Darn it! I was hoping to get a cheap used iPod from Dell.
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I agree that it is very important to work on creating artificial organs, but wouldn't it make more sense to start with blood? We seem to have a constant shortage of blood, and very few people donate on a regular basis.
I am O- and give blood components every two weeks, knowing full well that if I should ever have a need for blood there is a good chance that none will be available for me.
We spend a lot of time and money collecting blood, and I think that an artificial source would end up being cheaper and safer in the long run. You don't have to test it for disease, and it can be custom made for the person that needs it.
Honda and Ford are both leasing the CVT technology from Toyota. Since it's essentially just a gearbox, they have probably had trouble coming up with something that doesn't violate the patents on it.
Active Duty people - they have full time jobs already working for the government. It's not like they have the option to quit when they get back.
National Guard/Reservists - the majority of them have jobs that they left to go over there. By federal law, the majority of these people will have the option of returning to their previous jobs.
This is not a draft war where people are pulled out of the economy straight out of high school, most of these people had lives/jobs/school before they left. I'm not seeing where the concern is coming from.
I'd also like to point out that the current trend towards looking at service as a positive thing is extremely refreshing. In the past, military service was considered a negative in most cases, because you don't get any "real world" experience working with the government. My enlistment did nothing for my resume but make it blatently obvious how much older I am than the average college graduate.
My car does get 50mpg and the oil only has to be changed every 7,500 miles. (Toyota Prius)
Do I know how my car works? Sort of. Would I dare to touch anything under the hood short of washer fluid and the occasional check for oil level? No, and I'm not the only one. Just you try to find a non-dealer garage or audio shop that will put a new stereo in a hybrid.
Now for the important question: Does all this bother me? No. The better gas mileage and low emissions are worth it to me. I've owned this car for two years and I still get excited every time the engine shuts off and all that can be heard is the soft hum of the motor.
So, call me lazy if you want to, but I'm happy in my partial ignorance.
I seem to recall seeing a product a few years ago that looked like a prosthetic hand. A blind and deaf person could carry it around and it would sign to them (using the alphabet) what people said. I believe that it used some kind of voice to text software, but I could be wrong and there was a keyboard involved. Has anyone else seen this?
...yield about 1000 times more energy per pound than coal...
Anybody weighed helium lately? Now that's a whole lot of gas from a place with not much atmosphere. Let me guess, that's the entire atmosphere of the moon compressed into one lb?
I wonder if it's occured to any of these staticians that the drop in CD sales in the US might be due to the rise in prices?
You used to be able to buy a CD for $10-15US, but now the prices are more like $15-20US. A careful shopper pays less for a DVD than for a CD. I've stopped buying since the price hike which seems to correspond in timing to all of the lawsuits. I think that the lawsuits were just stupid, and I don't appreciate them trying to make me pay for them!
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Darn it! I was hoping to get a cheap used iPod from Dell.
I agree that it is very important to work on creating artificial organs, but wouldn't it make more sense to start with blood? We seem to have a constant shortage of blood, and very few people donate on a regular basis.
I am O- and give blood components every two weeks, knowing full well that if I should ever have a need for blood there is a good chance that none will be available for me.
We spend a lot of time and money collecting blood, and I think that an artificial source would end up being cheaper and safer in the long run. You don't have to test it for disease, and it can be custom made for the person that needs it.
Heh, guess the dealer lied to me. What a shock.
Honda and Ford are both leasing the CVT technology from Toyota. Since it's essentially just a gearbox, they have probably had trouble coming up with something that doesn't violate the patents on it.
I thought that the popular theory was that Atlantis was actually in Antarctica.
I think that's the Stargate theory.
Let's look at who is over there:
Active Duty people - they have full time jobs already working for the government. It's not like they have the option to quit when they get back.
National Guard/Reservists - the majority of them have jobs that they left to go over there. By federal law, the majority of these people will have the option of returning to their previous jobs.
This is not a draft war where people are pulled out of the economy straight out of high school, most of these people had lives/jobs/school before they left. I'm not seeing where the concern is coming from.
I'd also like to point out that the current trend towards looking at service as a positive thing is extremely refreshing. In the past, military service was considered a negative in most cases, because you don't get any "real world" experience working with the government. My enlistment did nothing for my resume but make it blatently obvious how much older I am than the average college graduate.
My car does get 50mpg and the oil only has to be changed every 7,500 miles. (Toyota Prius)
Do I know how my car works? Sort of. Would I dare to touch anything under the hood short of washer fluid and the occasional check for oil level? No, and I'm not the only one. Just you try to find a non-dealer garage or audio shop that will put a new stereo in a hybrid.
Now for the important question: Does all this bother me? No. The better gas mileage and low emissions are worth it to me. I've owned this car for two years and I still get excited every time the engine shuts off and all that can be heard is the soft hum of the motor.
So, call me lazy if you want to, but I'm happy in my partial ignorance.
I wonder what happens if you put an actual naughty movie in. BSOD???
I seem to recall seeing a product a few years ago that looked like a prosthetic hand. A blind and deaf person could carry it around and it would sign to them (using the alphabet) what people said. I believe that it used some kind of voice to text software, but I could be wrong and there was a keyboard involved. Has anyone else seen this?
...yield about 1000 times more energy per pound than coal...
Anybody weighed helium lately? Now that's a whole lot of gas from a place with not much atmosphere. Let me guess, that's the entire atmosphere of the moon compressed into one lb?
I wonder if it's occured to any of these staticians that the drop in CD sales in the US might be due to the rise in prices?
You used to be able to buy a CD for $10-15US, but now the prices are more like $15-20US. A careful shopper pays less for a DVD than for a CD. I've stopped buying since the price hike which seems to correspond in timing to all of the lawsuits. I think that the lawsuits were just stupid, and I don't appreciate them trying to make me pay for them!