You're assuming that your own perspective is "the truth". I don't even assume that about myself. I've seen myself be disastrously wrong too many times.
However, if you have a direct line into some incontrovertible source of truth, that's great. I hope it serves you well.
Sadly, though, the fundies think they are tuned in to "the truth" as well. I don't think they are right.
Of course not. It'd take a heck of a long time. How many lead statues have dissolved in the rain?
For a major leaching from them you need something else in it, like an acid, or the water to be hot and in contact for a long time. In some cases it can be a problem. When you have large amounts perhaps like in a landfill (where you can get localized heating from decay) full of old circuit boards, you might have a problem. Might.
But if lead had just dissolved like you assume, then the Romans (and many others) wouldn't have used it for plumbing as the pipes would have corroded through quickly.
The question is what dose you get absorbed. Just keep in mind the basic rule of toxicology: "Dose makes the toxin."
"Most heart disease is caused by eating animal products (which humans aren't supposed to eat), lack of exercise, and smoking."
Some of it. I'd also change that to eating too much in general.
Of course, I've yet to hear of a nonsmoking vegan runner that's survived to tell us of, say, the Civil War. So, there's a pretty strong limit on the amount of benefit.
What's claimed is pretty impressive. They say they've gotten 60% improvement in heart function from a month long treatment course in mice and even quicker protective effect against declines in function. The caveat, as always, is that many things work well in mice, but don't translate into human therapies.
This is still paywalled, but it has many of the figures from the article as well as the abstract.
Yes, I know the outsourcing trend. I also know people who work at the contractors. They'll do the job you pay them to do. When BP took over Arco's Alaska pipeline network, one of the things they didn't pay for was the same level of maintenance on the pipelines. And, surprise, they got corrosion and leaks.
If you keep telling them to go cheap they'll do a cheaper job. But, like BP has experienced, you get problems.
When you replace senior workers with younger workers you save money regardless of the base of the salary scale. That was the era of John Browne at the helm of BP. He was noted for extreme cost cutting.
And I'm not surprised there were so many applicants. When the economy is tight you get that. Just like you got it in the steel industry in the early 80s when things were tight. Inland just updated their resume and application files and had thousands in line and fights breaking out outside their Gary Indiana plant.
Right now for all the "recovery" the job market is still tight, and oil industry jobs tend to pay well. That doesn't mean that BP wasn't reducing the senior workers in 1999 when they took over Arco.
And, just for further disclosure, Arco Metals was spun off 9 years before the BP bought Arco and my brother went with that. So that didn't hit him, but he still maintained contacts with people back at Arco.
One reason for subcontracting is you can box off liability if you can show a subcontractor was at fault. You're seriously saying that BP isn't trying to transfer some of its liability to Halliburton (rightly or wrongly)?
We were using it for DEC Alpha servers doing credit card transactions rather than user machines. at least for that it did pretty well. We only took it down once in 3 years to upgrade the drives.
Some form of Unix could have done the same work with half the machine, but others wrote the system before I came on the scene.
I had Linux as one of the OS's on my workstation and liked it a lot. For the Unix servers processing check transactions and doing database work (Oracle) we used SCO instead as we were using X25 and multi-serial port cards for some of the communications and terminal serving. Linux just didn't have the drivers for them in those days.
The place was an absolute dog's breakfast of different OS's from SCO to OS2 to every version of windows and dos you can imagine.
It was one of those "character building experiences".
The big international oil majors are so widely distributed that it's really misleading to think of them in terms of "foreign" or "domestic".
Just as BP might get some unwarranted scorn for being British, Halliburton gets it for being associated with Cheney. Neither is really the point, but who did what and when is.
My suspicious streak wonders if Anonymous Reader works in the BP PR department.
Ok, we're bringing up Halliburton, which is seen by some as the gold standard in corporate evil, but let's remember that it's BP (AKA Broke Pipeline Inc) that's the plaintiff in this case and are trying to shift the responsibility to Halliburton.
Given the stopping of preventive maintenance and replacing of experienced workers with cheaper ones that BP was widely known for, this is a bit of Pot Kettle Black.
Halliburton hasn't been tagged yet with overall responsibility for the spill as some headlines have claimed, but for destroying computer simulations done before the lawsuits started. That's bad, but it's not some get out of jail free card for BP. There's plenty of responsibility left to go around, and BP was the final word on that rig, not the contractors.
(Full disclosure: My brother worked for Arco before BP bought it. His division was spun off, but he heard quite a good deal about the bone stripping cost cutting that BP did after they bought it. That impacted repeated pipeline spills in Alaska and likely the Deepwater Horizon).
My bad. At the time of the destruction, they weren't yet under orders to preserve, but they were found to have destroyed it specifically so they couldn't have it used in court. That's still seen as obstructing justice.
However many of the headlines related to this are misleading in that they imply that Halliburton has plead guilty to being responsible for the disaster. You have to read farther into the article to see that they plead guilty to destroying computer simulations.
And let's remember, that it's BP that's trying to put the responsibility on Halliburton. "Broke Pipeline Inc" hardly has clean hands here regardless of what Halliburton has done.
That's not the point. They apparently were under orders to preserve materials in case they were needed as evidence, but deleted them.
It would be like destroying the original of an unfavorable contract you were trying to quash and then saying you couldn't find it. You might be able to reconstruct it, or print out a facsimile of it, but the problem was the obstruction of the court process rather than the actual destruction.
Brings back rather sad memories, Fro. After being in the active Army, I'd gone back to the National Guard as a sergeant. I'd applied to be a warrant officer chopper pilot, and was all but on my way to the Army's helicopter school. It had taken a little more than a year of chasing paperwork and legwork to various places to get the tests taken and such. So that it would be current, I was sent for another flight physical at a nearby air base.
During that year my left eye declined just enough that I couldn't make the 20/20 eye test. This was long before Lasik was accepted and it was just some new thing that not many had tried.
Normally, I still could have gone, but I would have to become an officer as they had less stringent vision requirements than warrant officers. Unfortunately, there was a cut off age for starting flight school (specifically because eyesight deteriorates with age), and I couldn't get into officer candidate school and still get to Fort Rucker (Army's helicopter training center) in time.
The real kicker, was I'd given up an offered platoon sergeant slot that would have meant a nearly immediate promotion, since I thought I was going to chopper school. On the way back from the flight physical, I stopped at the Guard unit and found out they'd given it to another guy that morning.
Needless to say, that wasn't my favorite day.
Now, I'm 51, fat, and see only slightly better than Ray Charles without my glasses. Think they'd take us as a package deal?;)
Because vaccine research is often difficult. Especially for things like fungi. They've been working on Valley Fever for many years. They already had at least one candidate vaccine that failed in humans.
Add to that, vaccines are usually not very profitable.
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You're assuming that your own perspective is "the truth". I don't even assume that about myself. I've seen myself be disastrously wrong too many times.
However, if you have a direct line into some incontrovertible source of truth, that's great. I hope it serves you well.
Sadly, though, the fundies think they are tuned in to "the truth" as well. I don't think they are right.
Have you ever seen them just dissolve in water?
Of course not. It'd take a heck of a long time. How many lead statues have dissolved in the rain?
For a major leaching from them you need something else in it, like an acid, or the water to be hot and in contact for a long time. In some cases it can be a problem. When you have large amounts perhaps like in a landfill (where you can get localized heating from decay) full of old circuit boards, you might have a problem. Might.
But if lead had just dissolved like you assume, then the Romans (and many others) wouldn't have used it for plumbing as the pipes would have corroded through quickly.
The question is what dose you get absorbed. Just keep in mind the basic rule of toxicology: "Dose makes the toxin."
Lead when finely divided or in a form easily absorbed (like paint chips that get eaten) or in a place that can get heavily leached is a real problem.
Blocks of lead, like the wheel weights used to balance car tires aren't a big problem.
The same way you can call a lion a housecat.
Doesn't mean anyone will believe you, though.
Japan has been fielding "destroyers" that are really helicopter carriers for some time.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hy%C5%ABga-class_helicopter_destroyer
for example.
They probably also could be refitted to launch VSTOL aircraft like the Harrier.
If you start out assuming that Mother Jones is the center of US political opinion, yes, the NYT might seem quite conservative.
But it's a little like when some of the right wing firebreathers complain about that pinko rag the Washington Times.
When you're at 30,000 feet, there's not much difference in appearance for something at ground level or at 500 feet.
"Most heart disease is caused by eating animal products (which humans aren't supposed to eat), lack of exercise, and smoking."
Some of it. I'd also change that to eating too much in general.
Of course, I've yet to hear of a nonsmoking vegan runner that's survived to tell us of, say, the Civil War. So, there's a pretty strong limit on the amount of benefit.
"Reproduce, then die, like nature intended."
Ok. You first.
But feel free to give up the reproduce part.
What's claimed is pretty impressive. They say they've gotten 60% improvement in heart function from a month long treatment course in mice and even quicker protective effect against declines in function. The caveat, as always, is that many things work well in mice, but don't translate into human therapies.
This is still paywalled, but it has many of the figures from the article as well as the abstract.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867413008842
This is of direct interest to me as I have some right side heart enlargement (precursor to failure) and take medicine for it.
Londo Molari: "My shoes are too tight, but it doesn 't matter, because I have forgotten how to dance."
One of her publications is titled: Restoring Trust in American Business
We're not off to a good start on that.
Well, if it successfully withered away and died, how can it possibly be a threat to China? :)
(There's an inherent contradiction in what you say.)
Yes, I know the outsourcing trend. I also know people who work at the contractors. They'll do the job you pay them to do. When BP took over Arco's Alaska pipeline network, one of the things they didn't pay for was the same level of maintenance on the pipelines. And, surprise, they got corrosion and leaks.
If you keep telling them to go cheap they'll do a cheaper job. But, like BP has experienced, you get problems.
When you replace senior workers with younger workers you save money regardless of the base of the salary scale. That was the era of John Browne at the helm of BP. He was noted for extreme cost cutting.
And I'm not surprised there were so many applicants. When the economy is tight you get that. Just like you got it in the steel industry in the early 80s when things were tight. Inland just updated their resume and application files and had thousands in line and fights breaking out outside their Gary Indiana plant.
Right now for all the "recovery" the job market is still tight, and oil industry jobs tend to pay well. That doesn't mean that BP wasn't reducing the senior workers in 1999 when they took over Arco.
And, just for further disclosure, Arco Metals was spun off 9 years before the BP bought Arco and my brother went with that. So that didn't hit him, but he still maintained contacts with people back at Arco.
One reason for subcontracting is you can box off liability if you can show a subcontractor was at fault. You're seriously saying that BP isn't trying to transfer some of its liability to Halliburton (rightly or wrongly)?
We were using it for DEC Alpha servers doing credit card transactions rather than user machines. at least for that it did pretty well. We only took it down once in 3 years to upgrade the drives.
Some form of Unix could have done the same work with half the machine, but others wrote the system before I came on the scene.
I had Linux as one of the OS's on my workstation and liked it a lot. For the Unix servers processing check transactions and doing database work (Oracle) we used SCO instead as we were using X25 and multi-serial port cards for some of the communications and terminal serving. Linux just didn't have the drivers for them in those days.
The place was an absolute dog's breakfast of different OS's from SCO to OS2 to every version of windows and dos you can imagine.
It was one of those "character building experiences".
That was my sense as well. Especially for the DEC Alpha version, NT 3.51 seemed quite stable.
The big international oil majors are so widely distributed that it's really misleading to think of them in terms of "foreign" or "domestic".
Just as BP might get some unwarranted scorn for being British, Halliburton gets it for being associated with Cheney. Neither is really the point, but who did what and when is.
As you say, there's plenty of blame to go around.
My suspicious streak wonders if Anonymous Reader works in the BP PR department.
Ok, we're bringing up Halliburton, which is seen by some as the gold standard in corporate evil, but let's remember that it's BP (AKA Broke Pipeline Inc) that's the plaintiff in this case and are trying to shift the responsibility to Halliburton.
Given the stopping of preventive maintenance and replacing of experienced workers with cheaper ones that BP was widely known for, this is a bit of Pot Kettle Black.
Halliburton hasn't been tagged yet with overall responsibility for the spill as some headlines have claimed, but for destroying computer simulations done before the lawsuits started. That's bad, but it's not some get out of jail free card for BP. There's plenty of responsibility left to go around, and BP was the final word on that rig, not the contractors.
(Full disclosure: My brother worked for Arco before BP bought it. His division was spun off, but he heard quite a good deal about the bone stripping cost cutting that BP did after they bought it. That impacted repeated pipeline spills in Alaska and likely the Deepwater Horizon).
My bad. At the time of the destruction, they weren't yet under orders to preserve, but they were found to have destroyed it specifically so they couldn't have it used in court. That's still seen as obstructing justice.
However many of the headlines related to this are misleading in that they imply that Halliburton has plead guilty to being responsible for the disaster. You have to read farther into the article to see that they plead guilty to destroying computer simulations.
And let's remember, that it's BP that's trying to put the responsibility on Halliburton. "Broke Pipeline Inc" hardly has clean hands here regardless of what Halliburton has done.
That's not the point. They apparently were under orders to preserve materials in case they were needed as evidence, but deleted them.
It would be like destroying the original of an unfavorable contract you were trying to quash and then saying you couldn't find it. You might be able to reconstruct it, or print out a facsimile of it, but the problem was the obstruction of the court process rather than the actual destruction.
"Yes, yes, we will get off your lawn grandpa."
No you won't! You'll still be cluttering it up at 2 am this morning.
Damn whippersnappers. Can't go to bed at a reason hour like 6 pm.......ZZzzzzzzzzz...
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Brings back rather sad memories, Fro. After being in the active Army, I'd gone back to the National Guard as a sergeant. I'd applied to be a warrant officer chopper pilot, and was all but on my way to the Army's helicopter school. It had taken a little more than a year of chasing paperwork and legwork to various places to get the tests taken and such. So that it would be current, I was sent for another flight physical at a nearby air base.
During that year my left eye declined just enough that I couldn't make the 20/20 eye test. This was long before Lasik was accepted and it was just some new thing that not many had tried.
Normally, I still could have gone, but I would have to become an officer as they had less stringent vision requirements than warrant officers. Unfortunately, there was a cut off age for starting flight school (specifically because eyesight deteriorates with age), and I couldn't get into officer candidate school and still get to Fort Rucker (Army's helicopter training center) in time.
The real kicker, was I'd given up an offered platoon sergeant slot that would have meant a nearly immediate promotion, since I thought I was going to chopper school. On the way back from the flight physical, I stopped at the Guard unit and found out they'd given it to another guy that morning.
Needless to say, that wasn't my favorite day.
Now, I'm 51, fat, and see only slightly better than Ray Charles without my glasses. Think they'd take us as a package deal? ;)
Because vaccine research is often difficult. Especially for things like fungi.
They've been working on Valley Fever for many years. They already had at least one candidate vaccine that failed in humans.
Add to that, vaccines are usually not very profitable.
This seems a perfect article to get lots of heated posts.
It makes Snowden seem larger than life, and disses Obama all at the same time. It's almost equal opportunity outrage.
If it had something about George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin it'd be perfect.
So, you're saying you want our dogs to be as zoned out and slack jawed as our kids?
"It's the taboo, isn't it?"
I just love to feel the vibrations from Dykstra whirling in his grave.