It's dirt cheap when its legal, even for the consumer.
If sold as illegal drugs, we had 500g and 1k containers of the stuff stacked all over the lab for most of the day, enough to make piles of pure heroin.
It's like the "peaceful co-existance" the Soviets were all in favor of. They want to then be able to say they support is even as they choke the life out of it.
I met a person who worked in a (legal) drug processing plant that turned opium gum into morphine. It is/was the only plant of its kind in the USA. Not only was everyone who worked in the plant fingerprinted and background checked and credit checked, but their bank accounts were monitored for transaction activity. And their family was also investigated. He had turned down bribes from people who wanted him to divert just a tiny amount of the finished product out the door to their waiting van.
I was chatting him up in a lab, as a couple of DEA agents watched every move I made. I was handling not just milligrams, but KILOGRAMS of morphine and raw opium gum, filling sample containers and feeding them into the analyser they were thinking of buying. Every paper towel I wiped a spatula with went into their special trash bag, and they even brought pocket-less lab coats to keep me from stealing sample! They even flinched if I used a tissue - clearly they thought I was going to snort some.
BTW: opium gum looks like road tar and gives you a headache from the fumes (not high, just a hang-over kind of throbbing)... and every time I left the building to get some fresh air they checked my jeans pockets. I would breathe a while, wave cheerfully to the SWAT teams guarding the building, and go back inside. Street value of what that armed caravan brought to our offices to use as test samples was in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Just make sure you have your data backed up, including all the upgrades and patches for Windows and installables for all the stuff you have downloaded.
I regularly burn all the things I downloaded to test to CDs.
"The real problem is she installed 64-bit without understanding the implications of such."
Go to the Ubuntu download page... if you know, as I did, that you have a 64-bit AMD microprocessor, which download would you pick? They make no mention of buggy.
Every system I build gets easier and easier because more things get integrated into the mobo, like USB and graphics and sound and Ethernet. I don't remember which mobo I have, but the instructions were excellent. If you can assemble IKEA furniture, you can build a computer.
I am a technical writer: I think like a Clueless Newbie when I am testing user documentation.
My biggest gripe with the Linuxes of the first article was mostly that it was impossible to just RTFM and accomplish things because it depended on arcane knowledge and there was no FM to R.
My goal with this project was to see if Ubuntu was something that a minimally competent computer user could install on their own, and end up with a working system. Point and click and copy and paste... the basic skills.
BTW: Ubuntu's GUI and help pages talk about drivers and partitions and Wine. I was surprised... happily surprised... to see so much clearly written, useful information in one spot.
Coming and going from the Farallons... that's impossible to do because all shipping has to go under the bridge. From the islands you have to cross the shipping lanes to get to the coast of Califoenia.
I remember a freighter that came into Charleston harbor with a SAIL snarled in the anchor. The crew never heard or felt a thing, but the sailboat was never found. Their best guess was that the collision happened off the coast of Spain.
If Gray's boat was run over by an outgoing freighter, he would have had little time to escape. The sailboat would have been sucked under the freighter and may or may not have come to the surface after the freighter's hull and propellers got through chewing on it.
This happened several times during the 15 or 20 minutes we did CPR until the paramedics found us (yes, it was a criminal amount of time). I'm not sure I buy into the idea that breaths aren't important.
for 15-20 minutes... yes, it would be important to do the breathing. The compression-only technique assumes that somoene with a defibrillator (the new automatic ones) will be arriving within a few minutes.
What if one person gave chest compressions while another gave mouth to mouth.
That's the 2-rescuer approach... the tricky part is the timing so the one doing the compressions doesn't have to stop for long whil you give 2 short blasts of air.
"But I see no reason here why the ventilation part would make CPR less effective when done properly and by professionals. Perhaps this study just shows the lack of skill in doing it properly. After all, what's the point of circulation, if there's no oxygen going in?"
The chest compressions are only intended to keep the person going until the ambulance Apparently the residual O2 in the blood is enough. When the pros get there, they have pure O2, ventilator bags, defibrillators and all sorts of nifty equipment.
"So if the person is still breathing but their heart has stopped, rescue breaths provide no benefit.
DUH!"
RTFA... if they are NOT breathing, and had a cardiac arrest, DON'T WASTE TIME WITH THE RESCUE BREATHING! Just call for help and do the chest compressions. In an urban emergency, you can keep them going until the EMT's get there with the defib and O2.
And that's the WHOLE POINT, Network Boy. Joe Consumer doesn't have your l33t hax0r skilz, so he brings it home and turns it on and expects things to work.
That's all it is doing. And doing it evenly across the entire picture.
Removing noise from pictures is tricky... if this filter was turned into a plug-in for a photo editing program that let you apply the various filter parameters differently to different areas it might be useful.
Most of their samples are "over smoothed" and look like plastic.
OpenOffice has a totally different way of opening files... it isn't going to be suceptible because it has nothing for the virus to attack. MSOffice, on the other hand, has hooks all over the operating system to be exploited.
... if the technique was first described and shown in 2001, then reaffirmed in 2003, why haven't they moved forward with trying to treat humans with severe/end-stage diabetes? In fact, they don't even discuss the possibility, which makes me wonder if there is something else in play (bad side effects for example).
Look up "Complete Freund's Adjuvant"... the stuff induces a massive immune inflammatory response, and is illegal to use in humans. The study has to be replicated, not ONCE, but several times, until they figure out what is really happening. It might be possible to target JUST the immune cells that have "learned" to attack the islet cells, which is far safer than suppressing all of the immune cells.
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If sold as illegal drugs, we had 500g and 1k containers of the stuff stacked all over the lab for most of the day, enough to make piles of pure heroin.
It's like the "peaceful co-existance" the Soviets were all in favor of. They want to then be able to say they support is even as they choke the life out of it.
I was chatting him up in a lab, as a couple of DEA agents watched every move I made. I was handling not just milligrams, but KILOGRAMS of morphine and raw opium gum, filling sample containers and feeding them into the analyser they were thinking of buying. Every paper towel I wiped a spatula with went into their special trash bag, and they even brought pocket-less lab coats to keep me from stealing sample! They even flinched if I used a tissue - clearly they thought I was going to snort some.
BTW: opium gum looks like road tar and gives you a headache from the fumes (not high, just a hang-over kind of throbbing) ... and every time I left the building to get some fresh air they checked my jeans pockets. I would breathe a while, wave cheerfully to the SWAT teams guarding the building, and go back inside. Street value of what that armed caravan brought to our offices to use as test samples was in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
I regularly burn all the things I downloaded to test to CDs.
"The real problem is she installed 64-bit without understanding the implications of such."
Go to the Ubuntu download page ... if you know, as I did, that you have a 64-bit AMD microprocessor, which download would you pick? They make no mention of buggy.
Ubuntu re-sized the Main Windows partition to make enough room for itself and its swap file. It didn't mess with the data drives.
Some of my previous Linux experiments clobbered the existing OS. Red Hat did, and IIRC "Linux for Windows" did it by default.
Yes, but if I never take off the newbie robe, the live-in geek isn't happy :)
Every system I build gets easier and easier because more things get integrated into the mobo, like USB and graphics and sound and Ethernet. I don't remember which mobo I have, but the instructions were excellent. If you can assemble IKEA furniture, you can build a computer.
It runs Second Life ... without WINE.
I am a technical writer: I think like a Clueless Newbie when I am testing user documentation. My biggest gripe with the Linuxes of the first article was mostly that it was impossible to just RTFM and accomplish things because it depended on arcane knowledge and there was no FM to R. My goal with this project was to see if Ubuntu was something that a minimally competent computer user could install on their own, and end up with a working system. Point and click and copy and paste ... the basic skills.
BTW: Ubuntu's GUI and help pages talk about drivers and partitions and Wine. I was surprised ... happily surprised ... to see so much clearly written, useful information in one spot.
thats why you don't sail in shipping lanes. ever.
Coming and going from the Farallons ... that's impossible to do because all shipping has to go under the bridge. From the islands you have to cross the shipping lanes to get to the coast of Califoenia.
If Gray's boat was run over by an outgoing freighter, he would have had little time to escape. The sailboat would have been sucked under the freighter and may or may not have come to the surface after the freighter's hull and propellers got through chewing on it.
What sort of half-assed marketing is this?
This happened several times during the 15 or 20 minutes we did CPR until the paramedics found us (yes, it was a criminal amount of time). I'm not sure I buy into the idea that breaths aren't important.
for 15-20 minutes ... yes, it would be important to do the breathing. The compression-only technique assumes that somoene with a defibrillator (the new automatic ones) will be arriving within a few minutes.
What if one person gave chest compressions while another gave mouth to mouth.
That's the 2-rescuer approach ... the tricky part is the timing so the one doing the compressions doesn't have to stop for long whil you give 2 short blasts of air.
The chest compressions are only intended to keep the person going until the ambulance Apparently the residual O2 in the blood is enough. When the pros get there, they have pure O2, ventilator bags, defibrillators and all sorts of nifty equipment.
"So if the person is still breathing but their heart has stopped, rescue breaths provide no benefit. DUH!"
RTFA ... if they are NOT breathing, and had a cardiac arrest, DON'T WASTE TIME WITH THE RESCUE BREATHING! Just call for help and do the chest compressions. In an urban emergency, you can keep them going until the EMT's get there with the defib and O2.
And that's the WHOLE POINT, Network Boy. Joe Consumer doesn't have your l33t hax0r skilz, so he brings it home and turns it on and expects things to work.
That's all it is doing. And doing it evenly across the entire picture.
... if this filter was turned into a plug-in for a photo editing program that let you apply the various filter parameters differently to different areas it might be useful.
Removing noise from pictures is tricky
Most of their samples are "over smoothed" and look like plastic.
OpenOffice has a totally different way of opening files ... it isn't going to be suceptible because it has nothing for the virus to attack. MSOffice, on the other hand, has hooks all over the operating system to be exploited.
In the meantime, download and use OpenOffice
Look up "Complete Freund's Adjuvant" ... the stuff induces a massive immune inflammatory response, and is illegal to use in humans. The study has to be replicated, not ONCE, but several times, until they figure out what is really happening. It might be possible to target JUST the immune cells that have "learned" to attack the islet cells, which is far safer than suppressing all of the immune cells.
You should see what's on the typical novelist's hard drive, and in their bookcase.
Judge Stephen N. Limbaugh JUNIOR is on the Missouri Supreme court, and is on the ballot.
Judge Stephen N. Limbaugh (senior) is the federal judge.