$400k isn't worth even contemplating. To put it into context $15 billion dollars is roughly $1 per week per person living in the US. $400k is such a tiny amount of money that it would cost more to find things that small to cut than it would save to actually cut them.
But, despite your "insightful" comment, it is in fact a very important thing to be studying, follow up research to remedy the problems could very well save multiples of that amount on things like STI education.
Actually, you'd be surprised, inflammation and poor sleep are linked to all kinds of different diseases. Admittedly the degree of actual support in the documentation varies widely depending upon the specifics, but I definitely wouldn't rule out her claims on a brief look.
Lazy is one aspect, but the main draw is that these sorts of devices are meant to power multiple different types of gadgets and to use less power when just plugged in.
And when we get a standardized option available manufacturers wouldn't have to include a charger because we'd be able to use the same one that we're using for most of our other devices.
That'll change as time goes by. The main use for CRTs has been in art for some time, but as the gamut, resolution and response time improves, there's going to be no justification for the added bulk.
Personally, I wouldn't count on this sort of technology being of any use anytime soon, the current offerings like the products at wildcharge.com are likely about as close as we'll get. There's just way too many important things for this sort of thing to interfere with.
That's why Steve's slaving away at an iZapper app. It randomly zaps the users with about a thousand volts just to make sure they meant to be holding it.
Not really, name me one place where going to find somebody that you know is receiving stolen goods doesn't raise that possibility. This is hardly just an urban thing, trying to get things back from thieves is potentially very dangerous, you never know when that thief is going to turn out to be a two strikes offender.
But you being able to watch them defeats the point. You're just supposed to give them cash, I mean that's why they make films, certainly not so that people can watch them. Were you to be able to watch the film, you might be able to remember the sequences and dialog and act it out later on. Clearly that would be a violation of copyright law and as such you shouldn't be allowed to watch.
But, they could get around that by behaving in a responsible fashion. They never used to ask for that information, at least not any of the times that I've applied for new cellphone service. And if they didn't provide unsolicited unlimited accounts, most people wouldn't notice the difference. Arguably it would be better for everybody if they didn't allow you to rack up thousands of dollars of debt without asking for permission. Basically this is just a way of getting more power to extort people out of money when the contract isn't clear.
There's just been too many stories of phone companies extending tens of thousands of dollars in credit without informing the customer that they're doing so.
I haven't gotten a new phone in years, but I don't recall Sprint demanding a SSN from me, admittedly that was a few years ago, but at that time a phone was basically a guaranteed way of getting a bit of credit history. Rarely if ever did a phone company say no and even when they did that just meant you paid a deposit.
Which leads me to wonder, why in the hell the cellphone companies feel entitled to that kind of invasive questioning now, when it costs them so little to provide many of the most egregiously abused billable services. Texting, which they'll gladly charge thousands of dollars shaking down teens costs them precisely nothing to provide.
That's strange a candidate who has precisely zero chance of every becoming relevant is ignored by the people that are supposed to be covering the news. If only there were some organization with the guts to cover things that nobody really cares about.
Seriously though, what exactly entitles Ron Paul to coverage. At some point you actually have to put up a decent showing if you wish to get time on the national news, it's strange how you have to be involved in the news to make it into the news. Just because the news media has a tendency to give the right wing a free pass doesn't mean that it should.
That would explain a lot. At work our log program looks OK, but requires an inexplicable intervention of the mouse when changing between two specific fields. Everywhere else on the form I can get to the next one by hitting tab, except for that one, which doesn't work right. And on top of that the developers working on it decided that rather than being able to type 24 as 2 4, we should have to do it 2 2 2 2 2.
I can't pretend to understand what sort of brain damaged logic resulted in that being signed off on. In this case doing it the way that it's always been done is perhaps the more innovative approach. And that's sort of like Linux, adding new usability features is good, so long as they actually add to the experience without making things unnecessarily complicated. And honestly, Linux gets too much of both.
I don't really agree, that's ram which I could be using for other things, there isn't really any good reason why a browser or any other application should be allowed to take up a lot of unnecessary ram. In order to deal with the spikes, there has to either be enough ram or the OS has to page things over to swap. Neither of which is necessarily what you want. And it's really not acceptable to require people to pay for too much ram simply because the developers are too lazy to worry about the amount of ram that they're wasting.
Yes, getting CSS right is important, but let's be honest, as long as IE6 is making things look like ass, it's rather a moot point in most cases.
That's not the job of the FDA. The FDA is just to decide what medications are and are not fit for human consumption, they do not force it on people. Furthermore, there is really no good evidence that the FDA is any better or worse than similar agencies in other regions. There are issues, but it's with congress not the FDA.
As for the hormones, there is no evidence that the hormones have any effect of any sort of milk. There are issues of animal wellfare involved, but none of safety. To date there has never been a test devised which could tell natural milk from hormone enriched cow's milk.
As for aspartame, it's completely safe, there has never been any research which suggested anything else. Aspartame when taken in massive quantities by rats has somewhat increased the incidence of cancer. There is absolutely no evidence that humans get cancer from consuming quantities of aspartame that one might actually be able to ingest. In fact it's safer than sugar, since aspartame doesn't cause diabetes.
The big issue is that the FDA ought to be segmented up into Food, Drugs and Supplements and then let those handle the items that come into their jurisdiction.
That's kind of closed minded, don't you think? It makes a huge difference how it's handled, all nationalized care is not the same.
The federal government has been studying how it is that the king county, WA government has been providing coverage to its employees. Basically they've managed to get the cost of health care to go down substantially without reducing the quality of necessary care. Basically they've been reducing the premiums and increasing the amount of co-pays that employees pay. The net cost to the employee for the care is somewhat lower than it was, but there's far less money spent on doctors appointments that can more effectively be handled in other ways.
That's more or less why I always buy AMD. The performance, except perhaps early on with FPU, has always been good and at a price I could afford. Well, that and my annoyance at the monopolistic behaviors of Intel.
Additionally, I really like what I've seen from AMD recently, sure it probably isn't as good at the top end of the offerings, but my current set up cost me somewhat less than $500 and is able to handle things like virtual box quite well.
I missed it, but did the defense allow the plaintiff's counsel to suggest that she knew she'd be sued before being served? I remember one of the jurors spouting off about how she was destroying evidence in response to papers she wouldn't be served until a few weeks after the hard drive was detroyed.
The downside is that it would require regulating corporations, and a substantial portion of the populace is deathly afraid of that. Ironically enough, people can and do die because of the opposition to proper regulation.
It's also expensive which would require businesses to pay more or for the government to grow. Also things which the same portion of the populace is terrified of.
Personally, I'm fine if people want to injure themselves in that fashion, but I want to be able to know that anything I use is as safe as possible. Realistically we can't test everything sufficiently to be absolutely certain, but we can test in a prudent manner to at least uncover the more obvious risks.
Largely yes, they do suck, but a large part of that has to do with the difficulty of changing networks. Nearly all the people I call are with AT&T, were I to switch carriers, I'd suddenly have to care about how many minutes I'm getting. And as hard as it is for me to believe, the reception seems to be worse than when Cingular was holding my account.
Phones are similar, if you're locked into a portion of the market making a more specialized phone is much less likely to turn a profit. Whereas it might do fine in the market at large, you're artificially stuck making it available network by network.
That's not at all what they're complaining about. They're complaining about the fact that they couldn't make iPhones and other sought after phones available to their customers.
Basically they're stepping in for the consumer in this instance, which is common for smaller competitors to do, to try and get a piece of the action. Which is necessary for a competitive market. Not that an individual phone which is paid for largely or entirely by subsidy be allowed to break the contract with no consequence. Just allow for any company that wishes to offer the subsidy the opportunity to do so.
Not really, that way I'd get to make that determination. As it is, I don't get to see the content at all without jumping through a number of hoops. As long as I have to boot Windows, run Firefox in wine or similar effort I'll be greatly restricted in which sites I do get to use.
The fact that it's mostly crap that shouldn't be Flash in the first place is a secondary issue. And largely irrelevant if I can't see it. Broken is broken is broken; if Adobe doesn't want to provide proper viewers to everybody that wants it, then they shouldn't be allowed to have a standard.
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$400k isn't worth even contemplating. To put it into context $15 billion dollars is roughly $1 per week per person living in the US. $400k is such a tiny amount of money that it would cost more to find things that small to cut than it would save to actually cut them.
But, despite your "insightful" comment, it is in fact a very important thing to be studying, follow up research to remedy the problems could very well save multiples of that amount on things like STI education.
Actually, you'd be surprised, inflammation and poor sleep are linked to all kinds of different diseases. Admittedly the degree of actual support in the documentation varies widely depending upon the specifics, but I definitely wouldn't rule out her claims on a brief look.
Lazy is one aspect, but the main draw is that these sorts of devices are meant to power multiple different types of gadgets and to use less power when just plugged in.
And when we get a standardized option available manufacturers wouldn't have to include a charger because we'd be able to use the same one that we're using for most of our other devices.
That'll change as time goes by. The main use for CRTs has been in art for some time, but as the gamut, resolution and response time improves, there's going to be no justification for the added bulk.
Personally, I wouldn't count on this sort of technology being of any use anytime soon, the current offerings like the products at wildcharge.com are likely about as close as we'll get. There's just way too many important things for this sort of thing to interfere with.
Yeah, good thing you're not in or around Virginia Tech, otherwise that could've been awkward.
That's why Steve's slaving away at an iZapper app. It randomly zaps the users with about a thousand volts just to make sure they meant to be holding it.
Not really, name me one place where going to find somebody that you know is receiving stolen goods doesn't raise that possibility. This is hardly just an urban thing, trying to get things back from thieves is potentially very dangerous, you never know when that thief is going to turn out to be a two strikes offender.
But you being able to watch them defeats the point. You're just supposed to give them cash, I mean that's why they make films, certainly not so that people can watch them. Were you to be able to watch the film, you might be able to remember the sequences and dialog and act it out later on. Clearly that would be a violation of copyright law and as such you shouldn't be allowed to watch.
But, they could get around that by behaving in a responsible fashion. They never used to ask for that information, at least not any of the times that I've applied for new cellphone service. And if they didn't provide unsolicited unlimited accounts, most people wouldn't notice the difference. Arguably it would be better for everybody if they didn't allow you to rack up thousands of dollars of debt without asking for permission. Basically this is just a way of getting more power to extort people out of money when the contract isn't clear.
There's just been too many stories of phone companies extending tens of thousands of dollars in credit without informing the customer that they're doing so.
I haven't gotten a new phone in years, but I don't recall Sprint demanding a SSN from me, admittedly that was a few years ago, but at that time a phone was basically a guaranteed way of getting a bit of credit history. Rarely if ever did a phone company say no and even when they did that just meant you paid a deposit.
Which leads me to wonder, why in the hell the cellphone companies feel entitled to that kind of invasive questioning now, when it costs them so little to provide many of the most egregiously abused billable services. Texting, which they'll gladly charge thousands of dollars shaking down teens costs them precisely nothing to provide.
Copyright? Isn't that the result of using the right shift operator?
That's strange a candidate who has precisely zero chance of every becoming relevant is ignored by the people that are supposed to be covering the news. If only there were some organization with the guts to cover things that nobody really cares about.
Seriously though, what exactly entitles Ron Paul to coverage. At some point you actually have to put up a decent showing if you wish to get time on the national news, it's strange how you have to be involved in the news to make it into the news. Just because the news media has a tendency to give the right wing a free pass doesn't mean that it should.
Don't they do that in the Netherlands? Or have they shut down their red light districts?
That would explain a lot. At work our log program looks OK, but requires an inexplicable intervention of the mouse when changing between two specific fields. Everywhere else on the form I can get to the next one by hitting tab, except for that one, which doesn't work right. And on top of that the developers working on it decided that rather than being able to type 24 as 2 4, we should have to do it 2 2 2 2 2.
I can't pretend to understand what sort of brain damaged logic resulted in that being signed off on. In this case doing it the way that it's always been done is perhaps the more innovative approach. And that's sort of like Linux, adding new usability features is good, so long as they actually add to the experience without making things unnecessarily complicated. And honestly, Linux gets too much of both.
I don't really agree, that's ram which I could be using for other things, there isn't really any good reason why a browser or any other application should be allowed to take up a lot of unnecessary ram. In order to deal with the spikes, there has to either be enough ram or the OS has to page things over to swap. Neither of which is necessarily what you want. And it's really not acceptable to require people to pay for too much ram simply because the developers are too lazy to worry about the amount of ram that they're wasting.
Yes, getting CSS right is important, but let's be honest, as long as IE6 is making things look like ass, it's rather a moot point in most cases.
That's not the job of the FDA. The FDA is just to decide what medications are and are not fit for human consumption, they do not force it on people. Furthermore, there is really no good evidence that the FDA is any better or worse than similar agencies in other regions. There are issues, but it's with congress not the FDA.
As for the hormones, there is no evidence that the hormones have any effect of any sort of milk. There are issues of animal wellfare involved, but none of safety. To date there has never been a test devised which could tell natural milk from hormone enriched cow's milk.
As for aspartame, it's completely safe, there has never been any research which suggested anything else. Aspartame when taken in massive quantities by rats has somewhat increased the incidence of cancer. There is absolutely no evidence that humans get cancer from consuming quantities of aspartame that one might actually be able to ingest. In fact it's safer than sugar, since aspartame doesn't cause diabetes.
The big issue is that the FDA ought to be segmented up into Food, Drugs and Supplements and then let those handle the items that come into their jurisdiction.
That's kind of closed minded, don't you think? It makes a huge difference how it's handled, all nationalized care is not the same.
The federal government has been studying how it is that the king county, WA government has been providing coverage to its employees. Basically they've managed to get the cost of health care to go down substantially without reducing the quality of necessary care. Basically they've been reducing the premiums and increasing the amount of co-pays that employees pay. The net cost to the employee for the care is somewhat lower than it was, but there's far less money spent on doctors appointments that can more effectively be handled in other ways.
That's more or less why I always buy AMD. The performance, except perhaps early on with FPU, has always been good and at a price I could afford. Well, that and my annoyance at the monopolistic behaviors of Intel.
Additionally, I really like what I've seen from AMD recently, sure it probably isn't as good at the top end of the offerings, but my current set up cost me somewhat less than $500 and is able to handle things like virtual box quite well.
I missed it, but did the defense allow the plaintiff's counsel to suggest that she knew she'd be sued before being served? I remember one of the jurors spouting off about how she was destroying evidence in response to papers she wouldn't be served until a few weeks after the hard drive was detroyed.
That's smelling impaired you insensitive clod.
The downside is that it would require regulating corporations, and a substantial portion of the populace is deathly afraid of that. Ironically enough, people can and do die because of the opposition to proper regulation.
It's also expensive which would require businesses to pay more or for the government to grow. Also things which the same portion of the populace is terrified of.
Personally, I'm fine if people want to injure themselves in that fashion, but I want to be able to know that anything I use is as safe as possible. Realistically we can't test everything sufficiently to be absolutely certain, but we can test in a prudent manner to at least uncover the more obvious risks.
What are you talking about? We've already seen peak oil, that came about a few years back.
Largely yes, they do suck, but a large part of that has to do with the difficulty of changing networks. Nearly all the people I call are with AT&T, were I to switch carriers, I'd suddenly have to care about how many minutes I'm getting. And as hard as it is for me to believe, the reception seems to be worse than when Cingular was holding my account.
Phones are similar, if you're locked into a portion of the market making a more specialized phone is much less likely to turn a profit. Whereas it might do fine in the market at large, you're artificially stuck making it available network by network.
That's not at all what they're complaining about. They're complaining about the fact that they couldn't make iPhones and other sought after phones available to their customers. Basically they're stepping in for the consumer in this instance, which is common for smaller competitors to do, to try and get a piece of the action. Which is necessary for a competitive market. Not that an individual phone which is paid for largely or entirely by subsidy be allowed to break the contract with no consequence. Just allow for any company that wishes to offer the subsidy the opportunity to do so.
Not really, that way I'd get to make that determination. As it is, I don't get to see the content at all without jumping through a number of hoops. As long as I have to boot Windows, run Firefox in wine or similar effort I'll be greatly restricted in which sites I do get to use.
The fact that it's mostly crap that shouldn't be Flash in the first place is a secondary issue. And largely irrelevant if I can't see it. Broken is broken is broken; if Adobe doesn't want to provide proper viewers to everybody that wants it, then they shouldn't be allowed to have a standard.