For me it's never really been about price. I've started using Google Play to rent movies and episodes of TV programs. I won't pay $18 for a brand new movie, so Google can get stuffed on that, but $4.99 isn't too bad.
Just buy a Chromecast and deal with it. I stopped caring about DRMed video a long time ago. All I care about is that I can watch Netflix with my tablet as a remote control. If HBO works on Chromecast, I'll be the first guy in line to buy a subscription.
Are they offering to freeze sperm of the young men...that might not want a kid early too. Sperm quality and motility degrade a man's age too, why are they not being offered this service/perk?
I'd think if you were old enough to try to contribute to the discourse on Slashdot, you'd have a better grasp on semantics.
If you're married, and no constraint warrants out, etc...I think it is perfectly normal and acceptable for spouses to keep up with each other, that way for years...just that tech is putting a new spin on it.
As for marital rape, I think there is so much implied consent, that it would and should take a much higher level of proof on that one. I'm sure it happens, but it seems harder to prove to me. After all, marriage implies consent to sexual relations.
I don't think there are any direct flights from that area into the US. Thomas Duncan came through Brussels. It's probably impossible to totally quarantine such a large area.
Well, I'd think with today's computer systems, it would be pretty easy to keep track where someone is flying from. We could pull up his history
Note that both of the Ebola patients were health care workers directly involved in the care of Mr. Duncan and so were exposed to him when he was extremely contagious. None of the people in the family he was staying with or the Emergency Room workers appear to have been infected and it's been long enough that we would probably know that by now.
And if patient "0" hadn't made it to our shores at all...these two people wouldn't now be ill and in jeopardy.
It's all about money and large corporations-----you and I don't make a difference.
That doesn't make any sense.
Exactly what large financial contribution to the world is made currently from West Africa?
I can't imagine the US or world economy would even register a *blip* if West Africa was totally cut off from the world. Not that I was saying that, I was merely saying normal, commercial flights from there shouldn't be allowed. Special military and sanctioned flights would be ok, since you could that way ensure quarantine actions be observed from anyone coming back from one of those very, very limited flights.
It might be better to simply bite the bullet, acknowledge that there is Ebola in Texas, and after giving non-residents a chance to leave, simple seal up Texas and route all flights to and from infected areas to that state.
There's a BIG difference between taking care of your own, vs allowing other outsiders in to damage you.
simple. because those persons can go to a third country and then travel from there. it creates an impetus for persons from West Africa to simply try to evade such controls. this would of course worsen the situation, not improve it.
the world as a whole needs to be sending more resources to West Africa to fight the epidemic *there*. that is the only thing that will help stop this from becoming an actual pandemic.
Err...with our flight systems, can we not pretty readily track anyone flying OUT of that area, and know if they are coming from a connecting flight within the 20 or so day incubation period?
I have nothing wrong with sending resources...BUT, I still see no reason to allow free travel out of the area especially with cases on the rise, I hear projections that soon it will ramp up to 10K a week or so over there. At some point, we need to expand the quarantine to the NATION and not just hospital rooms.
Better than have it reach pandemic proportions, and we "rest of the world" find ourselves in a position of deciding to do something even more drastic. Better to close the area off till it can be controlled, than to have it become Uncontrollable, and we have to resort to measures to protect the world by "cleansing" the area in a much broader sense. (warms up the nukes).
I have no problem with a woman of mine "emotionally cheating". Just as long as she isn't actually FUCKING someone physically, what's the big deal?
How in the world is it even possible to "stalk" your spouse???
I mean, if you're married, living in same house, etc...by definition isn't stalking impossible, there is all kinds of implied consent there, no?
I'm not arguing right or wrong on what the guy did, but either that is a huge stretch on saying what "stalking" is, or the law was written FAR too broadly!!!
As an added bonus, they can start having babies when they're 45!
The effects on the babies (and mothers) be damned...
Seriously, this is a half-measure. If we really want to help women stay in the workforce, we ought to develop incubators. Facebook and Apple may have the monies to fund the necessary research and pilot programs.
Neither the herbicide, nor the TCDD, nor the pharmaceuticals and metabolites you mention have anything to do with genetic modifications — however despicable they may (or may not) be otherwise.
Off-topic much?
I mean, special permission flights for health workers, aid, etc could be set up for private charter flights as needed, but why are we allowing people from the infected countries to freely come and go in the US?
We're clearly not THAT ready in the US to handle this disease and it seems common sense to isolate that part of the world from general travel till things get under control.
Will someone just tell me if it's time to panic or not?
That depends. Are you bleeding through every orifice yet or not?
Always draw your curves, then plot your reading.
