That's some serious nitpicking here. Yes, the body doesn't actually use up all the oxygen it has stored in 15 seconds. However, for the purposes of understanding blackout, this is an accurate description: the brain blacks out because after 15 seconds, it does not have enough oxygen to function. Someone could potentially infer incorrectly that there's a storage mechanism outside of the blood supply that's involved, but you'd have to read a lot more into the article than is actually there.
As for the air embolism part, the article got that exactly right. Yes, the pressure is not the same as surfacing from a depth of 12 meters. However, embolisms can occur when surfacing from just a couple of feet. Similarly, embolisms can occur when taking a plane ride after doing a dive - and the cabin air pressure is generally only 1/4 of the standard pressure at sea level.
Seriously - this is one of the better written articles about the physics of.... well, anything. Count your blessings.
... it's what you're leaving out in your conclusions.
The monkeys offer no insight into ability, merely predisposition to certain activities. Furthermore, we are talking about statistics, not whether any female is capable of certain things. The president of Harvard had had run-ins with the humanities faculty before, and was controversial all-around. Furthermore, he was not fired, he resigned (technical, yes, but makes a world of difference). With regards to the WWDC attendees, you're again making the mistake of equating attendance with capability. Are you arguing that because there were no females attending as hackers, that no females can be competent hackers? What does the female management of The Failed Mars Mission have to do with its failure? Are you implying that the first all female team is responsible for Nasa's first failure? First Mars failure? What? In this example, you're merely yelling "look! vaginas! failures!"
No one's doubting your examples. The problem is that none of your examples have any impact on showing whether females can be competent in highly technical areas. All you've shown is that you're an insecure bigot who has issues dealing with successful women.
They also have no legal authority to detain someone who broke the law. That's the cops' job. They do, however, have the authority to file a claim against someone, at which point the legal system starts to grind. Alternatively, they have the authority to not file a claim - i.e., just let the perpetrator go.
There's plenty of authority to go around - people just choose to ignore it, and pass the buck instead.
Correct. But I'd just like you to go to the Mozart festival in Salzburg, and ask people why they're celebrating the German composer. Then, after recovering from the beating, ask them why they're celebrating the Austrian composer.
Europeans have a funny way of adopting national heroes. Which is understandable, considering that national boundaries were very much in flux until after WW2. See for example the status of Alsace and Lorraine, Polish boundaries, existence of the Baltic states, etc. Doesn't mean that they're not fiercely protective of them.:)
Mozart was Austrian. Do not tell anybody in Austria you ever said this. They will do horrible things to your intestin (and later use it to sell sausages).
So violating common courtesy is worth a year in jail now? Spending thousands on a lawyer? Really..... I expect 300 million lawsuits popping up overnight of the "Dey r on my lawnz, stealin my gnomez" variety.
I guess I missed the part where Halo 3 has been released. Could you please point me to the nearest retailer that is selling Halo 3? Oh? What's that? It hasn't been released yet? Weird. I'm sure it has no impact though on how PS3 numbers are tabulated.
Debating the copyright law at the root of the criminal indictment is relevant to the discussion. I understand you would like to prevent any discussion of this, as it would demonstrate the idiocy of your position. Understanding your position, however, does not mean that I think any more of you.
Now please go back to your RIAA subsidized hole and stop wasting everybody else's air.
Agreed. It was stupid. Does every stupid act now warrant a 1 year jail sentence? Will doing a keg stand land me in the slammer? Will racing shopping carts in a supermarket lot land me in the slammer? How about roller blading in it?
You might say that the judge or jury will be able to see that this is a stupid way to go about things, and just recommend some community service. But if the judge and jury will be able to see that, why couldn't the theater manager? The supermarket manager? The local campus police?
The fact that some people are small, vindictive and assholes should not mean that they can offload the responsibility to be sensible to others.
Absolutely. It curdles my blood every time I see someone argue that it should be up to the courts to sort this crap out. Even if we assume that the courts are capable of dealing with every neighbor dispute, every contract dispute, every disappointment that McDonald's doesn't have The Best Friest EVAR (tm), it's a very costly way of resolving these things. Mind you, costly is a relative term. Costly for me is spending 10k on a lawyer to get a stupid case dismissed. That same 10k is a blip for even small businesses, and that's assuming that they don't have a lawyer on retainer. The cost here lies dis-proportionally with individuals acting as individuals. Individuals acting on behalf of a corporation or agency bear no personal cost in these situations.
But why should the theater owner be put in that position?
One thing that pisses me off to no end is the pervasive attitude that no one is really responsible for anything anymore. Everything is about covering your ass. I see it at work (this spec hasn't been blessed by God and the Pope, therefore we can't move forward), I see it in private (it's not my job to talk to a parent abusing their kid) - everywhere. The theater owner is doing the same thing.
Yes, technically, you're right. None of the things I've listed are wrong. As a matter of fact, they are encouraged through abusive lawsuits and the willingness of people to blame others for their problems. However, this approach results directly in massive damage to someone's life, with the only benefit being that someone else is less exposed to potential trouble. Remember the 17 year old who got a blowjob from a 15 year old, and the act was captured on camera? He's still in prison and is a registered sex offender. This is a very similar issue. Something that is completely harmless on its own was turned into a life-destroying matter by someone trying to cover their ass. The owner of the theater completely and utterly overreacted and should be bitch-slapped until the end of days for failing to exert common sense when dealing with a problematic situation.
In short, the theater owner/managers/ushers might have acted according to the letter of the law. However, the day that the letter of the law becomes more important than its intent is the day that we can situations like this one - where somebody is getting a potentially lifelong reaming for something that had no negative impact on anyone.
To answer your last question, the answer is no, and no. But that doesn't matter, because your question is based on an artificially narrow set of solutions. Managers, ushers, cops, lawyers and share holders aren't abstract ideas, cogs in a faceless corporate or legal entity. They are people. As such, they have responsibilities to other people to not royally fuck them over just so that they can cover their ass.
Cute - another AC unwilling to put his name behind this. If these numbers are so accurate, then why is Halo 3 on that list - twice? Someone's really trying to do some spin himself.
I find it interesting that in that list, Halo 3 is listed at #8, and Halo 3 Special Edition is listed at #24. I'd really like to know how they tabulate these "sales".
Thank you for pointing that out. I strongly suspect that the distraction of talking on a cell phone comes not from the cell phone part, but from the talking part. I know I occasionally stop a conversation with a passenger because I need to focus on traffic. The same rule ought to apply to talking on a cell phone.
Though texting while driving should be illegal. You can't text without taking your eyes off the road. Stop lights might be ok, but I rarely find that I need to reply to a message while driving, and that said reply can be sent out in the time I'm at the stop light. Might as well just wait then. As for stop and go traffic - judging by the number of fender benders that happen during stop and go traffic, I'd say it requires more attention than regular highway driving, not less.
It's not even ideology that is what's driving the Bush team - it's loyalty. By all accounts, loyalty to Bush and the republicans is how you get ahead in this administration. Ideology just happens to be what turns people into loyal followers.
Thanks for a great answer. Hunters like you are great advocates for wildlife. I just like to make sure I know who are the hunters who understand wildlife management, and who are the ones who just like to shoot stuff (mainly bears and wolves, which led to the overabundance of whitetail deer that you mentioned).
Apparently, you didn't think this through. If something done by everyone results in overall harm to the individual and the society, who decides who gets to do it? Same with hunting and fishing. Not everyone can possibly fish and hunt, because it would result in the complete collapse of all major ecosystems.
The only problem is that not everyone can live off of wild pheasant. While it is nice that you eat what you shoot, you are one of the few who can and ought to shoot wild life. If more than a certain percentage of Americans would hunt their food, we'd very quickly run out of wild life.
I'm just wondering - why should you be allowed to eat healthy wild pheasants, while others have to stick to farm raised chicken?
The good news: it put my name on two physics papers. The bad news: it's boring as hell. The really bad news: if you misclassify something, you'll at best throw someone off-track, and at worst, completely screw with someone else's research.
It's not fun unless you consider classifying galaxies fun, and it leaves itself open to internet asshattery. I hope the project gets pulled. Plus, what are legions of undergrad astrophysics students gonna do during their summer time? Go outside??? Spare them that terror!
This is the proper way to analyze data. Not some random site making random claims about random stations. I'd love for this to happen, and to some extent it has - ground-based land measurements have been compared to satellite and sea-based measurements, and discrepancies have been found, analyzed and accounted for. I just hate that some people think that none of this hasn't been done already.
Hey.... an AC not contributing to the discussion. Why am I not surprised? Since you seem to have been around for a while, why don't you log in?
I'm subtly insulting? Damn, I thought my insults were direct. I guess I need to work on that.
I'm quite happy discussing science. I have also no problem calling people on being stupid. Do you want to take a crack at this, or are you just happy making various proclamations? Judging by your complete lack of factual information, random and deliciously wrong guesses, and liberal use of insults, I'm thinking no. Go play in the freeway.
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That's some serious nitpicking here. Yes, the body doesn't actually use up all the oxygen it has stored in 15 seconds. However, for the purposes of understanding blackout, this is an accurate description: the brain blacks out because after 15 seconds, it does not have enough oxygen to function. Someone could potentially infer incorrectly that there's a storage mechanism outside of the blood supply that's involved, but you'd have to read a lot more into the article than is actually there.
As for the air embolism part, the article got that exactly right. Yes, the pressure is not the same as surfacing from a depth of 12 meters. However, embolisms can occur when surfacing from just a couple of feet. Similarly, embolisms can occur when taking a plane ride after doing a dive - and the cabin air pressure is generally only 1/4 of the standard pressure at sea level.
Seriously - this is one of the better written articles about the physics of.... well, anything. Count your blessings.
Or will mirrors now become illegal terrorist tools?
... it's what you're leaving out in your conclusions.
The monkeys offer no insight into ability, merely predisposition to certain activities. Furthermore, we are talking about statistics, not whether any female is capable of certain things.
The president of Harvard had had run-ins with the humanities faculty before, and was controversial all-around. Furthermore, he was not fired, he resigned (technical, yes, but makes a world of difference).
With regards to the WWDC attendees, you're again making the mistake of equating attendance with capability. Are you arguing that because there were no females attending as hackers, that no females can be competent hackers?
What does the female management of The Failed Mars Mission have to do with its failure? Are you implying that the first all female team is responsible for Nasa's first failure? First Mars failure? What? In this example, you're merely yelling "look! vaginas! failures!"
No one's doubting your examples. The problem is that none of your examples have any impact on showing whether females can be competent in highly technical areas. All you've shown is that you're an insecure bigot who has issues dealing with successful women.
They also have no legal authority to detain someone who broke the law. That's the cops' job. They do, however, have the authority to file a claim against someone, at which point the legal system starts to grind. Alternatively, they have the authority to not file a claim - i.e., just let the perpetrator go.
There's plenty of authority to go around - people just choose to ignore it, and pass the buck instead.
Correct. But I'd just like you to go to the Mozart festival in Salzburg, and ask people why they're celebrating the German composer. Then, after recovering from the beating, ask them why they're celebrating the Austrian composer.
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Europeans have a funny way of adopting national heroes. Which is understandable, considering that national boundaries were very much in flux until after WW2. See for example the status of Alsace and Lorraine, Polish boundaries, existence of the Baltic states, etc. Doesn't mean that they're not fiercely protective of them.
Why not start the compassion at the theater manager level? I.e., why press charges at all? Why not just toss her out of the movie?
Mozart was Austrian. Do not tell anybody in Austria you ever said this. They will do horrible things to your intestin (and later use it to sell sausages).
Why should the theater owner be able to offload the work of being responsible to a judge?
So violating common courtesy is worth a year in jail now? Spending thousands on a lawyer? Really..... I expect 300 million lawsuits popping up overnight of the "Dey r on my lawnz, stealin my gnomez" variety.
I guess I missed the part where Halo 3 has been released. Could you please point me to the nearest retailer that is selling Halo 3? Oh? What's that? It hasn't been released yet? Weird. I'm sure it has no impact though on how PS3 numbers are tabulated.
Debating the copyright law at the root of the criminal indictment is relevant to the discussion. I understand you would like to prevent any discussion of this, as it would demonstrate the idiocy of your position. Understanding your position, however, does not mean that I think any more of you.
Now please go back to your RIAA subsidized hole and stop wasting everybody else's air.
Agreed. It was stupid. Does every stupid act now warrant a 1 year jail sentence? Will doing a keg stand land me in the slammer? Will racing shopping carts in a supermarket lot land me in the slammer? How about roller blading in it?
You might say that the judge or jury will be able to see that this is a stupid way to go about things, and just recommend some community service. But if the judge and jury will be able to see that, why couldn't the theater manager? The supermarket manager? The local campus police?
The fact that some people are small, vindictive and assholes should not mean that they can offload the responsibility to be sensible to others.
Absolutely. It curdles my blood every time I see someone argue that it should be up to the courts to sort this crap out. Even if we assume that the courts are capable of dealing with every neighbor dispute, every contract dispute, every disappointment that McDonald's doesn't have The Best Friest EVAR (tm), it's a very costly way of resolving these things. Mind you, costly is a relative term. Costly for me is spending 10k on a lawyer to get a stupid case dismissed. That same 10k is a blip for even small businesses, and that's assuming that they don't have a lawyer on retainer. The cost here lies dis-proportionally with individuals acting as individuals. Individuals acting on behalf of a corporation or agency bear no personal cost in these situations.
One thing that pisses me off to no end is the pervasive attitude that no one is really responsible for anything anymore. Everything is about covering your ass. I see it at work (this spec hasn't been blessed by God and the Pope, therefore we can't move forward), I see it in private (it's not my job to talk to a parent abusing their kid) - everywhere. The theater owner is doing the same thing.
Yes, technically, you're right. None of the things I've listed are wrong. As a matter of fact, they are encouraged through abusive lawsuits and the willingness of people to blame others for their problems. However, this approach results directly in massive damage to someone's life, with the only benefit being that someone else is less exposed to potential trouble. Remember the 17 year old who got a blowjob from a 15 year old, and the act was captured on camera? He's still in prison and is a registered sex offender. This is a very similar issue. Something that is completely harmless on its own was turned into a life-destroying matter by someone trying to cover their ass. The owner of the theater completely and utterly overreacted and should be bitch-slapped until the end of days for failing to exert common sense when dealing with a problematic situation.
In short, the theater owner/managers/ushers might have acted according to the letter of the law. However, the day that the letter of the law becomes more important than its intent is the day that we can situations like this one - where somebody is getting a potentially lifelong reaming for something that had no negative impact on anyone.
To answer your last question, the answer is no, and no. But that doesn't matter, because your question is based on an artificially narrow set of solutions. Managers, ushers, cops, lawyers and share holders aren't abstract ideas, cogs in a faceless corporate or legal entity. They are people. As such, they have responsibilities to other people to not royally fuck them over just so that they can cover their ass.
Cute - another AC unwilling to put his name behind this. If these numbers are so accurate, then why is Halo 3 on that list - twice? Someone's really trying to do some spin himself.
I find it interesting that in that list, Halo 3 is listed at #8, and Halo 3 Special Edition is listed at #24. I'd really like to know how they tabulate these "sales".
Thank you for pointing that out. I strongly suspect that the distraction of talking on a cell phone comes not from the cell phone part, but from the talking part. I know I occasionally stop a conversation with a passenger because I need to focus on traffic. The same rule ought to apply to talking on a cell phone.
Though texting while driving should be illegal. You can't text without taking your eyes off the road. Stop lights might be ok, but I rarely find that I need to reply to a message while driving, and that said reply can be sent out in the time I'm at the stop light. Might as well just wait then. As for stop and go traffic - judging by the number of fender benders that happen during stop and go traffic, I'd say it requires more attention than regular highway driving, not less.
It's not even ideology that is what's driving the Bush team - it's loyalty. By all accounts, loyalty to Bush and the republicans is how you get ahead in this administration. Ideology just happens to be what turns people into loyal followers.
Thanks for a great answer. Hunters like you are great advocates for wildlife. I just like to make sure I know who are the hunters who understand wildlife management, and who are the ones who just like to shoot stuff (mainly bears and wolves, which led to the overabundance of whitetail deer that you mentioned).
Apparently, you didn't think this through. If something done by everyone results in overall harm to the individual and the society, who decides who gets to do it? Same with hunting and fishing. Not everyone can possibly fish and hunt, because it would result in the complete collapse of all major ecosystems.
So - who gets to fish and hunt?
The only problem is that not everyone can live off of wild pheasant. While it is nice that you eat what you shoot, you are one of the few who can and ought to shoot wild life. If more than a certain percentage of Americans would hunt their food, we'd very quickly run out of wild life.
I'm just wondering - why should you be allowed to eat healthy wild pheasants, while others have to stick to farm raised chicken?
The good news: it put my name on two physics papers. The bad news: it's boring as hell. The really bad news: if you misclassify something, you'll at best throw someone off-track, and at worst, completely screw with someone else's research.
It's not fun unless you consider classifying galaxies fun, and it leaves itself open to internet asshattery. I hope the project gets pulled. Plus, what are legions of undergrad astrophysics students gonna do during their summer time? Go outside??? Spare them that terror!
This is the proper way to analyze data. Not some random site making random claims about random stations. I'd love for this to happen, and to some extent it has - ground-based land measurements have been compared to satellite and sea-based measurements, and discrepancies have been found, analyzed and accounted for. I just hate that some people think that none of this hasn't been done already.
Hey.... an AC not contributing to the discussion. Why am I not surprised? Since you seem to have been around for a while, why don't you log in?
I'm subtly insulting? Damn, I thought my insults were direct. I guess I need to work on that.
I'm quite happy discussing science. I have also no problem calling people on being stupid. Do you want to take a crack at this, or are you just happy making various proclamations? Judging by your complete lack of factual information, random and deliciously wrong guesses, and liberal use of insults, I'm thinking no. Go play in the freeway.
Vive la revolution, my friend.