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Slidell. I went to school at LaTech for a year and a half. I I recently found a fellow Google intern who's from Slidell as well, but we'd never met previously because we went to rival highschools.
Wow, I never thought I'd run into someone else from Slidell on here. Did you go to Northshore High, by any chance?
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Wow, I never thought I'd run into someone else from Slidell on here. Did you go to Northshore High, by any chance?
I went to Slidell High; the other Google intern went to Northshore. And now one more from Slidell. I love how the internet brought us all together even though we were previously so close but didn't know it.
"No man is an island, Entire of itself, Every man is a piece of the continent, A part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less. As well as if a promontory were. As well as if a manor of thy friend's Or of thine own were: Any man's death diminishes me, Because I am involved in mankind..."
I'll be saying a prayer and pouring one out for you tonight.
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No, I don't think that's a valid Step 0. Here's a simple counter-argument: If we were talking about Air Companies instead of Record Companies, you wouldn't say that Step 0 is to stop breathing air. You'd agree that in an environment where "stealing air" without a licence has been criminalised in some way, it is nevertheless acceptable to continue breathing even if it's illegal and costing revenues from the Air Compan…
It isn't all man vs. the machine. There are viable ways to give artists money without giving it to record companies. You can also buy music secondhand without giving money to record companies. And not every record company is evil, it's mostly the Big Five (or however many it is these days); there are thousands of non-subsidiary record companies that are totally friendly.
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That's a perfectly fine position. However, if the record companies are so abhorrent, isn't Step 0 to stop listening to their music at all? Plus a Step 2 being some form of action to attempt to change the situation. Without that Step 0, it's a bit like saying "I hate Big Theater" while sneaking in the back door to enjoy the movies.
No, I don't think that's a valid Step 0. Here's a simple counter-argument: If we were talking about Air Companies instead of Record Companies, you wouldn't say that Step 0 is to stop breathing air. You'd agree that in an environment where "stealing air" without a licence has been criminalised in some way, it is nevertheless acceptable to continue breathing even if it's illegal and costing revenues from the Air Compan…
Wow, for people close to him, waiting for the results, that time must feel like an eternity. Why does it take that long?
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Yeah. Deaths from undiagnosed heart conditions make the news every so often when it happens to young athletes. Sometimes very young. I believe just in the past few years, defibrillators have become standard equipment at football grounds in Spain and England.
Undiagnosed conditions aside, there is also commotio cordis, which I believe has killed a number of high school sportsmen.
... toxicology results will take two or three months. Wow, for people close to him, waiting for the results, that time must feel like an eternity. Why does it take that long?
... toxicology results will take two or three months. Wow, for people close to him, waiting for the results, that time must feel like an eternity. Why does it take that long?
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I don't think anyone is expecting "enhance enhance enhance ah, this person had $SUBSTANCE in their blood", but months does feel a bit long. It'd be interesting to see what the bottlenecks are and how to improve them.
State and local gov't funding level for forensic labs. It costs money to do it correctly, and nobody wants to spend that kind of money, even though we wind up paying more, and imprisoning people wrongly. http://www.texastribune.org/2013/04/05/commission-looks-misc... Harris county, Texas just recently got a new one because of similarly disturbing corruption and incompetence. http://www.harriscountytx.gov/ifs/
in the case where, say, a serial rapist/killer hasn't been caught, there can be a backlog of untested DNA from other crime scenes that may identify the suspect, but haven't been tested because of the backlog.