I meant in the EXIF data, where USB wouldn't matter. Enterprising 4channers have used that to correlate iPhone nude self portraits with the location they were shot at...
I kind of doubt it's possible to get to 190proof in a home still, and I know you can't buy that wretch
All it takes is a good fractional distillation apparatus. I once fermented some sugar water and distilled it in the chem lab, just to say I'd made my own alcohol once. I ended up with about 40 mL of probably 75% pure ethanol from a single distillation pass where I was concerned about recovery. If I had been less concerned about recovering all the EtOH, I'm certain I could have gotten 95%. A quality home apparatus would be comparable.
And you definitely can buy it in some states. Fun fact for those trying to drink on the cheap: 750 mL of 95% ethyl alcohol, poured into a 1750 mL container, and diluted with good quality water (either distilled or Brita-filtered) to volume produces 1750 mL (aka a handle or half-gallon) of high-quality 40.7% EtOH for far less money than a decent vodka. Be sure to do the dilution step, however, as 95% ethanol does not mix well (so you can't just use half as much as you would of vodka).
You can legally compel your doctor to release the lab results to you. If s/he refuses to do so, or tries to charge more than a nominal fee, call your state board of medical licensure. The lab, OTOH, doesn't know who you are, and (if not a hospital-attached lab) probably was not paid by you directly (otherwise you'd have drawn your own blood and submitted it to them). So the lab has no legal obligation to you.
The lack of consent is troubling. However, one of the early problems with DNA was the statistical validity - whatever technique you use, you have to have some idea of the variability that's present in the population before you can draw a conclusion about the likelihood of a match. It might very well have been useful to have 800 samples of mtDNA from a random selection of people.
Depends on how they worded the consent to obtain the tissue. See here for a fairly typical surgical consent form (I don't work there, I just found their forms clear and well-written). Notice that the hospital is permitted to dispose of the tissue, nothing else. (Consent to diagnosis and treatment being covered by another document, or even by the mere fact of admission.)
Most of the legalese at a hospital has to do with your bill or malpractice. Consent to procedures generally must be written in layman's terms in order to be considered valid by a court.
My favorite, from the old days, was when I was trying to talk a reluctant secretary through some minor DOS voodoo. I asked if anything was on the screen. She said no. I asked, "do you mean to say that it is completely black, with no letters anywhere?" Well, no, of course not - it just said C:\DOS>
TV is squarely in the sights of the Internet, as local stations get disintermediated. Radio is very special; TV buggy-whipped.it out of the major home entertainment slot a long time ago, and so it has adapted to providing news, opinion, and background music for cars and workplaces. The equipment is ridiculously cheap and portable. Production costs are very low - your local TV station can't afford to put together much more than the news and maybe a local culture show, so it can't compete with major network offerings, but you can have a successful local radio host for cheap, and he may be as good as a lot of the syndicated stuff. Ergo, you can capitalize on local content in a way that's hard to do with TV.
Yeah, I know about the humidity effect. But my point was about humidity from the (warm, humid) air in the home entering the freezer every time you open it - I get a gentle coat of frost on everything in my freezer due to this. You actually can't depend on sublimation to exceed accumulation. FWIW, this has been an extraordinarily wintry winter here in my hometown - we had 72 straight hours below freezing at one point, and it snowed three times. (The latter is the first time it's happened in the 35 years I've been alive.) So we never really get dehumidified here the way that colder climates do.
You must live somewhere really dry. I live in the southeastern US, and every surface in my freezer that isn't one of its walls (the parts that get automatically defrosted) builds more frost every time the door is opened.
Actually, it's probably better to be frozen for several days at least - to make sure that the battery is totally dead. That way, when the ice and snow in the phone thaws, the water won't hurt anything. Just let it dry completely before recharging.
I'm not familiar with either of those groups, so I don't know what their proportion of math rock to pop sensibility is, but playing with timing is a very, very fast way to lose most people. Syncopation will be tolerated, barely, but that's about as far as you can go. We're rhythmic creatures. A boring chord progression is predictable, comforting - the sort of thing you can hang your hat on. If you go to to a bar and start dancing with a highly desirable member of your target sex, you don't want something that is going to zig when you want to zag - the music is really quite incidental to the whole reason you're there, and its level of complexity reflects that.
OTOH, Rush concerts are hardcore nerdfests, not just about the music - but even they don't do cacophonic rhythms. There's a reason that the Rite of Spring was so controversial.
The property owner, in this case, was the Department of the Navy. FWIW. Sorry, I should have mentioned that the entire thing occurred within the Executive Branch.
There's a really fascinating anecdote in William Safire's Before the Fall (a book about the pre-Watergate Nixon White House, where Safire was a speechwriter) about when Nixon decided to try to get a building - an ugly building temporarily erected in WW2 - torn down on Pennsylvania Ave so that a better-looking, permanent one could be built there. He pushed back as hard as he could against his own bureaucracy, and it took him IIRC over two years. There's a limit to what even the President can do.
An Android 1.5 app will run just fine on a Droid or Nexus One. A Droid (2.0) or Nexus One (2.1) app will not run on an Android 1.5/1.6 phone. The OS supports multitouch, period, and it has done so for a long time. The apps might not have, but that's a whole different ballgame - the Droid has had a multitouch browser since three weeks after launch. So write your apps for 1.5, touchscreen, no trackball, no keyboard... and it works on everything.
There's some fundamental flaw in the system if giving people free stuff is bad for them...
Would you be upset if (e.g.) Wal-Mart came into your town, opened a mega-market, and promptly put every mom and pop store out of business because they sell things cheaper? How do you think that any local industry can compete with "free"? (FWIW, free is a real benefit to the people getting the free stuff, but it does leave the local economy unable to provide for itself. Autarky isn't that important in developed countries, but when you live somewhere with civil unrest or unreliable utilities, where you might get cut off for a few months or a year, it starts to be a valuable thing.)
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Although it's not totally clear from his phrasing, I believe that he meant to avoid rivers and coastlines, but he phrased it badly.
And the odds that any of the misspellers actually know what "moot" means are close to zero.
A Viennese girl once suggested that I use "Ich sprache nicht gut Deutsch". Ja oder nein?
I meant in the EXIF data, where USB wouldn't matter. Enterprising 4channers have used that to correlate iPhone nude self portraits with the location they were shot at...
You can only get hangovers if you eventually sober up...
Caffeine, not bubbles, is responsible for that one.
I kind of doubt it's possible to get to 190proof in a home still, and I know you can't buy that wretch
All it takes is a good fractional distillation apparatus. I once fermented some sugar water and distilled it in the chem lab, just to say I'd made my own alcohol once. I ended up with about 40 mL of probably 75% pure ethanol from a single distillation pass where I was concerned about recovery. If I had been less concerned about recovering all the EtOH, I'm certain I could have gotten 95%. A quality home apparatus would be comparable.
And you definitely can buy it in some states. Fun fact for those trying to drink on the cheap: 750 mL of 95% ethyl alcohol, poured into a 1750 mL container, and diluted with good quality water (either distilled or Brita-filtered) to volume produces 1750 mL (aka a handle or half-gallon) of high-quality 40.7% EtOH for far less money than a decent vodka. Be sure to do the dilution step, however, as 95% ethanol does not mix well (so you can't just use half as much as you would of vodka).
You can legally compel your doctor to release the lab results to you. If s/he refuses to do so, or tries to charge more than a nominal fee, call your state board of medical licensure. The lab, OTOH, doesn't know who you are, and (if not a hospital-attached lab) probably was not paid by you directly (otherwise you'd have drawn your own blood and submitted it to them). So the lab has no legal obligation to you.
The lack of consent is troubling. However, one of the early problems with DNA was the statistical validity - whatever technique you use, you have to have some idea of the variability that's present in the population before you can draw a conclusion about the likelihood of a match. It might very well have been useful to have 800 samples of mtDNA from a random selection of people.
Depends on how they worded the consent to obtain the tissue. See here for a fairly typical surgical consent form (I don't work there, I just found their forms clear and well-written). Notice that the hospital is permitted to dispose of the tissue, nothing else. (Consent to diagnosis and treatment being covered by another document, or even by the mere fact of admission.)
Most of the legalese at a hospital has to do with your bill or malpractice. Consent to procedures generally must be written in layman's terms in order to be considered valid by a court.
Not to mention the opsec problems that a camera with a GPS might pose...
Move to Texas; they keep their electrical grid separate from the rest of the country's, and they're too far south to get the full brunt of the storm.
My favorite, from the old days, was when I was trying to talk a reluctant secretary through some minor DOS voodoo. I asked if anything was on the screen. She said no. I asked, "do you mean to say that it is completely black, with no letters anywhere?" Well, no, of course not - it just said C:\DOS>
TV is squarely in the sights of the Internet, as local stations get disintermediated. Radio is very special; TV buggy-whipped.it out of the major home entertainment slot a long time ago, and so it has adapted to providing news, opinion, and background music for cars and workplaces. The equipment is ridiculously cheap and portable. Production costs are very low - your local TV station can't afford to put together much more than the news and maybe a local culture show, so it can't compete with major network offerings, but you can have a successful local radio host for cheap, and he may be as good as a lot of the syndicated stuff. Ergo, you can capitalize on local content in a way that's hard to do with TV.
Yeah, I know about the humidity effect. But my point was about humidity from the (warm, humid) air in the home entering the freezer every time you open it - I get a gentle coat of frost on everything in my freezer due to this. You actually can't depend on sublimation to exceed accumulation. FWIW, this has been an extraordinarily wintry winter here in my hometown - we had 72 straight hours below freezing at one point, and it snowed three times. (The latter is the first time it's happened in the 35 years I've been alive.) So we never really get dehumidified here the way that colder climates do.
You must live somewhere really dry. I live in the southeastern US, and every surface in my freezer that isn't one of its walls (the parts that get automatically defrosted) builds more frost every time the door is opened.
Actually, it's probably better to be frozen for several days at least - to make sure that the battery is totally dead. That way, when the ice and snow in the phone thaws, the water won't hurt anything. Just let it dry completely before recharging.
I'm not familiar with either of those groups, so I don't know what their proportion of math rock to pop sensibility is, but playing with timing is a very, very fast way to lose most people. Syncopation will be tolerated, barely, but that's about as far as you can go. We're rhythmic creatures. A boring chord progression is predictable, comforting - the sort of thing you can hang your hat on. If you go to to a bar and start dancing with a highly desirable member of your target sex, you don't want something that is going to zig when you want to zag - the music is really quite incidental to the whole reason you're there, and its level of complexity reflects that.
OTOH, Rush concerts are hardcore nerdfests, not just about the music - but even they don't do cacophonic rhythms. There's a reason that the Rite of Spring was so controversial.
The property owner, in this case, was the Department of the Navy. FWIW. Sorry, I should have mentioned that the entire thing occurred within the Executive Branch.
There's a really fascinating anecdote in William Safire's Before the Fall (a book about the pre-Watergate Nixon White House, where Safire was a speechwriter) about when Nixon decided to try to get a building - an ugly building temporarily erected in WW2 - torn down on Pennsylvania Ave so that a better-looking, permanent one could be built there. He pushed back as hard as he could against his own bureaucracy, and it took him IIRC over two years. There's a limit to what even the President can do.
I have a modest proposal regarding this problem...
Not only can you update it, you don't even need a computer to do so. Verizon pushed out 2.0.1 over the air.
An Android 1.5 app will run just fine on a Droid or Nexus One. A Droid (2.0) or Nexus One (2.1) app will not run on an Android 1.5/1.6 phone. The OS supports multitouch, period, and it has done so for a long time. The apps might not have, but that's a whole different ballgame - the Droid has had a multitouch browser since three weeks after launch. So write your apps for 1.5, touchscreen, no trackball, no keyboard... and it works on everything.
Let me know when you find a world where there is no scarcity of anything.
There's some fundamental flaw in the system if giving people free stuff is bad for them...
Would you be upset if (e.g.) Wal-Mart came into your town, opened a mega-market, and promptly put every mom and pop store out of business because they sell things cheaper? How do you think that any local industry can compete with "free"? (FWIW, free is a real benefit to the people getting the free stuff, but it does leave the local economy unable to provide for itself. Autarky isn't that important in developed countries, but when you live somewhere with civil unrest or unreliable utilities, where you might get cut off for a few months or a year, it starts to be a valuable thing.)