Smoke away- but please crawl into a field when you die-- don't drive up the cost of health care for those who need it for non-preventable, legitamite purposes.
Smoking
May help prevent Alzheimer's and makes you slimmer. So smoke away- but when you die of lung cancer, please crawl out into a field somewhere and die a not so peaceful, quick death there. We'd rather that than have you chew up medical resources dying a long and slow death in hosptital. This drives up the cost for the rest of us who might need it for non-preventable things.
Talk to physicians and they'll tell you there are few things you can put in your mouth that are worse for you than a cigarette. But it's not all doom and gloom. Smokers are at least doing their bit to slow down the runaway obesity epidemic that is sweeping through the western world. "In many studies, you often find smokers are slimmer. We've certainly seen it in our studies," says Jodi Flaws at the University of Maryland school of medicine. "Some people think it's due to certain chemicals in cigarettes somehow making them burn more calories, but others believe it suppresses appetite. It may well be both."
Drastically upping your chances of cancer and heart disease might not be the best way to avoid obesity, but it's certainly easier than running round the block.
Scientists have also found evidence that smoking might, in some circumstances, help prevent the onset of various dementias. Many dementias go hand-in-hand with a loss of chemical receptors in the brain that just happen to be stimulated by nicotine. Smoking seems to bolster these receptors, and smokers have more of them. The theory is that smokers may then have more to lose before they start losing their minds. "It does seem that nicotine has a preventative effect, but the problem is that the other stuff in the cigarette tends to rot everything else," says Roger Bullock, a specialist in dementia and director of the Kingshill Research Centre in Swindon. So if your time is nearly up anyway, and you have somehow managed to steer a course past the Scylla and Charybdis of heart attacks and tumours, smoking might just help you retain your marbles.
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How do they do it? Basically, eat in moderation and don't snack between meals. Oh man- I thought snacking in between meals was good.
All this health stuff is too difficult for me-- thank god I am a simpleton engineer and not a nuitritionist.
I have one too. No idea who pays for it-- but it is great to have for a publicized email address because A. I don't use the account very often except when I subscribe to a webpage or something. B. I get a ton of junkmail there anyways. Saves my work, yahoo, gmail, and home emails from getting flooded.
Alot of capacitors on a bad design is still a bad design. In my industry, we have low volume so we throw a ton of them down. In the PC industry, they try to use the optimal minimal amount. Every penny counts when your volumes are in the millions.
The little caps (many, many on a board) on mother boards are used to supply instanteous current to the components. You will usually see lots of these little (decoupling) caps close to the various ICs on the board. The ones in the article are the big boys. These are usually used to supply the instanteous current to voltage regulators and provide bulk capacitance on the voltage lines. These guys are filled with some nasty chemicals. Anyone who has ever gone thru an EE program has been in a lab where some confused student hooks one up backwards and they make a big pop. I think the chemicals can burn you pretty good too- but don't quote me on that.
Perhaps the spyware program #1 just thinks that program #2 is spyware since it's fingerprint looks remarkably similar to something else. In this case- they didn't violate the agreement at all.
Internet Protocol Version 6 is a backwards-compatible replacement for the current Internet protocol, and which boasts inbuilt mobility, quality, manageability and security. Its main selling point is that it will increase available address space from about 4 x 109 to 3 x 1038 unique IP addresses, allowing for nearly unlimited numbers of systems and networks.
Wow- I didn't realize that there is only 436 unique IP V4 addresses. I own like 1% of the entire address space now! I should sell my three extra fixed IPs. The 3114 in IPV6 will be a big increase.
Sure there is software involved- but if they make use of alot of FREE software on the CT scanners, or MRIs- they can either charge less (sell more in the process perhaps), make more profit, or get the product to market more quickly. The cost of the hardware is not going to fall very much unless there is a competitive force.
The cost of the software development is passed along in the form of hardware costs or maintainence contracts.
These three companies make their money in services and hardware-- ie. not software. I can't possibly imagine Microsoft joining given this. It would be like Microsoft and Oracle starting a group which would give out free hardware, and use the Open source community for free services (obviously hard to do). These hardware and service companies would want nothing to do with it.
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Smoke away- but please crawl into a field when you die-- don't drive up the cost of health care for those who need it for non-preventable, legitamite purposes.
Smoking
May help prevent Alzheimer's and makes you slimmer. So smoke away- but when you die of lung cancer, please crawl out into a field somewhere and die a not so peaceful, quick death there. We'd rather that than have you chew up medical resources dying a long and slow death in hosptital. This drives up the cost for the rest of us who might need it for non-preventable things.
Talk to physicians and they'll tell you there are few things you can put in your mouth that are worse for you than a cigarette. But it's not all doom and gloom. Smokers are at least doing their bit to slow down the runaway obesity epidemic that is sweeping through the western world. "In many studies, you often find smokers are slimmer. We've certainly seen it in our studies," says Jodi Flaws at the University of Maryland school of medicine. "Some people think it's due to certain chemicals in cigarettes somehow making them burn more calories, but others believe it suppresses appetite. It may well be both."
Drastically upping your chances of cancer and heart disease might not be the best way to avoid obesity, but it's certainly easier than running round the block.
Scientists have also found evidence that smoking might, in some circumstances, help prevent the onset of various dementias. Many dementias go hand-in-hand with a loss of chemical receptors in the brain that just happen to be stimulated by nicotine. Smoking seems to bolster these receptors, and smokers have more of them. The theory is that smokers may then have more to lose before they start losing their minds. "It does seem that nicotine has a preventative effect, but the problem is that the other stuff in the cigarette tends to rot everything else," says Roger Bullock, a specialist in dementia and director of the Kingshill Research Centre in Swindon. So if your time is nearly up anyway, and you have somehow managed to steer a course past the Scylla and Charybdis of heart attacks and tumours, smoking might just help you retain your marbles.
Oh man- I thought snacking in between meals was good.
All this health stuff is too difficult for me-- thank god I am a simpleton engineer and not a nuitritionist.
How about "AOL will certify companies as prompt in stopping charging credit cards the moment service is cancelled.".
The ad sponsors for the link are IBM, EMC and Redhat. Can you guess which three companies are on the list?
SCO went after the users. I don't know if that will prove to be some sort of prescendent or not.
Real men don't use automated bloggers and edit their pages with vi.
The gp2x doesn't have the wifi support nor does it have Bluetooth. I would consider this for a wireless browser to control my home automation system.
Don't forget the homo sapiens have reached weights exceeding the 600 kgs in the article.
I have one too. No idea who pays for it-- but it is great to have for a publicized email address because
A. I don't use the account very often except when I subscribe to a webpage or something.
B. I get a ton of junkmail there anyways.
Saves my work, yahoo, gmail, and home emails from getting flooded.
What about sticking it to the gas company? That should be factored in.
Three pints? At lunchtime?
The little caps (many, many on a board) on mother boards are used to supply instanteous current to the components. You will usually see lots of these little (decoupling) caps close to the various ICs on the board. The ones in the article are the big boys. These are usually used to supply the instanteous current to voltage regulators and provide bulk capacitance on the voltage lines. These guys are filled with some nasty chemicals. Anyone who has ever gone thru an EE program has been in a lab where some confused student hooks one up backwards and they make a big pop. I think the chemicals can burn you pretty good too- but don't quote me on that.
If open source is communist then color me red..........
Perhaps the spyware program #1 just thinks that program #2 is spyware since it's fingerprint looks remarkably similar to something else. In this case- they didn't violate the agreement at all.
Admit it- you have been sneaking books into Barnes and Noble and putting them on the shelf.
Wow- I didn't realize that there is only 436 unique IP V4 addresses. I own like 1% of the entire address space now! I should sell my three extra fixed IPs. The 3114 in IPV6 will be a big increase.
Me thinks that they should have used ^ or exp.
The cost of the software development is passed along in the form of hardware costs or maintainence contracts.
Truth is, I don't stand a chance. It's something that your born into and I just don't belong.
We in America call them the "Freedom Riots" (tm).
These three companies make their money in services and hardware-- ie. not software. I can't possibly imagine Microsoft joining given this. It would be like Microsoft and Oracle starting a group which would give out free hardware, and use the Open source community for free services (obviously hard to do). These hardware and service companies would want nothing to do with it.
So you are giving your money now to the other artist robber baron-- ticketmaster.
You can't win unless you write them a check personally.
So that would be 2000 x 21 x 10,000-- or $420,000,000.
Let' sell some more IOUs to the Japanese and Chinese.
I wonder if they could determine who is, and who isn't, an allofmp3.com customer.
That is the best line ever put forth on this website. Too bad no one can mod it.