Believe it or not, most doctors actually care about keeping people healthy. They're not just in it for the money.
Besides, does any doctor really want kids with polio, smallpox, etc. running around their office -- potentially getting other patients sick?
If everyone else is vacinated what do they have to worry about?
You do understand there are people who CAN'T be effectively vaccinated due to being immuno-compromised? All kinds of people from organ donor recipients to cancer patients may have temporarily-to-permanently compromised immune systems. This is part of the "why" the people with a healthy immune system need to be vaccinated, to help protect the people with a weakened immune system.
To my knowledge, breast milk and formula have always been allowed on planes...? Did you make this up or did you have a TSA agent that did not know their own rules (believable)?
Airport security is not TSA at many airports, which is where a lot of the mish-mash of methods of enforcement tend to arise. My local airport is MCI (Kansas City International), security is some local company hired to perform that function, not "real" TSA. The local company is years behind the TSA guidelines for what is permitted to be carried on. As an example, the TSA allows a typical cigarette lighter to be carried aboard on your person, but they get confiscated if you go through security at MCI.
Unless you have a Playstation(TM) or some other Sony(TM) or Sony(TM)-licensed for access product plugged in, all your power sockets will shut down.
Or, alternatively, if you haven't installed the latest DMCA-laden update to your PlayStation, it is no longer "authorized" to power up at all... or, it powers up, but your non-Sony stereo can't... the craziness this could be put to is nearly infinite.
I cannot tell you how many specialists I have either called or visited over the years, but the response is generally "I don't know" or "well, just live it it". It almost seems to me that if you cannot treat it or fix it right away, and you aren't going to die from it, why bother with it.
Call around, find some more specialists. One of the simplest and least expensive treatments for color blindness is to consistently wear a red contact lens on one eye (always the same eye) and a clear contact lens on the other. Even if you don't need contact lenses to correct a different vision problem. Sure, it looks a bit weird, but only people who right in front of you and look you in the eyes are going to notice. It doesn't take too long for the brain to adapt the difference in signals from the two eyes to provide a "color cue" that restores a lot of the capability for the typical red-green colorblind-afflicted individual.
I don't know if there are similar treatments for other forms of color-blindness, but there likely is... don't give up!
When I fly, I take off my (not quite so heavily loaded) jacket and toss it in a bin to go through the scanner... what's awesome is, you don't NEED to unload the pockets and re-load them on the other side. At least, that is true for the two airports I frequent most.
I've found that as long as sites I'm working on are reasonable navigable with Lynx, then they work for most adaptive technology users (of which my son is one).
You see, when they say "globalism" and "global economy" what they mean is that corporations can off-shore to get the cheapest prices available for human labor.
When humans want to do things the other way around by making an "off-shore" international purchase to get the cheapest prices available for goods, that's a crime and suddenly the government wants to enforce a brand of protectionism.
It's standard hypocrisy.
I've not thought about it this way before, so thank you. That is a great observation. Corporations don't want to be held captive to their local suppliers for labor, but they want their consumers held captive to their suppliers for goods and services.
It doesn't really matter which way you believe governments should push that (global economy centric or local economy centric), but the same rules should apply to "real" people as to "virtual" people (corporations).
Standard Japanese city trains can do 140-160kph. Even at much lower speeds the fact that they can skip over all the things that slow cars down like junctions, traffic lights, congestion and roundabout routes gives them a huge advantage. And many of these inner city routes in Japan are actually one hundred+ kilometres long, so the same trains cover intercity and rural needs too.
I think people in countries with crap public transport like the UK and US really can't imagine what a good system is like without seeing on first hand, which is a damn shame.
Population density of the US: 84 people/square mile* Population density of Japan: 836 people/square mile
This is the primary reason rail doesn't work in the US like it does in Japan. There is a whole order of magnitude difference in population density.
Some other countries where passenger rail works: United Kingdom: 650 Italy: 512 France: 289
* Sorry for the old-fashioned units, but that is what we work with here.
At my work, motorcycles get "rock-star" parking in a special section by the guards' booth (making it rather unlikely anybody will mess with or steal a motorcycle). Likewise, at some of the concert venues in our area, while parking for motorcycles is priced the same as for cars, the motorcycles get to park right up front along with the people who have handicapped parking permits.
Makes the "same price" not sting so much.
As for the article/video... well, they managed to prototype a all-electric vehicle that parks into the same space as a motorcycle... that is pretty impressive, but less so when I consider that it is such a small car to begin with. I'd think a typical smart forTwo takes at most a 2/3rds parking space, probably less.
My experiance with those VTC devices is that when they're off, they make efforts to show that they are indeed off, and conversely when someone connects they do stuff like swivel the camera around, turn on lights, etc... It may be possible to do that without someone noticing, but it seems more likely that you're going to get a whole lot of attention from some high power folks.
Since the company I work at does consulting for C-suite people at a lot of different organizations, I'm pretty sure I have observed enough people to cross the line from anecdotal experience to enough data to form a hypothesis (somebody should test it).
The "higher ups" don't understand technology, even as simple as videoconferencing equipment with a remote that is simpler than a typical cable-TV remote.
When they want to use a video conference, they get somebody from "IT" to come in, click the three buttons that make it hook up, then do their conference, and leave the room, still leaving the conference running because they don't know what the "hang-up" button does.
It isn't that they are idiots, it is just that they don't care, they have "people who handle that stuff" so they don't have to.
So, if the camera comes on, swivels around, auto-focuses, red lights come on, they ignore it, because they don't perceive it as "something I need to concern myself with".
That just depends on where you reside... and how "free" is free?
The water gushing up from the artesian well is free, cold, ready-to-drink. A little hard, but some people like that.
The water in the "normal" well is also "free", although it is pumped up to the pressure storage tank with an electric pump and the electricity isn't free... that's the water that is actually coming out of the taps.
Besides nobody ever flew into a mountian because they didn't have a clear LTE signal.
The mod I see on this is "Funny", but it really deserves an "Insightful".
Seriously, how many aviation and maritime navigation systems worldwide would be broken by LightSquared re-designating usage of some spectrum? Nearly all, and that is a massive expense AND safety issue.
That said, white on black is better, and Green on black is more stylish-retro. I am annoyed at how mush mobile device power is wasted just because everyone thinks my screen must look like a white sheet of paper.
It is also a shame that there's this behavioral bug in every OS where if you use a white-on-black theme, you'll quickly find many programs with that ignore your OS font color and try to override with black-on-black text, causing issues. This includes Eclipse and myriads of IDEs where you can configure syntax highlighting but "base" text/non-keywords stay black.
This, times infinity!
Not only is it hard on battery-operated devices power consumption, display devices longevity, but also the viewer's eyes. Dark text on a luminous background is painful, especially in an otherwise dimly lit environment.
Signed, An old dude who thinks computing took a downturn after the demise of the Hercules graphics card... (only semi-tongue-in-cheek)
Here's the thing: Mike posted it to his blog, as a professional with a large following. From previous experience (cf. Dickwolves), he knew what the reaction would be. Hell, he even ended his initial post with the guy's full contact details.
So he basically told the internet: "Here's this asshole, have at him," knowing full well that people would engage in illegal harassment of Mr. Christoforo. And those are details you could probably convince a jury in a tort trial of.
I doubt most juries would side with Christoforo. Not because Christoforo is incapable, even in an "apology", of being anything but an ass, but because the material Gabe posted was: A) Presented to Christoforo and confirmed as factual B) Posted with permission from Christoforo C) In no way overtly incited others to take action (although you are correct, it could be argued that it was implicit)
The whole thing looked way blown out of proportion to me. [...] Conversely, the guy on the other end was WAY overboard on wanting that controller by Christmas (must be a helluva controller). [...] Very unprofessional on Christoforo's part, for sure. But hardly worthy of the massive scorn he's gotten.
The customer hardly went overboard, the company processing the order was in violation of federal regulations (when you place an order online that cannot be fulfilled within 30 days there are regulations that state you must contact the customer notifying them of the issue and providing the option to cancel or alter the order) as well as merchant agreements (both VISA and MasterCard prohibit charging the customer's account prior to shipping merchandise).
As the customer service representative handling the order, not only was Christoforo "unprofessional" in lacking the ability to communicate in English (or, most likely, any other language), he was openly degrading toward the customer when it was pointed out the company he was representing was operating outside of the rules and regulations that governed their operation. This is an offense worthy of immediate termination at EVERY company I've worked for or had a contract with.
I've certainly experienced bad customer service, but this goes so far beyond anything I've ever encountered that it is practically unbelievable... if it weren't a story sourced from multiple reliable individuals and news services, I wouldn't take it at face value... as it is, yes, this ought to be taught to every jerk trying to party through school toward their MBA.
This happens frequently to motorcyclists). Yes, you can still avoid the other car. Typically, by braking, hard enough to allow them to pull in just in front of you, but not so hard that you get rear-ended by the person behind you. Less frequently, you can accelerate to get in front of them, but you'd best be on a motorcycle and not in a car to pull this maneuver off (much higher rate of acceleration) and you still may not want to (more speed means more energy to crunch things up if it goes badly).
If nothing else, honking the horn will usually get the attention of a driver changing into your lane, but you'd best back that up with maneuvering of your own in case it doesn't cause them to abort their lane change.
Alternative explanations were carefully considered to explain individual sets of data. However, when considered together with other lines of evidence, the data indicates likely impact to ground water that can be explained by hydraulic fracturing.
They're exempt from the normal federal reporting requirements such as those stipulated in the federal Safe Drinking Water Act. They are not exempted from state regulations, which is why states are drafting legislation of this type. Typically any entity (person or corporation) has to comply with the regulations of all jurisdictions that apply (city, county, state, and federal for the US).
Now, the company might be able to argue the production of the natural gas is "interstate commerce" and therefore the federal regulations trump the state regulations, but that usually fails in circumstances like this where the company is free to continue their operations as long as they follow the state's disclosure regulations (in other words, the state is in no way restricting the company's operations, merely requiring them to report in more detail exactly what they are doing - and the state is a justifiably interested party in the details of what they are doing).
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Believe it or not, most doctors actually care about keeping people healthy. They're not just in it for the money.
Besides, does any doctor really want kids with polio, smallpox, etc. running around their office -- potentially getting other patients sick?
If everyone else is vacinated what do they have to worry about?
You do understand there are people who CAN'T be effectively vaccinated due to being immuno-compromised? All kinds of people from organ donor recipients to cancer patients may have temporarily-to-permanently compromised immune systems. This is part of the "why" the people with a healthy immune system need to be vaccinated, to help protect the people with a weakened immune system.
To my knowledge, breast milk and formula have always been allowed on planes...? Did you make this up or did you have a TSA agent that did not know their own rules (believable)?
Airport security is not TSA at many airports, which is where a lot of the mish-mash of methods of enforcement tend to arise. My local airport is MCI (Kansas City International), security is some local company hired to perform that function, not "real" TSA. The local company is years behind the TSA guidelines for what is permitted to be carried on. As an example, the TSA allows a typical cigarette lighter to be carried aboard on your person, but they get confiscated if you go through security at MCI.
Unless you have a Playstation(TM) or some other Sony(TM) or Sony(TM)-licensed for access product plugged in, all your power sockets will shut down.
Or, alternatively, if you haven't installed the latest DMCA-laden update to your PlayStation, it is no longer "authorized" to power up at all ... or, it powers up, but your non-Sony stereo can't ... the craziness this could be put to is nearly infinite.
I cannot tell you how many specialists I have either called or visited over the years, but the response is generally "I don't know" or "well, just live it it". It almost seems to me that if you cannot treat it or fix it right away, and you aren't going to die from it, why bother with it.
Call around, find some more specialists. One of the simplest and least expensive treatments for color blindness is to consistently wear a red contact lens on one eye (always the same eye) and a clear contact lens on the other. Even if you don't need contact lenses to correct a different vision problem. Sure, it looks a bit weird, but only people who right in front of you and look you in the eyes are going to notice. It doesn't take too long for the brain to adapt the difference in signals from the two eyes to provide a "color cue" that restores a lot of the capability for the typical red-green colorblind-afflicted individual.
I don't know if there are similar treatments for other forms of color-blindness, but there likely is ... don't give up!
"Yawn. Wake me when it gets to 10 Tev."
*sigh*
My collider goes to 11.
I think HomelessInLaJolla needs either:
1) automatically to have all posts suppressed, or
2) a new moderation of -1 WTF!? added to the choices.
When I fly, I take off my (not quite so heavily loaded) jacket and toss it in a bin to go through the scanner ... what's awesome is, you don't NEED to unload the pockets and re-load them on the other side. At least, that is true for the two airports I frequent most.
... works pretty well.
I've found that as long as sites I'm working on are reasonable navigable with Lynx, then they work for most adaptive technology users (of which my son is one).
Indeed. Who's the better doctor, the guy who misdiagnoses the terminally ill patient, or the guy who gives him a clean bill of health?
Well, obviously it's the ... ... ...
Wait
What
Interesting.
At least the guy who gave him the clean bill of health isn't costing the patient a lot of cash for treatments that are likely to be harmful.
I like that question, plus it works well with my slacker attitude: If you aren't sure what to do, do nothing!
You see, when they say "globalism" and "global economy" what they mean is that corporations can off-shore to get the cheapest prices available for human labor.
When humans want to do things the other way around by making an "off-shore" international purchase to get the cheapest prices available for goods, that's a crime and suddenly the government wants to enforce a brand of protectionism.
It's standard hypocrisy.
I've not thought about it this way before, so thank you.
That is a great observation.
Corporations don't want to be held captive to their local suppliers for labor, but they want their consumers held captive to their suppliers for goods and services.
It doesn't really matter which way you believe governments should push that (global economy centric or local economy centric), but the same rules should apply to "real" people as to "virtual" people (corporations).
Standard Japanese city trains can do 140-160kph. Even at much lower speeds the fact that they can skip over all the things that slow cars down like junctions, traffic lights, congestion and roundabout routes gives them a huge advantage. And many of these inner city routes in Japan are actually one hundred+ kilometres long, so the same trains cover intercity and rural needs too.
I think people in countries with crap public transport like the UK and US really can't imagine what a good system is like without seeing on first hand, which is a damn shame.
Population density of the US: 84 people/square mile*
Population density of Japan: 836 people/square mile
This is the primary reason rail doesn't work in the US like it does in Japan. There is a whole order of magnitude difference in population density.
Some other countries where passenger rail works:
United Kingdom: 650
Italy: 512
France: 289
* Sorry for the old-fashioned units, but that is what we work with here.
True, that would suck.
At my work, motorcycles get "rock-star" parking in a special section by the guards' booth (making it rather unlikely anybody will mess with or steal a motorcycle). Likewise, at some of the concert venues in our area, while parking for motorcycles is priced the same as for cars, the motorcycles get to park right up front along with the people who have handicapped parking permits.
Makes the "same price" not sting so much.
As for the article/video ... well, they managed to prototype a all-electric vehicle that parks into the same space as a motorcycle ... that is pretty impressive, but less so when I consider that it is such a small car to begin with. I'd think a typical smart forTwo takes at most a 2/3rds parking space, probably less.
My experiance with those VTC devices is that when they're off, they make efforts to show that they are indeed off, and conversely when someone connects they do stuff like swivel the camera around, turn on lights, etc... It may be possible to do that without someone noticing, but it seems more likely that you're going to get a whole lot of attention from some high power folks.
Since the company I work at does consulting for C-suite people at a lot of different organizations, I'm pretty sure I have observed enough people to cross the line from anecdotal experience to enough data to form a hypothesis (somebody should test it).
The "higher ups" don't understand technology, even as simple as videoconferencing equipment with a remote that is simpler than a typical cable-TV remote.
When they want to use a video conference, they get somebody from "IT" to come in, click the three buttons that make it hook up, then do their conference, and leave the room, still leaving the conference running because they don't know what the "hang-up" button does.
It isn't that they are idiots, it is just that they don't care, they have "people who handle that stuff" so they don't have to.
So, if the camera comes on, swivels around, auto-focuses, red lights come on, they ignore it, because they don't perceive it as "something I need to concern myself with".
That just depends on where you reside ... and how "free" is free?
The water gushing up from the artesian well is free, cold, ready-to-drink. A little hard, but some people like that.
The water in the "normal" well is also "free", although it is pumped up to the pressure storage tank with an electric pump and the electricity isn't free ... that's the water that is actually coming out of the taps.
Besides nobody ever flew into a mountian because they didn't have a clear LTE signal.
The mod I see on this is "Funny", but it really deserves an "Insightful".
Seriously, how many aviation and maritime navigation systems worldwide would be broken by LightSquared re-designating usage of some spectrum? Nearly all, and that is a massive expense AND safety issue.
What about those Russian dating agencies advertised on Slashdot? (The photos of the women look nice.)
Interesting ... I get ads for data integration and server hosting ... how do I get YOUR ads? ;-)
That said, white on black is better, and Green on black is more stylish-retro. I am annoyed at how mush mobile device power is wasted just because everyone thinks my screen must look like a white sheet of paper.
It is also a shame that there's this behavioral bug in every OS where if you use a white-on-black theme, you'll quickly find many programs with that ignore your OS font color and try to override with black-on-black text, causing issues. This includes Eclipse and myriads of IDEs where you can configure syntax highlighting but "base" text/non-keywords stay black.
This, times infinity!
Not only is it hard on battery-operated devices power consumption, display devices longevity, but also the viewer's eyes. Dark text on a luminous background is painful, especially in an otherwise dimly lit environment.
Signed, ... (only semi-tongue-in-cheek)
An old dude who thinks computing took a downturn after the demise of the Hercules graphics card
Here's the thing:
Mike posted it to his blog, as a professional with a large following. From previous experience (cf. Dickwolves), he knew what the reaction would be. Hell, he even ended his initial post with the guy's full contact details.
So he basically told the internet: "Here's this asshole, have at him," knowing full well that people would engage in illegal harassment of Mr. Christoforo. And those are details you could probably convince a jury in a tort trial of.
I doubt most juries would side with Christoforo. Not because Christoforo is incapable, even in an "apology", of being anything but an ass, but because the material Gabe posted was:
A) Presented to Christoforo and confirmed as factual
B) Posted with permission from Christoforo
C) In no way overtly incited others to take action (although you are correct, it could be argued that it was implicit)
[...] Hell, the guy still isn't sorry for how he threated customers, he is sorry for the fact he got caught. [...]
That has to be the best typo and/or Freudian slip I've seen in a while!
The whole thing looked way blown out of proportion to me. [...] Conversely, the guy on the other end was WAY overboard on wanting that controller by Christmas (must be a helluva controller). [...] Very unprofessional on Christoforo's part, for sure. But hardly worthy of the massive scorn he's gotten.
The customer hardly went overboard, the company processing the order was in violation of federal regulations (when you place an order online that cannot be fulfilled within 30 days there are regulations that state you must contact the customer notifying them of the issue and providing the option to cancel or alter the order) as well as merchant agreements (both VISA and MasterCard prohibit charging the customer's account prior to shipping merchandise).
As the customer service representative handling the order, not only was Christoforo "unprofessional" in lacking the ability to communicate in English (or, most likely, any other language), he was openly degrading toward the customer when it was pointed out the company he was representing was operating outside of the rules and regulations that governed their operation. This is an offense worthy of immediate termination at EVERY company I've worked for or had a contract with.
I've certainly experienced bad customer service, but this goes so far beyond anything I've ever encountered that it is practically unbelievable ... if it weren't a story sourced from multiple reliable individuals and news services, I wouldn't take it at face value ... as it is, yes, this ought to be taught to every jerk trying to party through school toward their MBA.
This happens frequently to motorcyclists). Yes, you can still avoid the other car. Typically, by braking, hard enough to allow them to pull in just in front of you, but not so hard that you get rear-ended by the person behind you. Less frequently, you can accelerate to get in front of them, but you'd best be on a motorcycle and not in a car to pull this maneuver off (much higher rate of acceleration) and you still may not want to (more speed means more energy to crunch things up if it goes badly).
If nothing else, honking the horn will usually get the attention of a driver changing into your lane, but you'd best back that up with maneuvering of your own in case it doesn't cause them to abort their lane change.
http://www.epa.gov/region8/superfund/wy/pavillion/EPA_ReportOnPavillion_Dec-8-2011.pdf
The EPA disagrees with you.
They're exempt from the normal federal reporting requirements such as those stipulated in the federal Safe Drinking Water Act. They are not exempted from state regulations, which is why states are drafting legislation of this type. Typically any entity (person or corporation) has to comply with the regulations of all jurisdictions that apply (city, county, state, and federal for the US).
Now, the company might be able to argue the production of the natural gas is "interstate commerce" and therefore the federal regulations trump the state regulations, but that usually fails in circumstances like this where the company is free to continue their operations as long as they follow the state's disclosure regulations (in other words, the state is in no way restricting the company's operations, merely requiring them to report in more detail exactly what they are doing - and the state is a justifiably interested party in the details of what they are doing).
... Trebuchet!
(all other thoughts in head now gone)
assange releases real evidence. he doesn't call people names without anything to back it up
Yes ... and now there is more leverage to get sources for where that evidence came from ...