Don't know about mercury fulminate, but they were supposed to be using hydrofluoric acid which will dissolve glass (which is why it came/comes in plastic jugs and why WW told Jesse to put the body in a plastic barrel) and porcelain and iron/steel. I don't know if it would dissolve a body very well.
So-called "reality TV" is just entertainment. It's all BS. There's no moonshine, no "revenooers", and nothing illegal being done. Anything that looks that way is staged.
Like the Talking Heads sang back in the 80s: "I don't know what you expect, staring into the TV set..."
I worked at HP in the early 90s and HR used to brag to employees in large meetings that they had got together with HR from many other tech employers to write job descriptions and titles and define pay and benefits. I was blown away by this at that time and wondered how it could be legal.
electric power at all by using something like one of those propane powered cordless soldering irons. A small flame could melt the plastic and a mechanism like that used in a mechanical pencil could use finger power to push the plastic into the hot-end.
It wouldn't have to have a motor to drive the filament. It may work like a mechanical pencil where pushing a button/lever under your finger will feed the filament into the hot-end. It would certainly be simpler and smaller that way.
An interesting idea, but it seems to be the opposite case for doctors purchasing malpractice insurance. They do what they do many thousands of times with each instance being a risk for a future lawsuit. By your logic, they should not purchase malpractice insurance. I don't know what the stats are for career long comparison of cost of insurance vs cost of settling with disgruntled patients, but I'd bet it's actually cheaper to self insure. The problem is you may not be able to afford to do that until several years into practice and by then you may have already faced enough suits to bankrupt you.
I think the real question is whether someone taking a risk can afford the cost of the worst possible outcome. If they can't, they should either find something less risky to do or buy the insurance.
"Company representatives seemed sure that people in practice would be uninterested in constantly recharging their watches and downloading software updates just to tell time"
They are absolutely right- no one would go to all that trouble just to tell time. But people who wear smartwatches don't use them just to tell time. Of course, calculator watches have been around for years and those haven't taken any business from Swiss watchmakers, so I can't imagine smartwatches will do so either.
I think the Swiss are saying they're not interested in the smartwatch market, not that there won't be a market for smartwatches. I'd bet their bankers will be happy to stash the money made from smartwatches.
I worked at HP in the early 90s and they used to announce to us that their HR people had sat down with HR people from many other large engineering employers (including Intel, Cisco, etc.) in the Bay Area and throughout the US to define job descriptions and pay and benefits packages. I thought it was bullshit, but most of fellow employees didn't think much of it because the next part of the announcement was the 3% annual pay raise everyone was going to get.
If there are any lawyers out there looking to prepare a similar suit, let me know!
and built it from surplus machine parts, and I don't know what the average consumer would do with the thing. It's great for people like me who can use it to make parts for other stuff that they make, but what does the average Joe make or need to make? Why would the average Joe want to go to the trouble of learning CAD software and the intricacies of operating and getting quality prints out of a 3D printer? No, we are a long way from 3D printers becoming household items.
The idea is good, but designing a reliable keyboard is the hardest part of the project. I don't think anyone has ever made a keyboard as reliable as the ones in the HP calculators. Maybe you can hunt down the engineer(s) who designed the HP keyboards from the 80s and get them to work on your project, if they're still alive.
I use RealCalc on my phone and it does a good job of emulating an HP calculator. These days I rarely use the scientific or trig functions.
200W/ch of bullet-proof audio. I loaded it with everything from ribbons to electrostatics and it has never faltered. I got it new in the mid 80s and it's still going strong.
My Squeezebox 3 music player has been working perfectly for the last 8 years, and even the VFD, which I had expected to last 2 years based on experience with VFDs in VCRs, is still perfect.
They will put developers to work on the open source code who will "accidentally" insert bugs that open holes in the security -like the hole that was recently discovered in https. Tails may have been a problem for them in the past, but with the NSA's nearly infinite budget it seems unlikely that Tails would remain a problem for long.
I don't understand what you and JM mean by "safer" versions of the vaccines. What data do you have to support the supposed lack of safety of the vaccines?
If you had measles and mumps and it was no big deal, you were lucky. There are many who are not so lucky. You are making the same mistake JM does- equating a single data point- your personal experience- to a generalized experience. Science/public health doesn't work that way.
" I had mercury fillings in my teeth when I was younger, which I was then told was poisonous and had to be drilled out and replaced. Very pleasant."
Whoever told you that was misinformed or lying (maybe they wanted to profit by drilling them out and replacing them). Your fillings weren't "mercury". Your fillings were mercury/silver amalgam. An amalgam is an alloy that forms when mercury reacts chemically with silver. An alloy is a stable chemical compound. It does not spontaneously decompose into its constituents. If it did, your fillings would have dissolved and disappeared long ago.
Yes, when amalgam fillings are first placed you are exposed to some mercury vapor. That is why the ADA recommends that amalgam fillings should not be placed in small kids or pregnant women.
Amalgam is a very durable, long lasting restorative material that has been in use for over 100 years. Amalgam restorations normally last much longer than alternative materials such as tooth colored composites which require frequent maintenance/replacement. Did they tell you about that before they drilled out all your "mercury" fillings?
For the ADA position see latest info summarized here: http://www.ada.org/sections/pr... The summary on page 2 says: "In the six years since the LSRO report was published the identified research gaps have not been completely addressed. However a number of studies have added to the growing body of literature on the topic of amalgam safety. The findings of the studies published between January 1, 2004 and June 15, 2010 showed no consistent evidence of harm associated with dental amalgam fillings, including for infants and children. There is some evidence that mercury excretion may be affected by gender. There was no evidence demonstrating that some individuals are genetically susceptible to harmful effects from exposure to the low doses of mercury associated with dental amalgam fillings. Overall, studies continue to support the position that dental amalgam is a safe restorative option for both children and adults. When responding to safety concerns it is important to make the distinction between known and hypothetical risks. "
because in the US, April 15th is when income tax return forms are due. On that day many people find out if they are getting a refund of taxes withheld from their paychecks in the previous year. That refund money is often spent on TVs, appliances, etc., and now Google Glass.
So you're assuming that everything we currently have disappears over night? I would think that with a reduced human population the many millions of scalpels and other medical supplies already sitting on shelves would last quite a while, as would a lot of the other stuff we have, including computers and other battery operated electronics.
I feel comfortable with an impending apocalypse. I know how to keep things working, how to fix them when they break, and how to get people numb enough to extract teeth without causing much discomfort. Yup, I'm good.
deny anthropomorphic climate change/global warming on the basis of not trusting data representing past temperatures (tree rings, lake sediments, etc.) put absolute trust in a book written 2k years ago to be the word of God himself.
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um... you're using an entertaining TV show to tell you whether the science portrayed on another entertaining TV show is real?
I think your reality meter is in need of recalibration.
Don't know about mercury fulminate, but they were supposed to be using hydrofluoric acid which will dissolve glass (which is why it came/comes in plastic jugs and why WW told Jesse to put the body in a plastic barrel) and porcelain and iron/steel. I don't know if it would dissolve a body very well.
So-called "reality TV" is just entertainment. It's all BS. There's no moonshine, no "revenooers", and nothing illegal being done. Anything that looks that way is staged.
Like the Talking Heads sang back in the 80s:
"I don't know what you expect, staring into the TV set..."
You just don't get it. Naked women are ART!
I worked at HP in the early 90s and HR used to brag to employees in large meetings that they had got together with HR from many other tech employers to write job descriptions and titles and define pay and benefits. I was blown away by this at that time and wondered how it could be legal.
When is HP going to get theirs???!?
electric power at all by using something like one of those propane powered cordless soldering irons. A small flame could melt the plastic and a mechanism like that used in a mechanical pencil could use finger power to push the plastic into the hot-end.
it can't melt the plastic fast enough.
It wouldn't have to have a motor to drive the filament. It may work like a mechanical pencil where pushing a button/lever under your finger will feed the filament into the hot-end. It would certainly be simpler and smaller that way.
the carbon on the planet into nanotube meshes or sheets, eventually pulling all the carbon out of the air. Like Ice 9!
Starts at about 3:00 in
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
An interesting idea, but it seems to be the opposite case for doctors purchasing malpractice insurance. They do what they do many thousands of times with each instance being a risk for a future lawsuit. By your logic, they should not purchase malpractice insurance. I don't know what the stats are for career long comparison of cost of insurance vs cost of settling with disgruntled patients, but I'd bet it's actually cheaper to self insure. The problem is you may not be able to afford to do that until several years into practice and by then you may have already faced enough suits to bankrupt you.
I think the real question is whether someone taking a risk can afford the cost of the worst possible outcome. If they can't, they should either find something less risky to do or buy the insurance.
"Company representatives seemed sure that people in practice would be uninterested in constantly recharging their watches and downloading software updates just to tell time"
They are absolutely right- no one would go to all that trouble just to tell time. But people who wear smartwatches don't use them just to tell time. Of course, calculator watches have been around for years and those haven't taken any business from Swiss watchmakers, so I can't imagine smartwatches will do so either.
I think the Swiss are saying they're not interested in the smartwatch market, not that there won't be a market for smartwatches. I'd bet their bankers will be happy to stash the money made from smartwatches.
I worked at HP in the early 90s and they used to announce to us that their HR people had sat down with HR people from many other large engineering employers (including Intel, Cisco, etc.) in the Bay Area and throughout the US to define job descriptions and pay and benefits packages. I thought it was bullshit, but most of fellow employees didn't think much of it because the next part of the announcement was the 3% annual pay raise everyone was going to get.
If there are any lawyers out there looking to prepare a similar suit, let me know!
and built it from surplus machine parts, and I don't know what the average consumer would do with the thing. It's great for people like me who can use it to make parts for other stuff that they make, but what does the average Joe make or need to make? Why would the average Joe want to go to the trouble of learning CAD software and the intricacies of operating and getting quality prints out of a 3D printer? No, we are a long way from 3D printers becoming household items.
The idea is good, but designing a reliable keyboard is the hardest part of the project. I don't think anyone has ever made a keyboard as reliable as the ones in the HP calculators. Maybe you can hunt down the engineer(s) who designed the HP keyboards from the 80s and get them to work on your project, if they're still alive.
I use RealCalc on my phone and it does a good job of emulating an HP calculator. These days I rarely use the scientific or trig functions.
200W/ch of bullet-proof audio. I loaded it with everything from ribbons to electrostatics and it has never faltered. I got it new in the mid 80s and it's still going strong.
My Squeezebox 3 music player has been working perfectly for the last 8 years, and even the VFD, which I had expected to last 2 years based on experience with VFDs in VCRs, is still perfect.
I, too, have an HP-11C that I still use almost daily and have only changed the batteries twice since I bought it new around 1980.
Later I got a HP-48SX and the keyboard started out as crap and broke just after the warranty expired. They just don't make them like they used to...
RPN FTW!
They will put developers to work on the open source code who will "accidentally" insert bugs that open holes in the security -like the hole that was recently discovered in https. Tails may have been a problem for them in the past, but with the NSA's nearly infinite budget it seems unlikely that Tails would remain a problem for long.
I don't understand what you and JM mean by "safer" versions of the vaccines. What data do you have to support the supposed lack of safety of the vaccines?
If you had measles and mumps and it was no big deal, you were lucky. There are many who are not so lucky. You are making the same mistake JM does- equating a single data point- your personal experience- to a generalized experience. Science/public health doesn't work that way.
I suggest you look up the potential problems caused by measles, mumps, and the other diseases we vaccinate against before you make statements about how it is better for people to get the diseases than to be vaccinated. These will get you started:
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vp...
http://www.cdc.gov/mumps/about...
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vp...
Ignorance is a choice. Smart people recognize their ignorance and attempt to rectify it. Stupid people choose to remain ignorant. Which are you?
" I had mercury fillings in my teeth when I was younger, which I was then told was poisonous and had to be drilled out and replaced. Very pleasant."
Whoever told you that was misinformed or lying (maybe they wanted to profit by drilling them out and replacing them). Your fillings weren't "mercury". Your fillings were mercury/silver amalgam. An amalgam is an alloy that forms when mercury reacts chemically with silver. An alloy is a stable chemical compound. It does not spontaneously decompose into its constituents. If it did, your fillings would have dissolved and disappeared long ago.
Yes, when amalgam fillings are first placed you are exposed to some mercury vapor. That is why the ADA recommends that amalgam fillings should not be placed in small kids or pregnant women.
Amalgam is a very durable, long lasting restorative material that has been in use for over 100 years. Amalgam restorations normally last much longer than alternative materials such as tooth colored composites which require frequent maintenance/replacement. Did they tell you about that before they drilled out all your "mercury" fillings?
For the ADA position see latest info summarized here: http://www.ada.org/sections/pr...
The summary on page 2 says:
"In the six years since the LSRO report was published the identified research gaps have
not been completely addressed. However a number of studies have added to the
growing body of literature on the topic of amalgam safety. The findings of the studies
published between January 1, 2004 and June 15, 2010 showed no consistent evidence
of harm associated with dental amalgam fillings, including for infants and children. There
is some evidence that mercury excretion may be affected by gender. There was no
evidence demonstrating that some individuals are genetically susceptible to harmful
effects from exposure to the low doses of mercury associated with dental amalgam
fillings. Overall, studies continue to support the position that dental amalgam is a safe
restorative option for both children and adults. When responding to safety concerns it is
important to make the distinction between known and hypothetical risks. "
because in the US, April 15th is when income tax return forms are due. On that day many people find out if they are getting a refund of taxes withheld from their paychecks in the previous year. That refund money is often spent on TVs, appliances, etc., and now Google Glass.
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So you're assuming that everything we currently have disappears over night? I would think that with a reduced human population the many millions of scalpels and other medical supplies already sitting on shelves would last quite a while, as would a lot of the other stuff we have, including computers and other battery operated electronics.
I believe a zombie apocalypse is more likely than the scenario you describe.
I feel comfortable with an impending apocalypse. I know how to keep things working, how to fix them when they break, and how to get people numb enough to extract teeth without causing much discomfort. Yup, I'm good.
deny anthropomorphic climate change/global warming on the basis of not trusting data representing past temperatures (tree rings, lake sediments, etc.) put absolute trust in a book written 2k years ago to be the word of God himself.