How cute. Our country exists because we started biological warfare on the indigenous humans and then took over an enormous resource base that we have skillfully curated into into the dominant military and economic force of our times.
Umm, no. I almost never actually get a blood sample (as a physician) - the tech does it. The tech is employed by the hospital (in fact, I might be employed by the hospital). I suppose the tech could refuse to do it because of some weird philosophical stance but I've never heard of it. In the totally edge case that I put in a central line (a difficult kind of IV) in a patient and actually drew the blood that the tech put in the sample tube about the only thing the court could ask me is if I recalled doing the procedure on said person at such and such a time. I've actually been subpoenaed for essentially the same thing (did you see this patient on such and such a day) which required me to spend perhaps a half an hour sitting around, a few minutes on the stand and a polite thank you.
Hardly the end of the word.
FWIW, when the PD asks for a legal sample, it's logged into the computer as a special order that doesn't need a physician's signature. It just needs two techs to look at the order to ensure that it's valid (same as blood products). I've not heard of anybody fighting that (probably has happened). And I've never seen a separate sample for a defense witness. We do keep the samples for a week (same as always) and typically would have enough to split it several ways. I suppose some hospitals / legal systems could do it separately, can't imagine why.
It's really not a problem. Florida is built on drained swamps, and swamps float. The sea water can just be drained away and Florida will be safe again. So go down there and make your millions buying land.
Swamps (basically dirt and other bits of rotting vegetation, a few snakes and the occasional alien) may float. Multistory concrete buildings, not so much.
Sorry Charlie, we've been 'encoding' charts for the past 20 years. Obamacare had nothing to do with it. You're confused about the United States belated entry into the 20th Century with the ICD 10 which is much more of structured dataset than previous.
And, as bad as 10 is, if you don't collect the data and analyze it as best you can, you're doing 'art' not 'science'. The problem with medicine-as-art is, well, you've seen doctor's handwriting....
Have you ever watched what OS X does? Using a neat little program called "Little Snitch" you can see that everybody tries to phone home. Apple, Adobe, Alphabet (and I'm only on the 'A's). You can think you've shut everything off and up pops another 'can I haz Internet access plz?' warning.
If the net every really shuts down, it will be back to typewriters and correction fluid in a week. Ah, the buzz from mimeograph stencils.....
Figured that out all by yourself, did you? TFA even talked about that.
The thesis is that stone tools preceded evidence of cooking by some long period of time. So the tools were used to beat the food into submission. Barbecue came later.
Might be where the term 'beating a dead horse' came from.
Jet engines are designed to withstand the ingestion of a frozen turkey (at least not to explode and send blades flying through the aircraft). That's how they test them - there's a chicken cannon that is used to test that the engines can withstand bird impacts:
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Our country exists because freedom.
How cute. Our country exists because we started biological warfare on the indigenous humans and then took over an enormous resource base that we have skillfully curated into into the dominant military and economic force of our times.
Personal freedoms really are a side note here.
but I would worry about Chinese hackers one day using your phone to empty your bank account and max out your credit cards.
Haha. Already did that. (signed, your average American).
"It was necessary to destroy the village in order to save it."
Anybody remember that?
What do you think Guantanamo was supposed to do? They've found out there are a few bugs in the process, but they're working on it.
They have their best men on it. Best men.
Oops, didn't see that you weren't in the US. You have a weirder system that us....
Umm, no. I almost never actually get a blood sample (as a physician) - the tech does it. The tech is employed by the hospital (in fact, I might be employed by the hospital). I suppose the tech could refuse to do it because of some weird philosophical stance but I've never heard of it. In the totally edge case that I put in a central line (a difficult kind of IV) in a patient and actually drew the blood that the tech put in the sample tube about the only thing the court could ask me is if I recalled doing the procedure on said person at such and such a time. I've actually been subpoenaed for essentially the same thing (did you see this patient on such and such a day) which required me to spend perhaps a half an hour sitting around, a few minutes on the stand and a polite thank you.
Hardly the end of the word.
FWIW, when the PD asks for a legal sample, it's logged into the computer as a special order that doesn't need a physician's signature. It just needs two techs to look at the order to ensure that it's valid (same as blood products). I've not heard of anybody fighting that (probably has happened). And I've never seen a separate sample for a defense witness. We do keep the samples for a week (same as always) and typically would have enough to split it several ways. I suppose some hospitals / legal systems could do it separately, can't imagine why.
They don't want a camera in every home.
They want a dozen.
And a couple of microphones, motion detectors, mass spectrometers and a fax machine (backwards compatibility and all that).
It's really not a problem. Florida is built on drained swamps, and swamps float. The sea water can just be drained away and Florida will be safe again. So go down there and make your millions buying land.
Swamps (basically dirt and other bits of rotting vegetation, a few snakes and the occasional alien) may float. Multistory concrete buildings, not so much.
That's San Francisco - wrong coast.
Maybe he was redacted.
Sorry Charlie, we've been 'encoding' charts for the past 20 years. Obamacare had nothing to do with it. You're confused about the United States belated entry into the 20th Century with the ICD 10 which is much more of structured dataset than previous.
And, as bad as 10 is, if you don't collect the data and analyze it as best you can, you're doing 'art' not 'science'. The problem with medicine-as-art is, well, you've seen doctor's handwriting....
Have you ever watched what OS X does? Using a neat little program called "Little Snitch" you can see that everybody tries to phone home. Apple, Adobe, Alphabet (and I'm only on the 'A's). You can think you've shut everything off and up pops another 'can I haz Internet access plz?' warning.
If the net every really shuts down, it will be back to typewriters and correction fluid in a week. Ah, the buzz from mimeograph stencils .....
"Ironing"?
Either you've been attacked by your autocorrect again or you really, really like starch.
Figured that out all by yourself, did you? TFA even talked about that.
The thesis is that stone tools preceded evidence of cooking by some long period of time. So the tools were used to beat the food into submission. Barbecue came later.
Might be where the term 'beating a dead horse' came from.
I always thought they were for building emergency shelters....
Why do you have a Fondue fork?
Yeah, would have the FCC and the FAA after your butt.
Jet engines are designed to withstand the ingestion of a frozen turkey (at least not to explode and send blades flying through the aircraft). That's how they test them - there's a chicken cannon that is used to test that the engines can withstand bird impacts:
In this case, the turkey is on the ground.
We did?
The Chinese know about everything that goes on in this country - probably even moreso than the NSA.
Can you imagine looking at several million home security cameras? Sucks to be them I suppose.
Mods are being subtly ironic today.
Sunspots.
Just where in the Constitution is this guarantee of privacy?
The paperclip analogy is probably a poor one. How about a car analogy. Think of something the size of one of those old glass cylinder fuses.
"With DARPA funding beginning four years ago, Oxley and his team tested the stentrode on sheep ... "
Interesting choice of testing subject.
Just say'in....
Yep. Orwell's vision is becoming reality. Most electronic gadgets, if the FBI wins, will become telescreens!
It appears that Orwell, much like Murphy, was an unrequited optimist.