The first check would not be redundant because it still provides a chance to find an instrument without having to reopen the patient. Of course you have a visual check, but it can miss things--obviously, since instruments are left in patients. However, it's possibly not practical because you'll pick up the RFID chips on the instruments used in closing. Maybe if you had an RFID scan that differentiated between instruments that stayed in while closing and those that don't...
> Great strategy... if you don't actually want to buy anything on ebay.
No, great strategy, period. I have *always* used this strategy when bidding on eBay, and I almost always get what I want. It may take three or four auctions, but I get what I want...and I pay what I planned.
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> Sure, but who knows the absolute max they will pay?
If you go into an auction without knowing the absolute maximum you will pay for the items you're bidding on, you're a damn fool who is going to get taken to the cleaners.
8 months?? I bloody fricken guarantee that it wouldn't have been more than 2 months. After the next charge hit my credit card, my CC company gets told that a) I am disputing that charge and b) under *no* circumstances are they to allow any charges from AOL again.
> So essentially, everyone's a street sam or street shaman. Great, the two classes I didn't enjoy
> playing (I was much more into the Decking / Rigging parts of the game).
I hear ya; I was always either a Decker or a Hermetic Mage.
> Blizzard has always made games that created genres.
Blizzard has *never* made games that created genres. Their genius has always been to come to genres than already exist and perfectly distill what has been successful in what came before, and then polish with some of the best development processes in the industry.
> You're making a mistake here. A platform that requires learning as
> you say is bad, yes. However, in Nethack you just die until you get
> the fundamentals of the game down. From that point on, it is smooth
> sailing. This applies to almost any games, even sports.
Odd, I don't recall dying even once when I was learning baseball...
Does seem a little risky. Does the word "ricochet" mean anything to you? To my mind, you just can't beat a good old-fashioned nine-pound sledgehammer. Great for working off stress, too.
> How could nobody be hurt or killed? Wasn't anyone in the mine, or on the boats, etc.??
Yes, there were, but they all escaped. The people on the boats managed to jump to shore. The people in the mine were all successfully evacuated (which I find particularly amazing, since one group of miners had their primary evacuation route blocked by water, and the mine as a whole wasn't apparently geared for a quick mass evacuation).
But a top-loader you can add stuff even *after* it's filled. As for dishwashers, I don't know about yours, but mine doesn't fill up with much water--it doesn't come up to the bottom of the door. So I can add additional stuff in the middle of a cycle anyways. Front-loading washing machines don't do that.
No, it is not insulting. It is a simple fact. He might have better phrased it as "science can be used as weapon." He did *not* say "scientists want to use science as a weapon." I believe that very, very few of them want to do so. But it doesn't change the fact that scientific and engineering knowledge is the best possible resource for hurting or killing as many people as efficiently as possible.
> > AOL invented nothing. > Neverwinter Nights in graphical format instead of text.
Which they then cancelled because they couldn't be bothered to figure out how to integrate it into their new flat rate billing structure. Two months later, Ultima Online launched. Way to go, guys!
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The first check would not be redundant because it still provides a chance to find an instrument without having to reopen the patient. Of course you have a visual check, but it can miss things--obviously, since instruments are left in patients. However, it's possibly not practical because you'll pick up the RFID chips on the instruments used in closing. Maybe if you had an RFID scan that differentiated between instruments that stayed in while closing and those that don't...
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Unfortunately, however, super-chickens are *not* mammals...
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> {{ Lame }}
:-)
No, {{ Too Weak }}
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"Nations of the World" also names regions that have not been nations ever and, as I recall, even a city or two.
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{{Impossible to Gauge}}
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> Great strategy... if you don't actually want to buy anything on ebay.
No, great strategy, period. I have *always* used this strategy when bidding on eBay, and I almost always get what I want. It may take three or four auctions, but I get what I want...and I pay what I planned.
Chris Mattern
> Sure, but who knows the absolute max they will pay?
If you go into an auction without knowing the absolute maximum you will pay for the items you're bidding on, you're a damn fool who is going to get taken to the cleaners.
Chris Mattern
8 months?? I bloody fricken guarantee that it wouldn't have been more than 2 months. After the next charge hit my credit card, my CC company gets told that a) I am disputing that charge and b) under *no* circumstances are they to allow any charges from AOL again.
Chris Mattern
...you've invented the bicycle!
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Or Game Tap?
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On PvP servers, it's not limited to raid dungeons, but the raid dungeons are required. You don't have raid-obtained equipment in PvP, you get pwned.
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> So essentially, everyone's a street sam or street shaman. Great, the two classes I didn't enjoy
> playing (I was much more into the Decking / Rigging parts of the game).
I hear ya; I was always either a Decker or a Hermetic Mage.
Chris Mattern
> Blizzard has always made games that created genres.
Blizzard has *never* made games that created genres. Their genius
has always been to come to genres than already exist and perfectly
distill what has been successful in what came before, and then
polish with some of the best development processes in the industry.
> You're making a mistake here. A platform that requires learning as
> you say is bad, yes. However, in Nethack you just die until you get
> the fundamentals of the game down. From that point on, it is smooth
> sailing. This applies to almost any games, even sports.
Odd, I don't recall dying even once when I was learning baseball...
Chris mattern
Does seem a little risky. Does the word "ricochet" mean anything to you? To my mind, you just can't beat a good old-fashioned nine-pound sledgehammer. Great for working off stress, too.
Chris Mattern
> How could nobody be hurt or killed? Wasn't anyone in the mine, or on the boats, etc.??
Yes, there were, but they all escaped. The people on the boats managed to jump to shore. The people in the mine were all successfully evacuated (which I find particularly amazing, since one group of miners had their primary evacuation route blocked by water, and the mine as a whole wasn't apparently geared for a quick mass evacuation).
Chris Mattern
But a top-loader you can add stuff even *after* it's filled. As for dishwashers, I don't know about yours, but mine doesn't fill up with much water--it doesn't come up to the bottom of the door. So I can add additional stuff in the middle of a cycle anyways. Front-loading washing machines don't do that.
Chris Mattern
No, it is not insulting. It is a simple fact. He might have better phrased it as "science can be used as weapon." He did *not* say "scientists want to use science as a weapon." I believe that very, very few of them want to do so. But it doesn't change the fact that scientific and engineering knowledge is the best possible resource for hurting or killing as many people as efficiently as possible.
No kidding; I was particularly interested in FFXI data as that's my main MMORPG...
...so it *must* be true! It's right next to the story about the bouncer accused of murder who likes Chaucer and Kung Fu!
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> > AOL invented nothing.
> Neverwinter Nights in graphical format instead of text.
Which they then cancelled because they couldn't be bothered to figure out how to integrate it into their new flat rate billing structure. Two months later, Ultima Online launched. Way to go, guys!
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Maybe we could start working on World War I now...
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Dammit, I meant with your cowboys.
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> So they've got pirates and cowboys now? All that's left is ninjas, really.
Particularly since the screenshots indicate that you get robots with your pirates.
Chris Mattern
Nope, SCSI all the way!
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