... or all the guys who were the original salespeople, who did know the stuff, have been promoted to supervisory/managerial positions, and have been replaced by minimum-wage monkeys.
On that note, I've always wondered when Walmart would go after the market a bit more aggressively and kill the high-markup cable market. They're better than everyone else, but still a far third behind my local hippie coop and the (also local) guys who design installations for churches and schools.
1) Yes and 2) Not too much. People with sleep apnea have airways that collapse when they're asleep. If it's hard for you to breathe on your own, it's going to be hard for me to breathe for you after rendering you unconscious. Furthermore, since almost all sleep apnea sufferers are overweight to obese, they don't do well when they're not breathing (we use a number of methods to increase the odds that, if we can't get the breathing tube in place, and can't breathe for you via the mask, you'll still wake up before you suffer any permanent damage - the reserves that make this possible are a lot smaller in overweight people due to pressure on the lungs by the abdominal contents pushing up). Depending on what we see, we might do anything from just having extra equipment handy, to putting you out in several stages, to putting the breathing tube down with you conscious (though lightly sedated) before knocking you out.
The fact that you're on CPAP is usually enough to scare us. Do be sure to take your machine with you to the hospital for surgery.
I wouldn't be surprised to find out physician arrogance was a leading cause of malpractice suits.
Well, consider it a contributing factor. It's actually bad blood between patient and physician that is the #1 cause of malpractice suits; sometimes that's rooted in an unreasonable physician, sometimes in an unreasonable patient or family. Also, the specialty makes a huge difference: in a general practice, there's a great deal more handholding required. I'm an anesthesiologist, and I have what I think is a pretty good bedside manner for my specialty. I'd be bad at family practice, but the qualities people seem to respond well to in anesthesiologists are the same things they want in airline pilots: a calm, unexcitable person you'd trust with your life (because you're definitely doing that). It's a good fit for me, but not for everyone.
It's always been mostly crap. When you're young, you don't mind it because you like the style if not the particular artist. When you're older, you've already got a song in the mental slot for "I'm sad" or "I'm happy" or whatever, and so the new one has to be BETTER in order to displace it. Why replace familiar crap with unfamiliar crap? Besides, there's good stuff being made all the time, just not a lot of it. It does get harder to find as you age, though, because you've got so many other claims on your time.
#3 is going to be cautious, probably quite skilled, and certainly familiar with the terrain - but #4 will have the advantage that he's coming from a formerly civilized area and thus should have better access to necessary tools. It should be a reasonably fair fight between them. Besides, we'd all get better a shooting pretty quickly.
In reality, if we stepped back to the "stone age" tonight, only small pockets of humanity would survive, and they would be the rural dwellers who live in fresh water rivers, have farms, and can live off the land. Everyone else will die.
The people who survive will end up living in rural areas, but there's no guarantee that they'll be the ones who started out living there. Ammunition will be the primary constraint.
Well, in the case of the jaywalking ticket, the misdating was obviously a minor clerical error. It's not as though the citing officer picked your friend's name out of a phone book.
Thank you for pointing this out, as it resolves a question I've had for quite a while - my old iPod nano has a totally dead battery, and I couldn't figure out why it went into reboot loops when plugged into USB but ran just fine when plugged into a car charger that used the Firewire lines. (I've ordered a replacement battery.) Damn Apple and their specification-following ways!
Not just New England; much of the northeast. A good friend of mine in college grew up outside Morristown, NJ. His parents had a very pretty rock retaining wall along the uphill side of their driveway - one which they built themselves with the stones they pulled out of their front and back yards over the course of several years.
Of course, high-grade marijuana also retails for quite a bit more per pound than, say, commodity wheat. It's not that you can't grow plants that way; it's that it's not efficient to do so.
This is going on to childcare dimensions that aren't really any relation to the point I was making, which is that every rule enforcement depends ultimately, if not initially, on physical coercion.
I don't know what to think except love and respect
Yet if he ignores your rules, you tell him he can't come over until he feels like obeying them. That's what I keep trying to point out: love and respect carry you a long way. Children want to please their parents. But at some point that ceases to be effective, and -- yes -- taking things away is what you have to do. The first post I replied to wanted to say that taking things away was bad. Let's not pretend that taking material things away is not physical coercion; if you tried to take something away from me, I'd have you arrested for theft. This young man obviously finds you to be a better alternative than living in his legal home, and finds the price of rules a small one to pay in order to live with people he respects, but it's voluntary on both your parts. Either one of you can get rid of the other without any legal repercussion.
I'm just trying to get people to recognize something that is fairly straightforward: you can't make people, even children, do something without control over their physical being. Don't pretend that you're not doing something physical when you enforce the rules; you are. You're just not being a brute, and trying to raise a decent person.
What do you think taking away the cord is, psychological? Physical means != beating the child with a spiked paddle.
I was trying to cut across the common/. tendency of those who are... very young... to say "reason with them!" Remember, the comment that set me going was a guy saying that you shouldn't dare turn the thing off with your hand.
You, along with apparently everyone else, has misread what I meant with my comment, so let me try to state it better.
The parent to my post was upset that grandparent said to turn the machine off. He thought of that as too physical. I've never met an actual parent that would think turning things off or taking the toy away was unreasonable, but perhaps that's a bit of exposure bias.
My point was to try to insert a bit of sanity into the process by pointing out that while respect is great, the ultimate reason that children do what you say instead of what they want to do is a physical dependence on you. "My house, my rules" is just as physical as beating your child with a stick, even though it's neither cruel nor unreasonable. Ultimately it carries the threat that you will not feed or house them unless they follow your wishes - again, while not unreasonable, an entirely physical threat.
We see independence take a huge leap when people go off to college - but in part this is because they are finally able to lease an apartment and get a job and live without support from their parents if they choose. I had a huge number of disagreements with my parents throughout my life that I just swallowed. However, when I was 25 years old and another huge ultimatum was thrown my way, I told them to go to hell. Why? I didn't need them anymore, and respect only goes so far.
Er, and what do you do when the child says no? Ultimately it all depends on physical means - some better than others, of course. But "time out" only works because you physically put the child in a boring environment.
Well, no, not really. The states don't; the people in them do. I live in Mississippi, and let me assure you that gobsmackingly huge amounts of federal dollars are involved in direct transfer payments from any of a wide variety of government programs to individuals. Some of these are pure pork (farm bill, earmarks, etc.), but a lot of them are the sort of social welfare programs that were championed... by the blue staters. If you want to give money to poor people, fine, do so - but gratitude is too much to expect.
Check carefully into getting Limited Basic cable from your Comcast office. They have it in my area; I pay $10/month for my cable, which makes it essentially free with the internet service (if I didn't have it, I'd pay a $10 extra fee). I get the broadcast networks, Weather, TNT, AMC, Bravo, whatever Court TV is these days, a couple of other channels. Combine that with a lifetime-service ReplayTV and I don't miss any of the TV that I actually like.
Or he reads books (Tom Clancy taught me Icelandic naming conventions) and knows a couple of soldiers who've been to the mideast - as many of them have in the past 20 years. We do get both of those down here.
If you assume that people living in cultural backwaters are all uneducated morons, don't ever enter business negotiations with them - the "aw shucks" routine is a well-honed tactic.
Out of curiosity, do you have revealable tips for making a record (of anything) accessible to you if you want it but utterly immune to discovery if you don't? Apart from moving them (and therefore, potentially, yourself sans funds) to a non-discoverable jurisdiction.
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... or all the guys who were the original salespeople, who did know the stuff, have been promoted to supervisory/managerial positions, and have been replaced by minimum-wage monkeys.
On that note, I've always wondered when Walmart would go after the market a bit more aggressively and kill the high-markup cable market. They're better than everyone else, but still a far third behind my local hippie coop and the (also local) guys who design installations for churches and schools.
1) Yes and 2) Not too much. People with sleep apnea have airways that collapse when they're asleep. If it's hard for you to breathe on your own, it's going to be hard for me to breathe for you after rendering you unconscious. Furthermore, since almost all sleep apnea sufferers are overweight to obese, they don't do well when they're not breathing (we use a number of methods to increase the odds that, if we can't get the breathing tube in place, and can't breathe for you via the mask, you'll still wake up before you suffer any permanent damage - the reserves that make this possible are a lot smaller in overweight people due to pressure on the lungs by the abdominal contents pushing up). Depending on what we see, we might do anything from just having extra equipment handy, to putting you out in several stages, to putting the breathing tube down with you conscious (though lightly sedated) before knocking you out.
The fact that you're on CPAP is usually enough to scare us. Do be sure to take your machine with you to the hospital for surgery.
I wouldn't be surprised to find out physician arrogance was a leading cause of malpractice suits.
Well, consider it a contributing factor. It's actually bad blood between patient and physician that is the #1 cause of malpractice suits; sometimes that's rooted in an unreasonable physician, sometimes in an unreasonable patient or family. Also, the specialty makes a huge difference: in a general practice, there's a great deal more handholding required. I'm an anesthesiologist, and I have what I think is a pretty good bedside manner for my specialty. I'd be bad at family practice, but the qualities people seem to respond well to in anesthesiologists are the same things they want in airline pilots: a calm, unexcitable person you'd trust with your life (because you're definitely doing that). It's a good fit for me, but not for everyone.
It's always been mostly crap. When you're young, you don't mind it because you like the style if not the particular artist. When you're older, you've already got a song in the mental slot for "I'm sad" or "I'm happy" or whatever, and so the new one has to be BETTER in order to displace it. Why replace familiar crap with unfamiliar crap?
Besides, there's good stuff being made all the time, just not a lot of it. It does get harder to find as you age, though, because you've got so many other claims on your time.
#3 is going to be cautious, probably quite skilled, and certainly familiar with the terrain - but #4 will have the advantage that he's coming from a formerly civilized area and thus should have better access to necessary tools. It should be a reasonably fair fight between them. Besides, we'd all get better a shooting pretty quickly.
In reality, if we stepped back to the "stone age" tonight, only small pockets of humanity would survive, and they would be the rural dwellers who live in fresh water rivers, have farms, and can live off the land. Everyone else will die.
The people who survive will end up living in rural areas, but there's no guarantee that they'll be the ones who started out living there. Ammunition will be the primary constraint.
You're right, of course, but that doesn't change how they'll view it.
Well, in the case of the jaywalking ticket, the misdating was obviously a minor clerical error. It's not as though the citing officer picked your friend's name out of a phone book.
Better, even. Ever seen boobs on page 3 of Weekly World News?
Thank you for pointing this out, as it resolves a question I've had for quite a while - my old iPod nano has a totally dead battery, and I couldn't figure out why it went into reboot loops when plugged into USB but ran just fine when plugged into a car charger that used the Firewire lines. (I've ordered a replacement battery.) Damn Apple and their specification-following ways!
Not just New England; much of the northeast. A good friend of mine in college grew up outside Morristown, NJ. His parents had a very pretty rock retaining wall along the uphill side of their driveway - one which they built themselves with the stones they pulled out of their front and back yards over the course of several years.
Of course, high-grade marijuana also retails for quite a bit more per pound than, say, commodity wheat. It's not that you can't grow plants that way; it's that it's not efficient to do so.
I don't know what to think except love and respect
Yet if he ignores your rules, you tell him he can't come over until he feels like obeying them. That's what I keep trying to point out: love and respect carry you a long way. Children want to please their parents. But at some point that ceases to be effective, and -- yes -- taking things away is what you have to do. The first post I replied to wanted to say that taking things away was bad. Let's not pretend that taking material things away is not physical coercion; if you tried to take something away from me, I'd have you arrested for theft. This young man obviously finds you to be a better alternative than living in his legal home, and finds the price of rules a small one to pay in order to live with people he respects, but it's voluntary on both your parts. Either one of you can get rid of the other without any legal repercussion.
I'm just trying to get people to recognize something that is fairly straightforward: you can't make people, even children, do something without control over their physical being. Don't pretend that you're not doing something physical when you enforce the rules; you are. You're just not being a brute, and trying to raise a decent person.
What do you think taking away the cord is, psychological? Physical means != beating the child with a spiked paddle.
I was trying to cut across the common /. tendency of those who are... very young... to say "reason with them!" Remember, the comment that set me going was a guy saying that you shouldn't dare turn the thing off with your hand.
You, along with apparently everyone else, has misread what I meant with my comment, so let me try to state it better.
The parent to my post was upset that grandparent said to turn the machine off. He thought of that as too physical. I've never met an actual parent that would think turning things off or taking the toy away was unreasonable, but perhaps that's a bit of exposure bias.
My point was to try to insert a bit of sanity into the process by pointing out that while respect is great, the ultimate reason that children do what you say instead of what they want to do is a physical dependence on you. "My house, my rules" is just as physical as beating your child with a stick, even though it's neither cruel nor unreasonable. Ultimately it carries the threat that you will not feed or house them unless they follow your wishes - again, while not unreasonable, an entirely physical threat.
We see independence take a huge leap when people go off to college - but in part this is because they are finally able to lease an apartment and get a job and live without support from their parents if they choose. I had a huge number of disagreements with my parents throughout my life that I just swallowed. However, when I was 25 years old and another huge ultimatum was thrown my way, I told them to go to hell. Why? I didn't need them anymore, and respect only goes so far.
Er, and what do you do when the child says no? Ultimately it all depends on physical means - some better than others, of course. But "time out" only works because you physically put the child in a boring environment.
His point is that DOS isn't a modern OS, while Linux 2.6 is. Of course, on a 386 it's going to be really painful to try to run a GUI...
Actually, I just meant physically where. I'm in a reasonably-sized city, and our first ISP went live in late '94.
Color me impressed. Where could you get commercial access back then?
Well, no, not really. The states don't; the people in them do. I live in Mississippi, and let me assure you that gobsmackingly huge amounts of federal dollars are involved in direct transfer payments from any of a wide variety of government programs to individuals. Some of these are pure pork (farm bill, earmarks, etc.), but a lot of them are the sort of social welfare programs that were championed... by the blue staters. If you want to give money to poor people, fine, do so - but gratitude is too much to expect.
Your mother-in-law, who doesn't much use the Internet, has had access since 1989?
Or is this just a failed humor detector?
Check carefully into getting Limited Basic cable from your Comcast office. They have it in my area; I pay $10/month for my cable, which makes it essentially free with the internet service (if I didn't have it, I'd pay a $10 extra fee). I get the broadcast networks, Weather, TNT, AMC, Bravo, whatever Court TV is these days, a couple of other channels. Combine that with a lifetime-service ReplayTV and I don't miss any of the TV that I actually like.
Or he reads books (Tom Clancy taught me Icelandic naming conventions) and knows a couple of soldiers who've been to the mideast - as many of them have in the past 20 years. We do get both of those down here.
If you assume that people living in cultural backwaters are all uneducated morons, don't ever enter business negotiations with them - the "aw shucks" routine is a well-honed tactic.
Out of curiosity, do you have revealable tips for making a record (of anything) accessible to you if you want it but utterly immune to discovery if you don't? Apart from moving them (and therefore, potentially, yourself sans funds) to a non-discoverable jurisdiction.