But if doctors are salaried, and hospitals are on fixed budgets, the 'marginal costs' of an extra treatment really can be very low. Then, watch out for rationing, waiting lists, and pharmacos wanting the surplus. Choose your poison.
In a 'shop making telephone boards in the '60s, we heated the sheets in ovens before the big presses hit them. Put our pies for lunch in those ovens too. Then, open drilling and open flow-solder. Citric acid for drinks came from the (gold) plating 'shop - "other bottle, boy, that one's the cyanide". Never did *me* any harm.
Has anyone here suggested Wubi? Runs all of Ubuntu (except 'hibernate') on my laptop without partitioning, updates properly (unlike live-CD), fast, easy to uninstall. I've had 'accidents' uninstalling dual-boot partitions in the past, so wouldn't want to risk that for a brief trial.
The wife went to USA (I decline ever to go there) and she found TSA firm but fair. But her luggage was secretly searched, and things seemed missing. Cue mega complaint, scripted by me. Oops! missing items reappeared in another case, so I had to script a follow-up apology to TSA. Thus our sympathy lingers - how else are Sovereign nations supposed to defend themselves against extremist suicide attack? Do what, exactly?
The BBC shouldn't be selling H2G2, they should be integrating with this, as a locational Wiki. If only it could be said that Britain today is 'Mostly Harmless'.
Leave me the UI that I use all day (part 1) and make whatever engine improvements are needed (part 2). Do auto-updates on (stable) part 2 but only *offer* updates on part 1. Why should I have to use add-ons to get things back the way I want them?
Good point, keeps coming up in expert forums. What exactly is the claimed advantage of a throttle like this? Sure, you can 'get used to it', but does anyone know?
True. How's this for equivalency? My little country has nukes, and an unelected Head of State who is constitutionally head of a nationally-sponsored religion. Nobody seems very frightened of us, nowadays.
Agreed: I have many thousands of splendid 35mm transparencies. Never look at them. Only about a dozen (people excluded) really take me back to places, and they print very nicely. Strangely, sketches work much better but there was seldom time. Your grandchildren will (may) want to see a well-chosen synopsis, not an infinite data-stream.
Don't EVER delay my gin. (And why is mercury in a sealed tube 'dangerous'? Should I move away from the not-so-sealed barometer behind me? Is that why I need my gin?)
Alternative hypothesis is that nutters sometimes have a real advantage in discovering the truly unexpected, and thus win Nobel Prizes. That doesn't stop them being nutters. Overstated, I know, but you see what I mean.
TFA says they are planning to debate the proposals. That is Euro-speak for nothing very much. How many big cars have you seen in Paris anyway? Now if they could think of a way of harvesting the dog-dirt there for motive power, they might have a distinctive advantage. Even now, you can more-or-less 'slide' to your meeting.
Once upon a time, we all knew all this. Then they let grils in, and distractions started. Then they went multinational and USians were Puritans, and Antipodeans were simply cheerful. So - give us the guide, please. Do we have to button our jackets in China? (I didn't and it offended). But... red ties? 'dry clean' shirts? (suits, surely). Let Dilbert advise.
How old are you? What do you do in the daytime? Have you ever interfaced with that mysterious tribe called 'Grils'? They're crazy, but so probably are you, and the result is all we have that will inherit planet earth. Please climb out of the basement, and try to keep the species alive.
Ours read the program file from cards to one of the four tapes, then did it's semi serial compiling. It read all the cards it was given (sometimes just one 'parameter card'). Obviously the compile didn't start until all the cards in a pack were in. Oh, and I've still got some plugleads from the Hollerith Tabulator the computer replaced. The lawn's built on my plot.
We handpunched each line of COBOL into each card. If the run went wrong, we debugged, changed the wrong card, and recompiled (we had tapes, that took time). Our handpunches didn't print at the top. Timeout? you always re-fed the whole program pack. Mending holes meant you didn't risk introducing new errors by repunching (alpha). And it was quick. And we had glue. And coffee kept hot on the 'central processor'. Happy days
Late at night doing the stock prices, if one card of the COBOL pack was wrong, you'd find a punched-out confetti on the floor, and stick it back in the errant punch-hole, using a tube of polystyrene cement. Quick dry, no snagging, no delay. Just don't run those packs if you find them crisp in some archive.
Did you know that Advent Calendars are not about consumerist chocolate, but graphic reminders of some tribal seasonal story? I don't believe it either, but it's as pretty a story as Father Christmas, and deserves to be left alone.
At my 1960's school in Somerset, while still being trained to defend our shores, we were equipped each Monday afternoon with.303 rifles, 10 'blank' cartridges, and bussed to the Quantock hills. Unauthorised, we found that 'Venus' brand pencils, with their white plastic ends as expanding 'wads', made perfect muzzle-load ammunition. A good shot would embed a pencil many inches into a distant chosen tree. Future lumberjacks or archaeologists will find them there. Would that we were allowed to defend our shores nowadays.
You-all in the USofA may feel safe enough, and rejoice in twitting the functionaries paid to defend you, but we here over the briny somewhere to the East have every reason to be grateful that technology (yea, faulty 'an all) is being mobilised to protect us a bit. How else will you handle a bloke in a girlie yashmak, with a charge up the passage where the sun don't shine? Stop hating authority, start beating the enemy.
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But if doctors are salaried, and hospitals are on fixed budgets, the 'marginal costs' of an extra treatment really can be very low. Then, watch out for rationing, waiting lists, and pharmacos wanting the surplus. Choose your poison.
In a 'shop making telephone boards in the '60s, we heated the sheets in ovens before the big presses hit them. Put our pies for lunch in those ovens too. Then, open drilling and open flow-solder. Citric acid for drinks came from the (gold) plating 'shop - "other bottle, boy, that one's the cyanide". Never did *me* any harm.
Has anyone here suggested Wubi? Runs all of Ubuntu (except 'hibernate') on my laptop without partitioning, updates properly (unlike live-CD), fast, easy to uninstall. I've had 'accidents' uninstalling dual-boot partitions in the past, so wouldn't want to risk that for a brief trial.
The wife went to USA (I decline ever to go there) and she found TSA firm but fair. But her luggage was secretly searched, and things seemed missing. Cue mega complaint, scripted by me. Oops! missing items reappeared in another case, so I had to script a follow-up apology to TSA. Thus our sympathy lingers - how else are Sovereign nations supposed to defend themselves against extremist suicide attack? Do what, exactly?
For those who don't know, "Dinorwig power station" (see Wiki) is what boils your kettle when there's a 'break' on TV.
Round here, every single streetlight has a synchronous-motor timer. But we're 50cps, and that's still guaranteed.
The H2G2 tag was mainly for the info of visitors to Earth, not residents who already had a towel. Perhaps the BBC itself is 'Mostly Harmless'.
The BBC shouldn't be selling H2G2, they should be integrating with this, as a locational Wiki. If only it could be said that Britain today is 'Mostly Harmless'.
...if it *were*...?
Leave me the UI that I use all day (part 1) and make whatever engine improvements are needed (part 2). Do auto-updates on (stable) part 2 but only *offer* updates on part 1. Why should I have to use add-ons to get things back the way I want them?
Good point, keeps coming up in expert forums. What exactly is the claimed advantage of a throttle like this? Sure, you can 'get used to it', but does anyone know?
True. How's this for equivalency? My little country has nukes, and an unelected Head of State who is constitutionally head of a nationally-sponsored religion. Nobody seems very frightened of us, nowadays.
OT, but that might explain why I no longer get mod points either. How to fix it?
Agreed: I have many thousands of splendid 35mm transparencies. Never look at them. Only about a dozen (people excluded) really take me back to places, and they print very nicely. Strangely, sketches work much better but there was seldom time. Your grandchildren will (may) want to see a well-chosen synopsis, not an infinite data-stream.
Don't EVER delay my gin. (And why is mercury in a sealed tube 'dangerous'? Should I move away from the not-so-sealed barometer behind me? Is that why I need my gin?)
Alternative hypothesis is that nutters sometimes have a real advantage in discovering the truly unexpected, and thus win Nobel Prizes. That doesn't stop them being nutters. Overstated, I know, but you see what I mean.
TFA says they are planning to debate the proposals. That is Euro-speak for nothing very much. How many big cars have you seen in Paris anyway? Now if they could think of a way of harvesting the dog-dirt there for motive power, they might have a distinctive advantage. Even now, you can more-or-less 'slide' to your meeting.
Once upon a time, we all knew all this. Then they let grils in, and distractions started. Then they went multinational and USians were Puritans, and Antipodeans were simply cheerful. So - give us the guide, please. Do we have to button our jackets in China? (I didn't and it offended). But... red ties? 'dry clean' shirts? (suits, surely). Let Dilbert advise.
How old are you? What do you do in the daytime? Have you ever interfaced with that mysterious tribe called 'Grils'? They're crazy, but so probably are you, and the result is all we have that will inherit planet earth. Please climb out of the basement, and try to keep the species alive.
Ours read the program file from cards to one of the four tapes, then did it's semi serial compiling. It read all the cards it was given (sometimes just one 'parameter card'). Obviously the compile didn't start until all the cards in a pack were in. Oh, and I've still got some plugleads from the Hollerith Tabulator the computer replaced. The lawn's built on my plot.
We handpunched each line of COBOL into each card. If the run went wrong, we debugged, changed the wrong card, and recompiled (we had tapes, that took time). Our handpunches didn't print at the top. Timeout? you always re-fed the whole program pack. Mending holes meant you didn't risk introducing new errors by repunching (alpha). And it was quick. And we had glue. And coffee kept hot on the 'central processor'. Happy days
Late at night doing the stock prices, if one card of the COBOL pack was wrong, you'd find a punched-out confetti on the floor, and stick it back in the errant punch-hole, using a tube of polystyrene cement. Quick dry, no snagging, no delay. Just don't run those packs if you find them crisp in some archive.
Did you know that Advent Calendars are not about consumerist chocolate, but graphic reminders of some tribal seasonal story? I don't believe it either, but it's as pretty a story as Father Christmas, and deserves to be left alone.
At my 1960's school in Somerset, while still being trained to defend our shores, we were equipped each Monday afternoon with .303 rifles, 10 'blank' cartridges, and bussed to the Quantock hills. Unauthorised, we found that 'Venus' brand pencils, with their white plastic ends as expanding 'wads', made perfect muzzle-load ammunition. A good shot would embed a pencil many inches into a distant chosen tree. Future lumberjacks or archaeologists will find them there. Would that we were allowed to defend our shores nowadays.
You-all in the USofA may feel safe enough, and rejoice in twitting the functionaries paid to defend you, but we here over the briny somewhere to the East have every reason to be grateful that technology (yea, faulty 'an all) is being mobilised to protect us a bit. How else will you handle a bloke in a girlie yashmak, with a charge up the passage where the sun don't shine? Stop hating authority, start beating the enemy.