Enterprise sucks because they keep do ing the same Liberals In Space BS story line from TNG/Voyager. It was boring then, its still boring.
A spacecraft commander is going to risk his/her ship and his crew for some obscure philosophical point, like a gillion miles away from help? With the directions back to the Earth sitting in his computer for the enemy to take if he gets beat? Nuh uh.
So if Enterprise starts being run like a -real- exploration trip in what is obviously hostile territory, THAT could be interesting.
Borg? Come ON!
Water injection is used to cool the intake air in supercharged aircraft engines. Kind of like an intercooler but cheaper and lighter.
It makes use of water's heat of vaporization to reduce the fuel/air mixture temperature before it goes into the cylinder, and it reduces the chances of detonation (knocking)under high intake pressures. Also cleans the plugs and valves rather nicely. One problem, water is not compressible like air is, so you can blow your engine big time with too much water injection. BOOM.
Incidentally, adding hydrogen to the intake won't accomplish squat, except possibly jack up the chamber temperature. Not what you want in a long distance engine.
What you do want is more oxygen, so adding a supercharger or turbocharger to compress the intake charge is good, or possibly nitrous (NOS for you rice heads out there) for a bit of extra kick.
Trying to inject pure oxygen just drives the temperature up to acetalene torch temperatures. That's rocket territory, reciprocating engines can't survive that kind of heat. Plus the violence of the combustion makes detonation knock look like a pat on the head from Grandma. BOOM!
"Yet you provide no evidence to back up your claim. Have other primates ever gotten HIV/AIDS?"
What, you want footnotes? Ok then. Chimpanzees are infectable by the HIV virus but don't get AIDS from it, you can google that up on your own.
Transgenic mice with human immune system markers were INVENTED to research HIV. Here's the second hit I got on Google on the issue, http://www.aegis.com/pubs/aidsline/1999/jan/A99109 31.html These mice don't just catch HIV, they are sequenced to produce HIV themselves from birth. As you can see from the article, they get the same kidney damage as humans with AIDS, which the drug being tested apparently prevents.
There are many transgenic mouse lines, some of them patented, developed specifically to investigate the connection between HIV virus and T-cell death. Some were invented where I went to school by people I know.
The argument about when the virus was isolated and by whom is CRAP, as the state of the art has advanced to the point mentioned above, a transgenic mouse that is making HIV markers and proteins on its own. Point being you have to know what those proteins and markers are before you can sequence for them.
Then there are the vaccines developed to fight HIV. There's one in trials now that looks like it won't kill everybody that takes it, no word on whether it kills all the HIV or not. However there was another vaccine that came out in the late 1980's that killed nearly everyone who took it. It worked by stimulating the antibodies to HIV. A subject with a good T-cell count and a low virus load would take the vaccine and shortly thereafter their t-cell count would plummet and they would have full blown AIDS. The trials were terminated after the first few subjects got sick. You can go look that one up too.
These are matters of public record, not some super secret stuff that nobody can get at. An afternoon of surfing should be more than enough to dispell any doubts on the issue. Unless of course you can't understand the evidence. Then you are going to have a problem.
As to my credentials, I'm a physical therapist and my wife is an internal medicine doc. I studied at New York Medical College where they do a load of AIDS reseach, much of it with transgenic mice. Some of our friends were kind enough to let me play in their labs and ask questions.
What medical school did you go to?
So you can see why I and others have a problem not laughing when you claim all of AIDS research is a vast conspiracy. You are getting invective and mockery because your claims are idiotic. Some ideas are just too silly to be taken seriously, and this is most assuredly one of them.
Do you have any idea how many people would have to be "in" on the secret if there really was a conspiracy? Thousands. Do you think thousands of people are all going to keep quiet about something that big? Come on.
So now, any progress on prying your mind open yet, or am I wasting my time on yet another fanatical partisan? I'm used to that from talking to anti-gun people about science. There is no logic, no evidence, no argument that can shake their conviction. Are you one of those?
Open mindedness is one thing. You are something else. Please stop helping me.
With regard to your sig, I happen to know some people who do HIV research. The hard kind, not the bullshit public health kind. They are not liable to be swayed by offers of money or other blandishments from the Eeeevile drug companies. And they are far from stupid.
The arguments cited by your web site are unscientific crap, and are getting a bunch of innocent people killed in Africa.
Evidence? There's a measurable, linear relationship between HIV virus load and the onset of full blown AIDS.
AIDS appears in the presence of HIV, does not appear in its absence. You can even infect experimental animals and they get it. Transgenic mice, for example.
That is known as Koch's Postulates of Pathogenicity. Look it up, it is the method used to identify and isolate pathogens so drugs can be made to fight them. If your pet web site has anything substantive enough to pay attention to, you'll be able to prove at least one of the postulates wrong.
If not, time to re-adjust your open mind. Remember, if you can't measure it, it ain't science.
This argument is childish. Who pays for the R&D that keeps the Intenet going? American corporations, specifically Cisco, Intel, Microsoft (there I said it!), IBM, AT&T and etc.
Those guys pay the shot so you can spew unsupportable nonsense on Slashdot.
In fact, Slashdot is a corp and is owned by another, bigger corp.
Do companies sometimes get taken over by criminals, like Enron did? Sure! Have we caught them all? No! Is Disney and AOL/Time/Warner a bunch of dorks ruining three formerly strong companies? Yes!
But are American companies in general responsible for all the ills of the country and the world? Poisoning the air, the water, the little furry bunnies?
Doubt it!!!! You want to make THAT argument you better have names, dates and recipts. And you don't.
99% of corporations work as intended. They maximize profit for the shareholders and provide services like food, cars and this nice Internet we all enjoy. The exceptions are dealt with swiftly, usually by the stock market before the police.
Communism gets millions of people killed, the latest example being Mugabe's idiot regime. Communism caused an ecological disaster all through Europe and Asia. (What capitalist country has broken nuclear submarines beached and leaking radioactive doodoo into the arctic ocean?) In fact, Communism in ALL its implementations to date is a horror.
Go and read, young man.
Back in the '60s, TOS was edgy, cool and worth watching even though the props all looked like the styrofoam they were. Star Trek was hot shit in the 1960s, and I remember that from watching every show as a kid.
This ain't the 1960's no more and Liberals In Space is not cutting it. The writing wasn't good enough to rescue the flawed concept. In fact, there's many a TNG episode written better than that movie.
Which is annoying, given the ammount of money they spent. Hollywood movie management needs basic literature and art lessons, they really do.
Yes they do, but gas taxes don't offer the outrageous opportunities for spending, and hence the doing of favors, kickbacks and other chicanery that this idiot program does.
It is very likely unconstitutional, and would fail the first court challenge. All the more reason to go ahead with the implementation, just think of all the grease you could get buying all those black boxes from your buddies and then scraping them out to your other buddies.
It also has a really great golly gee whizbang technology factor. Politicians like technology, it makes for all sorts of kewl places to hide money.
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I want to know when I'm going to be able to order leather in uniform 4'x8'sheets, the better to laminate onto desks, chairs, tables, etc. and make clothing out of.
Any of you lot have a clue how much leather costs these days? BIG dinero. Aside from the bent characters in leather undies, how about bike jackets and pants that don't cost $thousand$ eh? What would you rather, ass meets road clad in Levis or a pair of purpose built leather pants?
If these guys can culture leather by the square yard, I'm on line for that!
And don't forget, if they can do cow skin they can do human skin just the same. One hell of a lot of burn patients around who could use a couple square feet of brand new skin.
"Interestingly, India's plan calls for government-sponsored support and call centers."
Oh joy! Another place to be put on eternity hold.
Any word if they plan on suporting the entire world or just the users in the Indian government?
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Very clever, also very bad idea.
In America this system is used in a type of company called an HMO.
You pay your HMO not to treat you, so they don't.
In a fee-for-service contract, you pay your doctors to treat you, so they do.
Of the two fee-for-service is more efficient and safer. It is easier to refuse treatment you don't want than to try to pry treatment out of a bureaucracy specifically designed to deny it to you.
Besides, do you really want an actuary to decide when you get an apendectomy, or would you rather have a surgeon do it?
Thank God for that. And thank God for that list of deadly martial artists! You never know when you are going to need a list of people to round up, eh?
Are you serious, they make you REGISTER if you have a black belt? I'd start a school that gave out black belts to anybody who walked in, just to piss them off. Even Canada doesn't do that. How utterly idiotic.
Another good reason to live in Arizona. Nice weather, decent laws, shal issue concealed carry and its a Class 3 state. Which means no more shotgun in the pickup, its pintle mounted minigun, baby!
Not true everywhere in the USA. I belive that in Massachusets you are required to retreat from your home, and may only use deadly force if the perp comes after you or if you cannot escape.
In Canada of course if you shoot anyone, ever, for any reason no matter how dire, you are instantly liable for ten years. Why? Because you have broken the "safe" storage regulations, of course.
That being said, I'll happily do the ten years before I'll be killed on my knees in front of my family by some goblin. Living in jail is better than being dead in a hole.
And who knows, there might even be somebody on the jury with a functioning brain cell.
AS to the "smart" gun bullshit, it is one of the most transparent attempts to slide gun confiscation in the back door I've ever seen. Anybody who belives this legislation is well intentioned is a fool.
The most frightening sound in the world is "...click..." when you were expecting "BANG!"
"Why should any of these stories sway anyone's opinion?"
Because some anecdotes illustrate actual reality, while others conceal or obfuscate it.
Reality in this case is that 90% of armed home defense scenarios proceed as the parent comment suggests, with no shots fired and the goblins put to flight. 10% of incidents involve an exchange of fire, most of those end with the defenders alive and safe, the attackers wounded or deceased.
That is not an opinon, that is the flat out facts of the matter. These facts can be checked, I suggest you do so at your earliest convenience.
Conversly, once in a while some imbecile shoots their kid by mistake while investigating a noise. That is the one we hear about constantly on the news, and it is by far the most rare of events. Look that up too.
As to opinions, what do you call an opinion which cannot be swayed by facts or logical argument? You have to ask yourself, "on this issue, what would it take to change my mind?"
Do you have an opinion based on reason, or do you have a belief formed by a thoughtless response to propaganda?
It seems to me that this is a wildly more involved solution than required. If you are going to have a physical key anyway (the super decoder watch) why make it hard for yourself? Just make the code/decode key a physical contact device.
eg. smart card, actual key for actual lock, bar code, whatever. Anything that transmits and receives can be remotely snooped, even remotely tracked, plus you can steal the bloody watch anyway.
If you are going to make somebody steal something, better to make it something cheap. Credit cards and keys are cheap. Linux powered watches? Nuh uh.
Oh, your user is a doofus and will leave the key in the lock?
A) FIRE HIS INCOMPETENT ASS, because he is too stupid to be trusted with your super duper secret data.
B) He is a union thug and you can't fire him. Ok, make the key fall out after use. How hard is that? Moron employee will presumably keep it on a string beside his mittens.
I think you'd rather wear one than put up with a broken neck, old son.
Think about the classic car/bike accident where the imbecile car driver turns in front of the bike, which then hits the side of the car at full speed. I know of several people who would be walking today if they'd been wearing an airbag like this that fixates the head and neck upon impact. I'm a physiotherapist, I meet a lot of the ones who don't die on impact.
I'm walking today becase I was 17 when some prick did it to me, and I had reflexes like a cat. And I was LUCKY. He drove into me, and I managed to clear the hood of the car before impact.
One millisecond too slow and my left leg would have been a bag of smashed bone chips, an infinitely preferable arrangement to the head and spinal cord injuries I've seen, belive me. Even if they have to cut off your whole fucking leg, you can still wipe your own ass.
So don't be too quick to dismiss the good old airbag. Anything that adds armor to the neck and head is good. I'd wear it.
This is just the begining too. Once they get this perfected they can start on the lower trunk and limbs. Progress!
Seems to me that Tolkein's works cronicle the victory of Good over Evil. Watching a STOLEN copy of something like that would seem to indicate some serious moral damage in the viewer, yes?
Theft is a sin in all the great religions for a reason, you know.
Hey kids! How are some of you Open Source types going to feel when some Third World dictatorship whips up a Linux powered cluster and uses it for designing rockets, nukes, bugs and/or chemical weapons? Hmm?
I understand China is very interested in Linux, they even have an official Chicom version. Any bets as to how many Great Firewall of China boxes run Open Source? Or maybe they just use it to run their Ministry of Torture database?
So maybe don't be so damn quick to jump on big companies caught in the same cleft stick. There wouldn't even BE internet access in Red China without those companies, If you think the boys and girls at Mickeysoft and Cisco and etc. would deliberately and knowingly develop products to help Chicom government opression, you're cracked.
You go ahead and tell me what people have been busted, jailed and killed in jail in the USA for
A) surfing the internet B) criticizing the government or even C) conspiring to blow up large buildings and kill thousands of Americans.
Americans do not steal resources from other countries. They BUY them. If the country does not want to sell, Americans go elswhere. Ask a Canadian how much water, oil, gas, food, uranium, or whatever the evile Americans have stolen from their completely unarmed country.
Get a grip on yourself. There's a distinction between America and Communist China. One is a benign democratic republic which was founded to defend individual freedoms, the other is a diabolical totalitarian regime where murder, torture and terror are instruments of government policy.
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Boys and girls, they are talking about sticking a human stem cell into a mouse embryo and seeing if the thing lives, breeds true and still carries the human cells.
Big whup.
A mouse with human cells in it is guess what? A MOUSE. A mouse brain made out of human cells is a MOUSE BRAIN. It is not Aunt Mabel, it will not ask to vote in the next election.
They already have a strain of mice that has human immune system markers. It was developed for the purpose of studying and hopefully curing AIDS, and it is working nicely. God forbid we should ever do that again, right?
Worst case scenario, Mouse A and B have "human" sperm and eggs, they mate, and the female DIES during the first trimester because a big 'ol human embryo is growing in there and the mouse is too small.
Bummer.
Ever hear of "late term abortion"? That's where they kill a live human baby right before it gets born. Disgusting practice that is done occasionaly in Canadian and American hospitals, thankfully rare, normally performed on deformed, non-viable babies that are going to die anyway, and die ugly. But not always.
Ever hear of test tube babies? That's an artificially fertilized egg that grows into a blastocyst before they implant a dozen of them in the mother. What do you think they do with the "extra" ones?
How about plain old normal abortion? That's where you remove a perfectly good human embryo and kill it on purpose because mummy was too stupid to use birth control, or occasionally because the ultrasound shows something unfortunate, like two arms, one leg and no head.
Spare me the "ethical considerations" of human stem cell research on mice.
These precious discussions are just so much bullshit compared to what goes on in hospitals and fertility clinics ever day. If you are going to have abortion and artificial fertilization and the rest of it, then whining about stem cells in mice is idiotic.
You wanna have a cure for cancer, AIDS and etc? Maybe cheap organ replacements for when your's screw up? New skin for burn victims? New drugs that work? This is what it takes. Suck it up.
Parkinsons affects the motor side, not the sensory side primarily. So Parkinson's patients have adequate balance sensation as well as proprioception, they just can't initiate the movement soon enough to use the information due to the brain damage.
Once they are in motion they balance ok, or when stopped they are. Getting going and stopping are the primary problems.
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Definetly x-ray lasers. Yeah baby! Of course the CDs will have to be lead or gold foil...
Enterprise sucks because they keep do ing the same Liberals In Space BS story line from TNG/Voyager. It was boring then, its still boring. A spacecraft commander is going to risk his/her ship and his crew for some obscure philosophical point, like a gillion miles away from help? With the directions back to the Earth sitting in his computer for the enemy to take if he gets beat? Nuh uh. So if Enterprise starts being run like a -real- exploration trip in what is obviously hostile territory, THAT could be interesting. Borg? Come ON!
Water injection is used to cool the intake air in supercharged aircraft engines. Kind of like an intercooler but cheaper and lighter.
It makes use of water's heat of vaporization to reduce the fuel/air mixture temperature before it goes into the cylinder, and it reduces the chances of detonation (knocking)under high intake pressures. Also cleans the plugs and valves rather nicely. One problem, water is not compressible like air is, so you can blow your engine big time with too much water injection. BOOM.
Incidentally, adding hydrogen to the intake won't accomplish squat, except possibly jack up the chamber temperature. Not what you want in a long distance engine.
What you do want is more oxygen, so adding a supercharger or turbocharger to compress the intake charge is good, or possibly nitrous (NOS for you rice heads out there) for a bit of extra kick.
Trying to inject pure oxygen just drives the temperature up to acetalene torch temperatures. That's rocket territory, reciprocating engines can't survive that kind of heat. Plus the violence of the combustion makes detonation knock look like a pat on the head from Grandma. BOOM!
"Yet you provide no evidence to back up your claim. Have other primates ever gotten HIV/AIDS?"
9 31.html These mice don't just catch HIV, they are sequenced to produce HIV themselves from birth. As you can see from the article, they get the same kidney damage as humans with AIDS, which the drug being tested apparently prevents.
What, you want footnotes? Ok then. Chimpanzees are infectable by the HIV virus but don't get AIDS from it, you can google that up on your own.
Transgenic mice with human immune system markers were INVENTED to research HIV. Here's the second hit I got on Google on the issue, http://www.aegis.com/pubs/aidsline/1999/jan/A9910
There are many transgenic mouse lines, some of them patented, developed specifically to investigate the connection between HIV virus and T-cell death. Some were invented where I went to school by people I know.
The argument about when the virus was isolated and by whom is CRAP, as the state of the art has advanced to the point mentioned above, a transgenic mouse that is making HIV markers and proteins on its own. Point being you have to know what those proteins and markers are before you can sequence for them.
Then there are the vaccines developed to fight HIV. There's one in trials now that looks like it won't kill everybody that takes it, no word on whether it kills all the HIV or not. However there was another vaccine that came out in the late 1980's that killed nearly everyone who took it. It worked by stimulating the antibodies to HIV. A subject with a good T-cell count and a low virus load would take the vaccine and shortly thereafter their t-cell count would plummet and they would have full blown AIDS. The trials were terminated after the first few subjects got sick. You can go look that one up too.
These are matters of public record, not some super secret stuff that nobody can get at. An afternoon of surfing should be more than enough to dispell any doubts on the issue. Unless of course you can't understand the evidence. Then you are going to have a problem.
As to my credentials, I'm a physical therapist and my wife is an internal medicine doc. I studied at New York Medical College where they do a load of AIDS reseach, much of it with transgenic mice. Some of our friends were kind enough to let me play in their labs and ask questions.
What medical school did you go to?
So you can see why I and others have a problem not laughing when you claim all of AIDS research is a vast conspiracy. You are getting invective and mockery because your claims are idiotic. Some ideas are just too silly to be taken seriously, and this is most assuredly one of them.
Do you have any idea how many people would have to be "in" on the secret if there really was a conspiracy? Thousands. Do you think thousands of people are all going to keep quiet about something that big? Come on.
So now, any progress on prying your mind open yet, or am I wasting my time on yet another fanatical partisan? I'm used to that from talking to anti-gun people about science. There is no logic, no evidence, no argument that can shake their conviction. Are you one of those?
Open mindedness is one thing. You are something else. Please stop helping me.
With regard to your sig, I happen to know some people who do HIV research. The hard kind, not the bullshit public health kind. They are not liable to be swayed by offers of money or other blandishments from the Eeeevile drug companies. And they are far from stupid.
The arguments cited by your web site are unscientific crap, and are getting a bunch of innocent people killed in Africa.
Evidence? There's a measurable, linear relationship between HIV virus load and the onset of full blown AIDS.
AIDS appears in the presence of HIV, does not appear in its absence. You can even infect experimental animals and they get it. Transgenic mice, for example.
That is known as Koch's Postulates of Pathogenicity. Look it up, it is the method used to identify and isolate pathogens so drugs can be made to fight them. If your pet web site has anything substantive enough to pay attention to, you'll be able to prove at least one of the postulates wrong.
If not, time to re-adjust your open mind. Remember, if you can't measure it, it ain't science.
This argument is childish. Who pays for the R&D that keeps the Intenet going? American corporations, specifically Cisco, Intel, Microsoft (there I said it!), IBM, AT&T and etc.
Those guys pay the shot so you can spew unsupportable nonsense on Slashdot.
In fact, Slashdot is a corp and is owned by another, bigger corp.
Do companies sometimes get taken over by criminals, like Enron did? Sure! Have we caught them all? No! Is Disney and AOL/Time/Warner a bunch of dorks ruining three formerly strong companies? Yes!
But are American companies in general responsible for all the ills of the country and the world? Poisoning the air, the water, the little furry bunnies?
Doubt it!!!! You want to make THAT argument you better have names, dates and recipts. And you don't.
So go get 'em, or shut the fuck up. Boy.
99% of corporations work as intended. They maximize profit for the shareholders and provide services like food, cars and this nice Internet we all enjoy. The exceptions are dealt with swiftly, usually by the stock market before the police. Communism gets millions of people killed, the latest example being Mugabe's idiot regime. Communism caused an ecological disaster all through Europe and Asia. (What capitalist country has broken nuclear submarines beached and leaking radioactive doodoo into the arctic ocean?) In fact, Communism in ALL its implementations to date is a horror. Go and read, young man.
Back in the '60s, TOS was edgy, cool and worth watching even though the props all looked like the styrofoam they were. Star Trek was hot shit in the 1960s, and I remember that from watching every show as a kid.
This ain't the 1960's no more and Liberals In Space is not cutting it. The writing wasn't good enough to rescue the flawed concept. In fact, there's many a TNG episode written better than that movie.
Which is annoying, given the ammount of money they spent. Hollywood movie management needs basic literature and art lessons, they really do.
Yes they do, but gas taxes don't offer the outrageous opportunities for spending, and hence the doing of favors, kickbacks and other chicanery that this idiot program does.
It is very likely unconstitutional, and would fail the first court challenge. All the more reason to go ahead with the implementation, just think of all the grease you could get buying all those black boxes from your buddies and then scraping them out to your other buddies.
It also has a really great golly gee whizbang technology factor. Politicians like technology, it makes for all sorts of kewl places to hide money.
I want to know when I'm going to be able to order leather in uniform 4'x8'sheets, the better to laminate onto desks, chairs, tables, etc. and make clothing out of.
Any of you lot have a clue how much leather costs these days? BIG dinero. Aside from the bent characters in leather undies, how about bike jackets and pants that don't cost $thousand$ eh? What would you rather, ass meets road clad in Levis or a pair of purpose built leather pants?
If these guys can culture leather by the square yard, I'm on line for that!
And don't forget, if they can do cow skin they can do human skin just the same. One hell of a lot of burn patients around who could use a couple square feet of brand new skin.
"Interestingly, India's plan calls for government-sponsored support and call centers."
Oh joy! Another place to be put on eternity hold.
Any word if they plan on suporting the entire world or just the users in the Indian government?
Very clever, also very bad idea.
In America this system is used in a type of company called an HMO.
You pay your HMO not to treat you, so they don't.
In a fee-for-service contract, you pay your doctors to treat you, so they do.
Of the two fee-for-service is more efficient and safer. It is easier to refuse treatment you don't want than to try to pry treatment out of a bureaucracy specifically designed to deny it to you.
Besides, do you really want an actuary to decide when you get an apendectomy, or would you rather have a surgeon do it?
Thank God for that. And thank God for that list of deadly martial artists! You never know when you are going to need a list of people to round up, eh?
Are you serious, they make you REGISTER if you have a black belt? I'd start a school that gave out black belts to anybody who walked in, just to piss them off. Even Canada doesn't do that. How utterly idiotic.
Another good reason to live in Arizona. Nice weather, decent laws, shal issue concealed carry and its a Class 3 state. Which means no more shotgun in the pickup, its pintle mounted minigun, baby!
Not true everywhere in the USA. I belive that in Massachusets you are required to retreat from your home, and may only use deadly force if the perp comes after you or if you cannot escape.
In Canada of course if you shoot anyone, ever, for any reason no matter how dire, you are instantly liable for ten years. Why? Because you have broken the "safe" storage regulations, of course.
That being said, I'll happily do the ten years before I'll be killed on my knees in front of my family by some goblin. Living in jail is better than being dead in a hole.
And who knows, there might even be somebody on the jury with a functioning brain cell.
AS to the "smart" gun bullshit, it is one of the most transparent attempts to slide gun confiscation in the back door I've ever seen. Anybody who belives this legislation is well intentioned is a fool.
The most frightening sound in the world is "...click..." when you were expecting "BANG!"
"Why should any of these stories sway anyone's opinion?" Because some anecdotes illustrate actual reality, while others conceal or obfuscate it. Reality in this case is that 90% of armed home defense scenarios proceed as the parent comment suggests, with no shots fired and the goblins put to flight. 10% of incidents involve an exchange of fire, most of those end with the defenders alive and safe, the attackers wounded or deceased. That is not an opinon, that is the flat out facts of the matter. These facts can be checked, I suggest you do so at your earliest convenience. Conversly, once in a while some imbecile shoots their kid by mistake while investigating a noise. That is the one we hear about constantly on the news, and it is by far the most rare of events. Look that up too. As to opinions, what do you call an opinion which cannot be swayed by facts or logical argument? You have to ask yourself, "on this issue, what would it take to change my mind?" Do you have an opinion based on reason, or do you have a belief formed by a thoughtless response to propaganda?
Sir, you are a scholar and a gentlman.
Your sound advice and knowledge of firearms has saved lives. I congratulate you.
Merry Chistmas!
It seems to me that this is a wildly more involved solution than required. If you are going to have a physical key anyway (the super decoder watch) why make it hard for yourself? Just make the code/decode key a physical contact device.
eg. smart card, actual key for actual lock, bar code, whatever. Anything that transmits and receives can be remotely snooped, even remotely tracked, plus you can steal the bloody watch anyway.
If you are going to make somebody steal something, better to make it something cheap. Credit cards and keys are cheap. Linux powered watches? Nuh uh.
Oh, your user is a doofus and will leave the key in the lock?
A) FIRE HIS INCOMPETENT ASS, because he is too stupid to be trusted with your super duper secret data.
B) He is a union thug and you can't fire him. Ok, make the key fall out after use. How hard is that? Moron employee will presumably keep it on a string beside his mittens.
I think you'd rather wear one than put up with a broken neck, old son.
Think about the classic car/bike accident where the imbecile car driver turns in front of the bike, which then hits the side of the car at full speed. I know of several people who would be walking today if they'd been wearing an airbag like this that fixates the head and neck upon impact. I'm a physiotherapist, I meet a lot of the ones who don't die on impact.
I'm walking today becase I was 17 when some prick did it to me, and I had reflexes like a cat. And I was LUCKY. He drove into me, and I managed to clear the hood of the car before impact.
One millisecond too slow and my left leg would have been a bag of smashed bone chips, an infinitely preferable arrangement to the head and spinal cord injuries I've seen, belive me. Even if they have to cut off your whole fucking leg, you can still wipe your own ass.
So don't be too quick to dismiss the good old airbag. Anything that adds armor to the neck and head is good. I'd wear it.
This is just the begining too. Once they get this perfected they can start on the lower trunk and limbs. Progress!
Seems to me that Tolkein's works cronicle the victory of Good over Evil. Watching a STOLEN copy of something like that would seem to indicate some serious moral damage in the viewer, yes?
Theft is a sin in all the great religions for a reason, you know.
More communism. Just what we needed.
Hey kids! How are some of you Open Source types going to feel when some Third World dictatorship whips up a Linux powered cluster and uses it for designing rockets, nukes, bugs and/or chemical weapons? Hmm?
I understand China is very interested in Linux, they even have an official Chicom version. Any bets as to how many Great Firewall of China boxes run Open Source? Or maybe they just use it to run their Ministry of Torture database?
So maybe don't be so damn quick to jump on big companies caught in the same cleft stick. There wouldn't even BE internet access in Red China without those companies, If you think the boys and girls at Mickeysoft and Cisco and etc. would deliberately and knowingly develop products to help Chicom government opression, you're cracked.
You go ahead and tell me what people have been busted, jailed and killed in jail in the USA for
A) surfing the internet
B) criticizing the government
or even
C) conspiring to blow up large buildings and kill thousands of Americans.
Americans do not steal resources from other countries. They BUY them. If the country does not want to sell, Americans go elswhere. Ask a Canadian how much water, oil, gas, food, uranium, or whatever the evile Americans have stolen from their completely unarmed country.
Get a grip on yourself. There's a distinction between America and Communist China. One is a benign democratic republic which was founded to defend individual freedoms, the other is a diabolical totalitarian regime where murder, torture and terror are instruments of government policy.
Boys and girls, they are talking about sticking a human stem cell into a mouse embryo and seeing if the thing lives, breeds true and still carries the human cells.
Big whup.
A mouse with human cells in it is guess what? A MOUSE. A mouse brain made out of human cells is a MOUSE BRAIN. It is not Aunt Mabel, it will not ask to vote in the next election.
They already have a strain of mice that has human immune system markers. It was developed for the purpose of studying and hopefully curing AIDS, and it is working nicely. God forbid we should ever do that again, right?
Worst case scenario, Mouse A and B have "human" sperm and eggs, they mate, and the female DIES during the first trimester because a big 'ol human embryo is growing in there and the mouse is too small.
Bummer.
Ever hear of "late term abortion"? That's where they kill a live human baby right before it gets born. Disgusting practice that is done occasionaly in Canadian and American hospitals, thankfully rare, normally performed on deformed, non-viable babies that are going to die anyway, and die ugly. But not always.
Ever hear of test tube babies? That's an artificially fertilized egg that grows into a blastocyst before they implant a dozen of them in the mother. What do you think they do with the "extra" ones?
How about plain old normal abortion? That's where you remove a perfectly good human embryo and kill it on purpose because mummy was too stupid to use birth control, or occasionally because the ultrasound shows something unfortunate, like two arms, one leg and no head.
Spare me the "ethical considerations" of human stem cell research on mice.
These precious discussions are just so much bullshit compared to what goes on in hospitals and fertility clinics ever day. If you are going to have abortion and artificial fertilization and the rest of it, then whining about stem cells in mice is idiotic.
You wanna have a cure for cancer, AIDS and etc? Maybe cheap organ replacements for when your's screw up? New skin for burn victims? New drugs that work? This is what it takes. Suck it up.
This is GREAT! Now the scum of New York City can sit in the park and surf kiddie pr0n on the taxpayer's dime. What a breakthrough.
How long before the dorks start demonstrating for free laptops to surf on?
In other news, New York State is going to raise taxes because they have a budget shortfall of BILLIONS of dollars. Gee, I wonder why that is?
Parkinsons affects the motor side, not the sensory side primarily. So Parkinson's patients have adequate balance sensation as well as proprioception, they just can't initiate the movement soon enough to use the information due to the brain damage. Once they are in motion they balance ok, or when stopped they are. Getting going and stopping are the primary problems.