Why did they study just women? Hint - they couldn't find any post-menopausal men. They started with old, flawed test data from the WHI menopause study and came to new, flawed confusions... oops, I mean conclusions... or do I?
Also, even if you get prostate cancer, it's usually so slow that something else will kill you first.
Besides, most of the men doing the studies would rather look at boobs than fingering your prostate.
Ok, so lets talk about work. Have you seen the average farmer, who works heavily all day long? They look youthful for you? How about janitors, cleaners and people with heavy manual work. Do they look youthful for you?
I sit all day, and exercise 1 hour every day. People consistently say I look 15 years younger than I am. So, yeah, I'm taking this study with a spoon of salt.
CAP: aptitude [btw, a great package management tool].
And that old man will probably be able to dig your grave with a hand shovel. Skin aging is normal when your skin is constantly damaged by sunlight.
Too bad the study is bullshit because it's based on the WHI (Women's Health Initiative), a study that had huge design and implementation flaws and bad data analysis.
The WHI claimed to study the effects of hormone replacement therapy on women. However, rather than using bio-identical human hormones, they used Premarin and Prempro (the PREgnant MARe unINe). Hint - human estrogen is not bio-identical to horse estrogen, so we're already off to a bad start. Also, at the time Premarin was approved, the 50+ impurities were allowed by the FDA because the manufacturer didn't claim a therapeutic benefit from them. It would not be approved on that basis today, but rather, its been grandfathered in, same as many other drugs that were approved under less stringent testing requirements. Choosing one drug supplier for all 150,000+ women was a mistake. All it told us was the effects of horse hormones on women. We now know that Premarin is not good for your liver.
Second, the study cohort was mostly too old and too fat to be a representative sample of women in the age cohort, so there was severe selection bias, which the British found negatively influenced the results after repeating the experiments, leading to the opposite conclusion - for women who have been post-menopausal 5 years or less, estrogen (not Premarin) benefits outweighed the risks. The biggest risk factors are controllable - don't smoke, don't be a fattie, and don't take progestins and you can enjoy the benefits of longer life, lower cardiovascular problems, and less loss of bone density with minimal risk.
Menopause is not normal. In the entire chain of mammals, there are only two species (out of more than 80) whales, and humans, who go through menopause. In humans, it's easily explained by our ability to live longer outpacing our ability to evolve to accommodate the lengthened lifespan. Doesn't make it normal, it makes it a disorder that we can and should take whatever preventative measures we can to prevent it's impacting our lives.
The British government has been running a campaign directed at doctors, urging them to discuss HRT with their female patients, hopefully instead of prescribing antidepressants to deal with menopause, as happened after the whole "HRT IS BAD" scare.
Of course, like any big scare, it got headlines. The corrections rarely make the front page, or the news, anywhere. Same as most breakthrough medical studies that are later found to be either not repeatable (+60%) or show only minimal results.
You can't draw conclusions about normal human aging based on a non-representative cohort of women fed horse hormones laced with impurities. They need to at the very least change their data source and re-run their analysis.
Jacking up rates, putting in resolution caps, you'll pay them one way or another. Here'sanother one that made the news yesterday, coming into effect in less than 2 weeks.
Well, now they you can run OpenSUSE or Ubuntu programs under windows 10, why not just skip the middleman and run OpenSUSE or Ubuntu directly on the hardware? After all, if it runs ok under Windows 10, it must mean that it meets their security concerns, right?:-)
As early as in Windows XP, we saw that companies should take early steps to avoid future risks or costs
Risks have been endemic since the early days of DOS, and they only figured that out in XP? Even though the Windows 95 install screen promised the safest, impossible-for-viruses-to-run OS ever?
There is no reason to upgrade, even if it's free (for their definition of "free").
When I was 14 (or maybe 13) I had a paper route. Didn't need to ask my parents for permission, either. Just went and got it (actually, bought it off a classmate for $X a week until it was paid off). And I'm sure that sidewalks needed to be shoveled in winter, so snow should have been an opportunity, not a "gee I can't make money mowing lawns" excuse.
Why would you have to ask your parents permission? It's just a paper route. Here a 14-year-old doesn't even have to ask parents for permission for an abortion (and the hospital can't tell them their 14-year-old's info without the kids' permission).
Why would anyone spend time and money to train for a low pay bullshit job? If you were a business, you wouldn't invest in projects that are low-income / no profit shit..
Who says they're missing? The same motherboard can be used for multiple models with different memory capacities - it's cheaper than having different motherboards. This has been SOP for decades.
Some people tried it by writing shareware. It was too bad that the shareware model was a bust.
Besides, what does that have to do with the initial experience of programming? If you enjoyed it and wanted to pursue it, there was nothing stopping you from mowing lawns, raking leaves, and having a paper route to make the money necessary to buy a $99 real compiler.
Baby boomers are not a generation either. Or did you miss that part when I said that a generation is the length of time between the birth of a child and the birth of that child's children. A generation is simply a unit of time. It has always been used that way.
And as I pointed out, debug was free, and you could write programs using it, as well as learning about computers (which was the whole point when you were a kid, wasn't it, to have fun exploring what it could do)?
Quantity vs quality. The software built today is shite - that's why it needs the internet, for the constant bug fixes and patches. Back then, the cost, labour, and time delay of shipping out a patch or bug fix on floppy was inducive to getting it right the first time.
No, it wasn't. Did you even read it? Nixon was never tried, never convicted, and never admitted guilt. The pardon was both free (no prerequisites such as admitting guilt) and absolute (again, not conditional).
Now, THEREFORE, I, GERALD R. FORD, President of the United States, pursuant to the pardon power conferred upon me by Article II, Section 2, of the Constitution, have granted and by these presents do grant a full, free, and absolute pardon unto Richard Nixon for all offenses against the United States which he, Richard Nixon, has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 20, 1969 through August 9, 1974.
At that point, since there was no trial to determine the actual facts of any criminality on his part, the pardon had to include the "or may have". Not doing so would have required him to admit guilt or be found guilty. By including hypothetical situations, it didn't need a finding of guilt or even an admission.
Courts do the same thing all the time when they dismiss charges against an accused before a trial. No admission of guilt necessary as an a priori condition to their accepting the court's granting them immunity from further prosecution.
I like how you respond to forgetting about GenX by saying how hard it is to be a Boomer.
I did no such thing. GenX is not a generation. Neither is GenY, or the boomers, or the millennials. These are all marketing bullshit terms. A generation is the time between the birth of a child and the birth of that child's children.
You need to step out of your post-reality fake news advertising-driven bubble, because no matter how much you want to believe otherwise, a generation is not what you claim it it. It's based on biological reproduction, not new-speak.
You're mistaking use of titanium dioxide with mass production of titanium dioxide as a pigment.
The earliest uses of a synthetic titanium oxide, not of pigmentary quality, were during the late 1800s as opacifiers and additives to increase acid resistance in glazes and vitreous enamels.
A blue porcelain glaze using hydrous titanic oxide was described in 1841. Titanium compounds of all kinds were investigated for use in the late 1800s in the textile industry, including titanium oxide as a mordant for wool, also not the calcined white pigment
Already happening, so might as well be able to do it in your pyjamas in the comfort of your own home, and get paid the extra value you bring to the job because you're in the same time zone and CAN be available for face-to-face meetings if necessary. That, and the lack of a culture barrier, are certainly worth a 100% premium.
Back in the 70's, converters got blocked up pretty quickly, so the quick fix was - if it was a honeycomb, disconnect one end, jam a rod into it. break up the honeycomb, and pour it into the recycling drum - it it was pellets, dump them into the recycling drum. There was good money in recycling the rare elements in them, and people didn't want to fork out extra money for a replacement converter.
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"Houston, Houston, do you read ..." (Alice Sheldon writing as James Tiptree Jr) Read the story - entirely on topic.
Why did they study just women? Hint - they couldn't find any post-menopausal men. They started with old, flawed test data from the WHI menopause study and came to new, flawed confusions ... oops, I mean conclusions ... or do I?
Also, even if you get prostate cancer, it's usually so slow that something else will kill you first.
Besides, most of the men doing the studies would rather look at boobs than fingering your prostate.
Ok, so lets talk about work. Have you seen the average farmer, who works heavily all day long? They look youthful for you? How about janitors, cleaners and people with heavy manual work. Do they look youthful for you?
I sit all day, and exercise 1 hour every day. People consistently say I look 15 years younger than I am. So, yeah, I'm taking this study with a spoon of salt.
CAP: aptitude [btw, a great package management tool].
And that old man will probably be able to dig your grave with a hand shovel. Skin aging is normal when your skin is constantly damaged by sunlight.
Too bad the study is bullshit because it's based on the WHI (Women's Health Initiative), a study that had huge design and implementation flaws and bad data analysis.
The WHI claimed to study the effects of hormone replacement therapy on women. However, rather than using bio-identical human hormones, they used Premarin and Prempro (the PREgnant MARe unINe). Hint - human estrogen is not bio-identical to horse estrogen, so we're already off to a bad start. Also, at the time Premarin was approved, the 50+ impurities were allowed by the FDA because the manufacturer didn't claim a therapeutic benefit from them. It would not be approved on that basis today, but rather, its been grandfathered in, same as many other drugs that were approved under less stringent testing requirements. Choosing one drug supplier for all 150,000+ women was a mistake. All it told us was the effects of horse hormones on women. We now know that Premarin is not good for your liver.
Second, the study cohort was mostly too old and too fat to be a representative sample of women in the age cohort, so there was severe selection bias, which the British found negatively influenced the results after repeating the experiments, leading to the opposite conclusion - for women who have been post-menopausal 5 years or less, estrogen (not Premarin) benefits outweighed the risks. The biggest risk factors are controllable - don't smoke, don't be a fattie, and don't take progestins and you can enjoy the benefits of longer life, lower cardiovascular problems, and less loss of bone density with minimal risk.
Menopause is not normal. In the entire chain of mammals, there are only two species (out of more than 80) whales, and humans, who go through menopause. In humans, it's easily explained by our ability to live longer outpacing our ability to evolve to accommodate the lengthened lifespan. Doesn't make it normal, it makes it a disorder that we can and should take whatever preventative measures we can to prevent it's impacting our lives.
The British government has been running a campaign directed at doctors, urging them to discuss HRT with their female patients, hopefully instead of prescribing antidepressants to deal with menopause, as happened after the whole "HRT IS BAD" scare.
Of course, like any big scare, it got headlines. The corrections rarely make the front page, or the news, anywhere. Same as most breakthrough medical studies that are later found to be either not repeatable (+60%) or show only minimal results.
You can't draw conclusions about normal human aging based on a non-representative cohort of women fed horse hormones laced with impurities. They need to at the very least change their data source and re-run their analysis.
Jacking up rates, putting in resolution caps, you'll pay them one way or another. Here'sanother one that made the news yesterday, coming into effect in less than 2 weeks.
You mean nobody explained to you the importance of men not pushing the ATR button?"
As many as he wants. That's just the way he rolls.
How about making a show about a high-tech company in decline jumping the shark? After all, we can skip the happy days and cut right to the present.
Well, now they you can run OpenSUSE or Ubuntu programs under windows 10, why not just skip the middleman and run OpenSUSE or Ubuntu directly on the hardware? After all, if it runs ok under Windows 10, it must mean that it meets their security concerns, right? :-)
As early as in Windows XP, we saw that companies should take early steps to avoid future risks or costs
Risks have been endemic since the early days of DOS, and they only figured that out in XP? Even though the Windows 95 install screen promised the safest, impossible-for-viruses-to-run OS ever?
There is no reason to upgrade, even if it's free (for their definition of "free").
When I was 14 (or maybe 13) I had a paper route. Didn't need to ask my parents for permission, either. Just went and got it (actually, bought it off a classmate for $X a week until it was paid off). And I'm sure that sidewalks needed to be shoveled in winter, so snow should have been an opportunity, not a "gee I can't make money mowing lawns" excuse.
Why would you have to ask your parents permission? It's just a paper route. Here a 14-year-old doesn't even have to ask parents for permission for an abortion (and the hospital can't tell them their 14-year-old's info without the kids' permission).
Why would anyone spend time and money to train for a low pay bullshit job? If you were a business, you wouldn't invest in projects that are low-income / no profit shit..
Who says they're missing? The same motherboard can be used for multiple models with different memory capacities - it's cheaper than having different motherboards. This has been SOP for decades.
Some people tried it by writing shareware. It was too bad that the shareware model was a bust.
Besides, what does that have to do with the initial experience of programming? If you enjoyed it and wanted to pursue it, there was nothing stopping you from mowing lawns, raking leaves, and having a paper route to make the money necessary to buy a $99 real compiler.
Plenty of kids had paper routes back then.
Baby boomers are not a generation either. Or did you miss that part when I said that a generation is the length of time between the birth of a child and the birth of that child's children. A generation is simply a unit of time. It has always been used that way.
And as I pointed out, debug was free, and you could write programs using it, as well as learning about computers (which was the whole point when you were a kid, wasn't it, to have fun exploring what it could do)?
Quantity vs quality. The software built today is shite - that's why it needs the internet, for the constant bug fixes and patches. Back then, the cost, labour, and time delay of shipping out a patch or bug fix on floppy was inducive to getting it right the first time.
And what does that have to do with the fact that it was Nixon's trade deal with China has put national security as well as the global economy at risk?
No, it wasn't. Did you even read it? Nixon was never tried, never convicted, and never admitted guilt. The pardon was both free (no prerequisites such as admitting guilt) and absolute (again, not conditional).
Now, THEREFORE, I, GERALD R. FORD, President of the United States, pursuant to the pardon power conferred upon me by Article II, Section 2, of the Constitution, have granted and by these presents do grant a full, free, and absolute pardon unto Richard Nixon for all offenses against the United States which he, Richard Nixon, has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 20, 1969 through August 9, 1974.
At that point, since there was no trial to determine the actual facts of any criminality on his part, the pardon had to include the "or may have". Not doing so would have required him to admit guilt or be found guilty. By including hypothetical situations, it didn't need a finding of guilt or even an admission.
Courts do the same thing all the time when they dismiss charges against an accused before a trial. No admission of guilt necessary as an a priori condition to their accepting the court's granting them immunity from further prosecution.
I like how you respond to forgetting about GenX by saying how hard it is to be a Boomer.
I did no such thing. GenX is not a generation. Neither is GenY, or the boomers, or the millennials. These are all marketing bullshit terms. A generation is the time between the birth of a child and the birth of that child's children.
You need to step out of your post-reality fake news advertising-driven bubble, because no matter how much you want to believe otherwise, a generation is not what you claim it it. It's based on biological reproduction, not new-speak.
Even grades 1-4 are not "elemental titanium." Even grade 1 contains carbon, iron, hydrogen, nitrogen, and oxygen.
Aviation alloys are not 99.9% titanium. Neither are the titanium frames of your glasses. Nor the titanium used in cosmetics, food, etc.
The earliest uses of a synthetic titanium oxide, not of pigmentary quality, were during the late 1800s as opacifiers and additives to increase acid resistance in glazes and vitreous enamels.
A blue porcelain glaze using hydrous titanic oxide was described in 1841. Titanium compounds of all kinds were investigated for use in the late 1800s in the textile industry, including titanium oxide as a mordant for wool, also not the calcined white pigment
And titanium dioxide was discovered in 1821.
Again, there is no "evidence" that titanium was so rare back in the 1970s.
And they didn't do that in the manufacturing facility. Duh!
Already happening, so might as well be able to do it in your pyjamas in the comfort of your own home, and get paid the extra value you bring to the job because you're in the same time zone and CAN be available for face-to-face meetings if necessary. That, and the lack of a culture barrier, are certainly worth a 100% premium.
Back in the 70's, converters got blocked up pretty quickly, so the quick fix was - if it was a honeycomb, disconnect one end, jam a rod into it. break up the honeycomb, and pour it into the recycling drum - it it was pellets, dump them into the recycling drum. There was good money in recycling the rare elements in them, and people didn't want to fork out extra money for a replacement converter.