6.3 vs. 9 per BILLION doesn't seem like much of a difference to me. 1.5 times a very small number is still a very small number. I'm not sure if this is statistically accurate, but based on those numbers, I figure that on any given 50km trip the chances of me dying are
0.00000000000000032% in UK vs.
0.00000000000000045% in US.
(0.00000000000001550% in UAE) I could take that trip a million times and it would still be a statistically insignificant chance of dying.
I blame the paradigm of "government". No competition. No alternative sources for their services. Private companies increase business by selling more goods or services, so they have incentive to provide better value. Government bureaucracies increase their business by creating more bureaucracy. They have no incentive to provide better value. Doing that could even be detrimental to them. Like you said, it's how people operate in general, so without the pressure to be profitable, government will always be more inefficient and wasteful than private companies.
nobody would get it through their employer, the government wouldn't be subsidizing anybody's health care, and congress wouldn't be exempt from this bill
Check out this article about where the profits go from the sale of a single $299 iPod. http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/edmundconway/100002310/what-the-ipod-tells-us-about-britains-economic-future/ Most of the manufacturing profits go to countries that make the high tech, high cost components like the hard drive and screen. Those countries are Japan and the US. Chinese companies that assemble the final product and stamp "Made in China" on it actually get very little of the profits generated.
It's a money grab, a shakedown. Patent Compliance Group filed a "qui tam" action. Qui tam is a writ whereby a private individual who assists a prosecution can receive all or part of any penalty imposed (from wikipedia).
Does anyone have any info on Patent Compliance Group, Inc.? Even though they are incorporated, I can't find any information about them, like who is on their board and where they are located.
I was wondering why a third party would be bringing legal action against Activision for allegedly violating federal patent law because it seemed to be a criminal, not a civil case. Then I look up the definition of "qui tam" Qui tam is a writ whereby a private individual who assists a prosecution can receive all or part of any penalty imposed (from wikipedia).
Also, the Radar is a certified calibrated instrument
So what? A microscope, a scale, a caliper can be a certified calibrated instrument. If it is used incorrectly or if the operator doesn't know (or care) what factors can interfere or give false readings the results are no more reliable than an eyeball estimate. Actually, it would be worse because it could give incorrect results undeserved validation.
Every high school has at least 1 gearhead kid that drives like a maniac. Nobody at your high school drove a 10 year old Camaro and thought he was a badass? C'mon....
But Bonilla sided with the officer, stating he received a clear Doppler tone indicating no interference. Given Johnson's experience, including 15 years in the traffic division, and his observations on the morning in question, “the notion that he may have picked up a different vehicle is speculation,” Bonilla wrote.
How would his 15 years of traffic division experience be relevant if he has been using the radar incorrectly for 15 years? He should have to prove that he knows how to use the radar correctly. In every speeding case, the police officer should be required to testify as to how radar actually measures speed and and list what factors could interfere with that measurement or give a false measurement.
Could you imagine if a scientist had to testify about some scientific measurement and his validation was that the "clear indicator tone showed I did it correctly"? He'd be torn apart under cross examination.
unless mommy and daddy paid a load of cash to make it go faster
Let's see... *His parents installed GPS to report his speed every 30 seconds and download the data to their computer. *If he hit 70 mph it would send his parents an email. *He was on his way to the Infineon Raceway, which on July 4, 2007 was hosting the Independence Day Bracket Drags, which is an amature/pro drag racing event that included a "High School" category.
You don't have to be Columbo to figure out that this kid probably had a propensity to burn some rubber at a stoplight.
I don't know about Canada, but in the US the number of accidents annually has been declining for years, while the number of vehicles on the road has been increasing. That stat alone indicates that there is no real problem of drivers distracted by electronic devices.
Go to The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration web page http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/ to see more evidence. The top 2 headlines on there page are: "NHTSA Announces Record Low Traffic Fatalities to Start 2009" followed by "New Research Finds Increase in Use of Hand-Held Devices Among All Drivers"
So why is there so much hype about hand held devices and driving when stats indicate there is no problem?
I'd like to see a bullet list of the features in Win7 versus Vista and XP. For the typical home user, I don't see big differences in functionality between the different Windows versions from Win2K forward. The only reason I upgraded from Win2K to XP was for remote desktop functionality that I needed for work. If the biggest differences are widgets on the desktop, fancy picture viewers, etc., then it's not worth the $100+ to buy it for my current systems. I'd take it pre-installed on a new system, but if I build my own system I'd probably use the XP that I already have.
what's marginal land today will likely turn into too hot/dry land.
How do you figure that? If water that was previously locked up in ice becomes liquid and it is warmer, increasing evaporation, wouldn't that add more water into the water cycle? So it would be warmer, but also wetter.
Well, for most of the Cenezoic era (the age of mammals, from 65 million years ago to now) there have been no polar ice caps. We are currently below the average temperature for the Cenezoic era and the average temperature for the Cenezoic era is below the average temperature of all prior eras since life has existed on Earth. http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/temperature/ Another interesting fact, the most dramatic global warming period in the geologic record, the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), was accompanied by a dramatic diversification of terrestrial life.
Being coldly clinical for a moment: death has costs.
Not smoking, not drinking alcohol and not drinking soda does not exempt you from death or from requiring expensive health treatment before you die. Being coldly realistic for a moment: everyone is going to die and most people will die of a condition requiring medical treatment before death. The whole premise of "sin" tax is BS.
It is unclear how large a threat this is to the end user.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms09-048.mspx
For XP SP2 and SP3, maximum security impact is denial of service attack, no remote code execution.
I would like an explanation of how the hair replaces silicon.
In a photovoltaic cell (or any other silicon diode) there are 2 types of silicon: negatively doped (n-type) and positively doped (p-type). It is the junction of these two types of silicon that causes it to be a diode. In a PV cell photons knock electrons across the junction and because it is a diode, they can't cross back, producing a current.
Melanin may be a semiconductor, but in hair there would be no n-type/p-type junction to make a potential difference required to produce voltage.
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6.3 vs. 9 per BILLION doesn't seem like much of a difference to me.
1.5 times a very small number is still a very small number.
I'm not sure if this is statistically accurate, but based on those numbers, I figure that on any given 50km trip the chances of me dying are
0.00000000000000032% in UK vs.
0.00000000000000045% in US.
(0.00000000000001550% in UAE) I could take that trip a million times and it would still be a statistically insignificant chance of dying.
I blame the paradigm of "government".
No competition. No alternative sources for their services.
Private companies increase business by selling more goods or services, so they have incentive to provide better value.
Government bureaucracies increase their business by creating more bureaucracy. They have no incentive to provide better value. Doing that could even be detrimental to them.
Like you said, it's how people operate in general, so without the pressure to be profitable, government will always be more inefficient and wasteful than private companies.
If health insurance was like auto insurance
nobody would get it through their employer,
the government wouldn't be subsidizing anybody's health care,
and congress wouldn't be exempt from this bill
Check out this article about where the profits go from the sale of a single $299 iPod. http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/edmundconway/100002310/what-the-ipod-tells-us-about-britains-economic-future/
Most of the manufacturing profits go to countries that make the high tech, high cost components like the hard drive and screen. Those countries are Japan and the US. Chinese companies that assemble the final product and stamp "Made in China" on it actually get very little of the profits generated.
First line in the article summary:
"Howard Schmidt, the new cybersecurity czar for the Obama administration"
What are they going to do when a kid picks up a stick and pretends it's a gun?
It's a money grab, a shakedown. Patent Compliance Group filed a "qui tam" action.
Qui tam is a writ whereby a private individual who assists a prosecution can receive all or part of any penalty imposed (from wikipedia).
Does anyone have any info on Patent Compliance Group, Inc.? Even though they are incorporated, I can't find any information about them, like who is on their board and where they are located.
I was wondering why a third party would be bringing legal action against Activision for allegedly violating federal patent law because it seemed to be a criminal, not a civil case. Then I look up the definition of "qui tam"
Qui tam is a writ whereby a private individual who assists a prosecution can receive all or part of any penalty imposed (from wikipedia).
Why do you care about popularity ratings? Just listen to what you like. End of problem.
True, but unfortunately, that doesn't stop governments from passing legislation to control or ban it.
Art museums, for not letting the visually impaired feel the masterpieces.
So what? A microscope, a scale, a caliper can be a certified calibrated instrument. If it is used incorrectly or if the operator doesn't know (or care) what factors can interfere or give false readings the results are no more reliable than an eyeball estimate. Actually, it would be worse because it could give incorrect results undeserved validation.
Every high school has at least 1 gearhead kid that drives like a maniac.
Nobody at your high school drove a 10 year old Camaro and thought he was a badass? C'mon....
How would his 15 years of traffic division experience be relevant if he has been using the radar incorrectly for 15 years? He should have to prove that he knows how to use the radar correctly.
In every speeding case, the police officer should be required to testify as to how radar actually measures speed and and list what factors could interfere with that measurement or give a false measurement.
Could you imagine if a scientist had to testify about some scientific measurement and his validation was that the "clear indicator tone showed I did it correctly"? He'd be torn apart under cross examination.
Let's see...
*His parents installed GPS to report his speed every 30 seconds and download the data to their computer.
*If he hit 70 mph it would send his parents an email.
*He was on his way to the Infineon Raceway, which on July 4, 2007 was hosting the Independence Day Bracket Drags, which is an amature/pro drag racing event that included a "High School" category.
You don't have to be Columbo to figure out that this kid probably had a propensity to burn some rubber at a stoplight.
I don't know about Canada, but in the US the number of accidents annually has been declining for years, while the number of vehicles on the road has been increasing. That stat alone indicates that there is no real problem of drivers distracted by electronic devices.
Go to The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration web page http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/ to see more evidence. The top 2 headlines on there page are:
"NHTSA Announces Record Low Traffic Fatalities to Start 2009" followed by
"New Research Finds Increase in Use of Hand-Held Devices Among All Drivers"
So why is there so much hype about hand held devices and driving when stats indicate there is no problem?
I'd like to see a bullet list of the features in Win7 versus Vista and XP. For the typical home user, I don't see big differences in functionality between the different Windows versions from Win2K forward.
The only reason I upgraded from Win2K to XP was for remote desktop functionality that I needed for work. If the biggest differences are widgets on the desktop, fancy picture viewers, etc., then it's not worth the $100+ to buy it for my current systems. I'd take it pre-installed on a new system, but if I build my own system I'd probably use the XP that I already have.
The focusfusion.org website has a "Fun" section. I don't know why I think that's funny.
what's marginal land today will likely turn into too hot/dry land.
How do you figure that? If water that was previously locked up in ice becomes liquid and it is warmer, increasing evaporation, wouldn't that add more water into the water cycle? So it would be warmer, but also wetter.
Well, for most of the Cenezoic era (the age of mammals, from 65 million years ago to now) there have been no polar ice caps. We are currently below the average temperature for the Cenezoic era and the average temperature for the Cenezoic era is below the average temperature of all prior eras since life has existed on Earth. http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/temperature/
Another interesting fact, the most dramatic global warming period in the geologic record, the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), was accompanied by a dramatic diversification of terrestrial life.
Not smoking, not drinking alcohol and not drinking soda does not exempt you from death or from requiring expensive health treatment before you die.
Being coldly realistic for a moment: everyone is going to die and most people will die of a condition requiring medical treatment before death. The whole premise of "sin" tax is BS.
I do, because it's not about the health, it's about the money.
Health issues are just an excuse to make tax increases more palatable.
So for right now, it's far from reality.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms09-048.mspx
For XP SP2 and SP3, maximum security impact is denial of service attack, no remote code execution.
I would like an explanation of how the hair replaces silicon.
In a photovoltaic cell (or any other silicon diode) there are 2 types of silicon: negatively doped (n-type) and positively doped (p-type). It is the junction of these two types of silicon that causes it to be a diode. In a PV cell photons knock electrons across the junction and because it is a diode, they can't cross back, producing a current.
Melanin may be a semiconductor, but in hair there would be no n-type/p-type junction to make a potential difference required to produce voltage.