No, they're not implanted. Implanted pumps do exist, but it's pretty clear that they're talking about run-of-the-mill Medtronic brand external insulin pumps in the article, even if they get some of the details wrong. People still like to wear those under their clothes and control them with a wireless remote control, though.
I'm not sure just why the manufacturer thinks the pump needs to have a wireless function though. If it needs to talk to another device, I would have used a small magnetic cable (so it doesn't get pulled out). Easy peasy as opposed to convincing a wireless device to talk to something else.
Mostly because some people wear the pump under their clothes (means you don't have a clunky, pager-sized device sitting on your belt or in your pocket with a tube running under your shirt) and use a small wireless remote control to talk to it. The pump also uses wireless communication to talk to blood glucose meters and sensors, but that doesn't control the delivery of insulin.
Or, you know, they have health insurance. It's actually not that difficult to get insurance companies to pay for pumps: they know that pump use results in much better blood sugar control, which results in a much lower risk of (even more expensive) complications down the road. I've had three different insurance companies pay for an insulin pump at this point (they need to be replaced after about five years).
A 2 liter bottle of Coke only has 225 grams in it, so you'd need about 5 of those. You seem to have a really high insulin:carb ratio, though; mine is 1:12, and I believe that 1:15 is typical. So I'd need about 16 bottles of Coke; I'm pretty sure at that rate of consumption, water poisoning would become an issue, so it would be better to stick to solid sugar. I think I'd just try to get to a hospital and get them to give me their entire supply of glucagon.
Even from the (rather poor) description in the article, it's clear that they're describing a standard Medtronic brand external insulin pump. (There are other brands, but Medtronic is by far the biggest.) 300 units is the standard reservoir size for those; that's about a 4.5 day supply for me, a typical Type 1 diabetic, so I'm guessing that they simply misplaced a decimal point.
As for surviving a 300-unit overdose... well, for me, that would require about 3,600 grams of carbohydrate to make up for it. Which is to say 3.6 kilograms of pure sugar. I don't think I even have that much in the house, and it might be pretty hard to consume it all in about 3 hours even if I did. So my only chance would be to get to a hospital and get enough glucagon (the antagonist hormone to insulin) to counteract it. That's assuming I even noticed in time: yes, I could feel it if the insulin were delivered all within a few minutes, but there's no reason why they couldn't just deliver it at the normal rate, which would take about an hour, and would not feel like anything unusual. By the time it finished my blood sugar would already be going low, but honestly that happens pretty regularly, and my first instinct is not to check to see if my pump has mysteriously delivered its entire reservoir at once, it's to eat 15 grams of sugar and see if it gets better after 15 minutes.
Oh, yeah, stereotypes are definitely there for a reason. That's why I get nervous anytime I see someone wearing a crucifix: Catholics have a violent reputation. Just look at the IRA -- all Catholics. And Protestants are just as bad -- bombing abortion clinics, and don't even get me started on the KKK.
If you think that sounds ridiculous, maybe you should reexamine your own stereotypes.
I grew up in northern New York, twenty miles from the border -- we always used to mix Canadian pennies in, too, even when the Canadian dollar was worth about $0.65 USD. Now that the currencies are so close to parity it matters even less.
Some friends of mine have one of these, mostly because they have a really tiny bathroom that doesn't have anywhere to put the sink except on top of the toilet. The problem I've found with it, though, is that it's very hard to finish washing my hands before the tank stops filling.
Wait, they have printers in space? Can you explain why? It seems like the cost of hauling both paper and printers into orbit would make a really strong case for keeping everything electronic.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure most of the population of, say, Texas is not Catholic, still consider themselves "Christian", and is pretty obviously in favor of executions. When you've convinced an overwhelming majority of the people who self-identify as Christians to share your beliefs, then perhaps you can make claims about "real Christianity". Don't get me wrong, I know a lot of liberal Christians who seem to be pretty good, but "Christianity" as a whole is defined by its self-identified adherents, and the overwhelming message I get from them is one of intolerance and ignorance.
(As an aside, I believe that the Catholic church is now pretty solidly against executions in general, though I don't know how well that's followed by majority Catholic jurisdictions.)
I'm assuming to start with that you have backups of everything in some fashion, with which you could put it all back together if your biggest drive suddenly failed spectacularly.
In that case, how important is uptime to you? Since this is personal data, I'm guessing that you could live without live access to it for a few days. And given that, I think your best bet is not to keep a spare just sitting around, but to only buy one when you need it. Hard disk prices keep going down, and the price for the same drive six months from now is almost guaranteed to be lower than it is now, barring things like the Thailand floods. The other big advantage of this method is that when you upgrade to bigger drives, you don't have to immediately upgrade your spare as well -- and if you manage to go a whole upgrade cycle without needing the spare, then you've saved yourself the purchase of an entire drive.
At the moment, because your drive is possibly failing, then yes you need to get that spare. But if the current drive is actually failing, it won't be a spare so much as a replacement, and then you're back to the same situation.
Less invasive, yes. Personally, though, I'm pretty uncomfortable around people with guns, since they tend to want to use them. I don't want to get shot just because some nervous private thinks I look "suspicious".
Find some way to get out of the house in the evenings and see people. Unless you are a complete introvert, lack of social contact can feel very isolating. This is true even if you live with other people: if the only people you see on a daily basis are the people you live with, that can put a lot more strain on those relationships than they are used to. Getting some exercise is a good idea while you're at it, and can easily be combined with the social activity (in my case, I go dancing (contra, English Country Dancing, Scottish Country Dancing, Balkan dancing, blues,...), but there are lots of options). Take advantage of your flexibility to visit friends in other cities without having to take vacation time (I just got back from a week of working on the road).
Good luck! I've been working from home for eight years now, and it's sometimes difficult, but it definitely has its perks.
Getting a car onto the tracks will be pretty difficult with no grade crossings. I'm not sure what's so hard to understand about that. Do you expect that people will cut down the fence just so they can get their car onto the tracks? And derailments do not happen just from hitting a human body on well-designed and maintained tracks.
HSR neither needs to be elevated nor completely buried; all you need are simple bridges over or under roads, which coincidentally we already have along almost the entire Northeast Corridor (at this point, there are only eleven remaining grade crossings, all in eastern Connecticut. HSR would be built with entirely new construction, so there would be no grade crossings at all. Then the legal issues are exactly the same as for regular trains, which is to say that the only people who get hit are trespassers. And a 60 mph train will kill you just as dead as a 180 mph one, with just as little chance of stopping before it hits you.
Of course, you were right that maglev proponents are not the ones preventing us from developing traditional HSR -- naysayers like you are doing that.
A person born in the US at the turn of the 20th century could expect to live 49.2 years. Their ancestor born in 2003 could reasonably expect to see their 77th birthday.
The emphasis is mine.
There was an accident with a contraceptive and a time machine.
If they can restrict you from using public transportation, why can't they restrict you from using a car? A bicycle? Shoes? Feet? You can still crawl, it's not like they're actually restricting your freedom of movement.
Right, but the problem now is that they don't even have to give you a trial. It's a catch-22: the only way to get the law overturned is to break the law and be tried for it, but the law itself says that they don't have to try you for breaking the law. We're just stuck.
Space is a lot harder to get to than Canada. That's why earth-based astronomy is still doing lots of useful research, and will continue to do so for a long time to come: a handful of space-based instruments can only do so much, and there are thousands of earth-based ones. Some of them are much, much bigger than the space-based ones, which helps make up for having to look through an atmosphere, but there's useful research being done even with very small telescopes on the ground.
Not really. Light pollution is primarily due to continuous lighting sources; any airliners flying over are only going to be in range for a few minutes each, and aren't going to contribute to skyglow in any noticeable way. They can probably even get the airlines to route around the observatories; a fairly small radius would be sufficient to keep them from interfering entirely.
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No, they're not implanted. Implanted pumps do exist, but it's pretty clear that they're talking about run-of-the-mill Medtronic brand external insulin pumps in the article, even if they get some of the details wrong. People still like to wear those under their clothes and control them with a wireless remote control, though.
I'm not sure just why the manufacturer thinks the pump needs to have a wireless function though. If it needs to talk to another device, I would have used a small magnetic cable (so it doesn't get pulled out). Easy peasy as opposed to convincing a wireless device to talk to something else.
Mostly because some people wear the pump under their clothes (means you don't have a clunky, pager-sized device sitting on your belt or in your pocket with a tube running under your shirt) and use a small wireless remote control to talk to it. The pump also uses wireless communication to talk to blood glucose meters and sensors, but that doesn't control the delivery of insulin.
Or, you know, they have health insurance. It's actually not that difficult to get insurance companies to pay for pumps: they know that pump use results in much better blood sugar control, which results in a much lower risk of (even more expensive) complications down the road. I've had three different insurance companies pay for an insulin pump at this point (they need to be replaced after about five years).
A 2 liter bottle of Coke only has 225 grams in it, so you'd need about 5 of those. You seem to have a really high insulin:carb ratio, though; mine is 1:12, and I believe that 1:15 is typical. So I'd need about 16 bottles of Coke; I'm pretty sure at that rate of consumption, water poisoning would become an issue, so it would be better to stick to solid sugar. I think I'd just try to get to a hospital and get them to give me their entire supply of glucagon.
Even from the (rather poor) description in the article, it's clear that they're describing a standard Medtronic brand external insulin pump. (There are other brands, but Medtronic is by far the biggest.) 300 units is the standard reservoir size for those; that's about a 4.5 day supply for me, a typical Type 1 diabetic, so I'm guessing that they simply misplaced a decimal point.
As for surviving a 300-unit overdose... well, for me, that would require about 3,600 grams of carbohydrate to make up for it. Which is to say 3.6 kilograms of pure sugar. I don't think I even have that much in the house, and it might be pretty hard to consume it all in about 3 hours even if I did. So my only chance would be to get to a hospital and get enough glucagon (the antagonist hormone to insulin) to counteract it. That's assuming I even noticed in time: yes, I could feel it if the insulin were delivered all within a few minutes, but there's no reason why they couldn't just deliver it at the normal rate, which would take about an hour, and would not feel like anything unusual. By the time it finished my blood sugar would already be going low, but honestly that happens pretty regularly, and my first instinct is not to check to see if my pump has mysteriously delivered its entire reservoir at once, it's to eat 15 grams of sugar and see if it gets better after 15 minutes.
Oh, yeah, stereotypes are definitely there for a reason. That's why I get nervous anytime I see someone wearing a crucifix: Catholics have a violent reputation. Just look at the IRA -- all Catholics. And Protestants are just as bad -- bombing abortion clinics, and don't even get me started on the KKK.
If you think that sounds ridiculous, maybe you should reexamine your own stereotypes.
Also pretty trivial to separate out the copper from the zinc, since zinc has a much lower melting point.
I grew up in northern New York, twenty miles from the border -- we always used to mix Canadian pennies in, too, even when the Canadian dollar was worth about $0.65 USD. Now that the currencies are so close to parity it matters even less.
Some friends of mine have one of these, mostly because they have a really tiny bathroom that doesn't have anywhere to put the sink except on top of the toilet. The problem I've found with it, though, is that it's very hard to finish washing my hands before the tank stops filling.
No, no, you're thinking of air cooling. With water cooling, shit hitting the fan is not the problem: it's shit hitting the pump.
Wait, they have printers in space? Can you explain why? It seems like the cost of hauling both paper and printers into orbit would make a really strong case for keeping everything electronic.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure most of the population of, say, Texas is not Catholic, still consider themselves "Christian", and is pretty obviously in favor of executions. When you've convinced an overwhelming majority of the people who self-identify as Christians to share your beliefs, then perhaps you can make claims about "real Christianity". Don't get me wrong, I know a lot of liberal Christians who seem to be pretty good, but "Christianity" as a whole is defined by its self-identified adherents, and the overwhelming message I get from them is one of intolerance and ignorance.
(As an aside, I believe that the Catholic church is now pretty solidly against executions in general, though I don't know how well that's followed by majority Catholic jurisdictions.)
I'm assuming to start with that you have backups of everything in some fashion, with which you could put it all back together if your biggest drive suddenly failed spectacularly.
In that case, how important is uptime to you? Since this is personal data, I'm guessing that you could live without live access to it for a few days. And given that, I think your best bet is not to keep a spare just sitting around, but to only buy one when you need it. Hard disk prices keep going down, and the price for the same drive six months from now is almost guaranteed to be lower than it is now, barring things like the Thailand floods. The other big advantage of this method is that when you upgrade to bigger drives, you don't have to immediately upgrade your spare as well -- and if you manage to go a whole upgrade cycle without needing the spare, then you've saved yourself the purchase of an entire drive.
At the moment, because your drive is possibly failing, then yes you need to get that spare. But if the current drive is actually failing, it won't be a spare so much as a replacement, and then you're back to the same situation.
Less invasive, yes. Personally, though, I'm pretty uncomfortable around people with guns, since they tend to want to use them. I don't want to get shot just because some nervous private thinks I look "suspicious".
Find some way to get out of the house in the evenings and see people. Unless you are a complete introvert, lack of social contact can feel very isolating. This is true even if you live with other people: if the only people you see on a daily basis are the people you live with, that can put a lot more strain on those relationships than they are used to. Getting some exercise is a good idea while you're at it, and can easily be combined with the social activity (in my case, I go dancing (contra, English Country Dancing, Scottish Country Dancing, Balkan dancing, blues,...), but there are lots of options). Take advantage of your flexibility to visit friends in other cities without having to take vacation time (I just got back from a week of working on the road).
Good luck! I've been working from home for eight years now, and it's sometimes difficult, but it definitely has its perks.
Getting a car onto the tracks will be pretty difficult with no grade crossings. I'm not sure what's so hard to understand about that. Do you expect that people will cut down the fence just so they can get their car onto the tracks? And derailments do not happen just from hitting a human body on well-designed and maintained tracks.
And some convenient mountains.
HSR neither needs to be elevated nor completely buried; all you need are simple bridges over or under roads, which coincidentally we already have along almost the entire Northeast Corridor (at this point, there are only eleven remaining grade crossings, all in eastern Connecticut. HSR would be built with entirely new construction, so there would be no grade crossings at all. Then the legal issues are exactly the same as for regular trains, which is to say that the only people who get hit are trespassers. And a 60 mph train will kill you just as dead as a 180 mph one, with just as little chance of stopping before it hits you. Of course, you were right that maglev proponents are not the ones preventing us from developing traditional HSR -- naysayers like you are doing that.
From TFA:
The emphasis is mine.
There was an accident with a contraceptive and a time machine.
"Hiriko" just means "urban". Presumably they didn't feel the need to call it "Hiriko Autoa" because it's pretty obvious that it's a car.
If they can restrict you from using public transportation, why can't they restrict you from using a car? A bicycle? Shoes? Feet? You can still crawl, it's not like they're actually restricting your freedom of movement.
Right, but the problem now is that they don't even have to give you a trial. It's a catch-22: the only way to get the law overturned is to break the law and be tried for it, but the law itself says that they don't have to try you for breaking the law. We're just stuck.
Space is a lot harder to get to than Canada. That's why earth-based astronomy is still doing lots of useful research, and will continue to do so for a long time to come: a handful of space-based instruments can only do so much, and there are thousands of earth-based ones. Some of them are much, much bigger than the space-based ones, which helps make up for having to look through an atmosphere, but there's useful research being done even with very small telescopes on the ground.
Not really. Light pollution is primarily due to continuous lighting sources; any airliners flying over are only going to be in range for a few minutes each, and aren't going to contribute to skyglow in any noticeable way. They can probably even get the airlines to route around the observatories; a fairly small radius would be sufficient to keep them from interfering entirely.
The point is that it wasn't a fake, so PayPal royally screwed the seller.
But PayPal is entirely composed of evil douchebags, so I agree that it's not really surprising.