Haliburton and friends to set up some side drilling rigs at the periphery of the military zone and make some very long straws. Then all you have is some stinking desert.
The free market wins again. No need for the military folk.
Then who selects for the 'right' crops? Do you infest the field with the herbicide that you want your crop to be resistant to and hope for the best? If you get crap yields, you might get hungry / broke pretty fast. These sorts of breeding programs don't necessarily work in a season or two.
Sounds like a lot of work for an individual farmer. If they're that into things, they could have done this a long time a go by setting up a research station. No need to spend big bucks to expose things to mutagens. Something's missing. Perhaps I need more coffee (a known mutagen, BTW).
Well, there is another weird undercurrent here. OK, you can treat plants with mutagens, we get that. You get mutants. (MUTANTS!). Then they sell the irradiated seeds? Just that? Who does the selection (that's the hard part)? Who decides what is a better product - the shinier fruit or the ones are walking down the field?
Either you're right and this is some weird joke or their is something very much missing in TFA.
They assume that since it appears to be related to another dinosaur it looks like that other dinosaur.
Distinctive anatomic features on the bones mark Siats as a newly recognized type of predator called a neovenatorid, cousins of the earlier, well-known Allosaurus.
It would have been better if they admitted that they really have a time machine, but they aren't talking.
Hope what works? This looks like it's going to be limited to a customized case (you can have all the funny little bumps and squiggles and colors you want). I don't see this as enabling a slide out keyboard on a phone that isn't designed for same. You just can't mix and match random bits of electronics - you have to pass CE / UI / FCC and bog-knows-who-else certifications. Unless the manufacturer wants to create a modular whatzit (which they can do at present but don't seem to be much interested in) you can't just add or subtract 3D printed functionality.
Perhaps they're planning on small runs of semi custom phones, in which case 3D printing might be a useful technology, but I just don't see how this functionally (as opposed to cosmetically) changes things. Sandbenders anyone?
When I first read TFS I thought the researchers had come up with a new way to look at in vivo molecules without 'tags' - molecules introduced into the organism to trigger whatever probe technology you were using. If I'm reading the article correctly, this doesn't seem to be the case - you do have to introduce some tag, presumably into the brain for neuro imaging. Thus, it doesn't have the utility of say an NMR that can read the sample directly (albeit in a tiny glass tube).
It is more like PET / SPECT and similar imaging techniques. Maybe useful, but similar.
It's a really strange thing how we import so much oil while also exporting a tremendous amount of oil. I'm sure there is a reason for it but it seems weird.
We don't export a 'tremendous amount of oil". We export some refined product (whose numbers get inflated through 'refinery gain - look it up), some natural gas and some specific kinds of oil that some refineries like better than others. It's an extremely complicated dance. For example, we are 'exporting' light oil (dilbit) to Canada so they can mix it with heavy crude and send it via pipeline back to the US. The dilbit gets re refined and resent up to Canada (hey, recycling is good!).
We're still a net importer, energy wise. A tad bit better than before, but we're not out on our own. Nor do we really need to be. It's OK to be hooked into the rest of the world.
"Without antibiotics he would have been quite unlikely to survive" is simply untrue. The appropriate approach would be to open the wound and carefully remove all foreign material and irrigate the hell out it.
He might have picked up an infection, he might well have not.
As to the scarlet fever bit - funny how the newer data is showing that the risks of antibiotics far outweighs the benefits of perhaps preventing scarlet fever. It's going to be a long haul before we get US doctors not to routinely treat strep throat with antibiotics, but they are doing it in Europe at present. And treatment of scarlet fever with long term antibiotic prophylaxis turns out to have very little data to support it.
It is complex - there is pretty good data that the Group A beta hemolytic streptococcus (the causative critter) has changed virulence over the years, but even the early data was pretty dodgy when you go back carefully.
Further, many localized infections can be treated with debridement and irrigation, even advanced infections. We now have a number of other tools besides antibiotics. No sense in just giving up just yet.
Yes, antibiotics are very important and we need to work on new ones and understanding the mechanisms of resistance. Yes, TFA was just nonsensical hyperbole.
You just cherry-picked a bunch of failures. Great job.
That he did. However, I've yet to see the converse of this argument - that there are a number of states that have managed to enroll significant numbers of people into the new programs.
And they make several commercial devices that do exactly the same. The one we have projects the image on the skin which would seemingly make it easier to use - less parallax issues. This tech has been around for a while. The glasses are the new kink, not sure if it's of any real use.
The officially-recommended(but not supported, or guaranteed to produce accurate results) solution was to take the oldest file, install an intermediate version a few years newer than that file, open the file with the intermediate version, allow it to convert, check the results manually, do the same with a second intermediate version, and then finally take the output from the second intermediate version and import it into the current version.
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I don't know about you, but the first time anyone recommended anything remotely similar to that for their software would cause me to terminate the program with extreme prejudice, take the CD's and shred them into tiny, sharp pieces and mail them to company wrapped up in a pipe bomb.
OK, how about three anecdotes? Last time I used TurboTax I got a polite letter from the IRS saying I owed $68,000. I ran over to an accountant who reviewed our return, ended up getting us a refund of over $5000 and more than payed for herself.
Turbo Tax is OK, but the tax code is so complicated that if you have anything other than 'normal' income (ie, W2's and 1099's) you may miss out on big problems or rewards. No more TT for me. Actually, the accountant does use some form of Intuit software, but it's far beyond my interests and abilities. And I agree with other posters. I could probably learn the stuff, but would rather start pulling out my toenails with pliers, thankyouverymuch.
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Good. We can elect it to something. Then it will get stuck on some committee. That ought to kill it off right quick.
Then we can deal with Global Warming in one quick technological fix.
Your ideas intrigue me and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
Hell, we can fix this in one jiffy.
A bunch of bottom trawlers to wipe out the fauna.
Haliburton and friends to set up some side drilling rigs at the periphery of the military zone and make some very long straws.
Then all you have is some stinking desert.
The free market wins again. No need for the military folk.
This. When you have internal dissent at home, you make up external existential threats.
Hell, it works for us doesn't it?
"Killing our population"
(Looks around). Well, they certainly aren't doing a very good job of it, are they?
How DARE you insult His Noodliness so! He is Perfect!
You will be riven through his Colander of Might and reduced to bare semolina!
"Natural" is nasty, brutish and short. Not to mention one hell of lot smaller population density than we have there.
Hmm.. Maybe you're on to something.
Then who selects for the 'right' crops? Do you infest the field with the herbicide that you want your crop to be resistant to and hope for the best? If you get crap yields, you might get hungry / broke pretty fast. These sorts of breeding programs don't necessarily work in a season or two.
Sounds like a lot of work for an individual farmer. If they're that into things, they could have done this a long time a go by setting up a research station. No need to spend big bucks to expose things to mutagens. Something's missing. Perhaps I need more coffee (a known mutagen, BTW).
Well, there is another weird undercurrent here. OK, you can treat plants with mutagens, we get that. You get mutants. (MUTANTS!). Then they sell the irradiated seeds? Just that? Who does the selection (that's the hard part)? Who decides what is a better product - the shinier fruit or the ones are walking down the field?
Either you're right and this is some weird joke or their is something very much missing in TFA.
That's what the other countries want you to think.
Countries don't really have moral standards. Just budgets.
They assume that since it appears to be related to another dinosaur it looks like that other dinosaur.
Distinctive anatomic features on the bones mark Siats as a newly recognized type of predator called a neovenatorid, cousins of the earlier, well-known Allosaurus.
It would have been better if they admitted that they really have a time machine, but they aren't talking.
I dunno.
I'm finding it hard to get scared by fuzzy dinosaurs. I mean, look at that picture. So soft and cuddly. You want to pet it.
I don't think even Randall would be impressed.
Hope what works? This looks like it's going to be limited to a customized case (you can have all the funny little bumps and squiggles and colors you want). I don't see this as enabling a slide out keyboard on a phone that isn't designed for same. You just can't mix and match random bits of electronics - you have to pass CE / UI / FCC and bog-knows-who-else certifications. Unless the manufacturer wants to create a modular whatzit (which they can do at present but don't seem to be much interested in) you can't just add or subtract 3D printed functionality.
Perhaps they're planning on small runs of semi custom phones, in which case 3D printing might be a useful technology, but I just don't see how this functionally (as opposed to cosmetically) changes things. Sandbenders anyone?
When I first read TFS I thought the researchers had come up with a new way to look at in vivo molecules without 'tags' - molecules introduced into the organism to trigger whatever probe technology you were using. If I'm reading the article correctly, this doesn't seem to be the case - you do have to introduce some tag, presumably into the brain for neuro imaging. Thus, it doesn't have the utility of say an NMR that can read the sample directly (albeit in a tiny glass tube).
It is more like PET / SPECT and similar imaging techniques. Maybe useful, but similar.
It's a really strange thing how we import so much oil while also exporting a tremendous amount of oil. I'm sure there is a reason for it but it seems weird.
We don't export a 'tremendous amount of oil". We export some refined product (whose numbers get inflated through 'refinery gain - look it up), some natural gas and some specific kinds of oil that some refineries like better than others. It's an extremely complicated dance. For example, we are 'exporting' light oil (dilbit) to Canada so they can mix it with heavy crude and send it via pipeline back to the US. The dilbit gets re refined and resent up to Canada (hey, recycling is good!).
We're still a net importer, energy wise. A tad bit better than before, but we're not out on our own. Nor do we really need to be. It's OK to be hooked into the rest of the world.
Careful with anecdotes, they aren't data.
"Without antibiotics he would have been quite unlikely to survive" is simply untrue. The appropriate approach would be to open the wound and carefully remove all foreign material and irrigate the hell out it.
He might have picked up an infection, he might well have not.
As to the scarlet fever bit - funny how the newer data is showing that the risks of antibiotics far outweighs the benefits of perhaps preventing scarlet fever. It's going to be a long haul before we get US doctors not to routinely treat strep throat with antibiotics, but they are doing it in Europe at present. And treatment of scarlet fever with long term antibiotic prophylaxis turns out to have very little data to support it.
It is complex - there is pretty good data that the Group A beta hemolytic streptococcus (the causative critter) has changed virulence over the years, but even the early data was pretty dodgy when you go back carefully.
Further, many localized infections can be treated with debridement and irrigation, even advanced infections. We now have a number of other tools besides antibiotics. No sense in just giving up just yet.
Yes, antibiotics are very important and we need to work on new ones and understanding the mechanisms of resistance. Yes, TFA was just nonsensical hyperbole.
Calm down Slashdot. Lay off the Red Bull.
You just cherry-picked a bunch of failures. Great job.
That he did. However, I've yet to see the converse of this argument - that there are a number of states that have managed to enroll significant numbers of people into the new programs.
Pics, or it didn't happen.
Those majestic plants 'braving the harsh lunar climate'.
You just might end up with something like this.
You haven't seem my wife with my credit card. The velocity limit appears to be on the order of 186,000 miles/sec.
Cyclotron.
(Come on guys, it's the 21st Century)
And they make several commercial devices that do exactly the same. The one we have projects the image on the skin which would seemingly make it easier to use - less parallax issues. This tech has been around for a while. The glasses are the new kink, not sure if it's of any real use.
Consider it done.
TL;DR both the cops and doctors involved are being investigated by their respective supervisory bodies.
And, to add insult to injury, the poor guy was billed for the 'procedures'.
The officially-recommended(but not supported, or guaranteed to produce accurate results) solution was to take the oldest file, install an intermediate version a few years newer than that file, open the file with the intermediate version, allow it to convert, check the results manually, do the same with a second intermediate version, and then finally take the output from the second intermediate version and import it into the current version.
.
I don't know about you, but the first time anyone recommended anything remotely similar to that for their software would cause me to terminate the program with extreme prejudice, take the CD's and shred them into tiny, sharp pieces and mail them to company wrapped up in a pipe bomb.
OK, how about three anecdotes? Last time I used TurboTax I got a polite letter from the IRS saying I owed $68,000. I ran over to an accountant who reviewed our return, ended up getting us a refund of over $5000 and more than payed for herself.
Turbo Tax is OK, but the tax code is so complicated that if you have anything other than 'normal' income (ie, W2's and 1099's) you may miss out on big problems or rewards. No more TT for me. Actually, the accountant does use some form of Intuit software, but it's far beyond my interests and abilities. And I agree with other posters. I could probably learn the stuff, but would rather start pulling out my toenails with pliers, thankyouverymuch.