This is why the CDC-type folks are running scared. Unlike Ebola and HIV which take a fair amount of work and / or bad luck to get, Measles is airborne and very, very contagious.
Yes, it usually is a relatively mild, self limited illness but once you get lots of cases, you start getting into the 1-2% of folks that get serious complications. It's very ugly.
And, of course, totally unnecessary but that's human stupidity for you.
At the hospital I work at you can opt out of their "required" annual flu shot, but if you do you are required to wear a face mask all the time while on hospital property during flu season. Wearing one of those masks all the time sucks so most employees give in and get the shot.
I suppose Disney could do the same, but N95 respirators on park employees would undoubtedly freak out the tourists.
That's an interestingly absurd policy since the facemasks lose their effectiveness after about 30 -45 minutes (when they get moist). I suppose they have minders running around timing when you change your masks out?
Make more sense to have you swallow Tamiflu all winter (not a whole lot of sense, mind you, but more than your current policy).
Don't get too snarky here. You are incorrect. Pneumonia - a state in the lungs with certain types of tissue damage and characteristic clinical findings - can be caused by bacteria, viruses, fungi, chemicals and the 'ol immune system all by its haywire self.
Hemophilus is a genus of bacteria that loves to infect the lungs AFTER a viral infection. Fortunately, there is a good vaccine for this and most Slashdot posters probably haven't even heard of a case of Hemophilus sepsis or encephalitis (truly awful diseases). Further, I think the poster you are replying to is referring to an 'allergy shot' (likely a strong dose of a general steroid to stomp on the immune system) caused his (?) immune system to weaken to the point where he got another infection. Possible, not terribly likely but possible.
Tachometers are useful diagnostic devices on an automatic, especially a truck under load. So I'm glad I have one, but I hardly ever glance at it unless something seems wrong.
Right. And if you miss the scheduled maintenance tick, the radio stays on and only plays episodes of 'Car Talk' until you take it to the dealer to reset it.
Which is why, if you have high personal valuation, say you make 200K / year, have a trust fund or other assets, you often want much higher limits on your policies. If you own two houses and a boat and a bunch of securities, it makes sense for the aggrieved party to go after you. If you flip burgers, not so much. My insurance policy states that they will defend me for losses above the policy limits, but it doesn't say how aggressively they will go about it. And, if they lose, so do I.
Be careful here. Real careful. There is some truth to that statement but the implication is overbroad. It is the military structure that puts it's command away from local government. What you want is local civilian governmental control of the police, not federal control. Weapons and tactics are of little import and have been more than a little hyped.
It's the feds coopting local police by offering money, equipment, communications and help that is very concerning. Of course, it can work both ways - we have seen where local control of police causes real harm to members of the community and those harms don't get addressed locally. The entire civil rights movement would have been dead in the water if the US Federal government hadn't been there to 'overwhelm' the entrenched southern interests. No clear winner either way and checks and balances are crucial.
But guns and trucks are only a small part of this.
Remember that in the early days of penicillin, when manufacturing meant making a couple of grams of the stuff, it was 'recycled' from patient's urine, purified and used again. Many drugs are passed unchanged through the kidney. Many more have only modest changes that might still be biologically active. Standard sewage treatment plants have a relatively haphazard approach to breaking down complex organic molecules of all sorts. If the primary bacteria and flocculation (precipitation) don't get the compound it goes into the drink (so to speak).
UV radiation is pretty good at breaking down things, and even atmospheric radiation (without adding additional UV lights) works to some extent but it is slow and the UV does not penetrate any great deal into the water column. So you either need active UV filtering (something the EPA is pushing) or some other active means of removing organochemicals. Add industrial level effluents and you've got a problem. All of this requires money, time, rule of law and civil commitment. Which means it doesn't always happen - either in China or India or anywhere.
Yeah, Kim's Killer Kids could conceivably make the elevator ascend in bumpy six inch steps for an hour while playing 'You Light Up My Life", but that's about as scary as it gets.
No stop this. You can fix that aberrant behavior with a simple preference switch. Which I did immediately, but my wife LIKES the fact she can search for 'everything' in one place. No accounting for taste.
The visuals - a wash and always subjective. The bugs are there and won't be fixed until 10.5.
Then, OS X 10.5-10.7 will be great and 11 (or whatever the hell they are planning on calling) it will arrive, be full of bugs and questionable UI changes. And the Wheel of Time....
Come now, who cares what politicians do these days? We have Miley and Justin to push the edge of what is compatible with human behavior. Not to mention the Rolling Stones, Kim Kardashian and Kiss.
The days of 'the only way I could lose the election is to be found in bed with a dead girl or live boy' are over.
I suppose we have the Internet to thank for that.....
The administrations never change, they simply put on a different baseball cap and hire a sharp-lookin' and smart-talkin' guy who will make you believe in things like hope and change.
There is corruption of one sort or another everywhere. Most 'functional' countries manage to keep it down to a level where the rest of society functions to some level. In the US, people are routinely tossed into courts over bribery and corruption issues. The Navy is running a big anticorruption scandal at the moment. Of course, some (or perhaps most) of the perpetrators get away - but enough get caught to keep the system functioning.
In a number of African and Middle Eastern countries and likely including Russia at this point, the rule of law is so feeble an distant that overt corruption, nepotism and just outright theft are the rules of the game.
Don't knock the judicial system too hard. It serves as a strong barrier to this sort of thing.
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Sounds like Neuromancer .....
More importantly, this should really get the anti vaccers in a major huffy.
This is why the CDC-type folks are running scared. Unlike Ebola and HIV which take a fair amount of work and / or bad luck to get, Measles is airborne and very, very contagious.
Yes, it usually is a relatively mild, self limited illness but once you get lots of cases, you start getting into the 1-2% of folks that get serious complications. It's very ugly.
And, of course, totally unnecessary but that's human stupidity for you.
You really want someone to spend the time to take apart the lunatic ravings of some random doc who ralfed about vaccines in 1896?
You might be crazier than he was.
At the hospital I work at you can opt out of their "required" annual flu shot, but if you do you are required to wear a face mask all the time while on hospital property during flu season. Wearing one of those masks all the time sucks so most employees give in and get the shot.
I suppose Disney could do the same, but N95 respirators on park employees would undoubtedly freak out the tourists.
That's an interestingly absurd policy since the facemasks lose their effectiveness after about 30 -45 minutes (when they get moist). I suppose they have minders running around timing when you change your masks out?
Make more sense to have you swallow Tamiflu all winter (not a whole lot of sense, mind you, but more than your current policy).
Don't get too snarky here. You are incorrect. Pneumonia - a state in the lungs with certain types of tissue damage and characteristic clinical findings - can be caused by bacteria, viruses, fungi, chemicals and the 'ol immune system all by its haywire self.
Hemophilus is a genus of bacteria that loves to infect the lungs AFTER a viral infection. Fortunately, there is a good vaccine for this and most Slashdot posters probably haven't even heard of a case of Hemophilus sepsis or encephalitis (truly awful diseases). Further, I think the poster you are replying to is referring to an 'allergy shot' (likely a strong dose of a general steroid to stomp on the immune system) caused his (?) immune system to weaken to the point where he got another infection. Possible, not terribly likely but possible.
You might be smart, but that doesn't stop you from being ignorant.
Use your supposed smarts to look up the details of how influenza vaccines work and don't work.
TL;DR - It's complicated.
Those are implants.
I'm surprised they didn't put you on a special 'call this guy - he's kinda fun' list.
I would have....
Great. Just what some PTSD-addled Vietnam vet needs to hear.....
Tachometers are useful diagnostic devices on an automatic, especially a truck under load. So I'm glad I have one, but I hardly ever glance at it unless something seems wrong.
Right. And if you miss the scheduled maintenance tick, the radio stays on and only plays episodes of 'Car Talk' until you take it to the dealer to reset it.
I'd much rather give it google than the NSA and law enforcement.
You think there is a functional difference? How cute.
[citation needed]
Stand on local hill.
Turn slowly in a 360 degree circle.
That should do it. If not, at least the compass in you phone will be calibrated.
Hmmm . . . a "no - go" zone for Muslims. Interesting. Since their are 791 no go zones for non-muslims throughout the country, the nation turns tables.
Aren't we being stupid today.
Which is why, if you have high personal valuation, say you make 200K / year, have a trust fund or other assets, you often want much higher limits on your policies. If you own two houses and a boat and a bunch of securities, it makes sense for the aggrieved party to go after you. If you flip burgers, not so much. My insurance policy states that they will defend me for losses above the policy limits, but it doesn't say how aggressively they will go about it. And, if they lose, so do I.
Wow. You've managed to out-cube Time-cube.
Be careful here. Real careful. There is some truth to that statement but the implication is overbroad. It is the military structure that puts it's command away from local government. What you want is local civilian governmental control of the police, not federal control. Weapons and tactics are of little import and have been more than a little hyped.
It's the feds coopting local police by offering money, equipment, communications and help that is very concerning. Of course, it can work both ways - we have seen where local control of police causes real harm to members of the community and those harms don't get addressed locally. The entire civil rights movement would have been dead in the water if the US Federal government hadn't been there to 'overwhelm' the entrenched southern interests. No clear winner either way and checks and balances are crucial.
But guns and trucks are only a small part of this.
Remember that in the early days of penicillin, when manufacturing meant making a couple of grams of the stuff, it was 'recycled' from patient's urine, purified and used again. Many drugs are passed unchanged through the kidney. Many more have only modest changes that might still be biologically active. Standard sewage treatment plants have a relatively haphazard approach to breaking down complex organic molecules of all sorts. If the primary bacteria and flocculation (precipitation) don't get the compound it goes into the drink (so to speak).
UV radiation is pretty good at breaking down things, and even atmospheric radiation (without adding additional UV lights) works to some extent but it is slow and the UV does not penetrate any great deal into the water column. So you either need active UV filtering (something the EPA is pushing) or some other active means of removing organochemicals. Add industrial level effluents and you've got a problem. All of this requires money, time, rule of law and civil commitment. Which means it doesn't always happen - either in China or India or anywhere.
Yeah, Kim's Killer Kids could conceivably make the elevator ascend in bumpy six inch steps for an hour while playing 'You Light Up My Life", but that's about as scary as it gets.
No stop this. You can fix that aberrant behavior with a simple preference switch. Which I did immediately, but my wife LIKES the fact she can search for 'everything' in one place. No accounting for taste.
The visuals - a wash and always subjective. The bugs are there and won't be fixed until 10.5.
Then, OS X 10.5-10.7 will be great and 11 (or whatever the hell they are planning on calling) it will arrive, be full of bugs and questionable UI changes. And the Wheel of Time....
Come now, who cares what politicians do these days? We have Miley and Justin to push the edge of what is compatible with human behavior. Not to mention the Rolling Stones, Kim Kardashian and Kiss.
The days of 'the only way I could lose the election is to be found in bed with a dead girl or live boy' are over.
I suppose we have the Internet to thank for that.....
This really isn't fair. You need to fess up and tell us what meds you're on.
The administrations never change, they simply put on a different baseball cap and hire a sharp-lookin' and smart-talkin' guy who will make you believe in things like hope and change.
Oh yeah? Explain George Bush.
There is corruption of one sort or another everywhere. Most 'functional' countries manage to keep it down to a level where the rest of society functions to some level. In the US, people are routinely tossed into courts over bribery and corruption issues. The Navy is running a big anticorruption scandal at the moment. Of course, some (or perhaps most) of the perpetrators get away - but enough get caught to keep the system functioning.
In a number of African and Middle Eastern countries and likely including Russia at this point, the rule of law is so feeble an distant that overt corruption, nepotism and just outright theft are the rules of the game.
Don't knock the judicial system too hard. It serves as a strong barrier to this sort of thing.
Google doesn't need anymore money, thank you very much. It's fine that they 'waste' it on research. Much like ol Elon.
Nonetheless, I think they need to think about doing something with less potential for serious problems. I found the phrase
We never told it during training, ‘This is a cat,’” Dean told the New York Times. “It basically invented the concept of a cat.”
To be the scariest thing I've read all day. It did that by parsing YouTube. That was the first attempt to parse YouTube with 'Deep Learning".
I do not want to be around when it finally figures out about 4Chan.