I don't think you know just how close you were with that pun.
From TFA:
The BZ reaction is one of a class of chemical systems in which the concentration of one or more compounds periodically increases and decreases. As well as producing stunning patterns, it can even be used to perform calculations using a dish containing the pulsing patterns as a chemical brain.
NEITHER crystalline (the pool store kind) nor amorphous (raw) silica in DE causes cancer. They CAN cause silicosis if inhaled though. Silicosis is NOT a cancer - but it is quite nasty and there is no cure as the damage to the lungs is permanent. It can't metastasize like a cancer though - but you can't fight it with chemo either.
BOTH kinds of DE will do just fine against the bugs as they work by absorbing moisture and causing dehydration.
Sounds mighty suspicious like somethin someone who actually IS involved in a government conspiracy might say.
Born in Charleston, SC to a Navy family. Grew up in Indianapolis, IN at Catholic schools for 12 years. Graduated from Virginia Tech, with two BAs, one in History and the other in English. Spent one year in Key West, moved to Fairbanks, Alaska on January 14, 2008. When I arrived, the high temperature was -40F. Working at the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner newspaper.
Someone born and raised in the southern climate, with military family and religious upbringing, degrees in "telling you how it really happened" moves to Alaska on one of the coldest days in the year - so HE could decide "what folks need to stay informed"?
Luckily, I have had my tinfoil hat on or I might have missed that cleverly hidden link to your Fark profile.
It doesn't seem like the people infected in the US have received much health care, so I would guess that's not the reason.
It is not how much care is delivered but its quality. If their doctors gave them Tamiflu and/or Relenza (CDC approved and confirmed as "effective against the new strain") and sent them home they would probably have better chances of fighting off the disease then if they were given a handful of aspirins and then had an x-ray, CAT scan and an MRI.
From the article I linked above:
The CDC says two flu drugs, Tamiflu and Relenza, seem effective against the new strain. Roche, the maker of Tamiflu, said the company is prepared to immediately deploy a stockpile of the drug if requested.
Both drugs must be taken early, within a few days of the onset of symptoms, to be most effective.
Cordoba said Mexico has enough Tamiflu to treat 1 million people, but the medicine will be strictly controlled and handed out only by doctors.
From the same article:
Closing schools across Mexico's capital of 20 million kept 6.1 million students home, as well as thousands of university students.
So, the entire country has enough medicine for 5% of its capital.
That is if and when they come to the hospital/doctor in time. And most people don't go straight to their doctor whenever they cough or sneeze. But they do share their square kilometer of living space with 6000 other Mexicans. Well... in Mexico City at least they do.
As at least 15 out of 20 confirmed swine flu deaths were reported in Mexico City my guess is that is primarily due to population concentration and the lack of proper health care. When you put 6000 people per square kilometer at one place you will probably have problems with epidemics and with providing proper and timely health care. Add to that the fact US has about 4 times the per capita GDP of Mexico and about 13-14 times bigger GDP in total - my guess is that that should at least indicate the potential reason for the higher fatality in Mexico.
Making the public slightly paranoid can help prevent the spread of the flu.
You would get your resources wasted and your hospitals swarmed with everyone who feels a bit tired or has a cough. And there is no better place to catch a disease than a crowded hospital. Well... except maybe going for a swim in the local sewer.
From the TFA:
Officials said they had confirmed eight cases in New York, seven in California, two in Kansas, two in Texas and one in Ohio, and that the cases looked to be similar to the deadly strain of swine flu that has killed more than 80 people in Mexico and infected 1,300 more.
So far, there have been no deaths from swine flu in the United States, and only one of the people who tested positive for the disease has been hospitalized, officials said.
19 people out of 306 million found to have something like the disease that has killed 80 in Mexico. 1 of those 19 was actually kept in the hospital while others were sent home.
Also...
In the United States, the C.D.C. confirmed that eight students of a high school in Queens had been infected with swine flu, the first confirmed cases in New York City, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said at a news conference on Sunday. Mr. Bloomberg said that all of the cases had been mild and hospitals in the city had not seen more patients with severe lung infections. . . About 100 students at St. Francis Preparatory School in Fresh Meadows, Queens, became sick in the last few days, and some family members have also taken ill. Mr. Bloomberg said the school would be closed on Monday, and that officials would then reassess whether to reopen the school.
Yes... those 8 cases are all from that school. Note the numbers. 8 people actually sick. 100+ immediately think that they are going to die. 0 of them hospitalized.
You want them all damned - you say swines just to make sure. Or he might damn just one swine and then where would we be? Back at square one, that's where.
Give me 100 million dollars and I will pray to whichever deity you prefer to protect ALL the transformers in the entire world. Fuck... I'll even throw in a good word for finding a cure to your favorite disease. Well... actually your LEAST favorite disease but you know what I mean...
Did my post above offend someone's highly developed sense of legality so it got modded down? Aaaaw... how cute. Like a little baby. With one of those pink little cocktail parasols in its little dead hand.
1. I must be able to play pirated games as easy or easier than the "originals". 2. Console must cost less than 200 Euros. Less than 75 Euros for portable consoles which also must play videos and music from SD cards.
ONCE, and only ONCE these two conditions are met - there has to be a particular game that would make me want to buy the console. For PS2 that was Berserk - which is still not out in US or Europe.
I was referring to the parent post that says we should have had that 10 years ago.
If publisher provided print-ready PDFs - that is another story. But again - they would only have those for the books still in print. Out of print books would have to go through the whole pre-print process - and that costs time, money and man-hours. If the original book does not fit the printable size - you might have to go all the way back to text input through OCR or typing it in. Then corrections, layout, more corrections... And if you happen to be doing a foreign title that uses a different character set... oh boy...
Also, summary mentions bringing in your own PDFs for text and covers.
Having ready for download templates, styles and fonts and "quick and dirty" tutorials for free and commercial layout tools might help, but having worked with "professionals" (and having to clean up their mess) who do layout and design for living - good luck with that.
But a girl in my class in high school did for about a year. She had straight As while she was there too.
When she came back she was about half a year short in her math education and the half she did cover in the USA she had to relearn to do without using a calculator. And our math professor made fun of her because of that.
Digital copiers and printers cost a fair sum of money. Binders, cutter etc. also. Add to that the fact that you would need either very educated customers who would bring you a properly formatted PDF file each time (pure science fiction) or very educated employees who would be able to reformat the book in minutes to the customers satisfaction (also science fiction).
You could churn out sub-par quality books (think taking Word files formatted on one PC-printer combo to another PC-printer combo) OR you could have a waiting period. "Bring in the text today and have it ready next week."
And still - a shop that would offer such a service would have to print out thousands of books before they would start making any money out of it. And it would still cost more that 10$ per 300 pages.
As for your lady-friend's predicament... There are places that offer such service. They are called "tailor-shops" or just plain "tailors". But they don't make the clothes while you do your other shopping and it costs a BIT more than buying clothes "off the rack". Standardized clothing measurements mean that the manufacturer can make more clothes faster and sell them cheaper.
Back in the day when people used to have all their clothing made to size there were a lot less suits per capita and a lot more stitches and patches per suit - cause suits were expensive. Just as they are today. A pair of jeans and a T-shirt cost less than a suit, which in turn costs far less than a tailor-made suit.
Our first attempt to print a book was not entirely successful. The Times's choice - from a rather limited list, the full catalogue not being available until next week - was a 1919 volume called Heroes of Aviation, a book of stirring tales of such First World War flying aces as Albert Ball and someone called Georges Guynemer The Miraculous, which was unavailable for more than half a century until it was revived by an online publisher.
Thor Sigvaldason, co-founder of On Demand Books, the people behind the machine, clicked a mouse and it started making whirry, photocopier-like noises. Laser-printed pages started flying out from the first half of the machine into the second, where the book is made. It was clamped, glued, stuck to the cover, cut to size and spewed out of a letterbox-sized slot in the side of the machine - where it promptly fell apart.
"Things do happen," said Mr Sigvaldason, phlegmatically. "It is actually perfectly bound. It just doesn't have a cover."
Another attempt and, after 13 minutes - rather slow, but then there was a pause to empty the wastepaper box - a perfect, warm and rather industrial-smelling copy of Heroes of Aviation was in my hands, mint-fresh and looking just like a real book. Which it was.
From the description of the process above - my (educated) guess is that the only real problem might be with the binding of the covers. Mainly related to the number of pages. Below the certain number of pages there is probably not enough surface for glue to catch on that fast. Even if it is a very fast binding glue, and there is enough surface to bind to - if the machine is meant to operate akin to a photocopier (quick and dirty) things like loose covers are bound to happen.
Considering that all those wonderful flash advertisements out there will gobble up about 10-20 MB each day (unless you block them) claiming that most people don't use that much in a year is ridiculous and uninformed.
Granted. Still - if you pick up tapeworm or trichinella - it just won't go away by itself. Or by the power of your immune system alone.
Evolving a system to fight a disease or a parasite is great and all - but we often don't have that much time on our hands. And if we thought that food prices soared when Chinese and Indians got a little more cash in their pockets so more of them were able to afford meat (which is in turn made from grass and cereal crops) - wait until we get a couple of billion humans more. We will really need a quick and working solution for all bee diseases then.
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I don't think you know just how close you were with that pun.
From TFA:
The BZ reaction is one of a class of chemical systems in which the concentration of one or more compounds periodically increases and decreases.
As well as producing stunning patterns, it can even be used to perform calculations using a dish containing the pulsing patterns as a chemical brain.
As usual - it is the only way to be sure.
NEITHER crystalline (the pool store kind) nor amorphous (raw) silica in DE causes cancer. They CAN cause silicosis if inhaled though.
Silicosis is NOT a cancer - but it is quite nasty and there is no cure as the damage to the lungs is permanent.
It can't metastasize like a cancer though - but you can't fight it with chemo either.
BOTH kinds of DE will do just fine against the bugs as they work by absorbing moisture and causing dehydration.
But what will Ashton Kutcher do then?
I'm not a part of a conspiracy or the Illuminati.
Sounds mighty suspicious like somethin someone who actually IS involved in a government conspiracy might say.
Born in Charleston, SC to a Navy family.
Grew up in Indianapolis, IN at Catholic schools for 12 years.
Graduated from Virginia Tech, with two BAs, one in History and the other in English.
Spent one year in Key West, moved to Fairbanks, Alaska on January 14, 2008. When I arrived, the high temperature was -40F.
Working at the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner newspaper.
Someone born and raised in the southern climate, with military family and religious upbringing, degrees in "telling you how it really happened" moves to Alaska on one of the coldest days in the year - so HE could decide "what folks need to stay informed"?
Luckily, I have had my tinfoil hat on or I might have missed that cleverly hidden link to your Fark profile.
It doesn't seem like the people infected in the US have received much health care, so I would guess that's not the reason.
It is not how much care is delivered but its quality.
If their doctors gave them Tamiflu and/or Relenza (CDC approved and confirmed as "effective against the new strain") and sent them home they would probably have better chances of fighting off the disease then if they were given a handful of aspirins and then had an x-ray, CAT scan and an MRI.
From the article I linked above:
The CDC says two flu drugs, Tamiflu and Relenza, seem effective against the new strain.
Roche, the maker of Tamiflu, said the company is prepared to immediately deploy a stockpile of the drug if requested.
Both drugs must be taken early, within a few days of the onset of symptoms, to be most effective.
Cordoba said Mexico has enough Tamiflu to treat 1 million people, but the medicine will be strictly controlled and handed out only by doctors.
From the same article:
Closing schools across Mexico's capital of 20 million kept 6.1 million students home, as well as thousands of university students.
So, the entire country has enough medicine for 5% of its capital.
That is if and when they come to the hospital/doctor in time.
And most people don't go straight to their doctor whenever they cough or sneeze.
But they do share their square kilometer of living space with 6000 other Mexicans. Well... in Mexico City at least they do.
IANAV (I am not a virologist) but...
As at least 15 out of 20 confirmed swine flu deaths were reported in Mexico City my guess is that is primarily due to population concentration and the lack of proper health care.
When you put 6000 people per square kilometer at one place you will probably have problems with epidemics and with providing proper and timely health care.
Add to that the fact US has about 4 times the per capita GDP of Mexico and about 13-14 times bigger GDP in total - my guess is that that should at least indicate the potential reason for the higher fatality in Mexico.
This Berserk.
Design that is.
Making the public slightly paranoid can help prevent the spread of the flu.
You would get your resources wasted and your hospitals swarmed with everyone who feels a bit tired or has a cough.
And there is no better place to catch a disease than a crowded hospital.
Well... except maybe going for a swim in the local sewer.
From the TFA:
Officials said they had confirmed eight cases in New York, seven in California, two in Kansas, two in Texas and one in Ohio, and that the cases looked to be similar to the deadly strain of swine flu that has killed more than 80 people in Mexico and infected 1,300 more.
So far, there have been no deaths from swine flu in the United States, and only one of the people who tested positive for the disease has been hospitalized, officials said.
19 people out of 306 million found to have something like the disease that has killed 80 in Mexico.
1 of those 19 was actually kept in the hospital while others were sent home.
Also...
In the United States, the C.D.C. confirmed that eight students of a high school in Queens had been infected with swine flu, the first confirmed cases in New York City, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said at a news conference on Sunday. Mr. Bloomberg said that all of the cases had been mild and hospitals in the city had not seen more patients with severe lung infections.
.
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About 100 students at St. Francis Preparatory School in Fresh Meadows, Queens, became sick in the last few days, and some family members have also taken ill. Mr. Bloomberg said the school would be closed on Monday, and that officials would then reassess whether to reopen the school.
Yes... those 8 cases are all from that school.
Note the numbers.
8 people actually sick. 100+ immediately think that they are going to die. 0 of them hospitalized.
Not if you want god to damn them all.
You want them all damned - you say swines just to make sure.
Or he might damn just one swine and then where would we be? Back at square one, that's where.
...Mexican swines!
Cheaper too.
Give me 100 million dollars and I will pray to whichever deity you prefer to protect ALL the transformers in the entire world.
Fuck... I'll even throw in a good word for finding a cure to your favorite disease.
Well... actually your LEAST favorite disease but you know what I mean...
Did my post above offend someone's highly developed sense of legality so it got modded down?
Aaaaw... how cute. Like a little baby.
With one of those pink little cocktail parasols in its little dead hand.
Somehow, I can't help not associating it with bankruptcy.
How do you decide which console to get?
I wait until at least two conditions are met:
1. I must be able to play pirated games as easy or easier than the "originals".
2. Console must cost less than 200 Euros. Less than 75 Euros for portable consoles which also must play videos and music from SD cards.
ONCE, and only ONCE these two conditions are met - there has to be a particular game that would make me want to buy the console.
For PS2 that was Berserk - which is still not out in US or Europe.
I was referring to the parent post that says we should have had that 10 years ago.
If publisher provided print-ready PDFs - that is another story. But again - they would only have those for the books still in print.
Out of print books would have to go through the whole pre-print process - and that costs time, money and man-hours.
If the original book does not fit the printable size - you might have to go all the way back to text input through OCR or typing it in. Then corrections, layout, more corrections...
And if you happen to be doing a foreign title that uses a different character set... oh boy...
Also, summary mentions bringing in your own PDFs for text and covers.
Having ready for download templates, styles and fonts and "quick and dirty" tutorials for free and commercial layout tools might help, but having worked with "professionals" (and having to clean up their mess) who do layout and design for living - good luck with that.
But a girl in my class in high school did for about a year. She had straight As while she was there too.
When she came back she was about half a year short in her math education and the half she did cover in the USA she had to relearn to do without using a calculator.
And our math professor made fun of her because of that.
Thank you for sparing me unnecessary explanation.
Digital copiers and printers cost a fair sum of money. Binders, cutter etc. also.
Add to that the fact that you would need either very educated customers who would bring you a properly formatted PDF file each time (pure science fiction) or very educated employees who would be able to reformat the book in minutes to the customers satisfaction (also science fiction).
You could churn out sub-par quality books (think taking Word files formatted on one PC-printer combo to another PC-printer combo) OR you could have a waiting period.
"Bring in the text today and have it ready next week."
And still - a shop that would offer such a service would have to print out thousands of books before they would start making any money out of it.
And it would still cost more that 10$ per 300 pages.
As for your lady-friend's predicament...
There are places that offer such service. They are called "tailor-shops" or just plain "tailors".
But they don't make the clothes while you do your other shopping and it costs a BIT more than buying clothes "off the rack".
Standardized clothing measurements mean that the manufacturer can make more clothes faster and sell them cheaper.
Back in the day when people used to have all their clothing made to size there were a lot less suits per capita and a lot more stitches and patches per suit - cause suits were expensive.
Just as they are today. A pair of jeans and a T-shirt cost less than a suit, which in turn costs far less than a tailor-made suit.
Our first attempt to print a book was not entirely successful.
The Times's choice - from a rather limited list, the full catalogue not being available until next week - was a 1919 volume called Heroes of Aviation, a book of stirring tales of such First World War flying aces as Albert Ball and someone called Georges Guynemer The Miraculous, which was unavailable for more than half a century until it was revived by an online publisher.
Thor Sigvaldason, co-founder of On Demand Books, the people behind the machine, clicked a mouse and it started making whirry, photocopier-like noises.
Laser-printed pages started flying out from the first half of the machine into the second, where the book is made.
It was clamped, glued, stuck to the cover, cut to size and spewed out of a letterbox-sized slot in the side of the machine - where it promptly fell apart.
"Things do happen," said Mr Sigvaldason, phlegmatically. "It is actually perfectly bound. It just doesn't have a cover."
Another attempt and, after 13 minutes - rather slow, but then there was a pause to empty the wastepaper box - a perfect, warm and rather industrial-smelling copy of Heroes of Aviation was in my hands, mint-fresh and looking just like a real book.
Which it was.
From the description of the process above - my (educated) guess is that the only real problem might be with the binding of the covers.
Mainly related to the number of pages. Below the certain number of pages there is probably not enough surface for glue to catch on that fast.
Even if it is a very fast binding glue, and there is enough surface to bind to - if the machine is meant to operate akin to a photocopier (quick and dirty) things like loose covers are bound to happen.
Is about 100-120 MB each day.
Considering that all those wonderful flash advertisements out there will gobble up about 10-20 MB each day (unless you block them) claiming that most people don't use that much in a year is ridiculous and uninformed.
Granted.
Still - if you pick up tapeworm or trichinella - it just won't go away by itself. Or by the power of your immune system alone.
Evolving a system to fight a disease or a parasite is great and all - but we often don't have that much time on our hands.
And if we thought that food prices soared when Chinese and Indians got a little more cash in their pockets so more of them were able to afford meat (which is in turn made from grass and cereal crops) - wait until we get a couple of billion humans more.
We will really need a quick and working solution for all bee diseases then.
Antibodies and antibiotics can fight them.
Which part of kill or remove does that not equal to?
What about the people who don't like or can't eat Chinese?