In all of the planning that's been going on in my public health work, the big worry is that this will repeat the pattern of the 1918 pandemic:
- The disease shows up in a weak form in the spring, makes some people mildly ill, kills some people who are traditionally susceptible to influenza (very young, elderly, and people with chronic disease)
- The disease mostly disappears through the summer--not entirely, but becomes much less common
- The disease shows up again in the fall in a new, much more virulent form, and has a much higher mortality rate, especially among healthy adults. See this graph, which shows how the mortality among different ages was very different from traditional influenza.
There is no guarantee that this would happen, and no guarantee that it won't peter out like the 1976 fiasco. But we see it as a better bet to risk the accusation of an overreaction than to risk not being prepared.
Well...yes and no.
There is quite a history of companies getting out of agreements like this. Most commonly, this happens through bankruptcy restructuring (see Northwest Airlines in Minnesota). But not always, such as the Seattle SuperSonics (basketball team), who are in the process of trying to sue their way out of a contract to lease an arena in Seattle.
Parts of the Department of the Interior were allowed to reconnect about 4-5 years ago, including the Park Service and the Bureau of Land Management. The entire Department of the Interior was taken offline for a year or so.
I don't believe that you should be going to college to get a job. If you want a job, go to a community college for two years and get a job. (not to denigrate community colleges)
The most important thing you can do in selecting a school is to visit the campus. Meet students. Go to classes. Meet the people who will actually be teaching the classes (professors or not). Do an overnight visit if you can.
Then ask yourself: does this feel right to me? Could I see myself as one of these students? Does the campus feel like home?
If the answer is yes, go there.
When I was in school, there were only a few classes where electronic note-taking was feasible. I spent too much time drawing diagrams, doing equations, and scribbling notes in the margins for a laptop to be worth it. There was one class where I took notes with an external keyboard on my PalmPilot, and that worked well simply because it was a pure lecture class really without diagrams.
This is worrisome. I've been really happy with my service--I signed up on a "buy one year, get the second year free" deal, so it's about $8/month for service.
When I hit the Sunrocket website, http://www.sunrocket.com/, it doesn't seem to have changed. They're still asking for business, and there isn't any mention of this story.
The only difference that I notice is that when I log into my member page, there's a message that says "Voicemail is currently not available." But again, no mention of ceasing operations or anything else. I guess we'll just have to see...
As someone who has experience dispatching law enforcement, traffic stops are the #1 most dangerous thing that cops do. Way above drug busts, SWAT team actions, etc.
When an officer would make a stop, we'd set a clock, and they had to check in every 3-5 minutes. If not, we'd send backup automatically and assume that they've been harmed and/or assaulted in some manner, either by the occupants or by being hit by a passing car.
That depends. The relevant passage of the bill is as follows:
(18) PAID EFFORTS TO STIMULATE GRASSROOTS LOBBYING- `(A) IN GENERAL- The term `paid efforts to stimulate grassroots lobbying' means any paid attempt in support of lobbying contacts on behalf of a client to influence the general public or segments thereof to contact one or more covered legislative or executive branch officials (or Congress as a whole) to urge such officials (or Congress) to take specific action I think that the GP misspoke. Bloggers who are not hired by a client to influence specific action are not affected.
This is crap. The bill refers only to PAID lobbyists, not to unpaid lobbyists. To quote from the bill itself:
(1) in paragraph (7), by adding at the end of the following: `Lobbying activities include paid efforts to stimulate grassroots lobbying, but do not include grassroots lobbying.'; and
(2) by adding at the end of the following:
`(17) GRASSROOTS LOBBYING- The term `grassroots lobbying' means the voluntary efforts of members of the general public to communicate their own views on an issue to Federal officials or to encourage other members of the general public to do the same.
`(18) PAID EFFORTS TO STIMULATE GRASSROOTS LOBBYING-
`(A) IN GENERAL- The term `paid efforts to stimulate grassroots lobbying' means any paid attempt in support of lobbying contacts on behalf of a client to influence the general public or segments thereof to contact one or more covered legislative or executive branch officials (or Congress as a whole) to urge such officials (or Congress) to take specific action with respect to a matter described in section 3(8)(A), except that such term does not include any communications by an entity directed to its members, employees, officers, or shareholders. So if you are retained by a client to blog with the intent of stimulating a particular viewpoint or stimulating grassroots lobbying efforts, then yes, you must register as a lobbyist. If you are sitting in your PJ's, blogging on your off-hours, then you don't need to register.
Please, learn to read the bill.
Another thing to remember is that the iTunes Music Store for Windows was introduced on October 16, 2003. That's about when you start to see a steady increase in iPod sales and revenue, according to your graph.
Thanks, that's what I was wondering. Not being a lawyer, I wouldn't know if something sounds good to a layman, but is just some crack-pot idea. It sounds like with lawyers like that, he's got a reasonable chance.
Could someone who actually IS a lawyer respond about the validity of this defense?
I read it and say "yeah, that makes sense," but that doesn't mean anything because I don't know all of the ins and outs of litigation.
And this will change their current behavior...how exactly?
Ever since emissions standards were introduced, the automakers have been fighting them every step of the way. This won't change how the automakers treat emissions standards (unless they manage to win, of course)
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The customary rate is between 3% and 5% of the total purchase, though larger companies could probably sign a contract for a smaller percentage.
In addition, most credit card contracts in the US stipulate that the seller must charge the same price for paying with a credit card as paying with cash or check.
I would like to see something more like the Fraternal Order of Police. Something that isn't a union in the sense that they will negotiate contracts and all the seniority stuff, but something that a worker can call on to help advocate for their side in personnel discussions. That would be more useful to me than a Teamsters-type of union.
More and bigger roads, logically enough, would be the better solution. Reducing congestion would save an enormous amount of money, almost certainly more than we could ever save from an impossible task like increasing mass transit market share to, say, 10%.
Most studies show the exact opposite. Increasing road capacity increases road usage
The other thing about building more roads is that there will ALWAYS be a chokepoint that will jam up--a merge with another highway, a bridge, a short exit ramp with a stoplight at the top. It might move faster on the expanded section, but that is only a temporary reprieve.
My Latitude 610 runs SUSE 10 just fine also, though I've run into the same problem as you with the dock. I've found that I can undock when the computer is on, but not dock when the computer is on.
The only other problem that I had was configuring the two-monitor display--it just requires having two copies of xorg.conf, depending on whether I have the dual display going.
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In all of the planning that's been going on in my public health work, the big worry is that this will repeat the pattern of the 1918 pandemic: - The disease shows up in a weak form in the spring, makes some people mildly ill, kills some people who are traditionally susceptible to influenza (very young, elderly, and people with chronic disease) - The disease mostly disappears through the summer--not entirely, but becomes much less common - The disease shows up again in the fall in a new, much more virulent form, and has a much higher mortality rate, especially among healthy adults. See this graph, which shows how the mortality among different ages was very different from traditional influenza. There is no guarantee that this would happen, and no guarantee that it won't peter out like the 1976 fiasco. But we see it as a better bet to risk the accusation of an overreaction than to risk not being prepared.
Well...yes and no. There is quite a history of companies getting out of agreements like this. Most commonly, this happens through bankruptcy restructuring (see Northwest Airlines in Minnesota). But not always, such as the Seattle SuperSonics (basketball team), who are in the process of trying to sue their way out of a contract to lease an arena in Seattle.
Why not just wallpaper in xkcd comics?
Parts of the Department of the Interior were allowed to reconnect about 4-5 years ago, including the Park Service and the Bureau of Land Management. The entire Department of the Interior was taken offline for a year or so.
I don't believe that you should be going to college to get a job. If you want a job, go to a community college for two years and get a job. (not to denigrate community colleges) The most important thing you can do in selecting a school is to visit the campus. Meet students. Go to classes. Meet the people who will actually be teaching the classes (professors or not). Do an overnight visit if you can. Then ask yourself: does this feel right to me? Could I see myself as one of these students? Does the campus feel like home? If the answer is yes, go there.
Why is Budweiser like making love in a canoe? They're both fucking close to water.
When I was in school, there were only a few classes where electronic note-taking was feasible. I spent too much time drawing diagrams, doing equations, and scribbling notes in the margins for a laptop to be worth it. There was one class where I took notes with an external keyboard on my PalmPilot, and that worked well simply because it was a pure lecture class really without diagrams.
This is worrisome. I've been really happy with my service--I signed up on a "buy one year, get the second year free" deal, so it's about $8/month for service. When I hit the Sunrocket website, http://www.sunrocket.com/, it doesn't seem to have changed. They're still asking for business, and there isn't any mention of this story. The only difference that I notice is that when I log into my member page, there's a message that says "Voicemail is currently not available." But again, no mention of ceasing operations or anything else. I guess we'll just have to see...
As someone who has experience dispatching law enforcement, traffic stops are the #1 most dangerous thing that cops do. Way above drug busts, SWAT team actions, etc. When an officer would make a stop, we'd set a clock, and they had to check in every 3-5 minutes. If not, we'd send backup automatically and assume that they've been harmed and/or assaulted in some manner, either by the occupants or by being hit by a passing car.
"Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes." - Professor Edsger Dijkstra
Another thing to remember is that the iTunes Music Store for Windows was introduced on October 16, 2003. That's about when you start to see a steady increase in iPod sales and revenue, according to your graph.
Thanks, that's what I was wondering. Not being a lawyer, I wouldn't know if something sounds good to a layman, but is just some crack-pot idea. It sounds like with lawyers like that, he's got a reasonable chance.
Could someone who actually IS a lawyer respond about the validity of this defense? I read it and say "yeah, that makes sense," but that doesn't mean anything because I don't know all of the ins and outs of litigation.
And this will change their current behavior...how exactly? Ever since emissions standards were introduced, the automakers have been fighting them every step of the way. This won't change how the automakers treat emissions standards (unless they manage to win, of course)
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The author was interviewed on NPR's Science Friday last year. They talk about some specific examples from the book, and it's an entertaining interview. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?story Id=4851397
Here's an instructional video on hacking a voting machine: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marty-kaplan/how-to- hack-a-diebold-vot_b_26301.html
Much less "insightful"
The customary rate is between 3% and 5% of the total purchase, though larger companies could probably sign a contract for a smaller percentage. In addition, most credit card contracts in the US stipulate that the seller must charge the same price for paying with a credit card as paying with cash or check.
I would like to see something more like the Fraternal Order of Police. Something that isn't a union in the sense that they will negotiate contracts and all the seniority stuff, but something that a worker can call on to help advocate for their side in personnel discussions. That would be more useful to me than a Teamsters-type of union.
My Latitude 610 runs SUSE 10 just fine also, though I've run into the same problem as you with the dock. I've found that I can undock when the computer is on, but not dock when the computer is on. The only other problem that I had was configuring the two-monitor display--it just requires having two copies of xorg.conf, depending on whether I have the dual display going.