But it is not only gamers who lose (games, or prize-money) due to Windows auto-updates.
A few years ago, I set up a 16-hour run on an expensive ($$$/hr) physics instrument. That, and my sample was air-sensitive, and had a limited lifetime, even in the inert-gas cell I enclosed it within. Last, it takes a considerable amount of time to line things very precisely for the experiment I was running.
Next day, I came in to find the login screen. Windows had updated itself while the main software program on the computer (controlling the equipment) was actively running a scan! All collected data was gone, and so was my instrument-time charges.
BUT WAIT! It gets even BETTER! A Windows auto-update a few years ago disabled EVERY OXFORD EDS SYSTEM ON THE PLANET. EDS = Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy --- It's used for chemical analysis in electron microscopes. There are 10's or possibly even 100's of thousands of these systems installed in most every University and Industrial Lab.
The 'update' had wrecked the drivers for these systems. Many scientists at every damned place who suddenly lost the ability to perform their jobs wasted two days trying to figure out what was going on. How many $Millions do you think were lost because of this? Many. Oxford got right on the ball, and released a patch as soon as they could.
My job at the time was in Failure Analysis of electronic components of satellites. The budgetary burn rate near launch is $3M – $5M per day. If a fault had been discovered in a satellite headed for the launch-pad, and a chemical micro-analysis (chemical imaging) was needed to determine whether the launch was go or no-go, Microsoft would have cost a single space program at least $10M.
Yes, there are other brands of EDS, and other techniques for chemical analysis. But for microelectronics, EDS is the quickest. My institution did NOT have other brands, nor was it set up (ready to go) for chemical analysis by other means.
I am still stunned that this second Microsoft-caused loss of millions of $ did not end up in a basket of lawsuits.
And yes, I got everyone to turn off auto-updates of Windows. I had assumed that the vendors, installers, or users of these systems would have known to do this --- I was wrong.
Whenever I visit a lab, to use their instrument, checking whether auto-updates are off is the first thing I do. Then, almost always, I have walk over to the lab's administrator (who has privileges on the computer), and fill them in.
There is actually research being done on this right now to find out if poop transplants can make people healthier.
It's entirely possible that these gut microbiomes affect far more than we realize.
Your gut flora adjusts to your diet—To them, it is the type of Manna that falls from heaven.
Fatties and gluttons who have diets that lead to morbid obesity have been on a consistent diet of CRAP for years. This is why 'crash diets' don't work.
One needs to slowly ramp their diet to a healthy one, while simultaneously dosing daily with a 'full-mix' macrobiotic. In the end, the 'good bacteria' win out over the others. It is a process – NOT an overnight transformation!
Oh, it also helps if you select your parents carefully...
Actually, the bacteria in yogurt were originally cultured from people putting milk in animal stomachs used as bladders to hold liquids. They are directly from mammalian stomachs. This is also where cheese comes from and probably almost every single dairy product other than plain milk.
Yep. Animal bladders or 'sacs' were either dog food, or the perfect canteen for our paleolithic ancestors.
Someone let a batch sit too long in a cave, and discovered yogurt. Then later cheese, probably.
I mean, in the Stone Ages, people didn't just phone up Sigma-Aldrich for a "disinfected ruminant stomach number three", or whatever. It was a little less hygienic then.
As my gut bacteria changed, so did my appetite. I no longer craved sugar or other carbs, and started eating more fiber and veggies. I guess the little critters were using some sort of chemical feedback to make me eat a diet more to their liking. I am about 5 pounds lighter, have more energy, and have had no gut problems (diarrhea, constipation, or pain) in years.
Please tell us all, in excruciating detail, about the characteristics of you diarrhea, and how they changed over this process of yogurt-conversion.
It resets itself at least once per day on me. In the past, it was for three months or so.
Why have I been contributing for 10 years?
Seriously. My constant commentary (highly ranked) is one among the many volunteer efforts by/. members over the last >10 years that raised the value of the 'property' for its recent buy-out by yet another media conglomerate. That means lots of $$$$$ in someone's pocket, yet the meagre reward that I had acquiesced to over the years was to "disable advertising".
Now that is broken. Multiple times daily. Are the new owners of/. trying to destroy it?
Recall, everyone, that "comments are owned by the poster..."
If the new owners piss us grey-beards off enough, we will all issue take-down notices of every single post we have ever made, butting the/. archive. And we will NOT come back.
Yep. Evolutionary biology, and also active adaptations of existing gut flora. Both come into play here.
Throughout our evolution into homo sapiens sapiens, our ancestors endured many varied and variously harsh environments. The result is that, today, we have a lot of "junk genes". LOL.
Junk genes they are not. Just because they are not expressed does not mean that they enable some metabolic capacity or other during times of resource-stress that our progenitors endured. Should we endure something different from the modern 'three-squares-a-day' model (which is BS), then, given a reasonable time to adapt, we can adjust to a diet with a different weighting of sugars-carbs-oils-meats-fat.
The "Paleo Diet" thing is a fad. But in reality, if you gradually change your diet from one primary source of energy to another (among chemical classes), then YOU CAN CHANGE your normal, healthy diet.
My girl eats nuts, oils, meats, and some veggies – all with abandon. She can pull-off a sweater-dress easily (as in 'wear it and look great.'). Genetics is part of it. The second, and EQUALLY important part of it is a gradual exposure to foods – ones with a different chemical-caloric basis – when departing from the typical US "carb-based diet" – is entirely doable.
Point is this: Give your gut flora a chance to respond to your intake of food of different calorimetric classes. If you "go on a diet", then FFS take some macrobiotic pills, eat yogurt, and ease into the the new diet. Otherwise—Well, your liver and gall bladder will protest at the sudden change. You will feel famished, exhausted, and so on.
I know people who subsist at the opposite end of the spectrum as well. That is, their primary caloric intake is ethanol –a simple sugar. I have seen many high-functioning people (Professor-level, CEO-level) be healthy and successful for time unending because they introduced this particular diet slowly—They take multivitamins, B-complex, and folate daily – and their bodies have adapted, over time, to use ethanol as the primary metabolic-intake chemical for use as fuel for the body.
I am not recommending alcoholism, not am I recommending an instant switch to a "Paleo Diet". My point is simply that we are products of the experiences of our progenitors – who managed to mate successfully – eons ago. Given time, those ancient genes will express because one of your ancestors lived through a crisis of having a single-type caloric food some time in the distant past.
You have understood the point absolutely, and entirely.
Congrats. I guess... as it it not a nice realization.
I have worked in Academia, Industry, the US Government, and within the US 'Military-Industrial Complex (MIC)'. I left the latters for the primary – Academia.
One of the first lessons (LECTURES) I was given as a government and as a MIC-employee was that I should label every report, internal publication, memo, or even a fucking email setting up a meeting time – as SBUC. Just as a matter of course. "It's just hygiene," they told me.
Fuck that. I have been a Federal Whistle-blower. TWICE. Why yes, they have tried, through illegal means, to destroy my professional reputation (I am anonymous here on/.),as well as my personal and financial lives, in retaliation for whistle-blowing.
I am not dead yet. The third, and biggest, whistle-blow is imminent.
I've already mentioned their names. I DO HAVE a "Dead-man's Switch" set up, which will, in the case of my death or long-term coma, release the headline-making shenanigans of the bastards who have intellectually raped me available to The Intercept, Wikileaks, The Guardian, as well as some others.
These assholes have already fucked with me. If I die, it will be 100x worse for them. The 'perfectly organized' data-dump is already armed. If I fail to log in to my "Dead Man's Server(s)" on a periodic basis, the full contents of illegal activities of my intellectual rapists will be exposed in one large chunk. The media outlets can then tranche the information as they see fit.
Guinness stopped doing records for things like quantity of food or drink ingested because of health dangers. Sleep deprivation is dangerous too though this man wasn't into the recognized danger zone yet
Sleep deprivation only really becomes an issue around 30-40 hours. Speaking from experience. I do have to wonder if the guy fasted the entire time though. It's really only an impressive feat if he went 25 hours without food and drink. And that mixed bag of deprivation would be pretty unhealthy, too.
I had thought that sleep deprivation caused serious consequences at 7+ days, but was corrected recently. Right here on/.
I do mid-30's w/focus, without any chemical assists like Ritalin, a few times a year.
So yeah, and I'm not insane... Hmmn... Looking over my last decade of/. posts, maybe there is something to that 30-40 hour thing after all...
Can you publish in Natureand be insane at the same time? I cannot tell, which seems to meet the definition.
So the guy started babbling incoherently at hour 21? What a light-weight!
I've done 70 (w/a 3-hr nap at 24).
I can perform solid efforts in the mid-30's of hours once every month or two (and I am in my late 40's). I stop when I have to re-read a sentence twice—That indicates the end of coherent conscious thinking. That is when you whip out the Post-Its because you have 5 minutes of semi-coherence left—So mark where you left off well!
To have setup and used her own e-mail server for "official government business, including Sensitive But Unclassified information" is the height of hypocrisy...
The US Govt's "Sensitive but Unclassified Information" category is a a flaming piece of bullshit itself.
SBUC labeling is an attempt to hamper or foil FOIA requests—Period. It has been around for much longer than Hillary, so don't blame her. It is abused by basically every US Govt arm, as an attempt to keep the populace as uninformed as possible.
SBUC really just means: "This is just ordinary communication, but we want to exclude it from FOIA requests anyway – because otherwise the plebes might get upset... or something."
Oh, I forgot to mention that she was lecturing me like a school-child.
So, I had to remind her several times of my PhD in Chemistry & Physics. I also corrected her a couple of times on points of chemistry, after she lied to my face regarding basic chemistry that every physician should know---She did not enjoy that. But I did.
I told her to just write a scrip for a bucket of oxycodone -- to hold me over until I found the Real Pain Management Physician, or I would talk to her supervisor immediately. She complied, quite unhappily, having a subordinate deliver the scrip to me.
A 'pain physician' providing after-care for a skull fracture prescribed me 80 mg of straight oxycodone every three to four hours, as needed. That is over HALF A GRAM of oxycodone per day! Talk about a pain roller-coaster... My fiancee would spend the entire day watching me, just to make sure that my chest was moving. It was a deadly dose.
I went back to this bad MD, once, and she tried to place all the blame on me. "You follow what's on the label". I replied, "YOU wrote the scrip, which determined what was on the label!" This idiot was blaming me for her near-deadly error, trying to escape the risk of losing her medical license. Well, she soon got fired from a third institution within a year...
I immediately found an actual Pain Management Physician. He prescribed a 24-hour time-release oxycodone, plus a few on the side for pain-spikes. I got off of that crap in less than three months with no withdrawal issues at all.
This is just an example of how physician errors kill people.
in addition to being a registered organ donor (especially if you ride a motorcycle). Good organs are needed by many living people.
I was 100 percent with you until you wrote the motorcycle bit. Did you go to school to become such a jerk?
Or do non motorcycle riders live forever?
Jerk.
ER Physicians call them "Donor Cycles". Gallows humor, but pretty much true.
I owned and rode a Yamaha 650 for many years. It was a delight, especially on mountain roads. But those guys who lane-split in heavy LA traffic at 90 mph? They are just asking for a random event that will be the end (such as an unanticipated lane-change).
I was once behind a kid, maybe 16, on a high-power motorcycle. He clearly did not know how to ride safely --- he kept looking back behind him as he gained speed to 100 mph or so. Then - he stood on the seat of the bike and raised his arms to the sky for 1/8 to 1/4 mile. That kid? A soon-to-be organ donor
Ride responsibly, assuming that no cars can actually see you. Always have two "safety maneuvers" in mind at ever given moment if you are in car traffic. This way, you don't die.
And at any rate, among motorcyclists, regarding the topic of accidents, everyone agrees that it is a matter of "when", not "if".
They're not trying to bring the dead back to life. They're doing neurological regeneration experiments on live human patients who are clinically dead.
Are these 20 study-participants awake in any sense, or are they in a coma?
If the goal is simply to re-connect the brain stem to the autonomic nervous system in clinically dead (ex-) persons, but not to address the many other parts of their brain that are dead... well, then it is starting to sound like a good choice.
That is: Comatose study-body. Autonomic system function restored (no life support needed), but still in coma or "brain dead" by encephalomalacia, no matter the outcome of the study...
Well, that seems to be the case, so I take back my "anti-Frankenstein" comments a few moments ago. These are bodies donated to medical science, and will be used for that purpose alone. That negates my prior comments about "resurrection" and so on.
The misleading summary... RTFA. I, having done that, now see that this is good science, and no different from any medical studies of "bodies donated to science". Most are used to train physicians, who must each dissect an individual corpse during one of their major classes leading to an MD. The MD students end the class with a reverent ceremony, to honor those who donated their corpses to train soon-to-be physicians.
In your will, I recommend "donating your body to medicine", in addition to being a registered organ donor (especially if you ride a motorcycle). Good organs are needed by many living people.
"Brain Death" is "Death". If a person's autonomic nervous system cannot support the life (respiration, digestion, heartbeat, etc.), then the organism is clinically dead.
That said, there are people who are awake and aware, and depend on life-support to be "alive" and functioning.
EXAMPLE: Polio victims. They live in chambers that do their breathing for them. They are otherwise awake and aware. I would not call them "dead", as some have been interviewed – from the big chamber that breathes for them. They must talk in sync with the device — it decides when they breathe.
I'm frightened that they'll turn comatose/brain-dead people into locked-in people. I consider the latter a fate worse than death.
I was thinking something similar. What exactly happens if they get this person 10% functioning again? Is euthanasia legal for someone previously declared dead or are they now forced to keep this half alive person alive? What if they regain their brain but not their memory (see the book Worthing Saga). Is this a desirable outcome where you have an adult with the brain of an infant that now has to relearn everything? Even if it's 100% and they can eventually return to normal intelligence, you now have 10+ years of learning to walk, read, write, and all the other things we learn in childhood. I'm not even sure that is a desirable outcome.
Memory, intelligence, and many basic functions are unlikely to "come back".
These are patients who died of a TBI – on which severed the spinal cord from the brain, basically. With TBI of that degree, it is usually due to a strong blow to the head. They will have suffered subdural hematomae. They will likely have encephalomalacia – parts of the brain that were bruised in the TBI, and have subsequently died.
Reconnecting the autonomic nervous system would be a great thing, but the patients ought to be chosen very carefully. If there are pockets of spinal fluid in their skulls, where there used to be brain, then it will not come back. Ever. Encephalomalacia. Look it up. Brain does not regrow. It dies, and is replaced by spinal fluid, surrounded by a scar layer, separating it from the remaining "live" brain tissue.
The brain is dynamic, and can shift functions to other regions, but to awaken as a child in an adult's body is a horror that I cannot imagine.
And the legal aspects: After being declared 'dead', you are no longer a person. The resurrected human — what would they be? "New births"? "Revival of said ex-person, w/all debts still in-place"?
The DUMBEST thing those idiots have done is remove the 50/50 split from the street view option. It's without a doubt, the most moronic @#$%ing thing they've done. It's incredibly frustrating.
Perhaps you guys are sick of me but I'm personally getting frankly, fucking sick of typing shit up like this time and time again about applications, phones, websites, because idiots feel compelled to change things, not for the sake of improvement, but for the sake of change.
Yes. Yes. Yes.
Google Maps is my resource of last resort when finding a route, or even a simple business location. For any given business or location, no matter how specific you are about its name or location, Google Maps will screw up their hours, phone number, address, or something else.
They really need a disclaimer for users of the service.
They also need to STOP appealing to users of the service to 'update' information for them. I don't work for you.
the Google Maps UI was a little more versatile, but in general it does really well at the kinds of search people mainly use it for, e.g. finding all the doughnut stores in Quincy, MA.
Slashdot Mirror
what does a program look like
Well, I'd show you, but that would change the algorithm.
You will have to determine it on your own. :-P
My application for some user-time is now entangled in their system.
Excellent rant. Spot-on.
But it is not only gamers who lose (games, or prize-money) due to Windows auto-updates.
A few years ago, I set up a 16-hour run on an expensive ($$$/hr) physics instrument. That, and my sample was air-sensitive, and had a limited lifetime, even in the inert-gas cell I enclosed it within. Last, it takes a considerable amount of time to line things very precisely for the experiment I was running.
Next day, I came in to find the login screen. Windows had updated itself while the main software program on the computer (controlling the equipment) was actively running a scan! All collected data was gone, and so was my instrument-time charges.
BUT WAIT! It gets even BETTER! A Windows auto-update a few years ago disabled EVERY OXFORD EDS SYSTEM ON THE PLANET. EDS = Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy --- It's used for chemical analysis in electron microscopes. There are 10's or possibly even 100's of thousands of these systems installed in most every University and Industrial Lab.
The 'update' had wrecked the drivers for these systems. Many scientists at every damned place who suddenly lost the ability to perform their jobs wasted two days trying to figure out what was going on. How many $Millions do you think were lost because of this? Many. Oxford got right on the ball, and released a patch as soon as they could.
My job at the time was in Failure Analysis of electronic components of satellites. The budgetary burn rate near launch is $3M – $5M per day. If a fault had been discovered in a satellite headed for the launch-pad, and a chemical micro-analysis (chemical imaging) was needed to determine whether the launch was go or no-go, Microsoft would have cost a single space program at least $10M.
Yes, there are other brands of EDS, and other techniques for chemical analysis. But for microelectronics, EDS is the quickest. My institution did NOT have other brands, nor was it set up (ready to go) for chemical analysis by other means.
I am still stunned that this second Microsoft-caused loss of millions of $ did not end up in a basket of lawsuits.
And yes, I got everyone to turn off auto-updates of Windows. I had assumed that the vendors, installers, or users of these systems would have known to do this --- I was wrong.
Whenever I visit a lab, to use their instrument, checking whether auto-updates are off is the first thing I do. Then, almost always, I have walk over to the lab's administrator (who has privileges on the computer), and fill them in.
There is actually research being done on this right now to find out if poop transplants can make people healthier.
It's entirely possible that these gut microbiomes affect far more than we realize.
Your gut flora adjusts to your diet—To them, it is the type of Manna that falls from heaven.
Fatties and gluttons who have diets that lead to morbid obesity have been on a consistent diet of CRAP for years. This is why 'crash diets' don't work.
One needs to slowly ramp their diet to a healthy one, while simultaneously dosing daily with a 'full-mix' macrobiotic. In the end, the 'good bacteria' win out over the others. It is a process – NOT an overnight transformation!
Oh, it also helps if you select your parents carefully...
Actually, the bacteria in yogurt were originally cultured from people putting milk in animal stomachs used as bladders to hold liquids. They are directly from mammalian stomachs. This is also where cheese comes from and probably almost every single dairy product other than plain milk.
Yep. Animal bladders or 'sacs' were either dog food, or the perfect canteen for our paleolithic ancestors.
Someone let a batch sit too long in a cave, and discovered yogurt. Then later cheese, probably.
I mean, in the Stone Ages, people didn't just phone up Sigma-Aldrich for a "disinfected ruminant stomach number three", or whatever. It was a little less hygienic then.
As my gut bacteria changed, so did my appetite. I no longer craved sugar or other carbs, and started eating more fiber and veggies. I guess the little critters were using some sort of chemical feedback to make me eat a diet more to their liking. I am about 5 pounds lighter, have more energy, and have had no gut problems (diarrhea, constipation, or pain) in years.
Please tell us all, in excruciating detail, about the characteristics of you diarrhea, and how they changed over this process of yogurt-conversion.
You have our rapt attention.
It resets itself at least once per day on me. In the past, it was for three months or so.
Why have I been contributing for 10 years?
Seriously. My constant commentary (highly ranked) is one among the many volunteer efforts by /. members over the last >10 years that raised the value of the 'property' for its recent buy-out by yet another media conglomerate. That means lots of $$$$$ in someone's pocket, yet the meagre reward that I had acquiesced to over the years was to "disable advertising".
Now that is broken. Multiple times daily. Are the new owners of /. trying to destroy it?
Recall, everyone, that "comments are owned by the poster ..."
If the new owners piss us grey-beards off enough, we will all issue take-down notices of every single post we have ever made, butting the /. archive. And we will NOT come back.
FIX IT!
Yep. Evolutionary biology, and also active adaptations of existing gut flora. Both come into play here.
Throughout our evolution into homo sapiens sapiens, our ancestors endured many varied and variously harsh environments. The result is that, today, we have a lot of "junk genes". LOL.
Junk genes they are not. Just because they are not expressed does not mean that they enable some metabolic capacity or other during times of resource-stress that our progenitors endured. Should we endure something different from the modern 'three-squares-a-day' model (which is BS), then, given a reasonable time to adapt, we can adjust to a diet with a different weighting of sugars-carbs-oils-meats-fat.
The "Paleo Diet" thing is a fad. But in reality, if you gradually change your diet from one primary source of energy to another (among chemical classes), then YOU CAN CHANGE your normal, healthy diet.
My girl eats nuts, oils, meats, and some veggies – all with abandon. She can pull-off a sweater-dress easily (as in 'wear it and look great.'). Genetics is part of it. The second, and EQUALLY important part of it is a gradual exposure to foods – ones with a different chemical-caloric basis – when departing from the typical US "carb-based diet" – is entirely doable.
Point is this: Give your gut flora a chance to respond to your intake of food of different calorimetric classes. If you "go on a diet", then FFS take some macrobiotic pills, eat yogurt, and ease into the the new diet. Otherwise—Well, your liver and gall bladder will protest at the sudden change. You will feel famished, exhausted, and so on.
I know people who subsist at the opposite end of the spectrum as well. That is, their primary caloric intake is ethanol –a simple sugar. I have seen many high-functioning people (Professor-level, CEO-level) be healthy and successful for time unending because they introduced this particular diet slowly—They take multivitamins, B-complex, and folate daily – and their bodies have adapted, over time, to use ethanol as the primary metabolic-intake chemical for use as fuel for the body.
I am not recommending alcoholism, not am I recommending an instant switch to a "Paleo Diet". My point is simply that we are products of the experiences of our progenitors – who managed to mate successfully – eons ago. Given time, those ancient genes will express because one of your ancestors lived through a crisis of having a single-type caloric food some time in the distant past.
You have understood the point absolutely, and entirely.
Congrats. I guess... as it it not a nice realization.
I have worked in Academia, Industry, the US Government, and within the US 'Military-Industrial Complex (MIC)'. I left the latters for the primary – Academia.
One of the first lessons (LECTURES) I was given as a government and as a MIC-employee was that I should label every report, internal publication, memo, or even a fucking email setting up a meeting time – as SBUC. Just as a matter of course. "It's just hygiene," they told me.
Fuck that. I have been a Federal Whistle-blower. TWICE. Why yes, they have tried, through illegal means, to destroy my professional reputation (I am anonymous here on /.),as well as my personal and financial lives, in retaliation for whistle-blowing.
I am not dead yet. The third, and biggest, whistle-blow is imminent.
I've already mentioned their names. I DO HAVE a "Dead-man's Switch" set up, which will, in the case of my death or long-term coma, release the headline-making shenanigans of the bastards who have intellectually raped me available to The Intercept, Wikileaks, The Guardian, as well as some others.
These assholes have already fucked with me. If I die, it will be 100x worse for them. The 'perfectly organized' data-dump is already armed. If I fail to log in to my "Dead Man's Server(s)" on a periodic basis, the full contents of illegal activities of my intellectual rapists will be exposed in one large chunk. The media outlets can then tranche the information as they see fit.
These people have ignored the First Rule. (DNFWM)
Guinness stopped doing records for things like quantity of food or drink ingested because of health dangers. Sleep deprivation is dangerous too though this man wasn't into the recognized danger zone yet
Sleep deprivation only really becomes an issue around 30-40 hours. Speaking from experience. I do have to wonder if the guy fasted the entire time though. It's really only an impressive feat if he went 25 hours without food and drink. And that mixed bag of deprivation would be pretty unhealthy, too.
I had thought that sleep deprivation caused serious consequences at 7+ days, but was corrected recently. Right here on /.
I do mid-30's w/focus, without any chemical assists like Ritalin, a few times a year.
So yeah, and I'm not insane... Hmmn... Looking over my last decade of /. posts, maybe there is something to that 30-40 hour thing after all...
Can you publish in Nature and be insane at the same time? I cannot tell, which seems to meet the definition.
He goes back in time to urinate in the bucket he threw up in?
Yeah. Fetishes. I can't explain them either.
So the guy started babbling incoherently at hour 21? What a light-weight!
I've done 70 (w/a 3-hr nap at 24).
I can perform solid efforts in the mid-30's of hours once every month or two (and I am in my late 40's). I stop when I have to re-read a sentence twice—That indicates the end of coherent conscious thinking. That is when you whip out the Post-Its because you have 5 minutes of semi-coherence left—So mark where you left off well!
Moon Unit Zappa, who recorded the song Valley Girl back in 1982 with her dad, is now 48.
That's like, so, oh my gawd!
What-ev-er...
Pot makes you paranoid.
If you don't know how things work, starting points are based on Karma. A high Karma level will start posts at a default score of 2.
No.
"Excellent" or "Perfect" Karma only gets us (your intellectual overlords) a +1.
To have setup and used her own e-mail server for "official government business, including Sensitive But Unclassified information" is the height of hypocrisy ...
The US Govt's "Sensitive but Unclassified Information" category is a a flaming piece of bullshit itself.
SBUC labeling is an attempt to hamper or foil FOIA requests—Period. It has been around for much longer than Hillary, so don't blame her. It is abused by basically every US Govt arm, as an attempt to keep the populace as uninformed as possible.
SBUC really just means: "This is just ordinary communication, but we want to exclude it from FOIA requests anyway – because otherwise the plebes might get upset... or something."
You might consider posting such things as AC next time.
It's just prudence; that's all.
Well, it sounds like it's going to soon be PMITA prison for you...
[Sir Holo RTFA's]
Oh, you're already there. Is it really all that PMITA prison, or just a bunch of UFIAs?
Oh, I forgot to mention that she was lecturing me like a school-child.
So, I had to remind her several times of my PhD in Chemistry & Physics. I also corrected her a couple of times on points of chemistry, after she lied to my face regarding basic chemistry that every physician should know---She did not enjoy that. But I did.
I told her to just write a scrip for a bucket of oxycodone -- to hold me over until I found the Real Pain Management Physician, or I would talk to her supervisor immediately. She complied, quite unhappily, having a subordinate deliver the scrip to me.
No wonder she got fired.
I was almost one of these statistics.
A 'pain physician' providing after-care for a skull fracture prescribed me 80 mg of straight oxycodone every three to four hours, as needed. That is over HALF A GRAM of oxycodone per day! Talk about a pain roller-coaster... My fiancee would spend the entire day watching me, just to make sure that my chest was moving. It was a deadly dose.
I went back to this bad MD, once, and she tried to place all the blame on me. "You follow what's on the label". I replied, "YOU wrote the scrip, which determined what was on the label!" This idiot was blaming me for her near-deadly error, trying to escape the risk of losing her medical license. Well, she soon got fired from a third institution within a year...
I immediately found an actual Pain Management Physician. He prescribed a 24-hour time-release oxycodone, plus a few on the side for pain-spikes. I got off of that crap in less than three months with no withdrawal issues at all.
This is just an example of how physician errors kill people.
in addition to being a registered organ donor (especially if you ride a motorcycle). Good organs are needed by many living people.
I was 100 percent with you until you wrote the motorcycle bit. Did you go to school to become such a jerk?
Or do non motorcycle riders live forever?
Jerk.
ER Physicians call them "Donor Cycles". Gallows humor, but pretty much true.
I owned and rode a Yamaha 650 for many years. It was a delight, especially on mountain roads. But those guys who lane-split in heavy LA traffic at 90 mph? They are just asking for a random event that will be the end (such as an unanticipated lane-change).
I was once behind a kid, maybe 16, on a high-power motorcycle. He clearly did not know how to ride safely --- he kept looking back behind him as he gained speed to 100 mph or so. Then - he stood on the seat of the bike and raised his arms to the sky for 1/8 to 1/4 mile. That kid? A soon-to-be organ donor
Ride responsibly, assuming that no cars can actually see you. Always have two "safety maneuvers" in mind at ever given moment if you are in car traffic. This way, you don't die.
And at any rate, among motorcyclists, regarding the topic of accidents, everyone agrees that it is a matter of "when", not "if".
They're not trying to bring the dead back to life. They're doing neurological regeneration experiments on live human patients who are clinically dead.
Are these 20 study-participants awake in any sense, or are they in a coma?
If the goal is simply to re-connect the brain stem to the autonomic nervous system in clinically dead (ex-) persons, but not to address the many other parts of their brain that are dead... well, then it is starting to sound like a good choice.
That is: Comatose study-body. Autonomic system function restored (no life support needed), but still in coma or "brain dead" by encephalomalacia, no matter the outcome of the study...
Well, that seems to be the case, so I take back my "anti-Frankenstein" comments a few moments ago. These are bodies donated to medical science, and will be used for that purpose alone. That negates my prior comments about "resurrection" and so on.
The misleading summary... RTFA. I, having done that, now see that this is good science, and no different from any medical studies of "bodies donated to science". Most are used to train physicians, who must each dissect an individual corpse during one of their major classes leading to an MD. The MD students end the class with a reverent ceremony, to honor those who donated their corpses to train soon-to-be physicians.
In your will, I recommend "donating your body to medicine", in addition to being a registered organ donor (especially if you ride a motorcycle). Good organs are needed by many living people.
"Brain Death" is "Death". If a person's autonomic nervous system cannot support the life (respiration, digestion, heartbeat, etc.), then the organism is clinically dead.
That said, there are people who are awake and aware, and depend on life-support to be "alive" and functioning.
EXAMPLE: Polio victims. They live in chambers that do their breathing for them. They are otherwise awake and aware. I would not call them "dead", as some have been interviewed – from the big chamber that breathes for them. They must talk in sync with the device — it decides when they breathe.
Ethical questions of this experiment are myriad.
I'm frightened that they'll turn comatose/brain-dead people into locked-in people. I consider the latter a fate worse than death.
I was thinking something similar. What exactly happens if they get this person 10% functioning again? Is euthanasia legal for someone previously declared dead or are they now forced to keep this half alive person alive? What if they regain their brain but not their memory (see the book Worthing Saga). Is this a desirable outcome where you have an adult with the brain of an infant that now has to relearn everything? Even if it's 100% and they can eventually return to normal intelligence, you now have 10+ years of learning to walk, read, write, and all the other things we learn in childhood. I'm not even sure that is a desirable outcome.
Memory, intelligence, and many basic functions are unlikely to "come back".
These are patients who died of a TBI – on which severed the spinal cord from the brain, basically. With TBI of that degree, it is usually due to a strong blow to the head. They will have suffered subdural hematomae. They will likely have encephalomalacia – parts of the brain that were bruised in the TBI, and have subsequently died.
Reconnecting the autonomic nervous system would be a great thing, but the patients ought to be chosen very carefully. If there are pockets of spinal fluid in their skulls, where there used to be brain, then it will not come back. Ever. Encephalomalacia. Look it up. Brain does not regrow. It dies, and is replaced by spinal fluid, surrounded by a scar layer, separating it from the remaining "live" brain tissue.
The brain is dynamic, and can shift functions to other regions, but to awaken as a child in an adult's body is a horror that I cannot imagine.
And the legal aspects: After being declared 'dead', you are no longer a person. The resurrected human — what would they be? "New births"? "Revival of said ex-person, w/all debts still in-place"?
There was little mention of animal trials.
TBIs are not fun things.
The DUMBEST thing those idiots have done is remove the 50/50 split from the street view option. It's without a doubt, the most moronic @#$%ing thing they've done. It's incredibly frustrating.
Perhaps you guys are sick of me but I'm personally getting frankly, fucking sick of typing shit up like this time and time again about applications, phones, websites, because idiots feel compelled to change things, not for the sake of improvement, but for the sake of change.
Yes. Yes. Yes.
Google Maps is my resource of last resort when finding a route, or even a simple business location. For any given business or location, no matter how specific you are about its name or location, Google Maps will screw up their hours, phone number, address, or something else.
They really need a disclaimer for users of the service.
They also need to STOP appealing to users of the service to 'update' information for them. I don't work for you.
It's UI design, and that's task-oriented.
the Google Maps UI was a little more versatile, but in general it does really well at the kinds of search people mainly use it for, e.g. finding all the doughnut stores in Quincy, MA.
So, you're telling us that you're a cop?