Our technical order system uses chapter/section/paragraph numbers in addition to page numbers; the page numbers are completely useless as they can change with new updates but the content always stays under the same paragraph.
So you have chapter 7, section 2, paragraph 5: 7.2.5, How to do this task, and then 7.2.6, How to inspect this task, etc. If an update comes up for the task, the page is replaced and the new paragraph is added inline: 7.2.5.1, Something we forgot about this task.
With electronic documents becoming more and more widespread, I would assume that this numbering would become more popular. It's easy to use, fine-grained (there are multiple paragraphs per page=more precise notations), and you can expand on it in place. No more, "Ok class turn to page 119, except for those of you who have the textbook with the lion on the cover, you'll need to read the first paragraph on page 117 and the middle paragraph on page 120."
Well, N-acetylcysteine has some pretty miserable side effects and some other characteristics that would make taking acetaminophen a person's last resort. Any time you're dealing with any kind of sulfur bonds you're going to get nasty tastes and smells.
You would also have to study the relative toxicity; maybe the dose needed to mitigate acetaminophen's side effects would become toxic before the acetaminophen would? Perhaps there are cumulative effects? Perhaps the N-acetylcysteine reacts with other drugs or alcohol with alarming symptoms?
I think the drug companies would LOVE to spout off on the safety of acetaminophen, so I have to assume that there is something flawed with this idea from a pharmacological standpoint.
I don't know if you've seen these TV ads in your area, but over the last few months I've been noticing two things:
-Aspirin, especially Bayer, has been really pushing its relative safety vs other OTC anti-inflammatories/analgesics -Tylenol has been pushing the "If you can't use tylenol safely, I'd rather you didn't use it at all" commercials with the stern-but-caring doctor character
It makes me wonder if this has been in the works for a while and the companies were trying to curry public favor in advance.
In the US, if you aren't driving a car, then you don't need to carry anything showing who you are.
Unless you want to buy a house, buy a gun, take out a loan, buy cigarettes or alcohol, go to college, get a job, get a library card, open an account at a bank, start a business, buy insurance...
There are many more examples I'm too tired to think up right now. I'd say you could go live in the wilderness and not need an I.D. but I think you need one to get a camping permit in our national parks.
Are there even facilities in the U.S. to make things like the iPhone et al.? I know of several entire industries where outsourcing meant moving the entire production (including machinery) overseas (see, for example, our ability to make high-power magnets).
I have mixed feelings about outsourcing, but in the end it seems to me to be a matter of what spec you give the manufacturer. If you need tolerances to within.001", then if that is in your spec that is what you'll get, end of story. It comes down to cost. If it's half as expensive to get tolerances to.005" then on the surface the wise business choice would be the looser tolerances, but as we've seen that can lead to problems.
They don't have the kind of warranty service and support that I have come to expect from technology vendors and frankly, I was shocked when I learned this of Apple the hard way in a world where everyone else offers better service and support.
Nice flamebait. Regardless of my personal opinions on Apple's products, they are consistently rated highest in customer service and customer satisfaction. iPhones come with a warranty that is usually a one-for-one replacement if you break it or it screws up. Applecare is cheap (a tiny percentage of total cost of ownership) and again it is far more generous than, say, motorola's support (break your RAZR and try to get help with it).
I realize that you're trolling and I'm not supposed to reply to you but someone might read your post and believe it.
You're not looking at the big picture. True efficiency should aim to keep entropy to a minimum and thus delay the heat death of the universe. We would be better served if the mosquitoes weren't hatched in the first place.
Couple your idea with the satellite microwave power ray and we're onto something.
1- Taxes should be payed on a sale made in a state with sales tax 2- You don't think that a citizen of X should pay Y's sales tax 3- And technically (at least for the states I know), if you buy something out of state you're supposed to file a 'usage tax', essentially paying your state the sales tax that you owe it thus 4- Amazon should be paying sales tax to the *customers'* states, not the vendors' states.
>>I generally trust Amazon more than I do the small fry sites they 'affiliate' with.
I agree. I remember the first time I unwittingly ordered 5 things from 5 different vendors. I sat there for over two weeks wondering why one package showed up two days after my order while another took 15 days. And the quick package did me no good because all the things were for one project.
Nowadays I either order everything from Amazon proper, or I go directly to the affiliate's storefront since they probably specialize in other things that I'm looking for at the moment.
Still, it's annoying to get a tiny box of slide covers from houston and another tiny box of slides from somewhere in New Jersey 5 days later.
When you are the only person on your block being persecuted, no, a weapon will not help you. When everyone on your block faces either death or fighting, they will fight. Your example re: Saddam falls apart because a few years later a few AK's DID cause major damage to an occupying force. Saddam's advantage (and Hitler's) lay in choosing isolated and/or weak minorities who couldn't or wouldn't band together or be defended by the general populace.
If you start attacking Americans (not just certain Americans), guess what? Everyone you're attacking has something in common, and no one is left out of the fight, and you war is already lost.
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As a veteran of Iraq and someone who would be happy to post pics of the Humvee/APC graveyards if my site was still up let me just say:
NO. You are wrong. If the U.S. military decided to invade the U.S., for real, not just "security" around a natural disaster area, the war would be over in days or weeks. And the people would win. Do you have any idea how large the U.S. is compared to our military? How vulnerable our forces really are? All of our retirees and guardsmen who would know all our weaknesses and S.O.P... They all LIVE HERE. My base could be effectively shut down by one person doing one thing (yeah, probably dying in the process), and it would be easy. Dead easy.
And "small arms" is a wide category. My.22-250, a smallish varminting cartridge, can penetrate 3/8+" mild steel, and that's just a plain-jane hollowpoint hunting round. You load a decent penetrator and maybe a little more pep in the powder charge and you're talking about something that could penetrate armored glass, humvee tires, building walls... And then you can move up to the bigger hunting rounds, the.308, the.30-'06, the 7mm-'06, the.338. Insurgents using measly 7.62x39 have taken out APC's in Iraq with horrific consequences- I have firsthand experience here, a human being hell-bent on causing death and damage will typically be very successful.
>>Put the armored soldiers in an even a lightly armored vehicle and nothing short of high explosives can do much damage to them.
Nor can they do much to the environment around them, short of yelling through loudspeakers. The turret gunner will be the first target, and his guns can only point in one direction at a time.
>>Indeed practically nothing short of another tank can stop a tank.
You know what can stop tanks? Tank barriers. You put your bomb next to the tank barrier and you set it off when the tank is over it figuring out what to do. And when the tankers figure out that trick and call in EOD, you shoot EOD. And when they figure that out and just barrage the barricade from the next corner, you put your bomb under the logical place for the tank to be. Underground fighters and insurgents have known this for decades. Americans are bright enough to figure this stuff out.
>>You'd never see a Tienanmen Square in this country because the military would simply refuse the order.
Kent state. Different order of magnitude, but it's the thought that counts. Don't count on units simply refusing orders. There are enough assholes in the military to keep a civil war moving until everything falls apart.
>>it's not resisting arrest or assault if there's nothing to arrest you for!
Oh ho ho, Get back to us when you try that trick! Every level of our judicial system has upheld nearly every "unreasonable" search. To most of our judges, there is no such thing as 'unreasonable search'. If someone wants to search you, that's their reason right there.
I don't like it, I don't agree with it, but I'd prefer a lawyer fight my legal battles for me rather than getting into a physical fight with taser-and-mace-armed thugs.
If you've ever been tazed or maced, raise your hand. OK, now keep them up if you want to try it again.
>>Mr. Sable's ignorance or willful abdication of his 5th amendment rights
Are TSA agents technically law enforcement officers? Are they trained in due process, reasonable force, constitutional rights? What power do they actually wield? As a free citizen, I expect to be able to walk out of any room without physical altercation unless I'm under the custody of a police officer or other law enforcement agent.
What would stop a person from standing up and walking out of one of these little TSA Q&A sessions? If I'm unhappy with the behavior of a TSA agent, can I request another? What recourse do I have, as a free citizen, when I am being mistreated by one of these agents?
Jeez, the way you write about the human race, it seems like our odds of survival would be much higher if we could evolve tribesman who wouldn't kill us rather than the large brain to figure out WHO would inevitably *want* to kill us.
Wait, you're in New York. Our experiences may be different;)
I thought about your comment for a few seconds before I decided that I'd prefer to accidentally shout half a word and need to use backspace or ctrl-h rather than accidentally send a control sequence and cause harm or at the very least wind up retyping a command (depending on the shell).
Well I don't know about you guys, but my only news sources are slashdot and the air raid siren down the block. What else do you really *need* to know?;)
>>The NTSC has NOTHING to do with this investigation
I think you meant NTSB. The reason that the NTSB might be interested in this crash, as well as ALL crashes and other misadventures, is that air travel is a worldwide enterprise. That means that crash data gathered over, say, the Atlantic Ocean, might have important ramifications for air travel over Detroit or Utica. So.
And yes, most of the posts in this discussion are BS- I work in aerospace, and it almost physically hurts to read some of these posts. On the other hand it makes me much more self-conscious about posting in areas that I know less about, so it's a net gain I think. We could all afford to just shut the hell up sometimes.
>>But as long as you can see the horizon and maybe the sun, you know how to steer to get it in a normal position. And then you land, in very slow descend, on the next airport.
Do you know anything about the conditions that this flight went down in? Seriously. The gp was correct- black windows, no speedometer, no gearshift indication, etc. These pilots had no horizon, no sun, no reliable instruments.
Saying that they should be trained to fly like that is... Well... That's ridiculous. There are some situations in this world that are extremely hazardous: volcanoes, inside thunderstorms, 5 miles underwater, etc. Some things cannot be prepared for 100%.
You seem to know what you're talking about, so I'll ask you. The airframe that I maintain uses all heated air data sensors. They don't just get warm; they are a serious hazard when the plane has just landed or the sensors are being tested. I am curious since I have not worked on commercial liners, but aren't heated probes de rigeur on airframes that fly above a certain altitude?
Or was this an error of the heating system, or what?
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Our technical order system uses chapter/section/paragraph numbers in addition to page numbers; the page numbers are completely useless as they can change with new updates but the content always stays under the same paragraph.
So you have chapter 7, section 2, paragraph 5: 7.2.5, How to do this task, and then 7.2.6, How to inspect this task, etc. If an update comes up for the task, the page is replaced and the new paragraph is added inline: 7.2.5.1, Something we forgot about this task.
With electronic documents becoming more and more widespread, I would assume that this numbering would become more popular. It's easy to use, fine-grained (there are multiple paragraphs per page=more precise notations), and you can expand on it in place. No more, "Ok class turn to page 119, except for those of you who have the textbook with the lion on the cover, you'll need to read the first paragraph on page 117 and the middle paragraph on page 120."
My 2 cents.
-b
You are free to hate on Adobe- PDF is an open,standardized format now. I use it all the time in OS X; File>Print>Print as PDF...
-b
Well, N-acetylcysteine has some pretty miserable side effects and some other characteristics that would make taking acetaminophen a person's last resort. Any time you're dealing with any kind of sulfur bonds you're going to get nasty tastes and smells.
You would also have to study the relative toxicity; maybe the dose needed to mitigate acetaminophen's side effects would become toxic before the acetaminophen would? Perhaps there are cumulative effects? Perhaps the N-acetylcysteine reacts with other drugs or alcohol with alarming symptoms?
I think the drug companies would LOVE to spout off on the safety of acetaminophen, so I have to assume that there is something flawed with this idea from a pharmacological standpoint.
-b
I don't know if you've seen these TV ads in your area, but over the last few months I've been noticing two things:
-Aspirin, especially Bayer, has been really pushing its relative safety vs other OTC anti-inflammatories/analgesics
-Tylenol has been pushing the "If you can't use tylenol safely, I'd rather you didn't use it at all" commercials with the stern-but-caring doctor character
It makes me wonder if this has been in the works for a while and the companies were trying to curry public favor in advance.
-b
In the US, if you aren't driving a car, then you don't need to carry anything showing who you are.
Unless you want to buy a house, buy a gun, take out a loan, buy cigarettes or alcohol, go to college, get a job, get a library card, open an account at a bank, start a business, buy insurance...
There are many more examples I'm too tired to think up right now. I'd say you could go live in the wilderness and not need an I.D. but I think you need one to get a camping permit in our national parks.
-b
Are there even facilities in the U.S. to make things like the iPhone et al.? I know of several entire industries where outsourcing meant moving the entire production (including machinery) overseas (see, for example, our ability to make high-power magnets).
I have mixed feelings about outsourcing, but in the end it seems to me to be a matter of what spec you give the manufacturer. If you need tolerances to within .001", then if that is in your spec that is what you'll get, end of story. It comes down to cost. If it's half as expensive to get tolerances to .005" then on the surface the wise business choice would be the looser tolerances, but as we've seen that can lead to problems.
-b
They don't have the kind of warranty service and support that I have come to expect from technology vendors and frankly, I was shocked when I learned this of Apple the hard way in a world where everyone else offers better service and support.
Nice flamebait. Regardless of my personal opinions on Apple's products, they are consistently rated highest in customer service and customer satisfaction. iPhones come with a warranty that is usually a one-for-one replacement if you break it or it screws up. Applecare is cheap (a tiny percentage of total cost of ownership) and again it is far more generous than, say, motorola's support (break your RAZR and try to get help with it).
I realize that you're trolling and I'm not supposed to reply to you but someone might read your post and believe it.
-b
The only winning move is to not play ;)
-b
You're not looking at the big picture. True efficiency should aim to keep entropy to a minimum and thus delay the heat death of the universe. We would be better served if the mosquitoes weren't hatched in the first place.
Couple your idea with the satellite microwave power ray and we're onto something.
-b
It sounds like you're looking at the issue through rhose-colored glasses ;)
No, that would not be legal; there are some other posts in this discussion that do a better job of explaining why then I can, though.
-b
So... correct me if I'm wrong here...
1- Taxes should be payed on a sale made in a state with sales tax
2- You don't think that a citizen of X should pay Y's sales tax
3- And technically (at least for the states I know), if you buy something out of state you're supposed to file a 'usage tax', essentially paying your state the sales tax that you owe it
thus
4- Amazon should be paying sales tax to the *customers'* states, not the vendors' states.
Am I way off base here?
-b
>>I generally trust Amazon more than I do the small fry sites they 'affiliate' with.
I agree. I remember the first time I unwittingly ordered 5 things from 5 different vendors. I sat there for over two weeks wondering why one package showed up two days after my order while another took 15 days. And the quick package did me no good because all the things were for one project.
Nowadays I either order everything from Amazon proper, or I go directly to the affiliate's storefront since they probably specialize in other things that I'm looking for at the moment.
Still, it's annoying to get a tiny box of slide covers from houston and another tiny box of slides from somewhere in New Jersey 5 days later.
-b
that will protect our ancestors from the rarified hot gases
Wow, shield generators *and* a time machine all in one? Too bad your ancestors will take all the credit...
-b
When you are the only person on your block being persecuted, no, a weapon will not help you. When everyone on your block faces either death or fighting, they will fight. Your example re: Saddam falls apart because a few years later a few AK's DID cause major damage to an occupying force. Saddam's advantage (and Hitler's) lay in choosing isolated and/or weak minorities who couldn't or wouldn't band together or be defended by the general populace.
If you start attacking Americans (not just certain Americans), guess what? Everyone you're attacking has something in common, and no one is left out of the fight, and you war is already lost.
-b
As a veteran of Iraq and someone who would be happy to post pics of the Humvee/APC graveyards if my site was still up let me just say:
NO. You are wrong. If the U.S. military decided to invade the U.S., for real, not just "security" around a natural disaster area, the war would be over in days or weeks. And the people would win. Do you have any idea how large the U.S. is compared to our military? How vulnerable our forces really are? All of our retirees and guardsmen who would know all our weaknesses and S.O.P... They all LIVE HERE. My base could be effectively shut down by one person doing one thing (yeah, probably dying in the process), and it would be easy. Dead easy.
And "small arms" is a wide category. My .22-250, a smallish varminting cartridge, can penetrate 3/8+" mild steel, and that's just a plain-jane hollowpoint hunting round. You load a decent penetrator and maybe a little more pep in the powder charge and you're talking about something that could penetrate armored glass, humvee tires, building walls... And then you can move up to the bigger hunting rounds, the .308, the .30-'06, the 7mm-'06, the .338. Insurgents using measly 7.62x39 have taken out APC's in Iraq with horrific consequences- I have firsthand experience here, a human being hell-bent on causing death and damage will typically be very successful.
>>Put the armored soldiers in an even a lightly armored vehicle and nothing short of high explosives can do much damage to them.
Nor can they do much to the environment around them, short of yelling through loudspeakers. The turret gunner will be the first target, and his guns can only point in one direction at a time.
>>Indeed practically nothing short of another tank can stop a tank.
You know what can stop tanks? Tank barriers. You put your bomb next to the tank barrier and you set it off when the tank is over it figuring out what to do. And when the tankers figure out that trick and call in EOD, you shoot EOD. And when they figure that out and just barrage the barricade from the next corner, you put your bomb under the logical place for the tank to be. Underground fighters and insurgents have known this for decades. Americans are bright enough to figure this stuff out.
>>You'd never see a Tienanmen Square in this country because the military would simply refuse the order.
Kent state. Different order of magnitude, but it's the thought that counts. Don't count on units simply refusing orders. There are enough assholes in the military to keep a civil war moving until everything falls apart.
-b
>>it's not resisting arrest or assault if there's nothing to arrest you for!
Oh ho ho, Get back to us when you try that trick! Every level of our judicial system has upheld nearly every "unreasonable" search. To most of our judges, there is no such thing as 'unreasonable search'. If someone wants to search you, that's their reason right there.
I don't like it, I don't agree with it, but I'd prefer a lawyer fight my legal battles for me rather than getting into a physical fight with taser-and-mace-armed thugs.
If you've ever been tazed or maced, raise your hand. OK, now keep them up if you want to try it again.
-b
>>Mr. Sable's ignorance or willful abdication of his 5th amendment rights
Are TSA agents technically law enforcement officers? Are they trained in due process, reasonable force, constitutional rights? What power do they actually wield? As a free citizen, I expect to be able to walk out of any room without physical altercation unless I'm under the custody of a police officer or other law enforcement agent.
What would stop a person from standing up and walking out of one of these little TSA Q&A sessions? If I'm unhappy with the behavior of a TSA agent, can I request another? What recourse do I have, as a free citizen, when I am being mistreated by one of these agents?
I wish I knew more.
-b
Jeez, the way you write about the human race, it seems like our odds of survival would be much higher if we could evolve tribesman who wouldn't kill us rather than the large brain to figure out WHO would inevitably *want* to kill us.
Wait, you're in New York. Our experiences may be different ;)
-b
Your editor doesn't autodetect and automatically correct the caps (among other things) for you?
-b
I thought about your comment for a few seconds before I decided that I'd prefer to accidentally shout half a word and need to use backspace or ctrl-h rather than accidentally send a control sequence and cause harm or at the very least wind up retyping a command (depending on the shell).
-b
Well I don't know about you guys, but my only news sources are slashdot and the air raid siren down the block. What else do you really *need* to know? ;)
-b
>>The NTSC has NOTHING to do with this investigation
I think you meant NTSB. The reason that the NTSB might be interested in this crash, as well as ALL crashes and other misadventures, is that air travel is a worldwide enterprise. That means that crash data gathered over, say, the Atlantic Ocean, might have important ramifications for air travel over Detroit or Utica. So.
And yes, most of the posts in this discussion are BS- I work in aerospace, and it almost physically hurts to read some of these posts. On the other hand it makes me much more self-conscious about posting in areas that I know less about, so it's a net gain I think. We could all afford to just shut the hell up sometimes.
-b
>>But as long as you can see the horizon and maybe the sun, you know how to steer to get it in a normal position. And then you land, in very slow descend, on the next airport.
Do you know anything about the conditions that this flight went down in? Seriously. The gp was correct- black windows, no speedometer, no gearshift indication, etc. These pilots had no horizon, no sun, no reliable instruments.
Saying that they should be trained to fly like that is... Well... That's ridiculous. There are some situations in this world that are extremely hazardous: volcanoes, inside thunderstorms, 5 miles underwater, etc. Some things cannot be prepared for 100%.
-b
I think maybe what the gp was saying was something like:
Q-"What do you call a pilot who graduated last in his class?"
A-"Pilot"
Boeing or Airbus or L-M et al. it doesn't matter what control system you choose if your pilots are overworked, underpaid, and task saturated.
-b
You seem to know what you're talking about, so I'll ask you. The airframe that I maintain uses all heated air data sensors. They don't just get warm; they are a serious hazard when the plane has just landed or the sensors are being tested. I am curious since I have not worked on commercial liners, but aren't heated probes de rigeur on airframes that fly above a certain altitude?
Or was this an error of the heating system, or what?
Just curious.
-b