Not only that but there is a bit of a "its how you look at it". A lot of evidence on the disease indicates that there are likely several factors involved and that the damage starts decades before symptoms. That means that.... sometime in her 30s or 40s is really when she needs the breakthrough by....but it also means that she can be mindful of it.
Evidence that using the mind, and and being stimulated by different environments (something that we naturally tend to do less of as we age and get into lifelong habbits) helps:
The ability of an enriched, novel environment to prevent amyloid beta protein from affecting the signaling strength and communication between nerve cells was seen in both young and middle-aged wild-type mice.
Seems like evidence to me that being mindful of propensity for the disease early does, right now, give some possibilities for mitigating the worst of it down the road. Maybe not now as she is 5 years old, but later in her 30s and 40s.
Kinda makes me think I should switch up hobbies or....drop acid again.
Funny, as one of his countrymen, I don't feel stabbed in the back at all, at least, not by him. I feel more like....I thought there was a knife in myback, I wasn't sure exactly how big or how far it was in, or what it looked like, but I felt it was likely there.
What I see him having done is tell me about that knife, exactly whose hand was on it, and how deep it was into my back.
> Nixon was pardoned for any crimes he "might" have committed, so I don't think it requires > admission of guilt. (Though there might be a perception of guilt and political fallout from that.)
so did you catch the more recent news? Nixon was KNOWN to have committed treason before he was elected. LBJ's spies had a senior person in his campaign, on a recorded phone call to South Viet Nam, urging the South Vietnamese to pull out of peace talks, promising a better deal under a Nixon administration.
Clear collusion with a foriegn party to affect US elections, not just in a trivial way, but but pulling out of peace talks against US foriegn policy interests. This information was not made public until sometime in the past year or two.
> Even if it did, Obama could just pardon him on his (Obama's) last day of office. If they delay the > trial with pre-trial motions for a couple of years, the pardon would come through before anyone does > any time.
...Act to provide for the substitution of the United States as a defendant in any action where one of its employees is sued for damages as a result of an alleged common law tort committed by the employee within the scope of his or her employment. Congress enacted the Westfall Act to respond to the United States Supreme Court's decision in Westfall v. Erwin, 484 U.S. 292 (1988), which limited a federal official's absolute immunity from tort claims to situations where the official's actions were "within the outer perimeter of an official's duties and . . . discretionary in nature."
It sounds like you are saying a more specific version of what I was going to post.
A little research goes a long way and libraries may be more important than language. I don't care how nice the language is.... the less underlying mechanisms I need to implement, and the faster I can get into the meat of what I am working on, the better.
If you want to do RSA encryption in your code (for example) your best bet is NOT to pick a language where you can't find an RSA implementation (Applesoft basic? lol not sure what that would be these days) and implement your own.
Sure its not too bad, but any mistakes could sink you, and it means debugging and supporting yet more code....when you could be using a standard library that lots of other people use and has already had most of the kinks worked out, and gets updated on its own.
Base languages are all exceedingly similar when you strip away the syntactical sugar. Its the varying quality of the different sections of their libraries that really set them apart in different areas.
Bzzzt wrong. A pardon is given to a guilty person. Even to pardon them would be to admit their guilt.
What would happen is the attorney general would substitute the government itself as the defendant for them, since they worked for the government, and thus would shield them from real prosecution.
Then they would declare that none of the evidence can be shown for national security reasons, and once the dust settled on that, the case would be dismissed.
Not defending this obvious idiocy but, simply overwriting the pad blocks as you use them easily prevents both reuse, and confiscation as a means to decrypt previous messages. Of course, it does mean that you have to either save those messages in some other manner, or live with having them be "read once".
That said, I don't think its really the case that all stream ciphers are totally broken and not trustable. Nor do I expect that will be the case. The lavabit debacle indicates that the encryption itself is likely still good, or else, why bother trying to force key shenanigans?
If they really could break it, they already have the data, then the only reason is counter intelligence, which would more easily be served by using a paralell construction to get the same information without tipping their hand that they can read the encrypted messages.
"Well, there's a delicate corneal inversion procedure... a multi-opti-pupil-optomy. But, in order to keep from damaging the eye sockets, they've got to go in through the rectum. Ain't no man going to take that route with me! "
I have used FreeOTFE before, and kind of forgotten about it. As it happens, I am looking for something just like this now for use with some USB keys I need to use to share data at different places.
Now that I look at it I see this on Wikipedia: "The FreeOTFE website is unreachable as of June 2013 and the domain name is now registered by a new owner."
So I asked, is it even being maintained? I know its open source but, its good to know if a project is actively maintained too. Apparently the place to go is Sourceforge as freeotfe.org is something else now: http://sourceforge.net/projects/freeotfe.mirror/
AND the latest release is several months after the original website disappeared, So it looks like somebody is working on it anyway. May be just what I needed.
No you prefer thinking that. Fact is, weapons of any sort really are not that hard. Your only real protection has ever been the fact that very few people want to do violence at all, much less to random people. Its very effective too, to really high percentages. Far more than anything else you would like to do in addition.
Now domination aside, I doubt this. Mostly because there are not a lot of shootings to begin with. To make it look like alot people do the same tricks they always do to ignore scale, look at raw numbers over huge geographical areas, ignore total population size, ignore details (suicides account for the majority of deaths in some figures), and especially ignore that taking a small single digit in 100,000 number and doubling it, still makes for a really small number.
If gun violence is a significant problem, then we should ban cars and consider MRSA a pandemic (which even by some of the most inflated suicide including figures I have seen, still kills 3x as many people per year in the US)
Really, its the fear mongers who should consider giving up their religion and walking outside, its far safer than you think.
the term dominated actually turns up in much more relevant contexts, like poker where a "Dominated" hand is one that has very little chance of winning. The technical definition would be "3 outs or less". from wiki:
Poker hand A is said to dominate poker hand B if poker hand B has three or fewer outs (cards to catch) that would improve it enough to win. Informally, domination is sometimes used to refer to any situation where one hand is highly likely to beat another. The term drawing dead is used to denote a domination situation with zero outs.
I think it is safe to say that a shooter walking into a police station is, pretty handily dominated.
Until? I will take the odds on that "until" any day of the week. If I was scared about threats like that, I would be in bed rocking back and forth sucking my thumb, and wouldn't go near a car.
I have met him, and while I wouldn't say I got that close, I got no such impression. In fact, at the time he was spending a lot of time self-grooming, specifically picking at knots in his hair to the point that it was almost distracting from the conversation, except that he was, in fact, completely keeping up and engaged with the conversation while grooming himself.
He may often have a lot of hair and beard (since then when I have passed him at the con, he has had shorter hair, but its easily been long enough since I saw him even in passing that It could have grown and been cut a few times) but, never really seemed ungroomed any of the half dozen times I have seen him in passing.
In fact, I hear from a couple of female friends that he is a bit of a flirt too.
> 'Why? Because poor people, whose carbon emissions these technologies would reduce, produce > very little carbon in the first place. "
So far, haven't poor, third world countries, which were ramping up their industrial capacity, been among some of the larger sources of Carbon? I mean, its clear that we wealthy nations produce the lions share but.... isn't looking for ways to decentralize and get the poor of today thinking about green development.... isn't that part of getting ahead of easily predicted future compounding of the problem?
I mean, is it really fair to say to them "hey you know what...we need to cut our emissions so much that you....you can't have new technology"? Is it realistic to assume that those who have no carbon footprint today, will be happy continuing that way tomorow?
Is this a solution? No likely not, but, I don't think there is going to be A solution aside from embracing the power of "AND".
> On top of that, most satellites orbit west to east, yet in the film the satellite debris was seen drifting > east to west.
Haven't seen the movie (yet) so I can't comment on the exact scenario, but, wouldn't debris be moving "east to west" if you were moving west to east faster* than it was?
Of course, if you are at the space station when it is destroyed.... given that each orbit is uniquely defined as a function of velocity and radial distance (before anyone forgets: velocity is a vector quantity, so this works, speed is a scalar - not enough info) then you really shouldn't ever see the debris it creates, as its going to be in such a similar orbit that it will take a very long time to either lap or be lapped by it.... in fact, oddly enough, lower orbits are slower and have shorter orbital periods so anything thrown off against the orbital direction should actually lap you before things tossed in that direction, which will move to slightly higher, faster,and longer orbits.
And yes, I have played way too much KSP recently.
* Locally faster anyway, or having larger angular velocity at the intersection point of the orbit might be the most accurate way of saying it
After I saw this, I looked it up..... wow cats never cease to amaze me. Video I saw some guy was trying to get one of those neck loops around the cat when it decided it was time to go. Duh, that is so NOT how I would try to control a cat.
Get one hand on that scruff FIRST. Then do what you want. In fact, I did just that recently when i saw an escaped kitty playing dodge the traffic, he ran to hide under a car and I went over, lay on the ground and tried to calm him.... someone saw me and wanted to "help"....
So i told them to walk around the other side so the cat doesn't run INTO traffic and "try to scare him this way". I knew it wouldn't really work that way:) but as soon as they walked around, the cat turned his head, and I immediately scruffed him. (Note for non-cat people: Don't ever lift an adult cat by the scruff, just grab and hold it for control)
> With alternatives like Palin and Romney one is left with little choice. One does not have to "love" > Obama at all in order to realize just how TRULY BAD the alternatives ar
There is the problem right there, that is very shortsighted. By allowing people like Obama to win based on "not being as bad as the republican", you basically send the message to the democrats "all you have to do is oppose republicans and we support you".
You actually stomp on any issues you care about.
On the other hand, if people like yourself hand him a loss, a loss that sees votes to a third party, then it sends a message to both parties that a significant portion of the population disagrees, and they have to adjust their platform.
Yes, it means 4 years of the guy you were afraid of, however, they don't even fully agree with eachother. However, the president doesn't set policy. So it hardly even matters what policy he advocates, that vote is just a message to the parties....and the message you send is "Carry on".
If you are not willing to hand your prefered coalition a loss for not representing your views, then you mean nothing to them.
"Although the suit is certified to 300 metres, it has been tested to 900 metres"
I was thinking, carbon nanotube tether...and a move crossing an oberth effect burn and the grappling hook batman had on his car for making sharp turns in the 90s Batman movie...except, with a bucket on the end.
Yup cats definitely get hurt from falling but, I do believe the original post that started us down this road said "survivable" which doesn't really mean unharmed:
of 132 cats that were brought into the New York Animal Medical Center after having fallen from buildings, it was found that the injuries per cat increased depending on the height fallen up to seven stories but decreased above seven stories.[8] The study authors speculated that after falling five stories the cats reached terminal velocity and thereafter relaxed and spread their bodies to increase drag.
Falling from height is always a very risky gamble, but people have survived falls from airplanes.
Falls have a ridiculously high chance of mortal injury, but its not 100%, hell just by being in shape and learning to land properly people can do some amazing things without injury. Parcour runners run away from falls that would leave me with broken, twisted, limbs, and I would be lucky if my neck wasn't one of them.
Yup. In my first job we were doing overnight upgrades in a store, and as a precaution, we had to get the address from every cash register before we started...just in case. This meant going into a busy department store that we had never set foot in before (1 night per store), walk in, and fiddle with cash registers. Security, of course, knew we were coming but, you think anyone else knew?
My first few nights, I walked in, even with my red shirt and company logo, it was a pain. I would walk up to the lines and try to tell the cashier what I was doing and inevitably, they would insist that I talk to the manager.
By the fourth night or so, I just started walking up to registers, clipboard in hand, would jump up and sit on an unused counter and lean over and get the address; and walking through back doors like I belonged. Nobody ever questioned me again. (except that one annoying manager who didn't think it was a good idea for me to head over to the futon display in the empty store and read a book during the 4 hour file copy)
Only if they relax, which, at least in the case of a fall, takes them time to do. Actually I have seen somewhere that they have higher survivability rates ABOVE certain heights than below them. They still often take injuries from long drops.
Sampling the behaviour of the approximately 9 cats I have seen at various times on the porches of my parents house, I have never seen a cat jump from the second floor front porch to the ground or even to a car roof.
I have seen several cats jump from the second floor rear porch to the nearby roof (6-8 feet depending on what part of the roof and whether you count the full diagonal of the jump or just the verical component), and then down from there. In fact, even getting down from the top of the cabinet, they hang off the edge to get as low as possible for the drop and aim for the countertop first.
So Whether they can survive it, they seem aware enough of the possibility of injury to think better of trying it. Which is likely smart when jumping off porches and cabinets, serves them less well in trees.
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Not only that but there is a bit of a "its how you look at it". A lot of evidence on the disease indicates that there are likely several factors involved and that the damage starts decades before symptoms. That means that.... sometime in her 30s or 40s is really when she needs the breakthrough by....but
it also means that she can be mindful of it.
Take this: http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2013/03/use-it-or-lose-it/
Evidence that using the mind, and and being stimulated by different environments (something that we naturally tend to do less of as we age and get into lifelong habbits) helps:
Seems like evidence to me that being mindful of propensity for the disease early does, right now, give some possibilities for mitigating the worst of it down the road. Maybe not now as she is 5 years old, but later in her 30s and 40s.
Kinda makes me think I should switch up hobbies or....drop acid again.
Funny, as one of his countrymen, I don't feel stabbed in the back at all, at least, not by him. I feel more like....I thought there was a knife in myback, I wasn't sure exactly how big or how far it was in, or what it looked like, but I felt it was likely there.
What I see him having done is tell me about that knife, exactly whose hand was on it, and how deep it was into my back.
> Nixon was pardoned for any crimes he "might" have committed, so I don't think it requires
> admission of guilt. (Though there might be a perception of guilt and political fallout from that.)
so did you catch the more recent news? Nixon was KNOWN to have committed treason before he was elected. LBJ's spies had a senior person in his campaign, on a recorded phone call to South Viet Nam, urging the South Vietnamese to pull out of peace talks, promising a better deal under a Nixon administration.
Clear collusion with a foriegn party to affect US elections, not just in a trivial way, but but pulling out of peace talks against US foriegn policy interests. This information was not made public until sometime in the past year or two.
> Even if it did, Obama could just pardon him on his (Obama's) last day of office. If they delay the
> trial with pre-trial motions for a couple of years, the pardon would come through before anyone does
> any time.
However, why would they allow that to even happen? http://www.atra.org/legislation/federal/federal-employees-liability-reform-and-tort-compensation-aAct
Or this article on how it is being used to shield the members of the Bush Cabal: http://rt.com/usa/bush-amnesty-iraq-war-847/
It sounds like you are saying a more specific version of what I was going to post.
A little research goes a long way and libraries may be more important than language. I don't care how nice the language is.... the less underlying mechanisms I need to implement, and the faster I can get into the meat of what I am working on, the better.
If you want to do RSA encryption in your code (for example) your best bet is NOT to pick a language where you can't find an RSA implementation (Applesoft basic? lol not sure what that would be these days) and implement your own.
Sure its not too bad, but any mistakes could sink you, and it means debugging and supporting yet more code....when you could be using a standard library that lots of other people use and has already had most of the kinks worked out, and gets updated on its own.
Base languages are all exceedingly similar when you strip away the syntactical sugar. Its the varying quality of the different sections of their libraries that really set them apart in different areas.
So you mean to tell me that the himilays have polarized killer bears?
Scratch that off my vacation destinations.
Bzzzt wrong. A pardon is given to a guilty person. Even to pardon them would be to admit their guilt.
What would happen is the attorney general would substitute the government itself as the defendant for them, since they worked for the government, and thus would shield them from real prosecution.
Then they would declare that none of the evidence can be shown for national security reasons, and once the dust settled on that, the case would be dismissed.
Then its time to stop seeing the laws of this country as legitimate. New constitution, the old one FAILED.
They are. Everyone who decided to work with the US government gets a pass. :)
Not defending this obvious idiocy but, simply overwriting the pad blocks as you use them easily prevents both reuse, and confiscation as a means to decrypt previous messages. Of course, it does mean that you have to either save those messages in some other manner, or live with having them be "read once".
That said, I don't think its really the case that all stream ciphers are totally broken and not trustable. Nor do I expect that will be the case. The lavabit debacle indicates that the encryption itself is likely still good, or else, why bother trying to force key shenanigans?
If they really could break it, they already have the data, then the only reason is counter intelligence, which would more easily be served by using a paralell construction to get the same information without tipping their hand that they can read the encrypted messages.
"Well, there's a delicate corneal inversion procedure... a multi-opti-pupil-optomy. But, in order to keep from damaging the eye sockets, they've got to go in through the rectum. Ain't no man going to take that route with me! "
I have used FreeOTFE before, and kind of forgotten about it. As it happens, I am looking for something just like this now for use with some USB keys I need to use to share data at different places.
Now that I look at it I see this on Wikipedia:
"The FreeOTFE website is unreachable as of June 2013 and the domain name is now registered by a new owner."
So I asked, is it even being maintained? I know its open source but, its good to know if a project is actively maintained too. Apparently the place to go is Sourceforge as freeotfe.org is something else now: http://sourceforge.net/projects/freeotfe.mirror/
AND the latest release is several months after the original website disappeared, So it looks like somebody is working on it anyway. May be just what I needed.
No you prefer thinking that. Fact is, weapons of any sort really are not that hard. Your only real protection has ever been the fact that very few people want to do violence at all, much less to random people. Its very effective too, to really high percentages. Far more than anything else you would like to do in addition.
Laughing? For the very first time I am warming up to the idea of surveillance and drone strikes.
Now domination aside, I doubt this. Mostly because there are not a lot of shootings to begin with. To make it look like alot people do the same tricks they always do to ignore scale, look at raw numbers over huge geographical areas, ignore total population size, ignore details (suicides account for the majority of deaths in some figures), and especially ignore that taking a small single digit in 100,000 number and doubling it, still makes for a really small number.
If gun violence is a significant problem, then we should ban cars and consider MRSA a pandemic (which even by some of the most inflated suicide including figures I have seen, still kills 3x as many people per year in the US)
Really, its the fear mongers who should consider giving up their religion and walking outside, its far safer than you think.
the term dominated actually turns up in much more relevant contexts, like poker where a "Dominated" hand is one that has very little chance of winning. The technical definition would be "3 outs or less". from wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domination_(poker)
I think it is safe to say that a shooter walking into a police station is, pretty handily dominated.
Until? I will take the odds on that "until" any day of the week. If I was scared about threats like that, I would be in bed rocking back and forth sucking my thumb, and wouldn't go near a car.
I have met him, and while I wouldn't say I got that close, I got no such impression. In fact, at the time he was spending a lot of time self-grooming, specifically picking at knots in his hair to the point that it was almost distracting from the conversation, except that he was, in fact, completely keeping up and engaged with the conversation while grooming himself.
He may often have a lot of hair and beard (since then when I have passed him at the con, he has had shorter hair, but its easily been long enough since I saw him even in passing that It could have grown and been cut a few times) but, never really seemed ungroomed any of the half dozen times I have seen him in passing.
In fact, I hear from a couple of female friends that he is a bit of a flirt too.
> 'Why? Because poor people, whose carbon emissions these technologies would reduce, produce
> very little carbon in the first place. "
So far, haven't poor, third world countries, which were ramping up their industrial capacity, been among some of the larger sources of Carbon? I mean, its clear that we wealthy nations produce the lions share but.... isn't looking for ways to decentralize and get the poor of today thinking about green development.... isn't that part of getting ahead of easily predicted future compounding of the problem?
I mean, is it really fair to say to them "hey you know what...we need to cut our emissions so much that you....you can't have new technology"? Is it realistic to assume that those who have no carbon footprint today, will be happy continuing that way tomorow?
Is this a solution? No likely not, but, I don't think there is going to be A solution aside from embracing the power of "AND".
> On top of that, most satellites orbit west to east, yet in the film the satellite debris was seen drifting
> east to west.
Haven't seen the movie (yet) so I can't comment on the exact scenario, but, wouldn't debris be moving "east to west" if you were moving west to east faster* than it was?
Of course, if you are at the space station when it is destroyed.... given that each orbit is uniquely defined as a function of velocity and radial distance (before anyone forgets: velocity is a vector quantity, so this works, speed is a scalar - not enough info) then you really shouldn't ever see the debris it creates, as its going to be in such a similar orbit that it will take a very long time to either lap or be lapped by it.... in fact, oddly enough, lower orbits are slower and have shorter orbital periods so anything thrown off against the orbital direction should actually lap you before things tossed in that direction, which will move to slightly higher, faster,and longer orbits.
And yes, I have played way too much KSP recently.
* Locally faster anyway, or having larger angular velocity at the intersection point of the orbit might be the most accurate way of saying it
After I saw this, I looked it up..... wow cats never cease to amaze me. Video I saw some guy was trying to get one of those neck loops around the cat when it decided it was time to go. Duh, that is so NOT how I would try to control a cat.
Get one hand on that scruff FIRST. Then do what you want. In fact, I did just that recently when i saw an escaped kitty playing dodge the traffic, he ran to hide under a car and I went over, lay on the ground and tried to calm him.... someone saw me and wanted to "help"....
So i told them to walk around the other side so the cat doesn't run INTO traffic and "try to scare him this way". I knew it wouldn't really work that way :) but as soon as they walked around, the cat turned his head, and I immediately scruffed him. (Note for non-cat people: Don't ever lift an adult cat by the scruff, just grab and hold it for control)
Aside from that just... wow what a jump!
> With alternatives like Palin and Romney one is left with little choice. One does not have to "love"
> Obama at all in order to realize just how TRULY BAD the alternatives ar
There is the problem right there, that is very shortsighted. By allowing people like Obama to win based on "not being as bad as the republican", you basically send the message to the democrats "all you have to do is oppose republicans and we support you".
You actually stomp on any issues you care about.
On the other hand, if people like yourself hand him a loss, a loss that sees votes to a third party, then it sends a message to both parties that a significant portion of the population disagrees, and they have to adjust their platform.
Yes, it means 4 years of the guy you were afraid of, however, they don't even fully agree with eachother. However, the president doesn't set policy. So it hardly even matters what policy he advocates, that vote is just a message to the parties....and the message you send is "Carry on".
If you are not willing to hand your prefered coalition a loss for not representing your views, then you mean nothing to them.
"Although the suit is certified to 300 metres, it has been tested to 900 metres"
I was thinking, carbon nanotube tether...and a move crossing an oberth effect burn and the grappling hook batman had on his car for making sharp turns in the 90s Batman movie...except, with a bucket on the end.
Nothing that could go comically wrong there :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_righting_reflex#Injury
Yup cats definitely get hurt from falling but, I do believe the original post that started us down this road said "survivable" which doesn't really mean unharmed:
Falling from height is always a very risky gamble, but people have survived falls from airplanes.
Falls have a ridiculously high chance of mortal injury, but its not 100%, hell just by being in shape and learning to land properly people can do some amazing things without injury. Parcour runners run away from falls that would leave me with broken, twisted, limbs, and I would be lucky if my neck wasn't one of them.
Yup. In my first job we were doing overnight upgrades in a store, and as a precaution, we had to get the address from every cash register before we started...just in case. This meant going into a busy department store that we had never set foot in before (1 night per store), walk in, and fiddle with cash registers. Security, of course, knew we were coming but, you think anyone else knew?
My first few nights, I walked in, even with my red shirt and company logo, it was a pain. I would walk up to the lines and try to tell the cashier what I was doing and inevitably, they would insist that I talk to the manager.
By the fourth night or so, I just started walking up to registers, clipboard in hand, would jump up and sit on an unused counter and lean over and get the address; and walking through back doors like I belonged. Nobody ever questioned me again. (except that one annoying manager who didn't think it was a good idea for me to head over to the futon display in the empty store and read a book during the 4 hour file copy)
Only if they relax, which, at least in the case of a fall, takes them time to do. Actually I have seen somewhere that they have higher survivability rates ABOVE certain heights than below them. They still often take injuries from long drops.
Sampling the behaviour of the approximately 9 cats I have seen at various times on the porches of my parents house, I have never seen a cat jump from the second floor front porch to the ground or even to a car roof.
I have seen several cats jump from the second floor rear porch to the nearby roof (6-8 feet depending on what part of the roof and whether you count the full diagonal of the jump or just the verical component), and then down from there. In fact, even getting down from the top of the cabinet, they hang off the edge to get as low as possible for the drop and aim for the countertop first.
So Whether they can survive it, they seem aware enough of the possibility of injury to think better of trying it. Which is likely smart when jumping off porches and cabinets, serves them less well in trees.