The first three numbers refer to the area. There was a 001-01-0001, although it wasn't the "first issued". Read all about it: First SSN & Lowest Number.
Re:Rattlesnakes also warm blooded
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Actually, rattlesnakes are ovoviviparous, meaning they hold the eggs inside until they hatch and then give live birth. (Note for anyone who would kill a gravid female close to "delivery": those babies can still come out without any help from their mother.) Most boas are also live-bearers.
But for those species which are oviparous, there are some which will incubate their eggs by coiling around them and twitching, using these muscular spasms to increase their temperature up to ~7C. IIRC, some python species will do this, but it isn't typical.
Circumstantial ad hominem (poisoning the well) is using the particular circumstances of the messenger to attack his message. It is indeed a fallacy, even when the claim about his circumstances is factual. Specifically, it is a fallacy of relevance, because those circumstances are irrelevant to the truth or falsity of a conclusion, or the validity of an argument.
That isn't to say, though, that recognition of bias, or the increased potential for bias arising from circumstances, is not useful. It does play a role in "critical thinking", because it serves as a flag for taking a more critical look at the statements to spot flaws in the facts or the reasoning. But relying on those circumstances to discount what he has to say is itself a flaw in reasoning.
I think the point is that people living with these diseases would like to have cures. Maybe they just want a shot at living a normal life and an average lifespan. There are no guarantees for anyone, but having a fighting chance is nice.
Quite a few roads to hell have been paved by eugenicists, so it shouldn't be surprising that many people now hesitate walking on paths that intersect them, knowing full well that there will always be people willing to turn at that intersection and follow in those footsteps, perhaps without even noticing.
The "real question[s]" you point to look more like pamphlet questions to me--the easy, obvious questions that guide the reader to predetermined conclusions. Then the segue into "the magic topic of race". A couple of statements of "fact" to get the nod of agreement, and then,
"How will people react to the mounds of evidence that will continue to build that the races are not indeed equal as they would want to believe?"
Hello! How easy is that jump from issues of medicine to issues of sociopolitical philosophy?
Sure, if people don't die from one disease, they may well end up dying from a different disease. Or get hit by a truck. So to minimize the risk of disease, try standing in a busy street.
That may be one of their fears, that their marketing will become less valuable when people can search for themselves to find books that interest them, but I would say that would be an unreasonable fear. Consumers often enough become interested in new books because of the promotion, and not because they already cared enough about the subject matter to actively search for it. Else they'd just browse shelves (or online categories).
The indexing, then, would be most useful to people who are actively searching for particular information that may not be captured in titles, reviews, or descriptions, meeting a need that isn't currently met by publishers' marketing. So it seems to me this project should augment rather than replace that marketing. One allows people to find what they're already looking for while the other introduces it to people who wouldn't have been looking for it otherwise.
Your ellipses leave out a lot. The comment about football games refers to the Apr. 7, 2009 date approved by the Senate Commerce Committee, not the date in the (draft) House legislation, 12/31/08.
I guarantee that at least 50% of today's Firefox users will switch back to IE upon the release of Vista.
And when web designers start unbreaking their code for IE7, at least 50% of today's IE users will switch to Firefox because they still don't want to upgrade Windows.
The copyright holder's exclusive right to copy is what is being "stolen", not the copy itself.
For those who insist that it can't be theft because no one is being deprived of anything: if the copyright isn't defended when it is infringed, then the copyright holder is indeed "deprived" of his exclusive copyright.
That said, I understand the distaste for emotionally-charged terms like "theft". Perhaps the biggest problem in using that term, though, is not the emotional connotations so much as it confuses who the actual "thief" is and what actually has been "stolen".
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The first three numbers refer to the area. There was a 001-01-0001, although it wasn't the "first issued". Read all about it: First SSN & Lowest Number.
Actually, rattlesnakes are ovoviviparous, meaning they hold the eggs inside until they hatch and then give live birth. (Note for anyone who would kill a gravid female close to "delivery": those babies can still come out without any help from their mother.) Most boas are also live-bearers.
But for those species which are oviparous, there are some which will incubate their eggs by coiling around them and twitching, using these muscular spasms to increase their temperature up to ~7C. IIRC, some python species will do this, but it isn't typical.
Circumstantial ad hominem (poisoning the well) is using the particular circumstances of the messenger to attack his message. It is indeed a fallacy, even when the claim about his circumstances is factual. Specifically, it is a fallacy of relevance, because those circumstances are irrelevant to the truth or falsity of a conclusion, or the validity of an argument.
That isn't to say, though, that recognition of bias, or the increased potential for bias arising from circumstances, is not useful. It does play a role in "critical thinking", because it serves as a flag for taking a more critical look at the statements to spot flaws in the facts or the reasoning. But relying on those circumstances to discount what he has to say is itself a flaw in reasoning.
Ipse dixit is a different issue: appeal to authority.
I think the point is that people living with these diseases would like to have cures. Maybe they just want a shot at living a normal life and an average lifespan. There are no guarantees for anyone, but having a fighting chance is nice.
Quite a few roads to hell have been paved by eugenicists, so it shouldn't be surprising that many people now hesitate walking on paths that intersect them, knowing full well that there will always be people willing to turn at that intersection and follow in those footsteps, perhaps without even noticing.
The "real question[s]" you point to look more like pamphlet questions to me--the easy, obvious questions that guide the reader to predetermined conclusions. Then the segue into "the magic topic of race". A couple of statements of "fact" to get the nod of agreement, and then,
"How will people react to the mounds of evidence that will continue to build that the races are not indeed equal as they would want to believe?"
Hello! How easy is that jump from issues of medicine to issues of sociopolitical philosophy?
Sure, if people don't die from one disease, they may well end up dying from a different disease. Or get hit by a truck. So to minimize the risk of disease, try standing in a busy street.
Both benefit from the ability to adopt an alien perspective, whether a fictional character or a fictional user.
That may be one of their fears, that their marketing will become less valuable when people can search for themselves to find books that interest them, but I would say that would be an unreasonable fear. Consumers often enough become interested in new books because of the promotion, and not because they already cared enough about the subject matter to actively search for it. Else they'd just browse shelves (or online categories).
The indexing, then, would be most useful to people who are actively searching for particular information that may not be captured in titles, reviews, or descriptions, meeting a need that isn't currently met by publishers' marketing. So it seems to me this project should augment rather than replace that marketing. One allows people to find what they're already looking for while the other introduces it to people who wouldn't have been looking for it otherwise.
Your ellipses leave out a lot. The comment about football games refers to the Apr. 7, 2009 date approved by the Senate Commerce Committee, not the date in the (draft) House legislation, 12/31/08.
And when web designers start unbreaking their code for IE7, at least 50% of today's IE users will switch to Firefox because they still don't want to upgrade Windows.
Since I have yet to see any controls that require a male member to manipulate, I'd say no.
The copyright holder's exclusive right to copy is what is being "stolen", not the copy itself.
For those who insist that it can't be theft because no one is being deprived of anything: if the copyright isn't defended when it is infringed, then the copyright holder is indeed "deprived" of his exclusive copyright.
That said, I understand the distaste for emotionally-charged terms like "theft". Perhaps the biggest problem in using that term, though, is not the emotional connotations so much as it confuses who the actual "thief" is and what actually has been "stolen".