Yes, there are methods of avoiding hypoglycemia when working out - but they're reactive, not anticipatory. Until they also include a sugar pump, forget it.
Even forgetting the security issue, going around with a pump and injection line connected all the time is a lot more of a pain in the ass than current methods. Also, it can't make judgements based on future activity - you might want less insulin than normal because you're about to embark an on 3-hour bike ride, which if you take your regular dose, will make you hypoglycemic, pass out, and wake up in an ambulance or the hospital (insulin efficiency increases with activity level, which is why you need less insulin when you're about to be active for any period of time).
You can't even get to the nearest star in one lifetime - how are you going to export the excess population to other planets? Humans are not semi-rational when it comes to devising schemes for division of wealth - just look at the US. Look how many people are STILL defending the over-breeding ignorant hypocritical Duggars, or anti-abortion and anti-contraceptive people.
And mating is not driven by status - otherwise rape wouldn't exist. And how many people engage in a one-night drunken hookup and the next morning go "Oh my $DIETY, I didn't really f*ck that, did I?"
Mating is driven by testosterone - just look at how many guys get caught literally f*cking the dog, or even screwing a porcupine.
And how do you expect the increasing number of people who won't have money from employment to pay for their health insurance? Countries that have public health care still finance it through taxation. Reducing working wages by working fewer hours doesn't pay the bills - ask all those people working just under the legal number of hours to be considered full-time.
They shouldn't have charged him with making death threats, but rather with criminal harassment or intimidation. Then it's the mental state of the recipient, not the person making the threats, that applies.
That first "if" won't happen. Also, Star Trek was far from utopia - wars on interplanetary and interstellar scales are not an improvement. Additionally, it would require infinite energy and infinite speed (amount other things) to make anything resembling the federation viable - and we have neither, and won't be getting them in this universe.
You're forgetting what happens with a "manufacturer's strike." When there's no incentive to produce something, why bother, since there's no upside, just a potential downside.
The problem with the website in OP with their 4 keypoints (and the 80% from the optimisic investor in your quote) - is they dont take into account the damage done if a computer gets it wrong.
This is current with UAVs, we have autopilots, but is anyone prepared to board an automated 787 without any pilot onboard?
It will probably eventually be safer and more convenient. Same as automated elevators, traffic lights, etc.
The porn industry will be the first to replace actors with digital actors that look "even realer than life. Won't even require the digital overlay that was simulated in Running Man. And you can have it any way you want, just like Doug Quade in Total Recall. 37.4%? I doubt it.
Writers are rated at a 3.8% change of being automated. How hard can it be for software to turn out porno plots? Really?
Musicians and singers - 7.4%? Can anyone ever remember the cheesier-than-elevator-muzak from those cheap pornos?
It will create more opportunities for optometrists (13.5%).
Now someone make the inevitable pr0n overlords, please:-)
Making full time 30 hours a week won't help. Covering the social benefits of 2 workers will give even more incentive to automate - get rid of 2 for the price of 1.
Nope. Intelligence may be limited, but there's no sign that stupidity isn't infinite:-) The heat death just goes to show how stupid (lack of information storage because there's no energy differential) the universe will be.
He's one of those people who doesn't know the value of $$$. "I can afford the payments" affects high-wage earners really bad when the music stops. Future bankruptcy is almost inevitable.
The employees claims, affirmed by a judgement prior to the bankruptcy, get their claim treated the same as other creditors, or perhaps better. The few shareholders there were, on the other hand come last, after back taxes, etc.
Besides, what assets does Mandriva have? The name? Not worth anything.
For those of you who are too young to have heard of it, inna gadda da vida at 256kbps is 32,727,315 bytes.
Pink floyd's meddle at 320bps is 56,465,408 bytes
Disk Jockies would spin one of these when they wanted to have a 17 to 22 minute break.
Multiple lovers maybe, but multiple primary partners? I doubt that, personally. I don't think mere lovers need to be recognised in law. I don't see the case for it.
So the main thrust of the question was NOT about inheritance. Your question of multiple primary partners being recognized by law was answered several times.
But if you go up a bit, the discussion was not about inheritance until you tried to throw out roadblocks (changing the goalposts) after I pointed out you were wrong about the the existence of polygamy, there and elsewhere.
And the answer is obvious as far as inheritance is concerned, unless there's a will that specifies otherwise; the communal property remains communal. Doesn't matter if there's just one partner or more still living, so what's the big deal? Did you think before asking that question?
NOT bringing your loved one at least some chocolate on Valentine's day can be bad for both your physical and emotional health. Negative physical effects can include sore back from sleeping on the couch to pneumonia from sleeping in the dog house, as well as bruising from flying saucers (and cups and plates and anything else handy) to not being able to have sex until you atone:-)
If you're going to take my 2-year-old car and stick half a tank of diesel in it, you can at least help conduct an experiment to see if my thinking as to the appropriate solution is right. Turns out it was. Common sense at the time would have been to drain the tank (after cursing them out for being so negligent). I figured that common sense is often wrong, and that the gasoline pickup, which floats in the tank, so why not just fill it up with gas and drive?
It beats having to properly dispose of half a tank of diesel contaminated with the gas that was left at the bottom of the tank, and it's cheaper. Plus, I was not getting out of bed at 2 am to deal with this.
Read the article. It gives the numbers, as well as other info:-) Or if you don't feel like it, 17% of the tests that were run by different labs came back with different interpretations. So, about 1 in 6.
Feel better now? You asked a very specific question, I gave an answer, plus a supplemental answer, based on verifiable facts.
The US already has de facto bigamy. It's even on TV - see Sister Wives - and this court judgment striking down the ban on bigamy Mostly, it's being ignored because the laws might not survive a constitutional challenge. So, that's how US law handles bigamy, and you could have found this with the easiest of searches.
Next time, instead of asking a question to score points, how about you do a little research first:-)
Diesel is actually going to remove less lubricant from parts than gasoline. Back in the days of carburetors, it wouldn't to any more harm than when you have a sticky pushrod and pour a stream of automatic transmission fluid down the carb while modulating the throttle to keep it from stalling, or doing the same thing with a pint of water to blast carbon buildup in the cylinder head(s) to stop engine run-on from hot spots.
Besides, waiting for the AAA to have a car towed in the middle of the night during a snow storm when the person has things to do isn't the best option. And it doesn't require you getting your hands dirty, so what's the big deal?
In the search to find the high-paying jobs and industries of the future, Neil deGrasse Tyson has an idea for a novel solution. How about a militarised space race to Mars?
More specifically, the famed American astrophysicist says that if he could just get China's leaders to leak a memo to the West about plans to build military bases on Mars, "the US would freak out and we'd all just build spacecraft and be there in 10 months".
Ignoring the fact that the US and China (and over 100 other countries) have signed the Outer Space Treaty, which prohibits establishing military bases on other planets, just who would you be defending from / attacking from a Mars military base? Martians who want a second War of the Worlds?
The article says it's the interpretation. So does the summary. You can't say it's a vague article if you didn't read it. The actual article gives the hard numbers.
This isn't the first time either - up here investigative tv journalists sent samples from each test subject to several different labs and the companies refused to be interviewed to explain why the results came back different depending on which company did the test.
And what is the impetus for collecting more data? It's not because the tests and their interpretations are giving accurate results all the time, that's for sure.
An investigative TV news program here did their own study - sent samples from the same people to different labs, and got back different results. The tests do often get it wrong.
Gene testing results are open to interpretation. What to do with the results is also open to interpretation, by both doctors and the patients. Times change, improved processes will result in different interpretations based on better knowledge of the weight each gene variant should be given.
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Yes, there are methods of avoiding hypoglycemia when working out - but they're reactive, not anticipatory. Until they also include a sugar pump, forget it.
Even forgetting the security issue, going around with a pump and injection line connected all the time is a lot more of a pain in the ass than current methods. Also, it can't make judgements based on future activity - you might want less insulin than normal because you're about to embark an on 3-hour bike ride, which if you take your regular dose, will make you hypoglycemic, pass out, and wake up in an ambulance or the hospital (insulin efficiency increases with activity level, which is why you need less insulin when you're about to be active for any period of time).
You can't even get to the nearest star in one lifetime - how are you going to export the excess population to other planets? Humans are not semi-rational when it comes to devising schemes for division of wealth - just look at the US. Look how many people are STILL defending the over-breeding ignorant hypocritical Duggars, or anti-abortion and anti-contraceptive people.
And mating is not driven by status - otherwise rape wouldn't exist. And how many people engage in a one-night drunken hookup and the next morning go "Oh my $DIETY, I didn't really f*ck that, did I?"
Mating is driven by testosterone - just look at how many guys get caught literally f*cking the dog, or even screwing a porcupine.
And how do you expect the increasing number of people who won't have money from employment to pay for their health insurance? Countries that have public health care still finance it through taxation. Reducing working wages by working fewer hours doesn't pay the bills - ask all those people working just under the legal number of hours to be considered full-time.
They shouldn't have charged him with making death threats, but rather with criminal harassment or intimidation. Then it's the mental state of the recipient, not the person making the threats, that applies.
That first "if" won't happen. Also, Star Trek was far from utopia - wars on interplanetary and interstellar scales are not an improvement. Additionally, it would require infinite energy and infinite speed (amount other things) to make anything resembling the federation viable - and we have neither, and won't be getting them in this universe.
You're forgetting what happens with a "manufacturer's strike." When there's no incentive to produce something, why bother, since there's no upside, just a potential downside.
You're mistaken. The state "takes care of it" via payroll taxes.
The problem with the website in OP with their 4 keypoints (and the 80% from the optimisic investor in your quote) - is they dont take into account the damage done if a computer gets it wrong.
This is current with UAVs, we have autopilots, but is anyone prepared to board an automated 787 without any pilot onboard?
It will probably eventually be safer and more convenient. Same as automated elevators, traffic lights, etc.
The porn industry will be the first to replace actors with digital actors that look "even realer than life. Won't even require the digital overlay that was simulated in Running Man. And you can have it any way you want, just like Doug Quade in Total Recall. 37.4%? I doubt it.
Writers are rated at a 3.8% change of being automated. How hard can it be for software to turn out porno plots? Really?
Musicians and singers - 7.4%? Can anyone ever remember the cheesier-than-elevator-muzak from those cheap pornos?
It will create more opportunities for optometrists (13.5%).
Now someone make the inevitable pr0n overlords, please :-)
Making full time 30 hours a week won't help. Covering the social benefits of 2 workers will give even more incentive to automate - get rid of 2 for the price of 1.
Nope. Intelligence may be limited, but there's no sign that stupidity isn't infinite :-) The heat death just goes to show how stupid (lack of information storage because there's no energy differential) the universe will be.
He's one of those people who doesn't know the value of $$$. "I can afford the payments" affects high-wage earners really bad when the music stops. Future bankruptcy is almost inevitable.
Besides, what assets does Mandriva have? The name? Not worth anything.
For those of you who are too young to have heard of it, inna gadda da vida at 256kbps is 32,727,315 bytes.
Pink floyd's meddle at 320bps is 56,465,408 bytes
Disk Jockies would spin one of these when they wanted to have a 17 to 22 minute break.
Multiple lovers maybe, but multiple primary partners? I doubt that, personally. I don't think mere lovers need to be recognised in law. I don't see the case for it.
So the main thrust of the question was NOT about inheritance. Your question of multiple primary partners being recognized by law was answered several times.
But if you go up a bit, the discussion was not about inheritance until you tried to throw out roadblocks (changing the goalposts) after I pointed out you were wrong about the the existence of polygamy, there and elsewhere.
And the answer is obvious as far as inheritance is concerned, unless there's a will that specifies otherwise; the communal property remains communal. Doesn't matter if there's just one partner or more still living, so what's the big deal? Did you think before asking that question?
NOT bringing your loved one at least some chocolate on Valentine's day can be bad for both your physical and emotional health. Negative physical effects can include sore back from sleeping on the couch to pneumonia from sleeping in the dog house, as well as bruising from flying saucers (and cups and plates and anything else handy) to not being able to have sex until you atone :-)
If you're going to take my 2-year-old car and stick half a tank of diesel in it, you can at least help conduct an experiment to see if my thinking as to the appropriate solution is right. Turns out it was. Common sense at the time would have been to drain the tank (after cursing them out for being so negligent). I figured that common sense is often wrong, and that the gasoline pickup, which floats in the tank, so why not just fill it up with gas and drive?
It beats having to properly dispose of half a tank of diesel contaminated with the gas that was left at the bottom of the tank, and it's cheaper. Plus, I was not getting out of bed at 2 am to deal with this.
Read the article. It gives the numbers, as well as other info :-) Or if you don't feel like it, 17% of the tests that were run by different labs came back with different interpretations. So, about 1 in 6.
Feel better now? You asked a very specific question, I gave an answer, plus a supplemental answer, based on verifiable facts.
The US already has de facto bigamy. It's even on TV - see Sister Wives - and this court judgment striking down the ban on bigamy Mostly, it's being ignored because the laws might not survive a constitutional challenge. So, that's how US law handles bigamy, and you could have found this with the easiest of searches.
Next time, instead of asking a question to score points, how about you do a little research first :-)
Diesel is actually going to remove less lubricant from parts than gasoline. Back in the days of carburetors, it wouldn't to any more harm than when you have a sticky pushrod and pour a stream of automatic transmission fluid down the carb while modulating the throttle to keep it from stalling, or doing the same thing with a pint of water to blast carbon buildup in the cylinder head(s) to stop engine run-on from hot spots.
Besides, waiting for the AAA to have a car towed in the middle of the night during a snow storm when the person has things to do isn't the best option. And it doesn't require you getting your hands dirty, so what's the big deal?
I thought the poster was lauding the woman who defended her dissertation. My bad. Which ring of hell do you wish me to descend to?
From the Sidney Morning Herald:
In the search to find the high-paying jobs and industries of the future, Neil deGrasse Tyson has an idea for a novel solution. How about a militarised space race to Mars?
More specifically, the famed American astrophysicist says that if he could just get China's leaders to leak a memo to the West about plans to build military bases on Mars, "the US would freak out and we'd all just build spacecraft and be there in 10 months".
Ignoring the fact that the US and China (and over 100 other countries) have signed the Outer Space Treaty, which prohibits establishing military bases on other planets, just who would you be defending from / attacking from a Mars military base? Martians who want a second War of the Worlds?
This isn't the first time either - up here investigative tv journalists sent samples from each test subject to several different labs and the companies refused to be interviewed to explain why the results came back different depending on which company did the test.
An investigative TV news program here did their own study - sent samples from the same people to different labs, and got back different results. The tests do often get it wrong.
Gene testing results are open to interpretation. What to do with the results is also open to interpretation, by both doctors and the patients. Times change, improved processes will result in different interpretations based on better knowledge of the weight each gene variant should be given.