I would gladly destroy every bee on earth if I could sit outside without spraying a ton of chemicals on myself to prevent mosquito bites carrying disease.
I agree that mosquitoes are despicable vermin. Most bugs have some purpose in the grand cycle, and I leave them alone so long as they stay outside where they belong. But I have to ask, just what the hell is the place of mosquitoes in the scheme?! Yes, if the price was agreeable, I would support the 100% elimination of this bug forever.
I feel the same about bird-eating spiders. What the fuck?
I saw an article about this somewhere else recently, saying that here in the UK you just don't get the same amount of dead insects on your windscreen in the summer as you used to, although that was more anecdotal than evidence-based..
The UK government isn't refunding the taxes that these fat smokers pay for the NHS, are they?
-jcr
If a fat smoker gets run over by a bus, the NHS will still provide the ambulance and paramedics to deal with the scene and transport them to A&E where nurses and doctors will mend their broken limbs etc.
Without doubting you, I still don't understand why, if your body only requires half the calories of the rest of us, you don't just eat half the calories the rest of us do?
Is it peer pressure to eat the same sized meals or something? Don't you stop feeling hungry after half the level of the rest of us? I am genuinely unclear why this is a problem.
double knee replacement may, in some circumstances, be considered non-urgent
It depends on the definition you are using. If "urgent" means " it has to be done immediately or the patient will die" then most surgery is non-urgent. That is not the same as non-essential (e.g. purely cosmetic nose surgery).
Two words: supplemental policy. The math isn't that hard, try using your brain.
However, one does have to ask whether this is a wise choice based on the evidence. If the patient is in pain, for example, forcing that patient into the traumatic experience of withdrawal may be contraindicated, and if the surgery has preventative merits, patients may delay to avoid that experience and end up burdening the system even more once the need progresses to an urgent state.
I think they are talking about elective/cosmetic surgery where there is no immediate pain or risk to health aren't they?
You don't get a refund on your contributions to the NHS though if you do.
That's because if you develop cancer or some other long-term condition the NHS will pick up the burden when your private health care provider tells you to fuck off, sorry declines your renewal for the year.
I now ride 5,000+ miles a year... https://www.strava.com/athlete... [strava.com] and can only average about 20 miles a day not 70 - 110 miles.
I'm sure you're right that this is bullshit, but technically he didn't say he averaged 70-110 miles a day, only that he regularly cycled 70-110 miles a day.
If I cycled 100 miles one Saturday a month I could legitimately say I regularly cycled 100 miles in a day.
If theyâ(TM)re telling smokers and fatties to fuck off, they should refuse to treat motorcycle crash victims and those with sporting injuries too - itâ(TM)s also their own fault for making poor life choices
Also, anyone involved in a car accident, right? It's a lifestyle choice not to walk or take the bus after all.
The demo doesn't involve pre-recorded instructions. You literally have a plumber sitting in his office with a hololens guiding some guy at the house. Saves commute time and he can multiplex between multiple houses when there's downtime.
Which is another way of saying he can charge his time out several times over. I see the attraction if you're a plumber and need another fucking gold plated Rolls Royce for your wife to match your own.
That's because Wikipedia isn't a manual. It's a knowledge compendium.
So in order to understand those math equations, maybe you would need to learn the simpler equations leading to them.
Going to certain Wikipedia pages is like opening a science manual straight at Chapter XXXV and whining you don't understand it. You would, if you learned the previous 34 chapters.
Then there should be a link to the other 34 chapters saying "you need to read these before continuing" or something.
Many people like Slashdot because you can share ideas. People who like computers and the Internet can read the ideas to learn.
Anyone can go to Slashdot and read it and do not need to give money. People from every country go. It has many ideas which are never the same.
It is unclear whether this is (a) written by someone with only an eight year old's grasp of English, (b) written by an eight year old native English speaker, (c) machine-translated from Klingon or (d) a joke.
* the firm was subcontracted four levels down from defence contracts.
It doesn't matter whether it was subcontracted one hundred levels down, ultimately those at the top are responsible for not having proper security in place. Like making sure that sub-contractors check on the security of sub-sub-contractors, and so on.
But even if prostitution was legal and socially acceptable, don't you still think there would be prostitutes that would want to keep their day job hidden from family members or others?
If it was really socially acceptable I don't think there would be an issue, although you should of course still have the right to maintain separate work and home profiles. You're right that the legal aspect confuses things, as clearly no one wants their illegal actions linked to them.
That is classic right wing false equivalence "there are good and bad people on both sides" bollocks. Some Nazis liked Mozart or kittens, that doesn't mean that Nazism was OK on balance.
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I would gladly destroy every bee on earth if I could sit outside without spraying a ton of chemicals on myself to prevent mosquito bites carrying disease.
I agree that mosquitoes are despicable vermin. Most bugs have some purpose in the grand cycle, and I leave them alone so long as they stay outside where they belong. But I have to ask, just what the hell is the place of mosquitoes in the scheme?! Yes, if the price was agreeable, I would support the 100% elimination of this bug forever.
I feel the same about bird-eating spiders. What the fuck?
I saw an article about this somewhere else recently, saying that here in the UK you just don't get the same amount of dead insects on your windscreen in the summer as you used to, although that was more anecdotal than evidence-based..
I'm not sure it's considered good form to actually know what you're talking about on slashdot, unless it's computer-related.
The UK government isn't refunding the taxes that these fat smokers pay for the NHS, are they?
-jcr
If a fat smoker gets run over by a bus, the NHS will still provide the ambulance and paramedics to deal with the scene and transport them to A&E where nurses and doctors will mend their broken limbs etc.
Is it peer pressure to eat the same sized meals or something? Don't you stop feeling hungry after half the level of the rest of us? I am genuinely unclear why this is a problem.
double knee replacement may, in some circumstances, be considered non-urgent
It depends on the definition you are using. If "urgent" means " it has to be done immediately or the patient will die" then most surgery is non-urgent. That is not the same as non-essential (e.g. purely cosmetic nose surgery).
I assume you are such a rabid libertarian that "the hospital" and "the government" mean the same thing to you because of the evil socialist NHS?
Uh already happened with the baby that they refused to allow transferred to the US for experimental surgery.
That was because a judge here decided it was pointless, nothing to do with the cost.
Two words: supplemental policy. The math isn't that hard, try using your brain.
However, one does have to ask whether this is a wise choice based on the evidence. If the patient is in pain, for example, forcing that patient into the traumatic experience of withdrawal may be contraindicated, and if the surgery has preventative merits, patients may delay to avoid that experience and end up burdening the system even more once the need progresses to an urgent state.
I think they are talking about elective/cosmetic surgery where there is no immediate pain or risk to health aren't they?
You don't get a refund on your contributions to the NHS though if you do.
That's because if you develop cancer or some other long-term condition the NHS will pick up the burden when your private health care provider tells you to fuck off, sorry declines your renewal for the year.
I now ride 5,000+ miles a year... https://www.strava.com/athlete... [strava.com] and can only average about 20 miles a day not 70 - 110 miles.
I'm sure you're right that this is bullshit, but technically he didn't say he averaged 70-110 miles a day, only that he regularly cycled 70-110 miles a day.
If I cycled 100 miles one Saturday a month I could legitimately say I regularly cycled 100 miles in a day.
If theyâ(TM)re telling smokers and fatties to fuck off, they should refuse to treat motorcycle crash victims and those with sporting injuries too - itâ(TM)s also their own fault for making poor life choices
Also, anyone involved in a car accident, right? It's a lifestyle choice not to walk or take the bus after all.
The demo doesn't involve pre-recorded instructions. You literally have a plumber sitting in his office with a hololens guiding some guy at the house. Saves commute time and he can multiplex between multiple houses when there's downtime.
Which is another way of saying he can charge his time out several times over. I see the attraction if you're a plumber and need another fucking gold plated Rolls Royce for your wife to match your own.
That's because Wikipedia isn't a manual. It's a knowledge compendium. So in order to understand those math equations, maybe you would need to learn the simpler equations leading to them. Going to certain Wikipedia pages is like opening a science manual straight at Chapter XXXV and whining you don't understand it. You would, if you learned the previous 34 chapters.
Then there should be a link to the other 34 chapters saying "you need to read these before continuing" or something.
For example, "Neuroscience For Dummies" is enough to get you started as a brain surgeon.
Holy fuck I hope not.
Many people like Slashdot because you can share ideas. People who like computers and the Internet can read the ideas to learn. Anyone can go to Slashdot and read it and do not need to give money. People from every country go. It has many ideas which are never the same.
It is unclear whether this is (a) written by someone with only an eight year old's grasp of English, (b) written by an eight year old native English speaker, (c) machine-translated from Klingon or (d) a joke.
* the firm was subcontracted four levels down from defence contracts.
It doesn't matter whether it was subcontracted one hundred levels down, ultimately those at the top are responsible for not having proper security in place. Like making sure that sub-contractors check on the security of sub-sub-contractors, and so on.
But even if prostitution was legal and socially acceptable, don't you still think there would be prostitutes that would want to keep their day job hidden from family members or others?
If it was really socially acceptable I don't think there would be an issue, although you should of course still have the right to maintain separate work and home profiles. You're right that the legal aspect confuses things, as clearly no one wants their illegal actions linked to them.
IDS is detection. IPS is prevention.
And IBS is a pain in the ass.
That is classic right wing false equivalence "there are good and bad people on both sides" bollocks. Some Nazis liked Mozart or kittens, that doesn't mean that Nazism was OK on balance.
This is such an incredibly annoying post that I hope it is a troll. We need some decent trolls back on slashdot, not just meme-regurgitators.
Well OK he's just very stupid on a permanent, sober basis, rather than temporarily very stupid because he's on something.
Auto firing does not make you a better killer that taking the time to aim does. Auto firing wastes bullets and saves lives.
That's why the military don't bother with machine guns and the standard weapon for soldiers nowadays is still the musket.
a whole scale insurrection with 50%ish citizens in both north and south would not be quelled so easily by the US military
If you could get 50% of the people to seriously oppose the government, you wouldn't need any guns.
Which, while still nutty, is much less nutty than the notion that it would be of much help if you want to engage in war against the government.
It's Zombie Apocalypse nutty rather than Rambo nutty. Big deal.