While it is true that desparate people are more likely to consider certain things to be justified even though they would be traditionally considered immoral, in more than a few cases it may actually be that what is moral *is* different - if you consider morality to be based on what does the most good.
For example, if someone's family actually was starving and there was truly no other way for him to get food, would it be better for his family to starve or for him to steal? And in the case of the Andes plane crash, wasn't it better for them to eat the people who had died, than for everyone to die?
It's bad to use HTML tags and attributes for styling (colors, fonts, etc) when CSS does as well or better. It's *good* to use HTML to define the *structure* and *content* of the document - and that's what these new tags facilitate.
There's really no reason to delete old email. I get rid of junk in my home because it distracts me, makes it harder to keep track of the good stuff and keep it safe, takes too much space, and gets in the way. Old email doesn't have to do any of that. I use a combination of folders, labelling, and automatic message filters to organize my mail. When I'm not interested in it, it's not in my way, and when I want to, I can go back however far I please and look up even the most obscure details of old communications with just a couple of keystrokes. It has the best results all around, and that's what counts.
I have reinstalled for them a few times but sooner or later it gets back in the 'bad' state. I'd recommend xp but these machines are pII 450's,- pIII 600's and I think only one has 128 megs of ram.
That's plenty enough for a minimal install of XP, at least in my experience - I installed XP on a Celeron 500 MHZ w/128MB of RAM, and use it for "minimum hardware requirements" testing, and it works quite decently with several Firefox windows, Thunderbird, MS Word, several Explorer windows, and a few other small apps open on 2 separate accounts at the same time. I did strip it down with NLite but that was more to reduce the required disk space than anything else. Should have suitable perf for them and of course a whole lot more stability and security.
The author the report further states, " In 2003, nearly 26 percent of foreign-born TB patients in the United States were from Mexico ".
Also from the article: "The report found that people from outside the United States accounted for 53.3 percent of all new tuberculosis cases in this country in 2003."
So the 26% figure is of the 53% of cases that involved foreign-born people - which means the percentage of all TB cases that are from Mexican-born patients is 14%.
As for Chagas: The only significant ways of contracting the disease are through an insect vector, to a baby from its mother, and through blood transfusions and organ donations. If it is a major concern, perhaps donors from Latin American countries should not be allowed to donate until a suitable screening test is available for the disease. That will ensure that there is a very miniscule chance of contracting it even among those who have blood transfusions.
Windows XP's listed memory requirement is 128MB. I have a computer here that is running XP with 128MB, and it works fine with themes and effects enabled, and 2 user accounts running simultaneously, with each account having a couple of browser windows open, a couple of documents open in Word 2003, Thunderbird, Explorer, and perhaps a few other apps. That's more than could be kept open for more than a few hours (if that) when it was running Windows 98.
I wouldn't think of using it for dev work or anything like that, but for the casual home user, it's just fine. I'm guessing that the same will be the case concerning Windows Vista's requirements.
>I guess, for me, this "begs" the question of: Why can't I just get links of new podcasts sent to me in a daily email?
Because maybe you don't want to have to deal with the podcast emails sitting in your inbox at times when you're not interested in podcasts - maybe you'd prefer to keep the clutter down and use your inbox for what it's meant for - mail. Maybe you want to see a list of the latest podcasts on a sidebar. Maybe you want to use the list from a custom application - for example, a remote-control-based media center application.
>Furthremore, it seems an RSS reader is tied to a specific computer, despite the fact that I roam.......
Yes, it's a pain - and it doesn't have to be that way. Nothing in the RSS spec does anything to require that.
>The closest thing I use is Gmail's "Web clips".
Which happens to be a very simple web-based RSS client integrated into Gmail - hooray for a good use of RSS!:-)
Well, I think it was because they wanted to create a single world government, which would quickly become corrupt and would deteriorate to the state things were in before the Flood: organized oppression of all sorts, violence, and all kinds of evil across the entire populated earth, with nowhere to flee. Confusing their languages caused them to be isolated into family groups, spread over the earth, and form separate systems of government.
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While it is true that desparate people are more likely to consider certain things to be justified even though they would be traditionally considered immoral, in more than a few cases it may actually be that what is moral *is* different - if you consider morality to be based on what does the most good.
For example, if someone's family actually was starving and there was truly no other way for him to get food, would it be better for his family to starve or for him to steal? And in the case of the Andes plane crash, wasn't it better for them to eat the people who had died, than for everyone to die?
It's bad to use HTML tags and attributes for styling (colors, fonts, etc) when CSS does as well or better. It's *good* to use HTML to define the *structure* and *content* of the document - and that's what these new tags facilitate.
Well said!
There's really no reason to delete old email. I get rid of junk in my home because it distracts me, makes it harder to keep track of the good stuff and keep it safe, takes too much space, and gets in the way. Old email doesn't have to do any of that. I use a combination of folders, labelling, and automatic message filters to organize my mail. When I'm not interested in it, it's not in my way, and when I want to, I can go back however far I please and look up even the most obscure details of old communications with just a couple of keystrokes. It has the best results all around, and that's what counts.
I have reinstalled for them a few times but sooner or later it gets back in the 'bad' state. I'd recommend xp but these machines are pII 450's,- pIII 600's and I think only one has 128 megs of ram.
That's plenty enough for a minimal install of XP, at least in my experience - I installed XP on a Celeron 500 MHZ w/128MB of RAM, and use it for "minimum hardware requirements" testing, and it works quite decently with several Firefox windows, Thunderbird, MS Word, several Explorer windows, and a few other small apps open on 2 separate accounts at the same time. I did strip it down with NLite but that was more to reduce the required disk space than anything else. Should have suitable perf for them and of course a whole lot more stability and security.
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The author the report further states, " In 2003, nearly 26 percent of foreign-born TB patients in the United States were from Mexico ".
Also from the article: "The report found that people from outside the United States accounted for 53.3 percent of all new tuberculosis cases in this country in 2003."
So the 26% figure is of the 53% of cases that involved foreign-born people - which means the percentage of all TB cases that are from Mexican-born patients is 14%.
As for Chagas: The only significant ways of contracting the disease are through an insect vector, to a baby from its mother, and through blood transfusions and organ donations. If it is a major concern, perhaps donors from Latin American countries should not be allowed to donate until a suitable screening test is available for the disease. That will ensure that there is a very miniscule chance of contracting it even among those who have blood transfusions.
Windows XP's listed memory requirement is 128MB. I have a computer here that is running XP with 128MB, and it works fine with themes and effects enabled, and 2 user accounts running simultaneously, with each account having a couple of browser windows open, a couple of documents open in Word 2003, Thunderbird, Explorer, and perhaps a few other apps. That's more than could be kept open for more than a few hours (if that) when it was running Windows 98.
I wouldn't think of using it for dev work or anything like that, but for the casual home user, it's just fine. I'm guessing that the same will be the case concerning Windows Vista's requirements.
>on which to work on their competitive edge: IE.
:-O
"competitive edge" and "IE" used in the same sentence - oh the irony!
*head explodes*
>I guess, for me, this "begs" the question of: Why can't I just get links of new podcasts sent to me in a daily email?
:-)
Because maybe you don't want to have to deal with the podcast emails sitting in your inbox at times when you're not interested in podcasts - maybe you'd prefer to keep the clutter down and use your inbox for what it's meant for - mail. Maybe you want to see a list of the latest podcasts on a sidebar. Maybe you want to use the list from a custom application - for example, a remote-control-based media center application.
>Furthremore, it seems an RSS reader is tied to a specific computer, despite the fact that I roam.......
Yes, it's a pain - and it doesn't have to be that way. Nothing in the RSS spec does anything to require that.
>The closest thing I use is Gmail's "Web clips".
Which happens to be a very simple web-based RSS client integrated into Gmail - hooray for a good use of RSS!
Well, I think it was because they wanted to create a single world government, which would quickly become corrupt and would deteriorate to the state things were in before the Flood: organized oppression of all sorts, violence, and all kinds of evil across the entire populated earth, with nowhere to flee. Confusing their languages caused them to be isolated into family groups, spread over the earth, and form separate systems of government.