During the last 5 years or so, mandatory time off has been instituted, (10 hours I think, and have a limit of 100 hours per week. I finished my training before that, and so I went thru the 100-130 hour work week schedule for 5 years for my training. I was lucky since I never needed much sleep - only 4 hours a night, ever since I was 17 or so. Now that I'm 40+ I might need 5. Most surgeons that I know routinely work 12 hour days.
Even before med school and residency, I figured that my minimal sleep requirements let me live, learn, and do more than most people. I wound up becoming friends with several other people who had similar energy levels. As a mater of fact, I hate sleep - it's wasted time. Maybe once every two months or so, do I actually want to sleep, but wind up waking up after 6 hours without an alarm.
As far as my health goes, I get a catch a cold once a year or less, and most people think I'm much younger than I actually am.
Some people just don't need much sleep (Da Vinci, Jefferson), some need a lot. Humanity is a spectrum, there's always someone outside the curves.
With the exception of truffle smelling pigs, there are no other examples of working pigs that I can find. Many dogs are not pets - they have jobs -hunting, herding, police work, guarding things, drug sniffing, guide dogs for blind.
So even if there is a quote on Wikipedia, I would still think that dogs are more trainable and useful to people.
Walking/running roughly burns one calorie per pound per mile. You need to burn roughly 3500 calories to lose a pound. The average basal matabolic rate in an average person burns about 1500 calories So a 330 pound person, could subsist on vitamins and water, and walk across the entire USA, and arrive at a svelte 120 pounds. I picked a reasonable pace of 3 MPH for 15 hours a day, which would get you across the country in 66 days, using an additional 28 pounds for the basal metabolic rate.
Why not them? I can see them railing against all the infidel ideas that are carried thru the web/T.V./etc, but then again, they also use the internet heavily to recruit, and communicate with their future recruits. Any other players looking to make a hit? Countries vs groups? China - they need oil, and are thinking of themselves as a, if not the superpower. Russia looking to exert more influence?
Which countries are most affected by the black outs. Do they benefit Iran, or maybe Israel
Coincidence (probably not)
Can't see the USA doing it - except for the CIA, since public perception of new war activities are really, really not popular with the general citizen right now.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but generally I don't think that selling cell phones requires a college/university degree. So as a result I usually do my own research about products, than rely on a person of questionable interest, education, and or intelligence. Sure you can get lucky and come across the engineering student who likes the job and knows a hell of a lot more than you, but you can also get the opposite. Point in case - I was looking at one of the new TX luxury watch line, 770 series (actually made by Timex - cost about $400-500 very neat check them out). Asked the department store salesman about it, and he couldn't tell me crap about it. I even showed him how to work the built in compass several times, and he still couldn't remember which button to press. I've had plenty of salespeople give plain flat out wrong information. Then again, I've also had some that have been spectacular -Porsche salespeople for example:-). He knew every fact I could ask about the car, and most of it's competitors. So when someone starts talking about the "experience" and can't give you any hard facts, your knowledge hasn't really increased, and it's hard to make any rational conclusion about the item. It may be better or WORSE than what you previously thought about it.
Just to play devils advocate - I'm a surgeon/geek/former scientist, and so how I choose to buy things is probably very, very different than my musician and actor friends. Neither way of buying/comparing things is the "right" way.
That was a main reason for me to switch to water cooling - blissful quietness, instead of sounding like I parked next to a wind tunnel, or an airport. Liquid systems are fairly common now, and have had the kinks worked out. I never had a water leak.
would be very easy to repair color scratches - just a quick blast of the laser, and coor is matched again. A lile clear coat over the whole thing will protect it. Since this is "thinner" than paint - I have a feeling that it might "scratch" easier than regular paint.
Often it is treated with radioactive seeds implanted into the prostate. A substantial number of men receive this treatment (implantation of tiny seed sized radioactive bits into the prostate that kills the cancer), which will raise the specificity of said detectors to near useless. I guess we'll see a lot of "nukes" on their way to the early bird special diners, and 4 pm movies.
Some young women are treated with Iodine 125 to treat overactive thyroids. "Ok now the bomb is headed to The Gap, no - now it's going to Forever 21."
Nice random inflammatory statement with no supporting facts. Medicaid (free insurance to poor people) is available to just about any person who can't pay for regular insurance. County hospital, while making you wait for a while, supply free health care to those who need it. Just about every doctor winds up taking care of patients for free EMTALA regulations make sure that non-paying patients aren't dumped. People who show up in emergency rooms (triage) are always seen.
Never be hungry. The fastidious would fear being turned into stinky Limberger. Tough guys would have to run or be turned into runny camembert. Bible thumping creationalist would be turned into........American "cheese"
But seriously pre-cog would be cool at first, but might take all the joy out of life - no surprises anymore. Right now my desired powers would be either super-speed like the Flash, or jumping ability like the Hulk. But that could be 'cause I'm living in Los Angeles, where the average traffic speed is 11 MPH (16 KPH).
Since, in this election the exit polls that predicted Gore to win were wrong the first time ever! (The Dewey-Truman? election was a newspaper screw up)
It shouldn't be too hard to make a IPod sized device that could broadcast thousands/millions of fake RFID numbers if it picks up that one is being scanned nearby. Or just have it on the whole time, filling the scanners with noise. Websites could have extensive lists of other peoples RFID numbers all uploaded, thereby providing a kind of digital alibi, if you will. I'm sure that someone will make cracking type of programs, that can produce valid RFID numbers, or hack into legitamite databases that have RFID numbers for other products.
just unscrew the case - you'll be looking right at the drive platters. If you're lazy, you'll just take the screw driver and stab/bend/scrape the platters which will make them unreadable. The platters are easy to turn. Who do you know, has the technology to read a disk with a giant gouge/crack in it - the FBI? - Why would they read my hard drive?
You could also BBQ them Sledghammer Axe throw them in a pond bury them
But to be honest - most peoplewould not even spen the effort to do anything with them if you threw it out in the trash with some stinky chicken carcass and rotten milk. - Would you? People recover, or try to recover stuff from hard drives from companies, because there might be useful info on them. How much useful info can you get from some schmuck down the street, and would it be useful/worth your time? - Probably not.
Sugar beets have a high sugar content(therefore can make more EtOH), and can grow in fairly cold, adverse environments. Grows quite well in North America. Corn is being used because of the lobbying effort of Archer-Daniel Midland, a world leader in processing corn, wheat, soybeans. Corn is a lousy product to make ethanol.
Ethanol yield/per acre for sugar beets is about 2x times that of corn, and about 25% higher than sugar cane. Sugar cane is more efficiently made into ethanol yielding 8 times as much energy as required to make it, sugar beets only about twice. Corn is nearly an even output.
I've played bass for 25 years, and playing on Rock Band is quite fun, but really different than the real thing. Many of the notes are absent , and so when you play the notes that you know are there - the game dings you. SOme of the fingerings are screwy too, since the difficult/difficult+ levels just move your hand around to use 5 "frets", which doesn't always make sense from the chords used. I hear a major 4th interval, and the fret the game wants me to hit is waaay up the neck, instead of just moving your finger up one string.
And then had someone get between you and the fire - You don't feeel the heat immediately. Same kind of concept I suppose. Or maybe the jet of flame just passes over you, since you're lying in a small depression in the floor, and you don't become toast.
I guess you can evade the flame in the same way that someone can shoot a fireball out of their hand - it's fantasy.
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During the last 5 years or so, mandatory time off has been instituted, (10 hours I think, and have a limit of 100 hours per week. I finished my training before that, and so I went thru the 100-130 hour work week schedule for 5 years for my training. I was lucky since I never needed much sleep - only 4 hours a night, ever since I was 17 or so. Now that I'm 40+ I might need 5. Most surgeons that I know routinely work 12 hour days.
Even before med school and residency, I figured that my minimal sleep requirements let me live, learn, and do more than most people. I wound up becoming friends with several other people who had similar energy levels. As a mater of fact, I hate sleep - it's wasted time. Maybe once every two months or so, do I actually want to sleep, but wind up waking up after 6 hours without an alarm.
As far as my health goes, I get a catch a cold once a year or less, and most people think I'm much younger than I actually am.
Some people just don't need much sleep (Da Vinci, Jefferson), some need a lot. Humanity is a spectrum, there's always someone outside the curves.
and it's within 2 orders of magnitude to get there. Not too bad. Shouldn't be too hard to engineer, or tweak it to get there.
the efficiency may be only about 10% or so. No violation of the second law of thermodynamics - just move along people.
Answer to my question is a few posts down.
Do these need power, or do they somehow scavenge power that is built in the line with a traditional copper cable.
With the exception of truffle smelling pigs, there are no other examples of working pigs that I can find. Many dogs are not pets - they have jobs -hunting, herding, police work, guarding things, drug sniffing, guide dogs for blind.
So even if there is a quote on Wikipedia, I would still think that dogs are more trainable and useful to people.
Walking/running roughly burns one calorie per pound per mile. You need to burn roughly 3500 calories to lose a pound. The average basal matabolic rate in an average person burns about 1500 calories So a 330 pound person, could subsist on vitamins and water, and walk across the entire USA, and arrive at a svelte 120 pounds.
I picked a reasonable pace of 3 MPH for 15 hours a day, which would get you across the country in 66 days, using an additional 28 pounds for the basal metabolic rate.
Why not them? I can see them railing against all the infidel ideas that are carried thru the web/T.V./etc, but then again, they also use the internet heavily to recruit, and communicate with their future recruits.
Any other players looking to make a hit? Countries vs groups?
China - they need oil, and are thinking of themselves as a, if not the superpower.
Russia looking to exert more influence?
Which countries are most affected by the black outs. Do they benefit Iran, or maybe Israel
Coincidence (probably not)
Can't see the USA doing it - except for the CIA, since public perception of new war activities are really, really not popular with the general citizen right now.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but generally I don't think that selling cell phones requires a college/university degree. So as a result I usually do my own research about products, than rely on a person of questionable interest, education, and or intelligence. Sure you can get lucky and come across the engineering student who likes the job and knows a hell of a lot more than you, but you can also get the opposite. :-). He knew every fact I could ask about the car, and most of it's competitors.
Point in case - I was looking at one of the new TX luxury watch line, 770 series (actually made by Timex - cost about $400-500 very neat check them out). Asked the department store salesman about it, and he couldn't tell me crap about it. I even showed him how to work the built in compass several times, and he still couldn't remember which button to press. I've had plenty of salespeople give plain flat out wrong information. Then again, I've also had some that have been spectacular -Porsche salespeople for example
So when someone starts talking about the "experience" and can't give you any hard facts, your knowledge hasn't really increased, and it's hard to make any rational conclusion about the item. It may be better or WORSE than what you previously thought about it.
Just to play devils advocate - I'm a surgeon/geek/former scientist, and so how I choose to buy things is probably very, very different than my musician and actor friends. Neither way of buying/comparing things is the "right" way.
That was a main reason for me to switch to water cooling - blissful quietness, instead of sounding like I parked next to a wind tunnel, or an airport. Liquid systems are fairly common now, and have had the kinks worked out. I never had a water leak.
Sorry for all the spelling typos - dang thing keeps on dropping letters
would be very easy to repair color scratches - just a quick blast of the laser, and coor is matched again. A lile clear coat over the whole thing will protect it. Since this is "thinner" than paint - I have a feeling that it might "scratch" easier than regular paint.
Often it is treated with radioactive seeds implanted into the prostate. A substantial number of men receive this treatment (implantation of tiny seed sized radioactive bits into the prostate that kills the cancer), which will raise the specificity of said detectors to near useless. I guess we'll see a lot of "nukes" on their way to the early bird special diners, and 4 pm movies.
Some young women are treated with Iodine 125 to treat overactive thyroids. "Ok now the bomb is headed to The Gap, no - now it's going to Forever 21."
Nice random inflammatory statement with no supporting facts. Medicaid (free insurance to poor people) is available to just about any person who can't pay for regular insurance. County hospital, while making you wait for a while, supply free health care to those who need it. Just about every doctor winds up taking care of patients for free EMTALA regulations make sure that non-paying patients aren't dumped. People who show up in emergency rooms (triage) are always seen.
Never be hungry. The fastidious would fear being turned into stinky Limberger. Tough guys would have to run or be turned into runny camembert. Bible thumping creationalist would be turned into........American "cheese"
But seriously pre-cog would be cool at first, but might take all the joy out of life - no surprises anymore. Right now my desired powers would be either super-speed like the Flash, or jumping ability like the Hulk. But that could be 'cause I'm living in Los Angeles, where the average traffic speed is 11 MPH (16 KPH).
What the article fails to stress properly, is that the robot had no other power supply other than the monkeys supercharged thoughts.
SUre controlling the robot with your brain is kind of cool, but when it has no power supply - now that's cool!
Since, in this election the exit polls that predicted Gore to win were wrong the first time ever! (The Dewey-Truman? election was a newspaper screw up)
It shouldn't be too hard to make a IPod sized device that could broadcast thousands/millions of fake RFID numbers if it picks up that one is being scanned nearby. Or just have it on the whole time, filling the scanners with noise. Websites could have extensive lists of other peoples RFID numbers all uploaded, thereby providing a kind of digital alibi, if you will. I'm sure that someone will make cracking type of programs, that can produce valid RFID numbers, or hack into legitamite databases that have RFID numbers for other products.
just unscrew the case - you'll be looking right at the drive platters. If you're lazy, you'll just take the screw driver and stab/bend/scrape the platters which will make them unreadable. The platters are easy to turn. Who do you know, has the technology to read a disk with a giant gouge/crack in it - the FBI? - Why would they read my hard drive?
You could also BBQ them
Sledghammer
Axe
throw them in a pond
bury them
But to be honest - most peoplewould not even spen the effort to do anything with them if you threw it out in the trash with some stinky chicken carcass and rotten milk. - Would you? People recover, or try to recover stuff from hard drives from companies, because there might be useful info on them. How much useful info can you get from some schmuck down the street, and would it be useful/worth your time? - Probably not.
Sugar beets have a high sugar content(therefore can make more EtOH), and can grow in fairly cold, adverse environments. Grows quite well in North America. Corn is being used because of the lobbying effort of Archer-Daniel Midland, a world leader in processing corn, wheat, soybeans. Corn is a lousy product to make ethanol.
Ethanol yield/per acre for sugar beets is about 2x times that of corn, and about 25% higher than sugar cane.
Sugar cane is more efficiently made into ethanol yielding 8 times as much energy as required to make it, sugar beets only about twice. Corn is nearly an even output.
I've played bass for 25 years, and playing on Rock Band is quite fun, but really different than the real thing. Many of the notes are absent , and so when you play the notes that you know are there - the game dings you. SOme of the fingerings are screwy too, since the difficult/difficult+ levels just move your hand around to use 5 "frets", which doesn't always make sense from the chords used. I hear a major 4th interval, and the fret the game wants me to hit is waaay up the neck, instead of just moving your finger up one string.
It's a blue dye, that passes harmlessly through your system, often used in medical procedures.
Generally it's only for the old and health care workers.
Sirens of Titan.
Must be weird living on a planet where the day (=159 Earth days) is longer than it's year (59 Earth days)
And then had someone get between you and the fire - You don't feeel the heat immediately. Same kind of concept I suppose. Or maybe the jet of flame just passes over you, since you're lying in a small depression in the floor, and you don't become toast.
I guess you can evade the flame in the same way that someone can shoot a fireball out of their hand - it's fantasy.