Seriously, decades ago pedal cars, not toys, were sold widely in Spain. They could easily average 25 mph and if you didn't have to go long distances (over 10 miles) were reasonable. Problem with many people is they're lazy and they want to take all their crap all over the place with them. There was even a design in the early 60's or late 50's of the car of tomorrow in Popular Science, which carried a spare car for zipping around in away from the collosal family mover (which actually puts the Hummer to shame.)
Poker is played against other players, not the house. The house makes money by taking a cut of every pot. Poker bots could undermine the industry by scaring off human players that can't play well against a bot. This will reduce the amount of pots that are being played, thus reducing the house cut.
Normally I don't like guns, but in this instance those old westerns have got it right. If you suspected someone was a cheatin varmint you pulled out your shooter with it's six chambers of justice. Not much of a way to contend with cheatin varmints in this day, unless you just stay away.
Meanwhile California is adding more gambling crap all over the place (thanks governator) and another issue is on the ballot.
You're not from the parts of the South where they put ranch on everything, are you?
I loathe ranch dressing, cool or otherwise. When I could eat dairy I loved bleu cheese dressing on plain baked potato, which I figured out for myself back in the late 60's.
I'll be darned. I didn't even know they were still around. Back when it was the latest HOT search engine I was continually frustrated with how it invariably came up with stuff completely irrelevent to whatever I was searching for. I got tired of that and moved on.
I had seend something where Jeeves/Ask is somewhere in the remaining 3% of the search engine market not dominated by Google and Yahool. They've got a ways to grow.
Translation: "He says things which are true but that I do not like."
Actually, no. I don't waste my time with his site anymore. I get my news from outside the US, like a mirror I find it's a very revealing reflection of how others view us as well as exploring news topics commonly overlooked on home ground because we tend to be too fascinated with scandal and innuendo to pay attention to what's really happening. Learn to spot high profile political issues as the sucker bait that they really are.
Spinsanity is a great site for articles that point out all of the spin from both parties.
Like I need anyone to point that stuff out anymore. I'm often driving down the road, listening to some guy from some thinktank or shadowy advisory outfit spinning things beyond credibility, to which I'm shouting in the privacy of my pickup cab, "Spin! Spin! Spin that sucker! Spin!" It's often so bad I can't believe anyone actually buys those lines of BS, then I realize that they do and have. It can get a man down.
Yeah, but after it became common knowledge that Drudge was just a tool, fed dirt by Clinton's enemies, it lost it's gritty novelty and is now less interesting than the Weekly World News.
While Slashdot discussions can degrade to political bickering, there's nothing quite like a USENET group completely unrelated to politics to get buried in a 1,000+ article thread which has violated Godwin's Law dozens of times and is often massively cross posted.
BTW, I use a wind-up alarm clock. Never have to replace batteries and always has woke me up (usually 15 minutes before it actually does, for fear of it actually ringing) I take it on trips because it's reliable and refuse to take a battery operated clock.
That's not right, and its probably untrue. If you were threatened with your job - even if you really did have TB - then your employer comitted an actionable offense. If they really, really, really did that you own them. Especially if it was in writing.
A condition of employment was to not have TB. HIV/AIDS, pregnancy or a broken limb do not spread by a cough, to my knowledge. Maybe I'd be entitled to some form of workman's comp, but I couldn't perform my job at my location. (Which really was pretty silly when you come down to it, because 100 infected people could pass through the door every day, coughing their heads off, but an employee, nooooo...)
Sorry they brought it to you, but TB absolutely thrives in the living conditions of India, Bangladesh and China. Dense populations, overworked and weakened bodies, poor water quality and effluent in water (even when used for agriculture) contribute greatly to ideal conditions. Once there were strict medical requirements to get a work permit to enter the USA, which according to my doctor, have lapsed considerably and often are forged.
As I saw on Discovery once... There are thousands of natural antibiotics which are extremely complex. Some can be taken from cactae in South America, some can be taken from certain species of ants.
I thought that was a movie about finding a cure for cancer...
As I understand Tuberculosis has never been treatable by penicilin or variants, only the other infections that happen as the result of a weakened body and immune system.
America has the lowest rate of TB infection because we manage the disease differently than the rest of the world.
By and large the living conditions, even the worst, are vastly superiour to the conditions many infected people come from. We've got water standards, human waste disposal, heated housing, good food, proper nutrition and for many good heathcare, though that's in decline and has been noted as potential threat which may increase frequency and spread of disease.
Wait a second, you didn't have TB but were put on a liver-destroying and probably resistance-breeding drug?
As the medical establisment goes in the USA, if there's a chance you have TB, they treat you as if you did have it. This was effectively: take the treatment and you can go back to work, don't take it and take your chances unemployed. See the light?
Also, I would assume a bug in cyst-like structure eventually dies. Can it really survive forever without food in a warm human body?
Various organisms are capable of surviving extended periods without activity, food, warmth, etc. Some bacteria, so I've heard, can survive hundreds of years waiting for conditions to be right to shed some little shell they get by in.
All my life I've tested negative. A few years after moving to California,
the great gateway to the developing nations of Asia, things changed. Where
I worked they provided free TB tests, I thought "Cool, I'll save on going to
my doctor and have my folder updated for the next few years", so I took the test.
A pink spot appears on my left arm, while in the midst of a critical project
I'm managing and -pfft- I'm sent home until I can prove I don't have the disease.
After a week of cooling my heels at home, having a chest x-ray and hand-written
letter from my doctor I return to work. His assessment is I don't have tuberculosis
(formerly called Consumption in the olden days), but I've been exposed to it so my immune system is
on red alert. I can no long have the little poke under the skin, but from now on must do the full
doctor visit thing, whatever that will entail, including deductables and co-pays. Yay.
So someone probably coughed in an elevator, in a kitchen or whatever and myself and anyone
else in the vicinity were exposed.
I was put on Isoniazid with vitamin B6 (because Isoniazid knocks the sh!t out of your liver)
for 9 grueling months. The first month I felt like I was dying. It really played havoc
with mountain biking and meant no beer for 9 months, it was glorius to be off it.
Even two years ago it was recognized that there was an epidemic of TB in the asian sub continent and
many of the H1B workers to came in may not have had it full blown, but had it and were bringing it into
the USA. Could very well have been one of the fine people I worked with shortly after moving to California, but by
no means would the state be unique. On weekends and holidays I'm a cyclist and put in long miles with considerable
effort, which means I'm pretty well in tune with how my lungs are doing. Any little change, a day more phlegmy the others
makes me take notice and track whatever seems be be going on. For that I thank all the brilliant people and lobbyists who made
it so much easier during the tech boom to let people into the country on a rush to fill positions in businesses (which lobbied like
hell for increases in H1B and more lax health screening.)
A little background on TB, the bug is not killed by the immune system, but isolated. If it's under control that means a little cyst-like
structure is built around it which hopefully contains it the rest of the hosts life. A severe respiratory infection can weakend the immune system to
the point that the bug gets out and wreaks havoc, more likely at advanced age.
SparcStation IPX (or even IPC) I ran one of these clever little buggers for a few years, very low on power, quiet as a churchmouse and houses one harddrive (but at todays disk sizes that's plenty) the architecture is pretty fast and 64MB of RAM was more than adequate. You can pick these little beasties up on eBay for next to nothing so spare parts shouldn't be a problem, either (I actually bought a second for spares.) I was running RedHat 6.1 for months at a time without a hiccup.
It isn't Britney Spears I fear, but what comes after her. Seems to me that each iteration of manufactured talent is more sickening than the last. (One reason I don't watch American Idol, which seeks out the next 'talent' that fits the cookie cutter.)
But consider that much of Spears' success was the performance. Sing, dance, strut about the stage, before spending the next few decades going from one failed relationship and addiction to the next until appearing on Good Morning America and announcing she's cleaned up, totally focused on life and ready for a comeback (no, not as a signer, but the next president.)
Music downloads don't leave much room for performance, unless you plan to watchs someone frolic about on that miniscule screen on your cellphone. Admittedly, some acts have never had a top-ten song or little chart success anyway, but have enormous cult-like followings (i.e. Jimmy Buffet, are you a parrot head?;-) and without enough curiousity or word-of-mouth, will people attend shows?
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It will have pedals.
Seriously, decades ago pedal cars, not toys, were sold widely in Spain. They could easily average 25 mph and if you didn't have to go long distances (over 10 miles) were reasonable. Problem with many people is they're lazy and they want to take all their crap all over the place with them. There was even a design in the early 60's or late 50's of the car of tomorrow in Popular Science, which carried a spare car for zipping around in away from the collosal family mover (which actually puts the Hummer to shame.)
Normally I don't like guns, but in this instance those old westerns have got it right. If you suspected someone was a cheatin varmint you pulled out your shooter with it's six chambers of justice. Not much of a way to contend with cheatin varmints in this day, unless you just stay away.
Meanwhile California is adding more gambling crap all over the place (thanks governator) and another issue is on the ballot.
I gamble bigger stakes. I drive on Highway 1 =-|
I loathe ranch dressing, cool or otherwise. When I could eat dairy I loved bleu cheese dressing on plain baked potato, which I figured out for myself back in the late 60's.
He's lost weight. You would too, if you had to make do with the scraps left for you by the big players.
I suppose next they'll try for some "corporate" look.
Or from one of the Simpsons episodes, where they visit a dollar store and pass a stack of cases of
My stomach turns every time I think what that might be like.
I had seend something where Jeeves/Ask is somewhere in the remaining 3% of the search engine market not dominated by Google and Yahool. They've got a ways to grow.
Mr. Vice President, how you talk!
Ah, someone else sees the USA heading toward feudalism. Refreshing.
Actually, no. I don't waste my time with his site anymore. I get my news from outside the US, like a mirror I find it's a very revealing reflection of how others view us as well as exploring news topics commonly overlooked on home ground because we tend to be too fascinated with scandal and innuendo to pay attention to what's really happening. Learn to spot high profile political issues as the sucker bait that they really are.
I'd rather read the Onion than Drudge.
Like I need anyone to point that stuff out anymore. I'm often driving down the road, listening to some guy from some thinktank or shadowy advisory outfit spinning things beyond credibility, to which I'm shouting in the privacy of my pickup cab, "Spin! Spin! Spin that sucker! Spin!" It's often so bad I can't believe anyone actually buys those lines of BS, then I realize that they do and have. It can get a man down.
Yeah, but after it became common knowledge that Drudge was just a tool, fed dirt by Clinton's enemies, it lost it's gritty novelty and is now less interesting than the Weekly World News.
While Slashdot discussions can degrade to political bickering, there's nothing quite like a USENET group completely unrelated to politics to get buried in a 1,000+ article thread which has violated Godwin's Law dozens of times and is often massively cross posted.
all but the 5th planet are yours, oh, you might want to avoid that nasty 4th planet, too..
One time??? One?!?!?
You cannot make this stuff up!
Sounds like they need Language Solutions
Where's your sense of adventure?
BTW, I use a wind-up alarm clock. Never have to replace batteries and always has woke me up (usually 15 minutes before it actually does, for fear of it actually ringing) I take it on trips because it's reliable and refuse to take a battery operated clock.
A condition of employment was to not have TB. HIV/AIDS, pregnancy or a broken limb do not spread by a cough, to my knowledge. Maybe I'd be entitled to some form of workman's comp, but I couldn't perform my job at my location. (Which really was pretty silly when you come down to it, because 100 infected people could pass through the door every day, coughing their heads off, but an employee, nooooo...)
Sorry they brought it to you, but TB absolutely thrives in the living conditions of India, Bangladesh and China. Dense populations, overworked and weakened bodies, poor water quality and effluent in water (even when used for agriculture) contribute greatly to ideal conditions. Once there were strict medical requirements to get a work permit to enter the USA, which according to my doctor, have lapsed considerably and often are forged.
I thought that was a movie about finding a cure for cancer...
As I understand Tuberculosis has never been treatable by penicilin or variants, only the other infections that happen as the result of a weakened body and immune system.
By and large the living conditions, even the worst, are vastly superiour to the conditions many infected people come from. We've got water standards, human waste disposal, heated housing, good food, proper nutrition and for many good heathcare, though that's in decline and has been noted as potential threat which may increase frequency and spread of disease.
As the medical establisment goes in the USA, if there's a chance you have TB, they treat you as if you did have it. This was effectively: take the treatment and you can go back to work, don't take it and take your chances unemployed. See the light?
Also, I would assume a bug in cyst-like structure eventually dies. Can it really survive forever without food in a warm human body?
Various organisms are capable of surviving extended periods without activity, food, warmth, etc. Some bacteria, so I've heard, can survive hundreds of years waiting for conditions to be right to shed some little shell they get by in.
So someone probably coughed in an elevator, in a kitchen or whatever and myself and anyone else in the vicinity were exposed.
I was put on Isoniazid with vitamin B6 (because Isoniazid knocks the sh!t out of your liver) for 9 grueling months. The first month I felt like I was dying. It really played havoc with mountain biking and meant no beer for 9 months, it was glorius to be off it.
Even two years ago it was recognized that there was an epidemic of TB in the asian sub continent and many of the H1B workers to came in may not have had it full blown, but had it and were bringing it into the USA. Could very well have been one of the fine people I worked with shortly after moving to California, but by no means would the state be unique. On weekends and holidays I'm a cyclist and put in long miles with considerable effort, which means I'm pretty well in tune with how my lungs are doing. Any little change, a day more phlegmy the others makes me take notice and track whatever seems be be going on. For that I thank all the brilliant people and lobbyists who made it so much easier during the tech boom to let people into the country on a rush to fill positions in businesses (which lobbied like hell for increases in H1B and more lax health screening.)
A little background on TB, the bug is not killed by the immune system, but isolated. If it's under control that means a little cyst-like structure is built around it which hopefully contains it the rest of the hosts life. A severe respiratory infection can weakend the immune system to the point that the bug gets out and wreaks havoc, more likely at advanced age.
Alas, how many are wind up vs. quartz?
SparcStation IPX (or even IPC) I ran one of these clever little buggers for a few years, very low on power, quiet as a churchmouse and houses one harddrive (but at todays disk sizes that's plenty) the architecture is pretty fast and 64MB of RAM was more than adequate. You can pick these little beasties up on eBay for next to nothing so spare parts shouldn't be a problem, either (I actually bought a second for spares.) I was running RedHat 6.1 for months at a time without a hiccup.
It isn't Britney Spears I fear, but what comes after her. Seems to me that each iteration of manufactured talent is more sickening than the last. (One reason I don't watch American Idol, which seeks out the next 'talent' that fits the cookie cutter.)
But consider that much of Spears' success was the performance. Sing, dance, strut about the stage, before spending the next few decades going from one failed relationship and addiction to the next until appearing on Good Morning America and announcing she's cleaned up, totally focused on life and ready for a comeback (no, not as a signer, but the next president.) Music downloads don't leave much room for performance, unless you plan to watchs someone frolic about on that miniscule screen on your cellphone. Admittedly, some acts have never had a top-ten song or little chart success anyway, but have enormous cult-like followings (i.e. Jimmy Buffet, are you a parrot head? ;-) and without enough curiousity or word-of-mouth, will people attend shows?