Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder of social development and language use. Whoever wrote the stuff above clearly had little problem with social and language use, but OBVIOUSLY had been a victim of pseudoscience propaganda. Are you serious you have a disorder such as autism? I don't honestly think so...
this depends on which laboratory you are talking about. most regional toxicology laboratory are able to detect these drugs (usually by LC-MS/MS), and then chemical standards of these drugs are commercially available (despite, perhaps, the big price tag on the chemical standards which are ~1 grand a piece...)
depending on where the patient live, depending on whether they got insurance, depending on their insurance coverage, they can now choose
(1) to die now and leave a fortune to their wife, sons and daughters (2) to die later and leave everyone broke
and that is a difficult question. when i worked back then as a junior doctor in an oncology center, they had trouble buying those "expensive" "next generation" chemotherapy which may last a few cycle (only), which was already a money hog to the family... now they have to buy it for years.
imagine the difficulty. there are still quite a number of countries where health insurance is not common and/or insurance company are not covering these type of drugs....
as for the new TKIs, i think they will only be more expensive. give it another 20-30 years, when the patents expire, then we can talk again on this...
hepatitis B is now quite treatable. resistance since the introduction of entacavir and adefovir is very low. cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma is now considered preventable with these therapy. the problem is the access to medication in the far east.
the virulence of hepatitis B is quite low in terms of environmental source. it is primarily transmitted by body fluid transmission.
the deal with these is that flu, pneumonia and perhaps urinary tract infection is almost always the presentation of the patient in the death episode. it's not fair comparing it to flu. Among those who died of flu, it is rather rare to find a person who enjoyed relatively good past health and is young.
Hepatitis C (and hepatitis B), on the other hand, leads to cirrhosis, hepatocellular cellular carcinoma and liver failure. It is exactly one of those diseases which will cause deterioration of the patient's health to such extent that a flu could kill.
It is rather unfair to compare Hep C to Flu in terms of mortality.
Well, there are more than a hundred discoveries like these that demonstrated effectiveness of curing the uncurables in the past decade. Of those which went through the testing in man, well, maybe 2 or 3...
Back then, avastin, glivec and so on were expected to be magical cures for cancers.. now they exist only as expensive life-prolonging (with or without quality) therapy and only for those who are rich.
not just medical examination. it is just a co-incidence that the medical profession is one that is tangled with most examinations. speaking of examinations, though, the most important examination for us medical doctors are usually conducted in the oral style (viva examination) which allowed impromptu questions set immediately, testing the doctor on how they would handle a patient step-by-step. i'm not sure about the american system but that's true for most british systems.
REAL GLASS fiber optics are heavier than copper cable, with the approximate atomic weight of copper being 29 and silicon dioxide being 30 having two oxygen atoms at 8 and one silicon atom at 14.
<quote><p>The plastic stuff is even heavier, (C5O2H8) for a total of approximately 54. Glass handles more power than pretty much every plastic given its lower thermal conductivity and higher tolerance to heat buildup.</p><p>Extremely thin glass fiber can be almost as flexible as a plastic fiber, and carry more energy.</p></quote>
atomic mass has little to do with the mass density of solid structure, for the matter. For plastics it is even a more complicated matter, even for plastics made of a single monomer, depending on the condition the plastic is formed there may be different density.
Your geek badge is herein revoked. not only that you should not tell others to go back to their chemistry class, it is you who need to go back to your high school physical chemistry.
The G4 is to the G5 as the Pentium 3 is to the Pentium 4:)</p></quote>
Sorry, but i just don't get it... do you mean that the G4 is 1) clocked slower, 2) having a superior, more efficient architecture, 3) don't use as much energy compared with G5?
how does it restrict your day-in, day-out development schedule? or do you mean you developed itunes for apple and then you can't even get a copy of dtrace that's not restricted from tracing itunes?
i think it works quite perfectly for user-developed programs...
i've been in the security trade for a few years back then (and i assume u know it), and i think in general skill level is quite low in HK. part of it is due to the nature of tertiary education here...
people i know who possess the skill in general works as white-hat.... well, at least, it makes some good money to be a white-hat, or grey-hat....
here, if we are to register domain names, especially.com.hk, we need business registration to get it registered, same goes for.edu.hk,.org.hk etc.
the possible exception would be.hk, but i think the HKNIC (i forgot the name..) does have reasonable abuse TOS that these bad things get cancelled... so i would be glad if they could provide us with the domain names they flagged 'dangerous' and let's see how it goes....
as for the shanghai and beijing bit, i'd agree very much with you. the fuel there's crazy and you can even smell the fuel in the street.
Well living in Hong Kong is just like living in any busy city in the world, we have the goods and bads just like almost every other busy city... as for traveling to HK, i would suggest you to try the local food here and i think you will be impressed by the variety & quality =)
as for the victimless crime bit, i think the anti-smoking people would be quite content if the laws are to make people smoke only in their premises, and only when no other people are present. this will stop MOST incident of smoking...
as for the alcohol bit, i tend to think that, with alcohol and smoking, both do NOT get outlawed only because of the vested business interest and traditional practice of consuming it. I do think that it should be outlawed (at least to some degree).
in general, the side effects of the commonly abused medications is quite scary, such that if you actually know the thing (tm) then you wouldn't try them at all =)
in addition, drug abusers often do things while under the influence of the substance, and these acts are quite often harmful to others
you are quite right that the developing countries has more diseases to fight with, primarily because of financial problem with drugs/vaccines (together with health infrastructure).
actually, the same goes for many 'second world countries'
just a side note... it's quite rare that people actually use the term 'first' and 'second' world correctly, nowadays many people only know about the first and third world without any knowledge of the second world...:)
(for those who do not understand what i'm talkin' about, second world countries primarily refers to the socialist-aligned countries, this term is mainly used in the cold war era IIRC)
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Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder of social development and language use. Whoever wrote the stuff above clearly had little problem with social and language use, but OBVIOUSLY had been a victim of pseudoscience propaganda. Are you serious you have a disorder such as autism? I don't honestly think so...
It's there.
http://doc.utwente.nl/84507/1/thesis_G_Moura.pdf
this depends on which laboratory you are talking about. most regional toxicology laboratory are able to detect these drugs (usually by LC-MS/MS), and then chemical standards of these drugs are commercially available (despite, perhaps, the big price tag on the chemical standards which are ~1 grand a piece...)
At least we are still seeing sensible comments here in slashdot
depending on where the patient live, depending on whether they got insurance, depending on their insurance coverage,
they can now choose
(1) to die now and leave a fortune to their wife, sons and daughters
(2) to die later and leave everyone broke
and that is a difficult question. when i worked back then as a junior doctor in an oncology center, they had trouble buying those "expensive" "next generation" chemotherapy which may last a few cycle (only), which was already a money hog to the family... now they have to buy it for years.
imagine the difficulty. there are still quite a number of countries where health insurance is not common and/or insurance company are not covering these type of drugs....
as for the new TKIs, i think they will only be more expensive. give it another 20-30 years, when the patents expire, then we can talk again on this...
hepatitis B is now quite treatable. resistance since the introduction of entacavir and adefovir is very low. cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma is now considered preventable with these therapy. the problem is the access to medication in the far east.
the virulence of hepatitis B is quite low in terms of environmental source. it is primarily transmitted by body fluid transmission.
the deal with these is that flu, pneumonia and perhaps urinary tract infection is almost always the presentation of the patient in the death episode. it's not fair comparing it to flu. Among those who died of flu, it is rather rare to find a person who enjoyed relatively good past health and is young.
Hepatitis C (and hepatitis B), on the other hand, leads to cirrhosis, hepatocellular cellular carcinoma and liver failure. It is exactly one of those diseases which will cause deterioration of the patient's health to such extent that a flu could kill.
It is rather unfair to compare Hep C to Flu in terms of mortality.
Well, there are more than a hundred discoveries like these that demonstrated effectiveness of curing the uncurables in the past decade. Of those which went through the testing in man, well, maybe 2 or 3...
Back then, avastin, glivec and so on were expected to be magical cures for cancers.. now they exist only as expensive life-prolonging (with or without quality) therapy and only for those who are rich.
not just medical examination. it is just a co-incidence that the medical profession is one that is tangled with most examinations. speaking of examinations, though, the most important examination for us medical doctors are usually conducted in the oral style (viva examination) which allowed impromptu questions set immediately, testing the doctor on how they would handle a patient step-by-step. i'm not sure about the american system but that's true for most british systems.
that'd be painful given the shape.
REAL GLASS fiber optics are heavier than copper cable, with the approximate atomic weight of copper being 29 and silicon dioxide being 30 having two oxygen atoms at 8 and one silicon atom at 14.
<quote><p>The plastic stuff is even heavier, (C5O2H8) for a total of approximately 54. Glass handles more power than pretty much every plastic given its lower thermal conductivity and higher tolerance to heat buildup.</p><p>Extremely thin glass fiber can be almost as flexible as a plastic fiber, and carry more energy.</p></quote>
atomic mass has little to do with the mass density of solid structure, for the matter. For plastics it is even a more complicated matter, even for plastics made of a single monomer, depending on the condition the plastic is formed there may be different density.
Your geek badge is herein revoked. not only that you should not tell others to go back to their chemistry class, it is you who need to go back to your high school physical chemistry.
This illustrate a problem: People think that CS degree is a degree training programmers - they are simply wrong.
The G4 is to the G5 as the Pentium 3 is to the Pentium 4 :)</p></quote>
Sorry, but i just don't get it... do you mean that the G4 is 1) clocked slower, 2) having a superior, more efficient architecture, 3) don't use as much energy compared with G5?
how does it restrict your day-in, day-out development schedule? or do you mean you developed itunes for apple and then you can't even get a copy of dtrace that's not restricted from tracing itunes?
i think it works quite perfectly for user-developed programs...
eh..
nevermind...
i've been in the security trade for a few years back then (and i assume u know it), and i think in general skill level is quite low in HK. part of it is due to the nature of tertiary education here...
people i know who possess the skill in general works as white-hat.... well, at least, it makes some good money to be a white-hat, or grey-hat....
hong kong is all about money...
yes.
email me ur msn if you wanna chat =)
methionine at gmail dot com...
actually, does slashdot have a messaging system?
i live in Hong Kong.
.com.hk, we need business registration to get it registered, same goes for .edu.hk, .org.hk etc.
.hk, but i think the HKNIC (i forgot the name..) does have reasonable abuse TOS that these bad things get cancelled... so i would be glad if they could provide us with the domain names they flagged 'dangerous' and let's see how it goes....
here, if we are to register domain names, especially
the possible exception would be
as for the shanghai and beijing bit, i'd agree very much with you. the fuel there's crazy and you can even smell the fuel in the street.
Well living in Hong Kong is just like living in any busy city in the world, we have the goods and bads just like almost every other busy city... as for traveling to HK, i would suggest you to try the local food here and i think you will be impressed by the variety & quality =)
well the days where there are so much CO and particulates from the cars are well, almost, over nowadays at least for my city (I live in Hong Kong)
Not many I bet, yet the exhaust from vehicles is much worse than cigarette smoke.
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this is quite an untrue statement considering the amount of particulates & carcinogens after combustion of fuel oil compared with cigrette
-k
as for the victimless crime bit, i think the anti-smoking people would be quite content if the laws are to make people smoke only in their premises, and only when no other people are present. this will stop MOST incident of smoking...
i agree with you on the bit of marijuana.
as for the alcohol bit, i tend to think that, with alcohol and smoking, both do NOT get outlawed only because of the vested business interest and traditional practice of consuming it. I do think that it should be outlawed (at least to some degree).
in general, the side effects of the commonly abused medications is quite scary, such that if you actually know the thing (tm) then you wouldn't try them at all =)
in addition, drug abusers often do things while under the influence of the substance, and these acts are quite often harmful to others
i suppose the data are based on medical doctors and scientists doing trials on patients, not from opinion of dirty politicians.
you are quite right that the developing countries has more diseases to fight with, primarily because of financial problem with drugs/vaccines (together with health infrastructure).
:)
actually, the same goes for many 'second world countries'
just a side note... it's quite rare that people actually use the term 'first' and 'second' world correctly, nowadays many people only know about the first and third world without any knowledge of the second world...
(for those who do not understand what i'm talkin' about, second world countries primarily refers to the socialist-aligned countries, this term is mainly used in the cold war era IIRC)