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  1. This should be the theme song on PSA: NASA's Parker Solar Probe Is Launching Saturday Morning; Here's How To Watch (pbs.org) · · Score: 1
  2. Re:What the fuck has this place become... on A Material Found To Carry Current In a Way Never Before Observed (phys.org) · · Score: 1, Informative

    It's a compound. Water contains OXYGEN, can you breathe it?

    facepalm
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  3. Re:Translation. on Canada's Ontario Government Ends Basic Income Project (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And yet we never run out of other people's money to bail out banks, GM, or get new toys for the military.... (eyeroll)

  4. Re:The manufacturer wants you to buy a new one on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Handle Hardware That Never Gets Software Updates? (hpe.com) · · Score: 2

    "Tektronix 500-series oscilloscopes had two 40-pin DIP Dallas Semiconductor battery-backed memory and clock chips."

    Um, no they didn't. At best, they had socketed transistors.

    http://w140.com/tekwiki/wiki/5...

    You are perhaps referring to the TM500 series, but even those are long in the tooth.

    http://w140.com/tekwiki/wiki/T...

  5. How many human doctors did the same or worse?

  6. Re:The future may not be good on Is Python the Future of Programming? (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    In 1965, McDonald's probably served actual food.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    In 1974 they were still cooking identifiable ingredients with basic kitchen tools.

    I'm hungry.

  7. I think I just solved the previous story on New 'Creative Fund' Promises To Back Every Project on Kickstarter (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Every wind turbine gets a Kickstarter!

  8. There's iron in blood, and there's iron in rust. That's part of life as we know it. No one got excited about that.

    Big deal. They found atoms are part of the same table of the elements everywhere?

    So what?

  9. Yeah, that's a helpful reply.

  10. Re:Lasers are dumb. on Chinese Scientists Have Developed the World's First Destructive Laser Rifle (popsci.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wow, it's almost like you picked up on my sarcasm.

  11. Re:Lasers are dumb. on Chinese Scientists Have Developed the World's First Destructive Laser Rifle (popsci.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wow you can predict precisely where the laser will hit and have the mirror at the ready? Or you're simply walking down the battlefield with a full dress mirror??

  12. CGI also looks terrible. It's like no one even makes an effort to look physical, it's all stylistic now. You think an actual "Transformer" could move that quickly if it were made of matter in the real world?

  13. I'm in a bad situation. Thanks for the insight.

    I'll let you know if I can get the surgery and what the pathology will say.

    Cheers!

  14. You mean the chefs I can pay to cook exactly what I want and won't argue with me that I'm full already, or don't know what I want? Or that I didn't go to cooking school?

  15. I see. Thank you, doctor.

  16. Re:Not the Droids you are looking for on Surgical Robots Cut Training Time Down From 80 Sessions To 30 Minutes (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    You seem almost stupid enough to succeed your medical studies! Good luck!

  17. Re:Not the Droids you are looking for on Surgical Robots Cut Training Time Down From 80 Sessions To 30 Minutes (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I know, but anything that will make their "skill" less elite, the better.

  18. There's nothing to trust if they don't even listen. There is only one specialist here that has enough knowledge to help me. And I was only able to find his name on my own, no fucking help whatsoever from the doctors I saw here. I found a reference online from a medical journal article from Ethiopia. Why did I have to email a doctor in Ethiopia to get the paper the Montreal-based doctor wrote? It's not even registered at the university he attended, I had to get the abstract from the doctor in Ethiopia. That doctor apologized for not answering earlier...

    Why did a doctor in Ethiopia apologize to me? The doctors here have all been useless.

    The diagnostic test is simple: listen to the sound with a stethoscope.

    The surgery is simple, almost routine. Worst case, 6 weeks recovery with complete relief of all symptoms.

    I don't trust doctors here, they are the ones keeping me from the surgery I need.

  19. I'll die anyway if I don't get the surgery. Thanks for the input, doctor.

  20. Re:Professional "training" is all show on Surgical Robots Cut Training Time Down From 80 Sessions To 30 Minutes (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, but don't mention it to your doctor. I may very well be dead of abdominal compartment syndrome within months if I don't get a simple 30 minute surgery. Good luck trying to get a doctor to listen to the research you've done yourself, however.

    My brain is good enough to get a job where 50% of my salary is removed so that money can be dumped by mining truck into hospitals, but my brain can not go through a list of conditions and eliminate the improbable ones and come up with highly probable ones.

    It also can not pull archives of my ER admission from years ago, and also not good enough to deduce the etiology after listening to hours of doctor podcasts, poring through medical journals and even encyclopedia articles that all point to the same thing.

    No, I'll sit on my thumbs and wait a year to see another "specialist" with less knowledge than me, and start my story again.

    If I last a year.

  21. Re:Four Yorkshiremen on Surgical Robots Cut Training Time Down From 80 Sessions To 30 Minutes (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Be careful what you wish for. I don't know what the solution is, but the larger a system becomes, the more rot sets in.

  22. Re:GOOD! on Surgical Robots Cut Training Time Down From 80 Sessions To 30 Minutes (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    There's a difference between how the system is organized, and what the doctors are like. Quebec seems to like copying the French as much as possible. We use the Civil Code, unlike the rest of Canada, our "national" library is FILLED with books from France. Utterly useless books like how to buy a house.... in France. Not useful in Quebec, but it's in French so...

    For some reason, French doctors from France seem to flock here. Why they can't move their cheese-eating asses back under the Eiffel tower, I don't know.

    Now if you want to be condescended to, infantilized, and generally treated like a subhuman, choose a French doctor. They expect you to come in on all fours, acknowledge their superior standing in life, avoid eye contact, and beg them to listen.

    If you make the mistake of having done your own research, that's it: it's over. They will repeat the SAME script, in a grating French accent "you hanven't done your medical studies, you must not go on the internet".

    I had the SAME spiel VERBATIM from two French cocksucking motherfucking medical assassins. It's like it's drilled in them at school. So much for "égalité", huh you sweaty condescending Gitanes-smoking brown-toothed lab-coated thugs.

    Not that local doctors are any better.

    So ANYTHING that can knock these arrogant motherfuckers down a peg or twelve is welcome!

  23. And if I survive the system here and I'm done suing the series of buttfuck ignorant motherfuckers that didn't do their jobs, I'll use the money to start my own doctor-removing technology!

  24. As someone who needs surgery in the deranged health care system in Quebec, anything that can remove these arrogant human doctors from the loop and make surgery perhaps a nurse-practitioner thing is GOOD.

    I've had it with the arrogant ignorant incompetent condescending doctors that fill the system here and anything that can threaten their hegemony is GOOD.

    Bring on the AI diagnosis, remote-viewed autosurgery please.

    Anything to kick these complacent doctor's asses!

  25. " Every failure is a reason for more EU."

    Oh like the American military? I see!