How do you price real water? And if you did, where does the money go? It's not like there's some manufacturer to pay -- the stuff just comes out of the ground! If I sell a million gallons of water to somebody across the state, do I just have a hundred tanker trucks drive up to my well, pump it out, drive across the state to the other guy's well, and dump into his well?
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That's fairly easy - you price it at replacement cost. If it's cheap to replace, fine. I you have to desalinate to replace - charge that rate. Then you have an economically renewable resource.
The historical problem is that, when aquifer drilling first started, the supply seemed basically limitless - no need to conserve. Run the clock out a few decades and we see that those predictions were just flat out wrong. We've taken the low hanging fruit so now it's time to put our big boy economic panties on and deal with the problem instead of ignoring it.
Yes, wireless mic + Dragon or even just an audio file to transcribe at your leisure. Much easier than trying to type on some horrid little membrane keyboard.
We have these COWs at the hospital (Computers on Wheels although we aren't supposed to call them that because it's not politically correct although I've never seen why denigrating dinner was such an issue) that have keyboards that you can run through a dishwasher and all other manner of decontamination. They are horrid. Slow. Squishy. Like trying to type through industrial strength jello.
Hell, you could put GoPro's on your head and get and audio and video log. Those housing will certainly take a mild clorox bath. It's not like you have to boil the thing to get rid of Ebola.
However, at our stage of understanding the system, climate engineering is probably not such a good thing to be doing. The planet isn't an experiment that we can easily clean up after we make a mess. We can't 'nuke it from orbit' just to make sure.
That is a major issue with the carbon sequesters and everybody else. We're really running in the dark. We need to put quite a bit more energy (pun intended) into understanding the system before we blithely go and tinker with it (like we are doing at present).
If you read and understood TFS you would note that they indeed make this inference. You'd have to read the paper to see the details.
You might want to look at an accompanying editorial for more details but here is some additional info:
The blood-brain barrier, a tightly packed layer of cells that lines the brain's blood vessels, protects it from infections, toxins, and other threats but makes the organ frustratingly hard to treat. A strategy that combines ultrasound with microscopic blood-borne bubbles can briefly open the barrier, in theory giving drugs or the immune system access to the brain. In the clinic and the lab, that promise is being evaluated.
This month, in one of the first clinical tests, Todd Mainprize, a neurosurgeon at the University of Toronto in Canada, hopes to use ultrasound to deliver a dose of chemotherapy to a malignant brain tumor. And in some of the most dramatic evidence of the technique's potential, a research team reports this week in Science Translational Medicine that they used it to rid mice of abnormal brain clumps similar to those in Alzheimer's disease, restoring lost memory and cognitive functions. If such findings can be translated from mice to humans, “it will revolutionize the way we treat brain disease,” says biophysicist Kullervo Hynynen of the Sunnybrook Research Institute in Toronto, who originated the ultrasound method.
Some scientists stress that rodent findings can be hard to translate to humans and caution that there are safety concerns about zapping the brain with even the low-intensity ultrasound used in the new study, which is similar to that used in diagnostic scans. Opening up the blood-brain barrier just enough to get a beneficial effect without scorching tissue, triggering an excessive immune reaction, or causing hemorrhage is the “crux,” says Brian Bacskai, a neurologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston who studies Alzheimer's disease and used to work with Hynynen.
Yes, this will be interesting - but the results may not be as scary as you might think. Assuming this pans out (the first three letters of the word assume are...) and the results are clinically apparent, even a modest benefit would save 'the system' quite a bit of money. Alzehiemer's patients are very expensive to maintain. They live for years, they can be otherwise healthy. They need a lot of human supervision (which doesn't come cheap).
So even if the equipment manufacturers charge and arm and leg for the procedure the overall health care dollar might go down. Another interesting issue is that this is a pretty cheap treatment - standard ultrasound machines, no expensive drugs* and a protocol that may well be so simple as to be effectively unpatentable.
So stay tuned. Quite a bit of work to do but some the 8 digit UIDs might be able to take advantage of the treatment (again, assuming that they are not running for their lives from a Zombie / Ebola / Ted Cruz infestation).
* Some of the treatments do work better with microbubbles which might end up costing some money. See the accompanying editorial for more info (needs a Science subscription).
Think Saurons, think SS shock troops, think of all the 'cool' things that humans have aspired to in the past (and future).
Now, just placing ethical constraints on these sorts of experiments won't get you very far. It's not like a full blown DNA lab is beyond any villainous billionaire with a volcano (or small country with some sort of GDP).
I suspect that in our children's lifetimes (not particularly ours, the technology is still pretty primitive and new) that genetically 'enhanced' humans will start to appear. Then it will seem like our dystopian science fiction authors were but Pollyannas.
Yes, all of those things could happen, but they usually don't. If, indeed, this is a psychiatric holding cell / wing / whatever it will be staffed with people who have some sort of training in this field. They aren't perfect, but they typically see a lot of pathology.
If this guy really faked out a number of professionals for three days, he is a pretty good actor.
The other possibility is that the staffers were really clueless. Again, it's possible but I kinda doubt it. The whole thing smells.
I'm sorry, this whole thing sounds BS to me. While it makes sense to have the Authorities to look at and interview the victim^Hsoftware tester, putting a 72 hour mental health hold on someone is hard. You have to convince more than one person that you are serious. Most places don't want to hold people - it's a lot of paperwork, hassle and expense and there are enough genuine fruitcakes so as to leave few extra rooms at the inn. Even if he got tossed in on a hold, it would be reviewed after 24 hours.
Either San Mateo does really weird things or this was made up.
You do realize that Medicine Without Borders was able to contain the Ebola epidemic with not much beyond plastic sheets, gloves, goggles and bleach. If they had a couple of C17's with pallets of that stuff and the buy in from locals who are still stuck in a witchcraft-based culture they could have done much better. High tech pods really weren't needed.
Pretty much all of the epidemic infectious diseases can be treated similarly. What is needed is a long term commitment to the issue and some way to get the indigenous population out of the tenth century.
Exactly this. Ebola was a boon for the media and a disaster for the people involved but it was never a threat to the first or second world.
Not quite as hard to catch as HIV, but much harder to catch than influenza or measles. A bit aside from Gate's issue which seems to be predicated on some nonsensical idea that these places in deep, dark Africa without even clean (much less running) water, without even soap and without even a concept of the germ theory of disease - much less electronics and computers - can benefit from his brand of Windows centric data collection and a first world rapid response team.
All things considered, the world really did deal with Ebola fairly well. Certainly there are improvements to be made - least of all a commitment to get the local areas up to the very basic of sanitation, but Gates is just jacking off in his mansion and getting feel good points.
An admin, huh? With those sorts of questions, you are undoubtedly a criminal. Or someone who could become a criminal under certain circumstances and we can't have that.
Please keep your hands away from your lap and the keyboard. We shall be with you in a moment.
Because you have to be able to show you suffered a loss. No, and loss of privacy rarely counts (you need a really good lawyer to push that one). Not to worry, however - after some period of time and a few more breaches, the Class Action lawyers will crawl out of the woodwork and after a few more years, get some settlement from the various insurance companies that offers the lawyers a couple of million for them and free credit reporting for the Rest of Us.
By that time the SCO case will have finally been adjudicated.
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How do you price real water? And if you did, where does the money go? It's not like there's some manufacturer to pay -- the stuff just comes out of the ground! If I sell a million gallons of water to somebody across the state, do I just have a hundred tanker trucks drive up to my well, pump it out, drive across the state to the other guy's well, and dump into his well?
dom
That's fairly easy - you price it at replacement cost. If it's cheap to replace, fine. I you have to desalinate to replace - charge that rate. Then you have an economically renewable resource.
The historical problem is that, when aquifer drilling first started, the supply seemed basically limitless - no need to conserve. Run the clock out a few decades and we see that those predictions were just flat out wrong. We've taken the low hanging fruit so now it's time to put our big boy economic panties on and deal with the problem instead of ignoring it.
Yes, wireless mic + Dragon or even just an audio file to transcribe at your leisure. Much easier than trying to type on some horrid little membrane keyboard.
We have these COWs at the hospital (Computers on Wheels although we aren't supposed to call them that because it's not politically correct although I've never seen why denigrating dinner was such an issue) that have keyboards that you can run through a dishwasher and all other manner of decontamination. They are horrid. Slow. Squishy. Like trying to type through industrial strength jello.
Hell, you could put GoPro's on your head and get and audio and video log. Those housing will certainly take a mild clorox bath. It's not like you have to boil the thing to get rid of Ebola.
However, at our stage of understanding the system, climate engineering is probably not such a good thing to be doing. The planet isn't an experiment that we can easily clean up after we make a mess. We can't 'nuke it from orbit' just to make sure.
That is a major issue with the carbon sequesters and everybody else. We're really running in the dark. We need to put quite a bit more energy (pun intended) into understanding the system before we blithely go and tinker with it (like we are doing at present).
If you read and understood TFS you would note that they indeed make this inference. You'd have to read the paper to see the details.
You might want to look at an accompanying editorial for more details but here is some additional info:
The blood-brain barrier, a tightly packed layer of cells that lines the brain's blood vessels, protects it from infections, toxins, and other threats but makes the organ frustratingly hard to treat. A strategy that combines ultrasound with microscopic blood-borne bubbles can briefly open the barrier, in theory giving drugs or the immune system access to the brain. In the clinic and the lab, that promise is being evaluated.
This month, in one of the first clinical tests, Todd Mainprize, a neurosurgeon at the University of Toronto in Canada, hopes to use ultrasound to deliver a dose of chemotherapy to a malignant brain tumor. And in some of the most dramatic evidence of the technique's potential, a research team reports this week in Science Translational Medicine that they used it to rid mice of abnormal brain clumps similar to those in Alzheimer's disease, restoring lost memory and cognitive functions. If such findings can be translated from mice to humans, “it will revolutionize the way we treat brain disease,” says biophysicist Kullervo Hynynen of the Sunnybrook Research Institute in Toronto, who originated the ultrasound method.
Some scientists stress that rodent findings can be hard to translate to humans and caution that there are safety concerns about zapping the brain with even the low-intensity ultrasound used in the new study, which is similar to that used in diagnostic scans. Opening up the blood-brain barrier just enough to get a beneficial effect without scorching tissue, triggering an excessive immune reaction, or causing hemorrhage is the “crux,” says Brian Bacskai, a neurologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston who studies Alzheimer's disease and used to work with Hynynen.
My emphasis.
Yes, this will be interesting - but the results may not be as scary as you might think. Assuming this pans out (the first three letters of the word assume are...) and the results are clinically apparent, even a modest benefit would save 'the system' quite a bit of money. Alzehiemer's patients are very expensive to maintain. They live for years, they can be otherwise healthy. They need a lot of human supervision (which doesn't come cheap).
So even if the equipment manufacturers charge and arm and leg for the procedure the overall health care dollar might go down. Another interesting issue is that this is a pretty cheap treatment - standard ultrasound machines, no expensive drugs* and a protocol that may well be so simple as to be effectively unpatentable.
So stay tuned. Quite a bit of work to do but some the 8 digit UIDs might be able to take advantage of the treatment (again, assuming that they are not running for their lives from a Zombie / Ebola / Ted Cruz infestation).
* Some of the treatments do work better with microbubbles which might end up costing some money. See the accompanying editorial for more info (needs a Science subscription).
Grandpa! What are you doing posting on Slashdot?
What I really want to see is for the Uber concept to be applied to health care. That's when the news will get really interesting.
What, people will make an appointment to get a physical in the back of somebody else's car? Where does that get fun?
That's hertory! There's no fucking "s" after you remove "his"!
After you remove 'him' there is no fucking, period.
Much too nuanced ....
TL;DR - bring lawyers, guns and money.
Yeah, no DNA!
Think Saurons, think SS shock troops, think of all the 'cool' things that humans have aspired to in the past (and future).
Now, just placing ethical constraints on these sorts of experiments won't get you very far. It's not like a full blown DNA lab is beyond any villainous billionaire with a volcano (or small country with some sort of GDP).
I suspect that in our children's lifetimes (not particularly ours, the technology is still pretty primitive and new) that genetically 'enhanced' humans will start to appear. Then it will seem like our dystopian science fiction authors were but Pollyannas.
Yes, all of those things could happen, but they usually don't. If, indeed, this is a psychiatric holding cell / wing / whatever it will be staffed with people who have some sort of training in this field. They aren't perfect, but they typically see a lot of pathology.
If this guy really faked out a number of professionals for three days, he is a pretty good actor.
The other possibility is that the staffers were really clueless. Again, it's possible but I kinda doubt it. The whole thing smells.
You gotta be pretty sick to pretend you're sick enough to be on a 72 hour mental health hold.
I suppose that's the catch.
I'm sorry, this whole thing sounds BS to me. While it makes sense to have the Authorities to look at and interview the victim^Hsoftware tester, putting a 72 hour mental health hold on someone is hard. You have to convince more than one person that you are serious. Most places don't want to hold people - it's a lot of paperwork, hassle and expense and there are enough genuine fruitcakes so as to leave few extra rooms at the inn. Even if he got tossed in on a hold, it would be reviewed after 24 hours.
Either San Mateo does really weird things or this was made up.
Perhaps because gates primary focus has been charity and philanthropy for almost as long as he was in the microcomputer game.
Yeah, and his efforts have been similarly helpful....
You do realize that Medicine Without Borders was able to contain the Ebola epidemic with not much beyond plastic sheets, gloves, goggles and bleach. If they had a couple of C17's with pallets of that stuff and the buy in from locals who are still stuck in a witchcraft-based culture they could have done much better. High tech pods really weren't needed.
Pretty much all of the epidemic infectious diseases can be treated similarly. What is needed is a long term commitment to the issue and some way to get the indigenous population out of the tenth century.
Exactly this. Ebola was a boon for the media and a disaster for the people involved but it was never a threat to the first or second world.
Not quite as hard to catch as HIV, but much harder to catch than influenza or measles. A bit aside from Gate's issue which seems to be predicated on some nonsensical idea that these places in deep, dark Africa without even clean (much less running) water, without even soap and without even a concept of the germ theory of disease - much less electronics and computers - can benefit from his brand of Windows centric data collection and a first world rapid response team.
All things considered, the world really did deal with Ebola fairly well. Certainly there are improvements to be made - least of all a commitment to get the local areas up to the very basic of sanitation, but Gates is just jacking off in his mansion and getting feel good points.
You sound angry. Perhaps some nice Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.
Or just a nap.
You picked up a clue with the words 'half-wit'.
An admin, huh? With those sorts of questions, you are undoubtedly a criminal. Or someone who could become a criminal under certain circumstances and we can't have that.
Please keep your hands away from your lap and the keyboard. We shall be with you in a moment.
Because you have to be able to show you suffered a loss. No, and loss of privacy rarely counts (you need a really good lawyer to push that one). Not to worry, however - after some period of time and a few more breaches, the Class Action lawyers will crawl out of the woodwork and after a few more years, get some settlement from the various insurance companies that offers the lawyers a couple of million for them and free credit reporting for the Rest of Us.
By that time the SCO case will have finally been adjudicated.
Why not, everyone else does.
So, pretty much everyone with insurance?
it'll still carry a slight IE odor no matter how much they cut out.
That's OK. You can always get bottles of that 'New Browser smell" and spritz it around the office.
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