True. But, considering the user base, the initial load of the image times all the users must have been non-trivial. Of course, given all the YouTube/Hulu/etc. video traffic these days, a 200K image is nothing.
People are just fine--until they aren't. When we reach our limits, things tend to go downhill fast. Obviously, doing healthy things like eating well (veg or not), getting exercise, etc., can mitigate (to use your word) the stressors. Chances are, though, they'll eventually catch up.
Of course, chances are I'll get killed by a car while biking to work one day despite my best efforts to lead a healthy life. You've made it perfectly clear you wouldn't be shedding any tears.
That's funny (and trolling at the same time--but, hey, I can take a little name-calling).
I live next to a Mexican market. I get treated to the aroma of barbequeing chickens each weekend and frequently the smell of rotting meat from the rendering bin. While, as a vegetarian, I find both aromas nauseating, I don't usually complain. They're a business doing business. If it was too odious, I could move.
Now, what the article describes is not a "natural" aroma and isn't a byproduct of somebody performing their usual business functions.
BTW, I *do* prefer BO (my own or others') to the irritating chemical aroma of most antiperspirants/deoderants.
While we humans are remarkably resilient, we are at the same time pretty darn sensitive. At a certain point, with so many environmental irritants, our bodies' ability to cope fails and illnesses arise.
True. However, it must have been much, much worse in the 70's before California's ground-breaking emissions laws. As it is, I start gagging when I find myself behind a 60's era muscle car.
A recent study by Healthgrades found that an average of 195,000 hospital deaths in each of the years 2000, 2001 and 2002 in the U.S. were due to potentially preventable medical errors. Researchers examined 37 million patient records and applied the mortality and economic impact models developed by Dr. Chunliu Zhan and Dr. Marlene R. Miller in a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) in October 2003. The Zhan and Miller study supported the Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) 1999 report conclusion, which found that medical errors caused up to 98,000 deaths annually and should be considered a national epidemic.[7] Some researchers questioned the accuracy of the 1999 IOM study, reporting both significant subjectivity in determining which deaths were "avoidable" or due to medical error and an erroneous assumption that 100% of patients would have survived if optimal care had been provided. A 2001 study in JAMA estimated that only 1 in 10,000 patients admitted to the hospital would have lived for 3 months or more had "optimal" care been provided.[8]
A 2006 follow-up to the 1999 Institute of Medicine study found that medication errors are among the most common medical mistakes, harming at least 1.5 million people every year. According to the study, 400,000 preventable drug-related injuries occur each year in hospitals, 800,000 in long-term care settings, and roughly 530,000 among Medicare recipients in outpatient clinics. The report stated that these are likely to be conservative estimates. In 2000 alone, the extra medical costs incurred by preventable drug related injuries approximated $887 million – and the study looked only at injuries sustained by Medicare recipients, a subset of clinic visitors. None of these figures take into account lost wages and productivity or other costs.[9]
If you rented a VHS tape and lost it, you were often charged the commercial rate which was on the order of $90. Rental places paid a higher price than retail.
I'm being a stickler here, but I noticed you didn't post as an AC, so you aren't exactly "shunning an online presence altogether." Still, good for you!! Cheers!
I stopped wearing watches years ago myself. Speaking of specialty watches, though, the GPS running/biking watch I got for Christmas is still a pleasant novelty. I really enjoy being able to go out for a run, not worry about how fast or far I'm going and then get home and browse oodles of data about my run.
I'll have to RTFA since I've been reading Neil Postman's 1985 book "Amusing Ourselves to Death", which is a pre-WWW musing about how TV is changing public discourse in America.
One of the reasons I work for county government rather than private industry is the pension. I make less up-front, but I like the idea of a steady income when/if I retire. Of course, there's always the nagging fear that the pension will disappear before I get a chance to collect it...
I was wondering if I'd see anybody mention this gem. It was such a refreshing breath of fresh air compared to the other Saturday morning fare. I just love me a good post-apocalyptic dystopia.
The reality is that most of the problems you quote can be controlled - and many do not cause death until WELL after the time of procreation (which is all that's needed from an evolutionary standpoint - evolution won't favor people who die off at 50 any more than people who die off at 80).
Well, I didn't mention rising rates of teen suicide, decreased fertility in men, etc., etc., which *would* affect reproduction. Of course, your argument about moving towards some sort of natural balance could be applied to these phenomena as well.
The reality is that we are the world's most advanced organism.
Well, we'd have to define "advanced" first. If by that you mean the best able to bend the environment to its will, I'd have to agree. If by best able to survive natural disasters, there'd be many other organisms that are much hardier.
It may be a stretch, but I'm willing to bet that in 1 million years every species currently alive EXCEPT humans will be extinct, or will have evolved into something else. In 10 billion years, long after the Earth itself has been swallowed up by the Sun (which in turn is just a smoldering white dwarf), I'd wager that we'll still be somewhere in the universe making a go of it. No other creature that "lives in harmony" with nature will be able to say the same.
Haven't crocodiles, sharks, and cockroaches survived for millions of years virtually unchanged? In any case, I'd be willing to accept your wager, but I doubt I'd get a chance to collect if I won.
Well, there may be no large animals that pose a serious threat to us, but pestilence remains a threat. We keep curing diseases and new ones keep popping up. There's still no cure for AIDS, and over-reliance on antibiotics is leading to an epidemic of MRSA. Swine flu hasn't proven as destructive as predicted, but the next pandemic killer could be right around the corner.
Of course, then there are the epidemics of obesity, heart disease, cancer, etc., that come with our sedentary lifestyles. We may just end up killing ourselves.
Some of us like to believe that there are things which fall outside the scope of science. Now, if science *is* one's religion, that thought is troubling. For many actual practitioners of science, the thought is not troubling. It's said that Einstein didn't believe in a personal God, but he *did* express a profound sense that there is something ineffable that is much, much bigger and more majestic than we could ever know.
The introduction of the midichlorians rubbed me the wrong way as well. But then, I have a taste for mysticism in addition to a taste for science.
This is the first mention of Lindzen I've seen in this discussion. I admire his courage. A friend who's an Earth Scientist agrees that Lindzen is beyond reproach. The worst thing I've seen said about him is that he "never met a negative feedback he didn't like".
I'm an AGW skeptic. Not a denier, a skeptic. I know enough about science to know that there's very little chance that the models incorporate every significant factor (like negative feedbacks). The error may be larger than the signal. It's also clear that there's a lot of money at stake on all sides of the debate.
You mean Windows 7. Cool beans, though!! It'll be the most secure part of the OS, since it's open source and will get reviewed by many (well, least several) pairs of eyes.
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Coincidentally, highly educated and highly skilled people from Finland aren't causing the USA's illegal immigration problem.
Further coincidentally, did you know that Jose Gonzalez is a highly educated and highly skilled person from Sweden?
True. But, considering the user base, the initial load of the image times all the users must have been non-trivial. Of course, given all the YouTube/Hulu/etc. video traffic these days, a 200K image is nothing.
I checked. The image I got was around 200KB in size. That's got to add up over all the visits to the Google home page.
The spammers wouldn't have gotten his address from the image if you hadn't posted it in plain text.
Truly laughing out loud!! I'm touched.
Well, I'm off for a lunch-time run (barefoot, naturally). As you observe, I'm a fruitcake (just don't tell my girlfriend (who loves my BO, BTW))
I wish you long-life, good health, and fewer annoyances to distract you from enjoying it.
People are just fine--until they aren't. When we reach our limits, things tend to go downhill fast. Obviously, doing healthy things like eating well (veg or not), getting exercise, etc., can mitigate (to use your word) the stressors. Chances are, though, they'll eventually catch up.
Of course, chances are I'll get killed by a car while biking to work one day despite my best efforts to lead a healthy life. You've made it perfectly clear you wouldn't be shedding any tears.
Cheers!
That's funny (and trolling at the same time--but, hey, I can take a little name-calling).
I live next to a Mexican market. I get treated to the aroma of barbequeing chickens each weekend and frequently the smell of rotting meat from the rendering bin. While, as a vegetarian, I find both aromas nauseating, I don't usually complain. They're a business doing business. If it was too odious, I could move.
Now, what the article describes is not a "natural" aroma and isn't a byproduct of somebody performing their usual business functions.
BTW, I *do* prefer BO (my own or others') to the irritating chemical aroma of most antiperspirants/deoderants.
While we humans are remarkably resilient, we are at the same time pretty darn sensitive. At a certain point, with so many environmental irritants, our bodies' ability to cope fails and illnesses arise.
True. However, it must have been much, much worse in the 70's before California's ground-breaking emissions laws. As it is, I start gagging when I find myself behind a 60's era muscle car.
Ha ha ha!!! I guess I'm a spoiled Californian. We need an EIR to fart.
Hmmm...I wonder if something like this requires an environmental impact report. Could those scents be toxic?
If you don't trust Wikipedia, check the references.
From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_malpractice
A recent study by Healthgrades found that an average of 195,000 hospital deaths in each of the years 2000, 2001 and 2002 in the U.S. were due to potentially preventable medical errors. Researchers examined 37 million patient records and applied the mortality and economic impact models developed by Dr. Chunliu Zhan and Dr. Marlene R. Miller in a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) in October 2003. The Zhan and Miller study supported the Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) 1999 report conclusion, which found that medical errors caused up to 98,000 deaths annually and should be considered a national epidemic.[7] Some researchers questioned the accuracy of the 1999 IOM study, reporting both significant subjectivity in determining which deaths were "avoidable" or due to medical error and an erroneous assumption that 100% of patients would have survived if optimal care had been provided. A 2001 study in JAMA estimated that only 1 in 10,000 patients admitted to the hospital would have lived for 3 months or more had "optimal" care been provided.[8] A 2006 follow-up to the 1999 Institute of Medicine study found that medication errors are among the most common medical mistakes, harming at least 1.5 million people every year. According to the study, 400,000 preventable drug-related injuries occur each year in hospitals, 800,000 in long-term care settings, and roughly 530,000 among Medicare recipients in outpatient clinics. The report stated that these are likely to be conservative estimates. In 2000 alone, the extra medical costs incurred by preventable drug related injuries approximated $887 million – and the study looked only at injuries sustained by Medicare recipients, a subset of clinic visitors. None of these figures take into account lost wages and productivity or other costs.[9]
If you rented a VHS tape and lost it, you were often charged the commercial rate which was on the order of $90. Rental places paid a higher price than retail.
I'd heard Brits liked warm beer. I drink mine at room temperature (not that I'm a Brit).
I'm being a stickler here, but I noticed you didn't post as an AC, so you aren't exactly "shunning an online presence altogether." Still, good for you!! Cheers!
I stopped wearing watches years ago myself. Speaking of specialty watches, though, the GPS running/biking watch I got for Christmas is still a pleasant novelty. I really enjoy being able to go out for a run, not worry about how fast or far I'm going and then get home and browse oodles of data about my run.
I'll have to RTFA since I've been reading Neil Postman's 1985 book "Amusing Ourselves to Death", which is a pre-WWW musing about how TV is changing public discourse in America.
One of the reasons I work for county government rather than private industry is the pension. I make less up-front, but I like the idea of a steady income when/if I retire. Of course, there's always the nagging fear that the pension will disappear before I get a chance to collect it...
Oooooh!! I like the way you think! Would somebody please hire this person to run their studio?
I was wondering if I'd see anybody mention this gem. It was such a refreshing breath of fresh air compared to the other Saturday morning fare. I just love me a good post-apocalyptic dystopia.
The reality is that most of the problems you quote can be controlled - and many do not cause death until WELL after the time of procreation (which is all that's needed from an evolutionary standpoint - evolution won't favor people who die off at 50 any more than people who die off at 80).
Well, I didn't mention rising rates of teen suicide, decreased fertility in men, etc., etc., which *would* affect reproduction. Of course, your argument about moving towards some sort of natural balance could be applied to these phenomena as well.
The reality is that we are the world's most advanced organism.
Well, we'd have to define "advanced" first. If by that you mean the best able to bend the environment to its will, I'd have to agree. If by best able to survive natural disasters, there'd be many other organisms that are much hardier.
It may be a stretch, but I'm willing to bet that in 1 million years every species currently alive EXCEPT humans will be extinct, or will have evolved into something else. In 10 billion years, long after the Earth itself has been swallowed up by the Sun (which in turn is just a smoldering white dwarf), I'd wager that we'll still be somewhere in the universe making a go of it. No other creature that "lives in harmony" with nature will be able to say the same.
Haven't crocodiles, sharks, and cockroaches survived for millions of years virtually unchanged? In any case, I'd be willing to accept your wager, but I doubt I'd get a chance to collect if I won.
Well, there may be no large animals that pose a serious threat to us, but pestilence remains a threat. We keep curing diseases and new ones keep popping up. There's still no cure for AIDS, and over-reliance on antibiotics is leading to an epidemic of MRSA. Swine flu hasn't proven as destructive as predicted, but the next pandemic killer could be right around the corner.
Of course, then there are the epidemics of obesity, heart disease, cancer, etc., that come with our sedentary lifestyles. We may just end up killing ourselves.
Some of us like to believe that there are things which fall outside the scope of science. Now, if science *is* one's religion, that thought is troubling. For many actual practitioners of science, the thought is not troubling. It's said that Einstein didn't believe in a personal God, but he *did* express a profound sense that there is something ineffable that is much, much bigger and more majestic than we could ever know.
The introduction of the midichlorians rubbed me the wrong way as well. But then, I have a taste for mysticism in addition to a taste for science.
This is the first mention of Lindzen I've seen in this discussion. I admire his courage. A friend who's an Earth Scientist agrees that Lindzen is beyond reproach. The worst thing I've seen said about him is that he "never met a negative feedback he didn't like". I'm an AGW skeptic. Not a denier, a skeptic. I know enough about science to know that there's very little chance that the models incorporate every significant factor (like negative feedbacks). The error may be larger than the signal. It's also clear that there's a lot of money at stake on all sides of the debate.
You mean Windows 7. Cool beans, though!! It'll be the most secure part of the OS, since it's open source and will get reviewed by many (well, least several) pairs of eyes.
I guess this would be a bad topic to bring up at a Windows7 launch party.