Rather than rely on some site full of unsubstantiated and anonymous claims, try docboard.org. They have links to each state's online database of medical license-holders.
In most states, you can search for your doctor and see their list of malpractice suits, medical board disciplinary actions, and a record of any crimes for which they've been convicted.
Uh, in order for a statement to be libel or slander, it has to be a lie. You can say whatever rotten thing you want about a person, so long as it is the truth. A slanderous statement made under oath is perjury, by definition.
I can't view MSNBC video on my Mac, but yesterday at work I saw a clip on MSNBC's website of two police officers inside a Walmart looting right along with civilians. When the MSNBC talking head tried to question the police officer about her activities, she said she was there to 'prevent looting'. In the background, a man could be seen loading up a shopping cart with stolen goods. Then there was a shot of the two police officers loading up their cart with, of all things, pairs of shoes.
People were running around with full shopping carts, and riding around on stolen bicycles through the store. The place was trashed.
Here's a collection of still shots from that video. You can see the 2 cops pulling along their shopping cart full of shoes:
1. Retire at age 60. 2. Put together a 40-hour training curriculum. 3. Take a course on education and public speaking at your local college. 4. Offer your training services at $300/hr, plus airfare, hotel, and per diem. 5. Work 1 week per month, and make $12,000.
6. (Optional) Set up a hot 19 year old college freshman with an apartment and a car, and bang her once a week until your heart gives out.
It's my theory that women have a "civilizing" effect on men--mitigating our more barbaric impulses and channeling our animal energies into productive and intelligent activities.
I couldn't find any information about the range of the HELLADS system; that information is probably classified. However, TFA claims there will be a 150 kilowatt version of the laser by 2007. Any laser experts know if that power of laser can take out a target 135 kilometers away? Is the idea even feasible?
You'd have to be crazy to accept a "blue-ad" or "blue-vert" or whatever the hell these are.
Nah, just curious. The first time they do this, 17,000 people will accept the "blue-vert". Of those 17,000, the next time, only 7,000 people will accept. The third time, 700.
Eventually the new technology will penetrate the common consciousness and people will just start ignoring it, since it is, after all, thoroughly useless and annoying. The only thing it has going for it is its novelty. Once that's dried up, "blue-vertising" will go away and die.
I never understood why vegetarians won't eat eggs.
It has something to do with the way the chickens are raised, locked in tiny cages for their whole lives, choking on their own filth, and forced to live as egg factories. They become physically and mentally ill in that environment, demonstrating self-mutilation behavior and a drastically reduced lifespan.
Many vegetarians will buy "free range" eggs, which cost much more, but are harvested from chickens that are not kept in cages.
A company exists to make a profit. If you really want to convince them, you need to show how GPL'ing the code will lead to $$$$.
Anyway, here are some likely responses you will get. Up to you to decide how you will handle them.
* Other people can gain knowledge from my code
"Irrelevant to the company."
* I can gain knowledge by other people commenting/submitting patches to my code
"We didn't hire these people or evaluate their qualifications and references; we have no reason to trust them. How do we know you will catch any intentional vulnerabilities they add to our code?"
* Security vulnerabilities will be found under peer review
"You mean these people we don't trust and have no relationship with can figure out where the bugs are in our product? Are you mad?!?!"
Try branch chain amino acids: L-leucine, L-valine, and L-isoleucine. I take those before any weightlifting or strenuous activity, and they reduce my next-day soreness to almost nothing. You still need rest and recovery, so don't let the lack of soreness fool you into thinking you can lift more often. I don't use any other supplements besides whey protein powder.
BCAA's are cheap and safe even in massive doses, so it's worth a shot. Some people say they don't work, and perhaps they don't for some. But they have really enabled me to stick to a resistance training workout without having to worry about excessive muscle soreness.
You were doing your stretching BEFORE your exertion, but stretching the muscle thoroughly AFTER you exert it is a great help to alleviate the next-day muscle soreness. Don't just flop down on the couch after you lift, make sure you stretch. Yoga or pilates can really help your flexibility.
Also, nothing will help you avoid painful injury if you are lifting with bad form.
A person enslaved in such a way would not have full control of his or her mental faculties, would likely have chronically poor physical health, and a drastically reduced lifespan. Drug addicts don't make good workers or do a good job of raising the next generation of workers... which is the primary reason those types of pleasurable drugs have been made illegal.
I'm not aware of any powerful pleasure-inducing drugs that don't have these types of consequences. Even if one were immoral enough to enslave someone in this way, it wouldn't work very well.
It's a bit of a chicken and egg problem, because the only thing the police need do to turn a peaceable assembly into a riot is fire one of these weapons into the crowd. Intense pain makes people panic, and panic is contagious.
Suppose you have a peaceful group of protestors with one bad apple who is damaging property, being violent, or whatever. Instead of clobbering the troublemaker or hitting him with a beanbag round, the police fire this weapon at him, catching a dozen people in its radius. All those people begin screaming in agony (hearing a primal scream of pain is a powerful cue to panic) and running away in fear, shoving other protestors around and causing general panic and chaos to spread.
It's clear this type of weapon is for dispersing crowds. It does not distinguish between riots and peaceful assemblies, and I don't suppose the sort of people who are willing to deploy it make much of a distinction either.
Because the weapon acts invisibly at a distance, it is impossible to know when it is fired. It will therefore be impossible to tell if the police used it to stop a riot, or to start one to 'justify' the use of force against peaceful protestors. If the weapon is deployed domestically, it will have a powerful detrimental effect on the right to peaceable assembly.
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I'll second that recommendation. If you're looking for a seminal "future noir" detective/cyberpunk novel, look no further than 'Altered Carbon' by Richard Morgan. It's about an ex-military private detective who is released from prison and hired by a rich man to find out who killed him and why. (A key feature of the series is that in this future, most people have their consciousness backed up to an implanted storage device, and it can be restored into any other body.)
'Broken Angels', the sequel, borrows the main character from Altered Carbon, but little else. It's primarily a future war novel where the main character and his small group face off against military and corporate interests during a planetary civil war. Both novels contain plenty of violent and sexual content.
There's a third book in the series called 'Woken Furies', just recently released.
I'm just an average geek, and over the years I've built dozens of systems using various Linux distros, all versions of Windows, and hardware from hundreds of manufacturers.
Many of them I have built for friends and family for only the cost of parts and maybe some barter. (I don't do that too much anymore because it's cheaper and easier to order a system from Dell, plug everything together, and just migrate their files and settings.) Recently, I've built a few PVRs after someone sees mine and simply must have one of their own.
Anyway, all of the machines I've built have been rock-solid stable and none have come back to me because of some goof up I made deciding on a configuration. If I'm not even in the white-box business and I can do that, you have to assume white-box builders have a dozen proven configurations that meet the assorted needs of almost everyone who walks into their shops. Maybe they use their customers as beta-testers, but if they couldn't deliver a solid configuration, they'd soon be out of business.
The real problem with white-box builders is something you totally failed to mention: they can't really compete with Dell et. al. in price anymore. PCs have become a commodity and margins are so slim, companies that deal in massive volumes are the only ones that are competitive on price.
I can't really say for sure, but I suppose the whitebox PC builders -- those of them that are left, in my town there are only a few remaining -- survive on jobs that are very customized to a customer's unusual needs (PVR, uber-gaming rig, case modding, selling hard to find or import parts, etc...) I don't really know for sure how those guys stay afloat since I haven't done business with any of them in several years.
IANACellularBiologist either, but I think seawater is better because your cells have roughly the same salinity as seawater, and it maintains the osmotic balance inside and outside the cell membrane. Animal cells can lyse (rupture) in fresh water due to the osmotic pressure.
I daresay that's why they used saline solution in this experiment, and why we use saline solution for intravenous rehydration. You would want the concentration of the solute to be equal on either side of the cell membrane to prevent water from entering or leaving the cell.
I suppose the serious answer to your question is that they can formulate controlled tests to observe and record the dog's behavior and response to stimuli, both before and after the experiment, and note any discrepancies. (i.e. when presented with a piece of his own shit, the dog chowed down on it before the experiment, but did not do so afterwards.)
With all the experimentation that's already done on dogs, I don't doubt there's already a standard battery of tests to gauge their neurological function.
Many of us feel that advertising and marketing can be spiritually and emotionally harmful to the human mind. Misleading appeals engineered to manipulate people's deepest emotional drives to convince them to buy products is a fucking sick and twisted way to make a living. No amount of equivocation is going to convince me I don't have an imperative to maintain my own spiritual and emotional health... and for me, that includes avoiding advertising at all costs.
To that end: My iPod has replaced my radio, my homebrew PVR automatically strips out all commercials from my few favorite TV programs, and when web-browsing at home, I block all internet ads using Firefox and Adblock.
So you say that will lead to the end of "free" content on the internet? Good, I say. I would rather pay outright for information and entertainment I consider valuable, rather than rely on some dodgy click-for-profit advertising scheme that is quickly proving itself intractable anyway.
And to Doubleclick and all those who make a living from advertising: I won't go as far as Bill Hicks, who semi-seriously suggested such people shoot themselves, but I will urge you to reconsider your career choice. Make something or do something that contributes to society, rather than trying to sell us crap we don't need, can't afford, or probably aren't interested in anyway.
I just RTFA, and it says the dendromere molecule somehow has folic acid attached to it. All cells need folic acid, but tumors require much more of it than healthy tissue. That is how they are targeting cancer cells rather than all cells. No doubt healthy tissue will also absorb the cell destroying chemicals, but cancerous cells will absorb it to a greater degree. That's the improvement over traditional chemo.
They didn't mention it in the article, but I wonder if it would be beneficial to inject the substance directly into a tumor.
I'm an engineer in my 20's. On a whim one weekend, my girlfriend and I used her hair dye to make my hair the same natural shade of red as hers. Not long after that, one of the senior engineers (a guy who was probably 50 or 55) introduced me to another guy and tried to set me up on a dinner date with him.
It would have been quite embarrassing even if I were gay, and I don't think the other guy was gay either.
It's hard to say which, but the older guy was either terribly clueless or a complete fucking asshole.
In any case, older people others who live sheltered, conservative lives often don't have a clue about things. People who are set in their ways like that can react with extreme hostility when they're confronted with ideas outside their narrow range of experience.
A more enlightened attitude is that it's your body and you should be able to modify it as you see fit. Just be aware that you can and will suffer consequences in the workplace for having a nonstandard appearance.
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No, it's not a joke.
In most states, you can search for your doctor and see their list of malpractice suits, medical board disciplinary actions, and a record of any crimes for which they've been convicted.
Facts, not hearsay.
"Apple Macintosh computers are not supported at this time (but we are working on it)."
So, I'd say the answer is currently no.
If you have access to a Wintel box, I'd really suggest you try it. It's extremely cool.
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People were running around with full shopping carts, and riding around on stolen bicycles through the store. The place was trashed.
Here's a collection of still shots from that video. You can see the 2 cops pulling along their shopping cart full of shoes:
NBC10.com
There are many other reports of police officers looting TVs, computers, even liquor:
NOLA Times-Picayune
The obvious maneuver for a mainframe expert:
1. Retire at age 60.
2. Put together a 40-hour training curriculum.
3. Take a course on education and public speaking at your local college.
4. Offer your training services at $300/hr, plus airfare, hotel, and per diem.
5. Work 1 week per month, and make $12,000.
6. (Optional) Set up a hot 19 year old college freshman with an apartment and a car, and bang her once a week until your heart gives out.
Sounds like someone's never been to a strip club.
F-16 operating ceiling = 15.240 kilometers
Minimum LEO satellite altitude = about 150 kilometers
I couldn't find any information about the range of the HELLADS system; that information is probably classified. However, TFA claims there will be a 150 kilowatt version of the laser by 2007. Any laser experts know if that power of laser can take out a target 135 kilometers away? Is the idea even feasible?
Nah, just curious. The first time they do this, 17,000 people will accept the "blue-vert". Of those 17,000, the next time, only 7,000 people will accept. The third time, 700.
Eventually the new technology will penetrate the common consciousness and people will just start ignoring it, since it is, after all, thoroughly useless and annoying. The only thing it has going for it is its novelty. Once that's dried up, "blue-vertising" will go away and die.
It has something to do with the way the chickens are raised, locked in tiny cages for their whole lives, choking on their own filth, and forced to live as egg factories. They become physically and mentally ill in that environment, demonstrating self-mutilation behavior and a drastically reduced lifespan.
Many vegetarians will buy "free range" eggs, which cost much more, but are harvested from chickens that are not kept in cages.
Here is some good documentation of the ways hens are mistreated.
I don't think you're wrong, though.
Wow, you must not date much.
Anyway, here are some likely responses you will get. Up to you to decide how you will handle them.
* Other people can gain knowledge from my code
"Irrelevant to the company."
* I can gain knowledge by other people commenting/submitting patches to my code
"We didn't hire these people or evaluate their qualifications and references; we have no reason to trust them. How do we know you will catch any intentional vulnerabilities they add to our code?"
* Security vulnerabilities will be found under peer review
"You mean these people we don't trust and have no relationship with can figure out where the bugs are in our product? Are you mad?!?!"
* I will get Good Karma [tm].
"Waaaay irrelevant to the company."
Try branch chain amino acids: L-leucine, L-valine, and L-isoleucine. I take those before any weightlifting or strenuous activity, and they reduce my next-day soreness to almost nothing. You still need rest and recovery, so don't let the lack of soreness fool you into thinking you can lift more often. I don't use any other supplements besides whey protein powder.
BCAA's are cheap and safe even in massive doses, so it's worth a shot. Some people say they don't work, and perhaps they don't for some. But they have really enabled me to stick to a resistance training workout without having to worry about excessive muscle soreness.
You were doing your stretching BEFORE your exertion, but stretching the muscle thoroughly AFTER you exert it is a great help to alleviate the next-day muscle soreness. Don't just flop down on the couch after you lift, make sure you stretch. Yoga or pilates can really help your flexibility.
Also, nothing will help you avoid painful injury if you are lifting with bad form.
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I'd say that's fairly relevant, and makes the 'article' not worth reading.
A person enslaved in such a way would not have full control of his or her mental faculties, would likely have chronically poor physical health, and a drastically reduced lifespan. Drug addicts don't make good workers or do a good job of raising the next generation of workers... which is the primary reason those types of pleasurable drugs have been made illegal.
I'm not aware of any powerful pleasure-inducing drugs that don't have these types of consequences. Even if one were immoral enough to enslave someone in this way, it wouldn't work very well.
Suppose you have a peaceful group of protestors with one bad apple who is damaging property, being violent, or whatever. Instead of clobbering the troublemaker or hitting him with a beanbag round, the police fire this weapon at him, catching a dozen people in its radius. All those people begin screaming in agony (hearing a primal scream of pain is a powerful cue to panic) and running away in fear, shoving other protestors around and causing general panic and chaos to spread.
It's clear this type of weapon is for dispersing crowds. It does not distinguish between riots and peaceful assemblies, and I don't suppose the sort of people who are willing to deploy it make much of a distinction either.
Because the weapon acts invisibly at a distance, it is impossible to know when it is fired. It will therefore be impossible to tell if the police used it to stop a riot, or to start one to 'justify' the use of force against peaceful protestors. If the weapon is deployed domestically, it will have a powerful detrimental effect on the right to peaceable assembly.
I'll second that recommendation. If you're looking for a seminal "future noir" detective/cyberpunk novel, look no further than 'Altered Carbon' by Richard Morgan. It's about an ex-military private detective who is released from prison and hired by a rich man to find out who killed him and why. (A key feature of the series is that in this future, most people have their consciousness backed up to an implanted storage device, and it can be restored into any other body.)
'Broken Angels', the sequel, borrows the main character from Altered Carbon, but little else. It's primarily a future war novel where the main character and his small group face off against military and corporate interests during a planetary civil war. Both novels contain plenty of violent and sexual content.
There's a third book in the series called 'Woken Furies', just recently released.
Many of them I have built for friends and family for only the cost of parts and maybe some barter. (I don't do that too much anymore because it's cheaper and easier to order a system from Dell, plug everything together, and just migrate their files and settings.) Recently, I've built a few PVRs after someone sees mine and simply must have one of their own.
Anyway, all of the machines I've built have been rock-solid stable and none have come back to me because of some goof up I made deciding on a configuration. If I'm not even in the white-box business and I can do that, you have to assume white-box builders have a dozen proven configurations that meet the assorted needs of almost everyone who walks into their shops. Maybe they use their customers as beta-testers, but if they couldn't deliver a solid configuration, they'd soon be out of business.
The real problem with white-box builders is something you totally failed to mention: they can't really compete with Dell et. al. in price anymore. PCs have become a commodity and margins are so slim, companies that deal in massive volumes are the only ones that are competitive on price.
I can't really say for sure, but I suppose the whitebox PC builders -- those of them that are left, in my town there are only a few remaining -- survive on jobs that are very customized to a customer's unusual needs (PVR, uber-gaming rig, case modding, selling hard to find or import parts, etc...) I don't really know for sure how those guys stay afloat since I haven't done business with any of them in several years.
IANACellularBiologist either, but I think seawater is better because your cells have roughly the same salinity as seawater, and it maintains the osmotic balance inside and outside the cell membrane. Animal cells can lyse (rupture) in fresh water due to the osmotic pressure.
I daresay that's why they used saline solution in this experiment, and why we use saline solution for intravenous rehydration. You would want the concentration of the solute to be equal on either side of the cell membrane to prevent water from entering or leaving the cell.
Funniest. Comment. EVAR.
I suppose the serious answer to your question is that they can formulate controlled tests to observe and record the dog's behavior and response to stimuli, both before and after the experiment, and note any discrepancies. (i.e. when presented with a piece of his own shit, the dog chowed down on it before the experiment, but did not do so afterwards.)
With all the experimentation that's already done on dogs, I don't doubt there's already a standard battery of tests to gauge their neurological function.
To that end: My iPod has replaced my radio, my homebrew PVR automatically strips out all commercials from my few favorite TV programs, and when web-browsing at home, I block all internet ads using Firefox and Adblock.
So you say that will lead to the end of "free" content on the internet? Good, I say. I would rather pay outright for information and entertainment I consider valuable, rather than rely on some dodgy click-for-profit advertising scheme that is quickly proving itself intractable anyway.
And to Doubleclick and all those who make a living from advertising: I won't go as far as Bill Hicks, who semi-seriously suggested such people shoot themselves, but I will urge you to reconsider your career choice. Make something or do something that contributes to society, rather than trying to sell us crap we don't need, can't afford, or probably aren't interested in anyway.
I just RTFA, and it says the dendromere molecule somehow has folic acid attached to it. All cells need folic acid, but tumors require much more of it than healthy tissue. That is how they are targeting cancer cells rather than all cells. No doubt healthy tissue will also absorb the cell destroying chemicals, but cancerous cells will absorb it to a greater degree. That's the improvement over traditional chemo.
They didn't mention it in the article, but I wonder if it would be beneficial to inject the substance directly into a tumor.
What I meant was the dye made your hair a shade of dark red that might actually occur in nature. Not some fluorescent color.
I'm an engineer in my 20's. On a whim one weekend, my girlfriend and I used her hair dye to make my hair the same natural shade of red as hers. Not long after that, one of the senior engineers (a guy who was probably 50 or 55) introduced me to another guy and tried to set me up on a dinner date with him.
It would have been quite embarrassing even if I were gay, and I don't think the other guy was gay either.
It's hard to say which, but the older guy was either terribly clueless or a complete fucking asshole.
In any case, older people others who live sheltered, conservative lives often don't have a clue about things. People who are set in their ways like that can react with extreme hostility when they're confronted with ideas outside their narrow range of experience.
A more enlightened attitude is that it's your body and you should be able to modify it as you see fit. Just be aware that you can and will suffer consequences in the workplace for having a nonstandard appearance.