many straight girls dumb themselves down or change their behavior to avoid scaring off the men (or attract them, for that matter)
True.
Last week I had a friend over with me and my girlfriend and we watched movies and TV episodes all night. I bartered a back rub for my girlfriend in exchange for a foot rub. So we puppy-piled on the couch, sipped some tea and enjoyed a sensual evening.
Er, I think it's pretty safe to say that what you describe would not exactly drive away the men. So maybe it's not the example you were looking for.
This wouldn't happen with guys around because they'd all get stiffies and have to make a comment and thereby ruin the entire point.
Yes, and that would be because you have just described the opening scene of half of porn.
The conversation was also quite a bit more frank, open, and topical than it otherwise would have been.
Well, that's true of any single-sex group. Only the topics change.
You really think so? I haven't used an iPhone extensively, but the few times I have, I've thought it far better than the stock Droid soft keyboard. It's a very subtle thing, but I think that the extra 2 mm or so of width on the iPhone screen makes a huge difference.
Nothing's better than Swype, though, so if you have a Droid or an N1, go track down that beta that's floating around.
I have a Droid. The browser always seems to click the wrong link - usually too low. The Android keyboard was marginal. The HTC keyboard was better. Swype is perfect. Most of the other apps are pretty accurate. I downloaded a drawing app and got nice straight lines. Given the amount of effort Apple put into the iPhone OS, it's not surprising that they have a better UI. I wouldn't be surprised to find that the curvature at the edges of the iPhone screen is an intentional effect given the shape that fingers assume when they get to the edge of the screen.
It appears to be app-dependent. My Droid always seems to click just below where I touch on web pages, but the painting app I downloaded could draw very, very straight lines. The pinch-zoom browser from the Milestone has helped, and the leaked Swype beta is perfect.
I'm really not trying to put you down here, just explaining the other side of it. What did you expect them to do? A few months (!) after a surgery, you suddenly call them complaining of severe pain and demand pain meds over the phone. Now, doesn't that sound like drug-seeking behavior to you?
It's extremely common for hospitals to use these, especially for controlled substances being sent to different nursing stations. This is in no way new stuff.
I'll go you one better: a guy at work was showing off how he could use voice recognition on his Droid to speak a text which the phone would then send. I mean, who ever imagined a device that allowed bidirectional voice conversation, instantly?
A high schooler will use IM because they, and all their friends, go to school and come home at the same time - everybody's there - and because they can discuss forbidden topics without it being obvious to parents. A college student or recent grad will be much more interested in the FB/Twitter update experience as they plan their evenings. And someone with a home and kids will appreciate that using a phone as a phone means that your hands are free and your eyes are not occupied - so you can spot when the three-year-old is about to see if daddy's PS3 likes carrots.
Because in this technique, you don't make the person unconscious and you don't put a tube down their throat. Awake patients won't tolerate that. And if you're going to have to make them unconscious anyway, why do the epidural? It's not a risk-free process, considering that this person is going to be completely anticoagulated during surgery - that significantly increases the risk of a hematoma forming in the epidural space and compressing (and killing) the spinal cord. (Bleeding risk is why it's put in the day before - so that a clot can form.)
Anesthesia being one contributing factor to why you can't just jump back on the operating table too soon after being cut open.
I'm not sure what you mean by this. If someone needs to go back for more surgery, they go back for more surgery. Sometimes people get three procedures in a day. We don't do elective procedures that fast, in order to give the body time to heal. Previous anesthetics really don't play into it.
I don't know what they're offering, but they certainly have plenty of things they can offer. Cash usually works wonders. I'd be willing to go live in China, by their rules, for double my US market value.
Note: I am a physician who majored in chemistry, but not a radiologist. Some of what is to follow is based on NMR, not specifically on MRI. I have, where possible, backed up my instincts with the Wikipedia article. I have made every effort not to say something incorrect, but I am human.
An MRI has its magnets arranged to produce a solenoid effect - a constant magnetic field of extraordinary strength. This flows in one direction through the bore of the magnet, producing a linear magnetic field. In this magnetic field, the protons of hydrogen nuclei will assume a Boltzmann distribution between low and high energy states (with and against the magnetic field, respectively). Now, they will not necessarily be perfectly aligned with the field, and those that are not will thus precess around the axis of the field. An RF pulse is tuned to the hydrogen nucleus is then fired. This energy input causes some of the nuclei to flip their spin. When the RF pulse stops and the antenna is turned on, it receives the RF emissions of the nuclei as they decay back to the base state. Information about the density of those nuclei - and thus about the tissue - can be determined by lots of complicated mathematics.
Now, diamagnetic materials are not a problem for the magnetic field, and they aren't usually a problem for the RF stimulation, except that they tend to produce degradation of the signal around them. (RF can induce an antenna current in implants, producing a small local magnetic field that drops out the signal from that area.)
I think if you put it in at, say, T6, and really, really carefully dosed your local, you could make it work - produce your block from C8 to T10/12. But I share your concerns about staying extrapleural, and even then the loss of intercostals, etc., would kill their tidal volumes. And the guy in the article summary is really young - maybe a straightforward valve in an otherwise ASA I? I emailed the Wired UK editors, asking for a contact point at the hospital so I can see this for myself. Maybe I can take it to our CT surgeons when I'm done...:)
Once you have sedated a patient, you cannot let them drive for 24 hours. Regardless of the quantity used, it's a legal thing.
And the reason that "oversedation" occurs is simple - most people request it. I've had (nominally) adult patients who were upset that they were going to have to be conscious when their IV was placed.
This is not exactly true. There are a lot of medications used in anesthesia, but the short list includes:
General anesthetics. Come in IV (propofol, thiopental) and gas (there are more modern ones, but ether and chloroform are the ones people know) forms. Produce global depression of nerve function so that unconsciousness results.
Opioids. Morphine, fentanyl, etc. Produce relief of pain without necessarily depressing consciousness. Dangerous in overdoses because they depress the respiratory drive - people quit breathing and die. This is not usually a problem during general anesthesia because there's a tube in your throat that's hooked up to a ventilator - we breathe for you.
Paralytics. Particularly important at two points: at the beginning, they make putting that tube down easier (you don't fight), and during abdominal or orthopedic surgery, they relax the muscles so that the surgeon can work.
Anxiolytics. These are IV versions of Valium or Xanax, used to calm people down and make them forget what's happening.
Now, there is a problem with postoperative cognitive dysfunction in the elderly, one that is currently a very hot topic of research, but the elderly don't have a lot of plastic surgery - if they're in for surgery, they usually need it to continue living.
Finally, very few people die - the risk is somewhere less than 1 in 150k for elective surgery, with risks rising for those who are having risky surgeries or who are very ill to start with. Anesthesiologists made a conscious decision in the early 1980s to reduce the risks of anesthesia, and created the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation to review all closed claims - that's lawsuits, settled in or out of court - and to look for common factors. We have been enormously successful at this task. Drugs have been pulled off the market because the APSF identified them in series of deaths. Safety equipment has been mandated - for example, the size of the connectors for breathing masks, breathing tubes, and ventilators is specified so that all of it interoperates, regardless of manufacturer.
If you prefer to be unconscious for surgery, it can usually be done safely. Of course, if you want to be awake, that can usually be done safely as well. Ask your anesthesiologist.
This would be utterly fascinating to watch. I would be interested to see how he managed the patient's temperature. In patients undergoing general anesthesia for this procedure, the body is generally cooled in order to reduce the risk of tissues dying due to low blood flow, but that's not as easy an option in this case - the patients can still move their legs, for example, and shivering would be A Bad Thing, as well as subjectively unpleasant.
There's also the small matter of maintaining the integrity of the pleural space - if you expose lungs, the patient can no longer breathe. It's impressive that they've made it work.
All the people I know who make impulse purchases are in the normal median income bracket
If you know a lot of people in the median income bracket, how many do you know in the top ones (or vice versa)? Very few people know many in both unless they are young professionals who are only temporarily in the median brackets, in which case buying habits tend to be the ones you would expect for someone who makes a lot more money than they actually do.
Your library lends a physical copy to you; by doing so, it makes it unavailable to others. It's not illegal for Best Buy to sell DVDs and blank DVD-R's, but it is illegal for you to use the latter to make copies of the former available to everyone on your block.
Or they're targeting people for whom $20 is an impulse buy. There aren't a lot of them, but they are very, very profitable. (Census data for 2008, there are almost 25 million households with incomes over $100k and almost 2.5 million with incomes over $250k.)
IANAL, but IIRC nobody has ever been sued for downloading a movie. What they have been sued for is making it available for others to download - which your example does not get around.
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many straight girls dumb themselves down or change their behavior to avoid scaring off the men (or attract them, for that matter)
True.
Last week I had a friend over with me and my girlfriend and we watched movies and TV episodes all night. I bartered a back rub for my girlfriend in exchange for a foot rub. So we puppy-piled on the couch, sipped some tea and enjoyed a sensual evening.
Er, I think it's pretty safe to say that what you describe would not exactly drive away the men. So maybe it's not the example you were looking for.
This wouldn't happen with guys around because they'd all get stiffies and have to make a comment and thereby ruin the entire point.
Yes, and that would be because you have just described the opening scene of half of porn.
The conversation was also quite a bit more frank, open, and topical than it otherwise would have been.
Well, that's true of any single-sex group. Only the topics change.
You really think so? I haven't used an iPhone extensively, but the few times I have, I've thought it far better than the stock Droid soft keyboard. It's a very subtle thing, but I think that the extra 2 mm or so of width on the iPhone screen makes a huge difference.
Nothing's better than Swype, though, so if you have a Droid or an N1, go track down that beta that's floating around.
Software >> hardware.
I have a Droid. The browser always seems to click the wrong link - usually too low. The Android keyboard was marginal. The HTC keyboard was better. Swype is perfect. Most of the other apps are pretty accurate. I downloaded a drawing app and got nice straight lines. Given the amount of effort Apple put into the iPhone OS, it's not surprising that they have a better UI. I wouldn't be surprised to find that the curvature at the edges of the iPhone screen is an intentional effect given the shape that fingers assume when they get to the edge of the screen.
It appears to be app-dependent. My Droid always seems to click just below where I touch on web pages, but the painting app I downloaded could draw very, very straight lines. The pinch-zoom browser from the Milestone has helped, and the leaked Swype beta is perfect.
No, it's equivalent to saying that buying a Lexus is a guarantee that you won't have to deal with any bullshit. (Which is true.)
I'm really not trying to put you down here, just explaining the other side of it. What did you expect them to do? A few months (!) after a surgery, you suddenly call them complaining of severe pain and demand pain meds over the phone. Now, doesn't that sound like drug-seeking behavior to you?
It's extremely common for hospitals to use these, especially for controlled substances being sent to different nursing stations. This is in no way new stuff.
Being able to have a straight tube delivering bags of blood between OR and blood bank
I'd kill to have that.
I'll go you one better: a guy at work was showing off how he could use voice recognition on his Droid to speak a text which the phone would then send. I mean, who ever imagined a device that allowed bidirectional voice conversation, instantly?
But it got a lot worse after Blair Witch... oh, how I wish I could get that hour and half of my life back.
And subject to time-of-life constraints.
A high schooler will use IM because they, and all their friends, go to school and come home at the same time - everybody's there - and because they can discuss forbidden topics without it being obvious to parents. A college student or recent grad will be much more interested in the FB/Twitter update experience as they plan their evenings. And someone with a home and kids will appreciate that using a phone as a phone means that your hands are free and your eyes are not occupied - so you can spot when the three-year-old is about to see if daddy's PS3 likes carrots.
Anesthesia being one contributing factor to why you can't just jump back on the operating table too soon after being cut open.
I'm not sure what you mean by this. If someone needs to go back for more surgery, they go back for more surgery. Sometimes people get three procedures in a day. We don't do elective procedures that fast, in order to give the body time to heal. Previous anesthetics really don't play into it.
I don't know what they're offering, but they certainly have plenty of things they can offer. Cash usually works wonders. I'd be willing to go live in China, by their rules, for double my US market value.
No. See p, d, f orbitals.
MRIs are, magnetically, giant solenoids.
Note: I am a physician who majored in chemistry, but not a radiologist. Some of what is to follow is based on NMR, not specifically on MRI. I have, where possible, backed up my instincts with the Wikipedia article. I have made every effort not to say something incorrect, but I am human.
An MRI has its magnets arranged to produce a solenoid effect - a constant magnetic field of extraordinary strength. This flows in one direction through the bore of the magnet, producing a linear magnetic field. In this magnetic field, the protons of hydrogen nuclei will assume a Boltzmann distribution between low and high energy states (with and against the magnetic field, respectively). Now, they will not necessarily be perfectly aligned with the field, and those that are not will thus precess around the axis of the field. An RF pulse is tuned to the hydrogen nucleus is then fired. This energy input causes some of the nuclei to flip their spin. When the RF pulse stops and the antenna is turned on, it receives the RF emissions of the nuclei as they decay back to the base state. Information about the density of those nuclei - and thus about the tissue - can be determined by lots of complicated mathematics.
Now, diamagnetic materials are not a problem for the magnetic field, and they aren't usually a problem for the RF stimulation, except that they tend to produce degradation of the signal around them. (RF can induce an antenna current in implants, producing a small local magnetic field that drops out the signal from that area.)
I think if you put it in at, say, T6, and really, really carefully dosed your local, you could make it work - produce your block from C8 to T10/12. But I share your concerns about staying extrapleural, and even then the loss of intercostals, etc., would kill their tidal volumes. And the guy in the article summary is really young - maybe a straightforward valve in an otherwise ASA I? I emailed the Wired UK editors, asking for a contact point at the hospital so I can see this for myself. Maybe I can take it to our CT surgeons when I'm done... :)
Once you have sedated a patient, you cannot let them drive for 24 hours. Regardless of the quantity used, it's a legal thing.
And the reason that "oversedation" occurs is simple - most people request it. I've had (nominally) adult patients who were upset that they were going to have to be conscious when their IV was placed.
That's a pretty small dose.
Now, there is a problem with postoperative cognitive dysfunction in the elderly, one that is currently a very hot topic of research, but the elderly don't have a lot of plastic surgery - if they're in for surgery, they usually need it to continue living.
Finally, very few people die - the risk is somewhere less than 1 in 150k for elective surgery, with risks rising for those who are having risky surgeries or who are very ill to start with. Anesthesiologists made a conscious decision in the early 1980s to reduce the risks of anesthesia, and created the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation to review all closed claims - that's lawsuits, settled in or out of court - and to look for common factors. We have been enormously successful at this task. Drugs have been pulled off the market because the APSF identified them in series of deaths. Safety equipment has been mandated - for example, the size of the connectors for breathing masks, breathing tubes, and ventilators is specified so that all of it interoperates, regardless of manufacturer.
If you prefer to be unconscious for surgery, it can usually be done safely. Of course, if you want to be awake, that can usually be done safely as well. Ask your anesthesiologist.
This would be utterly fascinating to watch. I would be interested to see how he managed the patient's temperature. In patients undergoing general anesthesia for this procedure, the body is generally cooled in order to reduce the risk of tissues dying due to low blood flow, but that's not as easy an option in this case - the patients can still move their legs, for example, and shivering would be A Bad Thing, as well as subjectively unpleasant.
There's also the small matter of maintaining the integrity of the pleural space - if you expose lungs, the patient can no longer breathe. It's impressive that they've made it work.
All the people I know who make impulse purchases are in the normal median income bracket
If you know a lot of people in the median income bracket, how many do you know in the top ones (or vice versa)? Very few people know many in both unless they are young professionals who are only temporarily in the median brackets, in which case buying habits tend to be the ones you would expect for someone who makes a lot more money than they actually do.
Your library lends a physical copy to you; by doing so, it makes it unavailable to others. It's not illegal for Best Buy to sell DVDs and blank DVD-R's, but it is illegal for you to use the latter to make copies of the former available to everyone on your block.
Or they're targeting people for whom $20 is an impulse buy. There aren't a lot of them, but they are very, very profitable. (Census data for 2008, there are almost 25 million households with incomes over $100k and almost 2.5 million with incomes over $250k.)
IANAL, but IIRC nobody has ever been sued for downloading a movie. What they have been sued for is making it available for others to download - which your example does not get around.