And drinking beverages with artificial sweeteners has been proven to cause diabetes in rats. Maybe it will shake out and they will quit inferring causality and actually research the mechanism and learn exactly what is needed to keep the endocrine system in balance.
Actually, the issue of secession being constitutional was never settled. The issue was selectively ignored after Andrew Johnson invited all the Supreme Court justices to dinner and broached the subject of prosecuting leaders of the rebellion.
Very good points. And a good reason to put public health care back in the hands of medical professionals instead of bureaucratic hacks. Bring back the Public Health Service as arbiters of U.S. policy on medicine instead of HHS.
I'm old enough to remember when a Democratic congress, on the heels of the civil rights amendment, sold a bill of goods to the people taking U.S. Health Care away from the medical professionals and created "Health Education and Welfare Department". Instead of PHS clinics available to whomever walked through the door you got a "Medicaid Card" if you qualified as indigent enough and had a huge staff burning 90 cents of every budget dollar to try and find a reason to deny coverage.
The main thing that needs doing with U.S. Health Care is really a Securities and Exchange Issue. For profit health insurance companies should not be able to own all or in part for profit medical providers. With that cartel connection; it is only in the interests of the companies to keep prices spiraling up and be damned to the public. A mandatory sinecure for health insurance companies such as Obamacare only drives prices higher.
Hmm, maybe we should send the new prez a Ouija board with the suggestion he channel Teddy Roosevelt a while.
I agree on Dr. Rice. The DNC just could not wrap their head around the fact that the majority of the population was totally fed up with the shenanigans of Hillary Clinton and would have voted for Harambe the Gorilla if it kept her out of office.
So, a registered Democrat casts a vote in a Republican primary. Ummm, that is voter fraud in many states, ya know. A primary election is for those within a given party.
Harmless historical nuts Who wear boiler plate on their butts Who dress up in clothes from the twelfth century To bash on each other with sticks and debris And make up the world's largest private army Harmless historical nuts
I wear a watch to time airborne sample gathering. No, I can't use my smart phone because cameras are not allowed in secure areas. What I really want is a good smart phone with a robust earphone jack and NO FRIGGIN' CAMERA. The only use I've ever made of the pitiful camera put in a phone is to scan an occasional QR code from a movie poster. I don't need a camera in a phone. I cannot carry a phone with a camera to work. And even bleeding edge phones do worse for photos than a cheap dedicated camera.
I noted the stoppage of shipping operating systems with basic back in the 80286 days. I asked one engineer from a vendor. (I was in computer sales and service way back then.) and was told they quit shipping with BASIC because you could modify the BIOS and erase copy protection from the OS using the PEEK and POKE commands in BASIC.
Back in those days I was enamored with ZBasic. ZBasic was a compiled basic as opposed to the interpretive compilation of vanilla basic. It was lovely to write one set of code and cross compile to run under very different operating systems such as TRSDOS, MS-DOS, C64, Atari, CP/M, or LS-DOS. The cross compiler for Unix was a bit buggy so I never went there. A friend of mine had a set of editor macros to make it compile for Linux.
Yes, chilluns, at one time people were encouraged to experiment with their systems rather than being threatened with lawsuits for modifying their purchased tech. I wonder if you would still get sued for "modding" if you put on the net how to turn an old PS/2 into a home automation server?
I'm firmly convinced that most main stream literary critics still have a VHS recorder that is flashing "12:00" because they can't understand "that techie shit". It would be ridiculous to ask someone who can't follow science at a 9th grade level to review SCIENCE fiction.
The longer lasting photoluminescent compounds are more expensive. Most photoluminescent pigments degrade by oxidation and lose the photoluminescent properties over time. There is also a steep curve to photon output. The cited article doesn't blatantly say so but it appears the innovation the cited company has made is to put a longer lasting photoluminescent pigment into the type of glass beads used for high reflectivity signs. Having a photoluminescent pigment vitrified into microscopic glass beads would prevent the oxidation degradation and increase the perceived luminosity with the reflection from the glass beads. Now, if you added a low level alpha emitter to the mix you would have a paint that would glow continuously for thousands of years.
Like the "stop" command in a computer program; DNA has telomeres to program when to stop growing. If DNA happens to truncate the telomeres totally; you get runaway cell growth that is commonly caused "cancer". The thing is, every time DNA copies itself, telomeres shorten creating a defacto limit on the number of copies that can be made. Cells of a given type quit making very good copies of themselves. We see this as aging in a biological entity. So, yeah, there is a finite limit on the life of the human biological entity and this has been documented since the 1970s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telomere
That's the 25 cent abstract. Now, for the good scifi question; would a perfect clone replicate the telomere status of the original or reset the telomeres allowing for longer viable life?
The trouble with a politically correct culture is that you aren't allowed to call them idiots with they blither. Is it really reasonable to consider a statement verbal assault when you point out someone's farting from the mouth bears no relationship to reality?
Look at the term "herd immunity".
I see the huge difference in attitude over "routine childhood diseases". At one time people would make sure their kid had the German Measles and get it over with.
Surprise, surprise, surprise (Gomer Pyle impression); the same virus that caused the German Measles in childhood is the same one that will stay dormant for decades and give you shingles in your later years. (Oh friggin' joy)
The internet is more like a pipeline. You pay an ISP for a certain size access pipe. The ISP should be providing the flow rate you pay for. What you pipe and how much you pipe is irrelevant. Data caps and throttling are ways to weasel out of of providing the size pipe you are paying for.
My reaction when I first heard the "cosmic radiation" excuse for misbehaving electronics.
With decades of experience in tech implementations in radiation fields I can personally attest to the fact that the radiation flux levels needed to cause reactions in electronics could only be high enough due to cosmic radiation at elevations higher than 20,000 feet. The levels need to be in Rad per hour rather than the microrad per hour that you get from cosmic radiation. (i.e. background at sea level is often 15-20 microrem/hr in the day and 3-5 microrem/hr at night with the difference due to cosmic radiation. In a 5 Rad/hr field, 5000000 microrem, the lifetime of electronics is weeks if not days before the semiconductors fail from ionization of the doping in the material.) This is for electronics other than radio transmissions as radio transmissions can experience interference in transmission due to ionization in the atmosphere. (thunderstorms do that too) Low power short range such as wifi is much less effected than long range skywave or aimed microwave. And radio interference is not an issue in the electronics but with interfering transmissions from mama nature. Cisco was so obviously full of a certain word that rhymes with their name.
With poverty level cheap foreign labor it is often cheaper for the end user to replace rather than repair. An example for consumer electronics:
It takes me 3-4 hours to repair a cracked solder joint on a wave soldered board with disassembly and reassembly of the unit. This would be actual repair charge on top of charge for labor done to identify what and where the problem is. Assuming a mean shop labor charge of $65 an hour (cheap rate these days) that would come to $195.00 to $260.00 before sales tax. Around $200.00 to repair an item that can be replaced for $100.00.
I doubt if mitigating taxes on labor to repair will make any appreciable effect on the cost differential between replacing and repair. Opinion:
The biggest foe to repair vs replace is the "inventory tax" which surfaced in the 1990s to further milk the populace for tax money. In a nutshell, many jurisdictions implement a quarterly tax on saleable parts kept in a warehouse. This discourages having repair parts available. Old farts like me really notice that you can't get a part for an item over two years old any more. Whereas, in decades past, you could call the manufacturer and get a part for 20 year old items.
Trust yahoo? You have to be kidding.
Someone I know gets their Yahoo account breached on a weekly basis. The first clue is that you start getting a flood of wonky spam from their Yahoo email address. Yahoo's solution is to tell the person to close their account and make another one with a different set of login credentials.
I have Uverse. (lack of options so I picked that as the best of a bad lot) When I found that AT&T uses Yahoo as an email provider; I got a third party email service so I would have reliable and more secure email.
The only thing Yahoo does that is useful is Yahoo Groups. And Yahoo keeps trying to get rid of that service. Yahoo Groups is a much better way to do a mailing list than crappy malware ridden things like Facebook.
Not surprising that Jawbone would tank after their phenomenally abysmal support of their original Jawbone Bluetooth unit. The charging terminals just didn't work after a few months. And for a unit supposedly able to communicate well you couldn't hear a call over the fan in the computer.
And is anyone surprised that a company infamous for not listening to its customers is convinced it knows better for you than you could ever know yourself?
My personal experience with Verizon is that they can't keep their billing straight for three months running. Verizon was the local carrier for landlines when I lived in the Pacific Northwest. I couldn't go three months without bogus phone charges showing up on my home phone and having to spend hours trying to get someone to admit that the charges were not valid and would be removed in a month or two. Yeah, credit flags for non payment for not paying for bogus charges then the impossibility of getting flags removed from a credit report. Three hours calls to Pakistan didn't happen on my home phone at 2 am when I was sleeping. But, try to get Verizon to admit they made a mistake. "A visitor could have made those calls." Nope, didn't happen.
But, can you flag as "inappropriate" content that claims proven falsehoods as fact?.... Thinking of the channel for an anti-nuclear whack job that claims that California is a wasteland because the I-131 from Fukushima killed everyone.
Just like you have to install a hack to keep printers from refusing to print because one or more print cartridges is past its "sell by" date. Sorry HP, but ink cartridges stored, sealed, in a cool environment don't suddenly go bad because of a tick of a clock.
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And drinking beverages with artificial sweeteners has been proven to cause diabetes in rats.
Maybe it will shake out and they will quit inferring causality and actually research the mechanism and learn exactly what is needed to keep the endocrine system in balance.
A Visa/Green Card is still renewed annually.
Actually, the issue of secession being constitutional was never settled. The issue was selectively ignored after Andrew Johnson invited all the Supreme Court justices to dinner and broached the subject of prosecuting leaders of the rebellion.
And a month ago they were all "deplorables" those who would consider voting for Trump.
Very good points. And a good reason to put public health care back in the hands of medical professionals instead of bureaucratic hacks. Bring back the Public Health Service as arbiters of U.S. policy on medicine instead of HHS.
I'm old enough to remember when a Democratic congress, on the heels of the civil rights amendment, sold a bill of goods to the people taking U.S. Health Care away from the medical professionals and created "Health Education and Welfare Department". Instead of PHS clinics available to whomever walked through the door you got a "Medicaid Card" if you qualified as indigent enough and had a huge staff burning 90 cents of every budget dollar to try and find a reason to deny coverage.
The main thing that needs doing with U.S. Health Care is really a Securities and Exchange Issue. For profit health insurance companies should not be able to own all or in part for profit medical providers. With that cartel connection; it is only in the interests of the companies to keep prices spiraling up and be damned to the public. A mandatory sinecure for health insurance companies such as Obamacare only drives prices higher.
Hmm, maybe we should send the new prez a Ouija board with the suggestion he channel Teddy Roosevelt a while.
I agree on Dr. Rice. The DNC just could not wrap their head around the fact that the majority of the population was totally fed up with the shenanigans of Hillary Clinton and would have voted for Harambe the Gorilla if it kept her out of office.
So, a registered Democrat casts a vote in a Republican primary. Ummm, that is voter fraud in many states, ya know. A primary election is for those within a given party.
The song to google is "True Story"
Harmless historical nuts
Who wear boiler plate on their butts
Who dress up in clothes from the twelfth century
To bash on each other with sticks and debris
And make up the world's largest private army
Harmless historical nuts
Legitimate religions are the ones with either enough adherents or enough money to get enough legislators in their pocket.
I wear a watch to time airborne sample gathering. No, I can't use my smart phone because cameras are not allowed in secure areas. What I really want is a good smart phone with a robust earphone jack and NO FRIGGIN' CAMERA. The only use I've ever made of the pitiful camera put in a phone is to scan an occasional QR code from a movie poster. I don't need a camera in a phone. I cannot carry a phone with a camera to work. And even bleeding edge phones do worse for photos than a cheap dedicated camera.
I noted the stoppage of shipping operating systems with basic back in the 80286 days. I asked one engineer from a vendor. (I was in computer sales and service way back then.) and was told they quit shipping with BASIC because you could modify the BIOS and erase copy protection from the OS using the PEEK and POKE commands in BASIC.
Back in those days I was enamored with ZBasic. ZBasic was a compiled basic as opposed to the interpretive compilation of vanilla basic. It was lovely to write one set of code and cross compile to run under very different operating systems such as TRSDOS, MS-DOS, C64, Atari, CP/M, or LS-DOS. The cross compiler for Unix was a bit buggy so I never went there. A friend of mine had a set of editor macros to make it compile for Linux.
Yes, chilluns, at one time people were encouraged to experiment with their systems rather than being threatened with lawsuits for modifying their purchased tech. I wonder if you would still get sued for "modding" if you put on the net how to turn an old PS/2 into a home automation server?
I'm firmly convinced that most main stream literary critics still have a VHS recorder that is flashing "12:00" because they can't understand "that techie shit". It would be ridiculous to ask someone who can't follow science at a 9th grade level to review SCIENCE fiction.
And they will probably drop support for my most common use of MS Paint; saving a window screen print to a jpeg to document errors in the OS.
The longer lasting photoluminescent compounds are more expensive. Most photoluminescent pigments degrade by oxidation and lose the photoluminescent properties over time. There is also a steep curve to photon output. The cited article doesn't blatantly say so but it appears the innovation the cited company has made is to put a longer lasting photoluminescent pigment into the type of glass beads used for high reflectivity signs. Having a photoluminescent pigment vitrified into microscopic glass beads would prevent the oxidation degradation and increase the perceived luminosity with the reflection from the glass beads. Now, if you added a low level alpha emitter to the mix you would have a paint that would glow continuously for thousands of years.
Like the "stop" command in a computer program; DNA has telomeres to program when to stop growing. If DNA happens to truncate the telomeres totally; you get runaway cell growth that is commonly caused "cancer". The thing is, every time DNA copies itself, telomeres shorten creating a defacto limit on the number of copies that can be made. Cells of a given type quit making very good copies of themselves. We see this as aging in a biological entity. So, yeah, there is a finite limit on the life of the human biological entity and this has been documented since the 1970s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telomere
That's the 25 cent abstract. Now, for the good scifi question; would a perfect clone replicate the telomere status of the original or reset the telomeres allowing for longer viable life?
The trouble with a politically correct culture is that you aren't allowed to call them idiots with they blither. Is it really reasonable to consider a statement verbal assault when you point out someone's farting from the mouth bears no relationship to reality?
Look at the term "herd immunity".
I see the huge difference in attitude over "routine childhood diseases". At one time people would make sure their kid had the German Measles and get it over with.
Surprise, surprise, surprise (Gomer Pyle impression); the same virus that caused the German Measles in childhood is the same one that will stay dormant for decades and give you shingles in your later years. (Oh friggin' joy)
The internet is more like a pipeline. You pay an ISP for a certain size access pipe. The ISP should be providing the flow rate you pay for. What you pipe and how much you pipe is irrelevant. Data caps and throttling are ways to weasel out of of providing the size pipe you are paying for.
My reaction when I first heard the "cosmic radiation" excuse for misbehaving electronics.
With decades of experience in tech implementations in radiation fields I can personally attest to the fact that the radiation flux levels needed to cause reactions in electronics could only be high enough due to cosmic radiation at elevations higher than 20,000 feet. The levels need to be in Rad per hour rather than the microrad per hour that you get from cosmic radiation. (i.e. background at sea level is often 15-20 microrem/hr in the day and 3-5 microrem/hr at night with the difference due to cosmic radiation. In a 5 Rad/hr field, 5000000 microrem, the lifetime of electronics is weeks if not days before the semiconductors fail from ionization of the doping in the material.) This is for electronics other than radio transmissions as radio transmissions can experience interference in transmission due to ionization in the atmosphere. (thunderstorms do that too) Low power short range such as wifi is much less effected than long range skywave or aimed microwave. And radio interference is not an issue in the electronics but with interfering transmissions from mama nature. Cisco was so obviously full of a certain word that rhymes with their name.
With poverty level cheap foreign labor it is often cheaper for the end user to replace rather than repair.
An example for consumer electronics:
It takes me 3-4 hours to repair a cracked solder joint on a wave soldered board with disassembly and reassembly of the unit. This would be actual repair charge on top of charge for labor done to identify what and where the problem is. Assuming a mean shop labor charge of $65 an hour (cheap rate these days) that would come to $195.00 to $260.00 before sales tax. Around $200.00 to repair an item that can be replaced for $100.00.
I doubt if mitigating taxes on labor to repair will make any appreciable effect on the cost differential between replacing and repair.
Opinion:
The biggest foe to repair vs replace is the "inventory tax" which surfaced in the 1990s to further milk the populace for tax money. In a nutshell, many jurisdictions implement a quarterly tax on saleable parts kept in a warehouse. This discourages having repair parts available. Old farts like me really notice that you can't get a part for an item over two years old any more. Whereas, in decades past, you could call the manufacturer and get a part for 20 year old items.
Trust yahoo? You have to be kidding.
Someone I know gets their Yahoo account breached on a weekly basis. The first clue is that you start getting a flood of wonky spam from their Yahoo email address. Yahoo's solution is to tell the person to close their account and make another one with a different set of login credentials.
I have Uverse. (lack of options so I picked that as the best of a bad lot) When I found that AT&T uses Yahoo as an email provider; I got a third party email service so I would have reliable and more secure email.
The only thing Yahoo does that is useful is Yahoo Groups. And Yahoo keeps trying to get rid of that service. Yahoo Groups is a much better way to do a mailing list than crappy malware ridden things like Facebook.
Not surprising that Jawbone would tank after their phenomenally abysmal support of their original Jawbone Bluetooth unit. The charging terminals just didn't work after a few months. And for a unit supposedly able to communicate well you couldn't hear a call over the fan in the computer.
And is anyone surprised that a company infamous for not listening to its customers is convinced it knows better for you than you could ever know yourself?
My personal experience with Verizon is that they can't keep their billing straight for three months running. Verizon was the local carrier for landlines when I lived in the Pacific Northwest. I couldn't go three months without bogus phone charges showing up on my home phone and having to spend hours trying to get someone to admit that the charges were not valid and would be removed in a month or two. Yeah, credit flags for non payment for not paying for bogus charges then the impossibility of getting flags removed from a credit report. Three hours calls to Pakistan didn't happen on my home phone at 2 am when I was sleeping. But, try to get Verizon to admit they made a mistake. "A visitor could have made those calls." Nope, didn't happen.
But, can you flag as "inappropriate" content that claims proven falsehoods as fact? .... Thinking of the channel for an anti-nuclear whack job that claims that California is a wasteland because the I-131 from Fukushima killed everyone.
Just like you have to install a hack to keep printers from refusing to print because one or more print cartridges is past its "sell by" date. Sorry HP, but ink cartridges stored, sealed, in a cool environment don't suddenly go bad because of a tick of a clock.