I didn't buy a Kindle to have the perfect book reader. I bought it to have an e-Ink screen attached to a cellular modem and a flash drive. If you don't want that, don't buy one, but if you really like to read books, there is no comparison to reading on an iPod, or a computer, or anything else. e-Ink looks like print.
It's actually much, much cooler than you think. B&N were smart to get the cellular access. A bookstore that fits in your pocket? The people who crap on this obviously don't travel much.
It's all about access to the Mississippi. The amount of barge traffic on that river is really immense - pull up your favorite mapping app and zoom until you have aerial photos, then just see how many there are. Otherwise, yes, splitting the traffic between Mobile and Houston would do the job.
As for the city, I've never much cared for it, although it's a wonderful place to eat.
Most people who are are anti-AGW are not really worried about the science of climate change, but about the policy prescriptions that follow. Killing industrial economies has been a pet fantasy of a startlingly large number of people ever since they arose.
There is no higher ground. New Orleans *is* the higher ground. If you want a port on solid ground, you're going to have to go at least up to Baton Rouge. If you want it to be stable across shifts of the Mississippi's outlet (it's been trying to use the Atchafalaya as an outlet for a good while now), you're going to have to go up to around Natchez.
FWIW, the last time I was in NOLA I had a pretty good view of the city from my hotel. The Quarter and uptown were pretty well lit, but looking to the north at night... a whole lot of black. Not even streetlights.
I suspect he's referencing the document (IPCC, I think) that said that meeting Kyoto targets would slow global sea-level rise levels predicted for 2100 all the way back to 2109 or so. In other words, while we would cripple industrial economies, we wouldn't really stop the climate change or even slow it significantly.
You never know. Just because it turned out to be influenza that one time that you were laid up in bed for a week doesn't mean that you can't have a mild case. After all, do you go to a doctor if you have a bad cold for a couple of days? No. So you never get swabbed, and nobody ever knows if it was the flu or not.
Infant toys don't bring you drinks. A night of playing with infant toys has exactly zero percent chance of seeing some hot women (although the same is true of some casinos). And so forth.
Look, I usually don't enjoy gambling, and I HATE slots. But I understand that other people do, and they'e not necessarily stupid for thinking what they do.
Yeah, that's useful when the dirtbag has already tapped your cell and the FBI tells you to show them the evidence first. Are you really sure that he doesn't have friends on the outside, and that the FBI will put you in witness relocation?
This isn't a slam on gaming generally; the big companies are above-board enough to be safe. But criminals by definition don't care about the law. Use the Kayser Soze rule: the only way to win in the criminal world is to be willing to do what nobody else will do. If you have scruples, you lose.
If you never spend money on entertainment, you are either student-level poor, or a completely cheap bastard. So why get upset if other people have different ideas about what constitutes entertainment?
Even less, at a low-minimum blackjack table. I've parlayed $20 into two hours of playtime with drinks for me and my wife at a $1 table in Vegas. If you have enough bankroll to go down $40 or $50 you can ride out your low times and get to play blackjack for less than the cost of the drinks. Just quit when things are up, whether you're tired or not...
I'm running 7 on an Eee 1000HA with 2 GB RAM. It runs just as well as XP did - maybe better. Of course, I don't have an SSD, so space is not a concern.
Varicella-zoster virus - aka the chicken pox virus - also causes shingles. Like other herpes viruses, it hides out in nerve cells (in the case of VZV, usually in the spinal cord). When the host becomes immunocompromised, it flares. Shingles is the disease that results.
Looking at the Varivax data, it looks like nearly 100% of patients are still seropositive at 10 years. That's not too different from natural VZV exposure - after all, if you were immune for life, shingles wouldn't occur.
Is it polio? No. But chronic postherpetic neuralgia is a godawful complication in later life, and it's reasonable to believe that the vaccine will limit that. Yes, boosters are required, but then again nobody has studied just how much of a boost parents get when their children get chicken pox and their immune system is reactivated.
Anecdotally, my younger sister was about a year old when I got chicken pox and got a mild case. Very mild. So when the disease made its way around her age group, she got shingles - at age 6. Very nasty.
You sound like someone who's never had the flu. It's godawful. Tiny jab, pretty good reduction in the risk of getting something that lays you out flat for a week - why not get it?
The vaccination can come in all sorts of forms - it can be a live, related virus (that would be cowpox protecting against smallpox); it can be a live, attenuated virus (that would be the oral polio vaccine), it can be an inactivated viral protein (for example, injected polio vaccine), or a chemically treated protein (like tetanus toxoid). Only the first two give you an actual disease, although the latter two can make you feel pretty bad as your immune system ramps up.
Antibodies do bind to proteins (and other biological molecules), but they usually trigger the immune response rather than do all the work themselves. The antibodies themselves do not last all that long, but the memory B cells created as a consequence of activation will remain with you for a long time, sampling antigens to which you are exposed and setting up a massive replication factory as soon as a familiar one is detected.
So yes, you do need to be vaccinated against specific strains for some viruses that mutate quickly, but GP was entirely correct when he said that they do nothing but train immune systems.
That's a result of their being cold - the MRI process is apparently tuned for warm protons. It isn't that you can't scan bodies now - indeed, CT could easily do it without their tech - it's that scans, while useful, are rarely a substitute for actually looking at the body. Otherwise, we wouldn't have exploratory surgery.
Er, no. Autopsy has many components; MRI or CT would supplant only the most cursory examination. Organs are weighed; they are examined both grossly and microscopically. The vasculature is examined carefully - there's no way to do that with dead people without cutting them open, because they can't circulate the contrast material needed to see them on a scan. Toxicology can be collected. And so forth.
The southern humorist (and sports columnist) Lewis Grizzard once commented beautifully on this when describing the three ways in which a person can be said to lack clothing:
Nude: what people in paintings are
Naked: what you are when you are born, or in the shower.
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If LCDs aren't backlit, you can't read them in the dark either.
I didn't buy a Kindle to have the perfect book reader. I bought it to have an e-Ink screen attached to a cellular modem and a flash drive. If you don't want that, don't buy one, but if you really like to read books, there is no comparison to reading on an iPod, or a computer, or anything else. e-Ink looks like print.
Kindle runs Linux. Hasn't changed a thing.
It's actually much, much cooler than you think. B&N were smart to get the cellular access. A bookstore that fits in your pocket? The people who crap on this obviously don't travel much.
It's all about access to the Mississippi. The amount of barge traffic on that river is really immense - pull up your favorite mapping app and zoom until you have aerial photos, then just see how many there are. Otherwise, yes, splitting the traffic between Mobile and Houston would do the job.
As for the city, I've never much cared for it, although it's a wonderful place to eat.
Most people who are are anti-AGW are not really worried about the science of climate change, but about the policy prescriptions that follow. Killing industrial economies has been a pet fantasy of a startlingly large number of people ever since they arose.
There is no higher ground. New Orleans *is* the higher ground. If you want a port on solid ground, you're going to have to go at least up to Baton Rouge. If you want it to be stable across shifts of the Mississippi's outlet (it's been trying to use the Atchafalaya as an outlet for a good while now), you're going to have to go up to around Natchez.
FWIW, the last time I was in NOLA I had a pretty good view of the city from my hotel. The Quarter and uptown were pretty well lit, but looking to the north at night... a whole lot of black. Not even streetlights.
Additionally, we've known about global warming since the fifties, and many proposals were made to limit greenhouse gases way back then.
Cite? Because the primary concern I remember from before the 80s was global cooling due to particulates.
I suspect he's referencing the document (IPCC, I think) that said that meeting Kyoto targets would slow global sea-level rise levels predicted for 2100 all the way back to 2109 or so. In other words, while we would cripple industrial economies, we wouldn't really stop the climate change or even slow it significantly.
The injection also costs about a quarter as much, or may even be free at work.
You never know. Just because it turned out to be influenza that one time that you were laid up in bed for a week doesn't mean that you can't have a mild case. After all, do you go to a doctor if you have a bad cold for a couple of days? No. So you never get swabbed, and nobody ever knows if it was the flu or not.
Infant toys don't bring you drinks. A night of playing with infant toys has exactly zero percent chance of seeing some hot women (although the same is true of some casinos). And so forth.
Look, I usually don't enjoy gambling, and I HATE slots. But I understand that other people do, and they'e not necessarily stupid for thinking what they do.
Yeah, that's useful when the dirtbag has already tapped your cell and the FBI tells you to show them the evidence first. Are you really sure that he doesn't have friends on the outside, and that the FBI will put you in witness relocation?
This isn't a slam on gaming generally; the big companies are above-board enough to be safe. But criminals by definition don't care about the law. Use the Kayser Soze rule: the only way to win in the criminal world is to be willing to do what nobody else will do. If you have scruples, you lose.
If you never spend money on entertainment, you are either student-level poor, or a completely cheap bastard. So why get upset if other people have different ideas about what constitutes entertainment?
Even less, at a low-minimum blackjack table. I've parlayed $20 into two hours of playtime with drinks for me and my wife at a $1 table in Vegas. If you have enough bankroll to go down $40 or $50 you can ride out your low times and get to play blackjack for less than the cost of the drinks. Just quit when things are up, whether you're tired or not...
I'm running 7 on an Eee 1000HA with 2 GB RAM. It runs just as well as XP did - maybe better. Of course, I don't have an SSD, so space is not a concern.
What, the guys who live under the bridge downtown?
Varicella-zoster virus - aka the chicken pox virus - also causes shingles. Like other herpes viruses, it hides out in nerve cells (in the case of VZV, usually in the spinal cord). When the host becomes immunocompromised, it flares. Shingles is the disease that results.
Looking at the Varivax data, it looks like nearly 100% of patients are still seropositive at 10 years. That's not too different from natural VZV exposure - after all, if you were immune for life, shingles wouldn't occur.
Is it polio? No. But chronic postherpetic neuralgia is a godawful complication in later life, and it's reasonable to believe that the vaccine will limit that. Yes, boosters are required, but then again nobody has studied just how much of a boost parents get when their children get chicken pox and their immune system is reactivated.
Anecdotally, my younger sister was about a year old when I got chicken pox and got a mild case. Very mild. So when the disease made its way around her age group, she got shingles - at age 6. Very nasty.
Preventing shingles in later age is a very good reason to be vaccinated against chicken pox. Ask someone who's had it.
You sound like someone who's never had the flu. It's godawful. Tiny jab, pretty good reduction in the risk of getting something that lays you out flat for a week - why not get it?
Not exactly.
The vaccination can come in all sorts of forms - it can be a live, related virus (that would be cowpox protecting against smallpox); it can be a live, attenuated virus (that would be the oral polio vaccine), it can be an inactivated viral protein (for example, injected polio vaccine), or a chemically treated protein (like tetanus toxoid). Only the first two give you an actual disease, although the latter two can make you feel pretty bad as your immune system ramps up.
Antibodies do bind to proteins (and other biological molecules), but they usually trigger the immune response rather than do all the work themselves. The antibodies themselves do not last all that long, but the memory B cells created as a consequence of activation will remain with you for a long time, sampling antigens to which you are exposed and setting up a massive replication factory as soon as a familiar one is detected.
So yes, you do need to be vaccinated against specific strains for some viruses that mutate quickly, but GP was entirely correct when he said that they do nothing but train immune systems.
That's a result of their being cold - the MRI process is apparently tuned for warm protons. It isn't that you can't scan bodies now - indeed, CT could easily do it without their tech - it's that scans, while useful, are rarely a substitute for actually looking at the body. Otherwise, we wouldn't have exploratory surgery.
Er, no. Autopsy has many components; MRI or CT would supplant only the most cursory examination. Organs are weighed; they are examined both grossly and microscopically. The vasculature is examined carefully - there's no way to do that with dead people without cutting them open, because they can't circulate the contrast material needed to see them on a scan. Toxicology can be collected. And so forth.
er, so, what firmware do you use to torrent?