With an intact cough reflex you can't get post nasal drip in your lungs. The primary reason you get a bronchitis is 1) you didn't have a bronchitis (inflammation of the bronchioles, the larger airways of the lungs, you had a cough because of the drainage 2) the inflammation was viral and the nasty little proteinacous particle managed to scoot past the upper airway defenses or 3) the viral infection compromised the already compromised lining of the bronchioles (smoke, smoke, smoke that cigarette) and allowed a bacterial infection to set up.
So the post nasal drip scenario isn't a good way to look at.
They wouldn't do that. They would cache 10 copies of the latest Beyonce album and 5 copies of the latest romantic bestseller. Not the weird stuff that people around here want. They want the great teaming masses - this is quantity, not quality (or whatever it is we do around here).
It's not a very practical or useful solution for solid organs. Let's say you're signed up for the list - you have agreed that if somebody needs your kidney you will drop what you are doing (for renal failure which is typically slow and progressive, you would have a fair warning), have a giant slice taken out of your side (along with a kidney), spend a couple weeks in recovery and then spend the rest of your life as a person with a solitary functioning kidney.
Such folks can and often do lead normal healthy lives but they are at significant risk since they have half the kidney reserve that they used to have. So now, 20 years later, your solitary kidney starts to go (too many Doritos raising your blood pressure) - back to the transplant hospital, this time to get a kidney. Oops. No match, wait a bit. Ooops, no match. Wait a bit. Rinse, lather, repeat.
The number of people that would voluntarily sign up for this would be an interesting moral and social study. Off the top of my head (or more accurately, out the back end), I don't think it would fly. Now, for blood cell issues, volunteer tissue banks work great since grabbing another liter of blood doesn't carry much of a downside. For kidneys, no.
To be fair, all this guy has done is claim to know who the programmer is. He doesn't have any proof. He is, however, making himself famous for a few minutes.....
And, for all we know, the NSA wrote the damned thing themselves in order to infiltrate the Russian mafia. It's not like they tell us what they're doing.
That's not the point. The point is...Russia exudes apathy towards cybercrimes in the form of lax internal laws, which forces the rest of the civilized world to pay (literarily).
So? That may well be of value to Russia. What's in it for them? It is a form of economic warfare - Russia right now can't compete with the US / China / Europe on a number of levels. They may see this sort of thing as a tactical advantage.
Your argument presupposes that we can manipulate our behavior and environment cohesively and quickly enough to effect a useful change that would - well, what would it do? Allow increased population growth? Allow for better standards of living for humans? The rest of the biosphere?
Given the inertia of 7 billion humans and our imperfect knowledge of some very, very complex systems, I'm not at all sure that anything we can do will actually help.
So, aside from a few window dressing changes and a toss to the big Internet companies - the biggest difference is that another company is going to 'store' the info and the government is going to have to ask itself if it can get access to it?
Another nice contract to somebody. No real change in the Status Quo.
I would much prefer that people be allowed to talk on their phones. Then I do not have to have them chatting me up while I am trying to read or enjoy some music.
You will recall that the first thing they did on the Columbia crash was lock the doors to prevent information from leaving the rooms. It's in the manual..... Everything is is in the manual.
It wasn't the first time and won't be the last time that aviators have known they were going to die in a crash. A horrific way to go, I guess, but one that has actually been pretty well studied. Many pilots end up going unconscious from G-forces or suffer from heart attacks prior to impact.
I'm sorry, but to me that doesn't make sense. Photoshop is a program to manipulate raster images, that is, 2-dimensional arrays of coloured pixels. 3D printing simply doesn't fit in here.
I mean, there's nothing wrong with Adobe making a program for 3D printing. They also can bundle it with Photoshop, that's a pure business decision. But it simply doesn't make sense to add that functionality to the Photoshop program itself. Three are almost no operations which make sense for both raster image editing and 3D printing.
Photoshop has been adding (marginally functional) 3D tools for years now. Real 3D programs tend to offer better functionality and workflows, but I suppose the user case is that if you are just cleaning up a mesh you don't need the full Maya suite and you don't need to go wander around the depths of Free Software to fun a specific tool.
This may say more about 3D printing than Photoshop though. When you're noticed by the big guys, you've made it.
Some significant fraction of our military is charged with keeping the Middle East oil fields reasonably open and stable. Billions of dollars of investment credits are given to oil companies to develop oil and natural gas plays. Significant environmental protections have not been given to, for example, hydraulic frackking operations, because 'they were too expensive'. And that's just a couple off the top of my head.
This entire economy runs on monetary policy that encourages displacement for various social, political and environmental reasons. You can argue all day which is better or worse, but you'd best at least acknowledge that they exist. Otherwise you're in fantasy land.
You've managed to teach yourself some some subjects - good for you. Now, what about the rest of the students?
For the relatively SMALL subset of moderately intelligent students who are self organized AND self motivated AND who have living situations with enough stability and support to allow the student to thrive in an independent academic environment this is all that's needed.
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With an intact cough reflex you can't get post nasal drip in your lungs. The primary reason you get a bronchitis is 1) you didn't have a bronchitis (inflammation of the bronchioles, the larger airways of the lungs, you had a cough because of the drainage 2) the inflammation was viral and the nasty little proteinacous particle managed to scoot past the upper airway defenses or 3) the viral infection compromised the already compromised lining of the bronchioles (smoke, smoke, smoke that cigarette) and allowed a bacterial infection to set up.
So the post nasal drip scenario isn't a good way to look at.
Molesting captive giant squid?
Just goes to show you that any thread can get hit with Rule 34.
They wouldn't do that. They would cache 10 copies of the latest Beyonce album and 5 copies of the latest romantic bestseller. Not the weird stuff that people around here want. They want the great teaming masses - this is quantity, not quality (or whatever it is we do around here).
Ever look in the back of a UPS truck recently?
They didn't need to. Inside physical access trumps dodgy software any day.
Humans are always the weak link. /Skynet.
You must be a riot when you get pulled over for speeding.
It's not a very practical or useful solution for solid organs. Let's say you're signed up for the list - you have agreed that if somebody needs your kidney you will drop what you are doing (for renal failure which is typically slow and progressive, you would have a fair warning), have a giant slice taken out of your side (along with a kidney), spend a couple weeks in recovery and then spend the rest of your life as a person with a solitary functioning kidney.
Such folks can and often do lead normal healthy lives but they are at significant risk since they have half the kidney reserve that they used to have. So now, 20 years later, your solitary kidney starts to go (too many Doritos raising your blood pressure) - back to the transplant hospital, this time to get a kidney. Oops. No match, wait a bit. Ooops, no match. Wait a bit. Rinse, lather, repeat.
The number of people that would voluntarily sign up for this would be an interesting moral and social study. Off the top of my head (or more accurately, out the back end), I don't think it would fly. Now, for blood cell issues, volunteer tissue banks work great since grabbing another liter of blood doesn't carry much of a downside. For kidneys, no.
Well, all of those Windows reboots ought to bump the value up a fair bit.
I work for a company who deals with verifone pinpads and no internet, no pinpads...
This company lets a guy with the nic 'gangadude' work on Internet enabled POS terminals?
They must be smoking something.
To be fair, all this guy has done is claim to know who the programmer is. He doesn't have any proof. He is, however, making himself famous for a few minutes.....
And, for all we know, the NSA wrote the damned thing themselves in order to infiltrate the Russian mafia. It's not like they tell us what they're doing.
That's not the point. The point is...Russia exudes apathy towards cybercrimes in the form of lax internal laws, which forces the rest of the civilized world to pay (literarily).
So? That may well be of value to Russia. What's in it for them? It is a form of economic warfare - Russia right now can't compete with the US / China / Europe on a number of levels. They may see this sort of thing as a tactical advantage.
Your argument presupposes that we can manipulate our behavior and environment cohesively and quickly enough to effect a useful change that would - well, what would it do? Allow increased population growth? Allow for better standards of living for humans? The rest of the biosphere?
Given the inertia of 7 billion humans and our imperfect knowledge of some very, very complex systems, I'm not at all sure that anything we can do will actually help.
Me love you long time?
No, that can't be right.....
If it was faulty then it should have failed in the first days. That it happens three years later is a sign that the user is to blame.
For not buying a new machine after the warranty expires?
I am intrigued by your ideas and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
Why are you channeling my high school typing teacher?
So, aside from a few window dressing changes and a toss to the big Internet companies - the biggest difference is that another company is going to 'store' the info and the government is going to have to ask itself if it can get access to it?
Another nice contract to somebody. No real change in the Status Quo.
Gotta love that hope and change.
I would much prefer that people be allowed to talk on their phones. Then I do not have to have them chatting me up while I am trying to read or enjoy some music.
Um. RIght. Chatting you up.
The Elle forum is --> thataway.
Midgets. Lots of midgets.
If you think about it, it works for most of the issues around here.
You will recall that the first thing they did on the Columbia crash was lock the doors to prevent information from leaving the rooms. It's in the manual..... Everything is is in the manual.
It wasn't the first time and won't be the last time that aviators have known they were going to die in a crash. A horrific way to go, I guess, but one that has actually been pretty well studied. Many pilots end up going unconscious from G-forces or suffer from heart attacks prior to impact.
I'm sorry, but to me that doesn't make sense. Photoshop is a program to manipulate raster images, that is, 2-dimensional arrays of coloured pixels. 3D printing simply doesn't fit in here.
I mean, there's nothing wrong with Adobe making a program for 3D printing. They also can bundle it with Photoshop, that's a pure business decision. But it simply doesn't make sense to add that functionality to the Photoshop program itself. Three are almost no operations which make sense for both raster image editing and 3D printing.
Photoshop has been adding (marginally functional) 3D tools for years now. Real 3D programs tend to offer better functionality and workflows, but I suppose the user case is that if you are just cleaning up a mesh you don't need the full Maya suite and you don't need to go wander around the depths of Free Software to fun a specific tool.
This may say more about 3D printing than Photoshop though. When you're noticed by the big guys, you've made it.
Kill everybody over thirty!
Oh.. Wait.
Some significant fraction of our military is charged with keeping the Middle East oil fields reasonably open and stable. Billions of dollars of investment credits are given to oil companies to develop oil and natural gas plays. Significant environmental protections have not been given to, for example, hydraulic frackking operations, because 'they were too expensive'. And that's just a couple off the top of my head.
This entire economy runs on monetary policy that encourages displacement for various social, political and environmental reasons. You can argue all day which is better or worse, but you'd best at least acknowledge that they exist. Otherwise you're in fantasy land.
You've managed to teach yourself some some subjects - good for you. Now, what about the rest of the students?
For the relatively SMALL subset of moderately intelligent students who are self organized AND self motivated AND who have living situations with enough stability and support to allow the student to thrive in an independent academic environment this is all that's needed.
For everyone else, not so much.