I joined NASE (National Association of the Self Employed) and had a plan through MEGA which was basically just a major-medical plan. It didn't cover basic stuff, but would cover a big accident or something. I'm not saying this is your best option, it's just one I happen to know about.
It wasn't that expensive, but then I was single. I think you're in for a rude awakening, either way.
But we don't burn soil and release that into the air.
"Former ORNL researchers J. P. McBride, R. E. Moore, J. P. Witherspoon, and R. E. Blanco made this point in their article "Radiological Impact of Airborne Effluents of Coal and Nuclear Plants" in the December 8, 1978, issue of Science magazine. They concluded that Americans living near coal-fired power plants are exposed to higher radiation doses than those living near nuclear power plants that meet government regulations. This ironic situation remains true today and is addressed in this article."
I enjoyed your post, and thought it made sense, so I sent it to a nurse friend of mine who works in a reknowned hospital... here's her reply: --- ugh! the world is filled with ignorami! This person has clearly not read the studies done on antibiotic resistant bacteria and CLEARLY has NEVER worked in a hospital setting, nevermind familiarized themselves with current nursing practice. So a bit of education is in order...
First - nurses rarely draw up or inject antibiotics via needle injection in the hospital anymore. Many antibitotics are given intravenously and are pre-prepared in the pharmacy IV room (a sterile environment). If and when medications (even antibiotics) are drawn up into a syringe with a needle, yes, the air does need to be expressed out of the syringe. This however is NOT to prevent an air embolis to the patient. It is to ensure that the proper amount of medication is being measured and delivered. As for air being fatal to the patient - yes, an amount of air greater than 3mL (most injections are less that 1mL of fluid) can be harmful (not usually fatal) if injected DIRECTLY into the bloodstream. ALL injections given with a needle are given either transdermally (like the little skin bleb test for TB), subcutabeously (or the into the fat tissue) where often an air bubble is used to aide in medication absorption, or intramuscularly (into the muscle tissue)....so unlike this person is suggesting, medications are NOT pushed like done by an IV drug user (let's look at practice in the 21st century for god's sake!).
Secondly - Yes, sometimes things like medications get dripped onto the floor but if this person looked at current regulations for hospital cleaning they would know that all surfaces in the hospital are cleaned with a bleach or bleach antiseptic equivilant to kill dangerous bacteria (yes, even the drug resistant ones). But because bleach and floor cleaning products are toxic to the human body we can't exactly prescribe a daily dose of clorox for each patient suffering from MRSA or VREC. So, although our floors are nice and shiney they have been disinfected first. As the cleaners are strong enough to kill the bacteria the risk of spreading bacteria through disposal of the cleaning water from the mop buckets is not a concern. The concern is rather the toxicity of the solvents used and therefore just like any other institution, the water is then treated and purified at municipal water facitilities just like it is to remove the human waste and household cleaning solvents used on an everyday basis. Seriously, there is a reason that I take my shoes off before I go in my house and it's not just because of what I walk on at work! Unless we all walked around with antiseptic layers on the soles of our shoes, think about what you get on your shoes when you walk across the street....those same shoes walk on hospital floors. It's just not practical. We aren't wiping the floors with the patient gowns before we put them on the patients. The use of bleach based cleaners has been implemented in the hospitals. The use of ultraviolet lights is an unnecessary exposure to radiation and and added expense. When chlorine bleach is used at a greater than 10% dilutant strength, it is strong enough to kill the necesary hospital germs and does not require rinsing. Therefore you have a one step cleaner that is perfectly effective. In all honesty, people who walk around in an office all day with that lovely low pile carpeting that almost never gets vaccuumed, let alone disinfected, are probably carrying around just as lovely of combination of bacteria and viruses on their shoes then the people walking around who may have just stepped in a small puddle of urine or vomit (I know you are all going eww!!! but hey, guess what, it's happened to me as a nurse more times than I care to admit)...
Lastly (I think most importantly) - Drug resistant bacteria is caused by the careless use and misuse of antibiotics (I'm not talking dripping it on the floor). Drug resistant bacteria first started popping up following th
Forget the MCSE training books. Get Mark Minasi's book and read it cover to cover. Read it at work if you can or at home.
Overpriced training courses are usually a waste of time. if you can't pick this stuff up easily from books, you're probably in the wrong field.
The company should pay for books (mine pays for a safari subscription so I can read whatever I want) but a small company is better off hiring someone who knows their systems.
Your big problem is that the company doesn't know this is a problem. Sorry to be a pain, but this is your fault. A big part of running a network is making sure the bean counters know that they should listen to you about where to spend said beans. You will get a lot more "Yes" answers if you can cost justify whatever it is you're asking for. If you can't justify it, you're probably wrong anyway.
Also, a big part of IT is staying on your game. If your eyes glaze over when you read an RFC, you need to think about another career path.
Consider hiring a consultant to clean things up. OFfhand, it sounds like there isn't more than 4 to 8 hours of work for an experienced consultant to do (you have servers that run.. it can't be that bad) and spending the 600 to 1600 bucks to fix it is a lot cheaper than sending you to mcse boot camp to become another paper cert. Plus you'll probably learn something from the consultant. Once things are cleaned up, you can use 30 mins of their time to get their guidance on what you need to keep the ship on an even keel. Not to teach you everything, but to make a list of things you need to learn, rather than MS's list of quirks for the MCSE tests.
A breadboard location. Eg, power supply on a wooden base with a strip of wood at one end to lift the motherboard so you can get cards plugged into it. kb/monitor/mouse for this location.
Hair dryer. If you suspect an intermittent heat problem, you can target it
Lots of light. swing arm lights, plus overhead.
Stereo system
Phone lines to test modems (what's a modem)
Fire extinguishers.
Lots of extra screws.
Magnetic and non magnetic pickup tools
don't worry about duplicating everything between stations, but DO duplicate the essentials. You don't need 4 volt meters, but everyone should know where ONE is.
A spot OUTSIDE the shop floor to open up computers for customers with questions. No customers in shop!
CRT's are right. LCD's suck for multiple res. I always liked having the CRT's up on a shelf at eye level.
Though I may have to throw them out if they come up with 1 Minute Abs.
Seriously though, you still have to pump in the energy you want to get out later. For a car this is a LOT of energy. I'd do the calculations if I were more clever. Without distributed power generation (think fuel cells) it may be hard to get that much juice in one spot without frying someone.
You'd have to bump up the voltage to keep the wires from being too thick to be managed by a single person. Then you have to worry about shocks (rain anyone?) and fumes (presumably there would be filling stations in/near gas pumps for legacy support). Also, some batteries vent hydrogen. not sure if these do though.
[Inside the South Park Genetic Engineering Ranch] Moreau: I'm so pleased that you children are interested in genetic engineering. Cartman: Eh, it's ok Fluffy, nobody's going to hurt you. Moreau: It's thanks to the wonders of genetic engineering that soon there will be an end to hunger, disease, pollution, even war. I have created things that will change the world for the better. For instance, here is a monkey with four asses. Monkey: Mhhh. Kyle: How does that make the world better? Moreau: And here, of course, is my four assed ostrich. And my four assed mongoose. Stan: Do you have anything besides just animals with four asses? Moreau: Oh, uh, I suppose so uh. Oh yes, over here. Here I have rats splice with ducks, and gorillas spliced with mosquitos, and here I have rabbits spliced with fish to make little, bunny fish. Cartman: Heyyy, these bunny ears are tied on with little strings. Moreau: And over here, swiss cheese spliced with chalk, and a beard.
I thought conservatives were supposed to be the mean-spirited ones?
By alone, you mean "without france, germany and china" all of whom are our enemies, and always have been. American revolution excepted (thanks Ben Franklin!)
Sure, it would be nice if the whole country had america's interests at heart. But, countries do not have friends; they have interests (Charles De Gaulle). Galling gallic De Gaulle. Wonder what country he was talking about?
The fact is if we subjugate our decisions to the UN, as Kerry wishes, we will end up with a stack of toothless resolutions such as 1441 (which did pass unanimously by the security council). Despite 1441's threat of "Serious Consequences" the French were neither inclined nor equiped to deliver them
We don't elect people to be poll takers. We elect them to be leaders. If you have a problem with this, and are looking for a direct democracy by popular vote on every minute issue, fine... but beware for what you ask
Right, but he voted for it before voting against it.
Kerry is impressionable, and agrees with anyone for 10 minutes after they have made their point. It's clear from his "positions" that he is devoid of core principles.
I'm not saying he's a bad guy. Being able to hear both sides of an argument is important for someone whose job consists of spouting off at the mouth for hours on end (ie senator).
I'd rather someone who can make a decision, even an unpopular one, than someone who will say whatever you want to hear.
In MA at least, you can choose who makes your power.
http://massenergy.com/Green.FAQs.html
For a few cents extra per kwh, you can have clean power without an initial investment. If you truly care about the environment, you should be buying clean power. You have a choice of wind, solar, hydro or various mixes (at varying cost.)
I love my treo 600. Because it's my phone, I ALWAYS have it with me, so the PDA functions are more useful. I have it remind me of people's birthdays a week in advance so I can pick up a present. Also, it reminds me at 5pm to call the wife and tell her if I'm going to be working late or not. We used to fight over this all the time. That alone is worth the price for me.
It has a decent phone with a zillion phonebook entries... if I dial a number once, I save if in the phone.
I'd appreciate a better camera though. it works very poorly in low light, so either a flash or just a bigger ccd would be awesome.
Also, the screen is kind of dim and low res. I have cool stuff like palmVNC and SSH, but it's kind of useless due to the screen size. The lack of certain keys makes SSH tough too.
Overall though I can't think of a "PDA" function I'd like improved, other than a decent email client to connect to Exchange at work.
Plus all the suits look at me in envy in the elevator.
I heard the same piece on NPR and one of the cool things was that it will notify friends of friends that you're in the area and vice versa. So if the bar you're in is dead, you might be interested to know someone with a common friend is in the next bar down.
Does this officially constitute a vast left wing conspiracy? Is it "mean spirited" ?
It sure as hell is anti-constitutional, illegal and immoral. But that never stopped anyone from fighting "bad" people like Bush, right?
These people believe they are fighting a battle of good versus evil. They are "good," therefore anything they do is OK. Bush is "evil" so they can justify anything they do to stop him.
Conservatives believe they are fighting a battle of right versus wrong. They don't hate liberals, they just consider them "wrong". It's hard to have a debate with someone who believes that facts are irrelevant.
Liberal ideas always SOUND good... some of the nicest people I know are earthy-crunchy liberals. But people who believe in the power of crystals and tarot are "wrong." I don't want them taking my tax money to spend on what they consider a "good" cause.
Remember, for every problem there is a simple answer... which is wrong.
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There's a whole display endcap at my local walmart. they're even on sale.
look again.
I joined NASE (National Association of the Self Employed) and had a plan through MEGA which was basically just a major-medical plan. It didn't cover basic stuff, but would cover a big accident or something. I'm not saying this is your best option, it's just one I happen to know about.
It wasn't that expensive, but then I was single. I think you're in for a rude awakening, either way.
Look into Cisco Clean Access and NAC appliance. I just got trained on that a couple weeks ago.
This just in.... hhr still dead.
... and you can't see through a solar cell.
But we don't burn soil and release that into the air.
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"Former ORNL researchers J. P. McBride, R. E. Moore, J. P. Witherspoon, and R. E. Blanco made this point in their article "Radiological Impact of Airborne Effluents of Coal and Nuclear Plants" in the December 8, 1978, issue of Science magazine. They concluded that Americans living near coal-fired power plants are exposed to higher radiation doses than those living near nuclear power plants that meet government regulations. This ironic situation remains true today and is addressed in this article."
http://www.ornl.gov/info/ornlreview/rev26-34/text
I enjoyed your post, and thought it made sense, so I sent it to a nurse friend of mine who works in a reknowned hospital... here's her reply:
---
ugh! the world is filled with ignorami! This person has clearly not read the studies done on antibiotic resistant bacteria and CLEARLY has NEVER worked in a hospital setting, nevermind familiarized themselves with current nursing practice. So a bit of education is in order...
First - nurses rarely draw up or inject antibiotics via needle injection in the hospital anymore. Many antibitotics are given intravenously and are pre-prepared in the pharmacy IV room (a sterile environment). If and when medications (even antibiotics) are drawn up into a syringe with a needle, yes, the air does need to be expressed out of the syringe. This however is NOT to prevent an air embolis to the patient. It is to ensure that the proper amount of medication is being measured and delivered. As for air being fatal to the patient - yes, an amount of air greater than 3mL (most injections are less that 1mL of fluid) can be harmful (not usually fatal) if injected DIRECTLY into the bloodstream. ALL injections given with a needle are given either transdermally (like the little skin bleb test for TB), subcutabeously (or the into the fat tissue) where often an air bubble is used to aide in medication absorption, or intramuscularly (into the muscle tissue)....so unlike this person is suggesting, medications are NOT pushed like done by an IV drug user (let's look at practice in the 21st century for god's sake!).
Secondly - Yes, sometimes things like medications get dripped onto the floor but if this person looked at current regulations for hospital cleaning they would know that all surfaces in the hospital are cleaned with a bleach or bleach antiseptic equivilant to kill dangerous bacteria (yes, even the drug resistant ones). But because bleach and floor cleaning products are toxic to the human body we can't exactly prescribe a daily dose of clorox for each patient suffering from MRSA or VREC. So, although our floors are nice and shiney they have been disinfected first. As the cleaners are strong enough to kill the bacteria the risk of spreading bacteria through disposal of the cleaning water from the mop buckets is not a concern. The concern is rather the toxicity of the solvents used and therefore just like any other institution, the water is then treated and purified at municipal water facitilities just like it is to remove the human waste and household cleaning solvents used on an everyday basis. Seriously, there is a reason that I take my shoes off before I go in my house and it's not just because of what I walk on at work! Unless we all walked around with antiseptic layers on the soles of our shoes, think about what you get on your shoes when you walk across the street....those same shoes walk on hospital floors. It's just not practical. We aren't wiping the floors with the patient gowns before we put them on the patients. The use of bleach based cleaners has been implemented in the hospitals. The use of ultraviolet lights is an unnecessary exposure to radiation and and added expense. When chlorine bleach is used at a greater than 10% dilutant strength, it is strong enough to kill the necesary hospital germs and does not require rinsing. Therefore you have a one step cleaner that is perfectly effective. In all honesty, people who walk around in an office all day with that lovely low pile carpeting that almost never gets vaccuumed, let alone disinfected, are probably carrying around just as lovely of combination of bacteria and viruses on their shoes then the people walking around who may have just stepped in a small puddle of urine or vomit (I know you are all going eww!!! but hey, guess what, it's happened to me as a nurse more times than I care to admit)...
Lastly (I think most importantly) - Drug resistant bacteria is caused by the careless use and misuse of antibiotics (I'm not talking dripping it on the floor). Drug resistant bacteria first started popping up following th
Right. 14 people were killed in the last couple of weeks by coal (mining accidents).
How many by nuclear power?
Forget the MCSE training books. Get Mark Minasi's book and read it cover to cover. Read it at work if you can or at home.
Overpriced training courses are usually a waste of time. if you can't pick this stuff up easily from books, you're probably in the wrong field.
The company should pay for books (mine pays for a safari subscription so I can read whatever I want) but a small company is better off hiring someone who knows their systems.
Your big problem is that the company doesn't know this is a problem. Sorry to be a pain, but this is your fault. A big part of running a network is making sure the bean counters know that they should listen to you about where to spend said beans. You will get a lot more "Yes" answers if you can cost justify whatever it is you're asking for. If you can't justify it, you're probably wrong anyway.
Also, a big part of IT is staying on your game. If your eyes glaze over when you read an RFC, you need to think about another career path.
Consider hiring a consultant to clean things up. OFfhand, it sounds like there isn't more than 4 to 8 hours of work for an experienced consultant to do (you have servers that run.. it can't be that bad) and spending the 600 to 1600 bucks to fix it is a lot cheaper than sending you to mcse boot camp to become another paper cert. Plus you'll probably learn something from the consultant. Once things are cleaned up, you can use 30 mins of their time to get their guidance on what you need to keep the ship on an even keel. Not to teach you everything, but to make a list of things you need to learn, rather than MS's list of quirks for the MCSE tests.
good luck
What's in the box that says "Raw Meat?"
Does the british show Brainiac's lack of real science annoy you as much as it does me? They seem like Mythbusters-lite
Padded floor (big rubber mats). Padded barstools.
A breadboard location. Eg, power supply on a wooden base with a strip of wood at one end to lift the motherboard so you can get cards plugged into it. kb/monitor/mouse for this location.
Hair dryer. If you suspect an intermittent heat problem, you can target it
Lots of light. swing arm lights, plus overhead.
Stereo system
Phone lines to test modems (what's a modem)
Fire extinguishers.
Lots of extra screws.
Magnetic and non magnetic pickup tools
don't worry about duplicating everything between stations, but DO duplicate the essentials. You don't need 4 volt meters, but everyone should know where ONE is.
A spot OUTSIDE the shop floor to open up computers for customers with questions. No customers in shop!
CRT's are right. LCD's suck for multiple res. I always liked having the CRT's up on a shelf at eye level.
Did u mean u just bought "a Universal Serial Bus analog video capture device?"
Some of us r unclear on the meaning of "USB."
Dink.
This will go well with my 6 Minute Abs tapes.
Though I may have to throw them out if they come up with 1 Minute Abs.
Seriously though, you still have to pump in the energy you want to get out later. For a car this is a LOT of energy. I'd do the calculations if I were more clever. Without distributed power generation (think fuel cells) it may be hard to get that much juice in one spot without frying someone.
You'd have to bump up the voltage to keep the wires from being too thick to be managed by a single person. Then you have to worry about shocks (rain anyone?) and fumes (presumably there would be filling stations in/near gas pumps for legacy support). Also, some batteries vent hydrogen. not sure if these do though.
So, how many asses does that make?
[Inside the South Park Genetic Engineering Ranch]
Moreau: I'm so pleased that you children are interested in genetic engineering.
Cartman: Eh, it's ok Fluffy, nobody's going to hurt you.
Moreau: It's thanks to the wonders of genetic engineering that soon there will be an end to hunger, disease, pollution, even war. I have created things that will change the world for the better. For instance, here is a monkey with four asses.
Monkey: Mhhh.
Kyle: How does that make the world better?
Moreau: And here, of course, is my four assed ostrich. And my four assed mongoose.
Stan: Do you have anything besides just animals with four asses?
Moreau: Oh, uh, I suppose so uh. Oh yes, over here. Here I have rats splice with ducks, and gorillas spliced with mosquitos, and here I have rabbits spliced with fish to make little, bunny fish.
Cartman: Heyyy, these bunny ears are tied on with little strings.
Moreau: And over here, swiss cheese spliced with chalk, and a beard.
All science is either physics or stamp collecting.
-Ernest Rutherford
Who, ironically won the Nobel prize in 1908 for... chemistry.
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http://www.nature.com/news/2004/041229/multimedia
Not sure if this has been posted, but I found it to be a really neat illustration of what got hit and why.
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http://www.nature.com/news/2004/041229/multimed
I thought conservatives were supposed to be the mean-spirited ones?
By alone, you mean "without france, germany and china" all of whom are our enemies, and always have been. American revolution excepted (thanks Ben Franklin!)
Sure, it would be nice if the whole country had america's interests at heart. But, countries do not have friends; they have interests (Charles De Gaulle). Galling gallic De Gaulle. Wonder what country he was talking about?
The fact is if we subjugate our decisions to the UN, as Kerry wishes, we will end up with a stack of toothless resolutions such as 1441 (which did pass unanimously by the security council). Despite 1441's threat of "Serious Consequences" the French were neither inclined nor equiped to deliver them
Bush was.
We don't elect people to be poll takers. We elect them to be leaders. If you have a problem with this, and are looking for a direct democracy by popular vote on every minute issue, fine... but beware for what you ask
Right, but he voted for it before voting against it.
Kerry is impressionable, and agrees with anyone for 10 minutes after they have made their point. It's clear from his "positions" that he is devoid of core principles.
I'm not saying he's a bad guy. Being able to hear both sides of an argument is important for someone whose job consists of spouting off at the mouth for hours on end (ie senator).
I'd rather someone who can make a decision, even an unpopular one, than someone who will say whatever you want to hear.
In MA at least, you can choose who makes your power.
http://massenergy.com/Green.FAQs.html
For a few cents extra per kwh, you can have clean power without an initial investment. If you truly care about the environment, you should be buying clean power. You have a choice of wind, solar, hydro or various mixes (at varying cost.)
I love my treo 600. Because it's my phone, I ALWAYS have it with me, so the PDA functions are more useful. I have it remind me of people's birthdays a week in advance so I can pick up a present. Also, it reminds me at 5pm to call the wife and tell her if I'm going to be working late or not. We used to fight over this all the time. That alone is worth the price for me.
It has a decent phone with a zillion phonebook entries... if I dial a number once, I save if in the phone.
I'd appreciate a better camera though. it works very poorly in low light, so either a flash or just a bigger ccd would be awesome.
Also, the screen is kind of dim and low res. I have cool stuff like palmVNC and SSH, but it's kind of useless due to the screen size. The lack of certain keys makes SSH tough too.
Overall though I can't think of a "PDA" function I'd like improved, other than a decent email client to connect to Exchange at work.
Plus all the suits look at me in envy in the elevator.
I heard the same piece on NPR and one of the cool things was that it will notify friends of friends that you're in the area and vice versa. So if the bar you're in is dead, you might be interested to know someone with a common friend is in the next bar down.
Or not.
Does this officially constitute a vast left wing conspiracy? Is it "mean spirited" ?
It sure as hell is anti-constitutional, illegal and immoral. But that never stopped anyone from fighting "bad" people like Bush, right?
These people believe they are fighting a battle of good versus evil. They are "good," therefore anything they do is OK. Bush is "evil" so they can justify anything they do to stop him.
Conservatives believe they are fighting a battle of right versus wrong. They don't hate liberals, they just consider them "wrong". It's hard to have a debate with someone who believes that facts are irrelevant.
Liberal ideas always SOUND good... some of the nicest people I know are earthy-crunchy liberals. But people who believe in the power of crystals and tarot are "wrong." I don't want them taking my tax money to spend on what they consider a "good" cause.
Remember, for every problem there is a simple answer... which is wrong.
Bigger government is NEVER the answer.