The benefits of alcohol depend on which specialist you talk to. A cardiologist might recommend it because the alcohol tends to reduce plaque build up in the arteries. A gastroenterologist will tell you to avoid it because metabolizing alcohol leads to fatty build-up in the liver. The neurologists tell you that it kills your nerve cells.
What this all means depends on your body chemistry. If you come from a family with a history of heart trouble, the alcohol might help keep that under control. Sure you'll get some fat build up in the liver, but your body can cope with that. Someone with a history of degenerative neurological disorders might want to shy away from it.
Most things in medicine are trade-offs and affect people differently.
Coat the bricks with a liner, like truck bed liner. I remember seeing a demo of that stuff where the salesman sprayed a concrete brick coated with the stuff and dropped it off of a building. The brick cracked, but the liner did not tear or separate from the brick. Neat stuff. Hopefully it can cure in a vacuum.
Don't read too often about the 7 year old who accidentally killed his playmate when he found his dad's toolbox unlocked.
You should work in a hospital emergency room sometime. There are plenty of kids that are seriously injured or killed playing with powertools. The reason it is not news is because it is so common.
Accidental death from firearms is at the lowest rates ever, despite the increase in population and the increase in the number of guns in circulation. All kinds of interesting stats are here.
They also tend to fling bits and pieces of themselves into the cosmic void soon after the union. Sometimes those pieces will amount to a new galaxy, but most tend to linger around in an eccentric orbit, trying to escape but never managing to achieve enough velocity.
Militarizing NASA is not what we want, as a free people. We want to propose an alternative to the Chinese and Russian models, where the space program is heavily influenced and controlled by the military. Space and the Moon are definitely strategic goals for the nation, but we do not need the military running things. I'm not saying the military should be kept out of space because they will need to provide some sort of security for our civilian assets. But we should work on building as much civilian infrastructure as possible because that will give us (in my opinion) the strongest position.
I know it sounds a bit pie-in-the-sky, but it is one less step to the complete militarization of everything in the name of national defense.
...keep budgets stagnant or to lower them and then expect the same output or better....
If the private sector managers (especially top level, CEO and boards, etc) had gotten those ideas the world's economy might not have collapsed.
Where have you been for the last 15 years? Economic reports hailed the fact that productivity (output/cost) was rising and that costs were being contained (workers worked more for the same amount of money). What this translated into was less money for the workers who then had to rely on credit to maintain a standard of living because inflation was still present and eroded their earnings. Companies started making money of the bottom of the pile by financing this credit. Eventually companies started to depend on this and it just got to the point where it caved in. This problem has been decades in the making.
It all started when managers realized they could hold back on raises and benefits to make their bonus numbers. Workers were slowly squeezed. So the next time you hear that corporate profits are up because worker productivity is rising, just remember all the workers who are not getting a slice of those profits (unless they own stock).
How about we take them off the streets and get them help. Not a prison...
Forcibly taking people off the streets against their will is the definition of prison. You can fancy it up all you want, it is still a prison.
Prison (n): a place of confinement or captivity
That way, we all win (assuming that "help" works in this case. IANAPsychologist, so I don't know if it can be "helped").
Furthermore, what do you do if they cannot be helped? You have just justified locking people up for things they might do. This opens Pandora's box and makes the situation ripe for all kinds of government abuse.
Just have a panel where the cartoon characters issue a disclaimer stating that they are 25 years old and that any resemblance to persons or events, real or imagined, is purely unintentional.
Most FDA regulations are in place because someone died from a malfunction. The FDA is a very reactionary organization. They do not think ahead, they are trying to prevent a repeat of past problems. The problem is, there have been many problems that we do not want to repeat.
Who paid for the engineers' and all the testing and certifications for that device?
That is what eats up the cost with all these medical devices, not the cost of parts.
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It is babble used to get the patient into an accepting frame of mind. If you can convince the person that this treatment will cure their ails, then you are already halfway there without even touching the person. The other side of the coin is that a person can be feeling pain or discomfort that is "left over" from an injury that has already healed. Perhaps they changed their posture or gait after the injury and never readjusted after it healed. Much of this is probably subconscious. If you can get the patient to accept that this will fix the problem, then they return to their original posture and are "cured".
The above paragraph could also be used in substitution, if the patient does not believe the "Chi" babble.
I'd like to see a study done on chronic pain sufferers where they all take pills (some treatments and some placebos) and a subset of those also get the acupuncture or chiropracty performed (with various scripts used to rationalize the treatment). There would also need to be some sort of screening to see who would be most susceptible to a particular script.
The chiefs knew what they were doing and manipulated others into producing the lie. The manipulation is what achieves their objective and cannot be "called out". If they can engineer the intelligence by talking the right way to certain people, then they have plausible denial and it makes it much harder to hold them to account for their actions. They never explicitly ask for specific intelligence, but they don't stop making your life a living hell until you produce it.
If someone wrote a memo that said "give me fake intelligence", then it would be much easier to hold them accountable.
And isn't it common knowledge that Bush _ordered_ his intelligence offices to come up with proof of WMD's in Iraq?
Bush did not order anyone to fabricate intelligence. Neither did Cheney or the others. What they did do was put extraordinary pressure onto the intelligence agencies to come up with something, anything, that would show that Saddam was working on a nuclear weapon. This pressure, combined with the practice of appointing people to positions based on their political ideas, made sure that only intelligence that would please the leaders found its way to the media. Even though it was bad intelligence, it was the only stuff out there. The leaders then used a media tour to promote their war and drown any dissent with the fears of a nuclear Saddam.
That, my friend, is much more sinister than simply ordering someone to come up with intelligence supporting a war.
NASA's budget is a tiny fraction of the federal budget. There are many more projects that would have a much greater impact on the bottom line than NASA.
But I agree with your sentiment that the Space Shuttle is a boondoggle. Hopefully SpaceX and other companies can provide a cost effective and safe alternative soon.
The states are free to have any drinking age they want. But if the state wants federal money for roads, they need to adopt 21 as the age of majority. This is how the federal government can manipulate the states.
I believe that Minnesota held out for a while before being seduced by access to the federal purse.
Applying undue weight to an idea without proof can be just as bad as ignoring it. Keep in mind that when you use the words "remote possibility", you are going to need more than simple conjecture to back up your claim if you want people to accept it.
Right now all we have is an observation. It will take many years of research to establish the strength of the link to anthropogenic climate change. It may be a direct effect, or it may have nothing to do with it.
I do know that my mango tree goes through similar cycles. One year we'll have mangos, and the next year, nobody has any mangos. Life does not always run on schedule like the trains in Germany.
Some non-competes are enforceable. My father-in-law worked for a wireless company and when they let him go they paid him 2/3rds of his salary to not work for a year. This was a contract, and since he was being compensated, it was enforceable. I think he was also able to collect unemployment during that time as well because he was being paid for past work, not current or future work.
The moral of the story is that if anyone asks you to sign a non-compete agreement, ask for money. The HR folks will then usually file the NCA in the circular bin. I know the two times I've brought it up, I have been hired without signing it.
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The benefits of alcohol depend on which specialist you talk to. A cardiologist might recommend it because the alcohol tends to reduce plaque build up in the arteries. A gastroenterologist will tell you to avoid it because metabolizing alcohol leads to fatty build-up in the liver. The neurologists tell you that it kills your nerve cells.
What this all means depends on your body chemistry. If you come from a family with a history of heart trouble, the alcohol might help keep that under control. Sure you'll get some fat build up in the liver, but your body can cope with that. Someone with a history of degenerative neurological disorders might want to shy away from it.
Most things in medicine are trade-offs and affect people differently.
Don't forget deductions. I ended up paying an effective tax rate of 12% last year on income in the 80K range.
Coat the bricks with a liner, like truck bed liner. I remember seeing a demo of that stuff where the salesman sprayed a concrete brick coated with the stuff and dropped it off of a building. The brick cracked, but the liner did not tear or separate from the brick. Neat stuff. Hopefully it can cure in a vacuum.
Don't read too often about the 7 year old who accidentally killed his playmate when he found his dad's toolbox unlocked.
You should work in a hospital emergency room sometime. There are plenty of kids that are seriously injured or killed playing with powertools. The reason it is not news is because it is so common.
Accidental death from firearms is at the lowest rates ever, despite the increase in population and the increase in the number of guns in circulation. All kinds of interesting stats are here.
Your wallet is chained to your pants. Unless you have them chained to your chaps, eliminating the need for pants when you ride.
They also tend to fling bits and pieces of themselves into the cosmic void soon after the union. Sometimes those pieces will amount to a new galaxy, but most tend to linger around in an eccentric orbit, trying to escape but never managing to achieve enough velocity.
...it is pretty ridiculous to keep budgets stagnant or to lower them and then expect the same output or better....
If the private sector managers (especially top level, CEO and boards, etc) had gotten those ideas the world's economy might not have collapsed.
I read that as saying the current problem could have been averted if they had done that.
Let me tell you how grandma died...
Militarizing NASA is not what we want, as a free people. We want to propose an alternative to the Chinese and Russian models, where the space program is heavily influenced and controlled by the military. Space and the Moon are definitely strategic goals for the nation, but we do not need the military running things. I'm not saying the military should be kept out of space because they will need to provide some sort of security for our civilian assets. But we should work on building as much civilian infrastructure as possible because that will give us (in my opinion) the strongest position.
I know it sounds a bit pie-in-the-sky, but it is one less step to the complete militarization of everything in the name of national defense.
...keep budgets stagnant or to lower them and then expect the same output or better....
If the private sector managers (especially top level, CEO and boards, etc) had gotten those ideas the world's economy might not have collapsed.
Where have you been for the last 15 years? Economic reports hailed the fact that productivity (output/cost) was rising and that costs were being contained (workers worked more for the same amount of money). What this translated into was less money for the workers who then had to rely on credit to maintain a standard of living because inflation was still present and eroded their earnings. Companies started making money of the bottom of the pile by financing this credit. Eventually companies started to depend on this and it just got to the point where it caved in. This problem has been decades in the making.
It all started when managers realized they could hold back on raises and benefits to make their bonus numbers. Workers were slowly squeezed. So the next time you hear that corporate profits are up because worker productivity is rising, just remember all the workers who are not getting a slice of those profits (unless they own stock).
If you're him and he's him, and he's him and you're him...am I still me? Who's eating this chicken?
How about we take them off the streets and get them help. Not a prison...
Forcibly taking people off the streets against their will is the definition of prison. You can fancy it up all you want, it is still a prison.
Prison (n): a place of confinement or captivity
That way, we all win (assuming that "help" works in this case. IANAPsychologist, so I don't know if it can be "helped").
Furthermore, what do you do if they cannot be helped? You have just justified locking people up for things they might do. This opens Pandora's box and makes the situation ripe for all kinds of government abuse.
Just have a panel where the cartoon characters issue a disclaimer stating that they are 25 years old and that any resemblance to persons or events, real or imagined, is purely unintentional.
Problem solved.
Or they will curse and continue to use the service because to them, the benefits outweigh the costs.
Most FDA regulations are in place because someone died from a malfunction. The FDA is a very reactionary organization. They do not think ahead, they are trying to prevent a repeat of past problems. The problem is, there have been many problems that we do not want to repeat.
Who paid for the engineers' and all the testing and certifications for that device?
That is what eats up the cost with all these medical devices, not the cost of parts.
It is babble used to get the patient into an accepting frame of mind. If you can convince the person that this treatment will cure their ails, then you are already halfway there without even touching the person. The other side of the coin is that a person can be feeling pain or discomfort that is "left over" from an injury that has already healed. Perhaps they changed their posture or gait after the injury and never readjusted after it healed. Much of this is probably subconscious. If you can get the patient to accept that this will fix the problem, then they return to their original posture and are "cured".
The above paragraph could also be used in substitution, if the patient does not believe the "Chi" babble.
I'd like to see a study done on chronic pain sufferers where they all take pills (some treatments and some placebos) and a subset of those also get the acupuncture or chiropracty performed (with various scripts used to rationalize the treatment). There would also need to be some sort of screening to see who would be most susceptible to a particular script.
The chiefs knew what they were doing and manipulated others into producing the lie. The manipulation is what achieves their objective and cannot be "called out". If they can engineer the intelligence by talking the right way to certain people, then they have plausible denial and it makes it much harder to hold them to account for their actions. They never explicitly ask for specific intelligence, but they don't stop making your life a living hell until you produce it.
If someone wrote a memo that said "give me fake intelligence", then it would be much easier to hold them accountable.
And isn't it common knowledge that Bush _ordered_ his intelligence offices to come up with proof of WMD's in Iraq?
Bush did not order anyone to fabricate intelligence. Neither did Cheney or the others. What they did do was put extraordinary pressure onto the intelligence agencies to come up with something, anything, that would show that Saddam was working on a nuclear weapon. This pressure, combined with the practice of appointing people to positions based on their political ideas, made sure that only intelligence that would please the leaders found its way to the media. Even though it was bad intelligence, it was the only stuff out there. The leaders then used a media tour to promote their war and drown any dissent with the fears of a nuclear Saddam.
That, my friend, is much more sinister than simply ordering someone to come up with intelligence supporting a war.
NASA's budget is a tiny fraction of the federal budget. There are many more projects that would have a much greater impact on the bottom line than NASA.
But I agree with your sentiment that the Space Shuttle is a boondoggle. Hopefully SpaceX and other companies can provide a cost effective and safe alternative soon.
The states are free to have any drinking age they want. But if the state wants federal money for roads, they need to adopt 21 as the age of majority. This is how the federal government can manipulate the states.
I believe that Minnesota held out for a while before being seduced by access to the federal purse.
(I, for one, welcome our dead, elderly, overlords)
You voted for McCain, right?
It ties the whole room together!
Applying undue weight to an idea without proof can be just as bad as ignoring it. Keep in mind that when you use the words "remote possibility", you are going to need more than simple conjecture to back up your claim if you want people to accept it.
Right now all we have is an observation. It will take many years of research to establish the strength of the link to anthropogenic climate change. It may be a direct effect, or it may have nothing to do with it.
I do know that my mango tree goes through similar cycles. One year we'll have mangos, and the next year, nobody has any mangos. Life does not always run on schedule like the trains in Germany.
Some non-competes are enforceable. My father-in-law worked for a wireless company and when they let him go they paid him 2/3rds of his salary to not work for a year. This was a contract, and since he was being compensated, it was enforceable. I think he was also able to collect unemployment during that time as well because he was being paid for past work, not current or future work.
The moral of the story is that if anyone asks you to sign a non-compete agreement, ask for money. The HR folks will then usually file the NCA in the circular bin. I know the two times I've brought it up, I have been hired without signing it.