating the living snot out of a guy, if he hits back -- when the cops come, the guy is the one getting cuffed.
Meh. It comes down to early childhood. Boys are encouraged to, or at least not dissuaded from, play fighting moreso than girls.
My sister was a tomboy, and she feints, blocks, strikes for maximum impact, etc, as well as most men. She didn't need to be taught those skills... she learned them as a child.
It's not that fighting effectively doesn't come naturally to women... it's that boys are more likely than girls to spend a lot of time in their childhood honing those skills. This is exacerbated by the difference between organized sports for the two genders.
Except overwhelming force.
And the Spanish Inquisition.
Depends on what part of the country you're from.
Here in NJ (also in NY, CT, and some other states) Lyme disease is super common. I've had it four times, the second time as a kid I got no bullseye rash and it went undiagnosed for two years... I have some paralysis on the left side of my face (Bell's Palsy) and joint problems because of it -- never mind the treatments for depression that took me several years to get over (in any patient, it's hard to say if the Lyme Disease caused the depression... but aggregate among Lyme sufferers, there is a huge increase in incidence of depression and related conditions).
I could easily rattle off at least a dozen of my closer acquaintances who've had it, and every member of my immediate family has had it, as well as most of my extended family.
The ticks that tend to carry Lyme disease aren't those wood ticks that you feel crawling on you, and can spot easily from a couple yards away on a pant leg. They tend to be the size of poppy seeds.
Oh, I also got RMSF from a tick when I was fishing in eastern Washington State.
Count yourself lucky if tick-borne illnesses are rare where you live. They are no joke where I live. And staying on the path won't necessarily help you, *especially* in a park, where the woodland-fringe type habitat is often so carefully preserved. If you really want to prevent tick-borne illness, wear white socks, light-colored pants that you tuck into the socks, and use DEET on your socks, shoes and pants. When you come back inside, check yourself carefully for ticks. It's best to have someone else check the parts you have trouble seeing (one of my Lyme disease outbreaks was from a tick that burrowed it's head into my hairy asscrack -- no way I could see it myself)
Re: poison ivy (and oak and sumac)-- learn to recognize it. It's very easy to identify and avoid.
Tick-borne illnesses are a real threat in certain parts of the country. Don't dismiss the risk if you're in an area with high prevalence if you're the type who spends time outdoors.
Bedrock. Dynamite. Wheelbarrow. Hammer and chisel.
Other than that, I think you're right.
Drywall is a crap insulator. Failure to insulate properly means more money spent on heating and cooling.
And for that matter, it may not meet local building codes.
So here's my one piece of advice for him:
Do your homework to ensure that your building meets local building codes. You'll probably need to consult with experts, or spend a lot of time in the library.
Ah yes, that must be why they take it. It all makes sense to me now -- it is part of the FAA plan's to accumulate the world's largest stockpile of diverse bottled water!
This, not a crash at Roswell, explains Area 51... this is where they store the bottled water in underground bunkers, awaiting the day when they can unleash the terror of 10,000,000 bottles of H2O upon the world!
Mwu-ha-ha-ha.
I think it's more of "if he really, really wants the water back, then we have reason to suspect the water *is* tampered with, and so we have reason to detain him and send the water to a lab for analysis".
Not true. The fact that the oxygen isotopes are bound into hair means that we have some kind of a time reference.
That's preposterous, he said tin foil. Magneto can't do squat with tin.
Aluminum foil, on the other hand...
Dude, don't drink them! They're valuable! Do you know how hard it is to get illicit liquids like water into the US these days?
I had bottled water in my checked luggage seized last time I flew back from South America... maybe they thought I might have dissolved drugs in them or something. I figured it was better to let them keep them than ask for the water back, since all I wanted to do was catch my connecting flight (ATL airport, btw).
When did we begin considering canaries to be bees, instead of birds?