I don't disagree with the climate change cut. After all, the studies are already done. We've already decided to ignore them (both sets). So what good does funding more studies to tell us what we already know (or believe we know) do?
on the other hand, your stomach could be a good power source -- kinetic energy, electrolyte source, AND it keeps a steady temperature. I think your colon would be even better though
YES! The colon produces methane which is a fuel and could be used in some kind of fuel cell, perhaps. It's a win-win: you'd fart less and not have to remember passwords!
...and any time you needed a password for something, you could go with your gut!
Creation is usually influenced or built off earlier creations. Very little music is created in a vacuum, and the line between 'inspiration' and 'derived work' can be fuzzy and subjective.
Well... I took THAT out of context. I forgot what window I had open and thought this was a discussion on Creationism vs Evolution.
I think I may re-post your comment to one of those threads sometime
Canada is one of the outliers because the US pushed the 70 year term as a condition on a number of treaties. But you're right about the "not totally senseless" side -- I thought this change was old news: it's a requirement of the latest round of trade treaties with the US. Doing it got Canada some other trade "concessions" with the US.
Didn't LinkedIn get in trouble for doing this a while back? They ended up mining everyone's address books and then leaking that data out to anyone and everyone based on received calls? What are the privacy controls on this?
meaning it has to be activated by your particular stomach in order for the challenge to be accepted in the first place
As with DRM, if the thing that decides if you are valid can be in your hands (so to speak), you may as well assume it will be compromised.
There's no way I can think of to pass on a piece of information describing yourself to another party without that party having to know that information already to validate it, and if they do, it can be stolen and replayed.
Precisely.
on the other hand, your stomach could be a good power source -- kinetic energy, electrolyte source, AND it keeps a steady temperature. I think your colon would be even better though
Biometrics are only good so long as the device that reads your pattern is "honest." If you have to inject a device to read your biometric patterns, you could just as easily inject a device that pretends to read your biometrics, but actually copies someone else's.
Or vice versa: you could ingest a device that pretends to use your biometrics for security validation, but actually copies your biometrics and broadcasts for someone else to spoof or collect for various purposes not approved by you.
"biometrics" are only metric at the point they're being read -- the resulting hashes etc. are by no means biometric, and are instead a static constant to be used/abused by whomever.
I think the idea here is that the system would be two-part: challenge/response key, but with extra biodata, meaning it has to be activated by your particular stomach in order for the challenge to be accepted in the first place.
However, there are all sorts of problems with that:
1) Our bodies change over time.
2) The information must be broadcast, at which point any receiver can grab that info (unless it's protected by ANOTHER c/r system)
3) Spoofing this would be relatively easy with a replay attack.
Wearing a seatbelt does in fact increase risk to you of serious harm in certain kinds of accidents. It also protects those around you, as you are held into the driving position in your vehicle, so are less likely to lose/be unable to regain control of your car.
Vaccines protect the herd -- this is not "random people" but the people you come into contact with each day.
The next time a vaccine starts shooting random people, let me know.
You do indeed have the right to get the flu instead of a shot. However, by exercising that right, you are putting people in harms' way that would otherwise be more protected. That's a decision you get to make. Other people have made the decision to get vaccinated, which indirectly benefits you, as long as enough people get vaccinated.
We keep learning about the companies that make these and how the effectiveness is way lower than they have been telling us, or it turns out to cause cancer.
Who is we? I haven't been hearing these things. There are some non-approved vaccines that have side effects that are considered worth the risk in the middle of a pandemic -- are those the ones you're referring to? They have nothing to do with chicken pox, nor with the flu virus, nor MMR (the vaccines discussed in this thread so far).
Flu vaccines are a crap shoot -- I never used to get them, but now I do, as it costs me nothing. The reason they're a crap shoot isn't because they're not effective though; it's because they only target one strain. Vaccine companies look at what's brewing in China at the beginning of their flu season, and then inoculate against that in North America so by the time flu season hits NA, enough people are inoculated to the most likely strain, protecting the herd. This year, they guessed wrong, and a different strain made the hit list. Result? A greater number of child and elderly deaths due to influenza.
Everyone was still inoculated against the strain that went nowhere; nobody was inoculated against the strain that became pandemic. Was the vaccine effective? Not at minimizing flu exposure, but it WAS effective at minimizing exposure to the target strain -- in China, before it ever spread anywhere else.
The main reason vaccines don't work as well as we are led to expect is that what many people hear regarding vaccines is "get this shot to be protected from viral family X" when, as I originally stated, that's not what vaccination is about at all.
Vaccines are pretty simple; reviewing them is pretty simple, and delivering them without side effects is getting simpler as time goes by. Stay away from "live strain" vaccines, and at worst you're injecting junk into your muscle tissue that your lymph nodes have to collect and dispose of (or in a minority of cases, your body marshals its T cells and histamine chains, and the NEXT time you're exposed, you go into shock).
umm, all I need to do is lure a victim to my untrusted dumpster, and I can do all sorts of bad things to them.
The problem isn't that there's a way for me to hurt you. The problem is that you're walking down dark alleys alone at night.
Stop doing that.
Why are you going to untrusted web-sites in the first place?
Do you trust Forbes?
That's not what vaccines are for. They're herd protection, and are to decrease the number of possible hosts in a population. If everyone who CAN get vaccinated does, then that protects those few who can't get vaccinated for whatever reason (too young/old, react to the vaccine, forgot to get the booster, etc.).
That's the point of getting vaccinated. What possible side effects are there that are greater than contracting chicken pox without the vaccine?
It's kind of like wearing a seatbelt while driving a car. Same counter-arguments get used too. It doesn't change the scientific reality that belt enforcement saves more lives than not having belt enforcement.
That's rewriting history. The anti-vaccine movement was specifically against MMR, following the publishing of a (since redacted) paper showing a link between MMR and autism. Not only was the paper redacted, the research was proven to be flawed and then re-done properly to show that there is zero correlation. That's the ONLY autism-related vaccine issue that's ever been raised.
There are other (past and present) vaccines which do have potential side effects; these are generally understood and considered to be worth the risk. Usually it's a case of allergic reaction to the suspension that the vaccine is in, and is tied to the person taking it.
Vaccines are not all safe, but herd protection is generally safer for the population at large than unchecked infections. "Dead" vaccines are generally safe, other than the possibility of your body rejecting the vaccine itself.
What is bad about this is that Chicken Pox for adults is known as Shingles which is far nastier than Chicken Pox. So in this case taking the vaccine to protect against a very mild childhood disease may lead to an increased chance of a more serious disease later in life...unless you set a 20 year alarm so you never forget a booster shot!
As far as I know, this is very inaccurate. Shingles is a neurological disorder which only affects people who have generated Chicken Pox antigens. Chicken Pox itself has two or three strains, which can be contracted at any point in your life. For instance, the common Chicken Pox (the one with the vaccine now) is something I might have been exposed to when very young, but I've never officially got it (no pox) and eventually I figured I was immune and was tasked as the person to take care of anyone who had it. However, as an adult, I got a secondary strain of Chicken Pox -- symptoms are pretty much identical to the common variety. Result? I'm now susceptible to shingles. If a vaccine had been available back when I contracted it (and I'd had the vaccine instead), that would likely prevent me from getting shingles, as I would never have developed the requisite antigens. However, since there's still no vaccine for the second strain as far as I know, had I taken the vaccine (which was pretty much the same as my existing immunity), I still would have contracted Chicken Pox and then been susceptible to shingles. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
How do you explain phones that have identical international and US versions, and only the US version has the FM disabled?
I already explained that... it's under the "FCC Testing" section. I bet if you look at the non-US version, there's no FCC stamp on the back.
"Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love." -- Albert Einstein
