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  1. Re:For about half a century. on 900 Ton Containment Vessel Bottom Head Installed At Vogtle 3 · · Score: 1

    It's not as horrifing as reading a post full of logical fallacies and ignorant view form someonoe whose job requires logical and crrtical thing

    A) Argument from authority
    B) Argument from Personal Incredulity
    C) "Agile" methodoliogy comes from big industry. It wasn't invented in the software industry. It ahs been used with great success for many decades.
    D) Agile methodolies are faster, make fewer mistakes, and ahve better predictive costs.

    It's cute that you ahve person anecdotes to support your bias, but good thinking it isn't.

  2. Re:Car analogy? on 'Smart Gun' Firm Wants You To Fund Its Prototype · · Score: 0

    How about you run away from the thugs instead of towards your car?

    Oh wait, you get all your facts from TV.

    A) the constitution, by design, can be changed.
    b) The thought they were important enough for a well regulated militia.
    Why you people can't read the whole god damn sentence is beyond me.

    Hint: is was becasue we couldn't afford a standing army. EOL.
    It's very clear in all the letters and writing. If we could have afforded a standing army, that bit wouldn't be there.

    I also like how in your scenario the thugs didn't have a gun.
    You leave you office building, a thug shoots you, takes your wallet and gun, and you die with the comforting feeling they a murder has your gun.

    You can make a gun the just plain works AND hove a bio metric ID system. The fact that you cna't think of anything just another indicator of your sub par thinking skills.

  3. Re:Assault Style on 'Smart Gun' Firm Wants You To Fund Its Prototype · · Score: 1

    An assault rifle does not have to be fully automatic.

  4. Re:Assault Style on 'Smart Gun' Firm Wants You To Fund Its Prototype · · Score: 1

    It's a gun deigned to look like a battle ready weapon, or a semi automatic variant of a military rifle.

    They used to be called 'assault rifle' but since the Gun Lobby and the Pubs have no actual logical defenses for their position regarding this issue, the NRA (their in house PR firm to be precise)started sending memos telling everyone those assault weapons aren't technically assault weapons so any regulation require getting a back ground check isn't legal. So in order to deal with those assholes, we now have the term 'assault style weapon'...plus enough confusion where they can hide until the next mass slaughter. When they will once again bring out their strawman, ad homs, non sequitors and lies.

  5. Re:Trust on Hospital Resorts To Cameras To Ensure Employees Wash Hands · · Score: 1

    Except it's not.
    Older nurse have to bend over backwards to keep their jobs, so the nurses with the most seniority, who also cost the most, end up working shit jobs becasue the hospital wants them to leave.

  6. Re:Trust on Hospital Resorts To Cameras To Ensure Employees Wash Hands · · Score: 1

    You clearly no nothing about the AMA, nor the major factors in health care costs.

  7. Re:Groan on Hospital Resorts To Cameras To Ensure Employees Wash Hands · · Score: 1

    Health reports can be..tricky.
    We can think off obvious cases, but there is a large grey area.
    For examples when I ran a restaurant, I got marked down due to some dirt under a refrigerator, A light fixture that needed tightening as well as the paper towels hadn't been stocked yet.
    This gave us a rating of a low 'B', and it would be change until the next time someone came out to look at it.
    So in your case, we would have as sticker with a B in the window. for 2 weeks, even though everything was fixed 1 minute after he left.
    And since people in America see anything but an A as a failure.

    IF the law also added some money for educating about the actual heal hazards of the ratings, the it might be less of a problem.

  8. Re:Antibiotic use was not the solution or cause on Hospital Resorts To Cameras To Ensure Employees Wash Hands · · Score: 1

    The only difference is that you are at an age that discuss this.
    This discussion has been ongoing since had washing was first found to be helpful.

  9. Re:Groan on Hospital Resorts To Cameras To Ensure Employees Wash Hands · · Score: 1

    Ironically, that only works becasue it's a social medical system. It can not work in the US current system. IN the US you have almost no real choice who you will see, unless you are in the top 3%.

    except there is no real competition in the medical system.
    You are having a heart attack, are yo going to try and find reviews, or do you want to get to a Dr asap?
    You child cracked his head open, you go to the quickest place. Add to that, you can only go to where you insurances approve of.

    If I could choose any hospital to go to, the new would have some form of competition. Even then it's heavily marketed, AND many people will end up with low level chop shop style hospitals.

  10. Re:Groan on Hospital Resorts To Cameras To Ensure Employees Wash Hands · · Score: 1

    False.
    No attempt has, or ever will, reach 100%, but their are thing you can do to increase it close to 90%.

    The number one issue is creating a culture where even the service worker and remind a surgeon to wash their hands.

  11. Re:Alcohol bad for skin on Hospital Resorts To Cameras To Ensure Employees Wash Hands · · Score: 1

    ". And would take too long, "
    incorrect.
    Correct:
    The medical staff aren't given enough time to properly do their job

    Every admin, right now, should take the number of patients they expect a Doctor to see in a work period. Add up 30 seconds for each patient.
    Then lower the number of patient the Doctor is required to see accordingly.

  12. Re:Groan on Hospital Resorts To Cameras To Ensure Employees Wash Hands · · Score: 1

    I'm concerned you used the work moisturizer. In the US they are different things. Only alcohol based hand sanitizers actually work AND the prevent mutation. Other hand moisturizer do not kill nearly the same amount of bacteria, which means they will evolve to be resistant.

  13. Re:Groan on Hospital Resorts To Cameras To Ensure Employees Wash Hands · · Score: 1

    "Fecal transplants make sense."
    Do they? or do you mean to say "?Based on nothing, it sure seems like they will work."

  14. Re:Groan on Hospital Resorts To Cameras To Ensure Employees Wash Hands · · Score: 1

    fecal transplants only show some minor correlation when used under very specific guidelines.

    For example, Enema base fecal transplants don't really get to the right part of the gut to work.

    It's important to note thins becasue there are a lot of pseudo science/scams/magical thinking people who are starting to use this as an 'alternative health care' device.

    Eventual some group of people will be able to make antibiotic that attack only specific bacteria.

  15. Re:India ? on Hospital Resorts To Cameras To Ensure Employees Wash Hands · · Score: 1

    Changing the a hospitals culture will dramatically increase the amount of hand washing.
    In a nut shell, ANYONE can call ANYONE else they see not washing their hands. Yes, that means the food services person can remind a surgeon to wash their hands.
    Hospitals where this happen have a much higher rate of hand washing.

    However they are staffed with humans, and humans make mistakes. This is one of the reason doing it all the time help. If you miss one you still have low risk of transmissions.

    Solutions like this are done to raise the bar.

  16. Re:control of the ball trumps foreign substances on Pitcher-Turned-Law Student On Cheating In Baseball · · Score: 1

    Lets not forget, most batters have decided to swing before the ball is released.
    For most swings, their is no conscious decision to swing once the pitcher finished the wind up. Not enough time. less then .5 seconds.

    Anything you can do to the ball that hides the pitchers intent hurt the batters odds of a hit.

  17. How to fix the drug enhancement issue on Pitcher-Turned-Law Student On Cheating In Baseball · · Score: 1

    Everyone gets tested after a game, any single person come sup positive, then game is considered a loss. Happens twice, they give up 25% of merchandising for a year.

    Make it an incentive for the owners to fix it, and the owners will fix it.

  18. Re:You know there is no explosive force in space.. on New Best Way To Nuke a Short-Notice Asteroid · · Score: 1

    You do know that money spent on these projects isn't actually destroyed, right? It's spent, people get paid, corporations make money.

  19. Re:You know there is no explosive force in space.. on New Best Way To Nuke a Short-Notice Asteroid · · Score: 1

    Let me guess you saw 'Nuke' and 'Asteroid' and then couldn't wait to pick your knuckles up from the floor and then pound your keyboard in a vain attempt to make you fell like you have shown others how smart you are, correct?

    Protip: Reading the article and then posting about what is in the article will make you look even smarter.

  20. Re:Don't asteroids rotate? on New Best Way To Nuke a Short-Notice Asteroid · · Score: 1

    " if the impactor manages to change something probably the nuke wouldn't be needed anyway"

    way to miss the point.
    This is to take a look at the feasibility of moving an asteroid where we don't have enough time for a nudge to work. It needs a push.

  21. Re:Don't asteroids rotate? on New Best Way To Nuke a Short-Notice Asteroid · · Score: 1

    Lets put this is perspective:

    IT would be more like sending a lander to mars and through a mistake accidental landing it on Pluto.

  22. Re:Don't asteroids rotate? on New Best Way To Nuke a Short-Notice Asteroid · · Score: 1

    No, it's called 'Rocket Science'. They learn about spin, that's a fact.

    Of course, why people here assume it wouldn't be a controllable vehicle with autonomous capabilities is beyond me.

  23. Re:Don't asteroids rotate? on New Best Way To Nuke a Short-Notice Asteroid · · Score: 1

    "a nuclear missile exploding probably doesn't mean a nuclear detonation."
    Never, not probably doesn't.

    Your point is valid. even if it did mean 1 or two would detonate(again, it can't happen) I would be for it.
    In fact, we can pack them in container that will survive an explosion without breaking containment.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjrRZ-9jyAM

    I know there is a test where they do a rocket explosion as a test, but I can't find the video.

  24. Re:Don't asteroids rotate? on New Best Way To Nuke a Short-Notice Asteroid · · Score: 1

    Are you really that stupid? just pepper the object we want to move in a specific direct?

    Just.. shut up.

  25. Re:Spin spin.. on New Best Way To Nuke a Short-Notice Asteroid · · Score: 1

    Difficult! well shit, I guess we should give up and die.

    Oh, wait, maybe the second one will be able to change speed and velocity to correct or changes?
    Maybe it will land via command and THEN detonate.
    I know, shocking, right?