But it comes down to a risk/reward equation, doesn't it? IF it's real and we do nothing to stop it until we KNOW it's real, it will be far, far too late.
On the other hand, if we smack down the oil companies a little and actually invest in some technology that can help eliminate the potential problem (Fusion is my personal favorite), why not? It's an economic cost (the usual reason given) and has the potential to SAVE THE SPECIES if you're wrong and maybe (just MAYBE) 350 ppm of CO2 changes the climate.
Might climate change turn out to not be a risk? Sure. Bet your planet on it? I'm not having any kids, so it isn't really my problem... but I'm willing to make sacrifices to see things improve (higher gas taxes, more pricy energy, etc). Fight amongst yourselves.
You got one part wrong though... it's best for everyone INCLUDING the Oil Industry Shareholders. Their kids are getting more childhood asthma too... their air has more CO2 and Sulfur and everything else in it too...
The problem with capitalisim is that it relies on ENLIGHTENED self interest. Wave some cash in front of people and they become about as enlightened as the back-side of the moon.
Trust me... with all the cell towers there are already enough un-illuminated towers out there. All you'd be doing would be selecting against all airplanes.
TFA also says he got his parents to get him Cipro. Self-medicating and hoping it solves the problem is abdicating your part of the Doctor/Patient relationship... you do not get the same quality of care that way.
Note, too, though, that in Patrick's case he went to several different doctors.
Yes, the most common solution these days is a perscription and out the door... but my doctor always says "come back if you don't feel better!". Not going back if you don't feel better is not the Doctor's fault.
It's a Doctor/Patient relationship... if you turn it into a series of one-night-stands you're not going to get the same quality of care.
But self-medicating like he did with the Cipro is part of the problem with medical care in this country.
If you have a multi-year problem, go do the doctor! Do what they tell you! DON'T think you know more than them. Doing research on your own is one thing (good-on-ya there) but antibiotics are not toys!
Hope you get better, though./waiting for the superbug
Polling has reached a frantic pace over the past few weeks... if you think there are no polls running because it's Sunday I'm afraid you're mistaken. There are some pollsters he won't use, but he's very forthcoming about which ones he's written off and why (usually "Push" polling... e.g. "Are you going to vote for Kerry even though he will kill your children and eat them?")
He has changed his methodology several times over the past few months but is always consistent, even for most of October when the map showed Bush winning by 80+ electoral votes.
Seriously. Correct me if I'm wrong, but THEY're the ones who: Thought we still use Imperial for SPACE WORK (Mars Climate Orbiter IIRC?) Recently dropped a sat because it wasn't bolted down when they moved it. Now this.
Can I get like a billion dollars to fail repeatedly? PLEASE?
In addition to the other response, terminating VFR Flight Following isn't an option inside the class B. I'm sure everyone flying VFR outside the class B got a quick "Radar Service terminated, remain clear class Bravo", but if they're already inside ATC has to provide separation.
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Looks like the government has been watching Stargate SG-1!!!
(except we don't have naquada yet, so we're forced to use nuclear until we figure out how to use the stargate)
Nah, it is a naquada reactor... just in 12m of "tamper-proof" casing and doped up with some low grade radium to make it scary so that nobody figures out what's going on.
But changing expectations will change people's reactions. The fact is... most people DON'T pay enough attention while driving. They talk on the phone, flirt with the girl in the car next to them, adjust the radio, whatever. And they do that because they saw the next light just turn green 5 seconds ago.
This will kill people until we all get used to it. And not just the speeding @$$hat... the schoolbus that just pulled into the intersection gets a lot of that inertia too.
Breaking the law is breaking the law but this just seems like a way to endanger everyone.
IANAP, but the two signals are directly off phase so the net result should simply be a pressure increase. Since the body deals with pressure increases all the time, it just ignores it.
Unrelated... a very common place to find Active Noise Cancellation is in aviation headsets used in small airplanes like these.
I was with you right up to the part after "Hot Redhead". Although I think she should instead go to dinner with me... that will clearly have more effect.
I don't really have an issue with this... even though I'm a dedicated speeder.
BUT... what happens when the idiot in front of me with the 86 Chevy slams on his breaks and pulls across 3 lanes and hits me. Ooops, no computer for him, but I was doing 74 in a 65. Looks like it's obviously my fault.
Amen Brother! Although I must admit MS has done a great job with their Trackball Optical, while Logitech has gone the wrong way with the latest versions of the TrackMan Marble Wheel, IMHO. My fingers are too big for the most recent version.
But that is Microsoft. See a good idea. Steal good idea.
Still... the TrackMan Marble will forever be known as the pointing device that saved my wrists! No mice since then.
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You're a little out of touch... the current crop of Americans and our Government won't be swayed by your so called "facts".
Besides... we have cash to burn. Iraq can't be costing more than about a billion dollars a week now.
We have God on our side! New Orleans will rise again!
(Can I buy that ticket to someplace else yet? I'm looking for hard vaccum and a nice view of the asteroid belt...)
Yeah, how dare we place value on public property. :)
Just remember... the tree on your property changes everyone's environment. Eventually we will care what you do with it.
"my wife has been appearing late at night in my office begging me to come to bed, usually dressed in something rather scandalous."
She drapes herself in loose-leaf copies of the federal tax code?
More likely transcripts of speeches from the presidential campaign. The tax code is really more like a fantasy novel.
But it comes down to a risk/reward equation, doesn't it? IF it's real and we do nothing to stop it until we KNOW it's real, it will be far, far too late.
On the other hand, if we smack down the oil companies a little and actually invest in some technology that can help eliminate the potential problem (Fusion is my personal favorite), why not? It's an economic cost (the usual reason given) and has the potential to SAVE THE SPECIES if you're wrong and maybe (just MAYBE) 350 ppm of CO2 changes the climate.
Might climate change turn out to not be a risk? Sure. Bet your planet on it? I'm not having any kids, so it isn't really my problem... but I'm willing to make sacrifices to see things improve (higher gas taxes, more pricy energy, etc). Fight amongst yourselves.
You got one part wrong though... it's best for everyone INCLUDING the Oil Industry Shareholders. Their kids are getting more childhood asthma too... their air has more CO2 and Sulfur and everything else in it too...
The problem with capitalisim is that it relies on ENLIGHTENED self interest. Wave some cash in front of people and they become about as enlightened as the back-side of the moon.
Trust me... with all the cell towers there are already enough un-illuminated towers out there. All you'd be doing would be selecting against all airplanes.
Is there a Daniel Death Count anywhere? I want a SG1 bodycount page!
TFA also says he got his parents to get him Cipro. Self-medicating and hoping it solves the problem is abdicating your part of the Doctor/Patient relationship... you do not get the same quality of care that way.
Note, too, though, that in Patrick's case he went to several different doctors.
Yes, the most common solution these days is a perscription and out the door... but my doctor always says "come back if you don't feel better!". Not going back if you don't feel better is not the Doctor's fault.
It's a Doctor/Patient relationship... if you turn it into a series of one-night-stands you're not going to get the same quality of care.
But self-medicating like he did with the Cipro is part of the problem with medical care in this country.
/waiting for the superbug
If you have a multi-year problem, go do the doctor! Do what they tell you! DON'T think you know more than them. Doing research on your own is one thing (good-on-ya there) but antibiotics are not toys!
Hope you get better, though.
Get one, they're cheap... I'm sure you've got a spare 80 gig hard drive lying around somewhere. :)
For a 1 day poll, that day would be the median.
Polling has reached a frantic pace over the past few weeks... if you think there are no polls running because it's Sunday I'm afraid you're mistaken. There are some pollsters he won't use, but he's very forthcoming about which ones he's written off and why (usually "Push" polling... e.g. "Are you going to vote for Kerry even though he will kill your children and eat them?")
He has changed his methodology several times over the past few months but is always consistent, even for most of October when the map showed Bush winning by 80+ electoral votes.
Nice... thanks for the pictures... I hadn't gotten to see how truly beautiful this screw-up was.
But we know things like this already. Failure is fine if you learn from it.
What did we learn? Um... accelerometers only work in one direction... if you install them backwards, things don't happen right!
We tolerate mistakes if we have to make them, but this one (like all the recent Lockheed Martin screwups on work for NASA) appears to be stupidity.
Lest I get a bunch of "What are you talking about?" responses:
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For them dropping the NOAA sat:
http://www.space.com/spacenews/businessmond
(first link I found)
Climate Orbiter:
http://www.space.com/news/mco_report-b_
Seriously. Correct me if I'm wrong, but THEY're the ones who:
Thought we still use Imperial for SPACE WORK (Mars Climate Orbiter IIRC?)
Recently dropped a sat because it wasn't bolted down when they moved it.
Now this.
Can I get like a billion dollars to fail repeatedly? PLEASE?
Hey, even Dracula, Dead and Loving it was a better way to spend money than some recent flicks with a lot of potential.
Sky Captain, anyone?
I'll take a bad Mel movie over most other crap that gets foisted on us.
In addition to the other response, terminating VFR Flight Following isn't an option inside the class B.
I'm sure everyone flying VFR outside the class B got a quick "Radar Service terminated, remain clear class Bravo", but if they're already inside ATC has to provide separation.
Looks like the government has been watching Stargate SG-1!!!
(except we don't have naquada yet, so we're forced to use nuclear until we figure out how to use the stargate)
Nah, it is a naquada reactor... just in 12m of "tamper-proof" casing and doped up with some low grade radium to make it scary so that nobody figures out what's going on.
Don't believe what you're told!
But changing expectations will change people's reactions. The fact is... most people DON'T pay enough attention while driving. They talk on the phone, flirt with the girl in the car next to them, adjust the radio, whatever. And they do that because they saw the next light just turn green 5 seconds ago.
This will kill people until we all get used to it. And not just the speeding @$$hat... the schoolbus that just pulled into the intersection gets a lot of that inertia too.
Breaking the law is breaking the law but this just seems like a way to endanger everyone.
IANAP, but the two signals are directly off phase so the net result should simply be a pressure increase. Since the body deals with pressure increases all the time, it just ignores it.
Unrelated... a very common place to find Active Noise Cancellation is in aviation headsets used in small airplanes like these.
My sister got a pair of seals (first and last initial), sealing wax and an envelope with a ring inside sealed with her first initial.
Is it safe?
I was with you right up to the part after "Hot Redhead". Although I think she should instead go to dinner with me... that will clearly have more effect.
OK, I miss the reference... what is it?
I don't really have an issue with this... even though I'm a dedicated speeder.
BUT... what happens when the idiot in front of me with the 86 Chevy slams on his breaks and pulls across 3 lanes and hits me. Ooops, no computer for him, but I was doing 74 in a 65. Looks like it's obviously my fault.
Amen Brother! Although I must admit MS has done a great job with their Trackball Optical, while Logitech has gone the wrong way with the latest versions of the TrackMan Marble Wheel, IMHO. My fingers are too big for the most recent version.
But that is Microsoft. See a good idea. Steal good idea.
Still... the TrackMan Marble will forever be known as the pointing device that saved my wrists! No mice since then.