Next time you go to Las Vegas (if ever) you should go on a tour of the Nevada Test Range- it's really cool. Just don't have kids afterward.
They take reservations several months in advance (I think it was through the DOE). Basically you'll find yourself on a bus, packed with senior citizens too old to fear radiation, darting from crater to crater past big scary RADIOACTIVE signs poking up from tall weeds. You'll also meet a lot of right wing types during the day.
They don't allow cameras, which is a damn shame. Go before Ernie the tour guide dies, so you can hear firsthand accounts of all the nuclear tests that went awry. Ernie is big on nuclear power but he probably glows in the dark.
they won't prescribe a drug if it works but they don't have a pen with it's name on it.
If I were a doctor I wouldn't prescribe lithium at all unless I got one of those new marketing thumb drives with a minimum of 16 GB to hold a small PDF file listing side effects. You can get ones now that are shaped like pills and unscrew and have your drug logo on the outside. If I have those around I can remember what to prescribe my patients.
There are concerns that physicians overlook traditional and proven treatments in favor of less effective, more expensive new drugs. Well if someone sent me a half-terabyte drive that said LITHIUM on it that would help.
In a few years medicine will have advanced to the point where I have to have a terabyte drive.
Can someone tell me which insects contain the most titanium, and where can I get some to feed my pet spider? I've got him weaving me a hammock in my living room, but it isn't up to holding my weight yet. Maybe I'll try mixing titanium dioxide with that damn cornstarch in the kitchen that the moths got into.
I agree that this flu strain appears to be too mild to deserve the "Colbert" moniker, and the reported symptoms are actually contraindications for true Colbert flu.
This is what to watch for when you get Colbert flu:
Sudden, desirable anatomical changes. Men will become more fully elongated and easily excitable. This strikes all men, including those in poor health, so if you contract Colbert flu, contact your doctor right away to see if you're healthy enough to have sex. Women may find their breasts becoming rounder, plumper, and firmer, resembling a beauty pageant queen more and more as the satirically ultraconservative virus ravages their bodies.
Cognitive leaps. Often patients begin to experience a series of epiphanies in the days following an infection. As the virus invades the brain, it starts pushing around liberal neurons, rearranging synapses into more conservative configurations, and generally kicking ass and taking names on a cellular level. The political opinions of the patient will rapidly begin to improve. However if this continues too long, the patient's life will be threatened- along with all those of his fellow sufferers- as their voting behavior starts to bring their country to its knees.
Anticancerous lacrimation. As the Colbert flu progresses, the patient's tears acquire the ability to cure cancer.
Mood stability. Patients infected with the Colbert strain quickly lose the ability to feel any emotions other than one: pure, intense, raw patriotism. They will experience an inability to laugh or cry as a result, although they can still exhibit rage toward liberals.
Photogenicity. The most obvious symptom of course, is a monotonically increasing photogenicity. As the infection progresses, the patient appears more and more handsome and beautiful in the presence of cameras. The virus does this in order to attract uninfected victims and help spread conservatism.
And it's not even destruction of embryos that was prevented. It's federal funding of same.
This is an oft-used, idiotic talking point.
The insinuation is, that if some lab is doing stem cell research, the feds won't pay for the stem cell experiments. Yes, that is true.
They also won't pay for anything else that lab does. The lab will no longer get a federal grant for anything.
If there are any research institutions affiliated with the lab, the pox infects them too. If anyone in a laboratory affiliated with a teaching hospital or a major university -or any other research institution even partially dependent on federal grant money- goes near an embryonic stem cell, or even writes a paper detailing a meta-analysis of embryonic stem cell experiments done in other countries, the entire institution will have to shut down.
Anyway, so that's all over. In the meantime, we've been far surpassed on this front by countries with no government restrictions, and say, hundreds of millions of couples constantly conceiving their second, forbidden children.
Basically the "federal funding" thing was just an essentially meaningless qualifier to make it more lawfully palatable in order to aid it through the legislature. Think "medical" in "medical marijuana".:)
We can just train an army of sharpshooters and have them fire their guns straight up when the satellite passes over. Each one would be aiming for a different Brazilian pirate.
First you put your lungs in the dome, along with your weed which you light and then you slide the other half of the dome over and let the lungs fill up with smoke.
I checked my pocket to see if I had any money and the measurement collapsed my wishful thinking wave function into an economic dystopia defined from negative infinity to positive infinity (sorry everybody).
I wish I had checked my mail instead. I might have resolved the universe into a superposition sqrt((depression**2 +/- boomtime**2) / 2).
If you think a word means something different than everyone else has thought it meant for a hundred years, I'm inclined to think that everyone else is right.
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My attention span got me halfway through the summary and then I got distracted by topless photos of Carrie Prejean.
Where I work, they'll just copy the porn for themselves and then wipe the drive.
Next time you go to Las Vegas (if ever) you should go on a tour of the Nevada Test Range- it's really cool. Just don't have kids afterward.
They take reservations several months in advance (I think it was through the DOE). Basically you'll find yourself on a bus, packed with senior citizens too old to fear radiation, darting from crater to crater past big scary RADIOACTIVE signs poking up from tall weeds. You'll also meet a lot of right wing types during the day.
They don't allow cameras, which is a damn shame. Go before Ernie the tour guide dies, so you can hear firsthand accounts of all the nuclear tests that went awry. Ernie is big on nuclear power but he probably glows in the dark.
they won't prescribe a drug if it works but they don't have a pen with it's name on it.
If I were a doctor I wouldn't prescribe lithium at all unless I got one of those new marketing thumb drives with a minimum of 16 GB to hold a small PDF file listing side effects. You can get ones now that are shaped like pills and unscrew and have your drug logo on the outside. If I have those around I can remember what to prescribe my patients.
There are concerns that physicians overlook traditional and proven treatments in favor of less effective, more expensive new drugs. Well if someone sent me a half-terabyte drive that said LITHIUM on it that would help.
In a few years medicine will have advanced to the point where I have to have a terabyte drive.
If you send me some yellowcake I can just put it in the cornstarch along with the titanium and wait to get bitten for my superpowers.
Can someone tell me which insects contain the most titanium, and where can I get some to feed my pet spider? I've got him weaving me a hammock in my living room, but it isn't up to holding my weight yet. Maybe I'll try mixing titanium dioxide with that damn cornstarch in the kitchen that the moths got into.
I agree that this flu strain appears to be too mild to deserve the "Colbert" moniker, and the reported symptoms are actually contraindications for true Colbert flu.
This is what to watch for when you get Colbert flu:
The moderators this morning don't appear to be it-getters...
Oh you mean the same SCIENCE that almost named a space station module "Serenity" after a tampon.
Are you a conservative by any chance?
and as far as I can tell there are a lot more stars than black holes.
WTF? How can you tell there are more stars than black holes? I have trouble when I try to count the holes.
And it's not even destruction of embryos that was prevented. It's federal funding of same.
This is an oft-used, idiotic talking point.
The insinuation is, that if some lab is doing stem cell research, the feds won't pay for the stem cell experiments. Yes, that is true.
They also won't pay for anything else that lab does. The lab will no longer get a federal grant for anything.
If there are any research institutions affiliated with the lab, the pox infects them too. If anyone in a laboratory affiliated with a teaching hospital or a major university -or any other research institution even partially dependent on federal grant money- goes near an embryonic stem cell, or even writes a paper detailing a meta-analysis of embryonic stem cell experiments done in other countries, the entire institution will have to shut down.
Anyway, so that's all over. In the meantime, we've been far surpassed on this front by countries with no government restrictions, and say, hundreds of millions of couples constantly conceiving their second, forbidden children.
Basically the "federal funding" thing was just an essentially meaningless qualifier to make it more lawfully palatable in order to aid it through the legislature. Think "medical" in "medical marijuana". :)
Just put each cricket in a little box with a caterpillar. That will teach them not to screw with your town.
Nevermind that his job might become outdated in 5 years...
Joe Dumbass? I assume you mean Joe Wurzelbacher?
His job has already been outdated for over 5 months; it just hasn't penetrated his thick skull.
It will be "news for nerds" when RMS appears in a Microsoft commercial buying a Dell. He's not cool enough for a Mac.
So some moron can make a completely idiotic post and just add "Go ahead burn my karma" and that suddenly makes it insightful?
Not only that, his copyright on his post won't expire until 70 years after he finally dies.
We can just train an army of sharpshooters and have them fire their guns straight up when the satellite passes over. Each one would be aiming for a different Brazilian pirate.
You shouldn't be letting your dog eat any M&Ms at all. Chocolate is poisonous to dogs.
First you put your lungs in the dome, along with your weed which you light and then you slide the other half of the dome over and let the lungs fill up with smoke.
I checked my pocket to see if I had any money and the measurement collapsed my wishful thinking wave function into an economic dystopia defined from negative infinity to positive infinity (sorry everybody).
I wish I had checked my mail instead. I might have resolved the universe into a superposition sqrt((depression**2 +/- boomtime**2) / 2).
Obviously, using command line is not "probable cause" for doing anything.
Yes it is, if you're giving commands to destroy public infrastructure. By the time he was arrested, the machine had already reported a broken pipe.
Heh heh heh... just wait until those grappling hooks are on your hull and desperate armed pirate robots are scurrying up the rope ladders.
I mean, if you can handle JS you have no excuse for not learning PHP.
Like learning Java instead.
If you think a word means something different than everyone else has thought it meant for a hundred years, I'm inclined to think that everyone else is right.
Just look at the word conservative.
making lives better? Oh, yes, by not allowing people to make their own choices.
Gay marriage forced me to choose between my faith and not being an asshole.