the solution is to switch engine displacement unit in the US to, say a pint? An easier solution would be to put lies on the back of the vehicle, e.g, "6.9L" when the real engine displacement is "1.2L"
The funny thing is that very few computer salesmen know for which CPUs hardware virtualization is enabled, so the only result of Intel's market segmentation is confusion and dissatisfied customers.
--- CPUs are not the only factor limiting virtualization. You have to factor in the motherboard, BIOS, graphics, and RAM. Intel offers a utility you can run that will tell you whether or not your system permits virtualization, but it is misleading. If you put an Intel CPU on a motherboard whose chipset blocks virtualization, the utility tells you the CPU is incapable of virtualization, even though it actually is, while it will not tell you that the chipset is the limiting factor. Motherboard manufacturers may capriciously block virtualization at the BIOS level and months later release BIOS versions which allow it.
--- Computer salesmen are not the only ones ignorant of which components permit virtualization and which don't. Just go to Newegg or TigerDirect and search for, say, a laptop or a motherboard that will run virtualization under Win7. The information is never provided. I sent an email to Newegg 3 weeks ago asking for this information and have yet to receive a reply. Generally speaking, computer and motherboard manufacturers act as if they don't know and don't care which of their machines/motherboards permit virtualization and which don't. Various forums & boards on the internet which discuss virtualization from a user's point of view often neglect to give the specifics of successful virtualization.
My only experience was second hand, from an amateur mechanic who races farm tractors at contests. An engine he had been working on suddenly started to rev uncontrollably for no reason, fortunately it was parked & not in gear. He had just enough time to warn everyone, and he ran behind the tractor on the end opposite the engine before the engine exploded. I don't know how long the whole process took, but he described the explosion as a bomb going off with pieces of shrapnel flying & ricocheting in all directions.
I would only try the remedy of blocking the air intake on a runaway diesel if I was already under the hood & the air cleaner was already off the machine. It takes too long to open the hood, remove the obstructing parts, and block the air intake with something. The basic cause of this problem is the diesel feeding on its own oil supply through an internal leak, which could be a bad seal, a crack in the block, or whatever. The only limit to the engine's speed would then be how fast the engine oil was getting sucked into the cylinders (something a witness can't determine until later, and maybe never), the amount of oil in the engine, and whether or not a key part seizes up due to overheating or oil starvation. That's why I said it would take a braver man than I to try to strangle a runaway diesel engine.
a runaway diesel (turbo bearing oil seal broke, hot engine oil continued to fuel the engine even with the engine shut-off pulled - stopped, then covered the air intake with my coat to finally choke it before it ran out of oil You're a braver man than I am. I wonder how many seconds of hyper-revving a diesel can take before it violently dissassembles itself.
Written Chinese has heaps of grammar. That is a side issue. What is remarkable is that people who speak mutually unintelligible dialects can use their own written language to make themselves clear to someone else who is literate in his own written language. That's a breakthrough.
Which is easier, to learn to read & write a foreign language, or just to memorize several thousand characters with whatever written grammar the Chinese use? Is there a point for a literate Chinese to learn another Chinese dialect, or do they tend to rely on writing?
I wonder if knowledge of any spoken Chinese language is necessary to become literate in Chinese, or could a student cut to the chase and simply learn the ideographs and the written grammar associated with them?
Larger brains = better thinking? Beyond a certain level in brain size, I doubt this is a valid rule. The 'best and the brightest' have repeatedly led their followers to doom and disaster. There is no reason to think the situation was that different 60,000 years ago. Maybe those big brains died out because they were too clever by 12.5%
pre-contact Polynesian societies, for example: women weren't allowed in canoes -- Those barbarians made their women swim to the uninhabited islands while the men got to ride in the canoes.
Thus, identical mitochondrial DNA will exist through the maternal hierarchy of families. There have already been found exceptions to this statement. See this: http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/347/8/576 A man with a severe mitochondrial disorder was found to have inherited his father's (not his mother's) mitochrondrial DNA, along with a new mutation unique to the patient which caused his disorder. From that article: "paternal mtDNA inheritance may go unrecognized... because mitochondrial haplotypes are rarely investigated in diagnostic analyses."
that's all pretty theoretical, right? Not at all. In the bad old days, conquerors would kill or emasculate the entire male population of their prey, thus eliminating that particular Y chromosome from that population. A rather definite genetic change forced on a population by a cultural event.
There's a lot of literature out there about gunfights, a lot of it is chilling reading. The vast majority of news stories I've read in my lifetime about 'gunfights' involve lots of rounds being expended & not many hits. Lots and lots of stories about the first shot being fired, and that missing completely. Any studies of several hundred modern 'gunfights' that say otherwise? Any studies at all?
'If he draws first, you are dead.' No, if he kills you, you are dead. There are way more possibilities in encounters involving firearms than you suggest. Your writing style, however, is more entertaining than mine.
Much easier to destroy everything in your house at the same time. This is most unlikely, unless you are referring to damage caused by grapeshot from a large caliber cannon. A blast from a regular shotgun will do what I would call minor cosmetic damage that could easily be repaired. There would also be a chance that the wielder of a shotgun might be hit by pellet ricochet or flying debris.
Contrast the cost of repairs to your body should an assailant make a good connection with a weapon or just his bare hands.
The failure to get all the blood possible out of the afterbirth and into the infant reduces the health of the infant. Although it's common in modern childbirth to cut the cord as soon as possible, it's very very bad practice. Your opinion is not shared by modern obstetricians. In any case there will always be some blood retained in the veins of the umbilical cord that would otherwise go to waste.
One painless, uncontroversial source of both young blood and stem cells is (or was) your umbilical cord blood. This is usually thrown away. Collecting it after a baby is born is trivially easy. The material is easy to preserve for decades. Costs are mostly related to storage & record-keeping.
Whenever a car with the security feature was stolen, they pretty much decided that the owner had to be in on the theft. I was not aware that the chipped ignition key system was capable of preventing a car from being loaded on a flat bed truck & carried away. I learn something new here every day.
I've seen similar price differences in the same retail outlet, the only difference being whether or not an item was covered by Medicare. I needed to buy a portable wheelchair for my mother to use occasionally. The store marketed chairs for $120 to people whose chairs were not paid for by Medicare, and then chairs for $500 for people whose chairs were paid for by Medicare. The more expensive chairs looked better, but were not functionally different.
This is precisely why I won't fly into a US airport. Fuck 'em, you country no longer interests me. I admire you attitude. If you want to overfly Rome, you better do as the Romans demand, otherwise, go somewhere else.
I have always wondered where the TGVs of North America are, linking the city centers of major cities? You will find them on the interstate highways, not on steel rails.
From Wikipedia: "A controlled substance is generally a drug or chemical whose manufacture, possession, and use are regulated by a government. This may include illegal drugs and prescription medications".
The original article uses 'controlled substance' the same way the Justice Dept. & the Drug Enforcement Administration (not that Wikipedia citation) do. See http://www.justice.gov/dea/pubs/csa.html Heroin is a Sch I substance in the USA, no prescriptions can be written. Morphine is a Sch. II controlled substance & needs a prescription. Penicillin is a non-controlled substance and needs a prescription.
My guess is the carcinogens in the bacon finally got him. Everybody dies of some cause, eventually. These anecdotes of people who live long lives without any medical interventions combined with the anecdotes of people who are bedridden for decades and who would just as soon be dead, are scarcely relevant to this discussion.
These are diagnoses of exclusion. Physicians have to 'rule out', i.e., be sure, that nothing else is going on, when making this type of diagnosis. This is epistemologically tricky.
So how is it, that they decided to perform the "hi-tech scan" after 23 years?! The original article talked about "state of the art" imaging. The state of medical arts is always changing. I imagine it has changed HUGELY in 23 years.
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the solution is to switch engine displacement unit in the US to, say a pint? An easier solution would be to put lies on the back of the vehicle, e.g, "6.9L" when the real engine displacement is "1.2L"
The funny thing is that very few computer salesmen know for which CPUs hardware virtualization is enabled, so the only result of Intel's market segmentation is confusion and dissatisfied customers. --- CPUs are not the only factor limiting virtualization. You have to factor in the motherboard, BIOS, graphics, and RAM. Intel offers a utility you can run that will tell you whether or not your system permits virtualization, but it is misleading. If you put an Intel CPU on a motherboard whose chipset blocks virtualization, the utility tells you the CPU is incapable of virtualization, even though it actually is, while it will not tell you that the chipset is the limiting factor. Motherboard manufacturers may capriciously block virtualization at the BIOS level and months later release BIOS versions which allow it. --- Computer salesmen are not the only ones ignorant of which components permit virtualization and which don't. Just go to Newegg or TigerDirect and search for, say, a laptop or a motherboard that will run virtualization under Win7. The information is never provided. I sent an email to Newegg 3 weeks ago asking for this information and have yet to receive a reply. Generally speaking, computer and motherboard manufacturers act as if they don't know and don't care which of their machines/motherboards permit virtualization and which don't. Various forums & boards on the internet which discuss virtualization from a user's point of view often neglect to give the specifics of successful virtualization.
My only experience was second hand, from an amateur mechanic who races farm tractors at contests. An engine he had been working on suddenly started to rev uncontrollably for no reason, fortunately it was parked & not in gear. He had just enough time to warn everyone, and he ran behind the tractor on the end opposite the engine before the engine exploded. I don't know how long the whole process took, but he described the explosion as a bomb going off with pieces of shrapnel flying & ricocheting in all directions. I would only try the remedy of blocking the air intake on a runaway diesel if I was already under the hood & the air cleaner was already off the machine. It takes too long to open the hood, remove the obstructing parts, and block the air intake with something. The basic cause of this problem is the diesel feeding on its own oil supply through an internal leak, which could be a bad seal, a crack in the block, or whatever. The only limit to the engine's speed would then be how fast the engine oil was getting sucked into the cylinders (something a witness can't determine until later, and maybe never), the amount of oil in the engine, and whether or not a key part seizes up due to overheating or oil starvation. That's why I said it would take a braver man than I to try to strangle a runaway diesel engine.
a runaway diesel (turbo bearing oil seal broke, hot engine oil continued to fuel the engine even with the engine shut-off pulled - stopped, then covered the air intake with my coat to finally choke it before it ran out of oil You're a braver man than I am. I wonder how many seconds of hyper-revving a diesel can take before it violently dissassembles itself.
Written Chinese has heaps of grammar. That is a side issue. What is remarkable is that people who speak mutually unintelligible dialects can use their own written language to make themselves clear to someone else who is literate in his own written language. That's a breakthrough. Which is easier, to learn to read & write a foreign language, or just to memorize several thousand characters with whatever written grammar the Chinese use? Is there a point for a literate Chinese to learn another Chinese dialect, or do they tend to rely on writing? I wonder if knowledge of any spoken Chinese language is necessary to become literate in Chinese, or could a student cut to the chase and simply learn the ideographs and the written grammar associated with them?
Larger brains = better thinking? Beyond a certain level in brain size, I doubt this is a valid rule. The 'best and the brightest' have repeatedly led their followers to doom and disaster. There is no reason to think the situation was that different 60,000 years ago. Maybe those big brains died out because they were too clever by 12.5%
that's nonsense. Progress is real. That's for sure. I was born naked, soaking wet & ignorant, now look at me.
pre-contact Polynesian societies, for example: women weren't allowed in canoes -- Those barbarians made their women swim to the uninhabited islands while the men got to ride in the canoes.
Thus, identical mitochondrial DNA will exist through the maternal hierarchy of families. There have already been found exceptions to this statement. See this: http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/347/8/576 A man with a severe mitochondrial disorder was found to have inherited his father's (not his mother's) mitochrondrial DNA, along with a new mutation unique to the patient which caused his disorder. From that article: "paternal mtDNA inheritance may go unrecognized ... because mitochondrial haplotypes are rarely investigated in diagnostic analyses."
that's all pretty theoretical, right? Not at all. In the bad old days, conquerors would kill or emasculate the entire male population of their prey, thus eliminating that particular Y chromosome from that population. A rather definite genetic change forced on a population by a cultural event.
There's a lot of literature out there about gunfights, a lot of it is chilling reading. The vast majority of news stories I've read in my lifetime about 'gunfights' involve lots of rounds being expended & not many hits. Lots and lots of stories about the first shot being fired, and that missing completely. Any studies of several hundred modern 'gunfights' that say otherwise? Any studies at all? 'If he draws first, you are dead.' No, if he kills you, you are dead. There are way more possibilities in encounters involving firearms than you suggest. Your writing style, however, is more entertaining than mine.
Much easier to destroy everything in your house at the same time. This is most unlikely, unless you are referring to damage caused by grapeshot from a large caliber cannon. A blast from a regular shotgun will do what I would call minor cosmetic damage that could easily be repaired. There would also be a chance that the wielder of a shotgun might be hit by pellet ricochet or flying debris. Contrast the cost of repairs to your body should an assailant make a good connection with a weapon or just his bare hands.
If my computer goes down, I turn on one of several backup computers.
The failure to get all the blood possible out of the afterbirth and into the infant reduces the health of the infant. Although it's common in modern childbirth to cut the cord as soon as possible, it's very very bad practice. Your opinion is not shared by modern obstetricians. In any case there will always be some blood retained in the veins of the umbilical cord that would otherwise go to waste.
One painless, uncontroversial source of both young blood and stem cells is (or was) your umbilical cord blood. This is usually thrown away. Collecting it after a baby is born is trivially easy. The material is easy to preserve for decades. Costs are mostly related to storage & record-keeping.
Whenever a car with the security feature was stolen, they pretty much decided that the owner had to be in on the theft. I was not aware that the chipped ignition key system was capable of preventing a car from being loaded on a flat bed truck & carried away. I learn something new here every day.
I've seen similar price differences in the same retail outlet, the only difference being whether or not an item was covered by Medicare. I needed to buy a portable wheelchair for my mother to use occasionally. The store marketed chairs for $120 to people whose chairs were not paid for by Medicare, and then chairs for $500 for people whose chairs were paid for by Medicare. The more expensive chairs looked better, but were not functionally different.
Afghanistan hasn't gone anywhere in 3 invasions. It has never recovered from the Mongol invasion(s). It hasn't gone anywhere in 700 years.
This is precisely why I won't fly into a US airport. Fuck 'em, you country no longer interests me. I admire you attitude. If you want to overfly Rome, you better do as the Romans demand, otherwise, go somewhere else.
I have always wondered where the TGVs of North America are, linking the city centers of major cities? You will find them on the interstate highways, not on steel rails.
From Wikipedia: "A controlled substance is generally a drug or chemical whose manufacture, possession, and use are regulated by a government. This may include illegal drugs and prescription medications". The original article uses 'controlled substance' the same way the Justice Dept. & the Drug Enforcement Administration (not that Wikipedia citation) do. See http://www.justice.gov/dea/pubs/csa.html Heroin is a Sch I substance in the USA, no prescriptions can be written. Morphine is a Sch. II controlled substance & needs a prescription. Penicillin is a non-controlled substance and needs a prescription.
My guess is the carcinogens in the bacon finally got him. Everybody dies of some cause, eventually. These anecdotes of people who live long lives without any medical interventions combined with the anecdotes of people who are bedridden for decades and who would just as soon be dead, are scarcely relevant to this discussion.
It's not me who disapproves, it's nature. -- Nature disapproves of each and everyone of us eventually.
These are diagnoses of exclusion. Physicians have to 'rule out', i.e., be sure, that nothing else is going on, when making this type of diagnosis. This is epistemologically tricky.
So how is it, that they decided to perform the "hi-tech scan" after 23 years?! The original article talked about "state of the art" imaging. The state of medical arts is always changing. I imagine it has changed HUGELY in 23 years.