I don't think they would have to do an actual flight with a fully loaded fuel system to find a problem that is so severe. Just load the whole system, run the engine, and see if anything is leaking. If they need cold air to check for shrinkage of some parts, it is still winter. If they would need the engines to be at full throttle or at cruising speed, they could have done that without taking off too; the military does it with jets after replacing engines. Tie the plane down securely, and try to blow down buildings with the exhaust.
I find it hard to believe that there is no way to test a full fuel system without having to do an actual flight, Miss Vito.
Statistics are great. You say that melanoma is the leading cancer in people under age 30, so obviously it has nothing to do with how long someone lives. It strikes the young, not the old.
But what percentage of melanoma patients are under 30, and how many are over 30? This site says that almost 90% of recent melanoma patients are over 40 years old.
The quick reply to any rise in melanoma rates is that people are out in the sun more nowadays than 70 years ago. "In the sun" meaning 'laying on a beach wearing almost no clothing, for hours at a time'. Seven decades ago most people in the US and Europe wore long sleeve shirts and long pants went they went out in public.
The not-so-quick reply is that people are living longer today too, rather than dying long before melanoma could develop. As more people survive lesser diseases such as the flu, more will die due to other diseases such as cancer.
Other responses to your statistic would include radiation from microwave ovens and televisions, terrible dieting consisting of less nutritious foods rather than fresh vegetables, and the theory that the human body has cancer cells all the time which are routinely destroyed in healthy people but not in our modern bodies which are not healthy because of the previous two reasons which I just mentioned.
Those of us who touch type usually know when we hit the wrong key too. Also, there is the Preview button for a reason. So we don't look like complete asses for a stupid little mistake.
Weird, I was doing the same thing this weekend, also on a Win98SE box. Using both IE 5.5 SP1 and Firefox. No infections at all. Of course, it may have taken them longer to infect me, over my 33.6 modem. Or with my Pentium CPU screaming at 133MHz.
Actually that last item causes some fun at times. Someone will tell me about their new "Pentium 4" system, and I mention my "Pentium 133", and their eyes glaze over wondering how I got such an advanced system.
Actually, that is one point that seems funny to me. Your Queen is married, but her husband is only a prince. Why is he not a King, even if only a figurhead with no power?
They are trying their best to get that new desktop environment integrated. You know, the Duke Nuk'em Forever Desk'top. It blows viruses away, melts system freezes, and liberates both Gen Failure and Gen P. Fault from the communist zombie insurgent terrorists.
Is there any wonder that it is taking longer than expected?
Last month people on this site were still having fits if someone used the term 'tidal wave' instead of the scientific 'tsunami'. Do you see the problem with that situation?
The same is true in the case of your argument. As you say, too many people will spend all their time and energy debating labels, rather than doing work. I don't see it changing anytime soon.
I installed the ceiling fan in my bedroom a few years ago, to replace the old one that was wearing out. I sure wouldn't trust it to hang myself on. If I want to commit suicide, I want to be dead, not just have a sore neck and head. Not to mention I would have to use a rope that only has about one foot of slack in it, or I would just end up standing on the floor after kicking out the chair.
Although having a permit and inspection seems reasonable for these things, there's no way I'm going to pay the local money-grabbers for either one.
Well, maybe he tied a couple of bills to it and threw it through the charity's front window. Then they could say he crashed their Windows with something called Lynx. The reporter could have just gotten a little confused in the details.
Actually, I tried that one day. Put water in a pan. Put pan on burner. Turned on burner. 10 minutes later, realised I forgot to plug the damn thing in. Do'h!
Besides, you can turn the burner on low, and the water may never boil. It will evaporate rapidly, compared to not heating it, but not necessarily boil. Just to be pedantic.
It's trivially easy for any healthy adult to drastically slash their energy usage - in winter, turn the heat down 2 deg C, in summer turn the AC up 2 deg C.
Or just have no AC, go on your summer vacation, and bury gramma when you get home. Worked for the families of 12,000 French a couple summers ago.
Hey, if Micheal Moore can say Bush knew about the attacks on September 11, 2001, before they happened, and all your friends believe it, we can say Gore claimed to invent the internet.
On a more thoughtful bent, what exactly was it that Gore stated, and in what context? Who was his audience? Not a bunch of network designers, AOL engineers, Marc Andreesen, and Bill Gates. They would have known that Gore did not invent the Internet.
The group he was speaking to was whoever watches CNN. Whether union members, the elderly, inner-city residents, fundamentalist Christians, enviromentalists, soccer-moms, etc. Gore phrased the statement in a very strategic way. While he didn't actually say he "invented the Internet", his reply would seems to say that to most viewers. See it for yourself.
During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.
So the the great unwashed masses, he seems to be claiming to be the inventer of the greatest technological wonder in the world. And the sole reason everyone's nest eggs were worth so much money, from the dotcom rush. Not only is he the smartest man alive for being able to "create the Internet" but we all owed our livelihoods and pensions to his genius. (Afterall this was before the dotcom bubble burst during Clinton's last year as President.)
That is the best take on the matter that I have seen. Actually, this is the only far-encompassing writing I have seen about it. Mostly it is just two people like yourself and the original poster throwing irrelevant factoids around. This isn't a flame on you, it just happens that your post is the exact type of reply to the original poster that everyone else has replied withon previous occassions.
No, you heard him wrong. He thinks Saddam should be set free immediately, with full restitution for 'wrongful imprisonment', and our assistance in reinstating his former position. Reality is just an illusion for him.
As long as you would be on trial for actually killing people, he would vote Innocent, because after all there are mental-midgets being persecuted by the justice system, and you just may be one of those people.
"Should we disregard anything Asamov said about robotics because he wrote science fiction? It's very dismissive..."
That was my first thought when reading his post too. I have read dozens of Asimov's works, starting as a teenager in the 80s. It was years later that I found out he was a scientist, not just a science fiction writer, and that he had several books that were actual science books.
It is interesting that the responses to the post by FatRatBastard mostly prove the point that Crichton was making.
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I don't think they would have to do an actual flight with a fully loaded fuel system to find a problem that is so severe. Just load the whole system, run the engine, and see if anything is leaking. If they need cold air to check for shrinkage of some parts, it is still winter. If they would need the engines to be at full throttle or at cruising speed, they could have done that without taking off too; the military does it with jets after replacing engines. Tie the plane down securely, and try to blow down buildings with the exhaust.
I find it hard to believe that there is no way to test a full fuel system without having to do an actual flight, Miss Vito.
But what percentage of melanoma patients are under 30, and how many are over 30? This site says that almost 90% of recent melanoma patients are over 40 years old.
This site, http://www.cancer.org/ has an article from 2002 that states:
So those under 30 are getting less melanoma now than before, and the elderly are getting much more.
As I said, statistics are great.
The quick reply to any rise in melanoma rates is that people are out in the sun more nowadays than 70 years ago. "In the sun" meaning 'laying on a beach wearing almost no clothing, for hours at a time'. Seven decades ago most people in the US and Europe wore long sleeve shirts and long pants went they went out in public.
The not-so-quick reply is that people are living longer today too, rather than dying long before melanoma could develop. As more people survive lesser diseases such as the flu, more will die due to other diseases such as cancer.
Other responses to your statistic would include radiation from microwave ovens and televisions, terrible dieting consisting of less nutritious foods rather than fresh vegetables, and the theory that the human body has cancer cells all the time which are routinely destroyed in healthy people but not in our modern bodies which are not healthy because of the previous two reasons which I just mentioned.
Those of us who touch type usually know when we hit the wrong key too. Also, there is the Preview button for a reason. So we don't look like complete asses for a stupid little mistake.
I have dial up, you insensitive clod.
It could be a dream episode on "24", what with the 'port attacks' and such.
Weird, I was doing the same thing this weekend, also on a Win98SE box. Using both IE 5.5 SP1 and Firefox. No infections at all. Of course, it may have taken them longer to infect me, over my 33.6 modem. Or with my Pentium CPU screaming at 133MHz.
Actually that last item causes some fun at times. Someone will tell me about their new "Pentium 4" system, and I mention my "Pentium 133", and their eyes glaze over wondering how I got such an advanced system.
"(it's not like a little 4 port NAT/router/firewall is expensive these days). "
Hey, cool, I was waiting for their price to drop. My question is, how do I hook up my 33.6 modem into that thing?
Actually, that is one point that seems funny to me. Your Queen is married, but her husband is only a prince. Why is he not a King, even if only a figurhead with no power?
They are trying their best to get that new desktop environment integrated. You know, the Duke Nuk'em Forever Desk'top. It blows viruses away, melts system freezes, and liberates both Gen Failure and Gen P. Fault from the communist zombie insurgent terrorists.
Is there any wonder that it is taking longer than expected?
Obviously, we should use '69' to represent them. This would also give Seinfeld a new line of jokes if he ever goes to a planetarium again.
Last month people on this site were still having fits if someone used the term 'tidal wave' instead of the scientific 'tsunami'. Do you see the problem with that situation?
The same is true in the case of your argument. As you say, too many people will spend all their time and energy debating labels, rather than doing work. I don't see it changing anytime soon.
Remember: Marketing people could sell blood to a turnip.
While that's true, you have to remember that the pay would be peanuts.
I installed the ceiling fan in my bedroom a few years ago, to replace the old one that was wearing out. I sure wouldn't trust it to hang myself on. If I want to commit suicide, I want to be dead, not just have a sore neck and head. Not to mention I would have to use a rope that only has about one foot of slack in it, or I would just end up standing on the floor after kicking out the chair.
Although having a permit and inspection seems reasonable for these things, there's no way I'm going to pay the local money-grabbers for either one.
Well, maybe he tied a couple of bills to it and threw it through the charity's front window. Then they could say he crashed their Windows with something called Lynx. The reporter could have just gotten a little confused in the details.
I didn't even know the Lynx was able to go online. And then to be arrested just because you use old technology, what a bother.
Actually, I tried that one day. Put water in a pan. Put pan on burner. Turned on burner. 10 minutes later, realised I forgot to plug the damn thing in. Do'h!
Besides, you can turn the burner on low, and the water may never boil. It will evaporate rapidly, compared to not heating it, but not necessarily boil. Just to be pedantic.
Or just have no AC, go on your summer vacation, and bury gramma when you get home. Worked for the families of 12,000 French a couple summers ago.
I would just say, "Hi Frank, is it Tuesday already?" ;^)
Al Gore !NEVER! claimed to have designed a city around the Segway!! Will you people stop saying that!!!
On a more thoughtful bent, what exactly was it that Gore stated, and in what context? Who was his audience? Not a bunch of network designers, AOL engineers, Marc Andreesen, and Bill Gates. They would have known that Gore did not invent the Internet.
The group he was speaking to was whoever watches CNN. Whether union members, the elderly, inner-city residents, fundamentalist Christians, enviromentalists, soccer-moms, etc. Gore phrased the statement in a very strategic way. While he didn't actually say he "invented the Internet", his reply would seems to say that to most viewers. See it for yourself.
So the the great unwashed masses, he seems to be claiming to be the inventer of the greatest technological wonder in the world. And the sole reason everyone's nest eggs were worth so much money, from the dotcom rush. Not only is he the smartest man alive for being able to "create the Internet" but we all owed our livelihoods and pensions to his genius. (Afterall this was before the dotcom bubble burst during Clinton's last year as President.)
That is the best take on the matter that I have seen. Actually, this is the only far-encompassing writing I have seen about it. Mostly it is just two people like yourself and the original poster throwing irrelevant factoids around. This isn't a flame on you, it just happens that your post is the exact type of reply to the original poster that everyone else has replied withon previous occassions.
No, you heard him wrong. He thinks Saddam should be set free immediately, with full restitution for 'wrongful imprisonment', and our assistance in reinstating his former position. Reality is just an illusion for him.
As long as you would be on trial for actually killing people, he would vote Innocent, because after all there are mental-midgets being persecuted by the justice system, and you just may be one of those people.
Thank you. I try not to grammar-nazi, but that first try had my nerves twitching. I feel better now.
Five to ten at a time? Doesn't your other hand get tired?
"Should we disregard anything Asamov said about robotics because he wrote science fiction? It's very dismissive..."
That was my first thought when reading his post too. I have read dozens of Asimov's works, starting as a teenager in the 80s. It was years later that I found out he was a scientist, not just a science fiction writer, and that he had several books that were actual science books.
It is interesting that the responses to the post by FatRatBastard mostly prove the point that Crichton was making.