That's not how it works. Not at all. I'm an anesthesiologist, and my job basically consists of being cool when the world goes crazy. Just like a pilot. Unlike him, I haven't decided that the world needs to go down with me.
Absence seizures don't really work like that, and they don't really show up as a new diagnosis in someone that age. A prior diagnosis would have disqualified him from getting a commercial (and probably a private) pilot's license. And automatisms won't don't that. My wife is an epileptologist, I know far more than I want to about these things.
Murder-suicide is when you decide to kill that lying bitch you've been living with all these years, and then realize you'd rather be dead than spend the rest of your life in prison. If you just feel the need to end it between the two of you, there's no reason over a hundred other people need to go too.
Speed governors are not going to ruin a generation. When I learned to drive, my speed governor was called a "crappy engine". My first car did 0-60 mph (~0-100 km/h) in a blistering 16 seconds if the air conditioning was off - much longer if it was on. It wouldn't do 75 mph unless it was headed down a mountain. But it had four wheels, it ran, and it was mine, and that was enough.
Seriously. Check out the competition, to be sure, but my Synology? It Just Works. And It Just Works Really Well. And it's the size of a large toaster, which means it can fit on a shelf in a closet, or behind some audio devices in your media center. Buy, insert hard drives, install OS, it does the rest - automatically. Hard drive dies? Shut it off, replace drive, turn it on, it does the rest with minimal intervention. If you want to be paranoid, you can even set it up to be able to survive two disk failures.
The problem with nitrogen asphyxiation is the optics suck. One critical insight into the three-drug death penalty method was the paralytic. As neurons die, they "wave goodbye" by triggering muscle contractions. So even though they're utterly unconscious, they will still have seizure-like activity if you don't paralyze them.
It's called anesthesiology. Oh, sure, I learned how to keep people alive in a medically-induced coma while they're being cut open, but that also means that I learned a whole lot of different ways to flip the switch to the "off" position. Two sides of the same coin.
A forum that doesn't allow editing, at that. Must be why/. is doing so well - instead of modernizing the structure, they're modernizing the appearance.
An hour earlier than they got up the day before, of course. We mostly live in a world in which we don't observe apparent solar time, but zone-adjusted mean solar time. What we evolved to deal with doesn't change that.
DST is nothing more than collectively agreeing that we will get up and go home an hour earlier all summer long. Hence the traditional opposition in farming areas - farmers work on the sun, not the clock, and if every store closes an hour earlier, it is more difficult for them to get there after the farm work is done but before they close.
They're using regulations that strangled the communications infrastructure of the US telephone system for decades. The FCC position is more like a case of "there need to be some regulations, these are regulations, therefore we need to implement them". That and a general opposition to handing off Congress' duty to write the laws to a bunch of unelected bureaucrats is how a conservative can oppose them - better the devil you know...
Unfortunately, the main function of the Republican Party is to provide an outlet for people who aren't Democrats to feel like they have a voice without seriously impeding things the Democratic leadership wants to do. As an added bonus, the Democratic leadership can use them to explain to their wackier constituents why it was that they just weren't able to get said constituency's pet policy (that the Democratic leadership doesn't want to pass) through Congress. And I say that as someone who is more sympathetic to the R's than the D's.
Ah, but the problem isn't the idea of unions, it's unions as they exist in the US. Germany seems to have pretty good unions and labor law. American labor law was set up to build political machines more than to improve workers' lives.
MGI has a lot going for it. It's efficient as hell - cutting a check to every citizen once a month takes very few government employees. Everyone has free choice about how to spend the money. But there's the problem of assholes: what do you do when someone spends their MGI on crack? Do you let them starve or make them sleep on the streets? No, of course you don't, because we're not barbarians. So you introduce food stamps/EBT and subsidized/free housing. Pretty soon, you've re-created the entire modern welfare system, except that you now have MGI on top of it. Congratulations, you now have the worst of both worlds.
Renters do have a reasonable expectation of privacy within their curtilage, just as owners do - they have paid for exclusive, though time-limited, possession of a piece of property. As for filming guests in the home, ask a local lawyer.
This might be how you think it should work, but that's not actually how it works.
I own a house. Name's on the deed and everything. In my house, I have a "reasonable expectation of privacy". But nobody who visits my house does, even if I'm not there. And in any case, you vacate your "reasonable expectation of privacy" the moment you tell anyone else about your secret.
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That's not how it works. Not at all. I'm an anesthesiologist, and my job basically consists of being cool when the world goes crazy. Just like a pilot. Unlike him, I haven't decided that the world needs to go down with me.
Absence seizures don't really work like that, and they don't really show up as a new diagnosis in someone that age. A prior diagnosis would have disqualified him from getting a commercial (and probably a private) pilot's license. And automatisms won't don't that. My wife is an epileptologist, I know far more than I want to about these things.
Murder-suicide is when you decide to kill that lying bitch you've been living with all these years, and then realize you'd rather be dead than spend the rest of your life in prison. If you just feel the need to end it between the two of you, there's no reason over a hundred other people need to go too.
Speed governors are not going to ruin a generation. When I learned to drive, my speed governor was called a "crappy engine". My first car did 0-60 mph (~0-100 km/h) in a blistering 16 seconds if the air conditioning was off - much longer if it was on. It wouldn't do 75 mph unless it was headed down a mountain. But it had four wheels, it ran, and it was mine, and that was enough.
Seriously. Check out the competition, to be sure, but my Synology? It Just Works. And It Just Works Really Well. And it's the size of a large toaster, which means it can fit on a shelf in a closet, or behind some audio devices in your media center. Buy, insert hard drives, install OS, it does the rest - automatically. Hard drive dies? Shut it off, replace drive, turn it on, it does the rest with minimal intervention. If you want to be paranoid, you can even set it up to be able to survive two disk failures.
Do you even read Wikipedia?
I'd be quite good at designing execution systems, as well as pain-based torture systems, if I were so inclined. (I'm not.)
"Put to the sword"? Jesus H. Christ on a popsicle stick, that's an overwrought fantasy. "Choir receives sermon enthusiastically" is more like it.
The Hippocratic Oath is purely symbolic in modern medicine. It is not a requirement for medical licensure, and does not have any force of law.
Xenon has anesthetic properties, so possibly not. Argon probably would.
See my reply to Jeremi above.
The problem with nitrogen asphyxiation is the optics suck. One critical insight into the three-drug death penalty method was the paralytic. As neurons die, they "wave goodbye" by triggering muscle contractions. So even though they're utterly unconscious, they will still have seizure-like activity if you don't paralyze them.
It's called anesthesiology. Oh, sure, I learned how to keep people alive in a medically-induced coma while they're being cut open, but that also means that I learned a whole lot of different ways to flip the switch to the "off" position. Two sides of the same coin.
A forum that doesn't allow editing, at that. Must be why /. is doing so well - instead of modernizing the structure, they're modernizing the appearance.
An hour earlier than they got up the day before, of course. We mostly live in a world in which we don't observe apparent solar time, but zone-adjusted mean solar time. What we evolved to deal with doesn't change that.
DST is nothing more than collectively agreeing that we will get up and go home an hour earlier all summer long. Hence the traditional opposition in farming areas - farmers work on the sun, not the clock, and if every store closes an hour earlier, it is more difficult for them to get there after the farm work is done but before they close.
They're using regulations that strangled the communications infrastructure of the US telephone system for decades. The FCC position is more like a case of "there need to be some regulations, these are regulations, therefore we need to implement them". That and a general opposition to handing off Congress' duty to write the laws to a bunch of unelected bureaucrats is how a conservative can oppose them - better the devil you know...
Unfortunately, the main function of the Republican Party is to provide an outlet for people who aren't Democrats to feel like they have a voice without seriously impeding things the Democratic leadership wants to do. As an added bonus, the Democratic leadership can use them to explain to their wackier constituents why it was that they just weren't able to get said constituency's pet policy (that the Democratic leadership doesn't want to pass) through Congress. And I say that as someone who is more sympathetic to the R's than the D's.
Bad analogy. Fucking is the primary method of producing more virgins, and the state is just a corporation with an army.
Ah, but the problem isn't the idea of unions, it's unions as they exist in the US. Germany seems to have pretty good unions and labor law. American labor law was set up to build political machines more than to improve workers' lives.
Counterpoint: if you live in an area that begins to decline, renting means you have no albatross around your neck if you pick and leave.
As the saying goes, it's not enough to be smarter than every cop; you have to be smarter than all the cops put together.
MGI has a lot going for it. It's efficient as hell - cutting a check to every citizen once a month takes very few government employees. Everyone has free choice about how to spend the money. But there's the problem of assholes: what do you do when someone spends their MGI on crack? Do you let them starve or make them sleep on the streets? No, of course you don't, because we're not barbarians. So you introduce food stamps/EBT and subsidized/free housing. Pretty soon, you've re-created the entire modern welfare system, except that you now have MGI on top of it. Congratulations, you now have the worst of both worlds.
Renters do have a reasonable expectation of privacy within their curtilage, just as owners do - they have paid for exclusive, though time-limited, possession of a piece of property. As for filming guests in the home, ask a local lawyer.
You asked for an example. You got one. Move the goalposts much?
This might be how you think it should work, but that's not actually how it works.
I own a house. Name's on the deed and everything. In my house, I have a "reasonable expectation of privacy". But nobody who visits my house does, even if I'm not there. And in any case, you vacate your "reasonable expectation of privacy" the moment you tell anyone else about your secret.