Obama doesn't have a fraction of the courage of JFK. None of them do, except Carter and Bush Sr. and perhaps Nixon.
Reagan. The way he reacted when he was shot showed that he had, at least as much physical courage as JFK. And, like it or not, his Strategic Defense Initiative (AKA "Starwars") wasn't the type of policy that a timid president would ever have dared.
I have a friend in his mid-70s who just adores XP. He's not planning on upgrading after MS stops supporting it because he's sure that third-parties will continue to create and distribute patches for all the new security holes that will be showing up. Never mind the fact that there aren't any such third-parties and that if they were, they wouldn't have access to the source code. I haven't told him this, because we're friends, and I don't want to offend him by telling him things he doesn't want to hear, but IMAO he's acting like an ostrich. Just because he's not willing to admit that there are almost certainly zero-day exploits just waiting for support to end doesn't mean that he's going to get hammered when we all find out what the black hats have been sitting on.
...and there's no "queue of baddies waiting to be beaten up, because they're too stupid to attack simulatenously" elements.
Back in the Golden Age of The Movie Serials, the action, each week, often included fight scenes where two or three bad guys tried to beat up, and possibly kill, the hero. The fights were generally choreographed so that only one of them could get at the hero at any one time, with another one getting up and back into the action just as the hero knocks whoever he's fighting down, stunning him long enough that he only had to take them on one at a time, even though they were doing their best to gang up on him. Yes, you know that the fights were planned that way, but they came out remarkably believable and hold up better than you'd expect.
If you think Fifty Shades was bad you need to read Naked Came the Stranger, a best seller with absolutely no literary or social merit that became even more popular when it was revealed to be a hoax.
In this case, the trial version is Novolog with a new enzyme added that will, it's hoped, make it work even faster; the control group gets Novolog without the addition. Of course, it's all double-blind.
Now, if it's making medication change suggestions the doctor should at least know about it.
Some diabetics need to adjust their dosage on a day-to-day basis, depending on their blood sugar reading. If so, they need to understand the process well enough to calculate how much insulin to take based on their reading. Not all of them are comfortable with math, and find it either frightening or confusing, if not both. An app like this would simply do the calculation for them, so that they would know how much they need.
Me too neither. However, on the other side, I'm part of a clinical study of a new fast-acting insulin, and I have to keep a diary including when I take my basal insulin (Glargine/Lantus) in 24-hour time. As I'm ex-Navy, that's easy for me, but from what the clerks at the clinic tell me, most people find it very hard to keep straight. I'd guess that for people who can't manage 24-hour time, an app like this might be worth while, assuming that they actually use it properly.
I'm Type II, and I do have a cell phone, but all it can do is make calls and simple texting. I have no use for a smartphone and no desire to shell out the cash to get one just for one app that I don't have any use for. Yes, there are people out there who really need something like this because they don't know how to manage their condition, but most of them probably wouldn't use this properly if they had it.
Deep frying, of course, is quite literally boiling in oil. As the boiling point is dependent on the pressure, they might want to consider putting the fryer in a pressure vessel that can handle several atmospheres. (No, I don't think a broaster is built for that.) Of course, that may well take the boiling point above the smoke point, so you may want to fill the container with nitrogen or possibly carbon dioxide.
If memory serves, what you'd want to do is push it backwards in its orbit, slowing it down so that it drops into a lower orbit. Of course, human muscle power isn't going to be enough to make a measurable difference, and getting it low enough that atmospheric drag will finish the job is going to take quite a bit of delta-V.
There's a word that describes what happened exactly: Gafiate. Gafiating is sort of like taking a vacation, but it's a vacation from your hobby or other spare-time activity, such as working on OSS projects. Sometimes, you just have to walk away for a while until the interest comes back. If nothing else, it's good to know that there's nothing seriously wrong.
These include vitamin D in the elderly for bone strength...
A little over a year ago I took a fall and ended up with compression fractures of my backbone. It turns out that I was both low on Vitamin D and had developed osteoporosis. Right now, I'm taking Vitamin D, Calcium and Magnesium, all by prescription, trying to rebuild my bones. If you have any real reason to worry about bone loss, you probably want to be taking all three, because your bones need them. Of course, if you're healthy, taking them just in case is more likely to enrich your urine than anything else.
Back in '72, when I was in the Navy, I worked on a radar-guided anti-aircraft missile. (Never mind which one.) Its on-board guidance was designed so that if you jammed the signals, the missile would home on the jammer instead. Not quite the same as what you're talking about, but similar.
A dirty bomb isn't a crime of opportunity, any more than another type of bomb. Let's not pretend otherwise.
Maybe not, but when the theft was discovered, nobody had any way of knowing if the thieves knew what they were taking. I think that the authorities were afraid that it was stolen specifically for the cobalt, and if so, if somebody was planning to build a dirty bomb for some insane reason.
I don't know how true it is, but I've been told that one of the reasons for absurdly detailed job requirements is the way HR drones translate what the people doing the hiring say into what they look for in applicants. That is, if the manager says, "It would be nice if we could get somebody who was familiar with $FOO," HR will translate that into "Must have 2 years experience with $FOO." The manager might not have a problem with training the new hire, but because of the way HR re-writes the requirements, nobody that doesn't already have the training will be called in for an interview.
Whatever gave you that idea? When I started on insulin, I was told how much to put in the syringe, and the nurse checked to see if I'd gotten it right. I did, because when I was younger I'd been the caregiver for a diabetic friend who'd lost his sight and set up his daily injection, although I'd never needed to give them. That and a few instructions about how and where to inject were all of the training I got.
The first time I did it, I'll admit, was rather difficult, because it took a bit of time to get used to the idea. The second day was easier, and I got lucky because I put the needle in exactly the right place and didn't feel it at all. From then on, it's not been very hard at all.
Absolutely! I'm Type II, and I check my blood sugar twice a day, always using the side of a finger. Sometimes, when I'm getting my vitals taken at the doctor, they want/need to check again, and I always make sure that they don't use the pad or, in some ways worse, the fingertip. (Try typing within several hours of having blood taken from your fingertip, and you'll know why.) In one case, I actually had to demand to speak to a supervisor after an arrogant tech insisted that he knew better than I did about where to take the blood. He ended up getting chewed out, doing things the way I wanted and apologizing (probably the worst punishment) for not listening to me.
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Obama doesn't have a fraction of the courage of JFK. None of them do, except Carter and Bush Sr. and perhaps Nixon.
Reagan. The way he reacted when he was shot showed that he had, at least as much physical courage as JFK. And, like it or not, his Strategic Defense Initiative (AKA "Starwars") wasn't the type of policy that a timid president would ever have dared.
I have a friend in his mid-70s who just adores XP. He's not planning on upgrading after MS stops supporting it because he's sure that third-parties will continue to create and distribute patches for all the new security holes that will be showing up. Never mind the fact that there aren't any such third-parties and that if they were, they wouldn't have access to the source code. I haven't told him this, because we're friends, and I don't want to offend him by telling him things he doesn't want to hear, but IMAO he's acting like an ostrich. Just because he's not willing to admit that there are almost certainly zero-day exploits just waiting for support to end doesn't mean that he's going to get hammered when we all find out what the black hats have been sitting on.
...and there's no "queue of baddies waiting to be beaten up, because they're too stupid to attack simulatenously" elements.
Back in the Golden Age of The Movie Serials, the action, each week, often included fight scenes where two or three bad guys tried to beat up, and possibly kill, the hero. The fights were generally choreographed so that only one of them could get at the hero at any one time, with another one getting up and back into the action just as the hero knocks whoever he's fighting down, stunning him long enough that he only had to take them on one at a time, even though they were doing their best to gang up on him. Yes, you know that the fights were planned that way, but they came out remarkably believable and hold up better than you'd expect.
If you think Fifty Shades was bad you need to read Naked Came the Stranger, a best seller with absolutely no literary or social merit that became even more popular when it was revealed to be a hoax.
In this case, the trial version is Novolog with a new enzyme added that will, it's hoped, make it work even faster; the control group gets Novolog without the addition. Of course, it's all double-blind.
And it's even easier if you have the right kind of watch. Mine has a button that toggles the display between AM/PM and military time.
Now, if it's making medication change suggestions the doctor should at least know about it.
Some diabetics need to adjust their dosage on a day-to-day basis, depending on their blood sugar reading. If so, they need to understand the process well enough to calculate how much insulin to take based on their reading. Not all of them are comfortable with math, and find it either frightening or confusing, if not both. An app like this would simply do the calculation for them, so that they would know how much they need.
Me too neither. However, on the other side, I'm part of a clinical study of a new fast-acting insulin, and I have to keep a diary including when I take my basal insulin (Glargine/Lantus) in 24-hour time. As I'm ex-Navy, that's easy for me, but from what the clerks at the clinic tell me, most people find it very hard to keep straight. I'd guess that for people who can't manage 24-hour time, an app like this might be worth while, assuming that they actually use it properly.
I'm Type II, and I do have a cell phone, but all it can do is make calls and simple texting. I have no use for a smartphone and no desire to shell out the cash to get one just for one app that I don't have any use for. Yes, there are people out there who really need something like this because they don't know how to manage their condition, but most of them probably wouldn't use this properly if they had it.
Deep frying, of course, is quite literally boiling in oil. As the boiling point is dependent on the pressure, they might want to consider putting the fryer in a pressure vessel that can handle several atmospheres. (No, I don't think a broaster is built for that.) Of course, that may well take the boiling point above the smoke point, so you may want to fill the container with nitrogen or possibly carbon dioxide.
Can't the fucking coast Guard runs USAian icebreakers. They could not sail themselves outside a toilet bowl.
Didn't you know that everybody in the Coast Guard has to be over six feet tall? That way, if their ship ever sinks, they can wade ashore.
If memory serves, what you'd want to do is push it backwards in its orbit, slowing it down so that it drops into a lower orbit. Of course, human muscle power isn't going to be enough to make a measurable difference, and getting it low enough that atmospheric drag will finish the job is going to take quite a bit of delta-V.
There's a word that describes what happened exactly: Gafiate. Gafiating is sort of like taking a vacation, but it's a vacation from your hobby or other spare-time activity, such as working on OSS projects. Sometimes, you just have to walk away for a while until the interest comes back. If nothing else, it's good to know that there's nothing seriously wrong.
Same here in the USofA. However, milk used for cheese, ice cream, yogurt or other dairy products doesn't get the Vitamin D treatment.
Well, if that's true, maybe you should talk to your mother about cooking more nutritious meals.
These include vitamin D in the elderly for bone strength...
A little over a year ago I took a fall and ended up with compression fractures of my backbone. It turns out that I was both low on Vitamin D and had developed osteoporosis. Right now, I'm taking Vitamin D, Calcium and Magnesium, all by prescription, trying to rebuild my bones. If you have any real reason to worry about bone loss, you probably want to be taking all three, because your bones need them. Of course, if you're healthy, taking them just in case is more likely to enrich your urine than anything else.
Back in '72, when I was in the Navy, I worked on a radar-guided anti-aircraft missile. (Never mind which one.) Its on-board guidance was designed so that if you jammed the signals, the missile would home on the jammer instead. Not quite the same as what you're talking about, but similar.
A dirty bomb isn't a crime of opportunity, any more than another type of bomb. Let's not pretend otherwise.
Maybe not, but when the theft was discovered, nobody had any way of knowing if the thieves knew what they were taking. I think that the authorities were afraid that it was stolen specifically for the cobalt, and if so, if somebody was planning to build a dirty bomb for some insane reason.
That was my thought. I wonder if the perps heard some of the reports of what they'd taken, realized what they had and abandoned it.
I don't know how true it is, but I've been told that one of the reasons for absurdly detailed job requirements is the way HR drones translate what the people doing the hiring say into what they look for in applicants. That is, if the manager says, "It would be nice if we could get somebody who was familiar with $FOO," HR will translate that into "Must have 2 years experience with $FOO." The manager might not have a problem with training the new hire, but because of the way HR re-writes the requirements, nobody that doesn't already have the training will be called in for an interview.
Absolutely. I'd much rather have a pretty nurse fingering my prick instead of pricking my finger.
Diabetics take a course...
Whatever gave you that idea? When I started on insulin, I was told how much to put in the syringe, and the nurse checked to see if I'd gotten it right. I did, because when I was younger I'd been the caregiver for a diabetic friend who'd lost his sight and set up his daily injection, although I'd never needed to give them. That and a few instructions about how and where to inject were all of the training I got.
The first time I did it, I'll admit, was rather difficult, because it took a bit of time to get used to the idea. The second day was easier, and I got lucky because I put the needle in exactly the right place and didn't feel it at all. From then on, it's not been very hard at all.
Absolutely! I'm Type II, and I check my blood sugar twice a day, always using the side of a finger. Sometimes, when I'm getting my vitals taken at the doctor, they want/need to check again, and I always make sure that they don't use the pad or, in some ways worse, the fingertip. (Try typing within several hours of having blood taken from your fingertip, and you'll know why.) In one case, I actually had to demand to speak to a supervisor after an arrogant tech insisted that he knew better than I did about where to take the blood. He ended up getting chewed out, doing things the way I wanted and apologizing (probably the worst punishment) for not listening to me.
"It's not evil until you're caught."