She had take these god-awful tablets called Metformin which have horrendous side effects on your bowel movements - not funny at all.
I was first diagnosed with Type II in March of 2002, and put on Metformin. Yes, I was overweight, but not any more. As it happens, my diagnosis was recently changed to LADA (a form of Type I that only manifests in adults) probably caused by indirect exposure to Agent Orange in '72. I've been taking Metformin for fifteen years now, along with other medications, and I've never had it cause gastrointestinal problems. That's not to say that it isn't a common side effect, just that it's not as common as you seem to think. BTW, I'm glad to read that your wife got everything under control.
Absolutely. And, I know that it must have been my mind because it didn't start until I'd been watching it for about fifteen seconds. Why so long? I was trying to figure out how the pylon was going up and down, but didn't break.
I take it, then, that you've never served in the military. Most of your basic training is teaching you how to do such things as march in step, fold your spare clothing in the same way as everybody else (at least in the Navy, don't know about other branches) follow orders and do other tasks by reflex. You can easily train dogs to do similar things, because they want to please you, but cats are harder to train because they want a physical reward, such as treats.
Maybe (I'm not American) but the point is that you believe the choice STARTED there, whereas I believe the choice ENDED there.
No, the choice didn't start there, it started during the Primaries, where all of the other potential candidates were eliminated. Some of them weren't very good, some couldn't get their message out, some were outspent, and some were outmaneuvered. And by last November, there were only two left who had any realistic chance of winning, just like it's been every election since the early '50s.
In the most recent Presidential election, we were given the choice between a candidate that was absolutely unacceptable and one whom we were willing to vote for, even if we had to hold our noses as we did. Which one was which is something that I'll leave as an exercise for the reader.
They also teach students to care about nothing but the short-term bottom line and screw long-term side effects. The idea is to use the higher profits to jump ship to a higher paying job before the damage you've done to the company becomes evident. (No, I'm not an MBA, but I was told this by one of the few good ones I've ever met.)
Case in point is the way that meat chickens have changed in just over the last 60 years since they started to be bred for more and more white meat.
Not just chickens, turkeys too. Back in the '50s, when I was a child, dark meat on both birds really was dark, and had a much stronger, richer taste than it does now. If you want to find out how good dark meat can taste, make sure that this year's turkey is free range, because without the mobility that allows, the legs don't get used enough to develop the meat properly. When cooked, the meat should be medium to dark brown, not pastel.
You don't need it yet. A common side effect is eye damage but you knew that, I hope.
Yes, I had a friend who had that happen. I've always taken care of myself, and after fifteen years, there's no retinopathy or neuropathy, although I have had cataracts removed.
I'm also disabled, but I don't need speech recognition. I'm partially deaf, with tinnitus, so what I often need is more text, less voice. And, I'm diabetic, which is considered a disability, but I don't need any special technology for that. The point here is, there are many kinds of disability, and different people need different forms of assistance to work around them. There's no way this can fit into a One Size Fits All package, although I'd not be at all surprised to learn that that's exactly what Google is trying to do.
Windows 10 could be a good OS if it had a decent package manager like apt!
Personally, I use dnf, but I'm not sure that either of them would work that well for Windows. Not because of compatibility issues, but because they both depend on packages coming from a fairly small number of repositories, and conforming to certain packaging standards but most Windows users are installing packages from various and sundry websites run by people with no connection to Microsoft who probably don't set their packages up in any predictable way. Of course, Microsoft could always create some sort of packaging standard, and build a package manager around it, but then you end up with metric buttloads of complaints about programs that ignore the standard, or that haven't been repackaged to comply.
I'm not so sure. Google Canada Corporation is a Canadian corporation and they would have to comply with a court order requiring that certain search results be suppressed. Google itself, however, isn't a Canadian corporation and doesn't have (AFAIK) offices or servers in Canada. (That's what Google Canada Corporation is for, after all.) IANAL, but my impression is that the most a Canadian court can do is order that Google suppress those searches in requests made from Canada and request US courts to enforce it as needed. And, I would expect, that would be exactly Canada's reaction if the situation were reversed.
The US Military has this Interchangeable Widget concept of manpower; and anybody can be trained to be a Navigator or a Fire Controlman.
And again, not so. Very early in Boot Camp, you take a series of aptitude tests, so that the Navy can find out what you're good at and what you're not. Then, they compare your aptitudes with their needs and come up with the best fit they can. That way they don't try to train a sailor who can't do math to be a Quartermaster's Mate, responsible for navigation, or a dyslexic as a Yeoman, a clerical job.
People need to think about what they are doing. If they feel something is going wrong, they have to have the freedom to request a Stop Work, without consequences.
Oh, yeah, that's going to go over real good when the helmsman tries to issue a Stop Order when the ship's on a collision course because he thinks the ship should be turning Port instead of Starboard, or when the ship's in combat. You may have worked with people who were ex-Navy, but you clearly have no understanding of how the Military works, or why.
Not keeping a firm grasp of the situation was a problem, of course. Not handing the con back wasn't. Once the Captain takes control, he has the con until he says otherwise, and he can keep it as long as he thinks he needs to. Nobody's going to question him if he keeps it longer than expected, although he might have to answer for his actions if he returns the con before the emergency is over.
I don't blame the training either, or the lack of it.
I do. As I've written elsewhere, I'm ex-Navy. If every shift of bridge crew had been properly trained, and there'd been regular drills, everybody would have known exactly what to do and would have done it automatically, without even needing to think about it. It's just like knowing how to hit the brakes and swerve to avoid a crash when you're driving your car. If you were properly taught in the first place, you don't think about it, you just do it, and this is no different. The big problem here is, people who don't think that the requirements for training and drills applies to them, when it's intended to apply to everybody without exception.
Contrary to protocol, the CO issued orders, without announcing that he was taking direct control, and then didn't keep a firm grasp of the situation.
I've been in the US Navy and I've served Bridge Watches. Any time the Captain gives a direct order to the helm, or directly orders a change in speed, he automatically has the con, and retains it until he says otherwise. This is so that there's no time wasted in an emergency when the time saved may make the difference between a collision and a near miss. Yes, most of the time he goes through the proper protocol for taking over, but he's the only person who doesn't have to, and it's his decision whether or not there's time to jump through the hoops.
You ever met a smoker that smokes ONLY outside work hours and identifies as a smoker?
Yes: me. I've been a pipe smoker (never cigarettes) for over forty years, and I've never had the slightest desire to slip out for a smoke. As I drive my own car to work, I can smoke then, or at home and have no need to smoke at work.
One reason to release the propaganda videos is so that people can see for themselves just how he was trying to push his ideas on the world so that they could recognize it when they see it. Another one might be to discredit them by showing the world that all they were was propaganda with no basis (presumably) in reality. I've no idea how relevant they are any more, or why they didn't do this sooner, but it is a possible motive for them.
There are two things you're ignoring here. First, in order for there to be an issue here, it doesn't have to be just day and month, they have to have been born in the same year, meaning that a father and son won't create a false positive as some people here are claiming. Second, how does this affect blacks more than anybody else?
OK, that explains why there are larger number of blacks that have the same first/last combination with somebody else than whites, but completely ignores the birthdate. Yes, of course there are going to be false positives on that, but how do you explain them having the exact same birthdate as well? Please understand that I'm not defending the system, or how it's being misused, I just want to get the facts clear.
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No, no, no, not a safe, an anvil! And the only way to do it right, is from orbit!
She had take these god-awful tablets called Metformin which have horrendous side effects on your bowel movements - not funny at all.
I was first diagnosed with Type II in March of 2002, and put on Metformin. Yes, I was overweight, but not any more. As it happens, my diagnosis was recently changed to LADA (a form of Type I that only manifests in adults) probably caused by indirect exposure to Agent Orange in '72. I've been taking Metformin for fifteen years now, along with other medications, and I've never had it cause gastrointestinal problems. That's not to say that it isn't a common side effect, just that it's not as common as you seem to think. BTW, I'm glad to read that your wife got everything under control.
Absolutely. And, I know that it must have been my mind because it didn't start until I'd been watching it for about fifteen seconds. Why so long? I was trying to figure out how the pylon was going up and down, but didn't break.
I take it, then, that you've never served in the military. Most of your basic training is teaching you how to do such things as march in step, fold your spare clothing in the same way as everybody else (at least in the Navy, don't know about other branches) follow orders and do other tasks by reflex. You can easily train dogs to do similar things, because they want to please you, but cats are harder to train because they want a physical reward, such as treats.
Maybe (I'm not American) but the point is that you believe the choice STARTED there, whereas I believe the choice ENDED there.
No, the choice didn't start there, it started during the Primaries, where all of the other potential candidates were eliminated. Some of them weren't very good, some couldn't get their message out, some were outspent, and some were outmaneuvered. And by last November, there were only two left who had any realistic chance of winning, just like it's been every election since the early '50s.
In the most recent Presidential election, we were given the choice between a candidate that was absolutely unacceptable and one whom we were willing to vote for, even if we had to hold our noses as we did. Which one was which is something that I'll leave as an exercise for the reader.
They also teach students to care about nothing but the short-term bottom line and screw long-term side effects. The idea is to use the higher profits to jump ship to a higher paying job before the damage you've done to the company becomes evident. (No, I'm not an MBA, but I was told this by one of the few good ones I've ever met.)
So what you're saying is, you spent part of your doctoral work rediscovering the Square-Cube Law.
This is why I never ask for an ereceipt. The amount of paper used is trivial, and it keeps my email address off of their spam list.
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Do I have to subscribe through my doctor's office, or can I get a discount rate from Publisher's Clearinghouse?
Case in point is the way that meat chickens have changed in just over the last 60 years since they started to be bred for more and more white meat.
Not just chickens, turkeys too. Back in the '50s, when I was a child, dark meat on both birds really was dark, and had a much stronger, richer taste than it does now. If you want to find out how good dark meat can taste, make sure that this year's turkey is free range, because without the mobility that allows, the legs don't get used enough to develop the meat properly. When cooked, the meat should be medium to dark brown, not pastel.
Remember, half a gram is better than a damn!
You don't need it yet. A common side effect is eye damage but you knew that, I hope.
Yes, I had a friend who had that happen. I've always taken care of myself, and after fifteen years, there's no retinopathy or neuropathy, although I have had cataracts removed.
As someone who is disabled...
I'm also disabled, but I don't need speech recognition. I'm partially deaf, with tinnitus, so what I often need is more text, less voice. And, I'm diabetic, which is considered a disability, but I don't need any special technology for that. The point here is, there are many kinds of disability, and different people need different forms of assistance to work around them. There's no way this can fit into a One Size Fits All package, although I'd not be at all surprised to learn that that's exactly what Google is trying to do.
Windows 10 could be a good OS if it had a decent package manager like apt!
Personally, I use dnf, but I'm not sure that either of them would work that well for Windows. Not because of compatibility issues, but because they both depend on packages coming from a fairly small number of repositories, and conforming to certain packaging standards but most Windows users are installing packages from various and sundry websites run by people with no connection to Microsoft who probably don't set their packages up in any predictable way. Of course, Microsoft could always create some sort of packaging standard, and build a package manager around it, but then you end up with metric buttloads of complaints about programs that ignore the standard, or that haven't been repackaged to comply.
I've done development and QA work, and QA approaches testing from from a whole different perspective.
So does proofreading. Have you ever done any?
I'm not so sure. Google Canada Corporation is a Canadian corporation and they would have to comply with a court order requiring that certain search results be suppressed. Google itself, however, isn't a Canadian corporation and doesn't have (AFAIK) offices or servers in Canada. (That's what Google Canada Corporation is for, after all.) IANAL, but my impression is that the most a Canadian court can do is order that Google suppress those searches in requests made from Canada and request US courts to enforce it as needed. And, I would expect, that would be exactly Canada's reaction if the situation were reversed.
The US Military has this Interchangeable Widget concept of manpower; and anybody can be trained to be a Navigator or a Fire Controlman.
And again, not so. Very early in Boot Camp, you take a series of aptitude tests, so that the Navy can find out what you're good at and what you're not. Then, they compare your aptitudes with their needs and come up with the best fit they can. That way they don't try to train a sailor who can't do math to be a Quartermaster's Mate, responsible for navigation, or a dyslexic as a Yeoman, a clerical job.
People need to think about what they are doing. If they feel something is going wrong, they have to have the freedom to request a Stop Work, without consequences.
Oh, yeah, that's going to go over real good when the helmsman tries to issue a Stop Order when the ship's on a collision course because he thinks the ship should be turning Port instead of Starboard, or when the ship's in combat. You may have worked with people who were ex-Navy, but you clearly have no understanding of how the Military works, or why.
Not keeping a firm grasp of the situation was a problem, of course. Not handing the con back wasn't. Once the Captain takes control, he has the con until he says otherwise, and he can keep it as long as he thinks he needs to. Nobody's going to question him if he keeps it longer than expected, although he might have to answer for his actions if he returns the con before the emergency is over.
I don't blame the training either, or the lack of it.
I do. As I've written elsewhere, I'm ex-Navy. If every shift of bridge crew had been properly trained, and there'd been regular drills, everybody would have known exactly what to do and would have done it automatically, without even needing to think about it. It's just like knowing how to hit the brakes and swerve to avoid a crash when you're driving your car. If you were properly taught in the first place, you don't think about it, you just do it, and this is no different. The big problem here is, people who don't think that the requirements for training and drills applies to them, when it's intended to apply to everybody without exception.
Contrary to protocol, the CO issued orders, without announcing that he was taking direct control, and then didn't keep a firm grasp of the situation.
I've been in the US Navy and I've served Bridge Watches. Any time the Captain gives a direct order to the helm, or directly orders a change in speed, he automatically has the con, and retains it until he says otherwise. This is so that there's no time wasted in an emergency when the time saved may make the difference between a collision and a near miss. Yes, most of the time he goes through the proper protocol for taking over, but he's the only person who doesn't have to, and it's his decision whether or not there's time to jump through the hoops.
You ever met a smoker that smokes ONLY outside work hours and identifies as a smoker?
Yes: me. I've been a pipe smoker (never cigarettes) for over forty years, and I've never had the slightest desire to slip out for a smoke. As I drive my own car to work, I can smoke then, or at home and have no need to smoke at work.
One reason to release the propaganda videos is so that people can see for themselves just how he was trying to push his ideas on the world so that they could recognize it when they see it. Another one might be to discredit them by showing the world that all they were was propaganda with no basis (presumably) in reality. I've no idea how relevant they are any more, or why they didn't do this sooner, but it is a possible motive for them.
There are two things you're ignoring here. First, in order for there to be an issue here, it doesn't have to be just day and month, they have to have been born in the same year, meaning that a father and son won't create a false positive as some people here are claiming. Second, how does this affect blacks more than anybody else?
OK, that explains why there are larger number of blacks that have the same first/last combination with somebody else than whites, but completely ignores the birthdate. Yes, of course there are going to be false positives on that, but how do you explain them having the exact same birthdate as well? Please understand that I'm not defending the system, or how it's being misused, I just want to get the facts clear.