Maybe I was just lucky, or maybe my parents were smart enough to avoid the quacks when I was younger. But in my own personal experience of many years, chiropractors work and are very effective......at treating skeleto-muscular problems of the spinal column and the associated nerves.
They worked very well for me when I was working as a landscaper, swinging heavy machinery around all day? I'd get something thrown out of whack, and they'd put it back. It was wonderful!
However, in my personal opinion, if they're saying they can treat anything OTHER than a muscular, skeletal or nerve disorder associated with the spine, then caveat emptor.
When I'm going into a remote and/or potentially dangerous area, such as in my canoe, hunting or hiking in state forests or other places, I'll make a post to my blog entitled "Where To Find The Body".
I post details about where I'm going, what I'm wearing, what I'm carrying, driving, doing, when I'm going in, when I can be expected out, when I should be declared LATE and who to call. I include a link to a GoogleMap and the local police/fire/rescue number.
With 200+ pairs of eyes watching, I've got a decent number of people who'll be checking back to make sure I've made an update saying I'm out safe.
My father was part of the Revolutionary War Re-enactment Militia back in the 70's, and we used to raise merry Hell with our cannon. I can remember firing Quaker Oatmeal canisters full of sand (puff rounds) several hundred yards out to sea off Cooper's Beach in the Hamptons.
One time, they did a parade in Sag Harbor, but the village wouldn't let them fire the cannon. It was only a 2-pounder, but they still wouldn't let them fire it. They were afraid it would break the windows in some of the historic buildings, which admittedly, are several hundred years old. Well, they held off until the very end of the parade, then fired it anyway. No damage, scared the HELL out of the judges and the crowd loved it.
However, now the gun had to be cleaned.
Dad and Walter took it to the end of the pier and got ready to clean it, when dad noted that the bore was the exact same diameter as a "D" cell battery. Walter noted the same thing, and in a few minutes, they'd charged the cannon and rammed a D-cell down the bore.
Now...a cannon with just a wadding load makes a huge "BOOM" with a big cloud of smoke. Very showy, very flashy. The gun rocks back a little, and that's it.
However, a cannon with an actual round in it makes a sound not unlike a Howitzer from those old WWII movies. A kind of "PAH-WOOOM", followed by the sound of ripping canvas heading down range. The smoke cloud is much narrower, and oh yeah? The cannon jumped it's blocks and went flying down the pier like a scalded cat. Probably scared the bejabbers out of a few baymen that day.
Dad was already hopping in the truck, Walter was chasing after the cannon before it rolled off the pier, and they both threw it in the back and took off before the cops could come.
The armor may protect you from impacts, and it might even help a little with the deceleration?
But if you hit something hard enough, nothing can protect your internal organs from going *skwish* against your ribcage. Or your brain against your skull, for that matter.
...but in practice, this could have potential for serious disaster.
There are just some things that should NEVER be subject to change without extensive and careful review.
Case in point: MRCs or Maintenance Requirement Cards.
Basically, they're mini manuals on how to perform preventative maintenance on your gear, some of which can be outrageously deadly if you don't follow the instructions to the exact letter. You really wouldn't believe how much stuff on a ship gets the label "MANKILLER", and I've no doubt the Army is little different, quite probably much worse. MRC cards have, quite literally in many cases, been written with the blood of those who discovered the "wrong way" to perform maintenance or took a "shortcut".
Army field manuals are much like MRC cards; they've been written either by those who've shed the blood, or by those who had to mop up the mess from those who didn't survive. They might look nice and boring in the way they read, but that dry tone of the manuals carries many, many lives behind it.
I hope these edits are subject to extensive review, and won't just pop up for everyone to follow with a click of a mouse? Otherwise, someone might try to get their lulz, and we might see subjects like...
Maintenance Requirement for the M33A1/M59 High Explosive Fragmentation Grenade
I guarantee they're going to pull an "operation squirrel."
That happens far more than you may realize. The San Jose attack was a pretty big one. We had about a dozen OC-192 outage tickets open on that, and we were just riders on that line. Turns out it was cut, quite deliberately, with a hacksaw. Neat and clean as you please. It was also cut in a place where it would be easy to repair. They could have cut them off where they come into the manholes and CEVs, but they cut them at the junctions, where there's plenty of slack.
The article also fails to mention that it was a very precise and coordinated strike. They knew exactly where to go, exactly which manholes to get into, and precisely which cables to cut and where, all within a 2 hour period. It also fails to mention very similar attacks that happened in Baltimore that same week. Those "vandals" were even meaner, cutting cables that had no markings and went under a railroad bridge over the Chesapeake. In several places.
Someone was sending a message. Well, we got the message, and I haven't heard anything regarding the one that was sent back.
This is going to be beyond epic. There's going to be movies made about this a hundred years from now. (It'll be a comedy/tragedy either way, or more probably both)
The main problem here is that humans want to put windfarms on top of mountains and especially on top of ridgelines.
This is because ridgelines are very good spots for catching the wind, but they also generate their own wind environments from various factors such as ambient temperature, humidity, radiant heating and more. This confluence of factors all combines to draw insects up into the air along ridgelines. If you were to aim a sufficiently sensitive radar as any given ridge in the spring/summer/fall, you'd find it swarming with billions of bugs.
Ridges and mountaintops are the Chiropteran equivalent of the all-you-can-eat buffet.
And we're planning on installing woodchippers in the front door.
My mother used to drive a Chevy s-10 Blazer, and one day she parks in front of the local vegetable market. When she comes out, she simply gets in the truck and drives off.
That's when she notices that there's stuff in the center console, as well as an air-freshener on the mirror that wasn't there before. She pulls over and looks around the truck and sees that all her fishing gear has been replaced by small-kid toys and groceries other than her own.
She drives back to find a man standing next to her Blazer, looking very confused. She pulls up and says, "Excuse me, but is this one yours?"
They got a good laugh out of it and compared keys, and sure enough, exactly the same.
The guy was kinda sad he wasn't going to get to keep all my mom's fishing tackle, though.
I'd hardly call 50,000 dead machines "destruction of evidence". If I were a data recovery specialist, I'd call it manna from heaven. If I were a forensic analyst, I'd call it a treasure trove of easily identified corpses.
So what if he's "just an economist"? According to my degree, I'm "just a fish farmer", yet I'm working for a company and doing stuff that keeps the telcom grid alive. Nine years of military communications experience will do that for you. Makes me wonder what 38 years of experience working for climate scientists would do for an economist?
It's not exactly like he's going to just pull this stuff out of his backside after 38 years of service. Nobody that manages to survive THAT long, through seven presidents-five or whom were hostile to the EPA-is going to just buck the trend without a pretty darn good reason.
I'd say it's worth paying attention to the man. Even if he's on the verge of retirement, 38 years of experience is nothing to sneeze at.
Slashdot Mirror
As soon as this thing finds /b/, it'll explode. Problem solved.
...Nasi Kangkang
I'm sure your wife or girlfriend will appreciated it.
...thought of the startup sound for the Ghostbuster's Proton Pack?
Maybe I was just lucky, or maybe my parents were smart enough to avoid the quacks when I was younger. But in my own personal experience of many years, chiropractors work and are very effective... ...at treating skeleto-muscular problems of the spinal column and the associated nerves.
They worked very well for me when I was working as a landscaper, swinging heavy machinery around all day? I'd get something thrown out of whack, and they'd put it back. It was wonderful!
However, in my personal opinion, if they're saying they can treat anything OTHER than a muscular, skeletal or nerve disorder associated with the spine, then caveat emptor.
Actually, it was probably a bunch of PianoCat videos, 9/11 tribute chain letters and Obama-llama hate mail.
I guess Darth Vader finally capitulated and joined the Orange Side?
...I kinda do this too? Just a bit different.
When I'm going into a remote and/or potentially dangerous area, such as in my canoe, hunting or hiking in state forests or other places, I'll make a post to my blog entitled "Where To Find The Body".
I post details about where I'm going, what I'm wearing, what I'm carrying, driving, doing, when I'm going in, when I can be expected out, when I should be declared LATE and who to call. I include a link to a GoogleMap and the local police/fire/rescue number.
With 200+ pairs of eyes watching, I've got a decent number of people who'll be checking back to make sure I've made an update saying I'm out safe.
My father was part of the Revolutionary War Re-enactment Militia back in the 70's, and we used to raise merry Hell with our cannon. I can remember firing Quaker Oatmeal canisters full of sand (puff rounds) several hundred yards out to sea off Cooper's Beach in the Hamptons.
One time, they did a parade in Sag Harbor, but the village wouldn't let them fire the cannon. It was only a 2-pounder, but they still wouldn't let them fire it. They were afraid it would break the windows in some of the historic buildings, which admittedly, are several hundred years old. Well, they held off until the very end of the parade, then fired it anyway. No damage, scared the HELL out of the judges and the crowd loved it.
However, now the gun had to be cleaned.
Dad and Walter took it to the end of the pier and got ready to clean it, when dad noted that the bore was the exact same diameter as a "D" cell battery. Walter noted the same thing, and in a few minutes, they'd charged the cannon and rammed a D-cell down the bore.
Now...a cannon with just a wadding load makes a huge "BOOM" with a big cloud of smoke. Very showy, very flashy. The gun rocks back a little, and that's it.
However, a cannon with an actual round in it makes a sound not unlike a Howitzer from those old WWII movies. A kind of "PAH-WOOOM", followed by the sound of ripping canvas heading down range. The smoke cloud is much narrower, and oh yeah? The cannon jumped it's blocks and went flying down the pier like a scalded cat. Probably scared the bejabbers out of a few baymen that day.
Dad was already hopping in the truck, Walter was chasing after the cannon before it rolled off the pier, and they both threw it in the back and took off before the cops could come.
They cleaned it at home this time.
He then continued to say, "Also, I use it to hunt deer."
You say that like it hasn't been done already.
The armor may protect you from impacts, and it might even help a little with the deceleration?
But if you hit something hard enough, nothing can protect your internal organs from going *skwish* against your ribcage. Or your brain against your skull, for that matter.
Every time someone posts a story about an MMO, people always make comments about players needing a life.
I dunno about you, but $200k sounds like a pretty damn good life to me?
While this certainly is informative, I don't suppose we could mod it +1 TMI?
...but in practice, this could have potential for serious disaster.
There are just some things that should NEVER be subject to change without extensive and careful review.
Case in point: MRCs or Maintenance Requirement Cards.
Basically, they're mini manuals on how to perform preventative maintenance on your gear, some of which can be outrageously deadly if you don't follow the instructions to the exact letter. You really wouldn't believe how much stuff on a ship gets the label "MANKILLER", and I've no doubt the Army is little different, quite probably much worse. MRC cards have, quite literally in many cases, been written with the blood of those who discovered the "wrong way" to perform maintenance or took a "shortcut".
Army field manuals are much like MRC cards; they've been written either by those who've shed the blood, or by those who had to mop up the mess from those who didn't survive. They might look nice and boring in the way they read, but that dry tone of the manuals carries many, many lives behind it.
I hope these edits are subject to extensive review, and won't just pop up for everyone to follow with a click of a mouse? Otherwise, someone might try to get their lulz, and we might see subjects like...
Maintenance Requirement for the M33A1/M59 High Explosive Fragmentation Grenade
Aesir doesn't appear to have any paying customers yet â" and is reportedly bankrolled by a single investor.
John Bigboote
CEO/CFO Yoyodyne Corporation Intl
1938 Yoyodyne Way, Lot 49
San Narciso, CA 92129-3064
I guarantee they're going to pull an "operation squirrel."
That happens far more than you may realize. The San Jose attack was a pretty big one. We had about a dozen OC-192 outage tickets open on that, and we were just riders on that line. Turns out it was cut, quite deliberately, with a hacksaw. Neat and clean as you please. It was also cut in a place where it would be easy to repair. They could have cut them off where they come into the manholes and CEVs, but they cut them at the junctions, where there's plenty of slack.
The article also fails to mention that it was a very precise and coordinated strike. They knew exactly where to go, exactly which manholes to get into, and precisely which cables to cut and where, all within a 2 hour period. It also fails to mention very similar attacks that happened in Baltimore that same week. Those "vandals" were even meaner, cutting cables that had no markings and went under a railroad bridge over the Chesapeake. In several places.
Someone was sending a message. Well, we got the message, and I haven't heard anything regarding the one that was sent back.
This is going to be beyond epic. There's going to be movies made about this a hundred years from now. (It'll be a comedy/tragedy either way, or more probably both)
This won't go anywhere.
Or if they do and try to implement this in their system, it will last until the first email is translated into a language OTHER than US English.
"Over the last 20 years, we have remained dedicated to a single mission..."
"Over the last 20 years, we have remained confined to a single mental institution..."
"Over the last 20 years, we have remained obligated to one church..."
"Over the last 20 years, we have remained engaged in espionage..."
The main problem here is that humans want to put windfarms on top of mountains and especially on top of ridgelines.
This is because ridgelines are very good spots for catching the wind, but they also generate their own wind environments from various factors such as ambient temperature, humidity, radiant heating and more. This confluence of factors all combines to draw insects up into the air along ridgelines. If you were to aim a sufficiently sensitive radar as any given ridge in the spring/summer/fall, you'd find it swarming with billions of bugs.
Ridges and mountaintops are the Chiropteran equivalent of the all-you-can-eat buffet.
And we're planning on installing woodchippers in the front door.
My mother used to drive a Chevy s-10 Blazer, and one day she parks in front of the local vegetable market. When she comes out, she simply gets in the truck and drives off.
That's when she notices that there's stuff in the center console, as well as an air-freshener on the mirror that wasn't there before. She pulls over and looks around the truck and sees that all her fishing gear has been replaced by small-kid toys and groceries other than her own.
She drives back to find a man standing next to her Blazer, looking very confused. She pulls up and says, "Excuse me, but is this one yours?"
They got a good laugh out of it and compared keys, and sure enough, exactly the same.
The guy was kinda sad he wasn't going to get to keep all my mom's fishing tackle, though.
How did this ever pass muster at Palm?
Dollar signs make excellent blinders.
I'd hardly call 50,000 dead machines "destruction of evidence". If I were a data recovery specialist, I'd call it manna from heaven. If I were a forensic analyst, I'd call it a treasure trove of easily identified corpses.
Simon: "You can't take away people's right to be assholes!"
Raymond C.: *grins innocently as if to say, 'Oh no?'*
Simon: THAT'S who you remind me of: an evil Mr. Rodgers!
Why does it always take a criminal to point out the obvious WRONG in our "best intentions"?
Comets Probably Seeded Earth's Nitrogen Atmosphere
So we've been breathing space spooge all along?
Well THAT explains a lot...
Well, if frequent masturbation prevents cancer, then baby, lemme tell ya? I could CURE cancer. And now this?
I just might start selling it, now?
This man has been working for the EPA since 1971. Hell, he helped BUILD the place.
So what if he's "just an economist"? According to my degree, I'm "just a fish farmer", yet I'm working for a company and doing stuff that keeps the telcom grid alive. Nine years of military communications experience will do that for you. Makes me wonder what 38 years of experience working for climate scientists would do for an economist?
It's not exactly like he's going to just pull this stuff out of his backside after 38 years of service. Nobody that manages to survive THAT long, through seven presidents-five or whom were hostile to the EPA-is going to just buck the trend without a pretty darn good reason.
I'd say it's worth paying attention to the man. Even if he's on the verge of retirement, 38 years of experience is nothing to sneeze at.