Forget the autistic part: It is just the nature of humans in general to seek to view the world in narrow and rigid ways. It brings comfort and assurance. Nuance leads to uncertainty and self-doubt, things that people seek to avoid at all costs.
If anything SJWs are liberals taking to such an extreme they become a form of self-satire. They are still very much opposed to and opposed by the cultural conservatives, in a manner that causes me to reach for the popcorn.
I imagine that by this point they have already extracted every bit of intel from him that they can hope to get, which means his greatest value is as a symbol of the double standard of the US government. Keeping him from leaving would just mean losing what little moral high ground they have managed to claim.
Totally panicked, completely untrained people. They are not just for use by the patient, but by bystanders rendering first aid.
I work at a school, so I get the circular emails informing all staff of students with special medical needs. These include a notice as to which students carry an epi-pen, just in case.
An epipen was. But not this epipen. The original 1970s design is no longer approved by the FDA. The patent that caused this whole mess is on a refinement to the design that makes it safer to use.
The drug in this case is not new at all, and certainly not patented. The patent is on the delivery mechanism: The injector that makes it practical and safe for a bystander with no training at all to administer it, or for the patient themselves to do so even if they are currently struggling to breathe and shaking in pain.
Uranium-lead dating of zircon counts from the time the mineral (specifically, the zircon crystals) was formed - that is, the time the rock solidified. Any natural event which could get rocks from earth to orbit is going to involve such high energy that the material would certainly be melted. If the moon formed from slow accumulation, these are surface rocks and would still have been melted on impact. Either way, the radiometric clock starts ticking as soon as the material cools to the point of solidification.
You can analyse validity of warrants and question the admissibility of evidence all you want, but that overlooks a fact: Most prosecutions don't go to trial. They end in plea bargains. Sure, that particular evidence might be unusable - but the fact that the FBI knows about it may well be enough to get the suspect to confess anyway. The particular example in the article did lawyer up and fight it, but how many times has a similar story happened that didn't become interesting and public enough to get noticed?
Separate government, UN recognition, diplomatic relations with a large number of other countries. They have their own legislature, legal system and administrative bodies. Yes, they were once part of Russia - but then, the US was once part of the British empire, so by that standard Britain is entitled to reclaim the country by force.
The 'tyranny of the majority' is an issue that was supposed to be addressed by the bill of rights, and it did a pretty good job. What you refer to is a very different problem: Being outvoted. Of course a low-population state will not have so much influence, because that's just how democracy is supposed to work: Votes are what counts. The electoral collage was a deliberate workaround that was needed to secure the participation of the less-populous states by making sure that they would wield influence disproportionate to their population.
Correct. The US is a republic, and a representative democracy. But the citizens still place a high value on democracy as an ideal, and a lot of them are seriously concerned when something happens that appears to violate this ideal - like a candidate winning an election, even though they lost the popular vote.
The rest of the post goes on to describe the difficulties posed by a private insurance system, specifically the conflict of interest between the patient (who needs expensive treatment) and the insurance company (who wants rid of the patient, now they have become a liability).
Red cells are constantly regenerated. Not so white cells: Lymphocytes live for many years. That's why immunity is possible.
It's a routine procedure now to just every white cell plus the stem cells that make them, and transplant in a new stem cell population. Bone marrow transplant. It's still a dangerous process with a considerable mortality rate, but routine even so in cases where not using it would result in certain death anyway.
Remind me, which country was it that decided to invade half of Ukraine? I don't think it was the US. Russia is following an expansionist foreign policy, and demonstrated a willingness to use military force to achieve their goals, so maintaining NATO defences and readyness to respond is only a sensible precaution: It's a deterrent. It is not 'trying to start WWIII.'
An unwillingness to escalate is why the invasion in Crimea and Russia-backed rebellion in Ukraine went unchallenged: No other country was wiling to intervene militarily precisely because doing so would have run the risk of triggering a chain of escalations that ended in world war, or possibly even nuclear war.
Revealing dishonest stuff from politicians is a good thing, but revealing it selectively is not. I have no doubt that the RNC has just as much dirty internal political strife going on inside, and just as much borderline-corrupt money-grabbing from speaking fees - but they were not hacked and exposed. If they had been, it's very likely the election would have gone the other way, as the margins in several states were very slim. The hacking broke the symmetry of corruption right before an election, and in doing so it probably changed the outcome.
High-ranking managers don't need technical knowledge. They have advisers beneath who can handle that for them. Their role is to have a good overview knowledge of all that takes place beneath them, not to micro-manage all the details.
What media have you been watching? All I saw was Trump-Trump-Trump for months on end. Every time the spotlight started to drift he would say something offensive or announce a new unconventional policy and it'd swing right back on him. A lot of the coverage was negative, certainly, but it was still constant coverage, because the man is ratings gold.
It doesn't matter how slim the margin: If it had been a popular vote, Hillary would have won. The US uses a convoluted electoral collage voting system though, a relic from a time when it was the only acceptable compromise. This system means that some votes count a lot more than others, and this system generally favors voters in states with a smaller population, which was enough that the electoral and popular votes differed in outcome. So Trump won, even though more people voted for his rival, and this fact makes a lot of people feel like democracy is not being practiced.
We're still stuck with the college, though. Only way to end it would be a constitutional amendment, and right now congress couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery, much less a constitutional convention. Plus the Republican party would oppose any such efforts, because they benefit from the current less-than-democratic system, and politics is too important to play fair.
If I try to rephase that in simpler and more modern terms:
"The north has more (white) people than the south, so if we use a popular vote the South wouldn't matter so much - they know this, and there's no way they are buying into this 'United States' thing if they would wield less influence than the north. So we'll use an electoral college. This effectively means a voter in a small state is more important than a voter in a large state, but it's the only solution everyone can agree to."
Facebook doesn't want to be a media outlet, but they have little choice in the matter now: They don't write the stories, but they decide which stories get read, and they have to deal with the issue of keeping their service free of inappropriate content when the definition of inappropriate varies wildly.
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Forget the autistic part: It is just the nature of humans in general to seek to view the world in narrow and rigid ways. It brings comfort and assurance. Nuance leads to uncertainty and self-doubt, things that people seek to avoid at all costs.
If anything SJWs are liberals taking to such an extreme they become a form of self-satire. They are still very much opposed to and opposed by the cultural conservatives, in a manner that causes me to reach for the popcorn.
I imagine that by this point they have already extracted every bit of intel from him that they can hope to get, which means his greatest value is as a symbol of the double standard of the US government. Keeping him from leaving would just mean losing what little moral high ground they have managed to claim.
Totally panicked, completely untrained people. They are not just for use by the patient, but by bystanders rendering first aid.
I work at a school, so I get the circular emails informing all staff of students with special medical needs. These include a notice as to which students carry an epi-pen, just in case.
Insurance companies rarely pay the sticker price. What they pay and what you would pay can be very different figures.
An epipen was. But not this epipen. The original 1970s design is no longer approved by the FDA. The patent that caused this whole mess is on a refinement to the design that makes it safer to use.
The drug in this case is not new at all, and certainly not patented. The patent is on the delivery mechanism: The injector that makes it practical and safe for a bystander with no training at all to administer it, or for the patient themselves to do so even if they are currently struggling to breathe and shaking in pain.
Uranium-lead dating of zircon counts from the time the mineral (specifically, the zircon crystals) was formed - that is, the time the rock solidified. Any natural event which could get rocks from earth to orbit is going to involve such high energy that the material would certainly be melted. If the moon formed from slow accumulation, these are surface rocks and would still have been melted on impact. Either way, the radiometric clock starts ticking as soon as the material cools to the point of solidification.
You can analyse validity of warrants and question the admissibility of evidence all you want, but that overlooks a fact: Most prosecutions don't go to trial. They end in plea bargains. Sure, that particular evidence might be unusable - but the fact that the FBI knows about it may well be enough to get the suspect to confess anyway. The particular example in the article did lawyer up and fight it, but how many times has a similar story happened that didn't become interesting and public enough to get noticed?
Separate government, UN recognition, diplomatic relations with a large number of other countries. They have their own legislature, legal system and administrative bodies. Yes, they were once part of Russia - but then, the US was once part of the British empire, so by that standard Britain is entitled to reclaim the country by force.
The 'tyranny of the majority' is an issue that was supposed to be addressed by the bill of rights, and it did a pretty good job. What you refer to is a very different problem: Being outvoted. Of course a low-population state will not have so much influence, because that's just how democracy is supposed to work: Votes are what counts. The electoral collage was a deliberate workaround that was needed to secure the participation of the less-populous states by making sure that they would wield influence disproportionate to their population.
Correct. The US is a republic, and a representative democracy. But the citizens still place a high value on democracy as an ideal, and a lot of them are seriously concerned when something happens that appears to violate this ideal - like a candidate winning an election, even though they lost the popular vote.
The rest of the post goes on to describe the difficulties posed by a private insurance system, specifically the conflict of interest between the patient (who needs expensive treatment) and the insurance company (who wants rid of the patient, now they have become a liability).
Red cells are constantly regenerated. Not so white cells: Lymphocytes live for many years. That's why immunity is possible.
It's a routine procedure now to just every white cell plus the stem cells that make them, and transplant in a new stem cell population. Bone marrow transplant. It's still a dangerous process with a considerable mortality rate, but routine even so in cases where not using it would result in certain death anyway.
Putin successfully invaded and annexed half a country with barely a shot fired and hardly a man lost. Makes me wish he was on our side.
Remind me, which country was it that decided to invade half of Ukraine? I don't think it was the US. Russia is following an expansionist foreign policy, and demonstrated a willingness to use military force to achieve their goals, so maintaining NATO defences and readyness to respond is only a sensible precaution: It's a deterrent. It is not 'trying to start WWIII.'
An unwillingness to escalate is why the invasion in Crimea and Russia-backed rebellion in Ukraine went unchallenged: No other country was wiling to intervene militarily precisely because doing so would have run the risk of triggering a chain of escalations that ended in world war, or possibly even nuclear war.
At this point, he's in there hiding from charges of skipping bail.
Revealing dishonest stuff from politicians is a good thing, but revealing it selectively is not. I have no doubt that the RNC has just as much dirty internal political strife going on inside, and just as much borderline-corrupt money-grabbing from speaking fees - but they were not hacked and exposed. If they had been, it's very likely the election would have gone the other way, as the margins in several states were very slim. The hacking broke the symmetry of corruption right before an election, and in doing so it probably changed the outcome.
High-ranking managers don't need technical knowledge. They have advisers beneath who can handle that for them. Their role is to have a good overview knowledge of all that takes place beneath them, not to micro-manage all the details.
What media have you been watching? All I saw was Trump-Trump-Trump for months on end. Every time the spotlight started to drift he would say something offensive or announce a new unconventional policy and it'd swing right back on him. A lot of the coverage was negative, certainly, but it was still constant coverage, because the man is ratings gold.
It doesn't matter how slim the margin: If it had been a popular vote, Hillary would have won. The US uses a convoluted electoral collage voting system though, a relic from a time when it was the only acceptable compromise. This system means that some votes count a lot more than others, and this system generally favors voters in states with a smaller population, which was enough that the electoral and popular votes differed in outcome. So Trump won, even though more people voted for his rival, and this fact makes a lot of people feel like democracy is not being practiced.
We're still stuck with the college, though. Only way to end it would be a constitutional amendment, and right now congress couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery, much less a constitutional convention. Plus the Republican party would oppose any such efforts, because they benefit from the current less-than-democratic system, and politics is too important to play fair.
If I try to rephase that in simpler and more modern terms:
"The north has more (white) people than the south, so if we use a popular vote the South wouldn't matter so much - they know this, and there's no way they are buying into this 'United States' thing if they would wield less influence than the north. So we'll use an electoral college. This effectively means a voter in a small state is more important than a voter in a large state, but it's the only solution everyone can agree to."
I could design an open-source microcontroller by that definition.
atmega, regulator, crystal, three capacitors. layout on stripboard, done.
And what is your alternative?
"I could save your life at no cost to myself, but I don't actually have to, so fuck you."
Facebook doesn't want to be a media outlet, but they have little choice in the matter now: They don't write the stories, but they decide which stories get read, and they have to deal with the issue of keeping their service free of inappropriate content when the definition of inappropriate varies wildly.