Nah, pretty much everything can use glucose, and red blood cells really are dependent on it (no mitochondria), but your liver can make it. The brain can run pretty well on ketones.
Eh, it's not like more money always produces better education results - if it did, DC would be the top district in the country. Private school in Atlanta or Dallas has the advantage of only being required while the kid is a student - your high property taxes in the better NYC suburbs are there forever. If you have a large family, you're definitely better off in metro NYC, but if you have two kids? Probably a wash. And both Atlanta and Dallas have big airports with cheap fares. It's more fun to grow up on the Upper East Side, of course, if you have the money for that, but when you're comparing Morristown and Plano... the advantages start to look a lot more sparse.
I like your style here, but what do you do to provide pee breaks? Loonie Tunes shorts, maybe? Some kind of functional equivalent to commercials, where you can be away for a few minutes without missing anything important.
It's not like that. I can tell you that Person X is very attractive; I just can't reliably recognize which attractive person that is. And it's dependent on a lot of things - often I recognize people I don't know well by their voice, rather than their face. Or, to take the example which made it crystal-clear to me: I was watching Sliding Doors with my wife. It's a movie in which parallel timelines play out, showing the differences in the lives the main character leads based on whether or not she just barely makes it onto a specific subway train one afternoon. Gwyneth Paltrow plays the lead, but she has different hair colors and styles in each of the two roles. I was two-thirds of the way through the movie before I realized that the same actress was playing both characters. That's how much hair color (and style) is part of my recognition scheme.
If you take a real chameleon like Gary Oldman, forget it: I'm toast. At the opposite end of the spectrum, take someone like Sean Connery, who always plays Sean Connery playing someone else, and it's no problem.
Stick with popular models; you can easily get new engines, transmissions, etc., for a Honda, Toyota, GM, or Ford. Luxury features can be retrofitted. Not cheap, but less expensive than a new car. I just had an oil leak fixed on an 18-year-old SUV; someone asked "why spend $750 on a car that old?" Um, because it's useful to me. Try to buy that car for $750. You can't. It's worth that much to have something with a tow package and a ton of cargo space sitting in my driveway, just in case I need it (like if another rat decides to chew my soy-insulated ignition cables on my regular car). I could replace all the carpet and all the leather on the seats for a few thousand; I could put a nav system in for a few hundred. Probably will at some point.
"How large companies can get"? What are they supposed to do, split in two when they reach a certain size, like an amoeba? I think you'll find that your approach will produce legal chicanery the likes of which you have never before imagined. Yes, I know you want to ban holding companies as well, but let's face it: ain't gonna happen.
Yeah. I mean, I have a Facebook account, and I check it once or twice a year. I don't find most other people all that interesting; if I do find you interesting, then we don't really need Facebook to interact.
Yeah, but "open" MRI's are still pretty closed at the magnets, and the image quality isn't as good as closed-tube.
That said, ultrasound is absolutely astonishingly good. A modern portable Sonosite will produce images that a cart-sized machine couldn't have made fifteen years ago.
My wife is also a doctor, so we have two major routes of infection at home. I use enough Purell during flu season that
I joke about getting drunk from skin absorption.
Yep, this is correct. "Sneeze like Dracula". This minimizes the aerosolized viruses and the exposure onto commonly-touched surfaces (just don't cross your arms afterward). Standard CDC advice. In 20 years of being a med student and doctor, I've gotten the flu once. The modern proliferation of alcohol-soaked hand wipes and foams has helped., probably as much as the vaccine (which has been unfortunately ineffective this year).
We generally don't care if you stop breathing - it's sort of our thing to breathe for you. Consciousness requires a great deal more coordination than the simple breathing centers, though. The same reason explains why anesthetics make you lose vision as a sense before you lose hearing - it's a more processing-intensive sense.
As for cardiac rhythms, gas anesthetics are arrhythmogenic, but it's usually not a problem. Spinals - as are given for most cesarean sections - are more likely to produce slow heart rates, as they disable the autonomic nerves as well as the sensory ones. However, we have drugs for that.
It does happen, but it's exceedingly rare. Paralytics don't block autonomic responses - people who are in pain will still exhibit increased heart rate and blood pressure.
Propofol also has a very short duration of action. The "fog of general anesthesia" is much more likely to be caused by the benzodiazepine sedatives that most will get prior to actual induction of anesthesia. Those benzos - classically, Valium (diazepam); today, usually Versed (midazolam) - are in the same class as Rohypnol (flunitrazepam, but famous as "roofies"). They're very good for treating acute anxiety, but they're also addictive, and seriously interfere with memory formation.
I'm an anesthesiologist, and unless someone is really climbing the walls with anxiety (not, actually, all that common), I don't give benzos. I give a solid dose of long-acting opioids right up front, and that's it. The only time I've ever had Versed, I got an eight-hour gap in my memory. Don't remember a thing. Rather obvious why it became popular as a "date-rape drug".
We do use propofol for colonoscopies, and it's a great drug for that, but most general anesthetics are conducted with gas anesthetics - they are cheaper and they are very easily monitored (we can easily see how much you're breathing in and out, and thus infer how likely you are to have any awareness). In most cases, propofol is used only to induce anesthesia - to make you unconscious so that you can be intubated. As soon as the breathing tube is in, the gas is turned on, and that's what you're waking up from. The advantage there is that, as with alcohol, people tend to get disinhibited before they lose consciousness. You don't want someone without a secured airway flailing around on the OR table (they might fall off). A slug of propofol takes them from conscious to comatose in a matter of seconds. By the time it wears off, the gas has kicked in.
He's a social justice warrior for log cabin nazism.
See, stuff like this is why I still come here, long after the site has ceased to have much relevance. The trolls are a bit one-note, but they do still have some style.
Another DeBlasio fuck up. The city was a hell hole but that fucking Democrat really has done the worst job yet.
Not really about party, in this case. It's not like Bloomberg was really a Republican. However, the best pro-Bloomberg argument I ever heard was that yeah, he was a nanny-state limousine liberal, but at least he wasn't another one of the City Hall hacks that often find their way into the NYC mayor's office.
HP Stream 11, perhaps? It's pretty anemic, but I was able to get one with 4 GB RAM and a 64 GB SSD for under $200 (technically, it's an educational model and Windows license, but it's 10 Pro, and they sold it to me without a.edu address). For the price, it's a pretty good modern version of the netbook. Even has HDMI, but don't try to use it to stream Netflix.
You don't have to go that far back. Any GM vehicle built while OnStar was still analog-cell-based will do. My '01 Tahoe could definitely use a refresher on the inside (new carpet, seats re-covered), but the outside has been restored, and it's mechanically quite sound. You can even get simple dash mods to put a double-DIN sound system with a decent screen in it, so you can have the useful modern things like a backup camera. If I used it more, I absolutely would. As it is, I installed a cheap Bluetooth-capable single-DIN radio a while back. Took me maybe an afternoon, and I'm a complete novice when it comes to cars.
Taxis and airport shuttles would kill that idea. Ever notice how rare it is for major airports to be accessible by good public transit? Now you know why.
I'm not aware of such on-ramps. Any examples in mind? I mean, they have highway entrances and exits in poor neighborhoods; why wouldn't they have them in rich ones?
The pump won't turn on without a card or a prepay. Twenty years ago, your method might have worked, because most people filled up first and paid cash after. Today, not so much. You want to pay cash, fine, but you have to do it before the pump will start.
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Nah, pretty much everything can use glucose, and red blood cells really are dependent on it (no mitochondria), but your liver can make it. The brain can run pretty well on ketones.
Eh, it's not like more money always produces better education results - if it did, DC would be the top district in the country. Private school in Atlanta or Dallas has the advantage of only being required while the kid is a student - your high property taxes in the better NYC suburbs are there forever. If you have a large family, you're definitely better off in metro NYC, but if you have two kids? Probably a wash. And both Atlanta and Dallas have big airports with cheap fares. It's more fun to grow up on the Upper East Side, of course, if you have the money for that, but when you're comparing Morristown and Plano... the advantages start to look a lot more sparse.
I like your style here, but what do you do to provide pee breaks? Loonie Tunes shorts, maybe? Some kind of functional equivalent to commercials, where you can be away for a few minutes without missing anything important.
It's not like that. I can tell you that Person X is very attractive; I just can't reliably recognize which attractive person that is. And it's dependent on a lot of things - often I recognize people I don't know well by their voice, rather than their face. Or, to take the example which made it crystal-clear to me: I was watching Sliding Doors with my wife. It's a movie in which parallel timelines play out, showing the differences in the lives the main character leads based on whether or not she just barely makes it onto a specific subway train one afternoon. Gwyneth Paltrow plays the lead, but she has different hair colors and styles in each of the two roles. I was two-thirds of the way through the movie before I realized that the same actress was playing both characters. That's how much hair color (and style) is part of my recognition scheme.
If you take a real chameleon like Gary Oldman, forget it: I'm toast. At the opposite end of the spectrum, take someone like Sean Connery, who always plays Sean Connery playing someone else, and it's no problem.
10 GB/mo for one account is expensive. 100 MB/mo for a million isn't.
Stick with popular models; you can easily get new engines, transmissions, etc., for a Honda, Toyota, GM, or Ford. Luxury features can be retrofitted. Not cheap, but less expensive than a new car. I just had an oil leak fixed on an 18-year-old SUV; someone asked "why spend $750 on a car that old?" Um, because it's useful to me. Try to buy that car for $750. You can't. It's worth that much to have something with a tow package and a ton of cargo space sitting in my driveway, just in case I need it (like if another rat decides to chew my soy-insulated ignition cables on my regular car). I could replace all the carpet and all the leather on the seats for a few thousand; I could put a nav system in for a few hundred. Probably will at some point.
"How large companies can get"? What are they supposed to do, split in two when they reach a certain size, like an amoeba? I think you'll find that your approach will produce legal chicanery the likes of which you have never before imagined. Yes, I know you want to ban holding companies as well, but let's face it: ain't gonna happen.
Yeah. I mean, I have a Facebook account, and I check it once or twice a year. I don't find most other people all that interesting; if I do find you interesting, then we don't really need Facebook to interact.
Yeah, but "open" MRI's are still pretty closed at the magnets, and the image quality isn't as good as closed-tube.
That said, ultrasound is absolutely astonishingly good. A modern portable Sonosite will produce images that a cart-sized machine couldn't have made fifteen years ago.
My wife is also a doctor, so we have two major routes of infection at home. I use enough Purell during flu season that I joke about getting drunk from skin absorption.
Yep, this is correct. "Sneeze like Dracula". This minimizes the aerosolized viruses and the exposure onto commonly-touched surfaces (just don't cross your arms afterward). Standard CDC advice. In 20 years of being a med student and doctor, I've gotten the flu once. The modern proliferation of alcohol-soaked hand wipes and foams has helped., probably as much as the vaccine (which has been unfortunately ineffective this year).
Porn VR game has bad security? Who knew?
All linguists are nerds.
We generally don't care if you stop breathing - it's sort of our thing to breathe for you. Consciousness requires a great deal more coordination than the simple breathing centers, though. The same reason explains why anesthetics make you lose vision as a sense before you lose hearing - it's a more processing-intensive sense.
As for cardiac rhythms, gas anesthetics are arrhythmogenic, but it's usually not a problem. Spinals - as are given for most cesarean sections - are more likely to produce slow heart rates, as they disable the autonomic nerves as well as the sensory ones. However, we have drugs for that.
It does happen, but it's exceedingly rare. Paralytics don't block autonomic responses - people who are in pain will still exhibit increased heart rate and blood pressure.
Propofol also has a very short duration of action. The "fog of general anesthesia" is much more likely to be caused by the benzodiazepine sedatives that most will get prior to actual induction of anesthesia. Those benzos - classically, Valium (diazepam); today, usually Versed (midazolam) - are in the same class as Rohypnol (flunitrazepam, but famous as "roofies"). They're very good for treating acute anxiety, but they're also addictive, and seriously interfere with memory formation.
I'm an anesthesiologist, and unless someone is really climbing the walls with anxiety (not, actually, all that common), I don't give benzos. I give a solid dose of long-acting opioids right up front, and that's it. The only time I've ever had Versed, I got an eight-hour gap in my memory. Don't remember a thing. Rather obvious why it became popular as a "date-rape drug".
We do use propofol for colonoscopies, and it's a great drug for that, but most general anesthetics are conducted with gas anesthetics - they are cheaper and they are very easily monitored (we can easily see how much you're breathing in and out, and thus infer how likely you are to have any awareness). In most cases, propofol is used only to induce anesthesia - to make you unconscious so that you can be intubated. As soon as the breathing tube is in, the gas is turned on, and that's what you're waking up from. The advantage there is that, as with alcohol, people tend to get disinhibited before they lose consciousness. You don't want someone without a secured airway flailing around on the OR table (they might fall off). A slug of propofol takes them from conscious to comatose in a matter of seconds. By the time it wears off, the gas has kicked in.
He's a social justice warrior for log cabin nazism.
See, stuff like this is why I still come here, long after the site has ceased to have much relevance. The trolls are a bit one-note, but they do still have some style.
Another DeBlasio fuck up. The city was a hell hole but that fucking Democrat really has done the worst job yet.
Not really about party, in this case. It's not like Bloomberg was really a Republican. However, the best pro-Bloomberg argument I ever heard was that yeah, he was a nanny-state limousine liberal, but at least he wasn't another one of the City Hall hacks that often find their way into the NYC mayor's office.
The Russians couldn't get there fast enough, and the US would send a submarine. Probably already has.
HP Stream 11, perhaps? It's pretty anemic, but I was able to get one with 4 GB RAM and a 64 GB SSD for under $200 (technically, it's an educational model and Windows license, but it's 10 Pro, and they sold it to me without a .edu address). For the price, it's a pretty good modern version of the netbook. Even has HDMI, but don't try to use it to stream Netflix.
You don't have to go that far back. Any GM vehicle built while OnStar was still analog-cell-based will do. My '01 Tahoe could definitely use a refresher on the inside (new carpet, seats re-covered), but the outside has been restored, and it's mechanically quite sound. You can even get simple dash mods to put a double-DIN sound system with a decent screen in it, so you can have the useful modern things like a backup camera. If I used it more, I absolutely would. As it is, I installed a cheap Bluetooth-capable single-DIN radio a while back. Took me maybe an afternoon, and I'm a complete novice when it comes to cars.
Taxis and airport shuttles would kill that idea. Ever notice how rare it is for major airports to be accessible by good public transit? Now you know why.
I'm not aware of such on-ramps. Any examples in mind? I mean, they have highway entrances and exits in poor neighborhoods; why wouldn't they have them in rich ones?
Not in the US, you don't. Reread what I said. The pump will not turn on until you have either put in a valid card or prepaid the cashier.
The pump won't turn on without a card or a prepay. Twenty years ago, your method might have worked, because most people filled up first and paid cash after. Today, not so much. You want to pay cash, fine, but you have to do it before the pump will start.