There's a good story about this in Making PCR, which is Kary Mullis's story of his life and career before the Nobel. He substituted a couple of positions on a psychedelic and ended up boosting the potency so much that he took a huge overdose by mistake.
I knew some guys at a state toxicology lab. Back in the seventies they had some trouble getting a steady supply of marijuana from the feds for standards testing.
News flash: surgeons don't do every part of an operation themselves. They have assistants. But the person sitting at the robot console is always the surgeon.
Well, the reason the online services are cheaper is that they've replaced answering services, receptionists, etc., with computers. So there's really no way around it - if you don't replace the people, you don't save money, so you can't offer lower prices.
It was really pretty interesting to watch it play out over the vacation - we were in SF for a few days before driving to LA. In SF it's tech this and tech that, and I was the guy running the show. In LA it's all bullshit, smoke, and mirrors, and he (40 years a salesman) was the wizard.
My father-in-law tried to get a reservation to trim his beard in SF a couple of months ago. He's 62 and reasonably tech-savvy, but just can't wrap his head around the idea that some places won't let you book an appointment except via web. His entire life has been call, ask, see what's available. That no longer works. And my wife and I are totally comfortable with that, but it drives him up a wall. So, what happened? A half dozen boutique places lost his business, and he got a shave at The Art of Shaving on Union Square, solely because they would take a phone reservation. This is a guy who uses Uber like it's crack,
It's not tech hatred, it's the lack of redundancy.
"Jump out"? This thing has a rotation speed around 120 knots... good luck surviving a jump like that even if you managed to get the rear cargo door open in time. What kind of fixed-wing aircraft other than a glider has a stall speed low enough for you to survive jumping?
That's true, but it's a far cry from your proposal of having special drying/storage closets, which was my point. Not to mention that the aesthetics will doom any such proposal.
This is horribly slow in humid climates, adds substantial required area to homes (clothes that are drying can't be packed as densely as those that already are dry), and doesn't account for items normally stored in drawers (e.g., underwear/socks). Viable in Las Vegas, total mess in New York.
The kind he's talking about is part of a refrigerator. And if you want a refrigerator, I can highly recommend the LG LFXS30766S - it is kind of insanely expensive (though timing your purchase can help with that), but it's also the only appliance that was specified in the contract when I sold that house. It's a lot nicer than the Sub-Zero I have now. The door-in-door feature is surprisingly useful (get drinks out of the fridge without opening the whole thing). About the only downside was that the ice storage capacity is limited, but there's an ice tray in the freezer - so let it make a full bin, empty that into the freezer, and repeat once or twice, and you'll have enough extra to handle guests, small parties, etc.
in most places I've seen, there's no sewer fee, there's only a water fee
Wait, what?
they want the water back, so it can be processed and put back into the system
Oh, you live somewhere that's essentially a desert. Where water is plentiful, water and sewer are usually separate - sprinkler system goes on a separate water meter to avoid sewer charges (which for me are higher than the water charges).
If you're looking for low maintenance alternatives to a yard, fwiw, and you're in USDA zone 7 or higher, Asiatic jasmine will grow under almost any lighting conditions (from full sun to directly under a live oak), and only needs to be cut once a year. Very tolerant of steep slopes, too.
Also: the circuit connector from a 7.0 endotracheal tube can be jammed into the barrel of a 3 cc syringe with the plunger removed. This can be connected via the Luer connector to an IV catheter placed through the cricothyroid membrane (I recommend at least 18ga for adults). Assuming you have a standard Ambu bag or anesthesia machine with oxygen flush valve, this is enough for jet ventilation.
Well, they're just pressure transducers, they don't care what they're transducing. I once did the same to find out what 20 cm H2O actually feels like in the inflation bulb on an endotracheal tube. In the setting you're looking at, mean pressure is all you need - you can just use a falling column of water and a ruler to determine intraabdominal pressure. Or peripheral venous pressures - if you want to measure response to a fluid bolus, PVP is about 4 cm H2O higher than CVP in anyone not morbidly obese, but if you're only looking for the rise to indicate that they are adequately resuscitated, the exact value isn't important).
The qualifier "generally" was there for a reason. My wife has raging asthma, and I have not enjoyed paying the higher prices for her inhalers. But that's the price of progress.
It's not the industry that provides the product. The entire global economy is dependent on energy inputs, which we have been able to exploit most efficiently since the Industrial Revolution, when we began to be able to use energy sources other than people and animals. CFC's were nasty chemicals, but they weren't generally crucial to modern life.
I'm not in love with the fossil fuel industry, but for all their problems it's also dangerous to assume that installing wind farms on every decent hillside won't have climatic effects. Go nuclear or give up.
If you've never heard education talk during elections, I can only assume that you aren't listening much. No Child Left Behind? Common Core? These are big news items all the time.
Conspiracy aside, there is little reason to expect major educational improvements to be possible. You get huge benefits from teaching literacy and basic arithmetic, and almost everyone is intelligent enough to do them, at least at some level. By the time you hit the level of a rigorous high school, though, you have either abandoned standards or winnowed heavily. Most people can't do calculus. This doesn't make them worth less as human beings; it just means that trying to teach them calculus is a waste of your time and theirs. All you accomplish with more years of "schooling" is warehousing.
If part of your government needs independence from "the mob", and it's the part of your government that's hardest to overrule, perhaps you live in less of a representative democracy than you think.
You think appointed judges are a legit part of democracy if the person who nominates them is elected, even if they can't be fired by their successor in office?
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There's a good story about this in Making PCR, which is Kary Mullis's story of his life and career before the Nobel. He substituted a couple of positions on a psychedelic and ended up boosting the potency so much that he took a huge overdose by mistake.
I knew some guys at a state toxicology lab. Back in the seventies they had some trouble getting a steady supply of marijuana from the feds for standards testing.
They ended up growing some on the windowsill.
News flash: surgeons don't do every part of an operation themselves. They have assistants. But the person sitting at the robot console is always the surgeon.
They're remote manipulator arms, not "robot surgeons".
Well, the reason the online services are cheaper is that they've replaced answering services, receptionists, etc., with computers. So there's really no way around it - if you don't replace the people, you don't save money, so you can't offer lower prices.
It was really pretty interesting to watch it play out over the vacation - we were in SF for a few days before driving to LA. In SF it's tech this and tech that, and I was the guy running the show. In LA it's all bullshit, smoke, and mirrors, and he (40 years a salesman) was the wizard.
My father-in-law tried to get a reservation to trim his beard in SF a couple of months ago. He's 62 and reasonably tech-savvy, but just can't wrap his head around the idea that some places won't let you book an appointment except via web. His entire life has been call, ask, see what's available. That no longer works. And my wife and I are totally comfortable with that, but it drives him up a wall. So, what happened? A half dozen boutique places lost his business, and he got a shave at The Art of Shaving on Union Square, solely because they would take a phone reservation. This is a guy who uses Uber like it's crack,
It's not tech hatred, it's the lack of redundancy.
That's why he said "federal"; family law has heretofore been almost exclusively the province of the states.
Lowering the water table can cause land subsidence, so there is some reason to keep it up.
"Jump out"? This thing has a rotation speed around 120 knots... good luck surviving a jump like that even if you managed to get the rear cargo door open in time. What kind of fixed-wing aircraft other than a glider has a stall speed low enough for you to survive jumping?
That's true, but it's a far cry from your proposal of having special drying/storage closets, which was my point. Not to mention that the aesthetics will doom any such proposal.
This is horribly slow in humid climates, adds substantial required area to homes (clothes that are drying can't be packed as densely as those that already are dry), and doesn't account for items normally stored in drawers (e.g., underwear/socks). Viable in Las Vegas, total mess in New York.
The kind he's talking about is part of a refrigerator. And if you want a refrigerator, I can highly recommend the LG LFXS30766S - it is kind of insanely expensive (though timing your purchase can help with that), but it's also the only appliance that was specified in the contract when I sold that house. It's a lot nicer than the Sub-Zero I have now. The door-in-door feature is surprisingly useful (get drinks out of the fridge without opening the whole thing). About the only downside was that the ice storage capacity is limited, but there's an ice tray in the freezer - so let it make a full bin, empty that into the freezer, and repeat once or twice, and you'll have enough extra to handle guests, small parties, etc.
in most places I've seen, there's no sewer fee, there's only a water fee
Wait, what?
they want the water back, so it can be processed and put back into the system
Oh, you live somewhere that's essentially a desert. Where water is plentiful, water and sewer are usually separate - sprinkler system goes on a separate water meter to avoid sewer charges (which for me are higher than the water charges).
If you're looking for low maintenance alternatives to a yard, fwiw, and you're in USDA zone 7 or higher, Asiatic jasmine will grow under almost any lighting conditions (from full sun to directly under a live oak), and only needs to be cut once a year. Very tolerant of steep slopes, too.
Live in an older neighborhood that pre-dates them.
Also: the circuit connector from a 7.0 endotracheal tube can be jammed into the barrel of a 3 cc syringe with the plunger removed. This can be connected via the Luer connector to an IV catheter placed through the cricothyroid membrane (I recommend at least 18ga for adults). Assuming you have a standard Ambu bag or anesthesia machine with oxygen flush valve, this is enough for jet ventilation.
Well, they're just pressure transducers, they don't care what they're transducing. I once did the same to find out what 20 cm H2O actually feels like in the inflation bulb on an endotracheal tube. In the setting you're looking at, mean pressure is all you need - you can just use a falling column of water and a ruler to determine intraabdominal pressure. Or peripheral venous pressures - if you want to measure response to a fluid bolus, PVP is about 4 cm H2O higher than CVP in anyone not morbidly obese, but if you're only looking for the rise to indicate that they are adequately resuscitated, the exact value isn't important).
It's $4, it's practically free. Just wondered if one had any special features. I get them in batches of eight, so I have lots to play with...
I can get AA batteries for free in practically unlimited quantities. What's the best USB charging device based on them?
Which I didn't do. Funny that.
The qualifier "generally" was there for a reason. My wife has raging asthma, and I have not enjoyed paying the higher prices for her inhalers. But that's the price of progress.
It's not the industry that provides the product. The entire global economy is dependent on energy inputs, which we have been able to exploit most efficiently since the Industrial Revolution, when we began to be able to use energy sources other than people and animals. CFC's were nasty chemicals, but they weren't generally crucial to modern life.
I'm not in love with the fossil fuel industry, but for all their problems it's also dangerous to assume that installing wind farms on every decent hillside won't have climatic effects. Go nuclear or give up.
Not only that, all of the laws involved are state-level laws, not federal.
If you've never heard education talk during elections, I can only assume that you aren't listening much. No Child Left Behind? Common Core? These are big news items all the time.
Conspiracy aside, there is little reason to expect major educational improvements to be possible. You get huge benefits from teaching literacy and basic arithmetic, and almost everyone is intelligent enough to do them, at least at some level. By the time you hit the level of a rigorous high school, though, you have either abandoned standards or winnowed heavily. Most people can't do calculus. This doesn't make them worth less as human beings; it just means that trying to teach them calculus is a waste of your time and theirs. All you accomplish with more years of "schooling" is warehousing.
If part of your government needs independence from "the mob", and it's the part of your government that's hardest to overrule, perhaps you live in less of a representative democracy than you think.
You think appointed judges are a legit part of democracy if the person who nominates them is elected, even if they can't be fired by their successor in office?
Christ on a crutch, that's a stupid answer.