I%26#039;d like to know What you would do if the situation of your state would be different.
I mean a situation where Turkish people would be a minority and a Kurdistan state were existed instead of Turkey, and all of the policies of the %26quot;Kurdistan%26quot; toward the Turkish minority in that situation would be the same as the current policies of the %26quot;Turkey%26quot; toward the Kurdish minority, What would you do then?
Consider a situation where a law would applied to Turkish people through military control, boarding schools, the banning of the Turkish language and culture, changing place names, and deportation. What would you do then?
Consider a situation where Any expression of Turkish identity would be treated as a crime against the %26quot;indivisibility of the Kurdistan nation%26quot; and %26quot;territorial integrity%26quot; of Kurdistan.
What would you do then?
Consider a situation where The use of the Turkish language, music, dance, dress, personal and geographic names, and even listening to broadcasting and recorded music were all criminalized by the Kurdistan state.
What would you do then?
Consider a situation where Turks would be allowed to speak their own language in public aftre 70 years of banning.The use of Turkish in education, broadcasting and publishing would be prohibited. Anyone publishing, or attempting to publish, an objective historical analysis of the Turkish situation is subject to prosecution and imprisonment.
What would you do then?
Would you like that situation? Would you just sit back and do nothing against these actions?|||Your question is hypothetical although you have unsuccessfully tried to make a comparison of what Turkish Kurds are supposed to have gone through, many of what you have written down is simply not true. You have minced your words here but in another answer I saw, you claimed Kurds are imprisoned and tortured every year in Turkey, excuse me for asking but what have you been smoking? One of my best friends is Kurdish and she abhors the PKK and its fascist sympathisers, just like millions of other Kurds. I have written this numerous times before, and I ask you now, how would you explain the fact that the party that has the clear blessing of the PKK (BDP) never receives more than 10% of the votes?
What do you think about people belonging to BDP making provocative and threatening speeches, one MP from this party said %26quot;His people would turn the streets of Turkey to hell%26quot; (implying the PKK would start bombing urban targets, as it did only yesterday by planting a bomb on the way of a bus and killing 5 people). IF the Turkish government is brutal as you say, how come people like this MP find the audacity to make such statements in front of the TV cameras? How come people openly cheer for the PKK in rallies and get away with it? Imagine people gathering in New York and holding Osame Bin Laden posters and jumping up and down in joy. How would be the reaction of Americans?
So what do you expect me to say under this question which lacks insight and is written in a regrettably dramatic tone seasoned with outdated 19th century nationalism? When I read the question, I thought the details contained some analysis, since it asked for a rational answer and what I find here is a bad attempt at a logical fallacy.
Turkey has had problems with human rights, but that really has little to do with one%26#039;s ethnicity. Turks, Kurds and millions of other people, who come from tens of ethnicities (I hope you are aware that it isn%26#039;t just the Kurds who live in Turkey) have suffered from mistreatment.
I also find it exceedingly biased for people to ignore and deliberately brush aside the proceedings relating to the use of Kurdish language for instance. Our government established a Kurdish language channel for instance. There are other proceedings as well yet I always see that people such as the asker find exuberance in focussing on all the negative news concerning Turkey.
Lastly, Turkey is a democratic country and if people, be it Xs be it Ys or interest groups, feel they cannot exercise their rights as they should, they can find democratic means to express their concerns. Taking up arms, kidnapping 14 year old children and making them drug addicts so that they%26#039;ll fight for you is not a part of %26#039;democratic re/action%26#039; nor is killing civilians nor is killing your own soldiers.
@the answerer above:
I beg to differ. The only reason why Kurds are associated with manual labour is not because of any deliberate discriminatory practices regarding education and job hiring but because of Kurdish culture, which attributes, just like any other Middle Eastern culture, unfortunately, little importance to education and women%26#039;s rights, deplorable honour killings continue to be a problem in Turkey. Many of these rural Kurdish families prefer to make their children work on fields rather than sending them to school, if they feel they do not have enough money, they should avoid polygamy -which again is illegal in Turkey- and tens of children that comes with it! It is hard for the Turkish government or any other government to change the basic tenets of a very closed culture.
In addition to that, I am sure you are, as I am, aware that there are millions of very wealthy and influential people of Kurdish origin in Turkey, politicians, journalists, singers, business men...
There are poor villages in the Black Sea region, poor villages in Western Anatolia and poor regions in South-eastern Turkey. The latter%26#039;s situation may be worse due to the PKK%26#039;s dastardly attacks there, which continue to traumatize the lives of many ordinary citizens in the region and this has little to due with the ethnicity of people who live there. After all, it isn%26#039;t as if the whole of Eastern Turkey has only Turks of Kurdish origin! Millions of Turks and other groups of people live there.|||you deal w your own biz muthafucka,you think you have a strong imagination but its just those pils you re taking.
sit back and enjoy buttmunch.|||First of all, there is no Kurdistan.
Secondly, I think you need to learn the history of Turkey before you ask this question. It is not such simple. Do you know how many people died for Turkey in the Independence War, and people are still dying, not only soldiers and officers, but also their daughters,wives and local people. Recently, 4 soldiers and one of the soldiers%26#039; daughter have died. You may not be understand because every morning when you wake up, you don%26#039;t hear that more soldiers has died. Of course I don%26#039;t mean that we need to abuse all the Kurdish people. Turkey has made a mistake. Many Kurdish people work in fields and constructions, etc.(They do hard jobs, but their salaries are low). This is the only mistake that we do.
Thirdly, the terror organization is trying to divide the country.
Lastly, you say %26quot;would you like the situation?%26quot; Now I ask you: If your grandfathers fought for the independence of your country and there were still deaths for a land and if a group tried to divide the country, would you like the situation.
Please think again.
@The Sorceress,
First of all, I live in Eastern Turkey, and I didn%26#039;t mean that Eastern Turkey has only Kurdish people. For example, I%26#039;m a Caucasian Turk.
Secondly,I completely agree with you about the culture of Kurdish people. Unfortunately, they have some strict rules that cause honour killings. It shows that education is the biggest problem and also the most important solution of Turkey.
Lastly, I didn%26#039;t mean that all the Kurds are poor. Yes, there are many Kurdish people who are very rich, but there are 11 million Kurds in Turkey, and as you say they are not rich.
Before the party-called DTP- banned, the head of the party said that %26quot;Siz K眉rtlere ne verdiniz?%26quot;.
I want to continue my writing in Turkish,
Objektif de臒erlendirirsek, 莽ok da haks谋z say谋lmaz. Do臒ru, biz K眉rtlere 莽ok 艧ey vermedik. G眉ne艧in alt谋nda, bah莽elerde meyve toplayanlar谋n 莽o臒u K眉rt. 陌stanbul%26#039;a bakal谋m, 莽o臒u kapka莽莽谋, yan kesici K眉rt.(Elbette %26quot;b眉t眉n K眉rtler b枚yle%26quot; ya da %26quot;bunlar谋n aras谋nda T眉rk yoktur%26quot; demiyorum). Su莽 i艧leyenlerin, su莽 i艧lemek istedikleri i莽in su莽 i艧lediklerini zannetmiyorum.
Bu konu hakk谋nda yaz谋艧mak istiyorsan谋z e-mail yoluyla yaz谋艧谋rsak sevinirim.|||http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/ind鈥?/a>
I will just copy and paste my answer for the same question you%26#039;ve posted twice.
Kurds have exactly the same right as any other Turkish citizen in the REPUBLIC OF TURKEY, as they%26#039;re are also considered as a citizen of this country. Please be more reasonable and rational next time when you%26#039;re posting a question as such.
Consider this, if someone came to your house and said to you %26#039;get off that couch, it%26#039;s mine now, you can go sit in your bedroom from now on%26#039;, would you accept that? If every country gave land to every minority group within their borders, imagine what the world would come to.
you%26#039;re wrong by the way, there is a channel dedicated to Kurds, broadcasting in Kurdish, on which they can watch many programs and shows in Kurdish.
Turkish government sends them teachers, doctors, nurses and everything else they need, but (most of) those doctors, nurses, teachers are kidnapped and (most of the time) killed. So what rationality were you speaking about again?
About 5 minutes ago I was watching the news, watching the funerals of the young soldiers who were killed by the feral terrorists, of a young 17 year old girl who still had so many goals to achieve in this life. What was her fault? Would she even know the controversy of this topic at the innocent age of 17? So being reasonable you were talking about, right? The amazing thing is, when I saw the orphan daughter (at 2 years old) of the murdered soldier at the funeral, I couldn%26#039;t help but shed a few tears, while his proud dad was saying %26#039;Vatan sagolsun. 3 oglum ve ben variz daha, gerekirse vatan icin sehit olmaya.%26#039; - Long live the homeland. I still have myself and 3 sons to sacrifice for our homeland- So please, be reasonable and rational, put yourself in this man%26#039;s shoes for a few minutes, would you be able to say the same thing? Honestly and rationally, I would not.
Here you go. I gave you a very reasonable, honest and a rational answer.|||Years ago, a Turkish columnist (Altan) wrote an article in a major Turkish national newspaper, Hurriyet or Milliyet if I remember correctly, along the same lines. He created a hypothetical situation where Turks suffered from what Kurds had undergone over the 20th century. He was harassed widely and prosecuted by the authorities. I don%26#039;t remember the result of the prosecution, though.
This is a very delicate issue for Turkish citizens no matter what their ethnic backgrounds are, as you can discern from the answers given to your question. But it is not limited to the situation of Kurds in Turkey and elsewhere. National question is yet to be solved in global as well as local politics. Only recently, for instance, British PM Cameron acknowledge how British government terrorized the civilian Irish population along with IRA militants and fabricated fake evidence against them, and resorted to the method of extrajudicial punishment in its dealings with IRA militants and civilian people who are considered to be aiding and abetting to them or who doesn%26#039;t want to become a %26quot;tout%26quot;.
This was just an example and similar things happened also in Turkey. Kurds were openly discriminated against until the nineties; actually it was more than discrimination as they were not even considered an ethnic community. To its stupidity, the regime in Turkey called them %26quot;Mountainous Turks%26quot; and their language %26quot;Mountain Turkish%26quot;. Today, however, nobody believes in this. Even people who believed this in the past (at least most of them, I hope) are honorable enough to be embarrassed when reminded of this (I must recommend nobel prize winner Harold Pinter%26#039;s fascinating play called The Mountain Language).
Kurdish political prisoners, after the 1980 fascist coup instigated by the US secret services, were tortured in ways inconceivable by a normal human being for years. Both US involvement and tortures are now recognized and evidenced widely. And let me remind you that there was no Kurdish armed insurgency until 1984 when PKK started its armed struggle. Before 1980 even armed political groups of Kurdish origin considered themselves part of the Turkish revolutionary left. But the junta treated them much more harshly than it treated the Turkish left-wing people, although they were also subjected to widespread torture.
This doesn%26#039;t justify terrorism, I can hear people saying. And I agree it doesn%26#039;t. But a state itself, by definition, cannot and should not act like those who terrorize people and adopt the tactics of a terrorist organization. The number 40.000 is widely cited as the number of people died as a result of this conflict. But remember, 17.000 of these remain to be unsolved cases of murder. Villages were burned down, and emptied of its inhabitants. And all these are today recognized by the government. These people who suffered from the atrocities both by the state and the PKK, are being compensated for by the state now.
Never in history have good guys been on the one side, villains being on the other. The most disturbing thing for Turkish people when they interact with Westerners, however, is that they are singled out as the villain of history and this is unfair. Every power in history, when challenged by a lesser power, behaves in a way that may be unjustifiable in the modern sense of the word morality. Many examples can be cited: Guantanamo for the US, the French in Algeria and on its own soil against the minorities, Spain against left wing and liberal people until 1980s and against Basque and Catalan people, Britain against the Irish and many many other peoples in the world and its workers in late 1970s and early 1980s, Italy against the immigrants and southern italians, indonesia against the timorese, China against the tibetians and the uighur turks along with its peasantry, tutsis against hutus and hutus against tutsis in Rwanda...
One last note to some answerers: essentializing culture and attributing certain features to an ethnic group is ignorance, if not racism.
Most probably I will be condemned by people from both sides as this is a delicate issue as I mentioned above. And people don%26#039;t look at the facts when it%26#039;s delicate, rather they throw their pre-established opinions. I%26#039;d rather discuss the facts I presented, but it may not always be possible.
Saturday, June 4, 2011
Legal to sell backups? loop hole?
i saw this on a form and was wondering. does this allow a person to sell backups of anything games, movies, software, putting responsibility on the buyer?
United States of America;
Sec. 117. Limitations on exclusive rights: Computer programs
(a) Making of Additional Copy or Adaptation by Owner of Copy. -
Notwithstanding the provisions of section 106, it is not an
infringement for the owner of a copy of a computer program to make
or authorize the making of another copy or adaptation of that
computer program provided:
(1) that such a new copy or adaptation is created as an
essential step in the utilization of the computer program in
conjunction with a machine and that it is used in no other
manner, or
(2) that such new copy or adaptation is for archival purposes
only and that all archival copies are destroyed in the event that
continued possession of the computer program should cease to be
rightful.
(b) Lease, Sale, or Other Transfer of Additional Copy or
Adaptation. - Any exact copies prepared in accordance with the
provisions of this section may be leased, sold, or otherwise
transferred, along with the copy from which such copies were
prepared, only as part of the lease, sale, or other transfer of all
rights in the program. Adaptations so prepared may be transferred
only with the authorization of the copyright owner.
(c) Machine Maintenance or Repair. - Notwithstanding the
provisions of section 106, it is not an infringement for the owner
or lessee of a machine to make or authorize the making of a copy of
a computer program if such copy is made solely by virtue of the
activation of a machine that lawfully contains an authorized copy
of the computer program, for purposes only of maintenance or repair
of that machine, if -
(1) such new copy is used in no other manner and is destroyed
immediately after the maintenance or repair is completed; and
(2) with respect to any computer program or part thereof that
is not necessary for that machine to be activated, such program
or part thereof is not accessed or used other than to make such
new copy by virtue of the activation of the machine.
(d) Definitions. - For purposes of this section -
(1) the %26quot;maintenance%26quot; of a machine is the servicing of the
machine in order to make it work in accordance with its original
specifications and any changes to those specifications authorized
for that machine; and
(2) the %26quot;repair%26quot; of a machine is the restoring of the machine
to the state of working in accordance with its original
specifications and any changes to those specifications authorized
for that machine.
HISTORICAL AND REVISION NOTES
HOUSE REPORT NO. 94-1476
As the program for general revision of the copyright law has
evolved, it has become increasingly apparent that in one major area
the problems are not sufficiently developed for a definitive
legislative solution. This is the area of computer uses of
copyrighted works: the use of a work %26quot;in conjunction with automatic
systems capable of storing, processing, retrieving, or transferring
information.%26quot; The Commission on New Technological Uses is, among
other things, now engaged in making a thorough study of the
emerging patterns in this field and it will, on the basis of its
findings, recommend definitive copyright provisions to deal with
the situation.
Since it would be premature to change existing law on computer
uses at present, the purpose of section 117 is to preserve the
status quo. It is intended neither to cut off any rights that may
now exist, nor to create new rights that might be denied under the
Act of 1909 or under common law principles currently applicable.
The provision deals only with the exclusive rights of a copyright
owner with respect to computer uses, that is, the bundle of rights
specified for other types of uses in section 106 and qualified in
sections 107 through 116 and 118. With respect to the
copyright-ability of computer programs, the ownership of copyrights
in them, the term of protection, and the formal requirements of the
remainder of the bill, the new statute would apply.
Under section 117, an action for infringement of a copyrighted
work by means of a computer would necessarily be a federal action
brought under the new title 17. The court, in deciding the scope of
exclusive rights in the computer area, would first need to
determine the applicable law, whether State statutory or common law
or the Act of 1909. Having determined what law was applicable, its
decision would dep|||You can%26#039;t sell it. It says so in (2)(b).
You can only make copies if it is an essential step in using the software.|||No. You can only sell the %26quot;original%26quot; copy you got (e.g., on a CD), plus one copy on the hard drive, which was authorized as %26quot;essential%26quot; to the operation. Any other %26quot;archival%26quot; copies must be destroyed once you sell the computer or the software copy.
United States of America;
Sec. 117. Limitations on exclusive rights: Computer programs
(a) Making of Additional Copy or Adaptation by Owner of Copy. -
Notwithstanding the provisions of section 106, it is not an
infringement for the owner of a copy of a computer program to make
or authorize the making of another copy or adaptation of that
computer program provided:
(1) that such a new copy or adaptation is created as an
essential step in the utilization of the computer program in
conjunction with a machine and that it is used in no other
manner, or
(2) that such new copy or adaptation is for archival purposes
only and that all archival copies are destroyed in the event that
continued possession of the computer program should cease to be
rightful.
(b) Lease, Sale, or Other Transfer of Additional Copy or
Adaptation. - Any exact copies prepared in accordance with the
provisions of this section may be leased, sold, or otherwise
transferred, along with the copy from which such copies were
prepared, only as part of the lease, sale, or other transfer of all
rights in the program. Adaptations so prepared may be transferred
only with the authorization of the copyright owner.
(c) Machine Maintenance or Repair. - Notwithstanding the
provisions of section 106, it is not an infringement for the owner
or lessee of a machine to make or authorize the making of a copy of
a computer program if such copy is made solely by virtue of the
activation of a machine that lawfully contains an authorized copy
of the computer program, for purposes only of maintenance or repair
of that machine, if -
(1) such new copy is used in no other manner and is destroyed
immediately after the maintenance or repair is completed; and
(2) with respect to any computer program or part thereof that
is not necessary for that machine to be activated, such program
or part thereof is not accessed or used other than to make such
new copy by virtue of the activation of the machine.
(d) Definitions. - For purposes of this section -
(1) the %26quot;maintenance%26quot; of a machine is the servicing of the
machine in order to make it work in accordance with its original
specifications and any changes to those specifications authorized
for that machine; and
(2) the %26quot;repair%26quot; of a machine is the restoring of the machine
to the state of working in accordance with its original
specifications and any changes to those specifications authorized
for that machine.
HISTORICAL AND REVISION NOTES
HOUSE REPORT NO. 94-1476
As the program for general revision of the copyright law has
evolved, it has become increasingly apparent that in one major area
the problems are not sufficiently developed for a definitive
legislative solution. This is the area of computer uses of
copyrighted works: the use of a work %26quot;in conjunction with automatic
systems capable of storing, processing, retrieving, or transferring
information.%26quot; The Commission on New Technological Uses is, among
other things, now engaged in making a thorough study of the
emerging patterns in this field and it will, on the basis of its
findings, recommend definitive copyright provisions to deal with
the situation.
Since it would be premature to change existing law on computer
uses at present, the purpose of section 117 is to preserve the
status quo. It is intended neither to cut off any rights that may
now exist, nor to create new rights that might be denied under the
Act of 1909 or under common law principles currently applicable.
The provision deals only with the exclusive rights of a copyright
owner with respect to computer uses, that is, the bundle of rights
specified for other types of uses in section 106 and qualified in
sections 107 through 116 and 118. With respect to the
copyright-ability of computer programs, the ownership of copyrights
in them, the term of protection, and the formal requirements of the
remainder of the bill, the new statute would apply.
Under section 117, an action for infringement of a copyrighted
work by means of a computer would necessarily be a federal action
brought under the new title 17. The court, in deciding the scope of
exclusive rights in the computer area, would first need to
determine the applicable law, whether State statutory or common law
or the Act of 1909. Having determined what law was applicable, its
decision would dep|||You can%26#039;t sell it. It says so in (2)(b).
You can only make copies if it is an essential step in using the software.|||No. You can only sell the %26quot;original%26quot; copy you got (e.g., on a CD), plus one copy on the hard drive, which was authorized as %26quot;essential%26quot; to the operation. Any other %26quot;archival%26quot; copies must be destroyed once you sell the computer or the software copy.
How Do I get corrected an inacccurate address location on mapquest and google maps & GPS devices?
When you type my address into google maps or mapquest it gives the wrong location. This is namely due to the fact that the street I live on was built 5 years ago. It is an extentsion of an existing street and it shows up on the aerial photos if you change to that view. Is there anyway to contact the vendors who provide this info. to Google, MapQuest and other GPS devices. If people use what is there, they wind up on the wrong side of a busy street and it is one of those %26quot;you can%26#039;t get there from here%26quot; situations, w/o doing a lot of turns.
Many thanks.|||There are two companies who provide the majority of the street data to the GPS companies and companies providing mapping services like Google Maps, Yahoo Maps, and MapQuest. Those two companies are Tele Atlas and NAVTEQ. Both of those companies have online tools where you can report errors found in their databases.
Typically the GPS device or the mapping service will have a copyright tag somewhere that will indicate which mapping service they got their data from. For example Garmin, Magellan, and the Google Maps website use NAVTEQ data primarily. TomTom, Mio, and the Google Maps API use Tele Atlas data.
You can read a comparison of the two companies here:
http://www.gpsreview.net/navteq-vs-tele-鈥?/a>
For Tele Atlas corrections you can report them via their MapInsight program here:
http://mapinsight.teleatlas.com/
For NAVTEQ corrections you can report them via their MapReporter program here:
http://mapreporter.navteq.com/dur-web-ex鈥?/a>
In both cases those companies go through lots of work to evaluate the validity of changes before they are implemented. Also it can take a long time for the downstream provider (Google Maps, etc) to *implement* changes they receive from the vendors, even if the vendor accepts the change quickly. In other words if you submit a correction today, don%26#039;t expect to see that change reflected tomorrow... or next week... in some cases it can take a year or more to validate a change, distribute the new information, and have the downstream provider implement that change.|||I%26#039;m interested in the answers you get because my address is listed incorrectly, too. I have e-mailed Mapquest several times (over a period of years) and not gotten a response. Any help here?
Many thanks.|||There are two companies who provide the majority of the street data to the GPS companies and companies providing mapping services like Google Maps, Yahoo Maps, and MapQuest. Those two companies are Tele Atlas and NAVTEQ. Both of those companies have online tools where you can report errors found in their databases.
Typically the GPS device or the mapping service will have a copyright tag somewhere that will indicate which mapping service they got their data from. For example Garmin, Magellan, and the Google Maps website use NAVTEQ data primarily. TomTom, Mio, and the Google Maps API use Tele Atlas data.
You can read a comparison of the two companies here:
http://www.gpsreview.net/navteq-vs-tele-鈥?/a>
For Tele Atlas corrections you can report them via their MapInsight program here:
http://mapinsight.teleatlas.com/
For NAVTEQ corrections you can report them via their MapReporter program here:
http://mapreporter.navteq.com/dur-web-ex鈥?/a>
In both cases those companies go through lots of work to evaluate the validity of changes before they are implemented. Also it can take a long time for the downstream provider (Google Maps, etc) to *implement* changes they receive from the vendors, even if the vendor accepts the change quickly. In other words if you submit a correction today, don%26#039;t expect to see that change reflected tomorrow... or next week... in some cases it can take a year or more to validate a change, distribute the new information, and have the downstream provider implement that change.|||I%26#039;m interested in the answers you get because my address is listed incorrectly, too. I have e-mailed Mapquest several times (over a period of years) and not gotten a response. Any help here?
What would cause a vampire to come into existence, from an evolutionary standpoint?
What%26#039;s a plausible evolutionary situation that would require and/or allow a subspecies such as the mythological vampire to exist? How would humanity have to change, and how would their genes mutate?|||No evolution can allow a complex creature such as a humanoid to subsist directly off of blood. There just isn%26#039;t enough inherent carbohydrates, proteins, or fats in blood to provide the necessary life nutritional requirements. When a human eats a meal, his digestive system slowly breaks the food down, converting most of it to simple sugars which enter the bloodstream (i.e. blood sugar) and are carried to each cell for use as fuel. The rest may be used immediately as building blocks to rebuild and maintain the bodily tissues and systems, or stored as fat. Indigestible bulk continues on through the digestive tract and is excreted as waste.
The nutrients the body extracts from the meal are therefore diluted in the bloodstream itself and considering parts per million, even a small %26quot;drink%26quot; of blood could not supply enough sugars and nutrients to sustain a %26quot;vampire%26quot;.
In order to get the full nutritive value of the person%26#039;s blood the vampire would have to consume the entire blood supply, which is impossible. Imagine trying to pack 24 cans of soda in your stomach all at once - the stomach is only as big as your fist. For a vampire to consume the entire blood supply his entire abdomen would have to be stomach - no diaphragm, no spleen, no kidneys, no liver, little to no intestinal tract, etc.
No such evolution is possible to bring this about - it is far, far more efficient to simply eat the meal itself.|||Vampires already exist.
They%26#039;re mosquitos, flees, bats, parasites like intestinal worms, ticks, etc etc.|||You would need a plausible situation where the limited nutritive value of blood, and its drawbacks such as the presence of waste ammonia, became more advantageous to some people than the wider diet humans enjoy. Some bats have chosen this path, but most have gone other ways, eating insects or fruit instead.
Then, with your humans consuming blood rather than other foods (in Africa, there is a tribe that consumes only milk and cow blood, mixing them and dipping sticks into the clotting mixture, then eating the mix from the sticks), they need enough time to develop to where they can consume only blood, and not need other foods. It would likely take a while.
Teeth suitable for the job may never develop, as they are likely tool users to begin with.
It is unlikely in the extreme.|||Completely un-possible. The blood drinking part would not be necassary, though people could think it is and only drink it. To only exist in the night is impossible like in the movies; we might become blind or something but not burn in the sun. Crosses can%26#039;t burn anything and as mammals we can pass moving water.|||well, people would be more nocturnal, stores open all night, and closed all morning, blood-packs would be sold at pharmacies, quick stops, and bars, etc, but we%26#039;d cope and change our ways to fit our new needs, it%26#039;s basic animal ability to adapt. plus, vampires do exist. form a biological stand point, there are a few. one of the most well known of human that are somewhat vampiric in nature suffer from a disease known as porphyria. so just pretend half the population developed porphyria, we%26#039;d adapt, and deal, and work harder to find a cure. guarantee there would be a cure for it now, had more people had it, thus creating a greater need for a resolution, and more funding going towards it.
Catalepsy
If you have ever had an experience where you were half asleep and could see or hear your surroundings but not respond in any way, then you have an inkling what it%26#039;s like to have catalepsy. (This is not to suggest that anyone who has had an experience like this is cataleptic.)
Catalepsy is a disease where the afflicted goes into a suspended animation-like state that can resemble death. These attacks can last anywhere from a few minutes to, as in some rare cases, weeks. A person suffering from a cataleptic attack can see and hear but cannot move or speak. In addition, there are cases where the afflicted%26#039;s heart and breathing were reduced so much that they appeared to be dead to all but the more modern methods of detection. If this attack lasted for a few days or longer, it is entirely possible, in fact probable, that the afflicted was diagnosed as being dead and promptly buried. Imagine the surprise and fear of someone, who knew nothing of this disease, when a %26quot;dead%26quot; body began to rise from its grave not long after being buried!
Porphyria
There are various types of porphyria but almost all of them share similar traits. In all variations, the production of heme is abnormal. Heme is one of the major building blocks of red blood cells 鈥?the cells that carry oxygen.
There are similar symptoms among the varying types of porphyria. One of these common symptoms is excessive hair growth. In Bram Stoker%26#039;s Dracula and numerous mythologies this was a positive identification of a vampire. Another symptom is sensitivity to sunlight (an absolute proof that a person was a vampire) which would cause the person to go out only at night (the vampire%26#039;s domain). In some extreme cases of porphyria, enzymes would build up on the teeth and gums of the afflicted giving them a reddish tint 鈥?proof to the superstitious that the afflicted had been drinking blood.
Anemia
Anemia is a disease in which a person does not have enough red blood cells in their body. Red blood cells are those that carry oxygen throughout our bodies. Symptoms of anemia include weakness or faintness, loss of appetite, and dizziness 鈥?all of which could make someone in the Middle Ages, and earlier, think the anemic was actually a vampire victim. Some other, and rarer, anemic symptoms include pale skin and bleeding gums 鈥?both of which would indicate the anemic was a vampire.
Rabies
Bats and Wolves are both oftentimes connected with vampires. They are common carriers of the disease rabies. Rabies has symptoms that resemble vampirism. Hyper-sensitivity, a characteristic of rabies, might result in garlic or light aversion. Other symptoms entail becoming nocturnal due to atypical sleep patterns and over-sexuality. The disease is spread by biting, and patients with rabies are sometimes observed frothing at the mouth with blood.
(there are other vampire-like disease, but i can%26#039;t think of them all right now)|||it wouldnt. nature wouldnt produce it. evolution is random. its survival of the fittest and the sexiest(the most likely to reproduce). if a randomly mutated gene gives the creature an advantage, it lives to pass it on to its children. blood would be a disadvantage, fangs would be a disadvantage, and the human body is not capable of ridicules agility and strength, at least not naturally. if it did occur naturally, we would be monsters. giant, hulking monsters.|||It would have had to started a very long time ago, evolutionarily speaking. It might come out as hunters, eating raw meat, start to rely more on the blood for sustenance and their biological system slowly evolving to allow for this to be the primary form of nutrition. They would, after countless generations, be weaned from meat and rely only on the blood.
It is plausible, but very very very unlikely.
Credit must go to the nurse here for using her education to point out the flaws in vampirism. However, like I pointed out, if the evolutionary stage was hit early enough the biological processes that she is so well educated in would have been replaced by another set of processes that would make use of what is in blood instead.
The creatures would probably be a lot smaller though, to compensate for the poor nutritional value of blood.
Also, the human body does already possess remarkable speed and strength, but limits itself for practical reasons (physical stress limitations). Adrenaline can override these limitations momentarily.|||I don%26#039;t think it will happen ever.
Thats simply impossible.
The nutrients the body extracts from the meal are therefore diluted in the bloodstream itself and considering parts per million, even a small %26quot;drink%26quot; of blood could not supply enough sugars and nutrients to sustain a %26quot;vampire%26quot;.
In order to get the full nutritive value of the person%26#039;s blood the vampire would have to consume the entire blood supply, which is impossible. Imagine trying to pack 24 cans of soda in your stomach all at once - the stomach is only as big as your fist. For a vampire to consume the entire blood supply his entire abdomen would have to be stomach - no diaphragm, no spleen, no kidneys, no liver, little to no intestinal tract, etc.
No such evolution is possible to bring this about - it is far, far more efficient to simply eat the meal itself.|||Vampires already exist.
They%26#039;re mosquitos, flees, bats, parasites like intestinal worms, ticks, etc etc.|||You would need a plausible situation where the limited nutritive value of blood, and its drawbacks such as the presence of waste ammonia, became more advantageous to some people than the wider diet humans enjoy. Some bats have chosen this path, but most have gone other ways, eating insects or fruit instead.
Then, with your humans consuming blood rather than other foods (in Africa, there is a tribe that consumes only milk and cow blood, mixing them and dipping sticks into the clotting mixture, then eating the mix from the sticks), they need enough time to develop to where they can consume only blood, and not need other foods. It would likely take a while.
Teeth suitable for the job may never develop, as they are likely tool users to begin with.
It is unlikely in the extreme.|||Completely un-possible. The blood drinking part would not be necassary, though people could think it is and only drink it. To only exist in the night is impossible like in the movies; we might become blind or something but not burn in the sun. Crosses can%26#039;t burn anything and as mammals we can pass moving water.|||well, people would be more nocturnal, stores open all night, and closed all morning, blood-packs would be sold at pharmacies, quick stops, and bars, etc, but we%26#039;d cope and change our ways to fit our new needs, it%26#039;s basic animal ability to adapt. plus, vampires do exist. form a biological stand point, there are a few. one of the most well known of human that are somewhat vampiric in nature suffer from a disease known as porphyria. so just pretend half the population developed porphyria, we%26#039;d adapt, and deal, and work harder to find a cure. guarantee there would be a cure for it now, had more people had it, thus creating a greater need for a resolution, and more funding going towards it.
Catalepsy
If you have ever had an experience where you were half asleep and could see or hear your surroundings but not respond in any way, then you have an inkling what it%26#039;s like to have catalepsy. (This is not to suggest that anyone who has had an experience like this is cataleptic.)
Catalepsy is a disease where the afflicted goes into a suspended animation-like state that can resemble death. These attacks can last anywhere from a few minutes to, as in some rare cases, weeks. A person suffering from a cataleptic attack can see and hear but cannot move or speak. In addition, there are cases where the afflicted%26#039;s heart and breathing were reduced so much that they appeared to be dead to all but the more modern methods of detection. If this attack lasted for a few days or longer, it is entirely possible, in fact probable, that the afflicted was diagnosed as being dead and promptly buried. Imagine the surprise and fear of someone, who knew nothing of this disease, when a %26quot;dead%26quot; body began to rise from its grave not long after being buried!
Porphyria
There are various types of porphyria but almost all of them share similar traits. In all variations, the production of heme is abnormal. Heme is one of the major building blocks of red blood cells 鈥?the cells that carry oxygen.
There are similar symptoms among the varying types of porphyria. One of these common symptoms is excessive hair growth. In Bram Stoker%26#039;s Dracula and numerous mythologies this was a positive identification of a vampire. Another symptom is sensitivity to sunlight (an absolute proof that a person was a vampire) which would cause the person to go out only at night (the vampire%26#039;s domain). In some extreme cases of porphyria, enzymes would build up on the teeth and gums of the afflicted giving them a reddish tint 鈥?proof to the superstitious that the afflicted had been drinking blood.
Anemia
Anemia is a disease in which a person does not have enough red blood cells in their body. Red blood cells are those that carry oxygen throughout our bodies. Symptoms of anemia include weakness or faintness, loss of appetite, and dizziness 鈥?all of which could make someone in the Middle Ages, and earlier, think the anemic was actually a vampire victim. Some other, and rarer, anemic symptoms include pale skin and bleeding gums 鈥?both of which would indicate the anemic was a vampire.
Rabies
Bats and Wolves are both oftentimes connected with vampires. They are common carriers of the disease rabies. Rabies has symptoms that resemble vampirism. Hyper-sensitivity, a characteristic of rabies, might result in garlic or light aversion. Other symptoms entail becoming nocturnal due to atypical sleep patterns and over-sexuality. The disease is spread by biting, and patients with rabies are sometimes observed frothing at the mouth with blood.
(there are other vampire-like disease, but i can%26#039;t think of them all right now)|||it wouldnt. nature wouldnt produce it. evolution is random. its survival of the fittest and the sexiest(the most likely to reproduce). if a randomly mutated gene gives the creature an advantage, it lives to pass it on to its children. blood would be a disadvantage, fangs would be a disadvantage, and the human body is not capable of ridicules agility and strength, at least not naturally. if it did occur naturally, we would be monsters. giant, hulking monsters.|||It would have had to started a very long time ago, evolutionarily speaking. It might come out as hunters, eating raw meat, start to rely more on the blood for sustenance and their biological system slowly evolving to allow for this to be the primary form of nutrition. They would, after countless generations, be weaned from meat and rely only on the blood.
It is plausible, but very very very unlikely.
Credit must go to the nurse here for using her education to point out the flaws in vampirism. However, like I pointed out, if the evolutionary stage was hit early enough the biological processes that she is so well educated in would have been replaced by another set of processes that would make use of what is in blood instead.
The creatures would probably be a lot smaller though, to compensate for the poor nutritional value of blood.
Also, the human body does already possess remarkable speed and strength, but limits itself for practical reasons (physical stress limitations). Adrenaline can override these limitations momentarily.|||I don%26#039;t think it will happen ever.
Thats simply impossible.
How do i write a CONVINCING request letter regarding the changing of a dsl connection into a wi-fi one.?
the situation: we have an existing dsl connection in our office for a single laptop and there were times that there were VIP%26#039;s that need an internet access with their own laptop in our office. the letter is to be addressed to my superior.
Please make the letter as convincing as possible. Thanks a lot and God bless!|||Dear Boss;
We find that occasionally we need to be able to offer Internet connectivity to our valued VIP guests. To do this we have two alternatives:
1) Buy a wireless router for about $150, install it ourselves, and maintain it (maintaining it will occasionally require having our IT staff perform manual power cycling and/or reseting and reconfiguring WEP security and other minor details). The great advantage to this option is minimal long term cost.
2) Requesting that our DSL provider upgrade our existing single connection service to a multi connection service.... in this case the DSL company would charge us an additional $20 per month for the DSL service and also they would recall our modem and replace it with a modem/router combo device. The great advantage to this option is convenience for the whole company: on a given day that the Internet should fail any personnel in the office can call the DSL tech support and they will talk them through the process of re-connecting to the Internet any computer or visitor%26#039;s computer we so desire.
Thank you - please let me know which option you prefer.|||Fist of all WIFI is NOT an internet connection. IT is the wireless portion of a Local Area Network. A Lan/WIFI still needs a DSL connection to the Internet.
All you need to do is purchase a Wireless Router such as the Dlink DI-624 and connect the cable comming from the DSL modem to the DI624 WAN port. The DI624 has Four Ethernet ports. Connect one of them to your existing computer and set up the Wireless router for WPA-PSK encryption.
The DI-624 is about $90.00 U.S. at Frys electronics.
There are no changes to your current DSL account or changes to your computer settings. Just install it the way I said and away you go. All you will need to do is let the VIP%26#039;s know the key.
If you have further questions email me.
Bill|||Wi-Fi is one of the possible connections from your PC to the router.
DSL is one of the possible connections between your router and the Internet.
So, Wi-Fi won%26#039;t replace DSL. It just replaces the ethernet cables that run from your PC to the router.
You can get a Wi-Fi router for about $50.
If you have VIPs coming in, this is a very cheap solution to allow them to get only.
The only problem is that there are some security issues with Wi-Fi.|||Just so you know 鈥?and this may affect the nature of your request 鈥?wireless connectivity is something you simply add to your existing internet connection using a wireless router (or whatever). It doesn%26#039;t require you to switch to a different ISP or anything, just a cheap hardware purchase and a little while to set it up and make sure everything%26#039;s properly configured for a work environment. Hopefully, that%26#039;ll make it easier for you to make your case. :)
Please make the letter as convincing as possible. Thanks a lot and God bless!|||Dear Boss;
We find that occasionally we need to be able to offer Internet connectivity to our valued VIP guests. To do this we have two alternatives:
1) Buy a wireless router for about $150, install it ourselves, and maintain it (maintaining it will occasionally require having our IT staff perform manual power cycling and/or reseting and reconfiguring WEP security and other minor details). The great advantage to this option is minimal long term cost.
2) Requesting that our DSL provider upgrade our existing single connection service to a multi connection service.... in this case the DSL company would charge us an additional $20 per month for the DSL service and also they would recall our modem and replace it with a modem/router combo device. The great advantage to this option is convenience for the whole company: on a given day that the Internet should fail any personnel in the office can call the DSL tech support and they will talk them through the process of re-connecting to the Internet any computer or visitor%26#039;s computer we so desire.
Thank you - please let me know which option you prefer.|||Fist of all WIFI is NOT an internet connection. IT is the wireless portion of a Local Area Network. A Lan/WIFI still needs a DSL connection to the Internet.
All you need to do is purchase a Wireless Router such as the Dlink DI-624 and connect the cable comming from the DSL modem to the DI624 WAN port. The DI624 has Four Ethernet ports. Connect one of them to your existing computer and set up the Wireless router for WPA-PSK encryption.
The DI-624 is about $90.00 U.S. at Frys electronics.
There are no changes to your current DSL account or changes to your computer settings. Just install it the way I said and away you go. All you will need to do is let the VIP%26#039;s know the key.
If you have further questions email me.
Bill|||Wi-Fi is one of the possible connections from your PC to the router.
DSL is one of the possible connections between your router and the Internet.
So, Wi-Fi won%26#039;t replace DSL. It just replaces the ethernet cables that run from your PC to the router.
You can get a Wi-Fi router for about $50.
If you have VIPs coming in, this is a very cheap solution to allow them to get only.
The only problem is that there are some security issues with Wi-Fi.|||Just so you know 鈥?and this may affect the nature of your request 鈥?wireless connectivity is something you simply add to your existing internet connection using a wireless router (or whatever). It doesn%26#039;t require you to switch to a different ISP or anything, just a cheap hardware purchase and a little while to set it up and make sure everything%26#039;s properly configured for a work environment. Hopefully, that%26#039;ll make it easier for you to make your case. :)
Christians be honest would you change your mind in this situation?
If you found yourself in another universe where the rules were different. Where there is no hell and were there are many many gods. Would your vision of god change? Would you see that there are other worlds unlike your own? Would you try to witness to these people even though your god does not exist in their world? Or would you leave them alone? Would you except that there was more than your own god and your own universe? Odd question I know I am just curious.|||if we were in another universe as u describe then our views wouldnt %26quot;change%26quot; per se. they would naturally be different as a result of our surroundings that we grew up in and learned about. if we were in a universe where the God of the Bible didnt exist then we would have no view on Him at all because He simply wouldnt exist and we would have no way to know of Him.|||My Christianity is based on the assumptions inherent in this universe. In another universe - well who knows what it might be like?|||I%26#039;d give %26#039;em a Bible ... and ah, there is only ONE G0od!!!
Did you see the %26quot;Seventh Street Theater%26quot; skit where they did this? IDK why, but I love this show.|||We will find ourselves in a place where the rules are different. But there will only be on God. The same God.
Only one God has sent fire from heaven. Choose this day whom you will serve.|||lol I%26#039;m a heathen I already have more then one god/goddess so long as these people didn%26#039;t force me to abandon my gods there would be no problem I would let them worship as they please and even if they did try to take away my beliefs I would still let them worship their gods after all who am I to say they are wrong but I will fight to the death and beyond for my faith.
Did you see the %26quot;Seventh Street Theater%26quot; skit where they did this? IDK why, but I love this show.|||We will find ourselves in a place where the rules are different. But there will only be on God. The same God.
Only one God has sent fire from heaven. Choose this day whom you will serve.|||lol I%26#039;m a heathen I already have more then one god/goddess so long as these people didn%26#039;t force me to abandon my gods there would be no problem I would let them worship as they please and even if they did try to take away my beliefs I would still let them worship their gods after all who am I to say they are wrong but I will fight to the death and beyond for my faith.
Assimilation and accommodation?
IS THIS RIGHT:
ASSIMILATION: applying pre-existing knowledge to a new situation.
ACCOMMODATION: changing an action in response to the environment.
|||Assimilation: The process by which a person takes material into their mind from the environment, which may mean changing the evidence of their senses to make it fit.
Accommodation: The difference made to one%26#039;s mind or concepts by the process of assimilation.
Note that assimilation and accommodation go together: you can%26#039;t have one without the other. |||vice versa
note, if you%26#039;re in middle school or elementary, you are fine. But if you%26#039;re in high school or college, I seriously doubt your brain capacity.
ASSIMILATION: applying pre-existing knowledge to a new situation.
ACCOMMODATION: changing an action in response to the environment.
|||Assimilation: The process by which a person takes material into their mind from the environment, which may mean changing the evidence of their senses to make it fit.
Accommodation: The difference made to one%26#039;s mind or concepts by the process of assimilation.
Note that assimilation and accommodation go together: you can%26#039;t have one without the other. |||vice versa
note, if you%26#039;re in middle school or elementary, you are fine. But if you%26#039;re in high school or college, I seriously doubt your brain capacity.
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