In fact, go for the whole Asian thing, that it, nice and FAR AWAY with lots of exotic girls. Certainly better than seeing your dad dating waitresses young enough to be your sister.
If you do that, please, safe sex.
As a doctor I've seen it all go horribly wrong more than once.
Not only that but this is the Pharma companies wet dream! They already have direct selling to consumers in the US, now they can sell all of these medicaitons to anyone, regardless of need or not.
What's more, the consumers won't have anyone to sue when the s**t inevitably hits the fan, since they were prescribing it to themselves essentially off label. They didn't read the fine print on the TV ad with young people bouncing along the beach with their boobs out, that says this class of blood pressure med is contraindicated in anyone with heart failure, or over a particular age as it causes them to die faster. Tough s**t! Consumer not using as directed.
Blood pressure medications have nasty side effects. Sure doctors sometimes stuff up and make mistakes, which costs lives, but at least they have some chance of learning from the experience. Direct to the consumer? They stuff up, then they don't get the benifit of learning from mistakes.
There is no evaporation in modern desalanation and no heat involved. It's done with reverse osmosis - membranes permiable to water not salt and high pressure to push against the osmotic draw.
Teachers are there to keep our sanity. Humans need social interaction. Physical interaction. Playing, meeting with other kids outside their neighborhood. Something a screen can't do. Regardless of anecdotic comments of random, anonymous slashdotters.
Ever seen a dog that's spent the period of 8wks to one year without contact with other dogs?
When they do see another dog they don't know how to react, for the rest of their lives. It's quite sad. I hope noone's kids ever suffer the same fate.
My understanding that MACHO (ie: brown dwarf and small planet) object dark matter has been pretty much ruled out by microlensing experiments. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MACHO. Essentially if you stare at a distant star for long enough, you should see lots of gravitational microlensing (peaks in brightness) as all the small planets pass in front of the star.
Any hypothesised large amounts of dark matter would have to be fine tuned carefully to get around this data.
A number of misunderstandings in this post and the comments:
1. The IV injection is an iodine containing contrast, it does not contain radioisotopes / radiation. Iodine is a heavy, and thus radiopaque element and is used to show blood flow in the CT scan. 2. The warmth you felt is due to a histamine and vasodilatory reaction to the IV contrast, it's got nothing to do with the thyroid. It's similar to the warming sensation you get when you have a couple of shots of alcohol and actually causes you to cool down. 3. Iodine contrast is an issue - in people with severe kidney disease it can cause kidney damage. If contrast leaks from the vein into the subcutanious tissues it can cause some locallized iritation and swelling.
People moving is just the start for autonomous vehicles. The real revolution will be in moving goods with little micro-movers.
Run out of milk? no problem, just order some on your fridge and it's at the front door in minutes. Want a hot dinner? Log into your local restraunt and order one to go.
Taxi services will be cheap, affortable, and accessable. Noone need own a car anymore. No need for a garrage or driveway infront of your house. No need for traffic lights, aproaching cars will just 'book' a timeslot through the intersection, narrowly avoiding collisions with safety, speeding the journey to and fro and saving energy as you don't need to brake and accelerate anymore.
Autonomous mobility is going to be truly revolutionary in the way we live.
... However, I have yet to see a difference between a personality disorder and a shitty personality. They seem to be just labels for a common personality we find unpleasant.
That's because there isn't any. 'Personality disorders' are a clinical label to apply to someone who has certain well defined problems with life, it's meant to be more specific than 'an asshole', but no less damning. Everyone who uses them knows that there's a lot of crossover, but it's a lot more useful to use a bit of jargon between doctors, psychiatrists, and psychologists so they know what kind of asshole someone is, rather than just put 'asshole' on their file.
There's a number of problems with this straw-man argument: 1. Religon does not have monopoly on morality, in fact the vast majority of the moral philosophers don't invoke religous ideas whatsoever. 2. Religon does not have a monopoly on breeding. The birth rate in Australia mirrors that of the USA, however only a minority of people there subscribe to religon. 3. Religon does not have a monopoly on good parenting.
In actual studies of people driving while on a mobile phone, they are about as dangerous as someone who's drunk behind the wheel. That's the actual data, it's not subject to wishful self-justification.
Given the number one cause of death and permanent disability for any person aged 0-30ish is road traffic accidents, not talking on the phone is a small price to pay.
You don't actually *have* to immunize for this rule. You can opt to go to your doctor and have them sign something saying you've fronted up and refused.
What you can't do is just 'forget' to do it and expect to recieve benifits.
I think that's fair, even to the loonies that are anti-immunization because it kills whales.
Q: "What does the 4 mean in iphone 4" A: "I don't know" Q: "Does it mean 4G?" A: "Yes... I guess it must" Q: "Does it mean version 4" A: "Yes, that seems likley"
Don't knows can be converted into almost any answer you like with the right prompting.
Eternal existence is a meaningless concept, both for an individual and for a species.
Either you get stuck in a loop of always repeating yourself, or with time you grow so far different from the original that you can't even call it the same individual/species anymore.
In my experience the correlation between stress levels and urgency has an R value of about 0.00001.
Stress level mostly depends on how crazy the patient is, and I suspect the correlation betwen crazyness of customer and number of emergency services calls recieved has an R value of somewhere aproaching 0.9999
It makes perfect sense! There's also going to be a $10 fee for movies, a $10 fee for video games, a $30 fee for porno (which everyone knows is the most dowloaded on the internet), a $10 microsoft fee, a $10 apple fee so you don't need to pay the app store anymore, a $10 fee for newspapers, a $10 fee for TV shows, ect.
I'm a miserable bastard, I know, but my take on this would be that your actions as an individual are insignificant to the point of being negligible, and history shows that your chances of influencing others by your example are also near zero.
Thereby excusing any negative action you perform, and negating any positive? Taken to it's logical conclusion this line of thought makes absolutly any action OK. Start a global thermonuclear war? Well we're only one tiny planet in a vast universe, so on the count of it it hardly matters...
Batteries aren't implicitly bad, but the worst things are toys with a single button to push, that causes to toy to launch into an extended sequence of songs or actions. The response should be proportional to the action!
The holographic universe theory comes from work by Gerardus 't Hooft. Sure Hawking did some work on it as well, can't they say Gerardus 't Hooft *and* Hawking?
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In fact, go for the whole Asian thing, that it, nice and FAR AWAY with lots of exotic girls. Certainly better than seeing your dad dating waitresses young enough to be your sister.
If you do that, please, safe sex.
As a doctor I've seen it all go horribly wrong more than once.
Not only that but this is the Pharma companies wet dream! They already have direct selling to consumers in the US, now they can sell all of these medicaitons to anyone, regardless of need or not.
What's more, the consumers won't have anyone to sue when the s**t inevitably hits the fan, since they were prescribing it to themselves essentially off label. They didn't read the fine print on the TV ad with young people bouncing along the beach with their boobs out, that says this class of blood pressure med is contraindicated in anyone with heart failure, or over a particular age as it causes them to die faster. Tough s**t! Consumer not using as directed.
Blood pressure medications have nasty side effects. Sure doctors sometimes stuff up and make mistakes, which costs lives, but at least they have some chance of learning from the experience. Direct to the consumer? They stuff up, then they don't get the benifit of learning from mistakes.
There is no evaporation in modern desalanation and no heat involved. It's done with reverse osmosis - membranes permiable to water not salt and high pressure to push against the osmotic draw.
Teachers are there to keep our sanity. Humans need social interaction. Physical interaction. Playing, meeting with other kids outside their neighborhood. Something a screen can't do. Regardless of anecdotic comments of random, anonymous slashdotters.
Ever seen a dog that's spent the period of 8wks to one year without contact with other dogs?
When they do see another dog they don't know how to react, for the rest of their lives. It's quite sad. I hope noone's kids ever suffer the same fate.
In the west you sink money into mining investments, in russia money in mining investments sink YOU!
My understanding that MACHO (ie: brown dwarf and small planet) object dark matter has been pretty much ruled out by microlensing experiments. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MACHO. Essentially if you stare at a distant star for long enough, you should see lots of gravitational microlensing (peaks in brightness) as all the small planets pass in front of the star.
Any hypothesised large amounts of dark matter would have to be fine tuned carefully to get around this data.
A number of misunderstandings in this post and the comments:
1. The IV injection is an iodine containing contrast, it does not contain radioisotopes / radiation. Iodine is a heavy, and thus radiopaque element and is used to show blood flow in the CT scan.
2. The warmth you felt is due to a histamine and vasodilatory reaction to the IV contrast, it's got nothing to do with the thyroid. It's similar to the warming sensation you get when you have a couple of shots of alcohol and actually causes you to cool down.
3. Iodine contrast is an issue - in people with severe kidney disease it can cause kidney damage. If contrast leaks from the vein into the subcutanious tissues it can cause some locallized iritation and swelling.
People moving is just the start for autonomous vehicles. The real revolution will be in moving goods with little micro-movers.
Run out of milk? no problem, just order some on your fridge and it's at the front door in minutes. Want a hot dinner? Log into your local restraunt and order one to go.
Taxi services will be cheap, affortable, and accessable. Noone need own a car anymore. No need for a garrage or driveway infront of your house. No need for traffic lights, aproaching cars will just 'book' a timeslot through the intersection, narrowly avoiding collisions with safety, speeding the journey to and fro and saving energy as you don't need to brake and accelerate anymore.
Autonomous mobility is going to be truly revolutionary in the way we live.
American's are alway cleaning up the mess made by others. hopefully one day someone will clean up after us American's
Like inappropriate apostrophes?
... However, I have yet to see a difference between a personality disorder and a shitty personality. They seem to be just labels for a common personality we find unpleasant.
That's because there isn't any. 'Personality disorders' are a clinical label to apply to someone who has certain well defined problems with life, it's meant to be more specific than 'an asshole', but no less damning. Everyone who uses them knows that there's a lot of crossover, but it's a lot more useful to use a bit of jargon between doctors, psychiatrists, and psychologists so they know what kind of asshole someone is, rather than just put 'asshole' on their file.
There's a number of problems with this straw-man argument:
1. Religon does not have monopoly on morality, in fact the vast majority of the moral philosophers don't invoke religous ideas whatsoever.
2. Religon does not have a monopoly on breeding. The birth rate in Australia mirrors that of the USA, however only a minority of people there subscribe to religon.
3. Religon does not have a monopoly on good parenting.
The problem with this approach is you're in a bit of a catch 22.
Good drivers aren't instructed, they've had years of experience behind the wheel.
If you can't drive cos you don't have the experience, and you can't get the experience, then noone can drive.
We just have to make getting that experience, during our late teens and early 20s, as safe as possible by banning drink-driving and phone-driving.
Well that's a lot of suposition.
In actual studies of people driving while on a mobile phone, they are about as dangerous as someone who's drunk behind the wheel. That's the actual data, it's not subject to wishful self-justification.
Given the number one cause of death and permanent disability for any person aged 0-30ish is road traffic accidents, not talking on the phone is a small price to pay.
What's long and stiff and takes me out of this world?
A space elevator!
You don't actually *have* to immunize for this rule. You can opt to go to your doctor and have them sign something saying you've fronted up and refused.
What you can't do is just 'forget' to do it and expect to recieve benifits.
I think that's fair, even to the loonies that are anti-immunization because it kills whales.
In Australia, salbutamol inhalers are less than $20 each and available over the counter.
Surely if you do a cost-benifit analysis, subsidizing inhalers works out a hell of a lot cheaper than a string of emergency department visits.
Depends really on how the question was asked:
Q: "What does the 4 mean in iphone 4"
A: "I don't know"
Q: "Does it mean 4G?"
A: "Yes... I guess it must"
Q: "Does it mean version 4"
A: "Yes, that seems likley"
Don't knows can be converted into almost any answer you like with the right prompting.
Meh
Eternal existence is a meaningless concept, both for an individual and for a species.
Either you get stuck in a loop of always repeating yourself, or with time you grow so far different from the original that you can't even call it the same individual/species anymore.
Carpe Diem, eternity is a philosophical trap.
If the close star is a red dwarf, the far star is a blue giant, then there's substantially less light from the nearby star than the distant one.
Hepatitis C is highly contagious for blood borne contact (ie: between IV drug users) but there have been no recorded sexual transmissions.
I work in a hospital emergency department.
In my experience the correlation between stress levels and urgency has an R value of about 0.00001.
Stress level mostly depends on how crazy the patient is, and I suspect the correlation betwen crazyness of customer and number of emergency services calls recieved has an R value of somewhere aproaching 0.9999
Seriously, how does this make sense?
It makes perfect sense! There's also going to be a $10 fee for movies, a $10 fee for video games, a $30 fee for porno (which everyone knows is the most dowloaded on the internet), a $10 microsoft fee, a $10 apple fee so you don't need to pay the app store anymore, a $10 fee for newspapers, a $10 fee for TV shows, ect.
I'm a miserable bastard, I know, but my take on this would be that your actions as an individual are insignificant to the point of being negligible, and history shows that your chances of influencing others by your example are also near zero.
Thereby excusing any negative action you perform, and negating any positive? Taken to it's logical conclusion this line of thought makes absolutly any action OK. Start a global thermonuclear war? Well we're only one tiny planet in a vast universe, so on the count of it it hardly matters...
Nothing with batteries.
Batteries aren't implicitly bad, but the worst things are toys with a single button to push, that causes to toy to launch into an extended sequence of songs or actions. The response should be proportional to the action!
The holographic universe theory comes from work by Gerardus 't Hooft. Sure Hawking did some work on it as well, can't they say Gerardus 't Hooft *and* Hawking?
I guess it's a consequence of small pools...