Megaman was a fun game in its time, but it has not aged well for several reasons.
Megaman was very close to being part of the genre known as Metroidvania, with exploration, upgrades, and platforming action, but for a variety of reasons, Mega-metroidvania never came to pass. I think part of the problem is that a lot of what originally worked in Megaman and our memories of the game, do not translate well to the modern style.
Megaman is known for several reasons, and chief among them is its difficulty. However, difficulty in itself is not a virtue, we played the hell out of the original games because they were really all we had available. They were great games, and that is why we look back fondly on their difficulty, rather than with disdain. In addition, its linear nature just isn't as fun as it once was now that we have been exposed to Metroid and Symphony of the Night.
So it isn't so much that Megaman couldn't work today, but that it gets squeezed out of the market. Nostalgia alone isn't enough for us to want to play an oddlooking robot platformer game when we have the option for so much more variety.
If they want to bring Megaman back, they need to look into incorporating more of the exploration playstyle, more upgrade variety (hell it doesn't even need to upgrade, different is ok as long as it is fun). But a simple side scrolling shooter with marginally situational upgrades isn't going to hold modern gamers' attentions.
A few other posters identified some possible reasons (photographer's preference, etc)
However, a creature (or person) doesn't need to understand a visual object to imitate it. I think it's pretty awesome that it looks so much like a spider, but as an example, someone doesn't need to know what a tree is to know that a Japanese Maple looks vastly different from a Blue Spruce if I see them side by side.
So the spider could make a 5 legged decoy, and 'know' that it looks wrong.
There is also the fact that spiders already do 'count' or at least recognize patterns, I mean, look at the webs they make. Symmetry and patterns are big for them.
That's exactly how I do it, and I'm only using a 120GB SSD. I'm running a PC with Windows 7 and the standard accoutrements (Office, etc) and after about a year of standard installing, uninstalling, and patch-creep it is sitting at around 30gb free.
I don't run swap file, but I would say that 120GB for a modern system is the absolute minimum if you don't want to run into issues. 250GB would be massive if you don't load it down with media. I keep 2TB of space on the cheaper spinning disk HDDs for local media storage, and with just a bit of discipline, you can keep your main OS/Program drive footprint pretty small.
What about standard batteries which are swappable at stations?
You buy the car, lease the battery (or some other arrangement). You pull up to the 'Battery Station', a cart rolls up and pulls your battery, and a second cart loads up a battery that the station could charge at the optimal rate.
The whole process could be faster than even filling up your car with gasoline.
Add in a guarantee like AAA where if your battery dies enroute a 'refill' truck will be dispatched. I think that would be a pretty workable solution which would mimic a lot of the benefits of gasoline now.
We already do it with propane tanks now, the lease would only be necessary due to the increased cost of the battery pack vs the propane tank. And some of the larger propane tanks are leased themselves already.
Well it used to be the case in the UK too. Then WWII happened and there were a lot of fires. It turned out that having central standardisation on things such as the hose fittings etc would have been extremely useful, so engines from one region could work in another.
However, you are vastly underestimating the difference in size between the US and the UK.
The climate, social, structural, and geographic differences between Maine an California are so vast that even if we ignore the fact that you aren't likely to see a firetruck from Maine used in California, if you DID try to make interchangeable parts you could actually make things worse. Consider something as simple as the brake lines. Moisture in the lines is bad in California, but in Maine it would be disasterous as the freezing temperatures would cause brake failures, a very bad situation for an emergency response vehicle.
Well, it has to be government forced. If you live in a moderately densely populated town or city, it's not feasible to have people simply opting out, or failing to pay and losing the service. So at that point it's a government run (usually via a private subcontractor for some reason) service.
Not federal government though. And in the case for a lot of towns where I lived, all that was necessary was a simple law banning the storage of trash on your local property. The result was that the residents could either elect a government service, or simply do it on their own by hiring private contractors.
I think it's a stretch to call it a government service. As I stated earlier, there is no requirement for you to even hire a service if you choose to do the work yourself. Most don't, but it's an option. And trash isn't piling up in the streets in these locations either.
I never claimed that, but I will claim most of them are being dumb.
I think you are taking the original concept of a desire to reduce government services and taking it to much to great of an extreme.
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I always wondered what people were talking or complaining about. I suppose I used lynx for far too long.
Gravity is a very weak force, it also gets weaker in an inverse square relationship with distance.
Consider that on the very surface of Earth, the entire planet is pulling on you with... what? 150-200 lbs of force? Jump into the air, and you have literally applied more force as you jumped than the entire planet pulled back on you due to gravity. Of course, you came back down, but that's because gravity was pulling on you the whole time, but you still could outpace it during the time when you were in contact with the ground.
Now consider that this asteroid was something like 18 times the distance from the Earth to the Moon, and it was moving very very very fast. We generally don't capture objects due to gravity, we capture objects due to our paths intersecting with the path of the object.
To capture an object like this due to gravity, would be like trying to alter the trajectory of a baseball just after it was pitched using nothing more than a drinking straw and the power of your lungs.
Scotus is only supposed to hear a small number of cases that will have major political and constitutional impacts
They are not a trial court. You get 10 minutes to speak your summary most of which you get interrupted by questions from the justices
No, that's just what they do. The Constitution wasn't specific about a max/min number of cases, how the cases should be heard, etc.
There are lots of ways in which they could rule, if they wanted to. Tradition, and threats from the president/congress are basically all that keep them acting the way they do now.
What good is convincing a very small sliver of people to come to Android if the end result is that everyone else who doesn't starts getting used to an alternate product?
Consider it like a gateway drug. In the case of Google, they already own the market (with regard to email, maps, etc) They don't want people to get used to using alternate products.
It isn't even 'evil' per say, in any business, you always want people seeing, using, remembering, and promoting your brand. At least with Google, we reap the benefit in a true competitive situation since Google MUST put out a better product. Could you imagine what would happen if the Apple Maps was a better product than Google's? Habits are formed, and people don't think about Google when running their maps/searches/etc.
If Google tried to win this by restricting their services to people only using Android, they would have never have reached the position they are currently in. On the internet, loyalty can be extremely ephemeral.
Why do I use google services? Because they work better for me than Yahoo. Do you know how hard it would be to switch to another service provider for email/maps/search?
Email I can just setup an autoresponder (added bonus that spambots don't pick up my new address and are left behind.) Maps? Simple as typing a new address. Search? Just as simple.
OK, so assuming 2 Fall semesters, 2 Spring Semesters, and 2 Summer Semesters...
You averaged over 22 credits per semester. First, I'm guessing that wasn't an engineering degree. Second, I've always held that it takes about 3 hours per credit hour of non-classroom work in a decent program.
Honestly, that puts you at about 60hrs per week in pure study/class time. Unless you started with a lump sum of cash, I don't see how such a schedule is possible to do while not picking up any loans.
22+ hrs/semester.... Outrageously aggressive, but possible. 22+hrs/semester while working a job to pay for school and actually learning the material? I'm not buying it.
Of those, how many can only be perfomed by the Federal Government? California probably shouldn't have a say in how Maine designs their roads, fire departments, or a whole host of other services.
Trash collection is an interesting one as well. Why must that be a government function?
1. My hometown had trash pickup as a government service. 1x/week, extra fee on your property tax bill. 2. I then lived in a rural area in a non-incorporated area. I could hire someone to pick it up, or I could just load up my truck every 2 weeks and make a trip to the dump. So I just hauled it myself. 3. In Virginia, I sold my truck, so I pay a company. There are 4 major companies that service the general area, if I don't like one, I can go to another. Right now I get trash pickup 2x/wk and recycling pickup 1x/wk.
I actually liked hauling my own trash because it made me a bit more conscious about how much trash I generated. I paid by the truckload to dump it, so the more waste I could cut resulted in a direct $ savings to me.
The point being, not everything has to be a government service, and people aren't 'evil' just because they might not want a government service provided.
If I fiddle around with some GPL'd software, sell a copy to one person, just how much responsibility do I have to then respond to and provide the source to 'EVERYONE/ANYONE' whenever a request is made?
Let's say a group of people get upset with me and decide to DDOS me by getting 100,000 people to request the source code? Am I supposed to quit my day job and respond to every single request?
Your interpretation means that if I've ever offered binary for sale, that I now have an obligation to satisfy demands for every single person on Earth should they decide to demand that item?
(Granted, I'd love if I could charge everyone on Earth $0.10 to send the source, but you see how this is an absurd interpretation)
With regard to classified information. Anyone with a clearance has the legal obligation to not access or attempt to access classified information for which they do not have a need to know and clearance to access. Legally, all classified information remains classified until it is officially unclassified. Until then, cleared individuals have a legal obligation to not access that information. Even if it is publicly released, it remains classified, and thus, effectively radioactive to anyone with a clearance.
No one is asking for the site to be blocked, but identifying it as wikileaks would be a very nice thing to do for the people who wish to avoid that site.
I can still receive a legit signal, delay it and broadcast the delayed signal to the victim. And no, it is not easily to detect this "discontinuity" as loss of signal is rather common. Just drive through NY or a very mountainous area and you will find out why.
Yes, that is a man in the middle attack, which is an understood problem, and one of the ways to counter that is authentication which uses a timestamp. Given that GPS is entirely based around having extreme precision timestamps, it's probably not going to be very difficult discard 'delayed' messages.
Running an internal clock with precision (within seconds per year) is trivial. At best you could only delay messages a second or two before the receiver decided something was fishy. And that assumes a very simplistic method of authentication.
And Canada is south of Detroit. Geography facts are weird (and, I'll admit, fun).
To be sure, the typical maps people see make Australia look much smaller than it is, but the same is true of Canada and Alaska.
That said, I think we can all agree that at least in Alaska there is that general consensus among the populace that, "IT'S FREAKING ALASKA!" So people tend to 'respect' it's ability to kill you, and mountains tend to keep people to obvious routes.
When I was 'hiking' (barely) in Arizona, I made sure that I followed my father's advice from when we used to go out hunting or climbing, "Always make sure your one hand has a good grip before you let go with the other."
90% of the time, you will get away with it. That other 10% though, you won't enjoy falling from a tree even if you are just 2 miles from the nearest road.
Of course it is theoretically possible for life to exist outside of the habitable zone. However, we can't know that until it is proven. We have proven that life can exist within the 'habitable zone'. We have not proven that life can exist outside the 'habitable zone'.
If you have a limited budget (and every budget is), and are told to search for life, where would you look? Within the habitable zone. What you would you look for? Data which we know is produced by the life that we know to exist.
Your complaint is like complaining about a supermarket's 'Produce Section' because they also could have extra watermelons in crates near the checkout and therefore the 'Produce Section' isn't really true because there might be produce elsewhere in the store.
If for some reason I needed a watermelon in 5 minutes, and I sent you into the store to find me a watermelon, I'd be pretty pissed if you wasted time looking in the bakery because it was possible that a watermelon could be there.
I also am aware that we're talking about a difference between 26 & 27. Not that much difference.
No, you specifically referenced, and I quoted, a comparison between a parent and child. Two different age groups. Not 26 and 27. No parent and child age difference is 1 year.
I am also aware that many children are lactose intolerant. So if that's a risk, it's a risk across all parties.
There is not a singular risk. Risk is a quantifiable value based on the combination of a measure of likelyhood (probability) and damage potential. In this specific case, the risk is not evenly distributed across age groups. Therefore no, it is not across all parties.
With regard to drugs, risk is calcuated based upon the potential for harm, and likelyhood of that harm occuring. Even if the potential for harm is low, it is possible for the likelihood of that harm to become probable, and therefore the risk can be considered too great given the expected drawbacks. If a drug intended to treat acne has a 0.1% chance to worsen acne in children, but a 90% chance to worsen acne in adults. Assumign no other side effects, that drug would be approved for use in children, but not adults. So even though the risk existed for both groups, it was not equal for both groups.
And there are children who are likewise insulin senstive due to juvenile diabetes. Granted, it's less common.
Except you are assuming that your treatment when proven effective for children, is a treatment which is not likely to harm adults, based on your success in treating children.
You make several bad assumptions:
1. You assume that the treatment would be equivalent in efficacy 2. You assume that risk exposure is constant 3. You assume that dosage scales in a predictable manner.
So what happens if you are wrong:
1: Reduced or no efficacy: No efficacy means you waste resources and don't achieve the benefit, worse, you may believe it to work and expose yourself to greater risk. Reduced efficacy is a similar problem. (especially if the risk is nonzero) 2. Assuming risk exposure is constant, I think we have explained this one. 3. Dosage may not scale. It may require much less as you age, or it may require more. You can't know that until you test it or perform a thorough analysis to prove enough similarity.
I know you keep getting back to the 26 vs 27 year old thing, but think of a bell-curve. As you approach the edges, the known benefit-risk margin shrinks. That doesn't mean that the benefit-risk margin actually does shrink, but that you can't know the benefit-risk margin.
And the complaint about doctors not wanting to prescribe medications off-label? Well they are doing their own benefit-risk analysis and the risk to them is too large given the marginal benefit. That's all this is.
NY state enacted a sales tax exemption for clothing under $110 on April 1 2012. However, Broome County did not elect to enact the sales tax exemption for it's county taxes and continues to collect at it's 4% rate.
The problem isn't granting them access with a warrant. The problem is that they are trying to induce storage for no other reason than to maintain a POTENTIAL evidence database.
Why should there be a requirement to maintain these messages? Should there be a requirement to make a copy of every letter that passes through the post office and maintain it for x months? Of course not, because such a copy isn't necessary to transmit the letter.
I hate that people treat the default for all Rights these days in the manner of: None, unless proven otherwise.
In the shop I maintain proper safety, however I think you are being sensational in your terminology by describing it as 'extremely' unsafe.
While I agree I wouldn't want my face up there without a shield, (and I don't know if they used a sufficient face shield), but assuming they did, the energy contained in a round of this size is comparable to that of a typical grinding wheel (back of the envelope estimate). I have seen those explode, and they do toss out shrapnel, but for the most part, simple metal shop safety equipment is sufficient to avoid permanent injuries.
So I'm not saying it is safe to put your face up to this without protection, but a face shield should be sufficient protection. We trust them enough that we don't panic about teenage boys operating high rpm machines in metal shop, and I've seen those goofballs launch bits, lathe tools, and wheels across the room.
Seriously, I don't think there should be any vaccine that a child can be mandated while telling the parent it's not safe enough for them.
Did you know that the human body can react differently to the same substance depending on how old you are?
Lactose. Many adults lose the ability to produce the lactase enzyme. The result is that they can no longer break down lactose. This condition is rare in children, but not uncommon in adults. Thus lactose is more likely to cause problems if administered to an adult than a child.
These is a 'relatively' benign example, but you can NOT assume that the adult body behaves in the same manner as a child's body from a vaccine, drug, or surgical response.
Let's ignore for a moment the fact that there are chemicals/drugs which have different effects on adults vs children. What dosage do you apply?
Assume we just now developed insulin as a treatment for diabetes. Let's say you first develop, test, and verify the safety of insulin injections for children, would you give the same dosage to an adult? How would you know what a safe effective dosage is?
I damn well hope you wouldn't just assume that if insulin injections were safe for a child, that they would be safe for an adult exhibiting symptoms of diabetes.
(Opps, looks like you were just insulin resistant due to adult onset diabetes and we just dosed you with an amount of insulin which is appropriate for a child with insulin dependence, but when scaled up to adult dosages... is lethal)
Perhaps what is safe for children isn't universally safe for adults... Who knew?
Very well, tell me the sales tax which must be levied on a sale of a can of coke, jeans, and a pencil in the zip code 13760.
Here is a hint: It's a trick question, but you knew it would be didn't you?
First, let's figure out the jurisdiction: Well, there is the Town of Union to consider, and Endicott, which is a somewhat of a sub-town within the greater town of Union. However, the zip code shown there covers other areas within Broome county which do not fall within the Town of Union's jurisdiction. It's a bit tricky, but it's doable, all you have to do is verify the exact location of the billing address.... or wait, shipping address.... hmm what if they are in different jurisdictions themselves, since everyone is trying to claim that they now own a piece of the sale... However, let's simplify it and say shipping address.
The address in question falls along 1234 Union Center Maine Highway. However, no one ever uses that street name because a few systems here and there consider that to be too many characters. My old drivers license listed me at 1234 Union Centre Main Hwy. My wife's was 1234 Union-Ctr Mne Hwy. My tax bills arrived from the Town of Union, and Maine (No, not the state, the town that is just down the road).
So, do you calculate for Union Centre, Union Center, Union-Center Maine, Maine, West Corners (heh yeah, its a little jurisdiction which is sandwiched between Maine and Endicott). I've had mail delivered to my address using any of those. I've apparently lived in Endicott, Maine, Union, Union-Center if you go by the town names of the mail. Ok, I'm being a bit silly there (except when trying to get a new passport because NO ONE EVER USES THE SAME ADDRESS and thus every system chokes on the address)
OK OK. Let's assume you figured out where you are shipping to and what tax jurisdiction that is.
The can of coke, are you collecting the deposit on it? Are you remitting it to NYS? The pair of jeans, are they taxed? The pencil, did you remember that when I submitted my order it was a sales tax holiday on school supplies? (but only for some jurisdictions) Don't forget that NYS charges a sales tax, and that local jurisdictions can charge an additional sales tax up to a certain percentage. That percentage is variable depending on local regulations. These regulations are updated according to the process of each individual jurisdiction.
So tell me, did you withold the sales tax on the jeans and the pencil? Did you know that the local municipality reduced the tax, but onlly the local portion of the sales tax, and the NYS portion remained unchanged.
I hope you didn't withold too much tax, because that would be illegal and can be severely punished. I hope you didn't withold too little, but I wouldn't worry, because NYS is a model of legal efficiency and would never prosecute over minor matters. The DAs and politicians in NYS would NEVER use out of state companies as punching bags as part of their re-election campaigns.
Let's face it, you call it a 'bonus' for expanding your market. However, the current reality is that THE MARKET IS ALREADY OPEN, and you are offering risk and cost with no benefit.
Now, consider the fact that the region I just described is less than 2 miles. NYS is famous for having hundreds of little fiefdom municipalities each with redundant services (and yes, taxes).
Do you really think it's just as simple as "50 times" complexity?
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My understanding was that it is NOT doing that. I don't think we would do too well with an active galactic core.
Megaman was a fun game in its time, but it has not aged well for several reasons.
Megaman was very close to being part of the genre known as Metroidvania, with exploration, upgrades, and platforming action, but for a variety of reasons, Mega-metroidvania never came to pass. I think part of the problem is that a lot of what originally worked in Megaman and our memories of the game, do not translate well to the modern style.
Megaman is known for several reasons, and chief among them is its difficulty. However, difficulty in itself is not a virtue, we played the hell out of the original games because they were really all we had available. They were great games, and that is why we look back fondly on their difficulty, rather than with disdain. In addition, its linear nature just isn't as fun as it once was now that we have been exposed to Metroid and Symphony of the Night.
So it isn't so much that Megaman couldn't work today, but that it gets squeezed out of the market. Nostalgia alone isn't enough for us to want to play an oddlooking robot platformer game when we have the option for so much more variety.
If they want to bring Megaman back, they need to look into incorporating more of the exploration playstyle, more upgrade variety (hell it doesn't even need to upgrade, different is ok as long as it is fun). But a simple side scrolling shooter with marginally situational upgrades isn't going to hold modern gamers' attentions.
A few other posters identified some possible reasons (photographer's preference, etc)
However, a creature (or person) doesn't need to understand a visual object to imitate it. I think it's pretty awesome that it looks so much like a spider, but as an example, someone doesn't need to know what a tree is to know that a Japanese Maple looks vastly different from a Blue Spruce if I see them side by side.
So the spider could make a 5 legged decoy, and 'know' that it looks wrong.
There is also the fact that spiders already do 'count' or at least recognize patterns, I mean, look at the webs they make. Symmetry and patterns are big for them.
Aka "I'm too stupid to junction my 30G+ game installs to spinning rust"
Why would you put the files for programs that are dependent on loading media files quickly on the slower drives?
The first time I played Skyrim from SSDs I was disappointed a bit because it loaded so fast I missed out on the loading screen trivia.
That's exactly how I do it, and I'm only using a 120GB SSD. I'm running a PC with Windows 7 and the standard accoutrements (Office, etc) and after about a year of standard installing, uninstalling, and patch-creep it is sitting at around 30gb free.
I don't run swap file, but I would say that 120GB for a modern system is the absolute minimum if you don't want to run into issues. 250GB would be massive if you don't load it down with media. I keep 2TB of space on the cheaper spinning disk HDDs for local media storage, and with just a bit of discipline, you can keep your main OS/Program drive footprint pretty small.
What about standard batteries which are swappable at stations?
You buy the car, lease the battery (or some other arrangement). You pull up to the 'Battery Station', a cart rolls up and pulls your battery, and a second cart loads up a battery that the station could charge at the optimal rate.
The whole process could be faster than even filling up your car with gasoline.
Add in a guarantee like AAA where if your battery dies enroute a 'refill' truck will be dispatched. I think that would be a pretty workable solution which would mimic a lot of the benefits of gasoline now.
We already do it with propane tanks now, the lease would only be necessary due to the increased cost of the battery pack vs the propane tank. And some of the larger propane tanks are leased themselves already.
More than that though:
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Well it used to be the case in the UK too. Then WWII happened and there were a lot of fires. It turned out that having central standardisation on things such as the hose fittings etc would have been extremely useful, so engines from one region could work in another.
However, you are vastly underestimating the difference in size between the US and the UK.
The climate, social, structural, and geographic differences between Maine an California are so vast that even if we ignore the fact that you aren't likely to see a firetruck from Maine used in California, if you DID try to make interchangeable parts you could actually make things worse. Consider something as simple as the brake lines. Moisture in the lines is bad in California, but in Maine it would be disasterous as the freezing temperatures would cause brake failures, a very bad situation for an emergency response vehicle.
Well, it has to be government forced. If you live in a moderately densely populated town or city, it's not feasible to have people simply opting out, or failing to pay and losing the service. So at that point it's a government run (usually via a private subcontractor for some reason) service.
Not federal government though. And in the case for a lot of towns where I lived, all that was necessary was a simple law banning the storage of trash on your local property. The result was that the residents could either elect a government service, or simply do it on their own by hiring private contractors.
I think it's a stretch to call it a government service. As I stated earlier, there is no requirement for you to even hire a service if you choose to do the work yourself. Most don't, but it's an option. And trash isn't piling up in the streets in these locations either.
I never claimed that, but I will claim most of them are being dumb.
I think you are taking the original concept of a desire to reduce government services and taking it to much to great of an extreme.
I always wondered what people were talking or complaining about. I suppose I used lynx for far too long.
(Or not long enough I suppose)
Gravity is a very weak force, it also gets weaker in an inverse square relationship with distance.
Consider that on the very surface of Earth, the entire planet is pulling on you with... what? 150-200 lbs of force? Jump into the air, and you have literally applied more force as you jumped than the entire planet pulled back on you due to gravity. Of course, you came back down, but that's because gravity was pulling on you the whole time, but you still could outpace it during the time when you were in contact with the ground.
Now consider that this asteroid was something like 18 times the distance from the Earth to the Moon, and it was moving very very very fast. We generally don't capture objects due to gravity, we capture objects due to our paths intersecting with the path of the object.
To capture an object like this due to gravity, would be like trying to alter the trajectory of a baseball just after it was pitched using nothing more than a drinking straw and the power of your lungs.
Scotus is only supposed to hear a small number of cases that will have major political and constitutional impacts
They are not a trial court. You get 10 minutes to speak your summary most of which you get interrupted by questions from the justices
No, that's just what they do. The Constitution wasn't specific about a max/min number of cases, how the cases should be heard, etc.
There are lots of ways in which they could rule, if they wanted to. Tradition, and threats from the president/congress are basically all that keep them acting the way they do now.
Momentum.
What good is convincing a very small sliver of people to come to Android if the end result is that everyone else who doesn't starts getting used to an alternate product?
Consider it like a gateway drug. In the case of Google, they already own the market (with regard to email, maps, etc) They don't want people to get used to using alternate products.
It isn't even 'evil' per say, in any business, you always want people seeing, using, remembering, and promoting your brand. At least with Google, we reap the benefit in a true competitive situation since Google MUST put out a better product. Could you imagine what would happen if the Apple Maps was a better product than Google's? Habits are formed, and people don't think about Google when running their maps/searches/etc.
If Google tried to win this by restricting their services to people only using Android, they would have never have reached the position they are currently in. On the internet, loyalty can be extremely ephemeral.
Why do I use google services? Because they work better for me than Yahoo. Do you know how hard it would be to switch to another service provider for email/maps/search?
Email I can just setup an autoresponder (added bonus that spambots don't pick up my new address and are left behind.) Maps? Simple as typing a new address. Search? Just as simple.
OK, so assuming 2 Fall semesters, 2 Spring Semesters, and 2 Summer Semesters...
You averaged over 22 credits per semester. First, I'm guessing that wasn't an engineering degree. Second, I've always held that it takes about 3 hours per credit hour of non-classroom work in a decent program.
Honestly, that puts you at about 60hrs per week in pure study/class time. Unless you started with a lump sum of cash, I don't see how such a schedule is possible to do while not picking up any loans.
22+ hrs/semester.... Outrageously aggressive, but possible.
22+hrs/semester while working a job to pay for school and actually learning the material? I'm not buying it.
Of those, how many can only be perfomed by the Federal Government? California probably shouldn't have a say in how Maine designs their roads, fire departments, or a whole host of other services.
Trash collection is an interesting one as well. Why must that be a government function?
1. My hometown had trash pickup as a government service. 1x/week, extra fee on your property tax bill.
2. I then lived in a rural area in a non-incorporated area. I could hire someone to pick it up, or I could just load up my truck every 2 weeks and make a trip to the dump. So I just hauled it myself.
3. In Virginia, I sold my truck, so I pay a company. There are 4 major companies that service the general area, if I don't like one, I can go to another. Right now I get trash pickup 2x/wk and recycling pickup 1x/wk.
I actually liked hauling my own trash because it made me a bit more conscious about how much trash I generated. I paid by the truckload to dump it, so the more waste I could cut resulted in a direct $ savings to me.
The point being, not everything has to be a government service, and people aren't 'evil' just because they might not want a government service provided.
Honestly, this makes no sense to me.
If I fiddle around with some GPL'd software, sell a copy to one person, just how much responsibility do I have to then respond to and provide the source to 'EVERYONE/ANYONE' whenever a request is made?
Let's say a group of people get upset with me and decide to DDOS me by getting 100,000 people to request the source code? Am I supposed to quit my day job and respond to every single request?
Your interpretation means that if I've ever offered binary for sale, that I now have an obligation to satisfy demands for every single person on Earth should they decide to demand that item?
(Granted, I'd love if I could charge everyone on Earth $0.10 to send the source, but you see how this is an absurd interpretation)
With regard to classified information. Anyone with a clearance has the legal obligation to not access or attempt to access classified information for which they do not have a need to know and clearance to access. Legally, all classified information remains classified until it is officially unclassified. Until then, cleared individuals have a legal obligation to not access that information. Even if it is publicly released, it remains classified, and thus, effectively radioactive to anyone with a clearance.
No one is asking for the site to be blocked, but identifying it as wikileaks would be a very nice thing to do for the people who wish to avoid that site.
I can still receive a legit signal, delay it and broadcast the delayed signal to the victim. And no, it is not easily to detect this "discontinuity" as loss of signal is rather common. Just drive through NY or a very mountainous area and you will find out why.
Yes, that is a man in the middle attack, which is an understood problem, and one of the ways to counter that is authentication which uses a timestamp. Given that GPS is entirely based around having extreme precision timestamps, it's probably not going to be very difficult discard 'delayed' messages.
Running an internal clock with precision (within seconds per year) is trivial. At best you could only delay messages a second or two before the receiver decided something was fishy. And that assumes a very simplistic method of authentication.
And Canada is south of Detroit. Geography facts are weird (and, I'll admit, fun).
To be sure, the typical maps people see make Australia look much smaller than it is, but the same is true of Canada and Alaska.
That said, I think we can all agree that at least in Alaska there is that general consensus among the populace that, "IT'S FREAKING ALASKA!" So people tend to 'respect' it's ability to kill you, and mountains tend to keep people to obvious routes.
When I was 'hiking' (barely) in Arizona, I made sure that I followed my father's advice from when we used to go out hunting or climbing, "Always make sure your one hand has a good grip before you let go with the other."
90% of the time, you will get away with it. That other 10% though, you won't enjoy falling from a tree even if you are just 2 miles from the nearest road.
Of course it is theoretically possible for life to exist outside of the habitable zone. However, we can't know that until it is proven. We have proven that life can exist within the 'habitable zone'. We have not proven that life can exist outside the 'habitable zone'.
If you have a limited budget (and every budget is), and are told to search for life, where would you look? Within the habitable zone. What you would you look for? Data which we know is produced by the life that we know to exist.
Your complaint is like complaining about a supermarket's 'Produce Section' because they also could have extra watermelons in crates near the checkout and therefore the 'Produce Section' isn't really true because there might be produce elsewhere in the store.
If for some reason I needed a watermelon in 5 minutes, and I sent you into the store to find me a watermelon, I'd be pretty pissed if you wasted time looking in the bakery because it was possible that a watermelon could be there.
I also am aware that we're talking about a difference between 26 & 27. Not that much difference.
No, you specifically referenced, and I quoted, a comparison between a parent and child. Two different age groups. Not 26 and 27. No parent and child age difference is 1 year.
I am also aware that many children are lactose intolerant. So if that's a risk, it's a risk across all parties.
There is not a singular risk. Risk is a quantifiable value based on the combination of a measure of likelyhood (probability) and damage potential. In this specific case, the risk is not evenly distributed across age groups. Therefore no, it is not across all parties.
With regard to drugs, risk is calcuated based upon the potential for harm, and likelyhood of that harm occuring. Even if the potential for harm is low, it is possible for the likelihood of that harm to become probable, and therefore the risk can be considered too great given the expected drawbacks. If a drug intended to treat acne has a 0.1% chance to worsen acne in children, but a 90% chance to worsen acne in adults. Assumign no other side effects, that drug would be approved for use in children, but not adults. So even though the risk existed for both groups, it was not equal for both groups.
And there are children who are likewise insulin senstive due to juvenile diabetes. Granted, it's less common.
Except you are assuming that your treatment when proven effective for children, is a treatment which is not likely to harm adults, based on your success in treating children.
You make several bad assumptions:
1. You assume that the treatment would be equivalent in efficacy
2. You assume that risk exposure is constant
3. You assume that dosage scales in a predictable manner.
So what happens if you are wrong:
1: Reduced or no efficacy: No efficacy means you waste resources and don't achieve the benefit, worse, you may believe it to work and expose yourself to greater risk. Reduced efficacy is a similar problem. (especially if the risk is nonzero)
2. Assuming risk exposure is constant, I think we have explained this one.
3. Dosage may not scale. It may require much less as you age, or it may require more. You can't know that until you test it or perform a thorough analysis to prove enough similarity.
I know you keep getting back to the 26 vs 27 year old thing, but think of a bell-curve. As you approach the edges, the known benefit-risk margin shrinks. That doesn't mean that the benefit-risk margin actually does shrink, but that you can't know the benefit-risk margin.
And the complaint about doctors not wanting to prescribe medications off-label? Well they are doing their own benefit-risk analysis and the risk to them is too large given the marginal benefit. That's all this is.
No prize.
NY state enacted a sales tax exemption for clothing under $110 on April 1 2012. However, Broome County did not elect to enact the sales tax exemption for it's county taxes and continues to collect at it's 4% rate.
You would have overcharged the sales tax.
The problem isn't granting them access with a warrant. The problem is that they are trying to induce storage for no other reason than to maintain a POTENTIAL evidence database.
Why should there be a requirement to maintain these messages? Should there be a requirement to make a copy of every letter that passes through the post office and maintain it for x months? Of course not, because such a copy isn't necessary to transmit the letter.
I hate that people treat the default for all Rights these days in the manner of: None, unless proven otherwise.
In the shop I maintain proper safety, however I think you are being sensational in your terminology by describing it as 'extremely' unsafe.
While I agree I wouldn't want my face up there without a shield, (and I don't know if they used a sufficient face shield), but assuming they did, the energy contained in a round of this size is comparable to that of a typical grinding wheel (back of the envelope estimate). I have seen those explode, and they do toss out shrapnel, but for the most part, simple metal shop safety equipment is sufficient to avoid permanent injuries.
So I'm not saying it is safe to put your face up to this without protection, but a face shield should be sufficient protection. We trust them enough that we don't panic about teenage boys operating high rpm machines in metal shop, and I've seen those goofballs launch bits, lathe tools, and wheels across the room.
Seriously, I don't think there should be any vaccine that a child can be mandated while telling the parent it's not safe enough for them.
Did you know that the human body can react differently to the same substance depending on how old you are?
Lactose. Many adults lose the ability to produce the lactase enzyme. The result is that they can no longer break down lactose. This condition is rare in children, but not uncommon in adults. Thus lactose is more likely to cause problems if administered to an adult than a child.
These is a 'relatively' benign example, but you can NOT assume that the adult body behaves in the same manner as a child's body from a vaccine, drug, or surgical response.
Let's ignore for a moment the fact that there are chemicals/drugs which have different effects on adults vs children. What dosage do you apply?
Assume we just now developed insulin as a treatment for diabetes. Let's say you first develop, test, and verify the safety of insulin injections for children, would you give the same dosage to an adult? How would you know what a safe effective dosage is?
I damn well hope you wouldn't just assume that if insulin injections were safe for a child, that they would be safe for an adult exhibiting symptoms of diabetes.
(Opps, looks like you were just insulin resistant due to adult onset diabetes and we just dosed you with an amount of insulin which is appropriate for a child with insulin dependence, but when scaled up to adult dosages... is lethal)
Perhaps what is safe for children isn't universally safe for adults... Who knew?
Very well, tell me the sales tax which must be levied on a sale of a can of coke, jeans, and a pencil in the zip code 13760.
Here is a hint: It's a trick question, but you knew it would be didn't you?
First, let's figure out the jurisdiction: Well, there is the Town of Union to consider, and Endicott, which is a somewhat of a sub-town within the greater town of Union. However, the zip code shown there covers other areas within Broome county which do not fall within the Town of Union's jurisdiction. It's a bit tricky, but it's doable, all you have to do is verify the exact location of the billing address.... or wait, shipping address.... hmm what if they are in different jurisdictions themselves, since everyone is trying to claim that they now own a piece of the sale... However, let's simplify it and say shipping address.
The address in question falls along 1234 Union Center Maine Highway. However, no one ever uses that street name because a few systems here and there consider that to be too many characters. My old drivers license listed me at 1234 Union Centre Main Hwy. My wife's was 1234 Union-Ctr Mne Hwy. My tax bills arrived from the Town of Union, and Maine (No, not the state, the town that is just down the road).
So, do you calculate for Union Centre, Union Center, Union-Center Maine, Maine, West Corners (heh yeah, its a little jurisdiction which is sandwiched between Maine and Endicott). I've had mail delivered to my address using any of those. I've apparently lived in Endicott, Maine, Union, Union-Center if you go by the town names of the mail. Ok, I'm being a bit silly there (except when trying to get a new passport because NO ONE EVER USES THE SAME ADDRESS and thus every system chokes on the address)
OK OK. Let's assume you figured out where you are shipping to and what tax jurisdiction that is.
The can of coke, are you collecting the deposit on it? Are you remitting it to NYS?
The pair of jeans, are they taxed?
The pencil, did you remember that when I submitted my order it was a sales tax holiday on school supplies? (but only for some jurisdictions)
Don't forget that NYS charges a sales tax, and that local jurisdictions can charge an additional sales tax up to a certain percentage. That percentage is variable depending on local regulations. These regulations are updated according to the process of each individual jurisdiction.
So tell me, did you withold the sales tax on the jeans and the pencil? Did you know that the local municipality reduced the tax, but onlly the local portion of the sales tax, and the NYS portion remained unchanged.
I hope you didn't withold too much tax, because that would be illegal and can be severely punished. I hope you didn't withold too little, but I wouldn't worry, because NYS is a model of legal efficiency and would never prosecute over minor matters. The DAs and politicians in NYS would NEVER use out of state companies as punching bags as part of their re-election campaigns.
Let's face it, you call it a 'bonus' for expanding your market. However, the current reality is that THE MARKET IS ALREADY OPEN, and you are offering risk and cost with no benefit.
Now, consider the fact that the region I just described is less than 2 miles. NYS is famous for having hundreds of little fiefdom municipalities each with redundant services (and yes, taxes).
Do you really think it's just as simple as "50 times" complexity?