In February 2000 at 20 years old I was diagnosed with a lung infection called Mycobacterium Kansasii. It is in the family of Tuberculosis and treated with a nearly identical pharmaceutical regimen.
I took: Isoniazid: myambutol rifadin (turns your urine orange) vitamin B 12 (for liver health) Pyrazinamide for about a month until they ruled out Active TB.
I was on this regimen for 18 months, a while after I was declared cured myself, my Dad and my Brother walked to a local park to watch a total lunar eclipse. My brother and Dad ended up leaving early because they were getting bit so bad but I could walk into a cloud of mosquitos and they would disperse and I did not get bitten a single time.
Fast forward to now over a decade after being off of these meds and I might get 4 mosquito bites in an entire summer.
I havent ever found documented cases from other people where this happened, but the doctor who diagnosed and treated me said he had heard it in passing a few times.
I always wondered if there are alloys that could be made in microgravity that simply are not feasable to produce on earth due to the weight and density differences of the source metals.
Maybe that should be the first focus, what materials can be made in space that cannot be made on Earth, which asteroid supplies the most of said materials.
Plan A: 1) Pump all the fuel out of it. 2) If there is a hole in the down side of the hull patch it from the inside. 3) Patch any holes on the top side of the hull. 4) Get as many pumps as possible pulling water out of the thing. while you gradually inflate large air bags under it. 5) Ship pops back up, tug it anywhere you want.
Every on board sound I have ever tried while using headphones I could hear some sort of static noise with every action I made. Wiggle the mouse? acoustic noise happens right along with it, open or close a folder, a different tone of noise. My newest motherboard from about 2007 (Asus Striker extreme) had this problem.
Political party affiliations are too much like religion. Democrats think they are 100% right and the saviors of the nation and everything good that has ever happened to the country is because of Democrat lead Congress.br>
On the flip side Republicans think they are 100% right and the saviors of the nation and everything good that has ever happened to the country is because of Republican lead congress.
So no matter who endes up with a majority or has the best ideas and makes progress it will eventually be destroyed and reversed by a group that thinks they are smarter and better than the other side. Not to mention I doubt even 50% of the population of any county or state could name both candidates in the election or name a single piece of legislation supported by or submitted by same. They just see red or blue and vote red or blue.
This is why I have gotten to the point where I don't care who the president is or who controls the house and senate. In the long run it doesn't matter, your vote is simply a choice between getting screwed now or screwed later.
I have a hard time believing there is anywhere remotely close to $500-$1300(new Aeron) in materials and amortized research and development in the cost of those chairs. They are priced prohibitively high.
There is no doubt in my mind if they reduced the prices the chairs 1/4 to 1/3 of the current prices, the company would still turn a descent profit on each unit, and sales would explode.
Well, let's see. The movies Armageddon and Deep Impact came out, what, 10 years ago? We are not close (nor will we be in the next 50 years) to being able to save the inhabitants of this planet from a catastrophic event like a meteor, asteroid or comet (or a biological experiment on the planet gone wrong). Let's see - this could effect YOU, your CHILDREN, or your GRANDCHILDREN. And let's forget about all of the valuable minerals, metals, etc., that could be harvested from the asteroid belt, and the energy resources that could be brought down TO Earth from space.
But alas, we are so short-sighted now, with our entitlement mentality (mostly unearned), that we are spending all of our money (and going further into debt) here on issues, many of which shouldn't exist. At the same time, the human population of the Earth and the US is supposed to double by 2100 (your children and grandchildren will still be alive then -- maybe). Parts of the US are already overcrowded, and although there is room to expand, most don't want to be rural. Where are we going to put new landfills for 600,000 people?
Science fiction has given us many useful ideas, including telecommunications satellites. But one of the easier, most anticipated ideas, travel to Mars and other planets in our own solar system, will probably never be realized due to the short-sighted entitlement culture. Yep, I'd check off a $1000 donation for true space exploration on my tax return, but I won't willingly give another dollar to those that think they have earned it just by existing.
We are doomed to die on this rock, and I'd agree with Hawking, it probably won't take 100 years.
I was trying to think of something to post but you said it better than I ever could. Well done. It always seems people in small numbers can and do care for eachother, but when it gets to the scale of billions you don't. We hear about a Tsunami that killed 100,000+ people and find it tragic, but only a tiny fraction of a percent of us go help out or donate. (I didn't either). The Haiti earthquake relief seemed more of a fashionable thing to do than real honest concern for fellow man. I also wouldn't be surprised to learn if a handful of people pocket most of the donated money and only pennies on the dollar ever go to real actual rebuilding.
Actually, rule of thumb for a standard 30-yr fixed rate mortgage is that 28% of your gross pay is the maximum mortgage payment you should be making. That's a bit more than 25% of your take-home.
I find it absolutely absurd that we as a people let it get to the point that it takes 25% of your monthly income for 30 years (not including maintenance and utilities) to have a house.
If it doesn't gross you out too much you may want to find and take part in a controlled study like this:
http://www.drugs.com/forum/alternative-medicine/worms-crohns-disease-23351.html
Purposely infecting oneself with parasitic worms (helminths) and reaping the benefits of their immunosuppression. The results look promising.
Divert the money to a permanantly manned Moon base and send up some metallurgists to play around with alloys in the low gravity and near-vacuum. Could probably just use some frensel lenses to heat the forge. Maybe they could find some new super mega alloy, produce it on the Moon then construct a ship there to send to Mars with the newly gained "how to run a moon base" knowledge.
Every time I have ripped open an old hard drive to get out the magnets I get a headache and feel nauseated, It seems to be a physical response to something in there. Any ideas why this could be?
Audio quality for the headphones jack in any generation of Zune beat the audio quality out of ANY Ipod. This is the only reason I would personally still buy a Zune over an Ipod. The same is true for Creative and I-audio products as well.
Hopefully Apple will decide this to be an important issue with gen 7.
Theres a whole heck of a lot more Hydrogen in Amonia (NH3), which already has a MASSIVE infrastructure for shipment, why can't they figure out a way to safely use it as a base for fuel cells or some such instead of starch?
I already own a fully touch screen PMP.. the Iaudio Cowon D2.
4gb of built in memory
SDHC slot
music, movies, photos, text, FM radio, microphone
52 hours music playback, 10 hours video on 1 charge
drag and drop file trasnferring
regular firmware updates
price (with 8gb SDHC card): roughly $260
Reminds me of the time Creative sued Aureal for making A3D compatible with EAX. Aureal won the case but the cost of defending themselves ended up bankrupting the company. Next they bought Sensaura who provided nVidia, VIA, etc. with 3D support (soundstorm for nForce2) and killed the technology. They have done everything in their power to protect their precious EAX even though it is inferior to traditional home theatre suround sound.
Luckily Auzentech is growing and their technology is improving greatly. The Auzentech Xplosion 7.1 does Dolby Digital Live and DTS Connect. This card sounds incredibly better than any Creative card I have ever heard.
As many posters have stated before me a good golf game comes down to repetition. Find a swing that works for you and be able to repeat it. You do not even have to swing in some perfectly straight swing plane like most every instruction book/video will tell you.
Take a look at Jim Furyk, his backswing is in a different plane than when he comes around on the ball. According to the "experts" his swing is horrible and shouldn't work. He makes it work. Too many people try to mimick what they have seen someone else do instead of becoming comfortable with how they want to swing.
Could this be used in conjunction with other gene therapy to reverse birth defects in people like ectrodactyl hands. Cut them off and make them regenerate as a normal hand? Or entire new arms for Thalidomide babies?
Would someone blind from birth generate the ability to see or is that too heavily dependant on brain tissue?
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There was an episode of The Outer Limits called "Trial by Fire" that dealt with water faring aliens visiting earth.
In February 2000 at 20 years old I was diagnosed with a lung infection called Mycobacterium Kansasii. It is in the family of Tuberculosis and treated with a nearly identical pharmaceutical regimen.
I took:
Isoniazid:
myambutol
rifadin (turns your urine orange)
vitamin B 12 (for liver health)
Pyrazinamide for about a month until they ruled out Active TB.
I was on this regimen for 18 months, a while after I was declared cured myself, my Dad and my Brother walked to a local park to watch a total lunar eclipse. My brother and Dad ended up leaving early because they were getting bit so bad but I could walk into a cloud of mosquitos and they would disperse and I did not get bitten a single time.
Fast forward to now over a decade after being off of these meds and I might get 4 mosquito bites in an entire summer.
I havent ever found documented cases from other people where this happened, but the doctor who diagnosed and treated me said he had heard it in passing a few times.
I always wondered if there are alloys that could be made in microgravity that simply are not feasable to produce on earth due to the weight and density differences of the source metals.
Maybe that should be the first focus, what materials can be made in space that cannot be made on Earth, which asteroid supplies the most of said materials.
Plan A:
1) Pump all the fuel out of it.
2) If there is a hole in the down side of the hull patch it from the inside.
3) Patch any holes on the top side of the hull.
4) Get as many pumps as possible pulling water out of the thing. while you gradually inflate large air bags under it.
5) Ship pops back up, tug it anywhere you want.
Plan B:
Hundreds of millions of ping pong balls.
So punish anyone who is extremely tall like myself who can't reasonably fit in anything that could possibly be graded in the A band?
Doesn't need to be off, just make yourself a nice little Faraday cage for it.
Every on board sound I have ever tried while using headphones I could hear some sort of static noise with every action I made. Wiggle the mouse? acoustic noise happens right along with it, open or close a folder, a different tone of noise. My newest motherboard from about 2007 (Asus Striker extreme) had this problem.
Political party affiliations are too much like religion. Democrats think they are 100% right and the saviors of the nation and everything good that has ever happened to the country is because of Democrat lead Congress.br> On the flip side Republicans think they are 100% right and the saviors of the nation and everything good that has ever happened to the country is because of Republican lead congress.
So no matter who endes up with a majority or has the best ideas and makes progress it will eventually be destroyed and reversed by a group that thinks they are smarter and better than the other side. Not to mention I doubt even 50% of the population of any county or state could name both candidates in the election or name a single piece of legislation supported by or submitted by same. They just see red or blue and vote red or blue.
This is why I have gotten to the point where I don't care who the president is or who controls the house and senate. In the long run it doesn't matter, your vote is simply a choice between getting screwed now or screwed later.
I have a hard time believing there is anywhere remotely close to $500-$1300(new Aeron) in materials and amortized research and development in the cost of those chairs. They are priced prohibitively high.
There is no doubt in my mind if they reduced the prices the chairs 1/4 to 1/3 of the current prices, the company would still turn a descent profit on each unit, and sales would explode.
Well, let's see. The movies Armageddon and Deep Impact came out, what, 10 years ago? We are not close (nor will we be in the next 50 years) to being able to save the inhabitants of this planet from a catastrophic event like a meteor, asteroid or comet (or a biological experiment on the planet gone wrong). Let's see - this could effect YOU, your CHILDREN, or your GRANDCHILDREN. And let's forget about all of the valuable minerals, metals, etc., that could be harvested from the asteroid belt, and the energy resources that could be brought down TO Earth from space. But alas, we are so short-sighted now, with our entitlement mentality (mostly unearned), that we are spending all of our money (and going further into debt) here on issues, many of which shouldn't exist. At the same time, the human population of the Earth and the US is supposed to double by 2100 (your children and grandchildren will still be alive then -- maybe). Parts of the US are already overcrowded, and although there is room to expand, most don't want to be rural. Where are we going to put new landfills for 600,000 people? Science fiction has given us many useful ideas, including telecommunications satellites. But one of the easier, most anticipated ideas, travel to Mars and other planets in our own solar system, will probably never be realized due to the short-sighted entitlement culture. Yep, I'd check off a $1000 donation for true space exploration on my tax return, but I won't willingly give another dollar to those that think they have earned it just by existing. We are doomed to die on this rock, and I'd agree with Hawking, it probably won't take 100 years.
I was trying to think of something to post but you said it better than I ever could. Well done. It always seems people in small numbers can and do care for eachother, but when it gets to the scale of billions you don't. We hear about a Tsunami that killed 100,000+ people and find it tragic, but only a tiny fraction of a percent of us go help out or donate. (I didn't either). The Haiti earthquake relief seemed more of a fashionable thing to do than real honest concern for fellow man. I also wouldn't be surprised to learn if a handful of people pocket most of the donated money and only pennies on the dollar ever go to real actual rebuilding.
Actually, rule of thumb for a standard 30-yr fixed rate mortgage is that 28% of your gross pay is the maximum mortgage payment you should be making. That's a bit more than 25% of your take-home.
I find it absolutely absurd that we as a people let it get to the point that it takes 25% of your monthly income for 30 years (not including maintenance and utilities) to have a house.
If it doesn't gross you out too much you may want to find and take part in a controlled study like this: http://www.drugs.com/forum/alternative-medicine/worms-crohns-disease-23351.html
Purposely infecting oneself with parasitic worms (helminths) and reaping the benefits of their immunosuppression. The results look promising.
Divert the money to a permanantly manned Moon base and send up some metallurgists to play around with alloys in the low gravity and near-vacuum. Could probably just use some frensel lenses to heat the forge. Maybe they could find some new super mega alloy, produce it on the Moon then construct a ship there to send to Mars with the newly gained "how to run a moon base" knowledge.
Also try Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Explosions in the Sky, Kinski and Talkdemonic
Motorcycles are every bit as unsafe as you describe this car to be yet tens of millions of people still ride them.
Every time I have ripped open an old hard drive to get out the magnets I get a headache and feel nauseated, It seems to be a physical response to something in there. Any ideas why this could be?
Audio quality for the headphones jack in any generation of Zune beat the audio quality out of ANY Ipod. This is the only reason I would personally still buy a Zune over an Ipod. The same is true for Creative and I-audio products as well.
Hopefully Apple will decide this to be an important issue with gen 7.
Theres a whole heck of a lot more Hydrogen in Amonia (NH3), which already has a MASSIVE infrastructure for shipment, why can't they figure out a way to safely use it as a base for fuel cells or some such instead of starch?
I already own a fully touch screen PMP.. the Iaudio Cowon D2. 4gb of built in memory SDHC slot music, movies, photos, text, FM radio, microphone 52 hours music playback, 10 hours video on 1 charge drag and drop file trasnferring regular firmware updates price (with 8gb SDHC card): roughly $260
This is good news to me. Ever since I was a kid my non-sick temperature ranges from 97.0 to 97.8 during routine checkups.
Where else is he gonna make out with 2 chicks when his Mom is home?
I don't think Linux drivers exist for the Auzentech cards yet. None on their company website anyway.
Reminds me of the time Creative sued Aureal for making A3D compatible with EAX. Aureal won the case but the cost of defending themselves ended up bankrupting the company. Next they bought Sensaura who provided nVidia, VIA, etc. with 3D support (soundstorm for nForce2) and killed the technology. They have done everything in their power to protect their precious EAX even though it is inferior to traditional home theatre suround sound.
Luckily Auzentech is growing and their technology is improving greatly. The Auzentech Xplosion 7.1 does Dolby Digital Live and DTS Connect. This card sounds incredibly better than any Creative card I have ever heard.
As many posters have stated before me a good golf game comes down to repetition. Find a swing that works for you and be able to repeat it. You do not even have to swing in some perfectly straight swing plane like most every instruction book/video will tell you. Take a look at Jim Furyk, his backswing is in a different plane than when he comes around on the ball. According to the "experts" his swing is horrible and shouldn't work. He makes it work. Too many people try to mimick what they have seen someone else do instead of becoming comfortable with how they want to swing.
Could this be used in conjunction with other gene therapy to reverse birth defects in people like ectrodactyl hands. Cut them off and make them regenerate as a normal hand? Or entire new arms for Thalidomide babies? Would someone blind from birth generate the ability to see or is that too heavily dependant on brain tissue?