No, sorry this is just completely insane. Under no circumstances should this have been possible, at all, ever. How many senior politicians and CEOs have pacemakers? Something sounds like it went very wrong in the engineering, development, or management departments, or maybe all three.
Think your statement through a couple more times. With emphasis on "CEO" and "politician".
Last time I checked (and to be honest, I didn't look that hard given the location of the particular piercing), these afficiondos don't go for the deep structures like the heart. There are qualitative and quantitative differences between putting a piece of metal in your skin and a wire into your heart. Guess which one is easier?
That said, I've seen plenty of infected piercings. The nice thing is you can remove them and the problem goes away. Removing the heart has other consequences.
That might work. Around here (SE Alaska) there are a couple of outfits that take regular ATVs, stick them on a boat and dump the bear bait^Htourists on a logging road and let them explore. I doubt the economics would work out well as it's likely cheaper to ferry a half dozen regular ATVs in a boat then purchase a batch of them, but it's a thought.
Hovercrafts don't do well over rough terrain. This thing might be a bit better. It's hard to get a hovercraft to climb a steep hill whereas this thing could do it (if there was a road - remember this is America - we're gonna put roads everywhere before we're done).
Yeah. Now, how to get it past the wife. If only it had a snowplow attachment.
It would be seriously useful around SE Alaska IF it were reliable but I think I'll wait a bit. Lots of pieces parts and wheel bearings, etc. tend to dislike salt water.
Problem is they don't blow in an exciting way anymore.
That should be amenable to simple engineering modifications. I'm thinking a small dollop of white phosphorus and thermite on the top of the cap. I suppose we can ask Micheal Bay. He should know of something that would work.
Don't quite see what your beef is here. Texas seems to be prepared to treat it's kids just like most employers treat their employees and most ranchers treat their cattle.
Does anyone else find this sort of thing upsetting? I grew up during that period of time when tech failed dramatically on TV and in movies. Sparks, flames, explosions - crew running around randomly spraying everything with fire extinguishers. Klaxons going off. Orders given and received. Damage control reports.
None of this 'oh snap, the hard drive died'.
Personally, I think the HD (and motherboard) manufacturers ought to climb back on the horse. Make failure modes exciting again. Give us a run for the money. It can't be hard - there still must be plenty of bad electrolytic capacitors out there.
If you're a male and you make it to age 80, you are virtually guaranteed to have prostate cancer. It may or may not be the eventual cause of death but since human males don't usually make it much past 80 (for a variety of reasons) 'early' deaths due to prostate cancer are less common. Since breast cancer affects a younger age cohort, it is responsible for many more 'early deaths'. Could you push the average male age out by eliminating prostate cancer? Probably, to some degree, but 80 year old men are likely to succumb to a bunch of other common diseases as well (namely heart disease). Breast cancer more often hits otherwise healthy individuals and thus is a bigger health issue overall.
Prostate cancer is definitely under reported because of the fact above. However, clinically, that may not be much of a big deal (unless you make money diagnosing the cancer).
But this whole thermal imaging bra stuff sounds a bit warm to the touch - it can beat standard cancer detection methodologies by six years? Pics, or that definitely isn't happening. Breast cancer cells have a doubling time on the order of 100 days (varies, remember it's really 'breast cancers). I'm too tired to go through the math but i don't think you can go back that far unless you change some underlying assumptions of the model that everybody seems to be using.
It's not just the buying, it's the fuel/insurance/repairs. Trying to keep a ten-year-old all-American auto on the road is a money pit.
For the same price as a second hand car they could have something they can actually afford to run.
Sorry. Not so much. I've got a now 13 year old GMC pickup. Yeah, I had to put new brake calipers on a couple of months ago - first non scheduled maintenance this year. Gets shit for gas mileage but it's paid off and insurance is dirt cheap. It's actually in pretty good shape. Some rust (I live in a 'precipitating marine environment' so that's expected). Few rattles. Pretty much everything works.
I'm driving this thing until it dies. Don't much like the newer large pickups which are too gizmo'd for my tastes. Don't like the pedestrian-friendly front bumpers (too rock friendly, the pedestrians are just gonna have to move out of the way).
US automakers (as well as the Japanese / Koreans) have figured out how to get at least their upper tier vehicles to go for over a decade. It's a very viable market.
Ugh - I don't like Amazon as a company. They're annoying and wedge themselves into my view all the time and I want them to go away.
TI on the other hand.... I really like TI chips and support. I've worked with a number of chip vendors, and they're my favorite when it comes to developer support, Linux support and SDKs.
Plus, I think of Amazon as a "sell materialistic people a bunch of useless junk" company, whereas TI is all into signal processing, military, heath care, and all kinds of actual useful things.
And we have seriously underestimated the scope of your Asperger's. (And I have underestimated Slashcode's retard factor -- 'too few characters per line'? WTF? Next, we won't be able to use Unicode. )
'...couldn't be built on the earth for a fraction of the cost and complexity."
From the article, since you can't be bother to read the fucking thing:
"The problem, and hence the possible need for Chang’s moon base, is that space is getting too crowded to process all the data coming from the varous probes, satellites and robots we have wandering the solar system. Missions are already competing for time and bandwidth, and the situation will only get worse.
Each time a new space ship launches, it’s like adding a new client to the network. The moon base idea would be like adding a new router and server to that network, which would accept signals from space, store them, process them if needed and then relay the data back to Earth as time and bandwidth allows."
Seems like it would be easier just to put up another expensive satellite at one of the LaGrange points every few years with more speed and bandwidth than landing something that we've never built anywhere in some place we've never gone.
You know, in engineering, like sex, experience counts.
Stop with the analogies already. That's like trying to fix a radiator leak with WD-40.
Yes, life does infinitely more complex logical operations than these simple logic circuits. But we can't control that stuff well and we have figured out how to do fairly elaborate things with simple logic gates in hardware. So if you can create such 'easy to program' devices into cells, you can hopefully use them as an interface to the more complex machinery.
A production well isn't a big deal. Making the production well is a bit bigger mess. Besides, what you're probably seeing are stripper wells (amazing that there is an entire web site devoted to these things). You see them next to houses, schools, pretty much everywhere.
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Where's you sarcasm switch? Clearly printing money is not a fundamental human right.
Unlike spending it....
No, sorry this is just completely insane. Under no circumstances should this have been possible, at all, ever. How many senior politicians and CEOs have pacemakers? Something sounds like it went very wrong in the engineering, development, or management departments, or maybe all three.
Think your statement through a couple more times. With emphasis on "CEO" and "politician".
Did something go wrong? Really?
... Reminds me of the TV-B-Gone.
Father-in-law begone.
Better.
I think this guy is well into Thorazine territory.
Last time I checked (and to be honest, I didn't look that hard given the location of the particular piercing), these afficiondos don't go for the deep structures like the heart. There are qualitative and quantitative differences between putting a piece of metal in your skin and a wire into your heart. Guess which one is easier?
That said, I've seen plenty of infected piercings. The nice thing is you can remove them and the problem goes away. Removing the heart has other consequences.
That might work. Around here (SE Alaska) there are a couple of outfits that take regular ATVs, stick them on a boat and dump the bear bait^Htourists on a logging road and let them explore. I doubt the economics would work out well as it's likely cheaper to ferry a half dozen regular ATVs in a boat then purchase a batch of them, but it's a thought.
Hovercrafts don't do well over rough terrain. This thing might be a bit better. It's hard to get a hovercraft to climb a steep hill whereas this thing could do it (if there was a road - remember this is America - we're gonna put roads everywhere before we're done).
Yeah. Now, how to get it past the wife. If only it had a snowplow attachment.
It would be seriously useful around SE Alaska IF it were reliable but I think I'll wait a bit. Lots of pieces parts and wheel bearings, etc. tend to dislike salt water.
It's like one of those ideal physics problems, works in a classroom but they just don't happen in real life.
Not so fast. I've seen a lot of perfectly spherical lobbyists in my time.
So what do they do if it's a civil procedure? Give you some Top Ramen?
Problem is they don't blow in an exciting way anymore.
That should be amenable to simple engineering modifications. I'm thinking a small dollop of white phosphorus and thermite on the top of the cap. I suppose we can ask Micheal Bay. He should know of something that would work.
Don't quite see what your beef is here. Texas seems to be prepared to treat it's kids just like most employers treat their employees and most ranchers treat their cattle.
Very egalitarian, it seems.
A side effect of this new program might be more educated cows.
Does anyone else find this sort of thing upsetting? I grew up during that period of time when tech failed dramatically on TV and in movies. Sparks, flames, explosions - crew running around randomly spraying everything with fire extinguishers. Klaxons going off. Orders given and received. Damage control reports.
None of this 'oh snap, the hard drive died'.
Personally, I think the HD (and motherboard) manufacturers ought to climb back on the horse. Make failure modes exciting again. Give us a run for the money. It can't be hard - there still must be plenty of bad electrolytic capacitors out there.
How about a little love?
Stats are a little misleading here.
If you're a male and you make it to age 80, you are virtually guaranteed to have prostate cancer. It may or may not be the eventual cause of death but since human males don't usually make it much past 80 (for a variety of reasons) 'early' deaths due to prostate cancer are less common. Since breast cancer affects a younger age cohort, it is responsible for many more 'early deaths'. Could you push the average male age out by eliminating prostate cancer? Probably, to some degree, but 80 year old men are likely to succumb to a bunch of other common diseases as well (namely heart disease). Breast cancer more often hits otherwise healthy individuals and thus is a bigger health issue overall.
Prostate cancer is definitely under reported because of the fact above. However, clinically, that may not be much of a big deal (unless you make money diagnosing the cancer).
But this whole thermal imaging bra stuff sounds a bit warm to the touch - it can beat standard cancer detection methodologies by six years? Pics, or that definitely isn't happening. Breast cancer cells have a doubling time on the order of 100 days (varies, remember it's really 'breast cancers). I'm too tired to go through the math but i don't think you can go back that far unless you change some underlying assumptions of the model that everybody seems to be using.
OT, but you really need a new sig....
It's not just the buying, it's the fuel/insurance/repairs. Trying to keep a ten-year-old all-American auto on the road is a money pit.
For the same price as a second hand car they could have something they can actually afford to run.
Sorry. Not so much. I've got a now 13 year old GMC pickup. Yeah, I had to put new brake calipers on a couple of months ago - first non scheduled maintenance this year. Gets shit for gas mileage but it's paid off and insurance is dirt cheap. It's actually in pretty good shape. Some rust (I live in a 'precipitating marine environment' so that's expected). Few rattles. Pretty much everything works.
I'm driving this thing until it dies. Don't much like the newer large pickups which are too gizmo'd for my tastes. Don't like the pedestrian-friendly front bumpers (too rock friendly, the pedestrians are just gonna have to move out of the way).
US automakers (as well as the Japanese / Koreans) have figured out how to get at least their upper tier vehicles to go for over a decade. It's a very viable market.
Idiot. Do you understand what a 'parole violation' even is? You break it, you go directly to jail. You do not collect $200.
He broke it, he went to jail.
As has been mentioned multiple times in this thread and others, freedom of speech does not imply freedom from the consequences of said speech.
Ugh - I don't like Amazon as a company. They're annoying and wedge themselves into my view all the time and I want them to go away.
TI on the other hand.... I really like TI chips and support. I've worked with a number of chip vendors, and they're my favorite when it comes to developer support, Linux support and SDKs.
Plus, I think of Amazon as a "sell materialistic people a bunch of useless junk" company, whereas TI is all into signal processing, military, heath care, and all kinds of actual useful things.
I really don't want this to happen.
OK, I'll go tell Jeff...
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And we have seriously underestimated the scope of your Asperger's. (And I have underestimated Slashcode's retard factor -- 'too few characters per line'? WTF? Next, we won't be able to use Unicode. )
'...couldn't be built on the earth for a fraction of the cost and complexity."
From the article, since you can't be bother to read the fucking thing:
"The problem, and hence the possible need for Chang’s moon base, is that space is getting too crowded to process all the data coming from the varous probes, satellites and robots we have wandering the solar system. Missions are already competing for time and bandwidth, and the situation will only get worse.
Each time a new space ship launches, it’s like adding a new client to the network. The moon base idea would be like adding a new router and server to that network, which would accept signals from space, store them, process them if needed and then relay the data back to Earth as time and bandwidth allows."
Seems like it would be easier just to put up another expensive satellite at one of the LaGrange points every few years with more speed and bandwidth than landing something that we've never built anywhere in some place we've never gone.
You know, in engineering, like sex, experience counts.
That's just a Mickey Mouse kind of comment.
Stop with the analogies already. That's like trying to fix a radiator leak with WD-40.
Yes, life does infinitely more complex logical operations than these simple logic circuits. But we can't control that stuff well and we have figured out how to do fairly elaborate things with simple logic gates in hardware. So if you can create such 'easy to program' devices into cells, you can hopefully use them as an interface to the more complex machinery.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of E. coli ....
"Always look on the bright side of life ..."
A production well isn't a big deal. Making the production well is a bit bigger mess. Besides, what you're probably seeing are stripper wells (amazing that there is an entire web site devoted to these things). You see them next to houses, schools, pretty much everywhere.