If you have good genes and have taken care of yourself 75 can be a no-brainer. Personally I'd prefer a wait and see approach and see how things pan out. My mother is a vibrant 80 yr old who's currently having a lot of fun trekking around the planet. Sometimes you get lucky.
I've always thought http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U... ( from Poison Ivy) might be useful somehow in warfare. I got a dose of it last month from a trek through the woods and was really impressed by it's effects. I got a really light brush from a plant and the effects took better than a month to heal. Do a Google Image search and you'll see the effects can be very impressive.
Or at least data demand would if it could. Seems to me the focus should be on improving bandwidth and speed throughout the system rather than focus on prioritizing today's relatively low resources. In 20 years data transmission will be 1000x where it is today.
Invest in a very high speed Internet connection and you can just download anything you want relatively instantly via torrent. Makes local storage a practical waste of time. IME anyway.
There a couple of torrents of the video there. Mostly it's all rhetoric, some of it voiced by Foley himself. The actually beheading isn't shown, just the start and end of it.
My reaction to watching was simply that these bastards needed to be put down ASAP. Presumably not the response they were hoping for.
I grew up in a haze of tobacco smoke with two heavy smoking parents. In the home, in the car, basically any time I spent with them I was exposed.
As an adult living in a apartment building I regularly experience coughing and teary eyes from smoke that comes through from the hallway. It'll probably never happen but I'd be utterly thrilled is tobacco was entirely banned.
I'm 50 now and I had lasik done 3 years ago. For 2 years prior I had stopped being able to use contacts, age related dry eyes I guess.
Right after the surgery I had better than 20/20 vision but I've lost a bit of that. Not enough to make me want to endure a touch-up, not yet anyway.
I find during the day and outside I feel I have perfect vision. Into the evening as I get tired and the light drops I notice a real change in acuity. No issues with halos after the first month. To watch TV across the room I need glasses now with a minimal prescription.
The operation was pretty pricey at $3800. But the ability for me to go through most day without glasses, not even for reading, is priceless.
Why not do both (all)?
I did a contract a few years ago where the data from a select group of Canadian GPs was anonymized and collected for the general aim of checking on adherence of best-of-care guidelines. As in if you have diabetes there's an accepted protocol of treatment steps that's supposed to provide the best care possible with the resource available. It was a good thing.
I think the motivations here in Canada work. The government wants to minimize costs and that means keeping you healthy.
And going back to my previous point, I also have a condition where imbibing caffeine causing symptoms mimicking Bipolar II. The humans in the mental health profession here in Ontario missed it for 25 years. I'd sure like to give AI its shot. It sure couldn't do worse.
The sooner projects like IBM's Watson can get their teeth into our medical data the sooner our lives will be much improved. I spent 8 hard years suffering from Celiac disease before receiving a diagnosis. There is much to be done in the medical field.
Google it. Seems like the obvious solution if you really want to execute people cheaply and reliably. Not saying I'm in favor of executing anyone, tho people like Paul Bernardo I wouldn't lose sleep over.
Why is the drug trade still booming, and insider trading, organised crime still operating? You would think if this universal monitoring is happening and is effective the police would be far more effective than they actually are.
I spent 25 years in the mental health system regarded as a seriously bipolar person. Turns out it was caffeine and to a lesser extent chocolate and a host of medicines that was causing the effect. I've been 5.5 years now symptom free. Never forget to eliminate environmental causes for mental and physical health issues!
I see driver errors nearly every day in my city of 350,000. Mostly they are about following too closely and entering an intersection and turning left or right without due regard to oncoming traffic. Two of my friends always used to make me nervous as hell because I felt they drove too close to the car in front. No issues now cuz neither of them drive any more since they crashed their cars..
I think autonomous driving makes a heckuva lot of sense. The accidents I've seen have been all caused by simple human error and bad driving habits. Remove that element and I'm sure most accidents will go away. Insurance for self-driving will necessarily sky-rocket.
All I remember of that course was a husband and wife tag team who wrote indecipherably on overheads in a 500+ class classroom. In my view the course only existed to act as a filter to knock down averages of pre-med students. Did that well for me. Two years of straights A's then a 58 and an unplanned career in computer science.
Universal access is damnably expensive but a lot can be done on the cheap. Like hooking up the highest density areas first and requiring all new construction to have fiber. Better something than nothing.
A lot of your argument seems to be predicated on your own personal confidence in your knowledge and abilities. In my experience the elevated position doctors tend to have in our society leads them to have something of a god complex.
In my case I had years of classic celiac disease symptoms without a word of that being a possibility from a my doctors - I had to discover for myself by excluding foods till I finally hit on it. That was just one doctor. My other issue was a sensitivity to caffeine and other drugs that that created a condition akin to fairly incapacitating Bipolar II. 25 years in the mental health system, 6 psychiatrists and one involuntary hospitalization and nobody saw fit to suggest coffee might be to blame.
I SAY BRING ON DR. WATSON ASAP! Would saved me decades of a very limited quality of life.
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If you have good genes and have taken care of yourself 75 can be a no-brainer. Personally I'd prefer a wait and see approach and see how things pan out. My mother is a vibrant 80 yr old who's currently having a lot of fun trekking around the planet. Sometimes you get lucky.
I've always thought http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U... ( from Poison Ivy) might be useful somehow in warfare. I got a dose of it last month from a trek through the woods and was really impressed by it's effects. I got a really light brush from a plant and the effects took better than a month to heal. Do a Google Image search and you'll see the effects can be very impressive.
I'm thinking these guys don't care much for studying history either.
Or at least data demand would if it could. Seems to me the focus should be on improving bandwidth and speed throughout the system rather than focus on prioritizing today's relatively low resources. In 20 years data transmission will be 1000x where it is today.
Are you of russian heritage by any chance?
Invest in a very high speed Internet connection and you can just download anything you want relatively instantly via torrent. Makes local storage a practical waste of time. IME anyway.
There a couple of torrents of the video there. Mostly it's all rhetoric, some of it voiced by Foley himself. The actually beheading isn't shown, just the start and end of it. My reaction to watching was simply that these bastards needed to be put down ASAP. Presumably not the response they were hoping for.
U gotta love Linux's repository model for this. Less choice but a lot more stability/honesty.
You would prefer that the studio keep the money instead?
I grew up in a haze of tobacco smoke with two heavy smoking parents. In the home, in the car, basically any time I spent with them I was exposed. As an adult living in a apartment building I regularly experience coughing and teary eyes from smoke that comes through from the hallway. It'll probably never happen but I'd be utterly thrilled is tobacco was entirely banned.
In any other context the scriptor of those words would be considered a mass murderer/psychopath.
I'm 50 now and I had lasik done 3 years ago. For 2 years prior I had stopped being able to use contacts, age related dry eyes I guess. Right after the surgery I had better than 20/20 vision but I've lost a bit of that. Not enough to make me want to endure a touch-up, not yet anyway. I find during the day and outside I feel I have perfect vision. Into the evening as I get tired and the light drops I notice a real change in acuity. No issues with halos after the first month. To watch TV across the room I need glasses now with a minimal prescription. The operation was pretty pricey at $3800. But the ability for me to go through most day without glasses, not even for reading, is priceless.
Why not do both (all)? I did a contract a few years ago where the data from a select group of Canadian GPs was anonymized and collected for the general aim of checking on adherence of best-of-care guidelines. As in if you have diabetes there's an accepted protocol of treatment steps that's supposed to provide the best care possible with the resource available. It was a good thing. I think the motivations here in Canada work. The government wants to minimize costs and that means keeping you healthy. And going back to my previous point, I also have a condition where imbibing caffeine causing symptoms mimicking Bipolar II. The humans in the mental health profession here in Ontario missed it for 25 years. I'd sure like to give AI its shot. It sure couldn't do worse.
I always figured we lost that gene because our ancestors lived in trees and largely fed on fruit making the gene useless, in that context anyway.
The sooner projects like IBM's Watson can get their teeth into our medical data the sooner our lives will be much improved. I spent 8 hard years suffering from Celiac disease before receiving a diagnosis. There is much to be done in the medical field.
Ditto on that. I pirate, adblock, don't have cable or listen to the radio ( I make mix CDs). I often wonder what's happening out in ad-world..
Google it. Seems like the obvious solution if you really want to execute people cheaply and reliably. Not saying I'm in favor of executing anyone, tho people like Paul Bernardo I wouldn't lose sleep over.
Why is the drug trade still booming, and insider trading, organised crime still operating? You would think if this universal monitoring is happening and is effective the police would be far more effective than they actually are.
I spent 25 years in the mental health system regarded as a seriously bipolar person. Turns out it was caffeine and to a lesser extent chocolate and a host of medicines that was causing the effect. I've been 5.5 years now symptom free. Never forget to eliminate environmental causes for mental and physical health issues!
I see driver errors nearly every day in my city of 350,000. Mostly they are about following too closely and entering an intersection and turning left or right without due regard to oncoming traffic. Two of my friends always used to make me nervous as hell because I felt they drove too close to the car in front. No issues now cuz neither of them drive any more since they crashed their cars.. I think autonomous driving makes a heckuva lot of sense. The accidents I've seen have been all caused by simple human error and bad driving habits. Remove that element and I'm sure most accidents will go away. Insurance for self-driving will necessarily sky-rocket.
All I remember of that course was a husband and wife tag team who wrote indecipherably on overheads in a 500+ class classroom. In my view the course only existed to act as a filter to knock down averages of pre-med students. Did that well for me. Two years of straights A's then a 58 and an unplanned career in computer science.
I thought violence against women went down when porn was available.
Universal access is damnably expensive but a lot can be done on the cheap. Like hooking up the highest density areas first and requiring all new construction to have fiber. Better something than nothing.
A lot of your argument seems to be predicated on your own personal confidence in your knowledge and abilities. In my experience the elevated position doctors tend to have in our society leads them to have something of a god complex. In my case I had years of classic celiac disease symptoms without a word of that being a possibility from a my doctors - I had to discover for myself by excluding foods till I finally hit on it. That was just one doctor. My other issue was a sensitivity to caffeine and other drugs that that created a condition akin to fairly incapacitating Bipolar II. 25 years in the mental health system, 6 psychiatrists and one involuntary hospitalization and nobody saw fit to suggest coffee might be to blame. I SAY BRING ON DR. WATSON ASAP! Would saved me decades of a very limited quality of life.