I have a sporadic debilitating disease. I had a small house, car, etc. I had no debt outside of mortgage. I had a healthy savings account. I continued to work until physically incapable.
And two years later all of that is gone and I am reduced to begging on the internet while my family drains their resources too.
It is easy to talk tough when you have no experience or understanding.
One operator kept using the same plaintext ground setting repeatedly which greatly assisted Bletchly Park in cracking the code. Of course, finally capturing a machine and codebooks sure helped...
That's already true and was true in 2008 before the election. Insurance negotiates rates with hospitals, etc. (based on Medicare rates), so what was your point again?
I am a recipient of that government insurance and the difference between the negotiated rate (similar to private insurance) and the "raw" rate is often up to 50%. And with insurance people can get preventive care which is very much cheaper than ER visits when conditions get severe. Try again?
Sorry, douchebag. The new rules would ensure he has insurance so we don't pay for him in unpaid emergency room expenses which raise costs for the rest of us.
It's a test bed for a reusable satellite. Make a stock platform which you can de-orbit and upgrade every few years instead of the Shuttle plucking and returning as was originally planned. You can also put one up for temporary missions instead of moving an existing bird.
Walking requires a good deal of non-locomotive muscle action for balance, coordination of which must be recomputed multiple times per second. this makes a "walking computer" a bit bigger than can fit in a spinal implant. An exoskeletal system for paraplegics is actually in clinical trial.
Electric wheelchairs require amperage on the scale of a car engine. No way in hell a human powered generator is putting out that current.
I am a quad so I have experience with wheelchairs and locomotive muscle issues.
So science and fact is to you merely a matter of a popularity contest? If so, this isn't the forum for you. Your comparison between organ donation and a program of genocide is so much more than a bit of a reach. No Godwin points for you.
Your repeated use of the concept of "commodity" is an attempt to insert a strawman into the discussion. There is no fact to support your mischaracterization and is therefore irrelevant. The blastocysts from which ESCs are obtained are not human yet, any more than the sperm and ovum were prior to combination. And that collection of cells is under the control of the parents in any legal sense, the same as a minor child, which is the genesis of my abstraction to organ donations. So if parents wished to donate a stillborn's tissue, such is their right. When I reached legal age and was legally competent to do so I chose to become an organ donor. The only thing morally repugnant about this issue is that people would who would remain willfully ignorant of the facts or who would mischaracterize for political gain would deny existing humans the opportunity to be released from hideous disease.
A very large portion of the country believes Obama is a Muslim. So what?
The controversy is ridiculous because even a total ban on hESC research would not save a single frozen embryo. Excess embryos are discarded anyway. All a ban would do is retard medical research and prolong suffering in existing people. The only way to "save" these embryos would be to ban IVF (which ain't happening).
Should it be illegal for parents to donate the organs of a deceased child for transplant? That is what hESC research is: Parents donating tissue from a deceased child. And the controversy is ridiculous because the people causing the fuss don't know what the fuck they are talking about.
Your last point is incorrect. True that much of the interest was in basic research (human ESCs were first isolated in 1998), but genuine therapies using ESCs are underway and more are imminent. Due to the ridiculous controversy, progress was made to develop induced pluripotent cells from autologous sources (say from skin) but the methods used rendered them unsuitable for the clinic. Recently developed iRNA techniques make them safer and more efficient, however the iPSCs tendency to revert back to their original tissue type still makes clinical use uncertain.
For now ESCs remain the gold standard for clinical and research use, despite the allograft challenge. I am hoping to participate in a trial myself.
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I would certainly pay to have. Could I book time for the wife and I on the Vomit Comet?
I have a sporadic debilitating disease. I had a small house, car, etc. I had no debt outside of mortgage. I had a healthy savings account. I continued to work until physically incapable.
And two years later all of that is gone and I am reduced to begging on the internet while my family drains their resources too.
It is easy to talk tough when you have no experience or understanding.
One operator kept using the same plaintext ground setting repeatedly which greatly assisted Bletchly Park in cracking the code. Of course, finally capturing a machine and codebooks sure helped...
That's already true and was true in 2008 before the election. Insurance negotiates rates with hospitals, etc. (based on Medicare rates), so what was your point again?
That's the same regardless of "Obamacare". Having a fatal condition gets one a deeper lesson in insurance than should ever be necessary.
I am a recipient of that government insurance and the difference between the negotiated rate (similar to private insurance) and the "raw" rate is often up to 50%. And with insurance people can get preventive care which is very much cheaper than ER visits when conditions get severe. Try again?
When some "friend", enraged by incessant requests to "water his crops", gets his address from his profile and burns his house down while he sleeps.
Sorry, douchebag. The new rules would ensure he has insurance so we don't pay for him in unpaid emergency room expenses which raise costs for the rest of us.
Sounds similar to the mistake that allowed Britain to crack the Nazi Enigma code.
We can haz krakd ps3!
I guess we know where you work. Thanks for adding that to your profile.
that's because Americans form lines, not queues...
It's a test bed for a reusable satellite. Make a stock platform which you can de-orbit and upgrade every few years instead of the Shuttle plucking and returning as was originally planned. You can also put one up for temporary missions instead of moving an existing bird.
I vote for Hong Kong.
Walking requires a good deal of non-locomotive muscle action for balance, coordination of which must be recomputed multiple times per second. this makes a "walking computer" a bit bigger than can fit in a spinal implant. An exoskeletal system for paraplegics is actually in clinical trial.
Electric wheelchairs require amperage on the scale of a car engine. No way in hell a human powered generator is putting out that current.
I am a quad so I have experience with wheelchairs and locomotive muscle issues.
don't ask don't tell! I love the music of Irving Berlin! fabulous!!!
For 500k I won't even get out of bed!
I call burritos poot kits.
So science and fact is to you merely a matter of a popularity contest? If so, this isn't the forum for you. Your comparison between organ donation and a program of genocide is so much more than a bit of a reach. No Godwin points for you.
Your repeated use of the concept of "commodity" is an attempt to insert a strawman into the discussion. There is no fact to support your mischaracterization and is therefore irrelevant. The blastocysts from which ESCs are obtained are not human yet, any more than the sperm and ovum were prior to combination. And that collection of cells is under the control of the parents in any legal sense, the same as a minor child, which is the genesis of my abstraction to organ donations. So if parents wished to donate a stillborn's tissue, such is their right. When I reached legal age and was legally competent to do so I chose to become an organ donor. The only thing morally repugnant about this issue is that people would who would remain willfully ignorant of the facts or who would mischaracterize for political gain would deny existing humans the opportunity to be released from hideous disease.
... and the price for a blanket skyrockets!
A very large portion of the country believes Obama is a Muslim. So what?
The controversy is ridiculous because even a total ban on hESC research would not save a single frozen embryo. Excess embryos are discarded anyway. All a ban would do is retard medical research and prolong suffering in existing people. The only way to "save" these embryos would be to ban IVF (which ain't happening).
Should it be illegal for parents to donate the organs of a deceased child for transplant? That is what hESC research is: Parents donating tissue from a deceased child. And the controversy is ridiculous because the people causing the fuss don't know what the fuck they are talking about.
Your last point is incorrect. True that much of the interest was in basic research (human ESCs were first isolated in 1998), but genuine therapies using ESCs are underway and more are imminent. Due to the ridiculous controversy, progress was made to develop induced pluripotent cells from autologous sources (say from skin) but the methods used rendered them unsuitable for the clinic. Recently developed iRNA techniques make them safer and more efficient, however the iPSCs tendency to revert back to their original tissue type still makes clinical use uncertain.
For now ESCs remain the gold standard for clinical and research use, despite the allograft challenge. I am hoping to participate in a trial myself.
Holy hole hole!
It's also where they store all the cheese that was in the holes...
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