Meh. The weather's fantastic, I get that. I really do. But the cost of living is astronomical and not all jobs pay more in big cities. I work three miles from home, and if the traffic is really bad and I hit every red light, it takes me seven or eight minutes to get there. I'd take about a 30% pay cut to move to one of the desirable parts of CA, and what will buy you a 5000 sf house on an acre of land here will get you a 1400 sf shack on an 1800 sf lot there. Obviously that tradeoff is worth it to you. Not to everyone.
Nearly everyone would prefer living in a nice part of London than a bad suburb, but there are crappy parts of London and really beautiful suburbs,
It's a lot like why I don't live in New York: if you are rich enough to make the unpleasant parts of living in NYC go away, then there's no better place on earth. But you have to be really, really rich to do that. Living in a small city (~300k metro) in a relatively undesirable part of the country means I have to get on a plane to see NYC, but it also means that I can afford to pay for those plane tickets as often as I'd like -- I have an 1800 sf house that cost under $200k, and I make almost twice what I would in NYC (not all jobs pay better in big cities).
But it doesn't have to be a really big city - any metro bigger than about 100k will have two or three very good restaurants, and by the time you hit half a million you'll have at least ten to choose from, plus numerous local spots that produce a solid meal.
Health care in general hires a lot of ex military. I'd say that close to a quarter of the nurses and scrub techs in our operating room are ex military.
Not as video. Our GI docs shoot their required images - pylorus, antrum, maybe sphincter of Oddi for EGD, ileocecal valve and rectal retroflex for colonoscopies - and any abnormalities encountered, but that's it.
You don't sterilize glasses or Glass. The hats and masks are not sterile, merely clean. The sterile field is considered to exist from the neckline to the waist, and only in the front. Laparoscopy cameras are sterilized.
FWIW, the particular procedure chosen here was a feeding tube - i.e., a connection from the gut to the skin. The gut is inherently not sterile, and cannot be made so. The procedure is very low risk for infection anyway.
You have very arbitrarily defined a set of scenarios that basically eliminates all the reasons we have a Fifth Amendment.
Look at your "FAIL3": of course it protects the guilty more than the innocent. That's the whole point of it! You can't generally make it harder to convict the innocent without making it harder to convict the guilty - so unless our legal system is so awful that it snaps up more people who are innocent than guilty (which, as bad as the American legal system is, it's nothing like that), nearly anything that makes it hard to get a conviction will benefit the guilty disproportionately.
You seem to be upset that the US is a common law jurisdiction with an adversarial legal system instead of something more like the civil law systems prevalent in Europe.
You've misread me. The fob does have an RFID tag or equivalent, powered by the start ring. The reader is only active when you try to start the car with the fob battery dead.
On Toyota, that key is for the door. There's a small antenna in the fob that provides just enough power to authenticate if you hold the fob up to the start button's metal ring.
A normal treadmill is about three feet long. Obviously, the only aircraft that can take off in the space of three feet are helicopters and VTOLs. The point is that airspeed and groundspeed are independent of one another.
It's not just you. I'm a layman, and while DDWFTTW seemed intuitively impossible to me, the whole airplane-treadmill thing seemed like child's play. Of course it takes off.
Um, the White House Communications Director is one of the President's close advisers. Read the description of the job. Notice the part where the office is usually filled by the president's deputy campaign manager.
I assume you know this, but that is the publisher's doing, not Amazon's. Different entities own the rights to books in different countries. Amazon can't afford to go around violating copyright laws by selling everyone books that it's only allowed to sell in the USA.
If you own an e-ink Kindle, you can register it to your account and download files for it directly from any computer, then strip the DRM. This works even if the Kindle later breaks... I've got one with a dead screen registered to my account. It's gone to the great electronics recycler in the sky, but it's still on my account.
Once you really make the switch, I don't think you ever go back. Wife and I are huge book readers - we probably have north of 1000 books in our house, and we've given away at least that many more - but I think we've bought maybe ten paper books in the past three years. It's all iPad and Kindle, now.
You can strip the DRM from every common format today. If all you want is a DRM-free copy, buy all the digital books you like and go visit Apprentice Alf. (If you're making a political statement by refusing to buy DRM'ed books, obviously, this isn't a solution.)
Thank you. That's one of the bravest things I've ever seen written on the Internet.
Would you mind terribly if I cut-and-pasted it and sent it to a few friends? My wife works at a state mental hospital, and I do some moonlighting there (both MD's, although neither of us is a psychiatrist). Anecdotes like yours are very rare.
Also, and I mean this in the kindest way: be very, very careful with yourself. Every psychotic episode you have makes you more likely to have another. If you have another, I'd seriously consider seeing a psychiatrist. You definitely don't want to lose your anchor in reality (although it sounds like you have it firmly in control).
Cannabis actually can be risky for schizophrenics; if you have it in your family, you should probably avoid smoking pot.
Part of schizophrenia can be thought of as losing the ability to distinguish internal stimuli from external ones. Let's say you forget to pick up the dry cleaning. A person without schizophrenia will have a little internal voice that says "you idiot!" This is recognized as an internal communication in the brain. A schizophrenic will hear "you idiot!" as if someone standing right behind them said it.
Cannabis can help push a susceptible person over the edge. And because psychosis is subject to kindling - the more episodes you have, the more likely you are to have them in the future, and with less provocation - going over the edge while high can have consequences when sober.
That only moves the point of error into a computer being run by $8/hr admissions clerks. At least when someone's name is wrong on an armband, you can see it.
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Meh. The weather's fantastic, I get that. I really do. But the cost of living is astronomical and not all jobs pay more in big cities. I work three miles from home, and if the traffic is really bad and I hit every red light, it takes me seven or eight minutes to get there. I'd take about a 30% pay cut to move to one of the desirable parts of CA, and what will buy you a 5000 sf house on an acre of land here will get you a 1400 sf shack on an 1800 sf lot there. Obviously that tradeoff is worth it to you. Not to everyone.
Nearly everyone would prefer living in a nice part of London than a bad suburb, but there are crappy parts of London and really beautiful suburbs,
It's a lot like why I don't live in New York: if you are rich enough to make the unpleasant parts of living in NYC go away, then there's no better place on earth. But you have to be really, really rich to do that. Living in a small city (~300k metro) in a relatively undesirable part of the country means I have to get on a plane to see NYC, but it also means that I can afford to pay for those plane tickets as often as I'd like -- I have an 1800 sf house that cost under $200k, and I make almost twice what I would in NYC (not all jobs pay better in big cities).
But it doesn't have to be a really big city - any metro bigger than about 100k will have two or three very good restaurants, and by the time you hit half a million you'll have at least ten to choose from, plus numerous local spots that produce a solid meal.
Health care in general hires a lot of ex military. I'd say that close to a quarter of the nurses and scrub techs in our operating room are ex military.
This is tragic. Kids, go watch Airplane. Get the uncensored version. Ask someone over 40 if you don't get one of the jokes.
Unfortunately, very few supermodels with anorgasmia show up in the average gyn clinic. More like 300+ lb diabetics with crotch itch.
Not as video. Our GI docs shoot their required images - pylorus, antrum, maybe sphincter of Oddi for EGD, ileocecal valve and rectal retroflex for colonoscopies - and any abnormalities encountered, but that's it.
You don't sterilize glasses or Glass. The hats and masks are not sterile, merely clean. The sterile field is considered to exist from the neckline to the waist, and only in the front. Laparoscopy cameras are sterilized.
FWIW, the particular procedure chosen here was a feeding tube - i.e., a connection from the gut to the skin. The gut is inherently not sterile, and cannot be made so. The procedure is very low risk for infection anyway.
The Fifth Amendment has nothing to do with torture. At all. It has to do with preventing a legal catch-22.
You have very arbitrarily defined a set of scenarios that basically eliminates all the reasons we have a Fifth Amendment.
Look at your "FAIL3": of course it protects the guilty more than the innocent. That's the whole point of it! You can't generally make it harder to convict the innocent without making it harder to convict the guilty - so unless our legal system is so awful that it snaps up more people who are innocent than guilty (which, as bad as the American legal system is, it's nothing like that), nearly anything that makes it hard to get a conviction will benefit the guilty disproportionately.
You seem to be upset that the US is a common law jurisdiction with an adversarial legal system instead of something more like the civil law systems prevalent in Europe.
You've misread me. The fob does have an RFID tag or equivalent, powered by the start ring. The reader is only active when you try to start the car with the fob battery dead.
You can drive my Lexus all over creation without the key, but you can't restart it once you turn it off.
On Toyota, that key is for the door. There's a small antenna in the fob that provides just enough power to authenticate if you hold the fob up to the start button's metal ring.
a normal treadmill
A normal treadmill is about three feet long. Obviously, the only aircraft that can take off in the space of three feet are helicopters and VTOLs. The point is that airspeed and groundspeed are independent of one another.
You can't take off with zero airspeed. Dumb proposal.
It's not just you. I'm a layman, and while DDWFTTW seemed intuitively impossible to me, the whole airplane-treadmill thing seemed like child's play. Of course it takes off.
Um, the White House Communications Director is one of the President's close advisers. Read the description of the job. Notice the part where the office is usually filled by the president's deputy campaign manager.
(won't sell ebooks to non-US residents? Fuck you)
I assume you know this, but that is the publisher's doing, not Amazon's. Different entities own the rights to books in different countries. Amazon can't afford to go around violating copyright laws by selling everyone books that it's only allowed to sell in the USA.
If you own an e-ink Kindle, you can register it to your account and download files for it directly from any computer, then strip the DRM. This works even if the Kindle later breaks... I've got one with a dead screen registered to my account. It's gone to the great electronics recycler in the sky, but it's still on my account.
Once you really make the switch, I don't think you ever go back. Wife and I are huge book readers - we probably have north of 1000 books in our house, and we've given away at least that many more - but I think we've bought maybe ten paper books in the past three years. It's all iPad and Kindle, now.
You can strip the DRM from every common format today. If all you want is a DRM-free copy, buy all the digital books you like and go visit Apprentice Alf. (If you're making a political statement by refusing to buy DRM'ed books, obviously, this isn't a solution.)
Thank you. That's one of the bravest things I've ever seen written on the Internet.
Would you mind terribly if I cut-and-pasted it and sent it to a few friends? My wife works at a state mental hospital, and I do some moonlighting there (both MD's, although neither of us is a psychiatrist). Anecdotes like yours are very rare.
Also, and I mean this in the kindest way: be very, very careful with yourself. Every psychotic episode you have makes you more likely to have another. If you have another, I'd seriously consider seeing a psychiatrist. You definitely don't want to lose your anchor in reality (although it sounds like you have it firmly in control).
Cannabis actually can be risky for schizophrenics; if you have it in your family, you should probably avoid smoking pot.
Part of schizophrenia can be thought of as losing the ability to distinguish internal stimuli from external ones. Let's say you forget to pick up the dry cleaning. A person without schizophrenia will have a little internal voice that says "you idiot!" This is recognized as an internal communication in the brain. A schizophrenic will hear "you idiot!" as if someone standing right behind them said it.
Cannabis can help push a susceptible person over the edge. And because psychosis is subject to kindling - the more episodes you have, the more likely you are to have them in the future, and with less provocation - going over the edge while high can have consequences when sober.
That only moves the point of error into a computer being run by $8/hr admissions clerks. At least when someone's name is wrong on an armband, you can see it.
We have a lot of non-native English speakers. I'm helping them avoid idiomatic problems. Simple abuse of the language is a completely separate thing.