AFAIK, Dick is short for Richard. Plenty of people name their kids Richard. If Chuck finds some new vulgar meaning, it won't stop parents from naming their children Charles.
The effect is real (I've discussed it with my eye surgeon). I think that most of the effect comes from slight distortions in the shape of your eyeball when squinting. I'd test my hypothesis but I already have 20/20 vision now (hooray for lasers).
Just putting your finger up between your eye and whatever you're looking at is enough to notice the diffraction effect. It's especially obvious when you're looking at an LCD monitor.
And let's not forget those of us who are lucky enough to live north of Lake Superior, where you can ride a bike maybe 5 months of the year if you're properly motivated. And let's not forget that some of us live at the foot of a 2-mile-long hill (steep grade). And let's not forget that some of us go to work when it is dark out and return when it is dark out.
And let's see, I have to take some highway to work. That's always fun on a bike. And when I came to work today it was partly cloudy; now it is raining. There's snow in the forecast. It is May. That is why I drive (a Geo Prizm, which gets medium-OK mileage).
There is no public transportation to get to my work, I don't live within 5 miles of anyone who I could carpool with, and besides that we all work on different shifts.
I'm all for biking to work if it works for you, but we're not all willing to risk our necks to save the 1/2 gallon of gas per day that we use to get to work.
And I had to add to what you said- northern Minnesota + summer heat (~80 F)= sweaty mess.
>>Yet we're finding that there is life in some unlikely places here on Earth, the so-called 'extremophiles'
There is a world of difference between instantaneous life arising in thermal vents on the sea bottom and life evolving to survive there. I think the fact that 'advanced' life lives in temperate conditions while bacteria live in extreme conditions indicates that (at least on Earth) intelligent life is tied to temperate conditions. Unfortunately for science fiction, physics and chemistry are real and immutable. Some things don't happen at 100 degrees Celsius, while some things ONLY happen at STP. That's life (hee hee).
Am I the only one struck by the complete chauvinism of an article about how beards make better languages? Yes, I get it, it's humor. But what we find funny can tell a lot about us.
If a politician made remarks like this about how beards correlated with being a good lawyer or passing good legislation, there would be an uproar like we haven't seen since a certain 'wardrobe malfunction'.
I hate to sound like "that guy", but it is almost offensive how slashdot can play the "why aren't more women in IT" game while also playing to the good 'ol boy crowd.
Yeah, why aren't there more women in IT? (wink wink, nudge nudge)...
Well, to tell you the truth (and as someone who has worked on some of these wonders), there isn't much to learn by looking at them.
They are essentially airplanes. I shouldn't say that- they _are_ airplanes, plain and simple. There just isn't a crew compartment. You could easily build one with a little money to buy the fiberglass and graphite and Epon and Rolls Royce engine. No biggy.
The problem has never been, "How do I build an airplane?"; It has always been, "How do I build a reliable autonomous/remote-controlled airplane?"
You are correct, the avionics and comm boxes have been stripped out. Comm on UAVs is the same as comm on regular fighters and bombers; it is rekeyed every day and is very, very secret. Top Secret, you might say. The rest of the trick lies in owning good satellites, well-trained techs or contractors, and money. The money is to develop the comm and C&C systems. Really- these things are RC planes, except for the C&C. It's easy to say well, big deal, I can build an RC plane... Now control an RC plane, flying over Iraq, carrying missiles, from a joystick in California. With absolute* reliability. With human lives on the line.
It helps underscore the importance of sat comm in modern warfare, doesn't it?
Come on slashdot. 7 replies already and half of them cite the same Discovery channel show. I suppose you also believe that every aircraft is seconds away from disaster, every dormant volcano is seconds away from eruption, every asteroid is on a collision course with Miami, and every bathroom remodeling project goes without a hitch.
Here in the real world, the average thief is a dumbass kid trying to score quick money. They aren't smart enough to wear a face mask or gloves or keep CSI from tracing them. They don't know, don't care- This is just their life. They grew up like this. It's survival to them.
Watch your dramatized mission:impossible burglar show and flatter yourself into thinking that highly-trained cat burglars care enough about your XBox to case your house and disable your alarm system. Or, you can buy decent locks and let your neighbors know when you'll be out of town.
Jesus christ people, since when did ratings equal credibility?
You need to get yourself a dog. It doesn't have to be big or scary looking- a small, yappy-type dog will do just fine. Unless you advertise the presence of valuable goods inside your house, a burglar will not break into your house if it is occupied. I think you'll find that most burglars will go for the lowest-hanging fruit, which will be your neighbor's house (unless they also have a dog, in which case the next house over is the low fruit). They want to get in, grab the stuff that is easiest to make off with and pawn, and then get out. I doubt you have any state secrets or anything like that in your house; this is a simple cost/benefit analysis for you and the burglars.
Another thing to look into is a neighborhood watch program. Of course, if you live in a neighborhood like mine that might not be a viable option. In that case, you need to get yourself a dog and a steel-core door. Skip the expensive cameras. Are they really going to save you money? Or is this a vindictive side of you, the side that might put a "Trespassers will be shot. Survivors will be shot twice" sign on your fence?
>>In low light it is going to be difficult to get a high-quality images without extra light
I agreed with the rest of your post, but from what I've seen of small CCTV cameras these days, they use IR LEDs for illumination. I have one from DealExtreme ($12) that comes with them built in.
I knew I would get your attention by using 'begs the question' in the first place, whether it was correct or not. I'm sure that any use of it at all would attract grammar nazis of one persuasion or another.
I believe that I did use the phrase correctly; tfs asked "Would you buy a Metallica online album despite their former views?"
This question presupposes that I like metallica enough to _ever_ buy one of their albums- without that assumption, the question would be meaningless. And since the assumption is incorrect, the question _is_ meaningless, and that is why I said that it begged the question. Wiki says, "[if the] proposition to be proved is assumed implicitly or explicitly in one of the premises" that it is begging the question.
"Are you still beating your wife?" is the common example of begging the question. I think it's plain to see the parallels with tfs's question.
"Begging the question" has a somewhat ambiguous definition in terms of modern usage. In the end, I think that being nitpicky about it is somewhat like being nitpicky about ending sentences with prepositions (a completely arbitrary rule). I mean, you wouldn't argue that "gay" still (only) means lighthearted and carefree, would you? Language evolves.
The poor physics majors, while calculating the precise positioning of their hands at the expense of knowing how fast their hands are moving, would be caught in a Zeno's paradox and have to be carried, limp and sweating, away from the twister board before they expired from the debilitating incompatible logics of beer and euclidean geometry.
>>Better yet, parties where we don't mention work but things we did outside of work are great because we get to see a different side of each other.
For better or worse, some of us share the same personality between work and home. I cannot turn off "Work personality" when I leave work and turn on "Entertaining personal time" personality when I arrive home. The aspects of my personality that make me well-suited for my job are by far the most overarching and dominant out of my entire psyche. Ruthless attention to detail, literal-mindedness, thinking in terms of complex spatial relationships, rigid documentation, etc make me a good technician and a poor entertainer. Fortunately for me, I'm also probably borderline in some personality disorder or another and dislike the physical company of other people 99% of the time.
Maybe I've had a rash of really unpleasant social interactions, but I've found 'parties' and 'conversation' to consist mainly of talking about: -Cats -What she did at work -People at work who have cats -People at work who I've never met -Unbelievably mundane minutiae about conversations they had with people I don't know about things that I don't care about -Stories about the _last_ time we all got together and did this, forming a regressive loop of such banal chit-chat that it makes me dizzy
If I could get 15 or 20 exact copies of myself together in a room for a party, it would go like this: We'd all calculate how many beers we should each receive, we'd grab that many beers out of the fridge, and we'd all leave. The party would last as long as it would take an orderly queue of awkward nerds to retrieve beer from the fridge.
For socially-inclined math nerds, here is my idea: A cooking party or pot luck where all the food is made with combinations of ingredients in mathematically interesting proportions. E.g., Golden Ratio casserole made with ingredients decreasing in a golden ratio, potatoes, cream of whatever soup, some other vegetable, etc, etc.
"Will you buy a new Metallica album that is being offered like previous Radiohead and NIN albums?"
That begs the question of whether I even like Metallica or if I would have bought their album in other circumstances. They might try this experiment and find that it was a dismal failure; I'm sure that they would point to the experience as proof of their earlier (poor) opinions of the internet's effect on music production.
The thing about Metallica is that their music changed substantially right about the time that the internet was coming into its own as a distribution medium. Part of their low sales of albums since the black album or Load could be related to internet downloads, but I think it has much more to do with Metallica alienating their original fanbase.
When I was a kid, Metallica was practically its own genre. I though of music as metal, country, Metallica, Pantera, punk, etc. There were a few bands that stood out as archetypes. Now that metallica is 'competing' with a larger field of music, they will find that they don't have the same rabid fanbase that they once enjoyed. When you are competing for airtime with nickelback and staind, your music is no longer special. You are a commodity like reruns of old dharma and greg episodes and your listeners will treat you with about as much respect.
So will I buy the new Metallica album over the internets a la radiohead? No, but the reason has little to do with the internet and everything to do with Metallica's music. Music? Remember? 'Music' as in 'sounds', not as in 'financial investment'.
>>I gather that it is like the original Quikclot - powder kits that are dumped on a wound and then covered with a bandage - am I correct in this?
You are correct; however, the similarity ends there. Quikclot is made fine mineral dust and Celox is based on a water-soluble, organic polymer.
>>It seems that the main appeal of the new Quikclot, aside from the non-burning, is that the clotting agent is integrated directly into the gauze pad.
Well, we've had Quikclot bandages for quite some time now- I remember seeing them in the Brigade Quartermaster catalog at least 2 or 3 years ago. This new product is based on a new mineral altogether, one that apparently doesn't burn. Which is good.
>>Hopefully, since the agent is part of the pad, most of the hard clay clot stays with the pad once it is removed from the wound.
Unfortunately, the bandage becomes part of the clot. Since the clotting agent is really just sort of like sprinkling saw dust on puke (same principle), the agent must be in close contact with the site of the bleeding. This is why I prefer celox- it forms a clot the consistency of thick snot, and that can be washed away without causing additional damage to the site. Quikclot and its derivatives, while they do save lives, also cause damage to the site on application and removal.
>>Sounds like something to keep an ear open about.
Yes, when medics buy Celox or alternatives with their own money rather than use quikclot, you know there will be intense interest in new clotting agents. I hope this one lives up to the hype.
The last time I was deployed in Iraq, we were all issued Quikclot packs in our trauma bags; I'm sure that if I needed to use it, it would have worked fine. However, Quikclot causes pretty severe burns and pain when it's used; in addition, the hard 'clot' that is formed is a PITA for surgeons to remove.
In my personal trauma kit here at home, I use Celox:
It is chitosan-based but claims to not affect people with seafood-based allergies. It produces no heat and is removed easily by water irrigation. I am curious why the DoD has not moved towards this product; you can get the celox-infused gauze that works much the same as this kaolin-based product already. If any of you are EMTs or just interested in having a good hemostatic agent in your kit, you should look into Celox. When everything else is equal, the disadvantages of Quikclot make Celox the clear winner.
Both quikclot and celox will work for people with heparinized blood or other anti-clotting factors. The clot is formed by the agent and not the blood's own fibrins. I'm sure this new product works in much the same way.
The metal would be cool long before it hit the ground. What would you rather have: A fine mist of tiny metal droplets, or intact 20mm cannon rounds?
And this completely ignores the fact that there will be large portions of dead airplane crashing down around you as well (if by 'around you' you mean 'infinitesimally tiny chance of coming near you').
Really, there are better things to get worked up about.
Search around your area; there should be a plating shop somewhere (probably near the airport, catering to aircraft parts).
Titanium nitride would be a pretty good match for you. There are also other coatings that are similar in color and toughness. It should run you under $200.
This does work; I removed two plantar warts from my feet using duct tape (in Iraq, no less- my boots were agravating the condition.
Use about a dime-sized patch on the wart. You can cover over that with surgical tape if you need to keep it from rubbing off. Change the tape each day, but leave it on 24/7 other than that. It took me about 2 1/2 weeks to completely remove the wart.
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>>now nobody would call their child "Dick".
AFAIK, Dick is short for Richard. Plenty of people name their kids Richard. If Chuck finds some new vulgar meaning, it won't stop parents from naming their children Charles.
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Dad?
The effect is real (I've discussed it with my eye surgeon). I think that most of the effect comes from slight distortions in the shape of your eyeball when squinting. I'd test my hypothesis but I already have 20/20 vision now (hooray for lasers).
Just putting your finger up between your eye and whatever you're looking at is enough to notice the diffraction effect. It's especially obvious when you're looking at an LCD monitor.
-b
>>so it'd have to be kept flat (or curved to a specific radius) constantly. That's going to be very difficult to do.
Just off the top of my head, I'll bet that spinning it would keep it flat. I wonder if rotating the grating would affect the picture.
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And let's not forget those of us who are lucky enough to live north of Lake Superior, where you can ride a bike maybe 5 months of the year if you're properly motivated. And let's not forget that some of us live at the foot of a 2-mile-long hill (steep grade). And let's not forget that some of us go to work when it is dark out and return when it is dark out.
And let's see, I have to take some highway to work. That's always fun on a bike. And when I came to work today it was partly cloudy; now it is raining. There's snow in the forecast. It is May. That is why I drive (a Geo Prizm, which gets medium-OK mileage).
There is no public transportation to get to my work, I don't live within 5 miles of anyone who I could carpool with, and besides that we all work on different shifts.
I'm all for biking to work if it works for you, but we're not all willing to risk our necks to save the 1/2 gallon of gas per day that we use to get to work.
And I had to add to what you said- northern Minnesota + summer heat (~80 F)= sweaty mess.
-b
>>Yet we're finding that there is life in some unlikely places here on Earth, the so-called 'extremophiles'
There is a world of difference between instantaneous life arising in thermal vents on the sea bottom and life evolving to survive there. I think the fact that 'advanced' life lives in temperate conditions while bacteria live in extreme conditions indicates that (at least on Earth) intelligent life is tied to temperate conditions. Unfortunately for science fiction, physics and chemistry are real and immutable. Some things don't happen at 100 degrees Celsius, while some things ONLY happen at STP. That's life (hee hee).
-b
Am I the only one struck by the complete chauvinism of an article about how beards make better languages? Yes, I get it, it's humor. But what we find funny can tell a lot about us.
If a politician made remarks like this about how beards correlated with being a good lawyer or passing good legislation, there would be an uproar like we haven't seen since a certain 'wardrobe malfunction'.
I hate to sound like "that guy", but it is almost offensive how slashdot can play the "why aren't more women in IT" game while also playing to the good 'ol boy crowd.
Yeah, why aren't there more women in IT? (wink wink, nudge nudge)...
-b
If Spock was a programmer and he grew a beard, he would have designed the {blink} tag. Be careful what you wish for.
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Well, to tell you the truth (and as someone who has worked on some of these wonders), there isn't much to learn by looking at them.
:)
They are essentially airplanes. I shouldn't say that- they _are_ airplanes, plain and simple. There just isn't a crew compartment. You could easily build one with a little money to buy the fiberglass and graphite and Epon and Rolls Royce engine. No biggy.
The problem has never been, "How do I build an airplane?"; It has always been, "How do I build a reliable autonomous/remote-controlled airplane?"
You are correct, the avionics and comm boxes have been stripped out. Comm on UAVs is the same as comm on regular fighters and bombers; it is rekeyed every day and is very, very secret. Top Secret, you might say. The rest of the trick lies in owning good satellites, well-trained techs or contractors, and money. The money is to develop the comm and C&C systems. Really- these things are RC planes, except for the C&C. It's easy to say well, big deal, I can build an RC plane... Now control an RC plane, flying over Iraq, carrying missiles, from a joystick in California. With absolute* reliability. With human lives on the line.
It helps underscore the importance of sat comm in modern warfare, doesn't it?
*goal, not quite real-world, obviously
-b
Come on slashdot. 7 replies already and half of them cite the same Discovery channel show. I suppose you also believe that every aircraft is seconds away from disaster, every dormant volcano is seconds away from eruption, every asteroid is on a collision course with Miami, and every bathroom remodeling project goes without a hitch.
Here in the real world, the average thief is a dumbass kid trying to score quick money. They aren't smart enough to wear a face mask or gloves or keep CSI from tracing them. They don't know, don't care- This is just their life. They grew up like this. It's survival to them.
Watch your dramatized mission:impossible burglar show and flatter yourself into thinking that highly-trained cat burglars care enough about your XBox to case your house and disable your alarm system. Or, you can buy decent locks and let your neighbors know when you'll be out of town.
Jesus christ people, since when did ratings equal credibility?
-b
You need to get yourself a dog. It doesn't have to be big or scary looking- a small, yappy-type dog will do just fine. Unless you advertise the presence of valuable goods inside your house, a burglar will not break into your house if it is occupied. I think you'll find that most burglars will go for the lowest-hanging fruit, which will be your neighbor's house (unless they also have a dog, in which case the next house over is the low fruit). They want to get in, grab the stuff that is easiest to make off with and pawn, and then get out. I doubt you have any state secrets or anything like that in your house; this is a simple cost/benefit analysis for you and the burglars.
Another thing to look into is a neighborhood watch program. Of course, if you live in a neighborhood like mine that might not be a viable option. In that case, you need to get yourself a dog and a steel-core door. Skip the expensive cameras. Are they really going to save you money? Or is this a vindictive side of you, the side that might put a "Trespassers will be shot. Survivors will be shot twice" sign on your fence?
-b
>>In low light it is going to be difficult to get a high-quality images without extra light
I agreed with the rest of your post, but from what I've seen of small CCTV cameras these days, they use IR LEDs for illumination. I have one from DealExtreme ($12) that comes with them built in.
-b
>>Raises, *RAISES* the question!
I knew I would get your attention by using 'begs the question' in the first place, whether it was correct or not. I'm sure that any use of it at all would attract grammar nazis of one persuasion or another.
I believe that I did use the phrase correctly; tfs asked "Would you buy a Metallica online album despite their former views?"
This question presupposes that I like metallica enough to _ever_ buy one of their albums- without that assumption, the question would be meaningless. And since the assumption is incorrect, the question _is_ meaningless, and that is why I said that it begged the question. Wiki says, "[if the] proposition to be proved is assumed implicitly or explicitly in one of the premises" that it is begging the question.
"Are you still beating your wife?" is the common example of begging the question. I think it's plain to see the parallels with tfs's question.
"Begging the question" has a somewhat ambiguous definition in terms of modern usage. In the end, I think that being nitpicky about it is somewhat like being nitpicky about ending sentences with prepositions (a completely arbitrary rule). I mean, you wouldn't argue that "gay" still (only) means lighthearted and carefree, would you? Language evolves.
-b
>>Just to see how many come dressed as the Doppler Effect.
Indeed, my experience with women has shown that they almost always dress up in a peculiar style of redshift.
-b
The poor physics majors, while calculating the precise positioning of their hands at the expense of knowing how fast their hands are moving, would be caught in a Zeno's paradox and have to be carried, limp and sweating, away from the twister board before they expired from the debilitating incompatible logics of beer and euclidean geometry.
-b
>>Better yet, parties where we don't mention work but things we did outside of work are great because we get to see a different side of each other.
For better or worse, some of us share the same personality between work and home. I cannot turn off "Work personality" when I leave work and turn on "Entertaining personal time" personality when I arrive home. The aspects of my personality that make me well-suited for my job are by far the most overarching and dominant out of my entire psyche. Ruthless attention to detail, literal-mindedness, thinking in terms of complex spatial relationships, rigid documentation, etc make me a good technician and a poor entertainer. Fortunately for me, I'm also probably borderline in some personality disorder or another and dislike the physical company of other people 99% of the time.
Maybe I've had a rash of really unpleasant social interactions, but I've found 'parties' and 'conversation' to consist mainly of talking about:
-Cats
-What she did at work
-People at work who have cats
-People at work who I've never met
-Unbelievably mundane minutiae about conversations they had with people I don't know about things that I don't care about
-Stories about the _last_ time we all got together and did this, forming a regressive loop of such banal chit-chat that it makes me dizzy
If I could get 15 or 20 exact copies of myself together in a room for a party, it would go like this: We'd all calculate how many beers we should each receive, we'd grab that many beers out of the fridge, and we'd all leave. The party would last as long as it would take an orderly queue of awkward nerds to retrieve beer from the fridge.
For socially-inclined math nerds, here is my idea:
A cooking party or pot luck where all the food is made with combinations of ingredients in mathematically interesting proportions. E.g., Golden Ratio casserole made with ingredients decreasing in a golden ratio, potatoes, cream of whatever soup, some other vegetable, etc, etc.
Enjoy,
-b
"Will you buy a new Metallica album that is being offered like previous Radiohead and NIN albums?"
That begs the question of whether I even like Metallica or if I would have bought their album in other circumstances. They might try this experiment and find that it was a dismal failure; I'm sure that they would point to the experience as proof of their earlier (poor) opinions of the internet's effect on music production.
The thing about Metallica is that their music changed substantially right about the time that the internet was coming into its own as a distribution medium. Part of their low sales of albums since the black album or Load could be related to internet downloads, but I think it has much more to do with Metallica alienating their original fanbase.
When I was a kid, Metallica was practically its own genre. I though of music as metal, country, Metallica, Pantera, punk, etc. There were a few bands that stood out as archetypes. Now that metallica is 'competing' with a larger field of music, they will find that they don't have the same rabid fanbase that they once enjoyed. When you are competing for airtime with nickelback and staind, your music is no longer special. You are a commodity like reruns of old dharma and greg episodes and your listeners will treat you with about as much respect.
So will I buy the new Metallica album over the internets a la radiohead? No, but the reason has little to do with the internet and everything to do with Metallica's music. Music? Remember? 'Music' as in 'sounds', not as in 'financial investment'.
-b
Do not look at satellite with remaining eye.
>>I gather that it is like the original Quikclot - powder kits that are dumped on a wound and then covered with a bandage - am I correct in this?
You are correct; however, the similarity ends there. Quikclot is made fine mineral dust and Celox is based on a water-soluble, organic polymer.
>>It seems that the main appeal of the new Quikclot, aside from the non-burning, is that the clotting agent is integrated directly into the gauze pad.
Well, we've had Quikclot bandages for quite some time now- I remember seeing them in the Brigade Quartermaster catalog at least 2 or 3 years ago. This new product is based on a new mineral altogether, one that apparently doesn't burn. Which is good.
>>Hopefully, since the agent is part of the pad, most of the hard clay clot stays with the pad once it is removed from the wound.
Unfortunately, the bandage becomes part of the clot. Since the clotting agent is really just sort of like sprinkling saw dust on puke (same principle), the agent must be in close contact with the site of the bleeding. This is why I prefer celox- it forms a clot the consistency of thick snot, and that can be washed away without causing additional damage to the site. Quikclot and its derivatives, while they do save lives, also cause damage to the site on application and removal.
>>Sounds like something to keep an ear open about.
Yes, when medics buy Celox or alternatives with their own money rather than use quikclot, you know there will be intense interest in new clotting agents. I hope this one lives up to the hype.
-b
The last time I was deployed in Iraq, we were all issued Quikclot packs in our trauma bags; I'm sure that if I needed to use it, it would have worked fine. However, Quikclot causes pretty severe burns and pain when it's used; in addition, the hard 'clot' that is formed is a PITA for surgeons to remove.
In my personal trauma kit here at home, I use Celox:
http://www.celoxmedical.com/
It is chitosan-based but claims to not affect people with seafood-based allergies. It produces no heat and is removed easily by water irrigation. I am curious why the DoD has not moved towards this product; you can get the celox-infused gauze that works much the same as this kaolin-based product already. If any of you are EMTs or just interested in having a good hemostatic agent in your kit, you should look into Celox. When everything else is equal, the disadvantages of Quikclot make Celox the clear winner.
-b
Both quikclot and celox will work for people with heparinized blood or other anti-clotting factors. The clot is formed by the agent and not the blood's own fibrins. I'm sure this new product works in much the same way.
-b
The metal would be cool long before it hit the ground. What would you rather have: A fine mist of tiny metal droplets, or intact 20mm cannon rounds?
And this completely ignores the fact that there will be large portions of dead airplane crashing down around you as well (if by 'around you' you mean 'infinitesimally tiny chance of coming near you').
Really, there are better things to get worked up about.
-b
Good stuff.
Search around your area; there should be a plating shop somewhere (probably near the airport, catering to aircraft parts).
Titanium nitride would be a pretty good match for you. There are also other coatings that are similar in color and toughness. It should run you under $200.
-b
This does work; I removed two plantar warts from my feet using duct tape (in Iraq, no less- my boots were agravating the condition.
Use about a dime-sized patch on the wart. You can cover over that with surgical tape if you need to keep it from rubbing off. Change the tape each day, but leave it on 24/7 other than that. It took me about 2 1/2 weeks to completely remove the wart.
This was about a year ago, and it has not come back. There is also some actual medical research that supports this.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/10/14/health/main525523.shtml
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