Damage occurs that quickly? Hmm... most people tell me I couldn't possibly have this little blind spot in my right eye, where I got caught by a supermarket scanning laser. Little do they know...
Which is pretty much the way it used to work. But nowadays, it's equal treatment for all, equal rights for all, no matter how they treated others or how they trampled the rights of others, the nanny state will protect them all!!
It's not the surface structures of the eye we're worrying about here; it's the extremely delicate retina -- the part of the eye that actually takes the "impact" of incoming light. The frontal structures (cornea, lens) are meant to *transmit* light, and are considerably tougher as well.
Don't think it's a risk? I have a small blind spot in one eye from being momentarily caught square-on by a supermarket scanning laser.
That's the same principle as used in depressurization euthanasia chambers for small animals. Unconsciousness results almost immediately. Also, there is no visible damage, other than engorged capillaries in the whites of the eyes.
You made me spend a hundred bucks;) I bought the MB800 that was on eBay (a model *with* an AGP slot, and it came with a 2.8GHz CPU)... and it arrived on Tuesday (saved from Fedex mishandling by the seller's excellent packing job -- and the board is white-glove clean, too).
So far all I've done is hook it up to a floppy drive to make sure it boots, and all seems well. (After giving it a HSF it liked, anyway... it blew a siren at the first one I tried, didn't like the fan for some reason.) On first glance, the board seems to have a lot of nice features. The only real downside is that the 845 chipset has a 137GB IDE HD limit, tho since this is liable to be primarily my DOS games machine, that's not really much of an issue. And there are always adapter cards.
And I'll need to find it a couple of good-sized [uh, cheap/salvage] DDR sticks... they aren't raining from the sky just yet!!
Yep, a really good stud dog can be not only valuable, but irreplaceable. Otherwise, once he's dead, his unique combination of genes is LOST, and you cannot get them back. So having frozen semen for when that stud is dead and gone is a Very Good Thing.
I don't know of any efforts to cross Paps and Danes, but I do know people have tried to cross Chihuahuas and Danes, and I've *seen* the results from a Chihuahua/German Shepherd cross -- the poor dogs weren't even functional. The problem is that genes are XOR; they don't "average". So the pups got the small Chi body and the long GSD legs, and couldn't even walk properly, let alone run (there were also functionality problems due to mismatched skull and jaw size). I'd expect similar results from Pap X Dane, or possibly even more extreme, because the two gene pools are even farther apart.
Aside from the physical conflicts, many such crossbreds have severe temperament issues due to inheriting conflicting instincts -- they *can't* decide how to react to perfectly normal life events, so they panic (which can lead to aggression).
Purebred dogs developed as they did for a reason -- originally, each breed had a mission in life. While this has been largely lost in the present (and some newer breeders, especially those doing "designer mutts", need to be smacked upside the head) the fact is that the gene pools still retain the features distinct to each breed's original job, and that makes them fairly predictable. Given that most people nowadays cannot and will not learn how to train a dog, and that vet medicine is increasingly all about the revenue stream, predictable health and temperament are a big bonus that you can only get from a well-bred purebred. With a mutt, you take your chances.
What does that tell me? That you're smarter than the average Democrat, and so is the Army Times:)
If you go off to war at all, you should do so with every intent to WIN it, not piddlefuck around getting your asses handed to you... And since as you point out in another post, wars are usually about control of resources (ie. the money flow), which leads to the question -- who benefits when a war drags on longer than it needs to? Whie the obvious answer is "arms manufacturers", the REAL answer is "politicians", because no matter which side of the aisle you're on, a dragged-out war provides plenty of ammunition with which to shoot down opposing politicians.
(Hmm. How about we let Congresscritters start carrying guns to work?;)
And as you say in yet another post, our gov't failed us when it took leave of the Constitution, and started instituting police-powers nannying and papers-please ON ITS OWN CITIZENS.
Bah. Time to get a new gov't. This one is past its stale date.
I'm a canine professional (38 years as trainer and breeder). I own frozen semen that's now 27 years old, and was still good a year ago. I have frozen semen from some of my stud dogs stored with International Canine Semen Bank in Oregon, who developed the semen-preservation process for dogs. So it's something I'm fairly well aware about.:)
"The Bush/Cheney Administration has spent the last 6+ years building an organizational, legal, and technical infrastructure for Executive Branch power,..."....which I expect Hillary will gleefully take full advantage of.
"If you hate Don Rumsfeld and you don't know why- that's a clue you've been programmed."
Or in some way fail to think it through, which is much the same thing... This is akin to something I've noted for decades, that consistently applies to people who vote strongly along party lines:
When a Democrat voter dislikes a Republican candidate, they say "He's stupid." When asked why, they can't produce any reasons for that opinion, or say something like "Anyone can see that"; in their minds it's self-evident and needs no "reasons".
When a Republican voter dislikes a Democrat candidate, they say "He's stupid because [assorted reasons]". The reasons may or may not be valid, but at least they HAVE 'em.
Tho the alternative seems to be the coalitions-of-small-parties system, which in my observation is probably even worse -- because you wind up with a majority made up of multiple fringe groups, which don't really represent the people as a whole.
What we really need is to do away with the party system entirely, and let every candidate stand or fall on his own merits.
Or better yet, stick a robot research station on it and bang it off toward the edge of the solar system. Instant long-distance probe.
Or as another poster suggested, bang it toward the sun. Its mass might shelter a research robot long enough to get better data than we'd get from just shooting naked probes into the sun.
While putting it into Earth orbit would be useful, the slightest miscalculation could lead to a future impact we may not have time to control or prevent. But maybe we could aim to have it impact the moon (*if* it wouldn't change the moon's orbit) which would effectively capture it without such a direct future risk.
I don't know about sponge cakes, but I make regular cakes by the "some of this, a handful of that" method, and to add insult to injury I bake them in the microwave. And I'm not much of a cook, I just have a good eye for proportions, and enough of a feel for how the raw product should look, feel, and taste to get it right. About this sweet, about that thick, about so much.
(For a really strange cake, forget to add the eggs. The texture is just weird, sortof like liquid sand.)
I got the notion that Ron Paul's core attitudes may be rather extreme from reading his OWN site (I get his weekly newsletter, and often agree with him). That detractors will slant things in the worst possible light -- well, that goes with the territory.
Overall... I'm not entirely comfortable with the idea of Ron Paul as president; OTOH I've yet to see another candidate that I prefer.
Yep... my first thought was... Oh shit, we're dead. (Meaning, our freedom as individuals within our own country is now officially dead.) And as others point out, it's not just what Bush might do. It's what Hillary might do, or anyone else with less than stellar motives. To understand their impact, proposed laws and regulations must ALWAYS be evaluated under worst-case conditions, NOT just under conditions of idealism and wishful thinking.
But it goes right along with the "Papers, please!" and "Step this way, Komrade!" mentalities that are overtaking every government process. Just another brick in the wall.
And what about when your Skype or other VOIP *happens* to be routed through some foreign server, simply because that was the least congested route at that moment??
And that's hardly a new problem. Back in the early days of the 'Net, some folks amused themselves by tracking the convoluted routes their email took. I knew a guy whose email (sent from and to U.S. hosts) commonly went by way of Singapore, for no visible reason and of course completely beyond his control.
For perspective -- how does normal-use printer dust compare with everyday household dust? how about farm dust, such as one might breathe during a long day plowing the fields or baling hay?
(My own method of determining dust levels: how much crap did I blow out of my nose at the end of the day?:)
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Damage occurs that quickly? Hmm... most people tell me I couldn't possibly have this little blind spot in my right eye, where I got caught by a supermarket scanning laser. Little do they know...
"2) To own and operate any laser over 5mW requires a license. You are responsible for getting it from the FDA."
I believe TFA said these lasers are 235mW. Now what??
Which is pretty much the way it used to work. But nowadays, it's equal treatment for all, equal rights for all, no matter how they treated others or how they trampled the rights of others, the nanny state will protect them all!!
I'm with you. Beat and then neuter the fuckers.
It's not the surface structures of the eye we're worrying about here; it's the extremely delicate retina -- the part of the eye that actually takes the "impact" of incoming light. The frontal structures (cornea, lens) are meant to *transmit* light, and are considerably tougher as well.
Don't think it's a risk? I have a small blind spot in one eye from being momentarily caught square-on by a supermarket scanning laser.
I can see it now... the bean-powered spaceship!
Beat ya... 31 seconds on the first try. :)
That's the same principle as used in depressurization euthanasia chambers for small animals. Unconsciousness results almost immediately. Also, there is no visible damage, other than engorged capillaries in the whites of the eyes.
You made me spend a hundred bucks ;) I bought the MB800 that was on eBay (a model *with* an AGP slot, and it came with a 2.8GHz CPU) ... and it arrived on Tuesday (saved from Fedex mishandling by the seller's excellent packing job -- and the board is white-glove clean, too).
... they aren't raining from the sky just yet!!
So far all I've done is hook it up to a floppy drive to make sure it boots, and all seems well. (After giving it a HSF it liked, anyway... it blew a siren at the first one I tried, didn't like the fan for some reason.) On first glance, the board seems to have a lot of nice features. The only real downside is that the 845 chipset has a 137GB IDE HD limit, tho since this is liable to be primarily my DOS games machine, that's not really much of an issue. And there are always adapter cards.
And I'll need to find it a couple of good-sized [uh, cheap/salvage] DDR sticks
Yep, a really good stud dog can be not only valuable, but irreplaceable. Otherwise, once he's dead, his unique combination of genes is LOST, and you cannot get them back. So having frozen semen for when that stud is dead and gone is a Very Good Thing.
I don't know of any efforts to cross Paps and Danes, but I do know people have tried to cross Chihuahuas and Danes, and I've *seen* the results from a Chihuahua/German Shepherd cross -- the poor dogs weren't even functional. The problem is that genes are XOR; they don't "average". So the pups got the small Chi body and the long GSD legs, and couldn't even walk properly, let alone run (there were also functionality problems due to mismatched skull and jaw size). I'd expect similar results from Pap X Dane, or possibly even more extreme, because the two gene pools are even farther apart.
Aside from the physical conflicts, many such crossbreds have severe temperament issues due to inheriting conflicting instincts -- they *can't* decide how to react to perfectly normal life events, so they panic (which can lead to aggression).
Purebred dogs developed as they did for a reason -- originally, each breed had a mission in life. While this has been largely lost in the present (and some newer breeders, especially those doing "designer mutts", need to be smacked upside the head) the fact is that the gene pools still retain the features distinct to each breed's original job, and that makes them fairly predictable. Given that most people nowadays cannot and will not learn how to train a dog, and that vet medicine is increasingly all about the revenue stream, predictable health and temperament are a big bonus that you can only get from a well-bred purebred. With a mutt, you take your chances.
What does that tell me? That you're smarter than the average Democrat, and so is the Army Times :)
;)
If you go off to war at all, you should do so with every intent to WIN it, not piddlefuck around getting your asses handed to you... And since as you point out in another post, wars are usually about control of resources (ie. the money flow), which leads to the question -- who benefits when a war drags on longer than it needs to? Whie the obvious answer is "arms manufacturers", the REAL answer is "politicians", because no matter which side of the aisle you're on, a dragged-out war provides plenty of ammunition with which to shoot down opposing politicians.
(Hmm. How about we let Congresscritters start carrying guns to work?
And as you say in yet another post, our gov't failed us when it took leave of the Constitution, and started instituting police-powers nannying and papers-please ON ITS OWN CITIZENS.
Bah. Time to get a new gov't. This one is past its stale date.
"The Bush/Cheney Administration has spent the last 6+ years building an organizational, legal, and technical infrastructure for Executive Branch power,..." ....which I expect Hillary will gleefully take full advantage of.
"If you hate Don Rumsfeld and you don't know why- that's a clue you've been programmed."
Or in some way fail to think it through, which is much the same thing... This is akin to something I've noted for decades, that consistently applies to people who vote strongly along party lines:
When a Democrat voter dislikes a Republican candidate, they say "He's stupid." When asked why, they can't produce any reasons for that opinion, or say something like "Anyone can see that"; in their minds it's self-evident and needs no "reasons".
When a Republican voter dislikes a Democrat candidate, they say "He's stupid because [assorted reasons]". The reasons may or may not be valid, but at least they HAVE 'em.
You comment causes me to wonder if this might parallel a soldier's responsibility to refuse an illegal order.
Tho the alternative seems to be the coalitions-of-small-parties system, which in my observation is probably even worse -- because you wind up with a majority made up of multiple fringe groups, which don't really represent the people as a whole.
What we really need is to do away with the party system entirely, and let every candidate stand or fall on his own merits.
"Interesting that they're so robust, though I guess if the freezing doesn't kill it, there isn't anything else that will either." Not necessarily:
;)
Dog and horse semen are both very fragile; just whacking the container, or introducing a couple drops of water, will kill the sperm.
But both survive over several decades of freezing quite well.
Conversely, people can usually handle a punch in the jaw or a dip in the lake, but tend not to do so well when frozen for a few years.
Good thought.
Or better yet, stick a robot research station on it and bang it off toward the edge of the solar system. Instant long-distance probe.
Or as another poster suggested, bang it toward the sun. Its mass might shelter a research robot long enough to get better data than we'd get from just shooting naked probes into the sun.
Probably the safest option, over the longest possible timeframe.
While putting it into Earth orbit would be useful, the slightest miscalculation could lead to a future impact we may not have time to control or prevent. But maybe we could aim to have it impact the moon (*if* it wouldn't change the moon's orbit) which would effectively capture it without such a direct future risk.
Occurs to me that the predictability of an orbit altered by a gentle nudge may well exceed that of an orbit altered by a solid whack.
Would you rather the object remained trackable and predictable, or became unstable and maybe whangs into us a few orbits later?
I don't know about sponge cakes, but I make regular cakes by the "some of this, a handful of that" method, and to add insult to injury I bake them in the microwave. And I'm not much of a cook, I just have a good eye for proportions, and enough of a feel for how the raw product should look, feel, and taste to get it right. About this sweet, about that thick, about so much.
(For a really strange cake, forget to add the eggs. The texture is just weird, sortof like liquid sand.)
I got the notion that Ron Paul's core attitudes may be rather extreme from reading his OWN site (I get his weekly newsletter, and often agree with him). That detractors will slant things in the worst possible light -- well, that goes with the territory.
Overall... I'm not entirely comfortable with the idea of Ron Paul as president; OTOH I've yet to see another candidate that I prefer.
Yep... my first thought was... Oh shit, we're dead. (Meaning, our freedom as individuals within our own country is now officially dead.) And as others point out, it's not just what Bush might do. It's what Hillary might do, or anyone else with less than stellar motives. To understand their impact, proposed laws and regulations must ALWAYS be evaluated under worst-case conditions, NOT just under conditions of idealism and wishful thinking.
But it goes right along with the "Papers, please!" and "Step this way, Komrade!" mentalities that are overtaking every government process. Just another brick in the wall.
And what about when your Skype or other VOIP *happens* to be routed through some foreign server, simply because that was the least congested route at that moment??
And that's hardly a new problem. Back in the early days of the 'Net, some folks amused themselves by tracking the convoluted routes their email took. I knew a guy whose email (sent from and to U.S. hosts) commonly went by way of Singapore, for no visible reason and of course completely beyond his control.
For perspective -- how does normal-use printer dust compare with everyday household dust? how about farm dust, such as one might breathe during a long day plowing the fields or baling hay?
:)
(My own method of determining dust levels: how much crap did I blow out of my nose at the end of the day?