Would you want to be born to a single mother who blames you for ruining 19 years of her life? Would you want to be born to a woman who doesn't love you?
If the only other option is not being born at all, the answer should be pretty obvious. If my life was really not worth living under those conditions, I could always kill myself, but at least it would be my choice and not someone else's (see what I did there by invoking a person's right to choose? Oh well. You probably don't).
I wonder how many of the people applauding the limiting of these women's rights to control their own bodies when it puts another life at risk are pro-choice on the topic abortion?
DTMF (Touch Tone) dialing was introduced in 1963 but did not become commonplace until the 1970s. 9-1-1 was picked as the emergency number in 1968. It's worth noting that "1" and "9" are far from each other on both DTFM keypads and rotary dials, so the same logic (avoiding accidental calls) applies to both systems.
P.S.: Have you noticed how Google managed to come up with a decent Maps app in only 6 months? They completely neglected the iOS distributed app for years and only improved on Android until Apple kicked their arse back to work.
The iPhone "Maps" app has always been an Apple developed product which is part of the iOS core, Google only provided the map data via a licensing agreement. The big sticking point on renewing the licensing agreement was not (as many people think) either cost or exclusive features (like turn-by-turn); it was branding. Google wanted it's name and logo clearly shown on the app ("Google Maps", not "Maps"). but Apple refused (and would not approve a separate iOS Google Maps app since that would "duplicate" core OS functionality). Now, not only does Google get to be the hero by rescuing iOS users from failed Apple Maps, it gets to control the branding on its iOS maps app.
Very well, tell me the sales tax which must be levied on a sale of a can of coke, jeans, and a pencil in the zip code 13760.
Despite the fact that I'm not a business, it took me less than a minute to figure this out. I googled "sales tax by zipcode" and got www.geotax.com, a free service from Pitney Bowes. I entered your zipcode, address (it was happy with "1234 Union Center Maine Highway" which was the first one I tried), and the dollar amount (I used $50, not sure if these are designer jeans or no-names). It returned the following: Matched Address 1234 Union Center Maine Hwy Endicott, NY 13760-2046
Jurisdiction Information
State: NY
County: Broome
Municipality: Unincorporated
Other: None
Total Combined Tax Rates Sales Tax: 8% - total due: $4.00 Use Tax: 8% - total due: $4.00
It doesn't offer any additional information based on the type of purchase, but I'm sure if there was a demand for that information it could easily be added.
Its a huge mess for any small company to deal with. Only the big companies can navigate this.
And yet small companies do deal with it if they are brick-and-mortars (for there own state tax codes). Multiplying the complexity by 50 for the chance to access a market that is (on average) 50 times larger than your own state is a small price to pay. Since long before the internet, Canadian mail-order companies have had to deal with collecting both federal and provincial (state) sales taxes with a similar range of provincial tax rates and exemptions from coast to coast. Like dealing with shipping and credit card companies, it's just part of the logistics of doing business.
Government censorship isn't the only thing that can shutdown a country's internet. Islands are especially vulnerable since if a fishing trawler accidentally snags your submarine cable, there goes your internet.
I'm not assuming anything because (gasp!) I actually read the article. They have never been used because they have never been launched into space (it's pretty hard to use a space telescope that's sitting on the ground).
No one is claiming that espionage is not necessary. It's just disturbing that NASA is a constant target of budget cuts and has been struggling to keep it's single space telescope operational for the last 20 years while the military has be sitting on two, unused, surplus space telescopes (that we know about).
It's not a list of constituents sexual preferences, it's a list of constituents who have expressed an interest in LGBT immigration issues in the past, which the Immigration Minister used to inform those constituents about a current LGBT immigration issue. If you think that everyone concerned about LGBT issues is gay, then maybe you're the one with the problem.
It won't be a quick upgrade, AEGIS, which has been used on the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity since 2009, will be installed on Curiosity in the next nine to 12 months
Curiosity launched on November 26, 2011. If Opportunity has been using AEGIS since 2009, why couldn't it have been included in Curiosity from the start instead of this 12 month download over a slow connection? It's bad enough that video game companies push stuff out the door and then rely on release-day patches but I expect better from NASA.
So basically, most reporters just regurgitate press releases rather than doing any of that actual journalism stuff. That's not unique to science/medical reporting. It happens in political reporting, business reporting, hell even sports reporting. The bad science reporting is just more obvious because it's easier to debunk.
I don't think you understand the business market or the iPad. The iPad can be managed centrally.
I agree.
You can control which apps may be installed.
Yes.
You can do remote wipes,
Yes.
and you can install apps outside of the App Store.
You can do what now?!? I'm no expert on centrally managed iPads but I'm pretty sure there is no way to install apps that are not in the app store regardless of whether it's centrally managed or not. If what you say is true, why should businesses be allowed to do what ordinary users cannot (without jailbreaking their device and voiding the warranty)?
Knowing something might suddenly become unavailable seems to make it more attractive to many people. Look at the dramatic rise in gun sales in 2008 after Obama was elected based on unfounded fears that he would push for stricter gun control laws.
Despite the clamour from the android community, pretty much everyone I've spoken to who aren't emotionally invested in the result are "pro" the jury and think it was a fair result.
That's just not true. I've heard from many neutral parties and even Apple fans who believe that Apple went too far with these lawsuits and patents. Apple is a great company with great products that should be able to compete in the marketplace without resorting to legal trickery. No one should be able to own the idea of a rectangle with rounded corners or a touch screen with rows of icons. Was Samsung inspired by Apple? Sure. Was Apple inspired by others that came before it? Of course. That's how technology progress (at least how it used to before this ruling).
But the worst of it is probably "What is the purpose of all that "junk DNA"?" That is not a scientific question. It's a teleological question.
While that's true, I think there's a scientific question in there; it's just difficult to word the question in a non-teleological way. I suppose you could say, "Does 'junk DNA' have a practical function (to either the individual organism or to the species) and if so, what is it?"
The Touchpad hardware is a deadend, but why let that limit the future of the OS? Is it a bad thing that OSX won't run on a Mac Classic or Windows 8 won't run on an IBM PC/XT? By the way, WebOS was originally developed for Palm phones so it already won't run on the hardware it was developed for.
I'm curious how limiting 9-year-old's access to pornography somehow triggers the downfall of democracy? I wasn't aware the operation of a free state was dependent on unfettered access to Two Girls One Cup.
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If the only other option is not being born at all, the answer should be pretty obvious. If my life was really not worth living under those conditions, I could always kill myself, but at least it would be my choice and not someone else's (see what I did there by invoking a person's right to choose? Oh well. You probably don't).
I wonder how many of the people applauding the limiting of these women's rights to control their own bodies when it puts another life at risk are pro-choice on the topic abortion?
DTMF (Touch Tone) dialing was introduced in 1963 but did not become commonplace until the 1970s. 9-1-1 was picked as the emergency number in 1968. It's worth noting that "1" and "9" are far from each other on both DTFM keypads and rotary dials, so the same logic (avoiding accidental calls) applies to both systems.
The iPhone "Maps" app has always been an Apple developed product which is part of the iOS core, Google only provided the map data via a licensing agreement. The big sticking point on renewing the licensing agreement was not (as many people think) either cost or exclusive features (like turn-by-turn); it was branding. Google wanted it's name and logo clearly shown on the app ("Google Maps", not "Maps"). but Apple refused (and would not approve a separate iOS Google Maps app since that would "duplicate" core OS functionality). Now, not only does Google get to be the hero by rescuing iOS users from failed Apple Maps, it gets to control the branding on its iOS maps app.
Despite the fact that I'm not a business, it took me less than a minute to figure this out. I googled "sales tax by zipcode" and got www.geotax.com, a free service from Pitney Bowes. I entered your zipcode, address (it was happy with "1234 Union Center Maine Highway" which was the first one I tried), and the dollar amount (I used $50, not sure if these are designer jeans or no-names). It returned the following:
Matched Address
1234 Union Center Maine Hwy
Endicott, NY 13760-2046
Jurisdiction Information
State: NY
County: Broome
Municipality: Unincorporated
Other: None
Total Combined Tax Rates
Sales Tax: 8% - total due: $4.00
Use Tax: 8% - total due: $4.00
It doesn't offer any additional information based on the type of purchase, but I'm sure if there was a demand for that information it could easily be added.
And yet small companies do deal with it if they are brick-and-mortars (for there own state tax codes). Multiplying the complexity by 50 for the chance to access a market that is (on average) 50 times larger than your own state is a small price to pay. Since long before the internet, Canadian mail-order companies have had to deal with collecting both federal and provincial (state) sales taxes with a similar range of provincial tax rates and exemptions from coast to coast. Like dealing with shipping and credit card companies, it's just part of the logistics of doing business.
Government censorship isn't the only thing that can shutdown a country's internet. Islands are especially vulnerable since if a fishing trawler accidentally snags your submarine cable, there goes your internet.
I'm not assuming anything because (gasp!) I actually read the article. They have never been used because they have never been launched into space (it's pretty hard to use a space telescope that's sitting on the ground).
No one is claiming that espionage is not necessary. It's just disturbing that NASA is a constant target of budget cuts and has been struggling to keep it's single space telescope operational for the last 20 years while the military has be sitting on two, unused, surplus space telescopes (that we know about).
The equivalent for hard drive storage is Kryder's Law, but the concept is essentially the same as Moore's Law.
So intelligent scientists were able to design an experiment that created organic matter from inorganic chemicals, and you think that proves evolution?
In that case, C = coincidence or random chance.
It's not a list of constituents sexual preferences, it's a list of constituents who have expressed an interest in LGBT immigration issues in the past, which the Immigration Minister used to inform those constituents about a current LGBT immigration issue. If you think that everyone concerned about LGBT issues is gay, then maybe you're the one with the problem.
Curiosity launched on November 26, 2011. If Opportunity has been using AEGIS since 2009, why couldn't it have been included in Curiosity from the start instead of this 12 month download over a slow connection? It's bad enough that video game companies push stuff out the door and then rely on release-day patches but I expect better from NASA.
So basically, most reporters just regurgitate press releases rather than doing any of that actual journalism stuff. That's not unique to science/medical reporting. It happens in political reporting, business reporting, hell even sports reporting. The bad science reporting is just more obvious because it's easier to debunk.
I agree.
Yes.
Yes.
You can do what now?!? I'm no expert on centrally managed iPads but I'm pretty sure there is no way to install apps that are not in the app store regardless of whether it's centrally managed or not. If what you say is true, why should businesses be allowed to do what ordinary users cannot (without jailbreaking their device and voiding the warranty)?
So Voyager 2 was launched weeks before Voyager 1? Was the launch schedule changed at the last minute?
Knowing something might suddenly become unavailable seems to make it more attractive to many people. Look at the dramatic rise in gun sales in 2008 after Obama was elected based on unfounded fears that he would push for stricter gun control laws.
That's just not true. I've heard from many neutral parties and even Apple fans who believe that Apple went too far with these lawsuits and patents. Apple is a great company with great products that should be able to compete in the marketplace without resorting to legal trickery. No one should be able to own the idea of a rectangle with rounded corners or a touch screen with rows of icons. Was Samsung inspired by Apple? Sure. Was Apple inspired by others that came before it? Of course. That's how technology progress (at least how it used to before this ruling).
While that's true, I think there's a scientific question in there; it's just difficult to word the question in a non-teleological way. I suppose you could say, "Does 'junk DNA' have a practical function (to either the individual organism or to the species) and if so, what is it?"
You need one of these: PS/2 to USB Adaptor
The Touchpad hardware is a deadend, but why let that limit the future of the OS? Is it a bad thing that OSX won't run on a Mac Classic or Windows 8 won't run on an IBM PC/XT? By the way, WebOS was originally developed for Palm phones so it already won't run on the hardware it was developed for.
I blame Fox News.
I'm curious how limiting 9-year-old's access to pornography somehow triggers the downfall of democracy? I wasn't aware the operation of a free state was dependent on unfettered access to Two Girls One Cup.
Apple is an expert at stealing other people's trademarks while simultaneously protecting their own.