Sleeping in any extended wear lenses cuts O2 to the cornea and puts the deeper lens tissue at risk. Even if you feel very comfortable, it has longterm effects apparently.
Cataracts from microbial action may relate to side effects that reduce moisture on the surface of the eye and that might affect internal fluid balance, I'm not sure. But anything that reduces chance of microbial infection is good. Many people have terrible ocular hygiene practice and no concept of bacteriology or viruses. They do unsafe things quite a lot. Always washing hands before handling lenses does good. I see people moistening lenses with saliva which is one of the worst things one can do bacterially.
Nutrition, anything with lutein, zeaxanthin, anti-oxidants is supposed to be good. One can get them either from drugstore supplements or dietary intake. I eat dark green vegs.
I've found that a cataract is easily visible with a UV LED flashlight because the cataract fluoresces bright green. I do not recommend looking at the light very long however, because the UV will accelerate the protein cross-linking and worsen the cataract. And the glow will freak out some people; it looks unearthly.
I got my cataracts, by the way, from working 12 to 16 hour deathmarches and staring at screens then going home and collapsing into bed without removing my extended-wear contact lenses. Too long a period of this abuse (at a start-up) cut oxygen to my corneas, this then affected the electrolyte balance in the lens cells, and triggered damage to the colloids that constitute the contents of these cells. This caused the crystalin protein molecules to begin cross-linking to form cataracts. Normally, these molecules are held apart by delicate electrostatic forces, but various factors will disrupt those and begin the spiral into dysfunction.
I urge people who wear contact lenses and work long hours for weeks on end to make sure they do not sleep in their lenses, and that they take proper eye nutrition supplements. The problem is easy to avoid, and hell to pay once it happens.
Do you want fries with that? Do you want fries with that? Do you want fries with that? Do you want fries with that? Do you want fries with that? How many fucking times do I have to say that, sir? Until you die, son. Now do it again.
So. what if a pedo watches child porn in the library? Free speech? What's the line? This is not political free speech. It is an activity of consumption but not expression. it is not an expression of artwork performance. It is not research for supporting a political cause. He does not have a Constitutional right to use the computer, he is a patron of the library at their discretion. He cannot demand to be allowed to use their computer for piracy, either. In short, there are cases where unrestricted use of the machine is deniable. In a way, this is like someone with unbelievable body odor coming in and demanding he be allowed to use the library. Where can one draw the line?
Yes, some inspection systems use a radioactive source in a lead container, with a shutter. You cannot drive through on of these. You have to move the source and detector array past the vehicle to scan it. But this means a moving gamma source is run the length of the vehicle and the users must take special precautions no one is anywhere in the path of the beam. Without lead or concrete shields this is dangerous to anyone nearby.
I was concerned about what you noted about the car, but if you examine the video you will see the car is actually unoccupied and parked as the scanner moves past it.
I am frankly amazed they dare use the gamma source without a radiation shield on the other side. That is incredibly sleazy and potentially dangerous.
When will they have the cute plush toys in the stores to go with this? I look forward to the cuddly Plush Rorschach (tm), the inevitable animal companion dolls (Nite Owlette, Comedian Parrot) and the Kid Manhattan doll (with Kung Fu grip). Also the Silk Spectre blowup doll (over 21 purchase only). Ah Warner, don't miss a golden opportunity to tarnish something good. Actually, my original word there wasn't the seven-letter 'tarnish'.
I question the truth of the story's claims. A gamma source used for X-raying that is powerful enough to go through 6 inches of steel would require a radiation exclusion zone around the vehicle. The driver would have to exit the truck and move outside the zone.
The statement "Officials said the VACIS machine can scan at least six semi-trucks within minutes, " is a distortion or even a lie, because in each truck's case, 1) the driver would have to exit the truck and move away 2) the scan would have to be done 3) the screen images would have to be examined in depth. This can't be done for six trucks as cited in a few minutes with full coverage of contents.
I consult in the industry and the quoted numbers don't seem right. I really smell theatre here.
Aside from the issues of the case, it's a reminder that we've had a space fleet for at least a decade. What has been done and where have we gone in that time? The mind boggles. Gingrich's suggestion for a moon base is probably 10 years obsolete.
You would be amazed to see the difference between the sky above a city or town and what it is like out in the country well away from lights but also from air pollution. When I go out of Silicon Valley, where you can see some stars, down to Pacheco Pass in the mountains southeast of the area, the difference is immense. You can see the Milky Way in all its glory, and then you realize what you see in the city is like having a gauze bandage around your head. Once the Illuminati kill off 99% of the population, those skies are going to be spectacular! Well worth it, I say.
"Have you ever wanted to be a drone pilot? Now you can. Well, it's not exactly a drone. And you'll be flying through exotic territory. But if you ever wanted to serve your country and explore new intestines, this is your chance. Apply now for the TSA Colon Drone Pilot School and qualify for your federal license to fly through Fecalspace. Experience the excitement of ground control telling you there's a big turd at 6 o'clock! Fire high-explosive missiles to break up constipation! Look for terrorists hiding in very unlikely places! Apply now! Operators are standing by."
Documentation might be improved if it were made more of a social activity instead of a chore. That is, if the process is made one of interaction with other people, providing feedback and direct contact. For example, an informal whiteboard discussion followed by a writeup and then formalization. Few people enjoy laborious banging away on a keyboard explaining, but probably people will find it a lot easier to give a general explanation followed then by the detailed structured written material. With social interaction, it can make it easier to see when what is clear to you is not clear to others, hence needing better coverage.
We already have a covert space program and vehicles. The Shuttle became obsolete by comparison. We quite possibly have manned programs on Mars and don't want the Russians nor the Chinese to go poking around taking embarrassing orbital photos. Nevada stealth site development was not limited to Aurora, certainly. John Walson has video recorded what are definitely covert space vehicles, telescopically. This would explain the large reduction of money to NASA, if it was all shifted to military programs. And then there's that British guy who hacked into US military servers and claims there's a Navy space fleet out there. Why are we so intent on yanking Gary McKinnon here for trial if he was just a loose nut hacker? It's reasonable that we could easily have large motivation to mess with Russian launches, if we currently have gone up there under our huge black budget programs already.
I'm awarding you the Slashdot Satire Award for the day. It's not expensive, consisting of an opened can of tuna that's gone ripe, but the sentiment is hearty.
Agreed that the newer gen readers do indeed seem to lack much of a sense of humor, or that too much humor passes right over them. No wonder Cmdr T left. Truly it is not the same as old.
My unibrow, third eye on the forehead, and Freddy Mercury mustache are all I need to go incognito without any attention. Also, I look like Lady Gaga. All of which makes me completely blend with the crowd, as long as the crowd is at a freak show or science fiction convention, or ComicCon.
Well gosh, I dunno, you know, that Irwin Mainway High Voltage Power Supply only naturally goes with the 1KW CO2 Kid's Laser and the Junior Taser Experimenter's Kit and the Pet Restraints. And when I was a kid I enjoyed my Bag of Broken Glass and the stains were easy to get off the floor except for that one time. Kids. So coddled these days.
Isn't Moffet government land (i.e. publicly-owned)? So, my taxes would be paying for the ground under Google's founders' eight planes? (That's one plane for every day of the week, plus Feb 29.) I guess Google's changed its unlivable motto "Don't be evil" to: "If ya got it, flaunt it."
Meanwhile they practice discriminatory ageism in hiring (for which they're being sued), arbitrarily lock people out of their online data (after enticing people to use their free service as being indispensable), and share personal data with various government agencies. And lots more. I am not so keen on the Goog.
Another aspect of this is that some of these people may well actually cause harm to society in this way: it is known that overprescribing antibiotics is causing evolution of antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria. A doctor who does not believe in or agree with principles of evolution might then ignore the guidelines and thus add to emergence of new strains. (Overprescribing is also a problem in some countries where the medical practice is rather casual and antibiotics are too-commonly given out for viral diseases like colds or flu.)
Uh, no. It's not commonly organized in a way that allows users to deliberately select specific levels of knowledge, with a 'depth control', only to browse among links. Any hierarchy must be specifically made at design time, not reading time. There is no control over depth of knowledge beyond what the user decides by skipping over material, or if the writer chooses to implement separate threads. But there's no overt 'depth' control. My industrial clients using wikis have run into this when they use wikis (and no overall owner/editor) for housing corporate team design knowledge. They end up with readers having to wade through horrendous micro-detail to get the overview they're seeking. In fact, I know of one large company in Silicon Valley that had a nasty knowledge management problem and regretted using a wiki because they ended up with a vast undifferentiated pile of knowledge, and had to hire people to redo the whole thing in a more organized fashion. The wiki pile of knowledge problem actually helped kill off one of their acquired companies because it hurt time-to-market badly. People had to spend too much time connecting the dots when wanting to write code.
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Sleeping in any extended wear lenses cuts O2 to the cornea and puts the deeper lens tissue at risk. Even if you feel very comfortable, it has longterm effects apparently.
Cataracts from microbial action may relate to side effects that reduce moisture on the surface of the eye and that might affect internal fluid balance, I'm not sure. But anything that reduces chance of microbial infection is good. Many people have terrible ocular hygiene practice and no concept of bacteriology or viruses. They do unsafe things quite a lot. Always washing hands before handling lenses does good. I see people moistening lenses with saliva which is one of the worst things one can do bacterially.
Nutrition, anything with lutein, zeaxanthin, anti-oxidants is supposed to be good. One can get them either from drugstore supplements or dietary intake. I eat dark green vegs.
It was a mistake to tell the RIAA the microwaves are carrying pirated music. Now they're suing the galaxy to make them stop.
-- my IP address is ANDROMEDA, good luck, lawyers.
I've found that a cataract is easily visible with a UV LED flashlight because the cataract fluoresces bright green. I do not recommend looking at the light very long however, because the UV will accelerate the protein cross-linking and worsen the cataract. And the glow will freak out some people; it looks unearthly.
I got my cataracts, by the way, from working 12 to 16 hour deathmarches and staring at screens then going home and collapsing into bed without removing my extended-wear contact lenses. Too long a period of this abuse (at a start-up) cut oxygen to my corneas, this then affected the electrolyte balance in the lens cells, and triggered damage to the colloids that constitute the contents of these cells. This caused the crystalin protein molecules to begin cross-linking to form cataracts. Normally, these molecules are held apart by delicate electrostatic forces, but various factors will disrupt those and begin the spiral into dysfunction.
I urge people who wear contact lenses and work long hours for weeks on end to make sure they do not sleep in their lenses, and that they take proper eye nutrition supplements. The problem is easy to avoid, and hell to pay once it happens.
I tried doing this electric shock thing to boost memory, a couple weeks ago, Or was it last year. Wait, might have been 10 years ago.
I watched the Superbowl halftime show. I've SEEN the oldest living thing on earth, and it was DANCING.
If I were paranoid, I might say somebody doesn't want landings on Mars. But I'm not paranoid. Why are you looking at me like that?
Do you want fries with that?
Do you want fries with that?
Do you want fries with that?
Do you want fries with that?
Do you want fries with that?
How many fucking times do I have to say that, sir?
Until you die, son. Now do it again.
So. what if a pedo watches child porn in the library? Free speech? What's the line? This is not political free speech. It is an activity of consumption but not expression. it is not an expression of artwork performance. It is not research for supporting a political cause. He does not have a Constitutional right to use the computer, he is a patron of the library at their discretion. He cannot demand to be allowed to use their computer for piracy, either. In short, there are cases where unrestricted use of the machine is deniable. In a way, this is like someone with unbelievable body odor coming in and demanding he be allowed to use the library. Where can one draw the line?
Yes, some inspection systems use a radioactive source in a lead container, with a shutter. You cannot drive through on of these. You have to move the source and detector array past the vehicle to scan it. But this means a moving gamma source is run the length of the vehicle and the users must take special precautions no one is anywhere in the path of the beam. Without lead or concrete shields this is dangerous to anyone nearby. I was concerned about what you noted about the car, but if you examine the video you will see the car is actually unoccupied and parked as the scanner moves past it. I am frankly amazed they dare use the gamma source without a radiation shield on the other side. That is incredibly sleazy and potentially dangerous.
When will they have the cute plush toys in the stores to go with this? I look forward to the cuddly Plush Rorschach (tm), the inevitable animal companion dolls (Nite Owlette, Comedian Parrot) and the Kid Manhattan doll (with Kung Fu grip). Also the Silk Spectre blowup doll (over 21 purchase only). Ah Warner, don't miss a golden opportunity to tarnish something good. Actually, my original word there wasn't the seven-letter 'tarnish'.
I question the truth of the story's claims. A gamma source used for X-raying that is powerful enough to go through 6 inches of steel would require a radiation exclusion zone around the vehicle. The driver would have to exit the truck and move outside the zone. The statement "Officials said the VACIS machine can scan at least six semi-trucks within minutes, " is a distortion or even a lie, because in each truck's case, 1) the driver would have to exit the truck and move away 2) the scan would have to be done 3) the screen images would have to be examined in depth. This can't be done for six trucks as cited in a few minutes with full coverage of contents. I consult in the industry and the quoted numbers don't seem right. I really smell theatre here.
Aside from the issues of the case, it's a reminder that we've had a space fleet for at least a decade. What has been done and where have we gone in that time? The mind boggles. Gingrich's suggestion for a moon base is probably 10 years obsolete.
I see.. something brown and lumpy .. and stinky too .. it seems to be..under.. a bull!
You would be amazed to see the difference between the sky above a city or town and what it is like out in the country well away from lights but also from air pollution. When I go out of Silicon Valley, where you can see some stars, down to Pacheco Pass in the mountains southeast of the area, the difference is immense. You can see the Milky Way in all its glory, and then you realize what you see in the city is like having a gauze bandage around your head. Once the Illuminati kill off 99% of the population, those skies are going to be spectacular! Well worth it, I say.
Now that TSA ad I saw makes sense:
"Have you ever wanted to be a drone pilot? Now you can. Well, it's not exactly a drone. And you'll be flying through exotic territory. But if you ever wanted to serve your country and explore new intestines, this is your chance. Apply now for the TSA Colon Drone Pilot School and qualify for your federal license to fly through Fecalspace. Experience the excitement of ground control telling you there's a big turd at 6 o'clock! Fire high-explosive missiles to break up constipation! Look for terrorists hiding in very unlikely places! Apply now! Operators are standing by."
Excitement! Explosives! Minimum wage!
Documentation might be improved if it were made more of a social activity instead of a chore. That is, if the process is made one of interaction with other people, providing feedback and direct contact. For example, an informal whiteboard discussion followed by a writeup and then formalization. Few people enjoy laborious banging away on a keyboard explaining, but probably people will find it a lot easier to give a general explanation followed then by the detailed structured written material. With social interaction, it can make it easier to see when what is clear to you is not clear to others, hence needing better coverage.
We already have a covert space program and vehicles. The Shuttle became obsolete by comparison. We quite possibly have manned programs on Mars and don't want the Russians nor the Chinese to go poking around taking embarrassing orbital photos. Nevada stealth site development was not limited to Aurora, certainly. John Walson has video recorded what are definitely covert space vehicles, telescopically. This would explain the large reduction of money to NASA, if it was all shifted to military programs. And then there's that British guy who hacked into US military servers and claims there's a Navy space fleet out there. Why are we so intent on yanking Gary McKinnon here for trial if he was just a loose nut hacker? It's reasonable that we could easily have large motivation to mess with Russian launches, if we currently have gone up there under our huge black budget programs already.
I'm awarding you the Slashdot Satire Award for the day. It's not expensive, consisting of an opened can of tuna that's gone ripe, but the sentiment is hearty.
Agreed that the newer gen readers do indeed seem to lack much of a sense of humor, or that too much humor passes right over them. No wonder Cmdr T left. Truly it is not the same as old.
Er, are these keyboards sperm-resistant? I don't want to know, my, er, friend, does.
My unibrow, third eye on the forehead, and Freddy Mercury mustache are all I need to go incognito without any attention. Also, I look like Lady Gaga. All of which makes me completely blend with the crowd, as long as the crowd is at a freak show or science fiction convention, or ComicCon.
Well gosh, I dunno, you know, that Irwin Mainway High Voltage Power Supply only naturally goes with the 1KW CO2 Kid's Laser and the Junior Taser Experimenter's Kit and the Pet Restraints. And when I was a kid I enjoyed my Bag of Broken Glass and the stains were easy to get off the floor except for that one time. Kids. So coddled these days.
Isn't Moffet government land (i.e. publicly-owned)? So, my taxes would be paying for the ground under Google's founders' eight planes? (That's one plane for every day of the week, plus Feb 29.) I guess Google's changed its unlivable motto "Don't be evil" to: "If ya got it, flaunt it."
Meanwhile they practice discriminatory ageism in hiring (for which they're being sued), arbitrarily lock people out of their online data (after enticing people to use their free service as being indispensable), and share personal data with various government agencies. And lots more. I am not so keen on the Goog.
Another aspect of this is that some of these people may well actually cause harm to society in this way: it is known that overprescribing antibiotics is causing evolution of antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria. A doctor who does not believe in or agree with principles of evolution might then ignore the guidelines and thus add to emergence of new strains. (Overprescribing is also a problem in some countries where the medical practice is rather casual and antibiotics are too-commonly given out for viral diseases like colds or flu.)
Uh, no. It's not commonly organized in a way that allows users to deliberately select specific levels of knowledge, with a 'depth control', only to browse among links. Any hierarchy must be specifically made at design time, not reading time. There is no control over depth of knowledge beyond what the user decides by skipping over material, or if the writer chooses to implement separate threads. But there's no overt 'depth' control. My industrial clients using wikis have run into this when they use wikis (and no overall owner/editor) for housing corporate team design knowledge. They end up with readers having to wade through horrendous micro-detail to get the overview they're seeking. In fact, I know of one large company in Silicon Valley that had a nasty knowledge management problem and regretted using a wiki because they ended up with a vast undifferentiated pile of knowledge, and had to hire people to redo the whole thing in a more organized fashion. The wiki pile of knowledge problem actually helped kill off one of their acquired companies because it hurt time-to-market badly. People had to spend too much time connecting the dots when wanting to write code.