Far as I'm concerned, the stress of a colonoscopy is all in the prep: sucking down gallons of water and laxatives and going like a goose for 24 hours. They drug you out pretty good for the process.
With this robot deal, I think you'd have to do the same prep AND swallow Mini-Bender.
"I was just following orders" was rejected as a defense back in Nuremberg, but "I don't keep track of my subordinates" still seems to work
The latter assertion was rejected about the same time as the former, but in Tokyo where Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita, the "Tiger of Malaya", was convicted and hanged for atrocities that took place in disobedience to his orders. The tribunal held that he was ultimately responsible for getting his orders carried out.
A CEO's job, like any other manager's job, is to get things done by his subordinates. If he isn't to blame for what they do wrong, he doesn't deserve any credit for what they do right either.
In fact, it's right up there with Radio Shack's policy back in the TRS-80 days.
They claimed the exclusive right to control mention of their computer in print. If you published a BASIC program to run on it, or an article about how to use it, their lawyer would show up demanding that you pay royalties or desist. Magazines resorted to talking about "S-80 Bus" computers, which was sufficiently generic.
They got their wish, of course: you can read all the computer magazines you want without seeing anything about Radio Shack computers.
...the problem with looniness is that it can infect the sensible. A loon with the original "face" picture can spread the belief pretty easily. But if his target has seen the new pictures, it's gonna be a tougher sell.
They certainly developed a silver bullet of a model. I had an interesting experience recently: dropped a fistful of mail into the box at the Post Office, then came to the sickly realization that I had put neither postage nor return-address stamps on. The postmistress sent a helpful clerk -- yes, I said helpful P.O. clerk -- to open the box and stand watch while I rooted out my envelopes.
That bin was almost a sea of red. Netflix envelopes by the TON. I commented on that, and the clerk said yes, the P.O. was proud of the special handling deal they have.
Netflix is now the fifth largest user of first-class mail. At the cities where they have processing centers a Netflix truck drops a load of outbound envelopes bagged by ZIP code and pre-sorted down to carrier route, and picks up the incoming directly off the dock.
school vouchers. Give people who disagree with evolution another option and their interest will largely disappear.
Wanna bet?
You're assuming creationists are only concerned with what's taught to their children. Ask one how he feels about what's taught to your children sometime.
Gas station johns on the German/Austrian Autobahn have self-cleaning seats. You put a one-euro coin in a slot to get in. When you get up off the biffy, it flushes itself; then a mechanical arm swings down with a rotary brush and a sprayer. The sprayer spritzes, the brush spins, and the seat slowly rotates 360 degrees. When you open the door, a slot spits out a receipt that you can use to get your one euro back if you buy anything.
"But for us to be able to commercialise this and put this into peoples' lives we need credible, academic validation in the public domain and hence the challenge,"
No, they don't.
Got an idea for a perpetual motion machine? Want people to invest? Just show them how the Eeevil Mainstream Scientists are trying to suppress it.
The door does not need wind to keep it shut. Its mating surfaces are tapered just like a bathtub stopper, and the internal pressure holds the door tightly against the frame.
The door also does not just "open out". It starts by moving inward a couple of inches, which it can only do when the pressurization has been turned off and the pressure allowed to equalize. Then the upper and lower ends of the door bend inward a few inches, which reduces the total height of the door. Then it rotates slightly outward on a complex double pivot, which moves the forward edge a little aft and the aft edge a little forward. Now it's able to fit through the door frame, and it swings out on the same double pivot.
As for shooting a hole in the fuselage, that would have very little effect. An airplane is not a sealed pressure vessel; if it were, you'd be feeling really rotten halfway to Europe. The pressurization supplies a constant flow of air, and a unit called the outflow valve lets it out of the airplane at an electronically controlled rate to keep the correct pressure inside. If you shot four or five holes in the airplane with a.45, the outflow valve would just close down maybe halfway.
Now it would be possible to get a much bigger hole by shooting out a window, and that would cause a rapid -- not "explosive", but rapid -- decompression. The people near the window would undoubtedly lose their magazines -- but they wouldn't notice that, because the pilot would be doing some rather attention-getting maneuvers to get the airplane down to a safe breathing level.
public education of science is obviously in BIG trouble
See, this is why engineers get annoyed when computer engineers call themselves engineers...;-)
Eventually a team of japanese engineering students realised the crypt had been filled with sand and the slabs place upon the top and gently lowered into place as the sand was removed from below.
If they didn't think of that right off, they must not have seen Howard Hawks's 1955 movie Land of the Pharaohs...
Colorado Springs is one of Colorado's most important assets. It has a mountain, a ghost town, a cave, an Indian cliff dwelling, a waterfall and a singing-cowboy-chuckwagon-dinner ranch right in town...so it keeps the tourists the hell out of the real mountains.
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Far as I'm concerned, the stress of a colonoscopy is all in the prep: sucking down gallons of water and laxatives and going like a goose for 24 hours. They drug you out pretty good for the process.
With this robot deal, I think you'd have to do the same prep AND swallow Mini-Bender.
rj
The latter assertion was rejected about the same time as the former, but in Tokyo where Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita, the "Tiger of Malaya", was convicted and hanged for atrocities that took place in disobedience to his orders. The tribunal held that he was ultimately responsible for getting his orders carried out.
A CEO's job, like any other manager's job, is to get things done by his subordinates. If he isn't to blame for what they do wrong, he doesn't deserve any credit for what they do right either.
rj
In fact, it's right up there with Radio Shack's policy back in the TRS-80 days.
They claimed the exclusive right to control mention of their computer in print. If you published a BASIC program to run on it, or an article about how to use it, their lawyer would show up demanding that you pay royalties or desist. Magazines resorted to talking about "S-80 Bus" computers, which was sufficiently generic.
They got their wish, of course: you can read all the computer magazines you want without seeing anything about Radio Shack computers.
rj
...the problem with looniness is that it can infect the sensible. A loon with the original "face" picture can spread the belief pretty easily. But if his target has seen the new pictures, it's gonna be a tougher sell.
rj
...He was only eighteen years dead when he quit publishing.
rj
We had one called the Buffalo once...and that was pretty descriptive of its flight characteristics.
rj
Who knows? Perhaps he created a market for retractable truck balls.
rj
1) You still have to pay the bank's legal expenses to get out of the loss.
2) A phisher can run up credit card debt far beyond the account holder's ability to pay.
rj
I know of at least one large workplace where they spread through the parking lot for several months -- until the morning the boss saw a pair...;-)
rj
Ummm...because as a customer of the bank that takes the loss, you pay the bill?
rj
Walter was studying the Krell, right?
rj
Tell him to look at the mountains and turn right...
rj
They certainly developed a silver bullet of a model. I had an interesting experience recently: dropped a fistful of mail into the box at the Post Office, then came to the sickly realization that I had put neither postage nor return-address stamps on. The postmistress sent a helpful clerk -- yes, I said helpful P.O. clerk -- to open the box and stand watch while I rooted out my envelopes.
That bin was almost a sea of red. Netflix envelopes by the TON. I commented on that, and the clerk said yes, the P.O. was proud of the special handling deal they have.
Netflix is now the fifth largest user of first-class mail. At the cities where they have processing centers a Netflix truck drops a load of outbound envelopes bagged by ZIP code and pre-sorted down to carrier route, and picks up the incoming directly off the dock.
rj
Matter of fact, there was a commercial a couple of years ago that parodied Irwin and had almost exactly that line in it...
rj
Excuse me, sir, I believe you dropped your author's edition of Wittgenstein. You're welcome.
rj
Wanna bet?
You're assuming creationists are only concerned with what's taught to their children. Ask one how he feels about what's taught to your children sometime.
rj
Gas station johns on the German/Austrian Autobahn have self-cleaning seats. You put a one-euro coin in a slot to get in. When you get up off the biffy, it flushes itself; then a mechanical arm swings down with a rotary brush and a sprayer. The sprayer spritzes, the brush spins, and the seat slowly rotates 360 degrees. When you open the door, a slot spits out a receipt that you can use to get your one euro back if you buy anything.
rj
I do.
"But for us to be able to commercialise this and put this into peoples' lives we need credible, academic validation in the public domain and hence the challenge,"
No, they don't.
Got an idea for a perpetual motion machine? Want people to invest? Just show them how the Eeevil Mainstream Scientists are trying to suppress it.
rj
Dang, they've invented a generator. Stick one of those suckers on a car engine and you could power headlights and a radio.
rj
The door also does not just "open out". It starts by moving inward a couple of inches, which it can only do when the pressurization has been turned off and the pressure allowed to equalize. Then the upper and lower ends of the door bend inward a few inches, which reduces the total height of the door. Then it rotates slightly outward on a complex double pivot, which moves the forward edge a little aft and the aft edge a little forward. Now it's able to fit through the door frame, and it swings out on the same double pivot.
As for shooting a hole in the fuselage, that would have very little effect. An airplane is not a sealed pressure vessel; if it were, you'd be feeling really rotten halfway to Europe. The pressurization supplies a constant flow of air, and a unit called the outflow valve lets it out of the airplane at an electronically controlled rate to keep the correct pressure inside. If you shot four or five holes in the airplane with a .45, the outflow valve would just close down maybe halfway.
Now it would be possible to get a much bigger hole by shooting out a window, and that would cause a rapid -- not "explosive", but rapid -- decompression. The people near the window would undoubtedly lose their magazines -- but they wouldn't notice that, because the pilot would be doing some rather attention-getting maneuvers to get the airplane down to a safe breathing level.
public education of science is obviously in BIG trouble
See, this is why engineers get annoyed when computer engineers call themselves engineers...;-)
rj
If they didn't think of that right off, they must not have seen Howard Hawks's 1955 movie Land of the Pharaohs...
rj
Yeah, like that was gonna work...;-)
rj
Colorado Springs is one of Colorado's most important assets. It has a mountain, a ghost town, a cave, an Indian cliff dwelling, a waterfall and a singing-cowboy-chuckwagon-dinner ranch right in town...so it keeps the tourists the hell out of the real mountains.
rj
Denver, Colberado
I take it there is no Hungarian word for "pun"?
rj
Denver, Colberado
Wow, fighting it out with typewriters against picks and shovels. Wait till the steganographers get in the act...
rj