"A minimum charge for the bother should be expected. If the tradesman in question feels like "being nice", that is entirely up to him."
I found that "being nice" got me screwed. Any time I found I was "doing someone a favor" or giving a discount. I got the shitty end of the stick.
Now in this context, "being nice" should be interpreted as going above and beyond the normal expectations of service for a given price. If I stuck to my advertised rates and service model all went well. As soon as I deviated from that script and went soft due to a hard luck case.... I got fuxed.
Other indy professions I spoke to at the time had similar experiences. It seems the Godz of street-level capitalism don't smile on professionals mixing 'charity' in the field.
Actually to be fair, replacing the tires can be done in your garage at home with a pair of large screw driver like tools available at most auto parts stores. It does take a fair amount of strength and is very time consuming and for certain classes of rims may not be advisable but nevertheless it can be done.
And if done incorrectly you can indeed get yourself killed performing this procedure.
I still have a lot of the SL9 impact pictures, and comparing them to this black mark... there are quite a few similarities especially in the edge detail. It's a shame that a larger telescope didn't get a look at it.
IANAPA but I do think this looks like an impact disturbance in the upper cloud layers, when compared to similar impacts from SL9.
I meant page zero not the literal address zero. Obviously dereferencing to reach a member of a struct pointer is not going to result in a zero address unless it's the first member.
Forth has one big problem. It's overly terse, making it a write-only language. If you come back later to try and figure out how the code works.... good luck...
IANACB: But I did spend three years studying general biology in high school, including AP Bio.
It seems to me that so far the discussion has been overlooking the bigger picture here.
It seems that the 'programmed death' mechanisms evolved to quickly neutralize cells that suffer disruption due to a wide variety of localized injuries, including random single hits from ionizing radiation. It would seem that in almost all reasonable cases the mechanism reduces the organism's resource costs to deal with damaged cells. The conservative, "Die on ANY disruption" exception works best when damage to the organism is localized. The vast majority of survivable injuries are exactly this type. I am specifically excluding the non-local type of disruption caused by many diseases since viruses prevent the cell from executing it's programmed death, and the organism's immune response to an infection is very different from it's response to a programmed death. Programmed death apparently was never intended to be a response to a organism-wide dose of ionizing radiation. I say this because the response creates a significant amount of disruption around the cell that signals it's own death, as the cell gets dismantled, and carted off.
I might be oversimplifying here, but radiation sickness occurs because enough cells in the entire body are caused to execute the programmed death exception that the immune system goes into a panic trying to clean up the mess. Every system in the body suddenly goes into a damage control mode that was never intended happen. As the cleanup progresses the sheer volume of this very specific type of immune activity further disrupts the affected tissues, and contaminates them with waste products, causing more cells to panic and die. Wash rinse repeat. I think of it as a system shock event and one can observe much less exotic situations where mild to moderate system wide cellular trauma to an organism results in rapid decline and death. I'm thinking of burns, impact trauma, and certain types of poisoning as more common examples.
What I see happening with this protein with regard to the 'programmed death' is that it seems likely that a large enough portion of the disrupted cells prevented from executing the exception, are still functioning well enough to perform there role, or at least not disrupt their healthy neighbors with an immune system exception. Badly ionized cells are going to get marked by the immune system for collection immediately. This is because they are expressing invalid proteins. Some may have died, and are no longer even respirating. They will eventually go necrotic and get removed. Less damaged cells may be experiencing severe dysfunction internally but until they do something to attract the immune system they are going to be left alone. The net effect of this is to spread the immune response to the radiation event over a much longer period of time and involve a more diverse immune system response as each disrupted cell is more accurately being targeted based on the immediate threat it presents. In some cases disrupted cells may be able to remove ionization damage as part of it's normal waste disposal process. Later when cells that experienced genetic damage replicate their progeny are not likely to function properly, or even complete cell division, the immune system is going to take action based on what the new cells express.
The other two actions the protein is claimed to enhance appear to be addressing this. They seem to be related to promoting cellular regeneration and promoting anti-oxidant activities.
To address possible cancerous cell regeneration a follow up therapy could be added after the patient's immune activity has sufficiently returned to normal and any other risks due to some organs being harder hit than others during recovery. Such a follow up therapy might be very effective since the approach is similar to the ideal case of traditional cancer treatment. eg. If it's caught before the tumors have established a footho
sometimes you just don't get to pick where you have to live....
You rolls your dices and moves your mices...
I wasn't raised with a silver spoon in my mouth, or the best luck of regional geography on my birth. Better than many for sure, but certainly sub-optimal. So I didn't have a chance to escape the worst jungles of California until I was in my mid-20's. By that time I had learned that I could, with reasonable precautions, survive anywhere....
My notes above do not come from some desire to live my life in a war zone. They come from having NO CHOICE but to live in a domestic war zone for 24 years.
How about as a down payment on the interest on the trade deficit with China? Maybe they will let us rent a bungalow once in a while, and let us provide maid service....
Deorbiting into the Pacific (which is usually where they target) is much safer and easier and can be done with a fraction of the fuel (they probably have enough on board).
I'm pretty sure that there's a mission requirement that they have more than enough fuel on-board for a controlled de-orbit at all times.
I think this Science/price value argument is kind of missing the point.
It was an engineering feat. The largest structure ever constructed in space. We refined material engineering, system testing, managed deployment schedules and engineering schedules that have spanned many generations of engineers to get this system in orbit. cooperated with many countries with competing interests to get this system up there?
The experience and education down here on Terra Firma has been far more valuable than the hard science executed in LEO.
Indulge me:
Building and delivering one flight ready Space Shuttle system $1.7 billion...
Building and Deploying ISS $157 Billion....
Front row seats for the whole family to the ISS Season Finale in 2016..... Priceless.
thank you, thank you.... I'll be here all week... Please.... tip your servers.
Funny you should mention that. some years ago I spent a month visiting my parents in North Hills, CA. My brother, unmarried at the time was a very tough young man, but not a trouble maker. I'm not one to be scared of the riff-raff either. My city of choice was Seattle for 12 years and there were only a few small neighborhood that were off limits due to high risk of getting mugged, capped, shanked, or just plain rolled.
While I was in the LA area I never had any problems though there were a few times I changed routes before a crew spotted me. My brother went apeshit on me when he caught me coming back from a 10 PM stroll to get a pint. He sounded like a male version of my mother scolding me as a 5 year old. While I appreciated his concern, of the two of us, I am probably the one more likely to have no hesitation killing someone in self-defense. I don't carry weapons, and I don't ever get into a physical confrontation unless there is no way to avoid it. In my experience that is extremely rare. And I don't care how tough you think you are, adrenal sickness after a REAL fight (not some school yard shirt ripping contest) really sucks.
Some common sense:
if you do decide to get up off the couch, and walk on the wild side. Getting self-defense training is a great way to get a little healthier, assuming you are in good enough shape for that to be a safe form of exercise. Do NOT assume that in 6 months you are going to survive a wrecking crew without years of dedicated training, and even then you may end up bleeding to death on a pile of vanquished foes.
I have a good friend (he is traditionally trained since childhood in competitive martial arts) and neighbor who took out a crew that attacked him a block from his house and almost bled to death from a few well placed slashes from a pen-knife. Luckily his wife, was at the time training as an RN and knew how to stop the bleeding without hesitation when he crashed in through the front door and collapsed. "honey I'm home....." *WHUMP*
However, having a few tricks up your sleeve for the most common one-on-one surprises, that you can execute flawlessly is a really good idea. Solo Muggers are very similar in behavior to cougars. They only attack when they perceive that they have the element of surprise, or you have already telegraphed that you either "fat" enough to be worth the risk, or weak enough that they are confident that you will be easily intimidated. If you put up any kind of coordinated defense they will almost always break and run.
And be sensible: if they are armed and you don't have the specialized training required to CONFIDENTLY disarm such an opponent don't make the situation worse for everyone by getting killed over a few material items. If you dress for success you don't have anything on you that can be exploited anyway.
Things to be aware of:
The crews flashing signs, I don't look at them overtly or give any sign that you saw anything. If you have been paying attention you have already sized up their threat and taken appropriate strategic action.
If they say something you pretend you didn't hear anything. If they do something more overt take a well lit detour, and be ready for anything. It helps if you know the neighborhood.
Don't dress up. Don't dress down. Don't display wealth/bling. Don't wear emblematic clothes and if you discover that you have made a wardrobe error turn it inside out or other obscuring action as soon as you can without being obvious. Wearing dark clothes is a really good idea. While you might have the cops give you a hard time if they spot you, being able to fade into a darkened yard or alcove is a great way to take a second to look over a situation before you walk close enough for them notice you.
Watch your back and listen intently to what is going on behind you at all times. Walk against the flow of traffic so you can see a mobile wrecking crew long before they are in range to get you. If you do see a car pulling over unbidden
How many times does it have to be said in this thread...
Ground Is the issue here, FFS!
That green wire that keeps you and your equipment from getting fried by stray floating charges!!!
They don't put filters in series with ground on consumer gear because it could lead to someone getting fried, or having the gear fail unexpectedly.
And you don't need AC to get chassis float! Chassis will float just fine with DC. Next time you want to surprise a friend try this:
When your friend is standing on the ground next to your running car grab a bare GROUNDED wire inside the vehicle and touch his arm or hand. At the very least you'll give him a little static charge, at worse (wet bare feet) he'll melt off the side of your car like he turned to butter.
On second though don't do that.
The reason is that the chassis of the car can pick up RF, as well as charge from the ignition coils and return from that thumping Bass Cab you have in the trunk.... it all raises the ground potential of the chassis. We don't notice it because we float with the car. Tires make excellent insulators.
A USB keyboard will help a lot. D+/D- are balance loaded, but there will still be energy dumped into ground when the signal gets converted to and from to a +5V train of bits during the trnasmission. The issue is that it's going to get buried in the mud with all the other >1MHz hash leaking onto ground from your computer.
The main reason the old AT keyboard is so vulnerable is because on a modern PC nothing but the old keyboard, and mouse run at those bit rates, and the signal is usually shunted to ground through a small resistor on the motherboard to protect the keyboard port's input buffer, because only a small fraction of the energy sent is needed to determine the line's state.
While so far as I have read most of the mass of the brain is not composed of active neurons, though IIRC the supporting structures do directly influence the processing of the active layer.
Additionally you left out about 75g of CNS that does a lot more "in-line" processing than AI geeks seem to acknowledge.
I couldn't find any reference that estimated the active mass of the brain. It might be more telling to compare active masses rather than total brain mass.
To me this is a bit like comparing engine performance by measuring total mass of a complete engine rather than the more meaningful (though still kind of iffy) displacement.
Many times novel properties of materials are discovered by accident. Far more fundamental discoveries are preceded by, "That's odd..." rather than "Eureka! I found it!"
Anyone who offers valid criticisms of your theory with data to back them up should be heard. Saying anyone who questions a theory should be heard might sound nice in theory, but in reality it means you have a bunch of people throwing out unsubstantiated garbage in order to muddy the waters and further their own agendas, which are rarely motivated by scientific concerns.
In a non-commercial situations this usually seems to work as designed. If the valid criticisms reflect poorly on a very profitable product backed by a powerful chemical company, It's very doubtful that any news org can stand up to the pressure. This is true no matter how independent that news org claims to be. The fiasco with rBST and the history surrounding attempts by FOX and other media outlets to publish reports critical of rBST is an important example of how ineffective the "Free" media in the US is when large advertisers have them by the short hairs.
Slashdot Mirror
"A minimum charge for the bother should be expected. If the
tradesman in question feels like "being nice", that is
entirely up to him."
I found that "being nice" got me screwed. Any time I found I was "doing someone a favor" or giving a discount. I got the shitty end of the stick.
Now in this context, "being nice" should be interpreted as going above and beyond the normal expectations of service for a given price. If I stuck to my advertised rates and service model all went well. As soon as I deviated from that script and went soft due to a hard luck case.... I got fuxed.
Other indy professions I spoke to at the time had similar experiences. It seems the Godz of street-level capitalism don't smile on professionals mixing 'charity' in the field.
Actually to be fair, replacing the tires can be done in your garage at home with a pair of large screw driver like tools available at most auto parts stores. It does take a fair amount of strength and is very time consuming and for certain classes of rims may not be advisable but nevertheless it can be done.
And if done incorrectly you can indeed get yourself killed performing this procedure.
I was thinking that Medieval UK was set to battle someone over their albums being released online....
What a fuxing messed up summary title... from the typical moronic editorial skills of kdawson....
I still have a lot of the SL9 impact pictures, and comparing them to this black mark... there are quite a few similarities especially in the edge detail. It's a shame that a larger telescope didn't get a look at it.
IANAPA but I do think this looks like an impact disturbance in the upper cloud layers, when compared to similar impacts from SL9.
sorry for the self reply...
I meant page zero not the literal address zero. Obviously dereferencing to reach a member of a struct pointer is not going to result in a zero address unless it's the first member.
As other's keep pointing out in kernel space, 0x000000000.. is an invalid address.
Why is the MMU failing to throw an exception when this invalid address is accessed?
a = foo->bar
if(foo) something()
this code is ill formed! You are initializing a variable from an unverified pointer. The correct way to do this is:
int a = 0; // if you must to keep the compiler quiet.
if(!foo) handle_bad_pointer();
a = foo->bar;
------
WTF would you be thinking that it's EVER acceptable to have your code assign bad values to a variable through an unverified pointer?
Forth has one big problem. It's overly terse, making it a write-only language. If you come back later to try and figure out how the code works.... good luck...
Printing what the advertisers don't want the customers to read is not WIN either.
IANACB:
But I did spend three years studying general biology in high school, including AP Bio.
It seems to me that so far the discussion has been overlooking the bigger picture here.
It seems that the 'programmed death' mechanisms evolved to quickly neutralize cells that suffer disruption due to a wide variety of localized injuries, including random single hits from ionizing radiation. It would seem that in almost all reasonable cases the mechanism reduces the organism's resource costs to deal with damaged cells. The conservative, "Die on ANY disruption" exception works best when damage to the organism is localized. The vast majority of survivable injuries are exactly this type. I am specifically excluding the non-local type of disruption caused by many diseases since viruses prevent the cell from executing it's programmed death, and the organism's immune response to an infection is very different from it's response to a programmed death. Programmed death apparently was never intended to be a response to a organism-wide dose of ionizing radiation. I say this because the response creates a significant amount of disruption around the cell that signals it's own death, as the cell gets dismantled, and carted off.
I might be oversimplifying here, but radiation sickness occurs because enough cells in the entire body are caused to execute the programmed death exception that the immune system goes into a panic trying to clean up the mess. Every system in the body suddenly goes into a damage control mode that was never intended happen. As the cleanup progresses the sheer volume of this very specific type of immune activity further disrupts the affected tissues, and contaminates them with waste products, causing more cells to panic and die. Wash rinse repeat. I think of it as a system shock event and one can observe much less exotic situations where mild to moderate system wide cellular trauma to an organism results in rapid decline and death. I'm thinking of burns, impact trauma, and certain types of poisoning as more common examples.
What I see happening with this protein with regard to the 'programmed death' is that it seems likely that a large enough portion of the disrupted cells prevented from executing the exception, are still functioning well enough to perform there role, or at least not disrupt their healthy neighbors with an immune system exception. Badly ionized cells are going to get marked by the immune system for collection immediately. This is because they are expressing invalid proteins. Some may have died, and are no longer even respirating. They will eventually go necrotic and get removed. Less damaged cells may be experiencing severe dysfunction internally but until they do something to attract the immune system they are going to be left alone. The net effect of this is to spread the immune response to the radiation event over a much longer period of time and involve a more diverse immune system response as each disrupted cell is more accurately being targeted based on the immediate threat it presents. In some cases disrupted cells may be able to remove ionization damage as part of it's normal waste disposal process. Later when cells that experienced genetic damage replicate their progeny are not likely to function properly, or even complete cell division, the immune system is going to take action based on what the new cells express.
The other two actions the protein is claimed to enhance appear to be addressing this. They seem to be related to promoting cellular regeneration and promoting anti-oxidant activities.
To address possible cancerous cell regeneration a follow up therapy could be added after the patient's immune activity has sufficiently returned to normal and any other risks due to some organs being harder hit than others during recovery. Such a follow up therapy might be very effective since the approach is similar to the ideal case of traditional cancer treatment. eg. If it's caught before the tumors have established a footho
I'd say that depends on what you are doing with the utility hose.
sometimes you just don't get to pick where you have to live....
You rolls your dices and moves your mices...
I wasn't raised with a silver spoon in my mouth, or the best luck of regional geography on my birth. Better than many for sure, but certainly sub-optimal. So I didn't have a chance to escape the worst jungles of California until I was in my mid-20's. By that time I had learned that I could, with reasonable precautions, survive anywhere....
My notes above do not come from some desire to live my life in a war zone. They come from having NO CHOICE but to live in a domestic war zone for 24 years.
YMMV
I'm sure deflowering virgins on the space station would be a better marketing strategy.
How about as a down payment on the interest on the trade deficit with China? Maybe they will let us rent a bungalow once in a while, and let us provide maid service....
seems like an ION drive and a large rack of noble gases would let you creep it into a lunar transfer orbit in a few decades.... IANAOMP...
The only issue is that it might turn into swiss cheese before it gets there. But then it would be right at home on the moon, eh?
Might be a good long-term usage test for the large format ION drives. 0.5N adds up quite nicely over years of pushing.
Deorbiting into the Pacific (which is usually where they target) is much safer and easier and can be done with a fraction of the fuel (they probably have enough on board).
I'm pretty sure that there's a mission requirement that they have more than enough fuel on-board for a controlled de-orbit at all times.
I think this Science/price value argument is kind of missing the point.
It was an engineering feat. The largest structure ever constructed in space. We refined material engineering, system testing, managed deployment schedules and engineering schedules that have spanned many generations of engineers to get this system in orbit. cooperated with many countries with competing interests to get this system up there?
The experience and education down here on Terra Firma has been far more valuable than the hard science executed in LEO.
Indulge me:
Building and delivering one flight ready Space Shuttle system $1.7 billion...
Building and Deploying ISS $157 Billion....
Front row seats for the whole family to the ISS Season Finale in 2016..... Priceless.
thank you, thank you.... I'll be here all week... Please.... tip your servers.
I meant to add after Sensible folks don't stop on
dimly lit streets in a rough neighborhood to ask for directions!
sorry for the self-reply
Carry on.
Funny you should mention that. some years ago I spent a month visiting my parents in North Hills, CA. My brother, unmarried at the time was a very tough young man, but not a trouble maker. I'm not one to be scared of the riff-raff either. My city of choice was Seattle for 12 years and there were only a few small neighborhood that were off limits due to high risk of getting mugged, capped, shanked, or just plain rolled.
While I was in the LA area I never had any problems though there were a few times I changed routes before a crew spotted me. My brother went apeshit on me when he caught me coming back from a 10 PM stroll to get a pint. He sounded like a male version of my mother scolding me as a 5 year old. While I appreciated his concern, of the two of us, I am probably the one more likely to have no hesitation killing someone in self-defense. I don't carry weapons, and I don't ever get into a physical confrontation unless there is no way to avoid it. In my experience that is extremely rare. And I don't care how tough you think you are, adrenal sickness after a REAL fight (not some school yard shirt ripping contest) really sucks.
Some common sense:
if you do decide to get up off the couch, and walk on the wild side. Getting self-defense training is a great way to get a little healthier, assuming you are in good enough shape for that to be a safe form of exercise.
Do NOT assume that in 6 months you are going to survive a wrecking crew without years of dedicated training, and even then you may end up bleeding to death on a pile of vanquished foes.
I have a good friend (he is traditionally trained since childhood in competitive martial arts) and neighbor who took out a crew that attacked him a block from his house and almost bled to death from a few well placed slashes from a pen-knife. Luckily his wife, was at the time training as an RN and knew how to stop the bleeding without hesitation when he crashed in through the front door and collapsed. "honey I'm home....." *WHUMP*
However, having a few tricks up your sleeve for the most common one-on-one surprises, that you can execute flawlessly is a really good idea. Solo Muggers are very similar in behavior to cougars. They only attack when they perceive that they have the element of surprise, or you have already telegraphed that you either "fat" enough to be worth the risk, or weak enough that they are confident that you will be easily intimidated. If you put up any kind of coordinated defense they will almost always break and run.
And be sensible: if they are armed and you don't have the specialized training required to CONFIDENTLY disarm such an opponent don't make the situation worse for everyone by getting killed over a few material items. If you dress for success you don't have anything on you that can be exploited anyway.
Things to be aware of:
The crews flashing signs, I don't look at them overtly or give any sign that you saw anything. If you have been paying attention you have already sized up their threat and taken appropriate strategic action.
If they say something you pretend you didn't hear anything.
If they do something more overt take a well lit detour, and be ready for anything. It helps if you know the neighborhood.
Don't dress up. Don't dress down. Don't display wealth/bling. Don't wear emblematic clothes and if you discover that you have made a wardrobe error turn it inside out or other obscuring action as soon as you can without being obvious. Wearing dark clothes is a really good idea. While you might have the cops give you a hard time if they spot you, being able to fade into a darkened yard or alcove is a great way to take a second to look over a situation before you walk close enough for them notice you.
Watch your back and listen intently to what is going on behind you at all times. Walk against the flow of traffic so you can see a mobile wrecking crew long before they are in range to get you.
If you do see a car pulling over unbidden
How many times does it have to be said in this thread...
Ground
Is the issue here, FFS!
That green wire that keeps you and your equipment from getting fried by stray floating charges!!!
They don't put filters in series with ground on consumer gear because it could lead to someone getting fried, or having the gear fail unexpectedly.
And you don't need AC to get chassis float! Chassis will float just fine with DC. Next time you want to surprise a friend try this:
When your friend is standing on the ground next to your running car grab a bare GROUNDED wire inside the vehicle and touch his arm or hand. At the very least you'll give him a little static charge, at worse (wet bare feet) he'll melt off the side of your car like he turned to butter.
On second though don't do that.
The reason is that the chassis of the car can pick up RF, as well as charge from the ignition coils and return from that thumping Bass Cab you have in the trunk.... it all raises the ground potential of the chassis. We don't notice it because we float with the car. Tires make excellent insulators.
A USB keyboard will help a lot. D+/D- are balance loaded, but there will still be energy dumped into ground when the signal gets converted to and from to a +5V train of bits during the trnasmission. The issue is that it's going to get buried in the mud with all the other >1MHz hash leaking onto ground from your computer.
The main reason the old AT keyboard is so vulnerable is because on a modern PC nothing but the old keyboard, and mouse run at those bit rates, and the signal is usually shunted to ground through a small resistor on the motherboard to protect the keyboard port's input buffer, because only a small fraction of the energy sent is needed to determine the line's state.
The human brain weighs about 1350g.
While so far as I have read most of the mass of the brain is not composed of active neurons, though IIRC the supporting structures do directly influence the processing of the active layer.
Additionally you left out about 75g of CNS that does a lot more "in-line" processing than AI geeks seem to acknowledge.
I couldn't find any reference that estimated the active mass of the brain. It might be more telling to compare active masses rather than total brain mass.
To me this is a bit like comparing engine performance by measuring total mass of a complete engine rather than the more meaningful (though still kind of iffy) displacement.
Having grown up in a family involved in different areas of the Ag industry, I am going to call bullshit.
And I was expecting an inside scoop on Silver Futures.... Stupid Corn :(
Some how I don't think so.
Many times novel properties of materials are discovered by accident. Far more fundamental discoveries are preceded by, "That's odd..." rather than "Eureka! I found it!"
,i>ll that work, and they netted less than a half million?
You should look at the exchange rate.... That is a LOT of money in FSU.
Anyone who offers valid criticisms of your theory with data to back them up should be heard. Saying anyone who questions a theory should be heard might sound nice in theory, but in reality it means you have a bunch of people throwing out unsubstantiated garbage in order to muddy the waters and further their own agendas, which are rarely motivated by scientific concerns.
In a non-commercial situations this usually seems to work as designed. If the valid criticisms reflect poorly on a very profitable product backed by a powerful chemical company, It's very doubtful that any news org can stand up to the pressure. This is true no matter how independent that news org claims to be. The fiasco with rBST and the history surrounding attempts by FOX and other media outlets to publish reports critical of rBST is an important example of how ineffective the "Free" media in the US is when large advertisers have them by the short hairs.