You don't give it to NASA. You give it to 'protecting the American way of life'. The contract goes to YoYoDyne^HBoeing. NASA then 'needs' a heavy lift booster that YoYoDyne just happens to have tested recently.....
With the exception of the Saturn boosters (the 1B and V), every US space launch has been done with a booster that is to a greater or lesser extent, military.
Ah no. At best, they lease it. Of all people you should realize the impermanence of ownership.
As as aside, it should be pointed out that the Russia isn't the only country that makes rocket engines. Arianespace has some perfectly cromulent launch systems available for hire. Bulk discounts likely available. The advantage for them is that they are quite further along with the systems integration than SpaceX.
However, it may be even less politically palatable to be beholden to the.... French.... for space access.
'Now go away, or I shall taunt you a second time.'
It's much safer. Stock up on Doritos and Dr. Pepper and wait the epidemic out.
Pertussis is a big deal and, as usual, the media is Doing It Wrong. For most adults, pertussis is annoying (very annoying) but not life threatening. It is also rather contagious and worse, it is most contagious early on when one's symptoms are mild and non specific. So when you are sick, stay in the basement. Wash your hands. Communicate with the rest of the world via Slashdot.
For young children it can be fatal, hence the importance of immunizations.
What is pretty clear is that the primary immunization series works pretty well (not perfectly). Immunizations of adults doesn't work well at all. What TFA didn't make clear was how immunized the adults were. They would be up to date if they had received their primary children's series but no adult Dtap (typically given as part of a tetanus immunization, not directly 'for' pertussis). But we know that the pertussis component of Dtap wanes after five years. So even if you were technically up to date by tetanus standards, you'd be behind for pertussis.
We've known this for decades. What I can't figure out is why a pertussis only booster hasn't been marketed. We have the vaccine, we have much of the data. It would be fairly easy to do. (Insert favorite rant about the Medical Industrial Complex here.)
1) Rather safe (so 'not far worse for your health'...) 2) Notably effective for SECONDARY prevention of coronary artery disease (CAD) If you have had heart attack #1, statins improve your chance of survival by 10-40%.
Statins have NOT been shown - but have been alluded to:
1) Decreasing CAD in people without known preexisting heart disease. 2) Decrease all cause mortality in the general population with elevated cholesterol levels.
These allusions are the problem. There is good scientific basis for those assumptions and some weak data. It has not been conclusively shown to be true for the general population although there are defined subpopulations where it does appear to have an effect (diabetics and some folks with particular patterns of SNPs indicating some sort of mulitgene inheritance). Statins really should not be pushed as hard as they are in the US. The data for that, other than the data for increasing the profits of companies making statins, is darn weak. But they are very useful drugs.
We are in amidst the largest uncontrolled diet experiment and along with a computer revolution where we store every minute piece of data. Maybe we should shelve these expensive double blind experiments and just analyze the cheap data out there of what people are eating and their health status. Taking a picture of every meal with your phone diet is a thing and millions of people are collecting data on their food habits.
Doesn't work very well. You end up getting lots of the wrong data. You have to think before you start researching. The obeservational approach has got us in the pickle that we are in now. Unless you are very, very careful with your statistics and even more careful about your conclusions, observational studies are pretty much worthless no matter how many variables you might collect.
Garbage In, Garbage Out (literally and figuratively in this case.)
The other elephant in the room is your genetics. Your ancestors may have done well on milk products, your neighbor - not so much. It's hard to determine what what your particular body's optimal requirements are. We're getting there, but it's going to be a while since we basically don't know jack about nutrition.
Not to mention that, even with our BPA infused, high fructose corn syrup laden, human growth hormone injected and antibiotic treated food supply, we're still leading longer and healthy lives than ever.
Take that Mr. Cro Magnon man! One omelet please and double up on the Hollandaise. You're not getting out of here alive so enjoy it while you can.
Oh hardly. If you really, really don't want a 'connected' refrigerator, buy a used one of current lineage. You can keep a major appliance alive for 30 - 40 years with only minimal fuss. Personally, I cannot stand washer / driers that have more complex electronics than my boat (and I'm looking at YOU, LG you mindless idiots). My paradigm for washing clothes does not involve nearly that many decisions.
So we have a washer / drier that has those quaint mechanical dials. That keep on cleaning and drying, doing exactly what I want them to do. And nothing more. I can keep them running until I'm ready for the nursing home, at which time I probably will neither know nor care how clothes washing is done.
There's nothing unreasonable about that. Yes, Swift was just publically announced a few days ago. But you need to show that you have experience with it if you want to get the job that uses it. The best way of checking if somebody has experience is to see how long they've been using the technology. It doesn't matter if it was released tomorrow, today, yesteday, last month, or decades ago. If you're good enough for the job, then you'll already have 6 years of experience with Swift. If you don't have the experience, then you just aren't good enough. Is that really so hard to understand?
Now I know what our HR manager is doing at her desk. Hi Sandy!
"It's estimated that freshwater fishes make up more than 6% of the world's annual animal protein supplies for humans - and the major and often only source of animal protein for low income families across Bangladesh, Indonesia and the Philippines.
This comes from the Fine Article - where does your data come from?
While we've only studied boreal regions, these results are likely to bear out globally.
Now, this is where they go a little hyperbolic. Maybe yes, maybe no.... But lets not get all wound up about this until you've done a bit more work. Much of the deforestation in the world is in Africa and South America, both very different ecosystems from the boreal region.
salmon eat in the oceans and go die in freshwater streams where their nitrogen and other nutrients supplies the trees.
Have you ever been outside?
With a few exceptions (eg, the mangrove forests which are ecologically important) MOST trees live outside the river or stream. Water has this tendency to flow downhill, so stuff in the dirt (bits of trees, bits of critters, critter poop, rocks, etc) flows down into the water. For a typical pelagic salmon, most of it's biomass is accumulated in the ocean, then the salmon moves into freshwater to spawn and die. When it dies, the decomposition takes place entirely in the water or perhaps the adjacent land where they flop out of the water or get grabbed and dragged by an enterprising bear (but rarely into the trees). This decomposition is important for the riparian (water based) ecosystem. For the uphill trees and brush, not so much.
True, but what I'm getting at is that a couple of dropouts in multi terrabyte data sets doesn't bother me (YMMV, of course). The current system seems 'good enough' for what I'm doing and I imagine I am in the majority as far as home / SOHO class PCs are concerned. If you're running an enterprise data shop, you have other priorities and options, but I can see why Apple in particular, hasn't moved off of HFS+ so far.
(Looks around, spies American flag on top of building across the way.)
Thought I might have woken up in Dreamland where we got invaded by Canada. No such luck.
Our friggin library has free book bins. So do two of the coffee shops. This is hardly the descriminator between civilized Europe and the Wild Wild West of America.
I'm curious why it's been ignored or deprecated or whatever Apple did to it. They have the resources to throw at a project like that. Presumably there was some calculation somewhere along the line that didn't make sense. Not that Apple is much for telling us things like that, but it would be fun to know.
I have close to 4 terabytes of photography and video stored (not that kind of photography and video). I, too, have seen occasional unreadable files, typically in JPEGS but also an occasional TIFF file. Any compressed container (like a JPEG) is going to be more susceptible to this issue thus JPEGs aren't a great storage format. Video files are harder to figure - a corrupted bit could easily get overlooked.
I've never actually lost a picture that I was interested in - I always have more than one copy of the image on the disk - a TIFF and a RAW file typically. Yes, it would be nice if the file system didn't do that. No, I don't think I would believe anybodies claim that that would indeed happen. Further, it's always a risk - benefit calculation. You can spend a lot more money getting near perfect replication but I don't think many people are willing to have a system with ECC memory throughout the chain.
You all keep using that word. I do not think that word means what you think it means.
For all of you who think you can drill down and suck some of this out - it's several hundred KILOMETERS (that's a unit of measure, common in the rest of the world - think of it as something like half a mile) down. It's NOT liquid.
You can't have it, no matter how much you want it.
Which speaks to the point that the Arab states are unlikely to repeat those experiments. The past 60 years or so of Middle East history does not bode well for attempts to springboard off of a stable 'mother' system. Chaos begets chaos. Breaking that pattern is going to be very hard.
In fact, looking at several thousand years of history in the region, breaking that pattern will be impossible.
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Advanced Placement (aka 'grade inflation').
You don't give it to NASA. You give it to 'protecting the American way of life'. The contract goes to YoYoDyne^HBoeing. NASA then 'needs' a heavy lift booster that YoYoDyne just happens to have tested recently.....
With the exception of the Saturn boosters (the 1B and V), every US space launch has been done with a booster that is to a greater or lesser extent, military.
Ah no. At best, they lease it. Of all people you should realize the impermanence of ownership.
As as aside, it should be pointed out that the Russia isn't the only country that makes rocket engines. Arianespace has some perfectly cromulent launch systems available for hire. Bulk discounts likely available. The advantage for them is that they are quite further along with the systems integration than SpaceX.
However, it may be even less politically palatable to be beholden to the .... French .... for space access.
'Now go away, or I shall taunt you a second time.'
However, sarcasm is fairly innocuous.
It's much safer. Stock up on Doritos and Dr. Pepper and wait the epidemic out.
Pertussis is a big deal and, as usual, the media is Doing It Wrong. For most adults, pertussis is annoying (very annoying) but not life threatening. It is also rather contagious and worse, it is most contagious early on when one's symptoms are mild and non specific. So when you are sick, stay in the basement. Wash your hands. Communicate with the rest of the world via Slashdot.
For young children it can be fatal, hence the importance of immunizations.
What is pretty clear is that the primary immunization series works pretty well (not perfectly). Immunizations of adults doesn't work well at all. What TFA didn't make clear was how immunized the adults were. They would be up to date if they had received their primary children's series but no adult Dtap (typically given as part of a tetanus immunization, not directly 'for' pertussis). But we know that the pertussis component of Dtap wanes after five years. So even if you were technically up to date by tetanus standards, you'd be behind for pertussis.
We've known this for decades. What I can't figure out is why a pertussis only booster hasn't been marketed. We have the vaccine, we have much of the data. It would be fairly easy to do. (Insert favorite rant about the Medical Industrial Complex here.)
Statins are
1) Rather safe (so 'not far worse for your health' ...)
2) Notably effective for SECONDARY prevention of coronary artery disease (CAD) If you have had heart attack #1, statins improve your chance of survival by 10-40%.
Statins have NOT been shown - but have been alluded to:
1) Decreasing CAD in people without known preexisting heart disease.
2) Decrease all cause mortality in the general population with elevated cholesterol levels.
These allusions are the problem. There is good scientific basis for those assumptions and some weak data. It has not been conclusively shown to be true for the general population although there are defined subpopulations where it does appear to have an effect (diabetics and some folks with particular patterns of SNPs indicating some sort of mulitgene inheritance). Statins really should not be pushed as hard as they are in the US. The data for that, other than the data for increasing the profits of companies making statins, is darn weak. But they are very useful drugs.
We are in amidst the largest uncontrolled diet experiment and along with a computer revolution where we store every minute piece of data. Maybe we should shelve these expensive double blind experiments and just analyze the cheap data out there of what people are eating and their health status. Taking a picture of every meal with your phone diet is a thing and millions of people are collecting data on their food habits.
Doesn't work very well. You end up getting lots of the wrong data. You have to think before you start researching. The obeservational approach has got us in the pickle that we are in now. Unless you are very, very careful with your statistics and even more careful about your conclusions, observational studies are pretty much worthless no matter how many variables you might collect.
Garbage In, Garbage Out (literally and figuratively in this case.)
The other elephant in the room is your genetics. Your ancestors may have done well on milk products, your neighbor - not so much. It's hard to determine what what your particular body's optimal requirements are. We're getting there, but it's going to be a while since we basically don't know jack about nutrition.
Not to mention that, even with our BPA infused, high fructose corn syrup laden, human growth hormone injected and antibiotic treated food supply, we're still leading longer and healthy lives than ever.
Take that Mr. Cro Magnon man! One omelet please and double up on the Hollandaise. You're not getting out of here alive so enjoy it while you can.
You sir, obviously, do not work in a customer-facing field.
Oh hardly. If you really, really don't want a 'connected' refrigerator, buy a used one of current lineage. You can keep a major appliance alive for 30 - 40 years with only minimal fuss. Personally, I cannot stand washer / driers that have more complex electronics than my boat (and I'm looking at YOU, LG you mindless idiots). My paradigm for washing clothes does not involve nearly that many decisions.
So we have a washer / drier that has those quaint mechanical dials. That keep on cleaning and drying, doing exactly what I want them to do. And nothing more. I can keep them running until I'm ready for the nursing home, at which time I probably will neither know nor care how clothes washing is done.
Ah, first world problems.
There's nothing unreasonable about that. Yes, Swift was just publically announced a few days ago. But you need to show that you have experience with it if you want to get the job that uses it. The best way of checking if somebody has experience is to see how long they've been using the technology. It doesn't matter if it was released tomorrow, today, yesteday, last month, or decades ago. If you're good enough for the job, then you'll already have 6 years of experience with Swift. If you don't have the experience, then you just aren't good enough. Is that really so hard to understand?
Now I know what our HR manager is doing at her desk. Hi Sandy!
"It's estimated that freshwater fishes make up more than 6% of the world's annual animal protein supplies for humans - and the major and often only source of animal protein for low income families across Bangladesh, Indonesia and the Philippines.
This comes from the Fine Article - where does your data come from?
While we've only studied boreal regions, these results are likely to bear out globally.
Now, this is where they go a little hyperbolic. Maybe yes, maybe no.... But lets not get all wound up about this until you've done a bit more work. Much of the deforestation in the world is in Africa and South America, both very different ecosystems from the boreal region.
salmon eat in the oceans and go die in freshwater streams where their nitrogen and other nutrients supplies the trees.
Have you ever been outside?
With a few exceptions (eg, the mangrove forests which are ecologically important) MOST trees live outside the river or stream. Water has this tendency to flow downhill, so stuff in the dirt (bits of trees, bits of critters, critter poop, rocks, etc) flows down into the water. For a typical pelagic salmon, most of it's biomass is accumulated in the ocean, then the salmon moves into freshwater to spawn and die. When it dies, the decomposition takes place entirely in the water or perhaps the adjacent land where they flop out of the water or get grabbed and dragged by an enterprising bear (but rarely into the trees). This decomposition is important for the riparian (water based) ecosystem. For the uphill trees and brush, not so much.
True, but what I'm getting at is that a couple of dropouts in multi terrabyte data sets doesn't bother me (YMMV, of course). The current system seems 'good enough' for what I'm doing and I imagine I am in the majority as far as home / SOHO class PCs are concerned. If you're running an enterprise data shop, you have other priorities and options, but I can see why Apple in particular, hasn't moved off of HFS+ so far.
If you're stupid enough to buy 'gold' online, go right ahead.
(Looks around, spies American flag on top of building across the way.)
Thought I might have woken up in Dreamland where we got invaded by Canada. No such luck.
Our friggin library has free book bins. So do two of the coffee shops. This is hardly the descriminator between civilized Europe and the Wild Wild West of America.
Oracle are more innovative than Dell.
Now you're just being mean.
Not those Non Reoccurring Expenses. He's talking about the cocaine and associated business costs with marketing and sales meetings.
I'm curious why it's been ignored or deprecated or whatever Apple did to it. They have the resources to throw at a project like that. Presumably there was some calculation somewhere along the line that didn't make sense. Not that Apple is much for telling us things like that, but it would be fun to know.
I have close to 4 terabytes of photography and video stored (not that kind of photography and video). I, too, have seen occasional unreadable files, typically in JPEGS but also an occasional TIFF file. Any compressed container (like a JPEG) is going to be more susceptible to this issue thus JPEGs aren't a great storage format. Video files are harder to figure - a corrupted bit could easily get overlooked.
I've never actually lost a picture that I was interested in - I always have more than one copy of the image on the disk - a TIFF and a RAW file typically. Yes, it would be nice if the file system didn't do that. No, I don't think I would believe anybodies claim that that would indeed happen. Further, it's always a risk - benefit calculation. You can spend a lot more money getting near perfect replication but I don't think many people are willing to have a system with ECC memory throughout the chain.
Yeah, but you guys are Socialists.
/b/ is causing the Internet to vibrate at a fundamental frequency and the harmonics are hitting Slashdot rather hard.
Water.
You all keep using that word. I do not think that word means what you think it means.
For all of you who think you can drill down and suck some of this out - it's several hundred KILOMETERS (that's a unit of measure, common in the rest of the world - think of it as something like half a mile) down. It's NOT liquid.
You can't have it, no matter how much you want it.
Which speaks to the point that the Arab states are unlikely to repeat those experiments. The past 60 years or so of Middle East history does not bode well for attempts to springboard off of a stable 'mother' system. Chaos begets chaos. Breaking that pattern is going to be very hard.
In fact, looking at several thousand years of history in the region, breaking that pattern will be impossible.
I presume you mean as in 'short bus' special.