I don't see why you'd need a double-blinded study in this? The double-blinded study is to account for patient reporting bias ("I feel a little better today - I think those new Addrexo pills are really working") and patient-selection bias by the doctors.
In this case the plants aren't reporting anything, it is a simple measurement, or series of measurements. And is anybody really calling into question the biases of biology RAs? Once again, take the measurements, report the results, draw conclusions, suggest reasons, conclude: "more research needed".
We have many, many patients that just ignore stuff until it's to big to ignore and then require intensive hospitalisation, surgery, rehab and care. And we have a fully funded public health system. The idiots are going to send us broke.
We have the 400 lb patients here, too - who is going to force them to use a lifestyle coach? What's their incentive when an entire cardiac team will run around after them at no cost to them; when hospitals will buy super-size wheel chairs to ferry them around; when rehab will get free modifications on their house so they can use their own toilet again. They do everything short of buying them a muumuu.
We have basic health care that is free and accessible. We have the most educated and health literate people in history and still they fuck up the most basic of choices, over and over again. Can you really educate the stupid out of people?
I work in the public health system in Australia, and it is going down the tubes. So much public money is being spent keeping people alive for decades because of self-inflicted illnesses. Type 2 diabetes is the next "epidemic" we're told to expect but it is almost always a direct consequence of known lifestyle choices.
"Bariatrics" is now a specialty. We spend thousands on super-size wheelchairs for fat bastards but aren't allowed to say they are fat bastards. We will modify their houses for them free of charge, as if morbid obesity was a sudden injury like a spinal injury.
We hand out, install, service and support dialysis machines for renal patients who are the "victims" of their own stupid choices. Some genuine cases of kidney disease, yes, but a lot of lifestyle stuff.
I love working in public health. Being able to make sick people well again is great, but we are being dragged down the toilet by people who don't give a rat's arse about their own health and just seem to revel in making the rest of us wallow in their shit.
This isn't a fanboy thing or an iPad thing, this is "JB Hi Fi are a bunch of jerks" thing. While being jerks isn't illegal, bundling is and they tried to pin it on Apple. Perhaps this should serve as a warning about JBs more than anything else.
There are some stores I walk in not expecting any help at all: JB is one of them, in addition to Wow, Harvey Norman and usually Dick Smith's. You go there because they are cheap,not because they are good at anything.
My wife had an op in a private hospital. Everyone sent her a bill: surgeon, anaesthetist, hospital, pathology. Not sure about pharmacy, that may have come under "hospital". We took all those bills to the insurer and paid the difference so it was all good, but there was lots of paperwork flying around at the time.
It makes sense since the (independent) surgeon performs the work and has no affiliation (thank-you, Safari spell checker) with the anaesthetist, and he rents a theatre (and staff) from the hospital, who also rents you a room and supplies nursing care.
At least nowadays we have laws (or strong guidelines) so that everyone who is working on you gives you a quote for the work. Not that you're going to shop around and get a cheaper anaesthetist, say, if the surgeon thinks the budget anaesthetist is a dick. You want happy surgeons, not stressed ones.
BTW, if your tests included any sort of radiological examination, that would explain the high cost.
I don't think *our miners* are heavily subsidised, I don't know about your miners.
I can see a situation where small mines in some countries/states are getting state subsidies to keep running just to keep people in work, but we in Queensland have shitloads of coal. There are no small uneconomical mines operating here. If a mine is uneconomical, they move onto the next whole in the ground.
I'm not trolling but trying to explain why electricity *here* is relatively cheap and unlikely to be replace by wind/solar/tidal anytime soon. Even nuclear couldn't compete.
Upon re-viewing the clip, I think he was talking about Big Coal getting free handouts for "clean coal technology" research which is a relatively recent phenomenon.
What I really want is for the federal government to stop all subsidies and return the money back to taxpayers.
Agreed.
I don't think our miners are subsidised nearly as much as some proponents of alternative energy make out. We derive a LOT of state (and federal) income from mining, and all that money has to come from somewhere. If everyone is getting subsidies for this that and the other thing, who is paying?
I work in a publicly funded tertiary hospital in Australia. I'm not medical (I used to be a medical scientist) so I don't have the hands-on, day-to-day experiences of the clinical side of the hospital, but I do get to have glimpses of a 'big picture' view of it.
The head of radiology recently told me that the Uni was willing to "donate" a big expensive machine. Poisoned chalice, he said. They get all the kudos (and access to it for research), the hospital gets the bills. And no funding. Things like: - floor space (and these are big mofos, some machines require vibration-proof rooms, or shielded rooms etc) - installation (cranes and shit) - power, both getting massive amounts of power to it and paying for massive amounts of power. - operators - maintenance (that's a biggy it seems)
None of these costs fit under "misc. expenses" I'm afraid.
Plus there's things like the PACS system to store all this data. Radiology has an IT storage system a little bigger than the rest of the hospital.
I don't think you could. Try it out now. Walking and writing on a paper pad at the same time is going to result in a slow walk and messy writing. An app that has been well designed for the iPad (and other keyboard interfaces) would work with the idea that there is no pen and make it as easy as possible for the user to use them.
As a far-out example, using FCP is a lot easier once you memorise the (thousand or so...) keyboard shortcuts whereas an equivalent app on the iPad wouldn't have you using a virtual keyboard but would make use of the touch and multi-touch features to the best advantage of the user. These are completely different devices to a PC on a desk and so require a developer to, well, Think Different.
After a re-reading, I realised that the person asking the question doesn't describe themselves as a sys-admin. He said he "works in a design studio". So he might not have any real network responsibilities but might be looking to help a mate out.
Secondly, the ID10T causing the problems is the Production Director. He may be the boss's son, but in the company structure his position is over the top of just about everyone else. Technical issues should be taken to the Production Director first and foremost since it's part of his job to oversee productions.
Next: "He is fond of accessing a designer's computer via filesharing and working directly on files off of the designer's computers rather than transferring the files to his computer to work on them there."
So he isn't accessing the same files the designer is using at the same time, but accessing files for a project which he is allowed to do because he is the Production Director.
Why does the designer have all the files for a project that others working on the project (indeed others who actually direct the project) may need to use stored locally on his hard drive?
My advice is: don't take shortcuts. They'll only hurt you in the end. There is no such thing as a temporary fix, nor a permanent solution.
Only those with dicks. I have considered solar panels - and every time a new company comes up with a new thing about them I consider them again - but the (mainly coal-generated) electricity here is ridiculously cheap when compared to many other countries and so solar doesn't make sense for me even with the economically unsustainable feed-in tariff I could get.
If I could pay less than 10k and have a 10 year pay back time, then I'd be more likely to get them. As it is, that's still too high for a lot of other people. If solar panels were that cheap and that efficient, it would make sense for a single entity to build arrays of them in Alice Springs or somewhere and reduce installation maintenance cost/panel considerably. The fact that governments keep trying to shift this cost to individual households tells me that it just isn't worth it.
As for other renewables, we will never have another hydro dam built as long as the ALP is in power at any level of government anywhere within cooee of it. I'd put money on it. Let the Franklin flow...
There's a bit more to it. Irrespective of someones's caffeine use, some migraine headaches are caused by dilation of the cranial vessels. Caffeine causes a mild vasoconstriction. It can be found in in ACP (aspirin, caffeine and phenacetin) preparations and also cafergot (caffeine plus ergotamine). But, yeah, if I get a headache I'll wash down two panadol with a coke or a coffee. Just in case.
VA judge strikes down dancing restriction “There’s bound to be trouble when you mix drinking, country music and dancing,” said Danny Stanley, the only member of the five-person Council who would consent to an interview.
>>if something is important, don't hide it behind hover - it's almost always bad for usability and accessibility
Yep
>>everybody competent knows that
Do they really..? If they had usability and accessibility in mind, they would not be using Flash. At all.
The problem isn't even websites, it's the Flash apps that aren't meant to even pretend to be usable and accessible in a web-sense - the funny little gizmos and games that populate the web. They'll never be updated "just" for the iPhone/iPad and so users will see some Flash working, but a lot broken. And they'll blame the iPad 100% . Instead Apple makes a stand, gives it a simple easy to remember reason (right, wrong or halfway in between) and sticks to it. That way the take home message is "no Flash on i-Thing" and there is no confusion, no equivocation and no buck passing between Apple and a million Flash developers.
More musing than point making. I was musing that perhaps the "mystical" part of some people is hardwired in them, and they build a culture-specific framework around it, in his case a mystical Christianity.
Smart people seem to be able to draw connections between previously unconnected things. Unfortunately, crazy religious people and schizophrenics do the same. A bit of peer reviewing might sort all that out.
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Doesn't really help me. Got any links to krak5 for a dem0?
I don't see why you'd need a double-blinded study in this? The double-blinded study is to account for patient reporting bias ("I feel a little better today - I think those new Addrexo pills are really working") and patient-selection bias by the doctors.
In this case the plants aren't reporting anything, it is a simple measurement, or series of measurements. And is anybody really calling into question the biases of biology RAs? Once again, take the measurements, report the results, draw conclusions, suggest reasons, conclude: "more research needed".
My Mototola Razr was hopeless.
Do you think you became a HAM because of the antenna in the mouth incident as a child?
Nickel allergy was used as an example of allergies to really simple things in my intro to immunology.
The apps store out-competes the web?
We have many, many patients that just ignore stuff until it's to big to ignore and then require intensive hospitalisation, surgery, rehab and care. And we have a fully funded public health system. The idiots are going to send us broke.
We have the 400 lb patients here, too - who is going to force them to use a lifestyle coach? What's their incentive when an entire cardiac team will run around after them at no cost to them; when hospitals will buy super-size wheel chairs to ferry them around; when rehab will get free modifications on their house so they can use their own toilet again. They do everything short of buying them a muumuu.
We have basic health care that is free and accessible. We have the most educated and health literate people in history and still they fuck up the most basic of choices, over and over again. Can you really educate the stupid out of people?
Bingo. Got it in one.
I work in the public health system in Australia, and it is going down the tubes. So much public money is being spent keeping people alive for decades because of self-inflicted illnesses. Type 2 diabetes is the next "epidemic" we're told to expect but it is almost always a direct consequence of known lifestyle choices.
"Bariatrics" is now a specialty. We spend thousands on super-size wheelchairs for fat bastards but aren't allowed to say they are fat bastards. We will modify their houses for them free of charge, as if morbid obesity was a sudden injury like a spinal injury.
We hand out, install, service and support dialysis machines for renal patients who are the "victims" of their own stupid choices. Some genuine cases of kidney disease, yes, but a lot of lifestyle stuff.
I love working in public health. Being able to make sick people well again is great, but we are being dragged down the toilet by people who don't give a rat's arse about their own health and just seem to revel in making the rest of us wallow in their shit.
PS love the name. Cool album.
This isn't a fanboy thing or an iPad thing, this is "JB Hi Fi are a bunch of jerks" thing. While being jerks isn't illegal, bundling is and they tried to pin it on Apple. Perhaps this should serve as a warning about JBs more than anything else.
There are some stores I walk in not expecting any help at all: JB is one of them, in addition to Wow, Harvey Norman and usually Dick Smith's. You go there because they are cheap,not because they are good at anything.
The Apple stores, by way of contrast, are great.
Aussie story 2: The Private System.
My wife had an op in a private hospital. Everyone sent her a bill: surgeon, anaesthetist, hospital, pathology. Not sure about pharmacy, that may have come under "hospital". We took all those bills to the insurer and paid the difference so it was all good, but there was lots of paperwork flying around at the time.
It makes sense since the (independent) surgeon performs the work and has no affiliation (thank-you, Safari spell checker) with the anaesthetist, and he rents a theatre (and staff) from the hospital, who also rents you a room and supplies nursing care.
At least nowadays we have laws (or strong guidelines) so that everyone who is working on you gives you a quote for the work. Not that you're going to shop around and get a cheaper anaesthetist, say, if the surgeon thinks the budget anaesthetist is a dick. You want happy surgeons, not stressed ones.
BTW, if your tests included any sort of radiological examination, that would explain the high cost.
I don't think *our miners* are heavily subsidised, I don't know about your miners.
I can see a situation where small mines in some countries/states are getting state subsidies to keep running just to keep people in work, but we in Queensland have shitloads of coal. There are no small uneconomical mines operating here. If a mine is uneconomical, they move onto the next whole in the ground.
I'm not trolling but trying to explain why electricity *here* is relatively cheap and unlikely to be replace by wind/solar/tidal anytime soon. Even nuclear couldn't compete.
Upon re-viewing the clip, I think he was talking about Big Coal getting free handouts for "clean coal technology" research which is a relatively recent phenomenon.
What I really want is for the federal government to stop all subsidies and return the money back to taxpayers.
Agreed.
I don't think our miners are subsidised nearly as much as some proponents of alternative energy make out. We derive a LOT of state (and federal) income from mining, and all that money has to come from somewhere. If everyone is getting subsidies for this that and the other thing, who is paying?
I work in a publicly funded tertiary hospital in Australia. I'm not medical (I used to be a medical scientist) so I don't have the hands-on, day-to-day experiences of the clinical side of the hospital, but I do get to have glimpses of a 'big picture' view of it.
The head of radiology recently told me that the Uni was willing to "donate" a big expensive machine. Poisoned chalice, he said. They get all the kudos (and access to it for research), the hospital gets the bills. And no funding. Things like:
- floor space (and these are big mofos, some machines require vibration-proof rooms, or shielded rooms etc)
- installation (cranes and shit)
- power, both getting massive amounts of power to it and paying for massive amounts of power.
- operators
- maintenance (that's a biggy it seems)
None of these costs fit under "misc. expenses" I'm afraid.
Plus there's things like the PACS system to store all this data. Radiology has an IT storage system a little bigger than the rest of the hospital.
Buying the machine is small potatoes.
I don't think you could. Try it out now. Walking and writing on a paper pad at the same time is going to result in a slow walk and messy writing. An app that has been well designed for the iPad (and other keyboard interfaces) would work with the idea that there is no pen and make it as easy as possible for the user to use them.
As a far-out example, using FCP is a lot easier once you memorise the (thousand or so...) keyboard shortcuts whereas an equivalent app on the iPad wouldn't have you using a virtual keyboard but would make use of the touch and multi-touch features to the best advantage of the user. These are completely different devices to a PC on a desk and so require a developer to, well, Think Different.
After a re-reading, I realised that the person asking the question doesn't describe themselves as a sys-admin. He said he "works in a design studio". So he might not have any real network responsibilities but might be looking to help a mate out.
Secondly, the ID10T causing the problems is the Production Director. He may be the boss's son, but in the company structure his position is over the top of just about everyone else. Technical issues should be taken to the Production Director first and foremost since it's part of his job to oversee productions.
Next: "He is fond of accessing a designer's computer via filesharing and working directly on files off of the designer's computers rather than transferring the files to his computer to work on them there."
So he isn't accessing the same files the designer is using at the same time, but accessing files for a project which he is allowed to do because he is the Production Director.
Why does the designer have all the files for a project that others working on the project (indeed others who actually direct the project) may need to use stored locally on his hard drive?
My advice is: don't take shortcuts. They'll only hurt you in the end. There is no such thing as a temporary fix, nor a permanent solution.
It takes you 20 years to get your investment back and then you die? Helluva bad deal there. Like a really bad Logan's Run sort of thing...
Only those with dicks. I have considered solar panels - and every time a new company comes up with a new thing about them I consider them again - but the (mainly coal-generated) electricity here is ridiculously cheap when compared to many other countries and so solar doesn't make sense for me even with the economically unsustainable feed-in tariff I could get.
If I could pay less than 10k and have a 10 year pay back time, then I'd be more likely to get them. As it is, that's still too high for a lot of other people. If solar panels were that cheap and that efficient, it would make sense for a single entity to build arrays of them in Alice Springs or somewhere and reduce installation maintenance cost/panel considerably. The fact that governments keep trying to shift this cost to individual households tells me that it just isn't worth it.
As for other renewables, we will never have another hydro dam built as long as the ALP is in power at any level of government anywhere within cooee of it. I'd put money on it. Let the Franklin flow ...
There's a bit more to it. Irrespective of someones's caffeine use, some migraine headaches are caused by dilation of the cranial vessels. Caffeine causes a mild vasoconstriction. It can be found in in ACP (aspirin, caffeine and phenacetin) preparations and also cafergot (caffeine plus ergotamine). But, yeah, if I get a headache I'll wash down two panadol with a coke or a coffee. Just in case.
There's some weird shit on that site...
VA judge strikes down dancing restriction “There’s bound to be trouble when you mix drinking, country music and dancing,” said Danny Stanley, the only member of the five-person Council who would consent to an interview.
Mormons ring a bell?
Bell's broken. They knock.
Bet they don't confiscate lip gloss from the girls. Call it a cosmetic moisturiser and tell them to get stuffed.
>>if something is important, don't hide it behind hover - it's almost always bad for usability and accessibility
Yep
>>everybody competent knows that
Do they really..? If they had usability and accessibility in mind, they would not be using Flash. At all.
The problem isn't even websites, it's the Flash apps that aren't meant to even pretend to be usable and accessible in a web-sense - the funny little gizmos and games that populate the web. They'll never be updated "just" for the iPhone/iPad and so users will see some Flash working, but a lot broken. And they'll blame the iPad 100% . Instead Apple makes a stand, gives it a simple easy to remember reason (right, wrong or halfway in between) and sticks to it. That way the take home message is "no Flash on i-Thing" and there is no confusion, no equivocation and no buck passing between Apple and a million Flash developers.
How on earth did this get modded +4 Funny? This place cracks me up sometimes.
More musing than point making. I was musing that perhaps the "mystical" part of some people is hardwired in them, and they build a culture-specific framework around it, in his case a mystical Christianity. Smart people seem to be able to draw connections between previously unconnected things. Unfortunately, crazy religious people and schizophrenics do the same. A bit of peer reviewing might sort all that out.
Boomerangs have delighted children, rendered roos unconscious and fed families for millenia :-)