Oops. One step too far. You fell over the believable cliff.
Come on. While I'm not happy about the rampant data mining going on everywhere and the premise of TFA is faintly ridiculous (we know where all the really sick people are - they're in and out of the ER all the time - we don't need no stinkin' data mining) you just might imagine that somebody is going to do a few checks internally.
Even in this Evil Pantopicon, one pack of cigs isn't going to flag anything. One pack of cigs every day, OTOH, just might.
I really don't see this being much of an issue. The insurance companies have all the data they need to screen for potential expensive, er, ill, patients. They don't need to look for Twinkie ingestion. This whole thing is a bunch of junior executives getting a hold of too much cocaine and hookers. Or cocaine anyway.
Anybody may write programs, and it looks like there's hardly a nitwit who doesn't. I've said it before, I'll say it again: The stream of crap won't cede unless the software industry is made liable for software defects.
The ONLY winners in that scenario would be the lawyers.
Funny thing is now we would ignore it. We used to get excited about bigeminy and did all sorts of dangerous, useless things. Now it's just used to scare medical students.
A modified Heimlich Maneuver for CPR could probably be used in space in an emergency. That way, at least both of you would stay relatively still.
They tried that in the 1900's - wasn't too successful. Besides people tend to vomit during and after a Heimlich maneuver. Not exactly kosher inside a spacecraft.
Other than the fact that it has never been done, no problemo. Space is not exactly where you are supposed to do cutting edge (please excuse the pun) medical research. You have clearly never dealt with an Institutional Review Board or you wouldn't think to bring up such silly ideas.
Next, you'll want to send lawyers into space, just to see if they really need to breath oxygen.
If you think that there isn't a file somewhere in the depths of the Manned Flight Operations Manual (or whatever idiot acronym that NASA gives it) detailing exactly what you are supposed to do with a dead body, you're crazy.
They've thought of things you haven't thought of to think of.
Well, let's look at this carefully. You can get weather from NOAA (162.5xx mHz). At least in my neck of the woods, you can also get EAS warnings from them.
So now, that jamming system is looking quite a bit more attractive, no?
Do you have any suggestions for what to do about cyclists who are jabbering on their phone via bluetooth while they ride? Or who are having their texts read to them? Or who are wobbling along at 10mph using an entire lane with a 45mph limit, as they fiddle with their handlebar-mounted smartphone's You Are Fabulous, Look How Fit You Are! app?
You do have a point, but it must be realized that ocean currents (and structure) have changed over time. The Atlantic conveyor has formed and collapsed and reformed - the continents move around which obviously changes currents as does raising and lowering of mean sea levels. So you can't add the same numbers into the mix - it's complicated and poorly understood.
1. When the law is on your side, pound on the law. 2. When the facts are on your side, pound on the facts. 3. When neither the law nor the facts are on your side, pound on the table.
You can give the most important worker on an assembly line all the crystal meth they can eat, but they can't work any faster than the conveyor belt in front of them.
Ah! The 21st Century version of the 'mythical man month' - so much more apropos for this audience than the pregnancy analogy.
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They're considered an offshoot rather than a direct lineal ancestor (at least for most of us ... I'm not too sure about our CEO).
You're still thinking rationaly. You can't do that around these people.
Sorry. You're correct. My bad.
When was the last time any doctor anywhere made an outgoing call to a patient?
When your bill is in arrears.
Oops. One step too far. You fell over the believable cliff.
Come on. While I'm not happy about the rampant data mining going on everywhere and the premise of TFA is faintly ridiculous (we know where all the really sick people are - they're in and out of the ER all the time - we don't need no stinkin' data mining) you just might imagine that somebody is going to do a few checks internally.
Even in this Evil Pantopicon, one pack of cigs isn't going to flag anything. One pack of cigs every day, OTOH, just might.
I really don't see this being much of an issue. The insurance companies have all the data they need to screen for potential expensive, er, ill, patients. They don't need to look for Twinkie ingestion. This whole thing is a bunch of junior executives getting a hold of too much cocaine and hookers. Or cocaine anyway.
Dick Tracy comics?
Anybody may write programs, and it looks like there's hardly a nitwit who doesn't. I've said it before, I'll say it again: The stream of crap won't cede unless the software industry is made liable for software defects.
The ONLY winners in that scenario would be the lawyers.
'You know how the Premiere loves surprises ... "
Funny thing is now we would ignore it. We used to get excited about bigeminy and did all sorts of dangerous, useless things. Now it's just used to scare medical students.
A modified Heimlich Maneuver for CPR could probably be used in space in an emergency. That way, at least both of you would stay relatively still.
They tried that in the 1900's - wasn't too successful. Besides people tend to vomit during and after a Heimlich maneuver. Not exactly kosher inside a spacecraft.
Other than the fact that it has never been done, no problemo. Space is not exactly where you are supposed to do cutting edge (please excuse the pun) medical research. You have clearly never dealt with an Institutional Review Board or you wouldn't think to bring up such silly ideas.
Next, you'll want to send lawyers into space, just to see if they really need to breath oxygen.
If you think that there isn't a file somewhere in the depths of the Manned Flight Operations Manual (or whatever idiot acronym that NASA gives it) detailing exactly what you are supposed to do with a dead body, you're crazy.
They've thought of things you haven't thought of to think of.
Death is a pretty obvious one.
Well, let's look at this carefully. You can get weather from NOAA (162.5xx mHz). At least in my neck of the woods, you can also get EAS warnings from them.
So now, that jamming system is looking quite a bit more attractive, no?
Do you have any suggestions for what to do about cyclists who are jabbering on their phone via bluetooth while they ride? Or who are having their texts read to them? Or who are wobbling along at 10mph using an entire lane with a 45mph limit, as they fiddle with their handlebar-mounted smartphone's You Are Fabulous, Look How Fit You Are! app?
Bumper tag.
If that passenger was calling 911 for a firetruck as their car was on fire, you wouldn't be saying what you're saying.
You guys lead way more exciting lives than I do....
For taxi cabs?
You do have a point, but it must be realized that ocean currents (and structure) have changed over time. The Atlantic conveyor has formed and collapsed and reformed - the continents move around which obviously changes currents as does raising and lowering of mean sea levels. So you can't add the same numbers into the mix - it's complicated and poorly understood.
1. When the law is on your side, pound on the law.
2. When the facts are on your side, pound on the facts.
3. When neither the law nor the facts are on your side, pound on the table.
Excellent. We'll all move over to your house. Recall the first word in the phrase "Global Warming".
Seems we'll be tipping Larry Ellison every time we check in to a Hilton now.
I think you have this just a little bit backwards.
You must be new here. Statistical outliers are what we do.
One of us has a malfunctioning humor detector. Hard to say whom.
You can give the most important worker on an assembly line all the crystal meth they can eat, but they can't work any faster than the conveyor belt in front of them.
Ah! The 21st Century version of the 'mythical man month' - so much more apropos for this audience than the pregnancy analogy.
What's a 'gear'?
Perhaps because the the last amendment to the US Constitution (the 27th) took over 200 years to ratify.
Patience is a virture, but ....
Are resource wars.
And start out rather like this.
I can try having sex in food and industrial crop areas but I don't see how thats going to help the bee population.
So, instead of furries, we need the fuzzies to come up to the plate?