Anyone who does not understand the difference between mostly dead (you can work with it), dead (even Miracle Max can't do a thing about it) and undead (a zombie is animate, but still dead) should not be writting headlines for medical stories.
It only gets the hopes of us zombie hunters up that we'll be off the dole soon. If you think the employment situation is bad in IT right now, you should try being a fearless zombie (or vampire) hunter (we don't do ghosts. They're just dead. Any idiot with a proton gun and a ghost trap can deal with them. Dealing with the undead is done hand to hand, or hand to paw, or hand to. ..wait, let me come in again)
It was an effective tactic, as newts do not suffer from any of the maladies that had brought me to that particular pass. This bought them time to stablize me and develop an effective treatment strategy.
Actually, I was bit disappointed, as I had hoped to be transformed into a zombie newt and go out in search of amphibian BRAAAAAAAINS!
(I admit it, I haven't had time to read the whole thread. Has anyone pointed out yet that zombies are, by definition, animate, and thus a dog in suspended animation cannot be a zombie?)
B)All medicine, indeed all of life, is a question of probabilities and trying to stack them in your favor. We do not have, and thus cannot rely on, foreknowledge.
Get used to this idea.
The most common and "safest" traditional procedures may, in the right circumstances, kill you. That's the way it is.
No one can be sure, ever, that they'll actually benefit more from a trial procedure (or any other) than from a traditional approach, that's why it's a trial procedure, and why trial procedures are necessary. Probability is an empirical science and someone has to go first.
Once upon a time, a long, long time ago, I was brought into the hospital for lifesaving surgery. ..but my condition was such that it was deemed I would die from the stress of undergoing surgery.
This is the sort of person who will volunteer. A person who has nothing to lose if the procedure fails, but everything to gain if it succeeds.
Every mail is great If a mail is wasted The gods get quite irrate
Every mail is wanted Every mail is good Every mail is needed In your network neighborhood
Really, the idea of not being able to record and save every post-it note being equated with those times and places where writing itself was denigrated into virtual nonexistence is a bit silly.
My criticism of his criticism isn't based so much on his admission that he didn't really read the book (I've not a read a book a few times myself), but rather on his admission of what he was looking for while not reading it.
The irony is that this review contains so many errors and apoplexy inducing comments, in this particular Science Fiction fan's opinion, that I'm likely going to have to read a book I'm not really otherwise interested in, just to see how off base the review was or was not.
"I knew Foundation was going to suck when I opened the book and discovered that the first chapter was labeled "l." So I didn't really read it, just skimmed it, and discoverd I was right, it didn't have pictures in it, just a bunch of words. Avoid it."
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If it's UT anywhere but Austin, you say where.
If, and only if, you are in the Austin area.
I'm afraid that the world at large does not care about your frat boy inspired "We're better than them because we are us" rules.
KFG
Anyone who does not understand the difference between mostly dead (you can work with it), dead (even Miracle Max can't do a thing about it) and undead (a zombie is animate, but still dead) should not be writting headlines for medical stories.
.wait, let me come in again)
It only gets the hopes of us zombie hunters up that we'll be off the dole soon. If you think the employment situation is bad in IT right now, you should try being a fearless zombie (or vampire) hunter (we don't do ghosts. They're just dead. Any idiot with a proton gun and a ghost trap can deal with them. Dealing with the undead is done hand to hand, or hand to paw, or hand to. .
KFG
Logic (one of the Trivium, or "Three Roads") and mathamatics (one of the Quadrivium, or "Four Roads") are, by definition, liberal arts.
Thus so it comuputer science.
The obvious solution is to dike off the NOC.
KFG
Presumably someone turned you into a newt?
It was an effective tactic, as newts do not suffer from any of the maladies that had brought me to that particular pass. This bought them time to stablize me and develop an effective treatment strategy.
Actually, I was bit disappointed, as I had hoped to be transformed into a zombie newt and go out in search of amphibian BRAAAAAAAINS!
(I admit it, I haven't had time to read the whole thread. Has anyone pointed out yet that zombies are, by definition, animate, and thus a dog in suspended animation cannot be a zombie?)
KFG
A)I was not a trauma patient.
B)All medicine, indeed all of life, is a question of probabilities and trying to stack them in your favor. We do not have, and thus cannot rely on, foreknowledge.
Get used to this idea.
The most common and "safest" traditional procedures may, in the right circumstances, kill you. That's the way it is.
No one can be sure, ever, that they'll actually benefit more from a trial procedure (or any other) than from a traditional approach, that's why it's a trial procedure, and why trial procedures are necessary. Probability is an empirical science and someone has to go first.
KFG
Once upon a time, a long, long time ago, I was brought into the hospital for lifesaving surgery. . .but my condition was such that it was deemed I would die from the stress of undergoing surgery.
This is the sort of person who will volunteer. A person who has nothing to lose if the procedure fails, but everything to gain if it succeeds.
KFG
P.S. I got better.
. . .and Brazil, and China, and India, and Israel. . .and. . .
The dominoes are falling.
KFG
. . .CDs at cost.
The cost of the first CD sold is $250,000, the second $1.00.
I sense a flaw in your proposal.
KFG
"Hey, how come we're down?"
"Don't know. Must be a caribou in the works."
(And when they track it down I want to see them tape that to an index card)
KFG
A couple billion of those are still looking forward to getting their first battery powered radio (lacking access to a power grid), or enough to eat.
KFG
We need helps to buy food and supplies to keep alive the unicorns.
Let them eat Turkish Delight.
KFG
Let's hear your recommendation for a good HD brand.
I've got an IBM Deathstar. It's been rock solid for going on two standard eternities. Go figure.
KFG
Every mail is great
If a mail is wasted
The gods get quite irrate
Every mail is wanted
Every mail is good
Every mail is needed
In your network neighborhood
Really, the idea of not being able to record and save every post-it note being equated with those times and places where writing itself was denigrated into virtual nonexistence is a bit silly.
KFG
Yer never going to earn your ISO buzzword compliance certificate that way.
KFG
. . . are you guys the ones who keep the >$200 tennis shoe market alive?
Eight bucks, new at K-Mart. My dress shoes I got at the City Mission, virtually new for a buck.
KFG
. . .this might have been worth something if the drive was anything other than a Maxtor.
Well what the hell else is a Maxtor good for? You wouldn't put data on it, would you?
KFG
Oh, right, yeah. And the next thing you're going to demand is being able to change to an APL font without changing the spastic golf ball.
This is the real world, buddy.
KFG
This would be roughly equivilent to trying to hit your house with a dead elephant by giving it a push with your hands. . .from thirty miles away.
KFG
. . .that's the smog.
You've never stood on the top of Mt. Marcy, have you?
KFG
. . .if you delete one item in a RAID it is SUPPOSED to be lost to the entire array.
Deletion, however, is not the same thing as corruption.
KFG
Good customer service is doing what you said you'd do when you said that you would do it for what you said you would charge. . .
And treating them as if you value them both customers and human beings.
That sets the bar a bit higher, although not so high that it should be the exception to receive it.
But I agree with your conclusion.
KFG
What horrible crime had I committed? I installed Space Quest 5 on a computer to play at lunch.
Well, that is pretty offensive. You got off lucky though. I used my trig workbook to keep a table at the lunch room from wobbling.
I'll be out in only 20 more years.
KFG
My criticism of his criticism isn't based so much on his admission that he didn't really read the book (I've not a read a book a few times myself), but rather on his admission of what he was looking for while not reading it.
KFG
The irony is that this review contains so many errors and apoplexy inducing comments, in this particular Science Fiction fan's opinion, that I'm likely going to have to read a book I'm not really otherwise interested in, just to see how off base the review was or was not.
.WTF?
"I knew Foundation was going to suck when I opened the book and discovered that the first chapter was labeled "l." So I didn't really read it, just skimmed it, and discoverd I was right, it didn't have pictures in it, just a bunch of words. Avoid it."
Forgive me, but. .
KFG
Just keep an eye on the sheep, though. . l
Just keep your eye on Harold, that most dangerous of creatures, the clever sheep.
KFG